cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CP Violation in the Decays B -> K Kbar in the Presence of D Dbar K Kbar Mixing
Creators: name: Barshay, S.
name: Sehgal, L. M.
name: van Leusen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have recently shown that the large direct CP violation observed in the decay B^0 -> pi^+ pi^-, and the enhanced branching ratio for B^0 -> pi^0 pi^0, can be understood by invoking a small mixing of the pi pi system with the dominant D Dbar channel. We examine here the analogous effect of D Dbar K Kbar mixing on the rare decays B^0 -> K^0 K^0bar, B^- -> K^- K^0 and B^0 -> K^+ K^-. We find (a) significant values for the asymmetry parameters C and S in B^0 / B^0bar -> K^0 K^0bar, (b) a possible enhancement of the suppressed mode B^0 -> K^+ K^-, (c) a correlation between the three decay channels following from a triangle relation between amplitudes A_{K^0 K^0bar} - A_{K^+ K^-} = A_{K^- K^0}. The pattern of asymmetries and branching ratios is compared with that derived from the short-distance QCD penguin interaction.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Impact of eyes on waste diversion research : 'every move you make, I'll be watching you'
Creators: name: Doyle, Amethyst
name: Chang, Jinning
name: Cardinal, Katie
name: Chen, Lu
name: Divangahi, Maral
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Many studies have looked at how people react based on their assumption that they are being watched. Some studies have looked at this issue with respect to sorting behaviours, but findings have been inconsistent. The purpose of this study is to explore whether the presence of cartoon eyes with the slogan” Are you the type of person that recycles?” will affect peoples’ sorting behaviour. The study included 706 participants (N = 706). Each participant was watched while disposing their waste into bins with stickers on the top of the bins, on the front of bins, or without stickers on the bins. Our results suggested that placing of stickers on tops of sorting stations might positively affect sorting behaviour. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Additional file 1 of Variation in disease phenotype is marked in equine trypanosomiasis
Creators: name: Raftery, Alexandra G.
name: Saloum Jallow
name: Coultous, Robert M.
name: Rodgers, Jean
name: Sutton, David G. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Image of the form to structure and record history taking, clinical examination and treatment.
A STUDY OF SELECTED CAREER VARIABLES OF A SAMPLE OF INCARCERATED WOMEN (COUNSELING, CORRECTIONS, VOCATIONAL, PRISON)
Creators: name: Yeck, Ann Nocito
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast the vocational personality and career interests of a sample of incarcerated women with those of nonincarcerated working women as assessed by a standardized instrument, the Career Assessment Inventory. A concomitant objective of the study was to improve the match between career interests and vocational training programs for female offenders in order to increase job satisfaction and reduce the possibility of a return to crime for economic reasons. The sample consisted of 100 women incarcerated at four penal institutions: Maryland Correctional Institute for Women; Broward Correctional Institute, Florida; Montgomery County Detention Center, Maryland; and Miami/Dade County Women's Detention Center, Florida. Five hypotheses were tested. An analysis of the data found that the career interests of the female offenders differed significantly with regard to four of the six General Theme Scales of the CAI, Conventional, Social, Enterprising, and Investigative, with the offenders scoring substantially higher than working women on the four scales. The results showed that first, incarcerated women are traditionally oriented in their choice of occupation and prefer conventional jobs. Second, female offenders are no more interested in "Realistic" or nontraditional jobs than are women in general, despite the current trend in corrections to offer more nontraditional training programs. The expectation that incarcerated women would score lower on the "Investigative" scale than working women was not supported. This can be attributed to the inordinate interest manifested by the offenders in computer-related jobs, many of which fall into the Investigative area. The indication is that correctional vocational programs would be more successful if they considered both the career interests of those for whom they are intended and job market forecasts. Those areas most preferred by the study population--Conventional, Social, and Enterprising--are the ones which are expected to see the heaviest demand for workers in the next 20 years according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Repeated Impact-Driven Plume Formation On Enceladus Over Megayear Timescales
Creators: name: Siraj, Amir
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Water plumes erupting from the `tiger stripe' features on the south pole of Enceladus are thought to connect to a global subsurface ocean. Proposed origins for the initial stress necessary to form the `tiger stripes' include a giant impact, which would require true polar wander to explain the location of the plumes if the impact did not occur at the South Pole, or tensile stresses, which would require volumetric expansion associated with partial freezing of the subsurface ocean. In addition to the requirement of a fine-tuned impact, true polar wander, or partial freezing of the subsurface ocean, a further issue with these hypotheses is that the `tiger stripes' may be short-lived. We show here that impact resurfacing can seal off plumes and mass loss can lead to their compression and closure over $\sim 1 \mathrm{\;Myr}$. Since plumes are observed at present, a mechanism by which new plumes can be generated every $\sim 1 \mathrm{\;Myr}$ and by which such plumes are most likely to form at the south pole is needed. We propose and investigate the possibility that impacts constitute an adequate repeating source for the continual instigation of fractures and plumes. We find that the rate of impacts on Enceladus suggests the formation of $\sim 10^3$ independent plume systems per Gyr, the vast majority on the south pole, and is consistent with the Cassini-derived age of the south pole for a lunar-like bombardment history, our estimates of fracture lifetimes, and with the needed parameters for parallel fracture propagation. The model favors a bombardment history similar to that of Triton over one more similar to that of the Galilean satellites.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in Icarus
Ankle fusion with tibiotalocalcaneal retrograde nail for fragility ankle fractures: outcomes at a major trauma centre.
Creators: name: Lu, Victor
name: Tennyson, Maria
name: Zhang, James
name: Thahir, Azeem
name: Zhou, Andrew
name: Krkovic, Matija
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mobility
Co-morbidity
Ankle Fusion
Ankle Fractures
Tibiotalocalcaneal Nailing

description: PURPOSE: Fragility ankles fractures in the geriatric population are challenging to manage, due to fracture instability, soft tissue compromise, and patient co-morbidities. Traditional management options include open reduction internal fixation, or conservative treatment, both of which are fraught with high complication rates. We aimed to present functional outcomes of elderly patients with fragility ankle fractures treated with retrograde ankle fusion nails. METHODS: A retrospective observational study was performed on patients who underwent intramedullary nailing with a tibiotalocalcaneal nail. Twenty patients met the inclusion criteria of being over sixty and having multiple co-morbidities. Patient demographics, AO/OTA fracture classification, intra-operative and post-operative complications, time to mobilisation and union, AOFAS and Olerud-Molander scores, and patient mobility were recorded. RESULTS: There were seven males and thirteen females, with a mean age of 77.82 years old, five of whom are type 2 diabetics. Thirteen patients returned to their pre-operative mobility state, and the average Charlson Co-morbidity Index (CCI) was 5.05. Patients with a low CCI are more likely to return to pre-operative mobility status (p = 0.16; OR = 4.00). All patients achieved radiographical union, taking on average between 92.5 days and 144.6 days. The mean post-operative AOFAS and Olerud-Molander scores were 53.0 and 50.9, respectively. There were four cases of superficial infection, four cases of broken or loose distal locking screws. There were no deep infections, periprosthetic fractures, nail breakages, or non-unions. CONCLUSION: Tibiotalocalcaneal nailing is an effective and safe option for managing unstable ankle fractures in the elderly. This technique leads to lower complication rates and earlier mobilisation than traditional fixation methods.
Online Pattern Recognition for the ALICE High Level Trigger
Creators: name: Lindenstruth, V.
name: Loizides, C.
name: Roehrich, D.
name: Skaali, B.
name: Steinbeck, T.
name: Stock, R.
name: Tilsner, H.
name: Ullaland, K.
name: Vestbo, A.
name: Vik, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ALICE High Level Trigger has to process data online, in order to select interesting (sub)events, or to compress data efficiently by modeling techniques.Focusing on the main data source, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC), we present two pattern recognition methods under investigation: a sequential approach "cluster finder" and "track follower") and an iterative approach ("track candidate finder" and "cluster deconvoluter"). We show, that the former is suited for pp and low multiplicity PbPb collisions, whereas the latter might be applicable for high multiplicity PbPb collisions, if it turns out, that more than 8000 charged particles would have to be reconstructed inside the TPC. Based on the developed tracking schemes we show, that using modeling techniques a compression factor of around 10 might be achievable
description: Realtime Conference 2003, Montreal, Canada to be published in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS), 6 pages, 8 figures
Safety and efficacy of multipotent adult progenitor cells in acute respiratory distress syndrome (MUST-ARDS): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1/2 trial.
Creators: name: Bellingan, G
name: Jacono, F
name: Bannard-Smith, J
name: Brealey, D
name: Meyer, N
name: Thickett, D
name: Young, D
name: Bentley, A
name: McVerry, BJ
name: Wunderink, RG
name: Doerschug, KC
name: Summers, Charlotte
name: Rojas, M
name: Ting, A
name: Jenkins, ED
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Stem Cells
Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells (Mapc)

description: PURPOSE: Bone marrow-derived, allogeneic, multipotent adult progenitor cells demonstrated safety and efficacy in preclinical models of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). METHODS: This phase 1/2 trial evaluated the safety and tolerability of intravenous multipotent adult progenitor cells in patients with moderate-to-severe ARDS in 12 UK and USA centres. Cohorts 1 and 2 were open-label, evaluating acute safety in three subjects receiving 300 or 900 million cells, respectively. Cohort 3 was a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled parallel trial infusing 900 million cells (n = 20) or placebo (n = 10) within 96 h of ARDS diagnosis. Primary outcomes were safety and tolerability. Secondary endpoints included clinical outcomes, quality of life (QoL) and plasma biomarkers. RESULTS: No allergic or serious adverse reactions were associated with cell therapy in any cohort. At baseline, the cohort 3 cell group had less severe hypoxia. For cohort 3, 28-day mortality was 25% for cell vs. 45% for placebo recipients. Median 28-day free from intensive care unit (ICU) and ventilator-free days in the cell vs. placebo group were 12.5 (IQR 0,18.5) vs. 4.5 (IQR 0,16.8) and 18.5 (IQR 0,22) vs. 6.5 (IQR 0,18.3), respectively. A prospectively defined severe ARDS subpopulation (PaO2/FiO2
description: National Institutes of Health, Innovate UK, and Athersys, Inc
A STUDY OF SELECTED CAREER VARIABLES OF A SAMPLE OF INCARCERATED WOMEN (COUNSELING, CORRECTIONS, VOCATIONAL, PRISON)
Creators: name: Yeck, Ann Nocito
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast the vocational personality and career interests of a sample of incarcerated women with those of nonincarcerated working women as assessed by a standardized instrument, the Career Assessment Inventory. A concomitant objective of the study was to improve the match between career interests and vocational training programs for female offenders in order to increase job satisfaction and reduce the possibility of a return to crime for economic reasons. The sample consisted of 100 women incarcerated at four penal institutions: Maryland Correctional Institute for Women; Broward Correctional Institute, Florida; Montgomery County Detention Center, Maryland; and Miami/Dade County Women's Detention Center, Florida. Five hypotheses were tested. An analysis of the data found that the career interests of the female offenders differed significantly with regard to four of the six General Theme Scales of the CAI, Conventional, Social, Enterprising, and Investigative, with the offenders scoring substantially higher than working women on the four scales. The results showed that first, incarcerated women are traditionally oriented in their choice of occupation and prefer conventional jobs. Second, female offenders are no more interested in "Realistic" or nontraditional jobs than are women in general, despite the current trend in corrections to offer more nontraditional training programs. The expectation that incarcerated women would score lower on the "Investigative" scale than working women was not supported. This can be attributed to the inordinate interest manifested by the offenders in computer-related jobs, many of which fall into the Investigative area. The indication is that correctional vocational programs would be more successful if they considered both the career interests of those for whom they are intended and job market forecasts. Those areas most preferred by the study population--Conventional, Social, and Enterprising--are the ones which are expected to see the heaviest demand for workers in the next 20 years according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
WEST EUROPEAN COMMUNIST PARTIES: KAUTSKYISM AND/OR DEREVOLUTIONIZATION?
Creators: name: Zoubir, Yahia Hamdallah
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In the 1970s, the Eurocommunist phenomenon dominated the political scene. The West European communist parties declared that their strategy would be constitutional and that the deep transformation which they intended to undertake in their nations would be accomplished within the parliamentary democratic framework. Their strategy consists of involving and obtaining the consensus of the majority of the population in this peaceful process of transformation. To achieve their goal, they have proclaimed their independence from their previous center of domination, Moscow, and emphasized their national characters. More importantly, they have abandoned many of the fundamental concepts of Leninist doctrine. The basic thesis of this dissertation is that Eurocommunism has rejected "insurrectionary politics" as a means of coming to power. In opposition to the Eurocommunists' assertion that their strategy if inspired by Gramsci's teachings, the contention of this study is that they have adopted Kautsky's conceptions, not Gramsci's theoretical formulations. The Eurocommunist strategy, contrary to the one prescribed by the founders of Marxism and by Lenin, is primarily parliamentary. Like classical Social Democracy, Eurocommunism, despite its intention of transforming capitalism, has ended up managing it. Unlike Social Democracy as it has developed since World War II, Eurocommunism's proclaimed objective remains the establishment of a socialist society. However, this dissertation asserts that this realization will be difficult to attain; history has indicated the repeated phenomenon of revolutionary movements becoming deradicalized in the process of attempting political integration. West European communist parties, like Social Democratic parties in the past, have been forced to operate within the confines of the very system they are attempting to change radically. Revolutionary means of establishing Communism in Europe have failed to undermine the legitimacy of parliamentary democracy.
Scaling prediction for self-avoiding polygons revisited
Creators: name: Richard, C.
name: Jensen, I.
name: Guttmann, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse new exact enumeration data for self-avoiding polygons, counted by perimeter and area on the square, triangular and hexagonal lattices. In extending earlier analyses, we focus on the perimeter moments in the vicinity of the bicritical point. We also consider the shape of the critical curve near the bicritical point, which describes the crossover to the branched polymer phase. Our recently conjectured expression for the scaling function of rooted self-avoiding polygons is further supported. For (unrooted) self-avoiding polygons, the analysis reveals the presence of an additional additive term with a new universal amplitude. We conjecture the exact value of this amplitude.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
TILES-2018, a longitudinal physiologic and behavioral data set of hospital workers
Creators: name: Mundnich, Karel
name: Booth, Brandon M.
name: L'Hommedieu, Michelle
name: Feng, Tiantian
name: Girault, Benjamin
name: L'Hommedieu, Justin
name: Wildman, Mackenzie
name: Skaaden, Sophia
name: Nadarajan, Amrutha
name: Villatte, Jennifer L.
name: Falk, Tiago H.
name: Lerman, Kristina
name: Ferrara, Emilio
name: Narayanan, Shrikanth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a novel longitudinal multimodal corpus of physiological and behavioral data collected from direct clinical providers in a hospital workplace. We designed the study to investigate the use of off-the-shelf wearable and environmental sensors to understand individual-specific constructs such as job performance, interpersonal interaction, and well-being of hospital workers over time in their natural day-to-day job settings. We collected behavioral and physiological data from $n = 212$ participants through Internet-of-Things Bluetooth data hubs, wearable sensors (including a wristband, a biometrics-tracking garment, a smartphone, and an audio-feature recorder), together with a battery of surveys to assess personality traits, behavioral states, job performance, and well-being over time. Besides the default use of the data set, we envision several novel research opportunities and potential applications, including multi-modal and multi-task behavioral modeling, authentication through biometrics, and privacy-aware and privacy-preserving machine learning.
description: 57 pages, 9 figures, journal paper
Analyse des facteurs sources d’adoption de nouvelles technologies rizicoles : une estimation de la réponse de l’offre en Afrique de l’Ouest
Analysis of the source factors of adoption of new rice technologies: an estimate of the supply response in West Africa
Creators: name: Tape, Jean Georges I.M.
name: Tape, Jean Georges I.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Adoption et diffusion
subject: nouvelles technologies
subject: panel
subject: Afrique de l’ouest
subject: Adoption and diffusion
subject: technology
subject: West Africa

description: L’objectif de ce travail est de comprendre les facteurs qui influencent la décision d’adoption des technologies nouvelles dans la production de riz. En particulier, dans certains pays de la région Ouest Africaine où des nouvelles variétés sont offertes. Cet article considère que les modèles d’adoption technologique sont influencés par les décisions d’allocation de la terre entre les cultures. Mais aussi par les contraintes liées aux marchés de la nouvelle technologie, quelles soient d’ordres institutionnelles ou sociales. Des données de panel ont été utilisé pour estimer les coefficients montrant l’impact des variables clés à l’adoption pour les variétés améliorées de riz dans les pays tels la Cote d’Ivoire, le Mali, le Benin le Sénégal le Ghana...les principaux résultats indiquent que les services de vulgarisation et d’appui conseils agricoles influence plus l’adoption des nouvelles technologies rizicoles que le prix. -- The objective of this work is to understand the factors that influence the decision to adopt the new technologies in rice production. Particularly, in some countries of West African region were new varieties are available. This article considers that technology adoption patterns are influenced by the decisions of allocation of land between cultures. But also by the constraints of the new technology markets, be they institutional or social orders. Panel data were used to estimate the coefficients showing the impact of key variables to adopt for improved rice varieties in countries such as Cote d'Ivoire , Mali, Senegal, Benin Ghana ... The main results indicate that agricultural extension services influences more adoption of new rice technologies than price.
Additional file 2 of Attachment and relationship-based interventions for families during neonatal intensive care hospitalization: a study protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ah. Rim Kim
name: Soo-Yeon Kim
name: Yun, Ji Eun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.. Search strategy.
Corpus-based creation of tourism, hotel, and airline business word lists
Creators: name: Piyapong Laosrirattanachai
Publisher: name: Language Institute Thammasat University
Year: 2021
Subjects: corpus linguistics
hospitality word list
tourism business word list
hotel business word list
airline business word list

description: LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 14, 1, 50-86
Complete Hamiltonian for spinning binary systems at first post-Minkowskian order
Creators: name: Chung, Ming-Zhi
name: Huang, Yu-tin
name: Kim, Jung-Wook
name: Lee, Sangmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Building upon recent progress in applying on-shell amplitude techniques to classical observables in general relativity, we propose a closed-form formula for the conservative Hamiltonian of a spinning binary system at the 1st post-Minkowskian (1PM) order. It is applicable for general spinning bodies with arbitrary spin multipole moments. The formula is linear in gravitational constant by definition, but exact to all orders in momentum and spin expansions. At each spin order, our formula implies that the spin-dependence and momentum dependence factorize almost completely. We expand our formula in momentum and compare the terms with 1PM parts of the post-Newtonian computations in the literature. Up to canonical transformations, our results agree perfectly with all previous ones. We also compare our formula for black hole to that derived from a spinning test-body near a Kerr black hole via the effective one-body mapping, and find perfect agreement.
description: v1. 30 pages, 1 figure; v2. 31 pages, 1 figure, references added, version published in JHEP
Distributed Algorithms for Composite Optimization: Unified Framework and Convergence Analysis
Creators: name: Xu, Jinming
name: Tian, Ye
name: Sun, Ying
name: Scutari, Gesualdo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize a sum of smooth (strongly) convex functions, the agents' sum-utility, plus a nonsmooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general unified algorithmic framework for such a class of problems and provide a unified convergence analysis leveraging the theory of operator splitting. Distinguishing features of our scheme are: (i) When the agents' functions are strongly convex, the algorithm converges at a linear rate, whose dependence on the agents' functions and network topology is decoupled, matching the typical rates of centralized optimization; the rate expression improves on existing results; (ii) When the objective function is convex (but not strongly convex), similar separation as in (i) is established for the coefficient of the proved sublinear rate; (iii) The algorithm can adjust the ratio between the number of communications and computations to achieve a rate (in terms of computations) independent on the network connectivity; and (iv) A by-product of our analysis is a tuning recommendation for several existing (non accelerated) distributed algorithms yielding the fastest provably (worst-case) convergence rate. This is the first time that a general distributed algorithmic framework applicable to composite optimization enjoys all such properties.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.09817
An Exact Relation for N=1 Orientifold Field Theories with Arbitrary Superpotential
Creators: name: Armoni, A.
name: Gorsky, A.
name: Shifman, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a nonperturbative relation for orientifold parent/daughter pairs of supersymmetric theories with an arbitrary tree-level superpotential. We show that super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory with matter in the adjoint representation at N-->infinity, is equivalent to a SYM theory with matter in the antisymmetric representation and a related superpotential. The gauge symmetry breaking patterns match in these theories too. The moduli spaces in the limiting case of a vanishing superpotential are also discussed. Finally we argue that there is an exact mapping between the effective superpotentials of two finite-N theories belonging to an orientifold pair.
description: 14 pages, LaTex. v2: a new introductory section, a few comments and refs. added. v3: minor changes, to appear in Nucl.Phys.B
A glimpse of metacognitive reading strategy instruction through modeling technique in esp class at the tertiary level
Creators: name: Napapat Thongwichit
Publisher: name: Language Institute Thammasat University
Year: 2021
Subjects: metacognitive reading strategies
strategy instruction
modeling technique
reading comprehension
ESP

description: LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 14, 1, 118-145
WEST EUROPEAN COMMUNIST PARTIES: KAUTSKYISM AND/OR DEREVOLUTIONIZATION?
Creators: name: Zoubir, Yahia Hamdallah
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In the 1970s, the Eurocommunist phenomenon dominated the political scene. The West European communist parties declared that their strategy would be constitutional and that the deep transformation which they intended to undertake in their nations would be accomplished within the parliamentary democratic framework. Their strategy consists of involving and obtaining the consensus of the majority of the population in this peaceful process of transformation. To achieve their goal, they have proclaimed their independence from their previous center of domination, Moscow, and emphasized their national characters. More importantly, they have abandoned many of the fundamental concepts of Leninist doctrine. The basic thesis of this dissertation is that Eurocommunism has rejected "insurrectionary politics" as a means of coming to power. In opposition to the Eurocommunists' assertion that their strategy if inspired by Gramsci's teachings, the contention of this study is that they have adopted Kautsky's conceptions, not Gramsci's theoretical formulations. The Eurocommunist strategy, contrary to the one prescribed by the founders of Marxism and by Lenin, is primarily parliamentary. Like classical Social Democracy, Eurocommunism, despite its intention of transforming capitalism, has ended up managing it. Unlike Social Democracy as it has developed since World War II, Eurocommunism's proclaimed objective remains the establishment of a socialist society. However, this dissertation asserts that this realization will be difficult to attain; history has indicated the repeated phenomenon of revolutionary movements becoming deradicalized in the process of attempting political integration. West European communist parties, like Social Democratic parties in the past, have been forced to operate within the confines of the very system they are attempting to change radically. Revolutionary means of establishing Communism in Europe have failed to undermine the legitimacy of parliamentary democracy.
Full quantum solutions to the resonant four-wave mixing of two single-photon wave packets
Creators: name: Johnsson, Mattias
name: Fleischhauer, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze both analytically and numerically the resonant four-wave mixing of two co-propagating single-photon wave packets. We present analytic expressions for the two-photon wave function and show that soliton-type quantum solutions exist which display a shape-preserving oscillatory exchange of excitations between the modes. Potential applications including quantum information processing are discussed.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Attachment and relationship-based interventions for families during neonatal intensive care hospitalization: a study protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ah. Rim Kim
name: Soo-Yeon Kim
name: Yun, Ji Eun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.. PRISMA-P 2015 checklist.
Games People Play (3rd annual Lively Lunch on Health Sciences Collection Development Issues): Developments 2002-2003
Creators: name: Kubilius, Ramune K.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Charleston Conference
subject: Libraries, Medical
subject: Scholarly publishing

description: Handout prepared for and presented in synopsis during a brief (traditional) annual update of interesting and noteworthy trends in the health publishing and health information sectors that occurred or were noticed since the 2002 Health Sciences Lively Lunch at the Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition. (3rd Lively Lunch took place on Thursday, November 6, 2003 in Charleston, SC).
description: presentation_location: Charleston (S.C.)
ILLNESS-DEFINING AS SOCIAL PROCESS BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY)
Creators: name: Elwell, Ronnie Marie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A study in the sociology of knowledge of the process by which social values are codified in the legitimization of a specific psychiatric diagnosis, Borderline Personality Disorder. One hundred and seventy-nine articles published in professional and scientific journals from 1919 through 1981 were examined using content and historical analysis to explore the social factors (including the use of expert knowledge and the political process) in the labeling, validation and official sanctioning of this diagnosis. The analysis revealed that the development of this relatively new psychiatric diagnosis reflected changes in illness-definitions, re-formulations of expert knowledge, changes in social process and incorporation of political, economic and social factors in legitimizing the diagnosis for third-party payments. Recommendations for further study include exploration of the perception that Borderline Personality Disorder as a diagnosis is more commonly applied to females and further study on the mechanisms by which social values are codified in the development and legitimization of illness-definitions.
The Shape of Poor Groups of Galaxies
Creators: name: Plionis, M.
name: Basilakos, S.
name: Tovmassian, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the distribution of intrinsic shapes of UZC-SSRS2 groups of galaxies from the distribution of their apparent shapes. We measure the projected group axial ratio using the moments of their discrete galaxy distribution. Then using the non-parametric kernel method to estimate the smooth apparent axial ratio distribution we numerically invert a set of integral equations to recover the corresponding intrinsic distribution under the assumption that groups are either oblate or prolate spheroids. We find that the prolate spheroidal model fits very well the UZC-SSRS2 group distribution with a true mean axial ratio ~0.3 and σ~0.15. This shows that groups of galaxies are significantly more elongated, both on the plane of the sky and in 3 dimensions, than clusters of galaxies. The poorest groups that we consider, those with 4 members, are even more elongated than the overall population with 85% of the groups having β< 0.4.
description: 7 pages, MNRAS accepted version
ILLNESS-DEFINING AS SOCIAL PROCESS BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY)
Creators: name: Elwell, Ronnie Marie
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: A study in the sociology of knowledge of the process by which social values are codified in the legitimization of a specific psychiatric diagnosis, Borderline Personality Disorder. One hundred and seventy-nine articles published in professional and scientific journals from 1919 through 1981 were examined using content and historical analysis to explore the social factors (including the use of expert knowledge and the political process) in the labeling, validation and official sanctioning of this diagnosis. The analysis revealed that the development of this relatively new psychiatric diagnosis reflected changes in illness-definitions, re-formulations of expert knowledge, changes in social process and incorporation of political, economic and social factors in legitimizing the diagnosis for third-party payments. Recommendations for further study include exploration of the perception that Borderline Personality Disorder as a diagnosis is more commonly applied to females and further study on the mechanisms by which social values are codified in the development and legitimization of illness-definitions.
PHOENIX/PHUNG HOANG: A STUDY OF WARTIME INTELLIGENCE MANAGEMENT (VIETNAM WAR, COUNTERINSURGENCY)
Creators: name: Johnson, Ralph William
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Phoenix/Phung Hoang (1967-1970) was an administrative-military operation for South Vietnam, conceived by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and administered in conjunction with the Military Assistance Command of the U.S. Army and the Government of South Vietnam. The author, recently deceased (d. 1982), had a long and distinguished career with the CIA, spent some 20 years in Vietnam, and was deeply involved with the Phoenix/Phung Hoang Program. Phoenix/Phung Hoang was a new administrative operation and concept geared to the guerrilla tactics of modern warfare rather than the "big-unit" operations favored in the past. Theoretically, the Program was part of a larger Pacification Effort. In practice, Phoenix/Phung Hoang concentrated on new approaches to counter-insurgency. The author provides an indepth, detailed analysis of logistics, bureaucratic conflicts, U.S.-host government difficulties, legal problems, and the interrelationships of civilian and military components. The conclusions are carried into a philosophical or theoretical matrix. They deal with the changing nature of war, command and operations, policy-making, and decision-making, moral implications, law and due process, labeling, and media. The significance of the study lies primarily in the sources used as documentation. The author was able to obtain declassification of materials previously categorized by the Army and the CIA as "confidential" or "secret." These materials demonstrate, among other things, a significant official terminology. "Pacification" describes counter-insurgency. "Neutralization" refers to killings, assassinations, and abductions relating to "quotas" and "bounties" targeted on both the civilian and military enemy population. For both the general reader and the specialist on wartime intelligence mangement, there is a unique perspective, authentically documented. The implications are far-reaching.
Interpreting the official BRF Advisory council report for a more sustainable and green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Creators: name: Nedopil-Wang, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140210 International Economics and International Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Leading up to the 2019 Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, various working groups, published accounts of the past achievements and challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
This article analyzes the suggestions of the Advisory Council of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation and explains the background of the sustainability challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) (e.g. debt, biodiversity, climate) that the report's recommendations address.
Linear Hyperbolic Systems on Networks
Creators: name: Fijavž, Marjeta Kramar
name: Mugnolo, Delio
name: Nicaise, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 47D06, 35L40, 34B45, 81Q35

description: We study hyperbolic systems of one-dimensional partial differential equations under general, possibly non-local boundary conditions. A large class of evolution equations, either on individual 1-dimensional intervals or on general networks, can be reformulated in our rather flexible formalism, which generalizes the classical technique of first-order reduction. We study forward and backward well-posedness; furthermore, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions on both the boundary conditions and the coefficients arising in the first-order reduction for a given subset of the relevant ambient space to be invariant under the flow that governs the system. Several examples are studied.
Density of states of the interacting two-dimensional electron gas
Creators: name: Kogan, E.
name: Rosenstein, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the influence of electron-electron interactions on the density of states (DOS) of clean 2D electron gas. We confirm the linear cusp in the DOS around the Fermi level, which was obtained previously. The cusp crosses over to a pure logarithmic dependence further away from the Fermi surface.
description: RevTeX, 3 pages, no figures
Effects of reading instruction using backward design framework and citizenship theme to enhance english reading comprehension and social responsibility of tenth-grade thai efl students
Creators: name: Patamaporn Chaisa
Publisher: name: Language Institute Thammasat University
Year: 2021
Subjects: English reading comprehension
Backward Design
citizenship theme
social responsibility
English as a foreign language (EFL)

description: LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 14, 1, 176-207
UBC students' perceptions of sustainability as a function of faculty and year
Creators: name: Anda, Christina
name: Dubeta, Jay
name: Eakin, Elizabeth
name: Elvenaes, Erik
name: Smith, Isaiah
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: We examine how the perception of the importance of sustainability varies amongst faculty and year throughout the student body at the University of British Columbia using the revised New Ecological Paradigm scale (NEP). The revised NEP is a measure of validation of a “proecological” worldview used extensively in the field of environmental education; primarily to measure the differences in behaviour and attitude relative to underlying values and worldviews (2012 Burkshire). We compare the NEP scores of 278 surveyed students whose faculties (major area of study) were forestry, science, arts, business, and other. In addition to the NEP we use 6 supplemental questions which were provided by our stakeholders to measure perceived campus involvement in sustainability practices and what impact that had on their decisions. We also use the survey to extrapolate if there is a correlation between the number of years on campus and an increased perception of importance of sustainability. We present our data which reflects that there is in fact a relationship between faculty and the perceived importance of sustainability. However there does not appear to be a relationship between the number of years of attendance at UBC and an increase in the perception that sustainability is important. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Value of Information Analysis via Active Learning and Knowledge Sharing in Error-Controlled Adaptive Kriging
Creators: name: Zhang, Chi
name: Wang, Zeyu
name: Shafieezadeh, Abdollah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large uncertainties in many phenomena have challenged decision making. Collecting additional information to better characterize reducible uncertainties is among decision alternatives. Value of information (VoI) analysis is a mathematical decision framework that quantifies expected potential benefits of new data and assists with optimal allocation of resources for information collection. However, analysis of VoI is computational very costly because of the underlying Bayesian inference especially for equality-type information. This paper proposes the first surrogate-based framework for VoI analysis. Instead of modeling the limit state functions describing events of interest for decision making, which is commonly pursued in surrogate model-based reliability methods, the proposed framework models system responses. This approach affords sharing equality-type information from observations among surrogate models to update likelihoods of multiple events of interest. Moreover, two knowledge sharing schemes called model and training points sharing are proposed to most effectively take advantage of the knowledge offered by costly model evaluations. Both schemes are integrated with an error rate-based adaptive training approach to efficiently generate accurate Kriging surrogate models. The proposed VoI analysis framework is applied for an optimal decision-making problem involving load testing of a truss bridge. While state-of-the-art methods based on importance sampling and adaptive Kriging Monte Carlo simulation are unable to solve this problem, the proposed method is shown to offer accurate and robust estimates of VoI with a limited number of model evaluations. Therefore, the proposed method facilitates the application of VoI for complex decision problems.
PHOENIX/PHUNG HOANG: A STUDY OF WARTIME INTELLIGENCE MANAGEMENT (VIETNAM WAR, COUNTERINSURGENCY)
Creators: name: Johnson, Ralph William
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Phoenix/Phung Hoang (1967-1970) was an administrative-military operation for South Vietnam, conceived by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and administered in conjunction with the Military Assistance Command of the U.S. Army and the Government of South Vietnam. The author, recently deceased (d. 1982), had a long and distinguished career with the CIA, spent some 20 years in Vietnam, and was deeply involved with the Phoenix/Phung Hoang Program. Phoenix/Phung Hoang was a new administrative operation and concept geared to the guerrilla tactics of modern warfare rather than the "big-unit" operations favored in the past. Theoretically, the Program was part of a larger Pacification Effort. In practice, Phoenix/Phung Hoang concentrated on new approaches to counter-insurgency. The author provides an indepth, detailed analysis of logistics, bureaucratic conflicts, U.S.-host government difficulties, legal problems, and the interrelationships of civilian and military components. The conclusions are carried into a philosophical or theoretical matrix. They deal with the changing nature of war, command and operations, policy-making, and decision-making, moral implications, law and due process, labeling, and media. The significance of the study lies primarily in the sources used as documentation. The author was able to obtain declassification of materials previously categorized by the Army and the CIA as "confidential" or "secret." These materials demonstrate, among other things, a significant official terminology. "Pacification" describes counter-insurgency. "Neutralization" refers to killings, assassinations, and abductions relating to "quotas" and "bounties" targeted on both the civilian and military enemy population. For both the general reader and the specialist on wartime intelligence mangement, there is a unique perspective, authentically documented. The implications are far-reaching.