cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Macht in der Einzelberatung: Systemtheorie trifft Lösungsorientierung
Creators: name: Marti, Michael
name: Versteeg, Tobias
Publisher: name: Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2024

description: Macht und Machtverhältnisse innerhalb der Einzelberatung werden in dieser Literaturarbeit vor dem Hintergrund der Luhmannschen Systemtheorie einerseits und verschiedener Machttheorien andererseits reflektiert und diskutiert. Dies mit dem Ziel, Schlüsse für die Praxis Professioneller der Sozialen Arbeit zu ziehen und Anstösse zu geben, wie in einer Beratungssituation machtsensibel gearbeitet werden kann.

Macht ist allgegenwärtig. Diese Hypothese legt den Grundstein für diese Thesis. Es wird vorgestellt, wie wertneutral mit dem Machtbegriff in der Praxis der Einzelberatung umgegangen werden kann, wie Machtverhältnisse als Voraussetzung hilfreich oder schädlich sein können. Es wird dargestellt, wie relevant Selbstreflexionsprozesse, der intraprofessionelle Austausch und die Aus- und Weiterbildung von Professionellen der Sozialen Arbeit sind. Dies mit dem Ziel, dass Macht und Machtverhältnisse bei Professionellen der Sozialen Arbeit keine Ängste mehr auslösen, sondern im besten Fall gar als Ressource genutzt werden können.

Macht und Machtverhältnisse werden von verschiedenen Soziolog:innen ausgehend hergeleitet: Macht kann nur in einem sozialen Gefüge entstehen und überdauern. Ferner stellt diese Thesis fest, dass Wissen eine zentrale Einheit von Macht ist.

Die Lösungs- und Kompetenzorientierung als Methode der Gesprächsführung und das darunterliegende humanistische Menschenbild bieten eine ideale Ausgangslage, um dem Thema Macht und Machtverhältnisse in einem machtsensiblen Sinne zu begegnen. Die Grundannahme «Die Klient:innen sind die Expert:innen» nehmen diese sensible Haltung in der Methodik der Beratung auf. Somit leistet die Lösungs- und Kompetenzorientierung einen wichtigen Beitrag zu einem aufmerksamen und sorgsamen Umgang mit Macht. Es werden handlungsleitenden Ansätze präsentiert, wie konkret in Beratungssituationen mit Macht und Machtverhältnissen umgegangen werden kann.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa mas lko + Fussnote: Master-Arbeit MAS Beraten und Coachen, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, 2024 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202412
Some composition determinants
Creators: name: Brunat, J. M.
name: Krattenthaler, C.
name: Lascoux, A.
name: Montes, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 05A19; Secondary 05A10 11C20 15A15

description: We compute two parametric determinants in which rows and columns are indexed by compositions, where in one determinant the entries are products of binomial coefficients, while in the other the entries are products of powers. These results generalize previous determinant evaluations due to the first and third author [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 23 (2001), 459--471] and ["A polynomial generalization of the power-compositions determinant," Linear Multilinear Algebra (to appear)], and they prove two conjectures of the second author ["Advanced determinant calculus: a complement," preliminary version].
description: AmS-LaTeX, 9 pages; minor improvements
Physical Characteristics of Umbral Dots Derived from a High Resolution Observation
Creators: name: Kilcik, Ali
name: Sarp, Volkan
name: Yurchyshyn, Vasyl
name: Rozelot, Jean-Pierre
name: Özgüc, Atila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this study is revisit the physical parameters of umbral dots (UDs) with the latest high resolution observations and contribute to the scientific understanding of their formation and evolution. In this study, we applied a particle tracking algorithm for detecting UDs in NOAA AR12384 observed on June 14, 2015 by the Goode Solar Telescope (GST). We analyzed average position distributions, location dependencies, and general properties of detected total 2892 UDs separately during their life time and the periodic behavior of only selected 10 long living UDs. We found; i) brightest, largest, fastest and most elliptic UDs tend to be located at the umbra-penumbra boundary while their lifetime does not display any meaningful location dependency, ii) average dynamic velocity of all detected UDs is about twice (0.76 km/s) of the previously reported average values, iii) obtained trajectories from the longest living 354 UDs show that they have generally inward motion, iv) chosen 10 long living UDs generally have similar periodic behavior showing 8.5-32, 3.5-4.1, 1.5-1.9, and 1.1-1.3 minutes periodicities, v) generally, detected UDs have an elliptical shape with the averaged eccentricity of 0.29, with a 0.11 standard deviation, vi) larger UDs tend to be more elliptic and more dynamic.
description: accepted for publication in Solar Physics
Where are the veterinarian shortage areas anyway?
Creators: name: Wang, Tong
name: Hennessy, David A.
name: O'Connor, Annette M.
name: Wang, Tong
name: Hennessy, David A.
name: O'Connor, Annette M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: economic externalities
subject: food animal veterinarians
subject: loan repayment program

description: This paper describes an econometric model to evaluate factors associated with a county’s likelihood of being designated as a private practice shortage area under the United States' Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP). Study determinants of equilibrium food animal veterinarian location choices were also evaluated and used as a benchmark to assess the shortage designation process. On the whole the program appears to perform quite well. For several states, however, VMLRP shortage designations are inconsistent with the model of food animal veterinarian shortages. Comparative shortage is generally more severe in states that have no VMLRP designated private practice shortage counties than in states that do.
Acrosternum millierei
Creators: name: Heyden, Torsten van der
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Acrosternum
Acrosternum millierei

description: AUKEMA et al. (2006) reported
Acrosternum millierei (Mulsant & Rey, 1866)
(Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) for the islands of La Gomera and Fuerteventura. AUKEMA et al. (2013) added the island of La Palma to the list of its distribution on the Canary Islands. Later on, the island of Gran Canaria was added by ROCA-CUSACHS et al. (2020). A. millierei was found on the islands of Tenerife and Lanzarote, too: On 17-10-2021, an adult specimen was photographed in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital of the province (see here). On 12-03-2023, an adult specimen was photographed in Punta Mujeres, located at the northeastern coast of Lanzarote (Fig. 2) (see here).
description: Published as part of Heyden, Torsten van der, 2023, New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), III, pp. 119-120 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 119, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12812265
[not Rp] Reproducibility of 'Poincare dodecahedral space parameter estimates'
Creators: name: Roukema, Boudewijn F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Is a scientific research paper based on (i) public, online observational data files and (ii) providing free-licensed software for reproducing its results easy to reproduce by the same author a decade later? This paper attempts to reproduce a cosmic topology observational paper published in 2008 and satisfying both criteria (i) and (ii). The reproduction steps are defined formally in a free-licensed git repository package "0807.4260" and qualitatively in the current paper. It was found that the effort in upgrading the Fortran 77 code at the heart of the software, interfaced with a C front end, and originally compiled with g77, in the content of the contemporary gfortran compiler, risked being too great to be justified on any short time scale. In this sense, the results of RBG08 are not as reproducible as they appeared to be, despite both (i) data availability and (ii) free-licensing and public availability of the software. The software and a script to reproduce the steps of this incomplete reproduction are combined in a new git repository named 0807.4260, following the ArXiv identity code (arXiv:0807.4260) of RBG08.
description: 8 pages, 1 table
Study of production of (anti)deuteron observed in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$=14.5, 62.4 and 200 GeV
Creators: name: Yuan, Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transverse momentum distributions of deuterons and anti-deuterons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$=14.5, 62.4 and 200 GeV with different centrality are studied in the framework of the multisource thermal model. Transverse momentum spectra are conformably and approximately described by the Tsallis distribution. The dependence of parameters (average transverse momenta, effective temperature and entropy index) on event centrality are obtained. It is found that the parameters increase with increase of the average number of particles involved in collisions, which reveals the nuclear stopping degree increases with collision centrality.
Brand Equity in the Australian domestic beef market
Creators: name: Eastburn, Mark
name: Morrison, Mark
name: Eastburn, Mark
name: Morrison, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Branding remains in a fairly nascent state within the Australian domestic beef market. Several brands have begun to emerge in recent years including Certified Angus, 1824, Hereford Prime, Stockyard Beef and Diamantina. However, these primarily cater for restaurant rather than household trade. This contrasts with other countries, such as the US, where branded beef makes up a large proportion of the domestic market. Using random parameter logit models we examine the willingness of consumers to pay for one type of branded beef, as well specific beef attributes, in a regional area of NSW. We find that there is evidence that segments of the population would be willing to pay for branded beef. The value of the brand is related to several sociodemographic characteristics, as well as attitudinal variables.
Novel surface energy sensor for detecting protein adsorption and subsequent conformation change
Creators: name: Clark, Alison Jane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis describes the development of a novel experimental technique to measure the change in surface energy of a sensing membrane as molecules adsorb to its surface. The sensor is constructed from a thin elastomeric membrane mounted on an annular support that is immersed in an aqueous solution. The sensor is acoustically actuated to resonate in a selected mode of oscillation and the change of resonant frequency of the sensor as a function of time is monitored. These sensing membranes have a low inherent tension such that the surface energy on its two interfaces dominate the membrane tension and the adsorption of molecules decreases the surface energy and thus reduces the resonant frequency of the membrane. The adsorption behaviour of two types of molecules were investigated; surfactants and proteins. While the sensor responds quickly (~l-2 minutes) to the adsorption of the small surfactant molecules, it exhibits a long time response over many hours to the adsorption of protein molecules. This long time response is attributed to the slow conformation change of the protein molecules once they have adsorbed. An auxiliary method to measure the amount of protein molecules on the surface of the membrane was devised to run simultaneously with the observations of resonant frequency. This technique employed fluorescent excitation of tagged protein molecules in an optical evanescent field. This measurement confirmed that the population of protein molecules on the surface did indeed reach a steady-state value within 30 minutes, in turn confirming the sensitivity of the sensing membrane to molecular conformation change. A step-wise kinetic protein adsorption model was developed and compared to the experimental data generated in the simultaneous measurement described above. This model was able to successfully describe the puzzling kinetics of protein adsorption to, and desorption from, the sensing membrane. This required a key, non-obvious term in the rate equations - the molecules in the bulk solution are found to make an important contribution to both the desorption of bound molecules and also their slow conformation change. This observation provides an effective and self-consistent explanation for the previously conflicting notions of adsorption isotherms and irreversibility.
Three XMM-Newton observations of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 1048.1-5937: long term variations in spectrum and pulsed fraction
Creators: name: Tiengo, A.
name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Turolla, R.
name: Zane, S.
name: Rea, N.
name: Stella, L.
name: Israel, G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a recent (July 2004) XMM-Newton Target of Opportunity observation of the Anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1048.1-5937, together with a detailed re-analysis of previous observations carried out in 2000 and 2003. In July 2004 the source had a 2-10 keV flux of 6.2$\times10^{-12}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ and a pulsed fraction P$_F$=0.68. The comparison of the three data sets shows the presence of an anti-correlation between flux and pulsed fraction, implying that previous estimates of the source energetics based on the assumption of a large and constant pulsed fraction might be significantly underestimated. The source spectrum is well described by a power law plus blackbody model (kT~0.63 keV, photon index $Γ$~2.7-3.5) or, alternatively, by the sum of two blackbodies of which the hotter is Comptonized by relativistic electrons. In this case the temperatures are kT${_1}$~0.2-0.3 keV and kT${_2}$~0.4-0.5 keV and the emitting area of the cooler component is consistent with the whole neutron star surface. The long term luminosity variation of a factor >~2 is accompanied by relatively small variations in the spectral shape. Phase resolved spectroscopy indicates a harder spectrum in correspondence of the pulse maximum. No spectral features have been detected with 4$σ$ limits on the equivalent width in the range ~10-220 eV, depending on line energy and width.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures; accepted for publication in A&A
Statistical inference for epidemic processes in a homogeneous community (Part IV of the book Stochastic Epidemic Models and Inference)
Creators: name: Larédo, Catherine
name: Tran, Viet Chi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 92D30

description: This document is the Part IV of the book 'Stochastic Epidemic Models with Inference' edited by Tom Britton and Etienne Pardoux. It is written by Catherine Larédo, with the contribution of Viet Chi Tran for the Chapter 4. Epidemic data present challenging statistical problems, starting from the recurrent issue of handling missing information. We review methods such as MCMC, ABC or methods based on diffusion approximations. Plan of this document: 1) Observations and Asymptotic Frameworks; 2) Inference for Markov Chain Epidemic Models; 3) Inference Based on the Diffusion Approximation of Epidemic Models; 4) Inference for Continuous Time SIR models.
Effective Action and Hawking Flux from Covariant Perturbation Theory
Creators: name: Hofmann, D.
name: Kummer, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The computation of the radiation flux related to the Hawking temperature of a Schwarzschild Black Hole or another geometric background is still well-known to be fraught with a number of delicate problems. In spherical reduction, as shown by one of the present authors (W. K.) with D.V. Vassilevich, the correct black body radiation follows when two ``basic components'' (conformal anomaly and a ``dilaton'' anomaly) are used as input in the integrated energy-momentum conservation equation. The main new element in the present work is the use of a quite different method, the covariant perturbation theory of Barvinsky and Vilkovisky, to establish directly the full effective action which determines these basic components. In the derivation of W. K. and D.V. Vassilevich the computation of the dilaton anomaly implied one potentially doubtful intermediate step which can be avoided here. Moreover, the present approach also is sensitive to IR (renormalisation) effects. We realize that the effective action naturally leads to expectation values in the Boulware vacuum which, making use of the conservation equation, suffice for the computation of the Hawking flux in other quantum states, in particular for the relevant Unruh state. Thus, a rather comprehensive discussion of the effects of (UV and IR) renormalisation upon radiation flux and energy density is possible.
description: 26 pages
Solving Ways of Supply and Demand Contradiction of Rural Social Security during Transference of Rural Land Contract and Operation Rights
Creators: name: He, Ling
name: Jia, Qijian
name: Dong, Qian
name: Dong, Hairong
name: He, Ling
name: Jia, Qijian
name: Dong, Qian
name: Dong, Hairong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Rural land contract and operation rights
subject: Land circulation
subject: Social security
subject: China

description: Taking land circulation of Hebei Province, China as an example, circulation status of rural land contract and operation rights of Hebei Province is introduced. Then, sampling survey method is used to investigate the supply and demand situation of social security of 350 peasant households in Hebei Province who have sold their land rights. And supply and demand situation of social security before and after rural land transfer in Hebei Province is also analyzed. Supply of rural social security of Hebei Province is discussed from the aspects of social security supplies before and after land transfer (status of old-age security, status of rural medical security, status of employment security and education training); demand of rural social security of Hebei Province is discussed from the aspects of social security demands before and after land transfer. Finally, solving ways of supply and demand contradiction of rural social security during transference of rural land contract and operation rights are put forward, such as intensifying the financial aids for cooperative medical system, promoting the corresponding social security policy of land circulation, establishing the management, executive and supervision agencies for rural social security, and acquiring a consciousness of modern social security. It is suggested that government should set up a unified social security system covering the whole Hebei Province in order to optimize and improve the social security system for peasants.
Additional file 1 of Penguins are competent hosts of Haemoproteus parasites: the first detection of gametocytes, with molecular characterization of Haemoproteus larae
Creators: name: Inumaru, Mizue
name: Aratani, Shiori
name: Shimizu, Misa
name: Mineka Yamamoto
name: Yukita Sato
name: Murata, Koichi
name: Valkiūnas, Gediminas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Information on Plasmodium spp. samples used to prepare mixed-infections.
Incursion Management: An agent based modeling approach
Creators: name: Elliston, Lisa
name: Yainshet, Alasebu
name: Hinde, Ray
name: Elliston, Lisa
name: Yainshet, Alasebu
name: Hinde, Ray
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: An exotic disease incursion management model was developed to estimate the regional economy effects of a potential karnal bunt incursion in south eastern Queensland. By developing an agent based spatial model that integrates the biophysical aspects of the disease incursion with the agricultural production system and the wider regional economy the model can be used to analyse the effectiveness of alternative management strategies for a range of different incursion scenarios. It is also possible to estimate the effectiveness and economic implications of education campaigns to improve the likelihood of detection by farmers in the field or at the silo.
ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ ИНТЕРНЕТ-ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ В ОБРАЗОВАНИИ — ВАЖНОСТЬ АКТИВНОГО ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ ИНТЕРНЕТ-ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ В ОБРАЗОВАНИИ
Creators: name: Тошматова, Юлдузхон
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: В статье рассматриваются теоретические основы применения интернет-технологий в образовательном процессе. Проведен анализ современных подходов к использованию цифровых платформ, онлайн-ресурсов и интерактивных инструментов в учебной деятельности. Обоснована педагогическая эффективность внедрения интернет-технологий, выявлены основные принципы и условия их успешного использования в образовательной среде. Особое внимание уделено трансформации ролей преподавателя и обучающегося в условиях цифровизации образования. Работа опирается на современные исследования в области педагогики, информационных технологий и психологии обучения, а также на практические примеры интеграции интернет-ресурсов в учебный процесс.
Environmental flow allocation and counter-cyclical trading in the River Murray System
Creators: name: English, Ben
name: Brearley, Taron
name: Coggan, Anthea
name: English, Ben
name: Brearley, Taron
name: Coggan, Anthea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: environmental flow
subject: counter-cyclical
subject: water trading
subject: water banking
subject: River Murray System

description: Australia's climate is characterized by highly variable rainfall. As a consequence, many aspects of riverine ecosystems need both very wet and very dry periods to function effectively. This contrasts with water demands from industrial and agricultural sectors, which place a premium on access to a constant supply of water. This combination of demands suggests there could be considerable value in using water banking and trading mechanisms to reduce the social cost of achieving environmental objectives. In this paper, the concept of counter-cyclical trading is outlined and influences on its potential for reducing the cost of achieving environmental flow objectives evaluated. The potential value of using mechanisms to enable counter-cyclical trading across low and high flow years is evaluated using a simple model. The model combines aspects of the natural, engineered and economic systems in place. Broadly these are: the ecosystem requirements of natural systems (described in terms of the frequency of flow objectives); the nature of the current flow regime (inherent in a combination of climatic variation and the regulation of water flows through the system); and the nature of the water market (captured in the shape of the short run demand curve). The potential value of counter-cyclical trading is evaluated with specific reference to environmental flow banking and trading systems currently operating in the River Murray System. Risks associated with trading are briefly discussed, and some links are made in the context of the state of water market reform in the Murray-Darling Basin.
title: Do higher skill levels lead to better outcomes? The disproportionality between skills and outcomes for women
Creators: name: Heilmann, Lisanne
name: Gal, Iddo
name: Grotlüschen, Anke
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Arbeitsmarkt
subject: basic skills
subject: Einkommen
subject: gender bias
subject: income inequality
subject: labour market discrimination
subject: PIAAC
subject: ddc:330

description: This paper looks at men’s and women’s positions in the labour market and relates them to their basic skills. In a meritocratic society higher skills are supposed to relate to higher outcomes. We question whether this relation is equally true for men and women. Using data for 13 countries from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), an international large-scale assessment, this paper examines monthly wages and a person’s probability to be in a managerial position. Our analyses show that, on average, men with higher skills get higher wages and have a higher probability to be in a managerial position than women with equally high skills. We show that the relation between skills and outcomes is more proportional for men than for women and that the gender pay gap does apply to women and men with similar skills. In addition, the results highlight a gap in managerial positions between men and women with the same basic skills.
Deep Polynomial Neural Networks
Creators: name: Chrysos, Grigorios
name: Moschoglou, Stylianos
name: Bouritsas, Giorgos
name: Deng, Jiankang
name: Panagakis, Yannis
name: Zafeiriou, Stefanos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) are currently the method of choice both for generative, as well as for discriminative learning in computer vision and machine learning. The success of DCNNs can be attributed to the careful selection of their building blocks (e.g., residual blocks, rectifiers, sophisticated normalization schemes, to mention but a few). In this paper, we propose $Π$-Nets, a new class of function approximators based on polynomial expansions. $Π$-Nets are polynomial neural networks, i.e., the output is a high-order polynomial of the input. The unknown parameters, which are naturally represented by high-order tensors, are estimated through a collective tensor factorization with factors sharing. We introduce three tensor decompositions that significantly reduce the number of parameters and show how they can be efficiently implemented by hierarchical neural networks. We empirically demonstrate that $Π$-Nets are very expressive and they even produce good results without the use of non-linear activation functions in a large battery of tasks and signals, i.e., images, graphs, and audio. When used in conjunction with activation functions, $Π$-Nets produce state-of-the-art results in three challenging tasks, i.e. image generation, face verification and 3D mesh representation learning. The source code is available at \url{https://github.com/grigorisg9gr/polynomial_nets}.
description: Published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI). Code: https://github.com/grigorisg9gr/polynomial_nets. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2003.03828
The Interacting Gluon Model: a review
Creators: name: Durães, F. O.
name: Navarra, F. S.
name: Wilk, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Interacting Gluon Model (IGM) is a tool designed to study energy flow, especially stopping and leading particle spectra, in high energy hadronic collisions. In this model, valence quarks fly through and the gluon clouds of the hadrons interact strongly both in the soft and in the semihard regime. Developing this picture we arrive at a simple description of energy loss, given in terms of few parameters, which accounts for a wide variety of experimental data. This text is a survey of our main results and predictions.
description: 22 pages, 21 figures
Memento Mori : siting the sacred in the urban realm
Creators: name: Zeppelin, Leila
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Many cemeteries in North America have been removed from city centers. This isolation deprives urban centers and their inhabitants of a vital civic space dedicated to acts and rituals associated with death. Presently, places for remembrance in North America are not recognized as cultural resources for the communities they serve. Little attention has been given to their design or purpose, apart from their function as efficient disposal grounds for remains of the dead. This paper describes the way cemeteries in North America have evolved and how contemporary preferences for cremation over burial warrants a rethinking of cemetery location and design. The goal of this project is to design a multifunctional, sacred space for remembrance within downtown Vancouver.
Determination of gasoline boiling range solvents and kerosene as adulterants in motor gasoline
Creators: name: Vempatapu, Bhanu Prasad
name: Kumar, Jagdish
name: Kanaujia, Pankaj K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Adherence to the regulatory specifications of automotive fuels is often challenging in many cases of their real-world adulteration. A feasible scenario of such adulteration is the unauthorized blending of solvents in gasoline with similar or higher boiling ranges. The adulterants can be low-priced industrial solvents or kerosene available at cheaper prices. In the present study, multiple scenarios of gasoline adulteration are presented, and various analytical techniques are used to measure adulterants like n-pentane, n-hexane, naphtha, benzene, toluene, ethanol, and kerosene. Density measurement provided preliminary evidence of gasoline adulteration, while octane number confirmed the presence of paraffinic solvents (n-pentane, n-hexane, naphtha) and kerosene. Total sulfur, octane number, and atmospheric distillation-final boiling point measurements accurately indicated gasoline adulteration with kerosene. The Reid vapor pressure of adulterated gasoline samples revealed uncommon concentrations of volatiles (e.g., n-pentane) and nonvolatile (e.g., kerosene). The gas chromatography-based method was also examined to determine the gasoline boiling range adulterants and the kerosene in gasoline samples. The results are of much significance to developing countries, and they may be referred for gasoline adulteration monitoring off-site. The outcomes are considered beneficial from economic and environmental pollution mitigation viewpoints.
Kernel Distributionally Robust Optimization
Creators: name: Zhu, Jia-Jie
name: Jitkrittum, Wittawat
name: Diehl, Moritz
name: Schölkopf, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose kernel distributionally robust optimization (Kernel DRO) using insights from the robust optimization theory and functional analysis. Our method uses reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) to construct a wide range of convex ambiguity sets, which can be generalized to sets based on integral probability metrics and finite-order moment bounds. This perspective unifies multiple existing robust and stochastic optimization methods. We prove a theorem that generalizes the classical duality in the mathematical problem of moments. Enabled by this theorem, we reformulate the maximization with respect to measures in DRO into the dual program that searches for RKHS functions. Using universal RKHSs, the theorem applies to a broad class of loss functions, lifting common limitations such as polynomial losses and knowledge of the Lipschitz constant. We then establish a connection between DRO and stochastic optimization with expectation constraints. Finally, we propose practical algorithms based on both batch convex solvers and stochastic functional gradient, which apply to general optimization and machine learning tasks.
Gravitational Correction to Running of Gauge Couplings
Creators: name: Robinson, Sean P.
name: Wilczek, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the contribution of graviton exchange to the running of gauge couplings at lowest non-trivial order in perturbation theory. Including this contribution in a theory that features coupling constant unification does not upset this unification, but rather shifts the unification scale. When extrapolated formally, the gravitational correction renders all gauge couplings asymptotically free.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; v2: Clarified awkward sentences and notations. Corrected typos. Added references and discussion thereof in introduction. Minor copy editting changes to agree with version to be published in Physical Review Letters
Construction of Evaluation System of Provincial Ecological Civilization - A Case of Shangong Province, China
Creators: name: Liu, Yanjun
name: Zhang, Baohua
name: Cao, Jianrong
name: Chen, Wei
name: Liu, Yanjun
name: Zhang, Baohua
name: Cao, Jianrong
name: Chen, Wei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Ecological civilization
subject: Index system
subject: Ecological environmental consciousness
subject: Shandong Province
subject: China

description: According to the connotation of ecological civilization, construction principle of ecological civilization index system is expatiated, including integrity principle, applicability and feasibility principle, quantification principle and purposefulness principle. Based on this, a total of 23 single factors are selected from four aspects of ecological environmental protection, economic development, social progress and environmental protection consciousness. Ecological civilization index system is constructed. Weight of single factor is determined by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and comprehensive evaluation model is established. Taking Shandong Province as an example, optimized index system and comprehensive evaluation model are used to analyze the ecological civilization construction level of Shandong Province. Result shows that scores of ecological environmental protection, economic development, social progress and environmental protection consciousness are 47.24, 71.05, 37.57 and 77.57, respectively, with the integrated score of ecological civilization being 61.35, indicating that ecological civilization degree of Shandong Province is at the preliminary state of civilization. Major factors restricting the development degree of ecological civilization are ecological environmental protection, social progress and so on. At present, we should reduce the fertilizer and pesticide application, control the growth rate of population and increase investment in education.
Interpolation and Sampling Hypersurfaces for the Bargmann-Fock space in higher dimensions
Creators: name: Ortega-Cerda, Joaquim
name: Schuster, Alexander
name: Varolin, Dror
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study those smooth complex hypersurfaces W in C^n having the property that all holomorphic functions of finite weighted L^p norm on W extend to entire functions with finite weighted L^p norm. Such hypersurfaces are called interpolation hypersurfaces. We also examine the dual problem of finding all sampling hypersurfaces, i.e., smooth hypersurfaces W in C^n such that any entire function with finite weighted L^p norm is stably determined by its restriction to W. We provide sufficient geometric conditions on the hypersurface to be an interpolation and sampling hypersurface. The geometric conditions that imply the extension property and the restriction property are given in terms of some directional densities.
Correlation Analysis of the Rural Finance Development and Rural Economic Growth - A Case of Sichuan Province, China
Creators: name: Lu, Chenzhong
name: Lu, Chenzhong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Grey Relational Analysis
subject: Rural finance
subject: Rural economic growth
subject: China

description: Based on relevant research on rural finance development and rural economic growth by some Chinese scholars, taking Sichuan Province of China as an example, index of rural financial scale (deposit scale Y1 and credit scale Y2), index of rural financial support to agriculture (agricultural loan scale Y3, loan size of township enterprises Y4), index of rural economic development level (total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery X1, added value of township enterprises X2, growth rate of per capita net income X3) are established according to the 2000-2007 Sichuan Statistical Yearbook. Meanwhile, Gray Relational Analysis Method is used to analyze the correlation degree of rural financial development and rural economic growth. Result shows that rural financial development has relatively great impact on the agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and township enterprise, especially on the output value of traditional agriculture. Agricultural loan has relatively high correlation degree with rural economic growth and has made extreme great contribution to the output value of traditional agriculture. Moreover, agricultural development has become the direct reason for the net income growth of farmers. Correlation degree between loan scale of township enterprises and net income of peasants is the worst. Finally, the entire contents of rural finance and rural economic development can not be fully reflected due to the subjectivity of index selection and the neglection of many large scale informal financial institutions in rural areas. Thus, countermeasures for optimizing the investment structure, opening up rural financial market and improving rural folk financial system are put forward.
Pore characterization was achieved based on the improved U-net deep learning network model and scanning electron microscope images
Creators: name: Chen, Xiangru
name: Tang, Xin
name: Xiong, Junjie
name: He, Ruiyu
name: Wang, Biao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: The SEM image method is commonly used in the qualitative characterization of shale pores. The development of shale micro-reservoir pores can be visually observed through SEM images, but the efficiency of manual image processing is low and subjective. The introduction of deep learning greatly improves the efficiency of pore analysis. In this paper, the argon ion polishing SEM image of Longmaxi Formation shale in southern Sichuan is taken as an example. Intelligent identification and quantitative characterization of pores in shale SEM images are realized by Pore-net network model. Pore-net is based on the U-net network model. The way the model reads the data is changed so that the model does not focus on the region of interest. The number of convolutional layers of the model is increased. The Canny edge extraction algorithm is added. It not only reduces the workload of data set production, but also enhances the ability of network model to identify pores. The results show that the deep learning semantic image segmentation method is suitable for pore recognition of shale SEM images. The full convolutional neural network model is used to train the manually labeled shale SEM images, which can realize the intelligent recognition and quantitative characterization of shale SEM images. Compared with FCN and DeepLab V3+ network model, Pore-net performs better. Only 170 data sets are used to train the model. The Pore-net network model still has a good recognition effect on pores, which solves the problem of low accuracy of traditional pore recognition methods. The deviation between the porosity calculated by the Pore-net network model and the experimental data is between 12% and 19%. Compared with the porosity results calculated by the binarization method and other network models, the results calculated by Pore-net are closer to the real values, which proves that the porosity calculated by the Pore-net network model is reliable.
Neural Modeling for Named Entities and Morphology (NEMO^2)
Creators: name: Bareket, Dan
name: Tsarfaty, Reut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental NLP task, commonly formulated as classification over a sequence of tokens. Morphologically-Rich Languages (MRLs) pose a challenge to this basic formulation, as the boundaries of Named Entities do not necessarily coincide with token boundaries, rather, they respect morphological boundaries. To address NER in MRLs we then need to answer two fundamental questions, namely, what are the basic units to be labeled, and how can these units be detected and classified in realistic settings, i.e., where no gold morphology is available. We empirically investigate these questions on a novel NER benchmark, with parallel tokenlevel and morpheme-level NER annotations, which we develop for Modern Hebrew, a morphologically rich-and-ambiguous language. Our results show that explicitly modeling morphological boundaries leads to improved NER performance, and that a novel hybrid architecture, in which NER precedes and prunes morphological decomposition, greatly outperforms the standard pipeline, where morphological decomposition strictly precedes NER, setting a new performance bar for both Hebrew NER and Hebrew morphological decomposition tasks.
description: Accepted to TACL. This is a pre-MIT Press publication version
Additional file 1 of Epidemiology of Epstein-Barr virus infection and infectious mononucleosis in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Ashvin Kuri
name: Jacobs, Benjamin Meir
name: Vickaryous, Nikki
name: Pakpoor, Julia
name: Middeldorp, Jaap
name: Giovannoni, Gavin
name: Dobson, Ruth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. demographics of EBV-seropositive and EBV-seronegative individuals included in the seroprevalence study. Table S2. raw incidence of HES-coded IM (cases per 100,000 person-years) among males and females in three time windows. Table S3. likelihood ratio p values comparing models of IM risk without pairwise interaction and with first-order interaction between the named exposures. P values below the Bonferroni-adjusted threshold of 0.008 are highlighted in bold. Table S4. Serostatus proportions for vaccine preventable and commonly acquired illnesses between EBV seropositive and EBV seronegative individuals.
Zelus renardii Kolenati 1857
Creators: name: Heyden, Torsten van der
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Zelus
Zelus renardii

description: Recently, the invasive alien bug species
Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857
(Heteroptera: Reduviidae) was reported from the Canary Islands. Up to now, it has only been reported from the island of Tenerife (BAENA & SANTOS, 2021; VAN DER HEYDEN, 2022).
Now, the species can be reported from the island of Lanzarote, too: On 07-08-2022, Warren Stevens photographed an adult specimen of Z. renardii in Puerto Calero, located at the southeastern coast of the island (Fig. 1). The photo was uploaded to the online database iNaturalist (see here).
On 13-08-2022, a nymph (Fig. 2) and an adult specimen of Z. renardii were photographed by Warren Stevens in the Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park near Puerto del Carmen, about six kilometres east of Puerto Calero. The adult specimen was preying – very likely on a specimen of Ancistrocerus sp. (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) (Fig. 3).
Thus far, Z. renardii has been found on two of the Canary Islands. Very likely, the species is present on other islands of the archipelago, too.
description: Published as part of Heyden, Torsten van der, 2023, New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), IV, pp. 183-184 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12812462
Total Factor Productivity in Andhra Pradesh Agriculture
Creators: name: Rao, N. Chandrasekhara
name: Rao, N. Chandrasekhara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The variations in the indices of total factor productivity in the crop sector, foodgrain crops and non-foodgrain crops in Andhra Pradesh have been studied, and the contribution of the total factor productivity in the state during 1980-81 to 1999-2000 has been evaluated. Tornquist-Theil Index has been used to calculate the index of total factor productivity. The average annual index of total factor productivity during the post-reform period has been found five per cent less than that during pre-reform period in the state in the crop sector as a whole. In the case of non-foodgrains, it has been found nine per cent less than that during the pre-reform period, while in case of foodgrains, it is less than 100 during both the periods. The contribution of total factor productivity to yield growth has been found to be a healthy 31 per cent in the pre-reform period. An absolute decline (–37) has been noted during the post-reform period in the crop sector of the state. The absolute decline in the contribution of technical change has been drastic in the case of non-foodgrain crops in the state during the post-reform period. This absolute decline in total factor productivity seems to be one of the main reasons for the distress of farmers in the state which has been manifesting in the form of suicides since the late-1990s.
Cultivation of Summer Rice in the Flood Plains of Assam — An Assessment of Economic Potential on Marginal and Small Farms
Creators: name: Talukdar, K.C.
name: Beka, B.C.
name: Talukdar, K.C.
name: Beka, B.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Cultivation of summer rice in the flood-prone areas of Assam has gained momentum through massive public investment on STW, especially in the non-traditional areas. The crop has shown high productivity in the medium land at higher level of technology, which needs repeated application every year. The process has paused threat to the marginal and small farmers who are resource-poor. The study has analysed the growth and stability of summer rice and economics of its cultivation in the flood-prone districts of Assam. It has been observed that summer rice has grown faster than autumn and winter rice during the past four decades. Irrigated HYV summer rice in the medium land is costly to cultivate but is more productive at higher level of technology. Yield advantage of summer rice has been found to be higher than that of autumn and winter rice. High cost and low product price, land degradation due to over-use of chemical fertilizer, high cost of irrigation, prevailing market distortion, and lack of short-duration photoinsensitive varieties have been identified as main constraints for summer rice cultivation in the non-traditional areas. Absence of strong linkage between commodity and money market has been found in the rice producing areas for marginal and small farms.