cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Intérêt de la Musicothérapie pour gérer l’agitation des personnes âgées souffrant de démence lors de leur entrée en institution.
title: Intérêt de la Musicothérapie pour gérer l’agitation des personnes âgées souffrant de démence lors de leur entrée en institution.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kowalick, Céline
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: démence
subject: personnes âgées
subject: agitation
subject: admission
subject: EMS
subject: musicothérapie
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Contexte: Aujourd’hui, la population vieillit. Ce phénomène planétaire entraîne un développement de pathologies chroniques dont la démence. Elle est définie comme étant une pathologie neurodégénérative évolutive chronique se manifestant par des déficits cognitifs, des symptômes psycho-comportementaux dont l’agitation. Elle entraîne une diminution de la qualité de vie ainsi qu’une institutionnalisation prématurée. Aujourd’hui, des approches non-pharmacologiques, comme la musicothérapie, contribuent à améliorer l’accompagnement et le bien-être des personnes souffrant de démence et vivant en institution. Objectif : Ce travail vise à attirer la curiosité et à susciter l’intérêt des équipes soignantes sur les bénéfices de la mise en application de la musicothérapie pour prodiguer un accompagnement de qualité et individualisé auprès des personnes souffrants de DTA et présentant de l’agitation lors de leur admission en institution. La théorie de la transition de Meleis a guidé l’élaboration de ce travail. Méthode : Les bases de données Pubmed et Cinahl ont été consultées : sept articles quantitatifs, entre 2008 et 2018, ont été sélectionnés et analysés à l’aide des grilles d’analyses critiques du Fortin : des données relatives aux effets de la musicothérapie sur l’agitation, notamment, ont été extraites. Résultats : La musicothérapie, interprétée comme une intervention infirmière de soutien au regard de la théorie de la transition, a des effets positifs sur les comportements d’anxiété et d’agitation des personnes âgées souffrant de démence et vivant en institution. Elle peut également renforcer des émotions positives, encourager la communication, les relations sociales et stimuler la mémoire affective. Toutefois, certains facteurs peuvent influencer la non-utilisation de cette intervention par les infirmières. Discussion : L’entrée en institution est une étape de vie, une transition pour les personnes âgées. Aussi, la musicothérapie peut ainsi permettre de créer une relation entre l’infirmière, la personne et ses proches, de tisser un fil pour trouver un équilibre dans cette nouvelle étape de vie, facilitant ainsi la transition. Toutefois, d’autres études scientifiques doivent être réalisées afin de fournir une plus grande preuve de l’évidence de l’impact de l’intervention étudiée.
Strong resonant tunneling, level repulsion and spectral type for one-dimensional adiabatic quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators
Creators: name: Fedotov, Alexander
name: Klopp, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 34E05 ; 34E20 ; 34L05 ; 34L40

description: In this paper, we consider one dimensional adiabatic quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators in the regime of strong resonant tunneling. We show the emergence of a level repulsion phenomenon which is seen to be very naturally related to the local spectral type of the operator: the more singular the spectrum, the weaker the repulsion.
Hyperbolic Graphs of Surface Groups
Creators: name: Min, Honglin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65; 20F67

description: We give a sufficient condition under which the fundamental group of a reglued graph of surfaces is hyperbolic. A reglued graph of surfaces is constructed by cutting a fixed graph of surfaces along the edge surfaces, then regluing by pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms of the edge surfaces. By carefully choosing the regluing homeomorphism, we construct an example of such a reglued graph of surfaces, whose fundamental group is not abstractly commensurate to any surface-by-free group, i.e., which is different from all the examples given in Mosher's paper 'A hyperbolic-by-hyperbolic hyperbolic group'.
description: 52 pages, 7 figures, thesis draft
title: Indentation densification of fused silica assessed by raman spectroscopy and constitutive finite element analysis
Creators: name: Bruns, Sebastian
name: Uesbeck, Tobias
name: Fuhrmann, Sindy
name: Tarragó Aymerich, Mariona
name: Wondraczek, Lothar
name: Ligny, Dominique de
name: Durst, Karsten
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2024

description: Inelastic deformation of anomalous glasses manifests in shear flow and densification of the glass network; the deformation behavior during indentation testing is linked strongly to both processes. In this paper, the indentation densification field of fused silica is investigated using depth‐resolved Raman spectroscopy and finite element simulations. Through affecting the size of the indent, the normal load and the Raman laser spot size determine the spatial sampling resolution, leading to a certain degree of structural averaging. For appropriate combinations of normal load (indent size) and laser spot diameter, a maximum densification of 18.4% was found at the indent center. The indentation behavior was modeled by extended Drucker‐Prager‐Cap (DPC) plasticity, assuming a sigmoidal hardening behavior of fused silica with a densification saturation of 21%. This procedure significantly improved the reproduction of the experimental densification field, yielding a maximum densification of 18.2% directly below the indenter tip. The degree of densification was found to be strongly linked to the hydrostatic pressure limit below the indenter in accordance to Johnson's expanding cavity model (J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 18 (1970) 115). Based on the good overlap between FEA and Raman, an alternative way to extract the empirical correlation factor m, which scales structural densification to Raman spectroscopic observations, is obtained. This approach does not require the use of intensive hydrostatic compaction experiments.
Additional file 1 of Upregulation of keratin 15 is required for varicella-zoster virus replication in keratinocytes and is attenuated in the live attenuated vOka vaccine strain
Creators: name: Tommasi, Cristina
name: Yogev, Ohad
name: Yee, Michael B.
name: Drousioti, Andriani
name: Jones, Meleri
name: Ring, Alice
name: Singh, Manuraj
name: Dry, Inga
name: Atkins, Oscar
name: Naeem, Aishath S.
name: Kriplani, Nisha
name: Akbar, Arne N.
name: Haas, Jürgen G.
name: O’Toole, Edel A.
name: Kinchington, Paul R.
name: Breuer, Judith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Observational Constraints on the Physical Properties of Interstellar Dust in the Post-Planck Era
Creators: name: Hensley, Brandon S.
name: Draine, B. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a synthesis of the astronomical observations constraining the wavelength-dependent extinction, emission, and polarization from interstellar dust from UV to microwave wavelengths on diffuse Galactic sightlines. Representative solid phase abundances for those sightlines are also derived. Given the sensitive new observations of polarized dust emission provided by the Planck satellite, we place particular emphasis on dust polarimetry, including continuum polarized extinction, polarization in the carbonaceous and silicate spectroscopic features, the wavelength-dependent polarization fraction of the dust emission, and the connection between optical polarized extinction and far-infrared polarized emission. Together, these constitute a set of constraints that should be reproduced by models of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium.
description: 39 pages, 14 figures. Updated to accepted version
Synchronization Landscapes in Small-World-Connected Computer Networks
Creators: name: Guclu, H.
name: Korniss, G.
name: Novotny, M. A.
name: Toroczkai, Z.
name: Racz, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by a synchronization problem in distributed computing we studied a simple growth model on regular and small-world networks, embedded in one and two-dimensions. We find that the synchronization landscape (corresponding to the progress of the individual processors) exhibits Kardar-Parisi-Zhang-like kinetic roughening on regular networks with short-range communication links. Although the processors, on average, progress at a nonzero rate, their spread (the width of the synchronization landscape) diverges with the number of nodes (desynchronized state) hindering efficient data management. When random communication links are added on top of the one and two-dimensional regular networks (resulting in a small-world network), large fluctuations in the synchronization landscape are suppressed and the width approaches a finite value in the large system-size limit (synchronized state). In the resulting synchronization scheme, the processors make close-to-uniform progress with a nonzero rate without global intervention. We obtain our results by ``simulating the simulations", based on the exact algorithmic rules, supported by coarse-grained arguments.
description: 20 pages, 22 figures
Structuring Exotic Options Contracts on Water to Improve the Efficiency of Resource Allocation in the Water Spot Market
Creators: name: Williamson, Brendon
name: Villano, Renato A.
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Williamson, Brendon
name: Villano, Renato A.
name: Fleming, Euan M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: options
subject: skewness-and-kurtosis-amended Black-Scholes model
subject: water

description: With the current drought in South-Eastern Australia highlighting the scarcity and value of inland Australia’s water resources, focus turns to how these resources can be allocated more efficiently. The first major step was taken almost a decade ago with the separation of land and water property rights allowing openly traded water markets. This study assesses the potential economic benefits that options contracts bring to the water market in the Murray Valley water market. Exotic call options are estimated using both Black-Scholes and skewness-and-kurtosis-amended Black-Scholes financial option pricing methods that are based on three years of data on water prices. While the presence of options would result in significant economic benefits in the more efficient trade of water on the open market for lower-value crops, there were mixed results from the attempt to price such options.
The Destruction of Cosmological Minihalos by Primordial Supernovae
Creators: name: Whalen, Daniel
name: van Veelen, Bob
name: O'Shea, Brian W.
name: Norman, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present numerical simulations of primordial supernovae in cosmological minihalos at $z \sim$ 20. We consider Type II supernovae, hypernovae, and pair instability supernovae (PISN) in halos from 6.9 $\times$ 10$^5$ - 1.2 $\times$ 10$^7$ $\Ms$, those in which Population III stars are expected to form via H$_2$ cooling. The supernovae evolve along two evolutionary paths according to whether they explode in \ion{H}{2} regions or neutral halos. Those in \ion{H}{2} regions first expand adiabatically and then radiate strongly upon collision with baryons ejected from the halo during its photoevaporation by the progenitor. Explosions in neutral halos promptly emit most of their kinetic energy as x-rays, but retain enough momentum to seriously disrupt the halo. We find that the least energetic of the supernovae are capable of destroying halos $\lesssim$ 10$^7$ $\Ms$, while a single PISN can destroy even more massive halos. Blasts in \ion{H}{2} regions disperse heavy elements into the IGM, but neutral halos confine the explosion and its metals. In \ion{H}{2} regions, a prompt second generation of stars may form in the remnant at radii of 100 - 200 pc in the halo. Explosions confined by large halos instead recollapse, with infall rates in excess of 10$^{-2}$ $\Ms$ yr$^{-1}$ that heavily contaminate their interior. This fallback may either fuel massive black hole growth at very high redshifts or create the first globular cluster with a radius of 10 - 20 pc at the center of the halo. Our findings allow the possibility that the first primitive galaxies formed sooner, with greater numbers of stars and distinct chemical abundance patterns, than in current models.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures, accepted to ApJ
Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State in Perpendicular Magnetic Fields in Strongly Pauli-Limited Quasi-Two-Dimensional Superconductors
Creators: name: Shimahara, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the Fermi-surface effect called the nesting effect for the FFLO state in strongly Pauli-limited Q2D superconductors, focusing on the effect of 3D factors, such as interlayer electron transfer, interlayer pairing, and off-plane magnetic fields including those perpendicular to the most conductive layers. We examine the systems with a large Maki parameter so that the orbital pair-breaking effect is negligible, except for the locking of the direction of the FFLO vector q in the field direction.It is known that the nesting effect for the FFLO state can be strong in QLD systems in which the orbital pair-breaking effect is suppressed by applying the mag. field parallel to the layers. Hence, it has sometimes been suggested that the nesting effect may hardly enhance the stability of the FFLO state for perpendicular fields. We illustrate that, contrary to this view, the nesting effect can strongly stabilize the FFLO state for perpendicular fields as well as for parallel fields when tz is small so that the Fermi surfaces are open in the kz-direction, where tz denotes the interlayer transfer energy. In particular, the nesting effect in perpendicular fields can be strong in interlayer states. For example, in systems with cylindrical Fermi surfaces warped by tz /= 0, interlayer states with Dlt_k prop sin k_z exhibit mu_e Hc=1.65 Dlt_a0 for perpendicular fields, which is much larger than typical values for parallel fields, such as mu_e Hc=Dlt_s0 of the s-wave state and mu_e Hc = 1.28 Delta_d0 of the d-wave state in cylindrical systems with tz=0. The present result could potentially provide a physical reason why the areas in the phase diagrams occupied by the high-field phases for the perpendicular and parallel fields are of the same order in CeCoIn5 and FeSe.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables
Fluorine abundances in planetary nebulae
Creators: name: Zhang, Y.
name: Liu, X-W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have determined fluorine abundances from the F II 4789 and F IV 4060 nebular emission lines for a sample of planetary nebulae (PNe). Our results show that fluorine is generally overabundant in PNe, thus providing new evidence for the synthesis of fluorine in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. [F/O] is found to be positively correlated with the C/O abundance ratio, in agreement with the predictions of theoretical models of fluorine production in thermally pulsing AGB stars. A large enhancement of fluorine is observed in the Wolf-Rayet PN NGC 40, suggesting that high mass-loss rates probably favor the survival of fluorine.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
PRODUCT AND BRANDING INNOVATIONS IN THE AUSTRALIAN BEEF MARKETING SYSTEM
Creators: name: Morales, Luis Emilio
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Wright, Vic
name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Umberger, Wendy J.
name: Morales, Luis Emilio
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Wright, Vic
name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Umberger, Wendy J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Innovation
subject: Branding
subject: Australian beef marketing system

description: Meat Standards Australia (MSA) represents a new beef classification system, derived from consumer preferences, which allows classifying beef in interesting ways to consumers and creates the basis for product differentiation and branding. Currently, branding of beef cuts occurs on a limited scale; however, research has revealed clear segmentation across consumers and premiums for preferred products in niche markets. The objective of this study is to identify the potential for large-scale differentiation and branding in the Australian beef marketing system and how this may best be done given the structure of the supply chain.
On the ergodic principle for Markov and quadratic Stochastic Processes and its relations
Creators: name: Ganikhodjaev, Nasir
name: Akin, Hasan
name: Mukhamedov, Farrukh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35, 60J05, 60F99, 92E99, 47A35

description: In the paper we prove that a quadratic stochastic process satisfies the ergodic principle if and only if the associated Markov process satisfies one.
description: 12 pages. submitted
title: Vanishing Hysteresis in Carbon Nanotube Transistors Embedded in Boron Nitride/Polytetrafluoroethylene Heterolayers
Creators: name: Kumar, Sandeep
name: Dagli, Daghan
name: Dehm, Simone
name: Das, Chittaranjan
name: Wei, Li
name: Chen, Yuan
name: Hennrich, Frank
name: Krupke, Ralph
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2024

description: Carbon nanotube field‐effect transistors fabricated on silicon wafers with thermal oxide often suffer from large gate‐voltage hysteresis, induced by charge trapping sites in oxides, surface hydroxyl groups, and the presence of water molecules. Surface functionalization and passivation, as well as vacuum annealing and reduced operating temperature, have shown to diminish or even eliminate hysteresis. Herein, the fabrication of nearly hysteresis‐free transistors on Si/SiO₂ by embedding carbon nanotubes and the connecting electrodes in a hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN) bottom layer and a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) top layer is demonstrated. The conditions at which catalyst‐free synthesis of h‐BN on SiO₂/Si with borazine is obtained, and the subsequent liquid‐phase deposition of PTFE, are discussed. Device transfer curves are measured before and after PTFE deposition. It is found that the hysteresis is reduced after PTFE deposition, but vanishes only after a waiting period of several days. Simultaneously, the on‐state current increases with time. The results give evidence for the absence of trap states in h‐BN/PTFE heterolayers and a high breakthrough field strength in those wafer‐scalable materials.
Critical Networks Exhibit Maximal Information Diversity in Structure-Dynamics Relationships
Creators: name: Nykter, Matti
name: Price, Nathan D.
name: Larjo, Antti
name: Aho, Tommi
name: Kauffman, Stuart A.
name: Yli-Harja, Olli
name: Shmulevich, Ilya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Network structure strongly constrains the range of dynamic behaviors available to a complex system. These system dynamics can be classified based on their response to perturbations over time into two distinct regimes, ordered or chaotic, separated by a critical phase transition. Numerous studies have shown that the most complex dynamics arise near the critical regime. Here we use an information theoretic approach to study structure-dynamics relationships within a unified framework and how that these relationships are most diverse in the critical regime.
THE USE OF ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS IN TRANSITIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: CASE STUDY OF MACEDONIAN PATH TO MEET GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGES
Creators: name: Nedanovski, Pece
name: Nedanovski, Pece
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: economic instruments
subject: environmental protection
subject: sustainability
subject: globalization

description: The demand for harmonization of domestic policies across countries is seen as a precondition for globalization. Does globalization conflict with environmental protection? The relationship between two of them is too complex. From the viewpoint of its protection, the environment must be seen as a whole. In the same time, the utility function based on income and pollution, is not identical and homothetic across different countries. It appears that the diversity in environmental protection is legitimate. In order to provide a sustainable environmental policy in transitional circumstances, the R. of Macedonia needs a balance between the goals of social development, economic progress and environmental protection. So far, because of the institutional development gap, only few economic instruments have been implemented in environmental protection in Macedonia. Consequently, the environmental policy including economic instruments should be considered with a view to balance the environmental achievements with its social and economic implications.
Magnetic deflections and possible sources of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in the AGASA-HiRes-Yakutsk cluster
Creators: name: Troitsky, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cluster of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays observed by the AGASA, HiRes and Yakutsk experiments is studied with respect to possible deflections of particles in regular magnetic fields. Best-fit positions of a potential source of these clustered particles are found, with account of the errors in energy estimation, both in the frameworks of particular models of the Galactic magnetic field and treating the direction and the amount of deflection as free parameters. The study suggests that an unknown regular component of either Galactic or extragalactic magnetic field may dominate over modelled components in the direction of the cluster. Possible sources of the cosmic rays in that direction are considered.
description: 18 pages, 3 eps figures, iopart.cls
Valuing the benefits from preserving threatened native fauna and flora from invasive animal pests
Creators: name: Gong, Wendy
name: Sinden, Jack A.
name: Jones, Randall E.
name: Gong, Wendy
name: Sinden, Jack A.
name: Jones, Randall E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: Invasive animal pests
subject: unpriced values
subject: biodiversity gains
subject: native flora and fauna

description: Invasive animal pests inflict many kinds of damage on the environment, and threaten native fauna and flora. We attempt to value the benefits from the extra biodiversity that is protected if these threats were removed. The NSW Rural Lands Protection Board is a major agency that undertakes pest control, and is organised into 48 districts across the state. A cross-sectional set of data on Board expenditures, pest abundance, and environmental and climatic characteristics, was compiled by district and analysed. The number of threatened native plant and animal species increases with pest abundance and with the total number of native species present in the district. But the number of threatened species decreases as Board expenditures on pest control increase. The value of preserving an extra species is derived from these changes in expenditure, following conventional economic principles. Then the potential gain in economic surplus is estimated if the threats to biodiversity were removed. The results so far suggest that the value of the total benefit of protecting an extra species is at least $44,250 per year, and the potential gain in surplus for New South Wales if the threats were removed is at least $132m per year. This change in surplus is also the total economic loss because invasive pests threaten native flora and fauna. If only half the native species could be protected, the avoidable economic loss is at least $95.7m per year. The assumptions and limitations of these estimates are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets
Creators: name: Morgenstern, Sandra
name: Strijbis, Oliver
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Warrants for Left-Turn Signal Phasing
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Warrants for the installation of left-turn phasing were developed. A review of literature was conducted along with a survey of the policies of other states. Field data of delays and conflicts were taken before and after installation of exclusive left-turn signalization. Left-turn delay studies were conducted at intersections with varying volume conditions. Analysis of the effect on accidents of adding a left-turn phase was made. The relationship between left-turn accidents and conflicts was investigated. Other types of analyses concerning gap acceptance, capacity, and benefit-cost ratios were also performed.  It was found that exclusive left-turn phasing significantly reduced left-turn accidents and conflicts. This reduction was offset in part by an increase in rear-end accidents. Left-turn delay was reduced only during periods of heavy traffic flow. Total delay for an intersection increased after installation of left-turn phasing. Warrants were developed dealing with the following four general areas:      accident experience,     delay,     volumes, and     traffic conflicts.
Benjamin Will, Decor und Memoria. Späthellenistische mythologische Gruppen als Teil der römischen Idealplastik
Creators: name: Kasteiner, Sascha
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2024

description: Rezension zu: Benjamin Will, Decor und Memoria. Späthellenistische mythologische Gruppen als Teil der römischen Idealplastik. Antiquitates, Band 72. Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2019. 319 Seiten ohne Abbildungen.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 220.2020(2021): Bonner Jahrbücher
Lexical elicitation: Body parts
Creators: name: Ruiz, Wendy
name: Dos Santos, Wesley
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: mam

description: Possessive paradigms for the body part words belly, lip, mouth, head, foot and hand; three simple sentences ("I see my foot", "I see his foot" and "I see your foot")
Evidence of Scope Economies in Australian Agriculture
Creators: name: Villano, Renato A.
name: Fleming, Pauline
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Villano, Renato A.
name: Fleming, Pauline
name: Fleming, Euan M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Australia
subject: Crops
subject: Livestock
subject: Sheep
subject: Scope Economics

description: Scope economies can be used in studies of farming systems to provide a measure of synergies between different farm enterprises and between activities within farm enterprises. In this paper, they are reported for farms in three benchmarking groups in Australia by estimating stochastic input distance functions and calculating an 'economies of scope parameter'. Evidence of significant scope economies between sheep and crop enterprises, and between beef and crop enterprises, is presented and discussed. Similar evidence is reported between wool and lamb activities and wool and mature sheep trading activities within the sheep enterprise.
Local Dielectric Measurements of BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 Nano-composites Through Microwave Microscopy
Creators: name: Qi, Yi
name: Zheng, H.
name: Ramesh, R.
name: Anlage, Steven M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on linear and non-linear dielectric property measurements of BaTiO3 - CoFe2O4 (BTO-CFO) ferroelectro-magnetic nano-composites and pure BaTiO3 and CoFe2O4 samples with Scanning Near Field Microwave Microscopy. The permittivity scanning image with spatial resolution on the micro-meter scale shows that the nano-composites have very uniform quality with an effective dielectric constant ε_r = 140 +/- 6.4 at 3.8 GHz and room temperature. The temperature dependence of dielectric permittivity shows that the Curie temperature of pure BTO was shifted by the clamping effect of the MgO substrate, whereas the Curie temperature shift of the BTO ferroelectric phase in BTO-CFO composites is less pronounced, and if it exists at all, would be mainly caused by the CFO. Non-linear dielectric measurements of BTO-CFO show good ferroelectric properties from BTO.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, to be published in the Journal of Materials Research
Toward Extremely Precise Radial Velocities: II. A Tool For Using Multivariate Gaussian Processes to Model Stellar Activity
Creators: name: Gilbertson, Christian
name: Ford, Eric B.
name: Jones, David E.
name: Stenning, David C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radial velocity method is one of the most successful techniques for the discovery and characterization of exoplanets. Modern spectrographs promise measurement precision of ~0.2-0.5 m/s for an ideal target star. However, the intrinsic variability of stellar spectra can mimic and obscure true planet signals at these levels. Rajpaul et al. (2015) and Jones et al. (2017) proposed applying a physically motivated, multivariate Gaussian process (GP) to jointly model the apparent Doppler shift and multiple indicators of stellar activity as a function of time, so as to separate the planetary signal from various forms of stellar variability. These methods are promising, but performing the necessary calculations can be computationally intensive and algebraically tedious. In this work, we present a flexible and computationally efficient software package, GPLinearOdeMaker.jl, for modeling multivariate time series using a linear combination of univariate GPs and their derivatives. The package allows users to easily and efficiently apply various multivariate GP models and different covariance kernel functions. We demonstrate GPLinearOdeMaker.jl by applying the Jones et al. (2017) model to fit measurements of the apparent Doppler shift and activity indicators derived from simulated active solar spectra time series affected by many evolving star spots. We show how GPLinearOdeMaker.jl makes it easy to explore the effect of different choices for the GP kernel. We find that local kernels could significantly increase the sensitivity and precision of Doppler planet searches relative to the widely used quasi-periodic kernel.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, published in ApJ
Risk in Public Policy Making: A Neglected Issue in Australia
Creators: name: Hardaker, J. Brian
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Lien, Gudbrand D.
name: Hardaker, J. Brian
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Lien, Gudbrand D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Policy-making
subject: Risk
subject: Uncertainty
subject: Decision Analysis
subject: Perceptions
subject: Subjectivity

description: We argue for greater recognition of the risky nature of most policy decisions. In this context we discuss the gulf between public risk perceptions and attitudes and those of 'experts'. Public views of risk are often inconsistent and seemingly irrational. They nevertheless influence policy choices in a democracy. On the other hand, experts often claim unjustifiable levels of confidence in their predictions of policy choice outcomes, creating a lack of public faith in their recommendations. While risky policy choices deserve more systematic decision analysis, there is a need for more effective interaction between policy makers, decision analysts and the public.
Exit Timing Decisions under Land Speculation and Resource Scarcity in Agriculture
Creators: name: Ranjan, Ram
name: Tapsuwan, Sorada
name: Ranjan, Ram
name: Tapsuwan, Sorada
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: agricultural resilience
subject: exit timing
subject: water scarcity
subject: climate change

description: This paper explores the concept of agricultural resilience in the context of climate change related water scarcity. Specifically, the impact of water scarcity on agricultural production is analyzed to derive the timing of exit decisions for farmers faced with the prospect of declining profitability in agriculture but increasing benefits from land rezoning in future. The prospects of land rezoning are modeled as a poison process which may or may not be influenced by farmer’s water abstraction decisions. Selling out of agriculture before land rezoning has an impatience cost as the farmer does not gain the maximum speculative rewards. The analysis highlights the role of such speculative rewards in making farmers resilient to declining profitability in agriculture and also identifies the circumstances under which the water prices may be an ineffective policy tool for allocating water. An empirical application is performed using the above model for the case of a drought prone region in Western Australia.
title: Seatbelt Usage in Kentucky
title: [Nov. 1978]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Barclay, Michael
name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In this report, the effectiveness and usage of seatbelts in Kentucky and factors affecting usage are examined and identified. Data were obtained from three sources: field observations, accident reports, and a questionnaire.  Kentucky drivers and passengers were found to have lower seatbelt usage rates (slightly under 10 percent) than drivers and passengers in other states. The accident data showed that the chances of being killed or severely injured is greatly reduced by wearing a seatbelt. Seatbelts reduced the chance of being killed by a factor of six and the chance of being severely injured by a factor of two. Several factors were found to have significant effects on seatbelt usage. Among other factors, usage was higher among drivers over 25 years of age, in newer cars, on interstates and parkways, in large cities, in out-of-state cars, and among drivers with a college education. Records of drivers who wear seatbelts were found to be better than records of those who do not wear seatbelts. It was found that approximately one-third of the drivers were in favor, one-third were neutral, and one-third were against a mandatory seatbelt usage law.
Optical Magnetometry based Current Source
Creators: name: Koss, Peter A.
name: Dinani, Reza Tavakoli
name: Bienstman, Luc
name: Bison, Georg
name: Severijns, Nathal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a current monitoring system based on optical magnetometry, which is able to discriminate true current variations from environmental effects at room temperature. The system consists of a dedicated thermally stable magnetic field confining coil and an array of four optically pumped magnetometers arranged in a two-dimensional gradiometer configuration. These magnetometers monitor magnetic field variations inside the coil, which correlate to the variations of the driving current of the coil. The system uses a digital signal-processing unit to extract and record in real time the magnetic field values measured by the magnetometers, which allows a real time monitoring of the current. The system's coil, which is made out of printed circuit boards, can easily be changed to adapt the current-to-field conversion. Thus, we can expand the applicability of this system to a wide range of currents. By using this system to actively feedback control a current source we stabilized a current of 20 mA on a level better than $5 \times 10^{-9}$.
Maria Teresa Costa, Filosofie della traduzione
Creators: name: Dammiano, Enza
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2015
Subjects: Recensione; Maria Teresa Costa; Filosofie della traduzione

description: Il volume Filosofie della traduzione, edito da Mimesis nella collana “Filosofie”, indaga uno spazio ibrido di riflessione critica, in cui converge da un lato la storia del pensiero filosofico e dall’altro la ricerca intorno alla traduzione intesa come “atto di dislocazione spaziale e temporale” (10): “Osservata dalla prospettiva della filosofia” – scrive Maria Teresa Costa nell’Introduzione – “la traduzione diventa essenziale per riflettere su temi quali linguaggio, storia e tradizione” (Ibid.).  È proprio a partire da tale assunto che l’autrice sviluppa il binomio filosofia-traduzione e ne indaga le reciproche implicazioni.
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Analysis of the X-ray Emission of Nine Swift Afterglows
Creators: name: Panaitescu, A.
name: Meszaros, P.
name: Gehrels, N.
name: Burrows, D.
name: Nousek, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-ray light-curves of 9 Swift XRT afterglows (050126, 050128, 050219A, 050315, 050318, 050319, 050401, 050408, 050505) display a complex behaviour: a steep t^{-3.0 \pm 0.3} decay until ~400 s, followed by a significantly slower t^{-0.65+/-0.20} fall-off, which at 0.2--2 d after the burst evolves into a t^{-1.7+/-0.5} decay. We consider three possible models for the geometry of relativistic blast-waves (spherical outflows, non-spreading jets, and spreading jets), two possible dynamical regimes for the forward shock (adiabatic and fully radiative), and we take into account a possible angular structure of the outflow and delayed energy injection in the blast-wave, to identify the models which reconcile the X-ray light-curve decay with the slope of the X-ray continuum for each of the above three afterglow phases. By piecing together the various models for each phase in a way that makes physical sense, we identify possible models for the entire X-ray afterglow. The major conclusion of this work is that a long-lived episode of energy injection in the blast-wave, during which the shock energy increases at t^{1.0+/-0.5}, is required for five afterglows and could be at work in the other four as well. Optical observations in conjunction with the X-ray can distinguish among these various models. Our simple tests allow the determination of the location of the cooling frequency relative to the X-ray domain and, thus, of the index of the electron power-law distribution with energy in the blast-wave. The resulting indices are clearly inconsistent with an universal value.
description: 10 pages, minor changes, to be published in the MNRAS
Additional file 1 of General practitioners may improve cervical screening equality in France
Creators: name: Druel, Vladimir
name: Delpierre, Cyrille
name: Ouanhnon, Lisa
name: Bugat, Marie-Eve Rougé
name: Grosclaude, Pascale
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Spin networks and SL(2,C)-Character varieties
Creators: name: Lawton, Sean
name: Peterson, Elisha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Denote the free group on 2 letters by F_2 and the SL(2,C)-representation variety of F_2 by R=Hom(F_2,SL(2,C)). The group SL(2,C) acts on R by conjugation. We construct an isomorphism between the coordinate ring C[SL(2,C)] and the ring of matrix coefficients, providing an additive basis of C[R]^SL(2,C) in terms of spin networks. Using a graphical calculus, we determine the symmetries and multiplicative structure of this basis. This gives a canonical description of the regular functions on the SL(2,C)-character variety of F_2 and a new proof of a classical result of Fricke, Klein, and Vogt.
description: Updated historical treatment of the subject. Figures drawn with PGF/TikZ; Handbook of Teichmuller Theory II, A. Papadopoulos (ed), EMS Publishing House, Zurich, 2008
Resilience in Ecology and Belief
Creators: name: Ranjan, Ram
name: Ranjan, Ram
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Belief dynamics
subject: ecological hysteresis
subject: water scarcity
subject: groundwater dependent ecosystems
subject: threshold effects

description: This paper explores the crucial linkage between societal risk perception and the survival of threatened ecosystems exhibiting non-linear stock dynamics. Formation of beliefs over specie’s importance and over its survival chances may be subject to resilience and therefore may differ from actual risks. Whereas, ecosystems stand a higher chance of survival if they aren’t stressed beyond their resilience thresholds. When subjective perception of risks and the affected ecosystems are both influenced by competing uses of resources, several equilibriums arise, not all of which may ensure sustainability of the ecosystem.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 06/18/08. Former title: Non-Linearity in Belief and Environmental Risk Dynamics
Finite-temperature symmetric tensor network for spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets on the square lattice
Creators: name: Poilblanc, Didier
name: Mambrini, Matthieu
name: Alet, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the tensor network framework, the (positive) thermal density operator can be approximated by a double layer of infinite Projected Entangled Pair Operator (iPEPO) coupled via ancilla degrees of freedom. To investigate the thermal properties of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the square lattice, we introduce a family of fully spin-$SU(2)$ and lattice-$C_{4v}$ symmetric on-site tensors (of bond dimensions $D=4$ or $D=7$) and a plaquette-based Trotter-Suzuki decomposition of the imaginary-time evolution operator. A variational optimization is performed on the plaquettes, using a full (for $D=4$) or simple (for $D=7$) environment obtained from the single-site Corner Transfer Matrix Renormalization Group fixed point. The method is benchmarked by a comparison to quantum Monte Carlo in the thermodynamic limit. Although the iPEPO spin correlation length starts to deviate from the exact exponential growth for inverse-temperature $β\gtrsim 2$, the behavior of various observables turns out to be quite accurate once plotted w.r.t the inverse correlation length. We also find that a direct $T=0$ variational energy optimization provides results in full agreement with the $β\rightarrow\infty$ limit of finite-temperature data, hence validating the imaginary-time evolution procedure. Extension of the method to frustrated models is described and preliminary results are shown.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
José Francisco Ruiz Casanova, Dos Cuestiones de Literatura Comparada: traducción y poesía. Exilio y traducción
Creators: name: Caboni, Paolo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2015
Subjects: Recensione; José Francisco Ruiz Casanova; Dos Cuestiones de Literatura Comparada: traducción y poesía. Exilio y traducción

description: uidato dall’intenzione di colmare alcune lacune critiche – anzitutto in relazione al panorama ispanistico – e dalla necessità di tirare le fila circa diverse questioni su cui da tempo lavora, Ruiz Casanova elabora un volume eterogeneo e coeso insieme. Il discorso complessivo si costruisce attorno ad alcuni concetti cardine – esplicitati sin dal titolo – che strutturano il testo in tre grandi sezioni (Para una historia de la Literatura Comparada en España, Traducción y Poesía, Exilio y Traducción), a cui si aggiunge una coda conclusiva sulla letteratura ispano-filippina.
Grazie all’unione coerente di tre contributi presentati tra gli anni 2004 e 2009...
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