cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Letter from Inspector of Income Tax (Norman Lee) to "Sirs" [at Rainbow Ranche], December 9, 1932; with reply from James Goldie to "Sir" [Norman Lee]. January 8, [1933]
Creators: name: Goldie, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to "Sirs" [at Rainbow Ranche] from Inspector of Income Tax (Norman Lee), dated December 9, 1932, regarding the balances of shareholder accounts; with reply from James Goldie to "Sir" [Norman Lee], dated January 8, [1933], with requested information.
Partial profiles of quasi-complete graphs
Creators: name: Lopes, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15, 05C15

description: We enumerate graph homomorphisms to quasi-complete graphs, i.e., graphs obtained from complete graphs by removing one edge. The source graphs are complete graphs, quasi-complete graphs, cycles, paths, wheels and broken wheels. These enumerations give rise to sequences of integers with two indices; one of the indices is the number of vertices of the source graph, and the other index is the number of vertices of the target graph.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures
title: Investigating the Effects of Empathy on Implicit Race Bias
Creators: name: Kisiel, Macy
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Over the years there have been changes to social norms, which now discourage expressions of prejudice, and changes in many people’s self-reported attitudes, but prejudice is still a major issue in present-day American society. One important step toward addressing prejudice and social injustices is to understand the psychological processes that underlie and strengthen them. The current study aimed to use an empathy passage to positively prime the schema about a minority person of color and manipulate regulation of implicit bias. The study utilized a mixed 2 × 2 design. Sixty-four participants (Mage = 20.88 years, SD = 4.75 years) were recruited to complete a laboratory experiment. After completing a demographic survey and a perceived discrimination scale, participants were randomly assigned into an Empathy induction group and a Control group. Both groups completed a racial brief implicit attitudes test (BIAT) before and after the empathy manipulation. Participants in the Empathy group read a vignette describing a social interaction between members of different races, whereas the control group read a paragraph that did not involve racial topics. Empathy manipulation (empathy vs. control) was the between subjects factor, and the timing of the IAT was the within subjects factor. Moreover, the participants’ perceived affective valence and arousal during the empathy manipulation were assessed by the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM). IAT D scores were analyzed by a mixed ANOVA. A regression model was also conducted to examine whether SAM arousal scores predicted change in post-intervention IAT scores. The results of the ANOVA indicated a significant main effect of IAT scores (pre vs post), but not a significant main effect of group (empathy vs control) or an interaction between IAT scores and group. Further, the overall fit of a regression model was statistically significant, suggesting that the variance in post-intervention IAT scores is accounted for by arousal ratings and race of participant (white vs non-white), with white participants driving the significance. These findings suggest that white participants were more emotionally engaged with the content of the study resulting in better performance, which contribute to the study of implicit race bias and have implications in applied settings.
Προσωπικά περιβάλλοντα μάθησης
Creators: name: Ακριτίδου, Μαρία Ηλία
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Προσωπικά περιβάλλοντα μάθησης
Παγκόσμιος ιστός 2.0
Κοινωνικό λογισμικό
Personal learning environments
Web 2.0
Social software

description: Αντικείμενο της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι τα Προσωπικά Περιβάλλοντα Μάθησης (Personal Learning Environments-PLEs). Συγκεκριμένα στόχος της εργασίας είναι η μελέτη των χαρακτηριστικών των PLE και ο σχεδιασμός και η ανάπτυξη ενός τέτοιου περιβάλλοντος.
description: The main theme of this thesis centers on the issue of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). Particularly, the main goal is the study of the characteristics of PLEs and the design and development of such an environment.
Exploring multi-task multi-lingual learning of transformer models for hate speech and offensive speech identification in social media
Creators: name: Mishra, Sudhanshu
name: Prasad, Shivangi
name: Mishra, Shubhanshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7
subject: 68T50 68T50 (Primary), 68T07 (Secondary)

description: Hate Speech has become a major content moderation issue for online social media platforms. Given the volume and velocity of online content production, it is impossible to manually moderate hate speech related content on any platform. In this paper we utilize a multi-task and multi-lingual approach based on recently proposed Transformer Neural Networks to solve three sub-tasks for hate speech. These sub-tasks were part of the 2019 shared task on hate speech and offensive content (HASOC) identification in Indo-European languages. We expand on our submission to that competition by utilizing multi-task models which are trained using three approaches, a) multi-task learning with separate task heads, b) back-translation, and c) multi-lingual training. Finally, we investigate the performance of various models and identify instances where the Transformer based models perform differently and better. We show that it is possible to to utilize different combined approaches to obtain models that can generalize easily on different languages and tasks, while trading off slight accuracy (in some cases) for a much reduced inference time compute cost. We open source an updated version of our HASOC 2019 code with the new improvements at https://github.com/socialmediaie/MTML_HateSpeech.
description: "To be published in SN Computer Science at https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00455-5" "30 pages, 6 figures" "Code available at https://github.com/socialmediaie/MTML_HateSpeech"
Διαχείριση κερδών: οι αντιλήψεις των ελεγκτών, των λογιστών και των τραπεζικών υπαλλήλων
Creators: name: Λιπαράς, Δημήτριος Σίμου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Διαχείριση κερδών
Ελλάδα
Υποβολή οικονομικών δηλώσεων
Οικονομική απάτη
Earnings management
Greece
Financial reporting
Fraud

description: Η διαχείριση κερδών δεν είναι πρόσφατη σαν έννοια. Εχει υπάρξει αντικείμενο έρευνας, συζήτησης ακόμα και διαμάχης σε πάρα πολλές χώρες και έχει απασχολήσει την ακαδημαϊκή κοινότητα για μεγάλο χρονικό διάστημα. Αυτή η έρευνα γνώμης, αν και δεν είναι η πρώτη στο είδος της, βασίζεται στις αντιλήψεις των ελεγκτών, των λογιστών και των τραπεζικών υπαλλήλων και εξετάζει τις πρακτικές, τους λόγους, την έκταση και την κατεύθυνση της διαχείρισης κερδών στην Ελλάδα. Τα αποτελέσματα και τα ευρήματα της έρευνας έχουν μεγάλη σημασία και σίγουρα ενδιαφέρουν τους έλληνες επενδυτές, ελεγκτές και νομοθέτες
description: Earnings management is not a recent notion. It has been a subject of research, discussion and even conflict in many countries and has preoccupied the academic community for a long time. This opinion study, although it is not the first of its kind, is based on the perceptions of auditors, accountants and financial analysts and investigates, why, how, to what extent, and in what direction earnings management is practised in Greece. The results and the findings of the study have important implications for the users of Greek accounts, especially for investors, auditors and regulators.
Additional file 1 of Cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents with obesity: a position paper of the Italian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology
Creators: name: Valerio, Giuliana
name: Di Bonito, Procolo
name: Calcaterra, Valeria
name: Cherubini, Valentino
name: Corica, Domenico
name: De Sanctis, Luisa
name: Di Sessa, Anna
name: Faienza, Maria Felicia
name: Fornari, Elena
name: Iughetti, Lorenzo
name: Licenziati, Maria Rosaria
name: Manco, Melania
name: del Giudice, Emanuele Miraglia
name: Morandi, Anita
name: Salerno, Mariacarolina
name: Street, Maria Elisabeth
name: Umano, Giuseppina Rosaria
name: Wasniewska, Malgorzata
name: Maffeis, Claudio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
From flesh and bone to bronze and stone : celebrating and commemorating the life of Queen Victoria in the British world 1897-1930
Creators: name: Sheldrick, Philip
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 Monuments
subject: Queens Great Britain
subject: Monuments
subject: Memory Social aspects
subject: Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.

description: Why is it that if you walk through many of the cities of the United Kingdom, Australia, India, Canada, New Zealand, or any part of what used to be the British world you will usually find at least one and sometimes more statues of Queen Victoria? In the last years of her life Queen Victoria enjoyed a special place in the hearts and minds of people across the world. At the turn of the twentieth century, Victoria was a celebrity above all others, charismatic, immensely popular and an almost untouchable icon. Strangely, Victoria gained this lofty status through her association with two very different, and it would seem conflicting ideas - imperialism and domesticity. This thesis investigates just how Queen Victoria gained that level of celebrity and then how it turned her from flesh and bone to bronze and stone in Britain and across the British world from 1897 to 1930. It argues that two events in particular are the key to this transformation. The first, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of 1897, transformed her in the eyes of the public into the representative figure of an entire age. The second, her death and funeral in early 1901, had such a public impact that it triggered the numerous commemorative efforts at home and abroad in the many years that followed. No work published to date has looked in detail at the historical significance of the celebration and monumental commemoration of Queen Victoria in the context of British and British imperial identity. This thesis aims to fill this gap in the work done so far on the imagery of Queen Victoria while also breaking new ground in considering just how her iconic status came into existence.
Teleportation, Braid Group and Temperley--Lieb Algebra
Creators: name: Zhang, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore algebraic and topological structures underlying the quantum teleportation phenomena by applying the braid group and Temperley--Lieb algebra. We realize the braid teleportation configuration, teleportation swapping and virtual braid representation in the standard description of the teleportation. We devise diagrammatic rules for quantum circuits involving maximally entangled states and apply them to three sorts of descriptions of the teleportation: the transfer operator, quantum measurements and characteristic equations, and further propose the Temperley--Lieb algebra under local unitary transformations to be a mathematical structure underlying the teleportation. We compare our diagrammatical approach with two known recipes to the quantum information flow: the teleportation topology and strongly compact closed category, in order to explain our diagrammatic rules to be a natural diagrammatic language for the teleportation.
description: 33 pages, 19 figures, latex. The present article is a short version of the preprint, quant-ph/0601050, which includes details of calculation, more topics such as topological diagrammatical operations and entanglement swapping, and calls the Temperley--Lieb category for the collection of all the Temperley--Lieb algebra with physical operations like local unitary transformations
QED X QCD Exponentiation: Shower/ME Matching and IR-Improved DGLAP Theory at the LHC
Creators: name: Ward, B. F. L
name: Yost, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the elements of QED X QCD exponentiation and its interplay with shower/ME matching and IR-improved DGLAP theory in precision LHC physics scenarios. Applications to single heavy gauge boson production at hadron colliders are illustrated.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure; presented by B.F.L. Ward at ICHEP06
Chiral thermodynamics in tailored chiral optical environments
Creators: name: Schnoering, Gabriel
name: Albert, Samuel
name: Canaguier-Durand, Antoine
name: Genet, Cyriaque
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an optomechanical model that describes the stochastic motion of an overdamped chiral nanoparticle diffusing in the optical bistable potential formed in the standing-wave of two counter-propagating Gaussian beams. We show how chiral optical environments can be induced in the standing-wave with no modification of the initial bistability by controlling the polarizations of each beam. Under this control, optical chiral densities and/or an optical chiral fluxes are generated, associated respectively with reactive vs. dissipative chiral optical forces exerted on the diffusing chiral nanoparticle. This optomechanical chiral coupling bias the thermodynamics of the thermal activation of the barrier crossing, in ways that depend on the nanoparticle enantiomer and on the optical field enantiomorph. We show that reactive chiral forces, being conservative, contribute to a global, enantiospecific, change of the Helmholtz free energy bistable landscape. In contrast, when the chiral nanoparticle is immersed in a dissipative chiral environment, the symmetry of the bistable potential is broken by non-conservative chiral optical forces. In this case, the chiral electromagnetic fields continuously transfer, through dissipation, mechanical energy to the chiral nanoparticle. For this chiral nonequilibrium steady-state, the thermodynamic changes of the barrier crossing take the form of heat transferred to the thermal bath and yield chiral deracemization schemes that can be explicitly calculated within the framework of our model. Three-dimensional stochastic simulations confirm and further illustrate the thermodynamic impact of chirality. Our results reveal how chiral degrees of freedom both of the nanoparticle and of the optical fields can be transformed into true thermodynamics control parameters, thereby demonstrating the significance of optomechanical chiral coupling in stochastic thermodynamics.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
The muon g-2 in a SU(7) left-right symmetric model with mirror fermions
Creators: name: Chavez, H.
name: Simoes, J. A. Martins
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied a left-right symmetric model with mirror fermions based in a grand unified SU(7) model in order to account for the muon anomaly. The Higgs sector of the model contains two Higgs doublets and the hierarchy condition $\upsilon_{L}\ll\upsilon_{R}$ can be achieved by using two additional Higgs singlets, one even and other odd under $\mathcal{D}$-parity. We show that there is a wide range of values for the mass parameters of the model that is consistent with the $g-2$ lepton anomalies. Radiative correction to the mass of the ordinary fermions are shown to be small.
Μελέτη συμπεριφορών υγείας μέσα από κοινωνικογνωστικές θεωρίες :: Κάπνισμα, αλκοόλ και φυσική δραστηριότητα σε βετεράνους και πρώην αθλητές
Creators: name: Ακριτίδου, Αθηνά Ηλία
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Κάπνισμα
Αλκοόλ
Φυσική δραστηριότητα
Θεωρία σχεδιασμένης συμπεριφοράς
Βετεράνοι αθλητές
Smoking
Alcohol
Physical activity
Theory of planned behavior
Veteran athletes
Transtheoretical model

description: Το κάπνισμα και το αλκοόλ αποτελούν δύο από τα μεγαλύτερα προβλήματα της παγκόσμιας υγείας. Από την άλλη σημαντικό στήριγμα της υγείας και της ευρωστίας αποτελεί η Φυσική Δρα-στηριότητα. Σκοπός της παρούσας έρευνας είναι η καταγραφή και διερεύνηση ορισμένων συμπερι-φορών υγείας, δηλαδή κάπνισμα, κατανάλωση αλκοόλ, και φυσική δραστηριότητα σε Βετεράνους, και πρώην αθλητές. Η διερεύνηση και μελέτη αυτών των συμπεριφορών βασίζεται στη Θεωρία Σχε-διασμένης Συμπεριφοράς, η οποία υποστηρίζει ότι η συμπεριφορά ενός ατόμου μπορεί να προ-βλεφθεί από την πρόθεση του να εκτελέσει τη συμπεριφορά, η οποία στη συνέχεια προβλέπεται από τη στάση του απέναντι στη συγκεκριμένη συμπεριφορά, καθώς και στο μοντέλο Αλλαγής Στα-δίων. Στο δείγμα συμμετείχαν αποκλειστικά 90 Βετεράνοι και πρώην Αθλητές με μέσο όρο ηλικίας 55,38 έτη. Από τη στατιστική ανάλυση φάνηκε, ότι όσον αφορά το κάπνισμα η πλειοψηφία του δείγματος ανήκε περισσότερο στο πρώτο στάδιο, που επιμερίζεται στο ότι δεν καπνίζουν και δεν κάπνισαν ποτέ με 42.2% (Ν=90). Σχετικά με το αλκοόλ το 46.6% (Ν=90) βρισκόταν στο πρώτο στάδιο κατά το οποίο καταναλώνουν αλκοόλ και δεν σκέφτονται να σταματήσουν τους επόμενους έξι μήνες. Και τέλος στην Φυσική δραστηριότητα οι περισσότεροι ανήκαν στο στάδιο που ασκού-νταν συστηματικά για περισσότερο από έξι μήνες με ποσοστό 46.6% (Ν=90). Οι ιεραρχικές αναλύ-σεις παλινδρόμησης έδειξαν ότι στην πρόβλεψη της πρόθεσης για κάπνισμα (R2=.97) συνεισέφεραν σημαντικά ο αντιλαμβανόμενος έλεγχος της συμπεριφοράς και η αντιλαμβανόμενη ενημέρωση (p
description: Smoking and alcohol are among the greatest health problems worldwide. On the other hand an important aid of health and wellbeingness is physical activity. The goal of this study was to record and study smoking, alcohol consumption and physical activity behavior of veteran and retired ath-letes. The study of the aforementioned behaviors was based on the Transtheoretical Model and on the Planned Behavior Theory (PBT), which postulates that a health behavior might be predicted by the intention to adopt such a behavior, which in turn might be predicted by a person's attitude to-wards the specific behavior. The participants were 90 veteran and retired athletes with an average age of 55,38 years. Regarding smoking statistical analysis showed that the majority (42.2%) of the participants were non smokers, 46.6% of them consumed alcoholic beverages and they did not plan to quit, and a proportion of 46.6% had been exercising on regular basis and participating in physical activities for more than six months. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that intention to smoke was primarily predicted (R2=.97, p
The disruption of the low-mass globular cluster E3
Creators: name: Carballo-Bello, Julio A.
name: Salinas, Ricardo
name: Piatti, Andrés E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use {\it Gaia} DR2 photometry and proper motions to search for the hypothetical tidal tails of the Galactic globular cluster E\,3. Using a modified version of a classical decontamination procedure, we are able to identify the presence of an extended structure emerging from the cluster up to $r \sim 1$\,deg from its center, thus suggesting that this poorly studied cluster is undergoing a tidal disruption process. These low surface-brightness structures are aligned with the direction to the Galactic center, as expected for a cluster close to its perigalacticon. Different scenarios to explain the important amount of mass lost by this cluster are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Dynamic response of a floating structure with a flexible air chamber
Creators: name: Shiratani, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Although floating structures have been widely used for many purposes, their dynamic response in waves limits the extent of their usefulness. Thus, approaches to reducing their response in waves would extend the range of prospective applications of such structures. In this context, a new type of floating structure is proposed in the present study, intended to achieve a notable reduction of the dynamic response to waves. The proposed structure is equipped with a flexible air chamber bounded by a rubber membrane attached on the bottom of a rectangular body, and a piston between the body and the air chamber. The objective of the present study is to assess whether the proposed structure is practically effective for the reduction of the dynamic response. First, a preliminary examination was conducted to understand the basic characteristics of the proposed structure. In this examination, two methods to predict the hydrostatic states of the proposed structure were introduced. An experimental investigation of the dynamic response of the proposed structure was carried out in the wave flume of the Hydraulics Laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering, the University of British Columbia. In the free condition, the motions of the experimental model under waves were recorded with a video camera. Then, the dynamic responses were obtained from the records. The performance of the proposed structure was evaluated through a comparison with that of the equivalent rectangular structure. In addition, for heave mode, a closed set of solutions of simplified governing equations was introduced, and the predicted heave responses were compared with the measured responses. The video images of the experimental model under waves were examined to understand qualitatively the dynamic behavior. Furthermore, the dynamic response characteristics in the heave mode were examined analytically. A primary conclusion of this study is that the proposed structure with a suitably proportioned air chamber could have the ability of reducing the dynamic response, and a properly designed piston could enhance the structure's performance if its roll motion is restrained externally.
Story of Crow and Mallard
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Jacobson, Alex
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-270310-08; video files VP-270310-08-1 and VP-270310-08-2: Story of Crow and Mallard, told in Hupa alternating with English. The audio recording was previously deposited with the Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) with identifier "0186-20140318 - Crow and mallard," part of the collection "Expanding the Documentation and Description of Hupa (Athabaskan)" (collection ID hupa-campbell-0186).
Predicting pKa : theory and applications
Creators: name: Ho, Junming
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: QD544.3.H6 2011
subject: Solvation
subject: Acidity function
subject: Thermodynamic cycles

description: This thesis is concerned with the development of computational procedures for making reliable estimates of general acidities in the gas and condensed phases, and also their application in the study of substituent effects on acids that are important in biology and synthesis. This could provide new insights into the mechanism of enzymatic reactions, as well as improve the control of the (e.g stereochemical) outcomes of certain synthetic reactions. The main focus of this thesis is on methods based on thermodynamic cycles which combine high-level ab initio gas phase energies with solvation free energies from continuum solvent models to yield the solution reaction free energy. Various thermodynamic cycles have been investigated, including the direct/absolute method, the proton exchange method as well as the hybrid cluster-continuum schemes that employ explicit solvent molecules. A thorough assessment of the performance of these cycles in predicting general aqueous acidities has been carried out to help identify a generally applicable approach for chemically accurate pKa prediction. Through this work, a reference-independent cluster-continuum proton exchange scheme has been developed which performed well for small and conformationally rigid acids of various functionalities. Additionally, a class of larger and conformationally flexible polyprotic acids, known as oxicams, has also been studied, and issues related to modeling of these more complex acids are highlighted. Using the methods developed from this work, the effects of various amide nitrogen substituents on the stability of amide and peptide enolates in the gas and condensed phase were investigated. An unusual distal effect was discovered whereby N-electron-withdrawing substituents and hydrogen bonding to the amide nitrogen were found to significantly increase the acidity of the distal {u03B1}-carbon compared with that proximal to the amide nitrogen. The extent of the effect was such that the {u03B1}-carbon acidities of some N-substituted amides were found to exceed those of typical ketones. The origin of these substituent effects was examined and validated via experimental NMR kinetic measurements, and their relevance to the mechanism of isomerase-catalysed peptide epimerization is also discussed. Additionally, synthetic work has been carried out to demonstrate how these effects might be exploited in synthesis.
Additional file 2 of Cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents with obesity: a position paper of the Italian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology
Creators: name: Valerio, Giuliana
name: Di Bonito, Procolo
name: Calcaterra, Valeria
name: Cherubini, Valentino
name: Corica, Domenico
name: De Sanctis, Luisa
name: Di Sessa, Anna
name: Faienza, Maria Felicia
name: Fornari, Elena
name: Iughetti, Lorenzo
name: Licenziati, Maria Rosaria
name: Manco, Melania
name: del Giudice, Emanuele Miraglia
name: Morandi, Anita
name: Salerno, Mariacarolina
name: Street, Maria Elisabeth
name: Umano, Giuseppina Rosaria
name: Wasniewska, Malgorzata
name: Maffeis, Claudio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
The Tsinghua University-Ma Huateng Telescopes for Survey: Overview and Performance of the System
Creators: name: Zhang, Ji-Cheng
name: Wang, Xiao-Feng
name: Mo, Jun
name: Xi, Gao-Bo
name: Lin, Jie
name: Jiang, Xiao-Jun
name: Zhang, Xiao-Ming
name: Li, Wen-Xiong
name: Yan, Sheng-Yu
name: Chen, Zhi-Hao
name: Hu, Lei
name: Li, Xue
name: Lin, Wei-Li
name: Lin, Han
name: Miao, Cheng
name: Rui, Li-Ming
name: Sai, Han-Na
name: Xiang, Dan-Feng
name: Zhang, Xing-Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the past decade, time-domain astronomy in optical bands has developed rapidly with the operations of some wide-field survey facilities. However, most of these surveys are conducted with only a single band, and simultaneous color information is usually unavailable for the objects monitored during the survey. Here we present introductions to the system of Tsinghua University-Ma Huateng Telescopes for Survey (TMTS), which consists of an array of four optical telescopes installed on a single equatorial mount. Such a system is designed to get multiband photometry simultaneously for stars and transients discovered during the survey. The optics of each telescope is a modified Hamilton-Newtonian system, covering the wavelengths from 400 to 900 nm, with a field of view (FoV) of about 4.5 deg2 and a plate scale of 1.86"/pixel when combining with a 4K*4K QHY4040 CMOS detector. The TMTS system can have a FoV of about 9 deg2 when monitoring the sky with two bands (i.e., SDSS g and r filters) at the same time, and a maximum FoV of ~18 deg2 when four telescopes monitor different sky areas in monochromatic filter mode. For an exposure time of 60 s, the average 3σ detection limit of the TMTS system can reach at ~19.4 mag in Luminous filter and at ~18.7 mag in SDSS r filter. The preliminary discovery obtained during the first few months' survey is briefly discussed. As this telescope array is located at the Xinglong Observatory of NAOC, it can have an excellent synergy with the spectroscopic survey by the LAMOST (with a FoV of about 20 deg2) at the same site, which will benefit the studies of stellar and binary physics besides the transient sciences.
description: 27 pages, 21 figures
Map of organic carbon content in German mineral agricultural topsoil
Creators: name: Sakhaee, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Support Vector Regression (SVR) model was trained using a combined dataset comprising the German Agricultural Soil Inventory and LUCAS data to generate spatial prediction (100m) for organic carbon content (gkg-1) in German mineral agricultural topsoil (0-30cm). Details regarding how the map was created can be found in the associated journal article (https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-587-2022).
Braun, Rüdiger: Mohammed und die Christen im Islambild zeitgenössischer christlicher und muslimischer Apologeten
Creators: name: Ehmann, Johannes
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 54 Nr. 3 (2005): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 54, Heft 3
Theory of general reinforcement learning
Creators: name: Lattimore, Tor
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Reinforcement learning
subject: Reinforcement learning Mathematical models
subject: Artificial intelligence Mathematical models

description: Reinforcement learning is the task of learning to act well in a variety of unknown environments. The traditional approach is to study small classes and construct computationally and data efficient algorithms to minimise some form of loss function such as regret or sample-complexity. The grand dream, however, is to solve the problem where the class of possible environments is sufficiently large to include any challenge that might reasonably be faced by an agent living in this universe. Such a universal agent could learn to play chess, do the washing up, make money in finance, understand language, write beautiful poetry (if rewarding) and generally act with (super) human intelligence. The task is so difficult that in this thesis I decouple the problems of data and computation efficiency and focus only on the former. What is an upper bound on the rate of learning and what is the largest class of environments for which learning is possible? How can intelligence be measured? What ought the loss function be? Since these problems cannot (yet) be tackled experimentally, I take a theoretical approach, sometimes even constructing agents that provably cannot be computed. I consider both the prediction setting where actions/predictions do not affect the environment, as well as the full reinforcement learning case. In both cases I derive asymptotic results and finite sample-complexity bounds on the performance of some predictor or policy in very general settings where data is typically non-stationary and dependent (even non-Markov). In some extreme cases learning is impossible, so some results are unfortunately quite negative, especially in the reinforcement learning framework. Nevertheless, provided the environment class is not too large I show that some form of learning is usually possible.
Οι οθωμανικές βουλευτικές εκλογές του 1908 και του 1919: η περίπτωση της Μακεδονίας
Creators: name: Τσελιγκαρίδης, Κοσμάς Συμεών
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Εκλογές
Μακεδονία
Θεσσαλονίκη
Μοναστήρι
Νεότουρκοι
1908-1912
Κοινοβούλιο
Elections
Macedonia
Salonica
Monastir
Young turks
1908-1919
Parliament

description: Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή εργασία μελετά τις πολιτικές διεργασίες στη Μακεδονία κατά τη διάρκεια της χρονικής περιόδου 1908-1912, ιδιαίτερα δε ασχολείται με τις βουλευτικές εκλογές που διεξήχθησαν υπό το νεοτουρκικό καθεστώς το 1908 και το 1912 για την ανάδειξη των αντιπροσώπων των εθνοτήτων της Μακεδονίας στο Οθωμανικό Κοινοβούλιο. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό επιχειρείται μια εξέταση των προϋποθέσεων μετατροπής των ελληνικών στρατιοτικοπολιτικών ομάδων στη Μακεδονία σε οργανωμένο εθνικό δίκτυο πολιτικής εκπροσώπησης των ελληνικών πληθυσμών της Μακεδονίας. Ακόμη, διερευνώνται οι όροι διεξαγωγήςτων Οθωμανικών βουλευτικών εκλογών του έτους 1908 και των αντίστοιχων του 1912. Τέλος, αναλύεται η εκλογική διαδικασία αυτή καθ' αυτή και εξάγονται συμπεράσματα τόσο επί της διαδικασίας όσο κι επί του γενικότερου πολιτικού status στην περιοχή της Μακεδονίας κατά τη διάρκεια της προαναφερθείσας τετραετίας.
description: The present study examines the political procedures in Macedonia during the period 1908-1912, especially it works on the parliamentary elections conducted by the Young Turks regime for the appointment of the nationalities' deputies of Macedonia in Ottoman Parliament. It looks into the circumstances under which the Greek military-political groups in Macedonia were transformed into an organized national group that would represent the Greek populations of Macedonia. Moreover, the terms of holding the parliamentary elections of the year 1908 and those ones of 1912 are scrufinized. Lastly, the election procedure in probed into and conclusions are drawn for the procedure as well as, in general, for the political status in Macedonia during the above mentioned four-year period.
Elicitation of reflexive constructions
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Jacobson, Alex
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-270310-06: Elicitation of reflexive constructions based on text examples from Sapir and Golla (2001).
Additional file 1 of Development and validation of the Thai Halitosis Associated Life-Quality Test (T-HALT): an evaluation of psychometric properties
Creators: name: Satravaha, Yodhathai
name: Thitiwatpalakarn, Katkarn
name: Peanchitlertkajorn, Supakit
name: Boonpratham, Supatchai
name: Chaweewannakorn, Chaiyapol
name: Sipiyaruk, Kawin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
On color confinement
Creators: name: Di Giacomo, Adriano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The status of the theory of color confinemnt is discussed.
description: Talk presented at IPM-LHP06, Tehran, Iran; PSN:IPM-LHP06-20May
Born eccentric: constraints on Jupiter and Saturn's pre-instability orbits
Creators: name: Clement, Mattthew S.
name: Raymond, Sean N.
name: Kaib, Nathan A.
name: Deienno, Rogerio
name: Chambers, John E.
name: Izidoro, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An episode of dynamical instability is thought to have sculpted the orbital structure of the outer solar system. When modeling this instability, a key constraint comes from Jupiter's fifth eccentric mode (quantified by its amplitude M55), which is an important driver of the solar system's secular evolution. Starting from commonly-assumed near-circular orbits, the present-day giant planets' architecture lies at the limit of numerically generated systems, and M55 is rarely excited to its true value. Here we perform a dynamical analysis of a large batch of artificially triggered instabilities, and test a variety of configurations for the giant planets' primordial orbits. In addition to more standard setups, and motivated by the results of modern hydrodynamical simulations of the giant planets' evolution within the primordial gaseous disk, we consider the possibility that Jupiter and Saturn emerged from the nebular gas locked in 2:1 resonance with non-zero eccentricities. We show that, in such a scenario, the modern Jupiter-Saturn system represents a typical simulation outcome, and M55 is commonly matched. Furthermore, we show that Uranus and Neptune's final orbits are determined by a combination of the mass in the primordial Kuiper belt and that of an ejected ice giant.
description: 35 pages, 21 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in AJ
Superheavy dark matter in $R^2$-cosmology
Creators: name: Arbuzova, E. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conventional Friedmann cosmology is known to be in tension with the existence of stable particles having interaction strength typical for supersymmetry and heavier than several TeV. A possible way to save life of such particles may be a modification of the standard cosmological expansion law in such a way that the density of these heavy relics would be significantly reduced. We study particle creation in the Starobinsky inflationary model for different decay channels of the scalaron. It is shown that in the process of thermalization superheavy stable particles with the coupling strength typical for the GUT SUSY could be created with the density equal to the observed density of dark matter.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, submitted to IJMPD. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1811.05399
Πλήρη θωράκια του ελλαδικού χώρου από την παλαιοχριστιανική περίοδο έως το τέλος της εικονομαχίας
Creators: name: Μποζίνης, Χαράλαμπος Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Πλήρη
Θωράκια
Ελλαδικός χώρος
Παλαιοχριστιανική
Εικονομαχία
Greek area
Marble slabs
Full
Parapet
Iconoclasm
Early christian years

description: Αντικείμενο της εργασίας αποτελεί η μελέτη των πλήρων θωρακίων του ελλαδικού χώρου από την παλαιοχριστιανική περίοδο έως το τέλος της εικονομαχίας. Εξετάζεται η μορφή του διακόσμου στις επιφάνειες των πλακών, η δομή τους, οι τεχνικές κατασκευής με σκοπό την τυπολογική κατάταξη των διακοσμητικών θεμάτων σε ομάδες. Απαρτίζονται επτά κύριες ομάδες διακόσμου. Μελετάται επίσης η δομή, η διαμόρφωση και η τεχνική κατασκευής των πλαισίων τα οποία κατηγοριοποιούνται σε έξι τύπους.
description: The objective of this project is to examine the full parapet marble slabs of the greek area from the early christian years till the end of the iconoclasm. The project is exploring the form of the decorative elements upon the substances of the slabs, the structure of the slabs and the constructive techniques in order to separate and group together the decorative subjects. Seven main decorative groups have been formulated. Moreover, the project is examining the structure and the constructive techniques of the frames which are separated into six main types.
Chiral Bosonic Topological Insulator on the Honeycomb Lattice with Anisotropic Interactions
Creators: name: Ghosh, Amrita
name: Grosfeld, Eytan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study hard-core bosons on the honeycomb lattice in the presence of anisotropic nearest-neighbor repulsive interactions. Using a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) technique, we extract the phase diagram of the model in terms of the filling and the anisotropy. At half-filling we find a dimer insulator phase near maximum anisotropy that is characterized by a finite topological entanglement entropy $\ln(2)/2$, indicative of a fractional quantum Hall state for bosons. We identify the presence of edge states and derive a QMC-based method to extract and verify their chirality. Remarkably, this phase arises in the absence of magnetic flux and without explicit lattice frustration.
Microscopic theory of plasmon-enabled resonant terahertz detection in bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Tomadin, Andrea
name: Carrega, Matteo
name: Polini, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electron gas hosted in a two-dimensional solid-state matrix, such as a quantum well or a two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructure, supports the propagation of plasma waves. Nonlinear interactions between plasma waves, due to charge conservation and current convection, generate a constant density gradient which can be detected as a dc potential signal at the boundaries of the system. This phenomenon is at the heart of a plasma-wave photodetection scheme which was first introduced by Dyakonov and Shur for electronic systems with a parabolic dispersion and then extended to the massless Dirac fermions in graphene. In this work, we develop the theory of plasma-wave photodetection in bilayer graphene, which has the peculiarity that the dispersion relation depends locally and dynamically on the intensity of the plasma wave. In our analysis, we show how quantum capacitance effects, arising from the local fluctuations of the electronic dispersion, modify the intensity of the photodetection signal. An external electrical bias, e.g. induced by top and bottom gates, can be used to control the strength of the quantum capacitance corrections, and thus the photoresponse.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
A Prediction Market Trading Strategy to Hedge Financial Risks of Wind Power Producers in Electricity Markets
Creators: name: Cuffe, Paul
name: Mahdieh Shamsi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90608 Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Accepted for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Abstract:

Wind power producers participating in day-ahead electricity markets are compelled to pay imbalance costs if they do not generate the same amount of power as they had bid for. These imbalance costs comprise a significant proportion of their income. To reduce the risk of such financial losses, this paper employs the idea of trading in a separate prediction market, as a hedging method. In prediction markets, participants trade shares associated with a certain outcome of an event. We propose that the wind power producers might participate in a prediction market to trade the future value of the wind power and by taking an opposite position in comparison to the electricity market, the imbalance costs will be offset through payouts in the prediction market. Wind power is modelled as a stochastic variable and an optimal trading strategy is developed where the trading volume in the prediction market is analytically derived and formulated by minimising the maximum possible loss and pricing of shares is determined via indifference utility condition. The results suggest that the proposed method limits the loss values and improves the risk measures.
Beyond the object : an intersection of design and research within a sustainability context
Creators: name: Hocking, Viveka Turnbull
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: NK1510.H63 2011
subject: Design Social aspects
subject: Sustainability.

description: Since the notion of 'research through design' was included in Frayling's now famous 1993 paper 'Research in Art and Design' many in the design discipline have been exploring the nature of such an approach. This study explores what a research-through-design approach could be like for developing socially oriented research outcomes particularly in regards to sustainability. Much of design research focuses on constructing knowledge related to artefacts. In contrast, this study uses the design approach to construct non-object-orientated knowledge about possible futures. By non-object-orientated I am referring to a design process which does not focus on the artefact and instead is seen as facilitating the practice of everyday life. Hence, the purpose of this study is to construct a design-led methodology for the context of sustainability. To construct this design-led methodology I compile components from design practice, design research and sustainable design theory to re-mould design into a research methodology. I have also used a design project approach to construct the methodology which is reflected in the structure of the thesis. This approach includes starting with a brief, then compiling the theoretical components and context in the background research, to be distilled into a concept for the methodology. This concept is encapsulated in the notion of enabling design from within the system of the everyday. Then I use field work conducted in a rural Australian town to develop this concept, where participants are engaged in a process of imagining possible futures of sustainable wellbeing for their town. This step applied a 'thinking by doing' approach to further develop the concept into an outcome. The outcome is a proposal for a methodology which I call Bigamatics. This final methodology is presented as a mock-up of a guide book for early researchers to develop their own design-led research projects. I see design research as sitting within a socially oriented research context as all design outcomes are fundamental about society. Hence this design-led methodology should be of use not only to design but to socially oriented researchers more generally. However, this study only attempts to initiate this conversation between a wider variety of researchers, hoping to continue this discourse into the future. The proposed methodology is constructed for an academic context though could also be developed for wider application such as community-based and practice-based projects.
The Fundamental Constants in Physics and their Time Dependence
Creators: name: Fritzsch, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the fundamemtal constants in the Standard Model of particle physics, in particular possible changes of these constants on the cosmological time scale. The Grand Unification of the observed strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions implies relations between time variation of the finestructure constant alpha and the QCD scale $Λ_c$. The astrophysical observation of a variation implies a time variation of $10^{-15} / year$. Several experiments in Quantum Optics, which were designed to look for a time variation of $Λ_c$, are discussed.
description: 16 pages Paper withdrawn, since it should not be published