cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Engagement, technology and tutors : experiences of distance online students
Creators: name: Herrmann, AD
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: For at least the last decade student engagement in Australian higher education has been one focus of research and policy development. However, research and policy development have not been applied evenly across the sector, with an emphasis on gathering data from students studying in the on-¬¨‚â†‚ÄövÑv™‚ÄövÑv´ campus mode. Simultaneously, online learning has insinuated itself into most, if not all, modes and forms of teaching and learning in higher education, but has impacted distance education more than other modes. Given the existing policy focus, most current research in this area has tended to be oriented towards the sector or institutions rather than students. This investigation turned to a small group of students to provide insights into their engagement with studying in the distance mode, online. It sought to foreground their experiences of their engagement and thereby promote a better understanding by others of how students' higher education experience can be improved. Responding to calls for more research into off-¬¨‚â†campus (distance) student engagement (Coates, 2006) and for new research approaches to e-¬¨‚â†learning (Friesen, 2009), this qualitative study used semi- structured interviews to elicit student participants' perceptions of their engagement as students and the impact which tutors and technology had on their engagement and perceptions of it. The data were then analysed within a human science research framework (van Manen, 1990), employing methods from phenomenology and hermeneutics. Although the participants were distance students, they did not study in isolation. Findings from the investigation also suggested that student relations with tutors and peers were important to their engagement with their study. As well, the findings of the investigation foregrounded the recurring themes derived from the data that underpinned student perception of engagement: connectedness, reciprocity, pragmatism, routine, involvement, online identity and online image. It also identified not only the freedom which technology afforded distance students in terms of the time and place of their engagement, but also their creativity in their control over the manner in which they engaged with peers and tutors and highlighted the importance of tutors understanding the perceptions of engagement held by those students whom they may never see. It also became evident that while tutors perceived engagement in terms of student learning and content, students' perceptions of engagement were more complex and included interest generated by study materials, the quality of interaction with other students and tutors and the usefulness of these interactions in their study. Importantly, this investigation demonstrated that a detailed qualitative approach could foreground the subtle and nuanced themes impacting the way distance online students engaged. Understanding these themes will lead to pedagogical frameworks sensitive to distance students' experiences online.
Graphs of 20 edges are 2-apex, hence unknotted
Creators: name: Mattman, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C10 (Primary) 57M15 (Secondary)

description: A graph is 2-apex if it is planar after the deletion of at most two vertices. Such graphs are not intrinsically knotted, IK. We investigate the converse, does not IK imply 2-apex? We determine the simplest possible counterexample, a graph on nine vertices and 21 edges that is neither IK nor 2-apex. In the process, we show that every graph of 20 or fewer edges is 2-apex. This provides a new proof that an IK graph must have at least 21 edges. We also classify IK graphs on nine vertices and 21 edges and find no new examples of minor minimal IK graphs in this set.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures
Compact and explicit physical model for lateral metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor with nanoelectromechanical system based resonant gate
Creators: name: Duraffourg, Laurent
name: Colinet, Eric
name: Hentz, Sebastien
name: Ollier, Eric
name: Andreucci, Philippe
name: Reig, Bruno
name: Robert, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a simple analytical model of a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor with a lateral resonant gate based on the coupled electromechanical equations, which are self-consistently solved in time. All charge densities according to the mechanical oscillations are evaluated. The only input parameters are the physical characteristics of the device. No extra mathematical parameters are used to fit the experimental results. Theoretical results are in good agreement with the experimental data in static and dynamic operation. Our model is comprehensive and may be suitable for any electromechanical device based on the field-effect transduction.
Invariant means on locally compact groups and transformation groups
Creators: name: Snell, Roy Cameron
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis deals with two separate questions in the area of invariant means on locally compact groups. Granirer has shown that, for certain discrete semigroups S, the range of a left invariant mean on the algebra m(S) is the entire [0,1] interval and further, that this range can be obtained on a nested family of left almost convergent subsets of S. We generalize the first part of his result to show that the range of every left invariant mean on L[sup ∞] (G) for a locally compact group G is [0,1]. If G is abelian we also show that this range is attained on a nested family of left almost convergent Borel subsets of G. In the last chapter we deal with the problem of extending the concept of amenability for a locally compact group G to the situation where G acts on the space G/H of left cosets of G with respect to a closed subgroup H ( a group acting in this way is called a transformation group). We introduce a definition of the amenable action of G on various closed subspaces of L[sup ∞] (G/H,ν) (ν a quasi-invariant measure on G/H) which is equivalent to the one given by Greenleaf but is obtained by different methods. We also prove analogues of several well-known theorems concerning the amenability of locally compact groups.
The Ever present eye : a studio exploration of the moment and the everyday lived experience
Creators: name: Honeywill, G
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The ever present eye is a studio exploration of the spectator and the effect of the transforming moment, when, in the 'blink of an eye', the everyday is interrupted by a transient experience of wonder or magical reflections upon the world, witnessed through a glance or discovered through the lens of the camera. The moment, as it is blinked into existence, is a complex entity. It may be characterised as expansive and revelatory ‚Äö- a moment in which the temporal and eternal conjoin, and it may also be a fragment capable of containing implicate fragments. My personal experience of a short-lived moment of wonder inspired intellectual curiosity and experimentation to both explain the event and to attempt to keep the extraordinary qualities of the moment present. An attempt to engage with what has just passed and with the immediate drives this research project, stimulated by Elaine Scarry's idea that beauty incites the act of replication. Scarry cites drawing, photography or language as primary tools of replication. Today the camera is omnipresent, but no matter how quickly the iPhone, my ever present eye, is activated to replicate the moment the presentness of the moment is all but lost. The act of replication is also one of documentation, proof of existence, particularly of ephemeral actions that might pass unnoticed in the landscape, or in the momentary performance of a work. Aliveness, created through engagement, is crucial to the extended life of ideas and to their originators. In this body of research I have collaborated with existing ideas and artworks conflating theory with artist interviews and studio experimentation. I have used an array of cameras, including CCTV and the iPhone, in order to participate in a dialogue of generational aliveness where the act of replication can also become an act of creation reflecting on what has gone before and on the world around us. Just as CCTV technology provided artists with a new means of exploring the world the smartphone has become the technology of the present moment. The smartphone is now so ever present that artists are creating works that demand the participation of the spectator. The reciprocal dialogue between the work of the artist and the spectator in the form of hundreds of thousands of images that will then be disseminated across the world in an instant has never before existed. This project concludes that we are all changed by the omnipresence of this instrument ‚Äö- empowered and endangered ‚Äö- in a way that Kodak could never have anticipated at the turn of the last century. The smartphone camera is now central to our restless search for the moment, meaning and knowledge of our everyday world.
Supporting Information_Ahn et al.docx
Creators: name: Fancher, Ibra
name: Ahn, Sang
name: Le Master, Elizabeth
name: Levitan, Irena
name: Phillips, Shane
name: Lee, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This is a supplemental data set that supports the findings in "Differential effects of obesity on visceral vs. subcutaneous adipose arteries: role of shear activated Kir2.1 and alterations to the glycocalyx" submitted to AJP: Heart and Circulatory Physiology (New Developments in Microcirculatory Research Call for Papers).
Additional file 1 of A nomogram model to predict death rate among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with surgery in surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) database
Creators: name: Jia, Bo
name: Zheng, Qiwen
name: Wang, Jingjing
name: Sun, Hongyan
name: Zhao, Jun
name: Wu, Meina
name: An, Tongtong
name: Wang, Yuyan
name: Zhuo, Minglei
name: Li, Jianjie
name: Yang, Xue
name: Zhong, Jia
name: Chen, Hanxiao
name: Chi, Yujia
name: Zhai, Xiaoyu
name: Wang, Ziping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: eTable S1. Proportional Subdistribution Hazards Models of Death Rate. eTable S2. Prognostic factors for overall survival by multivariable Cox regression. eFigure S1. Lung cancer related, other cancer related and non-cancer related death rates by (A) age, (B) gender, (C) race and (D) primary tumor location. eFigure S2. Lung cancer related, other cancer related and non-cancer related death rates by (E) Anatomic sites, (F) histology subtype, (G) differentiation and (H) clinical stage. eFigure S3. Lung cancer related, other cancer related and non-cancer related death rates by (I) tumor size, (J) tumor extent, (K) lymph node involvement and (L) examined lymph nodes. eFigure S4. Lung cancer related, other cancer related and non-cancer related death rates by (M) positive lymph nodes, (N) surgery, (O) chemotherapy and (P) radiotherapy. eFigure S5. Schoenfeld−type residuals of a proportional subdistribution hazard model for lung cancer related deaths.
title: Genetic and evolutionary dynamics of avian influenza A virus in wild birds
Creators: name: Benkaroun, Jessica
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: Influenza A virus (IAV) is the prototype of the family Orthomyxoviridae, a group of segmented, negative-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses. The virus circulates in wild bird species but does not usually cause severe disease in these hosts. However, highly pathogenic forms exist and have caused numerous deaths in wild and farmed birds. The eastern coast of Canada represents an interesting location for the study of IAVs in their natural reservoir as it has a large number of bird breeding colonies and migratory bird connections with the mainland of North America and Eurasia. Previous research on IAV ecology and transmission has shown that migratory birds in this region move the virus around the globe and contribute an important facet to IAV dynamics. My thesis focuses on the study of the virus genetics and evolutionary dynamics in different wild bird species. By applying high-throughput next-generation sequencing technologies, I characterized complete IAV genomes from different wild bird species from Newfoundland and Labrador and conducted in-depth analyses of the virus genomic structure. My study revealed that the structure of the virus genome is conserved among similar avian hosts. I also demonstrated though experimental mutation studies that a change of host can causes major changes in the viral genome. I also explored evolutionary patterns in the viral genomic non-coding regions (NCRs), and found that variation in the NCR sequences is correlated with the original host species and geographic origin. Finally, I analyzed IAVs from Laridae family hosts (gulls and terns) and demonstrated that these hosts are important for the transmission of IAVs around the globe and to other hosts and participate in the generation of pandemic viruses. Overall, my results contribute to give a better understanding on the evolution and geographic patterns of influenza A viruses in their natural hosts.
title: Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Miles, Stephen A.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Year: 2016

description: Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”). We ask: Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over? What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent? Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent? Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
Coulomb corrected eikonal description of the breakup of halo nuclei
Creators: name: Capel, P.
name: Baye, D.
name: Suzuki, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The eikonal description of breakup reactions diverges because of the Coulomb interaction between the projectile and the target. This divergence is due to the adiabatic, or sudden, approximation usually made, which is incompatible with the infinite range of the Coulomb interaction. A correction for this divergence is analysed by comparison with the Dynamical Eikonal Approximation, which is derived without the adiabatic approximation. The correction consists in replacing the first-order term of the eikonal Coulomb phase by the first-order of the perturbation theory. This allows taking into account both nuclear and Coulomb interactions on the same footing within the computationally efficient eikonal model. Excellent results are found for the dissociation of 11Be on lead at 69 MeV/nucleon. This Coulomb Corrected Eikonal approximation provides a competitive alternative to more elaborate reaction models for investigating breakup of three-body projectiles at intermediate and high energies.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Radio monitoring of NGC 7469: Late time radio evolution of SN 2000ft and the circumnuclear starburst in NGC 7469
Creators: name: Perez-Torres, M. A.
name: Alberdi, A.
name: Colina, L.
name: Torrelles, J. M.
name: Panagia, N.
name: Wilson, A.
name: Kankare, E.
name: Mattila, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of an eight-year long monitoring of the radio emission from the Luminous Infrared Galaxy (LIRG) NGC 7469, using 8.4 GHz Very Large Array (VLA) observations at 0.3'' resolution. Our monitoring shows that the late time evolution of the radio supernova SN 2000ft follows a decline very similar to that displayed at earlier times of its optically thin phase. The late time radio emission of SN 2000ft is therefore still being powered by its interaction with the presupernova stellar wind, and not with the interstellar medium (ISM). Indeed, the ram pressure of the presupernova wind is ρ_w v_w^2 \approx 7.6E-9 dyn/cm^2, at a supernova age of approximately 2127 days, which is significantly larger than the expected pressure of the ISM around SN 2000ft. At this age, the SN shock has reached a distance r_{sh \approx 0.06 pc, and our observations are probing the interaction of the SN with dense material that was ejected by the presupernova star about 5820 years prior to its explosion. From our VLA monitoring, we estimate that the swept-up mass by the supernova shock after about six years of expansion is \approx 0.29 M_sun, assuming an average expansion speed of the supernova of 10000 km/s. We also searched for recently exploded core-collapse supernovae in our VLA images. Apart from SN 2000ft (S_ν\approx 1760 microJy at its peak, corresponding to 1.1E28 erg/s/Hz, we found no evidence for any other radio supernova (RSN) more luminous than \approx 6.0E26 erg/s/Hz, which suggests that no other Type IIn SN has exploded since 2000 in the circumnuclear starburst of NGC 7469.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Correlations of the local density of states in quasi-one-dimensional wires
Creators: name: Ivanov, D. A.
name: Ostrovsky, P. M.
name: Skvortsov, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a calculation of the correlation function of the local density of states in a disordered quasi-one-dimensional wire in the unitary symmetry class at a small energy difference. Using an expression from the supersymmetric sigma-model, we obtain the full dependence of the two-point correlation function on the distance between the points. In the limit of zero energy difference, our calculation reproduces the statistics of a single localized wave function. At logarithmically large distances of the order of the Mott scale, we obtain a reentrant behavior similar to that in strictly one-dimensional chains.
description: Published version. Minor technical and notational improvements. 16 pages, 1 figure
Terrestrial Water Storage in Asian Arid Regions under Climate Warming: Changed Trends and Vegetation Responses
Creators: name: Wang, Jianshun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The Asian Arid Regions (AAR), characterized by complex topography, diverse vegetation, and arid/semi-arid climates, face critical challenges in vegetation dynamics and terrestrial water storage (TWS) under climate warming. Previous studies were constrained by fragmented time-series and low-resolution TWS data. To overcome these limitations, this study first reconstructed the original-resolution TWSA (Terrestrial Water Storage Anomaly) through the Seasonal-Trend Decomposition via LOESS (STL) method, then downscaled it via Random Forest algorithms to generate a continuous 0.1°-resolution TWSA dataset spanning 2001–2020. Spatiotemporal patterns of TWSA were subsequently analyzed. Results indicate that the STL method effectively reconstructed TWSA data gaps (R²=0.994, RMSE=5.2 mm, MAE=2.42 mm compared to original data). The downscaled dataset captured fine-scale spatial heterogeneity, particularly in plateau and mountainous zones. AAR-wide TWSA declined significantly at -0.0109 mm/month, with >70% of areas (notably Caspian Sea and southern Tibetan Plateau) showing accelerated decreases. Barelands (-0.0107 mm/month) and Farmlands (-0.0106 mm/month) exhibited the fastest depletion rates. Vegetation at higher elevations demonstrated stronger sensitivity to TWSA variations.
Probing Yukawian gravitational potential by numerical simulations. I. Changing N-body codes
Creators: name: Brandao, C. S. S.
name: de Araujo, J. C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the weak field limit general relativity reduces, as is well known, to the Newtonian gravitation. Alternative theories of gravity, however, do not necessarily reduce to Newtonian gravitation; some of them, for example, reduce to Yukawa-like potentials instead of the Newtonian potential. Since the Newtonian gravitation is largely used to model with success the structures of the universe, such as for example galaxies and clusters of galaxies, a way to probe and constrain alternative theories, in the weak field limit, is to apply them to model the structures of the universe. In the present study, we consider how to probe Yukawa-like potentials using N-body numerical simulations.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures. To appear in General Relativity and Gravitation
Investigating the effect of internal air pressure on rebound height during FIFA certification testing
Creators: name: Nickel, Loni
name: Mills, Katie
name: Goodwill, Simon
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2024

description: Engineering of Sport 15 - Proceedings from the 15th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport (ISEA 2024)
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) introduced a quality programme in 1995 to standardise the quality of footballs used in official matches played under the authority of the organization. Dynamic performance is assessed by a guided free-fall rebound test onto a rigid surface from 2 m. Prior to October 2022, all footballs were inflated to a standard internal pressure of 0.8 bar for this test. Post this date, the allowable internal pressure is in the range of 0.6-1.1 bar and to achieve certification of the professional standard, the football must rebound between 135-155 cm. A previous study has shown that internal pressure affects the rebound height, however, the materials and manufacture of the footballs impacted in the study are outdated. It is essential that the variations of internal pressure do not compromise the quality of footballs passing the test. The aim of this study is to measure the changes in rebound height across the allowable pressure range, to gain insight into the effect of the updated test manual on the passing requirements of the FIFA Quality Programme.
Magnetic screening in proximity effect Josephson-junction arrays
Creators: name: Tesei, Mauro
name: Theron, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modulation with magnetic field of the sheet inductance measured on proximity effect Josephson-junction arrays (JJAs) is progressively vanishing on lowering the temperature, leading to a low temperature field-independent response. This behaviour is consistent with the decrease of the two-dimensional penetration length below the lattice parameter. Low temperature data are quantitatively compared with theoretical predictions based on the XY model in absence of thermal fluctuations. The results show that the description of a JJA within the XY model is incomplete and the system is put well beyond the weak screening limit which is usually assumed in order to invoke the well known frustrated XY model describing classical Josephson-junction arrays.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of Intermittent kangaroo mother care and the practice of breastfeeding late preterm infants: results from four hospitals in different provinces of China
Creators: name: Zhang, Bo
name: Duan, Zhiying
name: Zhao, Yingxi
name: Williams, Sarah
name: Wall, Stephen
name: Huang, Limin
name: Zhang, Xiaoqin
name: Wu, Wenli
name: Yue, Jieya
name: Zhang, Lin
name: Liu, Jun
name: Zhao, Gengli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 eTable 1. Basic characteristics of the study population by hospital.
On the integrals of Perron type
Creators: name: Lee, Cheng-Ming
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Perron's method of defining a process of integration is through the use of major and minor functions. Many authors have adopted this method to define various integrals. In Chapter I, we give a very general abstract theory by first defining an abstract "derivate system" and then the corresponding Perron integral. We show that this unifies all the integral theories of Perron type (of first order) known to us, in addition the abstract theories of Pfeffer [26] and of Romanovski [29] are contained in our theory as particular cases. Chapter II is devoted mainly to the study of Burkill's C[sub n]P - integral. We know that the C[sub n]P - integral is based on the theorem that if M is C[sub n] - continuous in [a,b] , C[sub n] DM(x) ≥ 0 almost everywhere and C[sub n] DM(x) > - ∞ nearly everywhere in [a,b] , then M is monotone increasing in [a,b] . Burkill's original proof of this, [6] , contains an error and we give it a new and correct proof. We also give a correct proof of Sargent's theorem that if a function is C[sub n]P - integrable, then it is C[sub n]D - integrable, [32] ; the original proof contains a gap. A scale of symmetric CP - integrals and a scale of approximately mean-continuous integrals are obtained in Chapter III and in Chapter IV, respectively. The first one is more general than Burkill's CP - scale, while the second one is more general than the GM - scale defined by Ellis. Some other comparisons of various integrals are also given.
Report of the trial of McLaurin F. Cooke, submaster of the Eliot School, of the City of Boston, for an assault and battery upon Thomas J. Wall, a pupil of that school : with the arguments of counsel, and the opinion of the court reported in full ; carefully revised and corrected.
Creators: name: Not Assigned
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
 Trial in 1859, in the Police Court, Boston, on complaint of William Wall, for alleged assault and battery by a teacher upon a pupil, as a punishment for the refusal of the pupil, a Roman Catholic, to repeat the ten commandments according to the Protestant version.
Self-oscillation conditions of a resonant-nano-electromechanical mass sensor
Creators: name: Colinet, Eric
name: Duraffourg, Laurent
name: Labarthe, Sebastien
name: Andreucci, Philippe
name: Hentz, Sebastien
name: Robert, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article presents a comprehensive study and design methodology of co-integrated oscillators for nano mass sensing application based on resonant Nano-Electro-Mechanical-System (NEMS). In particular, it reports the capacitive with the piezoresistive transduction schemes in terms of the overall sensor performance. The developed model is clearly in accordance with the general experimental observations obtained for NEMS-based mass detection. The piezoresistive devices are much sensitive (up to 10 zg/?Hz) than capacitive ones (close to 100 zg/?Hz) since they can work at higher frequency. Moreover, the high doped silicon piezoresistive gauge, which is of a great interest for very large scale integration displays similar theoretical resolution than the metallic gauge already used experimentally.
Professional English Skills for Employability Across EU. Framework for a Curriculum
Creators: name: Nicoleta ACOMI
name: Ovidiu ACOMI
name: William BARKER
name: Isabel CANHOTO
name: Ana CUNHA
name: Joanna ELLUL
name: Daria FILIMONOVA
name: Chris MANUEL
name: Anabela	MATEUS
name: Ines NEMESIO
name: Darlene SCHEMBRI
name: Venia SOUMPENIOTI
name: Boelo van der POOL
name: Eleni ZENONOS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: professional English
language skills
employability
English training
labour market
language schools
face-to-face classes
online training
framework
curriculum

description: The ability to effectively communicate at work is one of the 21st Century Skills demanded by employees. Feeling confident and competent in a foreign language plays a vital role in enhancing employability and mobility. The English language is so widely used in the EU and around the world in general that gaining some mastery of it provides the user with clear employment advantages. There are some studies that suggest that the probability of being employed when a candidate has appropriate English skills is in some cases increases by up to 12%.

Currently, about 94% of upper secondary students in the EU learn English. Many of them may be successful in their attempts to find employment partly because of their level of English. In a 2016 survey on foreign language skills Eurostats reporting that ‘It was common to find that employed persons had the highest level of foreign language proficiency when compared with the shares recorded among unemployed and inactive persons of the same age.’

The project Professional English Language Skills for Employability Across EU brings together six partner institutions from six countries: Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) Cyprus; MECB Ltd Malta, Lusófona University Portugal, TEAM4Excellence (T4E) Romania; Babel Idiomas Spain; and Eurospeak Language Schools Ltd United Kingdom.

The main objectives of the project are: make high-quality professional English training available for specifically unemployed citizens across Europe; produce a sensible ready-to-go framework for a curriculum for professional English that can have an impact on Language teachers and trainers, and upskill unemployed citizens with professional English skills that are actually required by employees.

With the research in different countries previously conducted by the project partners in mind, a framework for a curriculum has been drawn up to address the skills required by survey participants. Overall, speaking, reading and writing were considered important skills across the industries and businesses surveyed. Within each skill, there were a number of subskills that were required by respondents to the questionnaries conducted by the projects British, Cypriot, Maltese, Romanian, Portuguese and Spanish partners.

Some of the modules overlap in content and theme though this serves to consolidate knowledge gained in those modules.
description: Grant Agreement 2020-1-UK01-KA202-079035, Professional English Skills For Employability Across EU (PESE)
On the Newtonian Limit of the Weyl Tensor
Creators: name: Ehlers, Juergen
name: Buchert, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we wish to complement some recent work in the cosmological literature concerning the Weyl conformal curvature tensor and its parts. In particular, we shall give a clear-cut definition of the Newtonian limits of electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor. We also discuss that only a subset of the relativistic equations is needed to obtain a closed system of equations in the Newtonian limit.
description: 6 pages. Dedicated to the memory of Juergen Ehlers. To appear in the upcoming Special Issue of "General Relativity and Gravitation"
UNA PROPUESTA PARA FACILITAR LOS TRASLADOS ENTRE LAS CIUDADES DE TACNA Y ARICA APROVECHANDO ELFERROCARRIL QUE LAS VINCULA
Creators: name: Newman, Ian Thomson
name: Pozo, Juan Tomas Bradanovich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Tacna, Arica, ferrocarril, inversión

description: Propuesta para mejoramiento del actual Ferrocarril Tacna Arica
Non-standard interaction effects on astrophysical neutrino fluxes
Creators: name: Blennow, Mattias
name: Meloni, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate new physics effects in the production and detection of high energy neutrinos at neutrino telescopes. Analysing the flavor ratios ϕ_μ/ϕ_τand ϕ_μ/(ϕ_τ+ϕ_e), we find that the Standard Model predictions for them can be sensibly altered by new physics effects.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures, REVTeX4
Additional file 2 of Intermittent kangaroo mother care and the practice of breastfeeding late preterm infants: results from four hospitals in different provinces of China
Creators: name: Zhang, Bo
name: Duan, Zhiying
name: Zhao, Yingxi
name: Williams, Sarah
name: Wall, Stephen
name: Huang, Limin
name: Zhang, Xiaoqin
name: Wu, Wenli
name: Yue, Jieya
name: Zhang, Lin
name: Liu, Jun
name: Zhao, Gengli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2 eTable 2. Odds ratio of the association between selected variables and exclusive breastfeeding (ingredient), breast feed (method) at discharge and at follow-up in selected three hospitals (excluding hospital A).
Morphology and Dynamics of the Low Solar Chromosphere
Creators: name: Wöger, F.
name: Wedemeyer-Böhm, S.
name: Uitenbroek, H.
name: Rimmele, T. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS) installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the NSO/SP is used to investigate the morphology and dynamics of the lower chromosphere and the virtually non-magnetic fluctosphere below. The study addresses in particular the structure of magnetic elements that extend into these layers. We choose different quiet Sun regions in and outside coronal holes. In inter-network regions with no significant magnetic flux contributions above the detection limit of IBIS, we find intensity structures with the characteristics of a shock wave pattern. The magnetic flux elements in the network are long lived and seem to resemble the spatially extended counterparts to the underlying photospheric magnetic elements. We suggest a modification to common methods to derive the line-of-sight magnetic field strength and explain some of the difficulties in deriving the magnetic field vector from observations of the fluctosphere.
description: accepted by ApJ, 16 pages, 8 figures
Diluted chirality dependence in edge rough graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistors
Creators: name: Tseng, Frank
name: Unlcer, DIncer
name: Holcomb, Katherine
name: Stan, Mircea R.
name: Ghosh, Avik W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the role of various structural nonidealities on the performance of armchair-edge graphene nanoribbon field effect transistors (GNRFETs). Our results show that edge roughness dilutes the chirality dependence often predicted by theory but absent experimentally. Instead, GNRs are classifiable into wide (semi-metallic) vs narrow (semiconducting) strips, defining thereby the building blocks for wide-narrow-wide all-graphene devices and interconnects. Small bandgaps limit drain bias at the expense of band-to-band tunneling in GNRFETs. We outline the relation between device performance metrics and non-idealities such as width modulation, width dislocations and surface step, and non-ideality parameters such as roughness amplitude and correlation length.
Evidence of macroscopically entangled protons in a mixed isotope crystal of KH$_{p}$D$_{1-p}$CO$_3$
Creators: name: Fillaux, François
name: Cousson, Alain
name: Gutmann, Matthias J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine whether protons and deuterons in the crystal of KH$_{0.76}$D$_{0.24}$CO$_3$ at 300 K are particles or matter waves. The neutron scattering function measured over a broad range of reciprocal space reveals the enhanced diffraction pattern anticipated for antisymmetrized macroscopic states for protons (fermions). These features exclude a statistical distribution of protons and deuterons. Raman spectra are consistent with a mixture of KHCO$_3$ and KDCO$_3$ sublattices whose isomorphous structures are independent of the isotope content. We propose a theoretical framework for decoherence-free proton and deuteron states.
Final report, June 27, 1975. Commission on the Theology of Marriage and Its Application to Mixed Marriages.
Creators: name: Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission On The Theology Of Marriage And Its Application To Mixed Marriages.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
 Forewords: John Cardinal Willebrands (1) ; Donald Cantuar (2) -- Introduction -- Final report-- commission on the theology of marriage and its application to mixed marriages: Members of the commission (7) ; Section A. Proceedings of the commission (11) ; Section B. The relevant theology (19) ; Section C. Defective marital situations (25) ; Section D. Mixed marriages (37) -- Section E. Acknowledgements (45).
Healthy, wealthy and wise : investigating the application of health economics in workplace health promotion : the economic evaluation of Healthy@Work
Creators: name: Baxter, Siyan
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Workplace health promotion (WHP) describes any initiative carried out in the workplace to support and ultimately improve the health and wellbeing of people at work. Implementation of WHP is often unique to the organisation, and can include individual, social, cultural, environmental and political processes. Funding of WHP may necessitate an economic evaluation. The ideal evaluative method, however, is unclear. This thesis investigated the application of health economics in WHP by considering established guidelines and business needs to conduct an economic evaluation of an organisational approach to WHP in state government, Tasmania, Australia; Healthy@Work (2009-2012). The first chapter is a review of the global WHP evidence. A quality-based systematic literature review identified currently used components of economic evaluations. It found that methodological quality of economic evaluations was generally low to moderate and that benefits were measured predominately by changes in absenteeism and healthcare costs. The review also provided a robust synthesis of return on investment, accounting for quality along with offering recommendations for improving the state of evidence in WHP. From insights gained, a resource was then developed on behalf of a research-policy partnership. The second chapter describes the development of a workplace health savings calculator that is currently a national resource to assist employers at a business case level and is available in a WHP toolkit on the Australian federal government website. Data sourced locally (Healthy@Work) and nationally (Household Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia; HILDA) were used in a further analysis to investigate the validity of health utility in the employee population. It demonstrated construct validity of a measure of health status (SF-6D) derived from health-related quality of life (SF-12v2), and recommended its use in economic evaluations. This finding closes the gap between evaluations in WHP and health economic guidelines. Collectively these works helped identify measure and value what costs and benefits are involved in WHP. The final chapter applied this knowledge. An economic evaluation of Healthy@Work was conducted. Overall costs and impacts from health status, total lost productive time and healthcare utilisation were presented in a cost consequence analysis. There was no health status change found and inherent challenges for WHP when positioned within a public health paradigm were discussed. This thesis presents a range of studies that add to the body of knowledge for conducting economic evaluations in workplace health promotion. It discusses economic forms and analytic methods in the pursuit of best fit for WHP.
Ion traps with enhanced optical and physical access
Creators: name: Maiwald, Robert
name: Leibfried, Dietrich
name: Britton, Joe
name: Bergquist, J. C.
name: Leuchs, Gerd
name: Wineland, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small, controllable, highly accessible quantum systems can serve as probes at the single quantum level to study multiple physical effects, for example in quantum optics or for electric and magnetic field sensing. The applicability of trapped atomic ions as probes is highly dependent on the measurement situation at hand and thus calls for specialized traps. Previous approaches for ion traps with enhanced optical access included traps consisting of a single ring electrode or two opposing endcap electrodes. Other possibilities are planar trap geometries, which have been investigated for Penning traps and rf-trap arrays. By not having the electrodes lie in a common plane the optical access in the latter cases can be substantially increased. Here, we discuss the fabrication and experimental characterization of a novel radio-frequency (rf) ion trap geometry. It has a relatively simple structure and provides largely unrestricted optical and physical access to the ion, of up to 96% of the total 4pi solid angle in one of the three traps tested. We also discuss potential applications in quantum optics and field sensing. As a force sensor, we estimate sensitivity to forces smaller than 1 yN Hz^(-1/2).
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. Corrections of some typos, application section expanded to account for reviewer comments
Can Seiberg-Witten Map Bypass Noncommutative Gauge Theory No-Go Theorem?
Creators: name: Chaichian, M.
name: Presnajder, P.
name: Sheikh-Jabbari, M. M.
name: Tureanu, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are strong restrictions on the possible representations and in general on the matter content of gauge theories formulated on noncommutative Moyal spaces, termed as noncommutative gauge theory no-go theorem. According to the no-go theorem \cite{no-go}, matter fields in the noncommutative U(1) gauge theory can only have $\pm 1$ or zero charges and for a generic noncommutative $\prod_{i=1}^n U(N_i)$ gauge theory matter fields can be charged under at most two of the $U(N_i)$ gauge group factors. On the other hand, it has been argued in the literature that, since a noncommutative U(N) gauge theory can be mapped to an ordinary U(N) gauge theory via the Seiberg-Witten map, seemingly it can bypass the no-go theorem. In this note we show that the Seiberg-Witten map \cite{SW} can only be consistently defined and used for the gauge theories which respect the no-go theorem. We discuss the implications of these arguments for the particle physics model building on noncommutative space.
description: 16 pages; typos and formulas (2.29) and (2.30) corrected
ЦИФРОВЫЕ ФИНАНСОВЫЕ АКТИВЫ. ПОЛНОМОЧИЯ ОРГАНОВ ПУБЛИЧНОЙ ВЛАСТИ ПО РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЮ
Creators: name: Виноградова Полина Анатольевна
Publisher: name: Право и управление
Year: 2022
Subjects: публичная власть
цифровые финансовые активы
криптовалюта.

description: В современном мире большое значение приобретают вопросы нормативного регулирования вновь возникающих отношений, к которым вне всякого сомнения можно отнести отношения в сфере цифровых финансовых активов. Формирование новых подходов к их регулированию — задача органов публичной власти. В статье анализируются возможности публично правовых механизмов становления в современной России рынка цифровых финансовых активов.
Turbulent diffusion with rotation or magnetic fields
Creators: name: Brandenburg, Axel
name: Svedin, Andreas
name: Vasil, Geoffrey M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The turbulent diffusion tensor describing the evolution of the mean concentration of a passive scalar is investigated for non-helically forced turbulence in the presence of rotation or a magnetic field. With rotation, the Coriolis force causes a sideways deflection of the flux of mean concentration. Within the magnetohydrodynamics approximation there is no analogous effect from the magnetic field because the effects on the flow do not depend on the sign of the field. rotation and magnetic fields tend to suppress turbulent transport, but this suppression is weaker in the direction along the magnetic field. Turbulent transport along the rotation axis is not strongly affected by rotation, except on shorter length scales, i.e., when the scale of the variation of the mean field becomes comparable with the scale of the energy-carrying eddies. These results are discussed in the context of anisotropic convective energy transport in the Sun.
description: 8 page, 9 figures, compatible with published version
Dynamics of Particles in Non Scaling FFAG Accelerators
Creators: name: Jones, James K.
name: Muratori, Bruno D.
name: Smith, Susan L.
name: Tzenov, Stephan I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non scaling Fixed-Field Alternating Gradient (FFAG) accelerators have an unprecedented potential for muon acceleration, as well as for medical purposes based on carbon and proton hadron therapy. They also represent a possible active element for an Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor (ADSR). Starting from first principle the Hamiltonian formalism for the description of the dynamics of particles in non scaling FFAG machines has been developed. The stationary reference (closed) orbit has been found within the Hamiltonian framework. The dependence of the path length on the energy deviation has been described in terms of higher order dispersion functions. The latter have been used subsequently to specify the longitudinal part of the Hamiltonian. It has been shown that higher order phase slip coefficients should be taken into account to adequately describe the acceleration in non scaling FFAG accelerators. A complete theory of the fast (serpentine) acceleration in non scaling FFAGs has been developed. An example of the theory is presented for the parameters of the Electron Machine with Many Applications (EMMA), a prototype electron non scaling FFAG to be hosted at Daresbury Laboratory.
description: Submitted to the Physical Review ST AB, 12 pages, 6 figures