cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Expanding Quark-Gluon Plasmas: Transverse Flow, Chemical Equilibration and Electromagnetic Radiation
Creators: name: Srivastava, D. K.
name: Mustafa, M. G.
name: Müller, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the chemical equilibration of the parton distributions in collisions of two heavy nuclei. We use initial conditions obtained from a self-screened parton cascade calculation and, for comparison, from the HIJING model. We consider a one-dimensional, as well as a three-dimensional expansion of the parton plasma and find that the onset of the transverse expansion impedes the chemical equilibration. At energies of 100 GeV/nucleon, the results for one-dimensional and three-dimensional expansion are quite similar except at large values of the transverse radius. At energies of several TeV/nucleon, the plasma initially approaches chemical equilibrium, but then is driven away from it, when the transverse velocity gradients develop. We find that the total parton multiplicity density remains essentially unaffected by the flow, but the individual concentrations of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons are sensitive to the transverse flow. The consequences of the flow are also discernible in the transverse momenta of the partons and in the lepton pair spectra, where the flow causes a violation of the so-called $M_T$ scaling.
description: 12 pages, REVTEX
La renegada de Valladolid: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2022), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
A policy analysis of agenda-setting of Brucellosis in Iran using multiple streams framework: health policy and historical implications
Creators: name: Behzadifar, Masoud
name: Shahabi, Saeed
name: Zeinali, Mohammad
name: Ghanbari, Mahboubeh Khaton
name: Martini, Mariano
name: Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2021

description: Background: Brucellosis, a major zoonotic disease, is highly present in Iran, especially in Lorestan province. The aim of this study was to understand the issues related to Brucellosis utilizing the multiple streams framework. Methods: A two-step method was adopted: i) assessment of brucellosis-related documents and ii) interviews with stakeholders. Results: The problem stream was characterized by: 1) high prevalence of the disease, 2) traditional livestock production, 3) unsafe animal slaughtering, 4) centers for the sale and distribution of non-authorized dairy products, 5) raw milk and 6) traditional unsafe dairy products consumption, 7) incomplete livestock vaccination, 8) lack of knowledge of Brucellosis, 9) neighboring countries with high prevalence of Brucellosis, 10) lack of livestock quarantine, and 10) nomadic immigration. The policy stream was characterized by 1) primary healthcare networks, 2) guidelines, 3) medicines, insurance, and 4) diagnostic services. Finally, the political stream was characterized by: 1) support of the University of Medical Sciences, 2) sponsorship by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, 3) Health transformation plan, and 4) Working Group on Health and Food Security in Lorestan. Conclusion: This study examined the brucellosis-related agenda setting: if different issues are taken into consideration, it can be perceived as a health priority.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2021): 2021622
Tipula punctifrons Rondani 1875
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bibionidae
Tipula
Tipula punctifrons

description: Tipula punctifrons Rondani, 1875
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 463.
 TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo), Provincia Sarawak [Bona Fortuna Island, Sarawak Province, Borneo]” (Rondani 1875c: 421).
 TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (head, thorax and three legs on one pin, one leg and part of a wing glued to a cardboard stage on a separate pin) (MSNG): Sarawak / Typus / punctifrons Rond. / Tipula punctifrons n° 80 [head, thorax and three legs], Typus / punctifrons Rond. / Tipula punctifrons n. [one leg, part of a wing].
 CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Alexander & Alexander 1973: 29); valid species, as Holorusia punctifrons (Oosterbroek, 2020).
 REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 463) described Tipula punctifrons from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 196) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 59) reported the holotype (♀) in the MSNG.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
Corona virus 2019 like illness and public adherence to preventive measures, Sudan 2020
Creators: name: Hassan, Baraa
name: Muneer Makki Musa Nori, Muneer Makki Musa Nori
name: Waheeba Siddig Abdallah, Waheeba Siddig Abdallah
name: Suad Mohammed Ali, Suad Mohammed Ali
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2021

description: Introduction: In December 2019, a novel corona virus disease was identified and was responsible for the new cases of respiratory tract infections in Wuhan, China. This virus was responsible for the pandemic with more than 84 million cases and 1.82 million deaths worldwide. In Sudan till now the reported cases exceed 23,000 with 1.400 deaths. This study aims to determine the prevalence of COVID_19 suspected cases, health seeking behavior and public adherence to protective measures. Methods: Descriptive community based cross sectional study, conducted in Khartoum state 2020. 3499 respondents with diverse socio-demographic backgrounds were finally enrolled in the study. Data was collected through Manitoba Corona Virus 2019 screening form which distributed through online anonymous Google forms. Data was entered and analyzed by Statistical Package of Social Sciences version 23. Results: The study revealed that 26.5% of the respondents were clinically suspected. with headache or fatigability being the most common symptom followed by pharyngitis and then dry cough. Asthma and chronic respiratory disease as the commonest comorbidities. Wearing facial masks and regular hand washing were found to be the most used protective measures with only 39.4% implicates social distancing in their daily life. Health seeking behavior was significantly different among suspected respondents the majority tend to use antibiotics than to isolate themselves or undergo testing. Conclusion: COVID_19 suspected cases were prevalent among Sudanese population, screening capacity has to be increased with more strong policies for implications of personal protective measures in the daily life.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2021): 2021622
Human Rights Event Detection from Heterogeneous Social Media Graphs
Creators: name: Chen, Feng
name: Neill, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Human rights organizations are increasingly monitoring social media for identification, verification, and documentation of human rights violations. Since manual extraction of events from the massive amount of online social network data is difficult and time-consuming, we propose an approach for automated, large-scale discovery and analysis of human rights–related events. We apply our recently developed Non-Parametric Heterogeneous Graph Scan (NPHGS), which models social media data such as Twitter as a heterogeneous network (with multiple different node types, features, and relationships) and detects emerging patterns in the network, to identify and characterize human rights events. NPHGS efficiently maximizes a nonparametric scan statistic (an aggregate measure of anomalousness) over connected subgraphs of the heterogeneous network to identify the most anomalous network clusters. It summarizes each event with information such as type of event, geographical locations, time, and participants, and provides documentation such as links to videos and news reports. Building on our previous work that demonstrates the utility of NPHGS for civil unrest prediction and rare disease outbreak detection, we present an analysis of human rights events detected by NPHGS using two years of Twitter data from Mexico. NPHGS was able to accurately detect relevant clusters of human rights–related tweets prior to international news sources, and in some cases, prior to local news reports. Analysis of social media using NPHGS could enhance the information-gathering missions of human rights organizations by pinpointing specific abuses, revealing events and details that may be blocked from traditional media sources, and providing evidence of emerging patterns of human rights violations. This could lead to more timely, targeted, and effective advocacy, as well as other potential interventions.
Mit ChatGPT Texte schreiben: Prompting-Methoden für Historiker:innen.
Creators: name: Mähr, Moritz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Generative KI
Textgeneratoren
Geschichtswissenschaft
Digital History
Digital Humanities
Prompting
Prompting-Methoden
Prompting-Strategien
LLM
Large Language Model
Sprachmodelle

description: Dieser Workshop bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Anwendung generativer KI-Systeme im Bereich der Geschichtswissenschaften. Zielgruppe sind Forschende und Studierende mit Interesse an der Schnittstelle von Digital Humanities und historischer Forschung. Der Workshop fokussiert sich insbesondere auf die Nutzung von textgenerierenden KI-Systemen wie OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Gemini und Anthropic Claude.

Die Teilnehmenden sollen ein grundlegendes Verständnis dafür entwickeln, wie generative KI funktioniert, und lernen, diese effektiv für historische Forschungsarbeiten einzusetzen. Der Workshop deckt verschiedene Aspekte ab, einschliesslich der Funktionsweise von Sprachmodellen, Methoden des Promptings und den praktischen Umgang mit generativen KI-Systemen.

Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der Interaktion mit diesen Systemen. Dazu wird das Konzept des Promptings ausführlich erläutert, einschliesslich praktischer Tipps und Techniken, um die Genauigkeit und Relevanz der generierten Texte zu maximieren. Der Workshop beleuchtet ebenfalls die Grenzen dieser Technologien, wie die Schwierigkeit, Fiktion von Realität zu unterscheiden, und schliesst mit einem umfassenden Einblick in die Anwendungsbereiche generativer KI in der Geschichtswissenschaft.

Dieser Workshop bietet eine wertvolle Ressource für Historiker:innen und Interessierte, die sich mit den neuesten Entwicklungen im Bereich der digitalen Technologien in den Geisteswissenschaften auseinandersetzen möchten.
Public Awareness of Environmental Risk Factors of Cancer Among the Lebanese General Population
Creators: name: Kabalan, Mayssan
name: El-Hajj, Maya
name: Khachman, Dalia
name: Awada, Sanaa
name: Rachidi, Samar
name: Al-Hajje, Amal
name: Ajrouche, Roula
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2021

description: Introduction: Since the majority of cancers occur as a result of modifiable risk factors, cancer is being seen more as a preventable disease. The primary objective of our study was to assess the level of awareness of environmental risk factors for cancer among the Lebanese general population. The secondary objective focused on identifying the predictors of the preventability of the disease. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study between June and July 2020. An online questionnaire was used to collect data pertaining to the knowledge of environmental risk factors of cancer, source of information and personal practice of the participants. Bivariate and multivariate analyzes were performed. Results: About 387 respondents agreed to participate in the study. study showed low awareness regarding infectious agents, lifestyle, diet and many work exposures. The predictors of the attitude of respondents regarding the preventability of cancer were: believing that cancer has an environmental cause (p=.014), not having a healthy lifestyle (p=.004), not smoking waterpipe (p=.023), being single (p=.013), and having a university degree (p=.049). Conclusions: Efforts should be made to improve awareness of the cancer risk factors regarding infectious agents, lifestyle, diet and many work exposures. This can also be followed by further studies assessing the impact of these community and governmental cancer prevention initiatives on cancer risk factors level of awareness.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2021): 2021622
Constraining nonextensive statistics with plasma oscillation data
Creators: name: Silva, R.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
name: Lima, J. A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss experimental constraints on the free parameter of the nonextensive kinetic theory from measurements of the thermal dispersion relation in a collisionless plasma. For electrostatic plane-wave propagation, we show through a statistical analysis that a good agreement between theory and experiment is possible if the allowed values of the $q$-parameter are restricted by $q=0.77 \pm 0.03$ at 95% confidence level (or equivalently, $2-q = 1.23$, in the largely adopted convention for the entropy index $q$). Such a result rules out (by a large statistical margin) the standard Bohm-Gross dispersion relation which is derived assuming that the stationary Maxwellian distribution ($q=1$) is the unperturbed solution.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Human Capital and Economic Development in India
Creators: name: Surendrakumar  Bagde
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The theoretical models of economic growth have underscored the role of human capital. The empirical analysis of growth for a broad group of countries shows that the school attainment has positive effect on growth. Many studies have found that a region’s growth is influenced by the initial level of human capital. Glaeser et al. (1995) find that human capital level in 1960 influences growth of the cities betIen 1960 and 1990. Similarly, Simon et al. (2002) found that cities that have higher level of human capital initially grow faster in the long run. The regional differences in level of human capital also explain geographic differences in firm formation rates with regions endoId with higher level of human capital having higher firm formation rates (Acs, 2004). This paper explores the role of human capital in India’s economic development.
Infection prevention and control standards and associated factors: Case study of the level of knowledge and practices among nurses in a Saudi Arabian hospital
Creators: name: Alojaimy, Rueda Saleh
name: NAKAMURA, KEIKO
name: Al-Sobaihi, Saber
name: Tashiro, Yuri
name: Watanabe, Nozomi
name: Seino, Kaoruko
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2021

description: Introduction: Healthcare-associated infection (HAI) is a significant public health issue. HAI is a problem in both developed and developing countries. Treating HAIs is a significant burden on healthcare budgets. This study was performed to assess the knowledge about infection prevention and control (IPC) and IPC practices of nurses working in a Saudi hospital, and to examine the association between the nurses’ demographic characteristics and work/training experience with their level of knowledge about and practices towards maintaining IPC standards. Methods: A quantitative method was used, with a response rate of 81.1%. A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted of randomly selected male and female nurses of all nationalities who came in direct contact with patients while providing healthcare services at King Abdulaziz Medical City-Riyadh (KAMC-R) (n=308). Principle component analysis (PCA) was used to generate knowledge and practices scores, and the scores were classified into two categories (high, low) at the median. Results: The majority of the participants were females (89.3%). The result of logistic regression analysis revealed significant associations between a high education level and high scores for IPC knowledge [AOR=2.72, 95% CI=1.45-5.10] and practices [ AOR=3.66, 95% CI=1.90-7.05], after controlling for other confounding variables. Conclusion: High scores for IPC knowledge and IPC practices were independently associated with a high level of education of the nurses. Further studies to develop effective programs for IPC regardless of the nurses’ educational attainment are recommended.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2021): 2021622
ПОЛИТИКА РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЯ ВАЛЮТНОГО КУРСА В РОССИИ В 2014–2018 гг.
Creators: name: Г. Р. ОГАНЕСЯН
Publisher: name: Вестник Института экономики РАН
Year: 2019
Subjects: валютный курс
валютная политика
бюджетное правило
режим свободно плавающего валютного курса
инфляционное таргетирование.

description: После перехода к режиму свободно плавающего валютного курса Банк России стал меньше внимания уделять проблемам регулирования обменного курса рубля, который до настоящего времени остается относительно волатильным показателем. Начиная с 2017 г. управление валютным курсом осуществлялось по большей части Министерством финансов в рамках бюджетного правила. В работе предложены меры по совершенствованию валютной политики России, в числе которых сочетание инфляционного таргетирования с элементами валютного регулирования, использование Банком России более широкого инструментария воздействия на процесс курсообразования и диверсификация международных резервов.
Sparse Laplacian shrinkage for nonparametric transformation survival model
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Liu, Yiming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The rank estimation is an effective inference method for the nonparametric transformation model. This approach avoids any nonparametric estimation about the transformation function and can be applied to the high-dimensional censored data. However, most existing methods do not utilize the potential correlation structures among predictors. In order to incorporate such priori information, we propose a penalized smoothed partial rank with sparse Laplacian shrinkage (PSPRL) method and develop a forward and backward stagewise with sparse Laplacian shrinkage (LFabs) algorithm to compute the estimator. The non-asymptotic bound and algorithm properties are established. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the competing alternatives with better variable selection and prediction. We apply our method to a glioblastoma gene expression study to further demonstrate the advantages.
Ulidiidae , Rondani 1856
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ulidiidae

description: Ulidiidae   This worldwide family, proposed by Macquart in 1835, contains nearly 700 species (Evenhuis & Pape 2020). Until recently these flies were treated within the Otitidae (Soós 1984c, Belcari et al. 1995b), but the use of the older name of Ulidiidae is the correct one (Kameneva & Korneyev 1994, Pape et al. 2011, Marshall 2012). In his “ Stirps Ortalidinae ”, rather than in the family Ulidiidae, Rondani (1856, 1869a) described 13 Palaearctic nominal species, eight considered as valid, four as junior synonyms and one as doubtful (Soós 1984c, Rivosecchi 1992, Belcari et al. 1995b, Kameneva 1997). Rondani (1869a) proposed a new replacement names for a species previously described and named by Macquart. In his paper on the Rondani types at MZUB, Morge (1959a) listed two unpublished names (nomina nuda) of Rondani. Soós (1982a, 1983) examined the type material in the MZUF and designated a lectotype for Herina ghilianii Rondani, 1869, Ortalis immaculata Rondani, 1869, Ceroxys pomariana Rondani, 1869, Macheirocera grandis Rondani, 1869, Melieria etrusca Rondani, 1869, Melieria parmensis Rondani, 1869, Melieria subapennina Rondani, 1869 and Tetanops contarinii Rondani, 1869. Except for the type material of two nominal species, which are presumed lost, the type material has been recovered for all nominal species and is distributed between the MZUF (eight), MRSN (four) and MHNL (one).
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
Gibbaranea bituberculata Walckenaer 1802
Creators: name: Lissner, Jørgen
name: Bosmans, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Araneidae
Gibbaranea
Gibbaranea bituberculata

description: Gibbaranea bituberculata (Walckenaer, 1802) Araneus dromedarius cuculliger Simon, 1909 syn. nov. Type material Holotype ♀ MOROCCO: Essaouira (Mogador), MNHNP Coll. Simon 6366; examined. Comments Simon (1909) described Araneus dromedarius cuculliger Simon, 1909 from Morocco. In the World Spider Catalog (2016) it is mentioned as Gibbaranea bituberculata cuculliger. The holotype was examined in order to test its validity and there appears to be no difference between the epigynes of the nominal species and the subspecies. It is just a colour variation and G. bituberculata cuculliger is declared here a junior synonym of the nominal species.
description: Published as part of Jørgen Lissner & Robert Bosmans, 2016, Description of a new Gibbaranea (Araneae: Araneidae) from the Western Mediterranean, pp. 25-30 in Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52 on page 29, DOI: 10.5431/aramit5205, http://zenodo.org/record/197197
description: {"references": ["Simon E 1909 Etude sur les arachnides recueillis au Maroc par M. Martinez de la Escalera en 1907. - Memorias de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 6: 1 - 43", "World Spider Catalog 2016 World Spider Catalog, version 17.0. Natural History Museum Bern. - Internet: http: // wsc. nmbe. ch (June 27, 2016)"]}
EMERGING FUNGAL INFECTIONS: FOCUS ON SAKSENAEA ERYTHROSPORA
Creators: name: Troiano, Gianmarco
name: Nante, Nicola
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2021

description: Introduction In recent times, improved diagnostic techniques have revealed an alarming number of cases of mucormycosis in immunocompetent individuals. The Saksenaea species, is a rare cause of mucormycosis, and is often associated with skin and subcutaneous infection due to trauma in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent subjects. The purpose of this study was therefore, through a review of the literature, to investigate the problem of infections caused by Saksenaea Erythrospora, evaluating the clinical manifestations of the infection, the triggering factors, the therapies and patients’ outcomes. Methods A research of peer-reviewed literature in the electronic databases MEDLINE (PubMed) and Scopus was conducted in the period June 2020-January 2021 using the key word "Saksenaea erythrospora". Studies in Italian, English, French, Spanish focused on cases of Saksenaea erythrospora were included, without time restrictions. Studies that provided ambiguous or insufficient data were excluded. Results Bibliographic research yielded 23 publications; 7 were included in the review. The studies were published between 2011 and 2015 and involved a total of 11 patients of average age 37.9 years (SD 17.23) hospitalized in several hospitals in: USA, India, Argentina, Colombia, Thailand. 6 patients were women, 5 men. All patients had an almost normal immune status. The causes of the infection were: injections, traumas, surgery. Two patients, despite surgical and medical therapy, died. Conclusions In recent years, infections from new and rare species of fungi have been increasingly frequent, including serious necrotizing infections from Saksenaea erythrospora. Early identification and timely management are essential to reduce morbidity and mortality. A greater awareness and education about the risks deriving from carrying out surgical procedures abroad, especially in precarious hygiene situations, could be additional effective weapons to reduce the incidence of these infections.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2021): 2021622
How Video Rental Patterns Change as Consumers Move Online
Creators: name: Zentner, Alejandro
name: Smith, Michael
name: Cuneyd  Kaya
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: How will consumption patterns change when consumers move from brick-and-mortar to Internet markets? If consumers purchase more niche products online than at brick-and- mortar stores, does this have something to do with the channel or is this solely due to selection effects: the types of consumers who decide to use the Internet channel or the types of products that consumers select to purchase online?

We address these questions using customer-level rental panel data obtained from a national video chain as it was closing many of its local stores. This allows us to observe how behavior changes when consumers are forced to move from brick-and-mortar to online consumption.

Our results suggest that when consumers move from brick-and-mortar to online channels they are significantly more likely to rent “niche” titles relative to “blockbusters.” This suggests that a significant amount of niche product consumption online is due to the nature of the channel, not just due to selection effects.
Loose Groups of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey
Creators: name: Tucker, D. L.
name: Oemler, A.
name: Hashimoto, Y.
name: Shectman, S. A.
name: Kirshner, R. P.
name: Lin, H.
name: Landy, S. D.
name: Schechter, P. L.
name: Allam, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A ``friends-of-friends'' percolation algorithm has been used to extract a catalogue of dn/n = 80 density enhancements (groups) from the six slices of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). The full catalogue contains 1495 groups and includes 35% of the LCRS galaxy sample. A clean sample of 394 groups has been derived by culling groups from the full sample which either are too close to a slice edge, have a crossing time greater than a Hubble time, have a corrected velocity dispersion of zero, or contain a 55-arcsec ``orphan'' (a galaxy with a mock redshift which was excluded from the original LCRS redshift catalogue due to its proximity to another galaxy -- i.e., within 55 arcsec). Median properties derived from the clean sample include: line-of-sight velocity dispersion sigma_los = 164km/s, crossing time t_cr = 0.10/H_0, harmonic radius R_h = 0.58/h Mpc, pairwise separation R_p = 0.64/h Mpc, virial mass M_vir = (1.90x10^13)/h M_sun, total group R-band luminosity L_tot = (1.30x10^11)/h^2 L_sun, and R-band mass-to-light ratio M/L = 171h M_sun/L_sun; the median number of observed members in a group is 3.
description: 32 pages of text, 27 figures, 7 tables. Figures 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8 are in gif format. Tables 1 and 3 are in plain ASCII format (in paper source) and are also available at http://www-sdss.fnal.gov:8000/~dtucker/LCLG . Accepted for publication in the September 2000 issue of ApJS
Influence of Access to Financial Resources on Sustainable Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya
Creators: name: Chelagat, Belinda
Publisher: name: The Eldoret National Polytechnic
Year: 2024
Subjects: Access, resource, sustainable, Financial, Performance

description: The small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play critical role in creating job opportunities and growth of the economy. Currently, the rate at which the new firms formed have stagnated and those that have been in business for less than five years are closing down at a high and this is clearly illustrated on this study that investigates the effect of access to financial resources on sustainable performance of SMEs in Uasin Gishu County. The study adopted Pecking Order Theory. Descriptive research design was applied to conduct the study which targeted a population of 450 registered enterprises in Uasin Gishu County. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 135 samples SMEs and primary data was collected using questionnaires. Collected data was coded, cleaned and then analyzed to measure completeness of the information obtained using Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS V26). Inferential data analysis was carried out to determine the relationship between variables using linear regression analysis. From linear regression model (R2 = .747) indicating that access to financial resources account for 74.7% of sustainable performance of SMEs and there was a positive significant relationship between access to financial resource (β1=0.935 and p<0.05) and sustainable performance of SMEs. Access to financial resource had significant influence on sustainability of small and medium enterprises performance. The access to financial resource positively influences sustainable performance of SMEs in Uasin Gishu County. The study concluded that access to financial resources positively influence the sustainable performance of SMEs. The study recommended financial institutions to create favorable policies to enable SMEs access loans easily. The study recommended government to offer incentives and funding to SMEs at a lower cost to sustain their financial performance.
Reach, accessibility and acceptance of different forms as communication channels for health promotion: a community-based analysis in Odisha, India
Creators: name: Kshatri, Jaya Singh
name: Palo, Subrata Kumar
name: Panda, Meely
name: Swain, Subhashisa
name: Sinha, Rajeshwari
name: Mahapatra, Pranab
name: Pati, Sanghamitra
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2021

description: Introduction: To achieve universal health coverage, improving demand generation at community is necessary. Media plays an important role by acting as a linking pin between service providers and the community. This study is planned to assess the penetration of various media types in the state of Odisha. Methods: This cross-sectional mixed method study was undertaken in the state of Odisha, India. Following a desk review, a situational analysis through multi stakeholder perspective was carried out at the state, district and sub-district level. Both qualitative and quantitative technique was used for data collection through direct observation of study sites using checklist, interview with the help of a semi structured questionnaire, FGDs and IDIs. Results: The major source for information related to identification and prevention of disease was television (63.6%) followed by health wall (36.6%), newspaper (21.6%), health facility/service providers (17.7%), radio (9.2%) , other media like posters, pamphlets and folk dance (5.5%). Information on treatment or management of the diseases was received mostly from television (61.2%), poster/leaflets (39.2%), health wall (35.2%) and newspaper (19.7%). Only 8% of people have received any health related message in mobile in past one year. Boards and hoarding provided information to only 16.5% of the study population. Heath wall was seen in almost all villages of four districts. These walls contain information on various health topics. Nearly 36% respondent get health related information from the health wall. For immunization related information interpersonal communication through grassroot health workers was found to be more effective and preferred. Conclusion: Interpersonal communication is believed to be most acceptable source of information on maternal and child health, immunization and neonatal care. For people with low literacy, health wall campaign, folk media and interpersonal communication was found to be effective.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2021): 2021622
ИТАЛЬЯНСКАЯ ВЕТВЬ ТЕОРИИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫХ ФИНАНСОВ
Creators: name: О. А. СЛАВИНСКАЯ
Publisher: name: Вестник Института экономики РАН
Year: 2019
Subjects: общественные финансы
общественные расходы
история экономической мысли
итальянская традиция
налоги
государство
общественные товары.

description: Подходы к определению роли государства в экономике менялись в зависимости от исторически сложившихся факторов и уровня развития общества. Исторические исследования государственной активности рассматриваются обычно в контексте английской и немецкой традиции. Помимо данных направлений в истории экономической мысли значимое место занимает итальянская традиция, которая акцентирует свое внимание на теории государства. В статье представлена итальянская школа, ее особенности и отличия от существующих теоретических подходов, а также роль в развитии теории общественных финансов. Показано, что итальянская традиция не только является предтечей известных теорий мериторных благ и общественного выбора, но и, сохраняя свою актуальность, имеет продолжение во многих современных теориях государства.
Dilepton Production from AGS to SPS Energies within a Relativistic Transport Approach
Creators: name: Bratkovskaya, E. L.
name: Cassing, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a nonperturbative dynamical study of $e^+e^-$ production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions from AGS to SPS energies on the basis of the covariant transport approach HSD. For p + Be reactions the dilepton yield for invariant masses $M \leq 1.4$ GeV is found to be dominated by the decays of the $η, ρ, ω$ and $Φ$ mesons at all energies from 10 -- 450 GeV. For nucleus-nucleus collisions, however, the dilepton yield shows an additional large contribution from $π^+π^-$, $K^+K^-$ and $πρ$ channels. Systematic studies are presented for the 'free' meson mass scenario in comparison to a 'dropping' meson mass scenario at finite baryon density. We find that for 'dropping' meson masses the invariant dilepton mass range 0.35 GeV $\leq M \leq$ 0.65 GeV is increased in comparison to the 'free' meson mass scenario and that the data of the CERES-collaboration for nucleus-nucleus collisions can be described much better within the 'dropping' mass scheme. We study in detail the contributions from the various dilepton channels as a function of the transverse momentum and rapidity of the lepton pair as well as a function of the charged particle multiplicity. Furthermore, various direct photon channels for S + Au at 200 GeV/u are computed and found to be well below the upper bounds measured by the WA80-collaboration.
description: 38 pages, LaTeX, including 19 postscript figures, to appear in Nucl. Phys. A
Effects of different rain shelter coverings on volatile organic compounds in mature fruit and postharvest quality of sweet cherry
Creators: name: Zhang, Huimin
name: Tu, Kai
name: Qiu, Zhilang
name: Wen, Zhuang
name: Li, Quan
name: Wen, Xiaopeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: This study investigated the effects of different shelter coverings (arched-shelter and umbrella-shelter) on the volatile components of sweet cherry mature fruits in rainy areas, and the postharvest quality of these fruits during storage at room temperature. A total of 68 volatile compounds were identified and semiquantified in mature fruits. Aldehyde compounds were the most abundant, followed by alcohols. Benzyl alcohol, acetaldehyde, 2-methyl-propanal, hexanal, (E)-2-hexenal and benzaldehyde were the major volatiles, and the proportions of these compounds were greatly affected by different shelter coverings. With the extension of the storage period, the color parameters (L*, a* and b*), texture parameters (hardness, springiness, chewiness, resilience, skin strength and flesh firmness) and titratable acidity of the fruit rapidly decreased. The total soluble solid content and weight loss of the fruit gradually increased. Principal component analysis indicated that the sweet cherry fruits from the arched-shelter had the best quality and the longest shelf life.
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the COVID-19 epidemic and associated factors for mortality in Iran: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Rajabi, Abdolhalim
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2021

description: Background: We aimed to further clarify the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 2019-nCoV pneumonia and risk factors associated for mortality. Methods: In this study, we included inpatient with acute respiratory distress syndrome at Golestan Hospitals who had been discharged or had died in 2020. Epidemiological, and clinical data were extracted from electronic medical records and compared between recovered and died cases. We used multiple logistic regression methods to explore the risk factors associated with in-hospital death. Results: In overall 2,835 acute respiratory distress syndrome patients were included in this study, of these patients, 874 (30.83.9%) were positive for 2019­nCoV. Five hundred and sixty-three patients (19.86%) died, 1,687 patients (59.51%) were recovered. Of the total deaths, only 288 (10.15%) were attributed to COVID-19. The most common symptoms at onset of illness were respiratory distress (1,795 [63.32%]), fever (1,601 [56.47%]), dry cough (1,595 [56.26%]), Sore throat (445 [15.70%]), and myalgia (342 [12.06%]). One thousand and twelve (35.7%) had 1 or more coexisting medical conditions. In multiple logistic regression analysis, risk factors associated with the death included older age (OR (Odds Ratio), 1.03; 95% CI; 1.02-1.04), blood oxygen level (SpO2<93%) (OR, 2.44; 95% CI; 1.79-3.31), comorbidities (OR, 2.15; 95% CI; 1.62-2.84), respiratory distress (OR, 1.74; 95% CI; 1.28-2.37), and headache (OR, 0.44 95% CI; 0.21-0.92). Conclusions: The 2019-nCoV infection caused collections of severe respiratory illness and was associated high ratio of hospitalization in ICU and high mortality. Older age and comorbidities were associated with more risk of death among patients with 2019­nCoV.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2021): 2021622
Formation of High Pressure Gradients at the Free Surface of a Liquid Dielectric in a Tangential Electric Field
Creators: name: Kochurin, Evgeny A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear dynamics of the free surface of an ideal incompressible non-conducting fluid with high dielectric constant subjected by strong horizontal electric field is simulated on the base of the method of conformal transformations. It is demonstrated that interaction of counter-propagating waves leads to formation of regions with steep wave front at the fluid surface; angles of the boundary inclination tend to π/2, and the curvature of surface extremely increases. A significant concentration of the energy of the system occurs at these points. From the physical point of view, the appearance of these singularities corresponds to formation of regions at the fluid surface where pressure exerted by electric field undergoes a discontinuity and dynamical pressure increases almost an order of magnitude.
description: Proceedings of 19th IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids
Dissipation-driven quantum phase transitions in a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid electrostatically coupled to a metallic gate
Creators: name: Cazalilla, M. A.
name: Sols, F.
name: Guinea, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dissipation induced by a metallic gate on the low-energy properties of interacting 1D electron liquids is studied. As function of the distance to the gate, or the electron density in the wire, the system undergoes a quantum phase transition from the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid state to two kinds of dissipative phases, one of them with a finite spatial correlation length. We also define a dual model, which describes an attractive one dimensional metal with a Josephson coupling to a dirty metallic lead.
description: 5 pages, 2 EPS figures; v2: improved figure for phase diagram, added discussion, corrected typos
Semiclassical Prediction of Large Spectral Fluctuations in Interacting Kicked Spin Chains
Creators: name: Akila, Maram
name: Gutkin, Boris
name: Braun, Peter
name: Waltner, Daniel
name: Guhr, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While plenty of results have been obtained for single-particle quantum systems with chaotic dynamics through a semiclassical theory, much less is known about quantum chaos in the many-body setting. We contribute to recent efforts to make a semiclassical analysis of many-body systems feasible. This is nontrivial due to both the enormous density of states and the exponential proliferation of periodic orbits with the number of particles. As a model system we study kicked interacting spin chains employing semiclassical methods supplemented by a newly developed duality approach. We show that for this model the line between integrability and chaos becomes blurred. Due to the interaction structure the system features (non-isolated) manifolds of periodic orbits possessing highly correlated, collective dynamics. As with the invariant tori in integrable systems, their presence lead to significantly enhanced spectral fluctuations, which by order of magnitude lie in-between integrable and chaotic cases.
description: 42 pages, 19 figures
Toward the End of Time
Creators: name: Martinec, Emil J.
name: Robbins, Daniel
name: Sethi, Savdeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The null-brane space-time provides a simple model of a big crunch/big bang singularity. A non-perturbative definition of M-theory on this space-time was recently provided using matrix theory. We derive the fermion couplings for this matrix model and study the leading quantum effects. These effects include particle production and a time-dependent potential. Our results suggest that as the null-brane develops a big crunch singularity, the usual notion of space-time is replaced by an interacting gluon phase. This gluon phase appears to constitute the end of our conventional picture of space and time.
description: 31 pages, reference added
Clarkus papillatus Jairajpuri 1970
Creators: name: Zullini, Aldo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1978
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Enoplea
Mononchida
Mononchidae
Clarkus
Clarkus papillatus

description: 22. CLARKUS PAPILLATUS (Bastian 1865) Jairajpuri 1970
 ♀: L= 1,02 mm; a= 24, b= 3,5; c= 17; V = 61 %; stoma 26 μ.
Stazioni 5 e 6.
Specie comune e ad ampia distribuzione, già segnalata in Sardegna nei pressi di Cagliari.
description: Published as part of Zullini, Aldo, 1978, Nematodi liberi dell'Isola di Tavolara (Sardegna), pp. 67-76 in ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI XL Estratto dai Rendiconti III (V) on page 74, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10814862
Short-term insomnia symptoms are associated with level and not type of physical activity in a sample of Indian collegiate students
Creators: name: Ghrouz, Amer
name: Noohu, Majumi
name: Manzar, Md. Dilshad
name: Bekele, Bayu
name: Pandi-Perumal, Seithikurippu
name: Bahammam, Ahmed S
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2021

description: Objective – There is mixed findings on the association between physical activity and sleep. Hence this study investigated association of level and type of physical activity with short term insomnia among college students. Methods - A cross sectional study was conducted among college students in India. Six hundred sixty two students were included, with a mean age of 23.2 ± 3.5 years.The sample consisted of 359 males and 303 females. The predictor variables were self reported type and physical activity level and predicted variables were self reported sleep complaints.Physical activity components were aseesesed through international physical activity questionnaire – short form and sleep complaints using Pitssburg sleep questionnaire . The binary logistic regression models were used for data analysis. Level of significance was set at p < 0.05 for all the analysis. Results – The self reported symptoms of short trem insomnia such as global sleep quality (adjusted odds ratio(AOR)=15.58) , subjective sleep quality (AOR=6.01), sleep latency (AOR= 5.09) , sleep duration (AOR=0.13), sleep disturbances (AOR=4.88), day time sleep dysfunction (AOR=5.59) had shown association with level of physical activity. There was no association of type of physical activity with any other predicted variables studied. Conclusions – The findings of the present study supports that level of physical activity is a key predictor of short term insomnia symptoms among college students. Different interventions startegies may be developed and implemented to improve the level of physical activity among students.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2021): 2021622
Compact Groups of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey
Creators: name: Allam, S. S.
name: Tucker, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have recently extracted a catalog of compact groups of galaxies (CGs) from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey. This catalog of Las Campanas Compact Groups (LCCGs) contains 76 CGs with a median redshift of z_med = 0.08. The physical properties of these CGs are similar to those from the Hickson (1982) and the Barton et al. (1996) catalogs. Here, we present an atlas of our catalog and briefly describe its general properties.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. Figure 4 is broken up into four gif files. Paper accepted by "Astronomische Nachrichten: News in Astronomy and Astrophysics."