cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Role of the Voluntary Sector in Cross-Sector Collaborations: An NHS Multispecialty Community Provider
Creators: name: Haslam, Daniel
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2020

description: This thesis explores the role of the voluntary sector in the delivery of an NHS Multispecialty Community Provider (MCP) pilot project in the area of Erewash, England. It draws on engaged research, informed by ethnographic and action research traditions through which a broad range of data were gathered in order to present a detailed picture of the project in practice. In doing so it contributes both to the academic literature and to the work of practitioners and policy makers. Firstly, it identifies the tensions inherent in the voluntary sector’s role as ‘transmission belt’ organisations, providing empirical evidence of this role in practice and building on Albareda’s (2018) original conception. In addition, it suggests the pressure to work in this way risks damaging the sector’s relationship with both service users and communities. Secondly, the thesis explores the ways that trust, power, and control interact in collaborative contexts, utilising Bachman’s (2001) notion of different ‘traditions’ to suggest that the voluntary and public sectors reflect different ways of working that are interactions of ‘personal’ and ‘system’ trust and power. These different traditions surface tensions that make collaboration difficult. Thirdly, the thesis identifies the complex leadership dynamics at play in collaborative contexts and the dominance of NHS hierarchical aspects, particularly in relation to clinical professionalism. Despite this, the thesis builds on Huxham and Vangen’s (2000a) notion of ‘making things happen’ to identify the positive and proactive leadership role the voluntary sector can enact in practice. However, it cautions that, as both directive and facilitative forms of leadership are needed in collaborative contexts, an increased focus on public sector-initiated collaborations could paradoxically make the sector less collaborative. The thesis offers suggestions for both policy and practice, as well as identifying potential ways to take the research forward in the future.
Two-way communication in lucid dreaming using Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS)
Creators: name: Peters, Emma
name: Kummer, Luc
name: Erlacher, Daniel
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2024

description: Dream reports are usually recorded upon waking, and their reliability is influenced by memory processing during sleep, often leading to partial or selective recollections. Recently, there has been increasing interest in exploring the possibility of direct communication from within a dream. This study explores the feasibility of bidirectional communication during lucid dream-ing, using a counting task facilitated by electrical muscle stimulation (EMS). Four participants with varying levels of lucid dreaming experience engaged in overnight recordings, monitored by polysomnography to ensure the presence of lucid dreams. Over four nights, two participants successfully perceived, counted and communicated the number of stimuli during lucid dreams in real-time. Out of eleven trials, five (45.5%) successfully elicited a response, while six (54.5%) did not. These findings highlight the potential of EMS as a reliable method for bidirectional communication in lucid dreaming, reinforcing previous research and offering valuable insights for future studies. Furthermore, this study advances the field of dream engi-neering and sheds light on the relationship between the physical and dreamed body. Dream communication and engineering will advance by experimenting with creative methods and ideas, leading to more detailed, nuanced, and reliable dream data.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2024): Vol 17, No 2 (October 2024)
The Role of Consultancy in Development of the Smalland Medium Firms in Serbia
Creators: name: Mihailovic, Branko
name: Mihailovic, Branko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: management
subject: business plan
subject: consultancy
subject: entrepreneurship

description: Small and medium firms are important economic power that contribute to increse the volume of employment and flexibility of the economy by adjusting rapid market changes. Those running firms know the present-day business concepts and they must be ready to institute changes. Consultancy is one of the most important factors of effective location of company resources and improving business practice. A prosperous establishment, financing and expansing of small and medium firms calls necessarily for an appropriate consultancy service and institutional infracture.
Fingerprinting defects in diamond: Partitioning the vibrational spectrum
Creators: name: Vanpoucke, Danny E. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we present a computational scheme for isolating the vibrational spectrum of a defect in a solid. By quantifying the defect character of the atom-projected vibrational spectra, the contributing atoms are identified and the strength of their contribution determined. This method could be used to systematically improve phonon fragment calculations. More interestingly, using the atom-projected vibrational spectra of the defect atoms directly, it is possible to obtain a well-converged defect spectrum at lower computational cost, which also incorporates the host-lattice interactions. Using diamond as the host material, four test case defects, each presenting a distinctly different vibrational behaviour, are considered: a heavy substitutional dopant (Eu), two intrinsic defects (neutral vacancy and split interstitial), and the negatively charged N-vacancy center. The heavy dopant and split interstitial present localized modes at low and high frequencies, respectively, showing little overlap with the host spectrum. In contrast, the neutral vacancy and the N-vacancy center show a broad contribution to the upper spectral range of the host spectrum, making them challenging to extract. Independent of the vibrational behaviour, the main atoms contributing to the defect spectrum can be clearly identified. Recombination of their atom-projected spectra results in the isolated defect spectrum.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, 1 Table
Economic data and publications as snapshots in time
Creators: name: Stierholz, Katrina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has initiated the FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) project, and is also adding a new historical component to FRED, called ALFRED. FRASER is an image archive of historic economic data publications which allows for sophisticated retrieval of statistical tables over many years. ALFRED is an automated system that will allow researchers to retrieve historical real-time economic data series. ALFRED is slated to go live in mid-2005. Initially histories will be available for about 25 data series, with more to be added in the future. These two new tools will allow researchers to access economic data as it was presented at a moment in time, and with each correction and update. For many researchers, it important to analyze data as it was available—rather than the perfected data released much later. Important policy decisions are made with this imperfect data—and determining the problems of that data as well as its usefulness is key to developing good models. For the casual user, it can provide information about economic conditions at a specific place and time. A significant feature of the FRED archive retrieval system is the option to enter both a date range (earliest and latest desired material) and a calendar "as-of" date. The presentation will discuss these two tools, their development, and their use. The presentation will also discuss the problems/issues of the naïve user. They may copy tables that have been OCRed, but the OCR has not been verified. We have decided to impose a burden on our users—we require that they register and sign an agreement, stating that they recognize the limitations of the OCR process. In particular, uncorrected OCR tables make it difficult to spot errors. Correcting the OCR is expensive. We plan to evaluate the use of the material, and correct the OCR if the use warrants it.
public-school
Creators: name: Kals, Krista
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: This thesis explores the interface between a secondary school and community centre in Vancouver’s West End through the model of place-based learning, which emphasizes connection between students, their environment, and the surrounding community. Recognizing that learning is both context-dependent and inherently social, the school is reimagined as an essential piece of urban infrastructure within its neighbourhood. The new public school is positioned as a truly public facility, eschewing the school’s traditional hermetic boundaries in favour of a porosity aimed at cultivating human connection.
Some Burning Issues of Cooperatives in Serbia in the Process of Transition
Creators: name: Simonovic, Zoran
name: Cvijanovic, Drago
name: Simonovic, Zoran
name: Cvijanovic, Drago
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: cooperatives
subject: cooperative movement
subject: transition
subject: market
subject: cooperative legislature

description: In this paper, the author highlights the unresolved issue of property ownership of cooperatives, which makes the development and functioning of most of the cooperatives impossible. The ownership issue can only be resolved by establishing a general rule: to deal with it on a case by case basis. One of the main issues as far as cooperatives in Serbia are concerned is also the fact that a large number of cooperatives do not obey the cooperative rules, that is, they are not run by cooperators but by the employees of the cooperatives who have overpowered. The rules are not obeyed in private cooperatives either because they are registered as cooperatives but are, in fact, private companies owned by one or several individuals. Despite all these problems, cooperatives and farmer unions are essential organizational units in respect of production increase, merchantability and development of villages.
title: A case study exploring the impact of social media technology on students in a UK secondary school
Creators: name: Crawley, Christine Ann
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2020

description: In a world where digital technology evolves fast, adolescents are engaging online and finding a world of opportunities available to them. Social media technology is a phenomenon that has arisen from new media technology, allowing for ease of communication globally, whereby people can create online profiles of themselves and communicate with family, friends and followers, known or unknown. This qualitative case study used well-being as a framework to explore the impact of social media technology use on children in a mixed United Kingdom 11-16 secondary school. Perceptions of both positive and negative experiences were considered, alongside ways to safeguard the well-being of the students, who are faced with potentially harmful issues brought about by social media use. A total of 11 focus groups were conducted with N=35 students, between the ages of 11 and 15 (mean age = 13.34 years). Questionnaires were obtained from N=10 parent/carers and N=13 staff. The results are conflicting at times, with the data suggesting that use of social media can both raise and lower self-esteem. Overall, conclusions were drawn that social media technology can both improve well-being and be detrimental to it. Positive findings suggested ease of connection to family and friends, with the additional benefits of sharing knowledge and being creative. Whilst negative findings suggested that the students were: at risk of harm from people both known and unknown; developing a fear of missing out (FOMO); distracted from sleep and schoolwork and had access to mature content. This case study argues there is a current generational divide with parents/carers and staff, facing challenges in monitoring the safeguarding of adolescents. This rift has been termed by the current study as the Landline Adult v the Smartphone Child. Whilst this term raises awareness of the issue, it also suggests that guidance is needed for both the staff and the parent/carer body in the school community, as well as continued ‘esafety’ education for the students. The current study may be potentially beneficial as a foundation for further research in terms of the wider effects of social media technology and strategies of support for students.
Patella vulgata Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Bouchard, Blanche
name: Wesselingh, Frank P.
name: Pouwer, Ronald
name: Landau, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Patellidae
Patella
Patella vulgata

description: Patella vulgata Linnaeus, 1758
(Fig. 4B 1, B 2)
Patella rustica Linnaeus, 1758: 782.
Patella vulgata – Harmer 1921: 780, pl. 62, figs 780, 781. — Wesselingh & Pouwer 2011: 129, fig. 1.
MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Maximum diameter 15.1 mm. — RGM.1310830 (1), leg AWJ; RGM.1315059 (1), leg AWJ.
SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — Intermediate-high patelliform shell; apex placed two-thirds distance from anterior margin. Largest width at one-thirds distance from anterior margin. Sculpture of about 28 robust primary ribs that can develop slightly irregular knobs, with low secondary ribs and very fine but irregularly developed and spaced tertiary ribs. Edge coarsely wavy, corresponding mostly to primary ribs.
DISTRIBUTION. — Lower Pleistocene: Atlantic, Selsoif, France (this paper). — Upper Pleistocene: Channel region, Portland and Selsey (Harmer 1921). — Upper Pleistocene-Holocene: Netherlands (Wesselingh & Pouwer 2011). — Present-day: NE Atlantic coast from Norway to Gibraltar. Rarely reported from western Mediterranean.
REMARKS
As discussed above, identification of fresh Patellidae can be challenging, even more so for fossils, as characteristics such as colouration are generally not preserved. In this case, growth series of the four abundant NE Atlantic species were used for comparison. Most abundant is Patella rustica Linnaeus, 1758, which is characterised by a relatively flat shell with fine sculpture of alternating coarser and finer ribs, crossed by growth-lines forming an elongated reticulate sculpture. A few specimens represent Patella vulgata Linnaeus, 1758, at this locality characterised by a rugose sculpture, with more prominent and robust broad primary ribs that contain irregular knobs.
description: Published as part of Bouchard, Blanche, Wesselingh, Frank P., Pouwer, Ronald & Landau, Bernard, 2025, The Gelasian gastropod fauna of Selsoif (Manche, France), pp. 39-91 in Geodiversitas 47 (3) on pages 44-46, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a3, http://zenodo.org/record/14823602
MUSKETEER D3.2 Architecture Design – Final Version
Creators: name: Purcell, Mark
name: Sinn, Mathieu
name: Simioni, Marco
name: Braghin, Stefano
name: Tran, Minh Ngoc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Platform Architecture
FML Architecture
Design of scalable, secure, trusted and privacy aware architectures

description: This deliverable (D3.2 "Architecture Design – Final Version") is a document describing the architecture for the MUSKETEER centralized server platform. It is the culmination of task T3.1 and builds upon the initial architecture document D3.1, providing architecture/design updates as well as reporting progress in relation to the platform requirements. This document describing the final version of the MUSKETEER platform architecture, how it meets the final requirements of the federated and privacy-preserving machine learning services, how it addresses the final user stories, how it supports incorporating active security measures against adversarial attacks (data poisoning, evasion), and how it aligns with existing Industrial Data Platform standards.
Thom isomorphisms in triangulated motivic categories
Creators: name: Ananyevskiy, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that a triangulated motivic category admits categorical Thom isomorphisms for vector bundles with an additional structure if and only if the generalized motivic cohomology theory represented by the tensor unit object admits Thom classes. We also show that the stable $\mathbb{A}^1$-derived category does not admit Thom isomorphisms for oriented vector bundles and, more generally, for symplectic bundles. In order to do so we compute the first homology sheaves of the motivic sphere spectrum and show that the class in the coefficient ring of $\mathbb{A}^1$-homology corresponding to the second motivic Hopf map $ν$ is nonzero which provides an obstruction to the existence of a reasonable theory of Thom classes in $\mathbb{A}^1$-cohomology.
description: 15 pages, v2: minor revision, more details in Lemma 4.2 and added remark 5.6 on Thom isomorphisms for etale motivic sheaves
Free Energy Approach to the Formation of an Icosahedral Structure during the Freezing of Gold Nanoclusters
Creators: name: Nam, H. -S.
name: Hwang, Nong M.
name: Yu, B. D.
name: Kim, D. -Y.
name: Yoon, J. -K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The freezing of metal nanoclusters such as gold, silver, and copper exhibits a novel structural evolution. The formation of the icosahedral (Ih) structure is dominant despite its energetic metastability. This important phenomenon, hitherto not understood, is studied by calculating free energies of gold nanoclusters. The structural transition barriers have been determined by using the umbrella sampling technique combined with molecular dynamics simulations. Our calculations show that the formation of Ih gold nanoclusters is attributed to the lower free energy barrier from the liquid to the Ih phases compared to the barrier from the liquid to the face-centered-cubic crystal phases.
First phylogenetic analyses of galaxy evolution
Creators: name: Fraix-Burnet, Didier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hubble tuning fork diagram, based on morphology, has always been the preferred scheme for classification of galaxies and is still the only one originally built from historical/evolutionary relationships. At the opposite, biologists have long taken into account the parenthood links of living entities for classification purposes. Assuming branching evolution of galaxies as a "descent with modification", we show that the concepts and tools of phylogenetic systematics widely used in biology can be heuristically transposed to the case of galaxies. This approach that we call "astrocladistics" has been first applied to Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group and provides the first evolutionary galaxy tree. The cladogram is sufficiently solid to support the existence of a hierarchical organization in the diversity of galaxies, making it possible to track ancestral types of galaxies. We also find that morphology is a summary of more fundamental properties. Astrocladistics applied to cosmology simulated galaxies can, unsurprisingly, reconstruct the correct "genealogy". It reveals evolutionary lineages, divergences from common ancestors, character evolution behaviours and shows how mergers organize galaxy diversity. Application to real normal galaxies is in progress. Astrocladistics opens a new way to analyse galaxy evolution and a path towards a new systematics of galaxies.
Two new meroterpenoids from the aerial parts of Ampelopsis cantoniensis (Vitaceae)
Creators: name: Nguyen, Nhi Y. Thi
name: Pham, Ngoc Son Le
name: Dang, Phu Hoang
name: Huu, Duc Minh Nguyen
name: Dang, Huu Phuc
name: Tran, Quan Le
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: From EtOAc-soluble fraction of the aerial parts of Ampelopsis cantoniensis (Vitaceae), two new meroterpenoids named ampechromonol A (1) and ampechromonol B (2), together with five known compounds (3–7), were isolated. Their structures were elucidated based on NMR spectroscopic analysis. The plausible biosynthesis pathway for the formation of two new meroterpenoids was proposed. This research is the first isolation of meroterpenoids from Ampelopsis genus. Compounds 1 and 2 showed weak cytotoxicity against MCF-7 breast cancer cells.
Is irrigation driven by the economic value of internationally traded agricultural products?
Creators: name: Cheptea, Angela
name: Laroche-Dupraz, Catherine
name: Cheptea, Angela
name: Laroche-Dupraz, Catherine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: water resources
subject: virtual water
subject: international trade
subject: agri-food products
subject: irrigation

description: A recent trend of literature investigates how international trade compensates or accentuates the differences in countries’ endowments in water resources and whether trade regulation should be used to improve the use of water resources at the global level. In this paper, we develop a simple model establishing a positive link between the demand for irrigation water of agricultural producers and the international price of irrigated goods. Unlike previous works, that focus on the cost of water resources, we emphasize the price of traded goods as a key element of the shadow value of water used in agriculture. We test our model empirically using data on 159 irrigated crops exported by 183 countries, and find that countries’ irrigation behavior is strongly linked to the global price of crops. This indicates that agricultural producers internalize the price of irrigation water. The export price effect is stronger when countries are net exporters of irrigated crops and weaker for internationally traded crops that constitute a pillar of most countries’ domestic food security, such as cereals. Our results provide elements for the broader issue of the economically efficient use of water resources in agriculture.
Ultrastable Optical Clock with Neutral Atoms in an Engineered Light Shift Trap
Creators: name: Katori, Hidetoshi
name: Takamoto, Masao
name: Pal'chikov, V. G.
name: Ovsiannikov, V. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An ultrastable optical clock based on neutral atoms trapped in an optical lattice is proposed. Complete control over the light shift is achieved by employing the $5s^2 {}^1S_0 \to 5s5p {}^3P_0$ transition of ${}^{87}{\rm Sr}$ atoms as a "clock transition". Calculations of ac multipole polarizabilities and dipole hyperpolarizabilities for the clock transition indicate that the contribution of the higher-order light shifts can be reduced to less than 1 mHz, allowing for a projected accuracy of better than $ 10^{-17}$.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
title: The Rise of the Corporate Sector as Net Creditor: Financialisation and Functional Income Distribution in the G7 Countries
Creators: name: Villani, Davide
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2020

description: This thesis investigates the rise of corporate net lending in G7 countries for the period 1990-2015. This process implies that corporate savings are in excess of capital expenditure, so that, on average, firms can finance investment solely via internal funds. This novel development contrasts with the conventional assumption about the corporate sector being a net borrower. Despite the growing importance of this phenomenon, the causes that have contributed to the rise of corporate net lending are still open to debate. This thesis contributes to filling the existing gaps in the literature by examining two, so far unexplored, channels: the process of financialisation and the functional income distribution. To address these aspects, the research employs a big dataset of annual firm-level data of listed non-financial corporations from G7 countries. The empirical findings indicate that the process of financialisation and functional income distribution have played a significant role in the determination of the level of corporate net lending. The capacity of firms to self-finance their investment also has important consequences for the economic and financial literature. In this respect, the thesis critically discusses the measure of External Financial Dependency. This measure is meant to reflect structural and technological characteristics of the industries that are assumed not to change over time and across countries. Despite the wide use of this concept in the economic and financial literature, there is little discussion about its theoretical foundations. This dissertation fills this gap, analysing the possible determinants of external financial dependency. It argues that the standard formulation of external financial dependency can be considered a proxy of corporate net lending that can fluctuate. This implies that the standard measure of external financial dependency does not uniquely reflect structural and unmodifiable technological features of the industries. Furthermore, after extending the original calculations to G7 countries covering a period of 35 years (1980-2015), the thesis demonstrates that the assumptions of stability over time and across countries find little empirical support.
reams and the rediffusion of barely mentalized experiences: Outline of a novel modeling approach
Creators: name: Ruyneau De Saint George, Pierre
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2024

description: The author puts forward and elucidates the proposition that a dream is the result of an attributive function of signs that encompasses:


• the input set or “domain” englobing those perceptions that are sufficiently unsettling and that have not been apperceptionned (these are typically intuited evocations),

• the output set or “codomain”, which is the entire set of oneiric signs,

• the main antagonist of the dream who is the image of the “I” that is implicated in the input set,

• the responses of this “I” constitute the invariants (a rediffusion of the moods, affects, ideas, decisions and driving forces of the “I” in question).



Here the author presents the hypothesis of a morphism.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2024): Vol 17, No 2 (October 2024)
Phase transition in the Ising model on a small-world network with distance-dependent interactions
Creators: name: Jeong, Daun
name: Hong, H.
name: Kim, Beom Jun
name: Choi, M. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the collective behavior of an Ising system on a small-world network with the interaction $J(r) \propto r^{-α}$, where $r$ represents the Euclidean distance between two nodes. In the case of $α= 0$ corresponding to the uniform interaction, the system is known to possess a phase transition of the mean-field nature, while the system with the short-range interaction $(α\to\infty)$ does not exhibit long-range order at any finite temperature. Monte Carlo simulations are performed at various values of $α$, and the critical value $α_c$ beyond which the long-range order does not emerge is estimated to be zero. Thus concluded is the absence of a phase transition in the system with the algebraically decaying interaction $r^{-α}$ for any nonzero positive value of $α$.
On linear transformations preserving the Pólya Frequency property
Creators: name: Brändén, Petter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15, 26C10, 05A19, 05A05, 20F55

description: We prove that certain linear operators preserve the Pólya frequency property and real-rootedness, and apply our results to settle some conjectures and open problems in combinatorics proposed by Bóna, Brenti and Reiner-Welker.
description: 20 pages, to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc
ПОРІВНЯЛЬНИЙ АНАЛІЗ П(С)БО 30 "БІОЛОГІЧНІ АКТИВИ" ТА МСБО 41 "СІЛЬСЬКЕ ГОСПОДАРСТВО"
Creators: name: Liudmyla Shkulipa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150104 International Accounting
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150101 Accounting Theory and Standards
subject: 140201 Agricultural Economics

description: Issues that are examined: · The comparative analysis of the main provisions of the International Accounting Standard 41 "Agriculture" and the National Accounting Standard 30 "Biological Assets" was performed. · Revealed differences between national and international accounting standards of agricultural activity. Keywords: biological asset, agricultural produce, fair value, primitive confession, active market, accounting standards.
Canadian statistics: evidence for enlightened democracy
Creators: name: Bulley, Alan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: A distinguishing feature of the Scottish Enlightenment was its emphasis on participatory democracy. Believing that political power belonged to its citizens, Scotland promoted literacy to enable all Scots to debate and decide the issues of the day. An ocean away and more than two centuries later, Statistics Canada informs and educates Canadian citizens to help them take part fully in the life of their nation. To this end, the organization has created a range of public good products to engage Canadians—not only researchers, but students, journalists and business people—with reliable and timely information about their country. In elaborating on these themes, this paper will look at Statistics Canada's ongoing redesign of its public good products, its use of usability testing and its active engagement of the business, educational and media communities to encourage statistical literacy and research. The paper will also examine some of the challenges facing public good statistics, such as meeting the needs of diverse publics and archiving dynamic publications.
Design, synthesis of novel C-3′-N-sulfonyl modified taxane analogues from 1-deoxybaccatin VI and their impact on anti-HCC activity
Creators: name: Xiao, Yan-Ru
name: Cui, Yong-Mei
name: Xie, Cheng-Hu
name: Qiu, Wei-Qing
name: Lin, Hai-Xia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A new series of C-3′-N-sulfonyl paclitaxel analogs were designed and synthesized from 1-deoxybaccatin VI and their structures were confirmed by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and high resolution MS. The synthesized compounds were evaluated for their in vitro anti-Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) activity against human hepatoma (HepG2) cell line. Bioassay results showed that compounds 17c, 17d and 17f exhibited more potent inhibitory activity against HepG2 cell line in comparison with paclitaxel. It is suggested that paclitaxel analogs containing the C-3′-N-sulfonyl could be considered as a precursor structure for further synthesis of more potent analogues.
Book review: Owczarski, W. (2023). Dreaming in Auschwitz: The Concentration Camp in the Prisoners' Dreams. Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Creators: name: Valli, Katja
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2024

description: In his book “Dreaming in Auschwitz: The Concentration Camp in the Prisoners' Dreams”, Wojciech Owczarski, a Polish professor of literature at the University of Gdansk, Poland, explores dreaming during the Second World War through the lens of the first-person accounts retrospectively written in the 1970s by Polish Auschwitz concentration camp survivors. The book is based on the accounts of survivors that were stored in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and translated into English in 2015, and offers an unprecedented access to the beliefs, desires, sufferings, and hopes of the inmates, as revealed through their dreams. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the dreams recalled decades after WWII, and dreamt especially during the imprisonment in Auschwitz, ranging from quantitative content analysis to the anthropological dream interpretation practises to the personal meaning the inmates gave their dreams. While numerous books have been written about WWII and the Holocaust, dreams have not featured in the centre stage. In dream research, posttraumatic dreams have certainly been of great interest, but even amongst studies on how war experiences have been reflected in the dreams of veterans and civilians, the material covered in the book offers a unique perspective to the Nazi occupation and oppression. The inner worlds of the concentration camp prisoners, as revealed in their dreams, are witness testimonies to the most unspeakable events of history but they also show how hard hope is to abolish from the hearts of people. Although we only have the accounts of survivors, there is no reason to believe that those who did not survive would have dreamt differently or would have held different beliefs related to dreams. Thus, this book that is based on the first-person descriptions of dreams dreamt by Polish Auschwitz inmates during their imprisonment at Auschwitz concentration camp and after liberation, can be considered to reflect the inner worlds of all those who were subjected to the most unspeakable horrors during the war. The many excerpts from the original dream descriptions, and the book itself, pay tribute to the men and women who survived, or perished at, the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Nazi regime.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2024): Vol 17, No 2 (October 2024)
The convergent validity of the ontopsychological procedure of dream content analysis
Creators: name: Giuliani, Massimo
name: Palumbo, Gabriella
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2024

description: Similar to psychoanalysis, analytical psychology and gestalt therapy, the ontopsychological approach (OA) uses dream analysis in psychotherapy practice. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis regarding the correlation between the ontopsychological dream content analysis system and the Hall and Van de Castle (HVDC) system, which is the most accredited and applied coding method of dream content analysis. Thirty dreams which had been already-coded along with the main content categories of HVDC (available at www.dreamresearch.net) were retrieved by an independent external judge and submitted to two ontopsychological psychotherapists. They were asked to code the dreams along with the main categories used by OA dream content analysis system. To determine the correlation between the two dream content analyses from the two different coding systems (OA vs. HVDC), Spearman rank correlations were computed between OA dream contents and the corresponding contents in the HVDC system. Specifically, the correlations were computed considering the number of words or strings of words that were correctly identified and entered into OA categories which were comparable to HVDC categories. The OA system included six contents categories. Of these, five were consistent, although partially differing in their denomination, with five out of the nine main HVDC categories. Spearman rank correlation coefficients varied from 0.53 to 0.82 between these five OA categories and the equivalent HVDC categories. Moderate to high correlations were observed between the OA and HVDC dream codes in five comparable categories and this suggests that the ontopsychological coding system has satisfying, although preliminary, convergent validity.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2024): Vol 17, No 2 (October 2024)
Nonlinear kT factorization for Forward Dijets in DIS off Nuclei in the Saturation Regime
Creators: name: Nikolaev, N. N.
name: Schäfer, W.
name: Zakharov, B. G.
name: Zoller, V. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the QCD description of the breakup of photons into forward dijets in small-x deep inelastic scattering off nuclei in the saturation regime. Based on the color dipole approach, we derive a multiple scattering expansion for intranuclear distortions of the jet-jet transverse momentum spectrum. A special attention is paid to the non-Abelian aspects of the propagation of color dipoles in a nuclear medium. We report a nonlinear $k_{\perp}$-factorization formula for the breakup of photons into dijets in terms of the collective Weizsäcker-Williams (WW) glue of nuclei as defined in ref. \cite{Saturation,NSSdijet}. For hard dijets with the transverse momenta above the saturation scale the azimuthal decorrelation (acoplanarity) momentum is of the order of the nuclear saturation momentum QA. For minijets with the transverse momentum below the saturation scale the nonlinear kT-factorization predicts a complete disappearance of the jet-jet correlation. We comment on a possible relevance of the nuclear decorrelation of jets to the experimental data from the STAR-RHIC Collaboration.
description: 40 pages, 7 figures
Warm dust in high-z galaxies: origin and implications
Creators: name: Sommovigo, L.
name: Ferrara, A.
name: Pallottini, A.
name: Carniani, S.
name: Gallerani, S.
name: Decataldo, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ALMA observations have revealed the presence of dust in galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (redshift $z>6$). However, the dust temperature, $T_d$, remains unconstrained, and this introduces large uncertainties, particularly in the dust mass determinations. Using an analytical and physically-motivated model, we show that dust in high-$z$, star-forming giant molecular clouds (GMC), largely dominating the observed far-infrared luminosity, is warmer ($T_d > 60\ \mathrm{K}$) than locally. This is due to the more compact GMC structure induced by the higher gas pressure and turbulence characterizing early galaxies. The compactness also delays GMC dispersal by stellar feedback, thus $\sim 40\%$ of the total UV radiation emitted by newly born stars remains obscured. A higher $T_d$ has additional implications: it (a) reduces the tension between local and high-$z$ IRX-$β$ relation, (b) alleviates the problem of the uncomfortably large dust masses deduced from observations of some EoR galaxies.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A year-long plateau in the late-time near-infrared light curves of Type Ia supernovae
Creators: name: Graur, Or
name: Maguire, Kate
name: Ryan, Russell
name: Nicholl, Matt
name: Avelino, Arturo
name: Riess, Adam G.
name: Shingles, Luke
name: Seitenzahl, Ivo R.
name: Fisher, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The light curves of Type Ia supernovae are routinely used to constrain cosmology models. Driven by radioactive decay of 56Ni, the light curves steadily decline over time, but >150 days past explosion, the near-infrared portion is poorly characterized. We report a year-long plateau in the near-infrared light curve at 150-500 days, followed by a second decline phase accompanied by a possible appearance of [Fe I] emission lines. This near-infrared plateau contrasts sharply with Type IIP plateaus and requires a new physical mechanism. We suggest a such as masking of the "near-infrared catastrophe," a predicted yet unobserved sharp light-curve decline, by scattering of ultraviolet photons to longer wavelengths. The transition off the plateau could be due to a change in the dominant ionization state of the supernova ejecta. Our results shed new light on the complex radiative transfer processes that take place in Type Ia supernovae and enhance their use as "standard candles."
description: Authors' version of article published in Nature Astronomy. 12 pages, 6 figures, supplementary data. Published (open) version available here: https://rdcu.be/bTq6b
THE Metadater data model and the formation of a grid for the support of social research
Creators: name: Kallas, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: The formation of a GRID for the support of social research strongly depends on the collaboration of data producers, data providers and analysts. The formation of the GRID will support: Building a subject matter ontology for every specific research field * Secondary data production * Data discovery * Support new study design * Supplementary research documentation To support the functionality of the GRID a social science infrastructure is needed but as the raw material for any social scientific production is data, a conceptual data model is the heart of this infrastructure. Existing information systems, used for primary production, data preservation and dissemination, cannot support the functionality of a GRID because the data models used in the three working phases do communicate badly. This presentation will show for each of the elements listed above how the integrated approach of the MetaDater metadata model supports of the functionality of the GRID.
Працівник і бухгалтерський облік: соціалізм чи демократія???
Creators: name: Liudmyla Shkulipa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140210 International Economics and International Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150201 Finance
subject: 150105 Management Accounting

description: У статті розглянуто необхідність соціальної переорієнтації бухгалтерського обліку в бік працівника. Проведено порівняння соціально-трудових взаємин за радянських часів та сьогодні. Визначено, яке місце займав бухгалтерський облік і працівник при соціалізмі та при демократії.
Nightmares, neglected symptom in borderline personality disorder
Creators: name: Sabayan, Behnoush
name: Dabaghi, Parviz
name: Ghasemzadeh, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2024

description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2024): Vol 17, No 2 (October 2024)
A Joint Mass-Radius-Period Distribution of Exoplanets
Creators: name: Neil, Andrew R.
name: Rogers, Leslie A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radius-period distribution of exoplanets has been characterized by the \textit{Kepler} survey, and the empirical mass-radius relation by the subset of \textit{Kepler} planets with mass measurements. We combine the two in order to constrain the joint mass-radius-period distribution of \textit{Kepler} transiting planets. We employ hierarchical Bayesian modeling and mixture models to formulate four models with varying complexity and fit these models to the data. We find that the most complex models that treat planets with significant gaseous envelopes, evaporated core planets, and intrinsically rocky planets as three separate populations are preferred by the data and provide the best fit to the observed distribution of \textit{Kepler} planets. We use these models to calculate occurrence rates of planets in different regimes and to predict masses of \textit{Kepler} planets, revealing the model dependent nature of both. When using models with envelope mass loss to calculate $η_\oplus$, we find nearly an order of magnitude drop, indicating that many Earth-like planets discovered with \textit{Kepler} may be evaporated cores which do not extrapolate out to higher orbital periods. This work provides a framework for higher-dimensional studies of planet occurrence and for using mixture models to incorporate different theoretical populations of planets.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Proton rich nuclei at and beyond the proton drip line in the Relativistic Mean Field theory
Creators: name: Geng, L. S.
name: Toki, H.
name: Meng, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground state properties of proton-rich odd-$Z$ nuclei in the region $55\le Z \le 73$ are studied in the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory. The RMF equations are solved by using the expansion method in the Harmonic-Oscillator basis. In the particle-particle channel, we use the state-dependent BCS method with a zero-range $δ$-force, which has been proved to be effective even for neutron-rich nuclei. All the ground state properties, including the one-proton separation energies, the ground state deformations, the last occupied proton orbits and the locations of proton drip line, are calculated. Good agreement with both the available experimental data and the predictions of the RHB method are obtained.
description: the version to appear in Progress of Theoretical Physics, more discussions added
Modelling Regime-Dependent Price Volatility Transmissions Between China and U.S. Agricultural Markets: A Normal Mixture Bivariate GARCH Approach
Creators: name: Li, Na
name: Ker, Alan
name: Rude, James
name: Li, Na
name: Ker, Alan
name: Rude, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: mixture models
subject: multivariate GARCH
subject: volatility transmission

description: Agricultural trade amongst and between the United States and China dominates world markets and has been complicated by rapid growth, significant changes in domestic farm policy, intermittent periods of considerable volatility, and, most recently, trade tensions. It is unlikely that a single GARCH process can adequately accommodate this vacillation. Not surprisingly, past literature has shown conflicting results depending on the period considered. We use mixture methods which let the data define the number of possibly heterogeneous volatility regimes. We model the price volatility transmissions for five commodities: soybeans, wheat, corn, sugar, and cotton. Specifically, we estimate, test, and find the presence of multiple regimes using a normal mixture multivariate GARCH model. We identify different economic structures across the regimes. While we find that the U.S. tends to play a leading role over China in terms of spillover effects, when the market state is unstable or highly volatile, we tend to find greater bidirectional volatility spillovers. Most importantly, we show that the standard approach of modelling spillover volatilities as a single regime is not valid.