cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Ο νεοφιλελευθερισμός και η αναδιαμόρφωση της εκπαίδευσης. Οι απόψεις των εκπαιδευτικών
title: Neoliberalism and the reconfiguration of education. The views of teachers
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Χατζηδήμου, Άννα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Νεοφιλελευθερισμός
subject: Παγκοσμιοποίηση
subject: Αναδιαμόρφωση της εκπαίδευσης
subject: Διεθνείς οργανισμοί
subject: Επαγγελματική εξουθένωση
subject: Απόψεις εκπαιδευτικών

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία θα μελετήσουμε τη σχέση του νεοφιλελευθερισμού με την εκπαίδευση. Αρχικά, για να γίνει κατανοητή η έννοια του νεοφιλελευθερισμού κρίνεται απαραίτητη, πρωτίστως, η μελέτη του ως οικονομικού όρου στα πλαίσια του καπιταλιστικού συστήματος. Σύμφωνα με την βιβλιογραφία, το νεοφιλελεύθερο ρεύμα αναδύεται σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο στα τέλη της δεκαετίας του 1970, ως λύση στην κοινωνικοοικονομική κρίση του 1973-1974, η οποία δημιουργήθηκε μετά από τα «τριάντα ένδοξα χρόνια» οικονομικής ευημερίας. Το νεοφιλελεύθερο – νεοσυντηρητικό ρεύμα έδωσε έμφαση στον διευρυμένο ρόλο του κράτους στην οικονομία και στην κοινωνία προτείνοντας την υποχώρηση του κράτους και την απελευθέρωση των δυνάμεων της αγοράς, της οποίας ο περιορισμός υποστηρίζεται ότι επιφέρει και την κοινωνικό-οικονομική κρίση των κρατών. Η ενίσχυση του ανταγωνισμού σε όλες τις πτυχές του κοινωνικού βίου και ο περιορισμός του κοινωνικού κράτους προωθούν τη λύση για την παραπάνω κρίση σύμφωνα με το νεοφιλελεύθερο ρεύμα. Το κεφάλαιο, λοιπόν, και όχι το κράτος καθορίζει τις συνθήκες που επικρατούν στην αγορά εργασίας με ό,τι συνεπάγεται για τη εργατική τάξη. Στη συνέχεια της παρούσας εργασίας θα επιχειρηθεί η σύνδεση του νεοφιλελευθερισμού με την εκπαίδευση. Είναι ευρέως αποδεκτή η άποψη ότι η επέλαση του νεοφιλελεύθερου ρεύματος δεν άφησε ανεπηρέαστο το εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα.
Data and figure scripts for "Poroelastic Response to Karst Conduit Pressurization II: Hydrological Parameter Optimization, Lake Loading and Exchange, and 3D Conduit Simulation"
Creators: name: Gochenour, Jacob Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This repository provides the observed data, COMSOL results, and scripts necessary to reproduce the figures for the manuscript, "Poroelastic Response to Karst Conduit Pressurization II: Hydrological Parameter Optimization, Lake Loading and Exchange, and 3D Conduit Simulation." Folders herein are organized based on the three sets of simulations concerning parameter optimization, lake effects, and 3D simulation.
Influence of end mill manufacturing on cutting edge quality and wear behaviorInfluence of End Mill Manufacturing on Cutting Edge Quality and Wear Behavior
Creators: name: Denkena, Berend
name: Krödel-Worbes, Alexander
name: Beblein, Sascha
name: Hein, Markus
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Coating
subject: Cutting edge preparation
subject: Cutting edge quality
subject: Grinding
subject: Tool wear
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::650 | Management

description: One of the decisive factors for the performance of milling tools is the quality of the cutting edge. The latter results from the process control of the individual steps along the tool manufacturing process chain, which generally includes the sintering or pressing of the blanks, grinding, cutting edge preparation, and coating of the tools. However, the targeted and application-specific design of the process steps in terms of high economic efficiency is currently limited by a lack of knowledge regarding the influence of the corresponding process parameters on the resulting cutting edge quality. In addition, there is a lack of suitable parameters that adequately represent the characteristics of the cutting edge microtopography. This publication therefore investigates the influence of manufacturing processes on cutting edge quality and wear behavior of end mills. On this basis, different characterization parameters for the cutting edge quality are derived and evaluated with regard to their ability to predict the wear behavior.
“I Feel Like More of a Man”: A Mixed Methods Study of Masculinity, Sexual Performance, and Circumcision for HIV Prevention
Creators: name: Barrington, Clare
name: Donastorg, Yeycy
name: Fleming, Paul J.
name: Lerebours, Leonel
name: Pearce, Lisa D.
name: Brito, Maximo O.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Ethnographic studies from numerous societies have documented the central role of male circumcision in conferring masculinity and preparing boys for adult male sexuality. Despite this link between masculinity, sexuality, and circumcision, there has been no research on these dynamics among men who have received a circumcision for HIV prevention. We employed a mixed methods approach with data collected from recently circumcised men in the Dominican Republic (DR) to explore this link. We analyzed survey data collected 6-12 months post-circumcision (N = 293) and in-depth interviews with a sub-sample of those men (n = 30). We found that 42% of men felt more masculine post-circumcision. In multivariate analysis, feeling more masculine was associated with greater concern about being perceived as masculine (OR = 1.70, 95% CI: 1.25-2.32), feeling more potent erections post-circumcision (OR = 2.25, 95% CI: 1.26-4.03), and reporting increased ability to satisfy their partner post-circumcision (OR = 2.30, 95% CI: 1.11-4.77). In qualitative interviews, these factors were all related to masculine norms of sexually satisfying one's partner and men's experiences of circumcision were shaped by social norms of masculinity. This study highlights that circumcision is not simply a biomedical intervention and that circumcision programs need to incorporate considerations of masculine norms and male sexuality into their programming.
Additional file 1 of Indication for spinal surgery: associated factors and regional differences in Germany
Creators: name: Tesch, Falko
name: Lange, Toni
name: Dröge, Patrik
name: Günster, Christian
name: Flechtenmacher, Johannes
name: Lembeck, Burkhard
name: Kladny, Bernd
name: Wirtz, Dieter Christian
name: Niethard, Fritz-Uwe
name: Schmitt, Jochen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Definition of spinal surgery.
Additional file 2 of Indication for spinal surgery: associated factors and regional differences in Germany
Creators: name: Tesch, Falko
name: Lange, Toni
name: Dröge, Patrik
name: Günster, Christian
name: Flechtenmacher, Johannes
name: Lembeck, Burkhard
name: Kladny, Bernd
name: Wirtz, Dieter Christian
name: Niethard, Fritz-Uwe
name: Schmitt, Jochen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Definition of comorbidities.
Ayenia spinulosa R. E. Fr., Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Ayenia
Ayenia spinulosa

description: Ayenia spinulosa R.E.Fr., Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.s. 42(12): 19. 1908.
Subshrub.
 Vouchers: Amambay: Rojas s.n. (G). Concepción: Anisits 2585, type (S); Anisits 2895 (S); Fiebrig 4561 (CTES, G, K, M); Zardini et al. 38741 (AS, CTES, MO).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
D8.2 Overview Document on Already Existing Data Harmonisation Tools
Creators: name: Mate, Sebastian
name: Leb, Ines
name: Schüttler, Christina
name: Silander, Kaisa
name: Miettinen, Timo
name: Knuuttila, Juha
name: Eklund, Niina
name: Hans-Ulrich Prokosch
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Data harmonisation
Harmonisation tools
Terminology mapping
Overview document
D8.2

description: The aim of this document is to analyse the state of the art and existing tools for data harmonisation, considering their applicability within CS-IT. In addition, it will include information on the different levels and versions of various standardised and non-standardised ontologies and data dictionaries and schemas. The major focus of this document is to present some examples of already ongoing harmonisation projects in the field of biobanking and biological sample collections, as well as aiming to support the project by providing a literature review on the biobanks' needs regarding the harmonisation tools and processes described in BBMRI-ERIC CS-IT's Requirements Specification document (Eklund 2016). Since data harmonisation, however, is not only an important issue in biobanking, but a key component in all data sharing/data projects, our focus is also on such projects outside the biobanking area. This review has been done as a deliverable of the Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC) Common Service IT (CS-IT) as well as the Horizon2020 INFRADEV project ADOPT. The current version is based on a comprehensive literature review and experiences from own work in this field as well as based on communication with colleagues in related interdisciplinary multi-partner research projects. This work is part of the ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC project, funded by the European Commission, topic H2020- INFRADEV-3-2015, Grant Agreement Nr 676550.
Electronic structure of Li$_{1+x}$[Mn$_{0.5}$Ni$_{0.5}$]$_{1-x}$O$_2$ studied by photoemission and x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Creators: name: Yokoyama, Y.
name: Ootsuki, D.
name: Sugimoto, T.
name: Wadati, H.
name: Okabayashi, J.
name: Yang, Xu
name: Du, Fei
name: Chen, Gang
name: Mizokawa, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the electronic structure of Li$_{1+x}$[Mn$_{0.5}$Ni$_{0.5}$]$_{1-x}$O$_2$ ($x$ = 0.00 and 0.05), one of the promising cathode materials for Li ion battery, by means of x-ray photoemission and absorption spectroscopy. The results show that the valences of Mn and Ni are basically 4+ and 2+, respectively. However, the Mn$^{3+}$ component in the $x$ = 0.00 sample gradually increases with the bulk sensitivity of the experiment, indicating that the Jahn-Teller active Mn$^{3+}$ ions are introduced in the bulk due to the site exchange between Li and Ni. The Mn$^{3+}$ component gets negligibly small in the $x$ = 0.05 sample, which indicates that the excess Li suppresses the site exchange and removes the Jahn-Teller active Mn$^{3+}$.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Homogeneous solutions for elliptically polarized light in a cavity containing materials with electric and magnetic nonlinearities
Creators: name: Martin, D. A.
name: Hoyuelos, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study evolution equations and stationary homogeneous solutions for electric and magnetic field amplitudes in a ring cavity with flat mirrors. The cavity is filled with a positive or negative refraction index material with third order Kerr-like electric nonlinearities and also magnetic nonlinearities, which can be relevant in metamaterials. We consider the degree of freedom of polarization in the incident beam. It is found that considering a magnetic nonlinearity increases the variety of possible qualitatively different solutions. A classification of solutions is proposed in terms of the number of bifurcations. The analysis can be useful for the implementation of optical switching or memory storage using ring cavities with non linear materials.
A randomised controlled trial of three very brief interventions for physical activity in primary care
Creators: name: Pears, Sally
name: Bijker, Maaike
name: Morton, Katie
name: Vasconcelos, Joana
name: Parker, Richard A
name: Westgate, Kathryn Louise
name: Brage, Soren
name: Wilson, Edward Charles
name: Prevost, A Toby
name: Kinmonth, Ann-Louise
name: Griffin, Simon James
name: Sutton, Stephen Robert
name: Hardeman, Wendy
name: On, Behalf Of The VBI Programme Team
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2016
Subjects: very brief interventions
physical activity
behaviour change techniques
health promotion
public health
primary care

description: $\textbf{Background}$ Very brief interventions (VBIs) for physical activity are promising, but there is uncertainty about their potential effectiveness and cost. We assessed potential efficacy, feasibility, acceptability, and cost of three VBIs in primary care, in order to select the most promising intervention for evaluation in a subsequent large-scale RCT. $\textbf{Methods}$ Three hundred and ninety four adults aged 40–74 years were randomised to a Motivational ($\textit{n}$ = 83), Pedometer ($\textit{n}$ = 74), or Combined ($\textit{n}$ = 80) intervention, delivered immediately after a preventative health check in primary care, or control (Health Check only; $\textit{n}$ = 157). Potential efficacy was measured as the probability of a positive difference between an intervention arm and the control arm in mean physical activity, measured by accelerometry at 4 weeks. $\textbf{Results}$ For the primary outcome the estimated effect sizes (95 % CI) relative to the Control arm for the Motivational, Pedometer and Combined arms were respectively: +20.3 (−45.0, +85.7), +23.5 (−51.3, +98.3), and −3.1 (−69.3, +63.1) counts per minute. There was a73% probability of a positive effect on physical activity for each of the Motivational and Pedometer VBIs relative to control, but only 46 % for the Combined VBI. Only the Pedometer VBI was deliverable within 5 min. All VBIs were acceptable and low cost. $\textbf{Conclusions}$ Based on the four criteria, the Pedometer VBI was selected for evaluation in a large-scale trial. $\textbf{Trial registration}$ Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN02863077. Retrospectively registered 05/10/2012.
description: This paper presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Programme Grants for Applied Research Programme (Grant Reference Number RP-PG-0608-10079). ATP and JV were supported by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. The funder had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, the writing of the manuscript, and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
description: This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from BioMed Central via https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3684-7
Sexual Satisfaction and the Importance of Sexual Health to Quality of Life Throughout the Life Course of U.S. Adults
Creators: name: Reese, Jennifer Barsky
name: Bruner, Deborah Watkins
name: Flynn, Kathryn E.
name: Lin, Li
name: Hahn, Elizabeth A.
name: Shelby, Rebecca A.
name: Reeve, Bryce B.
name: Weinfurt, Kevin P.
name: Cyranowski, Jill M.
name: Jeffery, Diana D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Discussions about sexual health are uncommon in clinical encounters, despite the sexual dysfunction associated with many common health conditions. Understanding of the importance of sexual health and sexual satisfaction among US adults is limited.
Fermionic Kaluza-Klein modes in the string-cigar braneworld
Creators: name: Dantas, D. M.
name: Veras, D. F. S.
name: Silva, J. E. G.
name: Almeida, C. A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spin 1/2 and spin 3/2 fermion fields in a thick braneworld scenario in six dimensions called string-cigar model. This smooth string-like model has a source that satisfies the dominant energy condition and undergoes a Ricci flow. We propose a new coupling for the fermions with a background gauge field which allows a smooth and normalized massless mode in the brane with positive tension. By numerical methods the mass spectrum and the massive eigenfunctions are obtained. The Kaluza-Klein massive tower exhibits the usual increasing pattern and, in this scenario, the coupling term does not allow tachyonic Kaluza-Klein states. The brane core and the background gauge field alter the properties of the massive KK tower, enhancing the amplitude of the massive states near the origin and changing the properties of the analogue Schroedinger potential. Furthermore, we find massive modes as resonant states in this scenario for both fermionic fields.
description: Final version to appear in Physical Review D. Section II substantially enlarged in order to do a comprehensive review of the thin string brane model and string cigar brane model. One section added for considering of the Rarita-Schwinger spinor field. Some references added. 35 pgs, 17 figs
A global sensitivity analysis approach for morphogenesis models
Creators: name: Boas, Sonja E. M.
name: Jimenez, Maria I. Navarro
name: Merks, Roeland M. H.
name: Blom, Joke G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Morphogenesis is a developmental process in which cells organize into shapes and patterns. Complex, multi-factorial models are commonly used to study morphogenesis. It is difficult to understand the relation between the uncertainty in the input and the output of such `black-box' models, giving rise to the need for sensitivity analysis tools. In this paper, we introduce a workflow for a global sensitivity analysis approach to study the impact of single parameters and the interactions between them on the output of morphogenesis models. To demonstrate the workflow, we used a published, well-studied model of vascular morphogenesis. The parameters of the model represent cell properties and behaviors that drive the mechanisms of angiogenic sprouting. The global sensitivity analysis correctly identified the dominant parameters in the model, consistent with previous studies. Additionally, the analysis provides information on the relative impact of single parameters and of interactions between them. The uncertainty in the output of the model was largely caused by single parameters. The parameter interactions, although of low impact, provided new insights in the mechanisms of \emph{in silico} sprouting. Finally, the analysis indicated that the model could be reduced by one parameter. We propose global sensitivity analysis as an alternative approach to study and validate the mechanisms of morphogenesis. Comparison of the ranking of the impact of the model parameters to knowledge derived from experimental data and validation of manipulation experiments can help to falsify models and to find the operand mechanisms in morphogenesis. The workflow is applicable to all `black-box' models, including high-throughput \emph{in vitro} models in which an output measure is affected by a set of experimental perturbations.
description: 31 pages, 7 figures
Scaling Behavior of Circular Colliders Dominated by Synchrotron Radiation
Creators: name: Talman, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quite low Higgs particle mass makes it natural for the next high energy facility to be a circular e+e- Higgs factory and, after that, a next-generation p,p collider in the same tunnel. Surveying the luminosity-limiting phenomena of synchrotron radiation power loss, beam-beam interaction limitations, and beamstrahlung, scaling laws are established that fix all parameters of the Higgs factory, as functions of assumed radius $r$, and RF power $P$. at least to a first approximation. Historically the accelerator formalisms of electron and hadron rings have been distinguished largely by the importance of synchrotron radiation for electrons, and its unimportance for protons. While electron beams equilibrate within seconds, proton beam distributions have survived largely intact for extended periods. For future hadron colliders, this distinction will no longer be valid. This will have a large impact on the design of the future FCC-pp proton collider whose parameters can be extrapolated using formulas previously applicable only to electron rings. The most important scaling law has the luminosity depending on $r$ and $P_{\rm rf}$ only as a function of their product $rP$. This relation simplifies choosing a tunnel radius that is optimal for both Higgs factory and p,p collider while (almost) minimizing the initial cost---by increasing $r$ and decreasing $P$ proportionally, the tunnel circumference can be increased (as required for p,p) without significant increase in Higgs factory cost.
description: 50 pages, 28 figures. White Paper at the IAS Program on the Future of High Energy Physics, Hong Kong, 2015
Dietary macronutrient distribution influences post-exercise substrate utilization in women: A cross-sectional evaluation of metabolic flexibility
Creators: name: Roelofs, Erica J.
name: Smith-Ryan, Abbie E.
name: Wingfield, Hailee L.
name: Hirsch, Katie R.
name: Blue, Malia N.
name: Trexler, Eric T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Metabolic flexibility is the ability to alter substrate utilization in response to substrate availability, which may influence health and performance. The current study evaluated the effects of habitual macronutrient distribution on energy expenditure (EE) and metabolic flexibility in physically active women.
Bordasia bicornis Krapov.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Bordasia
Bordasia bicornis

description: Bordasia bicornis Krapov., Bonplandia 12: 133–135, f. 1. 2003.
Subshrub.
 Vouchers: Alto Paraguay: Pérez de Molas & Navarro 8466 (CTES, PY); Schinini & Bordas 14858, type (CTES).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Additional file 3 of Indication for spinal surgery: associated factors and regional differences in Germany
Creators: name: Tesch, Falko
name: Lange, Toni
name: Dröge, Patrik
name: Günster, Christian
name: Flechtenmacher, Johannes
name: Lembeck, Burkhard
name: Kladny, Bernd
name: Wirtz, Dieter Christian
name: Niethard, Fritz-Uwe
name: Schmitt, Jochen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Definition of diagnostics and treatments.
Paradoxical Interpretations of Urban Scaling Laws
Creators: name: Cottineau, Clementine
name: Hatna, Erez
name: Arcaute, Elsa
name: Batty, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scaling laws are powerful summaries of the variations of urban attributes with city size. However, the validity of their universal meaning for cities is hampered by the observation that different scaling regimes can be encountered for the same territory, time and attribute, depending on the criteria used to delineate cities. The aim of this paper is to present new insights concerning this variation, coupled with a sensitivity analysis of urban scaling in France, for several socio-economic and infrastructural attributes from data collected exhaustively at the local level. The sensitivity analysis considers different aggregations of local units for which data are given by the Population Census. We produce a large variety of definitions of cities (approximatively 5000) by aggregating local Census units corresponding to the systematic combination of three definitional criteria: density, commuting flows and population cutoffs. We then measure the magnitude of scaling estimations and their sensitivity to city definitions for several urban indicators, showing for example that simple population cutoffs impact dramatically on the results obtained for a given system and attribute. Variations are interpreted with respect to the meaning of the attributes (socio-economic descriptors as well as infrastructure) and the urban definitions used (understood as the combination of the three criteria). Because of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and of the heterogeneous morphologies and social landscapes in the cities internal space, scaling estimations are subject to large variations, distorting many of the conclusions on which generative models are based. We conclude that examining scaling variations might be an opportunity to understand better the inner composition of cities with regard to their size, i.e. to link the scales of the city-system with the system of cities.
Cochlear hearing loss and the detection of sinusoidal versus random amplitude modulation
Creators: name: Buss, Emily
name: Hall, Joseph W.
name: Porter, Heather L.
name: Grose, John H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study assessed the effect of cochlear hearing loss on detection of random and sinusoidal amplitude modulation. Listeners with hearing loss and normal-hearing listeners (eight per group) generated temporal modulation transfer functions (TMTFs) for envelope fluctuations carried by a 2000-Hz pure tone. TMTFs for the two groups were similar at low modulation rates but diverged at higher rates presumably because of differences in frequency selectivity. For both groups, detection of random modulation was poorer than for sinusoidal modulation at lower rates but the reverse occurred at higher rates. No evidence was found that cochlear hearing loss, per se, affects modulation detection.
On Factorization of Molecular Wavefunctions
Creators: name: Jecko, Thierry
name: Sutcliffe, Brian T.
name: Woolley, R. Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently there has been a renewed interest in the chemical physics literature of factorization of the position representation eigenfunctions \{$Φ$\} of the molecular Schrödinger equation as originally proposed by Hunter in the 1970s. The idea is to represent $Φ$ in the form $φχ$ where $χ$ is \textit{purely} a function of the nuclear coordinates, while $φ$ must depend on both electron and nuclear position variables in the problem. This is a generalization of the approximate factorization originally proposed by Born and Oppenheimer, the hope being that an `exact' representation of $Φ$ can be achieved in this form with $φ$ and $χ$ interpretable as `electronic' and `nuclear' wavefunctions respectively. We offer a mathematical analysis of these proposals that identifies ambiguities stemming mainly from the singularities in the Coulomb potential energy.
description: Manuscript submitted to Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, May 2015. Accepted for Publication August 24 2015
title: Control of air leakage is important
Creators: name: Garden, G. K.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: Air and vapour barriers
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0310
subject: Pare-vapeur et pare-air
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0310
subject: Building envelope
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0300
subject: Enveloppe du bâtiment
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0300
subject: Air flow/Wind pressure
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0344
subject: Surcharges dues au vent/écoulement d'air
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0344
subject: air leakages
subject: pénetration de l'air
subject: infiltration
subject: exfiltration
subject: wind penetration
subject: pénetration du vent
subject: stack effect
subject: convection naturelle
subject: mechanical ventilation
subject: ventilation mécanique
subject: vapor barriers
subject: pare vapeur

description: Air leakage has been common in most buildings, but with increasing standards of performance, the requirement for humidification in winter, and the trend to taller buildings it is becoming less and less tolerable. The positive control of air leakage can only be achieved by careful attention in design, with adequate inspection during construction to ensure that no weaknesses arise from poor workmanship.
Cienfuegosia conciliata Krapov.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Cienfuegosia
Cienfuegosia conciliata

description: Cienfuegosia conciliata Krapov., Bonplandia 12: 14–16, f. 3–4. 2003.
Subshrub.
 Vouchers: Alto Paraguay: Mereles & Degen 5949 (FCQ). Boquerón: Krapovickas et al. 45452, type (CTES, FCQ, G, K); Schinini & Palacios 25697 (CTES, FCQ, K).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Effect of response context and masker type on word recognition in school-age children and adults
Creators: name: Leibold, Lori J.
name: Hall, Joseph W.
name: Buss, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In adults, masked speech recognition improves with the provision of a closed set of response alternatives. The present study evaluated whether school-age children (5–13 years) benefit to the same extent as adults from a forced-choice context, and whether this effect depends on masker type. Experiment 1 compared masked speech reception thresholds for disyllabic words in either an open-set or a four-alternative forced-choice (4AFC) task. Maskers were speech-shaped noise or two-talker speech. Experiment 2 compared masked speech reception thresholds for monosyllabic words in two 4AFC tasks, one in which the target and foils were phonetically similar and one in which they were dissimilar. Maskers were speech-shaped noise, amplitude-modulated noise, or two-talker speech. For both experiments, it was predicted that children would not benefit from the information provided by the 4AFC context to the same degree as adults, particularly when the masker was complex (two-talker) or when audible speech cues were temporally sparse (modulated-noise). Results indicate that young children do benefit from a 4AFC context to the same extent as adults in speech-shaped noise and amplitude-modulated noise, but the benefit of context increases with listener age for the two-talker speech masker.
Additional file 4 of Indication for spinal surgery: associated factors and regional differences in Germany
Creators: name: Tesch, Falko
name: Lange, Toni
name: Dröge, Patrik
name: Günster, Christian
name: Flechtenmacher, Johannes
name: Lembeck, Burkhard
name: Kladny, Bernd
name: Wirtz, Dieter Christian
name: Niethard, Fritz-Uwe
name: Schmitt, Jochen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Definition of pain medication.
Factors affecting the development of speech recognition in steady and modulated noise
Creators: name: Grose, John H.
name: Buss, Emily
name: Hall, Joseph W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study used a checkerboard-masking paradigm to investigate the development of the speech reception threshold (SRT) for monosyllabic words in synchronously and asynchronously modulated noise. In asynchronous modulation, masker frequencies below 1300 Hz were gated off when frequencies above 1300 Hz were gated on, and vice versa. The goals of the study were to examine development of the ability to use asynchronous spectro-temporal cues for speech recognition and to assess factors related to speech frequency region and audible speech bandwidth. A speech-shaped noise masker was steady or was modulated synchronously or asynchronously across frequency. Target words were presented to 5–7 year old children or to adults. Overall, children showed higher SRTs and smaller masking release than adults. Consideration of the present results along with previous findings supports the idea that children can have particularly poor masked SRTs when the speech and masker spectra differ substantially, and that this may arise due to children requiring a wider speech bandwidth than adults for speech recognition. The results were also consistent with the idea that children are relatively poor in integrating speech cues when the frequency regions with the best signal-to-noise ratios vary across frequency as a function of time.
Stimuli-responsive brushes with active minority components: Monte Carlo study and analytical theory
Creators: name: Qi, Shuanhu
name: Klushin, Leonid I.
name: Skvortsov, Alexander M.
name: Polotsky, Alexey A.
name: Schmid, Friederike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a combination of analytical theory, Monte Carlo simulations, and three dimensional self-consistent field calculations, we study the equilibrium properties and the switching behavior of adsorption-active polymer chains included in a homopolymer brush. The switching transition is driven by a conformational change of a small fraction of minority chains, which are attracted by the substrate. Depending on the strength of the attractive interaction, the minority chains assume one of two states: An exposed state characterized by a stem-crown-like conformation, and an adsorbed state characterized by a flat two-dimensional structure. Comparing the Monte Carlo simulations, which use an Edwards-type Hamiltonian with density dependent interactions, with the predictions from self-consistent-field theory based on the same Hamiltonian, we find that thermal density fluctuations affect the system in two different ways. First, they renormalize the excluded volume interaction parameter $v_\mathrm{\tiny bare}$ inside the brush. The properties of the brushes can be reproduced by self-consistent field theory if one replaces $v_\mathrm{\tiny bare}$ by an effective parameter $v_{\mathrm{\tiny eff}}$, where the ratio of second virial coefficients $B_{\mathrm{\tiny eff}}/B_\mathrm{\tiny bare}$ depends on the range of monomer interactions, but not on the grafting density, the chain length, and $v_\mathrm{\tiny bare}$. Second, density fluctuations affect the conformations of chains at the brush surface and have a favorable effect on the characteristics of the switching transition: In the interesting regime where the transition is sharp, they reduce the free energy barrier between the two states significantly. The scaling behavior of various quantities is also analyzed and compared with analytical predictions.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures
title: Les essais de sols
Creators: name: Eden, W. J.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: soil tests
subject: essai de sol

description: Le but de ce Digeste est de décrire les essais de sols couramment pratiqués par l'ingénieur dans les enquêtes in situ et d'indiquer leurs possibilités et leurs limites.
Additional file 5 of Indication for spinal surgery: associated factors and regional differences in Germany
Creators: name: Tesch, Falko
name: Lange, Toni
name: Dröge, Patrik
name: Günster, Christian
name: Flechtenmacher, Johannes
name: Lembeck, Burkhard
name: Kladny, Bernd
name: Wirtz, Dieter Christian
name: Niethard, Fritz-Uwe
name: Schmitt, Jochen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Regression results.
The effect of individual and communal electricity generation, consumption and storage on urban Community Renewable Energy Networks (CREN): an Australian case study
Creators: name: Tomc, Elizabeth
name: Vassallo, Anthony M
Publisher: name: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Year: 2016

description: Community Renewable Energy Networks (CREN), in which households and businesses in a local community share energy resources, are an attractive platform for optimising renewable energy use and reducing dependence on the wider electricity grid. However, the optimal use local power generation and energy storage is critically dependent on the load characteristics and location of the community. In this work we compare the simulated energy generation, consumption and independence of two model developments in Melbourne and Sydney. The analysis looked at 6 basic scenarios, from the default grid dependence through to a community approach with both individual and communal PV generation and battery energy storage. The results showed that a combination of household and community owned PV and storage can reduce grid electricity import by up to 93% for Melbourne and 96% for Sydney, but that neither development could independently meet all its power requirements without shortfall. The shortfall arises during the winter months when PV generation is at its lowest, and no practical amount of energy storage can mitigate this. Interestingly, Melbourne, which is at a higher latitude than Sydney and receives less solar insolation, achieves more months of grid independence than Sydney
description: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, Vol 11 (2016)
Factors responsible for remote-frequency masking in children and adults
Creators: name: Buss, Emily
name: Leibold, Lori J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Susceptibility to remote-frequency masking in children and adults was evaluated with respect to three stimulus features: (1) masker bandwidth, (2) spectral separation of the signal and masker, and (3) gated versus continuous masker presentation. Listeners were 4- to 6-year-olds, 7- to 10-year-olds, and adults. Detection thresholds for a 500-ms, 2000-Hz signal were estimated in quiet or presented with a band of noise in one of four frequency regions: 425–500 Hz, 4000–4075 Hz, 8000–8075 Hz, or 4000–10 000 Hz. In experiment 1, maskers were gated on in each 500-ms interval of a three-interval, forced-choice adaptive procedure. Masking was observed for all ages in all maskers, but the greatest masking was observed for the 4000–4075 Hz masker. These findings suggest that signal/masker spectral proximity plays an important role in remote-frequency masking, even when peripheral excitation associated with the signal and masker does not overlap. Younger children tended to have more masking than older children or adults, consistent with a reduced ability to segregate simultaneous sounds and/or listen in a frequency-selective manner. In experiment 2, detection thresholds were estimated in the same noises, but maskers were presented continuously. Masking was reduced for all ages relative to gated conditions, suggesting improved segregation and/or frequency-selective listening.
title: La propagation des flammes
Creators: name: Shorter, G. W.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: flame spread
subject: propagation de la flamme
subject: fire compartments
subject: compartiment coupe feu
subject: flame spread ratings
subject: indice de propagation (flamme)
subject: building codes
subject: code du bâtiment

description: Il est reconnu que d'autres facteurs que l'inflammabilité des matériaux de revêtement, par exemple: l'accès d'air, la nature et la répartition du matériel contenu dans le compartiment et la forme géométrique de ce dernier, peuvent avoir une réelle influence sur l'extension d'un incendie. Toutefois, lorsque ces facteurs sont équivalents, l'incendie s'étendra plus rapidement dans celui des compartiments qui est équipé des matériaux de revêtement les plus inflammables. Il convient donc de réserver une place d' importance au choix des matériaux de revêtement intérieur des immeubles. Il influe non seulement sur la sauvegarde des biens, mais aussi sur la sécurité des occupants. Le danger existe quand même pour ceux qui, se trouvant dans d' autres secteurs, peuvent y être pris au piège par un incendie à propagation rapide.
Cienfuegosia subprostrata Hochr., Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Cienfuegosia
Cienfuegosia subprostrata

description: Cienfuegosia subprostrata Hochr., Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 6: 57-58. 1902.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Canindeyú: Zardini & Ramírez 51500 (AS, MO). San Pedro: Harley et al. 28067 (K); Hassler 6011, type (B, G, K); Krapovickas & Cristóbal 44894 (CTES, FCQ, G, GH, MO); Krapovickas et al. 13945 (CTES, MO); Schinini 8865 (CTES).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
title: Ponts thermiques dans les bâtiments
Creators: name: Brown, W. P.
name: Wilson, A. G.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: Bridges
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC1140
subject: Ponts
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC1140
subject: Heat performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0381
subject: Performance thermique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0381
subject: cold bridges
subject: pont thermique
subject: heat losses
subject: déperdition de chaleur

description: Les murs et les toits tels qu'on les réalise aujourd'hui comportent souvent des parties qui offrent, aux déperditions de chaleur, une résistance inférieure à celle de la construction principale. Si ces parties ne donnent qu'une mauvaise isolation thermique, cela provient en général de ce que des éléments de construction à haute conductibilité thermique passent, en partie ou en totalité, au travers de matériaux à plus faible conductibilité. On les désigne, dans ce Digeste, par l'expression "ponts thermiques". En vue de fournir les critères permettant de reconnaître l'existence d'un pont thermique, puis d'en pallier les conséquences, on traite dans ce Digest quelques exemples qui mettront en évidence les facteurs influencant le comportement thermique des ponts.
Additional file 6 of Indication for spinal surgery: associated factors and regional differences in Germany
Creators: name: Tesch, Falko
name: Lange, Toni
name: Dröge, Patrik
name: Günster, Christian
name: Flechtenmacher, Johannes
name: Lembeck, Burkhard
name: Kladny, Bernd
name: Wirtz, Dieter Christian
name: Niethard, Fritz-Uwe
name: Schmitt, Jochen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Extended description of cohort and subcohorts.
The effect of noise fluctuation and spectral bandwidth on gap detection
Creators: name: Ozmeral, Erol J.
name: Buss, Emily
name: Hall, Joseph W.
name: Grose, John H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Experiment 1 investigated gap detection for random and low-fluctuation noise (LFN) markers as a function of bandwidth (25–1600 Hz), level [40 or 75 dB sound pressure level (SPL)], and center frequency (500–4000 Hz). Gap thresholds for random noise improved as bandwidth increased from 25 to 1600 Hz, but there were only minor effects related to center frequency and level. For narrow bandwidths, thresholds were lower for LFN than random markers; this difference extended to higher bandwidths at the higher center frequencies and was particularly large at high stimulus level. Effects of frequency and level were broadly consistent with the idea that peripheral filtering can increase fluctuation in the encoded LFN stimulus. Experiment 2 tested gap detection for 200-Hz-wide noise bands centered on 2000 Hz, using high-pass maskers to examine spread of excitation effects. Such effects were absent or minor for random noise markers and the 40-dB-SPL LFN markers. In contrast, some high-pass maskers substantially worsened performance for the 75-dB-SPL LFN markers. These results were consistent with an interpretation that relatively acute gap detection for the high-level LFN gap markers resulted from spread of excitation to higher-frequency auditory filters where the magnitude and phase characteristics of the LFN stimuli are better preserved.
$K\toπν\barν$ and $ε'/ε$ in Simplified New Physics Models
Creators: name: Buras, Andrzej J.
name: Buttazzo, Dario
name: Knegjens, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decays $K^+\toπ^+ν\barν$ and $K_L\toπ^0ν\barν$, being the theoretically cleanest rare decays of mesons, are very sensitive probes of New Physics. In view of the excellent prospects of reaching the Standard Model sensitivity for $K^+\toπ^+ν\barν$ by the NA62 experiment at CERN and for $K_L\toπ^0ν\barν$ by the KOTO experiment at J-PARC, we study them in the simplest extensions of the SM in which stringent correlations between these two decays and other flavour observables are present. We first consider simple models with tree-level Z and Z' contributions in which either MFV or a $U(2)^3$ symmetry is imposed on the quark flavour-violating couplings. We then compare the resulting correlations with those present in generic models in which the latter couplings are arbitrary, subject to constraints from $ΔF=2$ processes, electroweak and collider data. Of particular interest are the correlations with $ε'/ε$ and $K_L\toμ^+μ^-$ which limit the size of NP contributions to $K^+\toπ^+ν\barν$ and $K_L\toπ^0ν\barν$, depending on the Dirac structure of couplings and the relevant operators. But in MFV also the constraint from $B_s\toμ^+μ^-$ turns out to be important. We take into account the recent results from lattice QCD and large N approach that indicate $ε'/ε$ in the SM to be significantly below the data. While in many models the enhancement of $ε'/ε$ implies a suppression of $K_L\toπ^0ν\barν$, we present two models in which these observables can be simultaneously enhanced relative to SM predictions. A correlation between $K^+\toπ^+ν\barν$ and $B\to K(K^*)μ^+μ^-$, found by us in the simple models considered here, should be of interest for NA62 and LHCb experimentalists at CERN in the coming years. The one with $B\to K(K^*)ν\barν$ will be tested at Belle II.
description: 32 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. v2: updated analysis in section 4, matches version published in JHEP