cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Long-range Acoustic Interactions in Insect Swarms: An Adaptive Gravity Model
Creators: name: Gorbonos, Dan
name: Ianconescu, Reuven
name: Puckett, James G.
name: Ni, Rui
name: Ouellette, Nicholas T.
name: Gov, Nir S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The collective motion of groups of animals emerges from the net effect of the interactions between individual members of the group. In many cases, such as birds, fish, or ungulates, these interactions are mediated by sensory stimuli that predominantly arise from nearby neighbors. But not all stimuli in animal groups are short range. Here, we consider mating swarms of midges, which interact primarily via long-range acoustic stimuli. We exploit the similarity in form between the decay of acoustic and gravitational sources to build a model for swarm behavior. By accounting for the adaptive nature of the midges' acoustic sensing, we show that our "adaptive gravity" model makes mean-field predictions that agree well with experimental observations of laboratory swarms. Our results highlight the role of sensory mechanisms and interaction range in collective animal behavior. The adaptive interactions that we present here open a new class of equations of motion, which may appear in other biological contexts.
description: 25 pages, 15 figures
Chitosan Acetate Coagulation as a Cloth Filter Aid for Improving Drinking Water Quality
Creators: name: Oza, Hemali
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1.8 billion people use fecally contaminated drinking-water sources worldwide. Although there has been increased attention to drinking-water quality and treatment, the WHO still estimates over two million annual deaths are due to diarrheal disease caused by consumption of fecally contaminated water. Cloth is often used in many South Asian communities as a water filtration method. Since the cloth is composed of tightly woven threads, some contaminants are prevented from passing through the filter, making the cloth a potentially effective way to improve water sanitization. Many pathogenic viruses, however, are too small to be sufficiently filtered out. Chitosan is a biodegradable polymer derived from treatment of chitin, found in the exoskeletons of crustaceans. When added to water, chitosan acts as a coagulant to accumulate and agglomerate particles in the water and thereby facilitate the filtration of viruses and other contaminants. Chitosan precipitates the microbes, forming large particles that can then be readily filtered out. The goal of this project is to determine the extent to which the combination of cloth as a filtration device and chitosan as a coagulant will improve water quality. Although there was an increase in microbial reduction resulting from the use of both pre-treatment with 35mg/L of chitosan acetate as a coagulant and 12 layers of a 100% cotton cloth filter compared to the microbial reduction that resulted from filtration alone, it was not enough to meet even the lowest target level of protection (one-star) set by WHO. Filtration in combination with 35 mg/L of chitosan acetate also was not able to remove turbidity to levels below 1 NTU, which is the turbidity standard for US EPA and the guideline value set by the World Health Organization (See raw turbidity and pH levels in Tables 3-8 in appendix). The use of other filtration media such as microporous ceramic filters along with chitosan coagulation is more effective for virus removal from water, based on previous studies.
"Black Humor" in modern Europe : freedom of speech v. racist hate speech. Or where is the line for racist humor?
Creators: name: Leskova, Anastasia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: freedom of speech
hate speech
racism
Europe

description: Second semester University: University of Seville
description: In this work, I will consider the question of possible limits for racist humour and it’s controversy with freedom of expression.First, I will lay out the philosophical landscape concerning theories of racist humour and racism, as well as consider main human rights theories of freedom of expression and it’s restrictions. Next, I will examine the relevant international, regional legal instruments trying to depict those that possibly can regulate racist humour. Trying to understand the way courts took when applying international and national norms concerning hate speech or derogatory racist humour, I will analyse current case law of European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice of the European Union. Finally, I will conclude with evaluations concerning conducted social experiment as part of this work and point out the existing sociological theories of racist humour.
Mode Selection, Resource Allocation and Power Control for D2D-Enabled Two-Tier Cellular Network
Creators: name: Huang, Yifei
name: Nasir, Ali A.
name: Durrani, Salman
name: Zhou, Xiangyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a centralized decision making framework at the macro base station (MBS) for device to device (D2D) communication underlaying a two-tier cellular network. We consider a D2D pair in the presence of an MBS and a femto access point, each serving a user, with quality of service constraints for all users. Our proposed solution encompasses mode selection (choosing between cellular or reuse or dedicated mode), resource allocation (in cellular and dedicated mode) and power control (in reuse mode) within a single framework. The framework prioritizes D2D dedicated mode if the D2D pair are close to each other and orthogonal resources are available. Otherwise, it allows D2D reuse mode if the D2D satisfies both the maximum distance and an additional interference criteria. For reuse mode, we present a geometric vertex search approach to solve the power allocation problem. We analytically prove the validity of this approach and show that it achieves near optimal performance. For cellular and dedicated modes, we show that frequency sharing maximizes sum rate and solve the resource allocation problem in closed form. Our simulations demonstrate the advantages of the proposed framework in terms of the performance gains achieved in D2D mode.
description: Submitted for possible journal publication
Elaphoglossum delasotae Mickel, Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum delasotae

description: Elaphoglossum delasotae Mickel, Brittonia 45(3): 216. 1993. (Fig. 15A–G)
 Range: — Colombia; Peru and Bolivia (CO, LP, SC).
 Ecology: —Common; epiphytic and terrestrial in humid forests; 1550–2650 m.
 Notes: — The scales on the costae abaxially are darkened medially with lighter borders, but the scales on the abaxial surface of the blades are whitish and darkened only at the point of attachment, if at all. Specimens from Colombia (type locality) have broader, more lanceolate scales on the abaxial surfaces of the sterile blades and may not be conspecific with the Bolivian specimens.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
MP.2018.898.Haverkamp
Creators: name: Carlsson, Rickard
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Meta-Psychology
subject: Submission

description: Submission to Meta-Psychology. Contains the full history, including all correspondence, decisions, reviews, revisions etc. Anyone can participate in peer review directly at this OSF project page, by sending the editor an email, or through discussion on social media. The preferred way of open commenting, however, is to use the hypothes.is integration at PsyArxiv and directly comment on the PDF there.
Navigating Educational Planning and Policy Challenges in Nigeria: A Holistic Approach for Sustainable Development
Creators: name: IMOH, Simon Iruoghene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nigerian education system, sustainable development, curriculum reform,teacher training, technology integration, community engagement, access to education,monitoring and evaluation

description: The education system in Nigeria plays a role in driving developmental and societal progress as well as contributing to economic growth and national development. However, it faces challenges that hinder its ability to reach its potential. This research paper focuses on the state of Nigeria's education system, analyzes the obstacles it faces and proposes an approach to addressing these challenges. The suggested approach encompasses aspects such as; improving funding and resource allocation, recognizing the crucial role of well trained and motivated teachers in creating a positive learning environment, fostering community involvement and parental engagement, ensuring inclusivity and access to education for all, implementing effective monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to assess the impact of educational policies and interventions... This paper presents a road map for navigating the planning and policy challenges in Nigeria's education sector by adopting an approach that addresses funding issues, curriculum reform, teacher training, technology integration, community engagement, inclusivity measures well as implementing robust monitoring systems. Nigeria can overcome its educational hurdles and promote sustainable development. It is essential for government entities, educational institutions, communities and parents to collaborate closely in order to realize this vision of transforming the education system into one that paves the way for a future of Nigerian children while benefiting society as a whole.
CONSTRUCTION DELAYS OF BUILDING REPAIR PROJECT AFTER THAILAND'S 2011 MAJOR FLOOD: CASE STUDY OF EDUCATIONAL GOVERNMENT SECTORS
Creators: name: Chaisak Pisitpaibool
Publisher: name: TUENGR Group
Year: 2018
Subjects: Repair delay
Building repair
Major flood
As-planned schedule
Construction delay
As-built schedule
Repair management

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 9, 4, 239-252
The Event Horizon Telescope journey from the Earth to the heart of the Milky Way
Creators: name: Lico, Rocco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this talk I will provide a review of the science process, imaging analysis and theoretical interpretation that led to the publication of the first Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*. These EHT 1.3mm observations, carried out in 2017, allowed us to resolve the compact emission region and to reveal a morphology dominated by a bright and thick ring with a central dark depression, the so-called black hole shadow, with a diameter of ~52uas. As supported by a comprehensive suite of numerical simulations, the observed brightness distribution and morphology are consistent with the expected appearance of a ~4.3 million solar masses Kerr black hole viewed at low inclination (<50deg).
A Multidimensional Analysis of the Structure and Function of The C-Terminal Region of The Microtubule Polymerase, Minispindles
Creators: name: Saway, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Microtubules (MTs) are highly dynamic polymers that provide tracks for cargo transport within the cell, establish cell polarity, aid in cell motility, and form the mitotic spindle. MTs are nucleated from centrosomes and their plus ends exhibit dynamic instability. These dynamics are tightly regulated by Microtubule Associated Proteins (MAPs). One MAP family of particular interest is the highly conserved XMAP-215 family of polymerases.  Members of the XMAP-215 family contain a varying number of N-terminal hexa-HEAT repeats known as TOG (tumor over-expressed gene) domains that bind to tubulin heterodimers.  Minispindles (Msps), the XMAP-215 Drosophila homologue, localizes to MT plus ends to enhance MT polymerization and regulate the mitotic spindle morphology. While much of Msps’s structure has been solved, the vital C-terminal region structure and function remains a mystery. Furthermore, the C-terminal region of Msps may contain an additional 6th TOG domain. To determine the cellular role of this domain we utilized live cell fluorescent microscopy, immunohistochemistry, and mutagenesis assays to test the hypothesis that the hypothesized 6th TOG domain of Msps is necessary for functional MT polymerization and mitotic spindle assembly. Depletion of endogenous Msps and subsequent expression of a truncated Msps construct lacking the proposed 6th TOG Domain results in aberrant localization of the Msps protein, significantly slower MT growth velocities, and abnormal spindle phenotypes. This proposed 6th TOG domain contains highly conserved residues, which we hypothesize are required for Msps localization and function.  To test this hypothesis we will generate a suite of constructs that have key conserved residues mutated and test which lesions phenocopy deletion of the entire domain.
The rise of digital authoritarianism: is the internet to be blamed?
Creators: name: Azelmat, Marwa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: internet
authoritarianism
democracy
policy
technology

description: Second semester University: Queen's University, Belfast
description: The last decade has been battered by growing concerns about the rise of digital authoritarianism. The ever-increasing number of human rights breaches and the global decline in democracy is alarming. The rationale behind this study is to find out who is to be deemed liable. While a legal framework that accommodate the digital infrastructure is yet to be established, this research looks at the shifts in structure, practices and behavior between the internet and authoritarianism through data analysis, comparative-based and theory-based approaches. The findings suggest that as long as there is concentration of all powers by the state, it is unlikely that the internet would aid democratic consolidation, unless there is a strong resistance to shake the public institutions, nurture individual agency and call for collective collaboration. To achieve such a level of resilience, the research recommends to lift the lid on the shifts between technology and policy in order to grasp the reality of digital authoritarianism.
Progress toward high-Q perfect absorption: A Fano antilaser
Creators: name: Yu, Sunkyu
name: Piao, Xianji
name: Hong, Jiho
name: Park, Namkyoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we propose a route to the high-Q perfect absorption of light by introducing the concept of a Fano anti-laser. Based on the drastic spectral variation of the optical phase in a Fano-resonant system, a spectral singularity for scatter-free perfect absorption can be achieved with an order of magnitude smaller material loss. By applying temporal coupled mode theory to a Fano-resonant waveguide platform, we reveal that the required material loss and following absorption Q-factor are ultimately determined by the degree of Fano spectral asymmetry. The feasibility of the Fano anti-laser is confirmed using a photonic crystal platform, to demonstrate spatio-spectrally selective heating. Our results utilizing the phase-dependent control of device bandwidths derive a counterintuitive realization of high-Q perfect conversion of light into internal energy, and thus pave the way for a new regime of absorption-based devices, including switches, sensors, thermal imaging, and opto-thermal emitters.
Hidden from view: Coupled Dark Sector Physics and Small Scales
Creators: name: Elahi, Pascal J.
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
name: Power, Chris
name: Carlesi, Edoardo
name: Knebe, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study cluster mass dark matter haloes, their progenitors and surroundings in an coupled Dark Matter-Dark Energy model and compare it to quintessence and $Λ$CDM models with adiabatic zoom simulations. When comparing cosmologies with different expansions histories, growth functions & power spectra, care must be taken to identify unambiguous signatures of alternative cosmologies. Shared cosmological parameters, such as $σ_8$, need not be the same for optimal fits to observational data. We choose to set our parameters to $Λ$CDM $z=0$ values. We find that in coupled models, where DM decays into DE, haloes appear remarkably similar to $Λ$CDM haloes despite DM experiencing an additional frictional force. Density profiles are not systematically different and the subhalo populations have similar mass, spin, and spatial distributions, although (sub)haloes are less concentrated on average in coupled cosmologies. However, given the scatter in related observables ($V_{\rm max},R_{V_{\rm max}}$), this difference is unlikely to distinguish between coupled and uncoupled DM. Observations of satellites of MW and M31 indicate a significant subpopulation reside in a plane. Coupled models do produce planar arrangements of satellites of higher statistical significance than $Λ$CDM models, however, in all models these planes are dynamically unstable. In general, the nonlinear dynamics within and near large haloes masks the effects of a coupled dark sector. The sole environmental signature we find is that small haloes residing in the outskirts are more deficient in baryons than their $Λ$CDM counterparts. The lack of a pronounced signal for a coupled dark sector strongly suggests that such a phenomena would be effectively hidden from view.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Labelling to corn fed cattle which influences right to health : freedom of choice for consumers
Creators: name: Lee, Seungyoung
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: agriculture
food
health
right to health

description: Second semester University: Queen’s University Belfast
description: Modern food production performed intensive way to extract maximum outcome. Especially, meat production is combined with cultivation of feed crops thus its destructive influence is not just limited to animal welfare. Although there are many sectors, which ruin health and environment, this paper focused on the corn-feeding system in the meat production. Fattening herbivore livestock with intensive grain deteriorates environment, animal welfare and human health. Indeed, modern meat production is fragile to defense epidemic disease. Mad cow disease and hormone fed cattle are the case outbreak recently in the modern meat production. Meat production is not safe from the GMOs controversial since it can be used for animal feed. European Union and WTO have considered food safety problem which increasingly controversial. Newly introduced technology make future unpredictable thus decision making process became maze. Above all, introducing restriction measurement became carrying thin ice since it could be a breach of free-trade rule. Therefore, balanced perception between food safety and free trade can be found by case study concerning meat product in EU and WTO. Although the government can make regulation in the meat production, without consumer’s action, new regulation is hard to achieve. Therefore, corn-fed labelling can empower the consumer as a citizen who has a stake of health and ethical concern. Thus, this paper would search feasible labelling scheme to protect consumer’s right.
MS Gr. class. c. 7 1634
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 817 fr. A 13 fr. A 14 fr. A 15. Carmen de bello Actiaco
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Elaphoglossum didymoglossoides C. Chr., Bot. Tidsskr.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum didymoglossoides

description: Elaphoglossum didymoglossoides C.Chr., Bot. Tidsskr. 26: 299. 1904. (Fig. 52C)
 Range: — Peru and Bolivia (CO, LP); southeastern Brazil.
 Ecology: —Locally fairly common; saxicolous on steep, mossy rock banks, usually in hidden places not directly exposed to rain, in humid forests; 1200–2100 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
A Nursing Tool to Promote Patient- and Family-Centered Care in Adult Critical Care: The Family Care Assessment
Creators: name: Vaughan, Ashley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Families of critical care patients experience stress that negatively impacts the family’s
well-being and impedes the family’s ability to support the patient (Horn & Tesh, 2000). The
patient- and family-centered care (PFCC) model emphasizes the importance of mutually beneficial
partnerships among health care providers, patients and families, and one of the core components of
PFCC is family participation (Institute for Patient and Family-Centered Care, 2010). Research
indicates that involving families in providing care to critically ill patients is an effective way
to meet family needs and reduce stress (Al Mutair, Plummer, O’Brien, & Clerehan, 2013).
Additionally, evidence suggests that critical care nurses, families of critical care patients, and
critical care patients themselves all support family participation in patient care
(Garrouste-Orgeas et al, 2010). Critical care nurses are in a unique position to lead
interventions to meet family needs by promoting family involvement in care. The Family Care
Assessment is a tool that critical care nurses can use to assess the family’s desire to become
active participants in patient care. I created this tool after conducting a review of the literature
on nursing care of families of critical care patients which revealed a need for specific
interventions to facilitate nurses in caring for families. The purpose of the Family Care Assessment
is to facilitate a positive and productive relationship between the nurse and family, with the
ultimate goal of supporting the family and improving patient care.
Breaking integrability at the boundary: the sine-Gordon model with Robin boundary conditions
Creators: name: Arthur, Robert
name: Dorey, Patrick
name: Parini, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore boundary scattering in the sine-Gordon model with a non-integrable family of Robin boundary conditions. The soliton content of the field after collision is analysed using a numerical implementation of the direct scattering problem associated with the inverse scattering method. We find that an antikink may be reflected into various combinations of an antikink, a kink, and one or more breathers, depending on the values of the initial antikink velocity and a parameter associated with the boundary condition. In addition we observe regions with an intricate resonance structure arising from the creation of an intermediate breather whose recollision with the boundary is highly dependent on the breather phase.
description: v3: typos fixed in Journal of Physics A, Volume 49, Number 16, 2016
Protection of civilians in the context of UN peacekeeping: lessons learned from South Sudan
Creators: name: Kapelet, Ana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: civilian population
peace keeping
United Nations
South Sudan

description: Second semester University: University of Seville.
description: The main questions this study aims to answer are: Firstly, to what extent have lessons learned from the protection of civilians in the past been implemented in the case of United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS); and secondly, what are the challenges related to civilian protection that UN peacekeeping operations are facing in general, and in particular - the UNMISS. The primary objective is to analyse the efficiency of modern UN peacekeeping operations in protecting civilians and identify gaps and tensions in the protection agenda. To that end, the study defines peacekeeping and compares traditional first-generation peacekeeping to modern multidimensional peacekeeping operations. Furthermore, the study discusses the reform in peacekeeping and evolution of the concept of civilian protection. The final focus of this study is to analyse the effectiveness of protection provided to the most vulnerable groups (women, children, refugees and IDPs) from both legal and practical aspects. After assessing the effectiveness of civilian protection in the case of UNMISS, the conclusion presents a look ahead at what are some of the remaining challenges that need to be address and provides suggestions on how to improve the effectiveness of civilian protection.
Dynamical Complexity in the C.elegans Neural Network
Creators: name: Antonopoulos, Chris G.
name: Fokas, Athanasios S.
name: Bountis, Tassos C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the neuronal circuit of the C.elegans soil worm in terms of Hindmarsh-Rose systems of ordinary differential equations, dividing its circuit into six communities pointed out by the walktrap and Louvain methods. Using the numerical solution of these equations, we analyze important measures of dynamical complexity, namely synchronicity, the largest Lyapunov exponent, and the $Φ_{\mbox{AR}}$ auto-regressive integrated information theory measure, which has been suggested to reflect different levels of consciousness. We show that $Φ_{\mbox{AR}}$ provides a useful measure of the information contained in the C.elegans brain dynamic network. Our analysis reveals that the C.elegans brain dynamic network generates more information than the sum of its constituent parts, and that attains higher levels of integrated information for couplings for which either all its communities are highly synchronized, or there is a mixed state of highly synchronized and desynchronized communities. Both situations are characterized by relatively low chaotic behavior.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
The commercial sexual exploitation of children as a cruel childrens rights abuse: the case study of Thailand
Creators: name: Joksic, Tijana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: children
Thailand
sexual exploitation

description: Second semester University: Queen's University Belfast.
description: Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) constitutes a form of coercion and violence against children and amounts to forced labour and a contemporary form of slavery. It’s most recognized forms consist of child prostitution, child pornography, the sale of children for the sexual purposes, and child sex tourism. An estimated one million children, mainly girls but also a significant number of boys, enter this multi-billion dollar commercial sex trade every year, suffering degradation and life-threatening risk. To date, Southeast Asia recruits an increasing number of children on a daily basis and has become the area in the world where the greatest amount of child sexual exploitation occurs. However, it is Thailand that is very often referred to as “Sex-Capital-of-the-World,” “haven for organized sex tours” or “the world biggest brothel” and has been traditionally connected to child sex tourism. Therefore, I embarked on to puzzle out why this was happening in Thailand so that it persisted throughout decades with the assumption that situation has improved since harmonization of law. Finally, I have adopted a positivist approach and conducted desk research, which comprised of collecting, analyzing and interpreting already existing data, which has led me to conclusion that there was whole mixture of factors that kept the phenomenon running in the country throughout decades. After having those factors identified I have strived to see if there was some progress made within the last two decades, i.e. if Thailand has adopted proper legislation in order to eradicate CSEC.
MS Gr. class. c. 7 1635
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 817 col. 1 (left-hand side). Carmen de bello Actiaco
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Effects of Feedback Latency on P300-based Brain-computer Interface
Creators: name: Arvaneh, Mahnaz
name: Ward, Tomas E.
name: Robertson, Ian H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Feedback has been shown to affect performance when using a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) based on sensorimotor rhythms. In contrast, little is known about the influence of feedback on P300-based BCIs. There is still an open question whether feedback affects the regulation of P300 and consequently the operation of P300-based BCIs. In this paper, for the first time, the influence of feedback on the P300-based BCI speller task is systematically assessed. For this purpose, 24 healthy participants performed the classic P300-based BCI speller task, while only half of them received feedback. Importantly, the number of flashes per letter was reduced on a regular basis in order to increase the frequency of providing feedback. Experimental results showed that feedback could significantly improve the P300-based BCI speller performance, if it was provided in short time intervals (e.g. in sequences as short as 4 to 6 flashes per row/column). Moreover, our offline analysis showed that providing feedback remarkably enhanced the relevant ERP patterns and attenuated the irrelevant ERP patterns, such that the discrimination between target and nontarget EEG trials increased.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE EMBC 2015
Human rights and Islam : contesting universal truth claims?
Creators: name: Bertelsen, Simon
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: human rights
Islam
religion
constructivism
history

description: Second semester University: Université du Luxembourg
description: Building on Berger and Luckmann’s social constructivism, this dissertation investigates human rights and Islam as two opposing meaning systems that both claim universal validity in their ability to define morality. By comparing the world perceptions that emanate from human rights and Islam as institutional entities, it finds that both of these universal truth claims are historical products, which both use similar methods of legitimation to authorize their truth claims. Implicitly, this constructivist approach challenges the universality that both human rights and Islam claim, and it poses the provocative question, whether human rights should be seen as a ‘religion of modernity’ that is essentially rooted in ‘faith’ or ‘belief’ in human dignity and not in rationality. It equally finds that Islam, as a mythological system, seems to be at odds with human rights in many underlying anthropological and cosmological fashions, but that their agreement on the existence of a universal moral code establishes strong possibilities for compatibility, why any claim of human rights and Islam as inevitably at odds with each other should be dismissed altogether. Keywords: Human rights; Islam; universality; religion; relativism; social constructivism; history; modernity; cosmology; mythology; enlightenment
The Chow ring of a Fulton-MacPherson compactification
Creators: name: Petersen, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a short proof of a presentation of the Chow ring of the Fulton-MacPherson compactification of n points on an algebraic variety. The result can be found already in Fulton and MacPherson's original paper. However, there is an error in one of the lemmas used in their proof. In the process we also determine the Chow rings of weighted Fulton--MacPherson compactifications.
description: 7 pages
Order Effects in Evidence Chains
Creators: name: Hahn, Ulrike
name: Phillips, Kirsty
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The testimony of others is an essential source of information about the world. Yet little is known about how testimony shapes our beliefs. How accurately do individuals revise their beliefs in light of testimony? Work in forensic psychology suggests that individuals make erroneous conclusions based on testimonial evidence, with significant consequences, yet little systematic exploration of testimony has been conducted; in particular, little has been focused directly on what people ought to do. In this paper, we examine evidence chains where a source reports on a piece of evidence. Specifically, we examine how a simple feature of such chains, namely where in the chain more or less reliable elements are located, affects the overall evidential value. We show both how people’s actual reasoning and informal rules proposed for such evaluation in the literature are prone to systematic error.
Meaning of temperature in different thermostatistical ensembles
Creators: name: Hänggi, Peter
name: Hilbert, Stefan
name: Dunkel, Jörn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Depending on the exact experimental conditions, the thermodynamic properties of physical systems can be related to one or more thermostatistical ensembles. Here, we survey the notion of thermodynamic temperature in different statistical ensembles, focusing in particular on subtleties that arise when ensembles become non-equivalent. The 'mother' of all ensembles, the microcanonical ensemble, uses entropy and internal energy (the most fundamental, dynamically conserved quantity) to derive temperature as a secondary thermodynamic variable. Over the past century, some confusion has been caused by the fact that several competing microcanonical entropy definitions are used in the literature, most commonly the volume and surface entropies introduced by Gibbs. It can be proved, however, that only the volume entropy satisfies exactly the traditional form of the laws of thermodynamics for a broad class of physical systems, including all standard classical Hamiltonian systems, regardless of their size. This mathematically rigorous fact implies that negative 'absolute' temperatures and Carnot efficiencies $>1$ are not achievable within a standard thermodynamical framework. As an important offspring of microcanonical thermostatistics, we shall briefly consider the canonical ensemble and comment on the validity of the Boltzmann weight factor. We conclude by addressing open mathematical problems that arise for systems with discrete energy spectrum.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
Assessing Factors Associated with Option B+ Initiation, Retention, and Infant Follow Up in Lilongwe, Malawi
Creators: name: Hauser, Blake M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Background: Malawi launched Option B+ in July 2011, a program for all pregnant or
breastfeeding HIV-positive women to begin lifelong combination antiretroviral therapy (cART).
This study characterizes the continuum of care within an antenatal setting in Lilongwe.
Methods: Women testing HIV-positive at Bwaila Antenatal Clinic from July 2013 to January
2014 were included. HIV testing and counseling logs were examined, and HIV-infected women
were linked to HIV mastercards and infant test records. Logistic regression models were used to
analyze relationships between characteristics recorded on the logs and maternal cART initiation,
retention, and return for infant testing.
Results: During this period, 578 women tested HIV-positive. Of these women, 490 (85%) were
linked to an ART initiation record; of these women, 398 (81%) had at least one follow-up record;
and of these women, 197 (49%) were retained with full adherence to antiretroviral therapy for
three months. Two hundred twenty (38%) were linked to a record of infant testing. Women
without an ART record (aOR = 0.19; 95% CI: 0.10, 0.35), women with no follow-up visits (aOR
= 0.20; 95% CI: 0.11, 0.36), and women not fully adherent for three months (aOR = 0.56; 95%
CI: 0.37, 0.84) were less likely to return for infant testing than women who were retained and
adherent for three months.
Discussion: Even with a test-and-treat program, many women did not initiate cART, remain in
care, or bring their infant for testing. Women lost are at highest risk for transmission and were
least likely to bring infants for testing. Facilitating care-seeking at all steps of the continuum
remains an important unmet need. Ensuring maternal health has the potential to make major
contributions towards maintaining environmental health, thus augmenting the importance of this
research.
تدوین مدل خوانش گرافیک مبلمان شهری با تاکید برارتقاءحس مکان
Publisher: name: دانشگاه کردستان
Year: 2022

description: با توجه به آنکه زندگی در دنیای امروز به ویژه در کلان شهرها که از اجتماعات متعدد سیاسی، اقتصادی، فرهنگی و... تشکیل شده است، انسان نیاز فزاینده به هنر گرافیک محیطی را بیشتر احساس می کند تا زندگی افراد را قدری تسهیل کند. در دوران کنونی در حوزة گرافیک محیطی، توجه به گرافیک محیطی و خلق تجربه های نو در جهت القاء حس مکان، اهمیت چندانی داده نشده است و گرافیک محیطی در این عرصه با سکون و بی تحرکی روبه روست و این امر ناشی از عدم شناخت و پرداخت کافی به آن در پژوهش های راهبردی است. از این رو پژوهش حاضر با استفاده از روش تحقیق کیفی- کمی از نوع توصیفی- پیمایشی و ابزار کتابخانه ای و میدانی (پرسشنامه و مشاهده) و استفاده از آزمون فریدمن و تحلیل محتوا به دنبال رهیافت به هدف اصلی پژوهش تدوین مدل خوانش گرافیک مبلمان شهری با تاکید بر ارتقاء حس مکان در منطقه 2 شهر قزوین می باشد. سرانجام نتایج پژوهش حاکی از آن است که میان مولفه تناسبات و ترکیبات رنگی با خوانش گرافیک محیطی ار تباطی دوسویه وقوی برقرار است. ضمنا عناصر و مصالح مبلمان شهری در این منطقه، برتری نسبت به یکدیگر ندارد، از این رو مکانی مناسب را برای مردمان فراهم می نماید. بنابراین در جمع بندی کلی می توان بیان نمود که گرافیک بکار رفته در مبلمان شهری منطقه دو شهر قزوین از قبیل: رنگ، فرم، ساختار، نقوش و نورپردازی های انجام شده با توجه به آنکه هماهنگ با بستر خود هستند و از رنگ ها و فرم های پویا و جذاب استفاده نموده اند، به خوبی توانسته است سبب ایجاد حس مکان در شهروندان شوند؛ ضمن آنکه در میان عناصر مبلمان شهری در ایجاد حس مکان عنصر صندلی و مکان های نشستن همراه با المان های میادین، بیشترین نقش را دارا هستند
Elaphoglossum haynaldii Losch, Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum haynaldii

description: Elaphoglossum haynaldii (Sodiro) Losch, Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 1: 21. 1950. (Fig. 20A–E)
 Range: — Ecuador to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Uncommon; epiphytic in humid forests; 1400–2600 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
The underworld of the United Nations peacekeeping operations : a European Court of Human Rights perspective
Creators: name: Delapeta, Ioana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: peace keeping
peacekeeping forces

description: Second semester University: University of Helsinki.
description: The image of the UN began to be tainted in the past 20 years due to numerous allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation committed by personnel related to its peacekeeping operations.The current study briefly assessed the measures undertook by the organization in order to address the issue, as well as those took by its member states, the former having proved to be inefficient up until now, mostly because of their non-legally binding effect and the latter failing, troop-contributing countries having a very poor record of investigating and prosecuting perpetrators. The core of this paper was to explore alternative solutions to this problem. As such, its main purpose was to ascertain if through the ECtHR’s past and future case-law it would be possible to pressure the members of CoE to either proceed to effective investigations and prosecutions of their nationals involved in similar allegations, or to adapt, when needed, their laws accordingly. Court’s principles such as dual attribution of conduct and positive obligations of states were succinctly addressed, the focal point being the extraterritorial application of the ECHR to similar cases, our case study having been done on the situation related to Frech Sangaris Forces in Central African Republic.
"Step-Therapy" Prescription: How does it affect providers who treat rheumatoid arthritis?
Creators: name: Hamby, Victoria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: While many studies have examined the impact of step-therapy on the quality of care patients receive, few have examined reduced physician autonomy due to step-therapy or provider agreement with proposed exemption processes for step-therapy. This study will focus on understanding the impact of step-therapy on provider perceptions on cost, quality, autonomy, and job satisfaction among providers of rheumatoid arthritis treatments in North Carolina.  
Research Questions:
1.  Do providers believe step-therapy reduces costs by changing the prescribing decisions of providers?
2.  Does step-therapy influence providers’ perceived ability to provide quality care?
3.  Does step-therapy reduce provider autonomy and thus reduce provider job satisfaction?
4.  Do state policy makers have the ability to reduce the impacts providers face due to step-therapy?
Children's right to education : challenges to female education in Northern Ghana. Case study: Savelugu-Nanton district
Creators: name: Amabo, Cecilia Binwi
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: right to education
women
equal opportunities
Ghana
Savelugu-Nanton
children rights

description: Second semester University: University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin
description: This thesis got its premise from the high illiteracy rate and educational challenges affecting female children in the northern part of Ghana especially within the Savelugu-Nanton district. In effect, it analysis the various barriers to female education in this district and the consequences on the child’s development and the society in general. The paper present the importance of children’s right to education and the international instruments mainstreaming the right to education. It also provide an overview of both national and international legal documents protecting and promoting female education. The thesis introduces the socio-economic, socio-cultural and developmental impediments that pose as major challenges to female education within the Savelugu-Nanton district. The cultural mindset that devalue female education are all discussed at length. The paper further explains how these factors have promoted increase female school drop-out and their effects on the girl child. The Thesis also aim to highlight the vicious circle surrounding female education caused by harmful traditional practices, religion and ancestral values hence it eventually illustrate the economic implications of denying a female child education and the benefits of educating and empowering women to national growth. Also for a better comprehension of the barriers, data was collected from a cross section of actors within the district to generate more inside on these challenges The study therefore recommend vigorous sensitization on the negative effects of these socio-cultural factors by the government and NGOs and the removal of all forms of levies in basic schools as well as strict enforcement of the Free Compulsory Basic Education policy by the government as recognized in international education instruments. With the government’s complete implementation of policies and fulfilment of its obligation to achieve gender equality in education, such acts go a long way to improve access to basic education in the Northern Region of Ghana and Savelugu-Nanton District in particular.
Filter Bank Common Spatial Patterns in Mental Workload Estimation
Creators: name: Arvaneh, Mahnaz
name: Umilta, Alberto
name: Robertson, Ian H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: EEG-based workload estimation technology provides a real time means of assessing mental workload. Such technology can effectively enhance the performance of the human-machine interaction and the learning process. When designing workload estimation algorithms, a crucial signal processing component is the feature extraction step. Despite several studies on this field, the spatial properties of the EEG signals were mostly neglected. Since EEG inherently has a poor spacial resolution, features extracted individually from each EEG channel may not be sufficiently efficient. This problem becomes more pronounced when we use low-cost but convenient EEG sensors with limited stability which is the case in practical scenarios. To address this issue, in this paper, we introduce a filter bank common spatial patterns algorithm combined with a feature selection method to extract spatio-spectral features discriminating different mental workload levels. To evaluate the proposed algorithm, we carry out a comparative analysis between two representative types of working memory tasks using data recorded from an Emotiv EPOC headset which is a mobile low-cost EEG recording device. The experimental results showed that the proposed spatial filtering algorithm outperformed the state-of-the algorithms in terms of the classification accuracy.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE EMBC 2015