cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Seniors’ participation in community planning : the relevance and effectiveness of a seniors’ outreach process
Creators: name: Rowe-Evans, Elinor Annwen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis explores the topic of seniors' participation in community planning. More specifically, it addresses the importance and relevance of including seniors, seniors' issues, and seniors' perspectives in community planning efforts, the circumstances under which seniors are most likely to become involved in community planning efforts, and guidelines for a practical process to encourage effective seniors' participation in developing local community plans. To address these issues, the thesis includes a review of the planning literature on public participation, a brief summary of relevant trends in gerontological literature, and an examination of the small amount of literature on seniors' participation in community planning. Two case studies in the District of North Vancouver, BC, "Seniors and the Lynn Valley Plan" and the "Seymour Local Plan Seniors' Forums," provide an example of a particular seniors' outreach process. This process is analysed for its effectiveness in including seniors, seniors' issues, and seniors' perspectives in local community plans and then factors influencing effectiveness are examined. This thesis reveals that the inclusion of seniors, seniors' issues, and seniors' perspectives engenders more accurate planning, increases acceptance of community plans, exercises democratic rights and duties, and promotes self-sufficiency and self-worth in individuals and communities. Seniors are most likely to become involved in community planning efforts when they feel included: when they feel they are fulfilling a meaningful role, when certain emotional needs are satisfied by the planning process, and when they are able to take advantage of participation opportunities, that is, when aging-related needs are taken into account in designing and implementing planning processes. The process employed in the two cases studied, with certain suggested improvements, is found to be an appropriate and effective method of including seniors, their issues, and their perspectives in community planning efforts.
Testing Closed String Field Theory with Marginal Fields
Creators: name: Yang, Haitang
name: Zwiebach, Barton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the feasibility of level expansion and test the quartic vertex of closed string field theory by checking the flatness of the potential in marginal directions. The tests, which work out correctly, require the cancellation of two contributions: one from an infinite-level computation with the cubic vertex and the other from a finite-level computation with the quartic vertex. The numerical results suggest that the quartic vertex contributions are comparable or smaller than those of level four fields.
description: 14 pages, LaTeX. v2: New references to work of Beccaria and Rampino, and Taylor. Improved numerical analysis at the end of section 4
Decomposable Families of Itemsets
Creators: name: Tatti, Nikolaj
name: Heikinheimo, Hannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of selecting a small, yet high quality subset of patterns from a larger collection of itemsets has recently attracted lot of research. Here we discuss an approach to this problem using the notion of decomposable families of itemsets. Such itemset families define a probabilistic model for the data from which the original collection of itemsets has been derived from. Furthermore, they induce a special tree structure, called a junction tree, familiar from the theory of Markov Random Fields. The method has several advantages. The junction trees provide an intuitive representation of the mining results. From the computational point of view, the model provides leverage for problems that could be intractable using the entire collection of itemsets. We provide an efficient algorithm to build decomposable itemset families, and give an application example with frequency bound querying using the model. Empirical results show that our algorithm yields high quality results.
FORECASTING THE FUTURE FOR TIMBER
Creators: name: Ferguson, Ian S.
name: Ferguson, Ian S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1973
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: For each State a simple two-equation model of demand and supply was fitted to post-war data using two-stage least squares. Prior estimates of the housing coefficient were used to break collinearity problems in the demand function. Price elasticity of demand appears to be high and income elasticity moderate but declining with increasing income. The use of these estimates in forecasting is briefly outlined.
Massive scalar wave packet emission by a charged Black Hole and Cosmic Censorship Conjecture violation
Creators: name: Fernandez, Rodrigo L.
name: Reis, Ribamar R. R.
name: Jorás, Sergio E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the tunneling probability of a massive ($m_w$) uncharged scalar packet out from a near-extremal, static charged black hole (with mass $M$ and charge $Q\lesssim M$). We show that there is indeed a net probability that a massive uncharged particle tunnels out from the black hole so that the final state (with new mass $M'\equiv M-m_w < Q$) does violate the cosmic censorship conjecture. Nevertheless, the typical time for such a black hole to discharge (i.e, to absorb charge $-Q$ from its surroundings and then become neutral) is much smaller than the tunneling time; therefore, the violation is never attained in practice. Even for a completely isolated black hole (should it exist), the standard time dilation near the horizon stretches the typical violation time scale to unobservable values.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
CONNECTING FUNCTIONAL CONSEQUENCES TO CANCER RISK THROUGH CHEK2 VARIANTS
Creators: name: Xudoyberdiyeva, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Protein-truncating variations in the breast cancer susceptibility gene CHEK2 exhibit a moderately heightened risk of breast cancer. In contrast, the associated breast cancer risk for missense variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in CHEK2 often remains ambiguous. To aid in their classification, functional assays assessing the impact of missense VUS on CHK2 protein function have been conducted. This discussion delves into these functional analyses, consistently revealing a connection between impaired protein function and an increased risk of breast cancer. Overall, these findings imply that damaging CHEK2 missense VUS are linked to a breast cancer risk similar to that of protein-truncating variants. This underscores the importance of expanding the functional characterization of CHEK2 missense VUS to gain a deeper understanding of the associated cancer risk.
Systematic Study of Identified Particle Production in PHENIX
Creators: name: Konno, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large enhancement of (anti)protons relative to pions has been observed at intermediate pT $\sim$ 2-5 GeV/c in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC. To investigate the possible source of this baryon enhancement, we performed a systematic study of identified hadron spectra in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV, and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 62.4 GeV. The data set allows us to study the energy dependence and system size dependence of the baryon enhancement. We also compare the nuclear modification factors on hadron production in two different collision systems.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of Quark Matter 2005, Budapest, Hungary, 4-9 Aug. 2005
GELMENTLAR AND THE DISEASES OCCURRING IN PEOPLE THAT PRODUCED THEM
Creators: name: Nazarova, Firuza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: in today's world of men it is one of the most problematic issues with the incidence of gelmintozlar. Today in uzbekistan among the population, especially children at decisive, land-line for all the incidence of the condition with gelmintozlar lifemuch occurs. For this reason eithersh childrens inghaxsiy do not follow the rules of hygiene, wet fruit productsisee they make istemol without a good wash, good pishirilmagan sas sausage andiskalar bodies of the productistem that is the reason.
title: Process Improvements for Direct Reduced Iron Melting in the Electric Arc Furnace with Emphasis on Slag Operation
Creators: name: Kirschen, Marcus
name: Hay, Thomas
name: Echterhof, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: electric arc furnace
subject: direct reduced iron
subject: process model
subject: process improvement
subject: 600
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: Steelmaking based on direct reduced iron (DRI, and its compacted derivative hot briquetted iron, HBI) is an anticipated important global alternative to current steel production based on FeOx reduction in blast furnaces due to its lower specific CO2 emission. The majority of DRI is melted and refined in the electric arc furnace with different process conditions compared to the melting of steel scrap due to its raw material composition being rather different. We provide data and analysis of slag composition of DRI charges vs. steel scrap charges for 16 industrial electric arc furnaces (EAFs). Suggestions for optimized slag operation and resulting process improvements of DRI melting in the EAF are given. A dynamic mass and energy model of the DRI melting in the EAF is introduced to illustrate the implications of the adapted slag operation on the EAF process with DRI charges.
Wetting in mixtures of colloids and excluded-volume polymers from density functional theory
Creators: name: Bryk, Pawel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a microscopic density functional theory based on Wertheim's first order thermodynamic perturbation theory to study wetting behavior of athermal mixtures of colloids and excluded-volume polymers. In opposition to the wetting behavior of the Asakura-Oosawa-Vrij model we find the polymer-rich phase to wet a hard wall. The wetting transition is of the first order and is accompanied by the prewetting transition. We do not find any hints for the layering transitions in the partial wetting regime. Our results resemble the wetting behavior in athermal polymer solutions. We point out that an accurate, monomer-resolved theory for colloid-polymer mixtures should incorporate the correct scaling behavior in the dilute polymer regime and an accurate description of the reference system.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, revised version, at press in J. Chem. Phys
AN EXPERIMENT IN MULTIATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY
Creators: name: Delforce, Robert J.
name: Hardaker, J. Brian
name: Delforce, Robert J.
name: Hardaker, J. Brian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: A version of multiattribute utility theory is evaluated as an aid to social decision making using an Australian case study. A multiattribute utility function is assessed over the descriptive, discrete decision alternatives of the decision problem rather than over the risky consequences of the attributes as in the standard approach. The evaluation is made first from the perspective of the decision analysts as a test of the feasibility of the method, and second, from the perspective of social decision makers as a test of the value of the analysis to them. Several difficulties arose in administering the procedure, and the decision makers were sceptical about the derived prescriptions. Nevertheless, the research findings appear to support the proposition that multiattribute utility theory should be viewed as more than merely a normative device for social decision making by experts.
Raw data from Learning from plant movements triggered by bulliform cells: the biomimetic cellular actuator
Creators: name: Mader, Anja
name: Langer, Max
name: Knippers, Jan
name: Speck, Olga
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 30402 Biomolecular Modelling and Design
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Raw data
BASIS RISK AND HEDGING STRATEGIES FOR AUSTRALIAN WHEAT EXPORTS
Creators: name: Bond, Gary E.
name: Thompson, Stanley R.
name: Geldard, Jane M.
name: Bond, Gary E.
name: Thompson, Stanley R.
name: Geldard, Jane M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Basis risk can play a significant role in the determination of effective hedging strategies. In this paper a portfolio framework is developed to examine the effect of basis risk on hedging strategies for Australian wheat exports. Monthly data for the period 1977 to 1984 were used to implement the analytical framework. While the traditional definition of hedging implies a hedge ratio of unity, the results of this research show that the average ratio of optimal hedge to stockholding is well below unity. Evolving market conditions can also cause the optimal hedge ratio to vary substantially over time.
Transversal and course specific requirements for evaluation methodology of Erasmus+ courses
Creators: name: Dr. De Kool
name: Van Der Schans
name: Van Leeuwen
Publisher: name: AsCOLA
Year: 2023

description: The report “Transversal and course specific requirements for evaluation methodology of Erasmus+ courses” gathers information about the requisites of exchange students concerning course evaluation. It analyses how these needs and restrictions affect their course expectations and subsequent evaluation.

The conclusions were drawn from a short questionnaire aimed at teachers, coordinators and other stakeholders involved in evaluating Erasmus+ mobility experiences. 

This report is one of the deliverables of AsCOLA, a Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project. AsCOLA is an acronym which stands for “Assessing Courses of the Online Learning Agreement”. The project aims to enhance and digitalize the quality framework of Erasmus+ student mobility and contribute to closing the data gap in the quality aspect of higher education transformation.
Conformal characters and the modular representation
Creators: name: Bantay, P.
name: Gannon, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A general procedure is presented to determine, given any suitable representation of the modular group, the characters of all possible Rational Conformal Field Theories whose associated modular representation is the given one. The relevant ideas and methods are illustrated on two non-trivial examples: the Yang-Lee and the Ising models.
description: 17 pages
The automation of robust interatomic-force measurements
Creators: name: Sader, John Elie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interatomic-force measurements are regularly performed using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy. This requires conversion of the observed shift in the resonant frequency of a force-sensing cantilever, to the actual force experienced by its tip. Recently, Sader et al. Nature Nanotechnology 13, 1088 (2018) showed that this force conversion can be unreliable and proposed the inflection point test to identify valid and robust force data. Efficient and user-friendly algorithms are required for its routine practical implementation, which currently do not exist. Here, we (1) advance the theoretical framework of the inflection point test, (2) develop the required efficient algorithms for its complete automation, and (3) demonstrate the utility of this automation by studying two experimental datasets. The principal outcome of this report is the development of user-friendly software that integrates this automation with a standard force conversion methodology. This software provides the enabling technology for practitioners to now seamlessly perform robust nanoscale and interatomic-force measurements.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
CHANGING INSTITUTIONS, PROCESSES AND ISSUES IN THE FORMATION OF AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL POLICY
Creators: name: Campbell, Keith O.
name: Campbell, Keith O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: In this paper the effect of structural changes in the Australian economy on the determination of policy for agriculture is examined. The effectiveness of the unification of farm organisations is questioned and the threat to organised agriculture of new lobby groups and new governmental institutions is outlined. The role of wide-ranging inquiries into the state of the agricultural economy is scrutinised. Attention is drawn to the effect on rural lobbying of the advent of 'government by consensus' under the Hawke Government and to the increasing militancy of farmers. It is shown that recent advocacy of greater centralisation of agricultural administration has no constitutional basis. It is concluded that the emerging problem of organised agriculture is to find an effective way to modify the impact on the industry of general economic policies and overseas economic developments rather than to deal with commodity-specific legislation.
Particle multiplicities and fluctuations in 200 GeV Au-Au collisions
Creators: name: Torrieri, Giorgio
name: Jeon, Sangyong
name: Rafelski, Johann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the statistical hadronization model (SHM) to describe hadron multiplicity yields and fluctuations. We consider 200 GeV Au-Au collisions, and show that both event averaged yields of stable particles and resonances, and event-by-event fluctuation of the $K/π$ ratio can be described within the SHM using the same set of thermal parameters, provided that the phase space occupancy parameter value is significantly above chemical equilibrium, and the freeze-out temperature is $\sim 140$ MeV. We present predictions that allow to test the consistency of our results.
description: Proceedings for ISMD2005, Kromeriz, Czech republic
Example code from Integrating social and cognitive aspects of belief dynamics: towards a unifying framework
Creators: name: Galesic, Mirta
name: Olsson, Henrik
name: Dalege, Jonas
name: Does, Tamara Van Der
name: Stein, Daniel L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Code for Example in Figure 2C
The antiferromagnetic/paramagnetic transition in mixed-spin compounds R2BaNiO5
Creators: name: Alvarez, J. V.
name: Valenti, Roser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an extensive Quantum Monte Carlo study of the magnetic properties of the mixed-spin quantum systems R2BaNiO5 (R= magnetic rare earth) which show coexistence of 3-dimensional magnetic long-range order with 1-dimensional quantum gap excitations. We discuss the validity of the performed simulations in the critical region and show the excellent agreement with experimental results. We emphasize the importance of quantum fluctuations contained in our study which is absent in previous mean-field-like treatments.
description: 7 pages, 12 figures, published in EPJB
Segmented Anodes with Sub-millimeter Spatial Resolution for MCP-Based Photodetectors
Creators: name: Park, Jinseo
name: Wu, Fangjian
name: Angelico, Evan
name: Frisch, Henry J.
name: Spieglan, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Micro-channel-plate-based photo-detectors are unique in being capable of covering areas of many square-meters while providing sub-millimeter space resolution, time resolutions of less than 10 picoseconds for charged particles, time resolutions of 30-50 psec for single photons. Incorporating a capacitively-coupled anode allows for the use of external pickup electrodes optimized for occupancy, rate, and time/space resolution. The signal pickup antenna can be implemented as a printed circuit card with a pattern chosen to match the specific application needs. The electrode elements are typically either a 2-dimensional array of pads for high-occupancy/high-rate applications, or a 1-dimensional array of strips for low-occupancy/low-rate, and a lower channel count. Here we present pad patterns that enhance charge-sharing between pads to significantly lower the required channel count/area while maintaining spatial resolutions of 100 to 200 microns for charged particles and 400 microns to 1 mm for single photons. Patterns that use multiple signal layers in the capacitively-coupled printed circuit signal pickup board can lower the channel count even further, moving the scaling behavior in the number of pads versus total area from quadratic to linear.
Why is the mass function of NGC 6218 flat?
Creators: name: De Marchi, Guido
name: Pulone, Luigi
name: Paresce, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used the FORS-1 camera on the VLT to study the main sequence (MS) of the globular cluster NGC 6218 in the V and R bands. The observations cover an area of 3.4 x 3.4 around the cluster centre and probe the stellar population out to the cluster's half-mass radius (r_h ~ 2.2). The colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) that we derive in this way reveals a narrow and well defined MS extending down to the 5 sigma detection limit at V~25, or about 6 magnitudes below the turn-off, corresponding to stars of ~ 0.25 Msolar. The luminosity function (LF) obtained with these data shows a marked radial gradient, in that the ratio of lower- and higher-mass stars increases monotonically with radius. The mass function (MF) measured at the half-mass radius, and as such representative of the clusters global properties, is surprisingly flat. Over the range 0.4 - 0.8 Msolar, the number of stars per unit mass follows a power-law distribution of the type dN/dm \propto m^{0}, where, for comparison, Salpeter's IMF would be dN/dm \propto m^{-2.35}. We expect that such a flat MF does not represent the cluster's IMF but is the result of severe tidal stripping of the stars from the cluster due to its interaction with the Galaxy's gravitational field. Our results cannot be reconciled with the predictions of recent theoretical models that imply a relatively insignificant loss of stars from NGC 6218 as measured by its expected very long time to disruption. They are more consistent with the orbital parameters based on the Hipparcos reference system that imply a much higher degree of interaction of this cluster with the Galaxy than assumed by those models. Our results indicate that, if the orbit of a cluster is known, the slope of its MF could be useful in discriminating between the various models of the Galactic potential.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
TEXTILE FIBRE SUBSTITUTION AND RELATIVE PRICES
Creators: name: Minford, Patrick
name: Minford, Patrick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: The elasticity of substitution between textile fibres is investigated within a CES production function in which the fibres are grouped according to degree of substitutability. Disaggregated data for U.S. textile usage in the post-war period are examined and the elasticities estimated are generally above unity. The conclusion is reached that, while technical change and diffusion may have explained changing fibre shares in certain, usually specialized end-uses and contributed to the explanation in others, in most end-uses relative price change has been an important factor.
Carbon isotopes in dissolved inorganic carbon as tracers of carbon sources in karst waters of the Plitvice Lakes, Croatia
Creators: name: Sironić, Andreja
name: Bronić, Ines Krajcar
name: Horvatinčić, Nada
name: Barešić, Jadranka
name: Borković, Damir
name: Vurnek, Maja
name: Mikelić, Ivanka Lovrenčić
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Appendix data tables generated during the study
Tiziano e la duplice metamorfosi di Callisto
Creators: name: Rossi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

A careful examination of Diana and Callisto, painted by Titian (London, National Gallery and Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland), its copy by Rubens (Knowsley Hall, Earl of Derby) and the version by Titian’s workshop in Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Museum) reveals details hitherto unrecognised by scholars. Although marginal, these take on extraordinary iconographic and communicative value, and it is precisely through these details that Titian evokes the mutations of the nymph Callisto narrated by Ovid in the Metamorphoses (2.401-530). The way in which the details are depicted and coordinated within the composition allows the beholder to experience the ‘graduality of discovery’. This is useful not only for lending the fixed image a temporality similar to that of literary narration (consisting of a ‘before’ and an ‘after’) but above all to induce, within the process of visual-perceptual discovery and its subsequent iconographic comprehension, the sequence of ‘desire-surprise-reward’ theorised by Daniel Arasse with regard to the revelatory power of detail, here applied to the polarity punctum/studium.

description: Venezia Arti
Thomas, David (Hrsg.): The Bible in Arab Christianity
Creators: name: Walbiner, Carsten-Michael
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 94 (2010): Oriens christianus, Band 94
Energy-dependent variability from accretion flows
Creators: name: Zdziarski, Andrzej A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a formalism to calculate energy-dependent fractional variability (rms) in accretion flows. We consider rms spectra resulting from radial dependencies of the level of local variability (as expected from propagation of disturbances in accretion flows) assuming the constant shape of the spectrum emitted at a given radius. We consider the cases when the variability of the flow is either coherent or incoherent between different radial zones. As example local emission, we consider blackbody, Wien and thermal Comptonization spectra. In addition to numerical results, we present a number of analytical formulae for the resulting rms. We also find an analytical formula for the disc Wien spectrum, which we find to be a very good approximation to the disc blackbody. We compare our results to the rms spectrum observed in an ultrasoft state of GRS 1915+105.
description: MNRAS, in press, 9 pages
Effects of Alternative Cropping Patterns and Management Decisions on Soil Erosion and Revenue, Region VII, North Dakota
Creators: name: Ehni, Rodney J.
name: Ogaard, Louis A.
name: Nelson, William C.
name: Ehni, Rodney J.
name: Ogaard, Louis A.
name: Nelson, William C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Farm Management
Land Economics/Use

description: This report focuses on the economic impact of selected agricultural management policies and the corresponding effect upon soil erosion.
Perspectives on Physics of ExB Discharges Relevant to Plasma Propulsion and Similar Technologies
Creators: name: Kaganovich, Igor D.
name: Smolyakov, Andrei
name: Raitses, Yevgeny
name: Ahedo, Eduardo
name: Mikellides, Ioannis G.
name: Jorns, Benjamin
name: Taccogna, Francesco
name: Gueroult, Renaud
name: Tsikata, Sedina
name: Bourdon, Anne
name: Boeuf, Jean-Pierre
name: Keidar, Michael
name: Powis, Andrew Tasman
name: Merino, Mario
name: Cappelli, Mark
name: Hara, Kentaro
name: Carlsson, Johan A.
name: Fisch, Nathaniel J.
name: Chabert, Pascal
name: Schweigert, Irina
name: Lafleur, Trevor
name: Matyash, Konstantin
name: Khrabrov, Alexander V.
name: Boswell, Rod W.
name: Fruchtman, Amnon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper provides perspectives on recent progress in the understanding of the physics of devices where the external magnetic field is applied perpendicularly to the discharge current. This configuration generates a strong electric field, which acts to accelerates ions. The many applications of this set up include generation of thrust for spacecraft propulsion and the separation of species in plasma mass separation devices. These ExB plasmas are subject to plasma-wall interaction effects as well as various micro and macro instabilities, and in many devices, we observe the emergence of anomalous transport. This perspective presents the current understanding of the physics of these phenomena, state-of-the-art computational results, identifies critical questions, and suggests directions for future research
description: 59 pages, 25 Figures, submitted to Physics of Plasmas
TIBBIYOTDA VITAMINLARNING AHAMYATI
Creators: name: Nazarova, Firuza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada odam organizmida vitamin yetishmasligi atrof muhit omillari ta’siri, organism uchun zarur bo’lgan vitaminlar kamligi, noto’g’ri ovqatlanish natijasida yuzaga  kelishi haqida yoritilgan. Natijada turli xil kasalliklar kelib chiqishi yoritilib berilgan.
Density functional approach for inhomogeneous star polymers
Creators: name: Malijevsky, A.
name: Bryk, P.
name: Sokolowski, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose microscopic density functional theory for inhomogeneous star polymers. Our approach is based on fundamental measure theory for hard spheres, and on Wertheim's first- and second-order perturbation theory for the interparticle connectivity. For simplicity we consider a model in which all the arms are of the same length, but our approach can be easily extended to the case of stars with arms of arbitrary lengths.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted
Coach's role in overcoming the void period for young footballers
Creators: name: Senouci, Abdelkrim
name: Benchenni, Habib
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Coach - void period - young footballers

description: The study aims to identify the role of the coach in helping the players and the team to overcome the void stage during the competition, which is the stage in which the level of performance declines, whetherindividual or collective performance, as we assumed that the coach's experience and his focus on thepsychological aspect, has a positive role in the team's overcoming of the void stage. For this purpose, weused the descriptive survey method, on a sample of 50 coaches, chosen randomly. To collect data, we used a questionnaire designed by the two researchers, consisting of three axes and 20 questions. After collecting the results and processing them statistically, we concluded that the junior team, during its passage through a void, the trainer directs his attention and focus on the educational, skillful side in the first, and the psychological side in the second, relying on this as the reason for his field experience in employing the psychological aspect.On this basis, the study recommended the necessity of training the trainers from the psychological side,in addition to making sure to prepare a unified training program for the junior class, in order to facilitate the process of their inclusion in the senior class.
Ryan, Stephen Desmond (Hrsg.): Dionysius Bar Salibi's Factual and Spiritual Commentary on Psalms 73-82
Creators: name: Kropp, Manfred
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 94 (2010): Oriens christianus, Band 94
A phenomenological theory giving the full statistics of the position of fluctuating pulled fronts
Creators: name: Brunet, E.
name: Derrida, B.
name: Mueller, A. H.
name: Munier, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a phenomenological description for the effect of a weak noise on the position of a front described by the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov equation or any other travelling wave equation in the same class. Our scenario is based on four hypotheses on the relevant mechanism for the diffusion of the front. Our parameter-free analytical predictions for the velocity of the front, its diffusion constant and higher cumulants of its position agree with numerical simulations.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
WORLD SUGAR POLICY SIMULATION MODEL: DESCRIPTION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION
Creators: name: Benirschka, Martin
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Lou, Jianqiang
name: Benirschka, Martin
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Lou, Jianqiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Sugar Trade
subject: Simulation Model Note

description: The World Sugar Policy Simulation Model is a dynamic, partial equilibrium, net trade model. It distinguishes 18 countries and regions, and sugar is assumed to be a homogenous commodity. The model is designed for evaluating the effects on the world sugar economy of farm and trade policies by simulating production, consumption, stocks, and trade for sugar over a 10- to 15-year period. Figures are not included in the machine readable file--contact the authors for paper copies.
Voices from the wilderness : an interpretive study describing the role and practice of outpost nurses
Creators: name: Tarlier, Denise Susan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Outpost nurses are expected to function as both primary care providers and in a community health nursing role, to provide comprehensive primary health care in Canada's underserved northern and remote communities. However, little information exists informing us as to whether or how outpost nurses meet this expectation. The purpose of this study was to discover how experienced outpost nurses perceive and enact their role, and to explore the practical knowledge and clinical wisdom revealed in participants' practice narratives. Nine experienced outpost nurses participated in this study by sharing their stories of clinical practice. Data analysis was conducted in accordance with Benner's (1984; 1994) model of interpretive phenomenology, a research methodology that effectively preserved the unique context of outpost nursing practice. Four main themes emerged from the data and were interpreted within the context of practice: (a) primary care competencies are fundamental to outpost nursing practice, (b) nurses evolve into the outpost nursing role by learning community health competencies and adapting to context-specific practice issues, (c) experienced outpost nurses build and maintain responsive relationships with communities, and (d) experienced outpost nurses become comfortable with the autonomy and responsibility of practice. Paradigm and exemplary cases served to ground the interpretation in the data. The domains and competencies of outpost nursing practice thus revealed were then related to domains and competencies of nursing and nurse practitioner practice, using adaptations of frameworks developed by Benner (1984) and Brykczynski (1989), resulting in a preliminary conceptual framework of outpost nursing practice. A better understanding of the outpost nursing role has implications for outpost nursing practice and education and may provide direction for future research. Insight into the outpost nursing role may contribute to our understanding of evolving nursing roles, such as nurse practitioner and advanced practice nurse, which are currently the focus of much discord within the nursing profession in Canada. Ultimately, giving 'voice' to the nurses who live and work in remote northern communities may help to make visible the nature of their practice, and clarify how their role may best contribute to improving the health status of northern communities.
Effective theory for quenched lattice QCD and the Aoki phase
Creators: name: Golterman, Maarten
name: Sharpe, Stephen
name: Singleton, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the symmetries of quenched QCD with Wilson fermions, starting from its lagrangian formulation, taking into account the constraints needed for convergence of the ghost-quark functional integral. We construct the corresponding chiral effective lagrangian, including terms linear and quadratic in the lattice spacing. This allows us to study the phase structure of the quenched theory, and compare it to that in the unquenched theory. In particular we study whether there may be an Aoki phase (with parity and flavor spontaneously broken) or a first order transition line (with no symmetry breaking but meson masses proportional to the lattice spacing), which are the two possibilities in the unquenched theory. The presence of such phase structure, and the concomitant long-range correlations, has important implications for numerical studies using both quenched and dynamical overlap and domain-wall fermions. We argue that the phase structure is qualitatively the same as in the unquenched theory, with the choice between the two possibilities depending on the sign of a parameter in the low-energy effective theory.
description: 31 pages, a few minor corrections
Dynamical Ising model of spatially-coupled ecological oscillators
Creators: name: Nareddy, Vahini Reddy
name: Machta, Jonathan
name: Abbott, Karen C
name: Esmaeili, Shadisadat
name: Hastings, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long-range synchrony from short-range interactions is a familiar pattern in biological and physical systems, many of which share a common set of ``universal'' properties at the point of synchronization. Common biological systems of coupled oscillators have been shown to be members of the Ising universality class, meaning that the very simple Ising model replicates certain spatial statistics of these systems at stationarity. This observation is useful because it reveals which aspects of spatial pattern arise independently of the details governing local dynamics, resulting in both deeper understanding of and a simpler baseline model for biological synchrony. However, in many situations a system's dynamics are of greater interest than their static spatial properties. Here, we ask whether a dynamical Ising model can replicate universal and non-universal features of ecological systems, using noisy coupled metapopulation models with two-cycle dynamics as a case study. The standard Ising model makes unrealistic dynamical predictions, but the Ising model with memory corrects this by using an additional parameter to reflect the tendency for local dynamics to maintain their phase of oscillation. By fitting the two parameters of the Ising model with memory to simulated ecological dynamics, we assess the correspondence between the Ising and ecological models in several of their features (location of the critical boundary in parameter space between synchronous and asynchronous dynamics, probability of local phase changes, and ability to predict future dynamics). We find that the Ising model with memory is reasonably good at representing these properties of ecological metapopulations. The correspondence between these models creates the potential for the simple and well-known Ising class of models to become a valuable tool for understanding complex biological systems.
Light Mesons and Muon Radiative Decays and Photon Polarization Asymmetry
Creators: name: Gabrielli, Emidio
name: Trentadue, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically compute and discuss meson and muon polarized radiative decays. Doubly differential distributions in terms of momenta and helicities of the final lepton and photon are explicitly computed. The undergoing dynamics giving rise to lepton and photon polarizations is examined and analyzed in the soft and hard region of momenta. The particular configurations made by right-handed leptons with accompanying photons are investigated and interpreted as a manifestation of the axial anomaly. The photon polarization asymmetry is evaluated. Finiteness of polarized amplitudes against infrared and collinear singularities is shown to take place with mechanisms distinguishing between right handed and left handed final leptons. We propose a possible test using photon polarization to clarify a recently observed discrepancy in radiative meson decays.
description: Improved analytical results and new references, 52 pages, LaTeX, 16 eps figures, version to appear on Nuclear Physics B
Supplementary methods and results from Pace and stability of embryonic development affect telomere dynamics: an experimental study in a precocial bird model
Creators: name: Stier, Antoine
name: Metcalfe, Neil B.
name: Monaghan, Pat
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Prenatal effects on telomere length are increasingly recognized as a potential contributor to the developmental origin of health and adult disease. While it is becoming clear that telomere length is influenced by prenatal conditions, the factors affecting telomere dynamics during embryogenesis remain poorly understood. We manipulated both the pace and stability of embryonic development through varying incubation temperature and its stability in Japanese quail. We investigated the impact on telomere dynamics from embryogenesis to adulthood, together with three potential drivers of telomere shortening, growth rate, oxidative damage and prenatal glucocorticoid levels. Telomere length was not affected by our prenatal manipulation for the first 75% of embryogenesis, but was reduced at hatching in groups experiencing faster (i.e. high temperature) or less stable embryonic development. These early life differences in telomere length persisted until adulthood. The effect of developmental instability on telomere length at hatching was potentially mediated by an increased secretion of glucocorticoid hormones during development. Both the pace and the stability of embryo development appear to be key factors determining telomere length and dynamics into adulthood, with fast and less stable development leading to shorter telomeres, with the potential for adverse associated outcomes in terms of reduced longevity.
Scendere in campo. Breve storia di una polirematica
Creators: name: Piotti, Mario
Publisher: name: ACME
Year: 2021

description: Nel contributo si traccia la storia della polirematica verbale scendere in campo che, a partire dagli anni novanta del ‘900 ha avuto grande fortuna nel linguaggio politico e dei media. Gli esordi sembrano risalire agli inizi del ‘500, ma la sua affermazione pare soprattutto essere legata a testi di carattere controriformistico. Bisognerà attendere il Novecento perché la locuzione, oltre a caratterizzarsi come metafora bellica, venga usata in ambito sportivo. Le vicende della locuzione vengono tracciate attraverso un’indagine completa nei lemmi del Grande Dizionario della Lingua Italiana fondato da Salvatore Battaglia (GDLI), attraverso l’interrogazione di Google Libri e infine servendosi del corpus allestito per il VoDIM – Vocabolario dinamico dell’uso moderno.
description: ACME, V. 73 N. 1 (2020)
Coding map for a contractive Markov system
Creators: name: Werner, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J10, 28A80, 37A50

description: In this paper, we develop the theory of contractive Markov systems initiated in \cite{Wer1}. We construct a coding map for such systems and investigate some of its properties.
description: 15 pages
Supplementary Figures and Table from Symbionts shape host innate immunity in honeybees
Creators: name: Horak, Richard D.
name: Leonard, Sean P.
name: Moran, Nancy A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Hazard plot detailing effects of bacterial treatments and replicate experiments on honey bee survival after pathogen challenge. Replicate experiment detailing honey bee immune gene expression in response to bacterial treatment, with bees sampled 1, 2, and 5 day(s) after treatment. Table detailing qPCR primers used in this study and their sources.
Synthesis and characterization of bulk Nd1-xSrxNiO2 and Nd1-xSrxNiO3
Creators: name: Wang, Bi-Xia
name: Zheng, Hong
name: Krivyakina, E.
name: Chmaissem, O.
name: Lopes, Pietro Papa
name: Lynn, J. W.
name: Gallington, Leighanne C.
name: Ren, Y.
name: Rosenkranz, S.
name: Mitchell, J. F.
name: Phelan, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent reports of superconductivity in Nd1-xSrxNiO2/SrTiO3 heterostructures have reinvigorated interest in potential superconductivity of low-valence nickelates. Synthesis of Ni1+-containing compounds is notoriously difficult. In the current work, a combined sol-gel combustion and high-pressure annealing technique was employed to prepare polycrystalline perovskite Nd1-xSrxNiO3 (x = 0, 0.1 and 0.2). Metal nitrates and metal acetates were used as starting materials, and the latter were found to be superior to the former in terms of safety and reactivity. The Nd1-xSrxNiO3 compounds were subsequently reduced to Nd1 xSrxNiO2 using calcium hydride in a sealed, evacuated quartz tube. To understand the synthesis pathway, the evolution from NdNiO3 to NdNiO2 was monitored using in-situ synchrotron X ray diffraction during the reduction process. Electrical transport properties were consistent with an insulator-metal transition occurring between x = 0 and 0.1 for Nd1-xSrxNiO3. Superconductivity was not observed in our bulk samples of Nd1-xSrxNiO2. Neutron diffraction experiments at 3 K and 300 K were performed on Nd0.9Sr0.1NiO2, in which no magnetic Bragg reflections were observed, and the results of structural Rietveld refinement are provided.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures