cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Waves and causality in higher dimensions
Creators: name: Wesson, Paul S.
name: Overduin, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a new, wave-like solution of the field equations of five-dimensional relativity. In ordinary three-dimensional space, the waves resemble de Broglie or matter waves, whose puzzling behaviour can be better understood in terms of one or more extra dimensions. Causality is appropriately defined by a null higher-dimensional interval. It may be possible to test the properties of these waves in the laboratory.
description: 15 pages, no figures
The right to citizenship of Palestinian refugees : a closer analysis of the international legal regime protecting Palestinian refugees
Creators: name: Marjalizo González, Ruth
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: citizenship
refugee status
Palestine

description: Second semester University: National University of Ireland, Galway.
description: As time goes by, wars emerge and the flux of refugees increases. The refugee status is a vicious circle where people find themselves fleeing from a country and looking for refuge in another, hoping to find a final solution. The Palestinian refugee issue is one of the longest crisis in the world, which has been ongoing for almost seventy years with no solution in sight. While some scholars have analysed the issue from a legal perspective and others from a human rights' aspect, this study will consider both perspectives to discuss and argue the reasons for grating citizenship as the best temporary solution. This study will consider the special category in which they are, and it will be given an explanation about the differences similitudes between nationality and citizenship. Moreover, it will look at the evolution of the Palestinian nationality from the Ottoman Empire until today. It will breakdown the international and regional treaties that protect and provide for the right to citizenship, and the Israeli and Palestinian's national laws that concern Palestinians. To conclude, after having a deep insight of the legal framework, the author of this thesis will point out some observation regarding some treaty violations and recommendations.
Chemical doping and high pressure studies of layered beta-PdBi2 single crystals
Creators: name: Zhao, Kui
name: Lv, Bing
name: Xue, Yu-Yi
name: Zhu, Xi-Yu
name: Deng, Liangzi
name: Wu, Zheng
name: Chu, C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have systematically grown large single crystals of layered compound beta-PdBi2, both the hole-doped PdBi2-xPbx and the electron-doped NaxPdBi2, and studied their magnetic and transport properties. Hall-effect measurement on PdBi2, PdBi1.8Pb0.2, and Na0.057PdBi2 shows that the charge transport is dominated by electrons in all of the samples. The electron concentration is substantially reduced upon Pb-doping in PdBi2-xPbx and increased upon Na-intercalation in NaxPdBi2, indicating the effective hole-doping by Pb and electron-doping by Na. We observed a monotonic decrease of superconducting transition temperature (Tc) from 5.4K in undoped PdBi2 to less than 2K for x > 0.35 in hole-doped PdBi2-xPbx. Meanwhile, a rapid decrease of Tc with the Na intercalation is also observed in the electron-doped NaxPdBi2, which is in disagreement with the theoretical expectation. In addition, both the magnetoresistance and Hall resistance further reveal evidence for a possible spin density wave (SDW)-like transition below 50K in the Na-intercalated PdBi2 sample. The complete phase diagram is thus established from hole-doping to electron-doping. Meanwhile, high pressure study of the undoped PdBi2 shows that the Tc is linearly suppressed under pressure with a dTc/dP coefficient of -0.28K/GPa.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
A Testbed for Evaluating and Visualizing Facebook Friend-list Recommendations
Creators: name: Wu, Ziyou
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This project focuses on evaluating named group recommendation algorithms and analyzing the recommendation output. Our approach is developing a Facebook-based testbed for evaluating how the recommendation can reduce user’s effort to create friend-lists and visually
validating the recommendation results. The testbed has three components: a recommendation
engine, a friend-list editor, and a tool for visualizing recommendations. The recommendation engine implemented in Facebook mines social graphs to make predictions on friend-lists. The Friend-list Editor allows editing recommendations and measures the efforts a user takes to create friend-lists with and without recommendations. The visualization tool provides a set of visualization methods of social graphs and friend-lists.
A right to family? : family reunification for refugees in United States immigration law
Creators: name: Wirth, Anna
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: family
family reunion
refugees
United States of America
international law
migrations

description: Second semester University: University of Helsinki
description: This paper will evaluate the immigration laws in the United States relating to family reunifications for U.S. resettled refugees, answering the question of whether those laws are compliant with international human rights law. The legal obligations contained within the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) will receive the greatest focus throughout the paper‟s analysis, as the Covenant makes express mention of the rights of family and has been both signed and ratified by the United States. Over the duration of the last five years or so, considerable changes have been made to the admission policies for refugees seeking resettlement in the United States. National Security has once again moved to the forefront of the political agenda, and refugee families seeking to reunite with separated loved ones are paying the cost. In October of 2008, the United States suspended one of the two arms of the family reunification programs, commonly referred to as the P-3 Program, for security reasons. As a consequence of this, the already limited pool of individuals eligible for reunification was only further downsized. In mid-2011, the admissions program saw the implementation of additional security checks, which has amounted to significant processing delays for refugees seeking to be reunited with their relative in the United States, These matters are blurring the lines of compliance regarding the United States‟ obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of the refugee family at international law and warrant serious scrutiny. Ultimately, it will be revealed that reunifications of refugee families are reliant upon a U.S. immigration system that is too often unjust, inefficient, ineffective, and in need of urgent reform.
title: Lean Management und ERP im Projekt Management Office
title: Recherchearbeit zur möglichen Unterstützung des PMO mit Methoden des Lean Management und ERP-Integration
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Friedemann, Robert
name: Moises, Simone
Publisher: name: Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau
Year: 2023

description: Die Autoren bringen langjährige Erfahrung in verschiedenen Industriebranchen und der akademischen Ausbildung im Lean- und Project and Process Management mit sich. Im Rahmen der beruflichen Tätigkeit und der akademischen Arbeit hat sich immer wieder die Frage gestellt, wie die Philosophie des Lean Management mit den Aufgaben des Projekt Management Office interagieren können. Viele Ansätze des Lean Management, vor allem organisatorische Methoden zeigen eine breite Anwendungsmöglichkeit und sollten somit auch dem Projekt Management Office (PMO) hilfreich sein. Vor einiger Zeit hat sich schon der Begriff des Lean Office [YDF01] etabliert, der aber sowohl in der Büroorganisation als auch der Dokumentenpflege Ansatz findet. Im Rahmen des PMO soll dieser Lean Office auf die bereitzustellenden Prozesse und deren Integration ins Enterprise Ressource Planning Anwendung finden. Je schlanker und effizienter die Projekt- und Programmprozesse einer Organisation aufgestellt werden, desto leichter können diese abgebildet und in die Enterprise Ressource Planning (ERP)-Datenlandschaft übertragen werden. Somit wird ein solider Grundstein über den gesamten Produktprozess gelegt - von der Entwicklung, über die Herstellung bis hin zur schlussendlichen Verwertung schlank, effizient, automatisiert und digitalisiert abgebildet zu sein.
กระบวนการเพิ่มคุณค่าและมูลค่าผลิตภัณฑ์มะม่วงโดยการมีส่วนร่วมของกลุ่มวิสาหกิจชุมชน ตำบลโนนจาน อำเภอบัวลาย จังหวัดนครราชสีมา
Creators: name: นิลุบล วิโรจน์ฐิติยวงศ์
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2566
Subjects: นวัตกรรม
ผลิตภัณฑ์จากมะม่วงตกเกรด
กระบวนการเพิ่มคุณค่า
องค์ความรู้
การมีส่วนร่วม

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัย มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา, 17, 1, 99-113
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1568
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. s.n., Latin text, and P.Herc. 1817, Latin speech (all numbered 1082)
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
Self-Presentation through Friendships
Creators: name: Giner-Sorolla, Roger
name: Hawkins, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This study is expanding on previous research, whereby participants were instructed to act like a 'bad' person or 'good' person, and report the number of friendships they would have with racial groups. People instructed to fake bad or good based their responses on their own racial attitudes, reflecting their understanding of racial norms. We aim to replicate this result and expand it to sexuality. Participants will be asked to fake good and bad responses about friendships with people of different races and sexualities. They will then answer questions based on their views and attitudes towards racial and sexual minorities. Participants will be recruited online from the UK.
Scaling behavior for ionic transport and its fluctuations in individual carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Secchi, E.
name: Nigues, A.
name: Jubin, L.
name: Siria, A.
name: Bocquet, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we perform an experimental study of ionic transport and current fluctuations inside individual Carbon Nanotubes (CNT). The conductance exhibits a power law behavior at low salinity, with an exponent close to 1/3 versus the salt concentration. This scaling behavior is rationalized in terms of a model accounting for hydroxide adsorption at the (hydrophobic) carbon surface, leading to a density dependent surface charge. This is in contrast to boron nitride nanotubes which exhibit a constant surface conductance. Further we measure the low frequency noise of the ionic current in CNT and show that the amplitude of the noise scales with the surface charge, with data collapsing on a master curve for the various studied CNT at a given pH.
description: to appear in Physical Review Letters (2016); Supplementary material upon request
Paclitaxel-Loaded In-Situ Forming Implants for Treatment of Ovarian Cancer
Creators: name: Kim, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Ovarian cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive tract, often progressing undetected into advanced stages, in which treatment becomes difficult. The standard of care therapy for ovarian cancer is a cytoreductive surgery followed by a demanding schedule that typically involves 3-6 cycles of taxane (paclitaxel or docetaxel) and platinum compound (carboplatin or cisplatin) administered intravenously every three weeks. Subcutaneous injection of the in-situ forming implant (ISFI) system loaded with paclitaxel (PX) serves as an attractive alternative to the current standard of care treatment due to ease of administration, long-acting and controlled release, and potential to enhance antitumor efficacy.
Memory effect assisted imaging through multimode optical fibres
Creators: name: Li, Shuhui
name: Horsley, Simon A.R.
name: Tyc, Tomáš
name: Čižmár, Tomáš
name: Phillips, David B.
Publisher: name: [London] : Nature Publishing Group UK
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: communication network
subject: geometry
subject: imaging method
subject: memory
subject: diffraction
subject: 500
subject: 530

description: When light propagates through opaque material, the spatial information it holds becomes scrambled, but not necessarily lost. Two classes of techniques have emerged to recover this information: methods relying on optical memory effects, and transmission matrix (TM) approaches. Here we develop a general framework describing the nature of memory effects in structures of arbitrary geometry. We show how this framework, when combined with wavefront shaping driven by feedback from a guide-star, enables estimation of the TM of any such system. This highlights that guide-star assisted imaging is possible regardless of the type of memory effect a scatterer exhibits. We apply this concept to multimode fibres (MMFs) and identify a ‘quasi-radial’ memory effect. This allows the TM of an MMF to be approximated from only one end - an important step for micro-endoscopy. Our work broadens the applications of memory effects to a range of novel imaging and optical communication scenarios.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1569
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1817 (Latin speech), P.Herc. 413 (Latin letter or legal deposition?), and P.Herc. 397 and 399 (Carmen de bello Actiaco)
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
Strongly enhanced and tunable photovoltaic effect in ferroelectric-paraelectric superlattices
Creators: name: Yun, Yeseul
name: Mühlenbein, Lutz
name: Knoche, David S.
name: Lotnyk, Andriy
name: Bhatnagar, Akash
Publisher: name: Washington, DC [u.a.] : Assoc.
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Barium titanate
subject: Ferroelectricity
subject: Permittivity
subject: Perovskite
subject: Photocurrents
subject: 500
subject: 530
subject: 540

description: Ever since the first observation of a photovoltaic effect in ferroelectric BaTiO3, studies have been devoted to analyze this effect, but only a few attempted to engineer an enhancement. In conjunction, the steep progress in thin-film fabrication has opened up a plethora of previously unexplored avenues to tune and enhance material properties via growth in the form of superlattices. In this work, we present a strategy wherein sandwiching a ferroelectric BaTiO3 in between paraelectric SrTiO3 and CaTiO3 in a superlattice form results in a strong and tunable enhancement in photocurrent. Comparison with BaTiO3 of similar thickness shows the photocurrent in the superlattice is 103 times higher, despite a nearly two-thirds reduction in the volume of BaTiO3. The enhancement can be tuned by the periodicity of the superlattice, and persists under 1.5 AM irradiation. Systematic investigations highlight the critical role of large dielectric permittivity and lowered bandgap.
Effects of macroH2A and H2A.Z on nucleosome structure and dynamics as elucidated by molecular dynamics simulations
Creators: name: Bowerman, Samuel
name: Wereszczynski, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Eukaryotes tune the transcriptional activity of their genome by altering the nucleosome core particle through multiple chemical processes. In particular, replacement of the canonical H2A histone with the variants macroH2A and H2A.Z has been shown to affect DNA accessibility and nucleosome stability; however, the processes by which this occurs remain poorly understood. Here, we elucidate the molecular mechanisms of these variants with an extensive molecular dynamics study of the canonical nucleosome along with three variant-containing structures: H2A.Z, macroH2A, and an H2A mutant with macroH2A-like L1 loops. Simulation results show that variant L1 loops play a pivotal role in stabilizing DNA binding to the octamer through direct interactions, core structural rearrangements, and altered allosteric networks in the nucleosome. All variants influence dynamics; however, macroH2A-like systems have the largest effect on energetics. In addition, we provide a comprehensive analysis of allosteric networks in the nucleosome and demonstrate that variants take advantage of stronger interactions between L1 loops to propagate dynamics throughout the complex. Furthermore, we show that post-translational modifications are enriched at key locations in these networks. Taken together, these results provide new insights into the relationship between the structure, dynamics, and function of the nucleosome core particle and chromatin fibers, and how they are influenced by chromatin remodelling factors.
description: Main and supplemental texts
ความรู้ ทัศนคติ และผลการบันทึกรายงานการใช้ยาอย่างสมเหตุผลของนักศึกษาพยาบาลในวิชาปฏิบัติการพยาบาลเด็กและวัยรุ่น 2 : กรณีศึกษา นักศึกษาวิทยาลัยพยาบาลแห่งหนึ่ง ในภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ
Creators: name: พิริยากร คล้ายเพ็ชร
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา
Year: 2566
Subjects: การใช้ยาอย่างสมเหตุผล
ความรู้ในการใช้ยา
เจตคติในการใช้ยา
ผลการบันทึกการใช้ยา

description: วารสารชุมชนวิจัย มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครราชสีมา, 17, 1, 114-127
Trafficking in human beings after the collapse of the Soviet Union with case study on Armenia
Creators: name: Kostanyan, Arpine
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: trafficking
Armenians
Russian Federation
Turkey

description: Second semester University: Université du Luxembourg
description: After regaining its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia appeared to be in a situation of legislative chaos that created ideal conditions for the development of human trafficking. The opening of borders, the war with the neighbouring country, the economic and social instability have become the source of power of an industry that has flourished rapidly. Criminals take advantage of the high rate of unemployment in the country, especially among young girls that often are orphans or from poor families, who are not aware of their rights and working conditions abroad. These victims rush to accept the first proposed work. Once in the hands of traffickers in Armenia or abroad, they undergo sexual exploitation. Aiming to clarify the current situation of human trafficking in Armenia and Armenians in Russia, Turkey and the UAE (the three main destination for sexual trafficking of Armenian women) and after giving a brief historical interpretation, the main legislative field will be examined. Theoretically to punish the criminals of trafficking and to protect the Armenian women, victims of sexual exploitation seemed to be essential but the picture of the reality of the situation gains different colours from the picture that the official sources paint.
Aristotle and Kant on Virtue
Creators: name: Pulling, Keith
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: In what follows I provide an account of virtue as both Kant and Aristotle conceived it. Because I
will argue that virtue, for both Kant and Aristotle, must be understood as part of a larger
theoretical account, it will be necessary to provide a certain amount of relevant background. In
reconstructing Kantian and Aristotelian virtue, we will find that the differences in the two
accounts are due, not to different takes on shared and common intuitions, but rather to deep
disagreements over the nature of reason, conceptions of personal identity, and, importantly, the
nature and role of morality. Most of what follows is, then, a historical enterprise. However, along
the way, and near the end in particular, I will suggest several reasons why Aristotle’s account is
more satisfying. Like the rest of the paper, these reasons are not meant to appeal to intuitions
concerning a single moral act, but rather to fundamental issues of what it is to live well as a
human being.
To preview, I will start by outlining the Kantian moral project in general, and will then proceed
to a treatment of Kantian virtue. Following that, I will do the same for Aristotle. In the final
section, I offer two concluding comments. The first, on what I will call “self-reflective
endorsement,” is a response to the possible objection that, given Aristotle’s account of
habituation and moral formation, virtue is too easy, that it requires very little work on the part on
the agent herself. After dealing with that objection, I conclude with a reflection on the proper
response of an agent who, as a result of good upbringing and self-reflective endorsement, has
attained a virtuous character. That response, in my eyes, is gratitude. Although this is the formal
outline of the paper, much of the interesting works get done on what may seem to be tangential
comments on the nature of reason and morality. This is not, however, an accident. Though a
study of Kantian and Aristotelian virtue is worthy in its own right, it is not essential. What is up
for grabs is much more than differing conceptions of virtue; what is at stake, rather, are
competing notions of reason and morality, and hence what it means to be human.
Prime Vertex Labelings Of Families Of Unicyclic Graphs
Creators: name: Diefenderfer, Nathan
name: Hastings, Michael
name: Heath, Levi N.
name: Prawzinsky, Hannah
name: Preston, Briahna
name: White, Emily
name: Whittemore, Alyssa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C78

description: A simple $n$-vertex graph has a prime vertex labeling if the vertices can be injectively labeled with the integers $1, 2, 3,\ldots, n$ such that adjacent vertices have relatively prime labels. We will present previously unknown prime vertex labelings for new families of graphs, all of which are special cases of Seoud and Youssef's conjecture that all unicyclic graphs have a prime labeling.
description: 12 pages, 17 figures
Local systems on the free loop space and finiteness of the Hofer-Zehnder capacity
Creators: name: Albers, Peter
name: Frauenfelder, Urs
name: Oancea, Alexandru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D40, 55P35, 55N25, 32Q45, 57T25

description: In this article we examine under which conditions symplectic homology with local coefficients of a unit disk bundle $D^*M$ vanishes. For instance this is the case if the Hurewicz map $π_2(M)\to H_2(M;\mathbb{Z})$ is nonzero. As an application we prove finiteness of the $π_1$-sensitive Hofer-Zehnder capacity of unit disk bundles in these cases. We also prove uniruledness for such cotangent bundles. Moreover, we find an obstruction to the existence of $H$-space structures on general topological spaces, formulated in terms of local systems.
description: 22 pages; v3: minor changes, published in Math. Annalen
Climatic windows for human migration out of Africa in the past 300,000 years
Creators: name: Beyer, Robert M.
name: Krapp, Mario
name: Eriksson, Anders
name: Manica, Andrea
Publisher: name: [London] : Nature Publishing Group UK
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Africa
subject: Animals
subject: Biological Evolution
subject: DNA, Ancient
subject: Emigration and Immigration
subject: 500

description: Whilst an African origin of modern humans is well established, the timings and routes of their expansions into Eurasia are the subject of heated debate, due to the scarcity of fossils and the lack of suitably old ancient DNA. Here, we use high-resolution palaeoclimate reconstructions to estimate how difficult it would have been for humans in terms of rainfall availability to leave the African continent in the past 300k years. We then combine these results with an anthropologically and ecologically motivated estimate of the minimum level of rainfall required by hunter-gatherers to survive, allowing us to reconstruct when, and along which geographic paths, expansions out of Africa would have been climatically feasible. The estimated timings and routes of potential contact with Eurasia are compatible with archaeological and genetic evidence of human expansions out of Africa, highlighting the key role of palaeoclimate variability for modern human dispersals.
Beyond the Halo: Redefining environment with unbound matter in N-body simulations
Creators: name: Shattow, Genevieve M.
name: Croton, Darren J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Approximately half of the matter in the Universe is "unbound" at z = 0, according to N-body simulations such as the Millennium Run. Here, we use the milli-Millennium simulation to examine the distribution of unbound matter in relation to the dark matter halos which host galaxies. We measure the unbound matter within two types of windows, using a halo dependent radius and a fixed radius at several different scales. We also consider the timescales over which a halo can accrete the local unbound matter at z = 2 and z = 0. Finally, we compare the unbound matter to observable properties of galaxies, such as local galaxy count environment and stellar mass. We find that halos at z = 2 can accrete far more of the nearby unbound matter over a Hubble time than halos at z = 0 and that 78% of particles within 5 $R_{vir}$ of a halo at z = 2 will be accreted by z = 0, compared to 36% of particles within 5 $h^{-1}$ Mpc of the halo. We also find that galaxy count environment is closely related to the amount of nearby unbound matter when measured on the same scale.
description: 14 pages, 9 Figures, Accepted MNRAS
Turkey: a pathway to Europe for forced migrants from Middle East or a legal buffer zone between Europe and Middle East? : a study focusing on Europeanization process of Turkish migration framework and Syrian forced migrants in Turkey
Creators: name: Çingitaş, Aytek
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: forced migration
Syria
migrations
European Union
Turkey

description: Second semester University: Uppsala University.
description: This thesis was written in order to analyze and show whether Turkey – a country with a vital strategic and geographical position in terms of migration- is a legal buffer zone, which EU uses while tackling with irregular migration, or is it a pathway, which migrants use to pass through on their way to Europe. The reforms on Turkish legal framework, European influence on these reforms, Turkish and EU policies regarding migration, pros and cons of Europeanization process of Turkish migration framework and social and legal status of Syrian forced migrants in Turkey were analyzed and discussed while finding an answer to the main thesis question. Syrian forced migrants who have fled their countries after 2011 crisis and settled in Turkey were the focus group while analyzing these issues and finding an answer to the main thesis question. Both legal frameworks and policies of EU and Turkey were analyzed with usually ordering the issues into two different eras; as pre-Syrian crisis and post-Syrian crisis. As a conclusion, this thesis finds that Turkey has both of these roles depending on the individual forced migrant’s needs and shows the reasons why Turkey has different roles in international migration arena.
Evaluation of the Seattle Sweetened Beverage Tax
Creators: name: Powell, Lisa
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This project proposes to evaluate the impact of a quasi-natural experiment of the implementation of a 1.75 cents per ounce “Sweetened Beverage Tax” (SBT) in Seattle, WA, effective January 1, 2018, on sales of taxed and non-taxed beverages. We also propose to evaluate unintended consequences of mechanisms such as pass-through to taxed and non-taxed beverage prices, price promotions, and cross-border shopping. This project will draw on store scanner data (two-years of pre-tax data and two-years of post-tax data) to provide a comprehensive assessment of both short- and long-term impacts on sales of taxed and non-taxed beverages and relevant mechanisms such as pass-through, price promotions, and cross-border shopping. The research aims will be assessed using pre-post intervention-comparison group difference-in-differences and interrupted time series study designs. Longer-term follow-up is essential to assess whether SBT impacts are delayed and/or sustained.
Cation Selective Transporters in the Intestine Contribute to the Glucose-Lowering Effect of Metformin
Creators: name: Fanizza, Frank
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Metformin is the most widely prescribed anti-hyperglycemic agent for Type 2 Diabetes
Mellitus (T2DM). Despite its frequent use, the intestinal absorption mechanism of this
orally administered drug is still under investigation, and it is not known why up to 36% of diabetics on metformin therapy are nonresponsive. Previous studies in the Thakker
laboratory have demonstrated that organic cation transporters (Octs) mediate metformin
intestinal absorption and influence its pharmacokinetics in mice. Using a diabetic mouse
model of T2DM, this study aims to demonstrate that Octs enhance the contribution of the
intestine to the overall glucose-lowering effects of metformin. Mice were administered
metformin orally in the presence and absence of the cation-selective transporter inhibitor,pentamidine, and blood glucose levels were measured using an OneTouch Ultra
glucometer. Our data suggest that intestinal cation-selective transporters facilitate the
glucose-lowering effect of oral metformin, and that inhibition of these transporters by
pentamidine diminishes the glucose-lowering efficacy of this drug. Thus, the intestine
may play a role in the pharmacodynamic effects of metformin and contribute to the
glucose-lowering response.
Mathematical frameworks for oscillatory network dynamics in neuroscience
Creators: name: Ashwin, Peter
name: Coombes, Stephen
name: Nicks, Rachel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The tools of weakly coupled phase oscillator theory have had a profound impact on the neuroscience community, providing insight into a variety of network behaviours ranging from central pattern generation to synchronisation, as well as predicting novel network states such as chimeras. However, there are many instances when this theory is expected to break down, say in the presence of strong coupling, or must be carefully interpreted, as in the presence of stochastic forcing. There are also surprises in the dynamical complexity of the attractors that can robustly appear - for example, heteroclinic network attractors. In this review we present a set of mathematical tools that are suitable for addressing the dynamics of oscillatory neural networks, broadening from a standard phase oscillator perspective to provide a practical framework for further successful applications of mathematics to understanding network dynamics in neuroscience.
In Defense of the Commons: Young Children Negatively Evaluate and Sanction Free-Riders
Creators: name: Yang, Fan
name: Choi, Youjung
name: Misch, Antonia
name: Yang, Xin
name: Dunham, Yarrow
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Human flourishing depends on individuals paying costs to contribute to common goods, but such arrangements are vulnerable to “free-riding”, in which individuals benefit from others’ contributions without paying costs themselves. Systems of tracking and sanctioning free-riders can stabilize cooperation, but the origin of such tendencies is not well understood. Here, we provide evidence that children as young as four negatively evaluate and sanction free-riders. Across six studies we show that these tendencies are robust, large in magnitude, tuned to intentional rather than unintentional non-contribution, and generally consistent across third- and first-party cases. Further, these effects cannot be accounted for by factors that frequently co-occur with free-riding, such as the costs that free-riding imposes on the group or that free-riding is often non-conformity. Our findings demonstrate that from early in life children both hold and enforce a normative expectation that individuals are intrinsically obligated to contribute to the common good.
Non-state actors in non-international armed conflicts and IHL: to engage or not to engage?
Creators: name: Hoofstat, Marie : Van
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: internal conflict
international humanitarian law
non-state agents

description: Second semester University: Ruhr-University Bochum
description: This study is conducted to find out in what ways compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL) by non-state actors can best be improved. Therefore the study first looks into the traditional framework of IHL that currently exists. The gaps in the applicable law, implementation mechanisms and enforcement mechanisms will be identified. Consequently a variety of new creative mechanisms that aim to improve compliance with IHL by non-state actors will be described. These mechanisms are different in initiator, the aspect it aims to change and actors involved. For the mechanisms that are not implemented yet the study looks into the advantages and disadvantages these mechanisms could have. For the mechanisms that have already been implemented the study looks into their results. Based on all the gathered information about the (possible) effectiveness of the new mechanisms a conclusion will drawn as to which type of mechanism is most promising to make non-state actors comply with IHL.
The Test-Retest Reliability and Exercise-Driven Changes of UCH-L1 in Healthy, Recreationally Active College Students
Creators: name: Cabell, Grant Hayden
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Concussions are a common injury in contact sports yet are difficult to diagnose. The current concussion assessment battery is not foolproof, and blood biomarkers are a possible solution to improve sensitivity. To establish clinical utility, a biomarker must remain stable over time and be unaffected by acute exercise. This study investigated the test-retest reliability and acute effect of exercise on UCH-L1 in healthy subjects. Participants (n=30) completed a maximal exercise test during two assessment sessions 10-14 days apart, with blood draws occurring before and after each exercise test. UCH-L1 was highly reliable in males (ICC2,k =0.895), but had poor reliability in females (ICC2,k =0.094). There were no significant changes in UCH-L1 after acute exercise in either sex (t=0.25, p=0.80).  UCH-L1 shows potential for utility in males due to its stability, but may have limited utility in females. Further investigation of sex differences in UCH-L1 levels over time is needed.
Humanitarian aid in armed conflicts: a case study of Red Cross
Creators: name: Svoliantopolou, Sofia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: humanitarian assistance
Red Cross
armed conflict
international humanitarian law

description: Second semester University: Ruhr - University Bochum
description: Humanitarian crisis is one of the biggest problems that the world has to face the last couple of years. If one looks at what is happening in the world and in our region, he could come to the conclusion that 100 years after the end of the First World War and 25 years after the end of the Cold War, Thomas Hobbs was right: the world was characterized by the principle "bellum omnium protiomnes" which means war against all, where the principle applied is "your death, my life", because that's the human nature. That's why, as Hobbes says, human life is lonely, poor, awful, tough and short. It is a fact that the whole planet is dominated by situations that might make Hobbes' categorical discovery convincing. But if we look at the situation more calmly, we will see that many parts of the planet live peacefully while most war fronts are not new. They have historical depth without this meaning they cannot escape the "hostage" of their history.However, after the end of the Cold War, geopolitical data has changed, while the "multipolarity" of the new global security system makes the situation less predictable. That is why the "new order of things" needs more and better coordination between "players" and a more collective approach to global problems and conflicts. As a result the need of humanitarian action is more recent than ever. In this paper we will try to understand the armed conflicts and set the background of humanitarian law which is the one applicable to those circumstances. Moreover we will find out where and how are we going to apply it. On the second part we will deal with Red Cross, the only humanitarian organization that has its own legal right in the Geneva Convention. We will explain why the humanitarian action is needed and it is integral part of the future of this world and we will analyze how they act in 3 different situations, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria. Finally we will come with some conclusion about what are the problems and the advantages of the humanitarian action and then we will give some suggestions. Key – Words: International Humanitarian Law, Armed Conflicts, Red Cross, Humanitarian Aid, International Help
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1571
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. '1419' (Latin text), P.Herc. '459' (perhaps from P.Herc. 413, Latin text), and P.Herc. 397 (Carmen de bello Actiaco)
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
3,3-Difluoroallyl ammonium salts: highly versatile, stable and selective gem-difluoroallylation reagents
Creators: name: Ye, Fei
name: Ge, Yao
name: Spannenberg, Anke
name: Neumann, Helfried
name: Xu, Li-Wen
name: Beller, Matthias
Publisher: name: [London] : Nature Publishing Group UK
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Trachinotus falcatus
subject: 3,3 difluoropropen 1 yl ammonium salt
subject: argon
subject: nitrogen
subject: nucleophile
subject: 500

description: The selective synthesis of fluorinated organic molecules continues to be of major importance for the development of bioactive compounds (agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals) as well as unique materials. Among the established synthetic toolbox for incorporation of fluorine-containing units, efficient and general reagents for introducing -CF2- groups have been largely neglected. Here, we present the synthesis of 3,3-difluoropropen-1-yl ammonium salts (DFPAs) as stable, and scalable gem-difluoromethylation reagents, which allow for the direct reaction with a wide range of fascinating nucleophiles. DFPAs smoothly react with N-, O-, S-, Se-, and C-nucleophiles under mild conditions without necessity of metal catalysts with exclusive regioselectivity. In this way, the presented reagents also permit the straightforward preparation of many analogues of existing pharmaceuticals.
Fingerprints of Majorana bound states in Aharonov Bohm geometry
Creators: name: Tripathi, Krashna Mohan
name: Das, Sourin
name: Rao, Sumathi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a ring geometry, coupled to two normal metallic leads, which has a Majorana bound state (MBS) embedded in one of its arm and is threaded by Aharonov Bohm ($\mathcal{A}\mathcal{B}$) flux $ϕ$. We show that by varying the $\mathcal{AB}$ flux, the two leads go through resonance in an anti-correlated fashion while the resonance conductance is quantized to $2 e^2/h$. We further show that such anti-correlation is completely absent when the MBS is replaced by an Andreev bound state (ABS). Hence this anti-correlation in conductance when studied as a function of $ϕ$ provides a unique signature of the MBS which cannot be faked by an ABS. We contrast the phase sensitivity of the MBS and ABS in terms of tunneling conductances. We argue that the relative phase between the tunneling amplitude of the electrons and holes from either lead to the level (MBS or ABS), which is constrained to $0,π$ for the MBS and unconstrained for the ABS, is responsible for this interesting contrast in the $\mathcal{AB}$ effect between the MBS and ABS.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, version to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
Nanoscale disintegration kinetics of mesoglobules in aqueous poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) solutions revealed by small-angle neutron scattering and pressure jumps
Creators: name: Niebuur, Bart-Jan
name: Chiappisi, Leonardo
name: Jung, Florian A.
name: Zhang, Xiaohan
name: Schulte, Alfons
name: Papadakis, Christine M.
Publisher: name: Cambridge : RSC Publ.
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Acrylic monomers
subject: Amides
subject: Disintegration
subject: Osmosis
subject: Phase separation
subject: 600

description: Identification and control of the disintegration mechanism of polymer nanoparticles are essential for applications in transport and release including polymer delivery systems. Structural changes during the disintegration of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) mesoglobules in aqueous solution are studied in situ and in real time using kinetic small-angle neutron scattering with a time resolution of 50 ms. Simultaneously length scales between 1 and 100 nm are resolved. By initiating phase separation through fast pressure jumps across the coexistence line, 3 wt% PNIPAM solutions are rapidly brought into the one-phase state. Starting at the same temperature (35.1 °C) and pressure (17 MPa) the target pressure is varied over the range 25–48 MPa, allowing to systematically alter the osmotic pressure of the solvent within the mesoglobules. Initially, the mesoglobules have a radius of gyration of about 80 nm and contain a small amount of water. Two disintegration mechanisms are identified: (i) for target pressures close to the coexistence line, single polymers are released from the surface of the mesoglobules, and the mesoglobules decrease in size, which takes ∼30 s. (ii) For target pressures more distant from the coexistence line, the mesoglobules are swollen by water, and subsequently the chains become more and more loosely associated. In this case, disintegration proceeds within less than 10 s, controlled by the osmotic pressure of the solvent.
The issue of same-sex couples in Romania : potential change in the status quo
Creators: name: Cret, Felicia Ioana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: homosexuality
transgender
Romania
gender discrimination
law
family
marriage

description: Second semester University: Université Libre de Bruxelles.
description: Recent years have seen relevant developments across many jurisdictions in the European Union on the legal recognition of same-sex couples’ rights. However, there are no harmonized rules on the marital status of these couples, as the EU does not have competence in this area. Through legal, sociological and historical approach, the thesis provides an overview of the legal developments regarding gay and lesbian persons in Romania, an Eastern European country. The research illustrates the legal developments in the fight for recognition of the LGBT community in a country with strong religious and cultural values. In parallel, changes in social attitude towards homosexuality will be observed. The theory of small changes, which assumes a step-by-step progress from decriminalization of “sodomy” law, to anti-discrimination laws based on sexual orientation and recognition of same-sex marriage is challenged by the local specificity. The accession of Romania to the Council of Europe and the European Union highly contributed to decriminalization of “sodomy” law and achievement of the minimum standard of protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation. A Court case in full swing which ruling could trigger changes in the status quo of the same-sex couples in Romania will be observed.
Restorative justice as an alternative solution in domestic violence cases in Serbia
Creators: name: Ajdukovic, Ana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: domestic violence
Serbia
restorative justice

description: Second semester University: University of Graz.
description: This thesis deals with one of the most controversial topics in restorative justice: its potential for dealing with conflicts within families, furthermore for specific country of Serbia. Although the last few years have seen considerable advances in the addressing domestic violence, it has been proven that current institutions are far from effective. Criminal justice interventions and many of the civil legal remedies, however, do not address many of the needs of battered women. The benefits of restorative justice principles for domestic violence cases focus on change in offender attitudes and behaviours which may result from an extensive strategy involving support and monitoring. The most effective strategy would involve bound, knowledgeable, and sensitive stakeholders, working in order to help victims achieve a safe and fulfilling life free of violence and abuse. This thesis examines the domestic violence underpinnings, the restorative justice movement, and the Serbian criminal justice system; proposing an interpretation of what is effective, redemptive, and liberating about the practices of restorative justice to the plight of battered women.
Computational models of attention
Creators: name: Itti, Laurent
name: Borji, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This chapter reviews recent computational models of visual attention. We begin with models for the bottom-up or stimulus-driven guidance of attention to salient visual items, which we examine in seven different broad categories. We then examine more complex models which address the top-down or goal-oriented guidance of attention towards items that are more relevant to the task at hand.