154 research outputs found
How can power discourses be changed? - Contrasting the âdaughter deficitâ policy of the Delhi government with Gandhi and Kingâs transformational reframing
Social policy impact is partly determined by how policy is articulated and advocated,
including which values are highlighted and how. In this paper, we examine the influence
of policy framing and reframing on outcomes, with particular reference to the policies
of the Delhi state government in India that target the practices of female feticide,
infanticide and neglect that underlie the âdaughter deficitâ. Using Snow and Benfordâs
categories for understanding reframing processes, the paper outlines and applies a
âmodelâ of reframing disputed issues derived from looking at two famous campaigns â
Gandhiâs 1930 Salt March in the struggle for Indian freedom from British rule and the
African-American civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. It argues that âcarrot
and stickâ policy measures, such as financial incentives and legal prohibitions, to
counteract the âdaughter deficitâ must be complemented by well crafted discursive
interventions
Quantum walks: a comprehensive review
Quantum walks, the quantum mechanical counterpart of classical random walks,
is an advanced tool for building quantum algorithms that has been recently
shown to constitute a universal model of quantum computation. Quantum walks is
now a solid field of research of quantum computation full of exciting open
problems for physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians and engineers.
In this paper we review theoretical advances on the foundations of both
discrete- and continuous-time quantum walks, together with the role that
randomness plays in quantum walks, the connections between the mathematical
models of coined discrete quantum walks and continuous quantum walks, the
quantumness of quantum walks, a summary of papers published on discrete quantum
walks and entanglement as well as a succinct review of experimental proposals
and realizations of discrete-time quantum walks. Furthermore, we have reviewed
several algorithms based on both discrete- and continuous-time quantum walks as
well as a most important result: the computational universality of both
continuous- and discrete- time quantum walks.Comment: Paper accepted for publication in Quantum Information Processing
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Measurement of the B0-anti-B0-Oscillation Frequency with Inclusive Dilepton Events
The - oscillation frequency has been measured with a sample of
23 million \B\bar B pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II
asymmetric B Factory at SLAC. In this sample, we select events in which both B
mesons decay semileptonically and use the charge of the leptons to identify the
flavor of each B meson. A simultaneous fit to the decay time difference
distributions for opposite- and same-sign dilepton events gives ps.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Physical Review Letter
Measurement of the CP-Violating Asymmetry Amplitude sin2
We present results on time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B decays to several CP eigenstates. The measurements use a data sample of about 88 million Y(4S) --> B Bbar decays collected between 1999 and 2002 with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. We study events in which one neutral B meson is fully reconstructed in a final state containing a charmonium meson and the other B meson is determined to be either a B0 or B0bar from its decay products. The amplitude of the CP-violating asymmetry, which in the Standard Model is proportional to sin2beta, is derived from the decay-time distributions in such events. We measure sin2beta = 0.741 +/- 0.067 (stat) +/- 0.033 (syst) and |lambda| = 0.948 +/- 0.051 (stat) +/- 0.017 (syst). The magnitude of lambda is consistent with unity, in agreement with the Standard Model expectation of no direct CP violation in these modes
Continuing professional development--global perspectives: synopsis of a workshop held during the International Association of Dental Research meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, 2003. Part 2: regulatory and accreditation systems and evidence for improving the performance of the dental team.
Item does not contain fulltextThis paper is the second in a series of two that report on continuing professional development (CPD). Details of the informants and the methodologies used were reported in the first paper. This paper reports the data and information presented on the topics of regulatory and accreditation systems for CPD and evidence that CPD improves the performance of the oral health team. By June 2003, participation in CPD was mandatory in most of the states of the USA, all Canadian Provinces, the UK and Latvia and was likely to become mandatory in a number of other countries in the near future. A variety of accreditation systems were reported including collecting CPD points, which in some countries were weighted depending on the type of CPD activity, and re-certification examinations. Very few studies for the effectiveness of dental CPD were identified. However, in general it was concluded that there is little evidence for the effectiveness of CPD for the oral health team. The main recommendation from this study is that a systematic review of the effectiveness of CPD in improving the performance of the oral health team and patient based outcomes be undertaken. A range of other research questions was also identified including: how can CPD be best matched to clinicians' needs rather than demands
Continuing professional development--global perspectives: synopsis of a workshop held during the International Association of Dental Research meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, 2003. Part 1: access, funding and participation patterns.
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Multibeam surveying of river bed form and bed-load estimation at medium flow condition in a large sand river: Preliminary results of a field study in Po river
The paper refers to a field study of river bed pattern in a large sand river (i.e Po river in Italy) at medium flow condition during two bathymetric measurement campaigns. The selected straigth reach extends overall 2.6 km. Within the reach a representative large area of active bed (more than 0.1 km wide and 0.65 km long) was surveyed with a Multibeam Echo Sounder (MBES) during two different flow condition (19th June and 7th July 2014). In each campaign the survey was repeated at different subsequent time in order to derive bed form kinematics. Bed form pattern was analyzed and different geometrical approaches were applied to estimate bed-form sediment transport component. Results are compared with standard sediment transport formula
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