Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Extended Producer Responsibility in a Non-OECD Context: The management of waste electrical and electronic equipment in India

Citation for published version (APA): Manomaivibool, P., Lindhqvist, T. , & Tojo, N. (2007). Extended Producer Responsibility in a Non-OECD Context: The management of waste electrical and electronic equipment in India. (IIIEE Reports). IIIEE, Lund University. http://www.iiiee. lu.se/Publication.nsf/$webAll/0BC45C300F1ADF2AC125732F0044DF15/$FILE/Extended%20Pr oducer%20Responsibility%20in%20a%20Non-OECD%20Context.pdf
Tellurium-doped lanthanum manganite as catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

The effect of tellurium (Te) doping on the electrocatalytic activity of La_1-xTe_xMnO_3 toward the oxygen reduction reaction is investigated for the first time. La_1-xTe_xMnO_3 with x-values up 23% were synthesized from a single ionic liquid-based precursor, yielding nanoparticles with mean diameter in the range of 40–68 nm and rhombohedral unit cell. Electrochemical studies were performed on carbon-supported particles in alkaline environment. The composition dependence activity is discussed in terms of surface density of Mn sites and changes in the effective Mn oxidation state.
The Fashion of Management Fashion: a Surge Too Far?

In recent years there has been growing interest in the notion that management ideas and techniques are subject to swings in fashion in the same way that aesthetic aspects of life such as clothing styles, hair length, music tastes, furniture design, paint colours, and so forth are characterized by surges of popularity and then decline. Adopting a predominantly neo-institutional perspective, researchers have conceived of management fashions as techniques that fail to become firmly entrenched and institutionalized since organizations are attracted to them for a period and then abandon them in favour of apparently newer and more promising ones. Drawing on Gill and Whittle (1993), management fashions are seen to progress through a series of discrete stages: (1) invention, when the idea is initially created, (2) dissemination, when the idea is initially brought to the attention of its intended audience, (3) acceptance, when the idea becomes implemented, (4) disenchantment, when negative evaluations and frustrations with the idea emerge and (5) decline, or the abandonment of the idea. In the most influential model of the management fashion-setting process (Abrahamson, 1996), groups of interrelated knowledge entrepreneurs and industries, identified as management consultants, management gurus, business schools, and mass media organizations, are characterized as being in a ‘race’ to sense managers’ incipient collective preferences for new techniques. They then develop rhetorics which ‘convince fashion followers that a management technique is both rational and at the forefront of managerial progress’ (Abrahamson, 1996: 267). Their rhetorics must therefore articulate why it is imperative that managers should pursue certain organizational goals and why their particular technique offers the best means to achieve these goals. Thus, within this model the management fashion-setting community is viewed as supplying mass audiences with ideas and techniques that have the potential for developing mass followings. These may or may not become fashions, depending Volume 11(2): 297–306 ISSN 1350–5084 Copyright © 2004 SAGE (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi)
VISCOELASTIC MODULATION OF SOLITARY PRESSURE PULSES IN NONLINEAR FLUID-FILLED DISTENSIBLE TUBES

SUMMARY The propagation of small-but-finite-amplitude weakly-dispersive pressure pulses in a viscoelastic fluid-filled tube is shown to be governed by a Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdVB) equation. We present a direct singular perturbation theory to describe the viscoelastic modulation of solitary pressure pulses for small retardation times. The main pulse evolves so as to satisfy a leading-order energy balance resulting in an algebraic decay in the amplitude and translation speed of the solution. Higher-order energy balances imply a monotonically increasing positive phase shift. A complete description of the first-order perturbation pressure is given. A pressure shelf of finite extent is continuously excited in the lee of the propagating pulse. The shelf extends from the current location of the solitary pressure pulse to the Korteweg-Moens phase position. The transition of the pressure shelf back to a zero background state at the Korteweg-Moens phase position is accomplished through a series of viscoelastica lly modified spatially-decaying high-wavenumb er oscillations. Ahead of the main pulse a uniformly valid perturbation pressure field is obtained via a combination WKB-power-series and similarity-solution procedure.
Student Satisfaction Negates Pedagogic Rights, Theirs and Ours!

This article outlines how the potential for students to be co-participants, via a critical education, risks being further co-opted through the marketization of higher education by constructing students as consumers with power over academics to make judgments on pedagogic quality through student satisfaction ratings. We start by outlining the relevant components of marketization processes, and their associated practices of financialization and managerialism that have developed in response to the “legitimation crisis” in HE and argue that these have profoundly altered the university landscape with a significant impact on our working practices. Student engagement is increasingly being appropriated as a quantifiable measurement of “student satisfaction”, which then profoundly alters the teaching and learning experience with different understandings of what acquiring knowledge requires and what it feels like. We draw on our experience of working in the post 1992 sector to describe how we are increasingly working under conditions of “reified exchange” and how this affects our relationships with students, other academics and management, eroding our pedagogic rights and theirs in the process. Specifically, we conclude that marketization is likely to further reduce the institutional space and opportunities for both lecturers and students to exercise their “pedagogic rights” to personal enhancement, social inclusion and civic participation through education.
GOME-2 – Metop ’ s Second-Generation Sensor for Operational Ozone Monitoring

GOME’s success on ERS-2 GOME was the only new instrument selected for inclusion in ERS-2’s payload compared with ERS-1, and therefore had to live with the resources provided by the system margins established for its predecessor. Consequently, not all performance features that were scientifically desirable could be implemented. In particular, the available science data telemetry bandwidth imposed rigid constraints. Nonetheless, the instrument basically accomplished all of its mission objectives (see ESA SP-1151, SP-1212 and Earth Observation Quarterly No. 58). Comparison with ground-based observations of total ozone columns shows good agreement (within 2–4%) at northern mid-latitudes, which is within the common error bar of both sets of measurements. GOME has shown that it can continue the monitoring and documentation of the ozone distribution started by the TOMS series of instruments. Its potential to provide global-distribution data for nitrogen dioxide, bromine oxide, chlorine dioxide, sulphur dioxide and formaldehyde has been demonstrated (see Fig. 1). Ozone-profile retrieval is highly demanding, but the available results clearly confirm GOME’s ability to deliver new information on ozone vertical distribution in both the troposphere and stratosphere of our planet.
Overwintering physiology of the rice stem borer larvae, Chilo suppressalis Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae): Roles of glycerol, amino acids, low-molecular weight carbohydrates and antioxidant enzymes

The rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker), is a major rice pest around the world. A strong ability of the rice stem borer to adapt/resist cold temperature (cold hardiness) contributes to its survival through winter. However, the physiological mechanism of its cold hardiness is poorly understood. In this study, we determined the supercooling points (SCPs), the contents of amino acids and low-molecular weight carbohydrates of overwintering rice stem borer larvae. We also assessed the levels of their superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD) and catalase (CAT) antioxidative enzymes in the overwintering larvae. Our results revealed an intimate relationship of larval SCP with environmental temperature; SCP change reflected proportionally to change of environmental temperature. Analysis of low molecular weight carbohydrates established that the concentrations of glycerol and trehalose change in a manner that is inversely proportional to that of the environmental temperatures. Changes or significant changes of some amino acids and antioxidative enzymes were also observed in overwintering larvae. Our data suggest that decrease of the SCP in overwintering larvae is due primarily to the increase of cryoprotective glycerol and trehalose and also to the increase of several amino acids to an extent. The decreased SCP in-turn enabled rice stem borer larvae to withstand low temperature. Our study therefore provides an overall picture regarding seasonal changes of the cryoprotective substances in relation to the ability of the rice stem borer to survive cold environmental conditions. Keywords: Chilo suppressalis (Walker), cold hardiness, supercooling points (SCPs), amino acids, low-molecular weight carbohydrates, antioxidant enzymes
Infrared brazing of Ti 50 Al 50 and Ti – 6 Al – 4 V using two Ti-based filler metals

Infrared brazing of Ti50Al50 and Ti–6Al–4V using Ti–15Cu–25Ni and Ti–15Cu–15Ni braze alloys has been conducted. The joint mainly consists of Ti-rich, Ti2Ni and interfacial Ti3Al phases. The amount of Ti2Ni is decreased with increasing the brazing temperature and/or time due to the diffusion of Ni from the braze alloy into the Ti–6Al–4V substrate during brazing. In contrast, the thickness of interfacial Ti3Al phase is insensitive to infrared brazing conditions. The interfacial Ti3Al is primarily formed during the cooling cycle of brazing due to limited solubilities of Al, Cu and Ni in a-Ti. The presence of both Ti2Ni and interfacial Ti3Al phases deteriorates shear strength of the joint. The specimen using Ti–15Cu–15Ni braze alloy demonstrates the best bonding strength of the joint infrared brazed at 970 C above 600 s. 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Radar Simulator ’ s Signal Processing in the Distance Range down to the Zero Value

The paper considers devices designed to simulate a timefrequency structure of a radar signal reflected from a target or underlying surface. Proposed simulator can be used to simulate false radar targets including those located closer than the minimal delay the devices may implement in conventional simulators. An effective way is suggested to reduce the simulated range. The method works by real time application of an additional frequency shift. It may be useful to simulate the combat operation of a radar system, as well as to simulate echo signals of radio altimeters when probing by signals with various types of linear frequency modulation. The dynamic modification of simulating parameters is carried out in accordance with parameters of the input emitted signal.
Author ' s personal copy Collaborative privacy management

The landscape of the World Wide Web with all its versatile services heavily relies on the disclosure of private user information. Unfortunately, the growing amount of personal data collected by service providers poses a significant privacy threat for Internet users. Targeting growing privacy concerns of users, privacy-enhancing technologies emerged. One goal of these technologies is the provision of tools that facilitate a more informative decision about personal data disclosures. A famous PET representative is the PRIME project that aims for a holistic privacy-enhancing identity management system. However, approaches like the PRIME privacy architecture require service providers to change their server infrastructure and add specific privacy-enhancing components. In the near future, service providers are not expected to alter internal processes. Addressing the dependency on service providers, this paper introduces a user-centric privacy architecture that enables the provider-independent protection of personal data. A central component of the proposed privacy infrastructure is an online privacy community, which facilitates the open exchange of privacy-related information about service providers. We characterize the benefits and the potentials of our proposed solution and evaluate a prototypical implementation. a 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Analysing Ireland's interurban communication network using call data records

This work utilises data from an Irish mobile phone network to provide a preliminary, but novel, analysis of the interurban communication network between twenty five of the largest cities and towns in Ireland. An intuitive technique is applied to a mobile phone operator's call detail records to identify the actual subscriber population of different urban areas with various penetration rates. Weighted communication links are generated between the urban centres based on spatial and temporal metrics of distance, and are examined for different times of the day and for different days of the week. These communication links are compared to the output of a standard gravity model in order to ascertain the latter's ability to accurately represent Ireland's interurban communication network. The results obtained are presented and discussed within. (6 pages)
Enhanced PACK Approach for Traffic Redundancy Elimination

In this paper, we present PACK (Predictive ACKs), a novel end-to-end traffic redundancy elimination (TRE) system, designed for cloud computing clients. Cloud-based TRE needs to apply a careful use of cloud sources so that the bandwidth cost decrease along with the additional price of TRE computation and storage space would be enhanced. PACK’s main advantage is its ability of offloading the cloud-server TRE effort to end clients, thus reducing the computing costs caused by the TRE algorithm. PACK is depending on a novel TRE strategy, which allows the client to use recently obtained chunks to recognize formerly received chunk chains, which in turn can be used as efficient predictors to future transmitted chunks. We existing a completely efficient PACK implementation, transparent to all TCP-based programs and network devices. Lastly, we evaluate PACK benefits for cloud clients.
Visibility Resolution with Polar Diagrams

Visibility determination is an essential topic in computer graphics when visualizin g large scenes. This problem can be addressed using many different techniques, but most of them discard obtaining an exact visible set because it is more time consuming compared with the solution provided by the graphics hardware. However the problem remains if the scenes must be visualized in a mobile device and the visible scene must be transmitted via the Internet. In this paper we introduce a new approach based on ray shooting for obtaining an exact visibility set in polygonal scenes in R 2 and prism-shaped objects in R 3 . In both cases the scene is divided into disjoint regions using the polar diagram, a plane partition based on angle preprocessing. The polar diagram allows to improve computation times while ensuring accurate results in these scenes.
2018-4 Why the Fuss? - Friedman (1968) After Fifty Years

Friedman’s Presidential Address was about “The Role of Monetary Policy”. Its famous discussion of inflation-unemployment inter-relationships was subservient to this broader topic. The program it promoted influenced monetary policy in the ‘70s and early ‘80s with mixed results, but enough of it survived to be a clearly visible influence on today’s inflation-targeting regimes. JEL Classifications: B22, B 31, E31, E52 *I am grateful to Richard Clarida, Tim Congdon, Jeffrey Hummel, and Richard Lipsey for correspondence and/or conversations about topics discussed in this paper; and to James Forder, Peter Howitt and Edward Nelson for comments on earlier drafts. None of them are responsible for the views expressed.
Systematic Modeling of Rotor Dynamics for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

This paper proposes a systematic modeling approach of rotor dynamics for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on system identification and first principle based methods. Both static state response analysis and frequencydomain identifications are conducted for rotor, and CIFER software is mainly utilized for frequency-domain analysis. Moreover, a novel semi-empirical model integrating rotor and electrical speed controller is presented and verified. The demonstrated results and model are promising in UAV dynamics and control applications.
Next generation Higgs bosons: Theory, constraints, and discovery prospects at the Large Hadron Collider

Particle physics model building within the context of string theory suggests that further copies of the Higgs boson sector may be expected. Concerns regarding tree-level flavor-changing neutral currents are easiest to allay if little or no couplings of next generation Higgs bosons to standard model fermions are allowed. We detail the resulting general Higgs potential and mass spectroscopy in both a standard model extension and a supersymmetric extension. We present the important experimental constraints from meson-meson mixing, loop-induced b{yields}s{gamma} decays, and LEP2 direct production limits. We investigate the energy range of the valid perturbation theory of these ideas. In the supersymmetric context we present a class of examples that marginally aids the fine-tuning problem for parameter space where the lightest Higgs boson mass is greater than the standard model limit of 114 GeV. Finally, we study collider physics signatures generic to next generation Higgs bosons, with special emphasis on Ah{yields}hhZ{yields}4b+2l signal events, and describe the capability of discovery at the Large Hadron Collider.
SDI, NATO, and the Social Composition Function

The strategic defense initiative (SDI) intends to renew the leadership of the USA on the western alliance. The initiative takes place in a period when a summation technology prevails for the aggregation of contributions of NATO allies. We investigate if SDI induces a shift in Hirshleifer’s social composition function. Panel data tests over the period 1970–1990 do not confirm any break toward a best-shot aggregator. SDI does not alter the core of deterrence. It is indeed a public good at the US level but not at the NATO level, where, it is one of the joint products of the alliance. We also investigate the lessons to be drawn for the current debates on ballistic defense.
THE COMPARISON OF ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS WHO ARE ON DUTY AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT

The culture of Architecture school is very conservative and insular culture. That means education is very wearisome. The result is fatigue and sleeplessness. Sleeplessness is a widespread problem the entire world. Sleeplessness is affect to some people who interested in study on serious data. Scalp Electroencephalography (EEG) is a noisy, nonstationary signal produced by an aggregate of brain activity from neurons close to the scalp. Previous research has identified a relationship between information extracted from resting scalp EEG and sleeplessness, but it has not been established if this relationship is strong enough to have meaningful diagnostic utility and non-tested student relationship. In this study, we investigate the efficacy of using supervised machine learning on resting scalp EEG data to build models that can match clinical diagnoses of Sleeplessness dependence about faculty of architecture students. KeywordsArchitecture school, Sleeplessness, Electroencephalography, Architectural Education, Turkey.
Response to Powell and Tucker ’ s “ Little is Known about Party System Volatility in Post-Communist Europe , but We have Interesting New Methods and Data for Studying It

Powell and Tucker (2016, 1) state that we provide “further evidence in support of the primary substantive conclusion of [their] article. ” However, this is not accurate. Specifically, our research note “challenge[s] their central claim that replacement volatility in post-communist Europe is driven by long-term economic performance” (Crabtree and Golder, 2016, 1). In their response, Powell and Tucker (2016, 2) downplay the importance of this particular claim, arguing that their primary substantive conclusion was that “little is known about the correlates of either [replacement or electoral] volatility in the first two decades of postcommunist elections. ” We believe their argument here is at odds with what they say in their original article. In their original article, Powell and Tucker (2014) disaggregate party system volatility into two components: (i) ‘replacement volatility’ caused by new party entry and old party exit, and (ii) ‘electoral volatility’ caused by vote switching across existing parties.1 Whereas Powell and Tucker (2014, 123) conclude that scholars know little about the determinants of electoral volatility in post-communist Europe, they explicitly claim that replacement volatility is “largely a function of long-term economic recovery. ” This particular Powell and Tucker (2014) refer to these two types of volatility as “Type A Volatility” and “Type B Volatility. ” These names are not particularly informative, and so we prefer, in line with Birch (2001, 2003), to refer to them as replacement volatility and electoral volatility.
Stakeholders’ frames and ecosystem service use in the context of a debate over rebuilding or removing a dam in New Brunswick, Canada

As many dams are starting to reach the end of their life spans, discussions about whether they should be retained or removed are becoming more common. Such debates are often controversial, but little is known about stakeholders’ opinions about the issue. We use frame theory to describe how stakeholders perceive a decision on the future of the Mactaquac Dam in New Brunswick, Canada. Frames describe how people make sense of a situation by determining what is important and inside the frame, and what is outside the frame, based on their past experiences and knowledge. We explore whether the benefits that people realize from ecosystems (ecosystem services) influence their frames of dam removal. Based on interviews with 30 stakeholders, we found that participants who preferred to retain the dam aimed to prioritize the social and economic stability of the area, which relied on the ecosystem services provided by the dammed river. They emphasized the quality of the current ecosystem that has developed around the dam and preferred to avoid disturbing it. By contrast, those who preferred to remove the dam framed the decision as an opportunity to restore the ecology and social and economic activities that were present before the dam was built. These frames were influenced by participants’ use of ecosystem services—both focus on the ecosystem services they use, while minimizing the benefits of others. Exploring frames allowed us to uncover the assumptions and biases implicit in their views, and identify topics for education campaigns as well as possible areas of agreement between parties. We conclude that ecosystem services are a relevant source of frames of a decision on a dam’s future.