cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rattus colletti
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus colletti

description: Rattus colletti (Thomas, 1904). Novit. Zool., 11:599. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, South Alligator River. DISTRIBUTION: Australia; known only from the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, the most restricted range of all the native Australian Rattus. (see map in Watts and Aslin, 1981). COMMENTS: Arranged as a subspecies of R. sordidus by Taylor and Horner (1973), but subsequently treated as a separate species (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988; Watts and Aslin, 1981). Although diploid counts are very different, Rattus colletti (2N=42) is genically close to R. villosissimus (2N=50); the two hybridize in the laboratory, but the offspring exhibit severely reduced fertility (Baverstock et al., 1983a, 1986). Fertile hybrids have been obtained between laboratory crosses of R. colletti and R. tunneyi, but the two are sympatric in the wild where no hybrids have been found (Baverstock et al., 1983a).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 651, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp.", "Taylor, J. M., and B. E. Horner. 1973. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 98. Systematics of native Australian Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 150: 1 - 130.", "Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274.", "Baverstock, P. R., M. Gelder, and A. Jahnke. 1983 a. Chromosome evolution in Australian Rattus- - G-banding and hybrid meiosis. Genetica, 60: 93 - 103."]}
The Evolution of Hohokam Ceremonial Systems
Creators: name: Wilcox, David R.
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Casa Grande, AZ
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79873/casa-grande-az
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Huhugam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8166/huhugam
subject: Casa Grande
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/379/casa-grande
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: The close similarity in the cosmological structure of the Mesoamerican and historic Pueblo cultures is shown to extend to the Hohokam as well. P.H. Cushing's proposal of this hypothesis is reviewed and date from the Casa Grande, the site structure of Hohokam villages, and the distributional parameters of Hohokam ballcourts are brought into relation to construct a general model of the evolution of Hohokam ceremonial systems. Further comparisons with the Chacoan system are suggested and the linkage of the Southwest to the Mesoamerican great tradition is argued. Draft manuscript of a published article: Wilcox, D. R. (1987). "The evolution of Hohokam ceremonial systems." In Carlson, J., and Judge, W. J. (eds.), Astronomy and ceremony in the prehistoric Southwest. Papers of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology 2: 149-168.
Object Suffixes as Incorporated Pronouns in Seereer
Creators: name: Baier, Nico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Nico Baier
 In Seereer (Atlantic, Senegal), singular pronominal objects are obligatorily marked by an ob-
 ject suffix on the verb. This paper provides the first comprehensive description of this object
 suffixation pattern, a topic that has been only cursorily described in the extant literature on
 Seereer (cf. Renaudier 2012). In addition, I provide a preliminary theoretical account of the
 Seereer object suffix system. I argue that Seereer object suffixes are best analyzed as incorpo-
 rated pronouns. Evidence for such an analysis comes from the following: (i) an object suffix
 may never occur with an in situ object DP; (ii) an object suffix may not double an extracted
 object in relative clauses, wh-questions, or focus constructions; (iii) there is only one object
 suffix allowed per clause; and (iv) an object suffix may reference either object in a double
 object construction. I argue that object suffixes raise to Spec-vP and are subsequently incor-
 porated in the verb via m-merger (Matushansky 2006, Kramer 2014, Harizanov 2014). This
 analysis elegantly derives the behaviors listed above. Such an approach also allows us to
 integrate the Seereer object suffixation data into the broader understanding of cliticization
 patterns crosslinguistically, thereby enriching our understanding of object marking systems
 in verbs.
COMPARATIVE DYNAMICS OF THE MOTOR POTENTIAL OF CHILDREN WITH THE REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND AGE GROUPS OF THE SALOMATLIK HEALTH TESTS
Creators: name: Mamajonov, Nematzhon
name: Isroilov, Alizhon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The article examines the issues of adequate comparability of normative indicators of motor readiness of children of primary school age with the requirements of the Salomatlik health tests.
Rattus elaphinus Sody 1941
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus elaphinus

description: Rattus elaphinus Sody, 1941. Treubia, 18:307. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Kepulauan Sula, Pulau Taliabu (east of Pulau Peleng and Sulawesi). DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Palau (Isl) Taliabu, Indonesia (Musser and Holden, 1991) and adjacent Pulau Manggole (Flannery, in litt.). COMMENTS: A morphologically distinctive species that is most closely related to native Rattus on the Moluccas and New Guinea. Amplified description and comparisons with Sulawesian R. hoffmanni and R. koopmani from Peleng Isl provided by Musser and Holden (1991).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 651, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Musser, G. G., and M. E. Holden. 1991. Sulawesi rodents (Muridae: Murinae): Morphological and geographical boundaries of species in the Rattus hoffmanni group and a new species from Pulau Peleng. Pp. 322 - 413, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman (T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener, eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 1 - 432."]}
Electric Field Tuning of the Rashba Effect in the Polar Perovskite Structures
Creators: name: Shanavas, K. V.
name: Satpathy, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Rashba effect at the polar perovskite surfaces and interfaces can be tuned by manipulating the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) by an applied electric field, using it to draw the 2DEG out to the surface or push it deeper into the bulk, thereby controlling the surface-sensitive phenomenon. These ideas are illustrated by a comprehensive density-functional study of the recently-discovered polar KTaO$_3$ surface. Analytical results obtained with a tight-binding model unravel the interplay between the various factors affecting the Rashba effect such as the strength of the spin-orbit interaction and the surface-induced asymmetry. Our work helps interpret the recent experiments on the KTaO$_3$ surface as well as the SrTiO$_3$/LaAlO$_3$ interface.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, Supplementary material
Long-term variations of solar magnetic fields derived from geomagnetic data
Creators: name: Georgieva, K.
name: Kirov, B.
name: Nagovitsyn, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sunspots are dark spots on the solar surface associated with strong magnetic fields. The number, area, and brightness of sunspots are supposed to reflect the intensity of the solar magnetic fields and are often used as proxies for their long-term variations. However, the correlations between the sunspot parameters and solar magnetic fields are not constant, and the causes and the time profiles of the variations in these correlations are not quite clear. Therefore, the sunspot data alone cannot be used as proxy for deriving the variations of the sunspot magnetic fields for periods when no instrumental measurements are available. But the Earth is a sort of a probe reacting to interplanetary disturbances which are manifestation of the solar magnetic fields, so records of the geomagnetic activity can be used as diagnostic tools for reconstructing past solar magnetic fields evolution. In the present study we combine sunspot and geomagnetic data to estimate the long-term variations of sunspot magnetic fields.
description: In press in Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, 2013
Two-place exceed comparatives in Luganda
Creators: name: M. Ryan Bochnak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Research on comparative constructions recognizes the need for both a 3-place (“phrasal”)
 comparative operator, alongside a 2-place (“clausal”) operator (e.g., Heim 1985; Bhatt & Taka-
 hashi 2011). Recent cross-linguistic work on comparatives has argued that exceed compar-
 ative constructions are phrasal comparatives, making use of a 3-place operator (e.g., Beck
 et al. 2009; Howell 2013 for Yorùbá). While certain exceed constructions in Luganda can in-
 deed be analyzed in this way, I argue here for the idea that others involve a 2-place operator
 that compares two degrees directly. I treat nominalized adjectives as measure functions in
 the sense of Bartsch & Vennemann 1972 and Kennedy 1997: they map an individual to its
 maximal degree on a scale. This allows us to model possessed adjective nominalizations sim-
 ilar to Barker’s (1995) analysis of relational nouns, although whereas for Barker a possessive
 DP denotes a predicate of individuals, in this case the resulting DP denotes a degree.
Electroweak boson production in heavy-ion collisions with CMS
Creators: name: Gardner, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is fully equipped to measure leptonic decays of electroweak probes in the high multiplicity environment of nucleus-nucleus collisions. Electroweak boson production is an important benchmark process at hadron colliders. Precise measurements of W and Z production in heavy-ion collisions can help to constrain nuclear PDFs as well as serve as a standard candle of the initial state in PbPb collisions at the LHC energies. The inclusive and differential measurements of the Z boson yield in the muon and electron decay channel will be presented, establishing that no modification is observed with respect to pp collisions, scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, for the 2013 Strangeness in Quark Matter Conference held in Birmingham, U.K
On de-Sitter Geometry in Cosmic Void Statistics
Creators: name: Gibbons, Gary W.
name: Werner, Marcus C.
name: Yoshida, Naoki
name: Chon, Sunmyon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the geometrical concept of a 4-dimensional de-Sitter configuration of spheres in Euclidean 3-space and modelling voids in the Universe as spheres, we show that a uniform distribution over this configuration space implies a power-law for the void number density which is consistent with results from the excursion set formalism and with data, for an intermediate range of void volumes. The scaling dimension of the large scale structure can be estimated as well. We also discuss the effect of restricting the survey geometry on the void statistics. This work is a new application of de-Sitter geometry to cosmology and also provides a new geometrical perspective on self-similarity in cosmology.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRAS. Minor changes, appendix added
Vibrationally coherent crossing and coupling of electronic states during internal conversion in beta-carotene
Creators: name: Liebel, Matz
name: Schnedermann, Christoph
name: Kukura, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coupling of nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom mediates energy flow in molecules after optical excitation. The associated coherent dynamics in polyatomic systems, however, remain experimentally unexplored. Here, we combined transient absorption spectroscopy with electronic population control to reveal nuclear wavepacket dynamics during the S2-S1 internal conversion in beta-carotene. We show that passage through a conical intersection is vibrationally coherent and thereby provides direct feedback on the role of different vibrational coordinates in the breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.
A quantum evolution problem in the regime of quantum wells in a semiclassical island with artificial interface conditions
Creators: name: Mantile, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81Q12, 47A40, 58J50, 81Q20

description: We introduce a modified Schrödinger operator where the semiclassical Laplacian is perturbed by artificial interface conditions occurring at the boundaries of the potential's support. The corresponding dynamics is analysed in the regime of quantum wells in a semiclassical island. Under a suitable energy constraint for the initial states, we show that the time propagator is stable w.r.t. the non-selfadjont perturbation, provided that this is parametrized through infinitesimal functions of the semiclassical parameter 'h'. It has been recently shown that h-dependent artificial interface conditions allow a new approach to the adiabatic evolution problem for the shape resonances in models of resonant heterostructures. Our aim is to provide with a rigorous justification of this method.
description: latex, 28 pages
More reflections on the nasal classes in Bantu
Creators: name: Hyman, Larry M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Although long considered to be a Bantu innovation, Miehe (1991) proposed that
 the nasal consonants present in Bantu noun classes 1, 3, 4, 6, 9 and 10 should be
 reconstructed in pre-Proto-Bantu, even possibly at the Proto-Niger-Congo stage.
 Since there has been no comprehensive response to Miehe, the two of us organized
 a workshop to look at the question in more detail. In this paper I update the problem
 from Hyman (1980b) and Miehe (1991), expanding the coverage and considering
 various scenarios that could have led to innovation (or loss). While there have
 been three hypothetical reconstructions (nasal consonants, nasalized vowels, no
 nasal consonants), we have not yet arrived at a “solution” that answers the relevant
 questions discussed in this paper.
Finding the First Cosmic Explosions. III. Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae
Creators: name: Whalen, Daniel J.
name: Smidt, Joseph
name: Even, Wesley
name: Woosley, S. E.
name: Heger, Alexander
name: Stiavelli, Massimo
name: Fryer, Chris L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Population III supernovae have been the focus of growing attention because of their potential to directly probe the properties of the first stars, particularly the most energetic events that can be seen at the edge of the observable universe. But until now pair-pulsation supernovae, in which explosive thermonuclear burning in massive stars fails to unbind them but can eject their outer layers into space, have been overlooked as cosmic beacons at the earliest redshifts. These shells can later collide and, like Type IIn supernovae, produce superluminous events in the UV at high redshifts that could be detected in the near infrared today. We present numerical simulations of a 110 M$_{\odot}$ pair-pulsation explosion done with the Los Alamos radiation hydrodynamics code RAGE. We find that collisions between consecutive pair pulsations are visible in the near infrared out to z $\sim$ 15 - 20 and can probe the earliest stellar populations at cosmic dawn.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ
Designer thermal switches: Effect of the contact material on instantaneous thermoelectric transport through a strongly interacting quantum dot
Creators: name: Goker, Ali
name: gedik, Elif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of contact geometry on the instantaneous thermoelectric response of a quantum dot pushed suddenly into the Kondo regime via a gate voltage using time dependent non-crossing approximation and linear response Onsager relations. We utilize graphene and metal contacts for this purpose. Instantaneous thermopower displays sinusoidal oscillations whose frequency is proportional to the energy separation between the van Hove singularity in the contact density of states and Fermi level for both cases regardless of the asymmetry factor at the onset of Kondo timescale. The amplitude of the oscillations increases with decreasing temperature saturating around the Kondo temperature. We also calculate the instantaneous figure of merit and show that the oscillations taking place at temperatures above the Kondo temperature are enhanced more than the ones occurring at lower temperatures due to the violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law. Graphene emerges as a more promising electrode candidate than ordinary metals in single electron devices since it can minimize these oscillations.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures; to appear in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
Mobile phone data for exploring spatio-temporal transformations in contemporary territories
Creators: name: Gargiulo, Carmela
name: Pucci, Paola
name: Manfredini, Fabio
name: Carpentieri, Gerardo
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. Mobile phone data for exploring spatio-temporal transformations in contemporary territories
Exploring the “15-minute city” and near working in Milan using mobile phone data
Creators: name: Mariotti, Ilaria
name: Giavarini, Viviana
name: Rossi, Federica
name: Akhavan, Mina
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: This paper investigates the changes in neighbourhood attractiveness during the Covid-19 pandemic (2020) compared to the year before in 2019 in the city of Milan. Central neighbourhoods recorded a drop in users from -63% to -47%, while the peripheral areas showed a relatively steady presence during the day. Indeed, remote working and the fear of public transport led to rethinking commuting and re-value working close to home. Semi-peripheral and peripheral neighbourhoods have gained a renewed role in attracting remote workers, and coworking spaces represent a valuable alternative for those willing to improve work-life balance through near working. Within this context, the paper aims to:(i) measure the presence of remote workers at the neighbourhood level; (ii) explore the accessibility to coworking spaces within 15 minutes of walking and cycling distance; (iii) focus on three peripheral neighbourhoods which show the lowest number of city users loss, do not host CSs, and present different levels of essential services and access to subway stations. The three cases are explored to understand whether they are considered feasible locations for hosting a neighbourhood coworking space. The change of the city users' presence in the Milan neighbourhoods in 2019-2020 is analysed using «TIM Big Data – Data Visual Insight», which includes the presence and mobility of the TIM mobile network’s users.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. Mobile phone data for exploring spatio-temporal transformations in contemporary territories
A glimpse into mobile phone data: characteristics, organization, tools
Creators: name: Manfredini, Fabio
name: Di Rosa, Carmelo
name: Fagiani, Francesco
name: Giavarini, Viviana
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: This paper aims to present the presence and mobility data provided by TIM, highlighting the acquisition methodology, the levels of spatial and temporal disaggregation, as well as the additional information related to age groups, gender, and classification of behaviours, which are directly supplied by TIM. The construction of a baseline based on mobile phone data for the comparison of temporal trends in the presence of people is also discussed. At the same time, the supporting data obtained from traditional sources or ad hoc surveys will be presented to show how they can facilitate the interpretation of telephone data, its validation, and its use. Finally, a reference on the operational tools used for their processing and visualization will highlight the need to integrate skills, methodologies, and tools for the maximum exploitation of this wealth of information.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. Mobile phone data for exploring spatio-temporal transformations in contemporary territories
Heavy Flavor Suppression: Boltzmann vs Langevin
Creators: name: Das, Santosh K.
name: Scardina, Francesco
name: Plumari, Salvatore
name: Greco, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propagation of heavy flavor through the quark gluon plasma has been treated commonly within the framework of Langevin dynamics, i.e. assuming the heavy flavor momentum transfer is much smaller than the light one. On the other hand a similar suppression factor $R_{AA}$ has been observed experimentally for light and heavy flavors. We present a thorough study of the approximations involved by Langevin equation by mean of a direct comparison with the full collisional integral within the framework of Boltzmann transport equation. We have compared the results obtained in both approaches which can differ substantially for charm quark leading to quite different values extracted for the heavy quark diffusion coefficient. In the case of bottom quark the approximation appears to be quite reasonable.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, Talk given at SQM-2013 (Birmingham, UK)
Rattus enganus
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus enganus

description: Rattus enganus (Miller, 1906). Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 30:821. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Pulau Enggano (west of Sumatra and off the continental margin). DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Enggano Isl. COMMENTS: Represented only by the holotype. Some cranial, dental, and external features resemble those in R. macleari from Christmas Island and R. xanthurus from Sulawesi, but the holotype of R. enganus is morphologically distinctive; determining its phylogenetic affinities within Rattus will require more specimens from Enggano Isl and revisionary study of the genus (Musser and Newcomb, 1983).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 651, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1983. Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 327 - 598."]}
Fixed-node errors in quantum Monte Carlo: interplay of electron density and node nonlinearities
Creators: name: Rasch, Kevin M.
name: Hu, Shuming
name: Mitas, Lubos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elucidate the origin of large differences (two-fold or more) in the fixed-node errors between the first- vs second-row systems for single-configuration trial wave functions in quantum Monte Carlo calculations. This significant difference in the fixed-node biases is studied across a set of atoms, molecules, and also Si, C solid crystals. The analysis is done over valence isoelectronic systems that share similar correlation energies, bond patterns, geometries, ground states, and symmetries. We show that the key features which affect the fixed-node errors are the differences in electron density and the degree of node nonlinearity. The findings reveal how the accuracy of the quantum Monte Carlo varies across a variety of systems, provide new perspectives on the origins of the fixed-node biases in electronic structure calculations of molecular and condensed systems, and carry implications for pseudopotential constructions for heavy elements
Mobile phone data: challenges for spatial research
Creators: name: Pucci, Paola
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: The paper investigates if and how mobile phone data can help to describe the complexity of urban phenomena, highlighting the challenges faced by researchers integrating mobile phone data into their activities. Two perspectives are offered: the first is a reflection on the features of these data collected anonymously by mobile phone users, as a condition for understanding its potentialities and limits for the analysis, visualization, and interpretation of people’s presence and movements in urban spaces (research on mobile phone data). The second perspective focuses on the uses of mobile phone data in spatial research, starting from the outcomes described in this special issue and highlighting the potentialities and limits of these data in facing several research questions in urban studies (research with mobile phone data).
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. Mobile phone data for exploring spatio-temporal transformations in contemporary territories
Non-trivial Local Attractors of a Three-dimensional Dynamical System
Creators: name: Guan, Keying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37c10, 37c70

description: Based on both qualitative method and numerical tests for a series of particular cases in the parameter region, a=1, 0
description: 20 pages, 48 figures
Assessing Stakeholders’ Perception on Application of Corporate Social Responsibility in Meta Abo Brewery Share Company
Creators: name: Mesele, Ezana
name: Lemma, Mesfin
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: In recent years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gradually become a leading issue in business. Heightened corporate attention to CSR has not been entirely voluntary. Many companies awoke to it only after being surprised by public response to issues they had not previously thought were part of their responsibilities. But despite their intent, the practice and what drives them to engage is not lucid. Thus, the prime essence of this study was to assess the practice of CSR in Meta Abo Brewery S.C. The study used both qualitative and quantitative research approaches and it is mainly dependent on primary source of data in which three types of structured questionnaires were developed to get data from respondents composed of customers, community and employees while managers of the company were interviewed. To meet the research objective the researchers used different sampling techniques and procedures to select the samples from each stakeholder’s category. The findings depicts that the employees awareness towards concept of CSR is at its lowest level. The stakeholders' perceptions on components of CSR include economic, ethical, legal, and philanthropic responsibilities agreed that items listed are important aspects to business organizations socially responsible activities. The prioritization of CSR to the company includes philanthropic, next ethical, then economic and finally legal responsibilities. The company needs to allocate enough amount of budget and focus on training and developing mechanisms that help to communicate with the stakeholders.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Assessment of Women Savings and Credit Cooperative Services in Zuway Dugda District, South East Ethiopia
Creators: name: Kejela, Mosisa
name: Belay, Sebsib
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of the study was to assess contributions of Savings and Credit Cooperative services to improve rural poor women’s living conditions and their socioeconomic and political empowerment in the Zuway Dugda District, South East Ethiopia. A mixed research design was employed through using quantitative and qualitative research methods and research instruments/tools, respectively, to generate pertinent primary and secondary data from the respective sources. Among 527 women as a target population in those rural villages of the District, a total of was 70 women in the Cooperatives was drawn as a sample. The study found out that poor women in the study area have shown an exemplary role in fighting poverty through organizing themselves and pooling their meagre resources in improving their lives and working conditions, as well as empowering them in making decisions on limited issues at household level, but not as such at community level. The study therefore revealed the importance of cooperatives’ services for the well-being of the members, their families and their community in poverty reduction through economic and social development and employment creation; their contributions to the members of the Savings and Credit Cooperatives in improving household income, expenditure, shelter, household assets, food access, education and in accessing health care services; and to the improvement of decision making power of members at family level. However, further studies are necessary to determine the positive contributions of the Savings and Credit Cooperatives’ services in various socio-cultural, economic and political contexts at different levels in the District.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic in inner areas
Creators: name: Lanza, Giovanni
name: Pucci, Paola
name: Carboni, Luigi
name: Vendemmia, Bruna
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: While the impacts of the Covid-19 outbreak on urban areas have been deeply investigated, the effects of the virus on sparsely populated and marginal areas are still poorly explored. In Italy, those “inner” areas are often characterized by processes of marginalization due to aging and loss of population, low occupational rate and income, a progressive deprivation of local know-how, and the shrinking of essential services. Yet, a reverse migration from urban centers to rural and peripheral areas has been reported worldwide among the main effects of the Covid-19 pandmic, being in some cases an opportunity to slow down and even reverse the process of marginalization. By combining mobile phone and socio-spatial data, this paper aims to analyze the space-time variability of human presence before and during the Covid-19 lockdown in the Apennine area of the e province of Piacenza, a representative case of Italy's inner areas, to read if and how the pandemic has contributed to modify the rhythms and trends of those territories. Two dynamics have been investigated: remote and near-home tourism. In addition to provide a picture of the changes that occurred in these marginal contexts, the outcomes have shown the great potentiality of mobile phone data, along with some limits that may prejudice their usability, particularly for territorial research in low-density areas.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. Mobile phone data for exploring spatio-temporal transformations in contemporary territories
A Study of 13 Classical Cepheids
Creators: name: I. V. Reva
name: A. V. Kusakin
name: A. V. Khruslov
Publisher: name: Peremennye Zvezdy
Year: 2020

description: We present our detection of 6 new Classical Cepheids and a photometric study of 7 known Classical Cepheids. We used all observations available for these stars in the ASAS-SN, 1SWASP, ASAS-3, and NSVS online public archives, our photographic estimates (for 6 stars) and our CCD observations (for 2 stars). We analyzed all data using the period-search software developed by Dr. V.P. Goranskij for Windows environment. Light elements and parameters of the light curves were obtained.
Spin-charge separation of plasmonic excitations in thin topological insulators
Creators: name: Stauber, T.
name: Gómez-Santos, G.
name: Brey, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss plasmonic excitations in a thin slab of a topological insulators. In the limit of no hybridization of the surface states and same electronic density of the two layers, the electrostatic coupling between the top and bottom layers leads to optical and acoustic plasmons which are purely charge and spin collective oscillations. We then argue that a recent experiment on the plasmonic excitations of Bi2Se3 [Di Pietro et al, Nat. Nanotechnol. 8, 556 (2013)] must be explained by including the charge response of the two-dimensional electron gas of the depletion layer underneath the two surfaces. We also present an analytic formula to fit their data.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Practices and Challenges of Implementing Balanced Scorecard in State Owned Banks of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mamo, Amsalu
name: Lemma, Mesfin
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: This study assessed the overall practices and challenges faced while implementing the balanced scorecard (BSC) as a performance measurement, strategic management and communication system in three state owned banks of Ethiopia: Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE); Construction and Business Bank (CBB) and Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE). The study tried to evaluate the challenges faced as compared to the standard literatures of the system. In order to assess the implementation status of the stated banks, the study has been conducted by designing five-point Likert scale questionnaires. The total population size of the study was 654 involving department managers, team managers and non-management senior officers of the stated banks. The study adopted purposive sampling technique to select 150 respondents who have the working knowledge of the system of which the responses of 105 respondents were analyzed. Common implementation challenges such as limited understanding of BSC, lack of executive sponsorship, lack of BSC education and training, inadequate IT support, inadequate project team and organizational participation, inadequate key performance indicators (KPIs) and lack of planning and communication were observed in the stated banks at different level. However, lack of formal BSC education and training, lack of planning and communication, lack of organizational participation and inadequate IT support were the major challenges identified. The study advised those banks to conduct intensive awareness creation activities, ensure organizational level participation, develop strong implementation and monitoring mechanism and back the system with relevant IT system to gain advantage of the Balanced Scorecard system.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
The 83rd Name-List of Variable Stars. Erratum
Creators: name: N.N. Kireeva
name: E.V. Kazarovets
name: O.V. Durlevich
name: E.N. Pastukhova
name: N.N. Samus
Publisher: name: Peremennye Zvezdy
Year: 2020

description: We introduce a correction to the recent 83rd Name-list of Variable Stars.
Cross-Border Contraband Trade across the Main Route from Moyale to Hawassa: An Exploration into the Causes and Consequences
Creators: name: Bogale, Belayneh
name: Mosisa, Moti
name: Bogale, Negesse
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: Globally and specifically in Africa, governments' major revenues, and the countries' peace and security, are challenged by the increasing nature of illegal cross border trade. As a result, the issue of contraband is attracting the attention of both the academics and practitioners. It is with this reality that this study stood with the general objective of exploring the causes and consequences of cross-border contraband trade across the main route from Moyale (border town between Ethiopia and Kenya) to Hawassa (the capital of Ethiopian Southern region). To this end, exploratory study was conducted involving analysis of both primary and secondary data. Primary data were collected through key informant interview carried out with contrabandists, local business people, customs and revenue authority personnel and town administration heads and security officials. Secondary data were collected from official documents of relevant authorities. The study indicated that contraband trade being carried out across the main route from Moyale to Hawasa is a result of multiple factors that are generally grouped into individual and social, policy, and institutional causes. Meanwhile, the lost revenue and foreign exchange, its negative effect on the formal business development, regional security and stability and health are the indentified consequences among others. Moreover, though the government tired to tackle these negative consequences of the business through various interventions, the success so far is limited. The authors recommend that a synergetic approach should be adopted by the multiple actors at multiple levels to develop a comprehensive strategy to address the causes of contraband business.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Learning Spaces SWOT.docx
Creators: name: Rossi, Virna
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390199
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified

description: This is the student-facing guidance to carry out a SWOT analysis of one's learning space (digital or physical). It can be used on PGCert/PGCaP courses or any other time a reflection on learning spaces is needed.
Fostering accessible online learning environments for chemistry
Creators: name: REYES, CHARISSE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Higher education

description: This research involves a mixed research methodology (including learning analytics) and multiple-case study design through four sub-studies. The thesis explores different dimensions of facilitating wider access to undergraduate chemistry through online learning guided by education frameworks including: Community of Inquiry, Universal Design for Learning, Resource-Based Learning, and Laurillard’s Conversational Framework. The subjects for these studies were undergraduate chemistry students in Australia and the Philippines, as well as Filipino university chemistry teachers. Results have shown the importance of learning design of the online learning environment to enhance students’ learning experiences.
Permanent and seasonal human presence in the coastal settlements of Lecce
Creators: name: Curci, Francesco
name: Kërçuku, Agim
name: Zanfi, Federico
name: Novak, Christian
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: This paper presents the first results of analyses carried out using mobile phone data on human presence (residents, commuters, visitors) in the coastal territory of Lecce (Italy). The aim of the research, conducted in the framework of the DASTU Project ‘Department of Excellence on Fragile Territories’ in collaboration with the Municipality of Lecce, is to provide precise feedback on the actual use of a coastal territory which is mostly inhabited temporarily, marked by unauthorised building, and threatened by various environmental and climate risks. Starting with an acknowledgement of the limits that traditional census and registry data have in detecting the use of territories characterised by seasonal use and informality, the paper analyses the variations in anthropic presence over multiple years and the incidence of permanent residents. The analyses were carried out using mobile positioning data extracted from the TIM Data Visual Insight (DVI) platform and refer to the period between September 2019 and September 2020. The results show evident heterogeneity among the different coastal settlements. In particular, there are substantial differences between the southern marine (San Cataldo, Torre Veneri, Frigole, Montegrappa) and northern ones (Torre Chianca, Spiaggiabella, Torre Rinalda), where the former show a greater presence of stable residents and a less pronounced seasonal fluctuation. These differences are fundamental for urban planning policies to determine in which areas the retreat of the building from the coast could cause more difficulties and inconveniences.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. Mobile phone data for exploring spatio-temporal transformations in contemporary territories
Mobile phone traffic data for territorial research
Creators: name: Manfredini, Fabio
name: Lanza, Giovanni
name: Curci, Francesco
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: Mobile phone tracking data collected by telecommunication companies allow recording and reconstructing the practices of mobilities and the presence of users with significant spatial-temporal detail. If properly managed, analysed, and possibly combined with other sources of information, mobile phone data can represent an interesting opportunity for urban research and mobility studies as they shed light on complex socio-territorial dynamics difficult to infer from conventional data analysis. At the same time, reports of numerous experiments using these sources reveal some of the challenges that researchers face in accurately capturing the behaviours of individuals through digital data and translating them into useful research knowledge. Referring both to the direct experience of managing and analysing mobile phone data within the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano and to the relevant literature, the paper proposes an overview of the potentialities and limitations of telephone data for urban research and their usability in different territorial contexts characterised by varying socio-spatial and demographic conditions. Besides positioning themselves within and enriching an already lively debate, the issues discussed here will be useful in reading the contributions of the special section that this paper introduces.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. Mobile phone data for exploring spatio-temporal transformations in contemporary territories
All-optical quantum information processing using Rydberg gates
Creators: name: Paredes-Barato, D.
name: Adams, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we propose a hybrid scheme to implement a photonic controlled-z (CZ) gate using photon storage in highly-excited Rydberg states, which controls the effective photon-photon interaction using resonant microwave fields. Our scheme decouples the light propagation from the interaction and exploits the spatial properties of the dipole blockade phenomenon to realize a CZ gate with minimal loss and mode distortion. Excluding the coupling efficiency, fidelities exceeding 95% are achievable and are found to be mainly limited by motional dephasing and the finite lifetime of the Rydberg levels.
description: 4 figures
Causes of Project Implementation Delay in the Ethiopian Electric Utility Enterprise: The Case of Construction Projects in Universal Electric Access Program
Creators: name: Alemayehu, Meaza
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: This study identifies the major sources of delay in the implementation of construction projects in the Ethiopian electric utility enterprise. It also investigates the magnitude of schedule variance and cost overrun experienced by the Universal Electric Access Program (UEAP) due to implementation delay. Primary data were generated from 239 individuals working for UEAP in Amhara, Tigray, Oromia, SNNP, Afar, Gambela, Benshanguel Gumuz, Harari, and Somali regional states and from Dire Dawa city administration. Of these, 168 were employees and 71 of them were contractors. Samples were drawn through stratified sampling procedure. Secondary data were collected from documents that have information about the 41 project examined. Data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Quantitative data were analyzed using the Relative Importance Index (RII), schedule variance index, cost performance index and paired t-test. Qualitative data were analyzed using frequency and percentages as well as qualitative description of interview responses. The results showed that 28% of the delays are due to factors related to the employers followed by 23% to factors associated to contractors. Delay in material supply and redesigning of plans accounted 17% and 12% respectively. The overall average time delay of the 41 projects was 2.48 years while they were expected to be completed in 8 months. The projects encountered a 44% cost overrun compared to their initial budget plans. The paired t-test analysis showed a statistically significant difference between planned completion time and actual completion time, and planned budget and budget at completion. Therefore, the major sources of delay should be the focus of the Ethiopian Electric Utility Enterprise.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)