cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Swiss outward FDI and its policy context
Creators: name: Gugler, Philippe
name: Tinguely, Xavier
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Managerial economics
Finance
Economics

description: Switzerland's outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has traditionally been relatively high. The small size of the country, a natural resources shortage and the geographical location at the heart of Europe induced Swiss firms constantly to expand their activities abroad. This exposure to global markets is reflected in its OFDI. Although the global financial and economic crisis pushed the country into a recession and triggered a sharp decrease of OFDI flows, the Swiss OFDI stock continued to grow in 2008 and 2009. Thanks to a well-balanced economic structure based on innovation and knowledge and coherent government policies, Switzerland weathered, at least in the short-term, the effects of the crisis and set the path for a sustainable growth of OFDI.
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: ACT-CL J0102-4915 "El Gordo," a Massive Merging Cluster at Redshift 0.87
Creators: name: Menanteau, Felipe
name: Hughes, John P.
name: Sifon, Cristobal
name: Hilton, Matt
name: Gonzalez, Jorge
name: Infante, Leopoldo
name: Barrientos, L. Felipe
name: Baker, Andrew J.
name: Bond, John R.
name: Das, Sudeep
name: Devlin, Mark J.
name: Dunkley, Joanna
name: Hajian, Amir
name: Hincks, Adam D.
name: Kosowsky, Arthur
name: Marsden, Danica
name: Marriage, Tobias A.
name: Moodley, Kavilan
name: Niemack, Michael D.
name: Nolta, Michael R.
name: Page, Lyman A.
name: Reese, Erik D.
name: Sehgal, Neelima
name: Sievers, Jon
name: Spergel, David N.
name: Staggs, Suzanne T.
name: Wollack, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis from new multi-wavelength observations of the exceptional galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0102-4915 "El Gordo," likely the most massive, hottest, most X-ray luminous and brightest Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect cluster known at z>0.6. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration discovered El Gordo as the most significant SZ decrement in a sky survey area of 755 deg^2. Our VLT/FORS2 spectra of 89 member galaxies yield a cluster redshift, z=0.870, and velocity dispersion, s=1321+/-106 km/s. Our Chandra observations reveal a hot and X-ray luminous system with an integrated temperature of Tx=14.5+/-1.0 keV and 0.5-2.0 keV band luminosity of Lx=(2.19+/-0.11)x10^45 h70^-2 erg/s. We obtain several statistically consistent cluster mass estimates; using mass scaling relations with velocity dispersion, X-ray Yx, and integrated SZ, we estimate a cluster mass of M200a=(2.16+/-0.32)x10^15 M_sun/h70. The Chandra and VLT/FORS2 optical data also reveal that El Gordo is undergoing a major merger between components with a mass ratio of approximately 2 to 1. The X-ray data show significant temperature variations from a low of 6.6+/-0.7 keV at the merging low-entropy, high-metallicity, cool core to a high of 22+/-6 keV. We also see a wake in the X-ray surface brightness caused by the passage of one cluster through the other. Archival radio data at 843 MHz reveal diffuse radio emission that, if associated with the cluster, indicates the presence of an intense double radio relic, hosted by the highest redshift cluster yet. El Gordo is possibly a high-redshift analog of the famous Bullet Cluster. Such a massive cluster at this redshift is rare, although consistent with the standard L-CDM cosmology in the lower part of its allowed mass range. Massive, high-redshift mergers like El Gordo are unlikely to be reproduced in the current generation of numerical N-body cosmological simulations.
description: Typo on metadata fixed on version 3. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; 17 pages, 15 figures. New section 4.4 includes radio relic science
Norwegian outward FDI and its policy context
Creators: name: Benito, Gabriel R. G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Managerial economics
Finance
Economics

description: Norwegian outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has increased substantially since the turn of the millennium: the country's stock of US$ 30 billion in 2000 had grown to US$121 billion in 2008, i.e. a 300% increase. That represents a notable average annual growth rate of 19%. But the development of Norwegian OFDI has been rather uneven, with stable periods punctuated by boom years. 2008 ended at the same level as the preceding year, reflecting the cooling down of the world economy as a result of the international financial crisis and recession. The latest available data indicate that OFDI remained in a slump in 2009. As a country with liberal policies regarding companies' foreign activities, the composition of Norwegian OFDI largely follows the structure of Norway's private sector economy, with a striking dominance of the manufacturing, oil and gas and shipping sectors.
Spanische Übersetzung: La “Biblioteca Linga” en Hamburgo - su importancia para las ciencias latinoamericanas y su inventario especial sobre la historia religiosa y teológica de Centroamérica
Creators: name: Roestel, Hans-Christian
Publisher: name: theologie.geschichte
Year: 2012

description: theologie.geschichte, Bd. 3 (2008)
Studies of noncovalent protein-protein and protein-small-molecule complexes by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Kang, Yang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Gas-phase ions of tetrameric protein−protein complexes, hemoglobins, and protein−small-molecule complexes, cellulasexylanase (Cex) binding with aza-sugar inhibitors, have been studied by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry with measurements of collision cross sections, hydrogen/deuterium exchange (H/Dx), and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS), with the goal of investigating their gas-phase conformations and binding strengths and any relation to the solution properties. Adult hemoglobin (Hb A, α₂β₂) prepared from fresh erythrocytes and commercial lyophilizate showed similar collision cross sections, but different mass spectra. Heme-deficient dimers found in commercial Hb are attributed to oxidative modifications on the β chains. Both oxidation and lyophilization in commercial proteins produce higher levels of monomer and dimer ions in mass spectra. Gas-phase properties of ions of Hb A, sickle hemoglobin (Hb S, E6V[β]) and fetal hemoglobin (Hb F, α₂γ₂) have been compared. Tetramer ions of Hb S have greater collision cross sections and higher gas-phase H/Dx levels than Hb A tetramers. In MS/MS, dimer and tetramer ions of Hb F show different dissociation pathways and energies from the same species of Hb A and S. Thus the single mutation in the β chain of Hb S and the 39 residue alterations of the γ chain of Hb F change the gas-phase properties of Hb complexes. No consistent correlation is found between gas-phase stability and solution binding constants. With a home-built “time-resolved” ESI source, millisecond-H/Dx in solution is studied with these three hemoglobins. No conformational differences are found. Interestingly, H/Dx kinetics show good correlations with tetramer-dimer (ca. 1 s) and dimer-monomer (minutes) inter-conversions in solution. In gas-phase ions of three Cex−inhibitor complexes, Cex−xylobiosyl deoxynojirimycin (X₂DNJ), Cex−xylobiosyl isofagomine lactam (X₂IL), and Cex−xylobiosyl isofagomine (X₂IF), the relative binding strengths measured by MS/MS follow the order in solution. In solution complexes have less flexibility and therefore exchange fewer hydrogens than free proteins. In the gas phase, complexes have lower collision cross sections than free proteins, indicating a more compact structure, but interestingly complexes show greater H/Dx levels. Detailed studies suggest that ions can “remember” their original solution conformations for milliseconds in the gas phase, but may fold or unfold on a time scale of seconds.
title: Literature (Great Britain and Ireland)
title: Literature (Great Britain and Ireland)
Creators: name: Potter, Jane
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Großbritannien
subject: Irland
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Literatur
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Literature and the war
subject: Ireland

description: The literature produced in Great Britain and Ireland during and after the First World War spanned a wide range of genres and styles. Popular fiction and poetry were written and avidly read by combatants and non-combatants alike. The Modernists and the Georgians interpreted the war in their unique ways, while less consciously literary writers provided escapist, reassuring and entertaining stories for a captive market. This article seeks to show the variety of that literary output which attempted to come to terms with the century's first total war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Die Ausstellung „Wissenschaft, Planung, Vertreibung – Der Generalplan Ost der Nationalsozialisten“ als Auseinandersetzung der DFG mit ihrer NS-Vergangenheit
Creators: name: Roestel, Hans-Christian
Publisher: name: theologie.geschichte
Year: 2012

description: theologie.geschichte, Bd. 3 (2008)
title: Mangin, Charles
title: Mangin, Charles
Creators: name: D'Andurain, Julie
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Mangin, Charles
subject: o.P. Mangin, Charles, 1866-1925

description: Charles Mangin was a very important French general during the First World War. With his concept “''La Force Noire” ''(“Black Forces”), which he published in a book with the same title, he promoted the acceptance of black soldiers in the French Army.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Influence of the coorbital resonance on the rotation of the Trojan satellites of Saturn
Creators: name: Robutel, Philippe
name: Rambaux, Nicolas
name: Moutamid, Maryame El
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cassini spacecraft collects high resolution images of the saturnian satellites and reveals the surface of these new worlds. The shape and rotation of the satellites can be determined from the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem data, employing limb coordinates and stereogrammetric control points. This is the case for Epimetheus (Tiscareno et al. 2009) that opens elaboration of new rotational models (Tiscareno et al. 2009; Noyelles 2010; Robutel et al. 2011). Especially, Epimetheus is characterized by its horseshoe shape orbit and the presence of the swap is essential to introduce explicitly into rotational models. During its journey in the saturnian system, Cassini spacecraft accumulates the observational data of the other satellites and it will be possible to determine the rotational parameters of several of them. To prepare these future observations, we built rotational models of the coorbital (also called Trojan) satellites Telesto, Calypso, Helene, and Polydeuces, in addition to Janus and Epimetheus. Indeed, Telesto and Calypso orbit around the L_4 and L_5 Lagrange points of Saturn-Tethys while Helene and Polydeuces are coorbital of Dione. The goal of this study is to understand how the departure from the Keplerian motion induced by the perturbations of the coorbital body, influences the rotation of these satellites. To this aim, we introduce explicitly the perturbation in the rotational equations by using the formalism developed by Erdi (1977) to represent the coorbital motions, and so we describe the rotational motion of the coorbitals, Janus and Epimetheus included, in compact form.
German outward FDI and its policy context
Creators: name: Hirdina, Ralph
name: Jost, Thomas
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Managerial economics
Finance
Commerce

description: German companies started early to internationalize their operations. They ranked among the top three of foreign investors measured by the value of their outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) stock by the end of 2008. German FDI abroad increased in close connection with the rise of German exports, and received a new stimulus through the further integration of European markets and the opening up of Eastern Europe in the 1990s. After record FDI outflows in the boom years 2006 to 2008, German OFDI dropped markedly in 2009 - but less than in the previous downturn between 2002 and 2003. In recent years, the German Government has continued to provide a sound legal framework for German companies going abroad by creating a wide network of bilateral treaties and offering support as well as information services as the internationalization of the German corporate sector improves the competitiveness of the country's economy and promotes exports.
title: Raemaekers, Louis
title: Raemaekers, Louis
Creators: name: Ranitz, Ariane De
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Raemaekers, Louis
subject: o.P. Raemaekers, Louis, 1869-1956

description: During the First World War, Dutch editorial cartoonist Louis Raemaekers was a fierce critic of the German invasion of Belgium and France. He played a key role in Allied propaganda with his internationally acclaimed war cartoons. In 1917, Raemaekers travelled across the United States in order to persuade Americans to support intervention in the war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Inward FDI in Canada and its policy context
Creators: name: Acharya, Ram C.
name: Rao, Someshwar
name: Bhattacharjee, Subrata
name: Wright, Leila
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Managerial economics
Finance
Economics

description: Canada has actively participated in the corporate globalization process and is a major importer of foreign direct investment (FDI). Canada's high levels of inward FDI (IFDI) over the past 25 years reflect its improved business climate, reduced restrictions on foreign ownership and a prospering economy. Like other developed economies, Canada experienced declining FDI inflows in 2008 and 2009, largely due to the dramatic fall in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and the global economic recession. The outlook for 2010 and beyond however is promising because of the expected economic expansion in Canada and other countries, and improved global financial markets. Moreover, the Canadian Government has sent strong signals to foreign investors that Canada is open for business by, among other things, lifting restrictions on previously protected sectors and increasing the financial thresholds for the review of foreign investments.
Tagungsbericht zum 7. Internationalen Symposium der Stiftung Ettersberg „Christentum und Kirchen in den Transformationsprozessen Ostmittel- und Osteuropas“ in Zusammenarbeit mit der Bayerischen Landeszentrale für politisch
Creators: name: Al-Taie, Yvonne
name: Peetz, Katharina
Publisher: name: theologie.geschichte
Year: 2012

description: theologie.geschichte, Bd. 3 (2008)
title: Stellvertretendes Generalkommando
title: Stellvertretendes Generalkommando
Creators: name: Nübel, Christoph
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Deutschland
subject: Militär
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. Germany. Heer
subject: World War, 1914-1918

description: Deputy General Commands, also referred to as Home Military Commands, were German military authorities led by a general. From 1914 on they enhanced capacity across the twenty-five Army Corps districts (''Armeekorpsbezirke'') that made up Imperial Germany (the fortresses also had their own commanders). Once the active General Commands moved into the field they were replaced by Deputy General Commands, which took over administrative duties and maintained supplies for the field army.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Economic Reforms and Constitutional Transition
Creators: name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
name: Woo, Wing Thye
name: Yang, Xiaokai
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Managerial economics
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Economics

description: This paper investigates the relationship between economic reforms and constitutional transition, which has been neglected by many transition economists. It is argued that assessment of reform performance might be very misleading if it is not recognized that economic reforms are just a small part of large scale of constitutional transition. Rivalry and competition between states and between political forces within each country are the driving forces for constitutional transition. We use Russia as an example of economic reforms associated with constitutional transition and China as an example of economic reforms in the absence of constitutional transition to examine features and problems in the two patterns of transition. It is concluded that under political monopoly of the ruling party, economic transition will be hijacked by state opportunism. Dual track approach to economic transition may generate very high long-term cost of constitutional transition that might well outweigh its short-term benefit of buying out the vested interests.
Lorentz violation bounds on Bhabha scattering
Creators: name: Charneski, B.
name: Gomes, M.
name: Maluf, R. V.
name: da Silva, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of Lorentz-violating terms on Bhabha scattering in two distinct cases correspondent to vectorial and axial nonminimal couplings in QED. In both cases, we find significant modifications with respect to the usual relativistic result. Our results reveal an anisotropy of the differential cross section which imply new constraints on the possible Lorentz violating terms.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Inward FDI in India and its policy context
Creators: name: Satyanand, Premila Nazareth
name: Raghavendran, Pramila
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Managerial economics
Finance
Economics

description: A minor global FDI player in 2000, India is now the world's thirteenth largest FDI host country. With 2008 inflows of US$ 42 billion and 2009 inflows of US$ 27 billion, it is also a global top three preferred investment destination. Notable liberalizations in FDI policy and in several economic sectors, a globally competitive workforce, and rapid GDP and market growth are the main drivers of foreign investment in India. Yet, equity caps limit the size of potential new inflows, while national security concerns might prompt more oversight of FDI approval processes.
title: Mann, Heinrich
title: Mann, Heinrich
Creators: name: Pelzer, Jürgen
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Mann, Heinrich
subject: o.P. Mann, Heinrich, 1871-1950

description: As an early critic of the social and political conditions of the Wilheminian society, Heinrich Mann was one of the few German authors who opposed the First World War from the beginning. The first part of his topical novel ''Der Untertan'' reveal the socio-psychological mechanisms of an authoritarian society that glorifies power and prestige and despises the lower classes. Other works by Heinrich Mann show his commitment to democracy and to the active role of the writer and intellectual. During the war, the rift between Mann and his brother, Thomas Mann, who took a different political view, widened considerably.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Black hole Spin in Sw J1644+57 and Sw J2058+05
Creators: name: Lei, Wei-Hua
name: Zhang, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently a hard X-ray transient event, Sw J1644+57, was discovered by the Swift satellite. It likely marks the onset of a relativistic jet from a supermassive black hole, possibly triggered by a tidal disruption event. Another candidate in the same category, Sw J2058+05, was also reported. The low event rate suggests that only a small fraction of TDEs launch relativistic jets. A common speculation is that these rare events are related to rapidly spinning black holes. We attribute jet launching to the Blandford-Znajek mechanism, and use the available data to constrain the black hole spin parameter for the two events. It is found that the two black holes indeed carry a moderate to high spin, suggesting that black hole spin is likely the crucial factor behind the Sw J1644+57 - like events.
description: 5 pages, 1 figures; Minor modifications; Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Image-to-Image Translation with Application to Biometrics
Creators: name: Cao, Xingdong
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education--Technology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical

description: This thesis focuses on two image-to-image translation tasks related to the field of face biometrics. We use conditional generative adversarial networks (cGAN) with different loss combinations to solve these two tasks. The first one addressed the application, such as face detection in the images taken in challenging scenes with high variations of light known as wide dynamic range images. To improve the imaging, high dynamic range (HDR) cameras that offer near-perfect exposure in both bright and dark areas simultaneously are used instead of regular cameras. This research work offers an approach to converting HDR images into low dynamic range (LDR) images, called High-to-Low (H2L) conversion. For the H2L task, HDR images with various contents were collected, and the ground-truth LDR images were generated by 30 different tone-mapping operators (TMOs). The quality of images was assessed using the tone-mapped image quality index (TMQI). We used a cGAN loss, perceptual loss, and feature matching loss to train the cGAN and utilized TMQI to evaluate the generated LDR images. We also tried different training and testing schemes to reach a better visual effect and higher TMQI. The TMQI of the generated LDR images in the testing database consisting of 105 images reaches 0.90, which outperforms all other contemporary tone mapping operators. An extensive face detection technique was applied to detect faces on the generated LDR images, to reach the high accuracy of such detection. The second task addressed face biometrics in the infrared (thermal) spectrum. We consider converting a thermal face image into another thermal face image given a target face temperature, that is, Thermal-to-Thermal (T2T) conversion. To the best known of our knowledge, it is the first time that such conversion was attempted. Images and thermal information from Carl Database were used to train a temperature predictor. We used a cGAN loss, perceptual loss, and temperature loss to train the cGAN. The state-of-the-art face recognition techniques were utilized to test the generated thermal face images belonging to the same person, given different face temperatures. The generated thermal images reached a rank-1 face recognition accuracy of 91 %.
Entanglement negativity in quantum field theory
Creators: name: Calabrese, Pasquale
name: Cardy, John
name: Tonni, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a systematic method to extract the negativity in the ground state of a 1+1 dimensional relativistic quantum field theory, using a path integral formalism to construct the partial transpose rho_A^{T_2} of the reduced density matrix of a subsystem A=A1 U A2, and introducing a replica approach to obtain its trace norm which gives the logarithmic negativity E=ln||ρ_A^{T_2}||. This is shown to reproduce standard results for a pure state. We then apply this method to conformal field theories, deriving the result E\sim(c/4) ln(L1 L2/(L1+L2)) for the case of two adjacent intervals of lengths L1, L2 in an infinite system, where c is the central charge. For two disjoint intervals it depends only on the harmonic ratio of the four end points and so is manifestly scale invariant. We check our findings against exact numerical results in the harmonic chain.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
C-H activation by a tungsten trimethylsilylallyl complex
Creators: name: Chow, Catherine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Thermolysis of Cp*W(NO)(Np)(η³-CH₂CHCHSiMe₃) generates a 16-electron allene intermediate complex that selectively activates hydrocarbons at their methyl groups. In the case of linear alkanes, only terminal activation is observed. This selectivity persists in the presence of an ether functionality, but not of other oxygen-containing substrates such as aldehydes and alcohols. With these latter substrates, oxidation of the complex to Cp*W(O)₂Np has been noted. The existence of the allene intermediate has been verified by two thermolytic experiments, and kinetic studies show that Cp*W(NO)(Np)(η³- CH₂CHCHSiMe₃) is consumed according to pseudo-first-order kinetics during C–H bond activation. The neopentyl ligand can be functionalized by reaction with CO, and the resulting acyl complexes undergo chemical exchange on a slow timescale. The congeneric Mo complex has also been synthesized, and although this complex is equally capable of generating the η²-allene intermediate, its preferred mode of reactivity is coupling of the allyl and alkyl ligands. As a result, the Mo complex is inferior to the W system for C–H activation. The thermolysis of Cp*W(NO)(Np)(η³-CH₂CHCHSiMe₃) in benzene has been studied since the major products of this reaction each contain a 1,3-disubstituted allyl ligand which might reduce reactivity at the allyl ligand in subsequent chemistry. In thermolytic conditions, the resulting disubstituted allyl hydride complex undergoes no apparent reaction with alkanes, but with deuterobenzene, deuterium incorporation into the allyl ligand is observed. In addition to H/D exchange, the hydride ligands in these complexes can also migrate onto the allyl ligand, forming an η²-olefin complex that can be trapped as the pyridine adduct. The activation of fluorobenzenes by Cp*W(NO)(Np)(η³-CH₂CHCHSiMe₃) was also studied, and in these substrates, exclusive activation of the C–H bond is observed. Migration of the newly formed aryl ligands onto the allyl ligand does not occur when there is a fluorine atom in the ortho position, which is probably due to the reduced nucleophilicity of the ligand relative to the unfluorinated phenyl ligand. Selectivity in the activation of C–H bonds in fluorobenzenes appears to be determined by sterics.
An Algorithm for the Stochastic Simulation of Gene Expression and Heterogeneous Population Dynamics
Creators: name: Charlebois, Daniel A.
name: Intosalmi, Jukka
name: Fraser, Dawn
name: Kaern, Mads
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present an algorithm for the stochastic simulation of gene expression and heterogeneous population dynamics. The algorithm combines an exact method to simulate molecular-level fluctuations in single cells and a constant-number Monte Carlo method to simulate time-dependent statistical characteristics of growing cell populations. To benchmark performance, we compare simulation results with steadystate and time-dependent analytical solutions for several scenarios, including steadystate and time-dependent gene expression, and the effects on population heterogeneity of cell growth, division, and DNA replication. This comparison demonstrates that the algorithm provides an efficient and accurate approach to simulate how complex biological features influence gene expression. We also use the algorithm to model gene expression dynamics within "bet-hedging" cell populations during their adaption to environmental stress. These simulations indicate that the algorithm provides a framework suitable for simulating and analyzing realistic models of heterogeneous population dynamics combining molecular-level stochastic reaction kinetics, relevant physiological details and phenotypic variability.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
title: Carnegie, Lancelot
title: Carnegie, Lancelot
Creators: name: Navarro, Bruno J.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Carnegie, Lancelot

description: Minister plenipotentiary for England in Lisbon, there was consensus about Lancelot Carnegie as a diplomat in Portuguese public opinion. He was recognized as one of the people responsible for the consolidation of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. With the outbreak of World War I, he argued that Portugal should take a neutral position, committed to the Allied forces.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Bey, İsmail Hakkı
title: Bey, İsmail Hakkı
Creators: name: Sharif, Malek
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Bey, İsmail Hakkı

description: İsmail Hakkı was an experienced civil servant. He collected and published detailed statistics on the population, economic activities, education, natural resources and means of transportation in his provinces, and attempted relief efforts to alleviate some of the severe effects of famine. With his departure from Beirut on 1 October 1918, Ottoman rule in what was to become Lebanon came to an end.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Geography, Economic Policy and Regional Development in China
Creators: name: Démurger, Sylvie
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
name: Woo, Wing Thye
name: Bao, Shuming
name: Chang, Gene
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
Asians

description: Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996-99. Their respective contributions in percentage points were 2.5 and 3.5 for the province-level metropolises, 0.6 and 2.3 for the northeastern provinces, 2.8 and 2.8 for the coastal provinces, 2.0 and 1.6 for the central provinces, 0 and 1.6 for the northwestern provinces, and 0.1 and 1.8 for the southwestern provinces. Because the so-called preferential policies are largely deregulation policies that allowed coastal Chinese provinces to integrate into the international economy, it is far superior to reduce regional disparity by extending these deregulation policies to the interior provinces than by re-regulating the coastal provinces. Two additional inhibitions to income convergence are the household registration system, which makes the movement of the rural poor to prosperous areas illegal, and the monopoly state bank system that, because of their bureaucratic nature, disburses most of its funds to its large traditional customers, few of whom are located in the western provinces. Improving infrastructure to overcome geographic barriers is fundamental to increasing western growth, but increasing human capital formation (education and medical care) is also crucial because only it can come up with new better ideas to solve centuries-old problems like unbalanced growth.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILDREN OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
Creators: name: Tuxtayeva Dilobar Anvarjan qizi Graduate of the International University of Asia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: this article provides feedback on the social psychological characteristics of children of an unmarried family about the family and the consequences of their differences in it.

         Keywords: family, non-existence, crisis, age periods, conflict, types of conflict.
Deterministic and cascadable conditional phase gate for photonic qubits
Creators: name: Chudzicki, Christopher
name: Chuang, Isaac L.
name: Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous analyses of conditional ϕ-phase gates for photonic qubits that treat cross-phase modulation (XPM) in a causal, multimode, quantum field setting suggest that a large (~πrad) nonlinear phase shift is always accompanied by fidelity-degrading noise [J. H. Shapiro, Phys. Rev. A 73, 062305 (2006); J. Gea-Banacloche, Phys. Rev. A 81, 043823 (2010)]. Using an atomic V-system to model an XPM medium, we present a conditional phase gate that, for sufficiently small nonzero ϕ, has high fidelity. The gate is made cascadable by using using a special measurement, principal mode projection, to exploit the quantum Zeno effect and preclude the accumulation of fidelity-degrading departures from the principal-mode Hilbert space when both control and target photons illuminate the gate.
Theologie und Vergangenheitsbewältigung II. Französischer Katholizismus - deutscher Protestantismus 1930-1950. Bericht von der Fachtagung im Robert-Schuman-Haus, Trier, vom 12. bis 14. Januar 2007
Creators: name: Al-Taie, Yvonne
Publisher: name: theologie.geschichte
Year: 2012

description: theologie.geschichte, Bd. 2 (2007)
Economic Consequences of Health Status: A Review of the Evidence
Creators: name: Hamoudi, Amar A.
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
Public health

description: The correlation between health and economic performance is extremely robust across communities and over time. Many factors exogenous to income play an important role in determining health status, including a number of geographical, environmental, and evolutionary factors. This suggests the existence of simultaneous impacts of health on wealth and wealth on health. Potential health impacts on national economic performance are explored, and some important unanswered questions are identified.
title: Occupation after the War (Belgium and France)
title: Occupation after the War (Belgium and France)
Creators: name: Godfroid, Anne
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Besetzung
subject: o.P. Rheinland
subject: Ruhrkampf
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Territorial questions
subject: Rhineland (Germany)

description: The Armistice agreement foresaw the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine, the dates of which were set by the Treaty of Versailles. The inter-allied occupation was a long-term endeavour: the French settled in the south and the Belgians in the north of the Rhine basin. Relations were established between the occupying forces and occupied communities, both of whom were involved in a slow process of cultural demobilization. Their interaction continued to be marred by violence, which peaked in 1923 during the invasion of the Ruhr or “''Ruhrkampf''”. Normalization in the relations between these former belligerents, and their peaceful cohabitation along the Rhine finally began ten years after the August 1914 declaration of war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
The Role of Ciliopathy Genes in Axonal Development
Creators: name: Catalano, Christy Nicole
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Human Development

description: Primary cilia are tiny, microtubule-based organelles that project from the body of all mammalian cells and function as the cellular signalling hub. Genetic mutation of ciliary genes leads to multi-organ system dysfunction causing a group of diseases called ciliopathies. Notably, ciliopathy patients present with severe neurological phenotypes, including intellectual disability and prominent axon tract defects, suggesting a role for primary cilia in axonal development. However, the mechanisms behind axonal phenotypes in ciliopathies are not well understood. The formation of axons requires the assembly of very long microtubules, which are nucleated by the centrosome. As the cell’s microtubule organizing centre and the organelle that forms the base of the primary cilium, the centrosome is a common link between the axonal cytoskeleton and the cilium. Therefore, I hypothesized that the loss of ciliary proteins could impact the microtubule cytoskeleton, which in turn could influence axonal morphology and microtubule-based trafficking. This thesis investigates the role of two proteins that localize to the centrosome and base of the cilium, Ahi1 and Bbs7, in axonal development. Using targeted shRNA gene knockdown in cortical mouse neurons, I first investigated the roles of Ahi1 and Bbs7 in axonal morphology. Then, I further analyzed the role of Ahi1 in axons, using live cell imaging to examine axonal trafficking along microtubules. This thesis provides evidence that initial axonal outgrowth and axonal branching are inhibited by ciliary gene knockdown. I also present evidence that the trafficking of early endosomes and synaptic vesicles along axonal microtubules is altered by Ahi1 deficiency, which could impact axon growth, health, and synaptic function. Further research will be necessary to understand the exact cause and consequences of these changes in axonal morphology and trafficking; however, this thesis substantiates a role for primary cilia in regulating the developing axon.
Adapted Sport and Recreation Camps: Examining Physical Activity, Self-Perceptions, and Motivations for Participation in Youth with Physical Disabilities
Creators: name: Tremblay, Catherine
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: adapted sport
subject: adapted sport and recreation
subject: physical disabilities
subject: youth
subject: adapted
subject: self-perception
subject: attraction to physical activity
subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Recreation
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether time spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), self-perceptions, and motivation for participation in physical activity (PA) change following participation in a 5-day adapted sport and recreation (S&R) camp in youth aged 7-18 years with physical disabilities. Objectives: The first objective is to examine changes in weekly levels of MVPA in minutes in youth (ages 7-18 years) with a physical disability during, and at 6- and 12-months following participation in a 5-day adapted S&R camp compared to pre-camp MVPA. The second objective is to examine changes in self-perception and motivation for participation in PA in youth with a physical disability following a 5-day adapted S&R camp compared to pre-camp. Methods: This is a one-year longitudinal pre-experimental study that used Actigraphy to measure time spent in MVPA and used The Children’s Attraction to PA and the Self-Perception Profiles in Children measures to examine changes in self-perceptions and motivations for participating in PA. Data was collected pre-camp, during camp, and at 6- and 12-months post-camp. Results: Time spent in MVPA was higher during camp compared to pre-camp for children (z=-2.10; p=0.04) and adolescents (z=-2.31; p=0.03). This increase was not sustained at 6 months post-camp for both groups or at 12-months post-camp for the adolescent group (p>0.05). The children’s camp-group saw an increase in time spent in MVPA at 12-months post-camp relative to pre-camp (z=-2.02; p=0.04). Self-perceptions and attraction to physical activity did not meaningfully change on day 3, and 6-months and 12-months following participation in an adapted S&R camp. No apparent trends or patterns were seen based on individual level data. Conclusion: Time spent in MVPA, self-perceptions and attraction to PA in children did not change following participation in the adapted S&R camp. Future studies should consider a larger sample, a study design including a control group for comparison, and ways to improve psychosocial aspects when planning adapted S&R camps for youth with physical disabilities.
title: The Good Soldier Švejk (novel)
title: The Good Soldier Švejk (novel)
Creators: name: Górny, Maciej
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové valky
subject: o.P. Hašek, Jaroslav, 1883-1923. Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války

description: ''Osudy dobrého vojaka Švejka za světové války'' (''The Good Soldier Švejk'') by Jaroslav Hašek belongs to the most valuable and informative artistic accounts of the Great War. Despite an initially cold reception, the novel won international fame and became the focus of ideological interpretations. Though pacifism remains its most obvious context, in the Hašek studies of the Soviet bloc the novel was celebrated as a "proletarian" manifesto of class struggle.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Gradual Spread of Market-Led Industrialization
Creators: name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
name: Yang, Xiaokai
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: The paper introduces asymmetric production conditions between firms and asymmetric transaction conditions between countries into the Murphy-Shleifer-Vishny model of industrialization. It explores a general equilibrium mechanism that generates circular causation loop that each firm's profitability and its decision of involvement in a network of industrial linkages and trade flows is determined by the size of the network, while the network size is in turn determined by all firms' decisions of participation. It shows that the very function of the market is networking relevant self-interested decision makers and utilize the network effects of industrialization, though this function is not perfect. Hence, market led industrialization will gradually spread until the whole world economy is integrated in a single network of trade and industrial linkages as transaction conditions are improved. Also, this general equilibrium mechanism predicts empirical observation that temperate zone is involved in this industrialization process more early than the tropic zone because of its better climate and public health conditions. This paper devises a new approach to specifying zero profit condition for a marginal modern firm, while keeping original feedback loop between positive profit and the extent of the market of the MSV model. Hence, this new method and the trade off between economies of scale and transaction costs can be used to endogenize the number of modern sectors and increases applicability of this type of models which is featured with compatibility between economies of scale and competitive market.
One-point extensions of locally compact paracompact spaces
Creators: name: Koushesh, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54D20, 54D35, 54D40, 54D45, 54E50

description: A space $Y$ is called an {\em extension} of a space $X$ if $Y$ contains $X$ as a dense subspace. Two extensions of $X$ are said to be {\em equivalent} if there is a homeomorphism between them which fixes $X$ point-wise. For two (equivalence classes of) extensions $Y$ and $Y'$ of $X$ let $Y\leq Y'$ if there is a continuous function of $Y'$ into $Y$ which fixes $X$ point-wise. An extension $Y$ of $X$ is called a {\em one-point extension} if $Y\backslash X$ is a singleton. An extension $Y$ of $X$ is called {\em first-countable} if $Y$ is first-countable at points of $Y\backslash X$. Let ${\mathcal P}$ be a topological property. An extension $Y$ of $X$ is called a {\em ${\mathcal P}$-extension} if it has ${\mathcal P}$. In this article, for a given locally compact paracompact space $X$, we consider the two classes of one-point Čech-complete ${\mathcal P}$-extensions of $X$ and one-point first-countable locally-${\mathcal P}$ extensions of $X$, and we study their order-structures, by relating them to the topology of a certain subspace of the outgrowth $βX\backslash X$. Here ${\mathcal P}$ is subject to some requirements and include $σ$-compactness and the Lindelöf property as special cases.
description: 22 pages
title: Science and Technology (Africa)
title: Science and Technology (Africa)
Creators: name: Page, Melvin E.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Afrika
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Technik
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Technology
subject: Africa

description: Although many scientific innovations and technologies came to the continent with the process of colonization, only during the First World War did Africans experience the full potential of new weapons and engineering innovations as well as transformative transportation methods and medical possibilities. Some Africans seized on the new ways and turned them into opportunities. Others either rejected them as antithetical to tradition or, without embracing the innovations, expected them to change and improve their lives. Ultimately few Africans were unaffected by the precipitous wartime changes that science and technology brought to their lands and peoples.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
OMERO.mde : Electron Microscopy Use Case
Creators: name: Kandpal, Niraj
name: Zentis, Peter
name: Hoevels, Moritz
name: Valencia-Schneider, Monica
name: Schauss, Astrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Presentation slides from RDM4mic meeting in Muenster from 19-21 September 2023. These slides contain data management use case at CECAD Imaging facility. We are using OMERO.mde to annotate EM(Electron Microscopy) data with metadata at the imaging facility. This presentation provide a use case with specific template for Electron  Microscopy.
Phytobia megapodema Sousa & Couri 2017
Creators: name: Carvalho-Filho, Fernando S.
name: Cabá, Emiliano N.
name: Monteiro, Nilton J. S.
name: De-Souza, Caroline C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Phytobia
Phytobia megapodema

description: Phytobia megapodema Sousa & Couri
Material examined. 1 ♂ (MPEG): Brasil [Brazil] AC [= state of Acre]— Rio Branco / 25–X a [to] 8–XI–91 / F. Ramos / A. Henriques / I. Gorayeb / N. Bittencourt // Armadilha [trap] / Malayse / T. Firme [upland forest]
Comments. This species was recently described and has been recorded from the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, and Rondônia (Sousa & Couri 2022), but this is the first record from the state of Acre.
Distribution. Brazil (Acre, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, and Rondônia).
description: Published as part of Carvalho-Filho, Fernando S., Cabá, Emiliano N., Monteiro, Nilton J. S. & De-Souza, Caroline C., 2025, Four new species of Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from the Brazilian Amazon, with an updated key to the Neotropical species, pp. 448-464 in Zootaxa 5604 (4) on page 460, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/15213994