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The Economy Wide Impact of Bio-fuel Investment in Ethiopia: A Recursive Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Micro-simulation Analysis
Creators: name: Mersha, Gemechis
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: The share of fuel import in total imports of goods for Ethiopia rose from 12% in 2005/06 to 20.1% in 2010/2011. In 2008 the country's oil bill exceeded the total export earnings. The high and often fluctuating fuel prices have frustrated development efforts in the country. This has triggered policy makers to review the energy development strategies and search for mechanisms that minimize dependence on high-cost imported fossil oil. An important mechanism identified in this area is to substitute fossil fuels with domestically produced bio-fuel. Currently, investments in biofuel with the aim of producing ethanol and bio-diesel are underway in different parts of the country. This study investigates the impact of biofuel investments on growth, poverty and food security in Ethiopia using a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model linked to micro simulation (MS) model. The CGE model uses the 2005/06 social accounting matrix (SAM) and the MS model uses the 2004/05 Household Income, Consumption and Expenditure (HICE) survey. The results suggest that biofuel investment provide a new opportunity to enhance economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results also show the complementarities between 'biofuel' and 'food' production.
Noether symmetries and integrability in time-dependent Hamiltonian mechanics
Creators: name: Jovanovic, Bozidar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J15, 37J35, 37J55, 70H25, 70H33

description: We consider Noether symmetries within Hamiltonian setting as transformations that preserve Poincaré-Cartan form, i.e., as symmetries of characteristic line bundles of nondegenerate 1-forms. In the case when the Poincaré-Cartan form is contact, the explicit expression for the symmetries in the inverse Noether theorem is given. As examples, we consider natural mechanical systems, in particular the Kepler problem. Finally, we prove a variant of the theorem on complete (non-commutative) integrability in terms of Noether symmetries of time-dependent Hamiltonian systems.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Economic Impacts of Water Quantity and Quality Constraints on Agriculture of the Colorado River Basin: An Interindustry Projections Study
Creators: name: Stewart, Clyde E.
name: Stewart, Clyde E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1969
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: A study of the economy of the Colorado River Basin was initiated by U.S. Public Health Service in recognition of a need for an overall analysis of basic industries and relationships and the related projections of economic activity as a framework within which water quality decisions could be made. The input-output interindustry technique was selected because of its comprehensive consideration of economic activity and relationships and because of its manipulative features in considering impacts of alternative resource development and adjustment situations. In order to facilitate a more adequate analysis, including the need for location of economic activity and adjustments, a small area approach was utilized. Thus, the Colorado River Basin was divided into six subbasins--three Upper Basin [Green, Upper Main Stem, San Juan] and three Lower Basin [Little Colorado, Lower Main Stem, Gila]. Separate analyses, models, and projections were developed for each subbasin. Water quantity and quality and other constraints and opportunities were considered for each subbasin.
description: In 1962, the U.S. Economic Research Service entered into a reimbursement agreement with the U.S. Public Health Service that provided for analysis and projections of the agricultural industry in each of six subbasins of the Colorado River Basin. Input-output models were developed for each subbasin. Later, the U.S. Federal Water Pollution Control Administration replaced the Public Health Service as contractor.
Gerhard Bersu und Ferenc Tompa – Angaben zu den Kontakten Gerhard Bersus mit der ungarischen Archäologie
Creators: name: Prohászka, Péter
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden Gerhard Bersus Kontakte mit dem ungarischen Prähistoriker Ferenc Tompa rekonstruiert, wobei auch sein Einfluss auf die ungarische Archäologie behandelt wird. Diese Rekonstruktion basiert auf den überlieferten Korrespondenzen hauptsächlich im Nachlass Tompa bzw. im Archiv der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission (RGK). Die Kontakte mit Tompa kann man in vier Gruppen einteilen. Die Ausgrabungen in Goldberg bzw. in Ungarn (Tószeg, Lengyel usw.), Tompas Rolle in den Organisationsarbeiten bei den Donauländischen Studienfahrten (1929, 1933), Tompas Arbeit über die 25 Jahre Urgeschichtsforschung in Ungarn für die Berichte der RGK und die Rolle von Tompa bei den Organisationsarbeiten bzw. bei der Vertretung von Bersus Interessen im Internationale Kongress für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (CISPP). Nach der Quellenanalyse hatte Bersu eine wichtige Auswirkung auf Tompa und auch auf die ungarische Prähistorie.
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
The influence of process parameters on the microstructure and mechanical properties of die cast magnesium aluminium alloys
Creators: name: Pitsaris, Chris
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Gerhard Bersu und die „Studienfahrten deutscher und donauländischer Bodenforscher“
Creators: name: Schnurbein, Siegmar Von
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Unter dieser Bezeichnung werden sechs Reisen zusammengefasst, die zwischen den Jahren 1929 und 1937 stattgefunden haben. Der Ursprung dieser Gruppenreisen geht auf die „Versammlung deutscher und österreichischer Vor- und Frühgeschichtsforscher in Linz, Oberösterreich“ zurück, die 1925 stattgefunden hat. Dieses Treffen hatte nicht den Charakter der im Fach längst etablierten Tagungen, sondern sollte, nach den Unterbrechungen infolge des Krieges und den Notzeiten der ersten Nachkriegsjahre dazu dienen, die abgerissenen persönlichen Kontakte zwischen Wissenschaftlern in Deutschland und dem ehemaligen Kaiserreich Österreich-Ungarn wieder zu knüpfen sowie neue anzubahnen. Es sollte sich zeigen, dass Gerhard Bersu maßgeblich dazu beitrug, langfristige Strukturen für einen regelmäßigen internationalen Austausch zu schaffen; ihm ist zu verdanken, dass die dabei entwickelten Beziehungen insbesondere zu Jugoslawien auch den Zweiten Weltkrieg überdauerten.
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Vom Kunstschützer zum Kulturdiplomaten – Gerhard Bersu in den Jahren 1914 bis 1927
Creators: name: Kott, Christina
name: Neumayer, Heino
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Im Sommer 1916 übernahm der Kriegsfreiwillige Gerhard Bersu das Kunst- und Verwaltungsreferat beim Verwaltungschef des Kaiserlichen Generalgouvernements im besetzten Belgien. Zu seinen kulturpolitischen Aufgaben zählte die Betreuung der belgischen Kunstdenkmäler, Museen und Bodendenkmäler. Zusammen mit Wilhelm Unverzagt kam es zu Ausgrabungen und einer Inventarisation der archäologischen Stätten in den besetzten Gebieten der Westfront. Nach dem Waffenstillstand im November 1918 war Bersu an der Rückführung von Kulturgut in die ehemals besetzten Gebiete beteiligt. Im Auftrag des Auswärtigen Amtes machte er sich nach Unterzeichnung des Versailler Vertrags 1919 um die Abwicklung der darin enthaltenen Wiedergutmachungs- und Entschädigungsklauseln verdient. Patriotismus, aber auch der Wunsch nach Wiederherstellung internationaler Forschungsnetzwerke, leiteten sein Handeln.
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
An Empirical Investigation on Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Nuru, Hussen
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2013

description: This study investigates empirically the monetary transmission mechanism in Ethiopia to better inform monetary policy, which is currently dedicated to price and exchange rate stability. The study analyses long-run equilibrium relationships, adjustment mechanisms and short-run influences between the output, price level and transmission channels: namely, the exchange rate; the interest rate; money supply; and credit channel. In order to analyze the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy, the study uses vector autoregression and vector error correction mechanism (VECM). In addition, impulse response functions (IRF) and variance decompositions (VDC) techniques are employed to assess the relative strength of each channel. The results of econometric analysis suggest that monetary policy in Ethiopia had a relatively significant influence on the real activity through the direct monetary transmission and exchange rate channel. Besides, the results of statistical tests suggest that the interest rate channel is not active. Although the cointegration analysis showed that domestic credit have significant impact in the long run, both the VDC and IRFs implies weak existence of the credit channel. In order to strengthen the monetary transmission mechanisms that exist in the country a continued effort need to be made to develop the domestic financial sector and to adjust exchange rate to maintain external competitiveness. .
„Seit 29 Jahren schulden Sie uns einen Ausgrabungsbericht [...]!“ – Gerhard Bersu und die schlesischen Burgwälle
Creators: name: Reichenbach, Karin
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Gerhard Bersus Ausgrabungen an niederschlesischen Befestigungsanlagen und seine Beziehungen zur schlesischen Vorgeschichtsforschung sind bislang nur wenig bekannt. Sie prägten ihn jedoch ebenso wie seine frühen archäologischen Tätigkeiten in Süddeutschland und der Mark Brandenburg und bildeten nicht zuletzt die Grundlage für seine Dissertation und zwei seiner wichtigsten Publikationen. Die Nachwirkungen dieser Forschungen blieben für die niederschlesische Bodendenkmalpflege allerdings nicht ganz unproblematisch, da Bersu Grabungsberichte und Befunddokumentationen schuldig blieb.
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Buffer Layer Engineering on Graphene via Various Oxidation Methods for Atomic Layer Deposition
Creators: name: Takahashi, Nobuaki
name: Nagashio, Kosuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The integration of high-k oxide on graphene using atomic layer deposition requires an electrically reliable buffer layer. In this study, Y was selected as the buffer layer due to the highest oxidation ability in rare earth elements and various oxidation methods (atmospheric, high-pressure O2 and ozone) were applied to the Y metal buffer layer. By optimizing oxidation conditions of the top gate insulator, we successfully improve the capacitance of top gate Y2O3 insulator and demonstrate a large Ion/Ioff ratio for bilayer graphene under an external electric field.
Stability and control of parallel turbo-generators with differing parameters [microform] : an investigation using simulation
Creators: name: Pidgeon, Norman Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Einleitung
Creators: name: Bánffy, Eszter
name: Hofmann, Kerstin P.
name: Gramsch, Alexander
name: Grunwald, Susanne
name: Rasbach, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
The Role of Diversification in Reducing Impacts of Export Instability on Ethiopian Economic Growth:: An Empirical Investigation
Creators: name: Sileshi, Shewangizaw
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2003

description: There has been considerable discussion during the past four decades on the problems of instability in export earnings and impact of such instability on economic development in LDCs. There is now universal agreement on the view that LDCs have in varying degrees of seriousness suffered comparatively larger magnitudes of short-run fluctuations in their external proceeds than most developed countries (Fowdar, 2002). One of the rationales for diversification is the problems associated with export instability. The hypothesis is that export instability inflicts serious damage upon the economies of LDCs. The poor performance of exports in Ethiopia has largely been blamed on the poor domestic policies, deteriorating terms of trade and export earnings instability. Diversification of the export base helps to reduce the level of fluctuations in export earnings. Attempt was made to examine the possible causes of export instability and the extent to which it affects economic growth in the context of the Ethiopian economy. The hypothesis, whether concentration of commodities of markets attributable to the fluctuations was also tested. In this study more emphasis is given to the cause of export instability, the extent to which level of export instability Ethiopia has faced and its impact on the economic growth in causing uncertainty of source of foreign exchange badly needed for importing capital goods and inputs, and which are essential for growth, followed by a brief case for a more diversified economic base. Finally, based on the empirical result, the study came up with the existing undiversified export portfolio causes export earnings instability. Moreover, country's world market share and proportion of food exports are found to be significant with the expected signs. Based on the findings of the research, the following key recommendations are made: To insulate the economy from adverse terms of trade and instability in export earnings associated with commodity concentration, there has to be a policy shift to diversify the country's exports to include non-coffee exports. Moreover, the country can achieve stable export earnings by exporting food stuffs as they are low income elastic and help reducing export earnings instability. Lastly, Government should make deliberate effort to diversify export items to manufactures which is a sectoral shift in the structure of production and trade as the existing exports are mainly from agricultural sectors. Moreover, the result shows short-run export instability causes income instability implying impact of export earnings instability is severe and the need for diversifying the existing export portfolio is timely and essential. Key Words: Export Earnings Instability, Diversification and Economic Growth
Modelling of shear flocculation
Creators: name: Patil, Dattatraya Parashuram
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The real time prediction of freeway travel times
Creators: name: Paterson, Darryn William
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Ethiopia Commodity Exchange— Challenges and Opportunities of Liquidity
Creators: name: Alemayehu, Mulugeta
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX), the first organized agricultural market, was established pursuant to Proclamation No. 550/2007 as a wholly owned government institution. The expectation is to revolutionize the existing inefficient agricultural market and thereby to bring about a meaningful contribution to the growth of the whole economy. The research, therefore, attempted to address the liquidity challenges and opportunities that might impede and/or facilitate the effort to realize this fundamental shift in marketing system. The research was mainly conducted through observation and critical evaluation of the ECX's model vis-à-vis the environment in which it is operating. The result suggested that there are lots of challenges that might slow down the momentum of the change which might result in disruption the effort to accomplish the stakeholders' expectation. So far, much is left to be desired in terms of designing a strategy to reduce the potential negative impact of the liquidity challenges. In lieu of this, possible solutions intended to be employed as a general road map for specific action plan, are recommended. Despite the foregoing, opportunities are already there to be scrutinized so that their leveraging potential be utilized. In brief, the launching of the ECX is a major breakthrough in Ethiopia's attempt to modernize the existing agricultural market. But, success depends on how swift the reaction might be to the ongoing realities of the country and the major setbacks ahead.
Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Behru, Mohammednur
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: The recent sharp devaluation by the central bank aggravates the inflation rate from single inflation rate of 5.3% in August 2010 to 10.6% in October 2010 following only a month after the devaluation occurred and 40.1% in September 2011 after a year. Initiated from this fact, this paper investigates the exchange rate pass-through to inflation and other macroeconomic variables in Ethiopia for monthly data ranging from July 2002(the beginning of Ethiopian fiscal year 2002/03) to June 2011(the end of Ethiopian fiscal year 2010/11). The study apply Six-Variable unrestricted VAR model to estimate the impulse response functions (IRFs) and variance decompositions (VDCs). In order to measure the pass-through coefficient to CPI, the study applies standardization of the exchange rate shock which helps to transform the shock from one standard Deviation to one percent. Hence the result shows that, on average a percentage change in exchange rate will increase the consumer price by 4.75% percent in the first year. The exchange rate pass-through to inflation almost dies out after two years of the exchange rate shock. The result also support Taylor's hypothesis which states that: high inflation leads to high level of exchange rate pass-through. Hence, the study concludes that, exchange rate change has prominent effect on Ethiopian inflation environment.
Design of continuous time input pipelined ADCS for advanced CMOS technologies
Creators: name: O'Hare, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: This thesis presents a new Continuous Time Input Pipeline (CTIP) ADC architecture that has enhanced bandwidth and resolution compared to previously published work. The research carried out contains a comprehensive analysis of the limitations of previous CTIP ADCs architectures and a fundamental overview leads to a new implementation. An all pass filter based analog delay in the signal path allows bandwidth extension to Nyquist signal bandwidths. A resetting integrator gain stage provides a signal path delay helping to increase the bandwidth while reducing the power cost. The noise filtering property of the resetting integrator gain stage preserves the mid-scale resistive input benefit of CTIP ADCs. Detailed analysis of the properties and requirements to build resetting integrator gain stages are covered in the thesis. The resetting integrator allows the architecture to be implemented with a Feed-Forward (FF) compensated op-amp using low voltage CMOS processes. Analysis of three stage FF op-amps is presented and a design procedure implementing them is detailed. A novel reset circuit removes the risk of instability in the reset mode. A novel integrate and hold circuit allows the CTIP to operate as an analog frontend with any sampled backend ADC and avoids performance limitations due to the sampling jitter of the backend ADC. Non-linearity and switching distortion issues with the DACs required to build CTIP ADCs are also investigated. A solution to reduce switching distortion when using Tri-level DACs is proposed and a resistive DAC topology to avoid switching distortion is implemented. This work has been verified by simulation results of a CTIP ADC with 1.2V supply voltage designed in TSMC’s 65nm CMOS technology. The physical design (layout) of the ADC has been implemented and its parasitics were used to carry out extracted simulations. All the circuits used in the final design are suitable for migration to CMOS technologies with sub 1V supply voltages and the CTIP ADC performance will benefit from the speed improvements of advanced CMOS technologies.
Estimating the Value for Conservation of Won chi Crater Lake (Application of Contingent Valuation Method)
Creators: name: Fufa, Negassa
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: The reason why the Natural Resources or Environmental Goods and Services are polluting and destroying is due to the nature of the resources, they have the property of Public Goods which have no market value. Despite of their importance, society over utilize them for only the current benefits without thinking the future life span of these resources. The problems related to Natural Resources and Environmental Goods is now a day the main topic of discussion in every Conference and Panel discussions. The main objective of this study is, therefore, estimating the value of these resources as if they are conserved. Among all, this study focused on Conservation of Wenchi Crater Lake, which is very affecting lake by society. It is, the society's Willingness to pay (WTP) as if this lake is conserved. Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) was applied based on its advantages over other methods of valuation. To identify the individuals' WTP for conservation of the lake, Closed-ended question format was used. Follow-up question which is open was used to see whether there is starting bid bias or not, but excluded from analysis. As of the descriptive statistics and Econometric results, from total of usable sample size 193, 190 (98%) were perceived the problem and are willing to pay. The result also shows as there is no serious starting bias so that individuals expressed their, nearly, true WTP which was proved by asking the follow-up question about their maximum WTP amount. From Econometric results, Probit and logit models, explanatory variables such as income, education, Origin, family size, and occupation of the respondents are positively affect the probability of saying 'yes' for proposed bids and are statistically significant variables at different level. Another variables, Age and Initial bids are also significant at 1% but negative impact on the probability of saying yes. Therefore, taking the importance of the lake for society and for government in to consideration, and the society's WTP, the policy makers, and even government need to focus on identified factors in designing strategies for the conservation of the lake. Key words: Willingness-to-pay, Contingent Valuation Method, Conservation of Wenchi Crater Lake
Periodic motions generated from non-autonomous grazing dynamics
Creators: name: Akhmet, Marat
name: Kivilcim, Aysegul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34C25, 34D10, 34D20, 34K13, 34K45

description: This paper examines impulsive non-autonomous systems with grazing periodic solutions. Surfaces of discontinuity and impact functions of the systems are not depending on the time variable. That is, we can say that the impact conditions are stationary, and this makes necessity to study the problem in a new way. The models play exceptionally important role in mechanics and electronics. A concise review on the sufficient conditions for the new type of linearization is presented. The existence and stability of periodic solutions are considered under the circumstance of the regular perturbation. To visualize the theoretical results, mechanical examples are presented.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures
Propuesta de una metodología mixta para la evaluación de la vulnerabilidad territorial frente a la urbanización
Creators: name: Escobar Pereira, María Francisca
name: Ubilla-Bravo, Gerardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: La vulnerabilidad frente a la urbanización propuesta en esta investigación se refiere a las condiciones internas del territorio que obstaculizan un desarrollo inclusivo, integrado y sostenible. El tipo de urbanización metropolitana con el que se trabaja se refiere a la determinación del nuevo suelo disponible a ser urbanizado y cuyas directrices de uso se encuentran en el instrumento de regulación urbana correspondiente a la escala metropolitana, el Plan Regulador Metropolitano de Santiago (PRMS). La hipótesis es que la metodología actual para determinar el nuevo suelo urbano en el PRMS es insuficiente para enfrentar los desafíos de la Agenda 2030. Los resultados indican que en la Metrópoli de Santiago el nuevo suelo urbano ha sido determinado utilizando metodologías que abordan el territorio en forma fragmentada, lo que ha traído como consecuencia procesos de urbanización que no son sostenibles. El Índice de vulnerabilidad territorial frente a la urbanización se propone como un instrumento que permite identificar las comunas más vulnerables para acoger procesos de urbanización. Gracias al Índice de vulnerabilidad territorial frente a la urbanización se pregunta cuáles son las comunas más vulnerables donde se han dado los mayores cambios en el suelo urbano, sin antes haber resuelto las problemáticas que le dieron la condición de estado de vulnerabilidad.
Price Response of Rural Households in Ethiopia: Case of Bako, Yetmen, Tiyo/Eteya
Creators: name: Yimer, Feiruz
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2007

description: The study is conducted to assess price response of Ethiopian farm households. For this purpose, a sample of 217 households selected from food crop growing areas is used. The households are modeled using the nonseparable farm household framework for the reason that the households are assumed to face incomplete labor market. The SNQ profit function is estimated to capture the production side of the households where as AIDS function for consumption side. Elasticities are derived from this function and utilized in calculating non-separable household model price elaticities. In addition, to examine the implication of market imperfection, the separable farm household price elasticities are calculated for comparison purpose. The findings show that price response of agricultural production activities are negatively affected by the rise in price of agricultural goods under non-separable framework unlike the separable one. On the other hand, change of fertilizer price in downward direction has positive impact on production and input use. So, the rise in price of agricultural goods is not the right incentive for increasing production. Hence, a more appropriate incentive for production would be a reduction in the price of fertilizer than a rise in price of agricultural goods. The possible policy implication which could be inferred form the analysis is that governments need to have the discretion to provide support in input use, particularly fertilizer, in the form of subsidy so as to initiate rural households to produce more.
Deformation and intergranular fracture in aerospace Al-Li-Cu-Mg-Zr alloys
Creators: name: Pasang, Timotius
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Cubic anisotropy created by defects of "random local anisotropy" type, and phase diagram of the O(n) model
Creators: name: Berzin, A. A.
name: Morosov, A. I.
name: Sigov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The expression for the cubic-type-anisotropy constant created by defects of "random local anisotropy" type is derived. It is shown that the Imry-Ma theorem stating that in space dimensions d<4 the introduction of an arbitrarily small concentration of defects of the "random local anisotropy" type in a system with continuous symmetry of the n-component vector order parameter (O(n) model) leads to the long-range order collapse and to occurrence of a disordered state, is not true if an anisotropic distribution of the defect-induced random easy axes directions in the order parameter space creates a global effective anisotropy of the "easy axis" type. For a weakly anisotropic distribution of the easy axes, in space dimensions 2
description: 14 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1610.02803
title:  Gli studi biblici africani nel contesto della teologia decoloniale: tensioni tra ‘centro’ e ‘periferie’
Creators: name: Tonelli  , Debora
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2022

description: Negli ultimi decenni gli studi biblici africani hanno acquistato una visibilità sempre maggiore, contribuendo a ripensare la tradizione teologica a partire da uno sguardo decentrato. Ciò ha innescato un processo di riflessione sull’epistemologia tradizionale - teologica, ma anche politica e sociale - e, di conseguenza, ha favorito iniziative e percorsi volte all’emancipazione sociale, politica e delle pratiche religiose. La rivoluzione epistemica cui gli studi biblici africani contribuiscono non limita, però, la sua forza di azione al continente, ma sollecita una diversa e più inclusiva riflessione epistemica anche in quelle culture che storicamente hanno saputo maggiormente imporsi al di fuori dei propri confini geografici. Obiettivo di questo saggio è far conoscere e analizzare a grandi linee il ruolo degli studi biblici africani nell’orizzonte della teologia decoloniale e nel più ampio e sfidante processo di ripensamento della polarizzazione tra «centro» e «periferie» radicalizzata dall’esperienza coloniale prima e dalla globalizzazione poi.

In recent decades, African biblical studies have acquired ever greater visibility, helping to rethink the theological tradition starting from a decentralized perspective. This triggered a process of reflection on traditional epistemology - theological, but also political and social - and, consequently, favored initiatives and paths aimed at social, political and religious practice emancipation. The epistemic revolution to which African biblical studies contribute, however, does not limit its force of action to the continent, but calls for a different and more inclusive epistemic reflection even in those cultures that historically have been able to impose themselves more outside their own geographical borders. The aim of this essay is to make known and broadly analyze the role of African biblical studies in the horizon of decolonial theology and in the broader and more challenging process of rethinking the polarization between "center" and "peripheries" radicalized by the colonial experience before and then from globalization.
description: B@belonline vol. 9 Subversion and resistance in Hegel: paradigms, figures, resonances /Sovversione e resistenza in Hegel: paradigmi, figure, risonanze
Morphology of the oscillatory flow behind a finite-span thrust-producing flapping wing
Creators: name: Parker, Kamalluddien
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Beaver River Basin, Utah and Nevada: Water and Related Land Resources, Summary Report
Creators: name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1973
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: Beaver River Basin extends from the Pine Valley Mountains on the south to Sevier Lake on the north. The east border lies on the High Plateaus, with the bulk of the area extending westward to the Wah Wah Mountains and House Range in the Basin and Range Province. Counties partially or entirely within the area are Beaver, Iron, Juab, Millard, Washington, and minor areas of Sevier and Garfield. The small area in Nevada is in Lincoln County. Beaver, Iron and Millard counties comprise the major land area. It contains 5.2 million acres and is 145 miles long, north to south, and 116 miles wide. This report identifies problems and needs concerning the conservation and use of water and land resources and emphasizes development opportunities through the initiative of local sponsors. It also provides information to plan programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, other federal agencies, and the state of Utah, and provides a basis for effective coordination between these agencies. Although land resources were studied, they were examined primarily as they relate to water. This study focuses on water resources and analyzes their importance to economic development. A water budget program was developed to evaluate water resource-inflow-use-outflow relationships. A second evaluation determined inflow-use-outflow relationship of irrigation water based upon a crop priority system.
description: Participation in this study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is authorized under provisions of Section 6 of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566, 83d Congress, 68 Stat. 666 as amended). The Governor assigned the Division of Water Resources to carry out the State's responsibilities, both for assisting in the study and for coordination between other federal and State agencies.
title:  Storia, redenzione a tempo messianico in Walter Benjamin
Creators: name: Tagliacozzo  ,  Tamara
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2022

description: Il concetto di storia di Walter Benjamin è una costruzione in cui l'idea messianica, il mondo perfetto, è presente in ogni "ora della conoscibilità" in cui l'"immagine dialettica" monadologica si presenta come l'attualizzazione di momenti di un passato non redento che viene redento nella conoscenza e successivamente nell'azione politica. La relazione tra passato e presente si dà nell'immagine dialettica, nel concetto di storia, in un'interruzione messianica del corso della storia. Ciò è dovuto alla dottrina ebraica della Cabala, a Kant (e a Cohen) e a Marx. Il compito etico, politico e "storico" dell'agente collettivo e del soggetto della conoscenza si fonda su una concezione del tempo non vuota e meccanica, ma piena, intensiva e redentiva: è il tempo messianico.

Walter Benjamin’s concept of history is a construction where the messianic idea, the perfect world, is present in every ‘now of knowability’ in which the monadological ‘dialectical image’ presents itself as the actualization of moments of an unredeemed past that is redeemed in knowledge and afterwards in political action. The relation between past and present is given in the dialectical image, in the concept of history, in a messianic interruption of the course of history. This owes to the Jewish doctrine of the Kabbalah, to Kant (and Cohen) and to Marx. The ethical, political and «historical task» pertaining to the collective agent and subject of knowledge is founded on a conception of time that is not empty and mechanical, but that is full, intensive, and redemptive: it is the messianic time.
description: B@belonline vol. 9 Subversion and resistance in Hegel: paradigms, figures, resonances /Sovversione e resistenza in Hegel: paradigmi, figure, risonanze
Políticas de abertura de dados de periódicos científicos: proposta a partir da certificação CoreTrustSeal
Creators: name: Drumond, Larissa Bárbara Borges
name: Rezende, Laura Vilela Rodrigues
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão "Pecha Kucha II" da 14ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, Natal Brasil, de 18 a 21 de setembro de 2023.
Urban Poverty and its dynamics in Ethiopia: evidence from panel household survey
Creators: name: Daniel, Berhane
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Although there are some empirical researches undertaken on poverty in Ethiopia, there is a need for new researches that make use of recent data set and improved methods. Moreover, little research is done on the variables that affect the dynamics of poverty to understand what determines households to fall into and move out of poverty. Using Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey (ESS) wave 2 (2013/14) and wave 3 (2015/16) data, this research identified the correlates of poverty, and the factors that determine the movement of households into and out of poverty. To this end, Kripfganz and Schwarz's sequential (two-stage) regression is used as a primary tool of analysis. The findings from this sequential regression are then compared with two other alternative methods of estimation: Logit Random Effect regression and Logit Fixed Effect regression. The research found that dependency ratio, age of household head and the square of age of head of household are strongly associated with poverty of households. Moreover, it was found that households with illiterate heads have a higher probability of falling into poverty, as compared to the base group of households headed by one with adult and informal education. A multinomial logistic regression undertaken to capture the probability of moving into and out of chronic poverty showed that ownership of nonagricultural business has the tendency to decrease the (relative) probability of a household being chronically poor, rather than move out of poverty. The research finally recommended that the government need to design polices and incentive packages for head of household to get into literacy programs. Family planning scheme should also augment the poverty reduction programs as it reduces the dependency rate. It is also recommended that the government needs to design appropriate entrepreneurial-oriented economic policies and incentive packages that support households to start up businesses.
Parton distribution functions in Monte Carlo factorisation scheme
Creators: name: Jadach, S.
name: Placzek, W.
name: Sapeta, S.
name: Siodmok, A.
name: Skrzypek, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A next step in development of the KrkNLO method of including complete NLO QCD corrections to hard processes in a LO parton-shower Monte Carlo (PSMC) is presented. It consists of generalisation of the method, previously used for the Drell-Yan process, to Higgs-boson production. This extension is accompanied with the complete description of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a dedicated, Monte Carlo (MC) factorisation scheme, applicable to any process of production of one or more colour-neutral particles in hadron-hadron collisions.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures, minor corrections
Preparing international scholarship students for graduate education: The case of the Open Society Foundations’ Pre-Academic Summer Program
Creators: name: Campbell, Anne
name: Basi, Rasjit
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education
Higher education

description: To support higher education, global philanthropies provide diverse funding to organizations, individuals, and networks. This case study focuses on a unique model in philanthropy in education: the Open Society Foundations’ Pre-Academic Summer Program or “OSF Summer School.” To prepare civil society leaders and activists for graduate level study, this month-long intensive program aims to mirror the academic environment and expectations of the grantees’ host universities. Through this case study, findings show that the OSF Summer School teaches students academic skills and provides valuable lessons in interpreting academic culture. By funding and administering this initiative, OSF extends its commitment to educational access by providing programming designed for non-traditional profiles. This case study aims to inform other global foundations and higher education institutions working to prepare scholarship grantees, including individuals from marginalized communities, for international graduate education.
The key role of solar dynamics in the chromospheric Hanle polarization
Creators: name: Carlin, E. S.
name: Bianda, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum theory of polarized light allows one to model scattering in the solar atmosphere for inferring its properties. This powerful approach has revealed two key long-standing problems in solar physics: the puzzling dilemmas between theory and observations in several anomalously polarized spectral lines and the need for inferring the ubiquitous weak chromospheric magnetic fields, which requires discriminating the Hanle effect in dynamic optically thick plasmas. However, the ever-present dynamics, i.e., the temporal evolution of heatings and macroscopic motions, has been widely disregarded when modeling and interpreting the scattering polarization. This has hindered a consistent theoretical solution to the puzzle while falsifying the Hanle diagnosis. Here, we show that the dynamical evolution is a keystone for solving both problems because its systematic impact allows an explanation of the observations from 'anomalous' instantaneous polarization signals. Evolution accounted for, we reproduce amplitudes and (spectral and spatial) shapes of the Ca I 4227 A polarization at solar disk center, identifying a restrictive arrangement of magnetic fields, kinematics, heatings, and spatio-temporal resolution. We find that the joint action of dynamics, Hanle effect, and low temporal resolutions mimics Zeeman linear polarization profiles, the true weak-field Zeeman signals being negligible. Our results allow reinterpretation of many polarization signals of the solar spectra and support time-dependent scattering polarization as a powerful tool for deciphering the spatio-temporal distribution of chromospheric heatings and fields. This approach may be a key aid in developing the Hanle diagnosis for the solar atmosphere.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, published in ApJL
Spectrum of conformal gauge theories on a torus
Creators: name: Thomson, Alex
name: Sachdev, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many model quantum spin systems have been proposed to realize critical points or phases described by 2+1 dimensional conformal gauge theories. On a torus of size $L$ and modular parameter $τ$, the energy levels of such gauge theories equal $(1/L)$ times universal functions of $τ$. We compute the universal spectrum of QED$_3$, a U(1) gauge theory with $N_f$ two-component massless Dirac fermions, in the large $N_f$ limit. We also allow for a Chern-Simons term at level $k$, and show how the topological $k$-fold ground state degeneracy in the absence of fermions transforms into the universal spectrum in the presence of fermions; these computations are performed at fixed $N_f/k$ in the large $N_f$ limit.
description: 35 pages, additional figure in Appendix C
Використання підходу, орієнтованого на сильні сторони, у роботі з вимушеними переселенцями
Creators: name: Semigina, Tetyana
name: Stoliaryk, Olha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social and personality psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Ця робота має на меті окреслити стратегію роботи з ВПО, яка грунтується на розвитку їхніх ресурсів та сильних сторін, посиленні стресостійкості, що в кінцевому підсумку має забезпечити соціальне відновлення людини, яка опинилась у ситуації вимушеного переселення.