cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Role of Financial and Non-Financial Performance Indicators in Enterprise Sustainability Evaluation
Creators: name: Bogicevic, Jasmina
name: Domanovic, Violeta
name: Krstic, Bojan
name: Bogicevic, Jasmina
name: Domanovic, Violeta
name: Krstic, Bojan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: integrated reporting model
subject: sustainability
subject: financial measures and non-financial measures

description: Valid analysis and assessment of the sustainability of the company are based on adequate and reliable information spectrum. Therefore, emphasis should be placed on the selection criteria for assessing the sustainability. In this context, it must be decided whether the assessment of the sustainability should be based solely on financial reporting figures that reflect its financial position or it is necessary to use other parameters. For this reason, in recent years it is highlighted the necessity of an integrated reporting model for assessing the sustainability. Such an approach means taking into account not only financial criteria but also criteria that reflect both internal and external environment. The purpose of the research is to highlight the role of integrated information spectrum for the purposes of assessing the sustainability. In this regard, the paper analyzes the different models for assessing the sustainability in the EU and is considering the possibility of their use in enterprises in the Republic of Serbia.
Negative heat capacity and non-extensive kinetic theory
Creators: name: Silva, R.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The negative nature of the heat capacity $C_V$ of thermodynamically isolated self-gravitating systems is rediscussed in the framework of a non-extensive kinetic theory. It is found that the dependence of $C_V$ on the non-extensive parameter $q$ gives rise to a negative branch with the critical value corresponding to $q = 5/3$ ($C_V\to - \infty$).
description: 7 pages, 1 figure, revised version to appear in Phys. Lett. A
title: Computed Tomographic evaluation of upper airway anatomy in suspected Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
Creators: name: Brazão De Carvalho, Vera
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: CT
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Head and neck
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: - Describe the major CT findings and relevant measures to report in the diagnostic work-up of patients with suspected OSA. - Discuss the relevance and controversies of Müller maneuver in identifying sites of upper-airway...
Republic of Adygea- Small and Beautiful
Creators: name: Bukvic, Rajko M.
name: Bukvic, Rajko M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Adygea
subject: Kransnodar Reservoir (Kuban Sea)
subject: Plateau Lago- Naki
subject: Scythian gold
subject: agro industry
subject: tourism
subject: heritage
subject: development
subject: cooperation
subject: Circassians in Kosovo
subject: cultural cooperation

description: In this paper is considered the Republic of Adygea, one of the smallest federal subjects of the huge and complexly organized Russian Federation. Here is presented a concise history of building of the republic, as its today’s natural characteristics: geographic position, area size and population, relief, climate and water, and natural resources and economy. Especially is emphasized the attractiveness of its touristic destinations and cultural heritage, as conditions for tourism development. Specific possibilities for cultural cooperation between Serbia and Adygea provides Circassian minority, who settled in Kosovo (and in other parts of Serbia) after the Crimean War, one part of which returned to the homeland.
A Memory Augmented Architecture for Continuous Speaker Identification in Meetings
Creators: name: Flemotomos, Nikolaos
name: Dimitriadis, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We introduce and analyze a novel approach to the problem of speaker identification in multi-party recorded meetings. Given a speech segment and a set of available candidate profiles, we propose a novel data-driven way to model the distance relations between them, aiming at identifying the speaker label corresponding to that segment. To achieve this we employ a recurrent, memory-based architecture, since this class of neural networks has been shown to yield advanced performance in problems requiring relational reasoning. The proposed encoding of distance relations is shown to outperform traditional distance metrics, such as the cosine distance. Additional improvements are reported when the temporal continuity of the audio signals and the speaker changes is modeled in. In this paper, we have evaluated our method in two different tasks, i.e. scripted and real-world business meeting scenarios, where we report a relative reduction in speaker error rate of 39.28% and 51.84%, respectively, compared to the baseline.
description: Submitted to ICASSP 2020
On approximate solutions of semilinear evolution equations
Creators: name: Morosi, Carlo
name: Pizzocchero, Livio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34AXX, 35AXX, 35KXX

description: A general framework is presented to discuss the approximate solutions of an evolution equation in a Banach space, with a linear part generating a semigroup and a sufficiently smooth nonlinear part. A theorem is presented, allowing to infer from an approximate solution the existence of an exact solution. According to this theorem, the interval of existence of the exact solution and the distance of the latter from the approximate solution can be evaluated solving a one-dimensional "control" integral equation, where the unknown gives a bound on the previous distance as a function of time. For example, the control equation can be applied to the approximation methods based on the reduction of the evolution equation to finite-dimensional manifolds: among them, the Galerkin method is discussed in detail. To illustrate this framework, the nonlinear heat equation is considered. In this case the control equation is used to evaluate the error of the Galerkin approximation; depending on the initial datum, this approach either grants global existence of the solution or gives fairly accurate bounds on the blow up time.
description: 33 pages, 10 figures. To appear in Rev. Math. Phys. (Shortened version; the proof of Prop. 3.4. has been simplified)
Question Above All Questions for Serbia in 2016 is the Reform of the State-Owned Enterprises
Creators: name: Prokopovic, Borivoje B.
name: Prokopovic, Brat
name: Prokopovic, Borivoje B.
name: Prokopovic, Brat
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Economic growth
subject: strategies
subject: investments
subject: state-owned enterprises
subject: transition
subject: fiscal consolidation
subject: the IMF

description: No matter how much we try, not everything depends on us, because we are part of the world - the global economy. But just because of that, we have to be clear about this, what is our real core problem: whether the state as “too big consumer”, as “soft as income,” or something else. In our country today is more than a debate on the consolidation of the measures of growth and development, which is also rational to ask a question the presence of Serbian strategy, or whether the research and the experience of others in this area. It is generally known that the market economy is an indispensable element of any well-ordered society, and Serbia at this point did little steps to get closer to such an economy than it was at the end of the previous government. The only thing that has been done is that it was started - not complete - financial consolidation, which is a necessary, because it is inevitable. However, fiscal consolidation is not reform, because it does not represent the transformation of the economy and society. In the center of each of the market economy and well-ordered society must be an individual, and an individual who cares about itself and shall bear all the consequences of their decisions, and thus the responsibility for them. For such a society apply firm rules of the game which is not carried out, and within each of them take care of themselves and their environment. The choice we are facing today in the Serbian society is a choice between establishing a full market economy and promoting various forms of pluralism in property relations
title: Wrap your head around it: White matter disease in brain vasculopathies
Creators: name: Leite, Lucas
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Dementia
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Vascular
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Many disorders that have in common the damage of normal myelination, can be expressed as white matter lesions in imaging studies.The spectrum of conditions ranges from infectious disease to autoimmune, metabolic, and vascular processes.With this...
Assessment of Employees Competences Carried out by Different Management Levels
Creators: name: Vukajlovic, Djurdjica
name: Brzakovic, Miodrag
name: Curcic, Nikola
name: Vukajlovic, Djurdjica
name: Brzakovic, Miodrag
name: Curcic, Nikola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: competence
subject: human resources
subject: employees
subject: management

description: The success of any organization depends on the human resources, their knowledge and skills, and their competencies. Competenceis are developed for the needs of business and the organization in which the individual is working. The aim of the study was to determine how the managers of different levels judge competencies of their employees. The results showed that managers value the most employees eager to learn something new in order to improve knowledge and skills, while the least valued competence is planning and verification of the task before relalization in all of its stages. The results also showed that managers of different levels variously estimate certain competence of their employees.
A nurse practitioner best practice paper : literature synthesis of nonpharmacological and pharmacological management for pain in patients with fibromyalgia
Creators: name: Nguyen, Linh
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic, complex pain processing condition. Nurse Practitioners (NPs) play an important role in diagnosis and management of FM, as NPs, in primary care, are frequently the first healthcare providers to see patients with signs and symptoms of FM. However, FM can be difficult and challenging for novice NPs to interpret, diagnose and master. Surveys of patients with FM suggest that they would benefit from a greater understanding and acceptance of FM through education and support from their care providers (Clauw, 2014). NPs can provide this support and play a prominent role in helping patients manage their condition through continued education and being be up-to-date on current FM managements and recommendations. To complete requirements for a culminating project, this literature review explored the current nonpharmacological and pharmacological interventions for patients living with FM. Findings drawn from this evidence based review was constructed into a pamphlet, providing information, tips, and recommendations for novice NPs to be equipped with the knowledge and resources when encountering patients with FM.
Crisis Impact on Changes in Implementing Monetary Policy of Central Banks
Creators: name: Dordevic, Marina
name: Perovic, Dusan
name: Dordevic, Marina
name: Perovic, Dusan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: crisis
subject: monetary strategy
subject: central banks
subject: cash flow
subject: market

description: The aim of the paper is to show how last global financial crisis changed the way of managing monetary policy and what were the consequences of a long time passive behaviour of central banks. Evolutionary characteristics of monetary and real shocks have changed the traditional way of understanding crisis and it brought huge changes in modern monetary policies implementation. The starting hypothesis in this paper is that common monetary measures are not sufficient for solving crisis. This hypothesis will be tested through the analysis of FED, ECB and BoJ monetary actions during the crisis with the use of comparative-analytic method.
Supplementary Materials from Improving environment drives dynamical change in social game structure
Creators: name: Chiba, Erika
name: Cuaresma, Diane Carmeliza N.
name: Rabajante, Jomar F.
name: Tubay, Jerrold M.
name: Maica Krizna Areja Gavina
name: Yamamoto, Tatsuki
name: Yoshimura, Jin
name: Morita, Satoru
name: Hiromu Ito
name: Okabe, Takuya
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 10599 Mathematical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Materials
title: Multimodality staging of prostate cancer: A clinico-radiological and pathological correlation
Creators: name: RAJENDRAN, ISHWARIYA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Metastases
subject: Staging
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Biopsy
subject: SPECT-CT
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The purpose of the poster is to provide a comprehensive overview of multimodality approach for optimal management of distinct clinical scenarios of prostate cancer, ranging from early treatable disease to advanced, metastatic prostate...
Effective-range approach and scaling laws for electromagnetic strength in neutron-halo nuclei
Creators: name: Typel, S.
name: Baur, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study low-lying multipole strength in neutron-halo nuclei. The strength depends only on a few low-energy constants: the neutron separation energy, the asymptotic normalization coefficient of the bound state wave function, and the scattering length that contains the information on the interaction in the continuum. The shape of the transition probability shows a characteristic dependence on few scaling parameters and the angular momenta. The total E1 strength is related to the root-mean-square radius of the neutron wave function in the ground state and shows corresponding scaling properties. We apply our approach to the E1 strength distribution of 11Be.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure (modified), additional table, extended discussion of example, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Rigorous numerics for critical orbits in the quadratic family
Creators: name: Golmakani, Ali
name: Koudjinan, Comlan Edmond
name: Luzzatto, Stefano
name: Pilarczyk, Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop algorithms and techniques to compute rigorous bounds for finite pieces of orbits of the critical points, for intervals of parameter values, in the quadratic family of one-dimensional maps $f_a (x) = a - x^2$. We illustrate the effectiveness of our approach by constructing a dynamically defined partition $\mathcal P$ of the parameter interval $Ω=[1.4, 2]$ into almost 4 million subintervals, for each of which we compute to high precision the orbits of the critical points up to some time $N$ and other dynamically relevant quantities, several of which can vary greatly, possibly spanning several orders of magnitude. We also subdivide $\mathcal P$ into a family $\mathcal P^{+}$ of intervals which we call stochastic intervals and a family $\mathcal P^{-}$ of intervals which we call regular intervals. We numerically prove that each interval $ω\in \mathcal P^{+}$ has an escape time, which roughly means that some iterate of the critical point taken over all the parameters in $ω$ has considerable width in the phase space. This suggests, in turn, that most parameters belonging to the intervals in $\mathcal P^{+}$ are stochastic and most parameters belonging to the intervals in $\mathcal P^{-}$ are regular, thus the names. We prove that the intervals in $\mathcal P^{+}$ occupy almost 90% of the total measure of $Ω$. The software and the data is freely available at http://www.pawelpilarczyk.com/quadr/, and a web page is provided for carrying out the calculations. The ideas and procedures can be easily generalized to apply to other parametrized families of dynamical systems.
Παραστάσεις αμυντικών όπλων στην αγγειογραφία 600-490/480 π.Χ. και η σχέση τους με τα πραγματικά
Creators: name: Κουτσιμανής, Γεώργιος Αλεξάνδρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Αμυντικά όπλα
Ασπίδες
Οπλίτες
Defensive weapons
Shields
Hoplites

description: Σκοπός της μεταπτυχιακής εργασίας ήταν η μελέτη των αμυντικών όπλων σε μελανόμορφα αγγεία της περιόδου 600-490/480 π.Χ. Η εξέταση των παραπάνω αγγείων στοχεύει αφενός στην αναγνώριση των αμυντικών όπλων που απεικονίζονται σε διάφορες κατηγορίες παραστάσεων με βάση τη θεματική τους ενότητα και αφετέρου στο κατά πόσο τα εικονιζόμενα αντικατοπτρίζουν τα υφιστάμενα όπλα των πολεμιστών της εποχής. Επιπλέον, γίνεται σύγκριση ώστε να εντοπιστούν ομοιότητες ή διαφοροποιήσεις ανάμεσα στα απεικονιζόμενα και τα «πραγματικά» σύγχρονα όπλα ή αν πρόκειται για όπλα προηγούμενης περιόδου. Η εργασία είναι χωρισμένη σε τρεις ενότητες. Στην πρώτη παρουσιάζονται τα όπλα που είναι γνωστά σήμερα, όπως αυτά προκύπτουν από τα αρχαιολογικά ευρήματα, αλλά και τις αναφορές ή περιγραφές στις γραπτές πηγές. Στην δεύτερη ενότητα εξετάζουμε τις κατηγορίες των ένοπλων μορφών που απεικονίζονται στα αγγεία της περιόδου. Στην τελευταία ενότητα παρουσιάζονται επιλεκτικά σχετικές παραστάσεις, που διαχωρίστηκαν βάσει θεματικής, μέσα από τις οποίες γίνεται σύγκριση των όπλων που απεικονίζονται με τα όπλα που αναλύθηκαν στην πρώτη ενότητα. Τέλος, διατυπώνονται τα συμπεράσματα σχετικά με τη ρεαλιστική ή μη απόδοση των όπλων στην αρχαϊκή αγγειογραφία, και αν υπάρχει λόγος για τη μη ρεαλιστική απόδοση όπου τυχόν παρατηρείται κάτι ανάλογο, ή ακόμη και αν εμφανίζονται απεικονίσεις όπλων που αποτελούν ελεύθερη καλλιτεχνική δημιουργία.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of defensive weapons in black-figure vessels of the period 600-490 / 480 BC. The examination of the above vessels aims on the one hand at the identification of the defensive weapons depicted in various categories of representations based on their thematic unit and on the other hand at whether the depicted ones reflect the existing weapons of the warriors of the time. In addition, a comparison is made to identify similarities or differences between the depicted and the "real" modern weapons or if they are weapons of a previous period. The dissertation is divided into three sections. The first presents the weapons that are known today, as they emerge from the archaeological findings, but also the references or descriptions in the written sources. In the second section we examine the categories of armed figures depicted in the vessels of the period. The last section presents selectively relevant representations, separated by theme, through which a comparison is made of the weapons depicted with the weapons analyzed in the first section. Finally, conclusions are drawn about the realistic or unrealistic rendering of weapons in archaic vase-painting, and whether there is reason for unrealistic rendering where something similar is observed, or even if depictions of weapons that are free artistic creation appear.
Magnetoresistance of Si(001) MOSFETs with high concentration of electrons
Creators: name: Smrcka, L.
name: Makarovsky, O. N.
name: Schemenchinskii, S. G.
name: Vasek, P.
name: Jurka, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental study of electron transport in inversion layers of high-mobility Si(001) samples with occupied excited subbands. The second series of oscillations, observed in addition to the main series of Shubnikov-de Hass oscillations, is tentatively attributed to the occupation of a subband associated with the $E_{0'}$ level. Besides, a strong negative magnetoresistance and nonlinear field dependence of the Hall resistance accompany the novel oscillations at high carrier concentrations. The heating of the 2D electron layers leads to suppression of the observed anomalies.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, elsart/PHYEAUTH macros; to be presented on the EP2DS-15 Conference in Nara, Japan
Parameterized Complexity Analysis of Randomized Search Heuristics
Creators: name: Neumann, Frank
name: Sutton, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This chapter compiles a number of results that apply the theory of parameterized algorithmics to the running-time analysis of randomized search heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms. The parameterized approach articulates the running time of algorithms solving combinatorial problems in finer detail than traditional approaches from classical complexity theory. We outline the main results and proof techniques for a collection of randomized search heuristics tasked to solve NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems such as finding a minimum vertex cover in a graph, finding a maximum leaf spanning tree in a graph, and the traveling salesperson problem.
description: This is a preliminary version of a chapter in the book "Theory of Evolutionary Computation: Recent Developments in Discrete Optimization", edited by Benjamin Doerr and Frank Neumann, published by Springer
Strategic Alliances as Forms of Inter organizational Cooperation and the Motives for their Formation
Creators: name: Svetlana, Vukotic
name: Nebojsa, Zakic
name: Svetlana, Vukotic
name: Nebojsa, Zakic
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: interorganizational cooperation
subject: strategic alliance
subject: formation motives

description: Interorganizational cooperation is a process where partners value interdependance and resource association in the aim of individually realized benefit achievement. The dominant reason for strategic alliance formation is a fact that two or more enterprise or business units partnerships acomplish strategically more important aims of mutual interst. The alliances are often formed all over the world in order to substantially share the risks, expenses and functions of research and development. Strategic alliances went wider in all the business areas during the last decade. They represent one of the most popular strategies for businesses in several countries, enabling them to share the risks and resources, acquire knowledge, as well as access the new markets.
title: Mullerian Duct Anomalies: Diagnostic Dilemma Resolved.
Creators: name: MALLAIAH, PRAVEEN
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Acute
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: Management
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To demonstrate magnetic resonance (MR) imaging appearances of Mullerian duct anomalies. To differentiate the subtypes of Mullerian duct anomalies based on characteristic MR imaging...
title: Symbolic execution and the testing of COBOL programs
Creators: name: Coward, Philip David
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1993

description: The thesis is in two parts. Part one is a review of existing work in the area of software testing and more specifically symbolic execution. Part two is a description of the symbolic execution testing system for COBOL (SYM-BOL). Much of the work presented has been published or accepted for publication. Part one commences by introducing the aims of software testing and is followed by a review of the tools and techniques of software testing that have been developed over the past 25 years. A simple taxonomy of software testing techniques is given. One potentially powerful technique is symbolic execution. The principles of symbolic execution are described followed by the problems in applying symbolic execution. Part one is completed by a review of existing symbolic execution testing systems. No symbolic execution testing system has previously been built for a commercial data processing language such as COBOL. Part two commences by outlining the features of the SYM-BOL system and describes the user strategies that may be employed when using the system. The system generates an intermediate form in stages by transforming the source program into one that contains only a limited number of language constructs. Path selection can be automatic or undertaken by the user. In both cases the results of the symbolic execution already undertaken are available to the path selector to help reduce the likelihood of selecting an infeasible path. A description of how the Nag-library linear optimizer E04MBF is used for feasibility checking is given. Feasible solutions are turned into files of test cases. Simple assertions may be included in the source program which do not affect the normal execution of the software but which can be verified by inclusion in the symbolic execution.
title: Radiomic texture features: A future tool for outcome prediction in pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Hagar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The aim of the study to evaluate the role of 1st order radiomic features in predicting the outcome of pancreatic adenocarcinoma...
Effects of Velocity Correlation on Early Stage of Free Cooling Process of Inelastic Hard Sphere System
Creators: name: Kawahara, Ryo
name: Nakanishi, Hiizu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The free cooling process in the inelastic hard sphere system is studied by analysing the data from large scale molecular dynamics simulations on a three dimensional system. The initial energy decay, the velocity distribution function, and the velocity correlation functions are calculated to be compared with theoretical predictions. The energy decay rate in the homogeneous cooling state is slightly but distinctively smaller than that expected from the independent collision assumption. The form of the one particle velocity distribution is found not to be stationary. These contradict to the predictions of the kinetic theory based on the Enskog-Boltzmann equation and suggest that the velocity correlation is already important in the early stage of homogeneous cooling state. The energy decay rate is analysed in terms of the velocity correlation.
description: 9 pages (figures included). To be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol. 73 No. 1 (2004) Added two references and removed one. Changed the name of T_{L}. Added unit constants in Sec. 5 and 6
Improvement Strategy Competitiveness of Enterprises
Creators: name: Miletic, Vuk
name: Jovovic, David
name: Miletic, Slavomir
name: Miletic, Vuk
name: Jovovic, David
name: Miletic, Slavomir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: competition
subject: enterprise
subject: strategy
subject: resources
subject: customer satisfaction

description: Limited resources and a number of other different factors and activity on different levels, have decisive influence on competitiveness of company. The initial step in defining and implementing strategies to improve the competitiveness of enterprises refers to the analysis and understanding of the environment in which they operate and maintaining conditions of business with improving the management process. After defining the policies and objectives of the company, carried out electing strategic alternatives.. Actual values of process performance and determined factors of competitiveness, are used in the review of management to identify, analyze, plan and implement improvements. Evaluation of level achievement of improving the competitiveness, allows the feedback to (re) define planning process, policies and objectives. The achieved level of increasing the competitiveness is visible through customer satisfaction, keeping in mind that the basic element for successful business.
title: Academic writing in global open distance learning : case studies of an MBA programme in Ethiopia, Russia and the UK.
Creators: name: Lukhele, Gab'sile
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2005

description: The study was motivated by my own experiences as a speaker of English as a second language (ESL) who has studied and taught high school courses produced in the UK, which Kachru (1988) classifies as the ‘inner’ circle, to students in the ‘outer’ circle in Swaziland. The central focus in this study is students’ academic writing in English in an open distance Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme provided by the Open University (OU) UK, in different parts of the world to students from diverse cultural, geographical, linguistic and educational backgrounds. The main focus of this study is students’ academic writing in the medium of English in the contexts of Ethiopia, Russia and the United Kingdom. In order to explore students’ writing and their experiences of engaging in such writing, I draw on recent studies which view reading, writing, and other aspects of communication as fundamentally social activities. In order to explore their writing in its social context, I draw on a range of data sources: students’ written assignments, interviews with students and tutors, pro-formas, and course materials. The central argument in this thesis is that speakers of English as a foreign language (EFL) and speakers of English as a second language (ESL) studying an open distance course in their diverse local contexts may be disadvantaged in a number of ways; in terms of their resources for writing, their understanding and experience of English, their background knowledge and the inapplicability of course concepts in their contexts. The study also highlights tensions surrounding the provision of UK based courses to students in different parts of the world and acknowledges the difficulties of developing courses which are accessible and relevant to diverse groups.
Η συνέργεια στον νέο Ποινικό Κώδικα
Creators: name: Λάγγαρη Αλεξάνδρα-Ουρανία Μηνά
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Συμμετοχή
Νέος Ποινικός Κώδικας
Άμεσος Συνεργός
Aiding
New Criminal Code
Direct Accessory

description: Η εργασία πραγματεύεται τις αλλαγές που έχει επιφέρει ο νέος Ποινικός Κώδικας στο πεδίο της συμμετοχικής δράσης. Συγκεκριμένα, εξετάζεται η νέα διάταξη για τη συναυτουργία αλλά και οι λόγοι που οδήγησαν τον νομοθέτη να προβεί στην τροποποίηση του άρθρου 45 ΠΚ. Ένα άλλο θέμα που θίγει η παρούσα εργασία είναι η καινοτομία στην αντιμετώπιση της συνέργειας στον νέο Ποινικό Κώδικα, ήτοι η κατάργηση της διάκρισης μεταξύ απλού και άμεσου συνεργού και η ενιαία αντιμετώπιση της συνέργειας με ποινή μειωμένη. Το άδικο και η ενοχή της πράξης του συμμέτοχου είναι πλέον ήσσονος απαξίας σε σύγκριση με την πράξη του φυσικού αυτουργού. Τέλος, η εργασία επικεντρώνει το ενδιαφέρον της στην κατ’ εξαίρεση δυνητική εξίσωση του πλαισίου ποινής του άμεσου συνεργού με το πλαίσιο ποινής που εφαρμόζεται για τον φυσικό αυτουργό (α. 47 εδ. β’ ΠΚ). Ειδικότερα, εξετάζουμε τις συνθήκες υπό τις οποίες είναι δυνατή η εφαρμογή της εξαιρετικής αυτής νομοθετικής πρόνοιας, καθώς και τα κριτήρια με βάση τα οποία καλείται να αποφασίσει ο εφαρμοστής του δικαίου αν θα κάνει χρήση ή όχι της εν λόγω διάταξης
description: The aim of the present thesis is to display the changes that the new Criminal Code has imposed in the field of aiding and abetting. In particular, the present thesis examines the new provisions regarding the accomplices as well as the reasons that led the legislator to change the article 45 of the greek Criminal Code. Another topic that is being issued by this thesis is the new provision for the act of aiding in the new Criminal Code, namely the abolition between simple and direct accessories and unified punishment with reducted sentence for all accessories. The unfair nature of the act and the liability of an accessory are now considered as minor acts in comparison with the principal’s act. Finally, the thesis focuses on the exceptional and optional equation between the sentence of the principal and the sentence of the direct accessory (a. 47 subparagraph b’ of the greek Criminal Code). Specifically, we examined the circumstances, under which the implementation of such an exceptional provision is justified, as well as, what are the criteria taken into consideration by a judge in order to decide whether or not to enforce this specific provision
title: Is the graphic calculator a useful mediating tool for students in the early stages of forming a concept of a variable?
Creators: name: Gage, Jennifer Anne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2005

description: The graphic calculator offers an environment in which children can start to understand basic algebra. It acts as both a mediating physical tool and psychological sign in the sense Vygotsky described, shaping the higher mental processes of the students. The combination of a graphic calculator and two students is theorised as a zone of proximal development, a term used by Vygotsky to indicate the potential students have to achieve more when supported than they could do alone. The graphic calculator also acts as a focus for reflective discussion, providing students with language to enable them to articulate their ideas, and a locus for trying out those ideas. The immediate feedback provided enables students to challenge misconceptions they already hold, so enabling them to develop conceptions that are more appropriate.

 The graphic calculator forms a learning environment by providing a model for a variable that is concrete and easily understood by even quite young children. The stores of the calculator are labelled with alphabetic letters, and so can be thought of as boxes into which numbers can be put. These stores can then be operated on in the same way as an algebraic variable. Although this model is not sufficient to explain a variable as a number that can change continuously, it is quite adequate to help children understand the concept of a 3 variable up to the stage of a generalised number.

 Three case studies and a survey, using the graphic calculator model of a variable and teaching materials designed to exploit its affordances, are discussed in this thesis. Instances were found of students making cognitive gains as a result. Statistical evidence indicating that the students improved both their understanding of the nature of variables, and their skills in working with simple algebraic expressions is also given.
Economic Consequences of Forced Displacement
Creators: name: Fiala, Nathan
name: Fiala, Nathan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: Forced displacement
subject: Economic development
subject: Consequences of displacement

description: Currently, there are over 42 million people around the world that have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Researchers have posited that this movement has severely impacted the affected populations, but due to estimation and data difficulties, little is known about the causal impact of this movement on livelihoods. This paper presents credibly causal evidence of the effect of displacement. A panel data set on households and communities near a conflict zone in northern Uganda offers the opportunity to exploit a geographic discontinuity design in order to minimize endogenous determinants of displacement and estimate the immediate and postdisplacement impact of displacement on civilians. I find that displaced households experience an initial decrease in consumption of between 28% and 35%, as well as a 1/2 standard deviation decrease in the value of assets compared to nondisplaced households. Two years after households returned home, displaced households still lag behind nondisplaced households with 20% lower consumption, and a 1/5 standard deviation less assets. However, as predicted by a heterogeneous neoclassical growth model, displaced households in the top three quartiles of predisplacement assets appear to have recovered a portion of their consumption, though with significantly reduced education and wealth levels. There is no recovery for the bottom quartile households, who appear to be trapped in a lower equilibrium.
title: The Influence of Psychotherapy and Depression on Platelet Imipramine and Paroxetine Binding
Creators: name: Willis, Sarah Eveline
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1993

description: [3H]-Paroxetine and [3H]-imipramine are known to label with high affinity, a site which is associated with the serotonergic transporter in brain and platelets. [3H]-imipramine binding to platelet membranes appears to be a biological marker in depression, the Bmax of platelet imipramine binding being significantly decreased in untreated depressed patients by comparison with healthy volunteers.

 Psychotherapy is claimed to produce significant improvement in depressed subjects without the use of drugs. This study aimed to determine whether differences were apparent in binding values for [3H]-paroxetine and [3H]-imipramine binding in subjects suffering from mild depression compared to controls, and how these values changed as the subjects went through a period of psychotherapy. In addition, psychiatric state was assessed using the BDI, the MAACL and the GHQ-28. Binding levels were then correlated with the scores obtained from the self-administered questionnaires to determine the relationship between binding and psychological state. Similar data were also collected from a group of nurses, who it was predicted would be suffering from a higher level of depression than the general population and would remain untreated.

 The results from the psychotherapy group indicated that clients entering the study were significantly more depressed than controls (BDI P<0.05; MAACL P<0.01 GHQ-28 (excluding somatic symptoms) P<0.05) and had lower imipramine binding. Furthermore as they went through the period of psychotherapy their psychological test scores fell, and imipramine binding levels rose, to a level equivalent to the control values. Levels of [3H]-paroxetine binding to platelets did not appear to be affected by psychological state, at least in these patients.

 In the group of nurses, both binding measurements were significantly lower than controls at most time points throughout the study (P<0.05) indicating lower affect. However psychological questionnaires indicated less distress in the nurses group than the control group (particularly BDI and GHQ-28). This is discussed in terms of possible coping strategies employed by nurses.

 It was not possible to correlate the questionnaire scores with the results from the binding assays for clients, controls or nurses. There was no significant evidence of sex differences, either in binding parameters or questionnaire scores, and no evidence of seasonality of the binding levels. Proposals for future work are suggested.
ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ И РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ СТРАТЕГИИ СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЯ СТРАХОВОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ДЛЯ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО РАЗВИТИЯ УЗБЕКИСТАНА
Creators: name: Эргашева, Фарангиз
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Страхование играет важную роль в социально-экономическом развитии любой страны, предоставляя защиту от рисков и способствуя устойчивости финансовых систем. В Узбекистане, как и в других странах, стратегия социально-экономического развития страхования является ключевым элементом обеспечения финансовой безопасности граждан и предприятий. Далее мы рассмотрим процесс формирования и реализации стратегии страхования в Узбекистане. Роль страховых компаний, хотя и становится все более важной в финансовом посредничестве, почти не исследовалась с точки зрения направления и причинно-следственной связи с ростом ВВП.
title: Image quality in coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA): challenges and technical solutions.
Creators: name: Soriano Aguadero, Ignacio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artifacts
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Cardiac

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The main purpose of this pictorial review is to recognize different pitfalls and artifacts which can be observed in coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA). Secondary objectives are: To briefly review the basic physic aspects of cardiac...
Generalizing the wavelet-based multifractal formalism to vector-valued random fields: application to turbulent velocity and vorticity 3D numerical data
Creators: name: Kestener, Pierre
name: Arneodo, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use singular value decomposition techniques to generalize the wavelet transform modulus maxima method to the multifractal analysis of vector-valued random fields. The method is calibrated on synthetic multifractal 2D vector measures and monofractal 3D fractional Brownian vector fields. We report the results of some application to the velocity and vorticity fields issued from 3D isotropic turbulence simulations. This study reveals the existence of an intimate relationship between the singularity spectra of these two vector fields which are found significantly more intermittent than previously estimated from longitudinal and transverse velocity increment statistics.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL
Measurement of CKM matrix elements in single top quark $t$-channel production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first direct, model-independent measurement is presented of the modulus of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements $|V_\mathrm{tb}|$, $|V_\mathrm{td}|$, and $|V_\mathrm{ts}|$, in final states enriched in single top quark $t$-channel events. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data from the LHC, collected during 2016 by the CMS experiment, at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. Processes directly sensitive to these matrix elements are considered at both the production and decay vertices of the top quark. In the standard model hypothesis of CKM unitarity, a lower limit of $|V_\mathrm{tb}|$ $>$ 0.970 is measured at the 95% confidence level. Several theories beyond the standard model are considered, and by releasing all constraints among the involved parameters, the values $|V_\mathrm{tb}| =$ 0.988 $\pm$ 0.024, and $|V_\mathrm{td}|^2 + |V_\mathrm{ts}|^2 =$ 0.06 $\pm$ 0.06, where the uncertainties include both statistical and systematic components, are measured.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-17-012 (CMS Public Pages)
Supplementary figure 1 from A new pelomedusoid turtle, Sahonachelys mailakavava, from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar provides evidence for convergent evolution of specialized suction feeding among pleurodires
Creators: name: Joyce, Walter G.
name: Rollot, Yann
name: Evers, Serjoscha W.
name: Lyson, Tyler R.
name: Rahantarisoa, Lydia J.
name: Krause, David W.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Figure S1
Activation-like processes at zero temperature
Creators: name: Arteaga, Daniel
name: Calzetta, Esteban
name: Roura, Albert
name: Verdaguer, Enric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the possibility that a metastable quantum state could experiment a phenomenon similar to thermal activation but at zero temperature. In order to do that we study the real-time dynamics of the reduced Wigner function in a simple open quantum system: an anharmonic oscillator with a cubic potential linearly interacting with an environment of harmonic oscillators. Our results suggest that this activation-like phenomenon exists indeed as a consequence of the fluctuations induced by the environment and that its associated decay rate is comparable to the tunneling rate as computed by the instanton method, at least for the particular potential of the system and the distribution of frequencies for the environment considered in this paper. However, we are not able to properly deal with the term which leads to tunneling in closed quantum systems, and a definite conclusion cannot be reached until tunneling and activation-like effects are considered simultaneously.
description: 24 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of the 7th Peyresq meeting