cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How Do Firms Use Discretion in Deferred Revenue?
Creators: name: Caylor, Marcus
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: I conduct an examination of the deferred revenue account. I provide descriptive evidence of deferred revenue both at an industry-level and a macro-level, and I examine whether managers use discretion in deferred revenue around earnings benchmarks. I develop a model to measure the normal change in short-term deferred revenue, and examine how the abnormal change varies across the pre-managed distribution of three common earnings benchmarks. My results show that managers delay recognition of revenue using deferred revenue when pre-managed earnings exceed benchmarks by a large margin, and accelerate the recognition of revenue using deferred revenue when premanaged earnings just miss or miss benchmarks by a large amount. I document the prevalence of accelerated revenue recognition, and show that meeting or just beating the annual consensus analyst forecast is where the most cases of suspected accelerated revenue recognition occur. The results are next strongest for the avoidance of earnings decrease benchmark and weakest for the avoidance of loss benchmark. I examine whether conventional abnormal accrual models reflect discretion in deferred revenue, and whether discretion in deferred revenue is associated with lower earnings quality. I show that deferred revenue changes are a leading indicator of future earnings. My results indicate that discretion in revenue can lower the predictability of sales regardless of whether it is of an aggressive or conservative nature.
Search for Pauli Exclusion Principle Violations with Gator at LNGS
Creators: name: Baudis, L.
name: Biondi, R.
name: Bismark, A.
name: Clozza, A.
name: Curceanu, C.
name: Galloway, M.
name: Napolitano, F.
name: Piastra, F.
name: Piscicchia, K.
name: Porcelli, A.
name: García, D. Ramírez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) appears from fundamental symmetries in quantum field theories, but its physical origin is still to be understood. High-precision experimental searches for small PEP violations permit testing key assumptions of the Standard Model with high sensitivity. We report on a dedicated measurement with Gator, a low-background, high-purity germanium detector operated at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, aimed at testing PEP-violating atomic transitions in lead. The experimental technique, relying on forming a new symmetry state by introducing electrons into the pre-existing electron system through a direct current, satisfies the conditions of the Messiah-Greenberg superselection rule. No PEP violation has been observed, and an upper limit on the PEP violation probability of $β^2/2 < 4.8 \cdot 10^{-29}$ (90% CL) is set. This improves the previous constraint from a comparable measurement by more than one order of magnitude.
title:  L’identità italiana attraverso il racconto delle migrazioni Musei, mostre e percorsi espositivi
Creators: name: Federici, Francesco
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2019

description: Nella cultura visuale contemporanea, mostre temporanee, biennali e progetti artistici di diverso genere hanno trovato sempre più spazio e sono diventati uno dei luoghi privilegiati per l’osservazione della società contemporanea e per la lettura della storia. In questo contesto si può osservare come diversi musei e alcune mostre abbiano indagato le forme dell’identità italiana attraverso l’uso di vari strumenti museografici, interrogandosi in particolar modo su come questa rappresentazione si intrecci con quella dell’emigrazione italiana.
description: Cinema e identità italiana
Thermal chaos of quantum-corrected-AdS black hole in the extended phase space
Creators: name: You, Lei
name: Wang, Rui-Bo
name: Tang, Yu-Cheng
name: Deng, Jian-Bo
name: Hu, Xian-Ru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly analyzed the equation of state and critical points of the quantum-corrected Schwarzschild-like black hole and used the Melnikov method to study its thermal chaotic behavior in the extended phase space of flat, closed, and open universes. The results show that the black hole's thermodynamic behavior is similar to that of the Van der Waals system. Although the critical ratios at the critical points differ among the three universes, they are all independent of the quantum correction parameter. For chaos, time perturbations will lead to chaotic behavior when their amplitude exceeds a critical value that depends on the quantum correction parameter and the radius of the dust sphere in the FRW model. Based on this, we found that the chaotic behavior of the black hole varies across different universes depending on the quantum correction parameter, but this parameter always makes chaos more likely. Using the value of the quantum correction parameter determined by Meissner, chaos is always more difficult to occur in an open universe compared to the other two types of universes. Which universe is most prone to chaos depends on the radius of the dust sphere. Finally, chaotic behavior is always present under spatial perturbations.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures
Learning the Latent dynamics of Fluid flows from High-Fidelity Numerical Simulations using Parsimonious Diffusion Maps
Creators: name: Della Pia, Alessandro
name: Patsatzis, Dimitris
name: Russo, Lucia
name: Siettos, Constantinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65Pxx, 68T20, 76Fxx, 76-10

description: We use parsimonious diffusion maps (PDMs) to discover the latent dynamics of high-fidelity Navier-Stokes simulations with a focus on the 2D fluidic pinball problem. By varying the Reynolds number, different flow regimes emerge, ranging from steady symmetric flows to quasi-periodic asymmetric and turbulence. We show, that the proposed non-linear manifold learning scheme, identifies in a crisp manner the expected intrinsic dimension of the underlying emerging dynamics over the parameter space. In particular, PDMs, estimate that the emergent dynamics in the oscillatory regime can be captured by just two variables, while in the chaotic regime, the dominant modes are three as anticipated by the normal form theory. On the other hand, proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)/PCA, most commonly used for dimensionality reduction in fluid mechanics, does not provide such a crisp separation between the dominant modes. To validate the performance of PDMs, we also computed the reconstruction error, by constructing a decoder using Geometric Harmonics. We show that the proposed scheme outperforms the POD/PCA over the whole Reynolds number range. Thus, we believe that the proposed scheme will allow for the development of more accurate reduced order models for high-fidelity fluid dynamics simulators, thus relaxing the curse of dimensionality in numerical analysis tasks such as bifurcation analysis, optimization and control.
Bio-behavioural effects of alcohol and caffeine, alone and in combination
Creators: name: Benson, Sarah
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Both alcohol and caffeine are amongst the most widely used psychoactive substances and are commonly eoconsumed, particularly by young adults in the form of alcohol mixed with energy drink. This thesis demonstrated that the addition of caffeine/energy drink to alcohol does not differentially affect subjective intoxication beyond that of non-caffeinated alcohol and limited, inconsistent antagonism occurred in cognitive performance. Users are uniquely different to non-users whereby use is significantly associated with illicit drug use and high scores in risk-taking propensity, impulsivity, extraversion and alexithymia.
PIDs in Publikations- und Affiliationsrichtlinien
Creators: name: Pampel, Heinz
name: Vierkant, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ORCID
ROR
ORCID DE
PIDs
Richtlinie
Policy
Affiliation
Open Access

description: Was sind Publikations- und Affiliationsrichtlinien und wie und warum sollte die Nutzung von Persistent Identifiern, wie der ORCID iD und der ROR ID in diesen Policy-Typen berücksichtig werden, dies wurde in der Breakout-Session 4 des 6. ORCID DE Workshops zu ORCID in erweiterten Kontexten am 04. Mai 2022 diskutiert.
Appendices to "Diabetes screening in tuberculosis patients: a diagnostic accuracy analysis of risk scores and laboratory methods in Indonesia, Peru, Romania and South Africa"
Creators: name: Critchley, Julia
Publisher: name: St George's, University of London
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Appendices to a paper "Diabetes screening in tuberculosis patients: a diagnostic accuracy analysis of risk scores and laboratory methods in Indonesia, Peru, Romania and South Africa."
A copy of the paper can be found via the link referenced below.
Reliable Node Similarity Matrix Guided Contrastive Graph Clustering
Creators: name: Liu, Yunhui
name: Gao, Xinyi
name: He, Tieke
name: Zheng, Tao
name: Zhao, Jianhua
name: Yin, Hongzhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph clustering, which involves the partitioning of nodes within a graph into disjoint clusters, holds significant importance for numerous subsequent applications. Recently, contrastive learning, known for utilizing supervisory information, has demonstrated encouraging results in deep graph clustering. This methodology facilitates the learning of favorable node representations for clustering by attracting positively correlated node pairs and distancing negatively correlated pairs within the representation space. Nevertheless, a significant limitation of existing methods is their inadequacy in thoroughly exploring node-wise similarity. For instance, some hypothesize that the node similarity matrix within the representation space is identical, ignoring the inherent semantic relationships among nodes. Given the fundamental role of instance similarity in clustering, our research investigates contrastive graph clustering from the perspective of the node similarity matrix. We argue that an ideal node similarity matrix within the representation space should accurately reflect the inherent semantic relationships among nodes, ensuring the preservation of semantic similarities in the learned representations. In response to this, we introduce a new framework, Reliable Node Similarity Matrix Guided Contrastive Graph Clustering (NS4GC), which estimates an approximately ideal node similarity matrix within the representation space to guide representation learning. Our method introduces node-neighbor alignment and semantic-aware sparsification, ensuring the node similarity matrix is both accurate and efficiently sparse. Comprehensive experiments conducted on $8$ real-world datasets affirm the efficacy of learning the node similarity matrix and the superior performance of NS4GC.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
Design of spring-supported diaphragm capacitive MEMS microphone
Creators: name: Mohamad, Norizan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dr Mohamad developed a new microelectromechanical (MEMS) capacitive microphone which can be used in various consumer electronics such as smartphones and hearing aid devices. The millimeter size microphone uses a novel spring diaphragm structure and has been designed to achieve a high sensitivity with low noise operation. Analytical and numerical models were developed to optimise design parameters and performance. Samples of the microphones were successfully fabricated to verify feasibility. The proposed design has led to achieving better performance of a miniature microphone while reducing the production cost due to fewer fabrication masks being required and potentially lower rejection rate.
ORCID und die Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND)
Creators: name: Glagla-Dietz, Stephanie
name: Hartmann, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ORCID
GND
ORCID DE
Open Science
PID
Normdaten
Autorenidentifikation

description: Stephanie Glagla-Dietz und Sarah Hartmann von der DNB referierten auf dem 6. ORCID DE Workshop zu ORCID in erweiterten Kontexten am 04. Mai 2022 zur Verknüpfung von ORCID mit der Gemeinsamen Normdatei (GND).
Conceptualising real options analysis for risk and uncertainty management in Australian property developments
Creators: name: Mintah, Kwabena
name: Baako, Kingsley Tetteh
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2019
Subjects: Property development; Real options analysis; Conceptual Model

description: Property developments are inherently uncertain and risky. As a result, several risk management techniques are adopted by property developers in the Australian property development sector to mitigate the impact of potential downside risks. However, uncertainty can create potential upside opportunities for property developers during the property development process which can be explored through flexibility/real options analysis. Several quantitative models and applications have been executed in the literature on flexibility/real options analysis, but practical adoption is still lacking because practitioners are yet to fully understand the theory and its potential benefits. In this paper, a conceptual model is developed to capture flexibilities/real options and linked to the property development process to determine the exact stages within the property development process where real options could be embedded to retain the potential for capturing future upside benefits from uncertainty. Through face to face semi-structured interviews with twelve different stakeholders in the Australian property development industry, thematic analysis and extensive literature review on real options theory, a conceptual model is developed. There are several flexibilities/real options naturally embedded at different stages of the property development process. Other flexibilities can be embedded in the development process deliberately by property developers with the intention of capitalising on upside opportunities in future. These flexibilities embedded at different stages of the development process has the potential to serve as a risk mitigation tool for property developers in Australian property development sector. The model can serve as a practical tool and a visual aid for property development practitioners and stakeholders to determine the exact stages in the property development process where real options are embedded and the specific types of options. It will also aid in deepening the understanding of practitioners regarding real options in property development and further enhance potential acceptance and adoption in the Australian property industry. The linkage to the property development process can enhance easy identification of flexibilities/real options at different stages of the property development process. A model that links real options to the different stages of the property development process is new in the literature.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 2 (2019)
Research Organization Registry (ROR): Nutzen und Anwendung
Creators: name: Vierkant, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ORCID
ROR
ORCID DE
PIDs
Open Science
Organization Identifier
Affiliation

description: Paul Vierkant von DataCite informierte im Breakout-Room 2: Research Organization Registry (ROR) auf dem 6. ORCID DE Workshop zu ORCID in erweiterten Kontexten am 04. Mai 2022 zum Nutzen und den Anwendungbereichen des Organization Identifiers ROR.
Financial engineering instruments for sustainable urban development – introducing an impact analysis for innovative urban policies
Creators: name: Nadler, Michael
name: Nadler, Claudia
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2019
Subjects: real estate development; urban policy; European Cohesion policy; sustainable finance; impact evaluation

description: The Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (JESSICA) is part of a general paradigm shift in EU-policy, since its most innovative element is to introduce an alternative to traditional grant funding by providing financial engineering instruments – namely loans, guarantees and equity capital – on a revolving base. This means that instead of financing sustainable urban development projects with grants that are – once paid out – lost for good, revolving financial engineering instruments for successful projects may generate a capital backflow enabling Managing Authorities to reinvest in new urban development projects. In order to channel funds effectively to sustainable urban projects, the institutional framework of the JESSICA-initiative intends to set up urban development funds as financial intermediary. The three main objectives of the JESSICA-initiative are (i) to promote urban deve­lop­ment projects as economic stimulus, (ii) to provide cost-effective, long-term financing to support urban trans­formation in a sustainable fund model and (iii) to mobilize private capital for public-private partnerships. Concerning the latter, the JESSICA-initiative shall attract private investors and banks to finance sustainable urban development by providing catalytic first-loss capital via UDFs that lowers the risk and enhances the return of private investors, therefore making more projects feasible and overcoming existing market failures. So far, an empirical evaluation is missing on how successful JESSICA has been so far in achieving its ambitious objectives. In this paper, we first develop a conceptual base to analyze urban development funds and give second an introduction into the realized outcomes of the policy change measurable in monetary terms in all 28 EU member states. Our findings reveal the prob­lems in urban development financing for private financial institutions as well as public authorities. With the help of an ongoing impact analysis managing authorities might overcome these problems in the current programming period.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 2 (2019)
KIMYOVIY MASALALAR YECHISHGA O'RGATISH PEDAGOGIK MUOMMO SIFATIDA
Creators: name: Ajiniyazova, Sholpan
name: Uteniyazov, Karimbay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: "Masala" tushunchasiga turli xil taʼriflar mavjud. Demak, sovet entsiklopediyasida [1] quyidagi taʼrif berilgan:
Research Series 67: Towards food systems transformation – five paradigm shifts for healthy, inclusive and sustainable food systems
Creators: name: Ruben, Ruerd
name: Cavatassi, Romina
name: Lipper, Leslie
name: Smaling, Eric
name: Winter, Paul
name: Ruben, Ruerd
name: Cavatassi, Romina
name: Lipper, Leslie
name: Smaling, Eric
name: Winter, Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: food systems transformation
subject: paradigm shift
subject: trade-offs
subject: synergies
subject: governance

description: Food systems must serve different societal, health, and environmental objectives. They therefore face numerous challenges. This paper highlights five fundamental paradigm shifts that are required to overcome trade-offs and build synergies between health and nutrition, inclusive livelihoods, environmental sustainability, and food system resilience. We focus on the challenges to raise policy ambitions, harmonize production and consumption goals, improve connectivity between these goals, strengthen food system responsiveness, and anchor inclusive and participatory governance of food systems. Taken together, these paradigm shifts shape a new narrative for food system transformation that will be capable of responding to current and future policy challenges.
title: More Than Words: Fed Chairs’ Communication During Congressional Testimonies
Creators: name: Alexopoulos, Michelle
name: Han, Xinfen
name: Kryvtsov, Oleksiy
name: Zhang, Xu
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2022

description: We  measure soft information contained in  the  congressional testimonies of U.S.  Federal Reserve  Chairs  and  analyze  its   effect  on  financial  markets.  Our  measures  of  Fed  Chairs’  emotions expressed in words, voice and facial expressions are created using machine learning. Increases in the Chair’s text-, voice-, or face-emotion indices during these testimonies generally raise the S&P500 index and lower the  VIX—indicating that these cues help shape market responses to Fed communications. These effects add up and propagate after the testimony, reaching magnitudes comparable to those after a policy rate cut. Markets respond most to the Chair’s emotions expressed about issues related to monetary policy.
description: Nous étudions les informations difficilement quantifiables contenues dans les témoignages des présidents de la Réserve fédérale américaine (la Fed) devant le Congrès et analysons leurs effets sur les marchés financiers. Pour mesurer les émotions exprimées par les mots, la voix et les expressions faciales, nous avons eu recours à l’apprentissage automatique. Nous constatons que l’augmentation des indices d’émotion textuelle, vocale ou faciale pendant ces témoignages entraîne généralement une hausse de l’indice S&P 500 et une baisse de l’indice VIX. Cela montre que les signaux émotionnels influent sur la façon dont les marchés financiers réagissent aux communications de la Fed. Ces effets s’additionnent et se propagent après le témoignage, atteignant une ampleur comparable à celle d’une réduction du taux directeur. Les marchés réagissent surtout aux émotions exprimées sur les questions liées à la politique monétaire.
Using linear and nonlinear entanglement witnesses to generate and detect bound entangled states on an IBM quantum processor
Creators: name: Gulati, Vaishali
name: Singh, Gayatri
name: Dorai, Kavita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate bound entanglement in three-qubit mixed states which are diagonal in the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) basis. Entanglement in these states is detected using entanglement witnesses and the analysis focuses on states exhibiting positive partial transpose (PPT). We then compare the detection capabilities of optimal linear and nonlinear entanglement witnesses. In theory, both linear and nonlinear witnesses produce non-negative values for separable states and negative values for some entangled GHZ diagonal states with PPT, indicating the presence of entanglement. Our experimental results reveal that in cases where linear entanglement witnesses fail to detect entanglement, nonlinear witnesses are consistently able to identify its presence. Optimal linear and nonlinear witnesses were generated on an IBM quantum computer and their performance was evaluated using two bound entangled states (Kay and Kye states) from the literature, and randomly generated entangled states in the GHZ diagonal form. Additionally, we propose a general quantum circuit for generating a three-qubit GHZ diagonal mixed state using a six-qubit pure state on the IBM quantum processor. We experimentally implemented the circuit to obtain expectation values for three-qubit mixed states and compute the corresponding entanglement witnesses.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Real Estate using AR, VR, DR, Geo-referencing and other mobile applications
Creators: name: Florentino, Teresa
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2019
Subjects: Real Estate ICT, Mobile Applications, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Digital Reality, Geo-referencing

description: Purpose - The use of Mobile Applications, Geo-referencing, Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) brings knowledge and understanding of how we possible deal with Real Estate (RE) nowadays. Clients want fast access to information, real details, and sometimes a sample of a tour. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, first it is analysed in some interviews with owners of small and medium enterprises in RA. Then it is presented some pieces of evidence on the use of those technologies and applications. Finally, we point out some conclusions, some limitations and recommendations for future studies. Findings – The AR and VR technologies and new applications for personal computers (PCs) or mobile engines are rising sharply in the area of medicine. We also see some advances in architecture and the exhibition of properties, in particular in views of interiors, guide visits to apartments, or houses. These issues can easily be into the RE. Practical implications – Including Mobile Applications, Geo-referencing, AR or VR in RE business we can expect a better understanding of what consumers want, accurate details or proximity with a real word in a near future. Originality/value – We have few investigations both in RE and very new Technologies and Mobile Applications, mainly looking towards clients. Few articles are referring to those applications in RE and considering Portugal studies are rare. This kind of research should be more frequent and compared, as possible, with other countries and other situations.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 2 (2019)
Economic analysis of energy savings & cost effectiveness of deep energy retrofits of residential buildings in England
Creators: name: Agbonyin, Ademuyiwa
name: Zoras, Stamatis
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2019
Subjects: Energy Savings; Energy Retrofits; Old Building stock; Insulation

description: Buildings are known to consume a large proportion of the final energy demand (approximately 37%) in the United Kingdom. Fragmenting this further, about 60% of the supply of a building is expended in space and water heating. Modern building stock are constructed with thermal insulation and are fitted with energy efficient appliances and fixtures. For this reason, focus has to switch to the older building stock in England in order to identify more techniques to reduce energy consumption therefore reducing the carbon footprint of these buildings, to this end, several building energy upgrade methods such as double-glazed windows, attic insulation, green spaces etc. have been proposed and are commercially available; However, house owners and building stakeholders are often misinformed in making retrofit decisions, and often do so based on the strong marketing techniques of manufacturers. This paper generates a smart decision making matrix for stakeholders to select and invest in the optimal energy saving measures which would suit their building type.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 2 (2019)
Protection of property rights and compensation rights for property users
Creators: name: Pashoulis, Varnavas
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2019
Subjects: Property protection rights; Property compensation rights; occupational or user rights; tenants’ rights; compulsory purchase and compensation; eminent domain; compensation claims under requisition law; Property Restitution

description: Since the drawn of the civilization, when the importance of land was appreciated, land ownership has been linked with certain rights and duties for the owners which have evolved over the centuries to the idea of ownership as it is understood today. The basic rights in land are the right to the use and enjoyment of land, the right to income from land and the right to alienate or transfer land. The aggregate of ownership rights over a piece of land, comprised what has been termed as the bundle of property rights. Property rights have a very significant role to play both at international and national level in the current socio-economic environment and have been a matter of dispute between nations as well as between affected owners and central or local governments. The aim of this paper is to outline the fundamental property protection rights at international and national level by reference to UN Conventions, European Conventions as well as comparative overview of different countries. Within the scope of this paper an attempt is made to outline the main property compensation rights regarding illegal occupiers or users of in the occupied area of Cyprus, since the Turkish invasion in 1974. Specifically, this paper is divided into three basic sections which are described below: • Outline the major provisions of International and European Law as regards property protection rights. These include the right of ownership and the conditions under which a compulsory purchase and compensation could take effect. Some violations of the property rights are described in this section, which have been extracted from Court Case decisions in an attempt to present the extent to which rights in Property are safeguarded. • Comparative country overview of major provisions in their Constitution and legislative provisions regarding property protection rights. Also, this section attempts to outline the basic rules of compensation assessment as well as practical examples of their application by reference to court case decisions, when these rights are affected. Outline the main legislative provisions, court decisions and property valuation practices regarding the calculation of compensation of illegal users or occupants of Cypriot properties in the occupied area of the Cyprus Republic since the Turkish invasion in 1974.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 2 (2019)
Machine Learning and First-Principles Predictions of Materials with Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity
Creators: name: Lin, Chia-Min
name: Khatri, Abishek
name: Yan, Da
name: Chen, Cheng-Chien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform machine learning (ML) simulations and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to search for materials with low lattice thermal conductivity, $κ_L$. Several cadmium (Cd) compounds containing elements from the alkali-metal and carbon groups including A$_2$CdX (A = Li, Na, and K; X = Pb, Sn, and Ge) are predicted by our ML models to exhibit very low $κ_L$ values ($< 1.0 $ W/mK), rendering these materials suitable for potential thermal management and insulation applications. Further DFT calculations of electronic and transport properties indicate that the figure of merit, $ZT$, for thermoelectric performance can exceed 1.0 in compounds such as K$_2$CdPb, K$_2$CdSn, and K$_2$CdGe, which are thereby also promising thermoelectric materials.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
title:  Insegnamento dell’arabo e certificazione: una panoramica
Creators: name: Lancioni, Giuliano
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2018

description: Il contributo passa in rassegna la storia dell’insegnamento dell’arabo nei paesi occidentali, identificando tre tipi ideali (insegnamento storico-religioso, insegnamento coloniale, insegnamento comunicativo) distinti per metodi e obiettivi. Viene poi discussa la questione della concettualizzazione della variazione in arabo, presentando i due modelli della diglossia e dell’arabo come sistema. Nella parte centrale sono discussi quattro modelli di insegnamento (insegnamento tradizionale, modello Amsterdam, modello Gerusalemme/FSI, modello Roma Tre), con una valutazione dei rispettivi pregi e difetti. Le conclusioni esaminano le prospettive di questi diversi approcci nell’ambito della certificazione linguistica.
description: Didattica dell’arabo e certificazione linguistica: riflessioni e iniziative
Montreal et la metropolisation: Une geographie romanesque
Creators: name: Le Bel, Pierre-Mathieu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geography.

description: This thesis is a work of literary geography that addresses a phenomenon generally studied through its economic and political components: metropolization. This concept is approached through the study of Montreal as depicted in a corpus of novels published between 2003 and 2006. The resulting focus, then, is less on themes such as metropolitan governance for instance and more on lived spaces to which characters are emotively bound through their fears and aspirations. More specifically, the city centre is regarded as a space of anamnestic practices. The crime fiction genre and rules that govern it evoke a fragmented urban space in which the work of decoding inherent to investigation provides the illusion of power over the city. However, the multiple and constantly reconfigured connectivity enlarges the territorial framework where the life of the characters unfolds, and dissolves Montreal into a very contemporaneous globality.
Compact star in noninteger power model of $f(R)$ gravity
Creators: name: Cui, Yong-Xiang
name: Yan, Zu
name: Numajiri, Kota
name: Katsuragawa, Taishi
name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate compact stars in the noninteger power (NIP) model of $f(R)$ gravity theory, which includes the higher-curvature correction to the Einstein-Hilbert action. The mass-radius relation of the compact stars in the NIP model predicts large deviations from those in the general relativity in the low-mass region, potentially allowing us to test the NIP model by future astrophysical observations. We also study the nonvanishing scalar hair surrounding the compact star and demonstrate that the chameleon mechanism works efficiently. They result in distinct scalar profiles inside and outside the star, which implies screening the fifth force mediated by the scalar field.
description: 35 pages, 27 figures
Exploring the Tapestry of Real Estate Value
Creators: name: Edkins, Andrew
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: real estate value areas; economic and financial value; social value; environmental value

description: Real Estate’s value is unquestioned in terms of its measure financially and in economics. But there are forms and areas of value that do not lend themselves to easy or obvious modes of measurement and whilst these may be appreciated, they are not easily formally assessed or measured. This paper looks into the ‘tapestry’ of real estate value, recognizing that tapestries comprise multiple threads that are woven together to reveal a pattern or picture that can only be appreciated when the observer takes a step back and considers the contribution made by these multiple threads. The paper is conceptual and draws on both existing theories and cases. These are linked via the use of the ‘triple bottom line’ approach to the recording of areas of value: economic, social and environmental. The paper considers the concept of value and the definition of real estate and, from weaving together the various concepts of value and illustrations of cases that illustrate aspects of the variety of value creation and destruction, seeks to reveal a rich, diverse and underappreciated world of real estate value. The paper’s conclusion reflects on the need to bring different views and expertise together and notes the creation of a new academically created forum that is being opened to further explore and understand better these many and varied areas of value that are in and from real estate.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Classification of peer-to-peer traffic using data mining techniques and IP layer attributes
Creators: name: Hayajneh, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Business Administration, Management.
subject: Computer Science.

description: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is an internet application that allows a group of internet users to share their files and computing resources. P2P traffic was tremendously increased to an estimated value of 70% of broadband traffic with a special nature that directly impacts the Telecom industry. Accordingly, the Telecom business has become very interested in finding solutions to identify and control P2P traffic. This research focuses on developing a practical P2P traffic classification using data mining techniques and the information available in the TCP/IP header. We captured internet traffic, pre-processed and labeled them, and built several models using a combination of different attributes for various sizes of record files. We built the models based on neural network and decision tree techniques. Successful models were then subjected to a more stressful test using different ratios of P2P/Non-P2P in the training data set. We observed that the accuracy of the classification increases significantly when we take into account the source and destination IP addresses. We concluded that source and destination IP addresses depict information about the "community of peers". Based on this observation, we recommended that the classifier needs to be implemented within the administrative domain of the individual service provider's network, and continuously updated to ensure that new communities of peers are detected, while old communities of peers are not penalized after they stop using P2P applications. The proposed classification is based only on information in the IP layer, eliminating the privacy issues associated with deep packet inspection.
Noise-to-mask Ratio Loss for Deep Neural Network based Audio Watermarking
Creators: name: Moritz, Martin
name: Olán, Toni
name: Virtanen, Tuomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Digital audio watermarking consists in inserting a message into audio signals in a transparent way and can be used to allow automatic recognition of audio material and management of the copyrights. We propose a perceptual loss function to be used in deep neural network based audio watermarking systems. The loss is based on the noise-to-mask ratio (NMR), which is a model of the psychoacoustic masking effect characteristic of the human ear. We use the NMR loss between marked and host signals to train the deep neural models and we evaluate the objective quality with PEAQ and the subjective quality with a MUSHRA test. Both objective and subjective tests show that models trained with NMR loss generate more transparent watermarks than models trained with the conventionally used MSE loss
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Factors that influence destination selection for business events in Malaysia
Creators: name: Nwobodo, Stanley
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Business events industry, also known as meetings, incentives, conventions and Exhibition (MICE) industry is a hospitality sector and it’s among the fastest growing areas in tourism. As many countries and cities are competing to host business events, it is important to understand the criteria that business event organisers base their decisions on, when selecting a destination. This study specifically examines the important destination attributes, and the factors that can significantly predict the importance of each attribute with focus on Malaysia. This study suggests that convention bureaus and policy makers should maintain strong relationships with event organisers to help attract future events.
Reason and language in Charles Taylor
Creators: name: Tchir, Trevor
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.

description: Charles Taylor's commitment to cultural integrity is at the base of his idealization of an inclusionary discursive community, which recognizes particular expressions of the good but also asks that agents participate in the articulation of universal ethical standards centering on the dignity and autonomy of each person. This thesis examines the extent to which Taylor's 'Best Account principle' is able to reconcile the two related demands of situated freedom, as presented by Hegel: those of expressive unity with nature and rational autonomy. It evaluates the 'Best Account principle' as a hermeneutic principle of rational justification by comparing it to the rival theories of procedural liberalism, naturalism, and relativism. It then examines how the expressive theory of language effectively elucidates the intersubjective powers of Taylor's principle, before assessing how Taylor's hermeneutics, inspired by Gadamer, might meet the challenges of political recognition and incommensurability.
Sponsorship of Catholic institutions, particularly healthcare institutions, by the Sisters of Providence in the western United States.
Creators: name: Dunn, Beverly Kathrine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: This dissertation investigates the canonical implications of sponsorship, neither a civil law nor a canon law concept, as it has developed over the last three decades with the Sisters of Providence in the western United States, particularly as it relates to healthcare institutions. Through sponsorship, a group of people take responsibility for an institution of the apostolate of the Catholic Church, assuring that its fundamental directions, structures, and activities conform to its initial purposes. Though the sponsoring group may not take part in all the activities of the institution, but it does exercise oversight and control in critical areas. It provides a structural link to the local and universal Church and guarantees an institution's catholicity. The Sisters of Providence provide a suitable subject for studying sponsorship. As sponsor of a larger Catholic healthcare system in the United States, its history illustrates many aspects of sponsorship's evolution. The sisters operate through two groups in the West, Sacred Heart Province, a highly urban province, and St. Ignatius Province, a smaller more rural one. The differences between these two entities' approaches to sponsorship further demonstrates the dimensions of the topic. The document tells the story of the founding of the Sisters of Providence and its establishment in the United States up to the period of the Second Vatican Council. Then it recounts the development of the practice of sponsorship through three phases roughly corresponding to the decades of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The first era focused on control of property and assets and issues arising from the McGrath/Maida debate. The second stage concentrated on the incorporation of co-workers into responsibility for the mission, Catholic identity, and governance structures of the institutions. The third and present stage involves the challenges to Catholic identity accompanying collaboration with other healthcare providers in response to current healthcare reform activities. The general conclusion offers recommendations for sponsors, institutions and eventually, the Church's universal legislation.
Substrate-induced maximum optical chirality of planar dielectric structures
Creators: name: Gorkunov, Maxim V.
name: Antonov, Alexander A.
name: Mamonova, Alena V.
name: Muljarov, Egor A.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonant dielectric planar structures can interact selectively with light of particular helicity thus providing an attractive platform for chiral flat optics. The absence of mirror-symmetry planes defines geometric chirality, and it remains the main condition for achieving strong circular dichroism. For planar optical structures such as photonic-crystal membranes and metasurfaces, breaking of out-of-plane mirror symmetry is especially challenging, as it requires to fabricate meta-atoms with a tilt, variable height, or vertically shifted positions. Although transparent substrates formally break out-of-plane mirror symmetries, their optical effect is typically subtle being rarely considered for enhancing optical chirality. Here we reveal that low-refractive-index substrates can induce up to maximum optical chirality in otherwise achiral metastructures so that the transparency to waves of one helicity is combined with resonant blocking of waves of the opposite helicity. This effect originates from engineering twisted photonic eigenstates of different parities. Our perturbation analysis developed in terms of the resonant-state expansion reveals how the eigenstate coupling induced by a substrate gives rise to a pair of chiral resonances of opposite handedness. Our general theory is confirmed by the specific examples of light transmission in the normal and oblique directions by a rotation-symmetric photonic-crystal membrane placed on different transparent substrates.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
Aquinas, prudence, and proactive parenting: The "Treatise" applied.
Creators: name: McCabe, Joseph.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: This dissertation is on prudence and its role in child-rearing. More specifically, it is on how Thomas Aquina's Treatise on Prudence (S.T. IIa IIae QQ 47-56) can with profit be used to help parents today in the task of raising their children well. It is the author's conviction that Aquinas has a unique and important contribution to make to the contemporary debate on 'parenting', so-called, and the dissertation is a defense of that conviction. The paper is divided into three Parts, with each Part consisting of two chapters. The overall logical structure of the paper is that of chain argument which runs as follows. Employing the modern notion of 'proactivity' as a framework within which to speak of child-rearing practices, it is argued that: If proactive parent, then practical, provident, and equitable; If practical, provident, and equitable, then prudent; If proactive parent, then prudent. The thesis is that: It is not possible to be a proactive parent without the intellectual virtue of prudence. Each Part of the paper is dedicated respectively to one of the three qualities mentioned: practicality, providence, and equitability. Proactivity is a comprehensive theory of effective living; it is an approach to life and to problem-solving which has its origins in the fields of business and motivational psychology. Its principal proponent is the immensely popular author, lecturer, and leadership specialist, Dr. Stephen R. Covey. The use made of the notion of proactivity in the paper is twofold. First, in particular, it is used to focus the discussion of prudence and its role in conscientious parenting. The author noticed several fundamental and undeniable similarities between the notions of proactivity and prudence and has sought to exploit these similarities as a way of better understanding what it means to be an effective parent and to raise children well. Second, in general, the notion of proactivity is used to re-enter into the modern debate on child-rearing the figure of Thomas Aquinas. Parallel to the debate concerning public education, there arose a debate as to the 'private education', the upbringing, that children receive from their parents at home. And this debate--about which parenting style is most effective in raising children of responsible character--while certainly more focussed and closer to resolution today, is by no means overwith. It is into this debate that the author attempts to re-enter Thomas Aquinas and his Treatise on Prudence: under the auspices, that is, of the theory of 'proactivity'. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)