cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Impact of ImageNet Model Selection on Domain Adaptation
Creators: name: Zhang, Youshan
name: Davison, Brian D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep neural networks are widely used in image classification problems. However, little work addresses how features from different deep neural networks affect the domain adaptation problem. Existing methods often extract deep features from one ImageNet model, without exploring other neural networks. In this paper, we investigate how different ImageNet models affect transfer accuracy on domain adaptation problems. We extract features from sixteen distinct pre-trained ImageNet models and examine the performance of twelve benchmarking methods when using the features. Extensive experimental results show that a higher accuracy ImageNet model produces better features, and leads to higher accuracy on domain adaptation problems (with a correlation coefficient of up to 0.95). We also examine the architecture of each neural network to find the best layer for feature extraction. Together, performance from our features exceeds that of the state-of-the-art in three benchmark datasets.
Progressive Muskelentspannung (PME) als heilpädagogische Intervention auf der Primarstufe Erkenntnisse zu Effekten und geeigneten Rahmenbedingungen aus empirischen Studien und der Fachliteratur
Creators: name: Weber, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Entspannung
Grundschule
Methode
Masterarbeit

description: Diese Masterarbeit untersucht, welche empirischen und theoretischen Erkenntnisse sich aus Studien und der Fachliteratur zum systematischen Entspannungsverfahren der Progressiven Muskelentspannung (PME) im Kontext Schule gewinnen lassen. Zur Beantwortung der Fragestellung konnten insgesamt 28 empirische Studien aus dem englisch- und dem deutschsprachigen Raum eingeschlossen werden. Die Mehrheit der Studien berichtet über positive Effekte von PME bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit oder ohne Verhaltensdisposition. Im Vergleich zu anderen systematischen Entspannungsverfahren schneidet die PME weder in psychologischer noch physiologischer Hinsicht besser ab und ist einer unsystematischen Entspannungsvariante nicht überlegen. Besonders positiv wirkt sich PME bei ängstlichen oder aggressiven Kindern und Jugendlichen aus. Optimale Trainings und Gelingensbedingungen von PME im Kontext Schule sind kaum erforscht.
Redesigning distribution : basic income and stakeholder grants as alternative cornerstones for a more egalitarian capitalism
Creators: name: Wright, Erik Olin
name: Ackerman, Bruce
name: Alstott, Anne
name: Parij, Philippe Van
name: Bergmann, Barbara R.
name: Garfinkle, Irv
name: Huang, Chien-Chung
name: Naidich, Wendy
name: LeGrand, Julian
name: Pateman, Carole
name: Standing, Guy
name: White, Stuart
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Draft 1.0 May 2003
Additional file 1 of An immunoinformatic approach driven by experimental proteomics: in silico design of a subunit candidate vaccine targeting secretory proteins of Leishmania donovani amastigotes
Creators: name: Md Anik Ashfaq Khan
name: Jenifar Quaiyum Ami
name: Khaledul Faisal
name: Rajashree Chowdhury
name: Ghosh, Prakash
name: Hossain, Faria
name: Wahed, Ahmed Abd El
name: Mondal, Dinesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Text S1. Methodological details. Reasoning and description of tools used in the study.
Thermoforming of planar polymer optical waveguides for integrated optics in smart packaging materials
Creators: name: Hoffmann, G.-A.
name: Wienke, A.
name: Reitberger, T.
name: Franke, J.
name: Kaierle, S.
name: Overmeyer, L.
Publisher: name: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Additive manufacturing
subject: Integrated optics
subject: Polymer optical waveguides
subject: Printing
subject: Smart packaging
subject: Thermoforming
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::670 | Industrielle und handwerkliche Fertigung

description: The innovations in smart packaging will open up a wide range of opportunities in the future. This work describes the processing of additive manufactured and planar integrated polymer optical waveguides for use in smart packaging products. The previously published combination of flexographic and Aerosol Jet printing is complemented by thermoforming and thus creates three-dimensional integrated multimode waveguides with optical attenuation of 1.9 dB/cm ± 0.1 dB/cm @ 638 nm. These properties will be the basis to develop smart applications in packaging materials.
Redesigning distribution : basic income and stakeholder grants as alternative cornerstones for a more egalitarian capitalism
Creators: name: Wright, Erik Olin
name: Ackerman, Bruce
name: Alstott, Anne
name: Parij, Philippe Van
name: Bergmann, Barbara R.
name: Garfinkle, Irv
name: Huang, Chien-Chung
name: Naidich, Wendy
name: LeGrand, Julian
name: Pateman, Carole
name: Standing, Guy
name: White, Stuart
Publisher: name: Verso
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Draft 1.0 May 2003
Additional file 1 of Knowledge and interactions of the local community with the herpetofauna in the forest reserve of Quininí (Tibacuy-Cundinamarca, Colombia)
Creators: name: Ríos-Orjuela, Juan Camilo
name: Falcón-Espitia, Nelson
name: Arias-Escobar, Alejandra
name: Espejo-Uribe, María José
name: Chamorro-Vargas, Carol Tatiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Survey format
Gauge-Invariant Gravitational Wave Extraction from Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Kawamura, Mari
name: Oohara, Ken-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report application of a method for extracting gravitational waves to three-dimensional numerical simulation on coalescing binary neutron stars. We found the extracted wave form includes the componets corresponding to the quadrupole part in the Newtonian potential of the background metric, if it is monitored at a position not far from the central stars. We present how to eliminate it.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
title: “One Namibia, One Nation”?
title: Social Cohesion under a Liberation Movement as Government in Decline
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Melber, Henning
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2021

description: Namibia has been widely perceived as a successful case of negotiated independence, governed since 1990 by the former liberation movement. For a quarter of a century the movement turned party expanded its political dominance. Of lately, this hegemony showed cracks. The credibility and reputation, and hence the trust into those in government has been damaged due to a number of contributing factors. This has also resulted in a decline of social cohesion as part of the slippery road in so-called nation building. This article examines the course since independence and the more recent tendencies, pointing at the failures to enhance a social contract, which the ordinary people in the various communities could identify with and honor. Rather, centrifugal tendencies suggest, that the high tide of the former liberation movement as government has entered a phase of ebb.
Global stability of a Caputo fractional SIRS model with general incidence rate
Creators: name: Ammi, Moulay Rchid Sidi
name: Tahiri, Mostafa
name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A33, 34A08, 92D30

description: We introduce a fractional order SIRS model with non-linear incidence rate. Existence of a unique positive solution to the model is proved. Stability analysis of the disease free equilibrium and positive fixed points are investigated. Finally, a numerical example is presented.
description: This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form is with 'Math. Comput. Sci.', ISSN 1661-8270 (print), ISSN 1661-8289 (electronic), available at [https://www.springer.com/journal/11786]. Submitted 1-Jun-2019; Revised 5-Feb-2020; Accepted 6-Feb-2020
Additional file 2 of Diversity, distribution, and drivers of Polychromophilus infection in Malagasy bats
Creators: name: Mercia Rasoanoro
name: Goodman, Steven M.
name: Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia
name: Mbola Rakotondratsimba
name: Koussay Dellagi
name: Tortosa, Pablo
name: Ramasindrazana, Beza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Genbank accession numbers of blood parasites included in the present study. Isolates and their Genbank accession number produced in the frame of the present work are highlighted in bold. FMNH Field Museum of Natural History, UADBA Université d’Antananarivo, Département de Biologie Animale.
Community Based Health Insurance Schemes and Protection of the Rural Poor: Empirical evidence from Tanzania
Creators: name: Macha, Raphael Rasiel
name: Macha, Raphael Rasiel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: catastrophic expenditure
subject: social protection
subject: community based health insurance
subject: community health fund

description: The objectives of this study are two folds: firstly to explore the magnitude of catastrophic expenditure, and secondly to determine its contributing factor,s including the protective impact of the voluntary community based health insurance schemes in Tanzania. The study covered 274 respondents. Study findings have shown that the estimated poverty line was Tsh.35,064.6 (US$21.25). Of the sampled respondents, 30.3% experienced catastrophic expenditure in the range of 10-20% of their capacity to pay, and 26.6% of the insured respondents experienced catastrophic expenditure. The average catastrophic expenditure for the sample is 26.64%. We used logistic regression to predict the factors influencing catastrophic health expenditure. Our results have shown that households with heads involved in social organisations or networks were more protected against catastrophic health expenditures. On the other hand, households headed by a female and involved in farming, were more likely to experience catastrophic health expenditure. Further, in households whose heads had low levels of education and households having members with recurring or chronic illness were more likely to experience catastrophic health expenditure. While households with insurance cover were more likely to be protected from the risk of catastrophic health expenditure compared with those not covered by insurance schemes, there are no significant differences in terms of lessened catastrophic expenditure that poor participants and nonparticipants enjoyed from their participation in CHF.
Additional file 1 of Factors associated with scientific production conditions among dental students from the Peruvian capital: an analysis under a multivariable regression model
Creators: name: Gutierrez-Quevedo, Yanira
name: Ladera-Castañeda, Marysela
name: Castro-Rojas, Miriam
name: Huamani-Echaccaya, José
name: Romero-Velásquez, Leysi
name: Aroste-Andía, Rosa
name: Cervantes-Ganoza, Luis
name: Cayo-Rojas, César
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Highlighting New Possibilities: A Comparison of SLOT and CT in the Analysis of 3D Printed Optical Elements
Creators: name: Hill, Ole
name: Biermann, Tobias
name: Eckert, Gerrit
name: Sleiman, Khodor
name: Mesecke, Lennart
name: Rettschlag, Katharina
name: Jäschke, Peter
name: Kaierle, Stefan
name: Bigall, Nadja C.
name: Ripken, Tammo
name: Lachmayer, Roland
name: Wollweber, Merve
Publisher: name: Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: IPDAM
subject: SAM
subject: Scanning Laser Optical Tomography
subject: SLOT
subject: Additive Manufacturing
subject: Optical Tomography
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: Novel printing techniques for optical elements produce characteristics in these optical elements which can sometimes not be resolved with classic testing or imaging methods. As highly individualized components often have a significant cost associated with them, destructive methods are unwanted. For this work, Scanning Laser Optical Tomography (SLOT) is considered to overcome these challenges and provide knowledge and data which would otherwise not be accessible. SLOT is directly compared to µCT which is often the go-to imaging modality for small, printed optics. Advantages such as the possibility to measure fluorescence with volumetric resolution are presented in this work in the application of a functionalized silicone waveguide. Interactions between the excitation light and the sample are also measured in SLOT in form of absorption. The importance of absorption is highlighted with the example of a 3D printed glass block which has light refractive layers that are invisible in µCT measurements. SLOT should be considered as a quality control tool by scientists and manufactures of printed optical elements as it has many advantages over µCT.
Surface density of the young cluster IC 348 in the Perseus molecular cloud
Creators: name: Cambresy, L.
name: Petropoulou, V.
name: Kontizas, M.
name: Kontizas, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The IC 348 young star cluster contains more than 300 confirmed members. It is embedded in the Perseus molecular cloud, making any clustering analysis subject to an extinction bias. In this work, we derive the extinction map of the cloud and revisit the content of IC 348 through a statistical approach that uses the 2MASS data. Our goal was to address the question of the completeness of IC 348 and of young clusters in general. We performed a combined analysis of the star color and density in this region, in order to establish the surface density map of the cluster. We reached the conclusion that IC 348 has structures up to 25' from the cluster center, and we estimate that about 40 members brighter than Ks=13 mag are still unidentified. Although we cannot use our statistical method to identify these new members individually, the surface density map gives a strong indication of their actual location. They are distributed in the outer regions of the cluster, where very few dedicated observations have been made so far, which is probably why they escaped previous identification. In addition, we propose the existence of a new embedded cluster associated to the infrared source MSX6C G160.2784-18.4216, about 38' south of IC 348.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 1 of Ameliorating process parameters for zeaxanthin yield in Arthrobacter gandavensis MTCC 25325
Creators: name: Shristi Ram
name: Tirkey, Sushma Rani
name: Madhava Anil Kumar
name: Mishra, Sandhya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. General characteristics of bacterial isolates showing zeaxanthin production. Fig. S1. Sampling location of pigmented bacterial isolates screened for zeaxanthin production.
What do observations tell us about the highest-redshift supermassive black holes?
Creators: name: Trakhtenbrot, Benny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review the current understanding of some key properties of the earliest growing supermassive black holes (SMBHs), as determined from the most up-to-date observations of z>=5 quasars. This includes their accretion rates and growth history, their host galaxies, and the large-scale environments that enabled their emergence less than a billion years after the Big Bang. The available multi-wavelength data show that these SMBHs are consistent with Eddington-limited, radiatively efficient accretion that had to proceed almost continuously since very early epochs. ALMA observations of the hosts' ISM reveal gas-rich, well developed galaxies, with a wide range of SFRs that may exceed ~1000 M_sol/yr. Moreover, ALMA uncovers a high fraction of companion, interacting galaxies, separated by <100 kpc (projected). This supports the idea that the first generation of high-mass, luminous SMBHs grew in over-dense environments, and that major mergers may be important drivers for rapid SMBH and host galaxy growth. Current X-ray surveys cannot access the lower-mass, supposedly more abundant counterparts of these rare z>5 massive quasars, which should be able to elucidate the earliest stages of BH formation and growth. Such lower-mass nuclear BHs will be the prime targets of the deepest surveys planned for the next generation of facilities, such as the upcoming Athena mission and the future Lynx mission concept.
description: 13 pages of text, 6 figures. Invited review talk at IAU Symposium 356, "Nuclear Activity in Galaxies across Cosmic Time", Oct 2019
On the dynamics of a seventh-order generalized Hénon-Heiles potential
Creators: name: Dubeibe, F. L.
name: Zotos, Euaggelos E.
name: Chen, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper deals with the derivation and analysis of a seventh-order generalization of the Hénon-Heiles potential. The new potential has axial and reflection symmetries, and finite escape energy with three channels of escape. Based on SALI indicator and exits basins, the dynamic behavior of the seventh-order system is investigated qualitatively in cases of bounded and unbounded movement. Moreover, a quantitative analysis is carried out through the percentage of chaotic orbits and the basin entropy, respectively. After classifying large sets of initial conditions of orbits for several values of the energy constant in both regimes, we observe that when the energy moves away from the critical value, the chaoticity of the system decreases and the basin structure becomes simpler with sharper and well defined bounds. Our results suggest that when the seventh-order contributions of the potential are taken into account, the system becomes less ergodic in comparison with the classical version of the Hénon-Heiles system.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Determinants of Financial Sustainability of Small Holder Sugarcane Farming Systems in Tanzania
Creators: name: Mushi, Ally S.
name: Ngaruko, Deus D.
name: Mushi, Ally S.
name: Ngaruko, Deus D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Financial Economics
subject: smallholder farmers
subject: block farming
subject: traditional farming
subject: financial sustainability and profitability
subject: Tanzania

description: The study investigated the impact of farming systems on determinants of smallholder sugarcane farmers (SSFs) financial sustainability (FS) between Block Farming (BF) and Traditional Farming (TF) systems. FS was analyzed by assessing profitability of the farming system. Semi structured questionnaires were administered to a random sample of SSFs and officials of block farms within Kilombero valley in Morogoro region in the south eastern Tanzania. 1040 observations from 394 respondents for SSFs’ FS have been analyzed at significance level of p = 0.05. Two sample t-Tests, one way ANOVA and Tobit regression analysis performed revealed that effects of the two farming systems on the hypothesized factors differs significantly. Yield, price and cost have been found to have significant effects on financial sustainability, whereas the effect of land size and sucrose were not significant.BF has been found to be significantly more effective than TF system in ensuring profitability of the farmers. Profitability through BF is 0.56 (56%) as compared to 0.39 (39%) through TF.
Export-Led Growth Hypothesis: Evidence from Agricultural Exports in Tanzania
Creators: name: Myovella, Godwin A.
name: Paul, Fintan
name: Rwakalaza, Rameck T.
name: Myovella, Godwin A.
name: Paul, Fintan
name: Rwakalaza, Rameck T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Agricultural exports
subject: Economic growth
subject: cointegration
subject: causality and Tanzania

description: This study examines the nature and direction of causality in Tanzania between economic growth and agricultural exports along with some selected variables such as labour force and domestic investment. The analysis for this study was carried out using time series data for the period of 1980 to 2013. The data series were tested for stationarity using Phillips-perron test and the results revealed that they were all stationary and integrated of order one I(1). The Johansen test of cointegration revealed that there are cointegrating vectors in the system. The Granger causality test results revealed no any support of the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis for Tanzania. However, the growth-led exports (GLE) hypothesis for Tanzania was supported by the results of this study, implying that the government of Tanzania needs to promote growth in order to generate exports.
Revisionen: Kolonialgeschichte Hören
Creators: name: Becker, Heike
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2021

description: Rezension von HOFFMANN, Annette. 2020. Kolonialgeschichte Hören - Das Echo gewaltsamer Wissensproduktion in historischen Tondokumenten aus dem südlichen Afrika. Wien und Berlin: Mandelbaum Verlag. 173 S.
Breaking Band: A Breakdown of High-performance Communication
Creators: name: Zambre, Rohit
name: Grodowitz, Megan
name: Chandramowlishwaran, Aparna
name: Shamis, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.4

description: The critical path of internode communication on large-scale systems is composed of multiple components. When a supercomputing application initiates the transfer of a message using a high-level communication routine such as an MPI_Send, the payload of the message traverses multiple software stacks, the I/O subsystem on both the host and target nodes, and network components such as the switch. In this paper, we analyze where, why, and how much time is spent on the critical path of communication by modeling the overall injection overhead and end-to-end latency of a system. We focus our analysis on the performance of small messages since fine-grained communication is becoming increasingly important with the growing trend of an increasing number of cores per node. The analytical models present an accurate and detailed breakdown of time spent in internode communication. We validate the models on Arm ThunderX2-based servers connected with Mellanox InfiniBand. This is the first work of this kind on Arm. Alongside our breakdown, we describe the methodology to measure the time spent in each component so that readers with access to precise CPU timers and a PCIe analyzer can measure breakdowns on systems of their interest. Such a breakdown is crucial for software developers, system architects, and researchers to guide their optimization efforts. As researchers ourselves, we use the breakdown to simulate the impacts and discuss the likelihoods of a set of optimizations that target the bottlenecks in today's high-performance communication.
description: In Proceedings of the 48th ACM International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Kyoto, Japan, August 2019
Additional file 3 of Diversity, distribution, and drivers of Polychromophilus infection in Malagasy bats
Creators: name: Mercia Rasoanoro
name: Goodman, Steven M.
name: Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia
name: Mbola Rakotondratsimba
name: Koussay Dellagi
name: Tortosa, Pablo
name: Ramasindrazana, Beza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Localities with positive occurrence of Polychromophilus in Madagascar including the origin of the sample (cave or trapping) and their location (latitude, longitude).
Ab-initio calculations of charge exchange in ion-surface collisions: an embedded-cluster approach
Creators: name: Wirtz, Ludger
name: Dallos, Michal
name: Lischka, Hans
name: Burgdorfer, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the feasibility of the embedded cluster approach for it ab-initio calculations of charge exchange between ions and a LiF surface. We show that the discrete density of valence states in embedded clusters converges towards the continuum limit of the density of states in the valence band of an infinitely extended LiF surface. Screening of the holes that are left in the surface after electron transfer to the projectile plays an important role for the correct level ordering in the calculation of potential energy surfaces. We discuss to which extent the hole screening is taken into account by different levels of approximations which are customarily employed in quantum chemistry. The central result of the paper is the convergence of potential energy curves with respect to cluster size: Out of the increasing number of potential energy curves (converging towards a continuum for infinite cluster size), only a small number of states effectively interacts with the capture level of the projectile and determines the charge transfer efficiency.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of "Coincidence Studies of Surfaces, Thin Films and Nanostructures", Ringberg-castle, Germany, September 7-10, 2003
title: Sustainability assessment of future energy strategies for Milton Keynes
Creators: name: Titheridge, Helena
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2005

description: Current patterns of energy use are unsustainable in the long-term. High dependence on the burning of fossil fuels cannot continue indefinitely. Sustainability Assessment is one way of including the wider environmental, social and economic impacts of energy use in policy-making. To date there is little experience of sustainability assessment being widely used to assess energy policies. A sustainability assessment methodology was developed which combines an energy and emissions model (DREAM-city) with an impact database to appraise the impacts of a strategy, which are then presented in a matrix. The assessment methodology uses a process which follows similar steps to those typically used for environmental assessment and strategic environmental assessment (SEA), widely used by Local Authorities in other policy areas such as town-planning. A greater emphasis has been placed on the appraisal techniques and the presentation of the impacts than is usually the case with SEA techniques, where much of the literature to date has concentrated on the processes involved (Nilsson et al, 2004). The assessment methodology was tested "in the laboratory" by comparing a series of different energy strategies that Milton Keynes could adopt. The methodology was then "field tested" by working closely with Milton Keynes Energy Agency to assess two different energy strategies. The assessment methodology worked in the initial tests and was well received by Milton Keynes Energy Agency. The assessment is still open to some subjectivity due to necessity of summarising impacts tables to a level that is manageable. However, the process is more likely to capture all known impacts consistently than techniques that start at the summary level. The methodology has increased transparency over standard strategic assessment techniques, as assumptions have to be laid out in detail at the energy modelling stage, but this is at the cost of increased complexity.
An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Minimum Wage, Investment and Economic Growth in Ghana
Creators: name: Obeng, Samuel Kwabena
name: Obeng, Samuel Kwabena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: minimum wage
subject: investment
subject: economic growth
subject: ARDL
subject: DOLS
subject: ECM

description: The paper determines whether minimum wage stimulates economic growth in Ghana, for the period 1984-2013, using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration, within an error correction framework. A preliminary test provides evidence of correlation between minimum wage and investment, thereby allowing for an examination of the wage-growth relationship. Four equations are used to determine the relationship between minimum wage and economic growth. The results from the simple regression of minimum wage on economic growth indicate a positive and statistically significant impact of minimum wage on economic growth both in the long-and short-run. However, the results from other estimations of the wage-growth relationship when investment, credit to the private sector and an interaction term of wage and investment are controlled for precludes any naïve policy formulation which may be solely based on the positive wage-growth relationship obtained. Specifically, the results from the other estimations imply minimum wage can only be growth enhancing if it is met by simultaneous increases in investment spending, as well as deliberate and sustained policies aimed at ensuring credit to finance private investment are readily available, easily accessible, and affordable. In addition, the ratio of public investment to tax revenue must increase as minimum wage increases since such complementary changes are more likely to lead to economic growth.
Additional file 1 of Large-scale annotation of biochemically relevant pockets and tunnels in cognate enzyme–ligand complexes
Creators: name: Vavra, O.
name: Tyzack, J.
name: Haddadi, F.
name: Stourac, J.
name: Damborsky, J.
name: Mazurenko, S.
name: Thornton, J. M.
name: Bednar, D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1. Detailed description of the methods with settings and parameters; list of features and hyperparameters for the predictor; predictor learning curves; setup of ASMD simulations; detailed results from validations; details from structural and energetical analyses; tunnel parameters and presence in EC classes (PDF); filtered input dataset (CSV); information for 8 validation systems (CSV); list of PDB ID pairs of the complexes and ligand free structures (CSV); training dataset (CSV); testing dataset (CSV); predictor Python code (PY); training and testing dataset with labels from predictors (CSV).
Hierarchical Isometry Properties of Hierarchical Measurements
Creators: name: Flinth, Axel
name: Groß, Benedikt
name: Roth, Ingo
name: Eisert, Jens
name: Wunder, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A new class of measurement operators, coined hierarchical measurement operators, and prove results guaranteeing the efficient, stable and robust recovery of hierarchically structured signals from such measurements. We derive bounds on their hierarchical restricted isometry properties based on the restricted isometry constants of their constituent matrices, generalizing and extending prior work on Kronecker-product measurements. As an exemplary application, we apply the theory to two communication scenarios. The fast and scalable HiHTP algorithm is shown to be suitable for solving these types of problems and its performance is evaluated numerically in terms of sparse signal recovery and block detection capability.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures. v3: Significant rework of previous version. Section on incoherent blocks added, as well as more numerical experiments. v4: Revision of the manuscript. Several previous mistakes have been corrected
Additional file 1 of Diversity, distribution, and drivers of polychromophilus infection in Malagasy bats
Creators: name: Mercia Rasoanoro
name: Goodman, Steven M.
name: Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia
name: Mbola Rakotondratsimba
name: Koussay Dellagi
name: Tortosa, Pablo
name: Ramasindrazana, Beza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Localities sampled in the previous and present study.
The Holographic Dark Energy in a Non-flat Universe
Creators: name: Huang, Qing-Guo
name: Li, Miao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the model for holographic dark energy in a spatially closed universe, generalizing the proposal in hep-th/0403127 for a flat universe. We provide independent arguments for the choice of the parameter $c=1$ in the holographic dark energy model. On the one hand, $c$ can not be less than 1, to avoid violating the second law of thermodynamics. On the other hand, observation suggests $c$ be very close to 1, it is hard to justify a small deviation of $c$ from 1, if $c>1$.
description: 12 pages, harvmac, v2: order of authors is corrected in webpage, v3: refs. added
Asymmetric Lineshape due to Inhomogeneous Broadening of the Crystal-Field Transitions in Mn12ac Single Crystals
Creators: name: Vongtragool, S.
name: Mukhin, A.
name: Gorshunov, B.
name: Dressel, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lineshape of crystal-field transitions in single crystals of Mn12ac molecular magnets is determined by the magnetic history. The absorption lines are symmetric and Gaussian for the non-magnetized state obtained by zero-field cooling (zfc). In the magnetized state which is reached when the sample is cooled in a magnetic field (fc), however, they are asymmetric even in the absence of an external magnetic field. These observations are quantitatively explained by inhomogeneous symmetrical (Gaussian) broadening of the crystal-field transitions combined with a contribution of off-diagonal components of the magnetic susceptibility to the effective magnetic permeability.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 2 of Diversity, distribution, and drivers of polychromophilus infection in Malagasy bats
Creators: name: Mercia Rasoanoro
name: Goodman, Steven M.
name: Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia
name: Mbola Rakotondratsimba
name: Koussay Dellagi
name: Tortosa, Pablo
name: Ramasindrazana, Beza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Genbank accession numbers of blood parasites included in the present study. Isolates and their Genbank accession number produced in the frame of the present work are highlighted in bold. FMNH Field Museum of Natural History, UADBA Université d’Antananarivo, Département de Biologie Animale.
Reentrant Kondo effect in a quantum impurity coupled to a metal-semiconductor hybrid contact
Creators: name: Diniz, G.
name: Diniz, G. S.
name: Martins, G. B.
name: Vernek, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using NRG, we show that a system containing a quantum impurity (QI), strongly coupled to a semiconductor (gap $2 Δ$) and weakly coupled to a metal, displays a 'reentrant' Kondo stage at low temperatures. The NRG analysis of the corresponding Single Impurity Anderson Model (SIAM) shows that the reentrant stage is characterized by a second sequence of SIAM fixed points: free orbital (FO) > local moment (LM) > strong coupling (SC). In the first stage, the SC fixed point (Kondo temperature $T_{K1}$) is unstable, while the second stage exhibits a much lower Kondo temperature $T_{K2}$, associated to a stable SC fixed point. The results indicate that the reentrant Kondo screening is associated to an effective SIAM, with an effective repulsion $U_{eff}$. This low temperature effective SIAM, which we dub as 'reentrant' SIAM, behaves as a 'replica' of the high temperature (bare) SIAM. The intuitive picture that emerges is that the first Kondo state develops through impurity screening by semiconducting electrons, while the second Kondo state involves screening by metallic electrons, once the semiconducting electrons are out of reach to thermal excitations ($T < Δ$) and only the metallic spectral weight inside the gap is available for impurity screening. In addition, we analyze a hybrid system formed by a QI `sandwiched' between an armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) and a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip, with respective couplings set to reproduce the generic model described above. The energy gap in the AGNR can be externally tuned by an electric-field-induced Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We analyzed this system for realistic parameter values, using NRG, and concluded that the reentrant SIAM, with its associated second stage Kondo, is worthy of experimental investigation.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures
Determinants of Farmers’ participation in high value crops in Tanzania
Creators: name: Mutayoba, Venance
name: Ngaruko, Deus
name: Mutayoba, Venance
name: Ngaruko, Deus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Market participation
subject: smallholders
subject: high value crops
subject: Tanzania

description: This paper is based on a study undertaken to analyze market participation of tomato smallholder famers in three districts of Morogoro region in eastern Tanzania. A multi-stage random sampling procedure was employed to select the sample. Determinants and extent of market participation were estimated using Heckman selection and outcome equations respectively. It was found that characteristics of market participants and non-market participants were not statistically different. The paper recommends that that the government should beef up extension services especially in the aspect of market information to farmers in order to enlighten them on the recommended production techniques, market price and also to improve tomato production. Moreover, rural information centres as well as mobile telephony system should be formed so as to enhance tomato farmers’ regular access to information on market dynamics.
The Relationship between Inflation and Unemployment in Ghana: Analysis of the Philips Curve
Creators: name: Elliot, Boateng
name: Elliot, Boateng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Inflation
subject: Unemployment
subject: Philips curve
subject: Ghana

description: The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between inflation and unemployment in Ghana. The study also aims to test for the existent of the Philips curve in Ghana using the new Keynesian Philips curve model on annual time series data sampled from 1970 to 2013. The sample period was divided into two subsamples -from 1970 to 1982 and 1983 to 2013- in order to test for the effect of the Economic Recovery Programme on the relationship between inflation and unemployment. The empirical estimate reveals that, changes in unemployment does not brings about changes in inflation both subsample periods. Again, the study rejects evidence of the Philips curve in Ghana. This is attributed to the fast growing labour force that lack the appropriate skills to earn them a job placement, alarming rate of rural-urban migration, imperfect market information which has resulted in mismatch of that makes inflation unresponsive to changes in unemployment. Monetary policies to influence inflation would not bring about any trade-off between inflation and unemployment. To reduce the ever increasing unemployment in Ghana, policy direction should focus on creating job opportunities for both uneducated and educated individuals.
Additional file 3 of Diversity, distribution, and drivers of polychromophilus infection in Malagasy bats
Creators: name: Mercia Rasoanoro
name: Goodman, Steven M.
name: Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia
name: Mbola Rakotondratsimba
name: Koussay Dellagi
name: Tortosa, Pablo
name: Ramasindrazana, Beza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Localities with positive occurrence of Polychromophilus in Madagascar including the origin of the sample (cave or trapping) and their location (latitude, longitude).
Time-symmetric initial data for binary black holes in numerical relativity
Creators: name: Blanchet, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We look for physically realistic initial data in numerical relativity which are in agreement with post-Newtonian approximations. We propose a particular solution of the time-symmetric constraint equation, appropriate to two momentarily static black holes, in the form of a conformal decomposition of the spatial metric. This solution is isometric to the post-Newtonian metric up to the 2PN order. It represents a non-linear deformation of the solution of Brill and Lindquist, i.e. an asymptotically flat region is connected to two asymptotically flat (in a certain weak sense) sheets, that are the images of the two singularities through appropriate inversion transformations. The total ADM mass M as well as the individual masses m_1 and m_2 (when they exist) are computed by surface integrals performed at infinity. Using second order perturbation theory on the Brill-Lindquist background, we prove that the binary's interacting mass-energy M-m_1-m_2 is well-defined at the 2PN order and in agreement with the known post-Newtonian result.
description: 27 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
title: Temporal Processing Deficits in Children with Dyslexia and Developmental Coordination Disorder
Creators: name: Williams, Gareth John
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2005

description: This thesis set out to examine whether temporal processing deficits were evident in both children with developmental dyslexia and children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD), and if there were, whether there were similar patterns of deficits in both conditions which suggest evidence of a possible underlying cognitive deficit common to both conditions, as suggested by some researchers (for example, Kaplan, Wilson, Dewey, and Crawford, 1998, and Nicolson, 2000). A pilot study was carried out to investigate the feasibility of initial tasks that may be used in main studies. The findings from this study suggested automatisation and temporal processing may be areas to explore further. Consequently, Study One began by investigating the performance of children with dyslexia, DCD and typically developing children on a rapid naming task. The duration of their articulations and non-articulations was measured and the results indicated that the children with dyslexia showed longer and more variable non-articulation durations than the other two groups; the children with DCD had significantly longer articulation durations than the other two groups. Main Study Two investigated whether there were temporal production deficits in the two special needs groups relative to controls. The findings here suggested a subtle auditory deficit in children with dyslexia, however the children with DCD did not differ significantly from the typically developing group. Main Study Three investigated temporal perception, using a temporal generalisation task. This study found no significant differences between the groups on their performance on the task, but intergroup correlations suggested that the ability to carry out temporal generalisations was associated with different abilities in each group. Finally, Main Study Four looked at temporal order judgements (TOJs) across several modalities by using different types of stimuli: phonological stimuli, tones, shapes, and letters. Here, the children with dyslexia were significantly less accurate than the other two groups in making TOJs with phonological stimuli, but the children with DCD were not significantly different from the controls. All children performed least accurately on the tone condition suggesting that the nature of this condition is generally difficult. The results do not support the hypothesis that there is a general temporal processing deficit in children with dyslexia or children with DCD or that this may be a common deficit between the two conditions. However, the findings were in line with the idea that children with dyslexia have a phonological and / or speech perception deficit, and further work with children who have DCD needs to be conducted to study the heterogeneity of this condition at the cognitive level.
Additional file 5 of A unified nomenclature for vertebrate olfactory receptors
Creators: name: Olender, Tsviya
name: Jones, Tamsin E. M.
name: Bruford, Elspeth
name: Lancet, Doron
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5. Phylogenetic analysis of the 50 largest OR subfamilies using Bayesian inference. Bayesian phylogenies were generated for the 50 largest OR subfamilies as described in the Methods. Bayesian trees are displayed with posterior probabilities on the branch nodes. ORs that were renamed manually are annotated with an asterisk (*). Scale bar represents the number of amino acid changes per site.