cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Expenditure-Switching Effect and the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime
Creators: name: Dong, Wei
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2007

description: The author investigates the quantitative importance of the expenditure-switching effect by developing and estimating a structural sticky-price model nesting both producer currency pricing (PCP) and local currency pricing (LCP) settings. The author aims to provide empirical evidence of the magnitude of the benefits to be gained from exchange rate flexibility in terms of expenditure switching, and to contribute to the ongoing debate regarding the optimal exchange rate regime. In the author's model, the size of the expenditure-switching effect is determined by the degree of price stickiness, the fraction of firms employing PCP versus LCP, the distribution margin, and the elasticity of substitution between domestic and foreign tradable goods. The model is estimated for three small open economies: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The empirical results suggest that, among the three countries, the magnitude of the expenditure switching by domestic agents is relatively small for the United Kingdom, and comparatively large for Canada; the distribution margin in the United Kingdom is exceptionally high, which limits the degree of domestic expenditure switching initiated by nominal exchange rate movements. Moreover, expenditure switching by foreign distributors is comparatively small for Australia and Canada, since a larger fraction of Australian and Canadian firms adopt LCP for their export price-setting.
description: L'auteure s'attache à mesurer l'ampleur des transferts de dépenses imputables aux variations du taux de change. Pour ce faire, elle élabore et estime un modèle structurel à prix rigides autorisant une facturation dans la monnaie des pays producteurs et dans celle des pays importateurs. Elle s'efforce de recueillir des indications empiriques sur la valeur des avantages que procureraient les régimes de changes flottants en favorisant des transferts de dépenses. Elle entend prendre ainsi part au débat en cours sur le choix d'un régime de change optimal. Dans le modèle, la taille des transferts de dépenses dépend du degré de rigidité des prix, de la proportion des entreprises qui fixent leurs prix dans la monnaie de leur pays d'attache plutôt que dans celle de leurs clients étrangers, de la marge de distribution et du niveau de substituabilité des biens échangeables produits localement et importés. L'auteure estime son modèle pour trois petites économies ouvertes : l'Australie, le Canada et le Royaume-Uni. Selon les résultats empiriques, les transferts de dépenses des agents nationaux sont plutôt faibles au Royaume-Uni, mais relativement importants au Canada; la marge de distribution étant particulièrement élevée au Royaume-Uni, l'ampleur des transferts de dépenses attribuables aux variations du taux de change nominal s'y trouve limitée. En Australie et au Canada, les transferts dont sont responsables les distributeurs étrangers sont plutôt modestes, car une bonne partie des entreprises résidentes facturent leurs exportations dans la monnaie des pays importateurs.
title: Designing Behavior Change Support Systems Targeting Blood Donation Behavior
Creators: name: Müller, Helena M.
name: Reuter-Oppermann, Melanie
Publisher: name: Springer Gabler
Year: 2025

description: While blood is crucial for many surgeries and patient treatments worldwide, it cannot be produced artificially. Fulfilling the demand for blood products on average days is already a major challenge in countries like South Africa and Ghana. In these countries, less than 1 % of the population donates blood and most of the donations come from first-time donors who do not return. Sufficient new, first-time and even lapsed donors must be motivated to donate regularly. This study argues that blood donation behavior change support systems (BDBCSS) can be beneficially applied to support blood donor management in African countries. In this study, the design science research (DSR) approach is applied in order to derive generic design principles for BDBCSS and instantiate the design knowledge in prototypes for a blood donation app and a chatbot. The design principles were evaluated in a field study in South Africa. The results demonstrate the positive effects of BDBCSS on users’ intentional and developmental blood donation behavior. This study contributes to research and practice by proposing a new conceptualization of blood donation information systems support and a nascent design theory for BDBCSS that builds on behavioral theories as well as related work on blood donation information systems. Thus, the study provides valuable implications for designing preventive health BCSS by stating three design principles for a concrete application context in healthcare.
The Traditional Approximation of Rotation including the centrifugal acceleration for slightly deformed stars
Creators: name: Mathis, Stéphane
name: Prat, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Traditional Approximation of Rotation (TAR) is a treatment of the dynamical equations of rotating stably stratified fluids where the action of the Coriolis acceleration along the direction of the entropy (and chemicals) stratification is neglected while assuming that the fluid motions are mostly horizontal because of their inhibition in the vertical direction by the buoyancy force. This leads to neglect the horizontal projection of the rotation vector in the equations for the dynamics of gravito-inertial waves (GIWs) that become separable as in the non-rotating case while they are not in the case with the full Coriolis acceleration. This approximation has been broadly applied in stellar (and planetary) astrophysics to study low-frequency GIWs. TAR is built on the assumptions that the star is spherical (i.e. its centrifugal deformation is neglected) and uniformly rotating while an adiabatic treatment of the dynamics of the waves is adopted. However, it has been recently generalised with including the effects of a differential rotation. We aim to do a new generalisation that takes into account the centrifugal acceleration in the case of moderately uniformly rotating deformed stars. As in the case of a differentially rotating spherical star, the problem becomes 2D but can be treated analytically if assuming the Cowling, anelastic and JWKB approximations, which are relevant for low-frequency GIWs. It allows us to derive a generalised Laplace tidal equation for the horizontal eigenfunctions and asymptotic wave periods that can be used to probe the structure and dynamics of rotating deformed stars thanks to asteroseismology. A first numerical exploration of its eigenvalues and horizontal eigenfunctions shows their variation as a function of the pseudo-radius for different rotation rates and frequencies and the development of avoided crossings.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, abstract shortened for arXiv
A graph-theoretic approach to Wilf's conjecture
Creators: name: Eliahou, Shalom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let S $\subseteq$ N be a numerical semigroup with multiplicity m = min(S \ {0}) and conductor c = max(N \ S) + 1. Let P be the set of primitive elements of S, and let L be the set of elements of S which are smaller than c. A longstand-ing open question by Wilf in 1978 asks whether the inequality |P||L| $\ge$ c always holds. Among many partial results, Wilf's conjecture has been shown to hold in case |P| $\ge$ m/2 by Sammartano in 2012. Using graph theory in an essential way, we extend the verification of Wilf's conjecture to the case |P| $\ge$ m/3. This case covers more than 99.999% of numerical semigroups of genus g $\le$ 45.
Trimiomelba dubia
Creators: name: Ferro, Michael L.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
name: Harms, Kyle E.
name: Carlton, Christopher E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Trimiomelba
Trimiomelba dubia

description: Trimiomelba dubia (LeConte) (Fig. 56)
 Range: eastern United States west to Texas. Habitat: leaf litter, rotten logs. Collection Method: sifting/Berlese litter and rotten wood, at UV light. Biology: unknown, members of this subfamily are predacious. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in leaf litter, secondary forest, and spring.
 References: Blatchley 1910; Chandler 1990b, 1999; Downie and Arnett 1996 (as T. laevis Casey, and T. convexula (LeConte)); Newton et al. 2001.
description: Published as part of Ferro, Michael L., Gimmel, Matthew L., Harms, Kyle E. & Carlton, Christopher E., 2012, Comparison of the Coleoptera communities in leaf litter and rotten wood in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, pp. 1-58 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (259) on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5175113
Developments in GFRP Reinforced Bolted Joints in Glass
Creators: name: Achintha, Mithila
name: Zirbo, Tudor
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: The brittle material behaviour of glass means the inefficiency of contemporary mechanical connection technologies hampers the exploitation of full potential of glass for delivering energy efficient buildings. This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation of the use of adhesively bonded Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) strips as a mean improving strength and ductility of bolted joints in glass. The peak load and the post-peak ductility of GFRP reinforced joints in annealed glass in double-lap tension joint configurations were experimentally investigated and compared with equivalent unstrengthened reference bolted joints in annealed glass and fully-toughened glass. The results show that the peak load of the reinforced joints in annealed glass increased up to 250%. The reinforced joints also showed a notable ductility compared to the reference annealed glass and fully-toughened glass test specimens.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
Simulation and analysis of in vitro DNA evolution
Creators: name: Kloster, Morten
name: Tang, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study theoretically the in vitro evolution of a DNA sequence by binding to a transcription factor. Using a simple model of protein-DNA binding and available binding constants for the Mnt protein, we perform large-scale, realistic simulations of evolution starting from a single DNA sequence. We identify different parameter regimes characterized by distinct evolutionary behaviors. For each regime we find analytical estimates which agree well with simulation results. For small population sizes, the DNA evolutional path is a random walk on a smooth landscape. While for large population sizes, the evolution dynamics can be well described by a mean-field theory. We also study how the details of the DNA-protein interaction affect the evolution.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures. Submitted to PNAS
title: Estimation and Inference by the Method of Projection Minimum Distance
Creators: name: Jordà, Òscar
name: Kozicki, Sharon
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2007

description: A covariance-stationary vector of variables has a Wold representation whose coefficients can be semi-parametrically estimated by local projections (Jordà, 2005). Substituting the Wold representations for variables in model expressions generates restrictions that can be used by the method of minimum distance to estimate model parameters. We call this estimator projection minimum distance (PMD) and show that its parameter estimates are consistent and asymptotically normal. In many cases, PMD is asymptotically equivalent to maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and nests GMM as a special case. In fact, models whose ML estimation would require numerical routines (such as VARMA models) can often be estimated by simple least-squares routines and almost as efficiently by PMD. Because PMD imposes no constraints on the dynamics of the system, it is often consistent in many situations where alternative estimators would be inconsistent.We provide several Monte Carlo experiments and an empirical application in support of the new techniques introduced.
description: Un vecteur de variables stationnaires en covariance admet une représentation de Wold dont les coefficients peuvent être estimés selon une méthode semi-paramétrique de projection locale (Jordà, 2005). La substitution de représentations de Wold aux variables des équations du modèle génère des restrictions qui peuvent servir à l'estimation des paramètres par la méthode de la distance minimale. Les auteurs donnent à cet estimateur le nom de distance de projection minimale (DPM) et montrent qu'il converge et est asymptotiquement normal. Dans de nombreux cas, l'estimateur DPM est asymptotiquement équivalent à l'estimateur du maximum de vraisemblance et englobe l'estimateur des moments généralisés comme cas particulier. En fait, les modèles dont l'estimation par le maximum de vraisemblance nécessiterait l'emploi d'algorithmes numériques (tels que les modèles VARMA) peuvent souvent être estimés simplement par les moindres carrés et presque aussi efficacement par la méthode de la distance de projection minimale. Comme l'estimateur DPM n'impose aucune restriction à la dynamique du système, il converge dans bien des cas où d'autres estimateurs ne le feraient pas. Les auteurs procèdent à plusieurs simulations de Monte-Carlo et à une application empirique afin d'illustrer l'emploi des nouvelles techniques présentées.
The fate of quantum shock waves at late times
Creators: name: Veness, Thomas
name: Glazman, Leonid I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shock waves are an ubiquitous feature of hydrodynamic theories. Given that fermionic quantum many-body systems admit hydrodynamical descriptions on length scales large compared to the Fermi wavelength, it is natural to ask what the status of shock waves is in such systems. Free fermions provide a solvable yet non-trivial example, and here we generalise to include generic (non-integrable) weak interactions to understand how a shock wave decays and changes its shape well after forming.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Covariant Wigner Function Approach to the Boltzmann Equation for Mixing Fermions in Curved Spacetime
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the covariant Wigner function approach we derive the quantum Boltzmann equation for fermions with flavor mixing in general curved spacetime. This work gives a rigorous theoretical framework to investigate the flavor oscillation phenomena taking the gravitational effect into account. It is shown that the Boltzmann equation of the lowest order of the expansion with respect to $\hbar$ reproduces the previous result which was derived in the relativistic limit on the Minkowski background spacetime. It is demonstrated that the familiar formula for the vacuum neutrino oscillation can be obtained by solving the Boltzmann equation. Higher order effects of the $\hbar$-expansion is also briefly discussed.
description: 11 pages, IJMPA in press
Effect of electron doping in FeTe$_{1-y}$Se$_{y}$ realized by Co and Ni substitution
Creators: name: Rosmus, M.
name: Kurleto, R.
name: Gawryluk, D. J.
name: Goraus, J.
name: Cieplak, M. Z.
name: Starowicz, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) reveals effects of electron doping, which is realized by Co and Ni substitution for Fe in FeTe$_{1-y}$Se$_{y}$ (y$\sim$0.35) superconductor. The data show consistent band shifts as well as expansion and shrinking of electron and hole Fermi surface, respectively. Doping of either element leads to a Lifshitz transition realized as a removal of one or two hole pockets. This explains qualitatively a complex behavior of Hall coefficient observed before [Bezusyy, et al., Phys. Rev. B 91, 100502 (2015)], including change of sign with doping, which takes place only below room temperature. Assuming that Ni substitution should deliver twice more electrons to the valence band than Co, it appears that such transfer is slightly more effective in the case of Co. Therefore, charge doping cannot account for much stronger effect of Ni on superconducting and transport properties [Bezusyy, et al., Phys. Rev. B 91, 100502 (2015)]. Although overall band shifts are roughly proportional to the amount of dopant, clear deviations from a rigid band shift scenario are found. The shape of electron pockets becomes elliptical only for Ni doping, effective mass of electron bands increases with doping, strong reduction of effective mass is observed for one of hole bands of the undoped system. The topology of hole and electron pockets for superconducting Fe$_{1.01}$Te$_{0.67}$Se$_{0.33}$ with T$_{c}$=13.6 K indicates a deviation from nesting. Co and Ni doping causes further departure from nesting, which accompanies the reduction of critical temperature.
MOESM1 of Predicting recurrence of depression using lifelog data: an explanatory feasibility study with a panel VAR approach
Creators: name: Narimasa Kumagai
name: Aran Tajika
name: Hasegawa, Akio
name: Kawanishi, Nao
name: Horikoshi, Masaru
name: Shimodera, Shinji
name: Kenâ€™Ichi Kurata
name: Chino, Bun
name: Toshi Furukawa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Investigators and committee members.
Development of a Mobile Device for the Evaluation of the Current in Situ Stress Condition in Glass
Creators: name: Schaaf, Benjamin
name: Abeln, Björn
name: Richter, Carl
name: Feldmann, Markus
name: Glaser, Marcus
name: Hildebrand, Jörg
name: Bergmann, Jean Pierre
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: In present-day practice, monitoring the installation process and the utilisation of glass and hybrid components, e.g. glass/steel or glass/plastic, has become increasingly important. To date, the quality control options for built-in glass is limited. It is not yet possible to provide a clear short-term statement regarding a potential irregular stress; this may arise due to the incorrect assembly of a glass fitting, for example. There are no accepted standard procedures to evaluate the in-situ stress condition of a built-in glass. The intention of this paper is to address this gap with the aid of photoelasticity as an indirect measuring method in a coordinated way with numerical simulation based on finite element analysis. To measure the two-dimensional qualitative stresses in glass and plastic components, a concept and a functional model for a mobile device, including user software, will be developed. By recording photoelastic measurements with this proposed mobile measuring unit, a qualitative statement about the glass stress behaviour for bonded and mechanical connections can be defined and converted into a quantitative statement via a correlation of experimental and numerical results. This article describes the associated framework for experimental investigations and numerical simulations for bonded and mechanical joints in glass constructions.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
MOESM1 of Aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 activity and aldehydic load contribute to neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s disease related pathology
Creators: name: Joshi, Amit
name: Wassenhove, Lauren
name: Logas, Kelsey
name: Paras Minhas
name: Andreasson, Katrin
name: Weinberg, Kenneth
name: Che-Hong Chen
name: Mochly-Rosen, Daria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. ALDH2*2 mutation is associated with increased oxidative stress in patient-derived fibroblasts with familial Alzheimer’s Disease. a) Mitochondrial ROS (raw values) measured by MitoSOX™ in 4 control-derived fibroblasts. b) Cellular ATP levels (raw values) measured using CellTiter-Glo Luminescent Cell Viability kit in 4 control-derived fibroblasts. c) Quantitation of basal respiration (OCR) as a measure of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) using Seahorse Extracellular Flux in control (healthy subject; H)- and 2*2/*1 AD patient-derived fibroblasts. d) Quantitation of extracellular acidification rate (ECAR) as a measure of glycolytic dependence using Seahorse Extracellular Flux as in panel d. Data information: Mean, standard deviation, and p-values are shown. Results are presented as absolute values. n = 3–9 independent biological replicates; probability by one-way ANOVA (with Holm-Sidak post hoc test).
MOESM1 of Electronic health record nested pragmatic randomized controlled trial of a reminder system for serum lithium level monitoring in patients with mood disorder: KONOTORI study protocol
Creators: name: Tomotsugu Seki
name: Aki, Morio
name: Kawashima, Hirotsugu
name: Miki, Tomotaka
name: Tanaka, Shiro
name: Kawakami, Koji
name: Toshi Furukawa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents.
Entropic uncertainty relations for the ground state of a coupled system
Creators: name: Santhanam, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a renewed interest in the uncertainty principle, reformulated from the information theoretic point of view, called the entropic uncertainty relations. They have been studied for various integrable systems as a function of their quantum numbers. In this work, focussing on the ground state of a nonlinear, coupled Hamiltonian system, we show that approximate eigenstates can be can be constructed within the framework of adiabatic theory. Using the adiabatic eigenstates, we estimate the information entropies and their sum as a function of the the nonlinearity parameter. We also briefly look at the information entropies for the highly excited states in the system.
description: 8 pages, 6 figs., revtex
Superconductivity and intra-unit-cell electronic nematic phase in the three-band model of cuprates
Creators: name: Zegrodnik, M.
name: Biborski, A.
name: Spałek, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intra-unit-cell nematic phase is studied within the three-band Emery model of the cuprates with the use of the approach based on the diagrammatic expansion of the Gutzwiller wave function (DE-GWF). According to our analysis the spontaneous $C_4$ symmetry breaking of the electronic wave function, leading to the nematic behavior, can appear due to electron correlations induced mainly by the onsite Coulomb repulsion, even in the absence of the corresponding intersite oxygen-oxygen repulsion term. The latter has been considered as the triggering factor of the nematic state formation in a number of previous studies. Also, we show that, at the transition to the nematic phase electron concentration transfer from $d$- to $p$- orbitals takes place, apart from the usually discussed $p_x/p_y$ polarization. The determined stability regime of the nematic phase appears in the doping range similar to that of the paired phase, showing that both phases have a common origin, even though they compete. Also, we show that in a significant doping range a coexistence region of superconductivity and nematicity appears. The results are discussed in the view of the experimental findings considering the relation between nematicity and pseudogap behavior.
title: Uncertainty and the Specificity of Human Capital
Creators: name: Gervais, Martin
name: Livshits, Igor
name: Meh, Cesaire
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2007

description: This paper studies the choice between general and specific human capital. A trade-off arises because general human capital, while less productive, can easily be reallocated across firms. Accordingly, the fraction of individuals with specific human capital depends on the amount of uncertainty in the economy. Our model implies that while economies with more specific human capital tend to be more productive, they also tend to be more vulnerable to turbulence. As such, our theory sheds some light on the experience of Japan, where human capital is notoriously specific: while Japan benefited from this predominately specific labor force in tranquil times, this specificity may also have been at the heart of its prolonged stagnation.
description: L'étude porte sur le choix à opérer entre capital humain général et spécifique. Ce choix implique un arbitrage du fait que le capital humain général, bien que moins productif, peut être facilement transféré d'une entreprise à une autre. Par conséquent, la proportion des travailleurs ayant acquis un capital humain spécifique dépend du degré d'incertitude au sein de l'économie. Le modèle des auteurs indique que les économies plus riches en capital humain spécifique sont généralement plus productives, mais qu'elles ont aussi tendance à être plus vulnérables aux turbulences. Leur théorie permet d'éclairer l'expérience du Japon, pays notoirement connu pour son capital humain spécifique. En effet, si ce dernier a été profitable au Japon durant les périodes calmes, il peut aussi avoir contribué à la stagnation prolongée qu'a connue le pays.
Accelerated relaxation in disordered solids under cyclic loading with alternating shear orientation
Creators: name: Priezjev, Nikolai V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of alternating shear orientation during cyclic loading on the relaxation dynamics in disordered solids is examined using molecular dynamics simulations. The model glass was initially prepared by rapid cooling from the liquid state and then subjected to cyclic shear along a single plane or periodically alternated in two or three dimensions. We showed that with increasing strain amplitude in the elastic range, the system is relocated to deeper energy minima. Remarkably, it was found that each additional alternation of the shear orientation in the deformation protocol brings the glass to lower energy states. The results of mechanical tests after more than a thousand shear cycles indicate that cyclic loading leads to the increase in strength and shear-modulus anisotropy.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures
MOESM1 of Process evaluation of the community-based newborn care program implementation in Geze Gofa district, south Ethiopia: a case study evaluation design
Creators: name: Tsegaye Gebremedhin
name: Dawit Daka
name: Yibeltal Alemayehu
name: Kiddus Yitbarek
name: Debie, Ayal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. The Logic model of community-based newborn care program in Geze Gofa district, southern Ethiopia, June 2017.
title: Commission d'Instruction de la Cour de justice de la République, "Arrêt portant renvoi devant la Cour de justice de la République : Prononcé au siège de la Cour de justice de la République le 17 juillet 1998"
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Arrêt surligné par Jacques Leibowitch.
description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-2019311123342924
description: created: start=1975;end=2018
MOESM2 of Process evaluation of the community-based newborn care program implementation in Geze Gofa district, south Ethiopia: a case study evaluation design
Creators: name: Tsegaye Gebremedhin
name: Dawit Daka
name: Yibeltal Alemayehu
name: Kiddus Yitbarek
name: Debie, Ayal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Stakeholders identification and analysis matrix for the process evaluation of community-based newborn care program implementation in Geze Gofa district, southern Ethiopia, June 2017.
title: Electronic Transactions as High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity
Creators: name: Galbraith, John W.
name: Tkacz, Greg
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2007

description: Since the advent of standard national accounts data over 60 years ago, economists have traditionally relied on monthly or quarterly data supplied by central statistical agencies for macroeconomic modelling and forecasting. However, technological advances of the past several years have resulted in new high-frequency data sources that could potentially provide more accurate and timely information on the current level of economic activity. In this paper we explore the usefulness of electronic transactions as real-time indicators of economic activity, using Canadian debit card data as an example. These data have the advantages of daily availability and the high market penetration of debit cards. We find that (i) household transactions vary greatly according to the day of the week, peaking every Friday and falling every Sunday; (ii) debit card data can help lower consensus forecast errors for GDP and consumption (especially non-durable) growth; (iii) debit card transactions are correlated with Statistics Canada’s revisions to GDP; (iv) high-frequency analyses of transactions around extreme events are possible, and in particular we are able to analyze expenditure patterns around the September 11 terrorist attacks and the August 2003 electrical blackout.
description: Depuis la construction des premiers comptes nationaux, il y a de cela plus de 60 ans, les économistes ont recours aux séries mensuelles ou trimestrielles publiées par les organismes statistiques nationaux pour établir leurs prévisions et faire tourner leurs modèles macroéconomiques. Or, les avancées technologiques de ces dernières années ont permis de créer des sources nouvelles de données de haute fréquence susceptibles d'offrir une information plus précise et plus à jour sur le niveau de l'activité économique. Les auteurs s'attachent à évaluer l'utilité des transactions électroniques, en l'occurrence celles effectuées par carte de débit au Canada, pour mesurer en temps réel les niveaux d'activité. Les données relatives à ces transactions sont disponibles quotidiennement et sont intéressantes en raison de la forte pénétration de la carte de débit chez les ménages. Les auteurs constatent que 1) les volumes de transactions des ménages fluctuent énormément selon les jours de la semaine, culminant le vendredi et se contractant le dimanche; 2) l'utilisation des données ayant trait à ces transactions contribue à réduire les erreurs dans la prévision publiée par Consensus Economics quant à la croissance du PIB et de la consommation (en particulier de biens non durables); 3) les transactions par carte de débit sont corrélées avec les révisions apportées par Statistique Canada aux chiffres du PIB; 4) l'emploi de ces données de haute fréquence sur les transactions permet d'analyser l'incidence immédiate d'événements extrêmes sur les dépenses des ménages, comme celle des attentats du 11 septembre et de la panne générale d'électricité survenue en Ontario en août 2003.
Abstract of: A numerical and experimental approach to cold-bent timber-glass composite elements
Creators: name: Nicklisch, Felix
name: Greulich, Tim
name: Weller, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: The current rise of wooden constructions, which is encouraged by a strong trend towards sustainability of our buildings, also engenders innovation in facade design and materials. Timber-glass composite elements are a novel interpretation of the structural sealant glazing concept aiming at a reduction of the carbon footprint of facades by using materials from renewable resources. Already available facade systems based on the principle of timber-glass composite construction are applied in curtain walls, which is a rather conventional way. This paper assesses the feasibility of cold bended timberglass composite elements to widen the scope of possible applications to curved or freeform surfaces such as timber grid shells. Cold bending appears an efficient way to adopt the flat element to a non-regularly shaped substructure. The twisting from an initial undeformed to a deflected state leads to permanent stresses in the glass as well as in the adhesive joint, the adapter and the screwed connection. Numerical models of a rectangular and a square-shaped timber-glass composite element help to understand the mechanical reactions in the individual components and the joint. The virtual components are deflected on one corner while the other three remain in plane. The cold bending of such elements is additionally assessed in life-size experiments. Shape and size correlate to those used in the numerical models to enable a validation of the virtual model. The derived stresses and time-depended deformations of the deflected test specimens yield a better understanding of the structural behavior and design of timber-glass composite elements.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
Ferromagnetic coupling and magnetic anisotropy in molecular Ni(II) squares
Creators: name: Koch, R.
name: Waldmann, O.
name: Mueller, P.
name: Reimann, U.
name: Saalfrank, R. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the magnetic properties of two isostructural Ni(II) metal complexes [Ni4Lb8] and [Ni4Lc8]. In each molecule the four Ni(II) centers form almost perfect regular squares. Magnetic coupling and anisotropy of single crystals were examined by magnetization measurements and in particular by high-field torque magnetometry at low temperatures. The data were analyzed in terms of an effective spin Hamiltonian appropriate for Ni(II) centers. For both compounds, we found a weak intramolecular ferromagnetic coupling of the four Ni(II) spins and sizable single-ion anisotropies of the easy-axis type. The coupling strengths are roughly identical for both compounds, whereas the zero-field-splitting parameters are significantly different. Possible reasons for this observation are discussed.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Thermal Glass Stress Analysis – Design Considerations
Creators: name: Poláková, Michaela
name: Schäfer, Steffen
name: Elstner, Michael
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: The use of glass in windows and curtain walls, in residential as well as in high-rise buildings, is something that requires great care in design and execution. Apart from complying with typical structural engineering practices and ensuring, for example, that the glass thickness is sufficient to withstand wind loads, impact loads etc. it is necessary always also to consider the thermal-stress resistance of the glass employed as well as the temperature distribution across glass and façade components. This topic is not new as it began to be analysed with the emergence of the first body tinted basic glass types. All the analysis done today is based on a linear approach and a more or less simplified algorithm. But modern constructions make it necessary to recognize special details and to acquire a more detailed view of the construction and use of such windows and curtain walls. Glass manufacturers can assist in this by helping to analyse the thermal stress characteristics but also the temperature distribution in different constructions. It is necessary here also to evaluate the different boundary conditions, which vary from location to location. The paper will begin by describing the basic methods for analysing the thermal-stress resistance of glazing units. But it will then go on to show the influence of the boundary conditions on the final result. The paper will also show the effect of a detailed 2D FE analysis in specifically analysing critical locations in curtain walls, such as shadow boxes or spandrel areas.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
title: Monetary Policy Committees in Action: Is There Room for Improvement?
Creators: name: Maier, Philipp
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2007

description: More than 80 central banks use a committee to take monetary policy decisions. The composition of the committee and the structure of the meeting can affect the quality of the decision making. In this paper we review economic, experimental, sociological and psychological studies to identify criteria for the optimal institutional setting of a monetary committee. These include the optimal size of the committee, measures to encourage independent thinking, a relatively informal structure of the meeting, and abilities to identify and evaluate individual members' performances. Using these criteria, we evaluate the composition and operation of monetary policy committees in various central banks. Our findings indicate that e.g. the monetary policy committee of the Bank of England follows committee best-practice, while the committee structure of other major central banks could be improved.
description: Dans plus de 80 banques centrales, les décisions relatives à la politique monétaire sont prises en comité. Or, la composition de ce dernier et la structure de ses réunions peuvent influer sur la qualité du processus décisionnel. Au terme d'une analyse des études économiques, expérimentales, sociologiques et psychologiques consacrées à la question, nous définissons les critères qui caractérisent le cadre institutionnel optimal d'un comité de politique monétaire : taille idéale; mesures favorisant l'indépendance des points de vue; structure relativement informelle des réunions; et moyens de distinguer et d'évaluer les contributions individuelles des membres. À partir de ces critères, nous comparons la composition et le fonctionnement des comités de politique monétaire de plusieurs banques centrales. Nous en concluons que les pratiques suivies par la Banque d'Angleterre sont supérieures à celles de plusieurs autres grandes banques centrales, qui gagneraient à améliorer la structure de leurs comités.
Simultaneous laser-driven X-ray and two-photon fluorescence imaging of atomizing sprays
Creators: name: Guenot, Diego
name: Svendsen, Kristoffer
name: Svensson, Jonas Björklund
name: Ekerfelt, Henrik
name: Persson, Anders
name: Lundh, Olle
name: Berrocal, Edouard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we report for the first time the possibility of visualizing an atomizing spray by simultaneously recording X-ray absorption and 2- photon laser-induced fluorescence imaging. This unique illumination/detection scheme was made possible thanks to the use of soft X-rays emitted from a laser-driven X-ray source. An 800 mJ laser pulse of 38 fs duration is used to generate an X-ray beam with up to 4.10^8 photons ranging from 1 to 10 keV; allowing projection radiography of water jets generated by an automotive port fuel injector. In addition, a fraction of the laser pulse (approximately 10 mJ)is employed to form a light sheet and to induce 2-photon fluorescence from a dye added to the water. The resulting high-contrast fluorescence images provide fine details of the spray structure, with reduced blur from multiple light scattering, while the integrated liquid mass is extracted from the X-ray radiography. The combination of these two highly complementary techniques, both in the visible and in the soft X-ray regime, is very promising for the future characterization of challenging spray systems as well as for further understanding the physics of liquid atomization.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Risk factors of metachronous brain metastasis in patients with EGFR-mutated advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Ouyang, Wen
name: Yu, Jing
name: Zhou, Yan
name: Hu, Jing
name: huang, Zhao
name: Zhang, Junhong
name: Xie, Conghua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Comparison of the actuarial risk of developing metachronous BM among randomly select 52 cases from our patient cohort grouped by different numbers of risk factors.
Cosmological constraints in Lambda-CDM and Quintessence paradigms with Archeops
Creators: name: Douspis, M.
name: Riazuelo, A.
name: Zolnierowski, Y.
name: Blanchard, A.
name: Collaboration, the Archeops
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the cosmological constraints put by the current CMB experiment including the recent ARCHEOPS data, in the framework of Lambda-CDM and quintessence paradigm. We show that well chosen combinations of constraints from different cosmological observations lead to precise measurements of cosmological parameters. The Universe seems flat with a 70 percents contribution of dark energy with an equation of state very close to those of the vacuum.
description: to appear in New Astronomy Reviews, Proceedings of the CMBNET Meeting, 20-21 February 2003, Oxford, UK
Design and Experimental Testing of All Glass Sandwich Panels: An Experimental and Numerical Study for the Glass Floors of the Acropolis Museum
Creators: name: Vitalis, Dimitrios
name: Veer, Fred
name: Oikonomopoulou, Faidra
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: This paper describes the engineering steps taken in order to investigate the potential of glass sandwich elements, made of 2 glass skins separated by a glass core in the form of spacers, as a way to create planar elements with a high stiffness to weight ratio, reducing material consumption in structural glazing applications. The aim is to explore and evaluate the optical quality and the structural performance of those elements. In this research, 7 core topologies are explored in order to define which parameters influence the behaviour of a sandwich structure made completely with glass. From those topologies, one is chosen to be explored further. The said topology is optimised to make the panels more efficient in terms of stiffness and weight reduction. In order to determine the structural behaviour (strength, stiffness, failure modes) of the elements, 4-point bending tests are conducted on 9 specimens in total. Finally, in order to define the aesthetical and structural requirements of such a project, the replacement of the glass floors of the Acropolis Museum in Athens in Greece is used as a case study. The knowledge acquired through this process is used to optimise the panels of the new glass floors taking also into account other parameters related to transparent flooring e.g. optical quality, psychological factors, anti-slip resistance etc
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
title: Technology Shocks and Business Cycles: The Role of Processing Stages and Nominal Rigidities
Creators: name: Phaneuf, Louis
name: Rebei, Nooman
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2007

description: This paper develops and estimates a dynamic general equilibrium model that realistically accounts for an input-output linkage between firms operating at different stages of processing. Firms face technological change which is specific to their processing stage and charge new prices according to stage-specific Calvo-probabilities. Only a fixed fraction of households have an opportunity to adjust nominal wages to new information each period. Intermediate-stage technology shocks account for the bulk of output variability at business cycle frequencies, while final-stage technology shocks do not explain much. Although technology shocks drive the business cycle, the model predicts weakly procyclical real wages, and a near-zero correlation between return to working and hours worked. Furthermore, the model has rich implications for the dynamics of business cycles.
description: Les auteurs élaborent et estiment un modèle dynamique d'équilibre général où est représentée avec réalisme la relation qui lie, par le biais des intrants et des extrants, les entreprises intervenant aux diverses étapes du processus de production. Les chocs technologiques subis diffèrent selon que l'entreprise se charge de l'étape intermédiaire ou de l'étape finale de la production, tout comme la probabilité qu'elle révise ses prix à chaque période (dans un cadre à la Calvo). À chaque période également, une proportion fixe des ménages voient leur salaire nominal modifié à la lumière des nouvelles données reçues. Les chocs qui touchent les techniques de fabrication à l'étape intermédiaire expliquent le gros de la variabilité de la production au cours du cycle économique, alors que ceux qui concernent l'étape de production finale en expliquent fort peu. Même si les chocs technologiques sont à l'origine de la plupart des fluctuations du cycle économique dans le modèle, l'évolution du salaire réel se révèle faiblement procyclique, et la corrélation entre la productivité et le nombre d'heures travaillées s'avère presque nulle. Enfin, le modèle parvient fort bien à décrire la dynamique des cycles économiques.