cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors Affecting Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Performance In The Public Health Sector: The Case Of Oromia Regional Health Bureau
Creators: name: Feyisa, Keno
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The study assessed and examined to what extent Supply Planning/Forecasting, Procurement, Warehouse/Inventory Management, and Distribution practices of Oromia Regional Health Bureau (ORHB) are affecting its pharmaceutical supply chain performance. In addition, the study identified which of these functions/practices is dominantly affecting the pharmaceutical supply chain performance of the bureau. It was found that computed Cronbach Alpha for all variables were above 0.7 which makes the reliability test acceptable to continue the study. Correlation analysis result has shown that there is a strong correlation between supply planning and supply chain performance (r=0.662, p=0.000, p<0.01). Thus, the two variables are positively related. The analysis has also shown that there is strong correlation between procurement and supply chain performance (r=0.749, p=0.000, p<0.01) and warehouse/inventory management and supply chain performance (r=0.707, p=0.000, p<0.01). The variables are again positively related with supply chain performance. Finally, the analysis has shown positive relationship between distribution system and supply chain performance (r=0.722, p=0.000, p<0.01). With a p-value of 0.037, supply planning/forecasting was found to be the dominant factor affecting pharmaceutical supply chain performance of ORHB followed by procurement with p-value 0.034 and distribution with p-value 0.007 which are all below the cut-off point 0.05 to be considered as dominantly affecting. In general, supply planning/forecasting, procurement, warehouse/inventory management and distribution practices and pharmaceutical supply chain performance of ORHB have a positive relationship. In addition, supply planning/forecasting was identified to be dominantly affecting pharmaceutical supply chain performance of the bureau; followed by procurement and distribution practices; while warehouse/inventory management is not. This is in line with (Management Science for Health (MSH) Report, 2012; Foster S. et. al (2006); Seiter A, 2010) that clearly stated that the root causes of stock outs at the health clinics may be due to problems in procurement, forecasting and requisitioning by the region or district, tardiness in ordering or poor forecasting by the clinics, or lack of transport at any stage in the system
Ion exchange characteristics of kraft fibres
Creators: name: Duong., Tuan D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Assessment of Source of Funds, Power System Efficiency, Electricity Tariff and Financial Performance: Case of Ethiopian Electric Power and Ethiopian Electric Utility
Creators: name: Mengistu, Alemayehu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Electric power has cascading, everlasting and vicious effect on the economy, social and political performance of any country, and has great role wherever people live and work be it in manufacturing, services etc. Source of funds, power system efficiency and electric tariff were considered as the basic causes for success or failure of GTP_II plan to develop and operate electric power which is expected to energize the planned economy. The objective of this paper was to assess source of finance, power system efficiency, electric tariff and financial performance and to identify the related challenges to each source of Ethiopian Electric Power and Ethiopian Electric Utility. So as to meet this objective both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. For the qualitative study, profound data was collected from key informants and focus group discussant and analyzed using content analysis approaches. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze quantitative data collected from different documents. The findings of the research show that In GTP_I 32% of total investment covered from foreign loans, 57% expended from bond sales to CBE and 11% is spent from own sources and none of GTP_I major plans achieved fully fundamentally because of financial limitations. In GTP_II 38% of the total estimated investment in the sector expected from foreign loans, 44% is planned to be covered from bond sales to CBE and the remaining 18% is left for own source financing scheme. Each source has exposed the enterprises for different challenges such as the foreign loan exposed the enterprises for high foreign currency requirements to purchase goods and services, to repay matured principal loans and interests. Although bond sales to CBE is less costly relative to foreign loans and it is one of the biggest instrument or channel for the government to subsidize the sector, CBE couldn't provide the required fund on time and as the amount of this loan is very huge the enterprises are not able to repay the interest from its revenue. In addition to these, more than 20% of the produced energy is sacrificed for electric system loss and the existing tariff system doesn't represent the fact on the ground. In order to provide sufficient, reliable and sustainable energy for the whole public, the government and the enterprises are expected to optimize the power system efficiency, update the electric system tariff and find alternatives of smooth financing such as opening the sector's door for private investors. Key Words: - Source of funds, foreign loans, bond sales to Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, power system loss, electric tariff.
Algebraic cycles and Todorov surfaces
Creators: name: Laterveer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C15, 14C25, 14C30. 14J28, 14J29

description: Motivated by the Bloch-Beilinson conjectures, Voisin has formulated a conjecture about 0-cycles on self-products of surfaces of geometric genus one. We verify Voisin's conjecture for the family of Todorov surfaces with $K^2=2$ and fundamental group $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$. As a by-product, we prove that certain Todorov surfaces have finite-dimensional motive.
description: To appear in Kyoto Journal of Mathematics, 31 pages, comments still welcome !
Analysis of Train Energy Consumption Reduction by Passing Low Passenger Flow Stations in Off-peak Hour Case Study on the Line of E-W Addis Ababa LRT
Creators: name: Eshetu, Shewalema
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: In this thesis in order to make the analysis of train energy consumption reduction, the E-W line of AA LRT has been taken. The length of the route is about 16.76 km, and there are 22 stations. This gives an average of about 798 m between each two stations. The passenger flow of E-W line is forecasted as 734.4 thousands persons/day based on the passenger transport survey. There are 41 trains in four directions and it will enable the light rail transit to provide transportation service to 15,000 people per hour in one direction. The objective of the research is to analyze energy consumption reduction of AA LRT E-W line for one complete cycle trip. The problem has been formulated by reducing number of stations in off-peak hour of train operation considering low passenger flow of stations. There has been selection of six low passenger flow stations which are EW5, EW7, EW8, EW14, EW18 and EW20. They are selected based on passenger flow of stations and spacing between stations. The model of the train motion has been formulated by considering the important acting force components, such as tractive effort and train resistances. The method of analyzing train energy consumption model was based on power and time, and the software which is used to create the simulation of the train energy consumption has been analyzed using MATLAB SIMULINK loop. It has been observed that energy consumption of train has increased significantly with increasing number of train stops at stations. The results have shown that there is a very large difference in the energy consumption in the case of number of train stops at stations. From the analysis the train, by passing six low passenger flow stations, consumed only about 79.42% of energy consumption of the train stopping at all stations for one complete cycle trip per train. That is, reducing the number of train stops at stations gives a large reduction of energy consumption.
Instability in Reaction-Superdiffusion Systems
Creators: name: Torabi, Reza
name: Rezaei, Zahra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of superdiffusion on the instability in reaction-diffusion systems. It is shown that reaction-superdiffusion systems close to a Turing instability are equivalent to a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model and the corresponding free energy is introduced. This generalized free energy which depends on the superdiffusion exponent governs the stability, dynamics and the fluctuations of reaction-superdiffusion systems near the Turing bifurcation. In addition, we show that for a general n-component reaction-superdiffusion system, a fractional complex Ginzburg- Landau equation emerges as the amplitude equation near a Hopf instability. Numerical simulations of this equation are carried out to illustrate the effect of superdiffusion on spatio-temporal patterns. Finally the effect of superdiffusion on the instability in Brusselator model, as a special case of reaction-diffusion systems, is studied. In general superdiffusion introduces a new parameter that changes the behavior of the system near the instability.
description: 28 pages, 5 figures
Requirements Traceability: Recovering and Visualizing Traceability Links Between Requirements and Source Code of Object-oriented Software Systems
Creators: name: Al-Msie'deen, Ra'Fat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Requirements traceability is an important activity to reach an effective requirements management method in the requirements engineering. Requirement-to-Code Traceability Links (RtC-TLs) shape the relations between requirement and source code artifacts. RtC-TLs can assist engineers to know which parts of software code implement a specific requirement. In addition, these links can assist engineers to keep a correct mental model of software, and decreasing the risk of code quality degradation when requirements change with time mainly in large sized and complex software. However, manually recovering and preserving of these TLs puts an additional burden on engineers and is error-prone, tedious, and costly task. This paper introduces YamenTrace, an automatic approach and implementation to recover and visualize RtC-TLs in Object-Oriented software based on Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA). The originality of YamenTrace is that it exploits all code identifier names, comments, and relations in TLs recovery process. YamenTrace uses LSI to find textual similarity across software code and requirements. While FCA employs to cluster similar code and requirements together. Furthermore, YamenTrace gives a visualization of recovered TLs. To validate YamenTrace, it applied on three case studies. The findings of this evaluation prove the importance and performance of YamenTrace proposal as most of RtC-TLs were correctly recovered and visualized.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures
Digital video and network performance
Creators: name: Dunstan., Stuart Farndale
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Accelerated structural evolution of galaxies in a starbursting cluster at z=2.51
Creators: name: Xu, Can
name: Wang, Tao
name: Gu, Qiusheng
name: Zanella, Anita
name: Xu, Ke
name: Sun, Hanwen
name: Strazzullo, Veronica
name: Valentino, Francesco
name: Gobat, Raphael
name: Daddi, Emanuele
name: Elbaz, David
name: Xiao, Mengyuan
name: Lu, Shiying
name: Zhou, Luwenjia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structural properties of cluster galaxies during their peak formation epoch, $z \sim 2-4$ provide key information on whether and how environment affects galaxy formation and evolution. Based on deep HST/WFC3 imaging towards the z=2.51 cluster, J1001, we explore environmental effects on the structure, color gradients, and stellar populations of a statistical sample of cluster SFGs. We find that the cluster SFGs are on average smaller than their field counterparts. This difference is most pronounced at the high-mass end ($M_{\star} > 10^{10.5} M_{\odot}$) with nearly all of them lying below the mass-size relation of field galaxies. The high-mass cluster SFGs are also generally old with a steep negative color gradient, indicating an early formation time likely associated with strong dissipative collapse. For low-mass cluster SFGs, we unveil a population of compact galaxies with steep positive color gradients that are not seen in the field. This suggests that the low-mass compact cluster SFGs may have already experienced strong environmental effects, e.g., tidal/ram pressure stripping, in this young cluster. These results provide evidence on the environmental effects at work in the earliest formed clusters with different roles in the formation of low and high-mass galaxies.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, 1 table
Praktikanten-Schein (in der Klinik für Ohren-, Nasen- und Kehlkopfkrankheiten)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medical colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1013952
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Universities and colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1161597
subject: Preuss, Siegfried

description: Internship certificate for Siegfried Preuss' successful completion of an internship at an ear, nose, and throat clinic that took place in the summer "half year" of 1934. Signed by the director of the clinic.
Aspects of AdS$_2$ holography with non-constant dilaton
Creators: name: Grumiller, Daniel
name: Salzer, Jakob
name: Vassilevich, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this proceedings contribution we summarize and discuss results of Refs. \cite{Grumiller:2013swa, Grumiller:2015vaa} in the light of recent developments in $\textrm{AdS}_2$ holography \cite{Maldacena:2016upp, Jensen:2016pah, Engelsoy:2016xyb}.
description: Talk given by DV at the Workshop "Strong Field Problems in Quantum Theory", Tomsk, 2016. V2: misprint corrected, references added
Sprachliche und religionsgeschichtliche Anmerkungen zu einer neu publizierten samaritanischen Textfassung von Deuteronomium 6,4
Creators: name: Mutius, Hans-Georg Von
Publisher: name: Biblische Notizen
Year: 1970

description: Biblische Notizen, Bd. 101 (2000): Biblische Notizen, Band 101
Extensional rheology of two model polyelectrolytes in dilute solution
Creators: name: Dubbelboer., Roelf
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Epistemic Invariantism and Contextualist Intuitions
Creators: name: Dinges, Alexander
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 100 Philosophie, Parapsychologie und Okkultismus, Psychologie

description: Epistemic invariantism, or invariantism for short, is the position that the proposition expressed by knowledge sentences does not vary with the epistemic standard of the context in which these sentences can be used. At least one of the major challenges for invariantism is to explain our intuitions about scenarios such as the so-called bank cases. These cases elicit intuitions to the effect that the truth-value of knowledge sentences varies with the epistemic standard of the context in which these sentences can be used. In this paper, I will defend invariantism against this challenge by advocating the following, somewhat deflationary account of the bank case intuitions: Readers of the bank cases assign different truth-values to the knowledge claims in the bank cases because they interpret these scenarios such that the epistemic position of the subject in question differs between the high and the low standards case. To substantiate this account, I will argue, first, that the bank cases are underspecified even with respect to features that should uncontroversially be relevant for the epistemic position of the subject in question. Second, I will argue that readers of the bank cases will fill in these features differently in the low and the high standards case. In particular, I will argue that there is a variety of reasons to think that the fact that an error-possibility is mentioned in the high standards case will lead readers to assume that this error-possibility is supposed to be likely in the high standards case.
New Relations for Einstein-Yang-Mills Amplitudes
Creators: name: Stieberger, Stephan
name: Taylor, Tomasz R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain new relations between Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) amplitudes involving N gauge bosons plus a single graviton and pure Yang-Mills amplitudes involving N gauge bosons plus one additional vector boson inserted in a way typical for a gauge boson of a "spectator" group commuting with the group associated to original N gauge bosons. We show that such EYM amplitudes satisfy U(1) decoupling relations similar to Kleiss-Kuijf relations for Yang-Mills amplitudes. We consider a D-brane embedding of EYM amplitudes in the framework of disk amplitudes involving open and closed strings. A new set of monodromy relations is derived for mixed open-closed amplitudes with one closed string inserted on the disk world-sheet and a number of open strings at the boundary. These relations allow expressing the latter in terms of pure open string amplitudes and, in the field-theory limit, they yield the U(1) decoupling relations for EYM amplitudes.
description: 15 pages, harvmac, 3 figures
Kinetics of microbial sulphate reduction
Creators: name: Drew., Wayne M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Theory of coherent interaction-free detection of pulses
Creators: name: McCord, John J.
name: Dogra, Shruti
name: Paraoanu, Gheorghe Sorin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum physics allows an object to be detected even in the absence of photon absorption, by the use of so-called interaction-free measurements. We provide a formulation of this protocol using a three-level system, where the object to be detected is a pulse coupled resonantly into the second transition. In the original formulation of interaction-free measurements, the absorption is associated with a projection operator onto the third state. We perform an in-depth analytical and numerical analysis of the coherent protocol, where coherent interaction between the object and the detector replaces the projective operators, resulting in higher detection efficiencies. We provide approximate asymptotic analytical results to support this finding. We find that our protocol reaches the Heisenberg limit when evaluating the Fisher information at small strengths of the pulses we aim to detect -- in contrast to the projective protocol that can only reach the standard quantum limit. We also demonstrate that the coherent protocol remains remarkably robust under errors such as pulse rotation phases and strengths, the effect of relaxation rates and detunings, as well as different thermalized initial states.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures
Document stating that Preuss has complied with academic regulations
Creators: name: Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Medical colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1013952
subject: Universities and colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1161597

description: Document attesting to the fact that Siegfried Preuss has complied with academic regulations. Signed by the rector of the university.
Stirrers and movers actuated by oscillating fields
Creators: name: Steinbach, Gabi
name: Schreiber, Michael
name: Nissen, Dennis
name: Albrecht, Manfred
name: Gemming, Sibylle
name: Erbe, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Locomotion via cyclic moves presents a challenge to mesoscopic objects in overdamped environments, where time reversibility may prevent directed motion. Most reported cyclic movers exploit anisotropic drag to push themselves forward. Under an oscillating drive, however, anisotropic drag enables locomotion only if the objects can change their shape. Here, we present a strategy that unexpectedly enables structurally invariant objects to move under oscillating fields. The objects are self-assembled clusters of magnetic particles that exhibit an off-centered dipole moment. By theoretical modeling and in experiments with magnetic Janus particles, we demonstrate that the interaction between such anisotropic particles in the cluster breaks time reversibility. Experimentally, we show that the magnetic configuration of a cluster determines its motion path. We realize stirrers and steerable movers with helical or directed path using the same particle system. The presented strategy based on internal interactions establishes a counterpart to locomotion via anisotropic drag.
Selected topics in modern continuous-wave and pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance
Creators: name: Drew., Simon C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Economic Legitimation in a New Era: Public Attitudes to State Ownership and Market Regulation in China
Creators: name: Eaton, Sarah
name: Hasmath, Reza
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: authoritarianism
subject: state ownership
subject: market regulation
subject: legitimation
subject: China
subject: 910 Geografie und Reisen
subject: 950 Geschichte Asiens
subject: 890 Literaturen einzelner anderer Sprachen und Sprachfamilien

description: Autocrats typically seek public support on the basis of economic growth-promotion and redistribution policies, and China is no exception. As important as these factors are for authoritarian resilience, we argue that economic legitimation is a more complex phenomenon than has previously been acknowledged. Beyond improvements in material well-being, citizens form judgements about the state's effectiveness in carrying out a variety of economic roles beyond growth promotion and they also care about the fairness of these market interventions. In this study, we use original survey data collected in late 2015 and early 2016 to evaluate Chinese citizens’ perceptions of two economic roles of the state that have been hotly debated in recent years: state ownership and market regulation. We find that while citizens view the ideas of state ownership and interventionist regulation in a generally positive light, suggesting a broad level of agreement in Chinese society about what economic functions the state ought to perform, perceptions of how the state actually carries out these roles are more mixed. Our results show that the urban young are especially inclined to critical evaluations, raising the question of how the Chinese Communist Party's legitimation strategy will fare under conditions of inter-generational value change.
The Role of Information Technology in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Performance: The Case of Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise (ESLSE)
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Yafet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The ESLSE logistics and SCM department would be the first domain to be benefitted from this research as the study would have a contribution in their program of designing better IT systems. The developments in Information technology has resulted in many possible alternative solutions for managing the logistics and supply chain effectively. Logistics and Supply chain management is information driven function. Information Technology enabled logistics and supply chain management will provide a competitive advantage to on ESLSE over rest of the competitors in market place. IT plays a vital role in decision making process. Information Technology is beneficial for cooperation and coordination within the supply chain. The research design is explanatory that is conducted to be conducting on the role of IT in logistics and SCM performance of the ESLSE. This paper highlights the overview of role information technology for effective and efficient logistics and supply chain management, software focused supply chain characteristics as well as Information Technology tools used in Information technology enabled supply chain management. The data analysis, the research findings and based on the results the researcher gives discussion on the findings and also gives some interpretation of the result. In order to presents findings and the discussion about the role of Information Technology in logistics and Supply chain management performance of ESLSE.
Ripoti ya Gorwaa Festival Chapter Two 2021
Creators: name: Massani, Festo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Gorwaa

description: Ripoti fupi linaloeleza tukio la Gorwaa Festival 2019.
description: Tambua kwamba: Kazi hii haijapitishwa mbele ya wataalum wengine, na kwa hiyo yaliomo huweza kubadilika. Kutaja: Massani, Festo. 2022. Ripoti ya Gorwaa Festival Chapter Two 2021.
Archeology and evolution of QCD
Creators: name: De Rújula, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These are excerpts from the closing talk at the "XIIth Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum", which took place last Summer in Thessaloniki --an excellent place to enjoy an interest in archeology. A more complete personal view of the early days of QCD and the rest of the Standard Model is given in [1]. Here I discuss a few of the points which --to my judgement-- illustrate well the QCD evolution (in time), both from a scientific and a sociological point of view.
description: Added Acknowledgments. Added references in Section 2 and Fig. 7. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-ph/0404215
Extreme wind speeds for engineering design
Creators: name: Dorman., Christopher M.L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Matter-wave dark solitons in box-like traps
Creators: name: Sciacca, M.
name: Barenghi, C. F.
name: Parker, N. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the experimental development of quasi-homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates confined in box-like traps, we study numerically the dynamics of dark solitons in such traps at zero temperature. We consider the cases where the side walls of the box potential rise either as a power-law or a Gaussian. While the soliton propagates through the homogeneous interior of the box without dissipation, it typically dissipates energy during a reflection from a wall through the emission of sound waves, causing a slight increase in the soliton's speed. We characterise this energy loss as a function of the wall parameters. Moreover, over multiple oscillations and reflections in the box-like trap, the energy loss and speed increase of the soliton can be significant, although the decay eventually becomes stabilized when the soliton equilibrates with the ambient sound field.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Analysis the Effect of Unequal Force Application on A.A LRT Disc Brake During Emergency Brake
Creators: name: Biniyam, Belayneh
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: A train disc brake system is used to perform three basic functions, i.e. to reduce speed of a vehicle, to maintain its speed when travelling downhill and to completely stop the vehicle. During these braking events, the disc brake may suffer of temperature, deformation and stress issues. It is quite sometimes that the disc brake components fail structurally and/or having severe deformation on the pad. Thus, this paper aims to examine stress concentration, structural deformation and contact pressure of brake disc and pads during braking event by employing commercial finite element software, ANSYS and CATIA for modeling purpose with considering the effect of unequal pressure application on the two opposite side of the disc which are developed due to brake line corrosion, caliper sticking, failure of piston seal, variation of rotor thickness and also failure of caliper bolts. The main results of this analysis is consider factors which are relate about disc brake structure and contact behavior such as deformation, Von Misses stress and temperature which rise when breaking action with considering the unequal heat flux which generate on opposite side of disc when unequal pressure applied on two opposite side of the disc and define from the analysis result there is a high deformation, stress and temperature difference between equal pressure and unequal pressure applied on two opposite side. I.e. when unequal pressure applied on two opposite side, there are greater temperature, heat flux, deformation and stress as compare with equal pressure applied on two opposite disc side
The philosophy and implementation of physically-based, visual models of artificial life
Creators: name: Dorin., Alan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Perception survey of Supply Chain Management challenges and Effects on performance in Humanitarian Relief Organizations in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Moges, Solyana
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Supply Chain Management is critical to Disaster Response and Management, as it deals with getting the food and non food items needed from the source to the beneficiaries at the right time. The challenges of SCM deter the humanitarian relief organizations from meeting the objectives. Ethiopia is one of the highly disaster impacted countries. Natural and man-made disasters are common: drought, floods, and disease epidemics affect millions of people each year. This Study is carried out to identify the challenges facing humanitarian relief organizations in Ethiopia, see the effects on performance and find ways to reduce the impacts. It has mainly two major objectives: to determine the supply chain management challenges facing the humanitarian relief organizations and to determine the relationship between supply chain management challenges and performance. This research is focused on Ethiopian relief organizations. Challenges of SCM were identified from different literatures. Then, respondents consisting of 48 NGOs were asked to evaluate the severity and impact of each challenge. Findings of the research revealed that out of the selected 21 challenges lack of coordination affects the most, followed by lack of proper planning, and inadequate information sharing. Analysis was made using SPSS. Results showed that the challenges selected explain only 69.7 percent of the performance. In view of that, the researcher performed a semi structured interview with government and international relief organization managements to identify the other challenges. The analyzed new challenges are explained.
D6.1: Report 1 on measures to create innovation eco- system around ANGIE technology
Creators: name: Mavromanolaki, Eirini
name: Smargiannaki, Paraskevi
name: Karatsali, Sofia
name: Pinto, Maria
name: Moreira, Rosa
name: Puigmartí-Luis, Josep
name: Vidal, Salvador P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Innovation;
eco-system;

description: This deliverable report presents the mapping of the existing innovation in localized targeted drug delivery across the EU. It covers: a) the identification of active technology- and entrepreneurship meet-up groups, b) we pinpointed the innovation and entrepreneurship organizations that currently running programs in EU, c) the identification of main angel investors and venture capitalists that are active in Europe, d) we discovered journalists and news outlets that cover innovation and startup related subjects in Europe, e) the tracking of successful startups currently functioning in Europe, and f) we listed education institutions operating in Europe in the area of localized targeted drug delivery.
Monte Carlo simulations of an Ising bilayer with non-equivalent planes
Creators: name: Diaz, Ian Jordy Lopez
name: Branco, Nilton da Silva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the thermodynamic and magnetic properties of an Ising bilayer ferrimagnet. The system is composed of two interacting non-equivalent planes in which the intralayer couplings are ferromagnetic while the interlayer interactions are antiferromagnetic. Moreover, one of the planes is randomly diluted. The study is carried out within a Monte Carlo approach employing the multiple histogram reweighting method and finite-size scaling tools. The occurrence of a compensation phenomenon is verified and the compensation temperature, as well as the critical temperature for the model, are obtained as functions of the Hamiltonian parameters. We present a detailed discussion of the regions of the parameter space where the compensation effect is present or absent. Our results are then compared to a mean-field-like approximation applied to the same model by Balcerzak and Szałowski (2014). Although the Monte Carlo and mean-field results agree qualitatively, our quantitative results are significantly different.
Preparation and catalytic properties of alumina-pillared montmorillonite
Creators: name: Doblin., Christian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Zeugnis des Prüfungsausschusses in Breslau über die ärztliche Vorprüfung des Studierenden der Medizin Siegfried Preuss
Creators: name: Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Medical colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1013952
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Universities and colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1161597

description: Certificate attesting that Siegfried Preuss has taken preliminary examinations in anatomy, physiology, physics, chemistry, zoology, and botany; also lists his results. Issued by the committee for the preliminary medical examination. Signed by the chairman of this committee. Stamped at the top of the page is a note stating that the test certificate and the practical certificates have to be submitted again when registering for the state examination.
Gaussian white noise as a resource for microscopic engines
Creators: name: Dechant, Andreas
name: Baule, Adrian
name: Sasa, Shin-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that uncorrelated Gaussian noise, despite its paradigmatic association with thermal equilibrium, can drive a system out of equilibrium and can serve as a resource from which work can be extracted. We consider an overdamped particle in a periodic potential with an internal degree of freedom and a state-dependent friction, coupled to an equilibrium bath. Applying additional Gaussian white noise drives the system into a non-equilibrium steady state and causes a finite current if the potential is spatially asymmetric. We calculate the current explicitly in the three complementary limits. Since the particle current is driven solely by additive Gaussian white noise, this shows that the latter can potentially be exploited as a work resource to power small engines. By comparing the extracted power to the energy injection due to the noise, we find an expression for the efficiency of such an engine.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Smart Environment for Adaptive Learning of Cybersecurity Skills
Creators: name: Vykopal, Jan
name: Seda, Pavel
name: Švábenský, Valdemar
name: Čeleda, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: K.3

description: Hands-on computing education requires a realistic learning environment that enables students to gain and deepen their skills. Available learning environments, including virtual and physical labs, provide students with real-world computer systems but rarely adapt the learning environment to individual students of various proficiency and background. We designed a unique and novel smart environment for adaptive training of cybersecurity skills. The environment collects a variety of student data to assign a suitable learning path through the training. To enable such adaptiveness, we proposed, developed, and deployed a new tutor model and a training format. We evaluated the learning environment using two different adaptive trainings attended by 114 students of various proficiency. The results show students were assigned tasks with a more appropriate difficulty, which enabled them to successfully complete the training. Students reported that they enjoyed the training, felt the training difficulty was appropriately designed, and would attend more training sessions like these. Instructors can use the environment for teaching any topic involving real-world computer networks and systems because it is not tailored to particular training. We freely released the software along with exemplary training so that other instructors can adopt the innovations in their teaching practice.
description: Published in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, see https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9926178
Il magico potere degli antibiotici
Creators: name: Magneti, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: -

description: Ieri Pippi è tornata da scuola molto stanca e con un gran mal di gola. La mamma si è insospettita e le ha misurato la temperatura; e il termometro ha indicato che la temperatura del corpo di Pippi era salita a 39 gradi, quindi aveva la febbre! La mamma le ha dato una medicina, e la temperatura è scesa un po’, e anche il mal di gola sembrava passato, ma dopo poche ore la febbre è risalita e il mal di gola è tornato. I genitori di Pippi allora hanno telefonato al pediatra, che ha consigliato loro di accompagnarla in un ospedale per bambini. In ospedale, una dottoressa gentile e con un orsetto disegnato sul camice ha visitato Pippi, le ha misurato la febbre e le ha guardato la gola con una lucina speciale, e poi le ha prelevato un po’ di sangue dal braccio per analizzarlo. Dopo poco, la dottoressa è tornata e ha detto che nel corpo di Pippi erano entrati dei batteri (a volte succede), delle specie di animaletti piccolissimi che non si possono vedere a occhio nudo ma che possono provocare delle malattie, che si chiamano infezioni batteriche. Continua a leggere....
Full Hydrodynamic Model of Nonlinear Electromagnetic Response in Metallic Metamaterials
Creators: name: Fang, Ming
name: Huang, Zhixiang
name: Sha, Wei E. I.
name: Xiong, Xiaoyan Y. Z.
name: Wu, Xianliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Applications of metallic metamaterials have generated significant interest in recent years. Electromagnetic behavior of metamaterials in the optical range is usually characterized by a local-linear response. In this article, we develop a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solution of the hydrodynamic model that describes a free electron gas in metals. Extending beyond the local-linear response, the hydrodynamic model enables numerical investigation of nonlocal and nonlinear interactions between electromagnetic waves and metallic metamaterials. By explicitly imposing the current continuity constraint, the proposed model is solved in a self-consistent manner. Charge, energy and angular momentum conservation laws of high-order harmonic generation have been demonstrated for the first time by the Maxwell-hydrodynamic FDTD model. The model yields nonlinear optical responses for complex metallic metamaterials irradiated by a variety of waveforms. Consequently, the multiphysics model opens up unique opportunities for characterizing and designing nonlinear nanodevices.
description: 11 pages, 14 figures
Development of Timetable Using a Communication Based Train Control in the Case of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit
Creators: name: Atsedemariam, Gebeyehu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Currently, Addis Ababa light rail transit is using the traditional fixed block signaling system. Fixed block-signaling divides the track into small blocks, which determines how far apart the trains will be kept for safety and how frequently the stations will be serviced. This signaling system of Addis Ababa light rail transit make the headway of the system unnecessarily long which handcuff the operator in terms of the number of trains they can push through the system. On the other hand, in moving block signaling system the train location is continuously updated through the real-time communication between the train and the wayside. There are no fixed block boundaries which allows trains to run closer to each other while ensuring safety. As a result, the operators have two choices to improve their headway and capacity: build more subway lines or squeeze more out of their existing infrastructure by adapting new technologies like Communication based train control. In this thesis, a communication based train control system have been used to develop a new timetable for Addis Ababa light rail transit. The key parameters required to develop a communication based train control systems timetable such as, dwell time, speed, braking distance, emergency braking distance, time for lock switches, and synchronization of trains are discussed in detail and their values are calculated. Depending on those results a new headway for the new timetable is obtained. The validity of newly modeled timetable is tested using Arena simulation software. Finally, the calculated values and simulating results shows that the current headway of Addis Ababa light rail transit can be improved to 8.84 minutes (minimized by 58.93%) from 15 minutes only by changing the signaling system to a moving block based on Communication based train control system.
Multi-frequency polarimetry of a complete sample of PACO radio sources
Creators: name: Galluzzi, V.
name: Massardi, M.
name: Bonaldi, A.
name: Casasola, V.
name: Gregorini, L.
name: Trombetti, T.
name: Burigana, C.
name: De Zotti, G.
name: Ricci, R.
name: Stevens, J.
name: Ekers, R. D.
name: Bonavera, L.
name: Alighieri, S. di Serego
name: Liuzzo, E.
name: Lopez-Caniego, M.
name: Mignano, A.
name: Paladino, R.
name: Toffolatti, L.
name: Tucci, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high sensitivity polarimetric observations in 6 bands covering the 5.5-38 GHz range of a complete sample of 53 compact extragalactic radio sources brighter than 200 mJy at 20 GHz. The observations, carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), achieved a 91% detection rate (at 5 sigma). Within this frequency range the spectra of about 95% of sources are well fitted by double power laws, both in total intensity and in polarisation, but the spectral shapes are generally different in the two cases. Most sources were classified as either steep- or peaked-spectrum but less than 50% have the same classification in total and in polarised intensity. No significant trends of the polarisation degree with flux density or with frequency were found. The mean variability index in total intensity of steep-spectrum sources increases with frequency for a 4-5 year lag, while no significant trend shows up for the other sources and for the 8 year lag. In polarisation, the variability index, that could be computed only for the 8 year lag, is substantially higher than in total intensity and has no significant frequency dependence.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Laser range finder and advanced sonar based simultaneous localization and mapping for mobile robots
Creators: name: Diosi., Albert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Eine nichtmasoretische Vokalisierung im masoretischen Konsonantentext von Jeremia 9,18 bei Abraham Ben David von Posquières (12. Jrh.)
Creators: name: Mutius, Hans-Georg Von
Publisher: name: Biblische Notizen
Year: 1970

description: Biblische Notizen, Bd. 100 (1999): Biblische Notizen, Band 100