cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1: of NG-meta-profiler: fast processing of metagenomes using NGLess, a domain-specific language
Creators: name: Coelho, Luis
name: Alves, Renato
name: Monteiro, Paulo
name: Huerta-Cepas, Jaime
name: Freitas, Ana
name: Bork, Peer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Figure S1. Fraction of spurious hits to the human genome that is incorrectly kept as a function of the minimum size of the alignment used to consider it a valid alignment. The benchmark simulated dataset was aligned to the human genome. As in this simulated dataset there should be no human reads, any alignment was considered spurious. (PDF 52 kb)
Towards a two-fluid picture of intermittency in shell models of turbulence
Creators: name: Gilson, J. L.
name: Dombre, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intermittency in the Gledzer-Okhitani-Yamada (GOY) model of turbulence is explained in terms of collisions of coherent soliton-like structures with a random background issuing from the desintegration of their predecessors. This two-fluid picture is substantiated by the elucidation of local dynamical mechanisms leading to anomalous growth of coherent structures, their detection in true signals involving forcing and dissipation, and an investigation of their statistics.
description: 4 pages Latex/RevTex, with 5 encapsulated postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Searching for Heavy Charged Higgs Bosons through Top Quark Polarization
Creators: name: Arhrib, Abdesslam
name: Jueid, Adil
name: Moretti, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the production of a heavy charged Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in $gb\to H^{-} t$ within a Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM). The chiral structure of the $H^{-} t \bar{b}$ coupling can trigger a particular spin state of the top quark produced in the decay of a charged Higgs boson and, therefore, is sensitive to the underlying mechanism of the Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB). Taking two benchmark models (2HDM type-I and 2HDM type-Y) as an example, we show that inclusive rates, differential distributions as well as forward-backward asymmetries of the top quark's decay products can be used to search for heavy charged Higgs bosons as well as a model discriminators.
description: 7 pages; 2 Figures; 2 Tables; To appear for IAS Program on HEP, January 2019, Hong Kong, based on arXiv:1807.11306
The documentation of the Kru language Oubi
Creators: name: Jaffe, Jenny
name: Nordhoff, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Kru
subject: Taï national park
subject: Oubi language
subject: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/glio1241

description: This presentation discusses the Kru language Oubi, spoken in Côte d'Ivoire and potentials for its documentation.
Mount Klappan coal project : 10 years of reclamation experience in northwestern B.C.
Creators: name: Polster, D. F.
name: Pituley, L. J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Gulf Canada Resources Ltd. has been investigating the potential of developing a world class anthracite mine at the Mount Klappan property in northwestern B.C. Reclamation of disturbances associated with development of the proposed mine and planning for reclamation of mining activities were initiated early in the development process. Single species trials were established in 1984, while species mix trials were established in 1985. Operational reclamation work was started in 1985 with broadcast seeding of the tailings pond dyke. Hydroseeding was used initially in 1986 for vegetation establishment at a test pit site and around the pilot preparation plant. In 1988, a trial waste dump was constructed to test reclamation methods which would be appropriate for waste dump reclamation. In addition, aerial broadcast seeding was used to reclaim outlying exploration disturbance. Hydroseeding and aerial seeding were again used in 1993. Methods and results from the Mount Klappan reclamation program are presented. Information gained is applicable to other high elevation sites in northwestern B.C.
Flat steady states in stellar dynamics - existence and stability
Creators: name: Rein, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 85A05;35A15

description: We consider a special case of the three dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system where the particles are restricted to a plane, a situation that is used in astrophysics to model extremely flattened galaxies. We prove the existence of steady states of this system. They are obtained as minimizers of an energy-Casimir functional from which fact a certain dynamical stability property is deduced. From a mathematics point of view these steady states provide examples of partially singular solutions of the three dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system.
description: 25 pages, LaTeX
Inconsistent Colors: The Role of Social Movement Organizations in Post-Color Revolution States
Creators: Hanenkrat, Kaley
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: East Europeans

description: Over the course of the last decade, Eastern Europe and Central Asia have experienced similar non-violent, pro-democratic social movements led by Social Movement Organizations. In contrast, though, post-social movement states are not equally democratic today. In this essay, I analyze where the SMOs that led three of the Color Revolutions, Kmara, Pora, and Otpor, changed the course of democratization in Georgia, Ukraine, and Serbia, respectively. From this analysis, I conclude that the decision of SMO activists to actively engage with the newly established democratic regime as both opposition and as following a social movement is more beneficial for democratization than passively challenging and more feasible than other means.
Additional file 1: of Endo-lysosomal dysregulations and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease: impact of genetic risk factors
Creators: name: Acker, Zoë Van
name: Bretou, Marine
name: Annaert, Wim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S1. Overview of studies on BIN1, CD2AP, PICALM and PLD3 expression levels. The table summarizes the transcript and protein levels of the LOAD risk genes, as detected in in vitro and in vivo studies, as well as the subcellular localization of the associated protein when studied. N.d.; not determined. Table S.2 LOAD-associated SNPs. Overview of the different SNPs within BIN1, CD2AP, PICALM and PLD3 that are linked to LOAD development. If studied, the associated clinical effects are listed. Table S3. Summary of the known protein interactors of BIN1, CD2AP, PICALM and PLD3. The table further includes the model(s) in which the interaction was studied, as well as the validation method(s), involved region within the proteins, and observed effects downstream of binding. (DOCX 191 kb)
Incorporating innovations into practice: Professional learning of genetic counselors
Creators: Davis, Claire Rebecca
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Adult education
Genetic counselors
Medical personnel--Training of
Educational innovations

description: Genetic counselors are healthcare professionals who work with patients and families affected by or at risk for conditions with a genetic cause or component.  They act as purveyors of genetic and genomic testing and support the translation of test results into targeted and personalized medical care.  Innovations, which arise and are introduced into practice continuously, compel genetic counselors to update their skills, knowledge, and approach quickly to ensure adequate and appropriate care of patients.  The purpose of this study was to explore the professional learning strategies utilized by genetic counselors, with particular attention to learning which occurs in response to innovation.  Utilizing critical incident questionnaires, interviews, and a database of credits accrued for continuing education, this study sought to contribute to a detailed understanding of genetic counselors’ professional learning and how strategies may vary by specialty or years of experience.  Genetic counselors were found to utilize reflection to identify learning needs arising within uncertain, complex, and ambiguous circumstances of practice, and match those needs to appropriate learning strategies.  Prized learning strategies included reading to gather information, discussion with colleagues to curate alternative perspectives and past experiences, and experimentation to actively test ongoing apprehension.  Through strategies which were permeable, complementary, and active, genetic counselors demonstrated their abilities to synergize learning, practice, and novel, complex, ambiguous, and uncertain environments.
scCross: Single-cell multi-omics data integration and cross-modal generation
Creators: name: Xiuhui Yang
name: Koren K. Mann
name: Wu, Hao
name: Ding, Jun
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: Multi-omics datasets present unrivaled opportunities to understand complex biological processes from comprehensive perspectives, but the distinct feature spaces associated with different modalities pose challenges in data integration and downstream analyses. Here we report scCross, an algorithm based on the variational that can integrate the features from different modalities to learn joint cell embeddings. We applied scCross to integrate dualomics and triple-omics data. scCross is able to map all data modalities to a shared latent space, allowing for various downstream data analytic tasks. scCross outperforms existing methods for data integration and is able to generate single-cell data across modalities. Moreover, scCross can perform multi-omics simulation and infer intra-modal and inter-modal perturbations to manipulate the cellular states, which can be leveraged to discover interventions and therapeutics against various diseases.
Quantum interface for noble-gas spins based on spin-exchange collisions
Creators: name: Katz, Or
name: Shaham, Roy
name: Firstenberg, Ofer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An ensemble of noble-gas nuclear spins is a unique quantum system that could maintain coherence for many hours at room temperature and above, owing to exceptional isolation from the environment. This isolation, however, is a mixed blessing, limiting the ability of these ensembles to interface with other quantum systems coherently. Here we show that spin-exchange collisions with alkali-metal atoms render a quantum interface for noble-gas spins without impeding their long coherence times. We formulate the many-body theory of the hybrid system and reveal a collective mechanism that strongly couples the macroscopic quantum states of the two spin ensembles. Despite their stochastic and random nature, weak collisions enable entanglement and reversible exchange of nonclassical excitations in an efficient, controllable, and deterministic process. With recent experiments now entering the strong-coupling regime, this interface paves the way towards realizing hour-long quantum memories and entanglement at room-temperature.
description: O.K. and R.S. contributed equally
The Polarized Monopole Liquid: a Coulomb phase in a fluid of magnetic charges
Creators: name: Slobinsky, D.
name: Pili, L.
name: Borzi, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The forging of strong correlations on decreasing temperature can take place without the arousal of conventional order. If this happens, as in some geometrically frustrated magnets, disorder can be a phenomenon more interesting than order itself. A Coulomb phase, for example, has critical-like pair-spin correlations, leading to neutron scattering \textit{pinch points} and emergent electromagnetism. Here we present a new instance of disorder in an Ising pyrochlore lattice: the \textit{Polarized Monopole Liquid} (PML), a dense monopole fluid with pinch points in the \textit{magnetic charge}-pair correlations. It is a phase of "monopole matter" never considered before which, in principle, can be stabilized in real materials using a magnetic field and uniaxial stress along the [100] direction. To explain how the monopole correlations arise, we show that the PML is a Coulomb phase in which spin fluctuations cannot be assigned either to monopoles or to internal magnetic moments, but necessarily comprehend both degrees of freedom. We develop a simple but nontrivial method to Helmholtz decompose the spin field into a divergenceless and a divergenceful part in magnetic charge disordered pyrochlores that shows the appearance of pinch points associated to the divergenceful component in places where Bragg peaks are observed for the "all-in/all-out" antiferromagnet.
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): Evropské prostředí pro vědecká data
Creators: name: Janíček, Milan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: EOSC
open science
European Open Science Cloud
European Union

description: Prezentace přednášky ze školení Jak podporovat open science Anotace:  Evropské výzkumné infrastruktury spolupracují na společné jednotné celovevropské platformě pro vědecká data. Co by měl zahrnovat vznikající European Open Science Cloud? jaká je motivace jeho vzniku, v jaké fázi je jeho příprava a jaké příležitosti by měl nabídnout do budoucna? Pořadatel: Centrum pro podporu open science, Univerzita Karlova Stránky akce: https://openscience.cuni.cz/OSCI-126.html
description: Podpořeno projektem OP VVV Rozvoj kapacit pro výzkum a vývoj UK II, reg. č.: CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_054/0015222.
Inverse versus direct cascades in turbulent advection
Creators: name: Chertkov, M.
name: Kolokolov, I.
name: Vegrassola, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model of scalar turbulent advection in compressible flow is analytically investigated. It is shown that, depending on the dimensionality $d$ of space and the degree of compressibility of the smooth advecting velocity field, the cascade of the scalar is direct or inverse. If $d>4$, the cascade is always direct. For small enough degree of compressibility, the cascade is direct again. Otherwise it is inverse, i.e. very large scales are excited. The dynamical hint for the direction of the cascade is the sign of the Lyapunov exponent for particles separation. Positive Lyapunov exponents are associated to direct cascade and Gaussianity at small scales. Negative Lyapunov exponents lead to inverse cascade, Gaussianity at large scales and strong intermittency at small scales.
description: 4 pages, RevTex 3.0
Incorporating Diaspora: Blurring Distinctions of Race and Nationality through Heritage Tourism in Ghana
Creators: McKinney, Warren Thomas
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: African Americans
subject: Africans
subject: African diaspora
subject: Heritage tourism

description: This dissertation project examines the Ghanaian state's role in developing a heritage tourism industry that actively manipulates commemorative practices surrounding the legacy of the slave trade to redefine and institutionalize the ambiguous relationship Ghana holds with communities of African descent abroad.  Developed in response to the renewed interest in African ancestry following the 1976 release of Alex Haley's novel Roots and its popular television adaptation, Ghana and other states in the region have since sought to incorporate African-Americans into their economic planning by providing them with opportunities to recover their lost heritage through tourism experiences.  Not limited to the creation of heritage sites, monuments and museums dedicated to the legacy of slavery and dispersal from Africa, these states have also tailored investment opportunities to reflect a renewed spirit of Pan-Africanism and validate African-Americans' membership within a re-envisioned diasporic African community.
Additional file 1 of Identification of a 4-lncRNA signature predicting prognosis of patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a multicenter study in China
Creators: name: Wang, Rui-Qi
name: Long, Xiao-Ran
name: Ge, Chun-Lei
name: Zhang, Mei-Yin
name: Huang, Long
name: Zhou, Ning-Ning
name: Hu, Yi
name: Li, Rui-Lei
name: Li, Zhen
name: Chen, Dong-Ni
name: Zhang, Lan-Jun
name: Wen, Zhe-Sheng
name: Mai, Shi-Juan
name: Wang, Hui-Yun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Additional 2 tables and 1 figures.
Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Standards Provide a 1% Foundation for the Determination of the Hubble Constant and Stronger Evidence for Physics Beyond LambdaCDM
Creators: name: Riess, Adam G.
name: Casertano, Stefano
name: Yuan, Wenlong
name: Macri, Lucas M.
name: Scolnic, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an improved determination of the Hubble constant (H0) from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of 70 long-period Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These were obtained with the same WFC3 photometric system used to measure Cepheids in the hosts of Type Ia supernovae. Gyroscopic control of HST was employed to reduce overheads while collecting a large sample of widely-separated Cepheids. The Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation provides a zeropoint-free link with 0.4% precision between the new 1.2% geometric distance to the LMC from Detached Eclipsing Binaries (DEBs) measured by Pietrzynski et al (2019) and the luminosity of SNe Ia. Measurements and analysis of the LMC Cepheids were completed prior to knowledge of the new LMC distance. Combined with a refined calibration of the count-rate linearity of WFC3-IR with 0.1% precision (Riess et al 2019), these three improved elements together reduce the full uncertainty in the LMC geometric calibration of the Cepheid distance ladder from 2.5% to 1.3%. Using only the LMC DEBs to calibrate the ladder we find H0=74.22 +/- 1.82 km/s/Mpc including systematic uncertainties, 3% higher than before for this particular anchor. Combining the LMC DEBs, masers in NGC 4258 and Milky Way parallaxes yields our best estimate: H0 = 74.03 +/- 1.42 km/s/Mpc, including systematics, an uncertainty of 1.91%---15% lower than our best previous result. Removing any one of these anchors changes H0 by < 0.7%. The difference between H0 measured locally and the value inferred from Planck CMB+LCDM is 6.6+/-1.5 km/s/Mpc or 4.4 sigma (P=99.999% for Gaussian errors) in significance, raising the discrepancy beyond a plausible level of chance. We summarize independent tests which show this discrepancy is not readily attributable to an error in any one source or measurement, increasing the odds that it results from a cosmological feature beyond LambdaCDM.
description: accepted by ApJ, replaced with accepted version, 25 pages, 5 figures
Pauli-Lubanski scalar in the Polygon Approach to 2+1-Dimensional Gravity
Creators: name: Welling, M.
name: Bijlsma, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we derive an expression for the conserved Pauli-Lubanski scalar in 't Hooft's polygon approach to 2+1-dimensional gravity coupled to point particles. We find that it is represented by an extra spatial shift $Δ$ in addition to the usual identification rule (being a rotation over the cut). For two particles this invariant is expressed in terms of 't Hooft's phase-space variables and we check its classical limit.
description: Some errors are corrected and a new introduction and discussion are added. 6 pages Latex, 4 eps-figures
Anticipating predictability: an ERP investigation of expectation-managing discourse markers in dialogue comprehension
Creators: name: Marlou Rasenberg
name: Rommers, Joost
name: Bergen, Geertje Van
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
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: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: In two ERP experiments, we investigated how the Dutch discourse markers eigenlijk “actually”, signalling expectation disconfirmation, and inderdaad “indeed”, signalling expectation confirmation, affect incremental dialogue comprehension. We investigated their effects on the processing of subsequent (un)predictable words, and on the quality of word representations in memory. Participants read dialogues with (un)predictable endings that followed a discourse marker (eigenlijk in Experiment 1, inderdaad in Experiment 2) or a control adverb. We found no strong evidence that discourse markers modulated online predictability effects elicited by subsequently read words. However, words following eigenlijk elicited an enhanced posterior post-N400 positivity compared with words following an adverb regardless of their predictability, potentially reflecting increased processing costs associated with pragmatically driven discourse updating. No effects of inderdaad were found on online processing, but inderdaad seemed to influence memory for (un)predictable dialogue endings. These findings nuance our understanding of how pragmatic markers affect incremental language comprehension.
On the Eisenstein symbol
Creators: name: Wildeshaus, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G55 (11G05, 11G07, 11G16, 14D07, 14F20, 14F42, 14F43, 19E08, 19F27)

description: The main purpose of this paper is the geometric construction, and the analysis of the formalism of elliptic Bloch groups. In the setting of absolute cohomology, we obtain a generalization of Beilinson's Eisenstein symbol to divisors of an elliptic curve, whose support is not necessarily torsion. For motivic cohomology, such a generalization is obtained in low degrees. Our main result shows that the Eisenstein symbol can be defined in all degrees if the elliptic analogue of the Beilinson-Soule vanishing conjecture holds.
description: 119 pages
title: Hibiscus schizopetalus (Mast.) Hook. f.
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Termination of Reentry in an Inhomogeneous Ring of Model Cardiac Cells
Creators: name: Sinha, Sitabhra
name: Christini, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Reentrant waves propagating in a ring or annulus of excitable media model is the basic mechanism underlying a major class of irregular cardiac rhythms known as anatomical reentry. Such reentrant waves are terminated by rapid electrical stimulation (pacing) from an implantable device. Because the mechanisms of such termination are poorly understood, we study pacing of anatomical reentry in a one-dimensional ring of model cardiac cells. For realistic off-circuit pacing, our model-independent results suggest that circuit inhomogeneities, and the electrophysiological dynamical changes they introduce, may be essential for terminating reentry in some cases.
description: 8 pages, 2-column LaTex (7 eps figures included); v2 includes additional results and figures as in published version
Additional file 12 of Single-cell transcriptome profiling of an adult human cell atlas of 15 major organs
Creators: name: He, Shuai
name: Wang, Lin-He
name: Liu, Yang
name: Li, Yi-Qi
name: Chen, Hai-Tian
name: Xu, Jing-Hong
name: Peng, Wan
name: Lin, Guo-Wang
name: Wei, Pan-Pan
name: Li, Bo
name: Xia, Xiaojun
name: Wang, Dan
name: Bei, Jin-Xin
name: He, Xiaoshun
name: Guo, Zhiyong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 12. Review history.
Impact of Exchange Rate Regimes on Economic Integration in the ECOWAS (1980-2017)
Creators: name: Nathaniel, Oladunjoye Opeyemi
name: Oladiran, Alagbaju Ifeolu
name: Oladiran, Akinbobola Temidayo
name: Nathaniel, Oladunjoye Opeyemi
name: Oladiran, Alagbaju Ifeolu
name: Oladiran, Akinbobola Temidayo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Production Economics
subject: Exchange Rate Regimes
subject: Economic Integration
subject: ECOWAS

description: The study investigated the impact of exchange rate regimes on economic integration in the ECOWAS from 1980 to 2015. Secondary annual data were used for the study. Annual data on variables such as trade openness, real gross domestic product, per capita income, transport cost, common language, tariff and exchange rate covering the period from 1980 to 2018 were sourced from the World Development Indicators (WDI) of the World Bank, 2017 edition. Data collected were analysed using econometrics technique of panel panel fixed effect model. The study found that the coefficients of per capita income (𝛽2= 0.22;𝑝<0.05); transport cost (𝛽3= 1.65;𝑝<0.05); common language (𝛽5= 0.41;𝑝<0.05) and exchange rate regimes (𝛽6= 0.13;𝑝<0.05) positive and significant effect on economic integration in the ECOWAS while coefficients of real gross domestic product (𝛽1=− 0.19;𝑝>0.05) and tariff (𝛽4=− 0.12;𝑝>0.05) have a negative effect of economic integration in the ECOWAS. The result implies that a unit increase in exchange rate regimes will lead to 0.13% deepening of the economic integration in the ECOWAS. The study concluded that exchange rate regimes plays an important role in promoting economic integration in the ECOWAS.
Institutional legitimacy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Dreier, Sarah K.
name: Lake, Milli
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: How do personal encounters with legal institutions shape citizens’ confidence in those institutions throughout sub-Saharan Africa? Using Afrobarometer’s cross-national citizen survey, we show that negative first-hand experiences with government courts and police erode citizens’ trust in those state institutions but do not tend to disrupt citizens’ perceptions of their authority to arbitrate or enforce the law. Individuals from diverse demographic backgrounds imbue state institutions with the right to perform their governance and law-enforcement duties, even after experiencing institutional incompetence or injustice. This article advances existing comparative research on legal institutions, which tends to conflate trust and legitimacy and overlooks the distinction between de facto performance and de jure authority. We suggest that rule-of-law institutions have deeper roots than some scholars have previously supposed.
Impact of Capital Structure on the Portfolio Behaviour of Commercial Banks in Tanzania
Creators: name: Swai, Tobias A.
name: Swai, Tobias A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Commercial Banks
subject: Portfolio Behaviour
subject: Foreign Banks
subject: Capital Structure
subject: Tanzania

description: This study examined the impact of bank capital structure measured by leverage ratio as defined in Based III based on tier 1 capital to total assets, on the portfolio behaviour of commercial banks in Tanzania by using fixed balance panel of annual financial statements data of 20 banks from 2002 to 2017. The studied banks had more than 89 percent of the total commercial banks’ assets in 2017 and 79 percent of total loans. Consideration of portfolio behaviour was explained based on choice assets (loans, investment in government securities and interbank loans) and non-choice items (non-earning assets including cash, required reserved and investment in fixed assets). The study examined the impact of capital structure on the bank portfolio holding with respect to the size of the bank and ownership. Findings revealed that only 35% of the banks are undercapitalized as at the end of 2017. The variables tested were significant at p <0.01 and p <0.001 except for the bank size measure. This means size of the bank is not a measure for its leverage structure, but with positive relationship.
A model of nonlinear evolution and saturation of the turbulent MHD dynamo
Creators: name: Schekochihin, A. A.
name: Cowley, S. C.
name: Hammett, G. W.
name: Maron, J. L.
name: McWilliams, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The growth and saturation of magnetic field in conducting turbulent media with large magnetic Prandtl numbers are investigated. This regime is very common in low-density hot astrophysical plasmas. During the early (kinematic) stage, weak magnetic fluctuations grow exponentially and concentrate at the resistive scale, which lies far below the hydrodynamic viscous scale. The evolution becomes nonlinear when the magnetic energy is comparable to the kinetic energy of the viscous-scale eddies. A physical picture of the ensuing nonlinear evolution of the MHD dynamo is proposed. Phenomenological considerations are supplemented with a simple Fokker--Planck model of the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic-energy spectrum. It is found that, while the shift of the bulk of the magnetic energy from the subviscous scales to the velocity scales may be possible, it occurs very slowly -- at the resistive, rather than dynamical, time scale (for galaxies, this means that generation of large-scale magnetic fields cannot be explained by this mechanism). The role of Alfvenic motions and the implications for the fully developed isotropic MHD turbulence are discussed.
description: IOP latex, 19 pages, 6 figures; final published version
Increased Complexity in Bidirectional Naming Stimulus Control Enhances Reading in First Graders
Creators: Baldonado, Lauren
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Education, Elementary
subject: Special education
subject: Reading comprehension--Ability testing
subject: First grade (Education)

description: In 2 experiments, I studied the effects of the establishment of Incidental Bidirectional Naming (Inc. BiN) for unfamiliar stimuli on reading comprehension for first-grade students. In Experiment 1, I measured the associations, differences, and predictive value between multiple measures of reading comprehension and Inc. BiN stimulus control in 22 first-grade students. Inc. BiN stimulus control was measured with familiar and unfamiliar stimuli and partitioned into groups according to degrees of Unidirectional Naming (UniN) and Inc. BiN. Measures of reading comprehension included the i-Ready® K-12 Adaptive Reading Diagnostic and Woodcock-Johnson® Tests of Achievement (WJIV®). Results indicated significant correlations between degrees of UniN for unfamiliar stimuli and reading comprehension. In Experiment 2, I studied the effects of the establishment of Inc. BiN for unfamiliar stimuli on multiple measures of reading comprehension in a single case, multiple probe design across dyads. I selected 3 dyads of first graders who textually responded at or above grade-level and demonstrated the absence of Inc. BiN stimulus control for unfamiliar stimuli. There were 3 reading comprehension measures: (1) explicit reading comprehension probe after reading a fiction and nonfiction passage, (2) read-do probe consisting of unfamiliar stimuli, and (3) WJIV® subtests. Participants acquired Inc. BiN stimulus control for unfamiliar stimuli through a Multiple Exemplar Instruction (MEI) intervention across listener and speaker responses. After participants demonstrated Inc. BiN stimulus control by emitting at least 80% accuracy across listener and speaker response topographies across two consecutive novel stimuli sets, I assessed reading comprehension performance. Results from experimenter-derived passage comprehension probes demonstrated increases across all 6 participants. Although read-do results were inconsistent, 5 participants demonstrated increases following the acquisition of Inc. BiN stimulus control. WJIV® results demonstrated the greatest increases in Passage Comprehension performance, while marginal and educationally significant increases were still observed across Reading Vocabulary and Reading Recall subtests.
Mechanisms of electron scattering in uniaxially deformed $\textit{n}$-$\text{Ge} \langle \text{Sb, Au}\rangle$ single crystals
Creators: name: Luniov, S. V.
name: Nazarchuk, P. F.
name: Zimych, A. I.
name: Udovytska, Yu. A.
name: Burban, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temperature dependencies for concentration and the Hall mobility of electrons for the $\textit{n}$-$\text{Ge} \langle \text{Sb}\rangle$ and \linebreak $\textit{n}$-$\text{Ge} \langle \text{Sb, Au}\rangle$ single crystals uniaxially deformed along the crystallographic directions [100] and [111] are obtained on the basis of piezo-Hall effect measurements. A deformation-induced increase of the Hall mobility of electrons for $\textit{n}$-$\text{Ge} \langle \text{Sb, Au}\rangle$ single crystals at the uniaxial pressure along the crystallographic direction [100] has been revealed. A comparison of the obtained experimental results with the corresponding theoretical calculations of temperature dependencies of the Hall mobility showed that the obtained effect occurs at the expense of the reduction probability of electron scattering on the fluctuational potential. Its amplitude depends on the tempe\-rature and on the value of the uniaxial pressure. It has also been shown that an increase of the Hall mobility for the $\textit{n}$-$\text{Ge} \langle \text{Sb, Au}\rangle$ single crystals uniaxially deformed along the crystallographic direction [111] with an increasing temperature turns out to be insignificant and is observed only for the uniaxial pressures $P<0.28$ GPa. A decrease of the Hall mobility of electrons at the expense of the deformational redistribution of electrons among the valleys of the germanium conduction band with different mobility should be taken into account in the present case. The Hall mobility magnitude for the uniaxially deformed $\textit{n}$-$\text{Ge} \langle \text{Sb}\rangle$ single crystals is determined only by the mechanisms of phonon scattering and we have not observed the effect of the growth of the Hall mobility with an increase of temperature or the magnitude of uniaxial pressure.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Inverse cascade and intermittency of passive scalar in 1d smooth flow
Creators: name: Chertkov, M.
name: Kolokolov, I.
name: Vegrassola, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random advection of Lagrangian tracer scalar field $θ(t,x)$ by a one-dimensional, spatially smooth and short-correlated in time velocity field is considered. Scalar fluctuations are maintained by a source concentrated at the integral scale $L$. The statistical properties of both scalar differences and the dissipation field are analytically determined, exploiting the dynamical formulation of the model. The Gaussianity known to be present at small scales for incompressible velocity fields emerges here at large scales ($x\gg L$). These scales are shown to be excited by an inverse cascade of $θ^{2}$ and the probability distribution function (PDF) of the corresponding scalar differences to approach the Gaussian form, as larger and larger scales are considered. Small scales ($x\ll L$) statistics is shown to be strongly non-Gaussian. Collapse of scaling exponents for scalar structure functions\thinspace takes place: moments of order $p\ge 1$ scale all linearly, independently of the order $p$. Smooth scaling $x^{p}$ is found for $-1
description: 21 pages, RevTex 3.0
title: Mycotic aneurysm in the left side of the infrarenal aorta caused by Campylobacter Fetus
Creators: name: Ríos Gómez, Isabel
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Interventional radiology
subject: Abdomen
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Infection
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: 56 years-old male went to the emergency room complaining of fever for the last 10 days and urinary tract symptoms. Two weeks ago he presented diarrhoea and weight loss, with a positive stool test for Campylobacter Fetus.

Despite antibiotic therapy, the fever persisted. Suspecting a complicated infectious disease a complete radiological evaluation was carried out.

description: 56 years, male
ARD guidelines for mine sites in British Columbia
Creators: name: Errington, J. C., 1946-
name: Price, William A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: From previous project reviews and research, the British Columbia Reclamation Advisory Committee (RAC) developed a set of policies, rules, and procedures that guide its assessment of projects with issues involving acid rock drainage (ARD). This information was compiled into a comprehensive working policy, which covered the entire spectrum of ARD issues, including sections dealing with exploration, proposed mine developments, prediction, prevention, collection and treatment, commercial leaching, permitting, bonding, monitoring, historic sites and existing mines. The RAC policy was released in July 1993, both for public information, and industry discussion and comment. Presently, the RAC is compiling the comments received and forming an expert review group to consider the contentious issues. In the meantime, a large number of projects are undergoing active development and review, including at least 7 proposed mines and 11 closure plans with ARD concerns. To guide its ongoing review and as a tool for advising proponents, B.C. MEMPR have produced this revised set of ARD guidelines, based in part on the July 1993 Policy, with revisions and additions derived from recent mine reviews and from comments received from the public and industry. The guidelines set forth in this paper govern the information required from a prediction program, the type of materials used for construction purposes, preventive techniques such as underwater disposal and blending, and inventory and monitoring requirements associated with waste handling.
The Near-Linear Regime of Gravitational Waves in Numerical Relativity
Creators: name: Anninos, Peter
name: Masso, Joan
name: Seidel, Edward
name: Suen, Wai-Mo
name: Tobias, Malcolm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a systematic study of the dynamics of gravitational waves in full 3D numerical relativity. We find that there exists an interesting regime in the parameter space of the wave configurations: a near-linear regime in which the amplitude of the wave is low enough that one expects the geometric deviation from flat spacetime to be negligible, but nevertheless where nonlinearities can excite unstable modes of the Einstein evolution equations causing the metric functions to evolve out of control. The implications of this for numerical relativity are discussed.
description: 10 pages, 2 postscript figures, revised text
Institutional legitimacy in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Dreier, Sarah K.
name: Lake, Milli
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: How do personal encounters with legal institutions shape citizens’ confidence in those institutions throughout sub-Saharan Africa? Using Afrobarometer’s cross-national citizen survey, we show that negative first-hand experiences with government courts and police erode citizens’ trust in those state institutions but do not tend to disrupt citizens’ perceptions of their authority to arbitrate or enforce the law. Individuals from diverse demographic backgrounds imbue state institutions with the right to perform their governance and law-enforcement duties, even after experiencing institutional incompetence or injustice. This article advances existing comparative research on legal institutions, which tends to conflate trust and legitimacy and overlooks the distinction between de facto performance and de jure authority. We suggest that rule-of-law institutions have deeper roots than some scholars have previously supposed.
title: How physical and built environments impact learning and inclusivity in educational settings: supporting evidence-based practice
Creators: name: Twiss, Trisha Ann
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Classroom environment

description: The built environment is hugely influential in today’s world. Understanding how physical and built environments impact human behaviour is the starting point for understanding how space impacts learning and the inclusion of students with exceptionalities in the general education classroom. The education field can benefit from insights and explanations as to how the physical space surrounding a student might help or hinder their experience of learning. Three discrete bodies of literature—research on the physical and built environment, research on learning, and research on inclusivity in education—each offer evidence-based recommendations for how schools should look and feel. Through this project, the key principle of individualization has been identified as critical to educational efficacy in each of three areas of study. The product of this applied project is an educational website for teachers, principals, paraprofessionals, school planners, policy makers, educational designers, and others in the education field, aimed at encouraging and supporting evidence-based practice in schools. Entitled Space, Learning, and Inclusivity: How Elements of the Built Environment Impact Kids in Schools, the website is dedicated to identifying, characterizing, and explaining the primary intersections between research on the physical and built environment, learning, and inclusivity. The content of this website makes a case for how, by focusing on the individual with educational practices that emphasize flexibility, connection, and ownership, we can create inclusive learning spaces that serve as engaging learning environments for all students.
CNN-based synthesis of realistic high-resolution LiDAR data
Creators: name: Triess, Larissa T.
name: Peter, David
name: Rist, Christoph B.
name: Enzweiler, Markus
name: Zöllner, J. Marius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel CNN-based approach for synthesizing high-resolution LiDAR point cloud data. Our approach generates semantically and perceptually realistic results with guidance from specialized loss-functions. First, we utilize a modified per-point loss that addresses missing LiDAR point measurements. Second, we align the quality of our generated output with real-world sensor data by applying a perceptual loss. In large-scale experiments on real-world datasets, we evaluate both the geometric accuracy and semantic segmentation performance using our generated data vs. ground truth. In a mean opinion score testing we further assess the perceptual quality of our generated point clouds. Our results demonstrate a significant quantitative and qualitative improvement in both geometry and semantics over traditional non CNN-based up-sampling methods.
description: Project Page: http://ltriess.github.io/pc-upsampling
Reconstruction of rational ruled surfaces from their silhouettes
Creators: name: Gallet, Matteo
name: Lubbes, Niels
name: Schicho, Josef
name: Vršek, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide algorithms to reconstruct rational ruled surfaces in three-dimensional projective space from the `apparent contour' of a single projection to the projective plane. We deal with the case of tangent developables and of general projections to $\mathbb{p}^3$ of rational normal scrolls. In the first case, we use the fact that every such surface is the projection of the tangent developable of a rational normal curve, while in the second we start by reconstructing the rational normal scroll. In both instances we then reconstruct the correct projection to $\mathbb{p}^3$ of these surfaces by exploiting the information contained in the singularities of the apparent contour.
description: 17 pages
title: Hirschfeldia incana (L.) Lagrèze-Fossat
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Asymptotics of numbers of branched coverings of a torus and volumes of moduli spaces of holomorphic differentials
Creators: name: Eskin, Alex
name: Okounkov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We compute the asymptotics of the number of connected branched coverings of a torus as their degree goes to infinity and the ramification type stays fixed. These numbers are equal to the volumes of the moduli spaces of pairs (curve, holomorphic differential) with fixed multiplicities of zeros of the differential and have several applications in ergodic theory.