cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Magnified image of CK302-17327 with cut marks on bison proximal phalanx
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Proximal Phalanx
Cut Marks
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Proximal phalanx anterolateral aspect at 22.4 magnification.
A Software Citation Primer
Creators: name: Katz, Daniel S.
name: Chue Hong, Neil P.
name: Clark, Tim
name: Muench, August
name: Stall, Shelley
name: Bouquin, Daina
name: Cannon, Matthew
name: Edmunds, Scott
name: Faez, Teili
name: Feeney, Patricia
name: Fenner, Martin
name: Friedman, Michael
name: Grenier, Gerry
name: Harrison, Melissa
name: Heber, Joerg
name: Leary, Adam
name: MacCallum, Catriona
name: Murray, Hollydawn
name: Pastrana, Erika
name: Perry, Katherine
name: Schuster, Douglas
name: Stockhause, Martina
name: Yeston, Jake
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: A poster at RDA VP16:

 Software is as integral as a research paper or dataset for facilitating the full understanding and dissemination of research. The FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation WG journals task force, with representatives from major scholarly publishers, has written an article to provide broadly applicable guidance on software citation for communities & institutions publishing journals & proceedings. The article also includes brief instructions on how software can be made citable.
48CK302-455, Tri-Notched Point, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Tri-Notched
Porcellanite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a gray porcellanite tri-notched projectile point, missing on tang. Provenience: N1-?-(21-24")
The Counterparty Assessment Mechanism in the Receivables Management System of Agricultural Organizations in the Republic of Belarus and the Ukraine
Creators: name: Shсharbatsiuk, Sviatlana
name: Pylypenko, Kateryna
name: Papkovskaya, Pelageya
name: Shсharbatsiuk, Sviatlana
name: Pylypenko, Kateryna
name: Papkovskaya, Pelageya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: counterparties
subject: receivables
subject: monitoring
subject: solvency

description: The article investigates issues regarding settlements between business counterparts in the Republic of Belarus, including those between Ukrainian and Belarusian enterprises. The presence of bad debts is identified as a key issue, leading to overdue and unrealistic debt collection accounting that burdens a company's balance sheet, resulting in a loss of financial stability of the creditor enterprise. Monitoring of business counterparts helps minimize this risk. Therefore, a mechanism has been developed to collect information about a counterparty and create a credit dossier. There is a proposal to monitor a counterparty's solvency based on criteria that has been specifically established for an industry. The proposed mechanism will help control unjustified growth in the receivables of agricultural organizations in The Republic of Belarus and the Ukraine in hopes of keeping funds in circulation, and reducing the risk of companies losing their own financial stability due to overly loyal credit policies.
description: DOI: 10.22630/PRS.2020.20.2.11
Mathematical Representations of Development Theories
Creators: name: Singer, Burton
name: Spilerman, Seymour
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Developmental psychology
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this chapter we explore the consequences of particular stage linkage structures for the evolution of a population. We first argue the importance of constructing dynamic models of development theories and show the implications of various stage connections for population movements. A second focus concerns inverse problems: How the stage linkage structure may be recovered from survey data of the kind collected by developmental psychologists.
48CK302-432, Side Notched Point, Side 2
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Side Notched
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a tan quartzite side notched projectile point, base only. Provenience: N1-6-10
Star-forming regions and the metallicity gradients in the tidal tails: The case of NGC 92
Creators: name: Torres-Flores, Sergio
name: Scarano, Sergio
name: de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes
name: de Mello, Duilia
name: Amram, Philippe
name: Plana, Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new Gemini/GMOS spectroscopic and archival imaging data of the interacting galaxy NGC 92, which is part of a compact group and displays an extended tidal tail. We have studied the physical properties of 20 star-forming complexes in this system. We found that the star-forming regions located in the tidal tail of NGC 92 have ages younger than 8 Myr, which suggests that these objects were formed in situ. The spectroscopic data reveals that these regions have slightly sub-solar metallicities, suggesting that they were formed from pre-enriched material. Using the oxygen abundances derived for each system, we found that the extended tidal tail of NGC 92 has a flat metallicity distribution. Although this scenario is consistent with N-body simulations of interacting systems, where there is gas mixing triggered by the interaction, archival Halpha Fabry-Perot data cubes of NGC 92 have not shown a velocity gradient along the tail of this galaxy, which under certain assumptions could be interpreted as a lack of gas flow in the tail. Our results suggest that a fraction of the enriched gas that was originally located in the center of the galaxy was expelled into the tidal tail when the interacting process that formed the tail happened. However, we can not exclude the scenario in which the star formation in the tail has increased its original oxygen abundance.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Succession of the image of the city in the movement for urban design by local proprietors in Ginza from pre-war to post-war
Creators: name: Miyashita, Takahiro
name: Nakajim, Naoto
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: This paper revealed the development of the movement for urban design by local proprietors in Ginza, Tokyo from 1930’s to 1960’s. Ginza Street is known as one of the first modern style streets in Japan. This street has developed greatly by modern buildings and advanced urban design methods in modern times and after although it has also suffered serious damage twice by Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) and bombing in 1945. Therefore, buildings and urban space have seen repeated reconstruction and renewal until today. On the other hand, if we pay attention to local proprietors, we can understand that they have developed the movement for urban design of Ginza Street continuously and succeeded the awareness of the issues toward urban space. So this paper finds a new historical context of Ginza through the elucidation of development of their movement from viewpoints of how the awareness of the issues and the image of spaces have changed.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol 18 No 1 (2018): Looking at the World History of Planning
Magnified image of CK302-16165 with bone tool working surface on bison tibia
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tibia
Polishing
Bone Tool
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Tibia lateral aspect at 10.1 magnification.
Shifting processes with cyclically exchangeable increments at random
Creators: name: Chaumont, Loïc
name: Bravo, Gerónimo Uribe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G09, 60F17, 60G17, 60J65

description: We propose a path transformation which applied to a cyclically exchangeable increment process conditions its minimum to belong to a given interval. This path transformation is then applied to processes with start and end at zero. It is seen that, under simple conditions, the weak limit as epsilon tends to zero of the process conditioned on remaining above minus epsilon exists and has the law of the Vervaat transformation of the process. We examine the consequences of this path transformation on processes with exchangeable increments, Lévy bridges, and the Brownian bridge.
description: 14 pages and 3 figures
48CK302-544, Bifacial Tool Fragment, Side 2
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stone Tool
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a gray quartzite bifacial tool fragment. Provenience: W4-?-17"
48CK302-385, Side Notched Point, Side 2
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Side Notched
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a tan quartzite side notched projectile point, missing one tang. Provenience: E1-?-4
Features of Educational Attainment and Job Promotion Prospects
Creators: name: Spilerman, Seymour
name: Lunde, Tormod
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Labor economics
subject: Organizational behavior

description: In much sociological research on occupational achievement it is presumed that the full effect of education can be understood from an examination of years of schooling. It is also commonly assumed that the impact of education on career development can be investigated without reference to an individual's current organizational rank. This article shows that, with reference to promotion, several features from an employee's educational biography will influence his or her rate of advancement. It is also shown that the returns to years of schooling-and to other educational measures-vary with organizational rank; indeed, employers do not reward educational attainment indiscriminately, but only when it is likely to contribute to productivity. In conclusion, it is noted that whereas the "jobmatching" literature argues that the rate of mobility is greatest when the fit between an individual's resources and a job's requirements is poor, the results with regard to promotion suggest that the converse is true.
Globalization and Monetary Control
Creators: name: Woodford, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Economics
Public policy (Law)

description: Taken from pages 13-14-- 'Concern has recently been expressed in a variety of quarters that the problems facing central banks may be substantially complicated by the increasing globalization of goods markets, factor markets, and fi nancial markets in recent years. Some of the more alarmist views suggest that the very ability of national central banks to materially influence the dynamics of inflation in their countries through monetary policy actions may be undermined by globalization. According to such accounts, the recently observed low and stable inflation in many parts of the world should be attributed mainly to favorable (and likely transient) global developments rather than to the sound policies of central banks in those parts of the world; and rather than congratulating themselves on how skilled they have become at the conduct of monetary stabilization policy, central bankers should instead live in dread of the day when the implacable global market forces instead turn against them, making a return of inflation all but inevitable.
In this chapter I consider a variety of reasons why globalization might be expected to weaken the control of national central banks over inflation within their borders. These correspond to three distinct aspects of the transmission mechanism for monetary policy: the link between central- bank actions and overnight nominal interest rates (in a conventional 3- equation model, the extent to which it is possible for central bank policy to shift the “LM curve”); the link between real interest rates and the balance between saving and investment in the economy (described by the “IS curve”); and the link between variations in domestic real activity and inflation (described by the “AS curve”).'
48CK302-18660, Tested Quartzite Cobble, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stone Tool
Tested Cobble
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a tested quartzite cobble with flakes removed. Provenience: unknown
Financial Market Efficiency and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy
Creators: name: Woodford, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Economics
Public policy (Law)

description: From page 85-- 'Improvements in information processing technology and deregulation, among other forces, are profoundly transforming the financial sector of the United States and other advanced economies. Many of these changes are likely to improve the efficiency of financial intermediation, in the sense that the dispersion of valuations of claims to future payments across different individuals and institutions is minimized. For familiar reasons, this should be generally beneficial for the allocation of resources in the economy.
Some fear, however, that the job of central banks will be complicated by improvements in the efficiency of financial markets, or even that the ability of central banks to influence the markets may be eliminated altogether. This suggests a possible conflict between the aim of increasing microeconomic efficiency—the efficiency with which resources are correctly allocated among competing uses at a point in time—and that of preserving macroeconomic stability, through prudent central bank regulation of the overall volume of nominal expenditure.
Here I shall briefly address two possible grounds for such concern. The first is the possible elimination of a special role for commercial banks in the provision of credit. This might be expected to weaken the Fed’s leverage over aggregate expenditure through its ability to control the supply of bank reserves (and, to a lesser extent, through its regulatory oversight of member banks). The second is the dramatic reduction in recent years in the volume of Fed balances that banks must hold to satisfy reserve requirements. This has led to concern that reserve requirements may soon cease to bind, and that as a result the Fed would lose its main source of control over the pace of spending in the economy.'
Generation of Magnetic Field on the Accretion Disk around a Proto-First-Star
Creators: name: Shiromoto, Yuki
name: Susa, Hajime
name: Hosokawa, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generation process of magnetic field around a proto-first-star is studied. Utilizing the recent numerical result of proto-first-star formation based upon the radiation hydrodynamics simulations, we assess the magnetic field strength generated by the radiative force and the Biermann battery effect. We find that magnetic field of \sim 10^{-9} G is generated on the surface of the accretion disk around the proto-first-star. The field strength on the accretion disk is smaller by two orders of magnitude than the critical value, above which the gravitational fragmentation of the disk is suppressed. Thus, the generated seed magnetic field hardly affect the dynamics of on-site first star formation directly, unless efficient amplification process is taken into consideration. We also find that the generated magnetic field is continuously blown out from the disk on the outflows to the poles, that are driven by the thermal pressure of photoheated gas. The strength of the diffused magnetic field in low density regions is \sim 10^{-14}-10^{-13}G at n_H=10^3 cm^{-3} which could play important roles on the next generation star formation, as well as the seeds of magnetic field exist in present-day universe.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, ApJ accepted
Inflation Targeting and Optimal Monetary Policy
Creators: name: Woodford, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Economics
Economic history

description: From page 15-- 'Here I survey some of the most important conclusions of this literature. I shall begin by reviewing some of the respects in which inflation targeting as currently implemented represents a step toward what the theory of optimal monetary policy would recommend. In the final section of the paper, I then summarize some of the more important respects in which an optimal policy regime would go beyond current practice. Finally, as a concrete illustration of some of the general remarks that have been made about the form of an optimal policy rule, in an appendix I briefly discuss the quantitative character of optimal policy in the context of the small econometric model for the United States presented in Giannoni and Woodford (forthcoming).'
Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy
Creators: name: Cúrdia, Vasco
name: Woodford, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Economics
Public policy (Law)

description: The authors extend a standard New Keynesian model to incorporate heterogeneity in spending opportunities and two sources of (potentially time-varying) credit spreads and to allow a role for the central bank’s balance sheet in equilibrium determination. They use the model to investigate the implications of imperfect financial intermediation for familiar monetary policy prescriptions, and to consider additional dimensions of central bank policy—variations in the size and composition of the central bank’s balance sheet and payment of interest on reserves—alongside the traditional question of the proper choice of setting an operating target for an overnight policy rate. The authors also give particular attention to the special problems that arise when the policy rate reaches the zero lower bound. They show that it is possible within a single unified framework to identify the criteria for policy to be optimal along each dimension. The suggested policy prescriptions apply equally well when financial markets work efficiently as when they are substantially disrupted and interest rate policy is constrained by the zero lower bound. (JEL E44, E52)
Magnified image of CK302-17045 with cut marks on bison tibia
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tibia
Cut Marks
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Tibia lateral aspect at 26.5 magnification.
Photo-fragmentation spectroscopy of benzylium and 1-phenylethyl cations
Creators: name: Féraud, Géraldine
name: Dedonder, Claude
name: Soorkia, Satchin
name: Jouvet, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic spectra of cold benzylium (C6H5-CH2+) and 1-phenylethyl (C6H5-CH-CH3+)cations have been recorded via photofragment spectroscopy. Benzylium and 1-phenylethyl cations produced from electrosprayed benzylamine and phenylethylamine solutions, respectively, were stored in a cryogenically cooled quadrupole ion trap and photodissociated by an OPO laser, scanned in parts of the UV and visible regions (600-225 nm). The electronic states and active vibrational modes of the benzylium and 1-phenylethyl cations as well as those of their tropylium or methyl tropylium isomers have been calculated with ab initio methods for comparison with the spectra observed. Sharp vibrational progressions are observed in the visible region while the absorption features are much broader in the UV. The visible spectrum of the benzylium cation is similar to that obtained in an argon tagging experiment [V. Dryza, N. Chalyavi, J.A. Sanelli, and E.J. Bieske, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 204304 (2012)], with an additional splitting assigned to Fermi resonances. The visible spectrum of the 1-phenylethyl cation also shows vibrational progressions. For both cations, the second electronic transition is observed in the UV, around 33 000 cm-1 (4.1 eV), and shows a broadened vibrational progression. In both cases the S2 optimized geometry is non planar. The third electronic transition observed around 40 000 cm-1 (5.0 eV) is even broader with no apparent vibrational structures, which is indicative of either a fast non-radiative process or a very large change in geometry between the excited and the ground states. The oscillator strengths calculated for tropylium and methyl tropylium are weak. Therefore, these isomeric structures are most likely not responsible for these absorption features. Finally, the fragmentation pattern changes in the second and third electronic states: C2H2 loss becomes predominant at higher excitation energies, for both cations.
The Optimum Quantity of Money Revisited
Creators: name: Kehoe, Timothy J.
name: Levine, David K.
name: Woodford, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Economics
Public policy (Law)

description: From page 501 -- 'The accepted wisdom on the optimum quantity of money was first expressed by Friedman (1953, 1969): Real money balances represent a service to the economy provided by the government at no cost. The government should maximize the quantity of real balances it provides, since it is costless to do so. It can do this either by means of a deflationary monetary policy or by paying interest on nominal balances. Either policy reduces the cost of holding idle balances and increases the value of the money stock.
Hahn (1971, 1973) has objected to Friedman's analysis because it is not grounded in a fully specified model of an economy with money: ... In this paper we study efficiency of monetary policies in an economy in which money plays an essential role."
Transplanting Hong Kong high-rise housing during the time of transition
Creators: name: Chen, Liran
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: Hong Kong has been influencing the urban development of Chongqing since China’s post-1978 reform, which is a significant aspect of the contemporary urban history of Chongqing that remains unstudied. This case study focuses on the planning, design and implementation of Wanglongmen residential quarter project (1982-1992) to preliminarily explore how Chongqing learned from Hong Kong in pursuit of modernity in the early reform. The study finds that its planning and design were inspired by orthodox Hong Kong high-rise housing mode, but when transplanted to Chongqing, such mode interacted with the legacies of China’s pre-1978 planned-economy era, including small economic volume, underdeveloped housing commodification owing partly to ideological controversy, and vague building code. The interactions produced walk-up high-rise residences, and influenced building massing and landscaping. Besides, the logic behind some design tactics changed from pursing commercial profit to pursing public interest during the transplantation. The paper argues that when China was transforming from planned economy to market economy in the early reform, the influences from Hong Kong were emerging but the remains of the planned-economy era still prevailed. Such interim hindered Chongqing from duplicating Hong Kong housing comprehensively, but enabled Chongqing to reproduce Hong Kong’s modernity in an innocent and creative way.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol 18 No 1 (2018): Looking at the World History of Planning
48CK302-380, Side Notched Point, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Side Notched
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a tan quartzite side notched projectile point, base and midsection fragment. Provenience: E1-?-4
The Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy
Creators: name: Eggertsson, Gauti B.
name: Woodford, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Economics
Public policy (Law)

description: From page 139--- 'The consequences for the proper conduct of monetary policy of the existence of a lower bound of zero for overnight nominal interest rates has recently become a topic of lively interest. In Japan the call rate (the overnight cash rate analogous to the federal funds rate in the United States) has been within 50 basis points of zero since October 1995, and it has been essentially equal to zero for most of the past four years (figure 1). Thus the Bank of Japan has had little room to further reduce short-term nominal interest rates in all that time. Meanwhile Japan’s growth has remained anemic, and prices have continued to fall, suggesting a need for monetary stimulus. Yet the usual remedy—lower short-term nominal interest rates—is plainly unavailable. Vigorous expansion of the monetary base has also seemed to do little to stimulate demand under these circumstances: as figure 1 also shows, the monetary base is now more than twice as large, relative to GDP, as it was in the early 1990s.'
Current Noise in Single-Molecule Junctions Induced by Electronic-Vibrational Coupling
Creators: name: Schinabeck, C.
name: Härtle, R.
name: Weber, H. B.
name: Thoss, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of multiple vibrational modes on current fluctuations in electron transport through single-molecule junctions is investigated. Our analysis is based on a generic model of a molecular junction, which comprises a single electronic state on the molecular bridge coupled to multiple vibrational modes and fermionic leads, and employs a master equation approach. The results reveal that in molecular junctions with multiple vibrational modes already weak to moderate electronic-vibrational coupling may result in high noise levels, especially at the onset of resonant transport, in accordance with experimental findings of Secker et al..[1] The underlying mechanisms are analyzed in some detail. [1] D. Secker et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136807 (2011).
Effect of Outreach on Financial Sustainability and Profitability of Saving and Credit Cooperatives in Eastern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Yitayaw, Mekonnen Kumlachew
name: Yitayaw, Mekonnen Kumlachew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Eastern Ethiopia
subject: financial sustainability
subject: outreach
subject: profitability
subject: SACCOs

description: This study scrutinized the effect of outreach on financial sustainability and profitability of SACCOs in Eastern Ethiopia using balanced panel data from 33 SACCOs over the period of 2017-2019. Quantitative approach and explanatory design were employed to realize the stated objective. This study used secondary data sources, mainly audited financial statement of the SACCOs, in the study period. The analysis revealed that SACCOs in Eastern Ethiopia are profitable but not financially sustainable. Random effect model results show that gross loan to asset ratio, yield on gross loan portfolio, managerial and operational efficiency has statistically significant and positive effect on the financial sustainability of SACCOs, while average loan size has statistically significant but negative effect. Likewise, gross loan to asset ratio, managerial efficiency, and average loan size has statistically significant and positive effect on the profitability of SACCOs in Eastern Ethiopia. However, the portion of women borrowers and number of active borrowers has statistically significant but negative effect on the profitability of the SACCOs in the study area. Finally, the study suggests that increasing the number of borrowing clients and sales volume (loan portfolio) could benefit SACCOs in Eastern Ethiopia from economics of scale.
description: DOI: 10.22630/PRS.2020.20.2.12
Influence of the cosmic repulsion on the MOND model of the Magellanic Cloud motion in the field of Milky Way
Creators: name: Schee, Jan
name: Stuchlik, Zdenek
name: Petrasek, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been recently shown that the cosmic repulsion can have a highly significant influence on the motion of Magellanic Clouds (MC) in the gravitational field of Milky Way, treated in the framework of the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) halo model. However, there is an alternative to the CDM halo explanation of the rotation curves in the periphery of spiral galaxies, based on MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). Therefore, we study the role of the cosmic repulsion in the framework of the MOND theory applied to determine the MC motion. Our results demonstrate that in the MOND framework the influence of the cosmic repulsion on the motion of both Small and Large MC is also highly significant, but it is of a different character than in the framework of the CDM halo model. Moreover, we demonstrate that the MC motion in the framework of the CDM halo and MOND models is subtantially different and can serve as a test of these fundamentally different approaches to the explanation of the phenomena related to galaxies and the motion of satellite galaxies.
48CK302-482, Retouched Flake Tool, Side 2
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stone Tool
Retouched Flake
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a tan quartzite retouched flake tool, complete. Provenience: W1-4-63"
title: Search for Ultra-High-Energy Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Creators: name: Papenbreer, Philipp
Publisher: name: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Year: 2020

description: In this thesis, a search for photons at ultra-high energies is presented. A discovery of these particles would greatly advance the understanding of the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and would have multiple implications for high-energy particle physics. Upper limits to the flux of these particles, on the other hand, would constrain the parameter space of astrophysical scenarios concerning the primary composition at the cosmic ray sources as well as certain models of the origin of cosmic rays. In this work, 13.5 years of data measured with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory have been analyzed. In preparation for this, many improvements to the quality of the measurement data were made. Since multiple photon-like events were identified by the analysis, the compatibility of these event candidates with a photon as well as a background hypothesis has been tested. Taking the conservative approach of assuming the background hypothesis, the world’s strongest limits to the diffuse photon flux and fraction have been set.
description: Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Suche nach Photonen in der ultrahoch- energetischen kosmischen Strahlung. Eine Entdeckung dieser Teilchen würde wertvolle Hinweise über den Ursprung der kosmischen Strahlung liefern und böte darüber hinaus vielfältige Implikationen für die Teilchenphysik bei hohen Energien. Obergrenzen für den Fluss dieser Teilchen begrenzen den Parameterraum, sowohl von astrophysikalischen Szenarien bezüglich der Komposition an ihren Quellen, als auch bestimmter Modelle für den Ursprung der kosmischen Strahlung. 13.5 Jahre Messdaten, die mit dem Oberflächendetektor des Pierre-Auger-Observatoriums aufgenommen wurden, sind in dieser Arbeit analysiert worden. In Vorbereitung dazu sind einige Verbesserungen der Messdatenqualität unternommen worden. Da in der Analyse mehrere photonartige Ereignisse gefunden wurden, wurde die Kompatibilität dieser Kandidatenereignisse mit einer Photonhypothese und einer Untergrundhypothese untersucht. Mit dem konservativen Ansatz einer Untergrundhypothese sind die weltweit strengsten Obergrenzen auf den Anteil von Photonen an der kosmischen Strahlung und auf den diffusen Photonenfluss gesetzt worden.
Learning to Believe in Sunspots
Creators: name: Woodford, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An adaptive learning rule is exhibited for the Azariadis (1981) overlapping generations model of a monetary economy with multiple equilibria, under which the economy may converge to a stationary sunspot equilibrium, even if agents do not initially believe that outcomes are significantly different in different "sunspot" states. The type of learning rule studied is of the "stochastic approximation" form studied by Robbins and Monro (1951);
methods for analyzing the convergence of this form of algorithm are presented that may be of use in many other contexts as well. Conditions are given under which convergence to a sunspot equilibrium occurs with probability one.
Uniaxial symmetry in nematic liquid crystals
Creators: name: Lamy, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the Landau-de Gennes theory of liquid crystals, we study theoretically the equilibrium configurations with uniaxial symmetry. We show that the uniaxial symmetry constraint is very restrictive and can in general not be satisfied, except in very symmetric situations. For one- and two-dimensional configurations, we characterize completely the uniaxial equilibria: they must have constant director. In the three dimensional case we focus on the model problem of a spherical droplet with radial anchoring, and show that any uniaxial equilibrium must be spherically symmetric. It was known before that uniaxiality can sometimes be broken by energy minimizers. Our results shed a new light on this phenomenon: we prove here that in one or two dimensions uniaxial symmetry is always broken, unless the director is constant. Moreover, our results concern all equilibrium configurations, and not merely energy minimizers.
description: contains a new presentation of results in arXiv:1307.0295, and new results
48CK302-544, Bifacial Tool Fragment, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stone Tool
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a gray quartzite bifacial tool fragment. Provenience: W4-?-17"
Interaction-Shaped Vortex-Antivortex Lattices in Polariton Fluids
Creators: name: Hivet, Romain
name: Cancellieri, Emiliano
name: Boulier, Thomas
name: Ballarini, Dario
name: Sanvitto, Daniele
name: Marchetti, Francesca Maria
name: Szymanska, Marzena
name: Ciuti, Cristiano
name: Giacobino, Elisabeth
name: Bramati, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological defects such as quantized vortices are one of the most striking manifestations of the superfluid nature of Bose-Einstein condensates and typical examples of quantum mechanical phenomena on a macroscopic scale. Here we demonstrate the formation of a lattice of vortex-antivortex pairs and study, for the first time, its properties in the non-linear regime at high polarion-density where polariton-polariton interactions dominate the behaviour of the system. In this work first we demonstrate that the array of vortex-antivortex pairs can be generated in a controllable way in terms of size of the array and in terms of size and shape of it fundamental unit cell. Then we demonstrate that polariton-polariton repulsion can strongly deform the lattice unit cell and determine the pattern distribution of the vortex-antivortex pairs, reaching a completely new behaviour with respect to geometrically generated vortex lattices whose shape is determined only by the geometry of the system.
Magnified image of CK302-18070 with carnivore gnawing on bison hamate
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Hamate
Carnivore Gnawing
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Hamate at 12.4 magnification.
Inflation Stabilization and Welfare
Creators: name: Woodford, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper derives loss functions for monetary policy that are grounded in the welfare of private agents, for optimizing models with nominal price rigidities. Inflation stabilization enhances welfare, insofar as variable inflation results in real distortions when prices are not adjusted throughout the economy in a perfectly synchronized fashion. The exact sense in which inflation variability matters for welfare, however, depends upon the details of price-setting behavior. Conditions are described under which optimal policy involves complete stabilization of the price level. This may be optimal even in the presence of 'supply shocks' of several possible sorts, and even in the presence of distortions that imply that the optimal output gap is positive (despite existence of a long-run Phillips curve). At the same time discussed why complete price-level stabilization is not optimal in more complicated (and probably more realistic) settings.
Rational Asset Pricing Bubbles
Creators: name: Santos, Manuel S.
name: Woodford, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1997
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper provides a fairly systematic study of general economic conditions under which rational asset pricing bubbles may arise in an intertemporal competitive equilibrium framework. Our main results are concerned with nonexistence of asset pricing bubbles in those economies. These results imply that the conditions under which bubbles are possible -including some well-known examples of monetary equilibria- are relatively fragile.
48CK302-377, Side Notched Point, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Side Notched
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a gray quartzite side notched projectile point base and midsection fragment. provenience: E1-?-4
48CK302-358, Tool Fragment, Side 1
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Flake Tool
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a purple quartzite tool fragment, unifacially worked. provenience: E1-3-48"
48CK302-521b, Tri-Notched Point, Side 2
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Tri-Notched
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a gray quartzite tri-notched projectile point, complete. Provenience: W3-?-21" - Top Level
Savage Tables and Tort Law: An Alternative to the Precaution Model
Creators: name: Currie, Janet M.
name: MacLeod, W. Bentley
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: In this paper we show that the model of precaution is a special case of a more general economic model. We develop a simple technique for discussing this more general model that we dub a “Savage Table,” following Professor Leonard Savage. Our more general model based on general equilibrium theory and decision theory encompasses the views of both Posner and Epstein and sheds light on Epstein's observation that the Hand rule is not consistently used to determine liability. We show that rational choice does not imply the Hand rule unless one imposes additional restrictions that are not often satisfied in practice.
48CK302-463, Side Notched Point, Side 2
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Projectile Point
Side Notched
Quartzite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of an orange quartzite side notched projectile point, missing the tip. Possible impact fracture. Provenience: N1-?-7
Magnified image of CK302-17552 with pathology on bison distal phalanx
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Distal Phalanx
Pathology
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Distal phalanx medial aspect at 12.4 magnification.
The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH) Quality Assessment (QA) Criteria
Creators: name: Data Manager, DASSH
Publisher: name: The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH)
Year: 2023

description: Quality Assessment Criteria for grading data quality for datasets provided to DASSH for archiving. For each dataset, an assessment is made on the quality of the data, categorising the data quality as either High, High-Medium, Medium, Medium-Low, Low or Data-deficient. The criteria is set out in the ISO 19115 standard for geospatial metadata (ISO, 2006) and uses guidelines set out in Rackham & Walker (2006).
Implementing Anti-Unification Modulo Equational Theory
Creators: name: Burghardt, Jochen
name: Heinz, Birgit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; F.4.2
subject: 68T15

description: We present an implementation of E-anti-unification as defined in Heinz (1995), where tree-grammar descriptions of equivalence classes of terms are used to compute generalizations modulo equational theories. We discuss several improvements, including an efficient implementation of variable-restricted E-anti-unification from Heinz (1995), and give some runtime figures about them. We present applications in various areas, including lemma generation in equational inductive proofs, intelligence tests, diverging Knuth-Bendix completion, strengthening of induction hypotheses, and theory formation about finite algebras.
description: 113 pages; 57 figures
48CK302-18669, Granite Cobble, Side 2
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stone Tool
Cobble
Granite
Vore Buffalo Jump
Bison
Bison Jump
Mass Kill Site
Archaeological Site
Northwest Plains Tribes
Sinkhole
Wyoming
Prehistoric
Archaeology

description: Image of a granite cobble, possible chopper. Provenience: W2-3-36
Ukrainian Sunflower Market on the Background of EU and US Markets
Creators: name: Kuts, Tetyana
name: Makarchuk, Oksana
name: Kuts, Tetyana
name: Makarchuk, Oksana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: market integration
subject: Ukraine
subject: European Union
subject: United States
subject: sunflower oil market

description: This paper aims to provide market analysis of the sunflower market in Ukraine (UA) and research the existence of integration between the sunflower oil markets in Ukraine, the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). To fulfill the aims in the paper, yearly balances of sunflower seed, sunflower oil and sunflower cake were analyzed and price analysis was conducted. Price integration was assessed with the use of the error correction model (ECM) which was applied to monthly prices for sunflower oil from 2000 to 2020. Our findings provide evidence of high price transmission between the UA and EU markets, conversely lower price transmission was observed between the UA and the US.
description: DOI: 10.22630/PRS.2020.20.3.13
title: One-pagers – Information summarised in bite-sized chunks
Creators: name: Bachmaier, Regine
Publisher: name: Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsdidaktik, Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023

description: A one-pager presents information in a very reduced form. The blog entry gives tips on designing one-pagers with regard to visual aspects and content. It also introduces possibilities for application.
Traditional Versus Immersive Video-Based Referee Training Methods and How They Affect Situational Confidence Levels in Intramural College Basketball Officials
Creators: name: Feller, Kevin Arthur
Publisher: name: IUPUI University Library
Year: 2022
Subjects: Thesis
video training
confidence
officiating
referee
college intramurals
confidence levels

description: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
description: The number of sports officials around the United States and world has been slowly declining. The average age of sports officials keeps rising year over year, meaning younger officials are leaving their jobs at a high rate. The goal of this study was to compare training methods, traditional and immersive video-based, specifically RefReps training, to see how this training method affects officials’ confidence level at performing their duty as college intramural basketball officials. The study included college level intramural basketball officials from different universities in the United States (N = 34). A pre-test survey asking about confidence level was administered to each participating official prior to training for the upcoming intramural season. A control group (N = 13) used the university’s traditional training as their only form of training, while the test group (N = 21) trained using RefReps immersive video-based training. A post-test survey was given with the same confidence level questions for the participants to answer. The results showed that the RefReps group showed a greater increase in confidence in their ability to possess the most extensive knowledge of the rules compared to anyone else at the game and an increase in confidence in their ability to determine if a foul or violation had been committed.
A degenerate fourth-order parabolic equation modeling Bose-Einstein condensation. Part I: Local existence of solutions
Creators: name: Jüngel, Ansgar
name: Winkler, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K35, 35K65, 35B09, 35Q40

description: A degenerate fourth-order parabolic equation modeling condensation phenomena related to Bose-Einstein particles is analyzed. The model is a Fokker-Planck-type approximation of the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation, only keeping the leading order term. It maintains some of the main features of the kinetic model, namely mass and energy conservation and condensation at zero energy. The existence of a local-in-time nonnegative continuous weak solution is proven. If the solution is not global, it blows up with respect to the $L^\infty$ norm in finite time. The proof is based on approximation arguments, interpolation inequalities in weighted Sobolev spaces, and suitable a priori estimates for a weighted gradient $L^2$ norm.