cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Three essays on institutions and exports in the MENA region
Creators: name: Mayoral, Amanda F.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation contains three essays on the impact of institutions on exports in the MENA region. The first chapter examines the impact that industrial zones have on firm-level exports in Egypt. Industrial zones are designed to help increase firm productivity and raise firm production. I find that industrial zones can have a small but positive effect on the extensive but not intensive margin of exports. The second chapter evaluates the impact of bribe payments on firm-level exports in the MENA region. In the literature, bribe payments are known to have both positive and negative effects on firms. For instance, a bribe payment can be beneficial if it can expedite services and help firms overcome otherwise inefficient institutions. Alternatively, a bribe payment can be a required cost of doing business and charged to firms like a tax. My results support the latter explanation, where I find that bribe payments have a small negative effect on firm exports. Lastly, the third chapter evaluates how the 2012 MERS-CoV virus affected exports in Saudi Arabia. In this paper I find that the MERS-CoV virus had more of an effect on the animal/camel industry than on the overall level of exports in Saudi Arabia.
Three essays on institutions and exports in the MENA region
Creators: name: Mayoral, Amanda F.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation contains three essays on the impact of institutions on exports in the MENA region. The first chapter examines the impact that industrial zones have on firm-level exports in Egypt. Industrial zones are designed to help increase firm productivity and raise firm production. I find that industrial zones can have a small but positive effect on the extensive but not intensive margin of exports. The second chapter evaluates the impact of bribe payments on firm-level exports in the MENA region. In the literature, bribe payments are known to have both positive and negative effects on firms. For instance, a bribe payment can be beneficial if it can expedite services and help firms overcome otherwise inefficient institutions. Alternatively, a bribe payment can be a required cost of doing business and charged to firms like a tax. My results support the latter explanation, where I find that bribe payments have a small negative effect on firm exports. Lastly, the third chapter evaluates how the 2012 MERS-CoV virus affected exports in Saudi Arabia. In this paper I find that the MERS-CoV virus had more of an effect on the animal/camel industry than on the overall level of exports in Saudi Arabia.
An inexpensive system for the deterministic transfer of 2D materials
Creators: name: Zhao, Qinghua
name: Wang, Tao
name: Ryu, Yu Kyoung
name: Frisenda, Riccardo
name: Castellanos-Gomez, Andres
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development of systems for the deterministic transfer of two-dimensional (2D) materials have undoubtedly contributed to a great advance in the 2D materials research. In fact, they have made it possible to fabricate van der Waals heterostructures and 2D materials-based devices with complex architectures. Nonetheless, as far as we know, the amount of papers in the literature providing enough details to reproduce these systems by other research groups is very scarce in the literature. Moreover, these systems typically require the use of expensive optical and mechanical components hampering their applicability in research groups with low budget. Here we demonstrate how a deterministic placement system for 2D materials set up with full capabilities can be implemented under 900 Eur which can be easily implemented in low budget labs and educational labs.
description: 4 Figures in main text, a full step-by-step assembly guide in the supp. info. all part numbers needed to assemble the setup included
Lathrobium krilioni TIKHOMIROVA 1976
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium krilioni

description: Lathrobium krilioni TIKHOMIROVA, 1976
 Material examined: Japan: Hokkaido: 2 exs., Shiretoko Peninsula, Shari, Idashubetsu creek, 310 m, 1. VIII.1991, leg. Smetana [J22] (CNC).
 Comment: This species had been recorded only from the Russian Far East and was previously unknown from Japan (ASSING 2013f; SMETANA 2004).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lathrobium and Elytrobium from the Palaearctic region, with special reference to the fauna of East Yunnan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 41-74 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.1.41-74, http://zenodo.org/record/4753882
Manual training as an element in education
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1886
Subjects: subject: Vocational Education
subject: Education
subject: Literary Union (Jacksonville, Ill.)
subject: Vocational Education
subject: Education

description: Presented before the Literary Union of Jacksonville, Illinois
1893-09-24 A.W. Harlan to G.V. Black
Creators: name: Harlan, A. W.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1893
Subjects: subject: Harlan, A. W.
subject: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915
subject: Harlan, A. W.

description: Title: A.W. Harlan to G.V. Black Container: c03 id: level:
The mass quadrupole moment of compact binary systems at the fourth post-Newtonian order
Creators: name: Marchand, Tanguy
name: Henry, Quentin
name: Larrouturou, François
name: Marsat, Sylvain
name: Faye, Guillaume
name: Blanchet, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass-type quadrupole moment of inspiralling compact binaries (without spins) is computed at the fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) approximation of general relativity. The multipole moments are defined by matching between the field in the exterior zone of the matter system and the PN field in the near zone, following the multipolar-post-Minkowskian (MPM)-PN formalism. The matching implies a specific regularization for handling infra-red (IR) divergences of the multipole moments at infinity, based on the Hadamard finite part procedure. On the other hand, the calculation entails ultra-violet (UV) divergences due to the modelling of compact objects by delta-functions, that are treated with dimensional regularization (DR). In future work we intend to systematically study the IR divergences by means of dimensional regularization as well. Our result constitutes an important step in the goal of obtaining the gravitational wave templates of inspiralling compact binary systems with 4PN/4.5PN accuracy.
description: 56 pages
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Parental Attitudes, Beliefs, and Understanding of Anxiety (PABUA)
Creators: name: Boyd, Megan L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Parental Attitudes, Beliefs, and Understanding of Anxiety (PABUA; Wolk et al., 2016) was developed to assess caregivers’ beliefs about, perceived ability to tolerate or manage, and understanding of strategies for responding to their child’s anxiety. Following a preliminary validation of the PABUA that involved exploratory factor analysis (Wolk et al., 2016), this study aimed to confirm the factor structure in an independent sample and to further evaluate concurrent and discriminant validity of the subscales: (1) Overprotection, or beliefs that youth should be protected from feeling anxious; (2) Distress, or appraisals of guilt, anxiety/discomfort, helplessness, and avoidance in response to youth anxiety; and (3) Approach, or the belief in the value of promoting autonomy and modeling for/encouraging youth to engage with anxiety-provoking situations. Participants (N = 207; 70% female; 87.4% White; 91.8% non-Hispanic) were caregivers of a child 6 to 17 years old with clinical levels of anxiety (based on SCARED-P score 25) and were recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. They were administered the PABUA, a measure of experiential avoidance in the parenting context, a measure of the belief that youth anxiety is harmful, and self-report measures of anxiety and depression. Results of confirmatory factor analysis with diagonally least weighted squares estimation supported the initial three-factor model, with some items removed (model fit indices: CFI: .98; TLI: .98; RMSEA: .06; SRMR: .08). There were 8 items on Overprotection ( = .88), 5 items on Distress ( = .66), and 3 items on Approach – which did not meet the standard for acceptable internal consistency. There was also support for a two-factor model that excludes the Approach scale (model fit indices: CFI: .99; TLI: .99; RMSEA: .05; SRMR: .07), with improved internal consistency for the Distress subscale (Overprotection:  = .85; Distress:  = .68). Correlational analysis to examine concurrent and discriminant validity generally replicated findings from the initial validation study. For example, using scales based on the two-factor model, PABUA Overprotection was more strongly associated with a measure of unwillingness to experience a child’s negative emotion (r = .50, p < .01) than was PABUA Distress (r = .27, p <.05); whereas PABUA Distress was more strongly associated with a measure of caregiver inability to manage their reaction to a child’s negative emotion (r = .61, p < .01) than was PAUBA Overprotection (r = .32, p < .01). The PABUA can be used to study the impact of caregiver beliefs on a child’s anxiety and may allow for systematic assessment of family-based treatment targets. Efforts to refine the PABUA should focus on expanding the Approach subscale and reconsidering item anchors to increase variability in responses.
Visual observation of cowpea pod elongation to predict nitrogen accumulation in immature seeds
Creators: name: Ishikawa, Haruki
name: Ikazaki, Kenta
name: Kohtaro Iseki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Cowpea is an important low-cost protein source for millions of people in West Africa. Although mature seeds are the primary food source, fresh green pods are also consumed to survive food shortages before the harvest of main cereal crops. To increase protein intake from green pod consumption, a visual indicator of pod elongation, namely relative pod length, which enables the nitrogen content of immature seeds to be estimated, was developed. This is a simple visual method to ascertain the optimal time for green pod harvesting and is therefore highly practical for local farmers, the primary consumers of green cowpea pods. The nitrogen content of immature seeds was estimated using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. This method was also applied to genetic resources to select cowpea accessions with high nitrogen content in immature seeds.
Reductions between short vector problems and simultaneous approximation
Creators: name: Martin, Daniel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C07, 11H06, 68W25

description: In 1982, Lagarias showed that solving the approximate Shortest Vector Problem also solves the problem of finding good simultaneous Diophantine approximations. Here we provide a deterministic, dimension-preserving reduction in the reverse direction. It has polynomial time and space complexity, and it is gap-preserving under the appropriate norms. We also give an alternative to the Lagarias algorithm by first reducing his version of simultaneous approximation to one with no explicit range in which a solution is sought.
description: 16 pages, 3 algorithms. Version 2 corrects a mistake in Proposition 2.1 that made it only correct under the sup norm, as well as an erroneous determinant computation that immediately followed Algorithm 3. Version 3 makes minor changes to match the published paper
Lathrobium viduum EPPELSHEIM 1893
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium viduum

description: Lathrobium viduum EPPELSHEIM, 1893
 Material examined: Japan: Hokkaido: 2 exs., Hokkaido, Kushiro marsh between Horo and Oshima rivers, 5 m, 31. VII.1991, leg. Smetana [J21] (CNC, cAss); 2 exs., Hokkaido, Rubeshibe, Itonmuka river, marsh, 770 m, 29. VII.1991, leg. Smetana [J16] (CNC).
 Comment: Lathrobium viduum was previously recorded from East Siberia and the Russian Far East (RYVKIN 2011, SMETANA 2004). The above specimens represent the first records from Japan.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lathrobium and Elytrobium from the Palaearctic region, with special reference to the fauna of East Yunnan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 41-74 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.1.41-74, http://zenodo.org/record/4753882
A generalization of primitive sets and a conjecture of Erdős
Creators: name: Chan, Tsz Ho
name: Lichtman, Jared Duker
name: Pomerance, Carl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B75 (Primary), 11A05, 05C70 (Secondary)

description: A set of integers greater than 1 is primitive if no element divides another. Erdős proved in 1935 that the sum of $1/(n \log n)$ for $n$ running over a primitive set $A$ is universally bounded over all choices for $A$. In 1988 he asked if this universal bound is attained by the set of prime numbers. We answer the Erdős question in the affirmative for 2-primitive sets. Here a set is 2-primitive if no element divides the product of 2 other elements.
description: 13 pages
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Parental Attitudes, Beliefs, and Understanding of Anxiety (PABUA)
Creators: name: Boyd, Megan L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology

description: The Parental Attitudes, Beliefs, and Understanding of Anxiety (PABUA; Wolk et al., 2016) was developed to assess caregivers’ beliefs about, perceived ability to tolerate or manage, and understanding of strategies for responding to their child’s anxiety. Following a preliminary validation of the PABUA that involved exploratory factor analysis (Wolk et al., 2016), this study aimed to confirm the factor structure in an independent sample and to further evaluate concurrent and discriminant validity of the subscales: (1) Overprotection, or beliefs that youth should be protected from feeling anxious; (2) Distress, or appraisals of guilt, anxiety/discomfort, helplessness, and avoidance in response to youth anxiety; and (3) Approach, or the belief in the value of promoting autonomy and modeling for/encouraging youth to engage with anxiety-provoking situations. Participants (N = 207; 70% female; 87.4% White; 91.8% non-Hispanic) were caregivers of a child 6 to 17 years old with clinical levels of anxiety (based on SCARED-P score 25) and were recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. They were administered the PABUA, a measure of experiential avoidance in the parenting context, a measure of the belief that youth anxiety is harmful, and self-report measures of anxiety and depression. Results of confirmatory factor analysis with diagonally least weighted squares estimation supported the initial three-factor model, with some items removed (model fit indices: CFI: .98; TLI: .98; RMSEA: .06; SRMR: .08). There were 8 items on Overprotection ( = .88), 5 items on Distress ( = .66), and 3 items on Approach – which did not meet the standard for acceptable internal consistency. There was also support for a two-factor model that excludes the Approach scale (model fit indices: CFI: .99; TLI: .99; RMSEA: .05; SRMR: .07), with improved internal consistency for the Distress subscale (Overprotection:  = .85; Distress:  = .68). Correlational analysis to examine concurrent and discriminant validity generally replicated findings from the initial validation study. For example, using scales based on the two-factor model, PABUA Overprotection was more strongly associated with a measure of unwillingness to experience a child’s negative emotion (r = .50, p < .01) than was PABUA Distress (r = .27, p <.05); whereas PABUA Distress was more strongly associated with a measure of caregiver inability to manage their reaction to a child’s negative emotion (r = .61, p < .01) than was PAUBA Overprotection (r = .32, p < .01). The PABUA can be used to study the impact of caregiver beliefs on a child’s anxiety and may allow for systematic assessment of family-based treatment targets. Efforts to refine the PABUA should focus on expanding the Approach subscale and reconsidering item anchors to increase variability in responses.
Pseudorandom number generation by $p$-adic ergodic transformations
Creators: name: Anashin, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: E.3

description: The paper study counter-dependent pseudorandom generators; the latter are generators such that their state transition function (and output function) is being modified dynamically while working: For such a generator the recurrence sequence of states satisfies a congruence $x_{i+1}\equiv f_i(x_i)\pmod{2^n}$, while its output sequence is of the form $z_{i}=F_i(u_i)$. The paper introduces techniques and constructions that enable one to compose generators that output uniformly distributed sequences of a maximum period length and with high linear and 2-adic spans. The corresponding stream chipher is provably strong against a known plaintext attack (up to a plausible conjecture). Both state transition function and output function could be key-dependent, so the only information available to a cryptanalyst is that these functions belong to some (exponentially large) class. These functions are compositions of standard machine instructions (such as addition, multiplication, bitwise logical operations, etc.) The compositions should satisfy rather loose conditions; so the corresponding generators are flexible enough and could be easily implemented as computer programs.
description: Submitted
Summaries of Group Discussion
Creators: name: Sambrani, Shreekant
name: Saini, G. R.
name: Ranade, C. G.
name: Sambrani, Shreekant
name: Saini, G. R.
name: Ranade, C. G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade
Production Economics

description: Subject I: Subsidy as an Instrument for Increasing Agricultural Production and Income Subject II: Exports of Agricultural Commodities Subject III: Slow Growth Crops - Pulses, Oilseeds and Coarse Grains - Technological, Economic and Environmental Constraints
title: Novel Heterogeneous Pd Catalysts for Cross‐Coupling Reactions in Biocompatible Media: Structural Insights from Solid‐State NMR Techniques
Creators: name: Wissel, Till
name: Rösler, Lorenz
name: Brodrecht, Martin
name: Höfler, Mark V.
name: Herr, Kevin
name: Oliveira, Marcos de
name: Klimavicius, Vytautas
name: Ebert, Martin
name: Breitzke, Hergen
name: Hoffmann, Markus
name: Buntkowsky, Gerd
name: Gutmann, Torsten
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2025

description: Novel SBA‐15‐supported heterogeneous catalysts are synthesized and applied in the Mizoroki–Heck and the Suzuki–Miyaura cross‐coupling reactions in green solvents like PEG or water. The structural properties of the products after each synthesis step are monitored by different analytics. The amount of amine/carboxyl groups and vanillin/histidine methyl ester and thermal stability are determined by TGA and elemental analysis, while ICP‐OES delivered the amount of palladium of the catalysts. The morphology is investigated by SEM and XPS and confirms the presence of coordinated palladium in the zero‐oxidation state. Gas adsorption analysis is conducted, which indicates the presence of palladium clusters in one of the two catalysts, which is underlined by BSE images combined with EDX. A detailed 13C ssNMR and DNP‐enhanced 15N ssNMR spectral analysis is presented, which provides ultimate proof of the successful syntheses of the catalysts. The coordination of the palladium onto the carrier material is shown by combining the NMR spectral results with the results of the other analytics. First catalytic tests show for the Mizoroki–Heck reaction yields up to nearly 100% and for the Suzuki‐Miyaura up to 88% in the presence of PEG and water, respectively.
Analysis of the Cross-Border Capital Flows by Foreign Bank Branches and Macroprudential Policy: The Case of Korea
Creators: name: Moon, Jisung
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Korean economy has suffered two financial crises in 1997 and 2008, mainly due to volatile capital flows by foreign bank branches in Korea. Therefore, it is very important to understand the economic drivers and mechanisms of their capital flow management decisions. So far, it is known that foreign bank branches tend to actively adjust their borrowings from headquarters in response to changes in monetary policy in their home countries. However, in the first chapter, I find statistically significant evidence that Covered Interest Parity deviation and home macroprudential policies are more important factors than home monetary policy. I also demonstrate that no single country (or single currency) can play a dominant role in interoffice borrowings between headquarters and their branches in Korea. In the second chapter, I find evidence that the leverage cap regulation introduced by the Korean government in 2010 as one of the foreign exchange related macroprudential policy measures contributed to enhancing financial stability without hampering the positive roles of foreign bank branches in Korea. Specifically, foreign bank branches responded to changes in leverage cap regulation by adjusting their capital, and their business activities were not affected by the regulatory changes. In the third chapter, I review the challenges that Korea has faced due to the volatile cross-border capital flows and the Korean government's efforts to achieve successful economic growth and financial stability, especially focusing on the development of a prudential regulatory system during three phases: 1) before the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, 2) between the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, and 3) after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis to the present.
Effects of fertilizer micro-dosing in nursery on rice productivity in Madagascar
Creators: name: Tovohery Rakotoson
name: Seheno Rinasoa
name: Andriantsiorimanana, Aina
name: Marie-Paule Razafimanantsoa
name: Tantely Razafimbelo
name: Rabeharisoa, Lilia
name: Tsujimoto, Yasuhiro
name: Wissuwa, Matthias
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Currently, most rice farmers in the central highlands of Madagascar do not apply mineral fertilizer in their fields and we investigated whether a fertilizer micro-dose applied to the seedling nursery could serve as an entry point for intensification. Effects of nursery applications of a micro-dose of mineral (P and NPK) or locally produced sources of fertilizers (Guanomad, Vermicompost) on seedling vigour were evaluated, as was final grain yield after transplanting to main fields that were either not fertilized (farmers’ practice) or received combinations of mineral N, P and K fertilizer. Applying only P to the nursery had minor effects and we conclude that early seedling vigor is more limited by N than P, while grain yield in the main field was more limited by P than N. Carry-over effects of the nursery application of NPK and of guano on final grain yield were observed under farmers’ practice and when only urea was applied. The nursery NPK application significantly increased agronomic nitrogen use efficiency of urea application. We conclude that the low cost of micro-dosing NPK in the nursery makes this a profitable option for small-scale farmers cultivating rice on poor-fertility soils. Sole urea application in the main field is not a profitable option but would at least need additional nursery NPK application as an insurance against losing investments in N fertilization. Longer-term sustainability would require direct nutrient inputs into the main plot and additional low-cost nutrient management options should therefore be considered.
Quantization via Star Products
Creators: name: Hori, Takayuki
name: Koikawa, Takao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantization via star products. We investigate a quantization scheme in which a quantum theory is described entirely in terms of the function space without reference to a Hilbert space, unlike the formulation employing the Wigner functions. The associative law plays an essential role in excluding the unwanted solutions to the stargen-value equation. This is demonstrated explicitly with the $D$-dimensional harmonic oscillator.
description: 11 pages
Analysis of the Cross-Border Capital Flows by Foreign Bank Branches and Macroprudential Policy: The Case of Korea
Creators: name: Moon, Jisung
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The Korean economy has suffered two financial crises in 1997 and 2008, mainly due to volatile capital flows by foreign bank branches in Korea. Therefore, it is very important to understand the economic drivers and mechanisms of their capital flow management decisions. So far, it is known that foreign bank branches tend to actively adjust their borrowings from headquarters in response to changes in monetary policy in their home countries. However, in the first chapter, I find statistically significant evidence that Covered Interest Parity deviation and home macroprudential policies are more important factors than home monetary policy. I also demonstrate that no single country (or single currency) can play a dominant role in interoffice borrowings between headquarters and their branches in Korea. In the second chapter, I find evidence that the leverage cap regulation introduced by the Korean government in 2010 as one of the foreign exchange related macroprudential policy measures contributed to enhancing financial stability without hampering the positive roles of foreign bank branches in Korea. Specifically, foreign bank branches responded to changes in leverage cap regulation by adjusting their capital, and their business activities were not affected by the regulatory changes. In the third chapter, I review the challenges that Korea has faced due to the volatile cross-border capital flows and the Korean government's efforts to achieve successful economic growth and financial stability, especially focusing on the development of a prudential regulatory system during three phases: 1) before the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, 2) between the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, and 3) after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis to the present.
Lathrobium kasaharai WATANABE 2002
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium kasaharai

description: Lathrobium kasaharai WATANABE, 2002
 Material examined: Japan: Honshu: 3  [1 teneral], 1 , Chiba Pref., Fudago, Kimitsu, Mt. Kiusumi, 180 m, 19.VII.1991, leg. Smetana [J1] (CNC, cAss).
 Comment: Lathrobium kasaharai was previously known only from the type locality, “ Kameyama-ko, Kimitsu City, Chiba Pref. ” (WATANABE 2002).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lathrobium and Elytrobium from the Palaearctic region, with special reference to the fauna of East Yunnan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 41-74 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.1.41-74, http://zenodo.org/record/4753882
Lathrobium masumotoi WATANABE 2011
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium masumotoi

description: Lathrobium masumotoi WATANABE, 2011
 Material examined: Japan: Honshu: 4 exs., Toyama Pref., Bijodaira [36°35'N, 137°28'N], 1000 m, 28.VII.1980, leg. A. & Z. Smetana (CNC, cAss).
 Comment: The previously known distribution of L. masumotoi was confined to the Japanese Alps in Nagano Prefecture (ASSING 2013f).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lathrobium and Elytrobium from the Palaearctic region, with special reference to the fauna of East Yunnan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 41-74 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.1.41-74, http://zenodo.org/record/4753882
A Hybrid Stochastic Policy Gradient Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Pham, Nhan H.
name: Nguyen, Lam M.
name: Phan, Dzung T.
name: Nguyen, Phuong Ha
name: van Dijk, Marten
name: Tran-Dinh, Quoc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a novel hybrid stochastic policy gradient estimator by combining an unbiased policy gradient estimator, the REINFORCE estimator, with another biased one, an adapted SARAH estimator for policy optimization. The hybrid policy gradient estimator is shown to be biased, but has variance reduced property. Using this estimator, we develop a new Proximal Hybrid Stochastic Policy Gradient Algorithm (ProxHSPGA) to solve a composite policy optimization problem that allows us to handle constraints or regularizers on the policy parameters. We first propose a single-looped algorithm then introduce a more practical restarting variant. We prove that both algorithms can achieve the best-known trajectory complexity $\mathcal{O}\left(\varepsilon^{-3}\right)$ to attain a first-order stationary point for the composite problem which is better than existing REINFORCE/GPOMDP $\mathcal{O}\left(\varepsilon^{-4}\right)$ and SVRPG $\mathcal{O}\left(\varepsilon^{-10/3}\right)$ in the non-composite setting. We evaluate the performance of our algorithm on several well-known examples in reinforcement learning. Numerical results show that our algorithm outperforms two existing methods on these examples. Moreover, the composite settings indeed have some advantages compared to the non-composite ones on certain problems.
description: Accepted for publication at the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2020)
Model independent results for the inflationary epoch and the breaking of the degeneracy of models of inflation
Creators: name: German, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the problem of determining inflationary characteristics in a model independent way. We start from a recently proposed equation which allows to accurately calculate the value of the inflaton at horizon crossing $ϕ_k$. We then use an equivalent form of this equation to write a formula that relates the number of e-folds from horizon crossing to the pivot scale $N_{ke}+N_{ep}$ with the tensor-to-scalar index $r$, hence a general bound for $N_{ke}+N_{ep}$ follows. $N_{ke}$ is the number of e-folds from the scale factor $a_k$ during inflation to the end of inflation at $a_e$ and $N_{ep}$ is the number of e-folds from $a_e$ to the pivot scale factor $a_p$. In particular, at present $r < 0.063$ implies $N_{ke}+N_{ep}< 112.5$ e-folds at $k=k_p$ and 128.1 e-folds at the present scale with wavenumber mode $k_0$. We also give a lower bound to the size of the universe during the inflationary epoch that gave rise to the current observable universe. We also discussed the problem of degeneracy of inflationary models and argue that this degeneration can only be resolved by studying model predictions from the reheating epoch.
description: 13 pages, four tables, three figures. Accepted for publication in JCAP. Small changes to match the accepted version
Statistical properties of acoustic emission signals from metal cutting processes
Creators: name: Farrelly, F. A.
name: Petri, A.
name: Pitolli, L.
name: Pontuale, G.
name: Tagliani, A.
name: Inverardi, P. L. Novi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Acoustic Emission (AE) data from single point turning machining are analysed in this paper in order to gain a greater insight of the signal statistical properties for Tool Condition Monitoring (TCM) applications. A statistical analysis of the time series data amplitude and root mean square (RMS) value at various tool wear levels are performed, �nding that ageing features can be revealed in all cases from the observed experimental histograms. In particular, AE data amplitudes are shown to be distributed with a power-law behaviour above a cross-over value. An analytic model for the RMS values probability density function (pdf) is obtained resorting to the Jaynes' maximum entropy principle (MEp); novel technique of constraining the modelling function under few fractional moments, instead of a greater amount of ordinary moments, leads to well-tailored functions for experimental histograms.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
The pressure and a possible hidden Hagedorn transition at large-N
Creators: name: Bringoltz, Barak
name: Teper, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the first part of this contribution we present a numerical study motivated by recent attempts to understand the nonperturbative aspects of QCD at temperatures T~ a few times the deconfinement temperature Tc. We focus on the pure gauge theory, and ask whether the deficit in pressure and entropy, with respect to their free-gas values, is particular to SU(3). We find that the deficit in SU(4),SU(8) for T>= 2Tc,1.6 Tc, respectively, is remarkably close to that of SU(3). This suggests a similar deficit for SU(oo), which is fortunate since this theory is simpler, and can serve to constrain the possible dynamics underlying the deficits. In the second part we seek for signs of a Hagedorn temperature T_H in pure lattice SU(N) gauge theories with N=8,10,12. Since one expects T_H>Tc, we measure masses of strings in the metastable confined phase above Tc, and extrapolatethem to zero to estimate T_H. For SU(12) we find that T_H/Tc=1.116(9), when we extrapolate with a critical exponentof the three dimensional XY model, which seems to be preferred over a mean field exponent by our data.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, Contributed to 23rd International Symposium on Lattice Field Field: Lattice 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 25-30 Jul 2005
BUILDING STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANS FOR U.S BALLET COMPANIES
Creators: name: Luo, Manxin
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research explores aspects of strategic marketing plans for ballet companies in the United States. By looking at segments of market research, engagement strategies and techniques, resource identification, branding and communications, and marketing strategies during crises and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, this research helps American ballet companies build competitive brands, develop sustainable relationships with diverse audiences and institutions, and navigate complex cultural and political environments. A literature review of ballet, dance, and performing arts marketing provides a theoretical framework for strategic marketing for ballet. Interviews with ten marketing staff of ballet companies and data from trade magazines provide insights of ballet marketing in practice. This research concludes with a systematic list of recommendations of best practices for building strategic marketing plans for U.S ballet companies.
Conditional action and quantum versions of Maxwell's demon
Creators: name: Schmidt, Heinz-Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new way of looking at the quantum Maxwell's demon problem in terms of conditional action. A "conditional action" on a system is a unitary time evolution, selected according to the result of a previous measurement, which can reduce the entropy of the system. However, any conditional action can be realized by an (unconditional) unitary time evolution of a larger system and a subsequent Lüders measurement, whereby the entropy of the entire system is either increased or remains constant. We give some examples that illustrate and confirm our proposal, including the erasure of $N$ qubits and the Szilard engine, thus relating the present approach to the Szilard principle and the Landauer principle that have been discussed as possible solutions of the Maxwell's demon problem.
description: With some additions. To appear in: Foundations of physics
Brachida linsaymontis Pace 2015, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Brachida
Brachida linsaymontis

description: Brachida linsaymontis spec. nov.
(Figs 1, 18)
 Type material: Holotype , Australia, Queensland, NSW Border, Mt. Linsay, 22.IV.1997, leg. Wachtel (CSCÜ).
 Description: Length 3.1 mm. Body shiny, reddish, antennae brown with the four basal antennomeres yellowish-red and eleventh yellow, legs yellowish-red. Eyes longer than the postocular region in dorsal view. Second antennomere shorter than the first one, third shorter than the second one, fourth longer than wide, fifth to eighth as long as wide. Body reticulation absent. Head and pronotum dotting close, delicate and superficial, that of elytra close and very evanescent, that of the abdomen evident and close, more impressed on the free tergites 3 and 4, present only on the basal half of tergite 5. Pronotum with two transverse, posterior, median impressions. Fifth free tergite of the female with lateral sulci. Spermatheca as in Fig. 18.
 Comparative notes: This species is similar to B. callicornis PACE, 2003 from Sidney, but the intermediary antennomeres of the new species are as long as wide (Fig. 1), whereas they are transverse in callicornis. Only the eleventh antennomere is yellow in the new species, while in callicornis the tenth and the eleventh ones are yellow. The proximal portion of the spermatheca of the new species is slightly elongate, while in callicornis is very long.
 Etymology: The name of the new species means “of Linsay mountain”.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2015, New genera and new species of Aleocharinae from Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 327-339 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2) on page 328, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.2.327-339, http://zenodo.org/record/4754013
The Globular Cluster Systems of the Sculptor Group
Creators: name: Olsen, K. A. G.
name: Miller, B. W.
name: Suntzeff, N. B.
name: Schommer, R. A.
name: Bright, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use CTIO 4-m Mosaic II images taken with the Washington $CM$ and Harris $R$ filters to identify candidate globular clusters in the six major galaxies of the Sculptor group: NGC 45, NGC 55, NGC 247, NGC 254, NGC 300, and NGC 7793. From follow-up spectroscopy with Hydra-CTIO, we find 19 new globular clusters in NGC 55, NGC 247, NGC 253, and NGC 300, bringing the total number of known Sculptor group globular clusters to 36. The newly discovered clusters have spectroscopic ages consistent with those of old Milky Way globular clusters, and the majority are metal-poor. Their luminosity function closely resembles that of the Milky Way's globular clusters; their metallicity distribution is somewhat more metal-rich, but this may be the result of our color selection of candidates. The mean [$α$/Fe] ratio in the clusters is $-0.2\pm0.3$, which is lower than the Milky Way average. The specific frequencies $S_N$ are similar to those of other late-type galaxies. However, if we calculate the specific frequency using the $K$-band total magnitudes of the host galaxies, we find values that are more than a factor of two higher. The kinematics of the globular cluster systems are consistent with rotation with the \ion{H}{1} disk in each of the four galaxies; however, only in NGC 253 is this result based on more than seven objects. We suggest that the Sculptor group galaxies add to evidence indicating that many of the first generation globular clusters formed in disks, not halos.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures, 7 Tables. Full Table 3 available electronically at http://www.ctio.noao.edu/~olsen/tab3.tex. To appear in May 2004 issue of the Astronomical Journal
BUILDING STRATEGIC MARKETING PLANS FOR U.S BALLET COMPANIES
Creators: name: Luo, Manxin
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 3604
subject: Performing arts

description: This research explores aspects of strategic marketing plans for ballet companies in the United States. By looking at segments of market research, engagement strategies and techniques, resource identification, branding and communications, and marketing strategies during crises and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, this research helps American ballet companies build competitive brands, develop sustainable relationships with diverse audiences and institutions, and navigate complex cultural and political environments. A literature review of ballet, dance, and performing arts marketing provides a theoretical framework for strategic marketing for ballet. Interviews with ten marketing staff of ballet companies and data from trade magazines provide insights of ballet marketing in practice. This research concludes with a systematic list of recommendations of best practices for building strategic marketing plans for U.S ballet companies.
Exclusive rare B -> K*e+e- decays at low recoil: controlling the long-distance effects
Creators: name: Grinstein, Benjamin
name: Pirjol, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model-independent description of the exclusive rare decays B-> K* e+e- in the low recoil region (large lepton invariant mass q^2 ~ m_b^2). In this region the long-distance effects from quark loops can be computed with the help of an operator product expansion in 1/Q, with Q={m_b, \sqrt{q^2}}. Nonperturbative effects up to and including terms suppressed by Lambda/Q and mc^2/mb^2 relative to the short-distance amplitude can be included in a model-independent way. Based on these results, we propose an improved method for determining the CKM matrix element |V{ub}| from a combination of rare and semileptonic B and D decays near the zero recoil point. The residual theoretical uncertainty from long distance effects in this |V{ub}| determination comes from terms in the OPE of order alpha_s(Q)Λ/mb, alpha_s^2(Q), mc^4/mb^4$ and duality violations and is estimated to be below 10%.
description: 21 pages RevTex, 2 figures; v3: extensive numerical changes in the NLL analysis, with improved stability under scale dependence. Typos fixed, version to appear in Phys.Rev.D
Time Resolved Multivariate Pattern Analysis for Infant EEG Data
Creators: name: Ashton, Kira
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Time-resolved multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA), a technique for analyzing magneto- and electro-encephalography (M/EEG) data, quantifies the extent and timecourse of neural representations that support the discrimination of stimuli. Because MVPA is yet to be widely applied in infant research, there is a need to develop best practices that account for the limitations of infant neuroimaging (i.e., limited data, noise). We assessed MVPA analysis approaches with infant EEG data, including manipulating trials per stimulus, and preprocessing procedures. MVPA was performed to examine the timecourse of infants’ neural representations supporting image discrimination, resulting in significantly distinct neural representations for the images against a chance level of 50%, as well as an empirical chance generated by repeated permutation of the data. Geometric and accuracy-based Representational Dissimilarity Matrices (RDMs) were additionally generated to characterize the space of neural representations. In this work we investigate best practices for MVPA with infant EEG such as preprocessing, determining valid trial thresholds, and classification algorithms, and outline issues when there are deviations from these recommendations.
Minimal Flavour Violation
Creators: name: Buras, Andrzej J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These lectures give a description of models with minimal flavour violation (MFV) that can be tested in $B$ and $K$ meson decays. This class of models can be formulated to a very good approximation in terms of 11 parameters: 4 parameters of the CKM matrix and 7 values of the {\it universal} master functions $F_r$ that parametrize the short distance contributions. In a given MFV model, $F_r$ can be calculated in perturbation theory and are generally correlated with each other but in a model independent analysis they must be considered as free parameters. We conjecture that only 5 or even only 4 of these functions receive significant new physics contributions. We summarize the status of the CKM matrix, outline strategies for the determination of the values of $F_r$ and present a number of relations between physical observables that do not depend on $F_r$ at all. We emphasize that the formulation of MFV in terms of master functions allows to study transparently correlations between $B$ and $K$ decays which is very difficult if Wilson coefficients normalized at low energy scales are used instead. We discuss briefly a specific MFV model: the Standard Model with one universal large extra dimension.
description: Zakopane lectures 2003, Main latex-file, 8 figures, 54 pages