cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The contribution of indigenous peoples' ecosystem management to climate change mitigation actions
Creators: name: Authried, Oliver
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Indigenous knowledge
subject: climate regime
subject: low carbon lifestyle
subject: ecosystem management

description: Indigenous Knowledge has received increased attention during the last decades. This study explores the current application of indigenous knowledge in environmental management systems which would improve climate change mitigation actions The difficulty in finding appropriate ways on how to integrate indigenous knowledge has been addressed because of the participatory rights that were guaranteed in many international environmental agreements since 1992. 1992 is a key date for climate change mitigation action thank to the Earth summit where all UN member states agreed to comprehensively address environmental issues in an international agreement. Subsequent agreements have seen the integration of indigenous peoples in mostly conservation policies. Further progress has been made for the evaluation of the rights of indigenous peoples, both on the national and international level. However, their science has long been underestimated. Since 2004, after the devastating tsunami in South East Asia, the interest in the actual content of Indigenous knowledge is rising. Areas, where indigenous knowledge seems to be superior to any other management are in forest conservation. Thanks to increased efforts in reducing carbon emissions, a field where tropical rainforest were identified as one of the key resources to protect, indigenous peoples provide states with effective strategies to avoid deforestation. Their potential is not limited to forest conservation only. Agricultural practices very often proved to be much more suited towards certain environments but more importantly - adaptable to changing climate conditions. As such, indigenous knowledge, which is inherently connected to a specific area and its people, shows a dynamic system to prepare adaption strategies and help mitigating climate change when their rights are ensured. Legal aspects of indigenous knowledge are mentioned where needed, the focus was the integration and combination of scientific methods with indigenous knowledge systems. Thus, the comparison of five exemplary projects in South America and Africa is a means to give insight into the various techniques of indigenous peoples worldwide. Despite promising results those projects show, the need for improving the legal situation worldwide remains. Moreover, science and Indigenous knowledge work complementary, yet too often disregard each other.
The role of elastomeric network chains in the mechanics of spider silks
Creators: name: Savage, Kenneth Neal
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Orb-weaving spiders produce capture-webs from two mechanically distinct silk types, major ampullate silk (MA) and flagelliform silk (FL), constructed from proteins with a block-copolymer structure consisting of crystal-forming domains and glycine-rich domains. These fibroins form polymer networks crosslinked by β-sheet crystals, with network chains formed by the glycine-rich domains. There are two major variables in the design of the network chains: in MA silks the network chains can be proline-rich or proline-deficient, and in FL silks there is a 3 to 4-fold difference in chain length. When dry, the network chains are stiff due to inter- and intra-chain hydrogen bonds. Hydration disrupts these hydrogen bonds, and the silk swells, in a process termed supercontraction, and becomes rubber-like. When tethered in the web, supercontraction causes significant stress to develop within the fibre. We compare MA silks from Argiope (proline-rich) and Nephila (proline-deficient) and demonstrate that both silks can withstand the stresses developed during supercontraction. We conclude that hydrated silks can be used to study the functional design of silk fibroins. Mechanical and optical tests on dry and supercontracted MA silks from Araneus (proline-rich) and Nephila (proline-deficient) reveal that the silks are mechanically indistinguishable in the dry state, but are dramatically different the hydrated state. In Araneus the network chains are kinetically-free and amorphous in the hydrated state, but there is semi-crystalline structure in Nephila’s network chains. Thermoelastic measurements on hydrated silks reveal that Araneus MA and FL silks exhibit rubber-like, entropic elasticity, consistent with networks of random, amorphous chains. The elasticity of hydrated Nephila MA silk is largely due to bond energy elasticity, associated with the deformation of stable secondary structures. Although the entropic-elastic mechanism in the proline-rich Araneus MA and FL silks is consistent with a network of kinetically-free, random chains, it does not exclude the possibility that β-spirals provide an alternative molecular mechanism. Mechanical tests on FL silks with different network chain lengths, however, reject the β-spiral as a model for the elasticity of hydrated spider silks. These results indicate the importance of fibroin sequence design in determining the material properties of spider silks.
title: Unemployment and non-participation : history dependence in job finding probabilities
Creators: name: Bardóczy, Bence András
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: job finding
subject: history
subject: worker heterogeneity
subject: non-participation
subject: multilevel Bayes

description: I use a novel empirical approach to study heterogeneities in labor market flows in the U.S. Using data on short-term labor force history, I develop Bayesian logit models that capture large variations in the job finding probabilities not only of the unemployed but of the non-participants, as well. A decomposition of these variations by time periods suggest that recent employment has a bigger impact on current job finding probabilities than contemporaneous search behavior. Furthermore, I document that among prime age men, non-participants are almost as likely to start working as active job-seekers. The gap narrows even further in recessions, for the job finding probability of the unemployed-looking tends to fall disproportionately.
title: Defining Scaffolding In The Context Of Specific Learning Difficulties
Creators: name: Middleton, Vireen
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: This study is an investigation of the ways in which teachers in a special school for children with specific learning difficulties support the learning of children in this context. This thesis questioned the utility of the 'scaffolding' metaphor in the context of Specific Learning Difficulties and sought to redefine the metaphor for the teaching of atypical children. This was because of the nature of learning difficulties. A second aim of the study was to determine whether there were qualitative differences in the teaching strategies employed in Mathematics and Guided Writing lessons during 'Speaking and Listening' when novel tasks were introduced. Observations were carried out during eight Mathematics lessons and five Guided Writing lessons. Although the metaphor that best captures a sense of shared competence and permanent support at a basic level remains open to discussion, this research has succeeded in highlighting some ways in which teachers engage children and foster learning effectively. Qualitative analysis of the data revealed that teachers supported children in these contexts by 'creating an effective learning environment'. This was achieved in three main ways: the mutual construction of knowledge, the negotiation of failure and teacher mediation of the learning environment. Differences in teaching approaches did emerge between Mathematics and Guided Writing lessons. In both curricular areas there were examples of all three forms of support but important differences emerged in their nature. The implications of these results for theory and practice are discussed.
Flooding of regular islands by chaotic states
Creators: name: Bäcker, A.
name: Ketzmerick, R.
name: Monastra, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a criterion for the existence of regular states in systems with a mixed phase space. If this condition is not fulfilled chaotic eigenstates substantially extend into a regular island. Wave packets started in the chaotic sea progressively flood the island. The extent of flooding by eigenstates and wave packets increases logarithmically with the size of the chaotic sea and the time, respectively. This new effect can be observed for island chains with just 10 islands.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Pre-Greek-Caucasian Hypothesis at the Modern Stage of Research
Creators: name: Gordeziani, Rismag
Publisher: name: PHASIS
Year: 2015

description: Linguistic correspondences between the Kartvelian languages and Pre-Greek are demonstrated at the phonological, morphological and lexical levels, which have a systematic character. Three types of lexical correspondences are discussed: A. Pre-Greek formatives made from Kartvelian stems and affixes show close semantic affinity with their Kartvelian counterparts; B. Kartvelian stems and affixes make up words that are formally identical with the Pre-Greek formatives, but the semantic correspondence is somewhat remote; and C. Kartvelian stems partly preserved their meaning in Pre-Greek but are subject to semantic transformation, generating terms that have no analogy in Kartvelian.
description: PHASIS, No. 18 (2015)
Entanglement generation using a controlled-phase gate for time-bin qubits
Creators: name: Lo, Hsin-Pin
name: Ikuta, Takuya
name: Matsuda, Nobuyuki
name: Honjo, Toshimori
name: Takesue, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum logic gates are important for quantum computations and quantum information processing in numerous physical systems. While time-bin qubits are suited for quantum communications over optical fiber, many essential quantum logic gates for them have not yet been realized. Here, we demonstrated a controlled-phase (C-Phase) gate for time-bin qubits that uses a 2x2 optical switch based on an electro-optic modulator. A Hong-Ou-Mandel interference measurement showed that the switch could work as a time-dependent beam splitter with a variable spitting ratio. We confirmed that two independent time-bin qubits were entangled as a result of the C-Phase gate operation with the switch.
Формування конкурентної стратегії підприємств аграрного сектора на зовнішньому ринку
Formation of competitive strategy of enterprises of the agricultural sector in foreign market
Creators: name: Dyyak, V.
name: Lyashenko, O.
name: Dyyak, V.
name: Lyashenko, O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: enterprise
subject: the agricultural sector
subject: the external market
subject: competitiveness
subject: development strategy
subject: competitive strategy

description: The article examines the process of forming competitive strategy for enterprises of the agricultural sector and the main ways to improve the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises in foreign market. Detected that the entire activity of the enterprises of the agricultural sector must be based on accurate and verified knowledge of the needs of the target market and consumer demand, evaluating and taking into account production conditions in the nearest time and for the future. Emphasized that the effectiveness of functional strategies depends on well-formed and implemented in practical activity of operational strategies which means strategies for the narrow principal divisions of enterprises of the agricultural sector, which is not independent. In the article allotted the main directions of improving the competitiveness of enterprises of agrarian sector in entering the foreign markets and the main types of strategies of enterprises and lists the stages of development and implementation of competitive strategies of enterprises of the agricultural sector in the foreign market.
TA'LIM DARAJASI VA MAOSHLAR O'RTASIDAGI BOG'LIQLIK: EKONOMETRIK TAHLIL
Creators: name: Rahmonqulova, Komila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu tadqiqot ta’lim darajasi va maoshlar o‘rtasidagi bog‘liqlikni baholashga qaratilgan. Tadqiqotda 10,000 nafardan ortiq respondentlarning ta'lim yillari va oylik daromadlari o'rganildi va oddiy ko‘p o‘zgaruvchili regressiya modeli qo‘llanildi. Natijalar ta'lim yillari va oylik daromadlar o‘rtasida sezilarli bog‘liqlik borligini ko‘rsatdi: har bir qo‘shimcha ta’lim yili ish haqi o‘rtacha 6,8% ga oshishiga olib keladi. Ushbu maqola ta’limga sarmoya qilishning iqtisodiy natijalarini muhokama qiladi va ta’lim siyosatiga oid tavsiyalar beradi.
QCD Down Under: Building Bridges
Creators: name: Pennington, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong coupling regime of QCD is responsible for 99% of hadronic phenomena. Though considerable progress has been made in solving QCD in this non-perturbative region, we nevertheless have to rely on a disparate range of models and approximations. If we are to gain an understanding of the underlying physics and not just have numerical answers from computing `` black'' boxes, we must build bridges between the parameter space where models and approximations are valid to the regime describing experiment, and between the different modellings of strong dynamics. We describe here how the Schwinger-Dyson/Bethe-Salpeter approach provides just such a bridge, linking physics, the lattice and experiment.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures. Opening talk at Workshop on QCD Down Under, March 2004, Barossa Valley and Adelaide (to be published in the Proceedings)
Удосконалення методологічних засад управління конкурентоспроможністю підприємства в умовах кризи
The improving of methodological principles of enterprise competitiveness management under the crisis
Creators: name: Dyadyuk, М.
name: Dyadyuk, М.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: microeconomic policy
subject: firm behavior
subject: business economics
subject: competition
subject: firms
subject: crisis
subject: adaptation

description: The purpose of this research is methodological bases improving and forming of practical tools for enterprise competitiveness management under the crisis. The specific features of the competitive environment of enterprises in Ukraine under the global and national crisis are researched in the article. From this it is concluded that any enterprise must have a greater degree of flexibility than in periods of stability or economic growth for obtaining and maintaining of competitive advantages in the current period of global instability. Flexibility and adaptability of the economic system is the main prerequisite for obtaining and developing of enterprise competitive advantages and stem component of competitiveness. We identified and characterized the methodological components of adaptive management process on the base of systematic approach and with taking into account views of scientists. The obtained scientific results are the basis for conceptual model of integrated system of enterprise adaptive management in terms of dynamic and uncertainty environment. We propose to implement this kind of control on three levels: strategic (preventive) management, functionality (tactical) management and operational (symptomatic) management on the base of analyzing economically grounded views and existing positions. It all together will ensure effective adaptation at the macroeconomic, meso and micro levels of management. The main purpose of the proposed integrated management system is ensuring the stability and integrity of enterprises activity in terms of variability and uncertainty of the environment. The implementation of such management system provides the enterprise with certain competitive advantages. It will allow to Ukrainian enterprises maintaining the competitive position in unfavorable external conditions, but also maintaining and improving the competitiveness.
Érasme et l'Antiquité: de l'usage des Adages dans sa Paraphrase sur Matthieu
Creators: name: Cottier, Jean-François
Publisher: name: PHASIS
Year: 2015

description: This paper discusses one feature of Erasmus’ use of the Latin language by demonstrating how the humanist relied upon his own Adagia, a nearly endless sum of classical sayings that mirrored their author’s “farsighted” approach to Antiquity when composing the Paraphrases. Evidence drawn from the Paraphrase of the Gospel of Matthew sheds light on this particular approach. Having illustrated (I) the relation between Erasmus’ Paraphrases and those of his classical and avowed forerunners (Themistius and Juvencus), and having discussed (II) their author's poiesis in rewriting and glossing the Gospel, this paper provides (III) an in-depth analysis of nine Adagia quoted in the Par. in Mt. According to my reading, those would have been put to four different uses: (A) simple direct use; (B) amplified direct use;(C) indirect use; and (D) amplified indirect use. Thus, this analysis – that should be applied to the whole of the Paraphrases – allows us to see that Erasmus did not treat the Adagia as fixed locutiones that would impede further Latin composition, but as a treasure of sentences and literary images readily available to all writers in order to lift their spirits and their works. Additionally the analysis shows the tight bound rhetoric that links the Adagia and the Paraphrases, sharing the same educational goal: translating (following the Latin meaning of transducere) the pagan and Christian classical culture for the benefit of the humanist dream of a universal, evangelical and Latin Christendom.
description: PHASIS, No. 18 (2015)
title: Tradeoffs May Counteract Effects of Telecommunication Towers on Osprey Nesting
Creators: name: Barnes, Gage R.
name: Slankard, Kate G.
name: Hewlett, John B.
name: Darracq, Andrea K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: The number of telecommunication towers (TCTs) throughout the United States has and continues to increase exponentially. Increased TCT placement has been implicated in local population increases in platform nesting birds such as ospreys (Pandion haliaetus). However, osprey use of artificial structures can cause conflicts with humans because of economic costs and risks to human safety. Managers require better information regarding the effect of artificial nesting surfaces, such as TCTS, on osprey reproduction to make informed decisions regarding species conservation and to mitigate potential conflicts. The objective of our study was to evaluate the influence of TCTs on osprey productivity and adult nesting behaviors. From March to July 2019, we monitored 30 osprey nests located in western Kentucky, USA, on TCTs (n = 11), navigation channel markers (NCMs; n = 10), and natural surfaces (NATs; n = 9). We found no differences in nest success, productivity, or the proportion of male ospreys perched at the nest between surface types. Nests on NCMs received 1.9–2.1 times more fish than nests on NATs and TCTs, respectively. Moreover, NCMs experienced 5.4–8.0 times more disturbances per hour compared to NATs and TCTs, respectively. Our data suggest ospreys nesting on TCTs are productive contributors to local populations. We recommend deterrence of osprey nesting should be focused on locations that are unsafe for ospreys and/or pose insurmountable problems for communication infrastructure.
Nanosecond protein dynamics in a red/green Cyanobacteriochrome revealed by transient IR spectroscopy
Creators: name: Buhrke, David
name: Oppelt, Kerstin T.
name: Heckmeier, Philipp J.
name: Fernandez-Teran, Ricardo
name: Hamm, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the last decades, photoreceptive proteins were extensively studied with biophysical methods to gain a fundamental understanding of their working mechanisms and further guide the development of optogenetic tools from them. Time-resolved infrared (IR) spectroscopy is one of the key methods to access their functional non-equilibrium processes with high temporal resolution, but has the major drawback that experimental data is usually highly complex. Linking the spectral response to specific molecular events is a major obstacle. Here, we investigate a cyanobacteriochrome (CBCR) photoreceptor with a combined approach of transient absorption spectroscopy in the Visible and IR spectral regions. We obtain kinetic information in both spectral regions by analysis with two different fitting methods, global multiexponential fitting and lifetime analysis. We investigate the ground state dynamics that follow photoexcitation in both directions of the bi-stable photocycle (Pr* and Pg*) in the nanosecond and microsecond time regime. We find two ground state intermediates associated with the decay of Pr* and four with Pg* and report the macroscopic time constants of their interconversions. One of these processes is assigned to a structural change in the protein backbone. At later delay times, the spectroscopic responses are stretched out in time, an effect that can be better described by the lifetime analysis than the global fit. We ascribe it to the intrinsic ruggedness of the free energy landscape of proteins.
description: regular article 12 pages 7 figures and 2 tables
Lattice artefacts in SU(3) lattice gauge theory with a mixed fundamental and adjoint plaquette action
Creators: name: Hasenbusch, Martin
name: Necco, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated SU(3) lattice gauge theory with a fundamental and adjoint plaquette term in the action. The purpose is to test whether the choice of a negative adjoint coupling can reduce lattice artefacts and improve the scaling b ehaviour. To this end, we have studied the finite temperature phase transition, the static potential and the mass of the 0^{++} glueball. We found that indeed the lattice artefacts in e.g. m_{0^{++}}/T_c can be reduced considerably compared with the pure Wilson (fundamental) gauge action at the same lattice spacing.
description: Talk presented at Lattice2004 (improved) Fermilab, June 21-26, 2004
The Carnegie Supernova Project II. Observations of the intermediate luminosity red transient SNhunt120
Creators: name: Stritzinger, M. D.
name: Taddia, F.
name: Fraser, M.
name: Tauris, T. M.
name: Suntzeff, N. B.
name: Contreras, C.
name: Drybye, S
name: Galbany, L.
name: Holmbo, S.
name: Morrell, N.
name: Phillips, M. M.
name: Prieto, J. L.
name: Anais, J.
name: Ashall, C.
name: Baron, E.
name: Burns, C. R.
name: Hoeflich, P.
name: Hsiao, E. Y.
name: Karamehmetoglu, E.
name: Moriya, T. J.
name: Botticella, M. T.
name: Campillay, A.
name: Castellon, S.
name: Gonzalez, C.
name: Pumo, M. L.
name: Torres-Robledo, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present multi-wavelength observations of two gap transients followed by the Carnegie Supernova Project-II and supplemented with data obtained by a number of different programs. Here in the first of two papers, we focus on the intermediate luminosity red transient (ILRT) designated SNhunt120, while in a companion paper we examine the luminous red novae AT 2014ej. Our data set for SNhunt120 consists of an early optical discovery, estimated to be within 3 days after outburst, the subsequent optical and near-infrared broadband followup extending over a $\sim$2 month period, two visual- and two near-infrared wavelength spectra, and Spitzer Space Telescope observations extending from early ($+$28 d) to late ($+$1155 d) phases. SNhunt120 resembles other ILRTs such as NGC 300-2008-OT and SN 2008S, and like these other ILRTs, SNhunt120 exhibits prevalent mid-infrared emission at both early and late phases. From the comparison of SNhunt120 and other ILRTs to electron-capture supernova simulations, we find that the current models underestimate the explosion kinetic energy and thereby produce synthetic light curves that over-estimate the luminosity. Finally, examination of pre-outburst Hubble Space Telescope images yields no progenitor detection.
description: Paper 1 of a series of 2. Eight pages of text, 14 figures, and 10 tables. Replaced to match the version published on A&A
Exact supersymmetry on the lattice: the Wess-Zumino model
Creators: name: Bonini, Marisa
name: Feo, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the lattice Wess-Zumino model written in terms of Ginsparg-Wilson fermions is invariant under a generalized supersymmetry transformation which is determined by an iterative procedure in the coupling constant. This transformation is non-linear in the scalar fields and depends on the superpotential parameters. The implications of this lattice invariance are discussed.
description: 3 pages, Lattice2004(theory), Fermilab, June 21-26, 2004
Doctrinal Traditions and Cultural Heritage in the Newly Discovered Homilies of Origen on the Psalms
Creators: name: Perrone, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: PHASIS
Year: 2015

description: The 29 Homilies of Origen on the Psalms discovered in 2012 by Marina Molin Pradel in a Munich Codex (Cod. Graec. 314) constitute an unexpected and very important source for retracing the doctrinal traditions and the cultural heritage that support the Alexandrian’s biblical interpretation. The article first investigates the presence of Philo, much more discernible than the doctrinal influence of other Alexandrian predecessors such as Clement. Origen occasionally pays homage to Philo and reuses independently his exegeses. Further, as far as the Hellenistic culture of Alexandria is concerned, the Homilies reveal its influence under several aspects, especially with regard to music and astronomy. Scholarly notions concur to elaborate a vision of the cosmos which is now considered by Origen more fundamentally as a source for attaining the knowledge of God next to the witness of the Scriptures. Since the homilies are to be dated in the final period of Origen’s activity, we are allowed to see in them a new emphasis, probably dictated by the preacher’s concerns regarding the Marcionite criticism of the Old Testament.
description: PHASIS, No. 18 (2015)
KIT’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation systems for IWSLT 2017
Creators: name: Pham, Ngoc-Quan
name: Salesky, Elizabeth
name: Ha, Thanh-Le
name: Niehues, Jan
name: Waibel, Alexander
name: Sperber, Matthias
Publisher: name: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Year: 2017

description: In this paper, we present KIT’s multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) systems for the IWSLT 2017 evaluation campaign machine translation (MT) and spoken language translation (SLT) tasks. For our MT task submissions, we used our multi-task system, modified from a standard attentional neural machine translation framework, instead of building 20 individual NMT systems. We investigated different architectures as well as different data corpora in training such a multilingual system. We also suggested an effective adaptation scheme for multilingual systems which brings great improvements compared to monolingual systems. For the SLT track, in addition to a monolingual neural translation system used to generate correct punctuations and true cases of the data prior to training our multilingual system, we introduced a noise model in order to make our system more robust. Results show that our novel modifications improved our systems considerably on all tasks.
An empirical investigation of the effects of managerial and ownership structure on the efficiency of North America’s airports
Creators: name: Beaudoin, Justin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Over the past several decades, the worldwide trend for airport ownership and management has been a gradual movement towards privatization and away from direct governmental management of airport operations. However, several factors have contributed to privatization not being adopted in North America up to this point. Instead, there has been a movement towards quasi-privatization in the form of not-for-profitlnon-share airport authorities. The principal objectives of establishing the authorities are three-fold: 1. To increase operational efficiency 2. To increase the commercialization of airports and become more responsive to user needs 3. To ensure financial self-sustainability of operations The objective of this paper will be to examine whether there is empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that the airport authority structure achieves these objectives. The airport industry in North America is characterized by four different managerial structures: Canadian airport authorities, US airport authorities, US city-run airports, and US port-run airports. After discussing the nature of the different managerial structures, 5 measures of productivity and efficiency are employed: 1. Variable Factor Productivity 2. Data Envelopment Analysis 3. Stochastic Frontier Analysis 4. Unit Cost Index 5. Operating Expense per Passenger The analysis is based on a set of panel data covering 72 airports over the 10-year period from 1996-2005. The efficiency measures obtained are then adjusted for operational factors deemed to be beyond managerial control, in order to obtain an indication of managerial efficiency. Multivariate regression analysis is then undertaken to assess whether efficiency varies according to managerial structure. This study found that there is strong evidence that the authority structure achieves higher operating efficiency, a greater degree of commercialization, and is characterized by more proactive management. It is highly likely that gains in efficiency in the United States could be achieved by a further movement away from city-managed airports towards the airport authority form.
title: Εργανομική μελέτη στο τμήμα συσκευασίας φαρμακοβιομηχανίας
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mpalantinoy, Athina E.
Publisher: name: National Technological University of Athens
Year: 2011
Subjects: Εργονομία
Ασφάλεια
Υγιεινή
Φαρμακοβιομηχανία
Συσκευασία
Ergonomy
Health
Safety
Pharmaceutical industry
Packaging

description: 173 σ.
description: Εργονομική μελέτη και εκτίμηση επικινδυνότητας στο τμήμα συσκευασίας γνωστής φαρμακοβιομηχανίας.
description: Ergonomic case study in packaging at a pharmaceutical industry.
Менеджмент логістичних систем підприємств АПК
Management of logistic systems agrarian enterprises
Creators: name: Kolodiichuk, V.
name: Kolodiichuk, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: management
subject: factors
subject: backlogs
subject: logistic system
subject: agrarian enterprise
subject: efficiency

description: The most reserve containing directions of logistic systems’ and mechanism of exposure and maximal backlogs using as potential possibilities to improve end-points are determined. Classification of influence factors on efficiency of the logistic systems’ functioning in agrarian enterprises into intra- and external system is offered, and actually from management position of this system – managed and out of control. Distribution of intra-system factors on organizationally-structural, functionally-economic and social consumer is found; external system influence factors on efficiency of functioning agricultural enterprises – degree of agrarian complex integrating into the world logistic systems, the level of infrastructural providing AIC development and parameters of effective demand on these agrarian complex products.
On the formulation of SPDEs leading to local, relativistic QFTs with indefinite metric and nontrivial S-matrix
Creators: name: Albeverio, S.
name: Gottschalk, H.
name: Wu, J. -L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T10; 81T05

description: We discuss Euclidean covariant vector random fields as the solution of stochastic partial differential equations of the form $DA=η$, where $D$ is a covariant (w.r.t. a representation τof $SO(d)$) differential operator with "positive mass spectrum" and $η$ is a non-Gaussian white noise. We obtain explicit formulae for the Fourier transformed truncated Wightman functions, using the analytic continuation of Schwinger functions discussed by Becker, Gielerak and Lugewicz. Based on these formulae we give necessary and sufficient conditions on the mass spectrum of $D$ which imply nontrivial scattering behaviour of relativistic quantum vector fields associated to the given sequence of Wightman functions. We compute the scattering amplitudes explicitly and we find that the masses of particles in the obtained theory are determined by the mass spectrum of $D$.
Mathematica codes.pdf
Creators: name: Zhao, Ya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 20501 Classical and Physical Optics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: the PDF includes the codes to calculate tilt-to-length noise coupled by
wavefront errors in the interfering beams with
two phase definitions
Correction-to-scaling exponents for two-dimensional self-avoiding walks
Creators: name: Caracciolo, Sergio
name: Guttmann, Anthony J.
name: Jensen, Iwan
name: Pelissetto, Andrea
name: Rogers, Andrew N.
name: Sokal, Alan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the correction-to-scaling exponents for the two-dimensional self-avoiding walk, using a combination of series-extrapolation and Monte Carlo methods. We enumerate all self-avoiding walks up to 59 steps on the square lattice, and up to 40 steps on the triangular lattice, measuring the mean-square end-to-end distance, the mean-square radius of gyration and the mean-square distance of a monomer from the endpoints. The complete endpoint distribution is also calculated for self-avoiding walks up to 32 steps (square) and up to 22 steps (triangular). We also generate self-avoiding walks on the square lattice by Monte Carlo, using the pivot algorithm, obtaining the mean-square radii to ~0.01% accuracy up to N = 4000. We give compelling evidence that the first non-analytic correction term for two-dimensional self-avoiding walks is Delta_1 = 3/2. We compute several moments of the endpoint distribution function, finding good agreement with the field-theoretic predictions. Finally, we study a particular invariant ratio that can be shown, by conformal-field-theory arguments, to vanish asymptotically, and we find the cancellation of the leading analytic correction.
description: LaTeX 2.09, 56 pages. Version 2 adds a renormalization-group discussion near the end of Section 2.2, and makes many small improvements in the exposition. To be published in the Journal of Statistical Physics
Hydrocortisone, Ascorbic Acid, and Thiamine (HAT Triple Therapy) for adult patients with sepsis or septic shock: A protocol of systematic review, meta-analysis, trial sequential meta-analysis, meta-regression, and GRADE
Creators: name: Huang, Yen Ta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology

description: To study the treatment effect of Hydrocortisone, Ascorbic Acid, and Thiamine (HAT Triple Therapy) compared to standard therapy of adult patients with sepsis or septic shock.
Controllable vortex shedding from dissipative exchange flows in ferromagnetic channels
Creators: name: Iacocca, Ezio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ferromagnetic channels subject to spin injection at one extremum sustain long-range coherent textures that carry spin currents known as dissipative exchange flows (DEFs). In the weak injection regime, spin currents carried by DEFs decay algebraically and extend through the length of the channel, a regime known as spin superfluidity. Similar to fluids, these structures are prone to phase-slips that manifest as vortex-antivortex pairs. Here, we numerically study vortex shedding from DEFs excited in a magnetic nanowire with a physical obstacle. Using micromagnetic simulations, we find regimes of laminar flow and vortex shedding as a function of obstacle position tunable by the and spin injection sign and magnitude. Vortex-antivortex pairs translate forward (VF regime) or backward (VB regime) with respect to the detector's extremum, resulting in well-defined spectral features. Qualitatively similar results are obtained when temperature, anisotropy, and weak non-local dipole fields are included in the simulations. These results provide clear features associated with DEFs that may be detected experimentally in devices with nominally identical boundary conditions. Furthermore, our results suggest that obstacles can be considered as DEF control gates, opening an avenue to manipulate DEFs via physical defects.
Application of Set Intersecting Graph in Number Theory
Creators: name: Haoyu Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, we offer evidence for a fascinating equation found in number theory, where the unanticipated usage of set intersection graphs demonstrates its practicality. Set intersection graphs are graphs formed from sets, with nodes representing sets and edges indicating a non-empty intersection between two sets. More specifically, we illustrate that the expression 3^n - 2^(n+1) + 1 is consistently an even number.
Menschen reisen zu den Göttern, Götter reisen zu den Menschen: Religio migrans in Abonuteichos und am Schwarzen Meer
Creators: name: Auffarth, Christoph
Publisher: name: PHASIS
Year: 2015

description: Three forms of religio migrans (religion on the move) are addressed in this paper: 1. When people migrate to far-off lands, they take their gods with them (‘Gods join migrant people on their journey’). 2. In their new abodes migrant people will confer an allotted place to their gods to dwell together with them; both will integrate into the neighborhood (religio translata). 3. People travel to the gods. Of the three, the third is treated most in-depth. As a point of departure the essay begins with the founding of a new cult in the Roman Empire on the southern coast of the Black Sea: the cult of the New Asklepios Glykon. Taking the narrative of Lucian as part of a persecution speech, it can be seen as a historical source that fits well in the religious history of the mid-2nd century AD. 1) illustrating the spread of the cult in the region of the southwestern coast of the Black Sea and 2) understood as a result of the cult’s attractiveness for the people from the region, who travelled to a god at the heart of a healing and oracle cult and a great festival. I continue to develop the systematic analysis of religio migrans further in respect to 3) religious tourism, pilgrimage, the attractiveness of even remote localities, language diversity, etc. within the framework of religion during the Roman Empire.
description: PHASIS, No. 18 (2015)
The Carnegie Supernova Project II. Observations of the luminous red nova AT 2014ej
Creators: name: Stritzinger, M. D.
name: Taddia, F.
name: Fraser, M.
name: Tauris, T. M.
name: Contreras, C.
name: Drybye, S
name: Galbany, L.
name: Holmbo, S.
name: Morrell, N.
name: Pastorello, A.
name: Phillips, M. M.
name: Pignata, G.
name: Tartaglia, L.
name: Suntzeff, N. B.
name: Anais, J.
name: Ashall, C.
name: Baron, E.
name: Burns, C. R.
name: Hoeflich, P.
name: Hsiao, E. Y.
name: Karamehmetoglu, E.
name: Moriya, T. J.
name: Bock, G.
name: Campillay, A.
name: Castellon, S.
name: Inserra, C.
name: Gonzalez, C.
name: Marples, P.
name: Parker, S.
name: Reichart, D.
name: Torres-Robledo, S.
name: Young, D. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical and near-infrared broadband photometry and optical spectra of AT 2014ej from the the Carnegie Supernova Project-II. These observations are complemented with data from the CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects, and from the Backyard Observatory Supernova Search. Observational signatures of AT 2014ej reveal that it is similar to other members of the gap-transient subclass known as luminous red novae (LRNe), including the ubiquitous double hump light curve and spectral properties akin to the LRN SN 2017jfs. A medium-dispersion, visual-wavelength spectrum of AT 2014ej taken the Magellan Clay telescope, exhibits a P Cygni H$α$ feature characterized by a blue velocity at zero intensity of $\approx 110$ km s$^{-1}$ and a P Cygni minimum velocity of $\approx70$ km s$^{-1}$, and which we attribute to emission from a circumstellar wind. Inspection of pre-outbust Hubble Space Telescope images yields no conclusive progenitor detection. In comparison with a sample of LRNe from the literature, AT 2014ej lies among the brighter end of the luminosity distribution. Comparison of the ultra-violet, optical, infrared (UVOIR) light curves of well-observed LRNe to common-envelope evolution models from the literature, indicates the models under predict the luminosity of the comparison sample at all phases and also produce inconsistent time-scales of the secondary peak. Future efforts to model LRNe should expand upon the current parameter space explored and therefore may consider more massive systems and a wider range of dynamical timescales.
description: Paper 2 of a series of 2 papers. Replaced to match the version published on A&A. 8 pages of text, 15 figures, 10 tables
title: Comparing the agricultural development of Mexico to selected Latin American countries between 1994 and 2015 by developing indicators of a Sustainable Agriculture Index
Creators: name: Butzenlechner, Lisa
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sustainability Assessment
subject: Agriculture
subject: Free Trade Agreement
subject: Latin America
subject: Mexico
subject: Indicators

description: The Mexican agriculture is often taken as an example for adverse consequences of a free trade agreement such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Nevertheless, for a holistic assessment of the consequences of such an agreement on the sustainable development of the agricultural sector, one hast to look at economic, social and ecological aspects. Hence, this thesis develops a framework to compare the agricultural development of five Latin American countries over a time period of the past 20 years. The countries were chosen based on similar economic parameters in 1994, i.e. Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Panama. National data for the quantitative empirical analysis have been taken from international organizations including the FAO and the World Bank Group. The quantitative method includes a scheme for normalization, aggregation and weighting for eight indicators in three sub-indices (economic, social and ecological) and one overall Sustainable Agriculture Index (SAI), which is developed based on literature on agricultural and non-agricultural Sustainability Assessments. With help of this framework, the development of the agricultural sector in the five LA countries is assessed and shows - in comparison to the other countries - a recent downward trend for Mexico. This is mainly due to low scores in the social dimension because of high rural poverty rates. For the ecological dimension, rather good scores are computed for Mexico, which were only better for Brazil. The economic scores showed a decline for most countries, except for Cuba and Brazil having a rather stable development. The values and scores observed are compared to literature and reports on the agricultural development in Latin American countries. Consequences of the liberalization process and structural change, which culminated in the adoption of NAFTA, are reflected in the results of the Sustainable Agriculture Index.
Розвиток гірських територій: вітчизняний і зарубіжний контекст
Development of the mountain areas: domestic and foreign context
Creators: name: Kolodiichuk, І.
name: Kolodiichuk, І.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: development management system
subject: mountain areas
subject: management subjects
subject: development incitement of the mountainous areas
subject: state support
subject: partnership tools

description: It was specified that the current system of the development incitement of the mountainous and other problematic areas in Ukraine has a narrow set of promotion means. It was proved that the important issue is the formation of a functioning system of the mountain areas development, which would allow to build a structured, stable economy within them. It was determined the main shortcomings of the domestic institutional management system for the mountain areas development. It was defined the efficiency of the system for the ability to realize strategic objectives of management, to ensure the effectiveness of the mountain regions management, the appropriate level of filling the budget and ensure the preservation of natural resources. Special attention was paid to the problems of mountain areas in Europe. We consider a number of tools to stimulate economic activity in the mountainous regions of Europe. For the results of the study we formulated the conclusions and proposals for the development of an effective system of Ukrainian mountain areas development.
Precise tuning of single-photon frequency using optical single sideband modulator
Creators: name: Lo, Hsin-Pin
name: Takesue, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequency translation of single photons while preserving their quantum characteristics is an important technology for flexible networking of photonic quantum communication systems. Here we demonstrate a flexible scheme to interface different-color photons using an optical single sideband (OSSB) modulator. By changing the radio-frequency signal that drives the modulators, we can easily shift and precisely tune the frequency of single photons. Using the OSSB modulator, we successfully erased the frequency distinguishability of non-degenerated photon pairs to obtain the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference with a visibility exceeding 90%. We also demonstrated that the level of distinguishability can be precisely controlled by the OSSB modulator. We expect that the OSSB modulator will provide a simple and flexible photonic interface for realizing advanced quantum information systems.