cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Role of Headquarters Firms in Multinational Profit Shifting Strategies
Creators: name: Dischinger, Matthias
name: Riedel, Nadine
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: multinational firm, profit shifting, headquarters location
subject: 330

description: This paper stresses the special role of multinational headquarters in corporate profit shifting strategies. Using a large panel of European firms, we show that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are reluctant to shift profits away from their headquarters even if these are located in high-tax countries. Thus, shifting activities in response to corporate tax rate differentials between parents and subsidiaries are found to be significantly larger if the parent observes a lower corporate tax rate than its subsidiary and profit is thus shifted towards the headquarters firm. This result is in line with recent empirical evidence suggesting that MNEs bias the location of profits and highly profitable assets in favor of the headquarters location (for agency cost reasons among others).
title: Der Paradigmenwechsel in der Aphasiediagnostik
Creators: name: Pawlik, Florian
Year: 2013

description: Im deutschsprachigen Raum sind zwei Aphasiediagnostiken weitverbreitet, der Aachener Aphasie-Test (AAT) und LeMo – Lexikon modellorientiert. Die beiden Diagnoseinstrumentarien unterscheiden sich elementar in Aufbau, Methode und Durchführung. Dies liegt in erster Linie daran, dass sie auf grundlegend verschiedenen Paradigmen aufbauen. Der AAT beruht auf einem anatomisch-medizinisch orientierten Paradigma, das AphasikerInnen in Syndromkategorien erfasst. LeMo hingegen basiert auf einem kognitiv-neuropsychologischen Paradigma, das Sprache als dynamischen, kognitiven Verarbeitungsprozess und als Abfolge isolierter, autonom arbeitender Module mit spezifischen Aufgabenbereichen betrachtet. Da der AAT über Jahre hinweg das einzige Diagnoseinstrument mit umfassendem Anspruch war, stellte dieser in der Vergangenheit die unangefochtene Standarddiagnostik in der Aphasiologie dar. Die Hypothesen und Prämissen hinter dem Ansatz waren das wegweisende Paradigma in der Aphasiologie. Diese Hegemonie im aphasiologischen Wissenschaftsdiskurs transformierte sich in den letzten Jahren und Jahrzehnten. Aufgrund von tiefgreifenden Kritikpunkten und dem Aufkommen des kognitiv-neuropsychologischen Ansatzes geriet der ältere medizinisch-anatomische Syndromansatz in die Defensive, während sich modellorientierte Ansätze wachsender Beliebtheit erfreuten. Im Spannungsfeld dieser zwei unvereinbaren Ansätze wurde die Behauptung eines Paradigmenwechsels vom medinischen Syndromansatz hin zum kognitiv-neuropsychologischen Modellansatz formuliert. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht diese Hypothese eines Paradigmenwechsels in der Aphasiediagnostik hinsichtlich der Fragestellung, ob und – wenn ja – in welcher Form sich ein Paradigmenwechsel in der Aphasiediagnostik feststellen lässt. Zu diesem Zweck wurden die entsprechenden Entwicklungen historisch und wissenschaftstheoretisch analysiert und interpretiert. Die Beschäftigung mit den Paradigmen der Aphasiediagnostik stellt bislang eine wissenschaftlich noch unbearbeitete Leerstelle dar. Diese bestehende Lücke zu füllen, ist das Anliegen dieser Arbeit.
Accelerating the software development process - Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Review, Ommited for
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461202
subject: Empirical software engineering
classificationCode: 461204
subject: Programming languages
classificationCode: 461206
subject: Software architecture

description: This is supplementary material for the paper 'Accelerating the software development process through the application of MVP and monolithic architecture'. It contains an example of a user manual for setting up and executing complementary software in script format.
title: Auswirkungen des Wechsels auf IFRS und US-GAAP auf die Gewinnprognosen von Analysten
title: Empirische Analyse in Anlehnung an Ernstberger/Krotter/Stadler (2008)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Paarz, Roland
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: IFRS, Analysten, Analystenprognose, Prognosegenauigkeit, Gewinn pro Aktie, Earnings per Share,
subject: 330

description: Der Einfluss der Rechnungslegung auf den Kapitalmarkt wir mittels verschiedener Ansätze empirisch untersucht. Insbesondere die Auswirkungen der Übernahme internationaler Rechnungslegungsstandards ist in den vergangenen Jahren in den Mittelpunkt der Forschung gerückt. Ernstberger/Krotter/Stadler (2008) untersuchen diesen Zusammenhang anhand der Genauigkeit der Analystenschätzungen bezüglich des Gewinns pro Aktie. Sie betrachten hierzu 22.459 monatliche Konsensschätzungen für 591 deutsche Unternehmen im Zeitraum von 1998 bis 2004. In diesen Jahren konnten deutsche Unternehmen freiwillig von dem bis 1998 ausschließlich befreienden Konzernabschluss nach HGB auf den Konzernabschluss nach IFRS wechseln.Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist, die Modellspezifikation der Studie von Ernstberger/Krotter/Stadler (2008) und deren empirische Hypothesentests nachzuvollziehen und zu analysieren. Dabei werden einerseits die Hypothesen und deren Implementierung in die empirische Untersuchung erörtert und analysiert. Andererseits lässt sich das Untersuchungsdesign hinsichtlich Modellspezifikation und empirischer Methodik kritisch hinterfragen. Dabei wird ersichtlich, dass durch Weiterentwicklung der Modellspezifikation weitere aussagekräftige Erkenntnisse gewonnen werden können.
U THANT: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE BACKGROUND AND THE MAJOR POLITICAL ACTIONS OF THE THIRD SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Creators: name: Manton, Thomas Brewster
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 440808
subject: International relations

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 29-05, Section: A, page: 1320.
title: Illiquidity, insolvency, and banking regulation
Creators: name: Cao, Jin
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: liquidity risk, insolvency risk, liquidity regulation, equity requirement
subject: 300
subject: 330

description: This paper provides a compact framework for banking regulation analysis in the presence of uncertainty between systemic liquidity and solvency shocks. Extending the work by Cao & Illing (2009a, b), it is shown that systemic liquidity shortage arises endogenously as part of the inferior mixed strategy equilibrium. The paper compares dierent traditional regulatory policies which intend to fixthe ineciencies, and argues that the co-existence of illiquidity and insolvency problems adds extra cost for banking regulation and makes some schemes that are optimal under pure illiquidity risks (such as liquidity regulation with lender of last resort policy) fail. The regulatory cost can be minimized by combining the advantages of several instruments.
Replication Package: Developing Software Engineering-related Guidelines for Future Emergency Situations based on the Example of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Carolin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Welcome to the public repository for the additional content of the paper "Developing Software Engineering-related Guidelines for Future Emergency Situations based on the Example of the COVID-19 Pandemic". This repository provides additional information concerning this Master thesis, including the following files: researchMethod_SLR_Articles_2022.csv: sheet containing all papers fetched from IEEEXplore, Scopus, and the ACM Guide to Computing Literature researchMethods_Results_SLR_2022.csv: sheet containing information regarding the analysis results of 31 included papers based on the extraction criteria researchMethods_Results_ExpertInterview_2022.csv: sheet containing all answers of interviewed experts researchMethods_Results_2022_edited.xlsx: sheet containing formatted information regarding the results of both research methods For successfully replicating the thesis, follow the next steps we applied in our thesis. We defined the following selection criteria: The paper is written in English. The paper has been published between 2017 and 2022. The paper is a peer-reviewed conference paper or journal article (e.g., excluding keynote summaries or posters). The paper is longer than three pages. The publication deals with SE during emergency situations. We searched in IEEEXplore (155 papers), Scopus (22 papers), and the ACM Guide to Computing Literature (70 papers) by applying the following search string on March 05, 2022:
 ("software engineering" OR "agile" OR "software development") AND ("start*up*" OR "software compan*") AND ("corona*" OR "COVID*" OR "pandemic" OR "emergency") We removed 16 duplicates. After title (76 papers), abstract (37 papers), and full-text (30 papers) selection, we employed one iteration of backwards snowballing, resulting in 35 paper for full-text analysis An analysis sheet was created (researchMethod_SLR_Articles_2022.csv) containing all entries of the literature bases before the extractions were performed
title: MAUS Goes Iterative
Creators: name: Schiel, Florian
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 400

description: In this paper we describe further developments of the MAUS system and announce a free-ware software package that may be downloaded from the ’Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals’ (BAS) web site. The quality of the MAUS output can be considerably improved by using an iterative technique. In this mode MAUS will calculated a first pass through all the target speech material using the standard speaker-independent acoustical models of the target language. Then the segmented and labelled speech data are used to re-estimatedthe acoustical models and the MAUS procedure is applied  again to the speech data using these speaker-dependent models. The last two steps are repeated iteratively until the segmentation converges. The paper describes the general algorithm, the German benchmark for evaluating the method as well as some experiments on German target speakers.
Efficient removal of Methylene blue dye from aqueous medium utilizing eco-friendly chitosan adsorbents
Creators: name: El-Shorbagy, Hadeel G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Dyes released through various industrial operations are a major threat to the environment. The recent study introduced an eco-friendly adsorbent based on the grafting of phenolic acids (caffeic and/or gallic acids) on chitosan to reduce the hazardous impact of color effluent pollution. The morphology and structure of synthesized adsorbents were confirmed by physical and chemical tools such as TGA, FTIR, SEM, EDX, point of zero charge, water regain, and resistance of adsorbents to dissociation in acidic media. The synthesized adsorbents’ removal efficiency toward MB dye, a model cationic organic pollutant, from aqueous medium was evaluated. The factors impacting dye adsorption were investigated, including pH, dye initial concentration, and temperature. The response surface methodology (RSM) was used to confirm the interaction effects of the process variables and optimize the ideal conditions of adsorption. The maximum adsorption capacity was 257.0 and 391.8 mg/g for AI and AII, respectively, at initial MB concentration of 550 ± 1 mg/L, pH 8, and 21 ± 1 °C. MB adsorption is an exothermic chemosorption process that takes place via electrostatic attraction in an alkaline medium. Both AI and AII demonstrated significant reuse ability when eluted with a 0.5 M HCl solution.
A STUDY OF FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID TO PUBLIC VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, 1917-1964
Creators: name: Penn, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education
classificationCode: 390403
subject: Educational administration, management and leadership

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 29-04, Section: A, page: 1082.
title: Phonemic Segmentation and Labelling using the MAUS Technique
Creators: name: Schiel, Florian
name: Draxler, Christoph
name: Harrington, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 400

description: We describe the pronunciation model of the automatic segmentation technique MAUS based on a data-driven Markov process and a new evaluation measure for phonemic transcripts relative symmetric accuracy; results are given for the MAUS segmentation and labelling on German dialog speech. MAUS is currently distributed as a freeware package by the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals and will also be implemented as a web-service in the near future.
title: Positionierungen des „Weiblichen“ im Neoliberalismus anhand Marlene Streeruwitz’ Roman Kreuzungen
Creators: name: Kegele, Nadine
Year: 2013

description: Diese Arbeit setzt sich mit Marlene Streeruwitz’ im Jahr 2008 erschienenen Roman Kreuzungen. auseinander, den Fokus legt sie auf das Wirtschaftsmodell des Neoliberalismus und die verschiedenen geschlechtlichen Zuschreibungen und Positionierungen, die darin möglich, unmöglich, bis hin zu verunmöglicht sind. In Kreuzungen. stellt die Autorin (zum ersten Mal in ihren Prosaarbeiten) auf einen männlichen Protagonisten bzw. ein männliches Wahrnehmungszentrum ab. Die hier vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet drei wesentliche Punkte: Zunächst untersuche ich die Autorinnenposition und erarbeite diese anhand eines Vergleichs von Streeruwitz’ Poetiken mit den Theorien der Poststrukturalistinnen Hélène Cixous und Luce Irigaray über Möglichkeiten des Schreibens und Sprechens von Frauen. In diesem Teil stelle ich vor allem die Frage nach der (Notwendigkeit der) Entscheidung des Blickwechsel. In einem nächsten Schritt gehe ich ausführlich auf die Position der Hauptfigur des Romans, Max, ein und stelle diese einem politischen Text des ehemaligen französischen Präsidenten Nicolas Sarkozy und einem Text der Dramatikerin Yasmina Reza über Sarkozy gegenüber, da Streeruwitz laut Eigenaussagen u.a. Sarkozy als reale Folie eines mächtigen Mannes herangezogen hat, um die Romanfigur Max zu erfinden. In diesem, zweiten Teil erarbeite ich außerdem die neoliberalen Zuschreibungen von weiblich/männlich sowie die Schnittstellen des Neoliberalismus im Roman und ich verorte die Figur Max in diesem Wirtschaftssystem, das nach außen hin vorgibt, geschlechtsneutral zu funktionieren. Ich stelle die These auf, dass diese propagierte Geschlechtsneutralität nicht eingehalten wird und erarbeite in einem dritten und letzten Schritt die vielen Frauenfiguren (und eine weitere Männerfigur) des Romans. Anhand dieser wird deutlich, dass Neoliberalismus und Geschlechtsneutralität nicht zusammengedacht werden können. In diesem (Haupt-)Teil der Arbeit stellen sich Fragen rund um die Themenkomplexe Mutter-/Vaterschaft, Hysterie als Widerstandsform, Frauen als Täterinnen, Biopolitik als Machtform, Heterosexualität als Normativsetzung, welche die Systeme des neoliberalen Hegemon aufrecht zu erhalten vermag, und Homosexualität als Gefährdung dieses Systems.
Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery 1994
Creators: name: Parnaby, Harry E.
name: Ingleby, Sandy
name: Divljan, Anja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Uromys
Uromys emmae

description: Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery, 1994
Rec.Aust. Mus. 46(2): 159, figs 10–12, table 2. (28 July 1994).
Common name. Emma’s Giant Rat.
Current name. Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery, 1994; following Musser & Carleton (2005).
Holotype. M.7200 by original designation. Female adult, skull, study skin, collected by Col. C. B. Phillips, date of collection not recorded, specimen registered on 1 July 1946.
Condition. Damaged but intact cranium: fracture in the posterior end of both zygomatic arches, severe impact on post-orbital area has resulted in transverse fracture across frontals and damage to lateral walls of both orbits including partial disintegration of right orbital wall; all teeth are reinforced with glue; left dentary missing coronoid process; right dentary complete. Study skin missing right ear, tear above right eye has been stitched, left manus missing digit 1; otherwise in good condition.
Type locality. Owi Island (1°16'S 136°13'E), Schouten Island Group, Cenderawasih (formerly Geelvink) Bay, Papua Province, Indonesia.
Comments. The description was based on one specimen and the species has not been reported since (Wright & Leary, 2016).
description: Published as part of Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 277-420 in Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5) on page 380, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800
Animalia
Creators: name: Parnaby, Harry E.
name: Ingleby, Sandy
name: Divljan, Anja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia

description: Uromys macropus exilisTroughton & Le Souef, 1929b
Aust. Zool. 6: 98. (13 August 1929).
Common name. Giant White-tailed Rat.
Current name. Uromys caudimaculatus caudimaculatus (Krefft, 1867b), following Jackson & Groves (2015).
Holotype. M.4378 by original designation. Female adult, skull (Fig. 47), study skin, originally as body in alc., collected by A. S. Le Souef in September 1928; registered on 7 September 1928.
Condition. Cranium missing both auditory bullae, left auditory capsule is partially detached; left dentary missing distal part of coronoid process; right dentary complete. Study skin: missing scales on c. 1 cm of the proximal end of tail, otherwise in good condition.
Type locality. Hinchinbrook Island, North Qld, Australia.
Comments. Described from a single specimen. Troughton subsequently elevated exilis to species rank, believing that it was “very distinct” from mainland Australian Uromys based on cranial characters (Troughton, 1941 and subsequent editions).
description: Published as part of Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 277-420 in Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5) on pages 380-381, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800
title: Vom klassischen Bankinstitut zur virtuellen Bank
Creators: name: Rader, Daniel
Year: 2013

description: Diese Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich damit, wie sich Bankinstitute im Laufe der Zeit verändert und weiterentwickelt haben. Das rasante Wachstum der Informations- und Kommunikationsinfrastruktur und vor allem das Internet haben die Bedingungen für Bankinstitute im Privatkundengeschäft stark verändert. In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten war das Retail Banking vor allem durch zwei Begriffe geprägt und wurde nachhaltig verändert. Zusätzlich zum gängigen Filialgeschäft haben sich das Direct Banking und auch die Direktbanken als neue Vertriebsformen etabliert. Diese Masterarbeit versucht aufzuzeigen, welche neuen Möglichkeiten der direkte Vertrieb von Bankdienstleistungen für Kunden als auch für Bankinstitute schafft.
description: This master thesis deals about how banking institutions have changed and developed over time. The rapid growth of the information and communication infrastructure and especially the internet markedly changed the conditions for banking institutions in retail banking. In the last two decades retail banking was characterised by two terms and was changed sustainably. In addition to the common chain store, direct banking and direct banks established as a new form of distribution. This master thesis tries to demonstrate the new opportunities that direct distribution of banking services generates for customers as well as for banking institutions.
title: Unsuspected diversity of Niphargus amphipods in the chemoautotrophic cave ecosystem of Frasassi, central Italy
Creators: name: Flot, Jean-François
name: Wörheide, Gert
name: Dattagupta, Sharmishtha
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 560

description: Background: The sulfide-rich Frasassi caves in central Italy contain a rare example of a freshwater ecosystemsupported entirely by chemoautotrophy. Niphargus ictus, the sole amphipod species previously reported from this locality, was recently shown to host the first known case of a freshwater chemoautotrophic symbiosis. Since thehabitat of N. ictus is highly fragmented and is comprised of streams and lakes with various sulfide concentrations,we conducted a detailed study to examine the potential genetic diversity of this species within Frasassi.Results: By sequencing one nuclear (ITS) and two mitochondrial (COI and 12S) regions, we show that four partially sympatric Niphargus clades are present in Frasassi. Morphological and behavioral data obtained for three of these clades are perfectly congruent with this molecular delineation and make it possible to distinguish them in the field. Phylogenetic analyses of 28S ribosomal DNA sequences reveal that, among the four clades, only two are closely related to each other. Moreover, these four clades occupy distinct niches that seem to be related to thechemical properties and flow regimes of the various water bodies within Frasassi.Conclusions: Our results suggest that four distinct Niphargus species are present in Frasassi and that theyoriginated from three or four independent invasions of the cave system. At least two among the four species harbor Thiothrix epibionts, which paves the way for further studies of the specificity and evolutionary history of thissymbiosis.
The Practice of Forensic Structural Engineering in IABSE's Member Countries
Creators: name: Palmisano, Fabrizio
name: CEO, Laurent Rus
name: Prof., Karel Terwel Assistant
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The IABSE Task Group 5.1 on Forensic Structural Engineering aims to examine and to mitigate structural failures by sharing knowledge of technical, human and organizational causes of failure, in addition to methods and techniques in forensic investigation processes. Forensic engineering expertise has yet to be recognized worldwide as a specific domain of civil engineering practice, and this paper amends previously published technical reports in 2012, 2014 and 2015 by former IABSE Working Group 8 following a new survey carried out in 2020–2022. This new survey has been developed with the lessons learnt from the previous survey in 2013–2014, including the validation of the results obtained by eliminating potential subjectivity in the former assessment. This survey also includes further understanding of the institutional and national regulatory framework. The survey was completed by 22 IABSE member countries whose responses were provided by national experts on forensic structural engineering. This paper will allow the reader to familiarize him/herself with the state of the art in forensic structural engineering practice across 22 countries, allowing a national-level diagnosis. The survey will also help to identify the main challenges within each country related to forensic engineering. Furthermore, recommended steps, as suggested by the national experts, for the awareness and/or development of good industry practice within forensic structural engineering are highlighted in this paper. Online supplemental data for this article can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1080/10168664.2024.2307411.
Uromys lamington Troughton 1937
Creators: name: Parnaby, Harry E.
name: Ingleby, Sandy
name: Divljan, Anja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Uromys
Uromys lamington

description: Uromys lamington Troughton 1937a
Rec. Aust. Mus. 20 (2): 126. (27 August 1937).
Common name. Mottled-tailed Giant Rat.
Current name. Uromys caudimaculatus papuanus (Ramsay, 1883), following Jackson & Groves (2015).
Holotype. M.4684 by original designation. Male, [Field no. 65], skull, study skin, collected and presented by Mr C. T. McNamara during 1929, registered September 1929.
Condition. Cranium and left dentary complete; incomplete right dentary missing part of the coronoid process. Study skin: bald patch on the dorsal surface behind the right ear, otherwise complete and in good condition.
Type locality. Mount Lamington district, Northern Province, Papua New Guinea.
Comments. Description apparently based on one specimen.
description: Published as part of Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 277-420 in Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5) on page 380, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800
title: OrthoSelect: a protocol for selecting orthologous groups inphylogenomics
Creators: name: Schreiber, Fabian
name: Pik, Kerstin
name: Erpenbeck, Dirk
name: Wörheide, Gert
name: Morgenstern, Burkhard
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 560

description: Background: Phylogenetic studies using expressed sequence tags (EST) are becoming a standard approach to answer evolutionary questions. Such studies are usually based on large sets of newly generated, unannotated, and error-prone EST sequences from different species. A first crucial step in EST-based phylogeny reconstruction is to identify groups of orthologous sequences. From these data sets, appropriate target genes are selected, and redundant sequences are eliminated to obtain suitable sequence sets as input data for tree-reconstruction software. Generating such data sets manually can be very time consuming. Thus, software tools are needed that carry out these steps automatically. Results: We developed a flexible and user-friendly software pipeline, running on desktop machines or computer clusters, that constructs data sets for phylogenomic analyses. It automatically searches assembled EST sequences against databases of orthologous groups (OG), assigns ESTs to these predefined OGs, translates the sequences into proteins, eliminates redundant sequences assigned to the same OG, creates multiple sequence alignments of identified orthologous sequences and offers the possibility to further process this alignment in a last step by excluding potentially homoplastic sites and selecting sufficiently conserved parts. Our software pipeline can be used as it is, but it can also be adapted by integrating additional external programs. This makes the pipeline useful for non-bioinformaticians as well as to bioinformatic experts. The software pipeline is especially designed for ESTs, but it can also handle protein sequences.Conclusion: OrthoSelect is a tool that produces orthologous gene alignments from assembled ESTs. Our tests show that OrthoSelect detects orthologs in EST libraries with high accuracy. In the absence of a gold standard for orthology prediction, we compared predictions by OrthoSelect to a manually created and published phylogenomic data set. Our tool was not only able to rebuild the data set with a specificity of 98%, but it detected four percent more orthologous sequences. Furthermore, the results OrthoSelect produces are in absolut agreement with the results of other programs, but our tool offers a significant speedup and additional functionality, e.g. handling of ESTs, computing sequence alignments, and refining them. To our knowledge, there is currently no fully automated and freely available tool for this purpose. Thus, OrthoSelect is a valuable tool for researchers in the field of phylogenomics who deal with large quantities of EST sequences. OrthoSelect is writtenin Perl and runs on Linux/Mac OS X.
WAR DEPARTMENT TOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU, 1831-1863 AN ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY
Creators: name: Ryan, Garry David
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 430321
subject: North American history

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 29-04, Section: A, page: 1198.
New Fragility Curves for Evaluation of the Vulnerability of Bridges to Earthquakes in Iran
Creators: name: Student, Vahideh Shirvani Harandi PhD
name: Professor, Babak Mansouri Associate
name: Professor, Kambod Amini Hosseini Associate
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mental Health

description: Bridges are vulnerable structures in transportation networks, as demonstrated by the results of recent earthquakes worldwide. Their failure can lead to disruptions in the functionality of road networks and cause delays in emergency response and recovery after earthquakes. Researchers have developed different fragility functions to assess the vulnerability of bridges to earthquakes. However, suitable fragility curves are not available for many types of bridges for seismic-risk assessment of transportation networks. The current study presents new fragility functions for four common bridge categories in Iran. For this purpose, existing fragility curves were collected through a systematic literature review according to the bridge typologies. The analytical hierarchy process was used to adjust the collected functions for the case of Iran based on expert opinion, considering local practices, bridge similarities, and construction quality. The newly developed fragility functions were validated by converting the data to vulnerability curves and comparing them to the damage observed to bridges from past earthquakes in Iran and other countries under similar conditions. The results revealed that, for over 50% of the evaluated damaged bridges, the relative error in vulnerability curves for estimating the loss ratio was below 20%.
Dobsonia beauforti Bergmans 1975
Creators: name: Parnaby, Harry E.
name: Ingleby, Sandy
name: Divljan, Anja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Dobsonia
Dobsonia beauforti

description: Dobsonia beauforti Bergmans, 1975
Beaufortia 23(295): 3, figs 2–9. (16 January 1975).
Common name. Beaufort’s Naked-backed Fruit Bat.
Current name. Dobsonia beauforti Bergmans, 1975; following Simmons (2005).
Paratype. M.9996 by original designation as ZMA 16.475. Female adult, skull, study skin, with embryo in alc. with same AM number (= ZMA 16.549). Collected on 25 December 1909 by L. F. de Beaufort from a cave near Nja-Njef, Waigeo Island, West Papua, Indonesia (previously Irian Jaya), the type locality. Received from ZMA in September 1975.
Comments. Holotype and remaining 12 paratypes, all from the type locality, are in the ZMA Leiden, see Bergmans (2011).
description: Published as part of Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 277-420 in Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5) on page 381, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800
AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED ACADEMIC AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS AS THEY RELATE TO TWO TYPES OF PARTICIPATION OF SECONDARY-SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES SYMPOSIA, 1964-1965
Creators: name: Shedd, Aaron Neal
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology
classificationCode: 520102
subject: Educational psychology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 29-04, Section: A, page: 1139.
AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED ACADEMIC AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS AS THEY RELATE TO TWO TYPES OF PARTICIPATION OF SECONDARY-SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES SYMPOSIA, 1964-1965
Creators: name: Shedd, Aaron Neal
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 29-04, Section: A, page: 1139.
Melonycteris fardoulisi subsp. fardoulisi fardoulisi Flannery 1993
Creators: name: Parnaby, Harry E.
name: Ingleby, Sandy
name: Divljan, Anja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Melonycteris
Melonycteris fardoulisi
Melonycteris fardoulisi fardoulisi flannery, 1993b

description: Melonycteris fardoulisi fardoulisi Flannery, 1993b
Rec.Aust. Mus 45(1): 68, figs 7, 10, table 3. (19 March 1993).
Common name. Fardoulis’s Blossom Bat.
Current name. Melonycteris fardoulisi fardoulisi Flannery, 1993b; following Simmons (2005).
Holotype. M.18833 by original designation. Male adult, [Field no. FD43], study skin, skull, [skinned body in al.], collected by T. F. Flannery, 16 November 1987; registered 26 April 1988.
Condition. Cranium and dentaries complete. Study skin complete.
Type locality. Near Sesena Village ([10]°31'S] 162°05'E, alt. 100–200 m), Makira Island, Makira-Ulawa Province, Solomon Islands. The latitude 8°31'S given for Sesena village in the original account stems from an incorrect entry in the AM database.
Paratypes. (4, by original designation). M.18834, subadult male, skull, study skin, skinned body in alc., collected 17 November 1987; M.18849, young adult female, skull, study skin, [skinned body in alc.] collected, 17 Nov. 1987; M.18848, juvenile female, skull, body in alc.; M.20112, juvenile female, body in alc. Other data for all four as for the holotype.
Comments. Five specimens in the type series. The sequencing study of Pulvers & Colgan (2007) support recognition of the four lineages of M. fardoulisi treated as subspecies by Flannery.
description: Published as part of Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 277-420 in Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5) on page 381, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800
title: Is Underconfidence Favored over Overconfidence?An Experiment on the Perception of a Biased Self-Assessment
Creators: name: Thoma, Carmen
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Self-confidence, Overconfidence, Experiment
subject: 330

description: This paper reports findings of a laboratory experiment, which explores how elfassessment regarding the own relative performance is perceived by others. In particular, I investigate whether overconfident subjects or underconfident subjects are considered as more likable by others, and who of the two is expected to achieve a higher performance in a real effort task. I observe that underconfidence beats overconfidence in both respects. Underconfident subjects are rewarded significantly more often than overconfident subjects, and are significantly more often expected to win the competitive real-effort task. It seems as if subjects being less convinced of their performance are taken as more congenial and are expected to be more ambitious to improve, whereas overconfident subjects are rather expected to rest on their high beliefs. While subjects do not anticipate the stronger performance signal of underconfidence, they anticipate its higher sympathy value. The comparison to a non-strategic setting shows that men strategically deflate their self-assessment to be rewarded by others. Women, in contrast, either do not deflate their self-assessment or do so even in non-strategic situations, a behavior that might be driven by nonmonetary image concerns of women.
title: Die Heimaufenthaltsgesetznovelle 2010 und ihre Bedeutung für die Pflegepraxis
Creators: name: Gruber-Traxler, Yvonne
Year: 2013

description: Mit dem Inkrafttreten des Heimaufenthaltsgesetzes im Juli 2005 wurde ein großer Schritt gemacht, um die Rechtssicherheit der Bewohner und des Personals von Alten- und Behindertenheimen zu erhöhen. Diese Arbeit hat zum Ziel, die Novelle des HeimAufG von November 2010 darzustellen und die damit verbundenen wichtigsten Änderungen herauszuarbeiten. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt hierbei auf den Änderungen in der Anordnungsbefugnis. Im ersten Teil wird auf die demographische Entwicklung und die Struktur der Pflege in Österreich eingegangen. Im zweiten Teil wird das HeimAufG mit der Novelle dargestellt und erläutert. Im letzten Teil werden Fragen aus der Pflegepraxis zum Thema beantwortet und beleuchtet, ob das HeimAufG mit seiner Novelle einen Gewinn für die Pflege darstellt.
title: Net-Loss Reciprocation and the Context Dependency of Economic Choices
Creators: name: König, Clemens
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Reciprocity, Fairness, Experimental economics, Game theory, Loss aversion
subject: 330

description: This paper proposes a novel explanation for the context dependency of individual choices in two-player games. Context dependency refers to the well-established phenomenon that a player, when choosing from a given opportunity set created by the other player’s strategy, chooses differently in different situations because of different alternatives to the other player’s strategy. The utility model used to explain this kind of context dependency incorporates a preference for net-loss reciprocation. Net-loss reciprocation means that a player’s willingness to impose a net loss (i.e., loss minus gain) on the other player increases in the net loss that he or she derives from the other player’s strategy. I show that net-loss reciprocation together with the method for calculating net losses developed in this paper explains the context dependencies in individual behaviour that have been documented in a number of experimental studies, whereas existing models of intention-based reciprocity fail to explain all the evidence.
title: Anchor selection strategies for DIF analysis: Review, assessment, and new approaches
Creators: name: Kopf, Julia
name: Zeileis, Achim
name: Strobl, Carolin
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Rasch model, differential item functioning (DIF), anchor selection, anchor class, uniform DIF, measurement invariance
subject: 150
subject: 310

description: Differential item functioning (DIF) indicates the violation of the invariance assumption for instance in models based on item response theory (IRT). For item-wise DIF analysis using IRT, a common metric for the item parameters of the groups that are to be compared (e.g. for the reference and the focal group) is necessary. In the Rasch model, therefore, the same linear restriction is imposed in both groups. Items in the restriction are termed the anchor items. Ideally, these items are DIF-free to avoid artificially augmented false alarm rates. However, the question how DIF-free anchor items are selected appropriately is still a major challenge. Furthermore, various authors point out the lack of new anchor selection strategies and the lack of a comprehensive study especially for dichotomous IRT models. This article reviews existing anchor selection strategies that do not require any knowledge prior to DIF analysis, offers a straightforward notation and proposes three new anchor selection strategies. An extensive simulation study is conducted to compare the performance of the anchor selection strategies. The results show that an appropriate anchor selection is crucial for suitable item-wise DIF analysis. The newly suggested anchor selection strategies outperform the existing strategies and can reliably locate a suitable anchor when the sample sizes are large enough.
The Practice of Forensic Structural Engineering in IABSE's Member Countries
Creators: name: Palmisano, Fabrizio
name: Rus, Laurent
name: Terwel, Karel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The IABSE Task Group 5.1 on Forensic Structural Engineering aims to examine and to mitigate structural failures by sharing knowledge of technical, human and organizational causes of failure, in addition to methods and techniques in forensic investigation processes. Forensic engineering expertise has yet to be recognized worldwide as a specific domain of civil engineering practice, and this paper amends previously published technical reports in 2012, 2014 and 2015 by former IABSE Working Group 8 following a new survey carried out in 2020–2022. This new survey has been developed with the lessons learnt from the previous survey in 2013–2014, including the validation of the results obtained by eliminating potential subjectivity in the former assessment. This survey also includes further understanding of the institutional and national regulatory framework. The survey was completed by 22 IABSE member countries whose responses were provided by national experts on forensic structural engineering. This paper will allow the reader to familiarize him/herself with the state of the art in forensic structural engineering practice across 22 countries, allowing a national-level diagnosis. The survey will also help to identify the main challenges within each country related to forensic engineering. Furthermore, recommended steps, as suggested by the national experts, for the awareness and/or development of good industry practice within forensic structural engineering are highlighted in this paper. Online supplemental data for this article can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1080/10168664.2024.2307411.
ONUC (UNITED NATIONS IN THE CONGO) AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
Creators: name: Struelens, Michel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 440808
subject: International relations

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 29-04, Section: A, page: 1270.
THE SAN MIGUELITO HOUSING PROJECT: A STUDY OF POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
Creators: name: Tait, Gloria N.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 440707
subject: Housing policy

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 29-04, Section: A, page: 1261.
New Fragility Curves for Evaluation of the Vulnerability of Bridges to Earthquakes in Iran
Creators: name: Harandi, Vahideh Shirvani
name: Mansouri, Babak
name: Hosseini, Kambod Amini
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mental Health

description: Bridges are vulnerable structures in transportation networks, as demonstrated by the results of recent earthquakes worldwide. Their failure can lead to disruptions in the functionality of road networks and cause delays in emergency response and recovery after earthquakes. Researchers have developed different fragility functions to assess the vulnerability of bridges to earthquakes. However, suitable fragility curves are not available for many types of bridges for seismic-risk assessment of transportation networks. The current study presents new fragility functions for four common bridge categories in Iran. For this purpose, existing fragility curves were collected through a systematic literature review according to the bridge typologies. The analytical hierarchy process was used to adjust the collected functions for the case of Iran based on expert opinion, considering local practices, bridge similarities, and construction quality. The newly developed fragility functions were validated by converting the data to vulnerability curves and comparing them to the damage observed to bridges from past earthquakes in Iran and other countries under similar conditions. The results revealed that, for over 50% of the evaluated damaged bridges, the relative error in vulnerability curves for estimating the loss ratio was below 20%.
title: Nachrichten im österreichischen Privatradio
Creators: name: Pecile, Martina Michaela
Year: 2013

description: Diese Forschungsarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse von Nachrichtensendungen der beiden Privatradiosender Kronehit und Radio Energy. Diese beiden Sender besitzen ein sehr ähnliches Sendeprofil. Das heißt: sie spielen die gleiche Musik, sprechen die gleiche Zielgruppe an, ja sogar die Sprache in der Moderation ist sehr ähnlich. Stark unterschiedlich sind jedoch die Inhalte und die Darstellungsformen der Nachrichten. Während Kronehit versucht, eine komplett neue Dimension von Nachrichten in Österreich zu senden (sehr auf die Kernzielgruppe abgestimmt, sehr auf die Lebenswelt der Kernzielgruppe abgestimmt und vor allem, kurz, knackig und eben jung), versucht Radio Energy auch weiterhin am traditionellen Nachrichtenkostüm festzuhalten. Die kommunikationswissenschaftliche Grundlage bildet dazu einerseits die Nachrichtenwertfaktoren-Theorie nach Winfried Schulz, sowie die Positionierung und Programmplanung eines Radiosenders. Nach der theoretischen Fundierung erfolgt eine Inhaltsanalyse der Nachrichtensendungen von Kronehit und Radio Energy. Diese wird nach Früh durchgeführt. Den eigentlichen Kern dieser Arbeit bilden die Experteninterviews mit den Chefredakteuren der jeweiligen Radiosender. Diese lassen zu, dass man noch weiter in die Tiefe der Thematik gehen kann. Die Forschungsfragen werden dann aufgrund der ausgewerteten Daten der Inhaltsanalyse sowie mittels Aussagen der Experten beantwortet. Zusammengefasst zeigt die Arbeit, wo die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der beiden Radiosender, Kronehit und Radio Energy, bei ihren Nachrichtensendungen liegen.
description: This thesis analyses the news profiles of two private radio stations in Austria, Kronehit and Radio Energy. They are similar in severals aspects as they share the same target group, style of moderation and play comparable music. The topics and presentation of the news differ very much though. Kronehit is trying to create a new dimension of news in Austria, which is strongly customised to the target group, while Radio Energy keeps a traditional profile. The basis on terms of communication science is the “Nachrichtenwertfaktoren-Theorie” by Winfried Schulz as well as the positioning and programme planing of a radio station. After an introduction into the theoretical basics, a content analysis in the style of Früh is performed. The main part of the thesis comprises the interviews with the chief editors of the radio stations, which allow a more profound analysis of the topic. The research questions are answered with respect to the results of the content analysis and the interviews. In brief, the thesis shows similarities and points out differences between the news of Kronehit and Radio Energy.