cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Probing the nuclear gluon distribution with heavy quarks
Creators: name: Raufeisen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The color dipole formulation provides an intuitive picture of hard processes in high energy scattering. Most importantly, this approach allows one to calculate nuclear effects in a parameter-free way. I review the relation between the dipole approach and transverse momentum factorization and present numerical results for open heavy flavor production in proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions. The cross section for heavy quark production off nuclei is known to reflect gluon shadowing, but is also affected by higher twist effects and by finite coherence length effects.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, invited talk at ISMD04, Sonoma State U., Rhonert Park, CA, July 26 - August 1, 2004
Reality and response: unemployment 1970-2005 in two core journals
Creators: name: Rothschild, Kurt
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Economics, Journals, Unemployment
subject: A11, A14, E24

description: The Seventies of last century saw a decisive break with the earlier tendencies of the 'golden age'. Particularly important was the return of persistent unemployment. The present paper gives an overview of the effects of this change on subsequent publications in the two core journals American Economic Review and Economic Journal. It turns out that both with regard to frequency and contents there had been a notable impact of real events and theoretical controversy. JEL Codes: A11, A14, E24
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 59, N. 238 (2006)
The US economy: an update
Creators: name: Sacchetti, Ugo
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: US economy, exchange reserves, exchange rates
subject: E66, O51

description: This article updates one of four trends in the US economy which were highlighted in a previous paper "Whither the US economy" published in 1999 in this Review. It focuses on the developments in the external accounts. In addition to showing a rapid increase in the negative US current account balance, the article stresses the importance of two new developments which have acquired increasing prominence: the accumulation of large foreign exchange reserves, mainly in US dollars, by other countries especially in Asia and the accumulation by those countries of large amounts of US Treasury securities. The resulting new situation has serious potential worldwide repercussions should those countries decide to diversify their reserves and to reduce their holdings of US securities. These prospects call for solutions with global participation, and which are much broader in scope, including structural changes, than mere readjustments of exchange rates between the US dollar and the currencies of the main surplus countries. JEL Codes: E66, O51
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 58, N. 232 (2005)
Financial centers in the Asia-pacific region: an empirical study on australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore
Creators: name: Sagaram, J.P.A.
name: Wickramanayake, J.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Bank, Regulation
subject: E44, F31, G10, G18, G20, G28

description: The objective of this study is to empirically examine the status and sustainability of Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore as financial centers in the Asia-Pacific region. The sample period under investigation is from 1977 to 2002. This paper attempts to provide empirical evidence on significant factors such as taxes, economic activity, assets and liabilities of banks, regulation, socio-economic factors (education and quality of life) and the tax treatment of foreign institutions, that determine the status and sustainability of the above four financial centers. Although extensive research on financial centers has been conducted, there seems to be no empirical research focused on the above factors especially for Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. This study uses three modeling approaches. Under the first approach: estimates of an error-correction model show the existence of a long-run relationship between the variables in the four financial centers. In the second approach: estimated pooled (panel) regression model indicates that majority of the variables under investigation are statistically significant when tested collectively for all four financial centers. Results of the third model show the importance of socio-economic and government intervention variables such as the education system, government economic policies, quality of life, the regulatory environment and the tax treatment of foreign corporations for the status and sustainability of financial centers. The main policy implication of this study is that business friendly government policies promoting economic growth and socio-economic development are important for healthy growth of financial centers. JEL Codes: E44, F31, G10, G18, G20, G28
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 58, N. 232 (2005)
Ultracold Collisions of Fermionic OD Radicals
Creators: name: Avdeenkov, A. V.
name: Bohn, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss consequences of Fermi exchange symmetry on collisions of polar molecules at low temperatures (below 1 K), considering the OD radical as a prototype. At low fields and low temperatures, Fermi statistics can stabilize a gas of OD molecules against state-changing collisions. We find, however, that this stability does not extend to temperatures high enough to assist with evaporative cooling. In addition, we establish that a novel ``field-linked'' resonance state of OD dimers exists, in analogy with the similar states predicted for bosonic OH.
description: 5 figures
The economic collapse of Russia
Creators: name: Bracho C., Gerando
name: Lopez G., Julio
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Capitalism, economic growth, economic policies, Russia's economic
subject: E65, O52, P21, P24, P27

description: The objective of the paper is to contribute to an explanation of Russia's economic decline during its transition to capitalism. The authors argue that, to an important degree, the dismal performance of the Russian economy stems from the overall vision underpinning the transition to capitalism, and to the specific economic policies emanating from that vision. The paper gives first an account of the basic facts regarding Russia's economic depression in the 1990s, followed by the authors' understanding of some of the main economic policies applied, stressing important peculiarities generally overlooked in most studies. The third section analyzes the impact of some of the main economic policies of the Russian transition and ponders whether better alternatives existed. The fourth section briefly assesses the return of economic growth from 1999 onwards. The last section presents conclusions. JEL Codes: E65, O52, P21, P24, P27
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 58, N. 232 (2005)
THE STATUS OF AQUACULTURE IN BARBADOS
Creators: name: Fields, Angela
name: Taylor, Colvin
name: Fields, Angela
name: Taylor, Colvin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Barbados is a small island, with an area of 430 kmJ. It is predominantly coralline, with porous soils, except for an area known as the Scotland District, where clay soils are exposed. Surface water is limited, and the major reservoirs of water lie underground. Nonetheless, interest in aquaculture has surfaced, particularly since the 1980s. This paper gives a brief account of the history of aquaculture in Barbados, and presents information on the status of aquaculture in the island. At present mariculture ventures are limited to a pilot project on the cage-rearing of the dolphin fish or mahimahi (Coryphaena hippurus), and to small pilot projects on the cultivation of seamoss (Gracilaria spp.). Tilapia are reared as a food fish by only a small number of operators. Ornamental fish are bred and reared for the local pet-shop market.
Membrane bioreactors for anaerobic treatment of wastewaters
Creators: name: Chen, Jeffrey Bou-Wei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Anaerobic treatment of municipal wastewaters or other wastewaters of weaker strength has conventionally been difficult, especially in regions of cooler climate. Issues with solids retention and sufficient biomass concentration and activities required for treatment are usually of primary concern in these situations. However, the recent incorporation of membranes in the anaerobic treatment of municipal wastewater has made this technology feasible through the absolute retention of biomass within the reactor. Among the many advantages this technology has over its aerobic membrane bioreactor (MBR) counterpart, the most attractive may be the absence of an energy requirement for aeration. Although the anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) is a promising technology, limited understanding of the interactions between the reactor biomass and the filtration membranes in the AnMBR has generally confined it to the lab scale level. To this end, the subject of examination for this study is the feasibility of AnMBR treatment of municipal wastewaters, with a strong focus towards membrane operation at moderate operating temperatures. Two experiments were conducted during this study. The first was the long-term operation of two commercially available membranes (hollow fibre and flat sheet) operated in parallel within the reactor. The achievable operational OLR range for the AnMBR was about 1.25 kg COD/m³-d. COD removal efficiency for the AnMBR system during biomass acclimatization was 84% with the addition of supplemental acetate in the feed. This decreased to 43% after the removal of supplemental acetate at a reactor temperature of 25 °C. Biogas production of the system decreased by 20% subsequent to a temperature decrease of 5 °C, due likely to decreased methanogenic activities. The second experiment was to assess the mechanism(s) of membrane flux decline and to compare them with mechanisms identified for the same membranes applied in an aerobic MBR system. The major difference between filtration of the aerobic and anaerobic mixed liquor was the membrane surface cake layer fouling. The observed anaerobic mixed liquor resistance was nearly 100 times greater than the aerobic contribution. It was observed that the mechanism of flux decline of the organic membrane in an anaerobic environment was due to surface cake layer fouling.
title: The Lehndorff hunting lodge. A place of German-Polish friendship
Creators: name: Lachauer, Ulla
name: Kern, Agata
Publisher: name: Herder-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: This charming wooden building was once the hunting lodge of the Lehndorff counts. Here they would gather after the great hunts to feast and celebrate together. Later, the building was leased to an innkeeper. After 1945 it was used as a storehouse, and for a while it served as a village store. It gradually fell into disrepair until one day it caught the eye of the young businessman Alexander Potocki.
Mesoscopic transition in the shot noise of diffusive S/N/S junctions
Creators: name: Hoffmann, C.
name: Lefloch, F.
name: Sanquer, M.
name: Pannetier, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally investigated the current noise in diffusive Superconductor/Normal metal/Superconductor junctions with lengths between the superconducting coherence length xi_Delta and the phase coherence length L_Phi of the normal metal (xi_Delta < L < L_Phi). We measured the shot noise over a large range of energy covering both the regimes of coherent and incoherent multiple Andreev reflections. The transition between these two regimes occurs at the Thouless energy where a pronounced minimum in the current noise density is observed. Above the Thouless energy, in the regime of incoherent multiple Andreev reflections, the noise is strongly enhanced compared to a normal junction and grows linearly with the bias voltage. Semi-classical theory describes the experimental results accurately, when taking into account the voltage dependence of the resistance which reflects the proximity effect. Below the Thouless energy, the shot noise diverges with decreasing voltage which may indicate the coherent transfer of multiple charges.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Communication
ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN REGION
Creators: name: Ruiz, Manuel E.
name: Proverbs, Gerald
name: Ruiz, Manuel E.
name: Proverbs, Gerald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Livestock Production/Industries

description: In Latin America and the Caribbean, culture, resource endowment, market opportunities, government policies and external pressures provide a milieu of agricultural production patterns. In addition, animal agriculture is affected by the often unpredictable climate, water availability, land degradation, pests, diseases, and genetic resources. Despite these problems, grazing animals utilize 76% of the agricultural land, livestock production accounts for 30% of the agricultural gross product and generates 35% of the total food produced in the region. On the other hand, shifting agriculture practices, greed and poor farming practices have led to natural resource degradation. Many environmentalists point to poor animal agriculture systems as the main culprit in the loss of the natural resource base. Nevertheless, the region has the potential for dealing with challenges to its food production and its natural resource protection. Since the late 1970s the application of a holistic approach to solving production constraints at the farm level has been a feature in the region's research and development programmes, an effort led by the Latin American Network for Animal Production Systems Research (RISPAL). RISPAL is a network comprising 16 projects in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Chile, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela. Its methodological achievements have helped establish appropriate research undertakings in the region. The focus of a 1992 livestock specialist meeting was to examine the commonly held belief that livestock have only negative impacts on the environment and are solely responsible for major environmental damage. The findings of this analysis contributed to the development of strategies for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). ILRI. created in September 1994, is responsible for two-thirds of all CGI AR livestock-related research in developing regions. In January 1995, 28 experts in livestock research from 25 countries were consulted in Nairobi to help ILRI define its global programme of research, training jand information activities. With over 300 million people around the globe depending for their livelihoods on their health and productivity, the time has come for a reassessment of the roles of livestock in society and their interplay with the environment must be confronted.
The Economic Value of Wildlife Resources in Texas
Creators: name: Pope III, C. Arden
name: Adams, Clark E.
name: Thomas, John K.
name: Pope III, C. Arden
name: Adams, Clark E.
name: Thomas, John K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The economic value of wildlife is partly reflected in the Texas hunt lease and rural land markets. The results of an extensive survey of Texas hunters, and a land valuation model are utilized to develop estimates of the value of wildlife in Texas. Although the value of wildlife cannot be pre­cisely calculated, these estimates clearly indicate that wildlife is an enor­mously valuable natural resource.
Additional file 1 of Supervisors’ intention to observe clinical task performance: an exploratory study using the theory of planned behaviour during postgraduate medical training
Creators: name: Jonge, Laury P. J. W. M. De
name: Mesters, Ilse
name: Govaerts, Marjan J. B.
name: Timmerman, Angelique A.
name: Muris, Jean W. M.
name: Kramer, Anneke W. M.
name: Vleuten, Cees P. M. Van Der
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Translated questionnaire (Direct observations during workplace-based medical residency training)
Evaluating non-linear models on point and interval forecasts: an application with exchange rates
Creators: name: Boero, Gianna
name: Marrocu, Emanuela
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Exchange Rates
subject: F31, F37

description: The aim of this paper is to compare the forecasting performance of SETAR and GARCH models against a linear benchmark using historical data for two bilateral dollar exchange rates, namely the Japanese Yen and the British Pound. The analysis is carried out with series sampled at weekly and daily frequencies. The relative performance of the models is evaluated on point forecasts and interval forecasts. Point forecasts evaluation tends to favour on average the linear models, though the analysis produces some evidence of forecasting gains from nonlinear models in sub-samples characterised by stronger non-linearity. Evaluation of interval forecasts clearly favours the GARCH models and shows that they are more accurate than the AR and SETAR models, especially at forecasting events in the tail regions of the distribution. JEL Codes: F31, F37
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 58, N. 232 (2005)
Helmuth's Trading Technique: Further Evidence and Implications for Cattle Hedging Strategies 1975-1982
Creators: name: Pluhar, Darwin M.
name: Shafer, Carl E.
name: Sporleder, Thomas L.
name: Pluhar, Darwin M.
name: Shafer, Carl E.
name: Sporleder, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Hedging strategies can assist cattle feeders in managing price risk. Confirmation of Helmuth'S live cattle trade signal suggested it as a short· hedging device. Seven technical hedging strategies, three emphasizing the trading technique suggested by Helmuth's work, were evaluated over three subperiods within the July 1974-December 1982 period. Four previously developed technical hedging strategies. were evaluated monthly from 1975 to 1982. Findings suggest ·that the fundamentals incorporated in the Helmuth technique resulted in a trading strategy superior to the purely technical strategies. Fur­ther, this research indicates that technical hedging strategies pro­posed through previous research were of limited usefulness ex ante.
Unveiling Galaxy Morphology through an Unsupervised-Supervised Hybrid Approach
Creators: name: Kolesnikov, I.
name: Sampaio, V. M.
name: de Carvalho, R. R.
name: Conselice, C.
name: Rembold, S. B.
name: Mendes, C. L.
name: Rosa, R. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy morphology offers significant insights into the evolutionary pathways and underlying physics of galaxies. As astronomical data grows with surveys such as Euclid and Vera C. Rubin , there is a need for tools to classify and analyze the vast numbers of galaxies that will be observed. In this work, we introduce a novel classification technique blending unsupervised clustering based on morphological metrics with the scalability of supervised Convolutional Neural Networks. We delve into a comparative analysis between the well-known CAS (Concentration, Asymmetry, and Smoothness) metrics and our newly proposed EGG (Entropy, Gini, and Gradient Pattern Analysis). Our choice of the EGG system stems from its separation-oriented metrics, maximizing morphological class contrast. We leverage relationships between metrics and morphological classes, leading to an internal agreement between unsupervised clustering and supervised classification. Applying our methodology to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, we obtain 95% of Overall Accuracy of purely unsupervised classification and when we replicate T-Type and visually classified galaxy catalogs with accuracy of 88% and 89% respectively, illustrating the method's practicality. Furthermore, the application to Hubble Space Telescope data heralds the potential for unsupervised exploration of a higher redshift range. A notable achievement is our 95% accuracy in unsupervised classification, a result that rivals when juxtaposed with Traditional Machine Learning and closely trails when compared to Deep Learning benchmarks.
Evidence that powerful radio jets have a profound influence on the evolution of galaxies
Creators: name: Rawlings, S.
name: Jarvis, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relationships between supermassive black holes and the properties of their associated dark-matter halos imply that outflows from accreting black holes provide a feedback mechanism regulating galaxy formation. Accreting black holes with weak or undetectable radio jets (radio-quiet quasars) outnumber those with powerful jets (radio-loud quasars) by a factor ~10-100, so powerful-jet outflows are often neglected. However, whenever powerful jets are triggered, there is a dramatic (factor >100) step-function increase in the efficiency of feedback. We use a feedback model, together with the measured space density of flat-spectrum radio-loud quasars, to show that a powerful-jet episode probably occurred in every protocluster in the Universe. Before jet triggering, there was time for gravitational collapse to create many (~10-100) surrounding protogalaxies massive enough to host radio-quiet quasars. After triggering, the powerful jet pushes back and heats ionized gas so that it cannot fall onto these protogalaxies and cool. Once neutral/molecular gas reservoirs become exhausted, there is a synchronized shut down in both star-formation and black-hole activity throughout the protocluster. These considerations imply that radio-loud quasars have a profound influence on the evolution of all the galaxies seen in clusters today.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The geography of banking power: role of function distance
Creators: name: Alessandrini, Pietro
name: Croci, Manuela
name: Zazzaro, Alberto
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Bank, Banking
subject: G21, L11, L25

description: In this paper we analyse the new geography of the Italian banking system on the basis of the integration pressures of recent years. The analysis of the evolution of the banking system is focused on the concept of distance. In particular, we not only refer to the traditional distance between bank and customers, that is the operational distance, but also to the distance between decision centres of banks and local systems, that we define as functional distance. The focus of the paper is on the effect that functional distance (or proximity) has on the performance of banks in terms of credit allocation, efficiency, and profitability. Our regression analysis proves that functional proximity has asymmetric territorial effects on the banks performance. Its beneficial effects are more evident in the less developed southern regions, than in the more advanced Centre-North regions of Italy. JEL Codes: G21, L11, L25
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 58, N. 235 (2005)
Using an evolving criterion to assess the Federal Reserve's behaviour in recent years
Creators: name: Ferrari, Davide
name: Ribba, Antonio
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Monetary Policy, Monetary, Policy
subject: E52, E58

description: The aim of this paper is to analyse the behaviour of the Federal Reserve in the Greenspan era by using recently developed neuro-fuzzy techniques. Such models require the operation assumptions concerning the conduct of monetary policy to be set in the form of flexible rules. Moreover, the approach allows an adaptive model to be built, thus pointing out the role played by the evolution of the monetary policy decision mechanism. Besides the usual set of macro-economic variables, the input data set includes a stock market indicator. Our results show that the simulated series of federal funds rate mimics almost perfectly the actual behaviour of the monetary policy instrument. JEL Codes: E52, E58
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 58, N. 235 (2005)
Integral Equations for Heat Kernel in Compound Media
Creators: name: Pirozhenko, I. G.
name: Nesterenko, V. V.
name: Bordag, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By making use of the potentials of the heat conduction equation the integral equations are derived which determine the heat kernel for the Laplace operator $-a^2Δ$ in the case of compound media. In each of the media the parameter $a^2$ acquires a certain constant value. At the interface of the media the conditions are imposed which demand the continuity of the `temperature' and the `heat flows'. The integration in the equations is spread out only over the interface of the media. As a result the dimension of the initial problem is reduced by 1. The perturbation series for the integral equations derived are nothing else as the multiple scattering expansions for the relevant heat kernels. Thus a rigorous derivation of these expansions is given. In the one dimensional case the integral equations at hand are solved explicitly (Abel equations) and the exact expressions for the regarding heat kernels are obtained for diverse matching conditions. Derivation of the asymptotic expansion of the integrated heat kernel for a compound media is considered by making use of the perturbation series for the integral equations obtained. The method proposed is also applicable to the configurations when the same medium is divided, by a smooth compact surface, into internal and external regions, or when only the region inside (or outside) this surface is considered with appropriate boundary conditions.
description: 26 pages, no figures, no tables, REVTeX4; two items are added into the Reference List; a new section is added, a version that will be published in J. Math. Phys
The principle foundations of an Islamic economy
Creators: name: Askari, Hossein
name: Taghavi, Roshanak
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Islamic economic, Quran
subject: P40

description: The Quran is the primary source for Islamic teachings and tenets. While the community may adapt social and economic policies in order to meet a society's shifting socio-economic needs, the basic principles of the Islamic economic and social system, however, must be preserved. Freely elected leaders are expected to work with society to formulate policies supporting economic and social stability, economic prosperity, public education, healthcare, economic equity, a fair distribution of income and a social safety net. All physically and mentally competent Muslims are required to work for their livelihoods, and those with a sufficient level of assets are obliged to pay taxes to fund welfare and other social programs. While our definition of the Islamic economic system is supported by a number of modern specialists in Islam and Islamic economics, it is not in complete accord with those of religious figures and establishments connected with a state authority. JEL Codes: P40
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 58, N. 235 (2005)
title: Museums- und Wohnbau am Ruprechtsplatz
Creators: name: Scharll, Jana
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Architektonischer Entwurf
subject: architectural design

description: Die Stadtsilhouette des heutigen Wiens wurde entscheidend durch die Wiener Stadtmauer geprägt. Die seit dem Römerlager bestehende Befestigungsmauer erlebte über die Jahre hinweg mehrere signifikante Wandel, bis sie schließlich im 19. Jahrhundert geschliffen und die Wiener Ringstraße an ihrer Stelle gebaut wurde. Die Arbeit geht im Anschluss, anhand verschiedener historischer Beispiele, auf die für das Stadtbild wichtige Typologie des Turms ein. Auf den ersten Blick ist der Turm klar nach oben hin gerichtet. Bei näherem Betrachten fällt jedoch auf, dass Turmbauten eine ausgeprägte Gebäudegliederung aufweisen. So kommt, gerade bei hohen Gebäuden, der Ausformulierung der Sockelzone eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Der Sockel stellt den menschlichen Maßstab wieder her, er platziert das Gebäude in den urbanen Kontext und erdet den hohen Gebäude-körper, der auf ihm lastet. Der von dem französischen Architekten Fernand Pouillon errichtete Wohnkomplex Buffalo in einem Vorort von Paris illustriert diese Aussage und dient im Abschluss dieser Masterarbeit als Projektreferenz.
description: The urban pattern of modern Vienna has been shaped significantly by its town wall. Being established during the Roman Empire, the town wall underwent several changes until being replaced by the Viennese ring road in the 19th century. The paper continues to describe, based on various historical examples, the typology of the tower, which is important for the skyline of a city in general. At first sight, towers are clearly orientated towards the sky. A closer look reveals, however, that the façade of a tower is highly structured. Especially the composition of the footing is of major importance for high rise buildings. The footing gives the building a human scale, places it into an urban context and serves as foundation to the massive building volume on top of it. The building complex Buffalo, located in the suburbs of Paris and built by the French architect Fernand Pouillon, illustrates this statement and serves as a built reference for this master project
Additional file 1 of How to recover from a bad start: size at metamorphosis affects growth and survival in a tropical amphibian
Creators: name: Székely, Diana
name: Cogălniceanu, Dan
name: Székely, Paul
name: Armijos-Ojeda, Diego
name: Espinosa-Mogrovejo, Valentina
name: Denoël, Mathieu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Morphometry, locomotor performance traits and growth rates for individuals from the two “metamorphosis” size groups (SVL: snout-vent length). Initial measurement of morphometric traits, as well as jumping trials, were performed in Gosner 46 developmental stage, while final ones were taken 62 days after metamorphosis.
Integration of Dynamic Programming and Simulation Models to Value Lead Time of Information Forecasting Systems
Creators: name: Mjelde, James W.
name: Sonka, Steven T.
name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Lamb, Peter J.
name: Mjelde, James W.
name: Sonka, Steven T.
name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Lamb, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Issues pertaining to lead time of information forecasting systems are presented. A methodological procedure is developed which values lead time. The procedure utilizes dynamic programming and simulation models. An application of this approach to corn production indicates lead time is important in climate forecasting and corn production.
Additional file 2 of Perceptions of health providers towards the use of standardised trauma form in managing trauma patients: a qualitative study from Tanzania
Creators: name: Sawe, Hendry R.
name: Sirili, Nathanael
name: Weber, Ellen
name: Coats, Timothy J.
name: Reynolds, Teri A.
name: Wallis, Lee A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Unemployment, inquality and the policy of Europe: 1984-2000
Creators: name: Galbraith, James K.
name: Garcilazo, Enrique
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pay, Unemployment
subject: E24, J31, J64

description: This paper reconsiders the problem of unemployment in Europe at multiple geographic levels and through time from 1984 to 2000. We employ a panel structure that permits us to separate regional, national and continental influences on European unemployment. Important local effects include the economic growth rate, relative wealth or poverty, and the proportion of young people in the labor force. As part of this analysis, we assess the relationship between pay inequality and unemployment in Europe, following the insight of Harris and Todaro (1970) that pay inequalities influence job search. With our own panel of inequality measures derived from Eurostat's REGIO data set, we find that higher pay inequality, though usually taken to indicate greater labor market flexibility, is associated with more, not less, unemployment. Among large countries distinctive effects at the national level are few, perhaps indicating that national labor market institutions are not a decisive factor in the determination of unemployment. Changes in the macro-environment are picked up by time fixed effects, and these show a striking pan-European rise in unemployment immediately following the Maastricht Treaty, though with some encouraging recovery late in the decade. JEL Codes: E24, J31, J64
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 57, N. 228 (2004)
The treatment of SMEs loans in the New Basel Capital Accord: some evaluations
Creators: name: Fabi, Fabrizio
name: Laviola, Sebastiano
name: Marullo Reedtz, Paolo
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Banking
subject: G21, G28, G30, L25

description: In April 2003 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a third consultative paper on the new Basel Capital Accord (Basel II). The document contains substantial changes with respect to the previous proposal of January 2001, on which improvements were requested, among other aspects, regarding the too severe treatment foreseen for loans to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The aim of this paper is to analyse the treatment of SME loans under the Basel II framework and to provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of the different proposals on a large hypothetical portfolio of Italian corporations. Our simulations indicate that the prudential treatment of SME loans foreseen in the last consultative document of the Basel Committee is not penalizing with respect to the current situation. Therefore, we should not expect a reduction of credit or an increase in interest rates on loans to this type of borrowers. JEL Codes: G21, G28, G30, L25
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 57, N. 228 (2004)
Dimensional crossover in spin Hall oscillators
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew
name: Sobotkiewich, Kemal
name: Khan, Amanatullah
name: Montoya, Eric A.
name: Yang, Liu
name: Duan, Zheng
name: Schneider, Tobias
name: Lenz, Kilian
name: Lindner, Jürgen
name: An, Kyongmo
name: Li, Xiaoqin
name: Krivorotov, Ilya N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Auto-oscillations of magnetization driven by direct spin current have been previously observed in multiple quasi-zero-dimensional (0D) ferromagnetic systems such as nanomagnets and nanocontacts. Recently, it was shown that pure spin Hall current can excite coherent auto-oscillatory dynamics in quasi-one-dimensional (1D) ferromagnetic nanowires but not in quasi-two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic films. Here we study the 1D to 2D dimensional crossover of current-driven magnetization dynamics in wire-based Pt/$\mathrm{Ni}_{80}\mathrm{Fe}_{20}$ bilayer spin Hall oscillators via varying the wire width. We find that increasing the wire width results in an increase of the number of excited auto-oscillatory modes accompanied by a decrease of the amplitude and coherence of each mode. We also observe a crossover from a hard to a soft onset of the auto-oscillations with increasing the wire width. The amplitude of auto-oscillations rapidly decreases with increasing temperature suggesting that interactions of the phase-coherent auto-oscillatory modes with incoherent thermal magnons plays an important role in suppression of the auto-oscillatory dynamics. Our measurements set the upper limit on the dimensions of an individual spin Hall oscillator and elucidate the mechanisms leading to suppression of coherent auto-oscillations with increasing oscillator size.
title: Wäschekommode und andere Alltagsdinge, die überlebten
Creators: name: Lachauer, Ulla
name: Kern, Agata
Publisher: name: Herder-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: Eine schlichte Kommode, die aus dem Steinorter Gutshaus stammt, vermutlich aus einer Gesindekammer. 1945 war sie noch ziemlich neu, Kiefernholz, ohne weißen Anstrich. Vor zehn Jahren schenkte ein alter Herr sie dem Museum für Volkskunde in Węgorzewo, früher Angerburg, zusammen mit anderen Dingen, die er nach Kriegsende aus dem Schloss mitgenommen hatte.
Additional file 1 of Prognostic value of mean velocity at the pulmonary artery estimated by cardiovascular magnetic resonance as a prognostic predictor in a cohort of patients with new-onset heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
Creators: name: Trejo-Velasco, Blanca
name: Fabregat-Andrés, Óscar
name: García-González, Pilar M.
name: Perdomo-Londoño, Diana C.
name: Cubillos-Arango, Andrés M.
name: Ferrando-Beltrán, Mónica I.
name: Belchi-Navarro, Joaquina
name: Pérez-Boscá, José L.
name: Payá-Serrano, Rafael
name: Ridocci-Soriano, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary material. intended for publication as an online data supplement. Suppl. Table 1. Baseline characteristics according to mvPA values.
title: The linen dresser and other everyday objects that survived
Creators: name: Lachauer, Ulla
name: Kern, Agata
Publisher: name: Herder-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: A simple chest of drawers, which came from the Steinort manor house, probably from the servants' quarters. In 1945 it was still quite new, made of pine, unpainted. Ten years ago, an old gentleman donated it to the Museum of Folklore in Węgorzewo, formerly Angerburg, along with other things he had taken from the manor after the end of the war.
Reinforced Negative Sampling over Knowledge Graph for Recommendation
Creators: name: Wang, Xiang
name: Xu, Yaokun
name: He, Xiangnan
name: Cao, Yixin
name: Wang, Meng
name: Chua, Tat-Seng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Properly handling missing data is a fundamental challenge in recommendation. Most present works perform negative sampling from unobserved data to supply the training of recommender models with negative signals. Nevertheless, existing negative sampling strategies, either static or adaptive ones, are insufficient to yield high-quality negative samples --- both informative to model training and reflective of user real needs. In this work, we hypothesize that item knowledge graph (KG), which provides rich relations among items and KG entities, could be useful to infer informative and factual negative samples. Towards this end, we develop a new negative sampling model, Knowledge Graph Policy Network (KGPolicy), which works as a reinforcement learning agent to explore high-quality negatives. Specifically, by conducting our designed exploration operations, it navigates from the target positive interaction, adaptively receives knowledge-aware negative signals, and ultimately yields a potential negative item to train the recommender. We tested on a matrix factorization (MF) model equipped with KGPolicy, and it achieves significant improvements over both state-of-the-art sampling methods like DNS and IRGAN, and KG-enhanced recommender models like KGAT. Further analyses from different angles provide insights of knowledge-aware sampling. We release the codes and datasets at https://github.com/xiangwang1223/kgpolicy.
description: WWW 2020 oral presentation
Formalization of transactions in AEC/FM industries
Creators: name: Pouria, Arezou
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The main objective of this dissertation is to contribute to the field of Computer Integrated Construction (CIC). Total Project Systems (TOPS) is an ongoing research project at the University of British Columbia which streamlines the CIC strategies. This research is a component of the TOPS project which focuses on the formalization of transactions or information exchanges in AEC/FM. The main objective of this research is achieved by pursuing sub-objectives set as follows: • Trace the trend of CIC in the AEC/FM industry and study the related efforts within other industries. • Develop an approach for formalizing transactions. • Analyze a process as an example and define formalized transactions needed for the process. • Create a prototype system that uses the formalized transactions to demonstrate and evaluate the proposed approach. The research consists of two parts. It uses techniques such as a survey, literature review, and a case study, to answer the questions of the first part of the research: • What is the state of the art in the field of formalization of transactions in AEC/FM? • How should AEC/FM transactions be formalized? Answering these questions led us to propose a multidimensional formalization approach that uses eXtensible Mark up Language (XML). The second part of the research demonstrates that the proposed approach formalizes transactions in the way that research suggested in the first part.. For this part, the research develops a prototype application for the example process, which uses the proposed multidimensional formalization system. The example process was taken from a case study done at UBC TREK program centre. The research implements a rapid prototype testing technique to evaluate the functionality of the proposed system for the prototype application. The main contributions of the research are answering the questions in the first part, and the proposed system and its implementation in the second part. Future directions of the research could be to improve the proposed approach, and developing other applications that use the formalized transactions.
New Ideas in Finite Density QCD
Creators: name: Azcoiti, Vicente
name: Di Carlo, Giuseppe
name: Galante, Angelo
name: Laliena, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new approach to analyze the phase diagram of QCD at finite chemical potential and temperature, based on the definition of a generalized QCD action. Several details of the method will be discussed, with particular emphasis on the advantages respect to the imaginary chemical potential approach.
description: Talk presented at Lattice2004 (non-zero), Fermilab, June 21-26, 2004; 3 pages, 2 figures
The Eurosystem operational framework, use of colleteral and liquidity distribution in the euro area: towards a single interbank market?
Creators: name: Vento, Gianfranco A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Monetary Policy, Monetary, Policy
subject: E43, E52

description: This paper analyses the current operational framework chosen to implement single monetary policy in the euro area, pointing out the effects of certain technical choices in the field of monetary policy instruments on the interbank market and bank treasuries. In particular, I examine how the tender typology adopted for main refinancing operations affects overbidding and underbidding, as well as efficiency in bank liquidity management. I then go on to analyse the technical features of unsecured interbank markets in the euro area in order to determine whether a screen-based framework leads to more efficient liquidity management than achieved in over-the-counter markets. In accordance with the averaging provision mechanism, minimum reserves during the maintenance period in Italy, where the interbank market is electronic-based, are taken as indicators of efficiency in this market. On the evidence of the data, it seems that Italian banks can reduce the opportunity cost of maintaining minimum reserves, also performing intertemporal arbitrages between the interbank market and their reserve accounts. Finally, the focus comes on cross border differences in the use of collateral within the euro area in order to analyse the projects currently debated for the reform of collateral lists. JEL Codes: E43, E52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 57, N. 228 (2004)
European's federation and currency: the contribution of Luigi Einaudi
Creators: name: Sarcinelli, Mario
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Luigi Einaudi
subject: B31, F02

description: Luigi Einaudi was a well-known economist in Italy and abroad, a very prolific journalist, a great public figure particularly after the end of the Second World War. As his thoughts and writings were permeated with a solid liberalism, he was keen on looking for constraint on the State's absolute sovereignty, propensity to interfere with consumer and producer choices, and ability to finance public expenditure through money printing; the first was the principal cause of war, the other two the origin of misallocation and the worst of taxes, inflation. To fight these evils he advocated federating the states of Europe, thus transferring to a supranational level part of the sovereign prerogatives, particularly in the defence, interstate-commerce and monetary fields. As to the strategy to achieve this result he started from a functionalist approach, moved to a technocratic one, and ended up embracing the thesis to have "political federation" right away. JEL Codes: B31, F02
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 57, N. 229 (2004)
Many-body T-matrix of a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate within the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov formalism
Creators: name: Gies, Christopher
name: Lee, M. D.
name: Hutchinson, D. A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate the reduction in dimensionality fundamentally influences collisions between the atoms. In the crossover regime from three to two dimensions several scattering parameters have been considered. However, finite temperature results are more difficult to obtain. In this work we present the many-body T-matrix at finite temperatures within a gapless Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approach and compare to zero and finite temperature results obtained using different approaches. A semi-classical renormalization method is used to remove the ultra-violet divergence of the anomalous average.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures