cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Re-examining the Adjudicative Role of ICAO Council from the Qatari Air Blockade Dispute: A Paper Tiger against Westphalian Leviathans?
Creators: name: Hung, Colbert Tsung Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 180116 International Law (excl. International Trade Law)
subject: FOS: Law

description: On 5 June 2017, the Gulf States closed their airspace to all Qatari aircraft and international flights to Qatar. Considering Qatar's peninsular location, the closure of airspace put the country at a severe disadvantage. It impeded its capacity to connect to the rest of the globe. Qatar Airways dropped 18 routes overnight, and an average 1 hour flight time was incurred due to the detour taken from Iranian airspace. In this Article, I endeavoured to examine the International Civil Aviation Organisation's purview for dispute resolution and the interaction with the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in this incident. The conclusion reached by this Paper is that the Qatari air blockade dispute represents part of the existential threat posing to the Westphalian state-centric international law. While international organisations' role has been questioned and a clear delineation is called for, contemporary aviation law is not an area of exception.
Cordilura krocha Ozerov 2007
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura krocha

description: Cordilura krocha Ozerov, 2007
 Cordilura krocha Ozerov, 2007: 123. HOLOTYPE: J, Russia, ‘ Amurskaya obl. [= region], g. [= town] Zeya, 13.viii.1981, A. Shatalkin leg.’ (ZMUM, registration number Di-0155).
 Distribution. Russia – Far East (OZEROV 2007: 123).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Cordilura latigennis Hendel 1930
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura latigennis

description: Cordilura latigennis Hendel, 1930
 Cordylura latigennis Hendel, 1930b: SYNTYPES: 2JJ 1♀, Russia, ‘ Kamtschatka [= Kamchatka], Petropavlovsk, 6.-20.vi.[19]22’ (NHRS).
 Distribution. Russia – Far East (HENDEL 1930b: 3, GORODKOV 1986: 14).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Cordilura nigrifrons Sun 1993
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura nigrifrons

description: Cordilura nigrifrons Sun, 1993
 Cordilura nigrifrons Sun, 1993: 438, 440. HOLOTYPE: J, China, Sichuan, Mt. Emei, 1800-2000 m a.s.l., 18.viii.1957, Huang Keren leg. (IZCAS).
 Distribution. China (SUN 1993: 438).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
THE SINGLE PARENT IN THE FICTION OF HENRY JAMES AND EDITH WHARTON
Creators: name: Trechsel, Gisela Brigitte
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: Henry James and Edith Wharton share similarities in background, life style, and professional goals. One characteristic they share is the repeated occurrence of the single parent. This study explores diverse single-parent situations, based on particular social issues such as divorce, illegitimacy, and public attitudes. Furthermore, the focus is on artistic individualities of James and Wharton in how they present similar conditions and circumstances. The various single-parent situations depict conflicts between individual and environment brought forth by deviations from the norm. The function of the single parent in both James's and Wharton's novels and stories is to reflect society in the process of alteration and change.
THE CALIBRATION OF EXPECTED SOYBEAN PRICE DISTRIBUTIONS: AN OPTION BASED APPROACH
Creators: name: Sherrick, Bruce J.
name: Forster, D. Lynn
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Sherrick, Bruce J.
name: Forster, D. Lynn
name: Irwin, Scott H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: No-arbitrage option pricing models are used to recover complete probabilistic descriptions of expected soybean futures prices. The usefulness of the approach is examined via calibration tests. Results indicate that the estimated distributions are fairly reliable and that a three-parameter Burr distribution is useful in characterizing expected prices.
Cordilura nigriseta Rondani 1867
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura nigriseta

description: Cordilura nigriseta Rondani, 1867
 Cordylura nigriseta Rondani 1867: 98. HOLOTYPE: J, Italy, ‘in planitiae parmensis […] in Pedemontio capta [= environs of Parma, Piemont], rare legi mense Junio [= rare in June], Spinola leg.’ (depository unknown).
 Distribution. Italy (GORODKOV et al. 1995: 4).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Finite-Difference Lattice Boltzmann Methods for binary fluids
Creators: name: Xu, Aiguo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate two-fluid BGK kinetic methods for binary fluids. The developed theory works for asymmetric as well as symmetric systems. For symmetric systems it recovers Sirovich's theory and is summarized in models A and B. For asymmetric systems it contributes models C, D and E which are especially useful when the total masses and/or local temperatures of the two components are greatly different. The kinetic models are discretized based on an octagonal discrete velocity model. The discrete-velocity kinetic models and the continuous ones are required to describe the same hydrodynamic equations. The combination of a discrete-velocity kinetic model and an appropriate finite-difference scheme composes a finite-difference lattice Boltzmann method. The validity of the formulated methods is verified by investigating (i) uniform relaxation processes, (ii) isothermal Couette flow, and (iii) diffusion behavior.
description: RevTex, 3 figures. Phys. Rev. E (2005, in press)
CONSEQUENCES OF COVID-19 ON DIGITAL ECONOMY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
Creators: name: GETAHUN, Saleamlak Fentaw
name: DEJENE, Sintayehu
name: GETAHUN, Saleamlak Fentaw
name: DEJENE, Sintayehu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Public Economics
subject: COVID-19
subject: economic impact
subject: digital economy
subject: Horn of Africa

description: Research background: The Horn of Africa is arguably the most vulnerable region for many shocks. Currently, the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is spreading fast in the region. The number of new cases and the mortality of this pandemic have increased dramatically. As lockdown and movement restrictions are the major strategies suggested to minimize the spread of the virus, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are not only limited to public health but also have a major impact on the economic aspects. Purpose of the article: This review paper aims to synthesize the consequences of COVID-19 on the digital economy in the Horn of Africa. We review and recommend adopting the digital economy could be the remedy to go through COVID-19 safely as the world sees digital companies boom during the pandemic. Methods: To achieve our purpose, we applied qualitative analysis and synthesis as a method, and recently published papers in the area (most suitable to our aim) are included as data sources. Findings & Value added: The Horn region is already feeling the economic impact of the virus and we discussed it in terms of monetary, fiscal, current account balance, and unemployment expected impacts. However, this pandemic is not just about adverse impacts; it is also about unanticipated business opportunities. In this perspective, the decline of the international oil price during this pandemic can be seen as a blessing in disguise since countries in the region are net importers of crude oil. Moreover, Ethiopia’s coffee export has increased rapidly at a level of record sales of about 665 million dollars from July 2019 to April 2020 (10 months’ export). The lion’s share of this upsurge has been achieved because of the rise in the coffee consumption from homes of the country’s Arabic coffee importers, such as Germany, the U.S, and Saudi Arabia due to the lockdown measures. The paper also covers the prospects of the virus by pinpointing various booming companies that are digital-based businesses. Therefore, we urge the Horn of African countries to internalize these opportunities by swiftly investing in the telecom sector to shift to the online way of doing business.
description: doi: 10.15414/raae.2021.24.01.21-26; https://roaae.org/issue/review-of-agricultural-and-applied-economics-raae-vol-24-no-1-2021/?article=consequences-of-covid-19-on-digital-economy-in-the-horn-of-africa
ASSAY AND INHIBITION OF GLYOXALASE I
Creators: name: Davies, Helen Wisner
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology

description: Glyoxalase I is an enzyme which catalyzes the conversion of hemimercaptals derived from substituted glyoxals and glutathione to the corresponding substituted thioesters of (alpha)-hydroxyacetic acid. This reaction is thought to proceed through an enediol intermediate. Inhibition of this enzyme was investigated in order to delineate the steric and mechanistic factors which are important to its mechanism of action. A variety of S-substituted glutathione derivatives were synthesized and found to be good to excellent competitive inhibitors of glyoxalase I. Ki's ranged from 10('-3) M to < 10('-5) M for a series of S-alkyl-, S-carbamoyl-, S-acyl-, and S-(acylmethyl)-glutathiones. New compounds prepared and evaluated included S-(n-butylcarbamoyl)-, S-(cyclohexylcarbamoyl)-, S-(5-iodopentylcarbamoyl)-, and S-(ethoxycarbonylcarbamoyl)-glutathiones, S-phenylacetyl glutathione, S-trans-cinnamyl glutathione, S-trans-cinnamoyl glutathione, and S-(p-phenylphenacyl)-glutathione. No inhibition was observed for any compound in a group which included hydroxamic acids, (beta)-keto carboxylic acid derivatives, and small molecules with enediol structures. Some of the compounds investigated absorb strongly at 240 nm, the wavelength of observation for the usual assay employing methylglyoxal as the enzyme cosubstrate. It was demonstrated that compounds which themselves absorb strongly at the wavelength of measurement may give an apparent decrease in the absorbance changes on which enzyme activity calculations are based, even when these compounds are contained in separate absorption cells. An alternative assay of glyoxalase I activity employing phenylglyoxal, a stable crystalline solid, as substrate was developed. The method, which is based on observation of the decrease in absorbance at 263 nm, the phenylglyoxal-glutathione hemimercaptal isosbestic point, is reliable, precise, and convenient. It proved useful both for routine assays and for evaluation of strongly-absorbing compounds for which the standard methylglyoxal assay gave inaccurate results. It was concluded that inhibition is optimized when one end of the inhibitor is glutathione and the other end is bulky and hydrophobic, preferably containing one or more aromatic rings. The exact structure of the middle region is much less important, even when it either is an analog of the presumed enediol intermediate or can enolize to such a structure.
NONSTATIONARITY OF SOYBEAN FUTURES PRICE DISTRIBUTIONS: OPTION-BASED EVIDENCE
Creators: name: Sherrick, Bruce J.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Forster, D. Lynn
name: Sherrick, Bruce J.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Forster, D. Lynn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis

description: No-Arbitrage option pricing models are used to estimate ex ante soybean futures price distributions. Volatility measures of these distributions are modeled in an endogenous-switchpoint regression as functions of price level and time-to-maturity. Results indicate volatility measures are not stationary, and exhibit regime dependent influences of time-to-maturity and price level.
A Fractional-Order Normalized Bouc-Wen Model for Piezoelectric Hysteresis Nonlinearity
Creators: name: Kang, Shengzheng
name: Wu, Hongtao
name: Li, Yao
name: Yang, Xiaolong
name: Yao, Jiafeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a new fractional-order normalized Bouc-Wen (BW) (FONBW) model to describe the asymmetric and rate-dependent hysteresis nonlinearity of piezoelectric actuators (PEAs). In view of the fact that the classical BW (CBW) model is only efficient for the symmetric and rate-independent hysteresis description, the FONBW model is devoted to characterizing the asymmetric and rate-dependent behaviors of the hysteresis in PEAs by adopting an Nth-order polynomial input function and two fractional operators, respectively. Different from the traditional modified BW models, the proposed FONBW model also eliminates the redundancy of parameters in the CBW model via the normalization processing. By this way, the developed FONBW model has a relatively simple mathematic expression with fewer parameters to simultaneously characterize the asymmetric and rate-dependent hysteresis behaviors of PEAs. Model parameters are identified by the self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed model, a series of model verification and inverse-multiplicative-structure-based feedforward control experiments are carried out on a PEA system. Results show that the proposed model is superior to the CBW model and traditional modified BW model in modeling accuracy and hysteresis compensation.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, submitted to TMech; 10 pages, 11 figures, add two subsections in Section IV; modify Tables I and III, and Figures 9 and 10
Cordilura nigrithorax Hendel 1930
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura nigrithorax

description: Cordilura nigrithorax Hendel, 1930
 Cordylura nigrithorax Hendel, 1930b: 5.? SYNTYPES: Russia, ‘ Kamtschatka [= Kamchatka], Petropavlovsk, 6.- 20.vi.[19]22’ (no additional data on the type material quoted in the original paper; NHRS).
 Distribution. Russia – Far East (HENDEL 1930b: 5, GORODKOV 1986: 14).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Promoting interculturalism on campus with the INTER-Club Zumba Event
Creators: name: Oh, Ashley
name: Santos, Cassandra
name: Rahman, Shao
name: Nixon, Tommy
name: Chong, Tyler
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
ASSAY AND INHIBITION OF GLYOXALASE I
Creators: name: Davies, Helen Wisner
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Glyoxalase I is an enzyme which catalyzes the conversion of hemimercaptals derived from substituted glyoxals and glutathione to the corresponding substituted thioesters of (alpha)-hydroxyacetic acid. This reaction is thought to proceed through an enediol intermediate. Inhibition of this enzyme was investigated in order to delineate the steric and mechanistic factors which are important to its mechanism of action. A variety of S-substituted glutathione derivatives were synthesized and found to be good to excellent competitive inhibitors of glyoxalase I. Ki's ranged from 10('-3) M to < 10('-5) M for a series of S-alkyl-, S-carbamoyl-, S-acyl-, and S-(acylmethyl)-glutathiones. New compounds prepared and evaluated included S-(n-butylcarbamoyl)-, S-(cyclohexylcarbamoyl)-, S-(5-iodopentylcarbamoyl)-, and S-(ethoxycarbonylcarbamoyl)-glutathiones, S-phenylacetyl glutathione, S-trans-cinnamyl glutathione, S-trans-cinnamoyl glutathione, and S-(p-phenylphenacyl)-glutathione. No inhibition was observed for any compound in a group which included hydroxamic acids, (beta)-keto carboxylic acid derivatives, and small molecules with enediol structures. Some of the compounds investigated absorb strongly at 240 nm, the wavelength of observation for the usual assay employing methylglyoxal as the enzyme cosubstrate. It was demonstrated that compounds which themselves absorb strongly at the wavelength of measurement may give an apparent decrease in the absorbance changes on which enzyme activity calculations are based, even when these compounds are contained in separate absorption cells. An alternative assay of glyoxalase I activity employing phenylglyoxal, a stable crystalline solid, as substrate was developed. The method, which is based on observation of the decrease in absorbance at 263 nm, the phenylglyoxal-glutathione hemimercaptal isosbestic point, is reliable, precise, and convenient. It proved useful both for routine assays and for evaluation of strongly-absorbing compounds for which the standard methylglyoxal assay gave inaccurate results. It was concluded that inhibition is optimized when one end of the inhibitor is glutathione and the other end is bulky and hydrophobic, preferably containing one or more aromatic rings. The exact structure of the middle region is much less important, even when it either is an analog of the presumed enediol intermediate or can enolize to such a structure.
DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS AND THE AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1962-1982
Creators: name: Kulakow, Allan Marvin
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: When the Agency for International Development (AID) was established in 1962, it inherited a communications program that had begun during the days of the Marshall Plan after World War II. Under the influence of social science theories of the role mass communications might play in influencing national development, AID transformed the program to emphasize communications projects based on social learning models. The result was a program of development communications, defined as the systematic application of communications hardware and software in support of planned programs of change in development sectors such as health, education, agriculture, nutrition, and family planning. The initiatives for communications projects, however, came principally from outside AID: the White House Task Forces on communications in the 1960s and the Programs for Peaceful Communication, passed by Congress in 1969 to establish a commitment to development communications in foreign aid legislation. The AID bureaucracy, especially the geographic regional bureaus and their field missions, opposed, limited, and erected obstacles to the use of development communications, refusing sufficient funds or adequate access to field projects. The bureaus resented interference from Congress and the White House and from central technical assistance offices within the Agency. They wanted to emphasize macroeconomic approaches to development rather than individual behavorial change, the focus of development communications. They considered development communications, born in educational technology, to be education and not necessarily relevant to agriculture or health. And because the bureaus saw few successes in this new field of communications, they did not allow the time or money for it to prove itself. As a result, the Agency has no policy to direct and encourage communications in development. In spite of a lack of communications policy or politically secure base of operations, the communications program in AID has supported more communications applications projects than any other donor. And with the advent of the AID Rural Satellite Program, telecommunications has been added to the Agency's communications agenda. But the Agency still needs a communications policy that supports continued R&D, trains more professional development communications experts in recipient countries, and that establishes a central communications office to chart the introduction of new communications technology into development programs.
Additional file 1 of Facial and body sexual dimorphism are not interconnected in the Maasai
Creators: name: Butovskaya, Marina L.
name: Rostovtseva, Victoria V.
name: Mezentseva, Anna A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Association between facial traits and body height in Maasai (controlled for BMI).
DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS AND THE AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1962-1982
Creators: name: Kulakow, Allan Marvin
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: When the Agency for International Development (AID) was established in 1962, it inherited a communications program that had begun during the days of the Marshall Plan after World War II. Under the influence of social science theories of the role mass communications might play in influencing national development, AID transformed the program to emphasize communications projects based on social learning models. The result was a program of development communications, defined as the systematic application of communications hardware and software in support of planned programs of change in development sectors such as health, education, agriculture, nutrition, and family planning. The initiatives for communications projects, however, came principally from outside AID: the White House Task Forces on communications in the 1960s and the Programs for Peaceful Communication, passed by Congress in 1969 to establish a commitment to development communications in foreign aid legislation. The AID bureaucracy, especially the geographic regional bureaus and their field missions, opposed, limited, and erected obstacles to the use of development communications, refusing sufficient funds or adequate access to field projects. The bureaus resented interference from Congress and the White House and from central technical assistance offices within the Agency. They wanted to emphasize macroeconomic approaches to development rather than individual behavorial change, the focus of development communications. They considered development communications, born in educational technology, to be education and not necessarily relevant to agriculture or health. And because the bureaus saw few successes in this new field of communications, they did not allow the time or money for it to prove itself. As a result, the Agency has no policy to direct and encourage communications in development. In spite of a lack of communications policy or politically secure base of operations, the communications program in AID has supported more communications applications projects than any other donor. And with the advent of the AID Rural Satellite Program, telecommunications has been added to the Agency's communications agenda. But the Agency still needs a communications policy that supports continued R&D, trains more professional development communications experts in recipient countries, and that establishes a central communications office to chart the introduction of new communications technology into development programs.
title: Racial discrimination in AI-based medical devices
Creators: name: Polignano, Paola
Year: 2024

description: Die Integration von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in den Gesundheitssektor schreitet schnell voran und verspricht erhebliche Verbesserungen in der diagnostischen Genauigkeit, personalisierten Behandlungsmethoden und den allgemeinen Patientenergebnissen. Dieser Fortschritt bringt jedoch kritische Herausforderungen mit sich, insbesondere in Bezug auf Rassen- und Geschlechterdiskriminierung. Diese Studie untersucht die rechtlichen Verpflichtungen der Staaten gemäß internationalem und europäischem Menschenrecht, um Diskriminierung in medizinischen Technologien zu bekämpfen. Durch die Identifizierung von Lücken in der Darstellung von Frauen mit dunkler Hautfarbe in KI-basierten medizinischen Geräten und die Untersuchung von Datenbeschränkungen, die zu unzuverlässigen Diagnosesystemen führen, hebt die Forschung Ungleichheiten in der medizinischen Behandlung hervor. Ziel ist es, Inkonsistenzen zwischen KI-basierten medizinischen Technologien und europäischen Menschenrechtsstandards zu erkennen und Empfehlungen zur Förderung der Gleichstellung im Gesundheitswesen zu geben.
description: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the healthcare sector is rapidly advancing, promising significant improvements in diagnostic accuracy, personalized treatment approaches, and overall patient outcomes. However, this progress brings critical challenges, particularly in regards to racial and gender discrimination. This study examines the legal obligations of states under international and European human rights law to address discrimination in medical technologies. By identifying gaps in the representation of Black women in AI medical devices and exploring limitations in data that lead to unreliable diagnostic systems, the research highlights disparities in medical treatments. It aims to detect inconsistencies between AI-based medical technologies and European human rights standards and offers recommendations to promote equality in healthcare.
Cordilura nubecula Sasakawa 1986
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura nubecula

description: Cordilura nubecula Sasakawa, 1986
 Cordilura nubecula Sasakawa, 1986: 43. HOLOTYPE: ♀ (KPU No. 238), Japan, Honshu Is., Nagano Pref., Utukusigahara, 21.viii.1968, T. Okadome leg. (KPU).
 Distribution. Japan (SASAKAWA 1986: 43).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Chaotic Motion around a Black Hole under Minimal Length Effects
Creators: name: Guo, Xiaobo
name: Liang, Kangkai
name: Mu, Benrong
name: Wang, Peng
name: Yang, Mingtao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Melnikov method to identify chaotic behavior in geodesic motion perturbed by the minimal length effects around a Schwarzschild black hole. Unlike the integrable unperturbed geodesic motion, our results show that the perturbed homoclinic orbit, which is a geodesic joining the unstable circular orbit to itself, becomes chaotic in the sense that Smale horseshoes chaotic structure is present in phase space.
description: 17 pages, 4figures
The networked seceder model: Group formation in social and economic systems
Creators: name: Gronlund, Andreas
name: Holme, Petter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The seceder model illustrates how the desire to be different than the average can lead to formation of groups in a population. We turn the original, agent based, seceder model into a model of network evolution. We find that the structural characteristics our model closely matches empirical social networks. Statistics for the dynamics of group formation are also given. Extensions of the model to networks of companies are also discussed.
Cordilura ochracea Hendel 1930
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura ochracea

description: Cordilura ochracea Hendel, 1930
 Cordylura ochracea Hendel, 1930b: 6. HOLOTYPE: ♀, Russia, Kamchatka, Petropavlovsk, 6.-20.iv.[19]22 (NHRS).
 Distribution. Russia – Far East (HENDEL 1930b: 6).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 120, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Additional file 2 of Facial and body sexual dimorphism are not interconnected in the Maasai
Creators: name: Butovskaya, Marina L.
name: Rostovtseva, Victoria V.
name: Mezentseva, Anna A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 2. Association between facial traits and body height in Maasai (without control for BMI).
Cordilura remota Ozerov 1997
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura remota

description: Cordilura remota Ozerov, 1997
 Cordilura remota Ozerov, 1997: 1425. HOLOTYPE: J, Russia,‘Amurskaya obl. [= region], g. [= town] Zeya, 29.vi.1978, A. Shatalkin leg.’ (ZMUM; registration number Di-0032 (OZEROV 2005: 136)).
 Distribution. Russia – Far East (OZEROV 1997: 1425).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 121, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Nonvanishing sub-gap photocurrent as a probe of lifetime effects
Creators: name: Kaplan, Daniel
name: Holder, Tobias
name: Yan, Binghai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For semiconductors and insulators, it is commonly believed that in-gap transitions into non-localized states are smoothly suppressed in the clean limit, i.e. at zero temperature their contribution vanishes due to the unavailability of states. We present a novel type of sub-gap response which shows that this intuition does not generalize beyond linear response. Namely, we find that the dc current due to the bulk photovoltaic effect can be finite and mostly temperature independent in an allowed window of sub-gap transitions. We expect that a moderate range of excitation energies lies between the bulk energy gap and the mobility edge where this effect is observable. Using a simplified relaxation time model for the band broadening, we find the sub-gap dc-current to be temperature-independent for non-interacting systems but temperature-dependent for strongly interacting systems. Thus, the sub-gap response may be used to distinguish whether a state is single-particle localized or many-body localized.
description: 5 pages + 2 supplementary. 3 Figures. Accepted version
Cordilura sagitifera Gorodkov 1974
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura sagitifera

description: Cordilura sagitifera Gorodkov, 1974
 Cordilura sagitifera Gorodkov, 1974: 388. HOLOTYPE: J, Russia, ‘ Burjatia [= Buryatiya], Khargun, 6 km E from Kiren, 700 m a.s.l., 11.vii.1965, Gorodkov leg.’ (ZMAS).
 Distribution. Mongolia, Russia – East Siberia (GORODKOV 1974: 388).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 122, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Time-efficient algorithms for robust estimators of location, scale, symmetry, and tail heaviness
Creators: name: Gelade, Wouter
name: Verardi, Vincenzo
name: Vermandele, Catherine
name: Gelade, Wouter
name: Verardi, Vincenzo
name: Vermandele, Catherine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: mhl, sqn, medcouple, robjb, location, scale, symmetry, tail heaviness, mean, median, skewness, kurtosis, robust estimation

description: The analysis of the empirical distribution of univariate data often includes the computation of location, scale, skewness, and tail-heaviness measures, which are estimates of specific parameters of the underlying population distribution. Several measures are available, but they differ by Gaussian efficiency, robustness regarding outliers, and meaning in the case of asymmetric distributions. In this article, we briefly compare, for each type of parameter (location, scale, skewness, and tail heaviness), the “classical” estimator based on (centered) moments of the empirical distribution, an estimator based on specific quantiles of the distribution, and an estimator based on pairwise comparisons of the observations. This last one always performs better than the other estimators, particularly in terms of robustness, but it requires a heavy computation time of an order of n^2. Fortunately, as explained in Croux and Rousseeuw (1992, Computational Statistics 1: 411–428), the algorithm of Johnson and Mizoguchi (1978, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing 7: 147–153) allows one to substantially reduce the computation time to an order of n log n and, hence, allows the use of robust estimators based on pairwise comparisons, even in very large datasets. This has motivated us to program this algorithm for Stata. In this article, we describe the algorithm and the associated commands. We also illustrate the computation of these robust estimators by involving them in a normality test of Jarque–Bera form (Jarque and Bera 1980, Economics Letters 6: 255–259; Brys, Hubert, and Struyf, 2008, Computational Statistics 23: 429–442) using real data.
Teachers Perception on HRD Climate with reference to Private Schools in Western Odisha, India
Creators: name: Dubey, Pushkar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Teachers are the most imperative factor who shapes the behaviour of a child. They are the most essential element for the development of an elegant society. With high-quality teachers the civilization can move in the right direction. Therefore the development of teachers in education sector has key role to play in the development of a nation. Present study focuses on the issue of Human resource development climate prevailing in the private schools of western Odisha. Based on teacher’s opinion the OCTAPAC Culture, general climate and HRD implementation dimension were surveyed and the overall HRD Climate was calculated.
TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE U.S. SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Webre, Philip C.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: How significant a role has learning by doing played in increasing labor productivity in the U.S. semiconductor industry? Do learning economies remain important if other potential influences on labor productivity are taken into account? (Such potential influences might include increases in the capital/labor ratio, economies of scale, exogenous improvements in technology, and changes in the composition of labor.) How significant a role have these other influences played?; To answer these questions, a log linear production function incorporating learning variables and the other major factors was used. Two different data sets provided a cross-check on the results. First, an aggregate production function was estimated using industry-wide data from published sources, mainly the Census of Manufactures. A disaggregated production function also was estimated using data from one fabrication line producing one family of integrated circuits, using proprietary data obtained from the manufacturer. The estimation of the functions showed that while learning economies played a much smaller role in productivity growth in full models than in naive models, experience remained correlated positively with productivity. The learning parameters were much smaller than usually found in naive models, and the capital coefficient was much larger than usually found in production functions. Measures for scale economies, changes in labor composition, and technical change failed to produce credible results. Collinearity and some measurement problems contributed to estimation difficulties. The results were consistent across data sets. The importance of learning by doing has been overstated in this industry. While still present, the major factor explaining the rapid rate of productivity growth has been the increased use of capital. However, since the capital equipment has been improving in quality as well as in quantity, the capital coefficent probably overstates the pure contribution of capital to productivity growth because it incorporates advances in technology as well. While the statistical evidence did not corroborate the presence of scale economies, the collinearity and the nonstatistical evidence suggesting its presence leave this an open question.
Group Theory and Quasiprobability Integrals of Wigner Functions
Creators: name: Bracken, A. J.
name: Ellinas, D.
name: Wood, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The integral of the Wigner function of a quantum mechanical system over a region or its boundary in the classical phase plane, is called a quasiprobability integral. Unlike a true probability integral, its value may lie outside the interval [0,1]. It is characterized by a corresponding selfadjoint operator, to be called a region or contour operator as appropriate, which is determined by the characteristic function of that region or contour. The spectral problem is studied for commuting families of region and contour operators associated with concentric disks and circles of given radius a. Their respective eigenvalues are determined as functions of a, in terms of the Gauss-Laguerre polynomials. These polynomials provide a basis of vectors in Hilbert space carrying the positive discrete series representations of the algebra su(1,1)or so(2,1). The explicit relation between the spectra of operators associated with disks and circles with proportional radii, is given in terms of the dicrete variable Meixner polynomials.
description: 11 pages, latex file
The impact of SAILS Workforce Development Program on perception of job-specific competency and global self-esteem for youth with chronic illnesses
Creators: name: Takahashi, Nene
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: public health
subject: SAILS
subject: Supporting Adolescents with Independent Life Skills
subject: Self Concept
subject: Chronic Disease
subject: Young Adult
subject: Labor supply
subject: Occupational training
subject: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

description: A Northwestern University Capstone Project
description: Objective:To measure the impact of the SAILS (Supporting Adolescents with Independent Life Skills) WorkforceDevelopment Program on the perception of job competency and global self-esteem of the participants living with a chronic illness or illnesses. Methods: Previous Lurie Childrens Hospital (LCH) patients, aged 18-24, participated in the SAILS Workforce Development program from 2016 to 2017 were selected for this study. The program is a 120 hour paid work experience at a department within the hospital. Data was collected by the LCH transition team, where patients were administered paper-based self-reported surveys both pre- and post- program.The Susan Harter Self-Perception Profile for Emerging Adults was used for the intake and the exit survey to measure self-esteem and perceived job competence,and the Stanford SPS-6 Presentism Scale was used for the exit survey to measure presenteeism. The total scores of the Susan Harter Self-Perception Profile for emerging Adults pre- and post programs were compared using a two-tailed paired t-test.Results: A total of 12 participant data was reviewed and analyzed. The SAILS program may have had a positive effect on the participant's ability to manage their medication and treatment plan. It appears that more than average job days are missed for these youth with a chronic illness. In both the "Job or occupational competence" and "Global self-esteem" subscales of the Susan Harter Self-Perception Profile, the post-program survey scored higher compared to the pre-program survey, however, the findings did not reach statistical significance. The findings also demonstrate high scores on the Presenteeism Scale.Discussion: Despite the modest sample size, results suggested a positive impact on the program participants' general self-esteem and presenteeism. This indicates the beneficial impact of the SAILS Workforce Development program itself. Further research focusing on various types of chronic illnesses that affect youth in specific ways is needed to understand the disease-specific factors and its impact on work.
Phononic waveguide assisted steady state entanglement of SiV centers
Creators: name: Qiao, Yi-Fan
name: Li, Hong-Zhen
name: Dong, Xing-Liang
name: Chen, Jia-Qiang
name: Zhou, Yuan
name: Li, Peng-Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiparticle entanglement is of great significance for quantum metrology and quantum information processing. We here present an efficient scheme to generate stable multiparticle entanglement in a solid state setup, where an array of silicon-vacancy centers are embedded in a quasi-one-dimensional acoustic diamond waveguide. In this scheme, the continuum of phonon modes induces a controllable dissipative coupling among the SiV centers. We show that, by an appropriate choice of the distance between the SiV centers, the dipole-dipole interactions can be switched off due to destructive interferences, thus realizing a Dicke superradiance model. This gives rise to an entangled steady state of SiV centers with high fidelities. The protocol provides a feasible setup for the generation of multiparticle entanglement in a solid state system.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
title: Czynniki warunkujące przemoc wobec kobiet  w rodzinie
title: The factors determining violence against women in the family
Creators: name: Kurs, Justyna
Publisher: name: Social Studies: Theory and Practice, 2 (2021)
Year: 2022

description: W artykule przedstawiono rodzaje, przyczyny, uwarunkowania i skalę przemocy wobec kobiet w polskich rodzinach. Badania ankietowe przeprowadzone zostały za pośrednictwem Internetu. Analizy objęły okres od 2017 roku do 2019 roku. Badaniami zostały objęte kobiety, ofiary przemocy domowej. Okazuje się, że doznawały one głównie przemocy psychicznej, nieco rzadziej fizycznej. Zdecydowana większość z nich doświadczała przemocy przynajmniej raz w tygodniu, a co trzecia prawie każdego dnia. Sprawcami ich cierpień był przede wszystkim życiowy partner lub mąż. Agresja ze strony ojca występowała ponad dwukrotnie częściej, niż ze strony matki. Przyczyn przemocy upatrywały badane głównie w uzależnieniach, frustracji i doświadczeniach rodzinnych sprawców oraz poczuciu ich bezkarności.
TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE U.S. SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Webre, Philip C.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: How significant a role has learning by doing played in increasing labor productivity in the U.S. semiconductor industry? Do learning economies remain important if other potential influences on labor productivity are taken into account? (Such potential influences might include increases in the capital/labor ratio, economies of scale, exogenous improvements in technology, and changes in the composition of labor.) How significant a role have these other influences played?; To answer these questions, a log linear production function incorporating learning variables and the other major factors was used. Two different data sets provided a cross-check on the results. First, an aggregate production function was estimated using industry-wide data from published sources, mainly the Census of Manufactures. A disaggregated production function also was estimated using data from one fabrication line producing one family of integrated circuits, using proprietary data obtained from the manufacturer. The estimation of the functions showed that while learning economies played a much smaller role in productivity growth in full models than in naive models, experience remained correlated positively with productivity. The learning parameters were much smaller than usually found in naive models, and the capital coefficient was much larger than usually found in production functions. Measures for scale economies, changes in labor composition, and technical change failed to produce credible results. Collinearity and some measurement problems contributed to estimation difficulties. The results were consistent across data sets. The importance of learning by doing has been overstated in this industry. While still present, the major factor explaining the rapid rate of productivity growth has been the increased use of capital. However, since the capital equipment has been improving in quality as well as in quantity, the capital coefficent probably overstates the pure contribution of capital to productivity growth because it incorporates advances in technology as well. While the statistical evidence did not corroborate the presence of scale economies, the collinearity and the nonstatistical evidence suggesting its presence leave this an open question.
Additional file 3 of Facial and body sexual dimorphism are not interconnected in the Maasai
Creators: name: Butovskaya, Marina L.
name: Rostovtseva, Victoria V.
name: Mezentseva, Anna A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 3. Association between facial traits and body parameters in Maasai (controlled for BMI).