cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Ocean Passenger Vessels: Migrating South for the Winter
Creators: name: Chambers, Matthew
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2010
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93369
subject: Passenger ships
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97243
subject: Seasons
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97484
subject: Tables (Data)
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88201
subject: Trip tables
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88200
subject: Trip matrices

description: BTS special report;3p. in various pagings, http://www.bts.gov/publications/special_reports_and_issue_briefs/special_report/2010_01_20/html/entire.html;http://www.bts.gov/publications/special_reports_and_issue_briefs/;http://www.bts.gov/programs/freight_transportation/
description: In response to consumer demand, the passenger vessels that operate from seaports along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts alternate between north and south. Passenger vessels that sail out of ports such as New York, Baltimore and Seattle in the summer, lift anchor and steam for departure ports such as Miami, Tampa and Los Angeles, or overseas markets during the cold winter months. This phenomenon has grown in recent years as cruise lines increased the number of "close-to-home" departure ports1 in the north.
Sequential optimizing strategy in multi-dimensional bounded forecasting games
Creators: name: Kumon, Masayuki
name: Takemura, Akimichi
name: Takeuchi, Kei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G42

description: We propose a sequential optimizing betting strategy in the multi-dimensional bounded forecasting game in the framework of game-theoretic probability of Shafer and Vovk (2001). By studying the asymptotic behavior of its capital process, we prove a generalization of the strong law of large numbers, where the convergence rate of the sample mean vector depends on the growth rate of the quadratic variation process. The growth rate of the quadratic variation process may be slower than the number of rounds or may even be zero. We also introduce an information criterion for selecting efficient betting items. These results are then applied to multiple asset trading strategies in discrete-time and continuous-time games. In the case of continuous-time game we present a measure of the jaggedness of a vector-valued continuous process. Our results are examined by several numerical examples.
Mode and rate of evolution of haemosporidian mitochondrial genomes: Timing the radiation of avian parasites
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Haemoproteus
Leucocytozoon
mitochondrial genome
Plasmodium
phylogeny
substitution rates
time tree

description: © The Author 2017. Haemosporidians are a diverse group of vector-borne parasitic protozoa that includes the agents of human malaria; however, most of the described species are found in birds and reptiles. Although our understanding of these parasites' diversity has expanded by analyses of their mitochondrial genes, there is limited information on these genes' evolutionary rates. Here, 114 mitochondrial genomes (mtDNA) were studied from species belonging to four genera: Leucocytozoon, Haemoproteus, Hepatocystis, and Plasmodium. Contrary to previous assertions, the mtDNA is phylogenetically informative. The inferred phylogeny showed that, like the genus Plasmodium, the Leucocytozoon and Haemoproteus genera are not monophyletic groups. Although sensitive to the assumptions of the molecular dating method used, the estimated times indicate that the diversification of the avian haemosporidian subgenera/genera took place after the Cretaceous- Paleogene boundary following the radiation of modern birds. Furthermore, parasite clade differences in mtDNA substitution rates and strength of negative selection were detected. These differences may affect the biological interpretation of mtDNA gene lineages used as a proxy to species in ecological and parasitological investigations. Given that the mitochondria are critically important in the parasite life cycle stages that take place in the vector and that the transmission of parasites belonging to particular clades has been linked to specific insect families/subfamilies, this study suggests that differences in vectors have affected the mode of evolution of haemosporidian mtDNA genes. The observed patterns also suggest that the radiation of haemosporidian parasites may be the result of community-level evolutionary processes between their vertebrate and invertebrate hosts.
Nonextensive and superstatistical generalizations of random-matrix theory
Creators: name: Abul-Magd, A. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random matrix theory (RMT) is based on two assumptions: (1) matrix-element independence, and (2) base invariance. Most of the proposed generalizations keep the first assumption and violate the second. Recently, several authors presented other versions of the theory that keep base invariance on the expense of allowing correlations between matrix elements. This is achieved by starting from non-extensive entropies rather than the standard Shannon entropy, or following the basic prescription of the recently suggested concept of superstatistics. We review these generalizations of RMT and illustrate their value by calculating the nearest-neighbor-spacing distributions and comparing the results of calculation with experiments and numerical-experiments on systems in transition from order to chaos.
description: 25 pages, 2 figures
Climatic and Anthropogenic Controls on Groundwater Dynamics in the Mekong River Basin
Creators: name: Pokhrel, Yadu
name: Kabir, Tamanna
name: Felfelani, Farshid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Groundwater hydrology

description: Datasets for the paper (Climatic and Anthropogenic Controls on Groundwater Dynamics in the Mekong River Basin)- Observed streamflow data from Mekong River Commission (MRC) Groundwater observations from Tiwari et al., (2023; Sci. Data) Groundwater simulation outputs from CLM5 for Mekong River Basin
Stark Effect of Interactive Electron-hole pairs in Spherical Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Billaud, Baptiste
name: Picco, Marco
name: Truong, Tuong T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical variational approach, based on the effective mass approximation (EMA), to study the quantum-confinement Stark effects for spherical semiconducting quantum dots in the strong confinement regime of interactive electron-hole pair and limiting weak electric field. The respective roles of the Coulomb potential and the polarization energy are investigated in details. Under reasonable physical assumptions, analytical calculations can be performed. They clearly indicate that the Stark shift is a quadratic function of the electric field amplitude in the regime of study. The resulting numerical values are found to be in good agreement with experimental data over a significant domain of validity.
title: Konpetentzia digitalak. Graduko ikasleentzako formakuntza materialak: 4. Segurtasuna 4.1. Gailuen babesa: 4.1.3. Gailuen babesa
title: Competencias digitales. Materiales de formación para estudiantes de grado: 4. Seguridad 4.1. Protección de dispositivos: 4.1.3. Protección de dispositivos
Creators: name: CRUE-REBIUN
name: Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Publisher: name: Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Year: 2020

description: - Gailuen babesa: Gailura sarbidea. Sistema eragilea. Aplikazio eta programak. Fitxategiak eta karpetak. Web-nabigazioa. Haririk gabeko konexioak. Geolokalizazioa. Babes-sistemak. Informazio-kanalak. Sen ona.
description: - Protección de dispositivos: Acceso al dispositivo. Sistema operativo. Aplicaciones y programas. Archivos y carpetas. Navegación web. Conexiones inalámbricas. Geolocalización. Sistemas de protección. Canales de información. Sentido común.
Extreme nonlinear electrodynamics in metamaterials with very small linear dielectric permittivity
Creators: name: Ciattoni, A.
name: Rizza, C.
name: Palange, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a sub-wavelength periodic layered medium whose slabs are filled by arbitrary linear metamaterials and standard nonlinear Kerr media and we show that the homogenized medium behaves as a Kerr medium whose parameters can assume values not available in standard materials. Exploiting such a parameter availability, we focus on the situation where the linear relative dielectric permittivity is very small thus allowing the observation of the extreme nonlinear regime where the nonlinear polarization is comparable with or even greater than the linear part of the overall dielectric response. The behavior of the electromagnetic field in the extreme nonlinear regime is very peculiar and characterized by novel features as, for example, the transverse power flow reversing. In order to probe the novel regime, we consider a class of fields (transverse magnetic nonlinear guided waves) admitting full analytical description and we show that these waves are allowed to propagate even in media with $ε<0$ and $μ>0$ since the nonlinear polarization produces a positive overall effective permittivity. The considered nonlinear waves exhibit, in addition to the mentioned features, a number of interesting properties like hyper-focusing induced by the phase difference between the field components.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
title: U.S. Freight on the Move: Highlights from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey Preliminary Data
title: Special Report: U.S. Freight on the Move: Highlights from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey Preliminary Data
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Margreta, Michael
name: Ford, Chester
name: Dipo, M. Adhi
name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88133
subject: Commodity flow
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87968
subject: Freight transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88123
subject: Tonnage
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96717
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97484
subject: Tables (Data)
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88748
subject: Market value
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88132
subject: Commodities
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88121
subject: Freight traffic measurement
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97433
subject: Surveys

description: BTS special report;6p. in various pagings
description: More than 13 billion tons of freight, valued at $11.8 trillion, were transported nearly 3.5 trillion ton-miles in the United States during 2007, according to preliminary estimates from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS). The 2007 CFS data and results presented in this report are preliminary. The 2007 CFS was conducted from a sample of 102,369 establishments. Previous surveys were conducted in 1993, 1997, and 2002. Final CFS data are scheduled for release in December 2009.
NEFI Innovation Hub: Circular Economy (Poster)
Creators: name: NEFI New Energy for Industry
name: Fazeni-Fraisl, Karin
name: Muster-Slawitsch, Bettina
Publisher: name: NEFI
Year: 2025
Subjects: NEFI
Innovationsnetzwerk
Energie
Industrie
New Energy for Industry
Klima- und Energiefonds
Vorzeigeregion
Innovation Hub
Circular Economy
Kreislaufwirtschaft
Poster

description: Die NEFI Innovation Hubs sind spezialisierte Netzwerke, geleitet von angesehenen Forschungseinrichtungen. Ihr Ziel ist es, hochrelevante Forschungs- und Innovationsprojekte zu initiieren, die den Übergang zu einer klimaneutralen Industrie unterstützen und Österreich als Technologieführer im Bereich erneuerbarer Energien und Industrieinnovationen etablieren.

Die Kreislaufwirtschaft bietet großes Potenzial für eine klimaneutrale Industrie. Dabei geht es nicht nur um Recycling und Wiederverwertung von Materialien, sondern auch um die Neugestaltung von Produkten und Prozessen – mit einem ganzheitlichen Blick auf den gesamten Produktlebenszyklus bereits in der Planungsphase.
Thermo-spin effects in a quantum dot connected to ferromagnetic leads
Creators: name: Dubi, Y.
name: Di Ventra, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a system composed of a quantum dot in contact with ferromagnetic leads, held at different temperatures. Spin analogues to the thermopower and thermoelectric figures of merit are defined and studied as a function of junction parameters. It is shown that in contrast to bulk ferromagnets, the spin thermopower coefficient in a junction can be as large as the Seebeck coefficient, resulting in a large spin figure of merit. In addition, it is demonstrated that the junction can be tuned to supply only spin current but no charge current. We also discuss experimental systems where our predictions can be verified.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, published version (PRB rapid)
title: Motorcycle Trends in the United States
Creators: name: Morris, C. Craig
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93198
subject: Motorcycles
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88947
subject: Registrations
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90775
subject: Fatalities
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90766
subject: Injuries
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90773
subject: Injury rates
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88746
subject: Sales
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96717
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97484
subject: Tables (Data)

description: BTS special report;6p. in various pagings
description: During the last decade there has been a significant increase in the number of motorcycle sales and registrations in the United States. At the same time there has been a shift in the demographics of motorcycle users and increased focus on motorcycle safety issues. This report focuses on the current and emerging trends involving street-legal (on-road and dual-purpose) motorcycles.
Contribution of the Public Sector to the Development of Innovation: Position of Estonia
Creators: name: Reiljan, Janno
name: Friedrich, Peter
name: Paltser, Ingra
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: innovation policy; economic development; public sector innovation; private sector innovation; European comparison; Estonia’s innovation situation

description: Under conditions of regional competition the authors discuss the role of the public sector in developing innovation activities and the ways to encourage innovation in the private and the public sector. Innovation policy gets linked to modern stage theories of development that focus on innovation. Estonia has reached the investment driven stage. With respect to several innovation indexes and measures of innovation policy a statistical comparison between Estonia and European Union member countries shows whether Estonia belongs to the group of leaders, renegades from leader role, losers or to that of aspirers. The indexes and indicators applied refer to the Community Innovation Survey, Summary Innovation Index, and Global Competitive Index. Although public higher education and R&D expenditures and co-operation of firms are above EU levels the analysis demonstrates that total R&D expenses are below European average. Co-operation between Universities and private firms is low and the number of patents as well. The knowledge creation and the ability to apply innovations enabled Estonia to reach an “aspirer position” whereas with respect to global competition Estonia possesses a “looser” position partly due to the lack of scientists, engineers, etc. Estonian public sector should develop and promote actively the necessary and promising fields of innovation analysed.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 17 (2009)
Learning deep CNN denoiser prior for image restoration
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: cs.CV

description: ©2017 IEEE. Model-based optimization methods and discriminative learning methods have been the two dominant strategies for solving various inverse problems in low-level vision. Typically, those two kinds of methods have their respective merits and drawbacks, e.g., model-based optimization methods are flexible for handling different inverse problems but are usually time-consuming with sophisticated priors for the purpose of good performance; in the meanwhile, discriminative learning methods have fast testing speed but their application range is greatly restricted by the specialized task. Recent works have revealed that, with the aid of variable splitting techniques, denoiser prior can be plugged in as a modular part of model-based optimization methods to solve other inverse problems (e.g., deblurring). Such an integration induces considerable advantage when the denoiser is obtained via discriminative learning. However, the study of integration with fast discriminative denoiser prior is still lacking. To this end, this paper aims to train a set of fast and effective CNN (convolutional neural network) denoisers and integrate them into model-based optimization method to solve other inverse problems. Experimental results demonstrate that the learned set of denoisers can not only achieve promising Gaussian denoising results but also can be used as prior to deliver good performance for various low-level vision applications.
Food parenting and child snacking: A systematic review
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Snacks
Feeding
Food parenting

description: © 2017 The Author(s). Background: While the role of parenting in children's eating behaviors has been studied extensively, less attention has been given to its potential association with children's snacking habits. To address this gap, we conducted a systematic review to describe associations between food parenting and child snacking, or consuming energy dense foods/foods in between meals. Methods: Six electronic databases were searched using standardized language to identify quantitative studies describing associations of general and feeding-specific parenting styles as well as food parenting practices with snacking behaviors of children aged 2-18 years. Eligible peer-reviewed journal articles published between 1980 and 2017 were included. Data were extracted using a standard protocol by three coders; all items were double coded to ensure consistency. Results: Forty-seven studies met inclusion criteria. Few studies focused on general feeding (n = 3) or parenting styles (n = 10). Most studies focused on controlling food parenting practices (n = 39) that were not specific to snacking. Parental restriction of food was positively associated with child snack intake in 13/23 studies, while pressure to eat and monitoring yielded inconsistent results. Home availability of unhealthy foods was positively associated with snack intake in 10/11 studies. Findings related to positive parent behaviors (e.g. role modeling) were limited and yielded mixed results (n = 9). Snacking was often assessed using food frequency items and defined post-hoc based on nutritional characteristics (e.g. energy-dense, sugary foods, unhealthy, etc.). Timing was rarely included in the definition of a snack (i.e. chips eaten between meals vs. with lunch). Conclusions: Restrictive feeding and home access to unhealthy foods were most consistently associated with snacking among young children. Research is needed to identify positive parenting behaviors around child snacking that may be used as targets for health promotion. Detailed definitions of snacking that address food type, context, and purpose are needed to advance findings within the field. We provide suggested standardized terminology for future research.
Towards Effective Educational Politics through Improving the Performance Measurement System
Creators: name: Reisberg, Tuuli
name: Irs, Reelika
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: Performance; efficiency; measurement; appraisal; educational politics

description: Educational field is impelled to increase performance and quality, financial discipline, strategic behaviour and its goals in order to enhance “effectiveness”. As a result the incorporation of private sector management practices into the educational field is taking place. But it is important to notice that a proliferation of private managerial practices into the educational field goes along with a conflict-laden and contradictory process. Education provides an important area of implementation for techniques of performance evaluation aimed at improving the performance of public services. One of the most common conceptual frameworks in measuring organisational performance takes the form of a production function where the educational institution is seen as analogous to a company transforming inputs into outputs and outcomes through a production process. But the problems and the vagueness in determining educational system’s inputs, outputs and outcomes cause difficulties in making political decisions and that is why clear policy prescriptions have been difficult to derive. The purpose of this article is to create a discussion whether performance measurement should be a part of decision-making in educational politics. The authors debate about incorporating private sector management practices into the educational field. The debate is based on the example of evaluating the social impact in the educational field and the performance of teachers’ work in the educational system. The article consists of three parts. Firstly, the theoretical background of the performance measurement in educational field is discussed. Secondly, the important criteria for performance measurement design and political issues are argued. Thirdly, the evaluated shortcomings in Estonian educational organisations, which restrict them to be effective, are brought out. Relieving some of these shortcomings could be in authority of Estonian educational politics.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 17 (2009)
Brauchen wir eine neue Weltfinanzarchitektur?
Creators: name: Rohde, Armin
name: Treu, Johannes
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: Financial architecture; Bretton Woods System; Bretton Woods II; Exchange rates; Monetary Policy; Interest rate stabilizing policy

description: Every crisis in the financial sector leads to the question: Do we need new reform in this sector or actually a new architecture? This question is still alive since the end of the last great international financial agreement is more than 36 years ago, namely The Bretton Woods System. In particular against the background of the latest crises the G20 states came to the compromise that a new structural design in the financial sector is needed as fast as possible. 
The objective of this recent architecture should be to avoid new troubles. But one of the biggest problems on the way to the new financial design is time. It seems very unrealistic to establish such a new system in only a few weeks time, especially against the background that the preparation of the Bretton Woods System took more than three years. This is only one problem if you try to answer the question above and lots of other issues are still appearing. Furthermore this kind of resolutions could be classified as microeconomic approaches. But there are also macroeconomic answers to the question above. Therefore this paper will concentrate on the macroeconomic approaches and tries to shed some light on the discussion about a new financial architecture as well as discuss some other problems which may occur on the way to it
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 17 (2009)
title: 096 - Fellah de Karnak (Haute-Égypte)
title: 096 - Fellah of Karnak (Upper Egypt)
Creators: name: Généro, Jean-Damien
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Images et édition numérique (XML, LaTeX, PDF) de *Fellah de Karnak (Haute-Égypte). Journalier dans le système des engagements momentanés, d'après les renseignements recueillis sur les lieux de 1895 à 1900 par Georges Legrain, inspecteur-dessinateur du service des antiquités*, série 3, vol. 1, fasc. 5 (1902), monographie n°96, 1904, p. 289-336.
description: Source: https://ouvriersdeuxmondes.huma-num.fr/monographie/fellah-karnak-96
description: date: 1902-1904
Vascular thrombus imaging in vivo via near-infrared fluorescent nanodiamond particles bioengineered with the disintegrin bitistatin (Part II)
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: fluorescent nanodiamond particles
NIR fluorescence imaging
thrombosis
biomarkers

description: © 2017 Gerstenhaber et al. The aim of this feasibility study was to test the ability of fluorescent nanodiamond particles (F-NDP) covalently conjugated with bitistatin (F-NDP-Bit) to detect vascular blood clots in vivo using extracorporeal near-infrared (NIR) imaging. Specifically, we compared NIR fluorescence properties of F-NDP with N-V (F-NDPNV) and N-V-N color centers and sizes (100-10,000 nm). Optimal NIR fluorescence and tissue penetration across biological tissues (rat skin, porcine axillary veins, and skin) was obtained for F-NDPNV with a mean diameter of 700 nm. Intravital imaging (using in vivo imaging system [IVIS]) in vitro revealed that F-NDPNV-loaded glass capillaries could be detected across 6 mm of rat red-muscle barrier and 12 mm of porcine skin, which equals the average vertical distance of a human carotid artery bifurcation from the surface of the adjacent skin (14 mm). In vivo, feasibility was demonstrated in a rat model of occlusive blood clots generated using FeCl3 in the carotid artery bifurcation. Following systemic infusions of F-NDPNV-Bit (3 or 15 mg/kg) via the external carotid artery or femoral vein (N=3), presence of the particles in the thrombi was confirmed both in situ via IVIS, and ex vivo via confocal imaging. The presence of F-NDPNV in the vascular clots was further confirmed by direct counting of fluorescent particles extracted from clots following tissue solubilization. Our data suggest that F-NDPNV-Bit associate with vascular blood clots, presumably by binding of F-NDPNV-Bit to activated platelets within the blood clot. We posit that F-NDPNV-Bit could serve as a noninvasive platform for identification of vascular thrombi using NIR energy monitored by an extracorporeal device.
The Policies Concerning the Strength of Intellectual Property Rights Protection: The Choices for Estonia in Wider Context of EU
Creators: name: Roolaht, Tõnu
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: intellectual property rights protection; FDI; Estonian policy; EU policy

description: The foreign direct investment (FDI) can be substitute for the contractual transfer of intellectual property rights in a situation where these rights are weakly protected. Hence, stronger intellectual property rights protection may reduce incentives for FDI. This is, however, only one line of reasoning. Stronger intellectual property protection can also increase motivation to invest into completely new products and processes. Thus, from the slightly different perspective FDI and strength of intellectual property protection can be seen as complementary. This duality of impact makes the search for efficient protection very difficult and complex. The aim of this paper is to outline the policy choices open for Estonia in influencing the relative strength of intellectual property rights protection and its impact on FDI. The vital secondary research agenda by this concerns the influence of EU-membership on the autonomy of such policy choices. Given the fact that there exist European patents and patent registry, certain intellectual property rights protection measures and legislative practices are undoubtedly pre-determined by this embeddedness into EU-wide protection systems. The national level policies and enforcement issues may still vary.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 17 (2009)
Matter Effects in Solar Neutrino Active-Sterile Oscillations
Creators: name: Giunti, Carlo
name: Li, Yu-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the matter effects for solar neutrino oscillations in a general scheme, without any constraint on the number of sterile neutrinos and the mixing matrix elements, only assuming a realistic hierarchy of neutrino squared-mass differences in which the smallest squared-mass difference is effective in solar neutrino oscillations. The validity of the analytic results are illustrated with a numerical solution of the evolution equation in the simplest case of four-neutrino mixing with the realistic matter density profile inside the Sun.
description: 3 pages 1 figure, based on talk YFL gave at Erice 2009 Neutrinos in Cosmology, in Astro-, Particle- and Nuclear Physics
Stoic beliefs and health: Development and preliminary validation of the Pathak-Wieten Stoicism Ideology Scale
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: gender
subject: health behaviour theories
subject: help-seeking
subject: masculinity
subject: patient perspectives
subject: stoicism
subject: Adult
subject: African Americans
subject: Asian Americans
subject: European Continental Ancestry Group
subject: Female
subject: Health
subject: Hispanic Americans
subject: Humans
subject: Male
subject: Patient Acceptance of Health Care
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Sex Factors
subject: Surveys and Questionnaires
subject: Young Adult

description: © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. Introduction We developed and validated a new parsimonious scale to measure stoic beliefs. Key domains of stoicism are imperviousness to strong emotions, indifference to death, taciturnity and self-sufficiency. In the context of illness and disease, a personal ideology of stoicism may create an internal resistance to objective needs, which can lead to negative consequences. Stoicism has been linked to help-seeking delays, inadequate pain treatment, caregiver strain and suicide after economic stress. Methods During 2013-2014, 390 adults aged 18+ years completed a brief anonymous paper questionnaire containing the preliminary 24-item Pathak-Wieten Stoicism Ideology Scale (PW-SIS). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test an a priori multidomain theoretical model. Content validity and response distributions were examined. Sociodemographic predictors of strong endorsement of stoicism were explored with logistic regression. Results The final PW-SIS contains four conceptual domains and 12 items. CFA showed very good model fit: root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA)=0.05 (95% CI 0.04 to 0.07), goodness-of-fit index=0.96 and Tucker-Lewis Index=0.93. Cronbach's alpha was 0.78 and ranged from 0.64 to 0.71 for the subscales. Content validity analysis showed a statistically significant trend, with respondents who reported trying to be a stoic 'all of the time' having the highest PW-SIS scores. Men were over two times as likely as women to fall into the top quartile of responses (OR=2.30, 95% CI 1.44 to 3.68, P<0.001). ORs showing stronger endorsement of stoicism by Hispanics, Blacks and biracial persons were not statistically significant. Discussion The PW-SIS is a valid and theoretically coherent scale which is brief and practical for integration into a wide range of health behaviour and outcomes research studies.
The Impact of Innovation Policy on the Sectoral Structure of the Estonian Economy
Creators: name: Ruud, Laura
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: innovation; competitiveness; catching-up; specialisation; knowledgebased economy; structural change; medium-high technology (MHT) and high technology (HT) intensity industries

description: The current global economic crisis has increased the awareness of the role of knowledge-based economy in raising international competitiveness. For contributing to faster economic restructuring, knowing the quantitative effects of innovation policy decisions is relevant. Using an exports structure as an indicator of a production structure, a pooled data approach allows estimating the elasticity of the exports structure on innovation indicators. Admitting estimation limitations of the short time series available, the estimation results confirm a statistically significant effect of enterprises’ expenditures on research and development, and labour productivity on exports structure. The elasticity of the specialisation on higher technology intensity industries is generally higher than the elasticity of lower technology intensity industries. Knowing quantitatively confirmed effects in the past contributes to more effective competitiveness supporting policy decisions ahead.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 17 (2009)
title: Maritime Vessels Carry More than Half of Growing U.S.-East Africa Trade
Creators: name: Beningo, Steven
name: Liu, Zhi
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93350
subject: Merchant vessels
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89005
subject: International trade
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96717
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97484
subject: Tables (Data)

description: BTS special report;5p. in various pagings
description: Trade between the United States and East African countries (defined in this special report as Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) has grown substantially in recent years, reaching $1.3 billion in value in 2007. Between 1997 and 2007, U.S. exports to East Africa increased at an average annual rate of 9.1 percent per year, while imports grew by 7.7 percent. In 2007, 57 percent of U.S. trade with East Africa took place via seagoing vessel, and 22 percent by air. Trade by air has increased slightly faster than vessel trade, at average annual rates of 9.3 percent and 7.8 percent, respectively. The remaining 21 percent of U.S. trade with East Africa was classified by the U.S. Census Bureau as being transported via "other" modes. The exports in the "other" category consisted mostly of U.S. shipments of airplanes to Kenya. These shipments cannot be classified as trade by air because the aircraft itself was the commodity being shipped, as opposed to being the vehicle that transports commodities.
Spectrum and Wave Functions of Excited States in Lattice Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Kroger, H.
name: Hosseinizadeh, A.
name: Laprise, J. F.
name: Kroger, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a new method to compute the spectrum and wave functions of excited states. We construct a stochastic basis of Bargmann link states, drawn from a physical probability density distribution and compute transition amplitudes between stochastic basis states. From such transition matrix we extract wave functions and the energy spectrum. We apply this method to $U(1)_{2+1}$ lattice gauge theory. As a test we compute the energy spectrum, wave functions and thermodynamical functions of the electric Hamiltonian and compare it with analytical results. We find excellent agreement. We observe scaling of energies and wave functions in the variable of time. We also present first results on a small lattice for the full Hamiltonian including the magnetic term.
description: Lattice 2008 conference
Origins and development of Croat nationalism and the Croat-Magyar controversy, 1790-1847
Creators: name: Stipac, Boris
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this work is to examine the origins and development of Croat nationalism in the light of the Croat-Magyar relations from the period of Enlightened Absolutism to the eve of the revolutionary year of 1848. Since the development of Croat nationalism was strongly influenced by the Magyar national movement of that period, the bulk of this discussion is devoted to an analysis of the Croat-Magyar controversy caused by the Magyars' desire to magyarize the Croat nation. The main struggle between the two opposing forces took place in the Common Diet composed of the delegates from both nations. However, the Croat national movement itself originated among the young native intellectuals who, as a rule, did not have any direct influence on the proceedings of the Croat legislative house, the Sabor. Under the influence of the Czech, Slovak and Polish nationalists, these intellectuals rendered an invaluable service to the Croat nation. Their work resulted in Croatia's cultural renaissance which subsequently served as the basis for the struggle against Hungary. The author presupposes that the reader possesses adequate knowledge of Croat history in general and of the period discussed in particular. Therefore no attempt has been made to describe or explain some fundamental aspects of Croatia's political and cultural history. Any such endeavour would inevitably remove us from the topic and would be inconsistent with the task of this work. Chapters I and II deal with the background of the problem. Chapter I offers a brief explanation of Croatia's political status within the Habsburg Monarchy. Chapter II describes the origins and background of the Croat national movement which developed, following the year 1832, as the Illyrian Movement. It enables the reader to acquaint himself with the fundamentals and character of the Croat-Magyar controversy and with the political and cultural situation prevailing among the various Croat regions. Chapter III concentrates on the Illyrian Movement itself. It describes extensively the cultural renaissance of the Croats and points out the role and effects of the Illyrian Movement on the Croat-Magyar relations. Here again the author concentrates on the political effects of the cultural renaissance. The literary works of the Illyrians are mentioned and described in so far as they had a direct bearing upon the political situation in Croatia. In Chapter IV, the political nature of the struggle between the two nations reaches its peak. Following the formation of the first political parties and the crisis in the Croat national movement caused by the defeat of the Illyrians at the hands of the Magyarons in the election of 1845, the Croat national idea was finally emancipated. The Croat language finally became the official language for Croatia. Thus the main aim of the Illyrians was accomplished. In the last moment, Croatia emerged fully prepared to face the revolutionary year of 1848.
title: Making Connections: Intermodal Links between Scheduled Passenger Ferries and Other Public Transportation Modes
Creators: name: Goldberg, Bruce
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88096
subject: Intermodal transfer
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87906
subject: Intermodal transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88030
subject: Schedules and scheduling
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93372
subject: Ferries
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87936
subject: Public transit
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96717
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97484
subject: Tables (Data)

description: BTS special report;6p. in various pagings
description: Just over 40 percent of U.S. passenger ferry terminals offer connections to other scheduled public transportation modes. That makes ferries less connected than intercity rail, where 53 percent of stations have links with other modes, but more connected than airports where only 24 percent are served by another mode.1 Scheduled passenger ferry terminal data are the most recent to be added to the Intermodal Passenger Connectivity Database (IPCD) being developed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). The database now includes connection information for 1,494 intercity rail stations, airports, and ferry terminals.
Cost of Capital in Price-regulated Companies: the Case of Estonia
Creators: name: Sander, Priit
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: price regulation; cost of capital; market risk; currency risk

description: In case of price-regulated companies it is the role of appropriate government agencies to introduce clear, internally consistent, theoretically sound, and unambiguous methodology for finding the regulative cost of capital. The aim of the paper is to describe and analyze the cost of capital estimation methodology for regulated companies in Estonia and discuss some issues arising in applying this methodology. The current paper focuses on two topical issues associated with the estimation of regulative cost of capital in Estonia: estimation of market risk premium and inclusion of currency risk premium into the cost of capital. Current turmoil in financial markets has increased investors’ risk aversion as well as level of risks.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 17 (2009)
Automaticity in Stimulus-Parity Synaesthesia
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: categorisation
colour
shape
synaesthesia

description: © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Automaticity is a defining characteristic of synaesthesia. Here, we assess for automaticity in stimulus-parity synaesthesia; a subtype that has been documented only 3 times in the literature. Synaesthete R experiences many (nonnumerical) stimuli as being odd or even. She described a toy shape-sorter, which paired odd shapes with even colour slots (and vice versa) and relayed difficulties with the incongruency created by this simple toy. Inspired by this anecdote, we devised a computerised task in which Synaesthete R (and 10 control participants) indicated the location of a target shape, which was presented on a coloured bar. Synaesthete R (but not control participants) was faster to report the location of target shapes presented on colours of congruent synaesthetic parity, relative to target shapes presented on colours of incongruent synaesthetic parity. These results constitute the first objective demonstration as to the automatic nature of associations in stimulus-parity synaesthesia.
title: New insights in online fashion retail returns from a customers’ perspective and their dynamics
Creators: name: Stöcker, Björn
name: Baier, Daniel
name: Brand, Benedikt Martin
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Returns
subject: Drivers for returns
subject: Avoiding and averting returns
subject: Kano (method)
subject: Segmented kano perspective
subject: Customer perspective
subject: Kano dynamics
subject: 330
subject: 380

description: Returns are an inconvenient problem in the mail-order business, not only for the merchant but also for the customer. With an estimated return rate of 50% in the fashion sector, the seller has to deal with the expense of restocking and possibly reprocessing, the buyer, who must reship the return, and the environment. We do not consider returns to be generally bad, but rather an explicit, integral part of the online business model. Therefore, we investigate potentially suitable measures to avert or avoid returns in the pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase phases. We look at current and technological developments in return management and the most critical drivers for fashion assortment returns. The measures we investigate deliver a holistic view of the issue and target all three purchase phases. The resulting measures were assessed via an online questionnaire with 8393 participants (customers of a German fashion online retailer) to impact customer satisfaction using Kano’s method. There are clear measures that promise high customer satisfaction (such as 360° view) and a clear hierarchy regarding monetary and non-monetary measures. By applying a new method, the segmented Kano perspective, we found different customer segments, which are different in their expectations towards returns. That allowed us to conclude dynamics regarding return management. This assessment is followed by discussing the results, conclusions, and indications for further research fields.
Canopy of binary trees, Catalan tableaux and the asymmetric exclusion process
Creators: name: Viennot, Xavier Gérard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this paper is twofold. First we answer to a question asked by Steingrimsson and Williams about certain permutation tableaux: we construct a bijection between binary trees and the so-called Catalan tableaux. These tableaux are certain Ferrers (or Young) diagrams filled with some 0's and 1's, satisfying a certain hook condition, and are enumerated by the Catalan numbers. They form a subclass of the permutation tableaux, enumerated by n!, introduced by Postnikov in his study of totally non negative Grassmannians and networks. Secondly we relate this new Catalan bijection with the totally asymmetric exclusion process (TASEP), a very rich and well studied 1D gas model in statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems. We continue some combinatorial understanding of that model, in the spirit of works by Shapiro, Zeilberger and more recently by Brak, Essam, Rechnitzer, Corteel, Williams, Duchi and Schaeffer. Emphasis is made on the non-classical notion of canopy of a binary tree, analog of the classical up-down sequence of a permutation.
title: North American Trade Growth Continued in 2007
Creators: name: Beningo, Steven
name: Mohamed, Fahim
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89005
subject: International trade
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96717
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97484
subject: Tables (Data)

description: BTS special report;11p. in various pagings
description: Trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners—Canada and Mexico—has more than doubled in dollar value since the inception of NAFTA in 1994. In 2007, U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico reached $909 billion—a 5 percent increase over the prior year's total trade value. Since 2001, U.S.-NAFTA trade has grown by an average annual rate of 7 percent. This report examines the rapid growth rates, modal distribution, top gateways, and major commodities of U.S.-NAFTA trade and looks at U.S.-NAFTA trade volume by state.