cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Outputorientierung als Hoffnungsträger für den Mathematikunterricht?
title: Eine Studie am Ausgangspunkt der Entwicklung im Modell Luxemburg
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Andreas
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Der aktuelle Trend für Veränderungen in Bildungssystemen ist eine Hinwendung zur Outputorientierung. Empirische Belege zur Effektivität dieser Steuerungspolitik gibt es bisher kaum. Auch im Rahmen meiner Tätigkeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Projekt "visions de math" (Projektleitung: Timo Leuders) als Teil des luxemburgischen Projektes "Bildungsstandards Mathematik", bin ich an einer Aufklärung der erhofften Wirkungszusammenhänge der in Luxemburg implementierten bildungspolitischen Instrumente interessiert. Die Umstellung auf Bildungsstandards hat in Luxemburg gerade erst begonnen. Luxemburg steht vor vergleichbaren Aufgaben wie seine Nachbarländer. Daher sind Erkenntnisse aus dem Modell Luxemburg auch übertragbar auf Innovationen und Entwicklungsprozesse in deutschen Bildungssystemen.
The Effect of Advertising on Brand Equity: A Study on Flintstone Homes
Creators: name: Maru, Frezer
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The field of branding and brand equity is new area of research in Ethiopia. Furthermore, there is very little work concentrating on systematic investigations of the effects of advertising on brand equity in the real-estate sector. This study elucidates the relationships between the marketing mix element -advertising- and brand equity. In particular, the study focuses on advertising from a quantitative (perceived advertising spending) and qualitative (individuals' attitudes toward the advertisements, advertisement message's content, and advertisement media) perspectives and its effect on building consumer based brand equity. The research approach was quantitative and multistage sampling technique was followed. It has been surveyed on 348 selected samples in Addis Ababa's five sub-cities. Findings show that the content of advertising plays a key role influencing brand equity dimensions, whereas advertising spend improves brand awareness but it is not enough to positively influence other brand equity dimensions. The paper also finds distinctive effects of advertisement message's content and advertisement media on brand equity. In addition the results show that companies can optimize the brand equity management process by considering the relationships existing between the different aspects of advertising and dimensions of brand equity.
Drug-Target Relationship Analysis
Creators: name: Smith, Janet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Drug research and development is the driving force of the pharmaceutical industry, and it has also caused a research boom in the academic community. Computer-aided drug design is a supplement to traditional experimental drug discovery. It accelerates the development of new drugs, shortens drug development time, and reduces the cost of drug R&D projects. Physics-based calculation methods used in CADD improve the success rate of drug development. Using our AI technology to accelerate the drug discovery process, more intuitive data can be applied to help you analyze whether there is a correlation between the drug and the target.
New Etymologies for PIE *hewis (bird), *howis (sheep), *howyom (egg), *hews (dawn), et al.
Creators: name: Gheorghiu, Alexandru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Proto-Indo-European reconstruction, Proto-Indo-European language, Historical linguistics, Latin, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Celtic, Indo-Iranian
PIE bird, PIE sheep, PIE dawn, PIE egg, avis, aetos, eagle
History of Europe, Neolithic Europe, Basque, Indo-European etymology, Eurasian linguistics
Pre-Proto-Indo-European, Eteo-Indo-European, Poseidon, Demeter, Damater, Getae
Ge, Gaia, Ga, Gaius, PIE *Hekwos, PIE horse

description: A new work investigating many PIE roots in a whole new way: many of the roots beginning with h2. Some beginning with h1. Many beginning with Dh. As well as the case of Indo-Iranian *mrgas="wild animal, bird" and Germano-Celtic *markos="horse". Nereus etymology solved. Poseidon solved. Ketus solved. Ge/Ga/Gaia solved. And more.
description: 8th version: finally a very accurate version. The 7th vrsion would have been very accurate but I forgot to/didn't have time to add my new etymologies where Dh="force" not "breath", making everything accurate in one sweep. Many revised etymologies, and incorporating the revisions from the 6th version. I have concluded that PIE *howis did refer to the fat rounded plumpness of sheep but did not derive from "full of breath/life-force", rather it had the same kind of semantic origin as Lithuanian "storas" which means "thick, fat" but derives from PIE St="thick, hard, stiff" (and other linked meanings). The word-initial h2 sound in PIE often had the same semantics as word-initial St- and Kr- in PIE. in the 6th version I changed the etymology for PIE *h2ews, "dawn, east" to one that says that the earlier meaning was "bright", because I now accept that h2 was a harsher sound than h1 and I now believe that PIE h2weh1 "to blow (of wind)" derives from a mimicking of the sound of rushing air: so it's onomatopoeic. And now I'm pretty sure that *h2weh1 is not the source of *h2ews, "dawn, east". This version has my new etymology of PIE h2ewis, "bird" which posits that *h2ewis meant "noisy; singer' referring to the vocalizations of various birds. I publish here also my theory that PIE *h2ekweh1 "water" referred to the sound of streaming water.
Gradient methods for variational optimization of projected entangled-pair states
Creators: name: Vanderstraeten, Laurens
name: Haegeman, Jutho
name: Corboz, Philippe
name: Verstraete, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a conjugate-gradient method for the ground-state optimization of projected entangled-pair states (PEPS) in the thermodynamic limit, as a direct implementation of the variational principle within the PEPS manifold. Our optimization is based on an efficient and accurate evaluation of the gradient of the global energy functional by using effective corner environments, and is robust with respect to the initial starting points. It has the additional advantage that physical and virtual symmetries can be straightforwardly implemented. We provide the tools to compute static structure factors directly in momentum space, as well as the variance of the Hamiltonian. We benchmark our method on Ising and Heisenberg models, and show a significant improvement on the energies and order parameters as compared to algorithms based on imaginary-time evolution.
New Etymologies for PIE *hewis (bird), *howis (sheep), *howyom (egg), *hews (dawn), et al.
Creators: name: Gheorghiu, Alexandru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Proto-Indo-European reconstruction, Proto-Indo-European language, Historical linguistics, Latin, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Celtic, Indo-Iranian
PIE bird, PIE sheep, PIE dawn, PIE egg, avis, aetos, eagle
History of Europe, Neolithic Europe, Basque, Indo-European etymology, Eurasian linguistics
Pre-Proto-Indo-European, Eteo-Indo-European, Poseidon, Demeter, Damater, Getae
Ge, Gaia, Ga, Gaius, PIE *Hekwos, PIE horse

description: A new work investigating many PIE roots in a whole new way. As well as the case of Indo-Iranian *mrgas="wild animal, bird" and Germano-Celtic *markos="horse". And more.
description: 6th version: I changed the etymology for PIE *h2ews, "dawn, east" to one that says that the earlier meaning was "bright", because I now accept that h2 was a harsher sound than h1 and I now believe that PIE h2weh1 "to blow (of wind)" derives from a mimicking of the sound of rushing air: so it's onomatopoeic. And now I'm pretty sure that *h2weh1 is not the source of *h2ews, "dawn, east". This version has my new etymology of PIE h2ewis, "bird" which posits that *h2ewis meant "noisy; singer' referring to the vocalizations of various birds. I publish here also my theory that PIE *h2ekweh1 "water" referred to the sound of streaming water.
The gatherers and the night city
Creators: name: Stavrianos, Wendy Diane.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Cost Benefit Analysis of Popular Diets
Creators: name: Steele, Quincy
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Diet
Cost Analysis
Keto
Atkins
Carnivore
Paleo
Pegan
Volumetrics
Zone

description: The increase in obesity in recent years has led to the creation of numerous diets claiming to induce weight loss and improve overall health. While all diets claim to be the best, it is difficult to determine which diet provides the most utility given the costs of participation. These diets have varying scientific evidence to support the claims made and participants have mental, temporal, and financial costs associated with each. This thesis examines each diet and the costs and benefits associated with each. The benefits of the diet were researched, and scientific evidence was recorded. The mental and temporal costs were determined by a one-week personal trial. The financial costs were calculated using the HEB website and meal plans provided by the text. The scientific evidence, personal data, and financial data were compared for each diet to determine which diet provides the most utility for the lowest cost. The Volumetrics diet was found to have the most scientific evidence to support the benefits, the lowest mental and temporal costs, and the lowest cost to participate in long-term.
Porous Dust Particles in Protoplanetary Disks: Application to the HL Tau Disk
Creators: name: Zhang, Shangjia
name: Zhu, Zhaohuan
name: Ueda, Takahiro
name: Kataoka, Akimasa
name: Sierra, Anibal
name: Carrasco-González, Carlos
name: Macías, Enrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dust particle sizes constrained from dust continuum and polarization observations by radio interferometry are inconsistent by at least an order of magnitude. Motivated by porous dust observed in small Solar System bodies (e.g., from the Rosetta mission), we explore how the dust particle's porosity affects the estimated particle sizes from these two methods. Porous particles have lower refractive indices, which affect both opacity and polarization fraction. With weaker Mie interference patterns, the porous particles have lower opacity at mm wavelengths than the compact particles if the particle size exceeds several hundred microns. Consequently, the inferred dust mass using porous particles can be up to a factor of six higher. The most significant difference between compact and porous particles is their scattering properties. The porous particles have a wider range of particle sizes with high linear polarization from dust self-scattering, allowing mm-cm-sized particles to explain polarization observations. With a Bayesian approach, we use porous particles to fit HL Tau disk's multi-wavelength continuum and mm-polarization observations from ALMA and VLA. The moderately porous particles with sizes from 1 mm-1 m can explain both continuum and polarization observations, especially in the region between 20-60 au. If the particles in HL Tau are porous, the porosity should be from 70% to 97% from current polarization observations. We also predict that future observations of the self-scattering linear polarization at longer wavelengths (e.g., ALMA B1 and ngVLA) have the potential to further constrain the particle's porosity and size.
description: 39 pages, 18 figures, 1 table, accepted to be published in The Astrophysical Journal
Conformal energy currents on the edge of a topological superconductor
Creators: name: Self, Chris N.
name: Pachos, Jiannis K.
name: Wootton, James R.
name: Iblisdir, Sofyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The boundary of a 2D topological superconductor can be modeled by a conformal field theory. Here we demonstrate the behaviors of this high level description emerging from a microscopic model at finite temperatures. To achieve that, we analyze the low energy sector of Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model and probe its energy current. We observe that the scaling of the energy current with temperature reveals the central charge of the conformal field theory, which is in agreement with the Chern number of the bulk. Importantly, these currents can discriminate between distinct topological phases at finite temperatures. We assess the resilience of this measurement of the central charge under coupling disorder, bulk dimerisation and defects at the boundary, thus establishing it as a favorable means of experimentally probing topological superconductors.
description: updated -- minor tweaks to text and figures
New Etymologies for PIE *hewis (bird), *howis (sheep), *howyom (egg), *hews (dawn), et al.
Creators: name: Gheorghiu, Alexandru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Proto-Indo-European reconstruction, Proto-Indo-European language, Historical linguistics, Latin, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Celtic, Indo-Iranian
PIE bird, PIE sheep, PIE dawn, PIE egg, avis, aetos, eagle
History of Europe, Neolithic Europe, Basque, Indo-European etymology, Eurasian linguistics
Pre-Proto-Indo-European, Eteo-Indo-European, Poseidon, Demeter, Damater, Getae
Ge, Gaia, Ga, Gaius, PIE *Hekwos, PIE horse

description: A new work investigating many PIE roots in a whole new way. As well as the case of Indo-Iranian *mrgas="wild animal, bird" and Germano-Celtic *markos="horse". And more.
description: 7th version: finally a very accurate version. Many revised etymologies, and incorporating the revisions from the 6th version. I have concluded that PIE *howis did refer to the fat rounded plumpness of sheep but did not derive from "full of breath/life-force", rather it had the same kind of semantic origin as Lithuanian "storas" which means "thick, fat" but derives from PIE St="thick, hard, stiff" (and other linked meanings). The word-initial h2 sound in PIE often had the same semantics as word-initial St- and Kr- in PIE. in the 6th version I changed the etymology for PIE *h2ews, "dawn, east" to one that says that the earlier meaning was "bright", because I now accept that h2 was a harsher sound than h1 and I now believe that PIE h2weh1 "to blow (of wind)" derives from a mimicking of the sound of rushing air: so it's onomatopoeic. And now I'm pretty sure that *h2weh1 is not the source of *h2ews, "dawn, east". This version has my new etymology of PIE h2ewis, "bird" which posits that *h2ewis meant "noisy; singer' referring to the vocalizations of various birds. I publish here also my theory that PIE *h2ekweh1 "water" referred to the sound of streaming water.
Personal language of symbols and iconography
Creators: name: Di Mauro, Sebastian.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Edison to AI: Intellectual Property in AI-Driven Drug R&D
Creators: name: Turner, Zak
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: AI
Drug R&D
patents
intellectual property

description: In 2019, the inventor Stephen Thaler filed a patent on two inventions in which he listed his AI program, Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS), as the inventor. The US Patent and Trademark Office rejected Thaler’s applications and, in 2022, a US Federal Court of Appeals upheld this decision on the grounds that an inventor must be a human being. Although this decision is perhaps consistent with the law, a refusal to patent AI-inventions could have negative consequences for innovation. This thesis examines the question of IP policy toward AI-inventions through the prism of pharmaceutical drugs. The question is: how should AI-designed drugs be treated by US IP law? There are two smaller questions involved here. First, who, if anyone, should be recognized as the inventors for inventions created by AI. Second, is there a justification for IP rights in AI inventions? In attempting to answer these questions, this paper focuses on two AI- driven pharmaceutical companies, Insilico and Recursion. I then compare the data and models from the two firms against the arguments made regarding patent policy for AI-inventions in three scholarly works. My conclusion is that extending FDA market exclusivity privileges to AI-produced drugs is preferable to extending patent protections.
Work-in-progress : the influence of photography on the production of representation in the age of mechanical reproduction (1912-1928), with a view towards the development of post-photographic practice and critique
Creators: name: Dziekan, Vince.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Dynamical History Of The Local Group In $Λ$CDM $\rm{II}$ $-$ Including External Perturbers In 3D
Creators: name: Banik, Indranil
name: Zhao, Hongsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We attempt to fit the observed radial velocities (RVs) of ${\,{\sim}\,}30$ Local Group (LG) galaxies using a 3D dynamical model of it and its immediate environment within the context of the standard cosmological paradigm, $Λ$CDM. This extends and confirms the basic results of our previous axisymmetric investigation of the LG (MNRAS, 459, 2237). We find that there remains a tendency for observed RVs to exceed those predicted by our best-fitting model. The typical mismatch is slightly higher than in our 2D model, with a root mean square value of ${\,{\sim}\,}50$ km/s. Our main finding is that including the 3D distribution of massive perturbing dark matter halos is unlikely to help greatly with the high velocity galaxy problem. Nonetheless, the 2D and 3D results differ in several other ways such as which galaxies' RVs are most problematic and the preferred values of parameters common to both models. The anomalously high RVs of several LG dwarfs may be better explained if the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) were once moving much faster than in our models. This would allow LG dwarfs to gain very high RVs via gravitational slingshot encounters with a massive fast-moving galaxy. Such a scenario is possible in some modified gravity theories, especially those which require the MW and M31 to have previously undergone a close flyby. In a $Λ$CDM context, however, this scenario is not feasible as the resulting dynamical friction would cause a rapid merger.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in this form
The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Components of Brand Equity: The Case of Diageo Meta Abo Brewery S.C
Creators: name: Amare, Sessen
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of Alcohol in the Society (CSR) campaign on components of brand equity (Brand awareness, image, response, meaning and resonance) specifically Diageo Meta Abo Brewery S.C. These campaigns include "Shoom shufair", "Don't drink and drive", "not for sell for below 18 years old" etc. The study was conducted on Meta beer consumers who reside in Addis Ababa on 4 sub-cities (Bole, Arada, Chirkos and Nefasilk). The study is explanatory research with quantitative research method and deductive research approach. Primary data was collected using structured questionnaires, distributed to 384 customers. Accidental sampling method was used to select respondents. The total response rate was 92.82% which was acceptable to make the necessary statistical test. The data gathered was analyzed using frequency tables, mean and standard deviation tables, correlation, and regression through Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The result revealed that a there is a moderate, positive and significant relationship between Alcohol in the Society (CSR) campaigns and brand awareness, brand image. Week, positive and significant relationship between Alcohol in the Society (CSR) campaigns and brand response, brand meaning. No significant relationship was observed between Alcohol in the Society (CSR) campaigns and brand resonance. In general, the findings indicate that Alcohol in the Society (CSR) campaigns contribute to brand equity at least in the context of Diageo Meta Abo.
title: Искусственные нейронные сети
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2021

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены основные положения теории искусственных нейронных сетей (ИНС), приведены особенности функционирования биологических и искусственных нейронов, классификации искусственных нейронных сетей, методы и подходы к обучению ИНС. Изложены архитектура и принципы обучения многослойных, радиальных базисных сетей, а также самоорганизующиеся алгоритмы классификации данных, методы обучения ИНС для распознавания образов. Учебное пособие предназначено для бакалавров и магистров укрупненных групп направлений подготовки 01.00.00 «Математика и механика», 02.00.00 «Компьютерные и информационные науки», 09.00.00 «Информатика и вычислительная техника», изучающих дисциплины «Искусственные нейронные сети», «Математические модели искусственного интеллекта», «Нейронные сети», «Теория и практика нейронных сетей» и другие аналогичные курсы.
Axis-symmetric Onsager Clustered States of Point Vortices in a Bounded Domain
Creators: name: Xiong, Yanqi
name: Chen, Jiawen
name: Yu, Xiaoquan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study axis-symmetric Onsager clustered states of a neutral point vortex system confined to a two-dimensional disc. Our analysis is based on the mean field of bounded point vortices in the microcanonical ensemble. The clustered vortex states are specified by the inverse temperature $β$ and the rotation frequency $ω$, which are the conjugate variables of energy $E$ and angular momentum $L$, respectively. The formation of the axis-symmetric clustered vortex states (azimuthal angle independent) involves the separating of vortices with opposite circulation and the clustering of vortices with same circulation around origin and edge. The state preserves $\rm SO(2)$ symmetry while breaks $\mathbb Z_2$ symmetry. We find that, near the uniform state ($E=0$), the rotation free state ($ω=0$) emerges at particular values of $L^2/E$ and $β$. At large energies, we obtain asymptotically exact vortex density distributions, whose validity condition gives rise the lower bound of $β$ for the rotation free states. Noticeably, the obtained vortex density distribution near the edge at large energies provides a novel exact vortex density distribution for the corresponding chiral vortex system.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Emergence of collective dynamical chirality for achiral active particles
Creators: name: Jiang, Huijun
name: Ding, Huai
name: Pu, Mingfeng
name: Hou, Zhonghuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emergence of collective dynamical chirality (CDC) at mesoscopic scales plays a key role in many formation processes of chiral structures in nature, which may also provide possible routines for people to fabricate complex chiral architectures. So far, most of reported CDCs are found in systems of active objects with individual structure chirality or/and dynamical chirality, and whether CDC can arise from simple and achiral units is still an attractive mystery. Here, we report a spontaneous formation of CDC in a system of both dynamically and structurally achiral particles motivated by active motion of cells. Active moving, confinement and hydrodynamic interaction are found to be the three key factors. Detailed analysis shows that the system can support abundant collective dynamical behaviors, including rotating droplet, rotating bubble, CDC oscillation, array of collective rotation, as well as interesting transitions such as chirality transition, structure transition and state reentrance.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Phthalate Exposure and Neurotoxicity in Children – A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Aliani, Razia
name: Antoniou, Evangelia
name: Zeegers, Maurice
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemicals and Drugs
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Environmental Studies
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: antenatal
subject: anxiety
subject: attention
subject: autism
subject: children
subject: cognition
subject: emotion
subject: infant
subject: memory
subject: neurodevelopment
subject: phthalate
subject: phthalic acid
subject: prenatal

description: To provide a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of the published epidemiological literature on the association between prenatal exposure to ortho-phthalates and neurodevelopmental phenotypes in the offspring. We have identified a previous review on a similar topic that included academic studies until year 2019. Since then, more than 10 subsequent studies assessing phthalate exposure and neurodevelopmental disorders including, cognition (measure of intelligence e.g., IQ), learning/ memory, motor development, behaviour (internalizing and externalizing, anxiety, ADHD), emotional development, infant behaviour, social behaviour, and autism spectrum disorder, have been published that warrant a systematic review update.
America the Dreadful: Politics of Oppression in Trump Era Horror Films
Creators: name: Yanez, Anthony D.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Horror
film
politics
oppression
Trump
America

description: American horror films have reflected the state of politics and socio-political issues of each particular generation since the creation of horror films in cinema. In this thesis, I explore how horror films in the Trump era continue reflecting socio-political issues of their time and how oppressive politics influence each films’ final product. The films that I analyze are The Forever Purge (2021), Candyman (1992) and Candyman (2021), Us (2019), Hereditary (2018), and Midsommar (2019). Most of the films that I discuss are produced by major Hollywood studio production companies and only two are produced by independent film studios. Each film discusses issues of oppression that affect minorities and other disadvantaged groups. Additionally, each film critiques the policies and issues that allow systematic oppression to persist. Because of each film's critique of systematic oppression, each film released in the contemporary era feature a protagonist that is a minority or is a member of a disadvantaged group in America. The questions I answer in my thesis are have American horror filmmakers continued the trope of including socio-political commentary in the contemporary era and how do American oppressive politics during the Trump-era of politics influence an American horror filmmakers' decision to include socio-political commentary when creating a film?
The role of mindsets in the context of the COVID-19 viral outbreak: T4
Creators: name: Barrera, Jesse
name: Zion, Sean
name: Heathcote, Lauren
name: Horii, Rina
name: Leibowitz, Kari
name: Louis, Kengthsagn
name: Crum, Alia
name: Evans, Kristopher
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Our major scientific aim is to advance our understanding of the role of mindsets in influencing behaviors and health. Specifically, we hope to explore how mindsets about illness and the body influence behavior, health, and well-being in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Phenotypic Screening
Creators: name: Smith, Janet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Phenotypic screening is a type of screening used to identify substances such as small molecules, peptides, or RNAi that alter the phenotype of a cell or an organism in a desired manner. When the molecular mechanism of action is not assumed and does not require knowledge of the molecular target, phenotypic screening can be applied in biological research and drug discovery.
Basic hypergeometry of supersymmetric dualities
Creators: name: Gahramanov, Ilmar
name: Rosengren, Hjalmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T60, 33D60, 33E20, 33D90

description: We introduce several new identities combining basic hypergeometric sums and integrals. Such identities appear in the context of superconformal index computations for three-dimensional supersymmetric dual theories. We give both analytic proofs and physical interpretations of the presented identities.
description: 25 pages, v2: minor corrections and comments
Queering Reality Dating Television
Creators: name: Vanden Bout, Marianna
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: television
queer studies
media studies
reality television

description: This thesis explores the ways that the reality dating television genre reinforces heteronormativity, with a focus on the role of format in constructing circumstances in which participants must perform heterosexuality in order to succeed. Beginning with a discussion of the conventions of the 2000s and continuing through the 2020s reveals the role that borrowing from established formats has played in the emergence of the reality dating genre, creating representations that continue to reproduce heteronormativity because they are reliant on what has come before. Despite this, reality television has presented unique affordances in terms of queer visibility, because of its internal commitment to authenticity as well as its unscpripted nature. As a result, the relaity dating genre makes for an interesting case to examine the ways relevision has represented queer people and relationships.
The Effectiveness of Distraction and Reappraisal in Managing Uncertain Future Events
Creators: name: Teague, James
name: Koval, Peter
name: Moeck, Ella
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Psychological Phenomena and Processes
subject: Distraction
subject: Emotional intensity
subject: Emotion regulation
subject: Reappraisal
subject: Uncertain future events

description: Uncertain future events are commonly associated with high levels of distress, but it is unclear whether distraction and reappraisal are effective strategies for managing such distress. One factor that could influence the effectiveness of these strategies is the intensity of a situation. Sheppes (2020) suggests that distraction is more effective in high-intensity situations, whereas reappraisal is more effective in low-intensity situations. However, there is a lack of ecologically valid data from daily life studies to support this claim. Our study thus aims to examine two questions. First, can people successfully regulate their emotions while awaiting uncertain future events by employing distraction and reappraisal? Second, does the success of these strategies depend on the emotional intensity (i.e., distress) of the event?
Protein-Protein Interaction Sites Prediction
Creators: name: Smith, Janet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Protein-protein interaction (PPI) sites play a key role in the formation of protein complexes, and protein complexes are the basis of various biological processes. Many prediction algorithms to determine PPI sites have been developed because the current experimental methods are expensive and time-consuming. CD ComputaBio can effectively predict protein-protein interaction sites using computational biology-based methods.
Measuring Customer Based Brand Equity: The case of Kaldi's Coffee
Creators: name: Abebe, Yonas
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Customer based brand equity plays a vital role in contemporary marketing. Firms with high brand equity have the privilege of having higher consumer preferences, high stock returns, greater loyalty, less vulnerability to competitive marketing actions, less vulnerability to marketing crises and larger margins. This research study aimed to explore the most contributing factors that are behind the brand equity of Kaldi's coffee. The most common and widely used conceptual framework of Aaker was used. The model consists of five dimensions of brand equity namely, brand awareness, brand loyalty perceived quality and brand association. These dimensions represent customers' evaluations and reactions to the brand that can be readily understood by customers and hence they have been widely adapted to measure customer-based brand equity. A quantitative research method was applied to research the causal relationship of the brand equity measurement dimensions to that of overall brand equity. The target population was all the customers of kaldi's coffee. A Convenience sampling technique was conducted to contact the sample respondents who are the customers of Kaldi's coffee. Applying a structured questionnaire written both in Amharic and English the researcher distributed to 422 people personally. Out of the total questionnaires distributed, 386 were considered valid for analysis. The analysis was performed using frequency, mean, standard deviation, correlation and regression by means of SPSS software. Then the collected data were analyzed and interpreted. The findings show that all the four dimensions of CBBE have a positive significant effect and contribution on brand equity. Moreover, brand loyalty was found to be the higher contributor to the brand equity of kaldi's coffee. As a recommendation, companies in the coffee roasting sector must be aware of their status in the industry. Therefore, the major recommendations are Identification of the brand health in the market, the company must give their Primary attention to the concept of Brand Equity and finding ways to increase customer's loyalty. And also the company must work hard by enhancing its professionalism & genuine responsibility to increase customer's perception about its products & services quality. Finally, in terms of association, the company must build strong brand to forward in the market for long term
Determinants of Effectiveness of Social Media usage: The case of Ethiopian Airlines
Creators: name: Baheru, Eskedar
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Social media marketing is a new trend. Tools and approaches for communicating customers have changed greatly with emergence of social media and it has become an avenue that marketers can extend their marketing campaigns to a wider range of consumer. (Paquette H. 2013) The airline industry is fast adapting and utilizing social media technology as competition in the industry is fierce, quality service at low cost becomes common place and they are seeking new and innovative ways to sustain competitive advantage. The purpose of this study is to investigate determinants of effectiveness of social media usage by Ethiopian Airlines. To this effect, 4 predictor factors namely perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment and trust were identified and consumer based attitude scale that contains 24 items was developed and questionnaires were completed. Assumption and diagnostic tests were done and in the end, trust was found to be dominative determinant of effectiveness of social media usage by Ethiopian Airlines while perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use were found to have positive significant association towards effectiveness of social media usage by Ethiopian Airlines.
The demise of proof in the post-photographic era
Creators: name: Green, Anthony Thomas.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Spectral analogues of Barbarian asteroids among CO and CV chondrites
Creators: name: Mahlke, Max
name: Eschrig, Jolantha
name: Carry, Benoit
name: Bonal, Lydie
name: Beck, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: K- and L-type asteroids are considered to be the parent bodies of CV and CO chondrites. Spectral models of L-types invoke an enrichment in CAI with respect to the chondrites in the meteorite collection. Barbarian asteroids are associated to L-type asteroids yet the relationship between these populations is still not clear. We aim to investigate the link between the K- and L-type and Barbarian asteroids and the CV and CO chondrites by means of spectral matching of a large number of reflectance spectra of objects from either population. We seek to identify matches based on observed rather than modelled spectral features. We employ a matching criterion that accounts for the residuals and the correlation of the spectral features. The only free parameter in the comparison is the degree of alteration of the asteroids with respect to the meteorites expressed via an exponential model. We derive an absolute scale of similarity between the spectra using laboratory data from irradiation experiments. CVOxA chondrites are the best match to the asteroids, in particular to K-type (7 out of 11 asteroids matched) and Barbarians (11 out of 16). CO chondrites provide convincing matches for K-types (5 out of 11) and Barbarians (7 out of 16) as well. A single non-Barbarian L-type is matched to a meteorite. Only a few asteroids are matched to CVOxB and CVRed chondrites. Barbarian asteroids are represented among CO and CVOxA chondrites without requiring an enrichment of CAI in the asteroids. Four candidate Barbarian asteroids are identified, three of which are classified as K-types. These asteroids are favourable targets for polarimetric observations. The discrepancy between L-type asteroids and CV and CO chondrites is likely related to the ambiguity of the asteroid class itself. An extension of the taxonomy to include polarimetric properties is required.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Gender Paradox: Sex-Based Differences in Adolescent Suicidal Behavior
Creators: name: Whittlesey, Claudia
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: suicide
suicidal behavior
gender paradox
psychology
psychiatry
mental health
depression
adolescent
young adult
gender differences
sex-based differences

description: This thesis aims to investigate the contributing factors behind the gender paradox in suicidal behavior, specifically in adolescents. This global paradox explains that across all age groups, more cisgender males die by suicide, but cisgender females attempt suicide far more. A literature review was conducted on over one-hundred pieces of scientific literature including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, specific case studies, and more clinical research. Literature was considered that focused on suicide mortality rates, suicide attempt rates, different methods used in suicide attempts and suicides, suicide method accessibility compared to suicide mortality rates, rates of various psychiatric disorders (with potential evidence for underreporting in males), help seeking behaviors, non-suicidal self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (NSSI), and other potential external factors for suicidality and depression. This thesis concluded that although the most widely acknowledged reason behind the gender paradox is the difference in method choice with males choosing more lethal methods, there are many other factors that contribute, and it may be harmfully ignorant to solely account this problem to boys being more likely to pick up guns. These other factors include differences in coping methods and external responses to these behaviors, differences in mental health diagnoses and their symptoms, and differences in impulsivity and help seeking behaviors. Gender-specific help-seeking behavior interventions are ultimately suggested as the most probable way to decrease both male suicide rates and female suicide attempt rates.
The Impact of Span of Control on Employee Engagement during M&A: Insights from Lebanese Insurance Firms
Creators: name: Rabih Bedwany Makhlouf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper explores the effect of span of control on employee engagement during mergers and acquisitions in the insurance and reinsurance sector in Lebanon, with the purpose of identifying the optimal span that maximizes engagement. Applying quantitative methods, the study uses statistical tests including reliability, correlation, regression, ANOVA and Tukey Post-Hoc tests to analyze data collected from 456 non-managerial employees. The findings revealed a significant negative correlation (r= -0.45, p< 0.01) between employee engagement and span of control, with regression results indicating that span of control accounts for 20.9% of the variance in employee engagement. ANOVA and Tukey tests revealed significant differences in employee engagement levels across the four SOC groups, identifying a span of 5 to 8 employees per manager as optimal for promoting engagement. Theoretical implications underscore the importance of balancing efficiency with the wellbeing of employee, particularly during periods fraught with uncertainties. Practical implications offer actionable insights to improve engagement during organizational changes. This paper contributes to the management literature by generating empirical evidence on the relationship between employee engagement and span of control and equipping organizations with tools to navigate M&A effectively. Future studies are encouraged to examine how other contextual factors such as managerial personality and experience, leadership and organizational culture shape the span of control-engagement relationship.
Who Flourishes in School? The Interplay of Academic Self-Concept and Personality and its Role for Academic Performance in Middle Adolescence
Creators: name: Johannsen, Mieke
name: Brandt, Naemi
name: Köller, Olaf
name: Wagner, Jenny
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: School Psychology
subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: academic performance
subject: academic self-concept
subject: adolescence
subject: Big Five
subject: personality
subject: socio-demographic background

description: The project examines the interplay between academic self-concept and Big Five personality traits and its relevance to academic performance levels and changes across key socio-demographic characteristics.
The energy of existence : documentation of work and support thesis
Creators: name: Robinson, John .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Grand challenges in protoplanetary disc modelling
Creators: name: Haworth, Thomas J.
name: Ilee, John D.
name: Forgan, Duncan H.
name: Facchini, Stefano
name: Price, Daniel J.
name: authors, Community
name: Boneberg, Dominika M.
name: Booth, Richard A.
name: Clarke, Cathie J.
name: Gonzalez, Jean-François
name: Hutchison, Mark A.
name: Kamp, Inga
name: Laibe, Guillaume
name: Lyra, Wladimir
name: Meru, Farzana
name: Mohanty, Subhanjoy
name: Panić, Olja
name: Rice, Ken
name: Suzuki, Takeru
name: Walsh, Catherine
name: Woitke, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Protoplanetary Discussions conference --- held in Edinburgh, UK, from 7th --11th March 2016 --- included several open sessions led by participants. This paper reports on the discussions collectively concerned with the multiphysics modelling of protoplanetary discs, including the self-consistent calculation of gas and dust dynamics, radiative transfer and chemistry. After a short introduction to each of these disciplines in isolation, we identify a series of burning questions and grand challenges associated with their continuing development and integration. We then discuss potential pathways towards solving these challenges, grouped by strategical, technical and collaborative developments. This paper is not intended to be a review, but rather to motivate and direct future research and collaboration across typically distinct fields based on \textit{community driven input}, to encourage further progress in our understanding of circumstellar and protoplanetary discs.
description: Accepted for publication in PASA. 25 pages
QM/MM Simulation
Creators: name: Smith, Janet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations have become a popular tool for investigating chemical reactions in condensed phases. In QM/MM methods, the region of the system in which the chemical process takes place is treated at an appropriate level of quantum chemistry theory, while the remainder is described by a molecular mechanics force field. Within this approach, chemical reactivity can be studied in large systems, such as enzymes. Using quality management to calculate the properties of a large chemical library is time-consuming and costly. High-precision QM/MM calculation is a multi-scale calculation method to study ligand binding. By using quantum chemistry representing ligands combined with molecular mechanics to characterize proteins and solvents, modelling time can be greatly reduced. Our bioinformaticians will provide you the most efficient quantum chemistry services.