cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mapping Unoccupied Electronic States of Freestanding Graphene by Angle-Resolved Low-Energy Electron Transmission
Creators: name: Wicki, Flavio
name: Longchamp, Jean-Nicolas
name: Latychevskaia, Tatiana
name: Escher, Conrad
name: Fink, Hans-Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report angle-resolved electron transmission measurements through freestanding graphene sheets in the energy range of 18 to 30 eV above the Fermi level. The measurements are carried out in a low-energy electron point source microscope, which allows simultaneously probing the transmission for a large angular range. The characteristics of low-energy electron transmission through graphene depend on its electronic structure above the vacuum level. The experimental technique described here allows mapping the unoccupied band structure of freestanding two-dimensional materials as a function of energy and probing angle, respectively in-plane momentum. Our experimental findings are consistent with theoretical predictions of a resonance in the band structure of graphene above the vacuum level [V. U. Nazarov, E. E. Krasovskii, and V. M. Silkin, Physical Review B 87, 041405 (2013)].
Development and Antipoverty Work -- An Exploration of Questions Relating to Rural People
Creators: name: Bird, Alan R.
name: Bird, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1967
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Security and Poverty
Labor and Human Capital

description: Paper presented to the: National Council of Churches, Section on the Church and Community, Ambassador Hotel, Washington, D. C., March 15, 1967. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The mechanical properties of butt-welds in HDPE pipe
Creators: name: Barton, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Determinants of Capital Flight in Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Member Countries: Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
Creators: name: Haregewoin, Yoseph
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: Numerous of studies in recent years have focused attention on the determinants of capital flight in the developing countries. This paper contributed to this body of knowledge by filling a noticeable gap. Principally, this paper examines the determinant of capital flight from 13 member countries of COMESA for the period 1990-2009. The paper employed first difference General Method of Momentum (GMM) and system GMM to find out the determinant of capital flight from COMESA member countries. The study found that capital flight has a tendency to persist over time, which may reflect that habit-formation effect or contagion effect. The study also found that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has a positive and significant effect which may reflect existence of discriminatory-treatment for domestic investors. Capital flight from COMESA member countries is also fueled by the increase of Gross Domestic Product of the country which may reflect money laundering and a high return for investment in the foreign country particularly in advanced countries. Furthermore the study found that budget deficit has a negative impact on capital flight which may reflect that corrupted government officials are the main actors of capital flight from COMESA member countries. The study suggested the need for the policy makers to adopt an investment policy which doesn't discriminate foreign investor from the domestic investors, adjusting the domestic interest rate in accordance with the international market and apply tight control on corrupted government officials to repatriate capital flight from COMESA member countries.
The flat phase of quantum polymerized membranes
Creators: name: Coquand, O.
name: Mouhanna, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the flat phase of quantum polymerized phantom membranes by means of a nonperturbative renormalization group approach. We first implement this formalism for general quantum polymerized membranes and derive the flow equations that encompass both quantum and thermal fluctuations. We then deduce and analyze the flow equations relevant to study the flat phase and discuss their salient features : quantum to classical crossover and, in each of these regimes, strong to weak coupling crossover. We finally illustrate these features in the context of free standing graphene physics.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, published version
Data-Efficient Vision Transformers for Multi-Label Disease Classification on Chest Radiographs
Creators: name: Behrendt, Finn
name: Bhattacharya, Debayan
name: Krüger, Julia
name: Opfer, Roland
name: Schlaefer, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Radiographs are a versatile diagnostic tool for the detection and assessment of pathologies, for treatment planning or for navigation and localization purposes in clinical interventions. However, their interpretation and assessment by radiologists can be tedious and error-prone. Thus, a wide variety of deep learning methods have been proposed to support radiologists interpreting radiographs. Mostly, these approaches rely on convolutional neural networks (CNN) to extract features from images. Especially for the multi-label classification of pathologies on chest radiographs (Chest X-Rays, CXR), CNNs have proven to be well suited. On the Contrary, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have not been applied to this task despite their high classification performance on generic images and interpretable local saliency maps which could add value to clinical interventions. ViTs do not rely on convolutions but on patch-based self-attention and in contrast to CNNs, no prior knowledge of local connectivity is present. While this leads to increased capacity, ViTs typically require an excessive amount of training data which represents a hurdle in the medical domain as high costs are associated with collecting large medical data sets. In this work, we systematically compare the classification performance of ViTs and CNNs for different data set sizes and evaluate more data-efficient ViT variants (DeiT). Our results show that while the performance between ViTs and CNNs is on par with a small benefit for ViTs, DeiTs outperform the former if a reasonably large data set is available for training.
description: Accepted at CURAC22 Conference
Fatigue cracking in aluminium alloy 7050-T7451 : quantitative fractographic methods and life prediction
Creators: name: Barter, Simon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The Impact of Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) And Counter Fiscal Policy Measures For Ethiopia: A Recursive Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model
Creators: name: Darsene, Yewbdar
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: As a Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), the Ethiopian government has planned to conclude the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with European Union (EU) and joining Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa- Free Trade Area (COMESA-FTA). Thus, in the study we have shown endeavour to examine the economy-wide effects of concluding those agreements. To attain the stated objectives, a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is used as an important analytical tool. As a main data base the model is calibrated with an updated version of 2005/06 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM). There were three individual and two combined simulations. According to the simulation results, following tariff reduction, with exception of investment and government income, almost all of the macroeconomic indicators, sectoral output and welfare indicators have shown improvement. Similarly, in the combined simulation, tariff reduction and direct tax rate adjustment, though the percentage of improvement is lower for some variables all of the variables have recorded a positive change. Unlike the above simulations, the simulation combining tariff reduction together with sales tax rate adjustment has shown a negative change in some of macroeconomic indicators, sectoral output and welfare indicators. In concluding, in those simulations which included sales tax rate adjustment has brought adverse effect on most of the economic variables. Therefore, from the welfare point of view, the implication of our study is that, comparing the two compensating measures, it is beneficial to apply direct tax rate adjustment together with tariff reduction.
Carbon macromolecules in the cycle of interstellar matter: observations andlaboratory experiments
Creators: name: Joblin, Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carbon macromolecules are intermediates between small gas-phase species and larger dust structures. I illustrate how observations and dedicated laboratory experiments support this picture.
Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and Its Effect on Farmers' Downside Risk Exposure in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Getu, Yechale
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: This study examines factors determining adoption of AWM (Agricultural Water Management) and the effect of AWM on downside risk exposure of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. Moment based specification of farm income function is employed to measure downside risk exposure. We apply an endogenous switching regression approach by modeling AWM and downside risk depending on household and farm characteristics and a set of climatic variables based on geo-referenced historical precipitation and temperature data. Our analysis is based on farm level data collected in 2015. The result indicated that household and farm characteristics, and institutional and climatic factors are the important factors explaining both the adoption of AWM and downside risk exposure. We found that adoption of AWM is more likely under warmer and moisture stress climatic conditions. The result also showed that adaptation to climate change through AWM play a significant and positive role in reducing the downside risk exposure of farm households. It is also found that transitional heterogeneity revealed that farm households who did not adopt AWM would have been benefited more than those who adopted AWM if they did adopt. Equally, farm households who did adopt AWM would have been exposed to downside risk exposure in a higher probability than those who did not adopt if they did not adopt. The finding from this study confirms that adoption of AWM is important for farmers to reduce the likelihood of crop failure. Therefore, the result suggests the adoption and diffusion of AWM in the Nile Basin areas to reduce the probability of crop failure and contract the deleterious effects of climate change.
An In-depth Study of Java Deserialization Remote-Code Execution Exploits and Vulnerabilities
Creators: name: Sayar, Imen
name: Bartel, Alexandre
name: Bodden, Eric
name: Traon, Yves Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Nowadays, an increasing number of applications uses deserialization. This technique, based on rebuilding the instance of objects from serialized byte streams, can be dangerous since it can open the application to attacks such as remote code execution (RCE) if the data to deserialize is originating from an untrusted source. Deserialization vulnerabilities are so critical that they are in OWASP's list of top 10 security risks for web applications. This is mainly caused by faults in the development process of applications and by flaws in their dependencies, i.e., flaws in the libraries used by these applications. No previous work has studied deserialization attacks in-depth: How are they performed? How are weaknesses introduced and patched? And for how long are vulnerabilities present in the codebase? To yield a deeper understanding of this important kind of vulnerability, we perform two main analyses: one on attack gadgets, i.e., exploitable pieces of code, present in Java libraries, and one on vulnerabilities present in Java applications. For the first analysis, we conduct an exploratory large-scale study by running 256515 experiments in which we vary the versions of libraries for each of the 19 publicly available exploits. Such attacks rely on a combination of gadgets present in one or multiple Java libraries. A gadget is a method which is using objects or fields that can be attacker-controlled. Our goal is to precisely identify library versions containing gadgets and to understand how gadgets have been introduced and how they have been patched. We observe that the modification of one innocent-looking detail in a class -- such as making it public -- can already introduce a gadget. Furthermore, we noticed that among the studied libraries, 37.5% are not patched, leaving gadgets available for future attacks. For the second analysis, we manually analyze 104 deserialization vulnerabilities CVEs to understand how vulnerabilities are introduced and patched in real-life Java applications. Results indicate that the vulnerabilities are not always completely patched or that a workaround solution is proposed. With a workaround solution, applications are still vulnerable since the code itself is unchanged.
description: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022
Effect of extremely low frequency (ELF) pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) on humans
Creators: name: Baldi, Emilio
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Research Needed to Facilitate Rural Community Development
Creators: name: Bird, Alan R.
name: Bird, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1967
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Paper presented at the Workshop of the NC-88 Regional Research Committee on Rural Community Development, Chicago, Ill., May 11, 1967. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Human Capital and Economic Growth in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Kifle, Wubet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2006

description: This study investigates the impact of human capital on economic growth in Ethiopia over the period 1971-2005 using an error-correction methodology. Contrary to microeconomic studies, the macroeconomic evidence from this study shows that the human capital variable in the form of schooling has an insignificant impact on the level of output. Various analyses are provided in this respect. The deteriorating quality of education in the wake of significant expansion in the sector is an important element that puts into question the basic framework that education provides students with growth enhancing skills. Schooling might not actually be creating the required skills or raising worker's productivity. Besides, in the wake of a stagnant demand for labor, a rise in the supply of educated labor could only lead to a decline in the returns. The study also questions the impacts of the economic policy directions and associated institutional settings, which could have been perverting the contribution to economic growth that would have been made from an expansion in educational investment. The key economic policy implication that comes out of this result is that the provision of schooling should be geared towards achieving broader socio economic goals with special emphasis on quality. Simply providing more schooling may yield little or nothing in the way of economic growth in the absence of other elements such as the appropriate market and governmental institutions and suitable policy environment in the labor market and other sectors of the economy to support a functioning modern economy. Schooling by itself is not a sufficient engine of growth.
title: I tatuaggi fra società, persona e diritto
Creators: name: Poddighe, Elena
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2023

description: La pratica del tatuaggio è antichissima e risale agli albori dell’umanità. Negli ultimi decenni essa è diventata, da uso di etnie extra-europee e di piccole minoranze marginali, diffusissima in tutto il mondo occidentale. I tatuaggi sono esposti ovunque, in maniera sempre più vistosa. Sono però, in generale, sfuggiti all’osservazione del giurista. Il volume offre alcune ipotesi ricostruttive che ruotano attorno alla libertà di autodeterminazione del soggetto e di manifestare pubblicamente la propria identità, tenendo conto degli scarni dati normativi che regolano taluni suoi aspetti. I tatuaggi vengono, inoltre, considerati nella loro dimensione estetica, come prodotto intellettuale tutelabile, talvolta, dal diritto d’autore.
Microstructural control of mechanical properties of dual-phase steels
Creators: name: Baburamani, Pudugramam Srinivasan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Entrapment of Interfacial Nanobubbles on Nano Structured Surfaces
Creators: name: Wang, Yuliang
name: Li, Xiaolai
name: Ren, Shuai
name: Alem, Hadush Tedros
name: Yang, Lijun
name: Lohse, Detlef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 74-05

description: Spherical-cap-shaped interfacial nanobubbles (NBs) forming on hydrophobic surfaces in aqueous solutions have extensively been studied both from a fundamental point of view and due to their relevance for various practical applications. In this study, the nucleation mechanism of spontaneously generated NBs at solid-liquid interfaces of immersed nanostructured hydrophobic surfaces is studied. Depending on the size and density of the surface nanostructures, NBs with different size and density were reproducibly and deterministically obtained. A two-step process can explain the NB nucleation, based on the crevice model, i.e., entrapped air pockets in surface cavities which grow by diffusion. The results show direct evidence for the spontaneous formation of NBs on a surface at its immersion. Next, the influence of size and shape of the nanostructures on the nucleated NBs are revealed. In particular, on non-circular nanopits we obtain NBs with a non-circular footprint, demonstrating the strong pinning forces at the three-phase contact line.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
A Panel Data Analysis for Bilateral Trade of Ethiopia and East African Community countries: The Gravity Model Approach
Creators: name: Tebekew, Wondwosen
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: This study tries to explore the trade relations between Ethiopia and East African community countries in general and specifically the Trade Integration for cooperation with the East African Community Partner countries. The study has a main objective of investigating the main determinants of Ethiopia's bilateral Trade and addresses the question of whether Ethiopia has untapped Bilateral Trade and export potentials with the East African community countries or not. It also Analyze existing Trade agreements and protocols and also explores the unexploited export potentials that the country that may have in the East Africa community countries using the an econometric analysis of augmented gravity model estimation by Generalized Least Square (GLS) estimation technique over the 9 years panel data (2004-2012) of the four bilateral Trade partners. The estimated coefficients then used to analyze the existing bilateral Trade and predict the potential that the country could have in the EAC countries. The paper identifies the significant factors of influence on bilateral trade flows, exports and imports by employing Gravity variables and some supplementary dummy variables to determine the estimated equations of the gravity model. Accordingly, GDP, per capita GDP difference, Nominal Exchange Rate, Inflation and Distance between the Trading Countries from Ethiopia found to have the assigned magnitude and significant impact on Ethiopia's bilateral Trade. The export potentials of the country are estimated using the estimated coefficients of the gravity model. Accordingly, Ethiopia has the highest unexploited potential in EAC and significant amount in the determining variables by the size of the bilateral economic, Nominal Exchange Rate, Trade Policy of the country and Distance between the Trading Countries and Ethiopia. Empirical studies on Regional Economic Integration process in Africa exhibit sluggish progress and there by limited level of bilateral trade. So the paper explores regional trade integration of the countries involved in Ethiopia and the EAC countries may support bilateral Trade Growth of the state Economies. Keywords: Augmented Gravity model, Export Potentials, Gravity variables, East Africa Community, Trade Integration
Present-Day Surface Deformation of Sicily Derived From Sentinel-1 InSAR Time-Series
Creators: name: Henriquet, Maxime
name: Peyret, Michel
name: Dominguez, Stéphane
name: Barreca, Giovanni
name: Monaco, Carmelo
name: Mazzotti, Stéphane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Quaternary geodynamics of the Central Mediterranean region is controlled by the migration of narrow orogenic belts within the slow Nubia-Eurasia plate convergence. As testified by the occurrence of major volcanic and seismic events, the Eastern Sicilian Margin is presently one of the most active regions. Using a Permanent-Scatterer approach, we process Sentinel-1 satellite images acquired from 2015 to 2020 to provide an island-wide quantification of surface displacements at a high spatiotemporal resolution. We then convert the calculated mean surface velocities along the ascending and descending satellite line of sight into the ITRF2014 reference frame by using GNSS velocity data derived from regional stations. The resulting pseudo-3D velocity field mainly highlights a general uplift of about $1.5 \pm 0.5$ mm/yr of the Nebrodi-Peloritani range and its differential motion with respect to mainland Sicily along the Cefalù-Etna seismic zone. Permanent/Persistent-Scatterer (PS) vertical velocities in the Eastern Hyblean region reveal a long wavelength eastward down-bending of the margin, including the inferred epicentral area of the 1693 Noto earthquake. Compared to Quaternary coastal uplift rates, these results confirm the relative low activity of Western Sicily, a potential slow uplift of South-Central Sicily and a significant discrepancy along the Eastern Hyblean margin were PS-derived vertical velocities that appear 2-3 mm/yr lower than the Quaternary rates. Over the 2015--2020 timespan, transient processes are also captured, notably on Mount Etna, showing both magmatic pressurization uplift and collapse of the eastern flank, but also all over Sicily where numerous gravitational mass movements and anthropogenic ground subsidence are detected.
TensorFlow 2 Model and trained weight used in the paper ""Mapping Tropical Forest Cover and Deforestation with Planet NICFI Satellite Images and Deep Learning in Mato Grosso State (Brazil) from 2015 to 2021"
Creators: name: Wagner, Fabien Hubert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: TensorFlow 2 U-net Model and trained weights used in the paper "Mapping Tropical Forest Cover and Deforestation with Planet NICFI Satellite Images and Deep Learning in Mato Grosso State (Brazil) from 2015 to 2021"
Accuracy and robustness in visual motion analysis
Creators: name: Bab-Hadiashar, Alireza
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Re-evaluating library's value post-COVID-19
Creators: name: Lembinen, Liisi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Parallel Session 7 – Future-proofing Libraries: fostering, valuing, and managing institutions.
COVID-19
library functions
academic libraries

description: Abstract The COVID-19 crisis brought out more than ever the question about the value of academic libraries. The library relevance discussion has been going on for years already; however, it became even more urgent during the crisis. The Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2019 showed that the primary concern for academic libraries’ directors was the decreasing value of the library and its functions in the eyes of the university and higher education leaders (Frederick & Wolff-Eisenberg, 2020a). Similar worries were also shown by the leaders of LIBER libraries who responded to the COVID-19 survey; 25,25% of the respondents showed concern about redefining the library’s role within the university (LIBER, 2020). More recent surveys show a different trend; the value of academic libraries is potentially increasing again. The crisis gave an excellent chance for academic libraries to demonstrate their value to the university by adapting their services based on the needs of the university. „This pandemic provided an opportunity for libraries to invest in and improve the library’s value.” (Ashiq et al., 2022, p. 8). Library directors feel that libraries have shown their value during the crisis through their readiness to offer virtual support services for the university staff and students. 86% of the directors of the Ithaka S+R survey said that they stress establishing library service as a valuable and vital service for the university (Frederick & Wolff-Eisenberg, 2020b). The author has been looking into various qualitative and quantitative studies from Europe and U.S. done in the past three years, mainly focusing on academic libraries’ decisions and challenges during the COVID-19 crisis. In addition, a series of interviews with LIBER library directors show how library leaders decide during the crisis. Among other changes that COVID-19 brought to libraries, these studies also demonstrate the importance of academic libraries within the university, especially during the crisis. By using a mixed methods approach, this presentation presents the specific change in libraries’ value that the crisis presented and how libraries responded.
DeepSportradar-v1: Computer Vision Dataset for Sports Understanding with High Quality Annotations
Creators: name: Van Zandycke, Gabriel
name: Somers, Vladimir
name: Istasse, Maxime
name: Del Don, Carlo
name: Zambrano, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.2.10; I.2.6; I.4.9; I.4.8; I.4.6; I.4.5; I.4; I.5.4

description: With the recent development of Deep Learning applied to Computer Vision, sport video understanding has gained a lot of attention, providing much richer information for both sport consumers and leagues. This paper introduces DeepSportradar-v1, a suite of computer vision tasks, datasets and benchmarks for automated sport understanding. The main purpose of this framework is to close the gap between academic research and real world settings. To this end, the datasets provide high-resolution raw images, camera parameters and high quality annotations. DeepSportradar currently supports four challenging tasks related to basketball: ball 3D localization, camera calibration, player instance segmentation and player re-identification. For each of the four tasks, a detailed description of the dataset, objective, performance metrics, and the proposed baseline method are provided. To encourage further research on advanced methods for sport understanding, a competition is organized as part of the MMSports workshop from the ACM Multimedia 2022 conference, where participants have to develop state-of-the-art methods to solve the above tasks. The four datasets, development kits and baselines are publicly available.
Exports and Economic Growth in Ethiopia: an Empirical Investigation
Creators: name: Gemechu, Debel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2002

description: This study investigated the effect of exports on economic growth in Ethiopia for the period 1960/61-2000/01. The study aimed to review the policies undertaken by the different regimes in relation to export policies, and to empirically test the relationship between exports and economic growth using different techniques. In addition, attempts were also made to examine the supply (structural) constraints to export growth in Ethiopia. To test the export-economic growth relationship, in addition to using the frameworks that have been followed by most of the previous studies, an extension to the previous studies was made by introducing cointegration and error correction approaches in the regression analysis. Furthermore, a simultaneous equation model and the Granger causality test were conducted to examine the indirect effects of export on economic growth and to address a possible simultaneity problem that may arise because of the correlation between export and economic growth. The results from the cointegration and error correction models revealed that export significantly affected economic growth in the short run. In addition to its direct effect, export is also found to indirectly affect economic growth as evidenced from the simultaneous equation models. Furthermore, the causality test conducted indicated that causality runs from exports to economic growth. The key finding in this study is that export growth positively and significantly affected economic growth and the result is not sensitive to the methodologies used.
Dynamic load modelling of electrical power systems
Creators: name: Khorasani, Mohammad Masoud Babazadeh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Macroeconomic Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia: (A Time Series Analysis)
Creators: name: Fantaye, Yonas
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: This paper gives an analysis on Macroeconomic determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Ethiopia based on a time series data using the period from 1982 to 2014G.C. It is also examines the trend of FDI inflows to the country. The study also discusses why Ethiopia is conducive for Foreign Direct Investment and the area of opportunity. In order to point out the main macro level factors that can highly affect the inflow of FDI in Ethiopia and to know how much these factors affect FDI leading to an oscillating trend. The study took the macro level data in Ethiopia, such as, infrastructure development, potential economic growth, macroeconomic stability, human capital development and Trade openness. In addition, the study gives an extensive account to the theoretical explanation of FDI based on both macro and micro perspectives. Findings show that, in the long run explanatory variable such as infrastructure development, potential economic growth and Trade openness are found positively related and statistically significant while Inflation Rate and Human Capital (illiteracy level) are negatively related and statistically significant. Its parallel with the hypothesis of growing economy attracts more FDI and higher illiteracy level hampers FDI inflows. On the other hand, in the short run tele per 100, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, Openness and Potential Economic Growth become negatively related and they are statistically insignificant where as illiteracy rate and inflation are positively related and statistically significant. . In general, the major implication of this study is that, in Ethiopia foreign direct investment is more determined by sufficient infrastructural activities, higher economic growth, and macroeconomic stability, educated human capital and unrestricted trade in the long run. Hence, in order to increase the inflow of FDI, it is very crucial to concentrate on the mentioned macro economic sectors.
An analysis of methods for the provision of connection oriented multipoint telecommunication services in the B-ISDN
Creators: name: Aylott, Nigel Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Condition monitoring of internal combustion engine based on vibration and using angular displacement domain method
Creators: name: Anvar, Amir Mohammad
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Processing and characterisation of binary and ternary conductive polymer blends
Creators: name: Amin, Md. Sadequl
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: Die Sammlungen und Aktivitäten der Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte im Weltkriegs-Gedenkjahr 2014/2015
Creators: name: Renz, Irina
name: Westerhoff, Christian
Publisher: name: Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte
Year: 2013

description: Portal Militärgeschichte
description: Portal Militärgeschichte
Corrosion induced cracking in reinforced concrete
Creators: name: Allan, Marita Louise
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Parity Returns Positions of Farms
Creators: name: Economic Research Service
name: Economic Research Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1967
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Financial Economics
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: Excerpts from the report: The objective of this report is to develop and present certain criteria that might be used for determining when returns to labor and capital employed in farming are approximately equal to those obtained in other sectors of the economy. Section 705 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 directed the Secretary of Agriculture to make a study of parity income and submit a report to Congress. This is the report of that study. Congress has defined parity income in three different pieces of legislation: (1) The Soil Conservation and Domestic Act of 1936, (2) The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and (3) The Agricultural Act of 1948. The parity income objective, however, has not been measured in a satisfactory way. This study presents statistical measurements of parity income in terms of a concept described as "parity returns." These are the returns that labor and capital employed in agriculture could get if they were employed in other sectors of the economy.
description: A Report Pursuant to Section 705, Food and Agriculture Act of 1965.
Performance of Micro and Small Enterprises and their Role in Enhancing Local Economic Development: A Case Study in Gullele Sub City of Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Sherefa, Munira
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: Local economies often get developed with the participation of government, non-government organizations, and the community at large. Among the community, micro and small enterprises operators have the capability to strengthen the local economy through mobilizing local resources. This research explores the performance of Micro and Small enterprises and their role in enhancing local economic development in Gullele Sub-City, Addis Ababa. The analysis was based on primary and secondary data collected through administrative type of questionnaires and key informant interviews from the operators, government officials, and enterprise representatives. Contribution of MSEs is viewed in terms of the enterprises' performance by using their capital, profit, and employment creation. To see their impact, the study also review contribution of MSEs in light of economic improvement of the operators through household income and saving habit, household's expenditure to food, education, health, durable and non-durable assets. Finally, discussion was held with operators regarding the challenge and opportunities the enterprises and operators are facing now. The results indicate that, MSEs show improvement in their capital and profit. The enterprises' performance in terms of employment, capital and profit varies based on the sector in the study area. Construction and wood and metal works need high initial capital, they are labor intensive and have higher profit margin than the textile and the food and beverage sub sectors. Hence, this shows their contribution to local economic development is encouraging. Most of the operators are performing without appropriate training even if training is provided by the government. Nonetheless, the operator's living standard, income, food consumption, education, health, durable, and non-durable household assets are increasing. Most of the operators have a plan to expand the business either in the same line or to have a branch and diversify the business which has a greater impact to the local economic development. However, there is still much untapped potential for improvements in this respect beyond what has been achieved so far. Major constraining factors for realizing such potential include lack of technical and entrepreneurial skills, lack of sufficient capital, affordable access to raw material and input and lack of market to their product.
Investigation of the effect of water diesel emulsion on direct injection diesel engine performance
Creators: name: Al-Khaleefi, Khaled Abdullah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Economic Impact and Determinants of Export: The Case of Ethiopian Textile and Apparel Industry
Creators: name: Mesfin, Yared
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2010

description: Ethiopian industrial development policy has put the textile and apparel industry on the forefront position to accelerate the country"s industrialization process. The availability of huge labour force, the utilization of abundant raw material , the growing demand of this industry"s product (as the basic human need) and the international goodwill to provide preferential and differential market access to this industry help the sector to play a significant role on the development of the country"s economy and on mitigation of poverty. This paper examines the economic impact of textile and apparel industry, the utilization of preferential and differential market access and the determinants of the export performance. The descriptive analysis covers the period 1999 to 2009. The result of the descriptive analysis reveals that the economic impact and the preferential market utilization of the textile and apparel industry are very limited. The time series econometric analysis covering the period 1971/72 to 2008/09 employed Eviews 5 (a computer program as a tool for econometric analysis). The econometric analysis result shows that labour cost and trade openness (liberalization) have positive impact on the export performance of the sector, whereas cotton export and exchange rate have negative impact. As this study tries to indicate, the government supports only those who engage themselves on export market. However, this is not satisfactory and successful for the sector"s development. So one of the major conclusions of this study is that unless the government revises its policy direction towards developing and supporting the sector (boost the sector investments), the current "artificial" export growth of the industry will be short-lived and ultimately results in unsustainable export growth.
PRESENTATION SLIDES: DOCUMENTED HUMAN OSTEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS AS BIOBANKS: RELEVANCE FOR RARE DISEASES IDENTIFICATION IN THE PAST
Creators: name: Alves-Cardoso, Francisca
name: Riso, Brígida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Slides Presentation: 23rd Paleopathology Association European Meeting, Vilnius, Lituânia, 25-29 Agosto. Paleopathology Association European (Vilnius, Lituânia) Disease identification in paleopathology relies on the exercise of differential diagnosis, and interpretation. Only a few diseases leave macroscopic pathognomonic traits in bone, and even in cases where microscopic, biochemical and biomolecular analyses are used, diagnosis is invariably inconclusive. Additionally, bone response to a variety of etiologies tends to be homogenous, with mosaic pattern(s) of bone formation and destruction. Therefore, access to pathological cases from human remains of Documented Human Osteological Collections (DHOC) is an exceptional approach. The access to biographical data of the individuals incorporated into the DHOC includes the cause of death, ancestry, sex, age, clinical data and other information akin to clinical data allowing for the possibility of hypothesis-driven research in which bones changes correlate with causes of death - hence providing tested and informed differential diagnosis. In this sense, DHOC may be viewed as a biobank equivalent, i.e. biorepository that stores biological samples for research in the identification of bone changes related to diseases associated with clinical and personal data. This paper will explore known cases of diseases’ diagnoses, such as lepra, neoplasias, tuberculosis, syphilis, and diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis that have used DHOC as diagnostic testing grounds, to explore bone changes and methodological advancements. The paper also introduces the idea of DHOC as biobanks dedicated to the study of rare diseases, as rarely reposted diseases, in paleopathology. Keywords: Health, biorepository, biobanks, DHOC, differential diagnosis
description: Funding: Francisca Alves Cardoso is supported by FCT within the scope of CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (UIDB/04038/2020) Strategic Development Plan. FAC research is associated with the research projects Bone Matters / Matérias Ósseas (IF/00127/2014/CP1233/CT0003/ funded by FCT/Portugal), and Life After Death: Rethinking Human Remains and Human Osteological Collections as Cultural Heritage and Biobanks (2020.01014.CEECIND / funded by FCT/Portugal). Brígida Riso is supported by European Union's Horizon 2020 under grant agreement no 952377, project ERA Chair iSTARS.
The Effect of Cooperatives Producing Non-Wood Forest Products on Rural Development: The Example of Kozak Subdistrict Agricultural Development Cooperative in Turkey
Creators: name: Saritaş, Elif
name: Türker, Mustafa Fehmi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Pine nuts from stone pine are important non-wood forest products produced in Turkey. Thus, cooperative organizations engaged in the production and marketing of pine nuts play an important role in the development of forest villages in Turkey. This study reports and evaluates the effect of Kozak Subdistrict Agricultural Development Cooperative on economic development of the township. In this regard, a survey was conducted with 190 participants, and data were evaluated statistically. After villagers participated in this cooperative, forest villagers’ income from pine nuts increased and constituted 59.8% of total household income. Although the cooperative has no effect on the animal production of forest villagers, it has positive effects on migration, income level, agricultural production, land used for pine nut cultivation, fuel use and standards of living. Therefore, the number of cooperatives utilizing non-wood forest products should be increased, and efforts should be made to conserve non-wood forest products to increase their added value and sustainable use in the future.