cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Appropriate intellectual property protection and economic growth in countries at different levels of development
Creators: name: Kim, Kyoung Yee
name: Lee, Keun
name: Park, Walter
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper provides an empirical analysis of the extent to which stronger intellectual property rights (IPRs) influence economic growth, controlling for other factors. Patent protection is found to have differential effects on developed countries and developing countries. Patent rights have a positive influence on the incentive to innovate in developed countries but a statistically insignificant one in developing countries. However, a secondtier form of IPR – namely utility model patents (or petty patents) – does have a positive influence on developing country innovation and growth. Thus the results indicate that patent protection enhances innovation, and ultimately economic growth, in countries where the capacity to conduct innovative R&D exists. Where this capacity is weaker, a system of IPRs that protects minor, incremental inventions is more conducive to innovation, technological diffusion, and economic growth. The significance of this paper is to help shift the focus of the debate away from the strength of IPRs to the appropriate types of IPR for economic development.
Force Behaviour in Radiation-Dominated Friedmann Universe
Creators: name: Sharif, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider radiation-dominated Friedmann universe and evaluate its force four-vector and momentum. We analyse and compare the results with the already evaluated for the matter-dominated Friedmann model. It turns out that the results are physically acceptable.
Hurwitz Actions on Reflection Factorizations in Complex Reflection Group $G_6$
Creators: name: Gawankar, Gaurav
name: Lazreq, Dounia
name: Rai, Mehr
name: Sabar, Seth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that in the complex reflection group $G_6$, reflection factorizations of a Coxeter element that have the same length and multiset of conjugacy classes are in the same Hurwitz orbit. This confirms one case of a conjecture of Lewis and Reiner.
description: 14 pages
Extinctions at 7um and 15um from the ISOGAL survey
Creators: name: Jiang, B. W.
name: Gao, J.
name: Omont, A.
name: Schuller, F.
name: Simon, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extinction laws at 7um and 15um are derived for more than 120 sightlines in the inner Galactic plane based on the ISOGAL survey data and the near-infrared data from DENIS and 2MASS. The tracers are the ISOGAL point sources with [7]-[15]<0.4 which are RGB tip stars or early AGB stars with moderate mass loss. They have well-defined intrinsic color indices (J-Ks)_0, (Ks-[7])_0 and (Ks-[15])_0. By a linear fitting of the observed color indices Ks-[7] and Ks-[15] to the observed J-Ks, we obtain the ratio between the E(Ks-[7]) and E(Ks-[15]) color excesses and E(J-Ks). We infer the selective extinctions at 7 and 15um in terms of the near-infrared extinction in the Ks band. The distribution of the derived extinctions around 7 micron (A_7) is well represented by a Gaussian function, with the peak at about 0.47A_Ks and ranging from 0.33 to 0.55A_Ks (using the near-infrared extinctions of Rieke & Lebovsky 1985). There is some evidence that A_7/A_Ks may vary significantly depending on the line of sight. The derived selective extinction at 15um suffers uncertainty mainly from the dispersion in the intrinsic color index (Ks-[15])_0 which is affected by dust emission from mass-losing AGB stars. The peak value of A_15 is around 0.40A_Ks.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Prediction of confined and controllable Bloch points in nanocubes of chiral magnets
Creators: name: Charilaou, Michalis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work predicts that individual Bloch points can be created and stabilized by magnetostatic and chiral interactions in nanocuboids, confined in between two chiral bobbers of opposing polarity. The Bloch point can be moved by an external magnetic field of moderate strength but only if the field strength is enough to overcome a pinning potential that results from intrinsic exchange forces and extrinsic surface effects. The Bloch point can be driven by the external field reversibly, in a direction opposing the field, and it remains stable up to moderate field strengths. At a critical field strength the Bloch point escapes through one of the surfaces, leaving behind a collinear magnetization configuration, and upon removing the field a new Bloch point is formed. These findings highlight the topological diversity in nanostructures and show that a Bloch point, despite its zero-dimensionality, couples to external fields via a substantial magnetic volume around it. The control of topological point defects has technological implications with regards to reversibly movable nanomagnetic textures and their associated emergent electrodynamics.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Small World Graphs by the iterated "My Friends are Your Friends'' Principle
Creators: name: Blanchard, Ph.
name: Ruschhaupt, A.
name: Krueger, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study graphs obtained by successive creation and destruction of edges into small neighborhoods of the vertices. Starting with a circle graph of large diameter we obtain small world graphs with logarithmic diameter, high clustering coefficients and a fat tail distribution for the degree. Only local edge formation processes are involved and no preferential attachment was used. Furthermore we found an interesting phase transition with respect to the initial conditions.
description: Latex, 12 pages with 10 figures
Analysis of electron configurations in terms of parity-supporting rotations returns the hydrogen spectrum with consequences for the orbital model
Creators: name: Ogrodowicz, Roksana
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
subject: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
classificationCode: Structural Biology & Biophysics
subject: Structural Biology & Biophysics

description: A centrally symmetric variant of Bohr’s atomic model was constructed according to first geometric principles, and entanglement of pairs of subatomic particles through invariant rotations that stabilize the system. Its base symmetry was constrained to 2-fold rotational symmetry corresponding to 2 electrons associated with the atomic ground energy state. The theory was constructed using two sets of invariant rotations of distinguishable and indistinguishable type, derived from spherical approximations, with information regarding the initial state of the system preserved throughout the geometric transformation. Superposition of alternating structures of the two types indicates that closing of electron shells may take place via formation of mirror symmetry through rotational invariance, and quantization of energy can be reconciled with observables in quantum mechanics. The resulting solution correlates subshells s-g with unique parity- supporting states, and subsequent subshells with their imitations, having double the number of electrons of the preceding subshell of a corresponding type.
Self-Explanatory Information on COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)
Creators: name: Surendra Neupane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pathology

description: Self-Explanatory Information on COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)
Ridenbaugh 2020 Thesis Files
Creators: name: Ridenbaugh, Ryan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Ridenbaugh 2020 University of Central Florida M.Sc. thesis alignments, data files, and R scripts. Fasta and nexus files for Bayesian and maximum likelihood phylogenies. Input file for Jane 4 cophylogenetic analysis. R script and input files for PACo cophylogenetic analysis. R script for and input files PCA and Random Forest plant phytochemistry analyses.
Network-Based Prediction of the 2019-nCoV Epidemic Outbreak in the Chinese Province Hubei
Creators: name: Prasse, Bastian
name: Achterberg, Massimo A.
name: Ma, Long
name: Van Mieghem, Piet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: At the moment of writing (12 February, 2020), the future evolution of the 2019-nCoV virus is unclear. Predictions of the further course of the epidemic are decisive to deploy targeted disease control measures. We consider a network-based model to describe the 2019-nCoV epidemic in the Hubei province. The network is composed of the cities in Hubei and their interactions (e.g., traffic flow). However, the precise interactions between cities is unknown and must be inferred from observing the epidemic. We propose a network-based method to predict the future prevalence of the 2019-nCoV virus in every city. Our results indicate that network-based modelling is beneficial for an accurate forecast of the epidemic outbreak.
description: Ordering of cities in Table 1 has been corrected; Prediction considers more recent observations
Processing Issues in Top-Down Approaches to Quantum Computer Development in Silicon
Creators: name: Park, S. -J.
name: Persaud, A.
name: Liddle, J. A.
name: Nilsson, J.
name: Bokor, J.
name: Schneider, D. H.
name: Rangelow, I.
name: Schenkel, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe critical processing issues in our development of single atom devices for solid-state quantum information processing. Integration of single 31P atoms with control gates and single electron transistor (SET) readout structures is addressed in a silicon-based approach. Results on electrical activation of low energy (15 keV) P implants in silicon show a strong dose effect on the electrical activation fractions. We identify dopant segregation to the SiO2/Si interface during rapid thermal annealing as a dopant loss channel and discuss measures of minimizing it. Silicon nanowire SET pairs with nanowire width of 10 to 20 nm are formed by electron beam lithography in SOI. We present first results from Coulomb blockade experiments and discuss issues of control gate integration for sub-40nm gate pitch levels.
title: La voix humaniste dans La Grève des bàttu
Creators: name: Redding, Lauren
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: FOS: Languages and literature
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: This research explores how West African postcolonial literature offers a social critique of society, trapped between past and future, and how such a critique treats the ideas of feminism, westernization, and humanism. I then relate this analysis to the current theories of négritude and afropolitanism, as discussed in Sortir de la Grande Nuit by author Achille Mbembe, which creates a meaningful context and future implications for the ideas already examined. The primary text I am working with, because it covers a wide range of topics through social critique, and because the author is one of the first of her kind, is La Grève des bàttu by Senegalese author Aminata Sow Fall.
description: ⓒ 2021 Lauren Redding
title: Gender, agency and mobile phones: urban street traders in Uganda
Creators: name: Masika, Rachel Joy Charity
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: Mobile phones have proliferated remarkably in developing countries. It is argued that mobile phones present enormous opportunities for achieving gender equality in the context of broader development aims. Yet, emerging literature presents a mixed picture of outcomes for gender relations, suggesting that a much more nuanced assessment is required. Thus the research asks: to what extent can mobile phones contribute to achieving gender equality through the expansion of women's agency? The research reviews and evaluates the relationships between gender, mobile phones and development, then highlights how the relationship between mobile phones and capabilities has been conceptualised. It argues that the ca pability approach offers a prism to explore agency but is insufficient in capturing multiple expressions of agency. Combined with other critical theories of social and technological processes, viewing the capability approach through a feminist lens enriches an understand ing of nuanced gender, agency and mobile phone relations. This argument is made by using an interpretive theoretical framework of spaces for agency and an instrumental case study of street traders in Kampala, Uganda. A quantitative approach analyses the features of mobile phone mediated agency of street traders to establish disparities between men and women. Qualitative methods demonstrate the opportunities and challenges for expanding women's agency. Narrative analysis illustrates the complex ways in which mobile phone practices both enable and constrain agency with cont radictory results for women. The research finds that a focus on capabilities suggests that mobile phones present opportunities that can be a first step towards greater equality. However, it is difficult for mobile phones access and use to change gendered ideologies, creating tensions between empowerment and disempowerment. Mobile phone practices are neither wholly beneficial nor wholly const rained. The tensions generated by mobile phones at multiple levels can be an important first step towards transforming unequal gender relations by challenging prevailing norms.
A novel route to cyclic dominance in voluntary social dilemmas
Creators: name: Guo, Hao
name: Song, Zhao
name: Geček, Sunčana
name: Li, Xuelong
name: Jusup, Marko
name: Perc, Matjaz
name: Moreno, Yamir
name: Boccaletti, Stefano
name: Wang, Zhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cooperation is the backbone of modern human societies, making it a priority to understand how successful cooperation-sustaining mechanisms operate. Cyclic dominance, a non-transitive setup comprising at least three strategies wherein the first strategy overrules the second which overrules the third which, in turn, overrules the first strategy, is known to maintain bio-diversity, drive competition between bacterial strains, and preserve cooperation in social dilemmas. Here, we present a novel route to cyclic dominance in voluntary social dilemmas by adding to the traditional mix of cooperators, defectors, and loners, a fourth player type, risk-averse hedgers, who enact tit-for-tat upon paying a hedging cost to avoid being exploited. When this cost is sufficiently small, cooperators, defectors, and hedgers enter a loop of cyclic dominance that preserves cooperation even under the most adverse conditions. In contrast, when the hedging cost is large, hedgers disappear, consequently reverting to the traditional interplay of cooperators, defectors, and loners. In the interim region of hedging costs, complex evolutionary dynamics ensues, prompting transitions between states with two, three, or four competing strategies. Our results thus reveal that voluntary participation is but one pathway to sustained cooperation via cyclic dominance.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, supplementary information
A Scalable Photonic Computer Solving the Subset Sum Problem
Creators: name: Xu, Xiao-Yun
name: Huang, Xuan-Lun
name: Li, Zhan-Ming
name: Gao, Jun
name: Jiao, Zhi-Qiang
name: Wang, Yao
name: Ren, Ruo-Jing
name: Zhang, H. P.
name: Jin, Xian-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The subset sum problem is a typical NP-complete problem that is hard to solve efficiently in time due to the intrinsic superpolynomial-scaling property. Increasing the problem size results in a vast amount of time consuming in conventionally available computers. Photons possess the unique features of extremely high propagation speed, weak interaction with environment and low detectable energy level, therefore can be a promising candidate to meet the challenge by constructing an a photonic computer computer. However, most of optical computing schemes, like Fourier transformation, require very high operation precision and are hard to scale up. Here, we present a chip built-in photonic computer to efficiently solve the subset sum problem. We successfully map the problem into a waveguide network in three dimensions by using femtosecond laser direct writing technique. We show that the photons are able to sufficiently dissipate into the networks and search all the possible paths for solutions in parallel. In the case of successive primes the proposed approach exhibits a dominant superiority in time consumption even compared with supercomputers. Our results confirm the ability of light to realize a complicated computational function that is intractable with conventional computers, and suggest the subset sum problem as a good benchmarking platform for the race between photonic and conventional computers on the way towards "photonic supremacy".
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Assessing credit rating agencies by corporate bond issuers : The case of investment versus non-investment grade bonds
Creators: name: Baker, H
name: Mansi, Sattar A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: We examine the views of issuers of investment and non-investment grade industrial bonds about the four leading U.S. credit rating agencies. Based on a sample obtained from the Lehman Brothers database, we find that issuers of investment and non-investment grade bonds differ significantly in their views about credit rating agencies. In addition, we find that respondents are generally satisfied with the performance of these credit rating agencies, but their level of satisfaction is higher for S&P than Moody’s. The results have implications for corporate bond participants who rely on credit ratings for corporate financing, investment decisions, and risk management.
Artificial Intelligence in Computational Mechanics and Biomechanics
Creators: name: Belinha, Jorge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 90302 Biomechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: 91307 Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation
subject: 90506 Structural Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Abstract This work aims to deliver a brief presentation and evolution of Artificial intelligence (AI) and its potentially most suited methodologies for Computational Mechanics and Biomechanics (CM&B) applications, such as Machine Learning (ML), Pattern Recognition (PR), Deep Learning (DL) and DL using artificial Neural Networks (NN). Afterwards, since DL using artificial NN is the AI methodology mostly used in CM&B, this methodology applied to CM&B problems is described with more detail. In order to show the evolution of AI methodologies in CM&B, a large document search was performed in the academic database Web of Science. Thus, peer-reviewed relevant articles addressing the topics of ML, PR, DL and NN combined with CMB&B were selected for a quantitative analysis. The results confirm that DL using artificial NN is in fact the most used AI methodology in both CM&B. Furthermore, it was found that research using DL using artificial NN combined with the finite element method is growing much faster than any other methodology combination. This work shows the inevitable growth of AI, which will accelerate the computation of today’s demanding problems and will allow the simulation of highly complex problems beyond the competence of existing rigid computational methodologies. AI offers the opportunity to expand the traditional application fields of CM&B, which will change its paradigm in a very near future.
title: A critical examination of the construct of the inclusive college with specific reference to learners labelled as dyslexic
Creators: name: McNicholas, Ann-Marie
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: This research is concerned with the policy and practice of the inclusion of students experiencing difficulties in learning labelled as dyslexic, in a further education (FE) college. Employing qualitative methodology, the focus is upon a case study of one college and the perspectives of stakeholders - students, tutors, support staff and managers. It investigates what their voices can tell us about factors likely to enhance equality and inclusion for these students. A review of the literature identifies key issues, but also reveals a relative lack of research in the area of dyslexia in FE and the student voice. In-depth interviews are utilised to gain information on the issues and tensions involved in constructing inclusive processes in FE. Grounded theory is employed to identify themes in the data. Analysis utilises concepts drawn from critical theory to provide an explanation of . the findings within the wider political and ideological contexts in which these processes operate. This research found that the workings of the further education system within a bureaucratic, market driven system are adversely impacting upon the experiences of students labelled as dyslexic. The systems and policies in place serve to deflect attention away from issues of pedagogy, politics and power relations by locating barriers to learning within the individual learner, promoting exclusion and inequality. This is in direct contrast to an overtly stated college policy and mission statement of promoting equality. The research also highlights how this system with competing ideologies and policies serves to silence student voices when they attempt to assert their rights and desires. Evident too, is the silencing of tutor voices by a pressurised, target driven system. I argue that a social model approach is required, where barriers to learning are located within attitudes, environment and organisational structures, to promote a response more aligned to consideration of rights, equity and inclusion of learners.
A Hierarchical Integrative Group LASSO (HiGLASSO) Framework for Analyzing Environmental Mixtures
Creators: name: Boss, Jonathan
name: Rix, Alexander
name: Chen, Yin-Hsiu
name: Narisetty, Naveen N.
name: Wu, Zhenke
name: Ferguson, Kelly K.
name: McElrath, Thomas F.
name: Meeker, John D.
name: Mukherjee, Bhramar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Environmental health studies are increasingly measuring multiple pollutants to characterize the joint health effects attributable to exposure mixtures. However, the underlying dose-response relationship between toxicants and health outcomes of interest may be highly nonlinear, with possible nonlinear interaction effects. Existing penalized regression methods that account for exposure interactions either cannot accommodate nonlinear interactions while maintaining strong heredity or are computationally unstable in applications with limited sample size. In this paper, we propose a general shrinkage and selection framework to identify noteworthy nonlinear main and interaction effects among a set of exposures. We design hierarchical integrative group LASSO (HiGLASSO) to (a) impose strong heredity constraints on two-way interaction effects (hierarchical), (b) incorporate adaptive weights without necessitating initial coefficient estimates (integrative), and (c) induce sparsity for variable selection while respecting group structure (group LASSO). We prove sparsistency of the proposed method and apply HiGLASSO to an environmental toxicants dataset from the LIFECODES birth cohort, where the investigators are interested in understanding the joint effects of 21 urinary toxicant biomarkers on urinary 8-isoprostane, a measure of oxidative stress. An implementation of HiGLASSO is available in the higlasso R package, accessible through the Comprehensive R Archive Network.
description: 29 pages, 6 figures
Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of charged hadron production at intermediate p_T in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV
Creators: name: STAR Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present STAR measurements of charged hadron production as a function of centrality in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV. The measurements cover a phase space region of 0.2 < p_T < 6.0 GeV/c in transverse momentum and -1 < eta < 1 in pseudorapidity. Inclusive transverse momentum distributions of charged hadrons in the pseudorapidity region 0.5 < |eta| < 1 are reported and compared to our previously published results for |eta| < 0.5. No significant difference is seen for inclusive p_T distributions of charged hadrons in these two pseudorapidity bins. We measured dN/deta distributions and truncated mean p_T in a region of p_T > p_T^cut, and studied the results in the framework of participant and binary scaling. No clear evidence is observed for participant scaling of charged hadron yield in the measured p_T region. The relative importance of hard scattering process is investigated through binary scaling fraction of particle production.
description: Submitted to PRC, 11 pages, 10 figures, revtex
Assessing credit rating agencies by corporate bond issuers : The case of investment versus non-investment grade bonds
Creators: name: Baker, H
name: Mansi, Sattar A.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

description: We examine the views of issuers of investment and non-investment grade industrial bonds about the four leading U.S. credit rating agencies. Based on a sample obtained from the Lehman Brothers database, we find that issuers of investment and non-investment grade bonds differ significantly in their views about credit rating agencies. In addition, we find that respondents are generally satisfied with the performance of these credit rating agencies, but their level of satisfaction is higher for S&P than Moody’s. The results have implications for corporate bond participants who rely on credit ratings for corporate financing, investment decisions, and risk management.
Карьерные ожидания студентов, магистрантов и докторантов в сельскохозяйственных университетах Казахстана
Career expectations of students and doctoral researchers in agricultural universities in Kazakhstan
Creators: name: Бекенова, Гульнар
name: Бекенова, Гульнар
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: сельскохозяйственное образование
subject: мотивация
subject: карьерные ожидания
subject: agricultural education
subject: motivation
subject: career expectations
subject: Agrarausbildung
subject: Karriereerwartungen

description: В Казахстане ежегодно государство выделяет образовательные гранты на сельскохозяйственные специальности, однако агропромышленный комплекс (АПК) до сих пор не достаточно обеспечен квалифицированными аграрными кадрами, а сельские районы остаются малопривлекательными для молодых специалистов. Реализуемая государством с 2009 года программа «С дипломом в село» по привлечению молодых кадров в сельскую местность имеет низкую эффективность и охват аграрных специальностей. Развитие современной системы аграрного образования невозможно без анализа изменений внешней среды и влияния различных факторов на конкурентоспособность выпускников. Цель аналитического исследования - анализ мотивации, стремлений и карьерных ожиданий обучающихся аграрного университета и разработка рекомендаций по мотивации, планированию карьеры, повышению трудоустройства выпускников. В процессе исследования применялись общенаучные и статистические методы анализа, приемы сравнений и обобщений, особое место занимает метод анкетного опроса. По результатам исследования определяющими факторами выбора университета и специальности выступают домашние факторы. Среди бакалавров и магистрантов еще присутствуют не определившиеся с выбором профессии, более половины бакалавров не имеют четких карьерных планов, а их карьерные ожидания зачастую завышены. Большинство обучающихся хотят работать в городе, а его основными причинами выступают неудовлетворенность размером будущей зарплаты, экономическими и социально-бытовыми условиями села. Для достижения высокой конкурентоспособности и трудоустройства выпускников аграрных университетов рекомендуется усилить работу по формированию мотивированного контингента обучающихся, оказание помощи в построении карьерных планов бакалавров введением курсов по карьерному планированию, совершенствовать государственные программы занятости молодежи, включить в них больше нужных селу аграрных специальностей, развивать студенческое предпринимательство, практикоориентированное обучение, улучшить социально-бытовые условия села, повышение оплаты аграрного труда, расширение возможностей для карьерного роста молодых специалистов в АПК.
Appendix I-VII from Balancing selection and drift in a polymorphic salamander metapopulation
Creators: name: Giery, Sean T.
name: Zimova, Marketa
name: Drake, Dana L.
name: Urban, Mark C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Understanding how genetic variation is maintained in a metapopulation is a longstanding problem in evolutionary biology. Historical resurveys of polymorphisms have offered efficient insights about evolutionary mechanisms, but are often conducted on single, large populations, neglecting the more comprehensive view afforded by considering all populations in a metapopulation. Here, we resurveyed a metapopulation of spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) to understand the evolutionary drivers of frequency variation in an egg mass colour polymorphism. We found that this metapopulation was demographically, phenotypically and environmentally stable over the last three decades. However, further analysis revealed evidence for two modes of evolution in this metapopulation—genetic drift and balancing selection. Although we cannot identify the balancing mechanism from these data, our findings present a clear view of contemporary evolution in colour morph frequency and demonstrate the importance of metapopulation-scale studies for capturing a broad range of evolutionary dynamics.
A Mathematical Programming Life-Cycle Assessment Model for Solid Waste Management Decision Making
Creators: name: Levis, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: solid waste
life-cycle assessment
landfill
optimization
circular economy

description: In the future, greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation policies that affect the U.S. energy mix as well as the cost of energy and emissions could significantly impact the strategic direction of SWM. As such, SWM systems must proactively adapt to changing waste composition, policy requirements, and an evolving energy system to cost-effectively and sustainably manage future solid waste. SWM life-cycle assessment (LCA) models integrated into an optimization framework can simultaneously consider all possible waste collection and treatment alternatives to find the combination of technologies that optimizes environmental and economic objectives. Such a framework must be able to represent multi-stage decisions to consider the changes to the SWM system over time. The objectives of this research are: to develop the Solid Waste Optimization Life-cycle Framework (SWOLF); to illustrate the use of the framework to analyze the economic and environmental impacts and trade-offs associated with SWM systems based on future changes to waste generation, waste composition, and energy projections; and to analyze the illustrative results to understand how variations in the energy system, GHG policy, and SWM policy affect optimal SWM decisions. Two case studies were developed that represent the first applications of an optimizable dynamic life-cycle assessment framework for SWM. The applicability of SWOLF to provide insights into a realistic SWM system was shown through a case study of a hypothetical suburban city over the next 30 years. The model was then used to investigate the effects of energy, GHG, and SWM policies on optimal SWM strategies. This case study required integrating SWOLF with energy system modeling results to investigate how changes in GHG policy and the energy system affect SWM system performance.
Class consciousness pays : Characteristics of index funds with diverse expense ratios
Creators: name: Baker, H
name: Haslem, John A.
name: Smith, David M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper investigates the characteristics of 189 retail index mutual funds that track eight primary benchmarks across diverse expense ratio classes. These performance measures and attributes are the Sharpe ratio, Jensen’s alpha, annualized total return, Morningstar rating, portfolio turnover, load and 12b-1 fees, fund size, age, and manager tenure. In general, our results support the notion that retail index funds with low expense ratios outperform those with excessive expense ratios. In addition, expense ratios tend to decrease as turnover, loads, and 12b-1 fees decline and as fund size and age increase. Experienced managers do not necessarily run these low-cost funds. Instead, higher-cost funds have managers with a longer tenure at the fund.
Class consciousness pays : Characteristics of index funds with diverse expense ratios
Creators: name: Baker, H
name: Haslem, John A.
name: Smith, David M.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

description: This paper investigates the characteristics of 189 retail index mutual funds that track eight primary benchmarks across diverse expense ratio classes. These performance measures and attributes are the Sharpe ratio, Jensen’s alpha, annualized total return, Morningstar rating, portfolio turnover, load and 12b-1 fees, fund size, age, and manager tenure. In general, our results support the notion that retail index funds with low expense ratios outperform those with excessive expense ratios. In addition, expense ratios tend to decrease as turnover, loads, and 12b-1 fees decline and as fund size and age increase. Experienced managers do not necessarily run these low-cost funds. Instead, higher-cost funds have managers with a longer tenure at the fund.
title: The primitive Methodist connexion: Tackling the myth
Creators: name: Calder, Alexander J.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: The Primitive Methodist Connexion is usually seen as a product of its working-class origins. This thesis argues that whilst the movement saw itself thus, its leaders were from the outset often discreetly prosperous. One of its co-founders, Hugh Bourne, was also its first chronicler, and he chose instead to portray them as humble latter-day disciples ministering to a Biblical poor. Bourne's diaries, which tell a rather different story, were marginalised or ignored by the connexion's later writers, who preferred the retrospective version; and historians of the last half-century read the resulting religious allegory as a factual aCcoWlt of class-inspired contestation. Most previous studies of the movement have focused on rural areas, concluding that it comprised the poor and ill-educated end of the working-class spectrwn; yet this was, in its first half-century, more a movement of the industrial village. The thesis uses early baptismal registers and the 1851 Religious Census to demonstrate that its earliest adherents were broadly a match, socially, for their Wesleyan counterparts, and that its many small plain chapels reflected expansion strategy, not denominational poverty. It argues that the early movement's fo llowers were distinguished by revivalistic preference. not socio-economic circumstances or alienation. It also exploits. in a way impossible only five or ten years ago, two new sources. The British Library digitised archive of 19th-century newspapers provided a less embattled image of Primitive Methodism than that afforded by anecdote. Meanwhile, the genealogical databases spawned by the internet era and a growing interest in family history made it possible to track the fortunes of many of the movement's officers and itinerant preachers, who proved to be surprisingly - and increasingly - prosperous. It concludes that the predominantly working-class composition of the denomination which has so dominated subsequent accounts was a mature product of its religious nature, not the source of its success.
How many longest increasing subsequences are there?
Creators: name: Krabbe, Phil
name: Schawe, Hendrik
name: Hartmann, Alexander K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the entropy $S$ of longest increasing subsequences (LIS), i.e., the logarithm of the number of distinct LIS. We consider two ensembles of sequences, namely random permutations of integers and sequences drawn i.i.d.\ from a limited number of distinct integers. Using sophisticated algorithms, we are able to exactly count the number of LIS for each given sequence. Furthermore, we are not only measuring averages and variances for the considered ensembles of sequences, but we sample very large parts of the probability distribution $p(S)$ with very high precision. Especially, we are able to observe the tails of extremely rare events which occur with probabilities smaller than $10^{-600}$. We show that the distribution of the entropy of the LIS is approximately Gaussian with deviations in the far tails, which might vanish in the limit of long sequences. Further we propose a large-deviation rate function which fits best to our observed data.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
title: Customer-service provider relationship dissolution: The case of affinity marketing
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Aster
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis investigates the process of customer-service provider relationship dissolution in the context of affinity marketing, with special focus on the mediating role of affinity groups in the process. It does so through in-depth interviews, held in four regions of England, with participants who once held affinity credit cards affiliated to a charity or a professional work- related organisation. Holistic knowledge of a relationship, from conception to ending, has become important for developing and nurturing customer-service provider relations. Yet there is dearth of studies that focuses on the dissolution of relationships. The same is true for affinity marketing, a scheme which grew in popularity because of its promise to enhance a product's appeal and provide differentiation from rival offers by linking the product with a non-profit organisation. This research is motivated by the need for better understanding of affinity marketing, an area which has become more prominent in services marketing The research developed a conceptual framework that depicts six phases a customer-service provider relationship goes through, from conception to dissolution: i) triadic relationship (the partnership which forms affinity marketing); ii) trigger; iii) mediating variables; iv) evaluation; v) dissolution by type of customer; and vi) aftermath. This thesis found that the presumed relationship customers had with their affinity groups did not necessarily have a key role in the formation of the triadic relationship. However the relationship customers had with the affinity group through the affinity card was more prominent in the triad as well as in determining how the dissolution proceeded. Hence the findings challenge the emphasis given to affinity groups in establishing and maintaining relationships under affinity scheme. The functional, symbolic or supporting features of the affinity credit cards, led to three types of customers being identified: an explorer, a communicator and a supporter. Each type relates to distinct processes of dissolution. This research provides a deeper understanding of customers' perception of affinity marketing schemes. From the insight of the process of dissolution, it suggests techniques that can help to improve the design and management of the scheme, as well as prevent future dissolution.
Determinants of corporate dividend policy : A survey of NYSE firms
Creators: name: Baker, H
name: Powell, Gary E.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

description: This study reports the results of a 1997 survey of NYSE-listed US firms about managers’ views of what factors determine dividend policy. The study updates and expands previous survey research on dividend policy and provides longitudinal comparisons between 1983 and 1997 on the determinants of dividend policy. The findings show that the most important determinants of a firm’s dividend policy are the level of current and expected future earnings and the pattern or continuity of past dividends. The most important factors influencing dividend policy in the 1983 dividend survey are highly similar to those in the current survey. When taken together, these findings suggest little change in dividend determinants over time. Although industry type appears to influence the importance that respondents place on some determinants of dividend policy, some industry-based differences appear to have diminished between the 1983 survey and the current one.[JEL: G35]
Mechanochemical Synthesis of a Nucleoside Dimer by the Phosphoramidite Method from Investigations into the synthesis of a nucleotide dimer via mechanochemical phosphoramidite chemistry
Creators: name: Johnston, C.
name: Hardacre, C.
name: Migaud, M. E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30203 Inorganic Green Chemistry
subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials
subject: 30503 Organic Chemical Synthesis
subject: 30504 Organic Green Chemistry

description: general experimental methods and compounds' characterization
Determinants of corporate dividend policy : A survey of NYSE firms
Creators: name: Baker, H
name: Powell, Gary E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study reports the results of a 1997 survey of NYSE-listed US firms about managers’ views of what factors determine dividend policy. The study updates and expands previous survey research on dividend policy and provides longitudinal comparisons between 1983 and 1997 on the determinants of dividend policy. The findings show that the most important determinants of a firm’s dividend policy are the level of current and expected future earnings and the pattern or continuity of past dividends. The most important factors influencing dividend policy in the 1983 dividend survey are highly similar to those in the current survey. When taken together, these findings suggest little change in dividend determinants over time. Although industry type appears to influence the importance that respondents place on some determinants of dividend policy, some industry-based differences appear to have diminished between the 1983 survey and the current one.[JEL: G35]
UBC Food System : framework for assessing sustainability
Creators: name: Lee, Alvina
name: Elisia, Ingrid
name: Shin, Barry
name: Brown, Jackie
name: Rommel, Marina
name: Kostecki, Merima
name: Wilson, Maggie
name: Nie, Suzy
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The global food system is a huge industry that has a major impact on environmental, social, and economical sustainability. The UBC food system represents a microcosm of the global food system, similarly impacting the sustainability of UBC. We believe that the UBC Food System (UBCFS) is currently unsustainable. Significant amounts of solid waste are being produced annually, resources are not being adequately utilized, and healthy food is not being provided at a reasonable cost. The UBC Food System, defined as the area west of Wesbrook Mall, faces numerous challenges. Efforts are being made to improve the sustainability of the system by the UBC Sustainability Office, however to date no projects have been published regarding the sustainability of the current food system The objective of this project is to develop a framework for assessing the sustainability of the UBC food system, which can be taking up and implemented by AGSC 450 students over the next four years. To this end we propose using 6 indicators, which integrate issues of ecological, social and economic sustainability. It is our hope that this project will serve as a stepping stone for future projects aimed at promoting a more sustainable UBC food system. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Transport spectroscopy of Kondo quantum dots coupled by RKKY interaction
Creators: name: Vavilov, M. G.
name: Glazman, L. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the theory of conductance of a quantum dot which carries a spin and is coupled via RKKY interaction to another spin-carrying quantum dot. The found dependence of the differential conductance on bias and magnetic field at fixed RKKY interaction strength may allow one to distinguish between the possible ground states of the system. Transitions between the ground states are achieved by tuning the RKKY interaction, and the nature of these transitions can be extracted from the temperature dependence of the linear conductance. The feasibility of the corresponding measurements is evidenced by recent experiments by Craig et al. [cond-mat/0404213].
description: published version: minor changes, references added