cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Relationship Between Financial Performance, Corporate Governance and Brand Value: An Application on Banks Covered by the Borsa Istanbul Corporate Governance Index
Creators: name: Kılıçarslan, Abdullah
name: Ergun, hüseyin
name: Sucu, Mustafa çağrı
name: Yaralı, Mustafa Cihan
name: Gülal, metin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150303 Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150201 Finance
subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: 150203 Financial Institutions (incl. Banking)

description: ABSTRACT
 The aim of this study is to measure the financial performance of six banks traded on the BorsaIstanbul Corporate Governance Index (XKURY) by the Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods, and compare the financial performance ranking results with the corporate governance rating scores and brand values calculated by Brand Finance. We analyzed the financial performance of the relevant banks through January 2016- December 2020 data and 10 ratios using Gray Relational Analysis (GRA), TOPSIS, ARAS, and MOORA methods. The financial performance ranking results are translated into seven integrated ranking results, using the Copeland method. Because the MCDM methods allow sorting alternatives by criterion values and distance from a particular criterion value, more than one integrated ordering result has been calculated, and the results obtained have been used in the Spearman rho analysis. The ranking results of the GIA, TOPSIS,ARAS, MOORA and Copeland methods are determined by Spearman rho analysis for therelationships between corporate governance and brand values. We have determined that brand values and corporate governance scores have a positive effect on the financial performance of banks, although their relationship levels vary in year and data.
Unification of inflation and dark energy {\it à la} quintessential inflation
Creators: name: Hossain, Md. Wali
name: Myrzakulov, R.
name: Sami, M.
name: Saridakis, Emmanuel N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This pedagogical review is devoted to quintessential inflation, which refers to unification of inflation and dark energy using a single scalar field. We present a brief but concise description of the concepts needed to join the two ends, which include discussion on scalar field dynamic, conformal coupling, instant preheating and relic gravitational waves. Models of quintessential inflation broadly fall into two classes, depending upon the early and late time behavior of the field potential. In the first type we include models in which the field potential is steep for most of the history of the Universe but turn shallow at late times, whereas in the second type the potential is shallow at early times followed by a steep behavior thereafter. In models of the first category inflation can be realized by invoking high-energy brane-induced damping, which is needed to facilitate slow roll along a steep potential. In models of second type one may invoke a non-minimal coupling of the scalar field with massive neutrino matter, which might induce a minimum in the potential at late times as neutrinos turn non-relativistic. In this category we review a class of models with non-canonical kinetic term in the Lagrangian, which can comply with recent B mode polarization measurements. The scenario under consideration is distinguished by the presence of a kinetic phase, which precedes the radiative regime, giving rise to blue spectrum of gravity waves generated during inflation. We highlight the generic features of quintessential inflation and also discuss on issues related to Lyth bound.
description: 56 pages, 15 figures, minor clarifications, corrections and comments from colleagues incorporated, references updated, revised version of the invited review published in IJMPD
Cosmic microwave background constraints on coupled dark matter
Creators: name: Morris, Sophie C. F.
name: Green, Anne M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study CMB constraints on a model with a cosmological constant and a fraction of dark matter non-minimally coupled to a massless scalar field. In this scenario, there is an extra gravity-like fifth force which can affect the evolution of the Universe enough to have a discernible effect on measurements of cosmological parameters. Using Planck and WMAP polarisation data, we find that up to half of the dark matter can be coupled. The coupling can also be several times larger than in models with a single species of cold dark matter coupled to a quintessence scalar field, as the scalar field does not play the role of dark energy and is therefore less constrained by the data.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Spatially resolved observations of inner disc structure
Creators: name: Kraus, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: In this talk I will review how spatially resolved observations have helped to shape our understanding of protoplanetary disc structure and of the physical processes taking place in the inner-most astronomical unit. I will discuss the evidence for an optically-thin cavity and a "puffed-up rim" near the dust sublimation radius and how infrared interferometric observations have helped to establish the current generation of irradiative disc models. Multi-wavelength interferometric observations revealed also systems with clear signatures of grain growth or extended optically thin gaps, likely tracing systems in the later stages of disc evolution and of ongoing planet formation. Besides the dust disc, interferometric observations with high spectral dispersion have also resulted in direct constraints on the gas distribution and velocity field on sub-AU scales and have provided direct evidence for disc wind launched from the inner few astronomical units. Finally, I will discuss some of the open questions and outline future opportunities in the field.
Dynamical coupled-channels model of $K^- p$ reactions (I): Determination of partial-wave amplitudes
Creators: name: Kamano, H.
name: Nakamura, S. X.
name: Lee, T. -S. H.
name: Sato, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a dynamical coupled-channels model of K^- p reactions, aiming at extracting the parameters associated with hyperon resonances and providing the elementary antikaon-nucleon scattering amplitudes that can be used for investigating various phenomena in the strangeness sector such as the production of hypernuclei from kaon-nucleus reactions. The model consists of (a) meson-baryon (MB) potentials v_{M'B',MB} derived from the phenomenological SU(3) Lagrangian, and (b) vertex interactions Gamma_{MB,Y*} for describing the decays of the bare excited hyperon states (Y*) into MB states. The model is defined in a channel space spanned by the two-body barK N, pi Sigma, pi Lambda, eta Lambda, and K Xi states and also the three-body pi pi Lambda and pi barK N states that have the resonant pi Sigma* and barK* N components, respectively. The resulting coupled-channels scattering equations satisfy the multichannel unitarity conditions and account for the dynamical effects arising from the off-shell rescattering processes. The model parameters are determined by fitting the available data of the unpolarized and polarized observables of the K^- p --> barK N, pi Sigma, pi Lambda, eta Lambda, K Xi reactions in the energy region from the threshold to invariant mass W=2.1 GeV. Two models with equally good chi^2 fits to the data have been constructed. The partial-wave amplitudes obtained from the constructed models are compared with the results from a recent partial-wave analysis by the Kent State University group. We discuss the differences between these three analysis results. Our results at energies near the threshold suggest that the higher partial waves should be treated on the same footing as the S wave if one wants to understand the nature of Lambda(1405)1/2^- using the data below the barK N threshold, as will be provided by the J-PARC E31 experiment.
description: 82 pages, 36 figures. Version to appear in Physical Review C. In this version some numerical errors are corrected, the partial wave analysis is extended to include the eta Lambda channel, and a number of references are added
Community Accountability among Hospitals Affiliated with Health Care Systems
Creators: name: Succi, Melissa
name: Alexander, Jeffrey A.
name: Weiner, Bryan J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: The shift from local, community-based hospitals to more complex, multilevel delivery systems raises questions about the community accountability exercised by hospitals. A national sample of community hospitals is the basis of this study, which examines the ways that community accountability is exercised by the governing boards of hospitals affiliated with health care systems and how such institutions compare with hospitals not affiliated with a health care system. Results indicate that hospitals display community accountability in a variety of ways. Boards of system-affiliated hospitals exercise community accountability most strongly in their information monitoring and reporting activities, whereas free-standing hospitals exercise community accountability through the structural and compositional attributes of their boards. Further, hospitals affiliated with different types of systems vary in the style and degree of accountability they demonstrate.
Determining Online Buying Behaviours of the Counsumers bfter Covid-19: An Exploratory Study
Creators: name: Sucu, Mustafa çağrı
name: Kılıçarslan, Abdullah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 130203 Economics, Business and Management Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: ABSTRACT
 Societies may face many economic, political, cultural and geopolitical difficulties in certain periods, and the processes experienced can have various effects and consequences. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) explosion we are experiencing today is the main human tragedy affecting the lives of millions of people worldwide and causing profound changes in the global economy. Consumer behavior is always changing and evolving, but recent changes have dramatically changed both business and consumer behavior. During the general epidemic we are experiencing today, people have been forced to live differently, and as a result, the way consumers both shop and spend time has changed greatly. Individuals staying in their homes for long periods and travel restrictions naturally increased the need for online shopping and caused behavioral changes that would normally take years to occur at a dizzying pace. In this study, it is aimed to understand the changes experienced during Covid-19 more effectively, to provide guidance to business leaders about the progressing situation and its effects on the consumer, and to reveal the changes in online purchasing behavior of consumers. If these trends are long-term and permanent, it is likely that the purchasing behavior of consumers will change permanently.
Sustainable development goals (SDGs) associated with flash flood hazard mapping and management measures through morphometric evaluation
Creators: name: Mansour, Mahmoud M.
name: Ibrahim, Mona G.
name: Fujii, Manabu
name: Nasr, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study is the first to demonstrate the interlinkages between several flash flood mitigation strategies and sustainable development goals (SDGs) by understanding the basins' morphometric characteristics. The basins' features were described by eighteen morphometric parameters, covering the watershed geometry, drainage network, and relief. The flash flood hazard degree (FFHD) was significantly (p < 0.05) correlated with texture ratio (R2=0.712), surface slope (R2=0.705), relief (R2=0.690), basin area (R2=0.666), ruggedness number (R2=0.615), and sinuosity index (R2=0.551). These parameters were used to define the sustainability of flash flood management actions, viz., protecting water bodies and livestock, harvesting freshwater from rainfall, restoring water-related ecosystems, implementing safe working areas, and applying hydro-electrical facilities for energy generation. Essential non-structural and structural measures were suggested to mitigate flood damages. The proposed mitigation measures showed high relationships with the environmental, economic, and social pillars of sustainability, reducing the negative impacts of flash floods on the fulfilment of SDGs.
Entanglement Entropy Scaling Laws and Eigenstate Typicality in Free Fermion Systems
Creators: name: Lai, Hsin-Hua
name: Yang, Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the entanglement entropy area law for free fermion ground states and the corresponding volume law for highly excited states are related by a position-momentum duality, thus of the same origin. For a typical excited state in the thermodynamic limit, we further show that the reduced density matrix of a subsystem approaches thermal density matrix, provided the subsystem's linear size is small compared to that of the whole system in all directions, a property we dub eigenstate typicality. This provides an explicit example of thermalization via entanglement, and reveals how statistical physics emerges from a single eigenstate by tracing out a large number of degrees of freedom.
description: 4.5 pages, 2 figures
The Rise and Fall of a Kaiser Permanente Expansion Region
Creators: name: GITTERMAN, DANIEL P.
name: McKETHAN, AARON N.
name: DOMINO, MARISA ELENA
name: ENTHOVEN, ALAIN C.
name: WEINER, BRYAN J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Prepaid group practices (PGPs) — multispecialty groups that vertically integrate the organization, financing, and delivery of health services to a specific population—were once viewed as the most cost-effective and efficient model for achieving national health care reform (e.g., McNeil and Schlenker 1981; Saward and Greenlick 1981). Policy reformers who extolled the benefits of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in the late 1970s and early 1980s emphasized in particular the cost and quality advantages of PGPs vis-à-vis solo and single-specialty fee-for-service (FFS) providers. A comprehensive review of comparative empirical studies (HMOs versus FFS) since 1950 concluded that the total costs for HMO enrollees were 10 to 40 percent lower than those for comparable enrollees with conventional indemnity insurance (Luft 1978). Although PGPs did not originate as a competitive response to fee-for-service indemnity health insurance, many proponents viewed them as a promising means of helping contain rising medical costs, encouraging a more rational allocation of health care resources, and improving the access to and delivery of quality services (McNeil and Schlenker 1981).
Active Viscoelastic Matter: from Bacterial Drag Reduction to Turbulent Solids
Creators: name: Hemingway, E. J.
name: Maitra, A.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Marchetti, M. C.
name: Ramaswamy, S.
name: Fielding, S. M.
name: Cates, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A paradigm for internally driven matter is the active nematic liquid crystal, whereby the equations of a conventional nematic are supplemented by a minimal active stress that violates time reversal symmetry. In practice, active fluids may have not only liquid crystalline but also viscoelastic polymer degrees of freedom. Here we explore the resulting interplay by coupling an active nematic to a minimal model of polymer rheology. We find that adding polymer can greatly increase the complexity of spontaneous flow, but can also have calming effects, thereby increasing the net throughput of spontaneous flow along a pipe (a 'drag-reduction' effect). Remarkably, active turbulence can also arise after switching on activity in a sufficiently soft elastomeric solid.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures (supplementary information included); v2 has updated PACS numbers, and a note added with one additional citation; v3 fixes a typo in Eq. 6 and a minor correction to top phase diagram in Fig. 1
title: Der Einfluss persönlicher Erfahrungen von PsychiaterInnen mit Depressionen auf RezipientInnen
Creators: name: Unterreiter, Lisa
Year: 2022

description: Diese Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss des Kommunizierens von persönlichen Erfahrungen mit Depressionen auf die Hilfsintention von Rezipierenden. Konkret wird im Zuge einer empirischen Studie ein webbasiertes Experiment durchgeführt, bei dem die Probandinnen und Probanden randomisiert in drei Experimentalgruppen eingeteilt werden. Dabei bekommen sie entweder einen Artikel präsentiert, in dem eine Psychiaterin bzw. ein Psychiater über keine persönliche Erfahrung, über unmittelbare persönliche Erfahrung oder über mittelbare persönliche Erfahrung mit Depressionen berichtet. Mit Hilfe eines Post-Fragebogens wird einerseits das zentrale Outcome, nämlich die Hilfsintention, gemessen und andererseits der Einfluss der drei vermuteten Mediatoren (soziale Vergleichsprozesse, Empathie und Identifikation) erhoben. Dabei werden auch geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede berücksichtigt. Die quantitative Auswertung mittels SPSS hat unter anderen ergeben, dass die persönliche Erfahrung mit Depressionen einen signifikanten Einfluss auf die gemessene Hilfsintention hat.
description: This master's thesis aims to measure the effect of personal experiences regarding depression of psychiatrists on the recipient’s intention to help. Specifically, as part of an empirical study, a web-based experiment is carried out in which the test subjects are randomly divided into three experimental groups to read a newspaper article of an Interview with a psychiatrist. In the control group, the psychiatrist has no personal experience. Experimental group 1 reads the same interview with the difference, that the psychiatrist reports about him-/herself suffering from major depression in the past. Experimental group 2 reads the same interview with a psychiatrist whose spouse suffered from major depression. By using a post questionnaire, the central outcome, namely the intention to help, is measured as well as the influence of the three presumed mediators, social comparison processes, empathy and identification, are recorded. Moreover gender-specific differences were also taken into account. The quantitative evaluation using SPSS has shown, among other things, that personal experiences with depression have a significant influence on the measured intention to help.
A modified GALDIT-NUTS index to assess Favignana Island aquifer vulnerability
Creators: name: Pisciotta, Antonino
name: Suozzi, Enrico
name: Tiwari, Ashwani Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: The present research aims to assess the role of geogenic and anthropogenic activities in coastal aquifer vulnerability using a modified index. To achieve the objective of the current research, a GIS-based GALDIT-NUTS index has been developed for aquifer vulnerability assessment on Favignana Island, Italy. The GALDIT-NUTS index has been developed by expanding the GALDIT index using three significant parameters of the DRASTIC index and adding the landuse of the area. The GALDITS-NUTS index and the different index weights were validated using a hierarchical analytical process, vulnerability rating (obtained by this application), and field observed aquifer electrical conductivity data. The GALDIT-NUTS showed that approximately 66% of the study area was covered with high to maximum vulnerability zones and followed by medium vulnerability zones (32% of the study area). The present research outcome suggested that the GALDIT-NUTS index helps assess Island aquifer vulnerability because the index considers both human and seawater intrusion impacts.
Single and repeated sessions of transcranial infrared laser stimulation to the anterior prefrontal cortex in older adults with bipolar disorder
Creators: name: O'Donnell, Courtney Marie
name: 0000-0002-5317-4229
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Photobiomodulation
Transcranial infrared laser stimulation
Bipolar disorder

description: Older adults with bipolar disorder (BD) exhibit greater cognitive decline than is expected for age-matched controls and clinical interventions intended for mood stabilization are not targeted to prevent or ameliorate cognitive decline in this population. Euthymic adults with BD still present with cognitive impairment, even though they are not currently experiencing symptoms of depression or mania. There is evidence of mitochondrial deficits and prefrontal (PFC) hypometabolism in BD, which leads to mitochondrial-induced oxidative stress and damage. Transcranial infrared laser stimulation (TILS) is a non-invasive form of photobiomodulation, in which photons delivered to the PFC can oxidize the mitochondrial enzyme, cytochrome c oxidase (CCO). TILS upregulates the enzymatic activity of CCO and increases differential levels of oxygenated vs. deoxygenated hemoglobin (HbD), an index of cerebral oxygenation and blood flow. The first objective of this dissertation was to use a novel method of broadband near-infrared spectroscopy to assess if TILS to bilateral anterior PFC (Brodmann area 10) produces beneficial effects on mitochondrial energy metabolism (CCO) and cerebral oxygenation (HbD) in older (>45 years of age), euthymic adults with BD. This study found for the first time that TILS of the PFC in adults with BD served to increase oxidized CCO and HbD concentrations after a single session of TILS, with the increase of oxidized CCO starting within the first minute of stimulation. By increasing oxidized CCO and HbD concentrations, TILS has the potential ability to stabilize dysfunctional mitochondrial energy production and prevent additional oxidative damage in the PFC of adults with BD. The second objective of this dissertation was to examine if TILS to the same bilateral PFC regions produces beneficial effects on cognition in older, euthymic adults with BD. Cognitive functions, such as cognitive flexibility, verbal fluency, working memory, sustained attention and impulsivity, were used in this dissertation because they have been shown to differentiate between healthy older adults and older adults with BD. This pilot study found TILS-induced improvements in cognitive performance on tasks that measure cognitive flexibility, sustained attention and impulsivity, after five sessions of TILS. There were no adverse effects of TILS reported in any of the studies. In conclusion, we found that TILS was both safe and effective in adults with BD. TILS is a novel, non-invasive, easily administered intervention that enhances brain mitochondrial metabolism and oxygenation and alleviates cognitive impairment. Enhancing these PFC functions with TILS might alleviate the accelerated cognitive decline and dysfunctional mitochondrial output present in older, euthymic adults with BD
Does Governance Matter? Board Configuration and Performance in Not-for-Profit Hospitals
Creators: name: LEE, SHOOU-YIH D.
name: ALEXANDER, JEFFREY A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: As performance accountabilities, external oversight, and market competition among not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals have grown, governing boards have been given a more central leadership role. This article examines these boards' effectiveness, particularly how their configuration influenced a range of performance outcomes in NFP community hospitals. Results indicate that hospitals governed by boards using a corporate governance model, versus hospitals governed by philanthropic-style boards, were likely to be more efficient and have more admissions and a larger share of the local market. Occupancy and cash flow were generally unrelated to hospitals' governing board configuration. However, effects of governance configuration were more pronounced in freestanding and public NFP hospitals compared with system-affiliated and private NFP hospitals, respectively.
title: Evaluierung der Grundvorstellungen zu den Grundrechnungsarten der Schülerinnen und Schüler einer AHS beim Übergang von der Primarstufe in die Sekundarstufe I
Creators: name: Böck, Matthias
Year: 2022

description: Der Übergang von der Primarstufe in die Sekundarstufe ist im Leben eines Heranwachsenden ein großer Schritt. Nach vier Jahren in einem sich kaum verändernden Klassenverband und einer vertrauten Atmosphäre, wird die Ausbildung in einer neuen Bildungsanstalt fortgesetzt. Jene Schülerinnen und Schüler, welche die Aufnahme in eine AHS schaffen, benötigen in der Regel im Unterrichtsfach Mathematik entweder ein „Sehr gut“ oder „Gut“ im Zeugnis am Ende der Primarstufe. Da an den unterschiedlichen Volksschulen nach demselben Lehrplan unterrichtet wird, könnte man davon ausgehen, dass das Leistungsniveau der Schülerinnen und Schüler beim Übergang in die AHS ein ähnliches ist. In der Praxis zeigt sich, dass das mitunter nicht der Fall ist und Schülerinnen und Schüler mit unterschiedlichen Vorstellungen und Erfahrungen zusammentreffen. Die Herausforderung einer AHS-Lehrperson ist es, diese heterogene Gruppe gemeinsam zu unterrichten und dabei alle Heranwachsenden an dem jeweiligen Wissensstand abzuholen. An dieser Stelle stellt sich für Lehrpersonen oftmals die Frage, welche mathematischen Inhalte nach der Volksschule bei einem Großteil der Schülerinnen und Schüler bereits verinnerlicht sind und wo noch viel Aufholbedarf besteht. Um Antworten auf diese oder ähnliche Fragen zu bekommen, sind Standortbestimmungen zu Beginn der 5. Schulstufe probate Mittel. Eine reine Überprüfung der rechnerischen Kompetenzen geben jedoch nur bedingt Einblick in die tatsächlichen Vorstellungskonstrukte der Schülerinnen und Schüler zu bestimmten mathematischen Inhalten. Im Zuge dieser Arbeit wird versucht, einen genaueren Blick auf die Erfahrungen der Heranwachsenden im Bereich der vier Grundrechnungsarten zu bekommen. Es gilt hierbei explizit herauszufinden, welche Grundvorstellungen zu den Grundrechnungsarten die Kinder aus der Volksschule mitbringen und welche möglicherweise noch gar nicht aufgebaut sind. Hierfür wird zunächst der Begriff Grundvorstellung im mathematischen Kontext definiert und erläutert, welche Vorstellungen es bei den Grundrechnungsarten gibt. Außerdem wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie man überhaupt Vorstellungen zu bestimmten mathematischen Inhalten evaluieren kann und welche Aufgabenformate dabei in dieser Arbeit Anwendung finden können. Anhand dieser Erkenntnisse wird ein Fragebogen erstellt, welcher die Grundvorstellungen zu zwei Rechenoperationen, nämlich zur Multiplikation und zur Division, überprüfen soll. Die im Zuge der Untersuchung vier erster Klassen einer Wiener AHS im Schuljahr 2020/21 ermittelten Ergebnisse werden schließlich zusammengefasst und die daraus erhaltenen Erkenntnisse in den finalen Kapiteln der Arbeit festgehalten.
Scalable Greedy Algorithms for Transfer Learning
Creators: name: Kuzborskij, Ilja
name: Orabona, Francesco
name: Caputo, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we consider the binary transfer learning problem, focusing on how to select and combine sources from a large pool to yield a good performance on a target task. Constraining our scenario to real world, we do not assume the direct access to the source data, but rather we employ the source hypotheses trained from them. We propose an efficient algorithm that selects relevant source hypotheses and feature dimensions simultaneously, building on the literature on the best subset selection problem. Our algorithm achieves state-of-the-art results on three computer vision datasets, substantially outperforming both transfer learning and popular feature selection baselines in a small-sample setting. We also present a randomized variant that achieves the same results with the computational cost independent from the number of source hypotheses and feature dimensions. Also, we theoretically prove that, under reasonable assumptions on the source hypotheses, our algorithm can learn effectively from few examples.
A country-wide assessment of Iran's land subsidence susceptibility using satellite-based InSAR and machine learning
Creators: name: Panahi, Mahdi
name: Khosravi, Khabat
name: Golkarian, Ali
name: Roostaei, Mahsa
name: Barzegar, Rahim
name: Omidvar, Ebrahim
name: Rezaie, Fatemeh
name: Saco, Patricia M.
name: Sharifi, Alireza
name: Jun, Changhyun
name: Bateni, Sayed M.
name: Lee, Chang-Wook
name: Lee, Saro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Land subsidence (LS), which mainly results from poor watershed management, is a complex and non-linear phenomenon. In the present study, LS at a country-wide assessment of Iran was mapped by using several geo-environmental conditioning factors (namely, altitude, slope degree and aspect, plan and profile curvature, distance from a river, road, or fault, rainfall, geology, and land use) into a machine learning algorithm-based artificial neural network (ANN), and a powerful group method of data handling (GMDH). The total dataset includes historical LS and non-LS locations, identified by the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). The whole dataset was divided into two subsets at a ratio of 70:30 for training and validating the model, respectively. ANN- and GMDH-based LS maps were evaluated using receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) curves. The information gain ratio (IGR) was calculated to determine the relative importance of the conditioning factors. The results showed that all of the considered factors contributed significantly to the LS mapping in Iran, with geology having the strongest impact. According to the ROC curve analysis, both ANN and GMDH-based LS maps were accurate, but the map obtained by the GMDH approach had a higher accuracy than that of ANN. Southwestern, northeastern, and some parts of the central region of Iran were shown to be susceptible to LS in the future. According to the GMDH susceptibility map, 10% of Iran exhibits high or very high susceptibility to LS in the future. The provinces of Hamedan and Khouzestan had the highest percentage of areas at risk of LS. According to the InSAR deformation map, 39%, 20%, 25%, 13%, and 3% of the investigated areas are subject to a yearly LS of -1 to -2.5, -2.5 to -5, -5 to -7.5, -7.5 to -10, and -10 to -20 cm, respectively. The province of Razavi Khorasan in the northeast of Iran had the largest area (about 3500 km2) vulnerable to LS occurrence. Based on the LS susceptibility map, the provinces of Ardebil, Kurdistan, West and East Azerbaijan, Sistan and Baluchistan, and Kermanshah, although not currently undergoing a high rate of LS, will be at high risk of severe LS in the future.
Hydro-chemical evaluation and fluoride health risk assessment in school children of plain tropical Central India
Creators: name: Lal, Bharat
name: Kumar, Pavan
name: Sengar, S. S.
name: Singh, R. N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The present study makes an attempt to mainly design to analyze the impact of fluoride in plain tropical central India and affecting health conditions of the school children. Fluoride naturally, a toxic material for the human beings but its more concentration in the body due to anthropogenic activities increases the risk of more dangerous outcomes. We utilized ionic concentration, hydrochemistry, fluoride content and health risk assessed from the different collected water samples in the month of June, 2017. This study shows the concentration of fluoride content in water sample ranged from 0.08-2.4 mg/l (mean = 0.6 mg/l) and had positive relation with the pH (r = 0.49), HCO3- (r = 0.29) and Na+ (r = 0.20). Few, 9.18% water sample out of total collected samples were exceeding the permissible limit (> 1.5 mg/l) of fluoride content in groundwater which was not suitable for drinking purpose due to the heavy loading of fluoride content.
title: "Stockfisch / auf Capucinerisch zu dämpffen"
Creators: name: Unterguggenberger, Samuel
Year: 2022

description: Diese MA-Arbeit behandelt die Ernährung in österreichischen Klöstern in der Epoche des Barocks in vergleichender Perspektive. Anhand von Rechnungsbüchern aus den drei Kärntner Klöstern Arnoldstein, Friesach und St. Paul wurde die Ernährungspraxis aus wirtschaftlicher Sicht, speziell mit Blick auf die Unterschiede in den Einkäufen von Tieren und Lebensmitteln, den Preisen sowie auch deren Herkunft, ausgearbeitet. Darüber hinaus erfolgte auch mithilfe von Sekundärliteratur der Vergleich der Ernährung in anderen österreichischen Klöstern wie Admont, St. Peter, Mondsee und Lambach, zum Teil auch anhand von Editionen überlieferter Speisepläne und Tagebücher. Weitere wichtige Leitfragen waren die Hierarchie bezüglich der Konsumation an der Gesinde-, Konvents- und Abtstafel und die Diskrepanz von Norm und Praxis in den Fastenzeiten und die Fleischabstinenz, die sich insbesondere mit Speiseplänen und Visitationsprotokollen beurteilen lassen. Eine ergiebige Quelle für die Konsumation sind archäologisch befundete Knochen aus Latrinen und Abfallgruben, wobei hier auch eine Rekonstruktion der Herkunft der Tiere möglich ist.
description: This MA thesis deals with nutrition in Austrian monasteries during the Baroque period in a comparative perspective. Based on account books from the three Carinthian monasteries Arnoldstein, Friesach and St. Paul, the nutritional practice was elaborated from an economic point of view, especially with regard to the differences in the purchases of animals and food, the prices as well as their origin. In addition, with the help of secondary literature, the diet in other Austrian monasteries such as Admont, St. Peter, Mondsee and Lambach was compared, partly also on the basis of editions of handed-down menus and diaries. Other important guiding questions were the hierarchy regarding consumption at the servants', conventual, and abbot's table and the discrepancy between norm and practice during fasts and abstinence from meat, which can be assessed especially with menus and visitation records. A rich source for consumption is archaeologically discovered bones from latrines and waste pits, and here it is also possible to reconstruct the origin of the animals.
Extension Fullness of the Categories of Gelfand-Zeitlin and Whittaker Modules
Creators: name: Coulembier, Kevin
name: Mazorchuk, Volodymyr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the categories of Gelfand-Zeitlin modules of $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{gl}_n$ and Whittaker modules associated with a semi-simple complex finite-dimensional algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ are extension full in the category of all $\mathfrak{g}$-modules. This is used to estimate and in some cases determine the global dimension of blocks of the categories of Gelfand-Zeitlin and Whittaker modules.
Observing and characterizing the planet-forming region of protoplanetary disks with MATISSE
Creators: name: Matter, Alexis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: MATISSE is the mid-infrared spectro-interferometer for the VLTI. It combines four apertures in the L, M and N bands (from 3 to 13 microns) with spectral resolutions ranging from 30 to 4500. It is designed to provide polychromatic images and advanced multi-wavelength model fitting. One of the driving science cases of the instrument is the observation of the inner regions (~ 0.1 to 10 au) of protoplanetary disks. With a mas-scale angular resolution, MATISSE will be able to detect and image au-scale structures (rims, gaps, cavities, spirals, asymetries) in those planet-forming regions. Its spectroscopics capabilities and extended spectral coverage will allow to characterize at the same time the spatial distribution and chemical characteristics of the warm dust (composition, grain size, cristallinity) and gas material. MATISSE is currently in its commissioning phase at the VLTI with a first report to ESO in June 2018 to offer MATISSE in low spectral resolution in the fall 2018 ESO Call for Proposal. In this talk, i will thus present the scientific potential of MATISSE for disk observations along with the commissioned performances in various spectral resolutions in the L, M and N bands.
The Indiana Chronic Disease Management Program
Creators: name: KATZ, BARRY
name: HOLMES, ANN M.
name: DOEBBELING, CAROLINE CARNEY
name: INUI, THOMAS S.
name: DOWNS, STEPHEN M.
name: ACKERMANN, RONALD T.
name: ROSENMAN, MARC B.
name: PRESCOTT, VICTORIA M.
name: ZILLICH, ALAN
name: MURRAY, MICHAEL D.
name: LI, JINGJIN
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: The Indiana Chronic Disease Management Program (ICDMP) is intended to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of care for Medicaid members with congestive heart failure (chronic heart failure), diabetes, asthma, and other conditions. The ICDMP is being assembled by Indiana Medicaid primarily from state and local resources and has seven components: (1) identification of eligible participants to create regional registries, (2) risk stratification of eligible participants, (3) nurse care management for high-risk participants, (4) telephonic intervention for all participants, (5) an Internet-based information system, (6) quality improvement collaboratives for primary care practices, and (7) program evaluation. The evaluation involves a randomized controlled trial in two inner-city group practices, as well as a statewide observational design. This article describes the ICDMP, highlights challenges, and discusses approaches to its evaluation.
Full-counting statistics of charge and spin transport in the transient regime: A nonequilibrium Green's function approach
Creators: name: Tang, Gao-Min
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the investigation of full-counting statistics (FCS) of transferred charge and spin in the transient regime where the connection between central scattering region (quantum dot) and leads are turned on at $t=0$. A general theoretical formulation for the generating function (GF) is presented using a nonequilibrium Green's function approach for the quantum dot system. In particular, we give a detailed derivation on how to use the method of path integral together with nonequilibrium Green's function technique to obtain the GF of FCS in electron transport systems based on the two-time quantum measurement scheme. The correct long-time limit of the formalism, the Levitov-Lesovik's formula, is obtained. This formalism can be generalized to account for spin transport for the system with noncollinear spin as well as spin-orbit interaction. As an example, we have calculated the GF of spin-polarized transferred charge, transferred spin, as well as the spin transferred torque for a magnetic tunneling junction in the transient regime. The GF is compactly expressed by a functional determinant represented by Green's function and self-energy in the time domain. With this formalism, FCS in spintronics in the transient regime can be studied. We also extend this formalism to the quantum point contact system. For numerical results, we calculate the GF and various cumulants of a double quantum dot system connected by two leads in transient regime. The signature of universal oscillation of FCS is identified. On top of the global oscillation, local oscillations are found in various cumulants as a result of the Rabi oscillation. Finally, the influence of the temperature is also examined.
title: Flucht kein Thema?
Creators: name: Pöllinger, Johannes
Year: 2022

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Flucht und der Umsetzung des Themas in den Schulbüchern der 4.Klasse Sekundarstufe I, die im Schuljahr 2020-21 eingesetzt wurden. Dabei wird zunächst in einem großen Fachwissenschaftlichen Teil das Thema Flucht und Fluchtursachen betrachtet. Im Anschluss folgt eine genaue Betrachtung des österreichischen Asylwesens. Den Abschluss des Fachwissenschaftlichen Parts bildet eine Darstellung des Migrationsjahres 2015, welches oft mit dem Begriff „Flüchtlingskrise“ verbunden wird. Im empirischen Abschnitt folgt eine Schulbuchanalyse anhand der Inhalte des Fachwissenschaftlichen Abschnitts. Diese orientiert sich dabei an den Methoden der Kritischen Diskursanalyse nach Siegfried Jäger und Philipp A. E. Mayring, sowie der Vergleichenden Methode nach Dieter Nohlen, und soll nach Überprüfung jedes Schulbuches als eigenes Werk im letzten Schritt einen Vergleich der Schulbücher ermöglichen, wodurch die Forschungsfrage schlussendlich beantwortet werden kann.
The impact of feedback on cosmological gas accretion
Creators: name: Nelson, Dylan
name: Genel, Shy
name: Vogelsberger, Mark
name: Springel, Volker
name: Sijacki, Debora
name: Torrey, Paul
name: Hernquist, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate how the way galaxies acquire their gas across cosmic time in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations is modified by a comprehensive physical model for baryonic feedback processes. To do so, we compare two simulations -- with and without feedback -- both evolved with the moving mesh code AREPO. The feedback runs implement the full physics model of the Illustris simulation project, including star formation driven galactic winds and energetic feedback from supermassive blackholes. We explore: (a) the accretion rate of material contributing to the net growth of galaxies and originating directly from the intergalactic medium, finding that feedback strongly suppresses the raw, as well as the net, inflow of this "smooth mode" gas at all redshifts, regardless of the temperature history of newly acquired gas. (b) At the virial radius the temperature and radial flux of inflowing gas is largely unaffected at z=2. However, the spherical covering fraction of inflowing gas at 0.25 rvir decreases substantially, from more than 80% to less than 50%, while the rates of both inflow and outflow increase, indicative of recycling across this boundary. (c) The fractional contribution of smooth accretion to the total accretion rate is lower in the simulation with feedback, by roughly a factor of two across all redshifts. Moreover, the smooth component of gas with a cold temperature history, is entirely suppressed in the feedback run at z<1. (d) The amount of time taken by gas to cross from the virial radius to the galaxy -- the "halo transit time" -- increases in the presence of feedback by a factor of ~2-3, and is notably independent of halo mass. We discuss the possible implications of this invariance for theoretical models of hot halo gas cooling.
description: MNRAS published, comments welcome. The official Illustris website can be found at http://www.illustris-project.org
Theories of formation of close-in exo-planets
Creators: name: Ormel, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Arguably the greatest surprise in exoplanetology has been the sheer number of close-in planets detected by missions as Kepler. These planets tend to be larger than Earth, predominately terrestrial by composition, but with significant envelopes of hydrogen/helium. They are further seen in "packed", multiplanetary configurations, quite unlike that of the solar system. How did they form? I will review the leading theories of in situ formation and distant formation, followed by planet migration. These theories give different predictions for the composition, and architecture of the close-in planetary systems. I will then discuss alternative formation scenarios, such as the pebble accretion paradigm, where planet growth is fueled by a steady supply of small particles, and the hypothesis that planets start forming at special locations.
title: Esperienza audiotattile e molteplicità della musica
Creators: name: Caporaletti , Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Roma Tre-Press
Year: 2010

description: La concezione del "principio (e della musica) audiotattile" è inerente a un modello teoretico della fenomenologia della creazione artistica di molta della musica contemporanea; creazione non riconducibile agli svolgimenti della tradizione dell'arte occidentale (intesa, quest'ultima, con riferimento particolare al periodo romantico e post-romantico, in cui si afferma lo statuto nomologico della partitura, che troverà il proprio acme ideologico nel Werktreue Ideal, l'assoluta fedeltà al dettato semiografico, all'incirca dalla metà del secolo XIX a metà del XX). Il principio audiotattile (PAT), in prima approssimazione e in chiave di antropologia psicocognitiva, si può intendere come riferito al medium somato-psichico, alternativo nella propria sostanzialità fenomenologica al medium della tecnologia notazionale, attraverso cui avviene la fase primaria di costituzione morfosintattica di specifici repertori (jazz, rock, world, etc.).

description: B@belonline vol. 8 Musica e Bildung. Saper suonare e imparare ad ascoltare