cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EXAMINING THE ROLE OF SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT IN ENHANCING PERFORMANCE IN KENYA'S FOOD AND BEVERAGE SECTOR
Creators: name: Samuel, Peter Mwangi
name: Daniel, Michael Otieno
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Supplier relationship management, Food and beverage manufacturing firms, Supplier segmentation, Supplier collaboration, Information flow, Supplier development, Organizational performance, Kenya

description: Effective supplier relationship management (SRM) has been identified as a critical factor for improving the performance of firms in the supply chain. Poor relationship management can lead to high acquisition costs, long lead times, lower quality materials, poor reputation, low sales, low market share, and low profitability. This study investigates the influence of SRM on the performance of food and beverage manufacturing firms in Kenya. Specifically, the study examines the impact of supplier segmentation, supplier collaboration, information flow, and supplier development on organizational performance. A cross-sectional survey design was used, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The target population consisted of officers working in procurement, warehousing, and logistics departments in 63 food and beverage organizations in Kiambu County. A total of 189 officers were sampled using census and purposive sampling techniques, and data was collected through questionnaires. The study found that supplier segmentation, information flow, supplier collaboration, and supplier development have a positive influence on the performance of food and beverage manufacturing firms in Kiambu County. Correlation analysis showed that these factors were positively and significantly correlated with organizational performance. The study also found that management in the food and beverage sector in Kiambu County embraces these elements of SRM. The study concludes that developing effective strategies for managing supplier relationships can significantly improve the performance of food and beverage manufacturing firms. This study's findings have practical implications for managers in the sector, highlighting the importance of effective supplier relationship management in achieving a competitive edge
Identity Performance, Gender and Social Media: College Students and Facebook
Creators: name: Paré, Alexandra M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: As social networking sites (SNSs) have become the dominant form of communication
among internet users, the presentation of identity has become key in creating and maintaining
relationships online. To understand the motivations behind the performance of virtual
identities, this research study inquires how identity is constructed and performed on Facebook.
College students are amongst the most avid users of Facebook, and thus the study focuses on
their performance of identity. This study is unique in that it works to understand how college
seniors intend to be perceived during their transition from college to the professional world. A
qualitative study of their performance of identity during this period of time presented
opportunities to understand issues of authenticity online and professional uses of Facebook.
This study looked at the performance of identity through the lens of gender, and found
that in fact males and females do exhibit some different behaviors when performing their
desired identity. However, across both genders in their senior year college seniors were most
motivated and concerned about performing for potential employers. This study indicated that
performance of identity existed for both males and females throughout their college
experience, although in many ways the performance changed due to a difference in audience
over time.
Snake states and their symmetries in graphene
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: Tiwari, Rakesh P.
name: Brada, Matej
name: Bruder, C.
name: Kusmartsev, F. V.
name: Mele, E. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Snake states are open trajectories for charged particles propagating in two dimensions under the influence of a spatially varying perpendicular magnetic field. In the quantum limit they are protected edge modes that separate topologically inequivalent ground states and can also occur when the particle density rather than the field is made nonuniform. We examine the correspondence of snake trajectories in single-layer graphene in the quantum limit for two families of domain walls: (a) a uniform doped carrier density in an antisymmetric field profile and (b) antisymmetric carrier distribution in a uniform field. These families support different internal symmetries but the same pattern of boundary and interface currents. We demonstrate that these physically different situations are gauge equivalent when rewritten in a Nambu doubled formulation of the two limiting problems. Using gauge transformations in particle-hole space to connect these problems, we map the protected interfacial modes to the Bogoliubov quasiparticles of an interfacial one-dimensional p-wave paired state. A variational model is introduced to interpret the interfacial solutions of both domain wall problems.
Classification of trisections and the Generalized Property R Conjecture
Creators: name: Meier, Jeffrey
name: Schirmer, Trent
name: Zupan, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57Q99

description: We show that the members of a large class of unbalanced four-manifold trisections are standard, and we present a family of trisections that is likely to include non-standard trisections of the four-sphere. As an application, we prove a stable version of the Generalized Property R Conjecture for $c$-component links with tunnel number at most $c$.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures. This paper subsumes the results of arXiv:1503.08511
More certainty in coloring the plane with a forbidden distance interval
Creators: name: Parts, Jaan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the mysterious and colorful world of chromatic numbers, where there are a lot of unknown, there is an amazing thing. It turns out that for some intervals of forbidden distances on the plane, one can specify the exact value of the chromatic number $χ$. Two sets of such intervals have been found, for $χ=7$ and 9. We call them islands of certainty. Here we increase the size of these islands, and add three new ones with $χ=8$, 12, 13. We also %formulate conjectures which predict conjecture islands for $χ=14$, 15, 16. Are there islands of certainty for $χ$=10 or 11? This is still a mystery. Roll up for the Mystery Tour.
The Effect of Headgear on Visual and Sensory Performance Outcomes in Female Lacrosse Players
Creators: name: Morrisroe, Kathleen Anne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: As vision is important in injury risk and performance, understanding the effect of
headgear on vision is critical for athletic safety and success. It is particularly important in
women’s lacrosse, as the sport is currently debating which headgear type would optimize safety
and performance for its players. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of headgear (no
headgear, helmet, or goggles) on visual and sensory performance outcomes in college-aged
female lacrosse players. Healthy participants completed the Sensory Senaptec Station
assessments under three conditions: no headgear, full-helmet, and goggles. Results showed no
difference in any of the visual and sensory performance measures between conditions (p>0.33).
Based on these results and the overall concern that adding helmets would cause a more violent
style of play, it is recommended that the sport continue its use of goggles. Future research should
include a larger sample size and a broader age range.
Parsing Expression Grammars Made Practical
Creators: name: Laurent, Nicolas
name: Mens, Kim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.3.4

description: Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs) define languages by specifying recursive-descent parser that recognises them. The PEG formalism exhibits desirable properties, such as closure under composition, built-in disambiguation, unification of syntactic and lexical concerns, and closely matching programmer intuition. Unfortunately, state of the art PEG parsers struggle with left-recursive grammar rules, which are not supported by the original definition of the formalism and can lead to infinite recursion under naive implementations. Likewise, support for associativity and explicit precedence is spotty. To remedy these issues, we introduce Autumn, a general purpose PEG library that supports left-recursion, left and right associativity and precedence rules, and does so efficiently. Furthermore, we identify infix and postfix operators as a major source of inefficiency in left-recursive PEG parsers and show how to tackle this problem. We also explore the extensibility of the PEG paradigm by showing how one can easily introduce new parsing operators and how our parser accommodates custom memoization and error handling strategies. We compare our parser to both state of the art and battle-tested PEG and CFG parsers, such as Rats!, Parboiled and ANTLR.
description: "Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2015)" - 167-172 (ISBN : 978-1-4503-3686-4)
A Survey on Legacy and Emerging Technologies for Public Safety Communications
Creators: name: Kumbhar, Abhaykumar
name: Koohifar, Farshad
name: Guvenc, Ismail
name: Mueller, Bruce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Effective emergency and natural disaster management depend on the efficient mission-critical voice and data communication between first responders and victims. Land Mobile Radio System (LMRS) is a legacy narrowband technology used for critical voice communications with limited use for data applications. Recently Long Term Evolution (LTE) emerged as a broadband communication technology that has a potential to transform the capabilities of public safety technologies by providing broadband, ubiquitous, and mission-critical voice and data support. For example, in the United States, FirstNet is building a nationwide coast-to-coast public safety network based of LTE broadband technology. This paper presents a comparative survey of legacy and the LTE-based public safety networks, and discusses the LMRS-LTE convergence as well as mission-critical push-to-talk over LTE. A simulation study of LMRS and LTE band class 14 technologies is provided using the NS-3 open source tool. An experimental study of APCO-25 and LTE band class 14 is also conducted using software-defined radio, to enhance the understanding of the public safety systems. Finally, emerging technologies that may have strong potential for use in public safety networks are reviewed.
description: Accepted at IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
Survey on self-regulated learning strategies for apprentices
Creators: name: Wolfbauer, Irmtraud
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Relf-regulated learning, reflection, learning strategies, apprentices,

description: A survey on self-regulated learning strategies for apprentices.
description: {"references": ["Duncan T, Pintrich P, Smith D, McKeachie W (2015) Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ)"]}
Some transfinite natural sums
Creators: name: Lipparini, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E10, 06A05

description: We study a transfinite iteration of the ordinal Hessenberg natural sum obtained by taking suprema at limit stages and show that such an iterated natural sum differs from the more usual transfinite ordinal sum only for a finite number of iteration steps. The iterated natural sum of a sequence of ordinals can be obtained as a "mixed sum" (in an order-theoretical sense) of the ordinals in the sequence, in fact, it is the largest mixed sum which satisfies a finiteness condition, relative to the ordering of the sequence. We introduce other infinite natural sums which are invariant under permutations and show that they all coincide in the countable case. Finally, in the last section we use the above infinitary natural sums in order to provide a definition of size for a well-founded tree, together with an order-theoretical characterization in the countable case. The proof of this order-theoretical characterization is mostly independent from the rest of this paper.
description: v2 some improvements
Brewing a Bubble: An explanation of the Craft Beer Revolution with Conspicuous Consumption Theory and Agent-Based Modelling
Creators: name: Olliffe, Jacob
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Since the 1960’s, the American beer industry has become increasingly consolidated as a dwindling number of breweries have supplied a growing proportion of the national market with mass produced beer. The Craft Beer Revolution, a term Hindy uses to describe the sudden increase in craft beer sales that has occurred since the mid 2000’s, bucks this trend (Hindy, 2014). Defying conventional business logic, the sales of smaller batch beers primarily intended for local consumption have flourished despite facing a significant cost disadvantage against national breweries, which can spread their fixed costs over a larger sales volume.
This paper seeks to leverage anthropology to understand the Craft Beer Revolution by analyzing the American beer market through Conspicuous Consumption Theory, an idea originally proposed by Veblen in 1899 (Trigg, 2001). The theory holds that because Western society, in general, values individual wealth, people make purchases that are associated with the wealthy or beyond the means of the poor in order to enhance their perceived socio-economic status. Thus, this paper argues that the widespread popularity of craft beer is the result of a culturally recognized middle class large enough to sustain demand for a luxury good and a sufficiently strong association between craft beer and high socio-economic status. This claim is supported by an original agent-based model (ABM) which simulates the purchasing behavior of individual beer drinkers as their choices are influenced by a host of factors including their relative position in the socio-economic hierarchy, financial constraints and the preferences of their peers.
The Distribution and Annihilation of Dark Matter Around Black Holes
Creators: name: Schnittman, Jeremy D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a Monte Carlo code to calculate the geodesic orbits of test particles around Kerr black holes, generating a distribution function of both bound and unbound populations of dark matter particles. From this distribution function, we calculate annihilation rates and observable gamma-ray spectra for a few simple dark matter models. The features of these spectra are sensitive to the black hole spin, observer inclination, and detailed properties of the dark matter annihilation cross section and density profile. Confirming earlier analytic work, we find that for rapidly spinning black holes, the collisional Penrose process can reach efficiencies exceeding $600\%$, leading to a high-energy tail in the annihilation spectrum. The high particle density and large proper volume of the region immediately surrounding the horizon ensures that the observed flux from these extreme events is non-negligible.
description: accepted to ApJ
Learning Weak Constraints in Answer Set Programming
Creators: name: Law, Mark
name: Russo, Alessandra
name: Broda, Krysia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper contributes to the area of inductive logic programming by presenting a new learning framework that allows the learning of weak constraints in Answer Set Programming (ASP). The framework, called Learning from Ordered Answer Sets, generalises our previous work on learning ASP programs without weak constraints, by considering a new notion of examples as ordered pairs of partial answer sets that exemplify which answer sets of a learned hypothesis (together with a given background knowledge) are preferred to others. In this new learning task inductive solutions are searched within a hypothesis space of normal rules, choice rules, and hard and weak constraints. We propose a new algorithm, ILASP2, which is sound and complete with respect to our new learning framework. We investigate its applicability to learning preferences in an interview scheduling problem and also demonstrate that when restricted to the task of learning ASP programs without weak constraints, ILASP2 can be much more efficient than our previously proposed system.
description: To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Proceedings of ICLP 2015
Scalable and Trustworthy Learning in Heterogeneous Networks
Creators: name: Li, Tian
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed Computing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Developing machine learning models heavily relies on access to data. To build a responsible data economy and protect data ownership, it is crucial to enable learning models from separate, heterogeneous data sources without centralization. Federated learning (FL) aims to train models collectively across massive remote devices or isolated organizations, while keeping user data local. However, federated networks introduce a number of challenges beyond traditional distributed learning scenarios. While FL has shown great promise for enabling edge applications, current FL systems are hindered by several constraints. In addition to being accurate, federated methods must scale to potentially massive and heterogeneous networks of devices, and must exhibit trustworthy behavior—addressing pragmatic concerns related to issues such as fairness, robustness, and user privacy. In this thesis, we aim to address the practical challenges of federated learning in a principled fashion. We study how heterogeneity lies at the center of the constraints of federated learning—not only affecting the accuracy of the models, but also competing with other critical metrics such as fairness, robustness, and privacy. To address these metrics, we develop new, scalable learning objectives and algorithms that rigorously account for and address sources of heterogeneity. In particular, in terms of accuracy, we propose novel federated optimization frameworks with convergence guarantees under realistic heterogeneity assumptions. In terms of trustworthiness, we develop and analyze fair learning objectives which offer flexible fairness/utility tradeoffs. We consider the joint constraints between fairness and robustness, and explore personalized FL to provably address both of them simultaneously. Finally, we study new differentially private optimization methods with improved convergence behavior, achieving state-of-the-art performance under privacy constraints. Although our work is grounded by the application of federated learning, we show that many of the techniques and fundamental tradeoffs extend well beyond this use-case to more general applications of large-scale and trustworthy machine learning.
Red noise versus planetary interpretations in the microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-446
Creators: name: Bachelet, E.
name: Bramich, D. M.
name: Han, C.
name: Greenhill, J.
name: Street, R. A.
name: Gould, A.
name: Ago, G. D
name: AlSubai, K.
name: Dominik, M.
name: Jaimes, R. Figuera
name: Horne, K.
name: Hundertmark, M.
name: Kains, N.
name: Snodgrass, C.
name: Steele, I. A.
name: Tsapras, Y.
name: Albrow, M. D.
name: Batista, V.
name: Beaulieu, J. -P.
name: Bennett, D. P.
name: Brillant, S.
name: Caldwell, J. A. R.
name: Cassan, A.
name: Cole, A.
name: Coutures, C.
name: Dieters, S.
name: Prester, D. Dominis
name: Donatowicz, J.
name: Fouque, P.
name: Hill, K.
name: Marquette, J. -B.
name: Menzies, J.
name: Pere, C.
name: Ranc, C.
name: Wambsganss, J.
name: Warren, D.
name: de Almeida, L. Andrade
name: Choi, J. -Y.
name: DePoy, D. L.
name: Dong, Subo
name: Hung, L. -W.
name: Hwang, K. H.
name: Jablonski, F.
name: Jung, Y. K.
name: Kaspi, S.
name: Klein, N.
name: Lee, C. -U.
name: Maoz, D.
name: Munoz, J. A.
name: Nataf, D.
name: Park, H.
name: Pogge, R. W.
name: Polishook, D.
name: Shin, I. -G.
name: Shporer, A.
name: Abe, J. C. Yee F.
name: Bhattacharya, A.
name: Bond, I. A.
name: Botzler, C. S.
name: Freeman, M.
name: Fukui, A.
name: Itow, Y.
name: Koshimoto, N.
name: Ling, C. H.
name: Masuda, K.
name: Matsubara, Y.
name: Muraki, Y.
name: Ohnishi, K.
name: Philpott, L. C.
name: Rattenbury, N.
name: Saito, To.
name: Sullivan, D. J.
name: Sumi, T.
name: Suzuki, D.
name: P.
name: Tristram, J.
name: Yonehara, A.
name: Bozza, V.
name: Novati, S. Calchi
name: Ciceri, S.
name: Galianni, P.
name: Gu, S. H.
name: Harpsoe, K.
name: Hinse, T. C.
name: Jorgensen, U. G.
name: Juncher, D.
name: Korhonen, H.
name: Mancini, L.
name: Melchiorre, C.
name: Popovas, A.
name: Postiglione, A.
name: Rabus, M.
name: Rahvar, S.
name: Schmidt, R. W.
name: Scarpetta, G.
name: Skottfelt, J.
name: Southworth, John
name: Stabile, An.
name: Surdej, J.
name: Wang, X. -B.
name: Wertz, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For all exoplanet candidates, the reliability of a claimed detection needs to be assessed through a careful study of systematic errors in the data to minimize the false positives rate. We present a method to investigate such systematics in microlensing datasets using the microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0446 as a case study. The event was observed from multiple sites around the world and its high magnification (A_{max} \sim 3000) allowed us to investigate the effects of terrestrial and annual parallax. Real-time modeling of the event while it was still ongoing suggested the presence of an extremely low-mass companion (\sim 3M_\oplus ) to the lensing star, leading to substantial follow-up coverage of the light curve. We test and compare different models for the light curve and conclude that the data do not favour the planetary interpretation when systematic errors are taken into account.
description: accepted ApJ 2015
A new value of the period of the classical Cepheid RT Aur on the basis of 456 times of maximum, 1897-2023
Creators: name: Boistel, Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present study collects 456 new times of maximum light of the classical Cepheid RT Aur, covering the period from 1897 to 2022. The O-C diagram resulting from these observations shows that the period given by the GCVS has to be corrected. It results that no strong period variation is found. However, the observed O-C residuals show a long term periodic trend. In the hypothesis of RT Aur being in a binary system, an orbit cannot be deduced from the available astrophysical data.
description: 8 pages; 6 figures ; links to download data on GEOS website
Confronting Modernity in Kawabata Yasunari’s Literature
Creators: name: Robinson, Quade
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The works of Kawabata Yasunari and other Japanese Modernist authors are often viewed in terms of a binary between tradition and modernity. However, I propose Kawabata’s works actually critique this very viewpoint. Rather than a fear of losing out on traditional Japanese spirit, Kawabata is questioning the notion that tradition truly exists. In Kawabata’s pre-war works, characters view Japanese tradition as a refuge from the shock of modernity, but they soon come to realize it is only an illusion. After the war, Kawabata supports tradition only to better show the decline of society. In this thesis, I look at Kawabata’s pre-war works, Snow Country, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, and “The Dancing Girl of Izu” to understand how he viewed the complex interaction of tradition and modernity before the war. From there, I examine Japan’s defeat in the Fifteen-Year War as the most tragic event in Kawabata’s life, and what effects of the trauma we can see in his literature. I examine his post-war works, The Sound of the Mountain, Thousand Cranes, and The Master of Go, under the lens of Walter Benjamin’s notion of shock, that an individual must face trauma in their everyday life due to the forces of modernity. I present the Fifteen-Year War as the dividing point, after which Kawabata’s sensibility is irrevocably changed.
Expra Dorrough Gruppe 3
Creators: name: Schwab, Sandra
name: Stahl, Christoph
name: Poth, Yannik
name: Büche, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Replikationsstudie der 2. Studie des Artikels "I May Not Agree With You, but I Trust You: Caring About Social Issues Signals Integrity" von Zlatev (2019) bezüglich des Zusammenhangs zwischen wahrgenommener Vertrauenswürdigkeit einer Person und deren Interesse für sozialen Themen.
title: Communities of constraint: An ethnographic study of Tibetan refugees navigating protracted displacement and everyday vulnerability in Nepal
Creators: name: Schwartz, Kyle Richard
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03zjvnn91
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Since the beginning of the Tibetan refugee crisis in 1959, discourses surrounding the Tibetan diaspora have emphasized their resilience in the face of hardship and characterized the group as a ‘successful’ refugee population in displacement. This thesis moves beyond previous resilience-focused narratives, which frequently obscure contradictory social vulnerability processes, and provides a historical analysis of the Swiss humanitarian relief project which established the refugee camps in Nepal in conversation with an in-depth ethnographic examination of everyday life in the Tashi-Palkhel Tibetan refugee camp. The empirical study integrates participant observation from four months of ethnographic fieldwork in Nepal, in-depth interviews from in and around the refugee camp, and archival data collected at the Swiss Federal Archives and the Archives of the Swiss Red Cross into a critical ‘regressive-progressive’ methodology inspired by the work of French sociologist Henri Lefebvre. The thesis argues that geopolitical and socio-legal factors have historically produced a constraining social context in Nepal, which the refugees must actively negotiate in their everyday lives. Through this investigation, the study reveals how these constraints produce unequal power dynamics with host demographics, which hinder refugee integration, lead to episodes of dispossession, and open the door to economic exploitation, while incentivizing the intensification of durable network ties within the camps and internationally. Additionally, the research explores the various strategies through which the refugees respond to the limitations of their constrained context, as well as the spatio-temporal practices which serve to enhance community ties and facilitate mutual aid practices within the camp. The thesis concludes with recommendations for future humanitarian practice, as well as a discussion proposing a means of moving beyond resilience thinking in studies with vulnerable populations through a ‘possibilities perspective’ emphasizing the dialectical interplay between constraint and resourcefulness.
Search Strategies for TeV Scale Fermionic Top Partners with Charge 2/3
Creators: name: Backovic, Mihailo
name: Flacke, Thomas
name: Kim, Jeong Han
name: Lee, Seung J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Searches for fermionic top partners at the TeV scale will bring forward a new final state kinematic regime and event topologies, where Run I search strategies will inevitably fail. We propose concrete search strategies for singly produced charge 2/3 fermionic top partners ($T'$) adequate for LHC Run II. Our analysis spans over all of the $T'$ decay modes ($i.e.$ $tZ$, $th$ and $Wb$) where we present detailed discussion of the search performances, signal efficiencies and backgrounds rates. Our LHC Run II search proposals utilize signatures with large missing energy and leptons, as well as jet substructure observables for tagging of boosted heavy SM states, customized $b$-tagging tactics and forward jet tagging. We analyze the prospects for discovery and exclusion of $T'$ models within the framework of partially composite quarks at the LHC Run II. Our results show that the LHC Run II has good prospects for observing $T'$ models which predict single production cross section of $σ_{T'} \sim 70 -140 \, (30 -65)$ fb for $M_{T'} = 1\, (1.5)$~TeV respectively with 100 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, depending on the branching ratios of the $T'$. Similarly, we find that cross sections of $σ_{T'} \sim 27 -60\, (13 - 24)$ fb for $M_{T'} = 1\, (1.5)$ TeV respectively can be excluded with the same amount of data. Our results are minimally model dependent and can be applied to most $T'$ models where $Γ_{T'} \ll M_{T'}$.
description: 32 pages, 11 figures, 26 tables
Creating synthetic EIS rasters from SDO/AIA data
Creators: name: Young, Peter R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Hinode
EUV Imaging Spectrometer
Software

description: This document describes how to make a synthetic EIS raster from a sequence of images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The routine can reproduce both spatial raster maps and sit-and-stare time series data.
description: This document is also available in the SolarSoft IDL distribution ($SSW/hinode/eis/doc).
Raíssa Silva Souza
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Patrícia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Segurança do enfermeiro no manejo da terapia antineoplásica: revisão do escopo Objetivo Identificar e sintetizar as evidências científicas sobre a segurança do enfermeiro do câncer no manejo da terapia antineoplásica. Formulação de Perguntas P (População) - Enfermagem Oncológica. C (Conceito) - Segurança do Trabalho. C (Contexto) - Antineoplásicos. A questão de pesquisa estabelecida foi: que evidência científica, no contexto de agentes antineoplásicos, está disponível para garantir a segurança ocupacional da enfermagem oncológica?
A Wearable RFID-Based Navigation System for the Visually Impaired
Creators: name: Zare, Fateme
name: Sedighi, Paniz
name: Delrobaei, Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: J3, J6

description: Recent studies have focused on developing advanced assistive devices to help blind or visually impaired people. Navigation is challenging for this community; however, developing a simple yet reliable navigation system is still an unmet need. This study targets the navigation problem and proposes a wearable assistive system. We developed a smart glove and shoe set based on radio-frequency identification technology to assist visually impaired people with navigation and orientation in indoor environments. The system enables the user to find the directions through audio feedback. To evaluate the device's performance, we designed a simple experimental setup. The proposed system has a simple structure and can be personalized according to the user's requirements. The results identified that the platform is reliable, power efficient, and accurate enough for indoor navigation.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
Predictors for Caregiver-Youth Agreement on the Youth’s Mental Health
Creators: name: Choplin, Emma
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Objective: Evidence-based assessment seeks unbiased estimates to guide decisions. Tested informant credibility, demographic, youth clinical, and family characteristics, as potential predictors of informant credibility, and caregiver-youth agreement metrics. Secondly, we analyzed the eight clinical syndromes as a profile of functioning for agreement patterns. Method: From N=297 caregiver-youth pairs with treatment-seeking youths M=13.57 (SD=1.85) years old, 49% female, and 70% African-American we measured level, shape, and dispersion of agreement with Q-correlation, squared Euclidean distance, overall caregiver-youth ranked concerning behavior T-scores, and squared M(SD) caregiver-youth T-scores difference. Analyses included correlations, ANOVAs, ANCOVAs, Tukey’s HSD, and multi-regressions.Results: Five out of seven predictor significantly correlated predictors predicted D2 individually. Q-correlation had four none were informant credibility and only youth’s sex and new step-parent predicted significantly.Discussion: Distance showed more associations than Q-correlation meaning level of agreement drives associations. Higher the youth credibility the more D2. Youth credibility was a strong predictor for D2 and caregiver credibility. Interviewers rated girls more credible than boys and older youth more credible than younger. Female youths agree more with caregivers about ranking of syndromes and the youth’s sex was strongest predictor for Q-Correlation. Overall, Caregivers significantly rated all syndromes higher than youths demonstrating the outpatient referral pattern.
Multi-Phase Relaxation Labeling for Square Jigsaw Puzzle Solving
Creators: name: Vardi, Ben
name: Torcinovich, Alessandro
name: Khoroshiltseva, Marina
name: Pelillo, Marcello
name: Ben-Shahar, Ohad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a novel method for solving square jigsaw puzzles based on global optimization. The method is fully automatic, assumes no prior information, and can handle puzzles with known or unknown piece orientation. At the core of the optimization process is nonlinear relaxation labeling, a well-founded approach for deducing global solutions from local constraints, but unlike the classical scheme here we propose a multi-phase approach that guarantees convergence to feasible puzzle solutions. Next to the algorithmic novelty, we also present a new compatibility function for the quantification of the affinity between adjacent puzzle pieces. Competitive results and the advantage of the multi-phase approach are demonstrated on standard datasets.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures. Published in Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4 VISAPP: VISAPP, 785-795, 2023
Absorptive capacity in the adoption of innovations in healthcare: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Ashoor, Huda
name: Mc Sharry, Jenny
name: Radhakrishnan, Amruta
name: Wilson, Rosemary
name: Zitzelsberger, Louise
name: Kaan, Diana
name: Glandon, Lisa
name: Sears, Kimberley
name: Medves, Jennifer
name: Kircher, Colleen
name: Berta, Whitney
name: Tricco, Andrea
name: Godfrey, Christina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: absorptive capacity
subject: adoption
subject: evidence-based
subject: healthcare
subject: implementation
subject: innovation
subject: knowledge translation
subject: learning capacity
subject: organizational learning
subject: Scoping review

description: Scoping review
COMPARISON OF CHANGES IN S&P’S CREDIT RATINGS IN RESPONSE TO ENTRIES OF INVESTOR-PAID AND ISSUER-PAID AGENCIES
Creators: name: Zhu, Anting
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This paper examines the impact of increased competition in the credit rating industry on the rating quality of existing rating agencies. I compare the changes of S&P’s rating informativeness in response to entries of issuer-paid and investor-paid agencies by calculating the stock market reactions to S&P’s rating change announcements during different stages. My analyses show that the entry of Fitch, an issuer-paid agency, significantly weakened the stock market reactions, and the entry of EJR, an investor-paid agency, slightly slowed down but did not reverse the decreasing trend as well.
Analysis of the Behavior of Ultra High Performance Concrete at Early Age
Creators: name: Wan, Lin
name: Wendner, Roman
name: Liang, Benliang
name: Cusatis, Gianluca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra high performance concretes (UHPCs) are cementitious composite materials with high level of perfor- mance characterized by high compressive strength, high tensile strength and superior durability, reached by low water-to-binder ratio, optimized aggregate size distribution, thermal activation, and fiber reinforcement. In the past couple of decades, more and more UHPCs have been developed and found their ways into practice. Thus, the demand for computational models capable of describing and predicting relevant aging phenomena to assist design and planning is increasing. This paper presents the early age experimental characterization as well as the results of subsequent simulations of a typical UHPC matrix. Performed and simulated tests include unconfined compression, splitting (Brazilian), and three-point-bending tests. The computational framework is formulated by coupling a hygro-thermo-chemical (HTC) theory and a comprehensive mesoscale discrete model with formulated aging functions. The HTC component allows taking into account various types of curing conditions with varying temperature and relative humidity and predicting the level of concrete aging. The mechanical component, the Lattice Discrete Particle Model (LDPM), permits the simulation of the failure behavior of concrete at the length scale of major heterogeneities. The aging functions relate the mesoscale LDPM mechanical properties in terms of aging degree, defined in this work as the ratio between the quasi-static elastic modulus at a certain age and its asymptotic value. The obtained results provide insights in both UHPC early age mechanisms and a computational model for the analysis of aging UHPC structures.
description: Cement and Concrete Composites, 2016
Annual Energy Outlook's Solar Projections Trumped: Residential Photovoltaic Projections to 2040
Creators: name: Keung, Jocelyn H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The most recent Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) published by the United States
Energy Information Administration projects key parameters in the energy system, such as
energy production and consumption, through 2040. In this study, solar energy projections
for the AEO 2014 reference case are scrutinized and hypothesized to underestimate the
expected growth in residential solar applications. The impacts of state-of-the-art
technological advances in materials and conversion efficiencies, the U.S. Department of
Energy’s SunShot initiative, declining costs, and novel solar applications, such as thin-film and building integrated photovoltaic technology, are considered in this analysis.
Anticipated generation is expected to exceed the reference case projections by 0.2704
quadrillion Btu in 2040. Thus, total expected generation from residential photovoltaic
applications in the United States is 0.495 quadrillion Btu. This represents a significant
departure from the AEO reference case projection.
PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT POLICIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON STATE CORPORATION PERFORMANCE IN RWANDA
Creators: name: Kelvin, George Mwangi
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Green procurement, environmental sustainability, performance, state corporations, Rwanda, procurement management policy, regulations, competition, market pressure, quantitative data analysis.

description: Green procurement has become a critical strategy for organizations that aim to achieve environmental sustainability and enhance their performance in the face of increasing competition, market pressure, and regulations. This study aimed to investigate the influence of green procurement management policy on the performance of state corporations in Rwanda. Using a descriptive research design, the study obtained a sample of 119 respondents from a target population of 238 through stratified random sampling. Primary data was collected using a structured questionnaire, and quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, including multiple regression analysis to determine the relationship between study variables. The study found that green procurement management policy was statistically significant in enhancing the performance of state corporations in Rwanda (β = 0.531, P = 0.001). The study recommends that state corporations should adhere to green procurement management policies to enhance their performance and inspire other organizations to adopt green practices.
Judicial Elections and Their Implications in North Carolina
Creators: name: Hovaniec, Samantha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This paper explores the impact that systems of judicial elections have on judges’
decision making. I argue that elections force judicial candidates to depend on private
campaign contributions in order to be elected, and that lawyers and law firms who
frequently appear in court have the greatest incentive to contribute to judicial campaigns.
Therefore, I contend that judicial elections create a system where campaign contributions
could generate biases in judges’ behavior in favor of the parties that contributed to their
campaigns. I expect that there will be a significant and positive relationship between
lawyers’ campaign contributions and judges’ decisions in the years following their
elections. To test this theory, I compiled a dataset that compares the campaign
contributors of the four North Carolina Supreme Court judges who were elected in 2006
with the lawyers and firms that argued cases before them in 2007 and 2008. I then
conducted an empirical analysis of the impact of contributions on judicial decisions. The
results of this analysis suggest that there is a significant and positive relationship between
lawyers’ campaign contributions and judges’ decision making. I also analyzed the
relationship between contributions and decisions in the context of the state’s public
financing program, where judicial candidates could receive a portion of their campaign
funds from the state. The results suggest that participating in the public financing
program did not eliminate the influence of private contributions on judges’ votes.
Strong lateral exchange coupling and current-induced switching in single-layer ferrimagnetic films with patterned compensation temperature
Creators: name: Liu, Zhentao
name: Luo, Zhaochu
name: Shorubalko, Ivan
name: Vockenhuber, Christof
name: Heyderman, Laura J.
name: Gambardella, Pietro
name: Hrabec, Aleš
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong, adjustable magnetic couplings are of great importance to all devices based on magnetic materials. Controlling the coupling between adjacent regions of a single magnetic layer, however, is challenging. In this work, we demonstrate strong exchange-based coupling between arbitrarily shaped regions of a single ferrimagnetic layer. This is achieved by spatially patterning the compensation temperature of the ferrimagnet by either oxidation or He+ irradiation. The coupling originates at the lateral interface between regions with different compensation temperature and scales inversely with their width. We show that this coupling generates large lateral exchange coupling fields and we demonstrate its application to control the switching of magnetically compensated dots with an electric current.
R&D policy instrument mix sequencing: evaluating the impact of receiving R&D grants and R&D tax credits over time on firm-level R&D
Creators: name: Lenihan, Helena
name: Mulligan, Kevin
name: Perez Alaniz, Mauricio
name: Rammer, Christian
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The R&D policy instrument mix concept has become increasingly important for understanding how public R&D support drives firm-level R&D. To-date, empirical studies have conceptualised the R&D policy instrument mix as a static unit, whereby firms receive different R&D policy instruments at one point in time. However, firms can also receive different instruments in a sequence, over time. While potential sequencing effects are well rehearsed theoretically, this issue remains a major gap in the empirical literature. Our study evaluates, for the first time, how R&D policy instrument mix sequencing impacts firm-level R&D. We construct a unique dataset, comprising 8,556 unique firms, and 36,136 firm-year observations, over a 17-year period for Ireland. Our analysis focuses on two different R&D policy instruments (R&D grants and R&D tax credits) pursuing the same policy objective. We develop a novel approach to measure R&D policy instrument mix sequencing, focusing on the R&D policy instruments firms receive over a four-year time window. We implement this approach using a multi-treatment panel-data matching approach, which addresses issues of selection bias. Our results suggest that R&D policy instrument mix sequencing is highly effective at driving firm-level R&D, and that some sequences are more effective than others. These findings highlight opportunities to realise superior policy outcomes through targeted sequencing.