cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spatiotemporal ϕ/π Scaling: A Framework for Gravitational, Quantum, and Causal Influence
Creators: name: Del Bel, Julian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This thesis introduces a framework for understanding the propagation of gravitational waves and the geometry of spacetime, grounded in the scaling behavior of spatiotemporal influences governed by the golden ratio ϕ and π. By integrating these fundamental constants into the fabric of gravitational and quantum fields, we propose a unified theory that links General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and causal feedback through a new interpretation of spatiotemporal influence zones, gravitationalholographs, and nonlinear wave propagation. Specifically, we investigate the role of ϕ in nonlinear causality and retrocausal feedback loops, and the function of π in harmonic oscillations and the scaling of spacetime curvature. The theoretical framework is supported by empirical data from gravitational wave observatories (e.g., GWOSC), where waveforms are analyzed for consistency with predicted scaling behaviors. We used GWOSC data to analyze gravitational waveforms, comparing observed signals with predicted patterns from CIT scaling framework. The consistency of observed waveforms with the expected nonlinear propagation and non-local feedback behaviors pointed as strong empirical evidence for the theory. Virgo’s data was used to further test the theoretical framework’s predictions on gravitational waves, by cross-referencing data from multiple observatories. Supplying a robust test of non-locality and retrocausality in the context of spacetime curvature and wave propagation. LIGO data allows us to check if the nonlinear oscillations predicted by the framework, as well as causal feedback loops, are consistent with real-world observations. The waveform fitting performed on LIGO data can be compared with the predictions from scaling to validate the thesis. We also explore novel experimental approaches that could further test and validate this theory, particularly in the context of non-local quantum gravitational signatures and holographic baryon asymmetry.
title: Front-Line Managers' Strategizing: A Case Study of a High Street Optical Retailer
Creators: name: Elbasha, Tamim
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: The present study investigates how Front-Line Managers (FLMs) accomplish strategizing practice and praxes in their day-to-day work at a high street optical retailer (Optica). Despite increasing research on strategizing work, we are still ill-informed about the phenomenon at the lower, non-senior management level. Data was collected over 12 months by interviewing 24 FLMs and four middle managers; by observing FLMs in their stores and during five regional monthly meetings; and by collecting internal documents and external industry reports covering seven years. The data was analysed using thematic coding whereby both the agent’s context analysis and conduct analysis methodological bracketing techniques were mobilised.

 Findings from the present research reveal that FLMs strategize by carrying out strategy-realising work in the form of localising practices and praxes. The organisation’s strategy constrains the localising work of FLMs, while their professional experience enables it. The organisation’s strategy is drawn up and enacted in the day-to-day work of FLMs when they are localising.

 The present study claims four main theoretical contributions to the SaP literature. Firstly, it advances strategizing as strategy-realising work by defining strategizing as a social strategy-realising praxis that transposes the abstract strategy statement into the concrete conduct. Secondly, it elaborates on a notion of strategy as a combination of external and internal social structure explaining strategy heterogeneity. Thirdly, this research extends current SaP literature by discussing the role of structural context in the tension between normativity and creativity. Fourthly, it advances a framework illustrating strategy-realising as a structuration process, composed of multiple and overlapping structuration cycles. The framework illustrates how structural context and strategic agency co-depend and co-emerge in strategizing practices and praxis. Methodological contributions are made in two ways. First, the present study offers a critical assessment of employing Strong Structuration Theory to conduct empirical SaP studies. Second, it elaborates a data analysis model that combines abductive logic with the agent’s context analysis and conduct analysis methodological bracketing techniques.
Additional file 5 of Effect of speed and gradient on plantar force when running on an AlterG® treadmill
Creators: name: Thomson, Athol
name: Whiteley, Rodney
name: Hansen, Clint
name: Welzel, Julius
name: Racinais, Sebastien
name: Wilson, Mathew G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. Multiple linear regression including gradient for average contact times. (adj. R2: 0.52, p
Detection of deuterated molecules, but not of lithium hydride, in the z=0.89 absorber toward PKS1830-211
Creators: name: Muller, S.
name: Roueff, E.
name: Black, J. H.
name: Gerin, M.
name: Guelin, M.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Henkel, C.
name: Aalto, S.
name: Combes, F.
name: Martin, S.
name: Marti-Vidal, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deuterium and lithium are light elements of high cosmological and astrophysical importance. In this work we report the first detection of deuterated molecules and a search for lithium hydride, 7LiH, at redshift z=0.89 in the spiral galaxy intercepting the line of sight to the quasar PKS1830-211. We used ALMA to observe several submillimeter lines of ND, NH2D, and HDO, and their related isotopomers NH2, NH3, and H2^18O, in absorption against the southwest image of the quasar, allowing us to derive XD/XH abundance ratios. The absorption spectra mainly consist of two distinct narrow velocity components for which we find remarkable differences. One velocity component shows XD/XH abundances that is about 10 times larger than the primordial elemental D/H ratio, and no variability of the absorption profile during the time span of our observations. [...] The second component has XD/XH abundances that are 100 times larger than the primordial D/H ratio, a deepening of the absorption by a factor of two within a few months, and a rich chemical composition, with relative enhancements of N2H+, CH3OH, SO2, and complex organic molecules. We therefore speculate that this component is associated with the analog of a Galactic dark cloud, while the first component is likely more diffuse. Our search for the 7LiH (1--0) line was unsuccessful and we derive an upper limit 7LiH/H2 = 4 x 10^-13 (3sigma) in the z=0.89 absorber toward PKS1830-211. Besides, with ALMA archival data, we could not confirm the previous tentative detections of this line in the z=0.68 absorber toward B0218+357; we derive an upper limit 7LiH/H2 = 5 x 10^-11 (3sigma), although this is less constraining than our limit toward PKS1830-211. We conclude that, as in the Milky Way, only a tiny fraction of lithium nuclei are possibly bound in LiH in these absorbers at intermediate redshift.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Modelling Manufactured Imports: Methodological Issues with Evidence from Australia
Creators: name: Athukorala, Premachandra
name: Menon, Jayant
name: Athukorala, Premachandra
name: Menon, Jayant
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This paper investigates the relationship between manufactured import flows to Australia, and relative prices and domestic economic activity net of cyclical demand effects over the period 1981Q3 to 1991Q2. This is done through the estimation of import demand functions for total manufactured imports and nine major import categories using the general to specific modeling approach. We find that the homotheticity assumption on activity elasticity is met in most cases. The price elasticity estimates for individual categories range from 0.32 to 2.1, with a weighted-average of 0.52. We also find some evidence of upward bias in price elasticity estimates when an aggregate import function is employed in a context where a significant portion of imports are subject to quantitative restrictions (QRs).
Measures of Intra-Industry Trade as Indicators of Factor Market Disruption
Creators: name: Dixon, Peter B.
name: Menon, Jayant
name: Dixon, Peter B.
name: Menon, Jayant
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: intra-industry trade
subject: matched trade
subject: factor market disruption

description: Intra-industry trade (IIT) related concepts have often been used as indicators of the extent to which trade growth can be accommodated without factor market disruption. The most commonly used indicators have been movements in the Grubel-Lloyd (GL) index. However, GL-based indicators are sometimes misleading and, at best, they give qualitative information only. We develop two other indicators. The first involves computing changes in LIT. While this method provides a precise measure of the contribution of growth in LIT to total trade (TT) growth, it tends to overestimate the contribution of non-disruptive trade growth. This problem is overcome by our second indicator, dynamic intra-industry trade or matched changes in trade. All our indicators .are illustrated with data for 133 Australian manufacturing industries.
Morita theory in abelian, derived and stable model categories
Creators: name: Schwede, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P43

description: This is a survey paper, based on lectures given at the Workshop on "Structured ring spectra and their applications" which took place January 21-25, 2002, at the University of Glasgow. The term `Morita theory' is usually used for results concerning equivalences of various kinds of module categories. We focus on the covariant form of Morita theory, so the basic question is: When do two `rings' have `equivalent' module categories ? We discuss this question in different contexts and illustrate it by examples: (Classical) When are the module categories of two rings equivalent as categories ? (Derived) When are the derived categories of two rings equivalent as triangulated categories ? (Homotopical) When are the module categories of two ring spectra Quillen equivalent as model categories ? There is always a related question, which is in a sense more general: What characterizes the category of modules over a `ring' ? The answer is, mutatis mutandis, always the same: modules over a `ring' are characterized by the existence of a `small generator', which plays the role of the free module of rank one. The precise meaning of `small generator' depends on the context, be it an abelian category, a derived category or a stable model category.
description: 45 page survey paper
The Lyapunov spectrum of the many-dimensional dilute random Lorentz gas
Creators: name: de Wijn, Astrid S.
name: van Beijeren, Henk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a better understanding of the chaotic behavior of systems of many moving particles it is useful to look at other systems with many degrees of freedom. An interesting example is the high-dimensional Lorentz gas, which, just like a system of moving hard spheres, may be interpreted as a dynamical system consisting of a point particle in a high-dimensional phase space, moving among fixed scatterers. In this paper, we calculate the full spectrum of Lyapunov exponents for the dilute random Lorentz gas in an arbitrary number of dimensions. We find that the spectrum becomes flatter with increasing dimensionality. Furthermore, for fixed collision frequency the separation between the largest Lyapunov exponent and the second largest one increases logarithmically with dimensionality, whereas the separations between Lyapunov exponents of given indices not involving the largest one, go to fixed limits.
description: 8 pages, revtex, 6 figures, submitted to Physical Review E
Graffiti at UBC: A Sociological Analysis of Graffiti
Creators: name: Ashley, Ian
name: Beynon, Daniel
name: Chan, Rose
name: Faulkner, Paige
name: Gurley, Leslie Ann
name: Leung, Lori
name: Lin, Chin
name: Meng, Jasmine
name: Nguyen, Lauren
name: Partridge, Kelsey
name: Williams, Dena
name: Wong, On Ki
name: Yu, Julie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Particle response of antenna-coupled TES arrays: results from SPIDER and the lab
Creators: name: Osherson, B.
name: Filippini, J. P.
name: Fu, J.
name: Gramillano, R. V.
name: Gualtieri, R.
name: Shaw, E. C.
name: Ade, P. A. R.
name: Amiri, M.
name: Benton, S. J.
name: Bock, J. J.
name: Bond, J. R.
name: Bryan, S. A.
name: Chiang, H. C.
name: Contaldi, C. R.
name: Dore, O.
name: Fraisse, A. A.
name: Gambrel, A. E.
name: Gandilo, N. N.
name: Gudmundsson, J. E.
name: Halpern, M.
name: Hartley, J.
name: Hasselfield, M.
name: Hilton, G.
name: Holmes, W.
name: Hristov, V. V.
name: Irwin, K. D.
name: Jones, W. C.
name: Kermish, Z. D.
name: Mason, P. V.
name: Megerian, K.
name: Moncelsi, L.
name: Morford, T. A.
name: Nagy, J. M.
name: Netterfield, C. B.
name: Padilla, I. L.
name: Rahlin, A. S.
name: Reintsema, C.
name: Ruhl, J. E.
name: Runyan, M. C.
name: Shariff, J. A.
name: Soler, J. D.
name: Trangsrud, A.
name: Tucker, C.
name: Tucker, R. S.
name: Turner, A. D.
name: Weber, A. C.
name: Wiebe, D. V.
name: Young, E. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future mm-wave and sub-mm space missions will employ large arrays of multiplexed Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers. Such instruments must contend with the high flux of cosmic rays beyond our atmosphere that induce "glitches" in bolometer data, which posed a challenge to data analysis from the Planck bolometers. Future instruments will face the additional challenges of shared substrate wafers and multiplexed readout wiring. In this work we explore the susceptibility of modern TES arrays to the cosmic ray environment of space using two data sets: the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of the SPIDER cosmic microwave background polarimeter, and a laboratory exposure of SPIDER flight hardware to radioactive sources. We find manageable glitch rates and short glitch durations, leading to minimal effect on SPIDER analysis. We constrain energy propagation within the substrate through a study of multi-detector coincidences, and give a preliminary look at pulse shapes in laboratory data.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors
Norms in tension : Democracy and efficiency in Bangladeshi health and population sector reform
Creators: name: Shiffman, Jeremy
name: Wu, Yonghong
Publisher: name: Department of Public Administration, The Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Spurred on by donors, a number of developing countries are in the midst of fundamental health and population sector reform. Focused on the performance-oriented norms of efficiency and effectiveness, reformers have paid insufficient attention to the process-oriented norms of sovereignty and democracy. As a result, citizens of sovereign states have been largely excluded from the deliberative process. This paper draws on political science and public administration theory to evaluate the Bangladeshi reform experience. It does so with reference to the norms of efficiency, effectiveness, sovereignty and democracy as a means of making explicit the values that need to be considered in order to make health and population sector reform a fair process.
The Durham Micro-Optics Programme
Creators: name: Schmoll, J.
name: Dubbeldam, C. M.
name: Robertson, D. J.
name: Yao, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Durham Microoptics Programme was established to develop key components to be used for integral field spectrographs for upcoming instrumentation projects, focussing on currently existing telescopes as well as on the next generation of ELTs. These activities include monolithic multi-optics machining and grinding, optical surface improvement using various post polishing techniques and replication of micro-optical components. While these developments have mostly slicer-type IFUs in mind, also new types of microlens arrays are in development for fiber based high contrast IFU systems.
description: Submitted to the proceedings of the Durham Integral Field Spectroscopy Workshop July 4th-8th 2005
A study in Cumbrian myth-making: new light on the Luck of Muncaster
Creators: name: Beeton, Alex
name: Tidman, Lily
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 21, 161-174
description: The article recounts the development of the Luck of Muncaster as an object of legend from the 15th to the 21st centuries. The folkloric roots of the legend are traced, revealing origins in an oral tradition of talismanic objects with a noticeably Cumbrian connotation. The modern development of the legend is traced, juxtaposing the individual choices and tastes of the first Lord Muncaster with his wider cultural and political contexts, particularly the 18th century Gothic Revival. The article concludes with an appraisal of the development of the legend of the Luck in the 19th century and reviews new evidence from the letters of Walter Scott. The Luck of Muncaster is seen as both a generic Cumbrian legend and an idiosyncratic story.
title: Gene Copy Number Variation in Natural Populations of Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Simam, Joan Jebet
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: Gene copy number variants (CNVs), which consist of gene deletions and amplifications contribute to the great diversity in the Plasmodium falciparum genome. CNVs may influence the expression of genes and hence may affect important parasite phenotypes such as virulence, drug resistance, persistence and transmissibility. The hypothesis underlying the studies in this thesis is that CNVs may be important for adaptation of the parasite to its variable environments. To investigate this hypothesis, a population wide survey of CNVs in 183 fresh field isolates from four populations with different transmission intensities was conducted. To detect CNVs, comparative genome hybridization was performed using a 70mer microarray. This is the first large scale survey for CNVs in natural populations of parasites. A total of 98 different CNVs, consisting of 225 genes, were identified. Various systematic aspects that could affect detection of CNVs were explored and the population of origin of the isolate was found to be the only factor that affects CNV detection. Some of these CNVs showed high differentiation in frequency between populations suggestive of the action of directional selection. Other CNVs showed no or low differentiation in frequencies between populations, indicative of action of neutral evolutionary processes. Validation of the CNVs identified using microarrays was done using whole genome sequencing. Very low concordance was observed between the CNVs identified by the two technologies. These differences may be attributed to technical and analytic differences between the two technologies. Furthermore, the effect of CNVs on gene expression levels was analysed. A number of CNVs were found to be significantly associated (positively or negatively) with the expression levels of genes located inside and also outside the CNVs.
Elements for Response Time Statistics in ERP Transaction Systems
Creators: name: Mielke, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.4.8; C.4

description: We present some measurements and ideas for response time statistics in ERP systems. It is shown that the response time distribution of a given transaction in a given system is generically a log-normal distribution or, in some situations, a sum of two or more log-normal distributions. We present some arguments for this form of the distribution based on heuristic rules for response times, and we show data from performance measurements in actual systems to support the log-normal form. Deviations of the log-normal form can often be traced back to performance problems in the system. Consequences for the interpretation of response time data and for service level agreements are discussed.
description: revtex, twocolumn, 8 pages, 13 figures. figures replaced by coloured versions
Orchestrating collaboration among contending states : The World Health Organization and infectious disease control in southeast Asia
Creators: name: Shiffman, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Transaction Publishers
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Published in 2002, in John Montgomery and Nathan Glazer, eds. Challenges to Sovereignty: How Governments Respond. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, pp. 143-163.
A Systematic Study of the dust of Galactic Supernova Remnants I. The Distance and the Extinction
Creators: name: Zhao, He
name: Jiang, Biwei
name: Li, Jun
name: Chen, Bingqiu
name: Yu, Bin
name: Wang, Ye
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By combining the photometric, spectroscopic, and astrometric information of the stars in the sightline of SNRs, the distances to and the extinctions of 32 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) are investigated. The stellar atmospheric parameters are from the SDSS$-$DR14$/$APOGEE and LAMOST$-$DR5$/$LEGUE spectroscopic surveys. The multi-band photometry, from optical to infrared, are collected from the {\it Gaia}, APASS, Pan--STARRS1, 2MASS, and {\it WISE} surveys. With the calibrated {\it Gaia} distances of individual stars, the distances to 15 of 32 SNRs are well determined from their produced extinction and association with molecular clouds. The upper limits of distance are derived for 3 SNRs. The color excess ratios $E(g_{\rm P1}-λ) / E(g_{\rm P1}-r_{\rm P1})$ of 32 SNRs are calculated, and their variation with wavebands is fitted by a simple dust model. The inferred dust grain size distribution bifurcates: while the graphite grains have comparable size to the average ISM dust, the silicate grains are generally larger. Along the way, the average extinction law from optical to near-infrared of the Milky Way is derived from the 1.3 million star sample and found to agree with the CCM89 law with $R_{\rm V}=3.15$.
description: 53 pages, 16 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 1 of Impaired pattern separation in Tg2576 mice is associated with hyperexcitable dentate gyrus caused by Kv4.1 downregulation
Creators: name: Kyung-Ran Kim
name: Yoonsub Kim
name: Hyeon-Ju Jeong
name: Kang, Jong-Sun
name: Lee, Sang Hun
name: Kim, Yujin
name: Suk-Ho Lee
name: Ho, Won-Kyung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
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

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Comparison of the freezing levels in context A and B during contextual fear discrimination test.
Thermal Conductivity of Spin-1/2 Chains
Creators: name: Shimshoni, Efrat
name: Andrei, Natan
name: Rosch, Achim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the low-temperature transport properties of clean one-dimensional spin-1/2 chains coupled to phonons. Due to the presence of approximate conservation laws, the heat current decays very slowly giving rise to an exponentially large heat conductivity, $κ~ e^{T^*/T}$. As a result of an interplay of Umklapp scattering and spinon-phonon coupling, the characteristic energy scale $T^*$ turns out to be of order $Θ_D/2$, where $Θ_D$ is the Debye energy, rather than the magnetic exchange interaction $J$ -- in agreement with recent measurements in SrCuO compounds. A large magnetic field strongly affects the heat transport by two distinct mechanisms. First, it induces a LINEAR spinon--phonon coupling, which alters the nature of the $T -> 0$ fixed point: the elementary excitations of the system are COMPOSITE SPINON-PHONON objects. Second, the change of the magnetization and the corresponding change of the wave vector of the spinons strongly affects the way in which various Umklapp processes can relax the heat current, leading to a characteristic fractal--like spiky behavior of $κ$ when plotted as a function of magnetization at fixed T.
description: 16 pages, RevTex4, 2 figures included; revised refs. and some useful comments on experimental relevance. On July 12 2005, added an appendix correcting an error in the form of the phonon propagator. The main result is unchanged
Regional Trading Agreements and Intra-Industry Trade: The Case of the ANZCERTA
Creators: name: Menon, Jayant
name: Dixon, Peter B.
name: Menon, Jayant
name: Dixon, Peter B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: intra-industry trade
subject: regional trading agreements
subject: adjustment costs

description: Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. From the earliest analyses of IIT, the phenomenon has been associated with Regional Trading Agreements (RTAs). An important motivation for this research is associated with the issue of adjustment costs; if most of the growth in trade resulting from the RTA is attributable to IIT, then the resource re-allocation costs in the short to medium term are likely to be lower. This is because IIT does not require inter-industry factor movements. In attempting to determine whether RTAs are associated with increases in IIT, previous researchers have looked at two questions: (i) whether IIT has increased following the formation of the RTA, and (ii) whether IIT is more important in intra versus extra RTA trade. To answer the first question, researchers have used movements in the value of the Grubel and Lloyd (1975, GL) index over time, while the second has been dealt with by comparing the value of the GL index for intra versus extra RTA trade. Employing the GL index in these ways to answer these questions can lead to error. In this paper, we develop a new methodology for analysing both of these questions which overcomes the problems associated with using the GL index. First, we derive a formula which decomposes the growth in total trade (TT) into the contributions of growth in IIT and net trade (NT). Second, we show how to measure the contributions of intra and extra RTA trade to the growth in a country's total multilateral IIT and NT. The focus of our study is on the effects of the Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trading Agreement (ANZCERTA) on Australian and New Zealand trade. All our formulas are computed with data for 130 Australian and New Zealand manufacturing industries defined at the 3-digit level of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) for the periods 1981 to 1986 and 1986 to 1991.
Political history and safe motherhood disparities between Guatemala and Honduras
Creators: name: Shiffman, Jeremy
name: Garces del Valle, Ana Lucìa
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Each year, worldwide, more than 500,000 women die of complications from childbirth, making this a leading cause of death globally for adult women of reproductive age. Nearly all studies that have sought to explain the persistence of high maternal mortality levels have focused on the supply of and demand for particular health services. We argue that inquiry on health services is useful but insufficient. Robust explanations for safe motherhood outcomes require examination of factors lying deeper in the causal chain. We compare the cases of Guatemala and Honduras to examine historical and structural influences on maternal mortality. Despite being a poorer country than Guatemala, Honduras has a superior safe motherhood record. We argue that four historical and structural factors stand behind this difference: Honduras's relatively stable and Guatemala's turbulent modern political history; the presence of a marginalized indigenous population in Guatemala, but not in Honduras, that the state has had difficulty reaching; a conservative Catholic Church that has played a larger role in Guatemala than Honduras in blocking priority for reproductive health; and more effective advocacy for maternal mortality reduction in Honduras than Guatemala in the face of this opposition.
Phase transitions and non-analyticities in large N gauge theories
Creators: name: Bursa, Francis
name: Teper, Michael
name: Vairinhos, Helvio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate numerically various phase transitions and non-analyticities at large N using both twisted Eguchi-Kawai space-time reduction and the standard Wilson theory.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at Lattice 2005 (Theoretical developments), Dublin, July 25-30, 2005
What is the function of inter-hemispheric inhibition?
Creators: name: Carson, Richard G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: It is widely supposed that following unilateral brain injury, there arises an asymmetry in inter-hemispheric inhibition which has an adverse influence upon motor control. I argue that this 'inter-hemispheric imbalance' model arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of the roles played by inter-hemispheric (callosal) projections in mammalian brains. Drawing upon a large body of empirical data, derived largely from animal models, and associated theoretical modeling, it is demonstrated that inter-hemispheric projections perform contrast enhancing and integrative functions via mechanisms such as surround/lateral inhibition. The principal functional unit of callosal influence comprises a facilitatory centre and a depressing peripheral zone, that together shape the influence of converging inputs to pyramidal neurons. Inter-hemispheric inhibition is an instance of a more general feature of mammalian neural systems, whereby inhibitory interneurons act not simply to prevent over-excitation but to sculpt the output of specific circuits. The narrowing of the excitatory focus that occurs through crossed surround inhibition is a highly conserved motif of transcallosal interactions in mammalian sensory and motor cortices. A case is presented that the notion of 'inter-hemispheric imbalance' has been sustained, and clinical interventions derived from this model promoted, by erroneous assumptions concerning that revealed by investigative techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). The alternative perspective promoted by the present analysis, also permits the basis of positive (e.g. post stroke) associations between the structural integrity of transcallosal projections and motor capability to be better understood.
description: 45 pages (including references and figure legends), 4 figures
The Effects of Immigration on Residents' Incomes in Australia: Some Issues Reconsidered
Creators: name: Peter, Matthew W.
name: Verikios, George
name: Peter, Matthew W.
name: Verikios, George
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: immigration
subject: residents' income
subject: capital mobility
subject: government equity
subject: Berry-Soligo effect

description: This paper outlines the standard neoclassical model (SNM) of the impact of immigration on the incomes of the resident (pre-immigration) population. We augment the SNM to allow for foreign ownership of and government equity in the capital stock. Using the expanded model, four back-of-theenvelope (BOTE) calculations are made. The calculations reveal that the size of the Berry-Soligo welfare triangle is small and is dominated by the effects of foreign ownership of capital and government equity in capital. In our preferred scenario, the BOTE calculation indicates that the 1991-92 Australian immigrant intake reduced residents' income. We believe the results of the BOTE calculations justify a more comprehensive study incorporating a range of other influential factors determining the impact of immigration on residents' income. We suggest a list of such factors and report on work done in these specific areas. Essential to a comprehensive study are the integration of results from studies in specific areas, and the devotion of resources to the tasks of further data collection and model development.
Political history and safe motherhood disparities between Guatemala and Honduras
Creators: name: Shiffman, Jeremy
name: Garces del Valle, Ana Lucìa
Publisher: name: Population and Development Review
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Each year, worldwide, more than 500,000 women die of complications from childbirth, making this a leading cause of death globally for adult women of reproductive age. Nearly all studies that have sought to explain the persistence of high maternal mortality levels have focused on the supply of and demand for particular health services. We argue that inquiry on health services is useful but insufficient. Robust explanations for safe motherhood outcomes require examination of factors lying deeper in the causal chain. We compare the cases of Guatemala and Honduras to examine historical and structural influences on maternal mortality. Despite being a poorer country than Guatemala, Honduras has a superior safe motherhood record. We argue that four historical and structural factors stand behind this difference: Honduras's relatively stable and Guatemala's turbulent modern political history; the presence of a marginalized indigenous population in Guatemala, but not in Honduras, that the state has had difficulty reaching; a conservative Catholic Church that has played a larger role in Guatemala than Honduras in blocking priority for reproductive health; and more effective advocacy for maternal mortality reduction in Honduras than Guatemala in the face of this opposition.
title: The Effect of Human Genetic Factors on Childhood Malaria in Asembo, Western Kenya
Creators: name: Nyangiri, Oscar Asanya
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: Human genetic factors confer protection or susceptibility to malaria. Classical examples include sickle cell trait, which confers up to 90% protection from severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria and Duffy antigen negativity, which offers almost complete resistance to Plasmodium vivax infection. Unfortunately, such genetic factors are insufficiently understood to design interventions. I conducted the current study in Asembo, western Kenya by recruiting a paediatric cohort, characterizing malaria epidemiology, genotyping for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to identify genetic factors affecting malaria incidence and investigating their possible relationships with naturally acquired immunity. In addition, I investigated the effect of co-inheritance of genetic factors on malaria incidence. Children under 12 years were followed up over a 6 year period (2008-2013) to calculate malaria incidence. Odds ratios for malaria were also calculated for categorical risk factors identified during a nested cross sectional survey. The parasite density threshold associated with a malaria fever was investigated through a logistic regression approach. Interactions between the gene variants, and between the gene variants and age were investigated using the likelihood ratio test (LRT). Evidence for differences in age-specific rates of malaria was also investigated by LRT. Through these studies, risk factors of malaria were identified. I established differences in age and genotype specific incidence, suggesting that malaria candidate genes affect naturally acquired immunity to malaria. In addition, this study identified pairs of genes that may interact to affect malaria incidence. Gene frequencies of various malaria candidate genes as typed in this study may be an important consideration in interpreting results of intervention trials in this population. The high frequency of the G6PD deficiency genotypes determined in this study is clinically relevant as it determines the use of primaquine, a key drug which causes haemolysis in deficient individuals, but which is useful in malaria elimination due to its gametocytocidal activity.
Frequency-Dependent Squeezing for Advanced LIGO
Creators: name: McCuller, L.
name: Whittle, C.
name: Ganapathy, D.
name: Komori, K.
name: Tse, M.
name: Fernandez-Galiana, A.
name: Barsotti, L.
name: Fritschel, P.
name: MacInnis, M.
name: Matichard, F.
name: Mason, K.
name: Mavalvala, N.
name: Mittleman, R.
name: Yu, Haocun
name: Zucker, M. E.
name: Evans, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 launched the era of gravitational wave astronomy. The quest for gravitational wave signals from objects that are fainter or farther away impels technological advances to realize ever more sensitive detectors. Since 2019, one advanced technique, the injection of squeezed states of light is being used to improve the shot noise limit to the sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors, at frequencies above $\sim 50$ Hz. Below this frequency, quantum back action, in the form of radiation pressure induced motion of the mirrors, degrades the sensitivity. To simultaneously reduce shot noise at high frequencies and quantum radiation pressure noise at low frequencies requires a quantum noise filter cavity with low optical losses to rotate the squeezed quadrature as a function of frequency. We report on the observation of frequency-dependent squeezed quadrature rotation with rotation frequency of 30Hz, using a 16m long filter cavity. A novel control scheme is developed for this frequency-dependent squeezed vacuum source, and the results presented here demonstrate that a low-loss filter cavity can achieve the squeezed quadrature rotation necessary for the next planned upgrade to Advanced LIGO, known as "A+."
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
Additional file 1 of Diversity and characterization of temperate bacteriophages induced in Pasteurella multocida from different host species
Creators: name: Rezheen F. Abdulrahman
name: Davies, Robert L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 1.
Future Workforce Skills: Projections with the MONASH Model
Creators: name: Meagher, G. A.
name: Parmenter, B. R.
name: Meagher, G. A.
name: Parmenter, B. R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: Since 1993 the Centre of Policy Studies has been using the MONASH model to produce year-by-year forecasts for the Australian economy, typically with forecast horizons of about ten years. MONASH is a large dynamic applied general equilibrium model. The MONASH forecasting system takes as inputs macroeconomic forecasts from Syntec Economic Services, forecasts for the agricultural and mining sectors from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, forecasts for international tourism from the Bureau of Tourism Research, and scenarios on technical change from extrapolations of recent historical experience. The MONASH model then produces consistent forecasts for 112 industries, 56 regions and 282 occupations. The occupational forecasts give projections of the demand for the ASCO unit groups in each of the six Australian States. These forecasts provide a background for assessing the skills likely to be required in the Australian workforce in the next decade. In this paper we report a selection of our most recent (as at February 1995) forecasts for occupations, and explain how they relate to the macroeconomic and industrial dimensions of the overall forecasts.
Economic Modelling and the National Strategy for Vocational Education and Training
Creators: name: Meagher, G. A.
name: Parmenter, B. R.
name: Meagher, G. A.
name: Parmenter, B. R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Public Economics

description: In 1994, the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) was established by agreement between the Commonwealth, State and Territory governments. Central to the agreement is the National Strategy for Vocational Education and Training (VET) which is organized around the four main themes of responsiveness, quality, accessibility and efficiency. To promote efficiency in the allocation of training resources, ANTA and a number of State government agencies responsible for VET planning take into account employment forecasts generated using the MONASH model of the Australian economy. To promote responsiveness to the needs of industry, a network of industry training and advisory bodies (ITABs) has been set up. The ITABs' responsibilities include the development of "industry-credible, high-quality industry training plans as frameworks for identifying training needs in each industry, and for considering resource requirements". In this paper we review some of the issues that arise in reconciling the Information produced at these diverse levels of planning. In particular, we consider the role of the MONASH forecasting system as a planning framework for vocational education and training, and the caveats that must be borne in assessing the performance of the system in this role.
Early tourism in Borrowdale: hotelkeepers and their guests
Creators: name: Uglow, Steve
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 21, 175-196
description: The 19th century growth of the Lake District hotel trade was driven by increased leisure time, allied to improvements in road and rail services making the lakes and mountains accessible on the doorstep of the fast-growing industrial towns and cities of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland and Durham. This was preceded by a change in perception about the Lake District, partly arising from publicity given to celebrity visitors, be they Romantic poets or royalty. There has been little research on how the hotel trade responded to the challenge. This article explores the development of two signature Borrowdale hotels and shows how simple inns were transformed, 'new builds' undertaken and how traditional Cumbrian farming families became dynasties of Lakeland hoteliers.
INTER-RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FINANCIAL RATIOS FOR SUMMER CROP PRODUCERS: A NOTE
Creators: name: Fuller, K. G
name: Darroch, M. A. G.
name: Fuller, K. G
name: Darroch, M. A. G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Financial Economics

description: A principal component analysis of financial ratios showing farm solvency, liquidity, profitability, efficiency and debt servicing ability is studied for 1 836 summer crop producers. More highly leveraged farmers had high overdraft to net worth and low discretionary income to own capital ratios. They seemed to rely on short-term debt, in particular, to fund operations. Alternatives to short-term debt for managing liquidity - such as cost savings, diversification and asset and debt restructuring - could therefore be investigated by farmers and policy-makers. Lenders and co-operative advisers should emphasise to clients that fixed charges associated with higher leverage increase the potential for lower returns to own capital when events such as drought reduce cash inflow or rising interest rates increase cash outflow. Farmers with high operating ratios also had high debt ratios. Improved operational efficiencies through cost savings may therefore reduce reliance on debt financing. Less solvent producers had asset structures with relatively higher proportions of medium-term assets. Accelerated depreciation allowances could have encouraged debt financing of medium-term assets or over-investment in medium-term assets, which reduces liquidity and increases debt use. The impact on asset investment decisions and farm liquidity of recently announced changes to these depreciation allowances needs investigation by policy-makers.
Additional file 2 of Midbrain atrophy related to parkinsonism in a non-coding repeat expansion disorder: five cases of spinocerebellar ataxia type 31 with nigrostriatal dopaminergic dysfunction
Creators: name: Norioka, Ryohei
name: Sugaya, Keizo
name: Murayama, Aki
name: Kawazoe, Tomoya
name: Tobisawa, Shinsuke
name: Kawata, Akihiro
name: Takahashi, Kazushi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2.
Determination of anisotropic dipole moments in self-assembled quantum dots using Rabi oscillations
Creators: name: Muller, A.
name: Wang, Q. Q.
name: Bianucci, P.
name: Xue, Q. K.
name: Shih, C. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By investigating the polarization-dependent Rabi oscillations using photoluminescence spectroscopy, we determined the respective transition dipole moments of the two excited excitonic states |Ex> and |Ey> of a single self-assembled quantum dot that are nondegenerate due to shape anisotropy. We find that the ratio of the two dipole moments is close to the physical elongation ratio of the quantum dot.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, MS Word generated PDF file