cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fast Strain Estimation and Frame Selection in Ultrasound Elastography using Machine Learning
Creators: name: Zayed, Abdelrahman
name: Rivaz, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultrasound Elastography aims to determine the mechanical properties of the tissue by monitoring tissue deformation due to internal or external forces. Tissue deformations are estimated from ultrasound radio frequency (RF) signals and are often referred to as time delay estimation (TDE). Given two RF frames I1 and I2, we can compute a displacement image which shows the change in the position of each sample in I1 to a new position in I2. Two important challenges in TDE include high computational complexity and the difficulty in choosing suitable RF frames. Selecting suitable frames is of high importance because many pairs of RF frames either do not have acceptable deformation for extracting informative strain images or are decorrelated and deformation cannot be reliably estimated. Herein, we introduce a method that learns 12 displacement modes in quasi-static elastography by performing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on displacement fields of a large training database. In the inference stage, we use dynamic programming (DP) to compute an initial displacement estimate of around 1% of the samples, and then decompose this sparse displacement into a linear combination of the 12 displacement modes. Our method assumes that the displacement of the whole image could also be described by this linear combination of principal components. We then use the GLobal Ultrasound Elastography (GLUE) method to fine-tune the result yielding the exact displacement image. Our method, which we call PCA-GLUE, is more than 10 times faster than DP in calculating the initial displacement map while giving the same result. Our second contribution in this paper is determining the suitability of the frame pair I1 and I2 for strain estimation, which we achieve by using the weight vector that we calculated for PCA-GLUE as an input to a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) classifier.
title: 'Dowding should go': changes in leadership, strategy and tactics at Fighter Command, July to December 1940, with special reference to the Big Wing controversy
Creators: name: Ray, John Philip
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Between July and December 1940 three contests were fought in British skies. The first was a battle for aerial supremacy between the Luftwaffe and the RAF. The second was a struggle inside the Luftwaffe to plan and follow a coherent strategy of attack. Third was a controversy among senior RAF commanders over the tactics required for daylight defence. Until mid-September, the Luftwaffe attempted alone to defeat Britain first by overwhelming Fighter Command, then by heavy bombing. It failed, partly, by starting too late and waging an unprepared campaign with unsuitable equipment. Fighter Command, possessing the world's best aerial defensive system, fought a tenacious battle for which it had been designed, namely the protection of the Home Base. From mid-September the Luftwaffe changed largely to night bombing, confronting Britain with an offensive more difficult to counter. For some months the RAF, lacking a suitable night fighter, appeared impotent in defence. This weakness was a catalyst for reservations felt by the Air council over the leadership, strategy and tactics employed by Sir Hugh Dowding, C-in-C, Fighter Command, who, in their eyes, had been uncooperative since pre-war days. When Churchill and Beaverbrook, previously his champions, appreciated that new leadership was needed in Fighter Command, more in tune with the aggressive role anticipated for the RAF in 1941, Dowding was replaced. With him went his protege, Keith Park, AOC No. 11 Group, who had borne the main burden of the daylight battle. Both later claimed that their removal stemmed from the Big Wing controversy over day fighting tactics, but other causes emerge from an examination of Dowding's career after 1936. Valid reasons can then be appreciated for his replacement; nevertheless, his later treatment by the Air Ministry and politicians was less, than honourable.
title: The Efficient-Market Hypothesis During a Recession
Creators: name: Williams, Jill Marie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2002

description: The phrase, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" may make a portfolio manager shudder. I first learned about this theory while reading a book of the same name by Burton G. Malkiel. I saw the last four years crashing down around me as I read about the competition I would be facing upon graduation–a blindfolded chimpanzee.
The random walk theorizes that the stock market is so efficient that a blindfolded chimpanzee can throw darts at the Wall Street Journal to select a portfolio of stocks that will perform equally as well as those managed by the experts. Unfortunately for the experts, this theory has held up surprisingly well for over thirty years. The unmanaged S&P 500-Stock Index has produced a greater return than more than two-thirds of portfolios managed by professional portfolio managers. Still, studies have indicated that the market might not be as efficient as the chimpanzee would hope (Malkiel, 1999, p. 15).
Precise Measurements of the Decay of Free Neutrons
Creators: name: Dubbers, Dirk
name: Märkisch, Bastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of new and highly precise neutron \b{eta} decay data is reviewed. We focus on recent results from neutron lifetime, \b{eta} asymmetry, and electron-neutrino correlation experiments. From these results, weak interaction parameters are extracted with unprecedented precision, possible also due to progress in effective field theory and lattice QCD. Limits on New Physics beyond the Standard Model derived from neutron decay data are sharper than those derived from high-energy experiments, except for processes involving right-handed neutrinos.
description: 34 pages, 4 figures
Pterorthochaetes haroldi
Creators: name: Ballerio, Alberto
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hybosoridae
Pterorthochaetes
Pterorthochaetes haroldi

description: Pterorthochaetes haroldi (Sharp, 1875) Known distribution: Indonesia, East Malaysia, West Malaysia (Pahang), Singapore (Paulian 1978). Remarks. The first author began a revision of the genus Pterorthochaetes in the late 90’s, the revision is still in progress. Based on the preliminary results of this revision the majority of records of P. haroldi (and P. incertus, which will probably become a junior synonym of P. haroldi) reported by Paulian (1978) (e.g. Java, Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, etc.) are wrong.
description: Published as part of Ballerio, Alberto & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2010, The Ceratocanthinae of Ulu Gombak: high species richness at a single site, with descriptions of three new species and an annotated checklist of the Ceratocanthinae of Western Malaysia and Singapore (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae), pp. 77-104 in ZooKeys 34 (34) on page 94, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.34.268, http://zenodo.org/record/576606
description: {"references": ["Paulian R (1978) Revision des Ceratocanthidae [Col. Scarabaeoidea] II - Les especes orientales et australiennes. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.) 14: 479 - 514."]}
title: Medienkompetenz
title: Anmerkungen anlässlich einer Untersuchung der Medienkompetenz von und durch SchülerInnen an Neuen Mittelschulen in Wien.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Swertz, Christian
name: Mildner, Katharina
name: Berger, Christian
name: Scheidl, Gerhard
Publisher: name: MI-BMB - (Medienimpulse)
Year: 2016

description: Internet und digitale Medien als sexualisierte Räume
title: The Fellowship of the (Devil) Ring: Ethnographic Translation in the 2002 聯經 Edition of Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
Creators: name: Wright, Matthew G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: A recent book written by Tom Standage pays homage to six drinks that helped shape the history of the world. Following his discussion of the first five drinks (beer, wine, spirits, coffee and tea), Standage concludes with what he calls, the drink of the twentieth century. "Coca-Cola encapsulates what happened in the 20th century: the rise of consumer capitalism and the emergence of America as a superpower. It's globalization in a bottle," Standage said in an interview with National Geographic News (Handwerk). Today Coca-cola is everywhere from Cuba to the Czech Republic (Standage even claims the drink is in more countries than the United Nations). It comes as no surprise that, in the midst of global expansion, the company needed to translate their brand name palatably in each language they encountered. According to Barbara Mikkelson, when Chinese shopkeepers first received shipments of the drink, they created nonsensical transliterations of the brand name using some of the nearly 200 characters that can be used to create sounds similar to Coca-Cola. Some of these signs, when translated back into English, meant roughly, "wax-flattened mare" or "female horse fastened with wax."
title: Formative Evaluation von digitalen Lehr- und Lernmedien am Beispiel des neuen Französischlehrmittels dis donc!
Creators: name: Totter, Alexandra
name: Wolfer, Barbara
Publisher: name: MI-BMB - (Medienimpulse)
Year: 2016

description: Mediales Lernen/Lehren im Fremdsprachenunterricht/beim Spracherwerb
Sivers and Collins effects in polarized pp scattering processes
Creators: name: Anselmino, M.
name: Boglione, M.
name: D'Alesio, U.
name: Leader, E.
name: Melis, S.
name: Murgia, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize the present phenomenology of Sivers and Collins effects for transverse single spin asymmetries in polarized proton-proton collisions within the framework of the generalized parton model (GPM). We will discuss a reassessment of the Collins effect and some preliminary predictions for SSA's in p(pol) p -> pi,K + X processes at RHIC obtained using updated information from SIDIS data and a new set of meson fragmentation functions.
description: 8 pages, 10 eps figures, uses ws-procs9x6.cls; Talk presented by F. Murgia at the II International Workshop on Transverse Polarisation Phenomena in Hard Processes (Transversity 2008), May 28-31, 2008, Ferrara (Italy)
Plasma membrane lipid composition of Dictyostelium Discoideum during early development in aqueous suspension
Creators: name: Withers, Howard Keith
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Cell-cell contact must be made and maintained for normal development and eventual differentiation of D. discoideum to occur. Certain plasma membrane components are known to alter in activity or abundance during the organism's developmental cycle although no quantitative measurement of plasma membrane neutral lipid and phospholipid content has been reported to date. Optimal conditions for the extraction, separation and assay of lipid components were derived and tested by quantification of the neutral lipid and phospholipid components of intact cells of strain Ax-2. Development was initiated in D. discoideum populations suspended in aqueous buffer and plasma membrane fractions were purified from both exponentially growing and aggregation-phase cells by a modified procedure which minimized phospholipid degradation during the plasma membrane isolation. Neutral lipid and phospholipid compositions of the plasma membrane fractions PM1 and PM2 from exponentially growing cells and from those in early aggregation phase were determined. Exponential phase cells' plasma membranes contained large proportions of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine and lysophosphatidylethanolamine. Lysophosphatidylcholine was absent. A significant quantity of phosphatidylinositol was detected and cardiolipin, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidic acid and lyso-phosphatidic acid were each present in small amounts. The presence of phosphatidylethanolamine plasmalogen was suspected but not proven. No acylglycerol components were detected, the major neutral lipid fraction being that of free sterol which largely comprised stigmast-22-en-3β-ol; sterol ester was present in extremely small quantities. An unidentified neutral lipid component of plasma membranes was detected by its characteristic absorption and fluorescence upon irradiation at ultraviolet wavelengths. After sixteen hours aggregation the phosphatidylcholine content of the plasma membranes was greatly reduced, a significant proportion of the phosphatidylethanolamine appeared to have been converted to lysophosphatidylethanolamine, and phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidic acid and lysophosphatidic acid were all in greater abundance than in growing cells' membranes. The free sterol component remained relatively constant but sterol ester had increased dramatically (7 to 10-fold) and the fatty acid composition of the plasma membrane phospholipids was more saturated, primarily because of the accumulation of palmitate and stearate and a reduction of the octadeca-dienoic fatty acid components.
title: Spielend Fremdsprachen lernen – Wie können digitale Spiele den Fremdsprachenerwerb unterstützen?
title: Eine kurze Übersicht über den derzeitigen Stand der Forschung
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gabriel, Sonja
Publisher: name: MI-BMB - (Medienimpulse)
Year: 2016

description: Mediales Lernen/Lehren im Fremdsprachenunterricht/beim Spracherwerb
Lifehacking. Medien und Selbsttechnologien
Creators: name: Waitz, Thomas
name: Institut Fur Theater-, Film- Und Medienwissenschaft
name: Institut Fur Theater-, Film- Und Medienwissenschaft
Publisher: name: Schüren Verlag
Year: 2007
Subjects: Medientheorie
Medienwirkungsforschung

description: Kein Abstract verfügbar
Canadian Gallup Omnibus Poll February 1995
Creators: name: Inc., The Canadian Gallup Poll
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Federal party preference(2); vote in October 1993 election(2); Prime Minister Chretien job performance(1); federal government priorities(1); NAFTA(5); medical treatment and religion(1); safety concerns(1); strike(3); National Hockey League(3).
Pterorthochaetes incertus Gestro 1899
Creators: name: Ballerio, Alberto
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hybosoridae
Pterorthochaetes
Pterorthochaetes incertus

description: Pterorthochaetes incertus Gestro, 1899 Known distribution: Indonesia, West Malaysia (Paulian 1978). Remarks. See under P. haroldi.
description: Published as part of Ballerio, Alberto & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2010, The Ceratocanthinae of Ulu Gombak: high species richness at a single site, with descriptions of three new species and an annotated checklist of the Ceratocanthinae of Western Malaysia and Singapore (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae), pp. 77-104 in ZooKeys 34 (34) on page 94, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.34.268, http://zenodo.org/record/576606
description: {"references": ["Gestro R (1899) Sopra alcune forme di Acanthocerini. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 39: 450 - 498.", "Paulian R (1978) Revision des Ceratocanthidae [Col. Scarabaeoidea] II - Les especes orientales et australiennes. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.) 14: 479 - 514."]}
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Blum, Avrim
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 124, 10th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2019), pages 0:i-0:xii
On Emptiness. Images of Urban Space in Jem Cohen's Film ›Chain‹ and the Concept of ›Non-Places‹
Creators: name: Waitz, Thomas
name: Institut Fur Theater-, Film- Und Medienwissenschaft
name: Institut Fur Theater-, Film- Und Medienwissenschaft
Publisher: name: Liverpool School of Architecture
Year: 2008
Subjects: Media theory

description: Kein Abstract verfügbar
Recursive Code Construction for Random Networks
Creators: name: Skachek, Vitaly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A modification of Koetter-Kschischang codes for random networks is presented (these codes were also studied by Wang et al. in the context of authentication problems). The new codes have higher information rate, while maintaining the same error-correcting capabilities. An efficient error-correcting algorithm is proposed for these codes.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Litter decomposition and nutrient turnover in three ecosystem types of the coastal western hemlock biogeoclimatic zone
Creators: name: De Catanzaro, Jennifer Barbara
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Rates of litter decomposition, nutrient release, and total forest floor turnover were measured on two replicates of three ecosystem types in the Coastal Western Hemlock Zone of British Columbia, in an attempt to establish whether or not ecosystem types could be differentiated on the basis of functional parameters. Litter bags of two mesh sizes and leaf tethering were used to compare weight losses and nutrient dynamics of specific litter components. The dry weight losses of conifer needles confined in 1 mm mesh bags ranged from 30 to 40 % after one year. There was no significant difference between sites, Weight loss of salal leaves on xeric sites ranged from 20 % after one year for samples confined in 1 mm mesh bags to 45 % for tethered leaf samples. Big-leaf maple weight loss ranged from 15% for samples confined in 1 mm mesh bags to 60 % for tethered samples. Twig samples lost 7 to 21 % of their weight on all sites after six months, with slightly higher values occurring on the hygric sites, Cellulose strips in 4 mm mesh bags lost an average of 23 % of their weight on the-xeric, 21 % on the mesic, and 40 % on the hygric sites. Nutrient mass and concentration changes over one year varied somewhat between different types of foliage litter. The total mass of K, Mg, and Ca decreased in all litter types on all sites, N and P mass changes were more variable, The relative mobility of nutrients released from decomposing conifer litter was Ca> Mg?P>K>N, and from broad-leaf litter was Ca>Mg>K>P>N. The low mobility of K was concluded to be due to leaching of this element from the litter prior to its collection for the study. Numbers of fauna in the forest floor were compared on one replicate of each of the ecosystem types at six week intervals throughout the year. Micro-fauna were more abundant on the xeric and mesic sites, while macro- and meso-fauna were more numerous on the hygric sites. Numbers were lowest on all sites when forest floor moisture was lowest in August. At other times of the year population fluctuations were different for different fauna groups. Forest floor biomass was also measured on one replicate of each ecosystem type. It averaged 45,05 tonnes • ha⁻¹ on the xeric sites, 45.68 tonnes • ha⁻¹ on the mesic sites, and 25,20 tonnes • ha⁻¹ on the hygric site. Annual forest floor turnover rates were calculated to be .015 for the xeric, ,017 for the-mesic, and ,040 for the hygric sates, Differences in turnover rates between sites were attributed more to differences in the quantities- of wood and herbaceous foliage on the three sites than to differences in the decomposition rates of individual substrates.
การเปรียบเทียบค่าบริการงานเภสัชกรรมสำหรับการเจ็บป่วยเล็กน้อยระหว่างร้านยาเอกชนกับโรงพยาบาลชุมชน : กรณีศึกษาในอำเภอพระสมุทรเจดีย์ COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PHARMACY CHARGE FOR MINOR AILMENT SERVICES BETWEEN  A PRIVATE PHARMACY AND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL : A CASE STUDY IN AMPHOE PHRA SAMUT CHEDI
Creators: name: ระพีพรรณ ฉลองสุข
name: สุรสิทธิ์ ล้อจิตรอำนวย
Publisher: name: คณะเภสัชศาสตร์ ม.ศิลปากร/โรงพิมพ์ ม.ศิลปากร
Year: 2013
Subjects: ค่าบริการงานเภสัชกรรม, ร้านยา, ต้นทุนยา, pharmacy service charge, drugstore, drug cost

description: 2 (July-Dec 2013 ), 8, ไทยไภษัชยนิพนธ์ Thai Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Science (TBPS)
Verkehr als medialer Effekt. Danièle Thompson: ›Jetlag‹
Creators: name: Waitz, Thomas
name: Institut Fur Theater-, Film- Und Medienwissenschaft
name: Institut Fur Theater-, Film- Und Medienwissenschaft
Publisher: name: Schüren Verlag
Year: 2006
Subjects: Medientheorie

description: Kein Abstract verfügbar
Making Refugees (Dis)Appear: Identifying Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Thailand and Malaysia
Creators: name: Lego, Jera
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2018

description: Thailand and Malaysia together host hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers even while neither of the two countries has signed international refugee conventions and there exist little or no formal national asylum frameworks for distinguishing refugees and asylum seekers from other undocumented migrants. Scholars who have explored this situation and the precarious condition of refugees and asylum seekers have yet to question how refugees and asylum seekers are identified in light of this legal ambiguity. This paper follows the cases of registration exercises along the Thai-Myanmar border and mobile registration in Kuala Lumpur until around 2013 in order to explore the mechanisms and technologies employed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in cooperation with non-governmental organizations for registering and identifying refugees from Myanmar. It argues that both the registration and non-registration of refugees and asylum seekers can be understood in terms of competing rationalities of the various actors involved, their incongruent programs, and uneven technologies that serve to make refugees both appear and disappear, that is, to actively construct and assert knowledge and information concerning the existence of refugees, or to conceal, deny, if not altogether dispense of the presence of refugees.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol 11 No 2 (2018): Forced Migration
Men, Women, and Environmental Change in Indonesia: The Gendered Face of Development Among the Dayak Benuaq
Creators: name: Haug, Michaela
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2017

description: The increasing penetration of global capitalism, ambitious development efforts, and related environmental change have significantly transformed Kalimantan and its indigenous population, commonly referred to as Dayak, during the last decades. This article analyzes these processes from a gendered perspective and explores how gender relations among the Dayak, who generally are characterized by well-balanced gender relations, have been influenced by what is commonly referred to as ‘development’. A review of the existing literature shows that new asymmetries between men and women are emerging mainly due to different ways of inclusion in new economic systems. Based on research among the Dayak Benuaq, the article shows that far-reaching gender equality has been so far upheld within Benuaq society while gender gets interwoven with an increasing variety of inequalities. I argue that in order to capture this complexity, research on the gendered impacts of development should a) aim for a better understanding of the intertwinement of gender with other aspects, such as ethnicity, class, age, or education, b) pay more attention to how these aspects play out in different contexts, and c) differentiate more clearly between gender ideals, norms, and actual practice.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol 10 No 1 (2017): Gender, Ethnicity, and Environmental Transformations
title: Noxious waste burning
title: The effects of residential solid waste burning on ambient air quality
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Jancsek-Turóczi, Beatrix
name: Hoffer, András
name: Bozó, László
name: Marmureanu, Luminita
name: Viaene, Peter
name: Asbach, Christof
name: Gelencsér, András
Publisher: name: Pannon University
Year: 2021

description: The contribution of residential heating to PM10 levels is significant in central and eastern Europe in winter, which is exacerbated by the uncontrolled burning of various types of solid waste. A new study revealed that this illegal activity severely impairs air quality and endangers public health.
Pterorthochaetes insularis Gestro 1899
Creators: name: Ballerio, Alberto
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hybosoridae
Pterorthochaetes
Pterorthochaetes insularis

description: Pterorthochaetes insularis Gestro, 1899 (Fig. 3A) Known distribution: Indonesia, Philippines (Paulian 1978), Nepal (Ballerio 1999), West Malaysia (Kelantan) (Grebennikov et al. 2005). New material examined: West Malaysia, Perak, 25 km NE of Ipoh, Banjaran Titi Wangsa Mounts, Gunung Korbu, 1400–1800 mt., 11–31.I.1999, leg. P. Cechovsky (ABCB). Remarks. First record for Perak and Selangor. Based on unpublished data of the senior author, P. insularis is a quite common species with a wide distribution, spanning from Nepal to Borneo, with a strong geographical morphological variation, whose taxonomic meaning still needs to be evaluated.
description: Published as part of Ballerio, Alberto & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2010, The Ceratocanthinae of Ulu Gombak: high species richness at a single site, with descriptions of three new species and an annotated checklist of the Ceratocanthinae of Western Malaysia and Singapore (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae), pp. 77-104 in ZooKeys 34 (34) on page 94, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.34.268, http://zenodo.org/record/576606
description: {"references": ["Gestro R (1899) Sopra alcune forme di Acanthocerini. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 39: 450 - 498.", "Paulian R (1978) Revision des Ceratocanthidae [Col. Scarabaeoidea] II - Les especes orientales et australiennes. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.) 14: 479 - 514.", "Ballerio A (1999) Revision of the genus Pterorthochaetes, first contribution (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Ceratocanthidae). Folia Heyrovskiana 7: 221 - 228."]}
Separating Sisters From Brothers: Ethnic Relations and Identity Politics in the Context of Indigenous Land Titling in Indonesia
Creators: name: Steinebach, Stefanie
name: Kunz, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2017

description: Environmental and social transformations in Jambi province, Indonesia, are inextricably interlinked. Large-scale agro-industrial development and nature conservation policies equally alienate local communities from their agricultural lands and turn land into a scarce resource. Consequently, access to agricultural land becomes increasingly contested, not only between communities and state institutions or companies but also among communities themselves. To secure or restore local ‘indigenous’ land rights against land grabbing and green grabbing by states and companies, indigenous land titling has become a powerful tool all over the world. Ongoing activities of indigenous land titling in Indonesia have been largely perceived as an act of justice by indigenous and land rights activists and affected communities. Yet, a challenging step towards titling is the identification of who is and who is not ‘indigenous’. This highly political process creates ethnicity-based identities tied to rights and possibilities around land as a contested resource. Based on a case study of a national park in central Jambi, this paper shows that what is perceived as an act of justice against the state can also produce injustice among local communities by heavily impacting and transforming local social structures and relations.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol 10 No 1 (2017): Gender, Ethnicity, and Environmental Transformations
Crawling beneath the free surface: Water snail locomotion
Creators: name: Lee, Sungyon
name: Bush, John W. M.
name: Hosoi, A. E.
name: Lauga, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Land snails move via adhesive locomotion. Through muscular contraction and expansion of their foot, they transmit waves of shear stress through a thin layer of mucus onto a solid substrate. Since a free surface cannot support shear stress, adhesive locomotion is not a viable propulsion mechanism for water snails that travel inverted beneath the free surface. Nevertheless, the motion of the freshwater snail, Sorbeoconcha physidae, is reminiscent of that of its terrestrial counterparts, being generated by the undulation of the snail foot that is separated from the free surface by a thin layer of mucus. Here, a lubrication model is used to describe the mucus flow in the limit of small amplitude interfacial deformations. By assuming the shape of the snail foot to be a traveling sine wave and the mucus to be Newtonian, an evolution equation for the interface shape is obtained and the resulting propulsive force on the snail is calculated. This propulsive force is found to be non-zero for moderate values of Capillary number but vanishes in the limits of high and low Capillary numbers. Physically, this force arises because the snail's foot deforms the free surface, thereby generating curvature pressures and lubrication flows inside the mucus layer that couple to the topography of the foot.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
“I Don’t Want to Limit Myself to Binary Thinking”: An Interview With the Indonesian Artist Arahmaiani
Creators: name: Stange, Gunnar
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2017

description: Arahmaiani is one of the best known contemporary Indonesian women artists. Her works, performances, and installations have been exhibited at 7 biennials and in a total of 29 countries. She has taught at universities in Australia, China, Indonesia, Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands. Arahmaiani is a politically committed artist. In her works, she addresses the reduction of human beings to consumers, which is on the rise all over the globe, as well as the discrimination against people on the grounds of gender, religion, and ethnicity. While the phenomena addressed in her art are always of a global nature, the majority of her works deal with cultural, social, and political realities of Indonesia. She views these as being threatened by an increasing politicization and essentialization of Islam, whose protagonists supplant the country’s diverse ethnic, linguistic, and religious heritage with a purely Islamic interpretation of the Indonesian past. In this interview, conducted by Gunnar Stange in December 2016, Arahmaiani elaborates on the main themes she addresses in her art works as well as on current political, social, and environmental challenges in Indonesia.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol 10 No 1 (2017): Gender, Ethnicity, and Environmental Transformations
Abundances of Planetary Nebulae NGC3242 and NGC6369
Creators: name: Pottasch, S. R.
name: Bernard-Salas, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectra of the planetary nebulae NGC3242 and NGC6369 are reanalysed using spectral measurements made in the mid-infrared with the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). The aim is to determine the chemical composition of these objects. We also make use of International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) and ground based spectra. These elliptical PNe are interesting because they are well-studied, nearby, bright objects and therefore allow a reasonably complete comparison of this type of nebulae. Abundances determined from the mid-infrared lines, which are insensitive to electron temperature, are used as the basis for the determination of the composition, which are found to differ somewhat from earlier results. The abundances found, especially the low value of helium and oxygen, indicate that the central star was originally of rather low mass. The abundance of phosphorus has been determined for the first time in NGC3242. The electron temperature in both of these nebulae is roughly constant unlike NGC6302 and NGC2392 where a strong temperature gradient is found. The temperature of the central star is discussed for both nebulae. Finally a comparison of the element abundances in these nebulae with the solar abundance is made. The low abundance of Fe and P is noted and it is suggested that these elements are an important constituent of the nebular dust.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, 15 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
title: Monetary integration in ECOWAS and loss of independent monetary policy: a case study of Nigeria
Creators: name: Umar, Goni
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: The Economic community of West African States (ECOWAS) is an economic organisation among 16 countries of Africa south of the Sahara. One of the main objectives of ECOWAS is to join the member countries in a complete monetary union with a single currency and a single central banle A major disadvantage to a country of being a member of this form of monetary cooperation is the loss of independence in carrying out monetary policy. This study is an examination of the degree to which Nigeria is likely to lose independent monetary policy by participating in the ECOW AS monetary union. Since the monetary union is still at the proposal stage, the issue is addressed by examining the following question: Can Nigeria conduct an effective independent monetary policy by changing the quantity of the money stock in the economy? According to the money multiplier theory of the money stock determination, successfully changing the money stock requires the following: Firstly the money multiplier should be stable and predictable, and secondly, the monetary base should be exogenously controllable. Although the money multiplier and its determinants in Nigeria are found to be stable and predictable, both closed and opened economy analyses seem to suggest that the monetary base is endogenous. Specifically, it is found to be determined by the demand for money. This implies that the monetary base and therefore, the money stock can only be changed by changing the money demand. In this case the successful conduct of monetary policy will require a stable money demand function which is significantly linked to a control variable. Various specifications showed that the Nigerian money demand function is stable. However, the only control variable - the interest rate is not significant, suggesting that it cannot be used to affect the money demand in a significant way. These findings suggest that the Nigerian Monetary Authorities have a very limited independent monetary policy, and therefore there may be little to lose by participating in the ECOW AS monetary union.
Protein Structure Prediction Using Basin-Hopping
Creators: name: Prentiss, Michael C.
name: Wales, David J.
name: Wolynes, Peter G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Associative memory Hamiltonian structure prediction potentials are not overly rugged, thereby suggesting their landscapes are like those of actual proteins. In the present contribution we show how basin-hopping global optimization can identify low-lying minima for the corresponding mildly frustrated energy landscapes. For small systems the basin-hopping algorithm succeeds in locating both lower minima and conformations closer to the experimental structure than does molecular dynamics with simulated annealing. For large systems the efficiency of basin-hopping decreases for our initial implementation, where the steps consist of random perturbations to the Cartesian coordinates. We implemented umbrella sampling using basin-hopping to further confirm when the global minima are reached. We have also improved the energy surface by employing bioinformatic techniques for reducing the roughness or variance of the energy surface. Finally, the basin-hopping calculations have guided improvements in the excluded volume of the Hamiltonian, producing better structures. These results suggest a novel and transferable optimization scheme for future energy function development.
Viscous Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter at High Temperature
Creators: name: Kapusta, Joseph I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Substantial collective flow is observed in collisions between large nuclei at high energy, and the data are well-reproduced by perfect fluid dynamics. In a separate development, calculation of the dimensionless ratio of shear viscosity $η$ to entropy density within AdS/CFT yields $η/s = 1/4π$, which has been conjectured to be a lower bound for any physical system. It is shown that the transition from hadrons to quarks and gluons has behavior similar to helium, nitrogen, and water at and near their phase transitions in the ratio $η/s$. Conversely, there are indications that the ratio of bulk viscosity $ζ$ to entropy density may have a maximum in the vicinity of the phase transition. Therefore it is possible that experimental measurements can pinpoint the location of the transition or rapid crossover in QCD via the ratios $η/s$ and $ζ/s$ in addition to and independently of the equation of state.
description: Added section on gauge/gravity duality applied to viscosities
Rezension: Keller, A. (Hg.). (2015). Indonesien 1965ff. Die Gegenwart eines Massenmordes. Ein politisches Lesebuch.
Creators: name: Blum, Franziska
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2017

description: -
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol 10 No 1 (2017): Gender, Ethnicity, and Environmental Transformations
Opportunistic Interference Alignment in MIMO Interference Channels
Creators: name: Perlaza, Samir Medina
name: Debbah, Merouane
name: Lasaulce, Samson
name: Chaufray, Jean-Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present two interference alignment techniques such that an opportunistic point-to-point multiple input multiple output (MIMO) link can reuse, without generating any additional interference, the same frequency band of a similar pre-existing primary link. In this scenario, we exploit the fact that under power constraints, although each radio maximizes independently its rate by water-filling on their channel transfer matrix singular values, frequently, not all of them are used. Therefore, by aligning the interference of the opportunistic radio it is possible to transmit at a significant rate while insuring zero-interference on the pre-existing link. We propose a linear pre-coder for a perfect interference alignment and a power allocation scheme which maximizes the individual data rate of the secondary link. Our numerical results show that significant data rates are achieved even for a reduced number of antennas.
description: To appear in proc. IEEE PIMRC 2008 - Workshop in Emerging Network Perspectives in Multiuser and Cooperative MIMO (NWMIMO). 5 pages and 4 figures
Philanthropy in Southeast Asia: Between Charitable Values, Corporate Interests, and Development Aspirations
Creators: name: Sciortino, Rosalia
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2017

description: This article presents an overview of the evolving state of philanthropy in Southeast Asia, driven by global and local stimuli and shaped by often conflicting notions of charity, development, and business. Despite the lack of a strong enabling environment, new, ‘homegrown’ foundations and local forms of institutionalized giving continue to emerge. At the same time, changes in the donor landscape and shifts in philanthropic paradigms towards business-like and technocratic approaches affect how development causes are funded. In the process, gaps have begun to appear in how work by civil society organizations on human rights and social justice is funded; this may jeopardize more equitable and inclusive development.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol 10 No 2 (2017): Philanthropy, Giving, and Development
System Parameters for the Eclipsing B-Star Binary HD 42401
Creators: name: Williams, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present results from an optical spectroscopic investigation of the binary system HD 42401 (V1388 Ori; B2.5 IV-V + B3 V). A combined analysis of V-band photometry and radial velocities indicates that the system has an orbital period of 2.18706 +/- 0.00005 days and an inclination of 75.5 +/- 0.2 degrees. This solution yields masses and radii of M1 = 7.42 +/- 0.08 Solar Masses and R1 = 5.60 +/- 0.04 Solar Radii for the primary and M2 = 5.16 +/- 0.03 Solar Masses and R2 = 3.76 +/- 0.03 Solar Radii for the secondary. Based on the position of the two stars plotted on a theoretical H-R diagram, I find that the age of the system is > 25 Myr and that both stars appear overluminous for their masses compared to single star evolutionary tracks. A fit of the spectral energy distribution based on photometry from the literature yields a distance to HD 42401 of 832 +/- 89 parsecs.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures, Added and modified figures and text. Accepted to AJ
Legacies of Cultural Philanthropy in Asia
Creators: name: Zurbuchen, Mary
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2017

description: During the second half of the 20th century the Ford Foundation – at the time the world’s largest private philanthropy – made a significant commitment to issues of cultural heritage as part of its international work in Asia. Across countries in South and Southeast Asia, in particular, foundation grants were made to governments, private institutions, and individuals engaged in a wide range of fields in the arts, humanities, and applied sciences such as archaeology. The Foundation’s culture programs embraced tangible heritage as well as a range of living traditions and cultural expression. Such rubrics served as important labels locating culture within the broad portfolio of the Foundation’s grant-making, as well as touchstones employed to justify philanthropy’s attention to culture in contrast to the dominant emphasis of international aid on economic development and modernization. This paper will look at how one of the world’s most important international philanthropies built a rationale for activism in cultural fields in Asia, how a decentralized format for local decision-making enabled sustained support for building capacity and knowledge in the arts and humanities, and, ultimately, how the ‘culture lens’ has gradually been displaced– or perhaps redefined – in the Foundation’s current international work.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol 10 No 2 (2017): Philanthropy, Giving, and Development
Canadian Gallup Omnibus Poll March 1995
Creators: name: Inc., The Canadian Gallup Poll
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Federal party preference(2); vote in October 1993 election(2); Prime Minister Chretien job performance(1); direction of the country(1); budget(3); honesty and ethical standards of different fields(15); Academy Awards nominations(3); religion(22).
Moving Beyond Charity to Philanthropy? The Case of Charitable Giving in Thailand
Creators: name: Phaholyothin, Natalie
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2017

description: This paper outlines the characteristics of the philanthropic sector in Thailand today. It first describes the local concept of giving, which is intricately linked to Theravada Buddhism. Then, the paper provides examples of traditional forms of philanthropic institutions that are more closely associated with charity than philanthropy, followed by examples of innovative forms of philanthropic efforts. Given the trajectory of economic development in Thailand, opportunities to engage broader public interest in philanthropy exist and in order to do so, there is need for the sector in general to build stronger evidence of how public giving is translated into social impact. The main challenge to the Thai philanthropic sector is the limited attention to accountability and transparency, as philanthropic entities generally have not developed robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks that target outcomes. This can be turned into an opportunity to address the general lack of focus on strategy development, weak monitoring systems, and a limited reporting of outcomes.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol 10 No 2 (2017): Philanthropy, Giving, and Development
Frontier Capitalism and Politics of Dispossession in Myanmar: The Case of the Mwetaung (Gullu Mual) Nickel Mine in Chin State
Creators: name: Einzenberger, Rainer
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2018

description: Since 2010, Myanmar has experienced unprecedented political and economic changes described in the literature as democratic transition or metamorphosis. The aim of this paper is to analyze the strategy of accumulation by dispossession in the frontier areas as a precondition and persistent element of Myanmar’s transition. Through this particular regime of dispossession – described as frontier capitalism – the periphery is turned into a supplier of resource revenues to fuel economic growth at the center. The paper takes up the case study of the Mwetaung (Gullu Mual) nickel mine on the border to Chin State and the “politics of dispossession” around this project. It analyzes the strategies, motives, and objectives of a broad ad-hoc coalition that emerged in 2013 to defend their access to land against forms of legal dispossession by the state. In this case, the attempted dispossession has been successfully challenged, by making use of new opportunities for political participation.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol 11 No 1 (2018): The Political Economy of New Authoritarianism
Thai Doctoral Students’ Layers of Identity Options Through Social Acculturation in Australia
Creators: name: Nomnian, Singhanat
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Year: 2018

description: An increasing number of international students in Australian higher education have inevitably increased linguistic and cultural diversity in the academic and social landscapes. Drawing upon Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) bio-ecological systems theory and Pavlenko and Blackledge’s (2004) identities in multilingual contexts, this study explores how Thai doctoral students adopt certain identity options during their societal acculturation while studying and living in Australia. Based on a group of nine Thai doctoral students’ interview transcripts, the findings reveal three intricate and complex layers of their identity options, namely, assumed identity as Asian people, imposed identity as ‘Non-Native-English’ speakers (NNES), and negotiable identity as Thai ethnic people. This study potentially sheds some light for future empirical and longitudinal research regarding NNES international students’ social acculturation in different multilingual settings in order to support NNES students’ academic, linguistic, psychological, and sociocultural adaptations.
description: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol 11 No 1 (2018): The Political Economy of New Authoritarianism