cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of a new generation cement: Insight into the deep wells
Creators: name: SAMARAKOON, MANOJ HARSHANA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Geomechanics and resources geotechnical engineering
Civil geotechnical engineering

description: In different types of deep well applications such as oil, gas, geothermal energy, and carbon sequestration, wellbore integrity is an essential factor. Depending on the type of well application, cement in the wellbore experiences a range of geo-environmental conditions under high-temperature and high-pressure. This research aims to replace Portland oil well cement with waste-based alkali-activated cement to avoid technical and environmental drawbacks of Portland cement under critical reservoir conditions. It further consumes industrial and municipal wastes such as coal ash, blast furnace slag and waste glass from Australian waste streams promoting sustainable construction practices.
SOCIAL MEDIA AS TEACHING/LEARNING TOOLS IN NIGERIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS: CONTRIBUTORY DRIVER TO 21ST CENTURY INCLUSIVE EDUCATION EFFORTS
Creators: name: Nkanu, Celestine
name: Imoke, John
name: Bisong, Anthony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 390305
subject: Professional education and training
classificationCode: 390301
subject: Continuing and community education
classificationCode: 390101
subject: Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 390102
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development

description: This study verified students’ perceptions on whether utilisation of the social media tools for teaching/learning can possibly contribute towards driving 21st century inclusive education efforts in Nigerian universities. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Study’s population was made up of all 392 students of Educational Technology unit of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching in the Faculty of Education in the University of Calabar. Sample was drawn through purposive sampling procedures with a sample of 68 respondents drawn for the study. A 15-item questionnaire tagged “Learners’ Perceptions of social media as Teaching/Learning Tools and Contributions to 21st century Inclusive Education Efforts’ Questionnaire” (LPSMTLTCIEEQ) was utilized to collect data. Using Cronbach Alpha, the reliability estimate of the instrument was 0.82. Data analysis was achieved using frequencies and percentages. The findings revealed that students had favourable perceptions concerning utilisation of the social media tools for teaching/learning as a vital contributor towards driving 21st century inclusive education efforts. Recommendations included that; lecturers should incorporate use of social media tools for teaching-learning processes.
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Long-Lifetime Polaritons in Thermal Equilibrium
Creators: name: Sun, Yongbao
name: Wen, Patrick
name: Yoon, Yoseob
name: Liu, Gangqiang
name: Steger, Mark
name: Pfeiffer, Loren N.
name: West, Ken
name: Snoke, David W.
name: Nelson, Keith A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities have been used to demonstrate quantum effects such as Bose-Einstein condensation, superfluity, and quantized vortices. However, in these experiments, the polaritons have not reached thermal equilibrium when they undergo the transition to a coherent state. This has prevented the verification of one of the canonical predictions for condensation, namely the phase diagram. In this work, we have created a polariton gas in a semiconductor microcavity in which the quasiparticles have a lifetime much longer than their thermalization time. This allows them to reach thermal equilibrium in a laser-generated confining trap. Their energy distributions are well fit by equilibrium Bose-Einstein distributions over a broad range of densities and temperatures from very low densities all the way up to the threshold for Bose-Einstein condensation. The good fits of the Bose-Einstein distribution over a broad range of density and temperature imply that the particles obey the predicted power law for the phase boundary of Bose-Einstein condensation.
Direct tests of single-parameter aging
Creators: name: Hecksher, Tina
name: Olsen, Niels Boye
name: Dyre, Jeppe C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents accurate data for the physical aging of organic glasses just below the glass transition probed by monitoring the following quantities after temperature up and down jumps: the shear-mechanical resonance frequency (around 360 kHz), the dielectric loss at 1 Hz, the real part of the dielectric constant at 10 kHz, and the loss-peak frequency of the dielectric beta process (around 10 kHz). The setup used allows for keeping temperature constant within 100 micro Kelvin and for thermal equilibration within a few seconds after a temperature jump. The data conform to a new simplified version of the classical Tool-Narayanaswamy aging formalism, which makes it possible to calculate one relaxation curve directly from another without any fitting to analytical functions.
Where stars form: inside-out growth and coherent star formation from HST Halpha maps of 2676 galaxies across the main sequence at z~1
Creators: name: Nelson, Erica June
name: van Dokkum, Pieter G.
name: Schreiber, Natascha M. Förster
name: Franx, Marijn
name: Brammer, Gabriel B.
name: Momcheva, Ivelina G.
name: Wuyts, Stijn
name: Whitaker, Katherine E.
name: Skelton, Rosalind E.
name: Fumagalli, Mattia
name: Kriek, Mariska
name: Labbé, Ivo
name: Leja, Joel
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Tacconi, Linda J.
name: van der Wel, Arjen
name: Bosch, Frank C. van den
name: Oesch, Pascal A.
name: Dickey, Claire
name: Lange, Johannes Ulf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Ha maps at 1kpc spatial resolution for star-forming galaxies at z~1, made possible by the WFC3 grism on HST. Employing this capability over all five 3D-HST/CANDELS fields provides a sample of 2676 galaxies. By creating deep stacked Halpha (Ha) images, we reach surface brightness limits of 1x10^-18\erg\s\cm^2\arcsec^2, allowing us to map the distribution of ionized gas out to >10kpc for typical L* galaxies at this epoch. We find that the spatial extent of the Ha distribution increases with stellar mass as r(Ha)[kpc]=1.5(Mstars/10^10Msun)^0.23. Furthermore, the Ha emission is more extended than the stellar continuum emission, consistent with inside-out assembly of galactic disks. This effect, however, is mass dependent with r(Ha)/r(stars)=1.1(M/10^10Msun)^0.054, such that at low masses r(Ha)~r(stars). We map the Ha distribution as a function of SFR(IR+UV) and find evidence for `coherent star formation' across the SFR-M plane: above the main sequence, Ha is enhanced at all radii; below the main sequence, Ha is depressed at all radii. This suggests that at all masses the physical processes driving the enhancement or suppression of star formation act throughout the disks of galaxies. It also confirms that the scatter in the star forming main sequence is real and caused by variations in the star formation rate at fixed mass. At high masses (10^10.5
description: Submitted to ApJ. Main results: Fig. 6 shows the scale lengths of ionized gas vs. stellar disks. Fig. 9 shows where Halpha in galaxies is enhanced above and suppressed below the star-forming main sequence. Data points for Halpha profiles are available upon request
Output-Only Infrastructure System Identification via Recursive Bayesian Estimators and Recursive Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
Creators: name: Hassanabadi, Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Structural engineering
Numerical computation and mathematical software
Numerical and computational mathematics not elsewhere classified
Signal processing

description: This PhD thesis studies the problem of online output-only stochastic structural system identification by recursive Bayesian estimators. To this end, Recursive Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) is used for model order reduction to speed up the computations. Several novel algorithmic deviations are proposed in the realms of RPCA, linear Bayesian smoothing, and nonlinear Bayesian filtering. The novel RPCA proposed in this PhD thesis outperforms the existing algorithms in computational speed, observability, and robustness. The novel smoothing method proposed in this PhD thesis notably reduces the noise of estimation and substantially improves the speed of cross-covariance calculations. The new nonlinear Bayesian filter proposed in this PhD thesis enables input-state-parameter estimation for systems without direct feedthrough without input regularization.
USIA Poll # 1971-TGMEDIAH: Target Group Media Habits
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: Days spent reading newspaper (1); German daily newspapers read (4); German weekly newspapers read (24); reasons for reading paper (22); newspaper most consistent with personal viewpoint (1); newspapers recommended to colleagues (2); foreign newspapers read (20); reasons for reading foreign newspapers (15); German magazines read (40); reasons for reading German magazines (21); foreign magazines read (30); reasons for reading foreign magazines (19); frequency of watching television (2); most watched channels (2); hours of the day watching television (51); news watching frequency (1); news programs watched (18); programs watched (33); days listening to radio (2); hours of day domestic radio listening (60); domestic stations listened to (24); news on radio listening habits (2); news programs listened to (24); stations listened to in past month (17); main reasons for listening to stations (17); foreign station listening habits (184); following news commentators (80); trips to cinema (1); documentaries seen (34); cultural centers visited (6); activities at cultural centers (36); publications from cultural centers (9); biggest sources of German information (8); biggest sources of foreign information (8); countries in agreement with Germany (4).
Bicovariant differential calculus on the superspace ${\mathbb R}_q(1|2)$
Creators: name: Celik, Salih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16W30, 17B37, 17B66, 81R60

description: Super Hopf algebra structure on the function algebra on the extended quantum superspace has been defined. It is given a bicovariant differential calculus on the superspace. The corresponding (quantum) Lie superalgebra of vector fields and its Hopf algebra structure are obtained. The dual Hopf algebra is explicitly constructed. A new quantum supergroup that is the symmetry group of the differential calculus is found.
description: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to minor revisions in a few equations
Spectroscopic signatures of quantum friction
Creators: name: Klatt, Juliane
name: Bennett, Robert
name: Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a formula for the spectroscopically accessible level shifts and decay rates of an atom moving at an arbitrary angle relative to a surface. Our Markov formulation leads to an intuitive analytic description whereby the shifts and rates are obtained from the coefficients of the Heisenberg equation of motion for the atomic flip operators but with complex Doppler-shifted (velocity-dependent) transition frequencies. Our results conclusively demonstrate that for the limiting case of parallel motion the shifts and rates are quadratic or higher in the atomic velocity. We show that a stronger, linear velocity dependence is exhibited by the rates and shifts for perpendicular motion, thus opening the prospect of experimentally probing the Markovian approach to the phenomenon of quantum friction.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Social roles and young children: A content analysis of children's picture books
Creators: name: Kavanagh, Lindsay
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014
Subjects: Adolescence in literature
Content Analysis--Popular Children's books
Evaluation--Social roles portrayed in picture books

description: This paper examines children's picture books and the characteristics of social roles presented to young children through the stories in picture books published between 1970 and 2005.  Between the ages of eighteen months and three years, children begin to develop their personal identity. This is primarily through observation of prominent figures in the child's life, as well as observations though through stories told to them in the oral tradition. The vast number of picture books available to parents, librarians, and teachers makes it even more daunting when working to select the proper material to present to a child.  Twenty-seven picture books were analyzed according to a coding schema to determine how they presented the characters' social role, and by extension, their gender roles. Categories for coding included traditional stereotyping of both male and female characters.
Role of temperature and soil properties on the thermal interaction between energy piles
Creators: name: Moradshahi, Aria
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the thermo-mechanical response of closely spaced energy piles for different operations, based on building energy demand, and different soil properties representing different site conditions. Regarding the structural performance of energy piles, It is found that daily intermittent operations would be more beneficial compared to conditions heating and cooling operaions. For the spacing considered in this study, no significant thermal interaction was observed for the energy piles. The result of this thesis can provide guidance in the design of closely spaced energy piles for continuous and intermittent operation modes.
Evaluation of the Stiffness of a Synthetic Soft Rock using Bender Elements
Creators: name: Steen, Michael von't
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil geotechnical engineering

description: Significant strength and stiffness come from the intact structure of soft rock, however, conventional drilling, sampling and extraction disturbs the material structure and results in a under representation of measured parameters. Non-destructive wave-based methods instead preserve the material structure, but the stiffness is measured at smaller strains than typically encountered in geotechnical applications. Experiments were conducted on a synthetic hard soil/ soft rock at different moisture contents using bender elements and compared to conventional unconfined compressive testing. Design curves were developed that allows a stiffness measured using bender element wave based methods to be scaled to any other intermediate strain.
Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud: I. Analysis of the single WN stars
Creators: name: Hainich, R.
name: Pasemann, D.
name: Todt, H.
name: Shenar, T.
name: Sander, A.
name: Hamann, W. -R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars have a severe impact on their environments owing to their strong ionizing radiation fields and powerful stellar winds. Since these winds are considered to be driven by radiation pressure, it is theoretically expected that the degree of the wind mass-loss depends on the initial metallicity of WR stars. Following our comprehensive studies of WR stars in the Milky Way, M31, and the LMC, we derive stellar parameters and mass-loss rates for all seven putatively single WN stars known in the SMC. Based on these data, we discuss the impact of a low-metallicity environment on the mass loss and evolution of WR stars. The quantitative analysis of the WN stars is performed with the Potsdam Wolf-Rayet (PoWR) model atmosphere code. The physical properties of our program stars are obtained from fitting synthetic spectra to multi-band observations. In all SMC WN stars, a considerable surface hydrogen abundance is detectable. The majority of these objects have stellar temperatures exceeding 75 kK, while their luminosities range from 10^5.5 to 10^6.1 Lsun. The WN stars in the SMC exhibit on average lower mass-loss rates and weaker winds than their counterparts in the Milky Way, M31, and the LMC. By comparing the mass-loss rates derived for WN stars in different Local Group galaxies, we conclude that a clear dependence of the wind mass-loss on the initial metallicity is evident, supporting the current paradigm that WR winds are driven by radiation. A metallicity effect on the evolution of massive stars is obvious from the HRD positions of the SMC WN stars at high temperatures and high luminosities. Standard evolution tracks are not able to reproduce these parameters and the observed surface hydrogen abundances. Homogeneous evolution might provide a better explanation for their evolutionary past.
description: 18+12 pages; 22+8 figures; accepted for publication in A&A
Directional Resolution of Dish Antenna Experiments to Search for WISPy Dark Matter
Creators: name: Jaeckel, Joerg
name: Knirck, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter consisting of very light and very weakly interacting particles such as axions, axion-like particles and hidden photons could be detected using reflective surfaces. On such reflectors some of the dark matter particles are converted into photons and, given a suitable geometry, concentrated on the detector. This technique offers sensitivity to the direction of the velocity of the dark matter particles. In this note we investigate how far spherical mirrors can concentrate the generated photons and what this implies for the resolution in directional detection as well as the sensitivity of discovery experiments not aiming for directional resolution. Finally we discuss an improved setup using a combination of a reflecting plane with focussing optics.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures; v2 updated references
The radial MASA in free orthogonal quantum groups
Creators: name: Freslon, Amaury
name: Vergnioux, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the radial subalgebra in free orthogonal quantum group factors is maximal abelian and mixing, and we compute the associated bimodule. The proof relies on new properties of the Jones-Wenzl projections and on an estimate of certain scalar products of coefficients of irreducible representations.
description: 20 pages ; v2 : minor improvements
Evaluation of long-term stability of caprock sealing under deep saline CO2 sequestration environment
Creators: name: JAYASEKARA, DINESHA WANIGARATHNA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil geotechnical engineering

description: CO2 sequestration in deep saline aquifers plays a vital role in reducing the atmospheric concentrations of anthropogenic CO2. The performance of caprock in deep saline aquifers is significant to reduce the risk of CO2 leakage into the fresh underground waterbodies. The aim of this study is therefore to obtain comprehensive knowledge of short- and long-term caprock integrity in deep saline CO2 sequestration environments. For that, the thesis includes advanced experimental and geochemical modeling analyses to reveal the chemical-hydro-mechanical behaviour of caprock due to CO2 sequestration.
USA Today/Gallup Poll: September Wave 1--2012 Elections/Economy/Obama's Jobs Bill
Creators: name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Barack Obama job performance (1); Congressional party performance (2); Obama vs. Republicans on influencing direction of nation (1); Obama and Congress handling problems (2); support for Republican nominees for president (1); Rick Perry vs. Mitt Romney (1); type of candidate for Republican nomination (1); Obama vs. Romney (2); Obama vs. Perry (2); voter enthusiasm (1); enthusiasm for particular candidates (3); economic recession (1); economic recovery (2); blame for economic problems (2); proposals to create jobs (6); proposals to pay for jobs bill (2); effectiveness of jobs bill (1); jobs bill to help economy (1); Obama vs. Republicans in improving economy (1); Obama vs. Republicans in creating jobs (1); success of breast cancer awareness efforts(1); justification in claiming focus on breast cancer takes away from other disease awareness programs (1); participation in breast cancer awareness/research efforts (4); experience with breast cancer (1); experience with other cancers (1); Obama vs. Bush (1); Obama vs. Clinton (1); Tea Party supporter (2).
Advanced Sensing Technologies for Rapid Condition Monitoring of Bridges:Theoretical Modelling,Numerical Simulation and Experimental Verification
Creators: name: TIAN, YONGDING
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Structural engineering

description: Bridge collapse accidents have occurred frequently in recent years due to traffic overload, material degradation and natural disasters. The aim of this PhD study is to develop advanced sensing technologies for efficient data collection and rapid dynamic identification of bridges. In this thesis, the feasibility of three kinds of sensing technologies including a soft robotic gripper for multipurpose robotics, energy harvester for wireless sensors and noncontact vision sensor for structural health monitoring was comprehensively investigated.
Comments on the paper: Optical reflectance, optical refractive index and optical conductivity measurements of nonlinear optics for L-aspartic acid nickel chloride single crystal
Creators: name: Srinivasan, Bikshandarkoil R.
name: Naik, Suvidha G.
name: Dhavskar, Kiran T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the L-aspartic acid nickel chloride crystal reported by the authors of the title paper (Optics Communications 2013) is actually the well-known diaqua(L-aspartato)nickel(II) hydrate crystal.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
CBS News Poll: Florida Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: CBS News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: 1988 presidential vote(1); reasons for candidate choice(2); degree of candidate support(2); vote to change or continue Reagan's policies(1); U.S. Senate vote(1); most important issue in choice for Senate(1); hypothetical presidential/vice-presidential vote(2); the economy(1).
Investigating the factors affecting bicycle-car crash severity at intersections using a combination of Newtonian Mechanics and statistical modelling
Creators: name: BAHROLOLOOM, SAREH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Transport engineering
Stochastic analysis and modelling

description: A limited number of studies have explored the dynamics of the crash to understand how particular crash scenarios led to more severe injury outcomes for bicyclists. This study addressed this knowledge gap through utilizing a conceptual framework to model the entire bicycle-car crash process. A combination of Newtonian Mechanics and statistical analysis was utilised to develop this theory. Results of this study showed that the addition of kinetic energy of the car before crash and the kinetic energy of the bicycle post-crash had a statistically significant effect on injury severity of bicyclist.
Structure and inference in annotated networks
Creators: name: Newman, M. E. J.
name: Clauset, Aaron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For many networks of scientific interest we know both the connections of the network and information about the network nodes, such as the age or gender of individuals in a social network, geographic location of nodes in the Internet, or cellular function of nodes in a gene regulatory network. Here we demonstrate how this "metadata" can be used to improve our analysis and understanding of network structure. We focus in particular on the problem of community detection in networks and develop a mathematically principled approach that combines a network and its metadata to detect communities more accurately than can be done with either alone. Crucially, the method does not assume that the metadata are correlated with the communities we are trying to find. Instead the method learns whether a correlation exists and correctly uses or ignores the metadata depending on whether they contain useful information. The learned correlations are also of interest in their own right, allowing us to make predictions about the community membership of nodes whose network connections are unknown. We demonstrate our method on synthetic networks with known structure and on real-world networks, large and small, drawn from social, biological, and technological domains.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Experimental, numerical, and analytical studies of self-healing and normal concrete subjected to alkali-silica reaction
Creators: name: ALLAHYARI, HAMED
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Structural engineering
Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
Construction engineering
Construction materials

description: In this work, experimental, analytical, and numerical studies of self-healing and normal concrete subjected to Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR), one of the most severe damages that concrete structures may experience during their service life, is investigated. Normal and self-healing mortar and concrete, containing percentages of healing agents and reactive aggregate with different sizes were manufactured. The samples were subjected to ASR tests, in which changes in length were measured periodically. Flexural and compressive tests were also carried out. Microstructural features of the specimens were evaluated. Analytical and numerical models were also developed to predict ASR-induced expansion in both normal self-healing concrete.
EURAKNOS Guida per l'Esplorazione delle Reti Tematiche
Creators: name: Spanoghe, Pieter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: thematic network
multi-actor approach
guides

description: The Explorer's Guide to Thematic Networks: Recommendations for high-impact TNs using the Multi-Actor Approach (Italian version)
description: Downloaded from EURAKNOS website for Zenodo upload
CBS News Poll: Illinois Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: CBS News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: 1988 presidential vote(1); reasons for candidate choice(2); degree of candidate support(2); hypothetical presidential/vice-presidential vote (2); vote to change or continue Reagan's policies(1); the presidential campaign(2); Governor Jim Thompson(1); hypothetical increase of Illinois income tax(1).
title: Risk Management of the “Belt and Road Initiative” Projects – An Empirical Study on Investments of the Chinese State- Owned-Banks in the Region
Creators: name: Kong, Lei
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis attempts to examine the current risk issues of state-owned banks for their involvement in the ‘Belt and Road’ projects, and to develop a unique risk management framework. It is found in the literature that financial policies and intermediaries play a fundamental role in cross-border investment and requires careful consideration of appropriate methods and regulation instruments, as cross-border investment always involves risks. Developing countries with relatively immature market systems may still need policy-based financial provision at the present stage. Together with an evaluation of traditional measures adopted by firms involved in OFDI, the study tries to identify the potential risk factors that affect BRI projects by looking at various contemporary risk factors. The investigation of the relations between SOBs and development finance that has been overlooked in the existing literature becomes the foundation of this research, whilst thorough evaluations are given to the challenging issues among these projects.

This research adopts qualitative research methods, in which the adoption of case studies and interviews as the primary approaches, combined with documentary analysis throughout the research process. The carefully selected cases and correspondent analysis of parallel comparisons provide essential clues for identifying, classifying and prioritizing the risk factors associated with the BRI project. This study aims to reveal the particularities of the state-owned investments of BRI project financing to achieve the research objectives by connecting the theoretical construction with risk management issues. This respect goes beyond the traditional perspective of overseas investment risk management as it endows the classical theory with specific implications under empirical evidence.
A procedure for the construction of non-stationary Riccati-type flows for incompressible 3D Navier-Stokes equations
Creators: name: Ershkov, Sergey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q30, 76D03, 76D05, 76D17

description: In fluid mechanics, a lot of authors have been executing their researches to obtain the analytical solutions of Navier-Stokes equations, even for 3D case of compressible gas flow or 3D case of non-stationary flow of incompressible fluid. But there is an essential deficiency of non-stationary solutions indeed. We explore the ansatz of derivation of non-stationary solution for the Navier-Stokes equations in the case of incompressible flow, which was suggested earlier. In general case, such a solution should be obtained from the mixed system of 2 Riccati ordinary differential equations (in regard to the time-parameter t). But we find an elegant way to simplify it to the proper analytical presentation of exact solution (such a solution is exponentially decreasing to zero for t going to infinity). Also it has to be specified that the solutions that are constructed can be considered as a class of perturbation absorbed exponentially as t going to infinity by the null solution.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure; this article is accepted for publication in "Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo". Keywords: Navier-Stokes equations, non-stationary incompressible flow, Riccati ODE
CBS News Poll: Indiana Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: CBS News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: 1988 presidential vote(1); degree of candidate support(2); reasons for candidate choice(2); hypothetical presidential/vice-presidential vote (2); vote to change or continue Reagan's policies(1); Dan Quayle(2); vote on Proposition #1(1); vote for Governor(1); 1988 senate vote(1).
Improved rainfall measurement using microwave links
Creators: name: PUDASHINE, JAYARAM
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Environmental assessment and monitoring

description: This thesis contributes to the global body of knowledge using commercial microwave links for rainfall retrieval and underpins the development of a more accurate operational rainfall measurement capability. This study develops a better understanding of the uncertainties associated with this measurement technique. It also proposes a methodology using a deep learning model to improve the rainfall estimates.
Anthurium scandens Engl.
Creators: name: MONRO, A. K.
name: SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D.
name: GONZÁLEZ, F.
name: CHACÓN, O.
name: SOLANO, D.
name: RODRÍGUEZ, A.
name: ZAMORA, N.
name: FEDELE, E.
name: CORREA, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Araceae
Anthurium
Anthurium scandens

description: Anthurium scandens (Aubl.) Engl.
Elotillo, Maicillo, Bejuco real, Kú+kitsa (Bribrí), Beritsúa (Térraba) (CR).
 Epiphytic herbs. Distribution in PILA 100–2700 m, low elevation mixed forest, mixed forest in transition to low elevation forest, mixed forest in transition to cloud forest, cloud forest, low elevation oak forest, high elevation oak forest. Global distribution: Mexico to Bolivia Brazil, Trinidad, Greater Antilles. Records: A. Fernández 1070 (CR, INB, MO), A.K. Monro 6007 (PMA), A. Rodríguez 11343 (BM, INB, PMA), K. Barringer 1622 (MO), T. Cochrane 6245 (MO), D. Solano 5080 (BM, INB, PMA), D. Solano 5209 (BM, INB, PMA), G. Davidse 25498 (MO), G. Herrera 5185 (INB, MO), L. Angulo 335 (INB, MO), M.A. Thomas 1676 (MO), M. Alfaro 29 (INB), N. Zamora 4125 (BM, INB, PMA), R. Villalobos 224 (INB).
description: Published as part of MONRO, A. K., SANTAMARÍA-AGUILAR, D., GONZÁLEZ, F., CHACÓN, O., SOLANO, D., RODRÍGUEZ, A., ZAMORA, N., FEDELE, E. & CORREA, M., 2017, A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 322 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.322.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13698397
Additional file 1 of Predictive factors of acute sensorineural hearing loss in adult Japanese patients for clinical application by primary care doctors: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Miwa, Toru
name: Yamaguchi, Tomoya
name: Kita, Shin-ichiro
name: Osaka, Kazuto
name: Kanai, Rie
name: Maetani, Toshiki
name: Kanemaru, Shin-ichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Demographics of patients with acute sensorineural hearing loss (N=365). Supplementary Table 2. Factors associated with perilymph fistula (N=365). Supplementary Table 3. Factors associated with acoustic tumour (N=365). Supplementary Table 4. P value for interaction between parameters for sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Supplementary Table 5. P value for interaction between parameters for acute low-tone sensorineural hearing loss. Supplementary Table 6. P value for interaction between parameters for Ménière’s disease. Supplementary Table 7. P value for interaction between parameters for perilymph fistula. Supplementary Table 8. P value for interaction between parameters for acoustic tumour.
Temperature Measurement during Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts with BeppoSAX
Creators: name: Beri, Aru
name: Paul, Biswajit
name: Orlandini, Mauro
name: Maitra, Chandreyee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out a study of temperature evolution during thermonuclear bursts in LMXBs using broad band data from two instruments onboard BeppoSAX, the MECS and the PDS. However, instead of applying the standard technique of time resolved spectroscopy, we have determined the temperature in small time intervals using the ratio of count rates in the two instruments assuming a blackbody nature of burst emission and different interstellar absorption for different sources. Data from a total of twelve observations of six sources were analysed during which 22 bursts were detected. We have obtained temperatures as high as ~3.0 keV, even when there is no evidence of photospheric radius expansion. These high temperatures were observed in the sources within different broadband spectral states (soft and hard).
description: To appear in New Astronomy
CBS News Poll: Maryland Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: CBS News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: 1988 presidential vote(1); degree of candidate support(2); reasons for candidate choice(2); hypothetical presidential/vice-presidential vote (2); vote to change or continue Reagan's policies(1); U.S. Senate vote (1); vote on sale and manufacture of handguns(1); Willie Horton(1).
Additional file 1 of Public trust in physicians: empirical analysis of patient-related factors affecting trust in physicians in China
Creators: name: Li, Changle
name: Khan, M. Mahmud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Appendix Table 1. Estimated conditional marginal effect of specific general factors on complete trust in physicians.
Revealing Fundamental Physics from the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment using Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Racah, Evan
name: Ko, Seyoon
name: Sadowski, Peter
name: Bhimji, Wahid
name: Tull, Craig
name: Oh, Sang-Yun
name: Baldi, Pierre
name: Prabhat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments in particle physics produce enormous quantities of data that must be analyzed and interpreted by teams of physicists. This analysis is often exploratory, where scientists are unable to enumerate the possible types of signal prior to performing the experiment. Thus, tools for summarizing, clustering, visualizing and classifying high-dimensional data are essential. In this work, we show that meaningful physical content can be revealed by transforming the raw data into a learned high-level representation using deep neural networks, with measurements taken at the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment as a case study. We further show how convolutional deep neural networks can provide an effective classification filter with greater than 97% accuracy across different classes of physics events, significantly better than other machine learning approaches.
CBS News/New York Times Poll: Omnibus-August, 1980
Creators: name: CBS News
name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1982

description: Carter's performance in general and in respect to foreign policy, the economy and the Iranian crisis; opinion of various possible presidential candidates; choice for Democratic nominee and presidential candidate and firmness of decision; Kennedy vs. Reagan vs. Anderson for President; Mondale vs. Reagan vs. Anderson for President; Muskie vs. Reagan vs. Anderson for President; Jackson vs. Reagan vs. Anderson for President; Carter vs. Reagan for President; 1976 presidential vote; attention paid to 1980 presidential campaign; last election exercised voted; intentions to vote; Carter's honesty and integrity; most important problem facing the country and Republican vs. Democratic handling of that problem; party differences; Republican vs. Democratic ability to handle inflation, unemployment, U.S. peace and government management; presidential aggressiveness in foreign policy as detriment to war; Democratic and Republican party ideology; importance of inflation vs. unemployment; Democratic party rule regarding committed votes; wage/price limits; government job program; government control of oil and gas prices; ERA; abortion amendment; 55mph speed limit; balancing the budget and cutting taxes; U.S. vs. USSR military strength; increased military spending resulting in increased federal deficit; various issues influencing presidential vote choice for house of Representatives; Protection of unborn children under the constitution; concerns regarding Carter and/or Reagan as President; Potential for Carter and/or Reagan to engage U.S. in war; Congress and Congressional Representative's performance; Knowledge of Congressman's party(ies) and plans to re-elect; abortion; Billy Carter's Libyan connection and Jimmy Carter's responsibility; family's financial situation as compared to a year ago; viewing of Reagan acceptance speech at Republican Convention; duration of residency; political ideology.
CBS News/New York Times Poll: Omnibus-March, 1980
Creators: name: CBS News
name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1982

description: Carter's performance in general and in respect to foreign policy, the economy, Soviet relations and the Iranian crisis; opinion of various possible presidential candidates; preference for Democratic and Republican presidential candidates; degree of support for, and reasons for choice of, presidential candidate; least liked Democratic and Republican candidate; knowledge of Reagan's age; Chappaquiddick; most important problem facing the nation; government spending on military and defense and domestic programs; leadership ability and ideology of Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Edward Kennedy, George Bush, John Anderson and Gerald Ford; former President most like to see in office now; gas rationing; national health insurance; ERA; building nuclear power plants; wage and price limits; Kennedy/Carter and wage and price limits; preference for small or large government; military action to protect oil supplies; government attention to needs of Blacks; Iranian hostages; Carter's "stay at home" campaign; responsibility for inflation; impact of rising prices; a President's control of inflation; trust in government; modification of Republican party's conservatism to broaden political base; Ford's performance in respect in respect to the economy; Carter vs. Reagan, Bush, Anderson and Ford; family financial situation as compared to a year ago; Ford vs. Reagan in 1976; new gasoline tax to control inflation and conserve energy; knowledge of Carter's inflation proposals; attention paid to 1980 presidential campaign; political ideology.
Numerical radiative transfer with state-of-the-art iterative methods made easy
Creators: name: Lambert, J.
name: Paletou, F.
name: Josselin, E.
name: Glorian, J. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article presents an on-line tool (rttools.irap.omp.eu) and its accompanying software ressources for the numerical solution of basic radiation transfer out of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). State-of-the-art stationary iterative methods such as Accelerated $Λ$-Iteration and Gauss-Seidel schemes, using a short characteristics-based formal solver are used. We also comment on typical numerical experiments associated to the basic non-LTE radiation problem. These ressources are intended for the largest use and benefit, in support to more classical radiation transfer lectures usually given at the Master level.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for Eur. J. Phys. - see also (and use!) http://rttools.irap.omp.eu
Projektabschluss und -weiterführung
Creators: name: v. Münchhausen, Susanne
name: Häring, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Praxis-Leitfaden
Multiakteursprojekt
Innovation
Ko-Innovation
Landwirtschaft
Capacity Buildling

description: This poster presents the German How-to-Guides of the LIAISON. Moreover, it highlights the role of project legacy, which means an ending project feeds into or is continued by a subsequent project; and the role of project families, which represents the mutual communication between and cooperation of related projects active at the same time. LIAISON and EUREKA will feed into EU-FarmBook that started in August 2022, and the new Horizon Europe project PREMIERE will cooperate closely with EU-FarmBook.
description: Das Poster wurde auf dem Jahrestreffen der Operationellen Gruppen in Deutschland vorgestellt und die gedruckten Leitfäden verteilt.
Additional file 1 of Navigating uncertain illness trajectories for young children with serious infectious illness: a modified grounded theory study
Creators: name: Neill, Sarah
name: Bray, Lucy
name: Carter, Bernie
name: Roland, Damian
name: Carrol, Enitan D.
name: Bayes, Natasha
name: Riches, Lucie
name: Hughes, Joanne
name: Pandey, Poornima
name: O’Donnell, Jennifer
name: Palmer-Hill, Sue
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: S1 Fig. Navigating uncertain illness trajectories for young children with serious infectious illness: Documentary analysis report
Los Angeles Times Poll: Politics/2002 California Elections
Creators: name: Los Angeles Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Direction of California (1); Vote for Simon or Davis (2); Why vote for candidate (2); vote for other offices (7); Ballot initiatives (6); Impression of Gray Davis (1); Impression of Bill Simon (1); Simon or Davis better at handling the issues (5); Simon or Davis a stronger leader (1); values of Simon and Davis (1); Candidate with more honesty/integrity (1); Knows more about California (1); Negative campaigning (1); Approve/disapprove of Davis policies (2); Interest in election (1); First time voter (1); Intention to vote (1); Absentee ballot (1); March open primary (1); Voted in 2000 presidential election (1); Voted in 1998 gubernatorial election (1); Gray Davis job rating (4); Gray Davis a decisive leader (1).
Los Angeles Times Poll: Economy/George W. Bush/Threat of War Against Iraq
Creators: name: Los Angeles Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2003

description: George W. Bush job performance (1); Direction of country (1); Priorities for president and congress (1); Bush handling of issues (4); Congress job performance (1); Economy (6); Personal finances (1); Holiday spending (1); voter registration 91); Re-elect Bush in 2004 (1); Which party better handle issues (7); Bush nominations to Supreme court (2); Abortion (2); Tax cutes (7); Bush more/less partisan than past presidents (1); One party in control good/bad (1); Privatizing social security (2); Bush policy on terrorism (1); Department of homeland security (1); Give up some civil liberties to keep safe from terrorism (3); Bush advisors' view on Iraq (1); War with Iraq (8); Follow news about Iraq (1); Weapons declaration (1); Iraq developing weapons of mass destruction (2); Why attack Iraq (2); U.N. find/not find weapons in Iraq (2); Support ground attack (2); Stay and rebuild Iraq (1); Impression of U.N. (1); Saudi Arabia (1); War protesters not loyal Americans (1);
CNN/ORC Poll: Economy/Federal Budget/Libya
Creators: name: CNN
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Barack Obama job performance (1); Obama political leaning (1); Obama handling Libya (1); Obama handling Arab countries (1); confidence in politicians (1); favorability of various people (9); opinion of American Muslims (1); impression of Islam (1); economy rating (1); gas prices causing hardship (2); gas price increase likelihood (1); Strategic Petroleum Reserve (1); local mosque (1); labor disputes (1); healthcare bill approval (2); preferred budget reduction methods (1); government shutdown (3); Libya situation concern (1); no-fly zone (2); arming rebels (1); ground troops (1); removing Moammar Gadhafi (1); United States leading role in Libya (1); Libyan success (1); election enthusiasm (1); party affiliation (2); presidential candidate preferences (3); democratic nomination (1); government spending estimates (10); spending changes (10); Obama citizenship (1); Charlie Sheen winning (1).