cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cobweb posets as noncommutative prefabs
Creators: name: Kwasniewski, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05C20, 11C08, 17B56

description: A class of new type graded infinite posets with minimal element are considered. These so called cobweb posets introduced recently by the present author provide a wide range of new noncommutative prefab combinatorial schema with characteristic graded subposets as primes. The schema are defined here via relaxing commutativity and associativity requirements imposed on the composition of prefabs by the fathers of this fertile concept. The construction and the very first basic properties of cobweb prefabs are pointed out in what follows. An another single valued commutative amd associative composision is also considered.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Growth of a manor house: the early history of Warcop Hall, 1580-1745
Creators: name: Blackett-Ord, Mark
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 20, 137-150
description: Warcop Hall, four miles south of Appleby, is a Grade II* listed secular building. It was the residential manor house of Warcop from c. 1580 until the 1950s, when it was sold to the War Department and its estate dispersed. Superficially, it is late Elizabethan, early Georgian and mid-Victorian. This article is a study of its first phase, c. 1580 to 1745, and suggests that the late Tudor western part (the only part that survives from that time) was built probably in 1580, altered c. 1622-40, and substantially rebuilt in the 1670s and again in 1744-45. There are almost no documents, so the history has been assembled mainly from a study of the building itself and of the varying fortunes of its owners.
title: Flexure hinge-based lens manipulators: a concept survey
Creators: name: Erbe, Torsten
name: Linß, Sebastian
Publisher: name: ilmedia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 620

description: A typical, but still challenging application of compliant mechanisms with flexure hinges are lens manipulators. Especially in high precision optical systems those are common means to correct optical imaging errors. The requirements for lens manipulators with respect to the resolution of motion are in the order of nanometres and nanoradians. The kinematic concepts and embodiment considerations of manipulators are proprietary knowledge of the companies using them and there is almost no literature about general design considerations available. However, general kinematic principles can be found in patents and used to compare their underlying compliant mechanisms. Therefore, this paper presents a survey of certain kinematic manipulator concepts based on existing patents. The resolution and range of motion of the manipulators are estimated and put into perspective in the context of lens manipulation. The comparison of identified kinematic concepts is used to emphasize aspects of practical implementation and embodiment design of flexure hinges in lens manipulators. The findings are discussed with respect to the bending-torsion-stiffness ratio of flexure hinges and compliant mechanisms.
description: Engineering for a changing world: Proceedings : 60th ISC, Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium, Technische Universität Ilmenau, September 04-08, 2023
Multi-level Cross-modal Interaction Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
Creators: name: Huang, Zhou
name: Chen, Huai-Xin
name: Zhou, Tao
name: Yang, Yun-Zhi
name: Liu, Bi-Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Depth cues with affluent spatial information have been proven beneficial in boosting salient object detection (SOD), while the depth quality directly affects the subsequent SOD performance. However, it is inevitable to obtain some low-quality depth cues due to limitations of its acquisition devices, which can inhibit the SOD performance. Besides, existing methods tend to combine RGB images and depth cues in a direct fusion or a simple fusion module, which makes they can not effectively exploit the complex correlations between the two sources. Moreover, few methods design an appropriate module to fully fuse multi-level features, resulting in cross-level feature interaction insufficient. To address these issues, we propose a novel Multi-level Cross-modal Interaction Network (MCINet) for RGB-D based SOD. Our MCI-Net includes two key components: 1) a cross-modal feature learning network, which is used to learn the high-level features for the RGB images and depth cues, effectively enabling the correlations between the two sources to be exploited; and 2) a multi-level interactive integration network, which integrates multi-level cross-modal features to boost the SOD performance. Extensive experiments on six benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of our MCI-Net over 14 state-of-the-art methods, and validate the effectiveness of different components in our MCI-Net. More important, our MCI-Net significantly improves the SOD performance as well as has a higher FPS.
title: Plasma Polymerization of Vegetable Oils onto Paper Substrates of Varying Porosity for Improved Hydrophobicity
Creators: name: Loesch‐Zhang, Amelia
name: Bellmann, Martin
name: Lachmann, Kristina
name: Biesalski, Markus
name: Geissler, Andreas
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2025

description: Paper finishing, in particular, coating paper with desired barrier functions is well‐developed as of today. However, due to large amounts of material and process energy as well as the use of non‐renewable resources for such coatings, common technologies are not sustainable. Given the increasing importance of paper in manifold applications, more sustainable routes with low‐energy processes as well as biogenic material alternatives are highly needed. To address this challenge, a solvent‐free and material‐efficient approach is proposed to bio‐based paper coatings by depositing chia oil‐based plasma polymers using a jet‐induced sliding discharge concept at atmospheric pressure. Depending on the amount of coating and the paper porosity, this treatment retards water absorption. Coating visualization is enabled through confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Like chia oil, safflower oil, and olive oil show the ability to hydrophobize paper and the great potential within plasma polymerized vegetable oils to make the paper coating more sustainable.
title: Организация и содержание практик при подготовке магистров по направлению 210700 - Инфокоммуникационные технологии и системы связи
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2012

description: Учебное пособие подготовлено и составлено с учетом требований ФГОС ВПО и ПрООП ВПО третьего поколения для подготовки магистров по направлению 210700 – Инфокоммуникационные технологии и системы связи. В учебном плане данного образовательного направления предусмотрено проведение трех видов практик: производственная, педагогическая и научно-исследовательская. В пособии подробно рассмотрены особенности организация, содержания и проведения отмеченных видов практик. Пособие ориентировано не только на студентов-магистрантов, но и на научных руководителей магистров и структурные подразделения вузов, обеспечивающих организацию практик для студентов.
Additional file 2 of KAML: improving genomic prediction accuracy of complex traits using machine learning determined parameters
Creators: name: Lilin Yin
name: Haohao Zhang
name: Zhou, Xiang
name: Xiaohui Yuan
name: Shuhong Zhao
name: Xinyun Li
name: Liu, Xiaolei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2. Review history.
title: Передача пакетного трафика по транспортным сетям последующих поколений
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2010

description: Изложены принципы передачи трафика по базовым транспортным сетям последующих поколений между сетями с коммутацией пакетов. Рассмотрены необходимые для этого процедуры: формирование из поступающих потоков унифицированных кадров (GFP), использование виртуальных сцепок (VCAT) и динамическое регулирование пропускной способности каналов (LCAS). Пособие предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по специальностям 210401 «Физика и техника оптической связи», 210404 «Многоканальные телекоммуникационные системы» и 210406 «Сети связи и системы коммутации» по направлению 210400 «Телекоммуникации», но может быть использовано и при изучении соответствующих разделов курсов других специальностей и направлений.
Feststellung sonderpädagogischen Unterstützungsbedarfs im Schwerpunkt Geistige Entwicklung - Prozessstandards zur schulischen Diagnostik zur Diskussion gestellt
Creators: name: Dworschak, Wolfgang
name: Baysel, Katharina
name: Hackl, Karin
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: geistige Behinderung, adaptives Verhalten, Intelligenz, Feststellungsdiagnostik, Zugangsvoraussetzungen
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Der Beitrag stellt Prozessstandards zur Feststellung des sonderpädagogischen Schwerpunkts Geistige Entwicklung vor und zur Diskussion. Diese intendieren ein gut strukturiertes und transparentes Verfahren zur Feststellung des sonderpädagogischen Schwerpunktes Geistige Entwicklung. Im Zentrum stehen das adaptive und kognitive Funktionsniveau als Kernkriterien, die unter Berücksichtigung moderierender Variablen und Kontextfaktoren eine fundierte Zuschreibung des Schwerpunkts Geistige Entwicklung ermöglichen. Die Standards sollen insgesamt zu mehr Handlungssicherheit in einem von Herausforderungen geprägten Prozess führen. Besondere Herausforderungen stellen die Heterogenität des Personenkreises, die individuellen Zugangs- und Testvoraussetzungen der Kinder und Jugendlichen sowie der Umgang mit divergenten Befunden dar.
Towards Automatic building of Human-Machine Conversational System to support Maintenance Processes
Creators: name: Coli, Elena
name: Melluso, Nicola
name: Fantoni, Gualtiero
name: Mazzei, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Companies are dealing with many cognitive changes with the introduction of the Industry 4.0 paradigm. In this constantly changing environment, knowledge management is a key factor. Dialog systems, being able to hold a conversation with humans, could support the knowledge management in business environment. Although, these systems are currently hand-coded and need the intervention of a human being in writing all the possible questions and answers, and then planning the interactions. This process, besides being time-consuming, is not scalable. Conversely, a dialog system, also referred to as chatbot, can be built from scratch by simply extracting rules from technical documentation. So, the goal of this research is designing a methodology for automatic building of human-machine conversational system, able to interact in an industrial environment. An initial taxonomy, containing entities expected to be found in maintenance manuals, is used to identify the relevant sentences of a manual provided by the company BOBST SA and applying text mining techniques, it is automatically expanded. The final result is a taxonomy network representing the entities and their relation, that will be used in future works for managing the interactions of a maintenance chatbot.
The Impact of Certification on Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Kenya: The case of ‘UTZ’ certification program
Creators: name: Kamau, Mercy W.
name: Mose, Lawrence Obae
name: Fort, Ricardo
name: Ruben, Ruerd
name: Kamau, Mercy W.
name: Mose, Lawrence Obae
name: Fort, Ricardo
name: Ruben, Ruerd
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Increased awareness among coffee consumers of the impact of their consumption habits on the people and environment in coffee producing countries has resulted to implementation of certification programs in the coffee sector as an assurance of good practices in production and marketing of coffee. The UTZ certificate was the first to be introduced in the Kenyan coffee industry and this study provides the first quantitative assessment of its impact on smallholder farmers. The propensity score matching technique was used because it solves the ‘selection bias’ problem in assessment of the impact of development programs. The impact of the certification program differed between the two regions where it is being implemented probably due to the differences in bio-economic characteristics. Overall, the impact of the program ranges from higher coffee prices and coffee incomes, increased access to greater amounts of credit for agricultural purposes, increased incomes from other crop enterprises or off-farm activities, greater savings by households and increased investments on land. UTZ certification also resulted to better service provision by the cooperative societies. The perception by certified households that their economic situation has not changed may be attributed to the short period that the certification program has been in existence and also to the reference period (2008) which was a difficult year in Kenya due to the post election and economic crises.
Additional file 1 of Engaging stakeholders in the adaptation of the Connect for Health pediatric weight management program for national implementation
Creators: name: Simione, Meg
name: Frost, Holly M.
name: Cournoyer, Rachel
name: Mini, Fernanda Neri
name: Cassidy, Jackie
name: Craddock, Cassie
name: Moreland, Jennifer
name: Wallace, Jessica
name: Metlay, Joshua
name: Kistin, Caroline J.
name: Sease, Kerry
name: Hambidge, Simon J.
name: Taveras, Elsie M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional File 1: Connect for Health Clinician Interview Guide. Description of data: This supplemental file contains questions used to guide interviews with clinicians prior to program implementation across sites.
Induction Models on \mathbb{N}
Creators: name: Dileep, A.
name: Meel, Kuldeep S.
name: Sabili, Ammar F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mathematical induction is a fundamental tool in computer science and mathematics. Henkin initiated the study of formalization of mathematical induction restricted to the setting when the base case B is set to singleton set containing 0 and a unary generating function S. The usage of mathematical induction often involves wider set of base cases and k-ary generating functions with different structural restrictions. While subsequent studies have shown several Induction Models to be equivalent, there does not exist precise logical characterization of reduction and equivalence among different Induction Models. In this paper, we generalize the definition of Induction Model and demonstrate existence and construction of S for given B and vice versa. We then provide a formal characterization of the reduction among different Induction Models that can allow proofs in one Induction Models to be expressed as proofs in another Induction Models. The notion of reduction allows us to capture equivalence among Induction Models.
description: 22 pages. This is the full version of the paper published in proceedings of International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR), 2020
title: Учебно-методическое пособие по выполнению курсового проекта по дисциплине Планирование на предприятии
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2016

description: Выполнение курсового проекта по дисциплине «Планирование на предприятии» направлено на формирование таких компетенций, как способность осуществлять сбор, анализ и обработку данных, необходимых для решения профессиональных задач (ОПК-2); способность собрать и проанализировать исходные данные, необходимые для расчета экономических и социально-экономических показателей, характеризующих деятельность хозяйствующих субъектов (ПК-1); способность на основе типовых методик и действующей нормативно-правовой базы рассчитать экономические и социально-экономические показатели, характеризующие деятельность хозяйствующих субъектов (ПК-2); способность выполнять необходимые для составления экономических разделов планов расчеты, обосновывать их и представлять результаты работы в соответствии с принятыми в организации стандартами (ПК-3).
America's Diverse Family Farms: 2010 Edition
Creators: name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: Banker, David E.
name: MacDonald, James M.
name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: Banker, David E.
name: MacDonald, James M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Family farms
subject: farm businesses
subject: farm financial performance
subject: farm-operator household income
subject: farm operators
subject: farm structure
subject: farm type
subject: Government payments
subject: limited-resource farms
subject: small farms
subject: ERS
subject: USDA

description: American farms vary widely in size and other characteristics, but farming is still an industry of family businesses. Ninety-eight percent of farms are family farms, and they account for 82 percent of farm production. Small family farms make up most of the U.S. farm count and hold the majority of farm assets, but they produce a modest share of U.S. farm output. In contrast, large-scale family farms and nonfamily farms—only 12 percent of all farms—account for 84 percent of farm production. Small farms are less profitable than large-scale farms, on average, and the households operating them tend to rely on off-farm income for their livelihood. Because small-farm households receive most of their income from off-farm work, general economic policies—such as tax policy or economic development policy—can be as important to them as traditional farm policy.
title: Сборник задач по дисциплине Помехоустойчивое кодирование. Часть 2
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2011

description: Предлагаемый сборник задач является учебным пособием по курсу «Помехоустойчивое кодирование». Книга содержит задачи для самостоятельного решения, а также и справочные сведения, необходимые для теоретической подготовки. Книга дополняет ранее изданный сборник задач по тематическим разделам курса: декодирование свёрточных кодов, коды Рида-Соломона, турбокоды. Для студентов радиотехнических и телекоммуникационных специальностей.
title: Basic considerations for circumferential adhesive bonds in order to reduce lens deformations
Creators: name: Erbe, Torsten
Publisher: name: ilmedia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 620

description: A critical aspect of designing lens mounts is to minimize lens deformation, since shape and position of the optical elements determine the performance of an optical system. The mounting of the lens to the lens-cell is a major contributor to lens deformation and therefore of particular interest during the design – of the lens-mount as well as the lens itself. A common technology used for lens mounting is the circumferential adhesive bonding. The adhesive system of lens-cell, lens, selected adhesive has been discussed in the literature predominantly focussing in minimizing forces on the lens at different temperatures by defining a optimized glue gap. However, these models are not always applicable due to volume constraints, technological restrictions and/or the different dimensions of lenses. Therefore this paper will focus on minimization of the effect of these forces by the design of the adhesive bond rather than reducing the amount of force itself. By applying straight robust design principles a rather simple way to minimize lens deformation for common lens mount concepts will be presented. A model to calculate the forces of a circumferential bond towards a lens will be presented. It will be pointed out how the position and shape of the circumferential adhesive bond can be optimized in order to minimize lens deformation due to forces transferred via the glue.
description: Engineering for a changing world: Proceedings : 60th ISC, Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium, Technische Universität Ilmenau, September 04-08, 2023
Security of Widows’ Access to Land in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia
Creators: name: Chapoto, Antony
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Chapoto, Antony
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Mason, Nicole M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: HIV/AIDS
subject: Zambia
subject: land

description: Beyond the obvious catastrophic effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on mortality, demographic changes, and the suffering of individuals and their families, we are still only learning about the complex longer-term effects of the pandemic on poverty and vulnerability. For example, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has substantially increased the number of widow-headed households in Africa. A huge number of conceptual and qualitative studies highlight gender inequalities in property rights, and the difficulties that widows and their dependents face in retaining access to land after the death of their husbands. HIV/AIDS has undoubtedly exacerbated such problems. However, there remains limited quantitative evidence using representative survey data on the extent to which widows lose their rights to land after the death of their husbands, whether they lose all or part of the land they were formerly controlling, and whether there are certain characteristics of the widow, her deceased husband, and/or her household that influence the likelihood of her losing land rights. It is highly possible that government programs designed to provide a safety net to vulnerable groups may not reach their potential if they ignore gender dimensions of local institutions and property rights.
title: Построение и исследование схем дискретной логики, используемых при создании помехоустойчивых кодеков (схемы умножения и деления полиномов, а также генератора псевдослучайных последовательностей)
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2014

description: Целью работы является изучение принципа построения и работы схем дискретной логики, используемых при создании помехоустойчивых кодеков.
title: Essays on the link between pollution and local financial products
Creators: name: Ramadan, Moustafa
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: Our thesis consists of three studies. Our first study focused on the 
impact of water pollution and municipal bonds issued by county authorities 
in the United States. Using the Toxic Release Inventory database, we used 
a measurement of toxicity and environmental impact to quantify the yearly 
level of pollution and found a correlation between the quantity, impact and 
toxicity of the chemicals and the yield of the bond issuances. To 
demonstrate causality, we used difference in difference around local green 
chemistry laws.
Our second study focused on chemical accidents. To our knowledge, 
this is the first study investigating the impact of chemical accidents and 
leaks on cities. Using the toxicity and environmental impact figures 
developed earlier, we studied how accidents in industrial facilities could 
increase the yield of city-level municipal bonds issuances. We also analysed 
the impact of medical monitoring laws on the distribution of risk between the 
public and private sectors and found that cities within medical monitoring
states tend to suffer a smaller impact to their yield when accidents occur. 
We also found that these medical monitoring laws transfer the risk of 
accidents to the corporate bond issues of the owners and operators of the 
facilities where the accidents occur.
Our third study focused on what entrepreneurs can do to reduce 
pollution. We investigated the relationship between green start-ups and air 
pollution, by creating a global dataset of start-ups and cities. We then 
examined how these start-ups impacted air quality and found that the 
cumulative number of green start-ups drove down the number of PM2.5. We
also performed a sub-sectoral analysis to identify which start-ups had the 
greatest impact on reducing air pollution. We found that green start-ups do 
reduce the level of air-pollution in urban centres, especially those related to 
material science and green energy.
Understanding the MiniBooNE and the muon and electron $g-2$ anomalies with a light $Z'$ and a second Higgs doublet
Creators: name: Abdallah, Waleed
name: Gandhi, Raj
name: Roy, Samiran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two of the most widely studied extensions of the Standard Model (SM) are $a)$ the addition of a new $U(1)$ symmetry to its existing gauge groups, and $b)$ the expansion of its scalar sector to incorporate a second Higgs doublet. We show that when combined, they allow us to understand the electron-like event excess seen in the MiniBooNE (MB) experiment as well as account for the observed anomalous values of the muon magnetic moment. A light $Z'$ associated with an additional $U(1)$ coupled to baryons and to the dark sector, with flavor non-universal couplings to leptons, in conjunction with a second Higgs doublet is capable of explaining the MB excess. The $Z'$ obtains its mass from a dark singlet scalar, which mixes with the two Higgs doublets. Choosing benchmark parameter values, we show that $U(1)_{B-3L_τ}$, which is anomaly-free, and $U(1)_B$, both provide (phenomenologically) equally good solutions to the excess. We also point out the other (anomaly-free) $U(1)$ choices that may be possible upon fuller exploration of the parameter space. We obtain very good matches to the energy and angular distributions for neutrinos and anti-neutrinos in MB. The extended Higgs sector has two light CP-even scalars, $h'$ and $H$, and their masses and couplings are such that in principle, both contribute to help explain the MB excess as well as the present observed values of the muon and electron $g-2$. We discuss the constraints on our model as well as future tests. Our work underlines the role that light scalars may play in understanding present-day low-energy anomalies. It also points to the possible existence of portals to the dark sector, i.e., a light gauge boson field $(Z')$ and a dark neutrino which mixes with the active neutrinos, as well as a dark sector light scalar which mixes with the extended Higgs sector.
description: 42 pages, 9 figures and 1 table. Section IV C has been added for explaining the electron g-2 anomaly, version published in JHEP
Raising the Productivity of Public Investments in Zambia’s Agricultural Sector.
Creators: name: Govereh, Jones
name: Shawa, Julius J.
name: Malawo, Emma
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
name: Govereh, Jones
name: Shawa, Julius J.
name: Malawo, Emma
name: Jayne, Thomas S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: Zambia
subject: public investment

description: Agriculture provides the main support for Zambia’s rural economy, and because of this, growth in the agricultural sector is the clearest avenue through which poverty reduction can be achieved in Zambia. Yet despite widespread recognition of the strong connection between agricultural development and poverty reduction, there is continuing under-provision of public goods investments for over a decade. Zambia’s primary policy objective of achieving accelerated growth and competitiveness in the agricultural sector cannot be achieved unless adequate public resources are committed towards catalyzing the desired growth. Strong evidence from southern Africa as well as throughout the world indicates that long–term public investment in research and development, extension services, rural infrastructure, and food safety and quality systems have high pay-offs and are among the most important drivers of agricultural growth and competitiveness. Agricultural-led development has been identified by African Heads of State and Governments as key to restoration of food security and rural development on our continent. Under the African Union’s Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Program (CAADP) framework, Zambia, like many other members of the union, has targeted to achieve a minimum of 6% annual agricultural growth by making available 10% of the national budget towards the sector. In Zambia, it is important not only to increase the resource allocation to the sector in accordance with the CAADP target of 10%, but to allocate these resources productively so as to make the maximum contribution to sustainable growth within the shortest possible time. This paper examines trends in Zambia’s public budgeting for agriculture and the composition of the budget. This report does not cover tax expenditures by the government, private sector expenditures, and support from donors. Support from development partners channeled through government programs is included in the report. The report covers approved budget allocations and compares approved expenditures with actual expenditures.
Information Token Driven Machine Learning for Electronic Markets: Performance Effects in Behavioral Financial Big Data Analytics
Creators: name: Samuel, Jim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Conjunct with the universal acceleration in information growth, financial services have been immersed in an evolution of information dynamics. It is not just the dramatic increase in volumes of data, but the speed, the complexity and the unpredictability of big-data phenomena that have compounded the challenges faced by researchers and practitioners in financial services. Math, statistics and technology have been leveraged creatively to create analytical solutions. Given the many unique characteristics of financial bid data (FBD) it is necessary to gain insights into strategies and models that can be used to create FBD specific solutions. Behavioral finance data, a subset of FBD, is seeing exponential growth and this presents an unprecedented opportunity to study behavioral finance employing big data analytics methodologies. The present study maps machine learning (ML) techniques and behavioral finance categories to explore the potential for using ML techniques to address behavioral aspects in FBD. The ontological feasibility of such an approach is presented and the primary purpose of this study is propositioned- ML based behavioral models can effectively estimate performance in FBD. A simple machine learning algorithm is successfully employed to study behavioral performance in an artificial stock market to validate the propositions. Keywords: Information; Big Data; Electronic Markets; Analytics; Behavior
description: Post-print, to be cited as (APA): Samuel, J. (2017). Information Token Driven Machine Learning for Electronic Markets: Performance Effects in Behavioral Financial Big Data Analytics. JISTEM-Journal of Information Systems and Technology Management, 14(3), 371-383
Pseudodifferential operators on ultrametric spaces and ultrametric wavelets
Creators: name: Khrennikov, A. Yu.
name: Kozyrev, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A family of orthonormal bases, the ultrametric wavelet bases, is introduced in quadratically integrable complex valued functions spaces for a wide family of ultrametric spaces. A general family of pseudodifferential operators, acting on complex valued functions on these ultrametric spaces is introduced. We show that these operators are diagonal in the introduced ultrametric wavelet bases, and compute the corresponding eigenvalues. We introduce the ultrametric change of variable, which maps the ultrametric spaces under consideration onto positive half-line, and use this map to construct non-homogeneous generalizations of wavelet bases.
description: 19 pages, LaTeX
Pseudo-Hermitian approach to energy-dependent Klein-Gordon models
Creators: name: Znojil, Miloslav
name: Bila, Hynek
name: Jakubsky, Vit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relativistic Klein-Gordon system is studied as an illustration of Quantum Mechanics using non-Hermitian operators as observables. A version of the model is considered containing a generic coordinate- and energy-dependent phenomenological mass-term $m^2(E,x)$. We show how similar systems may be assigned a pair of the linear, energy-independent left- and right-acting Hamiltonians with quasi-Hermiticity property and, hence, with the standard probabilistic interpretation.
description: 2nd Int. Workshop "Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics" (http://gemma.ujf.cas.cz/~znojil/conf)
ERON YADROVIY DASTURI ERON AMERIKA MUNOSABATLARIDA.
Creators: name: O'lmasov, Sardorbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Eron Islom Respublikasi, 1950-yillardan boshlab atom energiyasidan tinch maqsadlarda, energiya ishlab chiqarish uchun rivojlantirmoqdamiz deb aytib keladi. Dunyo hamjamiyati esa Eron atom quroli ishlab chiqarish dasturini ishlab chiqmoqda deb, Eronning ushbu davolariga shubha bilan qaraydi. Eron rasmiylari ushbu yo'nalishda amalga oshirilayotgan faoliyatlarining maqsadi elektr energiyasi ishlab chiqarish va yadro energiyasidan tinch maqsadlarda foydalanish ekanligini ta'kidlaydilar. Biroq, ko’p davlatlar ushbu bayonotga shubha bilan qaramoqda. Maqolada Eronning yadro dasturi bo’yicha ma’lumotlar va xulosalar berib o’tilgan.
The Relationship between Class I and Class II Methanol Masers
Creators: name: Ellingsen, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Australia Telescope National Facility Mopra millimetre telescope has been used to search for 95.1-GHz class I methanol masers towards sixty-two 6.6-GHz class II methanol masers. A total of twenty-six 95.1-GHz masers were detected, eighteen of these being new discoveries. Combining the results of this search with observations reported in the literature, a near complete sample of sixty-six 6.6-GHz class II methanol masers has been searched in the 95.1-GHz transition, with detections towards 38 per cent (twenty-five detections ; not all of the sources studied in this paper qualify for the complete sample, and some of the sources in the sample were not observed in the present observations). There is no evidence of an anti-correlation between either the velocity range, or peak flux density of the class I and II transitions, contrary to suggestions from previous studies. The majority of class I methanol maser sources have a velocity range that partially overlaps with the class II maser transitions. The presence of a class I methanol maser associated with a class II maser source is not correlated with the presence (or absence) of main-line OH or water masers. Investigations of the properties of the infrared emission associated with the maser sources shows no significant difference between those class II methanol masers with an associated class I maser and those without. This may be consistent with the hypothesis that the objects responsible for driving class I methanol masers are generally not those that produce main-line OH, water or class II methanol masers.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Value Chain Task Force Approach for Managing Private-Public Partnerships: Zamiba’s Task Force on Acceleration of Cassava Utilization.
Creators: name: Chitundu, Maureen
name: Droppelmann, Klaus
name: Haggblade, Steven
name: Chitundu, Maureen
name: Droppelmann, Klaus
name: Haggblade, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: food security
subject: food policy
subject: cassava
subject: value chain
subject: task force
subject: Zambia
subject: Africa

description: Smallholder farmers operate in vertical supply chains. Therefore, an understanding of key opportunities and constraints up through the value chain becomes necessary for sustaining smallholder growth. Yet market analysis is of little value unless key private and public sector stakeholders agree to implement necessary reforms. This paper advocates an approach which marries together value chain analysis with a stakeholder taskforce to ensure that analysis of opportunities and constraints gets translated into actions that will facilitate commercial growth. Using Zambia’s cassava task force as an example, the paper describes the value chain task force method and identifies elements critical to its effective implementation.
title: Электромагнитное поле в прямоугольном волноводе
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Московский технический университет связи и информатики
Year: 2015

description: Целью практикума является изучение структуры поля волн в прямоугольном металлическом волноводе и расчет основных параметров этих волн; овладение методикой измерения основных характеристик волн в прямоугольном металлическом волноводе.
title: Developing of the space satellite-based polarimeter
Creators: name: Hirniak, Yurii
name: Ivakhiv, Orest
name: Nevodovskyi, Petro
name: Vidmachenko, Anatoly
name: Geraimchuk, Mykhailo
name: Zbrutskyi, Olexsandr
Publisher: name: ilmedia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 620

description: The climate changes of the Earth are mainly caused by changes in the energy balance of the system Sun – Earth. To correctly model and forecast the deviations in concentration of the stratospheric ozone over Earth surface it’s necessary to obtain data on the physical characteristics of aerosol particles. Unfortunately, the available information on the subject is quite limited. As the part of the ecological space mission the ultraviolet polarimeter is planned to be installed on the observing satellite that would work on the lower orbit. The main task of this device is the aerosol density monitoring in the top layer of atmosphere with the remote analysis of the gathered data on land. The implementation of the planned experiment requires the development, creating and installation of the ultraviolet polarimeter onboard of the microsatellite platform. This device must be compact and lightweight and fully autonomous in the automatic mode. So, aside from the sensitive measuring parts the efficient control system need to be developed as well. This ultraviolet polarimeter is a passive optoelectronic device that can remotely acquire polarimetrically sensed data. It is the one-point single-channel ultraviolet polarimeter with rotated polarizing element. The position of the polarization plane of the polarizing element managed by hardware and software aids according to the selected task. Therefore, the device control system must provide fully autonomous functioning for automatic data gathering. The paper summarizes early state of the automatic UV polarimeter development which planned to be installed on the observing satellite which works on the low Earth orbit as the part of the ecological space mission. There is an operating model of the compact on-board ultraviolet polarimeter to consider as the basic model for the carrying out of space experiment on the effects of stratospheric aerosols, changes in global and local climate of the Earth. The designed device allows its modification depending on the variety of the problems in setting such a complex space experiment.
description: Engineering for a changing world: Proceedings : 60th ISC, Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium, Technische Universität Ilmenau, September 04-08, 2023
Shifted $μ$-hybrid inflation, gravitino dark matter, and observable gravity waves
Creators: name: Lazarides, George
name: Rehman, Mansoor Ur
name: Shafi, Qaisar
name: Vardag, Fariha K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate supersymmetric hybrid inflation in a realistic model based on the gauge symmetry $SU(4)_c \times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R$. The minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) $μ$ term arises, following Dvali, Lazarides, and Shafi, from the coupling of the MSSM electroweak doublets to a gauge singlet superfield which plays an essential role in inflation. The primordial monopoles are inflated away by arranging that the $SU(4)_c \times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R$ symmetry is broken along the inflationary trajectory. The interplay between the (above) $μ$ coupling, the gravitino mass, and the reheating following inflation is discussed in detail. We explore regions of the parameter space that yield gravitino dark matter and observable gravity waves with the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r \sim 10^{-4}-10^{-3}$.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures; version published in Phys. Rev. D
Recreating the university from within : sustainability and transformation in higher education
Creators: name: Moore, Janet Lynne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Universities around the globe have signed international declarations and agreements that recognize the importance of higher education in creating a more sustainable future. These agreements oblige universities to integrate sustainability programs into the teaching, research and community frameworks of higher education. In 1997, the University of British Columbia (UBC) adopted a Sustainable Development Policy that states the campus will adhere to sustainable practices in ALL of its actions and mandates. It also states that all students who attend UBC will be educated about sustainability. This dissertation reports on an in-depth case study of the University of British Columbia to examine how the educational component of the Sustainable Development Policy is being addressed. I investigated the role of sustainability in current undergraduate programs and the barriers to move sustainability education forward at the university level. Using an integration of activist oriented research (participatory action research and collaborative inquiry) I investigated current practices and identified possible pathways for institutional transformation. The study includes voices from a range of decision-makers, faculty, staff and students who contemplate sustainability education. I utilized a range of techniques to engage the university community in a dialogue about sustainability education by engaging myself in a series of projects including a collaborative writing project, faculty and student workshops and in-depth interviews. The results are presented as a series of seven articles that have either been published or submitted to journals. I identified a number of barriers to creating sustainability education programs, which included the competitive and disciplinary environment of the institution, unclear priorities and decision-making structures and misdirected criteria for evaluating progress. Recommendations included promoting collaborative models for teaching and research, promoting transdisciplinarity, integrating research, teaching and service, and coordinating planning, decision-making and evaluation. Other recommendations included infusing sustainability into university plans and priorities, focusing on personal and social sustainability and creating space for pedagogical transformation.
The HELLAS2XMM survey. VII. The hard X-ray luminosity function of AGN up to z=4: more absorbed AGN at low luminosities and high redshifts
Creators: name: La Franca, F.
name: Fiore, F.
name: Comastri, A.
name: Perola, G. C.
name: Sacchi, N.
name: Brusa, M.
name: Cocchia, F.
name: Feruglio, C.
name: Matt, G.
name: Vignali, C.
name: Carangelo, N.
name: Ciliegi, P.
name: Lamastra, A.
name: Maiolino, R.
name: Mignoli, M.
name: Molendi, S.
name: Puccetti, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have determined the cosmological evolution of the density of AGN and of their Nh distribution as a function of the un-absorbed 2-10 keV luminosity up to redshift 4. We used the HELLAS2XMM sample combined with other published catalogs, yielding a total of 508 AGN. Our best fit is obtained with a luminosity-dependent density evolution (LDDE) model where low luminosity (Lx~10^43 erg s^-1) AGN peak at z~0.7, while high luminosity AGN (Lx>10^45 erg s^-1) peak at z~2.0. A pure luminosity evolution model (PLE) can instead be rejected. There is evidence that the fraction of absorbed (Nh>10^22 cm^-2) AGN decreases with the intrinsic X-ray luminosity, and increases with the redshift. Our best fit solution provides a good fit to the observed counts, the cosmic X-ray background, and to the observed fraction of absorbed AGN as a function of the flux in the 10^-1510^44 erg s^-1) AGN have a density of 267 deg^-2 at fluxes S(2-10)>10^-15 erg s^-1 cm^-2. Using these results, we estimate a density of supermassive black holes in the local Universe of 3.2 (h^2_70) x 10^5 M_sol Mpc^-3, which is consistent with the recent measurements of the black hole mass function in the local galaxies.
description: 16 pages, 20 figures. Scheduled on ApJ, Vol. 635, 2005 December 20
title: Influence of Grain Size on the Electrochemical Performance of Li₇₋₃ₓLa₃Zr₂AlₓO₁₂ Solid Electrolyte
Creators: name: Botros, Miriam
name: Gonzalez‐Julian, Jesus
name: Scherer, Torsten
name: Popescu, Radian
name: Loho, Christoph
name: Kilmametov, Askar
name: Clemens, Oliver
name: Hahn, Horst
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2025

description: Contemporary Li‐ion batteries are facing substantial challenges like safety and limited energy density. The development of all‐solid‐state battery cells mitigates safety hazards and allows the use of Li‐metal anodes increasing energy density. Garnet‐type solid electrolytes can be vital to achieving an all‐solid‐state cell and an understanding of the influence of its microstructure on the electrochemical performance is crucial for material and cell design. In this work the influence of grain size on the Li‐ion conductivity of Li₇₋₃ₓLa₃Zr₂AlₓO₁₂ (x=0.22) is presented. The synthesis and processing procedure allows changing the ceramic grain size, while maintaining the same synthesis parameters, eliminating influences of the synthesis on grain boundary composition. Field assisted sintering technology is a powerful method to obtain dense, fine‐grained ceramics with an optimal grain size of 2–3 μm, where the conductivity is double that of the counterpart (0.7 μm). A total Li‐ion conductivity of 0.43 mS cm⁻¹ and an activation energy of 0.36 eV were achieved. The oxide‐based all‐solid‐state battery cell combining the garnet‐type electrolyte, a Li‐metal anode and a thin‐film LiCoO₂ cathode was assembled and cycled at room temperature for 90 hours. This represents a proof of concept, for the application of oxide‐based electrolytes at ambient temperatures.