cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Major Problems Associated with Rules on Permanent Establishment under Ethiopian Income Tax Law
Creators: name: Adugna, Alemu
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: The allocation of taxing rights between the states with respect of business
profits is a very complex activity. The central notion of the allocation
rules is the Permanent Establishment (PE). However, owing to the gaps
or mismatches that attributed to the definition of PE as envisaged under
tax treaties and national laws, base erosion and profit shifting became an
international agenda. This article examines the concept of PE as defined
under the Ethiopian income tax law, identifies its shortcomings and
explores opportunities for proper regulation. To this end, it employed
doctrinal legal research method to investigate the pertinent provision of
income tax law. Accordingly, the finding of the paper shows several
pitfalls of Ethiopian income tax regime concerning permanent
establishment. Absence of definition for the elements of a permanent
establishment, total disregard of permanent establishment concerning ECommerce, and its failure to manage artificial avoidance of permanent
establishment status are among the major problems. Furthermore,
absence of any clarification concerning a place of management and
effective place of management, which is provided as a requirement for
determining whether a foreign enterprise has a permanent establishment
or a resident respectively, and absence of exceptions for the interruption
of activities via force majeure in relation to construction or building and
service permanent establishment are other problems of Ethiopian income
tax law. Accordingly, multinational corporations may resort to base
erosion and profit shifting by using the gaps that are left by Ethiopian tax
regime. Hence, Ethiopian income tax law should be amended in a way
that solves the aforementioned lacunas.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Optically-dressed resonant Auger processes induced by high-intensity x rays
Creators: name: Picón, Antonio
name: Ho, Phay J.
name: Doumy, Gilles
name: Southworth, Stephen H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have unveiled coherent multiphoton interferences originating from different quantum paths taken by the Auger electron induced by a high-intensity x-ray/XUV pulse under the presence of a strong optical field. These interferences give rise to a clear signature in the angle-resolved Auger electron spectrum: an asymmetry with respect to the energy of the Auger decay channel. In order to illustrate this effect we have considered the resonant Auger decay of the transition $2p^{5} \!\leftrightarrow\! 1s^{-1}2p^{6}$ in Ne$^{+}$. The simulations show that these interferences are very sensitive to the parameters of the x-ray and optical fields.
title: Sediment routing systems and provenance analysis
Creators: name:   Stutenbecker , Laura
name:   von Eynatten , Hilmar
name:   Caracciolo , Luca
name:   Meinhold , Guido
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: The composition of clastic sediments or sedimentary rocks is a result of source area properties, sediment generation and transport processes as well as post-depositional changes. Deciphering the provenance of clastic deposits can therefore provide valuable insights into tectonic, geomorphic, climatic and anthropogenic factors and processes shaping sedimentary systems over different temporal and spatial scales. This session welcomes contributions that investigate (1) the provenance of clastic deposits by analyzing compositional (e.g. mineralogical, geochemical) properties, (2) the processes that modify detrital signals throughout the sedimentary routing system, and (3) the relationships to internal and external forcing mechanisms. This session is co-hosted by the 'Fachsektion Sedimentologie' of the DGGV.
Program Monitoring & Evaluation Plan for the University of North Carolina Hospital Emergency Department's Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program
Creators: name: Anand, Jenny Ora
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: This paper is the framework of a monitoring and evaluation plan for the University of North Carolina Hospital's Emergency Department Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program. It utilizes a conceptual framework to help understand how to evaluate a program based on quality and sustainability. The outcome evaluation then uses a non-experimental design to survey active and retired SANEs before and after program interventions to elicit both qualitative and quantitative data to measure program quality and sustainability.
Nonlinear Gamow vectors, shock waves and irreversibility in optically nonlocal media
Creators: name: Gentilini, Silvia
name: Braidotti, Maria Chiara
name: Marcucci, Giulia
name: DelRe, Eugenio
name: Conti, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dispersive shock waves dominate wave-breaking phenomena in Hamiltonian systems. In the absence of loss, these highly irregular and disordered waves are potentially reversible. However, no experimental evidence has been given about the possibility of inverting the dynamics of a dispersive shock wave and turn it into a regular wave-front. Nevertheless, the opposite scenario, i.e., a smooth wave generating turbulent dynamics is well studied and observed in experiments. Here we introduce a new theoretical formulation for the dynamics in a highly nonlocal and defocusing medium described by the nonlinear Schroedinger equation. Our theory unveils a mechanism that enhances the degree of irreversibility. This mechanism explains why a dispersive shock cannot be reversed in evolution even for an arbitrarirly small amount of loss. Our theory is based on the concept of nonlinear Gamow vectors, i.e., power dependent generalizations of the counter-intuitive and hereto elusive exponentially decaying states in Hamiltonian systems. We theoretically show that nonlinear Gamow vectors play a fundamental role in nonlinear Schroedinger models: they may be used as a generalized basis for describing the dynamics of the shock waves, and affect the degree of irreversibility of wave-breaking phenomena. Gamow vectors allow to analytically calculate the amount of breaking of time-reversal with a quantitative agreement with numerical solutions. We also show that a nonlocal nonlinear optical medium may act as a simulator for the experimental investigation of quantum irreversible models, as the reversed harmonic oscillator.
description: 6 pages, 4 figure, Editors'Suggestion in Physical Review A
Lasioglossum fulvicorne
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum fulvicorne

description: Lasioglossum fulvicorne (Kirby, 1802)
 5.VII.2015, Daucus carota, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 89, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
The Utilisation of the Community of Inquiry ‎Framework in Online Medical Education: A Scoping ‎Review Protocol
Creators: name: Bashir, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Health and Physical Education

description: Many learning modules in medical schools are now utilising online technologies for learning. The Community of Inquiry is an educational model built to analyse online educational activities in all fields. To our knowledge, this is the only ‎review of published literature on the model’s utilisation in online medical education.
Systems Thinking and Policy Implications for Family Planning - A Global Perspective
Creators: name: Shields, Pamela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Almost 50 percent of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended. In North Carolina, 56 percent of pregnancies in 2006 were unintended. The rate of unintended pregnancy is a key reproductive health indicator that shows the reproductive health of a population. Unplanned births are associated with many adverse outcomes such as increases in the rates of abortion, inadequate prenatal care, adverse birth outcomes such as low birth weight and premature birth, and decreased rates of breastfeeding. The presentation will look at how cultural factors influence access to and use of family planning methods and introduces the use of “systems thinking” as a way to address the UN’s Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5), to reduce maternal mortality and achieve universal access to reproductive health. A basic conceptual model can demonstrate direct relationships between causes of and changing rates of unintended pregnancies. A systems perspective however looks at the health outcome from a dynamic perspective, and takes into account that the factors surrounding and influencing unintended pregnancy rates are constantly changing. We will look at ways that systems thinking can help to address this issue from a local and global perspective including how availability of family planning services i.e. sex education and reducing cultural barriers to contraceptive compliance, interact in a dynamic environment and how these factors can be better understood and accounted for in programs to reduce unintended pregnancy.
Smart tutor to provide feedback in programming courses
Creators: name: Roldán-Alvarez David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more popular as time passes, allowing to perform tasks that were difficult to do in the past. From predictions to customization, AI is being used in many areas, not being educational environments outside this situation. AI is being used in educational settings to customize contents or to provide personalized feedback to the students, among others. In this scenario, AI in programming teaching is something that still has to be explored, since in this area we usually find assessment tools that allow grading the students work, but we can not find many tools aimed towards providing feedback to the students in the process of creating their program. In this work we present an AI based intelligent tutor that answers students programming questions. The tool has been tested by university students at the URJC along a whole course. Even if the tool is still in its preliminary phase, it helped the students with their questions, providing accurate answers and examples. The students were able to use the intelligent tutor easily and they thought that it could be a useful tool to use in other courses.
On the cuspidalization problem for hyperbolic curves over finite fields
Creators: name: Wakabayashi, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study some group-theoretic constructions associated to arithmetic fundamental groups of hyperbolic curves over finite fields. One of the main results of this paper asserts that any Frobenius-preserving isomorphism between the geometrically pro-$l$ fundamental groups of hyperbolic curves with one given point removed induces an isomorphism between the geometrically pro-$l$ fundamental groups of the hyperbolic curves obtained by removing other points. Finally, we apply this result to obtain results concerning certain cuspidalization problems for fundamental groups of (not necessarily proper) hyperbolic curves over finite fields.
description: 44 pages, to appear in Kyoto Journal of Mathematics
Within-person associations between psychological and contextual factors and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity: A systematic review and meta-analysis of Ecological Momentary Assessment studies
Creators: name: Perski, Olga
name: Keller, Jan
name: Kwasnicka, Dominika
name: Schneider, Verena
name: ten Hoor, Gill
name: Lorbeer, Noemi
name: Di Maio, Sally
name: Powell, Daniel
name: Kale, Dimitra
name: Asare, Bernard
name: Naughton, Felix
name: Gellert, Paul
name: Verboon, Peter
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Ecological Momentary Assessment
subject: meta-analysis
subject: moderate-to-vigorous physical activity
subject: systematic review
subject: within-person

description: We aim to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of Ecological Momentary Assessment studies to examine within-person associations between psychological and contextual factors and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
Defining and combating domestic violence on the ground: Police officer perspectives and motivations in responding to domestic violence
Creators: name: Spektor, Gean
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: As first responders to domestic violence encounters, police officers serve as gate-keepers to the criminal justice system and victim support resources such as counseling or shelters. Police officers therefore tend to have a large impact on service utilization and long-term victim welfare. This study uses one-on-one interviews with police officers to explore their perspectives regarding domestic violence situations they encounter on duty. Most interviewed officers were very motivated to address domestic violence through perpetrator arrest, documentation, de-escalation of situations, and resource provision, and emphasized the importance of the sympathetic and respectful treatment of victims. Nonetheless, officers expressed frustration with chronically violence cases; in some cases this led to an indifferent or poor quality response on their part.
A Robust Unified Graph Model Based on Molecular Data Binning for Subtype Discovery in High-dimensional Spaces
Creators: name: Hassan Zada, Muhammad Sadiq
Publisher: name: College of Science and Engineering, University of Derby
Year: 2023
Subjects: Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Clustering
Disease Subtyping
Genomics Analytics
Stratification
Precision Medicine
Data Science
Survival Analysis
Robust
Spectral Clustering
Hypothesis Testing
Exploratory Data Analysis
Data Integration
Network Fusion
Multiview data
Multimodal
Unsupervised Learning

description: Machine learning (ML) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that has already revolutionised the world around us. It is a widely employed process for discovering patterns and groups within datasets. It has a wide range of applications including disease subtyping, which aims to discover intrinsic subtypes of disease in large-scale unlabelled data. Whilst the groups discovered in multi-view high-dimensional data by ML algorithms are promising, their capacity to identify pertinent and meaningful groups is limited by the presence of data variability and outliers. Since outlier values represent potential but unlikely outcomes, they are statistically and philosophically fascinating. Therefore, the primary aim of this thesis was to propose a robust approach that discovers meaningful groups while considering the presence of data variability and outliers in the data. To achieve this aim, a novel robust approach (ROMDEX) was developed that utilised the proposed intermediate graph models (IMGs) for robust computation of proximity between observations in the data. Finally, a robust multi-view graph-based clustering approach was developed based on ROMDEX that improved the discovery of meaningful groups that were hidden behind the noise in the data. The proposed approach was validated on real-world, and synthetic data for disease subtyping. Additionally, the stability of the approach was assessed by evaluating its performance across different levels of noise in clustering data. The results were evaluated through Kaplan-Meier survival time analysis for disease subtyping. Also, the concordance index (CI) and normalised mutual information (NMI) are used to evaluate the predictive ability of the proposed clustering model. Additionally, the accuracy, Kappa statistic and rand index are computed to evaluate the clustering stability against various levels of Gaussian noise. The proposed approach outperformed the existing state-of-the-art approaches MRGC, PINS, SNF, Consensus Clustering, and Icluster+ on these datasets. The findings for all datasets were outstanding, demonstrating the predictive ability of the proposed unsupervised graph-based clustering approach.
La valutazione del potenziale turistico del Parco Nazionale del Pollino
Creators: name: Romano, Severino
name: Luongo, Vitantonio
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: The development of the tourist sector of a protected area have to be founded upon the tourist potential valuation (PT) of the territory. This valuation is necessary to better calibrate the development projects in relation to the peculiar characteristics of the area. The present research has regarded the application of a framework of valuation based upon an easy transferable model to other territorial contexts. The innovative aspect of the present research is represented from systematic application of the model to test the efficiency of the actions for tourist development in the area of the Pollino’s National Park, and to find the guidelines for the development of the tourist sector.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 43 (2003)
Two-year-olds' eye movements reflect confidence in their understanding of words
Creators: name: Dautriche, Isabelle
name: Goupil, Louise
name: Smith, Kenny
name: Rabagliati, Hugh
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: First and Second Language Acquisition
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We study the fundamental issue of whether children evaluate the reliability of their language interpretation, i.e., their confidence in understanding words. In two experiments, two-year-olds (n_1=50; n_2=60) saw two objects and heard one of them being named; both objects were then hidden behind screens and children were asked to look towards the named object, which was eventually revealed. When children knew the label used, they showed increased post-decision persistence after a correct compared to an incorrect anticipatory look, a marker of confidence in word comprehension (experiment 1). When interacting with an unreliable speaker, children showed accurate word comprehension, but reduced confidence in the accuracy of their own choice, indicating that children’s confidence estimates are influenced by social information (experiment 2). Thus, by 2 years, children can estimate their confidence during language comprehension, long before they can talk about their linguistic skills.
Toward precision mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei relevant to $r$-process nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Sun, B. H.
name: Litvinov, Yu. A.
name: Tanihata, I.
name: Zhang, Y. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V35

description: The open question of where, when, and how the heavy elements beyond iron enrich our Universe has triggered a new era in nuclear physics studies.\ Of all the relevant nuclear physics inputs, the mass of very neutron-rich nuclides is a key quantity for revealing the origin of heavy elements beyond iron.\ Although the precise determination of this property is a great challenge, enormous progress has been made in recent decades, and it has contributed significantly to both nuclear structure and astrophysical nucleosynthesis studies.\ In this review, we first survey our present knowledge of the nuclear mass surface, emphasizing the importance of nuclear mass precision in $r$-process calculations.\ We then discuss recent progress in various methods of nuclear mass measurement with a few selected examples.\ For each method, we focus on recent breakthroughs and discuss possible ways of improving the weighing of $r$-process nuclides.
description: 10 figures, review articles in Frontiers of Physics
title: Geotechnical Use of Deep Groundwater Systems
Creators: name:   Fischer , Sebastian
name:   Fritsche , Johann-Gerhard
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: In recent years, the deep geological underground gained more and more attention as it offers various reservoirs potentially applicable for different geotechnical use options, e.g. deep geothermal energy or geological storage of CO2 and H2/energy. In this context, knowledge about the occurrence as well as the understanding of controlling processes of deep groundwater systems is important in order to guarantee their sustainable long-term use. Deep groundwaters have unique chemical and physical properties. Besides higher temperatures, they are often characterised by higher salinities. Higher temperatures as well as higher salinities may potentially cause problems during geotechnical applications. At least handling of deep groundwaters necessitates specific efforts and expenses, e.g. to prevent scaling and corrosion of technical components. While chemical compositions may vary even within one hydro-stratigraphical unit, profound knowledge of groundwater dynamics, regionally dominating forces and processes as well as hydraulic properties is often limited. Hence, predictions of geotechnical use potentials of deep groundwater systems at individual sites are complex and often unreliable. We specifically, but not only, call for contributions that deal with collecting and analyzing data of deep groundwaters and/or use numerical models to consolidate the understanding of the chemistry as well as the dynamics, driving forces and dominating processes in the deep subsurface. We also encourage submissions that specifically address the unknowns and discuss innovative options for the future.
Development and Validation of the Alzheimer’s Questionnaire
Creators: name: Malek-ahmadi, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2017

description: This series of studies was carried in order to develop and validate the Alzheimer’s Questionnaire (AQ). The underlying rationale for the creation of the AQ was to provide clinicians with a brief and easy-to-use informant-based assessment of symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Initial studies of the AQ found that it has both high sensitivity and high specificity for differentiating individuals with AD and its prodrome, amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The AQ’s accuracy in identifying MCI was explored further in an additional study which sought to determine which items on the AQ were best predicted the presence of MCI. Four items were strongly associated with MCI which were: repetition of statements and/or questions [OR = 13.20 (3.02, 57.66)]; trouble knowing the day, date, month, year, and time [OR = 17.97 (2.63, 122.77)]; difficulty managing finances [OR = 11.60 (2.10, 63.99)]; and decreased sense of direction [OR = 5.84(1.09, 31.30)]. Concurrent validity was established through another study which found that the AQ correlated moderately with the MMSE (r = -0.56) and MoCA (r = -0.46) while a strong correlation (r = 0.79) was found with the Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of Boxes (CDR-SOB). Additional work found that the AQ correlated well with formal neuropsychological measures of episodic memory and executive function. Longitudinal analyses found that was AQ was a significant predictor of clinically meaningful decline as measured by the changes in CDR Global Score (OR = 1.20, 95% CI: 1.09, 1.32; p<0.001). In addition, AQ identified clinically meaningful change among MCI cases at a greater rate(24%) than the MMSE (17%). This series of studies demonstrates that the AQ is an accurate instrument that correlates well with known measures of MCI and AD.
Rhabdotocochlis Knight 1933
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Trochida
Araeonematidae
Rhabdotocochlis

description: Rhabdotocochlis Knight, 1933 Australian Carboniferous species. Rhabdotocochlis turgida n.sp., from Glenbawn.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
Some Legal Controversies Regarding Party-affiliated Endowments and Their Participation in Business Activities: The Case of EFFORT and TIRET Endowments
Creators: name: Messelu, Mamenie
name: Markides, Professor Costas
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: Social service needs in no way can be fulfilled by the government alone.
That is why governments are giving due consideration for Civil Society
Organizations (hereinafter CSOs) and incorporating them in their legal
frameworks. Charitable endowment is among the different classifications
of CSOs, which play a significant role in every walk of life as they fill the
gaps that the government fails or is unable to discharge its responsibility
in various dimensions including human rights protection and socioeconomic development. In Ethiopia, party affiliated endowments such as
Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT), Amhara
National Regional State Rehabilitation and Development Fund (TIRET),
Endowment Foundation for the Development of Oromia (TUMSA), and
Endowment Fund for the Development of Southern Nation Nationalities
and Peoples (WENDO) are established by Tigray Peoples Liberation
Front (TPLF), Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM),
Oromia Peoples Democratic Organization (OPDO), and Southern Nation
Nationalities and Peoples Democratic Movement (SEPDM) respectively,
on the assumption that the wider public of each regional state community
is the beneficiary of these endowments. This article examined the legality
of formation, registration, and operation of these endowments and their
participation in business by using EFFORT and TIRET endowments as a
case study. The article upholds doctrinal legal research which is based
on the identification, synthesis and analysis of the law defining
endowment and their participation in business. The finding shows that
there is defective formation of EFFORT and TIRET endowments, and
also that their involvement in business activities is contrary to the
provisions of the laws regarding commerce, tax, competition, and CSOs.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Lasioglossum laticeps
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum laticeps

description: Lasioglossum laticeps (Schenck, 1868)
 26.III.2010, Salix sp., 3♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 89, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Analisi dell'allocazione della spesa ambientale: il caso della Campania
Creators: name: Salvi, Tania
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: The aim of this paper is to present a methodology for analyzing public decision based on Multicriterial Analysis in a regional case (Campania). The first part is a description at analysis of the environmental aspects, where I propose a DPSR (Driving ForcesPressure-State Responce) Model to study Environmental Indicator. The second part is an analysis of public decision about regional found in consideration at Environmental Indicator as DPSR Model calculates. The pay-off matrix and the methods of compromise programming (in the methods of compromise programming solution is found by minimizing the weighted distance from the ideal point in the decision space) are used in the Multicriterial Analysis.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 42 (2003)
An evolutionary missing link? A modest-mass early-type galaxy hosting an over-sized nuclear black hole
Creators: name: van Loon, Jacco Th.
name: Sansom, Anne E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SAGE1C\,J053634.78$-$722658.5 is a galaxy at redshift $z=0.14$, discovered behind the Large Magellanic Cloud in the {\it Spitzer} Space Telescope "Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution" Spectroscopy survey (SAGE-Spec). It has very strong silicate emission at 10 $μ$m but negligible far-IR and UV emission. This makes it a candidate for a bare AGN source in the IR, perhaps seen pole-on, without significant IR emission from the host galaxy. In this paper we present optical spectra taken with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) to investigate the nature of the underlying host galaxy and its AGN. We find broad H$α$ emission characteristic of an AGN, plus absorption lines associated with a mature stellar population ($>9$ Gyr), and refine its redshift determination to $z=0.1428\pm0.0001$. There is no evidence for any emission lines associated with star formation. This remarkable object exemplifies the need for separating the emission from any AGN from that of the host galaxy when employing infrared diagnostic diagrams. We estimate the black hole mass, $M_{\rm BH}=3.5\pm0.8\times10^8$ M$_\odot$, host galaxy mass, $M_{\rm stars}=2.5^{2.5}_{1.2}\times10^{10}$ M$_\odot$, and accretion luminosity, $L_{\rm bol}({\rm AGN})=5.3\pm0.4\times10^{45}$ erg s$^{-1}$ ($\approx12$ per cent of the Eddington luminosity) and find the AGN to be more prominent than expected for a host galaxy of this modest size. The old age is in tension with the downsizing paradigm in which this galaxy would recently have transformed from a star-forming disc galaxy into an early-type, passively evolving galaxy.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Based primarily on data obtained with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
A Reflection on Public Policy Exception in Private International Law under the New York Convention, European Union Instruments and Ethiopian Law
Creators: name: Mogos, Abiyot
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: With the advent of globalization, an expansive increase in cross border
transaction and socio-economic interaction has resulted in cross border law,
judgment, and conflict of jurisdiction. This resulted in the development of private
international law to ensure decisional harmony. Yet as a complete uniformity
may sometimes run against public policy of concerned states, public policy
exception is usually inserted. This piece reflects on the notion of public policy
exception in private international law under the Ethiopian private international
law rules in light of the European Union (EU) instruments and New York
convention, and demonstrates how the EU experience could be helpful to improve
the Ethiopian draft laws on the issue. Unlike EU, Ethiopia does not have
comprehensive and binding laws of private international law other than some
insufficient provisions under the civil procedure code (CPC) and the draft law.
Even more, the existing Ethiopian rules under the CPC and draft law are crafted
in manner that allow broader space to public policy exception including
morality, are anti-foreign law or judgment in principle, less coherent and
incomplete, and hence, are not as good as its EU counter parts to achieve the
desired goal of private international law. Even if Ethiopia ratified the New York
Convention, the scope of the Convention is limited to recognition and
enforcement of award only. Hence, to have a complete and coherent Ethiopian
legal regime on private international law, it is necessary to include pertinent
stipulations on public policy exception under the EU instruments in the Draft
proclamation.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
IMPROVING READING SKILLS FOR 4TH GRADERS IN GRANVILLE AND VANCE COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Thompson, Najerrei
name: Walton, Shriona
name: Hill, Moriah
name: Egbe, Zyna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2025

description:
This proposal highlights the urgent need to address the persistently low fourth-grade reading proficiency rates in Granville and Vance counties, North Carolina, where literacy levels lag significantly behind state averages. Recognizing education as an essential social determinant of health, this initiative emphasizes a comprehensive strategy that targets key areas of educational improvement. The proposed approach includes detailed data collection and analysis to accurately identify and monitor students' individual literacy challenges, the implementation of culturally responsive curricula that reflect students' diverse backgrounds and enhance engagement, strengthened partnerships with families and local communities to foster supportive reading environments outside the classroom, and extensive professional development for educators emphasizing evidence-based literacy instruction techniques. By systematically integrating these components, the initiative seeks to significantly raise reading proficiency, thereby improving long-term academic outcomes, reducing educational disparities, and promoting healthier communities throughout Granville and Vance counties.
Analysis of Developmental Growth of Children in Orange County Head Start 2016-2017
Creators: name: Turner, Mallory
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: Developmental growth of children enrolled in Orange County Head Start (OCHS) during 2016–2017 school year was assessed in relation to risk and demographic factors. Methods: Linear regression was performed using risk and demographic factors as predictors for developmental growth. Analyses used existing data from Teaching Strategies Gold and Child Plus, databases OCHS uses to track child characteristics and program activity.Results: Adjusting for baseline scores, classrooms (i.e., teacher scoring) were the strongest predictors of growth. Hispanic children exhibited more growth than white and black children in multiple areas. Conclusions: Qualitative interviews with teachers, followed by training and coaching, are necessary to ensure consistency in teachers’ scoring. Further research should investigate whether racial/ethnic differences in growth are real or artifacts of implicit bias.
Incentive Structure and Leader Checking Behavior
Creators: name: Karg, Simon
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Business
subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Accounting
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Collaborative Corruption
subject: Dishonesty
subject: ethical leadership
subject: incentives
subject: Moral Psychology
subject: public goods game
subject: rely or verify

description: This study investigates how different kinds of incentive structures affect rely or verify decisions of leaders in the rely or verify game. In this game, participants play as either subordinate or leader. Subordinates roll a virtual die, and can report any number they want to their leader. Subordinates’ payoff is tied to the number of eyes on the die, incentivizing cheating by over reporting. Leaders receive their subordinate’s report, and can choose to verify (i.e. check), or rely (not check) on that report. In this study, we manipulate the leader incentive structure in three conditions. This preregistration uses the OSF template. Please see the attached document for the preregistration.
The Requirement of Spousal Consent for Transfer of Shares in Public Companies under Ethiopian Law: A Call for Free Transferability of Shares
Creators: name: Zeleke, Yihun
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: Due to the increasing importance of shares as means of household
savings, countries with statutory matrimonial regime incorporate rules,
in their family law, that regulate matters related to management and
transfer of shares. Especially, countries with default rule of a community
of matrimonial property require spousal consent for the transfer of
common property of spouses, but they exempt such requirement for the
transfer of shares in a commercial company. The position of Ethiopian
laws in this regard is absurd. The practice is mixed, inconsistance and
arbitrary. It also creates discord of opinion to the extent of making some
companies unsure of how to act. This directs the researcher to raise the
following questions: Is spousal consent a requirement to transfer shares
of public companies under Ethiopian law? Should spousal consent be a
requirement for such transfers? Is there a lesson Ethiopia may draw from
other countries in this regard? Through analysis of these issues, the
writer concludes that the position of Ethiopian law concerning the issue
of spousal consent vis-à-vis transfer of share is ludicrous and inadequate.
This article argues for a clear exemption of the requirement of spousal
consent for the transfer of shares in public companies and recommends
the country to draw lessons from other countries to realize the free
transferability of shares.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Determining rural areas vulnerable to illegal dumping using GIS techniques. Case study: Neamt county, Romania
Creators: name: Mihai, Florin-Constantin
name: Ursu, Adrian
name: Ichim, Pavel
name: Chelaru, Dan-Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.2.8; J.2; I.4.8

description: The paper aims to mapping the potential vulnerable areas to illegal dumping of household waste from rural areas in the extra- Carpathian region of Neamt County. These areas are ordinary in the proximity of built-up areas and buffers areas of 1 km were delimited for every locality. Based on various map layers in vector formats (land use, rivers, built-up areas, roads etc) an assessment method is performed to highlight the potential areas vulnerable to illegal dumping inside these buffer areas at local scale. The results are correlated to field observations and current situation of waste management systems. The maps outline local disparities due to various geographical conditions of county. This approach is a necessary tool in EIA studies particularly for rural waste management systems at local and regional scale which are less studied in current literature than urban areas.
Franchising in Ethiopian፡ The Need for Regulation
Creators: name: Zergaw, Tegegne
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: Franchising is a way of doing business in which the franchisor licenses
its known business model or trademark for the use of the franchisee in
return for consideration. It becomes a viable solution for business
startups, especially for small and medium enterprises (SME), and to
penetrate the foreign market. Franchising benefits not only those parties
involved in the business but also the national economy. In order to create
a leveling field and protect the interests of parties countries are on the
move for regulating franchising. This article assesses the regulation of
franchising in Ethiopia using comparative analysis method. Even though
there are scattered laws pertaining to franchising, still the country lacks,
compared to other countries, comprehensive and detailed laws on
franchise regulation. The research identified several legal gaps in
regulating franchising; essential aspects of franchising such as, precontractual disclosure, parties’ relationship, and registration are not
regulated in a comprehensive manner. Hence, the author recommends the
adoption of comprehensive franchise laws that take into consideration the
best international practice.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Too Tired to Try? The Impact of Sleep Quality on Romantic Partner Support
Creators: name: Sell, Nicole
name: Sisson, Natalie
name: Impett, Emily
name: Gordon, Amie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Affect
subject: Close Relationships
subject: Perspective-Taking
subject: Sleep
subject: Support

description: This preregistration includes a description of our research questions and hypotheses, the data we will analyze, measured variables and inclusion/exclusion criteria, and planned analyses.
Why women stop breastfeeding: A mixed-methods analysis
Creators: name: Barry, Megan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This study explores the reasons why women stop breastfeeding. Analyses are based on data from the Lactational Effects of Contraceptive Hormones, an Evaluation study (LECHE), a survey of women with infants between the ages of 3 and 9 months who have breastfeed their infant at any time. Findings use two quantitative questions and the content analysis of responses to one open-ended survey question about reasons that were important in mothers’ decisions to stop breastfeeding. Based on the averaged values of the quantitative data, “I didn’t have enough milk,” “breast milk alone did not satisfy my baby,” “my baby had trouble sucking or latching on,” and “I thought that my baby was not gaining enough weight” all played important roles in women’s decisions to stop breastfeeding.
In the qualitative “other” responses as to why they stopped breastfeeding, many women expressed a complicated interplay of factors leading to that decision. The maternal breastfeeding experience, and the mother’s physical and mental health, infant’s reaction to breastfeeding, and time, work, other children, partner support, and other breastfeeding supports often intersected in a variety of ways to influence a mother’s decision to stop breastfeeding. These analyses make it clear that no one solution will improve breastfeeding experiences and increase duration for all women, but that breastfeeding support should be tailored to the unique experience of each mother-child dyad. Furthermore, it seems evident that, without optimal support, breastfeeding can be an emotional and challenging experience for mothers, made worse by internal and external pressures to succeed.
Development of an Integrated Adaptive and Maladaptive Personality Model for Measuring the Big Five
Creators: name: Desson, Stewart
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2017

description: The structure of the Big Five model of personality was examined when its dimensions were measured independently at both poles, based on new items designed to reduce the social desirability bias often found between the polarities. Inductive, deductive and criterion-centric methods were employed and an instrument created that measures Big Five traits both adaptively and maladaptively. Based on a comprehensive literature review of the potency of different personality scales in predicting positive and negative performance at work, 410 items were created to measure the desired adaptive and maladaptive scales and a sample of English speaking professionals (N = 1,686 females, mean age = 44.0, SD = 12.0; N = 820 males, mean age = 46.5, SD = 13.0) assessed themselves against them on a Likert scale. Eighteen scales were created based on fifty-seven items and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was employed to understand the impact of the new structure on the Big Five. The convergent and divergent validity were tested using hypotheses regarding the proposed correlations with industry benchmark instruments. A re-validation study (N = 438), test re-test study (N = 117), consensual validity study (N = 105) and social desirability study (N = 26, N = 28, N = 40) were also undertaken. Criterion validity was examined using behavioural competency models (N = 254, N = 73), with 360 observer feedback gathered and a priori hypotheses tested. The results revealed that evaluative bias can be reduced with the proposed approach, and the Big Five factor structure persists, whilst simultaneously enabling test users to explore their adaptive and maladaptive traits at both ends of the polarities. It is argued that conceptualising maladaptive traits as the more extreme ends of the Big Five (“too much of a good thing”) is helpful from a user validity perspective and avoids the risk of pathologizing people in organisational settings. Finally, the instrument’s eighteen scales have been located in the personality periodic table (Woods and Anderson, 2016) and the concept of a blended Conscientiousness and Neuroticism scale has been supported by the current research and provides a new approach. The implications for research and practice are discussed.
title: Advances in understanding processes driving the formation and evolution of sedimentary basins
Creators: name:   Matenco , Liviu
name:   Scheck-Wenderoth , Magdalena
name:   Nader , Fadi Henri
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: This session addresses the dynamics of sedimentary basins at different temporal and spatial scales and aims to bring together a wide range of studies focusing on geodynamics, tectonics and sediment dynamics. Contributions addressing major processes affecting the genesis and evolution of basins are in particular encouraged (from rifting and overlying passive continental margins to orogenic, intra-montane and extensional back-arcs in convergent settings). A wide range of studies are encouraged, aimed at understanding the evolution of sedimentary fill, the underlying crustal and lithospheric -scale dynamics as well as the integration with processes taking place in the source areas, such as active orogens or long-term landscape evolution. We welcome contributions integrating data from different depth levels of the lithosphere with the shallower parts of the basin system as subsidence pattern, stress, vertical motions, erosion and sedimentation dynamics, thermal structure, lithosphere dynamics and (active) faulting by the means of observational studies, numerical and analogue modeling, or their combination. Studies yielding constraints on a variety of conceptual and quantitative models explaining the origin and evolution of basins are also welcomed. Session sponsored by the International Lithosphere Program Task Force VI Sedimentary Basins