cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Les propriétés des revêtements lamellaires bitumineux
Creators: name: Jones, P. M.
name: Garden, G. K.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Roofs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0770
subject: Toits
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0770
subject: Moisture performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: Performance hygrométrique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: roofing
subject: couvertures
subject: water barriers
subject: barrière d'étanchéité
subject: waterproofing compounds
subject: composés hydrofuges
subject: bitumen
subject: bitume
subject: built up roofings
subject: multicouche

description: Dans le but de réaliser des revêtements multicouches bitumés imperméables et durables, le maître d'oeuvre doit prendre en considération les caractéristiques et le comportement tant du bitume que de son armature, la nature et le comportement du subjectile sur lequel le revêtement est appliqué, son exposition et les caractéristiques physiques de l'environnement. Le revêtement multicouche possède certaines qualités précieuses, mais le maître d'oeuvre doit l'établir de facon à le protéger des divers agents de détérioration, ou tout au moins à en tenir compte. La protection d'un revêtement contre le rayonnement solaire (CBD 65F) prolonge fortement sa durée utile, ainsi que l'établissement d'un système de drainage efficace et la prévention de l'humidité interne. Dans certains cas un programme d'entretien régulier permettra d'éviter une défaillance du revêtement d'étanchéité. La conception et l'exécution du revêtement multicouche sont par conséquent d'importance fondamentale pour son efficacité.
Maximizing ecological and evolutionary insight in bisulfite sequencing data sets
Creators: name: Tung, Jenny
name: Durst, Paul A. P.
name: Vilgalys, Tauras P.
name: Lea, Amanda J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Genome-scale bisulfite sequencing approaches have opened the door to ecological and evolutionary studies of DNA methylation in many organisms. These approaches can be powerful. However, they introduce new methodological and statistical considerations, some of which are particularly relevant to non-model systems. Here, we highlight how these considerations influence a study’s power to link methylation variation with a predictor variable of interest. Relative to current practice, we argue that sample sizes will need to increase to provide robust insights. We also provide recommendations for overcoming common challenges and an R Shiny app to aid in study design.
Shot noise of the conductance through a superconducting barrier in graphene
Creators: name: Liu, Mi
name: Zhu, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the conductance and shot noise properties of quasiparticle-transport through a superconducting barrier in graphene. Based on the Blonder, Tinkham, and Klapwijk (BTK) formulation, the theory to investigate the transport properties in the superconductive graphene is developed. In comparison, we considered the two cases that are the transport in the presence and absence of the specular Andreev reflection. It is shown that the conductance and shot noise exhibit essentially different features in the two cases. It is found that the shot noise is suppressed as a result of more tunneling channels contributing to the transport when the superconducting gate is applied. The dependence of the shot noise behavior on the potential strength and the width of the superconducting barrier differs in the two cases. In the presence of the specular Andreev reflection, the shot noise spectrum is more sensitive to the potential strength and the width of the superconducting barrier. In both of the two cases, total transmission occurs at a certain parameter setting, which contributes greatly to the conductance and suppresses the shot noise at the same time.
3D-Computer Animation for a Yoruba Native Folktale
Creators: name: Adeyanju, Ibrahim
name: Babalola, Comfort
name: Salaudeen, Kareemat
name: Oyediran, Biola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Computer graphics has wide range of applications which are implemented into computer animation, computer modeling among others. Since the invention of computer graphics researchers have not paid much of attentions toward the possibility of converting oral tales otherwise known as folktales into possible cartoon animated videos. This paper is based on how to develop cartoons of local folktales that will be of huge benefits to Nigerians. The activities were divided into 5 stages; analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation which involved various processes and use of various specialized software and hardware. After the implementation of this project, the video characteristics were evaluated using likert scale. Analysis of 30 user responses indicated that 17 users (56.7 percent) rated the image quality as excellent, the video and image synchronization was rated as excellent by 9 users (30 percent), the Background noise was rated excellent by 18 users (60 percent), the Character Impression was rated Excellent by 11 users (36.67 percent), the general assessment of the storyline was rated excellent by 17 users (56.7 percent), the video Impression was rated excellent by 11 users (36.67 percent) and the voice quality was rated by 10 users (33.33 percent) as excellent.
description: 9 pages
title: A Study of Common Denominators of Management: Transferable Attributes of Management from the Military to the Civilian Environment
Creators: name: Chatzigiannis, Vasilios
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Management research has long been the focus of researchers and academics who strive to identify and suggest qualities that enable the former along with management practitioners and public and private institutions to achieve maximum stakeholder return. The writer aimed to suggest common attributes of management that can be practiced and developed between the military and civilian environments. In pursuing this research, the author chose to conduct an in-depth analysis of a variety of competencies that are developed in the two environments and how they can be applied to the aforesaid frameworks. To achieve the latter, the researcher chose to employ the qualitative research method as it is linked mainly with the investigations of human relations and corporate and public management structures. By utilizing qualitative research techniques, the writer capitalized upon prior debates surrounding the focus of the study and current research data. A range of relationships were examined in connection with the management discipline such as academic background of the executives, previous experiences of the latter, their influence in new managerial positions, military history, the relationship between leadership and management and weaknesses and strengths of the military and civilian organizations. The complexities that were revealed were analyzed and weaknesses regarding research were identified and accounted for. Further research opportunities were flagged for supplementary investigation by combining additional frameworks of the management art and by employing comprehensive triangulation research methods.
Intrinsic alignment contamination to CMB lensing-galaxy weak lensing correlations from tidal torquing
Creators: name: Larsen, Patricia
name: Challinor, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Correlations of galaxy ellipticities with large-scale structure, due to galactic tidal interactions, provide a potentially significant contaminant to measurements of cosmic shear. However, these intrinsic alignments are still poorly understood for galaxies at the redshifts typically used in cosmic shear analyses. For spiral galaxies, it is thought that tidal torquing is significant in determining alignments resulting in zero correlation between the intrinsic ellipticity and the gravitational potential in linear theory. Here, we calculate the leading-order correction to this result in the tidal-torque model from non-linear evolution, using second-order perturbation theory, and relate this to the contamination from intrinsic alignments to the recently-measured cross-correlation between galaxy ellipticities and the CMB lensing potential. On the scales relevant for CMB lensing observations, the squeezed limit of the gravitational bispectrum dominates the correlation. Physically, the large-scale mode that sources CMB lensing modulates the small-scale power and hence the intrinsic ellipticity, due to non-linear evolution. We find that the angular cross-correlation from tidal torquing has a very similar scale dependence as in the linear alignment model, believed to be appropriate for elliptical galaxies. The amplitude of the cross-correlation is predicted to depend strongly on the formation redshift, being smaller for galaxies that formed at higher redshift when the bispectrum of the gravitational potential was smaller. Finally, we make simple forecasts for constraints on intrinsic alignments from the correlation of forthcoming cosmic shear measurements with current CMB lensing measurements. We note that cosmic variance can be significantly reduced in measurements of the difference in the intrinsic alignments for elliptical and spiral galaxies if these can be separated (e.g., using colour).
description: Updated calculation to include all LPT terms to consistent order. 10 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the St. Lucia - EASTERN SHORE ELEPHANT BOMA station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
St. Lucia
Hydrological
Pressure transducer
Ground Water level

description: This package contains supporting information for the hydrological data collected at St. Lucia - EASTERN SHORE's ELEPHANT BOMA station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation
Creators: name: Hellen, Elizabeth
name: Gries, Regine
name: Comeault, Aaron A.
name: Feder, Jeff
name: Gries, Gerhard
name: Riesch, Rüdiger
name: Lucek, Kay
name: Dennis, Stuart R.
name: Nosil, Patrik
name: Lindtke, Dorothea
name: Crespi, Bernard J.
name: Safran, Rebecca J.
name: De Carvalho, Clarissa F.
name: Gompert, Zach
name: Muschick, Moritz
name: Sandoval, Cristina P.
name: Farkas, Timothy E.
name: Soria-Carrasco, Víctor
name: Villoutreix, Romain
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Speciation can involve a transition from a few genetic loci that are resistant to gene flow to genome-wide differentiation. However, only limited data exist concerning this transition and the factors promoting it. Here, we study phases of speciation using data from >100 populations of 11 species of Timema stick insects. Consistent with early phases of genic speciation, adaptive colour-pattern loci reside in localized genetic regions of accentuated differentiation between populations experiencing gene flow. Transitions to genome-wide differentiation are also observed with gene flow, in association with differentiation in polygenic chemical traits affecting mate choice. Thus, intermediate phases of speciation are associated with genome-wide differentiation and mate choice, but not growth of a few genomic islands. We also find a gap in genomic differentiation between sympatric taxa that still exchange genes and those that do not, highlighting the association between differentiation and complete reproductive isolation. Our results suggest that substantial progress towards speciation may involve the alignment of multi-faceted aspects of differentiation.
title: Le choix du type de fondations
Creators: name: Legget, R. F.
name: Crawford, C. B.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Basements and foundations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: Sous-sol et fondations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: foundations
subject: fondation (ouvrage)
subject: bearing capacity
subject: portance du sol
subject: floating foundations
subject: fondation flottante
subject: spread footings
subject: semelle de repartition

description: Le tracage des fondations d'un bâtiment doit être précédé par le calcul des charges transmises au sol et la détermination des conditions physiques régnant à l'emplacement du bâtiment. L'auteur récapitule les principaux types de fondations utilisables.
Scrophularia libanotica subsp. armena R. Mill
Creators: name: Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan
name: Güner, Ebru Doğan
name: Ekici, Murat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophularia
Scrophularia libanotica
Scrophularia libanotica boiss. subsp. armena r. mill

description: Scrophularia libanotica Boiss. subsp. armena R. Mill in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 36: 19 (1978)
 Type:— [TURKEY. B7 Erzincan] Egin (Kemaliye), Szanduk (Sandik), in declivibus saxosis, 17 May 1890, Sintenis 2337 (holotype LD; isotype WU!).
 Specimens seen:— TURKEY. Adıyaman: Nemrut Mountain, 2000 m, 15 July 1990 (ISTE 62157); Ağrı: Doğubeyazıt, İshakpaşa Palace, 1500 m, 26 May 2013, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2399 (GAZI); Erzincan: Ergan Mountain, stony slopes, 2256 m, 20 June 2014, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2576 (GAZI); Refahiye-Erzincan, 4‒5 km from Refahiye, rocky slopes, 1882 m, 23 May 2013, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2372 (GAZI); Erzincan ‒ Refahiye, 3 km from Sakaltutan pass, roadsides, 1973 m, 25 May 2013, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2389 (GAZI); ibid., 28 June 2013, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2464 (GAZI); ibid., 30 May 2014, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2527 (GAZI); Malatya: Gölbaşı, 1.3 km N of Reşadiye pass, ca. 1460 m, 24 August 1975, K. P.& E. Buttler 20267 (ANK); Şanlıurfa: Siverek, E of Siverek, ca. 800 m, 19 May 1957, Davis & Hedge 28293 (ANK, B); Siverek, E of Siverek, rocky places, 900 m, 19 May 1957, Davis & Hedge (WU); Tunceli: Hozat, ca. 1700 m, 14 July 1957, Davis & Hedge 31110 (ANK); Munzur Mountain, Ovacık, ca. 2500 m, 19 July 1957, Davis & Hedge 31407 (ANK, B).
 Flowering time: —May–August.
 Habitat: —Rocky and stony slopes, roadsides, calcareous slopes. 800‒2500 m elevation.
 Distribution: —Endemic. Irano-Turanian element.
 Note: — Scrophularia libanotica is found on almost every rocky place in Turkey. However, it has many varieties. It has been observed that even during the fruiting period there are a few flowers. These flowers have lighter colors than those during the flowering time. If this condition is overlooked, it may lead to faulty diagnosis. So, S. libanotica must be collected in flowering time and flowers color must be recorded during field work.
description: Published as part of Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan, Güner, Ebru Doğan & Ekici, Murat, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae) in Turkey, pp. 151-187 in Phytotaxa 333 (2) on pages 173-174, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721306
title: Les eaux de fond
Creators: name: Legget, R. F.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: ground water
subject: eaux souterraines
subject: water tables
subject: nappe d'eau
subject: foundations
subject: fondation (ouvrage)

description: L'eau existe sous une certaine forme dans la plupart des terrains sous-jacents. L'eau qui apparaît au fond des puits ou qui surgit aux sources est la preuve de l'existence des nappes phréatiques. L'auteur esquisse les principes régissant sa présence et mentionne les précautions à prendre au cours des travaux de construction.
Exploring the complex pattern of information spreading in online blog communities
Creators: name: Pei, Sen
name: Muchnik, Lev
name: Tang, Shaoting
name: Zheng, Zhiming
name: Makse, Hernan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information spreading in online social communities has attracted tremendous attention due to its utmost practical values in applications. Despite that several individual-level diffusion data have been investigated, we still lack the detailed understanding of the spreading pattern of information. Here, by comparing information flows and social links in a blog community, we find that the diffusion processes are induced by three different spreading mechanisms: social spreading, self-promotion and broadcast. Although numerous previous studies have employed epidemic spreading models to simulate information diffusion, we observe that such models fail to reproduce the realistic diffusion pattern. In respect to users behaviors, strikingly, we find that most users would stick to one specific diffusion mechanism. Moreover, our observations indicate that the social spreading is not only crucial for the structure of diffusion trees, but also capable of inducing more subsequent individuals to acquire the information. Our findings suggest new directions for modeling of information diffusion in social systems and could inform design of efficient propagation strategies based on users behaviors.
title: Toits - terrasses
Creators: name: Garden, G. K.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Wind loads
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0372
subject: Surcharges vent
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0372
subject: Rooftop gardens
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0371
subject: Toitures-jardins
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0371
subject: roofing
subject: couvertures
subject: roof gardens
subject: toiture jardin
subject: accessible flat roofs
subject: toiture terrasse accessible
subject: parking lots
subject: parc de stationnement
subject: thermal insulation
subject: isolation thermique

description: La réussite d'un toit-terrasse dépend de l'habileté de l'architecte à établir un compromis valable. Convenablement posés, les matériaux de surfacage peuvent réduire l'amplitude des variations de température dans le revêtement imperméable et le protéger contre le rayonnement solaire, l'endommagement, le feu et le vent. On obtient la vie utile maximale des matériaux de surfacage en prévoyant et permettant leurs déplacements d'origine thermique, et en maintenant ces matériaux aussi secs que possible.
The projected gravitational potential of the galaxy cluster MACS~J1206 derived from galaxy kinematics
Creators: name: Stock, Dennis
name: Meyer, Sven
name: Sarli, Eleonora
name: Bartelmann, Matthias
name: Balestra, Italo
name: Grillo, Claudio
name: Koekemoer, Anton
name: Mercurio, Amata
name: Nonino, Mario
name: Rosati, Piero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconstruct the radial profile of the projected gravitational potential of the galaxy cluster MACS-J1206 from 592 spectroscopic measurements of velocities of cluster members. For doing so, we use a method we have developed recently based on the Richardson-Lucy deprojection algorithm and an inversion of the spherically-symmetric Jeans equation. We find that, within the uncertainties, our reconstruction agrees very well with a potential reconstruction from weak and strong gravitational lensing as well as with a potential obtained from X-ray measurements. In addition, our reconstruction is in good agreement with several common analytic profiles of the lensing potential. Varying the anisotropy parameter in the Jeans equation, we find that isotropy parameters which are either small, $β\lesssim0.2$, or decrease with radius yield potential profiles which strongly disagree with that obtained from gravitational lensing. We achieve the best agreement between our potential profile and the profile from gravitational lensing if the anisotropy parameter rises quite steeply to $β\approx0. 6$ within $\approx0.5\,\mathrm{Mpc}$ and stays constant further out.
description: submitted to A&A
Scrophularia amana Lall
Creators: name: Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan
name: Güner, Ebru Doğan
name: Ekici, Murat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophularia
Scrophularia amana

description: 34. Scrophularia amana Lall in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 30: 129, t. 8a (1970)
 Type:— TURKEY. C 6 Hatay: distr. Antakya (Amanus), Antakya-Yayladağ nr Senköy, 1000 m, 28 iv 1957, Davis & Hedge, D. 27175 (holotype E!).
 Specimens seen:— TURKEY. Hatay: Antakya, Yayladağ, Şenköy, ca. 1000 m, 28 April 1957, Davis & Hedge 27175 (ANK); Şenköy-Yayladağ, 6‒7 km from Şenköy, rocky, calcareous crevices, 912 m, 19April 2013, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2335 (GAZI); ibid., 14 June 2013, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2429 (GAZI); ibid., 10 April 2014, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2497 (GAZI).
 Flowering time: —April–June.
 Habitat: —Calcareous crevices, rocky. 910‒1000 m elevation.
 Distribution: —Endemic. Mediterranean element.
description: Published as part of Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan, Güner, Ebru Doğan & Ekici, Murat, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae) in Turkey, pp. 151-187 in Phytotaxa 333 (2) on page 174, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721306
title: Les immeubles et les personnes infirmes
Creators: name: Legget, R. F.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: handicapped persons
subject: handicappé
subject: accessibility
subject: accessibilité
subject: aged
subject: personne agée
subject: stairs
subject: escalier
subject: access ramps
subject: ramp d'accès
subject: bathrooms
subject: salle de bains

description: Le Supplément no 7 du Code national du bâtiment au Canada contient certaines normes ayant pour but de rendre les bâtiments accessibles aux infirmes et d'y faciliter leurs déplacements; il y a au Canada environ un demi-million de personnes impotentes.
title: THE CHALLENGES OF ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR IN REALIZING POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICAL PRACTICE IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Oti, Oluchi
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: For organizations in developing economies with low business ethics ratings, unethical behaviour in the face of international demands for more ethical practices has become a grave concern for management. This research explored the stimulus and impediments of ethical behaviour and recommendations the Nigerian organization can take to become a more ethical practice. Research shows using visible ethical role models, could positively influence organizational ethical culture (Brown et al., 2005; Weaver, Trevino and Agle; 2005; Brown, 2007). An initial conceptual framework, drawn from literature show components of stimulus and impediments of ethical behaviour, ethics teams and their role is sustaining an ethical culture, climate and practice.
title: Les peintures et autres revêtements de finition
Creators: name: Ashton, H. E.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Buildings
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0721
subject: Bâtiments
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0721
subject: paints
subject: peinture (produit)
subject: binders (paints)
subject: liant (peinture)
subject: solvents
subject: solvent
subject: varnish
subject: vernis
subject: lacquers
subject: peinture laqué

description: L'auteur classe les enduits en enduits au solvant et enduits à l'eau, et étudie les propriétés de chaque groupe. Il décrit les subdivisions des groupes principaux en mettant en regard propriétés et composition.
title: Lutte contre l'humidité et conception des toitures
Creators: name: Handegord, G. O.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Moisture performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: Performance hygrométrique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: roofing
subject: couvertures
subject: roofs
subject: toits
subject: rain penetration
subject: pénetration de la pluie
subject: water vapour
subject: vapeur d'eau
subject: ventilation

description: La nécessité d'empêcher la pénétration des eaux de pluie motivait en grande partie les perfectionnements que l'on a apporté aux toitures dans le passé, mais de nos jours il faut également tenir compte des autres causes et conséquences de l'humidité. Le présent Digeste expose les principes en cause et leur application à la conception d'une toiture ordinaire.
title: Exploring the Challenges of an SME’s Survival, Sustainability and Growth outside its Business Cluster: a Study of MGP
Creators: name: Bode-George, Roli
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are regarded as the bedrock of any economy and ideally act as a significant engine driver that stimulates the growth of jobs and wealth creation in a country’s economic system. Only when successful can they contribute and foster economic development and growth of any nation. Furthermore, SMEs strengthen and enhance sustainable growth. Researchers acknowledge that SME performance forms a gateway for opening numerous doors for employment opportunities and both tangible and intangible investment in a country. However, they note the alarming failure rate of Nigerian SMEs, noting slim chances of survival. This research stems from the current high rate of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) failures in Nigeria, which constitutes a “wicked problem”, and examines the challenges of an SME located outside its Business Cluster (BC) using a case study approach within an Action Research paradigm. It considers the role of location as a factor for business survival and growth. It also examines recent debates on the role of various success and failure factors that are critical for the success of an SME located outside its BC; the study holds a holistic perspective that incorporates diverse aspects of SME research on survival, failure and growth. This study aims to address the current trend of failure and to suggest ways to alleviate the current failure rate of Nigerian SMEs while ensuring that they remain sustainable and continue to have growth potential. The major findings of this study acknowledge that, while location plays a critical factor for the success and sustainability of an SME, a more fundamental problem responsible for SME failures exists in Nigeria. This study contributes to management practice in the area of SME business start-up. This research also proffers a theoretical framework that can be used as a practical guide to SMEs at their inception, giving them a better chance for survival and enhanced performance in the turbulent, volatile and challenging Nigerian business environment; it also presents a business model for SMEs located outside their BC.
Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies
Creators: name: Salvadori, Stefania
name: Skuladottir, Asa
name: Tolstoy, Eline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the frequency and origin of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars in Local Group dwarf galaxies by means of a statistical, data-calibrated cosmological model for the hierarchical build-up of the Milky Way and its dwarf satellites. The model self-consistently explains the variation with dwarf galaxy luminosity of the observed: i) frequency and [Fe/H] range of CEMP stars; ii) metallicity distribution functions; iii) star formation histories. We show that if primordial faint supernovae dominated the early metal enrichment, then CEMP-no stars enriched by the first stellar generations should be present in all dwarf galaxies, with similar number of stars and CEMP fractions at [Fe/H]$< -4$. We demonstrate that the probability to observe a star that is carbon-enhanced within a given [Fe/H] range strongly depends on the luminosity of the dwarf galaxy and, on average, it is an order of magnitude lower in "classical" Sculptor-like dSph galaxies ($P\leq 0.02$) than in the least luminous ultra-faint dwarfs ($P \approx 0.1$). In addition, we explain why it may be easier to find CEMP-no stars at [Fe/H]$\approx -2$ in classical dSph galaxies than in ultra-faint dwarfs. These are consequences of the dramatic variation in the fraction of stars at [Fe/H]$10^{7}L_{\odot}$. We present model predictions for the low Fe-tail and CEMP fraction of stars in dwarf galaxies, with particular emphasis on the Sculptor dSph, that can be used to shed light on the properties of the first stars.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Roofing membrane design
Creators: name: Baker, M. C.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Roofs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0770
subject: Toits
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0770
subject: Roofs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0370
subject: Toitures
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0370
subject: Moisture performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: Performance hygrométrique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: roofing
subject: couvertures
subject: water barriers
subject: barrière d'étanchéité
subject: bituminous roofings
subject: couverture bitumineuse
subject: building felts
subject: feutre de construction

description: This paper discusses principles of design for bituminous roofing membranes in relation to materials and application. It deals with the factors affecting the choice of bitumens and felts for the roof covering only, and compares several methods of felt application.
On phoretic clustering of particles in turbulence
Creators: name: Schmidt, Lukas
name: Fouxon, Itzhak
name: Krug, Dominik
name: van Reeuwijk, Maarten
name: Holzner, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that diffusiophoretic, thermophoretic and chemotactic phenomena in turbulence lead to clustering of particles on multi-fractal sets that can be described using one single framework, valid when the particle size is much smaller than the smallest length scale of turbulence $l_0$. To quantify the clustering, we derive positive pair correlations and fractal dimensions that hold for scales smaller than $l_0$. Statistics of the number of particles in a small volume are non-Poissonian manifesting deviations from the case of uncorrelated particles. For scales larger than $l_0$ we predict a stretched exponential decay to 1 of the pair correlation function. For the case of inhomogeneous turbulence we find that the fractal dimension depends on the inhomogeneous direction. By performing experiments of clustering of diffusiophoretic particles induced by salinity gradients in a turbulent gravity current we demonstrate clustering in conformity to the theory. The particle size in the experiment is comparable to $l_0$, outside the strict validity region of the theory, suggesting that the theoretical predictions transfer to this practically relevant regime. This clustering mechanism can provide the key to the understanding of a multitude of processes such as formation of marine snow in the ocean and population dynamics of chemotactic bacteria.
title: Dialoghi di diritto amministrativo. Lavori del laboratorio di diritto amministrativo 2019
Creators: name: Aperio Bella, Flaminia
name: Carbone, Andrea
name: Zampetti, Enrico
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2020

description: Il Laboratorio di diritto amministrativo nasce come iniziativa di incontro e scambio tra giovani studiosi della materia per discutere delle ricerche in corso di svolgimento. L’idea, nata dall’esperienza di quanto avviene in altre realtà, soprattutto al di fuori del nostro Paese, si fonda sulla necessità di collocare, nell’ambito di un percorso di ricerca sovente caratterizzato dalla ‘solitudine’ di chi lo intraprende, un momento di confronto dialettico all’interno della comunità scientifica; un momento in cui, cioè, la comunità stessa metta a disposizione del singolo le proprie eterogenee esperienze e conoscenze, di modo che questi possa conseguire un più proficuo sviluppo del suo lavoro, nell’ottica di un complessivo arricchimento reciproco. Gli esiti di tali ricerche, per l’anno 2019, sono oggetto di pubblicazione del presente volume, insieme agli ulteriori contributi ad essi correlati e ispirati dall’attività del Laboratorio.
Deregulation of DUX4 and ERG in acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Creators: name: Takayanagi, Shin-Ichiro
name: Qu, Chunxu
name: Stock, Wendy
name: Ochoa, Kerri
name: Dick, John E
name: Pui, Ching-Hon
name: Ma, Jing
name: Loh, Mignon L.
name: Fulton, Robert S.
name: Wilson, Richard K.
name: Shurtleff, Sheila A.
name: Devidas, Meenakshi
name: Tallman, Martin S.
name: Mullighan, Charles G.
name: Marcucci, Guido
name: Chang, Yunchao
name: Wang, Jingjing
name: Harvey, Richard C.
name: Ding, Li
name: Liu, Yu
name: Wei, Lei
name: Downing, James R.
name: Wienholds, Erno
name: Mardis, Elaine R.
name: Song, Guangchun
name: Ntziachristos, Panagiotis
name: Churchman, Michelle L.
name: Edmonson, Michael
name: Roberts, Kathryn G.
name: McCastlain, Kelly
name: Raimondi, Susana C.
name: Hunger, Stephen P.
name: Relling, Mary V.
name: Easton, John
name: Kohlschmidt, Jessica
name: Chen, I-Ming L.
name: Mulder, Heather L.
name: Liu, Yanling
name: Valentine, Marcus L.
name: Pei, Deqing
name: Rowe, Jacob M.
name: Dalton, James
name: Lu, Charles
name: Mrózek, Krzysztof
name: Vadodaria, Bhavin
name: Kaufmann, Kerstin B.
name: Payne-Turner, Debbie
name: Chen, Xiang
name: Racevskis, Janis
name: Iacobucci, Ilaria
name: Yoshihara, Hiroki
name: Wen, Ji
name: Aifantis, Iannis
name: Evans, William E.
name: Fulton, Lucinda
name: Ma, Xiaotu
name: Zhang, Jinghui
name: Wu, Gang
name: Kornblau, Steven M.
name: Newman, Scott
name: Bloomfield, Clara D.
name: Tabib, Yashodhan
name: Cheng, Cheng
name: Willman, Cheryl L.
name: Paietta, Elisabeth
name: Gupta, Pankaj
name: Xu, Beisi
name: Jeha, Sima
name: Waanders, Esmé
name: Yang, Jun
name: Luger, Selina
name: Li, Yongjin
name: Rusch, Michael
name: Boggs, Kristy
name: Foster, Matthew C.
name: Bakogianni, Sofia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Chromosomal rearrangements deregulating hematopoietic transcription factors are common in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).1,2 Here, we show that deregulation of the homeobox transcription factor gene DUX4 and the ETS transcription factor gene ERG are hallmarks of a subtype of B-progenitor ALL that comprises up to 7% of B-ALL. DUX4 rearrangement and overexpression was present in all cases, and was accompanied by transcriptional deregulation of ERG, expression of a novel ERG isoform, ERGalt, and frequent ERG deletion. ERGalt utilizes a non-canonical first exon whose transcription was initiated by DUX4 binding. ERGalt retains the DNA-binding and transactivating domains of ERG, but inhibits wild-type ERG transcriptional activity and is transforming. These results illustrate a unique paradigm of transcription factor deregulation in leukemia, in which DUX4 deregulation results in loss-of-function of ERG, either by deletion or induction of expression of an isoform that is a dominant negative inhibitor of wild type ERG function.
title: Exploring and Enhancing Organizational Learning Capability in Company X
Creators: name: Diriyai, Uloma
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Abstract The purpose of this qualitative study was to use action research to improve learning capabilities in teams. This research was conducted in a privately run waste management company with 15 supervisors, who led teams with sizes ranging from 4 - 37 workers from two departments in the company's operations section. The data was collected through in-depth interviews and reports submitted by the supervisors. The data were analyzed to ascertain the exhibition and enhancement of learning capabilities in the organization. Using action research, improvements were made to the organizations' learning capability and further recommendations to the organization's management. This thesis showed that the learning capabilities work together; it showed how the supervisors interpret these capabilities in their daily work and the circumstances that influence these capabilities. These findings also show that understanding the team's existing learning capabilities provides a better opportunity to enhance and improve learning in the organization. The benefits and the impact of learning capability are hinged on understanding how teams exhibit these capabilities and using this insight to improve these capabilities in the organization. The implementation of the results of this research in Company X shows how OLC creates conditions for positive outcomes.
Causa Efficiens versus Causa Formalis: origens da discussão moderna sobre a dimensionalidade do espaço
Creators: name: Caruso, Francisco
name: Xavier, Roberto Moreira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metascientific criteria used for explaining or constraining physical space dimensionality and their historical relationship to prevailing causal systems are discussed. The important contributions by Aristotle, Kant and Ehrenfest to the dimensionality of space problem are considered and shown to be grounded on different causal explanations: {\it causa materialis} for Aristotle, {\it causa efficiens} for young Kant and an ingenious combination of {\it causa efficiens} and {\it causa formalis} for Ehrenfest. The prominent and growing rôle played by {\it causa formalis} in modern physical approaches to this problem is emphasized.
description: 15 pages, in portuguese
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cederberg Sneeukop hut raingauge station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Fynbos Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Cederberg
Meteorological
Tipping bucket rain gauge
Rainfall
air temperature

description: This package contains supporting information for the meteorological data collected at Cederberg's Sneeukop hut raingauge station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Simultaneous measurement of forward-backward asymmetry and top polarization in dilepton final states from $t\bar t$ production at the Tevatron
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simultaneous measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry and the top-quark polarization in $t\bar t$ production in dilepton final states using 9.7 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-antiproton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV with the D0 detector. To reconstruct the distributions of kinematic observables we employ a matrix element technique that calculates the likelihood of the possible $t\bar t$ kinematic configurations. After accounting for the presence of background events and for calibration effects, we obtain a forward-backward asymmetry of $A^{t\bar t} = (15.0 \pm 6.4 \text{ (stat)} \pm 4.9 \text{ (syst)})\%$ and a top-quark polarization times spin analyzing power in the beam basis of $κP = (7.2 \pm 10.5 \text{ (stat)} \pm 4.2 \text{ (syst)})\%$, with a correlation of $-56\%$ between the measurements. If we constrain the forward-backward asymmetry to its expected standard model value, we obtain a measurement of the top polarization of $κP = (11.3 \pm 9.1 \text{ (stat)} \pm 1.9 \text{ (syst)})\%.$ If we constrain the top polarization to its expected standard model value, we measure a forward-backward asymmetry of $A^{t\bar t} = (17.5 \pm 5.6 \text{ (stat)} \pm 3.1 \text{ (syst)})\%.$ A combination with the D0 $A^{t\bar t}$ measurement in the lepton+jets final state yields an asymmetry of $ A^{t\bar t} = (11.8 \pm 2.5 \text{ (stat)} \pm 1.3 \text{ (syst)})\% . $ Within their respective uncertainties, all these results are consistent with the standard model expectations.
description: 16 pages, 16 figures, published version
title: CORPORATE STRATEGIC CHANGE IN SMALL BUSINESS: AN APPLICATION OF ACTION RESEARCH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNAL MARKETING DURING STRATEGIC CHANGE
Creators: name: Chatzigiannis, Vasilios
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: For this action research study, the researcher studied a small business services firm in the United States of America, as they embarked on a strategic change to develop their structure, processes, and internal communication strategy. The author aimed to develop proposals for the company's business owners to evaluate more pluralistic methods for developing and communicating business change using internal marketing and their employees’ participation. This academic inquiry evaluated, within the context of the presented literature, the actions taken by the firm's business owners in their approach to reform the company and how their strategy was received and affected their employees. Specifically, the researcher studied and analyzed the employees’ views regarding the firm’s strategic planning, internal communication, and participative management processes during the strategic change to assess why the studied organization’s current practices did not adequately communicate the change objectives to reduce employee confusion and business disruption.
Genome-wide association analyses identify new susceptibility loci for oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer
Creators: name: Nunes, Fabio D.
name: Peters, Wilbert H.M.
name: Franceschi, Silvia
name: Polesel, Jerry
name: Bueno-De-Mesquita, H. Bas
name: Canova, Cristina
name: Agudo, Antonio
name: Diergaarde, Brenda
name: Lesseur, Corina
name: Thomas, Steve
name: Lissowska, Jolanta
name: Tajara, Eloiza H.
name: Macfarlane, Gary J.
name: Wünsch-Filho, Victor
name: Lagiou, Pagona
name: Shangina, Oxana
name: Ness, Andrew R.
name: Grandis, Jennifer R.
name: Boffetta, Paolo
name: Fabiánová, Eleonóra
name: Steffen, Annika
name: Gaborieau, Valérie
name: Ahrens, Wolfgang
name: Hung, Rayjean J.
name: Brennan, Paul
name: Boccia, Stefania
name: Conway, David I.
name: Vilensky, Marta
name: Weissler, Mark C.
name: Kjaerheim, Kristina
name: Xiao, Xiangjun
name: Chabrier, Amélie
name: McKay, James D.
name: Liu, Geoffrey
name: Eluf-Neto, José
name: De Carvalho, Marcos B.
name: Zaridze, David
name: Castellsagué, Xavier
name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Amos, Christopher I.
name: Mates, Dana
name: Johansson, Mattias
name: Cadoni, Gabriella
name: Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Neonila
name: Anantharaman, Devasena
name: Healy, Claire M
name: Znaor, Ariana
name: Robinson, Max
name: Curado, Maria Paula
name: Herrero, Rolando
name: Lacko, Martin
name: Menezes, Ana M.
name: Holcátová, Ivana
name: Richiardi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: We conducted a genome-wide association study of oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer in 6,034 cases and 6,585 controls from Europe, North America and South America; we detected 8 loci (P<5x10–8), 7 of which are novel for these cancer sites. Oral and pharyngeal cancers combined were associated with loci at 6p21.32 (rs3828805, HLA-DQB1), 10q26.13 (rs201982221, LHPP) and 11p15.4 (rs1453414, OR52N2/TRIM5). Oral cancer was associated with two new regions 2p23.3 (rs6547741, GPN1) and 9q34.12 (rs928674, LAMC3), and with known cancer loci: 9p21.3 (rs8181047, CDKN2B-AS1) and 5p15.33 (rs10462706, CLPTM1L). Oropharyngeal cancer associations were limited to the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region and classical HLA allele imputation revealed a protective association with the class II haplotype DRB1*1301-DQA1*0103-DQB1*0603 (odds ratio (OR)=0.59, P=2.7x10–9). Stratified analyses on a subgroup of oropharyngeal cases with human papillomavirus (HPV) status indicated that this association was considerably stronger in HPV-positive (OR=0.23, P=1.6x10–6) compared to HPV-negative cancers (OR=0.75, P=0.16).
title: Precast concrete walls: a new basis for design
Creators: name: Latta, J. K.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Concrete
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: Béton
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: precast concrete panels
subject: panneau de béton préfabriqué
subject: air tightness
subject: étanchéité à l'air
subject: thermal insulation
subject: isolation thermique

description: Three basic requirements of a wall are identified if problems (CBD 93) are to be avoided. A new approach to the use of precast concrete is developed which meets these three requirements.
Scrophularia hyssopifolia Boiss. & Hausskn.
Creators: name: Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan
name: Güner, Ebru Doğan
name: Ekici, Murat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophularia
Scrophularia hyssopifolia

description: 35. Scrophularia hyssopifolia Boiss. & Hausskn. in Boiss., Fl. Orient. 4: 418 (1879)
 Lectotype (designated by Lall & Mill 1978): — [TURKEY. B6 Maraş] ad rupes montis Berytdagh Cataoniae, 2135 m, 11 August 1865, Haussknecht 1244 (holotype G!; isotype BM, K!).
 Flowering time: —July–August.
 Habitat: —Cliffs. Ca. 2135 m elevation.
 Distribution: —Endemic. Irano-Turanian element.
 Note: — Scrophularia hyssopifolia is known from Maraş: Berit Mountain. For this reason, field studies were carried out in many parts of Berit Mountain considering the appropriate seasons during the project. The studies were carried out in detailed field survey in habitats and altitudes where the plant could be found. S. rimarum, S. xanthoglossa var. decipiens and S. libanotica var. austriaca were encountered, but S. hyssopifolia species was not collected. In addition, flora studies of Yildiz (2001) on Berit Mountain and other studies in nearby areas (Duman 1985; Aytaç & Duman 2005) were examined and no collection data related to this species could be found. It has been kept in the diagnostic key with the idea that it could be collected from the region in the future.
description: Published as part of Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan, Güner, Ebru Doğan & Ekici, Murat, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae) in Turkey, pp. 151-187 in Phytotaxa 333 (2) on page 174, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721306