cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Family Saga as a Bestseller Strategy
Creators: name: Gemzøe, Anker
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: In the post-millennial years, Danish literature has witnessed a veritable wave of biographically based, regionally rooted family sagas. One important factor of this surge is a reaction against a polarization in the Danish literature of the 1990s between, on one hand, a minimalist, experimental short-story prose, critically acclaimed, but marginalized by the reading public, and on the other hand, widely read biographies and autobiographies of publicly known figures, mostly written by journalists.

Examining lists of especially significant literary prizes and by way of a qualitative inquiry, the article claims that one determinant in the recent development of the Danish novel has been a biographically oriented bestseller strategy, aiming at a fusion of literary quality and a broad appeal to the readers. Based on recent bestseller theories the article defends the notion that certain genres or genre fields can be pertinent in the historical assessment of bestsellerism, and that a historically changing relation exists between popular bestsellers and ‘literary’ literature. Finally, the article advocates the idea of a ‘bestseller determinant’ in literary history and sociology – as a pull determinant complementing the push determinant in the theories of ‘deautomatization’ of Russian Formalism (Sklovskij, Tynjanov), New Criticism and other theories connected to Modernism.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Hyper Attention Blockbusters
Creators: name: Christiansen, Steen
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: In this article, I outline a theory of attention for 21st-century blockbusters, emphasizing the coevolution of attention in what N. Katherine Hayles has distinguished as deep and hyper attention. Furthermore, I elaborate on this theory with a discussion of kinetics as an embodied sensation integral to blockbuster, drawing examples from Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Dirac boundary condition at the reconstructed zigzag edge of graphene
Creators: name: van Ostaay, J. A. M.
name: Akhmerov, A. R.
name: Beenakker, C. W. J.
name: Wimmer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Edge reconstruction modifies the electronic properties of finite graphene samples. We formulate a low-energy theory of the reconstructed zigzag edge by deriving the modified boundary condition to the Dirac equation. If the unit cell size of the reconstructed edge is not a multiple of three with respect to the zigzag unit cell, valleys remain uncoupled and the edge reconstruction is accounted for by a single angular parameter $\vartheta$. Dispersive edge states exist generically, unless $|\vartheta| = π/2$. We compute $\vartheta$ from a microscopic model for the "reczag" reconstruction (conversion of two hexagons into a pentagon-heptagon pair) and show that it can be measured via the local density of states. In a magnetic field there appear three distinct edge modes in the lowest Landau level, two of which are counterpropagating.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
Why Has Wage Dispersion Grown in Mexico? Is It the Incidence of Reforms of Growing Demand for Skills?
Creators: name: Cragg, Michael
name: Epeaum, Mario
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Labor economics

description: In the mid 1980s, Mexico undertook major trade reform, privatization and deregulation. This coincided with a rapid expansion in wages and employment that led to a rise in wage dispersion. This paper examines the role of industry and occupation-specific effects in explaining the growing dispersion. We find that despite the magnitude and pace of the reforms, industry-specific effects explain little of the rising wage dispersion. In contrast occupation-specific effects can explain almost half of the growing wage dispersion. Finally, we find that the economy became more skill-intensive and that this effect was larger for the traded sector because this sector experienced much smaller low-skilled employment growth. We therefore suggest that competition from imports had an important role in the fall of the relative demand for less-skilled workers.
Evolving corporate governance in Japan
Creators: name: Patrick, Hugh T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: Like the United States, managers of Japan's large companies since the early 1950s have had great autonomy because shareholding is dispersed. However, most Japanese companies have a significant portion of their shares stably held by other friendly financial institutions and businesses, a significant component of the integrated, synergistic "postwar economic system" embodied in the permanent employment system of industrial relations, the main bank system, and management independence. Employees rather than shareholders are the main potential constraint, so managers have given strong priority to employee interests. Japan's mediocre economic performance since 1991, and a range of publicized corporate scandals, are now undermining this system. Government policies and public pressure have improved corporate disclosure and transparency, and have made corporate governance through capital markets feasible. While managers in the future will place greater weight on shareholder interests, only a few companies are likely to adopt the Anglo-American corporate governance model. More likely is the gradual development of a hybrid approach in which management retains considerable autonomy and employee interests remain important.
Role of Y-box binding protein-1 (YB-1) in breast cancer
Creators: name: Astanehe, Arezoo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The Y-box binding protein-1 (YB-1) is a multifunctional protein with roles in transcription, translation, DNA repair, and a recently identified function as an extracellular mitogen. YB-1 is over-expressed in various malignancies including breast carcinoma. Previous work from our laboratory has shown that YB-1 is expressed in approximately 40% of invasive breast carcinomas, and its expression correlates with relapse and poor survival. Further, the oncogenic potential of YB-1 has been demonstrated in breast cancer. In the studies presented in this thesis, we sought to understand the contribution of YB-1 as an oncogenic transcription factor to breast cancer. We focused our studies on the basal-like breast carcinoma (BLBC) and the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) over-expressing breast cancers, as patients with these subtypes suffer the worst prognosis. Using BLBC cell lines, we demonstrated that YB-1 induces expression of MET and PIK3CA to promote anchorage-independent growth and invasion respectively. These studies further identified YB-1 as a potential therapeutic target in BLBC. We then directed our focus to the HER2 over-expressing breast cancers. Although the development of trastuzumab (Herceptin®), a targeted therapy against HER2, has provided a substantial advance in the care of affected patients, resistance remains a prevailing challenge. We identified a novel mechanism by which signalling proteins, mitogen activated protein kinase interacting kinase (MNK) and p90 ribosomal S6 kinase (RSK), interact to increase phosphorylation of YB-1. In turn, phosphorylation of YB-1 promotes its nuclear translocation where it regulates transcription of genes involved in trastuzumab resistance. These results further suggest YB-1 as a therapeutic target to improve outcome for women with trastuzumab refractory disease. As a whole, the studies outlined in this thesis have contributed to our understanding of breast cancer pathogenesis and have identified novel aspects of YB-1 function in BLBC and in HER2 over-expressing breast carcinomas.
Japanese labor markets and subcontracting
Creators: name: Smitka, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1987
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper makes two points. The first is an empirical one, that the employees of a Japanese firm are very homogeneous; firms are observed to pull their employees from only one segment of the labor market. The second is a theoretical one, that the consideration of factor market imperfections, such as the homogeneity discussed herein, is important for developing a more complete theory of the firm. Organization functions as a substitute for markets, and its form reflects their structure and faults. In the manufacture of most products, a variety of labor inputs are required, e.g., skilled and unskilled. But homogeneity means that a firm is constrained from employing differing types of workers at different wages. Hence, for static efficiency, a firm will subcontract processes which require workers who are, in the labor market, paid less (or more) than its own employees. Following this introduction, Section II presents an overview of theories of the firm, highlighting the contribution of this research to that theory. A brief description of subcontracting in Japan is also included. Section III is the first of two on labor markets; it contrasts the range of (market) wages found in Japan with the relative homogeneity of the workforce in Japanese firms. Because of their aggregate nature, standard statistical sources are incapable of providing detail at the firm level; case studies are utilized as an essential, complementary data source. Section IV delves into the sources of this homogeneity, primarily through a review of the literature on labor relations in large Japanese firms. Section V raises several issues which are beyond the scope of this paper, including generalizations to the US labor market. Section VI briefly summarizes the paper.
Tonally Teen?
Creators: name: Lysne, Anders
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: This article investigates the trial and error of audience appeal in contemporary Danish youth films supported through the special children’s and youth film commissioner scheme of The Danish Film Institute. Employing the concept of tone to textual analysis, the article focuses on the two films Triple Dare (Christina Rosendahl, 2006) and Skyscraper (Rune Schjøtt, 2011), which serve as an interesting comparison for being, respectively, the most and the least commercially successful of the publicly funded youth films in the 2000s. With the analysis of these films, I aim to explicate how tonal complexity may affect audience involvement and complicate the fundamental issue of audience appeal.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Do the Japanese elderly reduce their total wealth?
Creators: name: Dekle, Robert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Economics

description: Using previously unanalyzed Japanese household data, this paper shows that the Japanese elderly's age-wealth profile is flat; the elderly are not dissaving. Part of the reason for the lack of dissaving appears to be the bequest motive, if it can be assumed that the intensity of the bequest motive is stronger if one has more surviving children. The conclusion that the Japanese elderly are not dissaving is based on estimates of the age-wealth profile from a sample of the independent elderly -- those elderly who choose not to live with their children or other younger relatives. I perform a test of sample-selectivity bias and show that the age-wealth relation estimated from only the sample of the independent elderly is an unbiased estimate for all of the elderly.
The New Media and The Practice of Journalism in Nigeria 21-Apr-2023 07-15-37.pdf
Creators: name: Akpanyia, Mathias  Oshie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Journalism studies
International and development communication
Communication technology and digital media studies
Communication studies
Media studies
Organisational, interpersonal and intercultural communication

description: The new media of communication have, of late attracted a lot of attention. This is because, as a discipline, the media generally transverse all global activities. It is enough to say that the advent of the new -media has added value to the activities of the media. The new-media is doing enough to facilitate the global communication process, especially, as they minimize cost and maximize rewards…
Japan and the international monetary regime
Creators: name: Patrick, Hugh T.
name: Hamada, Koichi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1987
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: The international monetary regime, the set of rules that governs the monetary mechanism of international trade and investment, is one of the foundations of the world economy. The development of every national economy is conditioned by the way the international monetary regime is arranged, and every major economy has contributed, though with different degrees of importance, to its evolution. The Japanese economy is no exception. This paper reviews the postwar development of the international monetary regime involving Japan and Japan's growing involvement, evaluates the efficacy and viability of the current flexible exchange rate regimes, and speculates upon the possibility of the future reform of the international monetary regime as viewed across the Pacific.
Blockbuster Genres in Danish Independent Film
Creators: name: Hansen, Kim Toft
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: Throughout the past decade, Danish independent cinema has grown from being amateur home productions to more self-aware production companies. What is fascinating about this development, though, is the fact that many of the indie filmmakers do not react against blockbuster marked dominance, but they respond by delving directly into specific international blockbuster genres and styles in the search for what appears to be missing in Danish cinema. This works for some directors, principally, by directly reacting against the institutional and economic dominance of primarily The Danish Film Institute. Indirectly, the filmmakers seem to react against ‘what is allowed’ in Danish film culture. Thus, they actually define themselves as being non-mainstream by focussing on international mainstream genres. By way of examples from the Danish indie scene and interviews with noteworthy indie filmmakers, this article draws attention to a still fairly anonymous trend in Danish film.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Thermo--hydrodynamics As a Field Theory
Creators: name: Jezierski, Jacek
name: Kijowski, Jerzy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field theoretical description of thermo-hydrodynamics is given. It is based on the duality between the physical space--time and the "material space-time" which we construct here. The material space appearing in a natural way in the canonical formulation of the hydrodynamics is completed with a material time playing role of the field potential for temperature. Both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations, the canonical structure, Poisson bracket, Nöther theorem and conservation laws are discussed.
description: 35 pages
D3.2 FAIR Data Practice Analysis
Creators: name: Whyte, Angus
name: Engelhart, Claudia
name: Bangert, Daniel
name: Kayumbi-Kabeya, Gabin
name: Lambert, Simon
name: Thorley, Mark
name: O'Connor, Ryan
name: Herterich, Patricia
name: Davidson, Joy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: FAIR data
data stewardship
research data management
RDM
data practices

description: This document provides an analysis of practices to support FAIR data production within a broad selection of research disciplines and research data repositories. It aims to inform the priorities of stakeholders interested in embedding those practices in research communities. Those stakeholders include policy makers, data librarians and others providing data services to research communities, as well as champions of FAIR principles in those communities. It also identifies priority themes for initial work in FAIRsFAIR to support ESFRI cluster and EOSC projects in FAIR culture change. These include developing a self-assessment framework for research infrastructures and institutions on their progress to support FAIR enabling practices in the communities they serve. This will underpin further work to build capabilities, describe good practice and address the highly uneven awareness of FAIR principles and the lack of information on research community implementation. Though we can't undertake to respond to every comment directly, we are seeking wide feedback on this deliverable which will inform discussions and further work within FAIRsFAIR as well as collaborations with other relevant projects. Comments and suggestions can be added at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xtFL21mlrI7YqzyNUnpRWz3uRqe0-EGocTStn_ctOGo/edit?pli=1#
Smashing the Stack with Hydra: The Many Heads of Advanced Polymorphic Shellcode
Creators: name: Prabhu, Pratap
name: Song, Yingbo
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: Recent work on the analysis of polymorphic shellcode engines suggests that modern obfuscation methods would soon eliminate the usefulness of signature-based network intrusion detection methods and supports growing views that the new generation of shellcode cannot be accurately and efficiently represented by the string signatures which current IDS and AV scanners rely upon. In this paper, we expand on this area of study by demonstrating never before seen concepts in advanced shellcode polymorphism with a proof-of-concept engine which we call Hydra. Hydra distinguishes itself by integrating an array of obfuscation techniques, such as recursive NOP sleds and multi-layer ciphering into one system while offering multiple improvements upon existing strategies. We also introduce never before seen attack methods such as byte-splicing statistical mimicry, safe-returns with forking shellcode and syscall-time-locking. In total, Hydra simultaneously attacks signature, statistical, disassembly, behavioral and emulation-based sensors, as well as frustrates ofï¬‚ine forensics. This engine was developed to present an updated view of the frontier of modern polymorphic shellcode and provide an effective tool for evaluation of IDS systems, Cyber test ranges and other related security technologies.
Nordic Noir Production Values
Creators: name: Waade, Anne Marit
name: Jensen, Pia Majbritt
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: In this article, the authors argue that Nordic noir constitutes a set of production values utilised and conceptualised to make Danish television series attractive in the international market. The idea of production values is embedded in a media industrial context where market principles of target groups, sales, funding and marketing/branding are as important as aesthetic principles. The Killing and The Bridge are used to illustrate how features such as setting, climate, light and language serve strategic as well as aesthetic purposes in the production process. The authors conclude by relating the specific Nordic noir production values present in the two series to changing conditions in Danish television drama production, in particular the internationalisation of DR Drama Division.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Characters and Topical Diversity
Creators: name: Eriksson, Rune
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: The purpose of this article is to contribute to our understanding of the difference between the bestseller and the non-bestseller in nonfiction. It is noticed that many bestsellers in nonfiction belongs to the sub-genre of creative nonfiction, but also that the topics in this kind of literature is largely ignored by the critics. Thus, the article tests how topics may work in creative nonfiction. Two Danish bestsellers belonging to the genre, Frank’s Mit smukke genom (My Beautiful Genome), about genomics, and Buk-Swienty’s Slagtebænk Dybbøl ( ‘Slaughter-bench Dybbøl’), a history book, are chosen as cases and analysed using a slightly modified motif model by Johansen. The result is that in both books the main topic is treated from a double perspective, but also that six out of seven secondary topics, or motifs, are treated as well. It is concluded that also in a topical sense creative nonfiction may span traits from nonfiction and fiction, and that this may contribute to our understanding between the bestseller and the non-bestseller in nonfiction.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Controlling overestimation of error covariance in ensemble Kalman filters with sparse observations: A variance limiting Kalman filter
Creators: name: Gottwald, Georg A.
name: Mitchell, Lewis
name: Reich, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of an ensemble Kalman filter when only partial observations are available. In particular we consider the situation where the observational space consists of variables which are directly observable with known observational error, and of variables of which only their climatic variance and mean are given. To limit the variance of the latter poorly resolved variables we derive a variance limiting Kalman filter (VLKF) in a variational setting. We analyze the variance limiting Kalman filter for a simple linear toy model and determine its range of optimal performance. We explore the variance limiting Kalman filter in an ensemble transform setting for the Lorenz-96 system, and show that incorporating the information of the variance of some un-observable variables can improve the skill and also increase the stability of the data assimilation procedure.
description: 32 pages, 11 figures
Finding the Next Book to Read in a Universe of Bestsellers, Blockbusters, and Spin-Offs
Creators: name: Mackey, Margaret
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: Finding a good book to read is part of the challenge of becoming a successful reader. Bestseller lists offer shortcuts, and many readers take advantage of the power to select from a radically smaller pool of possibilities. This article explores aspects of the impact of bestsellers and their adaptations and spin-offs on people’s reading choices. It draws the examples of one children’s and one adult blockbuster title (Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Fifty Shades of Grey). Both these titles made their first appearance online, and, in each case, the printed novel is an early adaptation of the original text. Further adaptations, spin, publicity, and a variety of media tie-ins complicate the ways in which readers may approach these titles. Such proliferation also affects the potential strategies readers may acquire for selecting books, in ways that may be either helpful or restrictive.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Macroeconomic Balances in Emerging Economies: The Conflict Between Purely-Financial and Real-Economy Macrobalances
Creators: name: Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: The macroeconomic environment of Latin American Countries (LACs) has been dominated by strong economic cycles in the last 30 years. East Asia entered in the same environment in the 1990s. An increase in economic activity in the 1970s in LACs, ended with recession in the early 1980s and then opened a whole decade lost for growth. Subsequently, a recovery took place in the period 1990-94, which was followed by a recession, though a short one, in 1995. The biennium 1996-97 exhibited a strong recovery, with a sudden stop in 1998. In late 1999 a short-lasting recovery survived until early 2000. Finally, a recessive environment predominated until today; by now it is a sexennium (1998-2003) lost for economic growth and social progress, under the framework of the so-called Washington Consensus. In financial crises in the 1960s and 1970s, imbalances of the fiscal sector tended to have an active, leading, role. That changed dramatically in the 1990s. If we disaggregate changes in aggregate demand into public and private components it is found that, rather than the public profligacy of previous decades, in the 1990s, in general, it was the private sector that led to booms and to busts. Large external deficits during the booms and moves towards surpluses in the busts were determined, mostly, by swings in capital flows.
Graphene-based qubits in quantum communications
Creators: name: Wu, G. Y.
name: Lue, N. -Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the potential application of graphene-based qubits in photonic quantum communications. In particular, the valley pair qubit in double quantum dots of gapped graphene is investigated as a quantum memory in the implementation of quantum repeaters. For the application envisioned here, our work extends the recent study of the qubit (Wu et al., arXiv: 1104.0443; Phys. Rev. B 84, 195463 (2011)) to the case where the qubit is placed in a normal magnetic field-free configuration. It develops, for the configuration, a method of qubit manipulation, based on a unique AC electric field-induced, valley-orbit interaction-derived mechanism in gapped graphene. It also studies the optical response of graphene quantum dots in the configuration, in terms of valley excitation with respect to photonic polarization, and illustrates faithful photon \leftrightarrow valley quantum state transfers. This work suggests the interesting prospect of an all-graphene approach for the solid state components of a quantum network, e.g., quantum computers and quantum memories in communications.
description: 4 figures
Inflation and Stabilization in Poland 1990-1995
Creators: name: Wellisz, Stanislaw H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics

description: The Polish liberalization and stabilization program put into effect on January 1, 1990, called for the removal of virtually all price controls, and for a sharp curtailment of production subsidies. These measures magnified the effects of pre-existing inflationary forces. Within one month retail price index rose by 79.6 per cent. The inflation was, however, quickly brought under control by the stabilization measures adopted as a part of the reform package. By August the rate of price increase declined to a 1.8 percent monthly rate. Yet the goal of complete price stability by year-end proved to be elusive. In 1991 prices still rose by over 70 percent; in the subsequent years inflation slowed down, but it remained at a two-digit level (Table 1).
The relationship of industry evolution to patterns of technological linkages, joint ventures, and direct investment between the U.S. and Japan
Creators: name: Auster, Ellen R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: The patterns of technological linkages, joint ventures, and direct investment between U.S. and Japan were predicted for emerging, growing, maturing, and declining industries based on an analysis of the key characteristics of each stage of industry evolution and the costs and benefits of each form of resource investment. A first model predicting peak activity for technological linkages in emerging industries, joint ventures in growing industries, and direct investment in maturing industries was supported as was a second model which customized prediction for all forms at each stage of evolution. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.
Does the empirical meson spectrum support the Hagedorn conjecture?
Creators: name: Cohen, Thomas D.
name: Krejčiřík, Vojtěch
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has long been conjectured that strong interactions give rise to a Hagedorn spectrum and theoretical arguments have been presented in support of Hagedorn spectrum in large $N_c$ QCD. This paper discusses the extent to which the meson spectrum should be viewed as evidence for a Hagedorn spectrum and argues that data do not provide a strong evidence for the Hagedorn conjecture. The conclusion is based on three reasons. It is shown that "realistic" quark models have a spectrum in which the number of mesons up to 2.3 GeV grows with mass in a very similar way to the spectrum of physical mesons up to 2.3 GeV. However, these models can be shown not to have Hagedorn spectra. It is also shown that the available data are insufficient to determine the Hagedorn temperature. The data can be described with comparable accuracy by various functional forms of the prefactor that yield radically different Hagedorn temperatures. An analysis of the behavior of the spectrum for the various parity-spin-charge conjugation-isospin channels also appears to be inconsistent with what one expects if the data were in the regime dominated by exponential behavior.
Iphiaulax ardens
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Iphiaulax
Iphiaulax ardens

description: Iphiaulax ardens (WALKER, 1871)
Bracon ardens n.sp.: WALKER 1871a: 4 (descr. ♀, Tadjoura).
Bracon ardens WALKER, 1871: DE DALLA TORRE 1898: 259 (world cat. (Djibouti, not Egypt)).
Bracon ardens WALKER, 1871: SZÉPLIGETI 1905: 28 (world cat. (Djibouti, not Egypt)).
Iphiaulax ardens (WALKER, 1871): BRUES 1926: 319 (tax., cat. Afr. reg. (Djibouti, not Egypt)).
Bracon ardens WALKER, 1871: FAHRINGER 1928: 500 (tax., original descr., Tadjoura (Djibouti, not Egypt)).
Iphiaulax ardens (WALKER, 1871): FAHRINGER 1935: 627 (tax., original descr., Tadjoura).
Iphiaulax ardens (WALKER, 1871): SHENEFELT 1978: 1752 (world cat. (Djibouti, not Egypt)).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Tadjoura.
Iphiaulax ardens is only known from Djibouti. The record from Djibouti is not mentioned in INNES BEY (1911).
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on pages 909-910, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
Tent-Poles of the Bestseller
Creators: name: Jensen, Thessa
name: Vistisen, Peter
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2013

description: This article proposes a framework for understanding and analysing how the passive audience of a media event turns into active stakeholders. The starting point is the cross-media content quadrant (Jensen and Vistisen, 2012), which shows how the producer’s control is distributed on social media platforms, while storytelling evolves around a tent-pole, for example, a bestseller or blockbuster. To further explain how the audience engages, a three-step rhetoric model largely based on Bitzer (1998) and Tolkien (1971) is developed and explained.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Bestseller and Blockbuster Culture, Vol. 7
Viscous fingering instability in emulsions displacements
Creators: name: Enjamoori, Saraswathi
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2009

description: Bibliography: p. 182-196
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: When a less viscous fluid displaces a more viscous fluid, the difference in the mobility of the two fluids leads to an interfacial instability which is commonly referred to as viscous fingering. It is encountered in a wide variety of applications that include petroleum engineering (oil drilling and recovery) , environmental engineering (soil decontamination, solute transport in aquifers) and chemical engineering (chromatography and polymer processing). Understanding and controlling this instability is crucial for the success of many industrial processes and in particular in oil recovery where in situ emulsion formation and flow occurs at some stage of the recovery process. These emulsions display interesting rheological behavior that may vary from simple Newtonian behavior to complex viscoelastic behavior depending on factors such as the intrinsic properties of the continuous and dispersed phases, volume fraction of the dispersed phase, deformable droplets or internal fluid circulation. The objective of this research work is to understand the flow dynamics of emulsions and its effects on viscous fingering instability. In order to understand the physics of these flow displacements, experiments were carried out displacing oil-in-water (0/W) emulsions by water in a rectilinear Hele-Shaw cell. In this investigation, different concentrations of emulsions and different injection rates of displacing fluids were considered and their effects on finger pattern were examined. The displacements were carried at different aging times ranging from the initial time of emulsion preparation that is referred to as fresh emulsions to more than 24 hours after preparation that is referred to as aged emulsions. The drop size analysis showed that the emulsions were stable and the average drop size did not change significantly during the aging period. The rheological measurements showed that as the aging time of emulsions increased there was a trend for viscosity increase which was sometimes accompanied by a change to non- ewtonian behaviour. Overall, lower concentration fresh emulsions showed Newtonian behavior with some discrepancy in viscosities from one sample to another and the displacement results did not show any obvious trends in the finger structures and sweep efficiency. On the other hand, aged emulsions showed non-Newtonian shear thinning behavior with more consistency in the viscosity measurements. Flow displacements of these aged emulsions revealed that the complexity of finger structures and sweep efficiency increased with an increase in the injection rate. Possible interpretations and physical explanations of the results are presented in the thesis.
Japan's financial power
Creators: name: Mikuni, Akio
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Economics
Finance

description: Various bank asset rankings indicate Japanese banks almost monopolize the top five banks in the world. This paper explores why this phenomena appears to be of a temporary nature. Firstly, the thrust of long-term capital outflow comes from acquisitions of long dated bonds, especially US Treasury bonds, triggered by rapid expansion of current surplus. Secondly, Japanese banks' assets have increased due to two reasons. The sharp yen appreciation in the past four years has doubled their dollar translated domestic assets. In addition, their overseas assets have risen sharply from less than 10% of the total assets to 40% or more in the past six years. Japan's somewhat exaggerated financial power is likely to disappear in the not too distant future as the trade imbalance should be corrected by one way or another. However, aggressive Japanese investments in R&D efforts as well as production capacities will continue to improve the terms of international trade in Japan's favor. Furthermore, Japan's overseas investments will be paid back only if they will increase positively productivities in the local markets. Japan's financial power will become more invisible and will depend upon its contributions to the world economy, or supports by overseas consumers and investors.
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: The fastest rotating O-type star and shortest period LMC pulsar - remnants of a supernova disrupted binary?
Creators: name: Dufton, P. L.
name: Dunstall, P. R.
name: Evans, C. J.
name: Brott, I.
name: Cantiello, M.
name: de Koter, A.
name: de Mink, S. E.
name: Fraser, M.
name: Hénault-Brunet, V.
name: Howarth, I. D.
name: Langer, N.
name: Lennon, D. J.
name: Markova, N.
name: Sana, H.
name: Taylor, W. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a spectroscopic analysis of an extremely rapidly rotating late O-type star, VFTS102, observed during a spectroscopic survey of 30 Doradus. VFTS102 has a projected rotational velocity larger than 500\kms\ and probably as large as 600\kms; as such it would appear to be the most rapidly rotating massive star currently identified. Its radial velocity differs by 40\kms\ from the mean for 30 Doradus, suggesting that it is a runaway. VFTS102 lies 12 pcs from the X-ray pulsar PSR J0537-6910 in the tail of its X-ray diffuse emission. We suggest that these objects originated from a binary system with the rotational and radial velocities of VFTS102 resulting from mass transfer from the progenitor of PSR J0537-691 and the supernova explosion respectively.
description: Accepted by ApJL; v2: minor edits in proofs
Ptah-Sokar-Osiris statuettes in the collections of the Egyptian Museum of Florence: Chronology, Typology, History of the collections
Creators: name: Rindi Nuzzolo, Carlo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210108 Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology)
subject: 219999 History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: 210204 Museum Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Uncategorized
subject: 130205 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics, Business and Management)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Extensive study and interpretation of Egyptian funerary material (i.e. Osiris and Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures) in the collections of the Egyptian Museum in Florence, with artefact comparison from international museums and excavated from Abydos, Deir el-Bahari, Fayum, Heliopolis, Memphis, Saqqara and Thebes. Typological, philological, and iconographical analysis; study and interpretation of the objects from manufacture to museum collections, focussing on historical and archaeological research in archives. The thesis includes a detailed catalogue of the artefacts.
Department: Civiltà e Forme del Sapere
University of Pisa - Italy
Supervisor: Prof. Marilina Betrò
The thesis is under embargo until July 2052.
https://etd.adm.unipi.it/theses/available/etd-06132012-235950/CALiPSO Project
A Pacific Free Trade Area?
Creators: name: Drysdale, Peter
name: Garnaut, Ross
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Economics
International relations

description: This paper takes as the central objective of international economic diplomacy in the Pacific region, the preservation and enhancement of the conditions for continued economic growth in the style of recent decades. The international system that has supported vigorous trade expansion is under threat from several directions: tension between the United States and Japan (and to a lesser extent between the United States and Taiwan and Korea) over large trade and payments imbalances; the prospect of increased economic introversion in Europe as 1992 approaches; the accommodation of new patterns of comparative advantage in the Asian newly industrialised economies (NIEs) as they compress into a few years adjustments to a decade of rapid economic growth; and the new challenge of managing the emergence of China, with its partially reformed centrally planned system, as a major player in Pacific economic relations. It is important for peace and political stability, too, that the environment of relatively open economic relations that made a realistic alternative to autarky available to China at a crucial point in its political history, is preserved to provide similarly reliable alternatives for the states of Indochina, the Soviet Union and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), at a time of opportunity for progress on reducing longstanding sources of conflict.
Multisector nutrition gains amidst evidence scarcity: scoping review of policies, data and interventions to reduce child stunting in Afghanistan
Creators: name: Kim, Christine
name: Paya, Pir Mohammad
name: Ludin, Mohammad Homayoun
name: Todd, Catherine S.
name: Mashal, Mohammad Omar
name: Ahrar, Mohammad Javed
name: Mansoor, Ghulam Farooq
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2020

description:
Background Child health indicators have substantially improved across the last decade, yet Afghanistan has among the highest child stunting and malnutrition rates in Asia. Multisectoral approaches were recently introduced but evidence for this approach to improve support for and implementation of child nutrition programmes is limited compared to other countries. Methods We reviewed policy and programme data to identify best practices and gaps surrounding child malnutrition in Afghanistan. We conducted a scoping review using broad search categories and approaches, including database and website searches, reference hand-searches, purposive policy and programme document request, and key informant interviews. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were developed iteratively, with abstracts and documents assessed against the final criteria. We abstracted documents systematically and summarised and synthesised content to generate the main findings. Results We included 18 policies and strategies, 45 data sources and reports, and 20 intervention evaluations. Movement towards multisectoral efforts to address malnutrition at the policy level has started; however, integrated nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions are not yet uniformly delivered at the community level. Many data sources capturing nutrition, food security and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) indicators are available but indicator definitions are not standardised and there are few longitudinal nutrition surveys. Political will to improve household nutrition status has shown increased government and donor investments in nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific programmes through combined small- and large-scale interventions between 2004 and 2013; however, evidence for interventions that effectively decrease stunting prevalence is limited. Conclusions This review shows a breadth of nutrition programme, policy and data in Afghanistan. Multisector approaches faced challenges of reaching sufficient coverage as they often included a package of food security, livelihoods and health interventions but were each implemented independently. Further implementation evidence is needed to aid policy and programmes on effective integration of nutrition, food security and WASH in Afghanistan.
Directional speakers as a tool for animal vocal communication studies
Creators: name: Johnson-Ulrich, Lily
name: Demartsev, Vlad
name: Johnson, Laurie
name: Brown, Emma
name: Strandburg-Peshkin, Ariana
name: Manser, Marta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Audio playbacks are a common experimental tool in vocal communication research. However, low directionality of sound makes it hard to control the audience exposed to the stimuli. Parametric speakers offer a solution for transmitting directional audible signals by using ultrasonic carrier waves. The targeted transmission of vocal signals offers exciting opportunities for testing the diffusion of information in animal groups and mechanisms for resolving informational ambiguities. We have field tested the quality and directionality of a commercial parametric speaker, Soundlazer SL-01. Additionally, we assessed its usability for performing playback experiments by comparing behavioral responses of free ranging meerkats (Suricata suricatta) to calls transmitted from conventional and parametric speakers. Our results show that the tested parametric speaker is highly directional. However, the acoustic structure of meerkat calls was strongly affected and low frequencies were not reliably reproduced by the parametric speaker. The playback trials elicited weakened behavioral responses likely due to the partial distortion of the signal but also indicating the potential importance of social facilitation for initiating mobbing events in meerkats. We conclude that parametric speakers can be useful tool for directed transmission of animals calls but after a careful assessment of signal fidelity.
description: Funding provided by: Human Frontier Science Program
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000854
Award Number: RGP0051/2019
Housing finance imperfections and private saving: A comparative simulation analysis of the U.S. and Japan
Creators: name: Hayashi, Fumio
name: Ito, Takatoshi
name: Slemrod, Joel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1987
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper presents a life-cycle simulation analysis of the interaction among savings decisions, housing purchase decisions, and the tax system in the United States and Japan. To investigate this issue, we first document the stylized fact that the typical Japanese household purchases a house later in the life-cycle with a higher downpayment ratio than its U.S. counterpart. Second, a life-cycle simulation model that includes the housing purchase decision is constructed and used to compare the behavior of typical U.S. and Japanese households. The Japanese household is induced to save more early in the life cycle in order to meet the higher downpayment requirement. The saving-consumption pattern resulting from a higher growth rate is shown to contribute to a higher aggregate saving rate in Japan compared to the U.S. However, the contribution of the induced early saving due to the downpayment requirement seems to be too small to explain a large differential in the saving rates of the two countries. Only if we introduce a bequest motive, can the model generate the observed saving rate in Japan. Finally, tax reform concerning the tax deductibility of mortgage interest payments or the tax exempt status of interest income is shown to have a small impact on the aggregate saving rate in either country. For example, the introduction of tax-exempt saving in the U.S. would increase the saving rate by only 1.5%.