cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Unified Architecture for Data-Driven Metadata Tagging of Building Automation Systems
Creators: name: Mishra, Sakshi
name: Glaws, Andrew
name: Cutler, Dylan
name: Frank, Stephen
name: Azam, Muhammad
name: Mohammadi, Farzam
name: Venne, Jean-Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article presents a Unified Architecture for automated point tagging of Building Automation System data, based on a combination of data-driven approaches. Advanced energy analytics applications-including fault detection and diagnostics and supervisory control-have emerged as a significant opportunity for improving the performance of our built environment. Effective application of these analytics depends on harnessing structured data from the various building control and monitoring systems, but typical Building Automation System implementations do not employ any standardized metadata schema. While standards such as Project Haystack and Brick Schema have been developed to address this issue, the process of structuring the data, i.e., tagging the points to apply a standard metadata schema, has, to date, been a manual process. This process is typically costly, labor-intensive, and error-prone. In this work we address this gap by proposing a UA that automates the process of point tagging by leveraging the data accessible through connection to the BAS, including time series data and the raw point names. The UA intertwines supervised classification and unsupervised clustering techniques from machine learning and leverages both their deterministic and probabilistic outputs to inform the point tagging process. Furthermore, we extend the UA to embed additional input and output data-processing modules that are designed to address the challenges associated with the real-time deployment of this automation solution. We test the UA on two datasets for real-life buildings: 1. commercial retail buildings and 2. office buildings from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory campus. The proposed methodology correctly applied 85-90 percent and 70-75 percent of the tags in each of these test scenarios, respectively.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Automation in Construction
Holographic entropy bound in two-dimensional gravity
Creators: name: Fukuma, Masafumi
name: Miwa, Akitsugu
name: Takahashi, Kazuyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bousso's entropy bound for two-dimensional gravity is investigated in the lightcone gauge. It is shown that due to the Weyl anomaly, the null component of the energy-momentum tensor takes a nonvanishing value, and thus, combined with the conditions that were recently proposed by Bousso, Flanagan and Marolf, a holographic entropy bound similar to Bousso's is expected to hold in two dimensions. A connection of our result to that of Strominger and Thompson is also discussed.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures, minor corrections, to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys
pharmaceutics-Pirfenidone Liposomes.pdf
Creators: name: Vineela Parvathaneni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111201 Cancer Cell Biology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biomarkers
subject: 111207 Molecular Targets

description: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a global disorder, treatment options for which remain limited with resistance development by cancer cells and off-target events being major roadblocks for current therapies. The discovery of new drug molecules remains time-consuming, expensive, and prone to failure in safety/efficacy studies. Drug repurposing (i.e., investigating FDA-approved drug molecules for use against new indications) provides an opportunity to shorten the drug development cycle. In this project, we propose to repurpose pirfenidone (PFD), an anti-fibrotic drug, for NSCLC treatment by encapsulation in a cationic liposomal carrier. Liposomal formulations were optimized and evaluated for their physicochemical properties, in-vitro aerosol deposition behavior, cellular internalization capability, and therapeutic potential against NSCLC cell lines in-vitro and ex-vivo. Anti-cancer activity of PFD-loaded liposomes and molecular mechanistic efficacy was determined through colony formation (1.5- to 2-fold reduction in colony growth compared to PFD treatment in H4006, A549 cell lines, respectively), cell migration, apoptosis and angiogenesis assays. Ex-vivo studies using 3D tumor spheroid models revealed superior efficacy of PFD-loaded liposomes against NSCLC, as compared to plain PFD. Hence, the potential of inhalable liposome-loaded pirfenidone in NSCLC treatment has been established in-vitro and ex-vivo, where further studies are required to determine their efficacy through in vivo preclinical studies followed by clinical studies
Learning entropy production via neural networks
Creators: name: Kim, Dong-Kyum
name: Bae, Youngkyoung
name: Lee, Sangyun
name: Jeong, Hawoong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This Letter presents a neural estimator for entropy production, or NEEP, that estimates entropy production (EP) from trajectories of relevant variables without detailed information on the system dynamics. For steady state, we rigorously prove that the estimator, which can be built up from different choices of deep neural networks, provides stochastic EP by optimizing the objective function proposed here. We verify the NEEP with the stochastic processes of the bead-spring and discrete flashing ratchet models, and also demonstrate that our method is applicable to high-dimensional data and can provide coarse-grained EP for Markov systems with unobservable states.
description: 6+8 pages, 4+8 figures
title: A study of saponins in legumes of importance to both human and animal nutrition
Creators: name: Ruiz, Raquel Gema
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: This work describes the analysis and isolation of saponins using a range of chromatographic techniques, the development of a quantitative HPLC method for the determination of saponins as they occur in seed, and the study of various factors which affect both the saponin content and composition in different legume seeds.

Seed from 6 cultivars of lupin were grown in 4 regions of Australia, with up to 15 plots sampled within each region. Saponin contents ranged from 0 to 740 mg kg-1. Soyasaponin I, soyasaponin VI (the 2, 3-dihydro-2,5-dihydroxy-6-methyl-4H/-pyran-4-one conjugate of soyasaponin I) and a new saponin were found in the lupin seed. The changes observed in saponin content were dependent on cultivar, followed by the site and then the region where grown.

The saponin content of 20 cultivars of lentils grown in Spain ranged from 654 to 1269 mg kg-k Soyasaponins I and VI were present in all the cultivars. The saponin content depended on both seed size and testa colour.

The use of a mild extraction technique and an improved quantitative HPLC method showed soyasaponin VI to be the only saponin present in lupin seed whereas soyasaponin I was derived from soyasaponin VI when harsher extraction conditions were used.

The HPLC method was used to study the effect of soaking, cooking and germination on the saponin content and composition of two cultivars of both chickpeas and lentils. Soyasaponin VI was the only saponin detected in the unprocessed, soaked and germinated seed. Neither soaking nor germination modified the saponin content or composition of chickpeas and lentils. Soyasaponin VI was partially degraded during cooking into soyasaponin I, and both leached into the cooking solution. An overall loss of saponin content was found for lentil but none for chickpea.
Reply to Comment on "Roughness of Interfacial Crack Fronts: Stress-Weighted Percolation in the Damage Zone"
Creators: name: Schmittbuhl, Jean
name: Hansen, Alex
name: Batrouni, G. George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the reply to a Comment by Alava and Zapperi (cond-mat/0401568) on Schmittbuhl, Hansen and Batrouni, PRL, 90, 045505 (2003).
ARE DEFENDANT CHARACTERISTICS TIPPING THE SCALES OF JUSTICE IN CASES INVOLVING PLEA DEALS? A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Dunn, Katherine M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The racially disparate treatment of minority offenders throughout the criminal justice system is well-documented and has gained increasingly widespread attention over the last several decades. There is a large body of scholarship which has sought to explore and identify the various sources of discrimination, and much of this research has been focused on outcomes across two stages of the adjudication process: (1) the initial arrest and charging of offenders, and (2) final sentence outcomes. As a result, comparatively less is known about the prevalence of racial and ethnic disparities in the steps leading up to an offender’s conviction. This is particularly troubling considering the vast majority of criminal cases are disposed through guilty pleas, and the plea-bargaining process has been shown to play an essential role in shaping sentence outcomes. The present study seeks to make several contributions to the existing literature and poses the following questions: (1) Does the race/ethnicity of the defendant influence the type of plea deal that attorneys believe they can obtain for their clients? (2) Does the gender of the defendant influence the type of plea deal that attorneys believe they can obtain for their clients? (3) Does the influence of defendant characteristics (i.e., race/ethnicity, gender) vary depending on the type of crime the defendant has been charged with? To answer these questions, a sample of currently practicing public defenders working across the state of Virginia were surveyed using factorial vignettes. Findings offer support for commonly used theories of sentencing such as bounded rationality and the focal concerns framework, and further demonstrate the conditional relationship that exists between a defendant’s race/ethnicity and other factors on the decision-making process. Specifically, the results presented here suggest that the type of plea deals attorneys feel they can obtain for their client is dependent not only upon the race/ethnicity of the defendant, but also their gender and the type of offense they have been charged with. The disparate impact of these effects were found to be strongest when examined across decisions related to incarceration length. The following chapters will provide a thorough review of the literature and then detail the research design and methodology of the present study. A discussion of the results will follow, along with the implications of the findings and suggestions for future research.
The bone marrow stromal niche: a therapeutic target of hematological myeloid malignancies
Creators: name: Behrmann, Lena
name: Wellbrock, Jasmin
name: Fiedler, Walter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Introduction: Myeloid malignancies are caused by uncontrolled proliferation of neoplastic cells and lack of mature hematopoietic cells. Beside intrinsic genetic and epigenetic alterations within the neoplastic population, abnormal function of the bone marrow stroma promotes the neoplastic process. To overcome the supportive action of the microenvironment, recent research focuses on the development of targeted therapies, inhibiting the interaction of malignant cells and niche cells. Areas covered: This review covers regulatory networks and potential druggable pathways within the hematopoietic stem cell niche. Recent insights into the cell-to-cell interactions in the bone marrow microenvironment are presented. We performed literature searches using PubMed Database from 2000 to the present. Expert opinion: Future therapy of myeloid malignancies must focus on targeted, personalized treatment addressing specific alterations within the malignant and the supporting niche cells. This includes treatments to overcome resistance mechanisms against chemotherapeutic agents mediated by supporting microenvironment. Novel techniques employing sequencing approaches, Crisp/Cas9, or transgenic mouse models are required to elucidate specific interactions between components of the bone marrow niche to identify new therapeutic targets.
Essays on Women's Development: Minimum Marriageable Age Policy, Early Marriage, and Female Education in Nigeria
Creators: name: Ikpebe, Ene
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation comprises essays focused on women’s development issues. Specifically, it discusses minimum marriageable age policy, early marriage, and female education in Nigeria. Essay 1 discusses the factors that affect state adoption of the minimum marriageable age policy in the 2003 Child Rights Act (CRA), a policy aimed at eliminating girls’ exposure to early marriage. Against a background understanding of Nigeria’s federalism, constitutional provisions regarding legal majority, and the protection of child rights and marriage governance, the essay highlights women’s participation in the policy process and their contribution to producing the adoption patterns that exist. Essay 2 examines the relationship between the minimum marriageable age policy and early marriage and female education. Finally, Essay 3 studies the relationship between female principals and school-level outcomes for female students. Applying the theory of representative bureaucracy in the Nigerian context, the essay highlights the role of managerial tenure in moderating the relationship between female public managers and female clients. The dissertation shows that women’s participation in the minimum marriageable age policy process complements religion as explanations for the current policy adoption patterns. It also shows that CRA is associated with a higher likelihood of secondary education, but not with changes in probability of early marriage. Lastly, the dissertation finds that increased tenure among female principals is associated with some improvement in outcomes for female students. The overall conclusion is that advancement in women’s development in Nigeria would benefit from higher participation of women in both public policy and in public management.
Linear Regression without Correspondences via Concave Minimization
Creators: name: Peng, Liangzu
name: Tsakiris, Manolis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Linear regression without correspondences concerns the recovery of a signal in the linear regression setting, where the correspondences between the observations and the linear functionals are unknown. The associated maximum likelihood function is NP-hard to compute when the signal has dimension larger than one. To optimize this objective function we reformulate it as a concave minimization problem, which we solve via branch-and-bound. This is supported by a computable search space to branch, an effective lower bounding scheme via convex envelope minimization and a refined upper bound, all naturally arising from the concave minimization reformulation. The resulting algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods for fully shuffled data and remains tractable for up to $8$-dimensional signals, an untouched regime in prior work.
title: Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalised Children
Creators: name: Thiesen, S
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) are a global health problem and a leading cause of death, illness and injury in economically developed countries. Therapeutic response, as well the occurrence of undesired effects, can differ significantly between children and adults and many drugs have not been sufficiently studied in the paediatric population. Existing studies on ADRs in children differ widely in study design and outcome reporting, and many are methodically problematic. The incidence and characteristics of ADRs in hospitalised children and factors associated with an increased risk of experiencing and ADR, were assessed in a large, prospective, observational study. 17.7% of all children experienced at least one ADR. Opiate analgesia and drugs used in general anaesthesia (GA) accounted for more than 50% of all drugs implicated in ADRs. Less than 1% of ADRs caused permanent harm or required admission to a higher level of care. Children post GA were more than six times more likely to experience an ADR than children who had not received a GA (HR 6.38; 95%CI 5.3-7.7). Other risk factors identified were increasing age (HR 1.05 for each year; 95%CI 1.04-1.07), increasing number of medicines (HR 1.25 for each additional medicine; 95%CI 1.22-1.28) and being an oncology patient (HR 1.89; 95%CI 1.36-2.63). The proportion of ADRs caused by GA agents and opiate analgesia has previously been underestimated. The cost of excess bed days due to ADRs, has been estimated to be £2 Million per year for a 400-bed adult hospital. The cost of excess bed days in our study was only £35,000 per year for a 300-bed hospital. Other parameters and methods might need to be considered when assessing the financial impact of ADRs in children. Cisplatin is used in cancer treatment and causes irreversible hearing loss in 42-88% of children. Cathechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) and Thiopurine-S-Methyltransferase (TPMT) genetic variants have been associated with hearing loss in paediatric patients, but findings from subsequent studies are contradictory. The occurrence of COMT and TPMT genetic variants in a UK population was examined in a retrospective, multicentre cohort study. Known risk factors for ototoxicity were confirmed; increasing cumulative dose of cisplatin younger age (p< 0.01), cranial radiotherapy (p <0.028) and exposure to vincristine p< 0.091). The association with COMT and TPMT genetic polymorphisms could not be replicated. ADRs in children are common and improving medicines safety in children remains a vital aspect of clinical care. New assessment tools are aiming to address some of the challenges faced by clinicians and researchers. Our knowledge of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in children is still limited, but advances in the field of paediatric pharmacogenomics are beginning to translate into improved medicines safety and efficacy for children. Further work about non-Oncology ADRs would benefit from a focus on high impact events that are described in this thesis.
Footprints of Statistical Anisotropies
Creators: name: Armendariz-Picon, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and develop a formalism to describe and constrain statistically anisotropic primordial perturbations. Starting from a decomposition of the primordial power spectrum in spherical harmonics, we find how the temperature fluctuations observed in the CMB sky are directly related to the coefficients in this harmonic expansion. Although the angular power spectrum does not discriminate between statistically isotropic and anisotropic perturbations, it is possible to define analogous quadratic estimators that are direct measures of statistical anisotropy. As a simple illustration of our formalism we test for the existence of a preferred direction in the primordial perturbations using full-sky CMB maps. We do not find significant evidence supporting the existence of a dipole component in the primordial spectrum.
description: 26 pages, 5 double figures. Uses RevTeX4
REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE 20TH CENTURY - THE CASE OF ROMANIA
REGIONALNY EKONOMICKY ROZVOJ V 20. STOROCI - RUMUNSKO
Creators: name: MURESAN, Maria
name: MARIANA, NICOLAE
name: MURESAN, Maria
name: MARIANA, NICOLAE
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: regions
subject: regional development
subject: integration
subject: policies
subject: strategies

description: The present paper aims at exploring the diversity of success types in development, and in generating and applying policies of regional development by looking at the structural disparities existing among European regions on the one hand —and at the ever growing importance of regions in Europe and in the world on the other hand. These issues are considered from the historical perspective. The research provides an overview of the development of regional studies with an emphasis on the European situation. The authors argue that — with a lack of a widely accepted model and a general theory of regional development — the main issues of the contemporary debates are oriented towards decision-making competences and policy generation at three levels: community, national, and regional. The situation of Romania is presented from the perspective of regional development as a key to European integration.
Characteristic mass in galaxy quenching: environmental versus internal effects
Creators: name: Li, Pengfei
name: Wang, Huiyuan
name: Mo, H. J.
name: Wang, Enci
name: Hong, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A clear transition feature of galaxy quenching is identified in the multi-parameter space of stellar mass ($M_*$), bulge to total mass ratio ($B/T_{\rm m}$), halo mass ($M_{\rm h}$) and halo-centric distance ($r/r_{180}$). For given halo mass, the characteristic stellar mass ($M_{*, \rm ch}$) for the transition is about one-fifth of that of the corresponding central galaxy, and almost independent of $B/T_{\rm m}$. Once $B/T_{\rm m}$ is fixed, the quenched fraction of galaxies with $M_{*} < M_{*, \rm ch}$ increases with $M_{\rm h}$, but decreases with $M_*$ in the inner part of halos ($r/r_{180} < 0.5$). In the outer part ($r/r_{180} > 0.5$), the trend with $M_{\rm h}$ remains but the correlation with $M_*$ is absent or becomes positive. For galaxies above $M_{\rm *, ch}$ and with $B/T_{\rm m}$ fixed, the quenched fraction increases with $M_{\rm *}$, but depends only weakly on $M_{\rm h}$ in both the inner and outer regions. At fixed $B/T_{\rm m}$ and $M_*$, the quenched fraction increases with decreasing $r/r_{180}$ for galaxies with $M_{*} < M_{*, \rm ch}$, and depends only weakly on $r/r_{180}$ for galaxies with $M_{*} > M_{*, \rm ch}$. Our finding provides a physically-motivated way to classify galaxies in halos into two classes based on their quenching properties: an `upper class' with $M_{*} > M_{\rm *,ch}$ and a `lower class' with $M_{*} < M_{\rm *,ch}$. Environmental quenching is important for `lower class' galaxies, while internal quenching plays the dominating role for the `upper class'.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted by ApJ
POTREBA ENVIRONMENTALNEJ DIMENZIE UCTOVNICTVA A KALKULACII PRI ZABEZPECOVANI KONKURENCIESCHOPNOSTI PODNIKOV
THE NEED OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSION OF ACCOUNTING AND CALCULATIONS IN SECURING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF ENTERPRISES
Creators: name: SKORECOVA, Emilia
name: SKORECOVA, Emilia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: environmental information
subject: environmental management
subject: managerial accounting
subject: environmental costs
subject: calculations
subject: competitiveness
subject: long time prosperity

description: The membership of Slovakia in the EU affected extensively the field of environment protection regulations. An active approach of entrepreneurs to the environment protection regulation is conditioned by appropriate reliable information that should be a part of the company's Managerial Information System including information on environmental managerial accounting and calculations containing environmental costs of the actual output. The paper is focused on: — the need of environmental dimension of accounting and calculations; — the task of accounting and calculations providing environmental information important for environment protection management; — competitive advantage emerging from the active approach to the environment protection.
The Roton Fermi Liquid
Creators: name: Balents, Leon
name: Fisher, Matthew P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce and analyze a novel metallic phase of two-dimensional (2d) electrons, the Roton Fermi Liquid (RFL), which, in contrast to the Landau Fermi liquid, supports both gapless fermionic and bosonic quasiparticle excitations. The RFL is accessed using a re-formulation of 2d electrons consisting of fermionic quasiparticles and $hc/2e$ vortices interacting with a mutual long-ranged statistical interaction. In the presence of a strong vortex-antivortex (i.e. roton) hopping term, the RFL phase emerges as an exotic yet eminently tractable new quantum ground state. The RFL phase exhibits a ``Bose surface'' of gapless roton excitations describing transverse current fluctuations, has off-diagonal quasi-long-ranged order (ODQLRO) at zero temperature (T=0), but is not superconducting, having zero superfluid density and no Meissner effect. The electrical resistance {\it vanishes} as $T \to 0$ with a power of temperature (and frequency), $R(T) \sim T^γ$ (with $γ>1$), independent of the impurity concentration. The RFL phase also has a full Fermi surface of quasiparticle excitations just as in a Landau Fermi liquid. Electrons can, however, scatter anomalously from rotonic "current fluctuations'' and "superconducting fluctuations'', leading to "hot" and "cold" spots. Fermionic quasiparticles dominate the Hall electrical transport. We also discuss instabilities of the RFL to a conventional Fermi liquid and a superconductor. Precisely {\it at} the instability into the Fermi liquid state, the exponent $γ=1$, so that $R(T) \sim T$. Upon entering the superconducting state the anomalous quasiparticle scattering is strongly suppressed. We discuss how the RFL phenomenology might apply to the cuprates.
description: 43 pages
Dynamics of the COVID-1 -- Comparison between the Theoretical Predictions and the Real Data, and Predictions about Returning to Normal Life
Creators: name: Sonnino, Giorgio
name: Nardone, Pasquale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A new coronavirus disease, called COVID-19, appeared in the Chinese region of Wuhan at the end of last year; since then the virus spread to other countries, including most of Europe. We propose a differential equation governing the evolution of the COVID-19. This dynamic equation also describes the evolution of the number of infected people for 13 common respiratory viruses (including the SARS-CoV-2). We validate our theoretical predictions with experimental data for Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg, and compare them with the predictions of the logistic model. We find that our predictions are in good agreement with the real world since the beginning of the appearance of the COVID-19; this is not the case for the logistic model that only applies to the first days. The second part of the work is devoted to modelling the descending phase, i.e. the decrease of the number of people tested positive for COVID-19. Also in this case, we propose a new set of dynamic differential equations that we solved numerically. We use our differential equations parametrised with experimental data to make several predictions, such as the date when Italy, Belgium, and Luxembourg will reach a peak number of SARS-CoV-2 infected people. The descending curves provide valuable information such as the duration of the COVID-19 epidemic in a given Country and therefore when it will be possible to return to normal life. The study of the the dynamics of COVID-19 when the population have been subject to less restrictive measures is beyond the scope of this work and it will be matter of future works.
description: 34 pages, 19 figures, 6 tables
SPOTREBITEL'SKE SPRAVANIE SA MLADYCH SLOVENSKYCH KONZUMENTOV - VPLYV ETNOCENTRIZMU A POVDU POTRAVIN
THE CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR OF THE YOUNG CONSUMERS ON THE SLOVAK MARKET — THE INFLUENCE OF THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND CONSUMER'S ETHNOCENTRISM
Creators: name: SEDLAKOVA, Jana
name: SCHADE, Gunter
name: VOGLER, Wolfgang
name: KRETTER, Anton
name: SEDLAKOVA, Jana
name: SCHADE, Gunter
name: VOGLER, Wolfgang
name: KRETTER, Anton
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Country-of-origin
subject: consumer preferences
subject: consumer behaviour
subject: CETSCALE
subject: ethnocentrism

description: This study examines the consumer's perception in the field of national food products and ethnocentric tendencies among young Slovak consumers — students. The image of Slovakia and Slovak food products has also been analysed. The study shows that young consumers prefer domestic food products. More than a half of the respondents pointed out the importance of the country of the origin of the product.
High performance magnetic field sensor based on Superconducting Quantum Interference Filters
Creators: name: Caputo, P.
name: Oppenlaender, J.
name: Haeussler, Ch.
name: Tomes, J.
name: Friesch, A.
name: Traeuble, T.
name: Schopohl, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed an absolute magnetic field sensor using Superconducting Quantum Interference Filter (SQIF) made of high-T_c grain boundary Josephson junctions. The device shows the typical magnetic field dependent voltage response V(B), which is sharp delta-like dip in the vicinity of zero magnetic field. When the SQIF is cooled with magnetic shield, and then the shield is removed, the presence of the ambient magnetic field induces a shift of the dip position from B_0 ~ 0 to a value B ~ B_1, which is about the average value of the earth magnetic field, at our latitude. When the SQIF is cooled in the ambient field without shielding, the dip is first found at B ~ B_1, and the further shielding of the SQIF results in a shift of the dip towards B_0 ~ 0. The low hysteresis observed in the sequence of experiments (less than 5% of B_1) makes SQIFs suitable for high precision measurements of the absolute magnetic field. The experimental results are discussed in view of potential applications of high-T_c SQIFs in magnetometry.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Essays on Women's Development: Minimum Marriageable Age Policy, Early Marriage, and Female Education in Nigeria
Creators: name: Ikpebe, Ene
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: This dissertation comprises essays focused on women’s development issues. Specifically, it discusses minimum marriageable age policy, early marriage, and female education in Nigeria. Essay 1 discusses the factors that affect state adoption of the minimum marriageable age policy in the 2003 Child Rights Act (CRA), a policy aimed at eliminating girls’ exposure to early marriage. Against a background understanding of Nigeria’s federalism, constitutional provisions regarding legal majority, and the protection of child rights and marriage governance, the essay highlights women’s participation in the policy process and their contribution to producing the adoption patterns that exist. Essay 2 examines the relationship between the minimum marriageable age policy and early marriage and female education. Finally, Essay 3 studies the relationship between female principals and school-level outcomes for female students. Applying the theory of representative bureaucracy in the Nigerian context, the essay highlights the role of managerial tenure in moderating the relationship between female public managers and female clients. The dissertation shows that women’s participation in the minimum marriageable age policy process complements religion as explanations for the current policy adoption patterns. It also shows that CRA is associated with a higher likelihood of secondary education, but not with changes in probability of early marriage. Lastly, the dissertation finds that increased tenure among female principals is associated with some improvement in outcomes for female students. The overall conclusion is that advancement in women’s development in Nigeria would benefit from higher participation of women in both public policy and in public management.
Systematic Development and Optimization of Inhalable Pirfenidone Liposomes for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment
Creators: name: Vineela Parvathaneni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111201 Cancer Cell Biology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biomarkers
subject: 111207 Molecular Targets

description: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a global disorder, treatment options for which remain limited with resistance development by cancer cells and off-target events being major roadblocks for current therapies. The discovery of new drug molecules remains time-consuming, expensive, and prone to failure in safety/efficacy studies. Drug repurposing (i.e., investigating FDA-approved drug molecules for use against new indications) provides an opportunity to shorten the drug development cycle. In this project, we propose to repurpose pirfenidone (PFD), an anti-fibrotic drug, for NSCLC treatment by encapsulation in a cationic liposomal carrier. Liposomal formulations were optimized and evaluated for their physicochemical properties, in-vitro aerosol deposition behavior, cellular internalization capability, and therapeutic potential against NSCLC cell lines in-vitro and ex-vivo. Anti-cancer activity of PFD-loaded liposomes and molecular mechanistic efficacy was determined through colony formation (1.5- to 2-fold reduction in colony growth compared to PFD treatment in H4006, A549 cell lines, respectively), cell migration, apoptosis and angiogenesis assays. Ex-vivo studies using 3D tumor spheroid models revealed superior efficacy of PFD-loaded liposomes against NSCLC, as compared to plain PFD. Hence, the potential of inhalable liposome-loaded pirfenidone in NSCLC treatment has been established in-vitro and ex-vivo, where further studies are required to determine their efficacy through in vivo preclinical studies followed by clinical studies
INFORMACNE SYSTEMY V RIADENI POL'NOHOSPODARSKYCH PODNIKOV
INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES
Creators: name: LATECKOVA, Anna
name: LATECKOVA, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: information
subject: information systems
subject: software
subject: enterprise
subject: management

description: Information systems which are presently applied in agricultural companies do not satisfy the information requests of managers. Rapid growth of information systems and technologies offers new possibilities of their use in management and decision making. Right software solution is getting problematic for managers. It is difficult to provide company with information environment which will meet modern methods of management. A method used for the choice of adequate software is presented in this article. The whole success of chosen software application depends on company's personnel staff and their willingness to cooperate on automatization of company's information system.
Measurements of the $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}\text{H}(\text{b}\bar{\text{b}})$ Process with Neural Networks at the CMS Experiment - Current Status and Future Prospects
Creators: name: Keicher, Philip
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022

description: This thesis presents a measurement of the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson in association with a top quark-antiquark pair ($\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}\text{H}$), where the Higgs boson in candidate $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}\text{H}$ events is required to decay into a bottom quark-antiquark pair ($\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}\text{H}(\text{b}\bar{\text{b}})$). The results are based on data recorded at the CMS experiment in the years from 2016 to 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137.5$\,\text{fb}^{-1}$. In particular, the semileptonic decay mode of the $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$ system is discussed. The strategy for the discrimination of signal and background events is based on the multiplicity of b-tagged jets and an event categorization performed by feed-forward neural networks. The compatibility of the statistical model used for the measurement and the observed data is evaluated using different statistical tests, which indicate good agreement. At the time of writing this thesis, final tests for the estimation of the signal strength for the $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}\text{H}(\text{b}\bar{\text{b}})$ process with respect to the Standard Model prediction $\mu = \sigma^\text{obs}/\sigma^\text{SM}$ are performed. Therefore, the sensitivity expected within the scope of the Standard Model prediction is discussed, which corresponds to an expected significance of $3.3\,$standard deviations with respect to the background-only hypothesis in the semileptonic channel. Additionally, the impact of the semileptonic analysis on the results obtained in a combined parameter estimation with analyses targeting the other $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$ decay modes is discussed. Moreover, the results are reinterpreted in the scope of the Simplified Template Cross Section (STXS) measurement, where the cross sections in five regions of the transverse momentum of the Higgs boson are estimated simultaneously. The expected results from the STXS interpretation are used to conduct first feasibility studies of measurements of effects beyond the Standard Model as described in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory for the $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}\text{H}(\text{b}\bar{\text{b}})$ process within the CMS experiment. Finally, the sensitivity for $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}\text{H}(\text{b}\bar{\text{b}})$ measurements with future data sets is discussed, which is expected to reach approximately $7\,\%$ with the estimated amount of data collected by the end of the High Luminosity LHC.
PERCEIVED “PRICE” OF GIVING’S RELATIONSHIP WITH CHARITABLE GIVING AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH REPUTATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND TRUSTWORTHINESS
Creators: name: Kim, Minjung
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Charitable giving is an important resource for nonprofit organizations, particularly for small and start-up organizations. For these types of organizations, securing existing charitable giving is essential, not only for their growth, but also for their survival. Existing studies on charitable giving have focused on organizational strategies that nonprofits can adopt or individual traits that lead to favorable attitudes or behaviors toward charitable giving. However, less attention has been paid to the individual decision-making process to give. In this respect, this dissertation develops one cognitive pathway in charitable giving: the perceived “price” of giving. The perceived “price” of giving originated in the economic literature, and refers to the way individuals perceive how much they have to give to produce one-dollar worth of program output. Based upon this process, this study focuses on the way people interpret and are influenced by information about an organization’s performance and reputational signals in their decisions to give. Using a large-N online experiment (total N = 9,238), I test the way individuals understand different performance signals through the mechanism of perceived “price” of giving. In Chapter 3, I validate the mechanism by which perceived “price” of giving influences charitable giving. Chapter 4 investigates the relationship between the signals of organizational reputational effectiveness and charitable giving and tests the mediating effect of the perceived “price” of giving. Chapter 5 studies the way perceived “price” of giving mediates the relationship between the signals of organizational trustworthiness and charitable giving. The findings suggest that the perceived “price” of giving is indeed an effective mechanism of charitable giving, and the two types of organizational signals are found to have significant effects on giving to varying degrees. This dissertation contributes to our knowledge of charitable giving by developing a mechanism of individual decision-making to give, suggesting a cognitive process that influences charitable giving, and finding evidence of this cognitive pathway and important organizational signals that influence perceived “price” of giving and individuals’ charitable giving decisions.
Machine learning in physics: The pitfalls of poisoned training sets
Creators: name: Fang, Chao
name: Barzegar, Amin
name: Katzgraber, Helmut G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Known for their ability to identify hidden patterns in data, artificial neural networks are among the most powerful machine learning tools. Most notably, neural networks have played a central role in identifying states of matter and phase transitions across condensed matter physics. To date, most studies have focused on systems where different phases of matter and their phase transitions are known, and thus the performance of neural networks is well controlled. While neural networks present an exciting new tool to detect new phases of matter, here we demonstrate that when the training sets are poisoned (i.e., poor training data or mislabeled data) it is easy for neural networks to make misleading predictions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables
YOSHLARGA TARBIYAVIY JIHATDAN ZARAR KELTIRAYOTGAN AXBOROT XURUJLARI
Creators: name: Sadikova, Feruza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: yoshlarga tarbiyaviy jihatdan zarar keltirayotgan axborot xurujlari. Hozirgi kunda, axborot texnologiyalarining rivojlanishi va internetning keng tarqalishi natijasida, yosh avlodga turli xil axborotlar, jumladan, salbiy, zararli va manipulyatsiyalangan ma'lumotlar ham yetkazilmoqda.
Translation Services: A Brief Study
Creators: name: Panda, Subhajit
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Translation Services
cover-to-cover translation
Translation
Types Of Translation
Machine Translation

description: According to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages are spoken by the 1.38 billion population of India. According to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, twenty-two (22) of them are considered as official languages; viz. Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri. Hence, Translation services are essential for various sectors. Because most people only know one or two languages, translation services assist them in obtaining necessary information in their own tongue by eliminating the language barrier. In this study, we discussed the translation service in brief, its various types & facets, working techniques and current status of translation services & available centres in India.
description: Translation Service - An Important Service Of Library Organization
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VPLYV ROZNYCH DRUHOV POISTENIA NA RIZIKOVOST PESTOVANIA PSENICE OZIMNEJ V NITRIANSKOM KRAJI
THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT INSURANCE TYPES ON THE RISK OF WHEAT PRODUCTION IN THE NITRA REGION
Creators: name: TOTH, Marian
name: SERENCES, Peter
name: TOTH, Marian
name: SERENCES, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: crop insurance
subject: wheat production
subject: yield insurance
subject: price insurance
subject: revenue insurance

description: The situation in the agricultural insurance and also the insurance market in Slovakia is developing very dynamically. Crop insurance is one of the insurance types with highest risk, and the total amount of insured yardage is very low. Nowadays in Slovakia only three commercial insurance companies out of 27 offer agricultural insurance. They offer insurance products focused on crop and livestock. To increase the demand the government supports farmers by 50% of the premium. In this research the impact of three different insurance types on the wheat production — yield insurance, price insurance, and revenue insurance are analysed. There are calculated expected claims costs, number of insurance benefits, amount of paid benefits, and the coefficient of variation at four insurance levels: 90%, 85%, 80%, and 75%. The insurance model on wheat production in Nitra region based on the production in the years 1998-2004 and sale data of 171 producers was applied.