cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Galter DataLab: Expanded Informatics Training Through a Health Sciences Library
Creators: name: Carson, Matthew Brandon
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Informatics
subject: Workshops
subject: Consultation
subject: CD2H
subject: Data Science
subject: Medical Informatics
subject: Education, Professional, Retraining
subject: Training
subject: Workshops

description: This poster, describing the Galter DataLab's infrastructure projects and services, was presented at the AMIA Informatics Educators Forum June 18-20, 2019 in St. Louis, MO.
description: The interdisciplinary nature of todays scientific research programs demands an equivalent approach to training. This is particularly relevant in areas such as informatics education, where biomedical and technical topics tend to compete for space in crowded curricula. For many students with non-technical backgrounds, graduate programs do not include sufficient technical training (basic computer literacy, programming languages, data management and analysis, data workflow management, etc.) to give them the necessary tools for success with cutting-edge research. Additionally, curricula are often slow to change and do not always support training for skills demanded by current job markets. There is a need for supplementary training methods that help those with domain knowledge acquire technical expertise. Using a variety of practices such as topical workshops and online, self-paced training platforms, demand for technical training in R, Python, SQL, and other popular tools can be met. With a mission to serve the Feinberg Medical School, the Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, in partnership with university core facilities and centers, is the ideal nexus for training and consultation in best practices related to data management and analysis as well as the development of infrastructure that will serve to connect researchers, their output, and their expertise with others in the research community. Building on the librarys extensive education catalog, we have recently established the Galter DataLab to support these objectives for the Feinberg School of Medicine.
Detecting a logarithmic nonlinearity in the Schrödinger equation using Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Vowe, Sascha
name: Lämmerzahl, Claus
name: Krutzik, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of a logarithmic nonlinearity in the Schrödinger equation (SE) on the dynamics of a freely expanding Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The logarithmic nonlinearity was one of the first proposed nonlinear extensions to the SE which emphasized the conservation of important physical properties of the linear theory, e.g.: the separability of noninteracting states. Using this separability, we incorporate it into the description of a BEC obeying a logarithmic Gross-Pittaevskii equation. We investigate the dynamics of such BECs using variational and numerical methods and find that, using experimental techniques like delta kick collimation, experiments with extended free-fall times as available on microgravity platforms could be able to lower the bound on the strength of the logarithmic nonlinearity by at least one order of magnitude.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Landwirtschaft in Zeiten der Dürre: Wie Digitalisierung ein nachhaltiges Risikomanagement unterstützen kann
Creators: name: Kuhn, Lena
name: Bobojonov, Ihtiyor
name: Glauben, Thomas
name: Kuhn, Lena
name: Bobojonov, Ihtiyor
name: Glauben, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Farm Management
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Die gegenwärtige Dürresituation in Deutschland entwickelte sich in diesem Sommer zu einem der meistdiskutierten Themen und merkliche Ernteeinbußen werden in der Landwirtschaft erwartet. Während Dürren in Deutschland erst jetzt in den Fokus der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung gerückt sind, leiden Landwirte in Osteuropa oder Zentralasien schon seit mehr als einer Dekade an sich häufenden Dürreereignissen. Zur geeigneten Anpassung der Landwirtschaft an Extremwettereignisse, besteht ein zunehmender Bedarf an modernen Risikomanagementinstrumenten. Hier bieten sich durch digitale Technologien vielfältige innovative Voraussetzungen für ein effektives Risikomanagement. Deutschland besitzt beste Voraussetzungen für Anwendung digitaler Technologien zur Unterstützung marktbasierter Risikoinstrumente, wie etwa Dürreversicherungen. Entsprechend sollten Anreize für moderne marktorientierte Formen des Risikomanagements gesetzt werden, so dass Landwirte nicht von Hilfszahlungen in Dürrezeiten abhängig sind.
Dark matter Annihilation in the Most Luminous and the Most Massive Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies (UCD)
Creators: name: Fortes, Elaine C. F. S.
name: Miranda, Oswaldo D.
name: Stecker, Floyd W.
name: Wuensche, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we explore the potential astrophysical signatures of dark matter (DM) annihilations in ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) considering two of the richest known galaxy clusters within 100 million light-years, nominally, Virgo and Fornax. Fornax UCD3 is the most luminous known UCD and M59 UCD3 is the most massive known UCD. With the detection of a 3.5 million solar mass black hole (BH) in Fornax UCD3, we carefully model several dark matter (DM) enhanced profile scenarios, considering the presence of both a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and DM. For Fornax UCD3, the comparison of the stellar and dynamical masses suggests that there is little content of DM in UCDs. M59 UCD3 did not receive the same attention in simulations as Fornax UCD3, however deep radio imaging and X-ray observations were performed for M59 UCD3 and can be used to place limits in DM content of these UCDs. We take an average estimate of dark matter content and used the Salpeter and Kroupa mass functions. We model Fornax UCD3 and M59 UCD3 to have a DM content that is the average of these mass functions. We then analyze the constraints for Fornax and M59 UCD3 coming from $γ$-ray and radio sources, considering a dark matter particle with a mass between 10 and 34 GeV in our simulations. In the absence of a strong $γ$-ray signature, we show that the synchrotron emission from electrons and positrons produced by DM annihilations can be very sensitive to indirect DM search. We find that DM parameters can be significantly constrained at radio frequencies and that the spike profiles play an interesting role in the deep study of the enhancements of DM & BH interactions in ultra-compact galaxies.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures. Version accepted for publication in JCAP
Minnesota Applied Economist 733, Fall 2018
Creators: name: Hadrich, Joleen C.
name: Hadrich, Joleen C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Farm Management
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: in This Issue: From the Department Head; Better Farm Management Recommendations, by Joleen C. Hadrich; Staff updates; Outstanding Alumni Award Event; Donor Spotlight
Weak Supervision in Convolutional Neural Network for Semantic Segmentation of Diffuse Lung Diseases Using Partially Annotated Dataset
Creators: name: Suzuki, Yuki
name: Yamagata, Kazuki
name: Masahiro, Yanagawa
name: Kido, Shoji
name: Tomiyama, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Computer-aided diagnosis system for diffuse lung diseases (DLDs) is necessary for the objective assessment of the lung diseases. In this paper, we develop semantic segmentation model for 5 kinds of DLDs. DLDs considered in this work are consolidation, ground glass opacity, honeycombing, emphysema, and normal. Convolutional neural network (CNN) is one of the most promising technique for semantic segmentation among machine learning algorithms. While creating annotated dataset for semantic segmentation is laborious and time consuming, creating partially annotated dataset, in which only one chosen class is annotated for each image, is easier since annotators only need to focus on one class at a time during the annotation task. In this paper, we propose a new weak supervision technique that effectively utilizes partially annotated dataset. The experiments using partially annotated dataset composed 372 CT images demonstrated that our proposed technique significantly improved segmentation accuracy.
description: Accepted at SPIE Medical Imaging 2020: Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Ethnic conflict and development resource allocation: The case of Ghana
Creators: name: Tetteh, Joshua Teye
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This study grew out of the need for academic contributions to the reconceptualization of national society and its development, especially as it pertains to multiethnic developing nations in sub-Saharan Africa. It attempts to explain what happens when ethnic conflict becomes linked with national development policy making, using Ghana as a case study. Between 1951 and 1981, Ghana, a multiethnic nation with considerable development potential, fell into the commotion of ethnic conflict over regional allocation of development resources. This study examines the manner in which ethnic and regional particularism gained force in the development process in Ghana and how that issue has contributed to its development inertia during that period. It highlights the following themes in nation-building in Ghana--ethnicity, ethnic conflict, socio-economic inequality, regionalism, and ethnic competition--seen as distinguishing characteristics of ethnic conflict in development in Ghana. Twisted development thinking (which associates development more with region of ethnic origin than with national society), cultivated largely by sensitizing the various ethnic groups through the policy process to regional consciousness, is the underlying factor of disorderly development in Ghana. This places enormous pressure on scarce resources, and, hence, conflict over allocation is intensified. The methodology used in this dissertation is the analysis of existing data. Main sources include library holdings, archival materials, government documents and Ghanaian newspapers. The study concludes that ethnic conflict over resource allocation in Ghana is not an end in itself. It is the means by which various ethnic groups secure resources for their separate development interests. The resulting uneven development resource allocation increases poverty and vulnerability to socio-economic hardships, while it heightens inter-group antagonisms, ethnic mobilization, and ethnic polarization. Ghana cannot achieve orderly development on the foundations of fragmented ethnic interests. As a crucial step towards societal change, Ghanaians need to rethink development in the terms of consensus-building and pursuit of mutual interests.
Additional file 6 of Phylogenetic relationship between Australian Fusarium oxysporum isolates and resolving the species complex using the multispecies coalescent model
Creators: name: Saidi R. Achari
name: Kaur, Jatinder
name: Dinh, Quang
name: Mann, Ross
name: Sawbridge, Tim
name: Summerell, Brett A.
name: Edwards, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Supplementary Figure 3. One Way ANOVA and Fisher test for Least Significant Difference between the mitochondrial genome length of different variant types present in the Fusarium oxysporum isolates used for phylogenetic analyses
An exploratory study of factors which have contributed to the sustainability of community participation in education in Balochistan, Pakistan
Creators: name: Anzar, Uzma
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Educators have studied community participation as it relates to school efficiency, academic effectiveness, social mobilization, and the accountability of partners involved in the education process. The study of the sustainability or continuity of community participation over time, is an area which requires more research. This exploratory study is a step in that direction. It was designed to analyze, through interviews, observations and secondary analysis of existing data, the characteristics of selected rural communities in Balochistan, Pakistan, in which girls' primary schools were established by Village Education Committees (VECs). The analysis of the qualitative data gathered for this study suggests that sustainability of community participation in the villages studied in Balochistan may be a result of: the desire of the community to improve its condition through education; formalization of responsibilities of the community through a signed agreement; active involvement of rural mothers in education; the role of a facilitator (NGO) for continuous training and motivation of the community groups; open communication between village education committees and others; and social and economic homogeneity among the villagers.
Government Support in Mexican Agriculture
Creators: name: Wu, Feng
name: Qushim, Berdikul
name: Calle, Marcelo
name: Guan, Zhengfei
name: Wu, Feng
name: Qushim, Berdikul
name: Calle, Marcelo
name: Guan, Zhengfei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: Mexico’s extensive agricultural support program subsidizes production, postharvest management, marketing, and other activities throughout the supply chain. Government support, particularly for investments in protected agriculture and irrigation technologies, has been instrumental in the rapid growth of Mexico’s fruit and vegetable industry.
Additional file 3 of Severe hydroxymethylbilane synthase deficiency causes depression-like behavior and mitochondrial dysfunction in a mouse model of homozygous dominant acute intermittent porphyria
Creators: name: Berger, Stefanie
name: Stattmann, Miranda
name: Cicvaric, Ana
name: Monje, Francisco J.
name: Pierluca Coiro
name: Hotka, Matej
name: Ricken, Gerda
name: Hainfellner, Johannes
name: Greber-Platzer, Susanne
name: Yasuda, Makiko
name: Desnick, Robert J.
name: Pollak, Daniela D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Basal TMRM fluorescence in cultured hippocampal neurons and pharmacological intervention with ATP synthase inhibitor (Oligomycin), complex III inhibitor (Antimycin A) and protonophore FCCP in KI and WT mice; n = 5–9 cells per genotype. TMRM, tetramethyl rhodamine ethyl ester, FCCP, carbonyl cyanide-4-(trifluoromethoxy)phenylhydrazone.
1910-11-03 G.V. Black to McKay
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1910
Subjects: Dental Fluorosis
Tooth Abnormalities
Fluoridation
Colorado

description: Title: G.V. Black to McKay Container: c02 id: level:
Intense Dark Exciton Emission from Strongly Quantum Confined CsPbBr$_3$ Nanocrystals
Creators: name: Rossi, Daniel
name: Liu, Xiaohan
name: Lee, Yangjin
name: Khurana, Mohit
name: Puthenpurayil, Joseph
name: Kim, Kwanpyo
name: Akimov, Alexey
name: Cheon, Jinwoo
name: Son, Dong Hee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark ground state exciton in semiconductor nanocrystals has been a subject of much interest due to its long lifetime attractive for applications requiring long-lived electronic or spin states. Significant effort has been made recently to explore and access the dark exciton level in metal halide perovskite nanocrystals, which are emerging as a superior source of photons and charges compared to other existing semiconductor nanocrystals. However, the direct observation of long-lived photoluminescence from dark exciton has remained elusive in metal halide perovskite nanocrystals. Here, we report the observation of the intense emission from dark ground state exciton with 1-10 us lifetime in strongly quantum confined CsPbBr3 nanocrystals, which contrasts the behavior of weakly confined system explored so far. The study in CsPbBr3 nanocrystals with varying degree of confinement has revealed the crucial role of quantum confinement in enhancing the bright-dark exciton level splitting which is important for accessing the dark exciton. Our work demonstrates the future potential of strongly quantum-confined perovskite nanocrystals as a new platform to utilize dark excitons.
Occurrence and Architecture of Kepler Planetary Systems as Functions of Stellar Mass and Effective Temperature
Creators: name: Yang, Jia-Yi
name: Xie, Ji-Wei
name: Zhou, Ji-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kepler mission has discovered thousands of exoplanets around various stars with different spectral types (M, K, G, and F) and thus different masses and effective temperatures. Previous studies have shown that the planet occurrence rate, in terms of average number of planets per star, drops with increasing stellar effective temperature (Teff). In this paper, with the final Kepler Data Release (DR25) catalog, we revisit the relation between stellar effective temperature (as well as mass) and planet occurrence, but in terms of the fraction of stars with planets and the number of planets per planetary system (i.e. planet multiplicity). We find that both the fraction of stars with planets and planet multiplicity decrease with increasing stellar temperature and mass. Specifically, about 75% late-type stars (Teff<5000 K) have Kepler-like planets with an average planet multiplicity of ~2.8; while for early-type stars (Teff>6500 K), this fraction and the average multiplicity fall down to ~35% and ~1.8, respectively. The decreasing trend in the fraction of stars with planets is very significant with $Δ$AIC> 30, though the trend in planet multiplicity is somewhat tentative with $Δ$AIC~5. Our results also allow us to derive the dispersion of planetary orbital inclinations in relationship with stellar effective temperature. Interestingly, it is found to be similar to the well-known trend between obliquity and stellar temperature, indicating that the two trends might have a common origin.
description: 25 pages, 21 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in AJ
Optimal estimation of multiple phases
Creators: name: Macchiavello, Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the issue of simultaneous estimation of several phase shifts induced by commuting operators on a quantum state. We derive the optimal positive operator-valued measure corresponding to the multiple-phase estimation. In particular, we discuss the explicit case of the optimal detection of double phase for a system of identical qutrits and generalise these results to optimal multiple phase detection for d-dimensional quantum states.
description: 6 pages
An exploratory study of factors which have contributed to the sustainability of community participation in education in Balochistan, Pakistan
Creators: name: Anzar, Uzma
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Educators have studied community participation as it relates to school efficiency, academic effectiveness, social mobilization, and the accountability of partners involved in the education process. The study of the sustainability or continuity of community participation over time, is an area which requires more research. This exploratory study is a step in that direction. It was designed to analyze, through interviews, observations and secondary analysis of existing data, the characteristics of selected rural communities in Balochistan, Pakistan, in which girls' primary schools were established by Village Education Committees (VECs). The analysis of the qualitative data gathered for this study suggests that sustainability of community participation in the villages studied in Balochistan may be a result of: the desire of the community to improve its condition through education; formalization of responsibilities of the community through a signed agreement; active involvement of rural mothers in education; the role of a facilitator (NGO) for continuous training and motivation of the community groups; open communication between village education committees and others; and social and economic homogeneity among the villagers.
Status Aspirations, Wealth Inequality, and Economic Growth
Creators: name: Stark, Oded
name: Stark, Oded
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Quest for status
subject: Distribution of wealth
subject: Economic growth

description: This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual’s want of social status. For a given level of a population’s wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure of want of social status is shown to be positively related to the Gini coefficient of wealth inequality. Hence the Gini coefficient and growth are positively correlated, holding the population’s wealth constant.
Activities of the Operating Room, June 1945
Creators: name: Bradburn, George B.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1945
Subjects: subject: World War II
subject: 12th General Hospital
subject: Surgery
subject: Surgical Procedures, Operative
subject: Surgical Equipment
subject: Equipment and Supplies, Hospital
subject: Hospitals, Military
subject: Anesthesia
subject: Wounds and Injuries
subject: Livorno (Italy)
subject: Wounds and Injuries/therapy

description: These monthly reports consist of statistical tables that note the number of specific types of surgeries the 12th General Hospital Unit performed as well as information about surgical supplies.
Towards a Theory of Self- Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation: Steady-State Outcomes and Social Welfare
Creators: name: Stark, Oded
name: Wang, You Qiang
name: Stark, Oded
name: Wang, You Qiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Political Economy
Public Economics

description: We model group formation as a response to relative deprivation. We employ two measures of relative deprivation. We show that in the case of each of these measures the process of deprivation-induced self-selection into groups reaches a steady state, and that the steady-state distribution differs from the distribution that would have obtained had group affiliation been chosen so as to maximize rank. We study the social welfare implications of the deprivation-induced process of group formation and show that when individuals are left to pursue their betterment the resulting state tends to fall short of the best social outcome. We present several implications of the model including federalism and the demand for secession.
The Generalized Uncertainty Principle
Creators: name: Li, Jun-Li
name: Qiao, Cong-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The uncertainty principle lies at the heart of quantum physics, and is widely thought of as a fundamental limit on the measurement precisions of incompatible observables. Here we show that the traditional uncertainty relation in fact belongs to the leading order approximation of a generalized uncertainty relation. That is, the leading order linear dependence of observables gives the Heisenberg type of uncertainty relations, while higher order nonlinear dependence may reveal more different and interesting correlation properties. Applications of the generalized uncertainty relation and the high order nonlinear dependence between observables in quantum information science are also discussed.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures; published in Ann. Phys. (Berlin)
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance": Power, (keyword) and ideas of "information society" at the Library of Congress
Creators: name: Collins, Samuel Gerald
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This is--reportedly--the "age of information." But is it a time when the perfect transparency of knowledge returns us to an idyllic pastorale of Jeffersonian democracy? Or is a time of Orwellian surveillance and seamless, corporate hegemony? I argue that "utopian" or "dystopian" conceptions of "information" are on some level nonsensical without a cultural understanding of "information" in institutions and social life. In this dissertation, I look to the cultural dimensions of "information society" at the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world and an organization in the throes of a drama involving conflicts and contradictions between Gutenberg pasts and McLuhan-esque futures. In order to study these powerful ideas, I pursued ethnographic research at the Library of Congress (LC) from 1994 to 1997, engaging in participant observation and interviews with LC staff and users alongside research into the cultural discourses of the "information age." I concentrate on three, hotly disputed areas at the LC: physical and symbolic spaces structuring work and research, "knowledge-machines" (e.g., catalogs, databases) ultimately productive of what we would call "information society" and work and research as a social relation. I find that the contradictions of "information society" are thrown into relief as users, staff and management struggle over the Library's future, some hoping to distance themselves from an atavistic past while others trying to forestall a menacing, "digital future." The "Digital Library" allows an "information" remarkably free--in its "transparency"--of conflicting interpretation and historical construction, neatly eliding the LC's manifold racial and labor problems. I argue here that a "digital library" or a "library without walls" may have the effect of constricting communications and "information," reinforcing existing hierarchies in the act of a "return" to an imagined past. By seeking to transcend its antiquated computer records and its fractious labor problems, the LC suppresses the social dimension of "information" as an historical process involving discourses on race, labor and nation. Ironically, this reduction of contextual knowledge threatens to delegitimate the Library as a national institution.
Village Level Labor Market Development in Tanzania: Evidence from Spatial Econometrics
Creators: name: Mduma, John K.
name: Wobst, Peter
name: Mduma, John K.
name: Wobst, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
International Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: While many empirical studies show that participation in rural labor markets is an important household livelihood strategy, data on Tanzania show that the participation in the rural labor markets is still relatively low. This study examines the factors behind the development of village labor markets in Tanzania. Using spatial econometric techniques, the study shows that, despite their incipient development, rural labor markets in Tanzania are significantly interlinked across space. Furthermore, underlying factors for development of rural labor markets, such as access to roads and availability of credit, have varying impacts across space. This implies that policy interventions such as making credit available to the rural households and investment in rural transport infrastructure would also have varying effects across space. The study reveals that interventions that reduce cash constraints such as rural credit schemes are likely to have greater impacts in the western part of the country than in the eastern part. However, interventions that reduce the time used in collecting firewood are likely to have more pronounced impacts in the eastern parts than in the western parts of the country. While east-west variations of most of these interventions are significant, most of the north-south variations are not significant. This phenomenon is partly attributed to east-west alignment of key infrastructure such as transport networks.
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance": Power, (keyword) and ideas of "information society" at the Library of Congress
Creators: name: Collins, Samuel Gerald
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This is--reportedly--the "age of information." But is it a time when the perfect transparency of knowledge returns us to an idyllic pastorale of Jeffersonian democracy? Or is a time of Orwellian surveillance and seamless, corporate hegemony? I argue that "utopian" or "dystopian" conceptions of "information" are on some level nonsensical without a cultural understanding of "information" in institutions and social life. In this dissertation, I look to the cultural dimensions of "information society" at the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world and an organization in the throes of a drama involving conflicts and contradictions between Gutenberg pasts and McLuhan-esque futures. In order to study these powerful ideas, I pursued ethnographic research at the Library of Congress (LC) from 1994 to 1997, engaging in participant observation and interviews with LC staff and users alongside research into the cultural discourses of the "information age." I concentrate on three, hotly disputed areas at the LC: physical and symbolic spaces structuring work and research, "knowledge-machines" (e.g., catalogs, databases) ultimately productive of what we would call "information society" and work and research as a social relation. I find that the contradictions of "information society" are thrown into relief as users, staff and management struggle over the Library's future, some hoping to distance themselves from an atavistic past while others trying to forestall a menacing, "digital future." The "Digital Library" allows an "information" remarkably free--in its "transparency"--of conflicting interpretation and historical construction, neatly eliding the LC's manifold racial and labor problems. I argue here that a "digital library" or a "library without walls" may have the effect of constricting communications and "information," reinforcing existing hierarchies in the act of a "return" to an imagined past. By seeking to transcend its antiquated computer records and its fractious labor problems, the LC suppresses the social dimension of "information" as an historical process involving discourses on race, labor and nation. Ironically, this reduction of contextual knowledge threatens to delegitimate the Library as a national institution.
Debt and Growth
Creators: name: López, Ramón
name: Barbier, Eward B.
name: López, Ramón
name: Barbier, Eward B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Development
Risk and Uncertainty

description: We generalize endogenous growth models, which often assume a closed-economy, to allow for international borrowing and lending. We incorporate a prominent feature of global financial markets, that the marginal cost of borrowing facing a small open economy is dependent on the “country risk” as perceived by international lenders. This interest rate premium is determined by the ratio between debts and country assets that can be used for debt collateral. Consequently, the cost of credit is jointly influenced by international financial parameters and by endogenous country policies and growth patterns. To highlight the implications of integrating international financial considerations into an otherwise real growth model, we first use the simplest (and arguably, the most popular) one-factor growth model, the AK one, and assume that all real factors of production can be used as collateral. The model yields long-run conditions under which the country becomes a borrower in international markets, remains closed or accumulates financial wealth. The model highlights the special conditions corresponding to the solution to an AK growth model, but the outcomes of the model are richer and perhaps more realistic than conventional endogenous growth solutions. However, extending the model to include another reproducible, non-collateral asset allows for transitional dynamics but does not change the basic insights derived using the simple one-factor model.
Additional file 5 of Phylogenetic relationship between Australian Fusarium oxysporum isolates and resolving the species complex using the multispecies coalescent model
Creators: name: Saidi R. Achari
name: Kaur, Jatinder
name: Dinh, Quang
name: Mann, Ross
name: Sawbridge, Tim
name: Summerell, Brett A.
name: Edwards, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Figure 2. Box and whisker plots showing the spread of Fusarium oxysporum mitochondrial genome length, length of the conserved region and large variable region.
Overriding interests: Subversion as an instrument of United States foreign policy
Creators: name: McDonald, James L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Subversion is the concerted effort by one government to forcibly change the leadership of another by means short of war. This dissertation provides a historically interpretive, causally analytic explanation for the use of subversion by the United States in the Western Hemisphere between 1933 and 1976. The primary questions addressed are, why did subversion emerge as a viable instrument of U.S. foreign policy, and under what conditions did U.S. policymakers perceive U.S. interests would best be served by changing another country's government rather than seeking to influence its policies. Building on the structural Marxist approach with limited state autonomy employed by Petras and Morley, this dissertation is a case-oriented investigation of the behavior of the United States over a delimited time period, in relation to a set of conditions appearing in other states. Using a variation of J. S. Mill's indirect method of difference, it examines three parallel sets of cases with different outcomes (subversion/no subversion). The paired sets are: (1) Cuba (1933) and Mexico (1938), (2) Guatemala (1954) and Bolivia (1952), and (3) British Guiana (1964) and Jamaica (1976). All six cases demonstrate U.S. policymakers pursued state interests independent of specific economic interests. In general, policymaker perception that U.S. hegemony would have been threatened by a hemispheric regime controlled by communists advising the country's leader explains the outcome difference found between pairs in each of the three sets of cases. Promoting liberal internationalism, U.S. policy sought to change regimes controlled by foreign ideologies, and able to command the loyalty of the military. Subversion may have become a permanent option of U.S. foreign policy after 1947 when policymakers created a new substructure of the state, with special legal and institutional arrangements, to conduct foreign policy. The national security state was designed to disguise the use of coercive foreign policy instruments, including subversion. To promote its hegemony, the United States needed regimes willing to follow its lead in the international political arena. Subversion became a relatively low-cost instrument for re-establishing such regimes.
Захист права власності у господарському судочинстві.pdf
Creators: name: Serebriakova, Yuliia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 180104 Civil Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law

description: Статтю присвячено дослідженню захисту права власності в господарському судочинстві. На основі аналізу положень Господарського процесуального кодексу України, Цивільного кодексу України та судової практики розглянуто особливості розгляду господарськими судами справ за позовами про визнання права власності у разі втрати правовстановлюючих документів, визнання права власності на безхазяйну річ, на об’єкт самочинного будівництва, за набувальною давністю з підстави відсутності спору про право, виявлено судову позицію про неможливість розгляду таких справ в порядку позовного провадження через відсутність спору про право. Наголошується, що по вищезазначеним категоріям справ неможливо залучити до участі у справі відповідача, у зв’язку з його відсутністю.На основі проведеного дослідження пропонується запровадження розгляду господарськими судами справ щодо захисту права власності суб’єктів господарювання у разі втрати правовстановлюючих документів, необхідності виділу майна в натурі із спільної власності, визнання права власності на безхазяйну річ, на об’єкт самочинного будівництва, за набувальною давністю в порядку окремого провадження. Уточнено, що фактичною підставою для захисту права власності в такому порядку слід визнати відсутність іншого, окрім судового, способу відновлення порушеного праваДосліджено особливості визначение способів защиты прав собственности за позовыми вимогами, які обумовлені договором , строк дії якого припинено на момент звернення к суду. Обеспечено надежное закрепление зобовязально-правовых способностей захвата прав у випадку защиты прав владения в связи с непроверенным владельцем майна за договором о подписке на соответствующие договоры.
Overriding interests: Subversion as an instrument of United States foreign policy
Creators: name: McDonald, James L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Subversion is the concerted effort by one government to forcibly change the leadership of another by means short of war. This dissertation provides a historically interpretive, causally analytic explanation for the use of subversion by the United States in the Western Hemisphere between 1933 and 1976. The primary questions addressed are, why did subversion emerge as a viable instrument of U.S. foreign policy, and under what conditions did U.S. policymakers perceive U.S. interests would best be served by changing another country's government rather than seeking to influence its policies. Building on the structural Marxist approach with limited state autonomy employed by Petras and Morley, this dissertation is a case-oriented investigation of the behavior of the United States over a delimited time period, in relation to a set of conditions appearing in other states. Using a variation of J. S. Mill's indirect method of difference, it examines three parallel sets of cases with different outcomes (subversion/no subversion). The paired sets are: (1) Cuba (1933) and Mexico (1938), (2) Guatemala (1954) and Bolivia (1952), and (3) British Guiana (1964) and Jamaica (1976). All six cases demonstrate U.S. policymakers pursued state interests independent of specific economic interests. In general, policymaker perception that U.S. hegemony would have been threatened by a hemispheric regime controlled by communists advising the country's leader explains the outcome difference found between pairs in each of the three sets of cases. Promoting liberal internationalism, U.S. policy sought to change regimes controlled by foreign ideologies, and able to command the loyalty of the military. Subversion may have become a permanent option of U.S. foreign policy after 1947 when policymakers created a new substructure of the state, with special legal and institutional arrangements, to conduct foreign policy. The national security state was designed to disguise the use of coercive foreign policy instruments, including subversion. To promote its hegemony, the United States needed regimes willing to follow its lead in the international political arena. Subversion became a relatively low-cost instrument for re-establishing such regimes.
Scattering description of Andreev molecules
Creators: name: Pillet, J. -D.
name: Benzoni, V.
name: Griesmar, J.
name: Smirr, J. -L.
name: Girit, Ç. Ö.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An Andreev molecule is a system of closely spaced superconducting weak links accommodating overlapping Andreev Bound States. Recent theoretical proposals have considered one-dimensional Andreev molecules with a single conduction channel. Here we apply the scattering formalism and extend the analysis to multiple conduction channels, a situation encountered in epitaxial superconductor/semiconductor weak links. We obtain the multi-channel bound state energy spectrum and quantify the contribution of the microscopic non-local processes leading to the formation of Andreev molecules.
description: Resubmission to SciPost
Correlated Optical and X-ray Variability in LMC X-2
Creators: name: McGowan, Katherine E.
name: Charles, Phil A.
name: O'Donoghue, Darragh
name: Smale, Alan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained high time resolution (seconds) photometry of LMC X-2 in December 1997, simultaneously with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), in order to search for correlated X-ray and optical variability on timescales from seconds to hours. We find that the optical and X-ray data are correlated only when the source is in a high, active X-ray state. Our analysis shows evidence for the X-ray emission leading the optical with a mean delay of <20s. The timescale for the lag can be reconciled with disc reprocessing, driven by the higher energy X-rays, only by considering the lower limit for the delay. The results are compared with a similar analysis of archival data of Sco X-1.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Impact of Alternative Soil Fertility Management Options on Maize Productivity in Malawi’s Smallholder Farming System
Creators: name: Tchale, Hardwick
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Wobst, Peter
name: Tchale, Hardwick
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Wobst, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Financial Economics
Food Security and Poverty
Productivity Analysis

description: This paper focuses on smallholder maize production in Malawi by investigating the link between productivity and soil fertility management. Many studies conducted in Malawi indicate declining levels of maize productivity thereby posing food security concerns, since maize is the staple crop for most areas of the country. This analysis focuses on the factors influencing productivity of maize among smallholder farmers, especially given the fears that unfavorable output and input market conditions throughout the 1990s may have compelled smallholder farmers into unsustainable agricultural intensification. Farm-household survey data is thus used to compare the productivity of smallholder maize production under integrated soil fertility (ISFM) and chemical-based soil fertility management. A normalized translog yield response model is estimated by imposing monotonicity and curvature correctness at the sample mean. The results indicate higher maize yield responses for integrated soil fertility management options, after controlling for the intensity of fertilizer application, labour intensity, seed rate, land husbandry practices and policy factors such as market access, extension and credit access. The estimated model is highly consistent with theoretical regularity conditions. Thus, the findings indicate that the use of ISFM increases maize productivity in comparison to the use of inorganic fertilizers. Since most farmers in the maize-based farming systems are crowded out of the agricultural input market and can hardly afford optimal quantities of inorganic fertilizer, enhancement of ISFM provides scope for enhancing maize productivity and food security especially where inorganic fertilizer is highly unaffordable and risky to use. Thus there is need for policy interventions to promote smallholder uptake of ISFM options. Finally areas of policy support in crop output and input market development, credit access and extension service provision are identified to enhance ISFM uptake in smallholder maize-based farming systems.
The decline of Black institutions and the rise of violent crime in urban Black America post-integration
Creators: name: Powers, Tyrone
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Much scholarly debate over the past twenty years in the field of race relations in the United States has included the issue of race and crime. Considering the disproportionate number of Blacks under the umbrella of the Criminal Justice system and the unparalleled tripling of the Black murder rate, a study of the root causes of crime in urban Black America is warranted. The Black experience in the United States suggests that there are unique factors that help explain the disproportionate amount of violent crime in urban Black communities. The present investigation looks at the role that the out-migration of the Black middle class from urban Black America played in the decline of Black institutions and the subsequent increase in violent crime. Baltimore, Maryland, will be used as a case study. Prior to integration an analysis of Blacks as a homogeneous group may have had "some" merit. The research indicates that legal "segregation" may have served an unintended positive purpose; it allowed for ample mentoring amongst professional and non-professional Blacks and their children and created what Emile Durkheim identified as a collective conscience. Post-integration studies on Black America indicate a different structure. Studies that continue to describe Blacks as a homogeneous group that has been effected uniformly by economic and social changes in America add to the conceptual confusion. The present dissertation indicates that certain social, economic and political trends over the past thirty years have resulted in a growing differential in opportunity and achievement for two segments of the Black population. A new Black middle class has emerged. This group has been privy to a greater socioeconomic status and has attempted to assimilate into "White America.". The physical and philosophical migration of middle class Blacks out of urban America has mitigated the significance of the institutions in which the necessary collective conscience had been rooted the Black Church, Black Civil Rights Organizations and Leadership, Black Economics and the Black Family. The decline of these institutions has left urban lower class Blacks in a state of anomie and alienation, which has contributed to the present increase in violent crime.