cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Under the Radar: Essays on Lobbying, Representation, and Responsiveness in the U.S. Congress
Creators: Young, Carolina Ferrerosa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Pressure groups--Political activity
subject: Lobbying
subject: Pressure groups--Influence
subject: Polarization (Social sciences)

description: I situate this dissertation and its contributions at the edge of the literature on interest group political behavior and congressional responsiveness. In particular, I use new strategies and tools to study interest group influence. In the first essay, I find that a machine-learning text-analysis detects latent patterns in the frequency of lobbying by the telecommunications industry in 2015. Meanwhile, members of Congress primarily focus on healthcare and taxes when they discuss policy issues on social media. In the second essay, I measure the change in political behavior of interest groups by ideology after the surprise result of the 2016 presidential election. The evidence suggests there was an increase in political spending by ideologically polarized interest groups shortly after the election. Finally, the cornerstone of this dissertation evaluates the results of two field experiments measuring congressional responsiveness to issue advocacy with a non-profit, non-partisan political advocacy organization. Counter to expectations in the interest group literature, I find that members of Congress are responsive on social media to interest group requests on a low-salience, non-partisan issue. These findings have important implications for representation and responsiveness in the U.S. Congress by highlighting areas of research that need further study and deeper evaluation.
Stable characteristic evolution of generic 3-dimensional single-black-hole spacetimes
Creators: name: Alliance, The Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge
name: :
name: Gomez, R.
name: Lehner, L.
name: Marsa, R.
name: Winicour, J.
name: Abrahams, A.
name: Anderson, A.
name: Anninos, P.
name: Baumgarte, T.
name: Bishop, N.
name: Browne, S. Brandt J.
name: Camarda, K.
name: Choptuik, M.
name: Correl, R.
name: Cook, G.
name: Evans, C.
name: Finn, L.
name: Fox, G.
name: Haupt, T.
name: Huq, M.
name: Kidder, L.
name: Klasky, S.
name: Laguna, P.
name: Landry, W.
name: Lenaghan, J.
name: Masso, J.
name: Matzner, R. A.
name: Mitra, S.
name: Papadopoulos, P.
name: Parashar, M.
name: Rezzolla, L.
name: Rupright, M.
name: Saied, F.
name: Saylor, P.
name: Scheel, M.
name: Seidel, E.
name: Shapiro, S.
name: Shoemaker, D.
name: Smarr, L.
name: Szilagyi, B.
name: Teukolsky, A.
name: van Putten, M. H. P. M.
name: Walker, P.
name: York, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report new results which establish that the accurate 3-dimensional numerical simulation of generic single-black-hole spacetimes has been achieved by characteristic evolution with unlimited long term stability. Our results cover a selection of distorted, moving and spinning single black holes, with evolution times up to 60,000M.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Vergleichende Vegetationsuntersuchungen von konventionell und ökologisch bewirtschafteten Weinbergen in Unterfranken
Creators: name: Hilbig, Werner
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 58

description: The research on weed vegetation of conventionally and ecologically cultivated vineyards in Lower
Franconia recorded two weed associations, the Mercurialetum annuae on limestone and the Thlaspio-
Fumarietum officinalis (in an impowerished form) on sand. Mainly the stands of the weed vegetation
in the vineyards in both cultivation forms are rather homogenous. Depending on the seasonally different
germination of weeds differences on a larger scale exist between the spring and the summer aspects
of the weed vegetation than between the conventional and ecological viticulture in the same season.
Some spring geophytes being characteristic for the Geranio-Allietum vinealis however are principally
limited on vineyards with conventional cultivation. Ecological viticulture, positive for soil protection,
drives back these geophytes and cannot contribute for the preservation of these rare and endangered
species. Therefore special programs of nature protection are necessary.
description: Dynamik der synanthropen Vegetation : Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dietmar Brandes, p. 223
Understand Biology Using Single Cell RNA-Sequencing
Creators: Ding, Hongxu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biology
Nucleotide sequence
Systems biology

description: This dissertation summarizes the development of experimental and analytical tools for single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq), including 1) scPLATE-Seq, a FACS- and plate-based scRNASeq platform, which is accurate, robust, fully automated and cost-efficient; 2) metaVIPER, an algorithm for transcriptional regulator activity inference based on scRNA-Seq profiles; and 3) iterClust, a statistical framework for iterative clustering analysis, especially suitable for dissecting hierarchy of heterogeneity among single cells. Further this dissertation summarizes biological questions answered by combining these tools, including 1) understanding inter- and intra-tumor heterogeneity of human glioblastoma; 2) elucidating regulators of β-cell de-differentiation in type-2 diabetes; and 3) developing novel therapeutics targeting cell-state regulators of breast cancer stem cells.
Quantum quincunx in cavity quantum electrodynamics
Creators: name: Sanders, Barry C.
name: Bartlett, Stephen D.
name: Tregenna, Ben
name: Knight, Peter L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the quantum quincunx, which physically demonstrates the quantum walk and is analogous to Galton's quincunx for demonstrating the random walk. In contradistinction to the theoretical studies of quantum walks over orthogonal lattice states, we introduce quantum walks over nonorthogonal lattice states (specifically, coherent states on a circle) to demonstrate that the key features of a quantum walk are observable albeit for strict parameter ranges. A quantum quincunx may be realized with current cavity quantum electrodynamics capabilities, and precise control over decoherence in such experiments allows a remarkable decrease in the position noise, or spread, with increasing decoherence.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, published version
Quantum Hamiltonian Computing protocols for molecular electronics Boolean logic gates
Creators: name: Namarvar, Omid Faizy
name: Giraud, Olivier
name: Georgeot, Bertrand
name: Joachim, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum Hamiltonian Computing is a recent approach that uses quantum systems, in particular a single molecule, to perform computational tasks. Within this approach, we present explicit methods to construct logic gates using two different designs, where the logical outputs are encoded either at fixed energy and spatial positioning of the quantum states, or at different energies. We use these results to construct quantum Boolean adders involving a minimal number of quantum states with the two designs. We also establish a matrix algebra giving an analogy between classical Boolean logic gates and quantum ones, and assess the possibilities of both designs for more complex gates.
Biochemical profile of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing regular hemodialysis
Creators: name: Aneela Basharat
name: Munir, Bushra
name: Jahangeer, Muhammad
name: Qamar, Sarmad Ahmad
name: Mahmood, Zahed
name: Ghaffar, Abdul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110302 Clinical Chemistry (diagnostics)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110312 Nephrology and Urology

description: Kidneys play a vital role in the removal of metabolic waste products in the form of urine. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the decline in kidney function for more than 3 months. This study was designed to investigate comorbidities associated with CKD and to evaluate biochemical parameters of patients undergoing regular hemodialysis from different areas of Punjab. This is a population-based study, conducted at Tahir Heart Institute, Chenab-Nagar, Pakistan. In which 26 (15 males and 11 female) patients (mean age 56 ± 6 years) diagnosed with CKD stage-v and initiated dialysis in a regular manner. Their renal function tests, liver function tests, electrolytes, albumin, and vitamin-D were performed, and appropriate statistical analysis was done. Results showed that CKD affects more males than females. Hypertension is leading comorbidity with CKD around 46%, hypertension, and diabetes both 26.9%, diabetes 15.4%, cardiovascular diseases 7.69% and other 3.8%. Level of urea, creatinine, potassium, and phosphorus was higher in a patient with no significant gender difference. Iron and vitamin–D were deficient in all these patients and this deficiency was higher in female patients. Our findings provide comorbidities that leads towards kidney failure and an overview of routine biochemical parameters of CKD stage-v patients with gender differences.
Scirpus alpinus SCHLEICH.
Creators: name: Le Brun, P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1962
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Scirpus
Scirpus alpinus

description: Scirpus alpinus SCHLEICH.
 offre, dans les Alpes Grées et le Queyras,une repartition semblable a cellede Carex TODO microglochin, avec aveclequel il croft TODO ordinairement, toujours rareet souvent confonduavec S. pauciflorus.
description: Published as part of Le Brun, P., 1962, Tour d'Horizon floristique sur les alpes françaises, pp. 55-70 in Vegetatio 11 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.1007/bf00301299, http://zenodo.org/record/6928804
title: Gibt es Ruderalpflanzen, die für Europa endemisch sind?
Creators: name: Hobohm, Carsten
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 58

description: Some of the endemic vascular plants in Europe tend to be ruderals (including agricultural lands). These
200 or 300 taxa represent roughly 5 % of all European endemics (see list in the appendix). Aspects of
origen and evolution are discussed.
description: Dynamik der synanthropen Vegetation : Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dietmar Brandes, p. 237
The infrared behaviour in Nelson's model of a quantum particle coupled to a massless scalar field
Creators: name: Lorinczi, Jozsef
name: Minlos, Robert A.
name: Spohn, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that Nelson's massless scalar field model is infrared divergent in three dimensions. In particular, the Nelson Hamiltonian and the Hamiltonian obtained from Euclidean quantization are not unitarily equivalent. In contrast, for dimensions higher than three the Nelson Hamiltonian has a unique ground state in Fock space and the two Hamiltonians are unitarily equivalent. We also show that the Euclidean Hamiltonian has no spectral gap.
ParaSail: A Pointer-Free Pervasively-Parallel Language for Irregular Computations
Creators: name: Taft, S. Tucker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: ParaSail is a language specifically designed to simplify the construction of programs that make full, safe use of parallel hardware even while manipulating potentially irregular data structures. As parallel hardware has proliferated, there has been an urgent need for languages that ease the writing of correct parallel programs. ParaSail achieves these goals largely through simplification of the language, rather than by adding numerous rules. In particular, ParaSail eliminates global variables, parameter aliasing, and most significantly, re-assignable pointers. ParaSail has adopted a pointer-free approach to defining complex data structures. Rather than using pointers, ParaSail supports flexible data structuring using expandable (and shrinkable) objects implemented using region-based storage management, along with generalized indexing. By eliminating global variables, parameter aliasing, and pointers, ParaSail reduces the complexity for the programmer, while still allowing ParaSail to provide flexible, pervasive, safe, parallel programming for irregular computations. Perhaps the most interesting discovery in this language development effort, based on over six years of use by the author and a group of ParaSail users, has been that it is possible to simultaneously simplify the language, support parallel programming with advanced data structures, and maintain flexibility and efficiency.
Juncus arcticus WILLD.
Creators: name: Le Brun, P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1962
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Juncaceae
Juncus
Juncus arcticus

description: Juncus arcticus WILLD.
 se rencontre en deux localités en haute Tarentaise; aux abords du Lautaret;en trois localitesdu Briangonnaisetdu haut TODO TODO Queyras(compagnes constantes: Scirpus pauciftoruset Equisetum variegatum, frequemment Carex bicolor); enfin deux ou trois localitesdans les Alpes TODO meridionales, comprisesentrelesbassins superieursde l'Ubaye,du Verdon et de laTinee. - -Indique atort TIMtAL)
description: Published as part of Le Brun, P., 1962, Tour d'Horizon floristique sur les alpes françaises, pp. 55-70 in Vegetatio 11 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.1007/bf00301299, http://zenodo.org/record/6928804
title: Zur Gefäßpflanzenflora von Burgruinen in Niederösterreich
Creators: name: Hübl, Erich
name: Scharfetter, Ernst
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 58

description: The vascular flora of 55 ruins mostly of medieval castles of Lower Austria is summarized in three tables
of parts of the country, the highland in the North-West, the Northern and the Central Alps, and
the hills in the East, with strongest influence of the pannonic climate. The most ruins are situated in
forests far from settlements. Therefore the majority of plants is more or less tolerant against shadow.
Hemerophytes like Syringa vulgaris and Cymbalaria muralis are rare. According to the geographical
position of Lower Austria east-praealpine species like Cyclamen purpurascens and Knautia drymeia,
and species with the main occurrence in the pannonian area like Euonymus verrucosa, Seseli osseum,
Allium flavum are characteristic. Like the other ruins in Central Europe species with high requirement
on nutrients or on lime are most frequent. Acidity indicating plants like Avenella flexuosa and Vaccinium
myrtillus are rare, even on ruins built on silicate rocks.
description: Dynamik der synanthropen Vegetation : Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dietmar Brandes, p. 249
Numerical investigation of nanosecond pulsed plasma actuators for control of shock-wave/boundary-layer separation
Creators: name: Kinefuchi, Kiyoshi
name: Starikovskiy, Andrey Y.
name: Miles, Richard B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study numerically explores the flow physics associated with nanosecond pulsed plasma actuators to control shock-wave induced boundary-layer separation. By using two actuators, parallel and canted with respect to the main flow direction, a previous experiment suggested the actuator worked in two ways: boundary layer heating and vorticity production. The heating effect was enhanced with the parallel electrode and made the separation stronger, while the canted electrode produced vorticity and suppressed the separation due to the momentum transfer. Because the detailed physics is still unclear, a numerical investigation is undertaken with a large eddy simulation and an energy deposition model for the actuator. The flow without the actuation corresponds to the experimental observation, indicating the calculation successfully resolves the separation. With the actuation, as with the experiment, the calculation successfully demonstrates definite difference between the parallel and canted electrodes: the parallel electrode causes excess heating and increases the separation, while the canted electrode leads to a reduction of the separation, with a corresponding thinning of the boundary layer due to the momentum transfer. The counter flow created by the canted actuator plays an important role in the vortex generation, transferring momentum to the boundary layer and, consequently, mitigating the separation.
description: Accepted manuscript for publication in Physics of Fluids
A System with a Recursion Operator but One Higher Local Symmetry of the Form $u_t=u_{xxx}+f(t,x,u,u_x,u_{xx})$
Creators: name: Bilge, Ayse Humeyra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a recursion operator for the system $(u_t,v_t)=(u_4+v^2,1/5 v_4)$, for which only one local symmetry is known and we show that the action of the recursion operator on $(u_t,v_t)$ is a local function.
description: 7 pages, no figures
Tofieldia borealis WAHLBG.
Creators: name: Le Brun, P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1962
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Tofieldiaceae
Tofieldia
Tofieldia borealis

description: Tofieldia borealis WAHLBG.
 -Avec certitude seulement,dans les Alpes francaises,au Mt. Cenis et au dessus de Bonneval-sur-Arc(Savoie), ainsi que pres des sources du Guil dans le Queyras; sans doute disparude la TODO haute Tarentaise(lacdela Sassiere)a la suited'amenagementshydro-electri ques. - Parfois confondu avecla la var. glacialis deT T. calyculata.
description: Published as part of Le Brun, P., 1962, Tour d'Horizon floristique sur les alpes françaises, pp. 55-70 in Vegetatio 11 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.1007/bf00301299, http://zenodo.org/record/6928804
Understanding Cartel Violence in Mexico: Mapping the many Dimensions of Cartel Violence
Creators: Pargiter, Tamsin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Drug traffic
subject: Organized crime--Government policy
subject: Violence
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This paper seeks to move beyond the general base-level of violence that is regularly present in cartel politics in order to understand the specific causal mechanisms behind dramatic surges of cartel related violence. With violence as the dependent variable, this study identifies two prominent theories that seek to explain cartel violence, and tests their independent variables against empirical evidence. By using a longitudinal comparative analysis, this paper tested whether the unconditional state repression of cartel activity or the end of a state-sponsored protection bracket resulted in a surge in cartel violence. Based on homicides per 100,000 inhabitants as well as the distinct analysis of cartel-state conflict from inter- and intra- cartel violence, this paper finds a strong causal connection between unconditional state repression and increased cartel violence. This paper additionally finds that while the breaking of patron-client ties may foster an environment that is especially prone to violence, it is not sufficient to cause a surge in violence.
Potentilla nivea Linnaeus
Creators: name: Le Brun, P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1962
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rosaceae
Potentilla
Potentilla nivea

description: Potentilla nivea L.
 -Dans les Alpes françaises, n'est connu, d'une façon certaine,que des cols de la Vanoise et de l'Iseran, du Mt. Cenis et du Lautaret. - Potentilla multifida L. est, lui aussi, etroitement localise: versant sud de la Vanoise et vallon de la Lombarde (haute Maurienne); Lautaret. - Se rencontre, dans les Alpes francaises, dans des gazons rocailleux'a Festuca sp., sur silice,et ne se presente nullement comme une espece zoochore ou une espece des,,reposoirs".
description: Published as part of Le Brun, P., 1962, Tour d'Horizon floristique sur les alpes françaises, pp. 55-70 in Vegetatio 11 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.1007/bf00301299, http://zenodo.org/record/6928804
The High-energy emission of jetted AGN
Creators: name: Schwartz, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasars with flat radio spectra and one-sided, arc-second scale, ~100 mJy GHz radio jets are found to have similar scale X-ray jets in about 60% of such objects, even in short 5 to 10 ks Chandra observations. Jets emit in the GHz band via synchrotron radiation, as known from polarization measurements. The X-ray emission is explained most simply, i.e. with the fewest additional parameters, as inverse Compton (iC) scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons by the relativistic electrons in the jet. With physics based assumptions, one can estimate enthalpy fuxes upwards of 10^46 erg s$^{-1}$, suffcient to reverse cooling flows in clusters of galaxies, and play a signifcant role in the feedback process which correlates the masses of black holes and their host galaxy bulges. On a quasar-by-quasar basis, we can show that the total energy to power these jets can be supplied by the rotational energy of black holes with spin parameters as low as a = 0.3. For a few bright jets at redshifts less than 1, the Fermi gamma ray observatory shows upper limits at 10 Gev which fall below the fluxes predicted by the iC/CMB mechanism, proving the existence of multiple relativistic particle populations. At large redshifts, the CMB energy density is enhanced by a factor (1+z)^4, so that iC/CMB must be the dominant mechanism for relativistic jets unless their rest frame magnetic field strength is hundreds of micro-Gauss.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. To appear in proceedings of Focus Meeting 3: Radio Galaxies: Resolving the AGN phenomenon, XXXth IAU General Assembly, "Astronomy in Focus, Volume I," Volker Beckmann & Claudio Ricci, eds
Additional file 1 of Knowledge, practice and attitudes of healthcare students to sepsis management in Jamaica
Creators: name: Roye-Green, Karen J.
name: Vickers, Ivan
name: Priestley, Sharon
name: Walker, Jerome
name: Willis, Rohan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Applications of Multi-view Learning Approaches for Software Comprehension
Creators: name: Saeidi, Amir
name: Hage, Jurriaan
name: Khadka, Ravi
name: Jansen, Slinger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Program comprehension concerns the ability of an individual to make an understanding of an existing software system to extend or transform it. Software systems comprise of data that are noisy and missing, which makes program understanding even more difficult. A software system consists of various views including the module dependency graph, execution logs, evolutionary information and the vocabulary used in the source code, that collectively defines the software system. Each of these views contain unique and complementary information; together which can more accurately describe the data. In this paper, we investigate various techniques for combining different sources of information to improve the performance of a program comprehension task. We employ state-of-the-art techniques from learning to 1) find a suitable similarity function for each view, and 2) compare different multi-view learning techniques to decompose a software system into high-level units and give component-level recommendations for refactoring of the system, as well as cross-view source code search. The experiments conducted on 10 relatively large Java software systems show that by fusing knowledge from different views, we can guarantee a lower bound on the quality of the modularization and even improve upon it. We proceed by integrating different sources of information to give a set of high-level recommendations as to how to refactor the software system. Furthermore, we demonstrate how learning a joint subspace allows for performing cross-modal retrieval across views, yielding results that are more aligned with what the user intends by the query. The multi-view approaches outlined in this paper can be employed for addressing problems in software engineering that can be encoded in terms of a learning problem, such as software bug prediction and feature location.
Understanding Controlling Shareholder Regimes
Creators: Kang, Sang Yop
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Investments
subject: Law and economics
subject: Corporate governance--Law and legislation
subject: Stockholders
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Traditionally, the corporate governance scholarship has emphasized heavily the "dispersed shareholder regimes" in the United States and the United Kingdom, although "controlling shareholder regimes" constitute the vast majority of the world's economy.  Since there have been few systematic studies concerning controlling shareholder regimes (in particular, controlling shareholder regimes in developing countries), they have remained in a black box.  With this concern in mind, in this dissertation, I proposed various analytical frameworks for understanding the corporate governance of controlling shareholder regimes that, improperly, have been overlooked for a long time.  In the first chapter of my dissertation, entitled Reenvisioning the Controlling Shareholder Regime: Why Controlling Shareholders and Minority Shareholders Embrace Each Other, I proposed theories to explain why controlling shareholders and minority shareholders "voluntarily" embrace each other in an emerging capital market while the legal system in that jurisdiction does not require controllers to protect investors.  In the second chapter, entitled Controlling Shareholders - "Roving" v. "Stationary," I explored two types of controlling shareholders (i.e., "roving" and "stationary" controllers) and delved into why an economy with stationary controllers is better in terms of corporate governance and more likely to be prosperous than an economy with roving controllers.  In the third chapter, entitled Transplanting a Poison Pill to a Controlling Shareholder Regime, I analyzed how a poison pill would affect the market for corporate control and the corporate governance of controlling shareholder regimes.  In this dissertation, I have proposed many unconventional analyses and views on controlling shareholder regimes (in some cases, the concepts may be counterintuitive from the perspective of the conventional corporate governance scholarship).  I hope that my research will guide scholars in a theoretical way to understand the various aspects of law and economics related to corporate governance that mostly have not been recognized or that have been misunderstood in the standard scholarly studies of corporate governance.
Topology and Fragility in Cosmology
Creators: name: Reboucas, M. J.
name: Tavakol, R. K.
name: Teixeira, A. F. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the notion of topological fragility and briefly discuss some examples from the literature. An important example of this type of fragility is the way globally anisotropic Bianchi V generalisations of the FLRW $k=-1$ model result in a radical restriction on the allowed topology of spatial sections, thereby excluding compact cosmological models with negatively curved three-sections with anisotropy. An outcome of this is to exclude chaotic mixing in such models, which may be relevant, given the many recent attempts at employing compact FLRW $k=-1$ models to produce chaotic mixing in the cosmic microwave background radiation, if the Universe turns out to be globally anisotropic.
description: 12 pages, LaTex file, to appear in Gen. Rel. Grav. (1998)
title: Übersicht über die synanthropen Pflanzengesellschaften und ihre Verbreitung in Flusshäfen Mitteleuropas (Vorläufige Mitteilung)
Creators: name: Jehlik, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 58

description: Between 1968 and 2007 the flora and vegetation of river harbours in Central Europe was studied. This
paper deals with the assoziations and their distribution in 62 river harbours of two river systems. The
assoziation Sisymbrio loeselii-Atriplicetum micranthae JEHLÍK et DOSTÁLEK 2008 ass. nova is described
newly. The main difference between the two systems Elbe-Moldau-system and Donau-system
are pointed out.
description: Dynamik der synanthropen Vegetation : Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dietmar Brandes, p. 311
Additional file 2 of Knowledge, practice and attitudes of healthcare students to sepsis management in Jamaica
Creators: name: Roye-Green, Karen J.
name: Vickers, Ivan
name: Priestley, Sharon
name: Walker, Jerome
name: Willis, Rohan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Basharat et al., (2019).pdf
Creators: name: Aneela Basharat
name: Munir, Bushra
name: Jahangeer, Muhammad
name: Qamar, Sarmad Ahmad
name: Mahmood, Zahed
name: Ghaffar, Abdul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110302 Clinical Chemistry (diagnostics)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110312 Nephrology and Urology

description: Kidneys play a vital role in the removal of metabolic waste products in the form of urine. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the decline in kidney function for more than 3 months. This study was designed to investigate comorbidities associated with CKD and to evaluate biochemical parameters of patients undergoing regular hemodialysis from different areas of Punjab. This is a population-based study, conducted at Tahir Heart Institute, Chenab-Nagar, Pakistan. In which 26 (15 males and 11 female) patients (mean age 56 ± 6 years) diagnosed with CKD stage-v and initiated dialysis in a regular manner. Their renal function tests, liver function tests, electrolytes, albumin, and vitamin-D were performed, and appropriate statistical analysis was done. Results showed that CKD affects more males than females. Hypertension is leading comorbidity with CKD around 46%, hypertension, and diabetes both 26.9%, diabetes 15.4%, cardiovascular diseases 7.69% and other 3.8%. Level of urea, creatinine, potassium, and phosphorus was higher in a patient with no significant gender difference. Iron and vitamin–D were deficient in all these patients and this deficiency was higher in female patients. Our findings provide comorbidities that leads towards kidney failure and an overview of routine biochemical parameters of CKD stage-v patients with gender differences.
International Rules And Institutions For Trade Policy
Creators: name: Staiger, Robert W.
name: Staiger, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: What are the potential benefits from establishing international rules for the conduct of trade policy and how should these rules be designed? These questions are of central importance to the evolution of national trade policies in the post-war era, a period in which an elaborate system of international rules has evolved to facilitate the process of reciprocal trade liberalization. Yet the theory of trade policy has traditionally had little to say about these rules and the issues that underlie them. Below I review and synth~size several of the currents of a growing literature that is concerned with these questions. I attempt to accomplish three objectives: To describe the basic structure of international trade agreements as they exist in practice; to explore theoretically the normative consequences of actual and alternative trade agreements; and to offer some theoretically-based explanation for the structure of trade agreements that we observe. I attempt to achieve the first objective by describing the important features of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. I attempt to achieve the latter two objectives by reviewing a body of literature and drawing out its implications as they relate to these issues.
One-loop Amplitudes for N=2 Homogeneous Supergravities
Creators: name: Ben-Shahar, Maor
name: Chiodaroli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute one-loop matter amplitudes in homogeneous Maxwell-Einstein supergravities with N=2 supersymmetry using the double-copy construction. We start from amplitudes of N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory with matter that obey manifestly the duality between color and kinematics. Taking advantage of the fact that amplitudes with external hypermultiplets have kinematical numerators which do not present any explicit dependence on the loop momentum, we find a relation between the one-loop divergence of the supergravity amplitudes and the beta function of the non-supersymmetric gauge theory entering the construction. Two distinct linearized counterterms are generated at one loop. The divergence corresponding to the first is nonzero for all homogeneous supergravities, while the divergence associated to the second vanishes only in the case of the four Magical supergravities.
description: 35 pages, PDFLaTex
Understanding Intercultural Bilingual Education for Education Equity among Indigenous Students in Ecuador and Peru
Creators: Martel, Mirka
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Educational equalization
subject: Education, Bilingual
subject: Indigenous children

description: In this dissertation, I focused on education equity for Indigenous communities in Ecuador and Peru and the policy implications of intercultural bilingual education in the countries’ primary schools. The goals of the study were to (a) measure the extent to which intercultural bilingual education led to increased education outcomes for Indigenous students in Ecuador and Peru and (b) analyze how intercultural bilingual education was implemented in Ecuador by interest groups and how this affected its interpretation and success. Using a sequential mixed methods design, the study began with a longitudinal analysis of education outcomes among Indigenous and non-Indigenous students from 2006-2013 using standardized tests from the Second and Third Regional Comparative and Explanatory Studies. Indigenous students increased their test scores in Spanish language over time; however, these findings were not solely attributed to intercultural bilingual education schools. Improvements among Indigenous students did not necessarily reflect increased equity, as low-income children and those from rural areas continued to underperform. In Ecuador, intercultural bilingual education reform from 2006-2016 resulted in divergent perspectives on the purposes and outcomes of this type of education between the government and Indigenous groups. Opposing interpretations of this education reform as a realization of Indigenous rights and equity as outlined in the 2008 constitution, and its subsequent implementation in Indigenous communities, led to differences in how to measure the success of the reform. Government adherence to a state-level system of evaluation and testing for all students and teachers in 2012 predisposed intercultural bilingual education schools to standardized testing that undermined the theoretical underpinnings of intercultural education.
title: Zur Flora der Hauptbahnhöfe von Mannheim und Heidelberg (Baden-Württemberg)
Creators: name: Junghans, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 58

description: Typical structures of central stations like tracks, platforms, sidings etc. have been investigated in
Mannheim and Heidelberg (Baden-Württemberg). 170 taxa of flowering plants, including some rare
and endangered species, could have been recorded so far. Besides information on the phytosociological
behavior, life forms etc. aspects of dispersal are discussed as well as the contribution of railway facilities
to biodiversity in urban environments.
description: Dynamik der synanthropen Vegetation : Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dietmar Brandes, p. 325
title: Eine Bibliographie zur Klassifikation von Anthropochoren
Creators: name: Kasperek, Gerwin
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: terminology, alien plants, non-native plants, neophytes, naturalisation
subject: 58

description: A bibliography of 122 selected titles on classification of anthropochores is presented. The works have
been grouped according to several aspects, of which the most important are as follows: 45 titles comprising
more or less comprehensive schemes for the classification of anthropochorous plants into
subgroups, 39 contributions with definitions of or detailed discussions on a single or on a few pertinent
terms, and 14 remarkable examples of practical applications or special investigations on certain
groups of anthropochores, respectively.
description: Dynamik der synanthropen Vegetation : Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dietmar Brandes, p. 345
title: Zu Mechanismen der Linienmigration von Pflanzen
Creators: name: Kowarik, Ingo
name: Lippe, Moritz
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: terminology, alien plants, non-native plants, neophytes, naturalisation
subject: 58

description: Linear landscape elements function as important leading structures for plant dispersal. Their ecological
relevance results mostly from fostering long-distance dispersal events. While linear distribution patterns
of plant species along streams and rivers have been observed since the 19th century, corresponding
patterns along roads became much later object of research. Even though such distribution patterns
strongly indicate the functioning of roads as dispersal corridors they do not explain the underlying
mechanisms. Taking roads as an example, we here illustrate linear plant migration as an outcome of
spatial and, in part, functional overlay of varying habitat and dispersal related mechanisms.
description: Dynamik der synanthropen Vegetation : Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dietmar Brandes, p. 363
Ordonnance du conseil souverain, portant réglement pour les bailli, bourguemaître, échevins, & autres officiers de la Ville de Deinze
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
name: Six, Philippe-Josse-Auguste-Joseph (1732-1793)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: Justice royale
Organisation judiciaire
Commune
Officier de justice d'Ancien Régime

description: Source: http://nordnum.univ-lille.fr/ark:/72505/a0115224001360im5Ol/from/a011522400136ypxWl2
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
description: issued: 10/12/1670
title: Ruderal- und Adventivflora von Aufschüttungen in Bremen: sporadische Pracht auf vergänglichem Neuland
Creators: name: Müller, Josef
name: Kubier, Heinrich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: terminology, alien plants, non-native plants, neophytes, naturalisation
subject: 58

description: We investigated massive artificial deposits of soils, sands and debris, which accommodate a speciesrich
urban flora in the municipal area of Bremen. They originate from extensive rearrangements of old
port areas, large soil coverings of rubbish deposits or highway construction. The extended open areas
are optimal colonization sites of typical annual, bi-annual and perennial species: local rurals as well as
new adventitious invaders.
Before the sites were finally sealed by roads and houses, many of the up to now rare species in the
Bremen area are able to complete their reproduction cycle (e. g. Chenopodium hybridum, C. foliosum,
Amaranthus blitum, Rumex salicifolius). Potentilla supina, Pastinaca sativa ssp. urens, Dittrichia
graveolens and Carduus acanthoides were recorded in Bremen for the first time. Our results show that
episodical but highly dynamic sites enrich the urban diversity considerably. Further periodical disturbance,
turn-overs and displacements could preserve the high species diversity of early successional
stands, which have become rare in our highly controlled urban landscape.
description: Dynamik der synanthropen Vegetation : Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Dietmar Brandes, p. 377
Primula pedemontana THOMAS
Creators: name: Le Brun, P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1962
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Primulaceae
Primula
Primula pedemontana

description: Primula pedemontana THOMAS
,répandue dans le massif du Grand-Paradis, est localisee (mais frequente) dans les fentes des dalles de serpentine et de gneiss de l'etage alpin de la haute Maurienne et de la haute Tarentaise. - Compagnes frequentes: Juncus trifiduset etP 4 yteuma hemisphaericum.
description: Published as part of Le Brun, P., 1962, Tour d'Horizon floristique sur les alpes françaises, pp. 55-70 in Vegetatio 11 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.1007/bf00301299, http://zenodo.org/record/6928804
title: Возрастная анатомия. Основы детской невропатологии
title: Учебное пособие для СПО
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Налобина А.Н.
Publisher: name: Профобразование, Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2019

description: Учебное пособие включает в себя материал, в котором систематически изложены основы общей неврологии с анатомо-физиологическими особенностями нервной системы, характерными для детей разного возраста, а также методами исследования ребенка с заболеваниями нервной системы. Издание соответствует Федеральному государственному образовательному стандарту среднего профессионального образования. Предназначено для обучающихся по специальности 44.02.01 «Дошкольное образование», а также может использоваться при изучении дисциплин «Возрастная анатомия», «Основы детской невропатологии».
Diffuse polarized emission in the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey
Creators: name: Van Eck, C. L.
name: Haverkorn, M.
name: Alves, M. I. R.
name: Beck, R.
name: Best, P.
name: Carretti, E.
name: Chyży, K. T.
name: Enßlin, T.
name: Farnes, J. S.
name: Ferrière, K.
name: Heald, G.
name: Iacobelli, M.
name: Jelić, V.
name: Reich, W.
name: Röttgering, H. J. A.
name: Schnitzeler, D. H. F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Faraday tomography allows us to map diffuse polarized synchrotron emission from our Galaxy and use it to interpret the magnetic field in the interstellar medium (ISM). We have applied Faraday tomography to 60 observations from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LOTSS) and produced a Faraday depth cube mosaic covering 568 square degrees at high Galactic latitudes, at 4.3' angular resolution and 1 rad m$^{-2}$ Faraday depth resolution, with a typical noise level of 50--100 $μ$Jy per point spread function (PSF) per rotation measure spread function (RMSF) (40-80 mK RMSF$^{-1}$). While parts of the images are strongly affected by instrumental polarization, we observe diffuse polarized emission throughout most of the field, with typical brightness between 1 and 6 K RMSF$^{-1}$, and Faraday depths between $-7$ and +25 rad m$^{-2}$. We observed many new polarization features, some up to 15 degrees in length. These include two regions with very uniformly structured, linear gradients in the Faraday depth; we measured the steepness of these gradients as 2.6 and 13 rad m$^{-2}$ deg$^{-1}$. We also observed a relationship between one of the gradients and an HI filament in the local ISM. Other ISM tracers were also checked for correlations with our polarization data and none were found, but very little signal was seen in most tracers in this region. We conclude that the LOTSS data are very well suited for Faraday tomography, and that a full-scale survey with all the LOTSS data has the potential to reveal many new Galactic polarization features and map out diffuse Faraday depth structure across the entire northern hemisphere.
description: 23 pages, 16 figures, accepted by A&A. Figures have been degraded to comply with arXiv file size limits; full resolution figures will be available in the A&A version
Curvature-based Gauge-Invariant Perturbation Theory for Gravity: A New Paradigm
Creators: name: Anderson, Arlen
name: Abrahams, Andrew M.
name: Lea, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new approach to gravitational gauge-invariant perturbation theory begins from the fourth-order Einstein-Ricci system, a hyperbolic formulation of gravity for arbitrary lapse and shift whose centerpiece is a wave equation for curvature. In the Minkowski and Schwarzschild backgrounds, an intertwining operator procedure is used to separate physical gauge-invariant curvature perturbations from unphysical ones. In the Schwarzschild case, physical variables are found which satisfy the Regge-Wheeler equation in both odd and even parity. In both cases, the unphysical "gauge'' degrees of freedom are identified with violations of the linearized Hamiltonian and momentum constraints, and they are found to evolve among themselves as a closed subsystem. If the constraints are violated, say by numerical finite-differencing, this system describes the hyperbolic evolution of the constraint violation. It is argued that an underlying raison d'être of causal hyperbolic formulations is to make the evolution of constraint violations well-posed.
description: 32 pp., LaTeX
Understanding Iron-Pnictide Superconductors using Muon Spin Rotation and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy with Nonconvex Optimization
Creators: Cheung, Sky Chance
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Condensed matter
Iron-based superconductors
Physics
Scanning tunneling microscopy

description: Iron-based high temperature superconductors are a large family of materials that exhibit unconventional superconductivity and arise from antiferromagnetically-ordered parent compounds. One of the grand challenges in understanding the behavior of these materials is determining the physical mechanisms responsible for the transition into the superconducting state. This thesis describes two recent investigations to explore the magnetic and superconducting properties of NaFeAs in response to changes in temperature and nickel dopants. The peculiar interplay of magnetism and superconductivity in nickel-doped NaFeAs is elucidated using muon spin rotation. Our experimental findings on this novel system are supported with both computational and theoretical calculations. The second investigation describes an improvement to the analysis framework to the scanning tunneling microscopy technique that leverages recent advances in nonconvex optimization. This novel approach is applied directly to microscopy images of NaFeAs to provide unprecedented phase-sensitive access to the quasiparticle scattering spectrum in the material. These results place constraints on theoretical models that describe the local electronic structure and physics of NaFeAs.