cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH BULLYING VICTIMIZATION AMONG WASHINGTON, D.C. MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2012 YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR SURVEY (YRBS)
Creators: name: Hawthorne, David J.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Bullying is a serious problem in the United States. The individual and community characteristics that protect against bullying are of interest in bullying prevention research. This study analyzed secondary data from the 2012 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) administered in Washington, DC, to determine the relationship between bullying victimization and select sociodemographic, social, and environmental variables. The analysis included chi-square analysis, and logistic regression to examine the association of gender, race, grade, body mass index (BMI), academic achievement, sexual orientation, sports activity, gang membership, school support, and suicidal ideation with bullying victimization. Overall, 34 percent and 15 percent of middle school and high school students respectively were bullied (either in school or cyber) in the 12 months before the survey. Results also showed that being bullied in the past 12 months was significantly more common among females than males, in earlier school grades, among students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or unsure compared to heterosexual males. Bullied students were also more likely to report having an adult in school to go to if they had a problem and had higher grades compared to students with lower grades. White students were more likely to report being bullied than other races, but the difference in race was only significant for high school students. Bullying victimization was also significantly associated with student reports of suicidal ideation, highlighting the burden that bullying is placing on students within the District.
A method to test the coupling strength of the linear and nonlinear contributions to higher-order flow harmonics via Event Shape Engineering
Creators: name: Magdy, Niseem
name: Evdokimov, Olga
name: Lacey, Roy A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) model is used to study the efficacy of shape-engineered events to delineate the degree of coupling between the linear and nonlinear contributions to the higher-order flow harmonics $v_{4}$ and $v_{5}$. The study shows that the nonlinear contributions are strongly shape-dependent while the linear contributions are shape-independent, indicating little if any, coupling between the linear and nonlinear flow coefficients. The experimental verification of such patterns could be an invaluable tool for robust extraction of the linear and mode-coupled flow coefficients, especially for beam energies where the charged particle multiplicity and the event statistics precludes the use of current methods to establish the coupling strength.
Dopamine and sense of agency: Determinants in personality and substance use
Creators: name: Jonason, Peter Karl
name: Render, Anna
name: Jansen, Petra
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Sense of agency refers to the feeling of control over one’s own actions. The strength of this sense varies inter-individually. This means that people differ in their perception concerning the intensity of their intentions and actions. The current study aims to determine the factors influencing this sense of agency on a personality level. Furthermore, it gives insight into the correlative relation between the strength of the sense of agency and substance use. The study involved 210 participants who were tested for the experiment (intentional binding paradigm for sense of agency, hand paradigm for intentionality bias, questionnaires FAD-Plus, NI-20, substance use). Significant determinants in personality were narcissism (vulnerable subtype) and substance use (consumption in general beyond cannabis, and particularly for the substances cannabis, ecstasy, and cocaine). Both personality types were associated with a weaker sense of agency compared to controls. For both results, alterations in the dopaminergic system need to be discussed. The present results confirm prior hypotheses that dopamine seems to play a crucial role in perception of agency. Possibly a higher accessibility of dopamine increases sense of agency (hyper-binding), whereas a lower accessibility of dopamine decreases sense of agency (hypo-binding). A second aim of the study was to see whether there is a connection between sense of agency and intentionality bias. The perception of intention in others differs widely; some people tend to see arbitrary or accidental actions as unintentional, and others quickly label actions as ‘intentional’ although the information is not distinct for a categorization. This cognitive error is called intentionality bias. Results could not confirm a relationship between the two constructs—one’s own intention and judging intention in others. This may be due to a lack of connection between the two constructs or to methodological aspects. Further directions and limitations are discussed.
Capturing the Practices, Challenges, and Needs of Transportation Decision-Makers
Creators: name: Sharbatdar, Nasim
name: Lamine, Yassine
name: Milord, Brigitte
name: Morency, Catherine
name: Cheng, Jinghui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transportation decision-makers from government agencies play an important role in addressing the traffic network conditions, which in turn, have a major impact on the well-being of citizens. The practices, challenges, and needs of this group of practitioners are less represented in the HCI literature. We address this gap through an interview study with 19 practitioners from Transports Québec, a government agency responsible for transportation infrastructures in Québec, Canada. We found that this group of decision-makers can most benefit from research about data analysis tools and platforms that (1) provide information to support data quality awareness, (2) are interoperable with other tools in the complex workflow of the practitioners, and (3) support intuitive and customizable visual analytics. These implications can also be informative to the design of tools supporting other decision-making tasks and domains.
description: 7 pages, 0 figures, ACM CHI LBW Paper (2020). For personas created in the project, see https://github.com/HCDLab/TDMPersonas
Fabry-Perot interference and spin filtering in carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Peca, Claudia S.
name: Balents, Leon
name: Wiese, Kay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the two-terminal transport properties of a metallic single-walled carbon nanotube with good contacts to electrodes, which have recently been shown [W. Liang et al, Nature 441, 665-669 (2001)] to conduct ballistically with weak backscattering occurring mainly at the two contacts. The measured conductance, as a function of bias and gate voltages, shows an oscillating pattern of quantum interference. We show how such patterns can be understood and calculated, taking into account Luttinger liquid effects resulting from strong Coulomb interactions in the nanotube. We treat back-scattering in the contacts perturbatively and use the Keldysh formalism to treat non-equilibrium effects due to the non-zero bias voltage. Going beyond current experiments, we include the effects of possible ferromagnetic polarization of the leads to describe spin transport in carbon nanotubes. We thereby describe both incoherent spin injection and coherent resonant spin transport between the two leads. Spin currents can be produced in both ways, but only the latter allow this spin current to be controlled using an external gate. In all cases, the spin currents, charge currents, and magnetization of the nanotube exhibit components varying quasiperiodically with bias voltage, approximately as a superposition of periodic interference oscillations of spin- and charge-carrying ``quasiparticles'' in the nanotube, each with its own period. The amplitude of the higher-period signal is largest in single-mode quantum wires, and is somewhat suppressed in metallic nanotubes due to their sub-band degeneracy.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Full electromagnetic Green's dyadic of spherically symmetric open optical systems and elimination of static modes from the resonant-state expansion
Creators: name: Muljarov, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general analytic form of the full 6x6 dyadic Green's function of a spherically symmetric open optical system is presented, with an explicit solution provided for a homogeneous sphere in vacuum. Different spectral representations of the Green's function are derived using the Mittag-Leffler theorem, and their convergence to the exact solution is analyzed, allowing us to select optimal representations. Based on them, more efficient versions of the resonant-state expansion (RSE) are formulated, with a particular focus on the static mode contribution, including versions of the RSE with a complete elimination of static modes. These general versions of the RSE, applicable to non-spherical optical systems, are verified and illustrated on exactly solvable examples of a dielectric sphere in vacuum with perturbations of its size and refractive index, demonstrating the same level of convergence to the exact solution for both transverse electric and transverse magnetic polarizations.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures
Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons in Cs$_{2}$CuCl$_{4}$: a dilute gas limit near the saturation magnetic field
Creators: name: Kovrizhin, D. L.
name: Yushankhai, V.
name: Siurakshina, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a realistic spin Hamiltonian for a frustrated quasi-two dimensional spin-1/2 antiferromagnet Cs$_{2}$CuCl$_{4}$, a three-dimensional spin ordering in the applied magnetic field $B$ near the saturation value $B_{c}$ is studied within the magnon Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) scenario. With the use of a hard-core boson formulation of the spin model, a strongly anysotropic magnon dispersion in Cs$_{2}$CuCl$_{4}$ is calculated. In the dilute magnon limit near $B_{c}$, the hard-core boson constraint is resulted in an effective magnon interaction which is treated in the Hartree-Fock approximation. The critical temperature $T_{c}$ is calculated as a function of a magnetic field $B$ and compared with the phase boundary $T_{c}(B) $ experimentally determined in Cs$_{2}$CuCl$_{4}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{95}, 127202 (2005)].
Pre-Test Estimation in Regression Under Absolute Error Loss
Creators: name: Giles, David E. A.
name: Giles, David E. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Productivity Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Risk and Uncertainty

description: We consider the risks of the Ordinary Least Squares, Restricted Least Squares and Pre-Test estimators of a regression coefficient under absolute error loss. These results are compared with their quadratic loss counterparts, and similar regions of risk dominance are found to hold, at least qualitatively.
Hydrogen Non-Equilibrium Ionisation Effects in Coronal Mass Ejections
Creators: name: Pagano, P.
name: Bemporad, A.
name: Mackay, D. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new generation of coronagraphs to study the solar wind and CMEs are being developed and launched. These coronagraphs will heavily rely on multi-channel observations where visible light (VL) and UV-EUV observations provide new plasma diagnostics. One of these instruments, Metis on board ESA-Solar Orbiter, will simultaneously observe VL and the UV Lyman-$α$ line. The number of neutral Hydrogen atoms (a small fraction of coronal protons) is a key parameter for deriving plasma properties such as temperature from the observed Lyman-$α$ line intensity. However, these measurements are significantly affected if non-equilibrium ionisation effects occur. The aim of this work is to determine if non-equilibrium ionisation effects are relevant in CMEs and in particular when and in which regions of the CME. We use a magneto-hydrodynamic simulation of a magnetic flux rope ejection to generate a CME. From this we then reconstruct the ionisation state of Hydrogen atoms in the CME by evaluating both the advection of neutral and ionised Hydrogen atoms and the ionisation and recombination rates in the MHD simulation. We find that the equilibrium ionisation assumption holds mostly in the core of the CME. In contrast non-equilibrium ionisation effects are significant at the CME front, where we find about 100 times more neutral Hydrogen atoms than prescribed by ionisation equilibrium conditions, even if this neutral Hydrogen excess might be difficult to identify due to projection effects. This work provides key information for the development of a new generation of diagnostic techniques that aim at combining visible light and Lyman-$α$ line emissions. The results show that non-ionisation equilibrium effects need to be considered when we analyse CME fronts. To incorrectly assume equilibrium ionisation in these regions would lead to a systematic underestimate of plasma temperatures.
Fabrication of ZnO@C foam: A flexible free-standing electrode for energy storage devices
Creators: name: Moradlou, Omran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 30604 Electrochemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: In this work,we have synthesized a flexible ZnO@C foam for its potential applications in energy production and storagedevices based on the simple and versatilemethod. The fabricated ZnO@C foamexhibited enhanced capacitancecompared to commercially available Ni foam. The fabrication process involves the synthesis of ZnO nanostructures,deposition of ZnO@C nanostructure on Ni foam, and finally, removing Ni substrate to have ZnO@C foam. Based oncyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge-discharge curves and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, it wasconcluded that the ZnO@C foam has a suitable electron transfer rate and conductivity. ZnO@C foam provides ahigh areal specific capacitance of 1120 mF cm−2 at a current density of 4 mA cm−2. The proposed flexible foamhas potential applications in the fabrication of solid-state supercapacitors as well as fuel cells.
Measuring disagreement in qualitative survey data
Creators: name: Mokinski, Frieder
name: Sheng, Xuguang
name: Yang, Jingyun
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: To measure disagreement among respondents in qualitative survey data, we propose new meth ods applicable to both univariate and multivariate comparisons. Based on prior work, our ﬁrst measure quantiﬁes the level of disagreement in predictions of a single variable. Our second method constructs an index of overall disagreement from a dynamic factor model across several variables. Using directional forecasts from the Centre for European Economic Research Finan cial Market Survey, we ﬁnd that our measures yield levels of disagreement consistent with point forecasts from the European Central Bank’s Survey of Professional Forecasters. To illustrate usefulness, we explore the source and predictive power of forecast disagreement.
Measuring disagreement in qualitative survey data
Creators: name: Mokinski, Frieder
name: Sheng, Xuguang
name: Yang, Jingyun
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: To measure disagreement among respondents in qualitative survey data, we propose new meth ods applicable to both univariate and multivariate comparisons. Based on prior work, our ﬁrst measure quantiﬁes the level of disagreement in predictions of a single variable. Our second method constructs an index of overall disagreement from a dynamic factor model across several variables. Using directional forecasts from the Centre for European Economic Research Finan cial Market Survey, we ﬁnd that our measures yield levels of disagreement consistent with point forecasts from the European Central Bank’s Survey of Professional Forecasters. To illustrate usefulness, we explore the source and predictive power of forecast disagreement.
Improving the background of gravitational-wave searches for core collapse supernovae: A machine learning approach
Creators: name: Cavaglia, Marco
name: Gaudio, Sergio
name: Hansen, Travis
name: Staats, Kai
name: Szczepanczyk, Marek
name: Zanolin, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the prior O1-O2 observing runs, about 30% of the data collected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo in the next observing runs are expected to be single-interferometer data, i.e., they will be collected at times when only one detector in the network is operating in observing mode. Searches for gravitational wave signals from supernova events do not rely on matched filtering techniques because of the stochastic nature of the signals. If a Galactic supernova occurs during single-interferometer times, separation of its unmodelled gravitational-wave signal from noise will be even more difficult due to lack of coherence between detectors. We present a novel machine learning method to perform single-interferometer supernova searches based on the standard LIGO-Virgo coherentWave-Burst pipeline. We show that the method may be used to discriminate Galactic gravitational-wave supernova signals from noise transients, decrease the false alarm rate of the search, and improve the supernova detection reach of the detectors.
description: This is the version of the article before peer review or editing, as submitted by an author to Machine Learning: Science and Technology. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-2153/ab527d
Magnetic field induced phase transitions in spin ladders with ferromagnetic legs
Creators: name: Vekua, T.
name: Japaridze, G. I.
name: Mikeska, H. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phase diagram of spin ladders with ferromagnetic legs under the influence of a symmetry breaking magnetic field in the weak coupling effective field theory by bosonization. For antiferromagnetic interleg coupling we identify two phase transitions introduced by the external magnetic field. In order to establish the universality of the phases we supplement the bosonization approach by results from a strong coupling (rung) expansion and from spin wave analysis.
description: 7 revtex pages, 6 figures
A Prelimiary Report on the Development of Avocado as a Tree Crop and on Factors Affecting Yield in Barbados
Creators: name: Lucas, Robert D.
name: Lucas, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1973
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: The development of organized plantings of Avocado is new to Barbados. Prior to 1972, there was only one area where a pure stand of more than twenty trees could be found. Since then, this number has risen by eight. The newly planted areas consist either of grafted plants or seedling trees. The yield per tree is low and this is mainly due to poor management; the Avocado being related to the position of a backyard tree. It is hoped that with the production of an increasing amount of grafted plants, and an improvement in management practices, that ultimately Avocado production in the island will increase.
An alternative approach to dynamical mass generation in QED3
Creators: name: Alexandre, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some quantum properties of QED3 are studied with the help of an exact evolution equation of the effective action with the bare fermion mass. The resulting effective theory and the occurrence of a dynamical mass are discussed in the framework of the gradient expansion.
Stochastic two-species mutualism model with jumps
Creators: name: Borysenko, Olga
name: Borysenko, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The existence and uniqueness are proved for the global positive solution to the system of stochastic differential equations describing a two-species mutualism model disturbed by the white noise, the centered and non-centered Poisson noises. We obtain sufficient conditions for stochastic ultimate boundedness, stochastic permanence, nonpersistence in the mean, strong persistence in the mean and extinction of the solution to the considered system.
description: Published at https://doi.org/10.15559/20-VMSTA150 in the Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications (https://vmsta.org/) by VTeX (http://www.vtex.lt/)
Estimation of the Regression Scale After a Pre-Test for Homoscedasticity Under Linex Loss
Creators: name: Giles, Judith A.
name: Giles, David E. A.
name: Giles, Judith A.
name: Giles, David E. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Risk and Uncertainty

description: In this paper we consider the risk of an estimator of the error variance after a pre-test for homoscedasticity of the variances in the two-sample heteroscedastic linear regression model. This particular pre-test problem has been well investigated but always under the restrictive assumption of a squared error loss function. We consider an asymmetric loss function - the LINEX loss function - and derive the exact risks of various estimators of the error variance.
title: "Getting Down the Road": Understanding Stable Mobility in an American Circus
Creators: name: Terranova-Webb, Ariel
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: A circus, perceived as a fleeting performative event by its audience, presents a life of continuingly restored movement and work to the people that produce the performance. This is the starting point for the stable mobility concept presented in this research. The circus represents a situation of continuing and stable physical movement in which the production of movement continually creates a recognizable, yet flexible, situation. This thesis demonstrates the value of stable mobility for understanding experiences and productions of cultural geographical phenomena that are flexible, continually restored, and reworked to be stable, yet also specific, at each restoration.

The thesis argues that stable mobility becomes apparent through mobile research perspectives. A mobile perspective is viewing the lived relationships and processes of mobility from the place of mobility and finding ways to recover the practices and experiences of being mobile. This is done, not by adding physical movement, but by considering the context of movement.

The research presents ideas of performance and memory as the ways in which a circus manages to reproduce and transform its culture of mobility by calling on past formulations of circus mobility in ways specific to each performance. Significantly, the thesis presents a figuring of mobility, understood as constantly renewed relationships between people, materials, and memory made flexible through improvisational performances, as necessary to the maintenance and preservation of circus life.

Through a five month ethnography conducted on the roads, and in the tent, of Kelly Miller Circus' 2008 season, this research discovered how, through continually restored and flexible performances of memory, this performative culture of movement maintains and preserves its mobility by continually becoming temporarily immobile. In order to reflect the varied aspects of stable mobility at work in Kelly Miller Circus, each ethnographic description and analytical engagement is written in a different performative style.
A "Combination Nova" Outburst in Z Andromedae: Nuclear Shell Burning Triggered by a Disk Instability
Creators: name: Sokoloski, J. L.
name: Kenyon, S. J.
name: Espey, B. R.
name: Keyes, Charles D.
name: McCandliss, S. R.
name: Kong, A. K. H.
name: Aufdenberg, J. P.
name: Filippenko, A. V.
name: Li, W.
name: Brocksopp, C.
name: Kaiser, Christian R.
name: Charles, P. A.
name: Rupen, M. P.
name: Stone, R. P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe observational evidence for a new kind of interacting-binary-star outburst that involves both an accretion instability and an increase in thermonuclear shell burning on the surface of an accreting white dwarf. We refer to this new type of eruption as a combination nova. In late 2000, the prototypical symbiotic star Z Andromedae brightened by roughly two magnitudes in the optical. We observed the outburst in the radio with the VLA and MERLIN, in the optical both photometrically and spectroscopically, in the far ultraviolet with FUSE, and in the X-rays with both Chandra and XMM. The two-year-long event had three distinct stages. During the first stage, the optical rise closely resembled an earlier, small outburst that was caused by an accretion-disk instability. In the second stage, the hot component ejected an optically thick shell of material. In the third stage, the shell cleared to reveal a white dwarf whose luminosity remained on the order of 10^4 Lsun for approximately one year. The eruption was thus too energetic to have been powered by accretion alone. We propose that the initial burst of accretion was large enough to trigger enhanced nuclear burning on the surface of the white dwarf and the ejection of an optically thick shell of material. This outburst therefore combined elements of both a dwarf nova and a classical nova. Our results have implications for the long-standing problem of producing shell flashes with short recurrence times on low-mass white dwarfs in symbiotic stars.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 24 pages, 10 figures
‘PUTTING THE HORSE BEFORE THE CART’: A PRE-CRISIS PANEL DATA INVESTIGATION OF GREEK BANK’S CREDIT GROWTH
Creators: name: Vogiazas, Sophocles
name: Alexiou, Constantinos
name: Vogiazas, Sophocles
name: Alexiou, Constantinos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Greek Banking Sector
subject: Credit Growth
subject: Business Cycles
subject: Panel Data Analysis

description: The economic crisis that was ignited in 2009 has ushered in an era of economic stagnation and social misery across much of the EU region that could last for a generation or more. As a result, governments in the recession-stricken Eurozone are struggling to find a viable way out of what is perceived to be the worst economic turmoil since the establishment of the EU. In Greece, the rippling effects of the crisis manifested themselves in a sovereign debt crisis accompanied by practically a collapse of its banking sector. This paper by using panel data analysis purports to explore and effectively shed some light on the key factors that determined the lending behavior of the banking sector in the pre-crisis period. To the best of our knowledge, there are hardly any empirical studies conducted on the role of banks over the period 2004-2010. The evidence yielded, relates credit growth to deposit growth and rising housing prices as well as banks’ capital strength. In so far as the business cycle affects lending growth, our results confirm that an ever increasing public debt results in curtailed lending while rising real private consumption kept Greek lenders’ volumes at high levels. Given the current banking sector restructuring that is taking place in Greece the evidence that is generated can be invaluable as it suggests alternative channels through which the battered banking sector could resume its main intermediation role.
hyper_param_result_2021_03_19_07_04_27.csv
Creators: name: Gavali, Sachin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: CSV file detailing all the hyper parameters used during 50 runs of the experiment.
EXCHANGE RATE INFLUENCES ON STOCK MARKET RETURNS AND VOLATILITY DYNAMICS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN STOCK MARKET
Creators: name: Karunanayake, Indika
name: Karunanayake, Indika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Stock returns
subject: volatility
subject: exchange rates
subject: univariate GARCH model

description: This paper examines the influence of exchange rate exposure on Australian stock returns and their volatility, using daily data from January 2003 to February 2013. Furthermore, the current study uses the exchange rate between the Australian dollar and seven other currencies to quantify the extent of the influence of each currency’s exposure on Australian stock returns and their volatility. The estimated results indicate that the lagged exchange rates of six of the seven currencies, and their unanticipated shocks, significantly influence Australian stock returns. However, the results show that the influences of the variances of exchange rates on Australian stock returns are insignificant. Unlike the influence of exchange rate volatility on Australian stock market returns, exchange rate volatility exposure on Australian stock market volatility indicates statistically significant results for the variance of two of the seven currencies.
Amphipod species behavioral adaptations to the absence of open water
Creators: name: Gilbert, Heather
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Biological surveys of fauna in the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and Coastal Plain document significant distributions of various amphipod species populations. These amphipods occupy diverse habitats and have evolved highly specialized traits specific to their niche environment. Little is understood about amphipod species habitat preferences—particularly how some species survive the seasonal changes of ephemeral habitats, with drastic water level fluctuations. Three amphipod species with populations in Washington, DC include: Gammarus minus, Crangonyx shoemakeri and Stygobromus tenuis potomacus. These species are most commonly found in separate habitats, each species having developed its own distinct behavioral adaptations to succeed. This study tests the survival of these species in the laboratory when open surface water is removed, calculating survival rates and recording observed behaviors. Crangonyx shoemakeri and Stygobromus tenuis potomacus commonly found in seeps, springs and hypotelminorheic habitats, successfully avoid desiccation after air exposure. After correcting for expected deaths, no additional deaths were recorded without surface water for both these species. Gammarus minus are ill-suited to combat this stress and die-off relatively quickly under these conditions. After correcting for expected deaths, approximately 25% of the Gammarus minus in tests without open surface water died. This difference in survival along with corresponding behavioral adaptations broadens knowledge of mechanisms allowing success of Crangonyx shoemakeri, and Stygobromus tenuis potomacus in ephemeral environments and reveals their competitive advantage against other species.
Additional file 1 of Associations between reversible and potentially reversible cognitive frailty and falls in community-dwelling older adults in China: a longitudinal study
Creators: name: Xu, Xiaonuo
name: Ding, Ning
name: He, Jing
name: Zhao, Ronghui
name: Gu, Weiqi
name: Ge, Xiaoyan
name: Cui, Kai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Amphipod species behavioral adaptations to the absence of open water
Creators: name: Gilbert, Heather
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Biological surveys of fauna in the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and Coastal Plain document significant distributions of various amphipod species populations. These amphipods occupy diverse habitats and have evolved highly specialized traits specific to their niche environment. Little is understood about amphipod species habitat preferences—particularly how some species survive the seasonal changes of ephemeral habitats, with drastic water level fluctuations. Three amphipod species with populations in Washington, DC include: Gammarus minus, Crangonyx shoemakeri and Stygobromus tenuis potomacus. These species are most commonly found in separate habitats, each species having developed its own distinct behavioral adaptations to succeed. This study tests the survival of these species in the laboratory when open surface water is removed, calculating survival rates and recording observed behaviors. Crangonyx shoemakeri and Stygobromus tenuis potomacus commonly found in seeps, springs and hypotelminorheic habitats, successfully avoid desiccation after air exposure. After correcting for expected deaths, no additional deaths were recorded without surface water for both these species. Gammarus minus are ill-suited to combat this stress and die-off relatively quickly under these conditions. After correcting for expected deaths, approximately 25% of the Gammarus minus in tests without open surface water died. This difference in survival along with corresponding behavioral adaptations broadens knowledge of mechanisms allowing success of Crangonyx shoemakeri, and Stygobromus tenuis potomacus in ephemeral environments and reveals their competitive advantage against other species.
Field-induced quantum critical point in CeCoIn_5
Creators: name: Paglione, Johnpierre
name: Tanatar, M. A.
name: Hawthorn, D. G.
name: Boaknin, Etienne
name: Hill, R. W.
name: Ronning, F.
name: Sutherland, M.
name: Taillefer, Louis
name: Petrovic, C.
name: Canfield, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The resistivity of CeCoIn_5 was measured down to 20 mK in magnetic fields of up to 16 T. With increasing field, we observe a suppression of the non-Fermi liquid behavior, rho~T, and the development of a Fermi liquid state, with its characteristic rho=rho_0+AT^2 dependence. The field dependence of the T^2 coefficient shows critical behavior with an exponent of ~4/3. This is evidence for a new field-induced quantum critical point, occuring in this case at a critical field which coincides with the superconducting upper critical field H_c2.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, submitted to M2S-Rio 2003 Proceedings
Assessing the Security of OPC UA Deployments
Creators: name: Roepert, Linus
name: Dahlmanns, Markus
name: Fink, Ina Berenice
name: Pennekamp, Jan
name: Henze, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To address the increasing security demands of industrial deployments, OPC UA is one of the first industrial protocols explicitly designed with security in mind. However, deploying it securely requires a thorough configuration of a wide range of options. Thus, assessing the security of OPC UA deployments and their configuration is necessary to ensure secure operation, most importantly confidentiality and integrity of industrial processes. In this work, we present extensions to the popular Metasploit Framework to ease network-based security assessments of OPC UA deployments. To this end, we discuss methods to discover OPC UA servers, test their authentication, obtain their configuration, and check for vulnerabilities. Ultimately, our work enables operators to verify the (security) configuration of their systems and identify potential attack vectors.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Proceedings of the 1st ITG Workshop on IT Security (ITSec)
CONTAGION AND FLIGHT-TO-QUALITY: EVIDENCES FROM THE ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC) REGION
Creators: name: Peng, Yu-Tung
name: Au Yong, Hue Hwa
name: Treepongkaruna, Sirimon
name: Peng, Yu-Tung
name: Au Yong, Hue Hwa
name: Treepongkaruna, Sirimon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Financial crisis, spillover, stock market, bond market, market sentiment

description: This paper investigates the existence and determinants of contagion and flight-toquality phenomena during crisis periods in the stock and bond markets of APEC countries between 1995 and 2010. The findings show the presence of contagion effects among stock markets of APEC countries and between the U.S. and Canadian bond markets. There are evidences of flight-to-quality from majority of the stock markets to the U.S. bond market. Market sentiment plays an important role in explaining both contagion and flight-to-quality phenomena. Our findings suggest that governments should facilitate bond market development to prevent the propagation of crises across countries.
DAILY EXCHANGE RATE DETERMINATION: SHORT-TERM SPECULATION AND LONGERTERM EXPECTATION
Creators: name: Seddha-Udom, Thanaporn
name: Seddha-Udom, Thanaporn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Daily exchange rate determination
subject: Chartist-fundamentalist approach
subject: Markov switching model

description: This study develops an empirical model to forecast daily exchange rate dynamics by separating market participants into two groups: short-term speculators and longer-term investors. These two types of participants have different expectations and impacts on daily exchange rate movements. The proposed model is based on a chartist-fundamentalist approach, i.e., the expected daily exchange rate movement is influenced by its past movement as well as the extent to which the market rate deviates from its fundamental value. Additionally, data for some global risk factors, FX market intervention and Quantitative Easing (QE) are also incorporated into the model as control variables and to consider policy implications. The model is specified as a two-state Markov switching model due to its empirical support for in-sample prediction. This study examines the daily exchange rate movements of the five most traded currency pairs from 1999 until the first half of 2013. The proposed model logically and significantly explains daily exchange rate dynamics and outperforms a random walk model for both in-sample and out-of-sample periods. The model implies that monetary authorities can implement policies to potentially stabilize short-term exchange rate movements by influencing the expectations of short-term speculators. In contrast, the expectations of longer-term investors are quite stable and tend to converge to the trend and long-run equilibrium in the foreign exchange market without the need for short-run policy interventions.
FIRM-SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS AND TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN CHINA
Creators: name: Mei-Foong, Wong
name: Hui-Boon, Tan
name: Hon, Lee Yoong
name: Mei-Foong, Wong
name: Hui-Boon, Tan
name: Hon, Lee Yoong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: firm-specific characteristics
subject: stochastic frontier analysis
subject: electronics manufacturing firms
subject: technical efficiency
subject: total factor productivity
subject: China

description: This paper analyses the technical efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of China’s electronics industries from 2006 to 2010 using stochastic production frontier model. The estimates show that the mean technical efficiency scores of electronics firms in Hong Kong and Mainland China are 63% and 90%, respectively. The estimation using the technical inefficiency effects model further reveals that firm specific characteristics, namely the capital structure, profitability, firm size and regional location, are crucial determinants of firms’ efficiency. Since firm size has a positive effect on inefficiency, small and medium-sized electronic firms appear to demonstrate a higher level of efficiency than their larger counterparts. In the TFP analysis, Hong Kong firms recorded both higher TFP growth and technological progress compared to their Chinese counterparts. In contrast, Mainland Chinese firms performed better in the context of managerial and scale efficiency.
Innovation in the Rural Nonfarm Economy: Its Effect on Job and Earnings Growth, 2010-2014
Creators: name: Wojan, Tim
name: Parker, Timothy
name: Wojan, Tim
name: Parker, Timothy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: employment growth
subject: wage growth
subject: net establishment change
subject: geography of innovation
subject: self-reported innovation
subject: data-driven decision making
subject: survey methodology
subject: latent class analysis

description: Innovation—introducing new goods, services, or ways of doing business that are valued by consumers—is widely regarded as essential to dynamic and resilient local economies with long-term growth potential. However, innovation in the nonfarm rural economy has received relatively little attention. This report uses the first nationally representative sample of self-reported innovation at the U.S. establishment level to: (1) assess the level of innovation in rural establishments relative to their urban peers; (2) identify rural industries that are the most innovation-intensive; and (3) estimate how innovation at the local level may have affected the rate of recovery after the Great Recession.
Konstituisanje trećeg roda u drami Psihoza 4.48 Sare Kejn
Creators: name: Pavicevic, Jovana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Drama

description: Rad se se bavi analizom drame Psihoza 4.48 britanskog dramskog pisca Sare Kejn. Osnovni cilj rada je da ukaže na mogućnost tumačenja nezavisno od biografskih podataka autora i time ispita način konstituisanja subjekta i odnos zdravlja i bolesti/ludila.
title: Аналитическое обеспечение изучения церковных расколов
Creators: name: Бочков, Павел Владимирович
name: Мартышин Денис Сергеевич
Publisher: name: Studia Humanitatis
Year: 2013
Subjects: АНАЛИТИКА
БОГОСЛОВИЕ
ИЗУЧЕНИЕ ЦЕРКОВНЫХ РАСКОЛОВ
ВОЗНИКНОВЕНИЕ РАСКОЛОВ
ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЕ РАСКОЛОВ
ЦЕРКОВНОЕ ЕДИНСТВО
ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ
ANALYTICS
THEOLOGY
THE STUDY OF CHURCH SPLITS
THE OCCURRENCE OF SPLITS
OVERCOMING SCHISMS CHURCH UNITY AND EDUCATION

description: В статье рассматривается необходимость богословского анализа и аналитического обеспечения в исследовании церковных расколов, являющимися современными вызовами церковному единству Русской Православной Церкви. Авторы указывают на необходимость междисциплинарного подхода, синтеза богословской и светской науки для достижения наилучшего эффекта в деле изучения расколов и противодействии церковным разделениям.
Does Priming Elicit Shifts in Cognitive Style?
Creators: name: Parker, Suzanne C.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Cognitive style has been primarily examined within the cross-cultural literature comparing varying patterns of cognitive processing across different geographic regions. However, there has been less work assessing how cognitive style might be malleable. While several studies have explored the ability to alter certain aspects of cognitive style, no study has looked at the malleability of cognitive style as a whole. The current study examined whether a brief prime affects cognitive style. The study found that those participants who received an interdependent (vs. independent) prime performed more accurately on a relational condition of a visual task that required perceiving features as more interdependent. Other aspects of cognitive style, such as one’s approach to classification and tolerance of uncertainty, were not shown to be significantly affected by the prime. These results demonstrate that a brief prime has the ability to affect visual perception such that those primed through evoking the relational self (vs. the individual self) more accurately perceived the relations between visual elements. The study suggests that one’s typical mode of processing the surrounding world – and thus one’s experience of it – is malleable in rapid and simple ways.
Does Priming Elicit Shifts in Cognitive Style?
Creators: name: Parker, Suzanne C.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology

description: Cognitive style has been primarily examined within the cross-cultural literature comparing varying patterns of cognitive processing across different geographic regions. However, there has been less work assessing how cognitive style might be malleable. While several studies have explored the ability to alter certain aspects of cognitive style, no study has looked at the malleability of cognitive style as a whole. The current study examined whether a brief prime affects cognitive style. The study found that those participants who received an interdependent (vs. independent) prime performed more accurately on a relational condition of a visual task that required perceiving features as more interdependent. Other aspects of cognitive style, such as one’s approach to classification and tolerance of uncertainty, were not shown to be significantly affected by the prime. These results demonstrate that a brief prime has the ability to affect visual perception such that those primed through evoking the relational self (vs. the individual self) more accurately perceived the relations between visual elements. The study suggests that one’s typical mode of processing the surrounding world – and thus one’s experience of it – is malleable in rapid and simple ways.