cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Noncommutative Symmetries and Stability of Black Ellipsoids in Metric--Affine and String Gravity
Creators: name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
name: Gaburov, Evghenii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct new classes of exact solutions in metric--affine gravity (MAG) with string corrections by the antisymmetric $H$--field. The solutions are parametrized by generic off--diagonal metrics possessing noncommutative symmetry associated to anholonomy framerelations and related nonlinear connection (N--connection) structure. We analyze the horizon and geodesic properties of a class of off--diagonal metrics with deformed spherical symmetries. The maximal analytic extension of ellipsoid type metrics are constructed and the Penrose diagrams are analyzed with respect to adapted frames. We prove that for small deformations (small eccentricities) there are such metrics that the geodesic behaviour is similar to the Schwarzcshild one. The new class of spacetimes do not possess Killing symmetries even in the limits to the general relativity and, in consequence, they are not prohibited by black hole uniqueness theorems. Such static ellipsoid (rotoid) configurations are compatible with the cosmic cenzorship criteria. We study the perturbations of two classes of static black ellipsoid solutions of four dimensional gravitational field equations. We conclude that such anisotropic black hole objects may be stable with respect to the perturbations parametrized by the Schrodinger equations in the framework of the one--dimensional inverse scattering theory.
description: Latex2e, 46 pages
Plant Breeders’ Rights, Patents, and Incentives to Innovate
Creators: name: Hervouet, Adrien
name: Langinier, Corinne
name: Hervouet, Adrien
name: Langinier, Corinne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: durable good
subject: innovation
subject: patents
subject: plant breeders' rights
subject: seed saving

description: Both patents and Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBRs) can protect plant innovations. Unlike patents, PBRs allow farmers to save part of their harvest to replant. We analyze the impact of this exemption on prices and innovation in a monopoly setting. In a PBR regime, a monopolist might let farmers self-produce, and he over- or under-invests compared to socially optimal investments. Under a PBR and patent regime, large (small) innovations are more likely to be patented (protected with PBRs), but self-production is not completely prevented, private investments are often socially optimal, and incentives to innovate are boosted. However, overall effects on welfare are ambiguous.
Additional file 4 of Sedentary behavior patterns and adiposity in children: a study based on compositional data analysis
Creators: name: Gába, Aleš
name: Željko Pedišić
name: Štefelová, Nikola
name: Dygrýn, Jan
name: Hron, Karel
name: Dumuid, Dorothea
name: Tremblay, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. Estimated percentage change in adiposity markers associated with reallocations of time between sedentary bouts.
Broadband channel capacities
Creators: name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
name: Lloyd, Seth
name: Maccone, Lorenzo
name: Shor, Peter W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the communication capacities of bosonic broadband channels in the presence of different sources of noise. In particular we analyze lossy channels in presence of white noise and thermal bath. In this context, we provide a numerical solution for the entanglement assisted capacity and upper and lower bounds for the classical and quantum capacities.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
Seeing through multimode fibers with real-valued intensity transmission matrices
Creators: name: Zhao, Tianrui
name: Ourselin, Sebastien
name: Vercauteren, Tom
name: Xia, Wenfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Image transmission through multimode optical fibers has been an area of immense interests driven by the demand for miniature endoscopes in biomedicine and higher speed and capacity in telecommunications. Conventionally, a complex-valued transmission matrix is obtained experimentally to link the input and output light fields of a multimode fiber for image retrieval, which complicates the experimental setup and increases the computational complexity. Here, we report a simple and high-speed method for image retrieval based on our discovery of a pseudo-linearity between the input and output light intensity distributions of multimode fibers. We studied the impact of several key parameters to image retrieval, including image pixel count, fiber core diameter and numerical aperture. We further demonstrated that a wide variety of input binary images could be faithfully retrieved from measured output speckle patterns using this method, promising to be useful for highly miniaturized endoscopy in biomedicine and spatial-mode-division multiplexing in telecommunications.
Additional file 2 of An exploratory assessment of the legislative framework for combating counterfeit medicines in South Africa
Creators: name: Moshoeshoe, R. J.
name: Enslin, G. M.
name: Katerere, D. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Additional file 2. (addendum B): Interview guide.
Job Satisfaction and Productivity of the Mabalacat City  Government Employees
Creators: name: Ocampo, Carmelito
name: Gadia, Ediric
name: Soriano, Imelda
Publisher: name: Journal of Scholarly Graduate Research
Year: 2023
Subjects: job satisfaction
job productivity
government employees
Mabalacat City

description: This study aimed to determine the job satisfaction and productivity levels of Mabalacat City LGU employees. The descriptive research included 170 employees. Key respondent profiles were as follows: 14.7% were aged 30-34, 57.1% were female, 54.7% were married, 63.5% were bachelor’s degree holders, 11.2% were at Salary Grade 11, 43.5% were in administrative aide positions, 41.8% had 3-10 years of service, and 80.6% were regular employees. Factors contributing to job satisfaction included Physical Condition (mean: 3.22), Social Environment (mean: 3.34), Rewards and Recognition (mean: 2.80), Working Relationship (mean: 3.39), and Training and Development (mean: 2.98). Productivity measures showed high levels in Quality of Work (mean: 3.45), Efficiency of Work (mean: 3.52), and Innovativeness (mean: 3.36). Job satisfaction factors, such as Rewards and Recognition, and Training and Development, scored lower and need attention. The study concluded that age, educational attainment, salary grade, position, length of service, and appointment status did not significantly influence job satisfaction and productivity. Recommendations include enhancing job satisfaction, particularly in rewards and recognition, and developing programs to sustain high productivity levels. The LGU should create awards mechanisms and design training programs to empower employees. Future studies should replicate this research and explore additional variables to provide new insights into job satisfaction and productivity
Spitzer Space Telescope detection of the young supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219
Creators: name: Stanimirovic, Snezana
name: Bolatto, Alberto D.
name: Sandstrom, Karin
name: Leroy, Adam K.
name: Simon, Joshua D.
name: Gaensler, B. M.
name: Shah, Ronak Y.
name: Jackson, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present infrared observations of the young, oxygen-rich supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219 (E0102) in the Small Magellanic Cloud, obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope. The remnant is detected at 24 um but not at 8 or 70 um and has a filled morphology with two prominent filaments. We find evidence for the existence of up to 8x10^-4 Msolar of hot dust (T~120 K) associated with the remnant. Most of the hot dust is located in the central region of E0102 which appears significantly enhanced in infrared and radio continuum emission relative to the X--ray emission. Even if all of the hot dust was formed in the explosion of E0102, the estimated mass of dust is at least 100 times lower that what is predicted by some recent theoretical models.
description: 5 pages, accepted by ApJL
Full analytical formulas for frequency response of space-based gravitational wave detectors
Creators: name: Zhang, Chunyu
name: Gao, Qing
name: Gong, Yungui
name: Wang, Bin
name: Weinstein, Alan J.
name: Zhang, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of gravitational waves, which are ripples of space-time itself, opened a new window to test general relativity, because it predicts that there are only plus and cross polarizations for gravitational waves. For alternative theories of gravity, there may be up to six polarizations. The measurement of the polarization is one of the major scientific goals for future gravitational wave detectors. To evaluate the capability of the detector, we need to use the frequency dependent response functions averaged over the source direction and polarization angle. We derive the full analytical formulas of the averaged response functions for all six possible polarizations and present their asymptotic behaviors based on these analytical formulas. Compared with the numerical simulation, the full analytical formulas are more efficient and valid for any equal-arm interferometric gravitational wave detector without optical cavities in the arms and for a time-delay-interferometry Michelson combination.
description: Typos corrected and references updated. PRD in press
A general formula of the effective potential in 5D SU(N) gauge theory on orbifold
Creators: name: Haba, Naoyuki
name: Yamashita, Toshifumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show a general formula of the one loop effective potential of the 5D SU(N) gauge theory compactified on an orbifold, $S^1/Z_2$. The formula shows the case when there are fundamental, (anti-)symmetric tensor and adjoint representational bulk fields. Our calculation method is also applicable when there are bulk fields belonging to higher dimensional representations. The supersymmetric version of the effective potential with Scherk-Schwarz breaking can be obtained straightforwardly. We also show some examples of effective potentials in SU(3), SU(5) and SU(6) models with various boundary conditions, which are reproduced by our general formula.
description: 22 pages;minor corrections;references added;typos corrected
A paperless AMS : comparing economic and environmental impacts of paper use by AMS staff to that of the alternative : a transition to iPads
Creators: name: Lerch, Josef Jimmy
name: MacPhail, Liam
name: Patel, Viral
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Ultra-Low Iron Abundances in Distant Hot Gas in Galaxy Groups
Creators: name: Buote, David A.
name: Brighenti, Fabrizio
name: Mathews, William G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new XMM observation of the outer regions of the galaxy group NGC 5044 indicates hot gas iron abundances of only ~0.15 solar between r=0.2 - 0.4 r_vir. While the total baryon mass within the virial radius may be close to the cosmic mean value observed in rich clusters, the ratio of total iron mass to optical light in NGC 5044 is about 3 times lower than that in rich clusters. The remarkably low iron abundance over a large volume of the intergroup gas in the outer regions of NGC 5044 cannot be easily understood in terms of the outflow of enriched gas in a group wind during its early history or by the long term enrichment by the group member galaxies that currently occupy this region. It is possible that the stars in NGC 5044 did not produce iron with the same efficiency as in clusters, or the iron resides in non-luminous clouds or stars, or the entropy of the iron-enriched gas created in early galactic starburst winds was too high to penetrate the group gas of lower entropy.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, To Appear in ApJ Letters
Additional file 3 of An exploratory assessment of the legislative framework for combating counterfeit medicines in South Africa
Creators: name: Moshoeshoe, R. J.
name: Enslin, G. M.
name: Katerere, D. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Additional file 3. (addendum C): request letter for interviews.
Additional file 3 of Sedentary behavior patterns and adiposity in children: a study based on compositional data analysis
Creators: name: Gába, Aleš
name: Željko Pedišić
name: Štefelová, Nikola
name: Dygrýn, Jan
name: Hron, Karel
name: Dumuid, Dorothea
name: Tremblay, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Detailed description of compositional data analysis.
Additional file 2 of Air ambulance outcome measures using Institutes of Medicine and Donabedian quality frameworks: protocol for a systematic scoping review
Creators: name: Edwards, Kristin H.
name: FitzGerald, Gerard
name: Franklin, Richard C.
name: Edwards, Mark Terrell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms.
Lattice Gas Dynamics; Application to Driven Vortices in Two Dimensional Superconductors
Creators: name: Gotcheva, Violeta
name: Wang, Albert T. J.
name: Teitel, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A continuous time Monte Carlo lattice gas dynamics is developed to model driven steady states of vortices in two dimensional superconducting networks. Dramatic differences are found when compared to a simpler Metropolis dynamics. Subtle finite size effects are found at low temperature, with a moving smectic that becomes unstable to an anisotropic liquid on sufficiently large length scales.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Air ambulance outcome measures using Institutes of Medicine and Donabedian quality frameworks: protocol for a systematic scoping review
Creators: name: Edwards, Kristin H.
name: FitzGerald, Gerard
name: Franklin, Richard C.
name: Edwards, Mark Terrell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P 2015 Checklist.
KOMPARACIA CENOVEHO VYVOJA A TRZIEB VYBRANYCH OBILNIN A KRAJIN EU
COMPARISON OF PRICE DEVELOPMENT AND SALES IN CHOSEN CEREALS AND EU COUNTRIES
Creators: name: SIMO, Dusan
name: SIMO, Dusan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: comparison of production and incomes
subject: wheat
subject: barley
subject: corn
subject: EU countries

description: The paper reports on currrent problems of the production of wheat, barley and grain corn, and compares producer prices, productivity and income from a production unit. Accession countries such as Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland were compared with EU-15 countries, namely Germany, France, Belgium and Holland. Although there are differences in agriculture development between the said EU countries, the comparison showed that accession countries are significantly behind these countries in terms of natural and value indicators.
Exciton-Phonon Interaction and Relaxation Times from First Principles
Creators: name: Chen, Hsiao-Yi
name: Sangalli, Davide
name: Bernardi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron-phonon ($e$-ph) interactions are key to understanding the dynamics of electrons in materials, and can be modeled accurately from first-principles. However, when electrons and holes form Coulomb-bound states (excitons), quantifying their interactions and scattering processes with phonons remains an open challenge. Here we show a rigorous approach for computing exciton-phonon (ex-ph) interactions and the associated exciton dynamical processes from first principles. Starting from the ab initio Bethe-Salpeter equation, we derive expressions for the ex-ph matrix elements and relaxation times. We apply our method to bulk hexagonal boron nitride, for which we map the ex-ph relaxation times as a function of exciton momentum and energy, analyze the temperature and phonon-mode dependence of the ex-ph scattering processes, and accurately predict the phonon-assisted photoluminescence. The approach introduced in this work is general and provides a framework for investigating exciton dynamics in a wide range of materials.
Additional file 4 of An exploratory assessment of the legislative framework for combating counterfeit medicines in South Africa
Creators: name: Moshoeshoe, R. J.
name: Enslin, G. M.
name: Katerere, D. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Additional file 4. (addendum D): ethical approval letter.
Burr Distribution Tables for Approximating p-Values and Critical Values by Matching Skewness and Kurtosis
Creators: name: Evans, Merran
name: Grose, Simone
name: Evans, Merran
name: Grose, Simone
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Burr distributions
subject: approximations
subject: hypothesis testing
subject: tables of parameters for given skewness and kurtosis

description: Tables are presented for parameters c,k of the Burr III and XII distribution, which cover a wide grid of skewness and kurtosis values. These enable distributions, whose first four moments are known, to be approximated. The form of the Burr HI and XII distribution functions allows p-values to be readily calculated. Applications include hypothesis testing, modelling and simulation studies in a range of disciplines.
A Fourier-Mukai transform for real torus bundles
Creators: name: Glazebrook, James F.
name: Jardim, Marcos
name: Kamber, Franz W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65R10; 53C12; 14D21

description: We construct a Fourier--Mukai transform for smooth complex vector bundles $E$ over a torus bundle $π:M \to B,$ the vector bundles being endowed with various structures of increasing complexity. At a minimum, we consider vector bundles $E$ with a flat partial unitary connection, that is families or deformations of flat vector bundles (or unitary local systems) on the torus $T.$ This leads to a correspondence between such objects on $M$ and relative skyscraper sheaves $\cS$ supported on a spectral covering $Σ\hra \what M,$ where $\hatπ:\what{M} \to B$ is the flat dual fiber bundle. Additional structures on $(E,\nabla)$ (flatness, anti-self-duality) will be reflected by corresponding data on the transform $(\cS, Σ).$ Several variations of this construction will be presented, emphasizing the aspects of foliation theory which enter into this picture
description: 33 pages. Presented at the Workshop on Geometric Integral Transforms and Applications, in Salamanca, Spain. v2: published version. To appear in J Geom Phys
ENDOGENOUS GROWTH AND OVERLAPPING GENERTIONS IN A SODEL OF MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION WITH DETERRED ENTRY
Creators: name: Femminis, Gianluca
name: Femminis, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Overlapping generations
subject: endogenous growth
subject: monopolistic compeition

description: this paper uses a model with deterred entry to study the relationships between the growth rate, which is endogenous, and the degree of imperfect competition. In an infinitely lived representative agent framework they are shown to be independent, while with Blanchard's type overlapping generations, this "neutrality results" does not hold, resulting in more complex policy problems. It is also verified that dynamic inefficiency, in such a model, is impossible.
Optical Kerr nonlinearity of arrays of all-dielectric high index nanodisks in the vicinity of the anapole state
Creators: name: Panov, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonlinear optical properties of the high index nanoparticles are boosted at the anapole state. Researchers intensively study this phenomenon as promising for various applications. In this work, the nonlinear optical Kerr effect of disordered and square lattice metasurfaces of GaP nanodisks is investigated as a function of the disk size in the vicinity of the anapole state at the wavelength of 532 nm. When the sizes of the nanodisks are close to the anapole state, the effective second order refractive index of the metasurface increases exponentially. On approaching the anapole state, the sign of the effective second order refractive index is inverted. The absolute value of the effective nonlinear Kerr coefficient of the square lattice metasurface is higher than that of the disordered array of nanodisks. The absolute value of the effective second order refractive index in proximity to the anapole state is an order of magnitude higher than that at non-anapole resonances of the disordered metasurfaces consisting of the nanodisks or spheres.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
INCENTIVES TO SUPPORT THE PUBLIC SECOTR UNDER OLIGOPOLY
Creators: name: Willner, Johan
name: Willner, Johan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: We analyse a simple economy with a consumption good, an intermediate good and a public good, where there are capitalists, shop-keepers and worker. It follow that the capitalists and the shop-keepers would always vote for a lower tax rate than the workers although preferences are identical. No group would support a larger public sector than in the first-best solution under free entry and exit among the shop-keepers. A low tax rate would increase the number of supporters of low taxes and vice versa.
title: High integrity hardware-software codesign
Creators: name: Hilton, Adrian J.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: Programmable logic devices (PLDs) are increasing in complexity and speed, and are being used as important components in safety-critical systems. Methods for developing high-integrity software for these systems are well-known, but this is not true for programmable logic.

We propose a process for developing a system incorporating software and PLDs, suitable for safety critical systems of the highest levels of integrity. This process incorporates the use of Synchronous Receptive Process Theory as a semantic basis for specifying and proving properties of programs executing on PLDs, and extends the use of SPARK Ada from a programming language for safety-critical systems software to cover the interface between software and programmable logic.

We have validated this approach through the specification and development of a substantial safety-critical system incorporating both software and programmable logic components, and the development of tools to support this work.

This enables us to claim that the methods demonstrated are not only feasible but also scale up to realistic system sizes, allowing development of such safety-critical software-hardware systems to the levels required by current system safety standards.
Additional file 5 of An exploratory assessment of the legislative framework for combating counterfeit medicines in South Africa
Creators: name: Moshoeshoe, R. J.
name: Enslin, G. M.
name: Katerere, D. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Additional file 5. (addendum E): data collection tool for document analysis.
Additional file 2 of Sedentary behavior patterns and adiposity in children: a study based on compositional data analysis
Creators: name: Gába, Aleš
name: Željko Pedišić
name: Štefelová, Nikola
name: Dygrýn, Jan
name: Hron, Karel
name: Dumuid, Dorothea
name: Tremblay, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Estimated relative changes in FM% for reallocationsof time between sedentary bouts. FM% – fat mass percentage, LPA – light intensity physical activity, MVPA – moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
Perfect sequence covering arrays
Creators: name: Yuster, Raphael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B40, 05B30, 05B15, 05A05

description: An $(n,k)$ sequence covering array is a set of permutations of $[n]$ such that each sequence of $k$ distinct elements of $[n]$ is a subsequence of at least one of the permutations. An $(n,k)$ sequence covering array is perfect if there is a positive integer $λ$ such that each sequence of $k$ distinct elements of $[n]$ is a subsequence of precisely $λ$ of the permutations. While relatively close upper and lower bounds for the minimum size of a sequence covering array are known, this is not the case for perfect sequence covering arrays. Here we present new nontrivial bounds for the latter. In particular, for $k=3$ we obtain a linear lower bound and an almost linear upper bound.
Job Satisfaction and Productivity of the Mabalacat City  Government Employees
Creators: name: Ocampo, Carmelita
name: Gadia, Ediric
name: Soriano, Imelda
Publisher: name: Journal of Scholarly Graduate Research
Year: 2023
Subjects: job satisfaction
job productivity
government employees
Mabalacat City

description: This study aimed to determine the job satisfaction and productivity levels of Mabalacat City LGU employees. The descriptive research included 170 employees. Key respondent profiles were as follows: 14.7% were aged 30-34, 57.1% were female, 54.7% were married, 63.5% were bachelor’s degree holders, 11.2% were at Salary Grade 11, 43.5% were in administrative aide positions, 41.8% had 3-10 years of service, and 80.6% were regular employees. Factors contributing to job satisfaction included Physical Condition (mean: 3.22), Social Environment (mean: 3.34), Rewards and Recognition (mean: 2.80), Working Relationship (mean: 3.39), and Training and Development (mean: 2.98). Productivity measures showed high levels in Quality of Work (mean: 3.45), Efficiency of Work (mean: 3.52), and Innovativeness (mean: 3.36). Job satisfaction factors, such as Rewards and Recognition, and Training and Development, scored lower and need attention. The study concluded that age, educational attainment, salary grade, position, length of service, and appointment status did not significantly influence job satisfaction and productivity. Recommendations include enhancing job satisfaction, particularly in rewards and recognition, and developing programs to sustain high productivity levels. The LGU should create awards mechanisms and design training programs to empower employees. Future studies should replicate this research and explore additional variables to provide new insights into job satisfaction and productivity
À procura dos Mouros em Cabeça Boa  (Torre de Moncorvo)
Creators: name: Alexandra Vieira
Publisher: name: Revista Memória Rural
Year: 2023

description: Este artigo investiga a interação entre a arqueologia e a tradição oral numa pesquisa sobre  os “Mouros” em Cabeça Boa (Torre de Moncorvo). A freguesia de Cabeça Boa possui uma rica herança cultural do passado, material e imaterial, sendo de destacar as lendas transmitidas oralmente pela comunidade local sobre a presença dos mouros na região. Para além dos topónimos e das lendas, apresentamos os vestígios arqueológicos mais significativos de Cabeça Boa, numa tentativa de perceber  se os vestígios arqueológicos se alinham ou contradizem com as narrativas transmitidas, oralmente, ao longo do tempo e perpetuadas em registos documentais.Palavras-chave: arqueologia da paisagem; mouros; lendas, Cabeça de Mouro, víboras.
Additional file 6 of An exploratory assessment of the legislative framework for combating counterfeit medicines in South Africa
Creators: name: Moshoeshoe, R. J.
name: Enslin, G. M.
name: Katerere, D. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Additional file 6. (addendum F): list of websites and databases.
Additional file 1 of Prediction of circRNA-disease associations based on inductive matrix completion
Creators: name: Menglu Li
name: Mengya Liu
name: Yannan Bin
name: Junfeng Xia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary file to this work (Table S1-S2 and Figures S1-S11).
Additional file 1 of Sedentary behavior patterns and adiposity in children: a study based on compositional data analysis
Creators: name: Gába, Aleš
name: Željko Pedišić
name: Štefelová, Nikola
name: Dygrýn, Jan
name: Hron, Karel
name: Dumuid, Dorothea
name: Tremblay, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Ternary plots with predicted response in FMI and VAT for composition of waking hours. FMI – fat mass index, LPA – light intensity physical activity, MVPA – moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, SB – sedentary behaviors, VAT – visceral adipose tissue. Note. Robust compositional mean was adjusted to 16 h of wake time.
SHOULD BANK BRANSHING BE REGULATED? THEORY AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FORM FOUR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Schmid, Frank A.
name: Schmid, Frank A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Banking Regulation
subject: Spatial Competition

description: Along with the liberalisation of bank branching, which was pushed ahead in most OECD member countries during the past several decades, the fear of 'overbranched' markets has arisen. In a model of spatial competition, the welfare effects of bank branching regulation are investigated and empirical results are presented from a pooled cross-section time series analysis from four European countries. It is shown that for all observations in the sample, fewer branches would have been socially undesirable. Moreover, the frequently posed hypothesis that a positive relationship exists between the number of branches and the price for financial intermediation is rejected.
Patterns in the Outer Parts of Galactic Disks
Creators: name: Chakrabarty, Dalia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes test particle simulations of the response of the outer parts of Galactic disks to barring and spiral structure. Simulations are conducted for cold Mestel disks and warm quasi-exponential disks with completely flat rotation curves, subjected to pure quadrupoles and logarithmic spirals. Even though the starting velocity distributions are smooth, the end-points of the bar simulations show bimodality and multi-peaked structures at locations near the outer Lindblad resonance (OLR), although spirality can make this smoother. The growth of a bar may cause the disk isophotes to become boxy at the OLR, as stars accummulate particularly along the minor axis. The growth of a bar is also accompanied by substantial heating of the disk stars near the OLR. For the growth of a $10^{10} M_{\rm \odot}$ bar, the radial velocity dispersion is typically quadrupled for initially cold disks (initial \sigmau $\sim 10$ \kms), and typically doubled for disks with final \sigmau $\sim 45$ \kms. Simulations performed of the growth and dissolution of bars give very similar results, demonstrating that the heat once given to disk stars is very difficult to remove.
description: 14 pages, 19 figures
Foreground model recognition through Neural Networks for CMB B-mode observations
Creators: name: Farsian, Farida
name: Krachmalnicoff, Nicoletta
name: Baccigalupi, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we present a Neural Network (NN) algorithm for the identification of the appropriate parametrization of diffuse polarized Galactic emissions in the context of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) $B$-mode multi-frequency observations. In particular, we have focused our analysis on low frequency foregrounds relevant for polarization observation: namely Galactic Synchrotron and Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME). We have implemented and tested our approach on a set of simulated maps corresponding to the frequency coverage and sensitivity represented by future satellite and low frequency ground based probes. The NN efficiency in recognizing the right parametrization of foreground emission in different sky regions reaches an accuracy of about $90\%$. We have compared this performance with the $χ^{2}$ information following parametric foreground estimation using multi-frequency fitting, and quantify the gain provided by a NN approach. Our results show the relevance of model recognition in CMB $B$-mode observations, and highlight the exploitation of dedicated procedures to this purpose.
description: Accepted for publication in JCAP
Determinants of Adoption of Physical Soil Conservation Measures in Central Highlands of Ethiopia: The Case of Three Districts of North Shewa
Creators: name: Enki, Mulugeta
name: Belay, Kassa
name: Dadi, Legesse
name: Enki, Mulugeta
name: Belay, Kassa
name: Dadi, Legesse
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This paper examines factors influencing farmers' adoption decision of physical soil conservation practices in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia. Data were collected from 116 randomly selected Farmers through a structured questionnaire. Results from a logistic regression analysis show that security of land ownership, size of cultivated land, technology-specific characteristics, level of schooling, wealth status of the household head, availability of off-farm income and assistance from different sources were important determinants of adoption of physical soil conservation practices. About 97 percent of the sample cases were correctly predicted using the model.
An investigation into interactive art for SUB Atrium
Creators: name: Chernoff, Brett
name: Convernton, Evan
name: Lo, Chiwei (William)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The Design Committee and the AMS are cooperating with APSC 261 to generate ideas for the new SUB design. The Design committee is considering having an art piece made of recycled items to inspire sustainability for the SUB Atrium. This project is making a recommendation based on triple bottom line analysis. Considering the purpose of the art is to inspire people and showcase the idea of sustainability, Interactive Art is the most suitable option for the Atrium. It could easily have impacts to the spectator. Moreover, it has a longer life time compared to stationary art. Looking at the social aspect of the art piece, people are interested in interacting with multimedia to learn new ideas. Meanwhile, this project proposes the design committee should let the students design the art piece instead of a commissioned artist. This will help students to gain experience and eliminate the expensive cost of art labour. This report also evaluates ways to minimize the environmental impact of the proposed artwork. Instead of recycled or reprocessed material, it is recommended to reuse materials that are available within the UBC campus. To reprocess material involves cleaning and modifying, it could have a worse environmental impact compared to purchasing new parts. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Heuristics from curating and exhibiting game art n the 21st century
Creators: name: Grace, Lindsay D.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4607
subject: Graphics, augmented reality and games

description: This paper outlines experiences and lessons learned in organizing a variety of digital art exhibits for small and large scale events. The perspective is provided as a cross-disciplinary set of heuristics, drawing on the decade long experience of the curator-artist and paying particular attention to playable electronic media (e.g. games and toys) as installation works in an art context. Lessons learned from exhibits organized or co-organized by the author in the United States, Europe and Asia are shared. These events were offered with support from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Leuphana University, the University of Utah, Abertay University and others. Additional observations are provided as an artist who has exhibited at more than 40 events in the last decade. Formally the paper offers an ontology for defining distinguishing between exhibits, festivals and showcases. It is not the intention of the author to create a compendium of exhibition and curation practice. Instead the aim is to provide context and a starting point for the evolving intellectual examination of curatorial practices around digital games. It is hoped that these assertions support the growth of such work by providing a starting point for other practitioners.
Additional file 1 of EpiMOLAS: an intuitive web-based framework for genome-wide DNA methylation analysis
Creators: name: Sheng-Yao Su
name: I-Hsuan Lu
name: Wen-Chih Cheng
name: Chung, Wei-Chun
name: Pao-Yang Chen
name: Jan-Ming Ho
name: Shu-Hwa Chen
name: Chung-Yen Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 1. This supplementary file provides the description and usage of DocMethyl and EpiMOLAS_web, including the installation steps on how to execute the workflow in DocMethyl and the usage guides on analyzing WGBS data through the modules in EpiMOLAS_web.
Adoption and Intensity of Fertiliser and Herbicide Use in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Dadi, L.
name: Burton, M.
name: Ozanne, A.
name: Dadi, L.
name: Burton, M.
name: Ozanne, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management

description: Tobit and Heckman analysis is used to investigate the factors which influence the adoption and intensity of use of fertiliser and herbicide on smallholder farms growing wheat and tef in the East and West Shewa zones of the central highlands of Ethiopia. Primary data on personal, household and farm characteristics was collected from a random sample of 200 farmers. Results indicate that structural factors -in particular oxen ownership, distance to market and region -are the main determinants of adoption and intensity of use of the technologies rather than personal characteristics -such as age and gender -extension activity or attitudes to price and risk.
Mott transition in lattice boson models
Creators: name: Fernandez, Roberto
name: Froehlich, Juerg
name: Ueltschi, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B10, 82B20, 82B26

description: We use mathematically rigorous perturbation theory to study the transition between the Mott insulator and the conjectured Bose-Einstein condensate in a hard-core Bose-Hubbard model. The critical line is established to lowest order in the tunneling amplitude.
description: 20 pages
Determining Association Among Production Enhancing Factors: Case of Mankweng District in the Northern Province
Creators: name: Makhura, M.
name: Mathye, M.
name: Mathabatha, M. C.
name: Makhura, M.
name: Mathye, M.
name: Mathabatha, M. C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Production Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Several models are selected using model selection loglinear analysis on data collected from farmers in the Mankweng District in Northern Province. The objective is to determine patterns of associations among production increasing factors, namely, use of recommended technologies, participation in a cooperative or project, accessibility of inputs in time, security of land ownership, as well as ability to run own finance. The results reveal that participation in a project and the use of technology are always associated. Only land tenure model resulted in a significant saturated model, where a three way association with both technology and project participation had significant effects. Access to input on time was only associated with technology use, but not with participation in a project. The ability to run own finances was associated with project participation, but not with technology use. The dynamic relationships among these factors are important when introducing technologies and support services for the future.
Exact shock measures and steady-state selection in a driven diffusive system with two conserved densities
Creators: name: Rákos, A.
name: Schütz, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study driven 1d lattice gas models with two types of particles and nearest neighbor hopping. We find the most general case when there is a shock solution with a product measure which has a density-profile of a step function for both densities. The position of the shock performs a biased random walk. We calculate the microscopic hopping rates of the shock. We also construct the hydrodynamic limit of the model and solve the resulting hyperbolic system of conservation laws. In case of open boundaries the selected steady state is given in terms of the boundary densities.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Efficiency of Zimbabwean Small Scale Communal Farmers
Creators: name: Mushunje, A.
name: Belete, A.
name: Mushunje, A.
name: Belete, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management
Production Economics

description: This paper investigates the ailocative efficiency of two samples of communal area farmers in Mamcaland province of Zimbabwe. The first one is made up of maize producers and the other of cotton producers. Maize is the staple food for most Zimbabweans and cotton has, as of late become the most popular cash crop for these small-scale communal (SSC) farmers. For each crop the Cobb-Douglas production function model is used to investigate the allocative efficiency of the maize and cotton producers. The tests for allocative efficiency are performed by estimating the equations for the Cobb-Douglas production function model. The findings of this paper show: that the SSC farmers are utilising the fertilizer resource efficiently but they are under- utilising _ land, seed and insecticides. These producers are over-utilising labour and capital.
Magic squares of subtraction of Adam Adamandy Kochański
Creators: name: Fukś, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 01A45, 05B99

description: The problem of the construction of magic squares occupied many mathematicians of the 17th century. The Polish Jesuit and polymath Adam Adamandy Kochański studied this subject too, and in 1686 he published a paper in Acta Eruditorum titled "Considerationes quaedam circa Quadrata et Cubos Magicos". In that paper he proposed a novel type of magic square, where in every row, column and diagonal, if the entries are sorted in decreasing order, the difference between the sum of entries with odd indices and those with even indices is constant. He called them \emph{quadrata subtractionis}, meaning squares of subtraction. He gave examples of such squares of orders 4 and 5, and challenged readers to produce an example of square of order 6. We discuss the likely method which he used to produce squares of order 5, and show that it can be generalized to arbitrary odd orders. We also show how to construct doubly-even squares. At the end, we show an example of a square of order 6, sought by Kochański, and discuss the enumeration of squares of subtraction.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures