cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Viewing Thinspiration and Fitspiration
Creators: name: Stoneking, Faith R.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Past research on thinspiration, a social media trend found within pro-eating disorder communities promoting the thin ideal for women’s bodies, has shown viewing thinspiration images is correlated with negative body image, high levels of body dissatisfaction, and an increased engagement in disordered eating behaviors (Boepple & Thompson, 2016; Rouleau & von Ranson, 2010; Bardone-Cone & Cass, 2007). Similar to thinspiration is the newer trend of fitspiration. Fitspiration is typically found within more mainstream social media communities and is viewed as a motivational tool for living a healthier lifestyle. Even so, the images used on fitspiration sites have been found to have similar content to thinspiration websites, and more recent research illustrates the negative effects of viewing fitspiration (Boepple et al., 2016; Boepple & Thompson, 2016; Tiggemann & Zaccardo, 2015).The present study sought to expand upon previous findings comparing the content of thinspiration and fitspiration by directly comparing their effects on body image and other outcomes. Participants viewed control, thinspiration, or fitspiration images. Body image, positive and negative affect, and inspiration effects were measured. Significant differences in body image change were found between the control and thinspiration groups, but not between the control and fitspiration groups. Significant differences were also not found in body image change between the thinspiration and fitspiration groups. Significant effects on positive and negative affect were found after viewing both thinspiration and fitspiration images.
title: Narratives of Gypsy Identity and the Crossing of Boundaries
Creators: name: Myers, Martin
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: Gypsies have lived in the UK since the fifteenth century following a long diasporic movement originating in the north of India. Despite their long-standing presence they remain a marginalised group, often regarded in negative or stereotyped ways by their neighbours. This research considers the relationships of Gypsy families and their neighbours on the south coast of England. Using semi-structured interviews with members of 32 families the research explores the shaping of Gypsy identity. The interviews produced a unique picture of the lives of Gypsy families on the south coast and highlighted the ways in which family and individual identities were constructed both through their relationships with non-Gypsy neighbours and through the maintenance of boundaries between them. The research considers the associations between Gypsy identity and Gypsy community and identifies how these both shape and are shaped by relations with non-Gypsies. In this respect it pays particular attention to the role of citizenship in Britain since the Second World War and examines how citizenship demarcates a boundary with Gypsy non-citizens. The thesis suggests that Gypsy families on the south coast manage inherent physical closeness and distance in relations with their neighbours as well as less tangible, non-physical cultural markers. This bears the hallmarks of Simmel's (1971) stranger, but is often adapted around a self-imposed invisibility. Gypsy community is described as having a literal quality distinct from the citizenship routes of non-Gypsies in which community is based upon imagined commonalities. In doing so a 'Gypsy' identity emerges that can both maintain an historic understanding of Gypsy identity and adapt to the pressures of managing at times difficult relationships with non-Gypsy neighbours.
Additional file 13 of Full-length transcriptome sequencing and comparative transcriptomic analysis to uncover genes involved in early gametogenesis in the gonads of Amur sturgeon (Acipenser schrenckii)
Creators: name: Xiujuan Zhang
name: Jiabin Zhou
name: Linmiao Li
name: Wenzhong Huang
name: Ahmad, Hafiz Ishfaq
name: Huiming Li
name: Haiying Jiang
name: Jinping Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 13: Supplementary File 1. The cDNA sequences of full-length transcripts from 4 A. schrenckii Sox9s (Asc_Sox9–1-4) are underlined, including the 5′-untranslated region (UTR), the 3′-UTR containing a poly (A) tail and the open reading frame underlined.
Low-loss two-dimensional plasmon modes in antimonene
Creators: name: Torbatian, Zahra
name: Alidoosti, Mohammad
name: Novko, Dino
name: Asgari, Reza
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: The effects of spin-orbit (SOC) and electron-phonon coupling on the collective excitation of doped monolayer Sb$_2$ are investigated using density functional and many-body perturbation theories. The spin-orbit coupling is exclusively important for the monolayer Sb$_2$ and it leads to the reconstruction of the electronic band structure. In particular, plasmon modes of monolayer Sb$_2$ are quite sensitive to the SOC and are characterized by very low damping rates owing to small electron-phonon scatterings. Our results show plasmons in antimonene are significantly less damped compared to monolayer graphene when plasmon energies are $\hbar ω> 0.2$ eV due to smaller plasmon-phonon coupling in the former material.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Positive solutions to superlinear second-order divergence type elliptic equations in cone-like domains
Creators: name: Kondratiev, Vladimir
name: Liskevich, Vitali
name: Moroz, Vitaly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J60, 35B05, 35R45

description: We study the problem of the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions to a superlinear second-order divergence type elliptic equation with measurable coefficients $(*)$: $-\nabla\cdot a\cdot\nabla u=u^p$ in an unbounded cone--like domain $G\subset\bf R^N$ $(N\ge 3)$. We prove that the critical exponent $p^*(a,G)=\inf\{p>1 : (*) \hbox{has a positive supersolution in} G\}$ for a nontrivial cone-like domain is always in $(1,N/(N-2))$ and in contrast with exterior domains depends both on the geometry of the domain $G$ and the coefficients $a$ of the equation.
description: 20 pages
DeepMutation: A Neural Mutation Tool
Creators: name: Tufano, Michele
name: Kimko, Jason
name: Wang, Shiya
name: Watson, Cody
name: Bavota, Gabriele
name: Di Penta, Massimiliano
name: Poshyvanyk, Denys
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mutation testing can be used to assess the fault-detection capabilities of a given test suite. To this aim, two characteristics of mutation testing frameworks are of paramount importance: (i) they should generate mutants that are representative of real faults; and (ii) they should provide a complete tool chain able to automatically generate, inject, and test the mutants. To address the first point, we recently proposed an approach using a Recurrent Neural Network Encoder-Decoder architecture to learn mutants from ~787k faults mined from real programs. The empirical evaluation of this approach confirmed its ability to generate mutants representative of real faults. In this paper, we address the second point, presenting DeepMutation, a tool wrapping our deep learning model into a fully automated tool chain able to generate, inject, and test mutants learned from real faults. Video: https://sites.google.com/view/learning-mutation/deepmutation
description: Accepted to the 42nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), Demonstrations Track - Seoul, South Korea, May 23-29, 2020, 4 pages
Temporal Effects of Agent Aggregation in the Dynamics of Multiagent Systems
Creators: name: Yeung, C. H.
name: Wong, K. Y. Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a model of multiagent systems whose agents have a tendency to balance their decisions in time. We find phase transitions to oscillatory behavior, explainable by the aggregation of agents into two groups. On a longer time scale, we find that the aggregation of smart agents is able to explain the lifetime distribution of epochs to 8 decades of probability.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
The UBC Farm : essential to the sustainability of the food sytem at the University of British Columbia
Creators: name: Cesar, Laureen
name: Fung, Amy
name: Hewett, Craig
name: Kruger, Toby
name: Lo, Belinda
name: Poon, Kit
name: Zemanova, Zuzana
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This paper is an integrative document aimed at improving the sustainability of the food system at UBC. More specifically, this paper looks at the role the UBC Farm can play in improving the sustainability of the greater UBC food system in which it plays a part. In order to do this, we have identified a core set of values to guide our investigation, developed a model, created methods of data collection, and finally, made recommendations to the UBC office of Campus Sustainability. Our recommendations emphasize the connections between the ecological, social, and economic components of the food system at UBC, and give equal weight to each component. Furthermore, this document is cognizant of the fact that in order to achieve overall sustainability within a system, every component itself must be wholly sustainable. It is the hope of this paper that through improving the sustainability of the Farm, we are strengthening one part of the UBC system, and thus contributing to the sustainability of the UBC Food System as a whole. 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.”
Women's Cooperatives in less favored and mountainous areas under economic instability
Creators: name: Chatzitheodoridis, Fotios
name: Kontogeorgos, Achilleas
name: Liltsi, Petroula
name: Apostolidou, Ioanna
name: Michailidis, Anastasios
name: Loizou, Efstatios
name: Chatzitheodoridis, Fotios
name: Kontogeorgos, Achilleas
name: Liltsi, Petroula
name: Apostolidou, Ioanna
name: Michailidis, Anastasios
name: Loizou, Efstatios
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Female entrepreneurship
subject: Women's cooperatives
subject: Mountainous areas
subject: Logistic regression analysis
subject: Economic instability
subject: Greece

description: Rural development policies in the last twenty years reinforced the development of new, alternative to agriculture, activities in the mountainous and less favored areas, such as agro tourism and small scale processing husbandries. In this context, a significant increase in the number of women's cooperatives founded in Greece was observed, aiming the improvement of women's position in small communities. This type of cooperatives, offers to women the opportunity for a supplementary income apart from their household engagements and activities in family farms. In the current study the role of such small scale women's cooperatives from the mountainous region of Florina area in orthern Greece is examined, along with their response in periods with economic instability. The survey performed showed that the cooperatives face viability problems, mainly due to the effects of the economic instability and the lack of new members. At the same time, a survey addressed to young people in the same area, indicated that young people have a positive attitude in participating in the activities of the cooperatives; though the cooperatives existence and activities were not well known in the area.
The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Variable Star Inventory. XIII. Fourier Parameters for the First Overtone RR Lyrae Variables and the LMC Distance
Creators: name: Alcock, C.
name: Alves, D. R.
name: Axelrod, T. S.
name: Becker, A. C.
name: Bennett, D. P.
name: Clement, C. M.
name: Cook, K. H.
name: Drake, A. J.
name: Freeman, K. C.
name: Geha, M.
name: Griest, K.
name: Lehner, M. J.
name: Marshall, S. L.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Muzzin, A.
name: Nelson, C. A.
name: Peterson, B. A.
name: Popowski, P.
name: Quinn, P. J.
name: Rodgers, A. W.
name: Rowe, J. F.
name: Sutherland, W.
name: Vandehei, T.
name: Welch, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fourier coefficents have been derived for the $V$ and $R$ light curves of 785 overtone RR Lyrae variables in 16 MACHO fields near the bar of the LMC. The $ϕ_{31}$ and $R_{21}$ coefficients have been compared with those of the first overtone RR Lyrae variables in the Galactic globular clusters NGC 6441, M107, M5, M3, M2, $ω$ Centauri and M68. The results indicate that many of the LMC variables have properties similar to the ones in M2, M3, M5 and the Oosterhoff type I variables in $ω$ Cen, but they are different from the Oosterhoff type II variables in $ω$ Cen. Equations derived from hydrodynamic pulsation models have been used to calculate the luminosity and temperature for the 330 bona fide first-overtone variables. The results indicate that they have $\log L$ in the range 1.6 to $1.8\lsun$ and $\log T_{eff}$ between 3.85 and 3.87. Based on these temperatures, a mean color excess $E(V-R) =0.08$ mag, equivalent to $E(B-V)=0.14$ mag, has been estimated for these 330 stars. The 80 M5-like variables (selected according to their location in the $ϕ_{31}-\log P$ plot) are used to determine a LMC distance. After correcting for the effects of extinction and crowding, a mean apparent magnitude $=18.99 \pm 0.02$ (statistical) $\pm 0.16$ (systematic) has been estimated for these 80 stars. Combining this with a mean absolute magnitude $M_V=0.56\pm 0.06$ for M5-like stars derived from Baade-Wesselink analyses, main sequence fitting, Fourier parameters and the trigonometric parallax of RR Lyrae, we derive an LMC distance modulus $μ=18.43\pm 0.06$ (statistical) $\pm 0.16$ (systematic) mag. The large systematic error arises from the difficulties of correcting for interstellar extinction and for crowding.
description: 51 pages, 17 figures, 12 tables, accepted to AJ
title: Стилистика русского языка
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2024

description: Учебник включает шесть разделов: «Стилистика и функциональные стили речи. Основные стилеобразующие факторы», «Разговорный стиль речи», «Научный стиль речи», «Официально-деловой стиль речи», «Художественный стиль речи», «Публицистический стиль речи». В основу внешней структуры положен дедуктивный принцип: в первом разделе рассмотрены стилеобразующие факторы и представлены функциональные стили русского языка, каждый последующий раздел посвящен одному из функциональных стилей. Основу анализа каждого стиля речи составляет единый план, предполагающий выявление цели, сферы функционирования стиля, общих стилевых черт, подстилей и жанров, языковых особенностей. Предлагаются разнообразные типы упражнений: задания аналитического характера, направленные на распознавание стилистических языковых средств, определение стиля, сопоставление стилистически разных вариантов и полный стилистический анализ текстов; упражнения творческого характера (конструирование предложений, изложение, разножанровые сочинения); задания, предполагающие редактирование; упражнения, направленные на освоение стилистических норм в фонетике, лексике, грамматике. Подготовлен в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Учебник предназначен для студентов, обучающихся по укрупненной группе специальностей и направлений подготовки высшего образования «Языкознание и литературоведение», изучающих дисциплины «Стилистика», «Русский язык и культура речи», а также окажет реальную помощь при подготовке к ЕГЭ.
High-Field Magnetization and Magnetic Phase Diagram of Metamagnetic Shape Memory Alloys Ni50-xCoxMn31.5Ga18.5 (x = 9 and 9.7)
Creators: name: Kihara, Takumi
name: Xu, Xiao
name: Miyake, Atsushi
name: Tokunaga, Yuto Kinoshita Masashi
name: Adachi, Yoshiya
name: Kanomata, Takeshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic phase diagrams of the metamagnetic shape memory alloys Ni50-xCoxMn31.5Ga18.5 (x = 9 and 9.7) were produced from high-field magnetization measurements up to 56 T. For both compounds, magnetic field induced martensitic transformations are observed at various temperatures below 300 K. Hysteresis of the field-induced transformation shows unconventional temperature dependence: it decreases with decreasing temperature after showing a peak. Magnetic susceptibility measurement, microscopy, and X-ray diffraction data suggest a model incorporating the magnetic anisotropy and Zeeman energy in two variants, which qualitatively explains the thermal and the magnetic field history dependence of the hysteresis in these alloys.
title: Migrant Entrepreneurship: Developments at the Intersection of Policy and Practice. Final conference of the project MIG.EN.CUBE
Creators: name: Bolzani, Daniela
name: Simone, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Department of Management
Year: 2023

description: This book collects the proceedings of the international Conference “Migrant Entrepreneurship: Developments at the Intersection of Policy and Practice” held in Sala Borsa (Bologna) on the 27th and 28th April 2023. The conference was foreseen as one of the dissemination events of the Erasmus+ project MIG.EN.CUBE – fostering MIGrant ENtrepreneurship inCUBation in Europe. It was organized as a free interdisciplinary event open to scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners, with the aim to share experiences of policies and practices of entrepreneurial support initiatives for migrants (e.g., pre-incubation, incubation, or acceleration programmes), increase awareness of potential strengths and weaknesses of such initiatives, and stimulate academic-policy-practice dialogue.
Collisional oscillations of trapped boson-fermion mixtures approaching collapse
Creators: name: Capuzzi, P.
name: Minguzzi, A.
name: Tosi, M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the collective modes of a confined gaseous cloud of bosons and fermions with mutual attractive interactions at zero temperature. The cloud consists of a Bose-Einstein condensate and a spin-polarized Fermi gas inside a spherical harmonic trap and the coupling between the two species is varied by increasing either the magnitude of the interspecies s-wave scattering length or the number of bosons. The mode frequencies are obtained in the collisional regime by solving the equations of generalized hydrodynamics and are compared with the spectra calculated in the collisionless regime within a random-phase approximation. We find that, as the mixture is driven towards the collapse instability, the frequencies of the modes of fermionic origin show a blue shift which can become very significant for large numbers of bosons. Instead the modes of bosonic origin show a softening, which becomes most pronounced in the very proximity of collapse. Explicit illustrations of these trends are given for the monopolar spectra, but similar trends are found for the dipolar and quadrupolar spectra except for the surface (n=0) modes which are essentially unaffected by the interactions.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, revtex4
U.S. Immigration and Policy Brain Waste
Creators: name: Ayoung Kim
name: Waldorf, Brigitte S.
name: Duncan, Natasha T.
name: Ayoung Kim
name: Waldorf, Brigitte S.
name: Duncan, Natasha T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Political Economy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: immigration policy, high-skilled immigration, brain waste

description: The U.S. H-1B visa for highly-skilled immigrant labor and the accompanying H-4 visa for their dependents leads to structural constraints that exclude dependents from the labor force. Identifying H-1B recipients from the U.S. Census and American Community Surveys, we find that—despite the labor force exclusion—the vast majority of married H-1B recipients is accompanied by their spouses. This is particularly the case for male H-1B recipients, making wives rather than husbands carry most of the burden. Using a matched sample of married immigrants with work authorization, we estimate counterfactual labor force participation probabilities and wages for the sample of dependent H-4 spouses. We find that the policy-imposed labor force exclusion of H-4 spouses leads to substantial losses of spouses’ earnings and annual aggregate productivity loss of over US$2.1 billion.
The Carnegie Supernova Project II. The shock wave revealed through the fog: The strongly interacting Type IIn SN 2013L
Creators: name: Taddia, F.
name: Stritzinger, M. D.
name: Fransson, C.
name: Brown, P. J.
name: Contreras, C.
name: Holmbo, S.
name: Moriya, T. J.
name: Phillips, M. M.
name: Sollerman, J.
name: Suntzeff, N. B.
name: Ashall, C.
name: Burns, C. R.
name: Busta, L.
name: Campillay, A.
name: Castellón, S.
name: Corco, C.
name: Di Mille, F.
name: Gall, C.
name: González, C.
name: Hsiao, E. Y.
name: Morrell, N.
name: Nyholm, A.
name: Simon, J. D.
name: Serón, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present ultra-violet to mid-infrared observations of the long-lasting Type IIn supernova (SN) 2013L obtained by the Carnegie Supernova Project II (CSP-II). The spectra of SN 2013L are dominated by H emission features characterized by three components attributed to different regions. A unique feature of this Type IIn SN is that the blue shifted line profile is dominated by the macroscopic velocity of the expanding shock wave of the SN. We are therefore able to trace the evolution of the shock velocity in the dense and partially opaque circumstellar medium (CSM), from $\sim 4800~km~s^{-1}$ at +48 d, decreasing as $t^{-0.23}$ to $\sim 2700~km~s^{-1}$ after a year. We perform spectral modeling of both the broad- and intermediate-velocity components of the H$α$ line profile. The high-velocity component is consistent with emission from a radially thin, spherical shell located behind the expanding shock with emission wings broadened by electron scattering. We propose that the intermediate component originates from pre-ionized gas from the unshocked dense CSM with the same velocity as the narrow component, $\sim 100~km~s^{-1}$, but also broadened by electron scattering. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of SN 2013L after +132 d are well reproduced by a two-component black-body (BB) model. The circumstellar-interaction model of the bolometric light curve reveals a mass-loss rate history with large values ($1.7\times 10^{-2} - 0.15~M_\odot~yr^{-1}$) over the $\sim $25 - 40 years before explosion. The drop in the light curve at $\sim 350$ days and presence of electron scattering wings at late epochs indicate an anisotropic CSM. The mass-loss rate values and the unshocked CSM velocity are consistent with the characteristics of a massive star, such as a luminous blue variable (LBV) undergoing strong eruptions, similar to $η$ Carina.
description: Replaced after language editor corrections, accepted for publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics, 43 pages, 29 figures. Abstract abridged
Phase diagram of ultracold atoms on optical lattice: Comparative study to slave fermion and slave boson for Bose Hubbard modelPhase diagram of ultracold atoms in optical lattices: Comparative study of slave fermion and slave boson approaches to Bose-Hubbard model
Creators: name: Yu, Yue
name: Chui, S. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a comparative study of the finite temperature behavior of ultracold Bose atoms in optical lattices by the slave fermion and the slave boson approaches to the Bose Hubbard model. The phase diagram of the system is presented. Although both approaches are equivalent without approximations, the mean field theory based on the slave fermion technique is quantitatively more appropriate. Conceptually, the slave fermion approach automatically excludes the double occupancy of two identical fermions on the same lattice site. By comparing to known results in limiting cases, we find the slave fermion approach better than the slave boson approach. For example, in the non-interacting limit, the critical temperature of the superfluid-normal liquid transition calculated by the slave fermion approach is closer to the well-known ideal Bose gas result. At zero-temperature limit of the critical interaction strength from the slave fermion approach is also closer to that from the direct calculation using a zero-temperature mean field theory.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, published in Phys. Rev. A. Typos are corrected
Bathippus Thorell 1892
Creators: name: Zhang, J. X.
name: Song, D. X.
name: Li, Daiqin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Bathippus

description: Bathippus Thorell, 1892
 Bathippus Thorell, 1892: 401.
 Type species. – Plexippus macrognathus Thorell, 1881, by subsequent designation.
 Diagnosis. – This genus is so similar to Canama that Prószynski´ (1987) suggested merging Canama with Bathippus. However, the studies by Davies & Zabka (1989) led to different conclusions, and indicated that they differed in the cheliceral and epigynal structure. Female epigynum of Bathippus with two depressions divided by a median ridge, spermatheca large and round, male chelicera lacking the bifurcated tooth on retromargin; whereas in Canama, female epigynum with only one large depression, spermatheca not distinctly inflated, and male chelicera with a bifurcated retromarginal tooth.
 Remarks. – Up to now, 28 species have been recorded in the world (Prószynski´, 2002), not including the 3 new species reported in this paper. Members of this genus are mainly distributed in the South-east Asia, Australia (Queensland) and New Caledonia.
description: Published as part of Zhang, J. X., Song, D. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2003, Six New And One Newly Recorded Species Of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) From Singapore And Malaysia, pp. 187-195 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2) on page 189, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618788
Uganda’s Agricultural Sector at Crossroads: Is it a myth or a reality?
Creators: name: Mwesigye, Francis
name: Sserunjogi, Brian
name: Mbowa, Swaibu
name: Mwesigye, Francis
name: Sserunjogi, Brian
name: Mbowa, Swaibu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Production Economics
subject: Uganda’s economy
subject: Agriculture
subject: Sserunjogi

description: Uganda’s agricultural growth has stagnated at about 2 percent for almost two decades yet the sector employs about 70% of the working population and contributes 40 percent of export earnings. On the other hand, Uganda’s population growth rate remains very high, above 3 percent per annum, signaling the likelihood of food insecurity and increase in poverty incidence. It is thus clear that the current state of agriculture cannot support the country’s target of attaining the lower-middle income status by 2020. A number of policies, programs and interventions have been implemented with no success in transforming the sector. These include: Structural Adjustment Programmes, Economic Recovery Program, Poverty Action Eradication Plan, and Plan for Modernization of Agriculture, among others. Indeed, the sector is at crossroads because while it is clear of what needs to be done to transform the sector, the current institutional set up seems weak and uncoordinated to effectively implement the required transformative interventions. Approaches that enhance institutional coordination, promote agricultural research and strengthen extension service provision would aid in revamping agricultural performance.
Plandemic and Hunger Virus A Morpho-pragmatic Study of Coronavirus Related Neologisms.pdf
Creators: name: Uwen, God'sgift Ogban
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200322 Comparative Language Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200524 Comparative Literature Studies
subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: This study analyses some neologisms that were created by some Nigerian users of English language as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic. The theoretical framework considered for this study is van Dijk’s Context Models and Lieb’s Process Model of Words Formation. A corpus of one hundred and ninety-five neologisms were selected from social media, electronic media, print media, and participants’ observation, particularly between February and December, 2020. The study identifies six discursive contexts: context of preventive protocols, context of identifying the condition, context of treatment, context of enforcement of restriction order, context of supportive measure, and context of corruption. The findings further reveal that the discursive contexts are indexed by acronyms, simple words, compound words, blended words, clipped words, unusual collocations, and phrasal/clausal creations. The creations were meant to describe the consequential circumstances in the health emergency in the Nigerian sociolinguistic milieu. The linguistic implications include the fact that the resources of English as Second Language (ESL) in Nigeria are rich enough to attend to the communication exigencies of the non-native speakers. The study concludes that the neologisms were devised by the interlocutors for the purposes of public enlightenment, expression of hope and collaboration, and to solicit general compliance with the preventive and treatment protocols in order to flatten the COVID-19 curve. Keywords: Neologisms, Coronavirus, context, morphological process, Nigeria
Building Accessible Cyberinfrastructure in the Global Disability Community : Evaluating Collaboration Readiness and Use of the DID Policy Collaboratory
Creators: name: Cogburn, Derrick
name: Trevisan, Filippo
name: Spanio, Erin
name: Aguilar, Maya C.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study is focused on better understanding the socio-technical infrastructure required to enhance participation of the global disability community in key global governance processes. It explores the impact of a virtual organizational platform, called the Disability Inclusive Development (DID) Policy collaboratory on the participation of the UN Disability Inclusive and Accessible Urban Development (DIAUD) Network in the preparatory processes for the UN Habitat III Conference. This paper asks four broad questions about the DIAUD network: (1) what is its origin, composition, and structure; (2) to what degree does it represent a transnational advocacy network; (3); what is its baseline “collaboration readiness”; and (4) how effectively does it use the Collaboratory? Data are drawn from surveys and participant observation at virtual and face-to-face network meetings. Key findings include: (1) DIAUD is organized as a TAN; (2) has important linkages with epistemic communities; and (3) has made substantive and sustained policy contributions.
title: Mechanisms of foreign trade: re-evaluating the power of the Scottish mercantile elite in the late middle ages
Creators: name: Eberlin, Amy
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2017

description: This thesis presents a re-evaluation of the traditional narrative of power in late medieval Scotland, focusing on the power and influence wielded by the Scottish mercantile community from 1320 to 1513. The fluidity of this professionally-defined community is considered, as is its importance in the mechanisms of Scotland’s profitable wool trade with Flanders. It is argued that the merchant community of late medieval Scotland, and the informal trade networks formed within it, provided commercial and financial protections for the transportation of goods abroad, which were not extended by the guilds merchant of Scotland. The influence of Scotland’s mercantile community over the implementation of pro-mercantile legislation at a national and local level is, then, considered. The introduction of the failed thirteenth-century royal marriage of Alexander, prince of Scotland, and Margaret of Flanders and the resulting economic protectionist legislation is argued to have been the first introduction of such parliamentary acts in the Scotto-Flemish trade relationship. The examples of the expulsion of Flemings from Scotland in 1347 and the threatened forfeiture of merchants in 1425 are analysed as examples of the Scottish crown’s use of pro-mercantile legislation to garner the support of their mercantile elite. It is then argued that the implementation of pro-mercantile legislation was also driven by Scottish merchants and the pursuit of their commercial interests, analysing legislation which encouraged communal freighting and restricted the personnel of overseas trade. The expression of the power and influence of Scotland’s mercantile elite was not limited to national and local politics. It could be seen through their appointment as ambassadors in commercial negotiations between Scotland and Flanders and their pursuit of improved mercantile protections and renewed trade. The concept of a specialist ambassador is presented and it is argued that they were utilised in Scotto-Flemish negotiations because of their personal or familial practical knowledge of overseas trade, their social and political status, and their ability to faithfully represent the Scottish crown. The case study of the Lauder family, prominent merchant burgesses originally from Lothian, and their network is used to argue that specialist ambassadors were drawn from a small, self-perpetuating pool of qualified Scottish merchants, who formed bonds, through marriage, and relationships, through geographic proximity and shared occupations, with other prominent overseas merchants. The interconnected nature of the Lauder network stands as an example of the ways in which late medieval Scottish merchants sought to retain control of the mechanisms of local governance and overseas trade.
Building Accessible Cyberinfrastructure in the Global Disability Community : Evaluating Collaboration Readiness and Use of the DID Policy Collaboratory
Creators: name: Cogburn, Derrick
name: Trevisan, Filippo
name: Spanio, Erin
name: Aguilar, Maya C.
Publisher: name: 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: This study is focused on better understanding the socio-technical infrastructure required to enhance participation of the global disability community in key global governance processes. It explores the impact of a virtual organizational platform, called the Disability Inclusive Development (DID) Policy collaboratory on the participation of the UN Disability Inclusive and Accessible Urban Development (DIAUD) Network in the preparatory processes for the UN Habitat III Conference. This paper asks four broad questions about the DIAUD network: (1) what is its origin, composition, and structure; (2) to what degree does it represent a transnational advocacy network; (3); what is its baseline “collaboration readiness”; and (4) how effectively does it use the Collaboratory? Data are drawn from surveys and participant observation at virtual and face-to-face network meetings. Key findings include: (1) DIAUD is organized as a TAN; (2) has important linkages with epistemic communities; and (3) has made substantive and sustained policy contributions.
Emergent Global Information Infrastructure/Global Information Society : Regime Formation and the Impact on Africa
Creators: name: Cogburn, Derrick
Publisher: name: United Nations University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This paper combines a theoretical perspective on globalization and the information society with a critical usage of international regime theory in order to contribute to a better understanding of the current historical period of transition from an international telecommunications regime to a new and complex regime aimed at providing governance for the global information infrastructure and global information society. The paper employs a case-study approach to explore some of the specific national responses (i.e. South Africa) to this regime transition, with an analysis of potential best practices and lessons learned for other emerging economies.
Emergent Global Information Infrastructure/Global Information Society : Regime Formation and the Impact on Africa
Creators: name: Cogburn, Derrick
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper combines a theoretical perspective on globalization and the information society with a critical usage of international regime theory in order to contribute to a better understanding of the current historical period of transition from an international telecommunications regime to a new and complex regime aimed at providing governance for the global information infrastructure and global information society. The paper employs a case-study approach to explore some of the specific national responses (i.e. South Africa) to this regime transition, with an analysis of potential best practices and lessons learned for other emerging economies.
Harnessing Floating Cage Technology to Increase Fish Production in Uganda
Creators: name: Mbowa, Swaibu
name: Odokonyero, Tonny
name: Munyaho, Anthony
name: Mbowa, Swaibu
name: Odokonyero, Tonny
name: Munyaho, Anthony
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Fisheries
subject: Aquaculture
subject: Fish farming
subject: Odokonyero

description: The fishery sub-sector is the second largest foreign exchange earner in Uganda’s economy (estimated at US$ 135 million) after coffee. However, declining trends in annual fish production are a real threat in terms of the loss of potential foreign exchange earnings, household income and food security. This study demonstrates that favourable international fish prices have supported steady foreign exchange earnings in Uganda amidst declining fish volumes. To enable Uganda to take advantage of this opportunity, innovations capable of overcoming supply-side constraints will play a critical role. We find that aquaculture has tremendous potential to stir growth of the fishery industry as well as generate employment. The results demonstrate that innovative technology such as floating cage culture is a more productive system in comparison to capture fishery - a farmer using floating cage technology produces 12 times more tonnage per annum than his or her counterparts practising capture fishery. Therefore, to increase fish production, adoption of cage farming technology must be expanded. We identified policy gaps that delimit the development of aquaculture in Uganda, which must be remedied. Policy lessons are drawn from China and Egypt – with the most successful stories in aquaculture technology and support services, which enormously increased fish farming productivity and exports.
Globalization and the Information Economy : Challenges and Opportunities for Africa
Creators: name: Cogburn, Derrick
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Two of the key characteristics defining this historical period are the twin concepts of globalization and the information economy. This transformation –which embodies social, economic, political, technical and cultural processes – is affecting nearly all of the world’s people and economies and creating tremendous challenges and opportunities in its wake. The inaugural session of the African Development Forum hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is working to develop an African-driven agenda to confront these challenges and to develop effective strategies to exploit the opportunities presented by these revolutionary developments. This paper used data from published reports, mostly from international organisations. It is divided into three parts and explores these concepts as they related to the Africa region. In Part I, the paper focuses on an understanding of Globalization and the information economy, both defining and critically assessing these terms, and illuminating the depth of the transformation that the global political economy is currently experiencing. Part II, looks specifically at the challenges and opportunities presented by these developments with an understanding of current African realities. Finally, Part III, discusses a way forward for the region, including recommendations for national, sub-regional, regional, and global action and partnerships.
Interference Commensurate Oscillations in Q1D Conductors
Creators: name: Lebed, A. G.
name: Naughton, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest an analytical theory to describe angular magnetic oscillations recently discovered in quasi-one-dimensional conductor (TMTSF)2PF6 [see Phys. Rev. B, 57, 7423 (1998)] and define the positions of the oscillation minima. The origin of these oscillations is related to interference effects resulting from an interplay of quasi-periodic and periodic ("commensurate") electron trajectories in an inclined magnetic field. We reproduce via calculations existing experimental data and predict some novel effects.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Workers' Compensation Rates and the Demand for Apprentices and Non-Apprentices in Victoria
Creators: name: Sgro, Pasquale M.
name: Giles, David E.A.
name: Sgro, Pasquale M.
name: Giles, David E.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: The aim of this paper is to provide a detailed quantitative analysis of the impact of changes in the current cost structure on the employment of apprentices and non-apprentices in Victoria. In particular, we emphasise the impact of "large" changes to the cost structure, such as waiving or changing the workers' compensation payments for all apprentices throughout their period of training; as well as "small" or "marginal" changes, such as waiving the workers' compensation payment for first-year indentures only. We find that "large" changes to the cost structure affect employment only in the metal and electrical trades. In these two trades the effect on the employment of apprentices is less than proportional to the change in the subsidy rate. Further, we find that "marginal" adjustments to workers' compensation, payroll tax and training subsidies have a negligible effect on apprentice employment. Overall, our results are not uniform across the various trades, which suggests that there are inter-skill differences. Thus, if intervention in the apprentice labour market is to have any significant impact on employment, it must be targetted to specific trades.
title: Management of dominant Carex species on floodplain meadows
Creators: name: Newman, Sonia K.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: Carex acuta and Carex acutiformis have been identified as problem plant species on floodplain meadows in the UK and western Europe and invasive plants in wetland habitats in North America and Canada. A double-cut treatment has been proposed as a control method, however this has not been scientifically tested. This thesis explores the ecology of C.acuta and C.acutiformis, the effectiveness of a double cut treatment on their control, the effects of the cutting treatment on the plant community and potential mechanisms regulating the expansion and persistence of the dominant sedge species in sub-optimal conditions. Field trials were set up to monitor the effects of cutting treatment on the meadow vegetation and pot experiments assess the effects of cutting on Carex plant traits. Mesocosm experiments were also undertaken to explore the relationships between water regime, microbial community and plant competition.

The field trials revealed that a double cut was a successful treatment to control C.acuta and C.acutiformis on floodplain meadows. The frequency of the cutting treatment was more important than the timing of the additional cut in controlling C.acuta and C.acutiformis. Carex traits were not affected by the timing of defoliation, however flowering in C.acuta significantly decreased with a double cut compared to a single cut. The microbial community had no effect on the plant community in the mesocosm experiment, the reasons for this are discussed. Drying stress decreased the yield, but not necessarily the percentage cover of the studied sedges and increased the cover of drought tolerant plants in the field and in the mesocosm experiments. Recommendations of short-term treatments to control C.acuta and C.acutiformis are presented in this study.
Credit Frictions, Debt Choice and the Transmission of Monetary Policy
Creators: name: Wright, Julian
name: Wright, Julian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper presents a model where shocks to interest rates, company earnings and the earnings of financial intermediaries all affect the investment of small but not large firms. These shocks also affect the extent of financial intermediation and companies' debt choice. Evidence from micro and macro data supports the model's predictions. I show that shocks which work by weakening the financial position of firms can explain a sizeable part of the growth slowdown in recessions. Conversely, I show that shocks which work by restricting the ability of financial intermediaries to lend are not significant. Consistent with this I find little evidence of a bank lending channel.