cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Binary black holes population and cosmology in new lights: Signature of PISN mass and formation channel in GWTC-3
Creators: name: Karathanasis, Christos
name: Mukherjee, Suvodip
name: Mastrogiovanni, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass, spin, and merger rate distribution of the binary black holes (BBHs) across cosmic redshifts provide a unique way to shed light on their formation channel. Along with the redshift dependence of the BBH merger rate, the mass distribution of BBHs can also exhibit redshift dependence due to different formation channels and dependence on the metallicity of the parent stars. We explore the redshift dependence of the BBH mass distribution jointly with the merger rate evolution from the third gravitational wave (GW) catalog GWTC-3 of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. We study possible connections between peak-like features in the mass spectrum of BBHs and processes related to supernovae physics and time-delay distributions. We obtain a preference for short-time delays between star formation and BBH mergers. Using a power law form for the time delay distribution ($(t^{\rm min}_d)^{d}$) we find $d<-0.7$ credible at $90\%$ interval. The mass distribution of the BBHs {could be fitted} with a power-law form with {a redshift-dependent peak feature that can be linked to the pair instability supernovae (PISN) mass scale $M_{\rm PISN}(Z_*)$ at a stellar metallicity $Z_*$. For a fiducial value of the stellar metallicity $Z_*= 10^{-4}$, we find the $\rm M_{\rm PISN}(Z_*)=44.4^{+7.9}_{-6.3} $ $\rm M_\odot$.} This is in accordance with the theoretical prediction of the lower edge of the PISN mass scale and differs from previous analyses. Although we find a strong dependence of the PISN value on metallicity, the model that we explored is not strongly favored over those that do not account for metallicity as the Bayes factors are inconclusive. In the future with more data, evidence towards metallicity dependence of the PISN will have a significant impact on our understanding of stellar physics.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Biochemical composition and bioactivity screening of various extracts from dunaliella salina, a green microalga
Creators: name: Cakmak, Yavuz Selim
name: Kaya, Murat
name: Asan-Ozusaglam, Meltem
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: fatty acid composition
subject: antimicrobial
subject: antioxidant
subject: Lake Tuz
subject: 610

description: The current study examines the antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of different extracts of the microalga Dunaliella salina Teodoresco (Dunaliellaceae), their fatty acid composition and the antimicrobial activity of the oil. Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities were evaluated by obtaining extracts of D. salina in n-hexane, dichloromethane, ethanol, and methanol. To evaluate the antimicrobial activity, the extracts, and fatty acids from D. salina were assessed by the disc diffusion and microdilution techniques against pathogenic microorganisms including fish and clinical/food-borne. The MBC or MFC values of the extracts and fatty acids ranged from 0.63 to 10.00 mg/ml. The antioxidant activity was studied by phosphomolybdenum and DPPH assays and β-carotene/linoleic acid tests. In addition, the total phenolic and flavonoid contents were evaluated and the fatty acid composition was determined using gas chromatography. Palmitic, alpha-linolenic, and oleic acids were discovered to be the major components of the fatty acids. These findings have demonstrated that the extracts and oil from D. salina could be used as natural antimicrobials and antioxidants in the food/feed and pharmaceutical industry and as a biodiesel because of its high unsaturated fatty acid content.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
SU(2) Flat Connection on Riemann Surface and Twisted Geometry with Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Han, Muxin
name: Huang, Zichang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: SU(2) flat connection on 2D Riemann surface is shown to relate to the generalized twisted geometry in 3D space with cosmological constant. Various flat connection quantities on Riemann surface are mapped to the geometrical quantities in discrete 3D space. We propose that the moduli space of SU(2) flat connections on Riemann surface generalizes the phase space of twisted geometry or Loop Quantum Gravity to include the cosmological constant.
description: 10+2 pages, 21 figures
Customers' Perception Towards Electronic Banking Service: The Case Of Commercial Bank Of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Zewde, Selamawit
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: This research aimed at finding out the current customers" perception towards electronic banking service of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia as a case study. The study used customers" benefit perception and risk perception as independent variables to identify the actual usage of e-banking service. The study examined customers" perception regarding with benefits and risks associated within the context of CBE E-banking services using a Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with some modification to guide the research. The study followed survey method and samples of 400 respondents were taken from CBE customers using purposive sampling technique. The data was analyzed and tested using linear regression to show the effects of perceived benefit and perceived risk on usage of E-banking service. Based on the statistical analysis, perceived benefit was found to have a significant positive effect on usage of E-banking services, this was the reason why customers" perception on risks associated with E-banking service could not totally restrict customers from using E-banking products. The findings of the study were all consistent with prior researches except on the findings of risk perceptions such as e-banking transaction handling fees is costly and the service do not provide up to date information which were agreed by the respondents in the study is found to be contrary with the prior researchers. The study revealed areas of improvement with possible solutions that mitigate the identified major challenges, which includes continuous reviewing and up grading of the existing security system, emphasis on improving network stability, provide a cheaper customer service charges and quality service expansion throughout the country with appropriate teaching based promotion. Furthermore, the study suggests that future researches may embark on comprehensive investigation by incorporating customers" perceptions of all Ethiopian Private Banks.
Influence of corticosteroid therapy on the serum antibody response to influenza vaccine in elderly patients with chronic pulmonary diseases
Creators: name: Inoue, Sumito
name: Shibata, Yoko
name: Takabatake, Noriaki
name: Igarashi, Akira
name: Abe, Shuichi
name: Kubota, Isao
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: corticosteroid
subject: influenza vaccine
subject: chronic pulmonary disease
subject: 610

description: Annual influenza vaccination is strongly recommended for patients with chronic pulmonary diseases, such as bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and interstitial pulmonary diseases. However, many of these patients regularly receive systemic and/or inhaled corticosteroid therapy, and the impact of corticosteroid therapy on influenza vaccine efficacy and safety is unclear. Patients with chronic pulmonary diseases were enrolled in the study and divided into three groups based on their maintenance therapy: (A) without corticosteroid therapy (17 males, three females; mean age, 72.3 ± 7.9), (B) oral corticosteroid therapy (four males, seven females; mean age, 66.1 ± 10.6), and (C) inhaled corticosteroid therapy (eight males, nine females; mean age, 62.4 ± 16.0). All patients received influenza vaccine, and serum hemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibodies against influenza strains A/H1N1, A/H3N2, and B were measured at baseline (before vaccination) and 4-6 weeks after vaccination. Sufficient antibody titers or significant increases were observed after vaccination compared with titers before vaccination in all three groups. No systemic reactions were reported. Long-term oral/inhaled corticosteroid therapy was not associated with vaccination side effects and did not affect the immune response to the influenza vaccine.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Quantum relative entropy: general convergence criterion and preservation of convergence under completely positive linear maps
Creators: name: Shirokov, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A criterion and necessary conditions for convergence (local continuity) of the quantum relative entropy are obtained. Some applications of these results are considered. In particular, the preservation of local continuity of the quantum relative entropy under completely positive linear maps is established.
description: 33 pages, any comments are welcome
Energy-efficient Deployment of Deep Learning Applications on Cortex-M based Microcontrollers using Deep Compression
Creators: name: Deutel, Mark
name: Woller, Philipp
name: Mutschler, Christopher
name: Teich, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the backbone of today's artificial intelligence due to their ability to make accurate predictions when being trained on huge datasets. With advancing technologies, such as the Internet of Things, interpreting large quantities of data generated by sensors is becoming an increasingly important task. However, in many applications not only the predictive performance but also the energy consumption of deep learning models is of major interest. This paper investigates the efficient deployment of deep learning models on resource-constrained microcontroller architectures via network compression. We present a methodology for the systematic exploration of different DNN pruning, quantization, and deployment strategies, targeting different ARM Cortex-M based low-power systems. The exploration allows to analyze trade-offs between key metrics such as accuracy, memory consumption, execution time, and power consumption. We discuss experimental results on three different DNN architectures and show that we can compress them to below 10\% of their original parameter count before their predictive quality decreases. This also allows us to deploy and evaluate them on Cortex-M based microcontrollers.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
The social construction of child abuse
Creators: name: Hiskey, Elizabeth M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Heft 5.2021,2
Creators: name: Boxhofer, Emmerich
name: Kramer, Martin
Publisher: name: Private Pädagogische Hochschule der Diözese Linz
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Heft 2 des 5. Jahrgangs (2021) der Pädagogischen Horizonte
description: Pädagogische Horizonte; 5.2021,2
Pulmonary phthalate exposure and asthma - is PPAR a plausible mechanistic link?
Creators: name: Bølling, Anette Kocbach
name: Holme, Jørn A.
name: Bornehag, Carl Gustaf
name: Nygaard, Unni C.
name: Bertelsen, Randi J.
name: Nånberg, Eewa
name: Bodin, Johanna
name: Sakhi, Amrit Kaur
name: Thomsen, Cathrine
name: Becher, Rune
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: phthalates
subject: asthma
subject: Peroxisome Proliferation Activated Receptors
subject: molecular mechanism
subject: 610

description: Due to their extensive use as plasticisers in numerous consumer products, phthalates have become ubiquitous environmental contaminants. An increasing number of epidemiological studies suggest that exposure to phthalates may be associated with worsening or development of airway diseases. Peroxisome Proliferation Activated Receptors (PPAR)s, identified as important targets for phthalates in early studies in rodent liver, have been suggested as a possible mechanistic link. In this review we discuss the likelihood of an involvement of PPARs in asthma development and exacerbation due to pulmonary phthalate exposure. First, we go through the literature on indoor air levels of phthalates and pulmonary phthalate kinetics. These data are then used to estimate the pulmonary phthalate levels due to inhalation exposure. Secondly, the literature on phthalate-induced activation or modulation of PPARs is summarized. Based on these data, we discuss whether pulmonary phthalate exposure is likely to cause PPAR activation, and if this is a plausible mechanism for adverse effects of phthalates in the lung. It is concluded that the pulmonary concentrations of some phthalates may be sufficient to cause a direct activation of PPARs. Since PPARs mainly mediate anti-inflammatory effects in the lungs, a direct activation is not a likely molecular mechanism for adverse effects of phthalates. However, possible modulatory effects of phthalates on PPARs deserve further investigation, including partial antagonist effects and/or cross talk with other signalling pathways. Moreover other mechanisms, including interactions between phthalates and other receptors, could also contribute to possible adverse pulmonary effects of phthalates.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Counterdiabatic driving for pseudo- and antipseudo- Hermitian systems
Creators: name: Song, Y. H.
name: Wang, Xin
name: Liu, H. D.
name: Yi, X. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study the counterdiabatic driving scheme in pseudo- and antipseudo- Hermitian systems. By discussing the adiabatic condition for non-Hermitian system, we show that the adiabatic evolution of state can only be realized in the non-Hermitian system which possesses real energy spectrum. Therefore, the counterdiabatic driving scheme to reproduce an exact evolution of an energy eigenstate needs either real energy spectrum or dropping its parts of dynamic phase and Berry phase. In this sense, we derive the adiabatic conditions and counterdiabatic driving Hamiltonians for the pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian which possesses either real or complex energy spectrum and the antipseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian which possesses either imaginary or complex energy spectrum. We also find the condition to get self-normalized energy eigenstates in pseudo- and antipseudo- Hermitian system and derive the well-defined population of bare states on this energy eigenstate. Our results are illustrated by studying the counterdiabatic driving for a non-Hermitian three level system, and a perfect population transfer with loss or gain is realized.
description: 9pages, 6figures
ISO14001 : drivers and benefits : implementation of the ISO14001 Environmental Management System Standard in Australia
Creators: name: Meadows, Kay.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The New Civil Society Law and its Impact on the Movement of the Sector: with Particular Reference to Advocacy-Based Organizations
Creators: name: Amerga, Woubshet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Ethiopia's new charities and societies legislation has been affecting the growth and effectiveness of civil society organizations, particularly advocacy-based organizations, since its implementation. Though a lot has been said and written concerning the effect of the law on civil society organizations, particularly advocacy-based organizations, yet there is no empirical evidence that can explain the effect of the law. Since rhetoric alone is not sufficient to judge the impact of the law, this study seeks to assess on the impact of the law on the operation of CSOs. To show the impact of the law the researcher has collected primary data from nine individual civil society organizations and five consortium organizations through two different types of questionnaires, and has interviewed the implementing Agency using semi-structured interview. The analysis indicates the following results: the total number of civil society organizations has substantially dwindled as compared to pre-reform period; the majority of Ethiopian civil society organizations has changed their areas of engagement that they were primarily established for; Ethiopian civil society organizations that opted not to change their former areas of involvement, are not as active as pre-reform period mainly due to lack of funding; and more than ninety percent of civil society organizations currently operating in the country terminated governance component of their intervention-implying reduction in effectiveness in their development intervention. From the aforementioned findings one can infer that the law is affecting the growth, engagement and effectiveness of the civil society organizations, particularly advocacy-based organizations. Hence, the new law for charities and societies is restrictive. This has far-reaching implication for democratization and development process of the country. Among many, one is less citizen participation and hence less pluralism, democracy and respect for human rights in the country. To minimize the adverse effect of the law, those most restrictive provisions of the law, that is, article 2(3) and 14(5) must be repealed
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: tomographic BAO analysis of DR12 combined sample in configuration space
Creators: name: Wang, Yuting
name: Zhao, Gong-Bo
name: Chuang, Chia-Hsun
name: Ross, Ashley J.
name: Percival, Will J.
name: Gil-Marín, Héctor
name: Cuesta, Antonio J.
name: Kitaura, Francisco-Shu
name: Rodriguez-Torres, Sergio
name: Brownstein, Joel R.
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Ho, Shirley
name: Kneib, Jean-Paul
name: Olmstead, Matt
name: Prada, Francisco
name: Rossi, Graziano
name: Sánchez, Ariel G.
name: Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador
name: Thomas, Daniel
name: Tinker, Jeremy
name: Tojeiro, Rita
name: Vargas-Magaña, Mariana
name: Zhu, Fangzhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a tomographic baryon acoustic oscillations analysis using the two-point galaxy correlation function measured from the combined sample of BOSS DR12, which covers the redshift range of $0.2
description: 14 pages, 21 figures, 7 Tables. Submitted to MNRAS
Lifting morphisms between graded Grothendieck groups of Leavitt path algebras
Creators: name: Arnone, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16S88, 19A49

description: We show that any pointed, preordered module map $\mathfrak{BF}_{\mathrm{gr}}(E) \to \mathfrak{BF}_{\mathrm{gr}}(F)$ between Bowen-Franks modules of finite graphs can be lifted to a unital, graded, diagonal preserving $\ast$-homomorphism $L_\ell(E) \to L_\ell(F)$ between the corresponding Leavitt path algebras over any commutative unital ring with involution $\ell$. Specializing to the case when $\ell$ is a field, we establish the fullness part of Hazrat's conjecture about the functor from Leavitt path $\ell$-algebras of finite graphs to preordered modules with order unit that maps $L_\ell(E)$ to its graded Grothendieck group. Our construction of lifts is of combinatorial nature; we characterize the maps arising from this construction as the scalar extensions along $\ell$ of unital, graded $\ast$-homomorphisms $L_{\mathbb Z}(E) \to L_{\mathbb Z}(F)$ that preserve a sub-$\ast$-semiring introduced here.
description: 19 pages. Version accepted for publication. Corrected the statement of Theorem 6.16 (now Theorem 6.17)
Questioning environmental values, coastal development options and catchment condition, focusing on the coastal towship of Anglesea and river environs
Creators: name: Donaldson, Brett Andrew.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Spatiotemporal order and emergent edge currents in active spinner materials
Creators: name: van Zuiden, Benjamin C.
name: Paulose, Jayson
name: Irvine, William T. M.
name: Bartolo, Denis
name: Vitelli, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collections of interacting, self-propelled particles have been extensively studied as minimal models of many living and synthetic systems from bird flocks to active colloids. However, the influence of active rotations in the absence of self-propulsion i.e. spinning without walking) remains less explored. Here, we numerically and theoretically investigate the behaviour of ensembles of self-spinning dimers. We find that geometric frustration of dimer rotation by interactions yields spatiotemporal order and active melting with no equilibrium counterparts. At low density, the spinning dimers self-assemble into a triangular lattice with their orientations phase-locked into spatially periodic phases. The phase-locked patterns form dynamical analogues of the ground states of various spin models, transitioning from the 3-state Potts antiferromagnet at low densities to the striped herringbone phase of planar quadrupoles at higher densities. As the density is raised further, the competition between active rotations and interactions leads to melting of the active spinner crystal. Emergent edge currents, whose direction is set by the chirality of the active spinning, arise as a non-equilibrium signature of the transition to the active spinner liquid and vanish when the system eventually undergoes kinetic arrest at very high densities. Our findings may be realized in systems ranging from liquid crystal and colloidal experiments to tabletop realizations using macroscopic chiral grains.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, see http://wwwhome.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/~paulose/active-spinners/ for accompanying movies. v3: updated to published version; new supplementary figure
title: Диалог автора с читателем в современном женском детективе
Creators: name: Дидковская, Виктория
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье рассматриваются способы и средства обеспечения успешного диалога с читателем в одном из жанров современной беллетристики – детективном романе. С учетом фактора адресата выделены основные тактики, обусловленные фактором адресата. Установлено, что авторы детективов активно используют сниженную, даже ненормативную лексику при описании ситуаций, знакомых читателям из его собственного речевого опыта. Другим приемом организации диалога с читателями является привлечение их внимания к ситуациям ошибочного использования языковых единиц в речи персонажей, в частности, заимствованных слов. С этой целью используются приемы комментирования – от прямого объяснения значений слов-агнонимов до обращения к речевому опыту читателей. Особым способом выстраивания культурного диалога с читателем является использование прецедентных феноменов. Выбор прецедентных феноменов обусловлен читательскими ожиданиями и связан со стремлением авторов облегчить диалог с читателем. Прецедентные имена и высказывания становятся средством социальной, профессиональной, возрастной характеристики персонажей, используются для создания юмористического эффекта с целью развлечь читателя.
Multi-point Scattering Measurements for Effective Property Extraction from Metamaterials with Skin Effects
Creators: name: Morris, Joshua
name: Amirkhizi, Alireza V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering experiments can be leveraged to extract the effective properties of a heterogeneous metamaterial slab based on multi-point measurements in surrounding media. In this technique, two measurements are made in the ambient media on each side of a finite thickness micro-structured slab to decompose incoming and outgoing waves. The method is applied to an example with locally resonant micro-structured inclusions while paying close attention to parameters that influence the extracted material parameters. It is observed that the extracted overall parameters converge to limiting values when the number of unit cells across the slab thickness or ambient media modulus are increased. Dependence of extracted material parameters on the number of cells through thickness or ambient media properties are attributed to the different response of boundary (skin) and interior cells. A method is presented which represents a finite array with different effective properties for the skin regions vs. the interior regions with great success in reproducing the scattering for different slab thicknesses, and through which the interior regions properties become independent of ambient media properties. In stop bands with lower material loss, challenges arise that are associated with extremely small transmission. The assumption of continuity in transmission phase is enforceable to remove phase ambiguity, although in certain cases (associated with nearly lossless specimens) this assumption appears to fail. In such cases, interference from coupled shear modes may lead to apparent higher longitudinal transmission within the stop band. This work provides a proof of concept for the development of an experimental methodology capable of extracting the effective properties and dispersion behavior of heterogeneous mechanical metamaterials without any knowledge of the internal fields.
description: 21 pages, 12 Figures
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Creators: name: ashley, ivron
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description:

 What is research design?
 The research methods and procedures which are used for collecting and analysing the needed data for some particular study. Research design could be of different types e.g. descriptive research, exploratory research, and causal one. The exploratory research is conducted when the nature of some problem is not clearly defined. However, when there is a need to study a population's characteristics and/or phenomena, descriptive study is the most suited one. While causal research is done to identify cause and effect relations among the variables of the present research.
 What is a Sample Size? And how to calculate it? Appropriate sample size can be determined by various techniques. The most widely accepted rule of thumb, to conduct SEM (structural equation modeling), the sample size should not be less than 200. Another way to calculate sample size is by multiplying the number of variables with 5 to 10 responses for a minimum threshold level
 Type Of designs
 Cross-sectional design (also referred to as survey design) has many advantages. Its advantages include being economical and easy in collecting data from some larger sample size. What is the unit of analysis? The major respondents being analyzed in any study are called the unit of analysis. Some examples of it can be individuals (the most common); groups; some social organizations and at times social artifacts.
Humphrey, George, Museum Calonnianum Specification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history collected by M. de Calonne in France… Sold by George Humphrey, dealer in shells, minerals, etc., n° 4, Leicester street, Leicester square, 1797.
Creators: name: Rusque, Dorothée
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Source: sale catalogue of G. Humphrey, 1797.
A zero high-hazard waste to landfill policy : will this provide the most sustainable waste management solution for Victoria?
Creators: name: Hall, Garrett.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Роль «образа автора» в художественном нарративе магического романа Дж. Харрис «Blackberry Wine»
Creators: name: Лаврова, С.
name: Ермакова, Л.
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье рассматривается специфика смысловой роли «образа автора» в художественном нарративе магического романа британской писательницы Джоан Харрис «Ежевичное вино». Выявляются субъектная и событийная сферы художественного хронотопа, отражающего сложную мозаику нарративного текстообразования, рассматривается магическая составляющая художественного пространства. Показаны способы эксплицитной и имплицитной репрезентации «образа автора» в художественном нарративе с преобладанием персонажной субъектной сферы.
Helmut Köhler: bildungsbeteiligung und Sozialstruktur in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Zu Stabilität und Wandel der Ungleichheit von Bildungschancen, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Studien und Berichte, Bd. 53, Berlin: edition sigma, 1992, ISBN 3-89404-800-X, 133 S., DM 30,-
Creators: name: Rodax, Klaus
Publisher: name: Westdeutscher Verlag
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 650

description: Arbeit
The Role of Private Sector in the Development of the Tourism Industry: the Case of Privately Owned Hotels in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Mitiku, Henok
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: The private sector has a key role in playing a vital part in one"s country economic growth and development. The economic contribution of privately owned hotels in Addis Ababa is a theme of this paper that has been addressing to investigate the bottlenecks of the hotel industry and assessing the substantial contribution of hotels to the economy. The objective of the research is to critically examine and evaluate the impact of privately owned hotels to the country"s economic development. The researcher collected both qualitative and quantitative data from primary and secondary sources, using questionnaire, interview, focus group discussion, document review and personal observation to make the study more reliable and vibrant. Findings indicate that privately owned hotels have a crucial contribution to the economy as a means of generating foreign currency, maintain country"s trade balance, in income tax generation, creation of job opportunities, skill development, building image of the country and encourage or attract visitors. The sector has also shortcoming like not having competent policy makers, lack of skilled manpower, and brain drain in the industry, lack of quality products for luxury hotels in domestic market and long customs processes to import items. The researcher concludes that the privately owned hotels contribution to the country"s economy is enormous and in its progressive stage. Finally, the researcher recommends that the money generated by the sector should be reinvested to the hospitality industry; highly skilled professionals should be assigned by the government to its institutions to the sector so that they can solve problems related to the sector and also be able to communicate satisfactorily in international level
Enabling accurate first-principle calculations of electronic properties with a corrected k.p scheme
Creators: name: Berland, Kristian
name: Persson, Clas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A computationally inexpensive k.p-based interpolation scheme is developed that can extend the eigenvalues and momentum matrix elements of a sparsely sampled k-point grid into a densely sampled one. Dense sampling, often required to accurately describe transport and optical properties of bulk materials, can be demanding to compute, for instance, in combination with hybrid functionals in density functional theory (DFT) or with perturbative expansions beyond DFT such as the $GW$ method. The scheme is based on solving the k.p method and extrapolating from multiple reference k-points. It includes a correction term that reduces the number of empty bands needed and ameliorates band discontinuities. We show how the scheme can be used to generate accurate band structures, density of states, and dielectric functions. Several examples are given, using traditional and hybrid functionals, with Si, TiNiSn, and Cu as model materials. We illustrate that d-electron and semi-core states, which are particular challenging for the k.p method, can be handled with the correction scheme if the sparse grid is not too sparse.
Laser Direct Writing of Visible Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Applications in Spin-Based Technologies
Creators: name: Yang, Yuan-Ze
name: Zhu, Tian-Xiang
name: Li, Zhi-Peng
name: Zeng, Xiao-Dong
name: Guo, Nai-Jie
name: Yu, Shang
name: Meng, Yu
name: Wang, Zhao-An
name: Xie, Lin-Ke
name: Zhou, Zong-Quan
name: Li, Qiang
name: Xu, Jin-Shi
name: Gao, Xiao-Ying
name: Liu, Wei
name: Wang, Yi-Tao
name: Tang, Jian-Shun
name: Li, Chuan-Feng
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optically addressable spins in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) attract widespread attention for their potential advantage in on-chip quantum devices, such as quantum sensors and quantum network. A variety of spin defects have been found in hBN, but no convenient and deterministic generation methods have been reported for other defects except negatively charged boron vacancy ($V_B^-$). Here we report that by using femtosecond laser direct writing technology, we can deterministically create spin defect ensembles with spectra range from 550 nm to 800 nm on nanoscale hBN flakes. Positive single-peak optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) signals are detected in the presence of magnetic field perpendicular to the substrate, and the contrast can reach 0.8%. With the appropriate thickness of hBN flakes, substrate and femtosecond laser pulse energy, we can deterministically and efficiently generate bright spin defect array. Our results provide a convenient deterministic method to create spin defects in hBN, which will motivate more endeavors for future researches and applications of spin-based technologies such as quantum magnetometer array.
Sibylle Peters: Arbeitslose und ihr Selbstbild in der betrieblichen Umschulung. Lern- und Leistungsfähigkeit in Bilanzierung und Antizipation in einer Metallfacharbeiterausbildung, Weinheim: Deutscher Studien-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-89271-304-9, 410 S., DM 49,-
Creators: name: Bolder, Axel
Publisher: name: Westdeutscher Verlag
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 650

description: Arbeit
Gapless spin-liquid ground state in the $S = 1/2$ kagome antiferromagnet
Creators: name: Liao, H. J.
name: Xie, Z. Y.
name: Chen, J.
name: Liu, Z. Y.
name: Xie, H. D.
name: Huang, R. Z.
name: Normand, B.
name: Xiang, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frustrated quantum magnetism has moved to the forefront of physics research, posing fundamental questions concerning quantum disordered states, entanglement, topology and the nature of the quantum wavefunction. The defining problem in the field is one of the simplest, the ground state of the nearest-neighbour $S = 1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice, but has defied all theoretical and numerical methods employed to date. We apply the formalism of tensor-network states (TNS), specifically the method of projected entangled simplex states (PESS), whose combination of a correct accounting for multipartite entanglement and infinite system size provides qualitatively new insight. By studying the ground-state energy, the staggered magnetization we find at all finite tensor bond dimensions and the effects of a second-neighbour coupling, we demonstrate that the ground state is a gapless spin liquid. We discuss the comparison with other numerical studies and the physical interpretation of the gapless ground state.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, revised version accepted for publication in PRL
Information Rates and post-FEC BER Prediction in Optical Fiber Communications
Creators: name: Alvarado, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information-theoretic metrics to analyze optical fiber communications systems with binary and nonbinary soft-decision FEC are reviewed. The numerical evaluation of these metrics in both simulations and experiments is also discussed. Ready-to-use closed-form approximations are presented.
description: Invited paper, OFC 2017
A holistic perspective on the environment : recognising people and the land
Creators: name: O'Dowd, Mary F. Mary Frances).
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 450107
subject: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history

description: This article puts the case that it is impossible to understand our conception and treatment of the land in Australia without considering what we did to the Indigenous people. The article provides an overview of this treatment to Indigenous people, and how the legacies continue to this day and dull our conscience. The central case is that Indigenous resistance and our war on Indigenous people, while erased from Australian history until the 1960s, were written into a symbolic war on the land and a construction of the land as harsh. It explores the implications of the pioneer ‘battle with an inhospitable and harsh land. This battle, it argues, was as a metaphor for our war with the Indigenous people, a metaphor that has never been exposed. This view of the land as harsh facilitated the expropriation of Indigenous people's land and assisted in institutionalising the lie terra nullius. The legacy, to not acknowledging the real war, is an inappropriate view of the land as harsh, and a failure to recognise that our treatment and perception of the land are linked to our relationship with the Indigenous people. Therefore land needs greater attention in the reconciliation process.This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Effect of Collisional Elasticity on the Bagnold Rheology of Sheared Frictionless Two Dimensional Disks
Creators: name: Vågberg, Daniel
name: Olsson, Peter
name: Teitel, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out constant volume simulations of steady-state, shear driven flow in a simple model of athermal, bidisperse, soft-core, frictionless disks in two dimensions, using a dissipation law that gives rise to Bagnoldian rheology. Focusing on the small strain rate limit, we map out the rheological behavior as a function of particle packing fraction $ϕ$ and a parameter $Q$ that measures the elasticity of binary particle collisions. We find a $Q^*(ϕ)$ that marks the clear crossover from a region characteristic of strongly inelastic collisions, $QQ^*$, and give evidence that $Q^*(ϕ)$ diverges as $ϕ\toϕ_J$, the shear driven jamming transition. We thus conclude that the jamming transition at any value of $Q$ behaves the same as the strongly inelastic case, provide one is sufficiently close to $ϕ_J$. We further characterize the differing nature of collisions in the strongly inelastic vs weakly inelastic regions, and recast our results into the constituent equation form commonly used in discussions of hard granular matter.
description: 14 pages, 17 figures, revised to published version; dissipative part of stress computed with higher accuracy, anisotropy in pressure considered in new Appendix
Anomalous Dimensions from Soft Regge Constants
Creators: name: Moult, Ian
name: Raman, Sanjay
name: Ridgway, Gregory
name: Stewart, Iain W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an effective field theory (EFT) formalism for forward scattering, we reconsider the factorization of $2\to 2$ scattering amplitudes in the Regge limit. Expanding the amplitude in gauge invariant operators labelled by the number of Glauber exchanges, allows us to further factorize the standard impact factors into separate collinear and soft functions. The soft functions are universal, and describe radiative corrections to the Reggeized gluon states exchanged by the collinear projectiles. Remarkably, we find that the one-loop soft function for the single Reggeized gluon state is given to $\mathcal{O}(ε)$ in terms of the two-loop cusp and two-loop rapidity anomalous dimensions. We argue that this iterative structure follows from the simple action of crossing symmetry in the forward scattering limit, which in the EFT allows us to replace the divergent part of a soft loop by a much simpler Glauber loop. We use this correspondence to provide a simple calculation of the two-loop Regge trajectory using the EFT. We then explore its implications at higher perturbative orders, and derive the maximally matter dependent contributions to the Regge trajectory to all loop orders, i.e.~the terms $\sim α_s^{k+1}n_f^k$ for any $k$, where $n_f$ is the number of massless flavors. These simplifications suggests that the EFT approach to the Regge limit will be helpful to explore and further understand the structure of the Regge limit.
description: 29 pages, 5 figures
Kombinierter biologisch-photokatalytischer Abbau von umweltrelevanten Stickstoffverbindungen zur Reinigung von landwirtschaftlichen Abwässern mit bewachsenen Pflanzenfiltern und TiO 2 /UV
Creators: name: Ebbinghaus, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: CPC-Reaktor
subject: TiO2/UV
subject: Pflanzenfilter
subject: Pirimicarb
subject: Nb dotiertes TiO2
subject: Gülle
subject: CPC reactor
subject: planted soil filter
subject: Nb doped TiO2
subject: liquid manure
subject: 710

description: In dieser Arbeit wurde eine Modelkläranlage aufgebaut, über 18 Monate betrieben und eine Bilanz für die Abwasserfracht aufgestellt. Die Modellkläranlage bestand aus einem vertikalen, bewachsenen Pflanzenfilter, einem Pflanzenteich und einem CPC-Reaktor (Compound Parabolic Collector) mit Bestrahlungszelle. Der Zulauf an Abwasser betrug etwa 18 L / Tag bei einer mittleren organischen Belastung von 1564 mg/L, ausgedrückt als CSB.In der ersten biologischen Stufe (Pflanzenfilter) erfolgte die Oxidation und Nitrifikation von organischen (Stickstoff-) verbindungen, anschließend sollte der enstandene Nitrit- / Nitrat-stickstoff in der zweiten Stufe (Pflanzenteich) denitrifiziert werden. Anschließend wurden in der dritten Stufe (CPC-Reaktor) biologisch schwer abbaubare Verbindungen mittels TiO2/UV als sog. AOP (Advanced Oxidation Process) weiter zu CO2 und Mineralsäuren oxidiert.Die Untersuchungen in der Modellkläranlage wurden begleitet von Labor- und Feldversuchen zur Steigerung der Katalysatoreffizienz, zum Studium der Abbauwege / Reaktonskinetik von Modellsubstanzen (darunter Pestizde, Amine und Phenol) und zum von Vergleich verschiedenenen Photoreaktoren.
description: In the work presented here, a model waste water treatment plant was set up, run for about 18 month and balanced for the waste water freight. The treatment plant was a vertically driven, planted soil filter, a planted pond and a CPC reactor (Compound Parabolic Collector) including a radiation source. The waste water feed was approximately 18 L / day with a mean organic load of 1564 mg/L in terms of the COD.In the first biological stage (planted soil filter) the oxidation and nitrification of organic (nitrogen) compounds took place, while the nitrite / nitrate nitrogen produced in this stage should have been denitrificated in the second stage (planted pond). Biologically less degradable compounds were further oxidized to CO2 and mineral acids by TiO2/UV as a so called AOP (Advanced Oxidation Process).The investigations were completed by laboratory and field experiments to enhance the catalytic efficiency, to investigate the degradation pathways / kinetics of model compounds (including pesticides, amines and phenoles) and the comparison of different photo reactors.
title: Динамика проницаемости своего и чужого слова в тексте и интертексте
Creators: name: Максимова, Наталия
name: Максимова, Анна
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье рассматривается явление проницаемости и обособленности речевых автономий текста и интертекста, выявляются универсальные стороны интерференции чужого и своего слова в художественном тексте. На примере произведений XX и XXI веков исследуется, как связана концепция произведения и языковые способы представления проницаемости своего и чужого слова. Сопоставляются закономерности функционирования языка в текстах М. Булгакова, Л. Петрушевской, Е. Водолазкина. Центральным становится вопрос о том, чем обусловливается динамика проницаемости своей и чужой речи в текстах этих авторов и какие средства лингвистического анализа обеспечивают основания для истолкования данного явления. В художественном произведении интерпретация тенденции к проницаемости своего и чужого слова описывается с опорой на типы интерпретативных значений (прагматический, референциальный и рецептивный).
SCDL BACĂU: 50 DE ANI DE INOVAȚIE ȘI EXCELENȚĂ ÎN LEGUMICULTURĂ
Creators: name: Brezeanu, Petre Marian
name: Brezeanu, Creola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Lucrarea este o brosura de prezentare care include sinteza activitatii de cercetare devzoltare derulate la Statiunea de Cercetare Dezvoltare pentru Legumicultura Bacau si a fost elaborata cu ocazia semicentenarului unitatii. Sunt prezentate date referitoare la 

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