cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A study of the effects of mediators between spirituality at work and organizational citizenship behaviors
Creators: name: GEH, Zhen Yao Eugene
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150311 Organisational Behaviour
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The surge of articles seen in the various academic and practitioner journals over the last ten years clearly indicates the growing interest in workplace spirituality (e.g., Manz et al., 2001; Gunther, 2001; Graber, 2001; Brandt, 1996; Thompson, 2000; McCarthy, 1996; Hein, 1999; Herman and Gioia, 1998; Ashmos and Duchon, 2000; Mitroff and Denton, 1999, Bryant, 1998). Despite this growing interest, there has been rather limited theoretical development thus far. There exists no unified explanation to explain for this heightened attention. This study attempts to contribute to the theory development by first conducting a review of the extant literature on spirituality at the workplace to reveal the variety of reasons that have been offered by scholars for this heightened attention. Subsequently, deepened understanding of the phenomenon is derived from tracing its roots through three lenses, namely, the evolution of management thought, economic development, and the assumptions made of man during each time period identified. As such, this study seeks to locate spirituality within the field of organizational research. This study also contributes to the extant literature by looking into workplace spirituality and its relationships between important organizational constructs such as organization-based self esteem (OBSE), organizational commitment (OC), and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). This focus of this exploratory empirical study is to look into how workplace spirituality can lead to the performance of certain desirable behaviors by employees within the organization. This study is particularly interested in looking in to the mediating effects of organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) and organizational commitment (OC) on the relationship between spirituality at work and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). Based on the findings of the study, research and managerial implications are derived.
Bringing Robots Home: The Rise of AI Robots in Consumer Electronics
Creators: name: Dong, Haiwei
name: Liu, Yang
name: Chu, Ted
name: Saddik, Abdulmotaleb El
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: On March 18, 2024, NVIDIA unveiled Project GR00T, a general-purpose multimodal generative AI model designed specifically for training humanoid robots. Preceding this event, Tesla's unveiling of the Optimus Gen 2 humanoid robot on December 12, 2023, underscored the profound impact robotics is poised to have on reshaping various facets of our daily lives. While robots have long dominated industrial settings, their presence within our homes is a burgeoning phenomenon. This can be attributed, in part, to the complexities of domestic environments and the challenges of creating robots that can seamlessly integrate into our daily routines.
description: Accepted by IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
"Community is the Basis for Learning": A Narrative Inquiry into Equity-Oriented Literacy Practices
Creators: name: Mentzer, Fay Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390407
subject: Inclusive education

description: As the demographic composition of student populations in the United States continues to diversify, it is imperative that educators enter the field equipped to address the varied needs of all their students. Despite this increasing diversity, many preservice teachers in the United States remain predominantly white and often lack substantial experience with students from backgrounds different from their own. To ensure that students meet high standards and develop into lifelong learners, it is essential to take proactive measures to address this disparity. Consequently, there is a need to prepare preservice teachers to employ equity-oriented pedagogies, thereby fostering learning environments where all students can achieve successful educational outcomes. A narrative approach (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) was used to explore the development of equity-oriented literacy teaching practices among preservice teachers. By examining the lived experiences of three preservice teachers this study explores how their identities intersect and influence their understanding and application of critical literacy. Through in-depth conversations, this study unfolds the complexities of navigating diverse classroom environments and the challenges of implementing critical literacy practices. The findings emphasize the importance of relationship building and providing ongoing support to preservice teachers as they develop their knowledge and skills in critical literacy. This study reflects the transformative potential of narrative inquiry in understanding and promoting equity in education. The insights gained offer recommendations for teacher education programs to prioritize equity and social justice, thereby preparing future teachers with the skills and tools to create an inclusive and just learning environment for all students.
Development of health oriented Probiotic fermented milk prepared from combination of oat flakes, barley and cow's milk
Creators: name: B. V. Vijetha
name: R P LALITHA REDDY
name: Natarajan A M
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Medicine

description: A new product in the form of cereal based fortified oat flakes based milk with functional ingredients
will offer both nutritional and therapeutic benefits to the consumer in augmenting or deriving a number of
day to day health troubles faced due to stress factor and increased cholesterol problems
Lactic cultures are used in the preparation in order to enhance the nutritive and therapeutic value of
fermented milk. Attempts were made to prepare the same from nutritionally and therapeutically rich oat,
barley and cow's milk. The new fermented milk will offer triple health benefits from oats, barley and
Probiotic lactic culture. Oat and barley milk has been reported to control abnormal cholesterol levels in
consumers.
Revisiting the wetting behavior of solid surfaces by water-like models within a density functional theory
Creators: name: Kozina, A.
name: Aguilar, M.
name: Pizio, O.
name: Sokołowski, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform the analysis of predictions of a classical density functional theory for associating fluids with different association strength concerned with wetting of solid surfaces. The four associating sites water-like models with non-associative square-well attraction parametrized by Clark et al. [Mol. Phys., 2006, 104, 3561] are considered. The fluid-solid potential is assumed to have a 10-4-3 functional form. The growth of water film on the substrate upon changing the chemical potential is described. The wetting and prewetting critical temperatures, as well as the prewetting phase diagram are evaluated for different fluid-solid attraction strength from the analysis of the adsorption isotherms. Moreover, the temperature dependence of the contact angle is obtained from the Young equation. It yields estimates for the wetting temperature as well. Theoretical findings are compared with experimental results and in a few cases with data from computer simulations. The theory is successful and quite accurate in describing the wetting temperature and contact angle changes with temperature for different values of fluid-substrate attraction. Moreover, the method provides an easy tool to study other associating fluids on solids of importance for chemical engineering, in comparison with laboratory experiments and computer simulations.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures
Planning Cultural-Heritage Tourism for Sustainable Development.
Creators: name: Paresh Vidyadhar Joshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: It is generally recognized that the 21st century will be a century of globalization. Notwithstanding all the
benefits of economic globalization, it causes the substantive threat of cultural globalization. Therefore, it is
fundamental for every community to identify and maintain its own characteristic features that reflect diversity and
identity of the place. One of such features is cultural heritage. Tourism is increasingly being regarded as a positive
force for the preservation of nature and culture; its contributions should bring about benefits for the host community
and provide its members with significant resources and incentives to look after and maintain their heritage.
TELucation Artikel, Die Gruppenpuzzle-Methode: Eine Möglichkeit zur Förderung aktivierender und studierenden-zentrierter Lehre
Creators: name: Harden, Jakob
Publisher: name: Graz University of Technology
Year: 2023

description: Digitale Langfassung zur Print-Version des TELucation Artikels "#8 GRUPPENPUZZLE - aktivierende und studierendenzentrierte Lehre fördern". Dieser Artikel ist im Zuge der Erstellung des Beitrags des Autors zur Lehrkonferenz 2023 "Verliebt in die Lehre" an der Technischen Universität Graz entstanden.
description: Inhaltsverzeichnis:

TELucation_Artikel_Gruppenpuzzle_#8_lang.pdf: Langfassung des Artikels, PDF-Format
TELucation_Artikel_Gruppenpuzzle_#8_lang.odt: Langfassung des Artikels, LibreOffice OpenDocumentText-Format
description: Die Gruppenpuzzle-Methode ist eine Lehrmethode aus dem Bereich der Gruppenarbeiten. Gerade in der Hochschullehre wird nach wie vor der Frontalunterricht und individuelle Beurteilungsmöglichkeiten bevorzugt. Gruppenarbeiten hingegen werden vergleichsweise selten angewendet. Dabei wird oft außer Acht gelassen, dass gerade durch die daraus entstehende Teamarbeit gezielt Schlüsselkompetenzen gefördert werden können, welche im Berufsleben von Absolventinnen und Absolventen eine bedeutende Rolle spielen. Der hier vorliegende Artikel hat zum Ziel, Lehrende zu motivieren, Gruppenarbeiten in ihrem Unterricht einzusetzen und damit die methodische Vielfalt ihrer Lehre zu bereichern. Um den Einstieg in diese Lehrmethode und die didaktische Vorbereitung zu erleichtern, beinhaltet dieser Artikel Vorschläge für die im Unterricht benötigten Materialien und Hinweise zur Durchführung der Gruppenpuzzle-Methode. Diese entspringen der mehrfachen Anwendung dieser Lehrmethode in einer Lehrveranstaltung im Masterstudium der Bauingenieurwissenschaften an der Technischen Universität Graz.
description: Bei diesem Datensatz handelt es sich um eine freie Bildungsressource (Open Educational Resource - OER).
Nonlinear Reachable Set Computation and Model Predictive Control for Safe Hypersonic Re-entry of Atmospheric Vehicles
Creators: name: Patel, Jinaykumar
name: Subbarao, Kamesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper investigates the application of reachability analysis to the re-entry problem faced by vehicles entering Earth's atmosphere. The study delves into the time evolution of reachable sets for the system, particularly when subject to nonlinear implicit controls, given the potential damage from the intense heat generated during hypersonic re-entry. Our proposed methodology leverages zonotopes and constrained zonotopes to ensure compliance with safety specifications. Furthermore, we utilize Model Predictive Control for detailed trajectory planning. To substantiate our methodology, we provide detailed simulations that not only tackle nonlinear re-entry scenarios but also illustrate trajectory planning using MPC.
description: 2023 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, MT
Zarządzanie ryzykiem przedsiębirstwa
Creators: name: Możdżanowska, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Zarządzanie ryzykiem w tworzeniu wartości na przykładzie przedsiębiorstw z
branży produkcyjnej urządzeńnadawczych telewizyjnych i radiowych oraz aparatów
dla telefonii i telegrafii przewodowej,
z wyłączeniem działalności usługowej.
Spectral profile of ro-vibrational transitions of HCl broadened by He, Ar and SF6: testing the $β$-correction to the Hartmann-Tran profile and the speed dependent (complex) hard collision model
Creators: name: Le, T.
name: Domenech, J. -L.
name: Ngo, N. H.
name: Tran, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $β$-correction to the Hartmann-Tran (HT) profile, recently introduced to model the spectral shape of a molecular transition strongly affected by the Dicke narrowing effect (Konefal et al., JQSRT 242 (2020) 106784), the HT profile (Ngo et al., JQSRT 129 (2013) 89), and the speed dependent (complex) hard collision model (SDcHC, in which the velocity changing collision rate is characterized by a complex number) are tested using spectra of two rovibrational lines of HCl. The R(5) and R(9) lines of the fundamental band of HCl broadened by He, Ar and SF$_6$ have been recorded with a difference-frequency laser spectrometer for total pressures ranging from 12 to 930 mbar. These lines, measured in large pressure ranges with different collision-partners provide a meaningful test of the above-mentioned line-shape models. The results confirm that non-Voigt effects are significant for HCl broadened by Ar and SF$_6$ and mainly due to the large influence of the Dicke narrowing effect. For HCl-SF$_6$ and HCl-Ar, especially for the R(9) line, using the $β$-correction together with the HT profile (and with the speed-dependent hard collision model, SDHC) significantly improves the fit residuals while it has no effect on (or tends to deteriorate) the quality of the fit for HCl-He and for the R(5) line of HCl-SF$_6$, for which the influence of velocity changing collisions is smaller. Except for HCl-He, the SDcHC model leads to better quality of fit compared to the HT profile. The results also show that numerical correlations between refined line-shape parameters of the HT profile are important and can lead to ill-determined parameters while they are more properly determined with the SDcHC model.
description: Accepted for publication in the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, March 2024
Zarządzanie wartością przedsiębiorstwa
Creators: name: Możdżanowska, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Zarządzanie wartościąprzedsiębiorstwa na przykładzie przedsiębiorstw z branży produkcyjnej urządzeńnadawczych telewizyjnych i radiowych oraz aparatów dla telefonii i telegrafii przewodowej,
z wyłączeniem działalności usługowej.
Krótkoterminowe planowanie finansowe na przykładzie przedsiębiortwa z branży: Handel hurtowy z wyłączeniem handlu pojazdami samochodowymi
Creators: name: Sałdyka, Angelika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Prezentowany raport ma na celu przedstawienie sposobów krótkoterminowego planowania finansowego na przykładzie przedsiębiorstwa z branży handlu hurtowego w wyłączeniem handlu pojazdami samochodowymi. Przedstawia propozycje strategii zarządzania zapasami, należnościami, środkami pieniężnymi oraz preliminarz środków pieniężnych.
Planowanie przychodów ze sprzedaży na przykładzie przedsiębiorstwa z branży: Handel hurtowy z wyłączeniem handlu pojazdami samochodowymi
Creators: name: Sałdyka, Angelika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Raport przedstawia przyszłoroczną prognozę sprzedaży w przedsiębiorstwie działającym w branży handlu hurtowego z wyłączeniem handlu pojazdami samochodowymi.
Innovation in the emerging economy of China: Transnational patenting and citation trajectories
Creators: name: GUGLANI, Ankit
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150307 Innovation and Technology Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Intellectual property rights (IPR), specifically patents, have increasingly played a central role in empirical research on innovation. Patents provide rich, finegrained details on innovation by precisely identifying the inventors, assignees, regions, times and innovative characteristics of every filed invention. Patent citations often serve as a proxy for approximating knowledge flow and spillovers. They also serve as a proxy for ascertaining the importance of knowledge being patented. One must remember that citations are a comparative measure and as such differences in policies regarding citation would not only affect the absolute numbers but also, its derived measures such as importance. In other words, citations received by a patent from patents filed in a low IPR protection region (like China) may not be more indicative of actual knowledge transfer than those from a patent filed in a high IPR protection region (say the U.S.). It may thus also be more indicative of the importance of the cited work.

 In this thesis, we compare citation trajectories of matching patents granted for the same invention in both China and the U.S. and put forth four propositions related to patent citations. We find that patents filed in China are cited less than their counterparts in the U.S., and have a higher percentage of foreign citations. Within China, we find that patents from regions with high relative technological advantage receive more citations, though this does not hold true for regions with high specialization. These findings have implications for the measurement of the value of innovations as well as for intellectual property policy and firm strategy.
Examining pseudo-family systems in nonfamily enterprises
Creators: name: WIBISONO, Daniel Agung
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150314 Small Business Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In spite of frequent use of family metaphors in nonfamily firms, few explorations have been conducted into the phenomenon of pseudo-families in nonfamily business environment. Using four cases of nonfamily sporting organizations, this paper aims to draw attention to the similarities and differences between a traditional family model with the pseudo-families observed, as well as compare the effect of such pseudo-families on the organization with the effect of familiness on a family firm as introduced by Habbershon & Williams (1999).
 The use of social constructionist viewpoint made it possible to model pseudo-families based on the family metaphors used by individuals in several nonfamily sporting organizations. This, in turn, allowed further analysis of the pseudo-family using established models of a traditional family system.
 This paper concludes that cases of pseudo-families can be observed in certain nonfamily enterprises, although they do not necessarily exhibit all the components found in traditional family model. Despite their differences with the traditional families, the observed pseudo-families behave and affect their respective nonfamily firms in ways similar to a family and the family firm.
Zarządzanie wartością przedsiębiorstwa na przykładzie przedsiębiorstw z branży produkcji skór i wyrobów ze skór wyprawionych
Creators: name: Sądel, Aleksandra
name: Markiewicz, Urszula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Prezentowany raport przedstawia jedną z metod zarządzania wartością przedsiębiorstwa na przykładzie dwóch przedsiębiorstw z branży produkcyjnej skór i wyrobów ze skór wyprawionych. Obliczenia dotyczące wyznaczania optymalnej struktury kapitałów przedsiębiorstw oparte są na danych ze sprawozdań finansowych oraz założonych wartościach odpowiednich dla danej branży.
Risk, effort, cost, returns and time as factors in the comparison of opportunity perception between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs
Creators: name: AGRAWAL, Shreya
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The concept of Entrepreneurial Opportunity (Sarasvathy et al, 2005) has developed considerably as an area of interest to researchers in the past decade. Several studies have shown that opportunity is central to entrepreneurship, essentially the first step. Yet prior research has not explored the role of perceived value of the opportunity in the entrepreneur’s decision to embark on the opportunity. Julian Simon, in his Drive Effort hypothesis, posits that the amount of effort which a person will exert depends upon two factors: (a) the opportunity that the person perceives to earn additional income, and (b) the person’s ‘need’ for additional income as measured by the person’s wealth. Simply put, he argues that an individual, firm or nation would exert less effort and display less drive as they grow older, or wealthier or both. This study essentially argues that Simon’s hypothesis may not be validated for every individual and in particular entrepreneurs. Next, according to Simon, an opportunity is accepted or rejected on the basis of the perceived return of the opportunity relative to the person’s iv accumulated wealth. However, Simon ignores other factors such as risk, financial costs, personal effort, expected returns and time for realization of the opportunity. This thesis explores the role of these factors and the entrepreneurs as exceptions to Simon’s hypothesis.
Plant diversity in old-growth and second-growth stands in the coastal rainforests of British Columbia
Creators: name: Klinka, Karel
Publisher: name: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: One of the human activities impacting biodiversity is the cutting of old-growth forests. In response to the controversy surrounding the cutting of old-growth in the coastal rainforest of BC, the Ministries of the Environment and Forests have produced biodiversity guidelines that are to be applied when manipulating stands in the provincial forest. This study augments these guidelines by investigating the diversity differences between second-growth and old-growth forests in relation to site quality. We demonstrate how standlevel plant diversity differs between 40-year-old and old-growth stands in the Very Wet Coastal Western Hemlock subzone (CWHvm) on Vancouver Island. This information is intended to provide foresters with an understanding of the effects of age, disturbance and site quality on stand-level plant diversity, thereby allowing for informed professional management decisions.
Zarządzanie wartością przedsiębiorstwa na przykładzie przedsiębiorstwa z branży produkcji podstawowych substancji farmaceutycznych oraz leków i pozostałych wyrobów farmaceutycznych.
Creators: name: Stawski, Bartosz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Opracowanie zostało stworzone na przykładzie przedsiębiorstwa z branży produkującej leki. Pokazuje w jaki sposób poprzez zarządzanie zapasami można wpływać na wartość przedsiębiorstwa. The following report was based on the example of company from the sector of drugs. It shows how inventory management can affect the value of the company.
Single-Crystal Growth and Characterization of Cuprate Superconductor (Hg,Re)Ba$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{8+δ}$
Creators: name: Mino, Yutaro
name: Ishida, Shigeyuki
name: Kato, Junichiro
name: Nakagawa, Shungo
name: Kashiwagi, Takanari
name: Nozue, Takahiro
name: Takeshita, Nao
name: Kihou, Kunihiro
name: Lee, Chul-Ho
name: Nishio, Taichiro
name: Eisaki, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We grew (Hg,Re)Ba$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{8+δ}$ ((Hg,Re)1223) single crystals with good reproducibility via the single-step flux method using monoxides as raw materials. A double-sealing method using a thick-walled quartz tube and a stainless-steel container was adopted for explosion protection. The maximum crystal size was approximately 1 mm x 1 mm in the ab plane and 0.04 mm in thickness. The crystal was square-shaped, reflecting the tetragonal crystal structure of (Hg,Re)1223. Magnetic susceptibility measurements indicated a critical temperature of 130 K. The in-plane resistivity exhibited a linear temperature dependence, indicating that the sample was close to optimal doping level. The out-of-plane resistivity was also measured, and the anisotropy parameter was 250-650 at 300 K.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables
Zarządzanie wartością przedsiębiorstwa na przykładzie przedsiębiorstw z branży zajmującej się produkcją wyrobów kosmetycznych i toaletowych
Creators: name: Wiechno, Magdalena
name: Konopacka, Izabela
name: Ostrowska, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Raport przedstawia jeden ze sposób zarządzania wartością przedsiębiorstwa na przykładzie przedsiębiorstw z branży produkującej wyroby kosmetyczne i toaletowe (20.42) . Obliczenia przedstawiają wyznaczenie optymalnej struktury kapitału na podstawie danych ze sprawozdań finansowych analizowanych przedsiębiorstw oraz założonych wartościach odczytanych dla danej branży.

 Contained repot shows value based management methods used in the financial reports of corporations based in chemical industry. Our calculations are built on economic value added and impact of debt on the value of the company by minimizing the weighted average cost of capital. Note: Downloadable document is in Polish.
Zarządzanie wartością przedsiębiorstwa na przykładzie przedsiębiorstw z branży obuwniczej.
Creators: name: Paweł Szymański
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: This report shows the value based management approach by optimizing the capital structure. Data used for calculations were taken from the financial statements of the analyzed companies. The effectiveness of the optimization of capital structure has been verified by the measure "EVA ™".
title: Co-ordination of brain and heart oscillations during non rapid eye movement sleep
Creators: name: Wenke, Marion
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine & health

description: Oscillatory activities of the brain and heart show a strong variation across wakefulness and sleep. Separate lines of research indicate that non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep is characterised by electroencephalographic slow oscillations (SO), sleep spindles, and phase–amplitude coupling of these oscillations (SO–spindle coupling), as well as an increase in high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), reflecting enhanced parasympathetic activity. The present study aimed to investigate further the potential coordination between brain and heart oscillations during NREM sleep. Data were derived from one sleep laboratory night with polysomnographic monitoring in 45 healthy participants (22 male, 23 female; mean age 37 years). The associations between the strength (modulation index [MI]) and phase direction of SO–spindle coupling (circular measure) and HF-HRV during NREM sleep were investigated using linear modelling. First, a significant SO–spindle coupling (MI) was observed for all participants during NREM sleep, with spindle peaks preferentially occurring during the SO upstate (phase direction). Second, linear model analyses of NREM sleep showed a significant relationship between the MI and HF-HRV (F = 20.1, r2 = 0.30, p < 0.001) and a tentative circular-linear correlation between phase direction and HF-HRV (F = 3.07, r2 = 0.12, p = 0.056). We demonstrated a co-ordination between SO–spindle phase–amplitude coupling and HF-HRV during NREM sleep, presumably related to parallel central nervous and peripheral vegetative arousal systems regulation. Further investigating the fine-graded co-ordination of brain and heart oscillations might improve our understanding of the links between sleep and cardiovascular health.
ZSLang.pdf
Creators: name: Rabea, Ziad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460304
subject: Computer vision
classificationCode: 461204
subject: Programming languages
classificationCode: 460806
subject: Human-computer interaction

description: This research introduces a novel programming language, ZSLang, based on the concept of voice-recognition and audio files processing, ZSLang aims to revolutionize accessibility and inclusivity of programming to diverse audience, through developing a new computer-programmer interface that allows programmers to code through MICs and smart gloves, save code as an audio or a video file, ZSLang is more than Just a programming language, it's a new technology that aims to break barriers and make coding available to people who suffer from RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury), deaf and hearing-impaired individuals, According to some statistics from Statista there are 9% + of U.S individuals who suffer from RSI, the national institution of health show that there are Approximately 15% of American adults (37.5 million) ages 18 and over report some trouble hearing.
ORIGIN OF FRONTAL AND TEMPORAL LOBE SPIKES IN EARLY-ONSET BENIGN OCCIPITAL LOBE EPILEPSY - PANAYIOTOPOULOS SYNDROME
Creators: name: Dr. Yelkur Pallavi
name: Dr. Radha Kumar
name: Dr. Vaanmathi Azhagar Nambi Santhi
name: Dr. Ashikabanu Mujibur Rahman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Panayiotopoulos Syndrome (PS), Focal Seizures, Self-limited Focal Epilepsies of Childhood (SLEC), Benign Childhood Seizure Susceptibility Syndrome (BCSSS), Genetic Predisposition, SCN1A Gene Mutations, Autonomic Manifestations, Afebrile Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus,Epileptiform Discharges, Frontotemporal Spikes.

description: Abstract

Panayiotopoulos syndrome is a common idiopathic childhood-specific seizure disorder formally recognized by the International League Against Epilepsy. Panayiotopoulos syndrome is defined as a benign age-related focal seizure disorder occurring in early and mid-childhood. It is characterized by seizures, often prolonged, with predominantly autonomic symptoms, and by an EEG that shows shifting and/or multiple foci, often with occipital predominance. This is a case report of an early adolescent girl came with autonomic complaints and was diagnosed as Panayiotopoulos syndrome and was started on antiepileptics.
Wykorzystanie metody ekonomicznej wartości dodanej na podstawie wybranych przedsiębiorstw z branży produkcji żywności do oceny efektywności zarządzania wartością w przedsiębiorstwie
Creators: name: Cebula, Dorota
name: A. Bobola
name: D. Cebula
name: J. Muzykiewicz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: The report containing an assessment of the effectiveness of value based management methods using economic value added. Cost of capital calculated using the data contained in the financial statements of the selected companies.
Zarządzanie wartością przedsiębiorstwa na podstawie przedsiębiorstw z branży obuwniczej
Creators: name: Paweł Szymański
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: This report shows the value based management approach by optimizing the capital structure. Data used for calculations were taken from the financial statements of the analyzed companies. The effectiveness of the optimization of capital structure has been verified by the measure "EVA ™".
Carnival of Evolution #58: visions of the evolutionary future
Creators: name: Alicea, Bradly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Archaeology
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: History
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: This is a printable version of Carnival of Evolution #58 (April 2013), a blog carnival about evolution originally published at Synthetic Daisies blog. http://syntheticdaisies.blogspot.com
Genetic and phenotypic diversity in sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Creators: name: Storer, Caroline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The research described here is the collective efforts of my MS work in two labs at the Univeristy of Washington, the Seeb Lab and the Roberts Lab, on two different projects. The first chapter was motivated by a need for improved genetic tools for the management of sockeye salmon specifically those populations inhabiting Bristol Bay. It was initially designed to be a large-scale high-throughput SNP discovery project describing the use of new sequencing technologies for the quick development of hundreds of new molecular markers. However, due to limitations in the sequence data SNP discovery was less successful than anticipated. Therefore, the project was adapted to include the comparison and development of methods for evaluating SNPs for creating panels of highthroughput assays that are customized for performance, research questions, and resources. With the addition of this research, this study will help to advance the field of population genetics/genomics and will have significant implications for the way we select molecular markers for ecological, evolutionary, and applied research in non-model species. The second chapter was motivated by a desire to better understand the process of senescence in Pacific Salmon. Pilot studies at the same study site suggested a molecular signal of senescence associated with stress. This pilot work inspired the research described here providing a deeper examination of different pathways involved in senescence using molecular tools.
Three essays on corporate finance
Creators: name: LEE, Yen Teik
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper investigates the impact of social ties between the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and board members on corporate risk-taking in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and on shareholder value. Using a measure of CEO-director connections in a large sample of U.S. firms from 2000 to 2010, we document that boardroom connections lower firm acquisitiveness. If connected CEOs undertake M&As, they are less likely to choose focus acquisitions, and more likely to pay in stock. CEO-board connections do not enhance firm value in M&As. Higher levels of boardroom connection are associated with lower announcement returns and lower subsequent return on assets. Our results are robust to alternative explanations and various robustness checks.
 The dissertation comprises 3 papers, available at:
 1. Social networks and risk taking: Evidence from corporate control activities (2012) working paper
 2. Are bond ratings informative? Evidence from regulatory regime changes (2018) working paper
 3. Governance and post-repurchase performance (2016) Journal of Corporate Finance. 39, 155-173.
A NEW SOFT-SWITCHING ACTIVE CLAMP SCHEME FOR FULL-BRIDGE ISOLATED CURRENT FED DC-DC CONVERTER FED DRIVES
Creators: name: M. Geetha
name: M.Sasikumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: This paper presents on a new high power full bridge isolated current fed dc/dc Converter with an
active clamp. A proposed current fed dc/dc converter with high efficiency and voltage boosting capability is
designed for use in the interface between a low voltage fuel cell source and a high voltage dc bus for
inverters.ZVS scheme in all active switches is achieved for using a soft switching scheme. The switching losses
and the conduction losses are reduced and the performance of the drive system should be increased from the
proposed model. The proposed converter system is controlled by SPWM Technique. The simulation results
are carried out and presented.
Natural regeneration on clearcuts at the lower limit of the mountain hemlock zone
Creators: name: Klinka, Karel
Publisher: name: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The Mountain Hemlock (MH) zone includes all subalpine forests along British Columbia’s coast. It occurs at elevations where most precipitation falls as snow and the growing season is less than 4 months long. The zone includes the continuous forest of the forested subzones and the tree islands of the parkland subzones (Figure 1). Old-growth stands are populated by mountain hemlock, Pacific silver fir, and Alaska yellow-cedar, and are among the least-disturbed ecosystems in the world. Canopy trees grow slowly and are commonly older than 600 years, while some Alaska yellow-cedars may be up to 2000 years old. Early regeneration failures followed slashburning and the planting of unsuitable species. Currently, the most successful and feasible option for reforesting cutovers is natural regeneration with a mix of the three main tree species, but uncertainties remain about the temporal and spatial pattern of regeneration, changes in species composition, and the time required for stand establishment after cutting. Our study addressed these concerns by examining regeneration patterns on 6 sites that were clearcut 11-12 years prior to sampling and left to regenerate naturally. The sites were located at the lower limits of the zone in the Tetrahedron Range, near Sechelt, at elevations from 1060-1100m.
Three essays in corporate finance
Creators: name: HONG, Jack Jiajun
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: There are two foci in my research efforts to produce this dissertation. First, I explore and create novel datasets and methods that can expand our existing arsenal of empirical tools.1 Following that, I deploy these tools to analyze three aspects of information science in social networks and earnings-related voluntary disclosures: Social network connectedness, natural language, and management credibility.
 This dissertation has three essays on corporate finance. The first essay is motivated by the friendly board framework of Adams and Ferreira (2007). In this study, we measure the value of board advisory activities using Centrality Slice (CS) - the ratio of the network connectedness of executive directors to non-executive directors. We find that this measure positively relates to firm value, performance-turnover sensitivity, management forecast accuracy, and market reaction to forecast surprises. The results from our instrumented regression suggest that CS is an optimal selection outcome that varies across firms. As such, firms will likely enjoy better advisory benefits if their policies can support high CS in an optimal manner.
 The second essay is co-authored with Roger K. Loh. In this study, we add two novel approaches to a large literature on analysts’ conflicts of interests. Using analysts’ tones during peer conference calls, and returns co-movement between their brokerages and hosts to proxy for the level of information advantage, we find that analysts from high returns co-moving brokerages exhibit language patterns that neither signal competition nor collusion. Our results show that the market values tones, with increasing reactions to the level of returns co-movement, consistent with the notion of pricing for competence. We also find that the market is not naïve as it discounts sentiment tones from brokerages sanctioned during the Global Analyst Research Settlements.
 The third essay is co-authored with Chiraphol N. Chiyachantana. Using a proprietary set of institutional trading data, we investigate how sophisticated investors utilize the information contained in management earnings forecasts characteristics to formulate their trading strategy. We find that these investors’ responses to a firm’s forecasts are not only increasing in the magnitude of earnings surprise, but also magnified by the firm’s prior forecast accuracy. We reveal transient institutions as the principal traders on these forecast characteristics and show that trading strategies using both forecast surprise and prior forecast accuracy are not only profitable to implement, but also outperform those that rely solely on forecast surprise.
Nuevo y curioso romance en que se declaran las virtudes del día a lo divino: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Forest floor dynamics across a chronosequence in the coastal western hemlock zone
Creators: name: Klinka, Karel
Publisher: name: Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The forest floor represents the uppermost organic and organicenriched mineral soil horizons. They have been formed by the deposition of organic material and the subsequent biologically mediated decomposition. The forest floor influences rooting-zone temperature, aeration, moisture, and nutrient conditions, and hence, forest productivity. Considering the importance of the forest floor, and the fact that it is exposed to disturbance (being the surface layer), we need to assess the potential impacts our logging practices may have. Clearcutting, one of the contentious silvicultural practices used in British Columbia, is imputed to most adversely affect ecosystems and sustainability. We assessed the long-term impact of clearcutting on the forest floor by documenting changes in the thickness, chemical and biotic properties of the humus form across a chronosequence of forest stands. The study was located in the largest and most representative portion of the coastal rainforest the Very Wet Maritime Coastal Western Hemlock (CWHvm) subzone.
Three essays in corporate finance
Creators: name: Theses Admin
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: I focus on two areas of research for this dissertation. First, I look at incentives alignment, particularly of CEOs. Next I look at the effect of regulation on credit rating agencies. This dissertation has three essays on corporate finance. The first essay is co-authored with Gary Caton, Jeremy Goh and Scott Linn. The essay is motivated by the CEO pay slice of Bebchuk, Cremers, Peyers (2011) and explores if the negative effect of pay slice on Tobin’s Q, can be reduced or mitigated completely by the presence of friendly boards and equity incentive alignment. We find that this is the case, where connections between CEOs and board, and giving the CEO high equity portion of pay, reduces the negative effect of pay slice on Q. The second essay is co-authored with Gary Caton and Jeremy Goh. We look at credit rating changes ability to predict operating profitability, particularly after Regulation FD and the Dodd-Frank Act. We find that this is the case, but only for specific sub groups of the rating changes. The third essay looks at CEOs’ involvement in earnings conference calls. Relative to their pay among the top-five executives, I find that CEOs who speak more than they are paid generate abnormal returns in the conference calls they speak at, and add firm value via Tobin’s Q. They however are more susceptible to executive turnovers. Those who speak more than paid maintain their jobs.
Use of ICT: Required Competency for Teachers
Creators: name: D.R. Dodia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Education

description: The national knowledge commission's report indicates the higher education system should be in tune of
expansion, excellence and inclusion. Also discussed about gross enrolment ration (GER) of at least 15 percent by 2015.
To increase GER, the open and distance education is way. To run on this way one must take help of information
communication technology (ICT). So the basic knowledge of ICT and its use is required for the teachers in the era of
globalization and information age. In the present study, a five point rating scale to assess the ICT based competencies
[ICTBC] was used to find out the teachers' key competencies needed for use of ICT. Teacher educators were randomly
selected from different type of colleges like P.T.C. College, B.Ed. College and M.Ed. College.
HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION USING ISOLATED-WORDS SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM
Creators: name: Charansing Nathoosing Kayte
name: V.P.Pawar
name: Chandrashekhar D. Sonawane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: This research paper aims to develop an isolated-word automatic speech recognition (IWASR) system
based on vector quantization (VQ). This system receives, analyzes, searches and matches an input speech
signal with the trained set of speech signals which are stored in the database/codebook, and returns
matching results to users. IWASR is meant to assist customers calling a university's telephone operator to
respond to their enquiries in a convenient way using their natural speech. Callers are assisted to select
language, faculty and the staff name they wish to contact
Nuevo y curioso romance en que se declaran las virtudes del día a lo divino: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2022), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.