cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Argyrolobium rupestre subsp. kilimandscharicum Polhill
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Argyrolobium
Argyrolobium rupestre
Argyrolobium rupestre subsp. kilimandscharicum (taub.) polhill

description: Argyrolobium rupestre subsp. kilimandscharicum (Taub.) Polhill  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: UMF, HZ, AZ; 2 200– 3 700 m. Distribution: IIIa.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, Alt. 3 571 m, 20 Jul. 2014, SAJIT 001939 (HIB).
Reference: Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Factors Affecting Accessiblity and Use of Female Condom Among Youths in Selected Tertiary Training Institutes in Migori County, Kenya
Creators: name: Boraya, Joshua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111006 Midwifery
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: The female condom is a dual protection tool for both prevention of HIV/Aids transmission and unwanted or unplanned pregnancies. The study was done in Migori County among the youths attending selected tertiary training institutes, with an aim of identifying the extent in which access to the female condom and other social cultural factors affect use of the device in Migori County. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was used to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. A pre-test study was conducted in Msomi teachers training college to test the validity and reliability of the data collecting tools. The tertiary institutions were purposively selected while the research participants in the selected institutes were randomly and systematically selected and a sample size of n= 385 was chosen proportionately. Data was collected using structured questionnaires, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Results: It was evident from the research findings that a majority of the youths 83.9% were single with 61.3% of the youths getting information about female condom use from media, 73.9% used it to prevent pregnancy than to prevent transmission or contracting HIV/Aids. Conclusion: Availability and cost of the female condom were significant at p≤0.001, the attitude of the user and partner was also significant at a p value of 0.024. Recommendation: The government should subsidize the cost for female condom and ensure adequate distribution to all the youths at risk. The health care providers to champion for positive attitude for use of female condom.
Taxidermy-Life After Death
Creators: name: Guntoju Sriram 1, Diksha Lade2, Devendra N. Podhade,3, Shashi Tekam4, Gyansagar Kushwah5
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description:  The Greek words taxis and derma are the source of the word taxidermy. Derma is the word for "skin" (the dermis) while taxis is the word for "arrangement". The definition of taxidermy is "skin arrangement."   The technique of mounting (on an armature) or stuffing an animal's body to preserve it for study or exhibition is known as taxidermy.  Larger insects and arachnids can also be preserved with taxidermy, although vertebrates—mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians—are the most often preserved subjects. Since our early ancestors utilised animal skins for a variety of functions, the preservation of animal skin dates back to prehistoric times. Larger insects and arachnids can also be preserved with taxidermy, although vertebrates—mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians—are the most often preserved subjects.
Pre-development and post-closure landscape dynamics in oil-sands mining : implications for assessment of reclamation and equivalent capability
Creators: name: Straker, Justin
name: Stelfox, J. Brad
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Site-level evaluation of reclamation performance and residual impacts (i.e., post-reclamation effects) of large mining projects has conventionally used an approach in which landscape conditions (e.g., amounts of certain vegetation types or wildlife habitats) immediately prior to development are characterized and used as a baseline against which to assess post-reclamation conditions. This approach is static, in that it evaluates post-reclamation conditions, usually at a single time in the future, against a “snapshot” of conditions at a single pre-development time. However, many of the characteristics typically evaluated through this approach are both spatially and temporally dynamic, on both the “pre-disturbance” and post-reclamation landscape: • “pre-disturbance” – mining is almost always not the first disturbance of a landscape, which has generally been repeatedly subjected to substantial and recent perturbations such as wildfire, and thus has undergone many pre-mining cycles of disturbance and recovery; • post-reclamation – reclaimed landscapes evolve over time, and their characteristics and utility (to humans and other species) change with this evolution, which may be affected by new future cycles of disturbance and recovery. This conventional assessment conceptual model then is highly dependent on both the specific conditions existing in a project area immediately prior to industrial development, and on the future time selected for post-reclamation assessment. In this paper we argue that the broad application of this conceptual model has resulted in a simplistic understanding of landscape responses to industrial disturbances, and has contributed an arbitrary component to reclamation planning and assessment. We propose that alternative approaches (e.g., use of ecological simulation modelling) in which pre- and post-development landscape dynamics are explicitly acknowledged and accounted for are necessary to gain a more sophisticated and useful understanding of the role of mining and reclamation in the cycle of ecosystem disturbance and recovery. An example of such an approach is presented using a case study from oil-sands mining and reclamation in northeast Alberta, Canada.
Renormalization Group, Operator Product Expansion, and Anomalous Scaling in a Model of Advected Passive Scalar
Creators: name: Adzhemyan, Loran Ts.
name: Antonov, Nikolaj V.
name: Vasil'ev, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Field theoretical renormalization group methods are applied to the Obukhov--Kraichnan model of a passive scalar advected by the Gaussian velocity field with the covariance $ - < v(t,{\bf x}){\bf v}(t',x')> \proptoδ(t-t')| x-x'|^{\eps}$. Inertial range anomalous scaling for the structure functions and various pair correlators is established as a consequence of the existence in the corresponding operator product expansions of ``dangerous'' composite operators [powers of the local dissipation rate], whose negative critical dimensions determine anomalous exponents. The main technical result is the calculation of the anomalous exponents in the order $\eps^{2}$ of the $\eps$ expansion. Generalization of the results obtained to the case of a ``slow'' velocity field is also presented.
description: Minor grammatical changes, misprints corrected, new references added; results and formulas unchanged
title: Die Knickbiegung des mehrfeldrigen geraden Balkens mit feldweise konstanten Kenngrößen
Creators: name: Borgwardt, Fritz
Publisher: name: Vieweg
Year: 1960
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Abhandlungen der BWG
subject: 530

description: Das Problem der Knickbiegung gerader mehrfeldriger Balken mit feldweise konstanten Kenngrößen wird in einer auf die Programmierung elektronischer digitaler Rechenanlagen zugeschnittenen Form mit Hilfe von Übertragungsmatrizen exakt gelöst; als Sonderfall wird auch das reine Knicken mit behandelt.
description: Simultaneous bending and buckling of multi-sectional straight beams with constant section-coefficients is exactly handled by means of matrice-calculation; the special case of pure buckling is included in this method too.
Group-Theoretical Quantization of 2+1 Geavity in the Metric-Torus Sector
Creators: name: Hajicek, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A symmetry based quantization method of reparametrization invariant systems is described; it will work for all systems that possess complete sets of perennials whose Lie algebras close and which generate a sufficiently large symmetry groups. The construction leads to a quantum theory including a Hilbert space, a complete system of operator observables and a unitary time evolution. The method is applied to the 2+1 gravity. The paper is restricted to the metric-torus sector, zero cosmological constant $Λ$ and it makes strong use of the so-called homogeneous gauge; the chosen algebra of perennials is that due to Martin. Two frequent problems are tackled. First, the Lie algebra of perennials does not generate a group of symmetries. The notion of group completion of a reparametrization invariant system is introduced so that the group does act; the group completion of the physical phase space of our model is shown to add only some limit points to it so that the ranges of observables are not unduly changed. Second, a relatively large number of relations between observables exists; they are transferred to the quantum theory by the well-known methods due to Kostant and Kirillov. In this way, a uniqueness of the physical representation of some extension of Martin's algebra is shown. The Hamiltonian is defined by a systematic procedure due to Dirac; for the torus sector, the result coincides with that by Moncrief. The construction may be extensible to higher genera and non-zero $Λ$ of the 2+1 gravity, because some complete sets of perennials are well-known and there are no obstructions to the closure of the algebra.
description: The first two sections completely reworked to make the paper clearer and more self-contained. Some misprints corrected, and some insights added in the main body
Astragalus atropilosulus subsp. bequaertii J. B. Gillett
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Astragalus
Astragalus atropilosulus
Astragalus atropilosulus (hochst.) bunge subsp. bequaertii (de wild.) j.b.gillett

description: Astragalus atropilosulus (Hochst.) Bunge subsp. bequaertii (De Wild.) J.B.Gillett  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ, AZ; up to 3 900 m. Distribution: IIIa.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, Alt. 3 269 m, 25 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002845 (HIB); SAJIT 00 1946 & 002739 (HIB).
 References: Fries & Fries (1927b), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Gillett et al. (1971b).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
title: SaaS-Geschäftsmodelle: Alle gleich, alle verschieden?
Creators: name: Ernst, Claus-Peter
name: Rothlauf, Franz
Publisher: name: Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 33
subject: 000

description: Dieser Beitrag untersucht, ob ein allgemein gültiges SaaS-Geschäftsmodell existiert oder Unter-schiede zwischen einzelnen SaaS-Anbietern bestehen. Gestützt wird sich auf die relevante Literatur, der Betrachtung von 200 ausgewählten SaaS-Unternehmen sowie einer Fallstudienanalyse. Es zeigt sich, dass lediglich die Distributions- und Erlösmodelle von SaaS-Anbietern in der Regel fix sind; alle anderen Partialmodelle weisen mindestens teilweise variable Ausprägungen auf. So existiert nicht ein einziges, sondern eine Vielzahl verschiedener SaaS-Geschäftsmodelle. Diese Freiheit bedeutet für Anbieter ein großes Potenzial für die Schaffung individueller SaaS-Geschäftsmodelle und bei der Positionierung am Markt; viele Möglichkeiten der Abgrenzung gegenüber alternativen SaaS-Lösungen und auch der konventionellen Konkurrenz werden ermöglicht.
description: Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2012 : Tagungsband der MKWI 2012
Radiant Bodies: Living with Etruscan Bronze Candelabra
Creators: Van Oppen, Brian Wallace
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civilization, Classical
Classical antiquities
Art, Etruscan
Art objects, Etruscan
Candelabra
Bronze figurines, Etruscan
Finials

description: This dissertation considers the figural bronze statuettes crowning Etruscan candelabra (c. 520- c. 350 BCE) to discuss the value and role of body images in Etruscan art and domestic as well as funerary contexts. Candelabra rose over a meter in height to present these radiant bodies in isolation, framed by flames. The finial figures were bodies on conspicuous display, as flickering and gleaming light attracted the viewer’s gaze and focused attention on the body’s exposure, dress, and gestures. The emitted light defined social spaces such as the banquet and enhanced the interactions between participants, while candelabra themselves were objects of communal pleasure and viewing. In more personal contexts, candelabra also facilitated interaction with one’s own body by lighting activities such as grooming and self-adornment. Ultimately, this dissertation considers the unique contributions of finial bodies in making candelabra personally and socially meaningful in domestic life, and therefore important memorial objects during a funerary transition at the end of life.By foregrounding the finials and their cultural contexts, I aim to make contributions not only to ancient or Etruscan domestic and funerary culture generally, but particularly to the role that images of the body played as they were incorporated within personal and social objects in these contexts. To this end, I apply theories of phenomenology, embodiment, and perception while considering the value of finials as body images rather than simple subject matter. Because of the relationships that candelabra developed with their users specifically through the body, as well as their conspicuous display of body images, Etruscan candelabra earn a place in these greater theoretical discussions and have value for scholars outside the Etruscan or Ancient world.
ASHVIN Use Case - Embodied Carbon Footprint Analysis
Creators: name: Senturk, Eser
name: Kennedy, Mary Lidiya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This use case is drafted within the framework of the ASHVIN project, funded by the European Union, to develop a novel system based on digital twin technologies to support the design engineering, construction, and maintenance phases of projects in the construction sector. 

 

This document provides background and describes a use case of scoring performance indicator values related to carbon footprint calculation. This document focuses on feedback a database with the embodied carbon footprint data from past and running construction projects. These data allow assessment of the performance of a structure, help to understand the sensitivity of the performance indicators with respect to design changes and support an objective data-based decision-making process in the early design phase.

 

The ASHVIN system comprises 10 smart building applications, and this use case is related to the BRICS tool (full name: Performance Indicator (PI) assessment of solutions in the design space). 

The ASHVIN toolkit was demonstrated across 10 European demonstration sites, and this use case is related to the demo site #8 Footbridge in Dortmund, Germany. 

This document reflects only the author’s view, and the European Commission is not responsible for using the information it contains.
Braid structures in knot complements, handlebodies and 3-manifolds
Creators: name: Lambropoulou, Sofia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25

description: We consider braids on $m+n$ strands, such that the first $m$ strands are trivially fixed. We denote the set of all such braids by $B_{m,n}$. Via concatenation $B_{m,n}$ acquires a group structure. The objective of this paper is to find a presentation for $B_{m,n}$ using the structure of its corresponding pure braid subgroup, $P_{m,n}$, and the fact that it is a subgroup of the classical Artin group $B_{m+n}$. Then we give an irredundant presentation for $B_{m,n}$. The paper concludes by showing that these braid groups or appropriate cosets of them are related to knots in handlebodies, in knot complements and in c.c.o. 3--manifolds.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of Knots in Hellas '98, Series of Knots and Everything, Vol. 24, World Scientific
Phase-fluctuation induced reduction of the kinetic energy at the superconducting transition
Creators: name: Eckl, T.
name: Hanke, W.
name: Arrigoni, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent reflectivity measurements provide evidence for a "violation" of the in-plane optical integral in the underdoped high-T_c compound Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ} up to frequencies much higher than expected by standard BCS theory. The sum rule violation may be related to a loss of in-plane kinetic energy at the superconducting transition. Here, we show that a model based on phase fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter can account for this change of in-plane kinetic energy at T_c. The change is due to a transition from a phase-incoherent Cooper-pair motion in the pseudogap regime above T_c to a phase-coherent motion at T_c.
description: 5 pages, 3 eps-figures
Caesalpinia decapetala Alston
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Caesalpinia
Caesalpinia decapetala

description: * Caesalpinia decapetala (Roth) Alston  —
Habit: Shrub.
Habitat: LMWF. Distribution: IV.
 Voucher: Upper Imenti Forest, Alt. 2 234 m, 7 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003809 (HIB).
Reference: Fries & Fries (1927b).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Racial and Spatial Disparities in Fintech Mortgage Lending in the United States
Creators: Haupert, Tyler
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: City planning--Economic aspects
Mortgage loans
Subprime mortgage loans
Credit scoring systems
Race discrimination

description: Despite being governed by several laws aimed at preventing racial inequality in access to housing and credit resources, the mortgage lending market remains a contributor to racial and place-based disparities in homeownership rates, wealth, and access to high-quality community resources. Scholarship has identified persistent disparities in mortgage loan approval rates and subprime lending between white borrowers and those from other racial and ethnic groups, and between white neighborhoods and neighborhoods with high levels of non-white residents. Against this backdrop, the mortgage lending industry is undergoing rapid, technology-driven changes in risk assessment and application processing. Traditional borrower risk-assessment methods including face-to-face discussions between lenders and applicants and the prominent use of FICO credit scores have been replaced or supplemented by automated decision-making tools at a new generation of institutions known as fintech lenders. Little is known about the relationship between lenders using these new tools and the racial and spatial disparities that have long defined the wider mortgage market. Given the well-documented history of discrimination in lending along with findings of technology-driven racial inequality in other economic sectors, fintech lending’s potential for racial discrimination warrants increased scrutiny. This dissertation compares the lending outcomes of traditional and fintech mortgage lenders in the United States depending on applicant and neighborhood racial characteristics. Using data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, an original dataset classifying lenders as fintech or traditional, and an array of complimentary administrative data sources, it provides an assessment of the salience of race and place in the rates at which mortgage loans from each lender type are approved and assigned subprime terms. Results from a series of regression-based quantitative analyses suggest fintech mortgage lenders, like traditional mortgage lenders, approve and deny loans and distribute subprime credit at disparate rates to white borrowers and neighborhoods relative to nonwhite borrowers and neighborhoods. Findings suggest that policymakers and regulators must increase their oversight of fintech lenders, ensuring that further advances in lending technology do not concretize longstanding racial and spatial disparities.
The role of infrared divergence for decoherence
Creators: name: Kupsch, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous and discrete superselection rules induced by the interaction with the environment are investigated for a class of exactly soluble Hamiltonian models. The environment is given by a Boson field. Stable superselection sectors emerge if and only if the low frequences dominate and the ground state of the Boson field disappears due to infrared divergence. The models allow uniform estimates of all transition matrix elements between different superselection sectors.
description: 11 pages, extended and simplified proof
Mount Polley Mine August 2014 tailings dam embankment breach response and approach to remediation
Creators: name: McMahen, Katie
name: Hughes, Colleen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: On August 4, 2014, a foundation failure occurred at the Mount Polley Mine Tailings Storage Facility (TSF), releasing tailings, supernatant, and construction materials into the adjacent Polley Lake and down the Hazeltine Creek corridor into Quesnel Lake, causing erosion and deposition in the creek valley and deposition in Polley and Quesnel Lakes. Mount Polley Mining Corporation’s immediate response to the TSF embankment breach included: assessing and managing human health and safety risks; initiating a large-scale environmental monitoring program; and implementing interim sediment and erosion control measures in the Hazeltine Creek corridor. Subsequently, a control-oriented rehabilitation plan was initiated, which included reconstruction of the Hazeltine Creek channel. The next remediation phase, which is currently underway, involves installation of fish habitat features in Hazeltine and Edney Creeks, as well as rehabilitation of riparian and forest ecosystems in the floodplain and upland areas. This reclamation program is guided by results of the Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment being conducted. A number of challenges were (and continue to be) met in the TSF embankment breach response process, primarily associated with: external communications; expedient implementation of environment monitoring, construction and rehabilitation programs; and challenging environmental conditions. It is anticipated that long-term monitoring of the receiving environment and rehabilitation works will be required, with continuous improvements being achieved through the adaptive management process that has been necessary to respond to challenges encountered thus far. Strong relationships among Mine representatives, regulators, First Nations and consultants continue to be a key component to moving forward with clarity, and are a precondition of long-term trust.
A Study to Assess the Attitude of Students Regarding Mobile Internet Addiction in Selected Senior Secondary Schools of Udaipur (Rajasthan) with a View to Develop Information Leaflet Regarding Mobile Internet Addiction
Creators: name: Vishwas AS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111003 Clinical Nursing: Secondary (Acute Care)
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: India is the second largest online market, ranked only behind china with over 460 million internet users. It is significantly increased in comparison to the previous year’s data. The number of internet users in India is expected to reach 691 million by 2021, said a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).The report also discloses that an estimation of 281 Million daily Internet users, in which 182.9 million (62%) access internet daily in urban area, as compared to only 98 million users(53%), in rural India. This study is designed to investigate and assess the attitude of students regarding mobile internet addiction. Data collection was done purposive fully from senior secondary students who are more attracted to smart phones (study tells). The present study was conducted in selected senior secondary school of Udaipur. The samples selected was 80 respondents with informed consent. The respondent’s mean attitude score was 81.70% in positive statements and 76.75% in negative statements and the overall mean attitude score was 79.60% with standard deviation 4.2. Students with 76% had very favorable attitude regarding internet addiction followed by 23% as favorable and 0% as not favorable. Further age, class, and family income had significant association with attitude. There was no significant association between religion, sex, type of family and course with attitude scores.
Asymptotic power law of moments in a random multiplicative process with weak additive noise
Creators: name: Nakao, Hiroya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that a random multiplicative process with weak additive noise generates a power-law probability distribution. It has recently been recognized that this process exhibits another type of power law: the moment of the stochastic variable scales as a function of the additive noise strength. We clarify the mechanism for this power-law behavior of moments by treating a simple Langevin-type model both approximately and exactly, and argue this mechanism is universal. We also discuss the relevance of our findings to noisy on-off intermittency and to singular spatio-temporal chaos recently observed in systems of non-locally coupled elements.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
A Characterisation of Strong Wave Tails in Curved Space-Times
Creators: name: Nolan, Brien C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A characterisation of when wave tails are strong is proposed. The existence of a curvature induced tail (i.e. a Green's function term whose support includes the interior of the light-cone) is commonly understood to cause backscattering of the field governed by the relevant wave equation. Strong tails are characterised as those for which the purely radiative part of the field is backscattered. With this definition, it is shown that electromagnetic waves in asymptotically flat space-times and fields governed by tail-free propagation have weak tails, but minimally coupled scalar fields in a cosmological scenario have strong tails.
description: 17 pages, Revtex, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity
title: Методы и модели разработки и принятия управленческих решений
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Генералова С.В.
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2020

description: Данное учебное пособие содержит теоретические сведения, задания к практическим занятиям по одному из разделов дисциплины «Управленческие решения», посвященному выбору методов и моделей в процессе разработки, принятия и реализации управленческих решений. Представленные материалы соответствуют программе данной учебной дисциплины и предназначены для более эффективного усвоения материала обучающимися. Учебное пособие подготовлено с учетом требований Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Предназначено для бакалавров, магистрантов, аспирантов образовательных организаций, реализующих программы высшего образования по направлениям «Менеджмент», «Государственное и муниципальное управление», слушателей переподготовки и повышения квалификации, преподавателей.
Racial Literacy in the College Composition Classroom: Developing Discursive Practices through Critical Writing and Textual Analysis
Creators: Grayson, Mara Lee
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Higher)
Multicultural education
Race relations--Study and teaching (Higher)

description: Racial literacy is vital in a contemporary American society that professes meritocracy and post-racialism yet where racial tensions continue to give rise to fear, violence, and inequity. This is especially important in educational institutions, which have the potential to either inspire social progress or maintain inequitable hierarchies. This dissertation explores how college students talk about race in the composition classroom; how those language practices contribute to the practice of racial literacy; and how these racial literacy practices contribute to student engagement and achievement in academic writing. Through a qualitative two-year teacher research project, I explored two distinct curricula for racial literacy in the college First Year Composition (FYC) composition classroom. The first study, conducted at an urban, public two-year college, explored the use of what I have come to term Narrative Song Lyrics (NSL) texts to encourage race talk and student engagement in the classroom. The second study, conducted in an urban, private residential university, explored the potential of an explicit racial literacy curriculum to improve students’ critical writing skills. To highlight classroom culture, I drew upon the ethnographic and discourse analysis methods of data collection and analysis. In student writing, thematic categories were examined for their parallels with foundational rhetorical and writing skills, including authorial voice, audience awareness, language choice, and critical textual interpretation. The purpose of this research was to examine the ways in which racial literacy might transfer to academic writing and to more broadly consider what the racial literacy framework may offer scholars, researchers, instructors and students of First Year Composition. As there are no best practices yet associated with racial literacy development, the dual studies represented in this dissertation serve to illuminate the many possibilities for racial literacy curricula in the college classroom. While two distinct studies, each with their own lines of inquiry, were conducted, I synthesize the findings of these studies to identify the ways in which racial literacy might be practiced and embodied, as well as to proffer a vision of what racial literacy could mean for the college composition classroom.
title: Systematisierung und Klassifizierung von ASP, Grid- und Utility-Computing Wertschöpfungsketten für Cloud Computing
Creators: name: Pelzl, Norman
name: Helferich, Andreas
name: Herzwurm, Georg
Publisher: name: Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 33
subject: 000

description: Das Thema Cloud Computing wird umfangreich in wissenschaftlichen und nicht-wissenschaftlichen Medien diskutiert und erhält unter anderem im Rahmen der Diskussion um innovative Geschäftsmodelle weiteren neuen Aufschwung. Ziel dieser Ausarbeitung ist es, Wertschöpfungsketten für Cloud Computing Geschäftsmodelle abzuleiten. Dazu werden die in der Literatur beschriebenen Geschäftsmodelle für ASP, Grid- und Utility-Computing analysiert und die dort vorgestellten Wertschöpfungsketten systematisiert. Auf Basis dieser Systematisierung können idealtypische Wertschöpfungsketten klassifiziert werden, um Empfehlungen für weitere Ausprägungen von Wertschöpfungsketten für Cloud Computing zu geben.
description: Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2012 : Tagungsband der MKWI 2012
Caesalpinia volkensii Harms
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Caesalpinia
Caesalpinia volkensii

description: Caesalpinia volkensii Harms  —
Habit: Liana.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 1 800 m. Distribution: IIIa.
 Voucher: Lower Imenti Forest, Alt. 1 190 m, 26–28 Jul. 1974, Faden & Faden 74/893 (WAG).
Reference: N/A.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Dynamical scaling of the quantum Hall plateau transition
Creators: name: Hohls, F.
name: Zeitler, U.
name: Haug, R. J.
name: Meisels, R.
name: Dybko, K.
name: Kuchar, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using different experimental techniques we examine the dynamical scaling of the quantum Hall plateau transition in a frequency range f = 0.1-55 GHz. We present a scheme that allows for a simultaneous scaling analysis of these experiments and all other data in literature. We observe a universal scaling function with an exponent kappa = 0.5 +/- 0.1, yielding a dynamical exponent z = 0.9 +/- 0.2.
description: v2: Length shortened to fulfil Journal criteria
Circulation Statistics in Three-Dimensional Turbulent Flows
Creators: name: Moriconi, L.
name: Takakura, F. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the large $λ$ limit of the loop-dependent characteristic functional $Z(λ)=$, related to the probability density function (PDF) of the circulation around a closed contour $c$. The analysis is carried out in the framework of the Martin-Siggia-Rose field theory formulation of the turbulence problem, by means of the saddle-point technique. Axisymmetric instantons, labelled by the component $σ_{zz}$ of the strain field -- a partially annealed variable in our formalism -- are obtained for a circular loop in the $xy$ plane, with radius defined in the inertial range. Fluctuations of the velocity field around the saddle-point solutions are relevant, leading to the lorentzian asymptotic behavior $Z(λ) \sim 1/{λ^2}$. The ${\cal O}(1 / {λ^4})$ subleading correction and the asymmetry between right and left PDF tails due to parity breaking mechanisms are also investigated.
description: Computations are discussed in a more detailed way; accepted for publication in Physical Review E
title: Менеджмент. Методы и модели разработки и принятия управленческих решений
title: Учебное пособие для СПО
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Генералова С.В.
Publisher: name: Профобразование, Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2020

description: В учебном пособии раскрываются вопросы сущности и классификации управленческих решений. Описывается алгоритм их разработки, принятия и реализации. Особое внимание уделяется вопросу делового совещания как одного из методов принятия управленческих решений. Помимо теоретического материала издание включает также задания для практических занятий. Подготовлено с учетом требований Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта среднего профессионального образования. Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по укрупненной группе специальностей 38.00.00 «Экономика и управление», изучающих дисциплину «Менеджмент».
title: A Classification Scheme for Characterizing Service Networks
Creators: name: Altmann, Jörn
name: Meschke, Martina
name: Mohammed, Ashraf
Publisher: name: Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 33
subject: 000

description: This paper introduces an extended definition of service networks. The service network definition, which can be used for classifying service networks, comprises two parts: the service network declaration and the service network specification. The service network specification consists of the specification of the network characteristics, the node characteristics, and the link characteristics. Each of these three characteristics comprises a set of criteria. One fraction of the criteria has been identified through literature research on services, networked organizations, and service network concepts. The remaining fraction of criteria is the result of a case study analysis. The service network case study has been taken from the information technology sector (i.e., the network of Cloud computing services). The analysis of the case study identified characteristics that are important for describing IT service networks but cannot be captured with the existing definitions of service networks.
description: Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2012 : Tagungsband der MKWI 2012
Replication data for: "Farmers' preferences for the next generation of maize seed products: Application of concept testing in Kenya and Uganda"
Creators: name: Donovan, Jason
name: Rutsaert, Pieter
name: Mawia, Harriet
name: de Sousa, Kauê
name: van Etten, Jacob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Step-change innovation in seed product design by public sector crop breeding has led to major contributions to global food security. The literature, however, provides few insights on how to identify forward-looking innovation opportunities. Inspired by discussions in the product innovation literature, this article describes our application of product concept testing in the context of hybrid maize in Uganda and Kenya. We identified the following eight maize seed product concepts based on interactions with seed companies, crop breeders, and farmers: ‘Resilience’, ‘Drought escape’, ‘Food and fodder’, ‘Home use’, ‘Green maize’, ‘Livestock feed’, ‘Intercropping’, and ‘Family nutrition’. These were described and presented to 2400 farmers using videos, where each farmer saw three concept-presentation videos. Farmers were most likely to have selected the resilience (Kenya and Uganda), drought escape (Uganda), and intercropping (Kenya) concepts. Farmers showed mixed interest in other concepts, such as home use and food and fodder, suggesting that investments in product production and promotion would be required in addition to investments in breeding. These results provide new entry points for conversations among transdisciplinary teams at regional and national levels on the current and future opportunities for crop breeding to respond to farmers’ requirements for new seed products.
ASHVIN Use Case - Evidence-Based Early Phase Design Recommendations Utilizing Knowledge Data Bases
Creators: name: Senturk, Eser
name: Kennedy, Mary Lidiya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This use case is drafted within the framework of the ASHVIN project, funded by the European Union, to develop a novel system based on digital twin technologies to support the design engineering, construction, and maintenance phases of projects in the construction sector. 

 

This document provides background and describes a use case of the evidence-based design as a use case helping the footbridge designer in the early design phases to get a broad overview of the design space. With this overview, the designer is enabled to make an informed decision on which type of design should be investigated in more detail. The insights are provided to the user in three distinct categories: predictions, warnings, and recommendations.

 

The ASHVIN system comprises 10 smart building applications, and this use case is related to the EBD tool (full name: Evidence Based design (EBD) support tool for recycling historic data as input at the early project stages). 

The ASHVIN toolkit was demonstrated across 10 European demonstration sites, and this use case is related to the demo site #8 Footbridge in Germany. 

 

This document reflects only the author’s view, and the European Commission is not responsible for using the information it contains.
Radiologic CT Scan Assessment Of Eustachian Tube Dimensions Among Filipino Adults With Chronic Otitis Media at the Rizal Medical Center: A Retrospective Study
Creators: name: Real, Gladys
name: Margaux V. Artates, MD, Anne
name: F. Lapiña, MD, Gerard
name: Eunice R. Grullo, MD, Precious
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320802
subject: Human biophysics

description: Objective: To determine the radiologic dimensions of eustachian tube dimensions (pretympanic diameter, tubotympanic angle and eustachian tube angle) of Adult Filipinos with normal ears, chronic otitis media, chronic otitis media with cholesteatoma and determine if there’s significant difference between the groups. Methods:Design: Retrospective Review of RecordsSetting:  Tertiary Government Training HospitalParticipants: The study utilized a minimum sample size of 69 CT scans, evenly distributed among those with normal ears, with cholesteatoma, and without cholesteatoma formation (23 for each variable, considering each ear on CT as one sample). Normal ears were identified in patients with unilateral COM. Results: The average measurements of the pre-tympanic diameter and ET angle (Reid plane) in the group with cholesteatoma were found to be higher than those in the group without cholesteatoma. The pre-tympanic diameter was 4.1993 ± 0.50 compared to 4.002 ± 1.13, and the ET angle was 26.483 ± 3.86 compared to 24.649 ± 3.10. Although the mean measurement of the tubotympanic angle in the group without cholesteatoma was greater than that in the group with cholesteatoma, with values of 141.994 ± 6.30 and 138.789 ± 7.13, respectively, p-values for the pre-tympanic diameter, tubotympanic angle, and ET angle were .617, .198, and .098 respectively, indicating that there were no statistically significant differences in the ET dimensions of the groups with cholesteatoma, without cholesteatoma and normal ears. Conclusion: In our investigation, we found no statistically significant differences in Eustachian tube dimensions among individuals with normal ears and COM with or without cholesteatoma. This suggests that the development of cholesteatoma in patients with chronic otitis media may be influenced by multiple factors and that Eustachian tube dimensions may not serve as a primary etiological factor in its occurrence.
Association between four microRNA binding site-related polymorphisms and the risk of warfarin-induced bleeding complications
Creators: name: Hosseindokht, Maryam
name: Boroumand, Mohammadali
name: Salehi, Rasoul
name: Mandegary, Ali
name: Hajhosseini Talasaz, Azita
name: Pourgholi, Leyla
name: Zare, Hamed
name: Ziaee, Shayan
name: Sharifi, Mohammadreza
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Bleeding
subject: Warfarin
subject: GATA4 gene
subject: MicroRNAs
subject: Polymorphism
subject: 610

description: Bleeding is the most serious complication of warfarin anticoagulation therapy and is known to occur even at patients with therapeutic international normalized ratio (INR) range. Recently, it has been shown that microRNAs play a significant role in pharmacogenetics by regulating genes that are critical for drug function. Interaction between microRNAs and these target genes could be affected by single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in microRNA-binding sites. This study focused on 3′-untranslated region (3′-UTR) SNPs of the genes involved in the warfarin action and the occurrence of bleeding complications in an Iranian population receiving warfarin. A total of 526 patients under warfarin anticoagulation therapy with responding to the therapeutic dose and maintenance of the INR in the range of 2.0-3.5 in three consecutive blood tests were included in the study. Four selected 3'-UTR SNPs (rs12458, rs7294, rs1868774 and rs34669593 located in GATA4, VKORC1, CALU and GGCX genes,respectively) with the potential to disrupt/eliminate or enhance/create microRNA-binding site were genotyped using a simple PCR-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method. Patients with the rs12458 AT or TT genotypes of the GATA4 gene had a lower risk of bleeding compared to patients with the AA genotype (adjusted OR: 0.478, 95% CI: 0.285-0.802, P= 0.005, OR: 0.416, 95% CI: 0.192-0.902, P= 0.026, respectively). 3'-UTR polymorphisms in other genes were not significantly associated with the risk of bleeding complications. In conclusion, the SNP rs12458A>T in the 3′UTR region of GATA4 is associated with the incidence of warfarin-related bleeding at target range of INR, likely by altering microRNA binding and warfarin metabolism. Further genetics association studies are needed to validate these findings before they can be implemented in clinical settings.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 18 2019
In vivo administration of G9a inhibitor A366 decreases osteogenic potential of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells
Creators: name: Khanban, Hedyeh
name: Fattahi, Esmail
name: Talkhabi, Mahmood
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells
subject: Histone methyltransferase G9a
subject: Adipogenesis
subject: Osteogenesis
subject: A366
subject: 610

description: Epigenetic mechanisms such as histone methylation are considered as one of the most important mediators that control stem cell behaviors such as proliferation, senescence and differentiation. G9a, a histone methyltransferase, has recently generated intense attention as potential target for controlling many diseases such as cancers. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of in vivo administration of A366, a G9a inhibitor, on proliferative and differentiation potential of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs). We inhibited G9a using intraperitoneally administration of A366, and we evaluated BM-MSC proliferation and differentiation behaviors in vitro. Colony formation assay of BM-MSCs at primary culture showed that in vivo administration of A366 reduced the colony forming capacity of BM-MSCs. Moreover, PDT of BM-MSC isolated from A366-treated rats was higher than control, especially in the early passages. BM-MSC isolated from A366-treated rats showed higher adipogenic potential compared to the control at the early passages as determined by gene expression and Oil Red staining. Whereas, osteogenic potential of BM-MSC isolated from A366-treated rats was lower than control, especially at early passages. Our results suggest that the epigenetic modifier such as A366, which seems to be a therapeutic approach for controlling diseases such as cancer, might also influence the proliferation and differentiation capacity of MSCs both in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, epigenetic modifying chemicals seem to be a strategy to manipulate MSC expansion capacity and differentiation propensity, as well as to efficiently involvement of MSCs in tissue homeostasis, cell-based therapy and tissue engineering.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 18 2019