cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How to Win Schumpeterian Competition. Technological Transfers in the German Plastics Industry from the 1930s to the 1970s
Creators: name: Streb, Jochen
name: Streb, Jochen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: technological transfer
subject: Schumpeterian competition
subject: repeated game
subject: plastics industry
subject: Germany

description: Introducing the concept of innovation capital we will analyse conditions under which a national industry is able to succeed in international Schumpeterian competition. Then we will discuss the significance of this concept for the economic development of the German plastics industry from the 1930s to the 1970s. Using a repeated game model of technological cooperation we will especially focus on technological transfers from chemical firms to plastics fabricators. We will deploy both a microeconomic approach when viewing product innovations transferred by the so-called Kunststoffrohstoffabteilung (KURO) of chemical firm BASF, and a macroeconomic approach when looking at the development of total factor productivity in the German plastics fabricating industry. It will turn out that we can distinguish three subperiods with respect to technological cooperation in the German plastics industry: the beginning in the period of National Socialist dictatorship and post war reconstruction, the developing in the time of the West German economic miracle, and the ending in the decade of the two oil price shocks.
Additional file 6 of Functional parameters indicative of mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review using instrumented kinematic assessment
Creators: name: Fuentes-Abolafio, Iván José
name: Stubbs, Brendon
name: Pérez-Belmonte, Luis Miguel
name: Bernal-López, María Rosa
name: Gómez-Huelgas, Ricardo
name: Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6 Supplementary Table 1. Methodological Quality of included RCT (The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool). It includes the risk of bias of RCTs included in the manuscript.
Human Development and Economic Growth
Creators: name: Ranis, Gustav
name: Ranis, Gustav
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: economic growth
subject: human development

description: Recent literature has contrasted Human Development, described as the ultimate goal of the development process, with economic growth, described as an imperfect proxy for more general welfare, or as a means toward enhanced human development. This debate has broadened the definitions and goals of development but still needs to define the important interrelations between human development (HD) and economic growth (EG). To the extent that greater freedom and capabilities improve economic performance, human development will have an important effect on growth. Similarly, to the extent that increased incomes will increase the range of choices and capabilities enjoyed by households and governments, economic growth will enhance human development. This paper analyzes these relationships and the two-way linkages involved.
Gravity and the Quantum Vacuum Inertia Hypothesis
Creators: name: Rueda, Alfonso
name: Haisch, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In previous work it has been shown that the electromagnetic quantum vacuum, or electromagnetic zero-point field, makes a contribution to the inertial reaction force on an accelerated object. We show that the result for inertial mass can be extended to passive gravitational mass. As a consequence the weak equivalence principle, which equates inertial to passive gravitational mass, appears to be explainable. This in turn leads to a straightforward derivation of the classical Newtonian gravitational force. We call the inertia and gravitation connection with the vacuum fields the quantum vacuum inertia hypothesis. To date only the electromagnetic field has been considered. It remains to extend the hypothesis to the effects of the vacuum fields of the other interactions. We propose an idealized experiment involving a cavity resonator which, in principle, would test the hypothesis for the simple case in which only electromagnetic interactions are involved. This test also suggests a basis for the free parameter $η(ν)$ which we have previously defined to parametrize the interaction between charge and the electromagnetic zero-point field contributing to the inertial mass of a particle or object.
description: 18 pages, no figures. Annalen der Physik, 2005, in press. New version reformatted
Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience
Creators: name: Ranis, Gustav
name: Stewart, Frances
name: Ranis, Gustav
name: Stewart, Frances
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: human development
subject: economic growth
subject: Latin America

description: This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are run for 1960-92. Country performance is separated into virtuous/vicious cycles or HD/EG lopsidedness. The study makes an attempt to correct the commonly held view that ensuring increases in economic growth automatically leads to advances in human development. Human development has to occur prior to or simultaneous with improvements in economic growth, if a country is to reach a virtuous cycle. The Latin American experience indicates that a balanced approach to development has to be adopted. It is imperative to focus on human development from the outset of any reform program, as policies that emphasize economic growth alone are futile in sustaining high levels of human development.
Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey
Creators: name: Tansel, Aysit
name: Tansel, Aysit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: public-private wages
subject: gender
subject: Turkey

description: There is no evidence on the extent of public versus private wage differentials in Turkey. The main objective of this paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage sector in Turkey. Selectivity corrected wage equations are estimated for each sector for men and women separately. Oaxaca decomposition of the wage differentials between sectors for men and women are carried out. For this purpose, results of the 1994 Household Expenditure Survey Conducted by the State Institute of Statistics are used. The results indicate that when controlled for observed characteristics and sample selection, for men, public administration wages are at parity or lower than private sector wages in particular at the university level. State Economic Enterprise wages for men are higher than private sector wages except at the university level. Opposite results are obtained for women: their wages are at par or higher in public administration than in the private sector. Further, while men's and women's wages are at parity in the public administration, there is a large gender wage-gap in the private sector. Lower private returns to schooling are found in public than in the private sector.
A TRANSLOG COST ANALYSIS OF TURKEY PRODUCTION IN THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION
Creators: name: Grisley, William
name: Gitu, Kangethe W.
name: Grisley, William
name: Gitu, Kangethe W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: The production structure of 165-hen and 200-ton turkey flocks is investigated using a translog (dual) variable cost function. The partial static equilibrium elasticities of scale, input demand, input substitution, and cross price elasticities of demand are calculated. The elasticities of scale is found to be not significantly different from one over the range of 5,900 to 9,822 birds for the hen flocks and over the range of 7,765 to 11,043 birds for the tom flocks. In general, the input demand elasticities are inelastic with the exception of the input fuel. The cross-price elasticities are in general inelastic.
Bars, Spiral Structure, and Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies
Creators: name: Elmegreen, Bruce G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simulations and observations of galactic bars suggest they do not commonly evolve into bulges, although it is possible that the earliest bars formed bulges long ago, when galaxies were smaller, denser, and had more gas. The most highly evolved of today's bars may become lenses over a Hubble time. Most galaxies in the early Universe are extremely clumpy, with 10^8-10^9 Msun blue clumps that resemble in color and magnitude the isolated field objects nearby. The presence of blue and irregular bars at high redshift suggests that some bars formed primarily in the gas phase accompanied by giant starbursts, rather than in pure stellar disks like most models. Secular and non-secular processes that cause galaxies to evolve are summarized.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, Terschelling Conference, July 2005, to appear in Island Universes: Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies, Springer
PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL AMENITY BENEFITS OF PRIVATE LAND: THE CASE OF PRIME AGRICULTURAL LAND
Creators: name: Bergstrom, John C.
name: Dillman, B.L.
name: Stoll, John R.
name: Bergstrom, John C.
name: Dillman, B.L.
name: Stoll, John R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: Failure of land markets to account for environmental amenity benefits may lend support to public policies to protect agricultural land. The contingent valuation method is employed to estimate willingness to pay for such amenities in Greenville County, South Carolina. Marginal household amenity benefits were estimated at $.06 per thousand acres using a payment card in a mail survey with 53 percent response. Bid payment vehicle was found not to significantly influence bids received. The informational structure of the contingent market was found to influence valuation responses, reinforcing the hypothesis that respondents react to alternative contingent market structures. The relationship between contingent market structure and directional effects upon responses is an important area for future research.
Semilattices of finitely generated ideals of exchange rings with finite stable rank
Creators: name: Wehrung, Friedrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06A12, 20M14, 06B10. Secondary: 19K14

description: We find a distributive (v, 0, 1)-semilattice S of size $ aleph\_1$ that is not isomorphic to the maximal semilattice quotient of any Riesz monoid endowed with an order-unit of finite stable rank. We thus obtain solutions to various open problems in ring theory and in lattice theory. In particular: - There is no exchange ring (thus, no von Neumann regular ring and no C*-algebra of real rank zero) with finite stable rank whose semilattice of finitely generated, idempotent-generated two-sided ideals is isomorphic to S. - There is no locally finite, modular lattice whose semilattice of finitely generated congruences is isomorphic to S. These results are established by constructing an infinitary statement, denoted here by URPsr, that holds in the maximal semilattice quotient of every Riesz monoid endowed with an order-unit of finite stable rank, but not in the semilattice S.
Prospective memory, a distinct form of remembering? : subtitle evidence from task comparisons and normal aging
Creators: name: Birt, Angela R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Until recently, memory research focused primarily on memory for information and experiences from the past (retrospective memory). However, memory also is important for remembering to do things in the future (prospective memory). Research on prospective memory is relatively new and has yet to address many pertinent issues. This dissertation had two main objectives: (1) examine core similarities and differences between prospective and retrospective memory and test the claim that prospective remembering is functionally distinct, and (2) investigate age differences in prospective memory test performance and their relation to age differences in performance on different types of retrospective memory tests. The nature of the relationship between prospective and retrospective memory was assessed with two quantitative literature reviews. Analysis of 148 prospective-retrospective memory task comparisons revealed many similar effects. Nevertheless, prospective memory test performance was more closely related to performance on some episodic retrospective memory tests than others. A meta-analysis of 96 young-old age difference effect sizes revealed age-related prospective memory declines comparable to those observed with episodic retrospective tasks, but the magnitude of age differences varied with task characteristics. Both quantitative reviews highlighted the large variability in the research. Next, a controlled laboratory experiment compared prospective and retrospective memory performance of 66 older (mean=75 yrs.) and 66 younger (mean=20 yrs.) adults. Matching prospective and retrospective test properties (e.g., cues, response type, context) enabled, for the first time, direct comparison of, and closer examination of age-related differences in, prospective memory tasks, retrospective memory tasks that decline with age (explicit cued recall and recognition), and a retrospective task that shows little decline (implicit word completion). Results indicated episodic prospective memory was not related to implicit memory, but was positively related to the tests of explicit memory. Self-rated prospective memory and individual differences in performance also were explored. Findings are discussed in relation to theoretical views of prospective memory and of aging. Although the results indicate that prospective memory is not a distinct form of memory, it appears to be a special application of explicit, episodic memory retrieval and is unique in the same way that free recall, cued recall, and recognition are unique activities of memory.
A general relation between stacking order and Chern index: a topological map of minimally twisted bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Theil, S.
name: Fleischmann, M.
name: Gupta, R.
name: Wullschläger, F.
name: Sharma, S.
name: Meyer, B.
name: Shallcross, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a general relation between the stacking vector ${\bf u}$ describing the relative shift of two layers of bilayer graphene and the Chern index. We find $C = ν- \text{sign}\left(|V_{AB}|-|V_{BA}|\right)$, where $ν$ is a valley index and $|V_{αβ}|$ the absolute value of stacking potentials that depend on ${\bf u}$ and that uniquely determine the interlayer interaction; AA stacking plays no role in the topological character. With this expression we show that while ideal and relaxed minimally twisted bilayer graphene appear so distinct as to be almost different materials, their Chern index maps are, remarkably, identical. The topological physics of this material is thus strongly robust to lattice relaxations.
The MAGIC Telescope and the Observation of Gamma Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Bastieri, D.
name: Galante, N.
name: Gaug, M.
name: Garczarczyk, M.
name: Longo, F.
name: Mizobuchi, S.
name: Peruzzo, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The MAGIC Telescope, now taking data with an energy threshold well below 100 GeV, will soon be able to take full advantage of the fast slewing capability of its altazimuthal mount. Exploiting the link with the GCN network, the MAGIC Telescope could be one of the first ground-based experiments able to see the prompt emission of Gamma Ray Bursts in the few tens of GeV region.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure (-> 3 subfigures), class file (cimento.cls) included. To appear in: "Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era: 4rd Workshop", Rome 2004
Infrared Luminosity Function of the Coma Cluster
Creators: name: Bai, Lei
name: Rieke, George H.
name: Rieke, Marcia J.
name: Hinz, Joannah L.
name: Kelly, Douglas M.
name: Blaylock, Myra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using mid-IR and optical data, we deduce the total infrared (IR) luminosities of galaxies in the Coma cluster and present their infrared luminosity function (LF). The shape of the overall Coma IR LF does not show significant differences from the IR LFs of the general field, which indicates the general independence of global galaxy star formation on environment up to densities $\sim$ 40 times greater than in the field (we cannot test such independence above $L_{ir} \approx 10^{44} {\rm ergs s}^{-1}$). However, a shallower faint end slope and a smaller $L_{ir}^{*}$ are found in the core region (where the densities are still higher) compared to the outskirt region of the cluster, and most of the brightest IR galaxies are found outside of the core region. The IR LF in the NGC 4839 group region does not show any unique characteristics. By integrating the IR LF, we find a total star formation rate in the cluster of about 97.0 $M_{\sun}{\rm yr}^{-1}$. We also studied the contributions of early- and late-type galaxies to the IR LF. The late-type galaxies dominate the bright end of the LF, and the early-type galaxies, although only making up a small portion ($\approx$ 15%) of the total IR emission of the cluster, contribute greatly to the number counts of the LF at $L_{ir} < 10^{43} {\rm ergs s}^{-1}$.
description: 33 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
The generalized equation of motion for the orbital dynamics in the presence of current
Creators: name: Chern, Chyh-Hong
name: Nagaosa, Naoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The orbital dynamics induced by the charge current is studied theoretically. The equation of motion for the isospin vector $T^A$ in the SU(N) case is derived in the presence of the current, and is applied to the cases of $e_g$ (N=2) and $t_{2g}$ (N=3) orbitals. In spite of the anisotropic transfer integrals between orbitals, the dynamics is found to be isotropic for $e_g$-orbitals similarly to the spin case, while it is anisotropic for $t_{2g}$-orbitals. The implication of this result to the current driven orbital domain wall motion is discussed.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 5 of Functional parameters indicative of mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review using instrumented kinematic assessment
Creators: name: Fuentes-Abolafio, Iván José
name: Stubbs, Brendon
name: Pérez-Belmonte, Luis Miguel
name: Bernal-López, María Rosa
name: Gómez-Huelgas, Ricardo
name: Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5 Supplementary Appendix E. Conflict of interest of included studies. It shows the conflict of interests of included studies in the results.
Additional file 2 of Functional parameters indicative of mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review using instrumented kinematic assessment
Creators: name: Fuentes-Abolafio, Iván José
name: Stubbs, Brendon
name: Pérez-Belmonte, Luis Miguel
name: Bernal-López, María Rosa
name: Gómez-Huelgas, Ricardo
name: Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2 Supplementary Appendix B. Search Strategy. It includes the complete search strategy which was carried out with all search terms.
TEMPORAL ALLOCATION ALTERNATIVES FOR SOUTHEASTERN RED DELICIOUS APPLES
Creators: name: Motsinger, L.R.
name: Epperson, James E.
name: Mizelle, William O.
name: Motsinger, L.R.
name: Epperson, James E.
name: Mizelle, William O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This study examines the economic feasibility of storing southeastern U.S. Red Delicious apples under various circumstances. Circumstances encompassed type of storage, potential market share in the storage periods, perceived level of quality, and opportunity cost of storage. Reactive programming was used to allocate shipments throughout the harvest and storage periods. Except for apples harvested in August, storage was found to be economically feasible under all situations studied. The greatest economic benefit to producers was shown to come from the synergistic effect of storage and improvement in perceived quality.
Additional file 4 of Functional parameters indicative of mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review using instrumented kinematic assessment
Creators: name: Fuentes-Abolafio, Iván José
name: Stubbs, Brendon
name: Pérez-Belmonte, Luis Miguel
name: Bernal-López, María Rosa
name: Gómez-Huelgas, Ricardo
name: Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4 Supplementary Appendix D. Excluded studies in the second screening. It contains references of excluded studies in the second screening since they did not meet inclusion criteria.
Additional file 1 of Functional parameters indicative of mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review using instrumented kinematic assessment
Creators: name: Fuentes-Abolafio, Iván José
name: Stubbs, Brendon
name: Pérez-Belmonte, Luis Miguel
name: Bernal-López, María Rosa
name: Gómez-Huelgas, Ricardo
name: Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary Appendix A. PRISMA Checklist. It includes the PRISMA checklist with the item reported in this trial.
Virtual Bioequivalence Frameworks and Workflows
Creators: name: Bois, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Drug formulation safe-space
subject: Pharmacokinetics
subject: Pharmacology and pharmacy
subject: Long-acting injectable suspension
subject: Paliperidone palmitate
subject: PBPK modelling
subject: Biopharmaceutics modelling
subject: bioequivalence
subject: virtual bioequivalence
subject: clinical trial design

description: We are developing advanced virtual bioequivalence (VBE) assessment models and methods, with a focus on the fundamentals of decision workflows in that context.This presentation covers:

VBE workflows

Advanced long-acting injectable and oral absorption models

Case studies overview

Software integration
Defensive Universal Learning with Experts
Creators: name: Poland, Jan
name: Hutter, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; G.3

description: This paper shows how universal learning can be achieved with expert advice. To this aim, we specify an experts algorithm with the following characteristics: (a) it uses only feedback from the actions actually chosen (bandit setup), (b) it can be applied with countably infinite expert classes, and (c) it copes with losses that may grow in time appropriately slowly. We prove loss bounds against an adaptive adversary. From this, we obtain a master algorithm for "reactive" experts problems, which means that the master's actions may influence the behavior of the adversary. Our algorithm can significantly outperform standard experts algorithms on such problems. Finally, we combine it with a universal expert class. The resulting universal learner performs -- in a certain sense -- almost as well as any computable strategy, for any online decision problem. We also specify the (worst-case) convergence speed, which is very slow.
description: 15 LaTeX pages
Steady state particle distribution of a dilute sedimenting suspension
Creators: name: Cichocki, Bogdan
name: Sadlej, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sedimentation of a non-Brownian suspension of hard particles is studied. It is shown that in the low concentration limit a two-particle distribution function ensuring finite particle correlation length can be found and explicitly calculated. The sedimentation coefficient is computed. Results are compared with experiment.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 3 of Functional parameters indicative of mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review using instrumented kinematic assessment
Creators: name: Fuentes-Abolafio, Iván José
name: Stubbs, Brendon
name: Pérez-Belmonte, Luis Miguel
name: Bernal-López, María Rosa
name: Gómez-Huelgas, Ricardo
name: Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3 Supplementary Appendix C. Checklist for selection of studies. It shows a checklist conducted to select studies which could be included in the present trial.
Ensemble Learning Independent Component Analysis of Normal Galaxy Spectra
Creators: name: Lu, Honglin
name: Zhou, Hongyan
name: Wang, Junxian
name: Wang, Tinggui
name: Dong, Xiaobo
name: Zhuang, Zhenquan
name: Li, Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we employe a new statistical analysis technique, Ensemble Learning for Independent Component Analysis (EL-ICA), on the synthetic galaxy spectra from a newly released high resolution evolutionary model by Bruzual & Charlot. We find that EL-ICA can sufficiently compress the synthetic galaxy spectral library to 6 non-negative Independent Components (ICs), which are good templates to model huge amount of normal galaxy spectra, such as the galaxy spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Important spectral parameters, such as starlight reddening, stellar velocity dispersion, stellar mass and star formation histories, can be given simultaneously by the fit. Extensive tests show that the fit and the derived parameters are reliable for galaxy spectra with the typical quality of the SDSS.
description: 41 pages, 23 figures, to be published in AJ
Interpolated stanzas in Ephraim's Madroshe LXVI-LXVIII on faith
Creators: name: Palmer, Andrew
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 90 (2006): Oriens christianus, Band 90
Additional file 1 of Graphene impregnated electrospun nanofiber sensing materials: a comprehensive overview on bridging laboratory set-up to industry
Creators: name: Al-Dhahebi, Adel Mohammed
name: Subash Chandra Bose Gopinath
name: Saheed, Mohamed Shuaib Mohamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Cyclic voltammetry curves of (A) polyaniline (PANI)–coated nanofibers (NP3) and (B) PANI/graphene–coated nanofibers (NP3G2). Schematic representation of the charge/discharge curves of (C) polyaniline (PANI)–coated nanofibers (NP3) and (D) PANI/graphene–coated nanofibers (NP3G2) Ref. [31]. Figure S2. Piezoelectric force microscopy (PFM) amplitude vs dc voltage (voltage varying from −12 to 12 V) hysteresis loops for (a) PVDF/GOCOOH and (b) PVDF/GOF. Frequency dependence of (c) dielectric constant and (d) dielectric loss for PVDF/GO, PVDF/GOCOOH, and PVDF/GOF composites. (e) schematic representing the P − E loops for PVDF/GO, PVDF/GOCOOH, and PVDF/GOF at room temperature. (a–e) are obtained from Ref [24] Copy Right ACS.
Storytelling and good relations: Indigenous youth capabilities in climate futures
Creators: name: McMeeking, S
name: Tetini‐Timoteo, M
name: Hayward, B
name: Prendergast, K
name: Ratuva, S
name: Crichton‐Hill, Y
name: Mayall‐Nahi, M
name: Wood, Bronwyn
name: Tolbert, S
name: Harré, N
name: Macfarlane, A
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2024

description: AbstractHow can we support young citizens facing chaotic climate futures? This question is urgent, particularly for Indigenous communities who face disproportionate risks and impacts of climate change. For the past three decades, climate‐related education has focused largely on the acquisition of scientific knowledge in instrumental ways, while encouraging individual behaviour change. This approach centres the problem rather than human capabilities to generate solutions, which is especially misaligned with the increasing practice and significance of Indigenous communities’ regenerating self‐determining capabilities. This article reports on a pilot study that uses intergenerational storytelling methods or pūrākau to support leadership capabilities among Indigenous Māori and Pacific young people aged 10 to 14 years in communities at high risk of flooding in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand. The study showed how storytelling locates and scaffolds Indigenous young people into positions of individual and collective responsibility for grappling with “wicked problems” such as climate and injustice and climate‐related challenges as part of the future they will inherit and shape within a broader intergenerational journey of resilience and reclamation.
LIBERALISATION DU COMMERCE ET REDUCTIONDE LA PAUVRETE DANS L'ESPACE UEMOA
Creators: name: KONE Djakaridja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser l’impact de l’ouverture commerciale sur la pauvreté à partir d’un panel de huit pays de l’Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine entre 1993 et 2021. L’approche méthodologique repose essentiellement sur l’analyse de données de panel. Il ressort de nos résultats que l'ouverture commerciale réduit dans une large mesure la pauvreté. Néanmoins, le canal de croissance véhiculé par la littérature théorique reste insignifiant dans la relation entre ouverture commerciale et pauvreté. Ce résultat s’explique en partie par le fait que les bénéfices de l’ouverture sont dispersés dans l’ensemble de l’économie et ne peuvent pas être expliqués par de simples améliorations de la croissance.
Parallel implementation of the recursive Green's function method
Creators: name: Drouvelis, P. S.
name: Schmelcher, P.
name: Bastian, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A parallel algorithm for the implementation of the recursive Green's function technique, which is extensively applied in the coherent scattering formalism, is developed. The algorithm performs a domain decomposition of the scattering region among the processors participating in the computation and calculates the Schur's complement block in the form of distributed blocks among the processors. If the method is applied recursively, thereby eliminating the processors cyclically, it is possible to arrive at a Schur's complement block of small size and compute the desired block of the Green's function matrix directly. The numerical complexity due to the longitudinal dimension of the scatterer scales linearly with the number of processors, though, the computational cost due to the processors' cyclic reduction, establishes a bottleneck to achieve efficiency 100%. The proposed algorithm is accompanied by a performance analysis for two numerical benchmarks, in which the dominant sources of computational load and parallel overhead as well as their competitive role in the efficiency of the algorithm will be demonstrated.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures, submitted for publication to the Journal of Computational Physics
Unsupervised Learning of Image Segmentation Based on Differentiable Feature Clustering
Creators: name: Kim, Wonjik
name: Kanezaki, Asako
name: Tanaka, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following criteria: (a) pixels of similar features should be assigned the same label, (b) spatially continuous pixels should be assigned the same label, and (c) the number of unique labels should be large. Although these criteria are incompatible, the proposed approach minimizes the combination of similarity loss and spatial continuity loss to find a plausible solution of label assignment that balances the aforementioned criteria well. The contributions of this study are four-fold. First, we propose a novel end-to-end network of unsupervised image segmentation that consists of normalization and an argmax function for differentiable clustering. Second, we introduce a spatial continuity loss function that mitigates the limitations of fixed segment boundaries possessed by previous work. Third, we present an extension of the proposed method for segmentation with scribbles as user input, which showed better accuracy than existing methods while maintaining efficiency. Finally, we introduce another extension of the proposed method: unseen image segmentation by using networks pre-trained with a few reference images without re-training the networks. The effectiveness of the proposed approach was examined on several benchmark datasets of image segmentation.
description: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Accepted in July, 2020
Stressed pairing in conventional color superconductors is unavoidable
Creators: name: Rajagopal, Krishna
name: Schmitt, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At sufficiently high densities, cold dense three-flavor quark matter is in the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase, in which all nine quarks pair in a particularly symmetric fashion. Once the heaviness of the strange quark (mass $m_s$) and the requirements of electric and color neutrality are taken into account, the CFL pattern of color superconductivity requires the pairing of quarks that would, in the absence of pairing, have Fermi momenta that differ by of order $m_s^2/μ$, with $μ$ the quark number chemical potential. This means that at sufficiently small $μ$, the ``stress'' on the pairing is large enough that the system can lower its energy by breaking pairs, resulting in some unconventional color superconductor which includes gapless excitations, spatial inhomogeneity, counter-propagating currents, or all three. In this paper we ask whether there is some less symmetric but still conventional pattern of pairing that can evade the stress. In other words, is there a pattern of pairing in which, once electric and color neutrality are imposed by suitable chemical potentials, pairing only occurs among those quarks whose Fermi momenta would be equal in the absence of pairing? We use graph-theoretical methods to classify 511 patterns of conventional color superconducting pairing, and show that none of them meet this requirement. All feel a stress, and all can be expected to become unstable to gapless modes at a density comparable to that at which the CFL phase becomes unstable.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures; v2: some modifications in Appendix B; references added; version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
GREI Collaborative Webinar: The hows and whys of sharing data in generalist repositories
Creators: name: Curtin, Lisa
name: Doran, Aaron
name: Gueguen, Gretchen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI)
Data Discovery
Data Management and Sharing
Use Cases

description: This webinar, presented by the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), provided an overview of the GREI repositories and guidance on best practices for sharing and discovering data in them. 

Generalist repositories offer researchers a flexible, trusted resource to share data for which there is no appropriate discipline specific repository as well as to share many other research outputs valuable for reproducibility and open science. This webinar, presented by repositories participating in the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) (Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, Mendeley Data, Open Science Framework, Vivli, and Zenodo) described generalist repository use cases, how generalist repositories fit into the NIH data repository landscape, and how they help meet NIH data management and sharing requirements. In it, we presented both the key common features of generalist repositories as well as the unique features of these repositories that make them suited to specific types of data. We also provided guidance on best practices for depositing and finding data in these repositories including how to make your research more discoverable and reusable and reinforce these best practices by sharing real world examples of NIH-funded research published in the GREI repositories.  

Key takeaways

Overview of common & unique features of generalist repositories

Discussion of when to share data in generalist repositories

Guidance on generalist repository data sharing & discovery best practices

Review of real world examples of NIH-funded research shared in generalist repositories

Webinar recording
From Minor Omissions to Full Bans: The Mechanisms and Perceived Impacts of Censorship in Translated Children’s Literature in Iran
Creators: name: Ansari, Maryam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470299
subject: Cultural studies not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 470107
subject: Media studies
classificationCode: 479999
subject: Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified

description: This study investigates the phenomenon of censorship in translated children’s literature in Iran, focusing on its mechanisms and Iranian children’s perception of its implications for them and their rights, addressing a significant gap in the existing literature by exploring how censorship is implemented through translation and its effects on the perception of the Iranian child reader. The theoretical framework employed for this investigation integrates multiple theories to provide a comprehensive understanding of censorship in translated children’s literature, with key concepts including cultural translation and cultural hegemony, drawing on the works of Sarah Maitland and Antonio Gramsci to examine how censorship in translation takes place and how the practice could be manipulated to align with specific ideological goals. For the second part of the study, reader-response theory, particularly the perspectives of Louise Rosenblatt and Wolfgang Iser, is combined with developmental psychology to explore how Iranian children perceive, interpret, and interact with censored texts, the analysis of which is further enriched by a discussion on children’s rights, particularly the right to access diverse and uncensored information.The research methodology combines textual analysis of three widely recognized titles—Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and The Da Vinci Code—with interviews of sixteen Iranian adolescents. The textual analysis reveals various censorship mechanisms, such as omissions and alterations that are driven by religious regulations. Moreover, the interview results indicate a nuanced understanding among participants of the censorship they have encountered, with varied reactions ranging from frustration to resignation and acceptance. Finally, the thesis concludes by advocating for the protection of children’s rights to have free access to uncensored texts and emphasizing the need for further research in this area.
title: Non-Premixed Filtered Tabulated Chemistry: Filtered Flame Modeling of Diffusion Flames
Creators: name: Obando Vega, Pedro Javier
name: Coussement, Axel
name: Sadiki, Amsini
name: Parente, Alessandro
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: The flame front filtering is a well-known strategy in turbulent premixed combustion. An extension of this approach for the non-premixed combustion context has been proposed by means of directly filtering counterflow diffusion flamelets. Promising results were obtained for the non-premixed filtered tabulated chemistry formalism on 1-D and 2-D unresolved counterflow flame configurations. The present paper demonstrates the soundness of this approach on a 3-D real laminar non-premixed coflow flame. The model results are compared against the direct filtering of the fully resolved laminar diffusion flame showing that the formalism adequately describes the underlying physics. The study reveals the importance of the one-dimensional counterflow flamelet hypothesis, so that the model activation under this condition is ensured by means of a flame sensor. The consistent coupling between the model and the flame sensor adequately retrieves the flame lift-off and satisfactorily predicts the profile extension due to the filtering process.
The low-power nucleus of PKS 1246-410 in the Centaurus Cluster
Creators: name: Taylor, G. B.
name: Sanders, J. S.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Allen, S. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Chandra, Very Large Array (VLA), and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of the nucleus of NGC 4696, a giant elliptical in the Centaurus cluster of galaxies. Like M87 in the Virgo cluster, PKS 1246-410 in the Centaurus cluster is a nearby example of a radio galaxy in a dense cluster environment. In analyzing the new X-ray data we have found a compact X-ray feature coincident with the optical and radio core. While nuclear emission from the X-ray source is expected, its luminosity is low, <10^{40} erg/s. We estimate the Bondi accretion radius to be 30 pc and the accretion rate to be 0.01 M_sun/yr which under the canonical radiative efficiency of 10% would overproduce by 3.5 orders of magnitude the radiative luminosity. Much of this energy can be directed into the kinetic energy of the jet, which over time inflates the observed cavities seen in the thermal gas. The VLBA observations reveal a weak nucleus and a broad, one-sided jet extending over 25 parsecs in position angle -150 degrees. This jet is deflected on the kpc-scale to a more east-west orientation (position angle of -80 degrees).
description: Accepted to MNRAS, 25 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of Activin/Nodal signaling mediates dorsal–ventral axis formation before third quartet formation in embryos of the annelid Chaetopterus pergamentaceus
Creators: name: Lanza, Alexis R.
name: Seaver, Elaine C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Early embryonic exposure to DMH1 or dorsomorphin dihydrochloride does not affect larval morphology. Each column contains merged confocal-stacked images of a single L2 larva. Each row depicts labeling for nuclei with Hoechst, actin filaments with phalloidin, or neurons with an anti-FMRFamide antibody. Stacks of confocal micrographs of actin staining are displayed at two different depths in the body to show muscle and the tripartite gut. Panels A–D are control larvae exposed to 0.2% DMSO during the interval between the 4 cell stage and early gastrula. Panels E–L are larvae exposed to 20 μM DMH1. Panels E–H depict a larva resulting from exposure during the 4 cell to late cleavage stage. Panels I–L depict a larva resulting from exposure during the late cleavage and early gastrula stage. Panels M–T are larvae exposed to 20 μM dorsomorphin dihydrochloride. Panels M–P are of a larva resulting from exposure during the 4 cell to late cleavage stage. Panels Q–T are of a larva resulting from exposure during the late cleavage and to early gastrula stage. All panels are dorsal views with anterior to the left. Abbreviations: at, apical tuft attachment point; cc, circumesophageal connective; cbr, cerebral commissure; dor, dorsal; hg, hindgut; mc, main connective; mg, midgut; sc, subesophageal commissure; st, stomodeum; white arrowheads, dorsal longitudinal muscle fibers.
Additional file 3 of The impact of a hands-on arthrocentesis workshop in undergraduate medical education
Creators: name: Ladurner, Andreas
name: Nijman, Thomas
name: Gill, Tiffany K.
name: Smitham, Peter J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Medical knowledge check
Galaxies, Intergalactic Absorption Lines, and Feedback at High Redshift
Creators: name: Adelberger, Kurt L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The galaxy-IGM part of the Lyman-break survey currently consists of measured redshifts for more than 1000 galaxies with redshift 1.5
description: 8 pages, to appear in IAU 199 conf proc, "Probing Galaxies through Quasar Absorption Lines," eds. Williams, Shu, Menard
Additional file 4 of The impact of a hands-on arthrocentesis workshop in undergraduate medical education
Creators: name: Ladurner, Andreas
name: Nijman, Thomas
name: Gill, Tiffany K.
name: Smitham, Peter J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Impact survey