cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Self-regulation and the sanctuary strategy: Competitive advantage through domestic cooperation by Japanese firms
Creators: name: Schaede, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: In a "sanctuary strategy", a firm uses restraints to competition in its home market to create a profit cushion that allows it to compete forcefully in foreign markets. This paper argues that self-regulation by industry associations is an important domestic prerequisite of a successful sanctuary strategy. Therefore, by studying the situation of self-regulation and cooperation within Japanese industry associations, we can identify predictors of a sanctuary strategy and study one example of the competitive effects of cooperation among companies. The paper builds on a data set containing 1153 Japanese industry associations to, first, test standard notions of cooperation and collusion as suggested by the economics of industrial organization, adapted to the context of industry associations. Next, the paper develops new hypotheses to analyze whether internal features of industry association organization predict the likelihood of self-regulation. The paper suggests specific variables that can be used for analysis, and concludes that as self-regulation increases in Japan, so may the sanctuary strategies employed by Japanese firms.
Infants' use of object category distinctions in word learning
Creators: name: Leung, Dilys Hay Lok
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: How do infants initially determine whether a novel object word labels a specific individual (e.g. Madonna) or an instance of a category (e.g., a person)? The research in this dissertation tested the hypothesis that infants assume words for objects from some categories (e.g., people) label individuals (are proper names) but words for objects from other categories (e.g., artifacts) label instances of the category (are count nouns). This assumption could help infants to identify proper names and count nouns in their language, and thereby facilitate the learning of the linguistic proper name/count noun distinction. In a preferential looking task, 16- and 17-month-olds heard a novel word for a target person (a face) or artifact, and their willingness to generalize the word to a non-target object was assessed. In Experiment 1, infants restricted the word to the target object when it was paired with a non-target object from a different category, providing evidence that infants can learn a novel word for the target object in this task. In Experiment 2, infants restricted the word to the target object when both the target and non-target objects were people, but not when they were artifacts from the same category. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that infants interpret words for people as proper names and words for artifacts as count nouns. In Experiment 3, infants were asked to find the referent of a second novel label in a task identical to Experiment 2. Here, infants restricted their looking to the non-target object when the objects were people, but not when they were artifacts. In Experiment 4, infants did not restrict the novel label to a person (a face) when it was inverted. This result provides evidence that infants’ tendency in Experiment 2 to restrict a label to a particular person was not simply due to the greater perceptual complexity of faces. Together, the findings reveal that infants interpret words for people and words for artifacts differently, raising the possibility that object category distinctions help infants to identify proper names and count nouns in their language and to learn how they are expressed linguistically.
Restorying one's life
Creators: name: Musk, Tara Rogerson
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2009

description: Bibliography: p. 78-89
description: Much immigrant youth research focuses on language acquisition but other factors are important contributors to immigrant youth success, including utilizing ontological narrative and resilience strategies. Ontological narrative is the process of storying one's life, providing coherence and continuity to one's experience. Recent resilience research emphasizes the unique negotiation of tensions such as access to material resources, relationships, identity, power and control, cultural adherence, social justice and cohesion. Collectively, these strategies enable immigrant youth to address more effectively the barriers and challenges typically associated with the immigrant experience. Recommendations include that English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum must provide space and voice for personal narrative. Second, similar to other transformative programs, an archetypal template needs to be created to guide immigrant students through the transformative process. Through the compiling and sharing of a series of authentic, local immigrant stories, both of these recommendations can be accomplished.
Search for the decay modes D0 -> e+e-, D0 -> mu+mu-, and D0 -> e mu
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present searches for the rare decay modes D0 to e+e-, D0 to mu+mu- and D0 to e mu in continuum e+e- to cbar c events recorded by the BABAR detector in a data sample that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 468 f^-1. These decays are highly GIM suppressed but may be enhanced in several extensions of the Standard Model. Our observed event yields are consistent with the expected backgrounds. An excess is seen in the D0 to mu+mu- channel, although the observed yield is consistent with an upward background fluctuation at the 5% level. Using the Feldman-Cousins method, we set the following 90% confidence level intervals on the branching fractions: B(D0 to e+e-)<1.7 x 10^-7, B(D0 to mu+mu-) within [0.6, 8.1] x 10^-7, and B(D0 to e mu)<3.3 x 10^-7.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRD
Why do firms behave similarly? A study on new product introduction in the Japanese soft-drink industry
Creators: name: Asaba, Shigeru
name: Lieberman, Marvin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: We analyze new product introduction in the Japanese soft-drink industry to distinguish among theories of why firms exhibit similar behavior. Some theories suggest that firms mimic others with comparable resource endowments in order to mitigate rivalry or to minimize risk. Other theories suggest that imitation economizes on information costs. In the Japanese soft-drink industry, there is often bunching of new product introductions and imitation of competitors' offerings. As a result, Japanese beverage manufacturers duplicate each other's product lines. In the US, by comparison, the extent of such duplication is much less. The empirical results provide support for both sets of theories, but in different contexts. The analysis of firms' initial entry into brand-new products suggests that firms enter when they observe larger competitors doing so. Entry by large firms provides information that demand for the product is likely to grow; indeed, such entry may give legitimacy to the product and stimulate consumer demand. On the other hand, the analysis of new product introduction within established product categories suggests that firms often mimic competitors that share a similar resource base. One interpretation is that the bunching of entry into emerging product markets is largely the result of economizing on information costs, whereas the bunching of product introductions within established categories is caused more by competitive interaction among similar firms.
CINECA Report of main achievements, impacts, sustainability and exploitation D8.4
Creators: name: Garcia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: federated access
federated analysis
GDPR

description: The main objective of the CINECA project is to build a federated solution that enables population-scale genomic and biomolecular data to be accessible internationally, accelerating research and improving health. The necessary infrastructure for data acquisition and analysis for a single cohort is a well-understood task, but sustaining meta-analyses across similar cohorts is challenging. CINECA project has addressed these challenges by focusing on the ‘Researcher Journey’, the steps a researcher/clinician must take to find, access and analyze data stored in different locations while complying with ethical and legal requirements. In this deliverable we recap the results of the CINECA project; we report on the general achievements of the project, describe the individual outputs and their impact, and evaluate the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) established at the beginning of the project. This deliverable will focus on CINECA’s achievements and impact. Information about the project’s strategy for long-term sustainability of CINECA’s outputs are described in Deliverable D8.3 - Report of impact and key results.
Quasiparticle bandgap engineering of graphene and graphone on hexagonal boron nitride substrate
Creators: name: Kharche, Neerav
name: Nayak, Saroj K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene holds great promise for post-silicon electronics, however, it faces two main challenges: opening up a bandgap and finding a suitable substrate material. In principle, graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate provides potential system to overcome these challenges. Recent theoretical and experimental studies have provided conflicting results: while theoretical studies suggested a possibility of a finite bandgap of graphene on hBN, recent experimental studies find no bandgap. Using the first-principles density functional method and the many-body perturbation theory, we have studied graphene on hBN substrate. A Bernal stacked graphene on hBN has a bandgap on the order of 0.1 eV, which disappears when graphene is misaligned with respect to hBN. The latter is the likely scenario in realistic devices. In contrast, if graphene supported on hBN is hydrogenated, the resulting system (graphone) exhibits bandgaps larger than 2.5 eV. While the bandgap opening in graphene/hBN is due to symmetry breaking and is vulnerable to slight perturbation such as misalignment, the graphone bandgap is due to chemical functionalization and is robust in the presence of misalignment. The bandgap of graphone reduces by about 1 eV when it is supported on hBN due to the polarization effects at the graphone/hBN interface. The band offsets at graphone/hBN interface indicate that hBN can be used not only as a substrate but also as a dielectric in the field effect devices employing graphone as a channel material. Our study could open up new way of bandgap engineering in graphene based nanostructures.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures; Nano Letters, Publication Date (Web): Oct. 25 2011, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl202725w
FAIRs not fair for metadata aggregators?
Creators: name: Morris, Matthew
name: Papagiannopoulos, Kostas
name: Shepherdson, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The domain agnostic metrics adopted by FAIR data assessment tools tend to penalise metadata aggregators, like the CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC). This became apparent during the work done for the 'Bulk FAIR assessment of the CESSDA Data Catalogue using the F-UJI API' (as presented at EDDI2022).
Building on that work, FAIR scores were generated by the F-UJI and FAIR EVA tools for some of the records held in the CDC and the same records at source. Then they were analysed to determine the relative differences and underlying causes on a criteria by criteria basis.
In order to do this, the script previously used to run the bulk assessments was modified to allow it to run different tools against different sources of metadata. The results were stored as ElasticSearch indices, and a Kibana dashboard provided a visual representation of the relative differences in the scores.
The results show that the lower scores for aggregated metadata records are due to the definition of the FAIR criteria rather than their implementation by the tools. Which begs the question, 'is it OK that aggregated metadata is, by definition, less FAIR, or should the definition be changed to level the playing field?'
A second neutron star in M4?
Creators: name: Kaluzny, J.
name: Rozanska, A.
name: Rozyczka, M.
name: Krzeminski, W.
name: Thompson, I. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the optical counterpart of the X-ray source CX 1 in M4 is a 20th magnitude star, located in the color-magnitude diagram on (or very close to) the main sequence of the cluster, and exhibiting sinusoidal variations of the flux. We find the X-ray flux to be also periodically variable, with X-ray and optical minima coinciding. Stability of the optical light curve, lack of UV-excess, and unrealistic mean density resulting from period-density relation for semidetached systems, speak against the original identification of CX 1 as a cataclysmic variable. We argue that the X-ray active component of this system is a neutron star (probably a millisecond pulsar).
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters
Pre-clinical treatment of prostate cancer using targeted oncolytic viral therapy
Creators: name: Moussavi, Maryam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Prostate cancer is the most prevalent non-skin malignancy and the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality in North American men. Current therapies for patients with locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer are largely palliative and non-curative. Oncolytic viral-therapy provides a new approach to efficiently target and kill cancer cells while sparing normal cells. Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) is an oncolytic virus, which can infect and kill cells that have defects in their cellular anti-viral interferon (IFN) response. In this study, enhanced IFN-sensitive VSV(AV3) strain was intra-prostatically injected into two different transgenic mouse models (PTEN-/- and TRAMP) and monitored for infectivity, apoptosis, and innate-immune response. Viral spread and load were monitored by bioluminescence and plaque analysis over 96h time period. It was determined that viral spread begins as early as 3-6h post-viral administration and persisted >72h in prostates of tumour-bearing mice compared to control. Plaque assay provided a similar pattern, with much higher concentrations of replicating virus in prostates and metastatic lymph nodes of tumour-bearing mice compared to control. TUNEL staining of paraffin-embedded prostates and enlarged lymph nodes demonstrated VSV(AV3)’s ability to selectively infect and kill malignant cells while sparing normal cells. This tumour-selective cell death was attributed to a disrupted IFN response in the prostates of tumour-bearing transgenic mice. However, evidence of activated IFN response in the enlarged lymph nodes was observed. To augment the safety of future oncolytic viral-therapies alternate targeting strategy based on tumour-specific over-expression of eIF4E was employed. Three different length of 5’UTRs, which require abundant levels of eIF4E for translation, derived from either fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) or ornithine decarboxylase were inserted downstream of ubiquitin promoter in a lentiviral-plasmid. Expression of each plasmid was tested in vitro using prostate cancer and control cell lines, and in vivo using PTEN-/- and control mice. Immunofluorescence and Western blot analysis determined FGF-2-5’UTR to be most sensitive to eIF4E levels. Results suggested that control of locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer may be achievable through intra-prostatic injection and amplification of a safe oncolytic virus, such as VSV(AV3). Also, judicious selection of a complex 5’UTR can enhance viral-based targeted-therapies for prostate cancer.
Analysis of impacts of climate variability on malaria transmission in Sri Lanka and the development of an early warning system
Creators: name: Zubair, Lareef M.
name: Connor, Stephen J.
name: Ward, M. Neil
name: Galapaththy, G. N. L.
name: Mahanama, Sarith
name: Faizal, H. M.
name: Yahiya, Zeenas
name: Siriwardhana, Manjula
name: Tennakoon, Upamala
name: Chandimala, Janaki
name: Razick, Siraj
name: Nawarathna, Badra
name: Shaman, Jeffrey L.
name: Ndiaye, Ousmane
name: Yang, Hyemin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Climatic changes
Malaria
Malaria--Transmission

description: This collection of posters is a supplement to the main report on the project on Climate Impacts on Malaria and the Development of an Early Warning System in Sri Lanka that was undertaken with the support of the Climate Variability and Human Health Program Jointly sponsored by NOAA, NSF, EPA and EPRI. The collection puts together posters that had been prepared for various activities related to the project. They provide an overview of much of the preliminary work. The later findings from this project are not represented in this collection as much as in the main report.
Feeding and feedback in the active nucleus of Mrk 1157 probed with Gemini Near-Infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph
Creators: name: Riffel, Rogemar A.
name: Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have mapped the stellar and gaseous kinematics, as well as the emission-line flux distributions and ratios, from the inner 450pc radius of Mrk1157, using 2D near-IR spectra obtained with the Gemini NIFS at a spatial resolution of 35pc. The stellar velocity field shows a rotation pattern, with a discrete S-shaped zero velocity curve. The presence of a bar is also supported by the residual map between the observed rotation field and a model of circular orbits in a Plummer potential. The stellar velocity dispersion map presents a partial ring of low-sigma values (50-60km/s) at 250pc from the nucleus surrounded by higher sigma values from the galaxy bulge, originated in kinematically colder regions with recent star formation. The velocity dispersion of the bulge (100km/s) implies in a black hole mass of 8.3x10^6M_Sun. Emission-line flux distributions are most extended along PA=27/153deg, reaching at least 450pc from the nucleus and following the orientation observed in previous optical emission-line [OIII] imaging and radio jet. The molecular H_2 emission is dominated by thermal processes, mainly due to X-ray heating by the active nucleus. The [FeII] excitation has a larger contribution from shocks produced by the radio jet, as evidenced by the line-ratio maps and velocity dispersion map, which show spatial correlation with the radio structures. The gaseous kinematics shows two components, one due to gas located in the galaxy plane and another in outflow, which is oriented close to the plane of the sky, thus extending to high latitudes, as the galaxy plane is inclined by 45deg relative to the plane of the sky. The gas rotating in the plane dominates the H_2 and Pa-beta emission, while the gas in outflow is observed predominantly in [FeII] emission. From the outflow velocities and implied geometry, we estimate an outflow mass rate of 6M_sun/yr for the ionised gas.
description: 19 pages, published by MNRAS, 2011, 417, 2752
Efficient prime counting and the Chebyshev primes
Creators: name: Planat, Michel
name: Solé, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The function $ε(x)=\mbox{li}(x)-π(x)$ is known to be positive up to the (very large) Skewes' number. Besides, according to Robin's work, the functions $ε_θ(x)=\mbox{li}[θ(x)]-π(x)$ and $ε_ψ(x)=\mbox{li}[ψ(x)]-π(x)$ are positive if and only if Riemann hypothesis (RH) holds (the first and the second Chebyshev function are $θ(x)=\sum_{p \le x} \log p$ and $ψ(x)=\sum_{n=1}^x Λ(n)$, respectively, $\mbox{li}(x)$ is the logarithmic integral, $μ(n)$ and $Λ(n)$ are the Möbius and the Von Mangoldt functions). Negative jumps in the above functions $ε$, $ε_θ$ and $ε_ψ$ may potentially occur only at $x+1 \in \mathcal{P}$ (the set of primes). One denotes $j_p=\mbox{li}(p)-\mbox{li}(p-1)$ and one investigates the jumps $j_p$, $j_{θ(p)}$ and $j_{ψ(p)}$. In particular, $j_p<1$, and $j_{θ(p)}>1$ for $p<10^{11}$. Besides, $j_{ψ(p)}<1$ for any odd $p \in \mathcal{\mbox{Ch}}$, an infinite set of so-called {\it Chebyshev primes } with partial list $\{109, 113, 139, 181, 197, 199, 241, 271, 281, 283, 293, 313, 317, 443, 449, 461, 463, \ldots\}$. We establish a few properties of the set $\mathcal{\mbox{Ch}}$, give accurate approximations of the jump $j_{ψ(p)}$ and relate the derivation of $\mbox{Ch}$ to the explicit Mangoldt formula for $ψ(x)$. In the context of RH, we introduce the so-called {\it Riemann primes} as champions of the function $ψ(p_n^l)-p_n^l$ (or of the function $θ(p_n^l)-p_n^l$ ). Finally, we find a {\it good} prime counting function $S_N(x)=\sum_{n=1}^N \frac{μ(n)}{n}\mbox{li}[ψ(x)^{1/n}]$, that is found to be much better than the standard Riemann prime counting function.
description: 15 pages section 2.2 added, new sequences added, Fig. 2 and 3 are new
Spin-3 quasinormal modes of BTZ black hole
Creators: name: Myung, Yun Soo
name: Kim, Yong-Wan
name: Park, Young-Jai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the operator approach, we obtain quasinormal modes (QNMs) of BTZ black hole in spin-3 topologically massive gravity by solving the first-order equation of motion with the transverse-traceless condition. We find that these are different from those obtained when solving the second-order differential equation for the third-rank tensor of spin-3 field subject to suitable boundary conditions and having the sign ambiguity of mass. However, it is shown clearly that two approaches to the left-moving QNMs are identical, while the right-moving QNMs of solving the second-order equation are given by descendants of the operator approach.
description: 16 pages, title changed, references added, version to appear in PRD
Pharmaceuticals: Merck: Sustaining long-term advantage through information technology
Creators: name: Amari, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This case study of Merck was completed under a three year research grant from the Sloan Foundation. The project's purpose is to examine in a series of case studies how U.S. and Japanese firms who are recognized leaders in using information technology to achieve long-term sustainable advantage have organized and managed this process. While each case is complete in itself, each is part of this larger study. This pharmaceutical industry case together with other cases support an initial research hypothesis that leading software users in both the U.S. and Japan are very sophisticated in the ways they have integrated software into their management strategies and use it to institutionalize organizational strengths and capture tacit knowledge on an iterative basis. In Japan this strategy has involved heavy reliance on customized and semi-customized software (Rapp 1995) but is changing towards a more selective use of package software managed via customized systems. In turn, U.S. counterparts, such as Merck, who have often relied more on packaged software, are doing more customization, especially for systems needed to integrate software packages into something more closely linked with their business strategies, markets, and organizational structure. Thus, coming from different directions, there appears some convergence in approach by these leading software users. The cases thus confirm what some other analysts have hypothesized, a coherent business strategy is a necessary condition for a successful information technology strategy (Wold and Shriver 1993). These strategic links for Merck are presented in the following case.
Lost in the desert: human security and the dilemmas of Canadian policy in Afghanistan
Creators: name: Greaves, Wilfrid William John
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2009

description: Bibliography: p, 106-114
description: The concept of human security has become a resilient part of Canadian foreign policy, and has guided Canada's international role and legitimated the deployment of military forces abroad. This has been demonstrated with respect to Canada's active involvement in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. However, as the war in Afghanistan has continued, increasing violence has raised questions about the effectiveness of international military efforts in protecting human security. This thesis examines Canada's involvement in Afghanistan to determine whether it has been effective at promoting a narrowly defined conception of human security for the Afghan people. It concludes that Canadian military policy and practice have been inconsistent with Canada's stated policy towards human security, and that Canada and other international military actors have actually contributed to Afghan insecurity. The study suggests that better incorporation of human security principles into counterinsurgency practice is needed to improve Afghan human security.
The role of preconceived ideas in macroeconomic policy: Japan's experiences in the two deflationary periods
Creators: name: Hamada, Koichi
name: Noguchi, Asahi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Commerce

description: This paper examines the role of misleading economic ideas that most likely promoted the economic disasters of the two deflationary periods in Japanese economic history. Misleading ideas deepened the depression during the interwar years, and erroneous thinking prolonged the stagnation of the Japanese economy since the 1990s. While the current framework of political economy is based on the self-interests of political agents as well as of voters, we highlight the role of misleading ideas in policy making, in particular, in the field of macro-economy where the incidence of a particular policy is not clear to the public. Using two significant examples, this paper illustrates the role of preconceived ideas, in contrast to economic interests, that dominantly influenced economic policy making.
Transition from weak to strong cascade in MHD turbulence
Creators: name: Verdini, Andrea
name: Grappin, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transition from weak to strong turbulence when passing from large to small scales in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with guide field is a cornerstone of anisotropic turbulence theory. We present the first check of this transition, using the Shell-RMHD which combines a shell model of perpendicular nonlinear coupling and linear propagation along the guide field. This model allows us to reach Reynolds numbers around $10^6$. We obtain surprisingly good agreement with the theoretical predictions, with a reduced perpendicular energy spectrum scaling as $k^{-2}$ at large scales and as $k^{-5/3}$ at small scales, where critical balance between nonlinear and propagation time is reached. However, even in the strong regime, a high level of excitation is found in the weak coupling region of Fourier space, which is due to the rich frequency spectrum of large eddies. A corollary is that the reduced parallel spectral slope is not a definite test of the spectral anisotropy, contrary to standard belief.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted in PRL
Life insurance: Meiji Life, K.K.: Sustaining long-term advantage through information technology
Creators: name: Rapp, William V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This retail life insurance case together with other cases3 support an initial research hypothesis that leading software users in the US and Japan are very sophisticated in the ways they have integrated software into their management strategies and use it to institutionalize organizational strengths and capture tacit knowledge on an iterative basis. In Japan, this strategy has involved heavy reliance on customized and semi-customized software (Rapp 1995) but is changing toward a more selective use of packaged software managed via customized systems. This is seen in Meiji's adoption of Windows NT and Excel as the basis for their new laptop based field support system. In turn, US firms, such as Merck, who have often relied more on packaged software, are doing more customization, especially for systems needed to integrate software packages into something more closely linked with the firm's business strategies, markets, and organizational structure. Thus, coming from different directions, there appears to be some convergence in approach by these leading software users. The cases thus confirm what some other analysts have hypothesized; a coherent business strategy is a necessary condition for a successful information technology (IT) strategy (Wold and Shriver 1993). These strategic links for Meiji and the Japanese retail life insurance business are presented in the following case.
The Political Economy of Growth: A Critical Survey of the Recent Literature and Some New Results
Creators: name: Perotti, Roberto
name: Alesina, Alberto
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Economics

description: "Two of the most active fields in economics in the last few years have been growth theory and macro-political economy. The first one was inspired by new "endogenous growth theories" to reconsider which economic factors influence economic development. Recent research in "macro political economy" has explored the connections between politics, institutions and macroeconomic policies and outcomes."
Living with the "enemy": An analysis of foreign investment in the Japanese equity market
Creators: name: Hamao, Yasushi
name: Mei, Jianping
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper studies the impact of foreign investment on domestic financial markets. It examines the empirical validity of some protectionist claims used by regulators to restrict foreign investment. These people argue that 1) trading by foreign investors tends to increase market volatility more than trading by domestic investors, 2) foreign investors have sophisticated investment technology to which domestic investors do not have access so that domestic investors tend to "lose" to foreign investors, and 3) foreign investors tend to be short term investors whose investments are mostly driven by expectation of short-term gains rather than long-term fundamentals such as corporate dividend growth. We find there is no evidence supporting these claims from the Japanese experience. To the contrary, we find that foreign investors tend to be long-term contrarian players in the market and their presence helps to improve liquidity in the Japanese market. Thus, our results support the hypothesis that international free flow of equity capital is beneficial to domestic markets.
Interval-valued fuzzy graphs
Creators: name: Akram, Muhammad
name: Dudek, Wieslaw A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We define the Cartesian product, composition, union and join on interval-valued fuzzy graphs and investigate some of their properties. We also introduce the notion of interval-valued fuzzy complete graphs and present some properties of self complementary and self weak complementary interval-valued fuzzy complete graphs.
Use of Climate Information in the Greater Horn: Assessing the Needs of Institutional Users
Creators: name: Curry, Joseph
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Science--Social aspects
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Africans

description: As part of the USAID funded project, "Capacity Building in Regional Climate Prediction and Applications for the Greater Horn of Africa," an assessment of institutional users of climate information was undertaken to better understand the climate information needs of organizations working in the Greater Horn Region. The International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) conducted the research with the assistance of the Drought Monitoring Centre Nairobi (DMCN). In the Greater Horn region, a critical number of institutions working in government, private industry, and the international and NGO community are affected by climatic variability. This research was conducted to assess their information needs and to provide feedback for improving regional and national-level climate information services for the Greater Horn. Forty-three institutions from Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia responded to written surveys and/or participated in on-site interviews. The assessment found that the majority of institutions participating recognize the role of climate information (both climate data and forecasts) in improving their planning and operational capacity. Furthermore, the institutions would like to strengthen their relationships with their climate information providers on the national and/or regional levels, and in many cases are proactive in seeking to build this relationship. As many climate information providers in the region move into parastatal arrangements, institutional users may prove to be an increasingly relevant customer base. Many institutions interviewed expressed a willingness to pay for some services. However this research identifying user needs stressed the necessity for 1) improving the quality of forecast and climate data products, 2) assistance in interpretation and applications of seasonal forecasts, 3) increasing regularity in dissemination of reports, 4) establishing a standardized pricing system, and 5) enhancing accessibility to climate data.
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Creators: name: Prag, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sicily
subject: epigraphy
subject: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300138808
subject: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462492

description: TEI EpiDoc record
Cosmological constraints on Lorentz invariance violation in the neutrino sector
Creators: name: Guo, Zong-Kuan
name: Huang, Qing-Guo
name: Cai, Rong-Gen
name: Zhang, Yuan-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the Boltzmann equation in the synchronous gauge for massive neutrinos with a deformed dispersion relation. Combining the 7-year WMAP data with lower-redshift measurements of the expansion rate, we give constraints on the deformation parameter and find that the deformation parameter is strong degenerate with the physical dark matter density instead of the neutrino mass. Our results show that there is no evidence for Lorentz invariant violation in the neutrino sector. The ongoing Planck experiment could provide improved constraints on the deformation parameter.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, RevTeX, references added, published version
Funding the future: the role of diamond in sustainable, full and fair open access
Creators: name: Kramer, Bianca
name: Bosman, Jeroen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: In 2020, cOAlition S commissioned a study to gain insights into the OA publishing landscape of diamond journals and platforms, which are free to readers and authors. The research, conducted by a group of 10 organizations lead by OPERAS, aggregated data from an online survey that gathered around 1600 responses from journal editors across the globe, a quantitative analysis of data from bibliographical databases and a qualitative analysis based on focus groups of journal editors and interviews with infrastructure providers. The findings of the study point to a wide archipelago of relatively small journals serving diverse communities, with a mix of scientific strengths and operational challenges (including compliance with funder mandates) and an economy that is characterized by a large dependency on volunteers, universities and governments, modest publishing costs and a variety of funding models. In this presentation, we will discuss the various recommendations of the study to increase the capacity of community-driven/governed journals and platforms, connecting them and technically supporting them in a coordinated way. We call upon funders to consistently finance the operations of diamond journals and platforms and invest in the future of diamond OA. We connect this plea for support for diamond open access to the bigger theme of the conference by suggesting some concrete ways towards full and fair open access based on a much larger role of diamond.
title: Ablation and wind mass-loading in the born-again planetary nebula A 30
Creators: name: Guerrero, Martín A.
name: Chu, You-Hua
name: Hamann, Wolf-Rainer
name: Oskinova, Lidia
name: Schönberner, Detlef
name: Todt, Helge
name: Steffen, Matthias
name: Ruiz, Nieves
name: Gruendl, Robert A.
name: Blair, William P.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: We present XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of the born-again planetary nebula A 30. These X-ray observations reveal a bright unresolved source at the position of the central star whose X-ray luminosity exceeds by far the model expectations for photospheric emission and for shocks within the stellar wind. We suggest that a “born-again hot bubble” may be responsible for this X-ray emission. Diffuse X-ray emission associated with the petal-like features and one of the H-poor knots seen in the optical is also found. The weakened emission of carbon lines in the spectrum of the diffuse emission can be interpreted as the dilution of stellar wind by mass-loading or as the detection of material ejected during a very late thermal pulse.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 563
Climate Influences on Human-Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Zubair, Lareef M.
name: Blumenthal, Martin Benno
name: Ndiaye, Ousmane
name: Perera, Ruvini
name: Ward, M. Neil
name: Yahiya, Zeenas
name: Chandimala, Janaki
name: Ralapanawe, Vidhura
name: Tennakoon, Upamala
name: Siraj, M. R. A.
name: Manthrithillake, Herath
name: Hendawitharna, W. L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Science--Social aspects
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Contemporary ecological research supports focus on the preservation of habitats and the preservation of keystone species that are critical to the ecological character of the habitats. Conservation of endangered species works best with attention not only to the species but also to the needs of the people who may be adjacent to or bordering habitats. Southern Sri Lanka fall into the category of globally important biodiversity hotspots. The biggest land animal, the elephant is the keystone species in Sri Lanka outside the highlands. The population of elephants in Sri Lanka is estimated to be between 3000 and 4,000; yet there has been an alarming loss of 1000 elephants during from 1990-2003. Given its island setting and rich hydro-climatic data, Sri Lanka provides a unique opportunity to study the dynamics leading to species loss. Our work in this project was initially motivated by the practical concerns of our project partners in the Mahaweli River Basin in Sri Lanka where the human-elephant conflict was a major problem. The question that arose was: "Are the climate, water availability and river basin management practices contributing to conflict between elephants and people?" If this was indeed the case, then, could one adaptively manage the river basin, organize agricultural practices, and prioritize conflict mitigation options such as separate habitat enrichment programs? Moreover, could we propose various adaptive measures in changes if one could monitor the climate and environmental conditions and take advantage of seasonal climate predictions.
Nextflow: Scalable and reproducible scientific workflows
Creators: name: Floden, Evan
name: Di Tommaso, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: workflows
data pipelines
cloud
genomics

description: Nextflow is an open-source workflow management system that prioritizes portability and reproducibility. It enables users to develop and seamlessly scale genomics workflows locally, on HPC clusters, or in major cloud providers’ infrastructures. Developed since 2014 and backed by a fast-growing community, the Nextflow ecosystem is made up of users and developers across academia, government and industry. It counts over 1M downloads and over 10K users worldwide.
Early warning and response to fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia
Creators: name: Ceccato, Pietro N.
name: Jaya, I. Nengah Surati
name: Qian, Jianhua
name: Tippett, Michael K.
name: Robertson, Andrew W.
name: Someshwar, Shiv
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Environmental sciences

description: Scientists at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) collaborated with Bogor Agriculture University Indonesia to investigate links between climate anomalies and fire hotspots in Kalimantan, Indonesia. During their investigation, a close relationship between satellite rainfall data and fire hotspot activity was found. Rainfall anomalies during the dry season from June-October were particularly critical in determining fire activity. Vegetation greenness and moisture indices derived from MODIS images, however, did not appear to demonstrate a relationship. These findings were used to develop a prototype online tool that enables stakeholders to view satellite rainfall anomalies and forecast fire activity in Kalimantan. Potential fire activity can be inferred from these data and steps can be taken early on to prevent or minimize the effects of regional fire occurrences.
AdS/QCD and Applications of Light-Front Holography
Creators: name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
name: Cao, Fu-Guang
name: de Teramond, Guy F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light-Front Holography leads to a rigorous connection between hadronic amplitudes in a higher dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) space and frame-independent light-front wavefunctions of hadrons in 3+1 physical space-time, thus providing a compelling physical interpretation of the AdS/CFT correspondence principle and AdS/QCD, a useful framework which describes the correspondence between theories in a modified AdS$_5$ background and confining field theories in physical space-time. To a first semiclassical approximation, where quantum loops and quark masses are not included, this approach leads to a single-variable light-front Schrödinger equation which determines the eigenspectrum and the light-front wavefunctions of hadrons for general spin and orbital angular momentum. The coordinate $z$ in AdS space is uniquely identified with a Lorentz-invariant coordinate $ζ$ which measures the separation of the constituents within a hadron at equal light-front time. The internal structure of hadrons is explicitly introduced and the angular momentum of the constituents plays a key role. We give an overview of the light-front holographic approach to strongly coupled QCD. In particular, we study the photon-to-meson transition form factors (TFFs) $F_{M γ}(Q^2)$ for $γγ^* \to M$ using light-front holographic methods. The results for the TFFs for the $η$ and $η^\prime$ mesons are also presented. Some novel features of QCD are discussed, including the consequences of confinement for quark and gluon condensates. A method for computing the hadronization of quark and gluon jets at the amplitude level is outlined.
description: Lectures presented by SJB and GdT at the Workshop AdS/CFT and Novel Approaches to Hadron and Heavy Ion Physics, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (KITPC), Beijing, China, October 19 and 20, 2010. Review Article to be published in Communications in Theoretical Physics. 61 pages, 13 figures
Experiences of gender-based violence among female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and transgender women in Latin America and the Caribbean: a qualitative study to inform HIV programming
Creators: name: Ridgeway, Kathleen
name: de Bruin, Marjan
name: Santi, Karin
name: Desrosiers, Pavel Chladni
name: Parker, Caleb
name: Mendizabal, Modesto
name: Brennan, Claire
name: Cooke, Juana
name: Davis, Dirk
name: Evens, Emily
name: Drago, Marta
name: Morales, Giuliana
name: Diaz, Xenia
name: Hershow, Rebecca B.
name: Dayton, Robyn
name: Lanham, Michele
name: McLean, Roger
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019

description:
Background Female sex workers, MSM, and transgender women—collectively referred to as key populations (KPs)—are disproportionately affected by gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV, yet little is known about the violence they face, its gender-based origins, and responses to GBV. The purpose of this study was to understand the nature and consequences of GBV experienced, to inform HIV policies and programming and to help protect KPs’ human rights. Methods Using a participatory approach, FSWs, MSM, and transgender women in Barbados, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, and Haiti conducted 278 structured interviews with peers to understand their experiences of and responses to GBV. Responses to open-ended questions were coded in NVivo and analyzed using an applied thematic analysis. Results Nearly all participants experienced some form of GBV. Emotional and economic GBV were the most commonly reported but approximately three-quarters of participants reported sexual and physical GBV and other human rights violations. The most common settings for GBV were at home, locations where sex work took place such as brothels, bars and on the street; public spaces such as parks, streets and public transport, health care centers, police stations and—for transgender women and MSM—religious settings and schools. The most common perpetrators of violence included: family, friends, peers and neighbors, strangers, intimate partners, sex work clients and other sex workers, health care workers, police, religious leaders and teachers. Consequences included emotional, physical, and sexual trauma; lack of access to legal, health, and other social services; and loss of income, employment, housing, and educational opportunities. Though many participants disclosed experiences of GBV to friends, colleagues and family, they rarely sought services following violence. Furthermore, less than a quarter of participants believed that GBV put them at risk of HIV. Conclusions Our study found that across the four study countries, FSWs, MSM, and transgender women experienced GBV from state and non-state actors throughout their lives, and much of this violence was directly connected to rigid and harmful gender norms. Through coordinated interventions that address both HIV and GBV, this region has the opportunity to reduce the national burden of HIV while also promoting key populations’ human rights.