cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Heterogeneous Impact of Financial Development on Households: Evidence from Developing Countries
Creators: name: Amin, Fouzia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: The role of financial services is vital for capital allocation and welfare in developing countries. Recent studies have shown that financial development has positively contributed to growth in household incomes. However, to achieve sustainable growth through reduction in inequality, financial development should foster income growth universally across all income groups. This paper examines the relationship between financial development and inequality in terms of shares of incomes of the highest and lowest quintiles of populations in developing countries. We carry out both cross-country and dynamic panel instrumental variables regressions and find that the financial development indicator has a positive impact on the income shares of the highest quintile but a negative impact on the income shares of the lowest quintile. We find that the benefits of finance are disproportionately distributed across these income groups in developing countries.
Additional file 1 of PET/CT Staging Followed by Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) Improves Treatment Outcome of Locally Advanced Pharyngeal Carcinoma: a matched-pair comparison
Creators: name: Rothschild, Sacha
name: Studer, Gabriela
name: Seifert, Burkhardt
name: Huguenin, Pia
name: Glanzmann, Christoph
name: Davis, J Bernard
name: Lütolf, Urs M
name: Hany, Thomas F
name: Ciernik, I Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 1
Flavour physics without flavour symmetries
Creators: name: Buchmuller, Wilfried
name: Patel, Ketan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We quantitatively analyze a quark-lepton flavour model derived from a six-dimensional supersymmetric theory with $SO(10)\times U(1)$ gauge symmetry, compactified on an orbifold with magnetic flux. Two bulk $\mathbf{16}$-plets charged under the $U(1)$ provide the three quark-lepton generations whereas two uncharged $\mathbf{10}$-plets yield two Higgs doublets. At the orbifold fixed points mass matrices are generated with rank one or two. Moreover, the zero modes mix with heavy vectorlike split multiplets. The model possesses no flavour symmetries. Nevertheless, there exist a number of relations between Yukawa couplings, remnants of the underlying GUT symmetry and the wave function profiles of the zero modes, which lead to a prediction of the light neutrino mass scale, $m_{ν_1} \sim 10^{-3}$ eV and heavy Majorana neutrino masses in the range from $10^{12}$ GeV to $10^{14}$ GeV. The model successfully includes thermal leptogenesis.
description: Minor additions; Published version
An integrated approach to combine computer-based training (CBT) and immersive training (ImT) for mechanical assembly
Creators: name: Kim, Young Jun
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Shared virtual environments -- Industrial applications

description: There is currently a vital need to improve effectiveness and efficiency of training technologies used in industry especially in the areas of assembly, disassembly, maintenance, installation, and troubleshooting. Current training techniques vary from paper-based (books, manuals) to computer-based (presentations, web pages, on-line help, etc.) to immersive (VR-based) systems. This dissertation presents an integrated approach to create a Computer-Based Training (CBT) and Immersive Training (ImT) system in a unified manner to exploit commonalities and that is integrated with a Learning Management System (LMS). We coin this approach iTrain, integrated Training. iTrain consists of CBT, ImT, and a learning management tool. The goal is to enable transformational change of mechanical assembly training through the creation of a new generation training ensemble. In this dissertation, the methodology, approaches, and algorithms for such integrated training systems are presented. Based on this methodology and these approaches, a CBT application that allows interactive training using traditional computer tools (keyboard and mouse) and an immersive application that allows interactive learning using VR devices have been both developed and integrated. These applications are integrated with the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) so that the training can be managed, tracked, and evaluated in an effective and efficient manner. A unified approach has been designed to manage common data such as model name, and model ID. A database has been designed and implemented for access from CBT, ImT, and LMS. This prototype integrated training system is presented and discussed in this dissertation.
Ruina y memoria material en espacios de ocio modernos : una aproximación desde la arqueología contemporánea sobre el Teatro de Cine San Jorge de Bogotá, Colombia (1938-2021)
Creators: name: Caro León, Gabriela
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Áreas metropolitanas
subject: Teatro popular
subject: Bienes culturales
subject: Arqueología contemporánea
subject: Ruinas
subject: Memoria material
subject: Teatro San Jorge
subject: Bogotá

description: Esta investigación es una propuesta teórico-metodológica de la Arqueología Contemporánea para comprender los procesos de abandono y ruina en espacios urbanos que funcionaron para el ocio y entretenimiento moderno, como fueron los antiguos teatros de cine en Bogotá durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, a través del estudio de un caso concreto: el Teatro de cine San Jorge de Bogotá. De esta manera, se exploran las prácticas sociales alrededor del Teatro y su entorno urbano más inmediato, a través de sus diversas experiencias temporales, espaciales y memoria material, reflejadas en sus calles, edificaciones y los nuevos usos sociales de estos equipamientos urbanos. Así mismo, expone la forma en la que se afectan negativamente vidas humanas debido a las propuestas de progreso y modernización de la ciudad, que excluyen otros actores marginales cuyas voces y resistencia se visibilizan en el presente documento.
description: This research is a theoretical-methodological proposal of Contemporary Archeology to understand the processes of abandonment and ruin in urban spaces that functioned for leisure and modern entertainment, such as the old movie theaters in Bogotá during the first half of the 20th century through the study of a specific case: the San Jorge Cinema Theater in Bogotá. In this way, the social practices around the Theater and its immediate urban environment are explored, through its various temporal, spatial experiences and material memory, reflected in its streets, buildings and the new social uses of these urban facilities. Likewise, it exposes the way in which human lives are negatively affected due to the proposals for progress and modernization of the city, which exclude other marginal actors whose voices and resistance are made visible in this document.
Multicritical end-point of the first-order ferromagnetic transition in colossal magnetoresistive manganites
Creators: name: Demkó, L.
name: Kézsmárki, I.
name: Mihály, G.
name: Takeshita, N.
name: Tomioka, Y.
name: Tokura, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the bandwidth-temperature-magnetic field phase diagram of RE(0.55)Sr(0.45)MnO(3) colossal magnetoresistance manganites with ferromagnetic metallic (FM) ground state. The bandwidth (or equivalently the double exchange interaction) was controlled both via chemical substitution and hydrostatic pressure with a focus on the vicinity of the critical pressure p* where the character of the zero-field FM transition changes from first to second order. Below p* the first-order FM transition extends up to a critical magnetic field, H_cr. It is suppressed by pressure and approaches zero on the larger bandwidth side where the surface of the first-order FM phase boundary is terminated by a multicritical end-point (p*~32 kbar, T*~188 K, H*=0). The change in the character of the transition and the decrease of the CMR effect is attributed to the reduced CO/OO fluctuations.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Overview of the People Capability Maturity Model, Version 1.1
Creators: name: Curtis, William
name: Hefley, William A.
name: Miller, Sally A.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The People Capability Maturity Model (P-CMM) adapts the maturity framework of the Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM), to managing and developing an organization's workforce. The motivation for the P-CMM is to radically improve the ability of software organizations to attract, develop, motivate, organize, and retain the talent needed to continuously improve software development capability. The P-CMM is designed to allow software organizations to integrate workforce improvement with software process improvement programs guided by the CMM. The P-CMM can also be used by any kind of organization as a guide for improving their people-related and workforce practices. Based on the best current practices in the fields such as human resources and organizational development, the P-CMM provides organizations with guidance on how to gain control of their processes for managing and developing their workforce. The P-CMM helps organizations to characterize the maturity of their workforce practices, guide a program of continuous workforce development, set priorities for immediate actions, integrate workforce development with process improvement, and establish a culture of software engineering excellence. It describes an evolutionary improvement path from ad hoc, inconsistently performed practices, to a mature, disciplined development of the knowledge, skills, and motivation of the workforce, just as the CMM describes an evolutionary improvement path for the software processes within an organization. The P-CMM consists of five maturity levels that lay successive foundations for continuously improving talent, developing effective teams, and successfully managing the people assets of the organization. Each maturity level is a well-defined evolutionary plateau that institutionalizes a level of capability for developing the talent within the organization. This document provides an overview of the P-CMM. The P-CMM and its key practices are fully described in the People Capability Maturity Model (CMU/SEI-95-MM-002, September 1995).
A multispectral view of the periodic events in eta Carinae
Creators: name: Damineli, A.
name: Hillier, D. J.
name: Corcoran, M. F.
name: Stahl, O.
name: Groh, J. H.
name: Arias, J.
name: Teodoro, M.
name: Morrell, N.
name: Gamen, R.
name: Gonzalez, F.
name: Leister, N. V.
name: Levato, H.
name: Levenhagen, R. S.
name: Grosso, M.
name: Colombo, J. F. Albacete
name: Wallerstein, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A full description of the 5.5-yr low excitation events in Eta Carinae is presented. We show that they are not as simple and brief as previously thought, but a combination of two components. The first, the 'slow variation' component, is revealed by slow changes in the ionization level of circumstellar matter across the whole cycle and is caused by gradual changes in the wind-wind collision shock-cone orientation, angular opening and gaseous content. The second, the 'collapse' component, is restricted to around the minimum, and is due to a temporary global collapse of the wind-wind collision shock. High energy photons (E > 16 eV) from the companion star are strongly shielded, leaving the Weigelt objects at low ionization state for >6 months. High energy phenomena are sensitive only to the 'collapse', low energy only to the 'slow variation' and intermediate energies to both components. Simple eclipses and mechanisms effective only near periastron (e.g., shell ejection or accretion onto the secondary star) cannot account for the whole 5.5-yr cycle. We find anti-correlated changes in the intensity and the radial velocity of P Cygni absorption profiles in FeII 6455 and HeI 7065 lines, indicating that the former is associated to the primary and the latter to the secondary star. We present a set of light curves representative of the whole spectrum, useful for monitoring the next event (2009 January 11).
description: 16 pages, 7 EPS figures, accepted for publication on MNRAS
Auction Prices of Classical Music Manuscripts - A Hedonic Approach
Creators: name: Georges, Patrick
name: Seçkin, Aylin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Art Auctions
Classical Music Manuscripts
Hedonic Price Regression
Economics of Classical Music
Enchêres d’Art
Manuscrits de Musique Classique
Régressions Hédoniques
Économie de la Musique Classique

description: The literature on art auctions has overlooked the market for classical music manuscripts and this paper explores, for the first time, the determinants of “hammer” prices for about 360 classical music manuscripts auctioned at Sotheby’s (London) during the 1998-2009 period. We use hedonic price regressions in order to explain the price of classical music manuscripts by several characteristics. The paper shows that the “trace” of the composer (e.g., whether the manuscript is fully or partly in the hand of the composer or in a scribal hand), the artistic value of the composition, the number of pages, the period (Baroque, Classical, etc.), and of course the name of the composer and the relative scarcity of his manuscripts, are all characteristics that contribute to explain the hammer price of these manuscripts. However, parameter estimates for characteristics such as the type of music (Symphony, Opera, etc.) and whether the manuscript is the complete work or some fragment (say, one movement) are not statistically significant. The paper also estimates a hedonic price index that provides a measure of the average returns and (high) risk of collecting and investing in music manuscripts. / Ce papier explore, pour la première fois dans la littérature, les déterminants des prix d’enchère de 360 manuscrits de musique classique vendus à Sotheby’s (Londres) durant la période 1998-2009. Nous utilisons la méthode de régression de prix hédoniques afin d’expliquer le prix des manuscrits de musique classique par diverses caractéristiques. Nous montrons que la trace du compositeur (le fait que le manuscrit soit entièrement ou partiellement de la main du compositeur ou de celle d’un copiste), la valeur artistique de la musique telle qu’estimée par les experts, le nombre de pages, la période (Baroque, Classique, etc.), et bien sûr, le nom du compositeur et la rareté relative de ses manuscrits, sont toutes des caractéristiques qui contribuent à expliquer les prix d’enchère des manuscrits. Cependant, les paramètres associés aux caractéristiques telles que le style de musique (symphonique, opéra, etc.) ou la nature complète ou fragmentaire du manuscrit, ne sont pas statistiquement significatifs. L’étude dérive également un index de prix hédoniques qui fournit une mesure des rendements moyens et du risque (élevé) de collectionner et d’investir dans ces manuscrits.
Entropy per particle spikes in the transition metal dichalcogenides
Creators: name: Shubnyi, V. O.
name: Gusynin, V. P.
name: Sharapov, S. G.
name: Varlamov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a general expression for the entropy per particle as a function of chemical potential, temperature and gap magnitude for the single layer transition metal dichalcogenides. The electronic excitations in these materials can be approximately regarded as two species of the massive or gapped Dirac fermions. Inside the smaller gap there is a region with zero density of states where the dependence of the entropy per particle on the chemical potential exhibits a huge dip-and-peak structure. The edge of the larger gap is accompanied by the discontinuity of the density of states that results in the peak in the dependence of the entropy per particle on the chemical potential. The specificity of the transition metal dichalcogenides makes possible the observation of these features at rather high temperatures order of 100 K. The influence of the uniaxial strain on the entropy per particle is discussed.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; Special Issue to the 90th birthday of A.A. Abrikosov
How information about foreign aid affects public spending decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi
Creators: name: Ahlbäck, Johan
name: Jablonski, Ryan
name: Seim, Brigitte
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2020

description:
Does foreign aid shift public spending? Many worry that aid will be “fungible” in the sense that governments reallocate public funds in response to aid. If so, this could undermine development, increase the poorest's dependency on donors, and free resources for patronage. Yet, there is little agreement about the scale or consequences of such effects. We conducted an experiment with 460 elected politicians in Malawi. We provided information about foreign aid projects in local schools to these politicians. Afterwards, politicians made real decisions about which schools to target with development goods. Politicians who received the aid information treatment were 18% less likely to target schools with existing aid. These effects increase to 22–29% when the information was plausibly novel. We find little evidence that aid information heightens targeting of political supporters or family members, or dampens support to the neediest. Instead the evidence indicates politicians allocate the development goods in line with equity concerns.
Photovoice as a tool for exploring perceptions of marijuana use among Appalachian adolescents
Creators: name: Rose, Theda
name: Harley, Dana
name: Canfield, James
name: Goings, Trenette Clark
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021

description:
This study explored perceptions of marijuana use and abstinence among urban and rural Appalachian high school students using photovoice, enabling this subset of youth to co-construct their perceptions of marijuana use and abstinence. Twelve adolescents, ages 14-17, participated in the study. Participants identified managing stress and feeling peer pressure as two reasons teens might use marijuana. Participants identified four reasons for adolescent marijuana abstinence including having positive relationships, identifying with religion/spirituality, participating in extracurricular activities, and avoiding negative outcomes. Findings suggest that participants may smoke marijuana due to peer pressure and to cope with stress. Collective approaches including families, communities, and faith organizations may be important marijuana use prevention approaches for Appalachian adolescents.
Overview of ComFoRT: A Model Checking Reasoning Framework
Creators: name: Ivers, James
name: Sharygina, Natasha
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Component technologies are gaining acceptance in the software community as effective tools for quickly assembling increasingly complex systems from components. Most of the current component technologies, however, fail to help developers predict important software qualities like performance, safety, and reliability. A prediction-enabled component technology (PECT) augments the capabilities of a component technology with one or more reasoning frameworks that package quality specific analyses and the means to apply them to component-based systems. Model checking is an automated approach for exhaustively analyzing whether systems satisfy specific behavioral claims that can be used to characterize safety and reliability requirements. This technical note describes ComFoRT, a reasoning framework that packages the effectiveness of state-of-the-art model checking in a form that enables users to apply the analysis technique without being experts in its use, and its incorporation in a PECT.
title: ADCO, Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 1061
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 1061, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 1061, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Atomically Resolved Observation of Continuous Interfaces between As-grown MoS2 Monolayer and WS2/MoS2 Heterobilayer on SiO2
Creators: name: Zhang, Fan
name: Lu, Zhixing
name: Choi, Yichul
name: Liu, Haining
name: Zheng, Husong
name: Xie, Liming
name: Park, Kyungwha
name: Jiao, Liying
name: Tao, Chenggang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures synthesized through the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method allow creation and tuning of intriguing electronic and optical properties of two- dimensional (2D) materials, the knowledge of which is critical for a wide range of potential applications. Here we report our scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS) study of as-grown MoS2 monolayer and WS2/MoS2 heterobilayer on SiO2. The heterobilayer appears smoother than the MoS2 monolayer, with root mean square (RMS) roughness of 0.230 +- 0.021 nm in the former and 0.329 +- 0.033 nm in the latter. For the first time, to our knowledge, we directly observed a continuous interface between the MoS2 monolayer and the top layer of the heterobilayer with atomic resolution. This finding contrasts to the previously reported open edges in the top layer of the heterobilayer. Our STS results and density functional theory (DFT) calculations revealed the band gaps of the heterobilayer and the MoS2 monolayer.
Optimal look back period and summary method for Elixhauser comorbidity measures in a US population-based electronic health record database
Creators: name: Fortin, Yannick
name: Crispo, James A.G.
name: Cohen, Deborah
name: McNair, Douglas
name: Mattison, Donald R.
name: Krewski, Daniel
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: comorbidity
ICD-9
electronic health records
risk adjustment
mortality
statistical modeling

description: Background: Comorbidity risk-adjustment tools are widely used in health database research to control for clinical differences between individuals, but they need to be validated a priori. This study aimed to identify the optimal parameters for predicting all-cause inhospital mortality using Quan’s enhanced Elixhauser comorbidity measures (ECMs) in the US-based Cerner Health Facts® (HF) electronic health record database. Methods: Health care recipients aged 18–89 years between 2002 and 2011 were included. Prevalent comorbidities recorded, 1) during the index encounter; 2) in the prior year; and 3) in the prior 2 years were identified using the ECMs. Multiple logistic regression models, with inhospital mortality at index and at 1 year as the predicted outcomes, were fitted with comorbidities summarized as binary indicators, total counts, or weighted scores for the three look back periods. Baseline variables included sex and age. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of the competing models were compared with a non-parametric Mann–Whitney U test to identify the optimal parameters. Results: A sample of 3,273,298 unique health care recipients were included, of whom 31,298 (1.0%) and 50,215 (1.5%) died during the index encounter and within the 1-year follow-up, respectively. Models of comorbidity based on binary and weighted indicators had near-identical performance and were statistically better than the models based on total counts (p < 0.0001). Discrimination of inhospital mortality was highest with a look back period limited to the index encounter, while inhospital mortality at 1 year was best predicted with 1 year of look back (p < 0.0001). Conclusion: In Cerner HF, the binary and weighted methods for summarizing the Quan ECM were the best predictors of all-cause inhospital mortality at index and at 1 year. Observed differences in predictive performance between models with diagnostic ascertainment periods of up to 2 years of look back were statistically significant but not practically important.
Steering quantum transitions between three crossing energy levels
Creators: name: Ivanov, S. S.
name: Vitanov, N. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the propagator and the transition probabilities for a coherently driven three-state quantum system. The energies of the three states change linearly in time, whereas the interactions between them are pulse-shaped. We derive a highly accurate analytic approximation by assuming independent pairwise Landau-Zener transitions occurring instantly at the relevant avoided crossings, and adiabatic evolution elsewhere. Quantum interferences are identified, which occur due to different possible evolution paths in Hilbert space between an initial and a final state. A detailed comparison with numerical results for Gaussian-shaped pulses demonstrates a remarkable accuracy of the analytic approximation. We use the analytic results to derive estimates for the half-width of the excitation profile, and for the parameters required for creation of a maximally coherent superposition of the three states. These results are of potential interest in ladder climbing in alkali atoms by chirped laser pulses, in quantum rotors, in transitions between Zeeman sublevels of a J=1 level in a magnetic field, and in control of entanglement of a pair of spin-1/2 particles. The results for the three-state system can be generalized, without essential difficulties, to higher dimensions.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Desencuentros ontológicos con implicaciones jurídicas. Una propuesta para analizar la histórica práctica del contrabando en La Guajira
Creators: name: Guerra López, Carlos Manuel
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pueblo - (Indígenas)
subject: Conflictos culturales
subject: Derechos humanos
subject: Indígenas Wayuu
subject: Ontología
subject: Interculturalidad
subject: Conflictos
subject: Estado
subject: Derecho
subject: Conflictos de competencia
subject: Contrabando

description: La investigación cuestiona: ¿Cómo se pueden gestionar los desencuentros jurídicos entre el pueblo indígena Wayuu y el Estado colombiano, suscitados por la histórica práctica del contrabando en La Guajira? Para responder, se desarrollan dos secciones, cada una compuesta por cinco capítulos: (i) “Construcción de los desencuentros ontológicos con implicaciones jurídicas”, expone el recorrido teórico necesario para construir el concepto propuesto; (ii) “Los desencuentros ontológicos con implicaciones jurídicas. Una herramienta para analizar las relaciones y los conflictos entre el Estado y el pueblo indígena Wayuu”, muestra la ontología e historia de los wayuu, en relación con el contrabando. De esta forma, la tesis concluye: “[Corresponde] dejar de lado la perspectiva de los conflictos culturales y de competencia jurisdiccional, como mecanismos para resolver conflictos entre culturas diversas y, en su lugar, […] optar por metodologías y estrategias que reconozcan la ontología relacional como una herramienta que facilita la gestión del conflicto, así como una propuesta analítica dirigida a la comprensión del escenario fáctico en el seno de la diversidad cultural. [Por ende], en La Guajira, territorio de la nación wayuu, [el] contrabando no debe considerarse un delito por el Estado colombiano, sino, un libre comercio entre los pueblos del Caribe”.
Pressure-Mediated Reflection Spectroscopy Criterion Validity as a Biomarker of Fruit and Vegetable Intake: A 2-Site Cross-Sectional Study of 4 Racial or Ethnic Groups
Creators: name: Pitts, Stephanie B Jilcott
name: Moe, Stacey G
name: Carr-Manthe, Pamela L
name: Obasohan, Justice
name: Johnson, Nevin
name: Bell, Ronny
name: Laska, Melissa N
name: Hanchard, Neil
name: Craft, Neal E
name: Moran, Nancy E
name: Harnack, Lisa
name: Wu, Qiang
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2021

description:
BACKGROUND: Valid biomarkers of fruit and vegetable (FV) intake are needed for field-based nutrition research. OBJECTIVES: To examine criterion-related validity of pressure-mediated reflection spectroscopy as a proxy measure of FV intake, using plasma carotenoids and self-reported FV and carotenoid intake as primary and secondary criterion measures, respectively. METHODS: Healthy adults 18-65 y of age, self-identifying as African American/black (n = 61), Asian (n = 53), white (n = 70), or Hispanic (n = 29), in North Carolina and Minnesota were recruited. Skin carotenoids were assessed via pressure-mediated reflection spectroscopy (Veggie Meter), skin melanin via spectrophotometer, and total plasma carotenoid concentration by HPLC-photodiode array detection. Self-reported carotenoid and FV intake was assessed using a semiquantitative FFQ. Relations between skin carotenoids, plasma carotenoids, FV, and carotenoid intake, with differences by race or ethnicity, age, sex, weight status, cholesterol, and melanin index, were examined by bivariate correlations and adjusted multivariate linear regressions. RESULTS: The overall unadjusted correlation between skin and total plasma carotenoids was r = 0.71 and ranged from 0.64 (non-Hispanic black) to 0.80 (Hispanic). Correlations between skin carotenoids and self-reported FV intake ranged from 0.24 (non-Hispanic black) to 0.53 (non-Hispanic white), with an overall correlation of r = 0.35. In models adjusted for age, sex, racial or ethnic group, and BMI, skin carotenoids were associated with plasma carotenoids (R2 = 0.55), FV (R2 = 0.17), and carotenoid intake (R2 = 0.20). For both plasma carotenoid and FV measures, associations with skin carotenoids did not vary by race, but these relations did differ by skin melanin-those with lower melanin had a lower correlation between skin and plasma carotenoids. CONCLUSIONS: Reflection spectroscopy-assessed skin carotenoids may be a reasonable alternative to measurement of plasma carotenoids, a biomarker used to approximate FV intake.
Additional file 1 of Elevated plasma succinate levels are linked to higher cardiovascular disease risk factors in young adults
Creators: name: Osuna-Prieto, Francisco J.
name: Martinez-Tellez, Borja
name: Ortiz-Alvarez, Lourdes
name: Di, Xinyu
name: Jurado-Fasoli, Lucas
name: Xu, Huiwen
name: Ceperuelo-Mallafré, Victoria
name: Núñez-Roa, Catalina
name: Kohler, Isabelle
name: Segura-Carretero, Antonio
name: García-Lario, José V.
name: Gil, Angel
name: Aguilera, Concepción M.
name: Llamas-Elvira, Jose M.
name: Rensen, Patrick C. N.
name: Vendrell, Joan
name: Ruiz, Jonatan R.
name: Fernández-Veledo, Sonia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary methods.
Social Media as a Strategy for Protest Movements in an Era of Government Control
Creators: name: Palmieri-Branco, Sarah C.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021

description: In a new era of surveillance and control, governments have expanded their digital knowledge and strategies to prevent and disband social movements and demonstrations. In light of the resurgence of several protests worldwide, have new technological strategies been employed by protest leaders to counteract government efforts? Have digital tools adapted to government control? This study analyzed how social media has adapted in the face of repression in non-Western protest movements through the analysis of digital strategies evoked by protest leaders to organize demonstrations, mobilize people and persuade the undecided. Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and the resurgence of protest in the territory in 2019-2020, and Sudan’s 2011-2013 protests and the subsequent 2018-2019 Intifada were chosen as case studies. A thematic analysis approach illustrated the different strategies implemented by both activists and governments and the ways in which social media evolved throughout the protest movements. This highlighted the various ways tools adapted to best facilitate the organization, mobilization and persuasion efforts to counter-act government repression and digital intervention. The technological evolution of social media has created an unprecedented level of transparency that allows for injustices actioned by governments to be shared on an international platform. This has ultimately led to a transfer of power to the people in times of social unrest and protest.
Discovery of a new fundamental plane dictating galaxy cluster evolution from gravitational lensing
Creators: name: Fujita, Yutaka
name: Umetsu, Keiichi
name: Rasia, Elena
name: Meneghetti, Massimo
name: Donahue, Megan
name: Medezinski, Elinor
name: Okabe, Nobuhiro
name: Postman, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology, objects in the Universe have grown under the effect of gravity of dark matter. The intracluster gas in a galaxy cluster was heated when the dark-matter halo formed through gravitational collapse. The potential energy of the gas was converted to thermal energy through this process. However, this process and the thermodynamic history of the gas have not been clearly characterized in connection with with the formation and evolution of the internal structure of dark-matter halos. Here, we show that observational CLASH data of high-mass galaxy clusters lie on a plane in the three-dimensional logarithmic space of their characteristic radius $r_s$, mass $M_s$, and X-ray temperature $T_X$ with a very small orthogonal scatter. The tight correlation indicates that the gas temperature was determined at a specific cluster formation time, which is encoded in $r_s$ and $M_s$. The plane is tilted with respect to $T_X \propto M_s/r_s$, which is the plane expected in case of simplified virial equilibrium. We show that this tilt can be explained by a similarity solution, which indicates that clusters are not isolated but continuously growing through matter accretion from their outer environments. Numerical simulations reproduce the observed plane and its angle. This result holds independently of the gas physics implemented in the code, revealing the fundamental origin of this plane.
description: Replaced with a revised version to match the ApJ accepted version
Aproximaciones al concepto de la pobreza : un estudio desde la filosofía política contemporánea
Creators: name: Zambrano Aguilar, Nery Marlyth
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pobres - Legislación
subject: Derechos humanos
subject: Situación socioeconómica
subject: Pobreza
subject: Derechos socioeconómicos
subject: Justicia distributiva
subject: Concepción de lo bueno

description: Este estudio aborda la pobreza desde la filosofía política y la teoría de los derechos fundamentales socioeconómicos. Pretende encontrar lineamientos filosóficos que permitan comprender el concepto de pobreza y sus implicaciones en la interpretación de derechos fundamentales socioeconómicos. Se compone de dos partes. La primera estudia la pobreza como un asunto de la justicia distributiva a través del análisis de los enfoques de Rawls, Dworkin, Sen y Nussbaum. En la segunda parte, se estudia la teoría de Bilchitz sobre el contenido mínimo esencial de los derechos socioeconómicos. A partir de este último enfoque se plantea un método para analizar decisiones de la Corte Constitucional colombiana relativas a los derechos fundamentales socioeconómicos.
Key competencies for big data analytics professions: a multimethod study
Creators: name: Persaud, Ajax
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Skill, Knowledge, Talent
Competencies
capabilities

description: This study aims to identify the precise competencies that employers are seeking for big data analytics professions and whether higher education big data programs enable students to acquire the competencies. This study utilizes a multimethod approach involving three data sources: online job postings, executive interviews and big data programs at universities and colleges. Text mining analysis guided by a holistic competency theoretical framework was used to derive insights into the required competencies. We found that employers are seeking workers with strong functional and cognitive competencies in data analytics, computing and business combined with a range of social competencies and specific personality traits. The exact combination of competencies required varies with job levels and tasks. Executives clearly indicate that workers rarely possess the competencies and they have to provide additional training. The findings can be used by higher educational institutions to design programs to better meet market demand. Job seekers can use it to focus on the types of competencies they need to advance their careers. Policymakers can use it to focus policies and investments to alleviate skills shortages. Industry and universities can use it to strengthen their collaborations.
Necessary, yet mistreated: the lived experiences of black women essential workers in dual pandemics of racism and COVID-19
Creators: name: Godoy, Sarah
name: Goode, Rachel W.
name: Halpern, David
name: Chapman, Mimi
name: Goings, Trenette Clark
name: Schultz, Kevan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022

description:
The COVID-19 pandemic has showcased the United States’ reliance on essential workers, or those deemed necessary to continue critical societal functions. Black women remain overrepresented in essential positions and are on the frontlines of two pandemics: COVID-19 and racism. Using a phenomenological research design, we conducted semi-structured interviews to examine the experiences of 22 Black women essential workers navigating these dual pandemics. Salient themes of these experiences included: desire to and fear of protest; navigating extreme emotions; mixed levels of understanding from colleagues; and a rise in blatantly racist confrontations in the workplace. Further reflection is needed to understand the complex dynamics these women faced.
Overcoming Barriers to Technology Adoption in Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs)
Creators: name: Estrin, Len
name: Foreman, John T.
name: Garcia-Miller, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Small manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) are critical to the defense industry of the United States. SMEs account for an average of 20% of the prime contracts and 40% of the subcontracts awarded by, or on behalf of the Department of Defense. Suppliers, especially small businesses, also generate 80% or more of the manufacturing value-added of some weapon systems. Nevertheless, data from the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) and other organizations indicate that many SMEs are unable to support the defense industry because they lack the required technologies. This report summarizes technology demonstrations, workforce development activities, and technology development efforts of the Technology Insertion Demonstration and Evaluation Program. The knowledge gained from these activities can help SMEs to overcome technology adoption barriers and acquire the capabilities that the defense industry requires.
Propuesta para mejorar la calidad de vida laboral y reducir la rotación del personal en una empresa del sector BPO
Creators: name: Aguillón Jiménez, Juan Sebastián
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Calidad de vida
subject: Análisis económico
subject: Cambio de empleo
subject: Calidad de vida laboral
subject: Rotación laboral
subject: Sector BPO
subject: Sector servicios

description: La industria del Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) o subcontratación de procesos de negocio, se ha convertido en un gran motor económico para el país y el mundo, es una industria que ha registrado un crecimiento acelerado en los últimos años. Sin embargo, también es reconocida como una de las industrias a nivel mundial donde la salud física y mental de los trabajadores suele verse altamente afectada, así mismo, es un sector que suele mantener niveles de rotación de personal altos debido a diferentes factores como tareas repetitivas y niveles elevados de estrés. Esta alta rotación y baja calidad de vida laboral tiene consecuencias costosas y negativas para los trabajadores y las organizaciones.
description: This presents a great opportunity within the BPO industry to examine the relationship of certain organizational phenomena. This study is centered on providing a proposal to enhance the quality of work life and reduce employee turnover in a BPO company. To achieve this goal, it will involve conducting a theoretical and conceptual review, followed by a mixed-method research approach, and ultimately, sharing an intervention plan designed to the specific needs of the company and the key research findings. The Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry has become a major economic driver for the country and the world. It is an industry that has experienced rapid growth in recent years. However, it is also recognized as one of the industries worldwide where the physical and mental health of workers tends to be highly affected. Additionally, it is a sector that often experiences high employee turnover due to various factors such as repetitive tasks and high levels of stress. This high turnover and low quality of work life have costly and negative consequences for both workers and organizations. Despite these challenges, the BPO industry continues to expand, offering significant economic opportunities to many companies worldwide. This study focuses on providing a proposal to improve the quality of work life and reduce turnover in a BPO sector company. To achieve this, a theoretical and conceptual review will be conducted, followed by mixed-method research, and ultimately sharing an intervention plan tailored to the specific needs of the company and the key findings of the research.
Outsourcing Managed Security Services
Creators: name: Allen, Julia H.
name: Gabbard, Derek
name: May, Christopher
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As computer attack patterns shift and threats to networks change and grow almost daily, it is critical that organizations achieve reliable information security. Investment decisions about information security are best considered in the context of managing business risk. Risks can be accepted, mitigated, avoided, or transferred. Outsourcing selected managed security services (MSS) by forming a partnership with a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) is often a good solution for transferring information security responsibility and operations. Although the organization still owns information security risk and business risk, contracting with an MSSP allows it to share risk management and mitigation approaches.
HIV/AIDS The Silent Epidemic Plaguing Canada's Aboriginal Population
Creators: name: Marval-Peck, Luisa
name: Young, Kendra
name: Alyosious, Lareinaa
name: Grant, Alyssa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016

description: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) gradually disables the body’s protective immune system by systematically destroying host CD4 cells. If left untreated, HIV gradually progresses to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which leaves the body vulnerable to opportunistic infections. The virus is primarily transmitted via body fluids such as semen or blood, and is typically spread sexually, via contaminated injections, from mother to child and less frequently via contaminated transfusions/transplants. Thus, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS can be correlated to specific risk factors. In Canada, HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects people of Aboriginal descent, where prevalence rates have grown more than in any other ethnic group during the past decade. Careful consideration is required to better understand whether there is an intra-aboriginal difference in HIV prevalence rates and associated risk factors in rural communities versus urban/off-reserve settings. A structured literature review of PubMed, Medline, Scopus and PsychInfo (using keywords ‘Aboriginal’, ‘HIV’, ‘AIDS’, ‘Canada’, ‘urban and rural’) was used alongside specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. The articles were screened and pooled according to relevance and consisted of qualitative, quantitative and mixed method studies. Epidemiological evidence suggests a higher prevalence of HIV/AIDS amid Aboriginal peoples living in urban regions — particularly women, youth and gay/bisexual men — compared with Aboriginals living in rural communities alongside non-Aboriginals. Related risk factors with high HIV/AIDS prevalence, in both urban and rural settings, include injection drug use (and duration), non-consensual sex, sex-work and living in Vancouver. These results suggest that evidence-based, culturally-appropriate intervention strategies are necessary for HIV/AIDS prevention. Further investigation is needed to establish the qualitative difference in HIV/AIDS prevalence between rural and urban Aboriginal communities. To support these findings, it must be established whether a lack of accessible health services and/or testing services creates selection bias in the data.