cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A multi-faceted financial crisis
Creators: name: Roncaglia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: introduction, economic crisis, recovery, Europe, USA
subject: E11, G01, B50, H12

description: Nearly three years after the deluge, the financial crisis is in many different ways still with us: from its consequences on the real economy, to the clearly perceived risk of new catastrophes, from its role in engendering social malaise and political events such as the revolts in Arab countries, to its impact on the theoretical and policy debate in economics. With the present issue, once again our journal focuses its attention on the crisis – the theoretical and applied debate on the factors leading to it and its policy implications – in an attempt to contribute to our understanding of the main economic event of the past decade, still in many ways unfolding. JEL Codes: E11, G01, B50, H12
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 64, N. 256 (2011)
title: Using computers in the workplace : a study of informal learning and perceptions of computer literacy in a manufacturing company
Creators: name: Barnett, Jean
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: The personal computer has become a common feature of the workplace, underpinning the jobs of many people. The achievement of some level of ability to use a computer is now regarded as a necessity, and this is reflected in UK government education policy. At the same time, the workplace has gained recognition as an important site for learning. This research study focuses on the need for people to learn to use computers in the context of the wider debates about workplace learning. Formal courses and training programmes cater for the need for adults to achieve some level of ability to use computers, often referred to as computer literacy. However, such courses may not be sufficient or effective for some people, and the precise meaning of the term computer literacy is unclear. The research study explores the learning strategies that people employ in order to acquire their computer knowledge and skills. It asks: how computer technology has affected individuals in the workplace, what individuals think computer literacy means, how people learn to use computers and whether this learning is transferred between home and work.

Using an interpretive methodology with survey and case study approaches, these questions are explored within the context of one workplace, a manufacturing company situated in the UK. The methods used are a questionnaire, semi-structured interviews and a respondent diary. The study explores the viewpoint of all employees of the company, not just managers or those responsible for staff development.

From the analysis of the data it is argued, inter alia, that:

(i) the computer has had an impact on the working lives of the people at the site ofthe study, bringing changes that require them to have some level of computer ability,

(ii) computer literacy is not easily defined but there are perceptions of it as: related to the needs of the job; having levels; and involving affective factors,

(iii) people may use a number of different strategies in order to acquire their computer ability, with a preference for informal learning,

(iv) computer learning is transferred between work and home, and people may develop higher levels of computer ability than is required for their work.

The study confirms informal workplace learning as a major means of acquiring computer skills and knowledge. Although a model of such learning remains elusive, it is suggested that it may be situated, not at the social-anthropological level of a community of practice, but at the level of individual relationships, with aspects of mentoring. The study indicates that a number of issues require further research: the need to include affective factors in provision for computer learning, the consideration of alternative models of situated computer learning and the place of self-direction in the acquisition of computer literacy.
Financialization in the Light of Keynesian Theory
Creators: name: Bhaduri, Amit
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: financialization, Keynes, Minsky, Kaldor, aggregate demand, capital gains.
subject: E11, E40, G1

description: Episodes of financial crises are usually recognizable as belonging to a general pattern despite their different historical specificities. The present essay attempts to isolate and understand the recurring common features of several recent crises in advanced market economies in the light of Keynesian theory with some crucial modifications introduced later, particularly by Kaldor and Minsky with respect to the financial sector. While financial innovations are devised continuously to escape regulations on the formal credit system by creating substitutes for bank credit, fragility increases along with the internal illiquidity of the financial system. The proclivity of the system to financial crisis arising from negative shocks can be understood against the background of systemic illiquidity coupled with rapid expansion of a range of credit substitutes in a network of tightly interlocked assets of financial firms. JEL Codes: E11, E40, G1
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 64, N. 256 (2011)
Resolving the US financial crisis: politics dominates economics in the New Political Economy
Creators: name: Kregel, Jan
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: political economy, financial crisis, Keynesian policies, USA
subject: G01, B50, N12, H12

description: Most economists expected that the “Great Recession” produced by the financial meltdown of 2008 would usher in a resurgence of traditional Keynesian economics and a decline of what has come to be called “market fundamentalism”. By contrast, also due to the inadequate size of the 2009 stimulus package, the resurgence of support for Keynesian expenditure policies has been extremely short lived. However, the negative popular and political reaction should not have come as a surprise, at least for three reasons: the design of the Obama stimulus plan and its difference from the expenditure policies of the Roosevelt Administration; the political environment that has eviscerated fiscal policy and placed monetary policy at the centre of economic policy and produced “debt driven” growth; the difference between policies appropriate to treating an income deflation and a debt deflation. JEL Codes: G01, B50, N12, H12
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 64, N. 256 (2011)
Active learning extracurricular activities using digital content to raise awareness of Thai arts and culture among undergraduate students
Creators: name: Pornjira Waiwingrob, Kuntida Thamwipat
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research, Innovation and Creativity Administration Office, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus, 6 Rachamakha Nai Rd., Amphoe Muang, Nakhon Pathom 73000, Thailand
Year: 2023
Subjects: Active learning
digital content
extracurricular activities
undergraduate students

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 3, 642655
Perturbative Complexity of Interacting Theory
Creators: name: Huang, Wung-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic method to expand the quantum complexity of interacting theory in series of coupling constant. The complexity is evaluated by the operator approach in which the transformation matrix between the second quantization operators of reference state and the target state defines the quantum gate. We start with two coupled oscillators and perturbatively evaluate the geodesic length of the associated group manifold of gate matrix. Next, we generalize the analysis to $N$ coupled oscillators which describes the lattice $λϕ^4$ theory. Especially, we introduce simple diagrams to represent the perturbative series and construct simple rules to efficiently calculate the complexity. General formulae are obtained for the higher-order complexity of excited states. We present several diagrams to illuminate the properties of complexity and show that the interaction correction to complexity may be positive or negative depending on the magnitude of reference-state frequency.
description: Latex 22 pages, 16 figures. Detail basic calculation and definition of reference state
Additional file 1 of Effect of dietary supplementation with yeast cell wall extracts on performance and gut response in broiler chickens
Creators: name: A. Pascual
name: M. Pauletto
name: M. Giantin
name: G. Radaelli
name: C. Ballarin
name: M. Birolo
name: C. Zomeño
name: M. Dacasto
name: M. Bortoletti
name: M. Vascellari
name: G. Xiccato
name: A. Trocino
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Sequencing and mapping results. The table reports the RNA-Seq libraries sequenced including for each of them i) the number of raw reads obtained, ii) the number of reads after trimming and rRNAs removal iii) the number of mapped reads (and the percentage of mapped reads). Table S2. GSEA results. Enriched BIOCARTA Gene Sets (GS) at both the highest (up-regulation in “diet Y” condition) and lowest (up-regulation in “diet C” condition) part of the genes ranking are reported. ES: enrichment score; NES: normalized enrichment score; NOM p-val: nominal P-value.
"The sun is watching": Unraveling the Sentani people's ecological knowledge through folklore
Creators: name: Wigati Yektiningtyas And Novita Dewi
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research, Innovation and Creativity Administration Office, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus, 6 Rachamakha Nai Rd., Amphoe Muang, Nakhon Pathom 73000, Thailand
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecopoetry
ecological knowledge
ehabla
conservation
Sentani folklore

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 3, 656666
title: Relationship between supplier's employees engagement and automotive customers satisfaction
Creators: name: Eštok, Cyril
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Employee
subject: engagement
subject: customers
subject: satisfaction
subject: human resources

description: Being motivated by knowledge gained during study of Professional Automotive MBA Program and experience during professional life, this master thesis researched on relationship between variables which drive and influence company performance. It is research on employees engagement, customers satisfaction and company economic results .. How to create fair a value proposition of a supplier and how to transfer it through employees to a customer? Those questions are going to be analyzed and discussed in this Academic document. The major aim of the research work is to analyze and find a relationship between parameters which are measurable. The parameters which determine automotive customer-satisfaction and their willingness to stay loyal. The parameters which define important factors of employees-engagement and help them create an optimal value proposition. How relevant the company culture in that process is and at the end how we can measure and translate results to the financial figures of a supplier company. The pre-assumption of the master thesis is that the engaged employees in an automotive supply chain can better serve their customers, they can satisfy them and keep them loyal. Loyal customers are a basic pillar of the sustainable development of automotive company. Massive changes in the economic environment caused by globalization, liberalization and raising the competition create strong pressure on companies involved in automotive supply chain. It is not enough to differentiate by technology and product innovations. The first part of this master thesis brings more academic background of satisfaction in general, devoted more to specific engagement of employees, customers, the methods used to measure all the mentioned parameters The second part of the master thesis is a description of surveys conducted in the company Atlas Copco s,r,o, operating in the region of Eastern Europe. The first survey measures voice of employees and their satisfaction in the company. A specific part of the survey related to employee engagement according to EEI measurement by PwC has been selected and the data used for further processing. The second survey has been conducted within the customers- group of a supplier company. The survey has been focused on their satisfaction and loyalty. The third part of the master thesis evaluates the gathered data within the conducted surveys and searches for existing relations between the variables as well as a correlation with the economic output of the supplier company. All findings are discusses and analyzed. Finally, all findings are concluded in the last part of the master thesis and critically discussed. The final part includes also some recommendations for the management of the Atlas Copco, focusing on nurturing the future actions related to employee engagement and customer satisfaction.
Correlations in Hot Asymmetric Nuclear Matter
Creators: name: Frick, T.
name: Müther, H.
name: Rios, A.
name: Polls, A.
name: Ramos, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The single-particle spectral functions in asymmetric nuclear matter are computed using the ladder approximation within the theory of finite temperature Green's functions. The internal energy and the momentum distributions of protons and neutrons are studied as a function of the density and the asymmetry of the system. The proton states are more strongly depleted when the asymmetry increases while the occupation of the neutron states is enhanced as compared to the symmetric case. The self-consistent Green's function approach leads to slightly smaller energies as compared to the Brueckner Hartree Fock approach. This effect increases with density and thereby modifies the saturation density and leads to smaller symmetry energies.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Integrability versus frequency of hyperbolic times and the existence of a.c.i.m
Creators: name: Araujo, Vitor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37D25; 37C40

description: We consider dynamical systems on compact manifolds, which are local diffeomorphisms outside an exceptional set (a compact submanifold). We are interested in analyzing the relation between the integrability (with respect to Lebesgue measure) of the first hyperbolic time map and the existence of positive frequency of hyperbolic times. We show that some (strong) integrability of the first hyperbolic time map implies positive frequency of hyperbolic times. We also present an example of a map with positive frequency of hyperbolic times at Lebesgue almost every point but whose first hyperbolic time map is not integrable with respect to the Lebesgue measure.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
title:  Interpreting the Personal Orientation Inventory Through the Five-Factor Model
Creators: name: Anderson, Diane Donald
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1990

description: This study was designed to determine how the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI; Shostrom, 1974) relates to the Five-Factor Model of Personality. Four self-report personality instruments were employed; the Personal Orientation Inventory, the Comrey Personality Scales (CPS; Comrey, 1970), the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & NcCrae, 1988), and the Five-Factor Nodel Adjective Factors (AF,", Costa & NcCrae, 1985b). Data were collected from 128 psychology students aged 18 to 30 years. Scores for the Five Factors were obtained by factor analysis combining responses from the CPS, the NEO-FFI, and the AF. Pearson product-moment intercorrelations were then computed for the Five Factors and the 12 scales of the POI. Although several scales of the POI overlap with the Five-Factor Hodel, it is apparent that the Five-Factor Model does not exhaust the constructs within the Personal Orientation Inventory.
title: A Scoping Review of China’s linkage of medical care, medical insurance and medicine Since 2014
Creators: name: Ye, Pengpeng
name: Xinyi Zhang
name: Xiong, Shangzhi
name: Jiang, Wei
name: Maoyi Tian
name: Tingzhuo Liu
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This study aims to comprehensively understand the development process of the “linkage of medical care, medical insurance and medicine reform”, as well as its key points and weaknesses. It has four specific objectives: Firstly, to assess the number and types of relevant policies and explore the main models of policy-making. Secondly, to review the development process of the LMMM reform since its proposal, highlighting significant milestones and key events. Thirdly, to clarify the key areas and real-time strategies of the reform from the perspective of the health system, analyzing the specific measures and approaches adopted. Lastly, to identify the advantages and potential shortcomings of the reform policy, providing an evaluation of its effectiveness and potential areas for improvement.
Discretization methods for homogeneous fragmentations
Creators: name: Bertoin, Jean
name: Rouault, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60 J 25, 60 G 09

description: Homogeneous fragmentations describe the evolution of a unit mass that breaks down randomly into pieces as time passes. They can be thought of as continuous time analogs of a certain type of branching random walks, which suggests the use of time-discretization to shift known results from the theory of branching random walks to the fragmentation setting. In particular, this yields interesting information about the asymptotic behaviour of fragmentations. On the other hand, homogeneous fragmentations can also be investigated using a powerful technique of discretization of space due to Kingman, namely, the theory of exchangeable partitions of $\N$. Spatial discretization is especially well-suited to develop directly for continuous times the conceptual method of probability tilting of Lyons, Pemantle and Peres.
description: 21 pages
Commutative Local Rings of bounded module type
Creators: name: Couchot, Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is shown that a local ring R of bounded module type is an almost maximal valuation ring if there exists a non-maximal prime ideal J such that R/J is a maximal valuation domain.
The tax system and the financial crisis
Creators: name: Ceriani, Vieri
name: Manestra, Stefano
name: Ricotti, Giacomo
name: Sanelli, Alessandra
name: Zangari, Ernesto
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: taxation, financial crisis, incentives, housing, bonuses
subject: H31, H32, G01, R21

description: This paper investigates the effects of the tax system on the economic factors that triggered the financial crisis. We examine three cases in which the tax regime interacted with these factors, reinforcing them. First, we focus on the taxation of residential building: while the importance of capital gains taxes is disputed, the deductibility of mortgage interest may have contributed to the financial crisis by creating some of the raw materials for the securitization industry. Second, a narrow perspective on the tax treatment, together with specific provisions, may have fostered performance-based remuneration of managers, resulting in overemphasis of short-term profitability and incentive to excessive risk-taking. Third, the securitization process, which played a key role in the outbreak of the financial crisis, was accompanied by opportunities for tax arbitrage and reduction of the overall tax wedge paid by investors, through offset of incomes that are ordinarily taxed at different rates; a de facto exemption of CDS premiums received by non-residents supplemented the tax arbitrage. JEL Codes: H31, H32, G01, R21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 64, N. 256 (2011)
Confronting the financial crisis: surveillance and regulation
Creators: name: Roncaglia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: financial crisis, rescue plans, fiscal policy, monetary policy, supervision
subject: G01, G21, N20

description: The article is an introduction to the new issue of the Journal. It provides an overview of the current economic and financial situation and summarises the main topics dealt with by the following articles. The financial crisis continues to unfold, taking new turns. By now, it is clear that bank bailouts have a heavy cost for the public purse. This adds to the usual increase in public deficits in periods of economic crisis. Financial markets price these difficulties in terms of wider spreads between bills and bonds of such countries compared to “safe” countries such as Germany. In turn, this increases the cost of public debt and risks igniting an unsustainable downward spiral. Recourse to heavy cuts in public expenditure is called forth by some powerful European governments and by the remnants of the Washington consensus; however, under the pressure of financial markets even those who are not convinced by the validity of this policy strategy have to give in. Thus, the costs of banking bailouts are shifted onto social expenditure, while the general retrenchment of the public sector aggravates the economic crisis. JEL Codes: G01, G21, N20
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 63, N. 255 (2010)
Reforming financial systems after the crisis: a comparison of EU and USA
Creators: name: Masera, Rainer
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: financial regulatory and supervisory framework, systemic risk, crisis management, Basel III, SIFIs
subject: G01, G2, G28

description: Since July 2007, the developed countries faced the most serious and disruptive crisis after the 1929 Great Depression. As the crisis unfolded, policy authorities stepped in to support troubled financial institutions with large bailouts. This prevented a meltdown of the system, but at the cost of largest ever moral hazard, huge losses for taxpayers, shocks to fiscal sustainability, with probabilities of distress going up across sovereigns. Repair of financial regulation and supervision was necessary to reduce systemic risk and to achieve financial stability. Both in the EU and in the USA new frameworks have been and are being established. They share a common approach, based on a new regulatory agenda, stronger coordinated supervision – macro and micro prudential – and crisis management procedures. This paper offers a critical analysis of the two models of financial reform being enacted and points to weaknesses, notably in respect of effective, coordinated crisis management procedures. JEL Codes: G01, G2, G28
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 63, N. 255 (2010)
title: Die Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Wolhyniens als Teil einer globalen Migrationsgeschichte
Creators: name: Musekamp, Jan
Publisher: name: Herder-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 947 Geschichte Osteuropas; Russlands

description: Durch Innovationen wie die Dampfschifffahrt und die Eisenbahn kam es seit der Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts zu einem starken Anstieg globaler Migrationsbewegungen. Die deutschsprachigen Wolhynier:innen waren Teil dieser Entwicklung, die sich zwischen den idealtypischen Polen freiwilliger und erzwungener Migration bewegte und wesentlich von der Durchsetzung des ethnonationalen Prinzips beeinflusst wurde. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Beitrags stehen die Emigrationsbewegungen dieser Gruppe aus dem russländischen Gouvernement Wolhynien in der Zeit zwischen den 1860er Jahren und dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Auf die nachfolgenden Zwangsmigrationen der deutschsprachigen Wolhynier:innen geht der Beitrag ebenfalls kurz ein.
Additional file 1 of Inference of single-cell phylogenies from lineage tracing data using Cassiopeia
Creators: name: Jones, Matthew G
name: Khodaverdian, Alex
name: Quinn, Jeffrey J
name: Chan, Michelle M
name: Hussmann, Jeffrey A
name: Wang, Robert
name: Chenling Xu
name: Weissman, Jonathan S
name: Yosef, Nir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 Fig S1. Time complexity of lineage reconstruction approaches. Fig S2. Evaluation of the stability of the maximum neighborhood size parameter. Fig S3. Observed Frequency of Mutation is a Measure of True Mutation Count. Fig S4. Precision of Cassiopeia-Greedy First Split. Fig S5. Benchmarking of parallel evolution on the greedy heuristic. Fig S6. Determination of mutation rates used in simulation. Fig S7. Triplets Correct Statistic. Fig S8. Unthresholded Triplets Correct. Fig S9. Parsimony of reconstructed trees of 400 cell simulated datasets. Fig S10. Benchmarking of lineage tracing algorithms on 1000 cell synthetic datasets. Fig S11. Benchmarking of greedy and hybrid algorithms on large experiments. Fig S12. Bootstrapping analysis of Cassiopeia and Neighbor-Joining with the Transfer Bootstrap Expectation statistic. Fig S13. Reconstruction accuracy under over-dispersed state distributions. Fig S14. Observed Proportion of Parallel Evolution in Simulations. Fig S15. Determination of the indel prior transformation function. Fig S16. Incorporation of priors into Cassiopeia. Figure S17. Quality control metrics for the target-site sequencing library processing pipeline. Fig S18. Processing pipeline for the in vitro dataset. Fig S19. Identification of doublets using intBCs. Fig S20. Estimation of Prior Probabilities for Tree Reconstruction. Fig S21. Evaluation of algorithms on in vitro lineage tracing clones, First Split. Fig S22. Evaluation of algorithms on in vitro lineage tracing clones, Second Split. Fig S23. Exhaustion of Target Sites across Clones. Fig S24. Vignette of Inferential Mistakes for Clone 3. Fig S25. Parsimony scores from reconstructions of the GESTALT datasets. Fig S26. “Phased Recorder” leverages variability across target sites.
Gamma-Ray Line Astronomy
Creators: name: Diehl, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray lines from radioactive isotopes, ejected into interstellar space by cosmic nucleosynthesis events, are observed with new space telescopes. The Compton Observatory had provided a sky survey for the isotopes 56Co, 22Na, 44Ti, and 26Al, detecting supernova radioactivity and the diffuse glow of long-lived radioactivity from massive stars in the Galaxy. High-resolution spectroscopy is now being exploited with Ge detectors: Since 2002, with ESA's INTEGRAL satellite and the RHESSI solar imager two space-based Ge-gamma-ray telescopes are in operation, measuring Doppler broadenings and line shape details of cosmic gamma-ray lines. First year's results include a detection and line shape measurement of annihilation emission, and 26Al emission from the inner Galaxy and from the Cygnus region. 60Fe gamma-ray intensity is surprisingly low; it may have been detected by RHESSI at 10% of the 26Al brightness, yet is not seen by INTEGRAL. 44Ti emission from Cas A and SN1987A is being studied; no other candidate young supernova remnants have been found through 44Ti. 22Na from novae still is not seen.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures; invited review at "Nuclei in the Cosmos 8", Vancouver, CA; accepted for publication in Nucl Phys A
Green space management in world heritage sites under the 11th sustainable development goal: A case study of Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya municipality, Thailand
Creators: name: Waralak Khongouan And Putpunnin Khamwachirapithak
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research, Innovation and Creativity Administration Office, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus, 6 Rachamakha Nai Rd., Amphoe Muang, Nakhon Pathom 73000, Thailand
Year: 2023
Subjects: Green space management
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Municipality
sustainable development goals
world heritage site

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 3, 667677
title: An investigation into the factors associated with psychological adjustment in men and women who have undergone surgery for colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Baylis, Kate
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: Colorectal cancer is a major health problem for both men and women today. It is also lone of several site-specific cancers that patients are likely to survive beyondfive years of diagnosis. The majority of patients show good psychological adjustment following the diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer. However, the literature suggests that approximately one quarter of patients continue to have clinically significant psychological symptoms at least one year after diagnosis. This study aimed to investigate psychological adjustment in 33 colorectal cancer patients (J -2 years postsurgery); and to explore a series of demographic, disease and treatment, psychological and social factors that may be associated with psychological adjustment. A secondary ,, aim of the study was to explore colorectal cancer patients' perceptions of and satisfaction with, care during diagnosis and treatment. Results showed lower levels of psychological distress (anxiety and depression) than those reported in previous studies with under 10 per cent of clinically significant cases. Levels of psychological distress were associated with age, disease severity and the presence of other concurrent physical health problems. Coping style was found to relate significantly with psychological adjustment. Taking the methodological limitations of this study into consideration, the results are interpreted in the context of the empirical and theoretical literature. Clinical and research implications are also discussed. A larger scale, longitudinal evaluation of the issues is clearly needed.
Empowering supervisors with more principles and discretion to implement them will not reduce the dangers of the prudential approach to financial regulation
Creators: name: Tonveronachi, Mario
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: financial regulatory framework, financial supervision, systemic risk
subject: G18, G20, G28

description: The paper addresses two main points: the deficiencies of the past regulatory design and the additional dangers coming from financial reforms that increase the regulatory powers of supervisors. The first point is briefly dealt with reference to past experience and alternative theoretical approaches. For the second point I argue that a prudential regulatory design necessarily leaves large discretionary powers to supervisors, who use them to shape the effective direction impressed to regulation. The current crisis has shown that the force of its first impact much depended on how supervisors had formerly utilised their discretion. Recent reforms and proposals are not changing the basic design of prudential regulation, while give additional regulatory powers to supervisors. If, as a consequence, we will experience in the short-run some regulatory uncertainty, lobbying pressures and international regulatory arbitrage will most probably guide the final result towards few additional regulatory costs and an unchanged systemic fragility. As an alternative we could go back to the methodology, not the specific design, of the Glass-Steagall Act, shaping the financial system by means of structural rules aided by few simple prudential ones. JEL Codes: G18, G20, G28
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 63, N. 255 (2010)
title: Management performance control as a part of the company development strategy
Creators: name: Lapka, Albert
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Performance management
subject: motivation
subject: human resources
subject: serial vs. customized production

description: Today, the automotive industry has a need to focus on continuous improvement of performance management through motivation. In my master thesis I will analyze the motivational factors from the perspectives of different management levels that can lead to an increase of management performance. The analytical part consists of a questionnaire survey. I will compare the motivational structure of two different segments of automotive production - serial production and customized machinery production. To achieve the goals it is necessary to detail the common knowledge regarding the Management Performance Control. Research shows that except of money employees are motivated by: Improved qualification (around 56%), Teamwork (around 52%), Self-realization (around 45%), Status and Recognition (around 38%). In serial production, employees are motivated by increased Qualification. Such methodes, also according to several HR theories mentioned in this thesis, help to increase the employees performance without any capital investments.
Evidence of a dominant Maki-Thompson process in the fluctuation conductivity of the Bi-2212 superconducting whiskers
Creators: name: Truccato, M.
name: Rinaudo, G.
name: Causio, A.
name: Paolini, C.
name: Olivero, P.
name: Agostino, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the measurement of the a-axis fluctuation conductivity in zero field for Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x microcrystals. A good geometrical characterization and an original method for data analysis allow to determine its temperature behaviour to a high accuracy. The correct application of the complete fluctuation theory [A. A. Varlamov et al., Adv. Phys. 48, 655 (1999)], with a minor correction for the k_tilde factor, leads to the conclusion that the anomalous MT term is the most important contribution throughout the whole temperature range of interest. More traditional alternative interpretations of the experimental data are also investigated and their inconsistency is demonstrated. This implies an s-wave symmetry for the order parameter and could provide a physical mechanism for the preformed pair scenario.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, 4 Tables, submitted to Physical Review B, changes of version 2 made in order to demonstrate that the MT contribution can be obscured by the incorrect use of the fluctuation theory, recovering the previously accepted results
A note on the price response studues in relation to jute
Creators: name: Jabbar, M. A.
name: Jabbar, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: price response
subject: Nerlove
subject: jute
subject: Bangladesh
subject: India

description: Enumerates methodological deficiencies of past price response studies on jute and suggest an alternative model for testing.
description: Published in the Indian Journal of agricultural Economics
Problems and prospects of jute
Creators: name: Jabbar, M. A.
name: Jabbar, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: Jute
subject: policy
subject: marketing
subject: production
subject: Pakistan

description: Reviews the jute policies of successive governments of Pakistan, their shortcomings and implications for development of the jute sector in Pakistan in the context of jute policies of India.
description: Published in the Pakistan economic and Social Review, Lahore, Pakistan.
Do Better Political Relations with the USA Improve A Country’s Economic Outlook?
Creators: name: Najafi, Amirhossein
name: Aridi, Anwar
name: Askari, Hossein
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: international political relations, international trade, international economic development
subject: F50, F51, F59

description: In this paper, we investigate general patterns, if any, in economic and financial conditions following improved or damaged political relations with the USA. We consider areas such as, trade, capital flows, remittances, aid, military expenditures, and education. For countries improving their diplomatic relationship with the USA, we find that in the majority of the cases the countries’ total trade, exports, and imports from the USA did not change significantly. For countries whose relations with the USA deteriorated, our results are inconclusive. As for capital inflows, US arms exports and military expenditures too, the results are generally inconclusive, although improved relations with the USA may afford countries added security and in turn reduce their military expenditures. However, the analysis of economic and military assistance trends revealed that improving relations with the USA seems to have some significant positive effects on both US economic and military assistance. Finally, the analyses of the GDP growth trends suggest that the events, both improvements and deteriorations, do not have a significant effect on the overall growth rate. JEL Codes: F50, F51, F59
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 63, N. 255 (2010)
title: Effects of the EUROCOMBI on the automotive industry logistics in Austria
Creators: name: Moser, Christian
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: EUROCOMBI
subject: Logistics
subject: Cost effects
subject: Automotive Industry
subject: Road Transport

description: The implementation of the EUROCOMBI has been politically discussed for several years and now there are no signs from the Austrian government that this type of truck will be allowed in the near future. The reasons for this strict refusal are manifold, but this thesis takes into account the economic reasons only, especially those of the Automotive Industry. To identify the possible benefits for the industry, the Automotive Industry in Austria is briefly described as well as in the following chapter the different modes of transport and their usage for the Automotive Industry. Afterwards transport units and the different variations of trucks are described briefly, finalizing the chapter with an overview of the different variations of the EUROCOMBI and the idea behind. Having a look at selected countries in the European Union, this thesis puts an emphasis on Germany and the running field test of the EUROCOMBI in some federal states to have a fair comparison with the Austrian circumstances. The main part of the thesis is the detailed and standardized calculation of a theoretical case of the Austrian Automotive industry with different scenarios to investigate possible savings of a possible implementation of the EUROCOMBI. As a conclusion, the EUROCOMBI is suitable to save costs by more than 20 % on selected lanes and businesses, without greater investments in infrastructure, vehicle fleets or premises.
Labour use and productivity of some irrigated crops in East Pakistan
Creators: name: Jabbar, M. A.
name: Quddus, M. A.
name: Jabbar, M. A.
name: Quddus, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: labour use
subject: productivity
subject: rice
subject: potato
subject: East Pakistan

description: A review of various studies on labour use and productivity of different crops showed that under the present circumstances, a technology compatible with the possibility of creating job opportunities for the underemployed agricultural labourers in East Pakistan is more important than maximizing labour return or improving labour saving techniques. Provision of irrigation facilities has created that opportunity while at the same time ensured a positive net return to labour.
description: Published in the Pakistan Journal of Science, Pakistan
Economic policy dilemmas in front of the crisis
Creators: name: Roncaglia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: financial crisis, rescue plans, fiscal policy, monetary policy, supervision
subject: G01, G21, N20

description: The article is an introduction to the new issue of the Journal. It provides an overview of the current economic and financial situation and summarises the main topics dealt with by the following articles. Retrenchment of public expenditure is once again being called for by international agencies as well as by leading economists and politicians. The irony of this all is that by rescuing financial institutions the policy authorities, which up to now have totally ignored the problems posed by an excessive increase of private debt, focusing attention on public debt alone, have dealt with a crisis originating in the private debt area by shifting part of its weight to the public sector. This should call for some reconsideration of macroeconomic views. In any case, for any individual country considered in isolation, it is rather difficult to ignore the mainstream recommendations. Countries with already large public deficits and debt risk coming under attack on the side of financial speculation if they ignore the consensus recipes. Financial markets can then foresee a spiral of growing public expenditure for interest payments, growing deficits and growing public debt, further increasing the spread up to the point of collapse. Fiscal retrenchment then takes place, so to say, at gunpoint. There is little choice, thus, for many countries on the sign of their fiscal policies. However, this constraint leaves various options open. JEL Codes: G01, G21, N20
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 63, N. 254 (2010)
title: The History of the German-speaking Volhynians as Part of a Global Migration History
Creators: name: Musekamp, Jan
Publisher: name: Herder-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 947 Geschichte Osteuropas; Russlands

description: From the mid-nineteenth century onward, innovations such as steam navigation and the advent of the railroad led to a sharp increase in global migration movements. The German-speaking Volhynians were part of this development, which moved between the ideal-typical poles of voluntary and forced migration and was significantly influenced by the enforcement of the ethnonational principle. This article focuses on the emigration movements of this group from the Russian governorate of Volhynia in the period between the 1860s and the First World War. The subsequent forced migrations of the German-speaking Volhynians are also briefly discussed.
Predictors of family screen time exposure among students in selected higher education institutions in central Luzon, Philippines
Creators: name: Michael G. Albino, Femia S. Albino
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research, Innovation and Creativity Administration Office, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus, 6 Rachamakha Nai Rd., Amphoe Muang, Nakhon Pathom 73000, Thailand
Year: 2023
Subjects: College students
family
predictors
screen time exposure

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 3, 678687
Local-to-global Urysohn width estimates
Creators: name: Balitskiy, Alexey
name: Berdnikov, Aleksandr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The notion of the Urysohn $d$-width measures to what extent a metric space can be approximated by a $d$-dimensional simplicial complex. We investigate how local Urysohn width bounds on a riemannian manifold affect its global width. We bound the $1$-width of a Riemannian manifold in terms of its first homology and the supremal width of its unit balls. Answering a question of Larry Guth, we give examples of $n$-manifolds of considerable $(n-1)$-width in which all unit balls have arbitrarily small $1$-width. We also give examples of topologically simple manifolds that are locally nearly low-dimensional.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures; Theorem 1.3 generalized to all dimensions
The development of an innovative model for storytelling to enhance learners' occupational skills and life long learning in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand
Creators: name: Narin Sungrugsa, Kanit Kheovichai
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research, Innovation and Creativity Administration Office, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus, 6 Rachamakha Nai Rd., Amphoe Muang, Nakhon Pathom 73000, Thailand
Year: 2023
Subjects: Storytellers
community recreations
occupational skills and life-long learning

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 3, 688694
Students' reflections on an integrated research subject using a research-based learning online model during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Thailand
Creators: name: Jiraporn Jaroenpool, Charuai Suwanbamrung
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research, Innovation and Creativity Administration Office, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus, 6 Rachamakha Nai Rd., Amphoe Muang, Nakhon Pathom 73000, Thailand
Year: 2023
Subjects: Student reflection
experience
research-based learning online
COVID-19 pandemic
qualitative study

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 3, 695707
Demixing can occur in binary hard-sphere mixtures with negative non-additivity
Creators: name: Santos, A.
name: de Haro, M. Lopez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A binary fluid mixture of non-additive hard spheres characterized by a size ratio $γ=σ_2/σ_1<1$ and a non-additivity parameter $Δ=2σ_{12}/(σ_1+σ_2)-1$ is considered in infinitely many dimensions. From the equation of state in the second virial approximation (which is exact in the limit $d\to\infty$) a demixing transition with a critical consolute point at a packing fraction scaling as $η\sim d 2^{-d}$ is found, even for slightly negative non-additivity, if $Δ>-{1/8}(\lnγ)^2$. Arguments concerning the stability of the demixing with respect to freezing are provided.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; title changed; final paragraph added; to be published in PRE as a Rapid Communication
Thai inspired: Thailand through the eyes of Western artists
Creators: name: Konstanz, Dale
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research, Innovation and Creativity Administration Office, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus, 6 Rachamakha Nai Rd., Amphoe Muang, Nakhon Pathom 73000, Thailand
Year: 2023
Subjects: Orientalism
Thailand
Asia
Western artists
late modernism
contemporary art
culture

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 3, 708720
Economics of producing irrigated crops in East Pakistan
Creators: name: Jabbar, M. A.
name: Jabbar, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: cost
subject: return
subject: profit
subject: irrigated crops
subject: rice
subject: East Pakistan

description: Based on a review of different studies, this paper shows the differences in cost and profitability of different irrigated crops in east Pakistan.
description: Published in the Pakistan Journal of Science, Pakistan