cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Automated Discovery of Business Process Simulation Models from Event Logs
Creators: name: Camargo, Manuel
name: Dumas, Marlon
name: González-Rojas, Oscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Business process simulation is a versatile technique to estimate the performance of a process under multiple scenarios. This, in turn, allows analysts to compare alternative options to improve a business process. A common roadblock for business process simulation is that constructing accurate simulation models is cumbersome and error-prone. Modern information systems store detailed execution logs of the business processes they support. Previous work has shown that these logs can be used to discover simulation models. However, existing methods for log-based discovery of simulation models do not seek to optimize the accuracy of the resulting models. Instead they leave it to the user to manually tune the simulation model to achieve the desired level of accuracy. This article presents an accuracy-optimized method to discover business process simulation models from execution logs. The method decomposes the problem into a series of steps with associated configuration parameters. A hyper-parameter optimization method is used to search through the space of possible configurations so as to maximize the similarity between the behavior of the simulation model and the behavior observed in the log. The method has been implemented as a tool and evaluated using logs from different domains.
description: 34 pages, 5 figures, Research paper
Additional file 1 of Interaction of sleep duration and depression on cardiovascular disease: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Jin, Bowen
name: Zhang, Hang
name: Song, Fuchun
name: Wu, Guangjun
name: Yang, Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Sensitivity analysis of missing data before and after interpolation.
BENCHMARKING/ RASTREO ACADÉMICO DE REFERENCIACIÓN – FUP
Creators: name: Bucheli, Maria Alejandra Caicedo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Contenido:
 ¿Qué es Benchmarking y por qué de su utilidad para la Agenda Investigativa?
 Organizaciones con mejores prácticas
 Indicadores auscultados
 Ejes de reflexión y análisis
 Conclusiones y Recomendaciones
The Mind as a Predictive Modelling Engine: Generative Models, Structural Similarity, and Mental Representation
Creators: name: Williams, Daniel George
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: mental representation
predictive coding
predictive processing
philosophy
generative models
structural resemblance
structural similarity

description: I outline and defend a theory of mental representation based on three ideas that I extract from the work of the mid-twentieth century philosopher, psychologist, and cybernetician Kenneth Craik: first, an account of mental representation in terms of idealised models that capitalize on structural similarity to their targets; second, an appreciation of prediction as the core function of such models; and third, a regulatory understanding of brain function. I clarify and elaborate on each of these ideas, relate them to contemporary advances in neuroscience and machine learning, and favourably contrast a predictive model-based theory of mental representation with other prominent accounts of the nature, importance, and functions of mental representations in cognitive science and philosophy.
description: This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Electromagnetically induced acoustic transparency with a superconducting circuit
Creators: name: Andersson, Gustav
name: Ekström, Maria K.
name: Delsing, Per
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the observation of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) of a mechanical field, where a superconducting artificial atom is coupled to a 1D-transmission line for surface acoustic waves. An electromagnetic microwave drive is used as the control field, rendering the superconducting transmon qubit transparent to the acoustic probe beam. The strong frequency dependence of the acoustic coupling enables EIT in a ladder configuration due to the suppressed relaxation of the upper level. Our results show that superconducting circuits can be engineered to interact with acoustic fields in parameter regimes not readily accessible to purely electromagnetic systems.
Removal of a single photon by adaptive absorption
Creators: name: Calsamiglia, John
name: Barnett, Stephen M.
name: Lütkenhaus, Norbert
name: Suominen, Kalle-Antti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to remove, using only linear optics, exactly one photon from a field-mode. This is achieved by putting the system in contact with an absorbing environment which is under continuous monitoring. A feedback mechanism then decouples the system from the environment as soon as the first photon is absorbed. We propose a possible scheme to implement this process and provide the theoretical tools to describe it.
Capturing, Editing, and Relighting Indoor Scenes from a Single Panorama
Creators: name: Ji, Guanzhou
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3301
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
classificationCode: 330206
subject: Building science, technologies and systems

description: Virtual staging has been widely used to showcase indoor spaces. However, architectural design requires the integration of disparate software tools and significant manual input, which limits its scalability across various spaces. Recent computer vision applications have started using a single photograph to understand 3D scenes. This thesis introduces a novel inverse rendering pipeline that automatically transforms an indoor panorama into a new virtual panorama within its outdoor context. The first contribution is an indoor-outdoor HDR photography method. In each scenario, an indoor panorama is captured along with its corresponding outdoor image to understand indoor spatially varying light. This effort has resulted in a new HDR dataset that includes 278 scenes with photometric calibration. The second contribution is a full inverse rendering pipeline. Conventional data-driven approaches face limitations in constructing accurate global illumination for indoor scenes. In this work, the 3D floor layout, material properties, and illumination conditions are directly estimated from the captured photographs, and a virtual model is constructed for realistic scene editing and relighting. The third contribution is a light-to-heat estimation method. Beyond the pixel, the absolute light level for virtual indoor scenes is computed to guide indoor activities. Meanwhile, transient heat simulation is implemented to estimate the heat generated by natural light on indoor surfaces.
Renormalized Poincaré algebra for effective particles in quantum field theory
Creators: name: Głazek, Stanisław D.
name: Masłowski, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an expansion in powers of an infinitesimally small coupling constant $g$, all generators of the Poincaré group in local scalar quantum field theory with interaction term $g ϕ^3$ are expressed in terms of annihilation and creation operators $a_λ$ and $a^\dagger_λ$ that result from a boost-invariant renormalization group procedure for effective particles. The group parameter $λ$ is equal to the momentum-space width of form factors that appear in vertices of the effective-particle Hamiltonians, $H_λ$. It is verified for terms order 1, $g$, and $g^2$, that the calculated generators satisfy required commutation relations for arbitrary values of $λ$. One-particle eigenstates of $H_λ$ are shown to properly transform under all Poincaré transformations. The transformations are obtained by exponentiating the calculated algebra. From a phenomenological point of view, this study is a prerequisite to construction of observables such as spin and angular momentum of hadrons in quantum chromodynamics.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
A difference boosting neural network for automated star-galaxy classification
Creators: name: Philip, Ninan Sajeeth
name: Wadadekar, Yogesh
name: Kembhavi, Ajit
name: Joseph, K. Babu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we describe the use of a new artificial neural network, called the difference boosting neural network (DBNN), for automated classification problems in astronomical data analysis. We illustrate the capabilities of the network by applying it to star galaxy classification using recently released, deep imaging data. We have compared our results with classification made by the widely used Source Extractor (SExtractor) package. We show that while the performance of the DBNN in star-galaxy classification is comparable to that of SExtractor, it has the advantage of significantly higher speed and flexibility during training as well as classification.
description: 9 pages, 1figure, 7 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Assessment of Feed Supplementation to Dairy Goat: Results of Research and Technology Dissemination Trials
Creators: name: Anwar, Muhammad Zubair
name: Ali, Akhter
name: Khan, M. Azeem
name: Anwar, Muhammad Zubair
name: Ali, Akhter
name: Khan, M. Azeem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Barani
subject: Feed supplement
subject: Dairy Goat
subject: Dissemination
subject: Productivity
subject: Sustainability
subject: Punjab

description: Over the years, role and strength of dairy goat is increasing in Barani Tract of Punjab. The bread and butter needs of poor and small household are largely depends on livestock specifically on the dairy goats. The 80 percent livestock management activities are mostly depends upon women; therefore under the experimentation of feed supplementation mainly women's were included as research partners. The women perceptions regarding the effectiveness of feed supplement were collected by using a well structured questionnaire. A total of 62 women's were included in the sample size. Results indicated that 95.08% women's had shown their complete satisfaction from the feed supplements given to dairy goats. A large majority of the respondents (98.31) were in view that the given feed supplements had increased their milk productivity. Overall, 82.69 % sample women had pointed out that their knowledge about goat management has increased with this experimentation. Both empirical and experimental data shows a significant increase in milk yield i.e 520 ml and 562 ml respectively. The marginal rate of returns from milk was about 246.38 % that also revealed economic significance of the feed supplementation intervention to the dairy goats. The sustainability of feed supplementation has serious problem, about 67.27 percent respondents were in view that feed supplementation to dairy goat will not sustain due to resources poorness, availability and relatively importance of goat in household economy.
Public cemeteries and the production of urban space in colonial Seoul, 1910-1945
Creators: name: Lee, Hyang A
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: colonial Seoul
public cemeteries
burial rule
colonial urbanisation

description: This thesis traces the production process of colonial urban space in Seoul. In particular, the research analyses how the space of the dead (the gravesite) was transformed into a space of urban settlers during the colonial period. The Government General Korea introduced the burial rule in 1912, the first modern law of its kind, to control (the space of) the dead within the realm of the state. At the core of the 1912 burial rule was the prohibition of long-standing interment customs – such as feng-shui-based private gravesites – and the installation of public cemeteries as the only place for interment. The rule also introduced cremation into Korean society, a practice that had long been taboo. The gravesite had embodied significant meaning and served important functions within Korean society in the past, but the burial rule changed the whole relationship between the living and the gravesite. Indeed, as this thesis shows, the burial rule was one of the governing strategies deployed in shaping and transforming Koreans’ institutions, physical space, and consciousness. To capture the inter-relational mechanisms between the transformation of the gravesite and the wider urban development of the colonial capital Seoul, the thesis uses a unique theoretical and analytical framework, which the author calls ‘institutional political economy.’ Through this framework and echoing Lefebvre’s spatial triad of the production of space, this thesis argues that urban space is produced through the dialectical relations of the institutions, material space, and experience/consciousness. The gravesite, especially in Seoul, underwent a major transformation during the colonial period, which consequently had a substantial impact on Koreans’ attitudes towards and notions of death and the gravesite. The thesis demonstrates how these changing attitudes corresponded and interacted with the capitalist urbanisation of Seoul, which would ultimately produce a new urban landscape and urban consciousness and subjectivity within modern Seoul.
description: Cambridge Overseas Trusts
Unified description of hadron yield ratios from dynamical core-corona initialization
Creators: name: Kanakubo, Yuuka
name: Tachibana, Yasuki
name: Hirano, Tetsufumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the dynamical core-corona initialization framework as a phenomenological description of the formation of quark gluon plasma (QGP) fluids in high-energy nuclear collisions. Using this framework, we investigate the fraction of the fluidized energy to the total energy and strange hadron yield ratios as functions of multiplicity and scrutinize the multiplicity scaling of hadron yield ratios recently reported by the ALICE Collaboration. Our results strongly indicate that the QGP fluids are partly formed even at the averaged multiplicity for nonsingle diffractive p+p events.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures; Title changed. Published version
title: Media content’s role in the making of a democrat: Evidence from East Germany
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Friehe, Tim
name: Müller, Helge
name: Neumeier, Florian
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: Voting
Economics
Wirtschaft
Natural experiment
Germany.
Media
Television

description: This paper explores the causal influence of access to Western television programming on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic in which only geography and topography determined the allocation of individuals to treatment and control groups. Focusing on both the shares of extremist parties and voter turnout, we find that in the post-reunification decade in which TV content was harmonized, regions that already had access to Western TV broadcasts before reunification experience lower vote shares of extremist parties and higher voter turnout.
Full Counting Statistics of Topological Defects After Crossing a Phase Transition
Creators: name: Gómez-Ruiz, Fernando J.
name: Mayo, Jack J.
name: del Campo, Adolfo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the number distribution of topological defects resulting from the finite-time crossing of a continuous phase transition and identify signatures of universality beyond the mean value, predicted by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. Statistics of defects follows a binomial distribution with $\mathcal{N}$ Bernouilli trials associated with the probability of forming a topological defect at the locations where multiple domains merge. All cumulants of the distribution are predicted to exhibit a common universal power-law scaling with the quench time in which the transition is crossed. Knowledge of the distribution is used to discuss the onset of adiabatic dynamics and bound rare events associated with large deviations.
description: Main text: 6 pages, 4 figures. Supplemental Material: 8 pages, 6 figures
D-branes in String theory Melvin backgrounds
Creators: name: Dudas, E.
name: Mourad, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the consistent D-brane configurations in type II nonsupersymmetric Melvin Background. The D-branes are analysed from three complementary points of view: the effective Born-Infeld action, the open string partition function and the boundary state approach. We show the agreement of the results obtained by the three different approaches. Among the surprising features is the existence of supersymmetric branes, some of them having a quasi-periodic direction. We also discuss the generalisation to backgrounds with several magnetic fields, some of them preserving in the closed and the open spectra some amount of supersymmetry. The case of rational magnetic flux, equivalent to freely-acting noncompact orbifolds, is also studied. It allows more possibilities of consistent D-brane configurations.
description: 24 pages
The Right to Control the Land: Law, Heritage and Self-Determination by Native Hawaiians
Creators: name: Shay, Susan Carol Rothenberg
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: heritage
Indigenous
Hawaiʻi
Indigeneity
sovereignty
law
land
culture
traditional
rights
colonialization
identity
empowerment
transformation
development
historic
American
state
legal
cultural
tradition
native
subjugated
minority
control
right
empower
transform

description: Hawai‘i was once an independent Indigenous sovereign island nation with a distinctive culture, history, and legislative past. The laws of the modern state of Hawai‘i reflect that history as Indigenous heritage has been integrated into state law. However, during the last forty years the laws protecting Native Hawaiian rights have been challenged in Hawai‘i through a series of significant land claim lawsuits. Native Hawaiian struggles for sovereignty are based on the assertion of their heritage rights in lawsuits. This dissertation explores the use of heritage in land claim lawsuits and the role it plays in the construction of a modern Indigenous identity. It uses Native Hawaiian efforts for land control in Hawai‘i as a case study to explore how involvement in the legal process has impacted both Indigenous identity and heritage. In this dissertation I examine three major lawsuits following one line of legal precedent: traditional and customary access rights. The investigation answers the questions of how legal narrative construction using heritage impacts Indigenous identity; how heritage values are substantiated; what the role is of experts in formulating cases; if there is a measurable change over time in the way that cultural claims are structured; and what the impact is of increased Indigenous political leadership and land control on Native Hawaiian identity and heritage. To complete this research, I applied a mixed qualitative method approach of ethno-historical, socio-legal, and legal narrative analyses with content analysis to examine Indigenous textural production and court performance as forms of social practice. I supported my research with ethnographic semi-structured interviews and participant observation in recognition of Indigenous protocol. The results indicate that Native Hawaiian use of heritage in courtrooms has contributed to Indigenous identity construction by enhancing collective memory, increasing land control, and protecting group rights. The results also provide insight into how such actions by Indigenous peoples can advance upward social mobility, encourage collective identification and civic involvement, regenerate cultural practices, and strengthen group identity. This research provides new insights into how Indigenous heritage can be used as a means of Indigenous empowerment and develops a greater and more complex understanding of the uses of heritage for land control and sovereignty. These findings may be used by other special interest groups using heritage to achieve common goals.
The Impact of Climate Change on Livestock Production amongst the Resource-Poor Farmers of Third World Countries: A Review
Creators: name: Musemwa, L.
name: Muchenje, V.
name: Mushunje, A.
name: Zhou, L.
name: Musemwa, L.
name: Muchenje, V.
name: Mushunje, A.
name: Zhou, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Erratic rainfall
subject: developing countries
subject: diseases
subject: floods
subject: local breeds
subject: temperature variability

description: The world is currently experiencing average high temperatures and low precipitation, frequent droughts and scarcity of both ground and surface water. The damaging effects of global climate change are increasing and most damages are predicted to occur in developing countries due to their over-reliance on low-input rain-fed agricultural production and their low adaptive capacity. Due to the erratic rainfall and high incidence of droughts which make crop production not feasible, the majority of the rural population in Third World Countries depends on livestock production for their livelihoods. The livestock sector is, however, considered very vulnerable to climate variability and change. Floods, droughts, diseases and poor grazing conditions are some of the factors currently causing significant livestock losses. The problems being encountered by the livestock farmers in most of the Third World Countries are expected to worsen in future due to the effects of climate change. This therefore makes the study of impact of climate change on livestock production a vital concern in the world, particularly in developing countries where many rural households depend on livestock production for their livelihoods. This article therefore looks at both the direct and indirect effects of climate change on livestock production. Strategies to curtail the effect of climate change on livestock production are also recommended in the paper.
Effects of Long Term Cropping Systems on Soil Chemical Properties
Creators: name: Mazarura, Upenyu
name: Chisango, C.
name: Mazarura, Upenyu
name: Chisango, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Crotalaria
subject: soil carbon
subject: nitrogen
subject: phosphorous
subject: rotations
subject: grass

description: In this study we examined the impact on soil C, total soil N and available P of six rotations namely: long season tobacco cultivar ‘KM10’ grown continuously (ContKM10), medium season tobacco cultivar ‘RK8’ grown continuously (ContRK8), grass-grass-grass-KM10 (G-G-G-KM10), grass-grass-grass-RK8 (G-G-G-RK8), KM10-Crotalaria juncea (KM10-Cr) and RK8-Crotalaria juncea (RK8-Cr). The experiment was established in 1990 under irrigation on a sandy loam soil at Kutsaga Research Station, Zimbabwe. Soil samples were taken from 0- to 15-cm deep, after each season. After 9 years, tobacco-grass rotations showed higher soil C than monocropping, regardless of variety. The monocropping systems, ContKM10 and ContRK8, did not differ from KM10-Cr and RK8-Cr respectively showing that when crop intensity is maintained soil C will be reduced regardless of a winter C. juncea green manure in a sandy loam soil. After 9 years, soil N was greatest in the G-G-G-KM10 rotation. Available P was lower in the grass (G-G-G-KM10, G-G-G-RK8) relative to the other rotations regardless of variety. Available P accumulated in monocropping systems (ContRK8, ContKM10) and was consistently lower in the grass-tobacco rotations. This indicated an accumulation of P in the case of monocropping systems because of continuous inorganic fertiliser input. The results reaffirmed the deleterious effect of monocropping and suggested the need for diverse rotations.
On the Existence of the Quantum Action
Creators: name: Kröger, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have previously proposed a conjecture stating that quantum mechanical transition amplitudes can be parametrized in terms of a quantum action. Here we give a proof of the conjecture and establish the existance of a local quantum action in the case of imaginary time in the Feynman-Kac limit (when temperature goes to zero). Moreover we discuss some symmetry properties of the quantum action.
description: revised version, Text (LaTeX)
Towards humane digitization: a wellbeing-driven process of personas creation
Creators: name: Nurhas, Irawan
name: Pawlowski, Jan
name: Geisler, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5.2

description: Digital transformation is a process of digitizing the working and living environment in which people are at the center of digitization. In this paper, we present a personas-based guideline for system developers on how the humanization of digital transformation integrates into the design process. The proposed guideline uses the positive personas from the beginning as a basis for the transformation of the working environment into the digital form. We used the literature research as a preliminary study for the process of wellbeing-driven digital transformation design, consisting of questions for structuring the required information in the positive personas as well as a potential method that could be integrated into the wellbeing-based design process.
description: 8 Pages, CHIuXiD '19: Proceedings of the 5th International ACM In-Cooperation HCI and UX Conference
Magnetic nanographite
Creators: name: Kusakabe, Koichi
name: Maruyama, Masanori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrogenated nanographite can display spontaneous magnetism. Recently we proposed that hydrogenation of nanographite is able to induce finite magnetization. We have performed theoretical investigation of a graphene ribbon in which each carbon is bonded to two hydrogen atoms at one edge and to a single hydrogen atom at another edge. Application of the local-spin-density approximation to the calculation of the electronic band-structure of the ribbon shows appearance of a spin-polarized flat band at the Fermi energy. Producing different numbers of mono-hydrogenated carbons and di-hydrogenated carbons can create magnetic moments in nanographite.
description: 4 pages, 3 Postscript figures, uses revtex4.cls, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
title: Interoperability in the digital economy
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Kerber, Wolfgang
name: Schweitzer, Heike
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: standards
Economics
Wirtschaft
communication networks
platforms
digital goods
interoperability
digital economy

description: Interoperability has become a buzzword in European policy debates on the future of the digital economy. In its Digital Agenda, the EU Commission has identified a lack of interoperability as one of the significant obstacles for the thriving of the digital economy. The EU Commission and a number of other actors have advocated far-reaching policies for ensuring the interoperability of digital goods, services, platforms and communication networks. In this paper, we present a systematic framework for discussing interoperability problems from an economic and legal perspective and apply it to several interoperability issues, as, e.g., standardization, interoperability regulation in the field of electronic communication, duties of dominant firms (including platforms) to ensure horizontal and vertical interoperability and IP law exceptions in favour of interoperability. The complex trade-offs between benefits and costs of a higher degree of interoperability suggest the need for a careful and separate analysis of each specific interoperability issue, caution regarding a (top down) imposition of mandatory standards and interoperability obligations, and a greater focus on unilateral solutions of interoperability problems, like adapters or converters. EU competition law may be better advised to develop, within the framework of Art. 102 TFEU, a workable test to address hurdles for unilateral interoperability solutions created by dominant firms, than to continue focusing on the essential facilities doctrine to mandate interoperability.
title: Large Scale Land Investments: Impact on Child Health
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Brandt, Jana
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: Child health
Development
Large scale land investment
Economics
Wirtschaft

description: This paper investigates the impacts of large scale land investments on the health of children. I use household data of the 2005 and 2011 Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) for Ethiopia and combine them with information of large scale land investment projects provided by the Land Matrix Observatory. This data provides information about the location of the land investments and about the location of children. With this information I develop an index that indicates the level of investment intensity for each child’s residential area. Taking advantage of the repeated cross sectional structure of the DHS data, I estimate the effect of an increase in the investment intensity of a child’s residential area and how this effect changes over time. The results indicate that the effect is negative for children born between 2000-2005, but it rises over time by getting less negative or even positive for children born between 2006-2011. The difference-in-differences estimation with Gaussian kernel propensity score matching shows a benefit in the development status of children that are exposed to large scale land investments. This paper investigates the impacts of the recent wave of large scale land investments on the health of Ethiopian children that are exposed to such investments. I use household data of the 2005 and 2011 Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) for Ethiopia and combine them with information of large scale land investment projects provided by the Land Matrix Observatory. This data allows to identify the location of the land investments as well as the location of children born between 2000-2011. I use these information to construct an index that indicates the level of investment intensity for each child’s residential area. Taking advantage of the repeated cross sectional structure of the DHS data, I estimate the effect of an increase in the investment intensity of a child’s residential area and how this effect changes over time. The results indicate that the effect is negative for children born between 2000-2005, but it rises over time by getting less negative or even positive for children born between 2006-2011. The difference-in-differences estimation with Gaussian kernel propensity score matching shows a benefit in the development status of children that are exposed to large scale land investments.
Utilizing Community through Developing the Center of Community’s Learning Activity (CCLA) in the Rural Area
Creators: name: Rusdiana, A.
name: Rusdiana, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Potency
subject: Developing
subject: Utilizing
subject: Centre of Excellence

description: Utilizing community is an effort to raise their value and status, whose condition nowadays still cannot afford to avoid the trap of poorness and backwardness especially in rural area. In other words, utilizing community is to make them capable and independent, creating more effective and efficient change. The center of community’s learning activity (CCLA) as one of non-formal education institutions grown and established by community’s initiative will develop when both the executor of the program and the stakeholders have similar perception in increasing the quality of community’s life in the condition of marginalization. Therefore, this paper offers ideas of developing CCLA toward independent CCLA, so that CCLA will be more powerful, and finally bring the change for better community.
The New Manila Sound: Music and Mass Culture, 1990s and Beyond
Creators: name: Gabrillo, James
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Philippines
ethnomusicology
music

description: This dissertation provides the first detailed account of the mass musical culture of the Philippines that originated in the 1990s and continues to be the most popular style of musical entertainment in the country — a scene I dub the New Manila Sound. Through a combination of archival research, musical analysis, and ethnographic fieldwork, my examination focuses on its two major pioneers: the musical television programme Eat Bulaga! (Lunchtime Surprise) and the pop-rock band Aegis. I document the scene’s rise and development as it attracted mostly consumers from the lower classes and influenced other programmes and musicians to adapt its content and aesthetics. The scene’s trademark kitsch qualities of parody, humour, and exaggeration served as forms of diversion to au- diences recovering from the turbulent dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos from 1965 to 1986, when musical works primarily comprised of state-commissioned nationalist anthems, Western art music, and protest songs. In the second part of the study, I trace the New Manila Sound’s contemporary revival in popularity through the aid of digital technology, resulting in an expansion of the modes of content-creation, dissemination, and audience participation in the country’s entertainment industry. Eat Bulaga! and Aegis hold a significant place in Philippine culture: not only have they influenced the tastes and identities of their audience, their brand of entertainment has also trickled down to the musicality of everyday social contexts in the country. As the first study of contemporary Philippine musical traditions that combines historical documentation and the ethnographic study of performers and audiences, my research expands our understanding of the country’s popular music industry as an influential force that has bestowed on its mass audience assurances of cultural and social authority.
The impact of oil prices on import demand in an oil-rich country: a multisectoral Bayesian approach
Creators: name: Ozturk, Ozcan
name: Canga, Miranda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This study examines Qatar’s import demand function across sixteen economic sectors, employing a Bayesian approach to estimate the price, income and oil price elasticities. The findings reveal that import demand is predominantly price inelastic (−0.079 to −0.21), reflecting the country’s heavy reliance on imported goods due to limited domestic alternatives. In contrasts, income elasticities are highly elastic (4.582 to 6.353), indicating that import demand rises sharply with increasing income levels. Additionally, oil prices positively influence import demand in sectors such as Metals and Machinery/Electrical, highlighting that higher oil prices, which typically correlate with increased government revenues, lead to higher industrial imports. However, this dependence on oil revenues poses economic valnerabilities due to oil price fluctuations. Comparisons with oil-dependent economies such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE confirm this pattern, whereas Norway’s sovereign wealth mechanisms mitigate such volatility. The findings indicate that price-based policies (e.g. tariffs) alone are insufficient to manage import volumes, emphasizing the need for structural economic reforms including diversification and enhanced domestic production. Given the high-income elasticities, strategic infrastructure investmentsin trade logistics and port facilities, are crucial to handle growing import volumes. Finally, by drawing parallels with other resource-rich economies, this research provides broader policy insights for oil exporting nations, stressing diversification, fiscal stabilization and trade resilience. This study provides critical insights into Qatar’s import demand dynamics, revealing the country’s strong reliance on imports and its sensitivity to income and oil price fluctuations. By employing a Bayesian approach, the research highlights the limitations of price-based policies in managing import volumes and underscores the need for structural economic reforms, including diversification and domestic production enhancement. The findings offer valuable policy implications for oil-exporting economies, emphasizing the importance of trade resilience and fiscal stability in mitigating risks associated with oil price volatility. These insights contribute to a deeper understanding of economic sustainability in resource-dependent nations.
MOESM1 of The plasma peptides of ovarian cancer
Creators: name: Dufresne, Jaimie
name: Bowden, Pete
name: Thavarajah, Thanusi
name: Florentinus-Mefailoski, Angelique
name: Chen, Zhuo
name: Tucholska, Monika
name: Norzin, Tenzin
name: Ho, Margaret
name: Phan, Morla
name: Mohamed, Nargiz
name: Ravandi, Amir
name: Stanton, Eric
name: Slutsky, Arthur
name: Santos, Claudia
name: Romaschin, Alexander
name: Marshall, John
name: Addison, Christina
name: Malone, Shawn
name: Heyland, Daren
name: Scheltens, Philip
name: Killestein, Joep
name: Teunissen, Charlotte
name: Diamandis, Eleftherios
name: Michael Siu, K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1 The number of successful LC-ESI-MS/MS experiments that resulted in successful correlations to peptides from the various disease and normal treatments.
title: Großflächige Agrarinvestitionen in Entwicklungsläandern: Ausmaß, Akteure und Land Governance
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Brandt, Jana
name: Possmann, Jonas
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: Produktivit¨at
Land Governance
Economics
Wirtschaft
Land Akquisition

description: Nach Jahrzehnten in denen der Agrarsektor für Investoren kaum von Interesse war, ist seit 2007/08 ein erheblicher Anstieg in der weltweiten Nachfrage nach Agrarland zu beobachten. Der Mangel an sicheren und gewinnbringenden Anlageformen in Zeiten der Finanzkrise sowie der steigende Bedarf an Nahrungsmitteln und Biotreibstoff hat diesen Anstieg ausgel¨ost. In dieser Arbeit geben wir einen Ü berblick über die rasant wachsende Literatur, welche sich mit dem Thema großflächiger Landakquisitionen beschäftigt. Wir tragen dazu die verschiedenen Erkenntnisse bezüglich des Umfangs und der Akteure der Akquisitionen zusammen. Dabei legen wir einen verst¨arkten Fokus auf die Darstellung der Angaben der Land Matrix. Es zeigt sich, dass es sich bei den Investoren nicht, wie in den Medien zumeist dargestellt, allein um staatliche Akteure aus China und den Golfstaaten handelt. Vielmehr handelt es sich häufig um private Investoren, die ihren Sitz Europa oder in den USA haben. Des Weiteren zeigen wir die möglichen Folgen der Landakquisitionen für die Zielländer auf und diskutieren diese im Hinblick auf die politischen Implikationen.
title: Kryptowährungen- Ein Problem für die Geldpolitik?
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Hanl, Andreas
name: Michaelis, Jochen
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: Bitcoin
Geldpolitik
Kryptowährung
Economics
Wirtschaft

description: Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoins may revolutionize the financial system by at least partially replacing intermediaries such as central banks and commercial banks. The blockchain technology enables users to transact on a peer-to-peer basis. This imposes a serious threat on the financial intermediaries as well as on monetary policy authorities. In this paper, we examine how well cryptocurrencies fulfill the functions of a fiat money and discuss the comparative advantages of cryptocurrencies. We proceed by exploring the implications of digital currencies for the concept and conduct of monetary policy
Morphological Characterization of Four Selected Spider Plant (Cleome Gynandra L.) Morphs from Zimbabwe and Kenya
Creators: name: Masuka, A.
name: Goss, M.
name: Mazarura, Upenyu
name: Masuka, A.
name: Goss, M.
name: Mazarura, Upenyu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Nutritious
subject: crops
subject: morphs
subject: Zimbabwe

description: Faced with climate change one way of adaptation is to reach into the genetic resource of the so-called miner crops. These crops are thought to be more resilient to climate change while being more nutritious than the modern vegetables. It is vital to characterise these crops in order to gather information that will help in their widespread usage. The objective of this study was to morphologically characterise four morphs; three from Zimbabwe and one from Kenya under greenhouse conditions at the Crop Science Department of the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe. This work assessed number of days to seedling emergence, number of days to flowering, number of leaflets/compound leaf and number of pods/plant and other parameters. The analysis of variance for all the traits exhibited significant differences (P=0.05). There was significant variation among spider plant morphs in plant height, petiole length, length of leaflet, fruit length, fruit width, days to seedling emergence, days to flowering, number of leaflets per compound leaf and number of pods per plant. Morphs from different locations exhibited variability for stem pigmentations. The Kenyan morph differed from the Zimbabwean morphs as it was smaller and produced a higher number of pods per plant. We recommend further studies to reveal the molecular markers associated with the morphological differences we observed.
Supplementary materials for: Cost–effectiveness of emergency care interventions in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Werner, Kalin
name: Risko, Nicholas
name: Burkholder, Taylor
name: Munge, Kenneth
name: Wallis, Lee A.
name: Reynolds, Teri A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A series of supplementary materials for the manuscript titled Cost–effectiveness of emergency care interventions in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Including:- The full search strategy used in the systematic review of cost-effectiveness analyses of emergency care interventions in low and middle income countries.
- Figure 1: PRIMSA Flow Chart
- Table 1: Quality assessment of included studies using CHEERS checklist
- Table 2: Quality results of CHEERS statement of included studies
-Table 3: Findings of Included Studies
Rural Women in Livestock and Fisheries Production Activities: an Empirical Study on Some Selected Coastal Villages in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Mamun-Ur-Rashid, Md.
name: Gao, Qijie
name: Mamun-Ur-Rashid, Md.
name: Gao, Qijie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Rural women
subject: participation
subject: Fisheries and livestock activates

description: Progressive participation of women in agriculture is evident throughout the Globe. Their participation in fisheries and livestock sector is well recognized but less perceived due to paucity of sufficient data. Considering this fact the present study had been designed to examine women‟s participation in fisheries and livestock activities as well as influence of selected socio-economic factors on their participation in some selected coastal villages of Bangladesh. For achieving research objectives a well structured interview schedule was administered on 70 randomly selected rural women during the period of September, 2010. Descriptive statistics exhibit that almost three quarter of the respondents had moderate to high level participation in fisheries and livestock activities. Among the fisheries related activities women had highest participation in feed application (M=1.528) while cleaning cattle shed (M=2.914) and giving feed to poultry birds (M=4.571) occupied the top ranks for cattle and poultry related activities. According to correlation estimates agricultural knowledge and family size had strong positive correlation with women‟s participation where as education and family income had negative significant correlation with women‟s participation in fisheries and livestock activities. Stepwise multiple regression mirrored that family size, agricultural knowledge and education jointly contribute to 25.6% variance in women‟s participation in fisheries and livestock activities.
Lower bound on the primordial black hole merger rate
Creators: name: Vaskonen, Ville
name: Veermäe, Hardi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a lower bound on the merger rate of primordial black hole (PBH) binaries by estimating the maximal fraction of binaries that were perturbed between formation in the early Universe and merger, and computing a conservative merger rate of perturbed binaries. This implies robust constraints on the PBH abundance in the range $1-100 M_\odot$. We further show that LIGO/Virgo design sensitivity has the potential to reach the PBH mass range of $10^{-2}-10^3 M_\odot$. The constraint from the merger rate of perturbed binaries is stronger if PBHs are initially spatially clustered.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, version published in PRD