cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CDE-GAN: Cooperative Dual Evolution Based Generative Adversarial Network
Creators: name: Chen, Shiming
name: Wang, Wenjie
name: Xia, Beihao
name: You, Xinge
name: Cao, Zehong
name: Ding, Weiping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been a popular deep generative model for real-world applications. Despite many recent efforts on GANs that have been contributed, mode collapse and instability of GANs are still open problems caused by their adversarial optimization difficulties. In this paper, motivated by the cooperative co-evolutionary algorithm, we propose a Cooperative Dual Evolution based Generative Adversarial Network (CDE-GAN) to circumvent these drawbacks. In essence, CDE-GAN incorporates dual evolution with respect to the generator(s) and discriminators into a unified evolutionary adversarial framework to conduct effective adversarial multi-objective optimization. Thus it exploits the complementary properties and injects dual mutation diversity into training to steadily diversify the estimated density in capturing multi-modes and improve generative performance. Specifically, CDE-GAN decomposes the complex adversarial optimization problem into two subproblems (generation and discrimination), and each subproblem is solved with a separated subpopulation (E-Generator} and E-Discriminators), evolved by its own evolutionary algorithm. Additionally, we further propose a Soft Mechanism to balance the trade-off between E-Generators and E-Discriminators to conduct steady training for CDE-GAN. Extensive experiments on one synthetic dataset and three real-world benchmark image datasets demonstrate that the proposed CDE-GAN achieves a competitive and superior performance in generating good quality and diverse samples over baselines. The code and more generated results are available at our project homepage: https://shiming-chen.github.io/CDE-GAN-website/CDE-GAN.html.
description: 15 pages,6 figures,4 tables. Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Monetary stabilisation and the stabilisation of output in select industrial countries
Creators: name: ARGY, V.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: monetary targets, money supply policy, income, output, stabilisation
subject: E52, E63

description: With most industrial countries now opting for monetary targets, a key question is whether this is also likely to stabilise income and output. The present paper looks at the recent history of a number of industrial countries and attempts to evaluate whether, if these countries had followed a more stable money supply policy, the growth of nominal income or output would have been stabilised. Two approaches are used in the analysis which indeed conclude that had a more stable money supply policy been implemented in the past, the growth of nominal income would in general have been more stable. The author then looks at the policy implications of the analysis. JEL: E52, E63
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 32, N. 129 (1979)
Intermittent hypoxia : cardiorespiratory and cerebrovascular consequences to acute hypoxia and submaximal exercise
Creators: name: Querido, Jordan S
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Intermittent hypoxia (IH) is broadly defined as repeatedly breathing decreased amounts of oxygen (hypoxia) interspersed with periods of room air breathing (normoxia). In animal, human diseased, and healthy human models, research has shown IH to negatively affect cerebrovascular vessel dilation. We have previously shown poikilocapnic (uncontrolled carbon dioxide (CO₂)) IH to blunt the vasodilatory response of a cerebral vessel during acute hypoxia. The purpose of this study was to measure the ventilatory, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular responses to: I) acute hypoxia and; II) to submaximal exercise following an isocapnic (controlled CO₂) IH protocol. Healthy males (n = 9) with normal pulmonary function underwent 10 consecutive days of isocapnic IH (oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO₂) = 80%, 1 hr/day). Ventilatory, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular (transcranial Doppler) responses to acute isocapnic hypoxia (SaO₂ = 80%, 5 minutes) were measured before (PRE-IH) and after (POST-IH) IH. Also, ventilatory, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular parameters were measured during a submaximal cycle exercise test (50, 100, 150 watts) PRE-IH and POST-IH. To further investigate cerebrovascular regulation during exercise, 5% CO₂ was added for two minutes of each exercise stage. Over the 10 days of IH, there was a significant increase in minute ventilation (VE) during the IH bouts (p<0.05). IH did not significantly alter the ventilatory, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular responses to acute hypoxia. However, there was a significant association (r = 0.86, p<0.05) between the change in the mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and mean middle cerebral arterial blood flow velocity (MCAVm) responses to acute hypoxia. Exercise caused significant increases in VE , MCAVm, and MAP (p<0.05), but there were no differences in measured variables between PRE-IH and POST-IH exercise trials (p>0.05). Similarly, hypercapnia caused significant increases in VE and MCAVm (p<0.05), although the magnitude of the response did not change following IH. Our results suggest that the effect of IH on ventilatory, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular regulation during acute hypoxia is individualistic, and changes in the MAP response may strongly influence the changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF). Also, our results suggest that IH does not alter ventilatory, cardiovascular, or cerebrovascular regulation during submaximal exercise or responsiveness to hypercapnia.
Plasmon modes in double-layer biased bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Van Men, Nguyen
name: Khanh, Nguyen Quoc
name: Linh, Dang Khanh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate zero-temperature plasmon modes in a double-layer bilayer graphene structure under a perpendicular electrostatic bias. The numerical results demonstrate that there exist two collective modes which are undamped in the long wavelength limit. The finite potential bias decreases remarkably the plasmon energy in a wide range of wave-vector and makes plasmon branches become Landau damped at a higher wave-vector as compared to unbiased case. We find that the dependence of plasmon dispersions on the system parameters such as the inter-layer separation and carrier density is similar in two cases with and without electrostatic bias.
A hazai szántóföldi növénytermesztés munkaerő-gazdálkodásának helyzete és kilátásai
The Situation and Prospects of Labour Management in the Hungarian Arable Crop Production Sector
Creators: name: BIRÓ, SZABOLCS
name: BIRÓ, SZABOLCS
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: szántóföldi növénytermesztés
subject: munkaerő-állomány
subject: termelékenység
subject: arable crop production
subject: labour force
subject: productivity

description: A szántóföldi növénytermesztés munkaerő-gazdálkodásának helyzetét európai uniós és az üzemek méretcsoportjai szerinti összehasonlításban vizsgáltam. A gazdálkodás eredményei alapján az ágazat pénzügyi helyzete kedvező, a foglalkoztatás színvonala stabil. Az európai uniós összehasonlítás alapján a munkaerő-felhasználás kedvező, a fajlagos munkaerő-lekötés alacsony, azonban a munkatermelékenységben, így a munkajövedelemben és a bérekben is jelentős a lemaradás az élvonaltól. Az üzemcsoportos vizsgálat szerint a nagyobb méretű üzemek viszonylag kedvezőbb munkatermelékenysége a szolgáltatási tevékenységük kiterjedtségével magyarázható. A szántóföldi ágazat a mezőgazdasági munkaerő negyedét (115,8 ezer ÉME) közvetlenül alkalmazza, míg az értékláncban az inputok beszerzésével mintegy 23,5 ezer fő, az élelmiszeriparban pedig közel 28 ezer fő alkalmazásához közvetetten járul hozzá. További kutatási feladat a témakörben a logisztikai feladatok munkaerő-szükségletének felmérése, lehatárolása lehet. = Labour management in the arable crop production sector was examined according to European Union EU Member State and farm size group. Based on the results of the management, the sector has a favourable financial position, so the level of employment is stable. Based on the comparison of the EU, specific labour utilisation is favourable and the specific labour deposition is low. However the labour productivity and therefore the labour income and wages are also low, and the backlog of the Hungarian arable crop production sector from the leading market players is significant. According to the Hungarian farm size group analysis, the relatively favourable labour productivity of larger farms can be explained by the extent of the service activities. The Hungarian arable crop production sector directly employs one quarter of the agricultural workforce (115.8 thousand AWU), whereas the sector indirectly contributes to providing 23,5 thousand workplaces in the value chain with the procurement of inputs and nearly 28 thousand workplaces in the food industry also. Further research topics can be to study and demarcate the demand for workforce by logistics tasks.
Feedback im Klassenzimmer
Creators: name: Gentile, Lucie
name: Ndiaye, Marianne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Unterrichtsgespräch
Masterarbeit

description: Ausgehend von zufällig beobachteten Lehrer-Schülerbeziehungen, die den Eindruck machten, das Lernen zu behindern, wurde im Rahmen dieser Masterarbeit nach einem lernförderlichen Ansatz gesucht, welcher pädagogische Beziehungen stärken könnte. Die Wahl fiel auf die aktuell sehr prominent diskutierte Methode Feedback. Für die vorliegende Arbeit wurden Klassenzimmertüren geöffnet, Einblicke in Feedback-kulturen gewährt und persönliche Wertvorstellungen im Zusammenhang mit Unterricht dargelegt. Dabei sind im Sinne einer qualitativen Sozialforschung Daten mittels Interview, Fragebogen und Beobachtungen erhoben und eine Zusammenhangsanalyse erstellt wor-den. Zu Wort gekommen sind sowohl die Lehrpersonen wie auch die Schülerinnen und Schüler von fünf Primarschulklassen. Das Resultat ist eine Bestandesaufnahme von gelebten Feedback-Kulturen in heutigen Klassenzimmern, welche aufzeigt, dass Feedback im Unterricht nicht nur die beabsichtig-ten Wirkungen der Lehrenden begünstigt, sondern darüber hinaus auch Veränderungen in der Qualität der Beziehung bewirkt.
Recent Changes in the Bioeconomics of Lobster and Mud Crab Mariculture in Vietnam
Creators: name: Petersen, Elizabeth H.
name: Glencross, Brett D.
name: Phuong, Truong Ha
name: Tuan, Vu An
name: Tuan, Le Anh
name: Petersen, Elizabeth H.
name: Glencross, Brett D.
name: Phuong, Truong Ha
name: Tuan, Vu An
name: Tuan, Le Anh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: bioeconomics
subject: Vietnam
subject: spiny lobster
subject: mud crab
subject: mariculture

description: The purpose of this paper is to compare trends in the bioeconomics of tropical spiny lobster and mud crab mariculture in Vietnam between 2010 and 2013 using survey processes and bioeconomic analysis. Results show that tropical spiny lobster and mud crab grow-out mariculture remained strongly economically viable in Vietnam despite significant changes in the bioeconomic environment over a three-year period. The most notable changes to the grow-out of tropical spiny lobster were a significant decrease in harvest biomass due to decreased stocking densities and poor feeding techniques. Findings highlight the potential for improvement in stocking and feeding regimes in Vietnam’s lobster and crab mariculture industry, which is likely to have positive environmental and economic benefits. There remains significant scope for increasing the size and quality of the seed used and, in the case of crabs, improvements in availability and affordability of hatchery-produced seed. Similarly, there remains significant scope for optimization of feeding rates and improvement of feeding quality.
title: I don't know who I am if I am not burning: racialized trauma and affect theory in constructing an alternative final girl
Creators: name: Khosa, Simi
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: The slasher film has been entertaining (and scaring) audiences for decades. In a typical slasher film, a (usually) masked murderer stalks, torments, and murders young women over the course of a night. Only one survives the carnage - she is the “final girl.” But who gets to be the final girl? What about her identity grants her the privilege of survival? In this project, I discuss and broaden the scope of the white, middle class, straight “final girl” trope in horror through an intersectional analysis directed by affect theory. I take the reader through the planning of my short film and discuss it in relation to the established library of slasher flicks. I will move the relevance of these films beyond gender to consider how race is fundamental to understanding how a “new final girl” represents the aftermath of trauma in contemporary Western subjects.
Deliverables 6.2 - ETN Skill-For.Action ESRs training activities agenda M8-M19
Creators: name: Grigolato, Stefano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: training
ETN
forestry
Early Stage Researcher

description: Training activities for the Early Stage Researchers involved in the ETN Skill-For.Action funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Agriculture is Still the Engine of Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Uttar Pradesh, India
Creators: name: Tripathi, Amarnath
name: Tripathi, Amarnath
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: lead sector
subject: intersectoral linkages
subject: Uttar Pradesh economy

description: This paper assesses intersectoral linkages in Uttar Pradesh to identify the lead sector in its economy. It is based on time series data spanning 1980/81 to 2009/10 and used the vector autoregression framework to examine intersectoral linkages. The results suggest that agriculture is the main sector driving the other sectors (industry and services) in the state. Agriculture supports both the industry and service sectors through demand and production linkages. Despite being the leading sector in the economy, the performance of agriculture is far from satisfactory. The findings underscore the need to revive the agriculture sector to achieve high economic growth in the overall economy of the state. Further, the paper recommends developing the emerging food processing industry because of the state’s strong potential for competitive advantage.
On monetarism and ideology
Creators: name: ASCHHEIM, J.
name: TAVLAS, G.S.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Monetarism, ideology, business-cycle theory, stabilisation policy, Chicago, conservatism
subject: A13, B22, E63

description: The paper examines the relationship between monetarism and ideology, as well as non-monetarism and ideology. The identification of two coexisting strands of the 1930s Chicago monetarism, distinguished in terms of business-cycle theory and stabilisation policy, provides the basis for the suggestion that monetarism is not the exclusive domain of conservatism. Furthermore, the delineation of the ideological battle during the 1930s and 1940s between Chicago monetarists Frank Knight and Henry Simons, on the one hand, and Paul Douglas, on the other, highlights the subsequent emergence of Chicago monetarism in association with right-wing ideology. JEL: A13, B22, E63
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 32, N. 129 (1979)
On terms, concepts, theories and strategies in the discussion of greater flexibility of exchange rates
Creators: name: MACHLUP, F.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Exchange rate flexibility, pegs, parities, crawl, gliding parity, valuation
subject: E42, F33

description: The work represents an extensive survey of the issues related to the debate on the exchange rate system. The author make clarifications, proposes distinctions and warns against exaggerated claims in an effort to “clean up” the discussion in order to avoid confusion and provide sharper focus on the issues at hand. The topics dealt with are pegs and parities, alternative exchange rate systems, rate of crawl and width of band, greater flexibility, types of gliding-parity systems, flexible stable invariant, overvaluation undervaluation and the dilemma of advocacy. JEL: E42, F33
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 23, N. 92 (1970)
title: A transgenic mouse model of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
Creators: name: Dati, Gabriele
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2009

description: Congenital Hypomyelination (CH) IS the most severe demyelinating form of Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies and manifests at birth in human. Some subtypes of CH are due to dominant mutations in the gene coding for PO glycoprotein, which functions as a homophilic adhesion protein, responsible for compaction of opposing myelin lamellae. By homologous recombination in ES cells, we have generated a mouse containing a nonsense mutation in the intracellular portion of PO (Q215X) that, in the heterozygous state, is associated with CH neuropathy in humans. This mutation is predicted to encode a truncated PO protein, lacking part of the cytoplasmic domain. Expression analysis demonstrated that Q215X heterozygous mice produce both wildtype PO and a smaller, truncated PO glycoprotein; furthermore, the levels of mRNA and protein produced by the mutated allele are less abundant, relative to the wildtype. We demonstrated then that this reduction in mRNA and protein levels could be paIiially explained by inefficient transcription of the mutated allele, due to the presence of a LoxP site with intron 5. Behavioral analysis of the Q215X1+ mice revealed reduced motor performance at 11 days after birth. Morphological analysis performed on sciatic nerves of mice between PI and P 14 revealed defects in the process of axonal sorting by Schwann cells, with the presence of bundles of mixed large and small calibre axons surrounded, but not ensheathed, by single Schwann cells. These morphogical defects are rescued after the second week of life: sciatic nerves from adult mice, in fact, show only mild hypomyelination, which is much less severe than the morphology reported in patients. From these preliminary data, we conclude that the Q215X mutation results in a truncated PO protein; since the phenotype of Q215X1+ mice and PO +1- mice differs, Q215X probably produces a gain of function. Finally, we studied in vivo the intracellular location of the truncated protein, in order to clarify aspects of the pathogenetic mechanism of the Q215X PO mutation: we found that the mutated protein is not properly trafficked within Schwann cells, being partially retained in the ER compartment. The phenotype we have observed in the mutant mice presents similarities to other hypomyelinating mice that carry mutations in different genes, that are all involved in the laminin pathway: this suggests that mutant PO may interfere with laminin signaling, required for the correct timing of axonal sorting by Schwann cells. Thus, from these data we conclude that the Q215X mouse is a partial model of Congenital Hypomyelination, less severely affected, if compared to human patients. This difference in disease severity could be partially explained by the inefficient transcription of the Q215X allele. Thus, we believe that the mechanism of this hypomyelination is likely to be related to the mechanism of the more severe neuropathy in human. This mouse will be useful to reveal the pathogenesis of the mutation.
The U.S. balance of payments: freedom or controls
Creators: name: HABERLER, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: United States, balance of payments, dollar, exchange rate adjustment, controls
subject: F32, E42

description: In the last two years the U.S. balance of payments and the international position of the dollar have undergone sharp and somewhat paradoxical changes. Despite the unprecedented deterioration of the external balance in 1969, the dollar was left entirely unscathed in the exchange market. The article considers this paradox, the dollar’s position as the world’s foremost reserve currency and flexibility with regards to exchange rate adjustment. The author argues that the real choice is not between fixed exchange rates and some sort of flexibility, but rather between a messy and disorderly method of changing exchange rates that entails crisis, speculation and controls, and a smooth adjustment which largely avoids controls and reduces speculation to a minimum. JEL: F32, E42
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 23, N. 92 (1970)
The historical origins of Indian poverty
Creators: name: MADDISON, A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: India, Indian economy, poverty, development, policy, performance
subject: I32, N15, O53

description: The Indian subcontinent is today the poorest area in the world. Its living standard is wretched, both through Western eyes, and from the perspective of most other developing countries. But in the sixteenth century, India was considered wealthy by Europeans. This paper attempts to analyse the reasons for the decline in India’s relative economic status from the time of the Moghuls up to independence. Such an exercise is essential in order to make a valid assessment of the tasks and performance of economic policy in India and Pakistan since independence. It may also contribute to the economic analysis of colonialism. The author examines briefly the nature of the Moghul economy before analysing the main ways in which British rule promoted or retarded economic growth. JEL: I32, N15, O53
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 23, N. 92 (1970)
Least-squares construction of the yield curves for Italian government securities, 1957-1967. Part II
Creators: name: MASERA, R.S.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italy, Italian government securities, least-squares, yield curves, Durand, Grant, regression model, bonds
subject: G12, H63, E43

description: This is the second part of a study on the least-squares construction of the yield curves for Italian government securities from 1957 to 1967, in which the author considers the technical aspects. Some general considerations are made before the free-hand interpolation of Durand’s “basic yields” and the U.S. treasury securities curves is considered. The linear interpolation of Grant’s British government securities yield curves is then assessed. Finally, the method for least-squares interpolation is explained before the regression model used for Italian B.T.P. and the resulting estimated yield curves are presented. JEL: G12, H63, E43
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 23, N. 92 (1970)
Technical Efficiency Analysis of Small-Scale Cassava Farming in Lao PDR
Creators: name: Soukkhamthat, Thanongsai
name: Wong, Grace Y.
name: Soukkhamthat, Thanongsai
name: Wong, Grace Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: technical efficiency
subject: economies of scale
subject: cassava
subject: Vientiane
subject: Savannakhet
subject: Lao PDR

description: This study investigates returns of scale, estimates technical efficiency, and identifies the determinant factors of the efficiency of small-scale cassava farming in Vientiane and Savannakhet provinces, Lao PDR. Cross-sectional data on inputs, output, and farming characteristics from 193 cassava farmers were collected for this study. The maximum likelihood method is employed to estimate parameters, elasticity, and inefficiency scores using the stochastic frontier production function model. This study found that the elasticity of the mean value of cassava output is estimated to be an increasing function of farm size, labor cost, and seed cost in Vientiane and Savannakhet. Increasing returns to scale was found for smallholder cassava farming in Savannakhet. The estimated mean score of technical efficiency are 72 percent and 75 percent for Vientiane and Savannakhet, respectively. The determinants of technical efficiency in Vientiane showed that planting cassava with good land preparation, suitable time period for plantation, and young farmers play a key role in the improvement of technical efficiency for cassava farming.
title: Neurocognitive impairment following central nervous system infections in Kenyan children as detected by event related potentials
Creators: name: Kihara, Michael
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: As mortality in childhood decreases due to advances in modern medicine, presence of better nutrition and fresh water supply, the impact of disability has become increasingly important especially in resource poor countries. Children living in sub- Saharan Africa are also exposed to a number of potentially debilitating infections which have been shown to have long-term cognitive effects even in absence of clinical neurological sequelae. The objective of the study is to demonstrate that event related potentials (ERPs) can be used to detect neurocognitive impairment following the most common central nervous (CNS) system infections affecting children in sub-Saharan Africa, namely falciparum malaria, acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) and human immune-deficiency virus (HIV). Four groups of children were recruited: children previously admitted with severe falciparum malaria (n= 50), or acute bacterial meningitis (n = 65), or mY-infected (n= 39) or were unexposed to any of these conditions (n= 177). Passive auditory and visual oddball ERP protocols were used.

 The results of the group of 50 children aged 6-7 years old with a history of severe falciparum malaria (cerebral malaria, CM= 27, malaria plus seizures, M/S= 14 and prostrated malaria, PM= 9) show that children exposed to CM, MIS and PM had significantly longer auditory N200 and P3a latencies and smaller N200 amplitudes than study controls.

The results of 65 children aged between 4-15 years old with a history of pneumococcal meningitis shmved that children with a history of bacterial meningitis had significantly smaller auditory P100 amplitudes, longer N200 latencies and longer visual P200 latencies than community controls.

Finally, the results of 40 children aged between 18-40 months infected with IllV showed that they had longer auditory P100 latencies, larger auditory P200 amplitudes and smaller Negative component, Nc, amplitudes than community controls.

It is concluded that the CNS infections may result in neuro-developmental delays in childhood. Further, CNS infections may interfere with normal education outcomes by precipitating attention deficit amongst children post infection.
Devolution of Power and Community-Based Fishery Governance in the Bay of Blongko, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Creators: name: Meilasari-Sugiana, Astrid
name: Meilasari-Sugiana, Astrid
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: power structure
subject: devolution
subject: participation
subject: open access
subject: common governance
subject: contending ideology
subject: identity validation
subject: social inclusion

description: Natural resource governance in modern Indonesia is marked by the tension between the centralized policy strategy of the Suharto period and the reactive strategy of post-Suharto decentralization. To some extent, decentralization led to devolution of power and opportunities for local resource users to make consequential decisions over the natural resources upon which they depend. Nonetheless, this approach rested upon the capacity of communities to reach a consensus untainted by local politics, commercial imperatives, and traditional power structures. Moreover, decentralization had not given the majority strategic and structural decision-making power. Power disparity could lead to contentions, unfettered competition, open access, and resource overutilization. In the case of Blongko Bay’s marine and fishery resources in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, social institutions and local rules came into play and some people were recognized to protect the resource on behalf of the community. These social institutions took the form of neighborly ties, collective identity, reciprocity, and social and ecological responsibilities. Blongko’s marine and fishery resources were not free access but governed by local and informal rules to maintain its benefits for the good of the community. Individuals evolved behavior, which commensurated with their responsibilities, leading to innovative power structures which were more locally sensitive and environmentally appropriate.
Aneignung oder Enteignung Die Bedeutung der Interaktion für Lernen Eine empirische Studie zu Interaktion und Lernen in der Schule
Creators: name: Bruderer, Simon
name: Schlegel, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Interaktion
Schule
Masterarbeit

description: Inwiefern hängt Lernen mit Interaktion zusammen? In einer empirischen Untersuchung versuchen wir herauszufinden, inwieweit Kommunikation und Interaktion zwischen Schulischen Heilpädagogen-/innen und Schülerinnen und Schülern das Lernen unterstützt oder hemmt. Zwei Schulische Heilpädagogen nahmen je zehn Lektionen mit einem Audiorecorder auf. Diese Tonaufnahmenbilden die Datengrundlage für die Untersuchung. Die Analyse ausgewählter Interaktionssequenzen erfolgt vor dem Hintergrund der Theorie kommunikativen Handelns von Jürgen Habermas und der (De-)Symbolisierungstheorie von Alfred Lorenzer. Die Handlungskoordination zwischen SHP und SuS gelingt dann ideal, wenn die Geltungsansprüche gegenseitig eingelöst und möglichst alle Lernerfahrungen sprachlich symbolisiert werden. Dass dies immer nur annäherungsweise realisiert ist, wird in unserer Untersuchung nicht als fehelende Interaktionskompetenz interpretiert, sondern als Effekt der Schulstruktur. Ausgehend von den latenten Anteilen des Interaktionsgeschehens werden Zusammenhänge mitSpannungen hergestellt, welche die Struktur der untersuchten Schuleinheiten prägen. Die Ergebnisse unserer Untersuchung zeigen, dass die Spannungen im System Schule mindestens teilweise durch die Schulischen Heilpädagogen -/innen reduziert werden können. So wird für Lernende mit besonderem Bildungsbedarf Aneignung möglich.
Automatism or discretion in monetary policy?
Creators: name: SCHNEIDER, E.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Monetary policy, Friedman, money supply, price stabilisation, automation, income velocity
subject: E52, E51

description: It is generally excepted that changes in the money supply exert a profound influence on the economic process. The same goes for the resulting conclusion that the creation of money cannot be left to private initiative. These two propositions pose the questions: (a) what will be the economic effects of a given change in the money supply? (b) how has the money supply to be manipulated, if a specific aim is to be achieved? The present paper deals with the latter of these two questions. The author criticises Milton Friedman’s rule for the regulation of money supply aimed at price stabilisation in which matters are no longer left to the central bank’s discretion but are governed by a process of automation. This rule is based on the assumption of a constant or approximately constant income velocity which, according to the author, is not confirmed by the facts. It is argued that Milton’s conclusions are derived from statistical findings alone, however, the closest correlation between variables can explain nothing about causal relations between the variables or changes of variables. JEL: E52, E51
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 23, N. 93 (1970)
Bracon (Bracon) atrolugens GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Bracon
Bracon atrolugens

description: Bracon (Bracon) atrolugens GRANGER 1949
 Bracon atrolugens n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 58 (key), 80 (fig. 105), 82 (fig. 111), 83 (descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar).
 Bracon atrolugens GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1978: 1467 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n Madagascar: Prov. Antananarivo: near Antananarivo – Prov. Toamasina: Amparafaravola.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Multimodal Extreme Scale Data Analytics for Smart Cities Environments - MARVEL flyer
Creators: name: Kallipolitou, Dora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: flyer
smart cities
edge
fog
cloud
data analytics
multimodal
E2F2C
AI

description: This is the flyer of the MARVEL project. About MARVEL: Handling, processing and delivering data from millions of devices around the world is a complex and remarkable feat that hinges on edge computing systems. While edge computing brings computation and data storage closer, fog computing is what brings analytic services to the edge of the network. It’s an alternative to cloud computing. The EU-funded MARVEL project will develop an Edge-to-Fog-to-Cloud ubiquitous computing framework to enable multimodal perception and intelligence for audio-visual scene recognition, event detection and situational awareness in a Smart City Environment. It will collect, analyse and data-mine multimodal audio-visual streaming data to improve the quality of life and services to citizens within the smart city paradigm, without violating ethical and privacy limits, in an AI-responsible manner.
Understanding the effects of acculturation on Chinese-Canadian female youth smoking
Creators: name: Shun, Li
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In a recent report, the Canadian Council on Social Development emphasized the importance of acculturative influences on substance use by immigrant youth, including smoking (Kunz and Hanvey, 2000). Nevertheless, research on youth smoking in response to acculturation is quite limited in Canada, especially concerning recent immigrants from East Asia, who represent 23% of the total immigrant population in the country (Census Canada, 2001). The majority of the literature and research on ethnic youth and tobacco use comes out of the United States (Ma, 1999; Chen, 2004). Considering Canada and America have been pursuing different immigration policies which have resulted in dissimilar socio-cultural environments and subsequently, dissimilar acculturation processes, the lack of studies in this area in Canada constitutes a gap that need to be addressed by researchers. In addition, most of the study carried out in the United States drew on surveys, yet qualitative interview methods are critical for learning about the role of acculturation in youth adoption of host country cultural practices such as smoking. The research investigated how acculturation processes affect smoking uptake among recent immigrant girls from China. The purpose of the research was to explore how the smoking behavior of this specific population might be linked to the transformational processes young Chinese immigrant girls go through in negotiating their ethnic identities and adjusting their cultural values to life in Canada. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 Chinese-Canadian girls (10 smokers/10 non-smokers) currently attending university or college in the Greater Vancouver area during 2007. Interview questions addressed acculturation, cultural values, ethnic identity, peer pressure and parenting style. The Vancouver Index of Acculturation was used to measure participants' levels of acculturation. Results show that the Chinese-Canadian female smokers demonstrated strong 'cultural hybridity' in adopting strategies that accommodated values from both their home and host communities. The study found that the smokers experienced a number of acculturative stresses in their lives, and that smoking was used in part as a coping strategy to manage cultural differences, moderate identity confusion, and reduce feelings of isolation, particularly during the early phase of immigration. Disrupted and problematic immigrant family structure was identified as another major factor contributing to so-called "downward assimilation" in which situation immigrant youth had higher chance of initiating smoking.
Dualism and the internal integration of the underdeveloped economies
Creators: name: MYINT, H.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Economic dualism, less developed, underdeveloped countries, policy, traditional sector, capital, foreign exchange
subject: F31, E22, O20, O38

description: The work re-examines the nature and causes of economic dualism in the underdeveloped countries and considers some of its implications for development policy. Dualism may be defined as the co-existence of a “modern” sector and a “traditional” sector within the domestic economic framework of a country. Existing theories attempt to explain the differences between the two sectors in terms of sociological and technological factors. In contrast, the author argues that the most significant aspect of economic dualism as it exists in the present-day underdeveloped countries is that scarce inputs such as capital funds, foreign exchange and public economic facilities are being made available on excessively favourable terms to the larger units in the modern sector, and on excessively unfavourable terms to the small economic units in the traditional sector. This interpretation emphasises the importance of domestic policies to promote integration by removing the causes of unequal access to scarce economic resources. JEL: F31, E22, O20, O38
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 23, N. 93 (1970)
Bracon (Bracon) basinigratus subsp. basinigratus GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Bracon
Bracon basinigratus
Bracon (bracon) basinigratus basinigratus granger 1949

description: Bracon (Bracon) basinigratus basinigratus GRANGER 1949
 Bracon basinigratus n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 55 (key), 59 (fig. 54), 62 (fig. 64), 63 (descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar).
 Bracon basinigratus GRANGER 1949: PAULIAN DE FELICE 1962: 14 (biol., Madagascar), 58 (biol., Madagascar), 60 (biol., Madagascar).
 Bracon basinigratus GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1978: 1468 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n Madagascar: Prov. Mahajanga: Mont Tsaratanana – Prov. Antananarivo: Mandraka, Manjakatompo – Prov. Toamasina: Andasibe (Perinet), Andekaleka (Rogez), Anosibe – Prov. Fianarantsoa: Ambositra.
Endemic.
 PAULIAN DE FELICE (1962: 14) mentions three localities (Mandraka, Anosibe, Perinet (= Andasibe), where the galls of Ravensara sp. have been collected, but without data of the parasitic Hymenoptera.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
title: Mononuclear phagocyte activation and its role in HIV-1 pathogenesis
Creators: name: Cassol, Edana
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2009

description: Three decades into the HIV-1 pandemic, it is increasingly apparent that generalized immune activation is a key pathogenic determinant of AIDS. Studies of immune activation, in the setting of HIV-1, have focused primarily on the adaptive immune response despite the role of monocytes and macrophages as key regulators of inflammatory responses. In this thesis, I focused on the relationships between mononuclear phagocyte activation and HIV-1 pathogenesis, both in vitro using model systems and in vivo in African patients with AIDS, Using a monocyte-derived macrophage (MDM) model of Ml and M2a polarization, I found that activation transiently altered the capacity of macrophages to support productive HIV-1 infection and that the level of viral inhibition was dependant on the polarization phenotype. Ml and M2a polarized MDM also differed in the capacity to transmit virus to CD4+ T cells with M2a cells efficiently transmitting HIV-1 via a DC-SIGN dependant mechanism. In a cohort of treatment-naive AIDS patients, in vivo activation of circulating monocytes and intestinal macrophages was strongly associated with HIV-1 pathogenesis. Monocyte activation in these patients was differentially regulated by HIV-1 and circulating LPS (marker of microbial translocation) and was associated with two clearly distinct activation profiles. At the tissue level, HIV-1 was associated with alterations in intestinal macrophage distribution, frequency and phenotype. In the colon, macrophage activation was negatively correlated with viral load and positively correlated with microbial translocation suggesting that, although inflammatory macrophages in the intestine may contribute to the control viral replication, they may also enhance microbial translocation and systemic activation.
Umgang der Schulischen Heilpädagogik mit Lese- und Rechtschreibschwierigkeiten Theorie, Diagnostik und Förderung
Creators: name: Keusch, Mirjam
name: Schulter, Anita
name: Stahel Anand, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Legasthenie
Schule
Masterarbeit

description: In der Integrativen Förderung (IF) begegnet man häufig Lernenden mit Schwierigkeiten im Bereich Lesen und Schreiben.Für bis zu 20% aller Kinder verläuft der Erwerb der Kulturtechniken Lesen und Schreiben nicht reibungslos. Experten gehen davon aus, dass auf Seiten der Lehrpersonen und Schulischen Heilpädagoginnen und Heilpädagogen ein grosses Fachwissen vorhanden sein muss, um Kindern mit Lese Rechtschreibschwierigkeiten (LRS) erkennen und angemessen fördern zu können. Neben einem umfangreichen Wissen um die Thematik LRS kann auch ein Konzept Orientierung und Hilfestellung im Umgang mit LRS-Betroffenen bieten. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit geht zunächst der Frage nach, welche theoretischen Grundlagen es benötigt, um ein umfassendes Verständnis für Kinderm mit LRS entwickeln zukönnen. Im Weiteren untersucht sie im Kanton Zürich bereits vorhandene Richtlinien und Konzepte zum Umgang mit LRS-Betroffenen in Regelschulen. Aus der Analyse der Theorie zum Schriftspracherwerb und LRS sowie der Analyse der vorhandenen schulischen Konzepte werden abschliessend Empfehlungen für ein Rahmenkonzept skizziert, das für die Schulische Heilpädagogik in der Praxis handlungsleitend sein kann.
Designing with People, Systems and Data in Health; an advanced design-led approach introducing Person-Journey-System Maps for Multiple Long-Term Conditions
Creators: name: Nickpour, Farnaz
name: Leason, Isobel
name: Akin, Fazil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: AIM RSF Open Invitation Seminars

description: This session presented a transdisciplinary, design-led approach to improving and transitioning health and care systems for multiple long-term conditions, drawing on Inclusive, Human-Centred, and Systemic Design theory and practice. We introduced a three-tier model comprising Person, Journey, and System maps, co-produced to capture rich multi-level insights from a diverse group of patients, practitioners, providers, and public partners. We discussed the implications of converging big and thick data for problem definition and prioritization in health systems. Finally, we identified key leverage points across person/journey/system levels for MLTC health systems change.

The work was part of the SysteMatic project, which aimed to design and engineer better health systems for people living with Multiple Long-Term Conditions. It was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under the Systems Engineering Innovation Hubs for Multiple Long-Term Conditions (SEISMIC) scheme.This seminar is organised by the AI for Multiple Long Term Conditions Research Support Facility (link to the same archived website). The complete list of seminars can be found here. AIM RSF funded by the NIHR [Artificial Intelligence for Multiple Long-Term Conditions (AIM) programme (NIHR202647).
Analysis and forecast of COVID-19 spreading in China, Italy and France
Creators: name: Fanelli, Duccio
name: Piazza, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we analyze the temporal dynamics of the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak in China, Italy and France in the time window $22/01-09/03/2020$. A first analysis of simple day-lag maps points to some universality in the epidemic spreading, suggesting that simple mean-field models can be meaningfully used to gather a quantitative picture of the epidemic spreading, and notably the height and time of the peak of confirmed infected individuals. The analysis of the same data within a simple susceptible-(confirmed) infected-recovered-deaths model indicates that the kinetic parameter that describes the rate of recovery seems to be the same, irrespective of the country, while the infection and death rates appear to be more variable. The model places the peak in Italy around March 20$^{\rm th}$ 2020, with a maximum number of confirmed infected individuals of about 16,000.
External demand and internal supply factors in LDC export performance
Creators: name: KRAVIS, I.B.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Less developed countries, world trade, exports, growth, development
subject: O40, F10, F43

description: One interesting and important issue in the trade-development area arises out of the failure of the exports of less developed countries (LDCs) to keep pace with the expansion of world trade since the end of World War II. The question is to what extent this failure can be attributed to factors that are internal to the economies of the LDC and to what degree external demand conditions are responsible. In this paper, the author brings together the available evidence on this question and explores some possible further avenues. Since exports are hardly an end in themselves, the relation of exports to economic growth is also examined. JEL: O40, F10, F43
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 23, N. 93 (1970)
Sample size and power calculations for trials and quasi-experimental studies with clustering
Creators: name: Batistatou, Evridiki
name: Roberts, Chris
name: Roberts, Steve
name: Batistatou, Evridiki
name: Roberts, Chris
name: Roberts, Steve
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: clsampsi, sample size, power calculation, intervention studies

description: This article considers the estimation of power and sample size in experimental and quasi-experimental intervention studies, where there is clustering of subjects within one or both intervention arms, for both continuous and binary outcomes. A new command, clsampsi, which has a wide range of options, calculates the power and sample size needed (that is, the number of clusters and cluster size) by using the noncentral F distribution as described by Moser, Stevens, and Watts (1989, Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods 18: 3963–3975). For comparative purposes, this command can also produce power and sample-size estimates on the basis of existing methods that use a normal approximation.