cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On Weighted Dirac Combs Supported Inside Model Sets
Creators: name: Strungaru, Nicolae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we prove that given a weakly almost periodic measure $μ$ supported inside some model set $Λ(W)$ with closed window $W$, then the strongly almost periodic component $μ_S$ and the null weakly almost periodic component $μ_0$ are both supported inside $Λ(W)$. As a consequence we prove that given any translation bounded measure $ω$, supported inside some model set, then each of the pure point diffraction spectrum $\hatγ_{pp}$ and the continuous diffraction spectrum $\hatγ_c$ is either trivial or have a relatively dense support.
description: 18 pages
title: Практикум по дисциплине «Технология контроля и испытаний машин» для студентов направления 15.03.05 «Конструкторско-технологическое обеспечение машиностроительных производств»
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Донской государственный технический университет
Year: 2018

description: Излагается методика выбора контрольно-измерительных средств для контроля линейных размеров, проектирования контрольных приспособлений, методы оценки результатов контроля. Приводятся необходимые расчетные зависимости, справочные материалы. Предназначен для использования в учебном процессе при проведении практических занятий по дисциплине «Технология контроля и испытаний машин», а также в курсовом и дипломном проектировании при проектировании технологических процессов механической обработки деталей и сборки машин и при проектировании контрольных приспособлений. Предназначен для студентов бакалаврской подготовки по направлению 15.03.05 «Конструкторско-технологическое обеспечение машиностроительных производств» по профилю «Технология машиностроения».
Group-Sparse Signal Denoising: Non-Convex Regularization, Convex Optimization
Creators: name: Chen, Po-Yu
name: Selesnick, Ivan W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Convex optimization with sparsity-promoting convex regularization is a standard approach for estimating sparse signals in noise. In order to promote sparsity more strongly than convex regularization, it is also standard practice to employ non-convex optimization. In this paper, we take a third approach. We utilize a non-convex regularization term chosen such that the total cost function (consisting of data consistency and regularization terms) is convex. Therefore, sparsity is more strongly promoted than in the standard convex formulation, but without sacrificing the attractive aspects of convex optimization (unique minimum, robust algorithms, etc.). We use this idea to improve the recently developed 'overlapping group shrinkage' (OGS) algorithm for the denoising of group-sparse signals. The algorithm is applied to the problem of speech enhancement with favorable results in terms of both SNR and perceptual quality.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
Effects of Leadership Styles on Employee’s Commitment at St. Mary’s University
Creators: name: Lemma, Mesfin
name: G/Michael, Kiflom
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: This study aimed at examining the effect of leadership styles on employee’s commitment in the context of St. Mary’s University. Explanatory research design and quantitative research approach were adopted. Using stratified and simple random sampling techniques, 222 participants were chosen to participate in the study. Data were collected using the Multifaceted Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and Employee Commitment Poll Questionnaire (OCQ). Data were subjected to multiple linear regression analysis. The results indicated that transformational and laissez-faire leadership styles have positive and significant relationships with the dimensions of employees' commitment (affective, normative and continuance. However, there is no significant relationship between transactional leadership and dimensions of employee commitment (affective, normative and continuance). Based on the findings of the study, the researchers recommends to St. Mary’s University to emphasize more on transformational and laissez-faire leadership behaviors which can help improve the commitments of their employees
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 10 No. 2 (2018): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
A Rocky Composition for an Earth-sized Exoplanet
Creators: name: Howard, Andrew W.
name: Sanchis-Ojeda, Roberto
name: Marcy, Geoffrey W.
name: Johnson, John Asher
name: Winn, Joshua N.
name: Isaacson, Howard
name: Fischer, Debra A.
name: Fulton, Benjamin J.
name: Sinukoff, Evan
name: Fortney, Jonathan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planets with sizes between that of Earth (with radius R$_\oplus$) and Neptune (about 4 R$_\oplus$) are now known to be common around Sun-like stars. Most such planets have been discovered through the transit technique, by which the planet's size can be determined from the fraction of starlight blocked by the planet as it passes in front of its star. Measuring the planet's mass-and hence its density, which is a clue to its composition-is more difficult. Planets of size 2-4 R$_\oplus$ have proven to have a wide range of densities, implying a diversity of compositions, but these measurements did not extend down to planets as small as Earth. Here we report Doppler spectroscopic measurements of the mass of the Earth-sized planet Kepler-78b, which orbits its host star every 8.5 hours. Given a radius of 1.20 $\pm$ 0.09 R$_\oplus$ and mass of 1.69 $\pm$ 0.41 M$_\oplus$, the planet's mean density of 5.3 $\pm$ 1.8 g cm$^{-3}$ is similar to the Earth's, suggesting a composition of rock and iron.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures (including Extended Data and Supplementary Table). Nature, 2013 (published online Oct. 30)
Laelaps macropus Cope 1868, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Cope, E. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1868
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Dinosauria
Dinodontidae
Laelaps
Laelaps macropus

description: Leaelaps macropus Cope, sp. nov.
—This species differs from the former in the relative proportions of the phalanges and tibia; the toes were relatively larger than in the preceding. Some of these bones are figured by Leidy (Cretaceous Reptiles), and described under the head of animals related to Hadrosaurus. It will be described more fully by me in my forthcoming memoir on the extinct reptiles of North America.
description: Published as part of Cope, E. D., 1868, On the genus Laelaps, pp. 415-417 in The American Journal of Science, series 2 46 (138) on page 417, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3458149
Molecular Dynamics Trajectories of human tRNA-Gln-TTG-3-1 with Pseudouridine at Positions 55, 13, and Both, Compared to the Unmodified (U) Version
Creators: name: Maiti, Satyabrata
name: Mukherjee, Sunandan
name: Bujnicki, Janusz M.*
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This dataset includes three independent molecular dynamics trajectories(set1,set2 and set3) for human tRNA-Gln-TTG-3-1 variants: tRNA_unmod (no modified nucleotides), tRNA_psi13 (pseudouridine at position 13), tRNA_psi55 (pseudouridine at position 55), and tRNA_psi55_13 (pseudouridine at both positions 55 and 13). The trajectories are provided in .nc format, along with the corresponding .prmtop and .pdb files. Each trajectory spans 500 ns, with coordinates saved every 100,000 steps to reduce file size. However, for trajectory analysis, the coordinates are saved at a higher frequency, every 10,000 steps.
Determinants of Micro and Small Scale Enterprises Advancement into Medium scale Enterprises: The case of Nifas Silk Lafto Sub-city, Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Kinfe, Ashenafi
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of micro and small scale enterprises advancement into medium scale enterprises. The study used explanatory research design and the total population of the study was 1180 MSEs. Stratified random sampling procedure was used for the selection of 299 MSEs from Nifas Silk Lafto Sub-city. Data were collected by using structured questionnaire from the selected respondents and analyzed by using regression technique. The study shows that the major source of finance for MSE is personal saving. The study shows most of the MSEs are legally sole proprietorship and majority of them complained for insufficient loan to run their businesses. The findings of the study revealed that credit access; marketing and administrative factors affected positively the advancement of small scale microfinance to medium scale enterprises at 5% level of significance. Based on the findings the researcher recommends that locality based approach for solving problems of MSEs through prioritizing the challenges as per their severity; enhancing capacity of the MSE development agency through provision of skill and business training; improving local business environment through provision of sufficient work premises at appropriate location & facilitating access to credit from financial institutions are the major issues.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 10 No. 2 (2018): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
"Backwards" sibilant palatalization in a variety of Setswana
Creators: name: Wm. G. Bennett
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Palatalization of coronals and stridents is well-known and widespread, and is most commonly associated with front vowels or glides as triggers. In some dialect(s) of Setswana, a much different type of palatalization occurs: alveolar stridents /s ts tsʰ/ become pre-palatal [ʃ tʃ tʃʰ] before back vowels and the glide [w]. Clear empirical support for this pattern comes from productive alternations induced by the nominalizing suffix /-ɔ/, as well as alternations with an assortment of less productive morphemes, and lexical evidence. If palatalization before front vocoids is phonetically natural, then palatalization before back vocoids seems like it must be phonetically unnatural. However, this paper suggests that it is not the case: palatalization before back vowels actually makes phonetic sense, as a consequence of using lip rounding as a phonetic enhancement of the S~Š distinction.
Extreme variability in convergence to structural balance in frustrated dynamical systems
Creators: name: Singh, Rajeev
name: Dasgupta, Subinay
name: Sinha, Sitabhra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In many complex systems, the dynamical evolution of the different components can result in adaptation of the connections between them. We consider the problem of how a fully connected network of discrete-state dynamical elements which can interact via positive or negative links, approaches structural balance by evolving its links to be consistent with the states of its components. The adaptation process, inspired by Hebb's principle, involves the interaction strengths evolving in accordance with the dynamical states of the elements. We observe that in the presence of stochastic fluctuations in the dynamics of the components, the system can exhibit large dispersion in the time required for converging to the balanced state. This variability is characterized by a bimodal distribution, which points to an intriguing non-trivial problem in the study of evolving energy landscapes.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Determinants of Project Implementation Delay: The Case of Selected Projects Financed by Development Bank of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tulu, Tadesse
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this study is to identify the major determinants of project implementation delay. The research targeted projects financed by the Development Bank of Ethiopia. The independent variables causing project implementation delay are poor project initiation, poor project planning/design system, improper implementation, poor project monitoring, evaluation and controlling system, poor communication, improper project closure, and the dependent variable is project delay. The study considered 125 projects through stratified sampling method from projects financed by the Bank. Data were collected from randomly selected project managers using structured questionnaire and secondary data were also used. Data were analyzed using linear regression method. According to the findings, a strong, positive and significant relationship was observed between delay factors considered as independent variables and project delay. Among the six delay factors (poor project initiation, poor project planning/design system, improper implementation, poor project monitoring, evaluation and controlling system, poor communication and improper project closure), poor project initiation was identified and concluded as the determinants with the highest influence on project completion delay. So that any business initiators should select project those are more familiar and interesting for them and scope of project should be established, controlled and must be clearly defined and be limited.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 10 No. 2 (2018): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
ПРИЁМЫ И ПОНЯТИЕ СРАВНИТЕЛЬНО-ИСТОРИЧЕСКОГО МЕТОДА
Creators: name: Ходжаева, Наргиза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: в данной статье рассматривается сравнительно – исторический метод, условия подготовившие его, а также приёмы и само понятие сравнительно – исторического метода, как важной, неотъемлемой части лингвистической науки.
Rattus fuscipes
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus fuscipes

description: Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839). Zool. Voy. H.M.S. "Beagle," Mammalia, p. 66. TYPE LOCALITY: Neotype from Australia, Western Australia, Albany, "Little Grove" on Princess Royal Harbor, 4 mi S Mt Melville; holotype was lost (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988; Taylor and Horner, 1973). DISTRIBUTION: Coastal, subcoastal, and offshore islands of SW Western Australia; S coast from Eyre Peninsula in South Australia to W Victoria; coastal and subcoastal Victoria from Otway Peninsula north to near Rockhampton in Queensland; coastal Queensland from Townsville to Cooktown (see map in Taylor and Horner, 1973:15). SYNONYMS: assintilis, brazenori, coracius, glauerti, greyii, manicatus, mondraineus, murrayi, peccatus, pelori, ravus. COMMENTS: Taylor and Horner (1973) suggested, on morphological grounds, that the Queensland population of R. fuscipes (coracius) has a common ancestry with Queensland R. leucopus, a hypothesis reasserted by Taylor et al. (1982, 1983). This relationship, however, is not supported by either chromosomal (Dennis and Menzies, 1978) or biochemical data (Baverstock et al., 1983a, 1986). See Taylor and Calaby (1988a, Mammalian Species, 298).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 652-653, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274.", "Taylor, J. M., and B. E. Horner. 1973. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 98. Systematics of native Australian Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 150: 1 - 130.", "Taylor, J. M., J. H. Calaby, and H. M. Van Deusen. 1982. A revision of the genus Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae) in the New Guinean region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 173: 177 - 336.", "Taylor, J. M., J. H. Calaby, and S. C. Smith. 1983. Native Rattus, land bridges, and the Australian region. Journal of Mammalogy, 64: 463 - 475.", "Dennis, E., and J. I. Menzies. 1978. Systematics and chromosomes of New Guinea Rattus. Australian Journal of Zoology, 26: 197 - 206.", "Baverstock, P. R., M. Gelder, and A. Jahnke. 1983 a. Chromosome evolution in Australian Rattus- - G-banding and hybrid meiosis. Genetica, 60: 93 - 103.", "Taylor, J. M., and J. H. Calaby. 1988 a. Rattus fuscipes. Mammalian Species, 298: 1 - 8."]}
Liquid realization in Rutooro
Creators: name: Bickmore, Lee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This paper provides a description and analysis of te distribution of the liquids [r] and [l] in Rutooro (E.12), a Ugandan Bantu language. The allophone that appears is conditioned by the backness of both the preceding and following vowel. Assuming /r/ is underlying, it changes to [l] in contexts when the preceding vowel is back and the following vowel is front. A systematic set of apparent surface counter-examples, leading to phrasal minimal pairs, are argued to be the result of the rule applying twice -- both lexically and post lexically, where a separate post-lexical rule of vowel deletion is responsible for the opacity.
Tumbuka prosody: Between tone and stress
Creators: name: Downing, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Tumbuka is spoken in the northern Lake Malawi region where it is typical for Bantu
 languages to have what has been called a restricted tone system: all words must
 have a High tone. This kind of prosodic system has stress-like properties, and func-
 tions similar to Kisseberth & Odden (2003). Vail (1972) suggests that Tumbuka is a
 purely stress language. This paper argues, in contrast, that because Tumbuka High
 tone realization has tone-like properties, as defined in Hyman (2006; 2009; 2012;
 2014), as well as stress-like properties, it cannot be considered a canonical stress
 language. It is proposed that the synchronic Tumbuka prosodic system evolved
 from one where contrastive High tone takes a phrasal domain through processes
 – formalizable as an OT factorial typology – which made phrasal prosody more
 transparently predictable by eliminating most tonal contrasts.
Factors Affecting Performance of Commercial Building Projects at Lideta Sub-City, Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Gebrehewot, Maerege
name: Shete, Maru
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the factors affecting the performance of commercial building projects at Lideta Sub-city. The study employed a causal research design and used a quantitative research approach. A survey was conducted by using 174 structured close ended questions which were distributed to 58 contractors, 58 consultants and 58 owners of building construction projects. Multiple regression was used to examine the causal relationship between factors that affect project performance and project performance indicators such as construction cost, construction time, construction quality and construction scope. The findings of the regression analysis showed that project cost management factors, project time management factors, project quality management factors, project scope management factors and project risk management factors positively and significantly affected performances of building construction projects. Thus, this study recommended that contractors, consultants and owners should give emphasis on addressing the correlates of project performances so as to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of building construction projects at the Sub-city.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 11 No. 1 (2019): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
The Effects of Brand Image on Community Brand Perception: Steely RMI PLC
Creators: name: Mamo, Getu Moges
name: Aynnadis, Zemenu
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the effect of brand image on brand perception taking Steely Rolling and Melting Industry Private Limited Company as a case. Data is collected from customers of Steely Rolling And Melting Industry Private Limited Company and analyzed using correlation and regression analysis; hence, explanatory research design is applied for the fact that the study is aiming at knowing the effect of brand image dimensions on the customers brand perception. Convenience sampling technique is used to select the ultimate sample elements from which data was collected. The output of the analysis shows that brand identity, brand personality, brand association, brand behavior and attitude, brand competence and benefit are positively correlated with brand perception. These variables are also proved to have positive and significant impact on brand perception. This shows that the company need to give high center of attention for such factors so that they will continue to have such positive and significant influence for long period of time.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2020): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Creating the Difference: Making Shared Experience Meaningful at the Workplace
Creators: name: Mensah, Abigail O.
name: Adom, Alex Y.
name: Agyapong, Joan-Ark M.
name: Kumi-Korsah, Anastasia N. A.
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The conjecture made in this paper is that an organizational network can advance positive dialogue to make ends meet in successful enterprise. Proponents of this assumption argue that a group of individuals from the same entrepreneurship can champion organization. They propound that the diffusion of technology can be effective through mediation by an accredited agent such as a knowledge community that possesses the ability to monitor measure and evaluate the required performance and detail trace information referencing accepted standards and procedures. The agreement can be used to create the competitive advantage successfully. Using the theory of situated cognition and international development assignment to create successful human rights practices as case study, the paper examine how in-situ observations could be used to draw data which can be analyzed to understand situated cognition and how it can be applied to build the capability required for organization to interact effectively with its environment. The study concluded that human rights organizations are better position to become more successful if they partner with the local community in co-constructing a shared human rights vision.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2020): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Bibliometric-enhanced Retrieval Models for Big Scholarly Information Systems
Creators: name: Mayr, Philipp
name: Mutschke, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bibliometric techniques are not yet widely used to enhance retrieval processes in digital libraries, although they offer value-added effects for users. In this paper we will explore how statistical modelling of scholarship, such as Bradfordizing or network analysis of coauthorship network, can improve retrieval services for specific communities, as well as for large, cross-domain large collections. This paper aims to raise awareness of the missing link between information retrieval (IR) and bibliometrics / scientometrics and to create a common ground for the incorporation of bibliometric-enhanced services into retrieval at the digital library interface.
description: 4 pages, IEEE BigData 2013, Workshop on Scholarly Big Data: Challenges and Ideas
Factors Affecting Accessibility of Public Transportation for People Living with Disabilities: Evidence from Bahir Dar City Administration, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Lakew, Daniel
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The main objective of this study was to examine public transportation accessibility for people with disability. Survey research design specifically cross-sectional survey research design was used and quantitative research approach was adopted. The population of the study was people living with three types of disabilities: persons who are visually impaired, deaf and physically handicapped. One hundred eighty three participants were used for the research. They were selected by using stratified random sampling technique. Data were collected using close-ended questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics and ordered probit model. The results showed that the magnitude of public transport accessibility for people with disability was generally low. More specifically, the mean scores for the dimensions of transport accessibility such as mobility, physical infrastructure and vehicle design, user information and guidelines availability, and regulatory systems were 2.05, 2.10, 1.69 and 2.1 respectively. Relatively speaking, public transport accessibility in relation to network connectivity had a moderate mean score of 2.97.Among the independent variables, network connectivity and income level of the disabled significantly determined accessibility. The result of the study showed that people living with disability had benefitted from the public transportation system in the city because of poor and difficult accessibility of the transportation services. It is recommended that improvement should be made in relation to the mobility dimensions of accessibility, improve physical infrastructure and vehicle design, increase availability of user’s information and guidelines, and increase network connectivity and the manner the public transport system is regulated.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2020): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Rattus giluwensis Hill 1960
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus giluwensis

description: Rattus giluwensis Hill, 1960. J. Mammal., 41:277. TYPE LOCALITY: NE New Guinea, Papua, Mt Giluwe, 11,000 -12,000 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Recorded only from Mt Giluwe, Papua New Guinea and adjoining highlands between 2195 and 3660 m (see map in Taylor et al., 1982). STATUS: IUCN - Rare. COMMENTS: Originally described as R. ruber melanurus by Laurie and Hill (1954:112), but the name is preoccupied by Rattus melanurus Shamel, 1940, which refers to a sample of Maxomys whiteheadi. A morphologically distinctive species whose phylogenetic affinities seem equivocal (Taylor et al., 1982, 1983).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 653, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Taylor, J. M., J. H. Calaby, and H. M. Van Deusen. 1982. A revision of the genus Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae) in the New Guinean region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 173: 177 - 336.", "Laurie, E. M. O., and J. E. Hill. 1954. List of land mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and adjacent islands 1758 - 1952. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 175 pp.", "Taylor, J. M., J. H. Calaby, and S. C. Smith. 1983. Native Rattus, land bridges, and the Australian region. Journal of Mammalogy, 64: 463 - 475."]}
An HMM-based Comparative Genomic Framework for Detecting Introgression in Eukaryotes
Creators: name: Liu, Kevin J.
name: Dai, Jingxuan
name: Truong, Kathy
name: Song, Ying
name: Kohn, Michael H.
name: Nakhleh, Luay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: One outcome of interspecific hybridization and subsequent effects of evolutionary forces is introgression, which is the integration of genetic material from one species into the genome of an individual in another species. The evolution of several groups of eukaryotic species has involved hybridization, and cases of adaptation through introgression have been already established. In this work, we report on a new comparative genomic framework for detecting introgression in genomes, called PhyloNet-HMM, which combines phylogenetic networks, that capture reticulate evolutionary relationships among genomes, with hidden Markov models (HMMs), that capture dependencies within genomes. A novel aspect of our work is that it also accounts for incomplete lineage sorting and dependence across loci. Application of our model to variation data from chromosome 7 in the mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) genome detects a recently reported adaptive introgression event involving the rodent poison resistance gene Vkorc1, in addition to other newly detected introgression regions. Based on our analysis, it is estimated that about 12% of all sites withinchromosome 7 are of introgressive origin (these cover about 18 Mbp of chromosome 7, and over 300 genes). Further, our model detects no introgression in two negative control data sets. Our work provides a powerful framework for systematic analysis of introgression while simultaneously accounting for dependence across sites, point mutations, recombination, and ancestral polymorphism.
Edge States: Topological Insulators, Superconductors and QCD Chiral Bags
Creators: name: Asorey, M.
name: Balachandran, A. P.
name: Perez-Pardo, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of the magnetic field in a superconducting phase is described by an effective massive bosonic field theory. If the superconductor is confined in a domain M with boundary \partial M, the boundary conditions of the electromagnetic fields are predetermined by physics. They are time-reversal and also parity invariant for adapted geometry. They lead to edge excitations while in comparison, the bulk energies have a large gap. A similar phenomenon occurs for topological insulators where appropriate boundary conditions for the Dirac Hamiltonian also lead to similar edge states and an 'incompressible bulk'. They give spin-momentum locking as well. In addition time-reversal and parity invariance emerge for adapted geometry. Similar edge states appear in QCD bag models with chiral boundary conditions.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures
Notes on the morphology of Marka (Af-Ashraaf)
Creators: name: Green, Christopher R.
name: Jones, Evan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This paper provides an overview of selected aspects of the nominal, pronominal,
 and verbal morphology of the Marka (Merca) dialect of Af-Ashraaf, a Cushitic lan-
 guage variety spoken primarily in the city of Merca in southern Somalia, as well as
 by several diaspora communities around the world, and in particular, in the United
 States. Marka is interesting to us for a variety of reasons, not the least of which
 is the general dearth of descriptive work on the language in comparison to two
 of its closest relatives, Somali and Maay. While many details of the structure of
 Somali are fairly well established (e.g., Bell 1953; Saeed 1999), and those of Maay
 are the subject of several recent works (e.g., Paster 2010; 2018), the various ways in
 which Marka relates to and/or differs from these languages, are yet poorly under-
 stood. Our goal in this paper is to begin to remedy this situation, beginning with a
 comparison of selected morphological characteristics across the three languages.
Rattus hainaldi Kitchener, How, and Maharadatunkamsi 1991
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus hainaldi

description: Rattus hainaldi Kitchener, How, and Maharadatunkamsi, 1991. Rec. West. Aust. Mus., 15:557. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, Pulau Flores, Gunung Ranakah, 1300 m, above Kampong Robo, Desa Longko, 8 km SSE Ruteng. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Flores Isl. COMMENTS: Represented by two specimens (Kitchener et al., 1991c). Phylogenetic affinities uncertain, possibly allied to native Australian and New Guinea species of Rattus.
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 653, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Kitchener, D. J., R. A. How, and Maharadatunkamsi. 1991 c. A new species of Rattus from the mountains of West Flores, Indonesia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 15: 611 - 626."]}
Evaluations of low-energy physical quantities in QCD with IR freezing of the coupling
Creators: name: Cvetič, Gorazd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MSbar-like schemes in QCD have in general the running coupling which contains Landau singularities, i.e., singularities outside the timelike semi-axis, at low squared momenta. As a consequence, evaluation of the spacelike quantities, such as current correlators, in terms of (powers of) such a coupling then results in quantities which contradict the basic principles of Quantum Field Theories. On the other hand, in those QCD frameworks where the running coupling remains finite at low squared momenta (IR freezing), the coupling usually does not have Landau singularities in the complex plane of the squared momenta. I argue that in such QCD frameworks the spacelike quantities should not be evaluated as a power series, but rather as a series in derivatives of the coupling with respect to the logarithm of the squared momenta. Such series show considerably better convergence properties. Moreover, Pade-related resummations of such logarithmic derivative series give convergent series, thus eliminating the practical problem of series divergence due to renormalons.
description: 11 pages, 2 Figures; new references added ([46,57,68]); presented at the Satellite Meeting of Lightcone 2013+, Skiathos, Greece, May 24-25, 2013; to appear in Few-Body Systems
title: Практический курс устного последовательного перевода на международных конференциях
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Донской государственный технический университет
Year: 2018

description: Настоящее пособие имеет целью ознакомить учащихся с основами переводческой скорописи, отработать упражнения по мнемотехнике, которые в свою очередь позволят улучшить память и способность обучающихся. Предназначено в качестве базового учебного материала по дисциплине «Практический курс устного последовательного перевода на международных конференциях» в языковой паре английский – русский для студентов старших курсов, обучающихся по специальности «Перевод и переводоведение».
Corporate Governance Practices and Performance of Consumer Cooperative Societies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tadesse, Mekonnen
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The objective of the study is to describe the governance practices and challenges of the consumer’s cooperative societies and examine whether governance has significant impact on the performance of the cooperatives in Addis Ababa City. The study considered various corporate governance components such as board size, board members educational qualification, and gender diversity, as well as the frequency of board meeting. It adopted a quantitative research approach and analyzed data using multiple linear regression function. The findings of the study indicated that the principles of corporate governance were adequately considered in the governance of the consumer’s cooperatives under investigation. The study identified lack of commitment and leadership of board of directors; shortage of supplies of goods and services and incompetent audit committees of the consumer cooperatives as challenges that the consumer’s cooperatives facing. The finding also indicated that all the dimensions of corporate governance such as educational qualification of board members, board size, gender diversity of board members and meeting frequency have significant impact on the performance of consumer’s cooperatives. Based on the result of the study it is recommended that a separate cooperative governance code should be developed. The board of directors and the members should be trained to improve the performance of the cooperatives and a policy should be designed to encourage the participation of females in the board.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2020): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Application of Forensic Accounting and Auditing Techniques for Fraud Detection and Prevention: The Case of the Ethiopian Public Sector Audit
Creators: name: Tiruneh, Dawit Tadesse
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this paper was to empirically analyze the application and effect of forensic accounting and auditing techniques on fraud detection and prevention in the Ethiopian public sector audit. This study was based on non-experimental descriptive/survey design of collecting and analyzing data which were then analyzed through SPSS version 24. The study revealed that forensic accounting and auditing techniques are less commonly used in the Ethiopian public sector audit. This is specifically as a result of the huge knowledge gap that exists among the public sector auditors. On the basis of the empirical result, the paper concluded that the adoption of forensic accounting and auditing techniques would help detect, investigate and prevent public sector fraud in Ethiopia.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2021): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Employee’s Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Performance: A Review on the Mediating Roles of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Orientation
Creators: name: Tilahun, Tesfaye
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this systematical literature review is to address the linkage between dynamic capability and organizational performance through the mediating effect of innovation and entrepreneurial orientations. With this regards, the systematic review has tried to address the relationship that exist between and among different variables like dynamic capability (independent Variable) and organizational performance (dependent Variable), dynamic capability and organizational performance through innovation (mediator variable 1) and through entrepreneurial orientation (mediator variable 2). To address the stated objectives and to test the stated hypothesis, the researcher has tried to screen 1000 well known articles and identified 200 which have direct relationship with the concept. However, due to their limitations related to addressing the dependent and independent variables with the mediators, the study has focused only on 50 selected articles. The reviewed articles doesn’t indicate that both innovation and entrepreneurial orientation can serve as a mediator between the two dependent and independent variables. The findings of the selected articles has indicated that there is a positive relationship between employee’s dynamic capability and organizational performance. In addition, the result has indicated that innovation and entrepreneurial orientation alone can mediate the relationship between the two variables (employee’s dynamic capability and organizational performance). By considering the existing results, this systematic literature review has developed a model by indicating the mediating effect of innovation and entrepreneurial orientations. Therefore, future researchers can conduct a study to measure the mediating effect of innovation and entrepreneurial orientation together in the relationship between employee’s dynamic capability and organizational performance.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2021): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Economic benefits of African free trade areas: Empirical evidence from live animal and products trade in the COMESA region
Creators: name: Kassa, Binyam
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: This study was conducted to assess the impact of live animal and animal products international trade on economic growth and to describe the association between membership to Free Trade Area of COMESA and live animal and products trade in member nations. A secondary panel data from 11 COMESA member states of which two are non-FTA members was used to model the economic growth impact of livestock production, live animal export and animal products import and export, data ranging between 1991 and 2018. FGLS was deployed to correct data problems and model the impact of independent variables on GDP, with overall R2=0.8389. Among the explanatory variables livestock production, live animal import, animal product import and export were significant at 99% confidence interval. Correlation results showed that there is positive correlation between FTA membership and economic growth as well as live animal and products trade. It was concluded that livestock commodities trade has positive impact on economic growth and the FTA membership improves trade in livestock commodities in COMESA region. Further research is recommended on the export destinations and commodities to fill the knowledge gap in livestock intra-regional and non PTA trade.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2021): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Rattus hoffmanni
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus hoffmanni

description: Rattus hoffmanni (Matschie, 1901). Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 25:284. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, NE Sulawesi, Minahassa. DISTRIBUTION: Sulawesi; throughout island except upper slopes of Gunung Lampobatang at the end of the SW peninsula (distribution is concordant with that of Paruromys dominator); also on Pulau Malenge in Kepulauan Togian (Musser and Holden, 1991). SYNONYMS: biformatus, celebensis (of Hoffmann, 1887, not Gray, 1867), linduensis, mengkoka, mollicomus, tatei (see Musser, 1971b). COMMENTS: Morphological, chromosomal, distributional, and ecological boundaries of species elaborated by Musser and Holden (1991), who also documented taxonomic history. Closest relative of R. hoffmanni is R. mollicomulus from Gunung Lampobatang, Sulawesi; both form the monophyletic Rattus hoffmanni group. Phylogenetic affinities of this group to other species of Rattus is unresolved.
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 653, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Musser, G. G., and M. E. Holden. 1991. Sulawesi rodents (Muridae: Murinae): Morphological and geographical boundaries of species in the Rattus hoffmanni group and a new species from Pulau Peleng. Pp. 322 - 413, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman (T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener, eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 1 - 432.", "Musser, G. G. 1971 b. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 94. Taxonomic status of Rattus tatei and Rattus frosti, two taxa of murid rodents known from middle Celebes. American Museum Novitates, 2454: 1 - 19."]}
Organizational Risk Management Practices in Time of Crisis: An Exploratory Case Study of Ethiopian Airlines in the Corona virus Pandemic
Creators: name: Gweh, G. Nekerwon
name: Bekana, Dejene Mamo
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this investigative case study research was to scrutinize the approaches of organizational risk management strategies applied by the Ethiopian Airlines throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic. It aimed at assessing and documenting risk management methodologies, best practices and lessons learned by the Airlines to survive the damaging impact the health crisis. The researcher limited the participants to six senior and middle level staff who are responsible to handle the Airlines risk management operations and the project management departments. The Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) and the Team Leadership Model (TLM) were the conceptual frameworks used as the basis for this study. Data triangulation was used to support the review and analysis of data gathered from various sources. Data analysis methods in conjunction with the NVivo software were used to support the identification of core themes. Situation Awareness and Decision Making, Leadership Presence Strategy, Strategic Internal Communication and Transparent Public Communication were the themes identified. A fundamental finding from the study revealed that Ethiopian Airlines’ Strategic Business Plan calls for the establishment of “multi-business units” as a key principle. This is seen in how the company has diversified its operations into tourism, hospitality and Aviation trainings in addition to the original passenger and cargo services it offers as an airline.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2021): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies (JBAS)
Software Interfaces: On The Impact of Interface Design Anomalies
Creators: name: Abdeen, Hani
name: Shata, Osama
name: Erradi, Abdelkarim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Interfaces are recognized as an important mechanism to define contracts governing interactions between semi-independent software modules. Well-designed interfaces significantly reduce software complexity and ease maintainability by fostering modularization, hiding implementation details and minimizing the impact caused by changes in the software implementation. However, designing good interfaces is not a trivial task. The presence of interface design defects often yield increased development cost, lower code quality and reduced development productivity. Despite their importance, currently there are only a few research efforts that investigate the quality of interface design. In this paper, we identify and characterize common interface design anomalies and illustrate them via examples taken from well-known open source applications. In order to quantify the presence of interface design anomalies and estimate their impact on the interface design quality, as well on the software quality attributes, such as maintainability, we conduct an empirical study covering 9 open source projects. Building on our empirical results, we develop a set of recommendations to improve interface design.
description: Conference paper, published in IEEE CSIT' 2013
Padlet about Padlet.docx
Creators: name: Rossi, Virna
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390199
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified

description: The file has the link to the Padlet about Padlet and a screenshot of the same Padlet.
This is a collection of ways in which Padlet can be used in Teaching and Learning.   
Although the Paldet was originally created for educational developers running PGCert/PGCaP course, the ideas can easily be used by any academic in any discipline.