cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A single-cell transcriptome map of the Axolotl developmentt
Creators: name: 冯炜敏(Weimin,Feng)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other
single cell RNA
the organ of Axolotl
Combination with single-cell sequencing, the Axolotl is used as a model organism to study the lineage and mechanism of tissue and organ development

description: Axolotl is a highly regenerative organism. The development of the Axolotl organ is a very important research field, including tissue organogenesis and mechanisms. Here, we use single-cell transcriptome sequencing (scRNA-seq) to analyze the Axolotl organ development, such as symmetrical organ development brain, kidney, and asymmetric development for heart, pancreas, etc.
title: Parahydrogen‐Induced Polarization of Amino Acids
Creators: name: Pravdivtsev, Andrey N.
name: Buntkowsky, Gerd
name: Duckett, Simon B.
name: Koptyug, Igor V.
name: Hövener, Jan‐Bernd
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023

description: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become a universal method for biochemical and biomedical studies, including metabolomics, proteomics, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). By increasing the signal of selected molecules, the hyperpolarization of nuclear spin has expanded the reach of NMR and MRI even further (e.g. hyperpolarized solid-state NMR and metabolic imaging in vivo). Parahydrogen (pH₂) offers a fast and cost-efficient way to achieve hyperpolarization, and the last decade has seen extensive advances, including the synthesis of new tracers, catalysts, and transfer methods. The portfolio of hyperpolarized molecules now includes amino acids, which are of great interest for many applications. Here, we provide an overview of the current literature and developments in the hyperpolarization of amino acids and peptides.
Factors Affecting Adoption Of Customer Relationship Management In The Banking Industry: The Case Of Dashen Bank S.C.(In Addis Ababa City)
Creators: name: Adugna, Kidist
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Establishing strong relationships with customers is the most important success code of any business. Organizations have understood that customers are their most important assets and view customer relations (CR) as profitable transactions and also as opportunities requiring management. CRM is a business strategy which attracts, retains and elevates the customers. Proper implementation of this strategy will enable the organizations to perform the said three tasks with lower costs. The purpose of this study is to identify factors which affect adoption of customer relationship management in the banking industry. In order to obtain adequate information from employees, quantitative research approach is used. Regarding to the sampling technique, researcher used cluster sampling technique in order to select the geographic area of the study. In addition, purposive sampling technique is used for selection of employees (only Branch Managers, senior customer relationship managers, customer relationship managers, and customer relationship officers are included in the study). Accordingly, the researcher has selected 117 respondents from the four districts (which include branches and district offices), the corporate office, premium branch and one special branch of Dashen Bank in Addis Ababa and 117 questionnaires were distributed and out of it 103 questioners were filled and returned. The study used descriptive and inferential statistics technique to analyze the data and arrive at its findings. And to assist the computation; statistical package for social science (SPSS) soft ware version 20.0 was used. The outcome of descriptive statics shows that technology, investment and data quality affect the Bank's CRM adoption Process. In addition, the correlation analysis showed that there is a positive relationship between the dependent variable (customer relationship management) and the independent variables (knowledge of CRM, technology, data quality and quantity, investment and top management commitment and involvement). In hypotheses test section, all formulated hypothesis to analyze factors affecting adoption of Customer relationship was accepted and which shows that knowledge of CRM, technology, data quality and quantity, investment and top management commitment and involvement influence adoption of CRM in the banking industry.
Magnetism of a sigma-phase Fe60V40 alloy: magnetic susceptibilities and magnetocaloric effect studies
Creators: name: Balanda, M.
name: Dubiel, S. M.
name: Pelka, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic properties of a sigma-phase Fe60V40 intermetallic compound were studied by means of ac and dc magnetic susceptibility and magnetocaloric effect measurements. The compound is a soft magnet yet it was found to behave like a re-entrant spin-glass system. The magnetic ordering temperature was found to be T_C ca.170 K, while the spin-freezing temperature was ca.164 K. Its relative shift per decade of ac frequency was 0.002, a value smaller than that typical of canonical spin-glasses. Magnetic entropy change, DeltaS, in the vicinity of T_C was determined for magnetic field, H, ranging between 5 and 50 kOe. Analysis of DeltaS in terms of the power law yielded the critical exponent, n, vs. temperature with the minimum value of 0.75 at T_C, while from the analysis of a relative shift of the maximum value of DeltaS with the field a critical exponent Delta=1.7 was obtained. Based on scaling laws relationships values of other two exponents viz. betha=0.6 and gamma=1 were determined.
description: 12 pages, 18 figures, 24 references
The Legislative Process in Ethiopia: Challenges and Prospects
Creators: name: Mehari, Kahsay
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2013

description: The main purpose of this study is to critically evaluate the power and jurisdiction of the Ethiopian national legislature with a greater emphasis on public policy making process & practices of HPRs in Ethiopia. The level of data discussion, analysis and interpretation is made using descriptive analytical research methods through collecting relevant documents from the Ministry of Justice, the National Legislatures (the standing committee members of different affairs in the HPRs of FDRE) including some academia of Addis Ababa University by using open ended questionnaires and structured interviews which these, in turn, are indispensable to traverse the responses from the primary sources. Based on the analysis and interpretation of data, findings of this research show that: the FDRE HPRs, experts from the MoJ and AAU senior educators during the draft policy legislation (lawmaking) process, the absolute power is being vested in the hands of the executive. The fragmented opposition parties & the independent MPs remain minority while the ruling party enjoyed absolute majority vote. All actors of public policy making in Ethiopia shared the need for all the public laws despite differences in key provisions of the constitutional balance among the three: the legislature, executive & the judiciary with the key areas of concern focusing on the major stakeholders or leading players that exercise the strongest leverage in the public policy making jurisdictions where legislative process by the HPRs of FDRE is materialized yet the key actors are believed to have involved from its formulation until ratification in the parliament. In essence, the government should continue to raise concerns about the draft policy legislation and design a system for reviewing the enforcement and impact of public policies with the aim to provide evidence on how their application is affecting all national priority areas of concern. The executive should make continuous reappraisal of the most contentious provisions and provide remedies for such legal & constitutional complexities. Therefore, as far as the power of the legislature and the executive is concerned, during the law making process in Ethiopia, the process has unbalanced power between the legislature and the executive. The judiciary hence, the Ministry of Justice, plays the major role (the highest power) during a given parliamentary law making process in the HPRs on reconciling some contradictory public issues/controversial provisions upon which balance of power between the legislative and executive could be maintained to the level of constitutional harmony
APSARA: A multi-dimensional unsplit fourth-order explicit Eulerian hydrodynamics code for arbitrary curvilinear grids
Creators: name: Wongwathanarat, Annop
name: Grimm-Strele, Hannes
name: Müller, Ewald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new fourth-order, finite-volume hydrodynamics code named Apsara. The code employs a high-order, finite-volume method for mapped coordinates with extensions for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws. Apsara can handle arbitrary structured curvilinear meshes in three spatial dimensions. The code has successfully passed several hydrodynamic test problems, including the advection of a Gaussian density profile and a nonlinear vortex and the propagation of linear acoustic waves. For these test problems, Apsara produces fourth-order accurate results in case of smooth grid mappings. The order of accuracy is reduced to first-order when using the nonsmooth circular grid mapping. When applying the high-order method to simulations of low-Mach number flows, for example, the Gresho vortex and the Taylor-Green vortex, we discover that Apsara delivers superior results to codes based on the dimensionally split, piecewise parabolic method (PPM) widely used in astrophysics. Hence, Apsara is a suitable tool for simulating highly subsonic flows in astrophysics. In the first astrophysical application, we perform implicit large eddy simulations (ILES) of anisotropic turbulence in the context of core collapse supernova (CCSN) and obtain results similar to those previously reported.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, 8 tables; accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
Diffractively Produced Charm Final States in 800-GeV/c pp Collisions
Creators: name: Berisso, M. C.
name: Christian, D. C.
name: Félix, J.
name: Gara, A.
name: Wang, M. H. L. S.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
The Effective Field Theory of nonsingular cosmology
Creators: name: Cai, Yong
name: Wan, Youping
name: Li, Hai-Guang
name: Qiu, Taotao
name: Piao, Yun-Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we explore the nonsingular cosmology within the framework of the Effective Field Theory(EFT) of cosmological perturbations. Due to the recently proved no-go theorem, any nonsingular cosmological models based on the cubic Galileon suffer from pathologies. We show how the EFT could help us clarify the origin of the no-go theorem, and offer us solutions to break the no-go. Particularly, we point out that the gradient instability can be removed by using some spatial derivative operators in EFT. Based on the EFT description, we obtain a realistic healthy nonsingular cosmological model, and show the perturbation spectrum can be consistent with the observations.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures, published in JHEP
CryptocurrenciesACriticalAnalysisfromtheperspectiveofIslamicLaw.pdf
Creators: name: Wasiq, Mohammad Rasikh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Business process management
Small business organisation and management
Business and labour history
Not-for-profit business and management
Business systems in context not elsewhere classified
Economics, business and management curriculum and pedagogy
Business information systems
International business
Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management)
Business analytics
Business ethics

description: Money has undergone numerous form changes throughout history, and as a replacement for the current system, it has started to take on a digital form. The newest kind of money is a cryptocurrency, which was created decentralized from any central authority. The range of applications for cryptocurrency is expanding daily. One of the most widely used cryptocurrencies is bitcoin, which was launched in 2009, ruled the cryptocurrency market, and caught the attention of the general public with its quick price increase. Early in 2018, the cryptocurrency market was worth more than $800 billion. The majority of cryptocurrency users seek to benefit from rising cryptocurrency values. These actions, however, do not adhere to the principles of cryptocurrencies. In terms of Islamic law, cryptocurrencies also present issues with legitimacy for users who are Muslims (Fiqh). Some Islamic scholars believe that cryptocurrencies are halal, notwithstanding the claims of many religious organizations and Islamic experts that they are haram. Descriptive analysis and content analysis are used in this paper. The findings of this study suggest that using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are forbidden in Islam. Islam prohibits consciously trying to make money off the difference between buying and selling currencies, as this is considered riba. Since it incorporates components of maisir (gambling). Our study uses current literature and fatwas to conduct a multidimensional analysis of the illegitimacy of cryptocurrencies in terms of Fiqh
Praxisbericht aus dem mediendidaktischen Projekt FEEDBACK in der Lehre
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Hochschule Bremen
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Hochschuldidaktik
subject: Qualitätssicherung
subject: Lehr-Lern-Kontrolle
subject: 370

description: „Was ist gute Lehre?“ Dieser Frage wollen wir auf den Grund gehen. Erneut haben wir zur Auseinandersetzung damit ein Vorhaben auf den Weg gebracht, das insbesondere auch nach dem Beitrag die digitalen Medien zur Entwicklung didaktischer Qualität fragt und die Rahmenbedingungen, unter denen sich ihr Potenzial für die Hochschullehre erschließen lässt, zu beschreiben versucht. Mit dem Projekt „FEEDBACK in der Lehre“ fokussieren wir einen wesentlichen Aspekt unseres Lehr-Lern-Handelns und machen ihn explizit zum Gegenstand der Reflexion von Unterrichtsmethoden und Mediengebrauch. Ein weiteres Mal versuchen wir Antworten auf diese Frage aus der Praxis unserer Lehre an der Hochschule Bremen zu erzeugen – nicht zuletzt als Konsequenz aus dem vorhergehenden Projekt „WELLDONE“, in dessen Evaluation einer angemessenen und konstruktiven Kommunikation über Lernerwartungen und Lernergebnissen für den Studienerfolg von der Mehrheit der Teilvorhaben eine besondere Bedeutung beigemessen wurde. Wie gute Lehre gestaltet werden kann oder als solche erfahren wird erleben wir alltäglich im Studienbetrieb – auch ohne besondere Vorhaben. Sie äußern sich in den kleinen und großen Beispielen positiver Rückmeldungen, nach einer als gelungen empfundenen Diskussion im Seminar, in der Freude eines Studierenden-Teams über einen erfolgreichen Laborversuch, in der von einer Kollegin ausgesprochenen Ermutigung, den Einsatz eines neuen Mediums weiterhin zu verfolgen, auch wenn es beim ersten Mal noch nicht optimal geklappt hat. Die in der Alltagspraxis vorgefundenen Antworten sind so unterschiedlich und mannigfaltig wie das Spektrum der Studienangebote an unserer Hochschule. Sie sind einem ständigen Wandel unterworfen, einerseits bedingt durch neue Ziele und Rahmenbedingungen, andererseits auch immer wieder gründend in der didaktischen Kreativität von Lehrenden, die mit der Freiheit der Lehre auch methodische Spielräume verbinden und sie zur Bereicherung ihres Lehrangebots nutzen. All das ist es wert, anderen zugänglich gemacht und – gern auch kontrovers – diskutiert zu werden. Dafür brauchen wir den besonderen Rahmen, den wir mittels unserer Vorhaben herstellen wollen: Eine Umgebung, in der wir aus Beispielen lernen können, in der wir im kollegialen Gespräch erfragen können, wie sich theoretisch fundierte und didaktisch sorgfältig ausgewählte Methoden und Medien in der konkreten Unterrichtspraxis bewährt haben, in der wir uns die Zeit nehmen können, anderen Lehrenden zuzuhören, auch unsere Neugier zu stillen oder den kritischen Blick auf unsere eigene Routine zu schärfen.
Organization of the central nucleus of the cat inferior colliculus : single unit response properties and ascending offerent projections
Creators: name: Semple, Malcolm H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Direct Visualization of Random Crystallization and Melting in Arrays of Nanometer-Size Polymer Crystals
Creators: name: Castelein, Gilles
name: Reiter, Günter
name: Röttele, Andreas
name: Sommer, Jens-Uwe
name: Thurn-Albrecht, Thomas
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Discovery of a new multi-component reaction using the distillable ionic medium, DIMCARB
Creators: name: Rosamilia, Anthony Edward
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Factors Affecting The Adoption Of Ethiopay National Payment System In Ethiopian Banking Industry
Creators: name: Lake, Ayalew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the factors affecting adoption of Inter- Bank electronic payment branded as EthioPay in Ethiopian banking industry. Design/methodology/approach: This study inspects factors affecting adoption inter- Bank e-payment by taking a respondents from the population of Bank card holder customers of the five selected banks in Addis Ababa. To obtain representative samples, in selecting the research respondents, convenient method was applied, this sampling method helps for a population from which sample has been constitute a homogeneous group, therefore the study takes 384 respondents as target respondents from these customers .A quantitative method with deductive approach was chosen in this research. The SPSS version 22.00 for windows was used to process the primary data collected through questionnaire. This paper observes the relationship between attitude, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived risk, reliability and benefit to the inter-bank e-payment intention, EthioPay of bank card customers. Findings: Multiple regression analysis was employed to test the hypotheses. The main findings of the study are: attitude, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and reliability has a positive and significant impact on the adoption of EthioPay payment system. Whereas reliability and perceived risk has negative impact. Attitude has a strong influence on customer's intention to use Inter-bank electronic payment. Practical Implications: This study is important to academicians, buyers and sellers who involved in e-payment as it demonstrates attitude, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived risk, reliability and benefit are among the six critical factors in affecting the inter-bank e-payment, EthioPay adoption
On the dust and gas components of the $z=2.8$ gravitationally lensed quasar host RX J0911.4+0551
Creators: name: Tuan-Anh, P.
name: Hoai, D. T.
name: Nhung, P. T.
name: Diep, P. N.
name: Phuong, N. T.
name: Thao, N. T.
name: Darriulat, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations by the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array of the 358 GHz continuum emission of the gravitationally lensed quasar host RX J0911.4+0551 have been analysed. They complement earlier Plateau de Bure Interferometer observations of the CO(7-6) emission. The good knowledge of the lensing potential obtained from Hubble Space Telescope observations of the quasar makes a joint analysis of the three emissions possible. It gives evidence for the quasar source to be concentric with the continuum source within 0.31 kpc and with the CO(7-6) source within 1.10 kpc. It also provides a measurement of the size of the continuum source, 0.76 $\pm$ 0.04 kpc FWHM, making RX J0911.4+0551 one of the few high redshift galaxies for which the dust and gas components are resolved with dimensions being measured. Both are found to be very compact, the former being smaller than the latter by a factor of $\sim$3.4$\pm$0.4. Moreover, new measurements of the CO ladder $-$ CO(10-9) and CO(11-10) $-$ are presented that confirm the extreme narrowness of the CO line width (107$\pm$20 km s$^{-1}$ on average). Their mere detection implies higher temperature and/or density than for typical quasar hosts at this redshift and suggests a possible contribution of the central AGN to gas and dust heating. The results are interpreted in terms of current understanding of galaxy evolution at the peak of star formation. They suggest that RX J0911.4+0551 is a young galaxy in an early stage of its evolution, having experienced no recent major mergers, star formation being concentrated in its centre.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
B. canis outbreak management
Creators: name: Djokic, Vitomir
name: Freddi, Luca
name: Ferreira Vicente, Acacia
name: Girault, Guillaume
name: Ashford, Roland
name: Whatmore, Adrian
name: Al Dahouk, Sascha
name: Hofreuter, Dirk
name: Melzer, Falk
name: Ferreira, Ana Cristina
name: Cavaco, Sandra
name: Pelerito, Ana
name: Garofolo, Giuliano
name: Sacchini, Flavio
name: De Massis, Fabrizio
name: Milanov, Mihail
name: Daskalov, Hristo
name: van den Esker, Marielle
name: Koets, Ad
name: Koomen, Jeroen
name: Kampfraath, Dre
name: Ponsart, Claire
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Part of the B. canis diagnostics and management toolkit, dealing with the outbreak management.
Simultaneous slow and fast light involving the Faraday effect
Creators: name: Macke, Bruno
name: Ségard, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the linear transmission of linearly polarizedlight pulses in an ensemble of cold atoms submitted to a static magneticfield parallel to the direction of propagation. The carrier frequencyof the incident pulses coincides with a resonance frequency of theatoms. The transmitted light, the electric field of which is transversal,is examined in the polarizations parallel and perpendicular to thatof the incident pulses. We give explicit analytic expressions for thetransfer functions of the system for both polarizations and for thecorresponding group delays. We demonstrate that slow light can beobserved in a polarization, whereas fast light is simultaneously observedin the perpendicular polarization. Moreover, we point out that, dueto the polarization post selection, the system is not necessarilyminimum phase shift. Slow light can then be obtained in situationswhere an irrelevant application of the Kramers-Kronig relations could lead oneto expect fast light. When the incident light is step modulated, wefinally show that, in suitable conditions, the system enables oneto separate optical precursor and main field.
Magnetic Anisotropy Variations and Nonequilibrium Tunneling in a Cobalt Nanoparticle
Creators: name: Bonet, E.
name: Deshmukh, M. M.
name: Guéron, S.
name: Kleff, S.
name: Pasupathy, A. N.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Metabolic modelling of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema feltiae
Creators: name: SONAL DAHALE
name: Rossa, Claudio Avignone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description:  Metabolic modelling of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema feltiae  Sonal Dahale and Claudio Avignone Rossa  Systems Microbiology Lab, Department of Microbial Sciences FHMS

 The entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema feltiae infects a number of insects and is used against many agricultural and horticultural pests. The life cycle of a nematode consists of four stages: egg stage, four larval / juvenile stages, and adult stage. Industrial production of the nematode requires complex media and tightly controlled culture conditions.

 We studied gene expression data of Juvenile and Young Adult stage of Steinernema feltiae. The expressed genes belonging to metabolic pathways were annotated by identifying their orthologs and used to screen differentially expressed genes between the two stages. Gene expression data was used to reconstruct Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks (GEMs) of the Juvenile and Young Adult stages. GEMs are used for simulating and quantifying metabolic fluxes in organisms through optimization methods. Integrating transcriptomics data into the information described by GEMs allows accurate descriptions of metabolic states. Flux balance analysis simulations of the reconstructed models were performed to analyse the activity and connectivity of the different metabolic pathways.  The first draft of the model has 142 pathways with 2235 reactions catalysed by products of 1314 expressed genes. All the expressed genes were functionally annotated and categorized into 389 Pathways and 56 modules. The analysis showed that 2791 (out of 29063 expressed genes) were differentially expressed, including 1118 upregulated and 1673 downregulated genes. Flux Balance Analysis revealed auxotrophy for some amino acids and capacity for hypoxic growth. The model provides details of nutritional limitations and activity of metabolic pathways at the different stages. This is essential for production of this environmentally-friendly pest control agent. Acknowledgments. SD is funded by Doctoral College Studentship Award 3 (DCSA3) from the University of Surrey. We would like to thank BASF Agricultural Solutions UK for their support and advice.
Critical $O(N)$ models in the complex field plane
Creators: name: Litim, Daniel F.
name: Marchais, Edouard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Local and global scaling solutions for $O(N)$ symmetric scalar field theories are studied in the complexified field plane with the help of the renormalisation group. Using expansions of the effective action about small, large, and purely imaginary fields, we obtain and solve exact recursion relations for all couplings and determine the $3d$ Wilson-Fisher fixed point analytically. For all $O(N)$ universality classes, we further establish that Wilson-Fisher fixed point solutions display singularities in the complex field plane, which dictate the radius of convergence for real-field expansions of the effective action. At infinite $N$, we find closed expressions for the convergence-limiting singularities and prove that local expansions of the effective action are powerful enough to uniquely determine the global Wilson-Fisher fixed point for any value of the fields. Implications of our findings for interacting fixed points in more complicated theories are indicated.
description: 36 pages, 9 figures, Sec IV H and Refs added
Effect Of Sales Promotion Of FMCG On Consumer's Trial Purchase Behavior In The Case Of Unilever Ethiopia
Creators: name: Yimer, Abubeker
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The main purpose of this study was to assess on the effect of sales promotion of Fast Moving Consumer Goods on consumer trial purchase behavior on the case of Uniliever Ethiopia. The researcher employed Questionnaire survey approach in a place where Unilever Ethiopia products are distributed to see the attitude of the customers that uses Unilever Ethiopia products. The researcher took 384 sample respondents from ten sub cities of Addis Ababa and the sample is distributed to each sub city depending on the size of the population. The data analysis was conducted through statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics, correlations and multiple linear regressions by using SPSS version 20. The finding indicates that the effect of sales promotion on consumer trial purchase is practical and highly affected by the tools (Coupons,free sample, price discount and Point of purchase) used to promote the sales. From the sales promotion tools price discount is observed as the highest effect on trial purchase of products of Unilever Ethiopia. The results indicated that all the dimensions had a positive correlation with service quality and also the regression analysis indicated the coupon is dominant from among the four tools of sales promotion selected for this study. The finding of this study is important to help marketing managers of Unilever Ethiopia to focus their attention on the tools of sales promotion provided to their customers that may result in increasing sales and revenue and gaining highly satisfied customers
Self-Induced Acoustic Transparency in Semiconductor Quantum Films
Creators: name: Govorov, A. O.
name: Kalameitsev, A. V.
name: Kovalev, V. M.
name: Kutschera, H.-J.
name: Wixforth, A.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Four-dimensional black holes in Einsteinian cubic gravity
Creators: name: Bueno, Pablo
name: Cano, Pablo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct static and spherically symmetric generalizations of the Schwarzschild- and Reissner-Nordström-(Anti-)de Sitter (RN-(A)dS) black-hole solutions in four-dimensional Einsteinian cubic gravity (ECG). The solutions are determined by a single blackening factor which satisfies a non-linear second-order differential equation. Interestingly, we are able to compute independently the Hawking temperature $T$, the Wald entropy $\mathsf{S}$ and the Abbott-Deser mass $M$ of the solutions analytically as functions of the horizon radius and the ECG coupling constant $λ$. Using these we show that the first law of black-hole mechanics is exactly satisfied. Some of the solutions have positive specific heat, which makes them thermodynamically stable, even in the uncharged and asymptotically flat case. Further, we claim that, up to cubic order in curvature, ECG is the most general four-dimensional theory of gravity which allows for non-trivial single-blackening factor generalizations of Schwarzschild- and RN-(A)dS which reduce to the usual Einstein gravity solutions when the corresponding higher-order couplings are set to zero.
description: 13 pp, 5 figs; v3: minor modifications to match published version
Quantum tunneling during interstellar surface-catalyzed formation of water: the reaction H + H$_2$O$_2$ $\rightarrow$ H$_2$O + OH
Creators: name: Lamberts, Thanja
name: Samanta, Pradipta Kumar
name: Köhn, Andreas
name: Kästner, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The final step of the water formation network on interstellar grain surfaces starting from the H + O$_2$ route is the reaction between H and H$_2$O$_2$. This reaction is known to have a high activation energy and therefore at low temperatures it can only proceed via tunneling. To date, however, no rate constants are available at temperatures below 200 K. In this work, we use instanton theory to compute rate constants for the title reaction with and without isotopic substitutions down to temperatures of 50 K. The calculations are based on density functional theory, with additional benchmarks for the activation energy using unrestricted single-reference and multireference coupled-cluster single-point energies. Gas-phase bimolecular rate constants are calculated and compared with available experimental data not only for H + H$_2$O$_2$ $\rightarrow$ H$_2$O + OH, but also for H + H$_2$O$_2$ $\rightarrow$ H$_2$ + HO$_2$. We find a branching ratio where the title reaction is favored by at least two orders of magnitude at 114 K. In the interstellar medium this reaction predominantly occurs on water surfaces, which increases the probability that the two reactants meet. To mimic this one, two, or three spectator H2O molecules are added to the system. Eley-Rideal bimolecular and Langmuir-Hinshelwood unimolecular rate constants are presented here. The kinetic isotope effects for the various cases are compared to experimental data as well as to expressions commonly used in astrochemical models. Both the rectangular barrier and the Eckart approximations lead to errors of about an order of magnitude. Finally, fits of the rate constants are provided as input for astrochemical models.
description: Accepted for publication by Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016. Supplementary information available: http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/c6/cp/c6cp06457d/c6cp06457d1.pdf
Invasion by Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) in southeastern Australia : direct and indirect effects and mechanisms for impacts
Creators: name: Rowles, Alexei D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Origin of scale-free intermittency in structural first-order phase transitions
Creators: name: Perez-Reche, Francisco J.
name: Triguero, Carles
name: Zanzotto, Giovanni
name: Truskinovsky, Lev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A salient feature of cyclically driven first-order phase transformations in crystals is their scale-free avalanche dynamics. This behavior has been linked to the presence of a classical critical point but the mechanism leading to criticality without extrinsic tuning remains unexplained. Here we show that the source of scaling in such systems is an annealed disorder associated with transformation-induced slip which co-evolves with the phase transformation, thus ensuring the crossing of a critical manifold. Our conclusions are based on a model where annealed disorder emerges in the form of a random field induced by the phase transition. Such disorder exhibits super-transient chaotic behavior under thermal loading, obeys a heavy-tailed distribution and exhibits long-range spatial correlations. We show that the universality class is affected by the long-range character of elastic interactions. In contrast, it is not influenced by the heavy-tailed distribution and spatial correlations of disorder.
description: 17 pages, 22 figures
Non-Hermitian engineering of single mode two dimensional laser arrays
Creators: name: Teimourpour, Mohammad H.
name: Ge, Li
name: Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
name: El-Ganainy, Ramy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new scheme for building two dimensional laser arrays that operate in the single supermode regime is proposed. This is done by introducing an optical coupling between the laser array and a lossy pseudo-isospectral chain of photonic resonators. The spectrum of this discrete reservoir is tailored to suppress all the supermodes of the main array except the fundamental one. This spectral engineering is facilitated by employing the Householder transformation in conjunction with discrete supersymmetry. The proposed scheme is general and can in principle be used in different platforms such as VCSEL arrays and photonic crystal laser arrays.
D6.5 Suite of Dissemination materials
Creators: name: Chen, Qiuzhen
name: Carlson, Mari
name: Sladakovic, Katarina
name: Steiner, Bodo
name: Zervas, Panagiotis
name: Matthysen, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The production of dissemination materials is a part of an overall dissemination strategy. Communication and dissemination activities accompany the project throughout its duration. This deliverable D6.5 Suite of Dissemination Materials provides an overview of all dissemination materials produced within the first period of the project (M1-M18) and emphasizes follow-up dissemination materials for the later phases of the project. D6.5 complements these four Deliverables that were prepared at the project inception: D7.2 Communication Plan in M4; D7.3 Communication Toolkit with a Suite of Templates for Project Communication in M6; D6.1 Information Needs of Key Actors in M6; D6.2 Enhanced Engagement Strategy (Dissemination and Exploitation Strategy Plan) in M8. During the first period of the project, the consortium has developed different dissemination materials, including project logo, project flyer, project videos, events and news blogs, deliverables on the project website and open access platform Zenodo, peer-reviewed publications, project-related presentations, news pieces or blog posts published by partner organization communication channels, and social networks of project Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. Some follow-up dissemination materials should be highlighted in the later phases of the project, including updated sustainable trade toolbox, practice abstract, policy brief, case study report, fact sheet, along with press release, newsletter, poster, and explanatory video. In addition, we are planning to engage with "Horizon Results Booster’, a service initiative offered by European Commission. We believe that these materials and tools are relevant and highly supportive in promoting MATS and maximizing its impact.
MPEC 2023-N62 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 July 13)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The far infra-red SEDs of main sequence and starburst galaxies
Creators: name: Cowley, William I.
name: Bethermin, Matthieu
name: Lagos, Claudia del P.
name: Lacey, Cedric G.
name: Baugh, Carlton M.
name: Cole, Shaun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare observed far infra-red/sub-millimetre (FIR/sub-mm) galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of massive galaxies ($M_{\star}\gtrsim10^{10}$ $h^{-1}$M$_{\odot}$) derived through a stacking analysis with predictions from a new model of galaxy formation. The FIR SEDs of the model galaxies are calculated using a self-consistent model for the absorption and re-emission of radiation by interstellar dust based on radiative transfer calculations and global energy balance arguments. Galaxies are selected based on their position on the specific star formation rate (sSFR) - stellar mass ($M_{\star}$) plane. We identify a main sequence of star-forming galaxies in the model, i.e. a well defined relationship between sSFR and $M_\star$, up to redshift $z\sim6$. The scatter of this relationship evolves such that it is generally larger at higher stellar masses and higher redshifts. There is remarkable agreement between the predicted and observed average SEDs across a broad range of redshifts ($0.5\lesssim z\lesssim4$) for galaxies on the main sequence. However, the agreement is less good for starburst galaxies at $z\gtrsim2$, selected here to have elevated sSFRs$>10\times$ the main sequence value. We find that the predicted average SEDs are robust to changing the parameters of our dust model within physically plausible values. We also show that the dust temperature evolution of main sequence galaxies in the model is driven by star formation on the main sequence being more burst-dominated at higher redshifts.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures. Accepted to MNRAS
A measurement of material in the ATLAS tracker using secondary hadronic interactions in 7 TeV pp collisions
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Knowledge of the material in the ATLAS inner tracking detector is crucial in understanding the reconstruction of charged-particle tracks, the performance of algorithms that identify jets containing b-hadrons and is also essential to reduce background in searches for exotic particles that can decay within the inner detector volume. Interactions of primary hadrons produced in pp collisions with the material in the inner detector are used to map the location and amount of this material. The hadronic interactions of primary particles may result in secondary vertices, which in this analysis are reconstructed by an inclusive vertex-finding algorithm. Data were collected using minimum-bias triggers by the ATLAS detector operating at the LHC during 2010 at centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of $19$ nb$^{-1}$. Kinematic properties of these secondary vertices are used to study the validity of the modelling of hadronic interactions in simulation. Secondary-vertex yields are compared between data and simulation over a volume of about 0.7 m$^3$ around the interaction point, and agreement is found within overall uncertainties.
description: 28 pages plus author list + cover pages (45 pages total),14 figures, 8 tables, submitted to Journal of Instrum., All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/PERF-2015-06/
華埠通訊 Vol. 09, Issue 04, February 2007
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818
subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
Domatia and mites : effects of leaf morphology on beneficial mites in semi-natural and managed systems
Creators: name: Rozario, Shelley A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Search for high-mass Z-gamma resonances in e+e-gamma and mu+mu-gamma final states in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 and 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes the search for a high-mass narrow-width scalar particle decaying into a Z boson and a photon. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC at center-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.7 and 2.7 inverse femtobarns, respectively. The Z bosons are reconstructed from opposite-sign electron or muon pairs. No statistically significant deviation from the standard model predictions has been found in the 200-2000 GeV mass range. Upper limits at 95% confidence level have been derived on the product of the scalar particle production cross section and the branching fraction of the Z decaying into electrons or muons, which range from 280 to 20 fb for resonance masses between 200 and 2000 GeV.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/EXO-16-021/index.html
Les déterminants de l’usage des gants en établissement d’hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes
Creators: name: Émilie Perchat
name: Pudewil, Sarah
name: Maurand, Audrey
name: Sakr, Céline
name: Jean-Winoc Decousser
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gants
Ehpad
Hygiène des mains
Compétences profession-nelles
Personnel de santé
Auxiliaire de service

description: Contexte et objectif. Dans les établissements d’hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes (Ehpad), le personnel intervenant auprès des résidents est issu de formations variées. Cette étude a pour objectif d’évaluer les déterminants du mésusage du port des gants en fonction des acteurs du soin en Ehpad. Méthode. Nous avons effectué un audit des pratiques d’utilisation des gants en évaluant le comportement potentiel par un questionnaire et le comportement réel par des observations en situation de soins. L’étude s’est déroulée du 23 février 2022 au 29 mars 2022 auprès d’Ehpad du Val-de-Marne. Résultats. Les 113 professionnels répartis dans 14 établissements ayant participé à l’étude sont aides-soignants (54%), auxiliaires de vie sociale (AVS) (18%), infirmiers diplômés d’État (IDE) (12%), aides médico-psychologiques (AMP) (11%), étudiants ou médecins 5%. Au regard des référentiels (précautions standard, recommandations du centre d’appui pour la prévention des infections associées aux soins [CPias] Normandie), le taux moyen de réponses conformes était de 82,6% (de 69% pour les AVS à 94% pour les IDE) ; le port systématique des gants en cas d’épidémie était l’erreur la plus fréquente. L’audit observationnel a mis en évidence deux tiers d’utilisations non justifiées ainsi que des défauts majeurs, plus souvent chez les ASV et AMP : absence d’hygiène des mains avant et après l’utilisation des gants, gants retirés en dehors de la chambre… La motivation de cette surutilisation des gants était la protection individuelle. Conclusion. Bien que limité par le nombre de soignants inclus, ce travail souligne un décalage entre les connaissances du personnel et leur application, l’existence de pratiques à risque de transmission croisée, et une tendance aux dérives plus importantes des AMP et AVS.