cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sound community: increased community interaction through design for experience and cultural ergonomics
Creators: name: Brisby, Traci E
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 219-225
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: The contemporary global economy sees the transfer of ideas around the world; land development is no exception with more and more international firms shaping the landscape of countries other than their own. There is an opportu­nity for industrial designers to positively impact these developments and design artifacts for the public spaces that appropriately address and respond to their location and as a result positively affect community interaction. The goal of this project was to increase community interaction through an industrial design intervention where the design intervention is the design of a public artifact or system modified by cultural ergonomics and design for ex­perience. This particular design solution was focused on the new residential development Charlotteville in New Providence, The Bahamas and the design solution was informed by the literature review, contact research and unobtrusive research. Analysis and coding of this research lead to a number of themes that provided the direction for the conceptualization. The final design intervention is an ensemble of four interactive musical instruments de­signed for outdoor use. All of the instruments are percussion in nature with three drum-type instruments and one bell instrument.
Visualizing the logistic map with a microcontroller
Creators: name: Serna, Juan D.
name: Joshi, Amitabh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The logistic map is one of the simplest nonlinear dynamical systems that clearly exhibit the route to chaos. In this paper, we explored the evolution of the logistic map using an open-source microcontroller connected to an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs). We divided the one-dimensional interval $[0,1]$ into ten equal parts, and associated and LED to each segment. Every time an iteration took place a corresponding LED turned on indicating the value returned by the logistic map. By changing some initial conditions of the system, we observed the transition from order to chaos exhibited by the map.
description: LaTeX, 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 listing
Violation of the Rotational Invariance in the CMB Bispectrum
Creators: name: Shiraishi, Maresuke
name: Yokoyama, Shuichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a statistical anisotropy on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) bispectrum, which can be generated from the primordial non-Gaussianity induced by quantum fluctuations of a vector field. We find new configurations in the multipole space of the CMB bispectrum given by $\ell_1 = \ell_2 + \ell_3 + 2, |\ell_2 - \ell_3| - 2$ and their permutations, which violate the rotational invariance, such as an off-diagonal configuration in the CMB power spectrum. We also find that in a model presented by Yokoyama and Soda (2008), the amplitude of the statistically anisotropic bispectrum in the above configurations becomes as large as that in other configurations such as $\ell_1 = \ell_2 + \ell_3$. As a result, it might be possible to detect these contributions in future experiments, which would give us novel information about the physics of the early Universe.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in PTP
Sportjournalismus in aller Öffentlichkeit
Creators: name: Schürmann, Volker
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2017

description: In diesem Essay wird gefragt, was die Aufgabe eines Sportjournalismus sein könnte, der sich als Gestaltungskraft von Öffentlichkeit versteht. Ausgehend von der Klärung, warum „Öffentlichkeit als Prinzip“ für moderne Gesellschaften konstitutiv ist, wird die Funktion von Öffentlichkeit herausgearbeitet. Diese Funktion wird anschließend am Fall der Literaturkritik und für den Sport am Beispiel Fußball exemplifiziert. Daran knüpfen Überlegungen an, was kritischen Sportjournalismus auszeichnen sollte, der diesem Verständnis von „Sportöffentlichkeit“ in der alltäglichen Arbeit, und nicht nur bei außeralltäglichen Investigationen, verpflichtet ist.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 2 Nr. 1 (2017)
Rezension: Lawrence A. Wenner, Andrew C. Billings (Eds.) Sport, Media and Mega-Events
Creators: name: Nieland, Jörg-Uwe
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2017

description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 2 Nr. 1 (2017)
Planning for addiction facilities in Calgary
Creators: name: Jileckova Sherrington, Martina
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 81-84
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: There is a growing need for addiction facilities in Calgary. Addictions have complex reasons and a variety of responses is needed to assist those affected. Yet, addiction facilities tend to attract controversy when located within urban settings. Neighbours and surrounding communities often oppose these, citing concerns about undesirable impacts of these facilities on the neighbourhoods, such as safety of residents due to the transient nature of the clients, loss of property values, concentration of social services in the area, and a myriad of other issues. Municipal politicians and planners tend to respond by developing rules and inflexible policies to govern the location and design of these facilities (the rational planning approach). This project argues that this approach is ineffective and undesirable and that a more flexible, discretionary, dialogue-based approach is needed to integrate these facilities into communities. Recommendations are developed to modify the current Calgary planning approach regarding these facilities based on the discretionary, dialogue­based approach.
Mikrostyles latolobata Jaschhof, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Mikrostyles
Mikrostyles latolobata

description: Mikrostyles latolobata Jaschhof sp. nov.
Fig. 19
Diagnosis. The gonostylar body is elongate subtriangular; the long apical tooth, which appears to be flexible rather than rigid, is broad basally and whip-like apically (↓).
apically (↓).
The gonocoxal lobes are parallel-sided and broadly rounded
Other characters. Body length about 1.8 mm. Head. Postgenal setae about 10. Neck of fourth flagellomere 1.3 times longer than node. Palpus 0.8–0.9 times the head height, translucent sensilla partly two-branched. Wing length / width 2.5. Genitalia. Ejaculatory apodeme longer than ventral portions of gonocoxae (Fig. 19).
Etymology. The species epithet is the Latin word for broad-lobed, with reference to the outline of the gonocoxal lobes.
Type material. Holotype. Male, Brunei, Ulu Temburong National Park, Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, 30 Jan.–16 Feb. 2015, lowland mixed dipterocarp forest, Malaise trap (#4), D. Kaspřák & M. Mantič (in UBDC). Paratype. Male, same data as the holotype (in NMPC).
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias, 2016, A review of world Diallactiini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Winnertziinae), with the description of six new genera and seventeen new species, pp. 201-244 in Zootaxa 4127 (2) on pages 237-238, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/267022
Towards a community architecture
Creators: name: Blanchard, David Lee
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 73
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: In the battle between science and environmental architecture, science has driven much of the design. The term sustainability currently refers to envi­ronmental sustainability . When applied to architecture, the concern for the en­vironment has rendered architectural discourse into a collection of technology and engineering breakthroughs that have at its heart attempted to define what is truly sustainable. While the goal of sustainable living can be strengthened by innovations in high efficient glass, photo voltaic cells, efficiency, and advanced technology, most of these methods highlight our capacity to defy the environ­ment around us from embracing the potential of what is already there. Much of the blame for this crisis, originates from the triumphs of the modern indus­trial age which initiated a dream of protecting ourselves from the elements. So much in fact that environmental architecture has become conditioned by our ability to defy nature with what is basically a collection of technological innova­tions; effectively constructing an environmental advocacy based on mechanical hardware and technical reports. Before architecture was defensive, it was resistant. The environment and its natural systems became the source of inspiration for traditional societ­ies which sought order and cooperation, rather than oppositional rigidity. The notion of a symbiotic partnership highlighted the necessity of building with the land, its structures, and processes. A symbiotic relationship between building and nature is only possible if the building fights entropy like a natural system, combining the man-made with the environment. If the built environment is ca­pable of cooperative flexibility rather than oppositional rigidity, then we sustain the environment, and the environment sustains us. The impetus of this MOP is the idea that much can be learned from the traditional relationship between architecture and ecology, between environment and response. And while our society is much different than that of the past, our built forms and infrastructure are as much as our environment today then what the natural expanses of land shaped for traditional societies of the past. What remains constant is the necessity for a cooperative relationship. If architecture is to once again establish a relationship with the environment, buildings need to be relevant and functional for the community that it serves. Energy efficient buildings alone that fail to interface with both the man-made and natural envi­ronment may suffer premature obsolescence and encourage major alteration or outright demolition and replacement.
Hereditary, additive and divisible classes in epireflective subcategories of Top
Creators: name: Sleziak, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54B30 (Primary) 18B30 (Secondary)

description: Hereditary coreflective subcategories of an epireflective subcategory A of Top such that I_2\notin A (here I_2 is the 2-point indiscrete space) were studied in [C]. It was shown that a coreflective subcategory B of A is hereditary (closed under the formation of subspaces) if and only if it is closed under the formation of prime factors. The main problem studied in this paper is the question whether this claim remains true if we study the (more general) subcategories of A which are closed under topological sums and quotients in A instead of the coreflective subcategories of A. We show that this is true if A \subseteq Haus or under some reasonable conditions on B. E.g., this holds if B contains either a prime space, or a space which is not locally connected, or a totally disconnected space or a non-discrete Hausdorff space. We touch also other questions related to such subclasses of A. We introduce a method extending the results from the case of non-bireflective subcategories (which was studied in [C]) to arbitrary epireflective subcategories of Top. We also prove some new facts about the lattice of coreflective subcategories of Top and ZD. [C] J. Činčura: Heredity and coreflective subcategories of the category of topological spaces. Appl. Categ. Structures 9, 131-138 (2001)
Is the Bank of Japan a closet monetarist? Monetary targeting in Japan, 1978-1988
Creators: name: Ito, Takatoshi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper investigates whether the Bank of Japan has practiced a monetarist rule since 1975. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) published a report in 1975 stating it would pay close attention to the money supply (M2), and in 1978 started announcing quarterly "forecasts" (targets) of monetary (M2) growth rates. Since 1975, the monetary growth rate has gradually declined, and inflation has subsided without causing any major fluctuations in output. This seems to be a successful example of a monetarist experiment. Has the BOJ practiced a monetarist rule, i.e., an announcement and maintenance of an M2 growth target? This paper reveals that it has not. The BOJ "forecasts" were quite accommodative in that an unexpected increase in the actual money supply was incorporated into future "forecasts" to maintain the increase in the money supply. In other words, a "forecast" did not behave like a "target" under a strict monetarist rule. Testing a monetarist rule with "forecasts" is shown to be more powerful than testing with the actual process under some weak assumptions. One of the necessary assumptions is that "forecasts" are identical to rational expectations, and the rational expectations hypothesis is not rejected by the data. Thus, we conclude that the answer to the question posed by the title is negative.
Mehr Siege, mehr Likes
Creators: name: Ihle, Holger
name: Hinz, Kay
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2018

description: Zusammenfassung Soziale Medien haben die Kommunikation zwischen Sportlern und ihren Anhängern in den letzten Jahren stark beeinflusst. Sportstars können sich über Social Network Sites (SNS) wie Facebook direkt an ihre Fans richten. Dies nutzen professionelle Sportler zunehmend und versuchen, sich durch die SNS-Präsenz als Personenmarken zu etablieren. Der Erfolg dieser Kommunikationsmaßnahmen kann von den sportlichen Leistungen der Sportstars beeinflusst werden. Um Einflüsse sportlicher Leistung auf die Online-Kommunikation von Fußballspielern zu untersuchen, wurden die Facebook-Aktivitäten der Teilnehmer an der UEFA-Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2016 analysiert. Zusammenhänge zwischen sportlicher Leistung und der Erfüllung von Funktionen der Online-Kommunikation (Information, Vernetzung, Mobilisierung und Partizipation) wurden mittels linearer Mehrebenenanalysen untersucht. Dabei wurde sportliche Leistung auf individueller und auf Teamebene berücksichtigt. Die individuelle sportliche Qualität der Spieler spiegelt sich in der Zahl ihrer Fans vor dem Turnier wider. Im Gegensatz dazu tritt die Bedeutung individueller Leistungsmerkmale während des Turniers in den Hintergrund. Der Zugewinn neuer Fans hängt vor allem mit dem Teamerfolg während der EM zusammen, ebenso die Weiterverbreitung von Inhalten durch die Fans. Abstract Social media has had a huge impact on the athlete-fan relationship. Sports celebrities can communicate to their fans in a direct manner using social network sites (SNS) like Facebook. Moreover, professional athletes use SNS as a tool for personal branding. It is very likely that sports celebrities’ online communication success is influenced by their athletic performance. In order to explore interrelations between athletes’ performance and their contribution to certain functions of online communication (i.e. information, linkage, mobilization, participation) SNS activities of participants of the UEFA European Football Championship 2016 were observed during the tournament. The impact of the on-field performance on players’ SNS activities was examined with multilevel regression analyses. Athletic performance is taken into account on an individual as well as on a team level. The findings show that individual athletic qualities of the athletes are connected to the number of the athletes’ fans on Facebook. In contrast to this, the number of new gained fans during the tournament is more strongly connected to teams’ performance. This is also true for fans’ shares of players’ posts.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (2018)
Burn-Outs: Fire Victims in North Jersey, the Red Cross, and the Housing Market
Creators: name: O'Flaherty, Brendan Andrew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Economics

description: Poor families who became fire victims in North Jersey between 1987 and 1991 generally found housing quickly, but had to pay a lot more rent. However, a substantial number could not be located after the fire, and so the conclusion must be modified because some may have gone on welfare, left the area, or become homeless. This finding is consistent with the notion that some classes of low quality housing were disappearing in the late 1980's.
Fronthaul Constrained Cloud and Fog Radio Access Networks: An Information Theoretic View
Creators: name: Shamai, S.
name: Simeone, O.
name: Park, S.-H.
name: Sahin, O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: WSA 2017-21st International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas,

Berlin, March 15, 2017
Mass Layoffs and Unemployment
Creators: name: Caplin, Andrew
name: Leahy, John
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: Labor economics

description: Mass layouts give rise to groups of unemployed workers who possess similar characteristics and therefore may learn from one another's experience searching for a new job. Two factors lead them to be too selective in the job offers they accept. The first is an information externality: searchers fail to take into account the value of their experience to others. The second is an incentive to free ride: each worker would like others to experiment and reveal information concerning productive jobs. Together these forces imply that in equilibrium the natural rate of unemployment is too high.
Sylvenomyia Mamaev & Zaitzev 1998
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Sylvenomyia

description: Genus Sylvenomyia Mamaev & Zaitzev, 1998
Sylvenomyia —Mamaev & Zaitzev 1998: 21. Type species, sueciae Mamaev & Zaitzev [= spinigera Spungis], by original designation.— Penttinen & Jaschhof 2009: 49 (review, new species); Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2013: 61 (review).
The genus Sylvenomyia, which contains two European species, is distinguished from other Diallactiini by the wing venation and male genitalic structures (Penttinen & Jaschhof 2009: figs 1, 2B–D). The genus was recently reviewed by Jaschhof & Jaschhof (2013). Larvae of Sylvenomyia are unknown.
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias, 2016, A review of world Diallactiini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Winnertziinae), with the description of six new genera and seventeen new species, pp. 201-244 in Zootaxa 4127 (2) on page 238, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/267022
Testing alternative theories of gravity using the Sun
Creators: name: Casanellas, Jordi
name: Pani, Paolo
name: Lopes, Ilídio
name: Cardoso, Vitor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new approach to test possible corrections to Newtonian gravity using solar physics. The high accuracy of current solar models and new precise observations allow one to constrain corrections to standard gravity at unprecedented levels. Our case study is Eddington-inspired gravity, an attractive modified theory of gravity which results in non-singular cosmology and collapse. The theory is equivalent to standard gravity in vacuum, but it sensibly differs from it within matter, for instance it affects the evolution and the equilibrium structure of the Sun, giving different core temperature profiles, deviations in the observed acoustic modes and in solar neutrino fluxes. Comparing the predictions from a modified solar model with observations, we constrain the coupling parameter of the theory, |kappa_g| < 3x10^5 m^5 s^2 / kg. Our results show that the Sun can be used to efficiently constraint alternative theories of gravity.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures. v2: solar model improved, version to be published in ApJ
What affects environmentally sustainable behaviour? A case study of visitors to Whistler BC
Creators: name: Nathaniel, Lindsay Carolyn Tamara
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Environmental sustainability has increasingly become a global concern and a goal for many communities. The Resort Municipality of Whistler is one such community. While engaged in sustainability-based planning, it has not yet included specific input from its large visitor population. It is useful to understand visitor views and what drives their behaviour before implementing integrated environmental sustainability initiatives. This research investigates what influences environmentally sustainable behaviour of visitors to Whistler. It examines perceptions of environmental sustainability, environmental behaviour norms, and motivators and barriers affecting environmental behaviour of visitors to Whistler. It is grounded in literature on sustainability theory and environmental behaviour. Data from 232 visitors were collected through surveys in winter 2009. The data were analyzed using correlations, analyses of variance, by extent of agreement, and by categorizing respondents’ quotes and discussing issues raised. Results show that convenience, values, cost, how local businesses act and the belief that one’s behaviour would make a difference most influence environmentally sustainable behaviour at Whistler. It was determined that information provided and social pressures have the least influence. Respondents perceive that maintaining a healthy environment is their responsibility and do not prioritize the environment over human well-being. They engage in recycling and hotel-related environmental behaviours more often than food-related ones. The research concludes with recommendations on improving visitor engagement in Whistler’s sustainability initiatives.
Saving and investment in Japan
Creators: name: Sato, Kazuo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1987
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper traces movements of saving and investment in the Japanese economy over the four decades after World War II. The postwar decades may be divided conveniently into four periods: the reconstruction period (1945-1952) in which saving was in absolutely short supply; the normalization period (1952-1959) when the economy returned to normalcy; the rapid growth period (1960-1973) when saving and investment were balanced at a very high level so as to make rapid growth achievable; and the slow grown period (1974-present) in which saving exceeded investment in the private economy. This paper presents international comparisons between the Japanese economy and other industrializing Asian economies that have high savings rates. The paper then examines the individual sectors of the economy -- personal savings ratios, corporate saving and investment ratios, fiscal policy, and monetary policy. This paper then explains the transition of the Japanese economy from a neoclassical model economy to a Keynesian model economy. Finally, the paper concludes with the hope that the private sector will begin investing again, in order to prevent disequilibria in the government and external sectors.
Fußball-Schiedsrichter im Spiegel der Medien:
Creators: name: Vögele, Catharina
name: Schäfer, Markus
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2019

description: Schiedsrichter bestimmen mit ihren Entscheidungen den Verlauf von Spielen maßgeblich mit. Nicht zuletzt deshalb werden Schiedsrichterentscheidungen in der Medienberichterstattung häufig thematisiert und diskutiert. Wissenschaftlich wurde die Berichterstattung über Schiedsrichter bislang vor allem für Print- und Online-Medien untersucht, während fußballbezogene TV-Formate trotz ihrer hohen Reichweiten bisher kaum im Fokus standen. Die vorliegende Studie analysiert mithilfe einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse (N=591) erstmals systematisch die Bewertungen von Schiedsrichtern in Bundesliga-Spielberichten der ARD-Sportschau der Spielzeiten 2011/12 bis 2017/18 und geht dabei u.a. der Frage nach, inwieweit sich die Darstellung durch die Einführung des Video-Assistenten in der Saison 2017/18 verändert hat. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Schiedsrichter in 90 Prozent der Spielberichte bewertet werden, wobei die Tendenz der Bewertungen gegenüber den Unparteiischen im Mittel leicht positiv ausfällt. Am häufigsten werden Strafstoßentscheidungen der Referees beurteilt, gefolgt von Abseitsentscheidungen. Die Einführung des Video-Assistenten hat keinen nennenswerten Einfluss auf Häufigkeit und Art der Schiedsrichterbewertungen. Der Einsatz des Video-Assistenten im Allgemeinen wird in den TV-Beiträgen negativer besprochen als die konkreten Entscheidungen, die von ihm getroffenen werden.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 4 Nr. 1-2 (2019)
Open charm effects in the explanation of the long-standing "$ρπ$ puzzle"
Creators: name: Wang, Qian
name: Li, Gang
name: Zhao, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed analysis of the open charm effects on the decays of $J/ψ(ψ^\prime)\to VP$ is presented, where $V$ stands for light vector meson and $P$ for light pseudoscalar meson. These are the channels that the so-called "12% rule" of perturbative QCD (pQCD) is obviously violated. Nevertheless, they are also the channels that violate the pQCD helicity selection rule (HSR) at leading order. In this work, we put constraints on the electromagnetic (EM) contribution, short-distance contribution from the $c\bar{c}$ annihilation at the wavefunction origin, and long-distance contribution from the open charm threshold effects on these two decays. We show that interferences among these amplitudes, in particular, the destructive interferences between the short-distance and long-distance strong amplitudes play a key role to evade the HSR and cause the significant deviations from the pQCD expected "12% rule".
description: Revtex, 14 pages and 4 eps figures; Revised version accepted by Phys. Rev. D
What does the consumption tax mean to Japanese society and U.S. society? The difference in the priorities of overall tax reforms in both countries
Creators: name: Kawakami, Naotaka
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: The Japanese tax system reflects the characteristics of postwar Japanese society. The emphasis on an equal income distribution, the concern for assets -- especially land, and the dominance of corporations as a form of business are the consistent trends. More recent trends are the realities of the aging society and the transformation from insufficient savings to excess savings. Combined with the restriction of tax implementation, these two trends were the main motives for the introduction of the current Consumption Tax and the current separated taxation on a large part of capital income in the 1987-88 reform. Based on different backgrounds, the priorities of tax reforms in Japan and in the U.S. are also different. One confusing thing from a Japanese perspective is that a consumption tax also seems to attract many U.S. economists and policymakers. Mainly surveying the arguments over the consumption tax, this paper shows what is common and what is different between the debates on overall tax reforms in the two countries. While there are many problems unique to the Japanese Consumption Tax, there may be something in the U.S. arguments over a consumption tax we Japanese should also learn from. In the U.S., the advocates of a consumption tax focus on the merits of efficiency and simplicity. In the last decade, while the need for the adjustment for inflation and the encouragement of savings might have decreased to some extent, the need to fix the distortions from sophisticated tax planning by financial innovations seems to have increased. In Japan the motives for the introduction of the Consumption Tax were rather the concern for equity -- horizontal equity, equity through the life cycle and between generations. It was thought to be a complement rather than a total substitute for the income tax. Eliminating the distortions under the conventional excise taxes and stabilizing the tax revenue were also motives.
Reliability, validity and measurement invariance of the Simplified Medication Adherence Questionnaire (SMAQ) among HIV-positive women in Ethiopia: a quasi-experimental study
Creators: name: Agala, Chris B.
name: Lich, Kristen Hassmiller
name: Zimmer, Catherine
name: Morrissey, Joseph P.
name: Reynolds, Heidi W.
name: Thomas, James C.
name: Fried, Bruce J.
name: Whetten, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2020

description:
Background Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is critical to the achievement of the third target of the UNAIDS Fast-Track Initiative goals of 2020–2030. Reliable, valid and accurate measurement of adherence are important for correct assessment of adherence and in predicting the efficacy of ART. The Simplified Medication Adherence Questionnaire is a six-item scale which assesses the perception of persons living with HIV about their adherence to ART. Despite recent widespread use, its measurement properties have yet to be carefully documented beyond the original study in Spain. The objective of this paper was to conduct internal consistency reliability, concurrent validity and measurement invariance tests for the SMAQ. Methods HIV-positive women who were receiving ART services from 51 service providers in two sub-cities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia completed the SMAQ in a HIV treatment referral network study between 2011 and 2012. Two cross-sections of 402 and 524 female patients of reproductive age, respectively, from the two sub-cities were randomly selected and interviewed at baseline and follow-up. We used Cronbach’s coefficient alpha (α) to assess internal consistency reliability, Pearson product-moment correlation (r) to assess concurrent validity and multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis to analyze factorial structure and measurement invariance of the SMAQ. Results All participants were female with a mean age of 33; median: 34 years; range 18–45 years. Cronbach’s alphas for the six items of the SMAQ were 0.66, 0.68, 0.75 and 0.75 for T1 control, T1 intervention, T2 control, and T2 intervention groups, respectively. Pearson correlation coefficients were 0.78, 0.49, 0.52, 0.48, 0.76 and 0.80 for items 1 to 6, respectively, between T1 compared to T2. We found invariance for factor loadings, observed item intercepts and factor variances, also known as strong measurement invariance, when we compared latent adherence levels between and across patient-groups. Conclusions Our results show that the six-item SMAQ scale has adequate reliability and validity indices for this sample, in addition to being invariant across comparison groups. The findings of this study strengthen the evidence in support of the increasing use of SMAQ by interventionists and researchers to examine, pool and compare adherence scores across groups and time periods.
Implementation and Adjustment Costs: Special and Differential Treatment and Assistance for Developing Countries
Creators: name: Charlton, Andrew H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: Special and differential treatment is both a cause of and a solution to political barriers to multilateral trade liberalisation. SDT provisions need to be designed as part of a broad development package sensitive to the institutional weaknesses of different countries and linked to assistance packages.
Self-trapping and splitting of bright vector solitons under inhomogeneous defocusing nonlinearities
Creators: name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Vysloukh, Victor A.
name: Torner, Lluis
name: Malomed, Boris A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that bimodal systems with a spatially nonuniform defocusing cubic nonlinearity, whose strength grows toward the periphery, can support stable two-component solitons. For a sufficiently strong XPM interaction, vector solitons with overlapping components become unstable, while stable families of solitons with spatially separated components emerge. Stable complexes with separated components may be composed not only of fundamental solitons, but of multipoles too.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Optics Letters
Von Star City Sports bis #GBR
Creators: name: Hachtmann, Frauke
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2020

description: Zusammenfassung Gute lokale Sportberichterstattung spiegelt die Gemeinschaft wider, der sie dient und entwickelt somit die Gesellschaft. Der Essay diskutiert Sportberichterstattung im Allgemeinen und lokale Sportberichterstattung am Beispiel des Hochschulsports in Nebraska, im Mittleren Westen der USA, im Speziellen. Gerade in diesem Bereich ist es besonders wichtig, dass guter, solider Sportjournalismus praktiziert wird. Die Reflektion von Qualität und Leistung der lokalen Sportberichterstattung der University of Nebraska-Lincoln wird anhand folgender Themen analysiert: Kontext, kritische Medienarbeit, Vielfältigkeit, Repräsentation in der Redak-tion und die Rolle von Eigenmedien und Branding. Beschrieben werden außerdem das amerikanische Col-legesportsystem und ein neuer, innovativer Studiengang „Sports Media and Communication“ an der Uni-versität von Nebraska-Lincoln. Abstract Good local sports journalism reflects the community it serves and thereby develops society. This essay discusses local sports journalism in the context of collegiate athletics in Nebraska in the Midwest. It is particularly important to produce good, solid journalism in the context of sport. This reflection of local sports journalism of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln uses the following themes for analysis: context, critical media work, diversity, representation in the newsroom, and the role of owned media and branding. The essay also describes the American collegiate athletic system and a new, innovative undergraduate major in „Sports Media and Communication“ at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 4 Nr. 1-2 (2019)
The Ubiquity of the rms-flux relation in Black Hole X-ray Binaries
Creators: name: Heil, L. M.
name: Vaughan, S.
name: Uttley, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the short term linear relation between the rms variability and the flux in 1,961 observations of 9 black hole X-ray binaries. The rms-flux relation for the 1-10 Hz range is ubiquitously observed in any observation with good variability signal to noise (> 3 % 1-10 Hz fractional rms). This concurs with results from a previous study of Cygnus X-1 (Gleissner et. al. 2004), and extends detection of the rms-flux relation to a wider range of states. We find a strong dependence of the flux intercept of the rms-flux relation on source state; as the source transitions from the hard state into the hard intermediate state the intercept becomes strongly positive. We find little evidence for flux dependence of the broad-band noise within the PSD shape, excepting a small subset of observations from one object in an anomalous soft-state. We speculate that the ubiquitous linear rms-flux relation in the broad band noise of this sample, representing a range of different states and objects, indicates that its formation mechanism is an essential property of the luminous accretion flow around black holes.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Code and modeling data for tiered leak detection and repair programs at simulated oil and gas production facilities
Creators: name: Cardoso-Saldaña, Felipe J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Code and modeling data for "Tiered leak detection and repair programs at simulated oil and gas production facilities: increasing emission reduction by targeting high-emitting sources". https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c08582
Alternative Sportarten für die regionale, öffentlich-rechtliche Sportberichterstattung des Südwestrundfunks
Creators: name: Jentner, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2020

description: Zusammenfassung Vor dem Hintergrund der steigenden Preise für Sportrechte und den begrenzten Mitteln des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks untersucht dieser Beitrag, welche Sportarten sich neben dem Fußball als geeignete Inhalte für die öffentlich-rechtliche Sportberichterstattung des Südwestrundfunks (SWR) erweisen. Um diese Forschungsfrage zu beantworten, wurden 27 Sportarten, die aus den Quoten der media control GmbH aus dem Jahr 2017 und aus aktuellen Entwicklungen des Medien-Sport-Komplexes hervorgingen, mit Hilfe eines selbstentwickelten Sportmedienlogik-Modells analysiert und gegenübergestellt. Um die Belastbarkeit der Ergebnisse zu überprüfen, wurden die Ergebnisse mit den Meinungen von fünf Experten gegenübergestellt. Hierbei ist wichtig zu erwähnen, dass es nicht darum geht, wie sich die Sportarten verändern müssen oder an die Handlungslogik der Medien anpassen, sondern, inwiefern sich die Sportarten mit ihren derzeitigen Strukturen für die Sportberichterstattung eignen. Kernergebnis ist, dass es neben dem Fußball auch andere attraktive Medieninhalte für den Südwesten gibt. Abstract Keeping in mind that the prizes of sport rights are rising and that public broadcasting has only a limited budget to purchase them, this report examines what sports except football are of great use to the public sports broadcasting in the southwest of Germany. In order to answer the research question in all dimensions 27 sports have been analyzed by using a self-developed sport media logic model. Those 27 sports have been discovered by the examination of tv ratings from 2017 by media control and the recent developments of the sport-media-complex. In order to check the validity of the results five expert interviews were used. Further, it is important to note that the model is not examining the changes that sports do in order to fit into the media’s expectations and action logic. The report is analyzing how the current structures of sports do fit into the overall media logic of sports broadcasting. Main result of the study is that there are alternatives to football for the regional sports broadcasting of the SWR.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 4 Nr. 1-2 (2019)
Rezension: Bieg, P. (2019). Mediensportarten abseits des Fußballs. Basketball in Deutschland: eine explo-rative Fallstudie zum Kampf um Platz zwei im Sport
Creators: name: Nieland, Jörg-Uwe
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2020

description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 4 Nr. 1-2 (2019)
Institutions of Macroeconomic Management History, Theory, and Practice
Creators: name: Chang, Ha-Joon
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: This paper demonstrates that institutions matter for the macro-economy a great deal, and therefore that we need to explicitly incorporate institutional factors in macroeconomic theory. It draws extensively on the history of the development of institutions of macroeconomic management in today's developed countries while Chang's ultimate interest is the role of institutions in the macroeconomic management in developing countries. Note: The opinions expressed in these papers represent those of the author(s) and not The Initiative for Policy Dialogue. These papers are unpublished and have not been peer reviewed. Please do not cite without explicit permission from the author(s).
New determination of the mass of the eta meson at COSY-ANKE
Creators: name: Goslawski, P.
name: Khoukaz, A.
name: Barsov, S.
name: Burmeister, I.
name: Chiladze, D.
name: Dymov, S.
name: Gebel, R.
name: Hartmann, M.
name: Kacharava, A.
name: Kulessa, P.
name: Lehrach, A.
name: Lorentz, B.
name: Maier, R.
name: Mersmann, T.
name: Mielke, M.
name: Mikirtychiants, S.
name: Ohm, H.
name: Papenbrock, M.
name: Prasuhn, D.
name: Rausmann, T.
name: Serdyuk, V.
name: Stockhorst, H.
name: Stroeher, H.
name: Taeschner, A.
name: Valdau, Y.
name: Wilkin, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A value for the mass of the eta meson has been determined at the COSY-ANKE facility through the measurement of a set of deuteron laboratory beam momenta and associated 3He center-of-mass momenta in the d+p -> 3He+X reaction. The eta was then identified by the missing-mass peak and the production threshold determined. The individual beam momenta were fixed with a relative precision of 3 x 10^-5 for values around 3 GeV/c by using a polarized deuteron beam and inducing an artificial depolarizing spin resonance, which occurs at a well-defined frequency. The final-state momenta in the two-body d+p -> 3He+eta reaction were investigated in detail by studying the size of the 3He momentum ellipse with the forward detection system of the ANKE spectrometer. Final alignment of the spectrometer for this high precision experiment was achieved through a comprehensive study of the 3He final-state momenta as a function of the center-of-mass angles, taking advantage of the full geometrical acceptance. The value obtained for the mass, m(eta)=(547.873 +- 0.005(stat) +- 0.027(syst)) MeV/c^2, is consistent and competitive with other recent measurements, in which the meson was detected through its decay products.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, published version
Hunt for new phenomena using large jet multiplicities and missing transverse momentum with ATLAS in 4.7 fb^-1 of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV proton-proton collisions
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are presented of a search for new particles decaying to large numbers of jets in association with missing transverse momentum, using 4.7 fb^-1 of pp collision data at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2011. The event selection requires missing transverse momentum, no isolated electrons or muons, and from >=6 to >=9 jets. No evidence is found for physics beyond the Standard Model. The results are interpreted in the context of a MSUGRA/CMSSM supersymmetric model, where, for large universal scalar mass m_0, gluino masses smaller than 840 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, extending previously published limits. Within a simplified model containing only a gluino octet and a neutralino, gluino masses smaller than 870 GeV are similarly excluded for neutralino masses below 100 GeV.
description: 26 pages plus author list (46 pages total), 9 figures, 3 tables, revised author list, matches published JHEP version
Existence of singularities in two-Kerr black holes
Creators: name: Chruściel, Piotr T.
name: Eckstein, Michał
name: Nguyen, Luc
name: Szybka, Sebastian J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C57 (Primary) 53B30, 83C75 (Secondary)

description: We show that the angular momentum - area inequality 8π|J| =< A for weakly stable minimal surfaces would apply to (I^+)-regular many-Kerr solutions, if any existed. Hence we remove the undesirable hypothesis in the Hennig-Neugebauer proof of non-existence of well behaved two-component solutions.
description: minor rewordings, a reference added, version identical to the one published in CQG
Wahabia Jaschhof
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Wahabia

description: Genus Wahabia Jaschhof gen. nov.
Type species, mantici sp. nov., here designated.
Non-genitalic characters suggest that Wahabia mantici is similar to Johnsonomyia spp., but the unusually complex male genitalia of this diallactiine call for classifying it in a genus of its own.
Diagnosis. A peculiarity of Wahabia is that the parameres and the ejaculatory apodeme together form a single complex structure, which gives rise to two pairs of processes (Fig. 20B). The gonocoxae are also equipped with processes (Fig. 20A), which is a unique condition in Diallactiini. Females of Wahabia are unknown.
Etymology. This genus is named to honor Rodzay Abdul Wahab, University of Brunei, Darussalam, for his dedicated support of studies into the biodiversity of his country, including the diallactiine study presented here. Gender of this name is feminine.
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias, 2016, A review of world Diallactiini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Winnertziinae), with the description of six new genera and seventeen new species, pp. 201-244 in Zootaxa 4127 (2) on page 238, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/267022
Variation of the holomorphic determinant bundle
Creators: name: Grivaux, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we prove that the Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch formula in Deligne cohomology computing the determinant of the cohomology of a holomorphic vector bundle on the fibers of a proper submersion between abstract complex manifolds is invariant by deformation of the bundle.
description: Comments are welcome
Reasons for Limited Sovereign Risk Management and How to Improve It
Creators: name: Claessens, Stijn
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: For capital market liberalization in developing countries, the returns have been difficult to identify: there is no convincing empirical evidence linking open capital markets to economic growth. There is however, considerable evidence of increased risk. Capital market liberalization increases consumption volatility and heightens countries' vulnerability to crises. The poor are least equipped to cope with increased volatility, and they are most affected by financial crises. Capital mobility reduces their bargaining power relative to capital and leads to a decline in the labor share of output. Financial openness delivers the poor few benefits in terms of increased access to credit and other financial services, and it constrains governments' redistributive efforts and anti-poverty fiscal policies. While it is difficult to establish a conclusive direct link between capital market liberalization and increased rates of poverty, the evidence presented in this paper suggests a compelling case that capital market liberalization is bad for the poor in developing countries.