cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Home-country Policies
Creators: name: Utesch-Xiong, Fredrik
Publisher: name: Fachbereich 07: Wirtschaftswissenschaft (FB 07)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: policy
subject: investment promotion
subject: regulation
subject: Internationalization
subject: institutions
subject: 330

description: This study investigates how industry- and ownership-specific policies influence outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs). Building upon new organizational institutionalism, we examine the coercive, normative, and mimetic institutional pressures on MNEs. We test our hypotheses using monthly data between 2008 and 2015. The empirical analysis reveals that while normative policies influence particularly private-owned enterprises (POEs) – the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Made in China 2025 Strategy – the relationship between (central) state-owned enterprises and home-country policies is less clear. We also find that Chinese OFDI is influenced by the internationalization behavior of their home-country peer group.
Netværkseffekter i jernbanekøreplaner
Creators: name: Jensen, Lars Wittrup
name: Landex, Alex
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: Netværkseffekter i jernbanekøreplaner opstår, når en ændring ét sted i netværket forårsager ændringer andre steder i netværket grundet linjestruktur og korrespondancer i køreplanen. En præcis definition af denne type netværkseffekter gives, og måder at måle effekten beskrives. Da køreplaner for jernbanenet- værk er meget komplekse, er det er svært at vurdere ændringer for hele nettet, og dermed mulige net- værkseffekter. Denne artikel gennemgår derfor også modeller og metoder, der kan bruges til at måle net- værkseffekter og en passende model foreslås.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
The generation, propagation, and mixing of oceanic lee waves
Creators: name: Baker, Lois Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Lee waves are generated when oceanic flows interact with rough seafloor topography. They extract momentum and energy from the geostrophic flow, causing drag and enhancing turbulent mixing in the ocean interior when they break. Mixing across density surfaces (diapycnal mixing) driven by lee waves and other topographic interaction processes in the abyssal ocean plays an important role in upwelling the densest waters in the global ocean, thus sustaining the lower cell of the meridional overturning circulation. Lee waves are generated at spatial scales that are unresolved by global models, so their impact on the momentum and buoyancy budgets of the ocean through drag and diapycnal mixing must be parameterised. Linear theory is often used to estimate the generation rate of lee waves and to construct global maps of lee wave generation. However, this calculation and subsequent inferences of lee wave mixing rely on several restrictive assumptions. Furthermore, observations suggest that lee wave mixing in the deep ocean is significantly overestimated by this theory. In this thesis, we remove some common assumptions at each stage of the lee wave lifecycle to investigate the reasons for this discrepancy and to motivate and inform future climate model parameterisations. Firstly, we investigate the way that seafloor topography is represented in lee wave parameterisations, finding that typical spectral methods can lead to an overestimate of wave energy flux. Next, we make the case for considering lee waves as a full water column process by modelling the effect of vertically varying background flows and the ocean surface on lee wave propagation. Finally, we take a holistic view of topographic mixing in the abyssal ocean, finding that deep stratified water mass interfaces may modify the nature of the lee wave field, and themselves contribute to mixing and upwelling in the deep ocean through topographic interaction.
Protecting Investors in Equity Crowdfunding: An Empirical Analysis of the Small Investor Protection Act
Creators: name: Goethner, Maximilian
name: Hornuf, Lars
name: Regner, Tobias
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Equity crowdfunding
subject: Crowdinvesting
subject: Investor protection
subject: 330

description: During the past decade, equity crowdfunding (ECF) has emerged as an alternative funding channel for startup firms. In Germany, the Small Investor Protection Act became binding in July 2015, with the legislative goal to protect investors engaging in this new asset class. Since then, investors pledging more than 1,000 EUR now must self-report their income and wealth. Investing more than 10,000 EUR in a single ECF issuer is only possible through a corporate entity. We examine how the Small Investor Protection Act has affected investor behavior at Companisto, Germany’s largest ECF portal for startup firms. The results show that after the new law became binding, sophisticated investors invest less on average while casual investors invest more. Moreover, the signaling capacity of large investments has disappeared.
Kvantificering samt forbedring af robusthed og punktlighed i jernbanetransport
Creators: name: Parbo, Jens
name: Nielsen, Otto Anker
name: Prato, Carlo
name: Landex, Alex
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: I denne artikel gennemgås studier, der har beskæftiget sig med punktlighed og robusthed indenfor jernbanedrift. For disse to servicemål undersøges det hvilke definitioner og kvantificérbare mål litteraturen har benyttet sig af op til i dag. Ligeledes undersøges det også, hvilke metoder der har været anvendt til at forbedre jernbanedriften. Dette studie fremhæver forskellen mellem tog- og passagerforsinkelser samt at måden hvorpå passagerernes rutevalg er estimeret, har signifikant indflydelse på korrektheden af resultaterne når beregnede resultater sammenlignes med virkeligheden. Baseret på denne gennemgang af litteraturen foreslås slutteligt nogle retningslinjer for fremtidige perspektiver.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Translation and Censorship of English-Spanish Narrative Texts in Franco’s Spain and its Aftermath: TRACEni (1970-1978)
Creators: name: Castro, Cristina Gómez
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2010
Subjects: anchor terms
censorship
corpus-based translation studies
dictatorship
translation studies
translation norms

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 6, 1, -
Ort, Raum und Vergemeinschaftung in einem urbanen Gartenprojekt auf dem Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin
Creators: name: Scheve, Jan
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Urbaner Gartenbau
subject: 910

description: Städtische Zwischennutzungen stehen seit einiger Zeit im Fokus stadt- und kulturgeographischer Forschung. Sie können als Kristallisationspunkte von gesellschaftlichen Veränderungsprozessen verstanden werden. Zumindest für begrenzte Zeit brechen hier etablierte Strukturen auf und es lassen sich im weiteren Sinne alternative Lebens- und Wirtschaftsweisen erproben und erleben. Dabei werden konkrete Fragen bezüglich Eigentum und Zugang zu öffentlichen Räumen, Kreativität und Ästhetik in der Stadt, sowie Partizipation an Planungen aufgeworfen, wie sie in den Debatten um Gentrifizierung und ein „Recht auf die Stadt“ konzeptionell formuliert worden sind. Besonderes Interesse finden in diesem Zusammenhang urbane Gartenprojekte, in denen Stadt und Natur, Konsum und Lebensstile, soziales Miteinander und Fragen der Ernährung thematisiert werden.
An extension of the Pólya--Szegö operator inequality
Creators: name: Hoa, D. T.
name: Moslehian, M. S.
name: Conde, C.
name: Zhang, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L05, 47A30, 47A63

description: We extend an operator Pólya--Szegö type inequality involving the operator geometric mean to any arbitrary operator mean under some mild conditions. Utilizing the Mond--Pečarić method, we present some other related operator inequalities as well.
description: 11 pages, to appear in Expos. Math
Mind the gap: bridging urban resilience knowledge–implementation gaps an action research inquiry into the role of systems approaches and social learning
Creators: name: Angheloiu, Corina
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Minerva’s owl always flies at dusk, is the old saying – wisdom always emerges in hindsight. This paradox has crippling effects in dealing with the challenges posed by the urgent need to adapt to the increasing effects of climate change and to strengthen the resilience of individuals, communities, and of our institutions and systems. As urbanisation gathers pace, nowhere is this need more urgent than in our cities. Urban resilience is a broad concept that connects disciplines such as engineering, psychology, disaster risk reduction, urban planning, or community development. The term's use has skyrocketed, leading to increasing gaps between resilience knowledge and its implementation. This research explores the role of systems approaches and social learning in bridging these gaps. The thesis consists of two parts: defining the problem situation and intervening to improve it. The first part contains a review of relevant literature (Chapter 2) and the design of an empirical study (Chapter 4) to investigate how knowledge–implementation gaps emerge and how they might be bridged. The second part charts two interventions (Chapter 5): the design and facilitation of the 2020 Urban Resilience Summer School, and the co-facilitation of the ensuing Urban Resilience Community of Practice (2020-21), both aimed at mid-career professionals. The original contributions to knowledge are theoretical and methodological. This research has advanced the current understanding of knowledge–implementation gaps. It has developed and tested a framework and demonstrated how it could enable professionals to cultivate systemic skills and capabilities from a lower towards a higher maturity. It has provided evidence of the need to extend capacity building beyond one-off programmes and has demonstrated the potential of transdisciplinary communities of practice in sustaining learning. Lastly, my first-person inquiry revealed the role facilitation plays in enabling capacity building and transdisciplinary collaboration.
En vestdansk-nordtysk banestrategi
Creators: name: Hansen, Michael
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: Region Syddanmark anmodede i 2012 Atkins Danmark om at gennemføre en analyse, der skulle munde ud i en rapport, af baneforholdene for nord-sydkorridoren mellem Aarhus-Hamburg. Rapporten blev udarbejdet af Atkins Danmark og skal ses som et første bidrag til en vestdansk-nordtysk banestrategi. Rapporten omfatter desuden en analyse af Timemodellen, herunder at udstrække denne til Hamburg, men i nærværende artikel omtales alene nord-sydkorridoren mellem Aarhus-Hamburg som et element i en vestdansk-nordtysk banestrategi. I Danmark er der udarbejdet flere regionale rapporter, der fokuserer på opgradering og udbygning af jernbanenettet med ønske om hurtigere mere miljøvenlige tog. Med denne rapport fokuseres der imidlertid på at skabe grundlag for en fælles vestdansk-nordtysk banestrategi, som skal fremme såvel passager- som godstrafik samt give bedre sammenhæng indbyrdes mellem transportsystemer. Et af hovedformålene med denne rapport er at vurdere mulighederne for forbedringer af baneforholdene på den østjyske længdebane hele vejen fra Aarhus til Hamburg. Konkret skal vurderes mulighederne for at opnå rejsetider mellem Aarhus og Hamburg på 21⁄2 time i 2030 og 11⁄2 time i 2050. Konsekvenserne af etablering af en ny station i Trekantområdet, nærmere bestemt ved Erritsø, vurderes også i rapporten. Dette element er ikke medtaget i nærværende artikel, men stationen bruges i løsningen.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Fuzzy Language in Literature and Translation: a case study of The Da Vinci Code and its two Chinese versions
Creators: name: Lu, Shao
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2010
Subjects: assessment
Chinese versions
equivalence in fuzziness
fuzzy language
information entropy
literature
The Da Vinci Code
translation

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 6, 1, -
Next-generation deployable aero-decelerator Heatshields for Atmospheric Entry Vehicles: Development of the Hypersonic foldable Aeroshell for THermal protection using ORigami (HATHOR)
Creators: name: O'Driscoll, Danielle
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Enabling high-mass atmospheric entry vehicles, which could transport payloads such as large robotic systems or even humans to other planets, is key in advancing exploration of the solar system. Currently, the size and mass of entry vehicles (3.9t) are constrained due to launcher payload module dimensions (with diameters of 4.6m), consequently limiting interplanetary missions. This research has focused on the design of a novel rigid mechanically-deployable atmospheric entry vehicle concept – the Hypersonic foldable Aeroshell for THermal protection using ORigami (HATHOR) – that could overcome these limitations, allowing larger payload and aeroshell dimensions (e.g. 4.5m and 16m, respectively, for a human mars mission). This project has included the development of the geometric framework, deployment simulator, and physical design of HATHOR – an aeroshell with an origami-inspired folding pattern that deploys a set of rigid thermal protection system heat shield panels. These panels consist of both a structural and thermal protection layer that deploy into an appropriate geometry for sufficiently decelerating a spacecraft as it enters a planet’s atmosphere. It is found, through deployment analysis, that successful deployment is affected by the panel thickness, the deployment ratio (ratio of deployed to stowed diameter), and the width of the rigid, non-folding, rib components of the heat shield. Successful deployment is shown for deployment ratios of 2
Hastighedsopgradering i forbindelse med Signalprogrammet
Creators: name: Gellert, Jannik Lauge
name: Enggaard, Mattias
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: Med udrulning af Signalprogrammet får man en række muligheder for at øge hastigheden på Regional og lokalbaner gennem udretning af kurver, ændring af sikkerhedsafstande, materiel osv. Hidtil har hastighedsopgraderinger ofte ikke været rentable på grund af sikringstekniske problemer. Med Signalprogrammet bliver hastighedsopgraderingerne billigere, og det kan derfor give mening at gen- nemføre opgraderingerne i forbindelse med Signalprogrammets udrulning, dvs. mellem 2017 og 2021. Banedanmark har gennemført en forundersøgelse for at afdække, hvilke muligheder for hastighedsop- gradering, der opstår efter udrulningen af Signalprogrammet på 12 statslige banestrækninger uden for hovednettet.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
The Gaia mission
Creators: name: Gaia Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original interferometric concept was changed to a direct-imaging approach. Both the spacecraft and the payload were built by European industry. The involvement of the scientific community focusses on data processing for which the international Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) was selected in 2007. Gaia was launched on 19 December 2013 and arrived at its operating point, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, a few weeks later. The commissioning of the spacecraft and payload was completed on 19 July 2014. The nominal five-year mission started with four weeks of special, ecliptic-pole scanning and subsequently transferred into full-sky scanning mode. We recall the scientific goals of Gaia and give a description of the as-built spacecraft that is currently (mid-2016) being operated to achieve these goals. We pay special attention to the payload module, the performance of which is closely related to the scientific performance of the mission. We provide a summary of the commissioning activities and findings, followed by a description of the routine operational mode. We summarise scientific performance estimates on the basis of in-orbit operations. Several intermediate Gaia data releases are planned and the data can be retrieved from the Gaia Archive, which is available through the Gaia home page at http://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia.
description: The Gaia Collaboration consists of 625 authors. Accepted by A&A in the Gaia Special Feature
Opgradering af jernbanen mellem Odense og Aarhus
Creators: name: Jensen, Lars Wittrup
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: Denne artikel præsenterer fire løsninger til hvordan Timemodellens tredje etape mellem Odense og Aarhus kan udføres således at én times rejsetid opnås mellem de to byer. I artiklen analyseres opgraderingsmulighederne på strækningen, og det findes at en opgradering ikke alene kan opfylde rejsetidsmålet. Derfor opstilles en række nybygningsalternativer, som efter en indledende sortering, sammensættes med de mest kosteffektive opgraderinger til fire samlede løsninger. I tre af disse løsninger benyttes elektriske togsæt der kan køre 200 km/t, mens der i den sidste løsning benyttes elektriske togsæt der kan køre 250 km/t, hvormed der kan spares på anlægsomkostninger. Af de fire løsninger anses den næst billigste med en ny bane over Vestfyn, en ny bane udenom Fredericia og over Vejle Fjord, samt en ny bane mellem Hovedgård og Hasselager, som den bedste. Derudover anbefaler artiklen, at der undersøges alternative løsningsforslag, fx benyttelse af kurvestyrede tog og en omformulering af Timemodellen, for at opnå en lavere anlægspris.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Framework for Railway Phase-based Planning
Creators: name: Li, Rui
name: Nielsen, Otto Anker
name: Landex, Alex
name: Madsen, Steen Nørbæk
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: In the railway field, planning the maintenance and renewal strategy from Life Cycle Cost (LCC) perspective gets more and more attentions recent years. The new approach looks at all the costs through the infrastructure life span and use the annuity (continuing payment with a fixed total annual spending) to evaluate the project alternatives. The comparison result can identify the most cost-efficient solution in a long run and therefore reduce the overall costs. This article defines a phase-based framework to guide the railway maintenance and renewal project planning at strategic level. The framework evaluates the project options from a larger LCC scope: The costs from Train Operation Companies (TOCs) and passengers, together with the maintenance and renewal costs from Infrastructure Managers are included in the calculation. The framework simplifies the planning processes and the LCC calculation into 7 phases. By going through the phases, the project’s key evaluation indicators such as track quality and life time, the LCC annuity, Cash flow and Cumulated NPV curve over years, can be visualized into charts, so that the alternative proposals can be easily illustrated and compared. A case study is introduced in the article to demonstrate how the framework works to compare timber sleepers and concrete sleepers from strategic planning level. Two Life Cycle Cost oriented policies are discussed to illustrate: high quality track is necessity to improve the cost efficiency of railway maintenance and renewals.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
21-year timing of the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827
Creators: name: Shaifullah, G.
name: Verbiest, J. P. W.
name: Freire, P. C. C.
name: Tauris, T. M.
name: Wex, N.
name: Osłowski, S.
name: Stappers, B. W.
name: Bassa, C. G.
name: Caballero, R. N.
name: Champion, D. J.
name: Cognard, I.
name: Desvignes, G.
name: Graikou, E.
name: Guillemot, L.
name: Janssen, G. H.
name: Jessner, A.
name: Jordan, C.
name: Karuppusamy, R.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Lazaridis, K.
name: Lazarus, P.
name: Lyne, A. G.
name: McKee, J. W.
name: Perrodin, D.
name: Possenti, A.
name: Tiburzi, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Timing results for the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827 are presented, using a 21-year dataset from four European Pulsar Timing Array telescopes and the Parkes radio telescope. This dataset, which is the longest published to date for a black-widow system, allows for an improved analysis that addresses previously unknown biases. While secular variations, as identified in previous analyses, are recovered, short-term variations are detected for the first time. Concurrently, a significant decrease of approx. 2.5x10-3 cm-3 pc in the dispersion measure associated with PSR J2051-0827 is measured for the first time and improvements are also made to estimates of the proper motion. Finally, PSR J2051-0827 is shown to have entered a relatively stable state suggesting the possibility of its eventual inclusion in pulsar timing arrays.
description: Accepted for publication by MNRAS, 10 pages, 6 figures
Effekter af køretidsforbedringer ved kørsel med elektrisk togmateriel
Creators: name: Henning, Mathias
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: I tidligere udførte analyser af rentabiliteten ved elektrificering af yderligere strækninger på det danske jernbanenet, har der ikke været taget højde for de forbedrede køretider, der kan opnås ved kørsel med el- materiel i forhold til dieseldrift. Det er imidlertid en kendsgerning, at tog med el-traktion har en væsentlig bedre accelerationsevne end sammenlignelige dieseltog, og at denne vil betyde, at det er muligt at præstere hurtigere kørsel, især i forbindelse med stationsstop. I denne artikel præsenteres resultaterne af en analyse, hvis formål har været at analysere effekterne af køretidsforbedringer ved kørsel med elektrisk togmateriel. Analysen viser, at det giver positive resultater, specielt for strækninger med mange og tætliggende stop samt strækninger med mange passagerer, der oplever sparet rejsetid.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
The potential cost from passengers and how it impacts railway maintenance and renewal decisions
Creators: name: Li, Rui
name: Landex, Alex
name: Nielsen, Otto Anker
name: Madsen, Steen Nørbæk
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: To plan Maintenance and Renewals (M&R) for the heavy railway lines, scheduling work possession time and deciding the closure of railway line are quite challenging for Infrastructure Manager (IM) at tactical planning level. As usual, the direct costs such as the materials costs, man power price and machinery costs are the important factors for IM to evaluate all the alternative schedules. At the same time, the potential cost from passengers is also crucial to minimize the impacts to the society. A phase-based planning toolkit is developed to help IM to plan and compare project proposals from a wider cost scope, integrating the passenger loss and direct costs into the comparison at planning stage. Passenger loss is estimated basing on the potential delay time values. The case study shows the potential cost from passengers is one of the key factors impacting the rank of M&R options. It even dominates the overall cost comparison for the busiest railway stations. In such case, the track closure time has to be decided according to the passenger loss instead of the direct costs. Sometime the best proposal for society might be the most expensive solution for IM. Therefore the potential passenger loss is not something that can be ignored at planning stage.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Intertextuality in Translation: modelling the textual relationships in translation
Creators: name: Martens, Dorothea
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2010
Subjects: intertextuality theories
re-translations
relay-translations
target-cultural intertextuality
translation modelling

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 6, 1, -
Analytical theory and possible detection of the $ac$ quantum spin Hall effect
Creators: name: Deng, W. Y.
name: Ren, Y. J.
name: Lin, Z. X.
name: Sheng, L.
name: Sheng, D. N.
name: Xing, D. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an analytical theory of the low-frequency $ac$ quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect based upon the scattering matrix formalism. It is shown that the $ac$ QSH effect can be interpreted as a bulk quantum pumping effect. When the electron spin is conserved, the integer-quantized $ac$ spin Hall conductivity can be linked to the winding numbers of the reflection matrices in the electrodes, which also equal to the bulk spin Chern numbers of the QSH material. Furthermore, a possible experimental scheme by using ferromagnetic metals as electrodes is proposed to detect the topological $ac$ spin current by electrical means.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
The Dubbing Translation of Humor based in Polisemy: the Marx Brothers cross the pond
Creators: name: Tejerina, Anjana Martínez
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Audiovisual Translation
dubbing
humour
polisemy
puns
wordplay

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 6, 1, -
Essays in financial economics
Creators: name: Uettwiller, Antoine
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: The three chapters in this thesis study agent behavior, whether it be that of retail investors (chapter 1), the reporting behavior of home-buyers for the purpose of taxation (chapter 2), or that of firms choosing what data to collect on their consumers (chapter 3). All three chapters employ data-driven approaches and novel methods to explore heterogeneity within their respective fields of study and draw conclusions that have implications for policymakers, market participants, and other stakeholders. In the first chapter, I study the heterogeneity of retail investors based on the stocks they chose to discuss. I use Reddit WallStreetBets data totalling more than 1.5 million posts and 35 million comments from 2018 to the end of 2021. I find retail investors to be diverse, with distinct subgroups showing interest in stocks with attention-grabbing features, or fundamental-based investing. I also find those attributes to be connected to echo chamber effects, likely causing confirmation bias, finding that subgroups do not mix. Finally, I find subgroups to be of differential importance in a predictability exercise. Effects commonly attributed to retail investors, such as increased volatility, might be coming from a sub-sample of them but also a sub-sample of stocks. In the second chapter, we develop a new method to estimate under-reporting and employ it on large, granular administrative data from the Mumbai real-estate market. The approach compares bunching of reported values around government-assessed guidance values with the distribution of a third-party measure of market values. We estimate that 11 percent of Mumbai real-estate value is under-reported between 2013 and 2022. We detect a decline in bunching post-demonetization, but no change in the overall under-reporting rate. Properties with mortgages from banks with high nonperforming assets and from public-sector banks exhibit greater under-reporting. 5 In the third chapter, we scrape a comprehensive set of US firms’ privacy policies and study these policies alongside firms’ web data extraction behaviour. We find considerable and systematic variation in privacy policies along multiple dimensions including ease of access, length, readability, and clarity, both within and between industries. Surprisingly, firms’ data extraction, measured by the extent of cookies they place on consumers browsing their websites, is strongly and positively related to the length and complexity of their policies. Firms with intermediate levels of technical sophistication have longer, more complex policies than firms with very high or low technical sophistication, controlling for a range of other firm attributes. A simple signalling model of firms engaging in data extraction in an economy with both myopic and sophisticated consumers, where privacy is a “shrouded attribute” of firm-consumer interactions, helps to rationalize these findings.
Uniform spatial distribution of collagen fibril radii within tendon implies local activation of pC-collagen at individual fibrils
Creators: name: Rutenberg, Andrew D
name: Brown, Aidan I
name: Kreplak, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collagen fibril cross-sectional radii show no systematic variation between the interior and the periphery of fibril bundles, indicating an effectively constant rate of collagen incorporation into fibrils throughout the bundle. Such spatially homogeneous incorporation constrains the extracellular diffusion of collagen precursors from sources at the bundle boundary to sinks at the growing fibrils. With a coarse-grained diffusion equation we determine stringent bounds, using parameters extracted from published experimental measurements of tendon development. From the lack of new fibril formation after birth, we further require that the concentration of diffusing precursors stays below the critical concentration for fibril nucleation. We find that the combination of the diffusive bound, which requires larger concentrations to ensure homogeneous fibril radii, and lack of nucleation, which requires lower concentrations, is only marginally consistent with fully-processed collagen using conservative bounds. More realistic bounds may leave no consistent concentrations. Therefore, we propose that unprocessed pC-collagen diffuses from the bundle periphery followed by local C-proteinase activity and subsequent collagen incorporation at each fibril. We suggest that C-proteinase is localized within bundles, at fibril surfaces, during radial fibrillar growth. The much greater critical concentration of pC-collagen, as compared to fully-processed collagen, then provides broad consistency between homogeneous fibril radii and the lack of fibril nucleation during fibril growth.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Estimates of operator convex and operator monotone functions on bounded intervals
Creators: name: Fujii, M.
name: Moslehian, M. S.
name: Najafi, H.
name: Nakamoto, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 47A63, Secondary 47B10, 47A30

description: Recently the behavior of operator monotone functions on unbounded intervals with respect to the relation of strictly positivity has been investigated. In this paper we deeply study such behavior not only for operator monotone functions but also for operator convex functions on bounded intervals. More precisely, we prove that if $f$ is a nonlinear operator convex function on a bounded interval $(a,b)$ and $A, B$ are bounded linear operators acting on a Hilbert space with spectra in $(a,b)$ and $A-B$ is invertible, then $sf(A)+(1-s)f(B)>f(sA+(1-s)B)$. A short proof for a similar known result concerning a nonconstant operator monotone function on $[0,\infty)$ is presented. Another purpose is to find a lower bound for $f(A)-f(B)$, where $f$ is a nonconstant operator monotone function, by using a key lemma. We also give an estimation of the Furuta inequality, which is an excellent extension of the Löwner--Heinz inequality.
description: 10 pages, to appear in Hokkaido Math. J
Samfundsøkonomisk vurdering af ITS
Creators: name: Bendsen, Stine
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: Vejdirektoratet har de seneste år arbejdet med metode til at lave samfundsøkonomiske vurderinger af ITS- tiltag. Med det gennemførte arbejde ligger en anvendelsesorienteret metode, der gør det muligt at lave samfundsøkonomisk analyse af et konkret ITS-tiltag. Det gør det lettere at vurdere, om de samfundsøkonomiske gevinster ved et konkret ITS-tiltag overstiger omkostninger til anlæg og drift, og at sammenholde tiltaget med andre mulige investeringer f.eks. anlægsarbejder. Overordnet set giver arbejdet: • En beskrivelse af den metodiske tilgang, så tilgangen bliver konsistent fra analyse til analyse • Guide til hvordan størrelser på effekter ved ITS kan vurderes på baggrund af tidligere erfaringer • Retningslinjer for hvordan trafikanternes oplevede værdi af trafikinformation håndteres og værdisættes i analyserne • Retningslinjer for hvordan samfundsøkonomisk analyse af ITS skal håndteres på strækninger med og uden anlægsarbejder Et hovedresultat af arbejdet er værdisætning af trafikanternes oplevelse af trafikinformationen, der gør det muligt at gennemføre samfundsøkonomiske analyser der inddrager alle de kendte effekter med tilhørende værdier. Dette notat beskriver i korte træk resultaterne af arbejdet, der også er dokumenteret i rapporterne ”Metode til samfundsøkonomisk vurdering af ITS-tiltag” og ”Værdisætning af trafikinformation” samt det excel-baserede ”Effektkatalog for ITS-tiltag”
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Brett Whiteley’s Words and Images: a translation studies approach
Creators: name: Zanoletti, Margherita
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Brett Whiteley
imagetext
interart
intermodality
intertextuality
Italian
self- representation
think-aloud protocols
verbal-visual

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 6, 1, -
Er trafikanterne tilfredse med ITS på motorveje?
Creators: name: Madsen, Per Bruun
name: Rosenstand, Kasper
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: Følgende artikel præsenterer resultaterne fra trafikanttilfredshedsundersøgelser af ITS-systemerne på den Nordjyske Motorvej og Helsingørmotorvejen. Formålet er at afdække trafikanternes tilfredshed, trafikanternes vurdering af informationernes relevans, trafikanternes adfærd og systemets funktionalitet. Metoden er uddeling af 4.000 spørgekort ved udvalgte ramper på både den Nordjyske Motorvej og på Helsingørmotorvejen, hvor trafikanterne lige har gennemkørt ITS-strækningerne. Svarprocenten er på hhv. 27 % og 23 %. Undersøgelserne er gennemført i perioder, hvor der ikke foregik anlægsarbejde på strækningerne. Resultaterne viser, at 4 ud af 5 trafikanterne generelt er tilfredse med de variable tavler (hastighedstavler og informationstavler med rejsetider og køvarsling m.m.) på begge ITS-strækninger. Blandt trafikanterne på den Nordjyske Motorvej mener kun 3 ud af 5, at troværdigheden af hastighedstavlerne er meget høj eller høj, hvilket trafikanterne hovedsagligt begrunder med stor variation i hastighedsbegrænsningerne over korte strækninger eller, at opdateringen af tavlerne er langsom. Derudover er der identificeret usikkerhed blandt trafikanter vedr. betydningen af hastighederne angivet på de variable tavler. Hvad angår rejsetidsinformationens troværdighed, vurderer trafikanterne den som relativ lav. Dette er mest udtalt på den Nordjyske Motorvej, hvor kun 57 % mener, at troværdigheden af de aktuelle rejsetider er høj eller meget høj. Dette gælder for 65 % af trafikanterne på Helsingørmotorvejen. Omkring halvdelen af trafikanternes vurderer rejsetiderne som brugbare. Mere end 3 ud af 4 har set køvarslingen i funktion. Ud af de trafikanter, der har set en aktiv køvarsling, mener 2 ud af 3, at troværdigheden er høj. Mere end 3 ud af 4 mener, at de bliver mere opmærksomme, når køvarslingen er tændt. 75 % af trafikanterne på den Nordjyske Motorvej mener ligeledes, at de sætter farten ned, når de ser køvarslingen, hvorimod det kun gælder for 54 % af trafikanterne på Helsingørmotorvejen. Trafikanterne på de to motorvejsstrækninger er meget enige i bedømmelsen af ITS-systemets effekter. 4 ud af 5 vurderer, at de variable tavler har en positiv effekt på trafiksikkerheden og deres egen opmærksomhed. Derimod mener kun 2 ud af 5, at tavlerne har en positiv effekt på fremkommelighed og andre trafikanters adfærd.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Transnationale Mobilität in Schulen. Blogbeiträge zu Schulbesuchen in Deutschland und weiteren Ländern
Creators: name: Karakasoglu, Yasemin
name: Vogel, Dita
name: Dittmer, Torben
name: Linnemann, Matthias
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Schule
subject: Transnationalität
subject: Migration
subject: 370

description: In diesem Arbeitspapier sind Blogbeiträge über 12 Schulen in Deutschland und vier Schu-len im Ausland integriert. Sie wurden auf Grundlage von Gesprächen und Beobachtungen bei mehrtägigen Schulbesuchen im Projekt „Transnationale Mobilität in Schulen“ (Tra-MiS) angefertigt, die von März bis Oktober 2019 stattfanden. Die Beiträge richten sich an eine breite Öffentlichkeit und fassen zusammen, was die Besuchenden als besonders be-eindruckend und interessant erlebt haben. Sie bieten Einblicke in das Material eines lau-fenden Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojektes und in die vielfältige Realität unterschied-licher Schulen. In den Beiträgen zeigt sich ein beeindruckendes Spektrum an Möglichkeiten, engagierte Lösungen für Schülerinnen und Schüler unter sehr unterschiedlichen Rahmenbedingun-gen zu finden. Unser besonderes Interesse galt dabei der Frage, wie mit Migration, Mehr-sprachigkeit und Mobilität – im Sinne potentieller zukünftiger Migration – umgegangen wird. Insgesamt bieten die Blogbeiträge eine anregende Vielzahl von Problemanzeigen, Handlungsmöglichkeiten und Entwicklungsperspektiven, die in ihrer Gesamtheit weiter-hin die Diskussionen im Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt TraMiS befruchten sollen und daher hier noch einmal in einem Arbeitspapier gesammelt zugänglich gemacht wer-den. Zum Teil weisen sie schon auf Aspekte hin, die in den detaillierteren Analysen zu Vignetten mit Fallbeispielen transnationaler Mobilität aufgegriffen und vertieft werden.
„Urban Improvement Districts“ als Instrumente lokaler Governance
Creators: name: Böhme, René
name: Warsewa, Günter
name: Wendland, Susanne
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Innovationsquartiere
subject: Partizipative Stadtgestaltung
subject: Kommunalpolitik
subject: 320

description: Die explorative Studie analysiert die Einführung von „Urban Improvement Districts“ (Sammelbegriff für Innovationsquartiere, Housing Improvement Districts, Neighbourhood Improvement Districts, Eigentümer-Standort-Gemeinschaften, lokale Bürgeretats etc.) in drei deutschen Großstädten und bilanziert erste Erfahrungen mit diesem in Deutschland neuen Instrument partizipativer Stadtgestaltung. Angelehnt an das Konzept der „Business Improvement Districts“ geht es dabei darum, in kleinräumig eingegrenzten Stadtgebieten eine regulierte Möglichkeit zu schaffen, Bürger, Wohnungseigentümer und weitere Akteure politisch und finanziell an der Entwicklung ihres Quartiers zu beteiligen; mit anderen Worten: Bürger verstärkt an der Finanzierung von Stadtgestaltung zu beteiligen und ihnen im Gegenzug dafür mehr Verantwortung und Entscheidungskompetenzen einzuräumen. Insofern geht dieses Instrument deutlich über die herkömmlichen Beteiligungsangebote in der kommunalpolitischen Praxis hinaus. In drei Fallstudien wurden realisierte bzw. in der Einführung befindliche Beispiele und die dabei gemachten Erfahrungen vergleichend untersucht. Insbesondere wurde danach gefragt, welche Auswirkungen auf die Strukturen lokaler Governance zu beobachten sind. Die Ergebnisse geben Auskunft über die Handlungsfähigkeit der beteiligten Akteure, die Wechselwirkungen zwischen organisatorischer und inhaltlicher Effizienz sowie die Bearbeitung von demokratischen Legitimations- und Partizipationsproblemen in derartigen Prozessen. Die Studie kommt im Vergleich der Fallstudien zu dem Ergebnis, dass „Urban Improvement Districts“ als Instrumente einer kleinteiligen und beteiligungsorientierten städtischen Governance vor allem dann neue Handlungskapazitäten erschließen können, wenn sie eng mit den Strukturen und Verfahren der formellen Kommunalpolitik verzahnt werden.
Beam model for the elastic properties of material with spherical voids
Creators: name: Heitkam, Sascha
name: Drenckhan, Wiebke
name: Weaire, Denis
name: Froehlich, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The elastic properties of a material with spherical voids of equal volume are analysed using a new model, with particular attention paid to the hexagonal close-packed and the face-centred cubic arrangement of voids. Void fractions well above 74 \% are considered, yielding overlapping voids as in an open-cell foam and hence a connected pore structure. The material is represented by a network of beams. The elastic behaviour of each beam is derived analytically from the material structure. By computing the linear elastic properties of the beam network, the Young's moduli and Poisson ratios for different directions are evaluated. In the limit of rigidity loss a power law is obtained, describing the relation between Young's modulus and void fraction with an exponent of 5/2 for bending-dominated and 3/2 for stretching-dominated directions. The corresponding Poisson ratios vary between 0 and 1. With decreasing void fraction, these exponents become 2.3 and 1.3, respectively. The data obtained analytically and from the new beam model are compared to Finite Element simulations carried out in a companion study, and good agreement is found. The hexagonal close-packed void arrangement features very anisotropic behaviour, comparable to that of fibre-reinforced materials, This might allow for new applications of open-cell materials.
Projekt Aquilo : Aktivierung und Qualifizirung erlebnisorientierter Lernorte
Creators: name: Freericks, Renate
name: Brinkmann, Dieter
name: Theile, Heike
name: Krämer, Stefan
Publisher: name: Institut für Freizeitwissenschaft und Kulturarbeit e.V.
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Erlebniswelt
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Freizeitforschung
subject: Freizeitbildung
subject: informelles Lernen
subject: 370

description: Dokumentiert werden in dem Projektbericht AQUILO die vielfältigen Ansätze in erlebnisorientierten Lernorten, wie Museen, Themenparks, Zoos oder Science Centern das informelle Lernen der Besucher anzuregen. Aufgezeigt werden Möglichkeiten für eine Qualifizierung der Konzepte. Angestrebt werden sollte, so das Fazit, ein Nachhaltiges Lernen, idealer Weise bezogen auf gesellschaftliche Zukunftsfragen. Die Studie basieriert auf einem handlungsorientierten Ansatz und einer Begleitforschung zusammen mit 14 Partnern aus einem breiten Spektrum an Freizeiteinrichtungen. Das Projekt des Instituts für Freizeitwissenschaft und Kulturarbeit an der Hochschule Bremen wurde durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung gefördert.
Parkering og dynamisk P-information i Aalborg
Creators: name: Agerholm, Niels
name: Madsen, Tanja K. O.
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2013

description: I Aalborg Midtby blev der primo 2012 etableret et nyt dynamisk Parkeringsinformationssystem (P-INFO), der dækker en større del af midtbyens betalingsparkeringspladser, end det gamle gjorde. I den forbindelse blev der lavet en interviewundersøgelse blandt 1.643 parkerende på centrale parkeringspladser i hverdagsmyldretiden før og efter etableringen af det nye P-INFO. Hovedresultaterne var, at alle parkerende var fra regionen og 58 % fra Aalborgområdet, og at 90 % havde bestemt sig for, hvilket sted de ville parkere, før de nåede frem. Selvom kendskabet til P-INFO var højt (ca. 85 %) var andelen af parkerende, der anvendte det meget lavere; 23 og 31 % før og efter etablering af det nye P-INFO. I gennemsnit forkortes rejsetiden med 1-11 sekunder pr. tur med det nye P-INFO i forhold til det gamle. Det svarer til en reduktion i den parkeringssøgende trafik i Aalborg Midtby på 0,5-4,1 %. Disse resultater er gennemregnet på to måder, men må tages med et vist forbehold. Det vurderes, at effekten er større, hvis der ses på parkerende i ferieperioder og weekender.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2013): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Formulations and solution algorithms for a class of discrete hub location problems
Creators: name: Ebery., Jamie Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Unusual boundary effect on coherency of two-band superconductivity
Creators: name: Vargunin, Artjom
name: Rägo, Küllike
name: Örd, Teet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the healing of two-band superconductivity near the surface of the system is governed by length scales which are drastically different from correlation lengths. Similar to the one-band case, one of the characteristic lengths diverges at critical temperature $T_c$, while another one shows unusual behaviour having singularity at $T_{c+}
description: 8 pages, 5 figures