cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How Much Do Bank Shocks Affect Investment? Evidence from Matched Bank-Firm Loan Data
Creators: name: Amiti, Mary
name: Weinstein, David E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Finance
Asians

description: We show that supply side financial shocks have a large impact on firms’ investment. We do this by developing a methodology to separate firm credit shocks from loan supply shocks using a vast sample of matched bank-firm lending data. We decompose loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to 2010 into bank, firm, industry, and common shocks. The high degree of financial institution concentration means that individual banks are large relative to the size of the economy as in Gabaix (2011). As a result, idiosyncratic bank shocks - i.e. movements in bank loan supply net of borrower characteristics and general credit conditions - can have large impacts on aggregate loan supply and investment. We show that these idiosyncratic bank shocks explain 40 percent of aggregate loan and investment fluctuations.
Simulation of granular jet: Is granular flow really a "perfect fluid?"
Creators: name: Sano, Tomohiko G.
name: Hayakawa, Hisao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform three-dimensional simulations of a granular jet impact for both frictional and frictionless grains. Small shear stress observed in the experiment[X. Cheng et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 188001 (2007) ] is reproduced through our simulation. However, the fluid state after the impact is far from a perfect fluid, and thus, similarity between granular jets and quark gluon plasma is superficial, because the observed viscosity is finite and its value is consistent with the prediction of the kinetic theory.
description: 8 pages 11 figures(9 figures: text, 2 figures: supplementary material) 2 tables. To be published in Phys. Rev. E
title: Policy Information Brief: Scientific basis for a national approach to the phase-out of lead use in angling
Creators: name: Verleye, Thomas
name: Dauwe, Steven
Publisher: name: Flanders Marine Institute
Year: 2021

description: Title : VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende. ISSN 2295-7464 Volume : 2021_05 Issue : Pagination : 46
title: Women's Mobilization for War (Great Britain and Ireland)
title: Women's Mobilization for War (Great Britain and Ireland)
Creators: name: Noakes, Lucy
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Großbritannien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Frau
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain
subject: Women in war

description: This article briefly surveys the impact of the First World War on the lives of British women. Focusing on the suffrage campaign, the modernisation thesis, women in uniform and women’s lives in the immediate post-war period, it concludes that any changes were limited and contained to the 1914-18 period, ‘just for the duration’.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Women's Mobilization for War (USA)
title: Women's Mobilization for War (USA)
Creators: name: Jensen, Kimberly
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: USA
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Frau
subject: World War, 1914-1918--United States
subject: Women and war

description: Many American women claimed a more complete female citizenship through voluntary service to the state during the First World War. Others opposed the conflict and organized enduring peace associations. American women participated in pre-war peace and preparedness movements, mobilized wartime voluntary organizations, staffed medical units abroad, and even served in the military. Others engaged in wage work in industry and agriculture on the home front. Women members of ethnic and racial minorities challenged discrimination. Suffrage activists were divided over the question of support for the war; their activism nonetheless resulted in national equal suffrage in 1920.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Computational modeling of neuromusculoskeletal systems : from filaments to behavior
Creators: name: Yeo, Sang Hoon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis describes computational approaches to modeling and simulating aspects of the neuromusculoskeletal system. We make contributions to models at three different levels of detail. We first investigate the mechanics of shortening muscle and evaluate two forms of the traditional Hill-type muscle model, force scaling and f-max scaling, and show that the f-max scaling model is significantly better at predicting experimental results. We hypothesize a new model called the winding filament model that incorporates the role of titin during active force development. Based on the proposed hypothesis, we develop a computational model that is able to simulate residual force enhancement. The suggested model can qualitatively simulate the pattern of the force enhancement observed in previous studies. In order to model the higher levels of the system consisting of muscles and bones, we propose an optimal design framework for estimating parameters of the musculoskeletal model. The method finds a set of morphological and physiological parameters that can optimally simulate the measured force and moment at the point of action. We apply the suggested framework to modeling two rat hindlimb muscles, gracilis posticus and posterior part of biceps femoris, to see if the traditional line segment based muscle geometry model is valid for musculoskeletal system modeling. The result shows that even a complex muscle like biceps femoris can be well modeled as a line segment, but its estimated insertion point is far from that of the traditional model based on anatomy. Finally, this thesis addresses a behavioral aspect of biological movement; in particular, how a high level movement is planned and controlled, in coordination with perception. We present a fully generative model of object interception that can simulate realistic, human-like behavior of ball catching for given arbitrary ball trajectory. The model includes a simplified probabilistic model of vision, a model of eye movements combining saccades and pursuit, and corresponding head, hand and body movements. The movements are constructed from submovements. By combining these components, realistic interception behavior is simulated with minimal user intervention.
title: Alfonso XIII, King of Spain
title: Alfonso XIII, King of Spain
Creators: name: García Sanz, Carolina
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Alfonso [XIII., España, Rey]
subject: Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 1886-1941

description: Alfonso XIII was a controversial Spanish king during the first decades of the 20th century. During the First World War he established a humanitarian office for prisoners and civilian relief at the Royal Palace in Madrid.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
A practical solution to the sign problem in a matrix model for dynamical compactification
Creators: name: Anagnostopoulos, Konstantinos N.
name: Azuma, Takehiro
name: Nishimura, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The matrix model formulation of superstring theory offers the possibility to understand the appearance of 4d space-time from 10d as a consequence of spontaneous breaking of the SO(10) symmetry. Monte Carlo studies of this issue is technically difficult due to the so-called sign problem. We present a practical solution to this problem generalizing the factorization method proposed originally by two of the authors (K.N.A. and J.N.). Explicit Monte Carlo calculations and large-N extrapolations are performed in a simpler matrix model with similar properties, and reproduce quantitative results obtained previously by the Gaussian expansion method. Our results also confirm that the spontaneous symmetry breaking indeed occurs due to the phase of the fermion determinant, which vanishes for collapsed configurations. We clarify various generic features of this approach, which would be useful in applying it to other statistical systems with the sign problem.
description: 44 pages, 64 figures, v2: some minor typos corrected
The Significance of the Curry-Howard Isomorphism
Creators: name: Zach, Richard
Publisher: name: De Gruyter
Year: 2019

description: The Curry-Howard isomorphism is a proof-theoretic result that establishes a connection between derivations in natural deduction and terms in typed lambda calculus. It is an important proof-theoretic result, but also underlies the development of type systems for programming languages. This fact suggests a potential importance of the result for a philosophy of code.
title: Flemish Movement
title: Flemish Movement
Creators: name: Everbroeck, Christine Van
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Flämische Bewegung
subject: Flemish movement--History--20th century

description: The First World War engendered a rift within the Flemish movement, with some wishing to pursue the advocacy for Flemish rights and others preferring to await the end of the war to obtain new laws. After the war, the Flemish movement broadened its base and radicalized, thus taking on a new dimension.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Flexible and provacy conserving optimal parameter tuning for large scale power systems
Creators: name: Mešanović, Amer
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Elektrische Energieübertragung
subject: 621.3

description: Reliable and secure operation of power systems becomes increasingly challenging as the share of volatile generation rises, leading to largely changing dynamics of the system. Typically, the architecture and structure of controllers in power systems, such as voltage controllers of power generators, are fixed during the design and buildup of the network. Replacing existing controllers is often undesired, challenging, or not possible at all. Setpoint adjustments, as well as tuning of the controller parameters, are possibilities to counteract large disturbances and changing dynamics which do not require changing the existing controllers. We consider approaches for fast, computationally efficient, and privacy conserving adaptation of parameters of structured controllers for large scale power systems based on H1 optimization, also referred to as structured H1 controller synthesis. The approach allows the dependency of the system model on the controller parameters to be nonlinear. Two methods for structured H1 controller synthesis are proposed, and conditions are established that guarantee that the approaches leads to stability of the closed loop system. The results are verified experimentally in a field test microgrid consisting of six inverters and a load bank, as well as multiple simulation studies. The proposed methods improve the system robustness, as well as the time-response to step disturbances and allow structured controller tuning even for large power networks. The results are compared to other methods for structured H1 synthesis, focusing on computation time and the obtained H1 norm, underlining the efficiency of the introduced methods. In addition, comparisons with approaches which introduce wide-area controllers to the system are made. It is shown that the proposed approach achieves an improved time-domain response, compared to existing wide-area control approaches. Finally, we introduce a hierarchical approach for the controller tuning, which exploits model reduction. The approach increases data privacy and scalability of the tuning, compared to centralized methods. Thereby, we derive conditions for the success of the approach and introduce a tailored approach for distributed model reduction of power systems. We apply the proposed hierarchical tuning method on the IEEE 68 bus system to show its effectiveness. We show that a similar system performance can be obtained as with a centralized method. The scalability of the approach is underlined considering a large scale power system with more than 2500 states and 1500 controller parameters. The approaches set the base for a series of future developments and can be expanded to other classes of systems, such as transport systems, water systems etc.
Chiral Structure of F-actin Bundle Formed by Multivalent Counterions?
Creators: name: Mohammadinejad, Sarah
name: Golestanian, Ramin
name: Fazli, Hossein
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism of multivalent counterion-induced bundle formation by filamentous actin (F-actin) is studied using a coarse-grained model and molecular dynamics simulation. Real diameter size, helically ordered charge distribution and twist rigidity of F-actin are taken into account in our model. The attraction between parallel F-actins induced by multivalent counterions is studied in detail and it is found that the maximum attraction occurs between their closest charged domains. The model F-actins aggregate due to the like-charge attraction and form closely packed bundles. Counterions are mostly distributed in the narrowest gaps between neighboring F-actins inside the bundles and the channels between three adjacent F-actins correspond to low density of the counterions. Density of the counterions varies periodically with a wave length comparable to the separation between consecutive G-actin monomers along the actin polymers. Long-lived defects in the hexagonal order of F-actins in the bundles are observed that their number increases with increasing the bundles size. Combination of electrostatic interactions and twist rigidity has been found not to change the symmetry of F-actin helical conformation from the native 13/6 symmetry. Calculation of zero-temperature energy of hexagonally ordered model F-actins with the charge of the counterions distributed as columns of charge domains representing counterion charge density waves has shown that helical symmetries commensurate with the hexagonal lattice correspond to local minima of the energy of the system. The global minimum of energy corresponds to 24/11 symmetry with the columns of charge domains arranged in the narrowest gaps between the neighboring F-actins.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, Published online in Soft Matter journal: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/sm/c2sm07104e
Topological isomorphisms for some universal operator algebras
Creators: name: Hartz, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47L30 (Primary) 47A13 (Secondary)

description: Let $I \subset \mathbb C[z_1,...,z_d]$ be a radical homogeneous ideal, and let $\mathcal A_I$ be the norm-closed non-selfadjoint algebra generated by the compressions of the $d$-shift on Drury-Arveson space $H^2_d$ to the co-invariant subspace $H^2_d \ominus I$. Then $\mathcal A_I$ is the universal operator algebra for commuting row contractions subject to the relations in $I$. We ask under which conditions are there topological isomorphisms between two such algebras $\mathcal A_I$ and $\mathcal A_J$? We provide a positive answer to a conjecture of Davidson, Ramsey and Shalit: $\mathcal A_I$ and $\mathcal A_J$ are topologically isomorphic if and only if there is an invertible linear map $A$ on $\mathbb C^d$ which maps the vanishing locus of $J$ isometrically onto the vanishing locus of $I$. Most of the proof is devoted to showing that finite algebraic sums of full Fock spaces over subspaces of $\mathbb C^d$ are closed. This allows us to show that the map $A$ induces a completely bounded isomorphism between $\mathcal A_I$ and $\mathcal A_J$.
description: 20 pages; two references added; to appear in the Journal of Functional Analysis
title: Independence Wars (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia)
title: Independence Wars (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia)
Creators: name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Estland
subject: Unabhängigkeitskrieg
subject: Baltic States--History--Revolution, 1917-1921

description: The so-called “Wars of Independence” in the Baltics were part of a larger conflict and continuing warfare in Eastern Europe. After the proclamations of independence and the November Armistice, national Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian armies were formed, which finally managed to push out German troops as well as “White Guards” and Bolsheviks over the course of 1919-20.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: War Losses (France)
title: War Losses (France)
Creators: name: Lafon, Alexandre
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Frankreich
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegsverlust
subject: World War, 1914-1918--France
subject: War casualties

description: When the fighting came to an end in late 1918, military losses for France were in keeping with a prolonged industrial conflict involving the loss of a huge number of combatants on extremely deadly battlefields. In this context, the way the state handled the casualties, both in actual as well as symbolic terms, rapidly proved difficult yet necessary. Coverage concerning how the state reacted in the aftermath of the war was subject to manipulation and censorship. In the years that followed the war, public and private memories focused on the final casualty count of 1,400,000 persons. This number contributed to the crystallization of tensions related to national identity. Recent research has reevaluated the number of civilian casualties resulting from the war. Though the number of civilian casualties is not as high as the number of military casualties, the recently revealed high number of civilian deaths does serve to enhance the weight of bereavement and trauma within the communities affected, thus leaving an even deeper mark on the already diverse memories of the conflict.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Paleoenvironmental variations during the Late Cambrian: implications from Zn isotopes and I/(Ca+Mg) ratios
Creators: name: Gonzalez Robacio, Luisa
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: The Upper Cambrian at the Martin Point section partially spans the coeval Tuckers Cove (Shallow Bay Formation) and the Martin Point (Green Point Formation) members of the Cow Head Group of western Newfoundland (eastern Laurentia), Canada. These units comprise alternating shale, minor conglomerate beds and limestone rhythmites of a toe-of-slope apron. Earlier studies of the C-isotope profile, based on the lime mudstone interbeds, documented global negative δ¹³ Ccarb shifts (from old to young: NL1, NL2, HERB) correlated with the lowermost Proconodontus posterocostatus, Proconodontus muelleri and base of Eoconodontus notchpeakensis conodont zones, respectively. Samples were extracted from the most micritic spots, where the micritic to near-micritic grain size (≤ 4 μm−10 μm) and fabric retention confirm petrographic preservation. Insignificant correlations of diagenetic proxies with their environmental counterparts support high degree of geochemical preservation. The zinc-isotope (δ⁶⁶Zn) signatures (0.09 – 0.73 ‰ JMC Lyon) and iodine-to-calcium-plus-magnesium (I/(Ca+Mg)) ratios (0.02 – 0.48 μmol/mol) vary consistently throughout the studied events and were employed to shed light on paleoenviromental conditions. The decrease in δ⁶⁶Zn values seems to denote inhibition of bioproductivity in a dysoxic water column, consistent with warm and humid climate during general transgressive settings and shoaling of organic matter into the shallow environment. On the contrary, slight increases in δ⁶⁶Zn (<0.8 ‰ JMC Lyon) might reflect weak bioproductivity and possible influence of carbonate weathering input during minor fluctuations (episodic falls) in sea level during the main course of the transgression. The low I/(Ca+Mg) ratios (< 0.5 μmol/mol) reinforce this interpretation, suggesting general dysoxic settings along the entire section.
Nesopupa (Afripupa) bisulcata
Creators: name: Muratov, Igor V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Vertiginidae
Nesopupa
Nesopupa bisulcata

description: Nesopupa (Afripupa) bisulcata (Jickeli, 1873)
Fig. 14
 Pupa bisulcata: Jickeli 1873: 107 (Abyssinia; 1.9×1.0 mm).
 A widespread but not very common species with a general distribution from Eritrea (type localities) to Mozambique. A single shell found on Cabo Delgado. Differs from both preceding species of Insulipupa by its smaller size and stronger angular tooth, which is almost as large as the parietal lamella.
description: Published as part of Muratov, Igor V., 2010, Terrestrial molluscs of Cabo Delgado and adjacent inland areas of north-eastern Mozambique, pp. 255 in African Invertebrates 51 (2) on page 265, DOI: 10.5733/afin.051.0203, http://zenodo.org/record/10268367
title: Freedom of the Seas
title: Freedom of the Seas
Creators: name: Young, James Leroy
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Freiheit der Meere
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Freedom of the seas
subject: World War, 1914-1918

description: “Freedom of the seas” was the early 20th century idea that the world’s oceans served as a global commons for carrying cargo and facilitating commerce. As both a communal property and throughway, the seas thus could not be controlled by any belligerent power outside of territorial waters, according to freedom of the seas.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Prisoners of War and Internees (Great Britain)
title: Prisoners of War and Internees (Great Britain)
Creators: name: Panayi, Panikos
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Großbritannien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegsgefangener
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain
subject: Prisoners of war

description: During the First World War, hundreds of thousands of men found themselves interned in Britain. These were made up of: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants, primarily soldiers from the Western Front, but also naval personnel and a few members of zeppelin crews, whose vessels fell to earth. Prisoners were interned in a large number of locations, and could spend years behind barbed wire away from families. The following article provides an outline of the history of internment in Britain during the Great War.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Polish-Soviet War 1920-1921
title: Polish-Soviet War 1920-1921
Creators: name: Centek, Jarosław
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Polnisch-Sowjetischer Krieg
subject: Russo-Polish War, 1919-1920

description: The hostilities between Bolshevik Russia and Poland started as early as 1919. In April 1920, Poland and Ukraine liberated Kiev from Bolshevik control. However, in the summer of 1919, the Bolsheviks managed to push the Poles back to the Vistula, although they were eventually defeated. The second Polish victory in the Battle of Neman finally brought the war to an end.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Eurodoc calls for immediate solutions to allow Hungarian doctoral candidates and early career researchers to participate in Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe programmes.
Creators: name: Dahle, Sebastian
name: Saugmann, Pil Maria
name: Schoch, Hannah
name: İşler, Devriş
name: Pilia, Sarah
name: Lewandowska, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc) urges the Government of Hungary to readjust its decision such that the universities' institutional autonomy is guaranteed. At the same time, Eurodoc calls on the European Union to facilitate this readjustment and to continue to support the participation of doctoral candidates and early career researchers in such key programs as Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe.
ATTITUDE AND ORAL HYGIENE PRACTICES AMONG MALAYSIA ADOLESCENTS IN RURAL SCHOOL: A COMPARISON BY GENDER
Creators: name: Nor Azizi Abu Bakar
name: Zamtira Seman
name: Norazizah Ibrahim Wong
name: Mohd Azahadi Omar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Oral hygiene; periodontal; rural

description: Introduction: Poor oral hygiene has long been recognized as a major risk factor for periodontal disease. Good oral hygiene can be defined as good hygienic practice and positive attitude of keeping the mouth healthy and clean. Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the effects of associated factors toward oral hygiene behaviour specifically on attitude and practice stratified by gender among rural school adolescents in Malaysia. Methodoloy: Data were obtained from the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2017, which implemented a two-stage stratified random sampling design. 11,598 adolescents in rural school were analysed using Complex sample logistic regression in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Results: The prevalence of good oral hygiene practice and attitude among adolescents in rural school were 63.9% and 52.6% respectively. Female had higher prevalence of good practice compared to male, (66.7%, 61.2%), but presented similar result for attitude; male (52.8%) and female (52.5%). For male, higher significant of practice found to be among Bumiputera Sarawak with AOR, 2.27 (95% CI:1.31, 3.92) and Form 3 (AOR=1.50, 95% CI:1.17, 1.92). While for attitude, significant effect among those in Form 5 (AOR=2.64, 95% CI: 1.05, 6.60) and taking milk (AOR=1.64, 95% CI:1.39, 1.92). For female, Form 5 had significantly higher effect of practice (AOR=4.90, 95% CI:1.56, 15.34) and those were Bumiputera Sarawak (AOR=4.46, 95% CI:2.34, 8.50). While for attitude, Form 3 had significantly higher with AOR, 1.27 (95% CI:1.01, 1.60) and taking milk (AOR=1.55, 95% CI:1.34, 1.79). Conclusion: This study found that Form 5, Form 3, Bumiputera Sarawak and those taking milk had significantly higher effect on practice and attitude compared to those were not. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) on August 18-20 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
The pairwise heuristic : a method for treating uncertainty in planning and robot localization
Creators: name: Khalvati, Koosha
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: One of the major challenges in the field of Artificial Intelligence is dealing with uncertainty. Finding the optimal solution in the presence of uncertainty is computationally quite costly. This makes it impossible to solve large problems. In this thesis, we propose a new heuristic, named the pairwise heuristic, which efficiently finds a near-optimal solution for such problems. The pairwise heuristic is based on optimal solutions for the pairs of states. For each pair, it solves the problem assuming that the uncertainty exists only between the two states of the pair. A greedy online strategy uses these solutions to solve the main problem. We tested the pairwise heuristic on two problems where uncertainty plays a major role, i.e., localization and planning under uncertainty. Our achievements in connection with both problems are novel in their respective fields. In the field of localization, we have developed an efficient method to localize a robot in any kind of environment in a fully autonomous way. In the field of planning under uncertainty, our method finds a near-optimal solution in a time shorter than the time required by any other current method in the field.
title: Borders (The Netherlands)
title: Borders (The Netherlands)
Creators: name: Abbenhuis, Maartje
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Niederlande
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Netherlands

description: The borders of the Netherlands were an important site of war experience for the Dutch, as well as a contested site of war interaction for the belligerents.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Tsindeliani I., Selyukov A., Kikavets V., Vershilo T., Tregubova E., Babayan O., Badmaev B., Shorin S. Transformation of the legal mechanism of taxation as a factor of influence on strategic planning of budgetary policy: Russia case study // Journal of transnational management. 2021. № 3(26). PP. 179-200.
Creators: name: Shorin, Sergey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Banking, finance and securities law
Taxation law
Public law not elsewhere classified
Finance
Public administration
Public economics - taxation and revenue
Public sector organisation and management
Information systems organisation and management

description: The article considers the global economy digitalization impact on public tax administration and analyzes the use of strategic approaches to the formation of fiscal policy in Russia in their relationship with the corresponding approaches of foreign countries. Using the comparative legal method, the study examines the issue of determining the impact of various management tools on improving the efficiency of the state budget. A macroeconomic assessment of the effectiveness of the digital tax administration is carried out and its institutional development stages are highlighted. Digital technologies ensure the taxes and other obligatory payments collection increase, reducing labor costs for tax control, and reducing an administrative burden on business. The main digital transformation approaches of the modern tax system are considered, new innovative developments and digital technologies in Russia are highlighted.
Data pre-processing for the preterm prediction study MFMU dataset
Creators: name: Vovsha, Ilia
name: Salleb-Aouissi, Ansaf
name: Radeva, Axinia
name: Raja, Anita
name: Diab, Hatim
name: Tomar, Ashish
name: Rajan, Ashwath
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics
subject: Gynecology
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Biometry

description: Preterm birth is a major public health problem with profound implications on society. There would be extreme value in being able to identify women at risk of preterm birth during the course of their pregnancy. Previous research has largely focused on individual risk factors correlated with preterm birth (e.g. prior preterm birth, race, and infection) and less on combining these factors in a way to understand the complex etiologies of preterm birth. We attempt to address this gap by conducting a deeper analysis of the preterm prediction study data collected by the NICHD Maternal Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network, a high-quality data for over 3,000 singleton pregnancies having detailed study visits and biospecimen collection at 24, 26, 28 and 30 weeks gestation. Reports from this dataset used relatively straightforward biostatitistical methodologies such as relative risk assessments to measure associations between risk factors and PTB (Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Net- work. Biostatistical Coordinating Center NICHD Networks, 1995). These methods include descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, Fisher’s exact tests and linear/logistic regression where risk factors are studied independent of each other. In order to perform detailed experiments on this data using non-linear Support Vector Machines and other machine learning (ML) methodologies, it is necessary to complete several pre-processing steps that we describe in this report.
Epidemiology and Clinical Presentation of COVID-19 Infection in Kinta District, Malaysia: One year on
Creators: name: Soon, Peter Gan Kim
name: Asraf Ahmad Qamruddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19; public health; epidemiology

description: Introduction: TheCOVID-19 infection in Malaysia has become a public health emergency that has overwhelmed the healthcare system. As of 30th July 2021, Malaysia has recorded 1,095,486 COVID-19 cases,183,706 active cases and 8,859 deaths (1). The trend of transmission is essential for public health intervention to combat this pandemic. The aim of the study is to determine the epidemiology of COVID-19 transmission in Kinta and identify symptomatic COVID-19 profiles for early diagnosis. Method: Retrospective review of all COVID-19 confirmed cases registered by the Kinta Health District between March 2020 to March 2021. Kinta district comprises of 8 smaller sub-districts and is the most populated district in the state of Perak. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and Pearson's chi-squared tests to compare the sociodemographic and medical characteristics in the 2nd and 3rd wave of the COVID-19 infection. The second wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in Malaysia began on 27th February 2020 to 19th September 2020 (2). The third wave of the epidemic continued from 20th September 2021 till the present day (3). Ethical approval was obtained from the Medical Research and Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health Malaysia. Results: 3051 confirmed cases were registered between March 2020 to March 2021. The most common infected individuals were between the ages of 18-40 years old, male, Malay, and history of close contact with confirmed cases. The medical characteristics that were statistically significant between the 2nd and 3rd waves were cigarette smoking, cough, coryza, shortness of breath, anosmia, ageusia and headache. Discussion: The majority of the confirmed COVID-19 cases were asymptomatic indicates that the public health approach of tracing, testing isolating and supporting close contacts is effective in containing the transmission of the infection. It highlights the importance of identifying the transmission pattern in the community to manage the outbreak effectively. There is a need to provide continuous health promotion and education is central to break the chain of infection.
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) on August 18-20 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Maximum-entropy method applied to micro- and nanolasers
Creators: name: Melcher, Boris
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantenoptik
subject: nichtlineare Optik
subject: 530

description: During the last decades, the principle of maximum entropy established itself as a fundamental principle of consistent reasoning and hence has been successfully applied in many fields inside and outside of physics. Whenever only partial information is available it is an ideal tool to derive full statistical distributions or, in the case of quantum-mechanical descriptions, the full density matrix in a least-biased manner by exactly reproducing the given a-priori information while being maximally non-committal otherwise. In this thesis the maximum-entropy method is applied to the context of micro- and nanolasers. While tremendous improvements concerning the miniaturization and efficiency of these lasers have been achieved in the recent years, their light is still most often characterized in terms of the first statistical moments of the photon-number distribution, e.g., the light intensity and auto-correlation function. Lately, however, direct measurement of the full photon distribution became available experimentally, and theoretically its availability is highly desirable since it contains the full information about the system and therefore enables a deeper insight into the underlying physical processes. The application of the maximum-entropy method in this work is threefold. Firstly, a birthdeath model that describes the interaction of a cavity light-field with a quantum-dot system is considered as a benchmark. The full photon-number distribution which is available via conventional methods here is compared to the maximum-entropy distributions that are obtained when known photon moment values are used as input information. Secondly, a combination of the maximum-entropy method and equation-of-motion approaches is proposed where output quantities of the latter are used as input for the former. Apart from the access to the full photon-number distribution, the method also provides the possibility to define an unambiguous threshold even for cases where usual definitions fail. Lastly, the maximum-entropy method is used as a stand-alone approach without the need for moment values from external sources. Instead, knowledge of the stationarity of several distinct observables is used as an input to derive the least biased steady state. By doing so, the many-particle hierarchy problem that arises in conventional equation-of-motion techniques is circumvented. Moreover, the numerical determination of the full density matrix is enabled and access to all relevant expectation values and the full statistics is obtained. The results are compared to the numerically exact solution of the von Neumann-Lindblad equation for a four-level system resonantly coupled to a single cavity mode. Moreover, usage of the maximum-entropy method as a trial-and-error approach to identify the relevant processes of quantum systems is exemplified.
title: War Requirement Acts
title: War Requirement Acts
Creators: name: Pogány, Ágnes
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Österreich-Ungarn
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Economic aspects--Austria

description: The War Requirements Acts were passed in Austria-Hungary in 1912. They placed military requisitions under parliamentary control and helped the army to obtain the most needed products and services during wartime in a more organized way.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Spectral structure of digit sets of self-similar tiles on ${Bbb R}^1$
Creators: name: Lai, Chun-Kit
name: Lau, Ka-Sing
name: Rao, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the structure of the digit sets ${\mathcal D}$ for the integral self-similar tiles $T(b,{\mathcal{D}})$ (we call such ${\mathcal D}$ a {\it tile digit set} with respect to $b$). So far the only available classes of such tile digit sets are the complete residue sets and the product-forms. Our investigation here is based on the spectrum of the mask polynomial $P_{\mathcal D}$, i.e., the zeros of $P_{\mathcal D}$ on the unit circle. By using the Fourier criteria of self-similar tiles of Kenyon and Protasov, as well as the algebraic techniques of cyclotomic polynomial, we characterize the tile digit sets through some product of cyclotomic polynomials (kernel polynomials), which is a generalization of the product-form to higher order.
Exploration on Just Noticeable Difference of Amplitude for Surface Shape Perception in a VE through Haptic Interactions
Creators: name: Huang, Jing
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: JND, haptic interactions, surface discriminations, VE
subject: Engineering

description: Human ability to perceive surface shapes plays a crucial role in understanding their surrounding objects and environments. Although the sense of vision has been employed frequently for virtual shape perception, it is desirable to enhance performance of shape perception in the three-dimensional (3D) virtual environments (VEs) by providing haptic feedback. To explore how well the human ability is to discriminate surface shapes under haptic feedback, the experiment presented in this thesis applied a novel force model, which was created by our research lab, to distinguish four kinds of sinusoidal virtual surfaces, which have various amplitudes differing from a flat surface. The main finding is that Just Noticeable Difference (JND) range of amplitude was around 1.19 - 1.95 mm for distinguishing sinusoidal virtual surfaces from flat ones. This finding quantifies the human ability to discriminate virtual surfaces, and may contribute to fundamental knowledge for creating applications with haptic interactions.
Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 31, Fall 2020
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: syntax
subject: phonology
subject: morphology
subject: language acquisition
subject: Persian
subject: Farsi
subject: Kaqchikel
subject: Khmer
subject: Turkish
subject: Serbian
subject: Thai
subject: Arabic

description: The editors of this issue, Adam D. Daniel, Brett C. Nelson, Dušan Nikolić, Metehan Oguz, and Kang Xu, are pleased to present the thirty-first issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the Department of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Calgary. The papers published here represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive.
title: Gouraud, Henri
title: Gouraud, Henri
Creators: name: D'Andurain, Julie
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Gouraud, Henri
subject: Gouraud, Henri, 1867-1946

description: Henri Gouraud was one of the most important French generals during the First World War, commanding on the Western Front and in the Dardanelles. Prior to World War I, he served as an officer with the French colonial troops.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Camouflage
title: Camouflage
Creators: name: Coutin, Cécile
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Tarnung
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: Camouflage (Military science)

description: A technique of concealment and protection, a means to deceive but not kill, camouflage was significantly developed during the First World War. The technique enabled many artists to put their talents at the service of their countries.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Knowledge, Attitude, Practice (KAP) Studies on the Antibiotic Usage Pattern among Patients and Caregivers in Outpatient Pharmacy, Sibu Hospital
Creators: name: LAU Sie Chai,
name: SIONG Jude Yip Kiong,
name: WONG Eric Kwang Yiik,
name: ISA'ALI Mohd Taha Ariff,
name: ONG Ying Ying
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Antibiotic resistance; Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP)

description: Introduction: The spread of antibiotic resistance as a result of inappropriate antibiotic use has emerged as a growing problem globally. Substantial evidence has shown that general public played a pivotal role in the increase and spread of antibiotic resistance. Objective: To assess the KAP of local public towards antibiotic use. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was performed using a validated questionnaire on a sample of 318 randomly selected individuals among the patients and caregivers in Outpatient Pharmacy Department (OPD) of Sibu Hospital. The KAP on antibiotic usage pattern of these individuals were studied. Results: Nearly half of the respondents (42.1%) claimed that they have been prescribed with antibiotics within the past 12 months from the study period, and 25.2% of them did not finish the antibiotic course. Up to 46.8% of the respondents incorrectly thought that antibiotics can be used against virus. Majority of them correctly agreed on the statements related to antibiotic side effects and resistance. More than half of the respondents expressed positive attitude on antibiotic usage and almost all agreed that pharmacists and doctors often tell them how antibiotics should be used. They also trust the doctors' decision on antibiotic prescribing. Discussion / Conclusion: Despite serious antibiotic misconception, our outpatient respondents generally displayed high trust to doctors’ antibiotic prescribing, good treatment compliancy and low rate of antibiotic self-medication. Ministry of Health can work hand in hand with Ministry of Education to instil antibiotic knowledge into our future generations while doctors and pharmacists can educate the existing patients on the rationale and importance of proper antibiotic usage. Empowering patients help to change attitudes and behaviour on antibiotic usage. This, in turn, may help to control the development and spread of antibiotic resistance.
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) on August 18-20 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/