cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Influence of the Gould Belt on Interstellar Extinction
Creators: name: Gontcharov, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new analytical 3D model of interstellar extinction within 500 pc of the Sun as a function of the Galactic spherical coordinates is suggested. This model is physically more justified than the widely used Arenou model, since it takes into account the presence of absorbing matter both in the layer along the equatorial Galactic plane and in the Gould Belt. The extinction in the equatorial layer varies as the sine of the Galactic longitude and in the Gould Belt as the sine of twice the longitude in the Belt plane. The extinction across the layers varies according to a barometric law. It has been found that the absorbing layers intersect at an angle of 17 deg and that the Sun is located near the axial plane of the absorbing layer of the Gould Belt and is probably several parsecs below the axial plane of the equatorial absorbing layer but above the Galactic plane. The model has been tested using the extinction of real stars from three catalogs.
description: 8 figures, 1 table
Il magico potere degli antibiotici
Creators: name: Mognetti, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: -

description: Ieri Pippi è tornata da scuola molto stanca e con un gran mal di gola. La mamma si è insospettita e le ha misurato la temperatura; e il termometro ha indicato che la temperatura del corpo di Pippi era salita a 39 gradi, quindi aveva la febbre! La mamma le ha dato una medicina, e la temperatura è scesa un po’, e anche il mal di gola sembrava passato, ma dopo poche ore la febbre è risalita e il mal di gola è tornato. I genitori di Pippi allora hanno telefonato al pediatra, che ha consigliato loro di accompagnarla in un ospedale per bambini. In ospedale, una dottoressa gentile e con un orsetto disegnato sul camice ha visitato Pippi, le ha misurato la febbre e le ha guardato la gola con una lucina speciale, e poi le ha prelevato un po’ di sangue dal braccio per analizzarlo. Dopo poco, la dottoressa è tornata e ha detto che nel corpo di Pippi erano entrati dei batteri (a volte succede), delle specie di animaletti piccolissimi che non si possono vedere a occhio nudo ma che possono provocare delle malattie, che si chiamano infezioni batteriche. Continua a leggere....
Discovering containment: from infants to machines
Creators: name: Ullman, Shimon
name: Dorfman, Nimrod
name: Harari, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current artificial learning systems can recognize thousands of visual categories, or play Go at a champion"s level, but cannot explain infants learning, in particular the ability to learn complex concepts without guidance, in a specific order. A notable example is the category of 'containers' and the notion of containment, one of the earliest spatial relations to be learned, starting already at 2.5 months, and preceding other common relations (e.g., support). Such spontaneous unsupervised learning stands in contrast with current highly successful computational models, which learn in a supervised manner, that is, by using large data sets of labeled examples. How can meaningful concepts be learned without guidance, and what determines the trajectory of infant learning, making some notions appear consistently earlier than others?
Spalling mechanism for spur gears
Creators: name: Ding., Yan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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A universal wear particle code system for differentiating wear severity levels of lubricated tribosystems
Creators: name: Ding., Guangjian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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First integrals of the axisymmetric shape equation of lipid membranes
Creators: name: Zhang, Y. H.
name: McDargh, Z.
name: Tu, Z. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The shape equation of lipid membranes [Zhong-can and Helfrich(1987) PRL 59 2486] is a fourth-order partial differential equation. Under the axisymmetric condition, this equation was transformed into a second-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) by Zheng and Liu [Zheng and Liu(1993) PRE 48 2856]. Here we try to further reduce this second-order ODE to a first-order ODE by seeking for first integrals according to the Noether theorem. We indeed find a first integral when the second-order ODE is invariant under conformation transformations. We obtain the mechanical interpretation of the first integral by using the membrane stress tensor.
Bescheinigung (1937-07-21)
Creators: name: Universität Bern
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Universities and colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1161597
subject: Medical colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1013952

description: Certificate attesting that Siegfried Preuss has passed an abbreviated doctoral exam for German students. States that Preuss is very hardworking and conscientious. Issued and signed by the Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern.
Design and Construction of Tunnels in Ethiopia: Lessons Learned from the Case of Gilgel Gibe III Hydropower Tunnels
Creators: name: Tayachew, Melisew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Tunnels are long linear undertakings with few opportunities to perform the work at more than one location. Tunnels are also a series of repetitive operations each of which usually must be finished before the next can be started. Tunnel engineering makes possible many vital underwater and underground facilities. Unique design and construction techniques are involved because of the necessity of protecting the constructors and users of these facilities from alien environments. In Ethiopia, tunnelling has been recently practiced only for one of the utility tunnels, i.e., hydropower tunnels. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the design and construction approaches of the GG III hydropower tunnels, and to generate lessons which could be applied for proper design and construction for future tunnels in Ethiopia. To achieve the objectives, efforts were made to evaluate the design and construction approaches, including literature review, geological, hydrogeological and geotechnical investigation reports, design reports, method statements, various pictures and drawings, challenges and remedial work reports, site visit and interviews. In this research the author has found design and construction problems related to the applied rock mass classification system. The problems in the design include: using inappropriate GSI values which lead to uneconomical primary support design and inconsideration of stand-up time (one of the design parameters). The problems in the construction include: using incorrect construction procedures of NATM, installation of improper ground excavation supports, and no installation of instrumentations and drainage holes (in the diversion tunnels). Due to these problems, rock and shotcrete wedges failure occurred at various locations of power and diversion tunnels, and a tunnel section collapsed in the central diversion tunnel. A worker has been lost due to the rock wedges failure in the manifold of the right power tunnel. Due to the collapsed tunnel section, the unexpected quantity and various types of rock supports, ground improvement materials, various construction techniques, a construction of additional 63.25m access tunnel (adit), etc. are used in the remedial works. The remedial works took almost nine months, from May 2007 to February 2008. As a result of this collapsed section, the construction cost and the construction time of the project obviously increased. Due to lack of proper design of the primary supports in the project, the author has performed the proper design of ground excavation primary supports using up-to-date Q-support design method.
Visualization of all two-qubit states via partial-transpose-moments
Creators: name: Zhang, Lin
name: Shen, Yi
name: Xiang, Hua
name: Qian, Quan
name: Li, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Efficiently detecting entanglement based on measurable quantities is a basic problem for quantum information processing. Recently, the measurable quantities called partial-transpose (PT)-moments have been proposed to detect and characterize entanglement. In the recently published paper [L. Zhang \emph{et al.}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.202200289}{Ann. Phys.(Berlin) \textbf{534}, 2200289 (2022)}], we have already identified the 2-dimensional (2D) region, comprised of the second and third PT-moments, corresponding to two-qubit entangled states, and described the whole region for all two-qubit states. In the present paper, we visualize the 3D region corresponding to all two-qubit states by further involving the fourth PT-moment (the last one for two-qubit states). The characterization of this 3D region can finally be achieved by optimizing some polynomials. Furthermore, we identify the dividing surface which separates the two parts of the whole 3D region corresponding to entangled and separable states respectively. Due to the measurability of PT-moments, we obtain a complete and operational criterion for the detection of two-qubit entanglement.
description: 29 pages, LaTeX, 8 figures, 2 tables
Examination certificate (1935)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Medical colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1013952
subject: Universities and colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1161597

description: Certificate attesting that Siegfried Preuss has passed a medical exam and is now eligible for a year-long internship. Back of page lists regulations for doctors.
A case against an X-shaped structure in the Milky Way young bulge
Creators: name: Lopez-Corredoira, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CONTEXT. A number of recent papers have claimed the discovery of an X-shape structure in the bulge of our Galaxy in the population of the red clumps. AIMS. We endeavor to analyze the stellar density of bulge stars in the same regions using a different stellar population that is characteristic of the young bulge ($\lesssim 5$ Gyr). Particularly, we use F0-F5 main-sequence stars with distances derived through photometric parallax. METHODS. We extract these stars from extinction-corrected color-magnitude diagrams in the near-infrared of VISTA-VVV data in some bulge regions and calculate the densities along the line of sight. We take the uncertaintity in the photometric parallax and the contamination of other sources into account, and we see that these errors do not avoid the detection of a possible double peak along some lines of sight as expected for a X-shape bulge if it existed. RESULTS. Only a single peak in the density distribution along the line of sight is observed, so apparently there is no X-shape structure for this population of stars. Nonetheless, the effects of the dispersion of absolute magnitudes in the selected population might be an alternative explanation, although in principle these effects are insufficient to explain this lack of double peak according to our calculations. CONCLUSIONS. The results of the present paper do not demonstrate that previous claims of X-shaped bulge using only red clump stars are incorrect, but there are apparently some puzzling questions if we want to maintain the validity of both the red-clump results and the results of this paper.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, accepted to be published in A&A
Problems of optimal economic operation and control of integrated (hydro-thermal) and thermal power systems
Creators: name: Dillon., Tharam Singh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Monetary policy rules and economic shocks in the DSGE Models of Sub-Saharan economies
Creators: name: Ahmed, Alkader
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The objective of the study is to explain the applicability of the monetary policy rule of the kind widely used in the standard DSGE models to the DSGE models of SSA economies. It also attempted to analyze the relative importance of the domestic and external source of economic shocks as well as the impact of some selected shocks on macroeconomic variables of SSA economies using a DSGE model. The results are the following: first, in response to the baseline structural shocks, the monetary aggregate rule better explains SSA economies than the Taylor type interest rate rule. To put differently, the simple Taylor interest rate rule needs modification to apply it in the DSGE model of SSA economies. Second, the study shows that both internal and external economic shocks are responsible for macroeconomic fluctuations in SSA countries, however, the study found that external economic shocks are importance vis-à-vis the domestic economic shocks. Third, in most economic shocks which are used by the study, price of imported goods and exchange rate appreciation or depreciation are the major determinant of the inflation pressure in SSA economies. Moreover, currency depreciation does not promote export, and domestic energy supply shock creates higher inflation and demand in the economy. In this paper, it is recommended that in modeling the monetary policy rules in macroeconomic models of sub-Saharan economies, incorporating the monetary base instrument and external influence on the monetary management of such economies is essential
Mitteilung (1934-04-25)
Creators: name: Jewish Hospital In Breslau
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Universities and colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1161597
subject: Medical colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1013952
subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Jewish hospitals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1739255

description: Memo from the Jewish Hospital in Breslau attesting that Siegfried Preuss participated in work at the surgical division for certain given dates. Issued by the Jewish Hospital in Wroclaw. Signature unclear.
Artificial neural network models for automated freeway incident detection
Creators: name: Dia., Hussein Fawzi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Peculiar properties of Cr$_3$As$_3$-chain-based superconductors
Creators: name: Cao, Guang-Han
name: Bao, Jin-Ke
name: Tang, Zheng-Tu
name: Liu, Yi
name: Jiang, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $A_2$Cr$_3$As$_3$ ($A$ = K, Rb, Cs) are the unique Cr-based ambient-pressure superconductors to date discovered by serendipity in 2015. The new superconducting family are structurally characterized by quasi one-dimensional [(Cr$_3$As$_3$)$^{2-}$]$_{\infty}$ double-walled subnanotubes, which exhibit peculiar properties that mostly point to unconventional superconductivity. In this conference paper, we first describe how the superconductors were discovered. Then we overview the recent progresses on crystal structure, electronic structures, theoretical models, and various physical properties in $A_2$Cr$_3$As$_3$. Some new experimental results are included. Finally we conclude by addressing the related open questions in this emerging subfield of superconductivity.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures and 1 table, submitted to Philosophical Magzine
Determinants of Profitability of Ethiopian Airlines
Creators: name: Solomon, Kirubel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of the study is to show factors that determine Ethiopian Airlines profitability. The dependent variable profit was regressed against the independent variables load, yield on the demand side and available seat kilometer (ASK), labor cost, fuel cost, maintenance cost, renting or leasing cost on the supply side to show which factor determine profitability. The study used explanatory research design and the model used was error correction model to show the impact of the independent variables on the dependent variable in the short run and long run. The study used annual secondary data from 1987-2014 which was obtained from Ethiopian airlines statistics office. The data was analyzed using time series econometrics methodology. The analysis is done by using E-views. The result revealed that the demand side variables have large contribution over the supply side variables by affecting Ethiopian Airlines profitability positively. Load and yield have a great contribution in the short run while ASK has a great contribution in the long run. Finally, it is recommended that the airline should have more concern to the demand side which greatly contributes to their profitability as compared to supply side.
New infinite family of regular edge-isoperimetric graphs
Creators: name: Bezrukov, Sergei L.
name: Bulatovic, Pavle
name: Kuzmanovski, Nikola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a new infinite family of regular graphs admitting nested solutions in the edge-isoperimetric problem for all their Cartesian powers. The obtained results include as special cases most of previously known results in this area.
Theory of finite periodic systems: The eigenfunctions symmetries
Creators: name: Pereyra, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the analytical expressions for the genuine eigenfunctions $φ_{μν}(z)$ and eigenvalues $E_{μ,ν}$, of open, bounded and quasi-bounded finite periodic systems, we derive the eigenfunctions space-inversion symmetry relations. The superlattice eigenfunctions symmetries, closely related with the symmetries and zeros of the Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind $U_n$, are fully written in terms of the number of unit cells $n$, the subband index $μ$ and the intra-subband index $ν$.
description: 10 pages, 14 figures
Assessment of Postoperative Paediatrics Pain Management Practice of Nurses in Government Hospitals of Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Beshir, Amina
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Background: Pain in children is often overlooked mainly due to their inability to communicate rightly their feelings to the caregivers. Postoperative pain is one of the pains which children suffer due to various reasons but not limited to poor health practices or lack of knowledge on the consequences by nurses and other health care professionals. The causes and effects associated with knowledge and attitude in post-operative pain management of children in Ethiopia is inadequately addressed and not well documented. Objective: To assess post-operative paediatrics pain management practice of nurses in government hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2015. Methods: Institutional based quantitative cross-sectional study design was implemented from April to May 2015 .The study population were selected from four governmental public hospitals with a sample size of 210 nurses. Data was collected using structured self-administered, questionnaire. After analysis frequency and percentages were used to summarize the finding and significance of determinant factors were tested using Logistic regression and Odds Ratio & P< 0.05 was considered significant. Result: The results of the study showed that 49.5% of nurses" postoperative pain management practice was at moderate level, 2.9% and 47.6% of nurses had good and poor practice of postoperative pain management respectively. Regarding their knowledge and attitude the result showed nurses had moderate level of knowledge and negative attitude towards postoperative pain management. It was found that factors attitude, knowledge, education, service year, pain management contents included in nursing curriculum and training were found significantly associated to postoperative paediatrics pain management practice with <0.05 P- value. Conclusion: Majority of the nurses in the study had moderate levels of postoperative pain management practice of children. It was also found that factors other than age, gender, paediatric assessment tool, and guide line and drug availability had an important impact on to postoperative paediatrics pain management practice. Recommendation: This study recommends development of mechanism to provide nurse in- service training on post-operative pain management of children, including pain management and incorporate content into the nursing curriculum promoting paediatric nurses educational level. Key words:- Pain, postoperative pain, children, paediatric nurses, practice, knowledge, attitude
The non-linear inverse problem of force identification
Creators: name: D'Cruz., Jonathon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Tensionless Superstrings: View from the Worldsheet
Creators: name: Bagchi, Arjun
name: Chakrabortty, Shankhadeep
name: Parekh, Pulastya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this brief note, we show that the residual symmetries that arise in the analysis of the tensionless superstrings in the equivalent of the conformal gauge is (a trivial extension of) the recently discovered 3d Super Bondi-Metzner-Sachs algebra, discussed in the context of asymptotic symmetries of 3d Supergravity in flat-spacetimes. This helps us uncover a limiting approach to the construction of the tensionless superstring from the point of view of the worldsheet, analogous to the one we had adopted earlier for the closed tensionless bosonic string.
description: 23 pages
Locally Enhanced and Tunable Optical Chirality in Helical Metamaterials
Creators: name: Gutsche, Philipp
name: Mäusle, Raquel
name: Burger, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a numerical study of optical chirality. Intertwined gold helices illuminated with plane waves concentrate right and left circularly polarized electromagnetic field energy to sub-wavelength regions. These spots of enhanced chirality can be smoothly shifted in position and magnitude by varying illumination parameters, allowing for the control of light-matter interactions on a nanometer scale.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Determinants of Trade in Services in Africa: A Gravity Model Approach
Creators: name: Tedla, Michael
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Despite its stage of infancy, trade in services in Africa is expected to improve the poor portfolio and destination diversification. In order this to happen, there is a need to study the determinants and the directions of Africa's service trade. This paper intends to study the factors that affect the bilateral trade in services using a gravity model approach for a 5 year data spanning from 2003-2007. The finding of this research reveals that GDP per capita and total labor force of the African nations and their partnering nations positively affect the trade in services. An improved access to the internet also promotes the trade in services in Africa. Contrary to this, devaluation affects the service trade negatively. Land-locked African nations have lower participation than that of the costal nations. In relation to this distance has also a negative impact on service. The effects if land lockedness and distance between the capital cities of the partnering nations are reflected through the low level of GDP that land locked nations experience as a result of their poor trade performance as a whole. The other interesting finding is that the trade direction of the African nations is with their ex-colonial masters, captured through the effect of the variables called colonial history and common language.
Elastic post-buckling behaviour of isolated and stiffened plates in the large deflection range
Creators: name: Dayawansa., Peduru Hewa
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Stochastic pure state representation for open quantum systems
Creators: name: Diósi, Lajos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the usual master equation formalism of Markovian open quantum systems is completely equivalent to a certain state vector formalism. The state vector of the system satisfies a given frictional Schrödinger equation except for random instant transitions of discrete nature. Hasse's frictional Hamiltonian is recovered for the damped harmonic oscillator.
description: 9pp, Modern title would be: Jump quantum trajectories of stochastic unravelling all (not necessarily CP) master equations
Assessment of Breast Cancer Knowledge and Practice of Breast Self - Examination Among Female Students In Madawalabu University, Bale, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Kasahun, Fetene
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Background: Breast cancer is a disease of public health importance. It results in high morbidity and mortality in women worldwide. Breast examination as a screening tool for breast cancer in developing countries is advocated in view of its cost-effectiveness. Early detection of breast cancer using breast self-examination (BSE) plays an important role in decreasing its morbidity and mortality. Objective: To assess breast cancer awareness and practice of breast self-examination among female students in Madawalabu University Bale, Ethiopia, 2014 Methods: Cross-sectional study design was employed from December –June, 2014 in Madawalabu University. First the students were divided in to two practical strata, which are health science students and non-health science students. From each stratum, participants were selected by simple random sampling based on the proportion of the number of female students in each stratum that was 39 health science students and 383 non- health science students. Self administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data were entered with Epi Info version 3.5.1 and analyzed using SPSS statistical package version 16.0. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed. Result: This study found that only [31.0%] of students had awareness about breast cancer and [15.5%] practiced BSE. The three main reasons for not doing BSE were belief that there is no problem with their breast [50.8%], not knowing the technique of BSE [40.0%], and Lack of privacy [15%]. Awareness about breast cancer and got information about BSE by health professionals were found significantly associated with practice of BSE. Respondents in the health related disciplines were six times more likely to practice BSE than other respondents. Conclusion: Awareness of breast cancer and BSE practice was found low in this study. Having information on the importance of BSE was predictor of BSE practice
ECFAS Platform architecture and design document, Deliverable 6.1 - ECFAS Project (GA 101004211), www.ecfas.eu
Creators: name: Sylvain, M.
name: Dufau, C.
name: Fauny, O.
name: Granier, N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: back-end
front-end
architecture
DIAS

description: The European Copernicus Coastal Flood Awareness System (ECFAS) project will contribute to the evolution of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (https://emergency.copernicus.eu/) by demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of a European Coastal Flood Awareness System. Specifically, ECFAS will provide a much-needed solution to bolster coastal resilience to climate risk and reduce population and infrastructure exposure by monitoring and supporting disaster preparedness, two factors that are fundamental to damage prevention and recovery if a storm hits. The ECFAS Proof-of-Concept development will run from January 2021-December 2022. The ECFAS project is a collaboration between Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS di Pavia (Italy, ECFAS Coordinator), Mercator Ocean International (France), Planetek Hellas (Greece), Collecte Localisation Satellites (France), Consorzio Futuro in Ricerca (Italy), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), University of the Aegean (Greece), and EurOcean (Portugal), and is funded by the European Commission H2020 Framework Programme within the call LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020 - Copernicus evolution: research activities in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme The deliverables will have restricted access at least until the end of ECFAS Description of the containing files. This document describes the ECFAS platform back-end architecture from the building to its deployment on to a DIAS (Data and Information Access Services) using cloud ready technology using adapted technologies (Kubernetes, dockers). One big challenge for building the ECFAS PoC is the integration of all algorithms developed within different work packages and partners using different informatic languages. The document also constitutes a guideline for the ECFAS partners. Disclaimer: ECFAS partners provide the data "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind. The ECFAS partners shall not be held liable resulting from the use of the information and data provided. This project has received funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101004211
Examination certificate
Creators: name: Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Medical colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1013952
subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Universities and colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1161597

description: Certificate attesting that Siegfried Preuss has passed a medical exam and is now eligible for a year-long internship. Issued by the Medical Examination Board in Breslau. Signed by the chairman.
Assessment of Employees' Perceptions on the Practices of Employee Performance Evaluation and Its Challenges : The Case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE)
Creators: name: Assefa, Alemayehu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The study mainly focussed on the assessment of employees' perceptions on the practice of employees' performance evaluation and its challenges the case of commercial bank of Ethiopia (CBE) .For the population, employees of the bank who are working in Addis Ababa region are considered. A descriptive survey design has been used to reach on the desired outcome and sample of 423 employees were used to distribute the respective questionnaires and 92.43% of it are responded. The data is analysed using simple descriptive statistical tools such as mean, mode of frequency distribution and percentage with the help of a software known as SPSS software. Accordingly, the majority of the respondents have responded that the performance evaluation system of the Bank is more of controlling than coaching and developmental. That is focusing on controlling aspect only which is short term in nature instead of being future oriented and focused on long term developmental benefits. Finally, on the basis of the findings, possible conclusions and recommendations are given which can solve problems which were discovered in this study.
ECFAS Platform architecture and design document, Deliverable 6.1 - ECFAS Project (GA 101004211), www.ecfas.eu
Creators: name: Sylvain, M.
name: Dufau, C.
name: Fauny, O.
name: Granier, N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: back-end
front-end
architecture
DIAS

description: The European Copernicus Coastal Flood Awareness System (ECFAS) project will contribute to the evolution of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (https://emergency.copernicus.eu/) by demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of a European Coastal Flood Awareness System. Specifically, ECFAS will provide a much-needed solution to bolster coastal resilience to climate risk and reduce population and infrastructure exposure by monitoring and supporting disaster preparedness, two factors that are fundamental to damage prevention and recovery if a storm hits. The ECFAS Proof-of-Concept development will run from January 2021-December 2022. The ECFAS project is a collaboration between Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS di Pavia (Italy, ECFAS Coordinator), Mercator Ocean International (France), Planetek Hellas (Greece), Collecte Localisation Satellites (France), Consorzio Futuro in Ricerca (Italy), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), University of the Aegean (Greece), and EurOcean (Portugal), and is funded by the European Commission H2020 Framework Programme within the call LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020 - Copernicus evolution: research activities in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme The deliverables will have restricted access at least until the end of ECFAS Description of the containing files. This document describes the ECFAS platform back-end architecture from the building to its deployment on to a DIAS (Data and Information Access Services) using cloud ready technology using adapted technologies (Kubernetes, dockers). One big challenge for building the ECFAS PoC is the integration of all algorithms developed within different work packages and partners using different informatic languages. The document also constitutes a guideline for the ECFAS partners. Disclaimer: ECFAS partners provide the data "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind. The ECFAS partners shall not be held liable resulting from the use of the information and data provided. This project has received funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101004211
Should the advanced measurement approach be replaced with the standardized measurement approach for operational risk?
Creators: name: Peters, Gareth W.
name: Shevchenko, Pavel V.
name: Hassani, Bertrand
name: Chapelle, Ariane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Recently, Basel Committee for Banking Supervision proposed to replace all approaches, including Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA), for operational risk capital with a simple formula referred to as the Standardised Measurement Approach (SMA). This paper discusses and studies the weaknesses and pitfalls of SMA such as instability, risk insensitivity, super-additivity and the implicit relationship between SMA capital model and systemic risk in the banking sector. We also discuss the issues with closely related operational risk Capital-at-Risk (OpCar) Basel Committee proposed model which is the precursor to the SMA. In conclusion, we advocate to maintain the AMA internal model framework and suggest as an alternative a number of standardization recommendations that could be considered to unify internal modelling of operational risk. The findings and views presented in this paper have been discussed with and supported by many OpRisk practitioners and academics in Australia, Europe, UK and USA, and recently at OpRisk Europe 2016 conference in London.
Assessment Of Current Solid Waste Logistics System Related To Sold Waste Management: The Case Of Kirkos Subcity, Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Admassu, Tamiru
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Solid waste, which is a consequence of day-to-day activity of human kind, needs to be managed properly. Addis Ababa City, like other cities in developing countries, faces problems associated with poorly managed solid waste operation& logistics. This study concerns about assessment of the city's current municipal solid waste management& logistics system problems. The survey was conducted inKirkossub city in Addis Ababa. Different sampling methods were employed to select the study units including: Random sampling, observation and purposive sampling. Both qualitative quantitative &data werecollected, it was information collected through survey and secondary sources also used. The study discovered that there is low performance of SWM in the sub city mainly due to: lack of properly designed collection system and time schedule, inadequate and malfunctioning operation equipment, throwingof refuse to the nearby rivers, poor condition of the final dumpsite , absence recycling, absence of waste recovery, practice of energy option, waste separation andcomposting are among the management challenges facing the sub city. Finally, the study forwarded some important recommendations towards improving the waste management practices
What Is the Source of Quiet Sun Transition Region Emission?
Creators: name: Schmit, Donald
name: De Pontieu, Bart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dating back to the first observations of the on-disk corona, there has been a qualitative link between the photosphere's magnetic network and enhanced transition-temperature plasma emission. These observations led to the development of a general model that describes emission structures through the partitioning of the atmospheric volume with different magnetic loop geometries that exhibit different energetic equilibria. Does the internetwork produce transition-temperature emission? What fraction of network flux connects to the corona? How does quiet sun emission compare with low-activity Sun-like stars? In this work, we revisit the canonical model of the quiet sun, with high-resolution observations from IRIS and HMI in hand, to address those questions. We use over 900 deep exposures of Si IV 1393A from IRIS along with nearly simultaneous HMI magnetograms to quantify the correlation between transition-temperature emission structures and magnetic field concentrations through a number of novel statistics. Our observational results are coupled with analysis of the Bifrost MHD model and a large-scale potential field model. Our results paint a complex portrait of the quiet sun. We measure an emission signature in the distant internetwork that cannot be attributed to network contribution. We find that the dimmest regions of emission are not linked to the local vertical magnetic field. Using the MHD simulation, we categorize the emission contribution from cool mid-altitude loops and high-altitude coronal loops and discuss the potential emission contribution of spicules. Our results provide new constraints on the coupled solar atmosphere so that we can build on our understanding of how dynamic thermal and magnetic structures generate the observed phenomena in the transition region.
description: accepted by ApJ
Triple junction benchmark | CHiMaD Phase-field XV
Creators: name: Daubner, Simon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The presentation "Triple junction benchmark" was delivered at the CHiMaD Phase-Field Workshop XV in August 2023
description: {"references": ["Daubner et. al. 2023, Triple junction benchmark for multiphase-field and multi-order parameter models, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2022.111995"]}
Measurement of forest soil hydraulic properties : implications for physically based catchment models
Creators: name: Davis., Sharon
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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Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and the minimum message length principle : application and use
Creators: name: Davidson., Ian N.P.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
EBL Constraints Using a Sample of TeV Gamma-Ray Emitters Measured with the MAGIC Telescopes
Creators: name: Mazin, D.
name: Domínguez, A.
name: Ramazani, V. Fallah
name: Hassan, T.
name: Moralejo, A.
name: Rosillo, M. Nievas
name: Vanzo, G.
name: Acosta, M. Vázquez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MAGIC is a stereoscopic system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes operating in the very high energy (VHE) range from about 50 GeV to over 50 TeV. The VHE gamma-ray spectra measured at Earth carry an imprint of the extragalactic background light (EBL) and can be used to study the EBL density and its evolution in time. In the last few years, precision measurements of several blazars in the redshift range from z=0.03 up to z=0.9 were performed with MAGIC obtaining strong limits on the EBL density from single sources. In this paper, we present the results from a combined likelihood analysis using this broad redshift range sample of blazars allowing us to probe the EBL at different wavelengths. The implications on the EBL models and perspectives for future observations with MAGIC are also discussed.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the 6th International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2016), July 11-15, 2016, Heidelberg, Germany. To be published in the AIP Conference Proceedings
title: Femmes en revolte : a propos de la dialectique du maitre et de l'esclave chez Simon de Beauvoir
Creators: name: Vuillerod, Jean-Baptiste
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2022

description: Questo articolo si propone di discutere come Simone de Beauvoir utilizzi la dialettica padrone-servo di Hegel per descrivere il rapporto uomo-donna nelle nostre società. A differenza delle letture contemporanee che insistono sulla servitù volontaria delle donne nel Secondo sesso di Beauvoir, io sottolineo il ruolo delle lotte politiche e l'importanza dell'amicizia tra donne e della sororità nella critica beauvoiriana del dominio maschile. Sostengo che la resistenza delle donne contro il patriarcato non è un punto cieco nel Secondo sesso, ma è un nucleo centrale nella concezione del femminismo di Beauvoir e difendo l'idea che la sua lettura della dialettica di Hegel sia all'opera qui.

This article aims to discuss how Simone de Beauvoir uses Hegel’s master-slave dialectic to describe the men-women relationship in our societies. Unlike the contemporary readings that insist on the voluntary servitude of women in Beauvoir’s Second sex, I emphasize the role of political struggles and the importance of friendship between women and sorority in the Beauvoirian critique of masculine domination. I argue that the resistance of women against patriarchy is not a blind spot in the Second Sex but is a central core in Beauvoir’s conception of feminism, and I defend the idea that her reading of Hegel’s dialectic is at work here.
description: B@belonline vol. 9 Subversion and resistance in Hegel: paradigms, figures, resonances /Sovversione e resistenza in Hegel: paradigmi, figure, risonanze
Negative Kerr nonlinearity of graphene as seen via chirped-pulse-pumped self-phase modulation
Creators: name: Vermeulen, Nathalie
name: Castello-Lurbe, David
name: Cheng, JinLuo
name: Pasternak, Iwona
name: Krajewska, Aleksandra
name: Ciuk, Tymoteusz
name: Strupinski, Wlodek
name: Thienpont, Hugo
name: Van Erps, Jurgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate a negative Kerr nonlinearity for quasi-undoped graphene. Hereto, we introduce the method of chirped-pulse-pumped self-phase modulation and apply it to graphene-covered silicon waveguides at telecom wavelengths. The extracted Kerr-nonlinear index for graphene equals n2,gr = -10^(-13) m^2/W. Whereas the sign of n2,gr turns out to be negative in contrast to what has been assumed so far, its magnitude is in correspondence with that observed in earlier experiments. Graphene's negative Kerr nonlinearity strongly impacts how graphene should be exploited for enhancing the nonlinear response of photonic (integrated) devices exhibiting a positive nonlinearity. It also opens up the possibility of using graphene to annihilate unwanted nonlinear effects in such devices, to develop unexplored approaches for establishing Kerr processes, and to extend the scope of the "periodic poling" method often used for second-order nonlinearities towards third-order Kerr processes. Because of the generic nature of the chirped-pulse-pumped self-phase modulation method, it will allow fully characterizing the Kerr nonlinearity of essentially any novel (2D) material.