cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors influencing Bank selection decision: An empirical analysis on criteria employed by graduating students at Addis Ababa University
Creators: name: Kedir, Eshetu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The study features an empirical analysis on criteria employed by graduating students in Addis Ababa University towards their bank selection decision. A total of 400 graduating students of Addis Ababa University participated as a sample for the research. Primary sources of survey data were used collected through self-administered questionnaires using a non-probability convenience sampling technique. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, regressions processed by Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 24.0. The result showed that the convenience, Number of branch and ATM, Bank reputation, and E-Banking are found to be a significant factor for students' bank selection decision. On the other hand, the regression model revealed that third party influence has insignificant effect on bank selection decision. The paper recommends for Bank management to be aware that, factors influencing bank selection decision differ from one segment to another. The study also recommends banks to consider more number of branch and ATM easily accessible in campus, home, and work place with extended operation hours and functional ATMs and offer electronic banking services.
Fossil mammals of the lower pleistocene moorna sands, south-west New South Wales, Australia, with an analysis of the Australian Pseudomyine murid molars
Creators: name: Crabb, Peter Leighton
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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華埠通訊 Vol. 10, Issue 01, June 2008 (i.e. Issue 02)
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092
subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
title: Beim CAD geht das Konstruieren langsamer als das Denken
title: Zum Einfluß des Einsatzes von CAD-Systemen auf das Arbeitshandeln von Planern
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: With CAD you construct more slowly than you think
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: On the influence of CAD-Systems on the Planners'work Action
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bolte, Annegret
Publisher: name: Westdeutscher Verlag
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 650

description: Anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung bei Bauingenieuren und Technikern konnte die Verfasserin nachweisen, daß der Umgang mit CAD-Systemen zu weitreichenden Änderungen in den Vorgehensweisen von Planern gegenüber einer Arbeit am Zeichenbrett führt. Die Arbeit mit CAD-Systemen erzwingt von den damit Arbeitenden eine andere Herangehensweise und damit Konstruktionslogik. Dadurch sind die eher künstlerischen Elemente von Entwurfsarbeit gefährdet. Die vorgestellten Ergebnisse zur Informationswahrnehmung auf dem Bildschirm geben zudem Hinweise für die weitere Technikgestaltung als Voraussetzung für kreative und innovative Arbeit von Ingenieuren und Technikern.
description: On the basis of an empirical study involving construction engineers and technicians, the author has been able to prove that working with CAD systems as compared to traditional draughtsmanship leads to far-reaching changes in the approaches taken by planners. In this respect, CAD systems force the user to adopt a different procedure and thus design rationale; this in turn threatens the more artistic aspects of design work. Moreover, the findings presented in this paper on the perception of information at monitors describe an approach that
description: Arbeit
Cosmology from MAXIMA-1, BOOMERANG, and COBE DMR Cosmic Microwave Background Observations
Creators: name: Ade, P. A. R.
name: Balbi, A.
name: Bock, J. J.
name: Bond, J. R.
name: Jaffe, A. H.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
華埠通訊 Vol. 04, Issue 07, April 1999
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
Long-range properties and data validity for hydrogeological time series: the case of the Paglia river
Creators: name: Ausloos, Marcel
name: Cerqueti, Roy
name: Lupi, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper explores a large collection of about 377,000 observations, spanning more than 20 years with a frequency of 30 minutes, of the streamflow of the Paglia river, in central Italy. We analyze the long-term persistence properties of the series by computing the Hurst exponent, not only in its original form but also under an evolutionary point of view by analyzing the Hurst exponents over a rolling windows basis. The methodological tool adopted for the persistence is the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA), which is classically known as suitable for our purpose. As an ancillary exploration, we implement a control on the data validity by assessing if the data exhibit the regularity stated by Benford's law. Results are interesting under different viewpoints. First, we show that the Paglia river streamflow exhibits periodicities which broadly suggest the existence of some common behaviour with El Nino and the North Atlantic Oscillations: this specifically points to a (not necessarily direct) effect of these oceanic phenomena on the hydrogeological equilibria of very far geographical zones: however, such an hypothesis needs further analyses to be validated. Second, the series of streamflows shows an antipersistent behaviour. Third, data are not consistent with Benford's law: this suggests that the measurement criteria should be opportunely revised. Fourth, the streamflow distribution is well approximated by a discrete generalized Beta distribution: this is well in accordance with the measured streamflows being the outcome of a complex system.
description: prepared for Physica A; 23 pages; 42 references; 3 tables; 11 figures
華埠通訊 Vol. 07, Issue 07, April 2004
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963
subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818
subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
Hospitality Management III HOM36B1 HOME31B1 HOME36M1 HOM31Z1 HOM31Z1
Creators: name: Mlanjana, Vusumzi
Publisher: name: Walter Sisulu University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified

description: Subject : Hospitality Management III HOM36B1 HOME31B1 HOME36M1 HOM31Z1 Date: June 2022 Exam type: Main examination
華埠通訊 Vol. 01, Issue 06, February 1994
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963
subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
Analyze Factors Influencing Passengers' Satisfaction in Addis Ababa City Light Rail Transit Service
Creators: name: Gebeyehu, Habtamu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The main purpose of this study was to analyze factors influencing passengers' satisfaction in AAC-LRTS. The researcher has taken 365 passengers' for survey questionnaire using convinces sampling technique. Additionally, 20 informants were selected for semi- structured interview questions through random sampling technique from the 5 selected stations. The data collected by survey method were analyzed using SPSS version 20. The results of Spearman's correlation analysis of the study indicated that there was a significant positive correlation of all independent variables; safety and security, reliability, comfort, ticket payment system, affordability, staff behavior, accessibility and availability with passengers' satisfaction. The multiple regression analysis of the study depicted that, all the independent variables contributed only 56.8% of variances on passengers' satisfaction and the remaining 43.2% explained by other variables which were not included in the model. Based on the findings of this research, the LRTS management should sustain and continue the better provisions of the light rail transit services primarily to satisfy passengers and secondly to attain organizational goals. Key words: Light rail transit, Passengers' Satisfaction, Service quality dimensions, Ticket payment system
Deformation of the Mt. Read volcanics and associated sulphide deposits, Mt. Lyell
Creators: name: Cox, Stephen Francis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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A necessary and sufficient condition for edge universality at the largest singular values of covariance matrices
Creators: name: Ding, Xiucai
name: Yang, Fan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we prove a necessary and sufficient condition for the edge universality of sample covariance matrices with general population. We consider sample covariance matrices of the form $\mathcal Q = TX(TX)^{*}$, where the sample $X$ is an $M_2\times N$ random matrix with $i.i.d.$ entries with mean zero and variance $N^{-1}$, and $T$ is an $M_1 \times M_2$ deterministic matrix satisfying $T^* T$ is diagonal. We study the asymptotic behavior of the largest eigenvalues of $\mathcal Q$ when $M:=\min\{M_1,M_2\}$ and $N$ tends to infinity with $\lim_{N \to \infty} {N}/{M}=d \in (0, \infty)$. Under mild assumptions of $T$, we prove that the Tracy-Widom law holds for the largest eigenvalue of $\mathcal Q$ if and only if $\lim_{s \rightarrow \infty}s^4 \mathbb{P}(| \sqrt{N} x_{ij}| \geq s)=0$. This condition was first proposed for Wigner matrices by Lee and Yin.
AstroPix: CMOS pixels in space
Creators: name: Steinhebel, Amanda L.
name: Caputo, Regina
name: Fleischhack, Henrike
name: Striebig, Nicolas
name: Jadhav, Manoj
name: Suda, Yusuke
name: Luz, Ricardo
name: Violette, Daniel
name: Kierans, Carolyn
name: Tajima, Hiroyasu
name: Fukazawa, Yasushi
name: Leys, Richard
name: Peric, Ivan
name: Metcalfe, Jessica
name: Negro, Michela
name: Perkins, Jeremy S.
Publisher: name: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Year: 2023

description: Space-based gamma-ray telescopes such as the Fermi Large Area Telescope have used single sided silicon strip detectors to measure the position of charged particles produced by incident gamma rays with high resolution. At energies in the Compton regime and below, two dimensional position information within a single detector is required. Double sided silicon strip detectors are one option; however, this technology is difficult to fabricate and large arrays are susceptible to noise. This work outlines the development and implementation of monolithic CMOS active pixel silicon sensors, AstroPix, for use in future gamma-ray telescopes. Based upon detectors designed using the HVCMOS process at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, AstroPix has the potential to maintain the high energy and angular resolution required of a medium-energy gamma- ray telescope while reducing noise with the dual detection-and-readout capabilities of a CMOS chip. The status of AstroPix development and testing as well as outlook for application in future telescopes is presented.
Empirical and sequential empirical copula processes under serial dependence
Creators: name: Bücher, Axel
name: Volgushev, Stanislav
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: bootstrap
subject: weak dependency
subject: weak convergence
subject: serial dependence
subject: sequential empirical copula process
subject: functional delta method
subject: empirical copula process
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: The empirical copula process plays a central role for statistical inference on copulas. Recently, Segers (2011) investigated the asymptotic behavior of this process under non-restrictive smoothness assumptions for the case of i.i.d. random variables. In the present paper we extend his main result to the case of serial dependent random variables by means of the powerful and elegant functional delta method. Moreover, we utilize the functional delta method in order to obtain conditional consistency of certain bootstrap procedures. Finally, we extend the results to the more general sequential empirical copula process under serial dependence.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;44/2011
Precise Higgs mass calculations in (non-)minimal supersymmetry at both high and low scales
Creators: name: Athron, Peter
name: Park, Jae-hyeon
name: Steudtner, Tom
name: Stöckinger, Dominik
name: Voigt, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present FlexibleEFTHiggs, a method for calculating the SM-like Higgs pole mass in SUSY (and even non-SUSY) models, which combines an effective field theory approach with a diagrammatic calculation. It thus achieves an all order resummation of leading logarithms together with the inclusion of all non-logarithmic 1-loop contributions. We implement this method into FlexibleSUSY and study its properties in the MSSM, NMSSM, E6SSM and MRSSM. In the MSSM, it correctly interpolates between the known results of effective field theory calculations in the literature for a high SUSY scale and fixed-order calculations in the full theory for a sub-TeV SUSY scale. We compare our MSSM results to those from public codes and identify the origin of the most significant deviations between the DR-bar programs. We then perform a similar comparison in the remaining three non-minimal models. For all four models we estimate the theoretical uncertainty of FlexibleEFTHiggs and the fixed-order DR-bar programs thereby finding that the former becomes more precise than the latter for a SUSY scale above a few TeV. Even for sub-TeV SUSY scales, FlexibleEFTHiggs maintains the uncertainty estimate around 2-3 GeV, remaining a competitive alternative to existing fixed-order computations.
description: 51 pages, corrected eq. (27), made minor corrections to some plots and text
title: Prophecy and Progress : Sociological Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future of Industrial Societies.
Creators: name: Kumar, Krishan
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: As part of a wider intellectual movement of the 1960s and 1970s commonly referred to as futurology, some social theorists in the West announced the coming of 'post-industrial society'. Prominent among these was Daniel Bell, whose writings were the immediate stimulus to this study. As a necessary step in assessing its validity, the concept of a post-industrial society forces us to re-examine the supposed nature of industrial society. I therefore go back to the origins of the idea of an industrial society, and look in particular at the way in which the nineteenth century sociologists conceived the new social order of their times. This conception is set against the actual history of the period, to discover how far the later suggestion of a 'post-industrial' break may be based on a misconception as to the form, timing, and speed of social change in this period. With this examination of the 'image and reality' of the sociological account of classic industrialism, I go on to criticize the idea of the post-industrial society, and especially Bell's version of it. This leads to the speculations of the final two chapters, where I consider possible alternative futures for the industrial societies, based in part on the recovery of pre-industrial forms. Since the ideas of progress and industrialism have been fused from the very beginning, throughout I have traced the fortunes of the idea of progress, up to and including its embodiment in the post-industrial idea.
Ginnerup Revisited. New Excavations at a Key Neolithic Site on Djursland, Denmark
Creators: name: Klassen, Lutz
name: Rasmussen, Uffe
name: Kveiborg, Jacob
name: Richards, Michael
name: Orlando, Ludovic
name: Svenning, Jens-Christian
name: Ritchie, Kenneth
name: Andreasen, Marianne H.
name: Philippsen, Bente
name: Iversen, Rune
name: Johannsen, Niels N.
Publisher: name: Journal of Neolithic Archaeology
Year: 2023

description: New excavations of an enclosure-related site at Ginnerup on Djursland, Denmark, in 2020 resulted in the identification of several features containing depositions of marine shells. One of these, A4, is a natural depression with a fill comprised of four consecutively deposited layers, forming an undisturbed stratigraphy, dated by several 14C dates to between c. 3150 and 2950 BC. The oldest layer contained finds from phase MN A Ib of the Funnel Beaker culture, while the remaining three layers yielded finds from the latest Funnel Beaker culture on Djursland (MN A II/III, Ferslev style) with an upwardly increasing content of Pitted Ware culture elements, thereby allowing the emergence of this culture in Denmark to be followed for the first time. Preservation conditions for organic material were excellent due to a content of marine shells, mainly from oysters and mussels, in all layers. In this preliminary account, a survey of the material culture in the four layers is presented, together with 14C dates, zoological investigations of mammal and fish bones, isotope analyses (d13C, d15N and d34S) and aDNA analyses of mammal bones and examinations of plant macro-remains. The abundant bones of wild horses also hold a huge potential for zoological and genetic studies, the results of which can qualify the ongoing debate about the rewilding of horses in present-day Europe.
description: Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 25 (2023)
The initiation and development of tunnel erosion near Costerfield, Victoria
Creators: name: Boucher, Stuart Chapman
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Assessment of the Physico-Chemical and Microbiological Quality Of Swimming Pools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Yedeme, Kokeb
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Many potential pathogens could be acquired from swimming pool water during bathing. Hence microbial examination of swimming pool water samples is necessary to ensure that the water is safe for swimming. As it is impractical to screen all samples for all possible pathogens, indicator organisms have been used as surrogate markers of risk. Objectives: The study aimed at assessing the physico-chemical (chlorine, PH, temperature) and microbiological conditions of swimming pools and evaluating the compliance of these pools with the WHO standard. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted from February for four months(2016-May 2016).A total of 60 swimming pool water samples from 10 swimming pools (6 from each pool)were collected on a weekly basis for physicochemical and bacteriological analysis using the MPN method. PH, residual chlorine and Temperature of the swimming pool water samples were measured. In addition, total viable count and coli form count (total coli form, fecal coli form and (E.coli) were determined. Chi-square test was used for association and data was analyzed using SPSS Version 20.Results were compared with the WHO recommended limits for each parameter. Results: The swimming pool water samples had average pH and temperature of 7.1 and 29c respectively.58.4%(n=35/60) of the samples had PH in the range of 7.2-7.8 while 58.3%(n=35/60) of samples had temperature in the range of 21c-32c.25%(n=15/60)of the swimming pool water samples had residual chlorine in the range of 2-3mg/l.73.3%(n=44/60) of swimming pool water samples had a total viable count below 200cfu/ml and 70 %(n-42/60) of swimming water samples had TCC values less than 2MPN/100ml.More over, 66.7%(n=40/60) of the samples had fecal coli form counts falling bellow 1MPN/100ml.E. coli was present in 30%(n=18/60) of swimming pool water samples while it was absent in 70%(n=42/60) pool water samples. It was also found out that PH and residual chlorine had association with pot ability while temperature was not. Conclusion: It was observed that 70% (n=42/60) of the swimming pool water samples met the WHO microbial standard while 30%(n=18/60) did not. Key words: Swimming pools, microbial contaminations, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
華埠通訊 Vol. 10, Issue 01, April 2008
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818
subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
華埠通訊 Vol. 04, Issue 07, August 1997 (i.e. Vol. 03)
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963
subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
Ten Simple Rules for Making Research Software More Robust
Creators: name: Taschuk, Morgan
name: Wilson, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software produced for research, published and otherwise, suffers from a number of common problems that make it difficult or impossible to run outside the original institution, or even off the primary developer's computer. We present ten simple rules to make such software robust enough to run anywhere, and inspire confidence in your reproducibility, and thereby delight your users and collaborators.
A study of optical twining in amethyst
Creators: name: Pitkethly, Donald R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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華埠通訊 Vol. 01, Issue 08, June 1994
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092
subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens from External Ocular Infection at St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Aklilu, Addis
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background:-Ocular infection is a major public health problem in developing countries. Bacteria and fungi associated with external ocular infection are responsible for increased incidence of morbidity and blindness worldwide. Objective:-The aim of this study was to determine the profile of bacterial and fungal pathogens from external ocular infection at St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methodology:-A cross sectional study conducted using convenient sampling technique. A total of 215 patients recruited from April to August, 2016. Conjunctival and eyelid margin swabs and corneal scraping were collected. Demographic data were collected using structured questionnaire. All Specimens were processed for microbiological analysis as per standard procedures and antibiotic susceptibility test was done using disc diffusion technique. The data was analyzed by using SPSS version 20 and appropriate statistical tools were used. Result: - A total of 215 patients were enrolled in this study. Of which 133(61.4 %) were culture positive. Of this 118(54.9%) and 24(11.2%) were bacterial and fungal pathogens respectively. There were 9 (6.8%) bacterial and fungal co-infections. Majority were males 109 (50.7%). The mean age of the study participants was 42.34 (Sd. +20.55) and majority of participants age were within the age range of 25-44 years 72(33.5%). Majority had conjunctivitis 87(40.5%) followed by blepharitis 48(22.3%). The predominant bacterial pathogen isolated were gram positives 88(74.6%). Of this S. aureus 32(27.1%) was the commonest isolate and K. pneumoniae 9(7.6%) was the predominant from gram negative bacterial pathogens. Aspergillus species 14(58.3%) were the most predominant fungal isolates. Gram positive cocci and gram negative rods were highly resistant for Penicillin 66/88(75%) and Ampicilin 20/27(81.5%) respectively. 71.2% of MDR bacteria were isolated. There was statistically significant association between prevalence of bacterial isolates and age variation (P=0.023) and trauma with fungi prevalence (P=0.002). Conclusion:-The prevalence of bacterial and fungal pathogens was higher among external ocular infection. The drug resistance among ocular bacterial infection was also higher. Keywords: - External ocular infections, conjunctivitis, blepharitis, keratitis, dacryocystitis, susceptibility
華埠通訊 Vol. 05, Issue 08, February 2001
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092
subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818
subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
Metal-Insulator Transition and Pseudogap in Bi$_{1.76}$Pb$_{0.35}$Sr$_{1.89}$CuO$_{6+δ}$ High-$T_c$ Cuprates
Creators: name: Miyazaki, M.
name: Kadono, R.
name: Hiraishi, M.
name: Koda, A.
name: Kojima, K. M.
name: Fukunaga, Y.
name: Tanabe, Y.
name: Adachi, T.
name: Koike, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is inferred from bulk-sensitive muon Knight shift measurement for a Bi$_{1.76}$Pb$_{0.35}$Sr$_{1.89}$CuO$_{6+δ}$ single-layer cuprate that metal-insulator (MI) transition (in the low temperature limit, $T\rightarrow0$) occurs at the critical hole concentration $p=p_{\rm MI}=0.09(1)$, where the electronic density of states (DOS) at the Fermi level is reduced to zero by the pseudogap irrespective of the Néel order or spin glass magnetism. Superconductivity also appears for $p>p_{\rm MI}$, suggesting that this feature is controlled by the MI transition. More interestingly, the magnitude of the DOS reduction induced by the pseudogap remains unchanged over a wide doping range ($0.1\le p\le0.2$), indicating that the pseudogap remains as a hallmark of the MI transition for $p>p_{\rm MI}$.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, with a supplemental material (4 pages)
Entwicklung eines additiven Fertigungsverfahrens für expandierte Stärke
Creators: name: Schlüsener, Jörn
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 620
subject: 670
subject: Rapid Prototyping
subject: Fused Deposition Modeling
subject: Nachwachsender Rohstoff
subject: Stärke
subject: Biokunststoff

description: Im Kontext der Umweltschädigung rücken Faktoren wie Nachhaltigkeit, biologische Abbaubarkeit, CO2-Neutralität und grundsätzlich auch die Vermeidung von petrochemisch erzeugten Kunststoffen zunehmend in den Fokus der Klimapolitik. Besonders für Einsatzmaterialien mit kurzen Lebenszyklen, welche sich überwiegend in der Verpackungsbranche wiederfinden, müssen daher biologische Alternativen gefunden werden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Entwicklung eines neuartigen Extrusionssystems für ein stärkebasiertes und geschäumtes Ausgangsmaterial vorgestellt. Mit diesem Extrusionssystem wird ein additiver Fertigungsprozess auf Basis des FLM-Verfahrens realisiert. Auf diese Weise sollen für expandierte Stärkechips, welche bereits als nachhaltige Alternative für Füllmaterial im Verpackungs-bereich etabliert sind, weitere Einsatzgebiete eröffnet werden. Im Rahmen der Arbeit werden zunächst das Prinzip der Strangbildung und -auftragung mit dem expandierten Stärkematerial vorgestellt sowie der anlagentechnische Aufbau von Extrusionseinheit und Bewegungsapparat beschrieben. Das bestehende System wird auf seine Leistungsfähigkeit hin untersucht und es wird eine geeignete Systemeinstellung für die kontinuierliche Strangextrusion vorgenommen. Anhand verschiedener Druckszenarien werden die Prozesseigenschaften und -grenzen analysiert und entsprechende Gestaltungsregeln für einen erfolgreichen Druckprozess abgeleitet. Abschließend wird die erfolgreiche Produktion eines Demonstrationsteils dokumentiert, bei welcher diese Gestaltungsregeln berücksichtigt werden.
華埠通訊 Vol. 03, Issue 04, February 1997
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092
subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818
subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
Untersuchungen zu mineralischen Tränkungen von technischen Textilien für die flächige Instandsetzung von gerissenen Bauwerken mit Textilbeton
Creators: name: Lenting, Martin
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Textilbeton
subject: Instandsetzung
subject: Rissüberbrückung
subject: Mineralische Tränkung
subject: Kieselsäureester
subject: Technische Textilien
subject: 690
subject: Textilbeton
subject: Instandsetzung
subject: Rissschließung
subject: Kieselsäureester
subject: Technische Textilien

description: In dieser Arbeit wurden mineralische Tränkungen von technischen Textilien für die flächige Instandsetzung von gerissenen Bauwerken mit Textilbeton untersucht. Der Schwerpunkt lag auf der Entwicklung einer mineralischen Tränkung in Kombination mit einem einfachen Textiltränkungsverfahren und der anschließenden Untersuchung und Bewertung der Materialeigenschaften am Textil und im Verbundprobekörper. Auf Basis von Kieselsäureester konnte ein Instandsetzungsystem für z. B. temperaturbedingte Rissbewegungen gerissener Bauwerke entwickelt werden, welches die Rissbewegung in viele feine Risse im Textilbeton verteilt. Neben standardisierten Prüfmethoden wurde das mineralische Tränkungsmaterial auch mittels Mikroskopie, REM-EDX-Analysen sowie TGA-Analysen hinsichtlich des allgemeinen Tragverhaltens und hinsichtlich besonderer Beanspruchungen durch Temperatur und Alterung auf Eignung geprüft. Dazu wurden verschiedene technische Textilien, Tränkungsmaterialien mit unterschiedlicher Verkieselung und Mehrfachtränkungen betrachtet. Abschließende Untersuchungen zur Rissheilungs- und Rissüberbrückungsfähigkeit dienten der Überprüfung des Instandsetzungssystems hinsichtlich praxisnaher Randbedingungen. Die Tastversuche an zwei Rissüberbrückungsprobekörpern in Anlehnung an die Systemprüfung nach dem BAW-Merkblatt MITEX zeigten, dass ein Instandsetzungssystem aus Textilbeton mit Textilgelegen aus zweifach getränkten Carbonrovings mit dem entwickelten Tränkungsmaterial Kieselsäureester 100 ohne Lösemittel eine Rissbewegung im Grundkörper (Bestandsbauwerk) von bis zu 0,6 mm aufnehmen kann und in ausreichend viele Risse mit geringen Rissbreiten verteilt.
Relationship between Organizational Climate and Employees' Job Satisfaction in the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority.
Creators: name: Abdissa, Fekadu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Dynamics and conducive organizational climate is mandatory for the contemporary organizations to have satisfied and productive employees under the intense of global completion. Realizing this, the main aim of this research was to determine the relationship between organizational climate and employees' job satisfaction in Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority and recommend the bureau to improve the poorly perceived areas of its climate. Stratified sampling based on job level was used to make the population representative in each stratum. A total of 307 copies of questionnaires were administered to head office and 3 selected branches but only 249 (81.1%) were returned and used for analysis. The study made use of descriptive and inferential statics to obtain the results. Among all organizational climate variables, salary package is the most poorly perceived by the employees with mean 2.41, and percentage score (35.25%) which is by far below the average score (50%). The results of correlation coefficient statics revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between organizational climate and employees' job satisfaction (r=0.459, n=249, p=.000, (2 tailed).Besides the analysis under taken to identify the perception of different groups to their organization's climate and job satisfaction based on their job level /position/ indicates that the they perceived their organization's climate in different ways (F (2, 246,) =11.124,p = .000). However, the analysis conducted to see the perception of the participants by their tenure revealed that the employees perceived their climate in the same way (F (3, 245) = 0. 696, p= 0.56). The T-test results concerning the perception of male and female toward their organizational climate indicates that they perceived their climate in different ways,(p=0.044). Finally, the study concluded by providing possible recommendations such as the managements must take immediate adjustment to the climate dimensions scored below average (50%) and special attention must be given to senior officer employees as they poorly perceived their organization climate. It is recommended that the organization has to create opportunities that allow senior officers to management position or to any other career advancement.
On the graphical extraction of multipole mixing ratios of nuclear transitions
Creators: name: Rezynkina, K.
name: Lopez-Martens, A.
name: Hauschild, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel graphical method for determining the mixing ratios δ and their associated uncertainties for mixed nuclear transitions. It incorporates the uncertainties both on both the measured and the theoretical conversion coefficients. The accuracy of the method has been studied by deriving the corresponding probability density function. The domains of applicability of the method are carefully defined.
title: "Two people gotta stick together..."
title: Four essays on the interrelationship between marriage-related and economic decisions
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Neimann, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Familienökonomik
subject: Partnereinfluss
subject: Scheidungsdeterminanten
subject: 330
subject: Familienökonomie / Ehegatte / Einfluss
subject: Familienökonomie / Ehepaar / Arbeitsteilung / Ehescheidung / Wahrscheinlichkeit

description: The present thesis tries to obtain a better understanding how economic and marriage-related decisions are linked to each other. The first part deals with cross-spouse effects on economic decisions, in this case on health behavior and on labor force participation at older age. The second part examines the impact of various economic factors on the risk of marital dissolution. In summary, all chapters show that there are strong interrelationships between the two most important aspects in life, namely family and career. However, we also see that men and women react and behave differently. For instance, the wife has an effect on the husband’s probability to see the doctor but not vice versa. Moreover, a female breadwinner increases the risk of divorce substantially which we cannot find for couples with a male main earner. Thus, the results suggest that economic theory and empirical analyses do not only have to consider the family background but also to distinguish between men and women. Needless to say that there are still many open questions. For instance, except in Chapter 2, we restrict the analysis to married couples since cohabitation is less common among older people and moreover, separation has usually less severe consequences if the couple is not married. Nevertheless, given the growing acceptance and equal treatment under law, it becomes increasingly interesting to extend the analyses to cohabiting couples. Moreover, not only family structure has changed, work life is also changing. More and more jobs, in particular for high-educated, require high flexibility and mobility by both, men and women. Consequently, for a larger section of the population, the success of a relationship is challenged by commuting and living apart together. It is not fully known yet to what extent these factors alter the risk of separation. Another interesting aspect is the new parental-leave regulation. The new law provides financial incentives for fathers to take a share of the legal parental-leave. However, given our result that female and male breadwinners do not seem to be perfect substitutes, the question is whether maternity and paternity leave have a different effect on marital stability. Thus, there are still many aspects we do not know but, to conclude with Tina Turner, “some people gotta stay whatever and give one another shelter on a rainy day”.
華埠通訊 Vol. 06, Issue 07, August 2002
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092
subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963
subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
Evaluation of Nephrotoxicity Among Cervical and Ovarian Cancer Patients Treated with Cisplastin Based Chemotherapy at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital Chemotherapy And Radiotherapy Center, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tefera, Fasil
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Cancer is potentially fatal diseases; it can be caused by mainly environmental factors that mutate genes encoding critical cell-regulatory proteins. Cisplatin is a potent and an effective chemotherapeutic agent used to treat cervical and ovarian cancer, but is associated with the risk of nephrotoxicity. The prevalence of cisplatin based chemotherapy induced nephrotoxicity was not assessed in Ethiopia. Objective: To assess the magnitudes of Cisplatin-based chemotherapy induced nephrotoxicity among cervical and ovarian cancer patients underwent cisplatin treatment at the oncology unit of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH). Materials and Methods: A prospective cross-sectional study has been conducted on 76 cervical and ovarian cancer patients who received cisplatin based chemotherapy. Clinical and laboratory data including kidney function tests were recorded at baseline and 21 days after treatment with cisplatin based chemotherapy. Serum creatinine, urea, uric acid and calcium have been analyzed using automated clinical chemistry analyzer (Mindray02) and estimated creatinine clearance has been calculated based on Cockcroft-Gault formula. Toxicities were classified according to the common toxicity criteria (CTC) scale set by (NCI CTC AE V4.0). Results: Serum creatinine, uric acid levels increased significantly during the 1 cycles of chemotherapy, whereas eGFR levels decreased significantly. Accordingly, the results were (1.0854 ±0.781SD), (5.9 ±2.7SD) and (50.217±14.0SD) respectively where the (P. value 0.001), (p.value 0.00) and (p. value 0.00). On the other hand, serum urea and calcium levels showed no statistical significant difference have been shown where (p. value>0.05). According to Pearson"s correlation analysis showed pre and post chemotherapy there was a strong negative correlation between the eGFR and serum creatinine level correspondingly (rho: –0.150 Vs -0.136, P < 0.001), and Spearman"s correlation analysis showed that there was a strong negative correlation between the eGFR and uric acid level after treatment (rho: –0.500, P < 0.05). Conclusion and Recommendation: Significant changes have been observed after the 1 cycle of cisplatin based chemotherapy treatment on the levels of serum creatinine, uric acid levels and decreased glomerular filtration rate. To effectively monitor nephrotoxicity, renal parameters and electrolyte levels should be measured before and after each cisplatin based chemotherapy cycle. More investigations are required to evaluate this method with higher doses of cisplatin. Keywords: Cisplatin; 5Fluorouracil; Nephrotoxicity; chemotherapy; Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital
華埠通訊 Vol. 07, Issue 02, June 2003
Creators: name: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immigrants
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712
subject: Small business
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1121223
subject: Community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/870818
subject: Group identity
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/819166
subject: Communities
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1430092
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963

description: Start of the newsletter with vol. 1, issue 1 in April of 1993. Published bi-monthly by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.