cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analyzing Risk and Uncertainty of New Product Marketing: The Case of eMerge Interactive and VerifEYE®
Creators: name: Gunderson, Michael A.
name: Roucan, Maud
name: Boehlje, Michael
name: Gray, Allan W.
name: Gunderson, Michael A.
name: Roucan, Maud
name: Boehlje, Michael
name: Gray, Allan W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: risk management
subject: influence diagrams
subject: payoff matrices
subject: decision trees
subject: and real options

description: This teaching case focuses on the application of decision tools to assist managers making choices in an uncertain business climate. The case considers the difficult task of introducing a new product into the market. Under consideration is a sophisticated, surface-scanning technology that has applications in the food processing, food retail, and health industry sectors. Management of eMerge Interactive is faced with uncertainties in legislation, demand, and competitor response. The case can be used as part of a course in strategy and/or risk management where tools such as influence diagrams, scenario and payoff matrices, decision trees, and real options are introduced.
No-go theorem for inflation in an extended Ricci-inverse gravity model
Creators: name: Do, Tuan Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we propose an extension of the Ricci-inverse gravity, which has been proposed recently as a very novel type of fourth-order gravity, by introducing a second order term of the so-called anticurvature scalar as a correction. The main purpose of this paper is that we would like to see whether the extended Ricci-inverse gravity model admits the homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric as its stable inflationary solution. However, a no-go theorem for inflation in this extended Ricci-inverse gravity is shown to appear through a stability analysis based on the dynamical system method. As a result, this no-go theorem implies that it is impossible to have such stable inflation in this extended Ricci-inverse gravity model.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures. Updated version with additional discussions on the Minkowskian limit. All calculations are not modified. Matches the published version. Comments are welcome
Dreicer electric field definition and runaway electrons in solar flares
Creators: name: Tsap, Yu. T.
name: Stepanov, A. V.
name: Kopylova, Yu. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse electron acceleration by a large-scale electric field $E$ in a collisional hydrogen plasma under the solar flare coronal conditions based on approaches proposed by Dreicer and Spitzer for the dynamic friction force of electrons. The Dreicer electric field $E_{Dr}$ is determined as a critical electric field at which the entire electron population runs away. Two regimes of strong ($E \lesssim E_{Dr}$) and weak ($E \ll E_{Dr}$) electric field are discussed. It is shown that the commonly used formal definition of the Dreicer field leads to an overestimation of its value by about five times. The critical velocity at which the electrons of the ``tail'' of the Maxwell distribution become runaway under the action of the sub-Dreiser electric fields turns out to be underestimated by $\sqrt{3}$ times in some works because the Coulomb collisions between runaway and thermal electrons are not taken into account. The electron acceleration by sub-Dreicer electric fields generated in the solar corona faces difficulties.
description: 7 pages
Giacomo Bardelli (Hrsg.), Das Prunkgrab von Bad Dürkheim 150 Jahre nach der Entdeckung – Giacomo Bardelli, Die wahre italische Faszination. Die Funde aus dem keltischen Grab von Bad Dürkheim und ihre Geschichten
Creators: name: Krausse, Dirk
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Giacomo Bardelli (Hrsg.), Das Prunkgrab von Bad Dürkheim 150 Jahre nach der Entdeckung. Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Band 137. Verlag des RGZM, Mainz 2017. ISBN 978-3-88467-280-8. 175 Seiten mit 91 meist farbigen Abbildungen und 30 Farbtafeln. Giacomo Bardelli, Die wahre italische Faszination. Die Funde aus dem keltischen Grab von Bad Dürkheim und ihre Geschichten. Mosaiksteine. Forschungen am Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum Band 14. Verlag des RGZM, Mainz 2017. ISBN 978-3-88467-284-6. ISBN 978-3-7954-3188-4. 70 Seiten mit 50 farbigen Abbildungen.
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
The UV, Optical, and IR Properties of SDSS Sources Detected by GALEX
Creators: name: Agueros, Marcel A.
name: Ivezic, Zeljko
name: Covey, Kevin R.
name: Obric, Mirela
name: Hao, Lei
name: Walkowicz, Lucianne M.
name: West, Andrew A.
name: Berk, Daniel E. Vanden
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Knapp, Gillian R.
name: Gunn, James E.
name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Bochanski,, John
name: Brooks, Alyson
name: Claire, Mark
name: Haggard, Daryl
name: Kaib, Nathan
name: Kimball, Amy
name: Gogarten, Stephanie M.
name: Seth, Anil
name: Solontoi, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the UV, optical, and IR properties of the SDSS sources detected by GALEX as part of its All-sky Imaging Survey Early Release Observations. Virtually all of the GALEX sources in the overlap region are detected by SDSS. GALEX sources represent ~2.5% of all SDSS sources within these fields and about half are optically unresolved. Most unresolved GALEX/SDSS sources are bright blue turn-off thick disk stars and are typically detected only in the GALEX near-UV band. The remaining unresolved sources include low-redshift quasars, white dwarfs, and white dwarf/M dwarf pairs, and these dominate the optically unresolved sources detected in both GALEX bands. Almost all the resolved SDSS sources detected by GALEX are fainter than the SDSS 'main' spectroscopic limit. These sources have colors consistent with those of blue (spiral) galaxies (u-r<2.2), and most are detected in both GALEX bands. Measurements of their UV colors allow much more accurate and robust estimates of star-formation history than are possible using only SDSS data. Indeed, galaxies with the most recent (<20 Myr) star formation can be robustly selected from the GALEX data by requiring that they be brighter in the far-UV than in the near-UV band. However, older starburst galaxies have UV colors similar to AGN, and thus cannot be selected unambiguously on the basis of GALEX fluxes alone. With the aid of 2MASS data, we construct and discuss median 10 band UV-optical-IR spectral energy distributions for turn-off stars, hot white dwarfs, low-redshift quasars, and spiral and elliptical galaxies. We point out the high degree of correlation between the UV color and the contribution of the UV flux to the UV-optical-IR flux of galaxies detected by GALEX.
description: 35 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables; to appear in the AJ. PS with better figures available from http://www.astro.washington.edu/agueros/pub/
Synthesis and Characterization of Zinc Phthalocyanine-Cellulose Nanocrystal (CNC) Conjugates: Toward Highly Functional CNCs
Creators: name: Kumar, Pawan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 30201 Bioinorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30404 Cheminformatics and Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cheminformatics
subject: 39901 Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)
subject: 30604 Electrochemistry
subject: 30102 Electroanalytical Chemistry

description: We report highly fluorescent cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) formed by conjugating a carboxylated zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) to two different types of CNCs. The conjugated nanocrystals (henceforth called ZnPc@CNCs) were bright green in color and exhibited absorption and emission maxima at ∼690 and ∼715 nm, respectively. The esterification protocol employed to covalently bind carboxylated ZnPc to surface hydroxyl group rich CNCs was expected to result in a monolayer of ZnPc on the surface of the CNCs. However, dynamic light scattering (DLS) studies indicated a large increase in the hydrodynamic radius of CNCs following conjugation to ZnPc, which suggests the binding of multiple ZnPc molecular layers on the CNC surface.
Consumer Market for Functional Foods in South Brazil
Creators: name: De Barcellos, Marcia Dutra
name: Lionello, Rafael Laitano
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2011
Subjects: functional foods; consumer market; attitudes

description: This study aims at investigating the consumer market for functional foods (FF) in Porto Alegre, South Brazil. Functional food is any healthy food claimed to have a health-promoting or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients. Health has been named as the most significant trend and innovation driver in the global food and drinks market. Brazil is one of the leading countries in food production and consumption, and the market for functional foods have been growing 10% per year, three times more than the market for conventional foods. Although this food category is considered mature in some developed markets (such as in Japan, in the Nordic countries and in the U.S), it is still unknown for many consumers, especially those located in developing countries. On the other hand, functional foods has been attracting the attention of multinationals and local food industries in Brazil, since innovation can significantly impact on their competitive advantages. Therefore, in this study, first we are going to identify the availability of functional food products in the local retail market, through observation techniques. Our aim is to confront consumers’ needs with local food companies’ market supply. Secondly, we investigate consumers’ motivations, attitudes and intention to buy functional foods, since the market demands a better understanding of this trend. A survey with 450 consumers was conducted and provided quantitative insights. Results indicate that the market for functional foods in Rio Grande do Sul is incipient, but it is developing fast. There are few local functional food products in the market, but those are attractive to consumers and indicate promising opportunities. The survey shows that interviewed consumers presented positive attitudes towards functional foods and enough purchasing power to buy it. Dieticians, nutritionists and other health professionals have high credibility and could help inform consumers about the benefits of particular categories of functional foods. Food industry itself is not regarded as the most trustworthy source, what indicates the need of more attention to this fact from a corporate point of view. Finally, this study shows that the understanding of Brazilian consumers is fundamental to help food companies define their strategies. To map the most accepted categories of functional foods is also important, aiming to avoid the "tentative and error" approach.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 2, No 2 (2011)
Genomics and phenomics of body mass index reveals a complex disease network
Creators: name: Saleheen, D.
name: Nguyen, X.-M.T.
name: Sun, Y.V.
name: Do Valle, Í.
name: Rader, D.J.
name: Lynch, J.A.
name: Loos, R.J.F.
name: Ho, Y.-L.
name: Tcheandjieu, C.
name: Huang, Y.
name: Voight, B.F.
name: Yengo, L.
name: Ng, M.C.Y.
name: North, K.E.
name: Smith, G.D.
name: Assimes, T.L.
name: Djousse, L.
name: O’Donnell, C.J.
name: Huffman, J.E.
name: Raghavan, S.
name: Cho, K.
name: Wilson, P.W.F.
name: Reaven, P.D.
name: Damrauer, S.M.
name: Vujkovic, M.
name: Miller, D.
name: Haiman, C.A.
name: Huang, J.
name: Tang, H.
name: Phillips, L.S.
name: Tsao, P.S.
name: Graff, M.
name: Hui, Q.
name: Gaziano, J.M.
name: Liu, C.
name: Chang, K.-M.
name: Barabási, A.-L.
name: Huang, R.D.L.
Publisher: name: Nature Research
Year: 2022

description: Elevated body mass index (BMI) is heritable and associated with many health conditions that impact morbidity and mortality. The study of the genetic association of BMI across a broad range of common disease conditions offers the opportunity to extend current knowledge regarding the breadth and depth of adiposity-related diseases. We identify 906 (364 novel) and 41 (6 novel) genome-wide significant loci for BMI among participants of European (N~1.1 million) and African (N~100,000) ancestry, respectively. Using a BMI genetic risk score including 2446 variants, 316 diagnoses are associated in the Million Veteran Program, with 96.5% showing increased risk. A co-morbidity network analysis reveals seven disease communities containing multiple interconnected diseases associated with BMI as well as extensive connections across communities. Mendelian randomization analysis confirms numerous phenotypes across a breadth of organ systems, including conditions of the circulatory (heart failure, ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation), genitourinary (chronic renal failure), respiratory (respiratory failure, asthma), musculoskeletal and dermatologic systems that are deeply interconnected within and across the disease communities. This work shows that the complex genetic architecture of BMI associates with a broad range of major health conditions, supporting the need for comprehensive approaches to prevent and treat obesity.
Friesen, Abraham, Goertz, Hans Jürgen: Thomas Müntzer
Creators: name: Kantzenbach, Friedrich Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (1979): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 28, Heft 3
Customer Relationship Management at Farm Credit Services of Mid-America: Working towards a SingleView
Creators: name: Martens, Bobby J.
name: Akridge, Jay T.
name: Martens, Bobby J.
name: Akridge, Jay T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: customer relationship management
subject: technology implementation
subject: market segmentation
subject: marketing strategy

description: This case study explores Farm Credit Services of Mid-America's (FCS MA) process of identifying and implementing new technology needed to meet the needs of their customer relationship management (CRM) program. This case illustrates the key challenges facing firms as their CRM programs are expanded and improved to continually meet the customer's needs and explores the complexities of developing and implementing a large information technology system. Decisions ranging from which technology system is right to which approach is best when training and motivating the system users are considered.
Optimal computation of anisotropic galaxy three point correlation function multipoles using 2DFFTLOG formalism
Creators: name: Umeh, Obinna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study two key issues militating against the use of the anisotropic three-point correlation function (3PCF) for cosmological parameter inference: difficulties with its computational estimation and high-dimensionality. We show how high-dimensionality may be reduced significantly by multipole decompositions of all angular dependence. This allows deriving the full expression for the multipole moments of the anisotropic 3PCF and its covariance matrix in a basis where the dimensionality reduces from nine to two at each multipole in the plane-parallel limit. We use 2D FFTLog formalism to show how the multipole moments with double momentum integrals over the product of bispectrum and two highly oscillating spherical Bessel functions and its covariance with double momentum integrals over the product of three galaxy power spectra and a combination of four highly oscillating spherical Bessel functions may be computed optimally.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures, A comparison figure added. Accepted for publication by JCAP
Stakeholder Analysis of Agroparks
Creators: name: Wubben, Emiel F.M.
name: Isakhanyan, Gohar
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2011
Subjects: gropark, system innovation, stakeholder analysis, stakeholder management

description: An agropark is a cluster in which several primary producers and processors cooperate to enhance sustainable agrofood production. Because agroparks represent complex system innovations, this article studies their realisation trajectories from the stakeholder management perspective. By using the case study method, the research confirms that agroparks are system innovations involving many participants, most of them being key stakeholders. The different stakes and power positions, and their impact have been assessed. and managed in line with the realisation process of the agropark. The paper provides first learnings on stakeholder management in agropark projects, which may promote their realisation.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 2, No 2 (2011)
Adolescents' Views on Mental Health and School-Based Support
Creators: name: Daer, Nadia
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2021

description: Background: Adolescence is critical period of bio-psychosocial development and mental health problems during this stage can have long lasting consequences. Growing concern about adolescent mental health has been fuelled by reports of increased prevalence of mental health problems, referrals to mental health services and perceived risk factors such as social media and, most recently, the Covid-19 pandemic. Effective strategies for addressing adolescent distress require up-to-date research on the nature and impact of these complex issues, yet chronic underfunding means that the evidence base remains limited. Research seeking the perspectives of adolescents themselves is particularly sparse, despite adolescents being a key source of information on the issues currently affecting them. At the same time, schools increasingly asked to support student wellbeing and incorporate mental health teaching into their curriculums have expressed concern about the lack of resources or guidance with which to do this. Aims: To explore adolescents’ perspectives on the issue that they identify as impacting their mental health, and to gain their views on school-based support and teaching on mental health. Method: A critical realist approach was adopted. Three focus groups were held with adolescent pupils (n=19) at one London school. The transcripts analysed using Thematic Analysis. Results: Two main themes were generated: ‘Meeting Expectations’ and ‘Relationships with Teachers’. Conclusion: The findings support the literature on adolescent identity development and the need for adolescents to gain a sense of competence, autonomy and meaningful relatedness to others. This linked to literature about the importance of the student-teacher relationship for wellbeing and connectedness at school. The findings added to the literature by identifying that providing spaces where adolescents’ views are sought and listened to by adults were the single best thing that adolescents felt schools could do to improve mental health support and teaching.
Ambiguity of black hole entropy in loop quantum gravity
Creators: name: Tamaki, Takashi
name: Nomura, Hidefumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reexmine some proposals of black hole entropy in loop quantum gravity (LQG) and consider a new possible choice of the Immirzi parameter which has not been pointed out so far. We also discuss that a new idea is inevitable if we regard the relation between the area spectrum in LQG and that in the quasinormal mode analysis seriously.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, error corrected, PRD published version
Banning Foie Gras in California
Creators: name: Baker, Gregory A.
name: Zhang, Fan
name: Baker, Gregory A.
name: Zhang, Fan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: stakeholder management
subject: stakeholder analysis
subject: foie gras

description: Sonoma Foie Gras is one of three producers of foie gras in the U.S. and the sole producer in California. The company employs the practice of force-feeding ducks and geese to produce this culinary delicacy. The case describes the foie gras industry and pending legislation in California, which would ban the practice of force-feeding ducks and geese as well as the sale of the products of force-feeding birds. Readers are asked to conduct a stakeholder analysis to identify the primary stakeholders and their interests, and to identify alternatives and a course of action for Sonoma Foie Gras.
Effect on New Loan Repayment Fine Clause on Bank Jaya Artha's Customer Satisfaction and Recommendation
Creators: name: Adamrah, Mustaqim
name: Sunitiyoso, Yos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The growing population of older people in Indonesia--the world's fourth-most populous country--makes a larger cake for the pension business, including in the banking sector. PT Bank Jaya Artha is one of the Indonesian banks that provide products and services for people who are set to enter retirement age. In the wake of tight competition in the pension business market, Bank Jaya Artha has since 2019 imposed a fine of three times of installments in addition to 5% of outstanding debt on customers planning to repay their debt in a mission to prevent them from leaving for competitors. While the clause is not included in loan agreements signed before the implementation, it applies to past loan agreements as well. This, in turn, has led to customer complaints. The research is meant to find out how the implementation of the unconsented clause has affected customer satisfaction and willingness to recommend the bank and what the bank should do to become more customer-centric, according to customers. Using a design thinking framework, the research collects quantitative and qualitative data from the bank's pension customers through questionnaires and forum group discussions. Statistical analysis is utilized on quantitative data from questionnaires, and content analysis is utilized on qualitative data from questionnaires. A narrative analysis is also used to explain qualitative data from forum group discussions. The result shows that there are problems in the way the bank communicates information to customers, particularly information about the loan repayment fine. Lack of transparency, a reactive approach instead of a proactive one, the obscurity of the information, and the time the information is delivered have affected customers' satisfaction toward the bank.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables, Published with International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies (IRJEMS)
On the Evolutionary Properties of Fix Inducing Changes
Creators: name: Azmain, Aquib
name: Huq, Syed Fatiul
name: Nahar, Nadia
name: Md. Nurul Ahad Tawhid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: 8th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ 2020)
Finnish Citizens' Attitudes towards Multifunctional Agriculture
Creators: name: Hyytia, Nina
name: Kola, Jukka
name: Hyytia, Nina
name: Kola, Jukka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Agricultural policies
subject: consumers
subject: public goods
subject: WTP

description: This paper examines Finnish citizens' attitudes towards multifunctional agriculture and further, the connections among these attitudes, consumers' willingness to pay, and some socio economic factors. Attitudinal dimensions were executed by using factor analysis. The respondents (N=1300) were distributed into clusters based on their attitudes. It would be expected that people who have positive attitudes, would also state high values of WTP. Instead, this study suggests that attitudes and open-ended WTP do not have a positive relation. People are willing to support domestic agriculture as a provider of safe and high-quality food. However, a remarkable proportion of Finnish citizens have a positive attitude towards externalities and joint products of agriculture. The emphasised multifunctionality characteristics can have important implications on agribusiness firms in terms of e.g. plant location decisions, and on the WTO negotiations with regard to the anticipated removal of export subsidies.
Petra Goláňová, The Early La Tène Period in Moravia
Creators: name: Tappert, Claudia
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Petra Goláňová, The Early La Tène Period in Moravia. Studien zur Archäologie Europas 32. Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2018. ISBN 978-3-7749-4014-7. 312 Seiten mit 89 Textabbildungen und 23 Tafeln
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
The Influence of Clusters on the Competitiveness of Hog Production: The Example of Northwestern Germany
Creators: name: Deimel, Mark
name: Arens, Ludwig
name: Theuvsen, Ludwig
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2011
Subjects: pork production; cluster structures; competitiveness

description: In recent decades the northwestern part of Germany (Weser-Ems region) has come to focus on intensive pork production. This has led to public outrage about the disposal of biological waste, farmers’ complaints about the high cost of leasing land, soaring risks of animal diseases, and the decreasing popularity of intensive animal husbandry. However, despite these problems, due to a beneficial cluster structure, the region is a successful market participant. To shed some light on the relationship between network relationships in clusters and competitiveness, an empirical survey was undertaken to compare this pork-intensive region with non–pork-intensive regions. Bi- and multivariate analyses reveal a better access to knowledge and information on the part of farmers in the Weser-Ems region as well as a higher regional competitiveness. As a result, the cluster region characterized by intensive hog production is economically more successful.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 2, No 2 (2011)
One-Up On L1: Can X-rays Provide Longer Advanced Warning of Solar Wind Flux Enhancements Than Upstream Monitors?
Creators: name: Collier, M. R.
name: Moore, T. E.
name: Snowden, S. L.
name: Kuntz, K. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of strong solar wind proton flux correlations with ROSAT X-ray rates along with high spectral resolution Chandra observations of X-rays from the dark Moon show that soft X-ray emission mirrors the behavior of the solar wind. In this paper, based on an analysis of an X-ray event observed by XMM-Newton resulting from charge exchange of high charge state solar wind ions and contemporaneous neutral solar wind data, we argue that X-ray observations may be able to provide reliable advance warning, perhaps by as much as half a day, of dramatic increases in solar wind flux at Earth. Like neutral atom imaging, this provides the capability to monitor the solar wind remotely rather than in-situ.
description: in press in Adv. Space Research, 7 pages, 6 eps figures, resolution reduced for Astro-ph submission, see http://lena.gsfc.nasa.gov for full version
A. Bernard Knapp, Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
Creators: name: Von Rüden, Constance
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: A. Bernard Knapp, Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean. Sidestone Press, Leiden 2018. ISBN 978-90-8890-555-1 (Hardback). ISBN 978-90-8890-554-4 (Paperback). ISBN 978-90-8890-556-8 (E-Book). 298 Seiten mit 20 Abbildungen in Farbe und 40 in Schwarz-Weiß
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
Discovering genes involved in branching decisions in neurospora crassa
Creators: name: Virag, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The main objective of this study is to contribute to the understanding of branching in Neurospora crassa Shear & Dodge. Actin and actin-related proteins are present at hyphal tips and at sites where new branches emerge (Heath, 1990). Factors like cytochalasins (Allen et al, 1980) and cold conditions (Uyeda and Furuya, 1986) disrupt their distribution and the branching pattern and frequency. To reveal the role of actin and actin-related proteins in branch initiation and formation, mutants resistant to cytochalasin A (ccr) and sensitive to cold (cs) were obtained. Purified strains with single gene mutations were morphologically characterized. The ccr-100 strain is different from the wild type strain in several properties. It has different colony morphology, is predominantly dichotomously branched, has an increased branching frequency through development, and is cold sensitive. This mutant did not restore the wild type phenotype with the addition of calcium or cAMP to the medium, indicating that the mutation did not cause a deficiency in the calcium or cAMP content in hyphae. The cold sensitive mutant cs-43 has a decreased distance between branching sites, and the mutants cs-245, cs-466 and cs-611 have an increased distance between branching sites when compared to the wild type strain. The linkage tester strain alcoy was crossed to the mutant strains to map the mutated loci. The mutations of the cold sensitive strains were located throughout the genome, and the mutation of the selected cytochalasin A resistant strain ccr-100 was mapped to linkage group V. Further characterization of the obtained mutant strains will help to elucidate the role of specific gene products in branching events.
Does Product Diversity Signal Bargains in Australian Wine?
Creators: name: Horowitz, Ira
name: Lockshin, Larry
name: Horowitz, Ira
name: Lockshin, Larry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: wine marketing
subject: product diversity
subject: wine quality
subject: predicted quality
subject: quality-bargain

description: The residuals from a set of linear regression equations built to explain the quality of a bottle of Australian wine via eight quality signals are examined to determine whether there is any relationship between their signs for individual producers and the diversity of their offerings. Product diversity is found to be a fault-ridden signal of a quality-bargain, which we define as a bottle of wine whose quality rating exceeds its regression-based expectation. Indeed, to the extent that the signal does impart useful information, the message would be that consumers are less likely to get their money's worth the greater is the diversity of the producer's offerings.
Ghosts in Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Creminelli, Paolo
name: Nicolis, Alberto
name: Papucci, Michele
name: Trincherini, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of Lorentz-invariant massive gravity we show that classical solutions around heavy sources are plagued by ghost instabilities. The ghost shows up in the effective field theory at huge distances from the source, much bigger than the Vainshtein radius. Its presence is independent of the choice of the non-linear terms added to the Fierz-Pauli Lagrangian. At the Vainshtein radius the mass of the ghost is of order of the inverse radius, so that the theory cannot be trusted inside this region, not even at the classical level.
description: 16 pages
Approximate analytical description of apparent horizons for initial data with momentum and spin
Creators: name: Altas, Emel
name: Tekin, Bayram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct analytical initial data for a slowly moving and rotating black hole for generic orientations of the linear momentum and the spin. We solve the Hamiltonian constraint approximately and work out the properties of the apparent horizon and show the dependence of its shape on the angle between the spin and the linear momentum. In particular a dimple, whose location depends on the mentioned angle, arises on the 2-sphere geometry of the apparent horizon. We exclusively work in the case of conformally flat initial metrics.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure, v2 matches the published form
Should I Make or Should I Buy? Innovation Strategies and Governance Structures in the Italian Food Sector
Creators: name: Pascucci, Stefano
name: Royer, Annie
name: Bijman, Jos
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2011
Subjects: innovation determinants; technology sourcing; innovation

description: This paper analyses the "make or buy" decision of food firms applied to innovation strategy using 389 Italian food firms data from the Unicredit 2007 database. We develop a set of hypothesis from three theoretical perspectives such as transaction cost economics, strategic management and resource-based view. Our paper aims at highlight whether or not different firm’s features can be linked to the decision to make or buy. We found out that these two decisions are positively interlinked. Moreover we also found out that it is difficult to indicate a clear-cut behaviour for the Italian food firms if we refer to making or buying decisions. We discuss these results and use them to bring some interesting outcomes to discuss managerial implications and/or policy interventions in this highly strategic domain.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 2, No 2 (2011)
Joanna Brück, Personifying Prehistory. Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland
Creators: name: Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Joanna Brück, Personifying Prehistory. Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. University Press Oxford, Oxford 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-876801-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768012.001.0001. xi + 308 Seiten mit 52 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
Analysis of Consumer Attitudes and Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Functional Foods
Creators: name: Di Pasquale, Jorgelina
name: Adinolfi, Felice
name: Capitanio, Fabian
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2011
Subjects: functional foods; willingness to pay; consumer-directed survey

description: The objective of this study is to analyze consumer behaviour in relation to functional foods by a direct survey. To this end, the proposal is an analysis of the reasons for choosing to consume this type of food or not, accompanied by a supplementary investigation, mostly to assess the relationship between consumption patterns and willingness to pay (WTP) for the most common categories of functional foods, such as milk fortified with CLA (conjugated linoleic acid).

Our research shows that a proportion of the population is unaware of the existence of functional foods and their properties. Moreover, it shows that when the concept of functional foods is explained to consumers, this creates a greater willingness to pay for such food, which is strongly linked to type of product carrier but not greatly to income. So the knowledge and transparency of information appear to be decisive variables in the process of choice, with significant implications in terms of policies for classification, labelling of food and public health.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 2, No 2 (2011)
Fries, Heinrich, Iserloh, Erwin, Kretschmar, Georg, Lohff, Wenzel, Manns, Peter, Meyer, Harding, Pannenberg, Wolfhart, Scheele, Paul-Werner, Schütte, Heinz: Confessio Augustana
Creators: name: Kg.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 28 Nr. 3 (1979): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 28, Heft 3
Nonextensive models for earthquakes
Creators: name: Silva, R.
name: Franca, G. S.
name: Vilar, C. S.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have revisited the fragment-asperity interaction model recently introduced by Sotolongo-Costa and Posadas (Physical Review Letters 92, 048501, 2004) by considering a different definition for mean values in the context of Tsallis nonextensive statistics and introducing a new scale between the earthquake energy and the size of fragment $ε\propto r^3$. The energy distribution function (EDF) deduced in our approach is considerably different from the one obtained in the above reference. We have also tested the viability of this new EDF with data from two different catalogs (in three different areas), namely, NEIC and Bulletin Seismic of the Revista Brasileira de Geof\'ısica. Although both approaches provide very similar values for the nonextensive parameter $q$, other physical quantities, e.g., the energy density differs considerably, by several orders of magnitude.
description: 5 Pages, 1 figure, To appear in Phys. Rev. E
Protecting Your Turf: First-mover Advantages as a Barrier to Competitor Innovation
Creators: name: Briggeman, Brian C.
name: Gunderson, Michael A.
name: Detre, Joshua D.
name: Briggeman, Brian C.
name: Gunderson, Michael A.
name: Detre, Joshua D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Product innovation
subject: first-mover advantages
subject: barriers to entry
subject: stochastic simulation
subject: uncertainty

description: Product innovation for a juice company and its associated first-mover advantages are analyzed. Stochastic simulation is used to model market size, price, competitive intensity, and the likelihood of competitor entry. Results of moving first allow the firm to capture market share, realize first-mover advantages in excess of $2 million, and deter competitor innovation. In addition, the proposed model is flexible enough to be applied in other industries.
A CFT Distance Conjecture
Creators: name: Perlmutter, Eric
name: Rastelli, Leonardo
name: Vafa, Cumrun
name: Valenzuela, Irene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate a series of conjectures relating the geometry of conformal manifolds to the spectrum of local operators in conformal field theories in $d>2$ spacetime dimensions. We focus on conformal manifolds with limiting points at infinite distance with respect to the Zamolodchikov metric. Our central conjecture is that all theories at infinite distance possess an emergent higher-spin symmetry, generated by an infinite tower of currents whose anomalous dimensions vanish exponentially in the distance. Stated geometrically, the diameter of a non-compact conformal manifold must diverge logarithmically in the higher-spin gap. In the holographic context our conjectures are related to the Distance Conjecture in the swampland program. Interpreted gravitationally, they imply that approaching infinite distance in moduli space at fixed AdS radius, a tower of higher-spin fields becomes massless at an exponential rate that is bounded from below in Planck units. We discuss further implications for conformal manifolds of superconformal field theories in three and four dimensions.
description: 22 pages. v3: fixed compiling error
Trust in International Organizations: An Empirical Investigation Focusing on the United Nations
Creators: name: Torgler, Benno
name: Torgler, Benno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: International Organizations
subject: United Nations
subject: International Trust
subject: Political Trust
subject: Social Trust
subject: Corruption
subject: Globalization

description: The literature on social capital has strongly increased in the last two decades, but there still is a lack of substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of international trust. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals, using micro-data from the World Values Survey, covering 38 countries, to investigate trust in international organizations, specifically in the United Nations. In line with previous studies on international trust we find that political trust matters. We also find that social trust is relevant, but contrary to previous studies the results are less robust. Moreover, the paper goes beyond previous studies investigating also the impact of geographic identification, corruption and globalization. We find that a higher level of (perceived) corruption reduces the trust in the UN in developed countries, but increases trust in developing and transition countries. A stronger identification with the world as a whole also leads to a higher trust in the UN and a stronger capacity to act globally in economic and political environment increases trust in the UN.
The Intermediate-band Dropout Method: A New Method to Search for High-Redshift Galaxies
Creators: name: Shioya, Yasuhiro
name: Taniguchi, Yoshiaki
name: Ajiki, Masaru
name: Nagao, Tohru
name: Murayama, Takashi
name: Sasaki, Shunji
name: Sumiya, Ryoko
name: Hatakeyama, Yuichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new method to search for high-redshift galaxies that is based on an intermediate-band dropout technique rather than the usual broad-band dropout one. In this method, we use an intermediate-band filter whose central wavelength is longer than 7000 Å. This new method makes it possible to distinguish both very late-type stars such as L and T dwarfs and dusty galaxies at intermediate redshift from real high-$z$ Lyman break galaxies. The reason for this is that such interlopers do not show strong intermediate-band depression although they have very red broad-band colors that are indicative of Lyman break galaxies. Applying our new method to imaging data sets obtained with the Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope, we find a new sample of Lyman break galaxies at $z \simeq 5$.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, PASJ, Vol.57, No.2, in press
A Proposed Training Program to Develop the Resistance Trait to Improve the Performance of Blocking Skills among Volleyball Players a Pilot Study on a School Club
Creators: name: Mansouri Abdallah
name: Arezki Ismail
name: Derouiche Mohammed
name: Hamani Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: A Proposed Training Program, Develop the Resistance, Performance of Blocking Skills.

description: Abstract

The current study aimed to propose a training program to develop the resistance trait and its impact on developing the blocking technique for school volleyball players. This topic was chosen in order to highlight the great importance played by the proposed training programs based on sound scientific foundations in raising the skill and physical level of the players. This study also focused on highlighting the role of the coach in choosing the best training programs used to reach the required levels and identifying the reality of preparing and forming the younger volleyball categories at the level of Bouira State and revealing their strengths and weaknesses. As for the methodological aspect, the researcher used the experimental method due to its suitability to the nature of the research and the research community represented in the clubs active in the Bouira State Volleyball Association.
What Distinguishes EMAS Participants? An Exploration of Company Characteristics
Creators: name: Bracke, Roeland
name: Verbeke, Tom
name: Dejonckheere, Veerle
name: Bracke, Roeland
name: Verbeke, Tom
name: Dejonckheere, Veerle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: EMAS
subject: European Companies
subject: Public Policy

description: Empirical research on the characteristics of environmentally responsive companies has focussed almost exclusively on US and Japanese firms. For Europe, which is commonly considered as the greenest of the three major developed economic markets, similar research is lacking. This paper seeks to fill this gap by empirically investigating the business and financial characteristics, stakeholder pressure and public policies distinguishing companies that have implemented the European Eco-Management and Audit System (EMAS) and those that have not using a unique firm-level dataset of European publicly quoted companies. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First of all, the decision to implement EMAS has not been widely analysed. Secondly, we focus on European firms which allows us to assess if and to what extent European firms behave like their US or Japanese counterparts. We find that the EMAS participation decision is positively influenced by the solvency ratio, the share of non-current liabilities and the average labour cost. Also, two measures of company size are positively associated with EMAS participation: both the absolute company size as well as the relative size of a company compared to its sector average. The profit margin on the other hand exerts a negative influence according to our results. We further show that public policy can heavily influence the EMAS participation decision: companies whose headquarters is located in a member state that actively encourages EMAS have a higher probability of participation..
Laura Perucchetti, Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections. A Reconsideration of the Metal Flow at the Beginning of the Metal Age in the Alps
Creators: name: Klimscha, Florian
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Laura Perucchetti, Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections. A Reconsideration of the Metal Flow at the Beginning of the Metal Age in the Alps. Archaeopress Publishing, Oxford 2017. ISBN 978-1-78491-614-5 (Paperback). ISBN 978-1-78491-615-2 (e-Pdf). 186 Seiten mit 35 Farbtafeln
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
L^2-Betti numbers of one-relator groups
Creators: name: Dicks, Warren
name: Linnell, Peter A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F05, (Primary) 16S34, 20J05 (Secondary)

description: We determine the L^2-Betti numbers of all one-relator groups and all surface-plus-one-relation groups (surface-plus-one-relation groups were introduced by Hempel who called them one-relator surface groups). In particular we show that for all such groups G, the L^2-Betti numbers b_n^{(2)}(G) are 0 for all n>1. We also obtain some information about the L^2-cohomology of left-orderable groups, and deduce the non-L^2 result that, in any left-orderable group of homological dimension one, all two-generator subgroups are free.
description: 18 pages, version 3, minor changes. To appear in Math. Ann