cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Disentangling Identity and Pose for Facial Expression Recognition
Creators: name: Jiang, Jing
name: Deng, Weihong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Facial expression recognition (FER) is a challenging problem because the expression component is always entangled with other irrelevant factors, such as identity and head pose. In this work, we propose an identity and pose disentangled facial expression recognition (IPD-FER) model to learn more discriminative feature representation. We regard the holistic facial representation as the combination of identity, pose and expression. These three components are encoded with different encoders. For identity encoder, a well pre-trained face recognition model is utilized and fixed during training, which alleviates the restriction on specific expression training data in previous works and makes the disentanglement practicable on in-the-wild datasets. At the same time, the pose and expression encoder are optimized with corresponding labels. Combining identity and pose feature, a neutral face of input individual should be generated by the decoder. When expression feature is added, the input image should be reconstructed. By comparing the difference between synthesized neutral and expressional images of the same individual, the expression component is further disentangled from identity and pose. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of our method on both lab-controlled and in-the-wild databases and we achieve state-of-the-art recognition performance.
Simple Mass Estimate for Resonance(s) being 6 Top plus 6 Anti top Bound states and Combinations thereof
Creators: name: Nielsen, Holger Bech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have long speculated \cite{1nbs,2nbs,3nbs,4nbs,5nbs, 6nbs,7nbs,8nbs,9nbs,10nbs,11nbs,12nbs, 13nbs,14nbs,LNvacuumstability} , that 6 top + 6 anti-top quarks due to the realtively large size of the top-yukawa coupling would bind exceptionaly strongly by mainly Higgs exchange. Here we present a surprisingly simple "calculation" of the mass of this speculated bound state. Even a possible resonance in scattering of two such bound states is speculated. For the "calculation" of the masses it is crucial to assume, that our since long speculated principle "Multiple Point Principle"\cite{5mp,6mp,7mp,8mp,9mp,10mp, 11mp,12mp,13mp,14mp,15mp,16mp,17mp, deriving}, is true. This principle says: {\em there are several vacua all having almost zero energy density}. Further we make an approximation of the Higgs Yukawa potential essentially replacing the exponential in it by a step-function. The new result means that there are now two independent calls for our bound state having the mass around 750 GeV required by our "new law of nature" the Multiple Point Principle. It should be remarked that in our picture there is {\em no new physics} in the sense of new fundamental particles, but the "Multiple Point Principle" is new in the sense of being not yet accepted. Further we get the {\em same} mass within uncertainties as earlier\cite{LNvacuumstability} but now from a completly different assumption, except for being from our "multiple point principle". But the two masses are gotten from using {\em different} (speculative) vacua occuring in the pure Standard Model.
description: a bit corrected etc because of the death of the F(750) digamma fluctuation, now even more relation to late F(750) removed so that essentially nothing left about this fluctuation. But the coincidence of the estimated mass for the bound state - still called F - in the present article with the one obtainable from aprevious article is a highly remarkable coincidence suggesting truth of our articles!
Boosting Modern and Historical Handwritten Text Recognition with Deformable Convolutions
Creators: name: Cascianelli, Silvia
name: Cornia, Marcella
name: Baraldi, Lorenzo
name: Cucchiara, Rita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) in free-layout pages is a challenging image understanding task that can provide a relevant boost to the digitization of handwritten documents and reuse of their content. The task becomes even more challenging when dealing with historical documents due to the variability of the writing style and degradation of the page quality. State-of-the-art HTR approaches typically couple recurrent structures for sequence modeling with Convolutional Neural Networks for visual feature extraction. Since convolutional kernels are defined on fixed grids and focus on all input pixels independently while moving over the input image, this strategy disregards the fact that handwritten characters can vary in shape, scale, and orientation even within the same document and that the ink pixels are more relevant than the background ones. To cope with these specific HTR difficulties, we propose to adopt deformable convolutions, which can deform depending on the input at hand and better adapt to the geometric variations of the text. We design two deformable architectures and conduct extensive experiments on both modern and historical datasets. Experimental results confirm the suitability of deformable convolutions for the HTR task.
A step further in bioremediation: mycoremediation for soil recovery
Creators: name: Herrero, Jofre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: LIFE MySOIL project presentation delivered by Jofre Herrero, from Eurecat, during the 8th European Bioremediation Conference, which took place on June 12th-17th, 2022, in Chania, (Greece).
description: This project has received funding from the LIFE Programme of the European Commission under contract number LIFE20 ENV/ES/000416.
Computer support algorithms for printing/packaging substrates
Creators: name: Sadinlija, Enes
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Variable stars in the bulge globular cluster NGC 6401
Creators: name: Tsapras, Y.
name: Ferro, A. Arellano
name: Bramich, D. M.
name: Jaimes, R. Figuera
name: Kains, N.
name: Street, R.
name: Hundertmark, M.
name: Horne, K.
name: Dominik, M.
name: Snodgrass, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of variable stars in globular cluster NGC 6401. The cluster is only $5.3\degr$ away from the Galactic centre and suffers from strong differential reddening. The photometric precision afforded us by difference image analysis resulted in improved sensitivity to variability in formerly inaccessible interior regions of the cluster. We find 23 RRab and 11 RRc stars within one cluster radius (2.4$\arcmin$), for which we provide coordinates, finder-charts and time-series photometry. Through Fourier decomposition of the RR Lyrae star light curves we derive a mean metallicity of [Fe/H]$_{\mathrm{UVES}} = -1.13 \pm 0.06$ (${\rm [Fe/H]}_{\mathrm{ZW}} = -1.25 \pm 0.06$), and a distance of $d\approx 6.35 \pm 0.81$ kpc. Using the RR Lyrae population, we also determine that NGC 6401 is an Oosterhoff type I cluster.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
Extreme-scale Talking-Face Video Upsampling with Audio-Visual Priors
Creators: name: Hegde, Sindhu B
name: Mukhopadhyay, Rudrabha
name: Namboodiri, Vinay P
name: Jawahar, C. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we explore an interesting question of what can be obtained from an $8\times8$ pixel video sequence. Surprisingly, it turns out to be quite a lot. We show that when we process this $8\times8$ video with the right set of audio and image priors, we can obtain a full-length, $256\times256$ video. We achieve this $32\times$ scaling of an extremely low-resolution input using our novel audio-visual upsampling network. The audio prior helps to recover the elemental facial details and precise lip shapes and a single high-resolution target identity image prior provides us with rich appearance details. Our approach is an end-to-end multi-stage framework. The first stage produces a coarse intermediate output video that can be then used to animate single target identity image and generate realistic, accurate and high-quality outputs. Our approach is simple and performs exceedingly well (an $8\times$ improvement in FID score) compared to previous super-resolution methods. We also extend our model to talking-face video compression, and show that we obtain a $3.5\times$ improvement in terms of bits/pixel over the previous state-of-the-art. The results from our network are thoroughly analyzed through extensive ablation experiments (in the paper and supplementary material). We also provide the demo video along with code and models on our website: \url{http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/research/projects/cvit-projects/talking-face-video-upsampling}.
description: Accepted in ACM-MM 2022, 10 pages, 6 pages supplementary, 18 Figures
Remittances and Household Welfare: Longitudinal Evidence from Urban Ethiopia
Creators: name: Getachew, Bizuayehu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: Two views are raised on the impact of remittances at the household level. The first view contends that remittances directly augment the income of recipient households and provide financial resources, increased household investments in education, entrepreneurship, and health. However, the second view states that remittances might have negative incentive effect which results in an increased in reservation wage and reduction in labor supply. The study examined the impact of remittances on household welfare, selectivity bias with regards to migration and remittances, and how households allocate the remittances they received from different sources. Using the Ethiopian Urban Socio Economic Survey, descriptive and econometric methodologies are adopted. The main findings include: the amount of receipt from domestic and international sources increased during the study period, remittances are primarily used for consumption followed by expenditure for schooling. It is found that there is no selectivity bias with regards to migration and recipient of remittances. The result also confirmed that the predicted per capita annual expenditure of remittance recipient households is higher than households that do not receive remittance in both the including remittances and no remittance scenarios. Finally, panel data model is estimated and the result materializes the welfare improving impact of remittances on the welfare of recipient households. Therefore, designing policies that increase the inflow and usage of remittances are vital. Policies include: improving the operation and service of financial institutions, providing incentives and training for remittance recipients will further increase the contribution of remittances to household's welfare
Network architecture planning in uncertain environments
Creators: name: Safaei, Farzad
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Rapidly Rotating, X-ray Bright Stars in the Kepler Field
Creators: name: Howell, Steve B.
name: Mason, Elena
name: Boyd, Padi
name: Smith, Krista Lynne
name: Gelino, Dawn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Kepler light curves and optical spectroscopy of twenty X-ray bright stars located in the Kepler field of view. The stars, spectral type FK, show evidence for rapid rotation including chromospheric activity 100 times or more above the Sun at maximum and flaring behavior in their light curves. Eighteen of our objects appear to be (sub)giants and may belong to the class of FK Com variables, that is evolved rapidly spinning single stars with no excretion disk and high levels of chromospheric activity. Such stars are rare and are likely the result of W UMa binary mergers, a process believed to produce the FK Com class of variable and their descendants. The FK Com stage, including the presence of an excretion disk, is short-lived but leads to longer-lived stages consisting of single, rapidly rotating evolved (sub)giants with high levels of stellar activity.
description: 34 pages, Accepted in ApJ
A study of the vernier reluctance motor
Creators: name: Schultz, Daryl John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Households' Demand for Improved Water Supply Service in Rural Areas of Ankasha Woreda, Amhara Regional State in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Fentahun, Wubalem
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: The major objective of this study is to assess the demand for improved water supply services in the context of rural areas of Ankasha woreda by using CVM with a single bounded elicitation format followed by open ended questions. Both Probit and Tobit models were used to analyze the determinants of households WTP for improvement of rural water supply services, and a total of 200 randomly selected rural household heads were interviewed. A mean WTP of birr is found to be 1.52 per jerican. Households monthly income, time taken to collect water from the existing source for single trip, educational level and sex of the household head have positive and significant effects on willingness to pay for improved rural water supply services. On the other hand, the initial bid price and quality of existing water source have negative and significant effects on the probability of willingness to pay for improved water provision in the probit model. In the Tobit model the variables households monthly income, time taken to collect water for single trip, educational level, marital status and age of the household head determine MWTP of respondents positively, while availability and quality of the existing water sources negatively affect MWTP. As the mean willingness to pay of the sampled households is very much higher than the amount of money households paying for existing water sources, both the rural households and service provider will be the gainers from the improved water supply service implementation. The service providers should take into consideration the quality and distance problems in designing the water system of the rural areas of Ankasha woreda.
title: Lanthanide Complexes (Ln=La, Nd, Dy) of Octaethyl propane-1,1,3,3-tetrayltetrakis(phosphonate): Multidentate Binding Competing with Monodentate DMSO Complexes
Creators: name: Koehne, Ingo
name: Pietschnig, Rudolf
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 540
subject: Lanthanoidkomplexe
subject: Dimethylsulfoxid
subject: Basizität
subject: Quantenausbeute

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Hiding in Plain Sight - Recovering Clusters of Galaxies with the Strongest AGN in Their Cores
Creators: name: Green, T. S.
name: Edge, A. C.
name: Ebeling, H.
name: Burgett, W. S.
name: Draper, P. W.
name: Kaiser, N.
name: Kudritzki, R. -P.
name: Magnier, E. A.
name: Metcalfe, N.
name: Wainscoat, R. J.
name: Waters, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A key challenge in understanding the feedback mechanism of AGN in Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) is the inherent rarity of catching an AGN during its strong outburst phase. This is exacerbated by the ambiguity of differentiating between AGN and clusters in X-ray observations. If there is evidence for an AGN then the X-ray emission is commonly assumed to be dominated by the AGN emission, introducing a selection effect against the detection of AGN in BCGs. In order to recover these 'missing' clusters, we systematically investigate the colour-magnitude relation around some ~3500 ROSAT All Sky Survey selected AGN, looking for signs of a cluster red sequence. Amongst our 22 candidate systems, we independently rediscover several confirmed systems, where a strong AGN resides in a central galaxy. We compare the X-ray luminosity to red sequence richness distribution of our AGN candidate systems with that of a similarly selected comparison sample of ~1000 confirmed clusters and identify seven 'best' candidates (all of which are BL Lac objects), where the X-ray flux is likely to be a comparable mix between cluster and AGN emission. We confirm that the colours of the red sequence are consistent with the redshift of the AGN, that the colours of the AGN host galaxy are consistent with AGN, and, by comparing their luminosities with those from our comparison clusters, confirm that the AGN hosts are consistent with BCGs.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 12 Pages + Appendix; 7 Figures and 4 Tables
Effect of switching time scale of receptor activity on chemotactic performance of Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Mandal, Shobhan Dev
name: Chatterjee, Sakuntala
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the chemotactic motion of Escherichia coli, the switching of transmembrane chemoreceptors between active and inactive states is one of the most important steps of the signaling pathway. We study the effect of this switching time-scale on the chemotactic performance of the cell. We quantify performance by the chemotactic drift velocity of the cell. Our extensive numerical simulations on a detailed theoretical model show that as the activity switching rate increases, the drift velocity increases and then saturates. Our data also show the mean duration of a downhill run decreases strongly with the switching rate, while that of an uphill run decreases relatively slowly. We explain this effect from temporal variation of activity along uphill and downhill trajectories. We show that for large and small switching rates the nature of activity variation show qualitatively different behaviors along a downhill run but similar behavior along an uphill run. This results in a stronger dependence of downhill run duration on the switching rate and relatively milder dependence for uphill run duration.
Mechanical thermal expression of lignite : directional dewatering and permeability characteristics
Creators: name: Scholes, Oliver Nelson
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The role of the European library community in driving change to rights retention, copyright and open licensing through policymaking
Creators: name: Proudman, Vanessa
name: Treadway, Jon
name: Melinscak Zlodi, Iva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Parallel Session 6 – Cultivating Change: rights retention and open research practices
open access policies
copyright laws
Knowledge Rights 21
open science

description: Abstract Europe has seen a significant growth in Open Access (OA) policies and many institutions have been updating their policies and augmenting them with changed stances on rights retention, copyright and Open Licensing. These policy changes have been very much driven by the library community, operating within different institutional contexts, in response to funder and national policies, and different legislative frameworks. Research institutions are seeking ways to ensure that researchers are not overwhelmed by complex requirements and incentives, and to support them in meeting publisher and funder mandates. Stichting IFLA Foundation Programme, in partnership with LIBER and SPARC Europe, are implementing a three-year Arcadia Foundation-funded programme to reform copyright laws, regulations and other policy measures that enable libraries to provide significantly improved access to and use of copyrighted works. The Knowledge Rights 21 Project aims to promote change at European, national and local levels by accelerating the uptake of rights retention and open licensing. This presentation will draw on both quantitative data and qualitative lessons learnt from the research phase of Project Retain, which builds an evidence-base around current policies on copyright, rights retention and open licensing. This work will underpin a campaign for change and be used as a baseline for tracking future progress. The presentation will draw on a survey with over 200 respondents, over 15 interviews and focus groups to articulate the role the library community is playing in driving policy change in a number of countries across Europe. The speakers will draw attention to the drivers and blockers of progress, offer examples of good practices and case studies showcasing innovative approaches to change management, whilst highlighting the different contexts and the stakeholder groups the library community is working with. For example, the importance of peer influence, network organisation for policymaking for strength in numbers, the availability of empowered and knowledgeable legal advisers, strong engagement strategies and the ability to adapt to feedback received when engaging researchers. The presentation will articulate an Open Access call to action to encourage more institutional policymaking in the area of rights retention and open licensing to enable a simplified legal framework that better ensures the greater autonomy for authors and their institutions when seeking to publish OA. The institutional policymaking resources needed for a new paradigm where copyright supports Open Science will be outlined. The speakers will seek input from delegates on their own needs and challenges to increase institutional policymaking in Europe.
Zeit für die Familie?
Creators: name: Böhme, René
name: Mönkedieck, Nele
Publisher: name: Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Elterngeld
subject: Anspruch
subject: Nutzung
subject: 360

description: Das Elterngeld ist eine Transferzahlung für Eltern, die wegen der Betreuung eines Kindes nicht oder nicht voll erwerbstätig sind. In der hier nun vorgelegten Studie werden einerseits die Ergebnisse von 20 Interviews mit Bremer Familien zu den Motiven ihrer Elterngeldnutzung vorgestellt. Dabei deutet sich besonders bei partnerschaftlichen und ökonomischen Motiven eine erhebliche Differenzierung nach sozialen Milieus an. Ferner hat die unterjährige und flexible Bereitstellung von Betreuungsplätzen für viele Befragte eine hohe Bedeutung. Andererseits werden in diesem Bericht auch die Daten des Elterngeldbezugs in Bremen auf Basis der Bundesstatistik und eines Datensatzes der Elterngeldstelle Bremen ausgewertet. Die Bundesstatistik zeigt zunächst einige Bremer Besonderheiten wie beispielsweise der geringe Anteil an Müttern, die vor der Geburt des Kindes erwerbstätig waren oder die Tatsache, dass Bremer Väter zwar nur selten, wenn dann aber überdurchschnittlich lange die Möglichkeit der Partnermonate nutzen. Die Detailanalysen machen dagegen deutlich, dass in den Fällen ohne Vätermonate das durchschnittliche Elterngeld der Mütter erheblich niedriger liegt als in den Fällen mit Vätermonaten. Die Gruppe der männlichen Elterngeldempfänger ist zudem sehr heterogen. Ferner unterscheiden sich die Elterngeldansprüche analog zur jeweiligen sozialen Lage erheblich zwischen den Stadtteilen. Auch die Nutzung von Vätermonaten ist sozialräumlich sehr verschieden.
Temperatur
Creators: name: Buck, Wolfgang
name: Strehlow, Peter
name: Seidel, Joachim
name: Engert, Jost
name: Fellmuth, Bernd
name: Fischer, Joachim
name: Hartmann, Jürgen
name: Hollandt, Jörg
name: Tegeler, Erich
name: Quinn, Terry
name: Rudtsch, Steffen
name: Wolber, Lutz
name: Edler, Frank
name: Anhalt, Klaus
name: Gutschwager, Berndt
name: Struß, Ortwin
name: Steiger, Andreas
name: Gaiser, Christof
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2014

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Band 117 (2007), Heft 3, S. 221 - 293. ISSN 0030-834X
Das priesterschriftliche Zeugnis von Jahwe dem Schöpfer gegenüber der Eigenwertigkeit einer sogenannten Schöpfungswirklichkeit
Creators: name: Strauß, Hans
Publisher: name: Biblische Notizen
Year: 1970

description: Biblische Notizen, Bd. 33 (1986): Biblische Notizen, Band 33
Initial conditions for hydrodynamics from weakly coupled pre-equilibrium evolution
Creators: name: Mazeliauskas, Aleksas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use leading order effective kinetic theory to simulate the pre\nobreakdash-equilibrium evolution of transverse energy and flow perturbations in heavy-ion collisions. We provide a Green function which propagates the initial perturbations of the energy-momentum tensor to a time when hydrodynamics becomes applicable. With this map, the pre-thermal evolution from saturated nuclei to hydrodynamics can be modeled in the framework of weakly coupled QCD.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, proceeding for Hot Quarks 2016 conference
Rare earth metal cinnamate compounds for corrosion inhibition of mild steel : efficiency and mechanisms
Creators: name: Blin, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Quantum dynamics of optical phonons generated by optical excitation of a quantum dot
Creators: name: Wigger, Daniel
name: Gehring, Helge
name: Axt, V. Martin
name: Reiter, Doris E.
name: Kuhn, Tilmann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of the fundamental properties of phonons is crucial to understand their role in applica- tions in quantum information science, where the active use of phonons is currently highly debated. A genuine quantum phenomenon associated with the fluctuation properties of phonons is squeezing, which is achieved when the fluctuations of a certain variable drop below their respective vacuum value. We consider a semiconductor quantum dot in which the exciton is coupled to phonons. We review the fluctuation properties of the phonons, which are generated by optical manipulation of the quantum dot, in the limiting case of ultra short pulses. Then we discuss the phonon properties for an excitation with finite pulses. Within a generating function formalism we calculate the corre- sponding fluctuation properties of the phonons and show that phonon squeezing can be achieved by the optical manipulation of the quantum dot exciton for certain conditions even for a single pulse excitation where neither for short nor for long pulses squeezing occurs. To explain the occurrence of squeezing we employ a Wigner function picture providing a detailed understanding of the induced quantum dynamics.
Ethiopia's Accession to the Two With Emphasis on Foreign Market Access
Creators: name: Bulto, Wolde
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2006

description: The purpose of the thesis is to discuss and analyze the effects of WTO accession on Ethiopia's economic policy making with particular emphasis on foreign market access for her exports. That is, its aim is to ask how important market access might be as an incentive for Ethiopia to join the WTO. Assessing Ethiopia's effective utilization of already granted preferential market access is also another major objective addressed in the paper. The paper also discusses the costs and benefits to be expected by Ethiopia if she accedes to the WTO. We employ both descriptive and empirical analysis approaches. Trends of Ethiopia's exports by major destinations, Ethiopia's utilization of preferential market access, and major consequences of policy changes as a result of joining the WTO are among descriptively analyzed issues. For empirical analysis part, we employ the gravity model of international trade and include data on 31 of Ethiopia's trade partners. The empirical analysis is done using two sample periods-(1995-2003) and (2000-2003)-to observe the effects of recent preferential market accesses-AGOA and EBA initiatives. To enable us to draw sound conclusions from empirical results, three trade policy indicators are used. These are Heritage Foundation Index of distortions in international trade, Economic Freedom of the World international trade index and trade dependency ratio of Ethiopia's trading partners. European Union (EU) member countries, COMESA member countries, Saudi Arabia, United States (US) and Japan are major importers of Ethiopian exporters. In addition to the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), European Union granted Ethiopia preferential market access under EU-ASP economic partnership (Cotonou Agreement) and EBA initiatives. United States also offered preferential market access for Ethiopia under AGOA. However, it is found that Ethiopia's utilization of these preferential market accesses is not satisfactory. Without taking these preferential market accesses into account, our empirical estimates show that import barriers imposed by Ethiopia's trade partners do not play an important role in determining the volume of Ethiopian exports. Therefore, the results suggest that the most favored nation mechanism and putative improved market access might not be an important criterion for deciding Ethiopia's Accession to the WTO. Hence she should demand longenough periods both for accession process and transition period to address her supply side problems.
Lift on an oscillating cylinder in smooth and turbulent flows
Creators: name: Blackburn, Hugh Maurice
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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On the decategorification of Ozsváth and Szabó's bordered theory for knot Floer homology
Creators: name: Manion, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27 (Primary), 17B37 (Secondary)

description: We relate decategorifications of Ozsváth-Szabó's new bordered theory for knot Floer homology to representations of $\mathcal{U}_q(\mathfrak{gl}(1|1))$. Specifically, we consider two subalgebras $\mathcal{C}_r(n,\mathcal{S})$ and $\mathcal{C}_l(n,\mathcal{S})$ of Ozsváth- Szabó's algebra $\mathcal{B}(n,\mathcal{S})$, and identify their Grothendieck groups with tensor products of representations $V$ and $V^*$ of $\mathcal{U}_q(\mathfrak{gl}(1|1))$, where $V$ is the vector representation. We identify the decategorifications of Ozsváth-Szabó's DA bimodules for elementary tangles with corresponding maps between representations. Finally, when the algebras are given multi-Alexander gradings, we demonstrate a relationship between the decategorification of Ozsváth-Szabó's theory and Viro's quantum relative $\mathcal{A}^1$ of the Reshetikhin-Turaev functor based on $\mathcal{U}_q(\mathfrak{gl}(1|1))$.
description: 60 pages; 11 figures
Psychische Gesundheitsrisiken als Herausforderung für das Betriebliche Eingliederungsmanagement (BEM)
Creators: name: Pöser, Stephanie
name: Becke, Guido
name: Schwerdt, Cora
Publisher: name: Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Betriebliches Eingliederungsmanagement
subject: Psychische Erkrankungen
subject: Studie
subject: 360

description: Die berufliche und betriebliche Wiedereingliederung langzeiterkrankter Beschäftigter ist in Deutschland im Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB IX § 84 Prävention) gesetzlich geregelt und für alle Arbeitgeber obligatorisch. Mit Blick auf dieses‚ Betriebliche Eingliederungsmanagement‘ (BEM) ist bisher jedoch kaum untersucht, welche Herausforderungen insbesondere psychische Erkrankungen von Beschäftigten an das BEM-Verfahren und damit befasste Akteures tellen. In Deutschland haben betriebliche Interessenvertretungen Mitbestimmungs- und Beteiligungsrechte im betrieblichen Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz und im BEM. Bislang liegen jedoch auch hier kaum empirische Ergebnisse über das konkrete Interessenvertretungshandeln von Betriebs- und Personalräten im BEM vor. Diese Forschungsdefizite bildeten die Grundlage für die explorative Untersuchung des Instituts Arbeit und Wirtschaft (iaw), die durch die Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen gefördert wurde. Im Rahmen der Studie wurden sowohl außerbetriebliche Experten als auch Experten aus Organisationen befragt, die über mehrjährige Erfahrung mit dem Betrieblichen Eingliederungsmanagement verfügten. Der vorliegende Bericht stellt die Grundlagen des BEM, die Ergebnisse aus den Interviews sowie praxisorientierte Empfehlungen für eine Öffnung des BEM im Umgang mit psychisch erkrankten Beschäftigten vor.
Knowledge Graph Curation: A Practical Framework
Creators: name: Huaman, Elwin
name: Fensel, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have shown to be very important for applications such as personal assistants, question-answering systems, and search engines. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure their high quality. However, KGs inevitably contain errors, duplicates, and missing values, which may hinder their adoption and utility in business applications, as they are not curated, e.g., low-quality KGs produce low-quality applications that are built on top of them. In this vision paper, we propose a practical knowledge graph curation framework for improving the quality of KGs. First, we define a set of quality metrics for assessing the status of KGs, Second, we describe the verification and validation of KGs as cleaning tasks, Third, we present duplicate detection and knowledge fusion strategies for enriching KGs. Furthermore, we give insights and directions toward a better architecture for curating KGs.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, published in The 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs (IJCKG'21) proceeding
On the relative trajectories of a probe ejected from an orbiting space station
Creators: name: Berreen, Terry F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Vainshtein mechanism in massive gravity nonlinear sigma models
Creators: name: Aoki, Katsuki
name: Mizuno, Shuntaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stability of the Vainshtein screening solution of the massive/bi-gravity based on the massive nonlinear sigma model as the effective action inside the Vainshtein radius. The effective action is obtained by taking the $Λ_2$ decoupling limit around a curved spacetime. First we derive a general consequence that any Ricci flat Vainshtein screening solution is unstable when we take into account the excitation of the scalar graviton only. This instability suggests that the nonlinear excitation of the scalar graviton is not sufficient to obtain a successful Vainshtein screening in massive/bi-gravity. Then to see the role of the excitation of the vector graviton, we study perturbations around the static and spherically symmetric solution obtained in bigravity explicitly. As a result, we find that linear excitations of the vector graviton cannot be helpful and the solution still suffers from a ghost and/or a gradient instability for any parameters of the theory for this background.
description: 12 pages, no figure; v2: minor improvements, references added, published version
The Impact of African Growth and Opportunity Act on Sub-Saharan Africa Countries' Export to the United States of America
Creators: name: Admasu, Yeshwas
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: The African growth and opportunistic act (AGOA) is a US initiative which provides preferential access to Africa's product in US market since its enactment in 2000. This thesis seeks to assess the impact of AGOA on SSA countries total export to US. For this purpose, a dynamic panel data gravity model with endogenous explanatory variable is used and the generalized method of moment estimators is employed. The estimation is conducted for a panel of 33 AGOA eligible SSA countries over a period of nine years (from 2001 to 2009). The result shows a positive and significant effect of AGOA on overall export of SSA countries to US, but the coefficient is not different from zero. Therefore, the Act is essential for SSA long-term economic growth and poverty reduction. This study recommends the elimination of demand side constraints as well as targeting on the agricultural sector and extending the Act beyond 2015. Keywords: AGOA, Dynamic Panel Data, Export of SSA, Gravity model, GMM estimators, preferential access, and Sub-Saharan Africa and United States
Diseño de Planta Experimental para el Secado de Café Instantáneo trabajando en Ciclo Cerrado
Creators: name: Narvaéz González, Ernesto David
name: Solis Mendoza, Ronald Antonio
Publisher: name: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI)
Year: 2001

description: El presente trabajo está dirigido al diseño de una planta experimental para el secado de café  instantáneo  operando  en  ciclo  cerrado.  El  propósito  de  la  misma  es  recircular  el  aire  de  secado luego de removerle el vapor, de esta manera los volátiles que se desprenden durante  el proceso de secado quedan atrapados en la corriente de aire, y cuando éste se satura de  ellos,  no  es  capaz  de  extraer  más  volátiles.  En  este  trabajo  se  presenta  el  diseño  de  los  distintos equipos que formarán parte de la planta experimental así como los requerimientos de instrumentación y accesorios que garanticen la flexibilidad y operabilidad de la planta.
Dienstleistungsarbeit und Interessensvertretung im Wandel
Creators: name: Kathmann, Till
name: Dingeldey, Irene
Publisher: name: Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dienstleistungen
subject: Interessenvertretung
subject: Tarifvertrag
subject: 300

description: Die Erosion der Tarifpolitik wird oft festgestellt. Auf spezifische Bedingungen und Akteursstrategien in einzelnen Branchen wird dabei selten verwiesen. Gerade im Dienstleistungsbereich gibt es jedoch eine extreme Diskrepanz. Die vorliegende Untersuchung widmet sich daher sehr unterschiedlichen, gleichwohl typischen Dienstleistungsberufen wie den Gebäudereinigern, Sozialarbeitern und Sozialpädagogen. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Analyse der Segmentation des Tarif- und Beschäftigungssystems. Zentrales Interesse ist es, herauszufinden wie die Interessensvertretungen mit den Erosionserscheinungen umgehen. Dabei wird offensichtlich, dass die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der Tarifpartner sehr unterschiedlich genutzt werden. Einerseits zeigt sich eine relative Ohnmacht der Tarifpartner, Erosionserscheinungen zu limitieren. Andererseits deuten sich überraschende Veränderungsmöglichkeiten der klassischen Tarifpolitik an.
Named Entity Recognition for Novel Types by Transfer Learning
Creators: name: Qu, Lizhen
name: Ferraro, Gabriela
name: Zhou, Liyuan
name: Hou, Weiwei
name: Baldwin, Timothy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In named entity recognition, we often don't have a large in-domain training corpus or a knowledge base with adequate coverage to train a model directly. In this paper, we propose a method where, given training data in a related domain with similar (but not identical) named entity (NE) types and a small amount of in-domain training data, we use transfer learning to learn a domain-specific NE model. That is, the novelty in the task setup is that we assume not just domain mismatch, but also label mismatch.
The Value of Improved Water Supply Service in Motta Town,East Gojjam,Ethiopia:Application of Contingent Valuation Method (CVM)
Creators: name: Bantie, Yibeltal
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Adequate quality, safe and affordable supply of drinking water is a basic need for human life. However, many people in LDCs are lacking this safe and quality water. Since Ethiopia is one of these LDCs its urban and rural area population do not have access to such attributes of water. Therefore adequacy and quality are crucial for household water supply. In this study the CVM was used to analyze the determinants of households' WTP for improved water services by applying the doublebounded dichotomous choice value elicitation format. The study used cross-sectional data collected from 220 randomly selected sampled households from Motta town. The CV survey responses were analyzed through descriptive and econometric analysis using probit, bi- variate probit and Tobit as empirical models. The CV survey results revealed that 199 (96.6%) of the respondents were willing to pay a positive amount for improved water services. Thus if the proposed water improvement scheme is implemented, in addition to satisfying the water needs of the households, the town's utility management can collect more revenue from the sale of improved water. The CV survey results also show that the mean WTP of households for the proposed improved water service is between 19.2 cents and 25.83 cents depending on the method used. The total WTP amount from the total of 10,898 households in Motta town was founded to be birr 8,198.2 per day or birr 2,992,343 per year which is much higher than the current total revenue of birr 475,325 collected by the utility management . The results from the test statistics show that existing source of water, initial bid offered to households, age of the respondents, sex of the respondents and responsible organ for the provision of improved water services have a negative effect on the probability of households' WTP for improved water services in the probit model and at the same time they have also a negative influence on the maximum amount they are willing to pay in the tobit model. On the other hand education (both primary, secondary and tertiary), income, wealth, quality of water being used, reliability of the existing service, years of stay in the town, time taken to fetch water from the existing source and level of satisfaction with the existing service are affecting positively the probability of accepting the initial bid offered to them for improved water service and the maximum amount that they are willing to pay. Therefore the policy makers need to take in to consideration these socio-economic and demographic factors and some other attributes of water in designing the improved water supply system of the town. Key Words: Willingness to pay, Contingent valuation method, Improved Water Service.
On the unification of stress functions and their emergence in non-homogeneous linear elasticity
Creators: name: Beasley, Allan J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Field performance of expansive anchors and piles in rock
Creators: name: Baycan, Serhat
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Differential Privacy in Natural Language Processing: The Story So Far
Creators: name: Klymenko, Oleksandra
name: Meisenbacher, Stephen
name: Matthes, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As the tide of Big Data continues to influence the landscape of Natural Language Processing (NLP), the utilization of modern NLP methods has grounded itself in this data, in order to tackle a variety of text-based tasks. These methods without a doubt can include private or otherwise personally identifiable information. As such, the question of privacy in NLP has gained fervor in recent years, coinciding with the development of new Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs). Among these PETs, Differential Privacy boasts several desirable qualities in the conversation surrounding data privacy. Naturally, the question becomes whether Differential Privacy is applicable in the largely unstructured realm of NLP. This topic has sparked novel research, which is unified in one basic goal: how can one adapt Differential Privacy to NLP methods? This paper aims to summarize the vulnerabilities addressed by Differential Privacy, the current thinking, and above all, the crucial next steps that must be considered.
A step further in bioremediation: mycoremediation for soil recovery
Creators: name: D'Annnibale, Alessandro
name: Crognale, Silvia
name: Lelli, Davide
name: Petruccioli, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: LIFE MySOIL project presentation delivered by Maurizio Petruccioli, from the University of La Tuscia (UNITUS), during the Sustainability Day organised by UNITUS on October 5th, 2022.
description: This project has received funding from the LIFE Programme of the European Commission under contract number LIFE20 ENV/ES/000416.