cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Unit of account or medium of exchange?
Creators: name: Yeager, Leland
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: exchange, money
subject: E40

description: Article originally published in the volume 60 issue 241 of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review (also known as BNL Quarterly Review). Money evolved gradually as a cuitural product; it was not orig-inally invented and imposed by the state (although it did Iater come under state domination). Historical evidence does not conclusively settle whether unit of account (numéraire) or medium of exchange evolved earliest. Quite plausibIy, one function carne first in some times and places, the other in others. Little of analytical importance hinges on the answer. Both functions are important in economie life and in monetary theory. Who knows how to measure and compare degrees of importance? IndirectIy or directly, as explained above, both functions have a quantitative aspect. Convenience does recommend a single numéraire within a currency area, but a well organized payments system can readiIy accommodate multiple media of exchange (if, indeed, notes and deposits of different banks and claims on other types of financial institution count as separate media). Much can be said in favor of separation of functions in the sense of a numéraire defined inde-pendently of any partieular medium of exchange. JEL Codes: E40
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 60, N. 241 (2007)
Unit of account or medium of exchange? Reply
Creators: name: Aschheim, Joseph
name: Tavlas, George S.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Exchange, money
subject: E40

description: A reply to the Yeager's papar: "Unit of account or medium of exchange?" JEL Codes: E40
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 60, N. 241 (2007)
Newsletter zum Forschungsdatenmanagement: fdm_ubhildesheim - Forschungsdatenmanagement
Creators: name: Strauch-Davey, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: FDM
Forschungsdaten
Forschungsdatenmanagement
UB Hildesheim
Forschung Universität Hildesheim

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سبل تحسين الأنماط الغذائية الصحية والأمن الغذائي للأسرة
Creators: name: Soliman, Ibrahim
name: Soliman, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty
Health Economics and Policy
Public Economics

description: " ورشة العمل شبه الإقليمية للمؤسسات الحكومية ومؤسسات المجتمع المدني للتوعية بالتأثيرات السلبية للأنماط الغذائية غير الصحية ومضارها على صحة الشباب والأطفال، نظمتها المنظمة الإسلامية للتربية والعلوم والثقافة بالتعاون مع اللجنة الوطنية المصرية للتربية والعلوم والثقافة، في القاهرة خلال الفترة 23-25 ديسمبر.
Unit of account or medium of exchange? Rejoinder
Creators: name: Yeager, Leland B.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Exchange, money
subject: E40

description: Yeager responds to Aschheim and Tavlas about the reply to the papar "Unit of account or medium of exchange?" JEL Codes: E40
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 60, N. 241 (2007)
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SCIENTIFIC POTENTIAL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES IN SUPPORT OF A COMPREHENSIVE REGIONAL RISK REDUCTION STRATEGY WITH RESPECT TO INVASIVE SPECIES
Creators: name: Singh, Ranjit H.
name: Singh, Ranjit H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: UWI
subject: globalization
subject: Mona
subject: Cave Hill
subject: St. Augustine
subject: contestable fund for R&D
subject: disciplinary area
subject: specialty area
subject: number of researchers
subject: number of publications

description: While globalization of markets and freer trade may have benefits associated with the expansion of trade, globalization is also associated with the increased risk to agriculture and the natural environment from the incidence of invasive / exotic pests. The impact of invasive species could be severe and long term in nature thereby setting back the development process of countries so affected. Given the importance of agriculture and environmental resources to the development of countries in the region comprising the Caribbean Basin, a strategy for addressing the associated risk and threat is urgently required and timely. Designing an effective strategy for risk reduction and management with respect to invasive species requires an efficient intelligence/early warning system so as to ensure the timely adoption of precautionary measures to prevent entry or measures to contain the spread and damage caused by invasives where the third border has been breached. The response, however, must be informed by scientific knowledge. In this regard the S&T/R&D support is an essential component of any comprehensive strategy to address the threat of invasives. This paper examines the S&T/R&D capacity resident at one of the Region's major institutions, the University of the West Indies. The methodology for this assessment includes a review of recent research at the UWI as well an examination of the competencies in relevant areas of science that are resident at the various Campuses of the institution.
Response of buried natural gas pipelines subjected to ground movement
Creators: name: Weerasekara, Lalinda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The performance of buried natural gas pipeline systems in areas subjected to ground displacements is an important engineering consideration since geotechnical hazards can be a major cause of damage to these utilities. With polyethylene (PE) pipes now becoming the industry standard for natural gas distribution systems, a detailed investigation into the interaction of these materials is needed to ensure that the response of both pipeline and soil components is properly understood during design. With this background, a detailed research program involving full-scale physical modeling has been undertaken at University of British Columbia (UBC) to study the effect of permanent ground displacements on buried PE piping. This thesis presents details on material properties, testing procedures and findings from laboratory full-scale tests performed to study the performance of number of buried pipe configurations applicable to field conditions. The results indicated that buried PE pipes subjected to relative soil movement in axial direction cannot be predicted using the simplified equations commonly used to capture the axial soil resistance in steel pipes. This is primarily due to complex pipe-soil interaction arising due to the flexibility and the non-linear material response of PE pipe, combined with dilation and arching effects from soil around the pipe. A new closed-form solution was derived to account the nonlinear material response of PE pipes. This solution provides the framework to obtain the response of the pipe (strain, force and the mobilized frictional length along the pipe) for a known relative displacement of the pipe. In branch pipe systems, the test results demonstrated that the physical location (branch pipe, trunk pipe or the tapping tee connection) of vulnerability would depend on relative pipe sizes, soil density, and boundary conditions. New analysis techniques were derived, and guidelines were proposed, to account the anchoring force offered by the tapping tee and the branch pipe in evaluating the performance of branch pipe configurations. In addition, technical details are discussed in relation to performance of the PVC protective sleeve and socket outlet tapping tees. These test results of straight and branch pipes would facilitate in developing a reliable database for calibrating/validating numerical and analytical models for potential future studies.
SOCIAL INNOVATIONS UNDER THE LEADER INITIATIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTALLY VALUABLE AREAS OF THE LUBLIN REGION (POLAND)
Creators: name: Danuta, Guzal-Dec
name: Danuta, Guzal-Dec
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: social innovation
subject: LEADER initiative
subject: Local Action Groups

description: The aim of the study was to describe the role of the Leader Initiative in developing social innovation and understand how social innovation works in practice in the environmentally valuable areas of the Lublin region. The aim was to be achieved with literature analysis and empirical studies aimed at identifying innovative activities of Local Action Groups (LAGs). The study was conducted on a group of 13 LAGs (50% of the total in the region). The study used the method of document analysis and a case study. Local development strategies (LDSs), the official websites of associations and the implemented cooperation projects were the source of information about the LAGs. In the light of literature analyzes, an important potential role of the LEADER initiative was proven in the development of social innovation. As demonstrated, the LEADER initiative in the environmentally valuable areas of the Lublin Region is an important but under-used instrument for creating local development based on social innovation. It is advisable, therefore, to develop leadership attitudes in local communities. Local leaders could be entities initiating the institutionalization process of the development of social innovation.
The rheology of ultra-high molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) dispersed in a low molecular weight carrier
Creators: name: Mansfield, Craig D.
name: Chen, Tianran
name: Ansari, Mubashir Q.
name: Baird, Donald G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gel spinning is the industrial method of choice for combining hydrophilic ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) polymer resins with a hydrophobic support polymer to produce composite filaments for cytapheresis. Cytapheresis is a medical technique for removal of leukocytes from blood. Gel spinning is used to avoid high melt viscosity and thermal sensitivity of UHMW resins and the high melt temperature of the substrate resin but requires the recovery of toxic solvents. The UHMW resin is used because it forms a stable gel phase in the presence of water; a lower molecular weight resin (LMW) simply dissolves. UHMW and LMW resins were both poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and the substrate was polyarylsulfone (PAS). The literature indicated PEO undergoes non-oxidative thermal degradation above 200 °C and PAS is processed up to 350 °C. Dynamic oscillatory shear rheometry was used to study 0, 25, 40, 50, 60, and 75 wt. % UHMW PEO in LMW PEO to take advantage of the sensitivity of viscosity to changes in molecular weight and material configuration, indicating degradation. Samples were exposed to 220 °C, 230 °C, 240 °C, 250 °C, 275 °C, and 300 °C temperatures for 5 min to explore conditions that could result in sample degradation. The viscosity decreased less with increasing UHMW PEO content for samples exposed to the same temperature and the viscosity decreased more with increasing exposure temperature for samples with the same UHMW PEO content. Parameters were regressed from observed data to predict the change in molecular weight via empiricisms relating the viscosity to molecular weight, shear rate, temperature, and time.
description: 9 pages, 1 table, 6 figures, This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Physics of Fluids Volume 34, Issue 2 and may be found at https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/34/2/023304/2846729/The-rheology-of-ultra-high-molecular-weight-poly
Star Products and Geometric Algebra
Creators: name: Henselder, Peter
name: Hirshfeld, Allen C.
name: Spernat, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 51-xx; 81-xx

description: The formalism of geometric algebra can be described as deformed super analysis. The deformation is done with a fermionic star product, that arises from deformation quantization of pseudoclassical mechanics. If one then extends the deformation to the bosonic coefficient part of superanalysis one obtains quantum mechanics for systems with spin. This approach clarifies on the one hand the relation between Grassmann and Clifford structures in geometric algebra and on the other hand the relation between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics. Moreover it gives a formalism that allows to handle classical and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner.
description: 21 pages
FACTORING BIODIVERSITY, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND NATURAL RESOURCES CONSIDERATIONS INTO A REGIONAL SAFEGUARDING STRATEGY
Creators: name: Lopez, Vyju
name: Murphy, Sean
name: Seier, Marion
name: Kairo, Moses
name: Lopez, Vyju
name: Murphy, Sean
name: Seier, Marion
name: Kairo, Moses
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: invasive alien species
subject: small islands
subject: ecosystems
subject: structure
subject: functions
subject: stakeholders

description: When dealing with invasive alien species (IAS), attention is usually focused on economic aspects i.e. agricultural management and trade. However, impacts of IAS on the environment, often are not considered at least in the first instance and tend to be quite complex. IAS often have the potential to cause enormous damage to the biodiversity, environment and living natural resources, particularly on small islands. They can alter the structure and function of ecosystems, and can also cause extinction of vulnerable species. Since the Caribbean is one the world's biodiversity 'hotspots' with a range of endemic species, it is necessary that environmental considerations are factored into the development of any regional safeguarding strategy. This involves bringing on board various stakeholders and establishing the key linkages necessary for effective action planning and implementation.
Paolo Sylos Labini, 1920-2005
Creators: name: Roncaglia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Economic Thought, History of Economic Thought
subject: B32

description: The paper outlines the intellectual biography of Paolo Sylos Labini, a great economist with strong civic ideals. After recalling his education (in Rome, then at Harvard with Schumpeter and at Cambridge with Robertson), the paper illustrates his contributions in a variety of fields, ranging from economic policy and applied analysis (including the first econometric model of the Italian economy) to the history of economic thought and the analysis of technical progress, from social classes (with a stress on the role of the middle classes) to underdevelopment, and especially to oligopoly theory, conceived as a general theory of market forms, based on the notion of barriers to entry in an industry. Sylos Labini's political involvement and his strong civic values are also briefly illustrated. JEL Codes: B32
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 59, N. 236 (2006)
Additional file 3 of A scoping review of network meta-analyses assessing the efficacy and safety of complementary and alternative medicine interventions
Creators: name: Pratt, Misty
name: Wieland, Susan
name: Nadera Ahmadzai
name: Butler, Claire
name: Wolfe, Dianna
name: Kusala Pussagoda
name: Skidmore, Becky
name: Argie Veroniki
name: Rios, Patricia
name: Tricco, Andrea C.
name: Hutton, Brian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. A copy of the PRISMA NMA Extension Checklist is provided for reference
Foreign debt and financial fragility in the perspective of the emerging countries
Creators: name: Tonveronachi, Mario
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Debt, Foreign Debt
subject: F21, F32, F34

description: Following the financial fragility approach of H. Minsky and its later extension by J. Kregel, the paper addresses some basic aspects of the dynamics and management of foreign debt in the perspective of the emerging countries. Minsky's definitions of hedge, speculative and Ponzi positions are restated in order to define a country's external fragility. How international asymmetries in the external financial fragility may influence global fragility is then discussed, leading to analyse the limits of financial openness. Finally, the distinction between domestic and external financial fragility permits to look at how the dynamic interplay among the economic units, including the government and its policies, may influence both the distribution and the level of the two types of fragilities. JEL Codes: F21, F32, F34
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 59, N. 236 (2006)
Theories with Extra Dimensions
Creators: name: Burdman, Gustavo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some aspects of theories with compact extra dimensions. We consider the motivation and the theoretical basis of Large, Universal and Warped Extra Dimensions. We focus on those aspects that are potentially relevant in the phenomenology at colliders.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, Presented at The 15th International Conference on Hadron Collider Physics, East Lansing, MI, June 14-18 2004
Additional file 4 of A scoping review of network meta-analyses assessing the efficacy and safety of complementary and alternative medicine interventions
Creators: name: Pratt, Misty
name: Wieland, Susan
name: Nadera Ahmadzai
name: Butler, Claire
name: Wolfe, Dianna
name: Kusala Pussagoda
name: Skidmore, Becky
name: Argie Veroniki
name: Rios, Patricia
name: Tricco, Andrea C.
name: Hutton, Brian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. The completed PRISMA-NMA Assessments for the included studies are provided
title: Steinort – ein europäischer Erinnerungsort
Creators: name: Johanning-Radžienė, Antje
Publisher: name: Herder-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 940 Geschichte Europas

description: Steinort ist ein europäischer Erinnerungsort par excellence, denn hier kreuzen, verflechten und überschreiben sich verschiedenste Geschichten und Erinnerungen. Das Interviewprojekt von Ulla Lachauer und Agata Kern geht diesen vielfältigen subjektiven Erinnerungssträngen nach und legt unterschiedliche Erinnerungskulturen frei.
title: Steinort – a European place of remembrance
Creators: name: Johanning-Radžienė, Antje
Publisher: name: Herder-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: Steinort is a European place of remembrance par excellence, because it is a place where the most diverse stories and memories intersect, intertwine, and overlap. The interview project by Ulla Lachauer and Agata Kern explores these subjective strands of memory and reveals a number of different cultures of remembrance.
Exceptional Unification of Families and Forces
Creators: name: Aranda, Alfredo
name: de Anda, Francisco J.
name: King, Stephen F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work considers the remarkable suggestion that the three families of quarks and leptons may be unified, together with the Higgs and gauge fields of the Standard Model (SM), into a single "particle", namely the $\textbf{248}$ vector superfield of a ten-dimensional $E_8$ super Yang Mills (SYM) theory. Towards a realistic model along these lines, a class of orbifoldings based on $T^6/(\mathbb{Z}_N\times \mathbb{Z}_M)$ are proposed and explored, that can in principle break $E_8$ SYM down to the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), embedded in a larger group such as $E_6$, $SO(10)$ or $SU(5)$, together with other gauge group factors which can be broken by Wilson lines. A realistic model based on $T^6/(\mathbb{Z}_6\times \mathbb{Z}_2)$ is presented. The orbifold breaks $E_8$ SYM down to a Pati-Salam gauge group in 4d, together with other gauge groups, which are further broken to the SM by Wilson lines in the right-handed sneutrino directions, yielding proto-realistic fermion mass matrices, and experimental signals associated with a low Pati-Salam gauge group breaking scale.
description: 31 pages. v3: matches published version
The future of Post Keynesian economics
Creators: name: Fontana, Giuseppe
name: Gerrard, Bill
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Post Keynesian
subject: B22, E12

description: This paper assesses the current state of Post Keynesian economics and attempts to outline a strategy for its future development. It is argued that Post Keynesianeconomists have concentrated in recent years on the important pre-analytical task of searching for a sound methodological foundation upon which to develop analytical contributions to the development of economic theory and practice. It is then suggested that the future of Post Keynesian economics lies in the substantive task of constructing more general, encompassing understandings of economic behaviour that extend the applicability of existing economic theory to non-allocative modes of behaviour. JEL Codes: B22, E12
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 59, N. 236 (2006)
Economic failure in the Middle East
Creators: name: Askari, Hossein
name: Taghavi, Roshanak
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Development
subject: O10, P40, P47

description: We show how human and economic development has generally remained low among Middle Eastern oil-exporters, despite over three trillion dollars in oil revenues. Islam and religion have not contributed to the region's failure. Extensive mismanagement of oil wealth has fueled corruption, decelerated economic growth, and reduced economic freedom in oil-producing countries. Government inefficiency and barriers to trade have discouraged foreign investment and have further undermined growth. We follow with an explanation of the relative economic costs and impact of conflicts in the region, and conclude with a brief assessment of each oil exporter's current economic state and potential for future growth. JEL Codes: O10, P40, P47
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 59, N. 236 (2006)
The GEMS Approach to Stationary Motions in the Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes
Creators: name: Chen, Hong-Zhi
name: Tian, Yu
name: Gao, Yi-Hong
name: Song, Xing-Chang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the work of Deser and Levin on the unified description of Hawking radiation and Unruh effect to general stationary motions in spherically symmetric black holes. We have also matched the chemical potential term of the thermal spectrum of the two sides for uncharged black holes.
description: Latex file, 12 pages, no figure; v2: typos fixed; v3: minor corrections, final version published in JHEP
Estimating resilience for hydrotechnical systems
Creators: name: Li, Yi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: With the cycle of natural conditions (hydrological or meteorological), a repairable hydrotechnical system may have a recovery capacity after a system failure. Resilience is a probabilistic performance indicator that measures such a recovery capacity. It is also one of performance indicators that can be used to measure the sustainability of a water resources project. In nature, resilience is a conditional probability that, given a system failure at an earlier time moment, the system can resume functioning at a later time moment. The conditional probability is a close derivative of two-state transition probabilities in a stochastic process. The current estimating techniques for the two-state lag-I transition probabilities may require a high computational cost, or a complex implementation procedure. This thesis explores practical approximation methods for estimating the two-state lag-1 transition probabilities in discrete processes, and the resultant resilience. Two methods are proposed herein. By developing a concise and straightforward approximation for the lag-1 autocorrelation coefficient of system performance functions at two consecutive moments on the basis of the first-order reliability method, one method improves the conventional approaches that estimate the transition probabilities based on a bivanate normal distribution of the system performance functions. The other employs a linear stochastic prediction of the performance function based on the mean point of failure or safety domain. The mean points are one of the fundamental properties of reliability problem. The thesis mathematically defines the mean points, and develops a practical approach for approximating them based on the first-order reliability method. The mean points-based method improves the conventional approaches that estimate the transition probabilities based on a linear stochastic prediction of performance function. The two methods developed herein are demonstrated in a typical river hydrology example for estimating seasonal lag-1 resilience. The proposed approximation methods for estimating the transition probabilities in discrete processes can be also applicable to other civil engineering problems, such as marine/offshore steel structure fatigue analysis, river navigability study, or concrete reinforcement corrosion prediction.
Common factors and balance sheet structure of major European banks
Creators: name: Roma, Antonio
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Bank, Stock Market
subject: G10, G21, L25, M41

description: This paper explores the relationship between listed European banks' fundamental characteristics and the riskiness of their stock returns. Banks' structural characteristics are measured through a number different balance sheet indicators which are then associated to the stock riskiness, as measured by the factor loadings on fundamental factors affecting the stock market at large. The results seem to indicate that, in the 1999-2002 period, in which the banks considered were traded in Euro, the factor loading against the market factor and against the default spread may be systematically related to banks' fundamental characteristics like asset quality indicators (especially reserves for bad loans over loans), to the composition of income (share of interest and commission revenue), and to a general indicator of bank efficiency such as the cost-income ratio. These results are broadly consistent with an option-based theory of bank valuation, which would predict more variability in the price of bank stocks whenbanks hold riskier assets and economic conditions are poor. JEL Codes: G10, G21, L25, M41
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 59, N. 237 (2006)
Efficient Neural Representation of Volumetric Data using Coordinate-Based Networks
Creators: name: Devkota, Sudarshan
name: Pattanaik, Sumanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose an efficient approach for the compression and representation of volumetric data utilizing coordinate-based networks and multi-resolution hash encoding. Efficient compression of volumetric data is crucial for various applications, such as medical imaging and scientific simulations. Our approach enables effective compression by learning a mapping between spatial coordinates and intensity values. We compare different encoding schemes and demonstrate the superiority of multi-resolution hash encoding in terms of compression quality and training efficiency. Furthermore, we leverage optimization-based meta-learning, specifically using the Reptile algorithm, to learn weight initialization for neural representations tailored to volumetric data, enabling faster convergence during optimization. Additionally, we compare our approach with state-of-the-art methods to showcase improved image quality and compression ratios. These findings highlight the potential of coordinate-based networks and multi-resolution hash encoding for an efficient and accurate representation of volumetric data, paving the way for advancements in large-scale data visualization and other applications.
European dominant position and american monopolization: a unifying approach from basic game theory
Creators: name: Parcu, Pier Luigi
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Competition, Firm, Firms, Law
subject: K21, L11, L25, L40

description: In this paper I use basic game theory tools to explore the logical consequences of some fundamental legal definitions of European and American antitrust. In a competition game, in which there is a true monopolistic/dominant firm (MDF) and competition law is respected, thus limiting the legitimate set of choices of the MDF, I state in a formal theorem that an MDF has a strictly independent dominant strategy, so its choices should never be a source of ex post regret. Other players in the competition game, anticipating implementation of the dominant strategy, will optimize their behaviour taking it into account and thus be more able to select an optimal solution among all possible outcomes. This definition has some practical value: the 'surprise' choice of a non-dominant strategy becomes a hint of an illegal abuse of dominant position or monopolisation offence; also this idea is formalized in a theorem. JEL Codes: K21, L11, L25, L40
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 59, N. 237 (2006)
Exploring Content-Based and Meta-Data Analysis for Detecting Fake News Infodemic: A case study on COVID-19
Creators: name: Ajao, Oluwaseun
name: Garg, Ashish
name: Da Costa-Abreu, Marjory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3

description: The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is probably the most disruptive global health disaster in recent history. It negatively impacted the whole world and virtually brought the global economy to a standstill. However, as the virus was spreading, infecting people and claiming thousands of lives so was the spread and propagation of fake news, misinformation and disinformation about the event. These included the spread of unconfirmed health advice and remedies on social media. In this paper, false information about the pandemic is identified using a content-based approach and metadata curated from messages posted to online social networks. A content-based approach combined with metadata as well as an initial feature analysis is used and then several supervised learning models are tested for identifying and predicting misleading posts. Our approach shows up to 93% accuracy in the detection of fake news related posts about the COVID-19 pandemic
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, International Conference for Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS 2022)
Additional file 1 of The bat meat chain and perceptions of the risk of contracting Ebola in the Mount Cameroon region
Creators: name: Efuet Simon Akem
name: Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Interview Guide. This document contains the questions used in the interviews with participants of the study.
title: Cluster of human spiral ganglion neurons : a computational model study of ephaptic coupling effects
Creators: name: Saburov, Igor
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: cochlea
subject: simulation
subject: cochlear nerve

description: Motivations of the thesis: Cochlear Implants are the medical option for people, who severe to profound hearing loss. Since my thesis related with human auditory system, considering the human auditory nerves is very important topic. Human auditory neurons show micro- anatomical peculiarities which dier considerably from other species, for instance human spiral ganglion neuron bodies are unmyelinated and often arranged in functional units covered by common satellite glial cells. Since human spiral ganglion cells are not experimentally accessible, theoretical analysis concerning single neuron response has to be performed. Nonetheless the physiology of hearing is not totally understood, e.g. speech recognition and perception in noisy environment, attenuation eects and the temporal ne structure of the neural pattern. Methods of the investigations: The anatomical data presented in the thesis are based on several human cochlea and compose the fundament of the subsequent computer simulations which provide an appropriate method for single cell analysis. The electrical activity of cochlear neurons can be deducted from solving systems of dierential equations which will enhance our understanding of action potential initiation and propagation of nerve impulses. A new model for simulating the natural spiking behavior of human cochlear neurons as well as their excitability to microstimulation by electrodes were presented in my thesis. Final results: Hierarchial cluster analysis of acquired volumetric data of unmyelinated human auditory cell somata indicates the existence of four distinct populations of auditory nerves within the human cochlea. The unmyelinated soma region reduces the safety factor of AP transmission whereas certain sensitive parameter can be identi ed leading to divergent excitation pro les. For successful ephaptic stimulation the spikes of adjacent neurons get synchronized. Some inhibiting eects can also be observed due to large current loss on the sensitive human soma region. Mathematical modeling and computer simulation have become important tool for many clinical and medical applications. Especially further development for electrical prosthesis leading to better implant user performance is achieved by adapting stimulation strategies according to results obtained by computer simulation. The results of the thesis predict the contemporary models shall be adapted according to the unique human in order to improve pending studies.
title: Conditioning effect of peroneal nerve stimulation on the transcutaneously elicited posterior root-muscle reflex
Creators: name: Schlaff, Carry
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: reflex
subject: electrical stimulation
subject: biomedical engineering

description: The effects of locomotor training and spinal cord stimulation depend on the central excitability of the networks below the injury. Stimulation of the peripheral nerve allows targeting these networks to alter their excitability. We tested the effects of trains of peroneal nerve stimulation. The modifications of monosynaptically evoked lumbosacral motoneuron responses were tested by non-invasive elicitation of posterior root-muscle (PRM) reflexes simultaneously in multiple lower limb muscle groups. We conducted our measurements on five subjects with intact nervous systems . One-second conditioning trains of peroneal nerve stimulation with a frequency of 15, 30 and 50 Hz were applied at 0.8, 1.2 and 1.5 times the motor threshold. Following 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 ms inter-stimulus-intervals, test PRM reflexes were elicited through surface el ectrodes over T11 -T12 vertebrae. In above -threshold stimulation a general suppression of ipsilateral reflex responses , that increased with increasing conditioning frequency and intensity and lasted at least one second , were observed . This suppression was more prominent in the distal than in the proximal muscle groups. No conclusive statement can be made regarding the contralateral leg, where both excitatory and inhibitory tendencies were observed. Peripheral stimulation has an effect on all lumbar segments of the spinal cord, beyond the segments that are stimulated, which can be beneficial for rehabilitation after spinal cord injury (SCI), where the goal is to affect the excitability of the networks below the injury. While we studied only the effects on healthy subjec ts , they should be further studied in SCI individuals , and additional tests on the altere d central state of excitability in SCI should be conducted .
Additional file 2 of Ten recommendations for using implementation frameworks in research and practice
Creators: name: Moullin, Joanna C.
name: Dickson, Kelsey S.
name: Stadnick, Nicole A.
name: Albers, Bianca
name: Nilsen, Per
name: Sarabeth Broder-Fingert
name: Mukasa, Barbara
name: Aarons, Gregory A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2:Table S2. Implementation Framework Utilization Tool.
STRATEGY AGAINST INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES IN THE BASIN OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE SERVICES OF THE PROTECTION OF PLANTS OF AMERICA FRENCH DEPARTMENTS
Creators: name: Ehret, Pierre
name: Ehret, Pierre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Pest Risk Analyses (PRAs)
subject: European Outermost Regions
subject: information sharing
subject: Phytosanitary regulation
subject: Council Directive 200/29/EC

description: Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyane, the French Overseas Departments of the Caribbean Basin are among the European Outermost Regions. Consequently, as specified in the European Union treaty, they must comply with European rules and have the same rights. Nevertheless, it is possible to take specific measures in their favour, as long as there is a real need of taking such measures in order to improve economic and social development of these regions. To take into account the necessity to apply specifications related to European phytosanitary rules for the protection of French Overseas Departments, the decision was made to review all lists of quarantine organisms (Appendix I & II) and phytosanitary measures (Appendix III to V) specific to the Overseas Departments. To be able to present these modifications, as it is required by the SPS agreement (Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures), Pest Risk Analyses (PRAs) were completed for 130 harmful organisms, potentially of quarantine importance. Experts and researchers of the CIRAD were in charge of writing these documents in coordination with the Plant Health Office. The project was made possible with funds from EU POSEIDOM 2002 & 2003. In 2005, PRAs will be conducted on potentially harmful and invasive weeds. At the same time, the decentralized plant protection services (DFA/SPV) prepared databases on agricultural pest and diseases already present in the region. This work was conducted in collaboration with the Regional Federation for Management of Noxious Organisms (FREDON) and the local CIRAD, INRA and IRD research centers. To fulfill the mission of the phytosanitary services, the sharing of knowledge on the regional situation, as well as on pathways of introduction related to trade, both internal and external to the region, is considered to be of first importance.
Electrophobic Lorentz invariance violation for neutrinos and the see-saw mechanism
Creators: name: King, S. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk we show how Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) can occur for Majorana neutrinos, without inducing LIV in the charged leptons via radiative corrections. Such ``electrophobic'' LIV is due to the Majorana nature of the LIV operator together with electric charge conservation. Being free from the strong constraints coming from the charged lepton sector, electrophobic LIV can in principle be as large as current neutrino experiments permit. On the other hand electrophobic LIV could be naturally small if it originates from LIV in some singlet ``right-handed neutrino'' sector, and is felt in the physical left-handed neutrinos via a see-saw mechanism.
description: 7 pages, Invited talk at the Third Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, August 4-7, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A
TOWARDS OPERATIONALIZING THE CARIBBEAN REGIONAL INVASIVE SPECIES INTERVENTION STRATEGY (CRISIS)
Creators: name: Ambrose, Everton
name: Ambrose, Everton
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: regional safeguarding
subject: internet-based tracking
subject: distance digital imaging
subject: Caribbean Invasive Species Working Group
subject: National Agricultural Health and Food Safety(NAHFS) Committee

description: The Caribbean Regional Invasive Species Intervention Strategy (CRISIS) promotes a comprehensive and integrated approach to addressing the problem of invasive alien species that variously affect the environment, agricultural production, food security, trade, tourism, public health and agricultural competitiveness. CRISIS is a plan for assisting the Region in preventing and mitigating the introduction, spread and impact of invasive alien species, and for increasing awareness. CRISIS is a framework within which individual country and regional activities could be developed and strengthened, and the sourcing of funds could be facilitated. It encompasses all English, French, Dutch and Spanish speaking countries/territories in the Caribbean Basin including the states of the United States of America (USA) adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico and all invasive species with potential to be harmful to agriculture, natural ecosystems and human health. A Caribbean Invasive Species Working Group (CCISWG) is seeking to secure the adoption of CRISIS by all governments in the Region and by various international bodies. Currently the Working Group is giving high priority to the implementation of a two component project: (a) Timely internet-based tracking pest introductions and interceptions, and (b) Development of a Caribbean pest and disease diagnostic system based on distance digital imaging and internet-based communications.
Ergotropy from coherences in an open quantum system
Creators: name: Çakmak, Barış
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that it is possible to have non-zero ergotropy in the steady-states of an open quantum system consisting of qubits that are collectively coupled to a thermal bath at a finite temperature. The dynamics of our model leads the qubits into a steady-state that has coherences in the energy eigenbasis when the number of qubits in the system is more than one. We observe that even though the system do not have inverted populations, it is possible to extract work from the coherences and analytically show that in the high temperature limit, ergotropy per unit energy is equal to the $l_1$ norm of coherence for the two qubit case. Further, we analyze the scaling of coherence and ergotropy as a function of the number of qubits in the system for different initial states. Our results suggest that one can design a quantum battery that is charged by a dissipative thermal bath in the weak coupling regime.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures. v3 includes a new appendix on the relationship between ergotropy and quantum correlations, together with updated main text and references. Matches the published version
Additional file 2 of Alpine ecology, plant biodiversity and photosynthetic performance of marker plants in a nitrogen gradient induced by Alnus bushes
Creators: name: Kaltrina, Rexha
name: Kristi, Bego
name: Zyruku Dea
name: Shuka Lulezim
name: Husi René
name: Schneller Jakob
name: Reinhard, Bachofen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Statistical proof of significance (p-values after Mann–Whitney, MaxStat-Lite, 3.60), 5 measurements per site b-1 to b-5.
The equilibrium approach to optimum currency areas
Creators: name: Cesarano, Filippo
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Currency
subject: F33

description: This paper contrasts the received view of optimum currency areas with the modern equilibrium approach. Setting Mundell's work against earlier analyses of monetary unions exposes the peculiarities of his theory, embedded in the static Keynesian paradigm. Mundell's hypothesis, constructed on the assumption of interregional factor immobility with regions spanning the country borders, leads to exogenous optimality criteria, which characterized the research program of the following decades (section 1). From the late 1990s, however, several papers emphasized the endogeneity of optimum currency area criteria on the basis of the new classical macroeconomics, overturning the traditional approach. Highlighting the implications of the Lucas critique, these contributions point at an alternative view of optimality, bringing the subject again into the realm of equilibrium theory (section 2). JEL Codes: F33
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 59, N. 237 (2006)
Additional file 1 of A scoping review of network meta-analyses assessing the efficacy and safety of complementary and alternative medicine interventions
Creators: name: Pratt, Misty
name: Wieland, Susan
name: Nadera Ahmadzai
name: Butler, Claire
name: Wolfe, Dianna
name: Kusala Pussagoda
name: Skidmore, Becky
name: Argie Veroniki
name: Rios, Patricia
name: Tricco, Andrea C.
name: Hutton, Brian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Literature Search Strategies for the review are provided
Hyperfine Spectroscopy of Optically Trapped Atoms
Creators: name: Kaplan, A.
name: Andersen, M. F.
name: Grünzweig, T.
name: Davidson, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform spectroscopy on the hyperfine splitting of $^{85}$Rb atoms trapped in far-off-resonance optical traps. The existence of a spatially dependent shift in the energy levels is shown to induce an inherent dephasing effect, which causes a broadening of the spectroscopic line and hence an inhomogeneous loss of atomic coherence at a much faster rate than the homogeneous one caused by spontaneous photon scattering. We present here a number of approaches for reducing this inhomogeneous broadening, based on trap geometry, additional laser fields, and novel microwave pulse sequences. We then show how hyperfine spectroscopy can be used to study quantum dynamics of optically trapped atoms.
description: Review/Tutorial