cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: How Perception of Wealth and Other Socio-Economic Factors Impact Upon an Individual's Financial Decision-Making Ability
Creators: name: Love, Wendy Anne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: Personal financial decision making is a complex, dynamic and emotional process, with individuals sometimes appearing quite irrational (Goldberg and Lewis 1978). These decisions are made using an individual’s basic financial capability but influenced by their emotional attitude to money (Atkinson et al 2007). Over 70% of the UK adult population are unable to demonstrate sufficient skills in financial capability and are making inopportune financial decisions that can result in impaired quality of life for them and their families or in more serious cases financial distress (MAS 2015). This lack of ability is amplified by current peer pressure to demonstrate wealth and “keep up with the Joneses”. Add a cultural reservation in discussing financial problems and we have a serious gap in the financial education of our population. Recent international research suggests this is not just a UK problem. This study examines the relationship between the individual’s perception of wealth and other socio-economic factors with their resultant money attitude, and financial capability, which ultimately determines their financial decision-making ability. This is a quantitative study of an extracted purposive sample of 33,715 respondents who self-selected as experiencing an adverse financial event in the last five years in an on-line survey of over 109,000 respondents in the UK. This study examines and reports upon the interactions between the individuals’ perception of wealth, specific socio-economic factors, five components of financial capability and four money attitudes. The results confirm the complexity of financial decision-making and that most measurable aspects of financial capability vary positively with perception of wealth. The money attitude “security” was significantly associated with wealth and financial capability but the other three money attitudes, power, love and freedom were not. This supports the hypothesis that there is a significant relationship between perception of wealth and financial capability influenced by the Money Attitude Security.
FIELD EVALUATION OF CONVENTIONALAND TISSUECULTURE MATERIAL OF THE HUA MOA PLANTAIN (Mitsa acuminata χ M.balbisiana, A AB)
Creators: name: Vazquez, F.
name: Ruberte, R.
name: Vazquez, F.
name: Ruberte, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: The Hua Moa plantain is a clone commercially grown in Hawaii and other Pacific islands for fresh food. This plantain has not been field evaluated in Puerto Rico, but preliminary culinary tests conducted at TARS determined that it has potential for diverse uses as either a green or ripe fruit. The fruit is somewhat cylindrical and stout, producing large, uniform slices, and the pulp texture is soft. Three types of planting material, field-obtained conventional suckers (Conv) and 3- and 6-month-otd greenhouse grown explants (TC-A and TC-B), were evaluated for plant and bunch characteristics and yield. The treatments were arranged in a randomized complete block design with six replications and four plants per replications. Means for days from planting to harvesting (DPH), days from flowering to harvesting (DFH). and plant height (PHT) were significantly different. Bunches from Conv plants were harvested earlier (361 days) than those from TC-B (390) and TC-A(410). Fruits of TC-A plants reached the mature green stage earlier (57 days) than those of TC-B (67) and Conv (68). Conv plants were shorter (2.12 m) than those of TC-B (2.23) and TC-A (2.32). There was no significant effect among treatments on yield components. Bunch weight ranged from 8.0 to 9.2 kg and fruit weight from 0.26 to 0.29 kg, with an average of 31 fruits per bunch for all treatments.
Formation of Wakes by Chiral, Conducting Cosmic Strings
Creators: name: Abdalla, M. C. B.
name: Bytsenko, A. A.
name: Guimaraes, M. E. X.
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: Chiral cosmic strings are naturally produced at the end of D-term inflation and they present very interesting cosmological consequences. In this work, we investigate the formation and evolution of wakes by a chiral string. We show that, for cold dark matter, the mechanism of forming wakes by a chiral string is similar to the mechanism by an ordinary string.
description: 6 pages, no figures
Trade Distorting Policies in the World Rice Market: Some Factors for Consideration in Trade Negotiations
Creators: name: Grant, Warren R.
name: Williams, Gary W.
name: Grant, Warren R.
name: Williams, Gary W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: With few exceptions and with varying degrees of comprehensiveness and success, all countries intervene in their rice markets. This intervention can create imbalances in world rice supply and demand, shift world rice trade patterns, and distort world rice prices. Available evidence suggests that the global competitiveness of the U.S. rice industry has been severely weakened by the protectionistic policies of its rice trading partners and competitors. An important part of U.S. strategic response to this problem has been to negotiate trade barrier reductions with other rice producing and consuming countries. Current attention is focused on the ongoing GATT discussions. Devising a succ·essful negotiating strategy requires answers to several crucial questions. What are the major trade distorting policies in world rice markets? What are the implications of those policies for U.S. access to foreign rice markets? What are the key rice issues for consideration in rice trade negotiations? This study addresses these and related questions.
L'inutile nozione di "moneta naturale"
Creators: name: ASCHHEIM, J.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neutral money, monetary theory, Wicksell, interest rate, Lutz
subject: E43, B31, E40

description: The concept of neutral money occupies a notable place in monetary theory, from neoclassical literature to the present. This paper reconsiders the meaning of the neutrality of money and the nature of the conditions that make for such neutrality. The author first focuses on Knut Wicksell’s pathbreaking formulation of the neutrality of the interest rate in a monetary economy. The subsequent expositions of the neutrality of money are considered with special reference to their recent analysis by Friedrich A. Lutz. The author finds that the neutrality of money is conceptually contradictory, and that the specification of conditions under which money would be neutral is inherently misleading. JEL: E43, B31, E40
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 26, N. 103 (1973)
Optimal estimation of time-dependent gravitational fields with quantum optomechanical systems
Creators: name: Qvarfort, Sofia
name: Plato, A. Douglas K.
name: Bruschi, David Edward
name: Schneiter, Fabienne
name: Braun, Daniel
name: Serafini, Alessio
name: Rätzel, Dennis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the fundamental sensitivity that can be achieved with an ideal optomechanical system in the nonlinear regime for measurements of time-dependent gravitational fields. Using recently developed methods to solve the dynamics of a nonlinear optomechanical system with a time-dependent Hamiltonian, we compute the quantum Fisher information for linear displacements of the mechanical element due to gravity. We demonstrate that the sensitivity can not only be further enhanced by injecting squeezed states of the cavity field, but also by modulating the light--matter coupling of the optomechanical system. We specifically apply our results to the measurement of gravitational fields from small oscillating masses, where we show that, in principle, the gravitational field of an oscillating nano-gram mass can be detected based on experimental parameters that will likely be accessible in the near-term future. Finally, we identify the experimental parameter regime necessary for gravitational wave detection with a quantum optomechanical sensor.
description: Main text: 19 pages and 4 figures, Appendix: 16 pages and 2 figures
The U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: Agricultural Transportation Issues
Creators: name: Fuller, Stephen W.
name: Fuller, Stephen W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper examines agricultural transportation issues relating to a U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FT A) and considers the implications for both agriculture and the transportation industry in the U.S. and Texas. Priority agricultural transportation issues to be monitored during negotiations include access of the U.S. trucking industry to Mexico, administrative constraints at border crossings, and the inadequate and outdated Mexican transportation system.
Determination of ammonia emission factors for land application of poultry manure
Creators: name: Wong, Marco
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this project was to monitor ammonia emissions and develop updated ammonia emission factors for land application of poultry manure under British Columbia conditions. Field experiments were performed at the Agassiz Research Station in 2005 and 2006, which involved four types of poultry manure as the fertilizer materials and four varying heights of the grass canopy. Proceeding manure application, ammonia emission rates were determined using wind tunnels, the emitted ammonia captured using acid traps and analyzed with a flow injection analyzer. For all trials, the highest emissions occurred within the first day, and gradually declined over the next 2-3 weeks. Cumulative ammonia emission in all treatments did not exceed the initial amount of ammonia-nitrogen present in manure. Ammonia emission rates were significantly different among the manure types (p < 0.005). The percent total loss of ammonia with time was positively correlated with manure pH. Ammonia emission rates were generally higher in both of the spring trials than the fall trial. The ammonia-nitrogen emission rate was found to decrease as the grass height increase. The proposed revised ammonia emission factors of 0.12 and 0.16 kg-NH3-N/initial kg-N for the two major types of poultry - broiler and layer are in line with current emission factors adopted by Environment Canada. However, current and revised emission factors (0.38 versus 0.11 kg-NH3-N/initial kg-N) were substantially different for turkey manure.
Lernen lehren Kognitive und metakognitive Lernstrategien im Unterricht fördern
Creators: name: Sibilia, Miriam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Lerntechnik
Unterricht
Masterarbeit

description: Vielfältige Herausforderungen in Beruf und Gesellschaft fordern heute eine hohe Bereitschaft und Fähigkeit, selbständig zu lernen. Ein wichtiges Bildungsziel der Sekundarschule ist darum ein hohes Mass an Autonomie beim Lernen zu erreichen. Doch wie können Lernende angeregt werden, das eigene Lernen selbst in die Hand zu nehmen? Die vorliegende Entwicklungsarbeit versteht Lernen als ein komplexes Geschehen und versucht aus theoretischer Sicht zu zeigen, welche individuellen Voraussetzungen erforderlich sind, damit Lernende selbständig und eigenverantwortlich lernen können. Dabei werden kognitive, motivational- volitionale und metakognitive Prozesse als konstituierende Elemente des selbständigen Lernens dargelegt. Zur Förderung kognitiver und metakognitiver Kompetenzen wird im Rahmen dieser Arbeit ein theoriegeleitetes Handlungsmodell entwickelt, das seinerseits Verfahren wie das Modelling, Monitoring, Coaching, Reflexion und Conferencing integriert. Eine Analyse der Entwicklungsprozesse auf Klassenebene zeugt davon, dass aus didaktisch-­methodischer Perspektive eine effektive Vermittlung und Förderung kognitiver und metakognitiver Lernstrategien im Klassenverband während des Regelunterrichts möglich ist.
The U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: Natural Resource and Environment Issues
Creators: name: Ozuna, Teofilo
name: Quiroga, Ramon Guajardo
name: Ozuna, Teofilo
name: Quiroga, Ramon Guajardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: In this paper various natural resource and environmental issues that could occur or be further aggravated by the proposed Agreement are highlighted. These include water quantity and quality, air quality, coastal resources, wildlife, land use, and hazardous materials. The majority of these resources are of the transnational common pool resource type. Current or potential transnational environmental externalities will be difficult to resolve. International initiatives are needed to coordinate border development goals in order to deal more effectively with these environmental externalities. Hence, one of the most crucial steps towards an environmentally sustainable development of the U.S.-Mexico border region is to insure that the U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will address these issues. The U.S.-Mexico FTA provides the opportunity to shift from a basically reparative to a more anticipatory and preventive natural resource and environmental strategy.
The U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: Agricultural Labor Issues
Creators: name: Goodwin, H. L.
name: Goodwin, H. L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: The U.S. and Mexico appear to be heading toward negotiations on a relatively narrow "trade and investment only" free trade agreement (FT A). Labor issues will apparently be excluded · from the negotiations. Nevertheless, labor considerations permeate most other areas specifically to be addressed by the FTA. The focus of this paper is on the likely impacts of a U.S.-Mexico FTA on agricultural labor as it relates particularly to Texas. The paper provides background on the agricultural labor issues and then discusses the potential effects of a U.S.-Mexi􀃑o FTA on agricultural labor. FinaUy, priority issues relating to agricultural labor relevant to a U.S.-Mexico FTA are outlined.
The U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: General Economic Issues
Creators: name: Rosson III, C. Parr
name: Angel, Amy L.
name: Rosson III, C. Parr
name: Angel, Amy L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The agricultural sector and overall economy in Mexico are closely linked through factors such as exchange rates, interest rates, and inflation. Because a U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement (FT A) would likely cover much more than agriculture, a thorough understanding of the potential impacts of freer trade in agriculture requires a general understanding of how an FTA with Mexico would affect the Mexican macroeconomy, including monetary policy, governmental structure, and exchange rate policy, and the implications for the agricultural sector.
Acrididae
Creators: name: Hemp, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae

description: Family Acrididae
description: Published as part of Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, pp. 301-342 in Zootaxa 3613 (4) on page 336, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/215952
Phase-Space Spectral Line De-confusion in Intensity Mapping
Creators: name: Cheng, Yun-Ting
name: Chang, Tzu-Ching
name: Bock, James J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising tool to efficiently probe the three-dimensional large-scale structure by mapping the aggregate emission of a spectral line from all sources that trace the matter density field. Spectral lines from different redshifts can fall in the same observed frequency and be confused, however, which is a major challenge in LIM. In this work, we develop a line de-confusion technique in map space capable of reconstructing the three-dimensional spatial distribution of line-emitting sources. If multiple spectral lines of a source population are observable in multiple frequencies, using the sparse approximation, our technique iteratively extracts sources along a given line of sight by fitting the LIM data to a set of spectral templates. We demonstrate that the technique successfully extracts sources with emission lines present at a few $σ$ above the noise level, taking into account uncertainties in the source modeling and presence of continuum foreground contamination and noise fluctuations. As an example, we consider a TIME/CONCERTO-like survey targeting [C II] at the epoch of reionization, and reliably reconstruct the 3D spatial distribution of the CO interlopers at $0.5\lesssim z\lesssim 1.5$. We also demonstrate a successful de-confusion for the SPHEREx mission in the near-infrared wavelengths. Potentially, the reconstructed maps can be further cross-correlated with a (galaxy) tracer population to estimate the total interloper power in the linear clustering regime. This technique is a general framework to extract the phase-space distribution of low-redshift interlopers, without the need of external information, for any line de-confusion problem.
description: 25 pages, 22 figures, accepted by ApJ
Pyrgomorphidae
Creators: name: Hemp, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Pyrgomorphidae

description: Family Pyrgomorphidae
description: Published as part of Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, pp. 301-342 in Zootaxa 3613 (4) on page 335, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/215952
title: Digitization of services for the unserved in East Africa through mobile phone
Creators: name: Chriti, Belgacem
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: East Africa
subject: E-services
subject: M-services
subject: Digitization of services
subject: mobile networks
subject: base of the pyramid
subject: unserved customers

description: To serve better customers and to ameliorate the interactivity with them, companies started digitizing their products and services to expand their performance, effectiveness and efficiency. Digitization of services and products permits a better delivery, as it transformed and mechanized the customer relation and marketplace by settling the customers' desires and shifting from time and location based activities to non-location and non-temporal behaviours. The digitization of services offered cost reduction in any commercial transaction through minimizing labour intensive activities from the provider to the consumer. The digitization of services is called the Electronic Services (E-service) and is mainly an internet based service. The ratio of internet penetration remains to be the major obstacle for the E-service. This ratio is still very weak -in the so-called developing countries, especially in the East African countries such as Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi, where it does't exceed 8%. Nevertheless a channel like the mobile network is in a progressive growth each year.It can be used to spread the digitization of services and can be a good alternative to the internet. The digitized service offered through the mobile network doesn't require any access to the internet or mobile internet. It is called mobile service or in short M-service. The aim of this master thesis is to present the importance and the value created by the digitization of the services on both the providers and the consumers in one of the less served environment in the world.
Ensino, pesquisa, inovação e saúde: Desafios jurídicos da Ebserh
Creators: name: Empresa Brasileira de Serviços Hospitalares
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Publicado em junho de 2024, o primeiro número da Revisa Jurídica da Ebserh explora o processo histórico de criação da Empresa e sua influência na saúde, ensino, pesquisa e inovação, destacando as práticas e políticas da empresa desde sua fundação em 2011.

Os artigos abordam desde a judicialização da saúde até a gestão de recursos humanos e pesquisa clínica, passando pela recusa terapêutica e a objeção de consciência médica, e refletem sobre a importância da Ebserh no cenário nacional de saúde e educação, utilizando uma perspectiva jurídica crítica e instigante de quem atua no cotidiano da maior rede de hospitais públicos do país.
The U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: Economic Impacts on the Border Region
Creators: name: Jones, Lonnie L.
name: Ozuna, Teofilo
name: Wright, Mickey
name: Jones, Lonnie L.
name: Ozuna, Teofilo
name: Wright, Mickey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This paper summarizes the major expected economic impacts of a free trade agreement (FT A) with Mexico on various sectors of the economy of border areas including agriculture, retailing, the maquiladora industry, and capital investment. Estimates of impacts in terms of goods and services trade, capital investment, and employment are presented for border areas. Projections of Texas exports, Gross State Product, and employment impacts are presented for the next decade. Overall, freer trade between Mexico and the United States are likely be of economic benefit to both countries. Benefits to the Texas economy are projected to be significant.
Agricultural Labor Effects of a U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: A U.S. Perspective
Creators: name: Williams, Gary W.
name: Schulthies, B. Kris
name: Williams, Gary W.
name: Schulthies, B. Kris
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade
Labor and Human Capital

description: The trade negotiations between the U.S. and Mexico focus on a relatively narrow "trade and investment only" free trade agreement (FT A). Migration, labor, and labor rights issues are excluded from the negotiations presumably because of the general sensitivity to labor issues in both countries. Nevertheless, any adjustments in the magnitude or direction of agricultural commodity trade between the U.S. and Mexico as the result of an FT A will create pressure for adjustments in the use of agricultural resources like labor. This paper discusses the likely agricultural labor implications of growing U.S.-Mexico agricultural trade within the context of recent changes in Mexican policy, structure, and technology in the Mexican agricultural sector.
Seasonal Migration and Moving Out of Poverty in Rural India: Insights from Statistical Analysis
Creators: name: Anupama, Guvvala Venkata
name: Bantilan, Ma. Cynthia S.
name: Deb, Uttam Kumar
name: Vajjha, Haragopal
name: Anupama, Guvvala Venkata
name: Bantilan, Ma. Cynthia S.
name: Deb, Uttam Kumar
name: Vajjha, Haragopal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: migration
subject: poverty
subject: asset accumulation
subject: drought
subject: dynasty
subject: panel data
subject: India

description: Rural households in many countries have used temporary or seasonal migration as a strategy to cope with natural shocks such as drought, means of employment and income generation during lean season, and to move out of poverty. This paper studies the linkages between migration, employment in economic activities, asset accumulation, and poverty reduction among rural households in a droughtprone village of India over the last four decades. The Dokur Village of Mahbubnagar District in Telangana State of India experienced persistent drought over a decade. To cope with this situation, many households of the village temporarily migrated to the nearby and faraway cities. ICRISAT had conducted household surveys in Dokur under the Village Level Studies (VLS) and Village Dynamics Studies (VDS) program since 1975. The present study has used the VLS-VDS dataset (1975–2012) and reorganized sample households into 46 dynasty households. Based on their participation in migration, sample households were grouped into two categories: migrant and non-migrant households. Household income was computed by sources for all households for all the study years. Contribution of migratory income and remittances to the total household income was quantified. To identify the factors responsible for migration decision, probit analysis was carried out. For each year, sample households were grouped into poor and non-poor category using both lower (USD 1.25 ppp per day per person) and upper (USD 2.00 ppp per day per person) poverty line. The study revealed that seasonal outmigration helped many households to come out of poverty even though they had experienced a decade of drought. In-depth analysis of asset accumulation behaviour of the households over time revealed important insights regarding their coping mechanism and the process of moving out of poverty.
КОНЦЕПЦИЯ ВИРТУАЛЬНОЙ РЕАЛЬНОСТИ
Creators: name: НОРПУЛАТОВ, БЕКЗОД
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В данной статье раскрываются формы и возможности проявления реальности в виртуальном существовании. Изучается проблема фейковой дезинформации иистины в виртуальной реальности и виртуальном существовании, исследуется природа информационного пространства. Отличие реальности в объективном существовани от реальности в виртуальном мире, определенные существующие связи определяются на уровне научного знания. Научно и философски анализируются и высказываются предложения по аспектам проблемы истины в виртуальном существовании, связанным с виртуальной реальностью
title: Die Interdependenz von Gender in der transnationalen Schule. Chancen sozialer Mobilität im Spannungsfeld von Teilhabe und Ausschluss
Creators: name: Hinrichsen, Merle
name: Hummrich, Merle
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Gender
subject: Interdependenz
subject: Schule
subject: Schulkultur
subject: Soziale Ungleichheit
subject: Transnationalisierung
subject: ddc:370

description: Der Beitrag untersucht die Bedeutung von Gender als interdependenter Kategorie in der transnationalen Schule hinsichtlich der Ermöglichung sozialer Mobilität. Die These lautet, dass die schulisch repräsentierten Wissensbestände zu Geschlechterordnungen im transnationalen Gefüge von Internationalisierung und Migration Hinweise auf soziale Mobilitätschancen enthalten, die mithilfe der Schulkulturanalyse rekonstruiert werden können. Anhand von zwei Fallbeispielen wird herausgearbeitet, wie sich Zuschreibungen aufgrund von Gender mit Konzepten von Ethnizität/Race verbinden und so Möglichkeitsräume sozialer Mobilität entstehen, die über Teilhabe und Ausschluss prozessiert werden.
title: Immobilienbenchmarking : lernen von den Besten
Creators: name: Styx, Johann
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Definition Benchmarking
subject: Benchmarking Arten
subject: Best Practice
subject: BM und Nachhaltigkeit
subject: BM und Kennzahlensysteme
subject: BM Fehlerquellen
subject: BM Partner

description: Immobilienbenchmarking in seiner professionellen Form gilt als junge Disziplin. Auf Grund der immer anspruchsvolleren technischen Ausstattung der Gebäude, der starken Marktdynamik, und der enormen Heterogenität der Immobilien, ist es notwendig geworden, die alte Methode des "Bauchgefühls" hinter sich zu lassen und anstatt dessen sich per Kennzahlen und Benchmarking zu orientieren. Die Implementierungsphase - der Aufbau einer neuen Struktur, idealerweise per Info Cube, der alle relevanten Prozesse und Datenquellen für Benchmarking berücksichtigt, muss von der Belegschaft ausnahmslos mitgetragen werden. Relevant im Zusammenhang zum Stichwort Mitarbeiter ist auch, dass es generell ein Umdenken geben muss und zwar zur sog. dynamischen, lernenden Organisation, unterteilt in kleineren Benchmarkingeinheiten wie Abteilungen, Standorte oder Sparten. Operativ wird Benchmarking von der Mittleren Führungsebene erarbeitet, ausgeführt und im Laufe der Umsetzungsphase weiter optimiert; strategisch vom Top Management geleitet und genehmigt. Internes Benchmarking hat den Vorteil, dass es innerhalb der Unternehmensstrukur erfolgt und kein Datenmaterial nach außen gelangen muss; im Gegensatz zum Externen B.M., wo Referenzwerte entweder von direkten Mitbewerbern oder über Benchmarking Pool Partner generiert werden können. Die Problematik dabei ist, dass es bei der Verfügbarkeit und Aktualität des Datenmaterials eher zu einem zögerlichen Verhalten seitens der Unternehmen kommt - Problematik des direkten Konkurrenten.
Pentaquarks in string dynamics
Creators: name: Narodetskii, I. M.
name: Semay, C.
name: Silvestre-Brac, B.
name: Simonov, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The masses of $uudd\bar s $, $uudd\bar d$, and $uuss\bar d$ pentaquarks are evaluated in a framework of both the Effective Hamiltonian approach to QCD and spinless Salpeter using the Jaffe-Wilczek diquark approximation and the string interaction for the diquark-diquark-antiquark system. The masses of the light pentaquarks are found to be in the region above 2 GeV. The similar calculations yield the mass of $[ud]^2\bar c$ pentaquark $\sim$ 3250 MeV and $[ud]^2\bar b$ pentaquark $\sim$ 6509 MeV.
description: 5 pages. Based on talk by I.M.Narodetskii at BEACH 2004, 6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons, Illionois Institute of Technology, Chicago, June. 27 - July 3, 2004. Typos corrected
Modeling and flow simulation of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) paste extrusion
Creators: name: Patil, Pramod Dhanaji
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Constitutive rheological equations are proposed for the paste extrusion of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) that take into account the continuous change of the microstructure during flow, essentially through fibril formation. The mechanism of fibrillation is captured through a microscopic model for a structural parameter,ξ , that is the percentage of fibrillated domains in the paste. This model essentially represents a balance of fibrillated and unfibrillated domains through a first order kinetic differential equation. The rate of fibril formation is assumed to be a function of the strain rate and a flow type parameter, which describes the relative strength of straining and rotation in mixed type flows. The proposed constitutive equation consists of a shear-thinning and a shear-thickening terms, the relative contribution of the two being a function of ξ. To improve the physics of the constitutive equation and in order to develop a truly predictive flow model, another constitutive equation is proposed which consist of a viscous (shear-thinning) and an elastic (strain-hardening) term. A modified Mooney-Rivlin model is used to model the elastic behavior of the paste. The viscous and elastic parameters are determined by using shear and extensional rheometrical data on the paste. Finite element simulations using the proposed constitutive relations predict accurately the variation of the extrusion pressure with the apparent shear rate and die geometrical parameters. An approximate analytical mathematical model for polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) paste extrusion through annular dies is also developed. This model takes into account the elastic-plastic and viscous nature of the material in its non-melt state due to the formation of fibrils and presence of lubricant. The radial flow hypothesis (RFH) has been used to describe the flow kinematics of PTFE paste in the conical annular section of the die. The validity of this hypothesis is demonstrated by performing numerical simulations using the developed shear thinning and shear thickening model. Model predictions are presented for various cases and are found to be consistent with experimental results of macroscopic pressure drop measurements in rod and tube extrusion.
Estimation of Farm Level Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants Among Male And Female Sweet Potato Farmers In Imo State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Nwaru, Jude C.
name: Ndukwu, Patrick C.
name: Nwaru, Jude C.
name: Ndukwu, Patrick C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm
subject: Efficiency
subject: Female Farmers , Male Farmers
subject: Nigeria-Imo State

description: With the difficulties encountered by the farmers in adopting improved technologies, increasing resource use efficiency has become a very significant factor in increasing productivity. Therefore, this study was designed to estimate the farm level technical efficiency and its determinants among male and female sweet potato farmers. Primary data collected from a random sample of 120 sweet potato farmers (64 females and 56 males) were subjected to production function analysis. The result showed that fertilizer and farm size positively affected output for both farmer groups. Labour and capital positively affected output for the females while quantity of sweet potato vine affected the output of the male farmers positively. The mean technical efficiency for the female farmers was higher (92%) than that of their male (85%) counterparts. Farming experience and access to credit were positive and significantly related to technical efficiency for both farmer groups, while no significant relationship was found between technical efficiency and level of education, co-operative membership and age for both farmer groups. Therefore, policies for improving farmers’ access to credit, land and extension contact would enhance efficiency and productivity.
description: Nwaru,Jude C. and Ndukwu,Patrick C. . - Estimation of Farm Level Technical Efficiency And Its Determinants Among Male And Female Sweet Potato Farmers In Imo State, Nigeria
The Effects of Early Childhood Education Attendance on Cognitive Development: evidence from Urban Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tassew Woldehanna
name: Tassew Woldehanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: childhood education
subject: Education-preschool
subject: Development -Cognitive
subject: Ethiopia

description: Studies in developed countries indicate that preschool education can have strong impact on children’s cognitive development, but there are no studies conducted in the context of developing countries including Ethiopia where pre-school education is left for private sector. To see if government investment in pre-school education is worth, we examined the effects of early childhood education attendance on cognitive development of preschool age children. Using data obtained from the Young Lives Longitudinal Survey in Ethiopia, we measured cognitive development of children by Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and Cognitive Development Assessment – Quantity (CDA-Q) Test. We employed standard instrumental variable estimation, Wooldridge instrumental variable estimation and propensity score matching techniques to see the degree of association between preschool enrolment and cognitive outcome of five years old children. Across all these models, the results persistently show that early childhood education attendance is positively associated with children’s cognitive development. More specifically, from propensity score matching result, children who have been attending preschool education have scored 31.2% higher in vocabulary test and 23.1 % in quantitative test than those of non-preschool attendees. The implications of these results are quite crucial and timely for the Ethiopian government. Despite the fact that preschool education increases children’s cognitive development, public investment in this critical stage of education is currently very low in the country and left for the private sector. As a result, the subsector is dominated by fee charging kindergartens in which children from low socioeconomic background do have very little opportunity to attend this fist and critical stage of education implying that government has to do more in this first and essential stage of education.
Effective boson-spin model for nuclei ensemble based universal quantum memory
Creators: name: Song, Z.
name: Zhang, P.
name: Shi, T.
name: Sun, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the collective excitation of a macroscopic ensemble of polarized nuclei fixed in a quantum dot. Under the approximately homogeneous condition that we explicitly present in this paper, this many-particle system behaves as a single mode boson interacting with the spin of a single conduction band electron confined in this quantum dot. Within this effective spin-boson system, the quantum information carried by the electronic spin can be coherently transferred into the collective bosonic mode of excitation in the ensemble of nuclei. In this sense, the collective bosonic excitation can serve as a stable quantum memory to store the quantum information of spin state of electron.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, new contents added
Trasferimenti internazionali di capitali e propagazione di squilibri interni in sistemi diversi di pagamenti.
Creators: name: MODIGLIANI, F.
name: ASKARI, H.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fixed parities, rigid parities, floating rates, sliding parities
subject: E42, F33

description: Faced with the two extremes of fixed and rigid parities on the one hand, and a system of floating rates on the other, many economists have proposed a system based on official sliding parities. According to this line of reasoning, floating exchanges is unachievable politically and therefore this solution would be the maximum concession towards floating that one may hope to negotiate. In this paper, the authors develop a different argument in favour of sliding pegs as compared to either extremes and conclude that such a system combines the advantages of short-run fixity in mitigating propagation of cyclical disturbances with long-run or structural changes in surplus or deficit. JEL: E42, F33
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 26, N. 104 (1973)
title: Cretaceous Nerineacean gastropods
Creators: name: Vaughan, Pamela Georgina
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1989

description: The Nerineacea form a distinctive and significant component of shallow marine Mesozoic Tethyan macrofaunas. They occur in shelf sediments deposited in tropical regions during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. The group first appears in the early Jurassic and high diversity levels had developed by late Jurassic and early Cretaceous times. A major extinction episode occurred during the latter part of the Cenomanian and the Turonian, with the Nerineacea becoming finally extinct in the Maastrichtian. The heterostrophic nature of the ncrineacean protoconch (described here from Nerineidae and Nerinellidae species) indicates opisthobranch affinities. The Nerineacea is placed in the Entomotacniata, an independent order within the Opisthobranchia. The Entomotaeniata is considered to show greatest affinities with some members of the Acteonacea. The Pyramidcllacea are not included in the Entomotaeniata. The order contains the Ceritellidae, Nerineidae, Nerinellidae and ltieriidae. Early phylogenetic separation of the first three families is indicated. Within each family a limited number of "stable" internal fold patterns developed independently which reflected anatomical features of the abapical portion of the nerineid animal. T he Nerineacea typically inhabited warm, clear, carbonate-dominated shallow marine environments on and around off-shore "highs", however, some genera lived in prelittoral or lagoonal situations. Only Ptygmatis shows any evidence of tolerance of abnormal salinities. Carbon and oxygen isotope analyses demonstrate that Nerinella and Simploptyxis specimens from Austrian Gosau deposits lived in water of normal marine salinity. Most Cretaceous nerineid genera were probably mobile epifaunal herbivores, although Nerinellidae species may have been infaunal. Cretaceous Nerineacea are taxonomically reviewed; the diagnoses of the subfamily Umboneinae; Diozoptyxis, Adiozoptyxis; Julesia and Phaneroptyxis are revised. Stratigraphic and palaeogeographic ranges indicate that certain species could potentially be used for correlation. Quantitative measurements of various parameters are included in specific descriptions; the value of these in specific resolution is tested in appropriate cases. An analysis of morphological range in one species (Diozoptyxis cochleaeformis) demonstrates wide continuous variation in overall shell shape and whorl concavity. However, external ornament and internal fold pattern do not show significant intraspecific variation; these features therefore provide reliable characters for species definition.
Cereal Productivity in Ethiopia: an Analysis Based on ERHS Data
Creators: name: Getachew Ahmed Abegaz
name: Getachew Ahmed Abegaz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cereal
subject: Productivity
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Agricultural-Cereal yield

description: This paper examines the recent phenomenon of cereal yield growth in Ethiopia and tries to see yield responses to modern inputs such as chemical fertilizer and improved seeds on major cereal crops. It bases its analysis on two rounds of the Ethiopian Rural Household Surveys (ERHS). Results show that cereal yield grew by 21 percent during the period 1999 and 2009, much lower than the national figure, which is 60 percent, for the same period. This growth was contributed by wheat, maize and barley, which grew by 62, 19 and 11 percent respectively. The study further indicates that the source of this yield growth can be partly explained by modestly increasing use of modern inputs. It shows more intensification of modern agricultural inputs than that which the CSA data shows during the period. Overall, regression results in the two periods show that yield response to fertilizer and improved seeds was found to be statistically significant. However, using panel data analysis, the study also found an indication of some yield growth, unrelated to inputs such as seeds and fertilizer. This cannot be explained by weather changes and needs further research to capture its source in a time series setting.
description: Getachew Ahmed Abegaz_ Cereal Productivity in Ethiopia: An Analysis Based on ERHS Data
A symmetry-projected variational approach to the 1-dimensional Hubbard-model
Creators: name: Schmid, K. W.
name: Dahm, T.
name: Margueron, J.
name: Müther, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a variational method devised for the nuclear many--body problem to the 1-dimensional Hubbard--model with nearest neighbor hopping and periodic boundary conditions. The test wave function consist for each state out of a single Hartree--Fock determinant mixing all the sites (or momenta) as well as the spin--projections of the electrons. Total spin and linear momentum are restored by projection methods before the variation. It is demonstrated that this approach reproduces the results of exact diagonalisations for half--filled N=12 and N=14 lattices not only for the energies and occupation numbers of the ground but also of the lowest excited states rather well. Furthermore, a system of 10 electrons in a N=12 lattice is investigated and, finally, a N=30 lattice is studied. In addition to energies and occupation numbers we present the spectral functions computed with the help of the symmetry--projected wave functions, too. Also here nice agreement with the exact results (where available) is reached.
description: 24 pages, 16 figures
The Peculiar 2004 Superoutburst in the Helium Dwarf Nova, 2003aw
Creators: name: Nogami, D.
name: Monard, B.
name: Retter, A.
name: Liu, A.
name: Uemura, M.
name: Ishioka, R.
name: Imada, A.
name: Kato, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conducted a time-resolved photometric campaign of the helium dwarf nova, 2003aw in 2004 May--June. 2003aw stayed at 14.7--15.7 mag for the first several days during this campaign, which is the plateau phase of this superoutburst. This variable then rapidly decayed to $\sim$18.0 mag, still brighter by about 2 mag than its quiescence magnitude, and maintained this brightness for about 20 days, having short flares of $\sim$2 mag. A long fading tail followed it. We detected superhumps with a period of 0.02357(4) d [= 2036(3) s] during the plateau phase. The whole light curve of the superoutburst in 2003aw, taking into account the present data and those in the literature, perfectly resembles that of the 1996-1997 superoutburst of the peculiar WZ Sge-type hydrogen-rich dwarf nova, EG Cnc.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, PASJ Letter in press
Lattice-QCD Calculations of TMD Soft Function Through Large-Momentum Effective Theory
Creators: name: Zhang, Qi-An
name: Hua, Jun
name: Huo, Yikai
name: Ji, Xiangdong
name: Liu, Yizhuang
name: Liu, Yu-Sheng
name: Schlemmer, Maximilian
name: Schäfer, Andreas
name: Sun, Peng
name: Wang, Wei
name: Yang, Yi-Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) soft function is a key ingredient in QCD factorization of Drell-Yan and other processes with relatively small transverse momentum. We present a lattice QCD study of this function at moderately large rapidity on a 2+1 flavor CLS dynamic ensemble with $a=0.098$ fm. We extract the rapidity-independent (or intrinsic) part of the soft function through a large-momentum-transfer pseudo-scalar meson form factor and its quasi-TMD wave function using leading-order factorization in large-momentum effective theory. We also investigate the rapidity-dependent part of the soft function---the Collins-Soper evolution kernel---based on the large-momentum evolution of the quasi-TMD wave function.
description: 6 +4 pages, 5 + 7 figures; v2: 7 + 6 pages, 5 + 9 figures, accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters
Illness and Choice of Treatment in Urban and Rural Ethiopia
Creators: name: Shiferaw Gurmu
name: Tesfu, Solomon Tesfay
name: Shiferaw Gurmu
name: Tesfu, Solomon Tesfay
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Health - Illness
subject: Health care
subject: discrete choice models;

description: Using large data set from a nationally representative sample of households and discrete choice models, we examine the effect of access to roads, transport and liquidity on seeking treatment for illness and health care provider choice in urban and rural Ethiopia. The results indicate that access to roads and public transport are important determinants of the decision to seek treatment for illness by the rural residents. We also find evidence that distance to all weather road, access to public transport and access to liquidity have a strong effect on the utilization of private healthcare facilities. The significance of distance to all weather roads in healthcare utilization is especially appealing in terms of policy design because it implies that construction of multi-purpose road networks can compensate for the absence of healthcare facilities in the proximity.
description: Shiferaw Gurmu and Solomon Tesfay Tesfu_ Illness and Choice of Treatment in Urban and Rural Ethiopia