cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Police Use of Force and Officer Injury: A Closer Examination of the Impact of Taser Deployment and Contextual Factors
Creators: name: Kuzik, Jason
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2019

description: Using secondary data from the Henderson Police Department (NV), a study was conducted to explore the contextual relationships of officers, subjects and situational characteristics related to use of force encounters. A series of research questions examine the combinations of contextual factors (i.e., officer demographics, subject demographics, and event-specific characteristics) that are associated with different types of police use of force (e.g., Taser, non-Taser), officer injuries and subject injuries. Univariate analysis, Bivariate analysis and Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations examine the data and identify contextual profiles associated with police use of force. The analysis shows that there is variation in the characteristics associated with Taser deployment, officer injuries and subject injuries. The consistent characteristics for the three areas of research (Taser deployment, officer injuries and subject injuries) include white officers who are in the patrol bureau and impaired subjects. The results have implications for police executives and human resource directors regarding the development of mitigating policies, practices and training protocols for officers using force.
Magnetoconductance signatures of subband structure in semiconductor nanowires
Creators: name: Holloway, Gregory W.
name: Shiri, Daryoush
name: Haapamaki, Chris M.
name: Willick, Kyle
name: Watson, Grant
name: LaPierre, Ray R.
name: Baugh, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radial confining potential in a semiconductor nanowire plays a key role in determining its quantum transport properties. Previous reports have shown that an axial magnetic field induces flux-periodic conductance oscillations when the electronic states are confined to a shell. This effect is due to the coupling of orbital angular momentum to the magnetic flux. Here, we perform calculations of the energy level structure, and consequently the conductance, for more general cases ranging from a flat potential to strong surface band bending. The transverse states are not confined to a shell, but are distributed across the nanowire. It is found that, in general, the subband energy spectrum is aperiodic as a function of both gate voltage and magnetic field. In principle, this allows for precise identification of the occupied subbands from the magnetoconductance patterns of quasi-ballistic devices. The aperiodicity becomes more apparent as the potential flattens. A quantitative method is introduced for matching features in the conductance data to the subband structure resulting from a particular radial potential, where a functional form for the potential is used that depends on two free parameters. Finally, a short-channel InAs nanowire FET device is measured at low temperature in search of conductance features that reveal the subband structure. Features are identified and shown to be consistent with three specific subbands. The experiment is analyzed in the context of the weak localization regime, however, we find that the subband effects predicted for ballistic transport should remain visible when back scattering dominates over interband scattering, as is expected for this device.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures; revised version (Nov. 2014)
Methodische Grundlagen und Anwendungen der Generalisierbarkeitstheorie in der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung
Creators: name: Eisend, Martin
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft

description: Die Generalisierbarkeitstheorie stellt einen messtheoretischen Ansatz dar, der im Gegensatz zur klassischen Testtheorie verschiedene Fehlerquellen gleichzeitig berücksichtigen kann. Auf der Basis der Ergebnisse einer Generalisierbarkeitsstudie lassen sich genaue Angaben zur Gestaltung generalisierbarer Messdesigns ermitteln. Der Beitrag gibt eine kurze Einführung in die Generalisierbarkeitstheorie mit ihren Grundannahmen und ihrer typischen Untersuchungsanlage. Darauf aufbauend wird ein Überblick über Anwendungen der Generalisierbarkeitstheorie in der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung gegeben.
description: Generalizability theory provides an alternative and more flexible approach for construct measurement than classical measurement theory. The theory takes into account several sources of error. Generalizability studies lead to results that allow for designing measurements that optimize the generalizability of results. The paper gives a short introduction into generalizability theory and summarizes applications of generalizability theory in business research.
Archäologische Ausgrabungen an und in den alten Bergwerken auf dem Riestergang in Sulzburg
Creators: name: Brunn, Andreas
name: Maass, Alexander
Publisher: name: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden, Bd. 61/62 (1999): Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden
Mittelalterliches Schadstoffrisiko - das Beispiel der Sulzburger Bergleute
Creators: name: Schutkowski, Holger
Publisher: name: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden, Bd. 61/62 (1999): Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden
Scaptonyx Milne-Edwards 1872
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Talpidae
Scaptonyx

description: Scaptonyx Milne-Edwards, 1872. In David, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Bull. 7, p. 92. TYPE SPECIES: Scaptonyx fusicauda Milne-Edwards, 1872. COMMENTS: Tribe Scaptonychini; see Van Valen (1967).
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 128, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Van Valen, L. 1967. New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 135: 217 - 284."]}
Additional file 1 of The shaky foundations of simulating single-cell RNA sequencing data
Creators: name: Crowell, Helena L.
name: Morillo Leonardo, Sarah X.
name: Soneson, Charlotte
name: Robinson, Mark D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Text. Tables S1-2 (reference datasets), Table S3 (quality control summaries), and Table S4 (method parameters); description of evaluation statistics (for 1/2D comparisons, clustering and integration), computational Snakemake workflow, and supplementary R data objects.
On square root domains for non-self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville operators
Creators: name: Gesztesy, Fritz
name: Hofmann, Steve
name: Nichols, Roger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary 34B40, 34L05, 34L40, 47A07, 47A55, Secondary 34B24, 34B27, 47B44, 47E05

description: We determine square root domains for non-self-adjoint Sturm--Liouville operators of the type $$ L_{p,q,r,s} = - \frac{d}{dx}p\frac{d}{dx}+r\frac{d}{dx}-\frac{d}{dx}s+q $$ in $L^2((c,d);dx)$, where either $(c,d)$ coincides with the real line $\mathbb{R}$, the half-line $(a,\infty)$, $a \in \mathbb{R}$, or with the bounded interval $(a,b) \subset \mathbb{R}$, under very general conditions on the coefficients $q, r, s$. We treat Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions at $a$ in the half-line case, and Dirichlet and/or Neumann boundary conditions at $a,b$ in the final interval context. (In the particular case $p=1$ a.e.\ on $(a,b)$, we treat all separated boundary conditions at $a, b$.)
description: 36 pages
Chinese monetary policy and the dollar peg
Creators: name: Reade, J. James
name: Volz, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chinese monetary policy
subject: monetary independence
subject: cointegration
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::337 Weltwirtschaft

description: This paper investigates to what extent Chinese monetary policy is constrained by the dollar peg. To this end, we use a cointegration framework to examine whether Chinese interest rates are driven by the Fed’s policy. In a second step, we estimate a monetary model for China, in which we include also other monetary policy tools besides the central bank interest rate, namely reserve requirement ratios and open market operations. Our results suggest China has been relatively successful in isolating its monetary policy from the US policy and that the interest rate tool has not been effectively made use of. We therefore conclude that by employing capital controls and relying on other instruments than the interest rate China has been able to exert relatively autonomous monetary policy.
Additional file 2 of The shaky foundations of simulating single-cell RNA sequencing data
Creators: name: Crowell, Helena L.
name: Morillo Leonardo, Sarah X.
name: Soneson, Charlotte
name: Robinson, Mark D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figures S1-3 (t-SNEs of reference datasets), Figs. S4-10 (comparison of 1/2D test statistics), Figs. S11-13 (runtime and memory usage), Figs. S14-16. (integration results), Figs. S17-24 (t-SNEs of integrated datasets), Figs. S25-28 (meta-analysis of summaries).
title: Estimating the density of ethnic minorities and aged people in Berlin
title: Multivariate kernel density estimation applied to sensitive geo-referenced administrative data protected via measurement error
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Groß, Marcus
name: Rendtel, Ulrich
name: Schmid, Timo
name: Schmon, Sebastian
name: Tzavidis, Nikos
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ageing
subject: Binned data
subject: Ethnic segregation
subject: Non-parametric estimation
subject: Official statistics
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::310 Statistiken

description: Modern systems of official statistics require the timely estimation of area- specific densities of sub-populations. Ideally estimates should be based on precise geo-coded information, which is not available due to confidentiality constraints. One approach for ensuring confidentiality is by rounding the geo- coordinates. We propose multivariate non-parametric kernel density estimation that reverses the rounding process by using a Bayesian measurement error model. The methodology is applied to the Berlin register of residents for deriving density estimates of ethnic minorities and aged people. Estimates are used for identifying areas with a need for new advisory centres for migrants and infrastructure for older people.
title: Do Tax Cuts Increase Consumption?
title: An Experimental Test of Ricardian Equivalence
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Meissner, Thomas
name: Rostam-Afschar, Davud
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Ricardian Equivalence
subject: Taxation
subject: Life Cycle
subject: Consumption
subject: Laboratory Experiment
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::336 Öffentliche Finanzen

description: This paper tests whether the Ricardian Equivalence proposition holds in a life cycle consumption laboratory experiment. This proposition is a fundamental assumption underlying numerous studies on intertemporal choice and has important implications for tax policy. Using nonparametric and panel data methods, we find that the Ricardian Equivalence proposition does not hold in general. Our results suggest that taxation has a significant and strong impact on consumption choice. Over the life cycle, a tax relief increases consumption on average by about 22% of the tax rebate. A tax increase causes consumption to decrease by about 30% of the tax increase. These results are robust with respect to variations in the difficulty to smooth consumption. In our experiment, we find the behavior of about 62% of our subjects to be inconsistent with the Ricardian proposition. Our results show dynamic effects; taxation inuences consumption beyond the current period.
Exit Options and the Allocation of Authority
Creators: name: Bester, Helmut
name: Krähmer, Daniel
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Authority
subject: decision rights
subject: exit options
subject: incomplete contracts
subject: asymmetric information
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft

description: We analyze the optimal allocation of authority in an organization whose members have conflicting preferences. One party has decision–relevant private information, and the party who obtains authority decides in a self–interested way. As a novel element in the literature on decision rights, we consider exit option contracts: the party without decision rights is entitled to prematurely terminate the relation after the other party’s choice. We show that under such a contract it is always optimal to assign authority to the informed and not to the uninformed party, irrespective of the parties’ conflict of interest. Indeed, the first–best efficient solution can be obtained by such a contract.
Scaptonyx fusicaudus Milne-Edwards 1872
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Talpidae
Scaptonyx
Scaptonyx fusicaudus

description: Scaptonyx fusicaudus Milne-Edwards, 1872. In David, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Bull. 7, p. 92. TYPE LOCALITY: "Frontière du Kokonoor", vicinity of Kukunor (Lake), China. DISTRIBUTION: N Burma; S China, Tsinghai, Shensi, Sichuan and Yunnan. SYNONYMS: affinis, fusicaudatus (sic). COMMENTS: Includes affinis; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966:35).
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 128, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1966. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946. Second ed. British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp."]}
Liselotte Eschebach (Hrsg.), Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji
Creators: name: Kockel, Valentin
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Liselotte Eschebach (Hrsg.), Gebäudeverzeichnis und Stadtplan der antiken Stadt Pompeji. Stadtplan von J. Müller-Trollius. Unter Verwendung des Nachlasses von H. Eschebach. Böhlau Verlag, Köln/Weimar/Wien 1993. XIII, 500 Seiten, 2 Faltpläne, 1 Beilage.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 195.1995(1996): Bonner Jahrbücher
Monetary policy and unemployment in open economies
Creators: name: Engler, Philipp
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Open economy macroeconomics
subject: monetary policy
subject: unemployment
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::337 Weltwirtschaft

description: After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively affects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate unemployment decreases workers' subjective well-being, which can be explained by an increased risk of becoming unemployed. I take account of this effect in an otherwise standard New Keynesian open economy model with unemployment as in Galí (2010) and nd two important results with respect to expansionary monetary policy shocks: First, the usual wealth effect in New Keynesian models of a declining labor force, which is at odds with the data as highlighted by Christiano, Trabandt and Walentin (2010), is shut down. Second, the welfare effects of such shocks improve considerably, modifying the standard results of the open economy literature that set off with Obstfeld and Rogoff's (1995) redux model.
Ralf von den Hoff, Philosophenporträts des Früh- und Hochhellenismus
Creators: name: Lorenz, Thuri
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Ralf von den Hoff, Philosophenporträts des Früh- und Hochhellenismus. Verlag Biering & Brinkmann, München 1994. 209 Seiten, 58 Tafeln
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 197.1997(1999): Bonner Jahrbücher
Bayesian nonparametric generative modeling of large multivariate non-Gaussian spatial fields
Creators: name: Wiemann, Paul F. V.
name: Katzfuss, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multivariate spatial fields are of interest in many applications, including climate model emulation. Not only can the marginal spatial fields be subject to nonstationarity, but the dependence structure among the marginal fields and between the fields might also differ substantially. Extending a recently proposed Bayesian approach to describe the distribution of a nonstationary univariate spatial field using a triangular transport map, we cast the inference problem for a multivariate spatial field for a small number of replicates into a series of independent Gaussian process (GP) regression tasks with Gaussian errors. Due to the potential nonlinearity in the conditional means, the joint distribution modeled can be non-Gaussian. The resulting nonparametric Bayesian methodology scales well to high-dimensional spatial fields. It is especially useful when only a few training samples are available, because it employs regularization priors and quantifies uncertainty. Inference is conducted in an empirical Bayes setting by a highly scalable stochastic gradient approach. The implementation benefits from mini-batching and could be accelerated with parallel computing. We illustrate the extended transport-map model by studying hydrological variables from non-Gaussian climate-model output.
Additional file 3 of The shaky foundations of simulating single-cell RNA sequencing data
Creators: name: Crowell, Helena L.
name: Morillo Leonardo, Sarah X.
name: Soneson, Charlotte
name: Robinson, Mark D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3. Review History.
Absolute Properties of the Triple Star CF Tauri
Creators: name: Sandberg, Claud H.
name: Torres, Guillermo
name: Claret, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CF Tau is now known to be an eclipsing triple star with relatively deep total and annular eclipses. New light and radial velocity curves as well as new times of minima were obtained and used for further modeling of the system. Very accurate (better than 0.9%) masses and radii of the eclipsing pair are determined from analysis of the two new light curves, the radial velocity curve, and the times of minimum light. The mass and luminosity of the distant third component is accurately determined as well. Theoretical models of the detached, evolved eclipsing pair match the observed absolute properties of the stars at an age of about 4.3 Gy and [Fe/H] = -0.14.
title: Forecasting ECB monetary policy
title: accuracy is (still) a matter of geography
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Berger, Helge
name: Ehrmann, Michael
name: Fratzscher, Marcel
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: monetary policy
subject: ECB
subject: forecast
subject: geography
subject: history
subject: heterogeneity
subject: Taylor rule
subject: learning
subject: transmission
subject: survey data
subject: communication
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft

description: Monetary policy in the euro area is conducted within a multi-country, multi- cultural, and multi-lingual context involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand and to anticipate monetary policy by the ECB? Using a database of surveys of professional ECB policy forecasters in 24 countries, we find remarkable differences in forecast accuracy, and show that they are partly related to geography and clustering around informational hubs, as well as to country-specific economic conditions and traditions of independent central banking in the past. In large part this heterogeneity can be traced to differences in forecasting models. While some systematic differences between analysts have been transitional and are indicative of learning, others are more persistent.
title: Zwischen Gender Studies, Kulturwissenschaften und Katholizismusforschung – Beispiel einer transdisziplinären Rück-Übersetzung im Rahmen der Polenstudien
title: Między gender studies, kulturoznawstwem a badaniem katolicyzmu – przykład transdyscyplinarnego przekładu wtórnego w ramach studiów o Polsce
Creators: name: Staśkiewicz, Joanna
Publisher: name: Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Polenstudien, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Year: 2016

description: Interdisciplinary Polish Studies, 5: Was sind Polenstudien? 13 Antworten / Czym są studia o Polsce? 13 odpowiedzi, p. 69-78 | 215-224
S. T. A. M. Mols, A. M. Gerhartl-Witteveen, H. Kars, A. Koster, W. J. Th. Peters und W. J. H. Willems (Hrsg.), Acta of the 12th International Congress on Ancient Bronzes
Creators: name: Petrovsky, Richard
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: S. T. A. M. Mols, A. M. Gerhartl-Witteveen, H. Kars, A. Koster, W. J. Th. Peters und W. J. H. Willems (Hrsg.), Acta of the 12th International Congress on Ancient Bronzes, Nijmegen 1992. Nederlandse Archeologische Rapporten 18, Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek Amersfoort / Provinciaal Museum G.M. Kam, Nijmegen 1995. 458 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abb.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 197.1997(1999): Bonner Jahrbücher
Dieter Quast, Die merowingerzeitlichen Grabfunde aus Gültlingen (Stadt Wildberg, Kreis Calw)
Creators: name: Päffgen, Bernd
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Dieter Quast, Die merowingerzeitlichen Grabfunde aus Gültlingen (Stadt Wildberg, Kreis Calw). Mit Beiträgen von U. Hendriks und Ch. Raub. Forschungen und Berichte zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Baden-Württemberg. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1993. 162 Seiten, 73 Abbildungen, 28 Tafeln
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 197.1997(1999): Bonner Jahrbücher
Geodesic deviation equation in generalized hybrid Metric-Palatini gravity
Creators: name: Golsanamlou, S.
name: Atazadeh, K.
name: Mousavi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of general relativity, the geodesic deviation equation (GDE) relates the Riemann curvature tensor to the relative acceleration of two neighboring geodesics. In this paper, we consider the GDE for the generalized hybrid Metric-Palatini gravity and apply it in this model to investigate the structure of time-like, space-like, and null geodesics in the homogeneous and isotropic universe. We propose a particular case $f(R,{\cal R})=R+{\cal R}$ to study the numerical behavior of the deviation vector $η(z)$ and the observer area-distance $r_{0}(z)$ with respect to redshift $z$. Also, we consider the GDE in the framework of the scalar-tensor representation of the generalized hybrid Metric-Palatini gravity i.e. $f(R, {\cal R} )$, in which the model can be considered as dynamically equivalent to a gravitational theory with two scalar fields. Finally, we extend our calculations to obtain the modification of the Mattig relation in this model.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures, references added
Additional file 1 of Healthcare resource utilization and cost of pneumococcal disease in children in Germany, 2014–2019: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Hu, Tianyan
name: Podmore, Bélène
name: Barnett, Rosemarie
name: Beier, Dominik
name: Galetzka, Wolfgang
name: Qizilbash, Nawab
name: Heckl, Dennis
name: Boellinger, Timo
name: Weaver, Jessica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Definitions of pneumonia cases. Supplementary Table 2. Definitions of IPD cases. Supplementary Table 3. Definitions of AOM cases.
Polyurea-Graphene Nanocomposites -- the Influence of Hard-Segment Content and Nanoparticle Loading on Mechanical Properties
Creators: name: Tzelepis, Demetrios A.
name: Khoshnevis, Arman
name: Zayernouri, Mohsen
name: Ginzburg, Valeriy V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polyurethane and polyurea-based adhesives are widely used in various applications, from automotive to electronics to medical. The adhesive performance depends strongly on its composition, and developing the formulation-structure-property relationship is crucial to making better products. Here, we investigate the dependence of the linear viscoelastic properties of polyurea nanocomposites, with IPDI-based polyurea (PUa) matrix and exfoliated graphene nanoplatelet (xGnP) fillers, on the hard segment weight fraction (HSWF) and the xGnP loading. We characterize the material using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and dynamical mechanical analysis (DMA). It is found that changing HSWF leads to a significant variation in the stiffness of the material, from about 10 MPa for the 20% HSWF to about 100 MPa for the 30% HSWF to about 250 MPa for the 40% HSWF polymer (as measured by the tensile storage modulus at room temperature). The effect of the xGNP loading is significantly more limited and is generally within experimental error, except for the 20% HSWF material where the xGNP addition leads to about 80% increase in stiffness. To correctly interpret the DMA results, we developed a new physics-based rheological model for the description of the storage and loss moduli. The model is based on the fractional calculus approach and successfully describes the material rheology in a broad range of temperatures (-70°C to +70°C) and frequencies (0.1 to 100 s-1), using only six physically meaningful fitting parameters for each material. The results provide guidance for the development of nanocomposite PUa-based materials.
description: Accepted to MDPI Polymers
title: The Effects of an Isometric Quarter Squat on Countermovement Jump Performance
Creators: name: Dropp, Mitchell W.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2015

description:
The purpose of the study was to determine if an isometric quarter squat was sufficient to elicit postactivation potentiation (PAP) in a countermovement jump (CMJ) for recreationally trained individuals (n = 22). The isometric quarter squat conditioning stimulus consisted of three sets of six second maximal voluntary contractions against a custom made apparatus. The conditioning stimulus was designed to acutely enhance CMJ performance by stimulating PAP, in turn improving indicators of CMJ performance which included eccentric rate of force development (ERFD), mean rate of force development (MRFD), peak rate of force development (PRFD), reactive strength index (RSI), and peak power (PP). CMJ performance was tested at one, five, ten, and fifteen minutes post-conditioning stimulus to identify the optimal recovery time for optimal performance. Statistical analysis was carried out using a two-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) and no significant or meaningful change was found in ERFD, MRFD, PRFD, RSI, or PP. The overall power was small for all variables suggesting that the ability of the current study to observe an effect that might have existed was very unlikely. Effect size was also small in all variables suggesting that the change pre to post-testing was not meaningful. Some critical factors that may have contributed to the results included the individual’s ability to potentiate, body positioning during conditioning stimulus, and level of conditioning of subjects.
Protecting oracle pl/sql source code from a dba user
Creators: name: Paci, Hakik
name: Mece, Elinda Kajo
name: Xhuvani, Aleksander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we are presenting a new way to disable DDL statements on some specific PL/SQL procedures to a dba user in the Oracle database. Nowadays dba users have access to a lot of data and source code even if they do not have legal permissions to see or modify them. With this method we can disable the ability to execute DDL and DML statements on some specific pl/sql procedures from every Oracle database user even if it has a dba role. Oracle gives to developer the possibility to wrap the pl/sql procedures, functions and packages but those wrapped scripts can be unwrapped by using third party tools. The scripts that we have developed analyzes all database sessions, and if they detect a DML or a DDL statement from an unauthorized user to procedure, function or package which should be protected then the execution of the statement is denied. Furthermore, these scripts do not allow a dba user to drop or disable the scripts themselves. In other words by managing sessions prior to the execution of an eventual statement from a dba user, we can prevent the execution of eventual statements which target our scripts.
The Tax-rate Elasticity of Local Business Profits
Creators: name: Fossen, Frank M.
name: Steiner, Viktor
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::336 Öffentliche Finanzen

description: Local business profits respond to local business tax (LBT) rates that vary across municipalities. We estimate that a one percent increase in the LBT rate decreases the LBT base by 0.45 percent, based on the universe of German LBT return files, which include corporations and unincorporated businesses. However, the fiscal equalization scheme largely compensates municipalities for the loss in the LBT base when they increase the LBT rate. Our estimates suggest that using tax revenue data instead of tax return data, as commonly done in the literature, results in a significant bias of the elasticity away from zero
Rational conjugacy of torsion units in integral group rings of non-solvable groups
Creators: name: Bächle, Andreas
name: Margolis, Leo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16U60, 16S34, 20C05, 20C10

description: We introduce a new method to study rational conjugacy of torsion units in integral group rings using integral and modular representation theory. Employing this new method, we verify the first Zassenhaus Conjecture for the group $\operatorname{PSL}(2,19)$. We also prove the Zassenhaus Conjecture for $\operatorname{PSL}(2,23)$. In a second application we show that there are no normalized units of order $6$ in the integral group rings of $M_{10}$ and $\operatorname{PGL}(2,9)$. This completes the proof of a theorem of W. Kimmerle and A. Konovalov that the Prime Graph Question has an affirmative answer for all groups having an order divisible by at most three different primes.
description: [v3]: 22 pages, extended outline of the new method, typos corrected
Talpa Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Talpidae
Talpa

description: Talpa Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:52. TYPE SPECIES: Talpa europaea Linnaeus, 1758. SYNONYMS: Asioscalops. COMMENTS: Includes Asioscalops which was retained as a full genus by Yudin (1989:60). Schwarz (1948), Corbet (1978c:36), and Corbet and Hill (1991:38) included Euroscaptor, Parascaptor, Mogera, and Scaptochirus; but these are retained here as full genera, see Abe et al. (1991) and Gureev (1979:256-285). For phylogenetic considerations based on morphology, see Stein (1960) and Grulich (1971); based on allozyme variation, see Filippucci et al. (1987). For a review of European species, see Niethammer and Krapp (1990).
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 128, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
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Hierarchical Bayesian Inference of Globular Cluster Properties
Creators: name: Wen, Robin Y.
name: Speagle, Joshua S.
name: Webb, Jeremy J.
name: Eadie, Gwendolyn M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a hierarchical Bayesian inference approach to estimating the structural properties and the phase space center of a globular cluster (GC) given the spatial and kinematic information of its stars based on lowered isothermal cluster models. As a first step towards more realistic modelling of GCs, we built a differentiable, accurate emulator of the lowered isothermal distribution function using interpolation. The reliable gradient information provided by the emulator allows the use of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods to sample large Bayesian models with hundreds of parameters, thereby enabling inference on hierarchical models. We explore the use of hierarchical Bayesian modelling to address several issues encountered in observations of GC including an unknown GC center, incomplete data, and measurement errors. Our approach not only avoids the common technique of radial binning but also incorporates the aforementioned uncertainties in a robust and statistically consistent way. Through demonstrating the reliability of our hierarchical Bayesian model on simulations, our work lays out the foundation for more realistic and complex modelling of real GC data.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, and 2 tables
The SWAP EUV Imaging Telescope. Part II: In-flight Performance and Calibration
Creators: name: Halain, Jean-Philippe
name: Berghmans, David
name: Seaton, Dan
name: Nicula, Bogdan
name: De Groof, Anik
name: Mierla, Marilena
name: Mazzoli, Alexandra
name: Defise, Jean-Marc
name: Rochus, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sun Watcher with Active Pixel System detector and Image Processing (SWAP) telescope was launched on 2 November 2009 onboard the ESA PROBA2 technological mission and has acquired images of the solar corona every one - two minutes for more than two years. The most important technological developments included in SWAP are a radiation-resistant CMOS-APS detector and a novel onboard data-prioritization scheme. Although such detectors have been used previously in space, they have never been used for long-term scientific observations on orbit. Thus SWAP requires a careful calibration to guarantee the science return of the instrument. Since launch we have regularly monitored the evolution of SWAP detector response in-flight to characterize both its performance and degradation over the course of the mission. These measurements are also used to reduce detector noise in calibrated images (by subtracting dark-current). Since accurate measurements of detector dark-current require large telescope off-points, we have also monitored straylight levels in the instrument to ensure that these calibration measurements are not contaminated by residual signal from the Sun. Here we present the results of these tests, and examine the variation of instrumental response and noise as a function of both time and temperature throughout the mission.
description: 29 pages, 29 (colour) figures, 2 tables
title: As razões da participação de Portugal na tentativa de resolução do conflito Angolano (1987-1990)
Creators: name: borges de castro, ricardo
Publisher: name: Universidade Lusíada Editora
Year: 2008

description: Lusíada. Política internacional e segurança. - ISSN 1647-1342. - S. 1, n.1 (2008). - p. 67-81.
Additional file 1 of The effects of rice bran supplementation for management of blood lipids: A GRADE-assessed systematic review, dose–response meta-analysis, and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Hariri, Zahra
name: Afzalzade, Fatemeh
name: Sohrab, Golbon
name: Saadati, Saeede
name: Yari, Zahra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Risk of bias assessment. Table S2. GRADE profile of rice bran supplementation for lipid profile. Figure S2.A. Forest plot detailing weighted mean difference and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the effect of rice bran supplementation on triglycerides (TG). Figure S2.B. Forest plot detailing weighted mean difference and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the effect of rice bran supplementation on total cholesterol (TC). Figure S2.C. Forest plot detailing weighted mean difference and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the effect of rice bran supplementation on low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Figure S2.D. Forest plot detailing weighted mean difference and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the effect of rice bran supplementation on high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). Figure S3. Funnel plot for the effect of rice bran supplementation on A) TG; B) TC; C) LDL-C and D) HDL-C. Abbreviations: TG: triglycerides; TC: total cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Figure S4. Non-linear dose-response relations between dose of rice bran supplementation (g/day) and absolute mean differences in A) TG; B) TC; C) LDL-C and D) HDL-C. Abbreviations: TG: triglycerides; TC: total cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Figure S5. Non-linear dose-response relations between duration of intervention (week) and absolute mean differences in A) TG; B) TC C) LDL-C and D) HDL-C. Abbreviations: TG: triglycerides; TC: total cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Figure S6. Bubble plots of the association between dose of rice bran (g/day) and weighted mean difference of A) TG; B) TC; C) LDL-C and D) HDL-C. The size of the bubbles is proportional to the accuracy of the estimate. Abbreviations: TG: triglycerides; TC: total cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Figure S7. Bubble plots of the association between duration of intervention and weighted mean difference of A) TG; B) TC C) LDL-C and B) HDL-C. The size of the bubbles is proportional to the accuracy of the estimate. Abbreviations: TG: triglycerides; TC: total cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Search strategy.
Supranational Identity Politics: Sovereignism in the EU
Creators: name: Jacintho, Emilio
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2018

description: The implementation of identity politics policies conceived at a supranational level appears to motivate the coordination of populist movements, the radicalization of their discourses, and an increasing resentment towards minority groups. I investigate the reaction of populist sovereignist political movements, among recently admitted EU member states, to the implementation of European Union policies that involve the positive discrimination of minority groups and mandated refugee relocations. The implementation of such policies seems to have contributed to the resentment toward policy-favored minorities, the increase of anti-immigration values, the success of extremist political expressions, and the mistrust of political institutions and traditional parties. The research relies on a multiple case studies approach to identify the effects of the implementation of EU-mandated affirmative action and immigration policies. The political and economic landscapes of study cases, taken from post-communist Eastern Europe (primarily, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary), are described based on the existing literature. The general arguments are supported through a review of quantitative studies that incorporate regression analyses on electoral data and web content analysis. Arguments are also complemented by a review of World Bank, OECD and Eurostat reports, election results, as well as the theoretical literature on ethnic competition, welfare spending, multiculturalism, and the specifics of the political parties and systems of the selected countries.
Additional file 11 of Impact of adjuvant chemotherapy on T1N0M0 breast cancer patients: a propensity score matching study based on SEER database and external cohort
Creators: name: Shen, Kaiwen
name: Yao, Longdi
name: Zhu, Jingyuan
name: Gu, Ximing
name: Wang, Jie
name: Qian, Wei
name: Zheng, Zhijian
name: Fu, Deyuan
name: Wu, Song
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 11: Table S8. Multivariable Coxregression analyses of overall survival for molecular subtypes in T1c breast cancer patients.
A Monolithic Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Finite Element Method for an Unsteady Stokes/Parabolic Interface Problem
Creators: name: Kesler, Ian
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2019

description: In this thesis, a non-conservative arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method is developed
and analyzed for a type of linearized Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) problem in a
time dependent domain with a moving interface - an unsteady Stokes/parabolic interface
problem with jump coefficients. The corresponding mixed finite element approximation is
analyzed for both semi- and full discretization based upon the so-called non-conservative
ALE scheme. The stability and optimal convergence properties in the energy norm are
obtained for both schemes.
Les réservations et les suspensions de cotation sont-elles un frein à l'efficience informationnelle des marchés ?
Creators: name: Michalon, Karine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The use of the trading halts is a practice common to all markets. However, the advantages and the disadvantages of the measurements are regularly discussed. The partisans think that the trading suspensions or the price limits make it possible to the investors to have time to react to the new information. The detractors think that the trading halts are barriers with the trade. A theorical debate thus continued with an empirical discussion. The results of this study appear relatively scattered. It is today difficult to draw a general conclusion as for the effectiveness of the trading halts.
Gedächtnis
Creators: name: Steudtner, Katharina
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Gedächtnis
subject: Interdisziplinär
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::030 Enzyklopädien, Faktenbücher::030 Allgemeinenzyklopädien

description: Verwendung des Begriffs 'Gedächtnis' in verschiedenen Fachdiskursen.
Approximation Algorithms for Illuminating 1.5D Terrain
Creators: name: Khatiwada, Jiwan
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2019

description: We review important algorithmic results for the coverage of 1.5D terrain by point guards. Finding the minimum number of point guards for covering 1.5D terrain is known to be NP-hard. We propose two approximation algorithms for covering 1.5D terrain by a fewer number of point guards. The first algorithm (Greedy Ranking Algorithm) is based on ranking vertices in term of number of visible edges from them. The second algorithm (Greedy Forward Marching Algorithm) works in greedy manner by scanning the terrain from left to right. Both algorithms are implemented in Python 2.7 programming language.