cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Betting on Diversity
title: Occupational Segregation and Gender Stereotypes
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fischbacher, Urs
name: Kübler, Dorothea
name: Stüber, Robert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with respect to gender stereotypes. We obtain similar results in both samples. Women are picked more often for the stereotypically female task and men more often for the stereotypically male task. Subjects do not believe that homogeneous teams perform better but bet more on diverse teams, especially in the task with complementarities. Elicited expectations about the bets of others reveal that subjects expect the effect of the gender stereotypes of tasks but underestimate others’ bets on diversity.
Linguistic Assertiveness - A practical guide to own your language
Creators: name: Montagut, Maite Asunción
name: Suay, Ferran
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: linguistic assertiveness
linguistic submissiveness
language hierarchies
accentism
language ideology
language attitudes

description: This is a handbook designed to help readers understand more about language assertiveness (LA) and learn about resources that can be used to promote it. It is designed for all minority language speakers but it can also easily be used to help trainers design valuable resources which will boost the confidence of their students to use the language naturally and confidently in various social contexts. The handbook is intended to be used as part of the Trainers' Toolkit of the LISTEN project (https://listen-europe.eu/trainers-toolkit/).
description: This work was funded through the project LISTEN (Linguistic Assertiveness for Minority Language Speakers) by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 2019-1-ES01-KA204-064957. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Upgrading of Loy Yang brown coal
Creators: name: Johnston., Peter Raymond
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Impact of Soil and Water Conservation on Crop Productivity In The Highlands of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Endalkachew, Tessema
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Soil degradation continues to be major threat of Ethiopian economy, since it is extremely dependent on agricultural sector, even though a number of soil and water conservation (SWC) methods were introduced and practiced. The major goal of this research was finding out the real impact of SWC on crop productivity in the highlands of Ethiopia. The study was undertaken by using a survey data collected by Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE) in 2007 from two zones, East Gojam and South Wollo in Amhara Region. A total of 1760 households who has 5871plots were interviewed. In this research a non parametric estimation method, propensity score matching (PSM), and a parametric estimation method, endogenous switching regression methods were used. Based on the empirical works done it was not impossible to the study to conclude the average value of crop production from plots which adopt SWC is less than that of the plots which did not use the technology Key words: Ethiopia, soil and water conservation, propensity score matching, endogenous switching regression.
Using mutual information for approximate evaluation of Bayesian Networks
Creators: name: Jitnah., Nathalie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Predicting impact loads and lateral deflections of road safety barrier systems
Creators: name: Jiang., Tao
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Indoor fungi and asthma
Creators: name: Jeavons., Thomas H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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An Empirical Investigation of Cost Subadditivity of The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation: is there A Room for Competition?
Creators: name: Bereda, Biruk
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: A public utility theory argues that industries such as telecommunications, electricity, postal services and water & sewage should be run by a single firm viewed from economic efficiency. This has to do with the existence of various impediments to entry in such market which guarantee the incumbent industry to be a 'natural monopoly'. The Ethiopian telecommunications corporation in its hundred plus years of operation remains on the hands of the government enjoying an exclusive right in provision of telecoms services in the country. However, the sector performed poor in many standards of quality judged against the threshold for developing countries. Noting inefficiencies of the sector, the government separated activities of operation from regulation in 1999. Notwithstanding the positive moves seen in recent years, the regulatory authority considered the industry for granted as a natural monopoly without any empirical verification. The purpose of the study was to determine whether cost efficiency is the raison detre for the monopoly market structure in Ethiopian telecoms sector. Accordingly, cost function of etc is studied in line with a mutiproduct firm setting so as to test cost subadditivity. Both the traditional and the Evans & Heckman approach proved that the industry has indeed been a natural monopoly and calls for an effective regulation so as to achieve in a competitive outcome.
Constraining symmetron fields with atom interferometry
Creators: name: Burrage, Clare
name: Kuribayashi-Coleman, Andrew
name: Stevenson, James
name: Thrussell, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the new constraints from atom-interferometry searches for screening mechanisms to the symmetron model, finding that these experiments exclude a previously unexplored region of parameter space. We discuss the possibility of networks of domain walls forming in the vacuum chamber, and how this could be used to discriminate between models of screening.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Techniques for characterisation of diffusion washing of eucalypt kraft pulps
Creators: name: Jacobson., Stuart Adam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The Extent of Economic Empowerment of Women through adult Education: The case of Kolfe Keranyo Sub-city
Creators: name: Tesfaye, Zinash
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the extent of economic empowerment of women through adult education. To conduct this study, 238 women"s and 10 facilitators, coordinators and administrative members were sampled from Kolfe Keranyo Sub-city Woreda 01 and 05. For the women"s questionnaires were used, and the facilitator ,coordinators and administrative members were interviewed, the content of the questionnaire and interview were about the economic gains derived by women"s after joining adult literacy program, the major factors influencing women"s economic empowerment and further supports needed to empower women economically through adult literacy program. The study yields that woman"s adult education program learners. According to the study, their primary reason for joining adult literacy program were for economic benefit and their major gains are; the increment of the household income level, quality education and better health services for them and their families. On the other hand, the contributing factors for the economic gains are; supports of the concerned bodies and the favorable environments given to them. There are also influencing factors; the traditional attitude, belief and practice. Accordingly, Kolfe Keranyo Sub-city Woreda o1 and 05 administrations perform different activities to achieve full commitment for the success of the economic empowerment of women through adult education by creating awareness for women"s and the societies about the program. However, with regard to getting quality education; starting from the selection of favorable environments, teaching materials and other supports required from the concerned bodies are some of the limitations with regard to the program. On the bases of the above findings, it is suggested that adult education programs are instruments for women"s economic empowerment thus, the concerned bodies need to work together to achieve the desirableobjectives.
title: Aggregate Information and Organizational Structures
Creators: name: Celik, Gorkem
name: Shin, Dongsoo
name: Strausz, Roland
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: We study information flows in an organization with a top management (principal) and multiple subunits (agents) with private information that determines the organization's aggregate efficiency. Under centralization, eliciting the agents' private information may induce the principal to manipulate aggregate information, which obstructs an effective use of information for the organization. Under delegation, the principal concedes more information rent, but is able to use the agents' information more effectively. The trade-off between the organizational structures depends on the likelihood that the agents are efficient. Centralizing information flows is optimal when such likelihood is low. Delegation, by contrast, is optimal when it is high.
Additional file 1 of Real-time predictors of food parenting practices and child eating behaviors in racially/ethnically diverse families
Creators: name: Berge, Jerica M.
name: Fertig, Angela R.
name: Trofholz, Amanda
name: de Brito, Junia N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. STROBE Statement—Checklist of items that should be included in reports of cohort studies.
Gauge-free cluster variational method by maximal messages and moment matching
Creators: name: Dominguez, Eduardo
name: Lage-Castellanos, Alejandro
name: Mulet, Roberto
name: Ricci-Tersenghi, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new implementation of the Cluster Variational Method (CVM) as a message passing algorithm. The kind of message passing algorithms used for CVM, usually named Generalized Belief Propagation, are a generalization of the Belief Propagation algorithm in the same way that CVM is a generalization of the Bethe approximation for estimating the partition function. However, the connection between fixed points of GBP and the extremal points of the CVM free-energy is usually not a one-to-one correspondence, because of the existence of a gauge transformation involving the GBP messages. Our contribution is twofold. Firstly we propose a new way of defining messages (fields) in a generic CVM approximation, such that messages arrive on a given region from all its ancestors, and not only from its direct parents, as in the standard Parent-to-Child GBP. We call this approach maximal messages. Secondly we focus on the case of binary variables, re-interpreting the messages as fields enforcing the consistency between the moments of the local (marginal) probability distributions. We provide a precise rule to enforce all consistencies, avoiding any redundancy, that would otherwise lead to a gauge transformation on the messages. This moment matching method is gauge free, i.e. it guarantees that the resulting GBP is not gauge invariant. We apply our maximal messages and moment matching GBP to obtain an analytical expression for the critical temperature of the Ising model in general dimensions at the level of plaquette-CVM. The values obtained outperform Bethe estimates, and are comparable with loop corrected Belief Propagation equations. The method allows for a straightforward generalization to disordered systems.
description: Corrected some Affiliation and references
Supplemental Material for Dolan et al., 2023
Creators: name: Dolan, Michael
name: St. John, Nick
name: Zaidi, Faizan
name: Doyle, Francis
name: Fasullo, Michael
Publisher: name: GSA Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310509
subject: Genomics

description: File S1 contains the R code for processing barcode counts. File S2 contains the normalized counts for each strain in each screen, as well as the processed differential abundance data. Figure S1 shows the interaction of all proteins encoded by the IQ resistance genes identified in the humanized yeast deletion collection under any condition. Figure S2A shows all proteins encoded by the IQ resistance genes in the original yeast deletion collection, and S2B shows the IQ resistance genes appearing twice in screens with the original collection. Figure S3 shows the growth curve data for the humanized double mutants and corresponding humanized single mutants, as well as the humanized WT haploid and diploid controls. Table S1 contains the list of specific strains used in this study. Table S2 contains the oligos used for high-throughput sequencing and multiplexing. Table S3 contains mutagenicity data from the Ames assay. Table S4 contains the full list of IQ resistance genes identified from the “humanized” yeast deletion collection in either screen. Table S5 contains the list of IQ resistance genes that were independently validated. Table S6 contains GO terms for genes identified in at least two screens of the humanized library. Table S7 contains the full list of IQ resistance genes identified in the original yeast deletion collection. Table S8 contains the GO Terms of IQ resistance genes which confer resistance with or without bioactivation of IQ.
Edgewise compression properties of paperboard
Creators: name: Jackson., Timothy Graeme
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Additional file 2 of Real-time predictors of food parenting practices and child eating behaviors in racially/ethnically diverse families
Creators: name: Berge, Jerica M.
name: Fertig, Angela R.
name: Trofholz, Amanda
name: de Brito, Junia N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Table A. Adjusted Associations for Subgroups with Significant Interactions by Sex & Race/Ethnicity.
Magnetic field induced mixed-level Kondo effect in two-level systems
Creators: name: Wong, Arturo
name: Ngo, Anh T.
name: Ulloa, Sergio E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-orbital impurity system with intra and inter-level Coulomb repulsion that is coupled to a single conduction channel. This situation can generically occur in multilevel quantum dots or in systems of coupled quantum dots. For finite energy-spacing between spin-degenerate orbitals, an in-plane magnetic field drives the system from a local singlet ground state to a "mixed-level" Kondo regime, where the Zeeman-split levels are degenerate for opposite spin states. We use the numerical renormalization group approach to fully characterize this mixed level Kondo state and discuss its properties in terms of the applied Zeeman field, temperature and system parameters. Under suitable conditions, the total spectral function is shown to develop a Fermi level resonance, so that the linear conductance of the system peaks at a finite Zeeman field while it decreases as function of temperature. These features, as well as the local moment and entropy contribution of the impurity system are commensurate with Kondo physics, which can be studied in suitably tuned quantum dot systems.
description: A new section II discusses the low-energy effective model. Figure 1 has been replaced by a new version
title: Voluntary Equity, Project Risk, and Capital Requirements
Creators: name: Haufler, Andreas
name: Lülfesmann, Christoph
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: We introduce a model of the banking sector that formally incorporates a buffer function of capital. Heterogeneous banks choose their portfolio risk, bank size, and capital holdings. Banks voluntarily hold equity when the buffer effect against the risk of default outweighs the cost advantages of debt financing. In this setting, banks with lower monitoring costs are larger, choose riskier portfolios, and have less equity. Moreover, binding capital requirements or levies on bank borrowing are shown to make higher-risk portfolios more attractive. Accounting for banks' interior capital choices can thus explain why higher capital ratios incentivize banks to undertake riskier projects.
Measuring Total Factor Productivity and Competitiveness of Ethiopian Textile and Garment Industries
Creators: name: Hassen, Jemal
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: This paper analysis the levels of total factor productivity and competitiveness of Ethiopian textile and garment industries in sight from medium and large scale firms over the period 2001-2005. In this regard, textile and garment sub-sector plays an important role in industrialization and economic development. Despite its importance for industrialization, the Ethiopian textile and garment sub-sector has not shown encouraging sign both in terms of productivity and competitiveness. Hence, the general objective of this study aimed at analyzing the level of total factor productivity and competitiveness of Ethiopian textile and garment sub-sector using secondary data from central statistical agency of Ethiopian which covers five years period. The study considered 17 textile and 8 garment sample firms. In the analysis, the study employed stochastic frontier production function model and unit cost ratio method. The study made use of a computer program frontier version 4.1c and stata version 9 as a tool for analysis. The results of the analysis revealed that the level of total factor productivity and competitiveness capacity of the sub-sector is not good. On average, technical progress, technical efficiency and scale efficiency (economies of scale) declined by -34%, -25% and -1.3% per annum over the study period, respectively. The negative change of these efficiencies resulted in negative total factor productivity growth. So, the contribution of total factor productivity to output growth is found -60.3% per annum. With regard to competitive capacity, all the four digit groups of manufacturing activities in the sub-sector prove to be uncompetitive even in the domestic market. From this analysis, therefore, it would be probably drawn that the growth of the sub-sector is pulled back by total factor productivity growth & failed to compete both in domestic and international market as a result of increasing trends in technical regress, technical and scale inefficiencies as well as cost ineffectiveness. This is, perhaps, a reflection of firm level weakness with mediocre product design, use of backward machineries, limited international exposure and passive reaction to competitive products. Thus, textile and garment firms ought to family work in addressing their weakness and adjust themselves with the challenges of the changing global environment. Government should also play its supportive role in terms of ensuring fairly competitive domestic market, providing market and technology information, supporting trainings and minimizing transaction costs related to the provision of its services.
A framework for information retrieval based on Bayesian networks
Creators: name: Indrawan., Maria
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: Cross-game Learning and Cognitive Ability in Auctions
Creators: name: Giebe, Thomas
name: Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta
name: Kocher, Martin G.
name: Schudy, Simeon
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: Overbidding in sealed-bid second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use first-price auctions (FPAs) to expose participants to an auction format in which losses from high bids are more salient than in SPAs. Experience in FPAs causes substantial cross-game learning for cognitively less able participants but does not affect overbidding for the cognitively more able. Vice versa, experiencing SPAs before bidding in an FPA does not substantially affect bidding behavior by the cognitively less able but, somewhat surprisingly, reduces bid shading by cognitively more able participants, resulting in lower profits in FPAs. Thus, 'cross-game learning' may rather be understood as 'cross-game transfer', as it has the potential to benefit bidders with lower cognitive ability whereas it has little or even adverse effects for higher-ability bidders.
MPEC 2023-L01 : 2023 KL5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 KL5

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Generalized Solution for the Demodulation of Reaction Shift Keying Signals in Molecular Communication Networks
Creators: name: Awan, Hamdan
name: Chou, Chun Tung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper considers a diffusion-based molecular communication system where the transmitter uses Reaction Shift Keying (RSK) as the modulation scheme. We focus on the demodulation of RSK signal at the receiver. The receiver consists of a front-end molecular circuit and a back-end demodulator. The front-end molecular circuit is a set of chemical reactions consisting of multiple chemical species. The optimal demodulator computes the posteriori probability of the transmitted symbols given the history of the observation. The derivation of the optimal demodulator requires the solution to a specific Bayesian filtering problem. The solution to this Bayesian filtering problem had been derived for a few specific molecular circuits and specific choice(s) of observed chemical species. The derivation of such solution is also lengthy. The key contribution of this paper is to present a general solution to this Bayesian filtering problem which can be applied to any molecular circuit and any choice of observed species.
description: 34 Pages , 9 Figures
Accidents in road classes and their long-term changes in Melbourne
Creators: name: Hoque., Md. Mazharul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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On dynamic mechanical properties of metals and their measurement
Creators: name: Holzer., Alexander John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Field-induced decays in $XXZ$ triangular-lattice antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Maksimov, P. A.
name: Zhitomirsky, M. E.
name: Chernyshev, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate field-induced transformations in the dynamical response of the $XXZ$ model on the triangular lattice that are associated with the anharmonic magnon coupling and decay phenomena. A set of concrete theoretical predictions is made for a close physical realization of the spin-1/2 $XXZ$ model, Ba$_3$CoSb$_2$O$_9$. We demonstrate that dramatic modifications in magnon spectrum must occur in low out-of-plane fields that are easily achievable for this material. The hallmark of the effect is a coexistence of the clearly distinct well-defined magnon excitations with significantly broadened ones in different regions of the ${\bf k}-ω$ space. The field-induced decays are generic for this class of models and become more prominent at larger anisotropies and in higher fields.
description: 5 p. + 4 figs main, 6+ p. + 8 figs Supp, typos corrected, Sqw replotted, few changes
Austenite recrystallisation and carbonitride precipitation in niobium-HSLA steels
Creators: name: Hirsch., Yvonne Carol
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The theory of optimal force transmission by flexure
Creators: name: Hill., Robin Devereux
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The fabrication and characterisation of calcium (alpha)-SiAlON ceramics
Creators: name: Hewett., Catherine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Assessing the Impact of Non-Reciprocal Trade Preferences: The Case of African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and Sub-Saharan Africa's Agricultural Exports to the United States of America
Creators: name: Gebregiorgis, Kokeb
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: The purpose of the paper is to discuss and analyze the impact of Non Reciprocal Trade Preferences such as African Growth and Opportunity (AGOA) on the agricultural exports of Sub Saharan Africa. That is its aim is to show weather the AGOA has increased agricultural exports from SSA to the United States of America. The researcher employs both descriptive and empirical analysis approaches. Pre and Post AGOA agricultural export performance of Sub Saharan are among descriptively analyzed issues. For empirical analysis part, we employ the fixed effect gravity model of international trade. We have three samples the first is a sample of 46 SSA countries, Secondly a sample of 30 countries whose average yearly agricultural exports is >= 500,000 US dollars and finally a sample of 9 major agricultural exporters in SSA countries. The period of time covered under the study is from 1996-2007 which is 5 years before the enactment of AGOA and the rest 7 years post AGOA period. Our descriptive evidence shows that the AGOA has had insignificant impact on the agricultural exports of Sub-Saharan Africa. Similarly the empirical estimates shows for the first sample with 46 SSA countries AGOA has led to a decline in average exports of SSA by 19%, for the second sample with 30 SSA countries whose yearly average agricultural exports is >= $ 500,000 AGOA has led to an increase in agricultural exports approximately by 35% on average, while for the third sample, major agricultural exporters, averagely AGOA has led to increase in agricultural exports approximately by 18%, but in all the three samples considered the AGOA dummy was not statistically different from zero. Therefore, one may conclude that AGOA has induced neither an increase nor a decline in SSA agricultural exports to the US.
On sums of powers of almost equal primes
Creators: name: Kumchev, Angel
name: Liu, Huafeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $k \ge 2$ and $s$ be positive integers, and let $n$ be a large positive integer subject to certain local conditions. We prove that if $s \ge k^2+k+1$ and $θ> 31/40$, then $n$ can be expressed as a sum $p_1^k + \dots + p_s^k$, where $p_1, \dots, p_s$ are primes with $|p_j - (n/s)^{1/k}| \le n^{θ/k}$. This improves on earlier work by Wei and Wooley and by Huang who proved similar theorems when $θ> 19/24$.
D5.1: Evaluation and Impact Assessment Plan
Creators: name: Schäfer, Teresa
name: Fabian, Claudia Magdalena
name: Kieslinger, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: evaluation
impact assessment
citizen science
indicators

description: The current document, titled “Evaluation and Impact Assessment Plan”, has been developed within the framework of the TIME4CS project, which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 101006201. In TIME4CS, evaluation is integrated in all project activities from the very beginning, it is understood as a form of participatory evaluation that initiates the conversation on expectations, objectives, and impact already at the start of the project. Consequently, WP5 has started the evaluation process with representatives from the four implementing organizations - CRG, KTU, UniSR and Tyndall - from the beginning of the project. A first exercise was to understand the current situation in these organizations - an initial stock-taking - where the evaluation team collected data on the implementers' current status of institutional support for citizen science (CS) in the four intervention areas. Only when the baseline is known before starting the design and implementation of the roadmaps and Grounding Actions, a proper evaluation of the project’s benefits and outcomes at the end is possible. To develop a set of indicators for institutional changes in RPOs towards more support of citizen science, WP5 closely cooperates with WP2 to accompany the development of roadmaps and Grounding Actions in the implementing organizations. These actions are expected to lead to the institutional changes in the implementing organizations and are assessed with regard to their usefulness and intermediate and long-term outcomes. Additionally, the evaluation team took a closer look at the framework for setting up and looking at the case studies analysis, which was developed in WP1 and fed the indicators of WP5. The outcome of this work is a set of indicators for institutional changes for each intervention area and a set of indicators that keep track of changes in individual participants, like researchers, management and students. Quantitative and qualitative instruments to collect data for these indicators are set up and will be more concretely elaborated and tested in cooperation with the implementing organizations and in parallel to the implementation of the Grounding Actions. A set of monitoring and reflection questions will be the focus of three-monthly monitoring meetings with implementers that help to learn from the implementation process and iteratively shape the developed trainings, workshops, documents, strategies, etc., developed by the project. Finally, a set of overall project key performance indicators (KPIs) is introduced together with their status when writing this deliverable.
The relationship between Leadership Styles and Employee Commitment in Private Higher Education Institutions at Addis Ababa City
Creators: name: Teshome, Temesgen
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: The effective leaders are enablers that directly points to competent and committed employees. Studies in the organizational psychology and organizational behavior literatures have shown that leadership styles and employee commitment are of major factors to the organizational success or failure. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between leadership styles (transactional, transformational, and laissez-faire) and employee commitments (affective, continuance, and normative commitment) in PHEIs at AAC. Total participants in the research were 115, included 95 academic staff and 20 leaders, with a nonresponse rate of 27.7% from 12 PHEIs. Two separate instruments, namely multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ) and organizational commitment questionnaire (OCQ), were used to measure leadership styles and employees' organizational commitment respectively. The findings of the study revealed that transformational leadership style has significant and positive correlations with affective and continuance employee commitments while transactional leadership style has significant and positive correlation with only normative commitment. A laissez-faire leadership style is found to be significantly and negatively associated with employees' affective commitment. Keywords: Leadership styles, Employee commitment, PHEIs
Connector-based integration testing for component-based software
Creators: name: Hashim., Nor Laily
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The Case for Addressing Anti-Fatness in Social Work Education
Creators: name: Rosin, Dina
name: Balraj, Sarina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023

description: Anti-fatness, the systematic marginalization of fat bodies, is a pervasive attitude across all spheres of social work practice. Despite its prevalence, there is a notable lack of understanding about anti-fatness, its causes, and its consequences. We argue for the need to address the issue of anti-fatness in the curriculum of social work education to better prepare social workers to serve all clients, as well as to serve as advocates against anti-fatness and the policies and conditions that emerge from it.
Perfect Single-Sided Radiation and Absorption without Mirrors
Creators: name: Zhou, Hengyun
name: Zhen, Bo
name: Hsu, Chia Wei
name: Miller, Owen D.
name: Johnson, Steven G.
name: Joannopoulos, John D.
name: Soljacic, Marin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Highly directional radiation from photonic structures is important for many applications, including high power photonic crystal surface emitting lasers, grating couplers, and light detection and ranging devices. However, previous dielectric, few-layer designs only achieved moderate asymmetry ratios, and a fundamental understanding of bounds on asymmetric radiation from arbitrary structures is still lacking. Here, we show that breaking the 180$^\circ$ rotational symmetry of the structure is crucial for achieving highly asymmetric radiation. We develop a general temporal coupled-mode theory formalism to derive bounds on the asymmetric decay rates to the top and bottom of a photonic crystal slab for a resonance with arbitrary in-plane wavevector. Guided by this formalism, we show that infinite asymmetry is still achievable even without the need of back-reflection mirrors, and we provide numerical examples of designs that achieve asymmetry ratios exceeding $10^4$. The emission direction can also be rapidly switched from top to bottom by tuning the wavevector or frequency. Furthermore, we show that with the addition of weak material absorption loss, such structures can be used to achieve perfect absorption with single-sided illumination, even for single-pass absorption rates less than $0.5\%$ and without back-reflection mirrors. Our work provides new design principles for achieving highly directional radiation and perfect absorption in photonics.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures in main text and 8 pages, 5 figures in appendix. V2: Updated version as published in Optica
Dynamics of an adiabatic continuous stirred tank reactor
Creators: name: ., Barun Kumar Guha
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Thermodynamics and emergent universe
Creators: name: Ghosh, Saumya
name: Gangopadhyay, Sunandan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in the isentropic scenario the first order thermodynamical particle creation model gives an emergent universe solution even when the chemical potential is non-zero. However there exists no emergent universe scenario in the second order non-equilibrium theory for the particle creation model. We then point out a correspondence between the particle creation model with barotropic equation of state and the equation of state giving rise to an emergent universe without particle creation in spatially flat FRW cosmology.
description: 10 pages Latex
Boundary Korn Inequality and Neumann Problems in Homogenization of Systems of Elasticity
Creators: name: Geng, Jun
name: Shen, Zhongwei
name: Song, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B27, 35J55, 74B05

description: This paper concerns with a family of elliptic systems of linear elasticity with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients, arising in the theory of homogenization. We establish uniform optimal regularity estimates for solutions of Neumann problems in a bounded Lipschitz domain with $L^2$ boundary data. The proof relies on a boundary Korn inequality for solutions of systems of linear elasticity and uses a large-scale Rellich estimate obtained in \cite{Shen-2016}.
description: 32 pages
Introduction to Plant Health activities in EFSA - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano visit to EFSA
Creators: name: Graziosi, Ignazio
name: Vos, Sybren
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: plant pests
subject: plant health
subject: surveillance
subject: survey preparation
subject: survey design
subject: invasive species
subject: pest survey cards
subject: survey guidelines
subject: http://artemide.art.uniroma2.it/skosmos/gacs/en/page/C10651
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22surveillance%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22invasive%20species%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22host%20plants%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22plant%20pests%22

description: Presentation of Plant Health activities in EFSA during the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano visit to EFSA on 12 December 2022.
description: EU; en; PDF; PLANTS@efsa.europa.eu
Impact of Macroeconomic Instability on Economic Growth and Private capital Accumulation in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tilahun, Belay
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Analyzing impact of macroeconomic instability on economic growth and private capital accumulation from the year 1974 to 2013 is the main objective of the study. Rather than using one variable as a proxy for macroeconomic instability, the researcher attempts to calculate macroeconomic instability index by using four variables: budget deficit, public debt, exchange rate variability and inflation by utilizing UNDP HDI methodology. In specification of regression equations, endogenous growth model and accelerator model are used for growth and capital accumulation equation respectively. Empirical analysis has been performed by using Johansson maximum likelihood method, the result shows that there is a long run relationship among the variables entered in both models. Both the long run and short run result shows that, macroeconomic instability has a detrimental effect on both economic growth and private capital accumulation. Based on the finding, the major policy implication of this study is that, poor management of macroeconomic with the adoption of incorrect and illogical fiscal and monetary policies and passive reaction against shocks will intensify the macroeconomic instability. Due to this, the way of reaction to the shocks is very important
title: Time Pressure and Regret in Sequential Search
Creators: name: Klimm, Felix
name: Kocher, Martin G.
name: Opitz, Timm
name: Schudy, Simeon
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: Perceived urgency and regret are common in many sequential search processes; for example, sellers often pressure buyers in search of the best offer, both time-wise and in terms of potential regret of forgoing unique purchasing opportunities. theoretically, these strategies result in anticipated and experienced regret, which systematically affect search behavior and thereby distort optimal search. In addition, urgency may alter decision-making processes and thereby the salience of regret. To understand the empirical relevance of these aspects, we study the causal effects of regret, urgency, and their interaction on search behavior in a pre-registered, theory-based, and well-powered experiment. Empirically, we and that anticipated regret does not affect search behavior either with or without time pressure, while experienced regret leads to systematic adjustments in search length. Urgency reduces decision times and perceived decision quality, but does not generally alter search length. Only very inexperienced decision-makers buy earlier when pressured. Thus, consumer protection measures against pressure selling tactics can help inexperienced consumers in particular.
Mössbauer spectroelectrochemical technique development and its application to the characterisation of Prussian blue and nontronite
Creators: name: Greaves., Tamar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Hunting For Eclipses: High Speed Observations of Cataclysmic Variables
Creators: name: Hardy, Liam K
name: McAllister, Martin J
name: Dhillon, Vik S
name: Littlefair, Stuart P
name: Bours, Madelon C P
name: Breedt, Elme
name: Butterley, Tim
name: Chakpor, Anurak
name: Irawati, Puji
name: Kerry, Paul
name: Marsh, Tom R
name: Parsons, Steven G
name: Savoury, Chris D J
name: Wilson, Richard W
name: Woudt, Patrick A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new time-resolved photometry of 74 cataclysmic variables (CVs), 47 of which are eclipsing. 13 of these eclipsing systems are newly discovered. For all 47 eclipsing systems we show high cadence (1-20 seconds) light curves obtained with the high-speed cameras ultracam and ultraspec. We provide new or refined ephemerides, and supply mid-eclipse times for all observed eclipses. We assess the potential for light curve modelling of all 47 eclipsing systems to determine their system parameters, finding 20 systems which appear to be suitable for future study.
description: 33 pages (incl 17 pages appendices), 37 figures (incl 25 in appendices), accepted on 22nd November 2016 for publication in MNRAS
Examensklausur StR: Berliner Straßenreinigung
Creators: name: Vormbaum, Moritz
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 340 Recht

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: Betrug, mittelbare Täterschaft, besonders schwerer Fall des Betrugs, Beihilfe durch Unterlassen, Garantenstellung