cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: «To Snap Us as We Are»
title: The Implied Camera in Virginia Woolf’s The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Federici, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing
Year: 2016

description: In the last few decades, considerable critical attention has been devoted to exploring the multiple relationships between Virginia Woolf’s life and works on the one hand, and various forms of artistic expression on the other, with particular focus on the most recent ones, such as photography and cinema, which are emblematic of the modern machine age. As several studies have shown, Woolf was thoroughly familiar with, and deeply interested in what she herself – in an introductory essay to the retrospective collection Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women (1926) by her great-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron described – as the newborn art of photography. While previous research has mainly focused on biographical accounts and/or feminist interpretations of the subject, this essay aims to analyse Woolf’s use of photography in terms of narrative technique by showing the implied presence of an invisible camera, whose eye coincides with the fixed point of view or the observing eye of the anonymous narrator, in her short story The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection (1929). In this ‘visual’ piece, Woolf engages in verbal imitations of snapshots, and the stiff artificiality of the photographic image, contrasting with the sheer vitality outside its frame, reminds us of what Walter Benjamin terms the loss of «aura» of the work of art in the age of its mechanical reproduction, a loss which in the case of photography is partially counterbalanced by the revelation of a hidden reality – Benjamin’s «optical unconscious» – or, in Woolf’s story, of the character’s inner truth.
description: Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie occidentale, 49 | 2015
title: «Number One, the lunatic asylum man»
title: Dracula and the Limits of Institutional Psychiatry
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Vanon Alliata, Michela
Publisher: name: Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing
Year: 2016

description: Beneath its spectacular Gothic topoi, the experience of subjectivity, the interest in the hidden dimensions of the mind and in the developing fields of neurology and psychiatry, which were challenging post-Enlightenment notions of rationality, traditional constructions of manliness and conventional gender roles, are central in Bram Stoker’s Dracula published in 1897, one year after the term psychoanalysis was introduced. Images of emotional instability, altered states of consciousness, and downright pathologies pervade the novel. Significantly enough, they concern not only the vampire’s primary victims but Dr. Seward himself, the young director of an insane asylum in London who often questions his professional role and even his own sanity. I will argue that Stoker modelled this character on William Joseph Seward, the superintendent of Colney Hatch Asylum from 1882 to 1911, an institution which was at that time the showcase of Victorian psychiatric reform. Like his namesake, Stoker’s Seward is an intelligent, sympathetic and dedicated alienist, who yet, from the very beginning, emerges as an unlikely guarantor of psychic order.
description: Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie occidentale, 49 | 2015
A responsabilidade criminal dos chefes militares no Estatuto de Roma (artigo 28.º)
Creators: name: Leandro, Francisco José
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2006

description: Direito e Justiça, n. Especial (2006): O Tribunal Penal Internacional e a Transformação do Direito Internacional. Conferência Internacional da FDUCP/PGR
The Biography: An Adequate Tool to Understand the Birth of Political Modernity?
Creators: name: Roudier, Jérôme
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Biography, in Antiquity, aimed to measure the relationship between man and destiny. As such, it dealt primarily with "great men", culminating of course in the lives of the Roman Emperors. The review of exact historical facts ultimately constituted less his primary purpose than the establishment, by the biographer, of a moral judgment. From this point of view, biography during the Christian Middle Ages is similar to this moralizing problem.
Scientific modernity obviously no longer accommodates this type of justification. Since the moral edification of readers cannot be the object of a scientific enterprise, we can ask ourselves the question of why, since the Renaissance, have we continued to write biographies?
Without delving into the idea of "genius" invented by the Renaissance and systematically theorized in the 19th century, we believe that a new kind of biography has been created to allow, above all, to understand the new relationship between societies and their population. The creation of "State", this new way of naming political organisations since the counter-reformation, involves, it seems to us, a new way of writing and thinking about biography.
What are we looking for, today, from companies such as the one proposed by the Institute for Cultural History of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts when The New Slovenian Biographical Lexicon was created? What cultural, political and philosophical characteristics anchored in the long term does this project correspond to?
This conference will seek to propose some reflections which obviously include the Slovenian approach in a broader movement of continuing biographical work in today's Europe.
A Republic of Letters? Exploring a Nineteenth Century Knowledge Network through the Lives of the Norwegian Scientist Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812–1885)
Creators: name: Ohrvik, Ane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The Norwegian legend- and fairytale collector and scientist Peter Christen Asbjørnsen had an extensive international network. Consisting of artists, authors, academics, politicians, publishers and the like, this network came to influence and shape Asbjørnsen's engagement with folklore collecting as well as his work with the natural sciences.
This paper will focus on the evolution and nature of his network and view it as a specific form of "knowledge community" similar to that of the Republic of Letters. By studying a bulk of letters that Asbjørnsen received during his lifetime it is possible to reconstruct his life, passions and interests. As such, his communications help us to understand his role as a cultural conduit at the heart of the national romantic period in Norway in the nineteenth century. His biography reflects the history of Norway as an emerging independent nation, the development of different sciences, and how knowledge was distributed through networks in the nineteenth century.
Multipole correlations in low-dimensional f-electron systems
Creators: name: Onishi, Hiroaki
name: Hotta, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using a density matrix renormalization group method, we investigate the ground-state properties of a one-dimensional three-orbital Hubbard model on the basis of a j-j coupling scheme. For $B_4^0 \ne 0$, where $B_4^0$ is a parameter to control cubic crystalline electric field effect, one orbital is itinerant, while other two are localized. Due to the competition between itinerant and localized natures, we obtain orbital ordering pattern which is sensitive to $B_4^0$, leading to a characteristic change of $Γ_{3g}$ quadrupole state into an incommensurate structure. At $B_4^0 = 0$, all the three orbitals are degenerate, but we observe a peak at $q = 0$ in $Γ_{3g}$ quadrupole correlation, indicating a ferro-orbital state, and the peak at $q = π$ in $Γ_{4u}$ dipole correlation, suggesting an antiferromagnetic state. We also discuss the effect of $Γ_{4u}$ octupole on magnetic anisotropy.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of ASR-WYP-2005 (September 27-29, 2005, Tokai)
Renewable Energy Development and Implications to Agricultural Viability
Creators: name: Adelaja, Adesoji O.
name: Hailu, Yohannes G.
name: Adelaja, Adesoji O.
name: Hailu, Yohannes G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: agricultural viability
subject: renewable energy
subject: land use
subject: spatial analysis

description: Food and energy security have increasingly acquired key natural resource policy focus. As alternative energy solutions become more land intensive, the potential implication to the agricultural sector becomes of policy interest. This study investigated the impact of projected wind energy development in Michigan on the agricultural sector. Results indicate that land lease payments overtime for wind turbine siting are expected to generate $50 million per year, impacting agricultural viability. Spatial distribution analysis suggests that most of the projected lease payments to farmers are concentrated in low value agricultural land, low value agricultural production, urban influenced, and low net farm income locations. We found that the spatial distribution of wind energy impact on agricultural viability is wide, but significant in some counties, by a margin of more than 50% net farm income gain. As renewable energy development becomes more land intensive, the potential cross-sectoral impacts need to be carefully considered.
Why Supply Management in Canada can Co-exist with the Prospective Doha Round Result
Creators: name: Gifford, Michael N.
name: McCalla, Alex F.
name: Gifford, Michael N.
name: McCalla, Alex F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
International Relations/Trade

description: The Canadian supply management system could continue to function under the prospective Doha Round result. The main change the industry would face would likely be the replacement of the present pricing system in dairy and eggs with a system of negotiated prices between producers and processors (paralleling the existing situation for chickens and turkeys) which still would reflect very substantial protection via the remaining over-quota tariffs. The main adjustment would be that Canadian producer prices would start to more closely track world prices which should be less volatile and higher as a result of the phase out of export subsidies and the creation of new market access opportunities.
Shopping Patterns and Preferences of Underwood, ND, Area Residents
Creators: name: Hodur, Nancy M.
name: Tweeten, Kathleen M.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Hodur, Nancy M.
name: Tweeten, Kathleen M.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: shopping patterns
subject: shopping preferences
subject: rural businesses

description: This study was undertaken at the request of the city of Underwood (a community of about 760 located in central North Dakota). The community is engaged in a planning process seeking to revitalize the local retail sector, and a survey was administered to obtain information about residents’ shopping patterns and preferences. A questionnaire was developed and distributed door-to-door to local residents, while a second questionnaire was distributed at the Underwood high school. The responses represented a majority of both target populations. Underwood residents most often reported purchasing groceries, convenience items, and personal services in Underwood. On the other hand, nongrocery personal items, major purchases (e.g., appliances), and nongrocery household items were most often purchased in Bismarck (a small metro about 60 miles away). Youth respondents most often reported purchasing gasoline and auto supplies in Underwood, while all other categories were most often purchased in Bismarck. The most frequent reasons for purchasing items other than in Underwood were that the item was not available in Underwood and other locations had a better selection of merchandise. The types of businesses that residents would most like to see in Underwood were a family restaurant, a hardware store, and a supper club. When asked if they would be willing to pay more to have a good or service available locally, more than 40 percent of households would pay more for eating out, convenience items, nongrocery retail shopping, and entertainment.
Meat Slaughter and Processing Plants’ Traceability Levels: Evidence From Iowa
Creators: name: Bulut, Harun
name: Lawrence, John D.
name: Bulut, Harun
name: Lawrence, John D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: country of origin labeling
subject: food safety
subject: multiple imputation method
subject: national animal identification system
subject: ordered logistic regression
subject: quality assurances
subject: traceability

description: Based on an econometric analysis of the data obtained from a survey of meat plants ( ) in Iowa in summer 2007, this paper identifies the factors impacting the meat plants’ voluntary adoption of forward and backward traceability activities. The results suggest that the ownership type (corporate versus independent) and operations type (slaughtering versus not) matter rather than the size and meat type produced (beef, pork, or poultry) as suggested in the previous surveys. Furthermore, food safety activities appear to be complementary to traceability activities. The findings may assist ongoing regulatory efforts in implementing traceability in U.S. in the near future.
การสื่อสารระหว่างวัฒนธรรมของชาวปิล๊อกอีต่อง
Creators: name: ณัฐวิโรจน์ มหายศ
Publisher: name: คณะนิเทศศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏรำไพพรรณี
Year: 2565
Subjects: การสื่อสารระหว่างวัฒนธรรม
การผสมกลมกลืนทางวัฒธรรม
ปิล๊อกอีต่อง

description: วารสารสหวิทยาการสังคมศาสตร์และการสื่อสาร, 5, 4, 36-45
The impact of the new Earth gravity models on the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with a new satellite
Creators: name: Iorio, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the opportunities offered by the new Earth gravity models from the dedicated CHAMP and, especially, GRACE missions to the project of measuring the general relativistic Lense-Thirring effect with a new Earth's artificial satellite. It turns out that it would be possible to abandon the stringent, and expensive, requirements on the orbital geometry of the originally prosed LARES mission (same semimajor axis a=12270 km of the existing LAGEOS and inclination i=70 deg) by inserting the new spacecraft in a relatively low, and cheaper, orbit (a=7500-8000 km, i\sim 70 deg) and suitably combining its node Omega with those of LAGEOS and LAGEOS II in order to cancel out the first even zonal harmonic coefficients of the multipolar expansion of the terrestrial gravitational potential J_2, J_4 along with their temporal variations. The total systematic error due to the mismodelling in the remaining even zonal harmonics would amount to \sim 1% and would be insensitive to departures of the inclination from the originally proposed value of many degrees. No semisecular long-period perturbations would be introduced because the period of the node, which is also the period of the solar K_1 tidal perturbation, would amount to \sim 10^2 days. Since the coefficient of the node of the new satellite would be smaller than 0.1 for such low altitudes, the impact of the non-gravitational perturbations of it on the proposed combination would be negligible. Then, a particular financial and technological effort for suitably building the satellite in order to minimize the non-conservative accelerations would be unnecessary.
description: LaTex2e, 28 pages, 2 tables, 8 figures. To appear in New Astronomy
The nature and origin of the Taoist underworld of the Han and Six dynasties periods
Creators: name: Johnson, John D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Throughout the history of Taoism the underworld remained central to its beliefs and practices. In its earliest manifestations, even those predating the emergence of the Taoist tradition itself, it was intrinsically linked to practices related to exorcisms and the Chinese ancestral cult. In this context, it functioned as an abode for the dead and a place to segregate the spirits of the dead from the living, traits later adopted by Taoism. The arrival of Buddhism, however, brought about changes in the Chinese and Taoist underworld. Whereas previously the underworld functioned primarily as a place for segregation, it took on broader connotations, becoming a place also concerned with postmortem punishment. Scholars, at least until recently, have maintained that the Chinese underworld bore similarities with the Western notions of the underworld, meaning "Hades," "Sheol," " H e l l , " and "Purgatory," and consistently interpreted the Chinese underworld according to these paradigms. It is held here that these terms are often misleading, and they thereby distorted the function and nature of the Taoist infernal regions. This thesis, instead of using these Western models, interprets the underworld according to the presence and emphasis of postmortem punishment. This will thereby establish the nature of the Taoist infernal regions as manifest during the periods between the Han and Six Dynasties Periods, a period between the second century B C E and the sixth century CE. This exploration is based on the translation of relevant texts dating from these periods. In addition, the antecedents of the Taoist underworld, meaning those of China's indigenous religious matrix and of Buddhism, are examined and interpreted.
Differential updating and morality: Is the way offenders learn from police detection associated with their personal morals?
Creators: name: Kaiser, Florian
name: Huss, Björn
name: Schaerff, Marcus
Publisher: name: London [u.a.] : Sage
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: differential deterrability
subject: differential updating
subject: Perceptual deterrence theory
subject: personal morals or morality
subject: risk perceptions
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::340 | Recht

description: The majority of differential deterrability research has investigated whether people differ in the extent to which a perceived threat of sanctions deters them from committing a crime. Less is known about the differential influence of criminal justice intervention on sanction threat perceptions. According to deterrence theory, however, for justice intervention to successfully deter crime, a process of perceptual updating is required. In the current study, we used panel data from German adolescents to supplement the research on differential updating. We applied fixed effects regressions to analyze whether people with weaker or stronger morals update their perceptions of detection risk differently following experiences of police detection. Our findings suggest that they do: risk perceptions increased more in adolescents with weak morals than in adolescents with strong morals when they experienced a higher certainty of detection (a higher detection rate). Combined with previous findings on differential deterrence (by personal morality), our results indicate that deterrence processes may—for individuals with weak morals—play a more critical role in the prevention of crime than previous nondifferential research has suggested.
Deuterium Chemodynamics of Massive Pre-Stellar Cores
Creators: name: Hsu, Chia-Jung
name: Tan, Jonathan C.
name: Goodson, Matthew D.
name: Caselli, Paola
name: Körtgen, Bastian
name: Cheng, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High levels of deuterium fractionation of $\rm N_2H^+$ (i.e., $\rm D_{frac}^{N_2H^+} \gtrsim 0.1$) are often observed in pre-stellar cores (PSCs) and detection of $\rm N_2D^+$ is a promising method to identify elusive massive PSCs. However, the physical and chemical conditions required to reach such high levels of deuteration are still uncertain, as is the diagnostic utility of $\rm N_2H^+$ and $\rm N_2D^+$ observations of PSCs. We perform 3D magnetohydrodynamics simulations of a massive, turbulent, magnetised PSC, coupled with a sophisticated deuteration astrochemical network. Although the core has some magnetic/turbulent support, it collapses under gravity in about one freefall time, which marks the end of the simulations. Our fiducial model achieves relatively low $\rm D_{frac}^{N_2H^+} \sim 0.002$ during this time. We then investigate effects of initial ortho-para ratio of $\rm H_2$ ($\rm OPR^{H_2}$), temperature, cosmic ray (CR) ionization rate, CO and N-species depletion factors and prior PSC chemical evolution. We find that high CR ionization rates and high depletion factors allow the simulated $\rm D_{frac}^{N_2H^+}$ and absolute abundances to match observational values within one freefall time. For $\rm OPR^{H_2}$, while a lower initial value helps the growth of $\rm D_{frac}^{N_2H^+}$, the spatial structure of deuteration is too widespread compared to observed systems. For an example model with elevated CR ionization rates and significant heavy element depletion, we then study the kinematic and dynamic properties of the core as traced by its $\rm N_2D^+$ emission. The core, undergoing quite rapid collapse, exhibits disturbed kinematics in its average velocity map. Still, because of magnetic support, the core often appears kinematically sub-virial based on its $\rm N_2D^+$ velocity dispersion.
description: 25 pages, 20 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS, comments welcome
Competition and Regulation via Supply and Demand Functions in Oligopolistic-Oligopsonistic Markets
Creators: name: Bulut, Harun
name: Koray, Semih
name: Bulut, Harun
name: Koray, Semih
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: demand function equilibria

description: Paper removed at the request of the primary author, Feb. 10, 2014.
title: Renewing a modern denomination : a study of Baptist institutional life in the 1990s
Creators: name: Goodliff, Andrew Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: This thesis is an exploration of the renewal of the Baptist Union of Great Britain in the 1990s. It argues that key to this renewal were two streams of thought that developed during the 1980s, one arguing more for denominational renewal from an evangelical position and the other more for theological renewal from an ecumenical and catholic position. From these two streams particular individuals — David Coffey, Nigel Wright, Paul Fiddes and Brian Haymes — were influential in the discussions within the Union that took place after Coffey was appointed General Secretary of the Union in 1991. These discussions centred around mission and identity, ministry and associating and ecumenical engagement. The first stream, represented by Coffey and Wright emphasised mission; and the second, represented by Fiddes and Haymes, emphasised covenant. Both mission and covenant are important markers of historic Baptist identity, the former becoming prominent in the late 18th century and the latter in the early beginnings of Baptists in the 16th century. While not antithetical to one another I show how these two emphasises pulled in different directions. An attempt was made in the subsequent changes to the structures to hold both together, but I argue that this meant neither were fully bedded into the life and members of the Union. I suggest that one of the problems here was the place and practice of theology within the Union and especially its Council.
O artigo 25.º do Estatuto de Roma. Primeiras Notas
Creators: name: Salinas, Henrique
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2006

description: Direito e Justiça, n. Especial (2006): O Tribunal Penal Internacional e a Transformação do Direito Internacional. Conferência Internacional da FDUCP/PGR
The contribution of low-head pumped hydro storage to grid stability in future power systems
Creators: name: Qudaih, Mohammed
name: Engel, Bernd
name: Truijen, Daan P. K.
name: De Kooning, Jeroen D. M.
name: Stockman, Kurt
name: Hoffstaedt, Justus
name: Jarquin‐Laguna, Antonio
name: Ruiz, Ruben Ansorena
name: Goseberg, Nils
name: De Vilder, Lucas
name: Bricker, Jeremy D.
name: Joseph, Melvin
name: Zangeneh, Mehrdad
name: Terheiden, Kristina
Publisher: name: London : IET
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: distributed power generation
subject: electric power generation
subject: energy storage
subject: energy storage technology
subject: frequency stability
subject: power system stability
subject: pumped-storage power stations
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: The pan-European power grid is experiencing an increasing penetration of Variable Renewable Energy (VRE). The fluctuating and non-dispatchable nature of VRE hinders them in providing the Ancillary Service (AS) needed for the reliability and stability of the grid. Therefore, Energy Storage Systems (ESS) are needed along the VRE. Among the different ESS, a particularly viable and reliable option is Pumped Hydro Storage (PHS), given its cost-effective implementation and considerable lifespan, in comparison to other technologies. Traditional PHS plants with Francis turbines operate at a high head difference. However, not all regions have the necessary topology to make these plants cost-effective and efficient. Therefore, the ALPHEUS project will introduce low-head PHS for regions with a relatively flat topography. In this paper, a grid-forming controlled converter coupled with low-head PHS that can contribute to the grid stability is introduced, emphasising its ability to provide different AS, especially frequency control, through the provision of fast Frequency Containment Reserve (fFCR) as well as synthetic system inertia. This paper is an extended version of the paper “The Contribution of Low-head Pumped Hydro Storage to a successful Energy Transition”, which was presented at the 19th Wind Integration Workshop 2020.
Simple close curve magnetization and application to Bellman's lost in the forest problem
Creators: name: Agama, Theophilus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we introduce and develop the notion of simple close curve magnetization. We provide an application to Bellman's lost in the forest problem assuming special geometric conditions between the hiker and the boundary of the forest.
description: 7 pages; to appear in the forthcoming issue of the international journal of pure and applied mathematics research
Spontaneous Superfluid Current Generation in CFL at Nonzero Strange Quark Mass
Creators: name: Kryjevski, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that for large enough strange quark mass, $m_s^2/4 μΔ>2/3(1-0.024),$ kaon condensed CFL phase of asymptotically dense 3 flavor quark matter is unstable with respect to spontaneous generation of currents of Nambu Goldstone bosons due to spontaneous breaking of baryon number symmetry and hypercharge symmetry in CFL$K^0$ ground state. The total baryon and hypercharge currents still vanish in the ground state. We find that CFL$K^0$ and the new state are separated by the first order phase transition.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
การออกแบบของที่ระลึกและบรรจุภัณฑ์เพื่อส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยวหมู่บ้านเครื่องปั้นดินเผาด่านเกวียน จังหวัดนครราชสีมา
Creators: name: ปอยหลวง บุญเจริญ
Publisher: name: คณะนิเทศศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏรำไพพรรณี
Year: 2565
Subjects: ของที่ระลึก
บรรจุภัณฑ์
หมู่บ้านเครื่องปั้นดินเผาด่านเกวียน
ส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยว
อัตลักษณ์ชุมชน

description: วารสารสหวิทยาการสังคมศาสตร์และการสื่อสาร, 5, 4, 46-57
Long Memory, Spurious Memory: Persistence in Range-Based Volatility of Exchange Rates
Creators: name: Afzal, Alia
name: Sibbertsen, Philipp
Publisher: name: Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Exchange rate
subject: Fractional integration
subject: Level shifts
subject: Long memory
subject: Structural breaks
subject: Volatility
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: This study considers the long memory and fractional integration in the range-based volatilities across 30 currencies against USD. Graphical analysis of the autocorrelation function at long lags and pole near zero frequencies in the periodogram suggests the existence of fractional integration. We apply semi-parametric methods to measure long-range dependence. We find a decrease in the memory estimates with an increase in the bandwidth, which indicates the presence of spurious memory rather true long memory. The hypothesis of long memory against the alternative of spurious memory is also tested by applying the different semi-parametric methods. Empirical results confirm the presence of spurious memory that may be a result of some shocks to the volatility estimator. Furthermore, the reduced memory estimates obtained by utilising an estimator accounting for level shifts also explains the inconsistency of the Local Whittle estimator. We also estimate the number of breaks for each series.
NORTH DAKOTA LIGNITE ENERGY INDUSTRY'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE STATE ECONOMY FOR 2007 AND PROJECTED FOR 2008
Creators: name: Coon, Randal C.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Coon, Randal C.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: lignite
subject: coal
subject: economic impact

description: A survey of firms involved in lignite mining and/or conversion resulted in estimates of their expenditures to in-state entities. An input-output model was applied to estimate secondary and total impacts of the direct expenditures. Direct expenditures totaled $806.8 million for 2007 and were estimated at $995.4 million for 2008. The total (direct plus secondary) contribution to the North Dakota economy was estimated to be $2.4 billion for 2007 and $2.8 billion for 2008. State tax revenues resulting from industry activities totaled $89 million in 2007, and industry direct employment totaled 3,882. In addition, economic activity resulting from the industry was estimated to support more than 21,000 jobs in other sectors of the state economy.
title: Multi-modal imaging of respiratory syncytial virus genome-rich bodies
Creators: name: Burns, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: respiratory syncytial virus, imaging, inclusion body, genome-rich body, microscopy, pneumovirus

description: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an enveloped virus with a negative sense, single-stranded RNA genome. RSV is responsible for upper respiratory tract infections such as rhinitis and croup mainly in babies and young children, but it can also infect the elderly and the immunocompromised. If RSV infection progresses into the lower respiratory tract then more severe diseases such as bronchiolitis and pneumonia can occur, which can lead to death. There is no licensed RSV vaccine and the only licensed antivirals are monoclonal antibodies, such as palivizumab, which are for prophylactic treatment only. During the RSV lifecycle, intra-cytoplasmic compartments named inclusion bodies (IBs) form. It is thought that RSV carries out transcription and replication within IBs. IBs contain viral proteins, viral RNA and some cellular host proteins. They have also been described to form through phase-phase separations and exist as membraneless structures. Here we employed a multi-modal correlative imaging approach to explore RSV cytoplasmic compartments during RSV infection, aiming to better understand RSV replication. Our use of RSV genome-specific fluorescent probes discovered a new RSV-induced cytoplasmic organelle: genome-rich bodies, GRBs. GRBs appear to be distinct from IBs, containing much of the viral genome within the cell as evidenced through confocal laser scanning microscopy. Using soft X-ray cryotomography we found that GRBs are granular, membranous cytoplasmic structures. Cryo-focussed ion beam milling followed by electron cryotomography revealed that GRBs are enclosed by an outer lipid bilayer and contain many internal membrane bound compartments, some of which have multiple membrane layers. Within the internal compartments are ring-like and tubular structures which we hypothesise are RSV nucleocapsids – viral genomes and anti-genomes coated by the RSV nucleoprotein. Morphologically identical structures were also seen within RSV filaments budding out of infected cells. The application of multiple imaging modalities has enabled the discovery of GRBs on different resolution scales, generating a detailed description of GRB structure and morphology. Further investigation to explore mechanistic aspects of these structures may inform the development of future RSV interventions.
A general framework for spatial GARCH models
Creators: name: Otto, Philipp
name: Schmid, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Berlin ; Heidelberg [u.a.] : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Real estate prices
subject: Spatial GARCH
subject: Spatiotemporal statistics
subject: Volatility clusters
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::510 | Mathematik

description: In time-series analysis, particularly in finance, generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) models are widely applied statistical tools for modelling volatility clusters (i.e., periods of increased or decreased risk). In contrast, it has not been considered to be of critical importance until now to model spatial dependence in the conditional second moments. Only a few models have been proposed for modelling local clusters of increased risks. In this paper, we introduce a novel spatial GARCH process in a unified spatial and spatiotemporal GARCH framework, which also covers all previously proposed spatial ARCH models, exponential spatial GARCH, and time-series GARCH models. In contrast to previous spatiotemporal and time series models, this spatial GARCH allows for instantaneous spill-overs across all spatial units. For this common modelling framework, estimators are derived based on a non-linear least-squares approach. Eventually, the use of the model is demonstrated by a Monte Carlo simulation study and by an empirical example that focuses on real estate prices from 1995 to 2014 across the postal code areas of Berlin. A spatial autoregressive model is applied to the data to illustrate how locally varying model uncertainties (e.g., due to latent regressors) can be captured by the spatial GARCH-type models.
Excited $[{\bf 70, \ell^+}]$ baryons in large $N_c$ QCD
Creators: name: Matagne, N.
name: Stancu, Fl.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The masses of the positive parity $[{\bf 70},0^+]$ and $[{\bf 70},2^+]$ non-strange baryons are calculated in large $N_c$ QCD by considering the most dominant operators in an $1/N_c$ expansion. The approach is based on the introduction of an excited core, obtained after the last particle (an excited quark) has been removed. Configuration mixing is neglected, for simplicity. Although being a sub-leading $1/N_c$ order, we find that the spin-spin interaction plays a dominant role in describing the data. The role of $N_c^ 0$ operators is also pointed out. We show how the contribution of the linear term in $N_c$, of the spin-spin and spin-orbit terms vary with the excitation energy.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX, uses espcrc1.sty (included), correspond with the published version
A study of the tropical response in an idealised global circulation model.
Creators: name: Neale, Richard Brain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1999
Subjects: Tropical Circulation Variability Convection Climate Models

description: The atmospheric response to idealised Sea Surface Temperature (SST) distributions is investigated using an atmosphere only version of the UKMO Unified Model (UM), which is modified to have an underlying ocean covered surface. The study is motivated by the observational analysis Ward (1992), who found a Tropic Wide Mode of climate variability linked to variations in tropical SST. The model climate exhibits strong sensitivity to meridional curvature in SST. For sufficiently weak near-equator SST gradients there is no Hadley circulation and tropical precipitation is no longer organised by large-scale dynamics. Localised tropical SST anomalies give precipitation increases centred to the west of them. The pattern of precipitation suppression seen is consistent with a tropically confined wave response. Tropical precipitation suppression remote from the SST anomaly is accompanied by a lowering of the cloud top height and a weakening of the Hadley circulation. Intense equatorial westerlies remote from an SST anomaly result due to stationary eddy momentum flux convergence in the horizontal and vertical. A wavenumber-frequency analysis of model tropical precipitation reveals that the intra-seasonal oscillation is absent from this configuration of the UM. The introduction of zonal non-uniformity due to SST anomalies reduces the magnitude of significant spectral peaks. Decoupling of SST from the near-surface temperature in the UM restricts a simple boundary layer model when used to reproduce the strength of the UM flow. An intermediate GCM based upon quasi-equilibrium shows a sensitivity to SST significantly different from the UM. The simple dynamical formulation of this model effectively removes the constraint of local angular momentum conservation seen in the UM. Idealised GCM experimentation is useful in clearly identifying model differences, testing model parameterisations and their interaction with the dynamics, and may provide a bridge between single column models and full GCMs.
A Genetic Analysis of Writing and Poetic Evolution in the Quaderni in Ottavo by Franz Kafka
Creators: name: Frare, Giulia
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

The eight Octavo Notebooks, written by Kafka in the crucial months between the end of 1916 and the beginning of 1918, represent for many reasons a precious and partially still unexplored source for Kafka studies. Not only do they include some of the greatest and most representative short prose works of the author (as The Great Wall of China, the Gracchus’ fragments, The Bucket Rider, A Report to an Academy), but they also bear witness to a highly creative and experimental writing phase, in which short stories, diary records, aphorisms and moral reflections come together as fragments and rough drafts. Far from considering the heterogeneity and fragmentary nature of these notebooks as an obstacle to a systematic interpretative analysis of the texts, this article will show how this extraordinary stylistic and thematic variety, as well as the private character of the drafts, provides useful elements for a textual-genetic approach and offers the perfect opportunity to reflect upon the relationship between ‘life’ and ‘writing’. The article intends to bring to light the peculiarity and the research potential of the Octavo Notebooks considered as a whole, which will be done through a comprehensive and chronological examination of the eight notebooks on the one hand, and a comparison with the other private documents of the author on the other. This kind of approach will enable to gain a careful insight into Kafka’s writing process and into his characteristic metaphorical system.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Gaussberg: volcanology and petrology
Creators: name: J.L. Smellie
name: K.D. Collerson
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Photomicrographs of representative lamproite lavas and enclaves from Gaussberg
FIRM SIZE, TECHNICAL CHANGE AND WAGES IN THE PORK SECTOR, 1990 -2005
Creators: name: Yu, Li
name: Hurley, Terrance M.
name: Kliebenstein, James B.
name: Orazem, Peter F.
name: Yu, Li
name: Hurley, Terrance M.
name: Kliebenstein, James B.
name: Orazem, Peter F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agribusiness
Labor and Human Capital
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Economists have long puzzled over the fact that large firms pay higher wages than small firms, even after controlling for worker's observed productive characteristics. One possible explanation has been that firm size is correlated with unobserved productive attributes which confound firm size with other productive characteristics. This study investigates the size-wage premium in the context of firms competing within a single market for a relatively homogeneous product: hogs. We pay particular attention to the matching process by which workers are linked to farms of different size and technology use, and whether the matching process may explain differences in wages across farms. The study relies on four surveys of employees on hog farms collected in 1990, 1995, 2000, and 2005. We find that there are large wage premia paid to workers on larger farms that persist over time. Although more educated and experienced workers are more likely to work on larger and more technologically advanced hog farms, the positive relationships between wages and both farm size and technology adoption remain large and statistically significant even after controlling for differences in observable worker attributes and in the observed sorting process of workers across farms.
Collective predator evasion: Putting the criticality hypothesis to the test
Creators: name: Klamser, Pascal P.
name: Romanczuk, Pawel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: According to the criticality hypothesis, collective biological systems should operate in a special parameter region, close to so-called critical points, where the collective behavior undergoes a qualitative change between different dynamical regimes. Critical systems exhibit unique properties, which may benefit collective information processing such as maximal responsiveness to external stimuli. Besides neuronal and gene-regulatory networks, recent empirical data suggests that also animal collectives may be examples of self-organized critical systems. However, open questions about self-organization mechanisms in animal groups remain: Evolutionary adaptation towards a group-level optimum (group-level selection), implicitly assumed in the "criticality hypothesis", appears in general not reasonable for fission-fusion groups composed of non-related individuals. Furthermore, previous theoretical work relies on non-spatial models, which ignore potentially important self-organization and spatial sorting effects. Using a generic, spatially-explicit model of schooling prey being attacked by a predator, we show first that schools operating at criticality perform best. However, this is not due to optimal response of the prey to the predator, as suggested by the "criticality hypothesis", but rather due to the spatial structure of the prey school at criticality. Secondly, by investigating individual-level evolution, we show that strong spatial self-sorting effects at the critical point lead to strong selection gradients, and make it an evolutionary unstable state. Our results demonstrate the decisive role of spatio-temporal phenomena in collective behavior, and that individual-level selection is in general not a viable mechanism for self-tuning of unrelated animal groups towards criticality.
Self-monitoring in women clerical workers : personality and coping with work-related stress
Creators: name: Lubbers, Ralph William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to examine clerical workers' experience of work-related stress in an effort to understand the role of self-monitoring, a stable personality trait, in the stress and coping process. Consistent with recent research on how individuals cope with stress, this study examined both personality factors and transactional processes. Self-monitoring, the degree to which an individual observes their social environment and subsequently regulates their own behaviour, has significant implications for how individuals respond to work-related stressor events. Drawn from archival data, 96 female clerical workers provided general demographic information, workplace characteristics, and self-monitoring tendencies via paper and pencil instruments. Cognitive appraisals, coping strategies, and affective responses to a salient stressor were gathered using a daily diary data collection method. Twice daily responses to a work-related stressor that had occurred during the immediately preceding morning and afternoon were recorded over 15 consecutive workdays. Chi Square, ANOVA, and hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to test the relationship between self-monitoring and the stress and coping processes of cognitive appraisals, coping strategies, and affective responses. Results indicate that self-monitoring is associated with differential reactivity, coping choices, and coping effectiveness in the clerical worker's response to work-related stressors. Results of this study have important implications for the theoretical understanding of stress and coping by clarifying the role of self-monitoring in the stress and coping process, and tentative implications for how counselling psychologists design workplace stress interventions for clerical workers.
Robustness Evaluation of Two CCG, a PCFG and a Link Grammar Parsers
Creators: name: Kakkonen, Tuomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robustness in a parser refers to an ability to deal with exceptional phenomena. A parser is robust if it deals with phenomena outside its normal range of inputs. This paper reports on a series of robustness evaluations of state-of-the-art parsers in which we concentrated on one aspect of robustness: its ability to parse sentences containing misspelled words. We propose two measures for robustness evaluation based on a comparison of a parser's output for grammatical input sentences and their noisy counterparts. In this paper, we use these measures to compare the overall robustness of the four evaluated parsers, and we present an analysis of the decline in parser performance with increasing error levels. Our results indicate that performance typically declines tens of percentage units when parsers are presented with texts containing misspellings. When it was tested on our purpose-built test set of 443 sentences, the best parser in the experiment (C&C parser) was able to return exactly the same parse tree for the grammatical and ungrammatical sentences for 60.8%, 34.0% and 14.9% of the sentences with one, two or three misspelled words respectively.