cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prognostic value of inflammation-related model in hepatitis B acute-on-chronic liver failure
Creators: name: Xu, huaqian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: "Prognostic value of inflammation-related model in hepatitis B acute-on-chronic liver failure" demonstrates the influence of inflammation in HBV-ACLF. For the sake of data accessibility, the original data of the study and some supplementary statistical results are uploaded for reference.

Supplementary Table 1. The original data of this study.

Supplementary Table 2. Normality test of baseline data in survival and death groups. Through normality test, it was found that the statistical value of normality test in the baseline data of the two groups of patients was < 0.05, so they did not conform to the normal distribution.

Supplementary Figure 1.  Test the extreme outliers in the logistic regression hypothesis. We found that there were eight observations where the studized residuals were greater than 2 times the standard deviation, but we kept them in the analysis.

Supplementary Figure 2.  Multicollinearity among explanatory variables. Through collinearity diagnosis, we found that all independent variables VIF were less than 5, and the degree of collinearity between independent variables was small.

Supplementary Figure 3. Box–Tidwell test on variables. A total of 19 items were included in the model analysis in this study, including 9 independent variables: age, MLR, WBC, neutrophil, PLT, albumin, ALT, AST and iMELD, 9 interaction terms: age*lnage, lnMLR*MLR, lnWBC*WBC, ln neutrophil*neutrophil, lnPLT*PLT, ln albumin*albumin, lnALT*ALT, lnAST*AST and lniMELD*iMELD and intercept term (Constant). Therefore, in this study, it is recommended that the significance level should be α=0.00263 (0.05/19). Based on this significance level, the P-value of all interaA total of 19 items were included in the model analysis in this study, including 9 independent variables: age, MLR, WBC, neutrophil, PLT, albumin, ALT, AST and iMELD, 9 interaction terms: age*lnage, lnMLR*MLR, lnWBC*WBC, ln neutrophil*neutrophil, lnPLT*PLT, ln albumin*albumin, lnALT*ALT, lnAST*AST and lniMELD*iMELD and intercept term (Constant). Therefore, in this study, it is recommended that the significance level should be α=0.00263 (0.05/19). Based on this significance level, the P-value of all interaction terms in this study is higher than 0.00263, so there is a linear relationship between all continuous independent variables and the logit conversion value of the dependent variable.ction terms in this study is higher than 0.00263, so there is a linear relationship between all continuous independent variables and the logit conversion value of the dependent variable.
A Study of the Relationship between Women’s Autonomy and Family Planning Use in Urban India
Creators: name: Zimmerman, Allison
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: This study examines the relationship between women’s autonomy and use of family planning by type of method (non-use, traditional, spacing, and permanent) among women living in urban Gorakhpur, India. Autonomy is measured in terms of decision-making, mobility, and financial control over resources. After controlling for possible confounding, the results from multinomial logistic regression show that women with decision-making autonomy are significantly more likely to use both permanent and spacing methods as opposed to no method, compared with women without autonomous decision-making. No significant relationship was found between mobility or financial control and family planning use. These findings should be taken into consideration as government and non-government agencies in Gorakhpur implement family planning interventions, with possible increases in modern family planning use deriving from attention to increasing women’s decision-making capacity.
IMPROVING CHILD FOOD SECURITY WITH SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS IN GRANVILLE AND VANCE COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Boykin, Tristen B.
name: Roumanos, Nadia Marie
name: Tolmachov, Vasily
name: Shahid, Zainab
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2025

description:
This report is generated by the economic group for the commissioner’s office and examines the critical issue of child food insecurity in Granville and Vance Counties in North Carolina. The contextual analysis evaluates the current and historical socio-economic factors that contribute to food insecurity, a high-priority social determinant of health that has a long-lasting impact on children’s mental and physical health. A multifaceted approach was utilized for stakeholder mapping and engagement, analysis of past policies, and development of new potential policies. The design process utilized quality tools to develop the change idea, focusing on and enhancing the school meal program and enhancing local food access. The design process emphasized the feasibility, sustainability, and scalability of the school meal program by establishing a steering committee to oversee the implementation and iteration process. This comprehensive assessment aims to inform policy and practice to reduce child food insecurity and improve health outcomes.
title: Writingplace, No. 7 (2023): Taking Place: Reflections from the Fieldworker
title: Taking Place: Reflections from the Fieldworker
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Writingplace
Publisher: name: Writingplace
Year: 2023

description: This issue of Writingplace Journal moves into the field, exploring the moment when reflection turns into action, and questions how knowledge produced via research is appraised and applied on the ground. In the articles, authors reflect upon their concrete experiences where insights regarding the city and its narratives have been made operational. Understanding the urban as a complex expression of social, historical, material, spatial and temporal relations between people and their built environment, we argue that this comprehension of places demands and envisions action, by which active and transformative processes take place in the real world. Fieldwork is in this sense both research and event, both investigative process and performative project.
description: Taking Place From Planning for Rural Development to Planning for Deliberation Project Diary as a Strategy of Urban Apprehension Narrating the Living Town My Photostory, Your Photostory, Our Neighbourhood Weaving Ensembles Curatorial Fieldwork as a Critical Practice Urban Atmospherics Dirty Work
Seladonia tumulorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Seladonia
Seladonia tumulorum

description: Seladonia tumulorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 17.IV.2014, nid dans pelouse, 1♀, Taraxacum sp., 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 83, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Sphecodes ephippius
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes ephippius

description: Sphecodes ephippius (Linnaeus, 1767)
25.IV.2013, pelouse, 5♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 83, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Optical-Infrared Properties of Faint 1.3 mm Sources Detected with ALMA
Creators: name: Hatsukade, Bunyo
name: Ohta, Kouji
name: Yabe, Kiyoto
name: Seko, Akifumi
name: Makiya, Ryu
name: Akiyama, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report optical-infrared (IR) properties of faint 1.3 mm sources (S_1.3mm = 0.2-1.0 mJy) detected with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS) field. We searched for optical/IR counterparts of 8 ALMA-detected sources (>=4.0 sigma, the sum of the probability of spurious source contamination is ~1) in a K-band source catalog. Four ALMA sources have K-band counterpart candidates within a 0.4" radius. Comparison between ALMA-detected and undetected K-band sources in the same observing fields shows that ALMA-detected sources tend to be brighter, more massive, and more actively forming stars. While many of the ALMA-identified submillimeter-bright galaxies (SMGs) in previous studies lie above the sequence of star-forming galaxies in stellar mass--star-formation rate plane, our ALMA sources are located in the sequence, suggesting that the ALMA-detected faint sources are more like `normal' star-forming galaxies rather than `classical' SMGs. We found a region where multiple ALMA sources and K-band sources reside in a narrow photometric redshift range (z ~ 1.3-1.6) within a radius of 5" (42 kpc if we assume z = 1.45). This is possibly a pre-merging system and we may be witnessing the early phase of formation of a massive elliptical galaxy.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
title: Evaluating Human-Centered AI Explanations: Introduction of an XAI Evaluation Framework for Fact-Checking
Creators: name: Schmitt, Vera
name: Csomor, Balázs Patrik
name: Meyer, Joachim
name: Villa-Areas, Luis-Felipe
name: Jakob, Charlott
name: Polzehl, Tim
name: Möller, Sebastian
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: human-centered eXplanations
subject: objective and subjective evaluation of eXplanations
subject: blind trust in AI systems

description: The rapidly increasing amount of online information and the advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) make the manual verification of information impractical. Consequently, AI systems are deployed to detect disinformation and deepfakes. Prior studies have indicated that combining AI and human capabilities yields enhanced performance in detecting disinformation. Furthermore, the European Union (EU) AI Act mandates human supervision for AI applications in areas impacting essential human rights, like freedom of speech, necessitating that AI systems be transparent and provide adequate explanations to ensure comprehensibility. Extensive research has been conducted on incorporating explainability (XAI) attributes to augment AI transparency, yet these often miss a human-centric assessment. The effectiveness of such explanations also varies with the user’s prior knowledge and personal attributes. Therefore, we developed a framework for validating XAI features for the collaborative human-AI fact-checking task. The framework allows the testing of XAI features with objective and subjective evaluation dimensions and follows human-centric design principles when displaying information about the AI system to the users. The framework was tested in a crowdsourcing experiment with 433 participants, including 406 crowdworkers and 27 journalists for the collaborative disinformation detection task. The tested XAI features increase the AI system’s perceived usefulness, understandability, and trust. With this publication, the XAI evaluation framework is made open source.
Gender, Perceptions of HIV-Related Stigma and Social Support, and HIV Serostatus Disclosure Decision-Making in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: A Mixed Methods Approach
Creators: name: Patil, Nikhil
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: OBJECTIVE: People’s perceptions of HIV-related stigma and social support in their neighborhoods affect their decisions to disclose their HIV serostatus. The aim of this study is to explore how those perceptions vary by gender and what role that variance has on disclosure status among 60 HIV positive men and women who engage in high-risk sexual activity in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. METHODS: Quantitative analyses involved descriptive statistics (frequency counts and cross-tabulations). A two-stage directed content analysis was used to identify deductive and emergent themes. Respondents were then stratified by gender and disclosure status and comparisons were made across the four families. RESULTS: Almost all participants (92%) reported at least one perception of HIV-related stigma but while all self-disclosed men reported perceptions of social support, only 36% of non-disclosed women did. Participants were most likely to disclose to primary partners (87%) and family members (80%) and most non-disclosed women intended to disclose their serostatus to a primary partner or family member at some point. Trust, protection and isolation played important roles in decisions to disclose HIV status. CONCLUSIONS: Gender differences in perceptions of HIV-related stigma and social support influence HIV serostatus disclosure decision-making and HIV care and treatment services need to integrate gender programming to encourage more women to disclose their status.
Analysis of Professional Trajectories using Disconnected Self-Organizing Maps
Creators: name: Côme, Etienne
name: Cottrell, Marie
name: Gaubert, Patrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper we address an important economic question. Is there, as mainstream economic theory asserts it, an homogeneous labor market with mechanisms which govern supply and demand for work, producing an equilibrium with its remarkable properties? Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) collected on the period 1984-2003, we study the situations of American workers with respect to employment. The data include all heads of household (men or women) as well as the partners who are on the labor market, working or not. They are extracted from the complete survey and we compute a few relevant features which characterize the worker's situations. To perform this analysis, we suggest using a Self-Organizing Map (SOM, Kohonen algorithm) with specific structure based on planar graphs, with disconnected components (called D-SOM), especially interesting for clustering. We compare the results to those obtained with a classical SOM grid and a star-shaped map (called SOS). Each component of D-SOM takes the form of a string and corresponds to an organized cluster. From this clustering, we study the trajectories of the individuals among the classes by using the transition probability matrices for each period and the corresponding stationary distributions. As a matter of fact, we find clear evidence of heterogeneous parts, each one with high homo-geneity, representing situations well identified in terms of activity and wage levels and in degree of stability in the workplace. These results and their interpretation in economic terms contribute to the debate about flexibility which is commonly seen as a way to obtain a better level of equilibrium on the labor market.
The Treatment of Ethiopian Consumer Cooperative Societies under the Ethiopian Income Tax and Value Added Tax Regime: Law and Practice
Creators: name: Silesh, Gizachew
name: Gebreselassie, Teklemuz
name: Redae, Dawit
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: The economic and social contribution of Cooperative Societies is immense in Ethiopia. In recognition of this, Federal Co-operative Society Proclamation No_985/2016 exempt them from income tax with restrictions on their transaction. Yet, they are obliged to pay all other direct and indirect taxes including VAT. There has been a rampant complaint in many parts of the country over the transactions of these institutions and their income & VAT treatment. The article aims at examining the magnitude and manifestations of the problem of Consumer Cooperative Societies taxation in Addis Ababa city and other three regional states (Amhara, SNNP, and Oromiya). To attain this, a qualitative research approach is employed in the course of which pertinent legislations, key informant interviews, and literature have been explored, analyzed and synthesized. The FDRE Constitution, Ethiopian Cooperative Laws, and other legislations are used as primary sources of data. Key informant interview has also been conducted with authorities in Federal and city administration Cooperative Agencies and Revenue Authorities. Additionally, books, articles, journals, and other relevant materials on the subject are examined as secondary data sources. Finally, the study concludes that the Consumer Cooperatives in the study area are transacting outside members without taking into consideration the unique feature of ‘serving only members’ and this income is treated as the income from Cooperative members; and there is no uniform system on levying and collecting of VAT., Therefore, Cooperative Agencies and Revenue Authorities of the country should exercise their mandate of regulating Cooperative transactions and taxation.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 13 No 1 (2022): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
The Imminent Need for the Development of Multi-racial and Ethnic Variables in Data Collection: A Commentary
Creators: name: Pritchett, Hallie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: There are currently multiple definitions of race and ethnicity used for various data collection and research models in the United States (U.S.). These are used inconsistently and often contribute to the misclassification of racial and ethnic groups. This misclassification skews demographic and public health data that uses race or ethnicity as a variable or covariate to determine social and biological causes of and trends in health outcomes. Without appropriate and standardized definitions and data collection methods the data will remain inaccurate. With the population in the U.S. trending toward higher numbers of multi-racial and ethnic individuals, the necessity of developing these standardized tools is becoming increasingly important. A literature review was conducted to analyze current definitions, trends in data and data collection, as well as current guidelines in place for the collection of racial and ethnic variables. I recommend a set of standardized recommendations, a multi level ethnic diversity data collection framework, the development of new statistical tools, and the consideration of socio-demographic factors in data collections and analysis. I also identify the role of leadership in transitioning to a standard framework.
From CELSIUS to COSY: on the observation of a dibaryon resonance
Creators: name: Clement, H.
name: Bashkanov, M.
name: Skorodko, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the high-quality beam of storage rings in combination with a pellet target and the hermetic WASA detector covering practically the full solid angle the two-pion production in nucleon-nucleon collisions has been systematically studied by exclusive and kinematically complete measurements -- first at CELSIUS and subsequently at COSY. These measurements resulted in a detailed understanding of the two-pion production mechanism by $t$-channel meson exchange. The investigation of the ABC effect in double-pionic fusion reactions lead the trace to the observation of a narrow dibaryon resonance with $I(J^P) = 0(3^+)$ about 80 MeV below the nominal mass of the conventional $ΔΔ$ system. New neutron-proton scattering data, taken with polarized beam at COSY, produce a pole in the coupled $^3D_3$ - $^3G_3$ partial waves at ($2380\pm10~-~i~40\pm5$) MeV establishing thus the first observation of a genuine $s$-channel dibaryon resonance.
Megachile ericetorum Lepeletier 1841
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile ericetorum

description: Megachile ericetorum Lepeletier, 1841
 14.VII.2013, Lathyrus latifolia, 1J, 2♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 83, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Borestus Thomas 1940
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurotomariida
Phymatopleuridae
Borestus

description: Borestus Thomas, 1940 Australian Carboniferous species. Borestus costatus Yoo, 1988, from 'Marohn'.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
description: {"references": ["Thomas, E. G., 1940. Revision of the Scottish Carboniferous Pleurotomariidae. Geological Society of Glasgow Trans. 20: 30 - 72, pIs. 14.", "Yoo, E. K., 1988. Early Carboniferous Mollusca from Gundy, Upper Hunter, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 40 (4): 233 - 264."]}
A Critical Legal and Practical Appraisal of Ethiopian Fault Based Liability Rules
Creators: name: Silesh, Gizachew
name: Andargie, Haile
name: Amare, Esubalew
name: Hailu, Honelign
name: Addis, Abay
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: Ethiopia’s Civil Code governing tortious liability was adopted six decades ago and is still applicable without any amendment. The basic purpose of this research is to explore the shortfalls and practical application of the Ethiopian tort law on liability arising from fault. To this effect, a qualitative research method is employed. Therefore, relevant laws are critically analyzed and data is collected by interviewing judges, attorneys, and law professors. The research findings reveal that the special part of the fault-based liability section of the Code is insufficient and does not adequately address breaches of human rights recognized under the FDRE constitution. The findings of the research also demonstrate that some of the provisions on fault-based liability are not practically applied by courts. Therefore, this article suggests an amendment to accommodate constitutional stipulations. The article also recommends extending the list of special faults to embrace emerging issues.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 13 No 1 (2022): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
The Missing Link: The Role of Visual Working Memory Capacity in Attention Capture
Creators: name: Hauck, Christopher
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Previous studies have shown that video game players were less likely to be captured by salient, task-irrelevant distractors than non-players. Other studies have also found that individuals with greater visual working memory capacity are less susceptible to capture by irrelevant distractors. Therefore, it is possible that visual working memory capacity modulates the attention capture for video game players. The present study therefore will examine this possibility. Participants will complete a questionnaire reporting their video game playing habits, followed by a color change detection task in determining their visual working memory capacity. They will then perform an attention capture task, where they will determine the orientation of a bar within a shape singleton while ignore a color singleton distractor that appears in 50% of the trials. The difference in response time and proportion of error between the distractor-present and -absent conditions will be used as an index of attention capture by the color singleton distractor. I expect to replicate previous findings. In addition, I predict a strong correlation between video game experience and visual working memory capacity, which modulates the capture by distractors.
The Ethiopian Tort Law Vis-a-Vis Constantly Evolving Technology: An Empirical Analysis of Cyberspace and Product Defects Tort Liability
Creators: name: Silesh, Gizachew
name: Endale, Mamenie
name: Bitew, Yenew
name: Bitew, Yenew
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: Book IV, Title XIII, of the 1960 Ethiopian Civil Code governs the three categories of tortious liability—fault-based liability, strict liability, and vicarious liability—and the quantum and modalities of compensation. This law has existed for the last seven decades without significant revision. Consequently, one might hypothesize that Ethiopia's vast majority of tortious liability provisions must be more responsive to contemporary development. Hence, there are efforts to incorporate tort provisions in different legislations of the country, including the 1995 FDRE constitution, the 2005 FDRE Criminal Code, the Computer Crime Proclamation No. 958/2016, the Freedom of the Mass Media, and the Access to Information Proclamation No. 590/2008 (as amended by the Media Proclamation No. 1238/2021). Despite this, legal scholarship still needs to give tort law issues the proper attention they deserve. There needs to be more research outputs and a comprehensive analysis of Ethiopian tort law. Evidence-based research and recommendations in addressing the gaps in tort law contribute to policymakers addressing existing problems and serve as input to the revision of Book VI-Title XII of Ethiopia's Civil Code of 1960 on extra-contractual liability. Accordingly, this study attempts to show the legal loopholes in Ethiopian tort law regarding cyberspace torts and product liability as a case study. A triangulation of doctrinal and empirical qualitative research approaches is employed for data collection. The researchers employed document analysis, desk review, and semi-structured interviews with the relevant stakeholders to collect primary data. The researchers consulted relevant books, journals, periodicals, reports, and newspapers as secondary data sources. The finding shows that the 1960 Ethiopian Civil Code needs to be updated to administer tort liabilities caused by cyberspace and product liability. Concerning cyberspace torts, it fails to regulate online gambling and defamation, pop-up advertising, cybersquatting, spamming, and other cybers mearing tortious liabilities. By now, cryptocurrencies in Ethiopia are operating in the gray area of the law, which results in tortious liability. It needs careful revision to regulate product defects arising from 3D printing and autonomous driving. Therefore, the study recommends reforming the existing tort law in Ethiopia to bring it up to date with emerging developments such as cyberspace torts and product defects.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 13 No 1 (2022): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Cognitive Load in Zoom Learning: The Effect of Individual Working Memory Capacity
Creators: name: Burgess, Emily
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instructional Media Design
subject: Education
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: cognitive load
subject: Complex Span Task
subject: e-learning
subject: Working Memory
subject: working memory capacity
subject: Zoom
subject: Zoom learning

description: The purpose of this research study is to examine the influence of individual differences in working memory capacity on cognitive load in Zoom learning. We use subjective measures to capture cognitive load and three complex span tasks to assess working memory capacity.
On a relativistic scalar particle subject to a Coulomb-type potential given by Lorentz symmetry breaking effects
Creators: name: Bakke, K.
name: Belich, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behaviour of a relativistic scalar particle in a possible scenario that arises from the violation of the Lorentz symmetry is investigated. The background of the Lorentz symmetry violation is defined by a tensor field that governs the Lorentz symmetry violation out of the Standard Model Extension. Thereby, we show that a Coulomb-type potential can be induced by Lorentz symmetry breaking effects and bound states solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation can be obtained. Further, we discuss the effects of this Coulomb-type potential on the confinement of the relativistic scalar particle to a linear confining potential by showing that bound states solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation can also be achieved, and obtain a quantum effect characterized by the dependence of a parameter of the linear confining potential on the quantum numbers $\left\{n,l\right\}$ of the system.
description: To be published in Annals of Physics (NY). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1504.07262, arXiv:1412.5080
Issues of Design in Ethiopia’s Property Tax Reform: Lessons from Previous Legislative Regimes and Other Jurisdictions
Creators: name: Silesh, Gizachew
name: Dires, Tilahu
name: Beza, Misganaw Gashaw
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: While property tax is the oldest of all types of taxes worldwide, the impulse to reform and reintroduce it in its ‘modern forms’ is a recent undertaking. Ethiopia has started property tax reform in 2011 intending to modernize the urban property valuation and taxation system across the urban centers of the country. The recent draft legislations and debates in the media seem to end the reform process that has stalled or been thrown into reverse. This article identifies and examines issues of design in Ethiopia’s property tax reform based on lessons from previous legislative regimes and experiences of other jurisdictions. Primary data were collected through legal document analysis and semi-structured interviews while secondary data were collected through document review. The findings from the investigation showed that there are various property tax design options in the determination of tax bases, rates, valuation methods, rules of exemptions and administrative procedures. The article put an emphasis on the need to carefully draw lessons from own past and other jurisdictions to successfully end the ongoing property tax reform.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 13 No 1 (2022): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Magic wavelengths in the alkaline earth ions
Creators: name: Kaur, Jasmeet
name: Singh, Sukhjit
name: Arora, Bindiya
name: Sahoo, B. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present magic wavelengths for the $nS$ - $nP_{1/2,3/2}$ and $nS$ - $mD_{3/2,5/2}$ transitions, with the respective ground and first excited $D$ states principal quantum numbers $n$ and $m$, in the Mg$^+$, Ca$^+$, Sr$^+$ and Ba$^+$ alkaline earth ions for linearly polarized lights by plotting dynamic polarizatbilities of the $nS$, $nP_{1/2,3/2}$ and $mD_{3/2,5/2}$ states of the ions. These dynamic polarizabilities are evaluated by employing a relativistic all-order perturbative method and their accuracies are ratified by comparing their static values with the available high precision experimental or other theoretical results. Moreover, some of the magic wavelengths identified by us in Ca$^+$ concurs with the recent measurements reported in [{\bf Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 223001 (2015)}]. Knowledge of these magic wavelengths are propitious to carry out many proposed high precision measurements trapping the above ions in the electric fields with the corresponding frequencies.
description: 5 pages, four tables, four figures
An Ising-like model for language evolution
Creators: name: Houghton, Conor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: artificial life, language, Ising

description: Poster presented at ALIFE2023; corresponds to the extended abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13916 I propose a novel Ising-like model of language evolution. In a simple way, Ising-like models represent the countervailing tendencies towards convergence and change present in language evolution. In the ordinary Ising-model, a node on a graph, in this case representing a language speaker, interacts with all its neighbors. In contrast, in the model proposed here, a node only interacts with the neighboring node whose state-vector is most similar to its own. This reflects the tendency of people to interact with others who speak a similar language. Unlike the ordinary Ising model, which tends towards language continua, this new model allows language boundaries.
Conocimientos, percepciones y prácticas de enfermería sobre los cuidados centrados en el desarrollo: Scoping Review
Creators: name: Daniel, Angie
name: Gualdron, Lucy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Critical Care Nursing
subject: Pediatric Nursing
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Maternal, Child Health and Neonatal Nursing
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Los cuidados centrados en el desarrollo o prácticas de atención de apoyo al desarrollo son un conjunto de intervenciones dirigidas a disminuir el estrés y sufrimiento del neonato internado en la unidad de cuidados intensivos neonatales (UCIN). Estos cuidados se centran en el macroambiente (luz, ruido, temperatura) y microambiente (inclusión de los padres, cuidado de la posición, disminución del dolor y promoción de la lactancia materna) (1), con el fin de proteger y favorecer su desarrollo neurosensorial y emocional, además de facilitar la integración de los miembros de la familia como cuidadores activos durante y después de su hospitalización (2,3,4). Estos cuidados son un estándar de atención y las mejores prácticas para el cuidado del recién nacido prematuro o críticamente enfermo, que se han ido implementado en la mayoría de países de ingresos altos y moderados (5,6). El papel de enfermería es de suma importancia pues su responsabilidad del cuidado directo a pie de cama, le permite desarrollar acciones con el entorno y el equipo a fin de minimizar los estímulos nocivos al recién nacido, además de ser líder en la implementación exitosa de los cuidados centrados en el desarrollo dentro de la práctica de las UCIN (7). Adicionalmente, esta estrategia ofrece una gran oportunidad de práctica profesional, de educación e investigación que enfermería necesita explorar, perfeccionar y liderar. Sin embargo, es necesario mapear la evaluación de las prácticas, conocimientos y percepciones que tiene enfermería frente al cuidado del desarrollo, punto clave para identificar y explicar las principales barreras o factores facilitadores que podrían influir en la implementación exitosa de los cuidados centrados en el neurodesarrollo (5,6); pues, a pesar de la evolución del concepto de neurodesarrollo del recién nacido prematuro o críticamente enfermo durante las últimas cuatro décadas, la implementación de estos cuidados estándar, se ha establecido con dificultad y en pocos lugares del mundo. Por ello, es importante explorar la literatura que permita comprender lo que se conoce y desconoce de este importante fenómeno de atención neonatal hasta la fecha. Con lo anterior, se podrán describir las percepciones, los conocimientos y finalmente las prácticas que revelan, las barreras y facilitadores de la implementación de esta estrategia. PREGUNTA DE INVESTIGACIÓN ¿Qué reporta la literatura sobre los conocimientos, prácticas y percepciones que tiene enfermería en las unidades de cuidados intensivo neonatal (UCIN) frente a la implementación de los cuidados centrados en el desarrollo?
La valorizzazione dei centri urbani per la competitività territoriale e lo sviluppo sostenibile: il Marketing Urbano e la Valutazione Contingente come metodiche di sostegno alle decisioni
Creators: name: Mollica, E.
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Atti del XXX Incontro di Studio (2000)
Spin-dependent tunneling in semiconductor heterostructures with a magnetic layer
Creators: name: Rozhansky, Igor
name: Denisov, Konstantin
name: Averkiev, Nikita
name: Lahderanta, Erkki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory that describes the appearance of circular polarization of the photoluminescence (PL) in ferromagnet-semiconductor hybrid heterostructures due to spin-dependent tunneling of photoexcited carriers from a quantum well into a magnetic layer. The theory succeeds in explaining the experimental data on time-resolved PL for heterostructures consisting of InGaAs-based quantum well (QW) and a spatially separated Mn $δ$-layer. We show that the circular polarization of the PL originates from dynamic spin polarization of electrons due to spin-dependent leakage from the QW onto Mn donor states split by the exchange field of the ferromagnetic Mn delta-layer.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Bombus pascuorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus pascuorum

description: Bombus pascuorum (Scopoli, 1793)
 14.VII.2013, Lotus corniculatus, 19.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 84, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Examining the Overlapping Jurisdictions between the WTO and AfCFTA Dispute Settlement Mechanisms
Creators: name: Tegegn, Yehualashet Tamiru
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: Under the World Trade Organization (hereinafter referred to as WTO) legal framework, at least in principle, there should not be discrimination between and among member states. This principle is further reinforced by the two core non-discriminatory provisions: national treatment and mostfavored-nation treatment. This principle is not without exception, however. The different enabling clauses and specifically Article XXIV allows regional trade agreements to deviate from and provide preferential treatment. WTO system, however, lacks clarity and nowhere does it specify how to regulate the competency of the jurisdiction between the WTO and regional trade agreements dispute settlement mechanisms. This will in turn pose the greatest danger of assumption of jurisdiction by both forums and leads to forum shopping and irreconcilable decisions. Therefore, this piece of reflection tries to unpack one of the lingering questions of whether AfCFTA dispute settlement or the WTO dispute settlement body will have the competency to examine and provide valid judgement.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 8 No 2 (2018): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Intimate Partner Violence in Zambia: Patterns, Determinants, and the Way Forward
Creators: name: Lamere, Carolyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Intimate partner violence (IPV) threatens the health of women around the world. The 2013-2014 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) indicates that 47 percent of ever-married women age 15-49 have experienced some form of violence perpetrated by their husband or partner. A number of factors are associated with higher odds of violence, including expression of approving attitudes towards wife-beating, which is also linked to lower levels of education. Women with higher than secondary education are more likely to report abuse to professionals. Promoting education and economic development in Zambia will likely lead to reductions in violence, and will also improve the lives of individuals and families across Zambia, but further action still needs to be taken to eliminate intimate partner violence.
Gate-Voltage Tunability of Plasmons in Single and Multi-layer Graphene Structures: Analytical Description and Concepts for Terahertz Devices
Creators: name: Rakheja, Shaloo
name: Sengupta, Parijat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong light-matter interaction in graphene over a broad frequency range has opened up a plethora of photonics applications of graphene. The goal of this paper is to present the voltage tunability of plasmons in gated single- and multi-layer graphene structures. Device concepts for plasmonic interconnects and antennas and their performance for THz communication are presented. For the first time, the role of gate voltage and the thickness of the gate dielectric on the characteristics of plasmon propagation in graphene are quantified by accounting for both the interface trap capacitance and the quantum capacitance. The gate voltage serves as a powerful knob to tweak the carrier concentration and allows building electrically reconfigurable terahertz devices. By optimizing the gate voltage to maximize the plasmon propagation length in a gated multi-layer graphene geometry, we derive simple scaling trends that give intuitive insight into device modeling and design.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures
Environmental Economics and Decision Analysis: An Overview of Recent Results
Creators: name: Bertomeu, Mercedes
name: Romero, Carlos
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: This paper aims to show the extensive applicability of decision analysis tools in environmental economics. A series of environmental situations, where the use of methods based on derision analysis have shown their superiority with respect to those based on cost-benefit analysis are presented throughout the paper. In this sense, the following situations will be commented: a) the appraisal of environmental assets, b) the optimal provision of environmental goods and c) the analysis of different procedures to introduce several biodiversity measures into a forest management optimisation model. These three significant scenarios demonstrate the importance of using methodological approaches underpinned by decision analysis tools. Keywords: Environmental Economics; Decision Analysis; Forest Management; Biodiversity; Goal Programming; Compromise Programming
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 38 (1999)
Nomada bifasciata Olivier 1811
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada bifasciata

description: Nomada bifasciata Olivier, 1811
25.IV.2013, pelouse, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 84, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Identification of Highly Deformed Even-Even Nuclides in the Neutron- and Proton-Rich Regions of the Nuclear Chart from the B(E2) and E2 Predictions in the Generalized Differential Equation Model
Creators: name: Nayak, R. C.
name: Pattnaik, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify here possible occurrence of large deformations in the neutron- and proton-rich regions of the nuclear chart from extensive predictions of the values of the reduced quadrupole transition probability B-E2 for the transition from the ground state to the first 2+ state and the corresponding excitation energy E2 of even-even nuclei in the recently developed Generalized Differential Equation model exclusively meant for these physical quantities. This is made possible from our analysis of the predicted values of these two physical quantities and the corresponding deformation parameters derived from them such as the quadrupole deformation beta-2, the ratio of beta-2 to the Weisskopf single-particle beta-2 and the intrinsic electric quadruplole moment , calculated for a large number of both known as well as hitherto unknown even-even isotopes of Oxygen to Fermium (Z=8 to 100). Our critical analysis of the resulting data convincingly support possible existence of large collectivity for the nuclides 30,32 Ne, 34 Mg, 60 Ti, 42,62,64 Cr, 50,68 Fe, 52,72 Ni, 72,70,96 Kr, 74,76 Sr,78,80,106,108 Zr , 82,84,110,112 Mo, 140 Te,144 Xe, 148 Ba, 122 Ce, 128,156 Nd, 130,132,158,160 Sm and 138,162,164,166 Gd, whose values of beta-2 are found to exceed 0.3 and even 0.4 in some cases. Our findings of large deformations in the exotic neutron-rich regions support the existence of another Island of Inversion in the heavy-mass region possibly caused by breaking of the N=70 sub-shell closure.
description: 15 figures
Removal of an established invader can change gross primary production of native macroalgae and alter carbon flow in intertidal rock pools
Creators: name: rossi, francesca
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: experiment
subject: invasive species
subject: labelling
subject: sargassum
subject: stable isotopes

description: this work is about an experiment to test the effect of the removal of an invasive seaweed on carbon flow of the remaining macroalgal assemblage
Capillaries of force: constituent power, porous sovereignty, and the ethics of anarchism
Creators: name: Pfenninger, Christian
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2017

description: Despite the omnipresence of anarchy in IR, anarchist political thought is only partly mobilized by the discipline. IR has been paying a great deal of attention to anarchy, but it failed so far to consistently incorporate anarchism into its conceptual repertoire. Conversely, anarchist theorists have demonstrated only a limited interest in joining debates about international politics. This researchproject addresses the incomplete and partial mobilization of anarchist political philosophy in IR, and offers a more holistic approach to the discipline’s grand themes. Towards this particular end the thesis deploys a series of key-concepts central to classical anarchist thought, and inserts them into the context of contemporary IR-theory. The research departs from the hypothesis that an engagement of anarchism with IR must run through a mobilization of constituent power. Anarchist political theory is somewhat neglected by the discipline of IR. Yet, apart from the evident lack of anarchism in IR there exists another gap in the literature, namely the inconsistent application of constituent power to the study of global politics. While the thesis focuses chiefly on the anarchist contribution to IR-theory, it also argues that this double-lacuna must be addressed jointly. The project hence offers a critical narration of IR key-concepts along the lines of philosophical anarchism - a reading which is supported by the deployment of constituent power. Within this context the centrality of power to the study of IR is discussed, and the discipline’s underlying methodological assumptions are systematically evaluated. The project furthermore assesses anarchist philosophy against the backdrop of constituent force, and establishes a firm connection between the two traditions of political thought. The conceptual implications of an amalgamation of constituent power and anarchist political theory are eventually explored by means of an engagement with a series of IR’s grand themes, most notably ontology, sovereignty, agency, spatiality, and global ethics.