cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Paneuropa Museum
Creators: name: Rezsni, Barbara
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Grenze
subject: Weg
subject: Landart
subject: Gedenkstätte
subject: border
subject: path
subject: landart
subject: memorial

description: Die Grenze zwischen Österreich und Ungarn, zwischen deren politischen Systemen und deren Menschen, die der Eiserne Vorhang einst trennte, scheint heute überwunden. Die Spuren, die in der Landschaft hinterlassen wurden, beginnen zu verblassen, doch wie steht es um jene in unseren Köpfen? Dem historischen Prozess des kulturellen Zusammenwachsens und der sozialen Integration, der im August 1989 mit einem offenen Tor während des Paneuropäischen Picknicks seinen Anfang nahm, soll in baulicher Weise Ausdruck verliehen werden. Im Grenzgebiet zwischen St. Margarethen im Burgenland und Fertrakos soll ein Bauwerk als Bindeglied zwischen den Ländern und deren Bevölkerung Identität und Zugehörigkeit in der Wertegemeinschaft der Europäischen Union stiften.
description: The Iron Curtain between Austria and Hungary, their political systems and their people was teared-down. The scars, that the border created in the landscape began to heal. But what about the people? Have the fears they once felt left their heads and hards? Through this project, I hope to contribute to the process of socio-cultural integration we experience today in the European Community, a process that began with an open gate at the Pan-European Picnic in August 1989. Therefor I intend to create a building as a connector between St. Margarethen im Burgenland and Fertkos in Hungary in order to strengthen the region`s identity, integrity and belonging.
THE POTENTIAL OF USING CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS TO TREAT ANIMAL WASTE IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
Creators: name: Wright, Julie A.
name: Morales, Mario A.
name: Wright, Julie A.
name: Morales, Mario A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The increase of intensive livestock farming in the Virgin Islands, most recently with the addition of a 400 animal unit dairy on St, Croix, can lead to a subsequent decrease in coastal and ground water quality due to pollution from animal wastes. Confining livestock to smaller areas to improve production efficiency also concentrates animal wastes. Runoff of these wastes to nearby guts or leaching into groundwater aquifers can contaminate waters with bacteria, nutrients, BOD and TSS (total suspended solids). Removal of riparian vegetation (vegetation native to guts and natural drainages) to increase available acreage, vegetation depletion by livestock grazing and loafting activities, and direct access of livestock to streamsidc areas has eliminated the buffer strips that formerly protected from direct pollution. Affordable, effective wastewater used for human consumption. Constructed wetlands are being used increasingly to treat both municipal and agricultural wastewater in the United States with great degrees of success. This innovative wastewater treatment practice has potential for use in the Virgin Islands to inexpensively and effective remove pollutants from wastewater and protect the quality of our waters.
L'evoluzione dei sistemi finanziari locali nell'era dell'euro (The Evolution of Local Financial System in the Euro Era)
Creators: name: Alessandrini, Pietro
name: Zazzaro, Alberto
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Regional
subject: G20, E44, R10

description: In the next few years, the Italian financial system will face the challenges of an increasingly competitive environment. The need for change is however constrained by the traditional structure of the Italian economy (with large numbers of small firms and marked regional disparities). This paper focuses on the role and on the future prospects of local financial systems. We identify and address four sets of problems: (a) the relationship between the real and the financial sectors at the regional level; (b) the integration between central and peripheral financial markets; (c) the role of local banks; and (d) the introduction of financial innovations consistent with different levels of regional development. JEL Codes: G20, E44, R10 Keywords: Regional
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 53, N. 211 (2000)
The role of lipid signaling and metabolism in morphogenesis and pathogenesis of the fungal pathogen Ustilago maydis
Creators: name: Klose, Jana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The phytopathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis is obligately dependent on infection of maize to complete the sexual phase of its life cycle. Mating interactions between budding cells establish an infectious filamentous cell type that invades the host, induces tumors, and forms teliospores. The yeast-to-filamentous morphological transition is regulated by cAMP and MAPK signaling pathways known to control the pathogenic development in the host. The signals influencing this transition during infection have not yet been identified. In this study, we demonstrated that lipids triggered the dimorphic switch to promote a filamentous phenotype resembling the infectious filaments found in planta, which was dependent on cAMP and Ras/MAPK signaling. In addition, low levels of lipids (4nM) induced the response suggesting that they are acting as ligands to trigger the morphological change. Overall, lipids may represent one of the signals that promotes and maintains filamentation of the fungus in the host. To explore potential metabolic and signaling roles of lipids in morphogenesis and pathogenesis, we deleted genes encoding enzymes in the β-oxidation of fatty acids (mfe2, peroxisomal multifunctional enzyme; had1, mitochondrial 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase) and a phospholipase A2 (lip2). Loss of mfe2 blocked extensive proliferation of fungal filaments in planta, delayed sporulation and reduced virulence. Loss of had1 resulted in attenuation of disease symptoms and impaired teliospore germination. These findings suggest that mitochondrial P-oxidation may be crucial during teliospore germination and initial stages of in planta fungal development, and that peroxisomal β-oxidation may be required during later stages of in planta development. In addition, Mfe2 and Had1 were specifically required for the filamentation induced by linoleic and myristic acid, respectively. Overall, lipids represent an important carbon source during biotrophic growth, and lipid utilization by U. maydis may influence additional aspects of infection (i.e., signal perception or host defense). Loss of lip2 resulted in more severe symptom development and more rapid teliospore maturation during infection. The Lip2 function might be important during fungus-host interactions to limit premature development of disease symptoms prior to sporulation. In summary, this work contributes to the emerging idea that lipid metabolism and signaling are important for biotrophic interactions between plants and fungal pathogens.
Modelling the Impact of Screening Men for Chlamydia Trachomatis on the Prevalence in Women
Creators: name: Qu, Zhuolin
name: Azizi, Asma
name: Schmidt, Norine
name: Craig-Kuhn, Megan Clare
name: Stoecker, Charles
name: Hyman, James M
name: Kissinger, Patricia J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Chlamydia trachomatis is the most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States and causes important reproductive morbidity in women. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended routine screening of sexually active women under age 25 but have not recommended screening among men. Consequently, untested and untreated men may serve as a reservoir of infection in women. Despite three decades of screening women, the chlamydia prevalence has continued to increase. Moreover, chlamydia is five times more common in African American (AA) youth compared to Whites, constituting an important health disparity. The Check It program is a bundled Ct intervention targeting AA men aged 15-24 who have sex with women. We created an individual-based network model to simulate a realistic chlamydia epidemic on sexual contact networks for the target population. Based on the practice in Check It, we quantified the impact of screening young AA men on the chlamydia prevalence in women. We used sensitivity analysis to quantify the relative importance of each Check It intervention component, and the significance ranked from high to low was venue-based screening, expedited index treatment, expedited partner treatment, rescreening. We estimated that by annually screening 7.5% of the target male population, the chlamydia prevalence would be reduced by 8.1% and 8.8% in men and women, respectively. The findings suggested that male-screening has the potential to significantly reduce the prevalence among women.
title: Human Reasoning and Description Logics: Applying Psychological Theory to Understand and Improve the Usability of Description Logics
Creators: name: Warren, Paul
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2017

description: Description Logics (DLs) are now the most commonly used ontology languages, in part because of the development of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) standards. Yet it is accepted that DLs are difficult to comprehend and work with, particularly for ontology users who are not computer scientists. The Manchester OWL Syntax (MOS) was developed to make DLs more accessible, by using English keywords in place of logic symbols or formal language. Nevertheless, DLs continue to present difficulties, even when represented in MOS. There has been some investigation of what features cause difficulties, specifically in the context of understanding how an entailment (i.e. an inference) follows from a justification (i.e. a minimal subset of the ontology that is sufficient for the entailment to hold), as is required when debugging an ontology. However, there has been little attempt to relate these difficulties to how people naturally reason and use language. This dissertation draws on theories of reasoning from cognitive psychology, and also insights from the philosophy of language, to understand the difficulties experienced with DLs and to make suggestions to mitigate those difficulties. The language features investigated were those known to be commonly used, both on the basis of analyses reported in the literature and after a survey of ontology users. Two experimental studies investigated participants’ ability to reason with DL statements. These studies demonstrate that insights from psychology and the philosophy of language can be used both to understand the difficulties experienced and to make proposals to mitigate those difficulties. The studies suggest that people reason using both the manipulation of syntax and the representation of semantics with mental models; both approaches can lead to errors. Particular difficulties were associated with: functional object properties; negated conjunction; the interaction of negation and the existential or universal restrictions; and nested restrictions. Proposals to mitigate these difficulties include the adoption of new language keywords; tool enhancement, e.g. to provide syntactically alternative expressions; and the introduction during training both of De Morgan’s Laws for conjunction and disjunction, and their analogues for existential and universal restrictions. A third study then investigated the effectiveness of the proposed new keywords; finding that these keywords could mitigate some of the difficulties experienced. Apart from the immediate applicability of these results to DLs, the approach taken in this dissertation could be extended widely to computer languages, including languages for interacting with databases and with Linked Data. Additionally, based on the experience of the three studies, the dissertation makes some methodological recommendations which are relevant to a range of human-computer interaction studies.
Beyond the galaxy luminosity function
Creators: name: Driver, Simon P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the advent of large scale surveys (i.e., Legacy Surveys) it is now possible to start looking beyond the galaxy luminosity function (LF) to more detailed statistical representations of the galaxy population, i.e., multivariate distributions. In this review I first summarise the current state-of-play of the B-band global and cluster LFs and then briefly present two promising bivariate distributions: the luminosity-surface brightness plane (LSP); and the colour-luminosity plane (CLP). In both planes galaxy bulges and galaxy disks form marginally overlapping but distinct distributions, indicating two key formation/evolutionary processes (presumably merger and accretion). Forward progress in this subject now requires the routine application of reliable bulge-disk decomposition codes to allow independent investigation of these two key components.
description: Invited review at "Structure and Dynamics in the Local Universe" workshop, and accepted for publication in PASA
title: Microfluidic cell concentration and threshold identification
Creators: name: Schneider, Ulrich
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lab-on-chip
subject: mikrofluidik
subject: MEMS
subject: Lab-on-chip
subject: micro fluidics
subject: MEMS

description: Microfluidic devices offer a wide range of improvements over legacy applications as well as entirely new uses. The purpose of this work is to address a diagnostic need regarding wound infections, which are predominantly caused by only a few bacterial strains, by demonstrating a combination of methods capable of extracting, washing and detecting these pathogens. Considering the electrophoretic mobility of bacteria [PVH+12], the primary extraction mechanism was thus chosen to be DC electrophoresis, with electro-osmotic flow (EOF) serving to provide a counter flow, separating live cells from any debris and residue contained in the sample. Collection of target cells will take place in any location where fluid velocity exceeds the target cell migration speed in the local electric field, which can be achieved in a gradual constriction within the channel, resembling a funnel. Ideally, the electric properties of this structure should be indistinguishable from those of the working fluid, leaving the electric field profile unaltered, which initially suggests the use of a hydrogel as a building material. However, issues arising from geometric precision, materials compatibility and a parallel current path bypassing the constriction strongly indicate the use of a narrow slab of substrate instead. The described setup depends on the electrolyte ion concentration, which must be tuned to a band where cell movement occurs within the channel, but not through the nozzle.
Il tasso naturale di crescita è davvero esogeno? (Is the Natural Rate of Growth Exogenous?)
Creators: name: Leon-Ledesma, Miguel
name: Thirlwall, Anthony Philip
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Growth, Productivity
subject: O47

description: In mainstream growth theory, including endogenous growth theory, the natural rate of growth, as defined by Harrod, is still treated as exogenous. In practice, however, both the growth of the labour force and the growth of labour productivity are endogenous to demand. This has theoretical implications for the adjustment process between the actual, warranted and natural growth rates. It also has serious implications for the way in which the growth process is viewed: whether from the supply side or demand side. It is shown for a sample of 15 OECD countries 1961-95 that the natural rate of growth has been very responsive to the actual growth rate, and it is argued that for most countries demand constraints operate long before supply capacity is reached. JEL Codes: O47 Keywords: Growth, Productivity
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 53, N. 211 (2000)
Una nuova stima del Pil italiano di lungo periodo (A New View of Italian Long-Run Growth)
Creators: name: Canullo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Economic Growth, Growth
subject: O47, N14, N13

description: In the light of recent groundwork research on pre-war Italian economic growth this paper develops a new estimate of the country's secular GDP, both at current and constant prices. Differences between the new series and the traditional Ancona Group estimate on the one side and the internationally known Maddison amended estimate on the other are highlighted and discussed. Compared with Maddison's, the new series shows slower growth from 1891 to 1938 and a quicker recovery after World War II. Consequences on the timing and strength of the convergence process of the Italian economy are shown. JEL Codes: O47, N14, N13 Keywords: Economic Growth, Growth
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 53, N. 212 (2000)
Subword RNNLM Approximations for Out-Of-Vocabulary Keyword Search
Creators: name: Singh, Mittul
name: Virpioja, Sami
name: Smit, Peter
name: Kurimo, Mikko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In spoken Keyword Search, the query may contain out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words not observed when training the speech recognition system. Using subword language models (LMs) in the first-pass recognition makes it possible to recognize the OOV words, but even the subword n-gram LMs suffer from data sparsity. Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) LMs alleviate the sparsity problems but are not suitable for first-pass recognition as such. One way to solve this is to approximate the RNNLMs by back-off n-gram models. In this paper, we propose to interpolate the conventional n-gram models and the RNNLM approximation for better OOV recognition. Furthermore, we develop a new RNNLM approximation method suitable for subword units: It produces variable-order n-grams to include long-span approximations and considers also n-grams that were not originally observed in the training corpus. To evaluate these models on OOVs, we setup Arabic and Finnish Keyword Search tasks concentrating only on OOV words. On these tasks, interpolating the baseline RNNLM approximation and a conventional LM outperforms the conventional LM in terms of the Maximum Term Weighted Value for single-character subwords. Moreover, replacing the baseline approximation with the proposed method achieves the best performance on both multi- and single-character subwords.
description: INTERSPEECH 2019
title: Multilingual Disciplinary Literacies in Europe: Insights, Challenges, and Pathways Forward
title: A report by CLILNetLE Working Group 2
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Guzmán-Alcón, Irene
name: Lorenzo, Francisco
Year: 2023
Subjects: Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
Applied linguistics
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft (602007)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- Applied linguistics (602007)
Sprachlehrforschung
Language teaching research
ÖFOS 2012 -- SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN (5) -- Erziehungswissenschaften (503) -- Erziehungswissenschaften (5030) -- Sprachlehrforschung (503029)
ÖFOS 2012 -- SOCIAL SCIENCES (5) -- Educational Sciences (503) -- Educational Sciences (5030) -- Language teaching research (503029)
Didaktik
Didactics
ÖFOS 2012 -- SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN (5) -- Erziehungswissenschaften (503) -- Erziehungswissenschaften (5030) -- Didaktik (503007)
ÖFOS 2012 -- SOCIAL SCIENCES (5) -- Educational Sciences (503) -- Educational Sciences (5030) -- Didactics (503007)
CLIL
Bilingual Education

description: Multilingual Disciplinary Literacies in Europe: Insights, Challenges, and Pathways Forward: A report by CLILNetLE Working Group 2
„NYUGAT ÉS KELET”, AVAGY ROMÁNIA TERÜLETI DIFFERENCIÁLTSÁGA
Creators: name: Borzán, Anita
name: Borzán, Anita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: népsűrűség
subject: urbanizációs szint
subject: külföldi tőke
subject: vásárlóerő paritáson számított 1 főre eső GDP
subject: munkanélküliség
subject: density of population
subject: urbanisation level
subject: foreign capital
subject: GDP/head calculated on purchasing power parity
subject: unemployment

description: Tanulmányomban Románia főbb társadalmi és gazdasági makromutatóinak elemzését végzem el. Foglalkozom a 2009-ben begyűrűző válság jellemzőivel, ágazati sajátosságaival és a stabilizációra vonatkozó intézkedésekkel. Kutatómunkámhoz a regionális gazdaságtan területi differenciáltság vizsgálatára alkalmas eszközeit és metodikáját veszem igénybe. Megvizsgálom a területi differenciáltság alakulását az általam egy évtizede számszerűsített romániai periféria-index segítségével. Választ keresek a centrum, a félperiféria és a periféria régiók helyzetében bekövetkező változás okaira. Mivel az egyes társadalmi és gazdasági jellemzők egymással szoros összefüggésben vannak, ezért az ismérvek gazdasági fejlettséget meghatározó kapcsolatrendszerének feltárására törekszem. Az idősoros és a területi adatbázisok segítségével felállított összefüggésekben a GDP, a külföldi tőkebefektetések, a foglalkoztatottság, valamint a népsűrűség és az urbanizáció alakulásának kérdése is jelentős szerepet tölt be. Vizsgálatom alapvető célja a román területi egységek gazdasági fejlettségének az összehasonlítása a centrum-periféria sajátosságok függvényében. ----------------------------------------------------------- I am analysing the principle social and economic macro-indicators of Romania in my study. I am dealing with the characteristic features as well as the sectorial special points of the crisis of 2009 and the measures concerning stability. During my research work I used the measures and methods of regional economy appropriate to study the regional differences. I am examining the development of the territorial differentiation with the help of the Romanian periphery-index defined numerically by me a decade ago. I would like to find some answers to the causes of the changes happened in the situation of the centre, half-periphery, and the periphery regions. Owing to the fact that the social and the economic features are in close relation, I am aiming at exploiting the relation system determining the economic development of criterions. In the correlation set with the help of time and territorial databases, the formation of the GDP, the foreign investments of capital, the employment, and the urbanisation and the density of population plays significant role. The general aim of my analysis is to make a comparison of the economic development level of the Romanian regions in the highlight of the centre-periphery features.
Alcune interpretazioni del processo di accumulazione in Italia, 1970-2000 (Some Interpretations of the Accumulation Process in Italy: 1970-2000)
Creators: name: Mazzoni, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Accumulation, GNP, Investment, Monetary Policy, Monetary
subject: E22, N14

description: Since the early 1970s, the rate of investment, defined as the ratio between investment and GNP, has decreased in Italy more than in the other industrialised countries. The causes of this disappointing performance may be numerous. The paper points out the investment-limiting effects of the changes in the distribution of income, in the external constraints and in the public debt. Attention has also been paid to the impact of the monetary policy on the accumulation. The information necessary for the research has been gathered by reviewing the literature on each topic. On the whole, the above mentioned variables showed significant effects on the investments. The scale of this impact has altered within the periods examined in the study, i.e. 1970-80, 1980-92, 1992-97. JEL Codes: E22, N14 Keywords: Accumulation, GNP, Investment, Monetary Policy, Monetary
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 53, N. 212 (2000)
title: Through a Glass, Darkly: An Analysis of the Monitoring Process used in Public-Private Partnerships in Abu Dhabi Government Schools
Creators: name: Evans, Mark R.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2017

description: This thesis is a study of the monitoring process used to evaluate Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in education in Abu Dhabi. It leads to a suggested framework that is more efficient and effective in supporting school improvement. The thrust of the literature on PPPs is to emphasise political and economic benefits, with little focus on educational outcomes. Assumptions that the use of the private sector brings about positive change are seen in the educational (as well as other) sectors, but there appears to be little data on verifiable improvements in academic outcomes. Documentation from and about the Abu Dhabi PPP project was analysed. This gave an insight into the aspirations of those who commissioned the project. It also uncovered discrepancies between the original plans and the implementation. The imaginative aims were blurred in the attempt to press for fast results. Interviews were conducted with a sample of stakeholders, including principals from government schools involved in the project, and others that have been part of the large PPP project to improve educational standards in Abu Dhabi. These interviews revealed their views as to the successes and the difficulties of the PPP itself and the monitoring of it. The analysis of the results of these two strands of investigation – documentary analysis and interviews - are drawn using a post-positivist approach, in the belief that we can know the truth, but only imperfectly. The ethical and cultural strictures within which the research was sited, are discussed in detail as they were a key element in the design of the research. They created limitations in terms of questions that could be asked and data recording methods that could be used.
Multi-ultraflatbands tunability and effect of spin-orbit coupling in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
Creators: name: Zhan, Zhen
name: Zhang, Yipei
name: Lv, Pengfei
name: Zhong, Hongxia
name: Yu, Guodong
name: Guinea, Francisco
name: Silva-Guillen, Jose Angel
name: Yuan, Shengjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultraflatbands that have been theoretically and experimentally detected in a bunch of van der Waals stacked materials showing some peculiar properties, for instance, highly localized electronic states and enhanced electron-electron interactions. In this Letter, using an accurate tight-binding model, we study the formation and evolution of ultraflatbands in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) under low rotation angles. We find that, unlike in twisted bilayer graphene, ultraflatbands exist in TMDCs for almost any small twist angles and their wave function becomes more localized when the rotation angle decreases. Lattice relaxation, pressure and local deformation can tune the width of the flatbands, as well as their localization. Furthermore, we investigate the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the flatbands and discover spin/orbital/valley locking at the minimum of the conduction band at the K point of the Brillouin zone. The ultraflatbands found in TMDCs with a range of rotation angle below $7^\circ$, may provide an ideal platform to study strongly correlated states.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Is there an attraction between spinons in the Haldane--Shastry model?
Creators: name: Greiter, Martin
name: Schuricht, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the Bethe Ansatz solution of the Haldane--Shastry model appears to suggest that the spinons represent a free gas of half-fermions, Bernevig, Giuliano, and Laughlin (BGL) (cond-mat/0011069, cond-mat/0011270) have concluded recently that there is an attractive interaction between spinons. We argue that the dressed scattering matrix obtained with the asymptotic Bethe Ansatz is to be interpreted as the true and physical scattering matrix of the excitations, and hence, that the result by BGL is inconsistent with an earlier result by Essler (cond-mat/9406081). We critically re-examine the analysis of BGL, and conclude that there is no interaction between spinons or spinons and holons in the Haldane--Shastry model.
Mitochondria in a tertiary endosymbiont
Creators: name: Imanian, Behzad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Mitochondria and plastids originated through endosymbiosis, and subsequently became reduced and integrated with the host in similar ways. Plastids spread between lineages through further secondary or even tertiary endosymbioses, but mitochondria appear to have originated once and have not spread between lineages. Mitochondria are also generally lost in secondary and tertiary endosymbionts, with the single exception of the diatom tertiary endosymbiont of dinoflagellates like Kryptoperidinium foliaceum, where both host and endosymbiont are reported to contain mitochondria. Here, I describe the first mitochondrial genes from this system: cytochrome c oxidase 1 (coxl), cytochrome oxidase 3 (cox3), and cytochrome b (cob). Phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that all characterized genes were derived from the pennate diatom endosymbiont, and not the host. I also demonstrated that all three genes are expressed, that coxl contains spliced group II introns, and that cob and cox3 form an operon, all like their diatom relatives. The endosymbiont mitochondria not only retain a genome, but also express their genes, and are therefore likely involved in electron transport. Ultrastructural examination confirmed that the endosymbiont mitochondria retain normal tubular cristae. Overall, these data suggest the endosymbiont mitochondria have not reduced at the genomic or functional level.
L'attività internazionale delle banche italiane: una sintesi degli ultimi dieci anni (The International Activity of Italian Banks: A Synthesis of the Last Ten Years)
Creators: name: De Bonis, Riccardo
name: Farabullini, Fabio
name: Piazza, Matteo
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Bank, Banking
subject: G21, F23

description: This paper examines the developments of the Italian banking system during the Nineties from two related points of view: net external position and degree of internationalisation, i.e. branches and subsidiaries abroad. These themes seem particularly interesting in the light of the widespread belief that the euro area will significantly increase banking competition and cross-border operations in coming years. We find two major forces driving banks' external net position: the growth in loans to domestic borrowers and the convergence in interest rate levels across European countries. The development of foreign branches and subsidiaries has been influenced by two counterbalancing forces; the big banking groups reduced their presence abroad while some medium-sized banks opened their first branches; the focus of foreign branches and subsidiaries has been on specific segments of banking activities, very often exploiting "localization" advantages. Despite the improvement in the Nineties, Italian banks have tended to show a relatively low degree of internationalisation compared with the main European banking system. JEL Codes: G21, F23 Keywords: Bank, Banking
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 53, N. 212 (2000)
Hilbert functions of points on Schubert varieties in the Symplectic Grassmannian
Creators: name: Ghorpade, Sudhir R.
name: Raghavan, K. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M15, 13F50, 13A30

description: We give an explicit combinatorial description of the multiplicity as well as the Hilbert function of the tangent cone at any point on a Schubert variety in the symplectic Grassmannian.
description: latex, 22 pages, 2 figures; for version 2: a few references added, minor changes; for version 3: Final version to appear in TAMS, a few minor (but potentially misleading) typos and erros corrected
Contemplations on Dirac's equation in quaternionic coordinates
Creators: name: Schuricht, Dirk
name: Greiter, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A formulation of Dirac's equation using complex-quaternionic coordinates appears to yield an enormous gain in formal elegance, as there is no longer any need to invoke Dirac matrices. This formulation, however, entails several peculiarities, which we investigate and attempt to interpret.
Modelli non lineari per i tassi di cambio: un confronto previsivo con dati a diversa frequenza (The Performance of Nonlinear Exchange Rate Models: A Forecasting Comparison with Data at Different Frequencies)
Creators: name: Boero, Gianna
name: Marrocu, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Exchange Rates, Forecasting, Modeling
subject: F31, F37, C53

description: In recent years there has been a considerable development in modelling non-linearities and asymmetries in economic and financial variables. The aim of this work is to compare the forecasting performance of different models for the returns of some of the most traded exchange rates in terms of the US dollar, namely the French franc (FF/$), the German mark (DM/$) and the Japanese yen (Y/$. We compare the relative performance of some nonlinear models and contrast them with their linear counterparts. Although we find evidence of some forecasting gains from nonlinear models, the results are sensitive to the forecast horizon and to the metric adopted to measure the forecasting accuracy. The use of data at different frequencies allows us to evaluate the possible effects of temporal aggregation. JEL Codes: F31, F37, C53 Keywords: Exchange Rates, Forecasting, Modeling
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 53, N. 212 (2000)
Changes in Cigarette, E-Cigarette, and Cannabis Use among U.S. College Students Studying Abroad
Creators: name: Caislin Firth
name: LaBrie, Joseph W.
name: D’Amico, Elizabeth J.
name: Klein, David J.
name: Griffin, Beth Ann
name: Pedersen, Eric R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Study abroad experiences among U.S. college students are risky environments for alcohol use; however little work has examined how studying abroad may affect other substance use. Purpose: This study assesses changes in frequency of cigarette, e-cigarette, and cannabis use among students studying abroad. Methods: We recruited study abroad students from 63 institutions who studied in the 12 most popular destinations; 2,086 students completed surveys before leaving the U.S. and during their last month abroad. Descriptive and multivariate mixed-effects regression analysis compared substance use by location between students and country natives using publicly available data, identified behavioral and demographic predictors of frequency of substance use abroad, and estimated average adjusted prevalence of substance use by location. Results: Students’ cigarette smoking increased three-fold while abroad; patterns of use varied significantly by location and mirrored smoking behaviors of native young adults. Rates of e-cigarette use declined while abroad and rates of cannabis use were similar abroad to pre-departure rates. However, cannabis use varied substantially by location and were higher than native peer rates. For all substances, most frequent substance use abroad was reported among males and those with prior histories of single drug and polydrug use. Conclusion: Findings highlight the importance of continued research on drug use abroad among U.S. college students and pave the way for initial prevention and intervention efforts to target drug use abroad, particularly for cigarettes due to the negative health consequences of use and for cannabis given the potential legal ramification of use in non-legalized countries.
Magnetic fields in Clusters of Galaxies
Creators: name: Feretti, L.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An important area of study of cosmic magnetic fields is on the largest scales, those of clusters of galaxies. In the last decade it has become clear that the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in clusters of galaxies is magnetized and that magnetic fields play a critical role in the cluster formation and evolution. The observational evidence for the existence of cluster magnetic fields is obtained by the diffuse cluster-wide synchrotron radio emission and from rotation measure (RM) studies of extragalactic radio sources located within or behind the clusters. A significant breakthrough in the knowledge of the cluster magnetic fields will be reached through the SKA, owing to its capabilities, in particular the deep sensitivity and the polarization purity.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in: "Science with the Square Kilometer Array", eds. C. Carilli & S. Rawlings, New Astronomy Reviews (Elsevier, Amsterdam)
Pseudoscalar pair production via off-shell Higgs in composite Higgs models
Creators: name: Franzosi, Diogo Buarque
name: Ferretti, Gabriele
name: Huang, Li
name: Shu, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new type of search for a pseudoscalar particle $η$ pair produced via an off-shell Higgs, $pp\to h^*\to ηη$. The search is motivated by a composite Higgs model in which the $η$ is extremely narrow and decays almost exclusively into $Zγ$ in the mass range $65$ GeV$\lesssim m_η\lesssim 160$ GeV. We devise an analysis strategy to observe the novel $ZγZγ$ channel and estimate potential bounds on the Higgs-$η$ coupling. The experimental sensitivity to the signatures depends on the power to identify fake photons and on the ability to predict large photon multiplicities. This search allows us to exclude large values of the compositeness scale $f$, being thus complementary to other typical processes.
description: 23 pages, 12 figures (19 files). Minor text modifications
title: Epidermis and Re-epithelialization in Schmidtea mediterranea
Creators: name: Gumbrys, Aurimas
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2017

description: Epidermal layer is crucial for organism’s survival as its ability to close the wound is essential for tissue recovery. Planarian epidermis enables animal recovery and survival after virtually any body part amputation. Nevertheless, neither the epidermis nor the mechanisms endowing such a remarkable wound healing capacity is described in detail in planarians. Our work introduces live imaging methodology, which allows following epidermal cells and their response to tissue damage or tissue loss for extended time (hours) and in high resolution. Using our methods, we followed planarian cells live for the first time and in conjunction with electron microscopy analysis we described epidermal cell behaviors during tissue maintenance, response to tissue damage and tissue loss. Our data provides comprehensive description of cellular wound response, wound closure as well as preexisting tissue contribution to tissue restoration. In addition, we performed epidermal expression profile analysis to identify the candidate list of epidermally expressed genes to depict the machinery endowing these epidermal cell behaviors. In the pilot functional (RNAi) screen an array of transcription factors with a tissue maintenance phenotypes were identified. Our work established tools for subsequent functional studies of other epidermal expressed genes and paved the way to dissect the mechanisms of the epidermis’ maintenance and efficient wound healing in planarians.
A HELYI PÉNZEK SZEREPE A MAGYAR KIS- ÉS KÖZÉPVÁLLALKOZÁSOK VONATKOZÁSÁBAN
Creators: name: Horváthné Bácsi, Judit
name: Horváthné Bácsi, Judit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: kockázatkezelés
subject: likviditási problémák
subject: helyi pénz hatás
subject: Balatoni Korona
subject: risk management
subject: liquidity problems
subject: local currency effect

description: A kis– és középvállalkozások (kkv) a magyar gazdaság meghatározó szereplői. A gazdaságban betöltött jelentős szerepüket bizonyítja, hogy ez a szektor teszi ki a vállalkozások több mint 99 százalékát, és mindamellett, hogy szerepük jelentős a foglalkoztatás tekintetében, többek között jelentősen hozzájárulnak az éves bruttó hozzáadott értékhez (GDP) is. A szektor életben tartása, fejlesztése, finanszírozása minden tekintetben aktuális és szinte kimeríthetetlen problémakör. Kutatásom középpontjába ezen okból kifolyólag a magyar kkv szektor kockázatainak megismerését, ezen belül is a finanszírozási problémák vizsgálatát helyeztem. Többek között azt vizsgálom, hogy a helyi pénz kezdeményezések bevezetése – mely külföldön már több sikert megélt – milyen hatással lehetnek a magyar vállalkozások versenyképességére és növekedésére. Az eredményeim meghatározásában a szakirodalmi anyagok elsajátítása mellett, a Veszprém megyei Balatoni Korona vizsgálata volt segítségemre. A szekunder és primer vizsgálataim során arra törekedtem, hogy minél lehatároltabb képek kapjak a helyi pénzek hatásairól a magyar kkv szektor vonatkozásában. A szakirodalmak tanulmányozása mellett egy kérdőíves felmérés, valamint vállalkozásokkal készített mélyinterjúk eredményei voltak segítségemre a konklúzióim megalapozásában, melynek eredményeit az alábbi tanulmány részletezi. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The main players of the Hungarian economy are the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This section loaded significant role in the economic life that this sector makes up more than 99 percent of the companies, and in addition to having a significant role to play in terms of employment, contribute significantly to the gross value added (GDP). The sector will be keeping, development, financing are almost inexhaustible current problem in all respects. The focus point of my research are the Hungarian SME sector's potential risks and the assessments of funding problems. Among other things, I examine, that the introduction of local currencies – which lived for more success in abroad – could impact the growth and competitiveness of Hungarian enterprises. In addition to the acquisition of the references, the examination of the Balatoni Korona helped my work. The primary and secondary studies helped my research, so they gave me a comprehensive picture of the impact of the local currencies in relation to Hungarian SME sector. The results of a questionnaire survey and interviews helped my work to creation my conclusion. This study contains my results in this theme.
Driving anger and factors related to aggressive driving among Serbian drivers
Creators: name: Boško Matović
name: Jovanović, Dragan
name: Miloš Pljakić
name: Stanojević, Predrag
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: Driving anger has been found to be a motivational determinant of risky and aggressive driving. The study reported in this article focused on research questions concerning the conceptualization of driving anger and relationships between driving anger and aggressive driving. Methods: In a cross-sectional survey study, 1,020 regular Serbian drivers completed a web-based online questionnaire. Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis were used to assess the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Driving Anger Scale. Results: The results showed that the adapted DAS was a valid and reliable instrument divided into five subscales such as discourteous behavior, illegal behavior, slow driving, hostile gestures and traffic obstructions. The robustness of the five-factor model obtained from the EFA was confirmed by the CFA. The study provided evidence supporting the predictive validity of the adapted DAS and revealed that the dimensions of driving anger are differently associated with prosocial and aggressive driving behaviors. Conclusions: The study supports the adapted DAS validity and produces evidence that driving anger is associated with driving outcomes.
Luigi Ceriani, 1912-1999
Creators: name: Roncaglia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: B310

description: Luigi Ceriani (1912-1999) was the founder of Moneta e Credito and Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, and their editor for the first forty years of their lives. The article illustrates his life history, in particular his role in the founding and in the successive life of the two journals as well as in the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro as director of its Economic Research Depart-ment. JEL Codes: B310
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 52, N. 207 (1999)
title: Time-triggered communication in hybrid network toplologies
Creators: name: Zischka, Wolfram
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Real-time-communication
subject: TTEthernet
subject: Bus
subject: Star
subject: Hybrid-Topologies

description: Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache
description: Parallelt. [Übers. des Autors]: Zeitgesteuerte Kommunikation in Hybriden Netzwerk-Topologien
Hybrid Inflation and the Moduli Problem
Creators: name: Berkooz, Micha
name: Dine, Michael
name: Volansky, Tomer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit some questions in supersymmetric hybrid inflation (SHI). We analyze the amount of fine tuning required in various models, the problem of decay at the end of inflation and the generation of baryons after inflation. We find that the most natural setting for HI is in supersymmetric models with non-renormalizable couplings. Furthermore, we argue that almost inevitably, one of the fields involved is a modulus, with Planck scale variation. The resulting moduli problem can be solved in two ways: either by a massive modulus (which requires some fine tuning), or an enhanced symmetry point, in which the moduli becomes strongly coupled to the Standard Model. Various possibilities for baryon production are discussed.
description: 19 pages