cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Zeugnis der Reife
Creators: name: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Osterode In Ostpreussen, Germany)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Offer and acceptance
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1044042
subject: Universities and colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1161597
subject: Medical colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1013952
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499

description: Certificate of acceptance to the University of Breslau to study medicine. Includes list of courses and ability in these courses. Issued by the Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium.
Determinants of external auditors' fee: in the case of banking and insurance industries of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Dawit, Abera
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The major objective of the study is to evaluate the Determinants of External Auditor Fee in banking and insurance industries of Ethiopia from 2012-2016 years. The research methodology is Quantitative research approach .this approach is used since it helps to conduct systematic empirical study of observable phenomena via statistical or mathematical techniques. , data was taken from NBE for which regressions was used to the analysis of study. The finding shows that aspect of corporate or clients sizes triggers 52 .3% positive change in the process of deciding its fee for the auditor while experience of the auditor triggers by 11.12% positive change in the decision of auditors fee through placing second as a determining factor . The finding shows that aspect of Auditor size is that it portrayed by 8.66% positively which is investigated as the strong relationship between audite size, and audit pricing, and determined that audit size is positively associated with audit fees and the clients expects higher quality audits from relatively experienced and large sized audit firms . The study found that an increase in market share of the audit firm leads on an average increase 3.99% increase in the revenue of the audit firm .The study found that an increase in the Client Profitability between 2012 and 2016 lead to a significant increase by 8.5 % in real audit fees. On the other hand, increase in the liquidity risk has a significant negativity indicated by 31.9% in real external audit fees .The negatively signed relationship between liquidity risk and Audit Fee shows that there is positive relationship between liquidity risk and Audit fee. The study shows increase of the Client Complexity significantly contributed to increase Auditor fee by 2.1%.similarly,however it was found insignificant with audit fee relation an increase Efficiency of the client is considered an important attribute that increase the determining amount of audit fees positively indicated by 7.67% in real audit fees. This implies that the efficient companies have the ability to bear additional charges for audit work due to their internal Efficiency. Therefore, Efficiency of the client has a positive correlation with the audit fees.
Airborne contaminant source estimation using a finite-volume forward solver coupled with a Bayesian inversion approach
Creators: name: Hosseini, Bamdad
name: Stockie, John M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 65M08, 65M32, 76Rxx, 86A10

description: We propose a numerical algorithm for solving the atmospheric dispersion problem with elevated point sources and ground-level deposition. The problem is modelled by the 3D advection-diffusion equation with delta-distribution source terms, as well as height-dependent advection speed and diffusion coefficients. We construct a finite volume scheme using a splitting approach in which the Clawpack software package is used as the advection solver and an implicit time discretization is proposed for the diffusion terms. The algorithm is then applied to an actual industrial scenario involving emissions of airborne particulates from a zinc smelter using actual wind measurements. We also address various practical considerations such as choosing appropriate methods for regularizing noisy wind data and quantifying sensitivity of the model to parameter uncertainty. Afterwards, we use the algorithm within a Bayesian framework for estimating emission rates of zinc from multiple sources over the industrial site. We compare our finite volume solver with a Gaussian plume solver within the Bayesian framework and demonstrate that the finite volume solver results in tighter uncertainty bounds on the estimated emission rates.
description: Fixed a few typos in figures
Determinants of Capital structure of Airline industries- The case of major airlines of Sub Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Amen, Sewunet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: This research is intended to identify the internal and external determinant factors of capital structure of major sub-Saharan African airlines. Maintaining the optimum level of leverage ratio is essential to increase firms value. The study used secondary data of three major airline's financial reports from the year 2002-2015 and data of macro-economic factors from web site of World Bank. A panel data of three major sub Saharan African airlines was analyzed using fixed effect regression model.The study has employed a quantitative research approach and explanatory type of research design to see the causal relationship between the independent variables (liquidity, profitability, firm size, tangibility, inflation, currency exchange rate, gross domestic product, and risk) and dependent variable leverage.Statistical tool of Eviews 8 was used to see the relationship betweenregressors and regressand variable. The result of fixed effect model of regression analysis shows that tangibility, inflation and risk are statistically significant and have positive relationship with leverage. Profitability and size are also significant factor but have negative relationship with leverage. Other variables (liquidity, GDP and currency exchange rate are found to be statistically insignificant factor to leverage. The positive sign of tangibility and inflation supports trade of theory and the negative sign of profitability and size supports pecking order theory. The study suggests that, focusing on both internal and external factors of the airline industryespecially on internal factors of profitability, tangibility and size is essential on maintaining the capital structure of these major airlines of sub Saharan Africa.
Modelling observed decay-less oscillations as resonantly enhanced Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices from transverse MHD waves and their seismological application
Creators: name: Antolin, Patrick
name: De Moortel, Ineke
name: Van Doorsselaere, Tom
name: Yokoyama, Takaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the highly structured solar corona, resonant absorption is an unavoidable mechanism of energy transfer from global transverse MHD waves to local azimuthal Alfvén waves. Due to its localised nature, a direct detection of this mechanism is extremely difficult. Yet, it is the leading theory explaining the observed fast damping of the global transverse waves. However, at odds with this theoretical prediction, recent observations indicate that in the low amplitude regime such transverse MHD waves can also appear decay-less, a yet unsolved phenomenon. Recent numerical work has shown that Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (KHI) often accompany transverse MHD waves. In this work, we combine 3D MHD simulations and forward modelling to show that for currently achieved spatial resolution and observed small amplitudes, an apparent decay-less oscillation is obtained. This effect results from the combination of periodic brightenings produced by the KHI and the coherent motion of the KHI vortices amplified by resonant absorption. Such effect is especially clear in emission lines forming at temperatures that capture the boundary dynamics rather than the core, and reflects the low damping character of the local azimuthal Alfvén waves resonantly coupled to the kink mode. Due to phase mixing, the detected period can vary depending on the emission line, with those sensitive to the boundary having shorter periods than those sensitive to the loop core. This allows to estimate the density contrast at the boundary.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures; Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Re: Petition for Naturalization of Siegfried Simon
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Citizenship
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/861909
subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Naturalization
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1034550

description: One original, one copy. Lists additional witnesses for Preuss' residency in Idaho Falls and Chicago.
Cost-effective methods for stress analyses of multilayered components
Creators: name: Zhu., Caisheng
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: ИНДУСТРИЯ ВПЕЧАТЛЕНИЙ КАК ПРОСТРАНСТВО АППЛИКАЦИИ «МЯГКОЙ СИЛЫ»
Creators: name: Смирнов, Василий
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье рассматривается возможность использования инструментов «мягкой силы» в пространстве современных «культурных индустрий». Большинство исследователей заостряют свое внимание на критике массовой культуры, считая её слишком коммерциализированной, а потому транслирующей исключительно примитивный контент. Нами же предпринята попытка посмотреть на массовую культуру как на механизм невоенной агрессии в отношении определённой страны. В качестве инструмента имплементации «мягкой силы» выбрано кино, которое оказывает максимально возможное (в сравнении с другими видами искусства) эмоциональное воздействие на «реципиента» и, кроме того, внедряет в сознание зрителя определенные ценности, влияющие на всё «культурное ядро» общества. Агрессия против определенной страны с использованием инструментария «мягкой силы» будет нацелена на разрушение её культурного блока. С нашей точки зрения, целостность «страны» включает в себя три основных составляющих.
Bethe/Gauge correspondence in odd dimension: modular double, non-perturbative corrections and open topological strings
Creators: name: Sciarappa, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bethe/Gauge correspondence as it is usually stated is ill-defined in five dimensions and needs a "non-perturbative" completion; a related problem also appears in three dimensions. It has been suggested that this problem, probably due to incompleteness of Omega background regularization in odd dimension, may be solved if we consider gauge theory on compact $S^5$ and $S^3$ geometries. We will develop this idea further by giving a full Bethe/Gauge correspondence dictionary on $S^5$ and $S^3$ focussing mainly on the eigenfunctions of (open and closed) relativistic 2-particle Toda chain and its quantized spectral curve: these are most properly written in terms of non-perturbatively completed NS open topological strings. A key ingredient is Faddeev's modular double structure which is naturally implemented by the $S^5$ and $S^3$ geometries.
description: 53 pages, 7 tables, 7 figures; ver.2: references added
Footprints of the weak s-process in the carbon-enhanced metal-poor star ET0097
Creators: name: Yang, Guochao
name: Li, Hongjie
name: Liu, Nian
name: Cui, Wenyuan
name: Liang, Yanchun
name: Zhang, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Historically, the weak s-process contribution to metal-poor stars is thought to be extremely small, due to the effect of the secondary-like nature of the neutron source 22Ne(a;n)25Mg in massive stars, which means that metal-poor weak s-process stars could not be found. ET0097 is the first observed carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star in the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Because C is enriched and the elements heavier than Ba are not overabundant, ET0097 can be classified as a CEMP-no star. However, this star shows overabundances of lighter n-capture elements (i.e., Sr, Y and Zr). In this work, having adopted the abundance decomposition approach, we investigate the astrophysical origins of the elements in ET0097. We find that the light elements and iron-peak elements (from O to Zn) of the star mainly originate from the primary process of massive stars and the heavier n-capture elements (heavier than Ba) mainly come from the main r-process. However, the lighter n-capture elements such as Sr, Y and Zr should mainly come from the primary weak s-process. The contributed fractions of the primary weak s-process to the Sr, Y and Zr abundances of ET0097 are about 82%, 84% and 58% respectively, suggesting that the CEMP star ET0097 should have the footprints of the weak s-process. The derived result should be a significant evidence that the weak s-process elements can be produced in metal-poor massive stars.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science
Data mining using an extended rough set model
Creators: name: Zhou., Pei Li
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Albemarle County Student Attendance
Creators: name: Black, Rory
name: Siamon, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Student well-being
absenteeism
education
COVID-19
UVA MSDS 2023

description: General student physical and mental well-being has always been a major concern though it has significantly increased since the beginning of the SARS-COVID-19 (COVID- 19) pandemic. Evidence of student well-being may be reflected in increased student absences from school and poorer standardized test performance. The present project was undertaken to iden- tify patterns in middle and high school student attendance in the Albemarle County Public School (ACPS) system to make inferences about student well-being. Specifically, it seeks to reveal differences in trends in the years before, during, and after the pandemic as it relates to educational engagement and assessment outcome levels. Variables included daily period- by-period information on a student’s presence in class status, demographic information accompanying each student (e.g., grade level, male/female, racial/ethnic identity, etc.), and the Virginia Department of Education Standards of Learning (SOL) limited testing results. To confirm suspected differences in various student subpopulations, two-proportion z-tests were utilized to confirm patterns among subpopulations. Beginning with ex- ploratory data analysis, and continuing with survival analysis and logistic regression, we identified specific subpopulations of students more at risk of unexcused absenteeism. The number of absences increases for all students from the pre-COVID era to the remote school year and then recovers in the 2021-2022 school year yet not quite reaching the levels seen in the 2018- 2019 school year. Results from logistic regression modeling were predictive of student absenteeism with many variables returning a p-value less than 0.001, which may serve as a tool for school administration to identify at-risk students in near real-time. Moreover, an increased association between the proportion of students failing SOL tests, used to assess student success, and the number of students recording unexcused absences in the SOL subject in which the tests are taken. Though precise causal relationships concerning the influence of COVID-19 were unclear, from the perspective of student well-being, results from these analyses highlight where ACPS leadership might put their focus toward maintaining student engagement and academic success in the post-pandemic period.
On the curious spectrum of duality invariant higher-derivative gravity
Creators: name: Hohm, Olaf
name: Naseer, Usman
name: Zwiebach, Barton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the spectrum of the exactly duality and gauge invariant higher-derivative double field theory. While this theory is based on a chiral CFT and does not correspond to a standard string theory, our analysis illuminates a number of issues central in string theory. The full quadratic action is rewritten as a two-derivative theory with additional fields. This allows for a simple analysis of the spectrum, which contains two massive spin-2 ghosts and massive scalars, in addition to the massless fields. Moreover, in this formulation, the massless or tensionless limit $α'\rightarrow \infty$ is non-singular and leads to an enhanced gauge symmetry. We show that the massive modes can be integrated out exactly at the quadratic level, leading to an infinite series of higher-derivative corrections. Finally, we present a ghost-free massive extension of linearized double field theory, which employs a novel mass term for the dilaton and metric.
description: 28 pages. Minor typos corrected. Matches with the published version
Central Exclusive Production in the STAR Experiment at RHIC
Creators: name: Sikora, Rafal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) performs studies of diffractive processes with the focus on the exclusive production of particles in central range of rapidity. In 2015 STAR collected 18 pb$^{-1}$ of data in polarized proton+proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=200 GeV to measure Central Exclusive Production (CEP) process $pp\to pXp$ through Double Pomeron Exchange (DPE) mechanism. The intact protons moving inside the RHIC beampipe after the collision were measured in silicon strip detectors (SSD), which were placed in the Roman Pot vessels. This enables full control over interaction kinematics and verification of the exclusivity of the reaction by measuring the total (missing) transverse momenta of all final state particles: the central diffractive system in the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) and the forward protons in the Roman Pots. With the use of ionization energy loss in the TPC, d$E$/d$x$, it was possible to discriminate various production channels in $pp\to pXp$ reaction. This paper presents results on exclusive production of two charged particles ($π^{+}π^{-}$ and $K^{+}K^{-}$) in mid-rapidity region, $-1
Factors Affecting Humanitarian Logistics Coordination In Emergency Response, A Case In Selected Humanitarian Organizations In Food Aid
Creators: name: Terefe, Hana
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The general objective of the study was sought to assess the factors affecting humanitarian logistics coordination in emergency response among humanitarian organizations in food aid. Explanatory and descriptive research design was used in executing the study. The targeted population was humanitarian organizations in food aid and proportionate stratified sampling was conducted to increase the chances of making comparisons among strata (originations), in additions purposive sampling was employed aiming logistics and program professionals who are relevant to humanitarian emergency food response and logistics coordination. Primary data was collected using questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential data analyses were generated. Out of 80 questionnaires 57 respondents filled in and returned the questionnaire, making the response rate 71%. Pearson Correlation Coefficient was computed and tested. A positive and moderate relationship to extent of (r=.598, (r=.416) & (r=.430) exist between environmental, donor, organizational factors respectively and Logistics Coordination. A positive and strong relationship to extent of (r=.675) exist between logistics coordination and interorganizational factors and all factors were statistically significant at 1% level (p=0.001, <0.01). A multiple linear regression analysis was conducted, and the coefficient of determination represented by adjusted R-squared revealed that the percentage of the variance in logistics coordination explained by the independent variables (environmental, donors' Interorganizational and organizational factors) was 56.3% and the overall model was significant. Based on the research findings, the researcher concludes that moderate and positive relationship exist between Logistics coordination and environmental, donors and organizational factors whereas, strong and positive relationship exit between logistics coordination and interorganizational factor. Further, the researcher concludes that environmental, interorganizational and organizational were the most factors affecting logistics coordination with statistical significance level of 0.027, 0.009 and 0.003 respectively (p < 0.05) whereas donors' factor was the least factor associated to logistics coordination with p=126. To improve humanitarian logistics coordination, the researcher recommends an updated logistics capacity assessment, regular logistics coordination meeting among HOs to share information and resources, harmonized interorganizational policies and procedure to engage in joint planning and implementation and at last clear logistics coordination misconception through training and experience sharing platforms.
Structure and yield stress of concentrated suspensions
Creators: name: Zhou., James Z.Q.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Cosmological expansion and contraction from Pauli exclusion principle in $M0$-branes
Creators: name: Sepehri, Alireza
name: Ali, Ahmed Farag
name: Bamba, Kazuharu
name: Capozziello, Salvatore
name: Pincak, Richard
name: Pradhan, Anirudh
name: Rahaman, Farook
name: Saridakis, Emmanuel N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Pauli exclusion principle in a system of $M0$-branes can give rise to the expansion and contraction of the universe which is located on an $M3$-brane. We start with a system of $M0$-branes with high symmetry, which join mutually and form pairs of $M1$-anti-$M1$-branes. The resulting symmetry breaking creates gauge fields that live on the $M1$-branes and play the role of graviton tensor modes, which induce an attractive force between the $M1$ and anti-$M1$ branes. Consequently, the gauge fields that live on the $M1$-branes, and the scalar fields which are attached symmetrically to all parts of these branes, decay to fermions that attach anti-symmetrically to the upper and lower parts of the branes, and hence the Pauli exclusion principle emerges. By closing $M1$-branes mutually, the curvatures produced by parallel spins will be different from the curvatures produced by anti-parallel spins, and this leads to an inequality between the number of degrees of freedom on the boundary surface and the number of degrees of freedom in the bulk region. This behavior is inherited in the $M3$-brane on which the universe is located, and hence this leads to the emergence of the universe expansion and contraction. In this sense, the Pauli exclusion principle rules the cosmic dynamics.
description: 27 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1607.01499
Symmetry-protected zero-mode laser with a tunable spatial profile
Creators: name: Ge, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to utilize symmetry-protected zero modes of a photonic lattice to realize a single-mode, fixed-frequency, and spatially tunable laser. These properties are the consequence of the underlying non-Hermitian particle-hole symmetry, with which the energy spectrum satisfies $\varepsilon_m=-\varepsilon_n^*$. Unlike in the Hermitian case, the symmetric phase of particle-hole symmetry is no longer restricted to $\varepsilon=0$ but extends along the imaginary-$\varepsilon$ axis, which is set by the single-cavity frequency and symmetry-protected against position and coupling disorder of the photonic lattice. By selectively pumping different cavities in the photonic lattice, we control the spontaneous symmetry restoration process, which provides a convenient method to tune the spatial profile of the laser without changing its frequency.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Performance analysis of multistage ATM switching fabrics
Creators: name: Zhou., Bin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Measurement of the differential cross sections for top quark pair production as a function of kinematic event variables in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements are reported of the normalized differential cross sections for top quark pair production with respect to four kinematic event variables: the missing transverse energy; the scalar sum of the jet transverse momentum (pT); the scalar sum of the pT of all objects in the event; and the pT of leptonically decaying W bosons from top quark decays. The data sample, collected using the CMS detector at the LHC, consists of 5.0 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and 19.7 inverse femtobarns at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. Top quark pair events containing one electron or muon are selected. The results are presented after correcting for detector effects to allow direct comparison with theoretical predictions. No significant deviations from the predictions of several standard model event simulation generators are observed.
description: Replaced with published version. Added the journal reference and DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-12-042
The Challenges and Prospects of Managing Specialty Restaurants in Ethiopia: A Case Study of Teshomech Kitfo Restaurant
Creators: name: Antonios, Betesaida
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2010

description: This paper presents a case study of Teshomech Kitfo Restaurant which is a specialty restaurant located in Addis Ababa. Teshomech Kitfo Restaurant was established in November 1992 with a registered capital of 7,000 birr. The owners of the Restaurant are Mr. Antonios and his wife Mrs. Teshomech. The first branch of Teshomech Kitfo Restaurant was opened in Haya Hulet area of Addis Ababa. When the restaurant was opened, it was fully staffed by the owners and their children. Currently, the restaurant has two branches and about 40 employees. Despite the presence of many factors that are constraining the growth of the business, Teshomech Kitfo Restaurant is a profitable enterprise. However, the business still has the opportunity for further growth and profitability. This paper assesses the operational and managerial challenges that the restaurant is encountering, describes the kitfo preparation process as well as human resource management issues at the restaurant, explores alternative expansion strategies, and proposes some recommendations that can help Teshomech Kitfo Restaurant achieve its goals more fully.
Twin roll strip casting of zinc and its alloys
Creators: name: Zhou., Zhuangfei
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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SimAthens: A spatial microsimulation approach to the estimation and analysis of small-area income distributions and poverty rates in Athens, Greece
Creators: name: Panori, Anastasia
name: Ballas, Dimitris
name: Psycharis, Yannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62P25

description: Published during a severe economic crisis, this study presents the first spatial microsimulation model for the analysis of income inequalities and poverty in Greece. First, we present a brief overview of the method and discuss its potential for the analysis of multidimensional poverty and income inequality in Greece. We then present the SimAthens model, based on a combination of small-area demographic and socioeconomic information available from the Greek census of population with data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). The model is based on an iterative proportional fitting (IPF) algorithm, and is used to reweigh EU-SILC records to fit in small-area descriptions for Athens based on 2001 and 2011 censuses. This is achieved by using demographic and socioeconomic characteristics as constraint variables. Finally, synthesis of the labor market and occupations are chosen as the main variables for externally validating our results, in order to verify the integrity of the model. Results of this external validation process are found to be extremely satisfactory, indicating a high goodness of fit between simulated and real values. Finally, the study presents a number of model outputs, illustrating changes in social and economic geography, during a severe economic crisis, offering a great opportunity for discussing further potential of this model in policy analysis.
description: Preprint submitted to Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (accepted 2 August 2016). Published paper version available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971516301685
ZZ production in gluon fusion at NLO matched to parton-shower
Creators: name: Alioli, Simone
name: Caola, Fabrizio
name: Luisoni, Gionata
name: Röntsch, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the hadroproduction process $gg\to ZZ \to e^+e^- μ^+ μ^-$, matched to the parton shower in the POWHEG framework. We take advantage of the POWHEG BOX tool for the implementation and rely on PYTHIA 8 for the showering and hadronization stages. We fully include $γ^*/Z$ interference effects, while also covering the single-resonant region. For this phenomenological study we focus on four lepton production as a signal process, neglecting all quark mass effects as well as the Higgs-mediated contributions, which are known to be subdominant in this case. We provide predictions from our simulations for the 13 TeV LHC Run II setup, including realistic experimental cuts.
description: 11 pages, 20 figures
The effects of Job Satisfaction on Employees' Turnover Intention in Addis Ababa Branches, Wegagen Bank S.co
Creators: name: Negash, Mekonnen
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: As banking industry is one of the fast growing industries in Ethiopia, all banks are focusing on branch expansion and introduction of new products/services. This condition has forced banks to attract and retain high performing employees. High staff turnover in Wegagen Bank is a concern as large as 7.16%. Majority of these were from the operational areas whose release impact on the bank's profitability. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of job satisfaction on employees' turnover intention in Addis Ababa branch. The study was done based on primary and secondary data sources. A self-administered structured questionnaire was designed to collect the relevant information from the respondents. Partly descriptive and partly causal or explanatory research design was followed and applied mixed research method. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple regressions. The result revealed that only satisfaction from promotion opportunity has negatively and significantly related to intention of employees' turnover. The study recommends that the management should examine and improve the existing HR policy and procedure on promotion opportunity which can guarantee transparency and fairness to the employees of the bank to keep them satisfied on their job and retained in the bank Key words: Job satisfaction, Intention of employees' turnover, Pay, Nature of work, Supervision and Promotion opportunity.
Microstructural assessment of 0.5Cr-0.5Mo-0.25V steel and its weldment
Creators: name: Zheng., Ren Qiang
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Open intersection numbers and free fields
Creators: name: Alexandrov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A complete set of the Virasoro and W-constraints for the Kontsevich-Penner model, which conjecturally describes intersections on moduli spaces of open curves, was derived in our previous work. Here we show that these constraints can be described in terms of free bosonic fields with twisted boundary conditions, which gives a modification of the well-known construction of the $W^{(3)}$ algebra in conformal field theory. This description is natural from the point of view of the spectral curve description, and should serve as a new important ingredient of the topological recursion/Givental decomposition.
description: 21 pages; minor corrections, references added
title: НОСТАЛЬГИЯ ПО СССР В ИНДУСТРИИ ВПЕЧАТЛЕНИЙ: МУЗЕИ СОВЕТСКОГО БЫТА
Creators: name: Тихонова, Софья
name: Артамонов, Денис
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: Cтатья посвящена культурному феномену музеев советского быта, ставших выражением ностальгии по эпохе СССР. Особенность исторической памяти о социалистическом прошлом заключается в активной роли предметной среды в целом и бытовых артефактов в формировании ностальгических представлений о нем. Музеи, экспонирующие предметы советского быта, используя иммерсивные технологии индустрии впечатлений добиваются сильнейшего эмоционального влияния на посетителей, которые буквально погружаются в прошлое через соприкосновение с вещами. Пространство музея советского быта, в котором экспонаты можно трогать руками, в отличие от традиционных или мультимедийных музеев, представленное также в цифровой среде через публикацию маркетинговых материалов и непосредственных впечатлений посетителей в своих аккаунтах социальных медиа, стирает границы между реальным и виртуальным мирами, а также между прошлым и настоящим.
Submillimeter H2O and H2O+ emission in lensed ultra- and hyper-luminous infrared galaxies at z ~ 2-4
Creators: name: Yang, C.
name: Omont, A.
name: Beelen, A.
name: González-Alfonso, E.
name: Neri, R.
name: Gao, Y.
name: van der Werf, P.
name: Weiß, A.
name: Gavazzi, R.
name: Falstad, N.
name: Baker, A. J.
name: Bussmann, R. S.
name: Cooray, A.
name: Cox, P.
name: Dannerbauer, H.
name: Dye, S.
name: Guélin, M.
name: Ivison, R.
name: Krips, M.
name: Lehnert, M.
name: Michałowski, M. J.
name: Riechers, D. A.
name: Spaans, M.
name: Valiante, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (abridged) We report rest-frame submillimeter H2O emission line observations of 11 HyLIRGs/ULIRGs at z~2-4 selected among the brightest lensed galaxies discovered in the Herschel-ATLAS. Using the IRAM NOEMA, we have detected 14 new H2O emission lines. The apparent luminosities of the H2O emission lines are $μL_{\rm{H_2O}} \sim 6-21 \times 10^8 L_\odot$, with velocity-integrated line fluxes ranging from 4-15 Jy km s$^{-1}$. We have also observed CO emission lines using EMIR on the IRAM 30m telescope in seven sources. The velocity widths for CO and H2O lines are found to be similar. With almost comparable integrated flux densities to those of the high-J CO line, H2O is found to be among the strongest molecular emitters in high-z Hy/ULIRGs. We also confirm our previously found correlation between luminosity of H2O ($L_{\rm{H_2O}}$) and infrared ($L_{\rm{IR}}$) that $L_{\rm{H_2O}} \sim L_{\rm{IR}}^{1.1-1.2}$, with our new detections. This correlation could be explained by a dominant role of far-infrared (FIR) pumping in the H2O excitation. Modelling reveals the FIR radiation fields have warm dust temperature $T_\rm{warm}$~45-75 K, H2O column density per unit velocity interval $N_{\rm{H_2O}}/ΔV \gtrsim 0.3 \times 10^{15}$ cm$^{-2}$ km$^{-1}$ s and 100 $μ$m continuum opacity $τ_{100} > 1$ (optically thick), indicating that H2O is likely to trace highly obscured warm dense gas. However, further observations of $J\geq4$ H2O lines are needed to better constrain the continuum optical depth and other physical conditions of the molecular gas and dust. We have also detected H2O+ emission in three sources. A tight correlation between $L_{\rm{H_2O}}$ and $L_{\rm{H_2O^+}}$ has been found in galaxies from low to high redshift. The velocity-integrated flux density ratio between H2O+ and H2O suggests that cosmic rays generated by strong star formation are possibly driving the H2O+ formation.
description: Minor changes to match the published version in A&A
Optical composite guided-wave coupler systems
Creators: name: Zheng., Shu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Food frequency questionnaires developed and validated in Brazil: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: de Araújo Brito Barros, Acsa
name: do Nascimento Felipe, Maria
name: Leite-Lais, Lucia
name: Pedrosa, Lucia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: brazil
subject: food frequency questionnaire
subject: food intake
subject: validation study

description: This is a scoping review guided by the recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology for scoping reviews. The aim of this scoping review is to map the food frequency questionnaires developed and validated in Brazil.
Debt Sustainability and Economic Growth: Evidence from Low Income Sub Saharan Africa countries
Creators: name: Nitsuh, Mengist
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: There exist mixed evidential outcomes on the effect of external debt on economic growth. With high saving gaps in low-income SSA countries, it seems plausible that external borrowing can affect growth positively if well utilized or negatively as the debt becomes a burden. As a result, the purpose of this study is to examine the effect of external public debt on economic growth and to assess the debt sustainability of twenty-four SSA countries over the period 2000-2017 using descriptive trend analysis and panel data analysis. The trend and descriptive analysis assessed the behavior of external public debt and economic growth while the empirical analyses employed panel data regression in which a fixed effect model is estimated. The study found that external public debt, external public debt service, and trade openness have a negative and significant effect on the economic growth of low income SSA countries. However, investment and domestic debt have a positive and significant impact on the economic growth of the countries that the study covers. Additionally, the inflation rate and population growth have no significant effect on economic growth. For the purpose of examining the debt sustainability of chosen countries, various tests were undertaken. The study concludes that the external debt of low income SSA nations is unsustainable. In light of these findings, selected SSA countries should adopt a balance between external and domestic debt to ensure sustainable economic growth. They should also implement measures to promote export and expand domestic investment.
Dyonic (A)dS Black Holes in Einstein-Born-Infeld Theory in Diverse Dimensions
Creators: name: Li, Shoulong
name: Lu, H.
name: Wei, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Einstein-Born-Infeld gravity and construct the dyonic (A)dS planar black holes in general even dimensions, that carry both the electric charge and magnetic fluxes along the planar space. In four dimensions, the solution can be constructed with also spherical and hyperbolic topologies. We study the black hole thermodynamics and obtain the first law. We also classify the singularity structure.
description: Latex, 21 pages, typos corrected and references added
Spillway: poems
Creators: name: Ripley, Alyssa
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: This collection of poems seeks to find the connection between the waters of Southern Missouri and the speaker’s family history. They visit the Lake of the Ozarks and the Big Niangua River; travel to the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia; and float in and out of memory of the speaker’s family and the land she grew up on, reconciling the past of drug addiction, poverty, and the making of the reservoir.
The role of the C2 gas in the emergence of C60 from the condensing carbon vapour
Creators: name: Ahmad, Shoaib
name: Yaqub, Kashif
name: Tasneem, Afshan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model has been developed that illustrates the emergence of C60 from the condensing carbon vapor. It is shown to depend upon the decreasing heats of formation for larger cages, exponentially increasing number of isomers for fullerenes that are larger than C60, large cages buckling induced by the pentagon-related protrusions that initiate fragmentation, the structural instability induces fragmentation that shrinks large cages and an evolving gas of C2 that is crucial to the whole process. The model describes a mechanism for the provision and presence of plenty of C2 during the formation and fragmentation processes. The bottom-up formations of large cages followed by the top-down cage shrinkage are shown to be stable, dynamical processes that lead to the C60 dominated fullerene ensemble.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Export Diversification: A Panel Study on Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
Creators: name: Teressa, Lamek
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The main objective of this paper is to investigate the impact FDI has on export diversification in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). The paper employs two measures for the two margins of diversification. Diversification at the intensive margin is measured by Herfindahl index. Diversification at the extensive margin is measured by a count indicator of new export lines. Panel data econometric methods are used; specifically a random effects regression is used as per the choice of a Hausman test. Since linear models are inappropriate for count variables, the paper used a Poisson regression method to investigate the impact of FDI on new export lines. The findings suggest that FDI does not help COMESA countries diversify at the intensive margin but has a significant positive impact on diversification at the extensive margin. The results can be explained as follows: Even though FDI helps COMESA countries export new products, these products might still be a very small proportion of the export earnings. The Herfindahl index is sensitive to changes in shares of export earnings but it might not pick up small changes in shares. This is because exporting new products doesn't necessarily mean that the export shares of the major traditional export items decline significantly. It is concluded that COMESA countries should continue to pursue FDI favorable policies like tax incentives, administrative support, customs incentives etc. since FDI expands their export basket.
Application for Change of Nationality
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Citizenship
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/861909
subject: Naturalization
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1034550

description: Preuss' application for a change of his Polish nationality.
Coke performance in lead blast furnaces
Creators: name: Zhao., Gonghui
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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