cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessing Determining Factors of Best Risk Management Practice of Ethiopian Commercial Banks
Creators: name: Nigussie, Worku
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The paper is about "Assessment and Evaluation of best risk management practices" of commercial banks in Ethiopia based on fifteen commercial banks operating in Ethiopia. The number of respondents was eighty. While collecting the requisite data, five points Likert Scale has been used. The objective of the study was to critically examine determining factors of best risk management practices of Ethiopian commercial banks i.e., types of risk facing a bank, The extent in which the management and staff members of commercial banks understand and implement risk management and if or not the staff members of the selected commercial banks aware of the risks associated with their actions and goals. The study also examines how far the banks follow the guidelines of National Bank of Ethiopia regarding risk management. For this study there are six independent variables: understanding risk and risk management (URM), risk assessment and analysis (RAA), risk identification (RI), risk monitoring (RM), Risk Evaluation (RE), required policy in place (RP) and one dependent variable, RMP. Initially, data reliability was found by applying Cronbach's alpha. So regression model was applied to analyze the impact of independent variables on dependent variables. From the analysis it was concluded that there were five variables which have positive significance impact on the dependent variable RMP. The study also reveals that credit risk, market risk and operational risk are the major risks to the bankers. Key words: Commercial Banks, Risk Management, and Risk Management Practices
Assessment of Factors Affecting Loan Repayment Performance of Borrowers: an Empirical Study on Selected Microfinance Institutions in Oromia Region
Creators: name: Garomsa, Abreham
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Microfinance institutions in Ethiopia are playing an important role in poverty reduction strategies initiated by the government of Ethiopia. These institutions have a mission of creating and facilitating credit and other financial schemes to enhance self-employment opportunities and poverty reduction. To address the main objectives of the study, four Microfinances were selected for the study purpose. The study was aimed at identifying and analyzing the potential factors that affects repayment performance of micro and small scale enterprises and individual entrepreneur borrowers using the structured questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions. Accordingly, in order to achieve this objective 319 sample borrowers were selected from the total of 2910 borrowers served by those selected MFIs. The descriptive statistics analysis and probit regression model was employed to estimate the model and analyze the results of findings. The result shows that ten variables including constant: sex, income from other sources, monitoring utilizations of other members in a group, credit timeliness, repayment time suitability, repayment trend on monthly basis and training adequacy are found significant and positively influence loan repayment performance of borrower. While loan utilization for the intended purpose, repayment trend on irregular basis and visit & follow-up on irregular basis was found negatively influence the repayment performance of borrowers. The extensive involvement and interference of third parties on the decisions of loan approval processing to lending institute were found as a contribution for high defaulting. Thus, it is recommended that the lending institutes needs to focus on monitoring loan utilization systems of borrowers and technical support needs of the target borrowers through delivering better awareness creation to organize the more viable borrowers, close supervision and follow-ups and strengthening their internal and external weaknesses though better integration with key partner stakeholders. Key words: Microfinance, loan repayment, loan utilization, integration, stakeholders
Empirically Constrained Predictions for Metal-Line Emission from the Circumgalactic Medium
Creators: name: Corlies, Lauren
name: Schiminovich, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The circumgalactic medium (CGM) remains one of the least constrained components of galaxies and as such has significant potential for advancing galaxy formation theories. In this work, we vary the extragalactic ultraviolet background for a high-resolution cosmological simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy and examine the effect on the absorption and emission properties of metals in the CGM. We find that a reduced quasar background brings the column density predictions into better agreement with recent data. Similarly, when the observationally derived physical properties of the gas are compared to the simulation, we find that the simulation gas is always at temperatures approximately 0.5 dex higher. Thus, similar column densities can be produced from fundamentally different gas. However, emission maps can provide complementary information to the line-of-sight column densities to better derive gas properties. From the simulations, we find that the brightest emission is less sensitive to the extragalactic background and that it closely follows the fundamental filamentary structure of the halo. This becomes increasingly true as the galaxy evolves from z=1 to z=0 and the majority of the gas transitions to a hotter, more diffuse phase. For the brightest ions (CIII, CIV, OVI), detectable emission can extend as far as 120 kpc at z=0. Finally, resolution is a limiting factor for the conclusions we can draw from emission observations but with moderate resolution and reasonable detection limits, upcoming instrumentation should place constraints on the physical properties of the CGM.
description: 24 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication int he Astrophysical Journal
Credit Risk Management and Profitability in Ethiopian Microfinance Institution
Creators: name: Regassa, Amanuel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Microfinance institutions (MFIs) today are the largest financial institutions around the world. However, they are facing risks when they are operating. Credit risk is one of the most significant risks that microfinance institutions face, considering that granting credit is one of the main sources of income in microfinance institutions. Therefore, the management of the risk related to credit affects the profitability of MFIs. The aim of the research is to provide stakeholders with accurate information regarding the credit risk management of microfinance institutions with its impact on profitability. The main purpose of the research is to investigate if there is a relationship between credit risk management and profitability of microfinance institutions in Ethiopia. In the research model, ROE and ROA are defined as proxies of profitability while PAR>30 days, LLPR, WOR & RC are defined as proxies of credit risk management. The research collects data from 12 microfinance institutions in Ethiopia from 2003 to 2012 and formulates two hypotheses which are related to the research question. A series of statistical tests are performed in order to test if the relationship exists. The findings reveal that credit risk management does have statistically significant effects on profitability of commercial banks. Between the four proxies of credit risk management, LLPR & WOR have a significant effect on the both ROE and ROA while PAR>30 days & RC have an insignificant effect on both ROE and ROA. Key words: Credit risk management, Profitability, microfinance institutions, PAR>30 days, LLPR, WOR, RC, ROA, ROE.
title: Εμπειρική διερεύνηση της συνάρτησης κατανάλωσης των Μεσογειακών χωρών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης
title: Empirical investigation of the consumption function of the Mediterranean countries of the European Union
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Γιάνναρος, Χρήστος-Ελευθέριος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ακαθάριστο Εγχώριο Προϊόν
subject: Κατανάλωση
subject: Απλό γραμμικό υπόδειγμα

description: Η εργασία αυτή διερευνά την οριακή ροπή προς κατανάλωση της συμμαχίας των επτά κρατών μελών της Μεσογείου και της Νότιας Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης (MED7). Αντικείμενο της είναι η εξέταση της συμπεριφοράς της κατανάλωσης όταν μεταβάλλεται το εισόδημα κατά τη διάρκεια των ετών 2000 – 2020, καθώς και την διερεύνηση βραχυχρόνιων και μακροχρόνιων συμπεριφορών μέσω χρονικών υστερήσεων. Η παρούσα έρευνα πραγματοποιείται με τη χρήση οικονομετρικών τεχνικών και θεωριών, στο λογισμικό υπολογιστικού φύλλου Microsoft Excel και στο λογισμικό EViews12. Στα πλαίσια του εμπειρικού σκέλους της εργασίας χρησιμοποιούνται ετήσιες παρατηρήσεις του Ακαθάριστου Εγχώριου Προϊόντος και της Κατανάλωσης για τις χώρες: Γαλλία, Ελλάδα, Ισπανία, Ιταλία, Κύπρο, Μάλτα, Πορτογαλία. Τα στοιχεία που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν καλύπτουν μια περίοδο από το 2000 μέχρι το 2020 και συλλέχθηκαν από τη βάση δεδομένων World Development Indicators (WDI), της World Data Bank. Από τα εμπειρικά αποτελέσματα της μελέτης για το σύνολο των χωρών που εξετάστηκαν προέκυψε ότι υπάρχει μικρή διαφορετική συμπεριφορά στην οριακή ροπή προς κατανάλωση στις Μεσογειακές χώρες της Ευρώπης, με εξαίρεση την περίπτωση της Μάλτας όπου εμφανίζει πολύ μικρή οριακή ροπή προς κατανάλωση. Για να γίνει κατανοητό, στην περίπτωση της Μάλτας η MPC είναι 0,50, ενώ για τις υπόλοιπές χώρες που εξετάστηκαν κυμαίνεται μεταξύ 0,80 και 0,90. Η οριακή ροπή προς κατανάλωση μετράει την ευαισθησία της ενδογενής μεταβλητής (κατανάλωση), όταν μεταβάλλεται η εξωγενής μεταβλητή (ΑΕΠ). Επιπρόσθετα, όσο έχει να κάνει με την βραχυχρόνια και μακροχρόνια συμπεριφορά αποδείχτηκε ότι τα δεδομένα προσαρμόστηκαν αρκετά καλά στο αντίστοιχο μοντέλο που κατασκευάστηκε, επαληθεύοντας τη γενική θεώρηση περί της άμεσης εξάρτησης της κατανάλωσης από το διαθέσιμο εισόδημα.
Microcomputer control of a quadrupole Mass spectrometer
Creators: name: Goodman, Guy Rodney.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Additional file 1 of Spatial analysis of cardiovascular mortality and associated factors around the world
Creators: name: Baptista, Emerson Augusto
name: Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
title: Ανάπτυξη εφαρμογής Android με αντικείμενο την καταχώρηση και αναζήτηση χαμένων ή ανευρεθέντων αντικειμένων
title: Android application development for registration and searching of lost or found objects
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μαρινάκης, Ελευθέριος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Αντικείμενα
subject: Χάθηκε
subject: Βρέθηκε
subject: Android
subject: Εφαρμογή

description: Οι περισσότεροι άνθρωποι κατά τη διάρκεια της ζωής τους βρίσκονται σε θέση ως ιδιοκτήτες πολλών πραγμάτων έμψυχων ή άψυχων, μεγάλων ή μικρότερων διαστάσεων. Ειδικά τον τελευταίο αιώνα με την ανάπτυξη της τεχνολογίας, τα αντικείμενα που φέρει πάνω του ένας άνθρωπος είναι περισσότερα σε σχέση με παλαιότερες εποχές. Εμπειρικά και με βάση ορισμένα άρθρα, είναι αρκετά μικρή η πιθανότητα κατά τη διάρκεια της ζωής ενός ανθρώπου ο ίδιος να μην χάσει τουλάχιστον ένα αντικείμενο. Μάλιστα, από σχετικές έρευνες που έχουν διεξαχθεί, ένας μέσος άνθρωπος χάνει περισσότερα από 3000 αντικείμενα κατά τη διάρκεια της ζωής του. Μια πρόσφορη λύση είναι η συνεισφορά όλων των ανθρώπων που μπορούν να βοηθήσουν στην εύρεση ενός αντικειμένου με την παρατηρητικότητά τους. Σήμερα, υπάρχουν διαδικτυακές υπηρεσίες και ομάδες σε μέσα μαζικής δικτύωσης τα οποία σχετίζονται με την εύρεση χαμένων αντικειμένων. Μάλιστα, αυτές οι υπηρεσίες/ομάδες έχουν αυξημένη κινητικότητα περισσότερο για τις κατηγορίες των κατοικίδιων και των ηλεκτρονικών συσκευών. Το μειονέκτημά τους είναι ότι οι χρήστες δεν μπορούν να αναζητήσουν εύκολα και έξυπνα χαμένα ή ανευρεθέντα αντικείμενα, πράγμα το οποίο είναι μείζονος σημασίας.
$Profiler$ - A Fast and Versatile New Program for Decomposing Galaxy Light Profiles
Creators: name: Ciambur, Bogdan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I introduce $Profiler$, a new, user-friendly program written in $Python$ and designed to analyse the radial surface brightness profiles of galaxies. With an intuitive graphical user interface, $Profiler$ can accurately model a wide range of galaxies and galaxy components, such as elliptical galaxies, the bulges of spiral and lenticular galaxies, nuclear sources, discs, bars, rings, spiral arms, etc., with a variety of parametric functions routinely employed in the field (Sérsic, core-Sérsic, exponential, Gaussian, Moffat and Ferrers). In addition to these, $Profiler$ can employ the broken exponential model (relevant for disc truncations or antitruncations) and two special cases of the edge-on disc model: namely along the major axis (in the disc plane) and along the minor axis (perpendicular to the disc plane). $Profiler$ is optimised to work with galaxy light profiles obtained from isophotal measurements which capture radial gradients in the ellipticity, position angle and Fourier harmonic profiles of the isophotes, and are thus often better at capturing the total light than two-dimensional image-fitting programs. Additionally, the one-dimensional approach is generally less computationally expensive and more stable. In $Profiler$, the convolution of either circular or elliptical models with the point spread function is performed in two-dimensions, and offers a choice between Gaussian, Moffat or a user-provided data vector (a table of intensity values as a function of radius) for the point spread function. I demonstrate $Profiler$'s features and operation by decomposing three case-study galaxies: the cored elliptical galaxy NGC 3348, the nucleated dwarf Seyfert I galaxy Pox 52, and NGC 2549, a structurally complex, double-barred galaxy which also displays a Type II truncated disc viewed edge-on. $Profiler$ is freely available at: https://github.com/BogdanCiambur/PROFILER
description: 16 pages, 14 figures
Comprehending particle production at RHIC and LHC energies using global measurements
Creators: name: Dash, Sadhana
name: Nandi, Basanta K.
name: Nayak, Ranjit
name: Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar
name: Sett, Priyanka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The centrality dependence of the charged-particle multiplicity densities ($dN_{ch}/dη$) and transverse energy densities ($dE_{T}/dη$) are investigated using the two-component Glauber approach for broad range of energies in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. A comprehensive study shows that the data is well described within the framework of two component model which includes the contribution of "soft processes" and "hard processes" for different centrality classes and energies. The data at two different energies are compared by means of the ratio of $dN_{ch}/dη$ (and $dE_{T}/dη$) to see the interplay of energy and $x$-scaling.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures
A broad perspective on multiple abundance populations in the globular cluster NGC 1851
Creators: name: Simpson, Jeffrey D.
name: Martell, Sarah L.
name: Navin, Colin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the multiple stellar populations of the globular cluster NGC 1851. We used lower resolution spectra of giant stars to measure CN, CH, and calcium H & K spectral indices, and determine elemental abundances for carbon and nitrogen. The CN and CH indices were used to confirm that there are four populations of stars in the cluster. The primordial population of stars, with the lowest CN, was found to be generally chemically distinct in elemental abundances from the second generation populations. As expected, [N/Fe] increases with increasing CN strength, but the only other element that correlated with CN was barium. The two largest populations of stars were found to have the same rate of carbon astration as the stars ascend the giant branch. We were also able to confirm that four previously identified extratidal stars are chemically associated with the cluster. This work shows the benefit of considering the chemistry of globular clusters with both high- and low-resolution spectra.
description: 15 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Performance of Commercial Banks of Ethiopia and Global Financial Crisis
Creators: name: Assefa, Minyahil
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2013

description: Commercial banks play a vital role in the economic resource allocation of countries. Investigating the performance of banks has been one of the more popular topics among researchers in banking studies. Hence, to contribute to the existing knowledge in Ethiopia, this study sought to analyze the performance of Commercial banks of Ethiopia and the impact of Global Financial crisis, using a sample of seven commercial banks over the period 2004/5-2010/11. The financial performance of the banks measured using basically CAMEL.. The study found that, during the study period, the performance of Commercial banks in Ethiopia mainly changes in accordance with NBE directives. The directives imposed at different time affected all components of CAMEL negatively or positively. However, regardless the tight monitory directives of NBE their performance had been improved. During the financial crisis shortage offoreign exchange earnings significantly reduced commercial banks of Ethiopia ability to meet the foreign exchange needs of their importing clients adequately. Also interest income from foreign deposit significantly decreased during the financial crisis. On the other hand, higher gains in foreign exchange dealings than usual by scoring 6% growth. Total revenue from international activities and return on asset growth decreased by 39% and 16% respectively. Also deposit in foreign banks slightly increased by 2%. However these were not statistically significant. Keywords: Financial Performance, CAMEL model, Global Financial Crisis
Carpooling and transit lanes : a case study
Creators: name: McKenzie, Hector Peter.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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AGORAge: Herramientas para una comunidad cuidadora
Creators: name: Riccò, Isabella
name: De Stefani, Adele
name: Anzil, Verónica
name: Anleu-Hernández, Claudia
name: Bodoque-Puerta, Yolanda
name: Mireia, Campanera
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Open Science
subject: Citizen Science
subject: COESO Project
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Community

description: Estas herramientas son el resultado de una experiencia de investigación de un año, en el marco del proyecto inspirado en la ciencia ciudadana AGORAge: Ageing in a Caring Community. Están dirigidas a todas aquellas personas interesadas en poner en marcha iniciativas que permitan crear comunidades solidarias en las que se preste especial atención a la inclusión social de las personas mayores. Este conjunto de herramientas puede servir a investigadores y profesionales de la intervención social, así como también a responsables políticos, proveedores de servicios y municipios. Su principal objetivo es, por un lado, mostrar técnicas de diagnóstico e intervención a través de la experiencia concreta del proyecto AGORAge y, por otro, proporcionar más recursos (buenas prácticas, herramientas y recomendaciones) para fomentar la creación de comunidades solidarias. La utilidad e idoneidad de estas herramientas dependerá de cada proyecto concreto, del contexto en el que se utilicen y del usuario, pero lo que consideramos crucial en todos los casos es conocer la situación de la que parte. Es decir, entender las necesidades y requerimientos de las personas implicadas. Para conocer esta realidad, es fundamental entrar en contacto con el grupo destinatario desde el principio, e implicarlo al máximo en las distintas fases de la investigación. A continuación, pasemos a consultar las herramientas y a echar un vistazo a los distintos conceptos, métodos, técnicas, ejemplos y recursos para familiarizarse con cada una de las secciones que la componen.
Stability of inflated circular cylindrical membranes
Creators: name: Thomas, Keith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Additional file 1 of Spatial and multilevel analysis of unskilled birth attendance in Chad
Creators: name: Acquah, Evelyn
name: Nyarko, Samuel H.
name: Boateng, Ebenezer N. K.
name: Dickson, Kwamena Sekyi
name: Addo, Isaac Yeboah
name: Adzrago, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Moran’s I SpatialAutocorrelation of unskilled birth attendance in Chad.
Non Financial Reporting: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Reporting (An Ethiopian case)
Creators: name: Melese, Emebet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2009

description: The operational policies of business enterprise are continuously influenced by the interaction between various groups of society viz. owners, creditors, customers, employees, community government etc. These different groups exercise their social, political and economic influence to change the corporate policies in their favor. In the old age economic system, the size of the business enterprise was very small and that too was entirely controlled by the owner managers. Other contracting groups were not influential due to lack of education and awareness. Therefore in the corporate influence system, the owners were framed to suit their interests. But with the change in social, political and economic environment, the size of the business enterprise grew and it began to play a pivotal role in the society. It started affecting the interest of other social groups substantially. In this respect the impact of considering corporate social responsibility in the business performance has to be traced. Hence the project has interest to understand the state of non financial reporting: CSR and environmental reporting practices in Ethiopian corporate firms and NGOs. Data for the study was from secondary sources and primary sources. The annual reports of sixty organizations have been reviewed. And the higher officials of the Ethiopian Environment Protection Agency have been interviewed. The project has revealed that there is the practice of reporting CSR and environmental issues in Ethiopian NGOS in full. In addition many public enterprises used to report their CSR and environmental issues with in their corporate annual reports since they are forced by the Privatization and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA). With regard to the privately owed corporate firms the company characteristics has influence on non financial reporting: CSR and environmental reporting
Quality assurance for GPU-accelerated bio-image analysis
Creators: name: Haase, Robert
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: Modern computing hardware such as high-performance-computing and graphics computing units (GPUs) enable scientists to process image data on scales that were unthinkable a decade back. Modern algorithmic techniques such as machine learning, deep learning and large language models also contribute to the need to rethink how we analyze image data on daily basis. Common procedures such as ImageJ Macro programming are increasingly replaced by Python programming. The task of programming itself is being replaced by conventional and artificial-intelligence-based code generators. When new algorithmic techniques are published, typically authors show the advantages of the new technique by measuring higher performance, quality or other improving criteria. However, when searching for a modern drop-in replacement of a common procedure such as nuclei segmentation or shape quantification, users might be interested to see if the new approach delivers results similar to the old one. In this talk I will present established techniques for this task such as Bland-Altman analysis in the context of replacing common image analysis workflows with GPU-accelerated counterparts. This talk is loosely related to this publication: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-76394-7_5
Expansion under climate change: the genetic consequences
Creators: name: Garnier, Jimmy
name: Lewis, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Range expansion and range shifts are crucial population responses to climate change. Genetic consequences are not well understood but are clearly coupled to ecological dynamics that, in turn, are driven by shifting climate conditions. We model a population with a deterministic reaction-- diffusion model coupled to a heterogeneous environment that develops in time due to climate change. We decompose the resulting travelling wave solution into neutral genetic components to analyse the spatio-temporal dynamics of its genetic structure. Our analysis shows that range expansions and range shifts under slow climate change preserve genetic diversity. This is because slow climate change creates range boundaries that promote spatial mixing of genetic components. Mathematically , the mixing leads to so-called pushed travelling wave solutions. This mixing phenomenon is not seen in spatially homogeneous environments, where range expansion reduces genetic diversity through gene surfing arising from pulled travelling wave solutions. However, the preservation of diversity is diminished when climate change occurs too quickly. Using diversity indices, we show that fast expansions and range shifts erode genetic diversity more than slow range expansions and range shifts. Our study provides analytical insight into the dynamics of travelling wave solutions in heterogeneous environments.
Open educational resources and lessons plans for FAIR training
Creators: name: Kersloot, Martijn
name: Nylinder, Stephan
name: Jetten, Mijke
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: In 2021, the FAIRsFAIR teaching and training handbook was published, addressing competencies, teaching and training designs, and 16 lesson plans. Recently, in the CONVERGE project, the ELIXIR Nodes organised hackathons in collaboration with outside communities to further detail FAIR lesson plans. The plans aim to provide a consistent approach and workflow for FAIR data management training. Furthermore, they are focused on developing shared foundations and learning paths that are critical for long-term data quality sustainability, regardless of scientific discipline. Such an aim reaches well beyond the efforts of CONVERGE, and even beyond the scope of ELIXIR. The challenge now is to identify and incorporate existing and relevant training materials from national and local contexts into the lesson plans (including materials from beyond the life sciences domain).

 In this workshop, we will provide updates and discuss users' needs. We will also discuss integrating the outcomes from similar hackathon events by ELIXIR Nodes in the FAIR lesson plans (e.g., ELIXIR-NL and SE), with FAIR as a prominent driver, stimulating novel collaborations in data FAIRification training.
Rapidly convergent quasi-periodic Green functions for scattering by arrays of cylinders---including Wood anomalies
Creators: name: Bruno, Oscar P.
name: Fernandez-Lado, Agustin G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a full-spectrum Green function methodology (which is valid, in particular, at and around Wood-anomaly frequencies) for evaluation of scattering by periodic arrays of cylinders of arbitrary cross section-with application to wire gratings, particle arrays and reflectarrays and, indeed, general arrays of conducting or dielectric bounded obstacles under both TE and TM polarized illumination. The proposed method, which, for definiteness is demonstrated here for arrays of perfectly conducting particles under TE polarization, is based on use of the shifted Green-function method introduced in the recent contribution (Bruno and Delourme, Jour. Computat. Phys. pp. 262--290 (2014)). A certain infinite term arises at Wood anomalies for the cylinder-array problems considered here that is not present in the previous rough-surface case. As shown in this paper, these infinite terms can be treated via an application of ideas related to the Woodbury-Sherman-Morrison formulae. The resulting approach, which is applicable to general arrays of obstacles even at and around Wood-anomaly frequencies, exhibits fast convergence and high accuracies. For example, a few hundreds of milliseconds suffice for the proposed approach to evaluate solutions throughout the resonance region (wavelengths comparable to the period and cylinder sizes) with full single-precision accuracy.
Additional file 1 of Modeling algorithmic bias: simplicial complexes and evolving network topologies
Creators: name: Pansanella, Valentina
name: Rossetti, Giulio
name: Milli, Letizia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures for the average number of clusters and the average number of iterations at convergence with standard deviation values for the two models introduced in the present work.
Constraining Dust Extinction Properties via the VVV Survey
Creators: name: Majaess, D.
name: Turner, D.
name: Dekany, I.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Gieren, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Near-infrared color-excess and extinction ratios are essential for establishing the cosmic distance scale and probing the Galaxy, particularly when analyzing targets attenuated by significant dust. A robust determination of those ratios followed from leveraging new infrared observations from the VVV survey, wherein numerous bulge RR Lyrae and Type II Cepheids were discovered, in addition to $BVJHK_{s}(3.4\rightarrow22)μm$ data for classical Cepheids and O-stars occupying the broader Galaxy. The apparent optical color-excess ratios vary significantly with Galactic longitude ($\ell$), whereas the near-infrared results are comparatively constant with $\ell$ and Galactocentric distance ($\langle E(J-\overline{3.5μm})/E(J-K_s) \rangle =1.28\pm0.03$). The results derived imply that classical Cepheids and O-stars display separate optical trends ($R_{V,BV}$) with $\ell$, which appear to disfavor theories advocating a strict and marked decrease in dust size with increasing Galactocentric distance. The classical Cepheid, Type II Cepheid, and RR Lyrae variables are characterized by $\langle A_{J}/E(J-K_s) \rangle = \langle R_{J,JK_s} \rangle =1.49\pm0.05$ ($\langle A_{K_s}/A_J \rangle =0.33\pm0.02$), whereas the O-stars are expectedly impacted by emission beyond $3.6 μm$. The mean optical ratios characterizing classical Cepheids and O-stars are approximately $\langle R_{V,BV} \rangle \sim3.1$ and $\langle R_{V,BV} \rangle \sim3.3$, respectively.
description: To appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Additional file 1 of Associations of low handgrip strength and hand laterality with cognitive function and functional mobility – the Yishun Study
Creators: name: Chen, Kexun Kenneth
name: Lee, Shuen Yee
name: Pang, Benedict Wei Jun
name: Lau, Lay Khoon
name: Jabbar, Khalid Abdul
name: Seah, Wei Ting
name: Tou, Nien Xiang
name: Yap, Philip Lin Kiat
name: Ng, Tze Pin
name: Wee, Shiou-Liang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: e-Table 1. Associations between handgrip strength groups and specific RBANS subtests in older adults.
An application of runoff routing to urban areas
Creators: name: Crouch, Geoffrey I. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
A massive momentum-subtraction scheme
Creators: name: Boyle, Peter
name: Del Debbio, Luigi
name: Khamseh, Ava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new renormalization scheme is defined for fermion bilinears in QCD at non vanishing quark masses. This new scheme, denoted RI/mSMOM, preserves the benefits of the nonexceptional momenta introduced in the RI/SMOM scheme, and allows a definition of renormalized composite fields away from the chiral limit. Some properties of the scheme are investigated by performing explicit one-loop computation in dimensional regularization.
Assessment of Individual Investors' preference to Invest on the Shares of Ethiopian Insurance Share Companies; After IPO
Creators: name: Birhanie, Nadew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: A number of studies have been undertaken to identify the factors influencing individual investor's decision preference to invest in stock markets by considering specific factors of both financial and non-financial like social factor, cultural factors, psychological perception and others. This study aimed to investigate the determinant factors that influence individual investors' preference to invest on the shares of Ethiopian private insurance share companies. In Ethiopia t he number of private insurance companies is increasing from 8, in 2005, to 16 in 2015 which holds around 72 % of the market share of the insurance industry. The study deployed both primary and secondary data, the purpose of the secondary data is to supplement findings of the primary data. The primary data is about financial, social, cultural and psychological perception of individual shareholders which was obtained and analyzed through questionnaire from insurance companies shareholders and the secondary financial panel data covers the period from 2003 to 2014 pertaining to eight (8) Ethiopian insurance share companies about the profitability, leverage, firm size, general inflation of Ethiopia and one year lagged value of earning per share as possible determinant factors of individual investors' preference which is proxied by earning per share. The empirical results of both the primary data and the regression output of the secondary data revealed that financial, social, cultural and psychological factors have an impact on the investment decision preference of the individual investors. Accordingly investors recommended to look at insurance companies choices relative to comparable companies based on multiple factors of both financial and non-financial factors related to social, cultural, psychological, profitability, firm size with regard to total asset and other historical financial performances. In addition insurance companies should enlighten investors on the factors that are necessary to maximize their wealth in the capital market that will affect investors' investment decision. Key words: Insurance shareholders, investors' preference, non- financial factors
A Possible 55-day X-ray Period of the Ultraluminous Accreting Pulsar M82 X-2
Creators: name: Kong, A. K. H.
name: Hu, C. -P.
name: Lin, L. C. -C.
name: Li, K. L.
name: Jin, R.
name: Liu, C. Y.
name: Yen, D. C. -C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a possible detection of a 55-day X-ray modulation for the ultraluminous accreting pulsar M82 X-2 from archival Chandra observations. Because M82 X-2 is known to have a 2.5-day orbital period, if the 55-day period is real, it will be the superorbital period of the system. We also investigated variabilities of other three nearby ultraluminous X-ray sources in the central region of M82 with the Chandra data and did not find any evidence of periodicities. Furthermore, we re-examined the previously reported 62-day periodicity near the central region of M82 by performing a systematic timing study with all the archival Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer and Swift data. Using various dynamic timing analysis methods, we confirmed that the 62-day period is not stable, suggesting that it is not the orbital period of M82 X-1 in agreement with previous work.
description: 6 pages; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Characterizations and representations of core and dual core inverses
Creators: name: Chen, Jianlong
name: Zhu, Huihui
name: Patricio, Pedro
name: Zhang, Yulin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, double commutativity and the reverse order law for the core inverse are considered. Then, new characterizations of the Moore-Penrose inverse of a regular element are given by one-sided invertibilities in a ring. Furthermore, the characterizations and representations of the core and dual core inverses of a regular element are considered.
description: 19 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.4153/CMB-2016-045-7
Additional file 1 of ExerG: adapting an exergame training solution to the needs of older adults using focus group and expert interviews
Creators: name: Ringgenberg, Nathalie
name: Mildner, Sarah
name: Hapig, Marcia
name: Hermann, Sarah
name: Kruszewski, Katharina
name: Martin-Niedecken, Anna Lisa
name: Rogers, Katja
name: Schättin, Alexandra
name: Behrendt, Frank
name: Böckler, Sonja
name: Schmidlin, Stefan
name: Jurt, Roman
name: Niedecken, Stephan
name: Brenneis, Christian
name: Bonati, Leo H.
name: Schuster-Amft, Corina
name: Seebacher, Barbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Qualitative Research Review Guidelines (RATS) checklist, Completed RATS checklist with page number information of the main manuscript text.
The Cotton Bag Products Designs of the Silk and Cotton Weaving Group, Ban Ngua Ba, Nguaba Subdistrict, Wapi Pathum District, Maha Sarakham Province
Creators: name: Patchareeporn Yatniyom
Publisher: name: DR.KEN Institute of Academic Development and Promotion
Year: 2022
Subjects: Product Design
Bag Product
Hand-Woven Cotton Product

description: Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 2, 6, 753-766
Factors Influencing Usage of Mobile Banking In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gezahegn, Kalkidan
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate factors influencing the usage of mobile banking in Ethiopia. The study tries to build on two widely used models for technology adoption, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Innovation Diffusion Theory and to identify factors influencing customer's usage of mobile banking. A research model uses the TAM model and IDT model by integrating perceived risk, trust and awareness into the established models. This study was conducted based on the data gathered from customers of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and United Bank in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Survey was conducted using questionnaire. Out of 400 questionnaires that have been distributed, 383 were usable. The analysis of the data was done with the help of the SPSS and EViews. The research results found relative advantage, compatibility, perceived trust, perceived usefulness, and perceived risk as major influencing factors for mobile banking adoption whereas perceived ease of use and awareness were found to have insignificant effect on mobile banking usage for bank customers located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The study recommended banks to consider investing in campaigns and arranging information sessions to demonstrate the features of mobile banking services, and its benefits over traditional channels. Keywords: Mobile banking Usage, TAM, IDT, Perceived Trust, Perceived risk, Awareness
Representations of $p$-convolution algebras on $L^q$-spaces
Creators: name: Gardella, Eusebio
name: Thiel, Hannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a nontrivial locally compact group $G$, and $p\in [1,\infty)$, consider the Banach algebras of $p$-pseudofunctions, $p$-pseudomeasures, $p$-convolvers, and the full group $L^p$-operator algebra. We show that these Banach algebras are operator algebras if and only if $p=2$. More generally, we show that for $q\in [1,\infty)$, these Banach algebras can be represented on an $L^q$-space if and only if one of the following holds: (a) $p=2$ and $G$ is abelian; or (b) $|\frac 1p - \frac 12|=|\frac 1q - \frac 12|$. This result can be interpreted as follows: for $p,q\in [1,\infty)$, the $L^p$- and $L^q$-representation theories of a group are incomparable, except in the trivial cases when they are equivalent. As an application, we show that, for distinct $p,q\in [1,\infty)$, if the $L^p$ and $L^q$ crossed products of a topological dynamical system are isomorphic, then $\frac 1p + \frac 1q=1$. In order to prove this, we study the following relevant aspects of $L^p$-crossed products: existence of approximate identities, duality with respect to $p$, and existence of canonical isometric maps from group algebras into their multiplier algebras.
description: 31 pages
Additional file 2 of ExerG: adapting an exergame training solution to the needs of older adults using focus group and expert interviews
Creators: name: Ringgenberg, Nathalie
name: Mildner, Sarah
name: Hapig, Marcia
name: Hermann, Sarah
name: Kruszewski, Katharina
name: Martin-Niedecken, Anna Lisa
name: Rogers, Katja
name: Schättin, Alexandra
name: Behrendt, Frank
name: Böckler, Sonja
name: Schmidlin, Stefan
name: Jurt, Roman
name: Niedecken, Stephan
name: Brenneis, Christian
name: Bonati, Leo H.
name: Schuster-Amft, Corina
name: Seebacher, Barbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Standards for reporting qualitative research (SRQR) checklist, Completed SRQR checklist with page number information of the main manuscript text.
Reading between the lines of four-dimensional gauge theories
Creators: name: Aharony, Ofer
name: Seiberg, Nathan
name: Tachikawa, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting with a choice of a gauge group in four dimensions, there is often freedom in the choice of magnetic and dyonic line operators. Different consistent choices of these operators correspond to distinct physical theories, with the same correlation functions of local operators in R^4. In some cases these choices are permuted by shifting the theta-angle by 2pi. In other cases they are labeled by new discrete theta-like parameters. Using this understanding we gain new insight into the dynamics of four-dimensional gauge theories and their phases. The existence of these distinct theories clarifies a number of issues in electric/magnetic dualities of supersymmetric gauge theories, both for the conformal N=4 theories and for the low-energy dualities of N=1 theories.
description: 51 pages, 8 figures; v5: Figure 8 corrected
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: higher-order correlations revealed by germ-grain Minkowski Functionals
Creators: name: Wiegand, Alexander
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We probe the higher-order clustering of the galaxies in the final data release (DR12) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) using the method of germ-grain Minkowski Functionals (MFs). Our sample consists of 410,615 BOSS galaxies from the northern Galactic cap in the redshift range 0.450--0.595. We show the MFs to be sensitive to contributions up to the six-point correlation function for this data set. We ensure with a custom angular mask that the results are more independent of boundary effects than in previous analyses of this type. We extract the higher-order part of the MFs and quantify the difference to the case without higher-order correlations. The resulting $χ^{2}$ value of over 10,000 for a modest number of degrees of freedom, O(200), indicates a 100-sigma deviation and demonstrates that we have a highly significant signal of the non-Gaussian contributions to the galaxy distribution. This statistical power can be useful in testing models with differing higher-order correlations. Comparing the galaxy data to the QPM and MultiDark-Patchy mocks, we find that the latter better describes the observed structure. From an order-by-order decomposition we expect that, for example, already a reduction of the amplitude of the MD-Patchy mock power spectrum by 5% would remove the remaining tension.
description: 18 pages, 18 figures