cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Beliefs and Investment in Child Human Capital: Case Study from Benin
Creators: name: Sahawal Alidou
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Because of its far-reaching consequences on income, inequality, and welfare, a large economic literature has attempted to uncover the determinants of parental investment in children. So far, most studies in this literature have focused on child characteristics to explain inequalities in parental investment among siblings. As a complement, I investigate whether existing beliefs about child value affect how parents allocate resources among siblings. To test this hypothesis, I use the case of twins which are venerated and worshipped as deities in several parts of Africa. Based on Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from Benin, I find a twins preferential treatment in parental investment in child health. As this result survives various robustness checks and competing explanations, I explore its underlying mechanisms and discuss whether it should be interpreted as a behavioural anomaly or as the outcome of a rational cost-benefit calculus. Furthermore, a policy implication of my findings is that sustainable improvement of uptake of preventive health care in sub-Saharan Africa requires an increased attention to belief systems affecting parental investment in child health.
A Prospective Examination of How Alcohol Consumption Might Drive Changes in Urgency and Drinking Motives Over the First Year of College
Creators: name: Prestigiacomo, Christiana
Publisher: name: IUPUI University Library
Year: 2021
Subjects: alcohol consumption
drinking motives
urgency theory

description: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
description: Two impulsivity-related traits, negative and positive urgency (i.e., the tendency to act rashly in the face of extreme negative and positive emotions, respectively) are important risk factors for alcohol use escalation during college and for problematic and disordered level alcohol use, in part through increasing motives for alcohol use. The majority of research to date has focused on the causal direction from trait to motives to alcohol consumption. The goal of the current study was to conduct an initial test of how continued and escalating alcohol use may drive increases and shifts in positive and negative urgency, and how such changes drive subsequent increased drinking motives over the first year of college. Data were analyzed using an archival dataset of 418 first-year college students (age 18-21) enrolled in an introduction to psychology course at a large Midwestern university. Participants were sampled at three timepoints: at the beginning of the fall semester, the end of the fall semester, and the end of the spring semester. A series of hierarchical multiple regression and mediation analyses were used to test study hypotheses. Changes in alcohol use did not predict later changes in positive and negative urgency. Results did replicate previous research showing that changes in positive and negative urgency predicted later changes in drinking motives. Finally, there was some evidence that alcohol use at baseline predicted changes in enhancement drinking motives through changes in positive urgency; but this pattern was not seen with negative urgency. This work extends existing work with urgency theory, which has primarily focused on the effects of urgency on subsequent alcohol consumption and not the inverse. The fact that alcohol use drives subsequent changes in positive urgency and drinking motives can help to better identify mechanisms contributing increased risk for transition to problematic levels of alcohol consumption, can lead to better identification of those at risk for problematic alcohol use and can set the stage to better integrate urgency theory with other well-established alcohol risk models.
Barriers to trade and labour mobility in conflict-affected regions: an economy-wide analysis with applications to the Palestinian economy
Creators: name: Agbahey, Johanes Uriel Ibidjola
name: Agbahey, Johanes Uriel Ibidjola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade
Labor and Human Capital

description: Dissertation for the Completion of the Academic Degree "Doctor of Philosophy" (Ph.D.) submitted to the Faculty of Life Sciences at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. Supervising Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Harald Grethe
Towards 5D Grand Unification without SUSY Flavor Problem
Creators: name: Choi, Ki-Young
name: Kim, Jihn E.
name: Lee, Hyun Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the renormalization group approach to the SUSY flavor problem in the supersymmetric SU(5) model with one extra dimension. In higher dimensional SUSY gauge theories, it has been recently shown that power corrections due to the Kaluza-Klein states of gauge fields run the soft masses generated at the orbifold fixed point to flavor conserving values in the infra-red limit. In models with GUT breaking at the brane where the GUT scale can be larger than the compactification scale, we show that the addition of a bulk Higgs multiplet, which is necessary for the successful unification, is compatible with the flavor universality achieved at the compactification scale.
description: JHEP style file of 35 pages with 3 figures, Version to appear in JHEP
UTILIZATION OF E-RESOURCES BY FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF ENGINEERING COLLEGES IN COIMBATORE TAMIL NADU: A CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Thangiah, Raja
name: Swaminathan K S M
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Electronic resources are the vibrant tool for the higher education and research in all subjects including the Engineering discipline. The Number of e-resources packages are available in all the approved Engineering Colleges for references. This article deals with the utilization of e-resources among the faculty and students of Engineering Colleges in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Survey method questionnaire tool is adopted together with the data for the study. Among the 90 respondents, 55.56 percent of students and 44.46 percent of faculty members are assessing e-resources in the respective colleges. It is included that 22 (55.00%) E-journals are used by faculty and 20 (40.00%) are used by students.
Quantum Yang-Baxter equation, arbitrary gradings and exchange Hecke braidings
Creators: name: Marcinek, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalization of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation solutions to an arbitrary grading is studied. The noncommutative differential calculi corresponding to such solutions is considered. The connection with the ordinary and supersymmetric solutions of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation is given.
description: 14 pages, AmSLaTeX2e, see W. Marcinek (1952-2003) Memorial Page at http://www.math.uni-mannheim.de/~duplij/marcinek
Sufficient burn-in for Gibbs samplers for a hierarchical random effects model
Creators: name: Jones, Galin L.
name: Hobert, James P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J10 (Primary) 62F15 (Secondary)

description: We consider Gibbs and block Gibbs samplers for a Bayesian hierarchical version of the one-way random effects model. Drift and minorization conditions are established for the underlying Markov chains. The drift and minorization are used in conjunction with results from J. S. Rosenthal [J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 90 (1995) 558-566] and G. O. Roberts and R. L. Tweedie [Stochastic Process. Appl. 80 (1999) 211-229] to construct analytical upper bounds on the distance to stationarity. These lead to upper bounds on the amount of burn-in that is required to get the chain within a prespecified (total variation) distance of the stationary distribution. The results are illustrated with a numerical example.
Additional file 5 of Antiviral treatment perspective against Borna disease virus 1 infection in major depression: a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Dietrich, Detlef
name: Bode, Liv
name: Spannhuth, Carsten
name: Hecker, Hartmut
name: Ludwig, Hanns
name: Emrich, Hinderk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S2. Reported single adverse effects.
[Im]Permanence in Architecture : and the many lived experiences of a home
Creators: name: Norman, Monica
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: For most, the home is where our lives are cultivated. It is where we start our days and where we return to when we need comfort. Rooted in domestic space, this project considers the home a safe haven, where we feel stable and secure, and where we are able to be our most vulnerable selves. Our home reflects our inner being. It fosters our hopes and aspirations and grounds us in place. The utilitarian purpose of architecture is quite different from the metaphysical need of architecture. Typically designing in a functional space, the suppression of our emotions by architecture has hindered the user’s ability to create meaningful experiences that engage both the body and the mind. There is a divergence here that gives architects an opportunity to both ground the user in reality and uphold their thoughts and desires. This thesis argues that the home is not static. Spaces morph and change by projecting our emotions, thoughts, and memories back on to us. We experience that which is perceptible, whether it exists in reality or merely as a figment of our imagination. The house, then, is able to reside in the space between the material world and the imaginative realm. [Im]Permanence in Architecture operates at the intersection of what we take for granted and what we truly experience in a home. This project challenges the understanding of architecturally designed instances -- in the same home under differing external conditions -- as an investigation into how the impermanence of our inner being translates to a space that is perceivably not static. The physical space we occupy may have an aura of permanence and rootedness, but our memories, emotions, and imaginations carry with them an impermanence that allows us to experience space in new and meaningful ways.
Crystallization in a one-dimensional periodic landscape
Creators: name: Friedrich, Manuel
name: Stefanelli, Ulisse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the crystallization problem for a finite one-dimensional collection of identical hard spheres in a periodic energy landscape. This issue arises in connection with the investigation of crystalline states of ionic dimers, as well as in epitaxial growth on a crystalline substrate in presence of lattice mismatch. Depending on the commensurability of the radius of the sphere and the period of the landscape, we discuss the possible emergence of crystallized states. In particular, we prove that crystallization in arbitrarily long chains is generically not to be expected.
Faint Hard X-ray Sources in the Galactic Center Region: Supernova Ejecta Fragments Population
Creators: name: Bykov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long Chandra observations of 17 arcmin x 17 arcmin field in the Galactic Center (GC) region reported by Muno et. al. (2003) have revealed a population of about 2,000 hard faint X-ray sources limited by luminosities Lx > 10(31} erg/s. We show that fast moving knots (FMKs) of supernovae ejecta could comprise a sizeable fraction of the sources. Each supernova event can produce hundreds of FMKs. The presence of ~ 3 supernova remnants of age ~ 1,000 years in the GC region could provide the required number of the FMKs. Simulated X-ray spectra of the FMKs contain both thermal and nonthermal components. The nonthermal spectra are power-laws with hard photon indexes 0 < Gamma < 1.5 and prominent lines of some metals (e.g. Fe). The logN-logS distribution and the hardness ratios of the FMKs in the GC region are consistent with the Chandra findings. Spatial distribution of the FMKs in the GC region should appear as an ensemble of coherent shell and jet-like structures of a few arcmin-scale.
description: 4 pages, 1 Fig. Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters (in press)
Controllable simulation of topological phases and edge states with quantum walk
Creators: name: Panahiyan, S.
name: Fritzsche, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We simulate various topological phenomena in condense matter, such as formation of different topological phases, boundary and edge states, through two types of quantum walk with step-dependent coins. Particularly, we show that one-dimensional quantum walk with step-dependent coin simulates all types of topological phases in BDI family, as well as all types of boundary and edge states. In addition, we show that step-dependent coins provide the number of steps as a controlling factor over the simulations. In fact, with tuning number of steps, we can determine the occurrences of boundary, edge states and topological phases, their types and where they should be located. These two features make quantum walks versatile and highly controllable simulators of topological phases, boundary, edge states, and topological phase transitions. We also report on emergences of cell-like structures for simulated topological phenomena. Each cell contains all types of boundary (edge) states and topological phases of BDI family.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures. Matches published version
Магнитное поле
Creators: name: Табынбаев, Артур
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Магнитное поле
Электрическое поле

description: Электрическое и магнитное поле одно и тоже явление. Учёные для более доступного понимания подали людям разные названия. В электрической цепи изменяем направление движения заряженных частиц.
The Effects of Domestic and International Remittances on Food Insecurity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Creators: name: Smith, Michael D.
name: Floro, Maria S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Despite food insecurity being a key policy priority for aid organisations and governments around the world, the effects of remittances on food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries are largely unknown. Using data from the 2014–15 waves of the Gallup World Poll, and the first global experiential measure of food insecurity, we examine the impacts of receiving domestic, international, and both (domestic and international) remittances on individual-level food insecurity in 92 low- and middle-income countries. We estimate a series of endogenous multinomial treatment effects models, using both two-stage residual inclusion and maximum simulated likelihood methods. Results show domestic and international remittances have differential impacts on the probability of being food insecure. Controlling for endogeneity, we find that domestic, international, and combinations of both remittances decrease food insecurity. However, international remittances have a much greater impact than domestic remittances. Results also show heterogeneous effects of remittances across economic development rankings, where remittances provide greater protection against experiencing food insecurity in lower-income countries than in middle-income countries. These findings highlight the importance of migration and remittance flows as mechanisms for reducing food insecurity. This has potentially important policy implications for those seeking to reduce global hunger to achieve the SDG targets.
A possible supersymmetric solution to the discrepancy between B -> ϕK_S and B -> η' K_S CP asymmetries
Creators: name: Khalil, S.
name: Kou, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a possible supersymmetric solution to the discrepancy between the observed mixing CP asymmetries in B -> ϕK_S and B -> η' K_S. We show that due to the different parity in the final states of these processes, their supersymmetric contributions from the R-sector have an opposite sign, which naturally explain the large deviation between S_{ϕK_S} and S_{η' K_S}. We also consider the proposed mechanisms to solve the puzzle of the observed large branching ratio of B -> η' K and study their impact on S_{eta' K_S}.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Aquilegia C.Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Bacchetta, Gianluigi
name: Brullo, Salvatore
name: Congiu, Angelino
name: Fenu, Giuseppe
name: Garrido, José Luis
name: Mattana, Efisio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Aquilegia

description: Key to the species of Aquilegia from Sardinia
 1. Pedicel curved at anthesis, perianth white to white-pinkish, sepals lanceolate 5 – 8 mm wide ............... A. barbaricina
 - Pedicel erect at anthesis, perianth cerulean to blue-violet, sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate 9 – 14 mm wide.............. 2
 2. Stems and petioles glabrous to glandular-puberulous, spur 11 – 13 mm long .............................................. A. nuragica
 - Stems and petioles pubescent, spur 14 – 20 mm long.................................................................................................... 3
 3. Perianth cerulean, petal blade 8 – 12 × 5 – 9 mm, spur straight and curved at apex ................................... A. nugorensis
 - Perianth blue-violet, petal blade 12 – 16 × 10 – 13 mm, spur curved and uncinated at apex .................... A. cremnophila
description: Published as part of Bacchetta, Gianluigi, Brullo, Salvatore, Congiu, Angelino, Fenu, Giuseppe, Garrido, José Luis & Mattana, Efisio, 2012, A new species of Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) from Sardinia (Italy), pp. 59-64 in Phytotaxa 56 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.56.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/5061273
Vaisselle
Creators: name: Perron, Vincent
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: I began the project trying to define reality, understand what is real, if anything is. It is different for each of us. There are no absolutes. Our perception of reality is continuously redefined by the moment we just lived… Each current moment is the closest a person is to some reality, until the moment passes and becomes a memory, a mental image of that past moment. Anyway, that is the closest I had gotten to a conclusion… - During those investigations, a good friend of mine told me to have a look at Sandy Island. She said that for some reason the Island had an ambiguous existence and a strange cult following...
A Simple Model of Energy Threshold for Snowball Chambers
Creators: name: Szydagis, M.
name: Levy, C.
name: Bolotnikov, A. E.
name: Diwan, M. V.
name: Homenides, G. J.
name: Kamaha, A. C.
name: Martin, J.
name: Rosero, R.
name: Yeh, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cloud and bubble chambers have historically been used for particle detection, capitalizing on supersaturation and superheating, respectively. Here we present new results from a prototype snowball chamber, in which an incoming particle triggers crystallization of a purified, supercooled liquid. We demonstrate, for the first time, simulation agreement with our first results from 5 years ago: the higher temperature of the freezing of water and significantly shorter time spent supercooled with respect to control in the presence of a Cf-252 fission neutron source. This is accomplished by combining Geant4 modeling of neutron interactions with the Seitz nucleation model used in superheated bubble chambers, including those seeking dark matter. We explore the possible implications of using this new technology for GeV-scale WIMP searches, especially in terms of spin-dependent proton coupling, and report the first supercooling of WbLS (water-based liquid scintillator).
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, 4 equations, and 48 references. Submitted to the Universe special collection on dark matter
MaNGA AGN dwarf galaxies (MAD) -- I. A new sample of AGN in dwarf galaxies with spatially resolved spectroscopy
Creators: name: Mezcua, M.
name: Sánchez, H. Domínguez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The finding of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in dwarf galaxies has important implications for galaxy evolution and supermassive black hole formation models. Yet, how AGN in dwarf galaxies form is still debated, in part due to scant demographics. We make use of the MaNGA survey, comprising $\sim$10,000 galaxies at z $<$ 0.15, to identify AGN dwarf galaxies using a spaxel by spaxel classification in three spatially-resolved emission line diagnostic diagrams (the [NII-, [SII]- and [OI]-BPT) and the WHAN diagram. This yields a sample of 664 AGN dwarf galaxies, the largest to date, and an AGN fraction of $\sim20\%$ that is significantly larger than that of single-fiber-spectroscopy studies (i.e. $\sim1\%$). This can be explained by the lower bolometric luminosity ($< 10^{42}$ erg s$^{-1}$) and accretion rate (sub-Eddington) of the MaNGA AGN dwarf galaxies. We additionally identify 1,176 SF-AGN (classified as star-forming in the [NII]-BPT but as AGN in the [SII]- and [OI]-BPT), 122 Composite, and 173 LINER sources. The offset between the optical center of the galaxy and the median position of the AGN spaxels is more than 3 arcsec for $\sim$62\% of the AGN, suggesting that some could be off-nuclear. We also identify seven new broad-line AGN with log $M_\mathrm{BH}$ = 5.0 - 5.9 $M_\mathrm{\odot}$. Our results show how integral-field spectroscopy is a powerful tool for uncovering faint and low-accretion AGN and better constraining the demographics of AGN in dwarf galaxies.
description: 18 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 4 of Crosstalk in the darkness: bulb vernalization activates meristem transition via circadian rhythm and photoperiodic pathway
Creators: name: Michael, Tomer Ben
name: Faigenboim, Adi
name: Shemesh-Mayer, Einat
name: Forer, Itzhak
name: Gershberg, Chen
name: Hadass Shafran
name: Rabinowitch, Haim
name: Kamenetsky-Goldstein, Rina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. List of primers designed for qRT-PCR validation. Garlic homologs of actin (AY821677), tubulin (AY148156), and NADH (TRINITY_DN98625_c0_g3) served as reference genes for data normalization and calculation of relative amounts of mRNA in the studied samples.
A spectroscopic, photometric, polarimetric and radio study of the eclipsing polar UZ Fornacis: the first simultaneous SALT and MeerKAT observations
Creators: name: Khangale, Zwidofhelangani N.
name: Potter, Stephen B.
name: Woudt, Patrick A.
name: Buckley, David A. H.
name: Semena, Andrey N.
name: Kotze, Enrico J.
name: Groenewald, Danièl N.
name: Hewitt, Dante M.
name: Pretorius, Margaretha L.
name: Fender, Rob P.
name: Groot, Paul
name: Bloemen, Steven
name: Klein-Wolt, Marc
name: Körding, Elmar
name: Poole, Rudolf Le
name: McBride, Vanessa A.
name: Townsend, Lee
name: Paterson, Kerry
name: Pieterse, Danielle L. A.
name: Vreeswijk, Paul M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present phase-resolved spectroscopy, photometry and circular spectropolarimetry of the eclipsing polar UZ Fornacis. Doppler tomography of the strongest emission lines using the inside-out projection revealed the presence of three emission regions: from the irradiated face of the secondary star, the ballistic stream and the threading region, and the magnetically confined accretion stream. The total intensity spectrum shows broad emission features and a continuum that rises in the blue. The circularly polarized spectrum shows the presence of three cyclotron emission harmonics at $\sim$4500 Å, 6000 Å and 7700 Å, corresponding to harmonic numbers 4, 3, and 2, respectively. These features are dominant before the eclipse and disappear after the eclipse. The harmonics are consistent with a magnetic field strength of $\sim$57 MG. We also present phase-resolved circular and linear photopolarimetry to complement the spectropolarimetry around the times of eclipse. MeerKAT radio observations show a faint source which has a peak flux density of 30.7 $\pm$ 5.4 $μ$Jy/beam at 1.28 GHz at the position of UZ For.
description: Accepted on MNRAS
Additional file 3 of Antiviral treatment perspective against Borna disease virus 1 infection in major depression: a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Dietrich, Detlef
name: Bode, Liv
name: Spannhuth, Carsten
name: Hecker, Hartmut
name: Ludwig, Hanns
name: Emrich, Hinderk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Overall clinical response.
Creating a State Brand: A Brand and Branding Serbia
Creators: name: Cvijanovic, Drago
name: Simic, Natasa
name: Vukotic, Svetlana
name: Cvijanovic, Drago
name: Simic, Natasa
name: Vukotic, Svetlana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: brand
subject: state
subject: branding
subject: strategies

description: The states make different attempts to attract more tourists, foreign investors, develop the international partnerships, stimulate export, make better position for their products and services, but also to position and impose itself more efficiently, meaningful and innovative, by the personally recognizable brands, to the international environment. Aiming at this, it is not only necessary to devote oneself to branding of a country, but to do it in a way that significantly differs from others, which initially favours the positive branding of the country. The subject of this paper is to analyse the significance of state branding and measuring the state position as a brand, as in the case of Serbia. For Serbia as a brand, there are characteristic numerous efforts on its positioning, but also numerous obstacles that are on that way.
Haptic Teleoperation of UAVs through Control Barrier Functions
Creators: name: Zhang, Dawei
name: Yang, Guang
name: Khurshid, Rebecca P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel approach to haptic teleoperation. Specifically, we use control barrier functions (CBFs) to generate force feedback to help human operators safely fly quadrotor UAVs. CBFs take a control signal as input and output a control signal that is as close as possible to the initial control signal, while also meeting specified safety constraints. In the proposed method, we generate haptic force feedback based on the difference between a command issued by the human operator and the safe command returned by a CBF. In this way, if the user issues an unsafe control command, the haptic feedback will help guide the user towards the safe input command that is closest to their current command. We conducted a within-subject user study, in which 12 participants flew a simulated UAV in a virtual hallway environment. Participants completed the task with our proposed CBF-based haptic feedback, no haptic feedback, and haptic feedback generated via parametric risk fields, which is a state-of-the-art method described in the literature. The results of this study show that CBF-based haptic feedback can improve a human operator's ability to safely fly a UAV and reduce the operator's perceived workload, without sacrificing task efficiency.
Particles of generalized statistics, quantum logic and categories
Creators: name: Marcinek, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A collection of brilliant and original unfinished ideas by Wladyslaw Marcinek (1952-2003) in particle interactions, categorical approach to generalized statistics, qubits and quantum logic, entwined operators, cobordisms and noncommutative Fock space.
description: 26 pages, AmSLaTeX2e, see W. Marcinek (1952-2003) Memorial Page at http://www.math.uni-mannheim.de/~duplij/marcinek
The origin of pulsating ultra-luminous X-ray sources: Low- and intermediate-mass X-ray binaries containing neutron star accretors
Creators: name: Misra, Devina
name: Fragos, Tassos
name: Tauris, Thomas
name: Zapartas, Emmanouil
name: Aguilera-Dena, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are those X-ray sources located away from the centre of their host galaxy with luminosities exceeding the Eddington limit of a stellar-mass black hole ($L_X>10^{39}\;{\rm erg\,s}^{-1}$). The discovery of X-ray pulsations in some of these objects (e.g. M82~X-2) suggests that a certain fraction of the ULX population may have a neutron star accretor. We present systematic modelling of low- and intermediate-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs and IMXBs; donor-star mass range $0.92$--$8.0$~M$_{\odot}$ and neutron-star accretors) to explain the formation of this sub-population of ULXs. Using MESA, we explored the allowed initial parameter space of binary systems consisting of a neutron star and a low- or intermediate-mass donor star that could explain the observed properties of ULXs. Our simulations take into account beaming effects, stellar rotation, general angular momentum losses, and a detailed and self-consistent calculation of the mass-transfer rate. We study the conditions that lead to dynamical stability of these systems, which depends strongly on the response of the donor star to mass loss. Using two values for the initial neutron star mass ($1.3$~M$_{\odot}$ and $2.0$~M$_{\odot}$), we present two sets of mass-transfer calculation grids. We find that LMXBs/IMXBs can produce NS-ULXs with typical time-averaged isotropic-equivalent X-ray luminosities of $10^{39}$--$10^{41}\;{\rm erg\,s}^{-1}$ on a timescale up to $\sim\!1.0\;{\rm Myr}$ for the lower luminosities. We also estimate their likelihood of detection, the types of white-dwarf remnants left behind by the donors, and the total amount of mass accreted by the neutron stars. We also compare our results to the observed pulsating ULXs. Our results suggest that a large subset of the observed pulsating ULX population can be explained by LMXBs/IMXBs undergoing a super-Eddington mass-transfer phase.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures, Accepted by A&A. Parameter space was increased to include low-mass XRBs and corresponding changes made to the text (including the title) and figures 4, 6-11. Changed axes for figures 1 and 2. Fixed typos and updated references. Added arguments about why spin period is not an accurate reflection of mass accretion rate in the introduction
title: The Social Construction of Quality Diabetes Care Appointments in Primary Care by Adults with Mild-to-Moderate Learning Disabilities, Their Supporters and Healthcare Professionals
Creators: name: Rouse, Lorna Jane
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2020

description: Questions have been raised over the quality of healthcare including primary care diabetes services for adults with learning disabilities. Despite numerous proposals and policies aimed at improving the quality of healthcare services for people with learning disabilities, little is known about what constitutes quality care from the perspective of key stakeholders. This thesis aimed to: i) explore the social construction of ‘quality care’ in terms of diabetes primary care appointments by adults with mild-to-moderate learning disabilities, those who support their diabetes management and healthcare professionals; ii) reveal any similarities and differences in the ways in which these different stakeholders constructed quality care; and iii) explore the social construction of responsibility for the provision of quality diabetes care appointments for this population. A discursive psychological analysis was conducted on twenty semi-structured interviews: eight adults with mild-to-moderate learning disabilities and diabetes, seven supporters and five healthcare professionals. The research demonstrated that different stakeholders drew on some common ideas to construct quality diabetes care appointments, notably that appointments should fulfil their purpose, stakeholders should fulfil their respective roles and responsibilities and that successful appointments are informed by medical and/or experiential knowledge. Stakeholders also drew on differential repertoires around the relationship between independence and quality diabetes care and practicalities and constraints in the provision of quality diabetes care. Different stakeholders were constructed as having different responsibilities. People with learning disabilities were often positioned as having a limited level of responsibility whilst others were positioned as accountable. Quality care was flexibly constructed to perform identity management for the speaker, to attribute responsibility and to justify care which deviated from recommended quality guidance for diabetes care. Likewise, responsibility for quality care was flexibly taken up and attributed. The findings of this thesis have implications for ongoing discussions about the nature of quality care for people with learning disabilities in diabetes services and beyond.
Time-modulated phased array controlled with nonideal bipolar squared periodic sequences
Creators: name: Maneiro-Catoira, R.
name: Brégains, J.
name: García-Naya, José A.
name: Castedo, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Bipolar (+/-1) sequences with no zero state suit particularly well for safeguarding the switched feeding network efficiency when applied to time-modulated arrays (TMAs). During the zero state of a conventional time-modulating sequence, if a given array element is switched off, a certain amount of energy of the transmitted/received signal is wasted. We propose a novel single sideband time-modulated phased array (TMPA) architecture governed by realistic bipolar squared sequences in which the rise/fall time of the switches is considered. By using single-pole dual-throw switches and non-reconfigurable passive devices, the TMPA exploits, exclusively, the first positive harmonic pattern while exhibiting an excellent performance in terms of efficiency and control level of the undesired harmonics without using synthesis optimization algorithms (software simplicity).
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Potentilla acutiloba Christenh. & Vare 2012, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.
name: Väre, Henry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rosaceae
Potentilla
Potentilla acutiloba

description: Potentilla acutiloba (Opiz) Christenh. & Väre, comb. nov.
 Basionym: Alchemilla acutiloba Opiz in Berchtold & Opiz (1838: 15).
 Heterotypic synonyms: Alchemilla vulgaris Linnaeus (1753: 123), nom. ambig., non Potentilla vulgaris Kitt, A. acutangula Buser.
description: Published as part of Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. & Väre, Henry, 2012, New combinations in Potentilla (Rosaceae) for the Nordic Flora, pp. 1-5 in Phytotaxa 57 (1) on page 2, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5061285
Leading Activity of Executive Power in Domain of Subsidiary Legislation- Decrees and Their Categorization
Creators: name: Rapajic, Milan
name: Puric, Sveto
name: Savic-Bozic, Dijana
name: Rapajic, Milan
name: Puric, Sveto
name: Savic-Bozic, Dijana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: executive power
subject: regulations
subject: categorization
subject: constitutional system of Serbia

description: The central theme of this paper is theoretical consideration of the concept of regulations and their classification. The regulations are the general legal acts of the executive branch, which, by special procedure, are adopted by these bodies.It can be a government (in a parliamentary system) or a head of state (in the presidential and some semi-presidential systems). In most legal systems on the hierarchical scale of the regulation, they are placed under the constitution and laws, and above other by-laws. It is possible to differentiate law enforcement regulations (these are general and executive regulations) as well as regulations on the need. Instead of the conclusion, the authors pay attention to the concept and categorization of regulations in the constitutional system of Serbia.
Mean squared error of empirical predictor
Creators: name: Das, Kalyan
name: Jiang, Jiming
name: Rao, J. N. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F12, 62J99 (Primary)

description: The term ``empirical predictor'' refers to a two-stage predictor of a linear combination of fixed and random effects. In the first stage, a predictor is obtained but it involves unknown parameters; thus, in the second stage, the unknown parameters are replaced by their estimators. In this paper, we consider mean squared errors (MSE) of empirical predictors under a general setup, where ML or REML estimators are used for the second stage. We obtain second-order approximation to the MSE as well as an estimator of the MSE correct to the same order. The general results are applied to mixed linear models to obtain a second-order approximation to the MSE of the empirical best linear unbiased predictor (EBLUP) of a linear mixed effect and an estimator of the MSE of EBLUP whose bias is correct to second order. The general mixed linear model includes the mixed ANOVA model and the longitudinal model as special cases.
Labour Market Participation of Women in Rural Bangladesh: The Role of Microfinance
Creators: name: Asadul Islam
name: Debayan Pakrashi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Using a large panel dataset on the labour supply behaviours of women and men within households in rural Bangladesh, we find robust evidence that the effects of microfinance on the labour supply are not symmetrical for women and men across different occupations. We also find that giving households access to microfinance helps to smooth out the seasonality in the labour supply via on-farm self-employment-based activities. Within households, the male members’ participation in off-farm activities increased significantly, while the women’s improved but still remained at a low level. Overall, the results suggest that microfinance improves labour market activities for men more than for women, even though the credit is targeted mainly at women.
Service Delivery: A Mitigation Measure to Resolving Inter-Communal Cleavages
Creators: name: Odia, Lucky Osaretin
name: Odia, Lucky Osaretin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Capabilities
subject: Conflict
subject: Power
subject: Rivalry
subject: Political Leadership

description: The desire to eliminating inequality in society is a better measure in assessing leadership pattern as being functional or failed in relation to service delivery capability. Quality service delivery – educational, access road, potable/piped water supply, health facilities, and the likes - are mitigation measures in redressing intra and inter-communal cleavages while the absence of quality/passive service would continually aggravate tension/unrest among people who hitherto lived together as brothers for decades. The paper examined the role of genuine service delivery measure in mitigating inter and intra-communal cleavages exploring Nigeria’s/ other third world nations experience. This paper is of the view that when you have a set of jokers as leaders and jokers as commentators on public discourse in society, the situation of the ordinary man in the street becomes much more precarious and more precarious where those entrusted with public funds/ responsibilities celebrate failure and mindlessness rather than remorse openly for their ineptitude. The people must learn to understand the intrigues of the politicians whose stock in trade is trading on the interest and future of the people they claim to represent. This reorientation call becomes more imperative in view of the growing distance between the group known as the led and leaders in our society.
Transformation of Ivan Stojanovic's Thought: Before and After Yugoslavian and Serbian Transisiton
Creators: name: Peric, Mladen R.
name: Losonc, Alpar
name: Peric, Mladen R.
name: Losonc, Alpar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Ivan Stojanović
subject: market
subject: state
subject: transition
subject: socialism
subject: self-governed socialism
subject: privatization
subject: neoliberal model
subject: market capitalisation.

description: As the title of this paper implies, we will analyze transformation and evolution of Ivan Stojanović’s thought. The goal will be to juxstapose his ideas and approaches before and after transition in Yugoslavia and Serbia. By (re)reading his books and papers, we came to conclusion that he underwent transformation in attitude towards market, state, socialism, capitalism, privatization, transition, financial markets, etc., along the lines of prevailing intelectual current of that times, but, due to his theoretical sophistication, he never became market fundamentalist.
The extra-galactic Cepheid distance scale from LMC and Galactic period-luminosity relations
Creators: name: Kanbur, S. M.
name: Ngeow, C.
name: Nikolaev, S.
name: Tanvir, N. R.
name: Hendry, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we recalibrate the Cepheid distance to some nearby galaxies observed by the HST Key Project (KP) and the Sandage-Tammann-Saha (STS) group. We use much of the KP methodology in our analysis but apply new techniques, based on Fourier methods to estimate the mean magnitudes to published Cepheid data. We also apply different calibrating PL relations to estimate Cepheid distances, and investigate the sensitivity of the distance moduli to the adopted calibrating PL relation. We re-determine the OGLE LMC PL relations using a more conservative approach and also study the effect of using Galactic PL relations on the distance scale. For the KP galaxies, we find good agreement with an average discrepancy of -0.002 and 0.075mag. when using the LMC and Galaxy, respectively, as a calibrating PL relation. However, the Cepheid distance to STS galaxies are shorter by -0.178mag. and -0.108mag. on average again when using the LMC and Galaxy PL relations, respectively. We also calculate the distance to these galaxies using PL relations at maximum light and find very good agreement with mean light PL distances. However, after correcting for metallicity effects, the difference between the distance moduli obtained using the two sets of calibrating PL relations becomes negligible. This suggests that Cepheids in the LMC and Galaxy do follow different PL relations, at least at the median periods of the target galaxies.
description: 21 pages, 14 tables, 9 figures, A&A accepted
Rural Roads, Poverty, and Resilience: Evidence from Ethiopia
Creators: name: Nakamura, Shohei
name: Bundervoet, Tom
name: Nuru, Mohammed
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study analyses the linkage between the recent rural road development and household welfare, resilience, and economic conditions in Ethiopia. The empirical approach relies on a difference-in-differences matching method, taking advantage of a nationally representative household survey and an original road database, both of which are panel data spanning the period 2012–2016. The results of the econometric analysis suggest that Ethiopia’s rural road development was associated with a significant increase in household welfare or significant smaller losses in household consumption during the severe droughts. In addition, rural roads in very remote areas were associated with farmers’ sales of a larger share of their harvests and higher chance of fertiliser use. Rural road development was also associated with a higher likelihood of earning income from wage employment, particularly for women and youth. Taken together, the results suggest that, by connecting remote communities to markets and the main road network, rural roads have substantially supported the welfare and resilience of rural households in shock-prone Ethiopia.