cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Final version of the ETHNA System Guide. Deliverable 6.2.
Creators: name: Esteban, Elsa González
name: Feenstra, Ramón A.
name: Calvo, Patrici
name: García-Marzà, Domingo
name: Fernández-Beltrán, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ethical governance
compliance
ETHNA System
research
innovation
research management

description: This deliverable includes the finalised version of the ETHNA System Concept, a guide that was used for the
 implementation of the system by the 6 organisations involved in the living lab experiment. The current version
 was updated based on the findings gained during the implementation phase developed all along 2022 by all
 6 organisations, as well as during the evaluation of the inception of the ETHNA System project and its
 implementation.
 This deliverable serves as a guide to the ethical governance of RRI in research and innovation performing
 organisations (RPOs) and research funding organisations (RFOs). The guide includes relevant information
 concerning the nature of the ETHNA System, the method of embracing and implementing its potential set of
 guidance tools (ethics committee, code of ethics and best practices, ethics hotline and indicators, coupled
 with a supporting structure built upon an RRI office(r)), as well as a toolbox with ‘ready-to-use’ examples that
 may be of help to organisations to develop, implement and maintain the ETHNA System in some stages of
 the process.
 This guide also provides useful advice on some aspects that need to be taken into consideration prior to
 starting the process of adopting an ethics governance system for RRI. The advice is useful for RPO’s as
 much as for RFO’s, as it is based not only on scientific evidence but also on practical experience.
Realization of Gain with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency System with Non-degenerate Zeeman Sublevels in $^{87}$Rb
Creators: name: Zhou, Minchuan
name: Zhou, Zifan
name: Shahriar, Selim M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previously, we had proposed an optically-pumped five-level Gain EIT (GEIT) system, which has a transparency dip superimposed on a gain profile and exhibits a negative dispersion suitable for the white-light-cavity signal-recycling (WLC-SR) scheme of the interferometeric gravitational wave detector [Phys. Rev. D. 92, 082002 (2015)]. Using this system as the negative dispersion medium (NDM) in the WLC-SR, we get an enhancement in the quantum noise (QN) limited sensitivity-bandwidth product by a factor of ~18. Here, we show how to realize this GEIT system in a realistic platform, using non-degenerate Zeeman sublevels in alkali atoms. Specifically we choose $^{87}$Rb atoms, which produce the negative dispersion around 795nm. The current LIGO operates at 1064nm but future LIGO may operate at a wavelength that is consistent with this atomic system. We present a theoretical analysis for the susceptibilities of the system. To account for the QN from the GEIT system, it is necessary to use the master equation (ME) approach. However, due to the number of energy levels involved, applying the full ME approach to this system is very complex. We have also shown earlier, in the reference cited above, that under GEIT condition, the net enhancement in the sensitivity-bandwidth product, as predicted by the ME, is close to that predicted by applying the Caves model for a phase-insensitive linear amplifier. Therefore we here use the Caves model for the QN from the NDM and this simplified numerical model shows that the enhancement of the sensitivity-bandwidth product as high as 17 is possible.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Thermomechanical characterisation of the internal state of metals
Creators: name: Rajic, N.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Making up Problems: International Non-Governmental Organizations and Girls’ Domestic Work in Madagascar
Creators: name: Hallard, Valentine
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022

description: In Madagascar, child domestic work is a long-standing and widespread practice. Previously ignored in global discussions on child labor, since the 2010s, the domestic work performed by girls has gained substantial attention among international organizations and (I)NGOs and has been redefined as a form of exploitation. While there has been extensive research on the different conceptions of childhood that intertwine in shaping child labor, there has been little consideration for the problematization of child labor at a particular moment in time. In this paper, I argue that understanding the sudden interest in girls’ domestic work requires first considering how it has been problematized. Drawing from Foucault’s concept of problematization, I show that the reframing of girls’ domestic work as a form of exploitation in the ILO report (2012) and (I)NGOs’ discourses is embedded in broader social, economic, and political dynamics. As global discourses and intermediaries condemn the work performed by girls, they define certain factors – education, family, culture, commodification, and poverty – as objects of knowledge and power. In particular, global discourses on girls’ domestic work shift the attention away from substantive drivers of poverty and associate child suffering with local forms of kinship and cultural practices. These discourses have the effect of controlling young women’s bodies, material desires, movement, and kinship relations while benefiting local intermediaries, who position themselves as an emerging middle-class. In so doing, they disconnect children from their family and community, thus enhancing their social and economic disadvantage.
How Efficiently are the Ethiopian MFIs Extending Financial Services to the Poor? A Comparison with the Commercial Banks
Creators: name: Atnafu, Hundanol
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2010

description: This study investigates how efficiently the MFIs are extending the frontier of financial intermediation by comparing their cost efficiency with that of the commercial banks using an unbalanced panel data of 21 firms (14 MFIs and 7 commercial banks) in Ethiopia over the period 2001-2008. The study used both non-structural and structural approaches to efficiency measurement. The non-structural approach is based on the interest rate margin analysis, while the structural approach utilizes the stochastic frontier technique to estimate the cost efficiency of the MFIs and commercial banks. Both approaches resulted in same finding that the intermediation efficiency of the Ethiopian MFIs is by far less than that of the conventional commercial banks. Especially, the result from the stochastic frontier estimation (in which the heterogeneities in the working environments have been controlled for) indicates that the Ethiopian MFIs are, on average, 29.8 percent less cost efficient than the commercial banks. Hence, the efficiency gap is not attributed to differences in the working environments between the two groups. However, the study indicates that some of the MFIs such as ACSI, SFPI and DECSI have cost efficiency scores comparable to the commercial banks. Despite this wide gap, the study notes that there is a more or less fast tendency for convergence between the cost efficiency of the two groups. Age of firm, branch networks, average loan size, average deposit size, risk-taking tendency, the share of commercial funds in the total outstanding loans and flexibility in lending scheme are found to enhance cost efficiency of the financial intermediaries, while firm size and market concentration are found to adversely affect cost efficiency. Lastly, the study recommends that the firms should introduce flexibility in their lending scheme (especially for the commercial banks), should avoid excessive risk-aversion, and focus on commercial funds as a major source of loanable fund. Also, the regulators should work towards creating a more competitive market and keeping regulations dynamic enough to make them in line with changing socio-economic settings to enhance the cost efficiency of the financial intermediaries in Ethiopia.
Self-Organization and the World: 1960-1973
Creators: name: Hancock, Maxfield
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022

description: Friedrich von Hayek and Stafford Beer met exactly once, at the “1960 Symposium on the Principles of Self-Organization,” hosted by the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Beer, best known for engineering socialist Chile’s CYBERSYN project, and Hayek, the neoliberal thought leader, were joined in the belief that safeguarding human liberty would require globe-spanning institutions to buttress a self-organizing world economy, which both thinkers conceived of in biological terms. The transactions of the 1960 symposium reached the Polish intellectual and fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, who advocated for a novel type of world information economy, neither socialist nor capitalist, which nevertheless bore a striking resemblance to the visions articulated on both sides of the iron curtain by Beer and by Hayek. To identify the features that made self-organization appealing to a cohort as ideologically incoherent as Beer, Hayek, and Lem, I delve into the historical epistemology of emergence. I argue that thinking self-organization required an epistemic system of resemblance, which made the world an available category of analysis and biological metaphors a useful analytics. I uncover proposed alternatives to neoliberal market governance and cast Austrian neoliberals’ own proposals in a strange, new light.
Fluidization characteristics of nanoparticle agglomerates
Creators: name: Rahman, Farhana
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Die theologische Bedeutung der Erwähnung von "Māsîaḥ/Christós" in den Pseudepigraphen des Alten Testaments palästinischen Ursprungs
Creators: name: Wittlieb, Marian
Publisher: name: Biblische Notizen
Year: 1970

description: Biblische Notizen, Bd. 50 (1989): Biblische Notizen, Band 50
Bericht über die Tätigkeit der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in der Zeit vom 1. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2019
Creators: name: Bánffy, Eszter
name: Hofmann, Kerstin P.
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: –
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
MPEC 2023-S113 : 2021 SZ4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Dr. Maria Bersu: Kunsthistorikerin, Topographin, Köchin, Gattin und Freundin. Eine Skizze ihres Lebens, nach Dokumenten und Erinnerungen
Creators: name: Braun-Holzinger, Eva Andrea
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Rotating and accelerating black holes with cosmological constant
Creators: name: Chen, Yu
name: Ng, Cheryl
name: Teo, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new form of the rotating C-metric with cosmological constant, which generalises the form found by Hong and Teo for the Ricci-flat case. This solution describes the entire class of spherical black holes undergoing rotation and acceleration in dS or AdS space-time. The new form allows us to identify the complete ranges of coordinates and parameters of this solution. We perform a systematic study of its geometrical and physical properties, and of the various limiting cases that arise from it.
description: 36 pages, 5 figures; v2: references added; as accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Size consistency in Smoothed Dissipative Particle Dynamics
Creators: name: Faure, G.
name: Roussel, J.
name: Maillet, J. -B.
name: Stoltz, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Smoothed Dissipative Particle Dynamics (SDPD) is a mesoscopic method which allows to select the level of resolution at which a fluid is simulated. In this work, we study the consistency of the resulting thermodynamic properties as a function of the size of the mesoparticles, both at equilibrium and out of equilibrium. We also propose a reformulation of the SDPD equations in terms of energy variables. This increases the similarities with Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Energy conservation and opens the way for a coupling between the two methods. Finally, we present a numerical scheme for SDPD that ensures the conservation of the invariants of the dynamics. Numerical simulations illustrate this approach.
The Determinants of Firm Growth for Ethiopian Large and Medium Scale Manufacturing Industries: A Dynamic Panel Study
Creators: name: Getahun, Netsanet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: In this dynamic panel study, the determinants of growth of Ethiopian large and medium scale surviving manufacturing firms' growth is analyzed from year 1992 to 2000 (E.C) using System GMM estimation. Estimations are done for the whole surviving firms, and at cohorts of size and age. Incorporating lag of growth, size and other firm attributes as explanatory variables in all estimations, Gibrat's stochastic growth theory is rejected. The persistence of growth is significant for all specifications except for medium and young firms. In cases persistence is significant; lag of growth affects current growth negatively except for smaller firms. Similarly, negative-significant size effect of growth is found for all cases except for adult and mature firms. With regard to other firm attributes, labor quality, asset, productivity, and leverage are found to positively affect growth but insignificant except labor quality for the whole surviving firms. Negative and significant relationship is found between capital intensity and growth for the whole surviving sample. For the size cohort, variables with significant effect includes productivity, labor quality and capital intensity. Productivity is significant for smaller and medium firms' growth. It has positive impact on growth for the medium firms and it confirms the Jovanovic's (1982) hypothesis while the effect is negative for smaller firms. Labor quality is positive but significant only for smaller firms, whereas, capital intensity is negative but significantly affects growth only under medium firm cohort. Similarly, under age cohort, age, quality, capital intensity and asset are found to be significant variables in different cases. From policy perspective, the government should give attention for the development of human power with industry-driven skills. Further, privileged treatment should be given for smaller and younger firms which are key labor employers. Key words: Ethiopian manufacturing firms, growth determinant, dynamic panel study, and SystemGMM.
Gauge-independent $\overline{MS}$ renormalization in the 2HDM
Creators: name: Denner, Ansgar
name: Jenniches, Laura
name: Lang, Jean-Nicolas
name: Sturm, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a consistent renormalization scheme for the CP-conserving Two-Higgs-Doublet Model based on $\overline{MS}$ renormalization of the mixing angles and the soft-$Z_2$-symmetry-breaking scale $M_{sb}$ in the Higgs sector. This scheme requires to treat tadpoles fully consistently in all steps of the calculation in order to provide gauge-independent $S$-matrix elements. We show how bare physical parameters have to be defined and verify the gauge independence of physical quantities by explicit calculations in a general $R_ξ$-gauge. The procedure is straightforward and applicable to other models with extended Higgs sectors. In contrast to the proposed scheme, the $\overline{MS}$ renormalization of the mixing angles combined with popular on-shell renormalization schemes gives rise to gauge-dependent results already at the one-loop level. We present explicit results for electroweak NLO corrections to selected processes in the appropriately renormalized Two-Higgs-Doublet Model and in particular discuss their scale dependence.
description: 52 pages, PDFLaTeX, PDF figures, JHEP version with Eq. (5.23) corrected
Die unsichtbare Institution. Der Congrès International des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques und der Kongress in Hamburg 1958
Creators: name: Dworschak, Nina
name: Grunwald, Susanne
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Die Ausrichtung des Internationalen Kongresses für Vor- und Frühgeschichte des CISPP in Hamburg mit anschließender Exkursion durch die DDR 1958 galt den Zeitgenossen als Beweis dafür, dass die Folgen des Nationalsozialismus und des Zweiten Weltkrieges in der Archäologie überwunden waren. Der Hamburger Kongress darf als der vielleicht größte Erfolg des Diplomaten Gerhard Bersu bezeichnet werden, denn er trug zur internationalen kulturpolitischen Anerkennung der Prähistorischen Archäologie, wie sie in beiden deutschen Staaten betrieben wurde, bei. Anhand archivalischer Quellen wird aus deutscher Perspektive die Gründung und Vergabepolitik des CISPP kontextualisiert und im zweiten Textteil die Planungsgeschichte und der Ablauf des Hamburger Kongresses rekonstruiert.
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Water and Related Land Resources, Gunnison River Basin, Colorado
Creators: name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1962
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: The Gunnison River Basin is located in West-Central Colorado. Its boundary encompasses an area of 8,020 square miles and includes all or major portions of Gunnison, Montrose, Delta and Ouray Counties and portions of Mesa, Hinsdale, Saguache and San Juan Counties. The Continental Divide forms the east and southeast boundary of the Basin and the San Juan Mountains and Uncompahgre Plateau form the south and southwest boundary. The Basin is bounded on the north by the Elk Mountains and the Grand Mesa and on the northwest by the Grand Valley. It is approximately 145 miles long east and west and 95 miles wide at its widest point north and south. The Gunnison River and its tributaries drain about 8 percent of the area of the State of Colorado. This report presents information concerning water and related land resources of the Gunnison River Basin in Colorado. This is a report of a reconnaissance study. The information presented for the Gunnison River Basin is prepared for the Basin as a unit and for each of the five major subbasins. These subbasins were delineated because of the nature of their individual water and related land resources. The subbasins are shown on the attached map and are identified as follows: Upper Gunnison, Smith Fork-Crystal, North Fork, Uncompahgre and Whitewater.
description: This cooperative survey was undertaken in response to a request from the Colorado Water Conservation Board dated February 10, 1961, for cooperation by the Department of Agriculture in such a survey. Department of Agriculture participation in the survey was under the provisions of Section 6 of P. L. 566, 83rd Congress, as amended, which authorized the Department to cooperate with other Federal, State, and local agencies in making investigations and surveys of the watersheds of rivers as a basis for the development of coordinated programs.
Das „Abenteuer Frankfurt“*. Gerhard Bersus zweite Amtszeit im Spiegel seiner Korrespondenz mit Wilhelm Unverzagt
Creators: name: Grunwald, Susanne
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden Gerhard Bersus Entscheidung zur Rückkehr nach Deutschland rekonstruiert und die Themen skizziert, mit denen er sich während seiner zweiten Amtszeit bei der RGK auseinandergesetzt hat. Der überlieferte Austausch mit seinem Freund und Kollegen Wilhelm Unverzagt in Ost-Berlin macht deutlich, wie groß die Erwartungen an den heimkehrenden Bersu waren und welche widersprüchlichen Implikationen sich aus der Besatzung, der anschließenden deutschen Teilung und dem Kalten Krieg für die Bemühungen ergaben, archäologische Institutionen wie die RGK zu reorganisieren.
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
On discrete symplectic systems: Associated maximal and minimal linear relations and nonhomogeneous problems
Creators: name: Clark, Stephen
name: Zemánek, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A06, 39A70, 47B39, 39A12

description: In this paper we characterize the definiteness of the discrete symplectic system, study a nonhomogeneous discrete symplectic system, and introduce the minimal and maximal linear relations associated with these systems. Fundamental properties of the corresponding deficiency indices, including a relationship between the number of square summable solutions and the dimension of the defect subspace, are also derived. Moreover, a sufficient condition for the existence of a densely defined operator associated with the symplectic system is provided.
Multi-dimensional effects of built environment on trip-chain travel behavior
Creators: name: Pang, Hao
name: 0000-0003-4290-5054
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Built environment
Travel behavior
Trip chain
Tour complexity
Mode choice

description: The dissertation's central question examined the impact of the built environment (BE) on people's trip-chain travel behavior. In contrast to trip-based research, which presumes an isolated, homogenous, single-leveled, and static relationship between BE and travel behavior, this collection of studies analyzes the interaction of a succession of decision-making processes with varying spatial limitations at different dimensions. This dissertation began by establishing a conceptual framework for evaluating the relationship between the built environment and trip-chain travel behavior. The research next evaluated the multidimensional BE impacts on the percentage of vehicle miles traveled (PVMT) and two critical trip-chain behaviors: trip-chain complexity and trip-chain mode choice. According to the tour complexity analysis, all non-auto passengers are opposed to increased tour complexity. Overall, only activity availability and density near the job and neighborhood housing type and density had a substantial effect on the BE factors. In comparison to tour complexity, the findings of the tour-level mode choice study indicate that BE characteristics are more influential in deciding mode choice. Among all BE characteristics, walkability (bike-ability) and street connection at the job and at home have the most impact. Additionally, the decision-making process for secondary mode selection is considered. The model findings suggest that the secondary mode choice is mostly determined by the primary mode choice, whereas BE characteristics close to sub-activity sites have a little effect. Only two walkability attributes have a significant influence on secondary mode choice when compared to all BE attributes close to sub-activity sites. Finally, the interdependence is evaluated by examining the relationship between tour complexity and tour-level mode selection. When the joint impacts are considered, the single-family ratio in the home zone has a substantial marginal influence on mode choice. The findings indicate that the single-family ratio in the home zone increases the probability of a drive-alone trip but decreases the probability of transit, bike, or walking tour.
Paired measurement localization for wireless sensor networks
Creators: name: Rahman, Mohammed Ziaur
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Following in the footsteps of Gerhard Bersu at Freestone Hill and Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny. New contributions from magnetic surveys
Creators: name: Rassmann, Knut
name: Scholz, Roman
name: Voß, Hans-Ulrich
name: Ó Drisceoil, Cóilín
name: Cahill Wilson, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Freestone Hill, a five-acre multiphase univallate hillfort in south-east Ireland, was the location of Gerhard Bersu’s last major excavation in 1948–49. This paper describes the peculiar set of circumstances that led Bersu to undertake the excavations at Freestone Hill and it also describes two campaigns of magnetic surveys undertaken within the hillfort and in its environs in 2014 and 2018 by the Römisch-Germanische Kommission and Irish colleagues. These investigations produced highly significant results that provide a new landscape context for the late prehistoric activities within the hillfort and which augment the ground-breaking work on the site by the great German researcher.
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Fragile liquidity : analysis of the mutual fund liquidity risk management rule
Creators: name: Park, Hyunggyu Tim
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Corporate bonds
Mutual funds
Liquidity management
Return comovement

description: This dissertation studies the unintended consequences of the Liquidity Risk Management Rule adopted by the SEC in 2016. The rule imposes an upper bound for illiquid assets and a lower bound for liquid assets in mutual fund portfolios. In response to the regulation, corporate bond mutual funds shift their portfolios toward liquid corporate bonds. The ownership shift to liquid corporate bonds increases the comovement among the underlying liquid assets, and higher comovement among liquid corporate bonds increases the volatility in liquid corporate bond funds. However, I find little evidence of stabilized fund flows. Overall, reducing fragility in mutual funds using portfolio constraints has unintended consequences.
Flood estimation for ungauged catchments : a regional approach using flood and catchment characteristics
Creators: name: Rahman, Ataur
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Gerhard Bersu in Scotland, and his excavations at Traprain Law in context
Creators: name: Hunter, Fraser
name: Armit, Ian
name: Dunwell, Andrew
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Bersu’s excavations on the hillfort of Traprain Law in south-east Scotland are reviewed in the light of his British and Irish digs and other work on the hill itself. It differs from the rest of his British excavations, which mostly focussed on houses, but is entirely in keeping with his earlier pedigree as a hillfort excavator. Archive material shows how he engaged with the site and was able to guide the pre-determined excavation strategy to his own interests. A review of work at Traprain since Bersu places his excavations in the context of this long-lived central place, which saw major peaks of settlement activity in the late Bronze Age and the Roman Iron Age, and a role as a ritual centre or gathering place in earlier prehistory and during the Iron Age. Many of the questions Bersu sought to tackle remain only partly answered today. An appendix presents the text of an unpublished lecture he gave in 1947 that reveals more of his thoughts on the value of settlement excavations and the interpretation of roundhouses.
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Depleted Depletion Drives Polymer Swelling in Poor Solvent Mixtures
Creators: name: Mukherji, Debashish
name: Marques, Carlos M.
name: Stuehn, Torsten
name: Kremer, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Macromolecular solubility in solvent mixtures often exhibit striking and paradoxical nature. For example, when two well miscible poor solvents for a given polymer are mixed together, the same polymer may swell within intermediate mixing ratios. We combine computer simulations and theoretical arguments to unveil the first microscopic, generic origin of this collapse-swelling-collapse scenario. We show that this phenomenon naturally emerges at constant pressure in mixtures of purely repulsive components, especially when a delicate balance of the entropically driven depletion interactions is achieved.
Communication between robots using artificial pheromones
Creators: name: Purnamadjaja, Anies Hannawati
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Internment archaeology: Gerhard and Maria Bersu’s collaborative efforts to live and research on wartime Isle of Man
Creators: name: Mytum, Harold
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Gerhard Bersu, together with his wife Maria, were invited to carry out excavations at Little Woodbury to set new standards for British settlement archaeology and apply Continental excavation and recording methods for the first time in Britain. Gerhard was familiar with British archaeology and archaeologists through meetings at conferences, but his Wiltshire fieldwork in 1938 and 1939 also heavily influenced the young generation of British archaeologists. The Bersus’ internment on the Isle of Man for almost the whole the duration of World War II was extremely unusual, as most refugees were rapidly found roles in the war effort. Archaeology on the Isle of Man benefitted from a series of long-term excavations, the first of any scale conducted there according to scientific principles, and thereby created narratives for the Manx Iron Age and Viking periods. Here, the context of the Bersus’ internment on the Isle of Man is considered, and their lives under internment explored, with the role of women – including Maria – highlighted for the first time. The methodologies and logistics of the wartime excavation campaign are also reviewed, together with the communications which sustained the Bersus’ morale, advised Gerhard on the excavation results, and then prepared the Bersus for their immediate post-war travels and fieldwork. Around a third of Gerhard’s career as a major European archaeologist of the mid-20th century was based on the Isle of Man, and he is still the single largest contributor to excavated archaeology on the Island.
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Competing order in the fermionic Hubbard model on the hexagonal graphene lattice
Creators: name: Buividovich, Pavel
name: Smith, Dominik
name: Ulybyshev, Maksim
name: von Smekal, Lorenz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phase diagram of the fermionic Hubbard model on the hexagonal lattice in the space of on-site and nearest neighbor couplings with Hybrid-Monte-Carlo simulations. With pure on-site repulsion this allows to determine the critical coupling strength for spin-density wave formation with the standard approach of introducing a small mass term, explicitly breaking the sublattice symmetry. The analogous mass term for charge-density wave formation above a critical nearest-neighbor repulsion, on the other hand, would introduce a fermion sign problem. The competition between the two and the phase diagram in the space of the two coouplings can however be studied in simulations without explicit sublattice symmetry breaking. Our results compare qualitatively well with the Hartree-Fock phase diagram. We furthermore demonstrate how spin-symmetry breaking by the Euclidean time discretization can be avoided also, when using an improved fermion action based on an exponetial transfer matrix with exact sublattice symmetry.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, proceedings for the 34th annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 24-30 July 2016, University of Southampton, UK
Seeing differently: Rereading Little Woodbury
Creators: name: Evans, Christopher
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Briefly rehearsed here, with issues relating to Little Woodbury’s extraordinary wartime circumstances – particularly its societal orchestration and Gerhard Bersu’s ‘outsider’ status – previously addressed (Evans 1989) and also further outlined in this volume (by Harold Mytum), this contribution rather focuses upon its methodological technique and interpretation. Practicing a plan-based and distinctly component-type archaeology, with so few convincing prehistoric settlements then excavated within Britain, underpinned by Oelmann’s evolutionary Haus und Hof building ‘laws’ (1927), a wide range of ethnographic and historical sources were drawn upon. While fully acknowledging just what Bersu achieved there and how groundbreaking was the fieldwork, the paper raises questions of its evidential reasoning and involves critique: the absurdity of some of its great roundhouse reconstructions, the settlement-matrix factors that were ignored and the failure to appreciate the full complexity of the site’s sequence.
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Non-Market Valuation of Cultural Heritages in Ethiopia Using Travel Cost and Contingent Valuation Methods: An Application to Rock- Hewn Churches of Lalibela
Creators: name: Anteneh, Addisu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: The value of cultural heritage such as the Rock- Hewn Churches of Lalibela (RHCL), cannot be obtained using market price. Non market valuation technique has to be used to value them. However, such studies in the developing world in general and Ethiopia in particular are scarce. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to estimate the total economic value of RHCL using non-market valuation methods. The total number of respondents used in the empirical analysis was 200. The study uses the Individual Travel Cost Method to estimate the use value of RHCL and the Dichotomous Contingent Valuation Method to investigate the mean WTP for the non use value of the RHCL. The truncated negative binomial method (TNBM) was employed to derive the demand function for use value of RHCL. The logit model and bivarite probit model were used to estimate the non use value of RHCL. To know basic determinants of maximum WTP we also applied the standard Tobit model. The regression result showed that travel cost, monthly income, age, education and knowledge are important determinants of the recreational demand of the site. On the other hand, the first bid price, the second bid, monthly income, and gender are important determinant of WTP for the non use value part of the site. The Tobit model depicted that income gender and age are important determinants of the maximum willingness to pay (MWTP). The result of the study also showed that the potential annual use value of the RHCL was estimated to be 759,687,113 ETB per annum and the annual non use value of the site is 42,525,661 ETB. Therefore, the annual total economic value of the site is approximately 42 times higher than the current revenue. Furthermore, the entrance fee that would maximize income was 11.32 USD per four days. Finally, we recommend that efforts should be made by the government and other relevant stakeholders to improve the site and maximize the benefits that can be derived from the RHCL. Future research areas are also suggested
Deep CNNs along the Time Axis with Intermap Pooling for Robustness to Spectral Variations
Creators: name: Lee, Hwaran
name: Kim, Geonmin
name: Kim, Ho-Gyeong
name: Oh, Sang-Hoon
name: Lee, Soo-Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with convolutional and pooling operations along the frequency axis have been proposed to attain invariance to frequency shifts of features. However, this is inappropriate with regard to the fact that acoustic features vary in frequency. In this paper, we contend that convolution along the time axis is more effective. We also propose the addition of an intermap pooling (IMP) layer to deep CNNs. In this layer, filters in each group extract common but spectrally variant features, then the layer pools the feature maps of each group. As a result, the proposed IMP CNN can achieve insensitivity to spectral variations characteristic of different speakers and utterances. The effectiveness of the IMP CNN architecture is demonstrated on several LVCSR tasks. Even without speaker adaptation techniques, the architecture achieved a WER of 12.7% on the SWB part of the Hub5'2000 evaluation test set, which is competitive with other state-of-the-art methods.
description: Submitted to IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Bersu und die Schweiz – eine Annäherung. Einführung und Fragestellung
Creators: name: Brem, Hansjörg
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Der Artikel bietet eine erste Einschätzung des Wirkens von Gerhard Bersu auf die Archäologie in der Schweiz. Die historischen Dokumente aus verschiedenen Archiven der Schweiz und der RGK zeigen den durchaus beträchtlichen Einfluss Bersus nicht nur durch eigene Ausgrabungen in der Schweiz, besonders seine Ausgrabungen auf dem Wittnauer Horn im Kt. Aargau, sondern auch auf personelle Entscheidungen bei der Besetzung von Stellen. Das Forum hierfür war die „Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte“, deren Mitglied er seit 1926 war. Durch die Jahresberichte der Gesellschaft lassen sich die Besuche und aktive Teilnahmen von Schweizer Archäologen auf Bersus Ausgrabungen etwa auf dem württembergischen Goldberg oder im römischen Militärlager von Altrip verfolgen. Besonders verbunden war Gerhard Bersu mit Alban Gerster und den Archäologen Emil Vogt und Rudolf Laur-Belart, die beide lange Jahre die Archäologie in der Schweiz maßgeblich prägten; sie wurden beide durch die RGK gefördert. Auch in der Schweiz brachte Bersu seine Fähigkeit ein, Menschen für die Archäologie zu gewinnen und miteinander in Kontakt zu bringen. Ein Mittel dies auch institutionell sichtbar zu machen, war die Ernennung von schweizer Archäologen zu korrespondierenden Mitgliedern des DAI. Bersu zog wohl nie in Betracht nach 1933 in die Schweiz auszuwandern, aber einflussreiche Archäologen setzten sich für den Verbleib von Bersu als 1. Direktor der RGK ein.
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Water and Related Land Resources, Sevier River Basin, Utah, 1969
Creators: name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1969
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: The Sevier River Basin is a major landlocked drainage of the Great Basin located in south-central Utah (Map 1). It is bounded on the east and south by the Colorado River Basin, on the west by the Beaver River Basin, and on the north by the Great Salt Lake Basin. The Sevier River once terminated in prehistoric Lake Bonneville near the town of Gunnison and more recently discharged perennially into Sevier Lake. Irrigation developments since the turn of the century have depleted the river until the only water now reaching Sevier Lake is occasional flood flows, drainage effluent, and groundwater. Sevier Lake has now become an ephemeral playa of sparse salt-tolerant vegetation and evaporation basins which consume the remains of the River system. The Basin contains 5,200,000 acres and includes portions of Garfield, Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, and Tooele Counties. Fifty percent of the area is mountainous and yields most of the water for irrigation. The irrigated crop and wetland areas represent about 10 percent. On the remaining valley and desert rangeland, precipitation either evaporates or is consumptively used by vegetation. The purpose of this report is to present information on water and related land resources in the Sevier River Basin, Utah. The report identifies and recommends solutions for problems concerning the conservation and use of water and land within the Basin, and emphasizes opportunities for the development of these resources through the initiative of local sponsors. It also provides information to plan programs of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, other Federal agencies, and the State of Utah, and provides a basis for more effective coordination between these agencies. Although land resources were studied, they were examined primarily as they relate to water, and this study focuses on water resources and analyzes their importance to the economic development of the Sevier River Basin.
description: Participation by the U. S. Department of Agriculture was authorized under provisions of Section 6 of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566, 83rd Congress, 68 Statute 666 as amended). This Act authorized the Department of Agriculture to cooperate with other Federal, State, and local agencies in making investigations and surveys of river basins as a basis for the development of coordinated programs. The State of Utah assigned the State Engineer to carry out the State's responsibilities both for assisting in the study and for aiding coordination between other Federal and State agencies.
Gerhard Bersu, Osbert G. S. Crawford und die Tabula Imperii Romani
Creators: name: Külzer, Andreas
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Der vorliegende Artikel beschreibt das Wirken von Gerhard Bersu im Rahmen des 1928 begründeten internationalen Langzeitprojektes Tabula Imperii Romani (TIR). Das Engagement des Gelehrten setzte 1931 ein und bestand bis zu seinem Lebensende 1964. Der Text thematisiert die enge Verbundenheit zum Initiator des Kartenprojektes, Osbert G. S. Crawford, beschreibt die anfänglichen Erfolge und Fortschritte des Vorhabens, Rückschläge in der Zeit unmittelbar vor und während des Zweiten Weltkrieges sowie die in den 1950er-Jahren einsetzenden Maßnahmen zur Wiederbelebung, die 1957 zur Aufnahme der TIR in die Union Académique Internationale (UAI) führten. Hier setzen sich die Arbeiten auf hohem Niveau fort.
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The design of packed tubular reactors
Creators: name: Priestley, Anthony John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Can realistic interaction be useful for nuclear mean-field approaches?
Creators: name: Nakada, H.
name: Sugiura, K.
name: Inakura, T.
name: Margueron, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent applications of the M3Y-type semi-realistic interaction to the nuclear mean-field approaches are presented: (i) Prediction of magic numbers and (ii) isotope shifts of nuclei with magic proton numbers. The results exemplify that realistic interaction, which is derived from the base $2N$ and $3N$ interaction, furnish a new theoretical instrument for advancing nuclear mean-field approaches.
description: 9 pages including 6 figures, published in EPJA 52, 185 (2016)
Gerhard Bersu, Rudolf Egger und die österreichisch-deutsche Forschungskooperation in Kärnten (1928–1931)
Creators: name: Pollak, Marianne
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Eines der wenig bekannten Kapitel österreichischer und deutscher Forschungsgeschichte sind die gemeinsamen archäologischen Projekte der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission und des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Kärnten zwischen 1928 und 1931. Dabei ging es vor allem um die praktische Grabungsausbildung der aus Deutschland, Österreich, Ungarn, Jugoslawien und Rumänien kommenden Studierenden. Das Begleitprogramm bildeten Fachvorträge sowie Exkursionen zu den bedeutendsten archäologischen Fundstätten an der oberen Adria. Die Fortsetzung scheiterte 1931 an den Folgen der Weltwirtschaftskrise, welche die Finanzierung von Forschungsvorhaben verhinderte. In der Folgezeit wurde das persönliche Schicksal der beiden Hauptakteure Gerhard Bersu und Rudolf Egger durch Aufstieg und Scheitern der Nationalsozialismus entscheidend geprägt.
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