cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Crossmodal Correspondence Between Tonal Hierarchy and Visual Brightness: Associating Syntactic Structure and Perceptual Dimensions Across Modalities
Creators: name: Maimon, Neta B.
name: Lamy, Dominique
name: Eitan, Zohar
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Crossmodal correspondences (CMC) systematically associate perceptual dimensions in different sensory modalities (e.g., auditory pitch and visual brightness), and affect perception, cognition, and action. While previous work typically investigated associations between basic perceptual dimensions, here we present a new type of CMC, involving a high-level, quasi-syntactic schema: music tonality. Tonality governs most Western music and regulates stability and tension in melodic and harmonic progressions. Musicians have long associated tonal stability with non-auditory domains, yet such correspondences have hardly been investigated empirically. Here, we investigated CMC between tonal stability and visual brightness, in musicians and in non-musicians, using explicit and implicit measures. On the explicit test, participants heard a tonality-establishing context followed by a probe tone, and matched each probe to one of several circles, varying in brightness. On the implicit test, we applied the Implicit Association Test to auditory (tonally stable or unstable sequences) and visual (bright or dark circles) stimuli. The findings indicate that tonal stability is associated with visual brightness both explicitly and implicitly. They further suggest that this correspondence depends only partially on conceptual musical knowledge, as it also operates through fast, unintentional, and arguably automatic processes in musicians and non-musicians alike. By showing that abstract musical structure can establish concrete connotations to a non-auditory perceptual domain, our results open a hitherto unexplored avenue for research, associating syntactical structure with connotative meaning.
Refugees, Xenophobia, and Domestic Conflict : Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey
Creators: name: Getmansky, Anna
name: Sınmazdemir, Tolga
name: Zeitzoff, Thomas
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: What factors influence attitudes towards refugees? Do negative attitudes towards refugees also influence attitudes towards conflict in the host countries? Previous studies suggest that an influx of refugees, and locals’ reaction to them, may destabilize receiving countries and lead to conflict. In particular, actual or perceived negative effects of refugees’ presence, such as increased economic competition with the locals, disruption of ethnic balance in the host country, and arrival of people with ties to rebel groups may lead to an increased likelihood of civil conflict in countries that receive refugees. These effects can lead to instability by changing the locals’ incentives and opportunities of engaging in violence. Indeed, some studies find a positive correlation at the cross-national level between influx of refugees and conflict in receiving countries. We contribute to this literature by experimentally manipulating information about the externalities of hosting refugees. We conducted a survey-experiment in the summer of 2014 in Turkey, a country that hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees. We examine how different messages about the possible effects of hosting refugees – increased economic burden, disruption of ethnic balance, and ties with rebels, as well as a positive message of saving innocent women and children – affect locals’ perceptions of the refugees and their attitudes towards the Turkish-Kurdish peace process. We find that some messages cause locals, especially majority non-Kurds, to hold more negative views of the refugees, and in some cases to view them as a threat. Generally speaking, this information does not affect support for the peace process within Turkey. Rather, fundamental factors, such as partisanship, and previous exposure to conflict are better predictors of attitudes towards peace.
Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time. X. The Orbit and Atmosphere of the Young "Neptune Desert"-Dwelling Planet K2-100b
Creators: name: Gaidos, E.
name: Hirano, T.
name: Mann, A. W.
name: Owens, D. A.
name: Berger, T. A.
name: France, K.
name: Vanderburg, A.
name: Harakawa, H.
name: Hodapp, K. W.
name: Ishizuka, M.
name: Jacobson, S.
name: Konishi, M.
name: Kotani, T.
name: Kudo, T.
name: Kurokawa, T.
name: Nishikawa, J.
name: Omiya, M.
name: Serizawa, T.
name: Tamura, M.
name: Oeda, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtained high-resolution infrared spectroscopy and short-cadence photometry of the 600-800 Myr Praesepe star K2-100 during transits of its 1.67-day planet. This Neptune-size object, discovered by the NASA K2 mission, is an interloper in the "desert" of planets with similar radii on short period orbits. Our observations can be used to understand its origin and evolution by constraining the orbital eccentricity by transit fitting, measuring the spin-orbit obliquity by the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, and detecting any extended, escaping hydrogen-helium envelope with the 10830A line of neutral helium in the 2s3S triplet state. Transit photometry with 1-min cadence was obtained by the K2 satellite during Campaign 18 and transit spectra were obtained with the IRD spectrograph on the Subaru telescope. While the elevated activity of K2-100 prevented us from detecting the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, the new photometry combined with revised stellar parameters allowed us to constrain the eccentricity to e < 0.15/0.28 with 90%/99% confidence. We modeled atmospheric escape as an isothermal, spherically symmetric Parker wind, with photochemistry driven by UV radiation that we estimate by combining the observed spectrum of the active Sun with calibrations from observations of K2-100 and similar young stars in the nearby Hyades cluster. Our non-detection (<5.7mA) of a transit-associated He I line limits mass loss of a solar-composition atmosphere through a T<10000K wind to <0.3Me/Gyr. Either K2-100b is an exceptional desert-dwelling planet, or its mass loss is occurring at a lower rate over a longer interval, consistent with a core accretion-powered scenario for escape.
description: Accepted to MNRAS
Refugees, Xenophobia, and Domestic Conflict : Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey
Creators: name: Getmansky, Anna
name: Sınmazdemir, Tolga
name: Zeitzoff, Thomas
Publisher: name: Journal of Peace Research
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: What factors influence attitudes towards refugees? Do negative attitudes towards refugees also influence attitudes towards conflict in the host countries? Previous studies suggest that an influx of refugees, and locals’ reaction to them, may destabilize receiving countries and lead to conflict. In particular, actual or perceived negative effects of refugees’ presence, such as increased economic competition with the locals, disruption of ethnic balance in the host country, and arrival of people with ties to rebel groups may lead to an increased likelihood of civil conflict in countries that receive refugees. These effects can lead to instability by changing the locals’ incentives and opportunities of engaging in violence. Indeed, some studies find a positive correlation at the cross-national level between influx of refugees and conflict in receiving countries. We contribute to this literature by experimentally manipulating information about the externalities of hosting refugees. We conducted a survey-experiment in the summer of 2014 in Turkey, a country that hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees. We examine how different messages about the possible effects of hosting refugees – increased economic burden, disruption of ethnic balance, and ties with rebels, as well as a positive message of saving innocent women and children – affect locals’ perceptions of the refugees and their attitudes towards the Turkish-Kurdish peace process. We find that some messages cause locals, especially majority non-Kurds, to hold more negative views of the refugees, and in some cases to view them as a threat. Generally speaking, this information does not affect support for the peace process within Turkey. Rather, fundamental factors, such as partisanship, and previous exposure to conflict are better predictors of attitudes towards peace.
WHY DO THE OPINIONS OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS DIFFER?
Creators: name: Van Zyl, J.
name: Vink, N.
name: Van Zyl, J.
name: Vink, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Public Economics

description: Differences in the op1mons of Southern African agricultural economists are analysed on the basis of a variety of characteristics of the respondents in a questionnaire survey. It appears that the relatively wide diversity of opinions can be attributed to a number of these characteristics, and that this is true with regard to several aspects of the discipline.
Amount and Leaching Potential of Heavy Metals in Bark Mulch and Compost Used on the University of British Columbia Grounds
Creators: name: Arora, Balbir
name: Chan, Nancy
name: Choy, Derek
name: Gutierrez, Pablo
name: Kemp, Graham
name: Reyes, Alvaro
name: Schneider, Heather
name: Eng, Jenny
name: Ghods, Mehrdad
name: Villamayor, Crissa
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Ising-like Spin Anisotropy and Competing Antiferromagnetic - Ferromagnetic Orders in GdBaCo_{2}O_{5.5} Single Crystals
Creators: name: Taskin, A. A.
name: Lavrov, A. N.
name: Ando, Yoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In RBaCo_{2}O_{5+x} compounds (R is rare earth), a ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic competition is accompanied by a giant magnetoresistance. We study the magnetization of detwinned GdBaCo_{2}O_{5.5} single crystals, and find a remarkable uniaxial anisotropy of Co^{3+} spins which is tightly linked with the chain oxygen ordering in GdO_{0.5} planes. Reflecting the underlying oxygen order, CoO_2 planes also develop a spin-state order consisting of Co^{3+} ions in alternating rows of S=1 and S=0 states. The magnetic structure appears to be composed of weakly coupled ferromagnetic ladders with Ising-like moments, which gives a simple picture for magnetotransport phenomena.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted to Phys.Rev.Lett
Distant field BHB stars and the mass of the Galaxy II: Photometry and spectroscopy of UKST candidates 16
Creators: name: Clewley, L.
name: Warren, S. J.
name: Hewett, P. C.
name: Norris, John E.
name: Evans, N. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the second in a series of papers presenting a new calculation of the mass of the Galaxy based on radial velocities and distances for a sample of faint 16 < B < 21.3 field blue horizontal-branch (BHB) stars. We present accurate BV CCD photometry and spectra for 142 candidate A-type stars selected from ub_jr photometry of UK Schmidt telescope plates in six high-Galactic-latitude fields. Classification of these candidates produces a sample of 60 BHB stars at distances of 11-52 kpc from the Sun (mean 28 kpc), with heliocentric line-of-sight velocities accurate to 15 km/s, and distance errors < 10%. We provide a summary table listing coordinates and velocities of these stars. The measured dispersion of the radial component of the Galactocentric velocity for this sample is 108+-10 km/s, in agreement with a recent study of the distant halo by Sirko and coworkers. Measurements of the Ca II K line indicate that nearly all the stars are metal-poor with a mean [Fe/H] = -1.8 with dispersion 0.5. Subsequent papers will describe a second survey of BHBs to heliocentric distances 70 < R < 125 kpc and present a new estimate of the mass of the Galaxy.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Volkov-Pankratov states in topological superconductors
Creators: name: Alspaugh, David J.
name: Sheehy, Daniel E.
name: Goerbig, Mark O.
name: Simon, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the in-gap states that appear at the boundaries of both 1D and 2D topological superconductors. While the massless Majorana quasiparticles are guaranteed to arise by the bulk-edge correspondence, we find that they could be accompanied by massive Volkov-Pankratov (VP) states which are present only when the interface is sufficiently smooth. These predictions can be tested in an s-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling placed on top of a magnetic domain wall. We calculate the spin-resolved local density of states of the VP states about the band inversion generated by a magnetic domain wall and find that they are oppositely spin-polarized on either side of the topological phase boundary. We also demonstrate that the spatial position, energy-level spacing, and spin polarization of the VP states can be modified by the introduction of in-plane electric fields.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
ESSAYS ON FOOD SECURITY, HEALTH, AND IMMIGRATION
Creators: name: Smith, Michael D.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Food security is an essential goal for policy makers around the world. In developing countries, recent increases in migration rates have borne new challenges and opportunities in meeting the goal of eliminating hunger, which have potentially important policy implications in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. In developed countries, such as the United States, food insecurity remains a persistent obstacle for millions of people to living healthy, active lives. This is especially true for minority groups such as immigrants. This dissertation makes an effort to fill some of the gaps in the literature through theoretical and empirical work linking food security, health, and immigration. I begin by examining food insecurity as a determinant of migration behavior in low- and middle-income countries. Results show food insecurity is an important determinant of both migration intentions and migration decisions. I also find that these relationships vary significantly by gender. Next, I examine the effects of receiving remittances on the food security status of household members in the countries of origin in low- and middle-income countries. Results show, controlling for endogeneity, domestic and international remittances decrease food insecurity. However, the magnitudes are much larger for international remittances than for domestic remittances. Remittances also provide greater protection against food insecurity in lower-income countries than in middle-income countries. Lastly, I examine the effects of food insecurity on the cardiometabolic health and health trajectories of immigrant adults in the United States. Results show food insecurity is strongly associated with poor cardiometabolic health among working-age immigrant adults, and that poor cardiometabolic health increases with the severity of food insecurity. Food insecurity also significantly accelerates the effects of acculturation on poor cardiometabolic health for working-age immigrant adults. Given the recent rise in immigration rates and the broader international policy debate around meeting the food needs of a growing global population, a better understanding of the linkage between food insecurity and immigration is critical for current international policy decisions. Additionally, in the United States, a better understanding of the relationship between food insecurity and health is vital for developing appropriate public health interventions for an increasingly multicultural U.S. population.
Can preferential concentration of finite-size particles in plane Couette turbulence be reproduced with the aid of equilibrium solutions?
Creators: name: Pestana, Tiago
name: Uhlmann, Markus
name: Kawahara, Genta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work employs for the first time invariant solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations to study the interaction between finite-size particles and near-wall coherent structures. We consider horizontal plane Couette flow and focus on Nagata's upper-branch equilibrium solution (Nagata, 1990) at low Reynolds numbers where this solution is linearly stable. When adding a single heavy particle with a diameter equivalent to 2.5 wall units, we observe that the solution remains stable and is essentially unchanged away from the particle. This result demonstrates that it is technically feasible to utilize exact coherent structures in conjunction with particle-resolved DNS. While translating in the streamwise direction, the particle migrates laterally under the action of the quasi-streamwise vortices until it reaches the region occupied by the low-speed streak, where it attains a periodic state of motion. As a result of the ensuing preferential particle location, the time-average streamwise particle velocity differs from the plane-average fluid-phase velocity at the same wall-distance as the particle center, as previously observed in experiments and in numerical data for fully turbulent wall-bounded flows. Additional constrained simulations where the particle is maintained at a fixed spanwise position while freely translating in the other two directions reveal the existence of two equilibria located in the low-speed and in the high-speed streak, respectively, the former being an unstable point. A parametric study with different particle to fluid density ratios is conducted which shows how inertia affects the spanwise fluctuations of the periodic particle motion. Finally, we discuss a number of potential future investigations of solid particle dynamics which can be conducted with the aid of invariant solutions (exact coherent structures) of the Navier-Stokes equations.
description: accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Fluids (2020)
Зміна шаблонних підходів щодо допустимості та меж використання персональних  даних  фізичної особи як   зустрічного надання у  ІТ-договорах
Creators: name: Яроцький, Віталій Леонідович
name: Філонова, Юлія Михайлівна
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: У статті здійснюється висвітлення та аналіз наявної на сьогодні світової нормативної тенденції зміни парадигми (шаблонного мислення) щодо правової природи персональних даних фізичної особи. Аналізується  допустимість їх використання  як зустрічного надання у ІТ-договорах, зокрема про надання цифрового контенту та інших цифрових послуг. Окрему увагу приділено актуалізації та поточним  проблемам забезпечення своєчасності та ефективності цивільно-правового регулювання участі  персональних даних фізичної особи у сучасному вітчизняному ІТ-обороті. Сформульовано науково обґрунтовані пропозиції щодо вдосконалення чинного вітчизняного цивільного  законодавства у межах його рекодифікації з урахуванням глобальних тенденцій цифровізації приватноправових відносин та процесів  галузевої  гармонізації з європейськими та міжнародними правовими стандартами.
Silent Phase Qubit Based on d-Wave Josephson Junctions
Creators: name: Amin, M. H. S.
name: Smirnov, A. Yu.
name: Zagoskin, A. M.
name: Lindstrom, T.
name: Charlebois, S.
name: Claeson, T.
name: Tzalenchuk, A. Ya.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on design and fabrication of a new type of flux qubit that capitalizes on intrinsic properties of submicron YBCO grain boundary junctions. The operating point is protected from the fluctuations of the external fields, already on the classical level; the effects of external perturbations are absent, to the second or third order, depending on the character of the coupling. We propose an experiment to observe quantum tunneling and Rabi oscillations in the qubit. Estimate of the decoherence due to fluctuations of the external flux is presented.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Emerging Sociolinguistic Teaching Trends of English As A First Language in Nigeria.pdf
Creators: name: Uwen, God'sgift Ogban
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200322 Comparative Language Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200524 Comparative Literature Studies

description: This paper seeks to examine the emerging sociolinguistic trends in Nigeria with the view to ascertaining the use of English as a first language among its speakers particular in Calabar, Nigeria. The study adopts Vygotsky’s (1978) Social Interactionist Theory. The theory is relevant because it accounts for the intentional and changing linguistic attitudes of children believed to be influenced by their early exposure to English as the language spoken by adults and peers within their immediate environment. Data for the study were generated through primary sources, particularly by means of participant observation and administration of questionnaire. Using random sampling technique, 468 questionnaires were distributed to children within the school age bracket of 06 - 13 in 10 selected Private Primary and Junior Secondary Schools in Calabar. With the aid of 20 trained research assistants who are bi/multilinguals in some Nigerian indigenous languages and English, 400 questionnaires filled under supervision were retrieved from the respondents from where the data were extracted and collated for analysis. Findings indicate that 37 percent of the pupils/students are monolinguals who speak only English as their ‘first and native language’. Similarly, 32.5 percent of the target population understand their mother tongue(s) while 30.8 percent of affirm that they speak the indigenous language(s) fluently. Also, it is observed that a total of 63 percent are bi/multilinguals in their mother tongue(s) and English language and could switch or mix codes. The reasons for the increasing preference towards English language, the researchers have observed, range from the persuasive influence from parents, teachers and peers, and the consequences of globalization in addition to the multiple domains of use of English language. This trending communication practice would continue to increase the growing population of English speakers in Nigeria while the indigenous are further endangered...
Out-of-equilibrium dynamical fluctuations in glassy systems
Creators: name: Chamon, C.
name: Charbonneau, P.
name: Cugliandolo, L. F.
name: Reichman, D. R.
name: Sellitto, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we extend the earlier treatment of out-of-equilibrium mesoscopic fluctuations in glassy systems in several significant ways. First, via extensive simulations, we demonstrate that models of glassy behavior without quenched disorder display scalings of the probability of local two-time correlators that are qualitatively similar to that of models with short-ranged quenched interactions. The key ingredient for such scaling properties is shown to be the development of a critical-like dynamical correlation length, and not other microscopic details. This robust data collapse may be described in terms of a time-evolving Gumbel-like distribution. We develop a theory to describe both the form and evolution of these distributions based on a effective sigma-model approach.
description: 20 pages, RevTex, 9 figures
ESSAYS ON FOOD SECURITY, HEALTH, AND IMMIGRATION
Creators: name: Smith, Michael D.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Food security is an essential goal for policy makers around the world. In developing countries, recent increases in migration rates have borne new challenges and opportunities in meeting the goal of eliminating hunger, which have potentially important policy implications in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. In developed countries, such as the United States, food insecurity remains a persistent obstacle for millions of people to living healthy, active lives. This is especially true for minority groups such as immigrants. This dissertation makes an effort to fill some of the gaps in the literature through theoretical and empirical work linking food security, health, and immigration. I begin by examining food insecurity as a determinant of migration behavior in low- and middle-income countries. Results show food insecurity is an important determinant of both migration intentions and migration decisions. I also find that these relationships vary significantly by gender. Next, I examine the effects of receiving remittances on the food security status of household members in the countries of origin in low- and middle-income countries. Results show, controlling for endogeneity, domestic and international remittances decrease food insecurity. However, the magnitudes are much larger for international remittances than for domestic remittances. Remittances also provide greater protection against food insecurity in lower-income countries than in middle-income countries. Lastly, I examine the effects of food insecurity on the cardiometabolic health and health trajectories of immigrant adults in the United States. Results show food insecurity is strongly associated with poor cardiometabolic health among working-age immigrant adults, and that poor cardiometabolic health increases with the severity of food insecurity. Food insecurity also significantly accelerates the effects of acculturation on poor cardiometabolic health for working-age immigrant adults. Given the recent rise in immigration rates and the broader international policy debate around meeting the food needs of a growing global population, a better understanding of the linkage between food insecurity and immigration is critical for current international policy decisions. Additionally, in the United States, a better understanding of the relationship between food insecurity and health is vital for developing appropriate public health interventions for an increasingly multicultural U.S. population.
Mapping for Change - Tactile Map of UBC
Creators: name: Madrazo, Brenda
name: Solorzano, Juan Gabriel
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Continuum percolation of wireless ad hoc communication networks
Creators: name: Glauche, Ingmar
name: Krause, Wolfram
name: Sollacher, Rudolf
name: Greiner, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wireless multi-hop ad hoc communication networks represent an infrastructure-less and self-organized generalization of todays wireless cellular networks. Connectivity within such a network is an important issue. Continuum percolation and technology-driven mutations thereof allow to address this issue in the static limit and to construct a simple distributed protocol, guaranteeing strong connectivity almost surely and independently of various typical uncorrelated and correlated random spatial patterns of participating ad hoc nodes.
description: 30 pages, to be published in Physica A
Présidence de la République : Arnold Munnich
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques (1942-2020)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: 1 fichier (1 page).
SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES AND LAND ACQUISITION POLICY IN INDIA
Creators: name: Dr. Kiran S., P.
name: Dr. D. V. Gopalappa
name: Dr. Kiran S., P.
name: Dr. D. V. Gopalappa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: SEZs Policy, Land, Agriculture, Impact, Development and Growth.

description: SEZs are specifically delineated duty–free enclaves and shall be deemed to be a foreign territory for the purpose of trade operations, duties & tariffs (Ministry of Commerce). The Government of India so far has approved 1014 SEZs consisting of Notified, Formal Approvals, Operated and In-principle categories of projects which are sanctioned (as on 2015). The total area for proposed SEZs (formally approved and in principle approved) is approximately. 2061 sq km which would not be more than 0.069 per cent of the total land area and not more than 0.12 per cent of the total agricultural land in India (Ministry of Agriculture). Gujarat State stands in the first place in the acquisition of the land for the formal SEZ activities consisting of about 27.04 percent out of 51076 hectares in India. The Karnataka state takes position of the fifth place in the acquisition of the land for the purpose of the formal approvals of the SEZs in the country around 2789 hectares of the land representing 5.46 Percentage of the country. Kandla Special Economic Zone (12889.99) and Vishakhapatnam Special Economic Zone about 12168.68 are the top two SEZs respectively in terms of notified land area and the percentage of these SEZs is 26.96 per cent and 25.46 per cent respectively.
Runaway Electron Seed Formation at Reactor-Relevant Temperature
Creators: name: Paz-Soldan, C.
name: Aleynikov, P.
name: Hollmann, E. M.
name: Lvovskiy, A.
name: Bykov, I.
name: Du, X.
name: Eidietis, N. W.
name: Shiraki, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Systematic variation of the pre-disruption core electron temperature (Te) from 1 to 12 keV using an internal transport barrier scenario reveals a dramatic increase in the production of seed runaway electrons (REs), ultimately accessing near-complete conversion of the pre-disruption current into sub-MeV RE current. Injected Ar pellets are observed to ablate more intensely and promptly as Te rises. At high Te, the observed ablation exceeds predictions from published thermal ablation models. Simultaneously, the thermal quench (TQ) is observed to significantly shorten with increasing Te -- a surprising result. While the reason for the shorter TQ is not yet understood, candidate mechanisms include: insufficiently accurate thermal ablation models, enhanced ablation driven by the seed RE population, or significant parallel heat transport along stochastic fields. Kinetic modeling that self-consistently treats the plasma cooling via radiation, the induced electric field, and the formation of the seed RE is performed. Including the combined effect of the inherent dependence of hot-tail RE seeding on Te together with the shortened TQ, modeling recovers the progression towards near-complete conversion of the pre-disruption current to RE current as Te rises. Measurement of the HXR spectrum during the early current quench (CQ) reveals a trend of decreasing energy with pre-disruption Te. At the very highest Te ($\approx$ 12 keV), $\approx$ 100% conversion of the thermal current to runaway current is found. The energy of this peculiar RE beam is inferred to be sub-MeV as it emits vanishingly few MeV hard X-rays (HXRs). These measurements demonstrate novel TQ dynamics as Te is varied and illustrate the limitations of treating the RE seed formation problem without considering the inter-related dependencies of the pellet ablation, radiative energy loss, and resultant variations of the TQ duration.
The Future Was Always Here
Creators: name: Madhok, Karan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: The fiction thesis paper ‘The Future Was Always Here’ presents the first half of the larger novel, a story that unifies the larger tragedy of racial violence with the personal roadblocks of a father-son relationship. The novel is told posthumously by the central character—Vishnu—after his murder. He has a foot in each home (India and the USA) and is an “outsider” to both. Vishnu narrates the story in the first-person omniscient point-of-view, capable of narrating through time and space, understanding the friends, family, and other influential characters, moments, and decisions that played a role in his eventual fate.
USA Today Poll # 1360
Creators: name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: 1984 Presidential election: registered voter, likelihood of voting; favorable/unfavorable opinion of: Reagan, Mondale, Jackson, Hart; Reagan vs. Mondale; Reagan/Bush vs. Mondale/Hart; changing sex roles: marital status, years married, number of children under 18, full/ part-time employment; grading of relationships as: husband/wife, father/ mother, work or job, friend to men/women, brother/sister, son/daughter; most/least satisfying relationship; independence, ease of communication, degree of liberation in relationships; sources of stress in marital relationships: financial matters, decisions concerning friendships, disciplining children, job demands, communicating feeling, division of household responsibilities, relationships with other family members, feeling appreciated, sexual responsiveness, use of free time, lack of common interests, outside interests, religious convictions, emotional support; agree/disagree with: women want men to be more sensitive today, to behave like women, women don't appreciate men to be more sensitive today t behave like women, women don't appreciate men as much anymore, relationships improve with women's independence, men confused about how o treat women, wife's career causes reduction in husband's career goals, traditional family life more satisfying, if wife works man must expect to spend less time on job/more on family responsibilities, liberated woman better marriage partner, working woman understands job pressures, relationships today involve more tension, male boss better than female, better to be a man than woman in today's society, women independence will improve men's ability to provide; number of close friends who are: men, women, couples; easier to have men/women as close friends; Russian boycott's effect on interest in Olympics; watch Olympics/other program; inclination to buy products of Olympics sponsors; wish o participate in Olympics games: yourself, son/daughter; agree/disagree: drug testing should be mandatory, drugs should be allowed, U.S. athletes should be allowed to use drugs because others do; use of/satisfaction with lawyer's services; use same lawyer again; agree/disagree: too many court cases because of ease of suing, clients sue despite lawyer's recommendation, lawyers too anxious to sue, discipline lawyer's for frivolous cases because of ease of suing, discipline lawyers for frivolous cases, restrict plea bargaining to less serious cases, abolish plea bargaining; best agency for enforcing standards in legal profession; labor union membership; political ideology.
The Future Was Always Here
Creators: name: Madhok, Karan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The fiction thesis paper ‘The Future Was Always Here’ presents the first half of the larger novel, a story that unifies the larger tragedy of racial violence with the personal roadblocks of a father-son relationship. The novel is told posthumously by the central character—Vishnu—after his murder. He has a foot in each home (India and the USA) and is an “outsider” to both. Vishnu narrates the story in the first-person omniscient point-of-view, capable of narrating through time and space, understanding the friends, family, and other influential characters, moments, and decisions that played a role in his eventual fate.
AN ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVE STATUS OF FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS IN INDIA
Creators: name: SWETHA S, Dr. D S LEELAVATHI
name: SWETHA S, Dr. D S LEELAVATHI
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Female Headed Household, Growth, Features.

description: Household is usually a group of persons who normally live together and take their meals from a common kitchen unless or otherwise the exigencies of work prevent any of them from doing so. She or he is generally the person who bears the chief responsibility for the maintenance of the household and takes decisions on behalf of the household. Now days in India as elsewhere in the world, Female Headed Households are increasing rapidly for various reasons. The main intension of the study is to analyze the growth of female headed households in India and to examine the various features of female headed households in India. The study has been prepared on the basis of secondary data collected from census of India 2001 and 2011. The study has used simple percentages, growth rates, tables and graphs. The paper concluded that, an in-depth study of the growth and features of the female headed households help in preparing the government budget that is the so called gender budgeting. Gender development, gender main streaming, women empowerment have become the most popular concepts in development policy and governance. In fact, under valuation of invisible work rendered by women has resulted in the underestimation of GDP. Since 1980’s, the feminist movement has been fighting for the cause of ‘care economy’ which produces family and community oriented goods and services. Gender mainstreaming demands not only disaggregated data but also results of empirical studies across various regions in the country. This will facilitate both gender development policies and ensure gender equity.
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“THE LOCAL” AND “THE TOURIST”: SHARED CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR HONOLULU ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Creators: name: Helper, Natalie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Operating within the overlapping and sometimes-conflicting spheres of the tourist and the local, arts organizations in Hawaiʻi face shared challenges in the form of Hawaiʻi’s brand, limited resources, and accessibility issues. To identify common successes and struggles in the face of those challenges, this thesis conducts case studies of four key Honolulu arts organizations: the Honolulu Museum of Art, the ARTS at Marks Garage, POW! WOW! Hawaiʻi, and the Honolulu Biennial Foundation. Results show that these organizations can best overcome their common challenges by pooling resources in the form of knowledge, money, space, and people; advocating for cultural tourism; and investing in long-term collaborative programming and arts education initiatives.
Outflows and accretion in a star--disc system with stellar magnetosphere and disc dynamo
Creators: name: von Rekowski, Brigitta
name: Brandenburg, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction between a protostellar magnetosphere and a surrounding dynamo-active accretion disc is investigated using an axisymmetric mean-field model. In all models investigated, the dynamo-generated magnetic field in the disc arranges itself such that in the corona, the field threading the disc is anti-aligned with the central dipole so that no X-point forms. When the magnetospheric field is strong enough (stellar surface field strength around 2 kG or larger), accretion happens in a recurrent fashion with periods of around 15 to 30 days, which is somewhat longer than the stellar rotation period of around 10 days. In the case of a stellar surface field strength of at least a few 100 G, the star is being spun up by the magnetic torque exerted on the star. The stellar accretion rates are always reduced by the presence of a magnetosphere which tends to divert a much larger fraction of the disc material into the wind. Both, a pressure-driven stellar wind and a disc wind form. In all our models with disc dynamo, the disc wind is structured and driven by magneto-centrifugal as well as pressure forces.
description: 16 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
“THE LOCAL” AND “THE TOURIST”: SHARED CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR HONOLULU ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Creators: name: Helper, Natalie
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 4302
subject: Heritage, archive and museum studies

description: Operating within the overlapping and sometimes-conflicting spheres of the tourist and the local, arts organizations in Hawaiʻi face shared challenges in the form of Hawaiʻi’s brand, limited resources, and accessibility issues. To identify common successes and struggles in the face of those challenges, this thesis conducts case studies of four key Honolulu arts organizations: the Honolulu Museum of Art, the ARTS at Marks Garage, POW! WOW! Hawaiʻi, and the Honolulu Biennial Foundation. Results show that these organizations can best overcome their common challenges by pooling resources in the form of knowledge, money, space, and people; advocating for cultural tourism; and investing in long-term collaborative programming and arts education initiatives.
Characterization of a novel antimicrobial protein produced by the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. SW21
Creators: name: Barnett, Pamela
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this study was to characterize the antibiotic activity associated with a cell-free extract of marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. SW21. This bacterium produces a potent antibiotic compound that inhibited the growth of sixty-one strains of bacteria and delayed the growth of ten strains of bacteria and fungi. The compound was produced, in its most robust form, in 3-day-old bacterial lawns grown on agar, and was stable at both 4°C and -20°C. Physical and chemical analyses suggest that the compound is a 75 - 100-kDa protein. These characteristics, along with the significance of the environment that Pseudoalteromonas sp. SW21 was isolated from, indicate that the antibiotic activity exhibited by the SW21 cell-free extract may be due to a new class of antibiotic with a novel mechanism of action, making the compound ideal for further drug development.
Emancipation of Workers' and Management Thoughts for Leveraging Performance in the Public Sector
Creators: name: Sakaya, Ansgar J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140214 Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The study aimed at examining the role of Job Security in influencing workers' Performance in the Public Sector. Data were gathered through survey questionnaire from sample of 60 workers at Tandahimba district Council Head quarter in Tanzania. Sampling strategies used were stratified and simple random sampling. Data were analysed quantitatively through descriptive statistics-compared means, ANOVA, t-test, Kruskal-Wallis test and Factors analysis. Findings indicate that, significant differences exist between workers and their demographic characteristics towards job performance and job security; moreover, they also account for a portion of their performance problems. Persistence of performance problems in the public sector has been attributed to Governance factors like proficiency problems of line-managers. Behaviour factors of workers like poor attitude towards the employer, public funds and properties. Economic factors like workers' over-dependence on the government. The study recommends people in management levels in the public sector of Tanzania to embark on proper strategic management practices as all best practices for managing workers and their performance have already been laid down; the issue is how to use them strategically for better outcomes of workers and the government excellence. Helping Public workers to understand that, they are expected to be more patriotic in serving the public interest, act in due diligence in protecting public properties and funds, continue insisting public workers on the role of self-values and integrity in public service as it will help them couple with complex work
Optically-Induced Suppression of Spin Relaxation in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems with Rashba Interaction
Creators: name: Pershin, Yuriy V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A pulsed technique for electrons in 2D systems, in some ways analogous to spin echo in nuclear magnetic resonance, is discussed. We show that a sequence of optical below-band gap pulses can be used to suppress the electron spin relaxation due to the D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation mechanism. The spin relaxation time is calculated for several pulse sequences within a Monte Carlo simulation scheme. The maximum of spin relaxation time as a function of magnitude/width of the pulses corresponds to $π$-pulse. It is important that even relatively distant pulses efficiently suppress spin relaxation.
USA Today Poll: Teenagers
Creators: name: Family Weekly
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Most serious problem(1); life satisfaction(3); personal habits(22); family relations(6); Television viewership(3); education(3); employment and financial record(4); life plans and expectations(8); employment preferences(2); consumption habits(1); sex-related issues(6); religion (3).