cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Perceived Difference between Male and Female Managers: A Case of Five Selected Ministry Offices in Addis Ababa.
Creators: name: Bekele, Abraham
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2010

description: Whether men and women behave differently in managerial roles is a much debated question. Many scholars developed different theories about the impacts of gender roles in understanding differences between male and female managers. Most studies also proved that gender role stereotyping resulted differences between male and female managers leadership style, value systems, effectiveness, career advancements, etc. Thus, this study was planned to examine the perceived differences between male and female managers on the job (in Ethiopian context) by using managers self and their subordinates' evaluation. The study was conducted from the randomly selected five ministry offices found in Addis Ababa. The already developed Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSI) and Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) were used as data collection tools. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) on statistical measures was performed based on the number of responses obtained from male female managers self and subordinates evaluations. The most interesting finding revealed in this research is the presence of gender differences in leadership style. Both male and female managers were rated to exhibit more transformational leadership behaviors than transactional leadership behaviors. However, female managers were rated to exhibit significantly more transformational behaviors than male managers, F(1, 111) = 18.954, P<0.001 and male managers were rated to exhibit significantly more transactional behaviors F(1, 111) = 21.662, P<0.001 than female managers. The other significant finding of this study is that male managers are rated to be more masculine than female managers and female managers are more feminine than male counter parts. Gender role stereotyping is found to be the cause of most of the differences revealed in this study.
Dicteisia abdominalis Carriker & Diaz-Ungria 1961
Creators: name: Kuabara, Kamila M. D.
name: Valim, Michel P.
name: Silveira, Luís Fábio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Menoponidae
Dicteisia
Dicteisia abdominalis

description: Dicteisia abdominalis Carriker & Díaz-Ungría, 1961: 38 (Fig. 2A) Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela. Distribution in Brazil: no further data (Price, 1968), "Amazonia″ (present study).
description: Published as part of Kuabara, Kamila M. D., Valim, Michel P. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2023, New records of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) parasites of Brazilian Anhimidae, Threskiornithidae, and Aramidae (Aves), pp. 1-13 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 5, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.020, http://zenodo.org/record/8135255
description: {"references": ["Carriker, M. A. Jr. & Diaz-Ungria, C. 1961. New and little known Mallophaga from Venezuelan birds (Part I). Novedades Cientificas. Serie zoolOgica: contribuiciones ocasionales del Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, 28: 1 - 60.", "Price, R. D. 1968. A review of the genus Dicteisia Bedford (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) with descriptions of a new species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 5 (4): 445 - 452. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 5.4.445."]}
The Cost of Seven-brane Gauge Symmetry in a Quadrillion F-theory Compactifications
Creators: name: Halverson, James
name: Tian, Jiahua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study seven-branes in $O(10^{15})$ four-dimensional F-theory compactifications where seven-brane moduli must be tuned in order to achieve non-abelian gauge symmetry. The associated compact spaces $B$ are the set of all smooth weak Fano toric threefolds. By a study of fine star regular triangulations of three dimensional reflexive polytopes, the number of such spaces is estimated to be $5.8\times 10^{14}\lesssim N_\text{bases}\lesssim 1.8\times 10^{17}$. Typically hundreds or thousands of moduli must be tuned to achieve symmetry for $h^{11}(B)<10$, but the average number drops sharply into the range $O(25)$-$O(200)$ as $h^{11}(B)$ increases. For some low rank groups, such as $SU(2)$ and $SU(3)$, there exist examples where only a few moduli must be tuned in order to achieve seven-brane gauge symmetry.
description: 11 pages
A generic framework for the development of geospatial processing pipelines on clusters
Creators: name: Cresson, Remi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The amount of remote sensing data available to applications is constantly growing due to the rise of very-high-resolution sensors and short repeat cycle satellites. Consequently, tackling computational complexity in Earth Observation information extraction is rising as a major challenge. Resorting to High Performance Computing (HPC) is becoming a common practice, since it provides environments and programming facilities able to speed-up processes. In particular, clusters are flexible, cost-effective systems able to perform data-intensive tasks ideally fulfilling any computational requirement. However, their use typically implies a significant coding effort to build proper implementations of specific processing pipelines. This paper presents a generic framework for the development of RS images processing applications targeting cluster computing. It is based on common open sources libraries, and leverages the parallelization of a wide variety of image processing pipelines in a transparent way. Performances on typical RS tasks implemented using the proposed framework demonstrate a great potential for the effective and timely processing of large amount of data.
Practices and Challenges of Ethiopian Social Security Agency Pension Funds Investment
Creators: name: Amare, Hiwot
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: This study was undertaken to assess the practices and challenges of pension funds investment in Ethiopian Social Security Agency. The primary data were collected from seven key informants who had specialized knowledge about the pension funds investment of the Agency. This was supplemented by secondary data. The researcher used a mixed approach study where the quantitative data show existing pension funds investment practices of the agency quantitatively and the qualitative data shows the opinion of respondents regarding pension fund investment practices at SSA and related issues. The study result show that the attainment of unsatisfactory return on pension funds investment, concentration of the funds on non- marketable and, short-term assets which yield low return, and lack of standard investment practices like, lack of investment policy, detail and exhaustive investment guideline, unable to measure performance periodically and disclose to the public, and unable to follow the existing guideline in its investment activities. The agency's investment activities has been influencing by implicit and explicit government intervention specially, the invested pension fund in one way or another way has been used as a captive source of finance for government .In addition, underdeveloped financial market, limited expertise in the area, low market return and low understanding about the fund from officials have been challenging the investment of pension funds in SSA. Key words: pension funds, pension funds investment, Social security Agency
Design and implementation issues in hypermedia application development
Creators: name: Gedge, Renee.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Formulário de Avaliação do Sistema eBus
Creators: name: Silva, Mariana Guedes da
name: Amaral, Matheus Amorim
name: Matias, Willian Reis Milani
name: Dalpra, Gabriella Castro Barbosa Costa
name: Mendes, Luís Augusto Mattos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Cópia do Formulário de Avaliação do Sistema eBus, criado no google Forms.
New method of 85Kr reduction in a noble gas based low-background detector
Creators: name: Akimov, D. Yu.
name: Bolozdynya, A. I.
name: Burenkov, A. A.
name: Hall, C.
name: Kovalenko, A. G.
name: Kuzminov, V. V.
name: Simakov, G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Krypton-85 is an anthropogenic beta-decaying isotope which produces low energy backgrounds in dark matter and neutrino experiments, especially those based upon liquid xenon. Several technologies have been developed to reduce the Kr concentration in such experiments. We propose to augment those separation technologies by first adding to the xenon an 85Kr-free sample of krypton in an amount much larger than the natural krypton that is already present. After the purification system reduces the total Kr concentration to the same level, the final 85Kr concentration will have been reduced even further by the dilution factor. A test cell for measurement of the activity of various Kr samples has been assembled, and the activity of 25-year-old Krypton has been measured. The measured activity agrees well with the expected activity accounting for the 85Kr abundance of the earth atmosphere in 1990 and the half-life of the isotope. Additional tests with a Kr sample produced in the year 1944 (before the atomic era) have been done in order to demonstrate the sensitivity of the test cell.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Assessing Performance of Micro and Small Enterprises in Oromia Regional State
Creators: name: Hawando, Alemu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: This research aimed at assessing the performance of MSEs met merits special consideration of development of small scale Enterprises. It tried to answer three important questions: What are the major internal and external challenges, opportunities and prospects in development of Small Scale to medium scale enterprise? What are the key strategies used to develop MSEs and to solve the challenges faced by the SMEs transitional development of Small Scale to medium scale enterprise? Do all MSEs actors in government sectors play their role according to the MSEs strategy? With the above objectives in mind, data were gathered through Questionnaire, Review of both published and unpublished materials. The information gleaned through questionnaire from a sample of 352 operators in Oromia region of the selected zones and woredas. Eventually, using a mix of qualitative and quantitative tools, the study found out major challenges, which seem to affect development of small scale Enterprises in Oromia regional state that include: implementation problems related to government bodies at each level, inadequate finance. For the above challenges, better the Oromia regional government bodies provide affordable alternative sources of finance and strengthen it's institutions at different levels, to play a major role in positively influencing the development of MSEs. Hence, there is a need for strengthening the MSEs growth, based on findings, recommendations to government bodies, to operators of MSEs and suggestions for other researchers are forwarded. KEY WORDS: MSEs, Entrepreneurs, Performance, challenges, Prospects
A STUDY ON APPLICATION OF YOGIC PRACTICES TO ASSESS RESTING HEART RATE AMONG HANDBALL PLAYERS
Creators: name: Jayakeerthy H T, Dr. B. S. Sha Yin Sha & Dr. Gajanana Prabhu B
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic practices on resting heart rate among handball players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, thirty school handball players from Shivamoga, Karnataka were selected as subjects and their age shall ranged from 15 to 17 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups. The study was formulated as a true random group design, consisting of a pre-test and post-test. The subjects (N=30) were randomly assigned to two equal groups of fifteen subjects each. The groups were assigned as yogic practices group (YPG) and control group (CG) in an equivalent manner. The experimental group were participated the training for a period of six weeks to find out the outcome of the training package. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was applied. The yogic practices group (YPG) had shown significant reduction in resting heart rate.
Dicteisia keleri Price 1968
Creators: name: Kuabara, Kamila M. D.
name: Valim, Michel P.
name: Silveira, Luís Fábio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Menoponidae
Dicteisia
Dicteisia keleri

description: Dicteisia keleri Price, 1968: 448 (Fig. 2B) Distribution: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay. Distribution in Brazil: MT (Price, 1968; present study), MS (Price, 1968). Hosts: Anhima cornuta (Linnaeus, 1766), Chauna torquata (Oken, 1816) (type host) (Anhimidae). Material examined: 1♂ (#7173) ex Chauna torquata (#98649), Rio Guaporé (15°03′01.18″S, 59°05′32.07″W), Vila Bela da Santísima Trindade, Mato Grosso, Brazil, 26.II.2014, L.F. Silveira col.
description: Published as part of Kuabara, Kamila M. D., Valim, Michel P. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2023, New records of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) parasites of Brazilian Anhimidae, Threskiornithidae, and Aramidae (Aves), pp. 1-13 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on pages 5-7, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.020, http://zenodo.org/record/8135255
description: {"references": ["Price, R. D. 1968. A review of the genus Dicteisia Bedford (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) with descriptions of a new species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 5 (4): 445 - 452. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 5.4.445."]}
Dicteisia palamedea Eichler 1954
Creators: name: Kuabara, Kamila M. D.
name: Valim, Michel P.
name: Silveira, Luís Fábio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Menoponidae
Dicteisia
Dicteisia palamedea

description: Dicteisia palamedea Eichler, 1954: 43 (Fig. 2C) Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru. Distribution in Brazil: no further data (Price, 1968), "Amazonia″ (present study).
description: Published as part of Kuabara, Kamila M. D., Valim, Michel P. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2023, New records of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) parasites of Brazilian Anhimidae, Threskiornithidae, and Aramidae (Aves), pp. 1-13 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 7, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.020, http://zenodo.org/record/8135255
description: {"references": ["Eichler, W. 1954. Peruanische Mallophagen. In: Titischack, E. Beitrage zur Fauna Perus, nach der ausbeute der hamburg sudperu-expedition. Jena, G. Fisher. v. 4, p. 28 - 62.", "Price, R. D. 1968. A review of the genus Dicteisia Bedford (Mallophaga: Menoponidae) with descriptions of a new species. Journal of Medical Entomology, 5 (4): 445 - 452. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / jmedent / 5.4.445."]}
title: Dropout analysis in an internet based intervention study
Creators: name: Morrissey, Leonard Thomas
Year: 2023

description: Hohe Dropoutraten stellen ein großes Problem für Online-Studien, Online-Trainings sowie Online-Interventionen dar. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht mögliche Faktoren und Gründe für den verfrühten Abbruch der Studie anhand einer Stichprobe von 95 Proband*innen einer deutschlandweiten Online-Studie. Die Studie testet eine Intervention für depressiv belastete Menschen, die mithilfe imaginationsgestützter Verhaltensaktivierung in der Planung und Ausführung angenehmer Tätigkeiten unterstützt werden sollen. Die Thesis unterscheidet sich von der bereits existierenden Literatur dahingehend, dass Faktoren wie Computer-Selbstwirksamkeit und psychiatrische Diagnosen in die Dropout-Analyse integriert wurden. Außerdem wurden Proband*innen nach ihrem Dropout nochmals kontaktiert. Damit bietet die Arbeit ein Framework zur Dropoutanalyse für zukünftige Studien. Es konnte nur einer der untersuchten, potentiell prädiktiven Dropoutfaktoren statistisch bestätigt werden. So konnte gezeigt werden, dass in der untersuchten Stichprobe die Teilnehmer*innen, die die Studie abgebrochen hatten signifikant jünger waren als diejenigen, die die Studie zu Ende geführt haben (d = 0.52). Die Thesis erläutert die Probleme hoher Abbruchraten insbesondere in online-basierten Interventionen und skizziert potentielle Strategien zur systematischen Analyse und Prävention vorzeitiger Studienabbrüche.
description: High dropout rates remain a pivotal challenge in online studies and interventions. Generalisable predictive factors of dropout remain unclear as high quality analyses are rare. In the present thesis, 95 participants within a mental imagery behavioural activation training for depression in a Germany-wide study were analysed and potentially predictive factors of early dropout were examined. The work adds new facets to the existing literature as it incorporates factors like Computer Self-Efficacy and psychiatric diagnoses as well as contacting participants after an early dropout, thus providing a new and comprehensive framework for future research and dropout analysis. Only one of the analysed factors analysed in this thesis could be statistically confirmed, finding that age, in line with previous literature, is a valid predictor of dropout in the present sample (d = 0.52). This thesis discusses problems of high attrition and dropout rates and aims at proposing strategies to reduce attrition and enhance participant engagement.
Knowledge graphs for interoperable NFDI: Digital editions
Creators: name: Shigapov, Renat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: NFDI is a distributed, multidisciplinary, research data infrastructure involving many stakeholders, various data management software and numerous metadata standards. To ensure FAIRness in NFDI, multiple activities, sections and working groups were initiated. One of them is the working group "Knowledge graphs" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7515324) in the NFDI section "(Meta)data, Terminologies, Provenance" (https://www.nfdi.de/section-metadata). Knowledge graphs are used to implement the FAIR principles and to ensure interoperability for both humans and machines. I talk here about interoperable NFDI, interoperable digital editions and Knowledge Graph Infrastructure as a Service in NFDI.
description: Changes in comparison with the original presentation: 1) Slide 1: DOI 2) Slide 9: "metadata" instead of "(meta)data". 3) Slide 10: "humanities data repo" instead of "Text+ data repo"
Chromospheric and Coronal Wave Generation in a Magnetic Flux Sheath
Creators: name: Kato, Yoshiaki
name: Steiner, Osker
name: Hansteen, Viggo
name: Gudiksen, Boris
name: Wedemeyer, Sven
name: Carlsson, Mats
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the solar atmospheric layers from the upper convection zone to the lower corona, we investigate the self-consistent excitation of slow magneto-acoustic body waves (slow modes) in a magnetic flux concentration. We find that the convective downdrafts in the close surroundings of a two-dimensional flux slab "pump" the plasma inside it in the downward direction. This action produces a downflow inside the flux slab, which encompasses ever higher layers, causing an upwardly propagating rarefaction wave. The slow mode, excited by the adiabatic compression of the downflow near the optical surface, travels along the magnetic field in the upward direction at the tube speed. It develops into a shock wave at chromospheric heights, where it dissipates, lifts the transition region, and produces an offspring in the form of a compressive wave that propagates further into the corona. In the wake of downflows and propagating shock waves, the atmosphere inside the flux slab in the chromosphere and higher tends to oscillate with a period of $ν\approx 4$~mHz. We conclude that this process of "magnetic pumping" is a most plausible mechanism for the direct generation of longitudinal chromospheric and coronal compressive waves within magnetic flux concentrations, and it may provide an important heat source in the chromosphere. It may also be responsible for certain types of dynamic fibrils.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, accepted in ApJ
title: Die Frau als Laie
Creators: name: Engel, Tamara Benedikte Johanna
Year: 2023

description: Die Master-Thesis ist inhaltlich in zwei Teile geteilt. Der erste Teil soll dazu dienen, die Etymologie des Begriffs „Laie“, der einen Stand in der katholischen Kirche bezeichnet, darzulegen und die historische Prägung, die maßgeblich für das Verständnis des Laien und seinen Status in der Kirche waren, aufzuzeigen. Insbesondere soll auf die positive Auslegung des Laienbegriffs im Verständnis des „Würdebegriffs“, der sich seit dem Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil entwickelt hat und seine juridischen Niederschrift im Codex Iuris Canonici von 1983 fand, eingegangen werden und darlegen, welche Rechte und Pflichten Laien haben. Im zweiten Teil der Ausarbeitung wird der Schwerpunkt auf die Frau als „Laie“ gerichtet. Hierbei wird die „Position“ der Frau in einen kurzen kirchenhistorischen Kontext gesetzt, bevor im Weiteren eine Geschlechtergerechtigkeit unter Laien geprüft wird. Insbesondere wird in diesem Zusammenhang betrachtet, ob Frauen von Natur aus Begabungen mit sich bringen, die sie dazu befähigen ihr Apostolat in besonderer Weise auszuüben und sie Fähigkeiten besitzen, die für die Mitwirkung am Leitungsamt unerlässlich sein könnten. Die Ausführungen sollen dazu dienen einen Ausblick zu Auswirkungen, Problemen und Grenzen zu geben.
description: The Master´s thesis is divided into two parts. The first part is intended to explain the etymology of the term "layperson", which denotes a status in the Catholic Church, and to show the historical influences that were decisive for the understanding of the layperson and his or her status in the Church. In particular, the positive interpretation of the concept of the laity in the understanding of the "concept of dignity", which has developed since the Second Vatican Council and found its juridical record in the Codex Iuris Canonici of 1983, will be dealt with and the rights and duties of the laity will be explained. In the second part of the paper, the focus will be set on women as "laity". Here, the "position" of women will be placed in a brief church-historical context before examining gender justice among the laity. In particular, it will be considered in this context whether women by nature have talents that enable them to exercise their apostolate in a special way and whether they possess abilities that could be indispensable for participation in the office of leadership. The explanations are intended to give an outlook on the effects, problems and limits.
Non-performing Assets and Their Impact on Financial Performance of Commercial Banks in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Ayalew, Addisu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Non-performing assets are always a center of concern for banks as well as all in the business world as a sound financial system, among other things, requires maintenance of a low level of non-performing assets. In this regard, to control the increasing non-performing assets in Ethiopian banking sector, the National Bank of Ethiopia issued a directive which strictly requires all banks to maintain ratio of their non -performing assets below five percent. The main objective of this study is, therefore, to examine the impact of non-performing assets on financial performance of Ethiopian commercial banks as increasing trend of non-performing assets are still a concern of some banks. Research hypothesis is developed which inquires the relationship and effect of non-performing assets on commercial banks financial performance. A quantitative approach is employed for the required data collection and a sample of six commercial banks are selected for data collection on a cross sectional basis for nine years. The data is then anayzed using descriptive, correlation and regression techniques through SPSS sofware pachage. .The findings of the study revealed that non-performing assets have statistically significant negative impact on the financial performance (ROA) of Ethiopian commercial banks in agreement with the hypothesis. Moreover, loan loss provision and capital adequacy ratios refleced an inverse and direct causal relationship with financial performance of commercial banks (ROA) respectively. Therefore, it is recommended that commercial banks in Ethiopia should enhance their capacity in credit analysis and loan administration while the regulatory authority should pay more attention to bank's compliance to relevant provisions of the bank and other prudential guidelines. Key words: Non-Performing Assets, Financial performance
Plegadiphilus plegadis
Creators: name: Kuabara, Kamila M. D.
name: Valim, Michel P.
name: Silveira, Luís Fábio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Menoponidae
Plegadiphilus
Plegadiphilus plegadis

description: Plegadiphilus plegadis (Dubinin, 1938: 178) (Fig. 2E) Distribution: Argentina, Brazil (present study), Russia, USA. Distribution in Brazil: SP (present study). Hosts: Plegadis chihi (Vieillot, 1817), P. falcinellus (Linnaeus, 1766) (type host) (Threskiornithidae). Material examined: 2♂ 1N (#7168-70) ex P.chihi (#9792), Rio Pinheiros (23°32′S, 46°44′W), São Paulo, Brazil, III.1906, J. Florencio col. 1♂ 1N (#7166-67) ex P. chihi (#9792), Iguape (24°43′S, 47°33′W, msl), São Paulo, Brazil, 20.V.1904, R. Krone col.
description: Published as part of Kuabara, Kamila M. D., Valim, Michel P. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2023, New records of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) parasites of Brazilian Anhimidae, Threskiornithidae, and Aramidae (Aves), pp. 1-13 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 7, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.020, http://zenodo.org/record/8135255
description: {"references": ["Dubinin, W. B. 1938. Ismenenija parasitofauny karavajki (Plegadis falcinellus) vysyvajemyje vosrostom i migracjej chosiaina. Trudy Astrachanskogo Gosudarstvennogo Zapovednika, 2: 114 - 212. [in Russian]"]}
String-localized free vector and tensor potentials for massive particles with any spin: I. Bosons
Creators: name: Mund, Jens
name: de Oliveira, Erichardson T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well-known that a (point-localized) free quantum field for massive particles with spin $s$ acting in a Hilbert space has at best scaling dimension $s+1$, which excludes its use in the perturbative construction of renormalizable interacting models for higher spin ($s\geq 1$). Up to date, such models have been constructed only in the context of gauge theory, at the cost of introducing additional unphysical (ghost) fields and an unphysical (indefinite metric) state space. The unphysical degrees of freedom are divided out by requiring gauge (or BRST) invariance. We construct free quantum fields for higher spin particles which have the same good UV behaviour as the scalar field (scaling dimension one), and at the same time act on a Hilbert space without ghosts. They are localized on semi-infinite strings extending to space-like infinity, but are linearly related to their point-local counterparts. We argue that this is sufficient locality for a perturbative construction of interacting models of the gauge theory type, with a string-independent S-matrix and point-localized interacting observable fields. The usual principle of gauge-invariance is here replaced by the (deeper) principle of locality.
description: 38 pages. Minor modifications; references added
A comparative study of visualization techniques for data mining
Creators: name: Redpath, Robert.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The Erdös-Hajnal Conjecture---A Survey
Creators: name: Chudnovsky, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Erdös-Hajnal conjecture states that for every graph $H$, there exists a constant $δ(H) > 0$ such that every graph $G$ with no induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$ has either a clique or a stable set of size at least $|V(G)|^{δ(H)}$. This paper is a survey of some of the known results on this conjecture.
A big-data spatial, temporal and network analysis of bovine tuberculosis between wildlife (badgers) and cattle
Creators: name: Moustakas, Aristides
name: Evans, Matthew R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bovine tuberculosis (TB) poses a serious threat for agricultural industry in several countries, it involves potential interactions between wildlife and cattle and creates societal problems in terms of human-wildlife conflict. This study addresses connectedness network analysis, the spatial, and temporal dynamics of TB between cattle in farms and the European badger (Meles meles) using a large dataset generated by a calibrated agent based model. Results showed that infected network connectedness was lower in badgers than in cattle. The contribution of an infected individual to the mean distance of disease spread over time was considerably lower for badger than cattle; badgers mainly spread the disease locally while cattle infected both locally and across longer distances. The majority of badger-induced infections occurred when individual badgers leave their home sett, and this was positively correlated with badger population growth rates. Point pattern analysis indicated aggregation in the spatial pattern of TB prevalence in badger setts across all scales. The spatial distribution of farms that were not TB free was aggregated at different scales than the spatial distribution of infected badgers and became random at larger scales. The spatial cross correlation between infected badger setts and infected farms revealed that generally infected setts and farms do not coexist except at few scales. Temporal autocorrelation detected a two year infection cycle for badgers, while there was both within the year and longer cycles for infected cattle. Temporal cross correlation indicated that infection cycles in badgers and cattle are negatively correlated. The implications of these results for understanding the dynamics of the disease are discussed.
description: to appear in the journal Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment
Feasibility of database synchronization in wireless telecommunication devices
Creators: name: Xie, Kehao.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Ardeicola praegracilis Carriker 1960
Creators: name: Kuabara, Kamila M. D.
name: Valim, Michel P.
name: Silveira, Luís Fábio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Ardeicola
Ardeicola praegracilis

description: Ardeicola praegracilis Carriker, 1960: 321 (Fig. 3B) Distribution: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia. Distribution in Brazil: RS (Valim et al., 2009), BA, PA (present study). Hosts: Phimosus infuscatus (Lichtenstein, 1823), P. i. berlepschi Hellmayr, 1903 (type host) (Threskiornithidae). Material examined: 1♂ 1♀ 2N (#7248-51) ex Phimosus infuscatus nudifrons (#83734), Fazenda Fartura (09°42′S, 50°24′W), Santana do Araguaia, Pará, Brazil, 03.IX.2009, L.F.Silveira col. 1♂ 1♀ (#7252-53) ex P.i.nudifrons (#40753), Rio Preto (11°21′S, 43°52′W), Santa Rita de Cássia, Bahia, Brazil, 28.III.1958, E. Dente col.
description: Published as part of Kuabara, Kamila M. D., Valim, Michel P. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2023, New records of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) parasites of Brazilian Anhimidae, Threskiornithidae, and Aramidae (Aves), pp. 1-13 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on pages 7-9, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.020, http://zenodo.org/record/8135255
description: {"references": ["Carriker Jr., M. A. 1960. New species of Ardeicola (Mallophaga) from Colombian hosts. Novedades Colombianas, 1 (5): 317 - 329.", "Valim, M. P.; Lambrecht, F. M. & Vianna, E. E. S. 2009. New records of chewing lice (Insecta, Phthiraptera) from birds of southern Brazil, with description of a new species. Iheringia. Serie Zoologia, 99 (3): 249 - 258. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0073 - 47212009000300004."]}
Alpha Visage Canada
Creators: name: Alpha Visage
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Alpha Visage, Alpha visage canada, Alpha Visage Ingredients, Alpha Visage Moisturizer

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Road Curb Extraction from Mobile LiDAR Point Clouds
Creators: name: Xu, Sheng
name: Wang, Ruisheng
name: Zheng, Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic extraction of road curbs from uneven, unorganized, noisy and massive 3D point clouds is a challenging task. Existing methods often project 3D point clouds onto 2D planes to extract curbs. However, the projection causes loss of 3D information which degrades the performance of the detection. This paper presents a robust, accurate and efficient method to extract road curbs from 3D mobile LiDAR point clouds. Our method consists of two steps: 1) extracting the candidate points of curbs based on the proposed novel energy function and 2) refining the candidate points using the proposed least cost path model. We evaluated our method on a large-scale of residential area (16.7GB, 300 million points) and an urban area (1.07GB, 20 million points) mobile LiDAR point clouds. Results indicate that the proposed method is superior to the state-of-the-art methods in terms of robustness, accuracy and efficiency. The proposed curb extraction method achieved a completeness of 78.62% and a correctness of 83.29%. These experiments demonstrate that the proposed method is a promising solution to extract road curbs from mobile LiDAR point clouds.
Finding binaries from phase modulation of pulsating stars with Kepler. IV. Detection limits and radial velocity verification
Creators: name: Murphy, Simon J.
name: Shibahashi, Hiromoto
name: Bedding, Timothy R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the detection limits of the phase modulation (PM) method of finding binary systems among multi-periodic pulsating stars. The method is an attractive way of finding non-transiting planets in the habitable zones of intermediate mass stars, whose rapid rotation inhibits detections via the radial velocity (RV) method. While oscillation amplitudes of a few mmag are required to find planets, many $δ$ Scuti stars have these amplitudes. In sub-optimal cases where the signal-to-noise of the oscillations is lower, low-mass brown dwarfs ($\sim$13 M$_{\rm Jup}$) are detectable at orbital periods longer than about 1 yr, and the lowest mass main-sequence stars (0.1-0.2 M$_{\odot}$) are detectable at all orbital periods where the PM method can be applied. We use purpose-written Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) software for the calculation of the PM orbits, which offers robust uncertainties for comparison with RV solutions. Using Kepler data and ground-based RVs, we verify that these two methods are in agreement, even at short orbital periods where the PM method undersamples the orbit. We develop new theory to account for the undersampling of the time delays, which is also necessary for the inclusion of RVs as observational data in the MCMC software. We show that combining RVs with time delays substantially refines the orbits because of the complementarity of working in both the spatial (PM) and velocity (RV) domains simultaneously. Software outputs were tested through an extensive hare and hounds exercise, covering a wide range of orbital configurations including binaries containing two pulsators.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures (most of which are in colour). Accepted for publication in MNRAS. v2: there was a missing '/' in eq (16). We have reformulated the equation
Single Spin Magnetic Resonance
Creators: name: Wrachtrup, Jörg
name: Finkler, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different approaches have improved the sensitivity of either electron or nuclear magnetic resonance to the single spin level. For optical detection it has essentially become routine to observe a single electron spin or nuclear spin. Typically, the systems in use are carefully designed to allow for single spin detection and manipulation, and of those systems, diamond spin defects rank very high, being so robust that they can be addressed, read out and coherently controlled even under ambient conditions and in a versatile set of nanostructures. This renders them as a new type of sensor, which has been shown to detect single electron and nuclear spins among other quantities like force, pressure and temperature. Adapting pulse sequences from classic NMR and EPR, and combined with high resolution optical microscopy, proximity to the target sample and nanoscale size, the diamond sensors have the potential to constitute a new class of magnetic resonance detectors with single spin sensitivity. As diamond sensors can be operated under ambient conditions, they offer potential application across a multitude of disciplines. Here we review the different existing techniques for magnetic resonance, with a focus on diamond defect spin sensors, showing their potential as versatile sensors for ultra-sensitive magnetic resonance with nanoscale spatial resolution.
description: To appear as "Perspectives" in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance
Ardeicola rhaphidius
Creators: name: Kuabara, Kamila M. D.
name: Valim, Michel P.
name: Silveira, Luís Fábio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Ardeicola
Ardeicola rhaphidius

description:  Ardeicola rhaphidius (Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1866: 384) (Fig. 3C) Distribution: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, USA. Distribution in Brazil: SC (Eichler, 1943; Tuff, 1967), SP (present study). Hosts: Plegadis chihi (Vieillot, 1817), P. falcinellus (Linnaeus, 1766) (type host) (Threskiornithidae). Material examined: 1♂ (#7243) ex P. chihi (#9792), Rio Pinheiros (23°32′S, 46°44′W), São Paulo, Brazil, III.1906, J. Florencio col. 1♂ (#7244) ex P. chihi (#2152), Iguape (24°43′S, 47°33′W, msl), São Paulo, Brazil, 20.V.1904, R. Krone col. 1♀ 2N (#7245-47) ex P. chihi (#1934), same locality, 30.IV.1901, same collector.
description: Published as part of Kuabara, Kamila M. D., Valim, Michel P. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2023, New records of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) parasites of Brazilian Anhimidae, Threskiornithidae, and Aramidae (Aves), pp. 1-13 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 9, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.020, http://zenodo.org/record/8135255
description: {"references": ["Eichler, W. 1943. Notulae Mallophagologicae VI. Uber acht meist neue Federlingsarten aus Sudamerika. MemOrias e Estudos do Museu Zoologico da Universidade de Coimbra, 140: 1 - 7.", "Tuff, D. W. 1967. A review of North American Ardeicola (Mallophaga: Philopteridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 40 (2): 241 - 263."]}
Charged dust grain dynamics subject to solar wind, Poynting-Robertson drag, and the interplanetary magnetic field
Creators: name: Lhotka, Christoph
name: Bourdin, Philippe
name: Narita, Yasuhito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the combined effect of solar wind, Poynting-Robertson drag, and the frozen-in interplanetary magnetic field on the motion of charged dust grains in our solar system. For this reason we derive a secular theory of motion by the means of averaging method and validate it with numerical simulations of the un-averaged equations of motions. The theory predicts that the secular motion of charged particles is mainly affected by the z-component of the solar magnetic axis, or the normal component of the interplanetary magnetic field. The normal component of the interplanetary magnetic field leads to an increase or decrease of semi-major axis depending on its functional form and sign of charge of the dust grain. It is generally accepted that the combined effects of solar wind and photon absorption and re-emmision (Poynting-Robertson drag) lead to a decrease in semi-major axis on secular time scales. On the contrary, we demonstrate that the interplanetary magnetic field may counteract these drag forces under certain circumstances. We derive a simple relation between the parameters of the magnetic field, the physical properties of the dust grain as well as the shape and orientation of the orbital ellipse of the particle, which is a necessary conditions for the stabilization in semi-major axis.
description: 32 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Performance issues in current and future electronic commerce architectures
Creators: name: Rodrigo, Thushari Deshani.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Gender Diversity in Top Management and Its Impact on Firm's Financial Performance in the Case of Ethiopian Financial Institution
Creators: name: Bekele, Netsanet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2013

description: The study has two objectives: first, to examine the impact of gender diversity in management on firm financial; second, To explore the perceptions of women and men managers of financial firms regarding the factors in the appointment of managerial position, and about women manager behaved differently compared to men in a similar position. Additional, the most essential finding for the current study - the presence of diversity in managerial position affect firm performance. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were utilized. The sample was collect from Ethiopian in year 2005-2008. The quantitative data was taken from annual reports of the sample firms and it was analyzed using eviews version 6. Several managers were also interviewed to gain further insights and thematic analysis was utilized to analyze this qualitative data. Surprisingly, the results both quantitative analysis shows that gender diversity has positive influences on firm financial performance, which was measured by using ROA. Both women and men managers, believe that they may bring positive effect in organizational improvement, which may then enhance firm performance as a whole. This means that, gender diversity in context Ethiopian may not by itself achieve much for firm value although women managers may enhance the profitability of firms as a result of their collaborative work with management. Consequently, firms may need to carefully consider what "added value" is likely to result from the inclusion of women in the managerial position. Gender diversity in management and its impact on firm's financial performance
title: Nutztiere im Kapitalismus
Creators: name: Schönauer-Balajan, Magdalena
Year: 2023

description: Eine der aktuell brennenden Fragen im (auch nicht-akademischen) tierethischen Diskurs betrifft die Haltung von und den Umgang mit Tieren in der Landwirtschaft. Diese Arbeit widmet sich der Beantwortung der Fragestellung, wie Tiere, jenseits klassischer tierethischer Positionen, als spezifische Gruppen – der Gruppe der Nutztiere – in konkreten gesellschaftlichen Kontexten – dem kapitalistischen Wirtschaftssystem – politisch und ethisch berücksichtigt werden können. Die klassischen tierethischen Positionen der 1970er Jahre differenzieren nicht ausreichend zwischen verschiedenen Gruppen von Tieren und vernachlässigen demnach die spezifischen mit deren Situation zusammenhängen gesellschaftspolitischen und ökonomischen Aspekte tierethischer Fragestellungen. Marxsche Theorien und Begriffen wie beispielsweise Produktivkraft, Ausbeutung und Entfremdung ermöglichen die Analyse der konkreten Situation und Position von Nutztieren im Kapitalismus. Da jedoch rein unter marxistischen Vorzeichen wiederum die ethischen Dimensionen von Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen nicht ausreichend zur Geltung kommen, wird schließlich mit Donna Haraway eine Position erarbeitet, die sowohl ethische als auch politische Aspekte aktueller tierethischer Fragestellungen ausreichend berücksichtigt.
description: A current issue in the academic and non-academic animal-ethics discourse concerns the treatment of animals in agriculture and the conditions of livestock farming. This text deals with the question how animals can be taken into consideration ethically and politically, namely beyond classical positions in animal-ethics, as specific groups – the agricultural livestock, and in the context of concrete societies – the capitalistic economical system. The classic positions in animal-ethics from the 1970s don’t differentiate enough between various kinds of groups of animals. Therefore, they neglect the concrete societal and economic aspects concerning animal-ethics questions specific to this groups. Marxist theories and terms like productive force, exploitation or alienation make it possible to analyse the concrete situations of animal livestock in capitalism. But solely under this point of view the ethical dimension doesn’t get enough attention. Finally, based on Donna Haraway, a position that includes both ethical and political aspects of current animal-ethics topics, is developed.