cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Distinguishing threshold of graphs
Creators: name: Shekarriz, Mohammad Hadi
name: Ahmadi, Bahman
name: Fard, Seyed Alireza Talebpour Shirazi
name: Haghighi, Mohammad Hassan Shirdareh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C09, 05C15, 05C25, 05C30

description: A vertex coloring of a graph $G$ is called distinguishing if no non-identity automorphisms of $G$ can preserve it. The distinguishing number of $G$, denoted by $D(G)$, is the minimum number of colors required for such a coloring, and the distinguishing threshold of $G$, denoted by $θ(G)$, is the minimum number $k$ such that every $k$-coloring of $G$ is distinguishing. As an alternative definition, $θ(G)$ is one more than the maximum number of cycles in the cycle decomposition of automorphisms of $G$. In this paper, we characterize $θ(G)$ when $G$ is disconnected. Afterwards, we prove that, although for every positive integer $k\neq 2$ there are infinitely many graphs whose distinguishing thresholds are equal to $k$, we have $θ(G)=2$ if and only if $\vert V(G)\vert =2$. Moreover, we show that if $θ(G)=3$, then either $G$ is isomorphic to one of the four graphs on~3 vertices or it is of order $2p$, where $p\neq 3,5$ is a prime number. Furthermore, we prove that $θ(G)=D(G)$ if and only if $G$ is asymmetric, $K_n$ or $\overline{K_n}$. Finally, we consider all generalized Johnson graphs, $J(n,k,i)$, which are the graphs on all $k$-subsets of $\{1,\ldots , n\}$ where two vertices $A$ and $B$ are adjacent if $|A\cap B|=k-i$. After studying their automorphism groups and distinguishing numbers, we calculate their distinguishing thresholds as $θ(J(n,k,i))={n\choose k} - {n-2\choose k-1}+1$, unless $ k=\frac{n}{2}$ and $i\in\{ \frac{k}{2} , k\}$ in which case we have $θ(J(n,k,i))={n\choose k}$.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures
Micro finance Institutions and Women Empowerment: Somali Micro finance Institution
Creators: name: Mohamed, Rashid
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Women play a vital role in all functions. Their role should be enhanced by empowering them financially. Microfinance has been found as a main solution to empower women and eradicate poverty. The focus of the study has been on micro-credit, given to the poor women to help them to initiate business, in order to increase their income which in the long run will empower them. Main objectives of the study were to determine the factors affecting of women empowerment through microfinance institution's services and the impact of microfinance on the living standard of females in the study area. For this purpose a sample of 151 women who had taken credit from the Somali microfinance institutions were randomly selected from jigjiga branch. Information regarding demography and other variables were collected through structured questionnaire. In order to understand the complexity of the phenomenon of women empowerment, a structured interview schedule and focus group discussion were also conducted. Different statistical instruments such as descriptive analyses and inferential statistics were employed to present the information scientifically, and to build up the relationship between the various explanatory variables and dependent variable. The analysis specifies that the response about joining microfinance was very encouraging. Beneficiaries of microfinance felt positive influence of microfinance on their level of self-confidence, family life, husband and wife relations and decrease in household domestic violence. Their decision making ability regarding income and expenditure, children's education and health, had also increased. Women's own perception after joining microfinance was also very positive. The results of the econometric model showed that marital status, credit history, household income, education, and household head have statistically significant influence on women empowerment. On the other hand, family size, age and number of children within household do not have statistically significant influence on women empowerment. It is suggested that the process of available credit should be made easier and outreach of microfinance sector should be expanded throughout the country.
Accelerating the Adoption of Disruptive Technologies: The Impact of COVID-19 on Intentions to Use Autonomous Vehicles
Creators: name: Said, Maher
name: Zajdela, Emma R.
name: Stathopoulos, Amanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: One of the most notable global transportation trends is the accelerated pace of development in vehicle automation technologies. Uncertainty surrounds the future of automated mobility as there is no clear consensus on potential adoption patterns, ownership versus shared use status and travel impacts. Adding to this uncertainty is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that has triggered profound changes in mobility behaviors as well as accelerated adoption of new technologies at an unprecedented rate. Accordingly, this study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on willingness to adopt the emerging technology of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Using data from a survey disseminated in June 2020 to 700 respondents in the United States, we perform a difference-in-difference regression to analyze the shift in willingness to use autonomous vehicles as part of a shared fleet before and during the pandemic. The results reveal that the COVID-19 pandemic has a positive and highly significant impact on the consideration of using autonomous vehicles. This shift is present regardless of tech-savviness, gender or urban/rural household location. Individuals who are younger, left-leaning and frequent users of shared modes of travel are expected to become more likely to use autonomous vehicles once offered. Understanding the effects of these attributes on the increase in consideration of AVs is important for policy making, as these effects provide a guide to predicting adoption of autonomous vehicles - once available - and to identify segments of the population likely to be more resistant to adopting AVs.
description: Accepted at Transportation Research Board 2022 for presentation (2nd revision)
In silico analysis of terpene synthase genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
Creators: name: Basu, Chhandak
name: Zwenger, Sam
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Arabidopsis thaliana
subject: Genevestigator
subject: terpene synthase
subject: 610

description: Terpenes are defense chemicals found in wide groups of plants. Terpenoids play a large role in plant development and stress response. The terpene synthase family comprises a diverse set of genes, all which contribute to production of terpenoids. We have used tools of bioinformatics and performed an in silico analysis of developmental and tissue specific terpene synthase gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana, as well as those expressed due to biotic and abiotic environmental stimuli. Using software tools from Genevestigator, a powerful microarray analyzer, we used multiple tool sets to better understand terpene synthase expression in Arabidopsis, which will hopefully open the genetic door to further wet laboratory investigations. The data can be used to predict roles of terpene synthase genes in plant cell division and growth. The data presented here can be used to model for terpene synthesis expression in other plant species and can also be used to integrate basic plant physiology, and ‘omics’ disciplines.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 6, 2007
Beam distribution reconstruction simulation for electron beam probe
Creators: name: Feng, Yongchun
name: Mao, Ruishi
name: Li, Peng
name: Kang, Xincai
name: Yin, Yan
name: Liu, Tong
name: You, Yaoyao
name: Chen, Yucong
name: Zhao, Tiecheng
name: Xu, Zhiguo
name: Wang, Yanyu
name: Yuan, Youjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron beam probe (EBP) is a new principle detector, which makes use of a low-intensity and low-energy electron beam to measure the transverse profile, bunch shape, beam neutralization and beam wake field of an intense beam with small dimensions. While can be applied to many aspects, we limit our analysis to beam distribution reconstruction. This kind of detector is almost non-interceptive for all of the beam and does not disturb the machine environment. In this paper, we present the theoretical aspects behind this technique for beam distribution measurement and some simulation results of the detector involved. First, a method to obtain parallel electron beam is introduced and a simulation code is developed. And then, EBP as a profile monitor for dense beam is simulated using fast scan method under various target beam profile, such as KV distribution, waterbag distribution, parabolic distribution, Gaussian distribution and halo distribution. Profile reconstruction from the deflected electron beam trajectory is implemented and compared with the actual one, and an expected agreement is achieved. Furthermore, Instead of fast scan, a slow scan, i.e. step-by-step scan, is considered, which lows the requirement for hardware, i.e. Radio Frequency deflector. we calculate the three dimensional electric field of Gaussian distribution and simulate the electron motion under this field. In addition, fast scan along the target beam direction and slow scan across the beam is also presented, and can provide a measurement of longitudinal distribution as well as transverse profile simultaneously. Final, simulation results for China Accelerator Driven Sub-critical System (CADS) and High Intensity Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) are given to investigate the quantitative behavior of EBP.
description: 13 pages, 21 figures
Should Ethiopia Consider Establishing Stock Market?
Creators: name: Kiflework, Bekele
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The study assessed potential implication for the establishment of Stock market in Ethiopia. To achieve the overall objective of the study and data were gathered from both primary sources as well as secondary sources. Accordingly, shareholders of Banks, and Management officials of banks participated in the study as a primary sources of the study while, scholar's arguments, regulatory of the country, policy, and other related researches and articles were collected as a secondary data. Both the primary and secondary data of the study were analyzed in mixed approach. This is because, as the study is argumentative in its very nature, it was difficult to reach on conclusion only considering primary respondents view, so that the study were substantively compare and contrast respondents view with several types of scholar arguments as well as government regulatory and policies. In this regard, the collected data from several sources were analyzed using descriptive and cross-section data analysis method. And the study were generally, discussed in four main parts, in the first part the study tried to indicate respondents background, in the second part the study analyzed potential implication of stock market establishment in Ethiopia from the demand side, in the third part the study also assessed potential implication from the supply side, and finally the analysis's was tried to indicate prerequisite or major factors affecting the establishment of stock market in Ethiopia. Based on the analyses the finding implied that, the expansion of private sectors, government activities to transfer some of the public organization in to private, large illiquid assets of firms, the increasing innovators and entrepreneurs activities and other specific potentials sectors were identified as potential implication dictated the need to establishment of stock market in the country. However, the environmental challenges of the country such as, lack of regulatory law, technological development, lack of good governance, lack of corporate laws affect the establishment of stock market in Ethiopia. Based on the findings the study forwarded some of the recommendation such as, government need to established regulatory laws that enhance stock market exchange; and as stock exchange solve the problem of illiquidity of firms create a lot of opportunities for small business entrepreneurs; official in the finance sectors should give attention for the establishment of stock market in Ethiopia.
Lack of nuclear clusters in dwarf spheroidal galaxies: implications for massive black holes formation and the cusp/core problem
Creators: name: Arca-Sedda, Manuel
name: Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the leading scenarios for the formation of nuclear star clusters in galaxies is related to the orbital decay of globular clusters (GCs) and their subsequent merging, though alternative theories are currently debated. The availability of high-quality data for GCs structural and orbital parameters allow to test different nuclear star cluster formation scenarios. The Fornax dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy is the heaviest satellite of the Milky Way and it is the only known dwarf spheroidal hosting 5 GCs, whereas there are no clear signatures for the presence of a central massive black hole. For this reason, it represents a suited place to study the orbital decay process in dwarf galaxies. In this paper we model the future evolution of the Fornax GCs simulating them and the host galaxy by means of direct $N$-body simulations. Our simulations take in account also the gravitational field generated by the Milky Way. We found that if the Fornax galaxy is embedded in a standard Cold Dark Matter Halo, the nuclear cluster formation would be significantly hampered by the high central galactic mass density. In this context, we discuss the possibility that infalling GCs drive the flattening of the galactic density profile, giving a possible alternative explanation to the so-called cusp/core problem. Moreover, we briefly discuss the link between GC infall process and the absence of massive black holes in the centre of dSphs.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, in press in the MNRAS
Distinguishing threshold for some graph operations
Creators: name: Shekarriz, Mohammad Hadi
name: Fard, Seyed Alireza Talebpour Shirazi
name: Ahmadi, Bahman
name: Haghighi, Mohammad Hassan Shirdareh
name: Alikhani, Saeid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C09, 05C15, 05C30, 05C76

description: A vertex coloring of a graph $G$ is distinguishing if non-identity automorphisms do not preserve it. The distinguishing number, $D(G)$, is the minimum number of colors required for such a coloring and the distinguishing threshold, $θ(G)$, is the minimum number of colors~$k$ such that any arbitrary $k$-coloring is distinguishing. Moreover, $Φ_k (G)$ is the number of distinguishing coloring of $G$ using at most $k$ colors. In this paper, for some graph operations, namely, vertex-sum, rooted product, corona product and lexicographic product, we find formulae of the distinguishing number and threshold using $Φ_k (G)$.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
Orynipus kuscheli Hofmann 1972
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Guillermo
name: Cotoras, Darko D.
name: Grez, Audrey A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Orynipus
Orynipus kuscheli

description: Orynipus kuscheli Hofmann, 1972 (Fig. 4h).
Examined material: Not available.
Original reference: Zúñiga-Reinoso (2011): “Comuna Cabo de Hornos y Antártica Chilena: Puerto Navarino (UCCC)”.
Comments: See comments for this species under Isla Grande de Chiloé species list.
Summary: The Coccinellidae fauna of Isla Navarino is composed of four species. Three of them typical of the Austral end of Chile, while the other extends up to the north part of the country. There are no endemic or introduced species.
description: Published as part of Gonzalez, Guillermo, Cotoras, Darko D. & Grez, Audrey A., 2020, Annotated list of island lady beetles from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), pp. 501-526 in Zootaxa 4852 (5) on page 520, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4410156
Gethmann-Siefert, Annemarie/Poggeler, Otto (Hrsg.), Heidegger und die praktische Philosophie
Creators: name: Kreiml, Josef
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 5 Nr. 2 (1989): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 5, Heft 2
Contribution and challenges of indirect taxes In case of large taxpayers' branch office '
Creators: name: Birhanu, Sisay
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The focus of paper is to assess contribution of indirect taxes and challenges focusing on VAT and Excise tax using primary and secondary data from ERCA LTO. The objective of the study was to identify contribution of indirect tax to tax revenue, contribution of VAT to tax revenue, contribution of Excise Tax to tax revenue and challenges related to VAT and Excise Tax. The study is intended to identify indirect tax contribution and related challenges. The research approach adopted in this thesis includes mixed research approach using secondary series data set that consists of fifteen years and primary data related to indirect tax challenges. The time period covered was 2002/03 to 2016/17; this is primarily due to introduction of VAT in 2002/03 primary data was collected through questionnaires and interview. Descriptive statistics and SPSS analytical tool were employed to analyze and presented using tables, graphs and frequency of obtained data. The findings from this research provide evidence that on average direct tax revenue contributes 23.13%, indirect tax revenue contributes 25.77% and customs taxes and duties contributes 50.95 to total tax revenue . VAT contributes above 40% to total tax revenue which was collected at customs and inland tax authorities and Excise tax contribution to tax revenue on average was 24% which was collected at customs and inland tax authorities. In line with primary data analyses of this study it is found that tax payers and professionals have huge problems on the clarity of the Ethiopian value added tax (VAT) and excise tax proclamations, regulation and directives, lack of control and follow by the tax authority most of businesses are affected by those who are not registered for VAT, computation VAT on consignment transaction, advance payments and promotional goods delivered to customer considered by the taxpayers is not fair. On the hand, the findings of this study indicated that applying excise tax on imported raw materials is not fair, excise tax rate is not fair, the base for the payment of excise tax computation for locally produced goods is not clear, applying excise tax on packaging material is not fair and applying excise tax on cost of building and delivery materials is not fair. This paper recommends that policy makers should revise VAT and excise tax proclamations and regulations by doing further specific researches on each challenges stated above.
(202299) Richard Watson Whittall
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Complementary Calibration: Boosting General Continual Learning with Collaborative Distillation and Self-Supervision
Creators: name: Ji, Zhong
name: Li, Jin
name: Wang, Qiang
name: Zhang, Zhongfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: General Continual Learning (GCL) aims at learning from non independent and identically distributed stream data without catastrophic forgetting of the old tasks that don't rely on task boundaries during both training and testing stages. We reveal that the relation and feature deviations are crucial problems for catastrophic forgetting, in which relation deviation refers to the deficiency of the relationship among all classes in knowledge distillation, and feature deviation refers to indiscriminative feature representations. To this end, we propose a Complementary Calibration (CoCa) framework by mining the complementary model's outputs and features to alleviate the two deviations in the process of GCL. Specifically, we propose a new collaborative distillation approach for addressing the relation deviation. It distills model's outputs by utilizing ensemble dark knowledge of new model's outputs and reserved outputs, which maintains the performance of old tasks as well as balancing the relationship among all classes. Furthermore, we explore a collaborative self-supervision idea to leverage pretext tasks and supervised contrastive learning for addressing the feature deviation problem by learning complete and discriminative features for all classes. Extensive experiments on four popular datasets show that our CoCa framework achieves superior performance against state-of-the-art methods. Code is available at https://github.com/lijincm/CoCa.
description: Paper is available at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10002397. Code is available at https://github.com/lijincm/CoCa
Joining and splitting models with Markov melding
Creators: name: Goudie, Robert J. B.
name: Presanis, Anne M.
name: Lunn, David
name: De Angelis, Daniela
name: Wernisch, Lorenz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Analysing multiple evidence sources is often feasible only via a modular approach, with separate submodels specified for smaller components of the available evidence. Here we introduce a generic framework that enables fully Bayesian analysis in this setting. We propose a generic method for forming a suitable joint model when joining submodels, and a convenient computational algorithm for fitting this joint model in stages, rather than as a single, monolithic model. The approach also enables splitting of large joint models into smaller submodels, allowing inference for the original joint model to be conducted via our multi-stage algorithm. We motivate and demonstrate our approach through two examples: joining components of an evidence synthesis of A/H1N1 influenza, and splitting a large ecology model.
(202301) Eleanor Annie Margaret Myers
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Challenges and opportunities of interest free banking in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tsion, Sisay
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: In order to examine opportunities and challenges adjacent to the growth and development of viii interest free banking in the case of Commercial Banks, operating in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A descriptive study was conducted on five commercial banks namely Commercial bank of Ethiopia, Oromia International bank s.c, united bank s.c, Wegagen bank s.c and Nib international bank s.c. The population of this study consisted of branches of those commercial banks located in different parts of Addis Ababa city based on their IFB deposit mobilization and number of IFB accounts depending on the information obtained from the IFB divisions on the above banks. Data were collected from a total of 123 respondents by means of structured questionnaires which were distributed to branches and were filled by bank staffs who had the knowledge about interest free banking system. The results revealed that the main challenges in implementing IFB system included lack of awareness by customers about IFB services, institutional, need for special regulations and lack of specialized human resource. In addition, the difficulty in segregation of funds for effective implementation of IFB was another problem expressed by respondents. On the other side, IFB in Ethiopia was believed to still have a huge untapped opportunity to be exploited by other financial services providers which would use customer satisfaction as a niche in offering IFB services. Other potential opportunities mentioned included global trends, economic growth in Ethiopia and within Muslim communities. The findings suggest that the opportunities of interest free banking are more significant than its challenges in Ethiopia. A number of recommendations related with the study findings were forwarded.
title: Das Graduiertenkolleg der Universität Amiens/Frankreich
title: ein Denkanstoß
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Gasch, Bernd
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 15. Jahrgang 2004 Heft 1
Numerical characterization of complex torus quotients
Creators: name: Claudon, Benoît
name: Graf, Patrick
name: Guenancia, Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article gives a characterization of quotients of complex tori by finite groups acting freely in codimension two in terms of a numerical vanishing condition on the first and second Chern class. This generalizes results previously obtained by Greb--Kebekus--Peternell in the projective setting, and by Kirschner and the second author in dimension three. As a key ingredient to the proof, we obtain a version of the Bogomolov--Gieseker inequality for stable sheaves on singular spaces, including a discussion of the case of equality.
description: 26 pages, v2: exposition improved thanks to the referee's suggestions, added Proposition 3.5 in the semistable case, to appear in Comment. Math. Helv
Determinants of Internal Audit Effectiveness: A Comparative Study of Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Service Enterprise and Ethiopian Electric Utility
Creators: name: Frehiwot, Geremew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The main purpose of this study was to investigate factors of internal audit effectiveness and to compare the performance of the audit activity between two Ethiopian public sector offices. These are Ethiopian shipping and logistic service enterprise (ESLSE) and Ethiopian electric utility (EEU). The management teams, internal auditors and senior officers of these offices were the source for the required data to the researcher gathered through questionnaires administered with five point likert scale. Eighty data was collected from both organizations. The data collected was then analyzed by descriptive and explanatory method aided by SPSS version 20 data analysis tool. According to the perception of their own employees, organizational independence for auditors both organizations score the lowest point, where both organizations do not have audit committee. In EEU even though the size of the audit department is large, their experience and competence is lower than ESLSE. As a result, the value adding ability is lower than ESLSE. In all measurement, in both organizations, the mean score is just above the neutral point which shows the effort to have effective internal audit need to be improved to reach up to the required level. Based on multiple regression models, the main determinant of the performance of audit activity at EEU is experience and competency of internal audit while the insignificant determinant is Organizational independence. But, the main determinant factor of Value add ability of Internal Auditor and hence performance of the audit activity at ESLSE is management support followed by approved internal audit charter while the insignificant factor is Organizational independence the same as EEU. This research can be used by managers of both organizations to improve their internal audit effectiveness.
The contribution of Johann Reinhold and George Forster to the literature of Cook's second voyage (1772-1775) : a survey of literary and scientific aspects of George Forster's Reise um die Welt and J.R. Forster's Observations, and a comparison of these with Cook's accounts
Creators: name: Hoare, Michael E. .
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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(202303) Katherine Dorothea Myers
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Determinants of Financial and Operational Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mirani, Sileshi
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Researches reveal that an enduring problem facing MFI is how to attain financial and operational sustainability. Several studies have been conducted to determine the factors affecting the financial and operational sustainability of MFIs. However, there are insufficient studies conducted on this area in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study was conducted to fill the gap. This study is based on quantitative research approach using panel data fixed regression as the main data analysis technique. The study was based on a 10 years secondary data obtained from the annual bulletin of AEMFI and mix-market database for 13 selected MFIs in Ethiopia. The study found that grant to asset ratio, cost per borrower, GDP growth rate, deposit to loan ratio and gross loan portfolio, affects the financial self-sufficiency and sustainability of Ethiopian MFIs significantly. Similarly, return on asset, experience of MFIs, cost per borrower, portfolio at risk and operating expense ratio affect their operational sustainability. The Study also found that MFIs in Ethiopia are operationally self-sufficient while they are not financially self-sufficient. This study recommends microfinance institutions to reduce grant to finance their loan, to increase their loan portfolio, find ways of serving the borrowers at the lowest possible cost, increase profitability to raise the return on asset, by making assets operational and minimizing operating expenses. Key words: MFIs, sustainability, FSS, OSS, self-sufficiency
Eigenfunction statistics of Laguerre Brownian ensemble
Creators: name: Shukla, Pragya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically analyze the eigenfunction fluctuation measures for a Hermitian ensemble which appears as an intermediate state of the perturbation of a stationary ensemble by another stationary ensemble of Laguerre type. Similar to the perturbation by a Gaussian stationary ensemble, the measures undergo a diffusive dynamics in terms of the pertubation parameter along with a drift due to level-repulsion. The energy-dependences of the fluctuations for the Laguerre case is in general different from the Gaussian case but locally they can be expressed in a same mathematical form.
description: many changes made to improve clarity of the text, sections rearranged and misprints removed
Tsallis Holographic Dark Energy Reconsidered
Creators: name: Dheepika, M.
name: Mathew, Titus K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the interacting Tsallis Holographic Dark Energy (THDE), with the Granda-Oliveros (GO) scale as the infrared (IR) cutoff, as dynamical vacuum. We analytically solved for the Hubble parameter, in a spatially flat FLRW universe with dark energy and matter as components, and the solution traces the evolutionary path from the prior decelerated to the late accelerated epoch. Without interaction, the model predicts a $Λ$CDM like behavior with an effective cosmological constant. We used Pantheon Supernovae type Ia, observational Hubble data (OHD), cosmic microwave background (CMB), and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data to constrain the free parameters of the model. The estimated values of the cosmological parameters were consistent with observational results. We analyzed the behavior of the model using the statefinder and $ω^\prime_{e}-ω_{e}$ plane where $ω_{e}$ and $ω^\prime_{e}$ corresponds to the effective equation of state and its evolution, respectively. The model shows a quintessence behavior in general, and the model trajectory ends in a point that corresponds to the de Sitter phase. We performed a dynamical analysis of the model, concluding that the prior decelerated and late accelerated phases are unstable and stable equilibria, respectively. We also investigated the thermodynamical nature of the model and found that the generalized second law remains valid in the dynamical vacuum treatment of the model.
description: 18 pages, 14 figures
title: La création d'une ambiance sonore au cycle 1 - Quels défis pour les enseignantes et les enseignants
title: La création d'une ambiance sonore au cycle 1 - Quels défis pour les enseignantes et les enseignants
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Beaud, Claire
name: Brillet, Sarah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0

description: Ce mémoire professionnel est réalisé par deux étudiantes en 3e année de Bachelor en enseignement primaire du cycle 1, à la Haute École pédagogique de Lausanne. Le sujet de cette recherche est basé sur l’enseignement de la musique. À la suite de leurs deux premières années de formation à la HEP Vaud, elles ont pu observer et apprendre différentes façons d’enseigner la musique. Mais elles se sont rendu compte de la difficulté à enseigner cette branche pour les enseignants généralistes. Parfois, elle peut créer certaines craintes chez les enseignants. L’enseignement de la musique s’arrête souvent à l’apprentissage de chants, bien que cette branche permette de travailler énormément de compétences telles que l’écoute, la motricité, la collaboration, et de nombreuses autres aptitudes. Mais la musique permet notamment de travailler la créativité qui est une compétence fondamentale pour les enfants d’aujourd’hui. À travers cette recherche, les étudiantes se sont intéressées à la manière d’intégrer des activités de création musicale en classe. Leur question de recherche est : « Comment les enseignants généralistes du cycle 1 planifient-ils et conduisent-ils des activités de création sonores à l’aide d’objets du quotidien et d’instruments de musique ? ». L’approche méthodologique réside en l’analyse de deux extraits vidéo réalisés dans une classe de 2P et une classe de 4 P. Le but est d’observer les micro-gestes et l’étayage créatif utilisé par les enseignantes pour guider une activité de création. Les résultats montrent que l’étayage créatif est constamment présent à travers les composantes de l’orientation, l’observation, la confirmation et l’apport de certaines connaissances. Les micro-gestes sont également utilisés pour guider les activités et réguler les élèves. En effet, l’utilisation de l’étayage créatif et des micro-gestes est primordiale pour mener à bien une activité de création.
(202302) Frederick Edmund Myers
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Shortcuts to adiabaticity in the strongly-coupled regime: nonadiabatic control of a unitary Fermi gas
Creators: name: Deng, Shujin
name: Diao, Pengpeng
name: Yu, Qianli
name: del Campo, Adolfo
name: Wu, Haibin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherent control of complex quantum systems is a fundamental requirement in quantum information processing and engineering. Recently developed notion of shortcut to adiabaticity (STA) has spawned intriguing prospects. So far, the most experimental investigations of STA are implemented in the ideal thermal gas or the weakly interacting ultracold Bose gases. Here we report the first demonstration of a many-body STA in a 3D anisotropically trapped unitary Fermi gas. A new dynamical scaling law is demonstrated on such a strongly interacting quantum gas. By simply engineering the frequency aspect ratio of a harmonic trap, the dynamics of the gas can be manipulated and the many-body state can be transferred adiabatically from one stationary state to another one in short time scale without the excitation. The universal scaling both for non-interacting and unitary Fermi gas is also verified. This could be very important for future many-body quantum engineering and the exploration of the fundamental law of the thermodynamics.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Benefits and Challenges of Multidisciplinary and Multi-organizational Collaboration in Developing a mHealth Application for People with Dementia and Their Care Partners
Creators: name: Park, Min Sook
name: Oh, Chorong
name: Lee, Yura
name: Bong, Ji Yae
name: Lee, Hyun Seung
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Multidisciplinary collaboration, health informatics, mHelath, dementia, digital assistive technology, user-driven design, collaborative interpretation

description: This poster introduces the authors’ multidisciplinary and multi-organizational project which aims to develop a digital memory book application for people with dementia and their care partners. The project involves both research and the practical application of study findings, necessitating team collaboration across various disciplines. This poster introduces the project and discusses the importance, benefits, and challenges of the multidisciplinary endeavor.
Competing Vortex Topologies in Iron-based Superconductors
Creators: name: Hu, Lun-Hui
name: Wu, Xianxin
name: Liu, Chao-Xing
name: Zhang, Rui-Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we establish a new theoretical paradigm for vortex Majorana physics in the recently discovered topological iron-based superconductors (tFeSCs). While tFeSCs are widely accepted as an exemplar of topological insulators (TIs) with intrinsic $s$-wave superconductivity, our theory implies that such common belief could be oversimplified. Our main finding is that the normal-state bulk Dirac nodes, usually ignored in TI-based vortex Majorana theories for tFeSCs, will play a key role of determining the vortex state topology. In particular, the interplay between TI and Dirac nodal bands will lead to multiple competing topological phases for a superconducting vortex line in tFeSCs, including an unprecedented hybrid topological vortex state that carries both Majorana bound states and a gapless dispersion. Remarkably, this exotic hybrid vortex phase generally exists in the vortex phase diagram for our minimal model for tFeSCs and is directly relevant to tFeSC candidates such as LiFeAs.When the four-fold rotation symmetry is broken by vortex-line tilting or curving, the hybrid vortex gets topologically trivialized and becomes Majorana-free, which could explain the puzzle of ubiquitous trivial vortices observed in LiFeAs. Origin of Majorana signal in other tFeSC candidates such as FeTe$_x$Se$_{1-x}$ and CaKFe$_4$As$_4$ are also interpreted within our theory framework. Our theory sheds new light on theoretically understanding and experimentally engineering Majorana physics in high-temperature iron-based systems.
description: 7+19 pages, 4+9 figures
Criticality in Brownian ensembles
Creators: name: Sadhukhan, Suchetana
name: Shukla, Pragya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The local statistical fluctuations in Brownian ensembles, the intermediate state of perturbation of one classical ensemble by another one, are system-size invariant if the perturbation parameter has the same size-dependence as that of the ensemble averaged local level density. The sensitivity to local spectral density however makes the measures for the critical statistics non-stationary along the spectrum.
description: 33 Pages, 5 figures
Quantum stability of non-linear wave type solutions with intrinsic mass parameter in QCD
Creators: name: Kim, Youngman
name: Lee, Bum-Hoon
name: Pak, D. G.
name: Park, Chanyong
name: Tsukioka, Takuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of existence of a stable vacuum field in a pure quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is revised. Our approach is based on using classical stationary non-linear wave type solutions with intrinsic mass scale parameter. Such solutions can be treated as quantum mechanical wave functions describing massive spinless states in quantum theory. We verify whether non-linear wave type solutions can form a stable vacuum field background within the framework of effective action formalism. We demonstrate that there is a special class of stationary generalized Wu-Yang monopole solutions which are stable against quantum gluon fluctuations.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, minor corrections
The philosophies of Karlheinz Stockhausen in Aus den sieben Tagen and In Freundschaft : performance as a means of communication
Creators: name: Todd, Paul Graham.
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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(202297) Mary Hannah March
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Continent-wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography
Creators: name: Sebastianelli, Matteo
name: Lukhele, Sifiso M.
name: Nwankwo, Emmanuel
name: Hadjioannou, Louis
name: Kirschel, Alexander N. G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60302 Biogeography and Phylogeography
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Zoology

description: In this repository we provide data and R code to reproduce the results of the manuscript entitled "CONTINENT-WIDE PATTERNS OF SONG VARIATION PREDICTED BY CLASSICAL RULES OF BIOGEOGRAPHY"
 We provide the following files: 1)Sebastianelli2022_TinkerbirdFieldMeasurements_Dryad.csv: dataset of the field collected tinkerbird measurements. 2)Sebastianelli2022_TinkerbirdMuseumMeasurements_Dryad.csv: dataset of the tinkerbird measurements form museum collections. 3)Sebastianelli2022_TinkerbirdSong_Dryad.csv: tinkerbird song dataset. 4)Sebastianelli2022_TinkerbirdEcogeography_Dryad.R: R code for statistical analysis. 5)Sebastianelli2022_MuseumSpecimensID_Dryad.xlsx: list of all museum specimens utilised in the analysis. 6)Sebastianelli2022_RecordingsID_Dryad.xlsx: list of all acoustic recordings utilised in the analysis.