cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of central bank intervention in Korea: By exchange rate system and monetary credibility
Creators: name: Lee, Seungho
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Economic theory suggests that the sterilized intervention could successfully manipulate the exchange rate through two channels: Portfolio-balance channel and Signaling channel. I, however, argue that the effectiveness of central bank's intervention is less certain for influencing the exchange rate and ask under which conditions the intervention is most effective. In particular, does the credibility of the central bank increase the intervention effect?; I focus on the two policy perspectives in Korea: the exchange rate policy and the monetary policy. I have a posit that a transition of the exchange rate system from 'dual basket system' to 'market average exchange rate system' and a widening of band widths increase the credibility because they curtail the exchange rate control and give the monetary authority an inflation fighting reputation. I also assume that a central bank's effort to keep the actual money growth rate within the target range and a stable money supply policy increase the credibility since it provides the public with less money expectational error. From the empirical tests using VAR model over the sample period from 1987 through 1994, I find that the Bank of Korea leans against the wind. Also, the sensitivity of the intervention is stronger in Won-appreciating periods, reflecting that the Bank of Korea has attempted to promote exports as well as to fight inflation. Then, I find that the empirical evidence supports our hypothesis that the effect of intervention on the exchange rate is more effective under the market average exchange rate system, when central bank credibility is higher. Moreover, I find that the effect of intervention with respect to the different band widths is partly supportive of our hypothesis. Next, I find that the money supply is positively related to the intervention, implying that the signaling channel could be effective. The empirical tests to investigate the intervention effect with respect to the credibility of monetary policy, however, are inconclusive. The news about monetary expansion and monetary contraction have only temporary effects on the exchange rate, though the impulse responses show significant and correct signs when the central bank is viewed as credible.
Women and retirement: The retirement experience of "baby boom" women
Creators: name: Dailey, Nancy M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Less than 20% of baby boom women can feel secure about their future retirement. Baby boom women who are married, possess a college degree, receive high earnings, and own a home can expect to experience a comfortable retirement. Yet, even these women may face economic jeopardy since risk factors such as divorce or loss of a job could reduce their future prospects. Marriage, education, occupation and home ownership--these are the variables that best predict the future for baby boom women. Possession of all four variables indicate high retirement security; absence of any one of these variables increases risk of poverty in old age. This study conducted an in-depth examination of three key structural variables impacting the future retirement of baby boom women: population aging, baby boom women's labor force participation, and retirement income sources. The study's findings reveal: (1) that baby boom women's retirement will not look like men's retirement patterns; (2) that traditional sources of retirement income--social security, employer pensions and personal savings--for most baby boom women will be insufficient, and (3) baby boom women will enter retirement as society's caregivers of the country's elderly.
The Expansion of G11.2-0.3, a Radio Composite Supernova Remnant
Creators: name: Tam, Cindy
name: Roberts, Mallory S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare recent observations of the supernova remnant G11.2-0.3 taken with the VLA during 2001-02 with images from VLA archives (1984-85) to detect and measure the amount of expansion that has occurred during 17 years. The bright, circular outer shell shows a mean expansion of (0.71 +/- 0.15)% and (0.50 +/- 0.17)%, from 20- and 6-cm data, respectively, which corresponds to a rate of 0.057' +/- 0.012'/yr at 20 cm and 0.040' +/- 0.013'/yr at 6 cm. From this result, we estimate the age of the remnant to be roughly between 960 and 3400 years old, according to theoretical models of supernova evolution. This is highly inconsistent with the 24000 yr characteristic age of PSR J1811-1925, located at the remnant's center, but, rather, is consistent with the time since the historical supernova observed in 386 AD. We also predict that G11.2-0.3 is currently in a pre-Sedov evolutionary state, and set constraints on the distance to the remnant based on Chandra X-ray spectral results.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Effective field theory of degenerate higher-order inflation
Creators: name: Motohashi, Hayato
name: Hu, Wayne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the effective field theory of inflation to a general Lagrangian constructed from Arnowitt-Deser-Misner variables that encompasses the most general interactions with up to second derivatives of the scalar field whose background breaks temporal diffeomorphism invariance. Degeneracy conditions, corresponding to 8 distinct types -- only one of which corresponds to known degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor models -- provide necessary conditions for eliminating the Ostrogradsky ghost in a covariant theory at the level of the quadratic action in unitary gauge. Novel implications of the degenerate higher-order system for the Cauchy problem are illustrated with the phase space portrait of an explicit inflationary example: not all field configurations lead to physical solutions for the metric even for positive potentials; solutions are unique for a given configuration only up to a branch choice; solutions on one branch can apparently end at nonsingular points of the metric and their continuation on alternate branches lead to nonsingular bouncing solutions; unitary gauge perturbations can go unstable even when degenerate terms in the Lagrangian are infinitesimal. The attractor solution leads to an inflationary scenario where slow-roll parameters vary and running of the tilt can be large even with no explicit features in the potential far from the end of inflation, requiring the optimized slow-roll approach for predicting observables.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures; matches published version
Теоретичні засади конкурентоспроможності та її роль у розвитку підприємницької діяльності
Theoretical basis of competitiveness and its role in development of entrepreneurial activity
Creators: name: Melnuk, Katerina
name: Ptashnyk, Svetlana
name: Melnuk, Katerina
name: Ptashnyk, Svetlana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Production Economics
subject: competition
subject: competitiveness
subject: enterprise competitiveness
subject: agricultural enterprise
subject: profit

description: Purpose. The article deals with the theoretical principles of competitiveness and its role in the development of entrepreneurial activity in the agrarian sector. Methodology / approach. Research of theoretical bases of formation and development of competitiveness of agricultural enterprises using the system approach made an opportunity to systematize scientific positions on the content and role of this phenomenon in entrepreneurial activity. Results. The essence and approaches to the understanding of competition as an economic phenomenon are determined. Arguments that the concept of «competitiveness» is closely linked to the notion of «competition», but in practical terms, such a connection corresponds to the essence of the market as a system of struggle for opposites. The theoretical model for defining the concept of «competitiveness» is that it is understood as a state of the subject of management by assessing the ability to productively realize its potential, obtaining from it benefits, profits sufficient for extended reproduction. Originality / scientific novelty. The theoretical descriptions of essence of competitiveness are with determination of her role and value in development of entrepreneurial activity in the agrarian sector, that consist in that a competitiveness is totality of qualities, properties, descriptions of subject (commodity, service, enterprise etc.), that provide possibility to satisfy necessities, and in entrepreneurial activity – to arrive at aims from development of production, promotion of products on the market, obtaining sufficient income. Practical value / implications. Research of theoretical principles of competitiveness and determination of her role in development of entrepreneurial activity will give an opportunity to the businessmen to revise the value of competitiveness.
Nonlinear extension of the quantum dynamical semigroup
Creators: name: Rembieliński, Jakub
name: Caban, Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider deterministic nonlinear time evolutions satisfying so called convex quasi-linearity condition. Such evolutions preserve the equivalence of ensembles and therefore are free from problems with signaling. We show that if family of linear non-trace-preserving maps satisfies the semigroup property then the generated family of convex quasi-linear operations also possesses the semigroup property. Next we generalize the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad type equation for the considered evolution. As examples we discuss the general qubit evolution in our model as well as an extension of the Jaynes-Cummings model. We apply our formalism to spin density matrix of a charged particle moving in the electromagnetic field as well as to flavor evolution of solar neutrinos.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, extended version accepted in Quantum
Система інституційно-інвестиційної підтримки розвитку сільських територій у США
System of institutional and investment support of rural areas development in the USA
Creators: name: Prokopchuk, Oksana
name: Gorbachova, Iryna
name: Prokopchuk, Oksana
name: Gorbachova, Iryna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: institutional support
subject: investment support
subject: rural development
subject: rural development policy
subject: rural areas
subject: support mechanism

description: Purpose. The aim of this paper – generalization of US experience in creating a system of institutional and investment support for rural areas, the use of which will facilitate their revival and creating a favorable living environment for peasants. Methodology / approach. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the fundamental position of modern economic science. General scientific methods, including dialectical method of knowledge of economic processes and phenomena in their relationship, have been used in the study of the US’ rural areas institutional and investment support system, the results of which serve as the basis for proposals to improve the national model of rural development policy investment support. Results. The article summarizes the US’ experience in establishing of institutional and investment support of rural areas development. The similarity of development trends and features of rural areas in the USA and Ukraine has been proved. The priorities of rural development policy in the USA have been identified. In the process of rural areas supporting, state realizes the functions of information support and establishment of partnerships between authorities, rural communities and business. Institutional system of rural areas financial support in the USA are formed by U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund, National Co-operative Bank (СоВаnk), private investment companies, including Rural Business Investment Company, etc. The result of partnership between these institutions is intensification of investment processes in the US’ rural areas. The strategic portfolio of their activities forms the following priorities: growth of small businesses, creation new jobs in rural America, activation of rural entrepreneurship initiatives, environmental protection, development of rural charity, development of education and solving the problems of rural isolation, promotion of bioeconomy. The main aspects of the US rural development policy that can be implemented under domestic conditions are defined. Originality / scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of the study is to identify the positive aspects of US’ experience in establishing of institutional and investment support of rural areas development that can be implemented under domestic conditions. Practical value / implications of the results are to substantiate the proposals for improving the institutional environment and the system of investment support for the rural areas development.
Living Arrangement Preferences Analysis of Chinese Elders: Evidence From CLHLS 2005-2011 Waves
Creators: name: Liu, Lihe
name: Liu, Lihe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Health Economics and Policy
Public Economics

description: This paper uses the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey 2005-2011 (CLHLS) to study factors that influence Chinese elders’ living arrangement preferences; whether they prefer co-residence with their children or not. The CLHLS contains elders’ preferred living arrangements as well as their personal and household information. The data shows that 67% of elders surveyed changed their preferences between 2005 and 2011. Elderly people who became widowed, those who gained pension coverage, and those who had increases in annual household income were more likely to change their preferred living arrangement to co-residence with their children. Specifically, for elderly people who have increases in their annual household income, those who cannot self-financed their living expenses have more desire to co-residence than those who can. While on the other hand, changes in elders’ residence locations, elders’ quality of life, optimism level and loneliness level do not have significant impact on elderly people’s preferences on living arrangements. This study focuses on elderly people’s preferences rather than their actual living arrangement but could have implication for developing policies to improve their living quality.
РОЛЬ ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ПОРТРЕТА ЛИЧНОСТИ В УГОЛОВНОМ РАССЛЕДОВАНИИ
Creators: name: Приголовкина В.Р.
Publisher: name: Образование и право
Year: 2021
Subjects: психологический портрет преступника
криминалистическое профилирование
расследование преступления
реконструкция преступления.

description: В данной статье дается определение, классификация и задачи психологического портрета личности преступника, также определяются этапы его составления и отражается значимость личности преступника в расследовании преступления.
Р.Ш. АЛХАНОВ, Т.У. ЭЛЬБУРЗДУКАЕВА. ПУТЬ, ОЗАРЕННЫЙ СВЕТОМ: УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ
Creators: name: Межидова П.Г.
Publisher: name: Образование и право
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ахмат-Хаджи Абдулхамидович Кадыров
Чеченская Республика
учебно-методическое пособие
воспитание молодежи.

description: В рецензии на учебно-методическое пособие «Путь, озаренный светом», подготовленное Р.Ш. Алхановым и Т.У. Эльбурздукаевой, отмечается, что оно предназначено для воспитания молодежи Чеченской Республики на примере жизни и деятельности Первого Президента Чеченской Республики, Героя России Ахмата-Хаджи Абдулхамидовича Кадырова, с чьим именем ассоциируется возрождение, мир и процветание республики. В рецензируемом пособии выбор темы не случаен. Весь путь этой героической личности служит примером для подрастающего поколения, учит, как надо строить созидательную жизнь, верно служить своему народу и Отечеству.
Women and retirement: The retirement experience of "baby boom" women
Creators: name: Dailey, Nancy M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Less than 20% of baby boom women can feel secure about their future retirement. Baby boom women who are married, possess a college degree, receive high earnings, and own a home can expect to experience a comfortable retirement. Yet, even these women may face economic jeopardy since risk factors such as divorce or loss of a job could reduce their future prospects. Marriage, education, occupation and home ownership--these are the variables that best predict the future for baby boom women. Possession of all four variables indicate high retirement security; absence of any one of these variables increases risk of poverty in old age. This study conducted an in-depth examination of three key structural variables impacting the future retirement of baby boom women: population aging, baby boom women's labor force participation, and retirement income sources. The study's findings reveal: (1) that baby boom women's retirement will not look like men's retirement patterns; (2) that traditional sources of retirement income--social security, employer pensions and personal savings--for most baby boom women will be insufficient, and (3) baby boom women will enter retirement as society's caregivers of the country's elderly.
Coffee and Identity : Marketing to a University Campus
Creators: name: Arefzadeh, Sarina
name: Tabakman, Melanie
name: Zwang, Maya
name: Alexander, Brittany
name: Mattlar, Aleksi
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Branding plays a large role in the consumers they draw in as well as the audience to which they market (Bookman, 2013). Our research took this concept and extended it to the UBC Brand of Fair Trade Coffee with the intention of marketing Fair Trade successfully to UBC students. Our research questions whether coffee is rooted in identity, and whether it is a factor that influences UBC students’ desire to purchase fair trade coffee. In our study, we surveyed 102 UBC students who self-identified as coffee drinkers. In our control condition, participants chose between sleeves with a Starbucks logo, a Tim Hortons logo, or the current UBC Fair Trade logo. In the experimental condition, participants were asked to choose between the sleeves with a Starbucks logo, a Tim Hortons logo, and a newly designed Fair Trade coffee sleeve with an original ‘UBC Thunderbirds’ logo. We associated the students’ sense of identity with the Thunderbird logo and hypothesized that this fair trade coffee brand would increase likelihood that students should choose fair trade coffee. After reviewing the results, our hypothesis was disconfirmed, as people were less likely to choose the UBC Thunderbirds sleeve in comparison to the control condition. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Small-scale structure traced by neutral hydrogen absorption in the direction of multiple-component radio continuum sources
Creators: name: Rybarczyk, Daniel R.
name: Stanimirovic, Snezana
name: Zweibel, Ellen G.
name: Murray, Claire E.
name: Dickey, John M.
name: Babler, Brian
name: Heiles, Carl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the small scale distribution of atomic hydrogen (HI) using 21-cm absorption spectra against multiple-component background radio continuum sources from the 21-SPONGE survey and the Millennium Arecibo Absorption Line Survey. We have found $>5σ$ optical depth variations at a level of $\sim0.03-0.5$ between 13 out of 14 adjacent sightlines separated by a few arcseconds to a few arcminutes, suggesting the presence of neutral structures on spatial scales from a few to thousands of AU (which we refer to as tiny scale atomic structure, TSAS). The optical depth variations are strongest in directions where the HI column density and the fraction of HI in the cold neutral medium (CNM) are highest, which tend to be at low Galactic latitudes. By measuring changes in the properties of Gaussian components fitted to the absorption spectra, we find that changes in both the peak optical depth and the linewidth of TSAS absorption features contribute to the observed optical depth variations, while changes in the central velocity do not appear to strongly impact the observed variations. Both thermal and turbulent motions contribute appreciably to the linewidths, but the turbulence does not appear strong enough to confine overpressured TSAS. In a majority of cases, the TSAS column densities are sufficiently high that these structures can radiatively cool fast enough to maintain thermal equilibrium with their surroundings, even if they are overpressured. We also find that a majority of TSAS is associated with the CNM. For TSAS in the direction of the Taurus molecular cloud and the local Leo cold cloud, we estimate densities over an order of magnitude higher than typical CNM densities.
description: 29 pages, 19 figures, 4 tables. Accepted to ApJ. Section 4.3.1 updated from previous version
Linking auditory and visual input through audiotapes of text: A technique to enhance reading, academic achievement, and attitude toward reading of at-risk adolescents
Creators: name: Briggs, Sharon Cook
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The problem. This study's purpose was to analyze the effects of two methods of presentation of instruction on middle school students who were reading significantly below grade level: (1) an audio-visual presentation in which students listened to tape recordings of their textbooks and school-assigned novels while they simultaneously read; and (2) a visual approach in which students read their textbooks and school-assigned novels without read-along tapes. The underlying question was whether or not linking auditory and visual modalities might enhance the learning process of academically struggling adolescents in: (1) their academic achievement as measured by textbook tests and academic grades; (2) their reading comprehension as measured by standardized reading tests; (3) their attitude toward reading and self-image as measured by an attitude survey and anecdotal teacher and self observations. Methodology. Thirty-seven matched pairs of seventh-grade students scoring 1.5 years below grade level participated in a Pretest-Posttest Control-Group design. Students in the audio-visual treatment group simultaneously listened to and read along with tapes of chapters in their history textbook and English novels. Textbook chapters were recorded as guided reading assignments. No other accommodations were made. The Findings. No significant differences in mean gains were found between treatment and control groups in academic achievement or in reading vocabulary growth. However, significant differences (.05 level) in mean gains in reading comprehension as measured by two standardized reading tests were found in favor of the treatment group. A subgroup of 16 matched pairs was examined for change in attitude toward reading: greater gains in mean change of attitude were found in favor of the treatment group. Conclusions and recommendations. The researcher concluded that read-along tapes of textbooks and novels are efficacious for certain adolescent students reading below grade level, particularly with regard to reading comprehension, but it is unclear how to determine which students will respond favorably. It appears that when students reach the stage when their reading comprehension and rate exceeds that of their listening comprehension, read-along tapes are no longer of value.
Critical fluctuations and pseudogap observed in the microwave conductivity of BSCCO and YBCO thin films
Creators: name: Peligrad, D. -N.
name: Dulcic, A.
name: Mehring, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Critical fluctuations have been studied in the microwave conductivity of Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_(8+δ), Bi_2Sr_2Ca_2Cu_3O_(10+delta), and YBa_2Cu_3O_(7-delta) thin films above T_c. It is found that a consistent analysis of the real and imaginary parts of the fluctuation conductivity can be achieved only if an appropriate wavevector or energy cutoff in the fluctuation spectrum is taken into account. In all of the three underdoped superconducting films one observes strong fluctuations extending far above T_c. The coherence length inferred from the imaginary part of the conductivity exhibits the static critical exponent nu = 1 very close to T_c, and a crossover to the region with nu = 2/3 at higher temperatures. In parallel, our analysis reveals the absence of the normal conductivity near T_c, i.e. fully opened pseudogap. Following the crossover to the region with nu = 2/3, the normal conductivity is gradually recovered, i.e. the closing of the pseudogap is monitored.
description: 10 pages, 27 figures
Green's function for nondivergence elliptic operators in two dimensions
Creators: name: Dong, Hongjie
name: Kim, Seick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J08, 42B37

description: We construct the Green function for second-order elliptic equations in non-divergence form when the mean oscillations of the coefficients satisfy the Dini condition. We show that the Green's function is BMO in the domain and establish logarithmic pointwise bounds. We also obtain pointwise bounds for first and second derivatives of the Green's function.
description: 20 pages
Linking auditory and visual input through audiotapes of text: A technique to enhance reading, academic achievement, and attitude toward reading of at-risk adolescents
Creators: name: Briggs, Sharon Cook
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The problem. This study's purpose was to analyze the effects of two methods of presentation of instruction on middle school students who were reading significantly below grade level: (1) an audio-visual presentation in which students listened to tape recordings of their textbooks and school-assigned novels while they simultaneously read; and (2) a visual approach in which students read their textbooks and school-assigned novels without read-along tapes. The underlying question was whether or not linking auditory and visual modalities might enhance the learning process of academically struggling adolescents in: (1) their academic achievement as measured by textbook tests and academic grades; (2) their reading comprehension as measured by standardized reading tests; (3) their attitude toward reading and self-image as measured by an attitude survey and anecdotal teacher and self observations. Methodology. Thirty-seven matched pairs of seventh-grade students scoring 1.5 years below grade level participated in a Pretest-Posttest Control-Group design. Students in the audio-visual treatment group simultaneously listened to and read along with tapes of chapters in their history textbook and English novels. Textbook chapters were recorded as guided reading assignments. No other accommodations were made. The Findings. No significant differences in mean gains were found between treatment and control groups in academic achievement or in reading vocabulary growth. However, significant differences (.05 level) in mean gains in reading comprehension as measured by two standardized reading tests were found in favor of the treatment group. A subgroup of 16 matched pairs was examined for change in attitude toward reading: greater gains in mean change of attitude were found in favor of the treatment group. Conclusions and recommendations. The researcher concluded that read-along tapes of textbooks and novels are efficacious for certain adolescent students reading below grade level, particularly with regard to reading comprehension, but it is unclear how to determine which students will respond favorably. It appears that when students reach the stage when their reading comprehension and rate exceeds that of their listening comprehension, read-along tapes are no longer of value.
The persistent radio jet coupled to hard X-rays in the soft state of Cyg X-1
Creators: name: Zdziarski, Andrzej A.
name: Shapopi, J. N. S.
name: Pooley, Guy G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study long-term radio/X-ray correlations in Cyg X-1. We find the persistent existence of a compact radio jet in its soft state. This represents a new phenomenon in black-hole binaries, in addition to compact jets in the hard state and episodic ejections of ballistic blobs in the intermediate state. While the radio emission in the hard state is strongly correlated with both the soft and hard X-rays, the radio flux in the soft state is not directly correlated with the flux of the dominant disk blackbody in soft X-rays, but instead it is lagged by about a hundred days. We interpret the lag as occurring in the process of advection of the magnetic flux from the donor through the accretion disk. On the other hand, the soft-state radio flux is very tightly correlated with the hard X-ray, 15--50 keV, flux without a measurable lag and at the same rms. This implies that the X-ray emitting disk corona and the soft-state jet are powered by the same process, probably magnetically.
description: ApJL in press, 6 pages
An analysis of income inequality in a developing country: Sri Lanka, 1985-1986 and 1990-1991
Creators: name: Gunewardena, Dileni
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation analyzes income inequality and urban wage-income determination in Sri Lanka in 1985/86 and 1990/91, using household survey data from the Department of Census and Statistics. It addresses the questions: Did income inequality in Sri Lanka increase or decrease during this period? What were the sources of income inequality during this period? Had the relative importance of these sources changed between 1985/86 and 1990/91? What factors determined urban wage-incomes during this period?; Inequality comparisons were made using Lorenz estimates as well as a range of summary inequality indices. Sources of inequality were identified using source decompositions of the extended Gini index and subgroup decompositions of the Gini coefficient, Theil T and L indices. Spatial price-variation was eliminated from the distributions using a spatial price index. Income determining factors in urban wage incomes were identified using earnings functions corrected for household-level heterogeneity using fixed and random effects estimation. The gender wage-differential was decomposed into the effects of gender differences in mean endowments and a discrimination component. Our results showed that inequality declined between 1985/86 and 1990/91 when measured by indices that emphasized the lower part of the income distribution. Real incomes also declined during this period. Among sources of income, earnings contributed more to inequality than nonlabor income. Education, government employment and occupational variables were sources of inequality in the personal income distribution, and significant determinants of urban wages. Spatial and ethnic contributions to inequality were small. However, inequality was higher in the urban sector than in the rural and estate sectors. Patterns of inequality differed by gender: inequality between groups--by occupation, industry, government employment and education--was more important for females than for males, and increased during the period. Female wages were on average lower than male wages despite female advantages in endowments and returns to endowments. Changes in income inequality during this period were due to inequality-reducing changes in rural self-employment incomes and urban and estate wages and salaries, declining inequality between age groups, within spatial, ethnic and educational groups and declining inequality both within (for females) and between (for males) occupational and industrial groups.
САМОИДЕНТИЧНОСТЬ КАК ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ДОМИНАНТА ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ СИБИРСКИХ ТАТАР
Creators: name: Сигов В.К.
Publisher: name: Образование и право
Year: 2021
Subjects: самоидентичность
самовыражение
литература сибирских татар
писательская стратегия
внутренний мир поэта.

description: В статье рассматривается феномен самоидентичности на примере творчества Булата Сулейманова, Сагита Сагитова и Захида Акбулякова. При этом данный тип художественной доминанты трактуется как репрезентация личностного взгляда на мир и представление широкому кругу общественности своего сокровенного мира. В ходе анализа поэтической специфики названных деятелей литературы установлено, что каждого из них характеризует свой творческий почерк, манера повествования и стратегия изложения мысли. Решение поставленной задачи актуально как для развития межкультурной коммуникации, так и для углубленного изучения литературной традиции сибирской земли. Обзор особенностей, которые маркируют развитие национальной поэзии, знакомит с системой жанров и художественно-стилистических приемов, в совокупности образующих концептосферу самоидентичности.
Similarity between the kinematic viscosity of quark-gluon plasma and liquids at the viscosity minimum
Creators: name: Baggioli, Matteo
name: Brazhkin, Vadim
name: Trachenko, Kostya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, it has been found that the kinematic viscosity of liquids at the minimum, $ν_m$, can be expressed in terms of fundamental physical constants, giving $ν_m$ on the order of $10^{-7}~{\rm m^2/s}$. Here, we show that the kinematic viscosity of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has a similar value and support this finding by experimental data and theoretical estimations. The similarity is striking, given that the dynamic viscosity and the density of QGP are about 16 orders of magnitude larger than in liquids and that the two systems have disparate interactions and fundamental theories. We discuss the implications of this result for understanding the QGP including the similarity of flow and particle dynamics at the viscosity minimum, the associated dynamical crossover and universality of shear diffusivity.
description: v3: discussion about the dynamical crossover and the various approximations improved
Документальне забезпечення внутрішньогосподарського контролю земельних ресурсів
Documentary support of internal control of land resources
Creators: name: Yurchenko, Tetiana
name: Yurchenko, Tetiana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: internal control
subject: documentary support
subject: land resources
subject: information
subject: agricultural enterprises

description: Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to investigate, critically assess the state of documentary support of internal control of land resources and develop proposals for its improvement. Methodology / approach. The methodology of the research is based on the general scientific methods of cognition and the system approach, which made it possible to carry out the complex solution to the tasks set for the documentary support of internal control of land resources. In the process of research, general scientific methods and a specific method – modeling were used in the development of proposals for the improvement of documentary registration. Results. The article substantiates that in order to the internal control of the enterprise to fulfill its tasks, first of all provided the management of the enterprise with timely, relevant, reliable information about a supervisory object, it is necessary to pay attention to the organization of the order of forming the grounds for expression opinion about the actual state of the object of verification by internal controller. Such grounds are documented information obtained both during all process of realization internal control and generalized on the basis of its results. In the course of the research, the main problems of documentary provision of the internal control of land resources were identified. In order to eliminate the established problems, it has been developed proposals on the content and form of documents that can be used for registration of information are developed: necessary for organization of the process of conducting of internal control of land resources; received during its implementation; obtained on the basis of the generalization of its results. Originality / scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of the obtained results consists in theoretical substantiation and practical solution of issues related to the improvement of documentary support of internal control of land resources in the system of management of agricultural enterprises, which ensures an increase in the efficiency of its implementation. Practical value / implications. The introduction of the proposed forms of documents will provide the development or improvement of documentation by enterprises that organize and control the land resources. Taking as a basis the documentary support offered by us, the enterprise first of all has the opportunity to shorten the time to develop the package of documents and to establish requirements for their content and form.
An analysis of income inequality in a developing country: Sri Lanka, 1985-1986 and 1990-1991
Creators: name: Gunewardena, Dileni
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation analyzes income inequality and urban wage-income determination in Sri Lanka in 1985/86 and 1990/91, using household survey data from the Department of Census and Statistics. It addresses the questions: Did income inequality in Sri Lanka increase or decrease during this period? What were the sources of income inequality during this period? Had the relative importance of these sources changed between 1985/86 and 1990/91? What factors determined urban wage-incomes during this period?; Inequality comparisons were made using Lorenz estimates as well as a range of summary inequality indices. Sources of inequality were identified using source decompositions of the extended Gini index and subgroup decompositions of the Gini coefficient, Theil T and L indices. Spatial price-variation was eliminated from the distributions using a spatial price index. Income determining factors in urban wage incomes were identified using earnings functions corrected for household-level heterogeneity using fixed and random effects estimation. The gender wage-differential was decomposed into the effects of gender differences in mean endowments and a discrimination component. Our results showed that inequality declined between 1985/86 and 1990/91 when measured by indices that emphasized the lower part of the income distribution. Real incomes also declined during this period. Among sources of income, earnings contributed more to inequality than nonlabor income. Education, government employment and occupational variables were sources of inequality in the personal income distribution, and significant determinants of urban wages. Spatial and ethnic contributions to inequality were small. However, inequality was higher in the urban sector than in the rural and estate sectors. Patterns of inequality differed by gender: inequality between groups--by occupation, industry, government employment and education--was more important for females than for males, and increased during the period. Female wages were on average lower than male wages despite female advantages in endowments and returns to endowments. Changes in income inequality during this period were due to inequality-reducing changes in rural self-employment incomes and urban and estate wages and salaries, declining inequality between age groups, within spatial, ethnic and educational groups and declining inequality both within (for females) and between (for males) occupational and industrial groups.
Production of hidden-charm and hidden-bottom pentaquark states in electron-proton collisions
Creators: name: Xie, Ya-Ping
name: Cao, Xu
name: Liang, Yu-Tie
name: Chen, Xurong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electro-production of several pentaquark states is investigated in this paper. eSTARlight package is adapted to study the electro-production of $J/ψ$ and $Υ(1S)$ via pentaquark $P_c$ and $P_b$ resonance channels in $e p \to e eJ/ψp$ and $e p \to eΥ(1S) p$ scattering processes at proposed electron-ion colliders (EICs). The results in this paper are compared to the non-resonance $t$-channels, which is described in pomeron exchange model in our studies. Some pseudo-rapidity distributions rapidity distributions of $J/ψ$ and $Υ(1S)$ are presented for proposed EICs including EicC and EIC-US. It is found that EicC is a good platform to identify $P_b$ states in the future.
СЕМАНТИЧЕСКИЕ ГРУППЫ АНГЛИЙСКИХ ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЗМОВ В АНТРОПОЦЕНТРИЧЕСКОМ АСПЕКТЕ
Creators: name: Гацайниева А.К.
Publisher: name: Образование и право
Year: 2021
Subjects: антропоцентризм
антропоцентрические фразеологизмы
семантика
социальное положение человека
внутренний мир человека
поведение человека в обществе
внешняя характеристика человека.

description: В статье рассматриваются основные типы фразеологизмов, описывающих различные качества человека: внешность, характер, социальное положение, поведение, с точки зрения антропоцентрического подхода к анализу английского этноса. Природа межличностных отношений в любых общностях достаточно сложна. В них проявляются как сугубо индивидуальные качества личности её эмоциональные и волевые свойства, интеллектуальные возможности, так и усвоенные личностью нормы и ценности общества. Учитывая то, что социальное поведение человека является частью общества и находит отражение в языке, объединив данные социологии и лингвистики, мы выделяем семантические группы английских фразеологизмов, характеризующих социальное положение и взаимоотношения человека в коллективе, оценивающие внутренний мир человека и его поведение в обществе.
Nanozoanthidae Fujii & Reimer 2013, FAM. NOV.
Creators: name: Fujii, Takuma
name: Reimer, James Davis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Zoantharia
Nanozoanthidae

description: NANOZOANTHIDAE FAM. NOV.   Type genus
 Nanozoanthus gen. nov.
 Etymology
As for the type genus, with ending as in other zoanthid families.
 Diagnosis
 Well-developed polyps connected by narrow stolon. Mineral particles encrusted in column from aboral end to the edge of the oral disc. Irregularly sized sand particles encrusted into ectoderm and slightly into mesoglea. Zigzagged, white-coloured pattern following outside edge of oral disc. Macrocnemic mesenterial arrangement. Sphincter muscle mesogleal. No lacunae or ring sinus. Zooxanthellate. Mitochondrial COI and 16S ribosomal DNA sequences significantly differ from all other known zoanthid genera (Figs 1, 2).
 Remarks
 Only a few other macrocnemic zoanthids symbiotic with zooxanthellae are known, primarily from the genera Parazoanthus and Isozoanthus. It is easy to distinguish this family from these two genera by the position of sphincter muscle and by the phylogenetically highly divergent COI and mt 16S rDNA sequences.
description: Published as part of Fujii, Takuma & Reimer, James Davis, 2013, A new family of diminutive zooxanthellate zoanthids (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia), pp. 509-522 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (3) on page 512, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12075, http://zenodo.org/record/4890473
Developing the  infrastructure for Short Food Supply Chains
Creators: name: EU4Advice Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is a write-up of a workshop organised by Newcastle University in collaboration with CCRI - Countryside and Community Research Insitute held at the University of Warwick on 20 February 2024 focussed on developing practical strategies to develop the infrastructure for Short Food Supply Chains  (SFSCs). The workshop was attended by people from a range of different parts of the food sector,  including organisations working directly in and with SFSCs, academics and third sector and public officials. The report summarises the rationale and potential benefits of SFSCs, before outlining an approach to thinking about infrastructure for SFSCs under six headings: human, social, legal, financial, digital, and physical. We discuss workshop participants’ views on both the barriers and opportunities for developing the infrastructure under each heading and conclude by suggesting key actions different stakeholders could take to develop infrastructure to support SFSCs, and how the SFSC community might work towards these goals.

 

Authors: Tocco, B., Noble, J., Maye, D., Morse, A., Gorton, M. and Steytler, M. (2024), Workshop Report: Developing the infrastructure for Short Food Supply Chains, National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE)
When gender goes to combat: The role of "representations" in the assignment of women in the military
Creators: name: Rubino, Silvana
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This contribution to the analysis of decision-making processes uses intertextual analysis and a hybrid intelligence computer application to examine the role of "representations" in the final recommendations of George Bush's "Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Military". Although the positions of many of the Commissioners appeared to be opposed, they all reflected dominant discursive practices. Commissioners in favor or against the assignment of women to direct-combat positions constructed a representation of "women warriors" which they opposed to the implicitly male representation of "warrior". In doing so, Commissioners "overlooked" testimony given by women who wanted to be assigned to combat and who portrayed themselves without gender connotations. The analysis of the Presidential Commission's debate reveals the role that representational practices have in the construction of "reality", understood as a textual space within which confronted discourses exist. As the case study illustrates, this has implications for the implementation of policy alternatives: discursive practices--both dominant and insurgent--reproduce the status quo, and change occurs only gradually within existent representations. Since both dominant and insurgent discursive practices are imbedded in policy implementation, the full integration of women into combat units in the military (a male-dominated but also a male-defined environment) will not occur until the representation of "warrior" loses its implicit gender reference and becomes neutral.