cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of Professional Employees Voluntary Turnover on Company's Service Delivery: The Case of Ethiopian Insurance Corporation (EIC)
Creators: name: Getachew, Helina
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The problems triggering this study were an increasing rate of turnover from year to year, increase in error records, customers complaining of frequently changing professionals and existing professionals" job hoping. The general objective of this study was to examine the actual causes behind professional employees" turnover and its effects on the service delivery of the corporation. The research is aimed at pointing the major causes of professional employees" voluntary turnover, spotting employees more susceptible for voluntary turnover, examining the direct and indirect effects as well as the magnitude and direction of professionals" voluntary turnover on the corporation"s service delivery and assessing the attitudes of the higher executives regarding professional employees" voluntary turnover and service delivery. The research type employed in this study is descriptive. This study involved concurrent mixed design, which incorporates both qualitative and quantitative approach, for data collection. Both survey of documents (Secondary data) and structured questionnaire and interview (Primary data) tools were used. Data collected using structured questionnaire was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Interview was also conducted for triangulation. Findings of this study indicated that lack of clear path for career advancement, unfair treatment of employees, job hoping, non existence of non monetary recognition and flexible working condition and job dissatisfaction are the major causes of professional employees" voluntary turnover in EIC. According to findings of this research, the employees, among the professionals, who are more susceptible for voluntary turnover, are non management young professionals. The findings of this study indicated high error record and customer dissatisfaction which finally turns out to shift of the same to other service providers, as the effect of professionals" voluntary turnover on corporation"s service delivery. Concerning the attitudes of higher executives on professional employees" voluntary turnover and service delivery, this study put forward that the management is aware of the existence of increasing rate of professionals" turnover. The majority stressed on the preventive measures as to retain professionals and enhance service delivery. In addition to working on the major controllable factors causing professional"s turnover, this study recommends the introduction of structured programme for transfer of critical knowledge, instillation of service culture and placement of service improvement programme. Key words: Professional, Employees, Voluntary, Turnover, Service delivery
Sistematización del proyecto " Espacios de formación para la vida "
Creators: name: Serrano Buelvas, Nicolasa
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2001
Subjects: Ciencias sociales - Educación primaria

description: Tesis (Trabajador Social) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Faculta de ciencias sociales. Programa de trabajo social, 2001
description: Proceso metodológico realizado en la escuela Primero de Mayo en el proyecto de “Formación para la Vida”, utilizando la metodología de la pedagogía social como instrumento para lograr la transformación social.
title: Apremilast, an Oral Phophodiesterase 4 Inhibitor, Is Associated With Long-term (52-Week) Improvements in Enthesitis and Dactylitis in Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis: Results From the PALACE 4 Phase 3, Randomized, Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Edwards, Christopher
name: Wollenhaupt, Jürgen
name: Adebajo, Adewale
name: Kivitz, Alan
name: Bird, Paul
name: Hu, ChiaChi
name: Aelion, Jacob A.
name: Wells, Alvin F.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Apremilast (APR), an oral phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, helps regulate immune responses in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). PALACE 4 compared the efficacy and safety of APR with placebo in patients with active PsA who were DMARD-naïve. We evaluated the impact of APR treatment over 52 weeks[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh); 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh); 25. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Plan de desarrollo para la puesta en marcha y funcionamiento de la cooperativa de comerciantes de pescado en Magangue
Creators: name: Salbaza Crespo, Arleth
name: Posada Fonseca, Rosa Helena
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1989
Subjects: Cooperativa de comerciantes de pescado - Magangue - Plan de desarrollo

description: Tesis (Economista) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Economía. 1989.
description: El presente estudio tiene por objeto la realización de un plan de inversión para el funcionamiento y puesta en marcha de la cooperativa de comerciantes de pescado de Maganguè.
Pareto Explorer: a global/local exploration tool for many-objective optimization problems
Creators: name: Schütze, Oliver
name: Cuate, Oliver
name: Martín, Adanay
name: Peitz, Sebastian
name: Dellnitz, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Multi-objective optimization is an active field of research that has many applications. Owing to its success and because decision-making processes are becoming more and more complex, there is a recent trend for incorporating many objectives into such problems. The challenge with such problems, however, is that the dimensions of the solution sets—the so-called Pareto sets and fronts—grow with the number of objectives. It is thus no longer possible to compute or to approximate the entire solution set of a given problem that contains many (e.g. more than three) objectives. On the other hand, the computation of single solutions (e.g. via scalarization methods) leads to unsatisfying results in many cases, even if user preferences are incorporated. In this article, the Pareto Explorer tool is presented—a global/local exploration tool for the treatment of many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs). In the first step, a solution of the problem is computed via a global search algorithm that ideally already includes user preferences. In the second step, a local search along the Pareto set/front of the given MaOP is performed in user specified directions. For this, several continuation-like procedures are proposed that can incorporate preferences defined in decision, objective, or in weight space. The applicability and usefulness of Pareto Explorer is demonstrated on benchmark problems as well as on an application from industrial laundry design.
Captura, retención, libertad provisional y excarcelación en el procedimiento penal colombiano
Creators: name: Iriarte De Aguilar, Eunice
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1988
Subjects: Excarcelación
Libertad condicional - Colombia
Prueba (Derecho) - Colombia

description: Tesis (Abogado) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas. Programa de Derecho, 1988
description: Por los decretos 409 de 1971 , pasado por la ley segunda de 1984 y el actual código de procedimiento penal, todas estas reformas han tenido que ver con la retención, captura, retención, libertad y excarcelación de los sindicatos, con la finalidad de hacer mas severa la pena y evitar la excarcelación o la libertad provisional del delincuente.
title: A Phase 3, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Apremilast, an Oral Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitor, for Treatment of Psoriatic Arthritis: Long-term (52-Week) Improvements in Physical Function
Creators: name: Wells, Alvin F.
name: Schett, Georg
name: Adebajo, Adewale
name: Kivitz, Alan
name: Hu, ChiaChi
name: Edwards, Christopher
name: Bird, Paul
name: Aelion, Jacob A.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Apremilast (APR), an oral phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, helps regulate the immune responses in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). PALACE 4 compared the efficacy and safety of APR with placebo in patients with active PsA who were DMARD-naïve. We evaluated the impact of APR over 52 weeks on[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh); 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh); 25. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Del poder político y sus relaciones con algunas fuerzas políticas organizadas de iberoamérica
Creators: name: Baquero Grondona, Francisco
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1973

description: Tesis (Abogado) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas. Programa de Derecho, 1973
description: Conceptos claros y concisos de lo q es y como es el poder político, ya que el verdadero fin de los partidos políticos es utilizado como medio en el poder político.
title: Hyperbare Sauerstofftherapie bei Kollagenose-Patienten mit therapierefraktären digitalen Ulzerationen
Creators: name: Fick, Sylvia Michaela
name: Schenk, Birgit
name: Pohl, Carsten
name: Schäfer, Christoph
name: Keyßer, Gernot
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Durchblutungsstörungen und akrale Nekrosebildung durch endotheliale Dysfunktion oder Vaskulitis sind eine mögliche Organmanifestation einer Kollagenose. Therapeutisch steht eine Therapieintensivierung der Grunderkrankung, eine Verbesserung der Rheologie, intensive Lokaltherapien[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh); 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh); 25. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Evaluación de un reactor fotocatalítico solar de película descendiente para degradar residuos de acetaminofén con TIO2 soportado
Creators: name: Chamorro Romero, Brenda Juliana
name: Marín Rodriguez, Cindy Paola
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2013
Subjects: Catálisis
Fotocatalisis
Catalizadores

description: Tesis (Ingeniero Químico) --Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias E Ingenierías. Programa de Ingeniería Química, 2013
description: La presencia de residuos farmacéuticos en aguas residuales, como amoxicilina, acetaminofén, entre otros, se origina a partir de las industrias químicas, desechos hospitalarios y domésticos. El acetaminofén es un analgésico de consumo masivo que se vende sin prescripción médica a nivel mundial, por lo que se han encontrado residuos no sólo en agua residual sino también potable. Debido a esto es necesario implementar un tratamiento de oxidación avanzada que pueda degradar este contaminante, ya que es de baja biodegradabilidad. En esta investigación se estudió la degradación fotocatalítica de una muestra de agua contaminada con acetaminofén comercial usando un reactor solar de placa plana a escala piloto con TiO2 soportado en una tela no-tejida y sílica. El efecto del pH inicial y la concentración inicial de acetaminofén sobre la degradación fotocatalítica se analizó a partir de resultados de absorbancia de espectrofotometría UV-VIS. Posteriormente, se usó la metodología de superficie de respuesta (MSR) para optimizar la degradación. Los resultados mostraron que los factores considerados (pH inicial y concentración inicial de acetaminofén) tuvieron un efecto significativo en la degradación fotocatalítica, favoreciéndose este proceso a niveles bajos de estas variables. La degradación máxima estimada matemáticamente con el modelo de la superficie de respuesta, fue de 40.45% obtenida con pH inicial de 4.38 y concentración inicial de 23.79 ppm, estas condiciones se validaron experimentalmente, alcanzando una degradación de 38.57%.
R2: A Distributed Remote Function Execution Mechanism With Built-in Metadata
Creators: name: Qi, Jianpeng
name: Wang, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Named data networking (NDN) constructs a network by names, providing a flexible and decentralized way to manage resources within the edge computing continuum. This paper aims to solve the question, "Given a function with its parameters and metadata, how to select the executor in a distributed manner and obtain the result in NDN?" To answer it, we design R2 that involves the following stages. First, we design a name structure including data, function names, and other function parameters. Second, we develop a 2-phase mechanism, where in the first phase, the function request from a client-first reaches the data source and retrieves the metadata, then the best node is selected while the metadata is responding to the client. In the second phase, the chosen node directly retrieves the data, executes the function, and provides the result to the client. Furthermore, we propose a stop condition to intelligently reduce the processing time of the first phase and provide a simple proof and range analysis. Simulations confirm that R2 outperforms the current solutions in terms of resource allocation, especially when the data volume and the function complexity are high. In the experiments, when the data size is 100 KiB and the function complexity is $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$, the speedup ratio is 4.61. To further evaluate R2, we also implement a general intermediate data processing logic named ``Bolt'' implemented on an app-level in ndnSIM. We believe that R2 shall help the researchers and developers to verify their ideas smoothly.
description: Accepted in in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.10083 by other authors
Work–life interaction and employee health and wellbeing in residential aged care
Creators: name: Weale, Victoria Patricia
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: The public version of this thesis does not contain all material submitted for examination.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Informe final de investigación caracterización social de la mediana empresa en Cartagena, 1994
Creators: name: Cogollo, Kenia Victoria
name: Pérez Mendoza, Liliana
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Pequeña y mediana empresa - Investigación social
subject: Microempresas - Investigación social

description: El presente trabajo está relacionado con el profeso industrial de Cartagena en los últimos años, referido a un sector que se fortaleció durante la segunda época de oro vivida en la ciudad, el sector comprendido por las medianas empresas. El estudio pretende caracterizar el desarrollo social alcanzado por esta, y la incidencia en el desarrollo del recurso humano de las mismas.
Three-family left-right symmetry with low-scale seesaw mechanism
Creators: name: Reig, Mario
name: Valle, José W. F.
name: Vaquera-Araujo, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a new left-right symmetric model implementing a low-scale seesaw mechanism in which quantum consistency requires three families of fermions. The symmetry breaking route to the Standard Model determines the profile of the "next" expected new physics, characterized either by the simplest left-right gauge symmetry or by the 3-3-1 scenario. The resulting $Z^\prime$ gauge bosons can be probed at the LHC and provide a production portal for the right-handed neutrinos. On the other hand, its flavor changing interactions would affect the K, D and B neutral meson systems.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures. Revised version as accepted by JHEP
Defining the molecular mechanisms of monocyte apoptotic cell disassembly, and its role in cell clearance and influenza infection
Creators: name: Atkin-Smith, Georgia Kate
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, School of Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.

Thesis with publications.

This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.
title: Plasmapherese-Therapie der ANCA-assoziierten Vaskulitis mit schwerer renaler Beteiligung in der Post-MEPEX-Ära unter Real-Life Bedingungen
Creators: name: Stille, Kolja
name: Kuipers, Jens Gert
name: Herget-Rosenthal, Stefan
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die MEPEX-Studie zeigte, daß ANCA-assoziierte Vaskulitiden mit schwerer renaler Manifestation (AAVr) von Plasmapherese (PP) zusätzlich zur Remissionsinduktion mit Cyclophosphamid und Glukokortikoiden profitieren. Wir untersuchten, ob diese Erkenntnisse in Real Life umgesetzt und[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh); 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh); 25. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Employee Turnover and Organization Performance: The Case of Shintes ETB Garment PLC
Creators: name: Asegid, Blen
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: This study focuses on variable such as turnover and organizational performance and the possible interaction between them. More specifically, the main purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between turnover of employees and organizational performance at Shintes ETP Garment Plc which is found in Addis Ababa Bole Lemi Industrial Park and owned by Korean investors. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. In the course of the study, the researcher selected a sample of 205 employees of the factory from the total of 4019 employee population working in it using a stratified and systematic random sampling techniques to all employees except the corporate managers, who were selected in a census approach, in a way that it provides equal chance for all the employees to be selected for the study in which case generalization of the findings to the overall organization were possible. Consequently, the data gathering tools prepared for the study were employed i.e. semi-structured interview items to corporate managers and questionnaires to all other employees. The data collected were then presented, analyzed and interpreted both qualitatively and quantitatively. More specifically, the study indicated the existence of high level of turnover in the industry and its strong influence on organizational performance was also justified by both the qualitative and quantitative analysis. Therefore, the study found out that low pay and benefit packages, employee-organization relationship, repetitive nature of the job, absence of job rotation, motivation, incompatibility of working culture between the owner and majority of employees, poor recruitment and selection procedures as the major causes for turnover. On the other hand, the influence of turnover was manifested in high cost of recruitment, training, productivity and quality of production. The company is attempting to put into place strategy like free lunch service to reduce turnover but it didn't bring the desired outcome. Besides, the company is planning to build up dormitories for the employees' with the intent of retaining them which still seems restrictive when it comes to the privacy and choice of employees
title: Niereninsuffizienz bei langjährigem Sjögren Syndrom – Nierenbeteiligung häufiger als gedacht?
Creators: name: Boro, Damir
name: Krusche, Martin
name: Raguse, Marieclaire
name: Becker, Verena
name: Kötter, Ina
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Zuweisung einer klinisch inapparenten 44-jährigen Patientin (Fall 1) mit vordiagnostiziertem Sjögren Syndrom (EM 1994, ED 2000) mit assoziiertem MALT-Lymphom (EM 2002, Rezidiv 2005) und Z.n. Thyreoidektomie bei bifokalem papillärem Schildrüsenca 09/2011 mit unklarem[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh); 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh); 25. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Power of Uninitialized Qubits in Shallow Quantum Circuits
Creators: name: Takahashi, Yasuhiro
name: Tani, Seiichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the computational power of shallow quantum circuits with $O(\log n)$ initialized and $n^{O(1)}$ uninitialized ancillary qubits, where $n$ is the input length and the initial state of the uninitialized ancillary qubits is arbitrary. First, we show that such a circuit can compute any symmetric function on $n$ bits that is classically computable in polynomial time. Then, we regard such a circuit as an oracle and show that a polynomial-time classical algorithm with the oracle can estimate the elements of any unitary matrix corresponding to a constant-depth quantum circuit on $n$ qubits. Since it seems unlikely that these tasks can be done with only $O(\log n)$ initialized ancillary qubits, our results give evidences that adding uninitialized ancillary qubits increases the computational power of shallow quantum circuits with only $O(\log n)$ initialized ancillary qubits. Lastly, to understand the limitations of uninitialized ancillary qubits, we focus on near-logarithmic-depth quantum circuits with them and show the impossibility of computing the parity function on $n$ bits.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures; v3: Theorem 1 improved, title changed, text substantially rewritten
Sinn von Sein. Foreign Policy, Memory and Changing Imaginaries and Practices of Neutrality in the Second Republic
Creators: name: Baciu, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of Political Science
Year: 2023

description: This article unpacks the meaning of permanent neutrality in Austrian foreign policy from a collective memory perspective understood as remembrance of the past and expression of the country’s ontological condition (Sinn von Sein). I argue, first, that while neutrality has remained formally a backbone of foreign and security policy, in practice, it changed its meaning to incorporate a more active role in multilateral institutions. Second, I demonstrate how this can be related to collective memory and changing imaginaries and role conceptions, showing how Austria’s Sonderweg emerges from a normative global ambition to contribute to a more positive understanding of order.
description: Austrian Journal of Political Science, Bd. 51 Nr. 4 (2022): Austrian Foreign Policy: Reinvigorating the research agenda
Fritz Sager / Susanne Hadorn / Andreas Balthasar / Céline Mavrot (2021): Politikevaluation. Eine Einführung
Creators: name: Nebel, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
Year: 2023

description: n/a
description: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Bd. 51 Nr. 4 (2022): Austrian Foreign Policy: Reinvigorating the research agenda
Clinical supervision of allied health professionals
Creators: name: Snowdon, David Anthony
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Thesis with publications.

This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.
Please Wait Outside: The Absence of Public Control of Austria’s Foreign Policy Due to a Lack of Public Information and Education
Creators: name: Reiter, Teresa
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of Political Science
Year: 2023

description: This article is a reflection on the Handbuch Außenpolitik Österreichs (Handbook on Austrian Foreign Policy, see Senn et al. 2023) from a public information and civic education point of view. It discusses the Handbook’s value for educating the public on topics and stakeholders of Austria’s foreign policy landscape and intends to argue the relevance of political parties’ roles in the public discourse to foreign policy education. The article addresses the genesis of public opinion to political decision-making in the foreign policy field and gives an analysis of public control of and citizens’ role in foreign policy decision-making.
description: Austrian Journal of Political Science, Bd. 51 Nr. 4 (2022): Austrian Foreign Policy: Reinvigorating the research agenda
title: Individueller Heilversuch mit Tocilizumab (TCZ) zur Retherapie bei systemischer Sklerose. Erfolgreiche Genehmigung durch die GKV
Creators: name: König, Ramona
name: Hermann, Walter
name: Frerix, Marc
name: Tarner, Ingo Helmut
name: Lange, Uwe
name: Müller-Ladner, Ulf
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die pharmakologische Therapie der sogenannten „seltenen Erkrankungen“, z.B. der systemischen Sklerose, stellt den Rheumatologen vor Probleme. Zugelassene Therapien und Leitlinien fehlen weitestgehend, medikamentöse Therapie stellt oft eine Behandlung außerhalb der[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh); 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh); 25. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Multiple-Speaker Localization Based on Direct-Path Features and Likelihood Maximization with Spatial Sparsity Regularization
Creators: name: Li, Xiaofei
name: Girin, Laurent
name: Gannot, Sharon
name: Horaud, Radu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper addresses the problem of multiple-speaker localization in noisy and reverberant environments, using binaural recordings of an acoustic scene. A Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is adopted, whose components correspond to all the possible candidate source locations defined on a grid. After optimizing the GMM-based objective function, given an observed set of binaural features, both the number of sources and their locations are estimated by selecting the GMM components with the largest priors. This is achieved by enforcing a sparse solution, thus favoring a small number of speakers with respect to the large number of initial candidate source locations. An entropy-based penalty term is added to the likelihood, thus imposing sparsity over the set of GMM priors. In addition, the direct-path relative transfer function (DP-RTF) is used to build robust binaural features. The DP-RTF, recently proposed for single-source localization, was shown to be robust to reverberations, since it encodes inter-channel information corresponding to the direct-path of sound propagation. In this paper, we extend the DP-RTF estimation to the case of multiple sources. In the short-time Fourier transform domain, a consistency test is proposed to check whether a set of consecutive frames is associated to the same source or not. Reliable DP-RTF features are selected from the frames that pass the consistency test to be used for source localization. Experiments carried out using both simulation data and real data gathered with a robotic head confirm the efficiency of the proposed multi-source localization method.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables
Small State Studies: Austria’s Bid to get Elected on the UNSC
Creators: name: Thorhallsson, Baldur
name: Stude Vidal, Thomas
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of Political Science
Year: 2023

description: This article provides an overview of small state studies and offers a comparative study of the respective 2008 United Nations Security Council campaigns by Austria and Iceland. It examines how quantitative and qualitative characteristics between small states play a decisive role in mounting successful UNSC bids. The analysis indicates that Austria’s ‘smallness’ did not significantly impact the country’s ability to garner votes towards a seat, and that its size and status was utilised in concurrence with skilful diplomacy to meet objectives. Iceland, on the other hand, was thwarted not only by its limited size, but also by a lack of political and diplomatic commitment to the cause, and an inability to ‘absorb’ an untimely exogenous shock that damaged the country’s reputation.
description: Austrian Journal of Political Science, Bd. 51 Nr. 4 (2022): Austrian Foreign Policy: Reinvigorating the research agenda
People, power, and participation: the disconnect between regulation, reality and ethics
Creators: name: Wilson, Elena
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: This thesis is submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy to the La Trobe Rural Health School, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria.

This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.
Austrian and Swiss Foreign Policy: A Comparison and Research Agenda
Creators: name: Bernauer, Thomas
Publisher: name: Austrian Journal of Political Science
Year: 2023

description: Foreign policy analysis (FPA) appears to have become quite marginal in academic political science research, not only in Austria, but also in other countries, such as neighboring Switzerland or Germany. In this essay I argue that, contrary to conventional wisdom, this is not primarily due to the fact that scholars based in these countries and their research have internationalized, and that Austria and Switzerland are too small to really matter in international politics and thus be of academic interest. Rather, it derives from two conditions: first, continued adherence of many if not most FPA scholars to interpretational (hermeneutical) research methods, which have become rather peripheral in modern political science; and second, limited creativity of political scientists focused on causal explanation and statistical analysis in coming up with new and interesting FPA questions and appropriate study designs. This argument is illustrated with examples from FPA as reflected in two recent books on foreign policy in Austria and Switzerland respectively, and suggestions on several areas where political scientists could add valuable insights that are both academically interesting and policy relevant.
description: Austrian Journal of Political Science, Bd. 51 Nr. 4 (2022): Austrian Foreign Policy: Reinvigorating the research agenda
On model-based time trend adjustments in platform trials with non-concurrent controls
Creators: name: Roig, Marta Bofill
name: Krotka, Pavla
name: Burman, Carl-Fredrik
name: Glimm, Ekkehard
name: Gold, Stefan M.
name: Hees, Katharina
name: Jacko, Peter
name: Koenig, Franz
name: Magirr, Dominic
name: Mesenbrink, Peter
name: Viele, Kert
name: Posch, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Platform trials can evaluate the efficacy of several treatments compared to a control. The number of treatments is not fixed, as arms may be added or removed as the trial progresses. Platform trials are more efficient than independent parallel-group trials because of using shared control groups. For arms entering the trial later, not all patients in the control group are randomised concurrently. The control group is then divided into concurrent and non-concurrent controls. Using non-concurrent controls (NCC) can improve the trial's efficiency, but can introduce bias due to time trends. We focus on a platform trial with two treatment arms and a common control arm. Assuming that the second treatment arm is added later, we assess the robustness of model-based approaches to adjust for time trends when using NCC. We consider approaches where time trends are modeled as linear or as a step function, with steps at times where arms enter or leave the trial. For trials with continuous or binary outcomes, we investigate the type 1 error (t1e) rate and power of testing the efficacy of the newly added arm under a range of scenarios. In addition to scenarios where time trends are equal across arms, we investigate settings with trends that are different or not additive in the model scale. A step function model fitted on data from all arms gives increased power while controlling the t1e, as long as the time trends are equal for the different arms and additive on the model scale. This holds even if the trend's shape deviates from a step function if block randomisation is used. But if trends differ between arms or are not additive on the model scale, t1e control may be lost. The efficiency gained by using step function models to incorporate NCC can outweigh potential biases. However, the specifics of the trial, plausibility of different time trends, and robustness of results should be considered
Reflexiones sobre la educación de la mujer (1875-1886)
Creators: name: De La Rosa, Julissa
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2001
Subjects: Mujeres
Educación de la mujer

description: Tesis (Historiador) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Programa de Historia, 2001
description: En este trabajo, lo que busca es hacer unas reflexiones acerca del rigor con que se le daba la educación al llamado sexo débil. Para este estudio se utilizaron fuentes primarias como las gacetas que mostraba situación de la mujer en este momento y que puede en próximo estudio usarse para realizar comparaciones con la educación y la reglamentación de las escuelas actuales. Es importante anotar que las fuentes secundarias que existen son investigaciones de la educación en general, pero hay que anotar que pocos son los estudios de la educación de la mujer y que para el caso de Cartagena este es un intento para llamar la atención hacia un estudio de la educación de la mujer a nivel regional.
title: Einfluss der Ganzkörper-Kryotherapie auf die Genexpression peripherer Blutzellen bei Patienten mit Fibromyalgiesyndrom (FMS)
Creators: name: Drynda, Susanne
name: Mika, Oliver
name: Kekow, Jörn
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Der positive Effekt der Ganzkörper-Kryotherapie auf das subjektive Schmerzempfinden wie auch auf inflammatorische Marker konnte in verschiedenen Studien gezeigt werden. Der Einsatz diese Therapie wird daher bei der Behandlung der rheumatoiden Arthritis, des Fibromyalgiesyndroms und [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh); 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh); 25. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Quarks and gluons in the Lund plane
Creators: name: Dreyer, Frederic
name: Soyez, Gregory
name: Takacs, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discriminating quark and gluon jets is a long-standing topic in collider phenomenology. In this paper, we address this question using the Lund jet plane substructure technique introduced in recent years. We present two complementary approaches: one where the quark/gluon likelihood ratio is computed analytically, to single-logarithmic accuracy, in perturbative QCD, and one where the Lund declusterings are used to train a neural network. For both approaches, we either consider only the primary Lund plane or the full clustering tree. The analytic and machine-learning discriminants are shown to be equivalent on a toy event sample resumming exactly leading collinear single logarithms, where the analytic calculation corresponds to the exact likelihood ratio. On a full Monte Carlo event sample, both approaches show a good discriminating power, with the machine-learning models usually being superior. We carry on a study in the asymptotic limit of large logarithm, allowing us to gain confidence that this superior performance comes from effects that are subleading in our analytic approach. We then compare our approach to other quark-gluon discriminants in the literature. Finally, we study the resilience of our quark-gluon discriminants against the details of the event sample and observe that the analytic and machine-learning approaches show similar behaviour.
description: 40 pages, 11 figures
Design and Evaluation of a Prototype Couch-Based Real-Time Dosimetry System in External Beam Dosimetry
Creators: name: Ramachandran, Prabhakar
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering (by research) to the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
title: Mindestmengen und Krankenhaussterblichkeit – Analyse der deutschlandweiten Krankenhausabrechnungsdaten von 2006 bis 2012
Creators: name: Nimptsch, Ulrike
name: Peschke, Dirk
name: Mansky, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Mit dem Ziel der Verbesserung der Versorgung wurden für die Durchführung bestimmter planbarer Eingriffe und Behandlungen in deutschen Krankenhäusern Mindestmengen festgelegt. Studien zur Umsetzung der Mindestmengenregelungen kamen zu dem Schluss, dass diese nahezu keinen [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 14. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung
Towards exact predictions of spin-phonon relaxation times: an ab initio implementation of open quantum systems theory
Creators: name: Lunghi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin-phonon coupling is the main drive of spin relaxation and decoherence in solid-state semiconductors at finite temperature. Controlling this interaction is a central problem for many disciplines, ranging from magnetic resonance to quantum technologies. Spin relaxation theories have been developed for almost a century but often employ a phenomenological description of phonons and their coupling to spin, resulting in a non-predictive tool and hindering our detailed understanding of spin dynamics. Here we combine fourth-order time-local quantum master equations with advanced electronic structure methods and perform predictions of spin-phonon relaxation time for a series of solid-state coordination compounds based on both transition metals and lanthanide Kramers ions. The agreement between experiments and simulations demonstrates that an accurate, universal and fully ab initio implementation of spin relaxation theory is possible, thus paving the way to a systematic study of spin-phonon relaxation in solid-state materials.
Determination of the properties of vector mesons in external magnetic field by Quenched $SU(3)$ Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Luschevskaya, E. V.
name: Solovjeva, O. E.
name: Teryaev, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the ground state energies of vector $ρ^{\pm}$ and $K^{\pm *}$ mesons depending on the magnetic field value in the $SU(3)$ lattice gauge theory. It has been shown that the energy of a vector particle depends on its spin projection on the field axis. The magnetic dipole polarizability and hyperpolarizabilities give significant contributions to the energy value which prevents the formation of the charged vector meson condensate at high magnetic fields. We calculate the g-factor of $ρ^{\pm}$ and $K^{\pm*}$ mesons and the dipole magnetic polarizability of $ρ^{\pm}$ mesons.
description: 26 pages, 13 figures
Robust regression for mixed Poisson-Gaussian model
Creators: name: Kubínová, Marie
name: Nagy, James G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N20, 49M15, 62F35

description: This paper focuses on efficient computational approaches to compute approximate solutions of a linear inverse problem that is contaminated with mixed Poisson--Gaussian noise, and when there are additional outliers in the measured data. The Poisson--Gaussian noise leads to a weighted minimization problem, with solution-dependent weights. To address outliers, the standard least squares fit-to-data metric is replaced by the Talwar robust regression function. Convexity, regularization parameter selection schemes, and incorporation of non-negative constraints are investigated. A projected Newton algorithm is used to solve the resulting constrained optimization problem, and a preconditioner is proposed to accelerate conjugate gradient Hessian solves. Numerical experiments on problems from image deblurring illustrate the effectiveness of the methods.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures
Looijenga line bundles in complex analytic elliptic cohomology
Creators: name: Rezk, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55N34 (Primary) 55N91, 55R40 (Secondary)

description: We present a calculation, which shows how the moduli of complex analytic elliptic curves arises naturally from the Borel cohomology of an extended moduli space of $U(1)$-bundles on a torus. Furthermore, we show how the analogous calculation, applied to a moduli space of principal bundles for a $K(\mathbb{Z},2)$ central extension of $U(1)^d$ give rise to Looijenga line bundles. We then speculate on the relation of these calculations to the construction of complex analytic equivariant elliptic cohomology.
description: Results are unchanged from previous version. However, exposition has been rewritten to be more friendly (and a few points added), and proofs have been streamlined somewhat. 29 pages
title: A synthetic abdominal model for teaching basic veterinary surgical techniques
Creators: name: Bradley, Carol
name: Edwards, Glenn
name: Carlson, A.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: As with most veterinary schools within Australia, the authors were questioning the ethical validity and cadaver sustainability, together with the increasing financial burden to veterinary faculties on the continued use of fresh cadaveric tissue in the introduction of basic surgical techniques (Day 1[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: InVeST 2015: International Veterinary Simulation in Teaching Conference
Nachhaltigkeit und Demokratie: Sieben Thesen zur demokratischen Zukunftsfähigkeit
Creators: name: Helms, Ludger
Publisher: name: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
Year: 2023

description: Die repräsentative Demokratie bietet von ihrem Selbstverständnis und ihren strukturellen Eigenschaften her mindestens mäßig gute Voraussetzungen für die Bewältigung von nachhaltigkeitsbezogenen Herausforderungen. Keines der häufig genannten Elemente, wie insbesondere das Prinzip der Herrschaft auf Zeit mit Wahlperioden und Wiederwahlerfordernissen, macht vorausschauende und nachhaltige Lösungen unmöglich. Entscheidend ist jedoch, wie das institutionelle Arsenal der repräsentativen Demokratie politisch genutzt wird. In Übereinstimmung mit deren zentralem Anspruch, politische Selbstbestimmung zu ermöglichen, liegt die Zukunftsfähigkeit der Demokratie letztlich in den Händen der Gesellschaft. Trotz der jüngsten Blüte der Zivilgesellschaft hat sich der geforderte Beitrag verantwortlicher politischer Eliten im Zuge anhaltender Transformationen demokratischer Herrschaft nicht verringert, sondern tendenziell noch erhöht.
description: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Bd. 51 Nr. 4 (2022): Austrian Foreign Policy: Reinvigorating the research agenda
Perpetrators of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: Local Histories and Local Population in Bushiru and U Bugoyi Regions, Gisenyi Prefecture, 1990-1994
Creators: name: Munyaneza, Thomas
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Commerce, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.

This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.
Ideen, Ansprüche und Praxis – Ausgangspunkte für eine neue Auseinandersetzung mit christdemokratischen Parteien
Creators: name: Konrath, Christoph
Publisher: name: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
Year: 2023

description: In den Debatten über die Erosion von Demokratie und den Veränderungen politischer Parteien durch Populismus entsteht ein neues Interesse an konservativen und christdemokratischen Parteien. Dabei werden Fehlstellen in der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu diesen Parteienfamilien und insbesondere eine Unsicherheit im Umgang und in der Bewertung ihrer ideellen Grundlagen sichtbar. Diese können aber auch in den Parteien selbst nicht mehr vorausgesetzt werden. Dieser Artikel diskutiert die Schwierigkeiten sowohl der parteiinternen Auseinandersetzung als auch der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung anhand von drei exemplarischen Büchern, die im Zeitraum 2018-2022 erschienen sind.
description: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Bd. 51 Nr. 4 (2022): Austrian Foreign Policy: Reinvigorating the research agenda
Veinte puntos sobre el divorcio
Creators: name: Pérez Diazgranados, Muriel
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1973
Subjects: Divorcio - Colombia

description: Tesis (Abogado) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas. Programa de Derecho, 1973
description: Factores sociales, económicos, políticos, religiosos, raciales, de costumbre, mecánicos y mecanistas de la civilización y el progreso de la humanidad en cuanto al divorcio.
title: Using computer simulation to enhance learning in a clinical skills laboratory environment
Creators: name: Balogh, Márton
name: Müller, Linda
name: Cseh, Sándor
name: Johnson, Tony
name: Pion, Paul
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Utilizing high fidelity mannequins, many day one skills can be transferred to students. These instructional exercises are effective at helping students master how to perform these skills, but do not provide context for management of the patient as a whole. Computer-based clinical simulations can [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: InVeST 2015: International Veterinary Simulation in Teaching Conference