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Towards an Online Searchable Bibliographic Database for Ismāʿīlī Studies
Creators: Jiwa, Nawazali A.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2018

Research in the field of Ismāʿīlī Studies has increased exponentially during the last decades. However, all of the existing bibliographies in the field are print-based, which lack the efficient and effective searchability offered by online bibliographic databases. This paper explores some ideas towards creating an ideal online searchable database dedicated exclusively to Ismāʿīlī Studies. It covers elements of an ideal database such as search features, subject headings, linking, metadata, abstracting, and indexing. Moreover, it provides the rationale for a specialized database, as opposed to using multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary databases to conduct research in Ismāʿīlī Studies. The database can serve as a model to implement a similar specialized database for other areas of research within and beyond theological and religious studies.
Violating the string winding number maximally in Anti-de Sitter space
Creators: name: Giribet, Gaston
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study n-string scattering amplitudes in three-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space (AdS3). We focus our attention on the processes in which the winding number conservation is violated maximally; that is, those processes in which it is violated in n-2 units. A worldsheet conformal field theory calculation leads us to confirm a previous conjecture about the functional form of these observables.
description: 15 pages. V2 references added and minor typo corrected. V3, V4 addendum on an alternative derivation of the main formula for short strings
A Path Algebra for Multi-Relational Graphs
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Marko A.
name: Neubauer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.2; E.1

description: A multi-relational graph maintains two or more relations over a vertex set. This article defines an algebra for traversing such graphs that is based on an $n$-ary relational algebra, a concatenative single-relational path algebra, and a tensor-based multi-relational algebra. The presented algebra provides a monoid, automata, and formal language theoretic foundation for the construction of a multi-relational graph traversal engine.
Exploring elite women athletes' lived experiences of self-compassion and mental toughness
Creators: name: Wilson, Danielle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Self-compassion and mental toughness may be critical for women athletes coping with sport-related adversity. However, their relationship is not well understood. While self-compassion entails being kind, accepting and understanding towards the self, mental toughness can encourage self-judgement and harsh self-criticism. The objective of this study was to explore how elite level women athletes perceived and experienced mental toughness and self-compassion and their compatibility in the pursuit of athletic success and stress management. Two semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven participants (14 interviews). Interviews were transcribed and an abductive thematic analysis was performed. Four overarching themes were identified. First, the role of adversity in athletic success. Participants acknowledged adversity as critical to their growth and development as athletes. Second, mental toughness is critical for coping in sport. Participants experienced mental toughness through perseverance, presence, perspective and preparation, and perceived mental toughness as critical to stress management and athletic success. Third, self-compassion is critical for coping in sport. Although participants were previously uneducated about self-compassion, they reported using self-kindness, common humanity and mindfulness and acknowledged self-compassion as critical for coping in sport. Fourth, self-compassion and mental toughness are compatible. Participants acknowledged the joint contributions of being both self-critical and self-kind; neither being more important than the other, rather, an effective balance depended on the timing, the situation and the meaning it held for each individual athlete. Findings also suggest that self-compassion is key in building mental toughness. Without self-compassion, participants reported that they would not be able to move forward after facing adversity or shift into a mentally tough mindset. Finally, findings suggest that mindfulness is a key component of both self-compassion and mental toughness, and may be the link between the compatible use of self-compassion and mental toughness. Participants reported that their ability to remain present, objective, non-attached and non-judgemental in the face of sport-related adversity was critical for the utility of both self-compassion and mental toughness. Overall, the current research demonstrates that self-compassion and mindfulness are worthy of investigating in elite women athletes, particularly with regards to their utility in coping with sport-related adversity and achieving a mentally tough mindset.
Visible light mediated homo- and heterocoupling of benzyl alcohols and benzyl amines on polycrystalline cadmium sulfide
Creators: name: Mitkina, Tatiana
name: Stanglmair, Christoph
name: Setzer, Wolfgang
name: Gruber, Michael
name: Kisch, Horst
name: König, Burkhard
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie

description: The oxidative coupling of sp3 hybridized carbon atoms by photocatalysis is a valuable synthetic method as stoichiometric oxidation reagents can be avoided and dihydrogen is the only byproduct of the reaction. Cadmium sulfide, a readily available semiconductor, was used as a visible light heterogeneous photocatalyst for the oxidative coupling of benzyl alcohols and benzyl amines by irradiation with blue light. Depending on the structure of the starting material, good to excellent yields of homocoupling products were obtained as mixtures of diastereomers. Cross-coupling between benzyl alcohols and benzyl amines gave product mixtures, but was selective for the coupling of tetrahydroisoquinolines to nitromethane. The results demonstrate that CdS is a suitable visible light photocatalyst for oxidative bond formation under anaerobic conditions.
РАЗВИТИЕ ДУХОВНО-КУЛЬТУРНОГО ТУРИЗМА НА ТЕРРИТОРИИ РОССИЙСКОГО ДАЛЬНЕГО ВОСТОКА КАК ФАКТОРА МЯГКОЙ СИЛЫ В АЗИАТСКО-ТИХООКЕАНСКОМ РЕГИОНЕ
Creators: name: ХАТКЕВИЧ АЛЕКСАНДРА АНАТОЛЬЕВНА
Publisher: name: Современные проблемы сервиса и туризма
Year: 2019
Subjects: ДУХОВНО-КУЛЬТУРНЫЙ ТУРИЗМ
ВЪЕЗДНОЙ ТУРИЗМ
МЯГКАЯ СИЛА
ПОЛИЭТНИЧНОСТЬ
КОНФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЕ МНОГООБРАЗИЕ
ДАЛЬНИЙ ВОСТОК
АЗИАТСКО-ТИХООКЕАНСКИЙ РЕГИОН
SPIRITUAL AND CULTURAL TOURISM
INBOUND TOURISM
SOFT POWER
MULTI-ETHNICITY
CONFESSIONAL DIVERSITY
FAR EAST
ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

description: В статье, представляющей результаты междисциплинарных исследований, предпринята попытка расширить понятие «религиозный туризм», определить цели и содержание дополненного варианта религиозного туризма. Предложен авторский термин «духовно-культурный туризм» и дано описание этого вида туризма, который активно развивается в России в рамках внутреннего и въездного туризма. Дальний Восток территория, обладающая туристической привлекательностью, перспективная для посещения иностранными туристами, в первую очередь из сопредельных государств и близлежащих стран Азиатско-Тихоокеанского региона. Географическое положение, мощная рекреационная, историческая и культурная база региона стали основой для привлечения зарубежной аудитории. В статье описываются разноплановые значимые объекты духовно-культурного туризма в регионах Дальневосточного федерального округа. Полиэтничность и конфессиональное многообразие регионов Дальнего Востока рассматриваются в статье как благоприятные исторические факторы для развития духовно-культурного туризма. Устанавливается взаимосвязь между духовно-культурным туризмом на Дальнем Востоке и укреплением отношений России с государствами Азиатско-Тихоокеанского региона на основе политики мягкой силы, наращиванием мягкосилового потенциала страны, реализацией культурной дипломатии как части публичной и общественной дипломатии. Несмотря на большое количество объектов духовно-культурного наследия на Дальнем Востоке, духовно-культурный туризм на данной территории в настоящее время представлен не в достаточной мере, поэтому в результате исследования сформулированы перспективы развития духовно-культурного туризма в регионах Дальнего Востока.
Interrelationships between Yeast Ribosomal Protein Assembly Events and Transient Ribosome Biogenesis Factors Interactions in Early Pre-Ribosomes
Creators: name: Jakob, Steffen
name: Ohmayer, Uli
name: Neueder, Andreas
name: Hierlmeier, Thomas
name: Perez-Fernandez, Jorge
name: Hochmuth, Eduard
name: Deutzmann, Rainer
name: Griesenbeck, Joachim
name: Tschochner, Herbert
name: Milkereit, Philipp
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Early steps of eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis require a large set of ribosome biogenesis factors which transiently interact with nascent rRNA precursors (pre-rRNA). Most likely, concomitant with that initial contacts between ribosomal proteins (r-proteins) and ribosome precursors (pre-ribosomes) are established which are converted into robust interactions between pre-rRNA and r-proteins during the course of ribosome maturation. Here we analysed the interrelationship between r-protein assembly events and the transient interactions of ribosome biogenesis factors with early pre-ribosomal intermediates termed 90S pre-ribosomes or small ribosomal subunit (SSU) processome in yeast cells. We observed that components of the SSU processome UTP-A and UTP-B sub-modules were recruited to early pre-ribosomes independently of all tested r-proteins. On the other hand, groups of SSU processome components were identified whose association with early pre-ribosomes was affected by specific r-protein assembly events in the head-platform interface of the SSU. One of these components, Noc4p, appeared to be itself required for robust incorporation of r-proteins into the SSU head domain. Altogether, the data reveal an emerging network of specific interrelationships between local r-protein assembly events and the functional interactions of SSU processome components with early pre-ribosomes. They point towards some of these components being transient primary pre-rRNA in vivo binders and towards a role for others in coordinating the assembly of major SSU domains.
Space for Local Content Policies and Strategies: A Crucial Time to Revisit an Old Debate
Creators: name: Johnson, Lise
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Investments, Foreign
subject: Investments, Foreign--Government policy
subject: Treaties
subject: Investments, Foreign (International law)
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Sustainability

description: This paper explores both the role that local content measures can play in advancing sustainable development, and the impact that trade and investment treaties concluded over the past 20 years have had and will continue to have on the ability of governments to employ those tools. Certain local content measures had been restricted under the WTO due to wide agreement by negotiating parties that their costs outweigh their benefits. But the WTO also left a number of local content measures in governments’ policy toolboxes. As is discussed in this paper, however, that is changing, with the range of permissible actions for many countries being significantly smaller than it was even a decade ago. This narrowed policy space, in turn, can limit the steps governments can take to make progress on the universally adopted Sustainable Development Goals.
Intelligent security and privacy solutions for enabling personalized telepathology
Creators: name: Blobel, Bernd
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Starting with the paradigm change of health systems towards personalized health services, the paper introduces the technical paradigms to be met for enabling ubiquitous pHealth including ePathology. The system-theoretical, architecture-centric approach to mobile, pervasive and autonomous solutions has to be based on an open component system framework such as the Generic Component Model. The crucial challenge to be met for comprehensive interoperability is multi-disciplinary knowledge representation, which must be integrated into the aforementioned framework. The approach is demonstrated for security and privacy services fundamental for any eHealth or ePathology environment.
description: supplement: Proceedings of the 10th European Congress on Telepathology and 4th International Congress on Virtual Microscopy
РЕЛИГИОЗНЫЙ ТУРИЗМ В САМАРЕ: ПРОШЛОЕ И НАСТОЯЩЕЕ
Creators: name: АЛЕКСУШИН ГЛЕБ ВЛАДИМИРОВИЧ
name: СОЛОМИНА ИРИНА ЮРЬЕВНА
Publisher: name: Современные проблемы сервиса и туризма
Year: 2019
Subjects: RELIGIOUS TOURISM
PILGRIM TOURISM
MONASTIC TOURISM
HALAL TOURISM
DIOCESAN MUSEUM
HOSPICE
RESOURCES OF RELIGIOUS TOURISM
РЕЛИГИОЗНЫЙ ТУРИЗМ
ПАЛОМНИЧЕСКИЙ ТУРИЗМ
МОНАСТЫРСКИЙ ТУРИЗМ
ХАЛЯЛЬ-ТУРИЗМ
ЕПАРХИАЛЬНЫЙ МУЗЕЙ
СТРАННОПРИИМНЫЙ ДОМ
РЕСУРСЫ РЕЛИГИОЗНОГО ТУРИЗМА

description: Статья посвящена развитию религиозного туризма в Самаре, который в настоящее время является одним из распространённых видов туризма во всём мире. Выявлены теоретические основы религиозного туризма, который представляет собой самостоятельный вид туризма, предполагающий организацию путешествия с религиозными целями. Определены и описаны его разновидности: культурно-познавательный, паломнический, событийный, круизный. Показаны основные этапы развития религиозного туризма в России. Дано ёмкое и чёткое описание каждого исторического этапа развития религиозного туризма. Охарактеризованы ресурсы религиозного туризма в Самаре: архитектурные памятники, музеи, монастыри, памятники святым и выдающимся личностям, подвижникам веры, не только в настоящее время, но и в историческом прошлом. Обозначено влияние самарского купечества на формирование ресурсной базы религиозного и паломнического туризма в прошлом. Активная деятельность самарского купечества способствовала формированию культурного религиозного пространства города. Благодаря их меценатской деятельности в городе уже в начале ХХ века появились шедевры конфессиональной архитектуры, которыми и в настоящее время гордится город. Показаны возможности использования культурного наследия для развития религиозного и паломнического туризма в Самаре как важный фактор туристской привлекательности и туристского имиджа территории.
КЕЙСЫ ЭКСКУРСИОННОГО СТОРИТЕЛЛИНГА НА ОБЪЕКТАХ ПАЛОМНИЧЕСКИХ ЭКСКУРСИЙ ЯРОСЛАВСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ
Creators: name: ГУСЕЙНОВА АЛЕНА ГАДИРОВНА
Publisher: name: Современные проблемы сервиса и туризма
Year: 2019
Subjects: СТОРИТЕЛЛИНГ
ЭКСКУРСАНТ
ПАЛОМНИЧЕСКИЕ ЭКСКУРСИИ
ЯРОСЛАВСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ
STORYTELLING
SIGHTSEER
PILGRIMAGE EXCURSIONS
YAROSLAVL REGION

description: В статье рассматриваются основные вопросы паломнического туризма Ярославской области. Приводится определение понятия «паломничество» и рассматривается его происхождение, выявляются основные мотивы совершения паломничества. Анализируются возможные объекты паломнического туризма на территории Ярославской области, связанные с этим тематические событийные мероприятия. В статье приводятся имена выдающихся уроженцев Ярославского края, чтимых в связи со священными подвигами. В статье обозначаются основные объекты паломничества Брейтовского, Даниловского, Угличского, Ростовского, Тутаевского районов и города Ярославля, по территориям которых проходят туристские маршруты паломнического отдела Ярославской епархии РПЦ. Также в статье описаны возможности использования в паломнических маршрутах особого методического приема экскурсионного сторителлинга. Предложено определение понятия, основные составляющие и примеры «паломнических» экскурсий, в сюжетной линии которых включены технологии сторителлинга. В статье приведены кейсы экскурсионного сторителлинга в составе экскурсионных продуктов на базе религиозных объектов г. Ярославля (Свято-Введенский Толгский женский монастырь, Федоровский кафедральный собор, Крестобогородская церковь, Кирилло-Афанасиевский мужской монастырь, церковь Николы на Меленках), г. Тутаева (Воскресенский собор), г. Ростова (Свято-Троицкий Сергиев Варницкий монастырь, Аврамиев Богоявленский монастырь), а также маршрута в село Годеново к Животворящему кресту. Подчеркивается значимость приема сторителлинга для экскурсантов. В заключение приведены выводы о многообразии экскурсионных объектов паломнического туризма Ярославской области.
Scattering of light nuclei
Creators: name: Quaglioni, Sofia
name: Navrátil, Petr
name: Roth, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exact treatment of nuclei starting from the constituent nucleons and the fundamental interactions among them has been a long-standing goal in nuclear physics. Above all nuclear scattering and reactions, which require the solution of the many-body quantum-mechanical problem in the continuum, represent an extraordinary theoretical as well as computational challenge for {\em ab initio} approaches. We present a new {\em ab initio} many-body approach which derives from the combination of the {\em ab initio} no-core shell model with the resonating-group method [4]. By complementing a microscopic cluster technique with the use of realistic interactions, and a microscopic and consistent description of the nucleon clusters, this approach is capable of describing simultaneously both bound and scattering states in light nuclei. We will discuss applications to neutron and proton scattering on $s$- and light $p$-shell nuclei using realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials, and outline the progress toward the treatment of more complex reactions.
description: 16 pages, 16 figures, Proceedings of the 19th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Bonn University, August 31 - September 5, 2009, Bonn, GERMANY
A Sixth Modality of Infectious Disease: Contagious Cancer from Devils to Clams and Beyond
Creators: name: Metzger, Michael
name: Goff, Stephen P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Parasites--Evolution
Cancer
Immunologic diseases
Epidemiology

description: Infectious agents come in many forms, but they have been grouped into five distinct classes of agents: viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, and prions. Cancer is not normally on this list. Infectious agents like Human papilloma virus (HPV) or Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) can cause cancers in infected hosts, but these cancers are generated within each new individual from oncogenic changes within the hosts’ own cells, and they stay within that individual. If cancer cells did travel from one individual to another, a normal immune system would be able to recognize them as foreign and reject them. Cancer is thus usually a self-limiting disease—it either regresses or it kills its host, and the death of the host marks the death of the cancer lineage.

But this is not always the case. Transmissible cancers have been identified as spreading within two vertebrates, dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii), and more recently, multiple independent lineages of transmissible cancer have been found in four species of bivalves (Fig 1). This is an infectious modality that has significant effects on animals in both the terrestrial and marine environments, as well as in both vertebrates and invertebrates. While large-scale transmission of cancer has not been observed in humans, transmission between humans has been observed on a small scale in a number of circumstances, often in the context of immune suppression. With more research, more cases are likely to be found in humans as well as other animals.
Ripe for Refinement: The State’s Role in Interpretation of FET, MFN, and Shareholder Rights
Creators: name: Johnson, Lise
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Investments, Foreign
subject: Investments, Foreign--Government policy
subject: Treaties
subject: Investments, Foreign (International law)
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Sustainability

description: Over recent years, many states have taken steps to refine and modernize their investment treaties. These reforms, however, are typically only included in newer treaties or model agreements. States continue to be exposed to claims, litigation, and potential damages under older “old-style” agreements. These risks are particularly acute given that tribunals have often permitted investors to “treaty shop” to obtain more favorable protections, and have also permitted investors to use the most-favored nation (MFN) provision to “import” more investor-friendly (or at least less clear) provisions from other treaties.

This working paper discusses one strategy states can use to try to reduce their exposure to claims and liability under existing, “old-style” treaties. In addition to setting out the general rules regarding state practice and agreement as a means of influencing treaty interpretation, the paper (1) identifies three issues in investment treaty law — FET, MFN, and shareholder rights — that may be particularly ripe for proactive efforts by states applying this interpretive strategy; and (2) sets out a series of questions that aim to facilitate inter-state efforts to identify consensus on these controversial treaty provisions.
КРЕСТНЫЕ ХОДЫ И ИХ РОЛЬ В РАЗВИТИИ ПАЛОМНИЧЕСТВА И РЕЛИГИОЗНОГО ТУРИЗМА (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ТВЕРСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ)
Creators: name: ДОМБРОВСКАЯ ВЕРОНИКА ЕВГЕНЬЕВНА
Publisher: name: Современные проблемы сервиса и туризма
Year: 2019
Subjects: RELIGIOUS PROCESSION
PILGRIMAGE
TOURIST LODGING AND ACCOMMODATION
ANALYSIS
TOURISM
КРЕСТНЫЙ ХОД
ПАЛОМНИЧЕСТВО
ОБЪЕКТЫ РАЗМЕЩЕНИЯ
АНАЛИЗ
ТУРИЗМ

description: Развитие туризма в регионах, повышение имиджевой составляющей локальных туристских объектов, рост эффективности региональных брендов являются одними из стратегических задач современной экономической реалии. Религиозный и паломнический туризм играют немаловажную роль в этом направлении. Статья посвящена формированию туристского и паломнического интереса на примере Тверской области. Рассматриваются разные точки зрения на паломничество и поездки с целью знакомства с религиозными святынями. Подробно исследуется история появления и современный образ православных Крестных ходов как самобытного явления, а также их влияние на культурно-исторический и духовный потенциалы Верхневолжья. Соотнесены возможности познавательного и религиозного начал в привлечении потенциальных туристов и паломников. Уделено внимание местам размещения туристов как весомому аргументу в заинтересованности гостей из других регионов нашей страны и зарубежья. Проанализирована структура этих мест (гостиницы, отели, хостелы и т.д.) и номерной фонд по ключевым объектам на примере XX Большого Волжского Крестного хода, который включает в себя знаковые места для прихожан и верующих. Статистически изучены количественные показатели временных рядов участников одного из наиболее известных Крестных ходов Тверского региона (Крестного хода по берегам реки Тьмы). В завершающей части статьи предлагаются пути повышения интереса к Тверской Земле во всём её туристском многообразии и социальноэкономических возможностях.
Positive, neutral and egative interactions in cocultures between Pyrococcus furiosus and different methanogenic Archaea
Creators: name: Weiner, Agnes
name: Schopf, Simone
name: Wanner, Gerhard
name: Probst, Alexander
name: Wirth, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: archaeal coculture, symbiotic interaction, neutral interaction, negative interaction, adhesion
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: The model organism Pyrococcus furiosus has recently been reported to interact with Methanopyrus kandleri in coculture, suggesting a H2 symbiosis. In the current study we further investigated this hypothesis by growing P. furiosus with four other hyperthermophilic methanogens providing evidence that the organisms did not only exert positive effects (P. furiosus/Methanocaldococcus villosus and P. furiosus/Methanocaldococcus infernus) on each other, but also neutral (P. furiosus/Methanocaldococcus jannaschii) and even inhibitory interactions (P. furiosus/Methanotorris igneus) were detected suggesting interspecies relationships not only based on H2 symbiosis. Using various microscopic techniques we further analyzed the coculture with the highest positive interactions (P. furiosus/ M. villosus) concerning its growth behavior on various surfaces, which turned out to be in stark contrast to the previous reported coculture of P. furiosus/M. kandleri. This communication provides new insights into possible interactions of extremophilic Archaea in co-cultures and again raises the question if and how hyperthermophilic Archaea communicate besides metabolic intermediates like H2.
The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP): A Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Creators: Jiwa, Nawazali A.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2021

The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme Pakistan (AKRSP-P) and the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India (AKRSP-I) are non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating under the aegis of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). While these two NGOs have generated a considerable corpus of information on their own, the constantly-evolving body of secondary sources on the AKRSPs also documents their activities in various areas of rural development. This bibliography represents an attempt at compiling a listing of secondary sources about the AKRSPs within particular parameters. Sources include books, book chapters, periodical articles, scholarly journal studies, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations. In sum, these sources constitute a bibliography of 475 entries available in both print and/or online formats. The variety of entries were searched for and found in a multitude of different information resources. This bibliography will be of special interest to those both within and outside the diverse field of rural sociology.
Investment Treaties and Industrial Policy: Select Case Studies on State Liability for Efforts to Encourage, Shape and Regulate Economic Activities in Extractive Industries and Infrastructure
Creators: name: Johnson, Lise
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Investments--Government policy
subject: Treaties
subject: Industrial policy
subject: Investments, Foreign
subject: Sustainable development
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Sustainability

description: This paper, prepared in connection with a February 2014 conference organized by the UN Economic Commission for Africa, discusses some of the implications that investment treaties have for investments in infrastructure and the extractive industries. It focuses on liability for government conduct (1) in connection with tenders and negotiations; (2) when responding to questions regarding the legality of the investment; (3) in using performance requirements to leverage benefits and capture spillovers from the investment; (4) changing the legal framework governing an investment in response to evolving needs, circumstances, and interests; (5) administering the investment; and (6) requesting, and responding to requests for, renegotiation. After describing some investment treaty disputes, this paper concludes by outlining options for addressing and minimizing tensions between investment treaties and government policies and practices in these areas.
title: Improved outcome prediction across data sources through robust parameter tuning
Creators: name: Schüller, Nicole
name: Boulesteix, Anne-Laure
name: Bischl, Bernd
name: Unger, Kristian
name: Hornung, Roman
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Prediction; Robust modeling; Tuning parameter value optimization; Batch effects
subject: 500

description: In many application areas, prediction rules trained based on high-dimensional data are subsequently applied to make predictions for observations from other sources, but they do not always perform well in this setting. This is because data sets from different sources can feature (slightly) differing distributions, even if they are, in principle, similar in terms of population and definitions of the variables. In the context of high-dimensional data and beyond, most prediction methods involve one or several tuning parameters. Their values are commonly chosen by maximizing the cross-validated prediction performance within the training data. This procedure, however, implicitly presumes that the data to which the prediction rule will be ultimately applied, follow the same distribution as the training data. If this is not the case, less complex prediction rules that slightly underfit the training data may be preferable. Indeed, a tuning parameter does not only control the degree of adjustment of a prediction rule to the training data, but also, more generally, the degree of adjustment to the distribution of the training data. On the basis of this idea, in this paper we compare various approaches including new procedures for choosing tuning parameter values that lead to better generalizing prediction rules than those obtained based on cross-validation. Most of these tuning approaches use an external validation data set. In our extensive comparison study based on a large collection of 15 transcriptomic real data sets, tuning on external data and robust tuning with tuned robustness parameter are the two approaches leading to better generalizing prediction rules. All R code written to produce and evaluate our results is available online.
On the classification of quasihomogeneous singularities
Creators: name: Hertling, Claus
name: Kurbel, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32S25, 14J17, 58K40

description: The motivation for this paper are computer calculations of complete lists of weight systems of quasihomogeneous polynomials with isolated singularity at 0 up to rather large Milnor numbers. We review combinatorial characterizations of such weight systems for any number of variables. This leads to certain types and graphs of such weight systems. Using them, we prove an upper bound for the common denominator (and the order of the monodromy) by the Milnor number, and we show surprising consequences if the Milnor number is a prime number.
description: 30 pages. In the 2nd version a misprint at the end of the proof of lemma 2.1 is corrected, the statements of lemma 2.4 and lemma 3.5 are corrected, and the table in section 5 is extended. The 2nd version coincides except for the new correction of lemma 3.5 with the published version
I clitici “soggetto” occitani comparati con i sistemi della Romània continua: il parametro del soggetto nullo e i residui di sintassi V2
Creators: name: Benincà, Paola
Publisher: name: Atti del sodalizio glottologico milanese
Year: 2019

description: Practically all Romance languages have complement clitic pronouns which basically replace the arguments of a verb. Only a sub-area of Romance, extending from France through northern Italy to the Adriatic Sea, also has subject clitics, connected to the syntactic subject of an inflected verb. The subject clitics of northern Italy have been studied in depth, and the resulting picture shows strong variation. A series of absolute and implicational generalizations, though, tells us that the variation is within a single system. The Occitan varieties of Piedmont and Southern France at first sight seem to belong to the same system; they have just fewer forms of subject clitics than other northern Italian dialects, and generally these clitics are optional. On closer inspection, though, more radical differences appear to exist between Occitan and northern Italian, in this respect. While in northern Italian and northern Romance it is possible to recognise links between subject clitics and subject agreement, in Occitan most of the functions of these elements appear to have a pragmatic nature. The only exception is the 3rd sg. impersonal clitic, which is obligatory. This property violates in a very interesting way the generalizations made on NIDs and leads us to conclude that while northern Romance varieties can be seen as types of non-null subject languages, Occitan dialects represent particular kinds of null subject languages.
description: Atti del sodalizio glottologico milanese, V. 2016, N. 11 n.s. (2017)
О ПРОБЛЕМАХ ПАЛОМНИЧЕСКОГО ТУРИЗМА В БАШКОРТОСТАНЕ
Creators: name: КОТОВА ТАТЬЯНА ПАВЛОВНА
name: МАТВЕЕВА ЛЮБОВЬ ДМИТРИЕВНА
name: ЩЕРБАКОВ АЛЕКСАНДР СЕРГЕЕВИЧ
Publisher: name: Современные проблемы сервиса и туризма
Year: 2019
Subjects: ПРАВОСЛАВИЕ
ИСЛАМ
ОБЪЕКТЫ ПАЛОМНИЧЕСКОГО ТУРИЗМА
ХАДЖ
УМРА
МОНАСТЫРИ
МАВЗОЛЕЙ
ORTHODOXY
ISLAM
OBJECTS OF PILGRIMAGE TOURISM
HAJJ
UMRAH
MONASTERIES
MAUSOLEUM

description: В статье обозначены проблемы организации религиозного и паломнического туризма в России и в её регионах. Паломнические туры как направление туризма явление относительно новое, несмотря на то, что паломнические путешествия люди начали совершать еще в глубокой древности. Башкортостан многонациональная республика. Самыми многочисленными верующими в республике являются православные христиане и мусульмане. Рассмотрена история возникновения и основные объекты православного и мусульманского паломничества в Башкортостане. Несмотря на растущую популярность паломничества, большинство поездок по святым местам Республики Башкортостан носят частный характер. Проведен анализ деятельности турфирм по организации православных паломнических поездок, который показал, что в настоящее время в Башкирии нет туристских фирм, которые бы серьезно занимались разработкой, продвижением и реализацией паломнических туров, особенно по внутренним направлениям. Некоторую деятельность по организации поездок к святым местам ведет оператор экологического туризма на Южном Урале некоммерческое партнерство «Экологическое объединение Тенгри». Несмотря на то, что у этого оператора нет паломнических туров как таковых, «Тенгри» все же дает верующим возможность совершить поездку к наиболее почитаемой святыне республики месту явления иконы Табынской Божией матери в рамках нескольких туров по Республике Башкортостан. Выяснилось также, что на сегодняшний день в достаточной степени развито паломничество лишь в два монастыря Богородице-Табынский женский монастырь и Успенский Свято-Георгиевский мужской монастырь. Эти монастыри в республике являются самыми известными и популярными православными обителями среди верующих. Они обладают богатейшей историей, а святыни этих мест являются одними из наиболее почитаемых в регионе. Между тем, туристские ресурсы для осуществления паломнических поездок в республике представлены в достаточном количестве.
Prescriptive pattern and clinical decision making in complicated endodontic cases using cone-beam computed tomography.
Creators: name: Bhatt, Meeta
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Purpose: Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is an advanced but new imaging technique used in dentistry. Although it already has acquired a substantial literature, that literature does not include evidence-based evidence both for its indications-for-use and for its efficacy in comparison to the conventional approach to diagnosis and treatment planning. Aims: To determine the pattern of prescription of CBCT by all UBC dental programs with particular regard to the field-of-view (FOV). To determine whether the CBCT prescriptions by the Graduate Endodontics Program were compliant with the joint American-Academy-of-Oral-and-Maxillofacial-Radiology and American-Academy-of-Endodontics (AAOMR/AAE) position statement (viz guidelines). To determine by reference to the EPR whether CBCT changed the original diagnosis and/or treatment plans based on the initial clinical examination and the conventional radiographic. Methods: Ethics approval certificates H14-02191 and H15-03507 were granted for this retrospective study. All CBCT prescriptions were audited. The audit revealed that CBCT prescriptions by the Graduate Endodontics program were for a wide range of clinical reasons and worthy of further study. The pattern of prescription of CBCT was reviewed, by reference to electronic patient record (EPR), to determine whether it was compliant with the AAOMR/AAE guidelines. The statistical test, Chi-square was used. Results: All but one CBCT in the audit were for small and medium-sized FOVS. All 128 CBCT prescriptions (in 110 consecutive patients) were AAOMR/AAE-guidelines compliant. CBCT identified significantly more features than conventional radiography (p<0.001), particularly with regards to the identification of periapical lesions (p = 0.002), missed canals (p < 0.001), vertical root fractures (p = 0.004) and complex anatomy (p = 0.008). The significant results were seen with respect to change in diagnosis (p<0.001), change in treatment plan (p< 0.005). The AAOMR/AAE recommendations were found to be incomplete. Conclusion: CBCT permitted the identification of more numbers of periapical lesions, missed canal, complex anatomy and vertical root fracture than initially observable on conventional radiography. This study is perhaps the first to ‘road-test’ the AAOMR/AAE guidelines in an authentic clinical environment. It identified an important hiatus in these guidelines; they did not consider missed/extra canals in teeth which required endodontic re-treatment.
The Impact of Cultural Values and Norms on First-Generation Latinas: A Case Study on the University of Chicago
Creators: name: Del Toro, Ashley
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022

description: The topic of this study was chosen because while all Latinos are subject to challenges that lead to low educational attainment, Latinas occupy an especially unique role in their family. First-generation Latina students often must play a balancing act as they navigate college while attempting to keep up with familial obligations and expectations. Studying the cultural values and beliefs of Latinas allows for the formation and implementation of culturally appropriate interventions to increase the educational attainment and overall socioeconomic position of Latinas across the country. This study aims to identify the link between cultural values and gender roles and the experience of first-generation undergraduate Latinas at the University of Chicago. This research is guided by the following questions: 1. How do first-generation Latinas at the University of Chicago view their familial expectations/responsibilities and cultural gender norms? a. How have these perceptions adapted or evolved over the students’ time in college? 2. How do cultural norms regarding family and gender affect first-generation Latinas at the University of Chicago? a. What, if any, added pressures and stress do Latinas experience regarding these cultural norms? In what ways, if at all, do these norms enrich the students’ experiences?
Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Public Interest and U.S. Domestic Law
Creators: name: Johnson, Lise
name: Sachs, Lisa E.
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Domestic relations
subject: Investments--Government policy
subject: Public interest
subject: Sustainable development
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Sustainability

description: As negotiations are ongoing in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP), CCSI staff and Jeffrey Sachs discuss the implications of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) for domestic law and policy, focusing on effects within the US. The paper concludes that the risks ISDS poses for domestic law are significant and unjustified, and that there are preferable policy alternatives to pursue as a means of protecting the rights of investors operating overseas.
Tris[(1,4,7,10,13,16-hexa-oxacyclo-octa-deca-ne)rubidium] heptaantimonide-ammonia (1/4)
Creators: name: Mutzbauer, Fabian
name: Korber, Nikolaus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie

description: The crystal structure of the title compound, [Rb(C12H24O6)]3[Sb7]·4NH3, fills the gap between the already known Zintl anion ammoniates {[Cs(18-crown-6)]3Sb7}2·9NH3 [Wiesler (2007). Dissertation, Universität Regensburg, Germany] and [K(18-crown-6)]3Sb7·4NH3 [Hanauer (2007). Dissertation, Universität Regensburg, Germany]. As in the two known compounds, the antimony cage anion in this crystal structure is coordinated by three alkali cations. The coordination spheres of each of the cations are saturated by 18-crown-6 molecules. The ammonia molecules of crystallization are situated between the crown ethers. The neutral, molecular [Rb(18-crown-6)]3Sb7 units are interconnected by multiple dipole-dipole interactions between ammonia and 18-crown-6.
Disabling Consent, or Reconstructing Sexual Autonomy
Creators: name: Fischel, Joseph J.
name: O'Connell, Hilary R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sexual consent
subject: Autonomy (Philosophy)
subject: Rape
subject: Sex and law
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Does a right to sexual autonomy criminalize the embellished pick-up line? Or does a right to sexual autonomy permit each and every consensual sex act, however life- threatening, or even life-ending? This Article defends (by reconstructing) sexual autonomy as the governing principle of modern rape law. Powerful criticisms of sexual autonomy otherwise normatively opposed share an antecedent assumption: that sexual autonomy can be read off and as first person present active (or passive) consent (Part I). This Article argues against the conflation of sexual autonomy with sexual consent. Instead, and in conversation with competing liberal and feminist political theoretic accounts of sexual autonomy, this Article defines sexual autonomy as the capability to codetermine sexual relations (Part II). By interfacing a revised concept of sexual autonomy against and alongside State v. Fourtin, a 2012 Connecticut Supreme Court decision overturning a conviction of sexual assault against a severely mentally and physically disabled woman (Part III), the Article proposes three possibilities for statutory reform: refurbishing consent; expanding restrictions on status relations; and applying an accommodation model of disability entitlements to sexual relations (Part IV). After synopsizing our interventions, the Conclusion reminds readers that our brief for sexual autonomy, relationally reconstructed, presumes and propounds the ordinariness, not the extraordinariness, of sex.
Reduplicazione in swahili. Iconismo e oltre
Creators: name: Castagneto, Marina
Publisher: name: Atti del sodalizio glottologico milanese
Year: 2019

description: The aim of this article is to deal with the semantics of reduplication in Swahili, on the basis of a list of 562 reduplicative words. In the first part of the work we will focus on the iconic values of reduplication, shared by most of the world languages; afterwards we will see how reduplication is applied beyond its iconic ground, spreading by semantic extension to some lexical fields. Notwithstanding what previous works on this subject claim, reduplication seems not to be used to express diminution.
description: Atti del sodalizio glottologico milanese, V. 2016, N. 11 n.s. (2017)
Effects of cognitive, motor, and karate training on cognitive functioning and emotional well-being of elderly people
Creators: name: Jansen, Petra
name: Dahmen-Zimmer, Katharina
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: elderly, physical exercise, cognitive improvement, emotional well-being
subject: 150 Psychologie
subject: 796 Sport

description: The present study investigated the influence of cognitive, motor, and Karate (accordingly the guidelines of the German-Karate-Federation, DKV) training on the cognitive functioning and mental state of older people between 67 and 93 years of age. The three training groups each consisted of 12 elderly participants; the waiting control group included 9 participants. Before the training, participants were evaluated with cognitive measurements (cognitive speed: number-connection test, number-symbol test; memory performance: digit-span test, blocking-tapping test, figure test) and a measurement of emotional well-being. After this pre-testing they participated the specific training in on average sixteen 1-h training sessions. The cognitive training exercised inductive thinking ability, the motor training worked on easy stretching and mobilization techniques, and the Karate training taught tasks of self-defense, partner training, and Katas. After completion of the training sessions, all tests were applied again. The results show no significant difference in cognitive improvement dependent on group between the three training conditions. However a significant improvement was found in the emotional mental state measurement for the Karate group compared to the waiting control group. This result suggests that the integrated involvement in Karate leads to a feeling of self-worth and that, even in elderly people, integration of new sports helps to improve quality of life.
Investment Promotion Agencies and Sustainable FDI: Moving toward the Fourth Generation of Investment Promotion
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Investments, Foreign
subject: Developing countries
subject: Investments, Foreign--Government policy
subject: Economic development
subject: Sustainable development
subject: Investments, Foreign (International law)
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: International relations
subject: Economics

description: CCSI and The World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) conducted a survey of investment promotion agencies (IPAs) that are members of WAIPA on FDI and sustainable development in April and May 2010. The report based on the findings, Investment Promotion Agencies and Sustainable FDI: Moving toward the Fourth Generation of Investment Promotion, benchmarks the responses of IPAs regarding sustainable FDI and its four dimensions (economic development, environmental sustainability, social development, governance) and finds, among other things, that these are unevenly addressed by investment promotion strategies and investment incentives. The report also draws attention to the desirability of attracting sustainable FDI, rather than focusing on volume of investment alone.
Rapporto testa-dipendente e strutture flessive in vedico
Creators: name: Corno, Stefano
Publisher: name: Atti del sodalizio glottologico milanese
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of the article is to study co-variation mechanisms between the head of a nominal constituent and its adjectival or pronominal dependent(s) in the Vedic nominal morphology. By analyzing in detail nominal and pronominal morphology, we shall determine which agreement classes are possible and which ones are not, and define which role is played by desinential morphemes in co-variation. Furthermore, we shall point out that head-dependent relation shows up different features in the different Indo-European languages.
description: Atti del sodalizio glottologico milanese, V. 2016, N. 11 n.s. (2017)