cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mesochorus (Mesochorus) dilobatus Schwenke 1999
Creators: name: Riedel, Matthias
name: Varga, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Mesochorus
Mesochorus dilobatus

description: Mesochorus (Mesochorus) dilobatus Schwenke, 1999 (Fig. 37)
Material examined. UKRAINE: Transcarpathian Region: 1 ♀, Svydovets, 2–3 km NW of Kvasy, 48.090889°N, 24.155835°E, 850–900 m, beech forest, Malaise trap 2, 7.v–5.vi.2014, leg. O. Varga (SIZK).
Distribution. Europe; first record for Ukraine.
Taxonomical remark. A small species, length 3.0– 3.2 mm. Ocelli very large, distance between lateral ocellus and eye 0.65 × ocellar diameter; mesopleuron almost smooth; area petiolaris very large (about 0.5 × as long as the propodeum); pterostigma wide (2.8 × as long as wide), brown ventrally, cream-yellow at proximal and distal corners. For a detailed description see Riedel (2019: 76).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Matthias & Varga, Oleksandr, 2022, A checklist of the subfamily Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians, pp. 224-248 in Zootaxa 5100 (2) on page 244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6145438
The Effects of Long Term of Ammonium sulphate Application on Properties of Paddy Soil and Rice Yield at Suphanburi Rice Research Centre in both Dry and Wet Seasons
Creators: name: Wiwat Ingkapradit
Publisher: name: Department of Agriculture
Year: 2005
Subjects: ammounium sulphate
rice
Suphanburi 1

description: Thai Agricultural Research Journal, 23, 1, 2-20
Policy entrepreneurship in the U.S. Senate: Evidence from morning hour speeches
Creators: name: Moukarim, Joumana
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Using original data from morning hour speeches in the 104 th and 108th Congresses, this study revisits a debate in the literature on the importance of internal and external conditions in explaining policy activism in the Senate. Do internal resources shape entrepreneurial efforts in the Senate, as some argue? Or is behavior of senators as individualistic and unhampered by institutional constraints, as others seem to maintain? And, what role do senators' external circumstances play in explaining their zeal for policy activism?; In addressing these questions, I examine three forms of entrepreneurship on the Senate floor during the morning hour: speech frequency (how frequently senators speak on policy issues), speech focus (how frequently senators speak on state and national issues), and speech frames (how frequently senators frame issues as problems in policy speeches). In my analyses of floor behavior, I distinguish between pre-agenda and agenda speeches. The goal is to reveal the characteristics of policy entrepreneurs in the Senate, who (1) use unstructured floor time during the morning hour to debate pending policy choices (agenda issues) and (2) use this time to pursue and promote issues they view as important, but which have yet to find a place on the Senate agenda (pre-agenda speeches). In my analyses, I explore conditions, internal and external, that distinguish senators who actively purse their policy goals in morning speeches from senators who are less active during the morning hour. Results from this study suggest that internal rules remain important predictors of entrepreneurial efforts in the Senate. I also find that contextual factors, mainly the diversity of state interests, also play an important role in explaining policy activism during the morning hour. These findings confirm and expand on other works in the field and illustrate the strong impact of internal and external factors on policy entrepreneurship in the Senate.
Enduring achievement: Authenticating success beyond adequate yearly progress
Creators: name: Travers, Paula
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Sustaining learning through school is crucial for urban students suffering from unequal educational outcomes. Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink (2006) write that sustained learning extends beyond regurgitation on standardized tests and involves learner engagement for deeper concept meaning. This study used the Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO), a taxonomy developed by John Biggs and Kevin Collis which characterizes five (5) levels of learning depth, to determine the internalization of word attack and mathematics computational skills for a group of third, fourth and fifth grade students. Twenty-two students and six teachers participated in the study. Results showed the students had very low internalization of word attack and moderate internalization of calculation skills. The deepest internalization was found in fifth grade calculation. Teachers responded that SOLO gives an accurate reflection of student learning and is helpful in developing instruction to deepen understanding.
The effect of intraday periodicity on realized volatility measures
Creators: name: Dette, Holger
name: Golosnoy, Vasyl
name: Kellermann, Janosch
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: bipower variation
subject: realized volatility
subject: jump detection
subject: daily integrated volatility
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: U-shaped intraday periodicity (IP) is a typical stylized fact characterizing intraday returns on risky assets. In this study we focus on the realized volatility and bipower variation estimators for daily integrated volatility (IV ) which are based on intraday returns following a discrete-time model with IP. We demonstrate that neglecting the impact of IP on realized estimators may lead to non-valid statistical inference concerning IV for the commonly available number of intraday returns, moreover, the size of daily jump tests may be distorted. Given the functional form of IP, we derive corrections for the realized measures of IV . We show in a Monte Carlo and an empirical study that the proposed corrections improve commonly point and interval estimators of the IV and tests for jumps.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;55, 2016
Mesochorus (Mesochorus) gemellus Holmgren 1860
Creators: name: Riedel, Matthias
name: Varga, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Mesochorus
Mesochorus gemellus

description: Mesochorus (Mesochorus) gemellus Holmgren, 1860 (Fig. 38)
Material examined. UKRAINE: Ivano-Frankivsk Region: 1 ♀, Mochary, 5 km NE of Bogorodchany, 48.837078 N, 24.58137, sweeping, 19.viii.2013; 1 ♀, Gorgany, m. Igrovets, 7 km SW of Stara Guta, 48.598571 N, 24.130344 E, 1500 m, subalpine zone, sweeping, 20.vi.2013; Transcarpathian Region: 1 ♀, Vynogradiv, beech forest, 48.138338 N, 23.073689 E, 320 m, 12.iv–2.v.2018; 1 ♀, idem, oak forest, 280 m, 48.138338°N, 23.073689°E, Malaise trap 4, 2–20.v.2018, leg. O. Varga (SIZK).
Distribution. Holarctic; first record for Ukraine.
Taxonomical remark. Face black; inner orbit cream-yellow, with ivory triangular spot opposite antennal grooves; hind tibia yellow, narrowly infuscate basally and in apical 0.1. The species was wrongly synonymized with Mesochorus tachypus and Mesochorus brevicollis Thomson, 1886 by Schwenke (1999: 108). A detailed description and comparison of these three species were published by Vikberg & Vårdal (2017: 5–17, 19–21).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Matthias & Varga, Oleksandr, 2022, A checklist of the subfamily Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians, pp. 224-248 in Zootaxa 5100 (2) on page 244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6145438
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 8991.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 10.04.1922, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1922

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Regularization parameter selection in indirect regression by residual based bootstrap
Creators: name: Bissantz, Nicolai
name: Chown, Justin
name: Dette, Holger
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: bandwidth selection
subject: smooth bootstrap
subject: residual-based empirical distribution function
subject: regularization
subject: indirect nonparametric regression
subject: deconvolution function estimator
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620
subject: Nichtparametrische Regression
subject: Bootstrap-Statistik

description: Residual-based analysis is generally considered a cornerstone of statistical methodology. For a special case of indirect regression, we investigate the residual-based empirical distribution function and provide a uniform expansion of this estimator, which is also shown to be asymptotically most precise. This investigation naturally leads to a completely data-driven technique for selecting a regularization parameter used in our indirect regression function estimator. The resulting methodology is based on a smooth bootstrap of the model residuals. A simulation study demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;56, 2016
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 8995.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 14.04.1922, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1922

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Enduring achievement: Authenticating success beyond adequate yearly progress
Creators: name: Travers, Paula
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390304
subject: Primary education
classificationCode: 390402
subject: Education assessment and evaluation
classificationCode: 390403
subject: Educational administration, management and leadership

description: Sustaining learning through school is crucial for urban students suffering from unequal educational outcomes. Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink (2006) write that sustained learning extends beyond regurgitation on standardized tests and involves learner engagement for deeper concept meaning. This study used the Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO), a taxonomy developed by John Biggs and Kevin Collis which characterizes five (5) levels of learning depth, to determine the internalization of word attack and mathematics computational skills for a group of third, fourth and fifth grade students. Twenty-two students and six teachers participated in the study. Results showed the students had very low internalization of word attack and moderate internalization of calculation skills. The deepest internalization was found in fifth grade calculation. Teachers responded that SOLO gives an accurate reflection of student learning and is helpful in developing instruction to deepen understanding.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 8980.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 27.03.1922, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1922

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 8975.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 19.03.1922, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1922

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Appropriate Harvesting Time and Seed Rates of the First Crop in the Stubble-lodging Rice Ratooning Cropping in the Central Plain
Creators: name: Nittaya Ruensuk
Publisher: name: Department of Agriculture
Year: 2005
Subjects: stubble - lodging ratooning
ratoon
seed rate
harvesting date

description: Thai Agricultural Research Journal, 23, 1, 53-67
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 9007.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 02.05.1922, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1922

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
The activist and the olive tree: Nonviolent resistance in the second intifada
Creators: name: Norman, Julie M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430318
subject: Middle Eastern and North African history
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This study examines the phenomenon of nonviolent resistance in the West Bank during and after the second intifada. The primary research question asks, to what extent does a space exist for the (re)emergence of a popular nonviolent movement in the post-Oslo context? Specifically, the paper (1) identifies episodes of nonviolent activism in the West Bank from 2000 to 2008, (2) investigates the fragmented, localized nature of popular resistance during this period, (3) explores popular attitudes towards violent and nonviolent resistance, and (4) examines how individual and collective activist identities inform participation in popular resistance. The study indicates that, despite the prevalence of violent resistance during the second intifada, numerous episodes of nonviolent activism did and continue to take place in the West Bank in the form of direct actions (such as protests and demonstrations), NGO initiatives, media efforts, youth projects, and everyday acts of resistance. However, a widespread, unified movement has yet to emerge due to both internal and external factors, including differences between activists, divisions within Palestinian politics and civil society, and Israeli measures such as the separation barrier and checkpoints that hinder travel and limit points of contact. Despite the current fragmentation of the movement, the paper illustrates that there is significant public support for nonviolent resistance amongst youth in particular, while support for militant attacks on Israeli civilians is declining. These findings suggest that there is a potential space for the reemergence of a nonviolent movement in the West Bank in the current context, but its realization depends largely on the realignment of nonviolence with individual and collective constructs of activist identity. Specifically, mobilization depends on the association of nonviolent activism with the local acts of popular resistance dominant in the first intifada, over the conceptualization of nonviolence as a western paradigm imposed under Oslo. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with grassroots activists, NGO practitioners, and community leaders; surveys with youth ages 14-34 years; and extensive participant observation. The findings bring attention to the growing phenomenon of nonviolent activism in Palestine, which has been overshadowed by violent resistance and in the academic literature and mainstream discourse.
The activist and the olive tree: Nonviolent resistance in the second intifada
Creators: name: Norman, Julie M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the phenomenon of nonviolent resistance in the West Bank during and after the second intifada. The primary research question asks, to what extent does a space exist for the (re)emergence of a popular nonviolent movement in the post-Oslo context? Specifically, the paper (1) identifies episodes of nonviolent activism in the West Bank from 2000 to 2008, (2) investigates the fragmented, localized nature of popular resistance during this period, (3) explores popular attitudes towards violent and nonviolent resistance, and (4) examines how individual and collective activist identities inform participation in popular resistance. The study indicates that, despite the prevalence of violent resistance during the second intifada, numerous episodes of nonviolent activism did and continue to take place in the West Bank in the form of direct actions (such as protests and demonstrations), NGO initiatives, media efforts, youth projects, and everyday acts of resistance. However, a widespread, unified movement has yet to emerge due to both internal and external factors, including differences between activists, divisions within Palestinian politics and civil society, and Israeli measures such as the separation barrier and checkpoints that hinder travel and limit points of contact. Despite the current fragmentation of the movement, the paper illustrates that there is significant public support for nonviolent resistance amongst youth in particular, while support for militant attacks on Israeli civilians is declining. These findings suggest that there is a potential space for the reemergence of a nonviolent movement in the West Bank in the current context, but its realization depends largely on the realignment of nonviolence with individual and collective constructs of activist identity. Specifically, mobilization depends on the association of nonviolent activism with the local acts of popular resistance dominant in the first intifada, over the conceptualization of nonviolence as a western paradigm imposed under Oslo. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with grassroots activists, NGO practitioners, and community leaders; surveys with youth ages 14-34 years; and extensive participant observation. The findings bring attention to the growing phenomenon of nonviolent activism in Palestine, which has been overshadowed by violent resistance and in the academic literature and mainstream discourse.
Best linear unbiased estimators in continuous time regression models
Creators: name: Dette, Holger
name: Pepelyshev, Andrey
name: Zhigljavsy, Anatoly
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: linear regression
subject: continuous autoregressive model
subject: AR processes
subject: BLUE
subject: optimal design
subject: signed measures
subject: correlated observations
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: In this paper the problem of best linear unbiased estimation is investigated for continuous-time regression models. We prove several general statements concerning the explicit form of the best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE), in particular when the error process is a smooth process with one or several derivatives of the response process available for construction of the estimators. We derive the explicit form of the BLUE for many specific models including the cases of continuous autoregressive errors of order two and integrated error processes (such as integrated Brownian motion). The results are illustrated by several examples.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;58, 2016
Optimal discrimination designs for semi-parametric models
Creators: name: Dette, Holger
name: Guchenko, Roman
name: Melas, Viatcheslav
name: Wong, Weng Kee
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: continuous design
subject: variational calculus
subject: T-optimality
subject: semiparametric model
subject: equivalence theorem
subject: discrimination design
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Much of the work in the literature on optimal discrimination designs assumes that the models of interest are fully specified, apart from unknown parameters in some models. Recent work allows errors in the models to be non-normally distributed but still requires the specification of the mean structures. This research is motivated by the interesting work of Otsu (2008) to discriminate among semi-parametric models by generalizing the KL-optimality criterion proposed by Lopez-Fidalgo et al. (2007) and Tommasi and Lopez-Fidalgo (2010). In our work we provide further important insights in this interesting optimality criterion. In particular, we propose a practical strategy for finding optimal discrimination designs among semi-parametric models that can also be verified using an equivalence theorem. In addition, we study properties of such optimal designs and identify important cases where the proposed semi-parametric optimal discrimination designs coincide with the celebrated T-optimal designs.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;59, 2016
Borders & beliefs: Ethics, actorhood, and the India -Pakistan conflict
Creators: name: Pervez, Kiran
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation project examines why peace has continued to be elusive in the India-Pakistan context using ethnomethodological procedures and a relational social constructivist perspective that locates constitutive power in ongoing social processes instead of putatively existing substances. I suggest that we expand our focus beyond mere 'factors' that only help identify what issues are contentious and pay attention instead to 'actors' by analyzing the meaning-making practices in which our worlds cohere. To this end, I employ two analytical concepts: ethical imaginaries and articulation. Ethical imaginaries reveal the different rules that, for actors, circumscribe multiple ways of being themselves thereby highlighting the heterogeneity characteristic of the worlds we inhabit; these rules are ethical in so far that actors take into account how they have acted in the past and how they ought to act in the future to preserve the 'self' in a particular way. Articulation refers to the specific interpretive practices deployed in a given space-time particularity. The sites analyzed here include Bollywood films about India-Pakistan relations as well as first-hand interviews with Muhajirs in Pakistan, Muslims in India, and individuals who have been involved in Track II diplomacy efforts to understand the ethical imaginaries of 'Indian-ness' and 'Pakistani-ness' as well as the discourse around 'peace'. What this investigation reveals is that although both nations see in the 'other' a 'friend' with whom they have enough in common to share an amicable relationship, the prospects of peace are complicated by a culture of mistrust expressed in India's characterization of the 'Pakistani other' as 'religious fanatic' and Pakistan's perception of the 'Indian other' as a 'bully' that then renders peace complicated. I show how each of these articulations are framed by the ethical imaginary of the two-nation theory which formed the basis for the partition of India in 1947 on the grounds that Hindus and Muslims were distinct civilizational entities.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 8929.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 12.01.1922, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1922

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
title: Analyzing polycentricity
title: conceptual issues and methodological challenges
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Krehl, Angelika
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Polycentricity
subject: Urban spatial structure
subject: Concept
subject: Measurement approaches
subject: Local indicators of spatial association (LISA)
subject: Locally weighted regression (LWR)
subject: Employees
subject: Built-up volumes
subject: Germany
subject: Polyzentralität
subject: Urbane Raumstruktur
subject: Beschäftigte
subject: Baumasse
subject: Deutschland
subject: 710
subject: Deutschland
subject: Stadt
subject: Metropolregion
subject: Polyzentrismus

description: Spatial restructuring processes occurred in many economically advanced countries with opposing forces of concentration and deconcentration leading to the emergence of polycentric urban configurations. However, diverging empirical approaches are applied in several studies – a matter that contributes to conceptual confusion and a ‘fuzzy’ use of the term polycentricity. Against that background, a discussion is held to what extent this conceptual fuzziness can be narrowed down to derive a working definition for a quantitative study of polycentricity. Likewise, it is evaluated how to translate this concept into an empirical approach. A spatial scale of 1 km² grid cells ensures a high analytical depth and a joint consideration of employees and built-up volume reflects the multidimensional nature of urban spatial structure. Thus, prospects and limitations of jointly considering employees and built-up volume are evaluated by a literature review and own empirical analyses. Additionally, several conceptually different methods for subcenter identification are applied to the same data and the same study regions. These methods are threshold based ones, exploratory spatial data analyses and semi-parametric regressions. A revisit of these methods’ rationales as well as their outcomes for both employees and built-up volumes finally permits assessing how far a fuzzy concept can be narrowed down to make it analytically feasible. Regarding the polycentricity of four German city regions, the finding is that spatial disparities exist in all study regions. Yet, comparing the empirical results reveals that an agreement on the number, size and precise location of the identified centers and subcenters cannot be reached. This result holds for both employees and built-up volumes although these variables’ spatial patterns differ in details. The empirical conclusion is to apply a ‘double-funnel’ concept to cope with conceptual and analytical fuzziness of polycentricity. This concept’s base is to successively increase the level of detail of both the spatial scale and the applied set of methods. From a conceptual point of view, it can be concluded that it is necessary to consider not only one urban or regional economic model but to incorporate several conceptually different models to understand the variegated nature of urban spatial structure – and thus that of polycentricity.
Borders & beliefs: Ethics, actorhood, and the India -Pakistan conflict
Creators: name: Pervez, Kiran
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430318
subject: Middle Eastern and North African history
classificationCode: 440402
subject: Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This dissertation project examines why peace has continued to be elusive in the India-Pakistan context using ethnomethodological procedures and a relational social constructivist perspective that locates constitutive power in ongoing social processes instead of putatively existing substances. I suggest that we expand our focus beyond mere 'factors' that only help identify what issues are contentious and pay attention instead to 'actors' by analyzing the meaning-making practices in which our worlds cohere. To this end, I employ two analytical concepts: ethical imaginaries and articulation. Ethical imaginaries reveal the different rules that, for actors, circumscribe multiple ways of being themselves thereby highlighting the heterogeneity characteristic of the worlds we inhabit; these rules are ethical in so far that actors take into account how they have acted in the past and how they ought to act in the future to preserve the 'self' in a particular way. Articulation refers to the specific interpretive practices deployed in a given space-time particularity. The sites analyzed here include Bollywood films about India-Pakistan relations as well as first-hand interviews with Muhajirs in Pakistan, Muslims in India, and individuals who have been involved in Track II diplomacy efforts to understand the ethical imaginaries of 'Indian-ness' and 'Pakistani-ness' as well as the discourse around 'peace'. What this investigation reveals is that although both nations see in the 'other' a 'friend' with whom they have enough in common to share an amicable relationship, the prospects of peace are complicated by a culture of mistrust expressed in India's characterization of the 'Pakistani other' as 'religious fanatic' and Pakistan's perception of the 'Indian other' as a 'bully' that then renders peace complicated. I show how each of these articulations are framed by the ethical imaginary of the two-nation theory which formed the basis for the partition of India in 1947 on the grounds that Hindus and Muslims were distinct civilizational entities.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 5435.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 04.03.1957, erstellt von Karl Rapp, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1957

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Merz-Refraktor mit 13 cm Öffnung und 195 cm Brennweite (zur Verfügung gestellt).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Mesochorus (Mesochorus) gladiator Schwenke 1999
Creators: name: Riedel, Matthias
name: Varga, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Mesochorus
Mesochorus gladiator

description: Mesochorus (Mesochorus) gladiator Schwenke, 1999 (Fig. 39)
Material examined. UKRAINE: Transcarpathian Region: 1 ♀, Vynogradiv, oak forest, 280 m, 48.138338°N, 23.073689°E, Malaise trap 1, 2–17.v.2018, leg. O. Varga (SIZK).
Distribution. Northern and Central Europe; first record for Ukraine.
Taxonomical remark. This species is characterized by the rugulo-punctate black face with reddish facial orbits; strongly punctate mesopleuron; strongly pectinate hind claw; and infuscate hind coxa. The holotype was redescribed by Riedel (2019: 83). In addition: flagellum with 37 flagellomeres; 1 st flagellomere 5.5 × longer than wide and 0.66 × as long as eye; preapical flagellomere 2.0 × longer than wide.
description: Published as part of Riedel, Matthias & Varga, Oleksandr, 2022, A checklist of the subfamily Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians, pp. 224-248 in Zootaxa 5100 (2) on page 244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6145438
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 9009.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.05.1922, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1922

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
The impact of disclosure obligations on executive compensation - A policy evaluation using quantile treatment estimators
Creators: name: Dyballa, Katharina
name: Kraft, Kornelius
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: executive compensation
subject: quantile treatment effect
subject: policy evaluation
subject: corporate governance regulation
subject: disclosure obligations
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620
subject: Vorstandsmitglied
subject: Vergütung
subject: Publizitätspflicht
subject: nichtparametrische Statistik

description: This empirical study analyses the effects of the introduction of strongly increased disclosure requirements in Germany on the level of executive compensation. One innovative aspect is the comparison of companies which voluntarily followed a recommendation of the German Governance Code before the relevant law was implemented and published detailed information on executive compensation with other firms which did not. Conditional and unconditional quantile difference-indifferences models are estimated. The companies which refused to publish data before it became mandatory show a reduction in compensation levels for the upper quantiles. Hence, the mandatory requirement to publish detailed information reduced the higher levels of executive compensations, but did not affect executive compensation at lower or medium levels.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;57, 2016
The role of Parent Coordinators in parental involvement: An exploratory study
Creators: name: Alexander, Amanda
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390203
subject: Sociology of education
classificationCode: 390304
subject: Primary education

description: The research exploring the achievement gap between white and minority students shows that students from lower-income, minority families in urban school districts consistently perform poorly on standardized measures of academic success. Research also shows that parental involvement does have some impact on student achievement. However, it appears that minority parents have a more difficult time connecting with their children's school administrators and teachers due to matters related to social capital. This study explored the role and efficacy of Parent Coordinators (PCs) in New York City Public Schools serving large populations of Asian, Black and Hispanic students. The purpose of this study was to determine if, and in what ways PCs encourage and support parental involvement and whether they generate social capital through their work with parents. Participants were principals, PCs and parents. Data were obtained through the use of survey instruments and interviews. Findings suggest that PCs do increase and improve the nature of parental involvement in students' education and that through the parental involvement generated by the PCs, social capital was actualized in several forms. Recommendations for future research are also presented.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 8958.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 26.02.1922, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1922

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Entwicklung einer Methodik zur simulationsbasierten Dimensionierung von Kfz-Bordnetzen
Creators: name: Diebig, Maja
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Bordnetze
subject: Kabelbaum
subject: Simulation
subject: Optimierung
subject: Evolutionäre Algorithmen
subject: 620

description: Bedingt durch den stetigen Anstieg elektrischer Verbraucher, deren Leistung im Fahrzeug und der Elektrifizierung des Antriebsstrangs gewinnt die Dimensionierung des Kabelbaums immer mehr an Bedeutung. Die Verkabelung hat große Auswirkungen auf die elektrischen Funktionen, das Gewicht, den benötigten Einbauraum und die Kosten. Nur mit leistungsfähigen Methoden kann ein optimierter Kabelbaum mit minimalen Kosten unter gleichzeitiger Berücksichtigung der elektrischen Funktionen entwickelt werden. Insbesondere die Integration dynamischer Lasten mit hohen Spitzenströmen ist eine Herausforderung bei der Auslegung der Leitungen. Neue Ansätze für die Architektur, wie bei-spielsweise Mehrspannungsbordnetze, müssen untersucht werden. Die Einführung zusätzlicher Spannungsebenen (z. B. 48 V) für Hochleistungsverbraucher muss analysiert und bewertet werden. In dieser Arbeit wird eine Methodik entwickelt, welche die Simulation unter besonderer Berücksichti-gung der Stromtragfähigkeit der Leitung und der Spannungsstabilität des Bordnetzes verwendet. Diese Methodik ermöglicht eine automatisierte Modellerstellung, Simulation und Optimierung des Bordnetzes auf Basis von Kabelbaumlisten. Zur Verifikation werden verschiedene Topologien simuliert und die Einsparpotentiale bewertet. Die entwickelte Methodik zeigt, wie Bordnetztopologien analysiert werden. Resultat der Optimierung sind die Parameter für die Leitungsquerschnitte, der Einbauraum für die Wandler und die Architektur. Zur Verifikation werden statische Quellen und Verbraucher verwendet. Die Methodik erlaubt zugleich das Beurteilen dynamischer Komponenten, wie auch das Erhöhen der Anzahl an Wandlern und das Verwenden verschiedener Spannungsebenen. Die Optimierung bietet die Möglichkeit simulationsbasiert beide Kriterien zu berücksichtigen. Neben den Leitungsquerschnitten werden der Einbauraum der Wandler und die Architektur als variable Pa-rameter gewählt. Die Analyse der verschiedenen Varianten erfolgt über verschiedene Bewertungs-funktionen, die jeweils spezifisch für die Leitungen und Wandler entwickelt werden. Durch den entwi-ckelten zweikriteriellen Evolutionären Algorithmus kann das Ergebnis als eine Pareto-Front dargestellt werden, die alle nicht dominierten Parametersätze berücksichtigt. Die optimale Variante wird bestimmt, indem beispielsweise die niedrigsten Anschaffungs- oder Betriebskosten berücksichtigt werden oder eine Kombination aus beiden als Optimierungsgrundlage dient.
The role of Parent Coordinators in parental involvement: An exploratory study
Creators: name: Alexander, Amanda
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The research exploring the achievement gap between white and minority students shows that students from lower-income, minority families in urban school districts consistently perform poorly on standardized measures of academic success. Research also shows that parental involvement does have some impact on student achievement. However, it appears that minority parents have a more difficult time connecting with their children's school administrators and teachers due to matters related to social capital. This study explored the role and efficacy of Parent Coordinators (PCs) in New York City Public Schools serving large populations of Asian, Black and Hispanic students. The purpose of this study was to determine if, and in what ways PCs encourage and support parental involvement and whether they generate social capital through their work with parents. Participants were principals, PCs and parents. Data were obtained through the use of survey instruments and interviews. Findings suggest that PCs do increase and improve the nature of parental involvement in students' education and that through the parental involvement generated by the PCs, social capital was actualized in several forms. Recommendations for future research are also presented.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 9020.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.05.1922, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1922

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 5437.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.03.1957, erstellt von Karl Rapp, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1957

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Merz-Refraktor mit 13 cm Öffnung und 195 cm Brennweite (zur Verfügung gestellt).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Essential value and drug addiction
Creators: name: Christensen, Chesley J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of the present work was fourfold: First, to compare the reinforcing strength of cocaine and food in rats (Chapter 2); second to compare the reinforcing strength of cocaine before and after a cocaine self-administration history and food before and after a food self-administration history (Chapter 3); third, to compare the reinforcing strength of food after a cocaine self-administration history (Chapter 4); and last, to compare the reinforcing strength of food and cocaine in two inbred rat strains (Chapter 5). To determine reinforcing strength, consumption (number of reinforcers earned) was plotted as a function of price (fixed-ratio requirement) resulting in a demand curve, which was then fit with the exponential equation (Hursh & Silberberg, 2008) to determine the essential value (their measure of reinforcer strength). It was observed that food was always more reinforcing than cocaine (Chapter 2). However, the reinforcing strength of cocaine increased with an increased cocaine self-administration history whereas food strength remained the same following increased food history (Chapter 3). The reinforcing strength of food decreased with an increased cocaine self-administration history (Chapter 4). These processes are proposed to model drug addiction. In addition, using Fischer and Lewis rat strains, it was shown that Fischer rats appear to be vulnerable to drug addiction because food was less reinforcing in Fischer relative to Lewis rats and cocaine was more reinforcing in Fischer relative to Lewis rats (Chapter 5).
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 8972.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 16.03.1922, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1922

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Essential value and drug addiction
Creators: name: Christensen, Chesley J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The purpose of the present work was fourfold: First, to compare the reinforcing strength of cocaine and food in rats (Chapter 2); second to compare the reinforcing strength of cocaine before and after a cocaine self-administration history and food before and after a food self-administration history (Chapter 3); third, to compare the reinforcing strength of food after a cocaine self-administration history (Chapter 4); and last, to compare the reinforcing strength of food and cocaine in two inbred rat strains (Chapter 5). To determine reinforcing strength, consumption (number of reinforcers earned) was plotted as a function of price (fixed-ratio requirement) resulting in a demand curve, which was then fit with the exponential equation (Hursh & Silberberg, 2008) to determine the essential value (their measure of reinforcer strength). It was observed that food was always more reinforcing than cocaine (Chapter 2). However, the reinforcing strength of cocaine increased with an increased cocaine self-administration history whereas food strength remained the same following increased food history (Chapter 3). The reinforcing strength of food decreased with an increased cocaine self-administration history (Chapter 4). These processes are proposed to model drug addiction. In addition, using Fischer and Lewis rat strains, it was shown that Fischer rats appear to be vulnerable to drug addiction because food was less reinforcing in Fischer relative to Lewis rats and cocaine was more reinforcing in Fischer relative to Lewis rats (Chapter 5).