cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New quinoline and isatin derivatives as apoptotic VEGFR-2 inhibitors: design, synthesis, anti-proliferative activity, docking, ADMET, toxicity, and MD simulation studies
Creators: name: Elkaeed, Eslam B.
name: Taghour, Mohammed S.
name: Mahdy, Hazem A.
name: Eldehna, Wagdy M.
name: El-Deeb, Nehal M.
name: Kenawy, Ahmed M.
name: Alsfouk, Bshra A.
name: Dahab, Mohammed A.
name: Metwaly, Ahmed M.
name: Eissa, Ibrahim H.
name: El-Zahabi, Mohamed A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: New quinoline and isatin derivatives having the main characteristics of VEGFR-2 inhibitors was synthesised. The antiproliferative effects of these compounds were estimated against A549, Caco-2, HepG2, and MDA-MB-231. Compounds 13 and 14 showed comparable activities with doxorubicin against the Caco-2 cells. These compounds strongly inhibited VEGFR-2 kinase activity. The cytotoxic activities were evaluated against Vero cells. Compound 7 showed the highest value of safety and selectivity. Cell migration assay displayed the ability of compound 7 to prevent healing and migration abilities in the cancer cells. Furthermore, compound 7 induced apoptosis in Caco-2 through the expressive down-regulation of the apoptotic genes, Bcl2, Bcl-xl, and Survivin, and the upregulation of the TGF gene. Molecular docking against VEGFR-2 emerged the interactions of the synthesised compounds in a similar way to sorafenib. Additionally, seven molecular dynamics simulations studies were applied and confirmed the stability of compound 13 in the active pocket of VEGFR-2 over 100 ns.
Community Resource for Innovation in Polymer Technology - Mission: Open-Source Polymer Data Ecosystem
Creators: name: Walsh, Dylan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Webinar, FAIR, Cheminformatics, Chemical Data

description: This is a flash presentation highlighting working with polymer science data. It was presented at the “The IUPAC WorldFAIR Chemistry Webinar “What is a chemical? - Handling Chemical Data Across Disciplines”. The event was held on September 22, 2022, 12-1:30 pm EDT. The recording of the full webinar is available here. *WorldFAIR “Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice” is funded by the EC HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-41 Coordination and Support Action under Grant Agreement No. 101058393.
Determinants of Commercial Banks Profitability: the Case of Ethiopian Commercial Banks
Creators: name: Alemu, Samuel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Banks are the most crucial financial intermediaries in the economy and economy that have profitable banking industry are better able to withstand negative shock and contribute to the stability of the whole economy. The purpose of this study is to investigate determinants of commercial banks profitability in Ethiopia by using panel data of eight commercial banks from year 2002 to 2013. The study used mixed research approach and secondary financial data are analyzed by using multiple linear regressions models for the bank profitability measure, Return on Asset (ROA). Fixed effect regression model was applied to investigate the impact of bank size, capital adequacy, liquidity risk, operating efficiency, management efficiency, employee efficiency, funding cost, banking sector development, real GDP, inflation rate and foreign exchange rate on Return on Asset (ROA) and also primary data was used to support the result of the documentary analyses. The findings of the study show that bank size, capital adequacy and gross domestic product have statistically significant and positive relationship with bank's profitability. On the other hand, variables like liquidity risk, operational efficiency, funding cost and banking sector development have a negative and statistically significant relationship with banks' profitability. However, the relationship for Management efficiency, employee efficiency, Inflation and foreign exchange rate is found to be statistically insignificant. The study suggests that focusing and reengineering the banks alongside the key internal drivers could enhance the profitability as well as the performance of the commercial banks in Ethiopia. Key words: profitability, commercial bank
Experimental and theoretical oscillator strengths of Mg I for accurate abundance analysis
Creators: name: Rhodin, A. Pehlivan
name: Hartman, H.
name: Nilsson, H.
name: Jonsson, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. With the aid of stellar abundance analysis, it is possible to study the galactic formation and evolution. Magnesium is an important element to trace the alpha-element evolution in our Galaxy. For chemical abundance analysis, such as magnesium abundance, accurate and complete atomic data are essential. Inaccurate atomic data lead to uncertain abundances and prevent discrimination between different evolution models. Aims. We study the spectrum of neutral magnesium from laboratory measurements and theoretical calculations. Our aim is to improve the oscillator strengths ( f -values) of Mg I lines and to create a complete set of accurate atomic data, particularly for the near-IR region. Methods. We derived oscillator strengths by combining the experimental branching fractions with radiative lifetimes reported in the literature and computed in this work. A hollow cathode discharge lamp was used to produce free atoms in the plasma and a Fourier transform spectrometer recorded the intensity-calibrated high-resolution spectra. In addition, we performed theoretical calculations using the multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock program ATSP2K. Results. This project provides a set of experimental and theoretical oscillator strengths. We derived 34 experimental oscillator strengths. Except from the Mg I optical triplet lines (3p 3^P^o_0,1,2 - 4s 3^S_1), these oscillator strengths are measured for the first time. The theoretical oscillator strengths are in very good agreement with the experimental data and complement the missing transitions of the experimental data up to n = 7 from even and odd parity terms. We present an evaluated set of oscillator strengths, gf, with uncertainties as small as 5%. The new values of the Mg I optical triplet line (3p 3^P^o_0,1,2 - 4s 3^S_1) oscillator strength values are ~0.08 dex larger than the previous measurements.
description: Accepted by A&A
Frequency response of a fluidised bed
Creators: name: Piggott, Kenneth Lisle.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Menstruation and School Girls in South Africa: An Intervention Study
Creators: name: Haberer, Laura
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018

description: In South Africa, girls often face difficulties during menstruation, including access to hygiene products. It has been hypothesized that lack of products can lead to low school attendance. The Teddy Bear Clinic, in Johannesburg, works with high school aged girls utilizing a sexual violence education curriculum. During their programming, they implemented a menstrual cup distribution and education intervention in the hopes of increasing school attendance and comfort at school during menstruation. Survey tools were created in order to measure the results as well as conducting semi-structured interviews. Contrary to the hypothesis, the results indicated that girls in their programs were not missing school but faced other challenges during menstruation, such as shame and embarrassment while menstruating at school.
Introducción al Fondo de Acceso Global de DataCite
Creators: name: Mejias, Gabi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Webinar
Global Access Program
Global Access Fund
DataCite
Digital Object Identifier
DOI
PID
Open Research
Latin America
Open Infrastructure

description: DataCite se complace en lanzar el Fondo de Acceso Global (Global Access Fund, GAF), creado para permitir a organizaciones de todo el mundo aumentar la visibilidad de sus resultados de investigación. Esta nueva iniciativa proporcionará apoyo financiero para actividades de divulgación y desarrollo de infraestructuras que permitan beneficiarse de los servicios de infraestructura de DataCite. El GAF forma parte del Programa de Acceso Global (Global Access Program) de DataCite, posible gracias al apoyo de la Iniciativa Chan Zuckerberg. Las solicitudes están abiertas a organizaciones (entidades legales) sin fines de lucro dentro del ecosistema de investigación (por ejemplo, instituciones de investigación, asociaciones, NRENs, organismos gubernamentales, proveedores de servicios, etc.) con sede en África, América Latina, Oriente Medio y Asia. En esta presentación, se abordan los antecedentes del Programa, las características del Fondo y los detalles para la elegibilidad, categoría y financiamiento disponibles, así cómo los pasos para aplicar. Puede encontrar una grabación de su charla aquí: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntaV5JIzkkg&t=133s
New ways to synthesize lead sulfide nanosheets - substituted alkanes direct the growth of 2D nanostructures
Creators: name: Bielewicz, Thomas
name: Klein, Eugen
name: Klinke, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional colloidal nanosheets represent very attractive optoelectronic materials. They combine good lateral conductivity with solution-processability and geometry-tunable electronic properties. In case of PbS nanosheets, so far the synthesis was driven by the addition of chloroalkanes as coligands. Here, we demonstrate how to synthesize two-dimensional lead sulfide nanostructures using other halogen alkanes and primary amines. Further, we show that at a reaction temperature of 170C a coligand is not even necessary, and the only ligand, oleic acid, controls the anisotropic growth of the two-dimensional structures and using thiourea as sulfide source, nanosheets with lateral dimensions of over 10 microns are possible.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures
The Impacts of Working Capital Management of Firms Profitability
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Mulualem
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of working capital management on firms' profitability. The study aims to examine the statistical significance between firms' working capital management and profitability. In light of this objective the study adopted quantitative method of research approaches to test a series research hypothesis. Specifically, the study used survey of documentary analysis of companies' audited financial statements. Stratified sampling design was employed based on nature and turnover of companies. Then companies were selected based on simple random sampling method from each stratum's to avoid biases and represent firms from each sub- classification (stratum's) within manufacturing companies. Consequently, the study selected a sample of thirteen (13) companies for the period of five years (2005-2009) with the total of 65 observations. Data was then analyzed on quantitative basis using Pearson's correlation and OLS regression analysis. The results showed that there is statistical significance negative relationship between profitability and working capital management. It means that, companies managers can create profits or value for their companies and share holders by handling correctly the cash conversion cycle and keeping each different component of working capital to a possible optimum level. The researcher found that there is a significant negative relationship between liquidity and profitability. Moreover the study finds that there is strongly significance positive relationship between size and firm profitability. Unlike, the study found that there is no statistically significance negative relationship between debt used and firms profitability. Keywords: working capital, working capital management, firm size, cash conversion cycle and profitability
Supplementary files for the article 'Defensive shimmering responses in Apis dorsata are triggered by dark stimuli moving against a bright background'
Creators: name: Vijayan, Sajesh
name: Warrant, Eric
name: Somanathan, Hema
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Details of the four files are as below: 1) datasets.zip: contains three files that contains the data for all the anlyses carried out in the study. shimmerData: daylight experiments; shimmerLowLight: dim-light experiments; spectra: the reflectance spectra of all the stimuli and backgrounds used in the study
 2) sajesh_etal_2022_rev_ESM.pdf: supplementary emthods and results
 3) sajesh_etal_2022_rev_ESM.zip: the source code to generate the supplemetary materials, including the code for all analyses and main-text figures Figs. 2-4
 4) sajesh_etal_2022_SuppVideo-final.mp4: video of representative instances of shimmering response in both hives reported in the study
Probing TRAPPIST-1-like systems with K2
Creators: name: Demory, Brice-Olivier
name: Queloz, Didier
name: Alibert, Yann
name: Gillen, Ed
name: Gillon, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for small planets orbiting late M dwarfs holds the promise of detecting Earth-size planets for which their atmospheres could be characterised within the next decade. The recent discovery of TRAPPIST-1 entertains hope that these systems are common around hosts located at the bottom of the main sequence. In this Letter, we investigate the ability of the repurposed Kepler mission (K2) to probe planetary systems similar to TRAPPIST-1. We perform a consistent data analysis of 189 spectroscopically confirmed M5.5 to M9 late M dwarfs from campaigns 1-6 to search for planet candidates and inject transit signals with properties matching TRAPPIST-1b and c. We find no transiting planet candidates across our K2 sample. Our injection tests show that K2 is able to recover both TRAPPIST-1 planets for 10% of the sample only, mainly because of the inefficient throughput at red wavelengths resulting in Poisson-limited performance for these targets. Increasing injected planetary radii to match GJ1214b's size yields a recovery rate of 70%. The strength of K2 is its ability to probe a large number of cool hosts across the different campaigns, out of which the recovery rate of 10% may turn into bona-fide detections of TRAPPIST-1 like systems within the next two years.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to ApJ Letters on 15 June 2016
Impacts of Accounting Information on Management's Decision-Making – Profit-Oriented Vs Not-for-Profit Organizations
Creators: name: Legesse, Mesfin
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2009

description: In every organization decisions are regularly made as part of smoothening activities of the organization and to achieve their objectives. Decision makers use different types of information to make these valuable decisions. Accounting information is one of this information that managers and other concerned bodies use when they make decisions. The main purpose of this study is to assess the impact of accounting information in management decision making in both profit-oriented and not-for-profit organizations. General Managers, other higher level manager and accountants were included to gather the necessary data pertaining to the assessment of the impact of accounting information. To elicit the impact of accounting information on management decision making, questionnaires were distributed to General Managers, Financial Managers, Marketing Managers, Production Managers and Accountants who are thought to be influenced by the information. All of them were selected by personal judgment of the research. The results of the study showed that majority of managers are influenced by the accounting information to the relevant range. In addition, the dedication of managers in incorporating accounting information in their decision making was found to be weak. The reason for this fact is that managers are not as such comfortable to make decisions with the type of information being produced. They have doubts on the competency of accountants. It is also found that accounting information is widely used in business organizations especially in manufacturing organization as compared to not-for-profit organizations. In response of these findings, the researcher forwarded possible recommendations that will enhance managers' use of accounting information
Two electrode architectures characterized on button-cells
Creators: name: Vøllestad, Einar
name: Kjølseth, Christian
name: Bjørheim, Tor
name: Singh, Kalpana
name: Marie-Laure Fontaine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Proton Ceramic Conductor, electrode characterisation

description: This deliverable builds on the deliverables D4.1 and D1.4, and reports detailed characterization of several sets of electrodes investigated at button-cell level (both disk-shaped and tubular cells) for different electrode architectures: - Two Ba1-x-yGdxLayCoO3-δ compositions were examined as the steam electrode for reversible steam electrolysis at tubular cell level, showing a significant impact on the electrode composition on overall polarization resistance, particularly when operated in fuel cell mode. - Two additional electrode systems (PBSCF PrBa0.5Sr0.5Co1.5Fe0.5O5+δ and BCFZY: BaCo0.4Fe0.4Zr0.1Y0.1O3-δ) were also characterized as potential air electrodes for NH3 fuel cell operation at tubular cell level, showing comparable and slightly better performance to that of the BGLC-electrodes for reversible operation. - Porous model electrodes on disk-shaped cells using Ba1-xLayFeO3-δ as the standard electrode revealed significant influence of applied bias on the electrode polarization resistance – and nonsymmetrical resistance in reversible operation. For both applications, there is a marked impact of the electrode composition on the electrochemical performance, whereas the overall behaviour of the electrode remains quite similar. In all measurements of the air/steam-electrodes it is apparent that there is an initial increase in the electrode polarization resistance when the cell is operated in fuel cell mode. However, the origin of this increase still remains unclear as it can originate from changes in electronic conductivity of the electrolyte upon applied bias in addition to different kinetics and reaction mechanisms for the oxygen reduction reaction (fuel cell) compared to the oxygen evolution reaction (electrolysis). These results have been corroborated by measurements on porous model electrodes, where also the architecture of the counter electrode have been shown to influence the measurements and subsequent interpretation – and serves as the groundwork for an in-depth study on the effect of electrochemical bias on electrode polarization resistances.
Stochastic analysis and generation of streamflow data
Creators: name: Philips, Christopher.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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High-resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy of buffer-gas-cooled methyltrioxorhenium molecules
Creators: name: Tokunaga, Sean
name: Hendricks, R. J.
name: Tarbutt, M.
name: Darquié, B
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate cryogenic buffer-gas cooling of gas-phase methyltrioxorhenium (MTO). This molecule is closely related to chiral organometallic molecules where the parity-violating energy differences between enantiomers may be measurable. The molecules are produced with a rotational temperature of approximately 6~K by laser ablation of an MTO pellet inside a cryogenic helium buffer gas cell. Facilitated by the low temperature, we demonstrate absorption spectroscopy of the 10.2~$μ$m antisymmetric Re=O stretching mode of MTO with a resolution of 8~MHz and a frequency accuracy of 30~MHz. We partially resolve the hyperfine structure and measure the nuclear quadrupole coupling of the excited vibrational state.
Marco GALLI – Tommaso ISMAELLI, Basilica Iulia I. Gli scavi di Laura Fabbrini (1960-1964). Strutture, stratigrafie e materiali dalla prima età repubblicana alla costruzione augustea
Creators: name: Lipps, Johannes
Publisher: name: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft
Year: 2023

description: Rezension zu: Marco Galli – Tommaso Ismaelli, Basilica Iulia I. Gli scavi di Laura Fabbrini (1960-1964). Strutture, stratigrafie e materiali dalla prima età repubblicana alla costruzione augustea. Istanbul: Ege Yayinlari 2022, 563 S., EUR 220,00. ISBN: 978-625-8056-42-6
description: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft, Bd. 25 (2022): Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft
Tides and angular momentum redistribution inside low-mass stars hosting planets: a first dynamical model
Creators: name: Lanza, A. F.
name: Mathis, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a general mathematical framework to model the internal transport of angular momentum in a star hosting a close-in planetary/stellar companion. By assuming that the tidal and rotational distortions are small and that the deposit/extraction of angular momentum induced by stellar winds and tidal torques are redistributed solely by an effective eddy-viscosity that depends on the radial coordinate, we can formulate the model in a completely analytic way. It allows us to compute simultaneously the evolution of the orbit of the companion and of the spin and the radial differential rotation of the star. An illustrative application to the case of an F-type main-sequence star hosting a hot Jupiter is presented. The general relevance of our model to test more sophisticated numerical dynamical models and to study the internal rotation profile of exoplanet hosts, submitted to the combined effects of tides and stellar winds, by means of asteroseismology are discussed.
description: 32 pages, 10 figures, one table; accepted to Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, special issue on tides
Factors Affecting Tax Compliance of Small and Medium Business Profit Taxpayers in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Derar, Ketema
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: This research sought to obtain opinions about tax compliance behaviour of small and medium business profit taxpayers in Addis Ababa. The study has employed a descriptive survey design. In order to gather the required data, questionnaire and key informant interview have been used. A sample size of 230 were used from a population of 147,795 small and medium business operators in Addis Ababa. To ensure the representativeness of different business sectors of taxpayers, stratified sampling technique was adopted. Data for this study was collected using self- administered questionnaires to small and medium business profit taxpayers and interviews to tax consultants and staffs of ERCA. Responses of survey data were analyzed using SPSS software (V. 20) and the findings were presented using tables and figures. The results showed that social services positively influence tax compliance of taxpayers. With regard to cost of tax compliance, the study result revealed that small and medium businesses incur different costs such as salary of accountants, fees to tax consultants, cost of stationaries, etc. that contributed for their non- compliance. Lack of knowledge of tax rules contributed to the inability to calculate taxable income and tax liability is another form of non-compliance. The findings of this study further revealed that perception of small and medium businesses about the services provided by the different branches of ERCA contributed for their tax non-compliance decisions. The researcher then recommended that ERCA should educate the taxpayers and disseminate information on tax updates more frequently to create the necessary awareness on tax laws to improve tax compliance. ERCA should simplify filling and tax collection procedures by opening new tax offices, reducing frequency of tax filling procedures to save time and money of small and medium business profit taxpayers. It should improve the facilities of offices (internet connections, parking, etc.) and retain experienced staffs so as to provide quality & timely services to taxpayers to improve the level of their tax compliance and to generate more revenues. Key Words: Addis Ababa, ERCA, small and medium business profit taxpayers, tax compliance
VITALISE D13.2 Dissemination and Communication
Creators: name: Pellumbaj  Ada
name: Trochidis Ilias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The dissemination and communication of the VITALISE project activities, advances and results play a crucial role for the overall success of the project. They set the ground for future exploitation and sustainability of the project results and develop a clear understanding of the value stemming from the project outputs. This document, D13.2 “Dissemination and Communication activities report (first version)”, aims to detail all the dissemination, communication and outreach activities that have been implemented within the VITALISE Project from M1 until M18. As described in D13.1 “Dissemination and Communication Plan” which elaborates on the dissemination and communication strategy of the VITALISE project, the consortium partners engage in several dissemination and communication activities throughout the project to ensure the visibility, dissemination and exploitation of the findings of VITALISE across the project’s target groups. In order for the dissemination planning and methodology to be effective, a co-designed programme of activities has been implemented, based on the profiles of the target audiences, highlighting the benefits and results delivered to stakeholders, and ensuring their active involvement in the activities of the project. These activities include workshops, networking events, conferences, training sessions, press releases, newsletters, scientific publications, social media posts and more and they are presented in detail in the following chapters.
Staging of air transport terminal facilities with special reference to the provision of gate positions at Sydney International Airport
Creators: name: McKenzie, Angus J
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Superfluid-Mott glass quantum multicritical point on a percolating lattice
Creators: name: Puschmann, Martin
name: Vojta, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ large-scale Monte Carlo simulations to study a particle-hole symmetric site-diluted quantum rotor model in two dimensions. The ground state phase diagram of this system features two distinct quantum phase transitions between the superfluid and the insulating (Mott glass) phases. They are separated by a multicritical point. The generic transition for dilutions below the lattice percolation threshold is driven by quantum fluctuations while the transition across the percolation threshold is due to the geometric fluctuations of the lattice. We determine the location of the multicritical point between these two transitions and find its critical behavior. The multicritical exponents read $z=1.72(2)$, $β/ν=0.41(2)$, and $γ/ν=2.90(5)$ . We compare our results to other quantum phase transitions in disordered systems, and we discuss experiments.
description: 10 pages, 3 pdf figures included, builds on arXiv:1607.01860, submitted to the Proceedings of CCP 2016
LEADERS: A Psychoeducational Support Group for College-Bound High School Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Creators: name: Ayala, Kaitlyn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: During life transitions, individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face unique challenges. When navigating the transition from high school to higher education, individuals with ASD confront increased vulnerability in social situations, decreased likelihood of program completion, and increased risk of mental health problems. To help these individuals successfully navigate this transition, high school mental health professionals should consider including them in a psychoeducational support group which focuses on the development of executive functioning skills, regulation and coping skills, and social skills and which allows for the practice and role-playing of newly learned skills as well as the discussion of ideas and personal experiences. A proposed curriculum (LEADERS) is discussed, along with the logistical and ethical considerations of running the proposed group.
The operation of three phase bridge rectifiers with complex source impedances
Creators: name: Jones, Victor Hugh.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The link between solenoidal turbulence and slow star formation in G0.253+0.016
Creators: name: Federrath, C.
name: Rathborne, J. M.
name: Longmore, S. N.
name: Kruijssen, J. M. D.
name: Bally, J.
name: Contreras, Y.
name: Crocker, R. M.
name: Garay, G.
name: Jackson, J. M.
name: Testi, L.
name: Walsh, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Star formation in the Galactic disc is primarily controlled by gravity, turbulence, and magnetic fields. It is not clear that this also applies to star formation near the Galactic Centre. Here we determine the turbulence and star formation in the CMZ cloud G0.253+0.016. Using maps of 3mm dust emission and HNCO intensity-weighted velocity obtained with ALMA, we measure the volume-density variance $σ_{ρ/ρ_0} = 1.3 \pm 0.5$ and turbulent Mach number $\mathcal{M} = 11 \pm 3$. Combining these with turbulence simulations to constrain the plasma $β= 0.34 \pm 0.35$, we reconstruct the turbulence driving parameter $b = 0.22 \pm 0.12$ in G0.253+0.016. This low value of $b$ indicates solenoidal (divergence-free) driving of the turbulence in G0.253+0.016. By contrast, typical clouds in the Milky Way disc and spiral arms have a significant compressive (curl-free) driving component ($b > 0.4$). We speculate that shear causes the solenoidal driving in G0.253+0.016 and show that this may reduce the star formation rate by a factor of 7 compared to nearby clouds.
description: IAU Symposium 322 "The Multi-Messenger Astrophysics of the Galactic Centre", eds. R. M. Crocker, S. N. Longmore, G. V. Bicknell
Effect of privatization on Selected Privatized Public Enterprises: pre and post privatization performance Analysis (Targeting Industries Located in Addis Ababa and its periphery)
Creators: name: Woldeyohannes, Alemayehu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: In this paper, the Effect of privatization on selected Public Enterprises in Ethiopia is analyzed by comparing the same subjects with before and after privatization. The study aimed to examine the operational performance changes due to the intervention of privatization of the newly privatized enterprises. The indicators examined are profitability, operating efficiency, capacity utilization, capital investment, and employment level. The data were analyzed using non-parametric test, namely Wilcoxon matched-paired test to test for the significance of the difference between pre and post privatization performance indicators. However, the percentages points in examined indicators show increases after privatization but these increments are not significant, as a result the effect of privatization on performance change is negligible, Out of the three surveyed enterprises in this study, only one sample showed significant difference between pre and post privatization performance indicators. It should be privatization well stressed that in order to have effective business institutions following it requires the establishment of basic stock exchange, an institution who always keen to reducing capital shocks, and also other government institutions' assistance should be accompanied by strong rules and regulations as to well-developed private sector institutions, and capable secure business institutions. It is also recommended that it is wise to acknowledge the collaboration of other stake holder as important component for inherently to realize privatization program in Ethiopia. Furthermore, if insightful of attention given to those newly privatized firms, intensify them as organizations go through major changes in technology in place, and other complementary changes and this in turn boosts investor's confidence for more investment following privatization. Key word: Privatization performance.
Key knowledge and data gaps in modelling the influence of CO2 concentration on the terrestrial carbon sink
Creators: name: Pugh, T.A.M.
name: Müller, C.
name: Arneth, A.
name: Haverd, V.
name: Smith, B.
Publisher: name: München : Elsevier
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: carbon dioxide
subject: carbon sequestration
subject: ecosystem
subject: metabolism
subject: photosynthesis
subject: 580

description: Primary productivity of terrestrial vegetation is expected to increase under the influence of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations ([CO2]). Depending on the fate of such additionally fixed carbon, this could lead to an increase in terrestrial carbon storage, and thus a net terrestrial sink of atmospheric carbon. Such a mechanism is generally believed to be the primary global driver behind the observed large net uptake of anthropogenic CO2 emissions by the biosphere. Mechanisms driving CO2 uptake in the Terrestrial Biosphere Models (TBMs) used to attribute and project terrestrial carbon sinks, including that from increased [CO2], remain in large parts unchanged since those models were conceived two decades ago. However, there exists a large body of new data and understanding providing an opportunity to update these models, and directing towards important topics for further research. In this review we highlight recent developments in understanding of the effects of elevated [CO2] on photosynthesis, and in particular on the fate of additionally fixed carbon within the plant with its implications for carbon turnover rates, on the regulation of photosynthesis in response to environmental limitations on in-plant carbon sinks, and on emergent ecosystem responses. We recommend possible avenues for model improvement and identify requirements for better data on core processes relevant to the understanding and modelling of the effect of increasing [CO2] on the global terrestrial carbon sink.
The metal enrichment of passive galaxies in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation
Creators: name: Okamoto, Takashi
name: Nagashima, Masahiro
name: Lacey, Cedric G.
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Massive early-type galaxies have higher metallicities and higher ratios of $α$ elements to iron than their less massive counterparts. Reproducing these correlations has long been a problem for hierarchical galaxy formation theory, both in semi-analytic models and cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. We show that a simulation in which gas cooling in massive dark haloes is quenched by radio-mode active galactic nuclei (AGNs) feedback naturally reproduces the observed trend between $α$/Fe and the velocity dispersion of galaxies, $σ$. The quenching occurs earlier for more massive galaxies. Consequently, these galaxies complete their star formation before $α$/Fe is diluted by the contribution from type Ia supernovae. For galaxies more massive than $\sim 10^{11}~M_\odot$ whose $α$/Fe correlates positively with stellar mass, we find an inversely correlated mass-metallicity relation. This is a common problem in simulations in which star formation in massive galaxies is quenched either by quasar- or radio-mode AGN feedback. The early suppression of gas cooling in progenitors of massive galaxies prevents them from recapturing enriched gas ejected as winds. Simultaneously reproducing the [$α$/Fe]-$σ$ relation and the mass-metallicity relation is, thus, difficult in the current framework of galaxy formation.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, added references
Network regression analysis in transcriptome-wide association studies.
Creators: name: Jin, Xiuyuan
name: Zhang, Liye
name: Ji, Jiadong
name: Ju, Tao
name: Zhao, Jinghua
name: Yuan, Zhongshang
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research
TWAS
Biological networks
Dirichlet process regression
Pointwise mutual information
Blood pressure

description: BACKGROUND: Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) have shown great promise in interpreting the findings from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and exploring the disease mechanisms, by integrating GWAS and eQTL mapping studies. Almost all TWAS methods only focus on one gene at a time, with exception of only two published multiple-gene methods nevertheless failing to account for the inter-dependence as well as the network structure among multiple genes, which may lead to power loss in TWAS analysis as complex disease often owe to multiple genes that interact with each other as a biological network. We therefore developed a Network Regression method in a two-stage TWAS framework (NeRiT) to detect whether a given network is associated with the traits of interest. NeRiT adopts the flexible Bayesian Dirichlet process regression to obtain the gene expression prediction weights in the first stage, uses pointwise mutual information to represent the general between-node correlation in the second stage and can effectively take the network structure among different gene nodes into account. RESULTS: Comprehensive and realistic simulations indicated NeRiT had calibrated type I error control for testing both the node effect and edge effect, and yields higher power than the existed methods, especially in testing the edge effect. The results were consistent regardless of the GWAS sample size, the gene expression prediction model in the first step of TWAS, the network structure as well as the correlation pattern among different gene nodes. Real data applications through analyzing systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure from UK Biobank showed that NeRiT can simultaneously identify the trait-related nodes as well as the trait-related edges. CONCLUSIONS: NeRiT is a powerful and efficient network regression method in TWAS.
Relational dynamics and meaning in life: Dominance predicts perceived social support, belongingness, and meaning in life
Creators: name: Moynihan, Andrew
name: Guinote, Ana
name: IGOU, ERIC RAYMOND
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Social relations arguably contribute to meaning in life. Here, we investigated the role of a disposition that fosters social connections and the desire to influence others - dominance. We hypothesised that dominance is associated with increased meaning in life through social mechanisms: perceptions of belongingness and social support. Two cross-sectional studies and one cross-lagged panel study tested these hypotheses. In Study 1, dominance boosted meaning in life through greater belongingness. Study 2 found support for a causal effect of dominance at Wave 1 on meaning in life at Wave 2, driven by elevated belongingness. Study 3 further demonstrated that elevated belongingness of dominant individuals derives from perceptions of increased social support and that both perceptions of social support and belongingness contributed to elevated meaning in life. We conclude that if social relations contribute to meaning in life, a dominant position within social relations can further promote a meaningful existence.
Factors Affecting Tax Revenue in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Baye, Minyichel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors that affect revenues from taxes by the revenue government. The main objective of this study is to explore the factors affecting tax revenue in Ethiopia by using a secondary data and multiple variables regression model. Tax revenue may be affected by various factors such as inflation, unemployment, tax rates, level of actual income exchange rate and foreign direct investment. A number of studies have been done in Ethiopia as far as tax revenue is concerned but still not effective to test all factors thus the study was meant to identify factors affect tax revenue in Ethiopia. The research approaches adopted in this thesis include collections of series data set that consists of seventeen years. The time period covered was 1999/00 to 2015/16. Secondary data were collected, coded and entered into Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, Version 20.0) for regression analysis. The findings from this research provide evidence that, inflation rate regression result shows negative significant, foreign direct investment in billions of birr shows negative significant, disposal income in billions of birr positive and significant, exchange rate has negative significant, unemployment rate have negative insignificant impact on tax revenue. The main conclusions drawn from this study are inflation rate, foreign direct investment; disposal income and exchange rate have significant impact on tax collection. Unemployment rate is insignificant variables affecting tax revenue. The study also provides recommendations that the policy makers come with policies to control the inflation rate in Ethiopia as it negatively affects tax revenue, the government to take care should be taken when attracting FDI to Ethiopia and it should be directed to more manufacture sectors of the economy; lobby for higher employee salaries since this will further contribute to higher tax revenue and Policies makers should undertake reduce unemployment by improved geographical mobility, stricter benefit requirements, Improve labor and Employment subsidies. Key words: The amount Tax collection, factor affecting tax collection, time series
Fixed points of 321-avoiding permutations
Creators: name: Hoffman, Christopher
name: Rizzolo, Douglas
name: Slivken, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60C05, 05A05

description: We describe the distribution of the number and location of the fixed points of permu- tations that avoid the pattern 321 via a bijection with rooted plane trees on n + 1 vertices. Using the local limit theorem for Galton-Watson trees, we are able to give an explicit description of the limit of this distribution.
Tabulation of prime knots in lens spaces
Creators: name: Gabrovšek, Boštjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 57M50

description: Using computational techniques we tabulate prime knots up to five crossings in the solid torus and the infinite family of lens spaces $L(p,q)$. For these knots we calculate the second and third skein module and establish which prime knots in the solid torus are amphichiral. Most knots are distinguished by the skein modules. For the handful of cases where the skein modules fail to detect inequivalent knots, we calculate and compare the hyperbolic structures of the knot complements. We were unable to resolve a handful of 5-crossing cases for $p\geq 13$.
description: To appear in Mediterr. J. Math
The Relationship between Outreach and Financial Sustainability: An Empirical Study on Ethiopian Microfinance Institutions
Creators: name: Yeshi, Abinet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: The overall objective of the study was to scrutinize the relationship between microfinance outreach and financial sustainability in Ethiopia. The study specifically aimed at establishing the relationship between loan outreach and microfinance institutions' financial sustainability in Ethiopia. MFIs in Ethiopia enable to increase industrial outreach to 3.9 million clients. Yet, the loan service outreaches to the poor in Ethiopia fall short of the escalating demand. Quantitative design was employed and it was found suitable for the study since it aimed at establishing the relationship between microfinance outreach variables and financial sustainability. The population for the study was composed of 35 microfinance institutions in Ethiopia. Secondary data was collected from 14 purposively selected microfinance institutions reporting their financial and operational data to either of AEMFI or NBE over the period 2003-2014. Multiple regression analysis was then carried out on a panel data collected in order to examine relationships between variables. Significant positive relationship between breadth of outreach measured as number of active borrowers and gross loan to asset ratio and financial sustainability was evident among microfinance institutions in Ethiopia. However, there is a trade of between microfinance institutions depth of outreach measured by average loan size and financial sustainability as this variable shown statistically significant association with financial sustainability. Operating expense per loan portfolio relate inversely with financial sustainability while yield relates directly. Thus, it was concluded that the relationship between outreach and financial sustainability of MFIs in Ethiopia is depends on the variables used. Therefore, this study recommends that microfinance institutions in Ethiopia should increase the numbers of borrowing clients they are serving to be benefited from economics of scale. Key words: Microfinance, loan outreach, financial sustainability, economies of scale
A Novel and Advanced Control Method Based on Fuzzy-PI for Joint Wear Simulators
Creators: name: Iyer, Kaushikk Ravender
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Engineering
subject: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

description: Mean results obtained for Fuzzy-PI and PI controllers using the benchtop HIL setup.