cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
State of irrigation in Tamil Nadu: investments and returns
Creators: name: Amarasinghe, Upali A.
name: Kuppannan, Palanisami
name: Singh, O. P.
name: Sakthivadivel, R.
name: Amarasinghe, Upali A.
name: Kuppannan, Palanisami
name: Singh, O. P.
name: Sakthivadivel, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Irrigation schemes
subject: Public investment
subject: Private investment
subject: Groundwater irrigation
subject: Regression analysis
subject: Irrigation efficiency
subject: Crop production
subject: Water conservation
subject: India
subject: Tamil Nadu

description: In International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India Series 5. Proceedings of the Second National Workshop on Strategic Issues in Indian Irrigation, New Delhi, India, 8-9 April 2009. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
The financial benefits of the IMF
Creators: name: Bakker, Age F. P.
name: Schrijvers, Martijn A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: IMF
subject: F34, F32, F33, O16

description: The IMF provides loans to countries in financial distress at a relatively low interest rate. In this article we calculate how much the seven largest debtors to the IMF have saved on interest payments during the Asian crisis and its aftermath. We explain how the IMF can charge these low interest rates and at what cost for creditor countries. The conditionality attached to the use of IMF resources in the form of policy measures reduces moral hazard behaviour; we argue that this is a better instrument than raising interest rates on IMF loans. JEL Codes: F34, F32, F33, O16
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 53, N. 214 (2000)
title: Measurement of Valuing Diversity: A Multidimensional Conception and Confirmatory Analysis
Creators: name: Althouse, Rebekka A.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2006

description: This study explored the construct validity of the Attitudes Toward Diversity Scale (ATDS; Montei et al., 1996) in relation to the Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE; Wang et al., 2003) and the Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale (M-GUDS; Miville et al., 1999) in a sample of 157 undergraduate and graduate students at Old Dominion University. Because there was no precedent in the literature, a purely theoretical relationship was hypothesized. The relationship between the SEE and the ATDS v as hypothesized to be stronger than between the M-GUDS and the ATDS. A multivariate structural model tested the hypothesized pattern of relationships emanating from the SEE and M-GUDS to the ATDS. The multivariate model was found to be a good fit for the data, although the relationship between the SEE and ATDS was not stronger than between the M-GUDS and ATDS as anticipated. All subscales of the SEE and M-GUDS were found to significantly predict scores on at least one subscale of the ATDS. Implications for the construct validity of the ATDS and the fundamental nature of the valuing diversity construct are discussed. Future research should further explore the valuing diversity construct.
Exploring Creative Learning Processes of Refugee Children and their Peers—A Case Study
Creators: name: Sheridan, Nathalie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130302 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This ethnographic case study investigates the access refugee children have to creative learning in a high school in Glasgow as well as the impact of social capital on the scholarly development and inclusion of this group of children. Research on refugee children in Scottish school settings has primarily focused on provisions such as language support and well–being (e.g. Green, 2006; Hopkins & Hill, 2006; Netto & Fraser, 2009). However, there is hardly any research that explores the actual learning processes and daily social interactions of this group within schools (e.g. Dobson, McCulloch, & Sime, 2008; Frondigoun et al., 2007; Rolfe & Metcalf, 2009). The present study addressed this research gap by conducting an ethnographic case study using qualitative means including participant observation, field notes, participants’ photography, group discussions, interviews, conversations and open-ended questionnaires. The collected data was analysed by means of the analytical software NVivo™, research diaries, and manual coding of field notes. My findings demonstrated strong indicators for social capital and their impact on positive learning experiences. The refugee pupils displayed strong cultural competences; monolingual peers in contrast displayed selective social competences depending on the relevance of a situation. The findings, which were interpreted within a conceptual framework that was developed as part of this research, showed the relevance of space in its physical and metaphorical properties to create creative learning strategies. Although access to these strategies was facilitated in all the three classroom spaces, the English as Additional Language (EAL) Unit appeared to be the most conducive environment. These findings highlight the niche position of the EAL Unit as a non-mainstream space in school, which seemed to provide 6 more freedom for creating learning spaces, as a result of not having to adhere to the curriculum framework (5–14 Curriculum, Curriculum for Excellence).
imputation of untargeted metabolites github
Creators: name: Faquih
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A script design to impute missing values in Metabolon metabolomics datasets. Two imputation methods can be used: MICE and KNN This script is designed to impute missing values in Metabolon HD4 datasets using KNN and MICE imputations. It is technically possible to use it with any metabolomic dataset.
The long-run effects of low inflation rates
Creators: name: Hoogenveen, Victoria C.
name: Kuipers, Simon K.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Inflation, Monetary Policy, Monetary, Policy, Prices
subject: E31, E52

description: Low price inflation is an official monetary policy target in many countries because of the positive effects it may generate on economic growth. However, if nominal wage rigidities exist, low price inflation may have a negative effect on economic growth. In this paper we test whether there exists a minimum level in the wage inflation ratefor a number of European countries. When the economy moves close to this wageinflation rate real effects become extreme. Low price inflation rates coincide with high unemployment rates. The estimation results show a significant minimum wageinflation rate for each of the countries, lying in the 1.98% to 5.32% range. JEL Codes: E31, E52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 53, N. 214 (2000)
title: Telling tales together : A study of children's collaborative oral story-making and performance
Creators: name: McSeveney, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2011

description: This study is of relevance to primary teachers, teacher educators and librarians interested in developing storytelling with children. It sets out to establish the key skills involved in the process of children's collaborative creation of stories and in their collaborative performance of these stories for and audience. Children's collaborative story-making and telling was studied in two Scottish primary schools. In one school the context was an after-school storytelling club for children in Primary 3 and 4. In the other school, the context was a series of class storytelling sessions with a composite P5-7 class. The research indicates that development of the skills involved in children's collaborative story-making and storytelling are dependent on their previous experience and are also complex and interdependent. It indicates that these skills include: the collaborative skills of creating, understanding and applying ground rules, of turn taking, listening and building on previous contributions; the social skills of interacting with peers and with an audience; the learning skills of memorising and of evaluating their own and others' performances; the linguistic skills of creating a narrative with structure and themes which satisfy an audience, of recognising and using different types of talk in different contexts and of borrowing language appropriately from other contexts; the performance skills of performing a narrative that satisfies an audience, of use of voice and of interaction with an audience.
Recent developments in Laue lens manufacturing and their impact on imaging performance
Creators: name: Ferro, Lisa
name: Virgilli, Enrico
name: Auricchio, Natalia
name: Ferrari, Claudio
name: Caroli, Ezio
name: Lolli, Riccardo
name: Moita, Miguel F.
name: Rosati, Piero
name: Frontera, Filippo
name: Pucci, Mauro
name: Stephen, John B.
name: Guidorzi, Cristiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on recent progress in the development of Laue lenses for applications in hard X/soft gamma-ray astronomy. Here we focus on the realization of a sector of such a lens made of 11 bent Germanium crystals and describe the technological challenges involved in their positioning and alignment with adhesive-based bonding techniques. The accurate alignment and the uniformity of the curvature of the crystals are critical for achieving optimal X-ray focusing capabilities. We have assessed how the errors of misalignment with respect to the main orientation angles of the crystals affect the point spread function (PSF) of the image diffracted by a single sector. We have corroborated these results with simulations carried out with our physical model of the lens, based on a Monte Carlo ray-tracing technique, adopting the geometrical configuration of the Laue sector, the observed assembly accuracy and the measured curvatures of the crystals. An extrapolation of the performances achieved on a single sector to an entire Laue lens based on this model has shown that a PSF with half-power-diameter of 4.8 arcmin can be achieved with current technology. This has the potential to lead to a significant improvement in sensitivity of spectroscopic and polarimetric observations in the 50-600 keV band
Valuating intangible benefits from afforested areas: A case study in India
Valoración de los beneficios intangibles de áreas forestadas: un caso de estudio en India
Creators: name: Jaina, Avinash
name: Chandrab, Girish
name: Nautiyalb, Raman
name: Jaina, Avinash
name: Chandrab, Girish
name: Nautiyalb, Raman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Contingent valuation
subject: India
subject: Intangible benefits
subject: Logit model
subject: WTP

description: Environmental compensation measures usually accompany energy projects. Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) for five intangible benefits derived from afforested areas of a compensatory afforesta-tion programme of National Thermal Power Corporation Dadri are estimated. Conventional Contingent Valuation shows the average WTP € 2.1 per respondent per month with more than 43 % of total WTP for ‘soil conservation and remediation’ and ‘improvement in underground water level’. Logit model method depicts the same order of magnitude but differs significantly at 5 % level for all the benefits. More in-formed decisions upon energy projects and afforestation programs shall help in conserving forests and their ecosystem services.
Prostate segmentation in ultrasound images using image warping and ellipsoid fitting
Creators: name: Badiei, Sara
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis outlines an algorithm for 2D and 3D semi-automatic segmentation of the prostate from B-mode trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS) images. In semi-automatic segmentation, a computer algorithm outlines the boundary of the prostate given a few initialization points. The algorithm is designed for prostate brachytherapy and has the potential to: i) replace pre-operative manual segmentation, ii) enable intra-operative segmentation, and iii) be integrated into a visualization tool for training residents. The segmentation algorithm makes use of image warping to make the 2D prostate boundary elliptical. A Star Kalman based edge detector is then guided along the elliptical shape to find the prostate boundary in the TRUS image. A second ellipse is then fit to the edge detected measurement points. Once all 2D slices are segmented in this manner an ellipsoid is fit to the 3D cloud of points. Finally a reverse warping algorithm gives us the segmented prostate volume. In-depth 2D and 3D clinical studies show promising results. In 2D, distance based metrics show a mean absolute difference of 0.67 ± 0.18mm between manual and semi-automatic segmentation and area based metrics show average sensitivity and accuracy over 97% and 93% respectively. In 3D, i) the difference between manual and semi-automatic segmentation is on the order of interobserver variability, ii) the repeatability of the segmentation algorithm is consistently better than the intra-observer variability, and iii) the sensitivity and accuracy are 97% and 85% respectively. The 3D algorithm requires only 5 initialization points and can segment a prostate volume in less than 10 seconds (approximately 40 times faster than manual segmentation). The novelties of this algorithm, in comparison to other works, are in the warping and ellipse/ ellipsoid fitting steps. These two combine to provide a simple solution that works well even with non-ideal images to produce accurate, real-time results.
Influence of molecular symmetry on strong-field ionization: Studies on ethylene, benzene, fluorobenzene, and chlorofluorobenzene
Creators: name: Kjeldsen, Thomas K.
name: Bisgaard, Christer Z.
name: Madsen, Lars Bojer
name: Stapelfeldt, Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the molecular strong-field approximation we consider the effects of molecular symmetry on the ionization of molecules by a strong, linearly polarized laser pulse. Electron angular distributions and total ionization yields are calculated as a function of the relative orientation between the molecule and the laser polarization. Our studies focus on ethylene (C$_2$H$_4$), benzene (C$_6$H$_6$), fluorobenzene (C$_6$H$_5$F), and ortho chlorofluorobenzene (1,2 C$_6$H$_4$ClF), the molecules representing four different point groups. The results are compared with experiments, when available, and with the molecular tunneling theory appropriately extended to non-linear polyatomic molecules. Our investigations show that the orientational dependence of ionization yields is primarily determined by the nodal surface structure of the molecular orbitals.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to Physical Review A
Los mundos de producción de las denominaciones de origen protegidas del vino en España: disparidad de convenciones tecnológicas y comerciales
The Spanish wine protected designations of origin in the worlds of production: disparity of technological and commercial conventions
Creators: name: Esteban Rodríguez, Samuel
name: Climent López, Eugenio
name: Esteban Rodríguez, Samuel
name: Climent López, Eugenio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Denominación de origen protegida
subject: España
subject: mundo de producción
subject: vino
subject: Protected designation of origin
subject: Spain
subject: world of production
subject: wine

description: [ES]Se presenta una visión de conjunto de las denominaciones de origen protegidas del vino es-pañolas, a partir del marco teórico de los mundos de producción. Se utiliza una metodología cuantitativa, sobre la base de la construcción y contraste de indicadores de tecnología, mercado y formas de competen-cia. Los resultados se resumen en una clasificación de las denominaciones de origen protegidas del vino españolas por mundos de producción, la identificación de los desplazamientos recientes de unos mundos a otros y una caracterización de las comunidades autónomas españolas según sus denominaciones. [EN]An overview of Spanish wine protected designations of origin is provided, based on the theoretical framework of the worlds of production. A quantitative methodology is used, based on the construction and checking of technology, market and competition indicators. As a result, a classification of Spanish wine protected designations of origin in the worlds of production is provided, recent displace-ments between worlds of production have been identified and a characterization of the Spanish autonomous communities has been made according to their designations.
title: Poland and its strategy to reach European renewable energy targets 2020
Creators: name: Kaczmarek, Marta
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Poland
subject: coal industry
subject: energy policy
subject: National Renewable Energy Action Plan
subject: EU 20-20-20 targets

description: As member of the European Union, Poland has committed to the reduction of CO2 emissions, the increase of energy efficiency and an increase of the share of energy generated from renewable sources by the year 2020, a difficult challenge for a member state traditionally relying on energy generation from out-dated coal-fired power plants. Poland must implement a comprehensive strategy to gradually diversify and modernize the energy sector, while meeting the growing energy demand and maintaining stable supply. The thesis aims to identify the challenges and opportunities for the development of a future-proof energy sector, which further complies with the commitments agreed upon within the framework of the EU 20-20-20 goals. It will look at the characteristics of the current coal based network and assess the potential to diversify the national energy mix by inclusion of renewable energy alternatives.
Influence de trois nématodes phytoparasites sur le bananier Musa acuminata : synthèse et perspectives
Influence of three plant parasitic nematodes on banana Musa acuminata : research statement and future prospects
Creators: name: Mateille, Thierry
name: Cadet, Patrice
name: Mateille, Thierry
name: Cadet, Patrice
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Une étude de la pathologie du bananier Musa acuminata due aux nématodes Radopholus similis, Helicotylenchus multicinctus et Hoplolaimus pararobustus a été menée en Côte d'Ivoire. La pathologie a été étudiée sur les variétés Poyo (sous-groupe Cavendish) et Gros Michel (sous-groupe Gros Michel). Le développement des populations des nématodes et leur incidence sur la croissance des bananiers et sur deux fonctions du métabolisme (absorption minérale et organique, et photosynthèse) et certains aspects du métabolisme phénolique intervenant en réaction au parasitisme ont été étudiés. La relation hôteparasite est spécifique de chacune de ses deux composantes : la variété Gros Michel est moins sensible à R. similis que la variété Poyo, et le comportement variétal vis à vis d'H. multicinctus et H. pararobustus est identique entre les deux variétés. La sensibilité est liée à la compatibilité physiologique entre l'hôte et le parasite: après infestation par R. similis, la variété Gros Michel renforce son métabolisme phénolique, alors qu'aucune des deux variétés ne réagit, ou très brièvement, à H. multicinctus et H. pararobustus.
title: Strategic priorities under Swiss energy regulation : propositions from ownership structure and board of directors
Creators: name: Kontschieder, Verena
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Energy policy
subject: Organizational change
subject: Industry incumbents
subject: Public governance
subject: Public corporate governance

description: This thesis contributes to the understanding of public governance operationalization through public- and private corporate management reality. Their interface deserves special attention, as comprehending corporate strategic behavior helps to derive implications for energy transition - and enacting of climate policy in general - for the corporate world. As such, the underlying study derives propositions for the strategic response and proactivity of Swiss energy utilities under Switzerland's EnergyStrategy2050, the federation's energy regulatory greening and liberalization guidelines for energy transition. It locates its inquiry on the influence of corporate ownership and board of directors. Results confine themselves to thirty energy utilities that are active in the Swiss energy industry, covering over ninety per cent of the market in electricity sales. Most importantly, the service public nature of the Swiss energy industry impacts strategy deployment and formation. It was found that energy regulation triggers corporate strategies that are similar across the industry and meet regulation. Yet, magnitude of action for these strategic priorities differs across energy utilities - meaning, positive strategic deviance from regulatory norms is given. In line with the energy regulatory requirements, renewables-based energy generation, efficiency and ecology-enhancing investments, strengthening ties with the regulator, and perceiving energy transition as a business case are dominant strategic priorities. What is more, owner type and interest concentration may moderate positively strategic proactivity towards energy transition: Results across strategic priorities suggest that city-owned as majority-owned utilities, and diffused ownership with free float participation for minority-owned utilities are moderating positively the formation of strategic priorities pro energy transition. Finally, exploratory analyses indicate a tendency for boards composed of community influentials and left-wing politicians to moderate positively the formation of strategic priorities pro energy transition - albeit depending on owner type. Based on these findings the author implies that even though complete market liberalization and renewables-based energy efficiency measures overwhelm the Swiss energy industry, work to regulatory requirements prevails.
title: The changes in the photovoltaic industry : economic analysis
Creators: name: Leitner, Paul
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Photovoltaic
subject: Solar PV bubble
subject: Utilization-rate
subject: Minimum Efficient Scale (MES)
subject: Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI)

description: The following Master Thesis is an economic analysis of the Photovoltaic production industry. In the past years this industry sector undergoes various changes and has anticipated a phenomenal growth before it was dragged inevitable into the financial crises with its huge impacts on the national budgets in the aftermath. Hence, a difficult market to survive for many companies. The analysis of the industry is based on several indicators like size, utilization-rate, the Minimum Efficient Scale, and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) and shall illustrate the market status and how it might develop in the long run.
The industry effects of monetary policy and their welfare implications
Creators: name: Arnold, Ivo J.M.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Monetary Policy, Monetary, Money, Policy
subject: E52, L16

description: Economic theory provides at least two explanations for differential regional effects of a common monetary policy. The traditional money view focuses on regional differences in industry mix. Alternatively, the more recent credit view emphasizes differences in financial structure. This paper aims to make two contributions. First, building on the work by Carlino and DeFina (1998), I estimate impulse responses of sector earnings to monetary policy shocks for regions of the United States. An analysis of variance shows that the sector effect dominates the regional effect, providing further evidence for the importance of the industry mix. Second, the paper addresses the welfare implications of industry effects of monetary policy. One would expect industries suffering disproportionately from the impact of monetarypolicy to compensate their employees and shareholders. The US evidence on compensating wage and return differentials is, however, mixed. JEL Codes: E52, L16
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 53, N. 214 (2000)
Performance of Dwarf and Tall Napiergrass selections at three cutting intervals during two years in northwestern Puerto Rico
Productivité de sélections de napier et de napier nain à trois périodes de coupe sur deux ans dans le nord ouest de Porto-Rico
Creators: name: Torres-Cardona, S.
name: Sotomayor-Rios, A.
name: Quiles-Belén, A.
name: Torres-Cardona, S.
name: Sotomayor-Rios, A.
name: Quiles-Belén, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: dwarf selections
subject: cutting intervals
subject: Pennisetum purpureum

description: Dwarf Napiergrass (Pennisetum purpureum) selections N75, Nl 14, Nl27, Nl28, and tall cultivars, Merker (M) and Merkeron (N43) were evaluated on an Oxisol during a 2-year period at 45-, 65-, and 85- day cutting intervals (Cl) at Isabela, Puerto Rico. Dry forage yield (DFY) and crude protein yield (CPY) was superior in N43 than in the other grasses. Among the dwarf selections, Nl28 had the highest DFY, while N75 and Nl27 had the highest crude protein content (CPC). The 65-day CI appeared to be the most appropriate time to harvest the grasses. At this stage, M and N43 DFY and CPC were 7 t/ha and 9%, respectively. The dwarf selections could be potential candidates for use under grazing management due to their high leaf stem ratio as compared to the tall cultivars although their DFY was significantly lower than the tall cultivars.
title: Die vier Lehndorff-Töchter. Verlorene Kindheit und neue Welten
Creators: name: Lachauer, Ulla
name: Kern, Agata
Publisher: name: Herder-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: „Ich habe meine Heimat verloren“, sagte Vera von Lehndorff einmal, „aber verlorene Kindheit trifft es besser.“ Als ihr Vater am 4. September 1944 hingerichtet wurde, war sie fünf Jahre. Ihre Schwester Eleonore, „Nona“, sechseinhalb, Gabriele zwei. Catharina erst 19 Tage alt, sie wurde im Gefängniskrankenhaus Torgau geboren. Die Nazis hatten die Mädchen und ihre Mutter Gottliebe in „Sippenhaft“ genommen. Eine traumatische Zeit, und sie war nach 1945 nicht vorbei.
The performance of selected high yielding passion fruit lines in Dominica
Productivité de quelques cultivars sélectionnés de fruit de la passion à la Dominique
Creators: name: Bridgemohan, Puran
name: Bridgemohan, Puran
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Self-incompatibility in yellow passion fruit (Passijlora edulisf flavicarpa) hinders the selection of a single high yielding variety (HYV). Selection and evaluation efforts, initiated in 1989; for 3 years in Dominica by MOA-IICA-CARDI (M-1-C) on 28 farms have identified 9 lines which show consistent desirable characteristics in terms of fruit size, yield, juice content and quality, number of seeds, and freedom from pest and disease. This paper presents a model used in the selection and evaluation of the HYV fruits, and the maintenance of a germplasm bank using selections propagated vegetatively and by F 1 seedlings. Physiological and phenological characteristics, yield and yield components of selected lines are highlighted. A program to produce, distribute and monitor a composite (M-1-C selection) with high yield seed and juice quality to farmers is also discussed.
Private savings and financial modernization in Mexico, 1988-95
Creators: name: Lopez G., Julio
name: Sànchez V., Armando
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Modernization, Saving
subject: O16, E21, E44, O11

description: The evolution of private savings has attracted a lot of attention in the controversy about the origins of Mexico's 1995 crisis. In this paper the authors analyze the evolution of private savings in Mexico using the theory of effective demand as a framework and making use of econometric estimates. In this context, they analyze the impact of the financial reforms, and in particular the effect of liberalization and deregulation of the financial system on private savings in Mexico from 1980 to 1995. The authors formulate an explanation of the determinants of private savingsand the impact of the strategy of "financial modernization" on private savings, by specifying a model that allows to identify the influence of monetary and credit policies on savings. Then they carry out econometric estimates that lend empirical support to the main conclusions of the theoretical analysis. Their econometric work confirm notably that private savings has been low due to a series of changes in monetary policy that favored the contraction of private demand and led to greater foreign indebtedness. JEL Codes: O16, E21, E44, O11
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 53, N. 214 (2000)
General Property of Neutrino Mass Matrix and CP Violation
Creators: name: Aizawa, Ichiro
name: Yasue, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is found that the atmospheric neutrino mixing angle of θ_{atm} is determined to be \tanθ_{atm}=Im(B)/Im(C) for B=M_{ν_eν_μ} and C=M_{ν_eν_τ}, where M_{ij} is the ij element of M^\dagger_νM_νwith M_νas a complex symmetric neutrino mass matrix in the (ν_e, ν_μ, ν_τ)-basis. Another mixing angle, θ_{13}, defined as U_{e3} = \sinθ_{13}e^{-iδ} is subject to the condition: \tan 2θ_{13} \propto |\sinθ_{atm}B+\cosθ_{atm}C| and the CP-violating Dirac phase of δis identical to the phase of \sinθ_{atm}B^\ast+\cosθ_{atm}C^\ast. The smallest value of |\sin θ_{13}| is achieved at \tanθ_{atm}=-Re(C)/Re(B) that yields the maximal CP-violation and that implies C=-κB^\ast for the maximal atmospheric neutrino mixing of \tanθ_{atm}=κ=\pm 1. The generic smallness of |\sin θ_{13}| can be ascribed to the tiny violation of the electron number conservation.
description: 7 pages, RevTex, references updated, typos corrected, version to appear in Physics Letters B
The neoclassical theory of growth and distribution
Creators: name: Solow, Robert M.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Distribution, Growth, Income Distribution, Income
subject: O41, E25

description: The paper surveys the neoclassical theory of growth. As a preliminary, the meaning of the adjective "neoclassical" is discussed. The basic model is then sketched, and the conditions ensuring a stationary state are illustrated. The issue of the convergence to a stationary state (and that of the speed of convergence) is further considered. A discussion of "primary factors" opens the way to the "new" theory of growth, with endogenous technical progress. A number of extensions of the basic model are then recalled: two-sector and multi-sectoral models, overlapping generations models, the role of money in growth models. JEL Codes: O41, E25
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 53, N. 215 (2000)
Axial and tensor charge of the nucleon with dynamical fermions
Creators: name: Khan, A. Ali
name: Göckeler, M.
name: Hägler, P.
name: Hemmert, T. R.
name: Horsley, R.
name: Irving, A. C.
name: Pleiter, D.
name: Rakow, P. E. L.
name: Schäfer, A.
name: Schierholz, G.
name: Stüben, H.
name: Zanotti, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present preliminary results for the axial and tensor charge of the nucleon obtained from simulations with N_f=2 clover fermions. A comparison with chiral perturbation theory is attempted.
description: Talk presented at Lattice2004(weak), Fermilab, June 21-26, 2004, 3 pages, 3 figures, v2: one reference added, v3: acknowledgement extended
Forschungsdatenmanagement: Nutzerinnen und Nutzer. Commons & Qualifications. FDM-Beratung in Niedersachsen.
Creators: name: Strauch, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: FDM
Forschungsdatenmanagement
Forschungsdaten
eScience
Commons & Qualifications
FDM in Niedersachsen
FDMNiedersachsen

description:
 1. "Niedersachsenweite Beratung" zum FDM (für Einrichtungen, Bibliotheken ... )
 -> durch die UB Hildesheim
 -> “Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe”, d.h. Verweis auf andere Einrichtungen und Ansprechpartnerinnen und
 Ansprechpartner
First-principles characterization of ferromagnetic Mn5Ge3 for spintronic applications
Creators: name: Picozzi, S.
name: Continenza, A.
name: Freeman, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the active search for potentially promising candidates for spintronic applications, we focus on the intermetallic ferromagnetic Mn5Ge3 compound and perform accurate first-principles FLAPW calculations within density functional theory. Through a careful investigation of the bulk electronic and magnetic structure, our results for the total magnetization, atomic magnetic moments, metallic conducting character and hyperfine fields are found to be in good agreement with experiments, and are elucidated in terms of a hybridization mechanism and exchange interaction. In order to assess the potential of this compound for spin-injection purposes, we calculate Fermi velocities and degree of spin-polarization; our results predict a rather high spin-injection efficiency in the diffusive regime along the hexagonal c-axis. Magneto-optical properties, such as L_2,3 X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, are also reported and await comparison with experimental data.
description: 10 pages with 6 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Prototyping and cells modeling of the infrastructure interdependencies simulator I2Sim
Creators: name: Liu, Lu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The functioning of modern societies is strongly dependent upon an array of complex national infrastructure networks such as power utilities, information technology, health care, water supply and transportation; these networks provide material support for the delivery of basic services to all segments of the society. However, these critical infrastructures are becoming increasingly complex and fragile because of their tightly coupled structures which can rapidly propagate failures. Thus, there is a need to investigate the highly complex physical, information, geographic, and logic interdependencies among critical infrastructures. One needs to fully understand the dynamic behaviors of these interdependent networks in order to analyze and evaluate their robustness and resilience to natural disasters. This also helps operators to take actions in order to optimize the coordination among infrastructures during emergencies. Models based on a novel approach have been implemented. In this thesis, a reduced scale test case model of the University of British Columbia's critical infrastructures has been developed and implemented in software. Critical entities are defined as cells. The cell models are built based on input-output relationships discussed with and validated by the personnel involved with the concerned infrastructures; the interconnections between the cells are modeled as a variety of channels that defines quantities exchanged by different infrastructures, like electric power. The aggregated cells and channels are simulated with an interactive graphical user interface for the study of infrastructure interactions. The simulation indicates that the redundant systems increase the robustness of the cells such as the backup generators in the Hospital; the critical connections, such as the steam pipe linking the Steam Station with the Hospital are identified. These give the decision makers a better understanding of the emergent system behavior under different operational scenarios. One scenario is studied by using a distributor, which allows an operator to find the optimum allocation of the limited resource in order to ensure the best possible operation of the other critical infrastructures during the event. The simulation itself was parallelized, and distributed in PC-cluster at the UBC Power Systems Lab.
title: The four Lehndorff daughters. A lost childhood and new worlds
Creators: name: Lachauer, Ulla
name: Kern, Agata
Publisher: name: Herder-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: "I lost my home," Vera von Lehndorff once said, "but lost childhood is a better description." When her father was executed on September 4, 1944, she was five years old. Her sister Eleonore, "Nona," was six and a half, and Gabriele was two. Catharina was only 19 days old; she was born in the Torgau prison hospital. The Nazis had taken the girls and their mother Gottliebe into custody, a practice known in German as "Sippenhaft” or “kin liability". It was a traumatic time and was by no means over when the war ended in 1945.
Critique of the neoclassical theory of growth and distribution
Creators: name: Pasinetti, Luigi L.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Distribution, Economic Growth, Growth, Income Distribution, Income, Neo Classical, Neoclassical
subject: O41, E25, O33, B22

description: The paper surveys the main theories of income distribution in their relationship with the theories of economic growth. First, the Classical approach is considered, focusing on the Ricardian theory. Then the neoclassical theory is discussed, highlighting its origins (Bohm-Bawerk, Wicksell, Clark) and the role of the aggregate production function. The emergence of a "Keynesian" theory of income distribution in the wake of Harrod's model of growth is then recalled together with the surprising resurgence of the neoclassical theory (following the contributions of Solow and Meade). But, as the paper shows, the neoclassical theory of income distribution lacks logical consistency and has shaky foundations, as has been revealed by the severe critiques moved to the neoclassical production function. Mainstream economic literature circumvents this problem by simply ignoring it, while the models of endogenous growth exclude the issue of distribution theory from their consideration. However, while mainstream economics bypasses the problems of income distribution, this is too relevant an issue to be ignored and a number of new research lines, briefly surveyed, try new approaches to it. JEL Codes: O41, E25, O33, B22
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 53, N. 215 (2000)
Effect of land use on the quantity of organic matter in different soils from the Lesser Antilles
Effet des pratiques culturales sur la qualité et la quantité de matière organique des sols cultivés des Petites Antilles
Creators: name: Chotte, J.L.
name: Albrecht, A.
name: Brossard, M.
name: Feller, C.
name: Chotte, J.L.
name: Albrecht, A.
name: Brossard, M.
name: Feller, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Land uses
subject: Lesser Antilles
subject: Soil organic matter
subject: Size fractions
subject: Fractions granulometriques
subject: Matiere organique
subject: Mode d'occupation du sol
subject: Petites Antilles

description: The effect of different types of land use (banana or food crops vs pastured fallow or artificial meadow) on the quantity and the quality of soil carbon content was investigated on three types of soil of the Lesser Antilles (Andept, Ultisol, Vertisol). Organic carbon content of various particle size fractions of the 0- 10 cm layer of the Vertisol was determined by a physical soil fractionation method. Soil organic matter content depended upon land uses and soil types. For the Andept, banana crops led to a soil carbon status (0-40 cm) that was higher than that of pastured fallow (13.3 and 12.6 kg C.m2 respectively). In contrast, for the Ultisol and the Vertisol, organic matter content was lower under food crops than under pastured fallows or pastures, with a more pronounced variation for the vertisol. For this soil, the decrease of organic carbon content in the 0-10 cm layer was mainly due to a decrease in the 0-5 μm and >50 μm fractions identified as microbial metabolites and root exudates, and plant residues respectively. ----- L'effet compare des cultures bananieres ou marai'cheres et des jacheres paturees ou des prairies sur le stock de matiere organique est etudie pour trois types de sols (andosol, sol ferrallitique, vertisol) des Petites Antilles. La caracterisation par fractionnement granulometrique de la matiere organique de I'horizon 0-10 cm du vertisol est utilisee pour preciser la nature des variations du stock. Le stock de matiere organique depend du systeme de culture et du type de sol. Pour I'andosol, le statut organique est plus eleve sous bananes que sous jachere paturee. Au contraire, pour le sol ferrallitique et le vertisol, le stock de matiere organique de ces sols est plus faible sous cultures maraicheres que sous jachere paturee et prairie. L' effet depressif des cultures maraicheres sur le statut organique est le plus important sur le vertisol. Dans ce sol, la diminution du stock organique de I'horizon 0-10 cm est principalement due a la diminution des composes organiques d'origine microbienne, des exudats racinaires et des debris vegetaux.
Is the natural rate of growth exogenous?
Creators: name: Leon-Ledesma, Miguel
name: Thirlwall, Anthony P.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Growth, Productivity
subject: O41, O47

description: In mainstream growth theory, including endogenous growth theory, the natural rate of growth as defined by Harrod, is still treated as exogenous. In practice, however, both the growth of the labour force and the growth of labour productivity are endogenous to demand. This has theoretical implications for the adjustment process between the actual, warranted and natural growth rates. It also has serious implications for the way in which the growth process is viewed: whether from the supply side or demand side. It is shown for a sample of 15 OECD countries 1961-1995 that the natural rate of growth has been very responsive to the actual growth rate, and it is argued that for most countries demand constraints operate long before supply capacity is reached. JEL Codes: O41, O47
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 53, N. 215 (2000)
title: Transformation of Ukrainian energy system towards a sustainable future
Creators: name: Temniuk, Tetiana
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Thermal power plants
subject: energy efficiency
subject: post-soviet energy system
subject: Ukraine

description: Ukraine has inherited a powerful and well-developed energy system from the USSR. However, it became dramatically inefficient. The lifetime of the majority of power plants has run out or will run out in the next several years. There is huge inefficiency in energy consumption among the population, which together with old heating systems cause enormous energy losses. The problem of corruption and unclear price and legal regulation in the energy field makes the process of investment attractions very complicated. That is why a full change in the energy system is absolutely vital for Ukraine. It is clear that the problem cannot be solved in one or even five years. The whole transformation process will take several decades, but the first steps have to be done today. One of the most important ones is to reduce energy inefficiency and improve the legislation in the energy field. The other, more significant measures have to be taken in the near future. The goals, which have to be achieved by these measures, are divided according to a short run and a long run perspective. By doing at least those actions, proposed in this thesis, Ukrainian energy system can be transformed from an old inefficient post-soviet condition to a sustainable and reliable system.
Market concentration and technological innovation in a dynamic model of growth and distribution
Creators: name: Tadeu Lima, Gilberto
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Concentration, Distribution, Firm, Firms, Growth, Innovation, Market Structure, Technological Innovation
subject: O41, E25, O32, L10

description: This paper develops a post Keynesian macromodel of growth and distribution in which endogenous technological innovation plays a pivotal role. The innovationrate is made quadratic in market concentration, to capture a plausible neo-Schumpeterian non-linear influence of market structure on firms' propensity to innovate. Concentration is endogenous, though, since under neo-Schumpeterian competition the relation between market structure and technical change cuts both ways. Investment will then be non-linear in concentration, and the effect of changes in concentration on capacity utilisation, growth and distribution will depend on the level of concentration. Demand also plays a role, with capacity utilisation and growth rising with the wage share. The dynamic stability properties of the system will depend on the direction and relative strength of the technological innovation effects with respect to the demand ones, and on the relative bargaining power of workers and capitalists. JEL Codes: O41, E25, O32, L10
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 53, N. 215 (2000)
title: Parametric quantile regression based on the generalised gamma distribution
Creators: name: Noufaily, Angela
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2011

description: Quantile regression offers an extension to regression analysis where a modified version of the least squares method allows the fitting of quantiles at every percentile of the data rather than the mean only. Using the well-known three-parameter generalised gamma distribution to model variation in data, we present a parametric quantile regression study for positive univariate reference charts. The study constitutes an overall package that includes all different stages of parametric modeling starting from model identification to parameter estimation, model selection and finally model checking. We improve on earlier work by being the first to formulate the iterative approach to solution of the likelihood score equations of the generalised gamma distribution in such a way that the individual equations involved are uniquely solvable and far from being problematic as a number of authors have suggested. We conduct likelihood ratio tests to choose the best model within the three-, four-, five- and six-parameter generalised gamma family obtained by making the parameters linearly (or loglinearly) dependent on a univariate covariate. Quantiles are plotted accordingly and asymptotic theory for obtaining the expressions for confidence bands around them is given. Based on the chi-square goodness-of-fit test, we suggest a test statistic that checks the goodness of the generalised gamma model for given data. We validate the whole theoretical process computationally via simulations. Lastly, we demonstrate the different steps of the proposed modeling procedure through two main applications; one is environment-related and the other health-related. In a parallel fashion, inspired by the generalised gamma distribution, we introduce an alternative three-parameter distribution with useful statistical properties. We explore briefly maximum likelihood estimation and asymptotic theory of the alternative distribution and we compare it computationally to the generalised gamma.