cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Influence of Bottled Water Packaging Attributes on Consumers’ Purchase Decision: Case study in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Mamo, Yalew
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to identify the influence of bottled water packaging attributes on consumers’ purchase decision. The research focused in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). The study used color, graphic design, size, printed information and shape of packaging as independent variables and consumers’ purchase decision as a dependent variable. This empirical research was conducted using survey through a set of questionnaire with 5-point likert scale and open-ended items. The questionnaire was distributed to 200 respondents and the responses from 96.5% of the respondents were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics such as mean, correlation and multiple regression. The findings of the study show that color, graphic design, size and shape of packaging significantly influence consumers’ purchase decision for bottled water. Printed information on the package has no significant influence on consumers’ purchase decision. Therefore, manufacturers of bottled drink water should give attention to packaging attributes and be innovative to win consumers’ attention. Using attractive and easily understandable printed information may increase its influence on purchase decision.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Comparative Study on Current Trading System and Online Trading: The Case of Ethiopia Commodity Exchange
Creators: name: G/Michael, Samson
name: Lemma, Mesfin
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange [ECX] is an organized market place that brings buyers and sellers to trade standardized contracts using its floor based trading system. The fundamental factors to establish successful commodity exchange includes having an efficient and robust trading platform. The focus of this research is to analyze the economic significance and limitations of the current trading system and assess the prospects and challenges of online trading and factors affecting its feasibility of implementation in ECX. The study used a mix of quantitative and qualitative research method to collect and analyze data relevant for the study. Questionnaire and in-depth interview were used to gather relevant data for the study. The study collected data from 375 members and clients out of which 279 are found to be good for analysis. In-depth interview was conducted with experts. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The study found that there is significant capacity problem with major skills gap with traders. The current system has its own significance in balancing the power of negotiation of traders by disseminating reliable data, and limitations in lack of market integrity, poor price discovery mechanisms and limitations in session and ticket writing times. It also found that there is good perception towards online trading system. Moreover, the exchange expects transparency, greater market oversight, market integrity and more commodities by deploying online trading system and challenges mainly infrastructural problems, and capacity of traders. Based on the findings, the paper recommends deploying an integrated surveillance system, reasonable allocation of session time, awareness on rules, in-depth training of staff and traders and building a redundant system were recommended for both trading systems accordingly.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2014): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Assessment of Factors Affecting the Performance of Microfinance Institutions: The Case of Hawassa City
Creators: name: Alemayehu, Muluken
name: Lemma, Mesfin
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: The role of MFIs in the development process is noteworthy. The major objective of this study is to assess the factors which affect the performance of microfinance institutions in Hawassa city. The research is descriptive in type and both probability and non probability sampling techniques were employed for this study. Employees and clients of MFIs were the major target groups of the study. From the total of 116 targeted employees, 74 employees were included in the sample. On the other hand, from the total of 8590 targeted clients, 199 were taken as a sample. Primary and secondary data were collected through well organized questionnaire for this study. In addition to this, the researchers conducted interview with managers of the institutions. Accordingly the researchers assessed different factors which affect the performance of microfinance institutions. The identified factors related to clients includes: problems related to the repayment, diversion of loan into non income generating activities, business condition of the borrowers and so on. On the other hand, institutional factors such as shortage of human resource, lack of cost effective technologies, shortage of loan capital and some others are identified. Political factors which are related to MFIs performance are also recognized in this study. Based on the analysis and the finding of the study, the researchers suggested some recommendations to improve the performance MFIs in Hawassa city. Implementation of different methods to improve women's participation in micro credit and saving services, usage of cost effective technologies to minimize operational cost, hiring an adequate number of employees in the institution are some of the recommendations suggested by the researchers to improve the performance of the institutions.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Prevalence of Internal Marketing as Strategy Implementation Tool in Selected Ethiopian Commercial Banks
Creators: name: Tafese, Tewahido
name: Lemma, Mesfin
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: Strategy implementation requires, among others, internal marketing so as to treat employees as a customer and the job as a product using marketing like approach. The objective of the study is examining adoption and implementation of internal marketing practices as a strategic tool to implement the formulated strategy and to see the impact of internal marketing on enhancing employee attitude, organizational commitment and customer orientation in four last entrants of the Ethiopian banking industry. A quantitative, descriptive and correlational research approach is used to find out the appropriate answers of the research questions. Considering the mean score of the measurement variables, employees of the banks perceived that though the banks have a very good internal communication, they are very weak in internal information generation and the responsiveness to internal market which resulted in weak internal marketing practice. The banks found to have low commitment, engagement and low attitude to their organization. The customer orientation of the banks is also found to be weak. This shows that internal marketing has not been communicated and established amongst employees in the way that enable employees to have commitment and positive attitude to their organization to develop customer orientation as well. Based on the regression analysis, the major findings of this study is that internal marketing practice have a positive impact on enhancing employee attitude, organizational commitment and customer orientation of the banking sector. The researchers suggested that managers need to focus on internal marketing programs to achieve and sustain a strategic objective in the market. Managers should also involve the empowerment practice to increase motivation, consider that the human power is the greatest resource, and concentrate on trying to instill a customer orientation amongst their employees.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Creators: name: Mamo, Dejene
name: Bayissa, Lemessa
name: G/Medihin, Dawit
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: Voluntary compliance with tax laws of taxpayers is believed to be shaped by two major streams of factors: economic and social-psychological. Many countries of the world including Ethiopia try to emphasize the economic deterrence approach in which the belief is that taxpayers pay taxes only because they fear audit and the subsequent sanctions. The social-psychology approach to taxation, on the other hand, takes the position that taxpayers’ (non)compliance decision is influenced by justice perception, how they value government expenditure, how they feel they are treated by the revenue authority, and so on. In this study we concisely went over the historical evolution of taxation in Ethiopia, assessed the culture of voluntary compliance, looked at how taxpayers perceive service delivery by the revenue authority, and evaluated the fairness perception of the Ethiopian tax system. Data for the study were gathered primarily through questionnaire distributed to 200 (162 usable ones returned) taxpayers and unstructured interview with selected officials from the revenue authority. Secondary sources such as journal articles, reports of the World Bank, IMF, and MoFED were also consulted. We used descriptive data analysis method. Both economic and social-psychological factors are found to influence taxpayers’ (non)compliance decision in so far as those respondents’ responses indicate.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2014): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
title: Солнечная планетарная система: теория рождения и развития
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Донской государственный технический университет
Year: 2018

description: Представлены некоторые аспекты галактик, их систем и в этой совокупности рассмотрены основы мироздания в рамках одной планетарной системы. Уделено внимание происхождению спутников, особенно Луне. Предложена новая теория о рождении и развитии Солнечной планетарной системы, которая, по нашему мнению, в полной мере соответствует природной или вселенческой последовательности: формирование – рождение – развитие – отмирание или превращение в иное вещество существующей материи. Приведены некоторые аспекты происхождения катастроф и их влияния на окружающую природную среду. Может быть интересна специалистам в области космологии, природопользования, экологии и ученым, связанным с исследованием космоса, а также широкому кругу читателей, интересующихся образованием и развитием Солнечной системы.
Data Driven Search in the Displaced $b\bar{b}$ Pair Channel for a Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Neutral Particles
Creators: name: Halyo, Valerie
name: Lou, Hou Keong
name: Lujan, Paul
name: Zhu, Wenhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article presents a proposal for a new search channel for the Higgs boson decaying to two long-lived neutral particles, each of which decays to $b\bar b$ at a displaced vertex. The decay length considered is such that the decay takes place within the LHC beampipe. We present a new data-driven analysis using jet substructure and properties of the tracks from the highly-displaced vertices. We consider a model with a 125 GeV Higgs boson with a significant branching fraction to decay via this mode, with the long-lived neutral particle having a mass in the range of 15--40 GeV and a decay length commensurate with the beam pipe radius. Such a signal can be readily observed with an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb$^{-1}$ at 8TeV at the LHC.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, Submitted to JHEP
Prosodic restructuring in Somali nominal constructions
Creators: name: Downing, Laura J.
name: Nilsson, Morgan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This paper investigates variability in the realization of High tones in some nominal constructions of Somali. Previous work on Somali tone suggests that most determiners and all nominal modifiers should realize a High tone when they combine with the noun they modify. However, our study finds that there is considerable variability in the realization of High tones on nominal determiners and modifiers, with the High tone often not realized. This phenomenon of variability in tone realization is quite reminiscent of Swedish, which shares with Somali the property that tone realization is culminative within some prosodic domain. Recent work on Swedish has argued that variable non-realization of High tone is best analyzed as prosodic restructuring: reducing the number of culminative tonal domains in a construction necessarily leads to a reduction in the number of surface High tones. We argue that prosodic domain restructuring also provides the most plausible analysis of High tone reduction in Somali nominals.
Rattus palmarum
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus palmarum

description: Rattus palmarum (Zelebor, 1869). Reise Oesterr. Fregatte Novara. Zool., (Wirbelthiere), Säugeth., p. 26. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Nicobar Isis, probably Carr Nicobar (Dr. K. Bauer, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, in litt.). DISTRIBUTION: Nicobar Isis, probably Carr Nicobar. SYNONYMS: novarae, palmarum. COMMENTS: Known only by the few specimens in the original series. A distinctive species (Musser and Heaney, 1985; Musser and Newcomb, 1983) that may be related to the R. tiomanicus complex (Musser, 1986). Both synonyms are Fitzinger names dating from 1861 and are nomina nuda (see Miller, 1902:759).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 657, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1983. Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 327 - 598.", "Miller, G. S., Jr. 1902. The mammals of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 24: 751 - 795."]}
The Impact of Human Capital on company performance Case of the footwear Sector in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Demsis, Abera
Publisher: name: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Year: 2023

description: Human capital is getting wider attention with increasing globalization and also the saturation of the job market due to the recent downturn in the various economies of the world. Developed and developing countries put emphases on a more human capital development towards accelerating the economic growth by devoting necessary time and efforts. Thus human capital development is one of the fundamental solutions to enter the international arena. Specifically, firms must invest necessary resources in developing human capital which tend to have a great impact on performance. There is some emerging evidence that human capital investment leads to greatercompany performance particularly in small enterprises. This study adopts the human capital theory to address this gap in knowledge.A survey research design was adopted to testthis proposition using a sample of 143 small scale Footwear sector in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia. Estimation results using a regression model indicates that having human capitalinvestmentin company lead to the improvedCompany Performance. The findings of this study have important implications for theory, policy and practice. An important theoretical contribution of this study relates to its application of the human capital theory to examine the drivers of Company Performance by small firms in a developing economy. Another theoretical significance of this study relates to the ability of this study to link human capital theory and the concept of performance empirically.
description: Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2014): Journal of Business and Administrative Studies
Tone, orthographies, and phonological depth in African languages
Creators: name: Cahill, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Marking of tone in African orthographies has historically been a challenge, not
 only for linguistic and analytical reasons, but also because most designers of these
 orthographies have been educated in non-tonal languages. After a review of lexical
 vs. grammatical tone, this paper examines various strategies that have been used
 for marking both lexical and grammatical tone in several East and West African
 languages, as well as cases in which tone is not marked. The question of the desired
 phonological depth of an orthography is discussed, especially when applied
 to tonal processes. Many phonologists do not apply theory more recent than Chomsky
 and Halle & Chomsky (1968) to orthographies. However, the more recent bifurcation
 of rules into lexical and postlexical provides a psycholinguistically supported
 phonological level at which tone marking can be based: the output of the
 lexical level. Experimental evidence supports this lexical level as more readable
 than either a phonemic or a deep level. A tonal typology of languages also guides
 what types of languages more predictably would need lexical tone marking. Recommendations
 for orthographical implementation are given in the conclusion.
DP-internal structure and agreement in Nafara
Creators: name: Baron, Bertille
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Senufo Nafara DPs show the particularly rare unmarked word order [N AP Def
 Dem Numeral]. In this cartographic account, the proposed derivation uses spec-to-
 spec movement operations to generate this word order (Cinque 2005). This analysis
 relies on two main claims: there is a domain ƩP under Num (Aboh 2004) in which
 two distinct categories of adjectives (high and low following Cinque 1994) merge to
 modify the noun. It is this same ƩP domain that undergoes spec-to-spec movement,
 motivated for agreement purposes. Oppositely, all elements structurally above ƩP
 remain in situ.
Rattus pelurus Sody 1941
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus pelurus

description: Rattus pelurus Sody, 1941. Treubia, 18:308. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Kepulauan Banggai, Pulau Peleng (1°23'S, 123°14'E), east of Sulawesi. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Peleng Isl. COMMENTS: Originally described by Sody as a subspecies of R. foramineus, but provisionally treated as an insular population of R. xanthurus by Musser (1984), and finally reviewed as a distinctive species by Musser and Holden (1991), who also placed it in the R. xanthurus group.
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 657, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Musser, G. G. 1984. Identities of subfossil rats from caves in southwestern Sulawesi. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia, 8: 61 - 94.", "Musser, G. G., and M. E. Holden. 1991. Sulawesi rodents (Muridae: Murinae): Morphological and geographical boundaries of species in the Rattus hoffmanni group and a new species from Pulau Peleng. Pp. 322 - 413, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman (T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener, eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 1 - 432."]}
Analysis of a controlled phase gate using circular Rydberg states
Creators: name: Xia, T.
name: Zhang, X. L.
name: Saffman, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and analyze the implementation of a two qubit quantum gate using circular Rydberg states with maximum orbital angular momentum. The intrinsic quantum gate error is limited by the finite Rydberg lifetime and finite Rydberg blockade shift. Circular states have much longer radiative lifetimes than low orbital angular momentum states and are therefore candidates for high fidelity gate operations. We analyze the dipole-dipole interaction of two circular state Rydberg atoms and present numerical simulations of quantum process tomography to find the intrinsic fidelity of a Rydberg blockade controlled phase gate. Our analysis shows that the intrinsic gate error can be less than $9 \times10^{-6}$ for circular Cs atoms in a cryogenic environment.
description: 6 figures
A Review on Secured Money Transaction with Fingerprint Technique in ATM System
Creators: name: Mandal, Susmita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the present day, the requirement of securing electronic cash flow system are increasing significantly. Todays life is so busy that spending a valuable second cost so much. In, such situation if money flow is possible swiftly by just one swipe it would be a great relief. Biometric based authentication can be a new approach to satisfy user needs by replacing password-based authentication. Among all biometric techniques fingerprinting is the oldest and secured methodology practised till date. In the proposed system user can transact money by placing his/her thumb imprint on new proposed ATM card. This new system will smoothen the transaction with security.
description: 04 pages, 04 figures, IJCSN Journal, Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2013
title: Специальная оценка условий труда
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Донской государственный технический университет
Year: 2019

description: Приведены основные сведения о специальной оценке условий труда. Рассмотрены организационно-правовые основы, направления деятельности комиссий предприятий, порядок и особенности проведения специальной оценки условий труда на рабочих местах. Материал подготовлен с учетом требований Федерального закона № 426-ФЗ от 28.12.2013 г. «О специальной оценке условий труда» и других нормативно-правовых актов, регламентирующих различные аспекты проведения специальной оценки условий труда на рабочих местах. Предназначено для подготовки бакалавров направления 20.03.01 Техносферная безопасность и магистров направления 20.04.01 Техносферная безопасность очной и заочной форм обучения.
Two-way quantum cryptography at different wavelengths
Creators: name: Weedbrook, Christian
name: Ottaviani, Carlo
name: Pirandola, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the security of two-way quantum cryptography at different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, from the optical range down to the microwave range. In particular, we consider a two-way quantum communication protocol where Gaussian-modulated thermal states are subject to random Gaussian displacements and finally homodyned. We show how its security threshold (in reverse reconciliation) is extremely robust with respect to the preparation noise and able to outperform the security thresholds of one-way protocols at any wavelength. As a result, improved security distances are now accessible for implementing quantum key distribution at the very challenging regime of infrared frequencies.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Toward a better understanding of speech-language disorders in African countries: The case of speech sound disorders in Cameroon
Creators: name: Takam, Aurélie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Child speech and language disorders are not well known in many African countries. The aim of this study was to analyze speech sound disorders in Cameroon in order to encourage the rehabilitation of language disorders in general in the public health system. From a sample of 1127 children, 6\% of children presented with speech sound disorders including speech delays, articulation and phonological disorders. Boys were more affected than girls. Complex syllables and fricatives sounds were the most impaired while omission and substitution were the most frequent errors.
Geometric complexity of embeddings in ${\mathbb R}^d$
Creators: name: Freedman, Michael
name: Krushkal, Vyacheslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given a simplicial complex $K$, we consider several notions of geometric complexity of embeddings of $K$ in a Euclidean space ${\mathbb R}^d$: thickness, distortion, and refinement complexity (the minimal number of simplices needed for a PL embedding). We show that any $n$-complex with $N$ simplices which topologically embeds in ${\mathbb R}^{2n}$, $n>2$, can be PL embedded in ${\mathbb R}^{2n}$ with refinement complexity $O(e^{N^{4+ε}})$. Families of simplicial $n$-complexes $K$ are constructed such that any embedding of $K$ into ${\mathbb R}^{2n}$ has an exponential lower bound on thickness and refinement complexity as a function of the number of simplices of $K$. This contrasts embeddings in the stable range, $K\subset {\mathbb R}^{2n+k}$, $k>0$, where all known bounds on geometric complexity functions are polynomial. In addition, we give a geometric argument for a bound on distortion of expander graphs in Euclidean spaces. Several related open problems are discussed, including questions about the growth rate of complexity functions of embeddings, and about the crossing number and the ropelength of classical links.
description: v2: an upper bound is established on refinement complexity for simplicial n-complexes in R^{2n}. Exponential lower bound is extended to a wider range of dimensions. The title is revised to reflect the changes in the paper
Rattus praetor
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus praetor

description: Rattus praetor (Thomas, 1888). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 2:158. TYPE LOCALITY: Solomon Isis, Guadalcanal Isl, Aola. DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea; on the mainland found from Vogelkop throughout both sides of Central Cordillera in Irian Jaya and lowlands of N New Guinea to about the Sepik-Ramu drainage. Also occurs on Admiralty and Solomon Isis and in the Bismarck Arch, on Umboi, New Britain, and New Ireland (Flannery and White, 1991; Taylor et al., 1982). SYNONYMS: bandiculus, coenorum, mediocris, purdiensis, sansapor, tramitius, utakwa. COMMENTS: In Tate's (1951) monograph, this species was listed as a subspecies of R. ruber; the holotype of ruber is an example of the introduced R. nitidus (Taylor et al., 1983, summarized the taxonomic history).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 658, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Flannery, T. F., and J. P. White. 1991. Animal translocation. Zoogeography of New Ireland mammals. National Geographic Research and Exploration, 7: 96 - 113.", "Taylor, J. M., J. H. Calaby, and H. M. Van Deusen. 1982. A revision of the genus Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae) in the New Guinean region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 173: 177 - 336.", "Tate, G. H. H. 1951. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 65. The rodents of Australia and New Guinea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 97: 183 - 430.", "Taylor, J. M., J. H. Calaby, and S. C. Smith. 1983. Native Rattus, land bridges, and the Australian region. Journal of Mammalogy, 64: 463 - 475."]}
MPEC 2023-L35 : 2015 KN122
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Стоимостно-ориентированное управление в корпорациях строительного комплекса
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Донской государственный технический университет
Year: 2018

description: Представлена сущность актуальной концепции управления в корпорациях. С учетом специфики деятельности организаций строительного комплекса рассмотрены подходы к управлению стоимостью бизнеса и современные методы оценки стоимости бизнеса с позиции управления. Приведены практические примеры оценки стоимости бизнеса и мероприятий, обеспечивающих рост стоимости предприятия (бизнеса). Предназначено для обучающихся по направлениям подготовки 38.03.01 Экономика, профиль «Экономика предприятий и организаций», 38.04.01 Экономика, профиль «Экономика предприятий и организаций», 38.04.02 Менеджмент, профиль «Производственный менеджмент в строительстве», 08.04.01 Строительство, профиль «Стоимостной инжиниринг», 38.05.01 Экономическая безопасность, профиль «Экономико-правовое обеспечение экономической безопасности».
Efik nominal tonal alternations as phrasal morphology
Creators: name: Glewwe, Eleanor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Certain Efik nominal constructions exhibit fixed tonal melodies that overwrite
 nouns’ underlying tones. Previous analyses of these alternations (Welmers 1973;
 Kim 1974; Cook 1985) are purely phonological. Working in a constraint-based
 framework, I propose that the tonal alternations are actually phrasal morphology
 (McPherson 2014). The tonal melodies are overlays encoded in lexicalized construc-
 tional schemas that relate idiosyncratic phrasal phonology with specific syntactic
 constructions. The constructional schemas are enforced by constraints. The Efik
 case extends the observed range of phrasal morphology by demonstrating that
 constructional schema constraints and phonological constraints can interact to de-
 termine a construction’s surface tones.
Number and animacy in the Teke noun class system
Creators: name: Hyman, Larry M.
name: Lionnet, Florian
name: Christophère Ngolele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In this paper, we trace the development of Proto-Bantu noun classes into Teke
 (Bantu B71, Ewo dialect), showing that formal reflexes of classes 1, 2, 5–9, and 14
 are detectable. We further show that animacy, abstractness, and number allow us
 to determine the fate of classes 3, 4, 10, 11 and identify the following singular/plural
 genders: 1/2 (animate <PB 1/2, some 9/10), 1/8 (inanimate, <PB 3/4), 14/8 (abstract,
 <PB 14/8), 5/6 (<PB 5/6), 5/9 (9 merger), 7/8 (<PB 7/8), and 9/6 (<PB 9/6). Such reassignments provide a window into probing parallel noun class changes in other Northwest Bantu and Niger-Congo in general.
Variable word-final vowel deletion and reduction in Gurmancema: A maximum entropy model
Creators: name: Baird, Maggie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Gurmancema (Gur, Burkina Faso) displays an overall dispreference for word-final tense vowels phrase-medially. On the surface, there is vowel reduction and vowel deletion, which vary both across and within phonological contexts. This work will provide an overview of the complex data patterns and describe a weighted constraint approach to the data patterns using a Maximum Entropy Harmonic Grammar. Weighted constraints are preferred to ranked constraints due to variability in the data and to account for cases of constraint ganging, including superadditivity.
The ultraluminous state revisited: fractional variability and spectral shape as diagnostics of super-Eddington accretion
Creators: name: Sutton, Andrew D.
name: Roberts, Timothy P.
name: Middleton, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although we are nearing a consensus that most ULXs are stellar-mass black holes in a super-Eddington state, little is yet established of the physics of this accretion mode. Here, we use a combined X-ray spectral and timing analysis of a sample of ULXs to investigate this new accretion regime. We suggest a spectral classification scheme that separates ULXs into three classes: a broadened disc class, and two-component hard and soft ultraluminous regimes. At the lowest luminosities the ULX population is dominated by sources with broadened disc spectra, whilst two component spectra are seen at higher luminosities, suggestive of a distinction between ~ Eddington and super-Eddington accretion modes. We find high levels of variability are limited to ULXs with soft ultraluminous spectra, and a few broadened disc sources. Furthermore, the variability is strongest at high energies, suggesting it originates in the harder spectral component. These properties are consistent with current models of super-Eddington emission, where a wind forms a funnel around the central regions of the accretion flow. As the wind provides the soft component this suggests that inclination is the key determinant in the observed X-ray spectra, which is very strongly supported by the variability results if this originates due to clumpy material at the edge of the wind intermittently obscuring our line-of-sight to the central regions of the ULX. The pattern of spectral variability with luminosity in two ULXs that straddle the hard/soft ultraluminous regime boundary is consistent with the wind increasing at higher accretion rates, and thus narrowing the opening angle of the funnel. Hence, this work suggests that most ULXs can be explained as stellar-mass black holes accreting at and above the Eddington limit, with their observed characteristics dominated by two variables: accretion rate and inclination. (abridged)
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 20 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
Syllable structure and loanword adaptation in Fròʔò
Creators: name: Yranahan Traoré
name: Féry, Caroline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This article examines the syllable structure in Fòʔò, a dialect of Tagbana spoken in Côte d'Ivoire. The underlying syllable structure is limited to C(C)V and V syllable, thus syllables with an onset and syllables consisting with a nucleus and nothing else. The onset can be complex, although it is limited to two positions which are restricted in their order by the sonority sequence principle. By contrast, the surface syllables are the result of phonological changes that take place in specific morphological environments. Vowel deletion happens regularly when two identical vowels are separated by a consonant in the context C1V1.C2V2. there is also a process of liquid deletion that simplifies underlying complex onsets. However, when the complex onset is the result of vowel deletion, liquid deletion does not apply: The two processes—syllable become more complex or syllable are simplified—are in a counterfeeding relation to each other. The last process that is described is fusion of two monosyllabic morphemes into a single syllable. If the second morpheme is wí with a glide in its onset, the fusion results in a CV syllable with a round vowel. Otherwise the emerging syllable is CVC where the first CV is the entire first morpheme and the second C is the consonant of the second morpheme. The results of the study of syllable structure is tested on loanwords, where syllables' repairs take place. For instance, codas are avoided by epenthesis and unallowed initial vowels trigger epenthesis of an onset segment [h]. It is also shown how the constraints on syllable structure repair loanwords in Fròʔò
title: Le Tsigane et l'oie (Roumania, Vădăstriţa)
Creators: name: Lebarbier, Micheline
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Roumanian

description: Un Tsigane mange une oie du boyard (et une patte) et s’esquive à chaque fois par une pirouette
Universal aspects of curved, flat & stationary-state Kardar-Parisi-Zhang statistics
Creators: name: Halpin-Healy, Timothy
name: Lin, Yuexia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Motivated by the recent exact solution of the {\it stationary-state} Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) statistics by Imamura & Sasamoto (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 108}, 190603 (2012)), as well as a precursor experimental signature unearthed by Takeuchi (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 110}, 210604 (2013)), we establish here the universality of these phenomena, examining scaling behaviors of directed polymers in a random medium, the stochastic heat equation with multiplicative noise, and kinetically roughened KPZ growth models. We emphasize the value of cross KPZ-Class universalities, revealing crossover effects of experimental relevance. Finally, we illustrate the great utility of KPZ scaling theory by an optimized numerical analysis of the Ulam problem of random permutations.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Theoretical evolution of Rossby number for solar analog stars
Creators: name: Castro, Matthieu
name: Duarte, Tharcísyo
name: Nascimento, José Dias do
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic fields of late-type stars are presumably generated by a dynamo mechanism at the interface layer between the radiative interior and the outer convective zone. The Rossby number, which is related to the dynamo process, shows an observational correlation with activity. It represents the ratio between the rotation period of the star and the local convective turnover time. The former is well determined from observations but the latter is estimated by an empirical iterated function depending on the color index (B-V) and the mixing-length parameter. We computed the theoretical Rossby number of stellar models with the TGEC code, and analyze its evolution with time during the main sequence. We estimated a function for the local convective turnover time corresponding to a mixing-length parameter inferred from a solar model, and compare our results to the estimated Rossby number of 33 solar analogs and twins, observed with the spectropolarimeters ESPaDOnS@CFHT and Narval@LBT.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, conference publication of "IAUS 302: Magnetic fields throughout stellar evolution"
MPEC 2023-G36 : 2023 FP14
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FP14

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Exact results for a toy model exhibiting dynamic criticality
Creators: name: Kaspar, David C.
name: Mungan, Muhittin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article we discuss an exactly solvable, one-dimensional, periodic toy charge density wave model introduced in [D.C. Kaspar, M. Mungan, EPL {\bf 103}, 46002 (2013)]. In particular, driving the system with a uniform force, we show that the depinning threshold configuration is an explicit function of the underlying disorder, as is the evolution from the negative threshold to the positive threshold, the latter admitting a description in terms of record sequences. This evolution is described by an avalanche algorithm, which identifies a sequence of static configurations that are stable at successively stronger forcing, and is useful both for analysis and simulation. We focus in particular on the behavior of the polarization $P$, which is related to the cumulative avalanche size, as a function of the threshold force minus the current force $(F_{\mathrm{th}} - F)$, as this has been the focus of several prior numerical and analytical studies of CDW systems. The results presented are rigorous, with exceptions explicitly indicated, and show that the depinning transition in this model is indeed a dynamic critical phenomenon.
Gender in Uduk
Creators: name: Killian, Don
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uduk
gender
assignment
Koman
adjacency
ditropic

description: Uduk, a Koman language spoken on the border of Ethiopia and Sudan, evinces a
 number of unusual characteristics in its system of gender marking. Uduk has two
 gender classes, with agreement displayed primarily in the verbal system and ad-
 jacent case-marking particles. In contrast to related Koman languages, however,
 semantics play a minimal role in class assignment, unrelated to biological sex. Fur-
 thermore, as biological sex does not play a role in gender assignment in general,
 personal pronouns do not differentiate gender in any person. Instead, all personal
 pronouns are assigned to Class 1 in the same manner that nouns would be. Lastly,
 Uduk shows some unorthodox aspects in the way it indexes gender on verbs, using
 what might be considered subtractive morphology.
 This article looks at the complexity and features of gender in Uduk from a typolog-
 ical perspective; despite some unorthodox and atypical typological features, how-
 ever, the system does not appear to be complex.
Cosmological Information in the Intrinsic Alignments of Luminous Red Galaxies
Creators: name: Chisari, Nora Elisa
name: Dvorkin, Cora
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intrinsic alignments of galaxies are usually regarded as a contaminant to weak gravitational lensing observables. The alignment of Luminous Red Galaxies, detected unambiguously in observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, can be reproduced by the linear tidal alignment model of Catelan, Kamionkowski & Blandford (2001) on large scales. In this work, we explore the cosmological information encoded in the intrinsic alignments of red galaxies. We make forecasts for the ability of current and future spectroscopic surveys to constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the cross-correlation function of intrinsic alignments and the galaxy density field. For the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, we find that the BAO signal in the intrinsic alignments is marginally significant with a signal-to-noise ratio of 1.8 and 2.2 with the current LOWZ and CMASS samples of galaxies, respectively, and increasing to 2.3 and 2.7 once the survey is completed. For the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and for a spectroscopic survey following the EUCLID redshift selection function, we find signal-to-noise ratios of 12 and 15, respectively. Local type primordial non-Gaussianity, parametrized by fNL = 10, is only marginally significant in the intrinsic alignments signal with signal-to-noise ratios < 2 for the three surveys considered.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures, version accepted to JCAP
Transient B-cell depletion and regulatory T-cells mediation in combination with adenovirus mediated IGF-1 prevents and reverses autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice
Creators: name: Ye, Shujun
name: Hua, Saimei
name: Zhou, Meiyang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is one of the T cells mediated autoimmune diseases, although B cells also play an important role in the development. Both T cell and B cell targeted immunotherapies exhibited efficacies in preventing and reversing the T1D. Current study was performed to investigate the protective effects of anti-CD20/CD3 bi-specific antibody (bsAb) in combination with adenovirus mediated mouse insulin-like growth factor 1 (Adv-mIGF-1) gene on T1D in non-obese diabetes (NOD) mice. To simultaneously restore the proportion of Th cells and block the interaction of B cells as well as mediate T cell populations, the NOD model mice were randomly assigned to four groups received the saline, anti-CD20/CD3 bsAb and Adv-mIGF-1 gene alone or combination, respectively. After 16-consecutive weeks intervention, the ELISA, RT-PCR, western blot and histopathological analysis were performed to assess the pancreatic tissues and serum samples to evaluate the treatment effects. Chronic treatment of combination therapy improved T1D morbidity by improving the compartment and function of the CD4+Foxp3+ Tregs, reversing the secretion of insulin, controlling the blood glucose levels (BGLs) and alleviating insulitis as well as cell apoptosis in the NOD model mice. Moreover, current combination therapy also accelerated the proliferation and differentiation of pancreatic β cells via suppressing the apoptosis-related factors, including caspase-3, caspase-8 and Fas, and activating the Bcl-2-related anti-apoptotic pathway. Furthermore, the cytokeratin-19 (CK-19) and pancreatic duodenal homoplasmic box-1 (PDX-1), as two important stem cell markers of pancreas were both significantly improved by treatment of combination therapy. On conclusions, chronic treatment of anti-CD20/CD3 bsAb in combination with Adv-mIGF-1 gene exerts synergistic protection on T1D in the NOD mice.
MPEC 2023-L36 : 2021 LC7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.