cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Two-Step Deep Learning Method for 3DCT-2DUS Kidney Registration During Breathing
Creators: name: Yanling, Chi
name: Yuyu, Xu
name: Huiying, Liu
name: Xiaoxiang, Wu
name: Zhiqiang, Liu
name: Jiawei, Mao
name: Guibin, Xu
name: Weimin, Huang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work proposed a novel deep registration pipeline for 3D CT and 2D U/S kidney scans of free breathing, which consists of a feature network, and a 3D-2D CNN-based registration network. The feature network has handcraft texture feature layers to reduce the semantic gap. The registration network is encoder-decoder structure with loss of feature-image-motion (FIM), which enables hierarchical regression at decoder layers and avoids multiple network concatenation. It was first pretrained with retrospective datasets cum training data generation strategy, then adapted to specific patient data under unsupervised one-cycle transfer learning in onsite application. The experiment was on 132 U/S sequences, 39 multiple phase CT and 210 public single phase CT images, and 25 pairs of CT and U/S sequences. It resulted in mean contour distance (MCD) of 0.94 mm between kidneys on CT and U/S images and MCD of 1.15 mm on CT and reference CT images. For datasets with small transformations, it resulted in MCD of 0.82 and 1.02 mm respectively. For large transformations, it resulted in MCD of 1.10 and 1.28 mm respectively. This work addressed difficulties in 3DCT-2DUS kidney registration during free breathing via novel network structures and training strategy.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, 10 tables
Supporting Preservice Economic Teachers in Developing High-quality Video Explanations
Creators: name: Ring, Malte
name: Brahm, Taiga
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instructional Media Design
subject: Teacher Education and Professional Development
subject: Education
subject: Secondary Education and Teaching

description: This preregistration describes the procedure for analyzing video explanations made by preservice economic teachers. The research aim is to identify differences between two video explanations that preservice teachers created in a university seminar, before and after a 3-week training. All the relevant information can be found in the supplemental file.
КРИМИНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ПРОГНОЗЫ ПРЕСТУПНОСТИ И ИХ ТИПЫ
Creators: name: Буранова, Разия
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В данной статье раскрыты понятия «криминологического прогнозирования», её объектов исследования,  а также проанализирована система классификации криминологических прогнозов преступности, то есть приведены виды прогнозов исходя из объектов, в зависимости от роли прогнозов, от масштабности, по назначению прогноза, по срокам предвидения, с учетом возможных вариантов развития событий, исходя из статуса субъекта предвидения; научные взгляды учёных о данной системе классификации, рассмотрено функциональное значение классификации прогнозов, приведены существующие недостатки в процессе прогнозирования, которые являются препятствием для эффективного составления прогнозов, а также изложены предложения и рекомендации по совершенствованию процесса прогнозирования путём решения вышеуказанных проблем.
Gravitational waves from pulsars in the context of magnetic ellipticity
Creators: name: de Araujo, José C. N.
name: Coelho, Jaziel G.
name: Costa, César A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In one of our previous articles we have considered the role of a time dependent magnetic ellipticity on pulsars' braking indices and on the putative gravitational waves these objects can emit. Since only nine of more than 2000 known pulsars have accurately measured braking indices, it is of interest to extend this study to all known pulsars, in particular to what concerns the gravitational waves generation. To do so, as shown in our previous article, we need to know some pulsars' observable quantities such as: periods and their time derivatives, and estimated distances to the Earth. Moreover, we also need to know the pulsars' masses and radii, for which, in here we are adopting current fiducial values. Our results show that the gravitational wave amplitude is at best $h \sim 10^{-28}$. This leads to a pessimistic prospect for the detection of gravitational waves generated by these pulsars, even for Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, and the planned Einstein Telescope, whether the ellipticity has magnetic origin.
description: 45 pages, 6 figures
The Influence of Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives' Competency & Personality on the Prescribing Decision of Doctors in Black Lion Hospital
Creators: name: Habtamu, Abraham
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: In recent years, different multinational pharmaceutical companies have been joining the Ethiopian pharmaceutical market. This makes the competition amongst the companies become fester. As a result pharmaceutical companies have devised different strategies to earn bigger market share and secure their profitability. Of the strategies, recruiting Medical Sales Representatives is the most common mechanism of addressing their product to doctors. Thus, the competency and personality of pharmaceutical sales representatives could have a paramount of importance in creating good image in the eyes of physicians. Hence, this study tries to examine the effect of Pharmaceuticals Sales Representatives' Competency and Personality on the prescribing decision of doctors in Black Lion Hospital. This study collected primary and secondary data from Physicians using five scale Likert type close ended questionnaire, and different literatures and institutions respectively. The questionnaire were distributed and collected from 132 Physicians that are serving in Black Lion Hospital. After the data collected, it is coded, edited and analyzed by SPSS version 23. The study applied explanatory and descriptive research method to explain and show the relationship between dependent and independent variables respectively. The findings show that Medical sales representatives lack knowledge about their product, incapable to present product features and benefits, lack knowledge about their companies' vision and their promotional words are not attractive. The commitment and approach have a positive and significant effect on Medical Sales Representatives while skill, Grooming, personality and experience of Medical Sales Representatives have no effect on the prescribing decision of doctors. Based on the findings, the study commends the pharmaceutical companies have to provide trainings on products feature and presentation skills, enhance the commitment; apply proper dressing code, encourage to use appropriate words and give direction to use the right information to persuade doctors' prescribing decision of medicine
Investigation of constraints on few-neutron forces in neutron matter by empirical information on the neutron skin of 48Ca and 208Pb
Creators: name: Sammarruca, Francesca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutron matter equation of state is calculated from two-neutron forces up to fifth order of the chiral expansion and the order-by-order convergence of the predictions is investigated. Based on these equations of state, the binding energies and the neutron and proton density distributions in 208Pb and 48Ca are derived, with particular attention to the neutron skins, the focal point of this paper. Anticipating future experiments which will provide reliable information on the weak charge density in nuclei, the theoretical uncertainties and the possibility of constraining the size of few-neutron forces in neutron matter are discussed.
description: Revised version accepted for publication in Physical Review C; 9 pages, 4 figures
al-Hira, Irak. Feldforschungen. Prospektionen und ­Ausgrabungen. Die Arbeiten im Jahr 2022
Creators: name: Salman, Ibrahim
name: Gussone, Martin
name: Hof, Catharine
name: Müller-Wiener, Martina
name: Schneider, Agnes
name: Ullrich, Burkart
name: Ahmad, Mustafa
Publisher: name: e-Forschungsberichte
Year: 2023

description: The late antique capital of the Lakhmid kingdom of al-Hira, located in Mesopotamia, today in southern Iraq, was continuously settled from the Late-­Antique to the Early Islamic period. Whereas its history is known through literary sources, its material existence is only little studied. The goal of the current cooperation project is to gain more information about the city based on archaeological evidence. This report presents the preliminary results of the fieldwork during the year 2022. Magnetometer prospection and a study of the surface features at selected find sites have revealed different types of building complexes. Susceptibility measurements were undertaken being part of a subproject to generate a reproducible work-flow for the automated analysis of magnetometer-data. Excavations carried out at two selected areas revealed a further church and the gate of a large compound respectively. They provide also stratigraphic sequences and three building phases. Quantitative evaluation of pottery indicates differences between the two excavated areas. Studying and analysis of the results of the interdisciplinary research are still in process and aim to provide an interregional contextualization.
description: e-Forschungsberichte, Faszikel 1 (2023)
Holographic study of higher-order baryon number susceptibilities at finite temperature and density
Creators: name: Li, Zhibin
name: Liang, Jingmin
name: He, Song
name: Li, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cumulants of baryon number fluctuations serve as a good probe for experimentally exploring the QCD phase diagram at finite density, giving rise to characteristic fluctuation patterns associated with a possible critical endpoint (CEP). We compute the higher-order baryon number susceptibilities at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential using a holographic QCD model to address the non-perturbative aspect of strongly coupled QCD matter. The model can accurately confront lattice QCD data on a quantitative level and the location of the CEP is found to fall within the range accessible to upcoming experimental measurements. The baryon number susceptibilities up to the twelfth order are computed, and the collision energy dependence of different ratios of these susceptibilities is examined along the chemical freeze-out line. The holographic results show quantitative agreement with experimental data and the functional renormalization group results in a large collision energy range, with all ratios exhibiting a peak structure around 5-10 GeV. The mismatching between our holographic results with experimental data for sufficiently low collision energy is possibly due to non-equilibrium effects and complex experimental environments. The future experiments with measurements in the low collision energy range $\sqrt{S_{NN}}\approx 1-10~\text{GeV}$ and reduced experimental uncertainty could reveal more non-monotonic behavior signals which can be used to locate the CEP.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Stimulus Priming and the Emotion induced Blindness
Creators: name: Curby, Kim
name: Most, Steven
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The present study aims to further the investigation on whether prior experience with target stimuli can protect individuals from EIB effects (Guilbert et al., 2019). In furthering this investigation, the present study draws on findings from methodologically similar attentional tasks that have demonstrated the positive effects of primes on target detection in RSVP trials (Harris & Little, 2010). We are specifically interested in whether the enhancing effects of target primes on target detection could extend to EIB tasks. In conjunction with positive primes, this study uses findings from a study by Most and Junge (2008) that demonstrated target identification is enhanced when an image is placed two items before the emotional distractor.
The Role Of Ethiopian Social Accountability Project in Improving Service Delivery in Two Primary Schools in Kofele District;West Arsi, Oromia
Creators: name: Kedir, Filicha
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: This research has dealt with the Role of Social Accountability Project in improving service delivery in two primary schools in Kofele district, West Arsi Zone, Oromia . In this research, the contribution of social accountability project in improving service delivery in two primary schools in which SAP implemented are assessed. The research used a descriptive research design and used a longitudinal study in data collection. The selection of samples followed purposive and simple random sampling procedure. This study used questionnaire, interview, FDG, and document review as methods of data collection. From school level social accountability students, a total of 84 sample respondents, 22 teachers and 10 members of Woreda Social accountability committee participated in filling the survey questionnaire. 4 FGD discussants and 11 key informants from woreda and Kebele level purposively selected and participated in the research. The study employed mixed methods in collecting and analyzing data. The findings of the study revealed that, the social accountability program has been well implemented as per the social accountability building blocks (information, voice and negotiation for change) and made a contribution in improving service delivery as the national quality education indicators set by regional education bureau. Most of the quality indicators (percent of primary school teachers with at least diploma qualification, primary school students to textbook ratio, primary education (1-8) student to teacher ratio and primary education (1-8) student to sections ratio) are improved from time to time after the intervention of SAP. However, the contribution of social accountability program to the completion rate at grade 5 and the completion rate at grade 8 still need further improvement. Similarlystudents' academic achievement observed particularly that of female students at Guchi Primary school needs further remedial action. Hence, the social accountability program should not only focus on improving the facilities(input) but also on improving the teaching learning (process) and academic performance of students (output) to bring change on quality of primary education.
Chiral Ordering Spin Associated Glass like State in SrRuO3SrIrO3 Superlattice
Creators: name: Pang, Bin
name: Zhang, Lunyong
name: Chen, Y. B
name: Zhou, Jian
name: Yao, Shuhua
name: Zhang, Shantao
name: Chen, Yanfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heterostructure interface provides a powerful platform to observe rich emergent phenomena, such as interfacial superconductivity, nontrivial topological surface state. Here SrRuO3/SrIrO3 superlattices were epitaxially synthesized. The magnetic and electrical properties of these superlattices were characterized. Broad cusps in the zero field cooling magnetization curves and near stable residual magnetization below the broad cusps, as well as two steps magnetization hysteresis loops are observed. The magnetization relaxes following a modified Stretched function model indicating coexistence of spin glass and ferromagnetic ordering in the superlattices. Topological Hall effect was demonstrated at low temperature and weakened with the increase of SrIrO3 layer thickness. These results suggest that chiral ordering spin texture were generated at the interfaces due to the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction, which generates the spin glass behaviors. The present work demonstrates that SrIrO3 can effectively induce interface DM interactions in heterostructures, it would pave light on the new research directions of strong spin orbit interaction oxides, from the viewpoints of both basic science and prospective spintronics devices applications.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures, with supporting materials, throughly re-written and modified edition
Additional file 1 of A personalised prosthetic liner with embedded sensor technology: a case study
Creators: name: Paternò, Linda
name: Dhokia, Vimal
name: Menciassi, Arianna
name: Bilzon, James
name: Seminati, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Temperature and relative humidity mean values of the residual limb skin for each sensor.
Forward Stochastic Reachability Analysis for Uncontrolled Linear Systems using Fourier Transforms
Creators: name: Vinod, Abraham P.
name: Homchaudhuri, Baisravan
name: Oishi, Meeko M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.6; I.2.8; I.2.9

description: We propose a scalable method for forward stochastic reachability analysis for uncontrolled linear systems with affine disturbance. Our method uses Fourier transforms to efficiently compute the forward stochastic reach probability measure (density) and the forward stochastic reach set. This method is applicable to systems with bounded or unbounded disturbance sets. We also examine the convexity properties of the forward stochastic reach set and its probability density. Motivated by the problem of a robot attempting to capture a stochastically moving, non-adversarial target, we demonstrate our method on two simple examples. Where traditional approaches provide approximations, our method provides exact analytical expressions for the densities and probability of capture.
description: V3: HSCC 2017 (camera-ready copy), DOI updated, minor changes | V2: Review comments included | V1: 10 pages, 12 figures
Between Robustness and Authority: An Organizational Theory of Rebel Success
Creators: name: Frederick Harteis, Ammon
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Civil War
subject: Civil War Outcomes
subject: Rebel Organizations
subject: Ireland

description: This thesis argues that the relationship between rebel leaders and rebel field commanders is an important factor in determining the outcomes of civil wars. Rebel organizations must balance the need for organizational robustness, the ability to regrow parts that are destroyed, and leadership authority, the ability of leaders to command other parts of the organization to act. These two virtues are in tension. The relationship between rebel leaders and rebel field commanders determines the balance between robustness and authority. Horizontal rebel organizations with too much robustness cannot effectively operate as the leader does not have authority over field commanders and vertical organizations with too much authority are vulnerable to decapitation as field commanders cannot communicate with each other if the leader is destroyed. Therefore, mixed rebel organizations that can balance the two virtues tend to be the most successful. This thesis presents a new typology of rebel organizations with cases drawn from modern Ireland.
Misrepresentations
Creators: name: Florance, Pamela Ruth.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Evaluation of the MACE Force Field Architecture: from Medicinal Chemistry to Materials Science
Creators: name: Kovacs, David Peter
name: Batatia, Ilyes
name: Arany, Eszter Sara
name: Csanyi, Gabor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The MACE architecture represents the state of the art in the field of machine learning force fields for a variety of in-domain, extrapolation and low-data regime tasks. In this paper, we further evaluate MACE by fitting models for published benchmark datasets. We show that MACE generally outperforms alternatives for a wide range of systems from amorphous carbon, universal materials modelling, and general small molecule organic chemistry to large molecules and liquid water. We demonstrate the capabilities of the model on tasks ranging from constrained geometry optimisation to molecular dynamics simulations and find excellent performance across all tested domains. We show that MACE is very data efficient, and can reproduce experimental molecular vibrational spectra when trained on as few as 50 randomly selected reference configurations. We further demonstrate that the strictly local atom-centered model is sufficient for such tasks even in the case of large molecules and weakly interacting molecular assemblies.
Yanghai, China. Neues zur Geschichte der Bekleidungstechnologie. Die Erfindung von Wirkerei auf Köper. Projekt »Silk Road Fashion«. Die Arbeiten der Jahre 2020 und 2021
Creators: name: Hallgren-Brekenkamp, Moa
name: Hosner, Dominic
name: Wagner, Mayke
name: Wertmann, Patrick
Publisher: name: e-Forschungsberichte
Year: 2023

description: Ancient knowledge of the textile production belongs to the world’s intangible cultural heritage and shapes the appearance of most people worldwide when used for clothing. However, their ancient roots can seldom be studied because archaeological textiles and looms on which they were produced decay in most environments without trace. This report presents highlight results of fabric techniques of the wool garments of the ›Turfan man‹, buried ca. 1200–1000 BCE at Yanghai, located in the Turfan oasis in Northwest China. The studied textiles are local products showing advancements of wool technologies developed in the southern (tapestry) and northern (twill) parts of West Asia, which were transferred and further refined by woolworkers via as of yet u­nknown areas in central and northern Eurasia. From clues of the textiles, the possible design of the weaving device was inferred.
description: e-Forschungsberichte, Faszikel 1 (2023)
A cross-cultural investigation of the development of children’s (un)fairness conceptions
Creators: name: Yilmaz, Süheyla
name: Hepach, Robert
name: Sunderarajan, Jahnavi
name: Kanngiesser, Patricia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multicultural Psychology
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Online cross-cultural study (un)fairness
title: Информационная безопасность в организациях
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2021

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены основные положения информационной безопасности, которые нужно учитывать при решении экономико-управленческих задач на предприятиях и в организациях. Приведены практические аспекты безопасности информации, актуальные для пользователей информационных технологий в различных сферах. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов укрупненных групп специальностей и направлений подготовки 09.00.00 «Информатика и вычислительная техника», 10.00.00 «Информационная безопасность», 38.00.00 «Экономика и управление», изучающих дисциплины «Информационная безопасность», «Электронно-цифровая подпись в экономической деятельности», «Технологии и безопасность электронных платежных систем», «Аппаратные средства информационных технологий», «Информационная безопасность в системах электронной коммерции», «Управление информационной безопасностью» и другие аналогичные курсы. Издание будет полезно специалистам по управлению информационной безопасности предприятий и организаций всех форм собственности, а также широкому кругу читателей, интересующихся темой информационной безопасности.
A Long-­Term Ecological Research Data Set From the Marine Genetic Monitoring Program ARMS-­MBON 2018–2020
Creators: name: Daraghmeh, Nauras
name: Exter, Katrina
name: Pagnier, Justine
name: Balazy, Piotr
name: Cancio, Ibon
name: Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos
name: Chatzinikolaou, Eva
name: Chelchowski, Maciej
name: Chrismas, Nathan
name: Comtet, Thierry
name: Dailianis, Thanos
name: Deneudt, Klaas
name: Diaz de cerio, Oihane
name: Digenis, Markos
name: Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
name: Gonzalez, Jose
name: Kauppi, Laura
name: Kristoffersen, Jon Bent
name: Lasota, Rafal
name: Levy, Liran
name: Malachowicz, Magdalena
name: Mavrič, Borut
name: Mortelmans, Jonas
name: Paredes, Estefanía
name: Poćwierz-Kotus, Anita
name: Reiss, Henning
name: Santi, Ioulia
name: Sarafidou, Georgia
name: Skouradakis, Grigorios
name: Solbakken, Jostein
name: Stæhr, Peter Anton Upadhyay
name: TAJADURA, JAVIER
name: Thyrring, Jakob
name: Troncoso, Jesus
name: Viard, Frédérique
name: Zafeiropoulos, Haris
name: Zbawicka, Małgorzata
name: Pavloudi, Christina
name: Obst, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Molecular methods such as DNA/eDNA metabarcoding have emerged as useful tools to document the biodiversity of complex commu-

nities over large spatio-temporal scales. We established an international Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (ARMS-­ MBON)

combining standardised sampling using autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) with metabarcoding for genetic monitoring

of marine hard-­ bottom benthic communities. Here, we present the data of our first sampling campaign comprising 56 ARMS units

deployed in 2018–2019 and retrieved in 2018–2020 across 15 observatories along the coasts of Europe and adjacent regions. We de-

scribe the open-­ access data set (image, genetic and metadata) and explore the genetic data to show its potential for marine biodiversity

monitoring and ecological research. Our analysis shows that ARMS recovered more than 60 eukaryotic phyla capturing diversity of

up to ~5500 amplicon sequence variants and ~1800 operational taxonomic units, and up to ~250 and ~50 species per observatory using

the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and 18S rRNA marker genes, respectively. Further, ARMS detected threatened, vulnerable

and non-­ indigenous species often targeted in biological monitoring. We show that while deployment duration does not drive diversity

estimates, sampling effort and sequencing depth across observatories do. We recommend that ARMS should be deployed for at least

3–6 months during the main growth season to use resources as efficiently as possible and that post-­ sequencing curation is applied to

enable statistical comparison of spatio-­ temporal entities. We suggest that ARMS should be used in biological monitoring programs

and long-­ term ecological research and encourage the adoption of our ARMS-­ MBON protocols.
Factors Affecting Customer's Satisfaction Of Application Based Taxi Service (The Case Of Ride)
Creators: name: Bekele, Yodit
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: This research deals with identifying those factors affecting customers satisfaction in Mobile application based taxi service with reference to RIDE, one of the few companies which are participating in the sector in Addis Ababa. Structured questionnaire was used to gather the data from 365 respondents (customer of RIDE) who were selected using a purposive sampling technique. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS version 20, employing statistical tools such as mean, correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The findings of the study revealed that all the six satisfaction affecting factors, (Price, Time, Application Convenience, Driver's professionalism, Call Centre employees Responsiveness & Car condition) have a positive relationship with taxi passenger's satisfaction. Also six hypotheses were tested to examine the effect of these variables have on customer's satisfaction. The Multiple regression analysis result proved that three of the factors (Price, Time & app convenience) have a positive and a significant effect on customer's satisfaction while the other three factors (Car condition Driver's professionalism & responsiveness of call center employees) having a positive but insignificant effect. In addition the findings of this study indicated that customers were most satisfied with the Timely performance of RIDE followed by the fair price charged compared to the service provided. Furthermore, the results of the analysis showed that these predictor variables collectively contribute to the 67% variation in customer satisfaction indicating that there are other unmentioned variables (33%) that have influence on the satisfaction of customers. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher forwarded some recommendations to RIDE Company
The effect of galactic kinematics on exoplanet demographics and habitability
Creators: name: Royle, S. E.
name: Motylinski, Michal
name: Longmore, S. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Planetary systems
exoplanets
planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability
planets and satellites: gaseous planets
stars: kinematics and dynamics
galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
Habitable Zone
Exoplanet habitability

description: Abstract: Recent studies show that galactic kinematics could affect planetary system architectures [1,2]. Planetary systems that reside in phase-space overdensities, corresponding to ripples and streams in the galactic disk, have been shown to have lower planetary multiplicity [3], much shorter planetary orbits [1,3], and an excess of Hot Jupiters in comparison to systems in the field [1,2]. The findings indicate that habitable worlds could be preferentially found in low-phase-space density environments. The main challenges that these studies faced were (a) the limited sample size due to the small proportion of exoplanet hosts with their radial velocities (required to calculate phase-space density) available in Gaia Data Release (DR) 2, (b) controlling for selection effects in the exoplanet population, and (c) controlling for correlations with host star properties. Since then, TESS has added hundreds of confirmed exoplanets to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and with the release of Gaia DR3, we have been able to calculate the phase-space densities of a substantially more significant number of host stars. Optimisation of the code using Cuda has allowed us to calculate phase-space densities more accurately, and by using well-constrained stellar parameters from the California Kepler Survey and Sweet-Cat, we can better control for the dependence of exoplanet properties on those of their host star. In this talk, I will present our latest findings and relate them to the implications that phase-space density clustering and galactic dynamics could have on exoplanet habitability. Our work will have applications in target selection for habitable exoplanet searches such as HabEx and LUVOIR, and in understanding planetary system evolution. [1] A. Winter et al., Nature, 2020, 586, 7830, p.528-532. [2] D. Kruijssen et al., ApJ (submitted) 2021. [3] S. N. Longmore et al., ApJL 2021, 911, 1. [4] M. Chevance et al., ApJL 2021, 910, 2. [5] Composite Data, NASA Exoplanet Archive, can be found at https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/.
Scalar field collapse in a conformally flat spacetime
Creators: name: Chakrabarti, Soumya
name: Banerjee, Narayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The collapse scenario of a scalar field along with a perfect fluid distribution is investigated for a conformally flat spacetime. The theorem for the integrability of an anharmonic oscillator has been utilized. For a pure power law potential of the form $ϕ^{n+1}$, it is found that a central singularity is formed which is covered by an apparent horizon for $n>0$ and $n
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Emergent Phenomena Induced by Spin-Orbit Coupling at Surfaces and Interfaces
Creators: name: Soumyanarayanan, Anjan
name: Reyren, Nicolas
name: Fert, Albert
name: Panagopoulos, Christos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) describes the relativistic interaction between the spin and momentum degrees of freedom of electrons, and is central to the rich phenomena observed in condensed matter systems. In recent years, new phases of matter have emerged from the interplay between SOC and low dimensionality, such as chiral spin textures and spin-polarized surface and interface states. These low-dimensional SOC-based realizations are typically robust and can be exploited at room temperature. Here we discuss SOC as a means of producing such fundamentally new physical phenomena in thin films and heterostructures. We put into context the technological promise of these material classes for developing spin-based device applications at room temperature.
The ecology of risk
Creators: name: Frey, Renato
name: Fischer, Olivia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: What are the risky choices people are confronted with in modern life? This article will report on a set of representative population studies in Switzerland (N = 4, 380) that collected those risky choices people perceive to be relevant in their own lives (or in the lives of a large number of other people in the population) – with the goal of assembling an inventory of the top risky choices prevalent in various subgroups of the population. Such an inventory is indispensable for a series of direct contributions to the behavioral decision sciences, by addressing open issues revolving around the construct of risk preference; as well as for applied settings and policy-making (e.g., prevention, intervention), by mapping how the risks in the world around us change, either spontaneously or as a function of global shocks such as the Covid-19 pandemic. In this preregistration, we specify (i) the methods and analyses already carried out during the discovery phase of the inventory development (stage A1), (ii) the analysis plan to be implemented during the upcoming validation phase of the inventory development (stage A2), and (iii) the analysis plan to be implemented to finally address our main research questions (RQs; stage B).
Factors Influencing Consumers Purchase Intention towards Cultural Fashion Clothes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Dessalew, Animut
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: This research focused on factors that may influence consumers' intention to purchase cultural fashion clothes in Addis Ababa. Factors examined are consumers' fashion involvement, consumers' value consciousness, past experience, social status and consumers' attitude. All responses were collected from all customers and potential customers of cultural fashion clothes in Addis Ababa by using questionnaire through convenience sampling (n=305). Data was analyzed to obtain descriptive statistics, normality test, reliability test and comparing mean analysis (i.e. independent t-test and ANOVA) and other analyses (i.e. correlation analysis and multiple linear regressions). According to the study findings, all five factors were identified as critical factors that consumers of cultural fashion clothes perceive to be important in influencing their purchase intention towards cultural apparels. The Finding of the study also shows that there is a significance difference between consumers of cultural fashion clothes who belongs to different age groups with regard to social status and consumers' attitude. Fashion involvement, social status, and consumers' attitude perceived differently among different respondents with different income group. Those respondents who have masters and above give more attention to fashion involvement and past experience when they buy cultural fashion clothes in Addis Ababa. This result indicates that pas experience and consumers' attitude were perceived to be important in forming purchase intention by female consumers than male cultural cloth fashion consumers. Except value consciousness all other factors were perceived differently across different employment groups. The researcher recommends that all factors are critical in influencing consumers purchase intention towards cultural fashion clothes so that all parties involved in producing these products should give a due emphasis for all factors and consumer's attitude as it is the one with the highest effect
Improved Approximations for Some Polymer Extension Models
Creators: name: Petrosyan, Rafayel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose approximations for force-extension dependencies for the freely jointed chain (FJC) and worm-like chain (WLC) models as well as for extension-force dependence for the WLC model. Proposed expressions show less than 1% relative error in the useful range of the corresponding variables. These results can be applied for fitting force-extension curves obtained in molecular force spectroscopy experiments. Particularly they can be useful for cases where one has geometries of springs in series and/or in parallel where particular combination of expressions should be used for fitting the data. All approximations have been obtained following the same procedure of determining the asymptotes and then reducing the relative error of that expression by adding an appropriate term obtained from fitting its absolute error.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
From TEARs to AID: the effects of emotional tears in images of refugees on helping through crowdfunding actions
Creators: name: Zickfeld, Janis
name: Bobowik, Magdalena
name: Martinovic, Borja
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: #tears #prosocialbehavior #helping #emotions #compassion #humanness #refugees #immigration

description: People are usually more willing to help those who cry. The question is why and what kind of help tears activate. The EU-funded TEARAID project will try to solve this question. It will examine the effects of tears on the promotion of two types of prosocial behaviour: autonomy- and dependency-oriented help. It will also test the role of underlying mechanisms like perceived humanness of the tearful person and self-transcendent emotions felt in response to tears, such as compassion. Photos and videos of refugees used in news stories and social campaigns by NGOs will be used to compare people’s reactions to tearful and non-tearful refugees. The findings will assist in improving measures of prosocial behaviour and creating joint initiatives with the crowdfunding industry.
Implementation of Value Added Tax and Its Related Problems: The Case of ERCA Eastern A.A Medium Tax Payer
Creators: name: Menbere, Mideksa
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this study was to identifying and assessing the problems rose in association with the implementations of VAT & its related problem in Eastern Addis Ababa medium taxpayer's office. To conduct this study, the descriptive survey method was employed.. Specifically, a stratified random sampling technique was employed for tax payers as well as employees treated through questionnaire whereas random sampling technique was applied for managers of Eastern medium taxpayer's office. Frequency count, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-value and P-value were utilized to analyze quantitative data gained through the questionnaires. The finding shows that taxpayers do believe that, during tax refunding requests, using illegal invoices had lower chance of being detected and taxpayers and employees do also required the tax authority to amend its standard time set for VAT refund and they also strongly agreed that the tax authority provided them continuous tax education and sufficient free call information centers were arranged by the authority. The result of the study indicated that VAT implementation in medium taxpayer office has faced different challenges and apart from the existing challenges, taxpayers were not attempted to avoid VAT, and that they would exert more effort to pay more taxes as public finance property. The main problems that encountered are: misunderstanding of the public in general and business community in particular regarding the VAT laws, Tax administration, filling challenge and VAT refund or issuance of illegal invoices exercised by business enterprises. All these constraints hinder the smooth implementations of VAT and achieve the desired objectives as possible. on the basis of these findings, the study recommends that the authority should train the taxpayers about the rules and regulations of VAT continuously, recruiting new employees give training different way, delegate the tax authority to regional and city administration and it should also increase its follow-up and investigation to control noncompliance enterprises, as well as effectively and efficiently performing the tasks of identification of VAT taxpayers.
A Transient Overcooling in the Early Universe? Clues from Globular Clusters Formation
Creators: name: Renzini, Alvio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mere existence of multiple stellar generations in Milky Way globular clusters indicates that each generation was unable to stop star formation, that instead persisted unimpeded for several million years. This evidence argues for an extended stage of star formation within a forming globular cluster, during which stellar feedback was substantially ineffective and the nascent globular cluster was able to accrete processed gas from its surrounding, and efficiently convert it into successive stellar generations. It has been argued that such delayed feedback results from core collapse in most massive stars failing to trigger an energetic supernova explosion, but rather leading directly to black hole formation. Thus, globular clusters offer a concrete phenomenological example for the lack of feedback in young starbursts, an option that has been widely advocated to account for the unexpected abundance of UV-luminous galaxies at z = 9-16, as revealed by JWST observations. The paper is meant to attract attention to this opportunity for a synergic cooperation of globular cluster and high redshift research.
description: Four pages, no figures, submitted to MNRAS on May 22, 2023
Al-Minya, Ägypten. Müll im Überfluss in der griechisch-römischen Bergsiedlung in Tuna el-Gebel. Die Kampagnen 2021 und 2022
Creators: name: Izak, Jessica
name: Antolín, Ferran
name: Flossmann-Schütze, Mélanie C.
Publisher: name: e-Forschungsberichte
Year: 2023

description: Archaeobotanical research at the Graeco-roman mountain settlement of ­Petra, in Tuna El-Gebel (Egypt), started in 2021, with a strong focus on the excellently preserved rubbish deposits found as infilling of an inner court of ­a tower house. Plant remains (seeds, fruits, wood, charcoal, leaves, tubers, stems, etc.) and elements made of or containing plant remains (dung ­remains, baskets, mats, textiles, daub, etc.) were recovered in large amounts. The archaeobotanical work so far allowed to identify a large number of useful plants that indicate that the crop diversity available at the site was very rich and benefited from large-distance commercial networks.
description: e-Forschungsberichte, Faszikel 1 (2023)
Kondo insulator SmB6 under strain: surface dominated conduction near room temperature
Creators: name: Stern, A.
name: Dzero, M.
name: Galitski, V. M.
name: Fisk, Z.
name: Xia, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SmB6 is a strongly correlated mixed-valence Kondo insulator with a newly discovered surface state, proposed to be of non-trivial topological origin. However, the surface state dominates electrical conduction only below T* ~ 4 K limiting its scientific investigation and device application. Here, we report the enhancement of T * in SmB6 under the application of tensile strain. With 0.7% tensile strain we report surface dominated conduction at up to a temperature of 240 K, persisting even after the strain has been removed. This can be explained in the framework of strain-tuned temporal and spatial fluctuations of f-electron configurations, which might be generally applied to other mixed-valence materials. We note that this amount of strain can be indued in epitaxial SmB6 films via substrate in potential device applications.
description: to appear in Nature Materials
Time-reversal Invariance Violation and Quantum Chaos Induced by Magnetization in Ferrite-Loaded Resonators
Creators: name: Zhang, Weihua
name: Zhang, Xiaodong
name: Dietz, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the fluctuation properties in the eigenfrequency spectra of flat cylindrical microwave cavities that are homogeneously filled with magnetized ferrite. These studies are motivated by experiments in which only small pieces of ferrite were embedded in the cavity and magnetized with an external static magnetic field to induce partial time-reversal (T ) invariance violation. We use two different shapes of the cavity, one exhibiting an integrable wave dynamics, the other one a chaotic one. We demonstrate that in the frequency region where only transverse-magnetic modes exist, the magnetization of the ferrites has no effect on the wave dynamics and does not induce T -invariance violation whereas it is fully violated above the cutoff frequency of the first transverse-electric mode. Above all, independently of the shape of the resonator, it induces a chaotic wave dynamics in that frequency range in the sense that for both resonator geometries the spectral properties coincide with those of quantum systems with a chaotic classical dynamics and same invariance properties under application of the generalized T operator associated with the resonator geometry.