cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bathippus digitalis Zhang & Song & Li 2003, new species
Creators: name: Zhang, J. X.
name: Song, D. X.
name: Li, Daiqin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Bathippus
Bathippus digitalis

description: Bathippus digitalis, new species
(Figs. 2 A-D)
 Material examined. – Holotype – male (ZRC.ARA.50), Bukit Timah Nat. Res., Singapore, 17 Mar.1968.
 Diagnosis. – The arrangement of cheliceral teeth resembles that of Bathippus palabuanensis Simon, 1902 (see Simon, 1902: 419; 1903: 726, f. 876-877), but differs from the latter in the femur I with ventral scopulae; the large tooth on retromargin finger-like, rather than dagger-like; the palpal organ of the new species is similar to that of Bathippus molossus (Thorell, 1881) (Plexippus molossus Thorell, 1881: 553, 708; Bathippus molossus - Prószynski´, 1984: 8), but can be distinguished from the latter by the relatively longer embolus and the tibial apophysis which is not hook-like.
  Description. – Male . Total length 7.20. Cephalothorax 3.33 long, 3.06 wide; abdomen 3.87 long, 1.85 wide. Carapace (Fig. 2A) orange yellow, eye area reddish brown. Eye sizes: AME 0.82, ALE 0.60, PME 0.07, PLE 0.51. Anterior eye row 2.61 wide, posterior row 2.43 wide, eye area 1.58 long. Chelicera (Fig. 2B) long, dark reddish brown, with 3 teeth on promargin and 1 large, finger-like tooth on retromargin, back surface of chelicera with a process near the fang. Endites and labium orange yellow, sternum yellow. Legs I and II orange yellow, III and IV lighter in color. Tibiae I and II each with 3 pairs of ventral spines, metatarsi I and II each with 2 pairs of ventral spines. Femur I and tibia I ventrally with dense scopulae. Leg measurements: I 9.05 (2.70+3.69 +1.89+0.77); II 6.98 (2.16+2.70 +1.35+0.77); III 9.64 (3.15+3.38+2.34+ 0.77); IV 7.35 (2.03+2.43+2.12+0.77). Leg formula: 3142. Dorsum of abdomen yellowish brown, centrally with a pair of small reddish brown spots; venter yellow. Embolus of palpal organ (Figs. 2C, D) slender, its basal part elliptic; end of tibial apophysis not hook-like.
 Etymology. – The specific name refers to the large fingerlike tooth on retromargin.
description: Published as part of Zhang, J. X., Song, D. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2003, Six New And One Newly Recorded Species Of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) From Singapore And Malaysia, pp. 187-195 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2) on pages 189-190, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618788
The Forward Premium Bias Under Different Monetary Policy Environments
Creators: name: Steele, David
name: Wright, Julian
name: Steele, David
name: Wright, Julian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: The ex post failure of uncovered interest parity (i.e. the forward premium bias) in the post-Bretton Woods era is well documented. Recently, explanations have been offered for this failure which have centred upon the unusual monetary experience over this period. We test these explanations using data from earlier periods as well as subsequent to the adoption of an inflation target. Canada operated a flexible exchange rate regime during the Bretton Woods era, providing a unique opportunity to examine ex post deviations from uncovered interest parity. Canada is also unusual in that it has pursued an explicit inflation rate target since February 1991. We find no forward premium bias over the flexible rate period during Bretton Woods, as well as prior to Canada's adoption of inflation rate targeting (when learning would be expected to have taken place), while a forward premium bias does exist during the inflationary/disinflationary period or subsequent to the new monetary regime.
Optimal Currency Denomination of Public Debt in New Zealand
Creators: name: Fowlie, Kerryn
name: Wright, Julian
name: Fowlie, Kerryn
name: Wright, Julian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: This paper addresses the issue of whether New Zealand's debt obligations should be denominated in domestic or foreign currency. Using the tax smoothing approach of Bohn (1990) we estimate optimal debt portfolios and compare these to those obtained from a simple mean-variance approach. We find that contrary to current government policy as well as the results from the mean-variance approach, welfare maximising policy is for all public debt to be denominated in foreign currency.
title: Impact on the knowledge construction process of multimedia online interactions in audio-graphic conferencing systems: the case of adult distance learners of French
Creators: name: Mirza, Chahrazed
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: Online researchers suggest that synchronous audio-graphic corm encing systems provide different mediational tools that create different mediated educa nal interactions that support the collaborative process of meaning construction, However, the existing literature does not indicate whether the quality of multimodal online interactions as well as the affordances of the use of the synchronous medium can effectively enh ce this process. This thesis brings together two lines of research. The thesis develops a methodological framework for the presentation and analysis of multimodal online interactions that draws on socio-constructivist understanding that the process of meaning construction is social and individual. The second is concerned with the analysis of online multimodal discussions; it examines the interrelationship between the different tools of communication and the different affordances of their simultaneous and single use that may hinder or promote the collaborative process of meaning construction. The design of this research focuses on interaction patterns and examines the extent which online discussions, mediated by the different tools of communication, reach high levels of collaborative meaning construction.This study assumes the knowledge construction process to be empirically observable through analysing online interactions and students' perceptions of the learning experiences. It examines, through interviews, questionnaires and video recordings of online tutorials, the quality of online learning experiences of two different UK Open University tutorial groups learning French. Results show that: participants make different multimodal choices which lead to the creation of different patterns of multi modal interactions and on line exchanges that affect differently participants' engagement in the collaborative meaning construction process; the single and the simultaneous use of the different tools of communication create different affordances for participants to perform different interactive and communicative roles; the multi modal competencies of students and tutors, the tutors' styles and task design play an important role in supporting the collaborative meaning construction process.
Bathippus pahang Zhang & Song & Li 2003, new species
Creators: name: Zhang, J. X.
name: Song, D. X.
name: Li, Daiqin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Bathippus
Bathippus pahang

description: Bathippus pahang, new species
(Figs. 3 A-C)
 Material examined. – Holotype – male (ZRC.ARA.51), Pahang, Rompin. Nr Sg. Kinchin, Base Camp, Malaysia, 13 Jun.1989.
 Diagnosis. – The new species can easily be distinguished from others of this genus by the short tibia of the male palp, with its length only one third of that of cymbium, and the long and forked tibial apophysis.
  Description. – Male . Total length 3.30. Cephalothorax 1.71 long, 1.53 wide; abdomen 1.62 long, 1.13 wide. Carapace (Fig. 3A) reddish brown, ALE, PME and PLE surrounded by black circles. Eye sizes: AME 0.51, ALE 0.29, PME 0.07, PLE 0.24. Anterior eye row 1.62 wide, posterior row 1.40 wide, eye area 0.95 long. Chelicera reddish brown, promargin with 2 teeth; retromargin with 1 tooth. Endite and labium reddish brown. Sternum smooth, yellowish brown. Coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia and the tip of metatarsus of leg I reddish brown; other segments yellowish brown, with brown rings. Tibia I with 3 pairs of ventral spines; metatarsi I and II each with 2 pairs of ventral spines. Leg measurements: I 3.83 (1.17+1.58+0.63+0.45); II 3.29 (1.08+1.13+0.63+0.45); III 3.74 (1.26+1.08+0.90+0.50); IV 3.65 (1.17+1.17+0.86+0.45). Leg formula: 1342. Dorsum of abdomen yellow, with irregular brown markings; venter light brown. Embolus of palpal organ (Figs. 3B, C) coiled at the tip; tibial apophysis long and forked
 Etymology. – The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Zhang, J. X., Song, D. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2003, Six New And One Newly Recorded Species Of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) From Singapore And Malaysia, pp. 187-195 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2) on pages 190-191, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618788
Is There a Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy in New Zealand?
Creators: name: Guender, Alfred V.
name: Guender, Alfred V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: The effectiveness of the bank lending channel of monetary policy hinges on the extent to which changes in the availability of bank credit relative to non-bank credit are systematically transmitted to the real sector of the economy. On this count, there is no evidence of a link between three finance mix ,variables and economic activity in New Zealand during selected intervals over the 1967-87 period. Similar, unfavourable results are reported by the investigation of the connection between movements in an interest rate spread and real economic performance between 1975 and 1994. Moreover, neither the finance mix variable nor the spread respond consistently to changes in various indicators of monetary policy. The results reported in the paper cast serious doubt on the existence of a potent bank lending channel of monetary policy in New Zealand either before or after the reforms of the mid-1980s.
Zermelo and the Early History of Game Theory
Creators: name: Schwalbe, Ulrich
name: Walker, Paul
name: Schwalbe, Ulrich
name: Walker, Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: History of Game Theory
subject: Chess
subject: Zermelo

description: In the modern literature on game theory there are several versions of what is known as Zermelo's theorem. It is shown that most of these modern statements of Zermelo's theorem bear only a partial relationship to what Zermelo really did. We also give a short survey and discussion of the closely related but almost unknown work by Konig and Kalmar. Their papers extend and considerably generalize Zermelo's approach. A translation of Zermelo's paper is included in the appendix.
The Labour Market Outcomes of New Zealand's Old and New Immigrants
Creators: name: Winkelmann, Liliana
name: Winkelmann, Rainer
name: Winkelmann, Liliana
name: Winkelmann, Rainer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: This study examines the relative labour market position of immigrants using unit record data from the 1981, 1986, and 1996 Population Censuses. We compare the labour market outcomes of immigrants immediately after arrival in New Zealand and in subsequent years with those of similar New Zealand born individuals, identify the factors associated with differences in labour market outcomes, and analyse the changes in the relative labour market outcomes of immigrants between 1981 and 1996. We find that in the first year after arrival in New Zealand a typical immigrant had a 20 percent lower income than a similar native. This entry disadvantage disappeared after 20-30 years of residence. Convergence was generally quicker for participation and employment rates. However, the evidence suggested a substantial amount of heterogeneity. Most notably, the Asian and Pacific Island immigrants of the early 1990s came with a much larger entry disadvantage than other groups of immigrants or earlier arrivals. The decline in relative labour market outcomes could not be explained by the changing region-of-origin composition, nor by changes in any of the observed characteristics. One possible explanation is that structural changes in the labour market have caused an increased penalty for migrants from predominantly non-English speaking countries.
Epeus Peckham & Peckham 1886
Creators: name: Zhang, J. X.
name: Song, D. X.
name: Li, Daiqin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Epeus

description: Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886
 Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 271, 334.
 Type species. – Evenus tenera Simon, 1877, by original designation; Zabka, 1985: 214; Peng et al., 1993: 48.
 Diagnosis. – The genus is similar to Plexippoides in epigynum with a shallow depression, long copulatory duct forming several loops; palpal organ with outgrowth of cymbium and auricular outgrowth of palpal bulb. However, it differs from the latter in: cephalothorax distinctly tall, outgrowth of cymbium long and located at outside or front of the tibial apophysis, auricular outgrowth at central or back part of the palpal bulb.
 Remarks. – Members of this genus are mainly distributed in South-east Asia. Up to now, 11 species have been recorded in the world (Platnick, 2003), not including the new species described in this paper.
description: Published as part of Zhang, J. X., Song, D. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2003, Six New And One Newly Recorded Species Of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) From Singapore And Malaysia, pp. 187-195 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2) on page 192, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618788
Globalization and the Information Economy : Challenges and Opportunities for Africa
Creators: name: Cogburn, Derrick
Publisher: name: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Two of the key characteristics defining this historical period are the twin concepts of globalization and the information economy. This transformation –which embodies social, economic, political, technical and cultural processes – is affecting nearly all of the world’s people and economies and creating tremendous challenges and opportunities in its wake. The inaugural session of the African Development Forum hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is working to develop an African-driven agenda to confront these challenges and to develop effective strategies to exploit the opportunities presented by these revolutionary developments. This paper used data from published reports, mostly from international organisations. It is divided into three parts and explores these concepts as they related to the Africa region. In Part I, the paper focuses on an understanding of Globalization and the information economy, both defining and critically assessing these terms, and illuminating the depth of the transformation that the global political economy is currently experiencing. Part II, looks specifically at the challenges and opportunities presented by these developments with an understanding of current African realities. Finally, Part III, discusses a way forward for the region, including recommendations for national, sub-regional, regional, and global action and partnerships.
Interactive Multi-User 3D Visual Analytics in Augmented Reality
Creators: name: Xie, Wanze
name: Liang, Yining
name: Johnson, Janet
name: Mower, Andrea
name: Burns, Samuel
name: Chelini, Colleen
name: Alessandro, Paul D
name: Weibel, Nadir
name: Schulze, Jürgen P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5.1; I.3.8; J.1

description: This publication reports on a research project in which we set out to explore the advantages and disadvantages augmented reality (AR) technology has for visual data analytics. We developed a prototype of an AR data analytics application, which provides users with an interactive 3D interface, hand gesture-based controls and multi-user support for a shared experience, enabling multiple people to collaboratively visualize, analyze and manipulate data with high dimensional features in 3D space. Our software prototype, called DataCube, runs on the Microsoft HoloLens - one of the first true stand-alone AR headsets, through which users can see computer-generated images overlaid onto real-world objects in the user's physical environment. Using hand gestures, the users can select menu options, control the 3D data visualization with various filtering and visualization functions, and freely arrange the various menus and virtual displays in their environment. The shared multi-user experience allows all participating users to see and interact with the virtual environment, changes one user makes will become visible to the other users instantly. As users engage together they are not restricted from observing the physical world simultaneously and therefore they can also see non-verbal cues such as gesturing or facial reactions of other users in the physical environment. The main objective of this research project was to find out if AR interfaces and collaborative analysis can provide an effective solution for data analysis tasks, and our experience with our prototype system confirms this.
description: In Proceedings of IS&T The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2020
Bristowia heterospinosa Reimoser 1934
Creators: name: Peng, Xianjin
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Bristowia
Bristowia heterospinosa

description: Bristowia heterospinosa Reimoser, 1934
 Material examined. – 1 female (IZCAS), Viet Lann Village, Ha Jiang Province, Vietnam, 10 Dec.2000.
 Distribution. – Vietnam (Viet Lann Village, Ha Jiang Province), Korea, Indonesia, China, Japan.
description: Published as part of Peng, Xianjin & Li, Shuqiang, 2003, New Localities And One New Species Of Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) From Northern Vietnam, pp. 21-24 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618732
Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidence from Count Data Models
Creators: name: Winkelmann, Rainer
name: Zimmermann, Klaus F.
name: Winkelmann, Rainer
name: Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined between 1974 and 1994. Using count data regression models in which we control for labour market experience, various demographic factors, and occupation, we find that job stability did not decrease, but if anything increase, between 1974 and 1994. Our finding suggests that labour market inflexibility is an important factor in explaining the European unemployment problem.
HCN 3-2 survey towards a sample of local galaxies
Creators: name: Li, Fei
name: Wang, Junzhi
name: Fang, Min
name: Tan, Qing-hua
name: Zhang, Zhi-Yu
name: Gao, Yu
name: Li, Shanghuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present observations of HCN 3-2 emissions towards 37 local galaxies using 10-m Submillimeter Telescope (SMT). HCN 3-2 emission is detected in 23 galaxies. The correlation of infrared luminosity (LIR) and the luminosity of HCN 3-2 line emission measured in our sample is fitted with a slope of 1.11 and correlation coefficient of 0.91, which follows the linear correlation found in other dense gas tracers in the literatures. Although molecular gas above a certain volume density threshold (i.e., $n_{\rm H_2}\geq$ 10$^4$ cm$^{-3}$) statistically gave similar relation with infrared luminosity, the large scatter of HCN 3-2/HCN1-0 ratios for galaxies with different LIR indicates that dense gas masses estimated from the line luminosities of only one transition of dense gas tracers should be treated with caution for individual galaxies.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ
Auxiliary Field Meson Model at Finite Temperature and Density
Creators: name: Kouno, H.
name: Sakaguchi, T.
name: Kashiwa, K.
name: Hamada, M.
name: Tokudome, H.
name: Matsuzaki, M.
name: Yahiro, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from many quark interactions, we construct a nonlinear sigma-omega model at finite temperature and density. The mesons are introduced as auxiliary fields. Effective quark-meson couplings are strongly related to effective meson masses, since they are derived simultaneously from the original many quark interactions. In this model, even if the effective omega-meson mass decreases due to the partial chiral restoration, the equation of state (EOS) of nuclear matter can become soft.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the proceedings for the YITP workshop YITP-W-05-09 on "Thermal Quantum Field Theories and Their Applications", Kyoto, August 24-26, 2005
Chandra and FUSE spectroscopy of the hot bare stellar core H1504+65
Creators: name: Werner, K.
name: Rauch, T.
name: Barstow, M. A.
name: Kruk, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: H1504+65 is an extremely hot hydrogen-deficient white dwarf with an effective temperature close to 200,000 K. We present new FUV and soft X-ray spectra obtained with FUSE and Chandra, which confirm that H1504+65 has an atmosphere primarily composed of carbon and oxygen. The Chandra LETG spectrum (60-160 Angstroem) shows a wealth of photospheric absorption lines from highly ionized oxygen, neon, and - for the first time identified in this star - magnesium and suggests relatively high Ne and Mg abundances. This corroborates an earlier suggestion that H1504+65 represents a naked C/O stellar core or even the C/O envelope of an O-Ne-Mg white dwarf.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Human Capacity Building for the Knowledge Economy : Creating Globally Distributed Web-Based Learning Environments for Advanced Graduate Studies in International Affairs
Creators: name: Cogburn, Derrick
name: Levinson, Nanette
Publisher: name: 2001 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: This paper presents the initial findings from a three-year pilot study of a distant independent educational initiative between two universities in the United States and two in South Africa. The primary research questions in this phase of the project have been, “To what degree can a suite of commercially-available web-technologies be used to successfully create a globally-distributed, synchronous, collaborative, learning environment for advanced post graduate studies between South Africa and the United States?” and “What pedagogical and administrative models best suit this distributed Learning environment?” Subsidiary research questions explored issues relevant to the impact of four critical factors on the development of complex cross-national virtual teams within this learning environment. These four factors are: (1) level of humaninteraction/computer-interaction mix (Hi/Ci); (2) existence of a collaborative learning community; (3) trust, culture and ideology; and (4) degree of technology mixture. In order to answer these questions, we have studied the Global Graduate Seminar on Globalization and the Information Society (Globalization Seminar), which is an advanced, interdisciplinary, post-graduate seminar addressing questions of international regime formation for the emerging Global Information Infrastructure and Global Information Society, and involving a diverse group of graduate students at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); the American University (Washington, D.C.), the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa); and the University of Fort Hare (Alice, South Africa). This educational initiative has been successfully piloted from 1999-2001 through funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Alliance for Community Technology, and the University of Michigan School of Information. Primary data for the study are drawn from seminar participants, who are required to complete an 80-question evaluation survey including 25 open-ended and 55 closed-ended questions. The data are analyzed through qualitative and quantitative techniques. Thick-narrative case studies have been produced for each seminar and virtual team. Data from each year are compared/contrasted with that of previous years and similar studies. This paper also presents directions for future research, which consists of a two-year cross-sectional study to begin generalizing the findings from this pilot phase.
Human Capacity Building for the Knowledge Economy : Creating Globally Distributed Web-Based Learning Environments for Advanced Graduate Studies in International Affairs
Creators: name: Cogburn, Derrick
name: Levinson, Nanette
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper presents the initial findings from a three-year pilot study of a distant independent educational initiative between two universities in the United States and two in South Africa. The primary research questions in this phase of the project have been, “To what degree can a suite of commercially-available web-technologies be used to successfully create a globally-distributed, synchronous, collaborative, learning environment for advanced post graduate studies between South Africa and the United States?” and “What pedagogical and administrative models best suit this distributed Learning environment?” Subsidiary research questions explored issues relevant to the impact of four critical factors on the development of complex cross-national virtual teams within this learning environment. These four factors are: (1) level of humaninteraction/computer-interaction mix (Hi/Ci); (2) existence of a collaborative learning community; (3) trust, culture and ideology; and (4) degree of technology mixture. In order to answer these questions, we have studied the Global Graduate Seminar on Globalization and the Information Society (Globalization Seminar), which is an advanced, interdisciplinary, post-graduate seminar addressing questions of international regime formation for the emerging Global Information Infrastructure and Global Information Society, and involving a diverse group of graduate students at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); the American University (Washington, D.C.), the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa); and the University of Fort Hare (Alice, South Africa). This educational initiative has been successfully piloted from 1999-2001 through funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Alliance for Community Technology, and the University of Michigan School of Information. Primary data for the study are drawn from seminar participants, who are required to complete an 80-question evaluation survey including 25 open-ended and 55 closed-ended questions. The data are analyzed through qualitative and quantitative techniques. Thick-narrative case studies have been produced for each seminar and virtual team. Data from each year are compared/contrasted with that of previous years and similar studies. This paper also presents directions for future research, which consists of a two-year cross-sectional study to begin generalizing the findings from this pilot phase.
Customer awareness of and participation in sustainability
Creators: name: Cheng, Mandy
name: Harrison, Sara
name: Lam, Andria
name: Machial, Cristina
name: Syrovy, Lena
name: Trang, Diana
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Assessing the current levels of customer awareness of and participation in sustainability initiatives on the UBC campus is an important component of determining UBC’s progress to becoming a more sustainable campus. This is even more important considering that even the best initiatives will do nothing to improve sustainability if no one is using them. Accordingly, we have expanded on a model to assess sustainability, performed research to determine what initiatives are currently in place, both at UBC and at other universities and colleges, and developed a survey to be used next year to actually assess current awareness and participation levels in present initiatives. Among some of the current initiatives in place are programs to encourage the use of reusable containers and cutlery, composting education and systems, and recycling (including recycling cooking oil to create Bio-diesel). The survey and other information provided can also be used to assess the feasibility of creating future sustainability initiatives, including the feasibility of introducing a ‘Food Week,’ and a more extensive composting program. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
title: Critical linkages: Transnational living and prospects for private senders of money from Britain to Ghana and Nigeria
Creators: name: Owusu-Sekyere, Freda
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: The discourse on remittance flows has been predominantly financialised, focusing on their development impacts, securitisation in financial markets, and as risks to global financial systems through money laundering, terrorist financing and tax evasion. This has resulted in neglect of senders' perspectives and voices, even though senders bear the financial and human costs of remittances. This is a complex social phenomenon. Adopting bricolage using a mixed methods approach, based on the experiences of Ghanaian and Nigerian senders living in Britain, this study draws on conceptual frameworks of transnationalism, financialisation and wellbeing, and critical theory, to examine the financialisation of remittances, senders' transnational living and livelihoods, and well-being. The research findings are based on reviews of academic and policy literature from transnationalism, social policy and behavioural finance, synthesised with empirical data gathered from a group interview, quantitative survey and in-depth interviews of Ghanaian and Nigerian senders based in Britain. There are five main research findings: participating senders are not only migrant workers, but include British citizens; remittances constitute transnational social protection finance; efforts made by senders through transnational living strategies, sacrifice, and efforts to make recipients feel cared about, are understood as emotional labour; the policy and regulatory environment represents financialisation from 'above'. By highlighting senders' perspectives on remittance sending as a practice that has socio-cultural meanings, where money plays a role in mediating and shaping the dynamic family relationships underpinning the 'surface' financial transaction, the study additionally illuminates ways in which transnational family relationships can become financialised. Through understanding remittances as transnational social protection, and its sending practices as emotional labour and emotion in finance, the study contributes new data, methods, and concepts, drawing together multiple subject disciplines including social policy, international development, and behavioural finance that have traditionally been studied separately, demonstrating areas where they intersect and enrich each other.
Character expansion method for the first order asymptotics of a matrix integral
Creators: name: Guionnet, Alice
name: Maida, Mylene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60F10, 15A52, 46L50

description: The estimation of various matrix integrals as the size of the matrices goes to infinity is motivated by theoretical physics, geometry and free probability questions. On a rigorous ground, only integrals of one matrix or of several matrices with simple quadratic interaction (called AB interaction) could be evaluated so far. In this article, we follow an idea widely developped in the physics litterature, which is based on character expansion, to study more complex interaction. We more specifically consider a model defined in the spirit of the 'dually weighted graph model' studied by V. A. Kazakov, M. Staudacher and T. Wynter, but with a cutoff function such that the matrix integral and its character expansion converge. We prove that the free energy of this model converges as the size of the matrices go to infinity and study the saddle points of the limit.
description: Revised version : the organisation of the paper was changed quite deeply, namely we show a large deviation result for the empirical measures of Young tableaux in a bit more general context than dually weighted graphs models so that it can be used more easily to treat other models. In the concluding remarks, we provide another possible application of our result and a discussion about the links with maps enumeration. Some references are added
Wide field-of-view study of the Eagle Nebula with the Fourier transform imaging spectrograph SITELLE at CFHT
Creators: name: Flagey, Nicolas
name: McLeod, Anna F.
name: Aguilar, Laura
name: Prunet, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the very first wide-field, 11 by 11 arcmin, optical spectral mapping of M16, one of the most famous star-forming regions in the Galaxy. The data were acquired with the new imaging Fourier transform spectrograph SITELLE mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). We obtained three spectral cubes with R=10'000 (SN1 filter), 1500 (SN2 filter) and 600 (SN3 filter), centered on the Pillars of Creation and the HH216 flow, covering the main optical nebular emission lines: [O II]3726,29 (SN1), Hb, [O III]4959,5007 (SN2), [N II]6548,84, Ha, and [S II]6717,31 (SN3). We validate the performance, calibration, and data reduction of SITELLE, and analyze the structures in the large field-of-view in terms of their kinematics and nebular emission. We compared the SITELLE data to MUSE integral field observations and other spectroscopic and narrow-band imaging data to validate the performance of SITELLE. We computed gas-phase metallicities via the strong-line method, performed a pixel-by-pixel fit to the main emission lines to derive kinematics of the ionized gas, computed the mass-loss rate of the Eastern pillar (the Spire), and combined the SITELLE data with near-infrared narrow-band imaging to characterize the HH216 flow. The comparison with previously published fluxes demonstrates very good agreement. We disentangle the dependence of the gas-phase metallicities (derived via abundance-tracing line ratios) on the degree of ionization and obtain metallicities that are in excellent agreement with the literature. We confirm the bipolar structure of HH216, find evidence for episodic accretion from the source of the flow, and identify its likely driving source. We compute the mass-loss rate of the Spire pillar on the East side of the H II region and find excellent agreement with the correlation between the mass-loss rate and the ionizing photon flux from the nearby cluster NGC6611.
description: 21 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
Burmattus pococki
Creators: name: Peng, Xianjin
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Burmattus
Burmattus pococki

description: Burmattus pococki (Thorell, 1895)
 Material examined. – 1 male (IZCAS), Tab Linch Village, Son Tay Province, Vietnam, 24 Dec.2000; 1 male (IZCAS), Gao Bao Village, Ha Jiang Province, Vietnam, 9 Dec.2000; 1 male (ZRC), Viet Lann Village, Ha Jiang Province, Vietnam, 10 Dec.2000.
 Distribution. – Vietnam (Tab Linch Village, Son Tay Province; Gao Bao Village, Ha Jiang Province; Viet Lann Village, Ha Jiang Province), Burma, China, Japan.
description: Published as part of Peng, Xianjin & Li, Shuqiang, 2003, New Localities And One New Species Of Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) From Northern Vietnam, pp. 21-24 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618732
Viscoelastic Properties of Dynamically Asymmetric Binary Fluids Under Shear Flow
Creators: name: Dwivedi, Vinay
name: Ahluwalia, Rajeev
name: Lookman, Turab
name: Saxena, Avadh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the viscoelastic properties of sheared binary fluids that have strong dynamical asymmetry between the two components. The dynamical asymmetry arises due to asymmetry between the viscoelastic stresses, particularly the bulk stress. Our calculations are based on the two-fluid model that incorporates the asymmetric stress distribution. We simulate the phase separation process under an externally imposed shear and compare the asymmetric case with the usual phase separation under a shear flow without viscoelastic effects. We also simulate the behavior of phase separated stable morphologies under applied shear and compute the stress relaxation.
description: 10 pages text, 9 figures
Supplementary Results from Social rank and not physiological capacity determines competitive success in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Creators: name: Miln, Clare
name: Ward, Ashley J. W.
name: Seebacher, Frank
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary Figures S1-S4
A PRODUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA BRASILEIRA SOBRE A SUSTENTABILIDADE NO AGRONEGÓCIO: UM RECORTE TEMPORAL ENTRE 2005 E 2015
The Brazilian Scientific Production on Sustainability in the Agribusiness: A Temporal Cut between 2005 and 2015
Creators: name: Zanella, Tamara Pereira
name: Lago, Sandra Mara Stocker
name: Zanella, Tamara Pereira
name: Lago, Sandra Mara Stocker
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Sustainable Development
subject: Agriculture
subject: Scientific Production
subject: Indicators

description: Sustainability is currently one of the main topics of debate. The identification of how the scientific articles has approached this subject is relevant. Therefore, the objective of this article was to analyze the Brazilian scientific production on sustainability in agribusiness using the research of studies from between 2005 to 2015, selected in the sucupira platform in the national journals of Administration, Accounting and Tourism, with qualification in the strata of A1 to B3 by the Qualis Periódicos evaluation system of Capes (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel), regarding the year 2014. The article is characterized as an exploratory study based on bibliographical research. From this, 47 papers distributed in 27 journals were selected, focusing on the central theme of the study and presenting contributions to the debate. The results indicate that sustainability in agribusiness, in its various activities and in the most varied regions of Brazil, has grown in scientific discussions, as well as in the development and application of indicators as the main focus of the selected works. We concluded that, despite the progress, there are many gaps still to be debated, such as the strong absence of sustainability in national agribusiness, as well as the need to adopt public policies and actions that allow for sustainable development of national agribusiness.
The Impact of Social Capital and Leadership on Performance in Distributed, Cross-National, Collaborative Learning Teams
Creators: name: Cogburn, Derrick
name: Zhang, Lingling
name: Khothule, Mpaleng
Publisher: name: CSCW '02 - Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: A range of socio-technical factors influence performance in distributed teams. Trust and “social capital” are seen as amongst the most important of these factors. However, many studies have not taken into consideration sufficiently the impact of crossnational cultural factors on the development of trust and social capital in distributed teams . In this thirteen-week, quasi-experimental field study, we used a suite of web-based collaboration tools as the platform for a highly-interactive globally distributed collaborative learning environment. Within this learning environment, we investigated the impact of group mode (FTF vs. Distributed), faculty mode (FTF vs. Distributed), and geographic location (United States vs. South Africa) on group effectiveness, learning and development when performing unstructured tasks. In this initial analysis of the data, we found that students working in FTF teams had higher levels of satisfaction with the seminar and more trust in their teammates. However, they did not perform significantly better on a series of unstructured tasks than those in distributed teams.
DAIRY ECOSYSTEM BARRIERS EXPOSED - A CASE STUDY IN A FAMILY PRODUCTION UNIT AT WESTERN SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL
Creators: name: Bonamigo, Andrei
name: Ferenhof, Helio Aisenberg
name: Forcellini, Fernando Antonio
name: Bonamigo, Andrei
name: Ferenhof, Helio Aisenberg
name: Forcellini, Fernando Antonio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Dairy Production
subject: Inhibitors
subject: Barriers
subject: Family Farming
subject: Business Ecosystem

description: Dairy production is one of the main sources of income for Santa Catarina family farms, and has growth potential for the coming years. On the other hand, for the sector to grow and develop, some industry barriers need to be overcome. Based on the barriers exposed by Bonamigo; Ferenhof and Forcellini (2016) in their literature review article, we aim to empirically confirm this scenario in a case study with a dairy family farm. From the data collected in the case study, we performed a content analysis, which served as a basis for reflection and discussion of the barriers in the dairy sector. Fourteen context units were found, which empirically confirmed the presence of those barriers. We also identify some advantages that the studied dairy production unit obtained by overcoming these barriers, such as economic gains, quality improvement, and competitive advantages.
Additional file 4 of Breast cancer bone metastases are attenuated in a Tgif1-deficient bone microenvironment
Creators: name: Marie-Therese Haider
name: Saito, Hiroaki
name: Zarrer, Jennifer
name: Uzhunnumpuram, Kevin
name: Sankari Nagarajan
name: Vijayalakshmi Kari
name: Horn-Glander, Michael
name: Werner, Stefan
name: Hesse, Eric
name: Taipaleenmäki, Hanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4: Supplemental Figure 4. Analysis of the bone phenotype of Tgif1+/+ and Tgif1-/- mice.
ESTRATÉGIAS DE CRESCIMENTO DE COOPERATIVAS AGRÍCOLAS E AGROPECUÁRIAS: ESTUDO DE CASOS COMPARADOS DA REGIÃO DO TRIÂNGULO MINEIRO/MG E DOS CAMPOS GERAIS/PR
Growth Strategies of Agricultural Cooperatives: Comparative Case Studies of the Triângulo Mineiro/MG and Campos Gerais/PR Regions
Creators: name: Borges, Gustavo Moreira
name: Domingues, Carlos Roberto
name: Borges, Gustavo Moreira
name: Domingues, Carlos Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cooperative Mode
subject: Inter cooperation
subject: Taxonomy of Miles
subject: Snow

description: With this article of qualitative nature, we aimed to identify the corporate strategies for the growth of agribusiness cooperatives in the region of the Triângulo Mineiro (Minas Gerais State) and in the region of Campos Gerais (Paraná State). In these regions, the cooperative model is widespread in the field of agribusiness for rural producers who recognize the efficiency of this type of organization, which is relevant in local economic and social development. It was searched twelve cooperatives, through interviews with managers and documentary research. The findings showed that the agribusiness cooperatives have grown over the last five years and that they used more internal growth strategies with a focus on vertical integration rather than strategies of acquisition to vertical integration. They are initiating cooperation strategies, and some cooperatives in the region of Campos Gerais have made inter cooperation. According to the taxonomy of Miles and Snow (1978), it was possible to observe that the cooperatives in the region of the Triângulo Mineiro (nine) showed characteristics of analytical strategy because they depend and are structured based on one activity or a main production chain, which is more stable and have more dynamic business units, where they take more risks. The cooperatives in the region of Campos Gerais (three) were identified as presenting prospector strategy, where the search for new markets and products is intense and takes them to a dynamic diversification sustained by the their infrastructure and inter cooperation strategies.
ANÁLISE ECONÔMICA DE DIFERENTES SISTEMAS DE ILUMINAÇÃO EM AVIÁRIOS DARK HOUSE
Economic Analysis of Different Lighting Systems in Dark House Avian
Creators: name: Da Rosa, Carolina Obregao
name: Garcia, Rodrigo Garofallo
name: Naas, Irenilza De Alencar
name: Lima, Nilsa Duarte Da Silva
name: Da Costa, Jaqueline Deverino
name: Da Rosa, Carolina Obregao
name: Garcia, Rodrigo Garofallo
name: Naas, Irenilza De Alencar
name: Lima, Nilsa Duarte Da Silva
name: Da Costa, Jaqueline Deverino
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Industrial Poultry
subject: Return on Investment
subject: Light Emitting Diode

description: The present study aimed at evaluating different lighting systems (Fluorescent lamps - FLUO and LED light bulbs) in a commercial broiler house, Dark house. The economic analysis of the Net Present Value (NPV) was used in the benefits of the generated cash flows, and in the Payback period. The economic evaluation of the two lighting systems was carried out using the specifications of the different types of lamps, and the energy consumption was recorded in three commercial broiler farms. The cash flow was evaluated comparing the information of the fluorescent lamp (FLUO) and light emitting diode (LED) systems. The replacement of fluorescent lamps by LED lamps can generate considerable savings of electricity during the production cycle of the broilers, besides presenting suitable conditions for the rearing environment inside the houses. However, with the current cost of LED bulbs, the system has proven to be unsuitable within the lamp life cycle.