cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect Of Generic Positioning Strategy On Organizational Performance Of Pharmaceutical Firms
Creators: name: Asefa, Selamawit
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: In growing economies, Competition among firms is fierce and that is why firms need to position themselves differently from competitors and it has to be in a sustainable form. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of generic positioning strategies on organizational performance of pharmaceutical firms. A descriptive survey was undertaken. The population of the study consisted of 50 firms of those 45 was undertaken. From the findings most pharmaceutical firms, to a great extent differentiation strategy and cost leadership strategy were the main strategies used by the firms. Further research to establish factors that lead to changes in firms' competitive strategies within the pharmaceutical industry is recommended. It is also recommended that Multinational pharmaceutical wholesalers should not try to compete with firms on price; instead they need to market their products as aspirational products for the uppermost earners
The role of glutamatergic pathway between septum and hippocampus in the memory formation
Creators: name: Eidi, Akram
name: Haeri-Rohani, Ali
name: Khakpai, Fatemeh
name: Nasehi, Mohammad
name: Zarrindast, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: hippocampo-septal
subject: hippocampus
subject: learning
subject: memory
subject: septo-hippocampal
subject: septum
subject: 610

description: The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor is a subtype of glutamate receptor that is presented in highest density in the hippocampus and septum. NMDA receptors of the septum and the hippocampus are involved in cognitive performance, especially in learning and memory processes. The septum nucleus and hippocampal formation are two regions of the limbic system. The septum and the hippocampus are anatomically and functionally connected to each other. These areas made the septo-hippocampal and hippocampo-septal pathways, which are implicated in the cognitive processes. The activity of septal and hippocampal neurons is modulated by several neurotransmitters such as glutamate. Thus, changes in the glutamatergic transmission in the septum and hippocampus may influence learning and memory processes in these pathways.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Looking at the real : an approach to meaning, in painting, printmaking and drawing, through landscape and the figure
Creators: name: Drew, Jason Livingston.
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.
Influences of Granular Constraints and Surface Effects on the Heterogeneity of Elastic, Superelastic, and Plastic Responses of Polycrystalline Shape Memory Alloys
Creators: name: Paranjape, Harshad M.
name: Paul, Partha P.
name: Sharma, Hemant
name: Kenesei, Peter
name: Park, Jun-Sang
name: Duerig, T. W.
name: Brinson, L. Catherine
name: Stebner, Aaron P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deformation heterogeneities within microstructures of polycrystalline shape memory alloys (SMAs) during superelastic stressing are studied using both experiments and simulations. In situ X-ray diffraction, specifically the far-field high energy diffraction microscopy (ff-HEDM) technique was used to non-destructively measure the grain-averaged statistics of position, crystal orientation, elastic strain tensor and volume for hundreds of austenite grains in a superelastically loaded nickel-titanium (NiTi) SMA. This experimental data were also used to create a synthetic microstructure within a finite element model. The development of intragranular stresses were then simulated during tensile loading of the model using anisotropic elasticity. Driving forces for phase transformation and slip were calculated from these stresses. The grain-average responses of individual austenite crystals examined before and after multiple stress-induced transformation events showed that grains at the specimen interior carry more stress and plastically deform less than the surface grains as the superelastic response shakes down. Examination of the heterogeneity within individual grains showed that regions near grain boundaries exhibit larger stress variation compared to the grain interiors. This intragranular heterogeneity is more strongly driven by the constraints of neighboring grains than the initial stress state and orientation of the individual grains.
High-resolution APEX/LAsMA $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO (3-2) observation of the G333 giant molecular cloud complex : I. Evidence for gravitational acceleration in hub-filament systems
Creators: name: Zhou, J. W.
name: Wyrowski, F.
name: Neupane, S.
name: Urquhart, J. S.
name: Evans, N. J.
name: Vázquez-Semadeni, E.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Gong, Y.
name: Liu, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hub-filament systems are suggested to be the birth cradles of high-mass stars and clusters. We apply the FILFINDER algorithm to the integrated intensity maps of the 13CO (3-2) line to identify filaments in the G333 complex, and extract the velocity and intensity along the filament skeleton from moment maps. Clear velocity and density fluctuations are seen along the filaments, allowing us to fit velocity gradients around the intensity peaks. The velocity gradients fitted to the LAsMA data and ALMA data agree with each other over the scales covered by ALMA observations in the ATOMS survey. Changes of velocity gradient with scale indicate a ''funnel'' structure of the velocity field in PPV space, indicative of a smooth, continuously increasing velocity gradient from large to small scales, and thus consistent with gravitational acceleration. The typical velocity gradient corresponding to a 1 pc scale is ~1.6km/s/pc. Assuming free-fall, we estimate a kinematic mass within 1 pc of ~1190 M$_\odot$, which is consistent with typical masses of clumps in the ATLASGAL survey. We find direct evidence for gravitational acceleration from comparison of the observed accelerations to those predicted by free-fall onto dense hubs. On large scales, we find that the inflow may be driven by the larger scale structure, consistent with hierarchical structure in the molecular cloud and gas inflow from large to small scales. The hub-filament structures at different scales may be organized into a hierarchical system extending up to the largest scales probed, through the coupling of gravitational centers at different scales. We argue that the ''funnel'' structure in PPV space can be an effective probe for the gravitational collapse motions in molecular clouds. The large scale gas inflow is driven by gravity, implying that the molecular clouds in G333 complex may be in the state of global gravitational collapse.
Observational properties of a bright type Iax SN 2018cni and a faint type Iax SN 2020kyg
Creators: name: Singh, Mridweeka
name: Sahu, Devendra. K.
name: Dastidar, Raya
name: Barna, Barnabas
name: Misra, Kuntal
name: Gangopadhyay, Anjasha
name: Howell, D. Andrew
name: Jha, Saurabh W.
name: Im, Hyobin
name: Taggart, Kirsty
name: Andrews, Jennifer
name: Hiramatsu, Daichi
name: Teja, Rishabh Singh
name: Pellegrino, Craig
name: Foley, Ryan J.
name: Joshi, Arti
name: Anupama, G. C.
name: Bostroem, K. Azalee
name: Burke, Jamison
name: Camacho-Neves, Yssavo
name: Dutta, Anirban
name: Kwok, Lindsey A.
name: McCully, Curtis
name: Pan, Yen-Chen
name: Siebert, Matt
name: Srivastav, Shubham
name: Szalai, Tamas
name: Swift, Jonathan J.
name: Yang, Grace
name: Zhou, Henry
name: DiLullo, Nico
name: Scheer, Jackson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the optical photometric and spectroscopic analysis of two type Iax SNe 2018cni and 2020kyg. SN 2018cni is a bright type Iax SN (M$_{V,peak}$ = $-$17.81$\pm$0.21 mag) whereas SN 2020kyg (M$_{V,peak}$ = $-$14.52$\pm$0.21 mag) is a faint one. We derive $^{56}$Ni mass of 0.07 and 0.002 M${_\odot}$, ejecta mass of 0.48 and 0.14 M${_\odot}$ for SNe 2018cni and 2020kyg, respectively. A combined study of the bright and faint type Iax SNe in $R/r$- band reveals that the brighter objects tend to have a longer rise time. However, the correlation between the peak luminosity and decline rate shows that bright and faint type Iax SNe exhibit distinct behaviour. Comparison with standard deflagration models suggests that SN 2018cni is consistent with the deflagration of a CO white dwarf whereas the properties of SN 2020kyg can be better explained by the deflagration of a hybrid CONe white dwarf. The spectral features of both the SNe point to the presence of similar chemical species but with different mass fractions. Our spectral modelling indicates stratification at the outer layers and mixed inner ejecta for both the SNe.
description: 18 pages, 18 figures, Accepted for Publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Bridging the static patches: de Sitter holography and entanglement
Creators: name: Franken, Victor
name: Partouche, Hervé
name: Rondeau, François
name: Toumbas, Nicolaos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of de Sitter static-patch holography, two prescriptions have been put forward for holographic entanglement entropy computations, the monolayer and bilayer proposals. In this paper, we reformulate both prescriptions in a covariant way and extend them to include quantum corrections. We argue that the bilayer proposal is self-consistent, while the monolayer proposal exhibits contradictory behavior. In fact, the bilayer proposal leads to a stronger holographic description, in which the full spacetime is encoded on two screens at the cosmological horizons. At the classical level, we find large degeneracies of minimal extremal homologous surfaces, localized at the horizons, which can be lifted by quantum corrections. The entanglement wedges of subregions of the screens exhibit non-trivial behaviors, hinting at the existence of interesting phase transitions and non-locality in the holographic theory. In particular, while each screen encodes its corresponding static patch, we show that the entanglement wedge of the screen with the larger quantum area extends and covers the causal diamond between the screens, with a phase transition occurring when the quantum areas of the screens become equal. We argue that the capacity of the screens to encode the region between them is lost, when these are pushed further in the static patches of the observers and placed on stretched horizons.
description: 83 pages, 11 figures. Published version
The Effect Of Corporate Social Responsibility On Market Share: A Case Of Brewery Industry In Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Lemma, Ephrem
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: In recent years, Corporate Social Responsibility has been attracting heightened attention throughout the world. Stakeholder expectations of the business have increasingly ranged from maximum profits to strong levels of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Previous research into effects of CSR on Business Operations and Performance has yielded mixed results. Research on CSR in the Ethiopia context has however been minimal. Business managers in Ethiopia have actively embraced CSR in recent years, but there are still questions on how CSR affects the business operations and Market Share. The study has been conducted on the basis of the quantitative and qualitative research techniques to assess the nature or practice of CSR and effect of CSR on Market share in the selected brewery industries located in Addis Ababa. Data were collected through questionnaire. elicit their perception about the nature of CSR in their respected companies. Finally, the data collected through the questionnaires were coded, entered into computer and analyzed and presented in the form of tables using SPSS version 20 Software. Hence, it is through analysis of the direct relationships that insight is developed between the dependent and independent variables. Market Share (dependent variable) was found to have a strong positive relationship with CSR (independent Variable) Environmental oriented responsibility, consumer oriented responsibility, and community oriented responsibility, Legal responsibility and Market Share. This dissertation concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings as well as recommendations for further research in the area
title: Институциональная экономика
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2021

description: В учебном пособии изложены особенности и эволюция развития институциональной экономики. Рассмотрены теоретические основы институционализма и предпосылки его появления, охарактеризованы виды институтов, представлены основные положения институциональных теорий, рассмотрены проблемы теневой экономики и импорта институтов. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по направлению подготовки 38.03.01 «Экономика», изучающих дисциплину «Институциональная экономика».
title: Reduced Form Credit Risk Models and the Second Dimension Risk Premium
title: Technical Foundations, Estimation and Applications
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Vogt, Jonas
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: credit risk
subject: reduced form credit risk models
subject: sovereign credit risk
subject: 310

description: Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit Kreditrisiko-Modellen "reduzierter Form" (Reduced Form Credit Risk Models) zur Analyse staatlicher Kreditrisiken. In diesen Modellen wird der Insolvenzprozess dem Namen entsprechend in reduzierter Form modelliert: Erste Sprünge von Poisson-Prozessen sollen hier Kreditereignisse darstellen. Auf eine tiefergehende Abbildung der finanziellen Situation der Einheit wird verzichtet und die Modelle für verschiedene Einheiten unterscheiden sich lediglich in den Sprungintensitäten der jeweiligen Poisson- Prozesse. Die Intensitäten bzw. die Intensitätsprozesse, die die Modelle für bestimmte Einheiten charakterisieren, können entweder als deterministisch oder als stochastisch modelliert werden. Im letzteren Fall werden die Modelle in der Regel als "doppel stochastisch" (doubly stochastic) bezeichnet. Dabei werden die Intensitätsprozesse als Diffusionsprozesse modelliert. In dieser Dissertation werden technische Grundlagen und die Funktionsweise dieser Modelle erörtert. Weiterhin wird im wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischen Rahmen dargestellt, wie man anhand dieser Modelle analysieren kann, welche Rolle eine mögliche Stochastik der Kreditausfallswahrscheinlichkeit bei der Bildung von Kreditwertpapierpreisen spielt. Eine Strategie zur Schätzung solcher Modelle unter zwei Massen anhand von Zeitreihendaten wird ebenfalls diskutiert und evaluiert. Anhand dieser Strategie werden Modelle für verschiedene europ äische Länder geschätzt. Basierend darauf wird im Hinblick auf die europäische Finanzkrise analysiert, welche Rolle die Stochastik der Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeit bei der Bildung von Kreditkosten für diese Länder spielt. Weiterhin wird in diesem Zusammenhang evaluiert, wie gut die Modellierung der Kreditkosten anhand von Kreditrisiko-Modellen reduzierter Form für diese Länder funktioniert und wie gut die geschätzten Modelle zur Prognose von Kreditwertpapierpreisen geeignet sind.
Temperature dependence of the NMR spin-lattice relaxation rate for spin-1/2 chains
Creators: name: Coira, E.
name: Barmettler, P.
name: Giamarchi, T.
name: Kollath, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use recent developments in the framework of time dependent matrix product state method (t-MPS) to compute the NMR relaxation rate $1/T_1$ for spin-1/2 chains under magnetic field and for different Hamiltonians (XXX, XXZ, isotropically dimerized). We compute numerically the temperature dependence of the $1/T_1$. We consider both gapped and gapless phases, and also the proximity of quantum critical points. At temperatures much lower than the typical exchange energy scale our results are in excellent agreement with analytical results, such as the ones derived from the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) theory and bosonization which are valid in this regime. We also cover the regime for which the temperature $T$ is comparable to the exchange coupling. In this case analytical theories are not appropriate but this regime is relevant for various new compounds with exchange couplings in the range of tens of Kelvin. For the gapped phases, either the fully polarized phase for spins chains or the low magnetic field phase for the dimerized systems, we find an exponential decrease in $Δ/(k_BT)$ of the relaxation time and can compute the gap $Δ$. Close to the quantum critical point our results are in good agreement with the a scaling behavior based on the existence of free excitations.
Lee’s treatment effect bounds for non-random sample selection - an implementation in Stata
Creators: name: Tauchmann, Harald
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: attrition
subject: bounds
subject: non-parametric
subject: randomized trial
subject: sample selection
subject: treatment effect
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Non-random sample selection may render estimated treatment effects biased even if assignment of treatment is purely random. Lee (2009) proposes an estimator for treatment effect bounds that limit the possible range of the treatment effect. In this approach, the lower and upper bound, respectively, correspond to extreme assumptions about the missing information, which are consistent with the observed data. As opposed to conventional parametric approaches to correcting for sample selection bias, Lee's bounds estimator rests on very few assumptions. We introduce the new Stata command leebounds that implements the estimator in Stata. The command allows for several options, such as tightening bounds by the use of covariates.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;35/2013
Holistic Processing and Part Bias
Creators: name: Curby, Kim
name: Pack, Chloe
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This study will use a modified ‘composite face task’, where the proportion of cued ‘top’ or ‘bottom’ halves of faces will be altered, to determine whether creating a bias to attend to one half of the face will impact the degree to which people process faces holistically.
Detection of multiple structural breaks in multivariate time series
Creators: name: Dette, Holger
name: Preuß, Philip
name: Puchstein, Ruprecht
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Multiple structural breaks
subject: Cusum test
subject: Empirical process
subject: Nonparametric spectral estimates
subject: Multivariate time series
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: We propose a new nonparametric procedure for the detection and estimation of multiple structural breaks in the autocovariance function of a multivariate (second- order) piecewise stationary process, which also identifies the components of the series where the breaks occur. The new method is based on a comparison of the estimated spectral distribution on different segments of the observed time series and consists of three steps: it starts with a consistent test, which allows to prove the existence of structural breaks at a controlled type I error. Secondly, it estimates sets containing possible break points and finally these sets are reduced to identify the relevant structural breaks and corresponding components which are responsible for the changes in the autocovariance structure. In contrast to all other methods which have been proposed in the literature, our approach does not make any parametric assumptions, is not especially designed for detecting one single change point and addresses the problem of multiple structural breaks in the autocovariance function directly with no use of the binary segmentation algorithm. We prove that the new procedure detects all components and the corresponding locations where structural breaks occur with probability converging to one as the sample size increases and provide data-driven rules for the selection of all regularization parameters. The results are illustrated by analyzing financial returns, and in a simulation study it is demonstrated that the new procedure outperforms the currently available nonparametric methods for detecting breaks in the dependency structure of multivariate time series.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;33/2013
Why do U.S. banks contribute more to global systemic risk
Creators: name: Bostandzic, Denefa
name: Weiß, Gregor N.F.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: bank regulation
subject: capital regulation
subject: financial crises
subject: non-interest income
subject: systemic risk
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: We show that U.S. banks are more exposed and contribute more to systemic risk in the global financial system than European banks. We find that banks become systemically relevant if they rely too strongly on non-interest income, less traditional lending and if the quality of their loan portfolio decreases. More stringent capital regulations and more independent supervisory agencies improve financial stability. As we match European and U.S. banks based on firm size and valuation, the differences we find in the banks’ systemic relevance cannot be explained by the too-big-to-fail or charter value hypotheses.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;36/2013
Domain wall profiles in Co/Ir$_n$/Pt(111) ultrathin films: influence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
Creators: name: Vida, Gy. J.
name: Simon, E.
name: Rózsa, L.
name: Palotás, K.
name: Szunyogh, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a study of domain walls in Co/Ir$_n$/Pt(111) (n = 0,1,...,6) films by a combined approach of first-principles calculations and spin dynamics simulations. We determine the tensorial exchange interactions and the magnetic anisotropies for the Co overlayer in both FCC and HCP geometries, depending on the number of Ir buffer layers. We find strong ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor isotropic exchange interactions between the Co atoms and an out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy for the films in FCC geometry. Our simulations show that the magnetic domain walls are of Néel type, and their rotational sense (chirality) is changed upon the insertion of an Ir buffer layer as compared to the pristine Co/Pt(111) system. Our spin dynamics simulations indicate a twisting of the spins with respect to the planar domain wall profile on the triangular lattice. We discuss this domain wall twisting using symmetry arguments and in terms of an appropriate micromagnetic continuum model considering extra energy terms compared to the available literature.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Factors affecting the adoption of healthcare information technology
Creators: name: Naenna, Thanakorn
name: Phichitchaisopa, Nisakorn
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Healthcare Information Technology
subject: technology acceptance
subject: Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)
subject: 610

description: In order to improve the quality and performance of healthcare services, healthcare information technology is among the most important technology in healthcare supply chain management. This study sets out to apply and test the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), to examine the factors influencing healthcare Information Technology (IT) services. A structured questionnaire was developed and distributed to healthcare representatives in each province surveyed in Thailand. Data collected from 400 employees including physicians, nurses, and hospital staff members were tested the model using structural equation modeling technique. The results found that the factors with a significant effect are performance expectancy, effort expectancy and facilitating conditions. They were also found to have a significant impact on behavioral intention to use the acceptance healthcare technology. In addition, in Thai provincial areas, positive significance was found with two factors: social influence on behavioral intention and facilitating conditions to direct using behavior. Based on research findings, in order for healthcare information technology to be widely adopted and used by healthcare staffs in healthcare supply chain management, the healthcare organizational management should improve healthcare staffs’ behavioral intention and facilitating conditions.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Analysis of nucleon electromagnetic form factors from light-front holographic QCD : The spacelike region
Creators: name: Sufian, Raza Sabbir
name: de Téramond, Guy F.
name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
name: Deur, Alexandre
name: Dosch, Hans Günter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive analysis of the spacelike nucleon electromagnetic form factors and their flavor decomposition within the framework of light-front holographic QCD. We show that the inclusion of the higher Fock components $\ket {qqqq\bar{q}}$ has a significant effect on the spin-flip elastic Pauli form factor and almost zero effect on the spin-conserving Dirac form factor. We present light-front holographic QCD results for the proton and neutron form factors at any momentum transfer range, including asymptotic predictions, and show that our results agree with the available experimental data with high accuracy. In order to correctly describe the Pauli form factor we need an admixture of a five quark state of about 30$\%$ in the proton and about 40$\%$ in the neutron. We also extract the nucleon charge and magnetic radii and perform a flavor decomposition of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors. The free parameters needed to describe the experimental nucleon form factors are very few: two parameters for the probabilities of higher Fock states for the spin-flip form factor and a phenomenological parameter $r$, required to account for possible SU(6) spin-flavor symmetry breaking effects in the neutron, whereas the Pauli form factors are normalized to the experimental values of the anomalous magnetic moments. The covariant spin structure for the Dirac and Pauli nucleon form factors prescribed by AdS$_5$ semiclassical gravity incorporates the correct twist scaling behavior from hard scattering and also leads to vector dominance at low energy.
description: Appendix and asymptotic lines in the figures were not included in the previous version, Version published in PRD
Factors affecting urban services and infrastructure provision In Sululta town From multi stake holders views
Creators: name: Hailu, Negewo
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The main objective of this study is to assess factors affecting urban service and infrastructure provision in Sululta town Oromia special zone surrounding Finfinne. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the study. In addition, primary and secondary data were collected and used for analysis. The primary data were collected using semi-structured questionnaire. The researcher used 180 samples of which 150 were dwellers and 30 employees/experts from 6 urban service provision sectors selected for the study based on what affects urban service and infrastructure provision. In addition, secondary data were collected from reports of sululta town planning commission, Sululta city administration and reports of other infrastructure provision sectors to undertake trend analysis for five years (2011/12 – 2015/16) on selected sectors. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Microsoft Excel presented through tables, percentages and figures. Results of the study revealed that, shortage of coverage of infrastructures like water, road and drainage; electric power, health centers and schools affects urban services. On the basis of the findings of the study it is possible to say that urban infrastructure provision is at its lower stage. Furthermore, there is investment opportunity in the town, but their contribution is at its low level and requires participating on urban infrastructure provisions. Therefore, proper emphasis is expected to minimize the factors affecting urban infrastructure provision of the town and to enhance its coverage by coordination of the dwellers, different sectors and municipality together to attain their plan. This is because Coordination of the municipality between infrastructure provision sectors was not strong. This is one of the major areas which needed to solve factors affecting urban service and infrastructure provision overall in the town. Therefore prospects of factors affecting urban service and infrastructure provision have to be given attention to solve out systematically and strategically by respective authorities given the existing supply gap and highly growing urban service and infrastructure demand in the town.
Risk Communication and Climate Justice Planning: A Case of Michigan’s Huron River Watershed
Creators: name: Cheng, Chingwen
name: Tsai, Jiun-Yi
name: Yang, Y.C. Ethan
name: Esselman, Rebecca
name: Kalcic, Margaret
name: Xu, Xin
name: Mohai, Paul
Publisher: name: Cogitatio
Year: 2017
Subjects: climate change planning
climate justice
risk communication
risk perception
social sustainability
vulnerability

description: Communicating climate risks is crucial when engaging the public to support climate action planning and addressing climate justice. How does evidence-based communication influence local residents’ risk perception and potential behavior change in support of climate planning? Built upon our previous study of Climate Justice maps illustrating high scores of both social and ecological vulnerability in Michigan’s Huron River watershed, USA, a quasi-experiment was conducted to examine the effects of Climate Justice mapping intervention on residents’ perceptions and preparedness for climate change associated hazards in Michigan. Two groups were compared: residents in Climate Justice areas with high social and ecological vulnerability scores in the watershed (n =76) and residents in comparison areas in Michigan (n =69). Measurements for risk perception include perceived exposure, sensitivity, and adaptability to hazards. Results indicate that risk information has a significant effect on perceived sensitivity and level of preparedness for future climate extremes among participants living in Climate Justice areas. Findings highlight the value of integrating scientific risk assessment information in risk communication to align calculated and perceived risks. This study suggests effective risk communication can influence local support of climate action plans and implementation of strategies that address climate justice and achieve social sustainability in local communities.
A new set of improved value-at-risk backtests
Creators: name: Berens, Tobias
name: Weiß, Gregor N.F.
name: Wied, Dominik
name: Ziggel, Daniel
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: backtesting
subject: Monte Carlo simulation
subject: Value-at-Risk
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: We propose a new set of formal backtests for VaR-forecasts that significantly improve upon existing backtesting procedures. Our new test of unconditional coverage can be used for both directional and non-directional testing and is thus able to test separately whether a VaR-model is too conservative or underestimates the actual risk exposure. Second, we stress the importance of testing the property of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) VaRexceedances and propose a simple approach that explicitly tests for the presence of clusters in VaR-violation processes. Results from a simulation study indicate that our tests significantly outperform competing backtests in several distinct settings. In addition, the empirical analysis of a unique data set consisting of asset returns of an asset manager’s portfolios underline the usefulness of our new backtests especially in times of market turmoil.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;29/2013
Entanglement Continuous Unitary Transformations
Creators: name: Sahin, S.
name: Schmidt, K. P.
name: Orus, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous unitary transformations are a powerful tool to extract valuable information out of quantum many-body Hamiltonians, in which the so-called flow equation transforms the Hamiltonian to a diagonal or block-diagonal form in second quantization. Yet, one of their main challenges is how to approximate the infinitely-many coupled differential equations that are produced throughout this flow. Here we show that tensor networks offer a natural and non-perturbative truncation scheme in terms of entanglement. The corresponding scheme is called "entanglement-CUT" or eCUT. It can be used to extract the low-energy physics of quantum many-body Hamiltonians, including quasiparticle energy gaps. We provide the general idea behind eCUT and explain its implementation for finite 1d systems using the formalism of matrix product operators. We also present proof-of-principle results for the spin-1/2 1d quantum Ising model and the 3-state quantum Potts model in a transverse field. Entanglement-CUTs can also be generalized to higher dimensions and to the thermodynamic limit.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, 1 algorithm. Revised version, to appear in EPL
A new Australian flag : national identity, reconciliation and acceptance
Creators: name: Kennedy, Russell John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Assessment Of Impact Of Marketing Strategy On Market Performance The Case Of St. George Beer Factory
Creators: name: Abebe, Andnet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: This research was conduct on the impact of marketing strategy on market performance: The Case of St. George Beer Factory. The main objective of the research is to assessing the impact of Marketing strategy namely product strategy, price strategy, promotional strategy and distribution strategy on Market Performance of the factory. In order to relate the findings of the study, adequate review of related literature and documents and the methodology employed was descriptive survey with quantitative data analysis method. A survey was conducted by taking judgmental samples of 50 employees of the factory. Data analysis was done by using frequency, percentage and descriptive statistics, summarize, conclude and recommend the kindling based on the point of the questioner answer of the respondent. The finding of the study revealed that the product the factory offer to the market differentiate from the competitor's products and the beer is perceived by customers as a product that has average value in terms of the price paid for it and the company is promoting its products using different promotional activities such as personal selling, price discount, media advertising and billboard.
Metamagnetic transition in the two $f$ orbitals Kondo lattice model
Creators: name: Thomas, Christopher
name: Burdin, Sébastien
name: Lacroix, Claudine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study the effects of a transverse magnetic field in a Kondo lattice model with two $f$ orbitals interacting with the conduction electrons. The $f$ electrons that are present on the same site interact through Hund's coupling, while on neighboring sites they interact through intersite exchange. We consider here that part of $f$ electrons are localized (orbital 1) while another part (orbital 2) are delocalized, as it is frequent in uranium systems. Then, only electrons in the localized orbital 1 interact through exchange interaction with the neighboring ones, while electrons in orbital 2 are coupled with conduction electrons through a Kondo interaction. We obtain a solution where ferromagnetism and Kondo effect coexist for small values of an applied transverse magnetic field for $T\rightarrow0$. Increasing the transverse field, two situations can be obtained when Kondo coupling vanishes: first, a metamagnetic transition occurs just before or at the same time of the fully polarized state, and second, a metamagnetic transition occurs when the spins are already pointing out along the magnetic field.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Urmiasee, Tepe Leilan, Tepe Dalma, Nordwest-Iran, Neubeginn am Urmiasee. Ein Beitrag zur Neolithisierung in Iran. Die Arbeiten ab 2020
Creators: name: Thomalsky, Judith
Publisher: name: e-Forschungsberichte
Year: 2023

description: NW-Iran can be regarded as a cultural intermediate zone between the Iranian Highland, Northern Mesopotamia, South-eastern Turkey and the South-Caucasus. Archaeological research has a long history from the 1930s onwards, starting with the first visits of Sir Aurel Stein (1940) and Erich Schmidt’s airplane over Lake Urmia. Early investigations in South and East of Lake Urmia provided a regional sequence from the Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic – Bronze Age – Iron Age (Hasanlu X – ­Hasanlu II-I) that is roughly valid until today. Our understanding of the origin and formation processes of the Neolithic period in the Urmia Basin underlies a conventional model of a fully developed »package« that appears to have migrated from a Zagros core region elsewhere on the Irani-an Plateau during the early 6th millennium BC. Actually, the process can be regarded as diverse and rather complex, due to the high potential of possible interaction with adjacent regions and the possibility of additional possible regional developments for instance in the hilly flanks of the Alborz mountains along the South-Caspian shoreline. DAI Teheran started new investigations in the Lake Urmia region in order to gather new data and for a better understanding of the neoltihic process(es) in this particular interconnective region.
description: e-Forschungsberichte, Faszikel 1 (2023)
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 21/2007
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderungsordnung zur Verwaltungs- und Benutzungsordnung für die Sozialforschungsstelle der Technischen Universität Dortmund (sfs) vom 25.06.2007
description: Beitragsordnung der Studierendenschaft der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Berichtigung der Master-Prüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Polymerwissenschaften vom 12.07.2007
description: Praktikumsordnung für die Bachelorstudiengänge Bioingenieurwesen und Chemieingenieurwesen der Fakultät Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 14.12.2007
description: Prüfungsordnung für den Bachelorstudiengang Bioingenieurwesen und Chemieingenieurwesen der Fakultät Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 14.12.2007
description: Prüfungsordnung für die Master-Studiengänge Chemieingenieurwesen und Bioingenieurwesen der Fakultät Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen an der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 14.12.2007
description: Zulassungsordnung für die Masterstudiengänge Chemieingenieurwesen und Bioingenieurwesen der Fakultät Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 14.12.2007
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 2007, 21
Exploring the effect of meat reduction social norm messages on food purchases in a New Zealand university food outlet.
Creators: name: Patel, Vibhuti
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Experimental Analysis of Behavior
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Food Studies

description: This is a registration of the study protocol before data collection begins.
Electrons, holes, and spin in the IV-VI monolayer 'four-six-enes'
Creators: name: Appelbaum, Ian
name: Li, Pengke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bandedge states in the indirect-gap group-IV metal monochalcogenide monolayers ('four-six-enes' such as SnS, GeTe, etc.) inherit the properties of nearby reciprocal space points of high symmetry at the Brillouin zone edge. We employ group theory and the method of invariants to capture these essential symmetries in effective Hamiltonians including spin-orbit coupling, and use perturbation theory to shed light on the nature of the bandedge states. In particular, we show how the structure of derived wavefunctions leads to specific dominant momentum and spin scattering mechanisms for both valence holes and conduction electrons, we analyze the direct optical transitions across the bandgap, and expose the interactions responsible for subtle features of the local dispersion relations.
Investigating star formation activity in the Sh 2-61 H II region
Creators: name: Pandey, Rakesh
name: Sharma, Saurabh
name: Dewangan, Lokesh
name: Verma, Aayushi
name: Baug, Tapas
name: Kaur, Harmeen
name: Ghosh, Arpan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the multiwavelength data sets, we studied the star formation activity in H II region Sh 2-61 (hereafter S61). We identified a clustering in the region and estimated the membership using the Gaia proper motion data. The physical environment of S61 is inspected using infrared to radio wavelength images. We also determined the Lyman continuum flux associated with the H II region and found that the H II region is formed by at least two massive stars (S1 and S2). We also analyzed the 12CO (J =3-2) JCMT data of S61, and a shell structure accompanying three molecular clumps are observed towards S61. We found that the ionized gas in S61 is surrounded by dust and a molecular shell. Many young stellar objects and three molecular clumps are observed at the interface of the ionized gas and the surrounding gas. The pressure at the interface is higher than in a typical cool molecular cloud.
description: Paper is accepted for the publication in the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
Public Financial Management Practice in Public Institutions: the Case of Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT)
Creators: name: Regassa, Asegid
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of institutional, strategic planning and contributory enablers on implementation of sound budgeting and financial management practice of the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. To explore this study, descriptive research approach was used. Data was gathered using a structured questionnaire and guided interview. Respondents who are directly and indirectly responsible in implementing the ministry's budget and financial management filled the questionnaire. Subsequently, the data was analyzed using SPSS version 20 statistical software. As a whole, the findings of the study revealed that the main independent variables the institutional and contributory enablers have significantly positive effect in achieving sound budgeting and financial management practice. Consequently, all the three sub variable of institutional factors (Normative, Regulative and cultural cognitive) have a positive effect on dependent variables of implementation of sound budgeting and financial management practice of the ministry. In similar result, the overall statistical result of contributory enablers (using information technology-IBEX and staff capacity) have positive effect on implementation of sound budgeting and financial management of the ministry. However, of the two sub variables, staff capacity has a negative effect on implementation of budgeting and financial management of the ministry. On the other hand, as a set the effect of the main variable strategic planning (Stakeholders participation and resource adequacy & predictability) have a positive effect on implementation of budgeting and financial management of the ministry. However, of the two sub variables, the resource adequacy and predictability have a negative effect on implementation of sound budgeting and financial management practice of the ministry. Hence, the result implies that there is a need to fulfill and build capacity of finance and non-finance staff in basics of planning, budgeting and financial management in the ministry. Further, the ministry should give due attention to strengthen the institutional and contributory enablers' factors while not ignoring the effect of staff capacity and resource adequacy to enhance the soundness of budgeting and financial management of the ministry. Key Words: Budgeting and financial management, Strategic planning, Institutional, Contributory enablers