cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Democratic transition and disillusionment: The case of Romania
Creators: name: Pusca, Anca Mihaela
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The post-communist transition in Romania has been a period rife with high hopes and expectations as well as strong disappointments and disillusions. These disillusions have too often been confused with either political apathy or direct reactions to corruption, insecurity and poverty, thus resisting an in-depth examination of the phenomena of disillusionment as an altogether separate concern. This project tries to rectify that by providing a redefinition of the concept of disillusionment in light of the loss of certain strong illusions. Equating the ideology of both communism and capitalism with a particular set of social, political and economic illusions, propagated through different sets of both state and market mechanisms, this project focuses on how some of those illusions were built, maintained and later lost and grieved. The points of entrance for this examination are the 1989 Romanian Revolution along with its contested ideals and illusions, the period immediately following the Revolution marked by the emergence of so-called civil society institutions and the illusions surrounding their role in the democratization process, and finally, an examination of present Romania, fifteen years into the transition, reflecting back on the shock of the transition and its effects on the Romanian landscape---city and ruralscape---and the Romanian people. The birth, development and later loss of each of these illusions marked the beginning of a redefinition of the relationship between state and society, and more importantly, the relationship between present, past and future.
Cetoniinae Leach 1815
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniinae

description: Subfamily CETONIINAE Leach, 1815   Original spelling and citation: Cetonida Leach 1815 a: 99
 Type genus: Cetonia Fabricius, 1775: 42
Remark: Although Cetoniinae has priority over Melolonthinae, the later is in prevailing usage at the family level and must not be displaced by the older name under Article 35.5. This is relevant for authors who consider Melolonthidae to be a family containing the subfamily Cetoniinae.
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, pp. 144-204 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) (mo 5) 60 on page 177, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4911861
Scaling of Star Polymers with one to 80 Arms
Creators: name: Hsu, Hsiao-Ping
name: Nadler, Walter
name: Grassberger, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present large statistics simulations of 3-dimensional star polymers with up to $f=80$ arms, and with up to 4000 monomers per arm for small values of $f$. They were done for the Domb-Joyce model on the simple cubic lattice. This is a model with soft core exclusion which allows multiple occupancy of sites but punishes each same-site pair of monomers with a Boltzmann factor $v<1$. We use this to allow all arms to be attached at the central site, and we use the `magic' value $v=0.6$ to minimize corrections to scaling. The simulations are made with a very efficient chain growth algorithm with resampling, PERM, modified to allow simultaneous growth of all arms. This allows us to measure not only the swelling (as observed from the center-to-end distances), but also the partition sum. The latter gives very precise estimates of the critical exponents $γ_f$. For completeness we made also extensive simulations of linear (unbranched) polymers which give the best estimates for the exponent $γ$.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Colletes daleae Cockerell 1897
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Colletes daleae Cockerell, 1897
[USNM; ♂ Mesilla Park, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico, USA; June 2, 1896] Colletes daleae is abundant within the BCP and has been previously reported in the Central Desert, Magdalena Plains and Gulf Coast with preserved specimen records in BBSL and SEMC (GBIF 2023). We reviewed 24 specimens (19 ♂, 5 ♀) collected in the Lower Colorado Desert, Central Desert, Vizcaíno Desert, and Gulf Coast ecoregions vouchered in CASC (Supplementary material 1). Additionally, the BBPT collected 51 specimens (27 ♀, 24 ♂) during recent surveys across the Coastal Sage Matorral, Central Desert, Gulf Coast, and Magdalena Plains (Supplementary material 1). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 154.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Realising and compressing quantum circuits with quantum reservoir computing
Creators: name: Ghosh, Sanjib
name: Krisnanda, Tanjung
name: Paterek, Tomasz
name: Liew, Timothy C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computers require precise control over parameters and careful engineering of the underlying physical system. In contrast, neural networks have evolved to tolerate imprecision and inhomogeneity. Here, using a reservoir computing architecture we show how a random network of quantum nodes can be used as a robust hardware for quantum computing. Our network architecture induces quantum operations by optimising only a single layer of quantum nodes, a key advantage over the traditional neural networks where many layers of neurons have to be optimised. We demonstrate how a single network can induce different quantum gates, including a universal gate set. Moreover, in the few-qubit regime, we show that sequences of multiple quantum gates in quantum circuits can be compressed with a single operation, potentially reducing the operation time and complexity. As the key resource is a random network of nodes, with no specific topology or structure, this architecture is a hardware friendly alternative paradigm for quantum computation.
description: Updated manuscript
Osmodermatina Schenkling 1922
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae

description: Subtribe OSMODERMATINA Schenkling, 1922  Original spelling and citation: Osmodermini Schenkling 1922: 3
 Type genus: Osmoderma LePeletier and Serville, 1828: 702 (LePeletier and Serville, 1828 b)
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, pp. 144-204 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) (mo 5) 60 on page 178, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4911861
Supplementing Metafos and Biomix-DB as growth promoters on the performance of bull calves
Creators: name: Khan, M.
name: Hossain, M. M.
name: Khan, M. A. A.
name: Khan, M.
name: Hossain, M. M.
name: Khan, M. A. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: The effect of two growth promoters Metafos and Biomix-DB was studied under 3 treatment groups having 4 animals in each and designed in RBD on growing crossbred bull calves. The treatment groups were: (i) To = Green grass + concentrate (1.5 kg), (ii) Ti = Green grass + concentrate (1.5 kg)+ Metafos and (iii) T2 =r Green grass + concentrate (1.5 kg)+ Metafos + Biomix-DB. The experiment was conducted for a period of 90 days. Digestion trial was performed in the last part of the experiment. Daily feed intake and weekly live weight gain was recorded. There was no significant (P>0.05) difference in daily dry matter intake among the animals of the treatment groups. The total live weight gain and the daily average live weight gain were 27.75, 32.50 and 45.25 kg and 0.308, 0.361 and 0.503 kg/d for treatments To, Ti and T2 respectively, of which T2 was significantly (P<0.05) higher both in terms of total and daily live weight gain than those of the other treatments. Feed conversion efficiency (DMI/BWG) of different treatment groups were 10.17, 8.43 and 6.01 for To, Ti and 12 respectively, where the value for T2 was significantly (P<0.05) higher than that of To. There was no significant (P>0.05) difference among the treatments for co-efficient of digestibility and nutritive value of different nutrients. The average total costs of To, Ti and T2 treatment group were Tk.4888, Tk.4948 and Tk.5010 respectively. The average net returns from To, Ti and T2 treatment group were Tk. 609, 749 and Tk.1238 respectively. It may concluded that, Metafos (15 ml/animal) combined with Biomix-DB (5 g/5 kg concentrate) may be used for fattening of bull calves which gives better results than Metafos alone or without Metafos.
Fekete-Szeg๖ Inequalities for New Classes of Analytic Functions Associated with Fractional q-Differintegral Operator
Creators: name: Purohit, Sunil Dutt
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2021
Subjects: Convex functions
Starlike functions
Fractional ??-calculus operators
Subordi- nation
Univalent functions

description: Science & Technology Asia, 26, 4, 159-167
Colletes covilleae Timberlake 1951
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Colletes covilleae Timberlake, 1951
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Palm Springs, California, USA; April 20, 1945]
This species is restricted to deserts where its plant host Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville grows (Fowler 2020). Ayala et al. (1996) reported this species in BC. The BBPT collected this species in the Central Desert (3 ♂; BC), Vizcaíno Desert (1 ♂), and Magdalena Plains (1 ♂; BCS) in March 2021. Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 154.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
The Off-shell M5-brane and Non-Perturbative Gauge Theory
Creators: name: de Boer, Jan
name: de Haro, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: M5-branes wrapping a holomorphic curve in a Calabi-Yau manifold can be used to construct four-dimensional N=1 gauge theories. In this paper we will consider M5-brane configurations corresponding to N=2 theories broken to N=1 by a superpotential for the adjoint scalar field. These M5-brane configurations can be obtained by lifting suitable intersecting brane configurations in type IIA, or equivalently by T-dualizing IIB configurations with branes and/or fluxes. We will show that turning on non-trivial expectation values for the glueball superfields corresponds to non-holomorphic deformations of the M5-brane. We compute the superpotential and show it agrees with that computed by Dijkgraaf and Vafa. Several aspects of the gauge theory, such as the appearance of non-holomorphic one-forms with integer periods on the Seiberg-Witten curve, have a natural interpretation from the M5-brane point of view. We also explain the interpretation of the superpotential in terms of the twisted (2,0) theory living on the fivebrane.
description: 30 pages
Farm Wage and Rice Price Dynamics in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Hassan, F.
name: Hassan, F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Concepts regarding wage-price nexus in Bangladesh are diverse and conflicting. A proper understanding of the relationship between food prices and rural wages is essential for policy planning relating to the rural poor. In exploring the link between food prices and rising rural wages, this study critically examines previous studies and updates the dynamic relations by using the monthly data from 1994 to 2106. Vector error correction mechanism (VECM) is implemented to determine the long and short run relationships between wages and food prices. Findings from this study show that in the long run food prices are not a single major factor to explain the variation of rural wages in the national level, and the influence of urban wages become stronger in some places. Additionally, this study discloses the major drivers such as foreign remittances, rainfalls that have a significant impact on farm wages. However, divisions, where changes in wages are not related to food prices, may require different policies regarding poverty and price stability contrast to the divisions where both wages and prices are well cointegrated. Acknowledgement : This research acknowledges the efforts and supports provided by Prof. von Braun from University of Bonn, Naser Ahmed the director general of Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of Bangladesh and Dr. Sajjad Zohir from Economic Research Group (ERG) of Bangladesh.
Democratic transition and disillusionment: The case of Romania
Creators: name: Pusca, Anca Mihaela
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The post-communist transition in Romania has been a period rife with high hopes and expectations as well as strong disappointments and disillusions. These disillusions have too often been confused with either political apathy or direct reactions to corruption, insecurity and poverty, thus resisting an in-depth examination of the phenomena of disillusionment as an altogether separate concern. This project tries to rectify that by providing a redefinition of the concept of disillusionment in light of the loss of certain strong illusions. Equating the ideology of both communism and capitalism with a particular set of social, political and economic illusions, propagated through different sets of both state and market mechanisms, this project focuses on how some of those illusions were built, maintained and later lost and grieved. The points of entrance for this examination are the 1989 Romanian Revolution along with its contested ideals and illusions, the period immediately following the Revolution marked by the emergence of so-called civil society institutions and the illusions surrounding their role in the democratization process, and finally, an examination of present Romania, fifteen years into the transition, reflecting back on the shock of the transition and its effects on the Romanian landscape---city and ruralscape---and the Romanian people. The birth, development and later loss of each of these illusions marked the beginning of a redefinition of the relationship between state and society, and more importantly, the relationship between present, past and future.
Additional file 1 of rGO nanomaterial-mediated cancer targeting and photothermal therapy in a microfluidic co-culture platform
Creators: name: Mun, Seok Gyu
name: Choi, Hyung Woo
name: Lee, Jong Min
name: Lim, Jae Hyun
name: Ha, Jang Ho
name: Kang, Min-Jung
name: Eun-Joong Kim
name: Kang, Lifeng
name: Chung, Bong Geun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Microfluidic co-culture platform with detail dimensions. Figure S2. Schematic synthesis process of rGO-PEG-FA nanomaterials.
Stenotarsiini Kraatz 1880
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae

description: Tribe STENOTARSIINI Kraatz, 1880   Original spelling and citation: Stenotarsiden Kraatz 1880 b: 182
 Type genus: Stenotarsia Burmeister, 1842: 590
Remark: Although this family-group name was not originally proposed in a Latinized form, it has subsequently been Latinized by numerous authors and should be considered available under Article 11.7.2.
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, pp. 144-204 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) (mo 5) 60 on page 179, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4911861
Prospects for macro-level analysis of agricultural innovation systems to enhance the eco-efficiency of farming in developing countries
Creators: name: Grovermann, C.
name: Wossen, T.
name: Muller, A.
name: Nichterlein, K.
name: Grovermann, C.
name: Wossen, T.
name: Muller, A.
name: Nichterlein, K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Agricultural innovation is an essential component in the transition to more sustainable and resilient farming systems across the world. Innovations generally emerge from collective intelligence and action, but innovation systems are often poorly understood. This study explores the properties of innovation systems and their contribution to increased eco-efficiency in agriculture. Using aggregate data and econometric methods, the eco-efficiency of 79 countries was computed and a range of factors relating to research, extension, business and policy was examined. Despite data limitations, the analysis produced significant results. Extension plays an important role in improving the eco-efficiency of agriculture, while agricultural research, under current conditions, has a positive effect on eco-efficiency only in the case of less developed economies. These and other results suggest the importance of context-specific interventions rather than a one size fits all approach. Overall, the analysis illustrated the potential of a macro-level diagnostic approach for assessing the role of innovation systems for sustainability in agriculture. Acknowledgement : The authors would like to thank the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation for funding this research.
Double-Differential Inclusive Charged-Current $ν_μ$ Cross Sections on Hydrocarbon in MINERvA at $\langle E_ν \rangle \sim$ 3.5 GeV
Creators: name: Filkins, A.
name: Ruterbories, D.
name: Liu, Y.
name: Dar, Z. Ahmad
name: Akbar, F.
name: Altinok, O.
name: Andrade, D. A.
name: Ascencio, M. V.
name: Bashyal, A.
name: Bercellie, A.
name: Betancourt, M.
name: Bodek, A.
name: Bonilla, J. L.
name: Bravar, A.
name: Budd, H.
name: Caceres, G.
name: Cai, T.
name: Carneiro, M. F.
name: da Motta, H.
name: Dytman, S. A.
name: Díaz, G. A.
name: Felix, J.
name: Fields, L.
name: Fine, R.
name: Gago, A. M.
name: Gallagher, H.
name: Ghosh, A.
name: Gran, R.
name: Harris, D. A.
name: Henry, S.
name: Jena, S.
name: Jena, D.
name: Kleykamp, J.
name: Kordosky, M.
name: Last, D.
name: Le, T.
name: LeClerc, J.
name: Lozano, A.
name: Lu, X. -G.
name: Maher, E.
name: Manly, S.
name: Mann, W. A.
name: Mauger, C.
name: McFarland, K. S.
name: McGowan, A. M.
name: Messerly, B.
name: Miller, J.
name: Morfín, J. G.
name: Nelson, J. K.
name: Nguyen, C.
name: Norrick, A.
name: Olivier, A.
name: Paolone, V.
name: Perdue, G. N.
name: Ramírez, M. A.
name: Ransome, R. D.
name: Ray, H.
name: Schellman, H.
name: Salinas, C. J. Solano
name: Su, H.
name: Sultana, M.
name: Syrotenko, V. S.
name: Valencia, E.
name: Wospakrik, M.
name: Wret, C.
name: Yaeggy, B.
name: Zazueta, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MINERvA reports inclusive charged-current cross sections for muon neutrinos on hydrocarbon in the NuMI beamline. We measured the double-differential cross section in terms of the longitudinal and transverse muon momenta, as well as the single-differential cross sections in those variables. The data used in this analysis correspond to an exposure of $3.34 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target with a peak neutrino energy of approximately 3.5 GeV. Measurements are compared to the GENIE, NuWro and GiBUU neutrino cross-section predictions, as well as a version of GENIE modified to produce better agreement with prior exclusive MINERvA measurements. None of the models or variants were able to successfully reproduce the data across the entire phase space, which includes areas dominated by each interaction channel.
description: 20 pages, 16 figures
Study of Flow and Heat Transfer of CuO ? Ag / C2H6O2 Hybrid Nanofluid over a Stretching Surface with Porous Media and MHD Effect
Creators: name: Purohit, Sunil Dutt
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2021
Subjects: Hybrid Nanofluid
Marangoni Convection
MHD
Porous media
Stretching Surface

description: Science & Technology Asia, 26, 4, 174-181
Self-Similar Corrections to the Ergodic Theorem for the Pascal-Adic Transformation
Creators: name: Janvresse, Elise
name: de la Rue, Thierry
name: Velenik, Yvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A30; 28A80

description: Let T be the Pascal-adic transformation. For any measurable function g, we consider the corrections to the ergodic theorem sum_{k=0}^{j-1} g(T^k x) - j/l sum_{k=0}^{l-1} g(T^k x). When seen as graphs of functions defined on {0,...,l-1}, we show for a suitable class of functions g that these quantities, once properly renormalized, converge to (part of) the graph of a self-affine function. The latter only depends on the ergodic component of x, and is a deformation of the so-called Blancmange function. We also briefly describe the links with a series of works on Conway recursive $10,000 sequence.
description: version to appear in Stochastics and Dynamics. We added a discussion on the links with Conway 10,000$ recursive sequence
Leucocelina Kraatz 1882
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae

description: Subtribe LEUCOCELINA Kraatz, 1882   Original spelling and citation: Leucoceliden Kraatz 1882 b: 65
 Type genus: Leucocelis Burmeister, 1842: 421
Remark: Although this family-group name was not originally proposed in a Latinized form, it has subsequently been Latinized by numerous authors and should be considered available under Article 11.7.2.
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, pp. 144-204 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) (mo 5) 60 on page 182, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4911861
Cost comparison of climate change mitigation options
Creators: name: Pena-Levano, L.
name: Taheripour, F.
name: Tyner, W.
name: Pena-Levano, L.
name: Taheripour, F.
name: Tyner, W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The global community has reaffirmed its commitment to reduce greenhouse emissions to control the expected increase in the global average temperature. Thus, many governments and private sectors are interested in the cost-efficiency of frequently discussed mitigation methods forest and pasture carbon sequestration (FPCS) subsidy, carbon tax, and biofuels and their impacts on the global economy. We modified our new developed computable general equilibrium for the analysis. We simulate different rates to observe their mitigation potentials. Our results suggest that there is a trade-off between cost-efficiency and emission reduction between policies, where tax can achieve larger emission reductions under the same rate of FPCS but with higher economic costs. Likewise, combining tax and an equivalent subsidy has a larger reduction potential due to the synergistic effects, but food prices increase dramatically. Biofuels proved to be costlier than FPCS or tax. Acknowledgement : We would like to acknowledge and thanks the following institutions: Purdue Research Climate Research Center Ludwig Kruhe Doctoral Fellowship Bilsland Dissertation Doctoral Fellowship For their funding contribution in this research.
A Method for energy estimation and mass composition determination of primary cosmic rays at Chacaltaya observation level based on atmospheric Cerenkov light technique
Creators: name: Mavrodiev, S.
name: Mishev, A.
name: Stamenov, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method for energy and mass composition estimation of primary cosmic ray radiation based on atmospheric Cerenkov light flux in extensive air showers (EAS) analysis is proposed. The Cerenkov light flux in EAS initiated by primary protons and iron nuclei is simulated with CORSIKA 5.62 code for Chacaltaya observation level (536 g/cm2) in the energy range 10 TeV - 10 PeV. An adequate model, approximation of lateral distribution of Cerenkov light in showers is obtained. Using the proposed model and solution of overdetermined system of nonlinear equations based on Gauss Newton method with autoregularization, two different array detector arrangements are compared. The detector response for the detector sets is simulated. The accuracies in energy and shower axis determination are studied and the corresponding selection criteria are proposed. An approximation with nonlinear fit is obtained and the energy dependence of the proposed model function parameters is studied. The approximation of model parameters as function of the primary energy is carried out. This permits, taking into account the properties of the proposed method and model, to distinguish proton primaries from iron primaries. The detector response for the detector sets is simulated and the accuracies in energy determination are calculated. Moreover the accuracies in shower axis determination are studied and criteria in shower axis position estimation are proposed.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, submitted in NIM-A
Szenario: SZ-SB-III-1-04 Berufsschüler*in vernetzt sich mit Berufsschüler*in einer anderen Berufsschule
Creators: name: Peil, Ricarda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: BIRD
Bildungsraum Digital
Lernpfadfinder
Buddy Finder
Ausbildung
Vernetzung

description: Die Anforderungen für das BIRD-Portal wurden mithilfe von Szenario-basiertem Design abgeleitet. Die zugrundeliegende Szenariensammlung soll nun Schritt für Schritt veröffentlicht werden.
"Girls on the loose"? Women's wartime adventures in the nation's capital, 1941--1945
Creators: name: Gueli, Cynthia
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Washington, D.C. functioned as America's central military and political command post during World War II. Among the newcomers flooding into the city to support the war effort were tens of thousands of women eager to become Government Girls, Army WACs, Navy WAVES, Women Marines, and Coast Guard SPARS. These members of the "army on the Potomac" enjoyed newfound employment opportunities and social freedom but also faced an incredible housing shortage, gender and racial prejudice, and an urban infrastructure unfit to meet the demands of the city's frenetically expanding needs. This dissertation places women at the center of Washington, D.C.'s World War II story and allows the reader to appreciate the little known efforts of home front female government and military workers as well as to understand the complex social, cultural, and gender interplay occurring in the "first city of the world." It explores the experiences that Government Girls and servicewomen had, the opportunities presented to them, and the problems they encountered. It examines how and why a community of women developed in Washington during the war; it analyzes the social conflicts in which Government Girls were involved and the social and economic pressures their presence created on others. It explores how the women who relocated to Washington developed wartime identities that distinguished them from peacetime workers and helped create a vibrant, if short-lived, professional network of women.
Quantum Systems and Alternative Unitary Descriptions
Creators: name: Marmo, G.
name: Simoni, A.
name: Ventriglia, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the existence of bi-Hamiltonian classical systems and the correspondence principle, in this paper we analyze the problem of finding Hermitian scalar products which turn a given flow on a Hilbert space into a unitary one. We show how different invariant Hermitian scalar products give rise to different descriptions of a quantum system in the Ehrenfest and Heisenberg picture.
description: 18 pages
"Girls on the loose"? Women's wartime adventures in the nation's capital, 1941--1945
Creators: name: Gueli, Cynthia
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: Washington, D.C. functioned as America's central military and political command post during World War II. Among the newcomers flooding into the city to support the war effort were tens of thousands of women eager to become Government Girls, Army WACs, Navy WAVES, Women Marines, and Coast Guard SPARS. These members of the "army on the Potomac" enjoyed newfound employment opportunities and social freedom but also faced an incredible housing shortage, gender and racial prejudice, and an urban infrastructure unfit to meet the demands of the city's frenetically expanding needs. This dissertation places women at the center of Washington, D.C.'s World War II story and allows the reader to appreciate the little known efforts of home front female government and military workers as well as to understand the complex social, cultural, and gender interplay occurring in the "first city of the world." It explores the experiences that Government Girls and servicewomen had, the opportunities presented to them, and the problems they encountered. It examines how and why a community of women developed in Washington during the war; it analyzes the social conflicts in which Government Girls were involved and the social and economic pressures their presence created on others. It explores how the women who relocated to Washington developed wartime identities that distinguished them from peacetime workers and helped create a vibrant, if short-lived, professional network of women.
The information content of the term structure of forward premia: Spot exchange rate forecasting and monetary policy rules
Creators: name: Mouoyebe-Ndedi, Charles F.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: Clarida and Taylor (1993) and Clarida et al. (2001) offer a new alternative for nominal spot exchange-rate forecasting. They show that they can improve on forecasting the spot exchange rate over the random walk by using the combination of the full term structure of forward premia and a non-linear model. This dissertation proposes an extension of the Clarida and Taylor framework Markov-switching model where the dynamics of the spot and forward exchange rate is tied to the term structure of interest rates. We motivate theoretically how an endogenous Markov switching model will emerge from a small open economy monetary model of exchange rate determination augmented with a monetary policy rule. And we estimate the resulting closed-form solution of the model with a Markov-switching vector error-correction model with time-varying transition probability matrix. We show that our model can improve substantially over Clarida et al. (2001) model for certain currencies. Particularly on currencies for which the interest rate term structure has a strong relationship to the realized inflation regime.
The information content of the term structure of forward premia: Spot exchange rate forecasting and monetary policy rules
Creators: name: Mouoyebe-Ndedi, Charles F.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Clarida and Taylor (1993) and Clarida et al. (2001) offer a new alternative for nominal spot exchange-rate forecasting. They show that they can improve on forecasting the spot exchange rate over the random walk by using the combination of the full term structure of forward premia and a non-linear model. This dissertation proposes an extension of the Clarida and Taylor framework Markov-switching model where the dynamics of the spot and forward exchange rate is tied to the term structure of interest rates. We motivate theoretically how an endogenous Markov switching model will emerge from a small open economy monetary model of exchange rate determination augmented with a monetary policy rule. And we estimate the resulting closed-form solution of the model with a Markov-switching vector error-correction model with time-varying transition probability matrix. We show that our model can improve substantially over Clarida et al. (2001) model for certain currencies. Particularly on currencies for which the interest rate term structure has a strong relationship to the realized inflation regime.
Additional file 1 of An improved growth medium for enhanced inoculum production of the plant growth-promoting fungus Serendipita indica
Creators: name: Osman, Mohamed
name: Stigloher, Christian
name: Mueller, Martin J.
name: Waller, Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. Diameter of S. indica hyphal growth on CM and VJ agar Diameters were determined 8 days after inoculation of CM or VJ plates with an S. indica agar plug. Standard Petri dishes with a diameter of 9 cm were used and kept at room temperature (20 ±3 °C) either in the dark or in continuous light. Values are means from three plates, with error bars indicating standard deviation. The values were subjected to a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by Tukey's post-hoc-test. Mean values significantly different at an alpha level of 0.05 are indicated by different letters. Experiments were independently reproduced two times with similar results. Figure 2. Effect of Myo-inositol and Glucose on S. indica growth a) Image of fungal growth on tryptone yeast agar supplemented with 10 g/ L D-glucose (left) or 10 g/L myo-inositol (right) 8 days after inoculation with an S. indica agar plug. Standard Petri dishes with a diameter of 9 cm were used and kept at room temperature (20 ±3 °C) in the dark. b) Fungal growth on agar plates supplied with 10 g/L D-glucose or 10 g/L myo-inositol 8 days after inoculation. Values are means from three plates, with error bars indicating standard deviation. A Student’s t-test was calculated, and the asterisk indicates a p-value lower 0.05. Experiments were independently reproduced at least two times with similar results. Figure 3. Plant interaction of S. indica from VJ-grown inoculum a) Colonisation of barley roots with S. indica after inoculation with spores prepared from VJS medium. Roots of 7 d-old seedlings grown in hydroponic medium were inoculated and analyzed 7 d after inoculation. Germinated chlamydospores with their hyphae are visualized by staining root sections with a fluorescent dye-coupled wheat germ agglutinin (WGA-AF 488). Images were recorded using a confocal fluorescence microscope. Shown are the bright field image (right), fluorescence image (middle) and an overlay of these two images (left). The size bar represents 50 µm. b) Growth of Arabidopsis thaliana (Col-0) plants in the absence (left) or presence (right) of S. indica. One-week-old Arabidopsis seedlings growing in Petri dishes (9 cm diameter) on ½ MS medium were inoculated with a S. indica mycelial plug obtained from VJS medium. Plates were photographed after 3 weeks of growth under short-day conditions (8 h light / 16 h dark, 22 °C).
The impact of collegiate men's fraternities on leadership development: Perceptions of former chapter presidents
Creators: name: Kelley, Danny R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Promoting student leadership development has been an objective of higher learning since the inception of American colleges and universities and is also a major tenet espoused in the mission statements of national fraternities. While both of these long standing institutions have the same objective, there is limited research on the positive leadership benefits associated with undergraduate fraternity membership. The aim of this study was to evaluate the leadership impact that service as a fraternity chapter president has on one's self-perceived leadership development. More specifically, this study addressed the self-perceived leadership impact the fraternity experience has on one's career. Study participants were fraternity members who served as chapter presidents approximately ten years ago. In order to conduct this evaluation, the researcher requested that participants complete a background questionnaire to obtain basic demographics on each participant, the Leadership Acquisitions Form (LAF), a leadership assessment instrument created by the researcher in which participants assessed their perceived effectiveness in 14 areas of leadership (e.g., delegation, motivating others, decision-making) while serving as chapter president and how those leadership skills are useful in their careers, and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI; Kouzes & Posner, 2001) to assess participants' current self-perceived leadership behaviors and strengths in their current professions. While participants' rated themselves fairly high on the LAF and indicated a strong belief that the leadership skills they developed as chapter presidents were useful in their careers, participants did not have particularly high scores on the LPI as compared to the normative sample.
Additional file 1 of Addressing critical knowledge and capacity gaps to sustain CRVS system development
Creators: name: Adair, Tim
name: Richards, Nicola
name: Avita Streatfield
name: Rajasekhar, Megha
name: McLaughlin, Deirdre
name: Lopez, Alan D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. CRVS Fellows, Data for Health Initiative.
Improving Drinking Water Quality in South Korea: A Choice Experiment
Creators: name: Gschwandtner, A.
name: Gschwandtner, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Resource/Energy Economics and Policy

description: Increased pollution leads to a constant decrease of drinking water quality worldwide. Due to safety concerns, unpleasant taste and odour only about 3% of the population in South Korea is drinking untreated tap water. The present study uses choice experiments and cost-benefit analysis to investigate the feasibility of installing advanced water treatments in Cheongju waterworks in South Korea. The waterworks is situated in the middle of the country and is providing more than half a million people with drinking water. The study shows that the lower bound of the median WTP for installing a new advanced water treatment system is about $ 2 US/month, which is similar to the average expenditures for bottled water per household in South Korea. Scenarios under which the instalment of the advanced water treatments is feasible are discussed together with environmental solutions in the long-run. Acknowledgement : The authors would like to thank Rob Fraser for setting the road map for this research. They would also like to thank Iain Fraser for his help with the design of the choice experiment and Korea-Water for sponsoring this project.
The impact of collegiate men's fraternities on leadership development: Perceptions of former chapter presidents
Creators: name: Kelley, Danny R.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: Promoting student leadership development has been an objective of higher learning since the inception of American colleges and universities and is also a major tenet espoused in the mission statements of national fraternities. While both of these long standing institutions have the same objective, there is limited research on the positive leadership benefits associated with undergraduate fraternity membership. The aim of this study was to evaluate the leadership impact that service as a fraternity chapter president has on one's self-perceived leadership development. More specifically, this study addressed the self-perceived leadership impact the fraternity experience has on one's career. Study participants were fraternity members who served as chapter presidents approximately ten years ago. In order to conduct this evaluation, the researcher requested that participants complete a background questionnaire to obtain basic demographics on each participant, the Leadership Acquisitions Form (LAF), a leadership assessment instrument created by the researcher in which participants assessed their perceived effectiveness in 14 areas of leadership (e.g., delegation, motivating others, decision-making) while serving as chapter president and how those leadership skills are useful in their careers, and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI; Kouzes & Posner, 2001) to assess participants' current self-perceived leadership behaviors and strengths in their current professions. While participants' rated themselves fairly high on the LAF and indicated a strong belief that the leadership skills they developed as chapter presidents were useful in their careers, participants did not have particularly high scores on the LPI as compared to the normative sample.
Weak Lensing from Space I: Instrumentation and Survey Strategy
Creators: name: Rhodes, Jason
name: Refregier, Alexandre
name: Massey, Richard
name: Collaboration, the SNAP
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A wide field space-based imaging telescope is necessary to fully exploit the technique of observing dark matter via weak gravitational lensing. This first paper in a three part series outlines the survey strategies and relevant instrumental parameters for such a mission. As a concrete example of hardware design, we consider the proposed Supernova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP). Using SNAP engineering models, we quantify the major contributions to this telescope's Point Spread Function (PSF). These PSF contributions are relevant to any similar wide field space telescope. We further show that the PSF of SNAP or a similar telescope will be smaller than current ground-based PSFs, and more isotropic and stable over time than the PSF of the Hubble Space Telescope. We outline survey strategies for two different regimes - a ``wide'' 300 square degree survey and a ``deep'' 15 square degree survey that will accomplish various weak lensing goals including statistical studies and dark matter mapping.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, replaced with Published Version
Monetary shocks and nominal exchange rate dynamics. Monetary and exchange market pressure models: Evidence from Bulgaria
Creators: name: Assenov, Assen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation is an empirical study of the role of monetary police in the exchange rate dynamics of a small country transitioning to an open market economy. In particular, this study analyzes the role of monetary policy in the process that led to collapse of the Bulgarian currency at the end of 1996 and beginning of 1997 and led to the introduction of currency board. First, this research uses a flexible price monetary approach model to estimate the role of the monetary policy in the dynamics of the exchange rate of the Bulgarian currency. Second, we use the VAR and SVAR specifications of the exchange-market-pressure model to investigate the stand of Bulgarian monetary policy and its effect on the exchange rate. The exchange-market-pressure model is a natural combination of the monetary approach to the balance of payment and the monetary approach to exchange rate determination. The model predicts that the flow of excess supply of money under flexible exchange rate will lead to an increase of exchange market pressure, which measures the exchange-rate depreciation and official exchange-market intervention. The main findings of the research suggest that the dynamic responses of exchange-market pressure to monetary policy shocks are consistent with standard monetary theory: domestic credit shocks provide additional liquidity to the banking system and increase the exchange-market pressure. Monetary policy shocks led to increased exchange market pressure and the collapse of the Bulgarian lev, and it resulted in the adoption of a currency board on July 1, 1997. The currency board restrained the expansionary monetary policy which in turn reduced the exchange-market pressure and, along with fiscal macroeconomic policy, restored the credibility of the national currency and stabilized the financial system. Bulgaria's unfortunate experience of a collapsed national currency is relevant to the choice of monetary policy for many countries in transition and emerging markets today.