cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Learning Feedback Terms for Reactive Planning and Control
Creators: name: Rai, Akshara
name: Sutanto, Giovanni
name: Schaal, Stefan
name: Meier, Franziska
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the advancement of robotics, machine learning, and machine perception, increasingly more robots will enter human environments to assist with daily tasks. However, dynamically-changing human environments requires reactive motion plans. Reactivity can be accomplished through replanning, e.g. model-predictive control, or through a reactive feedback policy that modifies on-going behavior in response to sensory events. In this paper, we investigate how to use machine learning to add reactivity to a previously learned nominal skilled behavior. We approach this by learning a reactive modification term for movement plans represented by nonlinear differential equations. In particular, we use dynamic movement primitives (DMPs) to represent a skill and a neural network to learn a reactive policy from human demonstrations. We use the well explored domain of obstacle avoidance for robot manipulation as a test bed. Our approach demonstrates how a neural network can be combined with physical insights to ensure robust behavior across different obstacle settings and movement durations. Evaluations on an anthropomorphic robotic system demonstrate the effectiveness of our work.
description: 8 pages, accepted to be published at ICRA 2017 conference
Additional file 1 of A 90-day oral exposure to food-grade gold at relevant human doses impacts the gut microbiota and the local immune system in a sex-dependent manner in mice
Creators: name: Evariste, Lauris
name: Lamas, Bruno
name: Ellero-Simatos, Sandrine
name: Khoury, Laure
name: Cartier, Christel
name: Gaultier, Eric
name: Chassaing, Benoit
name: Feltin, Nicolas
name: Devoille, Laurent
name: Favre, Georges
name: Audebert, Marc
name: Houdeau, Eric
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material, table and figures.
Fostering Emerging Women Leaders of Tomorrow: Assessment of the Results of Leadership Succession in Selected Local NGOs in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Assefa, Hirut
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Although women's status has improved remarkably in many societies, women continue to lack access to power and leadership compared with men. Hence, this study is initiated due to the prevailing mass dissatisfaction that remains despite significant commitments among societies. Its objective lies on assessing the role as well as contribution of NGO leaders and their practices in bringing emerging women leaders through succession planning. Relevant literatures have been reviewed to develop empirical and theoretical background. On the other hand six NGOs with respect to their leadership practice, competencies, empowerment mechanisms, gender compositions and succession plan strategies were assessed. Methodologies such as online Emotional Intelligence View of 360 Degree assessment (EIV), semi structured questionnaires and key informal interviews were conducted. The EI analysis was conducted by Envisa learning and the questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS version 16. The major findings revealed that there is less contribution and efforts exerted by NGOs in bringing emerging women leaders unless the women themselves strive to reach the ladder. Moreover, none of the organizations under study had written succession planning policies. Therefore, the researcher recommends the NGO sectors need to review their practices and empowerment mechanisms in order to bring emerging women leaders into positions. Moreover, formal planning of succession plan is vital to ensure the continuity of the right workforce. Hence, this is the time for NGOs to wake up and commit themselves to investigate why they failed to find the required competent women in a key leadership positions as well as identify solutions for further intervention
Risk premium reinsurance
Creators: name: Cumpston, J. R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 03/89
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Vorläufige Diplomprüfungsordnung der Abteilung Bauwesen
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 3, 1989
(202691) William Rowles Pratt
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(202693) Violet Colliver Stroud
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Quantitative Respirator Fit Testing: Probed Facepiece versus Probed Cartridge
Creators: name: Seward, Sonya Melissa
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1990

description: This study was performed to determine if there is a quantifiable difference between quantitative fit testing using a probed facepiece and a probed cartridge. Four subjects were tested on four different respirators. The respirators used were MSA & 3M full and half face respirator. Each subject performed each method five times per respirator. The results indicated no correlation between the two fit testing methods overall. However, a moderate correlation was found between the MSA respirators and the two methods. This study found many variables which influence fit testing. These include the type of respirator used (brand and facepiece), the probe location, the probe depth, and the variability found between donnings.

In conclusion, the probed cartridge method is an acceptable method for conducting quantitative fit tests. The probed cartridge would provide for a method to use a wearers own respirator to perform the quantitative fit test. This method would result in a more representative individual fit factor.
The application of technological forecasting to strategic planning
Creators: name: Lavery, Christopher S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 08/89
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Ordnung für die Prüfung zum Nachweis deutscher Sprachkenntnisse (PNDS) für ausländische Studienbewerber an der Universität Dortmund vom 18. März 1989
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 8, 1989
Simplified Dark Matter Models with Charged Mediators: Prospects for Direct Detection
Creators: name: Sandick, Pearl
name: Sinha, Kuver
name: Teng, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider direct detection prospects for a class of simplified models of fermionic dark matter (DM) coupled to left and right-handed Standard Model fermions via two charged scalar mediators with arbitrary mixing angle $α$. DM interactions with the nucleus are mediated by higher electromagnetic moments, which, for Majorana DM, is the anapole moment. After giving a full analytic calculation of the anapole moment, including its $α$ dependence, and matching with limits in the literature, we compute the DM-nucleon scattering cross-section and show the LUX and future LZ constraints on the parameter space of these models. We then compare these results with constraints coming from $Fermi$-LAT continuum and line searches. Results in the supersymmetric limit of these simplified models are provided in all cases. We find that future direct detection experiments will be able to probe most of the parameter space of these models for $\mathcal{O}(100-200)$ GeV DM and lightest mediator mass $\lesssim \mathcal{O}(5\%)$ larger than the DM mass. The direct detection prospects dwindle for larger DM mass and larger mass gap between the DM and the lightest mediator mass, although appreciable regions are still probed for $\mathcal{O}(200)$ GeV DM and lightest mediator mass $\lesssim \mathcal{O}(20\%)$ larger than the DM mass. The direct detection bounds are also attenuated near certain "blind spots" in the parameter space, where the anapole moment is severely suppressed due to cancellation of different terms. We carefully study these blind spots and the associated $Fermi$-LAT signals in these regions.
description: 30 pages, 10 captioned figures; v2: 32 pages, 10 captioned figures, revised and published version
A simulation and multivariate model of a hospital pharmacy
Creators: name: Brooks, Geoffrey Earle.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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(202694) Winifred Anne [Sassoon]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
An Assessment of Challenges and Prospects of Local Level Council in Promoting Democracy the Case of selected Woredas in Addis Ababa City Administration
Creators: name: Abebaw, Mesfin
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2013

description: Local government is the tier of public authority that citizens first look to solve their immediate social problems. Among all the public institutions at local level, council has a special status and authority as local elected bodies. They are uniquely placed to provide vision and leadership to their local communities. They are able to make things happen on the ground where it really matters. The government of Ethiopia in general and Addis Ababa city administration in particular establishes council at different tiers of government as parliamentary control mechanism to ensure effective policy implementation, promote local democracy and improve service delivery. However, woreda councils in Addis Ababa city administration were not seen playing such role of democracy promotion. Moreover, studies conducted in regional woredas divulged that Woredas council have not yet managed to exercise sufficient local autonomy due to several reasons such as absence of clearly established legal mandate, lack of devolution of power, poor organization of the system and tight control and intervention by higher authorities. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the challenges and prospects that woreda council at Addis Ababa city administration has faced in promoting democracy among grass-root people. It also examines the overall operations of the councils from the viewpoints of democratic government and decentralization In order to pursue the objective of the study the researcher use multi-stage sampling technique and relied on both primary and secondary data source. Primary data collected through questionnaires, interview and observations while secondary data obtained from document analysis like legislation on the issue, minutes and reports complied by counsel's office. It was found that problems prevailed in regional woreda councils are also impeded woreda councils at Addis Ababa City Administration. The internal working system of woreda councils reflected that executive domination is very soaring, and councils are not responsive to the needs of the community and most importantly democratic essence viz. accountability, transparency, participation and autonomy are not adhered principles in the councils conduct. Therefore, councils as they are impeded by the above-mentioned challenges are playing insignificant role in cultivating democratic value and improving the service delivery to the grass root people. Therefore, it is recommended that the internal working system of councils need to be very transparent, responsive, participatory and free from any unnecessary intervention. Councilors must be sensitive to public interest; legal back up from the city administration is also needed in order to make councils strong, autonomous and powerful. The field that councilors operating also should be open to all stakeholders as the democracy promotion works calls for the involvements of different actors
Spin-parity effect in violation of bell's inequalities for entangled states of parallel polarization
Creators: name: Zhang, Haifeng
name: Wang, Jianhua
name: Song, Zhigang
name: Liang, J. -Q.
name: Wei, L. -F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bell inequalities (BIs) derived in terms of quantum probability statistics are extended to general bipartite-entangled states of arbitrary spins with parallel polarization. The original formula of Bell for the two-spin singlet is slightly modified in the parallel configuration, while, the inequality for- mulated by Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt remains not changed. The violation of BIs indeed resulted from the quantum non-local correlation for spin-1=2 case. However, the inequalities are always satisfied for the spin-1 entangled states regardless of parallel or antiparallel polarizations of two spins. The spin parity effect originally demonstrated with the antiparallel spin-polarizations (Mod. Phys. Lett. B28, 145004) still exists for the parallel case. The quantum non-locality does not lead to the violation for integer spins due to the cancellation of non-local interference effects by the quantum statistical-average. Again the violation of BIs seems a result of the measurement induced nontrivial Berry-phase for half-integer spins.
Some aspects of union regulation : the implications for union democracy
Creators: name: Fox, Carol .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Spezielle Förderung auf der Sekundarstufe eine Standortbestimmung und Entwicklungsoptionen für die Kreisschule Untergäu SO
Creators: name: Egger, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: In der vorliegenden Masterthese soll eine Standortbestimmung für die Kreisschule Untergäu erstellt werden. Mit einer schriftlichen Befragung werden die Situation, Haltungen, Bedürfnisse und Standpunkte aller an der Schule Beteiligten erfasst: der Lernenden von 16 Klassen, deren Eltern und Erziehungsberechtigten, der Schulbehörden sowie der Lehrpersonen und der Schulleitung. Die Daten aus den über 500 beantworteten online-Fragebögen werden verglichen mit den bisher bekannten theoretischen Erkenntnissen und Gelingensbedingungen für Integration auf der Sekundarstufe I. Als Ergebnis aus den Befragungen können Entwicklungsoptionen für die Schule abgeleitet werden. Die Schulleitung, die Schulbehörden, die Lehrpersonen sowie Eltern und Schülerinnen und Schüler der Regelklassen unterstützen das selektive System der Sekundarstufe I mit einer Kleinklasse mehrheitlich. Nur die Eltern und Schülerinnen und Schüler der Kleinklasse wünschen sich deutlich die integrative Schulungsform.
Additional file 1 of Exergames improves cognitive functions in adolescents with depression: study protocol of a prospective, assessor-blind, randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Wang, De-Quan
name: Zhang, Jing-Jing
name: Chen, Jian-Ning
name: Li, Ren-Yu
name: Luo, Yi-Xiang
name: Deng, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Table of 3-Minute Step Test index values and cardiopulmonary function.
Statistical analysis of $m/n$ = 2/1 locked and quasi-stationary modes with rotating precursors at DIII-D
Creators: name: Sweeney, R.
name: Choi, W.
name: La Haye, R. J.
name: Mao, S.
name: Olofsson, K. E. J.
name: Volpe, F. A.
name: Team, the DIII-D
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A database has been developed to study the evolution, the nonlinear effects on equilibria, and the disruptivity of locked and quasi-stationary modes with poloidal and toroidal mode numbers $m=2$ and $n=1$ at DIII-D. The analysis of 22,500 discharges shows that more than 18% of disruptions are due to locked or quasi-stationary modes with rotating precursors (not including born locked modes). A parameter formulated by the plasma internal inductance $l_i$ divided by the safety factor at 95% of the poloidal flux, $q_{95}$, is found to exhibit predictive capability over whether a locked mode will cause a disruption or not, and does so up to hundreds of milliseconds before the disruption. Within 20 ms of the disruption, the shortest distance between the island separatrix and the unperturbed last closed flux surface, referred to as $d_{edge}$, performs comparably to $l_i/q_{95}$ in its ability to discriminate disruptive locked modes. Out of all parameters considered, $d_{edge}$ also correlates best with the duration of the locked mode. Within 50 ms of a locked mode disruption, average behavior includes exponential growth of the $n=1$ perturbed field, which might be due to the 2/1 locked mode. Even assuming the aforementioned 2/1 growth, disruptivity following a locked mode shows little dependence on island width up to 20 ms before the disruption. Separately, greater deceleration of the rotating precursor is observed when the wall torque is large. At locking, modes are often observed to align with a residual error field. Timescales associated with the mode evolution are also studied and dictate the response times necessary for disruption avoidance and mitigation.
Fourier frames for singular measures and pure type phenomena
Creators: name: Lev, Nir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42C15, 42B10

description: Let $μ$ be a positive measure on $R^d$. It is known that if the space $L^2(μ)$ has a frame of exponentials then the measure $μ$ must be of "pure type": it is either discrete, absolutely continuous or singular continuous. It has been conjectured that a similar phenomenon should be true within the class of singular continuous measures, in the sense that $μ$ cannot admit an exponential frame if it has components of different dimensions. We prove that this is not the case by showing that the sum of an arc length measure and a surface measure can have a frame of exponentials. On the other hand we prove that a measure of this form cannot have a frame of exponentials if the surface has a point of non-zero Gaussian curvature. This is in spite of the fact that each "pure" component of the measure separately may admit such a frame.
description: Minor improvements to the presentation. Assumption in Theorem 1.2 slightly relaxed
Pricing of electrical and electronic control equipment for Australian industrial markets
Creators: name: Roberts, William Grant.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Conclusions: The Multiple International Dimensions of Comecon.
Creators: name: Jajeśniak-Quast, Dagmara
Publisher: name: Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Year: 2017

description: The research presented in this thematic issue challenges a thesis that to date has dominated literature on former CMEA countries, namely that individually or as a Bloc, they sought self-suficiency. Quantitatively, these countries involvement in world markets has of course never been extensive. In fact, during the post-socialist transition to an open-market economy, the East Central European countries appeared more de-globalized than during the CMEA period. Although these countries became an important site of direct foreign investment in the 1990s (and even more so after EU accession in 2004), they primarily functioned as an “extended workbench” of the West. The qualitatively low involvement of the national economies of this region in the world economy is thus an “old phenomena,” which Ivan T. Berend rightly described as a “detour from the periphery to the periphery.” However, when assessing the character of economic interdependencies, it is also helpful to analyse the transnational activities of speciic actors and the development of corresponding networks. The beneit of examining the history of socialist integration from the perspective of everyday life or “from below” is demonstrated by many of the contributions to this volume. Even during the Cold War when European-wide communication seemingly had broken down, economic integration was contemplated and discussed. These discussions should be seen in relation to eforts at integration in the 90s and those of the Visegrad countries in the 1990s.
description: Comparativ, Vol 27 No 5-6 (2017): Comecon revisited. Integration in the Eastern Bloc and Entanglements with the Global Economy.
Distribution locale des points rationnels de hauteur bornée sur une surface de del Pezzo de degré 6
Creators: name: Huang, Zhizhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish a measure which describes in a precise way the local asymptotic distribution of rational points outside the locally accumulating subvarieties around a general rational point on a del Pezzo surface of degree 6 in the sense of diophantine approximation.
description: in French, To appear in Int. J. Number Theory
title: Nationalratswahlen 1935 im Kanton Zürich
title: Statistische Mittheilungen betreffend den Kanton Zürich
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Statistische Mitteilungen betreffend den Kanton Zürich
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1936
Subjects: subject: 314 Allgemeine Statistiken zu Europa
subject: 320 Politikwissenschaft
subject: Kanton Zürich
subject: Amtliche Statistik
subject: Wahl
subject: Schweiz. Bundesversammlung. Nationalrat

description: Inhalt: Einleitung ; Die Wahlbeteiligung 1919-1935 nach Bezirken und Gemeindetypen ; Stärke der Parteien seit 1919 ; Parteigruppen 1928-1935 ; Die Stärke der Parteien nach der Parteistimmenzahl 1935 ; Parteidisziplin: Unveränderte, veränderte und freie Wahlzettel 1935 ; Parteipolitische Gliederung der zürcherischen Vertreter im Nationalrat seit 1919 ; Prozentuale Sitzverteilung und Parteistärken 1931 und 1935 ; Die gewählten Kandidaten nach der Gesamtstimmenzahl 1935 ; Nichtgewählte Kandidaten mit der höchsten Stimmenzahl 1935 ; Wahlbeteiligung und Parteistärken nach Gemeinden 1935.
Kompetenzraster Mathematik im Übergang Volksschuloberstufe/berufliche Ausbildung und weiterführende Schulen
Creators: name: Amstad, Heinz
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 510

description: In Anlehnung an das europäische Sprachenportfolio ESP entstanden unter der Begleitung von Mathematik-Didaktikern Kompetenzumschreibungen für das Fach Mathematik im Übergang zwischen der Volksschuloberstufe und der beruflichen Grundbildung respektive weiterführenden Schulen.
Improving the productivity of a casualty department
Creators: name: Dreher, Geoffrey Hamilton.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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(202688) John Robert George Stroud
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Post-CMEA Economic Relations of Former Soviet Bloc Countries and Russia:
Creators: name: Dangerfield, Martin
Publisher: name: Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Year: 2017

description: This article relects on how the economic and trade relations of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia with Russia have developed in the twenty years since the abolition of the CMEA. The article’s main indings are as follows. First, there have been two distinct phases in postCMEA trade patterns. After a long period of stagnation prior to EU accession, Russia has since become a signiicant export market for all three states. For the three, the build-up of export capacity during EU pre-accession was arguably more important than EU entry per se. Second, energy dependency, a key CMEA-era interconnection, has remained a signiicant feature of economic relations between Russia and the three throughout the post-CMEA era. Third, the growing importance of bilateral intergovernmental instruments charged with promoting trade and economic cooperation between Russia and the three has been a notable feature of the post-004 period. Fourth, the main political parties in each of the three tended to take diferent positions on economic relations with Russia. Yet changes of government seem to have been rather marginal in terms of both the conduct of economic relations with Russia and levels of trade and economic cooperation, especially in the post-004 period.
description: Comparativ, Vol 27 No 5-6 (2017): Comecon revisited. Integration in the Eastern Bloc and Entanglements with the Global Economy.
The Grain-Meat Complex as a Source of International Integration of CMEA Countries
Creators: name: Gerlach, Christian
Publisher: name: Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Year: 2017

description: The article examines grain imports in CMEA countries in the 970s and 980s and how these imports afected these countries’ growing global entanglements. In CMEA states, grain was largely used as animal feed. High and increasing levels of meat consumption were considered a sign of prosperity and a necessity for political stability. From roughly 97, socialist countries began importing massive amounts of grain from capitalist countries, initially mainly the United States. These imports contributed substantially to some socialist countries’ growing foreign debt. Eforts to increase domestic grain production were often pursued half-heartedly and only had moderate success. Inside the CMEA, a de-facto policy of self-suiciency, augmented by limited mostly bilateral cooperation, existed for the meat-grain sector. After 990, meat consumption in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe fell sharply, and since that time it has only recovered slowly or not at all. Global integration – also pursued by Communist governments – thus led to only a limited increase in consumption. This essay describes the motivation of important stakeholders and the connection between global and regional integration.
description: Comparativ, Vol 27 No 5-6 (2017): Comecon revisited. Integration in the Eastern Bloc and Entanglements with the Global Economy.
Percolation on networks with weak and heterogeneous dependency
Creators: name: Kong, Ling-Wei
name: Li, Ming
name: Liu, Run-Ran
name: Wang, Bing-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In real networks, the dependency between nodes is ubiquitous; however, the dependency is not always complete and homogeneous. In this paper, we propose a percolation model with weak and heterogeneous dependency; i.e., dependency strengths could be different between different nodes. We find that the heterogeneous dependency strength will make the system more robust, and for various distributions of dependency strengths both continuous and discontinuous percolation transitions can be found. For Erdős-Rényi networks, we prove that the crossing point of the continuous and discontinuous percolation transitions is dependent on the first five moments of the dependency strength distribution. This indicates that the discontinuous percolation transition on networks with dependency is determined not only by the dependency strength but also by its distribution. Furthermore, in the area of the continuous percolation transition, we also find that the critical point depends on the first and second moments of the dependency strength distribution. To validate the theoretical analysis, cases with two different dependency strengths and Gaussian distribution of dependency strengths are presented as examples.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance –
Creators: name: Kansikas, Suvi
Publisher: name: Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Year: 2017

description: This article analyses one aspect of CMEA history, which has been neglected in prior literature: its policy-making in the ield of external trade politics. The CMEA attempted – unsuccessfully – to coordinate a common policy vis-à-vis the outside world, particularly the European Community, at the turn of the 970s. The impetus for this came from the progress achieved by the EC, which was planning to implement a Common Commercial Policy starting from 970. The CMEA did not endeavour to copy EC development, but to assist its members’ access to the Common Market that would be hindered once the EC policy was implemented. Based on the indings of this study, the CMEA should be seen as an instrument that all members used to advance their particular aims and interests. The CMEA debate on its policy towards the EC shows the limits of Soviet power within the organisation and towards its smaller allies: due to the organization’s decision-making principles, and more importantly, because the member states could resist it, the USSR was not able to override the intergovernmental CMEA. Nonetheless, due to the unanimity rule, the CMEA could not act without Soviet consent. Importantly, Soviet economic power was valuable for the small allies in possible negotiations with the EC. Therefore, to secure Soviet participation, the East Europeans accepted the Soviet leading role in the EC policymaking.
description: Comparativ, Vol 27 No 5-6 (2017): Comecon revisited. Integration in the Eastern Bloc and Entanglements with the Global Economy.
Approximate Riemann Solvers for the Cosmic Ray Magnetohydrodynamical Equations
Creators: name: Kudoh, Yuki
name: Hanawa, Tomoyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the cosmic-ray magnetohydrodynamic (CR MHD) equations to improve the numerical simulations. We propose to solve them in the fully conservation form, which is equivalent to the conventional CR MHD equations. In the fully conservation form, the CR energy equation is replaced with the CR "number" conservation, where the CR number density is defined as the three fourths power of the CR energy density. The former contains an extra source term, while latter does not. An approximate Riemann solver is derived from the CR MHD equations in the fully conservation form. Based on the analysis, we propose a numerical scheme of which solutions satisfy the Rankine-Hugoniot relation at any shock. We demonstrate that it reproduces the Riemann solution derived by Pfrommer et al. (2006) for a 1D CR hydrodynamic shock tube problem. We compare the solution with those obtained by solving the CR energy equation. The latter solutions deviate from the Riemann solution seriously, when the CR pressure dominates over the gas pressure in the post-shocked gas. The former solutions converge to the Riemann solution and are of the second order accuracy in space and time. Our numerical examples include an expansion of high pressure sphere in an magnetized medium. Fast and slow shocks are sharply resolved in the example. We also discuss possible extension of the CR MHD equations to evaluate the average CR energy.
description: Accepted to MNRAS, 16 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables
Multi-analytical and computational approaches to the study of hydrogen bonding interactions in N-methoxymethyl Nylon 6,6
Creators: name: Jones, Tyler
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: This research explores the change in hydrogen bonding interactions between Nylon 6,6 and soluble Nylon 6,6 (N-methoxymethyl Nylon 6,6) polymer materials that were originally synthesized in the early 1940s. This substitution resulted in increased solubility in strong acids (for Nylon 6,6), to solubility in aliphatic alcohols (N-methoxymethyl Nylon 6,6). Soluble nylon (N-methoxymethyl Nylon 6,6) was most commonly used in the art conservation field as a consolidant for artwork but is no longer used due to photooxidation back to insoluble Nylon 6,6. This work encompasses synthesizing the N-methoxymethyl Nylon 6,6, and studying various changes via FTIR, Raman, DSC, and TGA-IR analyses. The changes in the FTIR and Raman spectra were computationally modeled using the Gaussian program (Gaussian 16). IR and Raman spectra were computed with varying N-alkoxymethyl substitution using computationally optimized structures to visualize IR and Raman active vibrations. Donated N-methoxymethyl Nylon 6,6 (referred to as Calaton CB) from the Department of Conservation, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library (dated 1970) and commercial Nylon 6,6 were used as the two comparisons in this study with the Nylon 6,6 being the starting material and the donated Calaton CB being the desired N-methoxymethyl Nylon 6,6 product. Changes in thermal transition temperatures and enthalpies of nylon 6,6, Calaton CB, and synthesized soluble nylon materials were found using DSC. Decomposition products were analyzed via TGA with FTIR for evolved gas analysis to confirm N-methoxymethyl substitution in synthesized materials. To further study changes in hydrogen bonding interactions, via temperature dependent Raman analysis (TDRA), a thermal cell was used to heat the material close to the melting temperature. This would result in reduction or even disappearance of peaks in the Raman spectra where hydrogen bonding interactions would be observed. Samples donated from the Department of Conservation, Philadelphia Museum of Art of soluble nylon coating from a Japanese painted cedarwood door (Sugito), dated to the 16th-17th Century, were analyzed with FTIR (FPA and ATR) to compare against Nylon 6,6, Calaton CB, and synthesized soluble nylon 6,6. This study shows the change in hydrogen bonding interactions when N-methoxymethyl substitution is present in these polymer materials.
(202692) Percival Robert Haynes
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Creative Tension: The Role of Conflict in Shaping Transnational Identity at Comecon
Creators: name: Godard, Simon
Publisher: name: Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Year: 2017

description: The meeting of national and international interests within the framework of an international organization, such as the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), inevitably leads to conlict. Through a micro-analysis of speciic disputes within the CMEA, this article endeavours to determine the creative power of these conlicts. Disputes between CMEA oicials and representatives from those oicials’ country of origin are examined to understand the logic of the conlicts and their resolution. In the conlicts, the question of the rationality principle is raised among actors with reference to their actions. This article develops a typology of conlicts. First, at international meetings, CMEA oicials might reproach their national counterparts for having insuicient international competence, while concomitantly stressing their transnational expertise. Second, some CMEA staf avoided conlict, by not attending negotiations where oicials from their country of origin might try to use them to advance nationalist goals at the international level. Third, in a few cases, conlicts of interest did lead to open conlict, an outcome CMEA oicials tried to avoid. Exploring these three modalities of conlict allows us to characterize the transnational self-awareness of CMEA workers as arising from a dual loyalty. Factoring in CMEA oicials’ use of the phrase “the common interest of the member states” in their public statements allows the historian to understand their double embedding in national and international networks of power from which they tried to enforce a transnational and CMEA-speciic point of view.
description: Comparativ, Vol 27 No 5-6 (2017): Comecon revisited. Integration in the Eastern Bloc and Entanglements with the Global Economy.
Beryllium abundances and the early Galactic chemical enrichment
Creators: name: Smiljanic, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: stars: abundances
stars: Population II
Galaxy: halo

description: Beryllium is a light element with a single stable isotope, 9Be, which can only be produced by cosmic-ray spallation in the interstellar medium. Its unique nucleosynthesis offers a different point of view from which one can investigate the early Galactic chemical enrichment. Our previous results have shown that there is a large scatter when Be abundances are plotted as a function of metallicity ([Fe/H]) in a sample extremely metal-poor stars ([Fe/H] < -3.0). Using Gaia DR2 data, we were able to show that this scatter was connected to a mixed origin of the halo stars (some were accreted stars and some formed in situ). Our interpretation is that Fe, and not Be, dominates the scatter as a consequence of the inhomogeneous star forming conditions in the early Galaxy. Without efficient mixing, the early interstellar medium would be characterised by a large scatter in Fe abundances at a given age. Beryllium, on the other hand, because of its origins in cosmic-ray spallation, would have more homogeneous abundances (in a Galaxy-wide sense). In this contribution, we revisit the results using Gaia DR3 data to investigate the kinematic and dynamical properties of the stars. In addition, we estimate ages for the sample and, using literature data, extend the investigation of the Be and Fe scatter, as a function of stellar dynamics, to metallicities up to [Fe/H] ~ -2.0.
description: R.S. acknowledges support by the National Science Centre, Poland, through project 2018/31/B/ST9/01469.
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The Role of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in the Construction of the Transnational Electricity Grid Mir
Creators: name: Flade, Falk
Publisher: name: Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Year: 2017

description: The article addresses the role of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA, 949– 99) in the creation and development of the transnational electric power grid “Mir” (Russian: Peace). This power grid was oicially established in 99 and connected the national electric networks of the socialist states of Eastern Europe by means of cross-border power lines. This transnational infrastructure was developed over the next decades and included nuclear, hydro, and thermal power plants. The planning and construction of cross-border energy infrastructures was one of the primary tasks of the CMEA. CMEA institutions, such as the Permanent Commission for Electric Energy, the Central Dispatch Organization, and the “Interatomenergo” were supposed to facilitate cooperation between participating CMEA countries. Following the political rapprochement between East and West Europe in the 970s, the idea of surmounting the iron curtain to create a European-wide system of electrical supply became the focus. Compared with other transnational systems of energy transmission for crude oil and natural gas, the Mir network had a relatively high degree of institutionalization. This coordination was essential for the smooth operation of the overall system. The disintegration of the Comecon in 99 impeded this cooperation and led to the rapid dissolution of the Mir power grid (compared to other transnational networks). This article analyses how this network worked and the actors involved. In doing so, it addresses a gap in research on the development of transnational electrical networks in the socialist Eastern Bloc.
description: Comparativ, Vol 27 No 5-6 (2017): Comecon revisited. Integration in the Eastern Bloc and Entanglements with the Global Economy.
The personnel problems of mergers : a comparative case study
Creators: name: Suess, Robert Victor.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Additional file 1 of Screening and identification of emodin as an EBV DNase inhibitor to prevent its biological functions
Creators: name: Wu, Chung-Chun
name: Chen, Mei-Shu
name: Lee, Ting-Ying
name: Cheng, Yu-Jhen
name: Tsou, Hsiao-Hui
name: Huang, Tze-Sing
name: Cho, Der-Yang
name: Chen, Jen-Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
classificationCode: 60506
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Figure 1. Purification of wild-type EBV DNase protein. Supplementary Figure 2. Brief overview of the protocols for the radioactivity- and fluorescence-based assays. Supplementary Figure 3. The protein expression of EBV DNase in emodin-treated NPC cells.