cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Causes of Failure of Projects Financed By Development Bank of Ethiopia: The Case of Corporate Credit Process
Creators: name: Getachew, Yilkal
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Corporate Credit Process (CCP) of DBE is the major lending unit of the Bank and through which more than 75% of the total annual lending amount of the Bank has been granted to borrowers. However, failure of projects financed by the Process is becoming a big problem. According to the annual performance report of DBE (2013), 72% of the projects financed by the Process were under failure category. Hence the objective of this research project was to identify the major causes of failure of projects that were financed by CCP of DBE. Document analysis was employed to identify the major causes. As a result, technical support given by the Bank, implementation delay, project's manpower quality and overestimation of project's return were found to be the major causes of failure of projects that were financed by the Process. 80 projects, of which 40 were failed projects while the rest were successful projects, were selected for the study. The sample projects were from the three economic sectors, agriculture, industry and service. After collecting the required data, a regression analysis using the logistic regression model and comparison of the mean between and within these economic sectors using ANOVA had been conducted. The results of the analysis had shown that implementation delay, overestimation of project return and manpower quality of projects are found statistically significant while technical support given by the Bank was found statistically insignificant for failure/success of projects that were financed by CCP of DBE. Moreover, the highest ratio of project failure was found to be in the agricultural sector while the lowest ratio was registered in the service sector. Key Words: Project failure/success, Corporate Credit Process, Development Bank of Ethiopia
Advances in scalable learning and sampling of unnormalised models
Creators: name: Rhodes, Benjamin
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: machine-learning
plausibility model
Markov chain Monte Carlo

description: We study probabilistic models that are known incompletely, up to an intractable normalising constant. To reap the full benefit of such models, two tasks must be solved: learning and sampling. These two tasks have been subject to decades of research, and yet significant challenges still persist. Traditional approaches often suffer from poor scalability with respect to dimensionality and model-complexity, generally rendering them inapplicable to models parameterised by deep neural networks. In this thesis, we contribute a new set of methods for addressing this scalability problem. We first explore the problem of learning unnormalised models. Our investigation begins with a well-known learning principle, Noise-contrastive Estimation, whose underlying mechanism is that of density-ratio estimation. By examining why existing density-ratio estimators scale poorly, we identify a new framework, telescoping density-ratio estimation (TRE), that can learn ratios between highly dissimilar densities in high-dimensional spaces. Our experiments demonstrate that TRE not only yields substantial improvements for the learning of deep unnormalised models, but can do the same for a broader set of tasks including mutual information estimation and representation learning. Subsequently, we explore the problem of sampling unnormalised models. A large literature on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) can be leveraged here, and in continuous domains, gradient-based samplers such as Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm (MALA) and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo are excellent options. However, there has been substantially less progress in MCMC for discrete domains. To advance this subfield, we introduce several discrete Metropolis-Hastings samplers that are conceptually inspired by MALA, and demonstrate their strong empirical performance across a range of challenging sampling tasks.
Glacial geomorphology of the central and southern Chilotan Archipelago (42.2°S–43.5°S), northwestern Patagonia
Creators: name: Soteres, Rodrigo L.
name: Sagredo, Esteban A.
name: Moreno, Patricio I.
name: Lowell, Thomas V.
name: Alloway, Brent V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: We present a geomorphic map of the glacial landforms associated with the Golfo Corcovado ice lobe in northwestern Patagonia. Built upon prior studies, our map elaborates on the central and southern sectors of Isla Grande de Chiloé and neighboring islands. Through a combination of remote sensing techniques and exhaustive fieldwork, we identified a suite of ice-marginal, subglacial, and glaciofluvial features created by the Golfo Corcovado ice lobe during four maxima within the last glacial cycle, in none of which the ice-front reached the Pacific coast of Isla Grande de Chiloé. Our mapping builds a foundation and provides insights for future interdisciplinary research on the Late Quaternary sequence of glacial and paleoclimatic events in this key sector of northwestern Patagonia.
Temperatur-, hydrostatische Druck- und Kosolvenseffekte auf Protein-Liganden-Systeme
Creators: name: Jahmidi-Azizi, Nisrine
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Proteine
subject: Osmolyte
subject: Fluoreszenzspektroskopie
subject: Hochdruck
subject: Liganden
subject: 540
subject: Fluoreszenzspektroskopie
subject: Proteine

description: Protein-Ligand-Interaktionen sind von grundlegender Bedeutung für sämtliche biochemische Prozesse und unverzichtbar für alle Lebensformen. Die molekulare Erkennung, die durch Spezifität und Affinität charakterisiert ist, spielt eine entscheidende Rolle in biologischen Prozessen wie der Selbstreplikation, dem Stoffwechsel und der Informationsverarbeitung. Die Anwendung von Druck auf Proteine beeinflusst ihre freie Energie und die Konformationslandschaft, was zur Entstehung verschiedener Konformationszustände mit unterschiedlicher Reaktivität führen kann. Studien, die den Einfluss von Druck auf biologische Systeme untersuchen, sind besonders relevant, da Organismen in den tiefen Ozeanen extrem hohem hydrostatischem Druck ausgesetzt sind. Da die Tiefsee als Quelle für vielfältige Lebensformen gilt, ist das Verständnis der Auswirkungen von Druck auf biologische Systeme von entscheidender Bedeutung, um das Leben und seine physikalischen Grenzen zu erforschen. Allerdings bestehen noch erhebliche Wissenslücken hinsichtlich der Auswirkungen von Stressfaktoren auf biomolekulare Prozesse wie Protein-Ligand-Interaktionen. In dieser Dissertation liegt der Fokus auf der Untersuchung der Auswirkungen von Druck, Temperatur und Kosolventen auf Protein-Ligand-Systeme. Dabei werden Erkenntnisse über die thermodynamischen Eigenschaften von Ligandenbindungsreaktionen gewonnen und Aspekte wie Packungseigenschaften, Strukturschwankungen, Interaktionsmechanismen und Veränderungen in der Hydration dieser Prozesse beschrieben.
When Skopos Meets Logical Meaning in a Korean Bible Translation: implications of using clause combination as an analytic tool
Creators: name: Choi, Gyung Hee
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Bible translation
clause
Korean
logical meaning
skopos
Systemic Functional Linguistics

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 8, 1, 1-20
Contrasting Visual and Verbal Cueing of Space: strategies and devices in the audio description of film
Creators: name: Hirvonen, Maija
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2012
Subjects: audio description
film
intermodal translation
linguistic devices
representational strategies
shot distance
spatial cues

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 8, 1, 21-43
Creating Personae: the translator’s afterword in Japanese translations of teen fiction
Creators: name: Bilodeau, Isabelle
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Japanese translators
persona
translator afterwords
translator status
Venuti
visibility
young adult novels

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 8, 1, 44-65
Reziproke Zusammenhänge zwischen elterlichen Bildungserwartungen, schulischer Motivation und Leistung bei Schüler*innen mit Migrationshintergrund
Creators: name: Michels, Josi
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Bildungsaspirationen
subject: Bildungserwartungen
subject: Schulische Motivation
subject: Schulische Leistung
subject: Bildungsgerechtigkeit
subject: 150
subject: Migration
subject: Motivation
subject: Bildungsniveau
subject: Erwartung
subject: Leistung

description: Obwohl Schüler*innen mit Migrationshintergrund nach wie vor von Bildungsbenachteiligungen betroffen sind, zeichnet sich diese Gruppe durch eine hohe Leistungsmotivation aus. Dieser paradox erscheinende Befund bezieht sich sowohl auf die eigenen Erwartungen und Werte als auch auf die elterlichen Bildungserwartungen. Die Beziehungen zwischen elterlichen Bildungserwartungen, der Leistungsmotivation und der schulischen Performanz von Schüler*innen sind komplex und wechselseitig. Da Schüler*innen mit Migrationshintergrund tendenziell schlechtere schulische Leistungen erbringen, stellt sich die Frage, warum Erwartungen und Werte trotzdem hoch ausgeprägt sind und welchen Effekt diese auf die Veränderung schulischer Leistungen haben. Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass nach wie vor Bildungsdisparitäten zuungunsten von Schüler*innen mit Migrationshintergrund bestehen, scheinen diese die hohen (elterlichen) Erwartungen und Werte nicht angemessen in schulische Leistungen überführen zu können. Um die Bildungssituation von Schüler*innen mit Migrationsintergrund zu verbessern, könnte es aufschlussreich sein, mehr darüber zu erfahren, was die speziellen Gründe dafür sind. Daher wurden in drei Studien die reziproken Zusammenhänge zwischen elterlichen Bildungserwartungen, schulischer Motivation und Performanz bei Schüler*innen mit Migrationshintergrund empirisch untersucht. Dafür bildeten soziologische und psychologische Erwartungs-Wert-Theorien die theoretische Grundlage. Das praxisrelevante Fazit dieser Arbeit lautet, dass die hohe Leistungsmotivation von Schüler*innen mit Migrationshintergrund in Interventionen aufgegriffen werden sollte, die sich zudem vorrangig auf die Reduzierung primärer (ethnischer) Herkunftseffekte fokussieren sollten.
Online Paratexts and the Challenges of Translators’ Visibility: a case of women translators of the Quran
Creators: name: Hassen, Rim
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2012
Subjects: gender
online product descriptions
Orientalism
paratexts
Quran translations
women translators

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 8, 1, 66-81
Characteristics of traffic and impulse noise level distributions
Creators: name: Rees, Ian Garry.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Towards deciphering the Cenozoic evolution of the East Pisco Basin (southern Peru)
Creators: name: Di Celma, C.
name: Pierantoni, P.P.
name: Volatili, T.
name: Molli, G.
name: Mazzoli, S.
name: Sarti, G.
name: Ciattoni, S.
name: Bosio, G.
name: Malinverno, E.
name: Collareta, A.
name: Gariboldi, K.
name: Gioncada, A.
name: Jablonska, D.
name: Landini, W.
name: Urbina, M.
name: Bianucci, G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The Cenozoic succession of the East Pisco Basin preserves the sedimentary record of several episodes of deformation of the forearc crust along the Peruvian margin. The 1:50,000 scale geological map presented here encompasses an area of about 1,000 km2 lying astride the Ica River, and contributes to our understanding of the timing and mode of basin filling and deformation. Our novel two-fold megasequence framework provides a sound basis for establishing a first-order tectono-stratigraphic setting of the mid-Eocene–upper Miocene succession exposed in the study area. We interpret that the mid-Eocene to lower Oligocene succession studied in this work (megasequence P) was deposited in a single forearc basin, which was dissected into the present-day West and East Pisco basins by a fault-bounded basement high during the late Oligocene, and subsequently overlain by the Miocene fill of the East Pisco basin (megasequence N).
Mass Spectrometry Imaging, Lipidomics, and Proteomics Studies in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Creators: name: Pathmasiri, Koralege Praneeth Chandimal
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Mass spectrometry (MS) is a powerful analytical technique that can be used to identify and quantify unknown molecules in a complex sample. In biological systems, MS analysis can be performed on biomolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and other metabolites. MS analysis of these biomolecules in animal tissues and cells is crucial, specially to identify the changes that take place due to disease conditions. This knowledge can be used to understand disease mechanisms, discover biomarkers, and invent targets for drug development. In this dissertation, mass spectrometry was used to study two neurodegenerative diseases, Niemann-pick type C1 (NPC1) and Krabbe disease. Mass spectrometry imaging was performed on the brain tissue of NPC1-null mouse model to identify quantitative and spatial changes in lipids due to the disease. Findings were further investigated using LC-MS and revealed alteration of highly bioactive phosphoinositide lipids in the mutant mice brain myelin. The impact of the NPC disease on the brain myelin was further studied using mass spectrometry proteomics. Multiple proteins related to ATP synthesis, ion transport, and myelination were found to be altered in the mutant brain myelin. Moreover, this study revealed that ATP production in human oligodendrocyte cells is decreased upon the inhibition of NPC1 protein. In addition, a workflow was developed to purify the NPC1 protein and perform hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. This workflow can be used to study the lipid-binding sites of the NPC1 protein. Finally, mass spectrometry lipidomics was used to investigate the brain lipidome of Krabbe disease in a mouse model, which identified potential biomarkers and revealed alterations in the sphingolipid metabolism pathway.
Assessment on the Implementation of Kaizen and its Challenges: The Case of African Union Commission
Creators: name: Assefa, Getu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: KAIZEN, a Japanese business management concept that calls ―for continuous improvement‖ that promotes quality and productivity improvement as well as human resource development. It was implemented to improve organization efficiency by standardizing working procedure and eliminating wistful activities through the collective effort of its managers and staff of the organization. Kaizen was selected and implemented in African Union Commission as working systems in order to improve service delivery and standardizing the working procedure by eliminating was full activities and reducing the long work flow. The purpose this study was to examine current status, effectiveness and challenges of kaizen in African Union Commission. In addition the objectives were to assess the major changes brought by kaizen implementation, to study the gaps between the designed and applied kaizen, to analyze customer satisfaction, to point out the major challenges encountered during kaizen implementation and to suggest practical recommendations which can help effective implementation of kaizen. To achieve the above mention objectives descriptive research design was selected and used to gather primary and secondary data. The population for this study was 500 staff members and 30 customers of the office. All staff member purposely used as samples and 30 customers was selected by using simple random sampling. Primary data were collected from sample unit by using survey questionnaire, in-depth interviews and non participatory observation techniques and secondary data were collected from different documents. Kaizen has brought some changes in minimizing work flows, in reducing time conception and in increasing efficiency of the organization. The changes are not continuous changes. This study also revealed gaps in time conception, gaps in human and material resources and customer satisfaction between the design and implemented kaizen as a result of lack of technical incompetency of the stuff, lack of ownership and attitude problem assuming that kaizen is not possible to implement in the services or public organization. So if kaizen intended to bring about radical changes continuous training and follow up should be given more attention for the success of its implementation in public institution.
Organizational Climate and Employees' Organizational Commitment In Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Sarbessa, Bekele
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: The favorable organizational climate is one of the factors which affect employee's behavior. Studies in the organizational psychology and organizational behavior literatures have shown that organizational climate and employee commitment are major factors to the organizational Success. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational climate and employee's organizational commitment. The research is cross-sectional survey and co relational study in research design. The research approach applied for this study was quantitative approach in nature .The target population of this study was employees of commercial bank of Ethiopia Addis Ababa area, specifically Northern district. From1796 total population of the Northern district branches of Addis Ababa, 200 employees were selected as the sample of the study. The simple random sampling method was used to the respondents. The standardized questionnaires of organizational climate and organizational commitment were adapted and modified from previous standard questionnaire. To undertake the study, Questionnaires were distributed to 200employees but, response from171 respondent's responses were found valid for analysis. Correlation analysis and ordinary linear regression was used to analyze the gathered data. The results of the study indicate that organizational climate has a significant positive relationship with employees' organizational commitment. All climate dimensions used in this study (Trust, Support, Autonomy, Fairness, Reward, and Teamwork) have significant positive relationship organizational commitment. Organizational climate also has significant relationship with the two organizational commitment dimensions (Affective and Normative) but no significant relationship was found with countenance commitment. The regression results show that organizational climate has significant contribution for variably of organizational commitment. Among organizational climate dimensions support and team has highest and lowest contribution for organizational commitment variability respectively. In general the result of the finding indicates that organizational climate has a contribution for the variability of employees' organizational commitment. Key words: Organizational climate, Organizational commitment
Structural transformation of implanted diamond layers during high temperature annealing
Creators: name: Rubanov, S.
name: Fairchild, B. A.
name: Suvorova, A.
name: Olivero, P.
name: Prawer, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the recent years graphitization of ion-beam induced amorphous layers became the basic tool for device fabrication in diamond. The etchable graphitic layers can be removed to form free-standing membranes into which the desired structures can be sculpted using FIB milling. The optical properties of the devices fabricated using this method are assumed on the model of sharp diamond-air interface. The real quality of this interface could depend on degree of graphitization of the amorphous damage layers after annealing. In the present work the graphitization process was studied using conventional and analytical TEM. It was found that annealing at 550 °C results in a partial graphitization of the implanted volume with formation of the nano-crystalline graphitic phase sandwiched between layers of tetrahedral amorphous carbon. Annealing at 1400 °C resulted in complete graphitization of the amorphous layers. The average size of graphite nano-crystals did not exceed 5 nm with predominant orientation of c-planes normal to the sample surface.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
The spatial relationship between patterns of disappeared streams and residential development in Portland, Oregon, USA
Creators: name: Post, Gregory C.
name: Chang, Heejun
name: Banis, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Disappeared streams are streams that have been buried, removed, or moved as part of the urbanization process. We identified disappeared streams in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area using historical topographic maps for four time periods, and related them to the history of urban development. The historical maps were used to identify streams visible in older maps but not shown in a more recent version. From 1852 to 1895, 15% of streams disappeared, but the majority of streams disappeared between 1896 and 1953 (65%). This trend continued mainly in suburban areas after 1954 with 12% of streams being removed from 1954 to 1989 and 8% from 1990 to 2017. Stream disappearance can be linked to residential development and prior conversion of land for agriculture depending on the area and time period. Mapping disappeared streams can help urban spatial planners identify where stream daylighting or restoration could be targeted.
Bedrock surface topography of Latvia
Creators: name: Popovs, Konrāds
name: Kalvāns, Andis
name: Jemeljanova, Marta
name: Saks, Tomas
name: Dēliņa, Aija
name: Bikše, Jānis
name: Babre, Alise
name: Retiķe, Inga
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: A new map and digital bedrock surface elevation model of Latvia is presented with a horizontal resolution of 250 m. The local bedrock comprises largely undisturbed layers of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks covered by up to 200 m thick Quaternary strata composed mostly of glacigenic and marine sediments. The bedrock surface elevation model and the corresponding map were created by tessellation interpolation of the bedrock surface based on more than 20,000 boreholes and constrained by the present land surface. The known locations of paleo-incisions buried under Quaternary cover are indicated. The new digital map has applications in hydrogeological, environmental, and civil engineering, and fundamental and applied research.
Ricci flow, Courant algebroids, and renormalization of Poisson--Lie T-duality
Creators: name: Ševera, Pavol
name: Valach, Fridrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a generalized Ricci tensor, defined for generalized metrics in Courant algebroids, to show that Poisson-Lie T-duality is compatible with the 1-loop renormalization group.
description: 10 pages
The channels East of Olympus Mons, Mars
Creators: name: Hargitai, H. I.
name: Gulick, V. C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Multiple layers of lava flows and channels characterize the region adjacent to the eastern slope of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano on Mars. We have mapped this volcanic region to survey and classify individual channel systems and determine their formative processes. As a final output of this mapping effort, we have produced a 1:1.9 million scale channel map that is first published in this paper in both GIS and static formats.
Host galaxies of luminous z$\sim$0.6 quasars: Major mergers are not prevalent at the highest AGN luminosities
Creators: name: Villforth, C.
name: Hamilton, T.
name: Pawlik, M. M.
name: Hewlett, T.
name: Rowlands, K.
name: Herbst, H.
name: Shankar, F.
name: Fontana, A.
name: Hamann, F.
name: Koekemoer, A.
name: Pforr, J.
name: Trump, J.
name: Wuyts, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy interactions are thought to be one of the main triggers of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), especially at high luminosities, where the accreted gas mass during the AGN lifetime is substantial. Evidence for a connection between mergers and AGN, however, remains mixed. Possible triggering mechanisms remain particularly poorly understood for luminous AGN, which are thought to require triggering by major mergers, rather than secular processes. We analyse the host galaxies of a sample of 20 optically and X-ray selected luminous AGN (log($L_{bol}$ [erg/s]) $>$ 45) at z $\sim$ 0.6 using HST WFC3 data in the F160W/H band. 15/20 sources have resolved host galaxies. We create a control sample of mock AGN by matching the AGN host galaxies to a control sample of non-AGN galaxies. Visual signs of disturbances are found in about 25% of sources in both the AGN hosts and control galaxies. Using both visual classification and quantitative morphology measures, we show that the levels of disturbance are not enhanced when compared to a matched control sample. We find no signs that major mergers play a dominant role in triggering AGN at high luminosities, suggesting that minor mergers and secular processes dominate AGN triggering up to the highest AGN luminosities. The upper limit on the enhanced fraction of major mergers is $\leqslant$20%. While major mergers might increase the incidence of (luminous AGN), they are not the prevalent triggering mechanism in the population of unobscured AGN.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS (bibtex problem fixed in v2)
Letter from John Hayward to Robin Skelton, September 18, 1959
Creators: name: Hayward, John, 1905-1965
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Critics
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/883769
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Skelton, Robin
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/51853
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Literature, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1000172
subject: Hayward, John, 1905-1965
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/11473
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902475
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778

description: In this letter from writer and editor John Hayward to Robin Skelton (also a writer and a poet, who eventually became a professor of English at the University of Victoria). In this letter Hayward extends a deadline for Skelton and provides advice about describing contemporary books.
Found in Translation: Franco-Irish translation relationships in nineteenth-century Ireland
Creators: name: Milan, Michèle
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2012
Subjects: agents of translation
Catholicism
Franco-Irish relationships
Irish translators
Mary Anne Sadlier
Mary Hackett
Nineteenth Century
non-biblical religious translation
translation from French
translation history
women translators

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 8, 1, 82-98
Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry in Post-War Italy: a Bourdieusian perspective on Mondadori and Scheiwiller
Creators: name: Milani, Mila
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2012
Subjects: history of culture
Pierre Bourdieu
poetry translation
publishing
sociology of translation

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 8, 1, 99-114
Determinates of agricultural export trade: a case of sesame export from Ethiopia
Creators: name: Noah, Alemu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this thesis is to identify key bottlenecks in sesame value-chain and assess the magnitude and effects of key determinants of sesame exports from Ethiopia for the period 1994-2016. Using separate models for volume and value of sesame export, the study identified that volume and value of sesame export from Ethiopia increase with 1.13% with 1% increase in sesame production while decreases by 0.2% with 1% increase in domestic consumption. Value of sesame export, unlike volume, decreases by 0.87% with 1% increase in international price. Using case-studies and qualitative interviews, limited capability of research institutions to produce seed varieties, blanket farming recommendations by the extension system, limited access to key agricultural inputs, inadequate capacity of farmer cooperative unions to supply fertilizer, sesame seeds and limited access to credit for smallholder farmers are identified as key bottlenecks identified in sesame value-chain. From the result, the study concluded that Ethiopia's sesame export performance is encouraged by high international sesame demand, confronted by highly competitive world sesame export industry and inefficient value-chain, and has relatively low power in terms of share on the international sesame market value.
A Note on Schnyder's Theorem
Creators: name: Barrera-Cruz, Fidel
name: Haxell, Penny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C10, 06A07

description: We give an alternate proof of Schnyder's Theorem, that the incidence poset of a graph $G$ has dimension at most three if and only if $G$ is planar.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Late orogenic tectonics in the Ligurian Alps (Italy): constraints from syntectonic sedimentary deposits at the top of an exhumed plate interface
Creators: name: Federico, Laura
name: Crispini, Laura
name: Scarsi, Marco
name: Capponi, Giovanni
name: Piazza, Michele
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This new map at 1:25,000 scale covers an area in the Western Alps (Italy), where the HP metamorphic basement is covered by a (predominantly clastic) late- and post-orogenic upper Eocene-lower Miocene cover. This provides unequivocal evidence that exhumation of the metamorphic units was accomplished by the lower Oligocene. The basement is made up of tectonic units with different metamorphic peaks that coupled during the exhumation path. Both basement and cover are affected by long-wavelength, asymmetric folds and thrust faults with top-to-E-NE vergence; this deformation phase has long been interpreted as linked to the rotation of the Corsica-Sardinia block and contemporary opening of the Liguro-Balearic basin and beginning of the Apennine orogeny. We particularly investigated some of these structures that crop out in the mapped area to give further constraints on their distribution, type and kinematics and to frame them in a larger picture of left-hand strike-slip tectonics.
Letter from J.R. Ackerly to Robin Skelton, September 30, 1953
Creators: name: Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902475
subject: Skelton, Robin
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/51853
subject: Modernism (Literature)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024455
subject: Literature, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1000172
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Gay authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/939062
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/12552
subject: Authors, English--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821953

description: Correspondence between Robin Skelton and Joe Randolph "J. R." Ackerley (writer and literary editor of the BBC's weekly magazine "The Listener", and open homosexual).
Dynamics of a single trapped ion immersed in a buffer gas
Creators: name: Höltkemeier, Bastian
name: Weckesser, Pascal
name: López-Carrera, Henry
name: Weidemüller, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for describing the dynamics of a single trapped ion interacting with a neutral buffer gas, thus extending our previous studies on buffer-gas cooling of ions beyond the critical mass ratio [B. Höltkemeier et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233003 (2016)]. By transforming the collisional processes into a frame, where the ion's micromotion is assigned to the buffer gas atoms, our model allows one to investigate the influence of non-homogeneous buffer gas configurations as well as higher multipole orders of the radio-frequency trap in great detail. Depending on the neutral-to-ion mass ratio, three regimes of sympathetic cooling are identified which are characterized by the form of the ion's energy distribution in equilibrium. We provide analytic expressions and numerical simulations of the ion's energy distribution, spatial profile and cooling rates for these different regimes. Based on these findings, a method for actively decreasing the ion's energy by reducing the spatial expansion of the buffer gas arises (Forced Sympathetic Cooling).
Translating the Greek Civil War: Alexandros Kotzias and the translator’s multiple habitus
Creators: name: Pasmatzi, Kalliopi
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Bourdieu
Greek Civil War
ideology
narrative theory
translator’s agency

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 8, 1, 115-131
Assessment of Employee Relation Practice (In Case of National Tobacco Enterprise (Ethiopia) S.C)
Creators: name: Alemu, Mulugeta
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: This research work is designed to assess employee relation practices of National Tobacco Enterprise (Ethiopia) Share Company. 248 employee and management members are selected using cross sectional sampling methods. In this research with the objective of assessing employee relation practice the following questions are raised: existence policy and procedure to guide the practice, Major employee relation issue that affect employee relation, how conflicts are resolved, how does the tripartite agreement help in resolving conflict. To gather information for the study questionnaires with close and open ended are used. Accordingly, a total of 248 questionnaires were distributed both to the management and employees and interview was conducted with six top management members (Department managers and service heads) and four labor union representatives (Labor union head and other executive committee members) the data collected were analyzed using SPSS software. On the basis of the data obtained from the respondents, the study identified: the enterprise has employee relation polices and procedure and the enterprise has also place importance to employee relation issue, employee relation issues like health and safety, learning & development, fair and just treatment and financial benefit are found to be very important for employees, the enterprise also has good employee relation practice. The study also identified existence of tripartite agreement in the enterprise that manifested by respecting and understanding the concern of each parties and maintaining honesty and openness among both employer and employee and trade union. In light of the findings, the following recommendations were forwarded. The enterprise need to enhance key employees relation issues related to health and safety, financial benefit, trust and confidence, learning and development; NTE need to prepare implementation strategies for effectively putting in to practice those employee relation issue which causes conflict and also for enhancing issue which strength the employee relation practice; the enterprise need to create awareness as to the importance of tripartite relationship and need to build trust of employee and labor union.
Co-constructing Dyadic Sequences in Healthcare Interpreting: a multimodal account
Creators: name: Pasquandrea, Sergio
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2012
Subjects: conversation analysis
dyadic sequences
healthcare interpreting
multimodality

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 8, 1, 132-157
Letter from Kathleen Raine to Sylvia Skelton, December 12, 1986
Creators: name: Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Critics
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/883769
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Periodical editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1058064
subject: Novelists, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039718
subject: Wiccans
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765210
subject: Literature, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1000172
subject: Editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902475
subject: Novelists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039684
subject: Skelton, Robin
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/51853
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/52672
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Scholars
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1106878

description: Part of a collection of correspondence to Robin Skelton from British critic and poet Kathleen Raine. In several of the letters Raine discusses the Temenos magazine, of which she was a founder. In this letter to Skelton's wife Sylvia, Raine gives an update on an acquaintance, writes about visiting an art show, and discusses upcoming plans.
Charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions within the SuSAv2-MEC approach
Creators: name: Megias, G. D.
name: Amaro, J. E.
name: Barbaro, M. B.
name: Caballero, J. A.
name: Donnelly, T. W.
name: Simo, I. Ruiz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of charged-current (CC) neutrino-nucleus reactions in a fully relativis- tic framework and comparisons with recent experiments spanning an energy range from hundreds of MeV up to 100 GeV within the SuperScaling Approach, which is based on the analysis of electron- nucleus scattering data and has been recently improved with the inclusion of Relativistic Mean Field theory effects. We also evaluate and discuss the impact of two-particle two-hole meson-exchange currents (2p-2h MEC) on neutrino-nucleus interactions through the analysis of two-particle two-hole axial and vector contributions to weak response functions in a fully relativistic Fermi gas. The results show a fairly good agreement with experimental data over the whole range of neutrino energies.
description: 23 pages, 17 figures
Catalytic activation of 3D printed AlSi10Mg Periodic Open Cellular Structures (POCSs) by combined dip/spin coating method for the intensification of ammonia synthesis
Creators: name: Italiano, Cristina
name: Saker, Assia
name: Laganà, Massimo
name: Thomas, Minju
name: Hary, Benjamin
name: Nardone, Steve
name: Meynet, Nicolas
name: Pino, Lidia
name: Ramirez Santos, Alvaro
name: Vita, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The present work deals with the design, manufacturing (by Laser Powder Bed Fusion), characterization, and catalytic activation (by a washcoating method) of Periodical Cellular Structures (POCS) 3D-printed in a cylindrical shape (Ø = 1cm, Length = 1.5 cm), in different materials (Al-, Cu-, Ni-alloys) and with various structural parameters (porosity, density, cell type and strut dimensions). The general aim is to intensify the ammonia synthesis throughout the development of structured catalysts with geometries that allow the integration with ammonia selective membranes in a membrane-based reactor to increase productivity at low temperatures (250-300°C) and pressure (20-25bar).
Investigation of ammonia nitrogen removal from wastewaters using an ammonia stripping tower
Creators: name: Davies, T. H. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Chasing Ricoeur: in pursuit of the translational paradigm
Creators: name: Shadd, Deborah M.
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2012
Subjects: intercultural encounter
metaphor
migration
Paul Ricoeur
postcolonialism
translation

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 8, 1, 158-169
Evolutionary status of the Of?p star HD148937 and of its surrounding nebula NGC6164/5
Creators: name: Mahy, L.
name: Hutsemékers, D.
name: Nazé, Y.
name: Royer, P.
name: Lebouteiller, V.
name: Waelkens, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. The magnetic star HD148937 is the only Galactic Of?p star surrounded by a nebula. The structure of this nebula is particularly complex and is composed, from the center out outwards, of a close bipolar ejecta nebula (NGC6164/5), an ellipsoidal wind-blown shell, and a spherically symmetric Stromgren sphere. The exact formation process of this nebula and its precise relation to the star's evolution remain unknown. Methods. We analyzed infrared Spitzer IRS and far-infrared Herschel/PACS observations of the NGC6164/5 nebula. The Herschel imaging allowed us to constrain the global morphology of the nebula. We also combined the infrared spectra with optical spectra of the central star to constrain its evolutionary status. We used these data to derive the abundances in the ejected material. To relate this information to the evolutionary status of the star, we also determined the fundamental parameters of HD148937 using the CMFGEN atmosphere code. Results. The H$α$ image displays a bipolar or "8"-shaped ionized nebula, whilst the infrared images show dust to be more concentrated around the central object. We determine nebular abundance ratios of N/O = 1.06 close to the star, and N/O = 1.54 in the bright lobe constituting NGC6164. Interestingly, the parts of the nebula located further from HD148937 appear more enriched in stellar material than the part located closer to the star. Evolutionary tracks suggest that these ejecta have occured $\sim$1.2-1.3 and $\sim$0.6 Myrs ago, respectively. In addition, we derive abundances of argon for the nebula compatible with the solar values and we find a depletion of neon and sulfur. The combined analyses of the known kinematics and of the new abundances of the nebula suggest either a helical morphology for the nebula, possibly linked to the magnetic geometry, or the occurrence of a binary merger.
description: 15 pages, 3 pages of appendix, 12 figures, A&A in press
Magnetic Dirac Fermions and Chern Insulator Supported on Pristine Silicon Surface
Creators: name: Fu, Huixia
name: Liu, Zheng
name: Lian, Chao
name: Zhang, Jin
name: Li, Hui
name: Sun, Jia-Tao
name: Meng, Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emergence of ferromagnetism in non-magnetic semiconductors is strongly desirable, especially in topological materials thanks to the possibility to achieve quantum anomalous Hall effect. Based on first-principles calculations, we propose that for Si thin film grown on metal substrate, the pristine Si(111)-root3xroot3 surface with a spontaneous weak reconstruction has a strong tendency of ferromagnetism and nontrivial topological properties, characterized by spin polarized Dirac-fermion surface states. In contrast to conventional routes relying on introduction of alien charge carriers or specially patterned substrates, the spontaneous magnetic order and spin-orbit coupling on the pristine silicon surface together gives rise to quantized anomalous Hall effect with a finite Chern number C=-1. This work suggests exciting opportunities in silicon-based spintronics and quantum computing free from alien dopants or proximity effects.