cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inducing Spin-Selective Transport in Nitrogen-Doped Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons by Engineering Ground State Properties
Creators: name: Conrad, Lawrence
name: Sturm, Johanna Sophie
name: Alcón, Isaac
name: Paulus, Beate
name: Tremblay, Jean Christophe
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Filtration
subject: Nitrogen
subject: Quantum mechanics
subject: Reaction mechanisms
subject: Scattering
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: In the growing field of nanoelectronics, spin filtering devices are a topic of great interest. In recent years, there have been major advances in the synthesis of slim zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) that show inherent spin polarization along the edges, suggesting their potential as spintronic devices. In the following contribution, we show through theoretical investigations how a nitrogen doping pattern that is used to stabilize longer ZGNRs may turn a 2-ZGNR into an efficient spin filtering device through either simple physical or chemical transformations. Modeling of the electronic structure is performed using density functional theory, and we access global and local transport properties in the quasi-stationary limit from nonequilibrium Green’s function simulations. Our work shows that both negative gating and double protonation change the nature of the ground state of these systems, which enables efficient spin-selective transport.
Prior choice and data requirements of Bayesian multivariate mixed effects models fit to tag-recovery data: The need for power analyses
Creators: name: Deane, Cody
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: bayesian analysis
harvest assessment
multivariate normal distribution
random effects
capture-recapture
hierarchical models

description: 1. Recent empirical studies have quantified correlation between survival and recovery by estimating these parameters as correlated random effects with hierarchical Bayesian multivariate models fit to tag-recovery data. In these applications, increasingly negative correlation between survival and recovery has been interpreted as evidence for increasingly additive harvest mortality. The power of these hierarchal models to detect non-zero correlations has rarely been evaluated and these few studies have not focused on tag-recovery data, which is a common data type. 2. We assessed the power of multivariate hierarchical models to detect negative correlation between annual survival and recovery. Using three priors for multivariate normal distributions, we fit hierarchical effects models to a mallard (Anas platyrhychos) tag-recovery dataset and to simulated data with sample sizes corresponding to different levels of monitoring intensity. We also demonstrate more robust summary statistics for tag-recovery datasets than total individuals tagged. 3. Different priors lead to substantially different estimates of correlation from the mallard data. Our power analysis of simulated data indicated most prior distribution and sample size combinations could not estimate strongly negative correlation with useful precision or accuracy. Many correlation estimates spanned the available parameter space (–1,1) and underestimated the magnitude of negative correlation. Only one prior combined with our most intensive monitoring scenario provided reliable results. Underestimating the magnitude of correlation coincided with overestimating the variability of annual survival, but not annual recovery. 4. The inadequacy of prior distributions and sample size combinations previously assumed adequate for obtaining robust inference from tag-recovery data represents a concern in the application of Bayesian hierarchical models to tag-recovery data. Our analysis approach provides a means for examining prior influence and sample size on hierarchical models fit to capture-recapture data while emphasizing transferability of results between empirical and simulation studies.
description: Instructions and metadata are provided at the top of each R script, including required R packages listed at the top of individual R scripts. Software specifications are included in the README file included in the data files.Funding provided by: University of Alaska Vice Chancellor for Research*
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Award Number: Funding provided by: Arctic Goose Joint Venture
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sj-pdf-3-ajr-10.1177_1945892420932487 - Supplemental material for Effect of Exposure to Cats and Dogs on the Risk of Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Gao, Xiaoping
name: Yin, Mei
name: Yang, Pei
name: Li, Xia
name: Di, Lingling
name: Wang, Wei
name: Cui, Hua
name: Yan, Xiaohui
name: Liu, Jing
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Otorhinolaryngology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-ajr-10.1177_1945892420932487 for Effect of Exposure to Cats and Dogs on the Risk of Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Xiaoping Gao, Mei Yin, Pei Yang, Xia Li, Lingling Di, Wei Wang, Hua Cui, Xiaohui Yan and Jing Liu in American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy
title: The narrative war songs of the Ohafia Igbo: A critical analysis of their characteristic features in relation to their social function.
Creators: name: Azuonye, Chukwuma
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: War songs (abu-aha) are by far the most important genre of literature in the oral tradition of the formerly warlike Ohafia Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria. Performed by specialist amateurs on a wide variety of social and ritual occasions, the songs form part of a complex of musical expressions (iri-aha) through which the people's myth of a past heroic age is periodically re-enacted for the purpose of inspiring the young to emulate the commitment of their forbears to the ideal of self-sacrificing service to society in the single-minded pursuit of honour. In this first attempt to analyse the songs as a form of oral traditional poetry, attention is focussed on their most highly developed category, the narrative category. Based on texts and testimonies recorded in the course of field research, the analysis presents the songs as artistic compositions with a distinctive social function which is reflected in the characteristic features of their content, form and performance. It is divided into three parts. Part I (Background and Content) discusses the development of the heroic ideal of which the songs are an expression and its ramifications in the content of the texts. Part II (Language, Structure and the Creative Process) examines the oral formulaic devices used in the presentation of the heroic themes of the songs in traditional poetic and narrative structures which are nevertheless varied by individual singers to suit different audiences in new contexts of situation. Part III (Reception and Evaluation) considers the evaluation of the songs by the Ohafia people themselves and the effect of this on the survival and continuity of the tradition amid social change. The analysis is based on seventy-four texts (Appendix II) and representative examples of these are provided in Appendix I.
Pair correlations of the hybridized orbitals in a ladder model for the bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$
Creators: name: Kakoi, Masataka
name: Kaneko, Tatsuya
name: Sakakibara, Hirofumi
name: Ochi, Masayuki
name: Kuroki, Kazuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To clarify the nature of high-temperature superconductivity in the bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ under pressure, we investigate, using the density-matrix renormalization group method, the pair correlations in the two-orbital $t$-$J$ ladder model. While the interchain-intraorbital pair correlations exhibit a slow power-law decay in both orbitals, the interorbital pair correlation also develops strongly enough to be comparable with the intraorbital correlations. These intra and interorbital pair correlations are enhanced by Hund's coupling, but more importantly, the interorbital pair correlation develops even when interorbital pairing glue mediated by Hund's coupling is absent. Our finding suggests that the pair correlation in the present system develops as a hybridized two-orbital entity, which may have some implications on the superconductivity in the bilayer nickelate.
description: 7+6 pages, 5+9 figures
title: Religion in a Fante town of Southern Ghana.
Creators: name: Hornsey, Helen D.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: The thesis gives the result of 15 months' field research undertaken by the writer in the Fante town of Saltpond in Ghana, West Africa. Part I poses two questions. Why have "modem", universalistic faiths like Christianity achieved their profound impact? But also, why do "traditional" belief and ritual continue to flourish alongside? The chapter explains that answers will be sought by viewing the various beliefs in the light of relations between groups or individuals. This is considered preferable to the alternative "symbological" or "structuralist" approach. Part II examines politicoeconomic organisation. Chapter 2 assesses the development of "class" stratification based upon differences of education, occupation and income. Chapter 3 considers kinship organisation, concluding (contrary to some previous writers) that descent is matrilineal, and that matriliny yetawhile retains significance. Chapter 4 discusses "traditional" political institutions, finding them still relevant to contemporary conditions, Part III considers the "modem" religion of Christianity. Chapter 5 reviews its local history, and classifies the various churches into three types: Establishment, Fundamentalist, and African. Chapter 6 examines church congregations for differences in social composition, showing them to unite members of particular interest groups based on class, ethnic origin, or sex. Part IV explores the contemporary importance of "traditional" religion. Chapter 7 describes the local deities, finding them still regarded as effective sources of benefits. Chapter 8 elucidates their continuing significance for local, "traditional", political organisation. Chapter 9 discusses causation of misfortune: witchcraft, most specifically, is discussed in the light of conflict between matrilinearity and paternity. Chapter 10 shows the African churches as now rivalling local deities in counteracting witchcraft. These chapters together reveal an esoteric sphere wherein behaviour is inconsistent with professed belief. Part V explains the vitality of Christianity and the continuance of "traditional" belief by reference to the various structural cleavages which they define and articulate. These findings are shown to bear implications for hypotheses connecting different structural conditions with the persistence of tradition and the emergence of class-based sub-cultures. The thesis advances anthropological study in two respects. Firstly, it adds to the ethnography of an area now represented only relatively sparsely. Secondly, it contributes to the theory of religious symbolism, supporting the view that cosmological systems are integrated by a logic inherent in the social system.
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jcr-10.1177_0022002720928414 - Mutually Assured Distrust: Ideology and Commitment Problems in Civil Wars
Creators: name: Keels, Eric
name: Wiegand, Krista
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 220104 Human Rights and Justice Issues
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jcr-10.1177_0022002720928414 for Mutually Assured Distrust: Ideology and Commitment Problems in Civil Wars by Eric Keels and Krista Wiegand in Journal of Conflict Resolution
A unified repository for pre-processed climate data weighted by gridded economic activity
Creators: name: Gortan, Marco
name: Testa, Lorenzo
name: Fagiolo, Giorgio
name: Lamperti, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although high-resolution gridded climate variables are provided by multiple sources, the need for country and region-specific climate data weighted by indicators of economic activity is becoming increasingly common in environmental and economic research. We process available information from different climate data sources to provide spatially aggregated data with global coverage for both countries (GADM0 resolution) and regions (GADM1 resolution) and for a variety of climate indicators (average precipitations, average temperatures, average SPEI). We weigh gridded climate data by population density or by night light intensity -- both proxies of economic activity -- before aggregation. Climate variables are measured daily, monthly, and annually, covering (depending on the data source) a time window from 1900 (at the earliest) to 2023. We pipeline all the preprocessing procedures in a unified framework, which we share in the open-access Weighted Climate Data Repository web app. Finally, we validate our data through a systematic comparison with those employed in leading climate impact studies.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
title: An interpretation of documentary and oral primary source materials for the period September 1945 until May 1946 in the region of Cochinchina and Southern Annam.
Creators: name: Dunn, Peter M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: The aim of this study is to place in historical perspective the Allied (mainly British) occupation of key areas in southern French Indochina in 1945-1946. This occupation was of profound importance in the subsequent course of history in Vietnam. Although this work is concerned primarily with events in Indochina in and I946, earlier material is introduced in order to place these events in historical context. The relevant research spanned three continents, and was conducted in Saigon, Prance, Great Britain and the United States. Sources include newly-released archival material in the Public Record Office, London, and official and unofficial published material in the British Library, Imperial War Museum and the French Army's Historical Service in Paris. Personal interviews were also conducted with key contemporary British, French and Vietnamese military and civil officials. Of vital importance were the personal papers of the British Force Commander in Saigon, the late General Sir Douglas Gracey. These papers have never previously been examined, and they shed a great deal of light on events in Saigon in 1945-1946; they also refute much of what has been written on this period by various historians. It will be seen that divergent Allied policy, especially the narrow US "anticolonial" views which compelled America actively to support the Communists in Vietnam, were of fundamental importance to the formation and ultimate victory of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. It should also be apparent that the British Commander in Vietnam, General Gracey, who has consistently been inaccurately portrayed as a politically ignorant throwback to a simpler colonial past, was in fact a shrewd and farsighted officer of considerable ability who was fully attuned to the shifting tide of historical forces. It would not seem unreasonable to suggest that, in some measure, Douglas Gracey was directly responsible for South Vietnam enjoying three decades of freedom from Communist rule. This thesis is perforce based on predominantly British source material. This is because the occupation was primarily a British operation, and not to have observed this constraint would have resulted in a study of encyclopedic proportions.
title: Fuuta Jaloo and Fuuta Tooro: A comparative study of two Pulaar dialects.
Creators: name: Diallo, Djibril
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: The present thesis takes the form of a descriptive analysis of the two dialects of Pulaar/Fulfulde, as found in Fuuta Jaloo (Republic of Guinea) and Fuuta Tooro (Republic of Senegal). The work is in six major parts. The first part is devoted to the phonology and the orthography (Chapter 1). The second part deals with the nominal system; General introduction (Chapter 2), distribution of classes in the two dialects (Chapter 3), Numerals (Chapter 4), noun substitutes and specifiers (Chapter 5). The third part is concerned with the verbal system; Chapter 6 deals with an introductory survey of the verbal piece. Chapter 7 concentrates on the tenses of the indicative mood whereas Chapter 8 takes a look at the tenses of the indicative mood and the forms of the imperative. In Chapters 9, 10 and 11 various patterns related to the verbal system are discussed and compared. Derivative infixes (Chapter 9), past anterior affix (Chapter 10), subject and object pronouns (Chapter 11). In the fourth part an attempt is made to examine verbo-nominals (Chapter 12). The fifth part deals with the other parts of speech, which include adverbs and prepositions (Chapter 13), ideophones and onomatopes (Chapter 14). Concluding remarks are made in the sixth and final part (Chapter 15). The latter Chapter makes a summary of the previous findings which allow us to reach the conclusion that there are many similarities between the dialects of Fuuta Jaloo and Fuuta Tooro; that, in spite of the differences, there is a very high degree of mutual intelligibility between the Pulaar of Fuuta Jaloo and the Pulaar/Tukuloor of Fuuta Tooro, such that these are without doubt two closely related dialects of the same language.
Automatic detection of radiographic alveolar bone levels in bitewing and periapical intraoral radiographs using deep-learning technology: a pilot study
Creators: name: Tyndall, Don
name: Alghaihab, Amjad
name: Moretti, Antonio
name: Reside, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2025

description:
Objective This pilot study aims to evaluate the diagnostic performance of a deep-learning platform, employing convolutional neural networks (Denti.AI Technology), in detecting radiographic alveolar bone levels in bitewing and periapical digital intraoral radiographs. Study Design The pretrained deep-learning model was tested using 22 periapical radiographs and 17 bitewing radiographs. The reference standard for the study was a consensus of 3 board-certified dental specialists. The panel followed the American Academy of Periodontology guidelines to identify radiographic bone loss on the basis of specific criteria for bitewing and periapical radiographs. Performance metrics including sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, accuracy, and mean absolute error (MAE) of the deep learning detecting bone levels were calculated. Results Standalone performance analysis revealed a sensitivity of 76%, specificity of 86%, positive predictive value of 83%, negative predictive value of 80%, accuracy of 81%, and MAE of 0.046 for periapical radiographs. Bitewing radiographs exhibited a sensitivity of 65%, specificity of 90%, positive predictive value of 88%, negative predictive value of 70%, accuracy of 76%, and MAE of 0.499. Conclusion This pilot study highlights the potential of deep-learning technology, using convolutional neural networks, for automatic detection of radiographic alveolar bone levels in bitewing and periapical intraoral radiographs. The achieved diagnostic performance metrics indicate promising uses for this technology.
DS_10.1177_0022034520934732 – Supplemental material for Role of PTH1R Signaling in Prx1+ Mesenchymal Progenitors during Eruption
Creators: name: C. Cui
name: R. Bi
name: W. Liu
name: S. Guan
name: P. Li
name: D. Song
name: R. Xu
name: L. Zheng
name: Q. Yuan
name: X. Zhou
name: Y. Fan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_0022034520934732 for Role of PTH1R Signaling in Prx1+ Mesenchymal Progenitors during Eruption by C. Cui, R. Bi, W. Liu, S. Guan, P. Li, D. Song, R. Xu, L. Zheng, Q. Yuan, X. Zhou and Y. Fan in Journal of Dental Research
title: Betriebsparameter und Langzeitstabilität von Leuchtdichtenormalen
Creators: name: Hilmer, Maatje
name: Ledig, Johannes
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 621.3

description: Die Leuchtdichte L in cd/m² ist eine von der SI-Einheit für die Lichtstärke, die Candela, abgeleitete Größe. Die Leuchtdichte wird beispielsweise bei der Beurteilung der Helligkeit von Bildschirmen, bei der Blendungsbewertung im Straßenverkehr oder auch bei der Untersuchung der Leuchtdichteverteilung, die durch Autoscheinwerfer auf der Fahrbahn erzeugt wird, herangezogen. Zur Rückführung der Leuchtdichte auf SIEinheiten und ebenso für ein Primärmessverfahren eignen sich insbesondere Leuchtdichtenormale, die auf einer möglichst homogen leuchtenden Fläche eine bestimmte Leuchtdichte bereitstellen. Bei der Verwendung als Normal zur Rückführung der Messung auf SI-Einheiten oder Verifizierung von Messgeräten müssen sowohl die Abhängigkeiten von Betriebsparametern (wie z.B. der Umgebungstemperatur), das Einbrennverhalten bis zum stabilen Betrieb als auch die Langzeitstabilität, also die Alterung während der Lagerung und des Betriebs, berücksichtigt werden.
description: Lux junior 2024: 17. Internationales Forum für den lichttechnischen Nachwuchs, 6. – 8. September 2024, Ilmenau : Tagungsband, p. 119
Chaos and Emergence: Catalysts in Art and Science
Creators: name: Vermeulen, Angelo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Emergence
subject: Chaos
subject: Self-organisation
subject: Bottom-up design
subject: Emergent design
subject: Art
subject: Science
subject: Creativity
subject: Co-creation
subject: Complex systems
subject: Complex adaptive systems
subject: CAS
subject: Space exploration
subject: Interstellar exploration
subject: Space architecture
subject: Self-reproduction
subject: Bio art
subject: Community art

description: Webinar for the University of the Philippines Intelligent Systems Center on 5 November 2024.
Individual project on theme "Calendula L." (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Khaydarov, Vepa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Данный кейс является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Хайдарова Вепы по теме «Calendula L.» в рамках онлайн-курса «Компьютерные технологии в биологии» (автор — А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo)
Spread complexity in saddle-dominated scrambling
Creators: name: Huh, Kyoung-Bum
name: Jeong, Hyun-Sik
name: Pedraza, Juan F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the concept of spread complexity, Krylov complexity for states, has been introduced as a measure of the complexity and chaoticity of quantum systems. In this paper, we study the spread complexity of the thermofield double state within \emph{integrable} systems that exhibit saddle-dominated scrambling. Specifically, we focus on the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model and the inverted harmonic oscillator as representative examples of quantum mechanical systems featuring saddle-dominated scrambling. Applying the Lanczos algorithm, our numerical investigation reveals that the spread complexity in these systems exhibits features reminiscent of \emph{chaotic} systems, displaying a distinctive ramp-peak-slope-plateau pattern. Our results indicate that, although spread complexity serves as a valuable probe, accurately diagnosing true quantum chaos generally necessitates additional physical input. We also explore the relationship between spread complexity, the spectral form factor, and the transition probability within the Krylov space. We provide analytical confirmation of our numerical results, validating the Ehrenfest theorem of complexity and identifying a distinct quadratic behavior in the early-time regime of spread complexity.
description: v1: 27 pages, 17 figures; v2: references added; v3: matching the published version
title: Tribal identity among the Santals 1770-1857.
Creators: name: Yorke, M.P.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1972

description: The subject of this thesis is the historical development of an Indian tribe - the Santals - through the documents that exist in Great Britain, The period taken is immediately prior to the great famine in Bengal in 1770, when British interest first expanded into the sphere of tribal affairs. It is more than a history, it is an anthropological study of the developments in social relations of an aggregate of culturally like people. Owing to the expanding British influence after the famine, economic and political relations underwent radical change. Most important was the development of a tribal identity, that finally crystalised with the creation of the Santal Parganas in 1857, as a result of the uprising of 1855. The central theme is the study of the development of tribal identity, and its process of crystalisation. This leads to a concern about the nature of the categories tribe and tribal. Other related concerns are with local politics, both tribal and colonial, the interaction of economic spheres, their barriers and conflicts. The process of mediation in political relations plays an important role, along with how this was manipulated and perceived. The Santal uprising is analysed in detail as a revitalisation movement and its concommitants of relative and absolute deprivation. The aim of this approach is to organise the material sytemically. Political, economic and cultural relations are structured into a pattern and the developments in this are analysed. Thereby the relations between a tribal people and early British colonialism is understood. The other side to this study is to look at social change as an ongoing process of historical development. This also provides an historical perspective on the numerous studies of the Santals made in the early twentieth century. As such it is an exercise in the methodological relations between the disciplines of anthropology and history.
An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Practicing Climate Smart Agriculture by Rice Producers in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Sarker, Jaba
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 380199
subject: Applied economics not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 380102
subject: Behavioural economics
classificationCode: 380101
subject: Agricultural economics

description: Bangladesh is one of the most climate hazard-prone countries in the world. Floods, tropical cyclones, storm surges, droughts and salinity in coastal Bangladesh are likely to become more severe and frequent in future. While salinity impacts on coastal agriculture is well understood, dealing with farmers’ preferences on livelihood choices, newer rice variety adoption and appropriate policy options to address salinity issues remains unexplored. In addition, productivity and efficiency differences between saline and non-saline Boro rice farmers are still unknown.
This research study aims to explore the influence of salinity on rice productivity and agricultural decisions in the coastal regions of Bangladesh. A translog stochastic production function provides an appropriate methodology to investigate the differences in technical efficiency between Boro rice farmers in saline and non-saline areas. To test for differences between Boro rice production from these groups, a Welch t-test has been employed. The actual input use in both areas were estimated using a simulation model. The effect size from each model indicates that more irrigation and family labour are being used by farmers in saline area to maintain Boro rice output, but extra irrigation decreases marginal productivity because of salinity effects.
Then, the study used three different stated preferences methods, contingent behaviour (CB) approach, discrete choice experiments (DCEs) and Best Worst Scaling (BWS), to identify how farmers will respond to the future risks. The CB approach has been applied to collect hypothetical data regarding farmers’ risk attitudes and farming choices. The heterogeneity of preferences of coastal rice farmers towards adopting newer salt-tolerant rice varieties was identified from a discrete choice experiment. This study also used the best-worst scaling (BWS) method to analyse the preferences of Bangladesh coastal farmers towards the agricultural policy options that were identified in Bangladesh's Agricultural National Policy 2018. Twenty coastal agriculture-related policies were selected for the BWS questions from this policy document.
The results indicate that the productivity of Boro rice is significantly lower in saline areas compared with non-saline areas. The larger rice yield reduction creates a challenge for farmers to continue rice farming, with risk-taking farmers more likely to allocate their farming land to traditional rice and risk-averse farmers are more likely to allocate their land to salt-tolerant rice. Policies that promote integrated rice-fish farming and access to better salt tolerant rice varieties would be useful to address the rice yield decline in salinity affected areas.
MANAGEMENT DES TALENTS : LEVIER DE LA COMPETITIVITE DES PME AU CAMEROUN
Creators: name: AZANGUIM DONTSA Vanessa
name: WANDJI Georges
name: NDOUMBISSI Roberson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: L'objectif général de ce travail de recherche sera alors d'analyser l'influence du management des talents sur la compétitivité des PME au Cameroun. Pour mettre en exercice cette déclinaison du volet empirique nous avons mobilisé une approche mixte, un design complémentaire qui manipule à la fois la recherche quantitative et qualitative, en laissant les deux se compléter dans les points forts de l'un ou de l'autre. La recherche qualitative est une approche qui met l'accent sur la collecte de données essentiellement verbales plutôt que de données mesurables, les informations recueillies étant ensuite analysées et interprétées. Elle est généralement de nature plus exploratoire. Ainsi, la recherche quantitative basée sur une approche hypothético-déductive a été privilégiée dans ce travail car dans la complémentarité que nous avons utilisée dans ce document, la partie quantitative est plus abondante en termes d'informations recueillies, ce qui nous oblige à construire les hypothèses. Les résultats de notre recherche explorent et décrivent les perceptions que se font les acteurs des PME du concept talent, ainsi qu'un apport des pratiques du management des talents à la compétitivité de celles-ci. Les manipulations économétriques par la méthode des MCO à travers l'utilisation du test de STUDENT et du test de FISHER renseignent sur la signification individuelle et globale des paramètres du modèle de régression linéaire multiple afin d'évaluer l'influence des variables indépendantes extraites de l’ACP sur la variable dépendante notée. Au terme de nos enquêtes sur le terrain, nous avons constaté que la gestion des talents a une influence sur la compétitivité des PME au Cameroun. Au vu de ces résultats, les recommandations de l'étude incluent la mise en place d'un programme de gestion des talents, le développement de compétences managériales et le renforcement de la culture d'entreprise.
Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities in Modern AI: AI Risk, Cyber Risk, and Planning for Test and Evaluation
Creators: name: Scherlis, William
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Software Engineering

description: Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems pose new kinds of risks, and many of these are both consequential and not well understood. Despite this, many AI-based systems are being accelerated into deployment. This is creating great urgency to develop effective test and evaluation (T&E) practices for AI-based systems. This blog post explores potential strategies for framing T&E practices on the basis of a holistic approach to AI risk. In developing such an approach, it is instructive to build on lessons learned in the decades of struggle to develop analogous practices for modeling and assessing cyber risk. Cyber risk assessments are imperfect and continue to evolve, but they provide significant benefit nonetheless. They are strongly advocated by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the costs and benefits of various approaches are much discussed in the business media. About 70% of internal audits for large firms include cyber risk assessments, as do mandated stress tests for banks.
DS_10.1177_0363546520921949 – Supplemental material for Clinical Value of Ultrasonographic Assessment in Lateral Epicondylitis Versus Asymptomatic Healthy Controls
Creators: name: Thøger P. Krogh
name: Fredberg, Ulrich
name: Ammitzbøll, Christian
name: Torkell Ellingsen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_0363546520921949 for Clinical Value of Ultrasonographic Assessment in Lateral Epicondylitis Versus Asymptomatic Healthy Controls by Thøger P. Krogh, Ulrich Fredberg, Christian Ammitzbøll and Torkell Ellingsen in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
title: The Sudhana-Manohara tale in Thai: A comparative study based on two texts from the National Library, Bangkok and Wat Machimawat, Songkhla.
Creators: name: Ginsburg, Henry
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1971

description: The Sudhana-Manohara literary tradition, descending in the jataka tale form from early Indian versions, has been a well-established story in numerous Southeast Asian languages. Two poems in the Thai language based on the story, and set in the Thai verse idiom known as klon suat. closely relate to a Pali version included in a Pali collection of extra-canonical jataka tales (Pannasa-jataka) thought to have been composed in northern Thailand. While the two Thai poems claim the Pali version as their source and adhere to it in all major and minor details, they also embellish and naturalise the background of the tale in keeping with the characteristics of Thai literature and culture. The two poems evidence numerous stylistic similarities in their treatment, employing description and digression, stylized phrases, epithets, similes, etc. in creating a Thai framework for the story. At the same time regional distinctions are apparent between the two versions, indicating a central Thai origin for the National Library poem and southern context in the Songkhla text. The Thai tradition of the Sudhana-Manohara tale also relates indirectly to an indigenous southern Thai popular dance-drama called manora or nora, which appears to borrow its name from the heroine of the tale. The Lao, Cambodian, and Mon versions of the tale also reveal certain relationships with the Thai and Pali versions.
title: Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities in Modern AI: AI Risk, Cyber Risk, and Planning for Test and Evaluation
Creators: name: Scherlis, William
Publisher: name: Software Engineering Institute
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01xqjjn94
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Modern AI systems pose consequential, poorly understood risks. This blog post explores strategies for framing test and evaluation practices based on a holistic approach to AI risk.
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-her-10.1177_1937586719867157 - ICU Patient Family Stress Recovery During Breaks in a Hospital Garden and Indoor Environments
Creators: name: Ulrich, Roger S.
name: Cordoza, Makayla
name: Gardiner, Stuart K.
name: Manulik, Bette J.
name: Fitzpatrick, Paul S.
name: Hazen, Teresia M.
name: Perkins, R. Serene
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-her-10.1177_1937586719867157 for ICU Patient Family Stress Recovery During Breaks in a Hospital Garden and Indoor Environments by Roger S. Ulrich, Makayla Cordoza, Stuart K. Gardiner, Bette J. Manulik, Paul S. Fitzpatrick, Teresia M. Hazen and R. Serene Perkins in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal
How the self is created as a reaction to, and a reflection of the hypermasculine story-world of superhero film and television: a postfeminist reading
Creators: name: Rechberger-Carson, Gia
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores a psychoanalysis of the female protagonist in contemporary superhero film and television as the female superhero is depicted as creating her self as a reaction to, and a reflection of, the hypermasculine story-world. The genre features environments that hero hypermasculine traits of violence and aggression thus suggesting there is no place for feminine-coded traits of collaboration, domesticity or compassion in the story-world but postfeminist discourse suggests a shift toward female power as achieved through individualism, choice to return to traditional stereotypes and the value of difference between masculinity and femininity.Hegel’s theory of Self recognition, as depicted in Phenomology of Spirit (1807), reveals that the Self is created through adopting another’s traits. This is exemplified in Melissa Rosenberg’s 2015 Jessica Jones where the female recognises femininity makes her weak and adopts the dominant male’s traits to gain power. Chapter one will interrogate the characterisation of Jessica Jones creating her self through Hegelian work and aligning with Christina Scharff’s suggestion of postfeminist “self-interest” and “individuality” granting power to women (Prepare Her for Sexism 7).Using Lacan’s “mirror stage” from Escrits (1966) to analyse Harley Quinn in two opposing productions highlights a similar reflection of masculine traits to gain power. David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad depicts Harley Quinn as creating her self as a reflection of the men around her despite desiring the traditional female experience. Whereas Cathy Yan’s 2020 Birds of Prey appropriates the character, enabling Harley to “choose” to engage with traditional femininity in accordance with Angela McRobbie’s definition of postfeminism (22).Rosalind Gill’s assertion that both masculine and feminine-coded traits are equally valuable (Mediated Intimacy 346) is exemplified in Jeremy Carver’s characterisation of Crazy Jane in Doom Patrol (2019). In accordance with Jung’s The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1959), Carver strikes a balance within the female superhero, favouring neither femininity nor masculinity, creating a story-world that allows both to be valued and a character that has power and agency and femininity.This thesis will use psychoanalytical theories to investigate how these four superheroes are characterised as autonomous, powerful and feminine in the hypermasculine story-world.
Conference Presentation Abstract & 1st Slide: Revisiting Old Excavations with an Archaeothanatological Approach — Benefits & Challenges
Creators: name: Malcherek, Anne
name: Rodrigues, Zélia
name: da Graça Pereira, Maria
name: Fonseca, Jorge
name: Fonseca, Vítor
name: Alves Cardoso, Francisca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: documentation (re)examination
19th century
human remains
mortuary practices
Portugal

description: Presentation Abstract:

Archaeothanatology provides a set of principles and methods for rigorous data collection and analysis of human remains, mortuary contexts and associated taphonomic processes. However, the archaeothanatological approach can also be used, post-hoc, to explore field data such as photographs, written and graphic documentation, allowing the reconstruction ofpast excavation contexts. This option is crucial when dealing with incomplete documentation, lack of excavation reports, and the need to revisit old sites due to changes in the conceptualisation of the past.

This presentation focuses on such a case study: the burial site associated with the 3rd Order of Our Lady of Carmo, in Porto (Portugal). The site was excavated twice: first in 2006, for which no final archaeological report was produced, but the existing data includes photographs, written documents, and graphic documentation. However, the information is incomplete and inconsistent, with important details missing and others contradicting each other. Further, no detailed account of the methodology for recording human remains, mortuary practices, and post-depositional events exists. Currently, the second excavation is ongoing with a known field methodological approach, and a detailed excavation process and archaeothanatological data collection process.

In the present analysis archaeothanatological data is collected on available documentation from the first excavation, using data from the second excavation as a point of comparison. It aims to demonstrate how archaeothantological reexamination of excavation data can support, challenge and add nuance to previous interpretations, as well as adding new information. At the same time limitations and challenges of working with incomplete documentation will be explored and some suggestions on how to address limitations are introduced. This highlights the potential benefits of revisiting old excavation data using archaeothanatological methods, while also emphasising the importance of applying these methods during excavation for optimal data collection.

Presented at: 30th EAA Annual Meeting, 2024, as part of the Panel: # 1188 PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF ARCHAEOTHANATOLOGY: A CRITICAL DISCUSSION ON THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE.
Dynamics and fluctuations of minimally-structured glass formers
Creators: name: Charbonneau, Patrick
name: Hu, Yi
name: Morse, Peter K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mean-field theory (MFT) of simple glasses, which is exact in the limit of infinite spatial dimensions, $d\rightarrow\infty$, offers theoretical insight as well as quantitative predictions about certain features of $d=3$ systems. In order to more systematically relate the behavior of physical systems to MFT, however, various finite-$d$ corrections need to be accounted for. Although some efforts along this direction have already been undertaken, theoretical and technical challenges hinder progress. A general approach to sidestep many of these difficulties consists of simulating minimally-structured models whose behavior smoothly converges to that described by the MFT as $d$ increases, so as to permit a dimensional extrapolation. Using this approach, we here extract the small fluctuations around the dynamical MFT captured by a standard liquid-state observable the non-Gaussian parameter $α_2$. The results provide insight into the physical origin of these fluctuations as well as a quantitative reference with which to compare observations in more realistic glass formers.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
title: The Ottoman Province of Damascus in the sixteenth century.
Creators: name: Bakhit, Muhammad A.S.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1972

description: The Ottoman Province of Damascus in the 16th century comprised a number of liwa's (liwa' = sonjaq). This thesis deals mainly with the liwa' of Damascus as a case study. Other liwa's are mentioned in this connection in as much as they concern and clarify the general picture. Prescribed limitations prevent full discussion of others. The thesis is composed of seven chapters, each of which deals with certain aspects of the history of the province. The first chapter is concerned with local events prevailing between the Ottoman conquest 922/1516 and the suppression of al-Ghazali's rebellion in 927/1521. In the second chapter administrative divisions and demography of the liwa' during the first three quarters of the sixteenth century are defined. The study shows that the nahiya was the basic administrative unit and records periods of increase in the numbers of the population followed by sharp decline. The structure of Ottoman administration is the subject of chapters three to five. The first of them outlines the function of the governor as responsible for the maintenance of law and order and for the leadership of the military force whenever called upon. It emphasises his responsibility for the despatch and safe return of the pilgrimage caravan of Damascus. This was assisted by military units distributed throughout the province and housed in fortresses, augmented by the subsidiary forces of timar-holders. All these contingents assisted the Sultan in his wars with Porsia, in the Yaman and against Cyprus in addition to their use in the suppression of rebellions. The forces grouped themselves into factions. As they also engaged in trade and industry, the factions vied with each other to win the support of local chieftains. The administration of justice was the province of the Chief Judge and his deputies from the four madhhabs. They comprised some of the local population in addition to Ottoman personnel. There were several courts in Damascus and also one court functioned in each of the cities of Ba'alabakk, Bayrat and Sidon. Deputy judges were usually appointed to dispense justice in the countryside. The office of Mufti is also defined in this chapter. Chapter five chiefly deals with the office of Defterdar and taxation on various types of trade, land, trees, animals, etc. In chapters six and seven there is an attempt to describe the relationship between the Ottomans and the indigenous population. Four appendices and three relevant maps have been prepared and are appended.
title: A phonetic and phonological study of the nominal piece in Standard Colloquial Persian.
Creators: name: Haghshenas Lari, Ali M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1971

description: This thesis presents a phonetic and phonological description of the nominal piece in Standard Colloquial Persian. The phonetic description is given in articulatory feature analysis as briefly outlined in paragraph 0.5. The phonological description is in prosodic terms. Intonation has been excluded from this thesis as it is primarily a sentence prosody.1 In order to achieve maximum congruence between the phonological and grammatical levels, the phonological statements are given within a grammatical framework outlined in parts at the beginning of the relevant chapters. The introduction gives the necessary information about the data analysed, previous analyses and some justification for the choice of the theory. A general discussion on syllable, some existing phonetic definitions, and the need for syllable is presented in Chapter 1 where a definition of syllable in Persian is suggested together with its types. The phonetic features observed in the data are described in Chapters 2 and 3 in. terms of syllable features and syllable segments. The phonetic features observed between syllables at morpheme boundaries as well as some rules for syllable division are given in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 provides further description of glottal, pre-glottal and long contoids. 1. For a description of intonation in Persian see J. Towhidi's "A Study of Intonation and Related Features of Persian ...", research for Ph.D. thesis, London University, S.O.A.S. In Chapter 6 the phonological structure of syllable is given and the syllable prosodies are stated. In Chapter 7 different phonematic systems are set up for different places in the syllable. The syllable structure of nominal words is set up in Chapter 8, and various prosodies of nominal words are described. Chapter 9 deals with the description of the nominal piece and junction prosodies which express the relation between the components of nominal piece. Chapter 10 provides a brief summary of some interesting experimental findings obtained with the help of the techniques of palatography, mingography and spectrography. Most of the descriptions based on perceptual analysis of the data are found to be supported by instrumental evidence.