cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The interpersonal grammar of job advertisements: Towards a meaning making for the new work order
Creators: name: Helgesson, Karin
name: Holmberg, Per
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this study is to identify the interpersonal linguistic changes in the register of job advertisements and to discuss how these changes may be related to the restructuring of the labour market. A corpus of sixty job advertisements was assembled from texts appearing in the daily press, evenly distributed between the years 1995, 2005 and 2017, with a focus on personal qualifications requirements. From the theoretical perspective of systemic functional linguistics, these parts of the advertisements were analysed for mood, modality and modal assessment in order to show how these three interpersonal lexicogrammatical systems together realise the semantics of speech functions, which in turn realises the tenor relation between the employer and the applicants (Holmberg 2011; Halliday & Matthiessen 2014). Special attention was paid to patterns of interpersonal grammatical metaphors with the potential to make visible, or invisible, the applicant as well as the employer. The three main findings are 1) that the use of the second-person subject du (Eng. you) had, by 2017, become obligatory in the parts of the advertisements where the requirements are expressed; 2) that modal operators such as bör (Eng. must) have almost disappeared entirely; and 3) that the use of modal assessment (e.g. “we request that you …”) had increased. It is suggested that these trends may be interpreted against the background of the changes in the labour market which have been summarised as ‘the new work order’. One relevant aspect is the ideal of a more informal relation between employers and employees who are to work towards goals without detailed supervision; another is the new need for employer branding in a labour market with higher mobility.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol. 10 (2020)
SFL och socialsemiotik: Verktyg eller holistisk teoriram?
Creators: name: Karlsson, Anna-Malin
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2020

description: Systemic-Functional Linguistics often appears as a complete and altogether exhaustive theory of language. If widened with a multimodal perspective, social semiotics seems to contain all you need – but does it? The research project Health literacy and knowledge-formation in the information society has investigated complex communication practices related to the pre-natal diagnosis of heart failure in children, pursuing linguistic purposes as well as educational and applied goals. Oral consultations, digital discussions, written texts and visual representations were studied across different contexts and epistemic cultures, from the medical consultation room to the private blog, using tools from SFL and social semiotics (e.g. genre analysis, systemic conversation analysis and Legitimation Code Theory) – but also tools from other traditions and disciplines (e.g. New Literacy Studies, Activity Theory and rhetoric). Based on examples from these studies, this paper discusses the strengths and limitations of SFL and social semiotics, both with respect to their potential to provide adequate analytical tools for complex and context-overarching meaning-making practices, and with respect to their compatibility with other relevant perspectives and disciplinary traditions, e.g. those of medical professionals.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol. 10 (2020)
Robust path-following control design of heavy vehicles based on multiobjective evolutionary optimization
Creators: name: de Morais, Gustavo Alves Prudencio
name: Marcos, Lucas Barbosa
name: Barbosa, Filipe Marques
name: Barbosa, Bruno Henrique Groenner
name: Terra, Marco Henrique
name: Grassi, Valdir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.2.9
subject: 93C85 (Primary), 68T40, 70Q05 (Secondary)

description: The ability to deal with systems parametric uncertainties is an essential issue for heavy self-driving vehicles in unconfined environments. In this sense, robust controllers prove to be efficient for autonomous navigation. However, uncertainty matrices for this class of systems are usually defined by algebraic methods which demand prior knowledge of the system dynamics. In this case, the control system designer depends on the quality of the uncertain model to obtain an optimal control performance. This work proposes a robust recursive controller designed via multiobjective optimization to overcome these shortcomings. Furthermore, a local search approach for multiobjective optimization problems is presented. The proposed method applies to any multiobjective evolutionary algorithm already established in the literature. The results presented show that this combination of model-based controller and machine learning improves the effectiveness of the system in terms of robustness, stability and smoothness.
description: 30 pages, 16 figures, manuscript accepted to Expert Systems with Applications
SOME MEASURES OF LEVELS OF PROTECTION IN AUSTRALIA'S RURAL INDUSTRIES
Creators: name: Harris, S.F.
name: Harris, S.F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1964
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Political Economy

description: The present paper considers briefly some conceptual issues associated with, the measurement of protection and presents estimates of the level of protection received by a number of Australia's rural industries. It then discusses briefly some factors relevant to the interpretation of these measures, particularly in making comparisons between protection accorded to agriculture and that accorded to secondary industry. In considering the estimates of protection levels provided, it is necessary to recognise two things: first, that the estimates are very approximate, doing little more than suggest orders of magnitude; second, that they have a limited meaning and must be used with caution. Providing these limitations are recognised, such estimates can serve a useful function; the alternative to attempts at explicit quantitative measurement is frequently implicit quantitative assessment based on imperfect or incomplete information.
Hadroproduction of D and B mesons in a massive VFNS
Creators: name: Kniehl, B. A.
name: Kramer, G.
name: Schienbein, I.
name: Spiesberger, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order cross section for the inclusive hadroproduction of D and B mesons as a function of the transverse momentum and the rapidity in a massive variable flavor number scheme. We compare our numerical results with recent data from the CDF Collaboration at the Fermilab Tevatron for the production of D^0, D^{*+}, D^+, and D_s^+ mesons at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{S} = 1.96$ TeV and find reasonably good agreement with the measured cross sections.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in proceedings of XIII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering, April,27 - May,1, 2005, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
SIMULTANEOUS-EQUATIONS BIAS AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION FUNCTION ESTIMATION
Creators: name: Duloy, J.H.
name: Duloy, J.H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1964
Subjects: Production Economics

description: During the twenty years or so since some early estimations of production functions in agriculture there has been considerable discussion of many of the technical problems associated with such estimation. Although the simultaneous nature of production decisions, leading to the determination of input levels in the production function, was pointed out early in the piece by Marschak and Andrews, little attention has been paid to this aspect of the problem until comparatively recently. The only systematic treatment of these problems is that of Hoch, although there appeared recently in the Economic Record an extended controversy between Konijn and Soper. The purpose of the present paper is to demonstrate that when the profit maximisation conditions are cast in a slightly different form, Hoch's conclusions concerning the existence of simultaneous equations bias cannot be sustained, although there is similarity of assumptions throughout. The treatment initially will be in terms of farms producing a single output. However, the examination of the simultaneous equation problem will be extended to the multiple output case where it will be shown that problems of an entirely different nature arise. The Cobb-Douglas form of production function will be adhered to throughout.
Renormalization Group Improved Sum Rule Analysis for the Bottom Quark Mass
Creators: name: Pineda, Antonio
name: Signer, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of resumming large logarithms in the determination of the bottom quark mass through a non-relativistic sum rule analysis. Our result is complete at next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy and includes some known contributions at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Compared to finite order computations, the reliability of the theoretical evaluation is greatly improved, resulting in a substantially reduced scale dependence and a faster convergent perturbative series. This allows us to significantly improve over previous determinations of the $\MS$ bottom quark mass, $\bar{m}_b$, from non-relativistic sum rules. Our final figure reads $\bar{m}_b(\bar{m}_b)=4.19\pm 0.06$ GeV.
description: 4 pages, two figures
Bulk viscous FWR with time varying constants revisited
Creators: name: Belinchón, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a full causal bulk viscous cosmological model with flat FRW symmetries and where the ``constants'' $G,c$ and $Λ$ vary. We take into account the possible effects of a $c-$variable into the curvature tensor in order to outline the field equations. Using the Lie method we find the possible forms of the ``constants'' $G$ and $c$ that make integrable the field equations as well as the equation of state for the viscous parameter. It is found that $G,c$ and $Λ$ follow a power law solution verifying the relationship $G/c^{2}=κ.$ Once these possible forms have been obtained we calculate the thermodynamical quantities of the model in order to determine the possible values of the parameters that govern the quantities, finding that only a growing $G$ and $c$ are possible while $% Λ$ behaves as a negative decreasing function.
Statistical methods for assessing habitat preferences
Creators: name: Ayers, Dieter
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: It is often the case that samples are taken in a non-random fashion. This thesis attempts to define a methodology by which some analysis can be performed on a specific kind of non-random sample. In studies of wildlife behaviour, a common method of sampling involves tagging an animal and relocating it in subsequent time periods. Considering the number or type of animal present at sampling locations as a random sample is erroneous, as the locations were chosen by the animal and not in a random fashion. Further, with data such as this is not possible to draw conclusions about areas where no animals were observed, as it is unknown whether these areas were truly free of animals. We treat the observed data as conditional on the presence of an animal, and then use a Bayesian approach to estimate the probability of finding animals in any given location. This results in a method that allows for mapping the propensity of a certain area to be chosen by an animal in the future.
Strain-Driven Structure-Ferroelectricity Relationship in hexagonal TbMnO$_3$ Films
Creators: name: Mandal, R.
name: Hirsbrunner, M.
name: Roddatis, V.
name: Schüler, L.
name: Roß, U.
name: Merten, S.
name: Moshnyaga, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin films and heterostructures of hexagonal manganites as promising multiferroic materials have attracted a considerable interest recently. We report structural transformations of high quality epitaxial h-TMO/YSZ(111) films, analyzed by means of various characterization techniques. A phase transition from P63mc to P63mcm structure at TC~800 K was observed by temperature dependent Raman spectroscopy and optical ellipsometry. The latter probing directly electronic system, indicates its modification at the structural phase transition likely due to charge transfer from oxygen to Mn. In situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of the lamella samples displayed an irreversible P63mc-P63mcm transformation and vanishing of ferroelectric domains already at 410 K. After the temperature cycling (300K-1300K-300K) the room temperature TEM of h-TMO films revealed an inhomogeneous microstructure, containing ferroelectric and paraelectric nanodomains with P63mc and P63mcm structure, respectively. We point out a strong influence of stress relaxation, induced by temperature and by constrained sample geometry onto the structure and ferroelectricity in strain-stabilized h-TMO thin films.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures
Et kig på socialsemiotikken fra Dansk Sprognævn
Creators: name: Hestbæk Andersen, Thomas
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2020

description: In this paper, I hint at some possible affinities between social semiotics as a descriptive practice of investigating language as well as a plethora of modalities in communication, and the normative work carried out by The Danish Language Council (Dansk Sprognævn). First, one could envisage how the social semiotic approach to multimodality could function in research on ‘domain loss’: this is research which traditionally focuses on the use of one language over another in specific domains of life, but it could be expanded to include the use of one modality (e.g. photographs) over another (e.g. language). Second, in The Danish Language Council, research is carried out on how we communicate in various digitalized media, e.g. on Instagram and Snapchat, and here again an understanding of multimodal social semiotics could enlighten research on e.g. emojis (which are often used instead of standard punctuation). Finally, the understanding of genres in social semiotics bears some affinities to work done on clear communication (‘klarsprog’). Despite these affinities, the paper does not suggest that the more descriptive practice of social semiotics and the primarily normative and corpus based foundations of the research done in The Danish Language Council (e.g. when working with the standardization of the orthography of Danish), in general, are compatible.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol. 10 (2020)
Deep Learning Models for Visual Inspection on Automotive Assembling Line
Creators: name: Mazzetto, Muriel
name: Teixeira, Marcelo
name: Rodrigues, Érick Oliveira
name: Casanova, Dalcimar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Automotive manufacturing assembly tasks are built upon visual inspections such as scratch identification on machined surfaces, part identification and selection, etc, which guarantee product and process quality. These tasks can be related to more than one type of vehicle that is produced within the same manufacturing line. Visual inspection was essentially human-led but has recently been supplemented by the artificial perception provided by computer vision systems (CVSs). Despite their relevance, the accuracy of CVSs varies accordingly to environmental settings such as lighting, enclosure and quality of image acquisition. These issues entail costly solutions and override part of the benefits introduced by computer vision systems, mainly when it interferes with the operating cycle time of the factory. In this sense, this paper proposes the use of deep learning-based methodologies to assist in visual inspection tasks while leaving very little footprints in the manufacturing environment and exploring it as an end-to-end tool to ease CVSs setup. The proposed approach is illustrated by four proofs of concept in a real automotive assembly line based on models for object detection, semantic segmentation, and anomaly detection.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1802.08717, arXiv:1703.05921 by other authors
THE MAXIMISATION OF REVENUE FROM NEW ZEALAND SALES OF BUTTER ON THE UNITED KINGDOM MARKET - A DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEM
Creators: name: Townsley, Robert
name: Townsley, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1964
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The objective of this paper is to consider and illustrate the potential usefulness of the method of analysis known as Dynamic Programming in one field of market analysis. The illustrative problem solved is that of maximising revenue from New Zealand sales of butter on the United Kingdom market. Since April 1962 the United Kingdom has restricted imports of butter by placing quotas for twelve month periods on importing countries. It is reasonable to assume that under normal supply conditions, these quotas will be fulfilled. Under abnormal conditions, such as those due to the winter experienced in the Northern Hemisphere in 1962-63, a good market information service should make it possible to predict the expected level of supply of butter from the countries concerned. United Kingdom producers are not subject to any restriction as to the quantity of butter sold on the home market, but the expected level of supply should be predictable in any year.
Local structure of abelian covers
Creators: name: Iacono, Donatella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study normal finite abelian covers of smooth varieties. In particular we establish combinatorial conditions so that a normal finite abelian cover of a smooth variety is Gorenstein or locally complete intersection.
description: Revised version; latex: 12 pages
Stringfellow, William: Mein eigenes Volk ist mein Feind...
Creators: name: Schulz, Otmar
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 15 Nr. 3 (1966): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 15, Heft 3
Isomorphic groupoid $C^{\ast}$-algebras associated with different Haar systems
Creators: name: Buneci, Madalina Roxana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22A22; 43A22; 43A65

description: We shall consider a locally compact groupoid endowed with a Haar system and having proper orbit space. We shall construct a groupoid C*-algebra which is independent of the Haar system (up to a *-isomorphism).
description: 23 pages
Introduktion
Creators: name: Lassen, Inger
name: Meidell Sigsgaard, Anna-Vera
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2020

description: Introduktion til særnummer af tidsskriftet Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, der er et resultat af udvalgte bidrag, som blev præsenteret på NSFL14 (Nordisk Systemisk Funktionel Lingvistik).
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol. 10 (2020)
Boundary-spanning in practice: The emergence and development of a business region in Denmark
Creators: name: Knorr, Heidrun
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2020

description: This paper examines boundary-spanning practices in a regional development partnership in North Denmark, Business Region North Denmark. While boundary-spanning activities have been researched predominantly within the private sector, less research exists on the public sector. Within the existing body of research, only very little is known about how boundary-spanning activities unfold in practice and how they are influenced by local and national contexts. Based on interviews, secondary data, and minutes taken during meetings with the Business Region North Denmark[1] (BRN), I try to illuminate the evolutionary performance of partnership working. Thus, in contrast to existing literature, this paper does not aim to present yet another well-ordered lifecycle model, but rather it tries to capture the fluid and situated nature of boundary-spanning practices in multi-sectional environments. This research finds that boundary-spanning actors have to tackle multidimensional dilemmas by re-constructing and re-interpreting identities, differences and boundaries. In particular, BRN members are found to hold various influential positions simultaneously which clearly influence their sense-making, practices, and feelings of belonging to the various groups they identify with, including BRN. While these members are found to establish a new political field of practices (BRN), this study shows that the positions available in the new joint field are taken by the same powerful actors holding positions in other fields of local politics. In addition, the strategies, practices and modes of boundary-spanning, which BRN’s leaders engage in, are found to be highly situational and do not follow a certain order as suggested in previous studies on boundary-spanning practices. [1] Henceforth abbreviated with BRN.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol. 9 (2020)
FACTORS AFFECTING RURAL LAND PRICES IN N.S.W. AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDEXES OF RURAL LAND VALUES
Creators: name: MacPhillamy, C.H.
name: MacPhillamy, C.H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1964
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Changes in rural land values since the war have been considerable. This article is an endeavour to describe the changes and supply reasons for them.
Sequential optical response suppression for chemical mixture characterization
Creators: name: Magann, Alicia B.
name: McCaul, Gerard
name: Rabitz, Herschel A.
name: Bondar, Denys I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The characterization of mixtures of non-interacting, spectroscopically similar quantum components has important applications in chemistry, biology, and materials science. We introduce an approach based on quantum tracking control that allows for determining the relative concentrations of constituents in a quantum mixture, using a single pulse which enhances the distinguishability of components of the mixture and has a length that scales linearly with the number of mixture constituents. To illustrate the method, we consider two very distinct model systems: mixtures of diatomic molecules in the gas phase, as well as solid-state materials composed of a mixture of components. A set of numerical analyses are presented, showing strong performance in both settings.
Policy brief: Supporting the sustainable long-term implementation of a European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures
Creators: name: Schwarz, Gerald
name: Stojacic, Isidora
name: Riedel, Antonia
name: Hobeika, May
name: Fosselle, Sylvie
name: Bijttebier, Jo
name: Göldel, Bastian
name: Cavallo, Dolinda
name: Couture, Isabelle
name: Monteleone, Daniel
name: Haller, Lisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Key factors for a successful implementation of a European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures include:

Enabling adaptive governance that responds to changes in size and experiences of its members will utilise the benefits from the diversity of the network composition.

Generating evidence on the benefits of developing and participating in the European Network to foster buy-in and commitment from funding organisations and LLs and RIs.

Research policies and funding requirements need to recognize the long-term nature of network implementation and required continuity in political and financial investment that go beyond standard R&I project cycles.Funding of such a transdisciplinary network and its long-term implementation and management needs to embrace changing roles and responsibilities of different types of actors and dynamic action plans of the network.
Limits of language: Stylistic, linguistic and modal convergence in blue-collar communication
Creators: name: Sanden, Guro R.
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2020

description: The present study examines how two Danish manufacturing companies communicate corporate information to blue-collar employees located in foreign production units. By drawing on interview and document data from the companies’ communication departments, this study investigates whether staff at headquarters take any particular considerations into account when they communicate with blue-collar employees. The findings – which are discussed on the basis of communication accommodation theory (CAT) (Giles & Wiemann 1987) and the concept of foreigner talk (Ferguson 1975) – reveal that communication professionals at headquarters converge towards blue-collar employees in three distinct ways: in the form of stylistic, linguistic, and modal convergence. The findings also suggest that the need for convergence arises due to three sector-specific factors, namely the economic geography of manufacturing, the physical work environment of production units, and the educational level of blue-collar employees.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol. 9 (2020)
THE INFLUENCE OF WORKING CAPITAL ON FARM ORGANIZATION - HOW APPROPRIATE IS A LINEAR PROGRAMMING ANALYSIS?
Creators: name: Taplin, J.H.E.
name: Taplin, J.H.E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: Effective limitations on farm working capital are not easily identified but behaviour consistent with such limitations is observed. Using a linear programming analysis, the results of having limited working capital are shown. It is also shown that the value of the working capital resource is so high that farmers make every endeavour to keep it free from limitation.
Researchers as boundary spanners
Creators: name: Wilgaard Larsen, Peter
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2020

description: For universities to accomplish their ‘third mission’, researchers are supposed to engage themselves in problem solving processes with external actors, but to successfully cross organizational boundaries between the universities and the outside world is easier said than done. Rather than developing new collaborative approaches in dealing with practitioners, this paper applies action research as a dual process of participation that elaborates the knowledge exchange process of boundary spanning. Two comparative case studies have been selected because of their similarities in practice and their differences in outcome, making them suitable for studying a researcher performing boundary spanning activities. This study has shown that when contact, negotiation and knowledge exchange have been completed in an effort to advance the change process in the organization and certify preliminary findings in the research process, the researcher has succeeded as a boundary spanner. But to be involved in an organization’s change process and concurrently involve practitioners in the research process calls upon a certain degree of chaos, uncertainty and messiness. This is why boundary spanning activities, such as establishing contact, upholding contact, re-establishing contact, negotiating collaborative terms, and satisfying practitioners’ non-research related demands, take a great amount of time away from conducting research. Hence, this paper argues for the necessity of earmarking university resources to researchers that assume the role as boundary spanners.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol. 9 (2020)
CHARACTERISTICS AND EXPENDITURES OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE POTHOLES AND PRAIRIE BIRDING FESTIVAL
Creators: name: Hodur, Nancy M.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Wolfe, Kara L.
name: Hodur, Nancy M.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Wolfe, Kara L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: birding
subject: nature tourism
subject: economic development
subject: wildlife viewing

description: North Dakotans are well aware of the abundance of the state's natural resources. Fishing and hunting are part of the culture of North Dakota, and more recently nature-based tourism has grown in popularity. National surveys illustrate growth trends in nature tourism, soft adventure, and heritage and historical tours. Several studies identify birders as a substantial source of economic activity in other parts of the country; these estimates, however, may not accurately reflect conditions in North Dakota. While anecdotal evidence suggests that nature-based tourism has economic development potential in North Dakota, little research exists describing the characteristics or expenditures of visitors participating in nature-based tourism activities in North Dakota. Accordingly, the objective of this research was to identify the basic characteristics of participants attending the 2004 Potholes and Prairie Birding Festival, estimate average expenditures per participant, and estimate the direct and secondary economic impacts of the Birding Festival on the local economy, in order to quantify the economic development potential of birding in rural North Dakota.
ONLINE ASSESSMENT: THE VALUE OF A FRIEND'S ASSISTANCE
Creators: name: Gustafson, Cole R.
name: Gustafson, Cole R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: assessment
subject: plagiarism
subject: cheating
subject: online
subject: teams

description: The availability of online computerized assessments is increasing, especially for economics principles courses. A severe limitation of online assessments is the possibility of cheating. Scant information is available on student preferences, behavior, and learning that is accomplished when online assessments are completed either independently or in team settings. This study investigates the performance of students in a macro-economics principles course that recently adopted online assessment with an "open book, open friend" policy. Several strategies were developed that encouraged students to learn the material independently. Data were collected throughout the semester to quantify the number of students who actually did have a friend assist them during assessment and whether or not the presence of a friend improved assessment results. Results of the analysis show that most students complete online assessments independently, even when assistance from a friend is permitted. Over half of the class did not rely on a friend and the remaining students utilized a friend's help only periodically. Use of a friend's help steadily declined over the semester. Moreover, students routinely consulted the same friend as opposed to seeking assistance from a wide variety of people. Only limited assistance was obtained from friends who were not enrolled in the class. The overall impact of a friend's assistance on student performance was marginally positive but statistically insignificant.
A formula for the Chern classes of symplectic blow-ups
Creators: name: Geiges, Hansjörg
name: Pasquotto, Federica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D35, 57R20, 55N45, 32Q55

description: It is shown that the formula for the Chern classes (in the Chow ring) of blow-ups of algebraic varieties, due to Porteous and Lascu-Scott, also holds (in the cohomology ring) for blow-ups of symplectic and complex manifolds. This was used by the second-named author in her solution of the geography problem for 8-dimensional symplectic manifolds. The proof equally applies to real blow-ups of arbitrary manifolds and yields the corresponding blow-up formula for the Stiefel-Whitney classes. In the course of the argument the topological analogue of Grothendieck's `formule clef' in intersection theory is proved.
description: 19 pages
RABOBANK'S OFFER TO PURCHASE FARM CREDIT SERVICES OF AMERICA -- A CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Gustafson, Cole R.
name: Gustafson, Cole R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: agricultural finance
subject: capital dividend
subject: policy
subject: government sponsored entity

description: Rabobankâ's offer to purchase Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA) for $600 million was a surprise because few people ever envisioned 1) fragmentation of the Farm Credit System and/or 2) a foreign lender gaining large market share of U.S. agricultural financial markets. Although FCSA has formally rejected the offer, the action has generated intense public debate about cooperative dividend policy, capital adequacy standards, government sponsored entity (GSE) status of the Farm Credit System and credit gaps in rural America. This case study provides a brief overview of FCSA, Rabobank, and motivation for the purchase offer. Next, the actual deal and timeline for implementation are described, had the offer to buy been accepted by FCSA. Finally, lingering issues raised by the offer are discussed. These issues will likely be important topics of deliberation in forthcoming federal farm and agricultural credit program legislation.
The Quark-Quark Correlator: Theory and Phenomenology
Creators: name: Di Salvo, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New properties of the quark correlator are found via equations of motion. As a first result, approximate relations can be established among the "soft" functions; one such relation may help in determining the quark transversity in a nucleon. Secondly, the Q^2 dependence of the T-odd functions is deduced; the result is compared to unpolarized Drell-Yan data. Lastly, important remarks are made about the contributions to g_2(x).
description: 8 pages, 2 figures; talk presented at "Transversity 2005", Como
Crossing university boundaries: Students' experience of PBL as a new epistemic game
Creators: name: Jæger, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2020

description: Today, educational trajectories take university students through a range of different institutional and organizational contexts. Many students choose to earn their master’s degree at a university different from their bachelor university. This increased mobility causes many students to cross university borders, both nationally and internationally. While the principles of collaborative learning, student-centered pedagogic approaches, and engagement with real-life problems are now widely applied principles at most universities, and are also promoted through large-scale transnational policy processes such as the Bologna Process, a few universities have demonstrated their strong commitment to such principles by dedicating themselves to the pedagogic approach of problem-based learning (PBL). This commitment may further internal cohesion and the development of a distinct and recognizable identity. In other words, a university’s commitment to the teaching and learning philosophy of PBL creates identity boundaries (Santos & Eisenhardt 2005). This study explores the experience of students who cross these boundaries and make an effort to learn PBL, in other words, to study in a PBL context. Theoretically, PBL is understood as an overarching epistemic game (Perkins 1997; Markauskaite & Goodyear 2017a) that students seek to master. The empirical investigation was carried out at a PBL university that strongly encourages group work. Three focus group interviews were conducted at two different points in the project-writing period: once mid-term, when the project work was ongoing, and at a later point right after the (collective) oral defense of the project work. The findings suggest that while students seek to identify clear and manifest rules of the epistemic game of PBL, supervisors and censors expect students to be able to “learn through design of inquiry” (Markauskaite and Goodyear 2017b), in other words, to make their own choices regarding the epistemic framework.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol. 9 (2020)
The community forest model and planning for ecological sustainability : exploring assumed synergies in Revelstoke, B.C.
Creators: name: Aycock, Scott Lewis
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In response to the current "crisis in the British Columbia forest industry, communities, academics, non-profit organizations, and government agencies and departments are exploring alternative strategies for the management of the forested ecosystems of the province, and for maintaining livelihoods in forest-dependent communities. The focus of the thesis is one such strategy, community forestry, specifically the planning strategies and principles that the Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation utilizes in its management of local forests. Community forestry has been used world-wide to manage the interface between human communities and local forested ecosystems. In addition to various social and economic considerations, the community forest model has been posed by many in British Columbia as the most promising means to enhance the planning for ecological sustainability of forest-based communities, and of forestry in general. This assertion is based on a number of assumed benefits considered inherent to the community forest model. The thesis explores whether and how the following proposed ecological benefits of the community forest model have been actualized in the case study: 1) Community involvement with the forest will create a sense of care for and connection with local forests; 2) a closed circle of environmental, economic, and social costs and benefits will yield enhanced stewardship because the community must live with its decisions over the long term; 3) community members will recognize that the forest is more than a timber provider; they will have a "wholistic" appreciation of it; 4) forest planning will be improved by local ecological knowledge, local feedback loops, and administrative flexibility; together, these create the conditions for effective adaptive management; and 5) the above factors will lead to improved forest practices, ecologically speaking. The thesis shows how, in the Revelstoke case, these theorized benefits have not been fully realized. In concluding, the author suggests that local factors - such as community values, goals, an assumptions - could overwhelm any "inherent" benefits of the model in regards to ecological sustainability.
OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY OF A U.S./CANADIAN WHEAT POOL: A GAME THEORY ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Nganje, William E.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Park, Joon J.
name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: Nganje, William E.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Park, Joon J.
name: Taylor, Richard D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Voluntary pooling
subject: game theory
subject: efficiency gains
subject: durum and HRS wheat marketing

description: The problem of declining wheat prices and excess supply has been the subject of recent economic studies partly because it coincides with the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act of 1996, and partly because efforts to decrease supply domestically have led to increased imports from Canada. This paper develops a game theory optimization model of market efficiency and derives conditions under which voluntary pooling is sustained for U.S./Canadian durum and hard red spring wheat producers. Analysis reveals that U.S. and Canadian farmers can increase farm returns with efficiency gains from pooling and by internalizing benefits from grain blending and logistics. The model is used to analyze diverse factors affecting the sustainability of such a pool.
Spectral states of the X-ray binary IGR J17091--3624 observed by INTEGRAL and RXTE
Creators: name: Capitanio, F.
name: Bazzano, A.
name: Ubertini, P.
name: Zdziarski, A. A.
name: Bird, A. J.
name: De Cesare, G.
name: Dean, A. J.
name: Stephen, J. B.
name: Tarana, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IGR J17091-3624 was discovered in 2003 April by INTEGRAL/IBIS during its Galactic Centre Deep Exposure programme. The source was initially detectable only in the 40--100 keV range, but after two days was also detected in the 15-40 keV range. Its flux had by then increased to 40 mCrab and 25 mCrab in the 15-40 keV and 40-100 keV bands respectively. RXTE observed the source simultaneously on 2003 April 20, with an effective exposure of 2 ksec. We report here the spectral and temporal evolution of the source, which shows a transition between the hard and soft states. We analyse in detail the RXTE/INTEGRAL Comptonised spectrum of the hard state as well as the JEM-X detection of a blackbody component during the source softening. Even though the source spectral behaviour and time variability show a similarity with the outburst of the black-hole candidate IGR J17464-3213 (= H1743-322), observed by INTEGRAL in 2003, the nature of its compact object (BH vs. NS) remains controversial.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Heartcore business? A study of how social enterprises, as organizations crossing traditional sectorial borders, communicate their corporate identity
Creators: name: Schmeltz, Line
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2020

description: The social enterprise, i.e. a private enterprise carrying on business for the purpose of promoting and supporting social purposes beneficial to society, is a type of organization that is characterized by both crossing traditional sectorial borders and by questioning and challenging traditional management practices. In Denmark, it has been reported that social enterprises face considerable challenges in terms of not being considered legitimate by their surroundings, and it has been suggested that a lack of awareness and communication of identity may be the main barriers for social businesses aiming to expand and strengthen their business and to be considered legitimate. The strategic identity communication by social enterprises is still underexplored, and, thus, the aim of this paper is to investigate social enterprises’ communication of identity in their corporate communication through the lens of institutional theory and especially the notion of legitimacy. This theoretical frame has been chosen as the idea is that a high degree of alignment between identity and social responsibility in the enterprise’s corporate communication could enable the enterprises to communicate a clear identity and consequently increase their legitimacy. The findings seem to reflect the reported difficulties of establishing and communicating a clear identity towards stakeholders as the enterprises in the sample tend to, much like ‘ordinary’ companies, work with two different sets or systems of values: primarily competence-based values when presenting who they are, and moral and social values when presenting their mission/vision and responsibilities. The paper suggests that combining and integrating the two sets of values would enable the enterprises to communicate their identity in a much clearer manner and hence create more awareness of the emerging field of social enterprises where they could be considered legitimate.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol. 9 (2020)
Improvement of speech recognition by nonlinear noise reduction
Creators: name: Urbanowicz, Krzysztof
name: Kantz, Holger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The success of nonlinear noise reduction applied to a single channel recording of human voice is measured in terms of the recognition rate of a commercial speech recognition program in comparison to the optimal linear filter. The overall performance of the nonlinear method is shown to be superior. We hence demonstrate that an algorithm which has its roots in the theory of nonlinear deterministic dynamics possesses a large potential in a realistic application.
description: see urbanowicz.org.pl
Osservatorio sull'open science
Creators: name: Galimberti, Paola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: La presentazione, fatta durante una audizione del tavolo di lavoro del MUR sulla implementazione del PNSA rendiconta una esperienza nata dal basso da una serie di università ed enti di ricerca che hanno definito insieme uno schema di monitoraggio delle attività di Open science https://zenodo.org/records/10389874
Spin squeezing inequalities and entanglement of $N$ qubit states
Creators: name: Korbicz, J.
name: Cirac, J. I.
name: Lewenstein, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive spin squeezing inequalities that generalize the concept of the spin squeezing parameter and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for genuine 2-, or 3- qubit entanglement for symmetric states, and sufficient condition for general states of $N$ qubits. Our inequalities have a clear physical interpretation as entanglement witnesses, can be relatively easy measured, and are given by complex, but {\it elementary} expressions.
description: formula (24) corrected, minor changes, final version
Comunicare scienza & ambiente
Creators: name: Bonelli, Giulia
name: Tola, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ENJOI
toolkit
school teachers
resource
education
co-creation
science communication

description: This toolkit promotes peer-education on science communication and is addressed to (science) schoolteachers. It aims to support teachers in increasing students’ interest and raising awareness of the importance of high-quality science communication and science communication-related problems, such as disinformation revolving around the pandemic or the climate crisis.