cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Dem Mythos auf der Spur
Creators: name: Hrubant, Clemens
Year: 2015

description: „Dem Mythos auf der Spur – Einflüsse und Inspirationen bei der klassischen Star Wars Trilogie“ ist eine wissenschaftliche Suche nach filmhistorischen, religiösen / philosophischen und mythologischen Einflüssen, die sich auf das Aussehen und die Darstellung der klassischen Star Wars Trilogie (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi) maßgebend ausgewirkt haben. Untersucht werden unter anderem die klassische Heldenreise, wie sie bei Joseph Campbells Buch Der Heros in tausend Gestalten beschrieben wird, in Bezug auf das Abenteuer des Luke Skywalker in Episode IV, die Ideale des Dao und des Bodhisattva im Mahayana-Buddhismus, in Bezug auf die Ideale der Jedi und die Erkenntnis über die „Macht“, sowie die Samstagmittag-Serials der 1930er und 40er Jahre, die auch als Cliffhanger Serien bekannt sind, in Bezug auf die narrative Struktur der klassischen Star Wars Trilogie, sowie das Schaffen des japanischen Regisseurs Akira Kurosawa, im Speziellen sein Film Die verborgene Festung. Auf der Basis der drei Star Wars Filme der klassischen Trilogie werden Besonderheiten gesucht, auf Gemeinsamkeiten mit den Inspirationsquellen überprüft und diese dann anhand von ausgewählten Filmbeispielen angeführt und analysiert. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, möglichst viele Verbindungen zwischen Star Wars und anderen kulturellen Phänomenen herzustellen und zu beschreiben.
description: „Dem Mythos auf der Spur – Einflüsse und Inspirationen bei der klassischen Star Wars Trilogie“ is a scientific quest for religious / philosophical, mythological and in film history interesting influences, that can be seen when watching the films of the Original Star Wars Trilogy (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi). Subjects of investigation are amongst others the Hero's Journey, known from Jopseh Campbell's book The Hero with a Thousand Faces to view the Hero's Journey of Luke Skywalker in Episode IV. Also the ideal of Taoism and the Boddhisattva in Mahayana-Buddhism considering the ideals of the Jedi and their knowledge about the „Force“. Subject of research will also be the Saturday matinee serials in U.S. cinemas in the 1930s and 40s, which are also known as „Cliffhanger series“, to show their inspirations on the narrative structure in the Original Star Wars Trilogy. There is also an investigation on the films of Japanese legendary director Akira Kurosawa, especially his movie The Hidden Fortress. Based on the three movies of the Original Star Wars Trilogy, there will be an investigation on common elements, which can be seen in the movies as well as in the possible sources of inspiration for George Lucas. Common elements will then be analysed and brought together with selected scenes or motives of the Star Wars movies. The aim of this paper is to do as many connections as possible between Star Wars and other cultural phenomenons.
Approaching education from the inside out: Gert Biesta on Meet the Education Researcher (20 minutes) - Yn agosáu at addysg o'r tu mewn allan: Gert Biesta ar Meet the Education Researcher (20 minued)
Creators: name: Mitchell, Gemma
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education policy
Education policy, sociology and philosophy not elsewhere classified

description: ‘Gert Biesta (University of Edinburgh) is one of the best-known – and most interesting - current philosophers of education. We talk about Gert’s recent interest in the work of Klaus Prange, the need to come up with better questions (rather than answers), the prominence of ‘empty concepts’ in education, and advice for early career academics starting out in education research.'
 Full text transcription of the interview: https://criticaledtech.com/2022/01/11/approaching-education-from-the-inside-out-an-interview-with-gert-biesta/’

 'Mae Gert Biesta (Prifysgol Caeredin) yn un o'r athronwyr addysg mwyaf adnabyddus – a mwyaf diddorol. Rydym yn sôn am ddiddordeb diweddar Gert yng ngwaith Klaus Prange, yr angen i feddwl am gwestiynau gwell (yn hytrach nag atebion), amlygrwydd 'cysyniadau gwag' mewn addysg, a chyngor i academyddion gyrfa gynnar sy'n dechrau ym maes ymchwil addysg. Mae tTrawsgrifiad testun llawn o'r cyfweliad i’w gael yma: https://criticaledtech.com/2022/01/11/approaching-education-from-the-inside-out-an-interview-with-gert-biesta/'
International R&D, technological capability, and productivity: Studies on U.S. multinationals and foreign affiliate innovative activities
Creators: name: Koncz, Jennifer Lynn
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation will examine the determinants of research and development (R&D) activity in the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational companies (MNCs) and its impact on performance. It will make use of a unique set of micro-data on affiliates and parents of U.S. MNCs for the recent period 1995-2006. The study distinguishes between & INCs that are technological leaders in their industry and those that are laggards, finding that the more capable firms tend to have higher levels of affiliate R&D and to use it more effectively. The findings highlight a strong role of R&D conducted abroad on the firm's productivity at home. For technological leaders, this effect is particularly pronounced, with the return on affiliate R&D actually exceeding that on parent's own R&D. Although foreign affiliate R&D is shown to have a strong positive impact on parent productivity, the results do not support complementarity between imiovative activity at home and abroad. However, R&D carried out by the affiliate and knowledge transferred from the U.S. parent are complements for the affiliates of technological leaders. For these affiliates, intrafirm knowledge transfers increase the productivity of their own R&D activities, and vice versa. Taken together, the results are supportive of the important role of firm heterogeneity in determining the success of an international R&D strategy. In addition, the study provides new evidence for firms' R&D activity and performance on emerging markets.
Anastrepha dissimilis Stone 1942
Creators: name: Ramos, Elizabeth Quisberth
name: Norrbom, Allen L.
name: Marinoni, Luciane
name: Sutton, Bruce D.
name: Steck, Gary J.
name: Sánchez, Juan José Lagrava
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Anastrepha
Anastrepha dissimilis

description: 23. Anastrepha dissimilis Stone
Distribution in Bolivia: Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz, Tarija (this publication).
New specimen data: BOLIVIA: Chuquisaca: Luis Calvo, Muyupampa, 05-04-03, McPhail trap, Jun 2009, 2♁ 3♀ (USNM USNMENT01526605-09). Santa Cruz: Andrés Ibáñez, El Torno, 17.99858°S 63.37363°W, 617 m, McPhail trap 07-07-01-01, 20-27 Feb 2014, SENASAG, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT01526595); Guarayos, Chocolatal, Malaise trap, 10-11 Sep 2000, J. L. Aramayo & G. Zárate, 1♀ (MNKM); Ñuflo de Chávez, Cuatro Cañadas, Totaí, 17.20322°S 62.2494°W, 260 m, McPhail trap 10, 7 Jan 2014, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT01526594). Tarija: Cercado, Santa Ana, 07-04-03, McPhail trap, 2008, 1♀ (SENASAG) 2♁ 2♀ (USNM USNMENT01526601-04).
description: Published as part of Ramos, Elizabeth Quisberth, Norrbom, Allen L., Marinoni, Luciane, Sutton, Bruce D., Steck, Gary J. & Sánchez, Juan José Lagrava, 2021, The Bolivian fauna of the genus Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera: Tephritidae), pp. 43-64 in Zootaxa 4926 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4500587
Kathedrale von Genf. Hegi
Creators: name: Rahn, Johann Rudolf
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1860
Subjects: Genf

description: [Johann Rudolf Rahn]
description: Architektonische Skizze eines romanischen Rundbogens (Ausschnitt) nach einer Vorlage von Franz Hegi
description: Text unten rechts von unbekannter Hand "S Galli Kapelle in Schänis nach Hegi"
International R&D, technological capability, and productivity: Studies on U.S. multinationals and foreign affiliate innovative activities
Creators: name: Koncz, Jennifer Lynn
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 440808
subject: International relations

description: This dissertation will examine the determinants of research and development (R&D) activity in the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational companies (MNCs) and its impact on performance. It will make use of a unique set of micro-data on affiliates and parents of U.S. MNCs for the recent period 1995-2006. The study distinguishes between & INCs that are technological leaders in their industry and those that are laggards, finding that the more capable firms tend to have higher levels of affiliate R&D and to use it more effectively. The findings highlight a strong role of R&D conducted abroad on the firm's productivity at home. For technological leaders, this effect is particularly pronounced, with the return on affiliate R&D actually exceeding that on parent's own R&D. Although foreign affiliate R&D is shown to have a strong positive impact on parent productivity, the results do not support complementarity between imiovative activity at home and abroad. However, R&D carried out by the affiliate and knowledge transferred from the U.S. parent are complements for the affiliates of technological leaders. For these affiliates, intrafirm knowledge transfers increase the productivity of their own R&D activities, and vice versa. Taken together, the results are supportive of the important role of firm heterogeneity in determining the success of an international R&D strategy. In addition, the study provides new evidence for firms' R&D activity and performance on emerging markets.
An asymptotic test on the stationarity of the variance
Creators: name: Dehling, Herold
name: Fried, Roland
name: Wornowizki, Max
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: change point analysis
subject: piecewise identical distribution and U-statistic
subject: variance
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: We reconsider a statistic introduced in Wornowizki et al. (2016) allowing to test the stationarity of the variance for a sequence of independent random variables. In- stead of determining rejection regions via the permutation principle as proposed before, we provide asymptotic critical values leading to huge savings in computation time. To prove the required limit theorems, the test statistic is viewed as a U-statistic constructed from blockwise variance estimates. Since the distribution of the test statistic depends on the sample size, a suitable new law of large numbers as well as a central limit theorem are developed. These asymptotic results are illustrated on artificial data. The permutation and asymptotic version of the test are compared to alternative procedures in extensive Monte Carlo experiments. The simulation results suggest that the methods offer similar results and high power when compared to their competitors, particularly in the case of multiple structural breaks. They also estimate the structural break positions adequately.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;71, 2016
The shaping of indigenous environmental behavior: Accounting for the variation in hunting intensity among the Wachiperi of the Peruvian rainforest
Creators: name: Abanto, Rodolfo Tello
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Academic discussions about the relationship between indigenous peoples and biodiversity in tropical rainforests have increasingly produced a highly contested landscape, with considerable implications for the lives of indigenous peoples. A particular area of debate has been the impact of indigenous peoples on tropical biodiversity through animal hunting. From a perspective that considers indigenous peoples as adaptive agents whose environmental behavior depends on their specific circumstances, this dissertation analyzes the causes of variation in the levels of hunting intensity among the Wachiperi, an indigenous group of the Peruvian rainforest. Based on ethnographic research, this study identifies the primary factors influencing the decrease in the intensity of Wachiperi hunting practices and describes the interactions among these factors and their historical complexity. Influential factors affecting hunting intensity include a diversification of indigenous livelihoods, in which subsistence practices have been increasingly complemented by income-generating activities like commercial agriculture, logging, tourism, and environmental conservation. This diversification in Wachiperi livelihoods was promoted by a series of cultural and ecological changes generated by their interactions with outsiders. In turn, these changes were shaped by larger socioeconomic processes in the recent experience of the Wachiperi, particularly the deep social disruptions created when they were left with no choice but to establish closer relationships with members of Western society, and their transition from a subsistence economy toward a mixed economy. The interplay between these factors illustrates the complicated history that has shaped the current hunting practices of the Wachiperi. Beyond these empirical findings, this dissertation also provides crucial elements for a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between indigenous peoples and tropical biodiversity. The transition toward a mixed economy and its effects on indigenous livelihoods, which were promoted by the increasing expansion of the global economy, suggest the need to incorporate lessons from this study into current understandings of indigenous environmental behavior at a global scale. To facilitate the application of these research findings, this dissertation also includes a number of specific recommendations for indigenous groups, the anthropological community, environmental organizations and conservation practitioners.
Pat Thompson Blog – Beginning Data Analysis: Orientating yourself Blog Pat Thompson – Dechrau Dadansoddi Data: Gogwyddo eich hun
Creators: name: Mitchell, Gemma
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education policy
Education policy, sociology and philosophy not elsewhere classified

description: Pat Thompson Blog – Beginning Data Analysis: Orientating yourself

 Blog Pat Thompson – Dechrau Dadansoddi Data: Gogwyddo eich hun
Meganola cuneifera
Creators: name: Joshi, Rahul
name: Singh, Navneet
name: Laszlo, Gyula M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nolidae
Meganola
Meganola cuneifera

description: 34. Meganola cuneifera (Walker, 1862)
 Melia cuneifera Walker, 1862, Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology) 6: 127.
 Meganola cuneifera (Walker, 1862): László et al., 2010, Esperiana 15: 46
TL: Sarawak, Borneo. Holotype (♂).
TD: UM Oxford.
 Distribution in India: Sikkim (Strand 1920); NE Himalaya (Holloway 2003). Elsewhere: Bhutan (Strand 1920); Nepal (Inoue 1998); Thailand (László et al., 2010), Borneo, Nepal, Vietnam (Holloway 2003).
description: Published as part of Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Laszlo, Gyula M., 2019, An updated Checklist of subfamily Nolinae (Lepidoptera, Nolidae) from India, pp. 263-281 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (3) on page 269, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/142368, http://zenodo.org/record/13185704
The shaping of indigenous environmental behavior: Accounting for the variation in hunting intensity among the Wachiperi of the Peruvian rainforest
Creators: name: Abanto, Rodolfo Tello
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 410406
subject: Natural resource management
classificationCode: 440107
subject: Social and cultural anthropology
classificationCode: 4599
subject: Other Indigenous studies

description: Academic discussions about the relationship between indigenous peoples and biodiversity in tropical rainforests have increasingly produced a highly contested landscape, with considerable implications for the lives of indigenous peoples. A particular area of debate has been the impact of indigenous peoples on tropical biodiversity through animal hunting. From a perspective that considers indigenous peoples as adaptive agents whose environmental behavior depends on their specific circumstances, this dissertation analyzes the causes of variation in the levels of hunting intensity among the Wachiperi, an indigenous group of the Peruvian rainforest. Based on ethnographic research, this study identifies the primary factors influencing the decrease in the intensity of Wachiperi hunting practices and describes the interactions among these factors and their historical complexity. Influential factors affecting hunting intensity include a diversification of indigenous livelihoods, in which subsistence practices have been increasingly complemented by income-generating activities like commercial agriculture, logging, tourism, and environmental conservation. This diversification in Wachiperi livelihoods was promoted by a series of cultural and ecological changes generated by their interactions with outsiders. In turn, these changes were shaped by larger socioeconomic processes in the recent experience of the Wachiperi, particularly the deep social disruptions created when they were left with no choice but to establish closer relationships with members of Western society, and their transition from a subsistence economy toward a mixed economy. The interplay between these factors illustrates the complicated history that has shaped the current hunting practices of the Wachiperi. Beyond these empirical findings, this dissertation also provides crucial elements for a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between indigenous peoples and tropical biodiversity. The transition toward a mixed economy and its effects on indigenous livelihoods, which were promoted by the increasing expansion of the global economy, suggest the need to incorporate lessons from this study into current understandings of indigenous environmental behavior at a global scale. To facilitate the application of these research findings, this dissertation also includes a number of specific recommendations for indigenous groups, the anthropological community, environmental organizations and conservation practitioners.
A computational study of auditory models in music recognition tasks for normalhearing and hearing-impaired listeners
Creators: name: Friedrichs, Klaus
name: Bauer, Nadja
name: Martin, Rainer
name: Weihs, Claus
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: music recognition
subject: hearing impairment
subject: music intelligibility
subject: auditory model
subject: instrument recognition
subject: pitch estimation
subject: onset detection
subject: classification
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620
subject: Musikwahrnehmung
subject: Hörschädigung
subject: Musikverstehen
subject: Modellierung
subject: Ohr
subject: Klassifikation

description: The utility of auditory models for solving three music recognition tasks { onset detection, pitch estimation and instrument recognition { is analyzed. Appropriate features are introduced which enable the use of supervised classification. The auditory model-based approaches are tested in a comprehensive study and compared to state-of-the-art methods, which usually do not employ an auditory model. For this study, music data is selected according to an experimental design, which enables statements about performance differences with respect to specific music characteristics. The results confirm that the performance of music classification using the auditory model is at least comparable to the traditional methods. Furthermore, the auditory model is modified to exemplify the decrease of recognition rates in the presence of hearing deficits. The resulting system is a basis for estimating the intelligibility of music which in the future might be used for the automatic assessment of hearing instruments.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;65, 2016
Sister sojourners: Routing the transnational movement of African American women
Creators: name: Rhone, Malinda
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Transnationalism has become one of the fundamental ways for understanding contemporary border crossings. Discussions about contemporary transnational movement compel us to engage with the cultural politics of home and belonging as well as the ways transnational migration informs processes of identity construction. This dissertation investigates how African American women's contemporary transnational migration to London England influences the ways they conceptualize and articulate their identities as raced and gendered diasporic subjects. While few studies position London, England as an endpoint in an African American diasporic trajectory, I assert that African American women's contemporary transnational movement and experiences represent a departure from and challenge to predominant characterizations of gendered migration and diaspora. In contrast, to making a vertical move from a "third world" nation to a "first world" nation, African American women's movement from one industrialized, predominately white space to another places them in a paradoxical position in which they may have access to certain privileges associated with first world citizenship yet continue to be devalued for being Black and female despite geographic context. Using ethnographic data conducted with current African American female residents of London, I find that transnational migration provided a distance from locally specific forms of identity and identification. This distance offered a space for the renegotiation of identities that compelled research participants to investigate the criteria of individual and group membership along the axes of race, gender, and nation.
[Lazariterkirche Gfenn]
Creators: name: Rahn, Johann Rudolf
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1858
Subjects: Gfenn

description: Die Zeichnung zeigt Aussenansichten und architektonische Details der Lazariterkirche in Gfenn
description: [Johann Rudolf Rahn]
description: In der Bildmitte handschriftliche Notiz "G. Gubel"
The environmental Kuznets curve for carbon dioxide emissions: A seemingly unrelated cointegrating polynomial regressions approach
Creators: name: Wagner, Martin
name: Grabarczyk, Peter
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: cointegrating polynomial regression
subject: seemingly unrelated regression
subject: poolability
subject: fully modified estimation
subject: environmental Kuznets curve
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: We present estimation and inference techniques for systems of seemingly unrelated cointegrating polynomial regressions. In particular, we present two fully modified-type estimators and Wald-type hypothesis tests based upon them. We develop tests for poolability of subsets of coefficients over subsets of equations. For the case that these restrictions are not rejected, we provide the correspondingly pooled estimators. This group-wise pooling turns out to be very useful in our application where we analyze the environmental Kuznets curve for CO2 emissions for seven early industrialized countries. Group-wise pooled estimation leads to almost the same results as unrestricted estimation whilst reducing the number of estimated parameters by about one third. Fully pooled, panel-data type estimation performs poorly in comparison.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;75, 2016
A note on functional equivalence between intertemporal and multisectoral investment adjustment costs
Creators: name: Ivashchenko, Sergey
name: Mutschler, Willi
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: identification
subject: investment adjustment costs
subject: nonlinear DSGE
subject: pruning
subject: quadratic approximation
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Kim (2003, JEDC) shows functional equivalence between intertemporal and multisectoral investment adjustments costs in a linearized RBC model. From an identification point of view, two parameters are not separately distinguishable, they enter as a sum into the linearized solution. We demonstrate that estimating the quadratic approximation of the model provides means to extract more information on the structural parameters from data and thus estimate both parameters that are unidentiable under the log-linearized model.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;76, 2016
Meganola major subsp. major
Creators: name: Joshi, Rahul
name: Singh, Navneet
name: Laszlo, Gyula M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nolidae
Meganola
Meganola major
Meganola major major (hampson, 1891)

description: 36. Meganola major major (Hampson, 1891)
 Nola major Hampson, 1891, Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum 8: 48.
 Meganola major (Hampson, 1891): Kononenko and Pinratana, 2013, Moths of Thailand 3 (2): 177
TL: Nilgiri distict, Tamil Nadu, India. Syntypes.
TD: BMNH.
 Distribution in India: Tamil Nadu, Nilgiris (Hampson 1891). Elsewhere: Thailand (László et al., 2010); Burma, Singapore, Borneo, Java, Vanuatu, New Caledonia (Holloway 2003); Sri Lanka, Nepal, Malay Peninsula, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Australia (Kononenko and Pinratana 2013).
 Host Plant: Terminalia (Combretaceae) (Holloway 2003).
description: Published as part of Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Laszlo, Gyula M., 2019, An updated Checklist of subfamily Nolinae (Lepidoptera, Nolidae) from India, pp. 263-281 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (3) on pages 269-270, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/142368, http://zenodo.org/record/13185704
“Linear” fully modified OLS estimation of cointegrating polynomial regressions
Creators: name: Stypka, Oliver
name: Grabarczyk, Peter
name: Kawka, Rafael
name: Wagner, Martin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: cointegrating polynomial regression
subject: nonlinearity
subject: integrated process
subject: fully modified OLS estimation
subject: cointegration test
subject: environmental Kuznets curve
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: A large part of the empirical environmental Kuznets curve literature uses cointegrating regressions involving a unit root process and its powers as regressors. In this literature the unit root process and its powers are, incorrectly, all treated as integrated processes and modified least squares estimation methods for linear cointegrating regressions are routinely employed. We show that this approach to estimation leads for the Fully Modified OLS estimator surprisingly to the same limiting distribution as obtained for the version of the Fully Modified OLS estimator adapted to the cointegrating polynomial regression setting of Wagner and Hong (2016).
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;77, 2016
title: Delegating Pricing Power to Customers: Pay What You Want or Name Your Own Price?
Creators: name: Krämer, Florentin
name: Schmidt, Klaus M.
name: Spann, Martin
name: Stich, Lucas
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: customer-driven pricing mechanisms; pay what you want; name your own price; competitive strategies; marketing; laboratory experiment
subject: 330

description: Pay What You Want (PWYW) and Name Your Own Price (NYOP) are customer driven pricing mechanisms that give customers (some) pricing power. Both have been used in service industries with high fixed costs to price discriminate without setting a reference price. Their participatory and innovative nature gives rise to promotional benefits that do not accrue to posted-price sellers. We explore the nature and effects of these benefits and compare PWYW and NYOP using controlled lab experiments. We show that PWYW is a very aggressive strategy that achieves almost full market penetration. It can be profitable if there are promotional benefits and if marginal costs are low. In contrast, NYOP can be used profitably also if marginal costs are high and if there are no such benefits. It reduces price competition and segments the market. In a second experiment, we generate promotional benefits endogenously. We show that PWYW monopolizes the follow-up market but fails to be profitable. NYOP is less successful in penetrating the market but yields much higher profits.
The Sports Psych Show: Dan Clements - Action Research: Coach Development Through Appreciative Inquiry (57 minutes). Dan Clements - Ymchwil Weithredu: Datblygu Hyfforddwyr Drwy Ymchwiliad Gwerthfawrogol. [Cyd-destun - Dulliau gyda staff fel arweinydd ymholiad: Podlediad Ymchwiliad Gwerthfawrogol]:
Creators: name: Mitchell, Gemma
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education policy
Education policy, sociology and philosophy not elsewhere classified
Sociological methodology and research methods

description: The Sports Psych Show: Dan Clements - Action Research: Coach Development Through Appreciative Inquiry. [Context - Approaches with staff as an enquiry lead: Appreciative Inquiry Podcast: (57 minutes).
 (coupled with Barry Island Playlist, who used this podcast as a starting point for their methodological approach: https://hwb.gov.wales/playlists/view/c1fa415e-6fc3-45df-9734-16cf55bee5a4/en/3?preview=true)
 Dan Clements - Ymchwil Weithredu: Datblygu Hyfforddwyr Drwy Ymchwiliad Gwerthfawrogol. [Cyd-destun - Dulliau gyda staff fel arweinydd ymholiad: Podlediad Ymchwiliad Gwerthfawrogol]:
 I’m delighted to speak with Dan Clements in this episode. Dan works in elite coach development, currently at The Welsh Rugby Union. Prior roles include Head of Performance at Wales Hockey and Performance Coach Manager at Wales Rugby League.Dan has co-written a fascinating paper entitled ‘Coach development through collaborative action research: enhancing the learning environment within a national talent development system’. We take an in depth look at this paper and discuss action research; appreciative inquiry; the positivity principle and the intriguingly named ‘provocative proposition’.’
 Rwy'n falch iawn o siarad â Dan Clements yn y bennod hon. Mae Dan yn gweithio ym maes datblygu hyfforddwyr elît, sydd ar hyn o bryd yn Undeb Rygbi Cymru. Mae'r rolau blaenorol yn cynnwys Pennaeth Perfformiad yn Rheolwr Hoci a Hyfforddwr Perfformiad Cymru yn Rygbi Cynghrair Cymru. Mae Dan wedi cyd-ysgrifennu papur diddorol o'r enw 'Datblygu hyfforddwyr drwy ymchwil weithredu ar y cyd: gwella'r amgylchedd dysgu o fewn system datblygu talent genedlaethol'. Rydym yn edrych yn fanwl ar y papur hwn ac yn trafod ymchwil weithredu; ymchwiliad gwerthfawrogol; yr egwyddor gadarnhaol a'r 'cynnig pryfoclyd' a enwir yn ddiddorol.'
title: Rückstände von Pflanzenschutzmitteln in konventionellem Obst und Gemüse
Creators: name: Zankl, Claudia
Year: 2015

description: Einleitung und Fragestellung: Mit dem Einsatz von Pflanzenschutzmitteln soll erreicht werden, dass Frischobst und –gemüse in hoher Qualität den Konsumenten erreicht. Es wurden die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Belastung von konventionellem Frischobst und Frischgemüse mit Pflanzenschutzmitteln und dem Ursprungsland der Obst- und Gemüseproben untersucht. Methode: Die Datenerhebung erfolgte von Jänner 2012 bis September 2014, wobei insgesamt 4664 Proben (N) aus konventionellem Anbau auf Pflanzenschutzmittelrückstände in Zusammenarbeit mit der LVA GmbH untersucht wurden. Sämtliche Proben wurden mittels GC-MS/MS, GC-CI-MS und LC-MS/MS analysiert. Ergebnisse: 2012 (n=1375) [x2(1)=109,570; p=<0,001], 2013 (n=1783) [x2(1)=92,737; p=<0,001] und 2014 (n=1506) [x2(1)=49,718; p=<0,001] gibt es einen signifikanten Unterschied hinsichtlich der Pestizidbelastung zwischen österreichischen und importierten Proben. Bezüglich der Belastung mit Mehrfachrückständen ist 2012 [x2(1)=116,864; p=<0,001], 2013 [x2(1)=111,949; p=<0,001] und 2014 [x2(1)=97,798; p=<0,001] ein signifikanter Unterschied hinsichtlich des Ursprungslandes zu erkennen. Es gibt 2012 [F(1)=130,288; p=<0,001], 2013 [F(1)=127,688; p=<0,001] und 2014 [F(1)=321,008; p=<0,001] einen signifikanten Unterschied der Mittelwerte der Anzahl an Pflanzenschutzmitteln, welcher ebenfalls mit der Herkunft zusammenhängt. Hinsichtlich der Höchstwertüberschreitungen ist 2012 (Fisher’s Exact Test: p=1,00) und 2014 [x2(1)=2,686; p=0,101] kein signifikanter Unterschied zu erkennen. 2013 gibt es einen signifikanten Unterschied (Fisher’s Exact Test: p=0,04). Bezüglich ARfD-Überschreitungen 2012 (Fisher’s Exact Test: p=1,00) und 2014 (Fisher’s Exact Test: p=0,504) gibt es keinen signifikanten Unterschied. 2013 liegt keine ARfD-Überschreitung vor. Bezüglich der Belastung mit Organochlorpestiziden ist 2012, 2013 und 2014 kein signifikanter Unterschied [x2(1)=0,621; p=0,431] zwischen den österreichischen und den importierten Produkten zu erkennen. Schlussfolgerung: Sowohl österreichische als auch importierte Produkte sind von guter Qualität, jedoch sind regionale Produkte zu bevorzugen.
Sister sojourners: Routing the transnational movement of African American women
Creators: name: Rhone, Malinda
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430321
subject: North American history
classificationCode: 440509
subject: Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)
classificationCode: 470206
subject: Cultural studies of nation and region

description: Transnationalism has become one of the fundamental ways for understanding contemporary border crossings. Discussions about contemporary transnational movement compel us to engage with the cultural politics of home and belonging as well as the ways transnational migration informs processes of identity construction. This dissertation investigates how African American women's contemporary transnational migration to London England influences the ways they conceptualize and articulate their identities as raced and gendered diasporic subjects. While few studies position London, England as an endpoint in an African American diasporic trajectory, I assert that African American women's contemporary transnational movement and experiences represent a departure from and challenge to predominant characterizations of gendered migration and diaspora. In contrast, to making a vertical move from a "third world" nation to a "first world" nation, African American women's movement from one industrialized, predominately white space to another places them in a paradoxical position in which they may have access to certain privileges associated with first world citizenship yet continue to be devalued for being Black and female despite geographic context. Using ethnographic data conducted with current African American female residents of London, I find that transnational migration provided a distance from locally specific forms of identity and identification. This distance offered a space for the renegotiation of identities that compelled research participants to investigate the criteria of individual and group membership along the axes of race, gender, and nation.
title: A Framework for Separating Individual Treatment Effects From Spillover, Interaction, and General Equilibrium Effects
Creators: name: Huber, Martin
name: Steinmayr, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Treatment effect; general equilibrium effects; spillover effects; interaction effects; interference effects; inverse probability weighting; propensity score; mediation analysis; difference-in-differences
subject: 330

description: This paper suggests a causal framework for disentangling individual level treatment effects and interference effects, i.e., general equilibrium, spillover, or interaction effects related to treatment distribution. Thus, the framework allows for a relaxation of the Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption (SUTVA), which assumes away any form of treatment-dependent interference between study participants. Instead, we permit interference effects within aggregate units, for example, regions or local labor markets, but need to rule out interference effects between these aggregate units. Borrowing notation from the causal mediation literature, we define a range of policy-relevant effects and formally discuss identification based on randomization, selection on observables, and difference-in-differences. We also present an application to a policy intervention extending unemployment benefit durations in selected regions of Austria that arguably affected ineligibles in treated regions through general equilibrium effects in local labor markets.
Predictive, finite-sample model choice for time series under stationarity and non-stationarity
Creators: name: Kley, Tobias
name: Preuß, Philip
name: Fryzlewicz, Piotr
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: forecasting
subject: covariance stationarity
subject: Yule-Walker estimate
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: In statistical research there usually exists a choice between structurally simpler or more complex models. We argue that, even if a more complex, locally stationary time series model were true, then a simple, stationary time series model may be advantageous to work with under parameter uncertainty. We present a new model choice methodology, where one of two competing approaches is chosen based on its empirical finite-sample performance with respect to prediction. A rigorous, theoretical analysis of the procedure is provided. As an important side result we prove, for possibly diverging model order, that the localised Yule-Walker estimator is strongly, uniformly consistent under local stationarity. An R package, forecastSNSTS, is provided and used to apply the methodology to financial and meteorological data in empirical examples. We further provide an extensive simulation study and discuss when it is preferable to base forecasts on the more volatile time-varying estimates and when it is advantageous to forecast as if the data were from a stationary process, even though they might not be.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;78, 2016
title: Mean Field Games with Singular Controls
Creators: name: Fu, Guanxing
name: Horst, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mean field game; singular control; relaxed control; skorokhod m1 topology
subject: 330

description: This paper establishes the existence of relaxed solutions to mean eld games (MFGs for short)
with singular controls. As a by-product, we obtain an existence of relaxed solutions results for
McKean-Vlasov stochastic singular control problems. Finally, we prove approximations of solutions results for a particular class of MFGs with singular controls by solutions, respectively control rules, for MFGs with purely regular controls. Our existence and approximation results strongly hinge on the use of the Skorokhod M1 topology on the space of cadlag functions.
Anastrepha elegans Blanchard 1937
Creators: name: Ramos, Elizabeth Quisberth
name: Norrbom, Allen L.
name: Marinoni, Luciane
name: Sutton, Bruce D.
name: Steck, Gary J.
name: Sánchez, Juan José Lagrava
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Anastrepha
Anastrepha elegans

description: 25. Anastrepha elegans Blanchard
Distribution in Bolivia: Santa Cruz, Tarija (this publication).
New specimen data: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz: Andrés Ibañez, Potrerillo del Guendá, trail to old river bed, 17.6675°S 63.4561°W, 390 m, trap ML-PG-14, 9-17 Oct 2014, B. D. Sutton, A. L. Norrbom & E. Quisberth, 1♁ (USNM USNMENT01526581); same, trail to Quebrada Las Conchas, 17.66863°S 63.462°W, 403 m, trap ML-PG-09, 9-17 Oct 2014, B. D. Sutton, A. L. Norrbom & E. Quisberth, 1♀ (FSCA AP20160707.11); same, trail to Quebrada Las Conchas, at fence, 17.67094°S 63.4595°W, 405 m, trap ML-PG-07 in mango tree, 9-17 Oct 2014, B. D. Sutton, A. L. Norrbom & E. Quisberth, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00105296); Florida, 4 km N of Bermejo, Refugio Los Volcanes, entrance road, lower edge of coffee, 18.11611°S 63.60401°W, 1222 m, trap ML-RV-06, 3-7 Oct 2014, A.L. Norrbom, B.D. Sutton & E. Quisberth, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT01526597); same, 18.10736°S 63.59959°W, 1061 m, trap ML-RV-15, 1♁ (FSCA AP20160707.10); same, water tank trail, 18.10459°S 63.59528°W, 1109 m, trap ML-RV-22, 1♀ (FSCA); same, junction Condor & Amboró trails, 18.10154°S 63.59425°W, 1073 m, trap ML-RV-33, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT01526596). Tarija: Cercado, Santa Ana, 07-04-03, McPhail trap, 2008, 1♀ (SENASAG) 1♁ 2♀ (USNM USNMENT00744986-88).
description: Published as part of Ramos, Elizabeth Quisberth, Norrbom, Allen L., Marinoni, Luciane, Sutton, Bruce D., Steck, Gary J. & Sánchez, Juan José Lagrava, 2021, The Bolivian fauna of the genus Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera: Tephritidae), pp. 43-64 in Zootaxa 4926 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4500587
Meganola major subsp. phaea
Creators: name: Joshi, Rahul
name: Singh, Navneet
name: Laszlo, Gyula M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nolidae
Meganola
Meganola major
Meganola major phaea (hampson, 1900)

description: 37. Meganola major phaea (Hampson, 1900)
 Nola phaea Hampson, 1900, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 2: 35.
 Meganola major phaea (Hampson, 1900): László et al., 2015, Zootaxa 4052 (2): 260
TL: Ichang, China. Holotype (♀).
TD: BMNH.
 Distribution in India: NW Himalaya, Kullu (Strand 1920). Elsewhere: China (Hampson 1900).
 Remarks: The species has been downgraded to subspecific rank by László et al. (2015).
description: Published as part of Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Laszlo, Gyula M., 2019, An updated Checklist of subfamily Nolinae (Lepidoptera, Nolidae) from India, pp. 263-281 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (3) on page 270, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/142368, http://zenodo.org/record/13185704
title: Cooperating Over Losses and Competing Over Gains: a Social Dilemma Experiment
Creators: name: Ispano, Alessandro
name: Schwardmann, Peter
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Travelers dilemma; loss domain; diminishing sensitivity; strategic sophistication
subject: 330

description: Evidence from studies in international relations, the politics of reform, collective action and price competition suggests that economic agents in social dilemma situations cooperate more to avoid losses than in the pursuit of gains. To test whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation, we let experimental subjects play the travelers dilemma in the gain and loss domain. Subjects cooperate substantially more over losses. Furthermore, our results suggest that this treatment effect is best explained by reference-dependent risk preferences and reference-dependent strategic sophistication. We discuss the implications of our results and relate our findings to other experimental games played in the loss domain.
Three essays in development economics: The case of Vietnam
Creators: name: Nguyen, Minh Cong
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation empirically explores changes in the economic behavior of households and firms in the Vietnamese economy after the Doi Moi reforms. First, this research analyzes food expenditure patterns of households in Vietnam from 1993 to 2006 and estimates their income and price elasticities. Unlike previous studies, the paper estimates a complete demand system using the censored Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System to control for zero expenditures in some categories. The results suggest that food expenditure patterns are quite consistent although there are some shifts in food consumption overtime to more healthy bundles. The paper shows that the expenditure elasticity for the rice and cereal group decreases overtime. A one percent increase in income increases consumption within this group by 0.70 percent in 1993 but only 0.48 percent in 2006 while a rise of one percent in prices reduces rice consumption by 0.88 percent in 1993 and 0.96 percent in 2006. The second paper explores the link between household migration on household food security and nutrition using a panel data of households in 2004 and 2006. The paper finds that short-term migration has a positive impact on nutrition through increased per adult equivalent food expenditures, greater calories per adult equivalent consumed, and a more diversified diet. Short-term migration is found to be linked to shocks faced by the household suggesting that households are using short-term migration to maintain food security in the face of uncertainty. The third paper aims to advance our understanding of wage and productivity differentials between male and female workers in Vietnam. The paper also examines the factors influencing a firm's decision to hire female labor. We find no evidence of wage discrimination based on an analysis of the gender gap in wages and the gender gap in productivity. Our estimates instead suggest that on average female wages are 81 percent of male wages, while female productivity is only 41 percent of male productivity. This suggests that women receive a subsidy. This wage premium seems to be higher in state-owned enterprises. We also find that in state-owned enterprises unskilled workers seem to enjoy additional benefits or compensation (wage premium) compared to workers in the in private sector. Moreover, our analysis of female participation in firms indicates that the size of the firm and the sector in which a firm belongs to are statistically significant across models and seem to have a large impact on female employment. Firms that have a larger percentage of export sales are found to be more likely to employ women, while those firms that face corruption and stability constraints employ fewer women.
Meganola nitida
Creators: name: Joshi, Rahul
name: Singh, Navneet
name: Laszlo, Gyula M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nolidae
Meganola
Meganola nitida

description: 39. Meganola nitida (Hampson, 1894)
 Selca nitida Hampson, 1894, Fauna of British India, Moths 2: 147.
 Meganola nitida (Hampson, 1894): László et al., 2015, Zootaxa 4052 (2): 264
TL: Manipur, India. Holotype (♀).
TD: BMNH.
 Distribution in India: Manipur (Hampson 1894); NW Himalaya (Strand 1920), Sikkim, Darjeeling, Naga Hills (László et al., 2007). Elsewhere: E. Pegu (Hampson 1894), Himalaya, Burma (Holloway 2003); Nepal (László et al., 2007).
description: Published as part of Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Laszlo, Gyula M., 2019, An updated Checklist of subfamily Nolinae (Lepidoptera, Nolidae) from India, pp. 263-281 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (3) on page 270, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/142368, http://zenodo.org/record/13185704
Lernverhalten und Klausurerfolg in der Ingenieurmathematik - Selbsteinschätzung und Dozentensicht
Creators: name: Griese, Birgit
name: Kallweit, Michael
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Will man Studierende zu Studienbeginn sinnvoll unterstützen, ist ein erster Schritt, die Faktoren für Klausurerfolg zu bestimmen. In unserer Untersuchung beschrieben 508 Studierende ihr Lernverhalten in sechs Kategorien. Die Daten wurden in Bezug auf Klausurpunkte und Studiengang ausgewertet. Zusätzlich wurden Dozenten gebeten, Klausurerfolg anteilig auf dieselben Kategorien zu verteilen. Die Ergebnisse liefern Einsichten zur Relevanz einzelner Kategorien und entkräften gängige Annahmen.