cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Assessment of Project Monitoring and Evaluation Practice in Oromia Pastoral Area Development Commission: the Case of Pastoral Community Development Projects at Fentalle and Mieso Districts
Creators: name: Jisso, Bido
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: This study was basically initiated with general objective of assessing the Pastoral Community Development Projects monitoring and evaluation practice of OPADC in relation to the implementation of PCDPs at Fentalle and Mieso districts. To achieve its objective, the study employed descriptive research approach and both primary and secondary data were used. Questionnaires, focus group discussion, interview, and document review were, therefore, used as data collection tools. Furthermore, it employed both stratified and judgmental sampling techniques. The generated data was analyzed using quasi- qualitative approaches. The study examined checklists, questionnaires, focus group discussion, field visit and observation, review of administrative records, interview, simulation game, cost-benefit analysis and case studies set by OPADC as PCDPs monitoring and evaluation gathering tools and techniques. It was found out that efficiency, effectiveness, relevance, impact, sustainability, environment and socio-economic impacts have been employed by the OPADC as PCDPs evaluation criteria's and lack of project evaluation principles and standards, that were not included in monitoring & evaluation manual. Moreover, the result of study indicated that OPADC employed all stages of evaluation and the tasks that were carried out mostly in monthly, quarterly, mid-term and annual bases in planned manner in regional level while at specified districts level the monitoring and evaluation process were unplanned and irregular. Additionally, most of, regional and district level PCDPs steering Committee members were not involved in monitoring and evaluation; they were only based on repots they obtained to assess the performance of the project. Hence, the study revealed that the PCDPs monitoring and evaluation process was participatory involving stakeholders through meetings and discussions held at different stages. It was also disclosed that some completed projects like Grain Mills with shops have not been functioning due to poor management. The other finding is that there were limited human resources both in terms quality and quantity to conduct monitoring and evaluation at both specified districts. Especially, there were no engineers in both districts to handle construction projects monitoring and evaluation. Competition over projects resource was also other obstacle identified by this study. The study recommended that OPADC should conduct PCDPs outcomes evaluations; OPADC needs to reconsider the human resource structure; To avoid, competition over project resources, OPADC should provide adequate resources for district PCDPs coordination office; and OPADC should improve its monitoring and evaluation manual by including projects monitoring and evaluation principles and standards
The Machine that Builds Itself: How the Strengths of Lisp Family Languages Facilitate Building Complex and Flexible Bioinformatic Models
Creators: name: Khomtchouk, Bohdan B.
name: Weitz, Edmund
name: Wahlestedt, Claes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We address the need for expanding the presence of the Lisp family of programming languages in bioinformatics and computational biology research. Languages of this family, like Common Lisp, Scheme, or Clojure, facilitate the creation of powerful and flexible software models that are required for complex and rapidly evolving domains like biology. We will point out several important key features that distinguish languages of the Lisp family from other programming languages and we will explain how these features can aid researchers in becoming more productive and creating better code. We will also show how these features make these languages ideal tools for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. We will specifically stress the advantages of domain-specific languages (DSL): languages which are specialized to a particular area and thus not only facilitate easier research problem formulation, but also aid in the establishment of standards and best programming practices as applied to the specific research field at hand. DSLs are particularly easy to build in Common Lisp, the most comprehensive Lisp dialect, which is commonly referred to as the "programmable programming language." We are convinced that Lisp grants programmers unprecedented power to build increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence systems that may ultimately transform machine learning and AI research in bioinformatics and computational biology.
description: 9 pages
Tableau vivant : the sacred in the everyday
Creators: name: Wilson, Joanne.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Effect Of Marketing Communications On Sales Performance In Real-Estate Industry In Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Solomon, Theodros
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The most fundamental feature of any company is sales of their product(s) because it supports any business' survival. Selling entails the use of advertising, sales promotions, publicity, direct marketing, and personal selling. Companies respond differently with their marketing communication mix decisions even when subjected to almost the same environmental factors. The study sought to determine the effect of marketing communication mix on sales performance of Real Estate companies and was directed by the following five specific objectives; to establish the effect of advertising on the sales performance of real estate companies in Addis Ababa, to determine the effect of sales promotion on the sales performance of the real estate companies in Addis Ababa, to determine the effect of direct marketing on the sales performance of real estate companies in Addis Ababa, to examine the effect of publicity on the sales performance of real estate companies in Addis Ababa and the fifth objective was the effect of the personal selling on the relationship between marketing communication mix and sales performance real estate companies in Addis Ababa. The study used the AIDA model, Hierarchy of Effects model and Diffusion of innovations theory to guide the study. The study adopted explanatory and descriptive research designs. The target population for the study was 56 real estate companies in Addis Ababa and a census survey was used to select the target population. Structured and unstructured questionnaires were administered to the respondents. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data of the study. Descriptive statistics included measures of dispersion and measures of central tendency, reliability of data collection instrument was measured by Cronbach Alpha and researcher ensured the 0.7 threshold was not exceeded. Inferential statistics at p≤ 0.05significance level was used. Multiple regression analysis was applied to test the hypotheses. The results of the hypotheses tested indicated that all had a statistically positive significant effect on sales performance except publicity that had positive but statistically insignificant effect on sales performance. The study concluded that overall the marketing communication mixes positively affect the relationship linking marketing communication mix and sales performance, and that when integrated or blended elicits better response and often gives the organization leverage over competition. The researchers recommended that more emphasis be placed on Advertising, direct marketing and personal selling. Other researchers should consider conducting to include all stakeholders and factors and triangulate the results to make a more comprehensive conclusion on the matter, as it helps in expansion of scope for generalizability.
Poles of hydrodynamic spectral functions and Einstein-Helfand formulas for transport coefficients
Creators: name: Mabillard, Joel
name: Gaspard, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The local-equilibrium approach to transport processes is related to the approach based on time-dependent correlation functions and their associated spectral functions characterizing the equilibrium fluctuations of particle, momentum and other densities. On the one hand, the transport coefficients are calculated with the Einstein-Helfand formulas derived in the local-equilibrium approach. On the other hand, the poles of the spectral functions at complex frequencies give the damping rates of the hydrodynamic modes. Since these rates also depend on the transport coefficients, their values can be compared to the predictions of the local-equilibrium approach. This comparison is systematically carried out for the hard-sphere fluid by computing numerically the transport coefficients, the spectral functions, and their poles as a function of the wave number in the hydrodynamic limit. The study shows the consistency between the two approaches for the determination of the transport properties.
Optimizing U.S. Army Combat Readiness:A Proposal for Gender-Specific Fitness Standards with Gender-Neutral Combat Tasks Revised EditionSeptember 2024
Creators: name: Forza, Amy
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 480705
subject: Military law and justice
classificationCode: 440806
subject: Gender and politics

description: This dissertation explores the U.S. Army's implementation of the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), introduced in 2020 to replace the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT). Although designed to better assess soldiers' combat readiness, the ACFT has sparked significant criticism for its legal, practical, and ethical implications. Initial trials revealed stark disparities, as the ACFT drastically lowered standards for men, reducing their failure rate to negligible levels and making the test 20 times easier compared to the APFT. Additionally, men now achieve the "highly fit" category at three times the rate they did under the APFT. A survey of 424 participants revealed that men outperform women by 3.29%, even when age and gender norms are applied, a margin that is statistically significant. This margin persisted despite the survey including an unusually high number of highly fit females, which created a sampling bias. This result highlights the ACFT's inadequate adjustments to accurately reflect female performance. Text analysis conducted on a corpus of Army combat manuals reveals a disconnect between the ACFT's emphasis on brute strength and doctrinally prescribed combat competencies, suggesting that this strength-centric approach redefines rather than reflects combat requirements. Comparing the two fitness tests, I found that the ACFT replaces events that previously helped equalize scoring metrics between genders, such as the sit-up with a plank event that focuses more on shoulder stability and upper body strength, and the traditional push-up with exercises like the hand-release push-up, which repeatedly pounds breast tissue against the ground and seems structured to specifically challenge female physiology. These changes indicate an intent to limit female integration into combat roles, despite legislative efforts to promote gender equity. The study calls for gender-specific fitness testing alongside gender-neutral combat task assessments to ensure fair physical fitness evaluations and effective combat readiness.
Dark Energy and Doubly Coupled Bigravity
Creators: name: Brax, Philippe
name: Davis, Anne-Christine
name: Noller, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the late time cosmology and the gravitational properties of doubly coupled bigravity in the constrained vielbein formalism (equivalent to the metric formalism) when the mass of the massive graviton is of the order of the present Hubble rate. We focus on one of the two branches of background cosmology where the ratio between the scale factors of the two metrics is algebraically determined. The Universe evolves from a matter dominated epoch to a dark energy dominated era where the equation of state of dark energy can always be made close to -1 now by appropriately tuning the graviton mass. We also analyse the perturbative spectrum of the theory in the quasi static approximation well below the strong coupling scale where no instability is present and we show that there are five scalar degrees of freedom, two vectors and two gravitons. In a cosmological FRW background for both metrics, four of the five scalars are Newtonian potentials which lead to a modification of gravity on large scales. In this scalar sector, gravity is modified with effects on both the growth of structure and the lensing potential. In particular, we find that the $Σ$ parameter governing the Poisson equation of the weak lensing potential can differ from one in the recent past of the Universe. Overall, the nature of the modification of gravity at low energy, which reveals itself in the growth of structure and the lensing potential, is intrinsically dependent on the couplings to matter and the potential term of the vielbeins. We also find that the time variation of Newton's constant in the Jordan frame can easily satisfy the bound from solar system tests of gravity. Finally we show that the two gravitons present in the spectrum have a non-trivial mass matrix whose origin follows from the potential term of bigravity. This mixing leads to gravitational birefringence.
description: 47 pages, 8 figures
Updated analysis of near-threshold heavy quarkonium production for probe of proton's gluonic gravitational form factors
Creators: name: Guo, Yuxun
name: Ji, Xiangdong
name: Liu, Yizhuang
name: Yang, Jinghong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been growing interest in the near-threshold production of heavy quarkonium which can access the gluonic structure in the nucleon. Previously we studied this process with quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and showed that it can be factorized with the gluon generalized parton distributions (GPDs) in the heavy quark limit. We further argued that the hadronic matrix element is dominated by its leading moments corresponding to the gluonic gravitational form factors (GFFs) in this limit. Since then, there have been many new developments on this subject. More experimental measurements have been made and published, and the lattice simulation of gluonic GFFs has been improved as well. In this work, we make an important revision to a previous result and perform an updated analysis with the new inputs. We also study the importance of the large momentum transfer to extract these gluonic structures reliably in this framework.
description: 8 figures, 2 tables
Efficiently parallelized modeling of tightly focused, large bandwidth laser pulses
Creators: name: Dumont, Joey
name: Fillion-Gourdeau, François
name: Lefebvre, Catherine
name: Gagnon, Denis
name: MacLean, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Stratton-Chu integral representation of electromagnetic fields is used to study the spatio-temporal properties of large bandwidth laser pulses focused by high numerical aperture mirrors. We review the formal aspects of the derivation of diffraction integrals from the Stratton-Chu representation and discuss the use of the Hadamard finite part in the derivation of the physical optics approximation. By analyzing the formulation we show that, for the specific case of a parabolic mirror, the integrands involved in the description of the reflected field near the focal spot do not possess the strong oscillations characteristic of diffraction integrals. Consequently, the integrals can be evaluated with simple and efficient quadrature methods rather than with specialized, more costly approaches. We report on the development of an efficiently parallelized algorithm that evaluates the Stratton-Chu diffraction integrals for incident fields of arbitrary temporal and spatial dependence. This method has the advantage that its input is the unfocused field coming from the laser chain, which is experimentally known with high accuracy. We use our method to show that the reflection of a linearly polarized Gaussian beam of femtosecond duration off a high numerical aperture parabolic mirror induces ellipticity in the dominant field components and generates strong longitudinal components. We also estimate that future high-power laser facilities may reach intensities of $10^{24}\,\text{W/cm}^2$.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, published version
Energy Dissipation in Atomic Force Microscopy and Atomic Loss Processes
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Peter M.
name: Jeffery, Steve
name: Oral, Ahmet
name: Pethica, John B.
name: Özer, H. Özgür
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Parametric Resonance in the Early Universe - A Fitting Analysis
Creators: name: Figueroa, Daniel G.
name: Torrenti, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Particle production via parametric resonance in the early Universe, is a nonperturbative, non-linear and out-of-equilibrium phenomenon. Although it is a well studied topic, whenever a new scenario exhibits parametric resonance, a full re-analysis is normally required. To avoid this tedious task, many works present often only a simplified linear treatment of the problem. In order to surpass this circumstance in the future, we provide a fitting analysis of parametric resonance through all its relevant stages: initial linear growth, non-linear evolution, and relaxation towards equilibrium. Using lattice simulations in an expanding grid in 3 + 1 dimensions, we parametrize the dynamics outcome scanning over the relevant ingredients: role of the oscillatory field, particle coupling strength, initial conditions, and background expansion rate. We emphasize the inaccuracy of the linear calculation of the decay time of the oscillatory field, and propose a more appropriate definition of this scale based on the subsequent non-linear dynamics. We provide simple fits to the relevant time scales and particle energy fractions at each stage. Our fits can be applied to post-inflationary preheating scenarios, where the oscillatory field is the inflaton, or to spectator-field scenarios, where the oscillatory field can be e.g. a curvaton, or the Standard Model Higgs.
description: Extended discussion about the late-time dynamics of the system in quadratic models. Minor changes in numerical fits with respect first version. It matches version published in JCAP (30 pages + Appendices + Bibliography, 13 figures)
Elevating zero dimensional global scaling predictions to self-consistent theory-based simulations
Creators: name: Slendebroek, Tim
name: McClenaghan, Joseph
name: Meneghini, Orso
name: Lyons, Brendan C.
name: Smith, Sterling P.
name: Neiser, Tom F.
name: Shi, Nan
name: Candy, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed an innovative workflow, STEP-0D, within the OMFIT integrated modelling framework. Through systematic validation against the International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) global H-mode confinement database, we demonstrated that STEP-0D, on average, predicts the energy confinement time with a mean relative error (MRE) of less than 19%. Moreover, this workflow showed promising potential in predicting plasmas for proposed fusion reactors such as ARC, EU-DEMO, and CFETR, indicating moderate H-factors between 0.9 and 1.2. STEP-0D allows theory-based prediction of tokamak scenarios, beginning with zero-dimensional (0D) quantities. The workflow initiates with the PRO-create module, generating physically consistent plasma profiles and equilibrium using the same 0D quantities as the IPB98(y,2) confinement scaling. This sets the starting point for the STEP (Stability, Transport, Equilibrium, and Pedestal) module, which further iterates between theory-based physics models of equilibrium, core transport, and pedestal to yield a self-consistent solution. Given these attributes, STEP-0D not only improves the accuracy of predicting plasma performance but also provides a path towards a novel fusion power plant (FPP) design workflow. When integrated with engineering and costing models within an optimization, this new approach could eliminate the iterative reconciliation between plasma models of varying fidelity. This potential for a more efficient design process underpins STEP-0D's significant contribution to future fusion power plant development.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures, accepted by Physics of Plasmas 2023
Robertson, Jennifer. Robo sapiens japanicus: robots, gender, family, and the Japanese nation. xvi, 260 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2018. £24.00 (paper)
Creators: name: Otsuki, Grant
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 210299 Curatorial and Related Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Archaeology

description: No description supplied
Determinants of Budget Control in Public Organization (CASE of Benishangul Gumzu Regional State)
Creators: name: Demera, Geletaw
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of budget control in the Benishangul Gumzu regional state public organzations. This investigation is focused on five purposely selected public organzation that are expected to represent all other bureaus. From the total population of 428, (Watson 2001) formula was used to determine sample of 207 respondents. The management teams, the internal and external auditors, budget experts, finance officers, tax and planning experts of the selected public organzation were the sources for the required data to theresearcher through the questionnaires administered. The SPSS version 24.0 was used to analyze the data using descriptive statistics, including mean, standard deviation and logistic regression used to analysis inferential output. For this study, seven independent variables were identified including budget planning process, management support, competent internal audit staff, organizational commitment, budget monitoring and evaluation, information and communication and cost reduction. The dependent variable is degree of budget control which was measured under Binary logistic regression. According to the logistic regression output, information and communication, cost reduction, competent internal audit staff, management support, budget monitoring and evaluation were contributed for the budget control in the public sector significantly and positively. The remaining two variables; the budget planning process for the budget control is negatively related and insignificant with EXP (B) = 0.890<1) and the organizational commitment were positively related with the budget control, but its contribution for the budget control were statistically insignificance at 5% level. All of these seven independent variables are making 78% of the contributions for budget control in the public organzation. Then, the researcher recommend that public organzations should understand the contributions of these five variables collectively significant and their odd ratio were greater than one to infinity indicate the relationship type between those predictors and the outcomes and add values for the budget control in the public sector offices
title: Das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (AGG) als Sparversion
title: Ergebnisse einer Unternehmensbefragung
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rastetter, Daniela
name: Raasch, Sibylle
Publisher: name: Lucius & Lucius Verlagsgesellschft GmbH
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 650

description: Das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz löste vor seiner Einführung Mitte 2006 kontroverse Diskussionen aus, insbesondere Arbeitgeber befürchteten Missbrauch und erhöhte Kosten. Eine Unternehmensbefragung anderthalb Jahre nach Einführung des Gesetzes mittels Interviews mit Personalverantwortlichen, Betriebsräten und Gleichstellungsakteuren untersucht, ob sich die Befürchtungen bewahrheitet haben. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass nicht nur Klagewellen ausgeblieben sind, sondern die Unternehmen auch nur in beschränktem Umfang ihre personalpolitischen Routinen verändert haben. Anpassungen gab es fast nur im Bereich der Stellenausschreibungen. Implikationen für Gleichstellungsfragen werden diskutiert.
description: Arbeit
title: Инженерная графика
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2021

description: В учебном пособии изложены основные сведения о конструкторской документации, описаны правила выполнения и оформления различных типов чертежей, схем, текстовой документации в соответствии с действующими стандартами единой системы конструкторской документации (ЕСКД). Показаны некоторые изменения в ЕСКД в связи с применением в практике проектирования CALS-технологий и электронных конструкторских документов, даны базовые сведения о контроле конструкторской документации. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов всех специальностей и направлений подготовки высшего образования, учебными планами которых предусмотрено изучение дисциплины «Инженерная графика».
An exploration of modernism in the twentieth century and its extension in glass
Creators: name: Lavery, Andrew Maxwell.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Fitting flood frequency distributions using the annual maximum series and the peak over threshold approaches
Creators: name: Caissie, Daniel
name: Goguen, Gabriel
name: El-Jabi, Nassir
name: Chouaib, Wafa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Flood frequency plays an important role in the design of hydraulic structures as well as in the management of fisheries and aquatic resources. There are two types of flood frequency analyses, namely the annual maximum series (AMS) analysis and the partial duration series analysis (or peak over threshold, POT). The POT analysis consists of studying discharge data above a specific threshold (or truncation level), whereas the AMS method uses maximum annual discharge data. Both the AMS (generalized extreme value – GEV distribution) and POT (generalized Pareto – GP and exponential – Exp distributions) were used to calculate flood frequencies for four hydrometric stations within the Miramichi River basin of New Brunswick. A simple method was proposed for the selection of truncation levels, that is, values corresponding to 1, 1.5 and 2 flood counts per year. Considering multiple truncation levels in the POT analysis has the advantage of providing more results that are used to identify which level provides a better fit of the flood data. Both the GEV (AMS) and GP (POT) distributions best represented flood data within the Miramichi River whereas the Exp (POT) distribution did not fit well the data, especially for floods with high return periods (>25 years). Results showed the truncation level at a flood count of 1 (highest truncation level) for the POT method, generally provided a better fit of floods with high return periods (>25 years). Moreover, lower truncation levels tended to provide flood estimates with less uncertainties (lower coefficient of variation, as tested using a jackknife technique). Finally, results showed that both the AMS and POT methods are complementary in flood frequency analyses. The AMS is the more classic approach to flood frequency analyses; however, the POT provides a better characterization of floods (e.g. magnitude, duration and flood volume).
Matrix Thermalization
Creators: name: Craps, Ben
name: Evnin, Oleg
name: Nguyen, Kévin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Matrix quantum mechanics offers an attractive environment for discussing gravitational holography, in which both sides of the holographic duality are well-defined. Similarly to higher-dimensional implementations of holography, collapsing shell solutions in the gravitational bulk correspond in this setting to thermalization processes in the dual quantum mechanical theory. We construct an explicit, fully nonlinear supergravity solution describing a generic collapsing dilaton shell, specify the holographic renormalization prescriptions necessary for computing the relevant boundary observables, and apply them to evaluating thermalizing two-point correlation functions in the dual matrix theory.
description: 39 pages, 2 figures; v2: references added; v3: added appendix containing the computation of one-point functions, published version
Investigation on the role of load volume in pyro-electrodynamic jetting
Creators: name: Mancini, Marilina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The thesis work presented is part of two research projects: the first is the Asi-Unina project, a project aimed at developing innovative technologies for health in space, while the second is the European SensApp project, a project aimed at developing a super sensor capable, through a blood test, of making an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Thanks to the collaboration between the University of Naples Federico II and the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems of the National Research Council (CNR-ISASI) it was possible to carry out the experimental tests of the thesis at the CNR labs.
Interventional Studies on Nurses' Mental Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Murat, Merve
name: Köse, Selmin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In 2019, the COVID-19 Pandemic emerged as a significant worldwide health issue, bringing with it some urgent concerns. Hospitalizations, the requirement for life support systems, and COVID-19 disease mortality rates were all high globally [1]. It also meant an increased amount of work required by healthcare workers. Nurses who continued to provide care over extended shifts while using inadequate protective equipment were negatively impacted during this time due to the uncertainties brought on by the pandemic [2-4]. Studies show that nurses had a high level of stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, and PTSD symptoms early in the COVID-19 Pandemic [5-9]. In the later stages of the pandemic, on the other hand, they experienced mental health symptoms. A study conducted in Italy showed that nurses diagnosed with sleep disorders suffered from reduced self-efficacy during the later stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic [10]. The findings demonstrate that the pandemic has detrimental impacts on nurses' mental health as it has on society, politics, and the economy. Overall health and quality of life are strongly influenced by mental health. In addition to being free from mental illnesses and issues, having coping mechanisms, feeling secure, and maintaining a sense of balance are also considered indicators of good mental health. The intricate interaction between social and psychological elements that protect mental health and the risk factors that imperil it is the foundation of mental health. Nurses have been exposed to various risk factors during the COVID-19 Pandemic process. Social support and lack of resources might further compound the psychological effects of exposure to risk variables [4, 11]. According to the literature, the COVID-19 Pandemic negatively impacts nurses' mental health and well-being and cost-efficient, simple, quick, easy-to-apply, and successful interventional studies considering the pandemic circumstances must therefore be planned [12-23]. Health authorities, professional organizations, and universities have vital roles in preserving the mental health of nurses, providing the care and counseling they require, and coordinating resources and opportunities. Interventional studies with a high level of evidence carried out under pandemic circumstances provide valuable theoretical information resources for nurses. Thus, nurses will be able to take advantage of preventive interventions with successful outcomes in any endemics and pandemics in the future. This systematic review aims to investigate the interventional studies conducted to support nurses' mental health during the COVID-19 Pandemic and to discuss what kind of studies and plans are needed in this area. Systematic review question: • What are the interventional studies to protect and improve the mental health of nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Seeding the vacuum with entropy: the Chaplygin-like vacuum hypothesis
Creators: name: Bertolami, Orfeu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is proposed that the vacuum admits two different phases as described by the Chaplygin equation of state or its generalised version: a phase where the energy density behaves as if dominated by non-relativistic matter and a de Sitter phase. The particle production due to the expansion that takes place at the matter-like phase can generate entanglement entropy and provide, through interactions, the environment that turn gravitational quantum features into classical ones. In the ensued de Sitter phase, the cosmological constant can be suppressed by inflation.
description: 11 pages. Typos corrected
Gravitino or Axino Dark Matter with Reheat Temperature as high as $10^{16}$ GeV
Creators: name: Co, Raymond T.
name: D'Eramo, Francesco
name: Hall, Lawrence J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new scheme for lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) dark matter is introduced and studied in theories of TeV supersymmetry with a QCD axion, $a$, and a high reheat temperature after inflation, $T_R$. A large overproduction of axinos ($\tilde{a}$) and gravitinos ($\tilde{G}$) from scattering at $T_R$, and from freeze-in at the TeV scale, is diluted by the late decay of a saxion condensate that arises from inflation. The two lightest superpartners are $\tilde{a}$, with mass of order the TeV scale, and $\tilde{G}$ with mass $m_{3/2}$ anywhere between the keV and TeV scales, depending on the mediation scale of supersymmetry breaking. Dark matter contains both warm and cold components: for $\tilde{G}$ LSP the warm component arises from $\tilde{a} \rightarrow \tilde{G}a$, while for $\tilde{a}$ LSP the warm component arises from $\tilde{G} \rightarrow \tilde{a}a$. The free-streaming scale for the warm component is predicted to be of order 1 Mpc (and independent of $m_{3/2}$ in the case of $\tilde{G}$ LSP). $T_R$ can be as high as $10^{16}$ GeV, for any value of $m_{3/2}$, solving the gravitino problem. The PQ symmetry breaking scale $V_{PQ}$ depends on $T_R$ and $m_{3/2}$ and can be anywhere in the range $(10^{10} - 10^{16})$ GeV. Detailed predictions are made for the lifetime of the neutralino LOSP decaying to $\tilde{a}+ h/Z$ and $\tilde{G}+h/Z/γ$, which is in the range of $(10^{-1}-10^6)$m over much of parameter space. For an axion misalignment angle of order unity, the axion contribution to dark matter is sub-dominant, except when $V_{PQ}$ approaches $10^{16}$ GeV.
description: 43 pages, 16 figures
The Impact of leadership Styles on Employees' Job Satisfaction in Salale University
Creators: name: Tesfaye, Sinicho
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The present study aimed at identifying the influence of leadership styles on employees' job satisfaction in Salale University. The questionnaires were distributed to 225 sample employees of the study and 203 were returned and used for analysis. Expla natory survey design using quantitative method was used. The participants of the study were selected using simple random sampling technique. The descriptive result indicates that transactional leadership style was the most frequently used by the leaders of SU. Correlation result shows each dimension of leadership style has positive and significant relationship with employees' job satisfaction. On the other hand, multiple regression result shows, all dimension of leadership style have statistically significant and positive influence on employees' job satisfaction. The study recommends that Ministry of education ought to design to leadership development programs for the leaders, leaders of the university need to pay attention to communication, both formal and informal, and leaders should not stick to only one form of leadership style. They should therefore find the appropriate combinations of the leadership styles that would achieve the organizational goals together with the individual targets or objectives of the employees.
Quantum Spaces are Modular
Creators: name: Freidel, Laurent
name: Leigh, Robert G.
name: Minic, Djordje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At present, our notion of space is a classical concept. Taking the point of view that quantum theory is more fundamental than classical physics, and that space should be given a purely quantum definition, we revisit the notion of Euclidean space from the point of view of quantum mechanics. Since space appears in physics in the form of labels on relativistic fields or Schrodinger wave functionals, we propose to define Euclidean quantum space as a choice of polarization for the Heisenberg algebra of quantum theory. We show, following Mackey, that generically, such polarizations contain a fundamental length scale and that contrary to what is implied by the Schrodinger polarization, they possess topologically distinct spectra. These are the modular spaces. We show that they naturally come equipped with additional geometrical structures usually encountered in the context of string theory or generalized geometry. Moreover, we show how modular space reconciles the presence of a fundamental scale with translation and rotation invariance. We also discuss how the usual classical notion of space comes out as a form of thermodynamical limit of modular space while the Schrodinger space is a singular limit.
description: version to appear in Physical Review D
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 08/2001
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen an der Universität Dortmund vom 30. August 2001
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 8, 2001
Formation of HI Clouds in Shock-compressed Interstellar Medium: Physical Origin of Angular Correlation Between Filamentary Structure and Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Inoue, Tsuyoshi
name: Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations of neutral Galactic interstellar medium showed that filamentary structures of HI clouds are aligned with the interstellar magnetic field. Many interesting applications are proposed based on the alignment such as measurement of magnetic field strength through the Chandrasekhar-Fermi method and removal of polarized foreground dust emissions for the detection of inflationary polarized emission in the cosmic microwave background radiation. However, the physical origin of the alignment remains to be explained. To understand the alignment mechanism, we examine formation of HI clouds triggered by shock compression of diffuse warm neutral medium using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations with the effects of optically thin cooling and heating. We show that the shock-compressed diffuse interstellar medium of density n~1 cm^-3 evolves into HI clouds with typical density n~50 cm^-3 via thermal instability driven by cooling, which is consistent with previous studies. We apply a machine vision transformation developed by Clark et al.(2014) to the resulting column density structures obtained by the simulations in order to measure angle correlation between filamentary structures of HI clouds and magnetic field. We find that the orientation of HI filaments depends on the environmental turbulent velocity field, particularly on the strength of shear strain in the direction of the magnetic field, which is controlled by the angle between the shock propagation direction and upstream magnetic field. When the strain along the magnetic field is weak, filamentary components of HI clouds basically lie perpendicular to the magnetic field. However, the filaments have come to align with the magnetic field, if we enhance the turbulent strain along the magnetic field or if we set turbulence in the preshock medium.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Familial pattern of large vestibular aqueduct syndrome in a Chinese family
Creators: name: Ab Aziz, A
name: Asma, A
name: Hazmi, M
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: computed tomography
subject: Large Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome
subject: sensorineural hearing loss
subject: 610

description: Large Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome (LVAS) is the most common radiographic malformation in children with early onset of hearing loss. Usually its occurrence is non-familial, however intriguingly a portion of patients with LVAS is found to have evidence of genetic predisposition. We described cases of LVAS in two siblings of a Chinese family. The elder sister first presented with reduced hearing since childhood and her brother has a similar complaint upon further questioning. Their hearing test showed bilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and computed tomography (CT) of temporal bone showed enlarged vestibular aqueduct in both patients. We described an approach to diagnosis of LVAS and highlight the importance of hearing assessment in genetic link hearing loss.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Assessment of Employees' Performance Evaluation Practices for Enhancing the Effectiveness of an Organization: the case of Addis Ababa City Roads Authority
Creators: name: Girma, Kassaye
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this study was to examine employees' performance appraisal practices in Addis Ababa City Roads Authority focusing on permanent employees. Performance appraisal is utilized to identify individual strengths and weaknesses for future improvements and assessed whether organizational goals are achieved or serves as basis for the organization's future planning and development. This research employed both questionnaires and interviews for collecting primary data from sample drawn through simple random sampling. It also collected data from secondary sources of like: collective agreement, HRM's report and labour proclamation. The collected data were logically presented in the form of tables and the results were analyzed through descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage. The result of the study showed that employees' performance evaluation in AACRA lack of sound performance appraisal system. Hence, it has been recommended that AACRA should design and implement sound evaluation method such as modern performance evaluation system like management by objective, alignment of performance evaluation with organizational goal, continuous training of managers to improve employees' performance appraisal practices.
Images of faith : traditional values interpreted in a contemporary ceramic context
Creators: name: Chutrakul, Knight.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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On quadratic expansions of log likelihoods and a general asymptotic linearity result
Creators: name: Hallin, Marc
name: Van Den Akker, Ramon
name: Werker, Bas J. M.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Irrespective of the statistical model under study, the derivation of limits, in the Le Cam sense, of sequences of local experiments (see [7]-[10]) often follows along very similar lines, essentially involving differentiability in quadratic mean of square roots of (conditional) densities. This chapter establishes two abstract and very general results providing sufficient and nearly necessary conditions for (i) the existence of a quadratic expansion, and (ii) the asymptotic linearity of local log-likelihood ratios (asymptotic linearity is needed, for instance, when unspecified model parameters are to be replaced, in some statistic of interest, with some preliminary estimator). Such results have been established, for locally asymptotically normal (LAN) models involving independent and identically distributed observations, by, e.g., [1], [11] and [12]. Similar results are provided here for models exhibiting serial dependencies which, so far, have been treated on a case-by-case basis (see [4] and [5] for typical examples) and, in general, under stronger regularity assumptions. Unlike their i.i.d. counterparts, our results extend beyond the context of LAN experiments, so that non-stationary unit-root time series and cointegration models, for instance, also can be handled (see [6]).
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;34/2013
Phase 2: Hypotheses Pre-registration
Creators: name: Dalla Rosa, Anna
name: Lysova, Evgenia
name: Vianello, Michelangelo
name: Buis, Brittany
name: D'Silva, Nelson
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multicultural Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is a registration of the hypotheses before data collection begins. The attached file contains the hypotheses.