cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Functional analysis of the role of conserved glycine residues and N-terminus motifs in the cell division inhibitor MinC from Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Creators: name: Greco, Valerie S
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biology, Microbiology.

description: MinC is the principle inhibitor of cell division in the Gram negative coccus Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Multiple alignment of 28 minC homologues from prokaryotic organisms revealed the conservation of four glycines in the C-terminus. Radical mutations of these residues, G138D, G157D, G164S, and G174E, were introduced to minCNg using site-directed mutagenesis and were expressed heterologously in Escherichia coli. Microscopic analysis of cellular morphology revealed abrogation of MinCNg function as indicated by the inability of the overexpressed protein to induce filamentation, and flow cytometry substantiated these data. The radical mutation of a non-conserved residue was also performed, and no impact on MinCNg function was observed. Circular dichroism was employed to confirm the preservation of protein structure in all mutants. Using the crystal structure of MinC from Thermotoga maritima, the position of the mutations of conserved and non-conserved residues was ascertained. The glycine residues were thus demonstrated to be of paramount importance to protein functionality and their conservation indicates a role for these residues in MinC function among bacterial species. The N-terminus of MinCNg is not conserved across species, but contains common structural motifs that were similarly mutagenized with moderate effect on the resultant protein as ascertained using similar methodology. Truncations of MinCNg revealed the necessity of the thirteenth amino acid for division inhibition function. Although the first ten amino acids were not necessary for protein function, the resultant protein was expressed and present in abundance, implicating a role for the extreme N-terminal region in protein stability. Plasmids for MinCNg localization and purification were also constructed to facilitate future experimentation.
Using ecohydrology to predict algal biomass in the Raisin River watershed, (ON Canada)
Creators: name: Woods, Lieserl M. E
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Hydrology.
subject: Biology, Microbiology.

description: The effects of groundwater and environmental variables on river ecology in terms of algal biomass (benthic and suspended) were determined across a watershed dominated by agricultural land-use (Raisin River, eastern Ontario). At the watershed scale, during summer base flows, light and temperature or Strahler stream order predicted suspended algal biomass (estimated by chlorophyll a) whereas turbidity and temperature predicted epilithic periphyton biomass in riffle zones; nutrients did not correlate with either algal community. Benthic algal biomass was negatively correlated with suspended algal biomass. At the reach scale, periphyton biomass and total phosphorus were temporally linked but the relationship became uncoupled by spates. Evidence for shallow hyporheic flow but not deep groundwater discharge was reported for one of two reaches studied. Benthic algal biomass accrual increased linearly with both a positive or negative hydraulic gradient, indicating that surface water/groundwater interactions were important.
Étude des stratégies d'enseignement de la compréhension de textes utilisées par le personnel enseignant de l'élémentaire auprès d'élèves présentant un trouble de déficit d'attention avec hyperactivité de type mixte
Creators: name: Girard, Eva-Christine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Education, Special.
subject: Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

description: L'école a pour but la réussite de tous les élèves. Depuis déjà plusieurs années, le ministère de l'Éducation de l'Ontario prône l'inclusion en classe régulière de tous les élèves y compris ceux ayant des besoins particuliers. Parmi ceux-ci, on retrouve les élèves ayant un trouble de déficit d'attention avec hyperactivité (TDAH) dont l'inattention, l'hyperactivité et l'impulsivité les empêchent de fonctionner de façon globale comme leurs pairs. Ces caractéristiques entraînent souvent des conséquences aux plans personnel, social et scolaire. Au plan scolaire, plusieurs d'entre eux rencontrent des difficultés ou fonctionnent à un niveau inférieur à leurs capacités intellectuelles et posent tout un défi pour le personnel enseignant qui est souvent peu outillé pour répondre à leurs besoins particuliers en lecture. Ne pouvant étudier l'ensemble des répercussions de ces difficultés sur la réussite de ces élèves, la présente recherche se limitera aux stratégies d'enseignement de la compréhension de textes utilisées par le personnel enseignant. Ce choix repose sur le fait que l'apprentissage de la lecture a des répercussions sur l'ensemble des apprentissages des élèves. La recension des écrits a permis d'identifier des recherches portant sur les stratégies d'enseignement de la compréhension de textes pour les élèves en général mais peu d'entre elles se sont intéressées aux stratégies spécifiques pour les élèves ayant un trouble de déficit d'attention avec hyperactivité. En général, les auteurs suggèrent que le choix de stratégies d'enseignement aurait un effet bénéfique sur la réussite des élèves. Afin de savoir si le personnel enseignant les utilise, la présente recherche tentera de répondre à la question suivante: quelles sont les stratégies d'enseignement de la compréhension de textes utilisées par le personnel enseignant de l'élémentaire auprès des élèves présentant un trouble de déficit d'attention avec hyperactivité de type mixte? Cette recherche a pour but d'identifier les stratégies d'enseignement de la compréhension de textes utilisées par les enseignants auprès des élèves ayant un TDAH, les raisons pour lesquelles elles sont utilisées et le contexte dans lequel elles s'insèrent. La méthodologie est de type qualitatif et consiste en des entrevues menées auprès d'une dizaine d'enseignants de la région d'Ottawa. Dans le présent document le genre non marque, c'est-à-dire le masculin, quand il est employé pour désigner des personnes, renvoie aussi bien à des femmes qu'à des hommes.
Patella fractures ORIF - To evert or not to evert?
Creators: name: D. Santos
name: A. Gavagnin
name: A. Fernández
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: direct visualization
patella eversion
patella fracture
patella comminution
cannulated screws
tension band
cerclage
joint reduction
functional outcome
residual pain
ICUC Score
interactive 3D color model
parapatellar approach
dankward hoentzsch
reto babst
frank beeres
bjorn link

description: Comments from: D. Hoentzsch, R. Babst, F. Beeres, B. Link Perfect reduction of the anterior cortex may or may not lead to perfect joint surface reduction. Joint reduction under visual control has been proposed.
Image-based rendering protocols for remote interactive walkthroughs on mobile devices
Creators: name: Jarrar, Raed Ghannam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The exploration of virtual environments in wireless mobile media devices has attracted the attention of researchers and developers mainly due to its potential applications in a variety of areas including entertainment, training, security, e-learning, etc. However, current technology of mobile devices lack the proper resources to handle complex and realistic 3D virtual environments. There has been a number of proposed ideas to solve this issue. The existing approaches use techniques that either employ limited user navigation modes or do not perform satisfactorily for interactive applications. In this thesis, we propose a new protocol that offers the user a richer navigation by pre-streaming the necessary imagery data to generate new views as the user wanders within the 3D environment. We introduce the idea of key partial panoramas, i.e., panorama segments that cover movements in any direction by simply strafing from an appropriate key partial panorama and streaming the amount of lost pixels. We have implemented our ideas and evaluated it against two well-known approaches. Experimental results show that our solution outperforms the selected approaches by minimizing the delay between image updates and by allowing a more complex navigation scheme than previous works.
The opinions and attitudes of obstetricians in the city of Havana, Cuba towards use of Cesarean section
Creators: name: Vazquez, Juan C
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology.
subject: Health Sciences, Epidemiology.

description: Cesarean section rates have increased worldwide in the last decades. It has had important implications for the health system, such as the increase in maternal morbidity and mortality. An anonymous survey was administered to 132 obstetricians in the City of Havana to identify their opinions regarding the cesarean section rates; to determine what are the causes for such increase and what possible interventions could stop that trend; and the obstetricians' preferences when facing some clinical situations. Most of participants considered the cesarean section rate to be high. Previous caesarean sections, administrative pressures and new technologies were pointed out as possible causes. Asking for a second opinion, the use of the partograph and try a VBAC are interventions probably useful to reduce such rates. Future research should investigate the ideal cesarean section rate and potential measures to decrease it, as well as the barriers that hinder professionals in implementing such interventions.
Plan of the quarry village of El-Hammamat
Creators: name: Brun, j.p.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Plan of the quarry village of El-Hammamat (village of the "naos of Tiberius"), north of the road, after P. Deleuze in Kayser 1993, fig. 3
description: created: ?
The Hindmarsh Island affair and Australian anthropology
Creators: name: Simons, Margaret
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair began in 1988 as a simple development approval for a marina but became a major Australian controversy when the construction of a bridge between Goolwa and the island was stopped because of secret concerns held by Ngarrindjeri women. Investigative journalist Margaret Simons has now published The Meeting of The Waters: Secret Women's Business (Hodder), after four years examining the case, and concludes that there were fundamental flaws in the rule of law, parliamentary democracy and the media's coverage of the affair. Anthropologist Dr Ron Brunton, a critic of opponents to the building of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge, sees the affair differently. On Wednesday, 30 July 2003, Ron Brunton and Margaret Simons addressed The Sydney Institute to debate the issue.
The April 2020 AP-NORC Center Poll
Creators: name: Associated Press
name: NORC
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Country heading in right/wrong direction (1); President Donald Trump job approval (5); economy and finances (2); things will get better or worse in next year (3); favor or oppose allowing methods of voting (7); problems if states conduct voting only by mail-in ballot (2); Trump characteristics (4); concern about being infected with the flu (1); concern about being infected with coronavirus (COVID-19); sources of information about coronavirus (14); measures in response to coronavirus (6); approval of different levels of government handling coronavirus (4); Trump listening to health experts (1); government assistance in response to outbreak (3); safety of lifting restrictions in next few weeks (1); work experience as result of outbreak (5); financial difficulties as result of outbreak (3); diagnosed with coronavirus (1).
Étude de la dépendance et de l'utilisation de produits nicotiniques auprès de consommateurs de la région de l'Outaouais.
Creators: name: Lepage, Mario.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nursing.

description: Cette etude descriptive se penche sur la dependance a la nicotine en fonction des differents patterns de consommation (tabac et substituts) aupres de travailleurs de l'Outaouais quebecois ou la cigarette est interdite. En respectant la loi sur la sante des non fumeurs et les nouvelles normes sociales, les personnes qui fument pourraient etre tentees par les substituts nicotiniques afin de maintenir le taux de nicotine. L'echantillon se compose de 38 sujets, selectionnes a partir d'une generation aleatoire de 1738 numeros de telephones. Les questionnaires de Fagerstrom (QTF) et les versions modifiees (QTFM) ont permis de quantifier un taux de dependance aux produits simples ou mixtes: cigarettes, tabac sand fumee, gomme et timbre a la nicotine. Les consommateurs de produits mixtes out obtenu des scores moins eleves aux QTFM (substituts) qu'aux QTF (produits fumes). Les resultats suggere l'importance de conscientiser les professionnels de la sante a la variete de produits nicotiniques disponibles sur le marche et au danger de deplacer la dependance tabagique vers la dependance a la nicotine.
title: Kénitra : les grandes circulations urbaines
title: Kénitra : les grandes circulations urbaines
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mobilités
subject: Circulation urbaine

description: Cartographie
description: BESM-carto_1960-85-p64_85-02
description: 64
description: 85
description: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc
description: Source: Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM)
description: Source: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc
description: Source: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc (BESM) > BESM (Cartographie)
description: Relation: https://cinumed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/idurl/1/81868
description: Coverage: Maroc
description: Coverage: Kénitra
description: Coverage: XXe siècle
description: Temporal: XXe siècle
description: Bibliographic citation: « Kénitra : les grandes circulations urbaines », In Bulletin économique et social du Maroc (BESM), n° 85, 1960
description: Provenance: Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM)
description: Provenance: https://cinumed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/
Requirements for syncytium formation mediated by the fusion glycoprotein of human parainfluenza virus type 3.
Creators: name: Ebata, Sharon Nori.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Recombinant vaccinia viruses VF and VHN were shown to express glycoproteins with molecular weights similar to authentic HPIV3 F and HN proteins that were transported to the cell surface and recognized by monoclonal antibodies specific for HPIV3 F and HN. The HN glycoprotein in VHN-infected cells exhibited both hemagglutinin and neuraminidase activities. Both cleaved and uncleaved forms of the F glycoprotein were immunizers from VF-infected cell lysates. Fusogenic activity of the F protein was demonstrated only upon coinfection of HeLa T4$\sp+$ cells with VF + VHN and resulted in syncytium formation and hemolysis. Recombinant adenoviruses AdF and AdHN, expressed the HPIV3 F and HN proteins on the surface of infected HeLa T4$\sp+$ cells, respectively. AdHN-infected cells produced HN protein that was glycosylated and exhibited both hemagglutinin and neuraminidase activities. AdF infection led to the synthesis of glycosylated F$\sb0$ that was proteolytically cleaved. As was observed for vaccinia virus recombinants, syncytium formation was only observed upon coinfection of HeLa T4$\sp+$ cells with AdF + AdHN The F and HN proteins expressed by recombinant adenoviruses were recognized by monoclonal antibodies specific for the HPIV3 F or HN protein and were immunogenic in mice. Sera from AdF-or AdHN-inoculated mice immunoprecipitated appropriate glycoproteins from lysates of HPIV3-infected cells and neutralized HPIV3. Amino acid substitutions were introduced into three regions of the HPIV3 F protein to identify sequences involved in fusogenic activity. Substitution of uncharged amino acids for positively charged residues within the cytoplasmic tail, or introduction of a charged residue within the transmembrane domain, did not appear to affect fusogenic activity. Several different mutations designed to disrupt the leucine zipper or the heptad repeat motifs resulted in mutant F proteins that not only exhibited decreased fusogenic activity but concomitantly lost the ability to react with monoclonal antibody c128, which recognized an epitope in antigenic site B of the HPIV3 F glycoprotein. An association between the heptad repeat and leucine zipper domains, therefore, appears to be required for the HPIV3 F glycoprotein to adopt a conformation that is recognized by antibody c128 and that appears to be important for fusogenic activity.
L'intégration des femmes à la prise de décision au Gabon: Fruit des revendications féministes ou stratégie politique des dirigeants ?
Creators: name: Likassa Ndjila, Sephora Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.
subject: Political Science, General.
subject: Sociology, Social Structure and Development.

description: Cette thèse tente de donner un sens sociologique aux changements relatifs à l'intégration des femmes à la prise de décision sur la scène politique gabonaise entre 2005 et 2007: une progression relativement importante du nombre de femmes ministres en 2005 et 2006, suivie d'une régression en 2007. Pour ce faire, nous avons replacé ces changements dans la longue durée et examine les théorisations de l'intégration des femmes au développement et à la prise de décision, promues par des féministes et reprises par des instances internationales, ainsi que les discours du président de la République gabonaise et de ses porte-parole. Il n'est pas improbable que les discours et les pratiques qui valorisent la promotion des femmes au Gabon se fassent l'echo de ce qui est proposé au niveau international, alors que des obstacles nombreux continuent à restreindre leur participation à la société et à l'État.
Issues in Measuring the Efficiency of Property-Liability Insurers
Creators: name: Leverty, James
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2005

description: To date there is little evidence on the relationship between property-liability (P/L) insurer’s frontier efficiency measures and the market. The establishment of a connection is important since there are a number of difficulties associated with measuring P/L insurer efficiency—there is uncertainty regarding the firm’s primary objective, the main services produced, and the measurement of these services. The main goal of the dissertation is to assess the robustness of two approaches to measuring P/L insurer efficiency —the production approach (Cummins and Weiss, 2001) and the flow approach (Brockett, et al, 2004). A secondary objective is to evaluate the performance of two proxies for the production approach’s risk-bearing and “real” loss-services output to observe whether unexpected losses leads to a distortion of efficiency. A third purpose is to determine the sensitivity of the use of the policyholder supplied debt capital input in the production approach. A fourth aim is to evaluate the performance of the range adjusted measure (RAM) of efficiency compared to the traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) method. A final objective is to assess the connection of accounting-based efficiency to market performance measures.

The empirical evidence suggests that unexpected losses do not appear to overly distort the efficiency analysis. The production approach is not extraordinarily sensitive to the inclusion (or exclusion) of the policyholder supplied debt capital input. Traditional DEA measures of efficiency, in comparison to RAM, are more accurate predictors of insolvency and are more highly related to traditional measures of firm performance. Overall, the flow approach is not consistent with the production approach. Firms identified as highly efficient by the production approach are found to be significantly less likely to fail, indicating that the production approach is consistent with the economic reality of P/L insurance market. In contrast, high flow efficient firms are often found to have a higher proclivity to fail. Production approach efficiency is also more highly correlated to traditional measures of firm performance than flow measures of efficiency. The accounting-based production approach is directly related to market measures of firm performance, while flow efficiency is inversely related or unrelated to these measures.
Absolute or Relative? Which Standards do Credit Rating Agencies Follow?
Creators: name: Prakash, Puneet
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2005

description: Despite the recognized importance of the bond rating industry, little academic work has been done to investigate the determinants of the standards these firms employ to assign credit ratings to individual firms. There is an ongoing debate in the literature arguing whether the decline in the percentage of highly rated firms is because rating standards have become more stringent over time or whether the credit quality of firms in the economy has declined. We investigate this question in this dissertation. Our first contribution is to address several empirical problems in prior literature. This study uses a combination of structural models of default and econometric model of ratings to study the determinants of rating standards and, by doing so, overcome the earlier methodological shortcomings. Our second contribution is to test new theory which hypothesizes that the standards of a rating agency are conditional upon the distribution of default risk in the economy at the time. The results are robust no matter which structural models of default we employ. The evidence suggests the standards are relative to the default risk distribution and there has been a secular increase in the stringency in the assignment of ratings over time.  A third way we extend the literature is by examining the accuracy of the assignment of ratings. Theoretical models suggest rating agencies have incentives to purposefully add noise to the assignment of ratings. We conduct an empirical analysis of the classification errors using receiver operating characteristic analysis. The results suggest that error rates have decreased at the extreme ends of the rating spectrum (AAA vs. AA and below; B and below vs. BB and above) over time while it has increased in the middle rating categories. This error rate is directly related to the distribution of default risk across firms at any point in time. These findings not only strengthen our result that standards are relative and time varying, but also suggest there is more noise in the assignment of ratings at exactly the time when there is more uncertainty regarding the credit risk of firms in the economy – i.e., during a credit crisis.
Estimation of Stock Price Distress Costs Associated with Downgrades using Regime-Switching Models
Creators: name: Milidonis, Andreas
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Committee Chair:	Dr. Shaun Wang Major Department:	Risk Management and Insurance In this thesis I employ regime switching models on a unique dataset of bond downgrades to examine the information value of timely downgrades. I use ratings from a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO) and a non-NRSRO as proxies for the arrival of public and private information. Regime switching models allow us to identify the time at which a discrete shift in the underlying stock return process takes place, estimate the distribution of returns in each regime and also observe the duration of each regime associated with the day of the downgrade.  The first contribution is proposing an alternative way to perform an event study. First I define a regime switching model with two regimes: one of low and high volatility. The probabilistic nature of regime switching models allows us to identify the exact day on which stock returns switch to a high volatility regime. This is directly observed through the estimated daily conditional probability of being in one of the two regimes. In summary, I find that stocks switch from a low-volatility regime (1.92%) to a high-volatility regime (6.10%) on the day of the downgrade. The high-volatility regime lasts for about three days and it is mainly driven by downgrades of the smaller bond rating company (non-NRSRO).  The second contribution is to propose a method to quantify stock return distress costs associated with downgrades. This measure is based on the capital asset pricing model, uses the parameters of the regime switching model and the estimated daily conditional probabilities of being in each regime. I find that distress costs on stock returns range from 9.49% to 12.91% for the 10 days prior to the day of the downgrade when assuming unity for the market price of risk. The magnitude and direction (sign) of my estimates are consistent with prior literature on the information value of bond ratings.  The third contribution is to propose an extension to regime switching models to the bivariate case with a common shock. I show through a state-contingent model how shocks to the economy may cause a one time loss that affects a portfolio of stocks. I derive the frequency and severity implications of such exogenous shocks on regime switching models.
title: The Effects of Feedback Seeking Performance and Tenure on Perceived Organizational Commitment Self-Promotion Attributions and Allocation of Organizational Rewards
Creators: name: Hayes, Bryan C.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1996

description: Few studies have addressed the performance feedback seeking process from the perspective of the source of the feedback. Investigators generally focus on the behavior of the feedback seeker, either ignoring or only speculating about reactions by the target of the feedback request. The objective of this study was to empirically investigate the target's reaction to requests for performance feedback. Extensive efforts have been made to demonstrate that people often constrain their feedback seeking behavior because of perceived risks, however, research has not examined to what extent the perceived costs are real. A hypothetical scenario was used to elicit reactions to an individual requesting performance feedback. The 234 participants included 131 males and 103 females with at least one year of full-time work experience. Participants read a vignette describing a hypothetical co-worker requesting information: feedback about performance or technical information. The vignettes depicted an office setting and described the information seeker in terms of tenure and performance history. Participants completed a questionnaire assessing reactions to the information seeker and demographic information. Results indicated that participants react more favorably to an individual who requests performance feedback versus technical information. Regardless of tenure and performance history, participants perceived that the co-worker seeking performance feedback had more ability and better chances at future success in the organization than did a co-worker seeking technical information. However, these individuals were also perceived as attempting to manipulate impressions. Results indicate that feedback seeking is neither categorically costly nor cost free, a finding contrary to the perception that requesting feedback is always a costly venture.
Higher-dimensional topologically charged traversable defect wormhole with non-exotic matter
Creators: name: Ahmed, Faizuddin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we explore a topologically charged higher-dimensional traversable defect wormhole, with a specific emphasis on five dimensions. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that the matter-energy distribution attributed to this charged wormhole configuration adheres to the weak energy condition, thus presenting an instance of a five-dimensional wormhole supported by non-exotic matter. Furthermore, our analysis shows that scalar quantities related to space-time curvature and parameters associated with the matter-energy distribution remain finite at the wormhole throat. Moreover, they diminish as distance extends toward infinity, indicating the asymptotic flatness inherent in our model.
description: 12 pages, accepted in IJMPA (https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X24500878)
Modern South Arabian languages
Creators: name: Bettega, Simone
name: Gasparini, Fabio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: In the course of this chapter we will discuss what is known about the effects that contact with Arabic has had on the Modern South Arabian languages of Oman and Yemen. Documentation concerning these languages is not abundant, and even more limited is our knowledge of the history of their interaction with Arabic. By integrating the existing bibliography with as yet unpublished fieldwork materials, we will try to provide as complete a picture of the situation as possible, also discussing the current linguistic and sociolinguistic landscape of Dhofar and eastern Yemen.
Neo-Aramaic
Creators: name: Coghill, Eleanor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This paper examines the impact of Arabic on the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects, a diverse group of Semitic language varieties native to a region spanning Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. While the greatest contact influence comes from varieties of Kurdish, Arabic has also had considerable influence, both directly and indirectly via other regional languages. Influence is most apparent in lexicon and phonology, but also surfaces in morphology and syntax.
Gaming: everybody's doing it
Creators: name: Gye, Lisa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There are times, I suspect, when we’ve all felt a serendipitous synchronicity, when everything we encounter seems somehow oddly connected in ways we’d never anticipate. My participation in this year’s Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) conference was one such moment. And the point of coalescence, surprisingly, centred on ‘the game.’ Everywhere I look at the moment people are making or playing or talking about gaming.
SABR/LIBOR market models: pricing and calibration for some interest rate derivatives
Creators: name: Ferreiro, A. M.
name: García, J. A.
name: López-Salas, J. G.
name: Vázquez, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In order to overcome the drawbacks of assuming deterministic volatility coefficients in the standard LIBOR market models to capture volatility smiles and skews in real markets, several extensions of LIBOR models to incorporate stochastic volatilities have been proposed. The efficient calibration to market data of these more complex models becomes a relevant target in practice. The main objective of the present work is to efficiently calibrate some recent SABR/LIBOR market models to real market prices of caplets and swaptions. For the calibration we propose a parallelized version of the simulated annealing algorithm for multi-GPUs. The numerical results clearly illustrate the advantages of using the proposed multi-GPUs tools when applied to real market data and popular SABR/LIBOR models.
Pilgrim and Generalized Ghost Pilgrim Dark Energy Models in Modified Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity
Creators: name: Sharif, M.
name: Ajmal, Madiha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate $f(Q)$ gravity ($Q$ represents the non-metricity) to explore its cosmological implications of the two non-interacting dark energy models. We use the correspondence scenario to find the pilgrim and generalized ghost pilgrim dark energy $f(Q)$ gravity models for a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe with pressureless matter and a power-law scale factor. The reconstructed models explain the observed rapid expansion of the universe using astronomical observations. We also examine the physical properties of the model, including its equation of state parameter, $(ω_{D}-ω^{\prime}_{D})$ and $(r-s)$-planes and the squared speed of sound. It is found that our results are consistent with the interacting pilgrim dark energy model in the same gravity.
description: 35 pages, 14 figures
Detection of the large-scale tidal field with galaxy multiplet alignment in the DESI Y1 spectroscopic survey
Creators: name: Lamman, Claire
name: et al.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Supplementary material to DESI's publication TITLE to comply with the data management plan.

Data plotted in 13 figures, described in publication. Code used for creating these plots can be found in the github repository: spec-IA
D2.5 Implementation of the numerical resolution scheme
Creators: name: Raffaele, Russo
name: Girot Franck Andres
name: Samuel, Forest
name: Jacquin Dimitri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Deliverable 2.5 of the ENABLE European Project. It contain the numerical model that will be used for simulation and the implementation in a Finite Element software.
Charged solution with equal metric ansatz in Gauss-Bonnet theory coupled to scalar field
Creators: name: Nashed, G. G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the course of this research, we employ the Gauss-Bonnet equation of motion alongside the scalar field and potential to acquire a fresh solution for a spherically symmetrical charged black hole. Specifically, we derive this black hole solution by employing a metric potential where the components are equal, that is, $g_{tt}=g_{rr}$. In our research, we achieve several accomplishments, including fixing the characteristics of the scalar field, and the Gauss-Bonnet term. We thoroughly examine the physical properties associated with such black hole and show that we have supplementary terms when compared to the Reissner-Nordström black hole solution. These additional terms are of the order $O(\frac{1}{r^6})$ and $O(\frac{1}{r^9})$. The presence of these supplementary terms can be attributed to the impact of the scalar function denoted as $ξ$. Such expressions play a crucial role in generating the multi-horizon black hole solution. The presence of these extra terms facilitates the derivation of a modified first law of thermodynamics and the corresponding Smarr relation.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
Essays on Household Finance: Income, Consumption, Debt, and Financial Delinquency
Creators: name: D'Astous, Philippe
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter uses credit card data to estimate the impact of increasing minimum payments on delinquency, payments, spending, and write-offs. The identification strategy exploits an unusual institutional feature: borrowers can use their account to make purchases with both revolving loans (on which minimum payments increased) and term loans (on which there was no change). Payment increases by delinquent borrowers are insufficient to match increasing minimums, resulting in lower cure rates and an increase in write-offs. Affected borrowers migrate away from these accounts by decreasing charges and increasing payments, consequently lowering the interest earned by the bank.
The second chapter analyzes the response of consumption, debt, and delinquency to an anticipated increase in cash-on-hand in the presence of liquidity constraints. It uses account-level data from a North American bank that allows clients to make purchases using credit card and term loans on the same account. Term loans are paid off in a predetermined number of equal monthly installments. The end of a term loan therefore generates a predictable increase in cash-on-hand relative to months in which payments were required. Consistent with a model in which consumers are potentially liquidity constrained, consumers \textit{ex-ante} identified as unconstrained do not increase their credit card expenditures, constrained consumers increase both their credit card expenditures and balance, and consumers for whom the credit card is the marginal source of funds decrease their balance. The propensity to take out a new term loan increases for all consumers, whether constrained or not. About 4% of unconstrained consumers delay taking out a new term loan until the original loan is repaid, contrary to theoretical predictions. Paying off the term loan reduces financial delinquency and the probability of default.
The third chapter analyzes the comovement of personal savings and income using administrative data provided by a North American bank that records the sum of monthly direct deposit income into its clients' checking accounts. It investigates how permanent and transitory income changes are smoothed by checking account balances. Transitory income changes, whether positive or negative, have only transitory effects on checking account balances, suggesting that consumption is excessively sensitive to them compared to theoretical predictions. Permanent income changes lead to permanent adjustments in consumption and modest permanent adjustments in checking account balances, consistent with theoretical predictions. There is evidence of anticipation of future income changes as much as three months in advance.
A Study on the Issues of Actors in the Project Management of Films: Based on Small-budget Films in China
Creators: name: Xiaolu Lu
name: Lee, Hugo Yu-Hsiu
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research and Development Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Movie project
actors
small-budget films in China
production management

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 20, 1, 319-342
Mayowa Ayileka JCP FInal Project INFO 404
Creators: name: Mayowa Ayileka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The attached files are all of my work for my INFO 404 Final Project. These Include:

FInal Deliverables(Final Report, Presentation)

Original JCP data, as well as my manually curated version with additional metadata

all my working Python files with documented code
Are you learning R? Suggestions to help you as you learn.
Creators: name: Tabares, Olivia
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2022

description: Learning how to code and analyze data in R is an important skill. Olivia Tabares and the Ecological Forecasting Education Working Group created this resource to encourage individuals who are learning R. This infographic provides six suggestions for a mindset that will help you when learning R might get a bit frustrating.
Dative objects with novel verbs in Icelandic
Creators: name: Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli
name: Thórarinsdóttir, Rannveig
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This paper discusses the results of two online surveys testing object case with novel verbs in Icelandic. The results show that a novel transitive verb takes a dative direct object if the verb (a) encodes some kind of motion of the object referent, or (b) has a translational substitute that takes a dative object. If neither (a) nor (b) holds, the object gets the default accusative case. Thus, caused motion plays a major role in the licensing of dative case with direct objects in Icelandic.
Multiscale visualization of chemical enhanced oil recovery
Creators: name: Mejia, Lucas
name: 0000-0003-3344-0777
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Micromodel
EOR
Chemical
Image analysis
Enhanced oil recovery

description: Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) involves injecting chemicals such as surfactants, polymers, and alkalis into depleted oil reservoirs to increase oil recovery. Experimental tools such as corefloods and micromodels provide critical insights for the mechanistic understanding and screening of chemicals for EOR. Coreflood experiments are especially valuable for screening. However, imaging cores at high resolution for mechanistic understanding is challenging. Micromodels, synthetic optically accessible porous media that resemble rocks, address some of these challenges by allowing facile high-resolution imaging of displacements at the pore scale. However, they lack many important features of cores. In this work, we develop a novel micromodel, referred to herein as the Coreflood on a Chip, that permits visualization at the pore and core scales. Then, we investigate various forms of chemical EOR in the Coreflood on a Chip including viscous waterflooding, surfactant flooding, and alkali-surfactant-polymer flooding (ASP). Viscous waterflooding experiments were performed by injecting viscous glycerol solution or polymer solution into oil-saturated micromodels with irreducible water. We analyzed the experiments using fractional flow theory and pore-scale lattice Boltzmann simulations and found that irreducible water causes viscous fingering even at very favorable viscosity ratios. Additionally, we conducted corefloods to corroborate our findings translated to displacements in real rocks. Next, we performed surfactant and ASP floods by injecting aqueous chemical solutions with fluorescein into micromodels with oil and brine. This way, we could differentiate the injected aqueous phase from the resident aqueous phase. Our results prove that surfactants are present in and ahead of oil banks. Moreover, our results show that while saturations are well described by a fractional flow solution with two curves, aqueous phase concentrations are not properly described by said model because injected aqueous phase is present ahead of oil banks. Finally, we present a novel microfluidic device that can be utilized to conduct phase behavior salinity scans. We show the prototype microfluidic device is viable for performing salinity assays of crude oil-surfactant-water systems and segregation of microemulsion is visible in the device. In this work we demonstrate that evaluation of chemical EOR across scales permits identifying causal relationships between pore-scale processes and previously unobserved core scale behavior.
Impact of saturable absorption on performance of optical clock recovery using a mode-locked multisection semiconductor laser
Creators: name: Bao, H. C.
name: Wen, Yang Jing Wen
name: Liu, Hai-Feng
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper investigates the impact of saturable absorption (SA) on the performance of optical clock recovery using a mode-locked multisection laser diode. Optical clock at 40 GHz is recovered from the multisection laser with SA section operated under a range of bias conditions. The dependence of extinction ratio and timing jitter of the recovered clock on required optical injection power, data rate detuning, and mark ratio is also evaluated under these operation conditions. The experimental results show that strong SA effect in laser cavity improves extinction ratio and suppresses timing jitter of the recovered clock, while weak or no SA effect in laser cavity offers clock recovery with larger date rate detuning range defined by timing jitter and less dependence on the variation of data mark ratio for extremely low mark ratio.
test by Husson (Matthieu) (2021) | Type-B (ID n° 443)
Creators: name: Husson, Matthieu
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: Astronomy
History of astronomy
DISHAS
Astronomical table

description: This is a type B edition: A type-B edition corresponds to a critical edition of several table witnesses:
 it is based on several different editions, themselves based on tables from different primary sources.
 A type-B edition can be based on type-A, type-B or type-C editions.
You can find it on the DISHAS project website from this link: https://dishas.obspm.fr/table-edition/443
Out of time/out of control: speculative modernism and the limits of thought
Creators: name: Monks-Quinane, Luke Hugh
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory

description: This thesis maps the territories of futures by investigating the works of H.P. Lovecraft, William S. Burroughs, and the ‘dead but dreaming’ genre-without-organs that is ‘theory fiction’. By framing these texts with a creative use of the works of Deleuze and Guattari, I suggest that we can both come to understand the texts as new territories of becoming and as tools with which to instantiate further becomings. Becomings, I suggest, violate control systems just as futures violate presence – in each case with ‘demonological’ force. What is at stake here is futures as a topos of difference rather than generality – the texts in question offer a means of thinking-with-writing that conjures such difference by way of appeal to formal and thematic interventions that develop radical violations of narrative space. The overarching claim is that without futures of difference, there is no future at all. Throughout, I work to develop a means of ‘overcoming’ the limits of thought – materialism, language, philosophy – and through this overcoming, illustrate (not explain) futures-as-difference. I name this method ‘Speculative Modernism’ for its constituent components – literary modernism, speculative fiction, and speculative philosophy. As the thesis proceeds, I move from ‘standard’ literary criticism towards a theory-fictional model of criticism in which thought arrives from the ‘outside’ of the text.Chapter one introduces the theoretical apparatus to be used throughout, working through the importance of absence and multiplicity when conceptualising futures as a site of difference. Chapter two takes up the problem of value as Outsideness in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Working in a ‘modernist’ mode wherein the irrationality of reality is exposed, Lovecraft violates language and genre to present a world rather different from those of traditional supernatural horror stories, instead offering a ‘hyper-materialism’ that arrives rather than lingers. Chapter three continues the investigation of the Weird and the Outside by looking to the formal interventions of William S. Burroughs. While Lovecraft provided a thematic and generic backdrop on which to think the Outside, Burroughs’ ‘cut-up’ method demonstrates what must be done to think outside of control, especially the control system of language. Chapter four turns to a thematic/formal synthesis of Lovecraft and Burroughs, looking to the ‘theory fictions’ of Land, Negarestani, and Ccru. Here, I suggest that for philosophy to overcome its formal limits and properly grapple with questions of futures, fiction is a necessary element for the project of invoking the ‘Outside’. The point here is not necessarily to find answers, but to develop further questions. Philosophy – and thought – I claim, have become too enamoured with answers and forgotten that love is a matter of the chase of wisdom rather than its possession.