cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Determinants of Households' Willingness to Pay for Improved Water Supply Services in Dilla Town, Southern Ethiopia: An Application of Contingent Valuation Method.
Creators: name: Minota, Tamirat
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: The supply of adequate, quality, and safe drinking water is a basic need for every human being. However, many people particularly in developing nations lack access to quality and adequate water services which affects their life in many different ways. Ethiopia, like many other developing countries, has problems such as budget constraints and trained man power in delivering safe drinking water to its people. Therefore, to satisfy the required quantity and quality of water demand as well as maintaining the sustainability of water improvement projects, the participation of the beneficiaries is found to be important. This research is designed to estimate households' WTP for improved water services and to identify the potential factors that affect their WTP. To achieve its objective the contingent valuation survey was made using 132 randomly selected households from Dilla town. The data were collected using a well designed questionnaire through single-bound dichotomous choice format followed by open-ended questions. Two econometric models, namely Probit and Tobit models were employed to analyze the data together with descriptive analysis. The result revealed that from the total sampled households 93.94% became willing to pay a positive amount for the water improvement program. The mean WTP for a jerrycan (20 liters) of improved water from both closed-ended and open-ended questions were found to be 18.96 and 21.29 cents respectively. Both values are much higher than the current water tariff of the town. Hence, the 16,501 households' total willingness to pay is estimated to be birr 10,296 per day or birr 3,758,040 per year which is quite higher than the current estimated total revenue of birr 782,485.25 collected from the water sale by the town's water supply enterprise. The findings of this study also revealed that households' monthly income, source of water being used, occupation, and wealth of respondents positively affect households' WTP while households' family size, quality of water being used and bid value offered to the respondents negatively affect WTP for improved water services. Therefore, these variables should be given much emphasis by policy makers or other concerned bodies in the water improvement program of the town.
Not Different Enough: Avoiding Representation as “Balkan” and the Constrained Appeal of Macedonian Ethno Music
Creators: name: Wilson, David
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Since the early 1990s, interest in various forms of traditional music among middle-class urban ethnic Macedonians has grown. Known by some as the “Ethno Renaissance”, this trend initially grew in the context of educational ensembles in Skopje and gained momentum due to the soundtrack of the internationally acclaimed Macedonian film Before the Rain (1994) and the formation of the group DD Synthesis by musician and pedagogue Dragan Dautovski. This article traces the development of this multifaceted musical practice, which became known as “ethno music” (etno muzika) and now typically features combinations of various traditional music styles with one another and with other musical styles. Ethno music articulates dynamic changes in Macedonian politics and wider global trends in the “world music” market, which valorizes musical hybridity as “authentic” and continues to prioritize performers perceived as exotic and different. This article discusses the rhetoric, representation, and musical styles of ethno music in the 1990s and in a second wave of “ethno bands” (etno bendovi) that began around 2005. Drawing on ethnography conducted between 2011 and 2018 and on experience as a musician performing and recording in Macedonia periodically since 2003, I argue that, while these bands and their multi-layered musical projects resonate with middle-class, cosmopolitan audiences in Macedonia and its diaspora, their avoidance of the term “Balkan” and associated stereotypes constrains their popularity to Macedonian audiences and prevents them from participating widely in world music festival networks and related markets.
First evidence of coherent $K^{+}$ meson production in neutrino-nucleus scattering
Creators: name: Wang, Z.
name: Marshall, C. M.
name: Aliaga, L.
name: Altinok, O.
name: Bellantoni, L.
name: Bercellie, A.
name: Betancourt, M.
name: Bodek, A.
name: Bravar, A.
name: Budd, H.
name: Cai, T.
name: Carneiro, M. F.
name: da Motta, H.
name: Dytman, S. A.
name: Dìaz, G. A.
name: Eberly, B.
name: Endress, E.
name: Felix, J.
name: Fields, L.
name: Fine, R.
name: Galindo, R.
name: Gallagher, H.
name: Ghosh, A.
name: Golan, T.
name: Gran, R.
name: Harris, D. A.
name: Higuera, A.
name: Hurtado, K.
name: Kiveni, M.
name: Kleykamp, J.
name: Kordosky, M.
name: Le, T.
name: Maher, E.
name: Manly, S.
name: Mann, W. A.
name: Caicedo, D. A. Martinez
name: McFarland, K. S.
name: McGivern, C. L.
name: McGowan, A. M.
name: Messerly, B.
name: Miller, J.
name: Mislivec, A.
name: Morfìn, J. G.
name: Mousseau, J.
name: Naples, D.
name: Nelson, J. K.
name: Norrick, A.
name: Nuruzzaman
name: Paolone, V.
name: Park, J.
name: Patrick, C. E.
name: Perdue, G. N.
name: Rakotondravohitra, L.
name: Ramirez, M. A.
name: Ransome, R. D.
name: Ray, H.
name: Ren, L.
name: Rimal, D.
name: Rodrigues, P. A.
name: Ruterbories, D.
name: Schellman, H.
name: Schmitz, D. W.
name: Simon, C.
name: Salinas, C. J. Solano
name: Tice, B. G.
name: Valencia, E.
name: Walton, T.
name: Wolcott, J.
name: Wospakrik, M.
name: Zavala, G.
name: Zhang, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino-induced charged-current coherent kaon production, $ν_μA\rightarrowμ^{-}K^{+}A$, is a rare, inelastic electroweak process that brings a $K^+$ on shell and leaves the target nucleus intact in its ground state. This process is significantly lower in rate than neutrino-induced charged-current coherent pion production, because of Cabibbo suppression and a kinematic suppression due to the larger kaon mass. We search for such events in the scintillator tracker of MINERvA by observing the final state $K^+$, $μ^-$ and no other detector activity, and by using the kinematics of the final state particles to reconstruct the small momentum transfer to the nucleus, which is a model-independent characteristic of coherent scattering. We find the first experimental evidence for the process at $3σ$ significance.
description: added ancillary file with information about the six kaon candidates
The Impact of Ethiopia's COMESA Membership on its Exports: An Augmented Gravity Modeling Approach
Creators: name: Mohammed, Hussien
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: This paper attempts to assess the impact of Ethiopia's COMESA membership on its export flows. In this regard the tobit random effects of the gravity model has been specified to annual exports of Ethiopia to twenty countries over the period 1981-2006. Accordingly, the results of the estimation show that COMESA membership has neither a significant effect of both export trade-creation and export trade-diversion on Ethiopia's export flows. This can be interpreted as weak participation of the country within COMESA region. The empirical result also witnesses that Ethiopia tends to have highly sectoral and geographically concentrated destination of exports (a large share of its exports is destined to Europe and Asia) and consists of few primary export commodities. On the other hand; most of the traditional explanatory variables of the gravity model are the significant determinants on the flow of Ethiopia's exports. Hence, the possible advices to the government to accelerate the growth of its exports to COMESA member countries are to diversify the economy, enhance the export competitiveness, and encourage the involvement of the private sector in the formulation and implementation of trade policy. Further study is also advised to investigate the potential pros and cons of being a full member of COMESA FTA on Ethiopia's export flows since Ethiopia is not a member of Free Trade Area (FTA), has only done a 10 percent reduction of tariff for the goods coming from COMESA member states
A Conflux of Musical Logics: Memory, History, and the Improvisative Music of SLANT
Creators: name: Wilson, David
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 190499 Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: The author discusses SLANT, an improvisation-based project he coconceived, recorded and performed on tenor saxophone in duo with pianist and new music specialist Richard Valitutto. The project deconstructs sound worlds such as late nineteenth-century Romanticism, avant-garde/free jazz, microtonal spectralism and southeast European rural music. Drawing on George Lewis's systems of improvisative musicality, the article analyzes SLANT through the lens of sociomusical experience. The author shows how Afrological, Eurological and other systems of musicality participate together, manifesting in dialogical improvisative music-making that emerges from multiethnic and multicultural histories of improvised music.
Promoting International Student Mobility for Sustainability? Navigating Conflicting Realities and Emotions of International Educators
Creators: name: Campbell, Anne
name: Nguyen, Thi
name: Stewart, Maia
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Climate change impacts and adaptation not elsewhere classified

description: In international education, climate change is an increasingly prominent consideration. International mobility contributes to global carbon emissions yet provides students with skills and knowledge to address climate change. Based on interviews with 17 indi- viduals working in international education, this qualitative study illuminates how interna- tional educators view climate change: both as a threat and an opportunity for the field. When considering and mitigating international education’s carbon emissions, interview- ees reported mostly negative emotions: feeling stuck, frustrated, and overwhelmed. Interviewees also noted difficulties in logically and ethically reconciling the relationship, especially with student mobility as a key component of international education, providing several rationales for expanding international education to promote social and environ- mental justice. Notably, interviewees called for a reimagining of the field with more virtual exchanges and less air travel. Findings aim to inform higher education internationalization efforts – and student mobility specifically – in a time of climate crisis.
Suspension transport and deposition on an inclined plane
Creators: name: Park, Kyung Ho
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Staggered quantum walks with superconducting microwave resonators
Creators: name: Moqadam, Jalil Khatibi
name: de Oliveira, Marcos Cesar
name: Portugal, Renato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The staggered quantum walk model on a graph is defined by an evolution operator that is the product of local operators related to two or more independent graph tessellations. A graph tessellation is a partition of the set of nodes that respects the neighborhood relation. Flip-flop coined quantum walks with the Hadamard or Grover coins can be expressed as staggered quantum walks by converting the coin degree of freedom into extra nodes in the graph. We propose an implementation of the staggered model with superconducting microwave resonators, where the required local operations are provided by the nearest neighbor interaction of the resonators coupled through superconducting quantum interference devices. The tunability of the interactions makes this system an excellent toolbox for this class of quantum walks. We focus on the one-dimensional case and discuss its generalization to a more general class known as triangle-free graphs.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
title: Poteri privati e mercati digitali. Modalità di esercizio e strumenti di controllo
Creators: name: Ruggeri, Federico
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2023

description:

Lo studio esamina le caratteristiche e le dinamiche proprie delle relazioni contrattuali Platform-to-Business, comprese nell’alveo della più ampia categoria dei rapporti asimmetrici tra imprese. Muovendo dall’analisi della più recente legislazione europea in materia, si indagano i comportamenti abusivi più comunemente posti in essere dalle piattaforme digitali nell’esercizio dei loro poteri privati, per poi giungere a valutare l’adeguatezza degli strumenti di tutela degli utenti commerciali sotto la lente del diritto privato regolatorio e del diritto della concorrenza. La posizione di forza di cui godono le piattaforme del commercio elettronico, in particolar modo i gatekeeper, nei confronti delle imprese che si avvalgono dei loro servizi di intermediazione è in effetti all’origine di incertezze e rischi che minano il corretto funzionamento del mercato. Pur di fronte alle difficoltà poste da un fenomeno in sé transnazionale, i legislatori e gli interpreti sono chiamati, adottando un approccio quanto più possibile uniforme, specie nella dimensione comunitaria, a comprendere i fenomeni tipici dell’economia delle piattaforme e a individuare soluzioni concrete, efficaci e tempestive. Questa ricostruzione, per i contenuti proposti e la metodologia adottata, intende pertanto costituire un contributo alla definizione di un quadro compiuto della disciplina privilegiando la prospettiva del diritto dei contratti, che offre preziosi spunti di riflessione di fronte all’integrazione e all’interazione tra la normativa statale, di cui si esalta il dato comparatistico, e quella di derivazione europea.
Deformation behaviour of nickel-based alloys
Creators: name: Park, No-Kwang
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Magnetogenesis in bouncing cosmology
Creators: name: Qian, Peng
name: Cai, Yi-Fu
name: Easson, Damien A.
name: Guo, Zong-Kuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the process of magnetogenesis in the context of nonsingular bounce cosmology. We show that large primordial magnetic fields can be generated during contraction without encountering strong coupling and backreaction issues. The fields may seed large-scale magnetic fields with observationally interesting strengths. This result leads to a theoretical constraint on the relation of the energy scale of the bounce cosmology to the number of effective e-folding of the contracting phase in the case of scale invariance for the power spectrum of primordial magnetic fields. We show that this constraint can be satisfied in a sizable region of the parameter space for the nonsingular bounce cosmology.
Environmental Resources Collection versus Children's Schooling: Evidence from Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gebru, Bahre
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Previous studies on child labor and schooling in Ethiopia were general and did not distinctively show the adverse effect of natural resources scarcity on schooling. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to see the environmental resources collection and schooling relationship for children aged 7 to 18 years and see if there is any gender bias in schooling due to resource collection work. It uses a cross sectional data of 120 rural households from Enderta and Hintalo Wajerat woredas in Tigray, which represents one of the most environmentally degraded regions in Ethiopia. The two-Stage Conditional Maximum Likelihood (2SCML) estimation technique is employed to take care of endogeneity between schooling and resource work hours. The empirical analysis revealed that longer hours spent on environmental resources collection influences the likelihood of child schooling negatively. But we find no evidence about the gender based difference against girls' schooling due to resource collection hours though they do often participate in resource gathering tasks. Among others, household head's ability to read and write, owning large number of cattle and child age significantly increases the probability of collecting resources, the collection intensity and schooling likelihood while large sizes of cultivated land bear a negative effect on each outcome. The presence of more children in the 7 to 18 age category indicates the quantity (number of children) and quality (investment in child education) trade-off regarding parents' decision to send their children to school. Provision of functional adult literacy programs to parents, timely collection of fodder resources from cultivated land, planting fodder-rich tree species, promoting collective agricultural work ("wofera"), introduction of flexible academic calendar and maintenance of the non-operating constructed water services can be important policy tools to reduce environmental resources collection time and improve the likelihood of schooling. Grass-root based experience sharing programs and awareness creation can also be worthwhile in this regard.
The Tricritical Point of the f-electron Antiferromagnet USb2 Driven by High Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Stillwell, Ryan L.
name: Liu, I-Lin
name: Harrison, Neil
name: Jaime, Marcelo
name: Jeffries, Jason R.
name: Butch, Nicholas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In pulsed magnetic fields up to 65T and at temperatures below the Néel transition, our magnetization and magnetostriction measurements reveal a field-induced metamagnetic-like transition that is suggestive of an antiferromagnetic to polarized paramagnetic or ferrimagnetic ordering. Our data also suggests a change in the nature of this metamagnetic-like transition from second- to first-order-like near a tricritical point at T_{tc} ~145K and H_{c}~52T. At high fields for H>H_{c} we found a decreased magnetic moment roughly half of the moment reported in low field measurements. We propose that \mathit{f-p} hybridization effects and magnetoelastic interactions drive the decreased moment, lack of saturation at high fields, and the decreased phase boundary.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures
Optimised distributed stimulation of human calf muscle
Creators: name: Parikh, Sumit
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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An analytic method for sensitivity analysis of complex systems
Creators: name: Zhu, Yueying
name: Wang, Qiuping Alexandre
name: Li, Wei
name: Cai, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sensitivity analysis is concerned with understanding how the model output depends on uncertainties (variances) in inputs and then identifies which inputs are important in contributing to the prediction imprecision. Uncertainty determination in output is the most crucial step in sensitivity analysis. In the present paper, an analytic expression, which can exactly evaluate the uncertainty in output as a function of the output's derivatives and inputs' central moments, is firstly deduced for general multivariate models with given relationship between output and inputs in terms of Taylor series expansion. A $γ$-order relative uncertainty for output, denoted by $\mathrm{R^γ_v}$, is introduced to quantify the contributions of input uncertainty of different orders. On this basis, it is shown that the widely used approximation considering the first order contribution from the variance of input variable can satisfactorily express the output uncertainty only when the input variance is very small or the input-output function is almost linear. Two applications of the analytic formula are performed to the power grid and economic systems where the sensitivity of both actual power output and Economic Order Quantity models are analyzed. The importance of each input variable in response to the model outputs is quantified by the analytic formula.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
Impact of Government Expenditure Shock on Private Investment in Ethiopia: A Recursive Dynamic CGE Analysis
Creators: name: Regassa, Haile
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Ethiopian government targeted sustainable economic growth with stable macroeconomic environment through expanding government expenditure, revenue and private investment. But the relationship between government spending and private investment is source of controversy in both theoretical and empirical perspective. This study examines the impact of government expenditure specifically (human capital, electricity and public consumption) shock on private investment using a recursive dynamic CGE model with the recent SAM of the country. To see the impact of each categories of spending we use four source of finances which include shift of resource from public administration, tax, foreign saving and tax and foreign saving for both human capital and electricity spending but one source which is tax for public consumption spending. Under all sources of finance, human capital and electricity spending exert positive impact on variables under consideration including private investment which easily reconciled with Keynesians argument. But the size of impact of each spending under each source is different. Both human capital and electricity financed via foreign saving bring a greater positive impact on private investment in Ethiopia. In contrast to this, public consumption financed via tax imposes negative impact on all variables including private investment which can be reconciled with neoclassical view. Therefore, financing human capital and electricity spending via foreign saving and decreasing public consumption is sound to bring private investment to desired place in the country Key words: Government expenditure, Private Investment, SAM, CGE
Generalized Gauge U(1) Family Symmetry for Quarks and Leptons
Creators: name: Kownacki, Corey
name: Ma, Ernest
name: Pollard, Nicholas
name: Zakeri, Mohammadreza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the standard model of quarks and leptons is extended to include three singlet right-handed neutrinos, then the resulting fermion structure admits an infinite number of anomaly-free solutions with just one simple constraint. Well-known examples satisfying this constraint are $B-L$, $L_μ-L_τ$ , $B-3L_τ$ , etc. We derive this simple constraint, and discuss two new examples which offer some insights to the structure of mixing among quark and lepton families, together with their possible verification at the Large Hadron Collider.
description: 13 pages
An African leaf-cutting, fungus-growing ant
Creators: name: Dejean, Alain
name: Naskrecki, Piotr
name: Faucher, Christian
name: Azémar, Frédéric
name: Tindo, Maurice
name: Manzi, Sophie
name: Gryta, Hervé
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Animal behaviour
Ecology not elsewhere classified
Evolutionary biology not elsewhere classified
Mycology

description: This repository includes one Table and five files presenting the details of metabarcoding analysis as well as ITS1 sequences and OTUs for fungi recorded during this study.
 Table. List of sequences included in phylogenic trees (Capnodiales and Chaetothyriales).1- Capno-ITS-ML-Tree (ITS of the Capnodiales). Alignment of sequences and maximum likehood phylogenetic tree for Capnodiales s.l. showing the phylogenic position of the recorded OTUs belonging to Capnodiales s.l. 2- Chaeto-ITS-ML-Tree (ITS of Chaetothyriales). Alignment of sequences and maximum likehood phylogenetic tree for Chaetothyriales showing the phylogenic position of the recorded OTUs belonging to Chaetothyriales. 3- Tab_Data_All_Sequences_OTU. Datamatrix of sequences (reads) across samples 4- Blast_Results-First-50_Hits-Table-72_OTU. Dataset of BLAST results. List of the 50 first BLAST hits obtained with ITS1 sequences for each of the 72 OTUs recorded in Crematogaster nests. Best hits are in bold. 5- Tab-OTU-Seqs. List of recorded OTUs and their ITS1 sequences. OTUs belonging to Capnodiales s.l. and Chaetothyriales are in bold
“Let him know he’s your hero:” The Sexualisation of Marriage in Marabel Morgan’s The Total Woman (1973)
Creators: name: Winn, Anna
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022

description: This thesis argues that Marabel Morgan’s The Total Woman is a significant cultural artifact, representative of a shift toward a more liberal sexual ethic within Christian marriage. The purpose of centring this study on Morgan’s work is two-fold. Firstly, focusing on a singular text lends itself to closer analysis, allowing for a fuller understanding of Morgan’s advice, the change it inspired and the cultural significance of The Total Woman. Secondly, by employing Morgan’s work as a cultural lens, larger movements of the period and The Total Woman’s place within them can be considered. In taking this approach, a longer time period is covered, from the 1950s self-help works that preceded Morgan’s, to the rise of the New Christian Right in the 1970s and 1980s. From this, Morgan’s advice as representative of broader cultural changes is considered. In taking this approach, it is revealed that by commanding wives to engage in playful sex within marriage, Morgan sparked a shift in the self-help genre, with other born-again women following her example by publishing sex and marriage guides. Yet, this phenomenon was underpinned by a commitment to traditional values, with sexual experimentation encouraged to preserve the marital institution from extramarital affairs in light of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Beyond this, Morgan’s adherence to strict gender roles and ‘family values’ provides an early example of principles that would come to define the New Christian Right. Overall, this study provides a more complex narrative of evangelical self-help literature, sex roles and conservatism, with The Total Woman at the heart of this new understanding.
Behaviour-based intelligent robot navigation techniques for real world environment
Creators: name: Parasuraman, Subramaniam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Arrival Times of Gravitational Radiation Peaks for Binary Inspiral
Creators: name: Price, Richard H
name: Khanna, Gaurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modeling of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole inspiral brings together early post-Newtonian waveforms and late quasinormal ringing waveforms. Attempts to bridge the two limits without recourse to numerical relativity involve predicting the time of the peak GW amplitude. This prediction will require solving the question of why the peak of the "source," i.e., the peak of the binary angular velocity, does not correspond to the peak of the GW amplitude. We show here that this offset can be understood as due to the existence two distinct components of the radiation: the "direct" radiation analogous to that in flat spacetime, and "scattered" radiation associated with curved spacetime. The time dependence of these two components, and of their relative phases determines the location of the peak amplitude. We use a highly simplified model to clarify the twocomponent nature of the source, then demonstrate that the explanation is valid also for an extreme mass ratio binary inspiral.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures; revised version: figures clarified, typos corrected
International scholarships and home country civil service: Comparing perspectives of government employment for social change in Ghana and Nigeria
Creators: name: Campbell, Anne
name: Lavallee, Chelsea A.
name: Kelly-Weber, Erin
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Social change

description: Many international scholarships aim for national development outcomes, including reforms in government—an institution central to catalyzing social change on a national level. This paper examines alumni trajectories from one program whose graduates were expected to advance social justice at home. Focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, this research compares (a) alumni perceptions of home country governance and government employment and (b) its influence on alumni pathways. Results emphasize the importance of specific contextual factors identified by alumni, such as perceptions of government efficacy and workplace conditions, that influence their decisions to pursue government employment. Findings inform governments and scholarship funders, especially those aiming for government capacity building or social justice reform.
Bangkok air quality : implications for corrosion
Creators: name: Panther, Barbara C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Onion-peeling inversion of stellarator images
Creators: name: Hammond, K. C.
name: Diaz-Pacheco, R.
name: Kornbluth, Y.
name: Volpe, F. A.
name: Wei, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An onion-peeling technique is developed for inferring the emissivity profile of a stellarator plasma from a two-dimensional image acquired through a CCD or CMOS camera. Each pixel in the image is treated as an integral of emission along a particular line-of-sight. Additionally, the flux surfaces in the plasma are partitioned into discrete layers, each of which is assumed to have uniform emissivity. If the topology of the flux surfaces is known, this construction permits the development of a system of linear equations that can be solved for the emissivity of each layer. We present initial results of this method applied to wide-angle visible images of the CNT stellarator plasma.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Fatigue behaviour of dragline tubular structures
Creators: name: Pang, Neme Lung
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Riconoscimento ed esecuzione di sentenze penali straniere e garanzie processuali fondamentali nell'ordinamento italiano
Creators: name: Gavrysh, Khrystyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: International cooperation in criminal matters; enforcement of foreign decisions in criminal matters; procedural guarantees; fundamental human rights;

description: Tesi di Dottorato in Diritto internazionale presso il Dipartimento di scienze politiche dell’Università di Padova, ciclo XXXIII, 2021.
Circulating fluidized bed as a catalytic reactor
Creators: name: Ouyang, Shan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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$3d$ fermion-boson map with imaginary chemical potential
Creators: name: Filothodoros, E. G.
name: Petkou, A. C.
name: Vlachos, N. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the three-dimensional $U(N)$ Gross-Neveu and CP$^{N-1}$ models in the canonical formalism with fixed $U(1)$ charge. For large-$N$ this is closely related to coupling the models to abelian Chern-Simons in a monopole background. We show that the presence of the imaginary chemical potential for the $U(1)$ charge makes the phase structure of the models remarkably similar. We calculate their respective large-$N$ free energy densities and show that they are mapped into each other in a precise way. Intriguingly, the free energy map involves the Bloch-Wigner function and its generalizations introduced by Zagier. We expect that our results are connected to the recently discussed $3d$ bosonization.
description: 19 pages
The relationship between leaf area index, rainfall interception and tree water use in different age classes of Eucalyptus regnans
Creators: name: O'Sullivan, Sharon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Panel Data Analysis
Creators: name: Gezahegne, Jeleta
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: The emerging FDI and growth literatures stipulate that the relationship between FDI and growth is highly heterogeneous across countries and thus have not won a common consensus among economists. Therefore, this study analyzes the relationship between FDI and economic growth in 31 SSA countries using panel data from 1992 to 2009 obtained from World Development Indicators and World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators of 2010 using system GMM econometric technique. From the output of the growth model, its own lag, investment in physical and human capitals, external debt servicing and FDI significantly affect economic growth whereas for FDI model, its own lag, investment in physical capital, openness to international trade and macroeconomic stabilities are significant determinants of FDI. As the panel cointegration test shows existence of long run relationship between FDI and economic growth, the causality test is undertaken and the finding shows that the causality is unidirectional, causality running from FDI to GDPP in the entire sample countries. However when the countries are split into two: 19 low income countries and 12 middle income countries, the causality result is the same as that of all sample countries in the case of low income countries whereas bidirectional causality is evidenced in the case of middle income countries
Cosmological constraints on dark matter annihilation and decay: Cross-correlation analysis of the extragalactic $γ$-ray background and cosmic shear
Creators: name: Shirasaki, Masato
name: Macias, Oscar
name: Horiuchi, Shunsaku
name: Shirai, Satoshi
name: Yoshida, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive constraints on dark matter (DM) annihilation cross section and decay lifetime from cross-correlation analyses of the data from Fermi-LAT and weak lensing surveys that cover a wide area of $\sim660$ squared degrees in total. We improve upon our previous analyses by using an updated extragalactic $γ$-ray background data reprocessed with the Fermi Pass 8 pipeline, and by using well-calibrated shape measurements of about twelve million galaxies in the Canada-France-Hawaii Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) and Red-Cluster-Sequence Lensing Survey (RCSLenS). We generate a large set of full-sky mock catalogs from cosmological $N$-body simulations and use them to estimate statistical errors accurately. The measured cross correlation is consistent with null detection, which is then used to place strong cosmological constraints on annihilating and decaying DM. For leptophilic DM, the constraints are improved by a factor of $\sim100$ in the mass range of O(1) TeV when including contributions from secondary $γ$ rays due to the inverse-Compton upscattering of background photons. Annihilation cross-sections of $\langle σv \rangle \sim 10^{-23}\, {\rm cm}^3/{\rm s}$ are excluded for TeV-scale DM depending on channel. Lifetimes of $\sim 10^{25}$ sec are also excluded for the decaying TeV-scale DM. Finally, we apply this analysis to wino DM and exclude the wino mass around 200 GeV. These constraints will be further tightened, and all the interesting wino DM parameter region can be tested, by using data from future wide-field cosmology surveys.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Deterioration rates of lightly trafficked rural roads in Western Victoria
Creators: name: Oppy, Edmund T.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The Impact of Aid for Trade in Ethiopia (Dynamic General Equilibrium Model)
Creators: name: Abebe, Feben
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: This study analyses the impact of aid for trade using Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (DCGE) model. It utilized the updated 2005/06 Ethiopian SAM. In order to investigate the effects of foreign aid having aid for trade benefits, seven simulations were made with percentages employed based on empirical evidence. First, an increase in foreign aid is introduced to show the impacts of foreign aid only. Consecutively, aid for trade benefits are included with an increase in aid. The model shows an appreciation of exchange rate and decline in exports due to an increase in aid inflows. However, when aid for trade is included, export increases by far compared with the aid only result. Among the aid for trade interventions, aid for building productive capacity more than offsets the appreciation of exchange rate and decline in export that follow the inflows of foreign aid. Furthermore, the other aid for trade benefits also at least partially offset the decline in export and appreciation of exchange rate. The results are not sensitive to the change in the simulated percentages. The study in general implies foreign aid that has trade benefit component improves export in Ethiopia. Key word: Dynamic CGE, SAM and Aid for Trade
Bimodal Distribution of Galactic Disk Stars on the [alpha/Fe]-[Fe/H] Plane as a Possible Evidence of Discontinuous Radial Migration History
Creators: name: Toyouchi, Daisuke
name: Chiba, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the role of radial migration history of stars in chemical evolution of a disk galaxy, in particular in understanding the origin of their bimodal distribution on the [alpha/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane. For this purpose, we examine the three different models with no, continuous, and discontinuous radial migration, respectively. We find that for the model with radial migration, the [alpha/Fe] ratios of stars in outer disk regions decrease more rapidly with time than the model without radial migration, because the associated net transfer of intermediate and old disk stars from inner to outer disk regions increases the rate of Type Ia relative to that of Type II supernovae in the latter regions. Moreover, in the model assuming rapid and discontinuous radial migration, its effect on the stellar abundances at larger radii is significant enough to provide the large difference in the evolution of stars on the [alpha/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane between inner and outer disk regions. As a result we obtain the bimodal distribution of disk stars on the [alpha/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane as observed in the Galactic stellar disk, thereby implying that the event of discontinuous radial migration may play a key role in reproducing the observed bimodality of stars on this abundance-ratio diagram. We discuss possible mechanisms causing such discontinuous radial migration in the early evolution of the Galactic disk, including the event of minor merging of a relatively massive satellite onto the stellar disk.
description: 39 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Pest surveillance & Risk assessment in EFSA - EC Working Group on EUROPHYT-Outbreaks
Creators: name: Delbianco, Alice
name: Czwienczek, Ewelina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: plant pests
subject: plant health
subject: surveillance
subject: survey preparation
subject: survey design
subject: invasive species
subject: pest survey cards
subject: survey guidelines
subject: http://artemide.art.uniroma2.it/skosmos/gacs/en/page/C10651
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22plant%20pests%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22surveillance%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22invasive%20species%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22host%20plants%22

description: Presentation of EFSA activities on Plant Health Pest Surveillance and Risk Assessment for EC Working Group on EUROPHYT-Outbreaks on 7 June 2022.
description: EU; en; PDF; PLANTS@efsa.europa.eu
Cure kinetics, mechanisms and properties of latex interpenetrating polymer networks
Creators: name: Ooi, Soo Keat
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Little Colorado River Basin, Arizona-New Mexico: Summary Report
Creators: name: Soil Conservation Service
name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: The Little Colorado River Basin includes those areas of Arizona and New Mexico drained by the Little Colorado River and its tributaries. About 80 percent of the study area is in Arizona and includes parts of Coconino, Navajo and Apache Counties. About 20 percent is in New Mexico and Includes parts of San Juan, McKinley, Valencia and Catron Counties. The area is noted for highly erodible soils, long nearly barren slopes, sediment-laden washes and windblown sand. The study area is bound on the east by the Rio Grande Basin, on the south by the Gila River Basin and on the north by the San Juan Basin. The Little Colorado River joins the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon on the northwest edge of the Basin. The Basin is about 245 miles long and 158 miles wide at the widest point. The Summary Report with its accompanying appendices present and analyze resource data that would offer solutions to problems and assist decision makers in the orderly development of water and related land resources of the Basin. The Summary Report contains a limited description of the basic resources, problems, and analyses made during the study. These items include: irrigation, recreation, erosion and sediment, and flooding. Other study items were inventoried and resource data presented with reference to capabilities and limitations. The results of the study can be used by county and city governments, natural resource conservation districts, planning commissions, councils of government, and other local groups in planning land use and setting priorities for allocation of resources.
description: The states of Arizona and New Mexico requested the United Stated Department of Agriculture, including the Soil Conservation Service, the Forest Service, and Economic Research Service, to participate in a cooperative river basin study of the Little Colorado River Basin. The Arizona Department of Water Resources served as the lead agency for the state of Arizona and for New Mexico it was the State Engineer's Office. The study was completed pursuant to Section 6 of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566, 83rd Congress, 68 Stat., 666, as amended and supplemented).
Employee Motivation at Institutes of International Studies: Evidence from the State-owned Sector in Vietnam
Creators: name: Dinh Cong Hoang, Phan Minh Duc
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Employee motivation
HRD
HRM
International Study
OB
State-owned institution
Vietnam

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10F: 1-16