cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Trade and Environment in APEC: Assessing the Potential of APE's Dispute Mediation Service for Resolving Trade and Environment Disputes in the Asia-Pacific Rim.
Creators: name: Mongkolnavin, Phuchphop
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2001

description: In the 1990s, the relationship between trade liberalisation and environmental protection was widely discussed in several fora around the world. At the 1992 Earth Summit, it was acknowledged that, in order to achieve the long-term goal of sustainable development, trade liberalisation and environmental protection should be made mutually supportive. However, integrating trade and environment paradigms is an arduous task. Conflicts have already manifested themselves, leading to trade and environment disputes. These disputes often arise because one party uses trade measures, sometimes with a protectionist intent, to pursue its environmental goals. Unless settled in a balanced fashion, these disputes will prolong the trade and environment tension. As a result, both economic and ecological interests would be impaired. This thesis has set out to assess the potential of the dispute resolution mechanism of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) - the Dispute Mediation Service (DMS) - for resolving trade and environment disputes between APEC members in the balanced fashion. It was found that while the quasi-judicial dispute resolution mechanism of the World Trade Organization has often been used for resolving trade and environment disputes, it could be argued that APEC could potentially succeed in resolving such disputes while maintaining the trade-environment equilibrium by using the mediation technique. Two main factors have made this possible: APEC's distinctive features and the unique characteristics of trade and environment disputes themselves. It was also found in this thesis that the APEC's DMS would be particularly useful when used as a dispute avoidance mechanism, preventing a conflict from escalating into a full blown dispute. Despite its promising future, the present form of the APEC's DMS could be further improved with a view to enhancing its potential for resolving trade and environment disputes in the balanced fashion if some recommendations, developed along the line of the North American Free Trade Agreement model, could be implemented.
title: Export-Led Development: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation.
Creators: name: Subasat, Turan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2000

description: This thesis contributes to the debate surrounding the export-led development hypothesis by critically examining its theoretical and empirical validity. The first part of this thesis challenges different versions of comparative advantage theory and argues that the theoretical foundations of the theory are weak. The second chapter goes beyond the conventional critiques, which focus on the assumptions of Ricardian comparative advantage theory, and argues that the real weakness of the theory can be found in its static nature and its simplistic treatment of labour theory of value. The third chapter argues that the neoclassical version of the theory has fundamental problems in its interpretation of capital and labour as factor endowments. It also questions the relevance of empirical work by arguing that even if the theory could predict the trade pattern of a country correctly, this would not prove its accuracy. The first part of chapter four challenges the 'dynamic' versions of comparative advantage theory and argues that the theory is static in its nature and cannot be made dynamic. The second part of this chapter evaluates the debate over trade policies and attempts to clarify the confusion over the definitions of import-substitution and export-promotion. The third part summarises and critically evaluates the controversy over the so-called export pessimism and provides theoretical and empirical evidence in support of its validity. The second part of this thesis investigates the empirical support for the export-led development hypothesis. Chapter five questions the relevance of the empirical literature by examining the measures of openness and techniques that are used. It argues that the majority of the literature is irrelevant and does not provide meaningful evidence to support or reject the export-led development hypothesis. Chapter six offers an alternative measure of trade openness, which is based on a 'structurally adjusted trade intensity' index, and empirically tests whether openness accelerates economic growth. Chapter seven criticises the World Bank's 1993 report on Asia and shows its weaknesses in terms of the trade policies adopted by Asian countries. The final chapter concludes by suggesting an alternative interpretation of the recent popularity of export-led development policies.
Author_Response_2 – Supplemental material for Cytological-energy analysis of pleural effusions with predominance of neutrophils
Creators: name: Matuchova, Inka
name: Kelbich, Petr
name: Kubalik, Jan
name: Hanuljakova, Eva
name: Stanek, Ivan
name: Maly, Vilem
name: Karpjuk, Ondrej
name: Krejsek, Jan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Author_Response_2 for Cytological-energy analysis of pleural effusions with predominance of neutrophils by Inka Matuchova, Petr Kelbich, Jan Kubalik, Eva Hanuljakova, Ivan Stanek, Vilem Maly, Ondrej Karpjuk and Jan Krejsek in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
Enhancing Eye-Tracking Performance through Multi-Task Learning Transformer
Creators: name: Li, Weigeng
name: Zhou, Neng
name: Qu, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this study, we introduce an innovative EEG signal reconstruction sub-module designed to enhance the performance of deep learning models on EEG eye-tracking tasks. This sub-module can integrate with all Encoder-Classifier-based deep learning models and achieve end-to-end training within a multi-task learning framework. Additionally, as the module operates under unsupervised learning, it is versatile and applicable to various tasks. We demonstrate its effectiveness by incorporating it into advanced deep-learning models, including Transformers and pre-trained Transformers. Our results indicate a significant enhancement in feature representation capabilities, evidenced by a Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 54.1mm. This represents a notable improvement over existing methods, showcasing the sub-module's potential in refining EEG-based model performance.
 The success of this approach suggests that this reconstruction sub-module is capable of enhancing the feature extraction ability of the encoder. Due to the sub-module being mounted as a sub-task under the main task and maintained through a multi-task learning framework, our model preserves the end-to-end training process of the original model. In contrast to pre-training methods like autoencoder, our model saves computational costs associated with pre-training and exhibits greater flexibility in adapting to various model structures. Benefiting from the unsupervised nature of the sub-module, it can be applied across diverse tasks. We believe it represents a novel paradigm for improving the performance of deep learning models in EEG-related challenges.
title: Changing Roles in a Changing Climate: The Bretton Woods Institutions and the Promotion of Sustainable Development.
Creators: name: Shih, Wen-Chen
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1999

description: Through structural adjustment programmes (SAPs), the Bretton Woods Institutions (BWIs) have been promoting a particular model of development in developing countries. However, the traditional model of "economic" development advocated by the BWIs has been criticised for contributing to environmental degradation generally and to increases in greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change. A variety of legal instruments and other mechanisms have been developed that seek to reverse this trend. The Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) was adopted in 1992 and innovative mechanisms designed to help implementing the Convention such as the Global Environment Facility (GEF) have been established in the World Bank. The purpose of the thesis is to evaluate whether the legal and quasi-legal instruments employed by the BWIs in promoting structural adjustment may serve as effective tools in assisting to implement the FCCC in developing countries. The effectiveness of these legal and quasi-legal instruments, including conditionality and policy-based lending, is examined in the context of the leverage of the BWIs in influencing developing countries. This thesis posits that the governance structure of the BWIs, perceived as asymmetrical by developing countries, has affected the relationship between the BWIs and developing countries and might have undermined the effectiveness of these instruments in promoting structural adjustment. This thesis shows that GEF has begun to employ instruments similar to SAPs such as conditionality and policy-based lending, but in combination with innovative features such as novel decision-making rules and closer links with multilaterally negotiated environmental agreements such as the FCCC. The present study, thus, proposes that these legal and quasi-legal instruments identified in the GEF might be more effective because of the innovative features of the GEF that help to improve the relationship between the World Bank and the developing countries. The interaction between treaty obligations of the FCCC and regular operations of the BWIs is further explored, and suggestions for reforming the SAPs and in further developing the innovative mechanisms of the World Bank are offered. The arguments presented in the thesis are illustrated through a case study comprising four developing countries of Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippine, and Thailand). By evaluating whether the experiences of the BWIs in promoting "economic" development can provide valuable insights into how they might promote "sustainable" development through assisting the implementation of the FCCC in developing countries, the thesis hopes to contribute to the evolving field of study on the interface between international financial institutions and international environmental law.
Author_Response_1 – Supplemental material for Acute exacerbation of unclassifiable idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: comparison with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Creators: name: Enomoto, Noriyuki
name: Hyogo Naoi
name: Aono, Yuya
name: Katsumata, Mineo
name: Yasuoki Horiike
name: Yasui, Hideki
name: Karayama, Masato
name: Hironao Hozumi
name: Suzuki, Yuzo
name: Furuhashi, Kazuki
name: Fujisawa, Tomoyuki
name: Inui, Naoki
name: Yutaro Nakamura
name: Suda, Takafumi
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Author_Response_1 for Acute exacerbation of unclassifiable idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: comparison with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by Noriyuki Enomoto, Hyogo Naoi, Yuya Aono, Mineo Katsumata, Yasuoki Horiike, Hideki Yasui, Masato Karayama, Hironao Hozumi, Yuzo Suzuki, Kazuki Furuhashi, Tomoyuki Fujisawa, Naoki Inui, Yutaro Nakamura and Takafumi Suda in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
revision_appendix_1 – Supplemental material for Clinical validation of screening test for at-risk drinking for young and middle-aged adults in an emergency department
Creators: name: Hosub Chung
name: Lee, Jae Hee
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, revision_appendix_1 for Clinical validation of screening test for at-risk drinking for young and middle-aged adults in an emergency department by Hosub Chung and Jae Hee Lee in Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine
The geometry of geodesic invariant functions and applications to Landsberg surfaces
Creators: name: Elgendi, Salah G.
name: Muzsnay, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B40, 53C60

description: In this paper, for a given spray $S$ on an $n$-dimensional manifold $M$, we investigate the geometry of $S$-invariant functions. For an $S$-invariant function $¶$, we associate a vertical subdistribution $\V_¶$ and find the relation between the holonomy distribution and $\V_¶$ by showing that the vertical part of the holonomy distribution is the intersection of \ok{all spaces $\V_{\F_S}$ associated to $\F_S$ where $\F_S$} is the set of all Finsler functions that have the geodesic spray $S$. As an application, we study the Landsberg Finsler surfaces. We prove that a Landsberg surface with $S$-invariant flag curvature is Riemannian or has a vanishing flag curvature. We show that for Landsberg surfaces with non-vanishing flag curvature, the flag curvature is $S$-invariant if and only if it is constant, in this case, the surface is Riemannian. Finally, for a Berwald surface, we prove that the flag curvature is $H$-invariant if and only if it is constant.
description: 12 pages
Supplemental Material, Appendix_1 - Understanding the challenges associated with the use of data from routine health information systems in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
Creators: name: Hoxha, Klesta
name: Hung, Yuen W
name: Irwin, Bridget R
name: Grépin, Karen A
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, Appendix_1 for Understanding the challenges associated with the use of data from routine health information systems in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review by Klesta Hoxha, Yuen W Hung, Bridget R Irwin and Karen A Grépin in Health Information Management Journal
title: The Political Economy of Thailand's International Trade Negotiations: Some Multilateral and Bilateral Issues.
Creators: name: Saraithong, Wuthiya
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1999

description: This thesis examines Thailand's international trade negotiations, using a political economy framework. It concentrates on the country's multilateral negotiations in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and bilateral negotiations with the United States on intellectual property protection. The objectives of this thesis are to analyse the role of the Thai private sector and the autonomy of the Thai government in the process of these negotiations. This study argues that, apart from the public sector, the Thai private sector also plays an important role in the country's trade negotiations. However, the level of its participation varies from one negotiating framework to another. Bilateral negotiations tend to draw more attention from the private sector, because they have more direct impact on individual businesses. This is a result of the high concentration of interest caused by the small number of negotiating issues and people involved in these negotiations. In the country's bilateral negotiations with the United States, Thailand's private sector actively engaged in the negotiating process through various kinds of lobbying activities. The Thai government had to respond to these activities and compromise interests among different groups. In contrast, the role of Thai private enterprises in the Uruguay Round negotiations was rather limited. This provided the Thai government with autonomy in formulating the country's negotiating positions and in implementing Uruguay Round commitments. This resulted in a higher degree of autonomy for the government in the Uruguay Round negotiations, compared with bilateral negotiations with the United States. Thailand's Uruguay Round negotiations and its bilateral negotiations with the United States carry some implications, both for government policy and agencies as well as for their relationship with private businesses. There have already been a number of changes not only in the Thai bureaucratic system but also in the general public's opinion regarding trade negotiations. Nevertheless, to improve the capability of Thai government officials in the negotiating process and to promote national interests, some further changes are still necessary.
title: Law and Economic Development in Singapore 1959-1999.
Creators: name: Carter, Connie
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1999

description: Singapore is a successful example of a growth-oriented, interventionist, capitalist state. For four decades the government resolutely promoted economic development by fostering key elements which it considered conducive to growth. Economists, sociologists and political scientists have analysed the contribution that these and other elements have made to Singapore's economic development. However no one seems to have contemplated the role that law might have played. This study seeks to fill that gap. It draws on theory from the 1960s' law and development movement, which purportedly died in the 1970s but was revived as the law and economics movement in the 1980s by agencies like the World Bank and the IMF. After the collapse of Soviet communism, revival of the movement accelerated as many sought to assert ascendancy of the market over the state using the rule of law as a catalyst. My thesis is that Singapore's experience contradicts crucial predictions of law and development theory, whether in its old or its reincarnated guise. Many Singapore laws have diverged from their English roots to form an autochthonous body of rules which is more situational, opportunistic, regulatory, holistic and communitarian than the rights-based, individualistic model of the West. Their nature is 'westemistic' and syncretistic, but Singapore laws are not converging with those of the West as a result of economic development, as the theory predicted. Finally, the study speculates on whether Singapore's experience has more relevance for late-industrialising countries than the experience of European and American democracies whose industrialisation spanned centuries rather than decades.
title: Labour Migration From Mozambique to South Africa, With Special Reference to the Delagoa Bay Hinterland, c. 1862 to 1897.
Creators: name: Harries, Patrick
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1983

description: Numerous studies have portrayed migrant labour in South Africa as a mechanism of super-exploitation whereby capital, in alliance with the state, had only to pay the worker a bachelor wage because of his subsistence base in the rural areas. Migrant labour was thus synonymous with underdevelopment. This thesis postulates that the origins of migrant labour cannot be sought in these terms. Because of the highly competitive nature of the labour market during the 19th century, employers were concerned only with securing an adequate supply of labour. Much of this labour was drawn from geographically distant areas because the local population was able to market the product of its labour rather than the labour itself. Weak and impecunious colonial and republican states were hesitant to intervene directly in the labour market and did so only during times of economic expansion or when a non-interventionist policy threatened the stability of the state. In the second part of the thesis, which deals with the Delagoa Bay hinterland of Mozambique, it is argued that a migrant form of labour arose out of the needs of the rural community rather than those of mining capital. Wages became the nutrient for survival in a harsh environment and compensated in same measure for the dissolution of old forms of livelihood such as hunting and trading. Migrant labour and rural production were intimately linked and the ability of migrants to determine their wage level and the incidence of migrancy was dependent on the viability of the rural economy. It was only after the colonial conquest of southern Mozambique in 1895-97 that workers were partially alienated from their means of production - a move that brought down the cost of Mozambican mine labour and that furnished the Portuguese with a highly marketable commodity.
Education through games and simulations
Creators: name: Patterson, Lynn M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010

description: Through an examination of the underserved urban population, this paper takes a look at how the use of games and simulations may provide a means of closing a gap in education which has lingered for several decades. Discussion on how this engagement might look as both a class learning algebra through game programming and gameplay is reviewed. As well, several companies who have aligned themselves with state and national mathematics standards are discussed. Thus, showing how the districts who have taken the gaming plunge are reaping the benefits of serious games. These districts have found a means of turning their students around and pumping up their test scores. By adopting such an engaging approach, this paper presents how learning not only algebra, but any subject matter through an intervention which entertains and educates may be the answer to a growing problem.... the failure of the educational system and the fading family. Finally, the paper provides an account of a game development team and the learning and obstacles which took place as they built a learning game intended to teach about the college experience with embedded algebra concepts.
title: Trade Unionism in Bengal Before 1922: Historical Origins, Development and Characteristics.
Creators: name: Gourlay, Stephen Nicholas
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1983

description: The aim of this thesis is to describe and account for the development of trade unionism in Bengal from its earliest manifestations at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the formation of a trade union federation in 1922. Chapter 1 indicates the theoretical inadequacies of many existing studies of trade unionism in India, and outlines an alternative perspective, 'Trade unionism' in this thesis refers to all forms of collective action over work or labour market conditions in which all types of employees engage. Chapters 2 and 3 present evidence for trade unionism from the early nineteenth century to the mid-1890s. The engagement in some form of collective activity by employees from all sectors of the labour market, ranging from expatriate civil servants to 'manual' workers, is indicated, and suggestions put forward to account for the limited nature of developments in this period. Chapter 4 discusses three phases of increased strike activity, accompanied by the formation of trade unions, between the mid-1890s and the end of the First World War. This marked development is discussed in relation to changes in the labour market, price rises, and phases of political activity. Chapters 5-8 are concerned with the unprecedented upsurge of trade unionism that occurred between 1918-19 and 1921-2, Chapter 5 presents a statistical description of strike activity and trade union formation which enables phases and patterns of activity to be identified. Chapter 6 examines the relationship between these phases, and changes in living costs, showing through examples the processes whereby employees engaged in, or adopted new forms of trade unionism. Chapter 7 focusses on the relations between post-War trade unionism and the non-cooperation movement, while Chapter 8 examines the organizational consolidation of unions, and attempts made to establish a federation. Chapter 9 draws out some general conclusions about the processes of emergence and development of trade unionism in Bengal.
Table_S3._Adjusted_least_squared_mean_sperm_parameters_by_BMI,_race_and_ethnicity_(n=128),_continuous_values_used_for_BMI_and_age – Supplemental material for The Association Between Race, Obesity, and Sperm Quality Among Men Attending a University Physician Practice in Washington, DC
Creators: name: McCray, Nathan L.
name: Young, Heather A.
name: Irwig, Michael S.
name: Frankfurter, David
name: Schwartz, Arnold M.
name: Witmyer, Jeannine
name: Marijane Hynes
name: Vimala V. Jayanthi
name: Marcus, Mia
name: Mihir Patel
name: Perry, Melissa J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Table_S3._Adjusted_least_squared_mean_sperm_parameters_by_BMI,_race_and_ethnicity_(n=128),_continuous_values_used_for_BMI_and_age for The Association Between Race, Obesity, and Sperm Quality Among Men Attending a University Physician Practice in Washington, DC by Nathan L. McCray, Heather A. Young, Michael S. Irwig, David Frankfurter, Arnold M. Schwartz, Jeannine Witmyer, Marijane Hynes, Vimala V. Jayanthi, Mia Marcus, Mihir Patel and Melissa J. Perry in American Journal of Men’s Health
title: Historical Change in the Metaphysical Concept of Pessimism in German Thought (1813-1973): Reaction to Indian Philosophy.
Creators: name: Gestering, Johann Joachim Artur
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1982

description: (1) This historical comparative philosophical analysis studies the function of Indian thought in German metaphysical pessimism. The discussion follows a line of primary focusing points which ensue consecutively from the range of changing views (presented in part I) held by a selection of German representatives of pessimism. Each one of them is introduced throng his writings and analysed both with regard to his pessimism and his Indian connections, as far as possible. This analytical process isolates the most essential cues and concepts. These mark the development of our understanding of the thinker himself (i.e. his form of pessimism), and provide the special connection points through which he can be linked with the other pessimists. In this manner an intra-German set of historical relationships is established. (2) The isolated cues and concepts, furthermore, formally provide the first links with that actual Indian sphere of thought (part II) which appears to be responsible for exerting some more or less specific influence on the individual views of the German thinkers. This hypothetical assumption of a pessimistic German response to Indian thought is centred on a second set of historical relationships, namely, those between the various German views and the sphere of Indian philosophy. (3) The comparative character of this study necessitates a special methodology in order to bridge the natural gap between the German (European) and the Indian tradition of thought. The greater part of the Introduction has, therefore, been allotted to the exposition of a hermeneutic approach to the problem. This hermeneutic is essentially a connective device. It makes it possible to focus the comparative argument on the Indian conceptions behind the (supposedly Indian bat, in fact, German) cues and concepts in question. (4) The combined analysis implies a redefinition of the concept of metaphysical pessimism.
Supporting Information from Approximate Lie symmetries and singular perturbation theory
Creators: name: Dear, Alexander J.
name: Mahadevan, L
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 490199
subject: Applied mathematics not elsewhere classified

description: Overview of some relevant established methods; in-depth exploration of "painting"; supporting derivations; supporting examples; analysis of Oseen equation on a cylinder; supplemental figure.
title: Contemporary Problems in Hindu Religious Endowments.
Creators: name: Chakrabarti, Nihar Ranjan
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1982

description: The prime object of this thesis is to find out various problems of Hindu religious endowments in general, and private Hindu religious trusts in particular, and to provide suggestions which may be useful for any future comprehensive legislation in that field. Though the thesis is on Hindu religious endowments, section 1 of the first chapter, providing a background to the main contention, deals with the provisions of the Constitution of India, which guarantees every individual in India the right to freedom of religion and management of religious affairs. The purpose of section 2 of the chapter is to show how far a Civil Court can intervene in religious affairs. The second chapter deals with trusts in both English and Hindu law. The objects of this chapter are to enquire into those areas in which the influence of English concepts of law in the Indian field are evident and to make a brief comparative study between the two systems. The main contention, which is related to various problems of private Hindu religious endowments or private debutters is expressed in the third, fourth and fifth chapters. The sixth chapter deals with Hindu public religious trusts called maths; these are unique and one of the oldest Hindu religious institutions. Moreover, it is the problems existing in those institutions which have been investigated. The seventh, and concluding chapter advances propositions relating to the contents of the thesis, in the hope that, if any future statute is introduced, the Indian Parliament will take into consideration the suggestions put forward by way of those propositions.
Reviewer_1_v.1 – Supplemental material for C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, D-dimer, and ferritin in severe coronavirus disease-2019: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Huang, Ian
name: Pranata, Raymond
name: Lim, Michael Anthonius
name: Amaylia Oehadian
name: Bachti Alisjahbana
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Reviewer_1_v.1 for C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, D-dimer, and ferritin in severe coronavirus disease-2019: a meta-analysis by Ian Huang, Raymond Pranata, Michael Anthonius Lim, Amaylia Oehadian and Bachti Alisjahbana in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
Reviewer_2_v.1 – Supplemental material for C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, D-dimer, and ferritin in severe coronavirus disease-2019: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Huang, Ian
name: Pranata, Raymond
name: Lim, Michael Anthonius
name: Amaylia Oehadian
name: Bachti Alisjahbana
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Reviewer_2_v.1 for C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, D-dimer, and ferritin in severe coronavirus disease-2019: a meta-analysis by Ian Huang, Raymond Pranata, Michael Anthonius Lim, Amaylia Oehadian and Bachti Alisjahbana in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
Table_S2 – Supplemental material for Use of patient derived orthotopic xenograft models for real-time therapy guidance in a pediatric sporadic malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
Creators: name: Fernández-Rodríguez, Juana
name: Madrid, Andrés Morales La
name: Bernat Gel
name: Heredia, Alicia Castañeda
name: Salvador, Héctor
name: Martínez-Iniesta, María
name: Moutinho, Catia
name: Morata, Jordi
name: Heyn, Holger
name: Blanco, Ignacio
name: Creus-Bachiller, Edgar
name: Capella, Gabriel
name: Farré, Lourdes
name: Vidal, August
name: Soldado, Francisco
name: Krauel, Lucas
name: Mariona Suñol
name: Serra, Eduard
name: Villanueva, Alberto
name: Conxi Lázaro
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Table_S2 for Use of patient derived orthotopic xenograft models for real-time therapy guidance in a pediatric sporadic malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor by Juana Fernández-Rodríguez, Andrés Morales La Madrid, Bernat Gel, Alicia Castañeda Heredia, Héctor Salvador, María Martínez-Iniesta, Catia Moutinho, Jordi Morata, Holger Heyn, Ignacio Blanco, Edgar Creus-Bachiller, Gabriel Capella, Lourdes Farré, August Vidal, Francisco Soldado, Lucas Krauel, Mariona Suñol, Eduard Serra, Alberto Villanueva and Conxi Lázaro in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Note on quantum discord
Creators: name: Yiding, Wang
name: Xiaofen, Huang
name: Tinggui, Zhang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum discord goes beyond entanglement and exists in a wide range of quantum states that may be separable, playing a crucial role in quantum information tasks. In this paper, we firstly proposed a zero-discord criterion for two-qubit system based on the partial transposition of density matrix, and then extended it to the qubit-qudit system. By detailed examples we demonstrate the effectiveness of these criteria in detecting discord. Moreover, we provide an analytical lower bound of geometric quantum discord(GQD) using eigenvalue vectors of density matrix. Finally, we presented a one-way work deficit lower bound based on our lower bound of GQD.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
online_supplement – Supplemental material for Restaurant Employee Service Sabotage and Customer Deviant Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Corporate Reputation
Creators: name: Hsin-Hui Hu “Sunny” Hu
name: Hung-Sheng “Herman” Lai
name: King, Brian
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental material, online_supplement for Restaurant Employee Service Sabotage and Customer Deviant Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Corporate Reputation by Hsin-Hui Hu “Sunny” Hu, Hung-Sheng “Herman” Lai and Brian King in Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research
Sehmbi_(2020)_JCU_Supplementary_Table_S3 – Supplemental material for Early outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy following completion of a structured training curriculum: a single surgeon cohort study
Creators: name: Sehmbi, Arjan S
name: Ashwin N Sridhar
name: Sahadevan, Kanagasabai
name: Bhavan P Rai
name: Nwangwu, Pamela
name: Mohammed, Anna
name: Freeman, Alex
name: Mottrie, Alexandre
name: Olsson, Mats J
name: N Peter Wiklund
name: M Senthil Nathan
name: Briggs, Timothy P
name: Kelly, John D
name: Prabhakar Rajan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Sehmbi_(2020)_JCU_Supplementary_Table_S3 for Early outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy following completion of a structured training curriculum: a single surgeon cohort study by Arjan S Sehmbi, Ashwin N Sridhar, Kanagasabai Sahadevan, Bhavan P Rai, Pamela Nwangwu, Anna Mohammed, Alex Freeman, Alexandre Mottrie, Mats J Olsson, N Peter Wiklund, M Senthil Nathan, Timothy P Briggs, John D Kelly and Prabhakar Rajan in Journal of Clinical Urology
title: Aspects of the Urban History, Social, Adminstrative and Institutional of Dacca City, 1921-1947.
Creators: name: Khanum, Nazia
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1982

description: The thesis focuses on Dacca through a western institution - Dacca Municipality - during 1921 - 1947. Run along authoritarian lines by British District Magistrates from 1864 - 1884, it was taken over by Indians in November 1884 when it acquired its first non-official, Indian and elected chairman. As in other Indian cities, however, it proved difficult to reconcile this over-regulated, semi-democratic body, designed to improve the welfare of the multitude, with the limited aspirations of the Indian elites who sat on it, struggling to preserve their social, political and economic interests. The working of the Municipality also exposed a conflict between the liberal, reforming drive of some individuals and the traditionalism of the majority. Financial constraints, war and communal riots, among other factors, were further impediments on the path of municipal growth. Nevertheless, the Municipality achieved some substantial modernization of Dacca's amenities by installing water-works, electricity and underground sewerage. The first chapter describes the physical city and its people - their occupations and communal distribution. Chapter 2 concentrates on the services provided by Dacca Municipality. Chapter 3 investigates its financial administration, with particular concern for the Municipality's indebtedness and inability to balance its accounts. Chapter 4 looks at the Municipality's politics, which were personalized and often unconnected with civic improvements.
title: Land Law in Burundi: Legal and Social Ordering of Land Tenure in Historical and Contemporary Burundi.
Creators: name: Barras, Francois-A.
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1982

description: The thesis deals with Burundi land tenure (i) historically, with an analysis of reports, recorded cases and oral accounts relating to the colonial era, and (ii) contemporaneously with a description of selected land disputes. These data form the basis of an appraisal of Governmental ideas on land law reform. In Burundi rights in land may originate either in written or customary law or in instruments established by administrative authorities. The main objective of written law enacted during the colonial period was to regulate the relationships between Africans, the State and colonists concerning land, ensuring the security of tenure of the colonists through a system of leases and freeholds. After Independence most colonial Acts were kept in force. At present, only a minute part of the territory, mostly in urban areas, is governed by written law, whereas most land is still held according to customary law which defines with great precision the various interests individuals and groups may have in land. Finally, in urban areas and in rural settlement schemes, colonial and Burundi administrative authorities have granted interests in land known as "droits d'occupation". In 1978, the Government devised a project of land law reform based on the view that all forms of tenure should be converted to tenure under written law as organized by the Civil Code. This project represents a form of cultural alienation. Colonial law was enacted to fit the colonial situation; the first step to land law reform is therefore not the conversion of tenure, but a rethinking of the relationships between men regarding land in contemporary Burundi, leading to the enactment of new rules which will take into account the various existing systems of land tenure, the various social and economic functions of land, and the development objectives of the Government.
SZKP: A Scalable Accelerator Architecture for Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Creators: name: Daftardar, Alhad
name: Reagen, Brandon
name: Garg, Siddharth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are an emergent paradigm in verifiable computing. In the context of applications like cloud computing, ZKPs can be used by a client (called the verifier) to verify the service provider (called the prover) is in fact performing the correct computation based on a public input. A recently prominent variant of ZKPs is zkSNARKs, generating succinct proofs that can be rapidly verified by the end user. However, proof generation itself is very time consuming per transaction. Two key primitives in proof generation are the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) and Multi-scalar Multiplication (MSM). These primitives are prime candidates for hardware acceleration, and prior works have looked at GPU implementations and custom RTL. However, both algorithms involve complex dataflow patterns -- standard NTTs have irregular memory accesses for butterfly computations from stage to stage, and MSMs using Pippenger's algorithm have data-dependent memory accesses for partial sum calculations. We present SZKP, a scalable accelerator framework that is the first ASIC to accelerate an entire proof on-chip by leveraging structured dataflows for both NTTs and MSMs. SZKP achieves conservative full-proof speedups of over 400$\times$, 3$\times$, and 12$\times$ over CPU, ASIC, and GPU implementations.
description: Accepted to the 33rd International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2024
title: Contract Law and Judicial System in Saudi Arabia.
Creators: name: Al-Kuhaimi, Salih Abdul Aziz
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1982

description: This thesis is entitled Contract Law and Judicial System in Saudi Arabia. The work is divided into seven chapters. However, as the title suggests, it deals with two interrelated subject matters and therefore can be sub-divided into two parts. The first chapter is introductory to both topics and deals with general principles of law as derived from sacred law, the development of law and the meaning of contract (akd). The second chapter explains the present Saudi judicial system and analyses its structure and different procedures with reference to historical background. Chapter three deals with the judiciary (al-qada) and the role of the judge (qadi) in Islam, again with historical reference in order to explain their modern role. Chapter four deals with Islamic law in general and more specifically, Saudi Arabian (public) law. Chapters five and six deal with contract. Chapter six deals with the principles of freedom of contract in relation to conditions imposed whereas chapter five deals with the theory of contract with regard to the differing schools of thought emphasising the Hanafi and Hanbali Schools. Contract of sale and marriage are also emphasised. Chapter seven concludes with a criticism of the system and avenues of reform which the Saudi legal system is persuing in response to changing economic circumstances.
title: The Japanese Press and Japanese Foreign Policy 1927-1933.
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Tsutomu David
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 1981

description: Much research has been carried out on the causes and consequences of the dramatic Manchurian crisis of 1931-1933. Many books have also been written on the history of the Japanese press with not a little attention being paid to the effect of state intervention on press freedom. A systematic analysis of press treatment of foreign policy before and during the Manchurian Incident and of the ways in which the role and character of the press changed has, however, been lacking. This thesis attempts to fill the gap by examining a number of newspapers and journals including the most influential and those specialising in foreign affairs for the years 1927-1933, focusing on the crucial foreign policy issues of naval disarmament and the China question. The various methods of government censorship are also examined, It lends support to those who have seen the Japanese press in the period of 'Taisho Democracy' as a formidable critic of the Japanese government in foreign policy as well as domestic politics, This critical tone, based in part on liberal international attitudes, is shown to have continued down to 1930, particularly with regard to disarmament. The thesis also shows, however, that well before 1931, there was a growing tendency to emphasise sensational reporting, often of an anti-Chinese nature, for reasons of commercial rivalry. It is also argued that, largely for commercial reasons, the press tended to move away from a distinctively independent editorial position towards conformity with public opinion, and that it sought to avoid conflicts with the government, which might result in temporary bans on publication. Thus it indicates that to a considerable extent the apparently dramatic switch of role to support of nationalistic official policies in 1931 had already been foreshadowed.
Sehmbi_(2020)_JCU_Supplementary_Table_S4 – Supplemental material for Early outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy following completion of a structured training curriculum: a single surgeon cohort study
Creators: name: Sehmbi, Arjan S
name: Ashwin N Sridhar
name: Sahadevan, Kanagasabai
name: Bhavan P Rai
name: Nwangwu, Pamela
name: Mohammed, Anna
name: Freeman, Alex
name: Mottrie, Alexandre
name: Olsson, Mats J
name: N Peter Wiklund
name: M Senthil Nathan
name: Briggs, Timothy P
name: Kelly, John D
name: Prabhakar Rajan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Sehmbi_(2020)_JCU_Supplementary_Table_S4 for Early outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy following completion of a structured training curriculum: a single surgeon cohort study by Arjan S Sehmbi, Ashwin N Sridhar, Kanagasabai Sahadevan, Bhavan P Rai, Pamela Nwangwu, Anna Mohammed, Alex Freeman, Alexandre Mottrie, Mats J Olsson, N Peter Wiklund, M Senthil Nathan, Timothy P Briggs, John D Kelly and Prabhakar Rajan in Journal of Clinical Urology