cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors Affecting Sustainability of Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises: the Case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Rahel, Fitane
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) play an essential role in the sustainable development of a country. They help in employment generation, job creation, self-independence, industrial production increase, and export. The study examines factors that determine sustainability of small and medium enterprises in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The general purpose of the study was to identify the major internal & external factors that influencing sustainability of small and medium scale enterprises. Given that a survey-based approach was used. And Primary and secondary data were used for this study. The target population was manufacturing construction, trade and service existing and closed small and medium Government organized enterprises in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The choice of the study area was based on size and concentration of SMEs. Data were collected using questionnaires from 41 closed SMEs and a sample of 277 existing SMEs has been taken. The selection of respondents was done using census and stratified random sampling procedures for closed and existing SMEs respectively. The data collected were analyzed using appropriate descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression techniques. The data have been analyzed with the help of Statistical package for social science (SPSS). The empirical study elicited major internal and external factors which seem to affect sustainability of SMEs. According to the participants' perception, the study revealed that the most important internal factors that determine SMEs sustainability is work-related factor and marketing, financial and political-legal factors are major external factors that affecting SMEs sustainability. The major implication of the study is that improving financial and work-related problems is critical in guaranteeing the survival of the SMEs.
On the PeV knee of cosmic rays spectrum and TeV cutoff of electron spectrum
Creators: name: Jin, Chao
name: Liu, Wei
name: Hu, Hong-Bo
name: Guo, Yi-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectra of Cosmic Rays (CRs), particularly their features, may hold essential information about astroparticle and fundamental physics. Realizing that both $4$ PeV CR knee and electron's TeV break have nearly identical Lorentz factor, i.e. $γ\sim 10^6$, we propose that both CR nuclei and electron experience a threshold interaction with unknown light particle $\rm X$, widespread in the diffusive halo. The interaction occurs only when the Lorentz factor of CRs is larger than $10^6$. Via this process, the energy spectrum of each component has deformation above the threshold Lorentz factor, so both knee and spectral break of electrons can be naturally reproduced. Given the large uncertainties of the available measurements and simplified assumption, our model accommodates a wide mass range of the particle X, which is allowable from ultralight value to $\sim 1$ eV.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Treatment seeking electronic gambling machine gamblers : definitional issues, psychopathological constructs and mediation processes.
Creators: name: Cosic, Sanja
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The present study is an examination of gambling behaviour for people attending counselling services specifically for difficulties with electronic gaming machines. The three issues examined are i) whether the current criteria for defining a person with a gambling problem are adequate for treatment seeking electronic gaming machine gamblers, ii) whether there are a distinct set of psychological criteria that can be used to define this group of people and iii) whether dissociation as a process will mediate between these personality variables and gambling behaviour. Results found some minimal differences between treatment groups and significant differences to the control group. The DSM IV-TR criteria were examined to clarify underlying factors. The DSM IV-TR criteria for pathological gambling demonstrated utility of definition between gamblers and non gamblers but minimal discrimination of underlying factors within the gambling group. Mediation analysis found there is a relationship between dissociation and psychopathology but that it did not act as a mediator for gambling behaviour. Additionally, no significant overall mediation models were found.
Dokumentation des 7. Berliner Präventionstages. Psychische Gewalt
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Emotionaler Missbrauch , Mobbing , Gewalt , Schule , Familie , Pflege , Alter , Diskriminierung , Berlin
subject: 360

description: Der 7. Berliner Präventionstag der Landeskommission Berlin gegen Gewalt am 1. November 2006 lockte etwa 600 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer ins Rathaus Schöneberg, um sich über den aktuellen Stand der Diskussionen und der Praxis in der Gewalt- und Kriminalprävention in Berlin zu informieren. Der Tag war dem Thema der psychischen Gewalt und deren verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen gewidmet. Sein Ziel war es, durch Fokussierung auf das Schwerpunktthema die Bedeutsamkeit gerade auch dieser Formen nicht körperlich verletzender Gewaltausübung in den Vordergrund der Betrachtung zu rücken und die Sensibilität der verschiedenen Berufssparten dafür zu verstärken.
Queer Solidarity & Soup Kitchen Stalinists – Politics and Containment in the Solidarity Economy
Creators: name: Tang, Andrew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 389903
subject: Heterodox economics
classificationCode: 380114
subject: Public economics - publicly provided goods
classificationCode: 441099
subject: Sociology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 440599
subject: Gender studies not elsewhere classified

description: Thesis submitted as total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology, Anthropology and International Development, Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
Intensivtäter in Berlin Teil II. Ergebnisse der Befragung von "Intensivtätern" sowie der Auswertung ihrer Schulakten
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Intensivtäter , Berlin
subject: 360

description: Im Februar 2007 ist das Berliner Forum Gewaltprävention Nr. 26 mit dem Titel „Intensivtäter Teil I“ erschienen. In dem Heft werden die Ergebnisse der Analyse von 264 von 331 am 1. Juni 2005 bei der Staatsanwaltschaft Berlin Abteilung 47 vorliegenden Akten von Intensivtätern vorgestellt. Dies war der erste Teil der von der Landeskommission Berlin gegen Gewalt beauftragten Studie von Prof. Dr. Claudius Ohder und Lorenz Huck zum Thema „Intensivtäter“. Sie hat große Aufmerksamkeit auch über Berlin hinaus erlangt. Mit dem nun vorliegenden Heft wird der zweite Teil der Studie veröffentlicht. Er befasst sich mit den Erkenntnissen aus Interviews mit 27 inhaftierten jugendlichen Intensivtätern sowie mit den Ergebnissen der Auswertung der Schulakten dieser Personen. Nicht zuletzt werden die Ergebnisse beider Teilstudien zueinander in Beziehung gesetzt. Erstmalig in der Bundesrepublik wurden ausführliche Gespräche mit Intensivtätern über ihre persönliche Entwicklung geführt und Schulakten von denselben Intensivtätern ausgewertet. Dass Interviews mit den Jugendlichen geführt wurden, entspricht einem ganzheitlichen Forschungsansatz, der sich nicht damit begnügt, Akten von delinquenten Jugendlichen in Augenschein zu nehmen und zu analysieren. Die Perspektive dieser jungen Menschen, ihr Leben in den Blick zu nehmen, bedeutet einerseits, sie ernst zu nehmen – und zwar unabhängig davon, dass sie durch ihr kriminelles Verhalten vielen anderen erheblichen Schaden zugefügt haben – und andererseits, die Chance zu nutzen, ihre Sicht auf die Entwicklung der eigenen kriminellen Karriere zur Kenntnis zu nehmen und diese dort, wo dies angemessen erscheint, bei der Entwicklung künftiger Handlungsstrategien zu berücksichtigen. Ziel auch dieses zweiten Teils der „Intensivtäterstudie“ ist es, Erkenntnisse und Hinweise für die Prävention von kriminellen Karrieren und zum Umgang mit Intensivtätern zu erhalten.
Retrofit Control: Localization of Controller Design and Implementation
Creators: name: Ishizaki, Takayuki
name: Sadamoto, Tomonori
name: Imura, Jun-ichi
name: Sandberg, Henrik
name: Johansson, Karl Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we propose a retrofit control method for stable network systems. The proposed approach is a control method that, rather than an entire system model, requires a model of the subsystem of interest for controller design. To design the retrofit controller, we use a novel approach based on hierarchical state-space expansion that generates a higher-dimensional cascade realization of a given network system. The upstream dynamics of the cascade realization corresponds to an isolated model of the subsystem of interest, which is stabilized by a local controller. The downstream dynamics can be seen as a dynamical model representing the propagation of interference signals among subsystems, the stability of which is equivalent to that of the original system. This cascade structure enables a systematic analysis of both the stability and control performance of the resultant closed-loop system. The resultant retrofit controller is formed as a cascade interconnection of the local controller and an output rectifier that rectifies an output signal of the subsystem of interest so as to conform to an output signal of the isolated subsystem model while acquiring complementary signals neglected in the local controller design, such as interconnection signals from neighboring subsystems. Finally, the efficiency of the retrofit control method is demonstrated through numerical examples of power systems control and vehicle platoon control.
Enclosure – Letter to RG from Sam Graves
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
"La adopción"
Creators: name: Arévalo Blanco, Nilda
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1972
Subjects: Adopción - Aspectos jurídicos

description: Tesis (Abogado) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas. Programa de Derecho, 1972
description: Acto jurídico mediante el cual se crea un vínculo de parentesco entre una o dos personas, de tal forma que establece entre ellas una relación de paternidad o de maternidad, dando solución para que los menores de edad puedan volver a tener una familia y las parejas o personas solicitantes que quieran tener hijos y no puedan por cualquier motivo puedan vivir y disfrutar la experiencia de la paternidad.
Psychodynamics and the giving of the spiritual exercises in Australia: a phenomenological exploration of the relationship between director and exercitant
Creators: name: Saunders, Peter Brian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This qualitative research aimed to explore the relationship between director and exercitant in the giving of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556). Though there is much written about the Spiritual Exercises over the centuries, there has been very little empirical research into the giving of the Exercises, and in a literature search, no previous empirical research was found into the relationship between the director and exercitant. The research reported here was a phenomenological exploration of the experience of24 directors of the Spiritual Exercises in Australia, including 11 Jesuits, 3 religious and 10 lay people, overall, 14 men and 10 women, ranging in age between 30 and 90. An indepth semi-structured interview was conducted with each of these participants, exploring their experience of receiving and giving the Exercises, as well as their different paths of formation to become a director. A particular focus of the research was on the place of psychodynamics occurring in the relationship between director and exercitant. The research results suggest that the relationship between the director and exercitant parallels the exercitant's experience of God in the Exercises; further that there are parallels in the relationship between the director and the exercitant in the Exercises, which are somewhat similar to that between therapist and patient in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Findings of this research are discussed, including themes that emerged from the participants' interviews: transformation and healing in the Exercises, the complexities in the role of the director, understanding of psychodynamics, and supervision of directors. The research suggests that greater formation in psychodynamics could help directors and supervisors in assisting the exercitant to have a deeper experience of Jesus in the Exercises. Specific suggestions regarding future research are made.
Preparing Pre-Service Social Work Students for Complex Humanitarian Contexts Through an Autoethnographical-Informed Education Framework
Creators: name: Townsend, Anne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis is being submitted as a total fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Education to the School of Education, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
Assessment of Employee Performance Management System (A case study of Ethio-Telecom)
Creators: name: Woldegebriel, Sintayehu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Performance management systems is always a big concern of any organization. An organization should manage its human resources effectively and efficiently by creating alignment between the overall strategic aims of the company with individual and team goals in order to overcome the present and future challenges. The main purpose of this study is to assess employees Performance Management system of Ethio telecom. Particularly, the study tried to address the basic questions of how Ethio- Telecom creates understanding of its EPMS to its employees, to what extent employees of Ethio- Telecom participate in the performance management process, to what extent the performance management feedback communicate to employees in Ethio-Telecom and For what purpose Ethio- Telecom use the performance evaluation results. To achieve this objective, a review of relevant literature was done, and primary data was collected using a Likert scale. questionnaire format administered to 122 respondents and data analysis was carried out using descriptive analysis. Some findings also discovered such as: Ethio-Telecom has a good culture in creating awareness on its mission, vision and objectives, Performance management system is not fair and transparent, there is participation in performance management process but not satisfactory specially in supervisory level, feedback is communicated to employees on the strength and weakness area which needs improvement but not on time, Senior managers have limited knowledge to carry out the performance evaluation and the organization used the Performance Management results more for administrative purpose than any other purposes. The study concluded to get positive result from the system there must be a well-planned, fair and transparent employee performance management system. The study also recommended that employee should participate in the organization goal and objectives setting process in order to perform the task effectively and efficiently. And the company should provide a continuous training program for management members to enable them effectively to carry out the performance Evaluation
The milieu of oral english assessment in Malaysia: processes and challenges
Creators: name: Mohamad, Azleena
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In line with the current global trend, the School Based Oral English Assessment (SBOEA) is implemented as a means to decentralise assessment and provide students the opportunity to be assessed in their familiar environment by those closest to them: their teachers. The aim of the SBOEA is to assess students’ ability to communicate in the English Language in everyday life and teachers as the immediate implementers play an important role in ensuring that this aim is achieved. Teachers’ conduct of the SBOEA is guided through the use of a manual produced by the Malaysian Examination Syndicate (MES). The study for this thesis explores the way teachers conduct the SBOEA in their classrooms in Malaysia. It looks at three areas: the stages and processes involved in implementing the school based oral assessment, the factors that influence their practices and the challenges they face in their oral assessment practices. To explore these areas, this study employed a qualitative case study that encompassed the use of semi-structured interviews and classroom observations on ten English Language teachers. This study reveals that teachers undergo four main stages in the implementation of the SBOEA: planning, implementation, scoring and recording, and reassessment. At each stage, a number of processes are identified leading to the complete cycle of the assessment implementation. This study discovers that teachers approach the processes variedly due to the influence of two main factors: teacher factors and external factors. Their struggle to balance their practices with what is prescribed in the SBOEA manual and the identified factors have led to several challenges. These challenges are identified as teacher assessment competency, the validity and reliability of the SBOEA, fairness and accountability and the impact of the SBOEA. Understanding teachers’ school based oral assessment practices within the factors and challenges highlighted in this study can contribute to better implementation approach to the school based oral assessment by addressing the challenges teachers face and acknowledging the stages and processes they undertake to conduct the assessment in the classrooms.
Kinder- und Jugenddelinquenz. Dokumentation des 9. Berliner Präventionstages
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Kind , Jugend , Kriminalität , Gewalt , Prävention , Berlin
subject: 360

description: Dokumentation des 9. Berliner Präventionstages
Design and Development of a Remote Lab for Hands-On Education in Mechatronics and Control Engineering
Creators: name: Zumsande, Johannes
name: Bosselmann, Steffen
name: Dagen, Matthias
name: Ortmaier, Tobias
Publisher: name: Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Remote Laboratory
subject: Education
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: Demonstrators expand the theoretical lectures of control engineering by a practical hands-on experience to teach students the implementation and effects of a control algorithm and demonstrate the range of field starting with a mathematical model and ending with a controlled system. For this purpose, remotely controlled laboratories (RCL) are an effective alternative to supervised laboratories due to their advantages in 24/7 accessibility and interactivity as well as their low labor consumption. At the Institute of Mechatronic Systems (imes) a RCL was developed to extend the range of courses with a motivating and application-oriented laboratory. It was designed considering minimal latency remote control as well as portability to other environments with different testbeds and different learning management systems. To increase students’ motivation a challenge and ranking system has been implemented. For each task a challenge is created with a criterion of optimisation and students compare themselves with their fellow students by an up-to-date ranking.
Enclosure – Letter to RG from Sam Graves
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Diseño de un manual de procedimientos y funciones como fundamento principal para la posterior implementación de un sistema de gestión de calidad ISO 9000 en la empresa Amcom S.A.
Creators: name: Peña Puentes, Jarol
name: Sánchez Hernández, Jojan Esneider
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2014
Subjects: Manual de funciones - Amcom S.A
Manual de procedimientos - Amcom S.A.;
Estados financieros

description: Tesis (Contador Publico).--Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Contaduría Publica, 2014
description: Desde su conformación, la empresa ha buscado siempre la excelencia en la prestación de sus servicios, ha desarrollado estrategias de incursión en el mercado institucional que permitan brindar de manera oportuna una mejor prestación del servicio. Por lo anterior, se ve en la necesidad de fortalecer en la empresa su estructura organizacional basada en el diseño de un manual de funciones y procedimientos, con el fin de fortalecerse competitivamente. Actualmente no se tienen definidos, ni documentados, de allí la necesidad de su creación, donde esté plasmada toda la información que permitan estandarizar actividades diarias, así como lo referente al cumplimiento de las mismas.
Impatiens trichoceras Baker 1883
Creators: name: Abrahamcyk, Stefan
name: Fischer, Eberhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Balsaminaceae
Impatiens
Impatiens trichoceras

description: Impatiens trichoceras Baker (1883: 116)
 Type: —Central Madagascar, Lyall 46 (K! holotype).
description: Published as part of Abrahamcyk, Stefan & Fischer, Eberhard, 2015, Impatiens elianae (Balsaminaceae), a new species from central Madagascar, with notes on the taxonomic relationship of I. lyallii and I. trichoceras, pp. 83-91 in Phytotaxa 226 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.226.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/13636242
We Band of Brothers: An Analysis of Seated Male Figures on Coin Types issued in Magna Graecia c. 470–325 BCE
Creators: name: McClean, Bridget
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 430104
subject: Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
classificationCode: 430107
subject: Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology)

description: Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the Department of Languages and Linguistics, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Victoria.
Mejora de la tolerancia a salinidad de plantas de maíz mediante el uso de rizobios productores de trehalosa
Creators: name: Bernabé Allende, Alejandra
Publisher: name: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Year: 2024
Subjects: Trehalosa
salinidad
estrés osmótico
PGPB
Biofertilizantes

description: Resumen

La salinidad del suelo representa un problema para la agricultura ya que afecta la productividad del cultivo [1]. Por otra parte, los biofertilizantes son formulaciones que contienen microorganismos vivos, que al ser aplicados a las semillas o al suelo, mejoran la disponibilidad de nutrientes y promueven el crecimiento de plantas [2]. Entre los microorganismos que se usan como biofertilizantes destacan las bacterias promotoras del crecimiento de plantas (PGPB; por sus siglas en inglés). Cuando estas bacterias se enfrentan a estrés abiótico  como la alta salinidad (estrés osmótico), provoca que las bacterias pierdan agua y turgencia [3]. Un mecanismo para tolerar este estrés es por medio de la acumulación de solutos compatibles u osmoprotectores como la trehalosa; un azúcar no reductor presente en diversos organismos y microrganismos y que está relacionada al estrés fisiológico [4]. En el presente trabajo se utilizó a la cepa de Bradyrhizobium  japonicum (ARC 517)  con diferentes fuentes de carbono, nitrógeno, pH, y la inoculación en plantas para determinar las mejores condiciones para incrementar la producción de trehalosa [5]. La aplicación de esta cepa productora de trehalosa en plantas de maíz, bajo condiciones de campo, mejoran la tolerancia a la salinidad de las plantas; lo que sugiere que la sobre producción de trehalosa podría ser una característica deseable para los biofertilizantes.
Filosofía del estado y el estado colombiano
Creators: name: Zirene Eljadue, Carlos
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1975
Subjects: Estado - Nación

description: Tesis (Abogado) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas. Programa de Derecho, 1975
description: Disposiciones que establece el estado implicando reclamaciones contra el estado, ya que esto niega a los propios medios darse cuenta de su propia personalidad, existiendo grandes diferencias materiales entre los miembros del estado.
Combating Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria with Novel Analogues of Vancomycin
Creators: name: Ottonello, Alessandra
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310701
subject: Bacteriology

description: Submitted in total fulfilment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Chemistry and Physics, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria.
Impact of Non-Existence of Financial Markets in Asset-Liability Management of Ethiopian Financial Institutions
Creators: name: Tilahun, Fekade
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: The subject of Asset-Liability management received more attention in modern financial and risk management of the financial sector. In this project, attempt is made to show the Ethiopian private commercial banks Asset-Liability matching effort. The research was mainly conducted through critical evaluation of the six selected commercial banks. ALM models which are evolved through time and took their current shape are used to determine the positions those banks. The research tried to address the problem of absence of organized financial market in the management of Assets and Liabilities. The outcome of the research suggested that, most of the banks are not in ideal liquidity position. Either, they are skewed to the right or left of the perfect match. It had also been observed that, banks effort towards their foreign currency position impaired by the rigid directives of the central bank. In line with this, potential solutions which were believed to alleviate the problem were recommended. Despite the above fact, bank were able to register remarkable increase in the period of six years from 2002 to 2006.To be successful, however, they are expected to capitalize these phenomena for maximum possible benefits.
Die Pfingstbewegung als Herausforderung
Creators: name: Moltmann, Jürgen
name: Kuschel, Karl-Josef
Publisher: name: Concilium
Year: 1970

description: Concilium, Bd. 32 Nr. 3 (1996): Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie, Band 32, Heft 3
title: Effects of Mangosteen Peel Phenolic Compounds on Tilapia Skin Collagen-Based Mineralized Scaffold Properties
Creators: name: Milan, Eduardo P.
name: Bertolo, Mirella Romanelli Vicente
name: Martins, Virginia Da Conceição Amaro
name: Sobrero, César Enrique
name: Plepis, Ana Maria De Guzzi
name: Fuhrmann-Lieker, Thomas
name: Horn, Marilia Marta
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 540
subject: 570
subject: Fische
subject: Mangostane
subject: Haut
subject: Kollagen

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Velocity fluctuations and boundary layer structure in a rough Rayleigh-B{é}nard cell filled with water
Creators: name: Liot, Olivier
name: Ehlinger, Quentin
name: Rusaouën, Elonore
name: Coudarchet, Thibaut
name: Salort, Julien
name: Chillà, Francesca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report Particle Image Velocimetry of the Large Scale Circulation and the viscous boundary layer in turbulent thermal convection. We use two parallelepipedic Rayleigh-B{é}nard cells with a top smooth plate. The first one has a rough bottom plate and the second one has a smooth one so we compare the rough-smooth and the smooth-smooth configurations. The dimensions of the cell allow to consider a bi-dimensional mean flow. Lots of previous heat flux measurements have shown a Nusselt--Rayleigh regime transition corresponding to an increase of the heat flux in presence of roughness which is higher than the surface increase. Our velocity measurements show that if the mean velocity field is not clearly affected by the roughness, the velocity fluctuations rise dramatically. It is accompanied by a change of the longitudinal velocity structure functions scaling. Moreover, we show that the boundary layer becomes turbulent close to roughness, as it was observed recently in the air [Liot et al., JFM, vol. 786, pp. 275-293]. Finally we discuss the link between the change of the boundary layer structure and the ones observed on the Large Scale Circulation.
This Life That I Call Mine (Creative Component) and Stumbling Upon the Gutter: Comic-book Novels, Literary Realism and Steven Amsterdam's What the Family Needed (Critical Component)
Creators: name: Robinson, Mia Cecile
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 470599
subject: Literary studies not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Submitted in total fulfilment for the degree of Master of Arts by Research to the Department of English and Creative Writing, College of College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Victoria.
Análisis y perspectivas de la agro industria de alimentos en la Costa Atlántica
Creators: name: Arteaga R, Maribel
name: Maturana F, Nancy
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1985
Subjects: Industrias agropecuarias

description: Tesis (Economista).--Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Economía, 1985.
description: El presente estudio tiene por objeto crear mecanismos para que el sector productor unido al sector procesador contribuya al desarrollo de la región, explotándose y aprovechándose los recursos actuales y potenciales, agropecuarios y pesqueros, lo que ayudarà al desarrollo del país.
A comparison study of dental pulp stem cells derived from healthy and orthodontically intruded human permanent teeth for mesenchymal stem cell characterisation.
Creators: name: Lau, May Nak
name: Kunasekaran, Wijenthiran
name: On, Yue Yuan
name: Tan, Li Jin
name: Zaharin, Nurshafiqah Athirah
name: H A Ghani, Sarah
name: Musa, Sabri
name: M Razi, Roziana
name: Mohan, Gokula
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research Article
Biology and life sciences
Medicine and health sciences
Research and analysis methods

description: The objective of this study was to compare the characteristics of Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSCs) derived from healthy human permanent teeth with those that were orthodontically-intruded to serve as potential Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC). Recruited subjects were treated with orthodontic intrusion on one side of the maxillary first premolar while the opposite side served as the control for a period of six weeks before the dental pulp was extracted. Isolated DPSCs from both the control and intruded samples were analyzed, looking at the morphology, growth kinetics, cell surface marker profile, and multilineage differentiation for MSC characterisation. Our study showed that cells isolated from both groups were able to attach to the cell culture flask, exhibited fibroblast-like morphology under light microscopy, able to differentiate into osteogenic, adipogenic and chondrogenic lineages as well as tested positive for MSCs cell surface markers CD90 and CD105 but negative for haematopoietic cell surface markers CD34 and HLA-DR. Both groups displayed a trend of gradually increasing population doubling time from passage 1 to passage 5. Viable DPSCs from both groups were successfully recovered from their cryopreserved state. In conclusion, DPSCs in the dental pulp of upper premolar not only remained viable after 6 weeks of orthodontic intrusion using fixed appliances but also able to develop into MSCs.
Leaky Wires: Information Leakage and Covert Communication Between FPGA Long Wires
Creators: name: Giechaskiel, Ilias
name: Rasmussen, Kasper B.
name: Eguro, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are integrated circuits that implement reconfigurable hardware. They are used in modern systems, creating specialized, highly-optimized integrated circuits without the need to design and manufacture dedicated chips. As the capacity of FPGAs grows, it is increasingly common for designers to incorporate implementations of algorithms and protocols from a range of third-party sources. The monolithic nature of FPGAs means that all on-chip circuits, including third party black-box designs, must share common on-chip infrastructure, such as routing resources. In this paper, we observe that a "long" routing wire carrying a logical 1 reduces the propagation delay of other adjacent but unconnected long wires in the FPGA interconnect, thereby leaking information about its state. We exploit this effect and propose a communication channel that can be used for both covert transmissions between circuits, and for exfiltration of secrets from the chip. We show that the effect is measurable for both static and dynamic signals, and that it can be detected using very small on-board circuits. In our prototype, we are able to correctly infer the logical state of an adjacent long wire over 99% of the time, even without error correction, and for signals that are maintained for as little as 82us. Using a Manchester encoding scheme, our channel bandwidth is as high as 6kbps. We characterize the channel in detail and show that it is measurable even when multiple competing circuits are present and can be replicated on different generations and families of Xilinx devices (Virtex 5, Virtex 6, and Artix 7). Finally, we propose countermeasures that can be deployed by systems and tools designers to reduce the impact of this information leakage.
Human loss-of-function variants in the serotonin 2C receptor associated with obesity and maladaptive behavior.
Creators: name: He, Yang
name: Brouwers, Bas
name: Liu, Hesong
name: Liu, Hailan
name: Lawler, Katherine
name: Mendes De Oliveira, Edson
name: Lee, Dong-Kee
name: Yang, Yongjie
name: Cox, Aaron R
name: Keogh, Julia M
name: Henning, Elana
name: Bounds, Rebecca
name: Perdikari, Aliki
name: Ayinampudi, Vikram
name: Wang, Chunmei
name: Yu, Meng
name: Tu, Longlong
name: Zhang, Nan
name: Yin, Na
name: Han, Junying
name: Scarcelli, Nikolas A
name: Yan, Zili
name: Conde, Kristine M
name: Potts, Camille
name: Bean, Jonathan C
name: Wang, Mengjie
name: Hartig, Sean M
name: Liao, Lan
name: Xu, Jianming
name: Barroso, Inês
name: Mokrosinski, Jacek
name: Xu, Yong
name: Sadaf Farooqi, I
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Article
/631/443/319
/631/208/1515
/631/378/340
article

description: Serotonin reuptake inhibitors and receptor agonists are used to treat obesity, anxiety and depression. Here we studied the role of the serotonin 2C receptor (5-HT2CR) in weight regulation and behavior. Using exome sequencing of 2,548 people with severe obesity and 1,117 control individuals without obesity, we identified 13 rare variants in the gene encoding 5-HT2CR (HTR2C) in 19 unrelated people (3 males and 16 females). Eleven variants caused a loss of function in HEK293 cells. All people who carried variants had hyperphagia and some degree of maladaptive behavior. Knock-in male mice harboring a human loss-of-function HTR2C variant developed obesity and reduced social exploratory behavior; female mice heterozygous for the same variant showed similar deficits with reduced severity. Using the 5-HT2CR agonist lorcaserin, we found that depolarization of appetite-suppressing proopiomelanocortin neurons was impaired in knock-in mice. In conclusion, we demonstrate that 5-HT2CR is involved in the regulation of human appetite, weight and behavior. Our findings suggest that melanocortin receptor agonists might be effective in treating severe obesity in individuals carrying HTR2C variants. We suggest that HTR2C should be included in diagnostic gene panels for severe childhood-onset obesity.
Making land-use change and markets: the global-local entanglement of producing rice in Bagré, Burkina Faso
Creators: name: Hauer, Janine
name: Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: rice
subject: land-use change
subject: telecoupling
subject: Burkina Faso
subject: Bagré
subject: geographies of marketization
subject: 910 Geografie, Reisen

description: Since the 1970s the government of Burkina Faso together with international donor organizations has pushed for increasing national rice production to cope with the country’s food import dependency. This paper traces this development and illustrates that rice production in Burkina Faso is the outcome of interrelated global and local processes. Drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork in Burkina Faso the paper sketches the historical, legal and socioeconomic conditions, challenges and practices behind the increasing rice production. Focusing on the Bagré Growth Pole Project, we describe how particular configurations of local, national and global connections and disconnections around the creation of a Burkinabe rice market are brought into being. A major point of the paper is to illustrate that combining systemic and processual theoretical perspectives is highly illuminating in this respect. Concretely, the paper achieves this by bringing into dialogue the telecoupling literature concerned with the globalization of land-use change and the geographies of marketization literature focusing on market-making practices. This allows understanding the rice market described as an ongoing and grounded process within a global systemic configuration.
Zoonoses in the margins: environmental displacement and health outcomes in the Indus Delta.
Creators: name: Braam, Dorien H
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research
Disaster displacement
Climate change
Zoonotic disease
Animal health
Determinants of health

description: BACKGROUND: It remains unclear how human and animal displacement impacts zoonotic disease risk with little contextualized primary data available. This study investigates zoonotic disease dynamics in populations regularly displaced due to slow onset disasters and annual monsoons in the Indus Delta in Sindh province in southeast Pakistan. METHODS: Using a case study methodology, semi-structured key informant interviews and focus group discussions with 35 participants, as well as observational studies were conducted in seven communities in Thatta district. RESULTS: Key factors affecting zoonotic disease dynamics in environmental displacement in Thatta identified in the study include disasters and loss of forage, a lack of veterinary and healthcare access, and socio-economic status. Animal and human health are an important consideration in displacement disrupting communities and livelihoods, affecting safety, health, and food security. Displacement results in a poverty spiral whereby the displaced find themselves at continuous peril from poverty and disaster, with zoonotic disease dynamics shifting based on environmental changes, and an expectation of future movement and loss. CONCLUSION: The precarious conditions generated through the disruption of communities and livelihoods makes environmentally displaced populations vulnerable to zoonotic disease. To prevent further displacement and disease, broader political economy issues need to be addressed, and comprehensive assistance provided to support sustainable livelihoods.
Carving in stone: the educational efforts of Iraqi mothers in Australia
Creators: name: Jamal Al-Deen, Taghreed
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis investigates ways in which a group of Muslim Iraqi migrant mothers experience their involvement in their children’s education in Australia. Following migration, the lives of these mothers are located in two different countries: Iraq and Australia. The thesis shows how mothers’ practices and beliefs regarding their children’s education have a complex connection with their religious, cultural and social values and beliefs, their upbringing, and schooling experiences back in their birth country, Iraq. Their mothering work, therefore, transcends time (past and present) and space (Iraq and Australia). The study focuses on the interplay of ethnicity, gender, class and religion embedded in Iraqi migrant mothers’ lives and the relationship of these factors with their children’s education. This research draws on in-depth interviews conducted with twenty-five Iraqi Muslim mothers from different social and educational backgrounds whose children were enrolled in primary and secondary, public and private, including Islamic, schools in Melbourne. Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘cultural capital’, ‘habitus’ and ‘field’ were used to analyse the way these mothers engage with their children’s schooling, their practices, beliefs and attitudes about, and understandings of, the education system in Australia and the way these have shaped their interactions with schools. The findings show that the traditional relationship between parental engagement with children’s education and cultural capital differs in the case of migrant mothers. I argue that the level of involvement is not necessarily compatible with the level of cultural capital mothers hold but, rather, explains the extent to which mothers’ involvement is effective. Therefore, I constructed a set of three analytical categories to identify the differences amongst the mothers in relation to their involvement in their children’s schooling. These categories are: High capital-highly involved (HC-HI), Low capital-highly involved (LC-HI), and Low capital-minimal direct involvement (LC-MDI).This study shows that Iraqi migrant mothers’ attitudes to, and participation in, education and school choice in Australia are varying, ambiguous and complex, covering the full range from determined rejection, to selective use, to grudging acceptance, to strong embrace.
The Effect of Credit Risk Management on Banks' Financial Performance in Ethiopia :The Case of Selected Private Commercial Banks in Addis Ababa City
Creators: name: Bruke, Tesfaye
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of credit risk management on the financial performance of selected commercial banks and to establish if there exists any relationship between the credit risk management determinants of CAMEL indicators and financial performance (measured by return on equity) of commercial banks in Ethiopia. Explanatory research design was undertaken in this study and this was facilitated by the use of secondary data which was obtained from NBE. The study used multiple regression analysis in the analysis of data and the findings have been presented in the form of tables, graphs and regression equations. The study also found that there is a strong relationships between the CAMEL components and financial performance of commercial banks. This has been seen with values r squared being 75.5% implying that CAMEL components could explain 75.5% variations in financial performance of commercial banks in Ethiopia. The study also found that capital adequacy, asset quality and liquidity had weak relationship with financial performance (ROE) while management efficiency had moderate relationships with financial performance. Earnings had a strong relationship with financial performance. This study concludes that CAMEL model can be used as a representation for credit risk management and as proxy to measure financial performances of commercial banks in Ethiopia. Based on the management efficiency ratio, the study thus recommends that commercial banks should also try to keep their operational cost low as this negates their profits margin thus leading to low financial performance. This is depicted by the strong effect of earnings on financial performance. The ratio of capital adequacy revealed that the banks under the study reserved more money than required by the regulation. This implies that the banks were not offering credit to those in need and which in turn affects the profitability of the banks and shareholders as well.
Immigrant community integration in world cities
Creators: name: Lamanna, Fabio
name: Lenormand, Maxime
name: Salas-Olmedo, María Henar
name: Romanillos, Gustavo
name: Gonçalves, Bruno
name: Ramasco, José J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As a consequence of the accelerated globalization process, today major cities all over the world are characterized by an increasing multiculturalism. The integration of immigrant communities may be affected by social polarization and spatial segregation. How are these dynamics evolving over time? To what extent the different policies launched to tackle these problems are working? These are critical questions traditionally addressed by studies based on surveys and census data. Such sources are safe to avoid spurious biases, but the data collection becomes an intensive and rather expensive work. Here, we conduct a comprehensive study on immigrant integration in 53 world cities by introducing an innovative approach: an analysis of the spatio-temporal communication patterns of immigrant and local communities based on language detection in Twitter and on novel metrics of spatial integration. We quantify the "Power of Integration" of cities --their capacity to spatially integrate diverse cultures-- and characterize the relations between different cultures when acting as hosts or immigrants.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures + Appendix
Factibilidad para el montaje de un astillero para embarcaciones menores en Cartagena
Creators: name: Barboza Espinoza, Luis Enrique
name: Vergara Velilla, Javier Ignacio
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1989
Subjects: Investigación de mercado
Mercadeo

description: Tesis (Economista) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Economía. 1989.
description: El presente estudio tiene por objeto realizar una evaluación social, económica y técnica del montaje de un astillero para embarcaciones menores, con el fin de coadyuvar las crecientes necesidades existentes en la comunidad y nivel industrial.