cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Applying Benford's law into Jordanian insurance companies to identify earning's manipulations
Creators: name: Al-Rawashdeh, Firas
name: Al-Rawashdeh, Firas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Insurance companies
subject: manipulations
subject: Benford's law
subject: first digit law
subject: round up and dawn
subject: digital analysis

description: This study is based on Benford’s law, which is widely used by researchers to find the indicators of manipulations of revenues and earnings. This study was conducted to ascertain the existence of indicators of manipulations in a 25 insurance companies in Jordan. Both the revenue and net income were taken from the companies' financial statements presented for the period from 2000 to 2015. The studied companies have been divided into two groups. The first group covered the firms that achieved a positive net income (profit) and the second group covered the companies that achieved a negative net income (loss). The earning manipulations existence is evaluated by testing the first digit and the second digit of the observations that are extracted from the financial statements of the listed insurance companies in Amman Stock Exchange.
Financial literacy and financial planning: Implication for financial well-being of retirees
Creators: name: Adam, Anokye Mohammed
name: Frimpong, Siaw
name: Boadu, Mavis Opoku
name: Adam, Anokye Mohammed
name: Frimpong, Siaw
name: Boadu, Mavis Opoku
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Financial well-being
subject: financial literacy
subject: family support
subject: financial planning
subject: PLS

description: This study examines how financial literacy, financial behaviour, family support (as another source of income), number of dependents, and retirement planning influence on the financial well-being of retirees in Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana. A cross-sectional survey strategy was employed on 400 respondents randomly selected from 1500 members of the association to analyze the effect of financial literacy, financial behaviour, family support, number of dependents and retirement planning on financial wellbeing. It then tests their hypothesized relationships with the use of Partial Least Squares (PLS), a structural equation modelling technique. The results reveal that financial literacy, retirement planning and family support significantly impact the financial well-being of retirees. More importantly, the effect of family support and retirement planning on retirees’ financial well-being is stronger than the one of financial literacy. The findings imply that finance literacy and retirement planning should be promoted. In addition to policies aimed at bridging social cohesion and promoting family values should not be ignored the maximizing of financial well-being of retirees. The study contributes to the extant literature on financial literacy and provides evidence on the effect of financial literacy and financial planning on the financial well-being of retirees in a developing country. It has also provided support for the need of social cohesion.
John Mendez : The bridge
Creators: name: Kuba, Michael
name: Kirkman, Larry
name: Engel, Larry
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3605
subject: Screen and digital media

description: Homelessness is everywhere. John Mendez is on the frontlines of the fight against homelessness in Montgomery County, MD, just outside of Washington, D.C. Often times battling extreme cold in the middle of the night, John works tirelessly to help find affordable housing for each individual living without a roof over their head. This short documentary is a portrait of John, highlighting what drives him to care and fight for society’s most forgotten population.
Formation of production networks in ASEAN: Measuring the real value-added and identifying the role of ASEAN countries in the world supply chains
Creators: name: Padilla, Miguel Angel Esquivias
name: Sari, Dyah Wulan
name: Handoyo, Rossanto Dwi
name: Padilla, Miguel Angel Esquivias
name: Sari, Dyah Wulan
name: Handoyo, Rossanto Dwi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Vertical specialization
subject: AFTA
subject: production networks
subject: value-added trade
subject: global input-output

description: This study addresses the two-fold question of whether the integration-liberalization process of ASEAN is headed towards the creation of a single production base region, and how ASEAN links with other trade blocks. It looks into the degree of intra-ASEAN and extra-ASEAN vertical integration vis-à-vis North America, East Asia, and the European Union through the measurement of value-added creation-absorption in global value chains (GVC) and by locating ASEAN within vertical structures. The study employs an international input-output database and breaks up gross exports into different components of value-added using data from 1997, 2004, and 2012. ASEAN has made significant gains in integrating with East Asia. However, ASEAN as a single production region has gained little, and even lost share in value-added trade with NAFTA and Europe. The truth is that ASEAN has a stronger role across the GVC as a supplier of intermediate goods (33%) than as a supplier of final goods (30%). Vertical structures represent more than 43% of ASEAN gross exports, but it still depends on foreign parts and components (35%) to produce its exports. It may be argued that ASEAN + 6, which entails a wider scope of integration, might offer larger benefits to the ASEAN project.
Tensor operators and Wigner-Eckart theorem for the quantum superalgebra U_{q}[osp(1\mid 2)]
Creators: name: Mozrzymas, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tensor operators in graded representations of Z_{2}-graded Hopf algebras are defined and their elementary properties are derived. Wigner-Eckart theorem for irreducible tensor operators for U_{q}[osp(1\mid 2)] is proven. Examples of tensor operators in the irreducible representation space of Hopf algebra U_{q}[osp(1\mid 2)] are considered. The reduced matrix elements for the irreducible tensor operators are calculated. A construction of some elements of the center of U_{q}[osp(1\mid 2)] is given.
description: 16 pages, Latex
John Mendez : The bridge
Creators: name: Kuba, Michael
name: Kirkman, Larry
name: Engel, Larry
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Homelessness is everywhere. John Mendez is on the frontlines of the fight against homelessness in Montgomery County, MD, just outside of Washington, D.C. Often times battling extreme cold in the middle of the night, John works tirelessly to help find affordable housing for each individual living without a roof over their head. This short documentary is a portrait of John, highlighting what drives him to care and fight for society’s most forgotten population.
Physical Limits of Different Models of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Bisnovatyi-Kogan, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present common view about GRB origin is related to cosmology, what is based on statistical analysis, and on measurements of the redshifts in the GRB optical afterglows of long GRB. No correlation is found between redshifts, GRB spectrum, and total GRB fluence. Comparison of KONUS and BATSE data about statistics and hard X-ray lines is done, and some differences are noted. Hard gamma-ray afterglows, prompt optical spectra, hard X-ray lines measurements could be important for farther insight into GRB origin. Possible possible connection of short GRB with soft gamma repeaters is discussed.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, Invited paper presented at the ``Frascati Workshop 2003'', Vulcano, Italy, 26-31 May, 2003
Brownian heat engine with active reservoirs
Creators: name: Lee, Jae Sung
name: Park, Jong-Min
name: Park, Hyunggyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microorganisms such as bacteria are active matters which consume chemical energy and generate their unique run-and-tumble motion. A swarm of such microorganisms provide a nonequilibrium active environment whose noise characteristics are different from those of thermal equilibrium reservoirs. One important difference is a finite persistence time, which is considerably large compared to that of the equilibrium noise, that is, the active noise is colored. Here, we study a mesoscopic energy-harvesting device (engine) with active reservoirs harnessing this noise nature. For a simple linear model, we analytically show that the engine efficiency can surpass the conventional Carnot bound, thus the power-efficiency tradeoff constraint is released, and the efficiency at the maximum power can overcome the Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency. We find that the supremacy of the active engine critically depends on the time-scale symmetry of two active reservoirs.
description: Supplemental Material included
Dynamics of Pulsed Flow in an Elastic Tube
Creators: name: Chattopadhyay, Amit K.
name: Sil, Shreekantha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Internal haemorrhage, often leading to cardio-vascular arrest happens to be one of the prime sources of high fatality rates in mammals. We propose a simplistic model of fluid flow to specify the location of the haemorrhagic spots, which, if located accurately, could be operated upon leading to a possible cure. The model we employ for the purpose is inspired by fluid mechanics and consists of a viscous fluid, pumped by a periodic force and flowing through an elastic tube. The analogy is with that of blood, pumped from the heart and flowing through an arte ry or vein. Our results, aided by graphical illustrations, match reasonably well with experimental observations.
description: 6 pages and 4 figures
Enithares stridulata Brooks 1948
Creators: name: Nieser, Nico
name: Chen, Ping-ping
name: Yang, Chang Man
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Notonectidae
Enithares
Enithares stridulata

description: Enithares stridulata Brooks, new record
 Enithares stridulata Brooks, 1948: 37-38.
 Enithares stridulata - Lansbury 1968: 366-368 (redescription).
  Material examined. –  CHINA: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, 29 km from Menghai to Dalou, stream by rice field, 19 May.2000, coll. L. Chang, 1 male (ZRC); Yunnan, Menglun, clear flowing creek, 21 May.2000, coll. L. Cheng, 1 female (ZRC); Yunnan, Menglun, pool at waterfall, 21 May.2000, coll. L. Cheng, 3 females, 21 larvae (CAS, ZRC); Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, 13 km from menglun to mengyang, clear forest stream, 22 May.2000, coll. L. Cheng, 1 male, 2 females, 5 larvae (ZRC); Yunnan, mekong basin, Simao, ca. 2 km from Ning’er to Yuanjiang stream, 21 May.2000, coll. Y.X. Cai & H.H. Tan, 1 male, 2 larvae (ZRC) Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Mengmoe stream, 30 May.2002, coll. C.M. Yang & P. Chew, 1 male, 2 females, 1 larva (ZRC); Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Mengka, 55th stream, 30 May.2002, coll. C.M. Yang & P. Chew, 1 male (ZRC), 1 male (NCTN); Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Mengka, Power station, canal from stream, 31 May.2002, coll. C.M. Yang & P. Chew, 1 male, 2 females, 1 larva (ZRC); Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Mengka, waterfalls near Mengyuan, 1 Jun.2002, coll. C.M. Yang & P. Chew, 3 males, 5 females, 2 larvae (CAS, ZRC), 1 male, 1 female (NCTN); Yunnan, Man-Zhang stream, 12 Apr.2001, coll. H. M. Liu, 2 males (ZRC); Yunnan, Man-Er stream, 11 Jul.2001, coll. H. M. Liu, 1 male (ZRC). New record for China.
  Distribution. –  Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, SW China.
description: Published as part of Nieser, Nico, Chen, Ping-ping & Yang, Chang Man, 2005, A New Subgenus And Six New Species Of Nepomorpha (Insecta: Heteroptera) From Yunnan, China, pp. 189-209 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (2) on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619081
Chaotic Phase Synchronization and Desynchronization in an Oscillator Network for Object Selection
Creators: name: Breve, Fabricio A
name: Quiles, Marcos G
name: Zhao, Liang
name: Macau, Elbert E. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Object selection refers to the mechanism of extracting objects of interest while ignoring other objects and background in a given visual scene. It is a fundamental issue for many computer vision and image analysis techniques and it is still a challenging task to artificial visual systems. Chaotic phase synchronization takes place in cases involving almost identical dynamical systems and it means that the phase difference between the systems is kept bounded over the time, while their amplitudes remain chaotic and may be uncorrelated. Instead of complete synchronization, phase synchronization is believed to be a mechanism for neural integration in brain. In this paper, an object selection model is proposed. Oscillators in the network representing the salient object in a given scene are phase synchronized, while no phase synchronization occurs for background objects. In this way, the salient object can be extracted. In this model, a shift mechanism is also introduced to change attention from one object to another. Computer simulations show that the model produces some results similar to those observed in natural vision systems.
Onomastus Simon 1900
Creators: name: Zhang, J. X.
name: Li, Daiqin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Onomastus

description: Onomastus Simon, 1900
 Onomastus Simon, 1900: 29 (Type species: Onomastus nigricaudus Simon, 1900, by original designation); Wanless, 1980b: 179.
  Diagnosis. –  The genus can be easily distinguished from other genera of the subfamily Lyssomaninae by fovea indistinct, posterior median eyes minute, male palpal organ with a subtegular apophysis (labelled as “y” by Wanless, 1980b), and female lacking epigynal ducts.
  Remarks. –  Members of this genus are mainly distributed in Japan, South and Southeast Asia. Up till now, six species have been recorded in the world (Platnick, 2005), not including the new species described in this paper. This genus is first reported from China.
description: Published as part of Zhang, J. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2005, Four New And One Newly Recorded Species Of The Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae & Spartaeinae) From (Sub) Tropical China, pp. 221-229 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (2) on page 222, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619118
Additional file 2 of Assessing the implementation processes of a large-scale, multi-year quality improvement initiative: survey of health care providers
Creators: name: Goodridge, Donna
name: Rana, Masud
name: Harrison, Elizabeth L.
name: Rotter, Thomas
name: Dobson, Roy
name: Groot, Gary
name: Udod, Sonia
name: Lloyd, Joshua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S2. Responses by Professional Group. (DOCX 12 kb)
The effects of spin-down on the structure and evolution of pulsar wind nebulae
Creators: name: Bucciantini, N.
name: Bandiera, R.
name: Blondin, J. M.
name: Amato, E.
name: Del Zanna, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high resolution spherically symmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the evolution of a pulsar wind nebula inside the free expanding ejecta of the supernova progenitor. The evolution is followed starting from a few years after the supernova explosion and up to an age of the remnant of 1500 years. We consider different values of the pulsar wind magnetization parameter and also different braking indices for the spin-down process. We compare the numerical results with those derived through an approximate semi-analytical approach that allows us to trace the time evolution of the positions of both the pulsar wind termination shock and the contact discontinuity between the nebula and the supernova ejecta. We also discuss, whenever a comparison is possible, to what extent our numerical results agree with former self-similar models, and how these models could be adapted to take into account the temporal evolution of the system. The inferred magnetization of the pulsar wind could be an order of magnitude lower than that derived from time independent analytic models.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication on A&A
Fair Trade Coffee: Good Coffee, Good Cause
Creators: name: Avalos, Angel
name: Halak, Krystal
name: Jiang, David
name: McLean, Tavish
name: Ramirez, Celina
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Is the price-cost margin affected by the market concentration? Evidence from the Czech food and beverages industry*
Creators: name: Blazkova, Ivana
name: Dvoulety, Ondrej
name: Blazkova, Ivana
name: Dvoulety, Ondrej
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Price-cost margin
subject: market concentration
subject: food and beverages industry
subject: Czech Republic
subject: regression analysis

description: The paper investigates the relationship between the market concentration and the price-cost margin in the Czech food processing industry during 2003-2014. Estimated econometric models with Fixed Effects supported hypothesis assuming the positive impact of the market concentration on the price-cost margin controlling for productivity. The increase in the productivity was associated with the increase of the pricecost margins. Based on the results, policy makers should promote market competition in the food processing industry, for example through the reduction of entry barriers. Another option worth consideration is to support R&D activities potentially leading to market transformation and increase in efficiency.
Multicanonical Chain Growth Algorithm
Creators: name: Bachmann, Michael
name: Janke, Wolfhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present a temperature-independent Monte Carlo method for the determination of the density of states of lattice proteins that combines the fast ground-state search strategy of the nPERM chain growth and multicanonical reweighting for sampling the complete energy space. Since the density of states contains all energetic information of a statistical system, we can directly calculate the mean energy, specific heat, Gibbs free energy, and entropy for all temperatures. We apply this method to HP lattice proteins and for the examples of sequences considered, we identify the transitions between native, globule, and random coil states. Since no special properties of heteropolymers are involved in this algorithm, the method applies to polymer models as well.
description: 4 pages, RevTeX, 5 Postscript figures, Author Information under http://www.physik.uni-leipzig.de/CQT
Passage Times for Unbiased Polymer Translocation through a Narrow Pore
Creators: name: Wolterink, Joanne Klein
name: Barkema, Gerard T.
name: Panja, Debabrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the translocation process of a polymer in the absence of external fields for various pore diameters $b$ and membrane thickness $L$. The polymer performs Rouse and reptation dynamics. The mean translocation time $$ that the polymer needs to escape from a cell, and the mean dwell time $$ that the polymer spends in the pore during the translocation process, obey scaling relations in terms of the polymer length $N$, $L$ and $b/R_g$, where $R_g$ is the radius of gyration for the polymer. We explain these relations using simple arguments based on polymer dynamics and the equilibrium properties of polymers.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Phaeacius Simon 1900
Creators: name: Zhang, J. X.
name: Li, Daiqin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Phaeacius

description: Phaeacius Simon, 1900
 Phaeacius Simon, 1900: 32 (Type species: Phaeacius fimbriatus Simon, 1900, by original designation); Wanless, 1981a: 199; 1984a, 190; Wijesinghe, 1991: 249.
  Diagnosis. –  This genus can be easily distinguished from the closely related genus Portia by the somewhat flattened body; massive retrolateral tibial apophysis of male palp, filamentous secondary conductor (sc, labeled as “M1” in Wanless, 1984a); and the shape of female epigynum.
 Remarks. – A small salticid genus containing 11 species from South and Southeast Asia (Prószynski´, 2003).
description: Published as part of Zhang, J. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2005, Four New And One Newly Recorded Species Of The Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae & Spartaeinae) From (Sub) Tropical China, pp. 221-229 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (2) on page 223, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619118
Additional file 3 of Assessing the implementation processes of a large-scale, multi-year quality improvement initiative: survey of health care providers
Creators: name: Goodridge, Donna
name: Rana, Masud
name: Harrison, Elizabeth L.
name: Rotter, Thomas
name: Dobson, Roy
name: Groot, Gary
name: Udod, Sonia
name: Lloyd, Joshua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S3. Revised NoMAD Survey Responses by Profession. (DOCX 14 kb)
Directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from twelve supernova remnants in data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run
Creators: name: Lindblom, Lee
name: Owen, Benjamin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from twelve well localized non-pulsing candidate neutron stars in young supernova remnants using data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run. We assumed that each neutron star is isolated and searched a band of frequencies from 15 to 150\,Hz, consistent with frequencies expected from known young pulsars. After coherently integrating spans of data ranging from 12.0 to 55.9 days using the F-statistic and applying data-based vetoes, we found no evidence of astrophysical signals. We set upper limits on intrinsic gravitational wave amplitude in some cases stronger than 10^{-25}, generally about a factor of two better than upper limits on the same objects from Advanced LIGO's first observing run.
description: v2 updated to version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Consistency Check of Segregation Energies of Elements at Ni and Fe Grain-Boundaries
Creators: name: Wunderlich, Wilfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The need for advanced functional materials is expected to provide a boost in powder metallurgy, where the impurities on powder surfaces is incorporated as at grain boundary segregation. This paper has three aims. First, we analyze whether the reported data of Ni and Fe hosts can be correlated to basic thermodynamic data on chemical elements. The second aim is the consistency check, which is suggested to be applied for any data base. The third aim, is whether information of 50 most important elements can give additional information for prediction of unknown data. The data are analyzed whether a set of basic data is sufficient for characterizing the segregation. The data of the solvents were analyzed using the software R for principal component analysis (PCA). We grouped and correlated the data to Mendeleev number and thermodynamic data on pure elements. As a result, we found that the embrittlement depends strongly on the chemical bonding, but weakly on mechanical factors. Surprisingly, the geometry of the grain boundary type such as interlayer distances, and local atomic volumes has only a minor influence.
description: 7 pages 3 figures
A Completely Invariant SUSY Transform of Supersymmetric QED
Creators: name: Walker, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the SUSY breaking of the covariant gauge-fixing term in SUSY QED and observe that this corresponds to a breaking of the Lorentz gauge condition by SUSY. Reasoning by analogy with SUSY's violation of the Wess-Zumino gauge, we argue that the SUSY transformation, already modified to preserve Wess-Zumino gauge, should be further modified by another gauge transformation which restores the Lorentz gauge condition. We derive this modification and use the resulting transformation to derive a Ward identitiy relating the photon and photino propagators without using ghost fields. Our transformation also fulfills the SUSY algebra, modulo terms that vanish in Lorentz gauge.
title: Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, Vol. 33 (2022): The Labour of COIVD
title: The Labour of COIVD
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Workplace: A Journal For Academic Labor
Publisher: name: Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor
Year: 2022

description: This special edition of Workplace explores the effects of COVID-19 on the labour of post secondary education and learning.
description: The Labour of COIVD...1-10 Newbies vs. Old-Timers: University Workers’ Differential Experiences of Working from Home During COVID-19...11-21 Crisis and Opportunity...22-35 Labouring for a Cause: Community Engaged Pedagogy During a Pandemic...49-60 Barely Holding On...36-48
On the self-similarity in quantum Hall systems
Creators: name: Goerbig, M. O.
name: Lederer, P.
name: Smith, C. Morais
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hall-resistance curve of a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of a strong perpendicular magnetic field is an example of self-similarity. It reveals plateaus at low temperatures and has a fractal structure. We show that this fractal structure emerges naturally in the Hamiltonian formulation of composite fermions. After a set of transformations on the electronic model, we show that the model, which describes interacting composite fermions in a partially filled energy level, is self-similar. This mathematical property allows for the construction of a basis of higher generations of composite fermions. The collective-excitation dispersion of the recently observed 4/11 fractional-quantum-Hall state is discussed within the present formalism.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures; version accepted for publication in Europhys. Lett., new version contains energy calculations for collective excitations of the 4/11 state
Differences on self-perception of organizational pride and loyalty in Millennial & Generation X, considering gender and seniority variables
Creators: name: Trapero, Florina Guadalupe Arredondo
name: Castano, Lida Esperanza Villa
name: Parra, Jose Carlos Vazquez
name: Garcia, Jorge De La Garza
name: Trapero, Florina Guadalupe Arredondo
name: Castano, Lida Esperanza Villa
name: Parra, Jose Carlos Vazquez
name: Garcia, Jorge De La Garza
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Millennial generation
subject: organizational loyalty
subject: organizational pride

description: The research objective is to compare the differences in self-perception of organizational pride and loyalty between millennials and generation x, considering the variables of gender and seniority. The reason for this study is the importance of millennials’ influence in the business sector, and the effect it is having in terms of turnover toward companies. The study was conducted on 432 employees working in a cluster of companies located in northeastern Mexico. For statistical purposes, an analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed on the different groups compared. Based on the findings, there is a generational difference in terms of organizational loyalty between male millennials and generation x males, when both have recently joined their respective organizations. The differences withdraw when both groups have stayed more than 3 years at their organization. On the other hand, there are no variances between millennial men and millennial women, independently if they just arrived to the organization or have more than 3 years tenure working for their company. This reaffirms the existing similarities amongst millennials, specifically in the way this generation thinks about organizational culture, where there is no gender distinction.
Marketing Applications: UBC Sustainability Office
Creators: name: Aguilera, Claudia
name: Chia-Jen Chang, Serena
name: Yuen Na Ko, Debbie
name: Lam, Sharon
name: Lee, Jolie
name: Zhang, Jenny
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Additional file 1 of Assessing the implementation processes of a large-scale, multi-year quality improvement initiative: survey of health care providers
Creators: name: Goodridge, Donna
name: Rana, Masud
name: Harrison, Elizabeth L.
name: Rotter, Thomas
name: Dobson, Roy
name: Groot, Gary
name: Udod, Sonia
name: Lloyd, Joshua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S1. Normalization Process Theory Core Construct. (DOCX 13 kb)
Cosmological dynamics of the tachyon with an inverse power-law potential
Creators: name: Abramo, L. Raul W.
name: Finelli, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate tachyon dynamics with an inverse power-law potential $V(ϕ) \propto ϕ^{-α}$. We find global attractors of the dynamics leading to a dust behaviour for $α> 2$ and to an accelerating universe for $0 < α\le 2$. We study linear cosmological perturbations and we show that metric fluctuations are constant on large scales in both cases. In presence of an additional perfect fluid, the tachyon with this potential behaves as dust or dark energy.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Structure of the superconducting state in a fully frustrated wire network with dice lattice geometry
Creators: name: Korshunov, S. E.
name: Doucot, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The superconducting state in a fully frustrated wire network with the dice lattice geometry is investigated in the vicinity of the transition temperature. Using Abrikosov's variational procedure, we write the Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional projected on its unstable supspace as an effective model on the triangular lattice of sixfold coordinated sites. For this latter model, we obtain a large class of degenerate equilibrium configurations in one to one correspondence with those previously constructed for the pure XY model on the maximally frustrated dice lattice. The entropy of these states is proportional to the linear size of the system. Finally we show that magnetic interactions between currents provide a degeneracy lifting mechanism.
description: The final version (as published in Phys. Rev. B). Substantial corrections have been made to Sec. V
Functional Renormalization Group and the Field Theory of Disordered Elastic Systems
Creators: name: Doussal, Pierre Le
name: Wiese, Kay Joerg
name: Chauve, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study elastic systems such as interfaces or lattices, pinned by quenched disorder. To escape triviality as a result of ``dimensional reduction'', we use the functional renormalization group. Difficulties arise in the calculation of the renormalization group functions beyond 1-loop order. Even worse, observables such as the 2-point correlation function exhibit the same problem already at 1-loop order. These difficulties are due to the non-analyticity of the renormalized disorder correlator at zero temperature, which is inherent to the physics beyond the Larkin length, characterized by many metastable states. As a result, 2-loop diagrams, which involve derivatives of the disorder correlator at the non-analytic point, are naively "ambiguous''. We examine several routes out of this dilemma, which lead to a unique renormalizable field-theory at 2-loop order. It is also the only theory consistent with the potentiality of the problem. The beta-function differs from previous work and the one at depinning by novel "anomalous terms''. For interfaces and random bond disorder we find a roughness exponent zeta = 0.20829804 epsilon + 0.006858 epsilon^2, epsilon = 4-d. For random field disorder we find zeta = epsilon/3 and compute universal amplitudes to order epsilon^2. For periodic systems we evaluate the universal amplitude of the 2-point function. We also clarify the dependence of universal amplitudes on the boundary conditions at large scale. All predictions are in good agreement with numerical and exact results, and an improvement over one loop. Finally we calculate higher correlation functions, which turn out to be equivalent to those at depinning to leading order in epsilon.
description: 42 pages, 41 figures
Condensation Transitions in Nonequilibrium systems
Creators: name: Evans, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Systems driven out of equilibrium can often exhibit behaviour not seen in systems in thermal equilibrium- for example phase transitions in one-dimensional systems. In this talk I will review several `condensation' transitions that occur when a conserved quantity is driven through the system. Although the condensation is spatial, i.e. a finite fraction of the conserved quantity condenses into a small spatial region, useful comparison can be made with usual Bose-Einstein condensation. Amongst some one-dimensional examples I will discuss the `Bus Route Model' where the condensation corresponds to the clustering together of buses moving along a bus-route.
description: 10 pages. Lecture from TH-2002, Paris
Status of Negotiations in the WTO, Contonou, FTAA and the CSME
Creators: name: Lewis, Trudy
name: Lewis, Trudy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: This paper attempts to provide an overview of the current status of negotiations in the WTO, ACP/EU, FTAA and the CSME. It will highlight the critical issues within each forum. It is hoped that this presentation will reinforce the need for participation from all sectors (organisations, civil society, business community, agricultural cooperative societies) in this process if the needs of the Caribbean are to be articulated and realized through the multilateral system. This is particularly significant when viewed from the perspective of the world inequality that has persisted despite the ,avowals of the protagonists of globalisation and trade liberalization. What is the current state of negotiations in the WTO? What is the Cotonou Agreement about? Everyone must have heard of the FTAA by now. But some of you may wonder, where does agriculture fit into this? And lastly how is the CSME going to impact on my operation, my field of study, especially when we face "bigger" global challenges. This paper will answer these questions by first presenting today's situation. Then it will offer simple suggestions for improving our chances in the multilateral trading system.
Dynamical spin susceptibility of spin-valley half-metal
Creators: name: Khokhlov, D. A.
name: Rakhmanov, A. L.
name: Rozhkov, A. V.
name: Sboychakov, A. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A few years ago we predicted theoretically that in systems with nesting of the Fermi surface the spin-valley half-metal has lower energy than the spin density wave state. In this paper we suggest a possible way to distinguish these phases experimentally. We calculate dynamical spin susceptibility tensor for both states in the framework of the Kubo formalism. Discussed phases have different numbers of the bands: four bands in the spin-valley half-metal and only two bands in the spin density wave. Therefore, their susceptibilities, as functions of frequency, have different number of peaks. Besides, the spin-valley half-metal does not have rotational symmetry, thus, in general the off-diagonal components of susceptibility tensor are non-zero. The spin density wave obeys robust rotational symmetry and off-diagonal components of the susceptibility tensor are zero. These characteristic features can be observed in experiments with inelastic neutron scattering.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Portia Karsch 1878
Creators: name: Zhang, J. X.
name: Li, Daiqin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Portia

description: Portia Karsch, 1878
 Portia Karsch, 1878: 774 (Type species: Portia schultzi Karsch, 1878, by original designation and monotypy); Wanless, 1978: 84; 1984a: 191; Peng & Li, 2002b: 255.
  Diagnosis. –  Spiders of this genus can be easily distinguished from others of the subfamily Spartaeinae by the presence of developed tufts on dorsal abdomen, fan-like fringes on legs, and dorsal flange on male palpal cymbium.
  Remarks. –  A total of 16 species have been reported (Platnick, 2005), being distributed in the Oriental and Ethiopia regions.
description: Published as part of Zhang, J. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2005, Four New And One Newly Recorded Species Of The Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae & Spartaeinae) From (Sub) Tropical China, pp. 221-229 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (2) on page 226, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619118
Two-dimensional trapping of dipolar molecules in time-varying electric fields
Creators: name: Junglen, T.
name: Rieger, T.
name: Rangwala, S. A.
name: Pinkse, P. W. H.
name: Rempe, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simultaneous two-dimensional trapping of neutral dipolar molecules in low- and high-field seeking states is analyzed. A trapping potential of the order of 20 mK can be produced for molecules like ND3 with time-dependent electric fields. The analysis is in agreement with an experiment where slow molecules with longitudinal velocities of the order of 20 m/s are guided between four 50 cm long rods driven by an alternating electric potential at a frequency of a few kHz.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures; some paragraphs rewritten and minor improvements throughout the paper
Characterising lognormal fractional-Brownian-motion density fields with a Convolutional Neural Network
Creators: name: Bates, M. L.
name: Whitworth, A. P.
name: Lomax, O. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In attempting to quantify statistically the density structure of the interstellar medium, astronomers have considered a variety of fractal models. Here we argue that, to properly characterise a fractal model, one needs to define precisely the algorithm used to generate the density field, and to specify -- at least -- three parameters: one parameter constrains the spatial structure of the field; one parameter constrains the density contrast between structures on different scales; and one parameter constrains the dynamic range of spatial scales over which self-similarity is expected (either due to physical considerations, or due to the limitations of the observational or numerical technique generating the input data). A realistic fractal field must also be noisy and non-periodic. We illustrate this with the exponentiated fractional Brownian motion (xfBm) algorithm, which is popular because it delivers an approximately lognormal density field, and for which the three parameters are, respectively, the power spectrum exponent, $β$, the exponentiating factor, ${\cal S}$, and the dynamic range, ${\cal R}$. We then explore and compare two approaches that might be used to estimate these parameters: Machine Learning and the established $Δ$-Variance procedure. We show that for $2\leqβ\leq 4$ and $0\leq{\cal S}\leq 3$, a suitably trained Convolutional Neural Network is able to estimate objectively both $β$ (with root-mean-square error $ε_{_β}\sim 0.12$) and ${\cal S}$ (with $ε_{_{\cal S}}\sim 0.29$). $\;Δ$-variance is also able to estimate $β$, albeit with a somewhat larger error ($ε_{_β}\sim 0.17$) and with some human intervention, but is not able to estimate ${\cal S}$.
The Decay of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence from Power-Law Initial Conditions
Creators: name: Kalelkar, Chirag
name: Pandit, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive relations for the decay of the kinetic and magnetic energies and the growth of the Taylor and integral scales in unforced, incompressible, homogeneous and isotropic three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (3DMHD) turbulence with power-law initial energy spectra. We also derive bounds for the decay of the cross- and magnetic helicities. We then present results from systematic numerical studies of such decay both within the context of an MHD shell model and direct numerical simulations (DNS) of 3DMHD. We show explicitly that our results about the power-law decay of the energies hold for times $t
description: 7 pages RevTex4, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
Additional file 10 of Gene expression profiling identifies pathways involved in seed maturation of Jatropha curcas
Creators: name: Maghuly, Fatemeh
name: Deák, Tamás
name: Vierlinger, Klemens
name: Pabinger, Stephan
name: Tafer, Hakim
name: Laimer, Margit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10: Figure S10. Correlation between microarray and qRT-PCR of some DESs during seed development. The y-axis represented the log2 intensity values from microarray analysis and the x-axis represented the Ct values from the qPCR analysis.
Yaginumanis Wanless 1984
Creators: name: Zhang, J. X.
name: Li, Daiqin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Yaginumanis

description: Yaginumanis Wanless, 1984
 Yaginumanis Wanless, 1984a: 152 (Type species: Boethus sexdentatus Yaginuma, 1967, by original designation and monotypy).
  Diagnosis. –  This genus is similar to Spartaeus in abdominal pattern, but can be distinguished from the latter in: legs robust and with less ventral spines on tibia I; distal modification of the male palpal tegulum (labelled as “M3”by Wanless, 1984a) with a pleated region, retrolateral apophysis of male palp with a strong lobe.
  Remarks. –  A small genus represented by only two species (Prószynski, 2003), distributed in China and Japan. Judging from the eyes pattern and the shape of eyigynum described by Peng & Li (2002a), Yaginumanis cheni Peng & Li, 2002 from Guangxi, China, might belong to a genus of the subfamily Lyssomaninae.
description: Published as part of Zhang, J. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2005, Four New And One Newly Recorded Species Of The Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae & Spartaeinae) From (Sub) Tropical China, pp. 221-229 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (2) on page 227, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619118