cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cost-benefit analysis of vaccine-based interventions to control pandemic influenza
Creators: name: Nargesalsadat  Dorratoltaj
name: Achla  Marathe
name: Lewis, Bryan
name: Samarth Swarup
name: Eubank, Stephen
name: Abbas, Kaja
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The objective of this study is to evaluate the direct and indirect impact of vaccine-based interventions for prevention and control of an influenza pandemic, for the city of Chicago, using a dynamic agent based model.
The Aesthetic Idea and the Unity of Cognitive Faculties in Kant's Aesthetics
Creators: name: Gourova, Maria
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: In this paper, I will try to answer the question how the aesthetic idea in Kant's aesthetic theory accounts for the universal validity of the subjective judgment of taste, and what the nature of the aesthetic idea is that makes such account possible. This claim about universal validity of the subjective judgment of taste in Kant's philosophy is regarded to be problematic because of the seeming contradiction between the subjectivity of a judgment and its universality. What can solve this contradiction, from my point of view, is the role of the aesthetic idea that it plays in the judgment of taste and the subjective principle that puts cognitive powers of mind in a harmonious free relationship. The main feature that makes the aesthetic idea the source of the universal validity is its universal communicability expressed in the universally pleasurable feeling of the judgment of taste.
Is Core Affect a Natural Kind?
Creators: name: Martinez Bedard, Brandie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: In the scientific study of the emotions the goal is to find natural kinds. That is, to find categories about which interesting scientific generalizations and predictions can be formed. Core affect is dimensional approach to the emotions which claims that emotions emerge from the more basic psychological processes of valence (pleasant/unpleasant) and arousal (activation/deactivation). Lisa Feldman Barrett (2006b) has recently argued that the discrete emotion approach has failed to find natural kinds and thus should be dismissed as a failed paradigm. She offers core affect as an alternative theory that will better capture natural kinds in emotionally salient phenomena. In this thesis I evaluate Barrett's claim on the basis of a philosophically robust understanding of natural kinds and a careful assessment of the empirical evidence. I argue that while core affect is not a natural kind, subsets of core affect space may be natural kinds.
A Modal-Space Formulation for Momentum Observer Contact Estimation and Effects of Uncertainty for Continuum Robots
Creators: name: Johnston, Garrison L. H.
name: Shihora, Neel
name: Simaan, Nabil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Contact detection for continuum and soft robots has been limited in past works to statics or kinematics-based methods with assumed circular bending curvature or known bending profiles. In this paper, we adapt the generalized momentum observer contact estimation method to continuum robots. This is made possible by leveraging recent results for real-time shape sensing of continuum robots along with a modal-space representation of the robot dynamics. In addition to presenting an approach for estimating the generalized forces due to contact via a momentum observer, we present a constrained optimization method to identify the wrench imparted on the robot during contact. We also present an approach for investigating the effects of unmodeled deviations in the robot's dynamic state on the contact detection method and we validate our algorithm by simulations and experiments. We also compare the performance of the momentum observer to the joint force deviation method, a direct estimation approach using the robot's full dynamic model. We also demonstrate a basic extension of the method to multisegment continuum robots. Results presented in this work extend dynamic contact detection to the domain of continuum and soft robots and can be used to improve the safety of large-scale continuum robots for human-robot collaboration.
Kim's Pairing Problem and the Viability of Substance Dualism
Creators: name: Vaught, Jimmy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Mental causation between the material and the immaterial has been problematic for interactionist substance dualism ever since its first major proponent Ren‚ Descartes. The contemporary philosopher Jaegwon Kim believes he has found an argument that shows exactly why an immaterial event cannot be said to cause a material event; he calls this the pairing problem argument. This thesis will argue that there is actually sufficient empirical evidence to suggest that Kim's argument is unsuccessful due to one of its premises being false. Furthermore, this thesis will also argue that interactionist substance dualism is actually a philosophically viable alternative, and lastly ways are sketched of how one might go about constructing such a view responsibly.
Optimal Algorithm for the Planar Two-Center Problem
Creators: name: Cho, Kyungjin
name: Oh, Eunjin
name: Wang, Haitao
name: Xue, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study a fundamental problem in Computational Geometry, the planar two-center problem. In this problem, the input is a set $S$ of $n$ points in the plane and the goal is to find two smallest congruent disks whose union contains all points of $S$. A longstanding open problem has been to obtain an $O(n\log n)$-time algorithm for planar two-center, matching the $Ω(n\log n)$ lower bound given by Eppstein [SODA'97]. Towards this, researchers have made a lot of efforts over decades. The previous best algorithm, given by Wang [SoCG'20], solves the problem in $O(n\log^2 n)$ time. In this paper, we present an $O(n\log n)$-time (deterministic) algorithm for planar two-center, which completely resolves this open problem.
description: 21 pages, TheoretiCS journal version
The Non-moral Basis of Cognitive Biases of Moral Intuitions
Creators: name: Thomas, Bradley
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Against moral intuitionism, which holds that moral intuitions can be non-inferentially justified, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that moral intuitions are unreliable and must be confirmed to be justified (i.e. must be justified inferentially) because they are subject to cognitive biases. However, I suggest this is merely a renewed version of the argument from disagreement against intuitionism. As such, I attempt to show that the renewed argument is subject to an analogous objection as the old one; many cognitive biases of moral intuitions result from biases of non-moral judgments. Thus, the unreliability of moral intuitions due to biases (and the reason inferential justification was required) can be removed by clearing up the non-moral biases. Accordingly, biases of moral intuitions do not threaten a slightly qualified version intuitionism which posits non-inferential justification of intuitions when non-moral biases are not present. I also present an empirical study that lends initial support to my argument.
A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Christine M. Korsgaard and Jean-Paul Sartre
Creators: name: Zander, Michael
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Christine M. Korsgaard and Jean-Paul Sartre both locate the source of ethical normativity in human reflective consciousness. Korsgaard's claims that human beings are essentially rational, and that our rational nature is an adequate source of ethical content. Sartre argues that a conception of human nature this minimal is insufficient to provide ethical content, and that we must look to our particular projects and identities to provide moral content. I will argue that Sartre is correct that a view of human nature this minimal is inadequate to generate moral content, but that because Sartre is unable to demonstrate how norms based contingent projects and identities can produce universally binding ethical norms, his theory also fails. The failure of both projects illustrates the weakness of a conception of ethics as universal obligation because it fails by its own standard to produce it goal of universally binding ethical norms with content.
Freedom and Forfeiture: Responding to Galen Strawson's Basic Argument
Creators: name: Kelsey, Eli
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Galen Strawson's Basic Argument is an attempt to prove that no agent can meet the demands for true moral responsibility. The Basic Argument proceeds on the assumption that, in order for an agent to be truly morally responsible for her actions, she must be truly responsible for her reasons for performing those actions, which Strawson contends is impossible since it requires an infinite regress of truly responsible decisions to have the reasons one has. In my thesis, I take issue with the Basic Argument. I argue that, contrary to Strawson's claims, the Basic Argument is not persuasive to those who reject that one's reasons cause one's actions. For those who are willing to overlook this shortcoming, I then argue that it is possible for an agent to evade the threat of infinite regress, particularly in situations where two simultaneous choices (at least partially) explain each other.
Against Pyrrhonian Equipollence
Creators: name: Button, John
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: The production of equipollence is the most important part of the Pyrrhonian skeptic's method for bringing about the suspension of judgment. The skeptic produces equipollence methodically, by opposing arguments, propositions, or appearances, in anyway whatsoever, until he produces an equality of 'weightiness' on both sides of the conflicting views. Having no appropriate criterion to break the deadlock of equipollence, the skeptic (or his interlocutor) is left with no reason to accept either view. I have two main aims in this paper. My first aim is to distinguish between two different types of equipollence; that produced in the Pyrrhonist, called Psychological Equipollence, and that demonstrated to the dogmatist by the Pyrrhonist, called Normative Equipollence. My second aim in this paper is to argue that equipollence cannot be produced when the skeptic uses only epistemic possibility of error to oppose some compelling p.
Fault-tolerant Coding for Quantum Communication
Creators: name: Christandl, Matthias
name: Müller-Hermes, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Designing encoding and decoding circuits to reliably send messages over many uses of a noisy channel is a central problem in communication theory. When studying the optimal transmission rates achievable with asymptotically vanishing error it is usually assumed that these circuits can be implemented using noise-free gates. While this assumption is satisfied for classical machines in many scenarios, it is not expected to be satisfied in the near term future for quantum machines where decoherence leads to faults in the quantum gates. As a result, fundamental questions regarding the practical relevance of quantum channel coding remain open. By combining techniques from fault-tolerant quantum computation with techniques from quantum communication, we initiate the study of these questions. We introduce fault-tolerant versions of quantum capacities quantifying the optimal communication rates achievable with asymptotically vanishing total error when the encoding and decoding circuits are affected by gate errors with small probability. Our main results are threshold theorems for the classical and quantum capacity: For every quantum channel $T$ and every $ε>0$ there exists a threshold $p(ε,T)$ for the gate error probability below which rates larger than $C-ε$ are fault-tolerantly achievable with vanishing overall communication error, where $C$ denotes the usual capacity. Our results are not only relevant in communication over large distances, but also on-chip, where distant parts of a quantum computer might need to communicate under higher levels of noise than affecting the local gates.
description: 56 pages, 6 figures. Corrected some mistakes and restructured the article
Torus actions, Morse homology, and the Hilbert scheme of points on affine space
Creators: name: Totaro, Burt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14L30 (Primary) 14C05, 14F42, 55R80 (Secondary)

description: We formulate a conjecture on actions of the multiplicative group in motivic homotopy theory. In short, if the multiplicative group G_m acts on a quasi-projective scheme U such that U is attracted as t approaches 0 in G_m to a closed subset Y in U, then the inclusion from Y to U should be an A^1-homotopy equivalence.
 We prove several partial results. In particular, over the complex numbers, the inclusion is a homotopy equivalence on complex points. The proofs use an analog of Morse theory for singular varieties. Application: the Hilbert scheme of points on affine n-space is homotopy equivalent to the subspace consisting of schemes supported at the origin.
description: 14 pages
Study of octupole deformations in Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV
Creators: name: Pandey, Saraswati
name: Singh, B. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we present the study of the role of octupole deformation in non-spherical nuclei in most-central Pb--Pb collisions at the LHC energy regime. The sensitivity of octupole deformation $β_3$ to the QGP observables is presented by employing the Monte Carlo HYDJET++ model. Motivated by the discrepancies in the $v_2$-to-$v_3$ puzzle found in Pb--Pb collisions and the low-energy nuclear structure calculations of nuclear deformation, we studied the first basic observables necessary for any study in heavy-ion collisions. Using the HYDJET++ framework, we calculate the pseudorapidity distribution, transverse momentum ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) spectra, and average anisotropic flow ($v_2$ and $v_3$) of primary charged hadrons with different parameters in two geometrical configurations: body-body and tip-tip types of Pb--Pb collisions. The kinematic ranges $0 < p_{\mathrm{T}} < 20~\mathrm{GeV}/c$ and $|η| < 0.8$ are considered. We observe that the charged hadron multiplicity and transverse momentum spectra are dependent on the strength of the octupole deformation parameter. The $\langle v_2 \rangle$ and $\langle v_3 \rangle$ in body-body collisions show a weak positive correlation with $β_3$, while the average anisotropic flow in tip-tip collisions is weakly correlated with $β_3$ in the most-central collision region.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Raz and His Critics: A Defense of Razian Authority
Creators: name: Craig, Jason
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Joseph Raz has developed a concept of authority based on the special relationship between reasons and action. While the view is very complex and subtle, it can be summed up by saying that authorities are authorities insofar as they can mediate between the reasons that happen to bind their subjects and the subjects' actions. Authorities do this by providing special reasons via directives to their subjects. These special reasons are what Raz calls 'protected reasons.' Protected reasons are both first-order reasons for action and second-order 'exclusionary reasons' that exclude the subject from considering some reasons in the balance of reasons for or against any action. I first make clear what Raz's view of authority is, and I then defend this view from some contemporary critics.
OCESE - Open-source Computing for Earth Science Education : Transforming Undergraduate Quantitative Teaching and Learning in UBC's Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science Using Open Source Tools
Creators: name: Jones, Francis H. M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: The 3-year OCESE (Open-source Computing for Earth Science Education) project aimed to embed and improve open-source resources and strategies for quantitative learning in the Earth, ocean, atmospheric, climate and environmental sciences. Outcomes of this project, carried out mainly within the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) at the University of British Columbia, include: 1) converting six courses from using MatLab to Python, 2) developing interactive dashboard apps for exploring data or quantitative concepts, 3) piloting several approaches to providing cloud computing for undergraduates, 4) documenting pedagogic practices, guidelines and tutorials to support continued enhancement of quantitative learning across all Earth science disciplines, and 5) delivering results as Open Education Resources. Overall, nineteen colleagues participated, thirteen students contributed time, talent and enthusiasm, and over 2000 students were impacted in more than fifteen courses spanning the diverse Earth, ocean and atmospheric curricula.
Teleosemantics, Externalism, and the Content of Theoretical Concepts
Creators: name: Burnston, Daniel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: In several works, Ruth Millikan (1998a, 2000, 2006) has developed a 'teleosemantic' theory of concepts. Millikan's theory has three explicit desiderata for concepts: wide scope, non-descriptionist content, and naturalism. I contend that Millikan's theory cannot fulfill all of these desiderata simultaneously. Theoretical concepts, such as those of chemistry and physics, fall under Millikan's intended scope, but I will argue that her theory cannot account for these concepts in a way that is compatible with both non-descriptionism and naturalism. In these cases, Millikan's view is subject to the traditional 'indeterminacy problem' for teleosemantic theories. This leaves the content of theoretical concepts indeterminate between a descriptionist and non-descriptionist content. Furthermore, this problem cannot be overcome without giving up the naturalism desideratum. I suggest that the scope of Millikan's theory should be limited. At best, the theory will be able to attribute naturalistic, non-descriptionist content to a smaller range of concepts.
Motivating Emotional Content
Creators: name: Sheredos, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Among philosophers of the emotions, it is common to view emotional content as purely descriptive ' that is, belief-like or perception-like. I argue that this is a mistake. The intentionality of the emotions cannot be understood in isolation from their motivational character, and emotional content is also inherently directive ' that is, desire-like. This view's strength is its ability to explain a class of emotional behaviors that I argue, the common view fails to explain adequately. I claim that it is already implicit in leading theories of emotion elicitation in cognitive psychology ' 'appraisal theories.' The result is a deeper understanding of emotional intentionality. Employing Peter Goldie's 'Feeling Theory' of the emotions as an example of the common view, I suggest that emotional feelings, too, should be understood on this model: emotional feelings toward items in the world cannot be disentangled from felt motivation.
Hypocrisias berthula Dyar 1912
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Hypocrisias
Hypocrisias berthula

description: Hypocrisias berthula Dyar, 1912
Hypocrisias berthula Dyar, 1912: 54.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Mexico, [Puebla], Tehuacan.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 13 846 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 310, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Defending Noe's Enactive Theory of Perception
Creators: name: Keefer, Lucas
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Theories of perception can broadly be divided into two groups: orthodox and heterodox theories (No‰ & Thompson, 2002). Orthodox theories of perception consider perception as a neurological process, i.e. as a phenomenon which can be explained solely in terms of intracranial facts. Heterodox views expand this scope, maintaining that an understanding of perception must include extracranial facts, or facts about the environment in which a perceiver is situated (ibid.). This thesis will attempt to defend a particular exemplar of this heterodox approach, namely the enactive theory of perception proposed by Alva No‰.

The thesis has two primary goals. First, I will attempt to offer an exegesis of No‰'s theory, attempting to clarify the scope and strength of No‰'s view. Secondly, I will consider the particular objections leveled against No‰, and heterodox theories more generally, by Ken Aizawa. I conclude that No‰'s theory can better account for the nature of perception.
The Moral Reality of War: Defensive Force and Just War Theory
Creators: name: Underwood III, Maj Robert
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The permissible use of defensive force is a central tenet of the traditional legal and philosophical justification for war and its practice. Just War Theory holds a nation's right to resist aggressive attack with defensive force as the clearest example of a just cause for war. Just War Theory also stipulates norms for warfare derived from a conception of defensive force asserted to be consistent with the moral reality of war. Recently, these aspects of Just War Theory have been criticized. David Rodin has challenged the status of national defense as an uncontroversial just cause. Jeff McMahan has charged that Just War Theory's norms that govern warfare are inconsistent with the norms of permissive defensive force. In this thesis I defend the status of national defense as a clear case of a just cause. However, my defense may require revision of Just War Theory's norms that govern warfare.
Mathematical modeling of HIV viral dynamics and immune response during antiretroviral treatment interruptions
Creators: name: Nargesalsadat  Dorratoltaj
name: Ciupe, Stanca
name: Eubank, Stephen
name: Persephone  Borrow
name: Pellegrino, Pierre
name: Williams, Ian
name: Abbas, Kaja
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The objective of this study is to understand HIV viral dynamics and immune response at the individual level, and analyze the impact of antiretroviral treatment interruptions on HIV prognosis to improve HIV treatment regimens.
The Proper Metric of Justice in Justice as Fairness
Creators: name: Carmichael, Charles
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: I explore the problem of using primary goods as the index for determining the least-advantaged members in a society in Rawls's theory of justice. I look at the problems presented to Rawls by Amartya Sen and his capabilities approach. I discuss the solutions to Sen's problems given by Norman Daniels, who argues that primary goods are able to take capabilities into account. Finally, I supplement Daniels, arguing that the parameters Rawls uses to define his theory limit Sen's objection and that primary goods are the appropriate metric of justice in Rawls's theory.
Kantian Conceptualism and Apperception
Creators: name: Miller, Raleigh
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: In this paper I argue, with many leading commentators, that Kant is a conceptualist. I support this conclusion, argued for independently by Hannah Ginsborg and John McDowell, by appeal to the analyticity of Kant's apperception principle in the transcendental deduction. I argue that the apperception principle, if taken as an analytic proposition, implies that any mental representation that figures into discursive cognition is the product of a priori synthesis. I further argue that making a priori synthesis a condition for the possibility of any mental representation is sufficient to make mental representation conceptual in the relevant sense. This, I argue, strongly suggests that Kant is a conceptualist.
Development, optimization, standardization and validation of a simple in-house agar gradient method to determine vancomycin MICs for Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Rai, Sumit
name: Tandon, Mukta
name: Narendra Singh
name: Kaur, Iqbal
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: MIC determination is traditionally done either by Agar or Broth dilution which is cumbersome and time consuming. To make MIC determination easier Epsilometer test (E-test) was introduced by AB Biodisk, Solna, Sweden which was a plastic strip with a predefined antimicrobial agent concentration gradient immobilized on one side and a continuous MIC scale covering 15 twofold dilutions. The concept of creating increasing gradients of known concentration of an antibiotic along a strip so that drops of impregnated antibiotic solution, do not mix with each other, and in a way represent many tiny antibiotic discs of increasing drug concentration placed closely along a strip and creating a uniformly increasing concentration gradient along the strip, revolutionized antimicrobial susceptibility testing and eased MIC determination. Interaction of the antimicrobial agent gradient and the test bacterial strain produces elliptical inhibitory zones. The intersection of the growth ellipse margin with the agar gradient strip indicates the MIC of the drug for the isolate. The main contention has been the cost factor limiting its use in poor countries where the average cost for one strip varies roughly from US $ 1.5 for Indian and 4 for overseas manufacturers. Variable shelf life and Break in the Cold Chain during transportation may also result in erroneous MIC values in case of commercial strips). Antibiotics which are to be reported only as MIC breakpoints like vancomycin, colistin or netilmicin. Therefore, we attempted to develop, validate and standardize a simple in – house agar gradient method, to determine MIC of vancomycin for clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.
The Role of Afterlife Myths in Plato's Moral Arguments
Creators: name: Issler, Daniel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: I will address the issue of Plato's use of myths concerning the afterlife in the context of the ethical arguments of the Gorgias, Phaedo and Republic, and I will contend that while the arguments in each dialogue are aimed at convincing the rational part of the self, the myths are aimed at persuading the non-rational part of the self. In support of this interpretation, I will examine Plato's views on the relation between the different parts of the soul and the relationship that poetry and myth have to philosophy. I will argue that Plato's use of myth is a legitimate tactic in his project of moral education, given his views concerning the role that the non-rational parts of the self play in one's moral life.
Incidence des institutions de la microfinance : dans la lutte contre la pauvreté ; cas de l'ADVANS/CONGO
Creators: name: Albert Daddy BITSHILUALUA NKASHAMA
name: Boniface  BONYI MULANGU
name: BANZA MUTAMBAYI WA MUKADI NICO
name: UMBA NSHIKU Julien
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: ce papier porte sur l’incidence des institutions de microfinance : dans la lutte contre la pauvreté ; cas de l’ADVANS/CONGO. La présente recherche se focalise autour d'un seul objectif qui se focalise sur l'évaluer l'incidence  des microcrédits octroyés par l’ADVANS/CONGO sur les conditions de vie des populations bénéficiaires.

Il existe d’une part, une économie formelle représentant une faible proportion du tissu économique, capable de recourir aux sources classiques de financement que sont les banques et les marches financiers; il suit la règlementation existant sur le marché des biens et services, autrement dit, il est un système qui est régi par la loi ;

Et d’autre part, nous avons l’économie informelle qui est celle, qui s’échappe à la loi qui oriente le marché des biens et services ; cela est dû au manque de pouvoir d’achats consistant pour faire face aux conditions qui sont édictées.

Pour cela, cette population pauvre qui, par manque de ressources nécessaires pour créer une activité génératrice de revenu, et aussi vis-à-vis d’un revenu moindre, manque en outre comment épargner après la consommation, reste alors une difficulté, à laquelle la  solution doit être donnée.

En ce sens, la microfinance est donc comprise comme étant un moyen de lutte contre la pauvreté dans les pays en développement, à travers le financement des activités génératrices des revenus, pour les ménages pauvres, et/ou les ménages à faibles revenus.

Cela étant,  nous avons fait nos analyses à l’aide du logiciel Stata 15. Après analyse, nous avons abouti aux résultats selon lesquels : Y1  = sexe ; Y2 =  âge ; Y3 =  Evolution activité ; Y4 = Durée crédit ; Y5 = Taux d’intérêt ; Y6 = Difficultés rencontrées ; Y7 = Appréciation des services ; Y8 = Autonomisation des activités. Sont des variables qui déterminent l’impact des institutions de la microfinance dans la lutte contre la pauvreté.

Hormis l’introduction et la conclusion, la présente étude est subdivisée en quatre points dont le premier porte sur la revue théorique de la microfinance et pauvreté ; le deuxième sur la revue empirique, le troisième sur le contexte et la méthodologie de l’étude, en fin le dernier sur la présentation et l’interprétation des résultats.
Hypocrisias gemella Schaus 1911
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Hypocrisias
Hypocrisias gemella

description: Hypocrisias gemella Schaus, 1911
Hypocrisias gemella Schaus, 1911a: 186.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Costa Rica], [Cartago], [Juan Viñas].
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype male no. 7156 designated by Watson (1971: 38) (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on pages 310-311, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
An Incompatibility between Intentionalism and Multiple Authorship in Film
Creators: name: Hager, Steven
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The multiple authorship view for film is the claim that multiple authors exist for almost any given film. This view is a recent development in opposition to the longstanding single authorship view which holds that there is only one author for every film, usually the director. One of the most often-cited reasons in support of the multiple authorship claim is that multiple authorship views more successfully explain the following fact about filmmaking better than single authorship views: filmmakers' intentions sometimes conflict with each other during the production of a film. However, since multiple authorship views cannot adequately explain how a single filmic utterance can result from conflicting intentions, I want to argue that the single authorship view should be reinstated in those special cases where two or more agents are involved in the production of a filmic utterance and where the intentions of those agents are incompatible.
Supplementary document for Label-Free Imaging of Intracellular Organelle Dynamics Using Flat-Fielding Quantitative Phase Contrast Microscopy (FF-QPCM) - 5658194.pdf
Creators: name: Ma, Ying
name: Dai, Taiqiang
name: Lei, Yunze
name: Zheng, Juanjuan
name: Liu, Min
name: Sui, Bingdong
name: Smith, Zachary
name: Chu, Kaiqin
name: Kong, Liang
name: Gao, Peng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Cell Biology

description: Supplement 1
Epicurean Friendship: How are Friends Pleasurable?
Creators: name: Strahm, Melissa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Although the Epicurean ethical system is fundamentally egoistic and hedonistic, it attributes a surprisingly significant role to friendship. Even so, I argue that traditional discussions of Epicurean friendship fail to adequately account for the value (or pleasure) of individual friends. In this thesis I present an amended notion of Epicurean friendship that better accounts for all of the pleasure friends afford. However, the success of my project requires rejecting an Epicurean ethical principle. Because of this, I explore textual evidence both in favor and against the amended notion I propose and the problematic ethical principle. After arguing against the problematic ethical principle and dispelling additional objections to my project, I conclude that Epicureans should endorse the amended notion of friendship I have developed.
Autism, Social Comprehension, and Cognitive Impenetrability
Creators: name: Hudgens-Haney, Matthew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder featuring severe social and communicative deficits. Cognitive impenetrability is the inability of systems to be affected by an individual's beliefs and desires. Individuals with autism have delayed performance on "mindreading" tasks. Mindreading is the interpretation of others which enables successful social interactions. This task performance is not correlated with "everyday" social function in autism. These deficits are in contrast with general intelligence and reasoning abilities within the normal range, resistant to cognitive behavioral training, and partially attributable to atypical social predispositions. This suggests individuals with autism perform social tasks differently than typicals. I argue that this mindreading deficit is cognitively impenetrable, then position this deficit within a theoretical framework, enactivism, emphasizing cognitive embodiment and inseparability of social comprehension and action. This framework helps explain the cognitive impenetrability of these social deficits by "locating" failure to penetrate in individuals' failure to properly interact with the environment.
Minkowski Inequality on complete Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature
Creators: name: Benatti, Luca
name: Fogagnolo, Mattia
name: Mazzieri, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A16, 35B06, 31C15, 53C21, 53E10, 49Q10, 39B62

description: In this paper we consider Riemannian manifolds of dimension at least $3$, with nonnegative Ricci curvature and Euclidean Volume Growth. For every open bounded subset with smooth boundary we establish the validity of an optimal Minkowski Inequality. We also characterise the equality case, provided the domain is strictly outward minimising and strictly mean convex. Along with the proof, we establish in full generality sharp monotonicity formulas, holding along the level sets of $p$-capacitary potentials in $p$-nonparabolic manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.
description: The asymptotically conical assumption has been removed using a different technique. Since the study of the asymptotic behaviour of the p-capacitary potential is no more necessary, we decided to omit it for brevity's sake, but it can be found in v3
Pogg'es Institutional Cosmopolitanism
Creators: name: Nees, Scott
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: In his landmark work World Poverty and Human Rights, Thomas Pogge offers a novel approach to understanding the nature and extent of the obligations that citizens of wealthy states owe to their less fortunate counterparts in poor states. Pogge argues that the wealthy have weighty obligations to aid the global poor because the wealthy coercively impose institutions on the poor that leave their human rights, particularly their subsistence rights avoidably unfulfilled. Thus, Pogge claims that the wealthy states' obligations to the poor are ultimately generated by their negative duties, that is, their duties to refrain from harming. In this essay, I argue that Pogge cannot successfully appeal to negative duties in way that would appease his critics because his notion of a negative duty is seriously indeterminate, so much so as to compromise his ability to plausibly appeal to it.
Defining the Anthropocene tropical forest : Moving beyond ‘disturbance’ and ‘landscape domestication’ with concepts from African worldviews
Creators: name: Fraser, James Angus
name: Cosiaux, Ariane
name: Walters, Gretchen
name: Asiyanbi, Adeniyi
name: Osei-Wusu Adjei, Prince
name: Addo-Fordjour, Patrick
name: Fairhead, James
name: Kialo, Paulin
name: Engone Obiang, Nestor Laurier
name: Oslisly, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: How natural and cultural forces shaping tropical forested landscapes are conceptualised is of vital importance to Anthropocene debates. We examine two concepts: disturbance and landscape domestication. From the perspective of disturbance, humans – whether ancient or modern – are a priori negative for tropical forests, outside of and alien to nature. From this view, the Anthropocene is a planetary scale aggregation of disturbance. A more just vision of tropical forests, accepting anthropogenic influence on biodiversity, would combine ‘disturbance’ with other concepts that capture human agency and intentionality. Landscape domestication proposes that humans can shape ecology and plant and animal population demographics, making the landscape more productive and congenial for humans, upgrading or degrading the biodiversity of tropical forests. Herein, forest peoples shape the Anthropocene itself through their ‘domestication’ of the forest. Yet this approach can overdetermine culture, ignoring non-human agency, whilst human impacts can be seen as the outcome of intentional modifications to increase landscape productivity, at worst a disavowed projection of ‘economic man’. Using the convivial scholarship framework of Nyamnjoh, we argue that these ideas give incomplete views of tropical forests in the Anthropocene and can be enriched by concepts derived from African worldviews with ‘relationality’ and ‘wholeness’ at their core. These are expressed in ohanife, deriving from Igbo language, ubuntu, from the Nguni language and ukama, a notion from Shona culture. Together these concepts evince an ‘eco-bio-communitarianism’ embracing humans, God, spirits, ancestors, animals and inanimate beings in a ‘community of beings’ irreducible to the culture-nature divide (moving beyond disturbance) and allowing for the agency and personhood of non-humans (moving beyond historical ecology). This is consonant with Indigenous Amazonian worldviews, such as that of Kopenawa. Approaching human-nature relations from Nyamnjoh’s idea of conviviality, we elaborate a less incomplete and more just perspective on the cultural and natural shaping of Anthropocene tropical forests.
Minor-closed classes of binary functions
Creators: name: Jones, Benjamin R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B35 (Primary) 15A03, 05C83(Secondary)

description: Binary functions are a generalisation of the cocircuit spaces of binary matroids to arbitrary functions. Every rank function is assigned a binary function, and the deletion and contraction operations of binary functions generalise matroid deletion and contraction. We give the excluded minor characterisations for the classes of binary functions with well defined minors, and those with an associated rank function. Within these classes, we also characterise the classes of binary functions corresponding to polymatroids, matroids and binary matroids by their excluded minors. This gives a new proof of Tutte's excluded minor characterisation of binary matroids in the more generalised space of binary functions.
description: 15 pages
Normal forms for the Laplace resonance
Creators: name: Pucacco, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a comprehensive model for systems locked in the Laplace resonance. The framework is based on the simplest possible dynamical structure provided by the Keplerian problem perturbed by the resonant coupling truncated at second order in the eccentricities. The reduced Hamiltonian, constructed by a transformation to resonant coordinates, is then submitted to a suitable ordering of the terms and to the study of its equilibria. Henceforth, resonant normal forms are computed. The main result is the identification of two different classes of equilibria. In the first class, only one kind of stable equilibrium is present: the paradigmatic case is that of the Galilean system. In the second class, three kinds of stable equilibria are possible and at least one of them is characterised by a high value of the forced eccentricity for the `first planet': here the paradigmatic case is the exo-planetary system GJ-876, in which the combination of libration centers admits triple conjunctions otherwise not possible in the Galilean case. The normal form obtained by averaging with respect to the free eccentricity oscillations, describes the libration of the Laplace argument for arbitrary amplitudes and allows us to determine the libration width of the resonance. The agreement of the analytic predictions with the numerical integration of the toy models is very good.
description: Some misprints corrected
Can Bayesianism and Inference to the Best Explanation be Friends?
Creators: name: Stewart, Rush
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Bas van Fraassen argues that inference to the best explanation (IBE) is a probabilistically incoherent rule (1989). Anyone following IBE is open to being Dutch booked. According to one of the most interesting and popular responses to van Fraassen's argument, van Fraassen misrepresents IBE in probabilistic terms. With the proper probabilistic representation, it is claimed, IBE is not inconsistent with Bayesian rationality constraints. Building on the work of IBE's proponents, I first propose a minimal account of what makes one explanation better than another. I then argue that, even on this minimal account, the alternative probabilistic model of IBE does not work, and hence fails to successfully respond to van Fraassen's argument.
Marx, Economic Sustainability, and Ideal Capital
Creators: name: Bustard, Sean
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: My purpose in this work is to argue that the resolution of capitalism's contradictions, as they are understood by Marx, fits the criteria of an economic movement towards sustainability. The Marxist analysis of capitalism, while accurate in many respects (especially with the explanation of contradictions generated in the capitalist free market), requires more explanation of the manner in which the economic process of valuation is to continue in the stages succeeding late capitalism. This work will provide an explanation of this economic transition that remains faithful to Marx's understanding of history and the historical development of the productive forces and the relations of production. I will propose the inclusion of ideal capital (the valuation of non-material goods) as an economic component to help explain a sustainable economic arrangement under a Marxian framework. I will additionally address critiques arising from Bohm-Bawerk in my endorsement of a Marxian economic analysis.
Foucauldian Genealogy as Situated Critique or Why is Sexuality So Dangerous?
Creators: name: Dunkle, Ian
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This thesis argues for a new understanding of criticism in Foucauldian genealogy based on the role played by the values of Michel Foucault's audience in motivating suspicion. Secondary literature on Foucault has been concerned with understanding how Foucault's works can be critical of cultural practices in the contemporary West when his accounts take the form of descriptive history. Commentaries offered heretofore have been insufficient for explaining the basis of Foucault's criticism of cultural practices because they have failed to articulate the relation of the genealogist to her present normative context'the social and political values and goals that, in part, define the position of the genealogist within her culture. This thesis shows why previous accounts are insufficient for explaining Foucauldian genealogical critique, and it argues for a simple alternative warranted by Foucault's writing.
Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Flexural Strengthening of Precast Concrete Corbel Connections with Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Sheet
Creators: name: Rahgozar, Nima
name: Rahgozar, Navid
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents the results of experimental and numerical investigations aimed at enhancing the flexural capacity of Precast Concrete Corbel Beam–Column Connections (PC-CBCCs) using Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (FRP) sheets. The experimental study primarily focused on assessing the flexural capacity of pinned PC-CBCCs reinforced with FRP layers, comparing them to a moment-resisting connection. A series of half-scale specimens, including three PC-CBCCs with varying FRP configurations, were tested alongside one in situ concrete fixed connection. The first specimen (PC-1) utilized L-shaped and full-wrap FRPs, whereas PC-2 and PC-3 employed both U-shaped and full-wrap layers. The objective is to quantify the ultimate flexural capacity of PC-CBCCs reinforced by FRP sheets. In PC-3, the external anchorage is introduced to assess its influence on delaying the FRP layer debonding under lateral loading. The effects of the FRP layer thickness, locations, and potential debonding are examined under unidirectional static tests while applying a constant axial compressive load to the columns and subjecting the beams to lateral loads until fracture. The test results illustrate that strengthening the corbel connection with L-shaped FRP or spiral U-shaped FRP sheets without mechanical anchorage cannot result in a significant bending capacity due to debonding. However, with the incorporation of mechanical anchors, the connection manages to enhance the moment capacity to 81% of a fixed connection’s flexural capacity. Additionally, a finite element model of the PC-CBCCs and a fixed joint is developed to simulate nonlinear static analyses of the connections using ANSYS 19.2 software. The simulation model is precise in predicting the initial stiffness and ultimate capacity of the beam–column joints, as verified by the experimental results. A comprehensive comparison is conducted to determine their responses by employing various FRP configurations and properties. Moreover, design parameters such as bond length and thickness of the FRP sheets, along with appropriate mechanical anchorage, are identified as effective in preventing debonding, and delamination. However, wrapping the beam far away from the joint interface has a minimal impact on the failure mode, stress reduction, and load-bearing capacity.