cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Workers’ Benefit from Employment Injury in Batu Floriculture Industry
Creators: name: Dessalegn, Solomon
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2021

description: This research assessed the benefit from employment injury floriculture workers receive when they face injury based on international and domestic laws and policies made to provide benefit of employment injury. To address these issues and for strong evidence based claims, qualitative and quantitative research method such as questionnaires, in-depth interview and personal observation were used. The study employed simple random and purposive sampling technique to select respondents and informants for the questionnaires and in-depth interview, respectively. Quantitative data collected were analyzed by using simple descriptive statistical methods such as summation, averages, and percentages. And the qualitative data were analyzed and interpreted thematically against the relevant research issue. The findings of the study indicated that injured workers were not properly paid of these benefits provided by laws. There are challenges to hold/avoid benefit of employment injury which ranges from low bargaining power from the workers up to complexity of litigation process before court. There are also weaknesses from the government on implementing laws and policies made to provide benefit of employment injury. There is a problem of budget, motivation, authority and lack of coordination among the stakeholders. Based on the findings, there should be strong institutions including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that work together to enforce international, regional and domestic laws to safeguard benefit of employment injury. NGOs should aware workers on occupational safety and health, and further advocate for those who have incurred employment injury. Furthermore, research on benefit of employment injury is necessary to have due insight into the issue.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021)
Study of the $K_L \!\to\! π^0 ν\overlineν$ Decay at the J-PARC KOTO Experiment
Creators: name: KOTO Collaboration
name: Ahn, J. K.
name: Beckford, B.
name: Campbell, M.
name: Chen, S. H.
name: Comfort, J.
name: Dona, K.
name: Farrington, M. S.
name: Hanai, K.
name: Hara, N.
name: Haraguchi, H.
name: Hsiung, Y. B.
name: Hutcheson, M.
name: Inagaki, T.
name: Isoe, M.
name: Kamiji, I.
name: Kato, T.
name: Kim, E. J.
name: Kim, J. L.
name: Kim, H. M.
name: Komatsubara, T. K.
name: Kotera, K.
name: Lee, S. K.
name: Lee, J. W.
name: Lim, G. Y.
name: Lin, Q. S.
name: Lin, C.
name: Luo, Y.
name: Mari, T.
name: Masuda, T.
name: Matsumura, T.
name: Mcfarland, D.
name: McNeal, N.
name: Miyazaki, K.
name: Murayama, R.
name: Nakagiri, K.
name: Nanjo, H.
name: Nishimiya, H.
name: Noichi, Y.
name: Nomura, T.
name: Nunes, T.
name: Ohsugi, M.
name: Okuno, H.
name: Redeker, J. C.
name: Sanchez, J.
name: Sasaki, M.
name: Sasao, N.
name: Sato, T.
name: Sato, K.
name: Sato, Y.
name: Shimizu, N.
name: Shimogawa, T.
name: Shinkawa, T.
name: Shinohara, S.
name: Shiomi, K.
name: Shiraishi, R.
name: Su, S.
name: Sugiyama, Y.
name: Suzuki, S.
name: Tajima, Y.
name: Taylor, M.
name: Tecchio, M.
name: Togawa, M.
name: Toyoda, T.
name: Tung, Y. -C.
name: Vuong, Q. H.
name: Wah, Y. W.
name: Watanabe, H.
name: Yamanaka, T.
name: Yoshida, H. Y.
name: Zaidenberg, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rare decay $K_L \!\to\! π^0 ν\overlineν$ was studied with the dataset taken at the J-PARC KOTO experiment in 2016, 2017, and 2018. With a single event sensitivity of $( 7.20 \pm 0.05_{\rm stat} \pm 0.66_{\rm syst} ) \times 10^{-10}$, three candidate events were observed in the signal region. After unveiling them, contaminations from $K^{\pm}$ and scattered $K_L$ decays were studied, and the total number of background events was estimated to be $1.22 \pm 0.26$. We conclude that the number of observed events is statistically consistent with the background expectation. For this dataset, we set an upper limit of $4.9 \times 10^{-9}$ on the branching fraction of $K_L \!\to\! π^0 ν\overlineν$ at the 90% confidence level.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures; published version, no change in the results. Fig. 2 and Fig. 4 were revised. In Fig. 5, the plot of the $P_{t}$ versus ${Z_{\mathrm{vtx}}}$ of the beam-halo $K_L\!\to\!2\gamma$ background events was added as Fig. 5 (b)
Towards a New Information System for Farm Management: Changing the Accounting System for Better Environmental Reporting
Creators: name: Bremmers, Harry J.
name: Bremmers, Harry J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The paper aims at confronting traditional (fiscal) reporting with the administrative requirements in modern farm management. It aims especially at formulating leading indicators for management and control with respect to environmental issues.
Comparison of Different Studies to Analyse Adaptation on Dairy Farms
Creators: name: Butler, Anne Marie
name: Wallace, Michael T.
name: Berentsen, Paul B.M.
name: Butler, Anne Marie
name: Wallace, Michael T.
name: Berentsen, Paul B.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper compares and contrasts a number of farm-level modeling studies published in the academic literature. All of the studies examined adaptation on EU dairy farms in response to developments in agricultural policy and/or environmental legislation. The studies are compared on the basis of their respective aims, model structure, results and conclusions. Having reviewed the models and their application, the discussion section of the paper considers strengths and weaknesses of the studies and following from that it considers possible future developments in farm-level response modeling. The relevance and application of such developments in the context of an analytical study of adaptation in Irish dairy farms is discussed.
Logistics and Election Management in Nigeria: A Comparative Study
Creators: name: Osariyekemwen, God’stime
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2021

description: Election management is an important aspect of a country’s political and electoral developmental processes. Inadequate planning and management of the electoral process can hamper the success of any election. It is against this backdrop that the paper examines the issue of electoral management focusing on logistics arrangements in the Nigerian electoral process. It made a comparative analysis of the 2012 and 2016 governorship election in Edo State as it relates to logistics management and electoral efficiency. The descriptive and historical methods as well as case study were adopted for the study which was based primarily on secondary sources of data. The data were analyzed systematically and critically to ensure an adequate understanding of the phenomenon under study. From the analysis of both the 2012 and 2016 Edo State governorship elections, in terms of Election Day logistics management, it was discovered that the dismal performance of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the 2012 election was greatly improved upon in the 2016 election though, some lapses were still noticeable. Consequently, the following recommendation amongst others is made. INEC should improve on logistics planning and communication processes during elections. It should ensure effective distribution of electoral materials, undertake a before- election inspection of transportation routes and test-running these routes to ensure efficiency in the delivery.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021)
European novel food legislation as a restriction to trade
Creators: name: Lahteenmaki-Uutela, Anu
name: Lahteenmaki-Uutela, Anu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: The European Novel Food Regulation applies to the placing on the EU market of foods and food ingredients which have not been used for human consumption to a significant degree within EU area. A food is novel in EU regardless of its use in third countries. This is a problem mainly to third-country producers of plant-based products. For example Chinese or Andean vegetables or berries not previously used in Europe are novel foods requiring authorization. This is the case even if they have been used by people for millennia and are considered safe. The authorization procedure is costly and time-consuming.
YFS Exponentiation -- Gate to Precision Accelerator Physics Experiments
Creators: name: Ward, B. F. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the history and current status of the YFS Monte Carlo approach to precision theory for accelerator physics experiments. Key contributions of Prof. Stanislaw Jadach are highlighted
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, presented at the 30$^{th}$ Cracow Epiphany Conference on Precision Physics at High Energy Colliders, Cracow, PL, 8 -12 January, 2024
Resolving the city
Creators: name: Gibbons, Daniel John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines the deeply layered genre of crime and detective fiction together with academic texts dealing, broadly, with urban geography. These apparently separated writings are read together and against one another in order to reveal answers to important questions of how the city is organized and arranged in its texts. In particular, this thesis analyzes certain structures in place in forms of textual representation, structures which have deep implications for the writing of the city. Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin stories appear alongside Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen novels, and Christopher Prendergast's study of Paris in the nineteenth century. Walter Mosley's series of Los Angeles mysteries are discussed in the context of particularly prominent academic representations of L.A. Reading such a diverse collection of texts together and against one another is a deliberate tactic, intended to draw out the similar structures in place in very different forms of writing. Those structures are the critical issue here, specifically with regard to the need for examinations of the city that consider not merely which components of the city appear in texts about the city, but also how the city appears in text. How the city appears in text has a good deal to do with the demands exercised by the medium of representation, and a key concern here is to draw out the need for doing away with an often unquestioned separation between places—cities—and their texts. Instead what is studied and ultimately proposed here is a focus on the intersection between subject and textual structure, and how that intersection actively produces the city.
Additional file 1 of Comparison of partitioned survival modeling with state transition modeling approaches with or without consideration of brain metastasis: a case study of Osimertinib versus pemetrexed-platinum
Creators: name: Shim, Yoon-Bo
name: Oh, Byeong-Chan
name: Lee, Eui-Kyung
name: Park, Mi-Hai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Preschool Education for Rural Ethiopia and Its Impact on Early Schooling: Lessons from a Project-based Initiative in North Shewa
Creators: name: Kenea, Ambissa
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2020

description: As efforts are made to expand preschool education to rural parts of Ethiopia, one important challenge is contextual relevance of the program. The present study aimed to examine a project-based initiative at contextualizing preschool education for children in rural Ethiopia in order to sort out its impact on early schooling and to draw lessons from the contextualization approach. Mixed research design with the concurrent triangulation strategy was applied to conduct the study. Three out of the five project Districts were selected considering accessibility via road transport. Proportional sampling was used to take 11 preschool centers from the 62 preschools in the three Districts. Data was collected from tracer study of preschool completers based on school rosters and interview with the children, parents, preschool educators, grade one teachers, school principals and project officers. Analysis of the data applied both statistical tools and themes drawn from reading and re-reading of the data. The result revealed that the particular preschool initiative has adapted the program to the rural community along curriculum, pedagogical approaches, resource use, and engagement of core stakeholders. Through devising local means, it could overcome many of the challenges which are often thought to have limited preschool provision in the rural areas. Results have been documented in terms of improved preschool enrollment, scholastic achievement during early grades, better social/behavioral skills, and reduced grade one dropout rate. Based on that, it is concluded that adaptation of preschool provision based on the community's assets seems a feasible approach for the rural areas.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2020)
Agricultural tariff rate quotas implementation in the EU 1997-2002 ; Do developing countries enjoy quota rent?
Creators: name: Dupraz, Cathie Laroche
name: Matthews, Alan
name: Dupraz, Cathie Laroche
name: Matthews, Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: tariff rate quotas
subject: quota rent
subject: developing countries

description: Tariff rate quotas (TRQs) have been introduced and legitimised as a market access instrument in the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA). TRQs combine both restriction of imports, and safeguard of current or preferential agricultural trade flows. By restricting the market access through high level tariff beyond the quota, one can imagine that exporters enjoying low level tariff would take share of quota rent. Do developing exporting countries benefit from EU TRQs? Do they enjoy quota rents or guaranteed market access? What should be their interest to defend about TRQs at WTO agricultural negotiations? This article aims to present an analysis of the 87 EU's agricultural TRQs implementation from 1997 to 2002, in order to bring to the fore the effects of such an import instrument for exporting countries in competition on the import market. Some theoretical elements of the economy of TRQs are first presented in order to introduce the empirical work. The database built is then used to interpret EU agricultural TRQs implementation during the period 1997-2002, and the global results in terms of potential total rent that one can theoretically expect from TRQs is detailed by products grouping and export country grouping. A first examination of the database shows that while preference margin is potentially high for TRQs as a whole, potential rent is not so high. Moreover, this potential rent seems to be concentrated on only bananas and sugar, because TRQs are actually binding for those two commodities. A focus on those products indicates that only few exporting countries are susceptible to enjoy this potential rent: Latin American for bananas and ACP for sugar. However that does not signify that TRQs may be eliminated without big losses for exporters: they actually procure guaranteed EU's market shares protected from foreign competition.
On the corresponding states law of the Yukawa fluid
Creators: name: Orea, Pedro
name: Duda, Yurko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed the currently available simulation results, as well as performed some additional Monte Carlo simulation for the hard-core attractive Yukawa fluid in order to study its corresponding state behavior. We show that the values of reduced surface tension map onto the master curve, and a universal equation of state can be obtained in the wide range of the attractive Yukawa tail length after a certain re-scaling of the number density. Some comparisons with other nonconformal potentials are presented and discussed.
title: Report of the Cumberland Excavation Committee for 1936. The Vallum at Milecastle 51 Wall Bowers and 50 TW, High House.
Creators: name: Simpson, Frank Gerald
name: Richmond, Ian A
name: Raistrick, Arthur
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2008

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 37, 157-177
Bund der Evangelischen Kirchen in der DDR, Kirche als Lerngemeinschaft
Creators: name: Krüger
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 32 Nr. 1 (1983): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 32, Heft 1
DynaComm: Accelerating Distributed CNN Training between Edges and Clouds through Dynamic Communication Scheduling
Creators: name: Cai, Shangming
name: Wang, Dongsheng
name: Wang, Haixia
name: Lyu, Yongqiang
name: Xu, Guangquan
name: Zheng, Xi
name: Vasilakos, Athanasios V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To reduce uploading bandwidth and address privacy concerns, deep learning at the network edge has been an emerging topic. Typically, edge devices collaboratively train a shared model using real-time generated data through the Parameter Server framework. Although all the edge devices can share the computing workloads, the distributed training processes over edge networks are still time-consuming due to the parameters and gradients transmission procedures between parameter servers and edge devices. Focusing on accelerating distributed Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) training at the network edge, we present DynaComm, a novel scheduler that dynamically decomposes each transmission procedure into several segments to achieve optimal layer-wise communications and computations overlapping during run-time. Through experiments, we verify that DynaComm manages to achieve optimal layer-wise scheduling for all cases compared to competing strategies while the model accuracy remains untouched.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Themes of Subsistence Losing Anxieties among the Arsi Area Peasant Folk Literature
Creators: name: Tesema, Yeshaw
name: Beco, Yosef
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2020

description: This paper examined the role of folk literature in portraying peasant anxieties relating to subsistence life. By applying a qualitative method, a purposive sampling technique was used, in which twenty-eight genres were selected for intensive analysis. The data were collected from local farmers of Arsi, around Robe areas, through note taking, tape and video recording techniques. The materials were organized and analyzed following stocktaking and sample analysis methodology. It becomes the central theme nearly in all tales, songs, myths, etc that the folk literature depicts subsistence insecurity. The case of recurrence is discussed considering aesthetics, socio- and psycho-economic perspectives. Aesthetics-related perspective refers to literary color and suggestiveness. This, in turn, has enabled the themes of anxieties persist, just using literary and performatory allure as their masks. The folk literature also makes use of mythic views to secure its survival. The strong attachments between subsistence and nature have obliged peasants to stay under the supremacy of mythic outlooks. The folk literature preserves these outlooks which assist the preservation and diffusion of the themes of anxieties. Socio-economic realities reinforce, inevitably, peasant folk literature which is characterized by subsistence anxieties. The folk literature, naturally, suits the natural behavior of peasant life. Since folk literature is a code which mediate the interior-self with the exterior material concern, the peasant psycho-economic reality desires the existence of the folk literature.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2020)
Agricultural Price Seasonality and Market Failure: Examining the Net Seller Household and the Net Benefit Ratio Definition
Creators: name: Vergez, Antonin
name: Vergez, Antonin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: household welfare
subject: food crop
subject: net buyer
subject: net seller
subject: net benefit ratio
subject: price seasonality
subject: survey

description: On the basis of a household typology distinguishing between net sellers, net buyers and self sufficient, the Net Benefit Ratio (NBR), defined by Deaton (1989), is used to approximate households' first order welfare variations when price change. In this paper, we discuss both the typology's criteria and the classic formula of NBR, since they are based a) on produced and consumed quantities rather than real marketed volumes and b) on a unique selling and buying price for all surveyed households. We propose another definition of a net seller and a new NBR expression allowing the analyst to take into account market failures (MF) and price seasonality (PS), which are two constancies in developing countries. We use two sets of data (from Mexico and Mali), to show that, if considering MF and PS, (1) the household typology can be partly reconfigured and (2) the distribution of the NBR over the household income profile slightly change. Yet, if the applied use of this reformulated NBR could contribute to get more precise impacts assessments, it implies to collect more data while doing surveys, by recording every market transactions of each household (bought, sold quantities and related prices).
Os recursos no Estatuto do Tribunal Penal Internacional breve apresentação
Creators: name: Damião Da Cunha, José Manuel
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2006

description: Direito e Justiça, n. Especial (2006): O Tribunal Penal Internacional e a Transformação do Direito Internacional. Conferência Internacional da FDUCP/PGR
Exploring Public Relations Practitioners’ Actual Practice: Jimma Zonal Government Offices in Focus
Creators: name: Mengistu, Demelash
name: Hasen, Hamza
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2020

description: This study aimed at describing public relations practitioners’ actual (existing) practice in terms of roles and models, in Jimma zonal sector offices. The study involved both quantitative and qualitative methods using semi-structured questionnaire, in-depth interview and document analysis as data collection tools. Key informants were selected using purposive sampling technique. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the quantitative data and thematic analyses were employed for qualitative data analysis. The result of the study shows that the contribution of public relation (PR) practitioners in terms of managerial tasks in sector offices was low and they were busy doing technical tasks and playing technician roles. The study also found out that publicity, public information and two-way asymmetrical models were highly practiced and employed. The overall practice of PR practitioners was not effective and did not reach the objectives according to the stated goal in the analyzed document. The result in this regard also revealed that the practice was not receiving due consideration from zonal higher officials and even it was considered to be valueless in their eyes. The public’s interest was not the primary consideration of zonal officials’ PR activities as most of them had political affiliations. It is, therefore, recommended that PR practitioners and the organizations/ offices/institutes could be professionally and structurally organized; practitioners in particular might get involved in strategic planning and decision making to make the activities of PR more effective.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2020)
SOME RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AMONG THE BEEF CATTLE FARMERS OF THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE OF CAMEROON: EFFECT ON TECHNOLOGY DISSEMINATION
Creators: name: Pingpoh, David Puewoh
name: Mbanya, Justin
name: Ntam, Fidelis
name: Malaa, Dorothy K.
name: Pingpoh, David Puewoh
name: Mbanya, Justin
name: Ntam, Fidelis
name: Malaa, Dorothy K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The North West Province of Cameroon is one of the four provinces that account for 90 % of Cameroon's estimated 6 million cattle heads. The cattle production in the area involves the rural poor population who are associated with a reluctance to take risks, presumably because risk taking would jeopardize their subsistence. That being the case, it becomes imperative to know what risk management methods they use. The overall objective of this study was to identify and examine the risk management practiced by the beef cattle farmers in the North West Province of Cameroon so as to determine their effects on technology dissemination. The beef cattle farmers were selected for the survey on the basis of their involvement in beef cattle farming. The researchers visited the selected farmers at their homesteads / farmsteads to collect the required information using a structured questionnaire. Quantitative data were analyzed using simple descriptive statistics while qualitative ones were analyzed using percentages and frequency counts. Eighty one percent of the respondents followed a mixed agro pastoral strategy in which cattle production was combined with crop farming. More than 90 % of the respondents had secondary economic activities other than crop farming. This is a major means of spreading risk across economic sectors and geographical space, and securing alternative sources of income. Sixty five percent of the respondents go on transhumance during the dry season for search of water and pasture for their animals. The cattle farmers relied on the use of their traditional cattle species that are more drought and disease resistant. Cattle and small ruminants were kept by more than 60 % of the respondents, subdivided into herds for risk avoidance, proper management and hand deticking.
Untangling superposed double layer and structural forces across confined nanoparticle suspensions
Creators: name: Ludwig, Michael
name: von Klitzing, Regine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The description of forces across confined complex fluids still holds many challenges due to the possible overlap of different contributions. Here, an attempt is made to untangle the interaction between charged surfaces across nanoparticle suspensions. Interaction forces are measured using colloidal-probe atomic force microscopy. The experimental force profiles are considered as a superposition of double layer and structural forces. In order to independently describe the decay of the double layer force, the ionic strength of the suspension is determined by electrolytic conductivity measurements. Jellium approximation is used to define the impact of the fluid on screening the surface potential. There, the nanoparticles are considered homogeneously distributed across the fluid and screening is only carried out via the particles counterions and added salt. The structural force follows a damped oscillatory profile due to the layer-wise expulsion of the nanoparticles upon approach of both surfaces. The description of the oscillatory structural force is extended by a depletion layer next to the confining surfaces, with no nanoparticles present. The thickness of the depletion layer is related to the electrostatic repulsion of the charged nanoparticles from the like-charged surfaces. The results show that the total force profile is a superposition of independent force contributions without any mutual effects. Using this rather simple model describes the complete experimentally determined interaction force profiles very well from surface separations of a few hundred nanometres down to the surfaces being almost in contact.
Video Summarisation Toolkit: A collection of methods for video content analysis in social research with the web.
Creators: name: Autuori, Antonella
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: In the digital era, a large part of communication practices passes through the creation and sharing of video content on the web and social media. From Cisco Visual Networking Index statistics, which see video representing 80% of all global internet traffic by 2021, it is clear how this content has become dominant for the exchange of information and communication between web users. This proliferation has made this same video content, a material rich in information and potentially very useful for the study of social and cultural aspects of our society. To date, there are several tools and methods for the analysis of collections of videos from the web but they present several critical issues: the lack of diversity and documented methods, the lack of free tools that do not require in-depth knowledge of programming languages and finally the lack of experimentation of visual models diversified by type of analysis. This thesis is concerned, through the case study of Amazon Fires videos on YouTube, with designing methods that are repeatable and able to fill some of the gaps identified in existing methods, tools, and visualisation modes. This thesis asks: What visual methods can be designed to facilitate the analysis and synthesis of collections of videos from the web? How can these methods be communicated so that they are replicable by other researchers? Nine different and documented methods were designed for analyzing and visualizing collections of videos from the web, and an online platform, Video Summarisation Toolkit, was designed for their collection and communication. Video Summarisation Toolkit brings its major contribution to the field of social research with the web: the innovation achieved by the project is represented not only by the methods tested but also by how the methods themselves are presented within the artefact to the end-user and that make them easily replicable by other researchers.
SD-$π$XL: Generating Low-Resolution Quantized Imagery via Score Distillation
Creators: name: Binninger, Alexandre
name: Sorkine-Hornung, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.3.3

description: Low-resolution quantized imagery, such as pixel art, is seeing a revival in modern applications ranging from video game graphics to digital design and fabrication, where creativity is often bound by a limited palette of elemental units. Despite their growing popularity, the automated generation of quantized images from raw inputs remains a significant challenge, often necessitating intensive manual input. We introduce SD-$π$XL, an approach for producing quantized images that employs score distillation sampling in conjunction with a differentiable image generator. Our method enables users to input a prompt and optionally an image for spatial conditioning, set any desired output size $H \times W$, and choose a palette of $n$ colors or elements. Each color corresponds to a distinct class for our generator, which operates on an $H \times W \times n$ tensor. We adopt a softmax approach, computing a convex sum of elements, thus rendering the process differentiable and amenable to backpropagation. We show that employing Gumbel-softmax reparameterization allows for crisp pixel art effects. Unique to our method is the ability to transform input images into low-resolution, quantized versions while retaining their key semantic features. Our experiments validate SD-$π$XL's performance in creating visually pleasing and faithful representations, consistently outperforming the current state-of-the-art. Furthermore, we showcase SD-$π$XL's practical utility in fabrication through its applications in interlocking brick mosaic, beading and embroidery design.
description: To be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 (conference track). Main paper is 8 pages + 2 figure-only pages + references. Supplementary is 11 pages + references
Design of information flows for the development of the National Repository of Angola
Creators: name: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
name: Ministério Do Ensino Superior, Ciência
name: Redalyc-Universidad Autónoma Del Estado De México
name: AmeliCA
name: Universidade Óscar Ribas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Access
Angola
Africa
National Repository of Angola
Open software
Scientific and technological divulgation

description: Work derived from the collaborative project among Redalyc UAEM, AmeliCA, MESCTI and U. Óscar Ribas funded by UNESCO for the development of an Open Access strategy in Angola. Vol. 29 of 38
description: {"references": ["INFOTEC (2017). Manual de mejores pr\u00e1cticas. M\u00e9xico: Repositorio Nacional de M\u00e9xico. Conacyt. Retrieved from https://www.repositorionacionalcti.mx/docs/manualesInteroperabilidad/manual_para_mej ores_practicas.pdf", "LYRASIS (2021). Functional Overview - DSpace 7.x Documentation - LYRASIS Wiki. Retrieved from https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Functional+Overview", "Le\u00f3n Betanzos, G. A. (2015). Manual para administraci\u00f3n y uso de DSpace. Retrieved from https://www.academia.edu/9520240/DSpace_4_x_Documentation_de_Genaro_Antonio_ L%C3%A9on_Betanzos"]}
NI4OS-Europe Intermediate report on liaison activities
Creators: name: O.Prnjat
name: E.Athanasaki
name: I.Papastamatiou
name: K.Koumantaros
name: J.Fazekas-Paragh
name: E.Toli
name: E.Papadopoulou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Intermediate report on liaison activities represents the report of the NI4OS-Europe liaison activities in the first 18 months of the project (September 2019 – February 2021).
Rural Income Generating Activities: A Cross Country Comparison
Creators: name: Davis, Benjamin
name: Covarrubias, Katia
name: Stamoulis, Kostas G.
name: Winters, Paul C.
name: Carletto, Calogero
name: Quinones, Esteban
name: Zezza, Alberto
name: Di Giuseppe, Stefania
name: Davis, Benjamin
name: Covarrubias, Katia
name: Stamoulis, Kostas G.
name: Winters, Paul C.
name: Carletto, Calogero
name: Quinones, Esteban
name: Zezza, Alberto
name: Di Giuseppe, Stefania
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics

description: This paper uses a newly constructed cross country database composed of comparable variables and aggregates from household surveys to examine the full range of income generating activities carried out by rural households in order to determine: 1) the relative importance of the gamut of income generating activities in general and across wealth categories; 2), the relative importance of diversification versus specialization at the household level; and 3) the influence of rural income generating activities on poverty and inequality. Analysis of the RIGA cross country dataset paints a clear picture of multiple activities across rural space and diversification across rural households. This is true across countries in all four continents, though less so in the African countries included in the dataset. For most countries the largest share of income stems from off farm activities, and the largest share of households have diversified sources of income. Diversification, not specialization, is the norm, although most countries show significant levels of household specialization in non-agricultural activities as well. Nevertheless, agricultural based sources of income remain critically important for rural livelihoods in all countries, both in terms of the overall share of agriculture in rural incomes as well as the large share of households that still specialize in agricultural sources of income.
Market Assessment and Development for Organically Grown Produce in Armenia
Creators: name: Urutyan, Vardan E.
name: Urutyan, Vardan E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: organic produce
subject: market assessment
subject: willingness-to-pay
subject: certification.

description: Until recently it could have been said that organic farming was an intermittent technique limited to only a few countries. However, in the last few years a boom was emerged which has led to a drastically different situation when this technique is widely used in almost all the countries and is currently flourishing. Armenia is not exclusion in this regard. Armenia has the potential for developing high value organic production of a variety products like: fresh and processed fruits and vegetables, honey and aquaculture products, medicinal and culinary herbs. Appropriate altitude from sea level and the climate create favorable conditions for Armenia to grow a variety of organic fruits and vegetables. In particular, Armenia is rich with apples, apricots, pears, plums, pomegranates, cherries and strawberries. As for vegetables, the following products are expected to be competitive also in foreign markets when produced using organic methods: onion, radish, garlic, cabbage, spinach, asparagus, tomato, eggplant, bean, pepper, carrot, watermelon and many others. The study determines the level of knowledge about organic products in Armenia, analyzes the potential consumers attitudes towards organic foods and reveal the critical aspects that distinguish organic products. The study focuses on the potential Armenian consumer of organic produce. The study will empirically evaluate which demographic characteristics cause consumers to be more willing-to-pay for organically grown produce in Armenia. The likelihood of paying a premium for organic produce will also be evaluated. .
Effects of a Potentiation Method of Resisted Sled Sprint Training On Mechanical Sprint Performance in Young Soccer Players
Creators: name: ZAHIDI, Soufiane
name: AIT ALI BRAHAM, Mounir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sprint ; Speed ; Acceleration Soccer ; Resistance sled

description: This study compared the effects of two training sessions with a resistance sled, weighing ±15 % of the subject's mass, on the acceleration and maximum speed of young footballers (N = 16). the players on were randomly divided into three groups, a control group (C), a group carrying out combined training (C + S) or carrying out training with a sled only (CH). The training program consists on two sprint workouts per week for four weeks. Following the programs, the C + S and CH groups had significant gains on 0-30 (p = 0.02) and (p = 0.04) respectively. The CH group also had a significant gain on 0-20 (p = 0.04). Without further improvement of the other groups. To conclude, the method with the sled alone seems to allow the best performance
Longitudinal assessment of the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS) - Is there a learning effect in ALS patients?
Creators: name: Burkhardt, Christian
name: Neuwirth, Christoph
name: Weber, Markus
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Background: Cognitive deficits and behavioral changes are well recognized symptoms in ALS. The Edinburgh cognitive and behavioral ALS screen (ECAS) (1,2) has been recently validated in several languages as a fast and easy to administer cognitive screening tool for clinical routine. However, it is unclear how ALS patients perform, if the testing is applied serially.

Objective: To assess if controls and/or patients show a learning effect overtime in the ECAS and if patients show a progression of cognitive or behavioral changes.
Methods: A previously validated Swiss-German version of the ECAS was administered serially in 40 ALS patients and 49 controls. In addition, the frontal assessment battery (FAB) was administered and carer behavior screens were performed.

Results: Twenty-four ALS patients and healthy controls were available for a second ECAS testing. Mean time between the two measurements was 205 days in controls and 195 days in ALS patients. In 15 controls and 17 ALS patients the FAB could be repeated after 6 months. Nine ALS patients performed the ECAS and 5 the FAB for a third time after more than one year. Sixteen carer behavior screens were performed in second and 4 in third testing. Administration of ECAS was complete in all ALS patients at each measurement. The FAB could not completely be applied in several patients after 6 months and more than one year due to motoric deficits. Controls showed a significantly higher overall score (p<0.001) and significantly higher score in several subdomains (ALS-specific p<0.005, ALS-non-specific p <0.017, memory p<0.02, language p<0.025, executive functions p<0.01) except for visuospatial function and fluency after 6 months. ALS patients showed no significant difference in overall scores or any subdomains after 6 months and after one year. The FAB could not detect any significant differences between controls and ALS patients. Behavioral changes were increasingly described in the carer behaviour interviews.

Discussion and Conclusions: The Swiss-German version of the ECAS is a fast and easy to administer cognitive screening instrument and even applicable in later disease stages of ALS. Controls show a significant learning effect in a second testing after 6 months in most domains.  By contrast, ALS patients seem to have no learning effect but present with progressive behavioral symptoms during the course of the disease
In-situ electric field control of THz non-reciprocal directional dichroism in the multiferroic Ba$_2$CoGe$_2$O$_7$
Creators: name: Vít, J.
name: Viirok, J.
name: Peedu, L.
name: Rõõm, T.
name: Nagel, U.
name: Kocsis, V.
name: Tokunaga, Y.
name: Taguchi, Y.
name: Tokura, Y.
name: Kézsmárki, I.
name: Balla, P.
name: Penc, K.
name: Romhányi, J.
name: Bordács, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-reciprocal directional dichroism, also called the optical-diode effect, is an appealing functional property inherent to the large class of non-centrosymmetric magnets. However, the in-situ electric control of this phenomenon is challenging as it requires a set of conditions to be fulfilled: Special symmetries of the magnetic ground state, spin-excitations with comparable magnetic- and electric-dipole activity and switchable electric polarization. We demonstrate the isothermal electric switch between domains of Ba$_2$CoGe$_2$O$_7$ possessing opposite magnetoelectric susceptibilities. Combining THz spectroscopy and multiboson spin-wave analysis, we show that unbalancing the population of antiferromagnetic domains generates the non-reciprocal light absorption of spin excitations.
description: version accepted
The Mesolens Project at the University of Strathclyde
Creators: name: McConnell, Gail
name: Tragardh, Johanna
name: Rumelo Amor
name: Dempster, John
name: Es Reid
name: Amos, William Bradshaw
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The need for a new type of microscope lens was realized by W.B. Amos in 1987, when low-power objectives gave poor optical sectioning in the newly-developed MRC 500 point-scanning confocal microscope. The reason was that conventional objectives such the 4x NA 0.2 had very poor axial resolution (ca. 30 um) because the point spread function is elongated axially.

Many researchers have tried to overcome this problem by the use of higher magnification objectives and stitching large numbers of images, but such objectives generally have too small a working distance to access more than 0.5 mm depth and a stitched mosaic  usually shows the fall-off of image intensity and quality at each boundary. As well as being slow and laborious, stitching is often imperfect because the specimen shifts in height while being translated horizontally.

We have developed a very large multi-immersion lens that we call the "Mesolens", which has an unusual combination of low magnification and high numerical aperture. This provides a wide field of view, a long working distance, and sub-cellular resolution fluorescence images of large volumes of tissue such as brain slices or mouse embryos. We report here data on the technical performance of the Mesolens, and present images of large biomedical cell specimens obtained using the Mesolens in epifluorescence and confocal laser scanning modes.
More Market, Less Poverty, But Also More Sustainable Land Use?
Creators: name: Gandonou, Esaie
name: Burger, Kees
name: Gandonou, Esaie
name: Burger, Kees
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The main question in this research is to what extent agriculture on fragile slopes would become more sustainable if the farmers were given more possibilities for selling their products and acquiring production resources. An empirical study conducted in northern Benin demonstrates that a more accessible market does not lead to substantial increase in soil erosion control measures. The results indicated clearly that a closer market has positive effects on the yields of grain, and provides farmers with more opportunities to grow other, more commercial, crops or to undertake other profitable activities. Investments in an improved infrastructure can therefore contribute to improved agricultural returns, and these higher returns increase the attractiveness of soil conservation.
A quasi-time-dependent radiative transfer model of OH104.9+2.4
Creators: name: Riechers, D.
name: Balega, Y.
name: Driebe, T.
name: Hofmann, K. -H.
name: Men'shchikov, A. B.
name: Shenavrin, V. I.
name: Weigelt, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the pulsation-phase dependent properties of the circumstellar dust shell (CDS) of the OH/IR star OH104.9+2.4 based on radiative transfer modeling (RTM) using the code DUSTY. Our previous study concerning simultaneous modeling of the spectral energy distribution (SED) and near-infrared (NIR) visibilities (Riechers et al. 2004) has now been extended by means of a more detailed analysis of the pulsation-phase dependence of the model parameters of OH104.9+2.4. In order to investigate the temporal variation in the spatial structure of the CDS, additional NIR speckle interferometric observations in the K' band were carried out with the 6 m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). At a wavelength of 2.12 micron the diffraction-limited resolution of 74 mas was attained. Several key parameters of our previous best-fitting model had to be adjusted in order to be consistent with the newly extended amount of observational data. It was found that a simple rescaling of the bolometric flux F_bol is not sufficient to take the variability of the source into account, as the change in optical depth over a full pulsation cycle is rather high. On the other hand, the impact of a change in effective temperature T_eff on SED and visibility is rather small. However, observations, as well as models for other AGB stars, show the necessity of including a variation of T_eff with pulsation phase in the radiative transfer models. Therefore, our new best-fitting model accounts for these changes.
description: 7 pages, including 5 postscript figures and 3 tables. Published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. (v1: accepted version; v2: published version, minor grammatical changes)