cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Short-term Impact of Privatization on Firm Performance in Ethiopia: The case of Leather Industry
Creators: name: Yilma, Surafel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: Privatization is a very recent experience in Ethiopia though it is a worldwide phenomenon in the past three decades. This study aimed at investigating the potential impact of privatization on the financial and operating performance of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Leather sub sector as an effort to find out how the privatization of public enterprises may affect the financial and operational performance of these enterprises. The data were obtained from the annual financial reports of seven firms in the stated industry four years before and four years after privatization. Performance criteria were calculated and compared to determine whether there are differences among them in the pre- and post-privatization periods. The findings revealed that while privatization did not seriously affect privatized enterprises operating performance and profitability, it led to liquidity improvement, debt reduction, increased investments, and a decline in overstaffing. Key words: Privatization and Efficiency
In silico validation of novel inhibitors of malarial aspartyl protease, plasmepsin V and antimalarial efficacy prediction
Creators: name: Sharma, Prem Prakash
name: Kumar, Sumit
name: Kaushik, Kumar
name: Singh, Archana
name: Singh, Indrakant K.
name: Grishina, Maria
name: Pandey, Kailash C.
name: Singh, Pushpendra
name: Potemkin, Vladimir
name: Poonam
name: Singh, Geeta
name: Rathi, Brijesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Plasmepsin V (Plm V) is an essential aspartic protease required for survival of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum (Pf). Plm V is required for cleaving the PEXEL motifs of many Pf proteins and its inhibition leads to a knockout effect, indicating its suitability as potential drug target. To decipher new inhibitors of PfPlm V, molecular docking of four HIV-1 protease inhibitors active against PfPlmV was performed on Glide module of Schrödinger suite that supported saquinavir as a lead drug, and therefore, selected as a control. Saquinavir contains an important hydroxyethylamine (HEA) pharmacophore, which was utilized as backbone coupled with piperazine scaffold to build new library of compounds. Newly designed HEA compounds were screened virtually against Plm V. Molecular docking led to a few hits (1 and 3) with higher docking score over the control drug. Notably, compound 1 showed the highest docking score (–11.90 kcal/mol) and XP Gscore (–11.948 kcal/mol). The Prime MMGBSA binding free energy for compound 1 (–60.88 kcal/mol) and 3 (–50.96 kcal/mol) was higher than saquinavir (–37.51 kcal/mol). The binding free energy for the last frame of molecular dynamic simulation supported compound 1 (–92.88 kcal/mol) as potent inhibitor of PfPlm V over saquinavir (–72.77 kcal/mol), and thus, deserves experimental validations in culture and subsequently in animal models. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
The assessment of development proposals for wilderness areas : a new approach incorporating a case study in the Baw Baw Alpine Reserve
Creators: name: McKenry., Keith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Star formation and gas flows in the centre of the NUGA galaxy NGC 1808 observed with SINFONI
Creators: name: Busch, Gerold
name: Eckart, Andreas
name: Valencia-S., Mónica
name: Fazeli, Nastaran
name: Scharwächter, Julia
name: Combes, Françoise
name: García-Burillo, Santiago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 1808 is a nearby barred spiral galaxy which hosts young stellar clusters in a patchy circumnuclear ring with a radius of $\sim 240\,\mathrm{pc}$. In order to study the gaseous and stellar kinematics and the star formation properties of the clusters, we perform seeing-limited $H+K$-band near-infrared integral-field spectroscopy with SINFONI of the inner $\sim 600\,\mathrm{pc}$. From the $M_\mathrm{BH}-σ_*$ relation, we find a black hole mass of a few $10^7\,M_\odot$. We estimate the age of the young stellar clusters in the circumnuclear ring to be $\lesssim 10\,\mathrm{Myr}$. No age gradient along the ring is visible. However, the starburst age is comparable to the travel time along the ring, indicating that the clusters almost completed a full orbit along the ring during their life time. In the central $\sim 600\,\mathrm{pc}$, we find a hot molecular gas mass of $\sim 730\,M_\odot$ which, with standard conversion factors, corresponds to a large cold molecular gas reservoir of several $10^8\,M_\odot$, in accordance with CO measurements from the literature. The gaseous and stellar kinematics show several deviations from pure disc motion, including a circumnuclear disc and signs of a nuclear bar potential. In addition, we confirm streaming motions on $\sim 200\,\mathrm{pc}$ scale that have recently been detected in CO(1-0) emission. Due to our enhanced angular resolution of $<1\,\mathrm{arcsec}$, we find further streaming motion within the inner arcsecond, that have not been detected until now. Despite the flow of gas towards the centre, no signs for significant AGN activity are found. This raises the questions what determines whether the infalling gas will fuel an AGN or star formation.
description: 19 pages, 19 figures, 3 tables; accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Buyers' Attitude towards Life Insurance Policy Purchase: a Case Study on Ethiopian Insurance Corporation (EIC)
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Zekarias
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2010

description: This project is designed to investigate buyers' attitudes towards life insurance policy purchase in Ethiopian Insurance Corporation (EIC). To this end; the study has the objective to investigate buyers' attitude towards purchase of life insurance policy and what factors significantly affect buyers' attitude to the purchase of life insurance policy. Primary data were collected through questionnaires. The questionnaire was distributed to 120 sample buyers of life insurance policy from EIC that are classified in to 4 groups or strata for the purpose of easy access and each stratum has again 30 samples selected purposively in which only 98 were fully completed and returned. Mainly this research used the Chi-square- test of independence with ( = 0.05. On the basis of the data obtained from the respondents and results of the tests, the study identified that demographical factors play considerable role of varying degrees on buyers' attitude towards life insurance policy purchase. Particularly age, educational status, income level, and working status of buyers all have significant impact of varying degrees on attitudes towards life insurance purchase. Surprisingly sex, religion with the exception of Muslim religion, and number of dependents that a buyer posses for financial support all proved not to have significant impact on life insurance purchase attitude of buyers.
The Effect Of Customs Clearing Process On Cargo Operation And Logistics Performance: In The Case Of Ethiopian Airlines
Creators: name: Zewdu, Sidrak
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Customs clearing function plays important role in country development through the planning, implementation and control of processes linked to material, information and financial flows. The main objective of this study was to examine the effect of customs clearing process in cargo operation and logistics performance of Ethiopian airlines cargo section with respect to lodgment of customs declaration, Verification and assessment of documents and Evaluation and release of Goods. Data was collected using observation, interview and questionnaires which is analyzed using SPSS. Descriptive analysis namely percentage, mean and standard deviation; and inferential analysis namely Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression were employed. The study indicated that customs clearing activity strongly affects cargo operation and logistics performance of the airline. The study revealed that lodgment of customs declaration usually started lately for shipments that stayed more than a month in Ethiopian cargo warehouse. The study also showed that there was significant relationship customs clearing activity and warehouse operation through observation and interview results. The study recommended automating customs clearing operation through government bodies and balance cargo operation costs
The “Rats” on Chinese Internet: A Bakhtinian view on Chinese Online Subculture of “Sun Bar”
Creators: name: Chen, Tiankuang
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chinese online discourse
subject: Bakhtin
subject: Carnivalesque
subject: Subculture

description: The cyberspace in China tends to be viewed as a restrictive environment through which government apparatus spreads its official discourses and ideologies. However, there are communities in which the “main rhythm(主旋律)” propaganda is often suspended, if not challenged. In these communities, Chinese netizens express through unique metaphors, jargons, and alternatives to show their attitudes and thoughts toward the grand narrative dominating Chinese public sphere. This study focuses on one of these online communities, which is called “Sun Xiao Chuan Forum(孙笑川吧)” with the analytical framework of Mikhail Bakhtin. Using Bakhtin's concept of "marketplace", this study argues that the the systematic discourse of Sun bar provides young netizens the space to express their attitudes, struggles, and dissatisfactions facing the immutability of society and the uncompromising official ideology.
Diffractive Imaging of Coherent Nuclear Motion in Isolated Molecules
Creators: name: Yang, Jie
name: Guehr, Markus
name: Shen, Xiaozhe
name: Li, Renkai
name: Vecchione, Theodore
name: Coffee, Ryan
name: Corbett, Jeff
name: Fry, Alan
name: Hartmann, Nick
name: Hast, Carsten
name: Hegazy, Kareem
name: Jobe, Keith
name: Makasyuk, Igor
name: Robinson, Joseph
name: Robinson, Matthew S.
name: Vetter, Sharon
name: Weathersby, Stephen
name: Yoneda, Charles
name: Wang, Xijie
name: Centurion, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observing the motion of the nuclear wavepackets during a molecular reaction, in both space and time, is crucial for understanding and controlling the outcome of photoinduced chemical reactions. We have imaged the motion of a vibrational wavepacket in isolated iodine molecules using ultrafast electron diffraction with relativistic electrons. The time-varying interatomic distance was measured with a precision 0.07 Å and temporal resolution of 230 fs full-width at half-maximum (FWHM). The method is not only sensitive to the position but also the shape of the nuclear wavepacket.
Real Exchange Rate and Trade Balance in Sierra Leone: an Empirical Investigation
Creators: name: Tarawalie, Abu Bakarr
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2003

description: This study has analysed time-series models of trade balance and real exchange rate in the economy of Sierra Leone. More specifically, an attempt has been made to analyse the impact of exchange rate misalignment on the trade balance. The study also examines the role of real and nominal disturbance in explaining the movement of the real exchange rate in Sierra Leone. The study employs the Johansen maximum likelihood procedure in multivariate model to arrive at the long run model. Also, the Hendry's general-to –specific method was used in order to get the short run model. Results of the study suggest that net capital inflow tends to appreciate the real exchange rate, while both the terms of trade and openness (which is a proxy for trade policy) tends to have a depreciating effect on the real exchange rate. Moreover, the error correction model shows that nominal devaluation and excess supply of domestic credit have significant effects on the real exchange rate. Nominal devaluation tends to depreciate the real exchange rate, while excess supply of domestic credit tends to appreciate it. Further more, the impact of the civil war has a depreciating effect on the real exchange rate. The study also reveals that the real exchange rate has been misaligned. In the trade balance equation, real income tends to improve the trade balance, while real money supply has a deteriorating effect on the trade balance. Also, the real exchange rate misalignment variable was found to have a deteriorating effect on the trade balance. In the error correction model, both the real exchange rate misalignment and the dummy for war variables tend to have a deteriorating effect on the trade balance
Optimal strategies for the maintenance function
Creators: name: Mathew., Subhash
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Evaluation of the antiglycating potential of thymoquinone and its interaction with BSA
Creators: name: Kumar, Dinesh
name: Desa, Amisha
name: Chougle, Sana
name: Bhatkalkar, Shruti G.
name: Sachar, Shilpee
name: Kumar, C. Selvaa
name: Ali, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Thymoquinone (TQ) is a bioactive component of medicinal plant, Nigella sativa. It has been identified as promising anti-inflammatory and anti-analgesic properties. In the present study, the TQ has been investigated for physiological interaction as well as binding properties with serum albumin and their thermodynamic parameters at different temperatures. Glycation process was checked with the measurement of fructosamine content, carbonyl content and total advanced glycated end products. The aggregation of amyloid β-structure was measured with Thioflavin-T and the secondary structure of BSA was observed by circular dichroism (CD) in glycated and thermal treated samples. The results indicate that the TQ showed binding interaction (both static and dynamic) with BSA (Kb= 18.31 × 107 M−1 at 293 K) and suppression of glycated products. The glycation-induced and thermal aggregation were prevented and the secondary structure of BSA was maintained. Therefore, these findings suggest that TQ may be used for a therapeutic drug for antiglycation as well as anti-aggregation. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Nonlinear modification of the laser noise power spectrum induced by a frequency-shifted optical feedback
Creators: name: Lacot, Eric
name: Houchmandzadeh, Bahram
name: Girardeau, Vadim
name: Hugon, Olivier
name: Jacquin, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we study the non-linear coupling between the stationary (i.e. the beating modulation signal) and transient (i.e. the laser quantum noise) dynamics of a laser subjected to frequency shifted optical feedback. We show how the noise power spectrum and more specifically the relaxation oscillation frequency of the laser are modified under different optical feedback condition. Specifically we study the influence of (i) the amount of light returning to the laser cavity and (ii) the initial detuning between the frequency shift and intrinsic relaxation frequency. The present work shows how the relaxation frequency is related to the strength of the beating signal and the shape of the noise power spectrum gives an image of the Transfer Modulation Function (i.e. of the amplification gain) of the nonlinear-laser dynamics.The theoretical predictions, confirmed by numerical resolutions, are in good agreements with the experimental data.
description: in Physical Review, American Physical Society (APS), 2016
Education for Human Capacity Building: Achievements and Shortcomings in the Ethiopian Experience
Creators: name: Fasika, Chekol
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The study has examined the reasons behind the delinking of education and economic development in Ethiopia. The growth of the economy was declining over time due to the growth of unemployment and underemployments of the educated labor force. For this, the misdirected education system was a major factor for the production of unskilled labor force that couldn't be productive and job creator. Of which the Poor enrolment of vocational courses, method of delivery, absence of relevant inputs, absence of industrial linkage as well as the existence of unskilled teachers were the main determinants affecting the quality of education system. In addition, the development of the Ethiopian Educational Road-Map does not also review the relevance of education outcome which is similar to the existing education system. Taking into consideration the human capacity building, the ministry of education should revise the education Road-Map urgently.
Mathematical aspects of the nuclear glory phenomenon: from backward focusing to Chebyshev polynomials
Creators: name: Kopeliovich, Vladimir B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The angular dependence of the cumulative particles production off nuclei near the kinematical boundary for multistep process is defined by characteristic polynomials in angular variables $J_N^2(z_N^θ)$, where $θ$ is the polar angle defining the momentum of the final (cumulative) particle, $z_N^θ= cos (θ/N)$, the integer $N$ being the multiplicity of the process (the number of interactions). Physical argumentation, exploring the small phase space method, leads to the appearance of equations for these polynomials $J_N^2[cos(π/N)]=0$. The recurrent relations between polynomials with different $N$ are obtained, and their connection with known in mathematics Chebyshev polynomials of 2-d kind is established. As a result of this equality, differential cross section of the cumulative particle production has characteristic behaviour $dσ\sim 1/ \sqrt {π- θ}$ at $θ\sim π$ (the backward focusing effect). Such behaviour takes place for any multiplicity of the interaction, beginning with $n=3$, elastic or inelastic (with resonances excitations in intermediate states), and can be called the nuclear glory phenomenon, or 'Buddha's light' of cumulative particles.
description: 9 pages; talk, presented at the 2-d International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics, 10-14 October 2016, MEPHI (Milan hotel), Moscow
Hydrodynamics of a fluidized bed with circulating fines
Creators: name: Mathers., Belinda Jane
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The Gamma-Ray Pulsar Population of Globular Clusters: Implications for the GeV Excess
Creators: name: Hooper, Dan
name: Linden, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been suggested that the GeV excess, observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, might originate from a population of millisecond pulsars that formed in globular clusters. With this in mind, we employ the publicly available Fermi data to study the gamma-ray emission from 157 globular clusters, identifying a statistically significant signal from 25 of these sources (ten of which are not found in existing gamma-ray catalogs). We combine these observations with the predicted pulsar formation rate based on the stellar encounter rate of each globular cluster to constrain the gamma-ray luminosity function of millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way's globular cluster system. We find that this pulsar population exhibits a luminosity function that is quite similar to those millisecond pulsars observed in the field of the Milky Way (i.e. the thick disk). After pulsars are expelled from a globular cluster, however, they continue to lose rotational kinetic energy and become less luminous, causing their luminosity function to depart from the steady-state distribution. Using this luminosity function and a model for the globular cluster disruption rate, we show that millisecond pulsars born in globular clusters can account for only a few percent or less of the observed GeV excess. Among other challenges, scenarios in which the entire GeV excess is generated from such pulsars are in conflict with the observed mass of the Milky Way's Central Stellar Cluster.
description: 29 pages, 10 figures
Sub-shot-noise transmission measurement using optically gated single photons
Creators: name: Sabines-Chesterking, J.
name: Whittaker, R.
name: Joshi, S. K.
name: Birchall, P. M.
name: Moreau, P. A.
name: McMillan, A.
name: Cable, H. V.
name: O'Brien, J. L.
name: Rarity, J. G.
name: Matthews, J. C. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Harnessing the unique properties of quantum mechanics offers the possibility to deliver new technologies that can fundamentally outperform their classical counterparts. These technologies only deliver advantages when components operate with performance beyond specific thresholds. For optical quantum metrology, the biggest challenge that impacts on performance thresholds is optical loss. Here we demonstrate how including an optical delay and an optical switch in a feed-forward configuration with a stable and efficient correlated photon pair source reduces the detector efficiency required to enable quantum enhanced sensing down to the detection level of single photons. When the switch is active, we observe a factor of improvement in precision of 1.27 for transmission measurement on a per input photon basis, compared to the performance of a laser emitting an ideal coherent state and measured with the same detection efficiency as our setup. When the switch is inoperative, we observe no quantum advantage.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Quantum mechanical study on complexation phenomenon of pillar[5]arene towards neutral dicyanobutane
Creators: name: Panneerselvam, Murugesan
name: Kumar, Madhu Deepan
name: Nisanth, Prasannan
name: Jaccob, Madhavan
name: Solomon, Rajadurai Vijay
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Based on density functional theory calculations, we have addressed the electronic structure, binding and nature of non-covalent interactions between alkylated pillar[5]arene (P[5]A) and 1,4-dicyanobutane (DCB)-based host-guest macrocycles. Neutral 1,4-dicyanobutane-based alkylated DCB_ProP[5]A is found to show higher binding energy when compared to the other three host-guest macrocycles. These complexes are largely stabilised by non-covalent interactions, which are ascertained through NCI and QTAIM analyses. Furthermore, the second-order perturbation energy of NBO analysis show that LP (N) – σ*(C-H) interactions predominate in DCB_ProP[5]A complex. Particularly, alkyl substituents (-methyl, -ethyl and -propyl) are playing a vital role in stabilising the host-guest complexes. In summary, the present work not only exhibits an efficient strategy to build a new family of alkylated P[5]A inclusion complexes but also providing deeper understanding on various non-covalent interactions towards 1,4-dicyanobutane (DCB) guest molecules inside the host environment.
Wide area selection for distributed hyperdocument search interfaces
Creators: name: Lowder., Jason
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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An Investigation into the Factors Affecting the Implementation of Agricultural Extension Program in Hintalo-Wajirat Wereda, South- Eastern Tigray, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Solomon, Ataklti
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Agriculture is the backbone of Ethiopian economy and 85% of Ethiopian population are living in rural areas based on agricultural economic activities. That is why the sector attracted the attention of the Government and NGOs in general and agricultural institutions in particular. As a result, agricultural extension program is one of the inputs for the development of the agricultural sector. However, agricultural extension program faced various challenges in Hintalo-Wajirat Wereda in its implementation process. Hence, the objective of this research is to explore the factors affecting the implementation of agricultural extension program in Hintalo-Wajirat Wereda. In doing this, exploratory and explanatory approaches with qualitative and quantitative methods are employed. However, the research has involved more of qualitative than quantitative method. Purposive and random sampling techniques are employed in order to select the study sites within Hintalo-Wajirat Wereda and study respondents respectively. To collect the required primary source of data, instruments of data collection which include questionnaire, interview, focus group discussion and practical site observation were used. Secondary source of data to strengthen the primary source of data was also carefully examined. In the study, it is revealed that lack of awareness, provision of education and training, absence of supervision and coordination, insufficient daily perdium, inadequate infrastructure, lack of credit service and expensive nature of the price of agricultural inputs were the major factors affecting the implementation of agricultural extension program in Hintalo-Wajirat Wereda. Based on the findings of the study, the research recommended that creating community awareness, providing educational and training facilities, supportive supervision and coordination, establishing sufficient infrastructural conditions, provision of sufficient allowance to agricultural extension workers and credit service to the rural households and increment of the price of agricultural inputs should be the focus of areas by the Governments and NGOs.
Additional file 1 of A study protocol outlining the development and evaluation of a training program for frontline managers on leading well-being and the psychosocial work environment in Danish hospital settings – a cluster randomized waitlist controlled trial
Creators: name: Dalgaard, V. L.
name: Gayed, A.
name: Hansen, A. K. L.
name: Grytnes, R.
name: Nielsen, K.
name: Kirkegaard, T.
name: Uldall, L.
name: Ingerslev, K.
name: Skakon, J.
name: Jacobsen, C. B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1.
Improving Beckner's bound via Hermite functions
Creators: name: Ivanisvili, Paata
name: Volberg, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B37, 52A40, 35K55, 46G12, 42C05, 60G15, 33C15

description: We obtain an improvement of the Beckner's inequality $\| f\|^{2}_{2} -\|f\|^{2}_{p} \leq (2-p) \| \nabla f\|_{2}^{2}$ valid for $p \in [1,2]$ and the Gaussian measure. Our improvement is essential for the intermediate case $p \in (1,2)$, and moreover, we find the natural extension of the inequality for any real $p$.
description: We have extended the result to any real power p
Neutrinophilic Non-Standard Interactions
Creators: name: Farzan, Yasaman
name: Heeck, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct UV-complete models for non-standard neutrino interactions mediated by a sub-GeV gauge boson Z' coupled to baryon number $B$ or $B-L$. A flavor-dependent Z' coupling to neutrinos is induced by mixing a U(1)'-charged Dirac fermion with the active neutrinos, naturally suppressing flavor violation or non-universality of the charged leptons to the loop level. We show that these models can give rise to large flavor-conserving as well as flavor-violating non-standard neutral-current neutrino interactions potentially observable in current or future oscillation experiments such as DUNE without being in conflict with other constraints such as neutrino scattering or lepton-flavor-violating decays. In particular, the LMA-Dark solution to the solar-neutrino anomaly can be obtained for $U(1)_B$, but not for $U(1)_{B-L}$.
description: 23 pages, minor changes, added references; matches PRD version
EDITORIAL
Creators: name: Medeiros, Robson Antão
Publisher: name: Universidade de Évora
Year: 2023

description: Hoje, viver mais e com qualidade, denota importante conquista da humanidade, em particular, no tocante aos avanços da medicina moderna, somadas, às condições de saúde mais favoráveis como fatores responsáveis na determinação da redução dos índices de mortalidade, entre pessoas idosas.
description: Revista Ibero-Americana de Saúde e Envelhecimento, v. 9, n. 3 (2023): RIASE
Operational Risk Management Practices (The Case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia)
Creators: name: Berhe, Hana
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: In doing business risk is inevitable and exposure to operational risk is inherent in banking activities, processes and systems. Banks therefore need to manage and keep this risk to an acceptable level. The objective of the study is to critically examine the operational risk management practices of banks in Ethiopia by taking Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) as a case. Managing Operational risk as an integrated process is a recent phenomenon especially in Ethiopian context and this study aims to examine the extent of operational risk management practices of CBE. The study was made through the combination of theory and empirical work. To achieve the study objectives survey research method was employed involving the use of both standardized questionnaire and personal interviews. Respondents were from various departments of the bank selected on the basis of their responsibilities for operational risk management. Statistical analysis in the form of percentages, means and standard deviations was employed to interpret the study findings. Effective Operational Risk Management should take into account the Risk Management Environment, Internal control and the Risk Culture of the bank. The outcome of the study revealed that the bank has an established framework to manage its operational risks, though some of its components are not always adhered to and need improvement. The bank needs to allocate adequate resources, create awareness and build the capacity of concerned staff, strengthen the risk culture, employ appropriate mechanisms for measurement and reporting of operational risk. As operational risk management practice is evolving, the bank is expected to continuously improve its approaches. Key words: Risk Management, Operational Risk, Operational Risk Management, Operational Risk management Environment, Internal Control, Risk Culture
Maximum efficiency of the collisional Penrose process
Creators: name: Zaslavskii, O. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider collision of two particles that move in the equatorial plane near a general stationary rotating axially symmetric extremal black hole. One of particles is critical (with fine-tuned parameters) and moves in the outward direction. The second particle (usual, not fine-tuned) comes from infinity. We examine the efficiency $η$ of the collisional Penrose process. There are two relevant cases here: (i) a particle falling into a black hole after collision is heavy, (ii) it has a finite mass. We show that the maximum of $η$ in case (ii) is less or equal to that in case (i). It is argued that for superheavy particles, the bound applies to nonequatorial motion as well. As an example, we analyze collision in the Kerr-Newman background. When the bound is the same for processes (i) and (ii), $η=3$ for this metric. For the Kerr black hole, recent results in literature are reproduced.
description: 18 pages. Typos corrected. Title somewhat modified according to suggestions of editors of PRD
„Friedel, was die Leute sich mit einem Mal so erkundigen“
Creators: name: Mensing, Petra
Publisher: name: Hannover : ecrivir-die textmacher
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nachkriegszeit
subject: Paketsendung
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::900 | Geschichte und Geografie::940 | Geschichte Europas::943 | Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: Petra Mensing greift auf den familiären Bestand des Briefwechsels, auf die intensive Kommunikation ihrer Großeltern mit der in den USA lebenden Schwester des Großvaters, Minna Johanne Faltin, genannt Minnie, zurück. Dabei geht es konkret um Hilfeleistungen aus Übersee, die in Form prallgefüllter Pakete in Bissendorf eintrafen. Diese privaten Postsendungen, insbesondere aber auch die „Care-Pakete“ konnten sogar lebenswichtig sein, wie Petra Mensing in einem einführenden Abschnitt erläutert. Ein „Blick“ in die Pakete zeigt uns dann im Detail, welche Geschenke 1946/48 Familie Alschner aus New York erreichten und was manche Gabe auslöste.
Identification of potential inhibitors of Schistosoma mansoni purine nucleoside phosphorylase from neolignan compounds using molecular modelling approaches
Creators: name: Cardoso, Fábio José Bonfim
name: Xavier, Luciana Pereira
name: Santos, Agenor Valadares
name: Pereira, Humberto D’Muniz
name: da Silva Santos, Lourivaldo
name: de Molfetta, Fábio Alberto
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that is part of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which cause significant levels of morbidity and mortality in millions of people throughout the world. The enzyme purine nucleoside phosphorylase from Schistosoma mansoni (SmPNP) represents a potential target for discovering new agents, and neolignans stand out as an important class of compounds. In this work, molecular modeling studies and biological assays of a set of neolignans were conducted against the PNP enzymes of the parasite and the human homologue (HssPNP). The results of the molecular docking described that the neolignans showed good complementarity by the active site of SmPNP. Molecular dynamics (MD) studies revealed that both complexes (Sm/HssPNP - neolignan compounds) were stable by analyzing the root mean square deviation (RMSD) values, and the binding free energy values suggest that the selected structures can interact and inhibit the catalytic activity of the SmPNP. Finally, the biological assay indicated that the selected neolignans presented a better molecular profile of inhibition compared to the human enzyme, as these ligands did not have the capacity to inhibit enzymatic activity, indicating that these compounds are promising candidates and that they can be used in future research in chemotherapy for schistosomiasis. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Isa 59,21 et 2Sam 23,1-7, l'opposition entre les lignées sacerdotales et royales à l'époque post-exilique
Creators: name: Gosse, Bernard
Publisher: name: Biblische Notizen
Year: 1970

description: Biblische Notizen, Bd. 68 (1993): Biblische Notizen, Band 68
Petri net modelling and analysis of real-time systems based on net structure
Creators: name: Ling., Sea
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
Creators: name: Weldu, Mulay
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: This study examines the effects of taxes and government spending on economic growth in Ethiopia. This was accomplished using a SVAR framework following Blanchard and Perotti's (1999) identification methodology on data spanning from the second quarter of 1995 to the second quarter of 2008 Ethiopian fiscal year. The result for the contemporaneous effect of government spending and revenues on real GDP growth has the expected signs. The result shows that the effect of government spending on GDP is positive (0.57 percent) and significant. This means government can stimulate the economy through its spending. Similarly, the sign on tax effect on GDP is negative. However, the effect of tax is statistically insignificant. We have also examined the dynamic responses of real GDP growth rate to changes in real government spending and real government tax revenues. We find that the effects of government expenditure shocks in Ethiopia appear to be positive but small as compared to the Keynesian fiscal multiplier. The sign of the effects of tax policy changes are less clear cut, but again the effects on GDP appear similarly modest. Past fiscal policy is analyzed through a historical decomposition of the shocks in the model and much of the changes in GDP come from itself followed by government spending. The important policy implication of the study is government to continue the expenditure trend but be cautious of the tax. Financing government spending needs a careful consideration so as to continue spending's effect in stimulating the economy. The effect of Tax on GDP growth is negative, which requires expanding the existing narrow tax base which in turn necessitates increasing the capacity to collect and administer tax. Therefore, the key policy implication is that the Government should continue investing in what has been the trend in the study period; however, it should be cautious of the impact of taxes. Key Words: Fiscal Policy, Economic Growth, Structural VAR, Identification.
Synthesis, α-glucosidase and α-amylase inhibitory activities, acute toxicity and molecular docking studies of thiazolidine-2,4-diones derivatives
Creators: name: Fettach, Saad
name: Thari, Fatima Zahra
name: Hafidi, Zakaria
name: Tachallait, Hamza
name: Karrouchi, Khalid
name: achouri, Mohammed El
name: Cherrah, Yahia
name: Sefrioui, Hassan
name: Bougrin, Khalid
name: Faouzi, My El Abbes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: In the present study, a series of thiazolidine-2,4-diones derivatives (3a–3e) and (4a–4e) were synthesized and characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and ESI-MS spectrometry. All compounds were screened for their α-glucosidase and α-amylase inhibitory activities. In vitro biological investigations revealed that most of compounds were active against α-glucosidase with IC50 values in the range of 43.85 ± 1.06 to 380.10 ± 1.02 µM, and α-amylase with IC50 in the range of 18.19 ± 0.11 to 208.10 ± 1.80 µM. Some of the tested compounds were found to be more potent inhibitors than the clinical drug Acarbose (IC50glucosidase = 97.12 ± 0.35 µM and IC50amylase = 2.97 ± 0.004 μM). The lead compounds were evaluated for their acute toxicity on Swiss mice and found to be completely non-toxic with LD > 2000 mg/kg BW. Furthermore, the Structure–activity relationship (SAR) and the binding interactions of all compounds with the active site of α-glucosidase and α-amylase were confirmed through molecular docking and stabilizing energy calculations. This study has identified the inhibitory potential a new class of synthesized thiazolidine-2,4-diones in controlling both hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Furthermore, the theoretical binding mode of the target molecules was evaluated by molecular docking studies against the 3D Crystal Structure of human pancreatic α-amylase (PDB ID: 1B2Y) and α-glucosidase (PDB ID: 3W37) Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Full Characterization of Oscillatory Localization of Quantum Walks
Creators: name: Ambainis, Andris
name: Prūsis, Krišjānis
name: Vihrovs, Jevgēnijs
name: Wong, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discrete-time quantum walks are well-known for exhibiting localization, a quantum phenomenon where the walker remains at its initial location with high probability. In companion with a joint Letter, we introduce oscillatory localization, where the walker alternates between two states. The walk is given by the flip-flop shift, which is easily defined on non-lattice graphs, and the Grover coin. Extremely simple examples of the localization exist, such as a walker jumping back and forth between two vertices of the complete graph. We show that only two kinds of states, called flip states and uniform states, exhibit exact oscillatory localization. So the projection of an arbitrary state onto these gives a lower bound on the extent of oscillatory localization. Thus we completely characterize the states that oscillate under the quantum walk.
description: Paper withdrawn by the authors and merged into arXiv:1606.02136
G-Quadruplex binding of cavity-containing anthraquinonesulfonyl-β-cyclodextrin conjugate. Effect of encapsulation of ethidium bromide and berberine
Creators: name: Soundarapandian, Suganthi
name: Alexander, Aleyamma
name: Pillai, Archana Sumohan
name: Enoch, Israel V. M. V.
name: Yousuf, Sameena
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: An anthraquinonesulfonyl derivative of β-cyclodextrin is prepared and characterized employing spectroscopic techniques. The binding interactions of the compound with ethidium bromide, berberine, calf-thymus DNA, quadruplex DNAs viz., kit22, telo24, and myc22 are investigated by ultraviolet-visible, and fluorescence spectroscopic methods. Anthraquinonesulfonyl-β-cyclodextrin conjugate acts as a host molecule and enhances ethidium bromide and berberine fluorescence due to their encapsulation in cyclodextrin’s cavity. The binding constant values are 9.0 × 105 mol−1 dm3 and 5.7 × 104 mol−1 dm3 for the formation of host: guest complexes of the β-CD derivative with ethidium bromide and berberine respectively. The proximity of the protons of ethidium bromide and berberine protons with those of the internal cavity of β-CD in the anthraquinonesulfonyl-β-CD conjugate is confirmed by two-dimensional rotating-frame Overhauser effect spectroscopy. The conjugate displays a quenching of fluorescence selectively to the quadruplexes kit22 and telo24 that is contrast to the spectral behavior with duplex DNA. ctDNA and myc22 exhibit different absorption and emission profiles with ethidium bromide on encapsulation by β-CD. The encapsulation of berberine leads to a fluorescence enhancement on binding to ctDNA, telo24, and myc22 with binding constants of 5.6 × 105, 3.3 × 105 mol−1 dm3, and 1.5 × 105 mol−1 dm3 respectively. In contrast, kit22 leads to fluorescence quenching on berberine encapsulated-anthraquinonesulfonyl-β-cyclodextrin conjugate with a Stern-Volmer constant of 3.3 × 105 mol−1 dm3. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
On the radial derivative of the delta distribution
Creators: name: Brackx, Fred
name: Sommen, Frank
name: Vindas, Jasson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46F05, 46F10, 15A66, 30G35

description: Possibilities for defining the radial derivative of the delta distribution $δ(\underline{x})$ in the setting of spherical coordinates are explored. This leads to the introduction of a new class of continuous linear functionals similar to but different from the standard distributions. The radial derivative of $δ(\underline{x})$ then belongs to that new class of so-called signumdistributions. It is shown that these signumdistributions obey easy-to-handle calculus rules which are in accordance with those for the standard distributions in $\mathbb{R}^m$.
description: 18 pages