cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gauge-Independent Scales Related to the Standard Model Vacuum Instability
Creators: name: Espinosa, Jose R.
name: Garny, Mathias
name: Konstandin, Thomas
name: Riotto, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measured (central) values of the Higgs and top quark masses indicate that the Standard Model (SM) effective potential develops an instability at high field values. The scale of this instability, determined as the Higgs field value at which the potential drops below the electroweak minimum, is about $10^{11}$ GeV. However, such a scale is unphysical as it is not gauge-invariant and suffers from a gauge-fixing uncertainty of up to two orders of magnitude. Subjecting our system, the SM, to several probes of the instability (adding higher order operators to the potential; letting the vacuum decay through critical bubbles; heating up the system to very high temperature; inflating it) and asking in each case physical questions, we are able to provide several gauge-invariant scales related with the Higgs potential instability.
description: 44 pages, 9 figures
Analysis of two-orbital correlations in wavefunctions restricted to electron-pair states
Creators: name: Boguslawski, Katharina
name: Tecmer, Paweł
name: Legeza, Örs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wavefunctions constructed from electron-pair states can accurately model strong electron correlation effects and are promising approaches especially for larger many-body systems. In this article, we analyze the nature and the type of electron correlation effects that can be captured by wavefunctions restricted to electron-pair states. We focus on the Antisymmetric Product of 1-reference orbital Geminal (AP1roG) method combined with an orbital optimization protocol presented in [Phys. Rev. B, 89, 201106(R), 2014] whose performance is assessed against electronic structures obtained form DMRG reference data. Our numerical analysis covers model systems for strong correlation: the one-dimensional Hubbard model with periodic boundary condition as well as metallic and molecular hydrogen rings. Specifically, the accuracy of AP1roG is benchmarked using the single-orbital entropy, the orbital-pair mutual information as well as the eigenvalue spectrum of the one-orbital and two-orbital reduced density matrices. Our study indicates that contributions from singly occupied states become important in the strong correlation regime which highlights the limitations of the AP1roG method. Furthermore, we examine the effect of orbital rotations within the AP1roG model on correlations between orbital pairs.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
Use of matrix methods for multi-reservoir yield analysis
Creators: name: Fletcher, Steven John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Which bulges are favoured by barred S0 galaxies?
Creators: name: Barway, Sudhanshu
name: Saha, Kanak
name: Vaghmare, Kaustubh
name: Kembhavi, Ajit K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: S0 galaxies are known to host classical bulges with a broad range of size and mass, while some such S0s are barred and some not. The origin of the bars has remained as a long-standing problem -- what made bar formation possible in certain S0s? By analysing a large sample of S0s with classical bulges observed by the Spitzer space telescope, we find that most of our barred S0s host comparatively low-mass classical bulges, typically with bulge-to-total ratio ($B/T$) less than $0.5$; whereas S0s with more massive classical bulges than these do not host any bar. Furthermore, we find that amongst the barred S0s, there is a trend for the longer and massive bars to be associated with comparatively bigger and massive classical bulges -- possibly suggesting bar growth being facilitated by these classical bulges. In addition, we find that the bulge effective radius is always less than the bar effective radius --indicating an interesting synergy between the host classical bulge and bars being maintained while bar growth occurred in these S0s.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters: 5 pages, 4 figures
The Effect of Capital Structure on Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Liku, Yohannes
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: This s tudy w as unde rtaken with the o bjective o f id entifying th e e ffect of c apital s tructure on microfinance institutions f inancial pe rformance i n E thiopia. T he study w as based on thirteen microfinance institutions, within the period of 2010-2015, which are practicing micro-financing business at pr esent. The c ollected s econdary dat a w ere anal yzed t hrough us age of pan el dat a analysis t echnique by t he he lp of e view 8.0 software and the finding s hows t hat m ost of t he microfinance i nstitutions had employed hi gh l everage. T he m ean t otal d ebt r atio was ar ound 63% as well as the average deposit to total asset ratio shows a mean value of 42.2%. All other variables e xcept f irm s ize do hav e a pos itive r elation w ith f inancial pe rformance measured by (profitability) of m icrofinance i nstitutions i n E thiopia. Finally, t he s tudy r ecommended t hat microfinance institutions in Ethiopia should employ more debt, which is up to optimal level in to their capital structure, so as to maximize their financial gain (profitability). Key words: Microfinance, Debt Financing, profitability, return on equity
Fusible alloy electrodes and multi-cation interfacial chemistry in alkali metal batteries
Creators: name: Guo, Xuelin
name: 0000-0002-2334-5015
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Liquid metal batteries
Interfacial chemistry
Alkali metal electrodes

description: Increasing need of portable and efficient energy storage technologies that delivers higher energy and higher power density became one of the most urgent tasks in this century. Lithium metal as one of the most promising anode materials for Li-ion batteries have severe intrinsic limitations, such as dendritic issue and interfacial contact issue, which could seriously degrade the battery performance and cause safety concerns. Therefore, to further push the energy storage capability of the next-generation batteries to a higher level, researchers dedicate their efforts to look for more suitable alternative anode materials and to gain deeper understanding for more efficient battery designs. The fusible alloys that have low melting-temperature close to or lower than room-temperature can be ideal replacements of Li metal to avoid dendrite formation while maintaining superior cyclability and high energy density. Fusible alloys, especially liquid Na-K alloy, have more benefits for being more abundant and both species can carry the charge. The low reduction potentials comparable to Li for both K and Na also help to boost the Na-K alloy energy density to be even higher. The capability of electronic conductivity as well as deformability further allows their applications in solid-state batteries, which have been suffering from poor interfacial charge transport and even more severe dendrite issues than using liquid electrolytes. Solid-state electrolytes being compatible with the alkali metal anodes could ideally deliver significantly enlarged energy and power density of an alkali-ion battery. The debate on battery interfacial chemistry have lasted for many years, and with current technologies, the electrode-electrolyte interfaces have not yet been completely understood. Whereas with the multi-cation system, the interfacial decomposition processes could be more clearly revealed. Due to the special wetting behavior and complicated multi-cation electrochemistry, the interfacial behavior of liquid metals is both more manipulatable and more unique than single-species systems. With understanding of fusible alloy mechanical, chemical, electrical, and electrochemical properties, the designs for higher stability and energy-density with self-healing, dendrite-free, hybrid-ion, flexible, and fluidic properties, as well as mechanism studies of the wettability, interfacial stability, and charge selection properties were carried out.
Cosmic vacuum energy decay and creation of cosmic matter
Creators: name: Fahr, H. J.
name: Heyl, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the more recent literature on cosmological evolutions of the universe the cosmic vacuum energy has become a non-renouncable ingredient. The cosmological constant $Λ$, first invented by Einstein, but later also rejected by him, presently experiences an astonishing revival. Interestingly enough it acts, like a constant vacuum energy density would also do. Namely, it has an accelerating action on cosmic dynamics without which, as it appears, presently obtained cosmological data cannot be conciliated with theory. As we are going to show in this review, however, the concept of a constant vacuum energy density is unsatisfactory for very basic reasons, since it would claim for a physical reality that acts upon spacetime and matter dynamics without itself being acted upon by spacetime or matter.
description: 16 pages
Controlling a nuclear spin in a nanodiamond
Creators: name: Knowles, Helena S.
name: Kara, Dhiren M.
name: Atatüre, Mete
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sensing capability of a single optically bright electronic spin in diamond can be enhanced by making use of proximal dark nuclei as ancillary spins. Such systems, so far only realized in bulk diamond, provide orders of magnitude higher sensitivity and spectral resolution in the case of magnetic sensing, as well as improved readout fidelity and state storage time in quantum information schemes. In nanodiamonds, which offer additional opportunities as mobile nanoscale sensors, electronic-nuclear spin complexes have remained inaccessible. We demonstrate coherent control of a 13C nuclear spin located 4Å from a nitrogen-vacancy center in a nanodiamond and show quantum-state transfer between the two components of this hybrid spin system. We extract a nuclear-spin free precession time of T2* = 26 us, which exceeds the bare electron free precession time in nanodiamond by two orders of magnitude.
The numerical modelling of selected axisymmetric problems in geomechanics
Creators: name: Sloan, Scott W.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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RIVERTEMP DELIVERABLE 3.1 - Best practices in identification of temporary rivers
Creators: name: Manfreda, Giammarco
name: Brichetto, Isabelle
name: Cavallo, Carmela
name: Dolianidi, Christina
name: Forte, Simone
name: González Costas, Almudena
name: Guglielmetto, Alessandro
name: Karakostas, Anastasios
name: Lilli, Maria
name: Negro, Giovanni
name: Nikolaidis, Nikolaos
name: Palau Salvador, Guillermo
name: Papa, Maria Nicolina
name: Pinna, Beatrice
name: Valta, Katerina
name: Vezza, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Temporary rivers
Remote sensing
RIVERTEMP

description: The RIVERTEMP is an EU-funded project that aims to implement tools and resources to fight climate change and its impact on temporary rivers and to support and develop green and digital capabilities in the higher education sector on this specific topic. Deliverable 3.1 - Best Practices in Identification of temporary rivers provided an overview of the literature and the regulatory framework developed thus far concerning temporary rivers and a summary of the best practices developed over the years to monitor and evaluate the status of this type of river.
Few-Body Route to One-Dimensional Quantum Liquids
Creators: name: Valiente, Manuel
name: Ohberg, Patrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gapless many-body quantum systems in one spatial dimension are universally described by the Luttinger liquid effective theory at low energies. Essentially, only two parameters enter the effective low-energy description, namely the speed of sound and the Luttinger parameter. These are highly system dependent and their calculation requires accurate non-perturbative solutions of the many-body problem. Here, we present a simple method that only uses collisional information to extract the low-energy properties of these systems. Our results are in remarkable agreement with available results for integrable models and from large scale Monte Carlo simulations of one-dimensional helium and hydrogen isotopes. Moreover, we estimate theoretically the critical point for spinodal decomposition in one-dimensional helium-4, and show that the exponent governing the divergence of the Luttinger parameter near the critical point is exactly 1/2, in excellent agreement with Monte Carlo simulations.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, including supplementary material
The Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Ethiopia: Benefits and Key Challenges
Creators: name: Fantahun, Fikru
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: This study aims to examine the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Ethiopia. The study focuses on examining the benefits and challenges of IFRS including the factors that could influence its adoption. To answer research questions and test the hypotheses the study adopted the mixed research approach. The questionnaire data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlations, and multiple linear regression analysis and data from interview and document reviews were interpreted qualitatively. The results show that IFRS adoption in Ethiopia will result in a number of important benefits to a wide range of stakeholders. High cost of adopting, the complex nature, lack of proper instructions from regulatory bodies for implementing IFRS, as well as IFRS's emphasis on fair value accounting, are listed among the most important challenges of IFRS adoption. The study also find that with the exception of government policy the other four variables which are professional bodies, capital market, educational level and company size significantly influence the adoption of IFRS in Ethiopia. Finally, the thesis displayed practical implications for the government of Ethiopia and regulatory bodies in setting a firm deadline for the IFRS adoption and in following the proper application of all the adopted standards. The findings also suggest that a rigorous IFRS capacity building program should be embarked by the government, all regulatory bodies, firms and training institutions in order to provide the needed manpower for IFRS implementation. Keywords: Adoption, International Financial Reporting Standards, Ethiopia
Liver kinase B1 modulation of tau expression and phosphorylation
Creators: name: Sabale, Miheer Baburao
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and macroscopically, AD brains present with moderate cortical atrophy. However, atrophy is not exclusive to AD and a positive diagnosis requires the presence of both insoluble extracellular amyloid β plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (NFT’s) comprised of paired helical fragments of tau (PHF-tau). The normal function of tau is to localize in the axonal compartment and modulate the assembly and organization of microtubules. In AD, tau is abnormally phosphorylated at both physiological and pathological sites causing it to detach from the microtubule network, change localization and associate with novel binding partners. Mounting evidence suggests that LKB1, traditionally classed as a tumor suppressor gene and a metabolic master kinase, also modulates tau phosphorylation. Of specific interest to this study are the LKB1 mediated phosphorylation of Ser262 and Ser356 located in the microtubule binding domain of tau. This domain regulates tau’ affinity to microtubules and aberrant phosphorylation of these sites is thought to initiate a cascade of subsequent phosphorylation by other kinases. The present study demonstrates LKB1 mediated tau phosphorylation at Ser262 and Ser356 under simulated hypoglycemic conditions and a previously unknown role of LKB1 in regulating tau expression. It expands on available research by demonstrating the effects of kinase-sufficient and kinase-deficient LKB1 on the expression of phosphorylation-mimetic and phospho-inhibiting tau variants and provides a roadmap for future experiments to study these interactions in greater detail.
Curvature and Maximum Permissible Speeds
Creators: name: Rumpf, Adam
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2022

description: In this activity students will compute the curvature of a section of commuter rail and use it to determine a safe speed at which a train should can round the corner without tipping or derailing. The shape of the track is specified as a large table of discrete coordinates rather than as a curve in closed form, which necessitates the use of a computer for numerically approximating the maximum curvature of the track.
Financial Performance of Private Commercial Banks in Ethiopia: A CAMEL Approach
Creators: name: Mengesha, Ermias
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The role of banking sector for sustainable growth of a nation is unquestionable. Hence, this paper has investigated the effects of internal determinants of profitability of six senior private Ethiopian commercial banks over the period 2000-2014 and thereby ranked the overall financial performance of the respective banks based on CAMEL model This paper used fixed effect least square method to estimate the impact of bank specific factors and detailed descriptive statistics and regression analysis has been used to assess the relationships between the bank specific variables that comprise CAMEL model and return on assets has been used as a measure of profitability. The findings indicated that bank specific factors incorporated in the CAMEL model affect to the extent of 67.5% of the changes in profitability of the private commercial banks in Ethiopia. Moreover, ranking of the respective banks was made based on the aggregate of multi-dimensional parameters of each bank specific proxies found in the CAMEL model. As a result, UNB, NIB, and BOA have held from 1 st to 3 rd rank based on the CAMEL model composite rating system. Key words: CAMEL model, Multi-dimensional ranking, Ethiopian private commercial banks
Andricus pseudocecconii sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Iran
Creators: name: Melika, George
name: Nicholls, James
name: Tavakoli, Majid
name: Sadeghi, Seyed Ebrahim
name: Stone, Graham
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A new species of oak gall wasp, Andricus pseudocecconii Melika, Tavakoli & Stone, sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini) is described. Descriptions, diagnoses, biology, and host associations for the new species are given. The new taxon is supported by morphological and molecular data.
On the influence of impact effect modelling for global asteroid impact risk distribution
Creators: name: Rumpf, Clemens M.
name: Lewis, Hugh G.
name: Atkinson, Peter M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ESA and NASA maintain asteroid hazard lists that contain all known asteroids with a non zero chance of colliding with the Earth in the future. Some software tools exist that are, either, capable of calculating the impact points of those asteroids, or that can estimate the impact effects of a given impact incident. However, no single tool is available that combines both aspects and enables a comprehensive risk analysis. The question is, thus, whether tools that can calculate impact location may be used to obtain a qualitative understanding of the asteroid impact risk distribution. To answer this question, two impact risk distributions that control for impact effect modelling were generated and compared. The Asteroid Risk Mitigation Optimization and Research (ARMOR) tool, in conjunction with the freely available software OrbFit, was used to project the impact probabilities of listed asteroids with a minimum diameter of 30 m onto the surface of the Earth representing a random sample (15% of all objects) of the hazard list. The resulting 261 impact corridors were visualized on a global map. Furthermore, the impact corridors were combined with Earth population data to estimate the simplified risk (without impact effects) and advanced risk (with impact effects) associated with the direct asteroid impacts that each nation faces from present to 2100 based on this sample. The relationship between risk and population size was examined for the 40 most populous countries and it was apparent that population size is a good proxy for relative risk. The advanced and simplified risk distributions were compared and the alteration of the results based on the introduction of physical impact effects was discussed. Population remained a valid proxy for relative impact risk, but the inclusion of impact effects resulted in significantly different risks, especially when considered at the national level.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
The reflection and transmission characteristics of elastic stress waves at joints in bars
Creators: name: Yong, Keng-hin.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The $C \: ^1 Σ^+$, $A \: ^1 Σ^+$, and $b \: ^3 Π_{0^+}$ states of LiRb
Creators: name: Stevenson, I. C.
name: Blasing, D. B.
name: Chen, Y. P.
name: Elliott, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first spectroscopic studies of the $C \ ^1Σ^+$ electronic state and the $A \ ^1Σ^+$ - $b \ ^3Π_{0^+}$ complex in $^7$Li - $^{85}$Rb. Using resonantly-enhanced, two-photon ionization, we observed $v = 7$, 9, 12, 13 and $26-44$ of the $C \ ^1Σ^+$ state. We augment the REMPI data with a form of depletion spectra in regions of dense spectral lines. The $A \ ^1Σ^+$ - $b \ ^3Π_{0^+}$ complex was observed with depletion spectroscopy, depleting to vibrational levels $v=0 \rightarrow 29$ of the $A \ ^1Σ^+$ state and $v=8 \rightarrow 18$ of the $b \ ^3Π_{0^+}$ state. For all three series, we determine the term energy and vibrational constants. Finally, we outline several possible future projects based on the data presented here.
First principles study of band line up at defective metal-oxide interface: oxygen point defects at Al/SiO_2 interface
Creators: name: Tea, Eric
name: Huang, Jianqiu
name: Hin, Celine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dielectric breakdown at metal-oxide interfaces is a critical electronic device failure mechanism. Electronic tunneling through dielectric layers is a well-accepted explanation for this phenomenon. Theoretical band alignment studies, providing information about tunneling, have already been conducted in the literature for metal-oxide interfaces. However, most of the time materials were assumed defect free. Oxygen vacancies being very common in oxides, their effect on band lineup is of prime importance in understanding electron tunneling in realistic materials and devices. This work explores the effect of oxygen vacancy and oxygen di-vacancy at the Al/SiO2 interface on the band line up within Density Functional Theory using PBE0 hybrid exchange and correlation functional. It is found that the presence of defects at the interface, and their charge state, strongly alters the band line up.
2S1553-542: a Be/X-ray binary pulsar on the far side of the Galaxy
Creators: name: Lutovinov, Alexander A.
name: Buckley, David A. H.
name: Townsend, Lee J.
name: Tsygankov, Sergey S.
name: Kennea, Jamie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a comprehensive analysis of X-ray (Chandra and Swift observatories), optical (Southern African Large Telescope, SALT) and near-infrared (the VVV survey) observations of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar 2S1553-542. Accurate coordinates for the X-ray source are determined and are used to identify the faint optical/infrared counterpart for the first time. Using VVV and SALTICAM photometry, we have constructed the spectral energy distribution (SED) for this star and found a moderate NIR excess that is typical for Be stars and arises due to the presence of circumstellar material (disk). A comparison of the SED with those of known Be/X-ray binaries has allowed us to estimate the spectral type of the companion star as B1-2V and the distance to the system as $>15$ kpc. This distance estimation is supported by the X-ray data and makes 2S1553-542 one of the most distant X-ray binaries within the Milky Way, residing on the far side in the Scutum-Centaurus arm or even further.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The Impact of Provision of NAS to Audit Clients on Auditors Independency and Audit Quality
Creators: name: Assaye, Ejigsew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The independence of an auditor and maintaining audit quality has not only been viewed as an ethical issue within the auditing professional bodies like the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), but also it is the cornerstone, which a successful audit is based. This paper examines whether provision of non-audit service to an audit client affects audit independency and quality. A questionnaire was used to collect data from fifty-three employees of eight private audit firms located in Addis Ababa. The responses obtained were analyzed using a quantitative and a qualitative approach with the help of SPSS. The researcher used stratified random sampling technique, and the study had seventy-four total audit firms in the industry. In relation to the impact of non-audit service on auditor independency and audit quality the result shows that, the provision of NAS to audit clients was found to provide auditors with greater experience of the client"s industry and greater access to the client"s accounting system. Additionally, such an arrangement was considered to enhance audit quality, but simultaneously it was also believed that a separation of engagement teams, which carries out NAS from audit services, was desirable since auditors are perceived to have greater credibility when the demarcation is clear. The study recommended Accounting and Auditing board of Ethiopia should properly scrutinize the work of private audit firms concerning NAS, provide continuous trainings, and establish upgraded set of guideline based on the best practices
Observational Form and Natural History in Elizabeth von Arnim’s Elizabeth Trilogy (1898- 1904)
Creators: name: Wang, A. C.
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: natural history
subject: description
subject: garden diary
subject: plotlessness
subject: women's writing
subject: late nineteenth century
subject: early twentieth century

description: Elizabeth von Arnim’s diaristic trilogy–Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898); The Solitary Summer (1899); and The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen (1904)–is unified by a commitment to an everyday mode of sensuous, detailed observation that I regard as broadly naturalist in its attenuation of plot and elevation of description. The protracted desire to look and describe underwrites the novels. I argue that their attempts at narrative are leisured and often inconclusive, ultimately failing to fully satiate any desire for teleological plottedness. This seeming failure is a function of the trilogy’s generic correspondence with natural history’s endless drive to accumulate observations, which frustrates closure and stills narrative momentum. I also seek to show that the seemingly random heterogeneity of its subject matter, often depicted in contemporary reviews as an inherent characteristic of light women’s literature, embodies natural history’s attention to dailiness and the value of the prosaic. The trilogy’s numerous verbally sketched still lives redeem and enshrine stasis as a virtue, product, and condition of observation rather than a devalued and feminized trait.
Work softening behaviour in simple reinforced concrete elements
Creators: name: Taber, R. L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Functional architecture and global properties of the Corynebacterium glutamicum regulatory network: novel insights from a dataset with a high genomic coverage
Creators: name: Freyre-González, Julio A.
name: Tauch, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Corynebacterium glutamicum is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, rod-shaped soil bacterium able to grow on a diversity of carbon sources like sugars and organic acids. It is a biotechnological relevant organism because of its highly efficient ability to biosynthesize amino acids, such as L-glutamic acid and L-lysine. Here, we reconstructed the most complete C. glutamicum regulatory network to date and comprehensively analyzed its global organizational properties, systems-level features and functional architecture. Our analyses show the tremendous power of Abasy Atlas to study the functional organization of regulatory networks. We created two models of the C. glutamicum regulatory network: all-evidences (containing both weak and strong supported interactions, genomic coverage = 73%) and strongly-supported (only accounting for strongly supported evidences, genomic coverage = 71%). Using state-of-the-art methodologies, we prove that power-law behaviors truly govern the connectivity and clustering coefficient distributions. We found a non-previously reported circuit motif that we named complex feed-forward motif. We highlighted the importance of feedback loops for the functional architecture, beyond whether they are statistically over-represented or not in the network. We show that the previously reported top-down approach is inadequate to infer the hierarchy governing a regulatory network because feedback bridges different hierarchical layers, and the top-down approach disregards the presence of intermodular genes shaping the integration layer. Our findings all together further support a diamond-shaped, three-layered hierarchy exhibiting some feedback between processing and coordination layers, which is shaped by four classes of systems-level elements: global regulators, locally autonomous modules, basal machinery and intermodular genes.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables
Non - Western Approaches in information Science Research
Creators: name: Perera, Pethigamage
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Non - Western Approaches in information Science Research, Karmic Capital

description: Proceedings of the 24 Hour Global Conference of ASIS&T by Dr. Pethigamage Perera https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/24-hour-global-conference/asia-pacific/ Non - Western Approaches in information Science Research The research is based on a Temple called Mahamevnawa Asapuwa. It is located on the outskirts of Sydney. It servs the Sri Lankan Buddhist diasporic community. The temple is a part of a global organisation, with its headquarters in Sri Lanka. It has more than 30 branches around the world. The main research questions  What are the information practices of the globalised Mahamevnawa Asapuwa Temple? What are the outcomes of these practices? How do Monks and Devotees understand the notion of the temple site? Methodology - Ethnography Information practices are not only embedded, materialistic, worldly, and secular, but are also focused on the immaterial, non secular and spiritual. Insider and Outsider Roles Insider The researcher has experienced the society under investigation. Researcher had into its insights into people’s lives and their activities. Language issues to understand what really means is easy. Outsider Bring researchers insider knowledge and experiences to influence his outsider status. Observe the temple as an outsider, could focus analytically on the data Findings The Sri Lankan Theravadic Community believe gathering merits is important as it has an influence on a person’s current life as well as their path to Enlightenment. These practices that can be seen as symbolic and cultural in nature. This type of knowledge derives from cultural, and symbolic capitals and later it transforms into various other capitals such as economic, social, Informational etc. Western style of research underpinned by western assumptions - Western Capitalist Perspective. But this research will extend the focus of material as well as immaterial aspects to various capital creations including Karmic Capital.
description: Information Practices, Outcome of Information Practices
The development of specific surfactants for nickel and cobalt minerals
Creators: name: Teoh, Eng Chye.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Πολιτότητα, Πολιτισμικός Πλουραλισμός και Συμπερίληψη στην Προσχολική Αγωγή
title: Citizenship, Cultural Pluralism and Inclusion in Early Childhood Education
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Πέτρου, Ιωάννα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Πολιτότητα
Συμπερίληψη
Συμμετοχικότητα

description: Εισαγωγή: Η προσχολική αγωγή αποτελεί μια κρίσιμη περίοδο στην εκπαίδευση των παιδιών, καθώς είναι η περίοδος που διαμορφώνονται οι βασικές τους αξίες, ικανότητες και πεποιθήσεις. Η συμπερίληψη αποτελεί έναν άλλο σημαντικό παράγοντα. Η πολιτότητα, ο πολιτισμικός πλουραλισμός και η συμπερίληψη αποτελούν βασικούς παράγοντες για μια αποτελεσματική και συνεκτική προσχολική αγωγή. Με τη σωστή προώθηση αυτών των αξιών, τα παιδιά μπορούν να αναπτύξουν ικανότητες που τους επιτρέπουν να συνεισφέρουν στην κοινωνία και στον παγκόσμιο πολιτισμό. Επίσης, η συνεχής εκπαίδευση και ενημέρωση των εκπαιδευτικών και των γονέων είναι απαραίτητη για να εξασφαλιστεί ότι οι αξίες αυτές ενσωματώνονται στην προσχολική αγωγή και στην καθημερινή ζωή των παιδιών. Σκοπός: Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι να παρουσιάσει τις σημαντικές έννοιες της πολιτότητας, του πολιτισμικού πλουραλισμού και της συμπερίληψης στην προσχολική αγωγή καθώς και να μελετήσει ήδη υπάρχουσες εκπαιδευτικές πρακτικές δευτερογενώς, που προάγουν τις παραπάνω έννοιες. Μέθοδος: Στην εργασία αυτή θα γίνει βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση πηγών σχετικές με την πολιτότητα, τον πολιτισμικό πλουραλισμό και τη συμπερίληψη στην προσχολική αγωγή προκειμένου να αναδειχθεί η σημαντικότητα του εν λόγω ζητήματος και οι τρόποι ένταξης των ατόμων αυτών στο πρόγραμμα εκπαίδευσης. Αποτελέσματα: Τα αποτελέσματα αυτής της μελέτης αναδείχνουν τη σημασία που θα πρέπει να έχει η ανάπτυξη της κοινωνικής ευαισθητοποίησης των παιδιών και η ανάγνωση της ικανότητάς τους να αντιλαμβάνονται και να σέβονται τις διαφορές στην κουλτούρα και τη γλώσσα των άλλων ανθρώπων. Συμπεράσματα: Η επίτευξη των στόχων αυτών θα οδηγήσει στη δημιουργία μιας κοινωνίας που είναι πιο ενωμένη, διαφορετική και σεβαστή στην πολιτιστική κληρονομιά και τα δικαιώματα των ανθρώπων. Συνολικά, η προσχολική αγωγή παίζει ένα καίριο ρόλο στην προετοιμασία των παιδιών για τη ζωή σε μια πολυπολιτισμική κοινωνία. Λέξεις κλειδιά: πολιτότητα, πολιτισμικός πλουραλισμός, συμπερίληψη, προσχολική αγωγή, συμμετοχικότητα.
title: Διεθνές Νομισματικό Σύστημα: Προοπτικές ευρώ και ελληνικής οικονομίας
title: International Monetary System: Prospects of the euro and Greece
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μίλος, Σπυρίδων Χρήστος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ευρώ
Ελληνική οικονομία
Ευρωπαϊκό Νομισματικό Σύστημα
Διεθνές Νομισματικό Σύστημα

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εξετάζει τα χαρακτηριστικά του Διεθνoύς Νομισματικού Σύστηματος και του ευρώ ως τμήμα και συνέπειες τους στην Ελληνική οικονομία. Πραγματοποιήθηκε βιβλιογραφική επισκόπηση για το Διεθνές Νομισματικό Σύστημα, τις προοπτικές του ευρώ και συνέπειες του στην ελληνική οικονομία. Διενεργήθηκαν σχετικές αναζητήσεις σε επιστημονικές βάσεις δεδομένων, όπως: Science Direct, kallipos, Research Gate, Elsevier, google scholar, Emerald Publishing με λέξεις κλειδιά: Διεθνές Νομισματικό Σύστημα, Ευρώ, με έμφαση στον διεθνή του ρόλο, Ελληνική Οικονομία, Ευρωπαϊκό Νομισματικό Σύστημα. Ο στόχος της δευτερογενούς έρευνας είναι να συγκεντρώσει πολλές διαφορετικές πρωτογενείς έρευνες (όπως μελέτες και ελέγχους), για να διατυπώσει θεμελιωμένα επιχειρήματα. Ουσιαστικά στοιχεία του Διεθνούς Νομισματικού Σύστηματος, όπως οι στόχοι και οι στρατηγικές, όχι μόνο εισάγονται γενικά αλλά και συζητούνται κριτικά ανάλογα με τα αποτελέσματα. Τα ευρήματα υποδεικνύουν ότι υπάρχει περιθώριο για διεύρυνση των ορίων των ιδιωτικών επενδύσεων στην Ελλάδα μέσω διαρθρωτικών μεταρρυθμίσεων και συναφών μακροοικονομικών πολιτικών. Η προσέγγιση του «προβλεπόμενου κανόνα» παρέχει ένα χρήσιμο επενδυτικό σημείο αναφοράς με βάση τα στοιχεία μεταξύ των χωρών και τα ιδιαίτερα χαρακτηριστικά της Ελλάδας, ενώ το επενδυτικό ποσοστό ισορροπίας εκτιμάται μέσω της προσέγγισης του «χρυσού κανόνα». Περαιτέρω έρευνα θα μπορούσε να επεκτείνει το συγκριτικό πλαίσιο για ποιοτικές μελέτες σε παρόμοιες χώρες της ευρωζώνης.
Mutually avoiding paths in random media and largests eigenvalues of random matrices
Creators: name: De Luca, Andrea
name: Doussal, Pierre Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, it was shown that the probability distribution function (PDF) of the free energy of a single continuum directed polymer (DP) in a random potential, equivalently of the height of a growing interface described by the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation, converges at large scale to the Tracy-Widom distribution.The latter describes the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalue of a random matrice, drawn from the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE), and the result holds for a DP with fixed endpoints, i.e. for the KPZ equation with droplet initial conditions. A more general conjecture can be put forward, relating the free energies of $N>1$ non-crossing continuum DP in a random potential, to the $N$-th largest eigenvalues of the GUE. Here, using replica methods, we provide an important test of this conjecture by calculating exactly the right tails of both PDF's and showing that they coincide for arbitrary $N$.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures + 4 pages of supplementary material
Factors that Help to Reduce Corruption: Case Study on the Federal public procurement of Ethiopia For the partial Fulfillment of MSc in Accounting and Auditing
Creators: name: Gebremedhin, Haftom
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this study was to establish the factors that help to reduce corruption in the federal public procurement of Ethiopia. Corruption on public procurement has become a burning issue today especially in the federal government where large and complex procurement takeover. The study used a descriptive survey method. Out of 127 government organizations operating in Addis Ababa; the researcher randomly selected 52 budgetary institutions (Represented by 52 procurement heads/officers, auditors, finance heads/ senior experts and lawyers). Descriptive statistical techniques were used and findings were presented in forms of tables, charts and graphs using code and percentages. The research findings revealed that all the variables (existence of legal framework, effectiveness of transparency and e-procurement) were statistically significant that affect the reduction of corruption in public procurement. Based on the findings the researcher recommends to use competitive tendering and limit the use of exceptions and single-source procurement to reduce corruption; develop ethics training programmes for the procurement workforce to reduce corruption; develop an appropriate strategy for the integration of secondary policy objectives in public procurement systems; employ appropriate impact assessment methodology to measure the effectiveness of procurement legal framework in achieving secondary policy objectives; establish clear lines for oversight of the public procurement cycle; develop a system of effective and enforceable sanctions; handle complaints in a fair, timely and transparent way; conduct procurement auditing regularly and develop cooperation between OFAG, FEACC and PPA and implementation of e-procurement system key word Reduction of corruption, Legal framework, transparency, E-Procurement, Public Procurement, Addis Ababa, ethiopia.
The approximate treatment of edge singularities and other topics in electromagnetic theory
Creators: name: Hart, Peter Michael.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Relating binary-star planetary systems to central configurations
Creators: name: Veras, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binary-star exoplanetary systems are now known to be common, for both wide and close binaries. However, their orbital evolution is generally unsolvable. Special cases of the N-body problem which are in fact completely solvable include dynamical architectures known as central configurations. Here, I utilize recent advances in our knowledge of central configurations to assess the plausibility of linking them to coplanar exoplanetary binary systems. By simply restricting constituent masses to be within stellar or substellar ranges characteristic of planetary systems, I find that (i) this constraint reduces by over 90 per cent the phase space in which central configurations may occur, (ii) both equal-mass and unequal-mass binary stars admit central configurations, (iii) these configurations effectively represent different geometrical extensions of the Sun-Jupiter-Trojan-like architecture, (iv) deviations from these geometries are no greater than ten degrees, and (v) the deviation increases as the substellar masses increase. This study may help restrict future stability analyses to architectures which resemble exoplanetary systems, and might hint at where observers may discover dust, asteroids and/or planets in binary star systems.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Determinants of Commercial Banks Profitability: An Empirical Study on Private Commercial Banks in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Belete, Dawit
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Both internal and external determinants of Bank profitability affect the profitability of Private Commercial Banks in Ethiopia. This study identifies bank specific, industry specific and macroeconomic factors that determine the profitability of Ethiopian private commercial banks. Six private commercial banks have been the subject for the study ranging from 2004/2005 to 2014/2015. The bank's Audited financial statement, National Bank of Ethiopia and Ministry of finance and Economic Cooperation has been the main source for the study and the panel analysis has been carried out to obtain the result for this empirical study. The study used ROA as a Dependent variable and capital adequacy, operational efficiency, liquidity, income diversification, concentration, GDP, inflation and money supply as independent variables. The empirical results showed that capital, operational efficiency, income diversification, concentration and money supply have significant relationship with profitability of Ethiopian private commercial banks. However the result shows insignificant relationship between profitability of Ethiopian private commercial banks with liquidity, GDP and inflation. Keywords: Profitability, Private Commercial Banks