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ARBA MINCH, ETHIOPIDETERMINANTS OF WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR  IMPROVED LIQIUD WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ARBAMINCH CITY: THECASE OF  CONDOMINIUM HOUSES
Creators: name: BIRUK ASSEFA
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The main  objective  of this study  was  to  identify  determinants of willingness to pay for improved  liquid
waste management in  Arba  Minch condominium house. The study  used primary sources of data that was
collected  by  questionnaire  and  field  observation  while  the  secondary  data  were  collected  by  using
organization  profile  and  non-  published  documents.  The  researcher  used  simple  random  sampling
technique.  The  sample  size  for  the  study  was  277  randomly  selected  households  in  Arbaminch
Condominium  Houses  to  determine  thewillingness  to  pay  of  residents  for  improved  liquid  waste
management, and suggests mechanisms for cost recovery. The method of data analysis that was used by
the researcher  was both descriptive and econometric analysis. The study used a probit regression model
to answer the basic research questions and objectives.
The results of the probit model revealed that households age, distance from septic tank, amount of waste
water generated and employment negatively and significantly affect the willingness to pay of households
while household income level, frequency of waste water disposal and easy access to truck positively and
significantly  affect  the  willingness  to  pay  of  households  for  improved  liquid  waste  management.  The
estimated monthly mean willingness to pay of the household for the improved liquid waste management is
38.00 birr per month and the total willingness to pay (revenue)of the households in the study area is
found to be 32110 birr per month. That means the annual willingness to pay per household is 456 birr
while the total annual WTP of households in the study area is 385320 birr.
Therefore,  based  on the  key  outputs of the  present study,  there is  greater demand  for improved liquid
waste management practice in the study area and thus government has to work its best in improving the
services and then collect the money from the households at least for cost recovery which is very important
in a city where there is greater budget deficit
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title: Organization of production and economic activities of a specialized workshop for the production of culinary products fron poultry meat for secondary food processing fasility of St. Petersburg
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Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2019
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specialized workshop
production and economic activity
assortment
production program
culinary products from poultry

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description: A feasibility study on the need to design a specialized workshop for the production of culinary products from poultry meat was carried out, technological calculations of equipment were made, and the organizational structure of the enterprise was determined. Developed measures to ensure the safety of the projected enterprise, its planning solution and identified the main economic indicators.
Novel approaches to treating and preventing malaria
Creators: name: Nogueira Varela, Julia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Malaria presents a severe economic and healthcare burden for the developing world. Recent efforts to reduce the incidents of malaria-associated deaths achieved some success, but drug resistance is increasing and the number of drugs available to treat the diseases is thinning. The current thesis seeks to advance two complementary strategies to develop platform solutions to treat and prevent malaria. First, we applied cheminformatics to assess the chemical space of anti-malarial drugs to identify promising scaffolds. Open-source tools were used to analyze the scaffolds of candidates and approved anti-malarial drugs. Our scaffold-centric analysis reveals that the anti-malarial chemical space is disjointed and segregated into few dominant structural groups with these structures being distributed according to Paretos’ principle. This structural convergence can potentially be exploited for future drug discovery by incorporating it into bioinformatics workflows. This could be used to predict new combination therapies and areas for the development of new molecules. Our second strategy seeks to develop a better tool for repellent discovery; repellent usage to prevent mosquito bites is a safe way to control these infections. The current methods for repellent screening are time consuming. The olfactory pathway involves odorant receptors that form a heterodimeric ion channel with an odorant receptor co-receptor (Orco) and a switching odorant receptor (OR). The heterologous expression of these proteins in Xenopus-oocytes and HEK293 cells, have suggested that the Orco-OR complex is functional. While these hosts have permitted significant discoveries, they have slow growth rates and extensive handling requirements, which make them unwieldy for high-throughput screens. We sought to develop high-throughput repellent screens by reconstructing this olfactory pathway into a simpler host (Pichia pastoris) with the Orco receptor. The Anopheles gambiae Orco protein was successfully expressed, being able to discriminate between compounds (VUAA1, citronella and oct-1-en-3-ol) and doses (0.125 mM to 2 mM for VUAA1) when coupled with a reporter signal. In the future this system could be used to screen chemical libraries. Moreover, the heterologous expression of Orco protein could lead to future structural and functional investigation of OR compounds as well as the development of newer repellents and behavior-modifying compounds.
Modeling the hard states of three black hole candidates
Creators: name: Zhang, Hui
name: Yuan, Feng
name: Chaty, Sylvain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simultaneous multiwavelength observations were recently performed for three black hole candidates --- SWIFT J1753.5-0127, GRO J1655-40 and XTE J1720-318. In this paper we test the accretion-jet model originally proposed to XTE J1118+480 by investigating the hard state of these three sources using this model. The accretion flow in the model is composed of an inner hot accretion flow and an outer truncated thin disk. We find that the model satisfactorily explains the spectrum ranging from radio to X-rays, with the radio and X-ray spectra dominated by the synchrotron and thermal Comptonization emissions in the jet and the hot accretion flow respectively, while the infrared and optical being the sum of the emissions from the jet, hot accretion flow, and the truncated thin disk. Similar to the case of XTE J1118+480, the model can also explain, although only qualitatively in some cases, the observed timing features including QPO, and positive and negative time lags between the optical and X-ray emissions detected in SWIFT J1753.5-0127. The origin of the ejection events detected in XTE J1720-318 is also briefly discussed.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures accepted for publication in ApJ, minor modification after proof
Epitaxial EuO Thin Films on GaAs
Creators: name: Swartz, A. G.
name: Ciraldo, J.
name: Wong, J. J. I.
name: Li, Yan
name: Han, Wei
name: Lin, Tao
name: Mack, S.
name: Shi, J.
name: Awschalom, D. D.
name: Kawakami, R. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the epitaxial growth of EuO on GaAs by reactive molecular beam epitaxy. Thin films are grown in an adsorption-controlled regime with the aid of an MgO diffusion barrier. Despite the large lattice mismatch, it is shown that EuO grows well on MgO(001) with excellent magnetic properties. Epitaxy on GaAs is cube-on-cube and longitudinal magneto-optic Kerr effect measurements demonstrate a large Kerr rotation of 0.57°, a significant remanent magnetization, and a Curie temperature of 69 K.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
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titleType: Subtitle
title: Technological process of manufacturing the "High-speed shaft"
Creators: name: ÐÐ¼ÐµÐ»ÑÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð°, Ð¢Ð°ÑÑÑÐ½Ð°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2021
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technological process
detail
workpiece
operation
cutting tool
metal-cutting machine
lathe cutter
design
development

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description: The main technological tasks for the part â High-speed shaft are formulated, the drawing of the part is tested for manufacturability, a comparative analysis of two methods of obtaining blanks is carried out. The most optimal method for obtaining a workpiece was selected based on the calculation of the material utilization factor (CMM) and the cost of the roughing stage of processing. A technological process for the manufacture of a part has been designed - a high-speed shaft using universal equipment. A set of technological documentation has been prepared. Cutting tools are designed: lathe cutter, tap, worm cutter. Drawings for designed cutting tools have been issued. The elements of the device for key-milling operations are designed.
SMALLHOLDER FARMERS’ ADOPTION OF IMPROVED SORGHUM VARIETIES:  THE CASE OF GONDAR ZURIA WOREDA, NORTH GONDAR ZONE OF AMHARA REGION, ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: MELESE ASMARE WASSAI
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Agriculture is a dominant sector of the Ethiopian economy and a lion share contributor to the
gross domestic product, employment and foreign exchange earnings. The improvement of this
sector  promotes  the livelihood of the vast population which mainly depends on farming.
Extensive adoption of improved agricultural technologies such as improved seed varieties (in
this case sorghum) plays vital role in reversing the present situation of prolonged food
insecurity in many parts of Ethiopia. The main objective of this study was to identify factors
that determine adoption of improved sorghum varieties and  to  identify  the determinants of
farmers’ choice of different sorghum varieties. The study used a primary data collected from
204  randomly selected  sorghum  producing  farmers  through  structured interview schedule
from four randomly selected Kebeles in Gondar Zuria District. Moreover, secondary data from
regular statistical reports such as CSA, and other published and unpublished sources were
reviewed.  The data was analyzed through  descriptive statistics and  logit and multinomial
probit econometric models. In the logit model, five variables were found to significantly affect
adoption of improved sorghum varieties. These are credit (+), extension contact (+), off-farm
income (+), farm size (+) and proportion of sorghum area (-). Thus what is needed from any
development agents is that they should have to establish a credit scheme to support the farmers
so that they can acquire improved sorghum variety and other inputs to boost production and
productivity. Moreover  extension contact between  farmers  and extension agents  should be
further strengthened,  encourage farmers to participate in different extension programs
regarding  sorghum production  improvement. Results of multinomial probit model revealed
that age, credit, proportion of sorghum area, extension contact, farm size, off-farm income,
irrigated land, and shortage of labor were variables that significantly explain the choice of
sorghum varieties. Accordingly development and distribution of different sorghum varieties
should be based up on the diverse socioeconomic and institutional characteristics that resides
in the farming communities.
Using Linear Difference Equations to Model Nonlinear Cryptographic Sequences
Creators: name: Caballero-Gil, P.
name: Fúster-Sabater, A.
name: Pazo-Robles, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new class of linear sequence generators based on cellular automata is here introduced in order to model several nonlinear keystream generators with practical applications in symmetric cryptography. The output sequences are written as solutions of linear difference equations, and three basic properties (period, linear complexity and number of different output sequences) are analyzed.
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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Mathematical model of a spider robot in motion under water
Creators: name: ÐÐµÑÐ°ÑÑÐºÐ¸Ð½, ÐÐ²Ð³ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2021
Subjects: ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐµÑ Ð½Ð¸ÐºÐ°
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robotics
spider robot
mathematical model lagrange equations of the II kind
information model

description: Ð¢ÐµÐ¼Ð° Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ: Â«ÐÐ°ÑÐµÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ñ ÑÐ¾-Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°-Ð¿Ð°ÑÐºÐ° Ð² ÑÑÐ»Ð¾Ð²Ð¸ÑÑ Ð´Ð²Ð¸Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ð¾Ð´ Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¾Ð¹Â».ÐÐ°Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð° Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°-Ð¿Ð°ÑÐºÐ°, Ð½Ð°ÑÐ¾Ð´ÑÑÐµÐ³Ð¾ÑÑ Ð¸ Ð´Ð²Ð¸Ð¶ÑÑÐµÐ³Ð¾ÑÑ Ð² Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÑÐµÐ´Ðµ. ÐÐ°Ð´Ð°ÑÐ¸, ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐµ ÑÐµÑÐ°Ð»Ð¸ÑÑ Ð² ÑÐ¾Ð´Ðµ Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ:1. ÐÐ·ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐµÐ¹ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ð¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð²-Ð¿Ð°ÑÐºÐ¾Ð².2. Ð Ð°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐºÐ° Ð¼Ð°ÑÐµÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ð¸ ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°-Ð¿Ð°ÑÐºÐ° Ð¿Ð¾Ð´ Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¾Ð¹.3. ÐÐ¾ÑÑÑÐ¾ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¸Ð½ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ð¸ Ð½Ð° Ð±Ð°Ð·Ðµ Ð¼Ð°ÑÐµÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹.Ð ÑÐµÐ·ÑÐ»ÑÑÐ°ÑÐµ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ Ð±ÑÐ»Ð° ÑÐ°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ°Ð½Ð° Ð¼Ð°ÑÐµÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ñ-ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¿Ð°-ÑÐºÐ° Ð² ÑÑÐ»Ð¾Ð²Ð¸ÑÑ Ð´Ð²Ð¸Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ð¾Ð´ Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¾Ð¹. ÐÐ° Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ðµ Ð¼Ð°ÑÐµÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ð¸ Ð±ÑÐ»Ð° ÑÐµ-Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð° Ð¸Ð½ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ñ. ÐÐ¾ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½ ÑÑÐ´ ÑÐºÑÐ¿ÐµÑÐ¸Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÑÐ¾Ð², ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐµ Ð¿Ð¾-ÐºÐ°Ð·ÑÐ²Ð°ÑÑ, ÑÑÐ¾ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ñ Ð°Ð´ÐµÐºÐ²Ð°ÑÐ½Ð° Ð¸ Ð´Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸Ð³Ð°ÐµÑ Ð·Ð°Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð³ÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¼Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐµÐ»Ð¸ (ÑÐ¾ÑÐºÐ° Ð½Ð° ÐºÐ¾Ð¾ÑÐ´Ð¸Ð½Ð°ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¿Ð»Ð¾ÑÐºÐ¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð¸ ÑÐ³Ð¾Ð» Ð¿Ð¾Ð²Ð¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐ° ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐ°).
description: The theme of the final qualifying work: Â«Mathematical model of a robot-spider in motion under waterÂ».This workis devoted to the study of a spider-robot located and moving in an aquatic environment. The tasks that were solved during the study:1. Studying the features of modeling spider robots.2. Development of a mathematical model of a spider robot under water.3. Building an information model based on a mathematical one.As a result of the work, a mathematical model of a spider robot was developed in conditions of movement under water. An information model was implemented based on a mathematical model. Severalexperiments have been performed, which show that the model is adequate and reaches the target specified by the program (a point on the coordinate plane and the angle of rotation of the body).
Making the Invisible of Learning Visible: Pre-service Teachers Identify Connections between the Use of Literacy Strategies and their Content Area Assessment Practices
Creators: name: Mitton-Kukner, Jennifer
name: Murray Orr, Anne
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2015

description: In this paper we describe four ways secondary pre-service teachers appeared to be developing assessment practices during field experience, after taking a content area literacy course. This paper arises from a multi-year study exploring pre-service and beginning content area teachers’ use of literacy strategies in teaching mathematics, science, and other content areas. Pre-service teachers’ descriptions of their teaching revealed how they understood assessment and literacy practices during field experience as intertwined and symbiotic. Pre-service teachers discussed the use of literacy strategies as multi-faceted and serving multiple assessment purposes in their classrooms, enabling them to better understand student learning by making the invisible processes of thinking visible. Dans cet article, nous décrivons quatre façons dont les enseignants en formation semblaient développer des pratiques d’évaluation pendant une expérience sur le terrain et après avoir suivi un cours en alphabétisation aux contenus adaptés. Les résultats découlent d’une étude pluriannuelle portant sur l’emploi de stratégies en alphabétisation par des enseignants en formation et des enseignants débutants offrant des cours de maths, de sciences et d’autres disciplines. Les descriptions par les enseignants en formation de leur enseignement ont révélé que pendant l’expérience sur le terrain, ils ont compris le lien serré et symbiotique entre l’évaluation et les pratiques en alphabétisation. Les enseignants en formation ont également décrit leurs stratégies en matière d’alphabétisation comme étant multidimensionnelles et aptes à satisfaire à plusieurs objectifs d’évaluation dans leurs classes, ce qui rendait visibles les processus invisibles de réflexion et leur permettait ainsi de mieux comprendre l’apprentissage par leurs élèves.
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 60 No. 2 (2014): Summer
Quanto Total Return LIBOR Swap Valuation
Creators: name: Lee, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Quanto Total Return LIBOR Swap Valuation

description: A quanto total return Libor Swap is a swap where one leg is a regular floating leg paying LIBOR less a constant spread and the other leg makes a single payment at the swap’s maturity equal to a leveraged non-negative return on USD-for-EURO exchange rate paid in CAD. The main focus of the valuation model is the quantoed total return on the FX rate.
description: https://ia904705.us.archive.org/24/items/mortgageCashFlow/mortgageCashFlow.pdf
The Konishi multiplet at strong coupling
Creators: name: Vallilo, Brenno Carlini
name: Mazzucato, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a method to compute from first principles the anomalous dimension of short operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling, where they are described in terms of superstring vertex operators in an anti-de Sitter background. We focus on the Konishi multiplet, dual to the first massive level of the superstring, and compute the one-loop correction to its anomalous dimension at strong coupling, using the pure spinor formalism for the superstring.
description: 4 pages; v2: corrections and improvements, conclusions unchanged
ARBA MINCH, ETHIOPIDETERMINANTS OF WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR  IMPROVED LIQIUD WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ARBAMINCH CITY: THECASE OF  CONDOMINIUM HOUSES
Creators: name: BIRUK ASSEFA
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The main  objective  of this study  was  to  identify  determinants of willingness to pay for improved  liquid
waste management in  Arba  Minch condominium house. The study  used primary sources of data that was
collected  by  questionnaire  and  field  observation  while  the  secondary  data  were  collected  by  using
organization  profile  and  non-  published  documents.  The  researcher  used  simple  random  sampling
technique.  The  sample  size  for  the  study  was  277  randomly  selected  households  in  Arbaminch
Condominium  Houses  to  determine  thewillingness  to  pay  of  residents  for  improved  liquid  waste
management, and suggests mechanisms for cost recovery. The method of data analysis that was used by
the researcher  was both descriptive and econometric analysis. The study used a probit regression model
to answer the basic research questions and objectives.
The results of the probit model revealed that households age, distance from septic tank, amount of waste
water generated and employment negatively and significantly affect the willingness to pay of households
while household income level, frequency of waste water disposal and easy access to truck positively and
significantly  affect  the  willingness  to  pay  of  households  for  improved  liquid  waste  management.  The
estimated monthly mean willingness to pay of the household for the improved liquid waste management is
38.00 birr per month and the total willingness to pay (revenue)of the households in the study area is
found to be 32110 birr per month. That means the annual willingness to pay per household is 456 birr
while the total annual WTP of households in the study area is 385320 birr.
Therefore,  based  on the  key  outputs of the  present study,  there is  greater demand  for improved liquid
waste management practice in the study area and thus government has to work its best in improving the
services and then collect the money from the households at least for cost recovery which is very important
in a city where there is greater budget deficit.
Examining the Research Base on University Co-operative Education in Light of the Neoliberal Challenge to Liberal Education
Creators: name: Milley, Peter
name: Kovinthan, Thursica
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2015

description: Debates have been taking place in higher education communities in Canada and other Anglo-American contexts between defenders of liberal education and promoters of neoliberalism. One development not addressed is the growth of co-operative education (co-op). The origins of co-op may reside in John Dewey’s (1939, 1966) ideas about experience and democracy, but co-op also resembles a neoliberal phenomenon. We reviewed the North American literature on co-op from 1990-2014 to see if and how the rise of co-op has posed a challenge to liberal education. Our analysis revealed a dominant focus on instrumental and economic purposes reflecting neoliberal reforms, strands of philosophical and empirical inquiry consistent with liberal education, and a notable absence of critical, emancipatory outlooks. We contend that co-op researchers need to rediscover the socially progressive promise of experiential education, informed by other educational subfields. We also argue that researchers interested in neoliberal challenges to liberal education need to tap co-op as a site of inquiry. Des débats ont lieu dans des communautés de l’enseignement supérieur au Canada et dans des contextes anglo-américains, entre les apôtres d’une éducation libérale et les promoteurs du néolibéralisme. Un élément qui n’est pas abordé est la croissance de l’éducation coopérative. Les origines de l’éducation coopérative pourraient se trouver dans les idées de John Dewey (1939, 1966) touchant l’expérience et la démocratie, mais celle-ci ressemble également à un phénomène néolibéral. Nous avons examiné la documentation nord-américaine portant sur l’éducation coopérative de 1990 à 2014 pour déterminer dans quelle mesure la montée de l’éducation coopérative pose un problème à l’éducation libérale. Notre analyse a révélé un fort accent sur des objectifs instrumentaux et économiques reflétant des réformes néolibérales, des éléments d’enquête philosophique et empirique compatibles avec une éducation libérale, et une absence notable de perspectives critiques et émancipatrices. Nous soutenons que les chercheurs en l’éducation coopérative doivent redécouvrir la promesse progressiste sur le plan social qu’est celle de l’éducation expérientielle éclairée par d’autres sous-zones éducatives. Nous attestons également que les chercheurs qui s’intéressent aux défis néolibéraux à l’éducation libérale doivent se pencher sur l’éducation coopérative.
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 60 No. 2 (2014): Summer
Leaning Over the Fence: Heritage Fair Projects as ‘Funds of Knowledge’
Creators: name: Wiltse, Lynne
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2015

description: This paper is a response to an article, “Creepy White Gaze: Rethinking the Diorama as a Pedagogical Activity” (Sterzuk & Mulholland, 2011), published in the Alberta Journal of Educational Research, in which Sterzuk and Mulholland critiqued a heritage fair entry, “Great Plains Indians.” I report on a school-university collaborative research project that examined the ways in which out-of-school practices and knowledges of Canadian Aboriginal students might provide these students with access to school literacy practices. Grounded in a ‘funds of knowledge’ approach, this paper presents an alternative reading, explaining how students’ linguistic and cultural resources from home and community networks were utilized to reshape school literacy practices through their involvement in a heritage fair program. Cet article est une réponse à un autre intitulé “Creepy White Gaze: Rethinking the Diorama as a Pedagogical Activity” (Sterzuk & Mulholland, 2011), publié dans la revue Alberta Journal of Educational Research et dans lequel les auteurs ont critiqué une soumission, « Great Plains Indians » (Indiens des grandes plaines), à une fête du patrimoine. Je fais état d’un projet de recherche collaboratif (école-université) qui a examiné les façons dont les pratiques et les connaissances en dehors du contexte scolaire d’élèves autochtones canadiens pourraient leur faciliter l’accès à des pratiques scolaires en matière d’alphabétisation. Reposant sur une approche « fonds de connaissance », cet article présente une autre interprétation et explique dans quelle mesure les ressources linguistiques et culturelles acquises par les élèves à la maison et dans la communauté ont servi à remanier les pratiques scolaires en matière d’alphabétisation par le biais de leur participation à un programme des fêtes du patrimoine.
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 60 No. 2 (2014): Summer
Quanto Total Return LIBOR Swap Valuation
Creators: name: Lee, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Quanto Total Return LIBOR Swap Valuation

description: A quanto total return Libor Swap is a swap where one leg is a regular floating leg paying LIBOR less a constant spread and the other leg makes a single payment at the swap’s maturity equal to a leveraged non-negative return on USD-for-EURO exchange rate paid in CAD. The main focus of the valuation model is the quantoed total return on the FX rate.
description: https://osf.io/rwfgn/wiki/home/
Modeling the Background for Incremental and Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
Creators: name: Cermelli, Fabio
name: Mancini, Massimiliano
name: Buló, Samuel Rota
name: Ricci, Elisa
name: Caputo, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep neural networks have enabled major progresses in semantic segmentation. However, even the most advanced neural architectures suffer from important limitations. First, they are vulnerable to catastrophic forgetting, i.e. they perform poorly when they are required to incrementally update their model as new classes are available. Second, they rely on large amount of pixel-level annotations to produce accurate segmentation maps. To tackle these issues, we introduce a novel incremental class learning approach for semantic segmentation taking into account a peculiar aspect of this task: since each training step provides annotation only for a subset of all possible classes, pixels of the background class exhibit a semantic shift. Therefore, we revisit the traditional distillation paradigm by designing novel loss terms which explicitly account for the background shift. Additionally, we introduce a novel strategy to initialize classifier's parameters at each step in order to prevent biased predictions toward the background class. Finally, we demonstrate that our approach can be extended to point- and scribble-based weakly supervised segmentation, modeling the partial annotations to create priors for unlabeled pixels. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach with an extensive evaluation on the Pascal-VOC, ADE20K, and Cityscapes datasets, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art methods.
description: Accepted by T-PAMI (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9645239/). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2002.00718
Views on and Practices of Integrating Theory and Practice in Teacher Education Programs in Atlantic Canada
Creators: name: Falkenberg, Thomas
name: Goodnough, Karen
name: MacDonald, Ronald J.
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2015

description: The need for and lack of integration of theory and practice in initial teacher education programs has been discussed as a central issue for teacher education. This article reports on a study that surveyed university-based teacher educators in Atlantic Canada on their perspectives regarding how theory and practice can be integrated, how they and the programs they work in integrate theory and practice, and what challenges they perceive for the integration of theory and practice in their own teaching and the teacher education programs within which they work. Un enjeu central qui ressort des discussions sur la formation des enseignants est le besoin d’intégrer la théorie et la pratique dans les programmes de formation initiale. Cet article rend compte d’une étude impliquant une enquête auprès de formateurs universitaires d’enseignants dans le Canada atlantique pour connaitre leur points de vue sur les façons d’intégrer la théorie et la pratique, et sur les défis qu’ils perçoivent pour l’intégration de la théorie et la pratique dans leur propre enseignement et dans les programmes de formation des enseignants au sein desquels ils travaillent.
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 60 No. 2 (2014): Summer
A 100-parsec elliptical and twisted ring of cold and dense molecular clouds revealed by Herschel around the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Molinari, S.
name: Bally, J.
name: Noriega-Crespo, A.
name: Compiègne, M.
name: Bernard, J. P.
name: Paradis, D.
name: Martin, P.
name: Testi, L.
name: Barlow, M.
name: Moore, T.
name: Plume, R.
name: Swinyard, B.
name: Zavagno, A.
name: Calzoletti, L.
name: Di Giorgio, A. M.
name: Elia, D.
name: Faustini, F.
name: Natoli, P.
name: Pestalozzi, M.
name: Pezzuto, S.
name: Piacentini, F.
name: Polenta, G.
name: Polychroni, D.
name: Schisano, E.
name: Traficante, A.
name: Veneziani, M.
name: Battersby, C.
name: Burton, M.
name: Carey, S.
name: Fukui, Y.
name: Li, J. Z.
name: Lord, S. D.
name: Morgan, L.
name: Motte, F.
name: Schuller, F.
name: Stringfellow, G. S.
name: Tan, J. C.
name: Thompson, M. A.
name: Ward-Thompson, D.
name: White, G.
name: Umana, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermal images of cold dust in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way, obtained with the far-infrared cameras on-board the Herschel satellite, reveal a 3x10^7 solar masses ring of dense and cold clouds orbiting the Galactic Center. Using a simple toy-model, an elliptical shape having semi-major axes of 100 and 60 parsecs is deduced. The major axis of this 100-pc ring is inclined by about 40 degrees with respect to the plane-of-the-sky and is oriented perpendicular to the major axes of the Galactic Bar. The 100-pc ring appears to trace the system of stable x_2 orbits predicted for the barred Galactic potential. Sgr A* is displaced with respect to the geometrical center of symmetry of the ring. The ring is twisted and its morphology suggests a flattening-ratio of 2 for the Galactic potential, which is in good agreement with the bulge flattening ratio derived from the 2MASS data.
description: ApJ Letters, accepted
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF PASTORALIST WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN  ALOE VERA SOAP PRODUCTION IN YABELLO WOREDA, BORANA  ZONE OF OROMIA, ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: DIDA GOLICHA NURA
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Commercial opportunity for indigenous Aloe Vera products appear to be increasing as
there is a sustained demand from international as well as African market with high
participation of women. However, its economic impact on the livelihood of household is
not yet addressed.  Therefore,  this  study evaluated the economic impact of pastoralist
women participation in Aloe Vera soap production in Yabello woreda, Borana zone of
Oromia, Ethiopia. Both primary and secondary data were collected from 200 sample
households  using semi-structured questionnaire.  To analyze the data both  propensity
score matching with logit model, and multiple linear regression models were applied.
The logistic regression estimation revealed that age at  married,  age,  family size,
training and access to credit are found positive and significant whereas membership in
other cooperatives and distance  to nearest market have negative and significant effect
on  the participation of  women  in Aloe Vera soap production.  The  propensity score
matching  was applied  under  assumption of common support  and conditional
independence assumption. In the matching processes,  kernel band width  (0.25)
matching was found to be the best matching algorithm. This  model was checked for
covariate balancing with t-test, standardized bias and joint significance level tests.
Moreover, sensitivity analysis of the estimated participation effect to unobserved
selection bias was checked using the Rosenbaum bounds method.  Finally, results show
that participation of women in Aloe Vera soap production has a significant and positive
impact on household income and women empowerment. The propensity score matching
also indicates average treatment effect on treated  income  is 45.693 Birr, and average
treatment effect on treated cumulative empowerment index result is 1.51 units. Result of
sensitivity analysis further shows that the estimated effects are insensitive to unobserved
selection bias within gamma level used. Thus, Aloe Vera soap production and women
economic empowerment should be encouraged for the pastoralist social wellbeing.
Rational Z_p-Equivariant Spectra
Creators: name: Barnes, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55N91, 55P42

description: We find a simple algebraic model for rational G-equivariant spectra, where G is the p-adic integers, via a series of Quillen equivalences. This model, along with an Adams short exact sequence, will allow us to easily perform constructions and calculations.
description: 24 pages
Examining the Relationships between Primary School Principals' Power Styles and Teachers' Professional Behaviors
Creators: name: KOŞAR, Serkan
name: KILINÇ, Ali Çağatay
name: ER, Emre
name: ÖĞDEM, Zeki
name: SAVAŞ, Gökhan
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between primary school principals’ power styles and teacher professionalism. A total of 264 teachers employed in 10 primary schools in Kastamonu, Turkey, participated in this study. Kosar’s (2008) “Power Styles Scale,”and the “Teacher Professionalism Scale”—originally developed by Tschannen-Moran, Parish, and DiPaola (2006), and adapted into Turkish by Cerit (2013)—were used to gather data. The mean, standard deviation, correlation, and regression analyses were calculated to evaluate the data. The results revealed that teacher professionalism was positively and significantly related to personality and reward power, while being negatively and significantly correlated with legitimate and coercive power. The findings also showed that the power styles of school principals significantly predicted teacher professionalism. The outcomes of the study are discussed with respect to improving teacher self-efficacy. L’objectif de cette recherche était d’étudier le rapport entre les styles ou processus du pouvoir des directeurs d’écoles primaires et le professionnalisme des enseignants. À cette étude ont participé 264 enseignants travaillant dans 10 écoles primaires à Kastamonu, en Turquie. L’article « Power Styles Scale » de Kosar (2008) et la « The Teacher Professionalism Scale » d’abord développée par Tschannen-Moran, Parish et DiPaola, et ensuite adaptée en turque par Cerit (2013), ont servi à la cueillette de données. Pour évaluer les données, on a calculé la moyenne, l’écart type, la corrélation et les analyses de régression. Les résultats indiquent que le professionnalisme des enseignants présente une corrélation positive significative avec le pouvoir du référent et le pouvoir de récompense, et une corrélation négative significative avec le pouvoir légitime et le pouvoir coercitif. Les résultats indiquent également que le style du pouvoir des directeurs est un prédicteur fiable du professionnalisme des enseignants. On discute des résultats de l’étude dans l’optique d’améliorer l’auto-efficacité des enseignants.
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 60 No. 2 (2014): Summer
Cosmography and cosmic acceleration
Creators: name: Carvalho, J. C.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the prospects for determining the accelerating history of the Universe from upcoming measurements of the expansion rate $H(z)$. In our analyses, we use Monte Carlo simulations based on $w$CDM models to generate samples with different characteristics and calculate the evolution of the deceleration parameter $q(z)$. We show that a cosmographic (and, therefore, model-independent) evidence for cosmic acceleration ($q(z
description: 5 pages. 4 figures, LaTeX
Optimized Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error Correction
Creators: name: Taghavi, Soraya
name: Brun, Todd A.
name: Lidar, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using convex optimization, we propose entanglement-assisted quantum error correction procedures that are optimized for given noise channels. We demonstrate through numerical examples that such an optimized error correction method achieves higher channel fidelities than existing methods. This improved performance, which leads to perfect error correction for a larger class of error channels, is interpreted in at least some cases by quantum teleportation, but for general channels this interpretation does not hold.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Assessing Student Orientation to School to Address Low Achievement and Dropping Out
Creators: name: Nadirova, Anna
name: Burger, John Michael
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2015

description: This study contributes to applied and theoretical research for schools and districts by helping inform programs and policies directed at school improvement, raising student achievement, and high school completion. The paper features recent results of ongoing research on student orientation to school that was assessed via a multi-dimensional Student Orientation to School Questionnaire (SOS-Q). The SOS-Q was initially used by a Canadian school district to better understand the reasons for dropping out of school. Since then the project has grown into a multi-organizational collaboration. This study demonstrates persistent associations between student orientation to school, academic achievement, and high school completion and makes the case for integrating valuable non-cognitive components within comprehensive student information and assessment systems. Cette étude contribue à la recherche appliquée et théorique portant sur les écoles et les districts scolaires dans la mesure où elle pourra servir à étayer les programmes et les politiques visant l’amélioration des écoles, le rehaussement du rendement par les élèves et l’achèvement des études secondaires. Cet article présente les résultats récents d’une recherche en cours sur l’adaptation scolaire évaluée par le biais d’un questionnaire pluridimensionnel. Le questionnaire a d’abord servi d’outil pour un district scolaire canadien qui cherchait à mieux comprendre les raisons du décrochage scolaire. Depuis, le projet s’est transformé en collaboration impliquant plusieurs organisations. Cette étude révèle des associations systématiques entre l’adaptation des élèves à l’école, le rendement académique et l’achèvement des études secondaires. Elle milite en faveur de l’intégration de composantes non cognitives importantes au sein des systèmes scolaires d’information et d’évaluation.
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 60 No. 2 (2014): Summer
Chaos in Sandpile Models
Creators: name: Moghimi-Araghi, Saman
name: Mollabashi, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the "weak chaos" exponent to see if it can be considered as a classification parameter of different sandpile models. Simulation results show that "weak chaos" exponent may be one of the characteristic exponents of the attractor of \textit{deterministic} models. We have shown that the (abelian) BTW sandpile model and the (non abelian) Zhang model posses different "weak chaos" exponents, so they may belong to different universality classes. We have also shown that \textit{stochasticity} destroys "weak chaos" exponents' effectiveness so it slows down the divergence of nearby configurations. Finally we show that getting off the critical point destroys this behavior of deterministic models.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Fermion confinement induced by geometry
Creators: name: Romero, C.
name: Formiga, J. B.
name: Dariescu, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a five-dimensional model in which fermions are confined in a hypersurface due to an interaction with a purely geometric field. Inspired by the Rubakov-Shaposhnikov field-theoretical model, in which massless fermions can be localized in a domain wall through the interaction of a scalar field, we show that particle confinement may also take place if we endow the five-dimensional bulk with a Weyl integrable geometric structure, or if we assume the existence of a torsion field acting in the bulk. In this picture, the kind of interaction considered in the Rubakov-Shaposhnikov model is replaced by the interaction of fermions with a geometric field, namely a Weyl scalar field or a torsion field. We show that in both cases the confinement is independent of the energy and the mass of the fermionic particle. We generalize these results to the case in which the bulk is an arbitrary n-dimensional curved space.
description: 8 pages