cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CAVES, AS TOURISTIC ATTRACTIONS IN HUNGARY: ADVENTURE, HEALTH, CULTURE, ECOTOURISM
Creators: name: Béki, Piroska
name: Lasztovicza, Dóra
name: Metzger, József
name: Béki, Piroska
name: Lasztovicza, Dóra
name: Metzger, József
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: cave, active tourism, adventure

description: Hungary offers abundant opportunities for discovering the mysterious world of caves. In Hungary there are around 4100 caves; although only a small number of them are open to the public, they offer a variety of attractions. As they are an important part of tourism, switching them, exploring them and making them accessible for a wider audience generates interest for visitors from different parts of the country. The adrenaline releasing sports offers us new ways of coping with stress, and has had an increasing importance in our lives in the 21st century. Discovering these underground miracles presents a new challenge for travelers. The interest in caves exploded in the 20th century, when ecotourism, longing to get back to nature, and the goal of improving one’s health became leading motivations for travelling. The present research is aimed at surveying, to what extent students of the recreation department are familiar with the opportunities provided by cave tourism and how up-to-date their related knowledge is. The following work introduces opportunities in cave tourism and intends to expose upon gaps in the related marketing strategy. The research questions are the following: Are students familiar with opportunities of cave tourism? What services do the caves they know offer? Are they up-to-date in cave-related news? On what forums do cave tourism appear?
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/7
EXAMINING CAREER ORIENTATIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN
Creators: name: Gergely, Eva
name: Gergely, Eva
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: career, career anchor, motivation, value, work values, training

description: The paper endeavours to give a narrower definition of the orientation of ‘career’. The survey to be discussed examines a sample of 116 full time students of economics and has career anchor analysis as its focus. The study details the result of a questionnaire-based survey, which was carried out with respect to the carrier of university students and was supplemented by surveying motivation, value and work value as well. The analysis finds that “security, stability and organisational identification” are judged to be the primary career anchors among the members of the majority sample. This means that the respondents feel ready to identify themselves with the company and are looking for security to be provided by long term employment, regular earnings and by steady career advancement. The cluster analysis of the questionnaire differentiates four groups: Leaders, Specialists, Entrepreneurs and Employees. The results showed that the Leaders have high capacities of leadership, creativity and autonomy. The Specialists show highly developed functional capabilities in general and they seem to like challenges. The Entrepreneurs have outstandingly high scores concerning autonomy and entrepreneurial creativity. The members of the cluster of the Employees are characterised by a high expectation of security and stability and by low levels of managerial capability and entrepreneurial creativity. Discriminant analysis was applied to select the distinguishing features that can set the clusters apart from each other. The motivations, values preferences and work values inventory will consolidate the differences between the clusters of the career anchors. Using the method in high education within special trainings could be the practical utilization of the study. On the basis of the results a questionnaire can be compiled, which could help uncertain students relating to their carriers and future orientation containing information in connection with their carrier orientation, motivation, value preferences and work value.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/8
Crossover of the weighted mean fragment mass scaling in 2D brittle fragmentation
Creators: name: Katsuragi, Hiroaki
name: Sugino, Daisuke
name: Honjo, Haruo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed vertical and horizontal sandwich 2D brittle fragmentation experiments. The weighted mean fragment mass was scaled using the multiplicity $μ$. The scaling exponent crossed over at $\log μ_c \simeq -1.4$. In the small $μ(\llμ_c)$ regime, the binomial multiplicative (BM) model was suitable and the fragment mass distribution obeyed log-normal form. However, in the large $μ(\ggμ_c)$ regime, in which a clear power-law cumulative fragment mass distribution was observed, it was impossible to describe the scaling exponent using the BM model. We also found that the scaling exponent of the cumulative fragment mass distribution depended on the manner of impact (loading conditions): it was 0.5 in the vertical sandwich experiment, and approximately 1.0 in the horizontal sandwich experiment.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
TRADITIONAL RETAIL OUTLETS OR SUPERMARKETS: A PROBIT ANALYSIS OF SHOPPERS IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Creators: name: C. W. Ardon Iton
name: Scott, Ewan
name: C. W. Ardon Iton
name: Scott, Ewan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Traditional retail outlet, Supermarkets, Probit analysis, Trinidad and Tobago, Roots and Tubers

description: The purpose of this study is to identify consumers’ retail outlet choice for Roots and Tubers in Trinidad and Tobago between traditional and modern retail outlets, and also to find out what influences consumers’ shopping preferences for one or the other retail format. A Probit model, where both demographics and store attributes were used to predict outlet choice was the methodology utilized in the study. The results obtained suggest that the traditional outlets are the preferred place to purchase Roots and Tubers with 71% of the sample selecting these outlets. Of the fifteen independent variables analyzed in the Probit model, four demographic variables – age, employment status, ethnicity and income – and two latent factors of the store attributes labeled “value” and “location” were statistically significant. Of note, older buyers are 12% more likely to choose the traditional outlet while there is a 16% higher probability that persons in the higher income brackets will choose supermarkets as their retail outlet. These results provide an insight into the choice of outlet of shoppers and the strengths and weaknesses of the two retail formats.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/9
Coherence measures induced by norm functions
Creators: name: Jing, Yangping
name: Li, Chi-Kwong
name: Poon, Edward
name: Zhang, Chengyang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q99 (Primary), 15A60 (Secondary)

description: Which matrix norms induce proper measures for quantifying quantum coherence? We study this problem for two important classes of norms and show that (i) coherence measures cannot be induced by any unitary similarity invariant norm, and (ii) the $\ell_{q,p}$-norm induces a coherence measure if and only if $q=1$ and $1 \leq p \leq 2$, thus giving a new class of coherence measures with simple closed forms that are easy to compute. These results extend and unify previously known facts about norm-induced coherence measures, and lead to a broader framework for understanding what functionals can be coherence measures.
description: 19 pages
MORAL HAZARD IN PRODUCER ORGANIZATIONS - SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN EMPIRICAL SURVEY
Creators: name: Kovács, Zoltán
name: Kovács, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: trust, collaborative activity, moral hazard, Sholtes

description: A wide range of empirical experiences shows that the performance of Hungarian producer organizations (aka TÉSZ) significantly falls behind the activity observed in the developed Western European countries. Regarding this issue, the present study examines how moral hazard - as one of the possible reasons - influences the producers’ activities in cooperative organizations. Information for the research was collected with the help of a questionnaire survey among the members of PaprikaKert TÉSZ Ltd. A statistical path model has been developed for the research, which assumed that - in addition to a direct effect - moral hazard also affects collaborative activity by eroding trust. The statistical model has been tested both in member-member and members-management relations. The experiences from the survey clearly show that moral hazard exists in the producer organization. According to my results, though its measure cannot be regarded numerically considerable, its negative effect on cooperative activity can be proved with statistical examinations. Its effect can be divided into two aspects: besides a direct effect, an indirect one can also be detected, which means that moral hazard is able to reduce producers’ willingness to cooperate by eroding trust. Moreover, our results have clearly pointed out that moral hazard has a negative impact on member-member and members-management relations to varying degrees and through different mechanisms. In addition to the above tests, the empirical testing of another model called Sholtes trust model has been carried out, too. The validating was successful, so the model - which attributes trust to the faith in the partner’s loyalty and capability - is basically acceptable. The argument says that high-level trust can be observed among partners only when faith both in loyalty and capability is strong enough. The research, however, revealed that the above-mentioned two factors determine it in a different way: regarding trust between members, the faith in capability is more important; while trust towards the management is more determined by faith in loyalty.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/10
Confessions of an incurable romantic
Creators: name: ADELMAN, I.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Irma Adelman, biography, recollections
subject: B31

description: The paper is a contribution to a series of recollections and reflections on the professional experiences of distinguished economists which the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review started in 1979. In it Irma Adelman provides an intellectual retrospective autobiography. JEL: B31
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 41, N. 166 (1988)
title: Breaching of earth embankments and dams
Creators: name: Morris, Mark William
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: Despite 'modern' construction and management techniques, flood embankment and embankment dam failures occur almost routinely around the world. The need to understand, predict and prevent the breaching process remains a high priority for owners and flood risk managers alike. This research provides new understanding and improved methods for predicting breach initiation and growth through earth flood embankments or dams. The improvement of breach model accuracy has made slow progress over the past 20 years, with confusion around breaching processes arising from a lack of appreciation of soil mechanics interacting with hydraulics and structural behaviour. The prediction of different breach processes requires the integration of techniques from all three disciplines. This thesis makes advances from earlier work (Mohamed, 2002) to produce a predictive breach model intended for industry application. The research develops improved approaches for flow calculation, sediment erosion and structural response for predicting breach initiation and growth and uses field data, including video footage, from the EU IMP ACT project and large scale test and case study data from collaboration with the International Dam Safety Interest Group breach modelling project. Sediment erosion equations, rather than equilibrium transport equations are used and the significance of the estimated performance of any grass cover and the influence of breach drowning recognised. The relationship between reservoir surface area and the erodibility of the embankment soil for the characteristics of the breach outflow hydrograph is also highlighted. Building from these developments, a new method to simulate breach through embankments comprised of different zones of material type and state has been developed which provides a significant step forward in our ability to simulate breach through real rather than idealised structures. This thesis demonstrates how this modelling approach can predict significantly different breach behaviour, and hence outflow hydrograph, dependent upon the embankment construction and soil state.
The Instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter Equation and Its Analog: the Breit-like Equation
Creators: name: Chang, Chao-Hsi
name: Chen, Jiao-Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We take ($μ^\pm e^\mp$) systems and consider the states with quantum number $J^P=0^-$ as examples, to explore the different contents of the instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equation and its analog, Breit equation, by solving them exactly. The results show that the two equations are not equivalent, although they are analogous. Furthermore, we point out that the Breit equation contains extra un-physical solutions, so it should be abandoned if one wishes to have an accurate description of the bound states for the instantaneous interacting binding systems.
description: 5 pages, no figure
Black holes as the source of dark energy: a stringent test with high-redshift JWST AGNs
Creators: name: Lei, Lei
name: Zu, Lei
name: Yuan, Guan-Wen
name: Shen, Zhao-Qiang
name: Wang, Yi-Ying
name: Wang, Yuan-Zhu
name: Su, Zhen-Bo
name: Ren, Wen-ke
name: Tang, Shao-Peng
name: Zhou, Hao
name: Zhang, Chi
name: Jin, Zhi-Ping
name: Feng, Lei
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
name: Wei, Da-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studies have proposed that there is evidence for cosmological coupling of black holes (BHs) with an index of $k\approx 3$; hence, BHs serve as the astrophysical source of dark energy. However, the data sample is limited for the redshifts of $\leq 2.5$. In recent years, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected many high-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and quasars. Among the JWST NIRSpec-/NIRCam-resolved AGNs, three are determined to be in early-type host galaxies with a redshift of $z\sim 4.5--7$. However, their $M_{\star}$ and $M_{\rm BH}$ are in tension with the predicted cosmological coupling of black holes with $k = 3$ at a confidence level of $\sim 2σ$, which challenges the hypothesis that BHs serve as the origin of dark energy. Future work on high-redshift AGNs using the JWST will further assess such a hypothesis by identifying more early-type host galaxies in the higher mass range.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; Comments are welcome!
title: Das öffentliche Schulumfeld als Lern- und Bewegungsraum in der Stadt
Creators: name: Ettl, Julia
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014

description: Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem öffentlichen Raum im Umfeld von Volksschulen in Wien. Zuerst wird ein soziologischer Einblick zum Thema -Kinder in der Stadt- gegeben, gefolgt von einem Überblick über instrumentelle und gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen. In weiterer Folge werden das Mobilitäts- und das Sozialverhalten von Kindern auf dem Schulweg in Zusam-menhang mit der städtebaulichen Struktur des Schulumfeldes analysiert. Abschließend werden konzeptuelle Gestaltungsvorschläge für die analysierten Schulumfelder gemacht.
description: The present thesis deals with the public space in the environment of primary schools in Vienna. First of all, a sociological insight on the topic -Children in the City- is given, followed by an overview of instrumental and legal framework. Subsequently, mobility- and social behavior of children on their way to school in connection with the urban structure of the school environment are analyzed. Finally, conceptual design proposals for the analyzed school environments are made.
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE ECONOMICAL SUSTAINABILITY OF SPORTS HALLS
Creators: name: Nikolett Kosztin,
name: Balatoni, Ildiko
name: Nikolett Kosztin,
name: Balatoni, Ildiko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: sport
subject: sport subsidies
subject: sport facilities

description: The precondition of a health conscious behaviour in a community is establishing a healthy development of the community, an important part of which is the community’s attitude to sports and health. A basic manifestation of this is whether the leadership of a specific settlement is committed to developing sports facilities and, on the other hand, to what extent residents make use of these facilities. The aim of our research was to point out the number of sports facilities currently available for catering everyday physical education introduced in 2012, leisure sports and competitive sport events in two different regions of Hungary. We also examined the resources available for maintaining the facilities and the degree to which existing facilities are exploited. Existing sports halls of the Northern Great Plain and Central Transdanubia were included in the research. We wish to emphasise, in regards to the infrastructural developments of the coming few years, that it is essential to consider the fact, even in the planning phase of facilities, that sport events in themselves do not make the facilities economically sustainable.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/11
THE ANALYSIS OF ABSORPTION CAPACITY OF PROJECT BENEFICIARIES CONTRIBUTING TO CROSS-BORDER PROGRAMMES BASED ON THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL CRITERIA
Creators: name: Balazs Simo
name: Balazs Simo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: structural fund,
subject: cohesion policy,
subject: absorption capacity,
subject: European territorial cooperation

description: Subsequent to the experience with the international aid programmes of the 1990’s, from the very beginning of the accession negotiations and since 2004 in particular, the notion of absorption capacity of using EU funds has gradually been in focus. The subject of early scientific investigations concentrated mainly on the analysis of the macro-economic conditions of individual countries; furthermore, on increasing absorption capacities as well as how to develop the institutional system of cohesion policy further. After 2004, however, succeeding further rounds of the enlargement as well as after the programming period 2007-2013 in particular – meaning as well the conclusion of the EU budgetary period – the analysis of absorption capacities could be produced at the level of project beneficiaries. The aim of this study is to examine the most prominent determinants influencing successful outcomes and the quality of vigorous projects managed by potent beneficiaries and consortia participating in the European Territorial Co-operation Programmes with the contribution of Hungary. In the course of research correlations between determinants have been subject to econometric analysis revealing the fact that the implementation capacities of state-owned project beneficiaries and those of the non-governmental sector diverge significantly. Moreover, the study aims to show how the institutional system distributing EU funds tends to be rather lax towards the beneficiaries with weak absorption capacities, thus sacrificing the efficiency of developments for pure statistics..
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/12
title: Die Auswirkungen des Online-Handels in Österreich auf die Miet-/Pachteinnahmen von Shopping-Malls in Österreich
Creators: name: Ecker, Christoph
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Einkaufszentrum
subject: Internethandel
subject: Einzelhandel
subject: Umsatzentwicklung
subject: Umsatzmiete

description: Die Umsätze im Online-Handel haben sich in den letzten Jahren auch in Österreich dynamisch entwickelt. Diese Tatsache gibt Anlass dafür, dass sich einerseits Unternehmen die im stationären Einzelhandel tätig sind, sich neue Absatzstrategien (Stichwort: Multi-Channeling) überlegen und sich andererseits Betreiber von Shopping-Malls Gedanken hinsichtlich ihrer zukünftigen Miet-/Pachteinnahmen machen sollten. In diesem Zusammenhang befasst sich die gegenständliche Arbeit damit, in welchem Ausmaß das Miet-/Pachtniveau von Shopping-Malls in Österreich im Zuge eines weiteren Erstarkens von E-Commerce sinken könnte und welche Rolle der umsatzorientierte Miet-/Pachtzins hierbei einnimmt. Da zum Finalisierungszeitpunkt der gegenständlichen Arbeit keinerlei Literatur und empirischen Untersuchungen hinsichtlich Umsatzprognosen für Branchen/Warengruppen im heimischen Online-Handel geortet werden konnten, wurden diese Daten im Zuge einer Expertenbefragung erhoben und die möglichen Auswirkungen für ein Sample von 22 österreichischen Shopping-Malls geprüft. Das Sample wurde anschließend multidimensional im Hinblick auf die unterschiedlichen Objektmerkmale, wie etwa Alter, Größe, Branchenstruktur, Flächenleistung, etc. analysiert, um eine Antwort auf die Forschungsfrage und die dahinter stehenden Hypothesen zu erhalten. Die Analysen zeigen deutlich, dass sich die wirtschaftliche Lage in manchen Branchen-/Warengruppen heimischer Shopping-Malls bei weiterem E-Commerce- Umsatzwachstum stark zuspitzt. Eine genaue Qualifizierung des Miet-/Pachtentfalls durch den möglichen Siegeszug von E-Commerce war allerdings nicht möglich, da die diesbezüglich relevanten Kennzahlen (OCR und RSR) in Hinblick auf ihre betriebswirtschaftliche Sensitivität stark betriebstyp-abhängig sind.
Equilibrium states and their entropy densities in gauge-invariant C*-systems
Creators: name: Akiho, N.
name: Hiai, F.
name: Petz, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L30; 37D35; 82B10

description: A gauge-invariant C*-system is obtained as the fixed point subalgebra of the infinite tensor product of full matrix algebras under the tensor product unitary action of a compact group. In the paper, thermodynamics is studied on such systems and the chemical potential theory developed by Araki, Haag, Kastler and Takesaki is used. As a generalization of quantum spin system, the equivalence of the KMS condition, the Gibbs condition and the variational principle is shown for translation-invariant states. The entropy density of extremal equilibrium states is also investigated in relation to macroscopic uniformity.
description: 20 pages, revised in March 2005
DETERMINANTS OF DIVIDEND PAYOUT POLICY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF BANKING SECTOR OF PAKISTAN
Creators: name: Ishtiaq Ahmad
name: Muqaddas, Muhammad Fahid
name: Ishtiaq Ahmad
name: Muqaddas, Muhammad Fahid
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Dividend payout
subject: financial efficiency
subject: risk
subject: investment to total assets and profitability

description: One good way to communicate financial performance of a bank to its shareholders is the payment of dividend. The present study is attempted to explore the influence of financial efficiency, safety, risk and profitability on dividend policy using panel data of 10 commercial banks listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) for a period of 9 years between 2006 to 2014. The panel regression technique is used to analyze the data. The analysis shows a positive relationship of dividend payout ratio with safety and profitability in banking sector of Pakistan. The study identifies a negative association of dividend payout measure with financial efficiency and risk. The results show the statistically significant association of safety, risk and profitability with dividend payout ratio. Based on these findings it is concluded that safety, risk and profitability measures are relatively strong measures for defining dividend policy. The results are strongly indicating that safer the banks, the greater payout ratio the bank has. Moreover; banks with higher profitability and lower non-performing loans (NPLs) are believed to pay more dividends.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/13
Energy densities in quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Stepanyan, V.
name: Allahverdyan, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum mechanics does not provide any ready recipe for defining energy density in space, since the energy and coordinate do not commute. To find a well-motivated energy density, we start from a possibly fundamental, relativistic description for a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particle: Dirac's equation. Employing its energy-momentum tensor and going to the non-relativistic limit we find a locally conserved non-relativistic energy density that is defined via the Terletsky-Margenau-Hill quasiprobability (which is hence selected among other options). It coincides with the weak value of energy, and also with the hydrodynamic energy in the Madelung representation of quantum dynamics, which includes the quantum potential. Moreover, we find a new form of spin-related energy that is finite in the non-relativistic limit, emerges from the rest energy, and is (separately) locally conserved, though it does not contribute to the global energy budget. This form of energy has a holographic character, i.e., its value for a given volume is expressed via the surface of this volume. Our results apply to situations where local energy representation is essential; e.g. we show that the energy transfer velocity for a large class of free wave-packets (including Gaussian and Airy wave-packets) is larger than its group (i.e. coordinate-transfer) velocity.
description: 9+6 pages, 3 figure
title: Homo Mensor: self – quantification as an act of habitual resistance against neoliberal numbers
Creators: name: Jesudoss, Sylvian Patrick
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: Researchers and the mainstream media enquiry of self-quantification have either painted a 
techno-utopian society with self-governing users or an Orwellian world of surveillance 
governed by corporations and governments. On the other hand, more and more people (20% 
year-on-year increase in the market) are embracing self-quantification practices and 
technology, and they have started living their life in a quantified world where every aspect of 
their life is measured with or without technology. Some sociologists like Deborah Lupton 
posit that self-quantification is yet another neoliberal project that already imposes many 
numbers (including credit scores, grades, and social ratings) to govern the subjects. Informed 
by postphenomenology and based on 33 in-depth interviews of UK-based self-quantifying 
users and the exploration of devices, apps and secondary literature on the technology, the 
thesis studies everyday self-quantification practices.
Through a conceptual framework drawing from affordance theory and De Certeau's tactics of 
the weak, the thesis first unpacks the affordances offered by the self-quantification 
environment to the user and then identifies how the users actualise these affordances. Next, 
the thesis explains how users gain agency and control through the numbers produced by self-quantification and affordances. The control gained through numbers creates multiple micro 
resistances that are tacit, pre-reflective, situational, and embodied. The study theorises that 
self-quantification and the numbers produced through those practices are an act of habitual 
resistance against the neoliberal hegemony. The study presents an alternative narrative to the 
techno-deterministic viewpoint of the existing literature but agrees with the imposed 
surveillance theorisation of the sociological paradigm. However, it challenges that narrative 
and theorises how the users respond to the authorities' neoliberal and surveillance 
impositions. The study's theoretical, societal, and marketing implications are manifold, 
including the stance that self-quantification is not a singular practice but integrated and the 
noticeable resistance turn from the existing self-knowledge narrative. The thesis is subject to 
several limitations, including data generation complexities, and the study was conducted in a 
specific context of self-quantification. Finally, future research avenues are discussed and 
addressed in detail based on the implications of the findings.
The great debates on the laws of returns and the value of capital: when will economists finally accept their own logic?
Creators: name: SYLOS LABINI, P.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: theory of the firm, prices, capital, marginalism
subject: D22, E30, E22

description: Despite long years of important studies and critical debates, economists who have come to grips with the laws of returns and the value of capital are few and far between. The criticisms have been ignored or regarded to the category of “paradoxes”, so as to put them on one side and thus justify the failure to give up outdated approaches. The work provides a thorough examination of this state of affairs. The author deals with fundamental questions regarding the theory of the firm and the connected theory of prices and the theory of capital, highlighting both the formal as well as the substantial differences between marginalists and the critics of marginalism. JEL: D22, E30, E22
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 41, N. 166 (1988)
Online supplement 1.pdf
Creators: name: Schlapfer, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Time difference depicted to reach the lowest cerebral tissue oxygenation index (TOI) value in both treatment arms. Time of the O2/Air treatment has been subtracted from the corresponding apnea time after O2/CO2 treatment. Positive values indicate a longer apnea time to reach the lowest TOI value after oxycarbon treatment, negative values indicate a shorter apnea time apnea
Technical progress, market forms and unemployment
Creators: name: ASIMAKOPULOS, A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sylos Labini, Ricardo, Keynes, technological unemployment
subject: E24, J64, O33

description: The purpose of the present paper is threefold. The first purpose is to emphasise the importance of the insights to be found in Sylos Labini’s work. The second purpose is to expand upon it by distinguishing between the different types of technical progress. Finally, the third purpose is to comment on Labini’s comparison of Ricardo and Keynes on the possibility of technological unemployment. Regarding his description of technological progress as “labour saving”, the author shows that a more comprehensive description would be more useful for his purposes. JEL: E24, J64, O33
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 41, N. 166 (1988)
ECONOMICS OF FAIRNESS WITHIN THE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN IN CONTEXT OF THE EU
Creators: name: Blizkovsky, Petr
name: Berendes, Vincent
name: Blizkovsky, Petr
name: Berendes, Vincent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Food supply, fairness, bargaining power, EU, unfair trading practices

description: The paper broaches the issue of unfair trading practices (UTPs) at the expense of, economically spoken, weaker actors among the food supply chain in context of the EU. For illustrating the concept of UTPs and delivering a theoretical basis for scrutinizing the term of fairness in respective trading practices the paper suggests the three variables 1) bargaining power, 2) market power/anti competitive practices and 3) unequal gain distribution. Subsequently the article presents selected national food-specific legislative based reactions towards UTPs evolved in context of the three variables. Ultimately the paper presents a qualitatively generated hypothesis which presumes that legislative food-specific measurements focussing on protecting suppliers lead to a beneficial monetary share for farmers, by means of influencing the producer price to a monetarily advantageous extent. The hypothesis was generated unprejudiced in the run-up to the paper. The research design which led to the hypothesis mentioned will be presented.
description: DOI: 10.19041/APSTRACT/2016/4-5/14
title: A survey and taxonomy on privacy enhancing technologies
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Peter
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Datenschutztechnologien
subject: privacy enhancing technologies

description: Aufgrund der kontinuierlich steigenden Datensammlung unter anderem durch Google und Facebook entsteht ein stärker werdendes Bedürfnis nach Datenschutz. Eine Grundvoraussetzung, um Datenschutz implementieren zu können, ist einen Überblick über den Stand der Technik zu haben. Das ist in der schnelllebigen IT Industrie besonders wichtig, da sich hier technologische Entwicklungen, geänderte Verhaltensweisen und damit einhergehend auch das Gefährdungspotential rasch ändern können. Für alle, die sich mit der Implementierung von Systemen zum Datenschutz befassen, ist es daher besonders wichtig, aktuelle Entwicklungen und Möglichkeiten zu kennen. Ganz besonders gilt das für Personen, die neu in dieses Thema einsteigen wollen. Leider gibt es jedoch wenig Überblicksliteratur, die einen raschen und schnellen Start ermöglicht - speziell, wenn die Wichtigkeit von aktuellen Informationen berücksichtigt wird. In dieser Arbeit wird deshalb ein Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen im Bereich der Privacy Enhancing Technologies gegeben. Zur besseren Strukturierung ist eine Taxonomie wünschenswert - leider gibt es jedoch noch keine für diesen Zweck geeignete. Daher wird eine entsprechende Taxonomie für Privacy Enhancing Technologies erstellt. Anhand dieser Taxonomie werden die untersuchten Techniken evaluiert. Abschließend erfolgt eine Auswertung über Kombinationsmöglichkeiten der gebildeten Gruppen von Techniken sowie beispielhaft von mehreren konkreten Techniken.
description: Due to the continuous increase of data storage e.g. by Google and Facebook an increasing need for data protection is created. One basic requirement for implementing data protection is an overview of the technological state of the art. In the fast moving IT industry this is especially difficult, as technological developments, changed habits, and as a consequence the risk exposure may change fast. For everyone dealing with the implementation of systems for data protection it is thus especially important to know recent developments and possibilities. This is particularly important for persons dealing with this topic for the first time. Unfortunately, there exists few literature providing an overview about this topic which allows to get started fast - especially if the importance of up to date information is considered. For this reason, this thesis offers an overview about recent developments in the field of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. To provide a better structure a taxonomy is desired - unfortunately, there does not exist an appropriate one for this purpose. Thus an own taxonomy for Privacy Enhancing Technologies is created. The techniques are evaluated by means of this taxonomy. Finally, an evaluation of possible combinations of the clusters of techniques as well as exemplary combinations of specific techniques is provided.
Starobinsky Inflation from String Theory?
Creators: name: Brinkmann, Max
name: Cicoli, Michele
name: Zito, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starobinsky inflation is currently one of the best models concerning agreement with cosmological data. Despite this observational success, it is still lacking a robust embedding into a UV complete theory. Previous efforts to derive Starobinsky inflation from string theory have been based on the derivation of higher derivative curvature terms from the low-energy limit of ten-dimensional string theory. This approach is however known to fail due to the difficulty to tame the effect of contributions proportional to the Ricci scalar to a power larger than two. In this paper we investigate an alternative attempt which exploits instead the ubiquitous presence of scalar fields in string compactifications combined with the fact that Starobinsky inflation can be recast as Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field with a precise potential and conformal coupling to matter fermions. We focus in particular on type IIB Kähler moduli since they have shown to lead to exponential potentials with a Starobinsky-like plateau. We consider three classes of moduli with a different topological origin: the volume modulus, bulk fibre moduli, and blow-up modes. The only modulus with the correct coupling to matter is the volume mode but its potential does not feature any plateau at large field values. Fibre moduli admit instead a potential very similar to Starobinsky inflation with a natural suppression of higher curvature corrections, but they cannot reproduce the correct conformal coupling to matter. Blow-up modes have both a wrong potential and a wrong coupling. Our analysis implies therefore that embedding Starobinsky inflation into string theory seems rather hard. Finally, it provides a detailed derivation of the coupling to matter of fibre moduli which could be used as a way to discriminate Starobinsky from fibre inflation.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures
A Tale of Two Americas: Why Is That a Surprise?
Creators: name: Bromley, Daniel W.
name: Bromley, Daniel W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Market economy
subject: performance
subject: alienation

description: The election of 2016 was a “system” election. Neither candidate was popular. Voters either affirmed or rejected the performance of the American version of a market economy. That economy has failed people in a large swath of the country. The Electoral College performed as our founders intended. All people matter.
DLCQ String Spectrum from ${\cal N}=2$ SYM Theory
Creators: name: De Risi, G.
name: Grignani, G.
name: Orselli, M.
name: Semenoff, G. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study non planar corrections to the spectrum of operators in the ${\mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang Mills theory which are dual to string states in the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave background with a {\em compact} light-cone direction. The existence of a positive definite discrete light-cone momentum greatly simplifies the operator mixing problem. We give some examples where the contribution of all orders in non-planar diagrams can be found analytically. On the string theory side this corresponds to finding the spectrum of a string state to all orders in string loop corrections.
description: 35 pages, no figures
Uncertainty and the financial process and its consequences for the power of the central bank
Creators: name: DOW, J.C.R.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Central banks, monetary policy, exchange rates, interest rates, money supply
subject: E52, E58

description: Most monetary theorists claim that the money supply determines the price level and that the authorities set interest rates to influence investment and consumption. The author asks how central banks, relatively small financial institutions, can affect the real world. In analysis, the article deals with determination of exchange rates, interest rates and the money supply. The author concludes that central banks have influence, within a limited range, only because of uncertainty. Because of uncertainty, the links between financial and real assets are weak in the short- to medium-term allowing some influence to be wielded by a central authority. JEL: E52, E58
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 41, N. 166 (1988)
On the choice of stimulus material in studies of face cognition in childhood
Creators: name: Petrakova, Anastasia
name: E. Lebedeva
name: Vinogradov, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Results of multilevel analysis
The Poynting vector field singularities: Effects of symmetry and its violation
Creators: name: Tribelsky, Michael I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phenomenological theory revealing the generic effects of the problem symmetry, its violation, and energy conservation law on the singularities of the Poynting vector field is presented. The bifurcation scenario of their formation (annihilation) under variations of the problem parameters is elucidated. The results describe the singularities in scattering a linearly polarized plane electromagnetic wave. However, they are valid for any configuration of the incident beam at its scattering by a subwavelength particle. The author shows that topological changes in the pattern of the Poynting vector field occur through a finite number of pitchfork bifurcations. It means that the patterns are topologically stable under variations of the problem parameter(s) that lie between the bifurcation values. The latter ensures that the discussed topological properties of the problem are robust to weak symmetry violation, which is inevitable in any actual experiment. The general consideration is illustrated by a detailed study of singularities in scattering by an infinite right circular germanium cylinder. The results open the possibility of fitting and controlling radiation patterns on subwavelength scales important for various nanotechnologies.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, 49 references
The contribution of the ECU to exchange-rate stability. A comment
Creators: name: SARCINELLI, M.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: ECU, exchange-rate stability, portfolio approach
subject: F33, F36

description: The article is a brief note criticising some essential elements of Jager and De Jong’s The private ECU’s potential impact on Global and European exchange-rate stability (1988). The author provides three points of criticism which undermine that article’s analysis. Firstly, the ECU ought to be considered in all its functions of an international reserve currency and not only as an investment currency. Secondly, the restrictiveness of the assumptions underlying the portfolio approach make the authors’ outcome useless in practice. Thirdly, the outcome of their calculations favours the hypothesis that the ECU creates exchange-rate stability. JEL: F33, F36
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 41, N. 166 (1988)
Using Electron Scattering Superscaling to predict Charge-changing Neutrino Cross Sections in Nuclei
Creators: name: Amaro, J. E.
name: Barbaro, M. B.
name: Caballero, J. A.
name: Donnelly, T. W.
name: Molinari, A.
name: Sick, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superscaling analyses of few-GeV inclusive electron scattering from nuclei are extended to include not only quasielastic processes, but now also into the region where $Δ$-excitation dominates. It is shown that, with reasonable assumptions about the basic nuclear scaling function extracted from data and information from other studies of the relative roles played by correlation and MEC effects, the residual strength in the resonance region can be accounted for through an extended scaling analysis. One observes scaling upon assuming that the elementary cross section by which one divides the residual to obtain a new scaling function is dominated by the $N\toΔ$ transition and employing a new scaling variable which is suited to the resonance region. This yields a good representation of the electromagnetic response in both the quasielastic and $Δ$ regions. The scaling approach is then inverted and predictions are made for charge-changing neutrino reactions at energies of a few GeV, with focus placed on nuclei which are relevant for neutrino oscillation measurements. For this a relativistic treatment of the required weak interaction vector and axial-vector currents for both quasielastic and $Δ$-excitation processes is presented.
description: 42 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review C
The contribution of the ECU to exchange rate stability. A reply
Creators: name: JAGER, H.
name: DE JONG, E.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: ECU, exchange-rate stability
subject: F33, F36

description: A brief reply to Sarcinelli’s criticism of the authors’ article The private ECU’s potential impact on Global and European exchange-rate stability (1988). The authors rebut the criticisms and seek to clarify their reasoning. They maintain their core hypothesis that the growth of the ECU does not necessarily enhance the stability of exchange rates but may lead to instability too. JEL: F33, F36
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 41, N. 166 (1988)
The Myopic Stable Set for Social Environments
Creators: name: Demuynck, Thomas
name: P. Jean-Jacques Herings
name: Saulle, Riccardo D.
name: Seel, Christian
name: Demuynck, Thomas
name: P. Jean-Jacques Herings
name: Saulle, Riccardo D.
name: Seel, Christian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Social Environments
subject: Group Formation
subject: Stability
subject: Nash Equilibrium

description: We introduce a new solution concept for models of coalition formation, called the myopic stable set. The myopic stable set is defined for a very general class of social environments and allows for an infinite state space. We show that the myopic stable set exists and is non-empty. Under minor continuity conditions, we also demonstrate uniqueness. Furthermore, the myopic stable set is a superset of the core and of the set of pure strategy Nash equilibria in noncooperative games. Additionally, the myopic stable set generalizes and unifies various results from more specific environments. In particular, the myopic stable set coincides with the coalition structure core in coalition function form games if the coalition structure core is non-empty; with the set of stable matchings in the standard one-to-one matching model; with the set of pairwise stable networks and closed cycles in models of network formation; and with the set of pure strategy Nash equilibria in finite supermodular games, finite potential games, and aggregative games. We illustrate the versatility of our concept by characterizing the myopic stable set in a model of Bertrand competition with asymmetric costs, for which the literature so far has not been able to fully characterize the set of all (mixed) Nash equilibria.