cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Unterstützung des Übergangs vom Kindergarten in die Primarschule Eine qualitative Untersuchung im Kanton Luzern
Creators: name: Helfenstein, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Vorschulerziehung
Grundschule
Masterarbeit

description: Die folgende Arbeit wurde während der Ausbildung an der Interkantonalen Hochschule für Heilpädagogik als Masterarbeit verfasst. Trotz Reformbemühungen und jahrzehntelangen pädagogischen Diskussionen ist die Problematik des Übergangs vom Kindergarten zur Primarschule bislang nicht ausreichend gelöst. Untersuchungsergebnisse belegen, dass knapp die Hälfte der Kinder Schwierigkeiten hat, den Übergang vom Kindergarten in die Primarschule ohne Probleme zu bewältigen und dass sich im Verlauf des ersten Schuljahres Anpassungsprobleme mit unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen zeigen (Grotz, 2013). Ziel wäre es, dass die Kinder kontinuierlich in ihrem Lern- und Entwicklungsprozess begleitet, unterstützt und gefördert werden. Dies ist jedoch nur durch die Zusammenarbeit von Kindergarten und Primarschule möglich (Hense & Buschmeier, 2002). Die Kooperation der beiden Bereiche scheint aber noch nicht die Intensität erreicht zu haben, welche notwendig wäre (Urban, Schulz, Meser & Thoms (Hrsg.), 2015). Die Masterarbeit soll diese Problematik aufgreifen. Mittels eines Fragebogens sollen Kindergarten- und Erstklasslehrpersonen zur Kooperation und deren Erschwernissen befragt werden. Anhand von dieser Befragung soll eine praktische Umsetzungshilfe entwickelt werden, welche die Lehrpersonen anregt zu kooperieren und welche bei der Planung und Gestaltung der Kooperation unterstützend wirkt.
The relations between practice and theory of forward exchange
Creators: name: EINZIG, P.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Forward exchange theory, theoretical analysis, practical experience
subject: F31

description: Within the economic sphere of Forward Exchange theory a close relationship between theory and practice is essential. On the one hand is a highly intricate system, the immense variety of technical details of which cannot be mastered adequately without a thorough practical experience. On the other hand, is an important set of economic principals arising from the study of that system with all its manifold implications, which cannot be mastered adequately without being familiar with methods of theoretical analysis. Most foreign exchange dealers are not trained to grasp its theoretical aspects, while most academic economists fight shy of Forward Exchange. The author criticizes the shortcomings and defects on both sides, and stresses the need for closing the gap between theory and practice in forward exchange. JEL: F31
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 15, N. 62 (1962)
Negotiating the "critical" in a Canadian English for Academic Purposes program
Creators: name: Lee, Ena Grace
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis represents a one-year critical ethnographic case study of an academic literacy program located within a major Canadian university. Pacific University's English for Academic Purposes program distinguished itself from "traditional" English as a Second Language programs in its innovative pedagogical approach. The program staff believed that the understanding of a language lies in the deeper understandings of the culture in which it is embedded. Because of this, the program emphasized the use of a critical dialogic approach to the analysis of how language is shaped by culture and vice-versa. My research revealed, however, that disjunctions existed between the pedagogy as it was conceptualized and the classroom practices of the instructors teaching there. Furthermore, classroom observations conducted over the course of the year suggested that student identities were being constructed and negotiated vis-à-vis those of the instructors and that the discourses of teachers essentialized culture and, in turn, student identities. I argue that the discourses we co-construct in the classroom can (re)create subordinate student identities, thereby limiting students' access not only to language-learning opportunities, but to other more powerful identities. I therefore propose that a reimagining of a critical language teacher identity and the negotiation of critical praxis can concomitantly serve to reimagine student identities in new and emancipatory ways.
Motivations for participating in religious events
Creators: name: PASACO-GONZÁLEZ, BÁRBARA SOFÍA
name: HERNÁNDEZ-MOGOLLÓN, JOSÉ MANUEL
name: CAMPÓN-CERRO, ANA MARÍA
name: RODRIGUES, RICARDO
Publisher: name: Journal of Tourism & Development
Year: 2025

description: Religious events have become one of the fastest-growing forms of religious tourism and have also become important tourism resources for destinations. Despite this, few studies have explored the motivations that drive people to participate in this type of celebration. This study aims to identify the motivational factors that encourage individuals to participate in religious events. World Youth Day (WYD) was selected as the context for the study. A total of 191 WYD registrants responded to a face-to-face survey. The results obtained indicate that people participate in religious events mainly driven by religious motives and by the interest of achieving greater spiritual growth. The results also indicate that motivations differ according to socio-demographic variables such as gender, age, and occupation.
description: Journal of Tourism & Development, vol. 47 (2024)
Monolithic photonic chips for multi-channel frequency mixers and single photon detectors
Creators: name: Zheng, Ming-Yang
name: Yao, Quan
name: Wang, Bing
name: Xie, Xiuping
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lithium niobate photonic chip could realize diverse optical engineering for various applications benefiting from its excellent optical performances. In this letter, we demonstrate monolithic photonic chips for multi-channel sum-frequency conversion based on reverse-proton-exchange periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides, with the different channels showing uniform and excellent conversion efficiencies. To obtain a robust device and provide a convenient interface for applications, the integrated chip is fiber coupled with two fiber arrays. The packaged chip then forms the core of a multi-channel up conversion single photon detector. In each channel the input signal interacts with a 1950-nm single frequency pump laser and the sum frequency output is spectrally filtered and detected by a silicon avalanche photodiode. Average detection efficiency (DE) of 23.2 % and noise count rate (NCR) of 557 counts per second (cps) are achieved, with a standard deviation of 2.73 % and 48 cps over the 30 channels, as well as optical isolation (OI) between nearby channels of more than 71 dB, which are excellent for the extensive applications of monolithic photonic chips in fields including deep space laser communication, high-rate quantum key distribution and single-photon imaging.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Inequality Measures: The Kolkata index in comparison with other measures
Creators: name: Banerjee, Suchismita
name: Chakrabarti, Bikas K.
name: Mitra, Manipushpak
name: Mutuswami, Suresh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We provide a survey of the Kolkata index of social inequality, focusing in particular on income inequality. Based on the observation that inequality functions (such as the Lorenz function), giving the measures of income or wealth against that of the population, to be generally nonlinear, we show that the fixed point (like Kolkata index k) of such a nonlinear function (or related, like the complementary Lorenz function) offer better measure of inequality than the average quantities (like Gini index). Indeed the Kolkata index can be viewed as a generalized Hirsch index for a normalized inequality function and gives the fraction k of the total wealth possessed by the rich (1-k) fraction of the population. We analyze the structures of the inequality indices for both continuous and discrete income distributions. We also compare the Kolkata index to some other measures like the Gini coefficient and the Pietra index. Lastly, we provide some empirical studies which illustrate the differences between the Kolkata index and the Gini coefficient.
description: 31 pages, 9 figures, invited review article for the special issue 'From Physics to Econophysics and that: methods and insights'; Frontiers in Physics
title: High throughput measurement of antibody and complement mediated immunity to meningococcal disease
Creators: name: Brookes, Charlotte
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: The accepted correlate of protection for meningococcal disease is serum bactericidal activity. The importance of bactericidal activity was established by Goldschneider et al. (1969) who demonstrated an inverse relationship between disease incidence and bactericidal titres of ≥1:4. The importance of antibody and complement mediated immune mechanisms is also emphasised by the increased susceptibility of complement deficient individuals to meningococcal disease.

 However, the absence of bactericidal activity does not necessarily indicate susceptibility and protection has been demonstrated in the absence of bactericidal activity. This has indicated the importance of other protection mechanisms such as opsonophagocytosis.

 In this study a high throughput antibody-mediated complement deposition assay has been developed to measure the deposition of both C3b/iC3b and C5b-9 onto Neisseria meningitidis. Antibody mediated C5b-9 deposition measured in this assay has been shown to correlate highly with bactericidal activity for several strains and C3b/iC3b deposition has been shown to correlate with opsonophagocytosis. This assay has also been shown to be reproducible. Measurement of antibody mediated C5b-9 and C3b/iC3b deposition will not be a replacement for opsonic killing assays or the accepted correlate SBA, but could be used as a tool to evaluate large panels of sera against multiple strains due to the very low serum volumes required.

 A respiratory burst assay has also been developed to measure both the uptake of fluorescently-stained bacteria and the induction of a respiratory burst response. This assay was optimised with respect to the reagents used to measure the respiratory burst response, bacterial stain and the assay buffers.

 Complement is an important reagent used in immunoassays to evaluate antibody mediated immunity to N. meningitidis. Due to the high levels of nasopharyngeal carriage in adults it is difficult to obtain a complement source without cross- reactive bactericidal activity, often resulting in the requirement for a source from a different individual for each strain. An IgG-depleted complement source has been developed for use in immunoassays. The method developed has been shown to be reproducible and effective at removing the IgG whilst retaining functional complement and will be a valuable tool for assessing immunity to N. meningitidis.
Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) bekilyensis GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Phanerotoma
Phanerotoma bekilyensis

description: Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) bekilyensis GRANGER 1949
 Phanerotoma bekilyensis n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 205 (key), 206 (fig. 209), 209 (descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar).
 Phanerotoma bekilyensis GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1973: 911 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Bekily.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) caudata GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Phanerotoma
Phanerotoma caudata

description: Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) caudata GRANGER 1949
 Phanerotoma caudata n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 205 (key), 206 (fig. 205), 207 (descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar).
 Phanerotoma caudata GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1973: 911 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Bekily.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Additional file 1 of The association between screen time and cardiometabolic risk in young children
Creators: name: Harunya Sivanesan
name: Vanderloo, Leigh M.
name: Keown-Stoneman, Charles D. G.
name: Parkin, Patricia C.
name: Maguire, Jonathon L.
name: Birken, Catherine S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Linear GEE regression model for association between handheld screen time (h/day) and total cardiometabolic risk score and individuals risk factors, n = 1706. Supplemental Table 2. Linear GEE regression model for association between Non-handheld screen time (h/day) and total cardiometabolic risk score and individuals risk factors, n = 1706. Supplemental Table 3. Linear GEE regression model for association between screen time (h/day) and total cardiometabolic risk score and individuals risk factors, n = 1706.
Economic development and the growth of the trade sector in Italy
Creators: name: HOLTON, R.H.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italy, economic development, trade, retail, prices
subject: O19, O24, O52

description: The growing gap between wholesale and retail prices, coupled with the increase of nearly one-third in the number of retail establishments, suggests that Italy’s economic development in the 1950s was accompanied by a marked and costly increase in excess capacity in retailing. The present work argues that any excess capacity may have already declined and the proportion of the work force in retail trade can be expected to increase even if excess capacity is gradually eliminated. Furthermore, over the long run, distribution costs are almost certain to increase. In order to minimize such costs and comply with the Treaty of Rome, entry restrictions on large-scale retailing should be removed. The author concludes that the growth of large scale retailing is desirable not only because it can invigorate price competition, but also because it can play an active role in accelerating the economic development of the primary and secondary sectors of the economy. JEL: O19, O24, O52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 15, N. 62 (1962)
Simultaneous extraction of fragmentation functions of light charged hadrons with mass corrections
Creators: name: Soleymaninia, Maryam
name: Goharipour, Muhammad
name: Khanpour, Hamzeh
name: Spiesberger, Hubert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Achieving the highest possible precision for theoretical predictions at the present and future high-energy lepton and hadron colliders requires a precise determination of fragmentation functions (FFs) of light and heavy charged hadrons from a global QCD analysis with great accuracy. We describe a simultaneous determination of unpolarized FFs of charged pions, charged kaons and protons/antiprotons from single-inclusive hadron production in electron-positron annihilation (SIA) data at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order accuracy in perturbative QCD. A new set of FFs, called {\tt SGKS20}, is presented. We include data for identified light charged hadrons ($π^\pm, K^\pm$ and $p/\bar{p}$) as well as for unidentified light charged hadrons, $h^\pm$ and show that these data have a significant impact on both size and uncertainties of the fragmentation functions. We examine the inclusion of higher-order perturbative QCD corrections and finite-mass effects. We compare the new {\tt SGKS20} FFs with other recent FFs available in the literature and find in general reasonable agreement, but also important differences for some parton species. We show that theoretical predictions obtained from our new FFs are in very good agreement with the analyzed SIA data, especially at small values of $z$. The {\tt SGKS20} FF sets presented in this work are available via the {\tt LHAPDF} interface.
description: 19 pages, 14 Figures and 4 Tables; Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Population growth and economic difficulties in Latin America
Creators: name: MORTARA, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Economic development, Latin America, population growth, birth rates, death rates, trends, housing, public health, education, industrialization
subject: J11, Q56, O11, O14, O54

description: One of the main obstacles to the incipient economic development of most Latin American countries is the rapid increase in population. This increase is being caused by the persistence of high birth rates side by side with steeply falling death rates. The immediate effect of such trends is a greater proportion of the population that does not contribute to the production of goods and services, but that consumes and requires important services at the public expense. The acceleration in population thus raises problems of various kinds, especially in housing, public health services and education. According to the author, however, the outlook is not as gloomy as it may appear. In fact, it is highly probable that due to the progress of education, the move to towns and industrialization, Latin America is on the precipice of a slowing down in population growth that will facilitate economic development. JEL: J11, Q56, O11, O14, O54
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 15, N. 62 (1962)
Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) ruficornis GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Phanerotoma
Phanerotoma ruficornis

description: Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) ruficornis GRANGER 1949
 Phanerotoma ruficornis n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 205 (key), 206 (fig. 207), 208 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Phanerotoma ruficornis GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1973: 925 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Bekily.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Research Data Policies – A Short Overview
Creators: name: Grossmann, Yves Vincent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ISUBII22
Ilia State University
Tbilisi
Research Data Management
Forschungsdatenmanagement
Policy

description: An short overview on research data policies.
description: Made possible with a BII-Grant by the Goethe Institute for specialist stay abroad for library staff in German institutions.
Additional file 1 of Self-reactive T cells induce and perpetuate chronic relapsing arthritis
Creators: name: Jonatan Tuncel
name: Holmberg, Jens
name: Haag, Sabrina
name: Hopkins, Malin Hultqvist
name: Wester-Rosenlöf, Lena
name: Carlsen, Stefan
name: Olofsson, Peter
name: Holmdahl, Rikard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers for expression analyses.
Remarkable low-energy properties of the pseudogapped semimetal Be$_5$Pt
Creators: name: Fanfarillo, L.
name: Hamlin, J. J.
name: Hennig, R. G.
name: Hire, Ajinkya
name: Hirschfeld, P. J.
name: Kim, Jungsoo
name: Lim, Jinhyuk
name: Quan, Yundi
name: Stewart, G. R.
name: Xie, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements and calculations on the properties of the intermetallic compound Be$_5$Pt. High-quality polycrystalline samples show a nearly constant temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity over a wide temperature range. On the other hand, relativistic electronic structure calculations indicate the existence of a narrow pseudogap in the density of states arising from accidental approximate Dirac cones extremely close to the Fermi level. A small true gap of order 3 meV is present at the Fermi level, yet the measured resistivity is nearly constant from low to room temperature. We argue that this unexpected behavior can be understood by a cancellation of the energy dependence of density of states and relaxation time due to disorder, and discuss a model for electronic transport. With applied pressure, the resistivity becomes semiconducting, consistent with theoretical calculations that show that the band gap increases with applied pressure. We further discuss the role of Be inclusions in the samples.
description: 10 pages, 14 figures. The revised version contains additional calculation of the bandgap using several exchange-correlation functionals
Problems of foreign indebtedness of developing countries
Creators: name: SEGRÉ, C.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Developing countries, foreign debt, balance of payments, policy
subject: F31, F32, F34

description: The present paper considers the difficulties of less-developed countries in meeting their heavy and growing foreign commitments on debt service account. The first aspect of this problem relates to the determination of the limits within which foreign indebtedness should be contained in developing countries. The second aspect relates the method of ensuring that, if such limits are respected, the service of the foreign debt will not, in spite of all, impose intolerable strains on the balance of payments of the capital importing country. The author first sketches the economic background of the problem of estimating the limits to foreign indebtedness. Policy aspects are then considered and in particular the setting of interest rate, amortization, and other conditions in individual lending operations in favour of developing countries. JEL: F31, F32, F34
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 15, N. 62 (1962)
دور الموارد الطبيعية في تحقيق التنمية الاقتصادية ( دراسة حالة القطاع الزراعي الاردني ).pdf
Creators: name: imad, drali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 140201 Agricultural Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: يعد القطاع الزراعي في الاردن قطاع مهم واستراتيجي يقدم قيمة مضافة لعدد من القطاعات مثل النقل والعمل والطاقة والصناعة والتجارة ويشكل النمو في القطاع حالة مميزة وخاصة اذا ماتم تحديدة الى جانب القطاعات الشريكة وبمساهمة تصل الى 20 % في الدخل القومي وبواقع نمو يصل الى 4% , تناولت الدراسة اربعة فصول , الاول مفهوم الموارد الاقتصادية والنمو الاقتصادي والفصل الثاني الدراسات التطبيقية السابقة وجاء الثالث اقتصاديات الموارد الطبيعية والفصل الرابع الموارد الطبيعية في الاقتصاد الاردني تضمن القطاع الزراعي والثروة الحيوانية والسمكية .
Hire purchase controls and replacement cycles
Creators: name: GHANDHI, J.K.S.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Hire purchase, replacement cycles, market for consumer durables
subject: D12, L68

description: The control of hire purchase by specifying and altering minimum terms has been subjected to numerous objections, most of which are administrative or social in substance. Recently, however, a strictly economic critique of these controls has been developed which contends that hire purchase controls tend to lead to replacement cycles in the market for consumer durables. The present article tests this hypothesis by formalizing the basic model and testing it with empirical data. Based on the analysis and the statistical evidence the author argues that the conditions necessary for the generation of a hire purchase induced replacement cycle are unlikely to be realized, except in the most extreme circumstances. Therefore, the objection to the use of hire purchase controls on the grounds that they tend to lead to replacement cycles is unwarranted. JEL: D12, L68
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 15, N. 62 (1962)
title: Controlling plasticity in the contour method of residual stress measurement
Creators: name: Traoré, Yéli
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: The contour method has emerged as a promising technique for residual stress measurement in relatively large, thick and complex engineering components. The method involves making a cut in the sample of interest, measuring the subsequent relaxed deformation profile of the cut surface and using this profile to back-calculate the original out-of-plane residual stress field by finite element modelling. The method is based on the theory of elasticity in that the stress relaxation during test specimen cutting is assumed to be entirely elastic. However, when measuring residual stresses of magnitude approaching the material yield strength, plasticity can occur which introduces errors in the measured stress profile. The main aim of this thesis was to develop methods of mitigating and estimating plasticity induced errors in contour method residual stress measurements. Based on the principles of fracture mechanics, an analogy was made between the stress relaxation process and a cracked plate to investigate the origin of plasticity in the contour method. It was demonstrated that that the cut tip stress intensity factor (KT) and the corresponding plastic zone parameters are the most important parameters for characterising plasticity-induced errors in the contour method. Extensive finite element analyses were carried out to understand and control the errors associated with plasticity with a view of improving the accuracy and reliability of the method. The outcomes of this research provide a valuable insight into how accumulation of plasticity for different restraining conditions affects the performance of the contour method. A novel cutting strategy that aims at mitigating plasticity-induced error by controlling the severity of the cut tip stress concentration (i.e. stress intensity factor) during the cutting process has been developed. Furthermore, procedures (correlations) are developed to estimate the plasticity-induced errors in the results of the contour method. Finally guidelines are proposed and applied to a case study for mitigating the errors associated with plasticity in a contour method residual stress measurement.
International commodity problems and schemes for international compensatory financing
Creators: name: MORGAN, D.J.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Commodity prices, international arrangements, insurance fund, export proceeds
subject: F10, F31, F33, F42

description: Several economic and political problems have arisen from the fall in commodity prices over the last ten years. The existing international commodity agreements, while useful, in practice face several difficulties. For this reason, the article proposes a development insurance fund to stabilize export proceeds. These schemes do not attempt to influence the terms of trade or to stabilize market price or output. Therefore, their operation in relation to commodity agreements requires further investigation. JEL: F10, F31, F33, F42
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 15, N. 63 (1962)
title: Percorsi in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa I. Quaderni di studi dottorali alla Sapienza
Creators: name: Casalin, Federica
name: Miranda, Marina
Publisher: name: Sapienza Università Editrice
Year: 2021

description: Il presente volume inaugura un’iniziativa editoriale volta a diffondere, analogamente a un progetto precedente cui si ricollega, i risultati delle ricerche di giovani studiosi formatisi nell’ambito del Dottorato in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa, presso l’Università di Roma Sapienza. I saggi di questa miscellanea, i cui autori appartengono ai cicli 32°-33°-34°, spaziano dalla letteratura araba, hindi e giapponese alla linguistica araba e cinese, fino alla contemporaneità della RPC. Le tematiche trattate sono espressione di alcune delle principali specializzazioni del Dottorato in questione, relativamente alle diverse epoche storiche e alle varie aree linguistiche e culturali del Maghreb, del Medio Oriente, del Subcontinente indiano e dell’Asia Orientale. Basandosi su materiali in lingua originale, per i campi d’indagine prescelti i contributi offrono analisi accurate e nuovi spunti interpretativi.
Sideband Modulation by Sub-Cycle Interference
Creators: name: Eckart, S.
name: Trabert, D.
name: Fehre, K.
name: Geyer, A.
name: Rist, J.
name: Lin, K.
name: Trinter, F.
name: Schmidt, L. Ph. H.
name: Schöffler, M. S.
name: Jahnke, T.
name: Kunitski, M.
name: Dörner, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally and theoretically show that the electron energy spectra strongly depend on the relative helicity in highly intense, circularly polarized two-color laser fields which is an unexpected finding. The employed counter-rotating two-color (CRTC) fields and the co-rotating two-color (CoRTC) fields are both a superposition of circularly polarized laser pulses at a central wavelength of 390 nm and 780 nm (intensitiy ratio $I_{390}/I_{780}\approx 250$). For the CRTC field, the measured electron energy spectrum is dominated by peaks that are spaced by 3.18 eV (corresponds to the photon energy of light at a wavelength of 390 nm). For the CoRTC field, we observe additional energy peaks (sidebands). Using our semi-classical, trajectory-based models, we conclude that the sideband intensity is modulated by a sub-cycle interference, which sensitively depends on the relative helicity in circularly polarized two-color fields.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) subpygmaea GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Phanerotoma
Phanerotoma subpygmaea

description: Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) subpygmaea GRANGER 1949
 Phanerotoma subpygmaea n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 205 (key), 206 (fig. 208), 208 (descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar).
 Phanerotoma subpygmaea GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1973: 927 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Bekily, Fort-Dauphin.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 77, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Pálinkabérfőzdék fejlesztési lehetőségének vizsgálata
Examining the Possible Development of Subcontract Destilleries
Creators: name: Harcsa, Imre Milán
name: Harcsa, Imre Milán
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: pálinka
subject: beruházásgazdaságosság
subject: nettó jelenérték
subject: egylépcsős lepárlás
subject: szcenárióelemzés
subject: palinka
subject: net present value
subject: investment efficiency
subject: one step distillation
subject: scenario analysis

description: Magyarországon a pálinkakészítés több évszázados hagyományokkal rendelkezik. A készítés módja szerint történhet hagyományos kisüsti, vagy modernebb és egyben gazdaságosabb egylépcsős technológiával. A kisvárdai kistérség üzemei döntő többségében még a régi berendezéseket használják, melyek napjainkban kevésbé költséghatékonyak. A pálinka minőségének javítása, illetve a költség-csökkentés hatékony eszköze lehet egy modern technológiába történő beruházás, melynek megvalósíthatóságát vizsgálom a cikkben beruházásgazdaságossági mutatók (nettó jelenérték, belső megtérülési ráta, jövedelmezőségi index és diszkontált megtérülési idő) segítségével. Számításaim során többféle szcenáriót (optimista, realista és pesszimista) vizsgáltam. Az üzemek forgalmára – ezáltal bevételeire – kiemelt hatással bír a jogszabályi környezet változása, mely 2010 óta igen gyakori, 2015 januárjától pedig kedvezőtlen irányba mozdult el a bérfőzés jövedéki adójának újbóli bevezetésével. További problémát jelent a mezőgazdasági alapanyag-termeléstől (gyümölcstermés) való függés, valamint a magánfőzés megléte. Összegzésképpen megállapítható, hogy csak kedvező gazdasági környezet tenné lehetővé a beruházás megvalósítását. = Palinka production has centuries-old traditions in Hungary. Preparation can be according to the traditional - pot-still - or more modern and also more economic - one-step - technology. The vast majority of plants in the Kisvarda area still use the old equipment, which today is less cost-effective. This article examines the economic feasibility of a modern technology investment using investment efficiency ratios (net present value, internal rate of return, profitability index and the discounted payback period). I observed several scenarios (optimistic, realistic and pessimistic) in my calculations. The turnover of plants – and thus revenue - is greatly influenced by changes in the legal environment, which have been very frequent since the 2010 reintroduction of excise duty on distillation. An additional problem is the dependence on the production of agricultural raw materials (fruit crop) and the presence of private (untaxed) distilling. To conclude, only a favourable economic environment would allow the implementation of the planned project.
International, European and French trade in dairy products: trends and competitive dynamics
Creators: name: Chatellier Vincent
name: Chatellier Vincent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Dairy
subject: Milk
subject: Trade
subject: European Union
subject: competiveness

description: At the international level, the dairy sector is favored by a growing demand, mainly from Asian countries, where dairy consumption per capita remains much lower than that observed in the European Union (EU) and North America. Over the last fifteen years (2000-2015), New Zealand, the country that has most benefited from the growth of international trade in dairy products, especially under the influence of whole milk powdered Chinese imports was far ahead of the USA and the EU. Despite an increase in imports, especially of cheese and butter, France has regularly improved its trade balance which reached €3.75 billion in 2015. This performance was due mainly to the dynamics of trade with the United Kingdom and China. Since 2010, the trade balance of France with non-European countries has been improving while the internal competition with the EU is becoming more difficult. For the European dairy producers, the slight decline in demand for dairy products in the EU and the rapid increase in milk production in several Member States since the abolition of milk quotas in 2015 is a real threat. This should be an additional incentive to, firstly, increase exports abroad and, secondly, better sell the wide variety of dairy products on the domestic market.
European and American populations: previous forecasts and present reality
Creators: name: MORTARA, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Population forecasts, trends, Europe
subject: Q56, R23, J11

description: In 1944 the Economic and Financial Department of the League of Nations published a comprehensive study on population prospects for the period 1940-70 for Europe and the Soviet Union. The study set out, clarified and commented on the results of the forecasts of population trends in the various countries and on their breakdown by sex and age. Twenty years after the preparation of these calculations, the present article compares between the prospects as they appeared at the time and the actual developments that took place. Glaring divergences are revealed which confirm the difficulty of making reliable long-term population forecasts and show the radical change in population trends in many European countries. The author brings out the extent and nature of this change which could hardly have been foreseen on the eve of the First World War and has been the subject of numerous studies. JEL: Q56, R23, J11
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 15, N. 63 (1962)
Reintegration von verhaltensauffälligen Schülerinnen und Schülern aus Sonderschuleinrichtungen in die Regelschule Eine Erhebung der Gelingensfaktoren
Creators: name: Sauter, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Reintegration
Regelschule
Verhaltensauffälliges Kind
Masterarbeit

description: In dieser Arbeit werden die Gelingensfaktoren für eine erfolgreiche Reintegration von verhaltensauffälligen Kindern gesucht. Die Grundlagen der Sonderschulung und der Regelschule im Kanton Zürich werden in Bezug auf die Integration von verhaltensauffälligen Kindern betrachtet. In der Literaturrecherche werden die theoretischen Gelingensfaktoren für eine erfolgreiche Reintegration erfasst. Ein Fallbeispiel einer Reintegration wird anhand von Interviews aufgearbeitet. Dabei werden alle beteiligten Personen über ihre Definition der Gelingensfaktoren befragt. Die Faktoren aus beiden Quellen (Literatur & Interviews) werden analysiert und zu einem Katalog zusammengefasst. Diese Zusammenstellung von Gelingensfaktoren kann als Hilfsmittel bei Reintegrationen von der separativen Sonderschule in die Regelschule eingesetzt werden.
Deep Learning Predicts Cardiovascular Disease Risks from Lung Cancer Screening Low Dose Computed Tomography
Creators: name: Chao, Hanqing
name: Shan, Hongming
name: Homayounieh, Fatemeh
name: Singh, Ramandeep
name: Khera, Ruhani Doda
name: Guo, Hengtao
name: Su, Timothy
name: Wang, Ge
name: Kalra, Mannudeep K.
name: Yan, Pingkun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cancer patients have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality than the general population. Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) for lung cancer screening offers an opportunity for simultaneous CVD risk estimation in at-risk patients. Our deep learning CVD risk prediction model, trained with 30,286 LDCTs from the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial, achieved an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.871 on a separate test set of 2,085 subjects and identified patients with high CVD mortality risks (AUC of 0.768). We validated our model against ECG-gated cardiac CT based markers, including coronary artery calcification (CAC) score, CAD-RADS score, and MESA 10-year risk score from an independent dataset of 335 subjects. Our work shows that, in high-risk patients, deep learning can convert LDCT for lung cancer screening into a dual-screening quantitative tool for CVD risk estimation.
Labour cost in Italy
Creators: name: VANNUTELLI, C.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wages, labour cost, European Community, Italy
subject: E24, J30

description: In its Bulletin of social statistics No. 3 of 1961, the Statistical Institute of the European Community published the results of a survey carried out in 1960 of wages and labour cost in the countries forming the Community. The present article reviews the principal results of that survey where they refer more particularly to Italy. Moreover, the author ascertains the principal reasons that explain, and in part may justify, the particular position of labour costs in Italy as shown by the survey. JEL: E24, J30
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 15, N. 63 (1962)
Motivationsförderung im Mathematikunterricht durch handlungsorientiertes Lernen
Creators: name: Mühlematter, Kurt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Mathematik
Motivationstraining
Masterarbeit

description: Mathematik gehört zu den Fächern, die lernschwachen Sekundarschülerinnen und Sekundarschülern besondere Schwierigkeiten bereitet. In der vorliegenden Aktionsforschung wurde untersucht, wie handlungsorientierter Mathematikunterricht die Motivation der Schülerinnen und Schüler einer Oberstufenklasse eines Sonderschulheims beeinflusst. Mittels Fragebogen, Interviews und systematischer Beobachtung wurde die Motivation vor, während und nach dem Projekt analysiert. Die Untersuchung ergab, dass der handlungsorientierte Mathematikunterricht sechs von acht Schülerinnen und Schüler motivierte. Dieses handelnde, entdeckende Lernen erfüllte ihr starkes Bedürfnis nach Selbstbestimmung, nach ganzheitlichem Lernen und erfolgreichem Tun. Es führte zu einem neuen Verständnis und Erleben von Mathematik. Solches Vorgehen setzte bei ihren Interessen und Ressourcen an. Kreatives Gestalten in der Mathematik bewirkte eine Einstellungsänderung und förderte die Lern- und Leistungsmotivation. Handlungsorientierter Unterricht ist mehr als eine Methode. Es scheint eine angemessene Form zu sein, wie Jugendliche Mathematik begreifen und lustvoll erleben können.
The main themes of the history of the Southern question in Italy
Creators: name: CAIZZI, B.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italy, Mezzogiorno, growth, economic dualism, development
subject: O14, O52

description: The post-war period in Italy has seen a great increase in research comparing the economic and social conditions of the country’s regions. Moreover, vigorous political action has been taken with a view to reducing the contrasts and the different rates of growth that now separate the North from the South. Present day political writings frequently raise the problem of the date to be ascribed to the birth of the “Southern question”, and historical studies have shown a renewed interest in the origin of this widening of the internal gap. The present article reviews the most important writings published over the years immediately following Italy’s political unification up to the twenties, in connection with a problem that is now a hundred years old. JEL: O14, O52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 15, N. 63 (1962)
Исследование проблем и перспектив развития внешнеэкономической деятельности Украины
Creators: name: imad, drali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Economics

description: В статье рассмотрены проблемы развития внешнеэкономической деятельности Украины ивозможные варианты их решения, на основе результатов анализа динамики экспорта и импортаУкраины. Определены меры по стимулированию экспорта и сдерживания роста импорта длястабилизации сальдо внешней торговли.
Phanerotomella annulicornis GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Phanerotomella
Phanerotomella annulicornis

description: Phanerotomella annulicornis GRANGER 1949
 Phanerotomella annulicornis n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 211 (key), 213 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Phanerotomella annulicornis GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1973: 929 (cat.).
 Phanerotomella annulicornis GRANGER 1949: ZETTEL 1989: 70 (key), 86 (tax., descr. ♀, Madagascar), 142 (figs 289-293).
 Phanerotomella annulicornis GRANGER 1949: BRAET, ROUSSE & SHARKEY 2012: 16 (fig. 53), 25 (key), 27 (tax., Madagascar).
D i s t r i b u t i o n Madagascar: Prov. Fianarantsoa: Manombo Special Reserve (Camp site) – Prov. Toliara: Bekily.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 77, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Impacts of the 2013 CAP reform on the EU farming sector: An assessment using a microeconomic farm model
Creators: name: Espinosa, Maria
name: Louhichi, Kamel
name: Perni, Angel
name: Ciaian, Pavel
name: Gomez Y Paloma, Sergio
name: Espinosa, Maria
name: Louhichi, Kamel
name: Perni, Angel
name: Ciaian, Pavel
name: Gomez Y Paloma, Sergio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: CAP reform
subject: IFM-CAP farm model
subject: direct payments
subject: income distributional effects

description: This paper analyses the impact of the new direct payments (DPs) system introduced by the 2013 CAP reform on EU farming sector. We apply the EU-wide individual farm level model (IFM-CAP) which allows capturing farm specific implementation of DPs and assessing their distributional effects. Simulation results show that although the 2013 CAP reform succeeded to partially harmonize DPs between MS, relatively strong differences in DPs still remain in place. An important result of the 2013 CAP reform is also internal convergence of DPs within MS. The 2013 CAP reform reduced inequality of DPs as measured by the Gini coefficient from 0.581 to 0.561. The farm income decreases by around 1.3% at EU level due to the introduction of the new DPs. Around 60% of farms loose, whereas the remaining 40% of farms gain from the reform in EU-27. Small farms benefit, while large farms lose from the 2013 CAP reform.
The control of liquidity in Italy
Creators: name: GAMBINO, A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Liquidity, monetary control, Italy, quasi-money, monetary policy, central bank
subject: E51, E52, E58

description: Only recently, with the publication of the Radcliffe Report, has the issue of the control of liquidity risen to the forefront of economic debate, primarily in connection with anti-cyclical policies. Money, and the control of its supply, continues to be the main component of regulation policies on the demand for goods and services. The innovation lies in the consideration of quasi-money as assets capable of being rapidly transformed into money without appreciable loss. While such aspects have always been considered, their novel prominence places the state treasury on the centre stage of monetary policy along side the central bank. The article reviews the recent experience of Italy in this regard. JEL: E51, E52, E58
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 13, N. 52 (1960)