cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of service quality on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty: A case of 4- and 5-star hotels in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Creators: name: Phi, Ho Dinh
name: Thanh, Long Phan
name: Nguyen Viet, Bang
name: Phi, Ho Dinh
name: Thanh, Long Phan
name: Nguyen Viet, Bang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Service quality
subject: loyalty
subject: 4- and 5-star hotels
subject: HCMC
subject: SEM

description: Purpose : The purpose of this paper is to define and measure the effects of service quality on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty of four and five star hotels in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Methodology: This study has used qualitative and quantitative researches: (i) qualitative research carried out through focus group discussions with 10 customers, and (ii) quantitative research conducted through direct interviews with 322 customers in Ho Chi Minh city (Viet Nam). Result and conclusion: The results show that: (i) customers’ loyalty is affected by four dimensions of service quality (reliability, responsiveness, website utility, and tangibles) and customer satisfaction; and (ii) customer satisfaction is affected by five dimensions of service quality (reliability, responsiveness, website utility, tangibles, and sympathy). However, the research subject has certain limitations: (i) due to limited resources in conducting research, the sample size consisted of 322 customers, (ii) This study conducted the sampling technique of using direct interview methods from respondents using service at 4- and 5-star hotels in HCM city, Viet Nam.
Common trends in the epidemic of Covid-19 disease
Creators: name: Radiom, Milad
name: Berret, Jean-Franccois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of SARS-CoV-2, the responsible virus for the Covid-19 epidemic, has sparked a global health concern with many countries affected. Developing models that can interpret the epidemic and give common trend parameters are useful for prediction purposes by other countries that are at an earlier phase of the epidemic; it is also useful for future planning against viral respiratory diseases. One model is developed to interpret the fast-growth phase of the epidemic and another model for an interpretation of the entire data set. Both models agree reasonably with the data. It is shown by the first model that during the fast phase, the number of new infected cases depends on the total number of cases by a power-law relation with a scaling exponent equal to 0.82. The second model gives a duplication time in the range 1 to 3 days early in the start of the epidemic, and another parameter alpha = 0.1-0.5) that deviates the progress of the epidemic from an exponential growth. Our models may be used for data interpretation and for guiding predictions regarding this disease, e.g. the onset of the maximum in the number of new cases.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Hospital falls prevention with patient education: a scoping review
Creators: name: Heng, Hazel
name: Jazayeri, Dana
name: Shaw, Louise
name: Kiegaldie, D
name: Hill, AM
name: Morris, Meg
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Background: Hospital falls remain a frequent and debilitating problem worldwide. Most hospital falls prevention strategies have targeted clinician education, environmental modifications, assistive devices, hospital systems and medication reviews. The role that patients can play in preventing falls whilst in hospital has received less attention. This critical review scopes patient falls education interventions for hospitals. The quality of the educational designs under-pinning patient falls education programmes was also evaluated. The outcomes of patient-centred falls prevention programs were considered for a range of hospital settings and diagnoses. Methods: The Arksey and O'Malley (2005) framework for scoping reviews was adapted using Joanna Briggs Institute and PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Eight databases, including grey literature, were searched from January 2008 until February 2020. Two reviewers independently screened the articles and data were extracted and summarised thematically. The quality of falls prevention education programs for patients was also appraised using a modified quality metric tool. Results: Forty-three articles were included in the final analysis. The interventions included: (i) direct face-to-face patient education about falls risks and mitigation; (ii) educational tools; (iii) patient-focussed consumer materials such as pamphlets, brochures and handouts; and (iv) hospital systems, policies and procedures to assist patients to prevent falls. The included studies assessed falls or education related outcomes before and after patient falls prevention education. Few studies reported incorporating education design principles or educational theories. When reported, most educational programs were of low to moderate quality from an educational design perspective. Conclusions: There is emerging evidence that hospital falls prevention interventions that incorporate patient education can reduce falls and associated injuries such as bruising, lacerations or fractures. The design, mode of delivery and quality of educational design influence outcomes. Well-designed education programs can improve knowledge and self-perception of risk, empowering patients to reduce their risk of falling whilst in hospital.
Some Experimental Signatures to look for Time-reversal Violating superconductors
Creators: name: Ng, T. K.
name: Varma, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss some experimental signatures associated with the topological structures of unconventional superconductor order parameters of form $d_{x^2-y^2}+ix$, where $x=s,p_x \pm p_y$, or $d_{xy}$. Specifically, we study the topological surface states on the $(110)$ and equivalent surfaces of such superconductors which are observable in Andreev tunneling experiments, as well as evaluate the magnetic flux trapped in superconducting rings of such superconductors with multiple grain-boundary Josephson junctions. Previous experiments are examined and several new experiments suggested.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
An Overview and Comparison of Technical Debt Measurement Tools - Replication package
Creators: name: Avgeriou, Paris
name: Taibi, Davide
name: Ampatzoglou, Apostolos
name: Fontana, Francesca Arcelli
name: Besker, Terese
name: Chatzigeorgiou, Alexandros
name: Lenarduzzi, Valentina
name: Martini, Antonio
name: Nasia Moschou
name: Pigazzini, Ilaria
name: Nyyti Saarimäki
name: Sas, Darius
name: Toledo, Saulo Soares De
name: Tsintzira, Angeliki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The data contains additional information that did not fit the paper and data required to replicate the paper. It includes, for example, the vendor questionnaires, received answers, more detailed results from the online popularity search. The data set containts a readme file explaining the contents.
Agrilus insidiosus Kerremans 1896
Creators: name: Jendek, Eduard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus insidiosus

description: Agrilus insidiosus Kerremans
 Agrilus insidiosus Kerremans, 1896: 142–143. Lectotype by present designation, ♀, BMNH: “ SYNTYPE [p] [round label with blue border] \ Sumatra Manuf. Tabacs [Kerremans' MS] \ insidiosus Kerr. Type [Kerremans' MS] \ Kerremans 1903­59 [p] \ A. insidiosus Kerrem. Sumatra [h]” and one paralectotype from the same locality that is not conspecific with the lectotype. The exact number of syntypes is unknown.
description: Published as part of Jendek, Eduard, 2005, Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the genus Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini), pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 1073 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050739
Accounting expertise in the audit committee and earnings management
Creators: name: Saif Mohsen Al-Absy, Mujeeb
name: Ku Ismail, Ku Nor Izah
name: Chandren, Sitraselvi
name: Saif Mohsen Al-Absy, Mujeeb
name: Ku Ismail, Ku Nor Izah
name: Chandren, Sitraselvi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Audit committee
subject: audit committee chairman
subject: accounting expertise
subject: accrual earnings management
subject: Malaysia

description: This study attempts to investigate the influence of accounting expertise in the AC on the level of accrual earnings management (AEM) in Malaysian firms by using two proxies, the Modified Jones Models by Dechow et al. (1995) and Kasznik (1999). A sample of 143 firms with slight positive earnings were selected from the Bursa Malaysia Main Market for 2013, 2014 and 2015. Using panel data regression, this study shows that accounting expertise in the AC does not mitigate AEM. The accounting expertise of the AC directors and chairman and the AC’s balanced accounting expertise have a positive relationship with attitude for AEM. In line with prior studies, this paper concludes that AC directors are either not truly independent or do not have time or energy to mitigate earnings management practices. Thus, more policies are needed to strengthen the independence of the AC and ensure the members carry out their duties more responsibly.
Learning organization: A fine example of a management fad
Creators: name: Adzic, Slobodan
name: Adzic, Slobodan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Management
subject: learning organization
subject: management fad
subject: management research

description: The management theories of no practical value are known as management fads. One of those management fads - which is the focus of this research - is learning organization. There is sufficient evidence in English literature to conclude that learning organization is a management fad. The aim of this paper is to present the ample evidence that learning organization is a management fad. The maximum number of the research paper with the subject of learning organization was made in the late 1995 and the typical bell-shaped curve of the management fad is evident. In contrast to the world trend, a content analysis of Serbian journals discovered that a typical pick of a bell-shaped curve of papers covering the topic of learning organization was 17 years later. It is argued in this paper that the learning organization phenomenon, as a normative or prescriptive theory, should be abandoned in the academic world altogether. The learning organization fad is a phenomenon with low practical applicability, a phenomenon of a little value for further development in the management research.
Agrilus kaluganus Obenberger 1940
Creators: name: Jendek, Eduard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus kaluganus

description: Agrilus kaluganus Obenberger
 Agrilus olivicolor kaluganus Obenberger, 1940c: 60. Lectotype by present designation, ♂, NMPC: “Okr. Kalugi [h] [in Russian] \ TYPUS [p] [red label] \ A. olivicolor ssp. Kaluganus m. Type [h] Det. Dr Obenberger [p] \ Mus. Nat. Pragae Inv. [p] 24930 [h] [orange label]”. The exact number of syntypes is unknown.
 Remarks. The aedeagus of the lectotype is missing. Alexeev (1964) elevated the subspecies to species rank and presented distinguishing characters and distribution.
description: Published as part of Jendek, Eduard, 2005, Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the genus Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini), pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 1073 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1073.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050739
'We are a kula people' : spatiotemporal roads of care in southeastern Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: McAllister, Nathan
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2025
Subjects: Kula exchange
Care
Temporality
Papua New Guinea
Christianity
Development
Education
Space
Ethics

description: In this thesis I examine the implications of the statement ‘we are a kula people’ made by my participants in Duau, located on the northeastern corner of Normanby Island in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Specifically I will argue that this maxim signals that kula is an ethos which guides them as they navigate their way into the future. The primary feature of this ethos is oboboma, which can translate as care, appreciation, love, generosity, or blessing. Throughout this thesis I will demonstrate that it is through acts of care that Duau people create, nurture, and finally, at death, finish the many social relationships they make throughout their lives. Duau would refer to those various social relationships that constitute their persons as keda. This is a spatial concept meaning road, path, or sea lane. But they also use it to speak about temporality. In these contexts keda becomes modalities of social activity or a way of life. Persons can travel along various temporal keda over the course of their life – e.g., kula, Christianity, business, motherhood/fatherhood, schooling, wage labour, and civil service. They would frame these temporal keda as if they were material infrastructures like their literal analogues. Old keda can be followed, maintained, or fall into disrepair. Trailblazers can produce new keda for others to follow. To manage and produce keda is an act of care. In this thesis I will guide you along several keda, such as the relationships that constitute Duau persons, kula exchange itself, their conversion to Christianity, mortuary rituals, cash-cropping betelnut and gold, education, and the relationship between Duau and the Papua New Guinean Constitution. I will ultimately argue that, in their efforts to build enduring exchange relations with Euro-Americans, these roads are leading them away from their customs.
Evolution of the radius valley around low mass stars from $Kepler$ and $K2$
Creators: name: Cloutier, Ryan
name: Menou, Kristen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present calculations of the occurrence rate of small close-in planets around low mass dwarf stars using the known planet populations from the $Kepler$ and $K2$ missions. Applying completeness corrections clearly reveals the radius valley in the maximum a-posteriori occurrence rates as a function of orbital separation and planet radius. We measure the slope of the valley to be $r_{p,\text{valley}} \propto F^{-0.060\pm 0.025}$ which bears the opposite sign from that measured around Sun-like stars thus suggesting that thermally driven atmospheric mass loss may not dominate the evolution of planets in the low stellar mass regime or that we are witnessing the emergence of a separate channel of planet formation. The latter notion is supported by the relative occurrence of rocky to non-rocky planets increasing from $0.5\pm 0.1$ around mid-K dwarfs to $8.5\pm 4.6$ around mid-M dwarfs. Furthermore, the center of the radius valley at $1.54\pm 0.16$ R$_{\oplus}$ is shown to shift to smaller sizes with decreasing stellar mass in agreement with physical models of photoevaporation, core-powered mass loss, and gas-poor formation. Although current measurements are insufficient to robustly identify the dominant formation pathway of the radius valley, such inferences may be obtained by $TESS$ with $\mathcal{O}(85,000)$ mid-to-late M dwarfs observed with 2-minute cadence. The measurements presented herein also precisely designate the subset of planetary orbital periods and radii that should be targeted in radial velocity surveys to resolve the rocky to non-rocky transition around low mass stars.
description: Submitted to AAS journals. 23 pages. Table data included as csv files in source. 15 figures including 6 interactive figures when viewed in Adobe Acrobat
Additional file 3 of The ESCRT-III isoforms CHMP2A and CHMP2B display different effects on membranes upon polymerization
Creators: name: Alqabandi, Maryam
name: De Franceschi, Nicola
name: Sourav Maity
name: Miguet, Nolwenn
name: Bally, Marta
name: Roos, Wouter H.
name: Weissenhorn, Winfried
name: Bassereau, Patricia
name: Mangenot, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. (A) Histograms of CHMP2B-ΔC protein fluorescence intensity for PI(3)P, PI(4)P, PI(3,5)P2 and PI(4,5)P2 GUVs (lipid composition 2). (B) Comparison of the binding density of MBP-CHMP2A-ΔC + CHMP3 and of CHMP2B-ΔC to GUVs with different charged lipids, measured by FACS, corresponding to Fig. 1d. The values are normalized to their respective binding density to DOPS. ** = p-value
Educating hospital patients to prevent falls: Protocol for a scoping review
Creators: name: Heng, Hazel
name: Jazayeri, Dana
name: Shaw, Louise
name: Kiegaldie, D
name: Hill, AM
name: Morris, Meg
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Introduction: Falls prevention in hospitals is an ongoing challenge worldwide. Despite a wide variety of recommended falls mitigation strategies, few have strong evidence for effectiveness in reducing falls and accompanying injuries. Patient education programmes that promote engagement and enable people to understand their heightened falls risk while hospitalised are one approach. The aim of this scoping review is to examine the content, design and outcomes of patient education approaches to hospital falls prevention. As well as critiquing the role of patient education in hospital falls prevention, strategies that can be used in clinical practice shall be recommended. Methods and analysis: The analysis will apply the methodological framework developed by Arksey and O'Malley and refined by the Joanna Briggs Institute. An initial limited search of Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and PubMed will be completed to identify keywords and index terms. A developed search strategy of Medical Subject Headings and text words will be conducted of PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Allied and Complementary Medicine Database, PsychINFO, Education Resources Information Center and grey literature databases from January 2008 to current. The reference lists of included articles will be hand searched for additional studies. Two reviewers will screen the titles and abstracts independently and analyse the full text of potential articles based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data will be extracted using a structured data form. Thematic analysis and numerical synthesis of the data will be conducted, and key themes will be identified. Ethics and dissemination: Results of this scoping review will illuminate the designs and outcomes of patient education research for hospital falls prevention in the current literature. It is anticipated that the findings will highlight best-practice educational design to inform the development of future patient-focused education for falls prevention. Study findings will be presented at relevant conferences and public forums, and published in peer-reviewed journals. Ethics approval is not required.
Additional file 4 of The ESCRT-III isoforms CHMP2A and CHMP2B display different effects on membranes upon polymerization
Creators: name: Alqabandi, Maryam
name: De Franceschi, Nicola
name: Sourav Maity
name: Miguet, Nolwenn
name: Bally, Marta
name: Roos, Wouter H.
name: Weissenhorn, Winfried
name: Bassereau, Patricia
name: Mangenot, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Deformation of bare vesicles and vesicles covered with CHMP2A + CHMP3 or CHMP2B + CHMP3. HS-AFM images of a vesicle covered with CHMP2A and CHMP 3 (left column) and a vesicle covered with CHMP2B and CHMP3 proteins (right column). The deformability of the SUVs coated with corresponding proteins upon increased applied force are shown at intermediate force increments of 27% (second panels) and at higher force increment, 81% (third panels).
Punctuated equilibria and 1/f noise in a biological coevolution model with individual-based dynamics
Creators: name: Rikvold, Per Arne
name: Zia, R. K. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present a study by linear stability analysis and large-scale Monte Carlo simulations of a simple model of biological coevolution. Selection is provided through a reproduction probability that contains quenched, random interspecies interactions, while genetic variation is provided through a low mutation rate. Both selection and mutation act on individual organisms. Consistent with some current theories of macroevolutionary dynamics, the model displays intermittent, statistically self-similar behavior with punctuated equilibria. The probability density for the lifetimes of ecological communities is well approximated by a power law with exponent near -2, and the corresponding power spectral densities show 1/f noise (flicker noise) over several decades. The long-lived communities (quasi-steady states) consist of a relatively small number of mutualistically interacting species, and they are surrounded by a ``protection zone'' of closely related genotypes that have a very low probability of invading the resident community. The extent of the protection zone affects the stability of the community in a way analogous to the height of the free-energy barrier surrounding a metastable state in a physical system. Measures of biological diversity are on average stationary with no discernible trends, even over our very long simulation runs of approximately 3.4x10^7 generations.
description: 20 pages RevTex. Minor revisions consistent with published version
Does foreign direct investment reduce poverty? The case of Latin America in the twenty-first century
Creators: name: Quinonez, Pablo
name: Saenz, Joselin
name: Solórzano, Jessica
name: Quinonez, Pablo
name: Saenz, Joselin
name: Solórzano, Jessica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Development
subject: FDI
subject: globalisation
subject: Latin America
subject: poverty

description: Over the last decades, foreign direct investment flows to Latin America have grown dramatically. Yet, there is no consensus on whether the region has actually benefited from such trend or not. Specifically, regarding the expected positive effect of foreign direct investment on poverty reduction, empirical evidence is scant and ambiguous. In this context, this paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment on Latin America’s poverty incidence. For doing so, a panel data analysis was conducted, considering 13 economies from the region during the 2000-2014 period. We found that FDI is not significantly associated with the reduction of poverty in Latin America, in contrast with macroeconomic stability, infrastructure, human capital development and financial development which are significantly associated with the reduction of poverty in the region.
Revisiting Challenges in Data-to-Text Generation with Fact Grounding
Creators: name: Wang, Hongmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data-to-text generation models face challenges in ensuring data fidelity by referring to the correct input source. To inspire studies in this area, Wiseman et al. (2017) introduced the RotoWire corpus on generating NBA game summaries from the box- and line-score tables. However, limited attempts have been made in this direction and the challenges remain. We observe a prominent bottleneck in the corpus where only about 60% of the summary contents can be grounded to the boxscore records. Such information deficiency tends to misguide a conditioned language model to produce unconditioned random facts and thus leads to factual hallucinations. In this work, we restore the information balance and revamp this task to focus on fact-grounded data-to-text generation. We introduce a purified and larger-scale dataset, RotoWire-FG (Fact-Grounding), with 50% more data from the year 2017-19 and enriched input tables, hoping to attract more research focuses in this direction. Moreover, we achieve improved data fidelity over the state-of-the-art models by integrating a new form of table reconstruction as an auxiliary task to boost the generation quality.
description: Best Paper Runner-up at INLG 2019 (12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation)
Velocity trends in the debris of Sagittarius and the shape of the dark-matter halo of the Galaxy
Creators: name: Helmi, Amina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, radial velocities have been measured for a large sample of M giants from the 2MASS catalog, selected to be part of the Sgr dwarf leading and trailing streams. Here we present a comparison of their kinematics to models of the Sgr dwarf debris orbiting Galactic potentials, with halo components of varying degrees of flattening and elongation. This comparison shows that the portion of the trailing stream mapped so far is dynamically young and hence does not provide very stringent constraints on the shape of the Galactic dark-matter halo. The leading stream, however, contains slightly older debris, and its kinematics provide for the first time direct evidence that the dark-matter halo of the Galaxy has a prolate shape with an average density axis ratio within the orbit of Sgr close to 5/3.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. ApJ Letters in press. Postscript version with high resolution figures available from http://www.astro.rug.nl/~ahelmi/research/prolate.html
A dissipative time crystal with or without $\mathbb Z_2$ symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Lledó, Cristóbal
name: Szymańska, Marzena H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an emergent semiclassical time crystal composed of two interacting driven-dissipative bosonic modes. The system has a discrete $\mathbb Z_2$ spatial symmetry which, depending on the strength of the drive, can be broken in the time-crystalline phase or it cannot. An exact semiclassical mean-field analysis, numerical simulations in the quantum regime, and the spectral analysis of the Liouvillian are combined to show the emergence of the time crystal and to prove the robustness of the oscillation period against quantum fluctuations.
description: Final version accepted in NJP
Is Baby Coming Today? Using Roots of Empathy to Support Social Emotional Learning in Kindergarten
Creators: name: Sudeyko, Darcey Rae
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This project examines ways in which the Roots of Empathy program can be used to support social and emotional learning (SEL) in kindergarten. It is designed to demonstrate to parents the importance of SEL for their children’s future success in school and in life, and it includes an interactive workshop that provides parents with examples of how the Roots of Empathy program is used as a catalyst for supporting their child’s social emotional development in kindergarten. Roots of Empathy (ROE) is a universal, classroom-based social emotional competence program developed for use with children in Kindergarten through grade eight. This project reviews the literature in the following areas: the effectiveness of ROE; children’s SEL and future success, and SEL and brain development. Research demonstrates consistent results - children who receive SEL programming demonstrate significant improvements in social and emotional skills, attitudes, behaviour and self-regulatory functions, as well as an 11% gain in academic achievement. The project explores how Roots of Empathy can be expanded upon to offer SEL opportunities continuously and in a variety of classroom settings (not just during specific ROE lessons in the classroom), and how ROE supplements the BC Ministry of Education curriculum for social and emotional development in kindergarten. It provides an overview of classroom changes enacted to foster optimum SEL opportunities and demonstrates for parents the importance of SEL in their child’s classroom.
Determinants of Chinese demand for tourism in Malaysia
Creators: name: Puah, Chin-Hong
name: Huan, Suk-Hie
name: Thien, Fung-Thai
name: Puah, Chin-Hong
name: Huan, Suk-Hie
name: Thien, Fung-Thai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: International tourism
subject: Malaysia
subject: ARDL

description: Tourism sector in Malaysia has always been one of its focal service industries not only in the past, but in the future as well in which Malaysian government has been focusing on diverting its economic activities from a resource-based to a service-based economy in its new economic model. China, a strongly emerging economy has been ranked as the third main tourist generating country for Malaysia since 2012. Hence, this study empirically identifies the macroeconomic determinants affecting the tourism demand from China to Malaysia. These determinants include real income, travel cost, exchange rate and trade openness. Particularly, real income and trade openness are evident to positively affect Chinese tourism demand while travel cost and exchange rate are found to adversely influence Chinese tourists’ decision to travel to Malaysia.
Pathways to understanding 16th century Mesoamerica
Creators: name: Liceras-Garrido, Raquel
name: Bellamy, Katherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210108 Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology)
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: his is an engagement online collection of three different storymaps exploring different aspects of historical geographies derived from the research in the project Digging into Early Colonial Mexico.
Near-Pulse Solutions of the FitzHugh-Nagumo Equations on Cylindrical Surfaces
Creators: name: Talidou, Afroditi
name: Burchard, Almut
name: Sigal, Israel Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a geometrical extension of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations describing propagation of electrical impulses in nerve axons. In this extension, the axon is modeled as a warped cylinder, rather than a straight line, as is usually done, while pulses propagate on its surface, as is the case with real axons. We prove the stability of electrical impulses for a standard cylinder and existence and stability of pulse-like solutions for warped cylinders whose radii are small and vary slowly along their lengths.
An Improved Search Method for Gravitational Ringing of Black Holes
Creators: name: Nakano, Hiroyuki
name: Takahashi, Hirotaka
name: Tagoshi, Hideyuki
name: Sasaki, Misao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A black hole has characteristic quasi-normal modes that will be excited when it is formed or when the geometry is perturbed. The state of a black hole when the quasi-normal modes are excited is called the gravitational ringing, and detections of it will be a direct confirmation of the existence of black holes. To detect it, a method based on matched filtering needs to be developed. Generically, matched filtering requires a large number of templates, because one has to ensure a proper match of a real gravitational wave with one of template waveforms to keep the detection efficiency as high as possible. On the other hand, the number of templates must be kept as small as possible under limited computational costs. In our previous paper, assuming that the gravitational ringing is dominated by the least-damped (fundamental) mode with the least imaginary part of frequency, we constructed an efficient method for tiling the template space. However, the dependence of the template space metric on the initial phase of a wave was not taken into account. This dependence arises because of an unavoidable mismatch between the parameters of a signal waveform and those given discretely in the template space. In this paper, we properly take this dependence into account and present an improved, efficient search method for gravitational ringing of black holes.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures
Intertextuality in the Egyptian books of Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon
Creators: name: Norton-Curry, Joanne
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: PA3819.Z5N7
subject: Achilles Tatius. Leucippe and Clitophon

description: This thesis explores intertextuality in the books of Achilles Tatius’ (henceforward AT) Leukippe and Kleitophon (henceforward L&C) which are set in Egypt (i.e. 3.6-5.14). L&C is distinctly intertextual and intratextual, even by the standards of the ancient novel genre, and its intercultural complexity is more sophisticated and multifaceted than has previously been realised. I will demonstrate that the Egyptian books’ intertexts are Near Eastern (including Egyptian) as well as Greek and Roman, reflecting the polyglot, multicultural nature of Roman Egypt. Previous studies of intertextuality in L&C have not explored in detail the possibility that the Egyptian locations chosen by AT for certain key events have significance. I suggest that the myths and history of the chosen locations have a previously unexplored relevance to pivotal events in the main narrative. I argue that there is an increase in the novel’s intertextual density and complexity when the protagonists reach Egypt. This has two key effects. First, it gives the Egyptian episodes a surreal, dream-like quality. Characters from the intertexts can rarely be mapped onto characters from the main narrative with a straightforward one-to-one equivalence. This leads to fragmented, conflated and fused identities; identities which refuse to remain static, ever-changing like the identities of characters in a dream. Second, these shifting identities created through intertextuality, characterise Egypt as a land of metamorphosis. I suggest that whilst the image of a metamorphic Egypt is far from unique in ancient literature, AT is unique in showcasing Egypt’s metamorphic character subtly through intertextuality. I propose that AT purposefully created a highly intertextual piece of literature, aware that by choosing myths with several variants, character names known from several different sources, and events which have counterparts in history, myth and fiction, he was eliminating the possibility of one ‘correct’ interpretation of his story.
Additional file 6 of The ESCRT-III isoforms CHMP2A and CHMP2B display different effects on membranes upon polymerization
Creators: name: Alqabandi, Maryam
name: De Franceschi, Nicola
name: Sourav Maity
name: Miguet, Nolwenn
name: Bally, Marta
name: Roos, Wouter H.
name: Weissenhorn, Winfried
name: Bassereau, Patricia
name: Mangenot, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Additional file 6: Figure S5. Deformation of bare vesicles and vesicles covered with CHMP proteins. (A) Reduction of vesicle height under increasing force for bare vesicles. ‘Zero’ force increment represents the minimum imaging force (~ 150 pN). (B) Example of deformation for a ~ 60 nm vesicle over increasing force up to 80% of the initial imaging force. (C) Represents the transformation of vesicle height to relative height for each point for the curve in D. (D) represents the relative height vs force increment for all the curves from panel A for bare SUVs. (E) represents the relative height vs force increment for SUV covered with CHMP2B (left), CHMP2B + CHMP3 (middle) and CHMP2A + CHMP3 (right).
Μουσείο “Χαγιάτι Λαδιά” στην Πρώτη Σερρών: Νοηματικός Μουσειολογικός Σχεδιασμός
Creators: name: Βασιλειάδου, Παναγιώτα Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Συλλογή
Τεκμηρίωση
Λαϊκός πολιτισμός
Μετάβαση
Προβιομηχανική εποχή
Εκβιομηχάνηση
Collection
Documentation
Culture
Civilization
Transition
Pre-industrial era
Industrial society

description: Αντικείμενο της παρούσας εργασίας είναι ο νοηματικός μουσειολογικός προγραμματισμός και σχεδιασμός της μόνιμης συλλογής του Λαογραφικού Μουσείου «Χαγιάτι Λαδιά». Πρόθεση αποτελεί η παρουσίαση μια ολοκληρωμένης μουσειολογικής ιδέας. Τα θεωρητικά ζητήματα στα οποία εστιάσαμε αφορούν στους τρόπους προσέγγισης του υλικού πολιτισμού, στις πολλαπλές ερμηνείες του λαϊκού πολιτισμού καθώς και στον ρόλο που επιτελούν διαχρονικά τα λαογραφικά μουσεία. Το κίνητρο για την επιλογή του θέματος αποτέλεσε η συλλογή αντικειμένων του μουσείου, τα οποία χρονολογούνται κατά κύριο λόγο στο πρώτο μισό του 20ου αιώνα. Την εποχή αυτή οι έντονες κοινωνικές, πολιτικές και ιστορικές εξελίξεις συμβάλουν στην δυναμική ανάπτυξη των ταυτοτήτων συνθέτοντας ένα σκηνικό πολυφωνίας και πλουραλισμού, ζητούμενο στο πλαίσιο της σύγχρονης μουσειολογίας.
description: The object of the present paper is the conceptual museological programming and planning of the permanent collection of the “Folklore Museum Hayiati Ladia”. The intention is for a complete museological idea to be presented. The theoretical matters focused upon, concern the ways to approach material culture, the multiple interpretations of the folk culture, along with the function the folklore museums perform over time. The motive behind the choice of the subject was the object collection of the museum, which is dated mainly from the first half of the 20th century. During that period the intense social, political and historical developments contribute to the dynamic growth of identities, composing a polyphonic and pluralistic scenery, which is desired and in accordance with modern museology.
Pseudogap of Color Superconductivity in Heated Quark Matter
Creators: name: Kitazawa, M.
name: Koide, T.
name: Kunihiro, T.
name: Nemoto, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the pseudogap of the quark density of states is formed in hot quark matter as a precursory phenomenon of the color superconductivity on the basis of a low-energy effective theory. We clarify that the decaying process of quarks near Fermi surface to a hole and the diquark soft mode (qq)_{soft} is responsible for the formation of the pseudogap. Our result suggests that the pseudogap is a universal phenomenon in strong coupling superconductors.
description: Introduction is largely rewritten and minor changes are made in other parts of the text. Some referenes with comments are added. Numerical errors in the figures are corrected. To appear in Phys. Rev. D
Genomic prediction and selection response for grain yield in safflower
Creators: name: Zhao, Huanhuan
name: Lin, Z
name: Khansefid, Majid
name: Tibbits, Josquin
name: Hayden, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3001
subject: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: FOS: Agricultural biotechnology

description: In plant breeding programs, multiple traits are recorded in each trial, and the traits are often correlated. Correlated traits can be incorporated into genomic selection models, especially for traits with low heritability, to improve prediction accuracy. In this study, we investigated the genetic correlation between important agronomic traits in safflower. We observed the moderate genetic correlations between grain yield (GY) and plant height (PH, 0.272–0.531), and low correlations between grain yield and days to flowering (DF, −0.157–0.201). A 4%–20% prediction accuracy improvement for grain yield was achieved when plant height was included in both training and validation sets with multivariate models. We further explored the selection responses for grain yield by selecting the top 20% of lines based on different selection indices. Selection responses for grain yield varied across sites. Simultaneous selection for grain yield and seed oil content (OL) showed positive gains across all sites with equal weights for both grain yield and oil content. Combining g×E interaction into genomic selection (GS) led to more balanced selection responses across sites. In conclusion, genomic selection is a valuable breeding tool for breeding high grain yield, oil content, and highly adaptable safflower varieties.
THE KEY BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS OF LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT AN   EARLY AGE
Creators: name: Eshboyev, Zulfiddin
name: Aminova, Sokhila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Given the expanding global trend of language acquisition, this article examines relevant studies and articles to emphasize the advantages and disadvantages of learning a second language. The brain's prefrontal cortex, which can assist cognitive development including creativity, memory, and attention span, is the source of the advantages of learning a second language. The development of one's intellect and cognitive abilities can facilitate the learning of a second language. However, learning a second language too soon can lead to the loss of the first tongue, and learning a foreign language becomes more difficult when one's mother tongue is not sufficiently spoken.
Το δικαίωμα στη λήθη
Creators: name: Μπέλλος, Αστέριος Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Κανονισμός (ΕΕ) 2016/679
ΓΚΠΔ, Γενικός Κανονισμός για την Προστασία Δεδομένων
Δικαίωμα στη λήθη
Δεδομένα προσωπικού χαρακτήρα
Google Spain κατά Costeja Gonzalez
Ομάδα Εργασίας του Άρθρου 29
Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο Προστασίας Δεδομένων
Google LLC κατά CNIL
Iδιωτικότητα
Οδηγία 95/46/ΕΚ
Regulation (EU) 2016/679
GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation
The right to oblivion
Personal data
Google Spain v Costeja Gonzalez
Article 29 Working Party
European Data Protection Board
Google LLC v CNIL
Privacy
Directive 95/46/EC

description: Η ραγδαία ανάπτυξη των τεχνολογιών της πληροφορίας και των τηλεπικοινωνιών είχε ως αποτέλεσμα την άρση των ποσοτικών και των χρονικών περιορισμών της μνήμης του ανθρώπινου νου. Σε αντίθεση με τον ανθρώπινο εγκέφαλο, το διαδίκτυο χαρακτηρίζεται από την ικανότητα της αέναης επιστροφής της μνήμης. Η ακέραια διατήρηση των πληροφοριών στο διαδίκτυο, σε συνδυασμό με την διαρκή ικανότητα αναζήτησης, ανάκλησης και επεξεργασίας τους, στερεί από τους ανθρώπους την δυνατότητα να ξεχάσουν το παρελθόν τους και να επαναπροσδιορίσουν το παρόν και το μέλλον τους. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αποτυπώνει συνοπτικά τις βασικές έννοιες και αρχές του Κανονισμού (ΕΕ) 2016/679, τα δικαιώματα και τις υποχρεώσεις που πηγάζουν από αυτόν, εξετάζει τον τρόπο με τον όποιο το Δικαστήριο της ΕΕ διαμόρφωσε, στοιχειοθέτησε και τελικά αναγνώρισε το δικαίωμα στην λήθη και τέλος διερευνά τα όρια μίας δίκαιης στάθμισης ανάμεσα στην ιδιωτική ζωή του ατόμου και στο συμφέρον του κοινωνικού συνόλου να αποκτήσει πρόσβαση στην πληροφορία.
description: The rapid development of information and telecommunication technologies has resulted in the removal of the quantitative and temporal constraints of the memory of the human mind. Unlike the human brain, the internet is characterized by the ability to continuously retrieve memory. The complete preservation of information on the internet, combined with the constant ability to search, recover and process it, deprives people of the ability to forget their past and redefine their present and future. This dissertation summarizes the basic concepts and principles of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the rights and obligations arising from it, examines the way in which the EU Court has formulated, substantiated and finally recognized the right to be forgotten and finally explores the limits of a fair balance between the privacy of the individual and the interest of society as a whole to gain access to information.
Effect of mesoscopic inhomogeneities on the critical current of bulk melt-textured YBCO
Creators: name: Uspenskaya, L. S.
name: Naumenko, I. G.
name: Emelchenko, G. A.
name: Boguslavskii, Yu. B.
name: Zverkov, S. A.
name: Yakimov, E. B.
name: Litzkendorf, D.
name: Gawalek, W.
name: Caplin, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The downsizing 211-inclusions and an increase of their density leads to rise in mean critical current value in Y-based melt textured material. Very often 211-inclusion are spread in the material volume non-homogeneous, with typical scale 50 - 100 micrometer. Therefore it is difficult to find the real correlation between local critical current and the inclusions distribution. We performed a study of a local critical current using modified magneto-optic technique on a melt-textured YBaCuO ceramic, found the areas with constant current and studied the real structure of the material in the areas, inclusions distribution and their sizes, by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis. The estimation of a pinning in these places, by taking into account the amount of inclusions and the length of their boundaries, and comparison with the value of local critical current reveals a strait correlation between the density of inclusions and the current but shows remarkable quantitative disagreement.
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Determinants of financial performance of banks in Central and Eastern Europe
Creators: name: Antoun, Roger
name: Coskun, Ali
name: Georgiezski, Bojan
name: Antoun, Roger
name: Coskun, Ali
name: Georgiezski, Bojan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Bank performance
subject: CEE
subject: CAMEL
subject: factor analysis
subject: panel regression

description: The aim of this study is to investigate the bank-specific, industry-specific, and macroeconomic determinants of the financial performance of banks in Central and Eastern European Countries. For this purpose, first we determined the factors affecting performance, based on findings in the literature. We constructed a financial performance index (FPI) based on CAMEL ratios and then ran the computed index on the aforementioned determinants. In the analysis, we used unbalanced panel data covering the period 2009-2014, which were collected from the BankScope database, World Development Indicators, and the Financial Structure and Development Dataset. We conducted an empirical analysis using fixed-effect panel regression. Our results suggest that the asset quality and earnings of banks are negatively affected by size, and positively affected by business mix and inflation. Capital adequacy and liquidity were found to be negatively affected by size and positively affected by bank concentration and economic growth.