cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lobrathium candicum BORDONI 2009
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lobrathium
Lobrathium candicum

description: Lobrathium candicum BORDONI 2009
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Greece: Crete: 266, 2♀♀ [teneral], Ierapetra, Mithi, Sarakinas ravine, 13.IV.1995, leg. Sparmberg (NME, cAss).
 C o m m e n t Lobrathium candicum is endemic to Crete, where it is apparently rather rare (ASSING 2012).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2014, A revision of Palaearctic Lobrathium. V. Three new species from the Himalaya and China, a new synonymy, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 429-441 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 430, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507378
Period-Age-Cohort Model Maximizing Covariation Applied to Food Intake
Creators: name: Fujimoto, Takashi
name: Fujimoto, Takashi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: period-age-cohort analysis
subject: food intake
subject: maximizing covariation
subject: unbiasedness
subject: reliability

description: The deviations of values on a cohort table can be defined as the total of period, age, and cohort effects. This study pays attention to the fact that the total variation (sum of squared deviations) consists of individual variations of the three factors' effects and covariation between them, and suggests decomposing the deviations into the three effects while maximizing the covariation. The maximization induces the behaviors of the three effects on the cohort table to be linked together as far as possible. The parts of the behaviors which are not capable of being linked are decomposable independent behaviors. The other parts which it is possible to link are considered as not decomposable linked behaviors. This study then shows that the estimated three factors' effects with this model are unbiased and reliable estimators. This model was applied to determine period, age, and cohort effects of 18 groups of food covered by The National Nutrition Survey in Japan.
Can Mobile Phones Improve Gender Equality and Nutrition? Panel Data Evidence from Farm Households in Uganda
Creators: name: Sekabira, Haruna
name: Qaim, Matin
name: Sekabira, Haruna
name: Qaim, Matin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: mobile phones
subject: women empowerment
subject: dietary diversity
subject: Uganda
subject: gender
subject: incomes

description: During the last 10-15 years, mobile phone technologies have been widely adopted in most developing countries, including adoption by rural households that never had access to landline phones before. Existing research shows that use of mobile phones has improved market access for smallholder farmers and thus household income. Beyond income, mobile phones can possibly also affect other dimensions of social welfare, such as gender equality and nutrition. Such broader social welfare effects have hardly been analyzed up till now. Here, we address this research gap, using panel data from smallholder farm households in Uganda. Regression results show that mobile phones have significantly contributed to household income gains and women empowerment. Mobile phone use has also improved household food security and dietary quality. Simultaneous equation models are estimated to show that the positive nutrition effects are primarily channeled through the influence of mobile phones on household income and gender equality. Gender disaggregation reveals that female mobile phone use has stronger positive welfare effects than if males alone use mobile phones. We conclude that equal access to mobile phones cannot only foster economic development, but can also contribute to gender equality, food security, and broader social development.
«Mir gseit du chasch das!» Ein Bewegungsprojekt zur Stärkung der Selbstwirksamkeit von Jugendlichen mit einer geistigen Behinderung.
Creators: name: Hobi, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Bewegung
Geistige Behinderung
Jugend
Masterarbeit

description: Diese Masterarbeit geht der Frage nach, inwieweit sich das Überwinden von Angst und das Bestehen von angeleiteten Mutproben positiv auf die Selbstwirksamkeit von Jugendlichen auswirken. Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird ein ansprechendes Lehrmittel mit dem Namen Mut heisst das Zauberwort entwickelt, welches neben dem allgemeinen Bewegungslernen aktiv die Selbstwirksamkeit der Jugendlichen fördert. Die theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit den Grundprinzipien der Pädagogik für Menschen mit einer geistigen Behinderung und der Sportdidaktik bildeten das Grundgerüst zur Entwicklung des Lehrmittels. Das Lehrmittel, bestehend aus einem Handout für die Schülerinnen und Schüler (SuS) und einem Manual für die Lehrpersonen, wurde für ein separatives Setting konzipiert und skizziert erlebnisfokussierte Bewegungsangebote für Jugendliche in Form von Stationenkarten für den Sportunterricht. Es wurde von insgesamt vier Lehrpersonen dreier Heilpädagogischen Schulen auf seine Tauglichkeit geprüft und ausgewertet. Mit dem entwickelten, in der Praxis geprüften und überarbeiteten Material sollen Lehrpersonen ermutigt und ermächtigt werden, mit ihren Schülerinnen und Schülern ein Wagnis einzugehen und die eigenen Grenzen zu erweitern. Ängste sollen überwunden und körperliche Erfolgserlebnisse ermöglicht werden. Durch die neuen und positiven Erfahrungen erweitern die Jugendlichen ihr Bewegungsrepertoire, trauen sich mehr zu und erhöhen ihre Selbstwirksamkeit. Die Summe der beobachteten Situationen und die Rückmeldungen durch die Lehrpersonen, die Mut heisst das Zauberwort im Praxisfeld erprobt haben, lassen den Schluss zu, dass sich das Produkt durchaus eignet, die Selbstwirksamkeit der Jugendlichen zu fördern und zu stärken. Kürzlich stieg meine Lehrerin im Yogaunterricht mit dem folgenden Gedanken von Buddha in die Stunde ein: «Mit unseren Gedanken erschaffen wir die Welt.» Gautama Buddha (ca. 563-483 v. u. Z.) Es ist also entscheidend, wie wir über uns denken.
The Impacts of Household Water Quality Testing and Information on Safe Water Behaviors: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ghana
Creators: name: Okyere, Charles Yaw
name: Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie
name: Asante, Felix Ankomah
name: Von Braun, Joachim
name: Okyere, Charles Yaw
name: Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie
name: Asante, Felix Ankomah
name: Von Braun, Joachim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Information
subject: Agents of Change
subject: Water Quality
subject: Health Behavior
subject: Randomized Evaluation
subject: Water Storage
subject: Water Transport
subject: Water Treatment
subject: Africa
subject: Ghana

description: Households in developing countries face an enormous set of health risks from using contaminated water sources. In 2014, a group of 512 households relying on unimproved water, sanitation and hygiene practices in the Greater Accra region of Ghana were randomly selected to participate in the intervention on water quality self-testing and to receive water quality improvement messages (information). The treatment group was separated into two groups: (1) a school children intervention group and (2) an adult household members intervention group, to identify the role of intra-household decision making or resource allocation in the delivery of water quality information. The comparison group neither participated in the water quality self-testing nor received information. The impacts of the experiment are estimated using intention-to-treat (ITT), instrumental variable (IV) and differences-in-differences (DiD) estimators. Participation rate, which is used as a proxy for uptake, is higher among the school children intervention group in comparison to the adult intervention group. The results show that the household water quality testing and information experiment increase the choice of improved water sources and other safe water behaviors. The study implies that household water quality testing and information could be used as “social marketing” strategy in achieving safe water behaviors. The school children intervention group is more effective in the delivery of water quality information, thereby making a strong case of using school children as “agents of change” in improving safe water behaviors. The study also finds limited evidence of gender differentiated impacts based on the gender of the participants, especially in terms of improved water source choices. The findings have implications on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly on improvement in safe water behaviors and microbial analysis of water quality by providing practical experiences from resource poor settings.
flight_coordination_in_Thyroptera
Creators: name: Araya-Salas, Marcelo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Acoustic and statistical analysis of (vocal) behavior during group flying in Spix's disc-winged bats (Thyroptera tricolor)
The Australian money market
Creators: name: WILSON, J.S.G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Australia, money market, features, development
subject: E44

description: This work provides an in-depth analysis of Australia’s money market arrangements and the features that characterise it. The author explores the history of the Australian money market, from its origin to subsequent development and present-day formation. JEL: E44
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 26, N. 104 (1973)
Collision between Molecular Clouds I. The effect of the cloud virial ratio in head-on collisions
Creators: name: Tanvir, Tabassum S
name: Dale, James E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a series of papers we investigate the effect of collisions between turbulent molecular clouds on their structure, evolution and star formation activity. In this paper we look into the role of the clouds' initial virial ratios. Three different scenarios were examined: both clouds initially bound, one cloud bound and one unbound, and both clouds initially unbound. Models in which one or both clouds are bound generate filamentary structures aligned along the collision axis and discernible in position-position and position--velocity space. If neither cloud is bound, no filaments result. Unlike in previous simulations of collisions between smooth clouds, owing to the substructure created in the clouds by turbulence before the collisions, dissipation of kinetic energy by the collision is very inefficient and in none of our simulations is sufficient bulk kinetic energy lost to render the clouds bound. Simulations where both clouds are bound created twice as much stellar mass than the bound-unbound model, and both these scenarios produced much more stellar mass than the simulation in which both clouds are unbound. Each simulation was also compared with a control run in which the clouds do not collide. We find the bound-bound collision increases the overall star formation efficiency by a factor of approximately two relative to the control, but that the bound-unbound collision produces a much smaller increase, and the collision has very little effect on the unbound--unbound cloud collision.
description: 13 pages, 15 figures; Accepted by MNRAS
Neutral money reconsidered
Creators: name: ASCHHEIM, J.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neutral money, monetary theory, Wicksell, interest rate, Lutz
subject: E43, B31, E40

description: The concept of neutral money occupies a notable place in monetary theory, from neoclassical literature to the present. This paper reconsiders the meaning of the neutrality of money and the nature of the conditions that make for such neutrality. The author first focuses on Knut Wicksell’s pathbreaking formulation of the neutrality of the interest rate in a monetary economy. The subsequent expositions of the neutrality of money are considered with special reference to their recent analysis by Friedrich A. Lutz. The author finds that the neutrality of money is conceptually contradictory, and that the specification of conditions under which money would be neutral is inherently misleading. JEL: E43, B31, E40
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 26, N. 105 (1973)
Low-Complexity Robust Beamforming Design for IRS-Aided MISO Systems with Imperfect Channels
Creators: name: Omid, Yasaman
name: Shahabi, Seyyed MohammadMahdi
name: Pan, Cunhua
name: Deng, Yansha
name: Nallanathan, Arumugam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, large-scale intelligent reflecting sur-face (IRS)-assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) system is considered in the presence of channel uncertainty. To maximize the average sum rate of the system by jointly optimizing the active beamforming at the BS and the passive phase shifts at the IRS, while satisfying the power constraints, a novel robust beamforming design is proposed by using the penalty dual decomposition (PDD) algorithm. By applying the upper bound maximization/minimization (BSUM) method, in each iteration of the algorithm, the optimal solution for each variable can be obtained with closed-form expression. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves high performance with very low computational complexity.
description: IEEE Communication Letters, Early Access
Flight coordination in Thyroptera PART 1
Creators: name: Araya-Salas, Marcelo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Acoustic and statistical analysis of (vocal) behavior during group flying in Spix's disc-winged bats (Thyroptera tricolor). Recorded while video taping solo and group flight. Recordings were downsample to 90 kHz to speed up automatic detection.
One-off subsidies and long-run adoption – Experimental evidence on improved cooking stoves in Senegal
Creators: name: Bensch, Gunther
name: Peters, Jörg
name: Bensch, Gunther
name: Peters, Jörg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: technology adoption, cookstoves, willingness to pay, real-purchase offer, energy access

description: Free distribution of a technology can be an effective development policy instrument if its adoption is socially inefficient and hampered by affordability constraints. Improved cookstoves may be such a case: they generate high environmental and public health returns, but adoption is generally low. Based on a randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal, this paper studies whether one-time free cookstove distribution affects households’ willingness to pay (WTP) in the long run. Effects might be negative because people anchor their WTP on the earlier zero price (reference dependence) or positive because information deficits about potential benefits are overcome. We find that households who received a free stove six years back exhibit a higher WTP today compared to control households. Potential reference dependence effects are thus at least compensated by learning effects. Our findings suggest that one-time free distribution does not spoil future prices and might even be a stepping stone for future market establishment.
Monetary analysis and policy: an aggregated model for the Italian economy
Creators: name: VACIAGO, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Italy, monetary theory, transmission mechanism, policy, Italian money sector
subject: E44, E47, E52

description: There have been notable developments in monetary theory over the last twenty years which have done much to clarify the role of monetary variables in economic activity and the related “transmission mechanism” of monetary policy. Even so, there are still conflicting theories and correspondingly lively debates between their proponents. The present article, within a general framework of the mechanism of monetary policy, looks at the relation between the results of these developments and their successive approximations used in empirical analyses of the effects of monetary policy. The author puts forward an aggregated model of the Italian monetary sector designed for short-term forecasting and policy, and considers the results of the economic estimates, its predictive performance and its policy implications. JEL: E44, E47, E52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 26, N. 105 (1973)
title: Numerical and experimental exploration of the contour method for residual stress evaluation
Creators: name: Zhang, Ying
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: This thesis comprehensively investigates the contour method - a newly-invented destructive technique for residual stress evaluation - in terms of its principle and application.

The principle of the contour method is based on a variation of Bueckner's elastic superposition theory. A two-dimensional map of residual stress profile normal to a plane of interest can be determined in a simple, cheap and time-efficient manner. In practice,residual stress evaluation using the contour method involves the experimental measurement of the displacement formed by the stress release following a cut on the surface at issue, and then numerical calculation of the residual stress based on the experimentally measured displacement. The whole process of the contour-method measurement was simulated using a finite element method and the simulated result confirms the correctness of the novel technique.

A number of different applications have been explored using the contour method to measure a cross-sectional residual stress distribution: a hole cold expansion EN8 steelplate, a hole cold expansion 7475-T7351 aluminium alloy plate, a MIG 2024-T351 aluminium alloy welded plate and a VPPA 2024-T351 aluminium alloy welded plate. Favourably good outcomes were obtained from each case. The most impressive comparison of the contour-method result was made on the VPPA 2024-T351 weld with neutron and synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements, showing an extremely good match with deviation approximately 9 % on average.

This work has proved that the contour method is a powerful novel technique to determine across-sectional residual stress profile with accuracy in many engineering components, and has great prospects to find application elsewhere.
Experimentieren mit Jugendlichen mit einer geistigen Behinderung Bildungschancen im heilpädagogischen Unterricht
Creators: name: Schneider, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Geistige Behinderung
Jugend
Masterarbeit

description: Diese Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Jugendlichen mit einer geistigen Behinderung alterssowie niveaugerechte Bildungsangebote präsentiert werden können. Aufgrund positiver Erfahrungen mit Experimenten im eigenen Unterricht, werden breit gefächerte Theorien und Konzepte bei gezogen und so in einem dialektischen Prozess, entsprechend der Praxisforschung, Experimentieranleitungen entwickelt. Dieses Didaktische Material wird in drei Oberstufenklassen getestet und anschliessend mittels qualitativ ausgewerteter Interviews evaluiert. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Experimente und das dazu entwickelte didaktische Material, durch seine offene, von einem Lernangebot geprägten Struktur, vielfältige Einsatzmöglichkeiten und adäquate Lernchancen bieten.
Canadian bank mergers, the public interest and public policy
Creators: name: JONES, J.C.H.
name: LAUDADIO, L.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Canadian banking system, public policy, concentration, mergers
subject: E61, G21

description: The Canadian banking system is highly concentrated. This is partially due to normal market attrition, but more significantly is the result of a protracted series of mergers. Since all bank mergers have to be approved by the Federal government, the fundamental public policy question is why the government allowed the mergers and sos assisted the concentration process. This paper attempts to determine whether the mergers which have taken place since 1955 have been in the “public interest”. The conclusion is that, on the basis of the available evidence, they have not. To arrive at this conclusion the author first specifies the appropriate “public interest” criteria. These criteria are then applied to the mergers in question. The implications for policy are laid out in the conclusion. JEL: E61, G21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 26, N. 105 (1973)
Reconfiguration of Colourings and Dominating Sets in Graphs: a Survey
Creators: name: Mynhardt, C. M.
name: Nasserasr, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C15, 05C69

description: We survey results concerning reconfigurations of colourings and dominating sets in graphs. The vertices of the $k$-colouring graph $\mathcal{C}_{k}(G)$ of a graph $G$ correspond to the proper $k$-colourings of a graph $G$, with two $k$-colourings being adjacent whenever they differ in the colour of exactly one vertex. Similarly, the vertices of the $k$-edge-colouring graph $\mathcal{EC}_{k}(G)$ of $g$ are the proper $k$-edge-colourings of $G$, where two $k$-edge-colourings are adjacent if one can be obtained from the other by switching two colours along an edge-Kempe chain, i.e., a maximal two-coloured alternating path or cycle of edges. The vertices of the $k$-dominating graph $\mathcal{D}_{k}(G)$ are the (not necessarily minimal) dominating sets of $G$ of cardinality $k$ or less, two dominating sets being adjacent in $\mathcal{D}_{k}(G)$ if one can be obtained from the other by adding or deleting one vertex. On the other hand, when we restrict the dominating sets to be minimum dominating sets, for example, we obtain different types of domination reconfiguration graphs, depending on whether vertices are exchanged along edges or not. We consider these and related types of colouring and domination reconfiguration graphs. Conjectures, questions and open problems are stated within the relevant sections.
Adult daughters of parental divorce : constructing current relationships with nonresidential fathers
Creators: name: Miller, Adena B. K
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In Canada, divorce is an important individual and societal issue. With 38% of all marriages projected to end in divorce before their 30th wedding anniversary (The Vanier Institute of the Family, 2004) and half of all divorces involving dependent children (Statistics Canada, 2005) it is not surprising that the short and long term repercussions of experiencing parental divorce is of concern to researchers, practitioners, and families alike. Previous research has suggested that experiencing divorce can have a wide array of consequences on close relationships (Amato, 2003), one of which is parent - child relationships. Divorce has the potential to impact parent - child relationships throughout the life course for both children and their parents (Booth & Amato, 1994; Cooney & Uhlenberg, 1990; Lye, Klepinger, Hyde, & Nelson, 1995; Zill, Morrison, & Coiro, 1993). Consequentially, the importance of understanding parent - child relationships within the biographical context of parental divorce, and their entire relational history, is becoming increasingly apparent. The present study examines whether a model of parent - child interactions within the context of the entire relationship outlined by Lollis and Kuczynski (1997) is useful in examining and understanding the current adult daughter - nonresidential father relationship. In order to accomplish this, interviews were conducted with 9 women who experienced parental divorce in childhood and who were between the ages of 19-24 at the time of interview. Analysis borrowed from a biographical (Rosenthal, 2004) and grounded theory approach (Glaser & Strauss, 1967; Strauss & Corbin, 1994). Results indicate the presence of themes of relationship construction, in particular relational damage, repair and maintenance within the daughters' accounts. Therein, the research provides empirical support for the usefulness of Lollis and Kuczynski's (1997) model.
Sharing the burden of international adjustment
Creators: name: SACCHETTI, U.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Balance of payments imbalances, adjustment, IMF, reserve levels
subject: F32, F33

description: The article considers cases in which several countries exhibit balance of payments imbalances simultaneously and discusses the problem of who should adjust whenever such multiple imbalances arise. It discusses recent proposals by the IMF and the U.S. government concerning par values changes and, building on previous contributions on the adequacy of such indicators as reserve levels, it proposes alternative solutions depending on the origin of the imbalances. JEL: F32, F33
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 26, N. 105 (1973)
title: The effect of context on the performance of children with ADHD on a series of computerised tasks and games
Creators: name: Shaw, Rebecca M.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: This thesis examines context effects in relation to the performance of children with ADHD in test and 'real world' situations. There is a wealth of empirical research that illustrates poor performance of these children on a range of cognitive measures, particularly tasks that claim to measure executive function and inhibitory control. However, anecdotal reports have suggested that while playing computer games these children display abilities that contrast sharply with empirical findings. This contrast was the basis for a series of studies using computer games and computerised tasks to investigate the performance of children with ADHD across contexts. The first investigation (Study 1), a questionnaire study, lent support to the anecdotal reports. Parents of children with ADHD confirmed that their children were able to sit still, concentrate, pay attention and achieve higher levels of success when playing computer games. In Study 2 parents of children with ADHD were asked to discuss the features of computer games they felt were most influential in contributing to their child's interest and performance. Observations made in the Study 3 provided further confirmation that performance improves when children with ADHD play computer games; performance in terms of error making and and on-task activity on a standardised test of inhibition and attention, the Conners' Continuous Performance Test II (CPT II), was significantly poorer than performance on a more 'game' like Pokemon version of the task and significantly different to the performance of typically developing children. Features of computer games that may have contributed to the observed improvements for children with ADHD were examined in four subsequent studies. These features included the addition of narrative, the addition of a points scoring system, the addition of character, auditory reinforcement and differing levels of response cost. Inhibitory performance on two commercially available games was also investigated (Study 8), and the performance of participants with ADHD was not significantly different to that of typically developing participants. The results raise questions about current understanding of the disorder and models of ADHD, stress the need for examining contextual sensitivity of children with apparently constitutional disorders such as ADHD, and have implications for methodological design and the contexts in which cognitive abilities are investigated.
Relative growth rates: the experience of the advanced economies
Creators: name: COEN, E.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Simple least squares regression, growth rates, exchange rate flexibility
subject: E42, O47

description: This paper tests by simple least squares regression analysis for some of the factors which might explain why growth rates have differed among twenty-two advanced economies. The principal result is confirmation of the very orthodox hypothesis that high rates of growth of exports and imports are necessary, though of course not sufficient, conditions for achieving a high rate of growth of gross domestic product. The policy implications of this result are explored in the concluding section of the paper. Their main thrust is that much greater exchange rate flexibility might be advantageous for economies where low rates of growth of total output have been associated with low rates of growth of exports and imports. JEL: E42, O47
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 26, N. 105 (1973)
Materials and Methods
Creators: name: McKenzie, Wayne
name: Richards, Anne Marie
name: Patel, Shirali
name: Gerrits, Thomas
name: Akin, Thomas
name: Peil, Steven
name: Black, Adam
name: Tulchinsky, David
name: Hastings, Alexander
name: Li-Baboud, Ya-Shian
name: Rahmouni, Anouar
name: Burenkov, Ivan
name: Mink, Alan
name: Diaz, Matthew
name: Lal, Nijil
name: Shi, Yicheng
name: Kuo, Paulina
name: Shrestha, Pranish
name: Merzouki, Mheni
name: Rodriguez Perez, Alejandro
name: Onuma, Eleanya
name: Jones, Daniel
name: Davis, Atiyya
name: Searles, Thomas
name: Whalen, Joe
name: Quraishi, Qudsia
name: Collins, Kate
name: Cooper, LaVida
name: Shaw, Harry
name: Crabill, Bruce
name: Slattery, Oliver
name: Battou, Abdella
Publisher: name: AIP Publishing
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: Additional experimental details regarding the characterization and future compensation of environmental fluctuations and noise for quantum network protocol research.
Lobrathium guttula
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lobrathium
Lobrathium guttula

description: Lobrathium guttula (FAUVEL 1895)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d Thailand: 16 [teneral], r. Kok, Chiang Rai, III.1987, leg. Rougemont (cRou).
 C o m m e n t: Confirmed records of L. guttula were previously known only from Myanmar (ASSING 2012). The above specimen represents the first record of both the genus and the species from Thailand.
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2014, A revision of Palaearctic Lobrathium. V. Three new species from the Himalaya and China, a new synonymy, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 429-441 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 438, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507378
I.FAST KT Report ready
Creators: name: Safi, Djamschid
name: Franchin, Enrico Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The I.FAST Knowledge Transfer (KT) Report has been made available as an I.FAST note and its release represents the completion of the I.FAST milestone MS09. The report contains the outcome of a survey carried out in second half of 2021, as a combined effort of the I.FAST Tasks 3.1: “Coordination and industrial partnership support” and Task 3.2: “Knowledge Transfer and Business Opportunities in Accelerator R&D”. The survey was aimed at assessing the innovation potential and the Technology Transfer opportunities of the I.FAST R&D activities. The KT report covers the general methodology and survey background, as well as the goals and the results of the analysis and briefly discusses possible and planned next steps to be excecuted in the framework of the Task 3.2.
description: {"references": ["I.FAST MS9"]}
Camptothlipsis rufithorax GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Camptothlipsis
Camptothlipsis rufithorax

description: Camptothlipsis rufithorax GRANGER 1949
 Camptothlipsis rufithorax n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 301 (key), 302 (fig. 313), 306 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Camptothlipsis rufithorax GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1970: 379 (cat.).
 Bassus rufithorax (GRANGER 1949): PAPP 1998: 227 (tax., cat.).
 Bassus rufithorax (GRANGER 1949): MADL 2007: 996 (tax., cat.), 1006 (tab. 1: distr.).
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 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Two types of densification scaling in the evolution of temporal networks
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Teruyoshi
name: Génois, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many real-world social networks constantly change their global properties over time, such as the number of edges, size and density. While temporal and local properties of social networks have been extensively studied, the origin of their dynamical nature is not yet well understood. Networks may grow or shrink if a) the total population of nodes changes and/or b) the chance of two nodes being connected varies over time. Here, we develop a method that allows us to classify the source of time-varying nature of temporal networks. In doing so, we first show empirical evidence that real-world dynamical systems could be categorized into two classes, the difference of which is characterized by the way the number of edges grows with the number of active nodes, i.e., densification scaling. We develop a dynamic hidden-variable model to formally characterize the two dynamical classes. The model is fitted to the empirical data to identify whether the origin of scaling comes from a changing population in the system or shifts in the connecting probabilities.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures (plus 7 figures in SI)
Exchange-rate flexibility
Creators: name: MACHLUP, F.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crawling peg, exchange rate system, flexibility, adjustment, gliding parities
subject: E42

description: In recent years officials in charge of international monetary affairs have slowly moved towards the crawling peg, which can be explained by an understandable cultural lag. At any rate, however, most have arrives at the position that greater flexibility is needed in the exchange rate system. The present article presents an in-depth analysis of the issue of flexibility in the exchange rate system. The author fist looks at the meanings of flexibility before considering the role of prices in economic adjustment and aggregate-demand adjustment. Temporary imbalances and selective controls are dealt with and historical context on the evolution of the system is provided. The various types and methods of flexibility are then detailed. The author concludes that, despite political resistance, economists should argue for freely flexible exchange rates or smoothly gliding parities. JEL: E42
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 26, N. 106 (1973)
Camptothlipsis stenoradialis GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Camptothlipsis
Camptothlipsis stenoradialis

description: Camptothlipsis stenoradialis GRANGER 1949
 Camptothlipsis stenoradialis n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 301 (key), 302 (figs 304, 310), 304 (descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar).
 Camptothlipsis stenoradialis GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1970: 379 (tax., cat.).
 Bassus stenoradialis (GRANGER 1949): MADL 2007: 996 (tax., cat.), 1006 (tab. 1: distr.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Fianarantsoa: Ihosy – 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 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Local AGN Survey (LASr): I. Galaxy sample, infrared colour selection and predictions for AGN within 100 Mpc
Creators: name: Asmus, D.
name: Greenwell, C. L.
name: Gandhi, P.
name: Boorman, P. G.
name: Aird, J.
name: Alexander, D. M.
name: Assef, R. J.
name: Baldi, R. D.
name: Davies, R. I.
name: Hönig, S. F.
name: Ricci, C.
name: Rosario, D. J.
name: Salvato, M.
name: Shankar, F.
name: Stern, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to answer some of the major open questions in the fields of supermassive black hole (SMBH) and galaxy evolution, a complete census of SMBH growth, i.e., active galactic nuclei (AGN), is required. Thanks to deep all-sky surveys, such as those by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) missions, this task is now becoming feasible in the nearby Universe. Here, we present a new survey, the Local AGN Survey (LASr), with the goal of identifying AGN unbiased against obscuration and determining the intrinsic Compton-thick (CT) fraction. First, we construct the most complete all-sky sample of galaxies within 100 Mpc from astronomical databases (90% completeness for log M_star/M_sun ~9.4), four times deeper than the current local galaxy reference, the Two Micron All-Sky Survey Redshift Survey (2MRS), which turns out to miss 20% of known luminous AGN. These 49k galaxies serve as parent sample for LASr, called LASr-GPS. It contains 4.3k already known AGN, >=82% of these are estimated to have L(12um) < 10^42.3 erg/s, i.e., are low-luminosity AGN. As a first method for identifying Seyfert-like AGN, we use WISE-based infrared colours, finding 221 galaxies at L(12um) >= 10^42.3 erg/s to host an AGN at 90% reliability, This includes 61 new AGN candidates and implies and optical type 2 fraction of 50 to 71%. We quantify the efficiency of this technique and estimate the total number of AGN with L_int(2-10 keV) >= 10^42 erg/s in the volume to be 362^+145_-116 (8.6^+3.5_-2.8 10^-5 Mpc^-3). X-ray brightness estimates indicate the CT fraction to be 40-55% to explain the Swift non-detections of the infrared selected objects. One third of the AGN within 100 Mpc remain to be identified and we discuss the prospects for the eROSITA all-sky survey.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 30 pages, 19 figures. For full, digital versions of Table 1, 2 and 3, see: https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=kZiqWnkZgyLixKFSgruXOsYYglos20Y3kB6V
Semiconductor-Bloch Formalism: Derivation and Application to High-Harmonic Generation from Dirac Fermions
Creators: name: Wilhelm, Jan
name: Grössing, Patrick
name: Seith, Adrian
name: Crewse, Jack
name: Nitsch, Maximilian
name: Weigl, Leonard
name: Schmid, Christoph
name: Evers, Ferdinand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We rederive the semiconductor Bloch equations emphasizing the close link to the Berry connection. Our rigorous derivation reveals the existence of two further contributions to the current, in addition to the frequently considered intraband and polarization-related interband terms. The extra contributions become sizable in situations with strong dephasing or when the dipole-matrix elements are strongly wave-number dependent. We apply the formalism to high-harmonic generation for a Dirac metal. The extra terms add to the frequency-dependent emission intensity (high-harmonic spectrum) significantly at certain frequencies changing the total signal up to a factor of 10.
Disophrys conspicua GRANGER 1949
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Disophrys
Disophrys conspicua

description: Disophrys conspicua GRANGER 1949
 Disophrys conspicua n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 284 (key), 285 (fig. 293), 289 (descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar).
 Disophrys conspicua GRANGER 1949: DOCAVO ALBERTI 1960: pl. 18 (fig. 107).
 Disophrys conspicua GRANGER 1949: DOCAVO ALBERTI 1965: not seen.
 Disophrys conspicua GRANGER 1949: SHENEFELT 1970: 394 (cat.).
 Disophrys conspicua GRANGER 1949: MADL 2007: 998 (cat.), 1006 (tab. 1: distr.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Antanimora, Bekily, Betroka.
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 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Protocol of Cross Meta-Analysis on bioproducts extraction - regional and uncertainties evaluation: case study of Policosanol to PTCVD and Ibero-American
Creators: name: PRIMO, Rilton Gonçalo
name: MARTIN-GIL, Jesús
name: Manuel, Díaz de los Ríos
name: Martín Ramos, Pablo
name: Kalid, Ricardo de Araújo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cross Meta-Analysis of Articles and Patents
Six main routes of Policosanol extraction
Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases
Ibero-American countries
Assessment of uncertainties

description: This protocol of Cross Meta-Analyses (P-CMA) of articles and patents can be used for biorefining methods or technological routes for extracting bioproducts in general, as well as for any region or set of countries. The case of policosanols (PC), as substances indicated for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases (PTCVD), combined with the case of Ibero-American countries, is a demonstration, considering this gap in the literature, among other existing ones. This P-CMA was designed for comparisons between two or more routes/regions, including different bioproducts/industrial outputs. Closely following initiatives such as International Registry for Prospective Reviews and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, in order to avoid arbitrary revisions, rework and encourage cooperation, this P-CMA integrates an explicit set of procedures and tools, in a sequence of 11 sequential processes. While recommending the use of platforms, search engines and databases as broad as those made available by theCAPES Periodicals Portal, Orbit Intelligence, SciFinder, Scopus and Web of Science - Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics), the comparison and supplementation of a base class by other(s) was an identified need. The results of applying this P-CMA will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed journal, in the form of 1) lists of the most efficient routes of policosanol extraction, which can be hierarchical, case by case, according to the availability of raw materials, inputs and technology, 2) regionalized identification of gaps, perspectives, and networks of scientific and technological cooperation, 3) review of physical productivities with respective assessments of uncertainty.
description: Funding: This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (Capes) - Finance Code 001: Process: 88887.465369/2019-00 (Capes) - Date: 01/10/2019 to 30/09/2023. In other part, this study was financed by Institutional Internationalization Program – CAPES – PrInt: Process: 88887.468908/2019-00 (Call no. 41/2017); Date: 01/02/2020 to 31/12/2020. This work was conducted during a scholarship supported by the Institutional Sandwich Doctorate Program Abroad (PDSE) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil, and University of Valladolid (UVA), Palencia, Spain.
title: Software development performance in remote student teams in international computer science collaboration
Creators: name: Hause, Martha Lucia
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: Approximately two-thirds of software projects are late because project teams encounter challenges that threaten their success. In addition, many projects are developed using remote collaboration, due to pressure of time, distribution of expertise, and organisational constraints. In parallel, technology has developed that allows effective remote collaboration.

The purpose of this research was to investigate what characterises high performance in software development in remote student teams. The data was drawn from the Runestone Project, which involved Swedish and American computer science students in international collaboration on a substantial software development project. Runestone gave students the opportunity to use different technologies for collaboration across time and distance, as well the chance to develop problem-solving experience with different cultures in a team-based environment.

This research tracked the progress and changes in the entire electronic communication for 8 student teams identified as the 4 highest- and lowest- 4 performers in the 2000 presentation of Runestone. A set of categories was developed to characterise over 31,000 lines of communication, focusing on the amount and nature of communication for each team, and on decision-making patterns throughout the software development process. The research also looked at students' use of available communication technology.

Results indicate that both communication and the process and timing of specific actions are crucial to a team's success. Teams communicated differently, with high performing groups communicating less. High performing teams were more organised in the way they conducted their meetings and work. The management of the software development process as a whole was crucial, as was leadership style. An effective use of the software development process can also mean that key decisions are made during the times in the software process where they will be most effective. This research has implications for remote collaboration in both education and industry.
Controlled floating and the confused issue of money illusion
Creators: name: FELLNER, W.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Money illusion, currency system, current-account, exchange-rate flexibility
subject: E42, E31, F32

description: The article deal with the issue of money illusion - a lack of sufficient realisation that one’s income in the relevant sense depends on prices as well as on the nominal size of the income. It begins with a general appraisal of problems faced in a currency system of controlled floating. The author then turns to a detailed analysis of whether money illusion is responsible for any existing differences between the domestic side-effects of achieving current-account objectives under exchange-rate flexibility on the one hand, and achieving these objectives under fixed rates on the other. The author concludes with suggestions concerning the 1972 American balance-of-trade effects of the 1971 exchange-rate modifications. JEL: E42, E31, F32
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 26, N. 106 (1973)
The viability of thrift intermediaries as financial institutions
Creators: name: FAND, D.I.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mutual Savings Banks, Savings and Loans Associations, thrift intermediaries, disintermediation
subject: G20, G21

description: The article deals with Mutual Savings Banks and Savings and Loan Associations, the so-called thrift intermediaries, which have been losing their share of the savings market in recent years. The author analyses the relative decline of the thrift intermediaries over the past decade and and the conditions generating disintermediation, highlighting the problems and policy issues that have emerged. The Report of the President’s Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation is then considered, along with the specific proposals it offers to enable thrift intermediaries to compete effectively and achieve viability as financial institutions. JEL: G20, G21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 26, N. 106 (1973)