cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE SPECIFICITY OF MARKETING IN SHAPING THE FUNCTIONS OF A TOURIST AREA
SPECYFIKA MARKETINGU W KSZTAŁTOWANIU FUNKCJI TURYSTYCZNYCH OBSZARU TURYSTYCZNEGO
Creators: name: Wanagos, Marzena
name: Wanagos, Marzena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: territorial marketing
subject: tourism functions
subject: tourist product

description: The purpose of this paper is an attempt to describe specific marketing and show its importance in shaping the tourism functions of a given area. The characteristic features of the area, such as the diversity of actors and their objectives or the complexity of the functions are the primary determinants of the development of tourism in the area. The paper argues that the use of marketing and the coordination of marketing efforts by the local government influence the tourist product and the image of the area. There are, however, restrictions on the possibility of the local government implementing a long-term targeted marketing concept. These restrictions are mainly due to political reasons, to short terms in office of the members of the authorities, and to the fact that the authorities do not hire professional staff for positions related to tourism and marketing.
THE ROLE OF TOURISM IN THE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY OF A COMMUNE
ZNACZENIE TURYSTYKI W STRATEGII ROZWOJU GMINY
Creators: name: Szwacka-Mokrzycka, Joanna
name: Szwacka-Mokrzycka, Joanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: tourism development strategy
subject: borough’s strategy plan
subject: marketing
subject: the borough of Biała Podlaska
subject: the borough of Serock

description: A number of actions should be undertaken to ensure the rapid development of a commune and the improvement of the lives of its inhabitants. The priorities in this respect are the following: the creation, introduction and application of a tourism development strategy and long-term promotional activities. The main aim of the article is to present the role of tourism in the development strategies of two communes: Biała Podlaska and Serock. The diagnosis and analysis conducted by the author made it possible to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the communes and to assess their promotional activities. The research methods and techniques used in the article include the analysis of documents and source materials, surveys carried out among the inhabitants of the Biala Podlaska commune and tourists visiting it, as well as SWOT analyses.
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll: July 2019
Creators: name: National Public Radio
name: PBS NewsHour
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Ideas offered by Democratic presidential candidates (1); most important qualities for Democratic presidential candidate (2); Democratic 2020 presidential nomination (1); healthcare policy (5); environmental policy (3); gun control (2); free college tuition at public colleges/universities (1); immigration (2); tax and income policy (3); legalization of marijuana (1); death penalty (1); reparations for slavery (1); electoral college (1); economy (2); 2016 presidential election (1); Federal Reserve Board (3); President Donald Trump job approval (3); Trump re-election support (1).
EXPECTATIONS OF CONSUMERS IN THE MARKET OF AGROTOURISM
OCZEKIWANIA KONSUMENTÓW NA RYNKU USŁUG AGROTURYSTYCZNYCH
Creators: name: Sikorska-Wolak, Izabella
name: Zawadka, Jan
name: Sikorska-Wolak, Izabella
name: Zawadka, Jan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: agrotourism
subject: agrotourism service-mix
subject: Lublin voivodship

description: The purpose of this study was to identify consumer expectations of services of agrotourism farms in selected communes of the Lublin province. Empirical studies were conducted among 81 owners of agrotourism farms and 218 tourists who stayed at those farms. The expectations of the tourists were determined based on their motives, opinions, evaluation, and proposals for changes in the tourist offer. The guests of the agrotourism farms were mostly middle-aged, with higher or secondary education, with an average financial situation, living in large cities. They were staying there with their families. Owing to the rich natural and cultural values and diversified tourist offer of the farms, the expectations of the tourists had been largely satisfied, but their suggestions for improvement showed some differences between the services they had expected and the services which were provided. The research showed that the factor differentiating the expectations of tourists was their socio-demographic characteristics, including age and education level.
ROLE OF INTERNET IN THE PROMOTION OF AGRI-TOURISM SERVICE
ROLA INTERNETU W PROMOCJI USŁUG AGROTURYSTYCZNYCH
Creators: name: Krzyzanowska, Krystyna
name: Wojtkowski, Rafal
name: Krzyzanowska, Krystyna
name: Wojtkowski, Rafal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: The Internet
subject: promotion
subject: services
subject: agro-tourism farm

description: This article deals with Internet websites which promote agro-tourism farms in the Podlasie province in Poland. It presents the objectives and tools of promotion, as well as the sources of information about the farms preferred by tourists. It also evaluates the technical quality of websites and offers posted on the websites of selected agro-tourism farms. The websites which were examined did not promote the farms successfully. Most farms did not meet even minimum criteria related to the content of the site, its aesthetics, technical parameters, and the offer itself. If the promotion of tourist farms is to be successful, their websites should look professional. Service providers should thus seek help and support from professionals such as IT specialists, lawyers, advisors from agricultural advisory centres and representatives of tourism associations.
WEB PAGES AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR COMMUNES’ COMPETITIVENESS POSITIONING BASING UPON LUBLIN REGION
STRONY INTERNETOWE JAKO INSTRUMENT W POZYCJONOWANIU KONKURENCYJNOŚCI GMIN NA PRZYKŁADZIE WOJEWÓDZTWA LUBELSKIEGO
Creators: name: Janulewicz, Pawel
name: Janulewicz, Pawel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Web page
subject: classification
subject: borough competitiveness

description: This paper classifies the Web pages of selected communes in the Lublin region. The author seeks to identify some relationships between Web page quality (functionality) and the level of competitiveness of the entities surveyed. The paper also suggests what type of information should be included in the Web pages in order to make them more attractive.
THE ANALYSIS OF MARKETING TOOLS USING IN TOURISTIC PROMOTION OF DOLNY ŚLĄSK
ANALIZA I OCENA INSTRUMENTÓW MARKETINGOWYCH WYKORZYSTYWANYCH W PROMOCJI TURYSTYCZNEJ WOJEWÓDZTWA DOLNOŚLĄSKIEGO
Creators: name: Lemanowicz, Marzena
name: Grzybowska, Agnieszka
name: Lemanowicz, Marzena
name: Grzybowska, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: tourism marketing
subject: regional tourism promotion
subject: advertising
subject: Dolnośląskie voivodship

description: The aim of this article was to analyse marketing tools used to promote tourism in the Dolny Śląsk region. It covers both theoretical issues and practical research. The theoretical issues are related to promoting tourism in geographical regions, promotion tools, and the rules of planning and implementing effective promotion. Some organizations responsible for promotion are presented on the basis of secondary materials (scholarly publications, press articles, bills and information obtained from the Internet). The practical part of the article is based on the authors’ research devoted to the effectiveness of the tools promoting Dolny Śląsk. The following aspects have been taken into consideration: the informative and persuasive function of the tools, the extent to which they were remembered and the ability to create the image of the geographical region.
Phase diagrams and universality classes of random antiferromagnetic spin ladders
Creators: name: Hoyos, J. A.
name: Miranda, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The random antiferromagnetic two-leg and zigzag spin-1/2 ladders are investigated using the real space renormalization group scheme and their complete phase diagrams are determined. We demonstrate that the first system belongs to the same universality class of the dimerized random spin-1/2 chain. The zigzag ladder, on the other hand, is in a random singlet phase at weak frustration and disorder. Otherwise, we give additional evidence that it belongs to the universality class of the random antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic quantum spin chains, although the universal fixed point found in the latter system is never realized. We find, however, a new universal fixed point at intermediate disorder.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
UV-filtered overlap fermions
Creators: name: Dürr, Stephan
name: Hoelbling, Christian
name: Wenger, Urs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the kernel spectrum, locality properties and the axial-vector renormalization constant of UV-filtered overlap fermions. We find that UV-filtered overlap fermions have a better conditioned kernel, better locality and an axial-vector renormalization constant closer to 1 than their unfiltered counterparts, even if the shift parameter $ρ$ is simply set to 1.
description: Contribution to LATTICE 2005 (chiral fermions)
Selenaspidus articulatus
Creators: name: Kondo, Takumasa
name: Muñoz, Jazmín Adriana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Diaspididae
Selenaspidus
Selenaspidus articulatus

description: Selenaspidus articulatus (Morgan)
 Material studied. Colombia. Valle del Cauca: Alcalá: Finca La Pastora, 04°39 ′ 41.6 ″ N, 75°47 ′ 46.6 ″ W, 1240 m, 27.iv.2009, coll. J. Muñoz, 4 (UVCO), 3 (MECP); Ulloa: Finca La Catalina, 04°41 ′ 38.8 ″ N, 75°45 ′ 10.4 ″ W, 1301 m, 16.ii.2009, coll. J. Muñoz, ex avocado cv. ‘ Santana’, 1 (UVCO), 1 (MECP).
 Distribution. Cosmopolitan (Ben-Dov et al. 2015).
 Remarks. Selenaspidus articulatus is a tropicopolitan species (Williams and Watson 1988a). This species was found on the upper surface of leaves of the ‘Lorena’ and ‘Santana’ cultivars.
description: Published as part of Kondo, Takumasa & Muñoz, Jazmín Adriana, 2016, Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) associated with avocado crop, Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae) in Valle del Cauca and neighboring departments of Colombia, pp. 1-24 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (465) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645809
SHAPING THE MARKETING ORIENTATION OF TERRITORIAL UNITS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL TOURISM (ON THE BASIS OF THE PODKARPACKIE PROVINCE)
KSZTAŁTOWANIE ORIENTACJI MARKETINGOWEJ JEDNOSTKI TERYTORIALNEJ W KONTEKŚCIE ROZWOJU TURYSTYKI WIEJSKIEJ (NA PRZYKŁADZIE WOJ. PODKARPACKIEGO)
Creators: name: Kuzniar, Wieslawa
name: Kuzniar, Wieslawa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: marketing orientation
subject: rural tourism
subject: the Podkarpackie voivodship

description: The study presents selected aspects of the marketing activity of local authorities in the context of the development of rural tourism. The results of research are presented with relation to theoretical considerations concerning overall assumptions behind the marketing orientation of a territorial unit and exemplary forms of using marketing to support the development of a tourism subproduct at the commune level. The research was based on a survey conducted in 2010 among 371 inhabitants of the Podkarpackie province. Its aim was to help assess the activity of self-government authorities in promoting rural tourism. The results revealed that the activities promoting rural tourism in the province are limited and they rely on simple and cheap forms of marketing to target markets. The form of promoting the commune which the inhabitants were the most familiar with turned out to be various kinds of printed advertising, e.g. folders, catalogues or printed materials related to special occasions as well as event marketing activities. The natural and cultural values of the countryside of the province are emphasised the most often in promotional messages.
Oxalidaceae Garmendia, Navarro, Quintanar & Buira, 2015, [nom. cons.
Creators: name: F. Muñoz Garmendia
name: C. Navarro
name: A. Quintanar
name: A. Buira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Oxalidales
Oxalidaceae

description: CXXIV. OXALIDACEAE [nom. cons.]* Hierbas perennes –raramente, y en especies extraibéricas, trepadoras, sufrútices o hierbas anuales–, ocasionalmente con hojas filódicas; rizomatosas, bulbosas o tuberosas. Hojas ± alternas, dispuestas a lo largo del tallo, todas basales en roseta o apicales, pecioladas, palmaticompuestas –con frecuencia trifolioladas, pero también unifolioladas o con mayor número de folíolos– o pinnaticompuestas, pinnatinervias; folíolos articulados, a veces con pulvínulos; con o sin estípulas; con o sin cavidades secretoras en la lámina. Inflorescencia axilar o aparentemente terminal, cimosa, en monocasios o dicasios, paniculiforme, racemiforme, umbeliforme o espiciforme, o bien, por reducción, de flores solitarias. Flores hermafroditas, actinomorfas, pentámeras, heteroclamídeas, a veces más pequeñas y cleistógamas. Receptáculo floral con o sin disco hipógino. Sépalos 5, ± soldados en la base –raramente libres–, persistentes. Pétalos 5 –a veces faltan en las flores cleistógamas–, libres o ± soldados hacia la base; uña corta o sin ella. Estambres 10 o 5 y otros 5 reducidos a estaminodios, soldados entre sí en la base –monadelfos–, no soldados a la corola; los externos con filamentos más cortos o raramente todos iguales; anteras dorsifijas, introrsas; polen de ordinario tricolpado o tricolporado. Ovario súpero, con 5 lóculos; carpelos 5, ± soldados entre sí, rara vez libres; estilos 5, libres –excepcionalmente ± soldados en la base–; estigmas pequeños, capitados, papilosos; rudimentos seminales (1)2-15 o más por lóculo, en general con arilo, de placentación marginal en el ovario apocárpico y axilar en el ovario sincárpico. Fruto en cápsula – carnosa o seca, loculicida, a veces con dehiscencia elástica– o en baya –con 5 costillas–. Semillas en general con arilo; endosperma ruminado. Observaciones.– Familia integrada por 5 géneros y 770 u 880 especies [cf. A.A. Cocucci in K. Kubitzki (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 6: 285-290 (2003)] de distribución cosmopolita, aunque abundan en las regiones tropicales o subtropicales y faltan en las regiones más frías (excepto algunas especies del género Oxalis).
description: Published as part of F. Muñoz Garmendia, C. Navarro, A. Quintanar & A. Buira, 2015, Rhamnaceae- Polygalaceae, pp. 1-593 in Flora Iberica - Plantas vascularles de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. 9 on page 383, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5820085
INNOVATIVE FLEXIBILITY AS A FACTOR STIMUATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOURISM INDUSTRY IN AREAS WITH HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES
PLASTYCZNOŚĆ INNOWACYJNA JAKO CZYNNIK ROZWOJU BRANŻY TURYSTYCZNEJ NA OBSZARACH O WYSOKIM BEZROBOCIU
Creators: name: Mazur, Rafal
name: Mazur, Rafal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: innovations
subject: economic development
subject: unemployment

description: This paper deals with innovative flexibility, which is especially useful in struggling against unemployment. The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent entrepreneurs undertake development activities and to show how innovative flexibility can be improved. This matter is important above all for young people living in areas with a high unemployment rate, who will have to meet the requirements of an increasingly competitive labour market. The bulk of young people will have to create their own workplaces and become “knowledge workers” (Drucker 2001), but this will only be possible if they are creative and innovative. The research conducted by the author shows that many entrepreneurs do not draw on the experience of others, which is regrettable since a higher level of innovative flexibility could contribute to the development of an innovative country. The article highlights that is it likely that in the nearest future only innovative people will create new values and new opportunities.
Water policy guidelines: A comprehensive approach
Creators: name: Tsur, Yacov
name: Zemel, Amos
name: Tsur, Yacov
name: Zemel, Amos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Water economy
subject: intertemporal management,
subject: scarcity
subject: turnpike
subject: most rapid approach.

description: We study water management in the context of a prototypical water economy containing the main water sources and user sectors. A water policy consists of water allocation from each source to each user sector at each point of time as well as the capital investments needed to carry out these allocations. We show that the optimal policy brings the water capital stocks (infrastructure and equipment) to well-specified turnpike processes as rapidly as possible and evolves along these turnpikes thereafter, eventually converging to a unique steady state. Implications for water pricing are discussed
Certain quantum key distribution achieved by using Bell states
Creators: name: Li, Chong
name: Song, He-Shan
name: Zhou, Ling
name: Wu, Chun-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new protocol for quantum key distribution based on entanglement swapping is presented. In this protocol, both certain key and random key can be generated without any loss of security. It is this property differs our protocol from the previous ones. The rate of generated key bits per particle is improved which can approach six bits (4 random bits and 2 certain bits) per four particles.
description: 6 pages
Modeling the disruption of the globular cluster Pal5 by Galactic tides
Creators: name: Dehnen, W.
name: Odenkirchen, M.
name: Grebel, E. K.
name: Rix, H-W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to understand the extended massive tidal tails of the globular cluster Pal5, its very low mass and velocity dispersion, and its size, which is much larger than the theoretical tidal radius, we performed more than 1000 N-body simulations. Tidal shocks at disk crossings near perigalacticon dominate the evolution of extended low-concentration clusters, resulting in massive tidal tails and often in a quick destruction of the cluster. The overlarge size of Pal5 can be explained as the result of an expansion following the heating induced by the last strong disk shock ~150Myr ago. The models can reproduce the low observed velocity dispersion and the relative fractions of stars in the tails and between the inner and outer parts of the tails. The tidal tails of Pal5 show substantial structure not seen in our simulations. We argue that this structure is probably caused by Galactic substructure, such as giant molecular clouds, spiral arms, and dark-matter clumps. Clusters initially larger than their theoretical tidal limit remain so, because, after being shocked, they settle into a new equilibrium near apogalacticon, where they are unaffected by the perigalactic tidal field. This implies that, contrary to previous wisdom, globular clusters on eccentric orbits may well remain super-tidally limited and hence vulnerable to strong disk shocks, which dominate their evolution until destruction. Our simulations unambiguously predict the destruction of Pal5 at its next disk crossing in \~110Myr. This corresponds to only 1% of the cluster lifetime, suggesting that many more similar systems could once have populated the inner parts of the Milky Way, but have been transformed into debris streams by the Galactic tidal field. (Abridged)
description: accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
Spinor Gravity
Creators: name: Hebecker, A.
name: Wetterich, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A unified description of all interactions could be based on a higher-dimensional theory involving only spinor fields. The metric arises as a composite object and the gravitational field equations contain torsion-corrections as compared to Einstein gravity. Lorentz symmetry in spinor space is only global, implying new goldstone-boson-like gravitational particles beyond the graviton. However, the Schwarzschild and Friedman solutions are unaffected at one loop order. Our generalized gravity seems compatible with all present observations.
description: 6 pages, LaTeX, v3: extended discussion and new references
CENOVE TRENDY VYBRANYCH KOMODIT OBILNIN V SR A ICH KOMPARACIA S CENAMI EU
TREND OF PRICES OF SELECTED GRAIN COMMODITIES IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC AND THEIR COMPARISON WITH EU'S PRICES
Creators: name: SIMO, Dusan
name: SIMO, Dusan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: wheat
subject: barley
subject: maize
subject: producer prices in Slovak Republic and EU countries

description: The production of major grain commodities is of exceptional importance to the agrarian market. Food and feed grain has always been and will be a paying commodity of this market. Competitiveness of its production requires an increase of intensifying factors, especially those influencing biological material, machinery and technologies, and the qualified marketing orientation in the Slovak Republic. The Slovak prices are moderately increasing but this trend does not achieve a level of prices in the EU countries in spite of their decline. Common agricultural policy of the EU has its own rules, which Slovakia must accept in all the spheres of the agrarian market approximation. The next years will show how Slovak producers have conformed to these conditions.
Harnessing the Power of Ego Network Layers for Link Prediction in Online Social Networks
Creators: name: Toprak, Mustafa
name: Boldrini, Chiara
name: Passarella, Andrea
name: Conti, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Being able to recommend links between users in online social networks is important both for the platforms themselves and for third parties leveraging social media information to grow their business. Predictions are typically based on unsupervised or supervised learning, often leveraging simple yet effective graph topological information, such as the number of common neighbors. However, we argue that richer information about personal social structure of individuals might lead to better predictions. In this paper, we propose to leverage well-established social cognitive theories to improve link prediction performance. According to these theories, individuals arrange their social relationships along, on average, five concentric circles of decreasing intimacy. We postulate that relationships in different circles have different importance in predicting new links. In order to validate this claim, we focus on popular prediction algorithms (both unsupervised and supervised) and we extend them to include social-circles awareness. We validate the prediction performance of these social-aware algorithms against their baseline versions, leveraging two Twitter datasets comprising a community of video gamers and generic users. We show that social-awareness generally provides significant improvements in the prediction performance. In addition, social-awareness is able to deliver good predictions also in cases where resources (e.g., storage, computing) are limited and other approaches perform poorly. Finally, we show that social-awareness can be used in place of using a classifier (which may be costly or impractical) for targeting a specific category of users.
The initial mass distribution of the M82 star cluster system
Creators: name: de Grijs, R.
name: Parmentier, G.
name: Lamers, H. J. G. L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore whether we can constrain the shape of the INITIAL mass distribution of the star cluster population in M82's ~1 Gyr-old post-starburst region "B", in which the present-day cluster mass function (CMF) is closely approximated by a log-normal distribution. We conclude that the M82 B initial CMF must have had a mean mass very close to that of the "equilibrium" CMF of Vesperini (1998). Consequently, if the presently observed M82 B CMF has remained approximately constant since its formation, as predicted, then the INITIAL CMF must have been characterized by a mean mass that was only slightly larger than the present mean mass. From our detailed analysis of the expected evolution of CMFs, we conclude that our observations of the M82 B CMF are inconsistent with a scenario in which the 1 Gyr-old cluster population originated from an initial power-law mass distribution. Our conclusion is supported by arguments related to the initial density in M82 B, which would have been unphysically high if the present cluster population were the remains of an initial power-law distribution.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Fairview Square Conceptual Design
Creators: name: Chan, Stanley
name: Klade, Andrew
name: Lam, Matthew
name: Lonergan, Spencer
name: Moser, Joe
name: Robinson, Kate
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
KOMPETENTNOST PREDAJCU -PREDPOKLAD USPECHU V OSOBNOM PREDAJI
THE SALES REPRESENTIVE COMPETENCY -PRECONDITION OF PERSONAL SELLING SUCCESS
Creators: name: VISNOVSKY, Jozef
name: KELEMENOVA, Maria
name: VISNOVSKY, Jozef
name: KELEMENOVA, Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: personal selling
subject: insurance advisors
subject: external mobility
subject: reasons for mobility

description: The personality of a sales representative is of remarkable significance to suceeding in personal selling. His competency is therefore a presupposition of achieving success with this sort of sale. This issue was investigated on a group of commercial representatives (insurance service advisors) who work for an insurance company operating in the Slovak insurance market. The reason for studying this question was the fact that in spite of the company's effort to select qualified employees (sales representatives), there is a prevailing problem of unproportionally high external mobility (i.e. employees terminate the employment). The reasons for such mobility were studied and measures were proposed for stabilizing commercial agents to work at the analyzed insurance company.
title: Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Saturn's Moons Rhea and Dione
Creators: name: Elowitz, Mark
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2019

description: This thesis presents the first analysis of spatially resolved, far-UV reflectance spectra of Saturn’s icy satellites Rhea and Dione collected by the Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) during targeted flybys. The objective of this geochemical survey of Rhea’s and Dione’s leading and trailing hemispheres is to identify and explain the broad absorption feature centred near 184 nanometres. The secondary objective is to determine the presence of any minor impurities within the ice layers of these satellites by characterizing the location in wavelength space and shape of the 165-nm absorption edge due to pure water ice. To determine the precise position of the mid-point of the absorption edge, derivative spectroscopy is applied to the Cassini UVIS spectra. The presence of any non-water-ice molecules within the ice matrix and/or changes in the structure of the ice grains should cause a shift from the nominal position of the 165-nm absorption edge, or alter the slope of the absorption edge. The 165-nm absorption edge and 184-nm absorption feature have been observed in disk-integrated spectra of Rhea and other icy satellites in the Saturnian system. However, as of to date, there has been no satisfactory explanation for the 184 nm absorption feature. Cassini UVIS reflectance spectra are compared with modelled spectra derived using far-UV spectra of thin-ice specimens collected in laboratory experiments and Hapke theory. The results of the modelling show that the UVIS observations can be modelled by two molecules: simple chloromethanes beneath a layer of water ice or hydrazine monohydrate mixed in solid phase with water ice. A detailed analysis based on the astrochemistry and geomorphology of Rhea and Dione show that chloromethane molecules on their surfaces is difficult to explain, since their presence would require active subsurface oceans and an extensive network of fractures through their thick ice shells. On the other hand, hydrazine monohydrate is easier to explain since it can be produced via irradiation of ammonia ice by energetic particles originating from Saturn’s magnetosphere environment. It is also shown in the research that hydrazine can also be produced on Saturn’s largest moon Titan by irradiation of ammonia ice, or by chemical reactions involving water-ice and solid ammonia ice. Several possible alternative scenarios based on an analysis of both sinks and sources of chloromethane molecules and hydrazine are presented in this thesis.
Complete Analysis of Baryon Magnetic Moments in 1/N_c
Creators: name: Lebed, Richard F.
name: Martin, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generate a complete basis of magnetic moment operators for the N_c = 3 ground-state baryons in the 1/N_c expansion, and compute and tabulate all associated matrix elements. We then compare to previous results derived in the literature and predict additional relations among baryon magnetic moments holding to subleading order in 1/N_c and flavor SU(3) breaking. Finally, we predict all unknown diagonal and transition magnetic moments to <= 0.15 mu_N accuracy, and suggest possible experimental measurements to improve the analysis even further.
description: 28 pages (including 11 tables), ReVTeX. One reference and grant acknowledgment added
Seeing Around Corners with Edge-Resolved Transient Imaging
Creators: name: Rapp, Joshua
name: Saunders, Charles
name: Tachella, Julián
name: Murray-Bruce, John
name: Altmann, Yoann
name: Tourneret, Jean-Yves
name: McLaughlin, Stephen
name: Dawson, Robin M. A.
name: Wong, Franco N. C.
name: Goyal, Vivek K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is a rapidly growing field seeking to form images of objects outside the field of view, with potential applications in search and rescue, reconnaissance, and even medical imaging. The critical challenge of NLOS imaging is that diffuse reflections scatter light in all directions, resulting in weak signals and a loss of directional information. To address this problem, we propose a method for seeing around corners that derives angular resolution from vertical edges and longitudinal resolution from the temporal response to a pulsed light source. We introduce an acquisition strategy, scene response model, and reconstruction algorithm that enable the formation of 2.5-dimensional representations -- a plan view plus heights -- and a 180$^{\circ}$ field of view (FOV) for large-scale scenes. Our experiments demonstrate accurate reconstructions of hidden rooms up to 3 meters in each dimension.
description: Includes manuscript (14 pages) and supplement (24 pages)
Orbital ordering and frustrations
Creators: name: Khomskii, Daniel
name: Mostovoy, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An orbital ordering occurs in many transition metal compounds with Jahn-Teller ions and plays an important role in these materials. At the same time, exchange interactions in orbitally degenerate systems are inherently frustrated, even in materials with simple crystal lattices. We discuss the origin of this frustration, considering in detail materials with a cubic and triangular lattice of transition metal ions. We also discuss possible types of ground states of such systems, e.g., disordered orbital liquids and ordering due to the order-from-disorder mechanism.
description: 6 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
POL'NOHOSPODARSKA POLITIKA A INFORMACIE V PROCESE EKONOMICKEJ A POLITICKEJ GLOBALIZACIE
AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND INFORMATION IN THE PROCESS OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION
Creators: name: KABAT, Ladislav
name: KABAT, Ladislav
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: agricultural development strategy
subject: regional aspects of the agriculture
subject: statistical data collection
subject: agriculture production and food statistics
subject: family income/expenditure surveys
subject: input-output surveys

description: The world agriculture and food production sector is frequently discussed as a strategic component of the world food supply chain. The estimated 800 millions undernourished people all over the world are underlying the social and political role and responsibility of this sector. According to the available statistics, overwhelming majority of the undernourished people live in the developing countries. However, agriculture and food production is not only a problem of these countries. The developed countries as well as the countries in transition should study their own food production situation carefully, too. For this, some additional statistical information is needed. To derive such information it is needed to use some more sophisticated and purposefully focused statistical surveys (income/expenditure surveys). The average figures on country, or regional level are not sufficient. According to the available statistical information, there is a sufficient amount of food available for the total population of the world. However, the more detailed study and better understanding of the statistics are showing the extremely high inequality in food distribution and access to food. While some highly developed countries are faced with the problem of food abundance, there are many developing countries faced with severe shortage in access to food. It should be underlined that the problem of access to food and/or shortage of food cannot be interpreted as a production problem only. This problem should be studied rather as a consequence of the insufficient availability of the financial means for obtaining the adequate volume of food. This means the strategy for the future development in the agriculture and food sector -how much to produce and where- should be based on the qualified and detailed knowledge of the appropriate explanatory variables.
The multiple spectroscopic and photometric periods of DI Cru (=WR 46)
Creators: name: Oliveira, Alexandre S.
name: Steiner, J. E.
name: Diaz, M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an effort to determine the orbital period of the star DI Cru, we made photometric and spectroscopic observations of this object between 1996 and 2002. The star is highly variable on short (few hours) as well as on long (few months) time-scales. The optical spectrum is rich in strong emission lines of high ionization species. Temporal Variance Spectrum - TVS - analysis shows that the He II 4686A line has P Cyg-like variable absorption, while NV 4603/19A lines have a strong and broad variable component due to the continuum fluorescence from a source (stellar atmosphere/optically thick wind) of variable temperature. We also show that the object has variable degree of ionization, probably caused by wind density variation. The star presents multiple periods in radial velocity and photometry. We derived, from our data, a main radial velocity period of 0.3319 d with an amplitude of K = 58 km/s. When at intermediate brightness level, this period is also seen in the photometric measurements. When the star is at bright phase, the photometric variations do not present the same period. Photometric periods ranging from 0.154 to 0.378 d are present, consistent with observations reported by other authors. Besides the 0.3319 d period other spectroscopic periods are also seen. On distinct epochs, the periods are different; Marchenko et al. (2000) interpreted the 0.3319 d period as the orbital one. Although we do not discard this possibility, the true binary nature (e.g. long term coherence or detection of a secondary star) has not yet been demonstrated. DI Cru is a Population I WR object. Given the similarities (e.g. multiple periods likely due to non-radial oscillations), it could be interpreted as a luminous counterpart of the qWR star HD 45166.
description: 27 pages, 9 EPS figures, accepted for publication in PASP
EKONOMICKY RAST A JEHO VPLYV NA VYZIVU OBYATEL'STA
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ITS IMPACT ON THE FOOD CONSUMPTION
Creators: name: SOJKOVA, Zlata
name: MATEJKOVA, Eva
name: SOJKOVA, Zlata
name: MATEJKOVA, Eva
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: food consumption
subject: gross national product
subject: developed and developing countries
subject: common tendencies
subject: elasticity

description: This paper verifies hypothesis of the food consumption dependence on a level of the country economic development. The level of the development is measured in terms of Gross National Product per capita and year. Based on the cross sectional data for 50 developed and 116 developing countries, lin-log regression models are estimated to investigate the dependence per capita dietary energy, intake of animal and vegetable energy and consumption of meat, milk and milk products and cereals on the GNP. In the models, dummy variable and interaction term were included. The results from analysis showed that per capita dietary energy and the intake of vegetable origin energy depends only on the level of GNP per capita and does not depend on the group of countries. Intake of animal product energy was statistically significantly dependent on the level of GNP. The average level of their intake is significantly different in the two groups of countries. It is characteristic for the consumption of both animal commodities: meat, milk and milk products. The cereal consumption is different for the two groups of countries. In developed countries, can be classified as inferior goods as their consumption significantly decreases with the increasing level of GNP. Developing countries whilst in the changes in cereal consumption with a variance of GNP were not evident.
The Pattern Speeds of M51, M83 and NGC 6946 Using CO and the Tremaine-Weinberg Method
Creators: name: Zimmer, P.
name: Rand, R. J.
name: McGraw, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In spiral galaxies where the molecular phase dominates the ISM, the molecular gas as traced by CO emission will approximately obey the continuity equation on orbital timescales. The Tremaine-Weinberg method can then be used to determine the pattern speed of such galaxies. We have applied the method to single-dish CO maps of three nearby spirals, M51, M83 and NGC 6946 to obtain estimates of their pattern speeds: 38 +/- 7 km/s/kpc, 45 +/- 8 km/s/kpc and 39 +/- 8 km/s/kpc, respectively, and we compare these results to previous measurements. We also analyze the major sources of systematic errors in applying the Tremaine-Weinberg method to maps of CO emission.
description: 33 pages, figures already in pdf. To appear in 2004 ApJ 607 285
title: A Taxonomy and Process for Structured Innovation, Creative Problem Solving and Opportunity Creating
Creators: name: Moran, Stephen William
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: Myriad problem-solving techniques exist, but the literature indicates that people and organisations lack appreciation of the range and nature of the techniques available, and do not fully understand the use, value and potential of such techniques. A more profound understanding of the role that different types of problem-solving technique can play and how they can be deployed more effectively in creativity and innovation processes would form a sound basis for the improvement of creative practices and innovation processes within organisations. This research aims to provide the means to improve innovation and creative problem solving by using more effective matching of participants’ cognitive styles to the techniques available. In order to achieve synergy in the relationship between the techniques and their users, this research examined the contribution that techniques make to the creative problem solving cycle, and the degree of creativity they encourage was explored first through a review of the relevant literature. This resulted in a novel classification of the techniques and the cognitive skills involved in creative problem solving. The relationship between people and techniques was investigated through a set of experiments in which individuals and groups undertook problem-solving exercises and responded to a questionnaire to evaluate their experience of the exercise. Participants’ preferred cognitive styles were determined so that problem-solving techniques could be selectively assigned to align with or be opposed to their preferred cognitive styles. Results were analysed using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The cognitive styles provided parameters for a taxonomic framework for the techniques. An improved approach to describing personalities based on a continuum of cognitive abilities instead of a set of discrete cognitive styles was a further outcome of this work. The results demonstrate that people show significant preference for problem-solving activities and techniques that are in accord with their preferred cognitive styles. A key conclusion is that people who follow such an approach will improve their ideation productivity in terms of quantity and novelty and will gain more satisfaction from their experience than those who do not. Analysis of the purpose of creative problem solving techniques and the cognitive styles that such techniques encourage, revealed synergy between paradigms used by psychologists and those used by technologists. The synergy between paradigms established a platform for a new creative problem-solving strategy.
Off-Axis Properties of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Janka, H. -Th.
name: Aloy, M. -A.
name: Mazzali, P. A.
name: Pian, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on recent models of relativistic jet formation by thermal energy deposition around black hole-torus systems, the relation between the on- and off-axis appearance of short, hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is discussed in terms of energetics, duration, average Lorentz factor, and probability of observation, assuming that the central engines are remnants of binary neutron star or neutron star-black hole mergers. As a consequence of the interaction with the torus matter at the jet basis and the subsequent expansion of the jets into an extremely low-density environment, the collimated ultrarelativistic outflows possess flat core profiles with only little variation of radially-averaged properties, and are bounded by very steep lateral edges. Owing to the rapid decrease of the isotropic-equivalent energy near the jet edges, the probability of observing the lateral, lower Lorentz factor wings is significantly reduced and most short GRBs should be seen with on-axis-like properties. Taking into account cosmological and viewing angle effects, theoretical predictions are made for the short-GRB distributions with redshift z, fluence, and isotropic-equivalent energy. The observational data for short bursts with determined redshifts are found to be compatible with the predictions only if either the intrinsic GRB rate density drops rapidly at z>1, or a large number of events at z>1 are missed, implying that the subenergetic GRB 050509b was an extremely rare low-fluence event with detectable photon flux only because of its proximity and shortness. It appears unlikely that GRB 050509b can be explained as an off-axis event. The detection of short GRBs with small Lorentz factors is statistically disfavored, suggesting a possible reason for the absence of soft short bursts in the duration-hardness diagram.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures, accepted by The Astrophys. Journal; extended and revised for including referee comments
Movie SM7 from Interfering with influenza: nonlinear coupling of reactive and static mitigation strategies
Creators: name: Zachreson, Cameron
name: Fair, Kristopher M.
name: Harding, Nathan
name: Prokopenko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: This movie corresponds to dynamic, geographically targeted antiviral prophylaxis with a compliance rate of 75% and a delay time of one day. Prior to pandemic onset, the population is vaccinated at a compliance rate of 70%
A terahertz molecular switch
Creators: name: Orellana, P. A.
name: Claro, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present time-dependent results describing the current through a molecular device, modeled as a complex with two active centers connected to leads under bias. We show that, at a properly adjusted external voltage, a passing terahertz electromagnetic pulse may cause a transition between states of finite and negligible current, suggesting that the system might be useful as a nanoscopic switch in the terahertz range. A phase diagram defining the bias region in which the transition takes place within a short time is given. As described, the physical processes involved are of an entirely different nature than those in ordinary photodetectors.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett