cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Some aspects of the Franco-Italian customs union in regard to the gradual manner of its archievement
Creators: name: GRAZZI, U.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Franco-Italian Customs Union, free movement of people, capital, Italy, France
subject: F13, F15

description: The article looks at the Franco-Italian Customs Union, pointing out the advisability of preliminary agreements between groups of businessmen in the two countries and justifies the impossibility of introducing immediately complete freedom of movement for men and capital between Italy and France. In answer to certain criticisms that have recently been levelled in this respect, the author emphasises the need, if the project of the Custom Union is to be successfully carried out, to achieve a happy mean between excessive speed and undue caution. JEL: F13, F15
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 6 (1948)
Neutrinos: Windows to Planck Physics
Creators: name: Ramond, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After recalling some elegant contributions of the late Freydoon Mansouri, we turn to neutrino physics and use a {\it modicum} of grand unification to relate quark and lepton mixing matrices. We advocate an expansion for the MNS matrix, {\it à la} Wolfenstein, and argue that in a wide class of models, $θ_{13}$ is a Cabibbo mixing effect. Also the large neutrino mixing angles reflect the mass patterns of the right-handed neutrinos near the Planck scale, and provide evidence for family structure at that scale.
description: COntribution to Quantum Theory and Symmetries COnference, Univ of Cincinatti, October 2003; Latex, 11 pages
Exchange rate structure and price levels in Italy
Creators: name: BROVEDANI, B.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Foreign exchange policy, Lira, exchange rates, purchasing power parities, price levels, Italy, readjustment
subject: F31, E31

description: The article examines, within the framework of general foreign exchange policy, the different exchange rates for the lira, their reciprocal variations and their variations in regard to theoretical purchasing power parities, their disturbing influence on price levels and the resulting reactions (windfall profits, maladjustments between costs and prices, abnormal distortion of trade channels, etc.). This analysis covers the conversion rates of the lira for Government purchases and foreign grants, rates for private barter and reciprocity deals and for trade under the “franco valuta” system and under clearing agreements, as well as the exchange rates for freely negotiable foreign currencies. The importance of the measures taken in November 1947 to unify foreign exchange rates is stressed and statistically illustrated as part of the arduous task of general economic readjustment in Italy. JEL: F31, E31
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 6 (1948)
Effect of Supersymmetric Right-handed Flavor Mixing on $B_s$ decays
Creators: name: Hou, Wei-Shu
name: Nagashima, Makiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the possibility of ${\cal S}_{ϕK_S}<0$, we study the implications for $B_s$ meson system. In a specific model that realizes ${\cal S}_{ϕK_S}<0$ with large $s$-$b$ mixing, right-handed dynamics and a new CP phase, we present predictions for CP asymmetries in $B_s\to J/ψϕ$, $K^+K^-$ and $ϕγ$ decays. Even if the measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetry becomes hampered by very fast $B_s$ oscillation, a finite difference between the decay rates of $B_s$ mass eigenstates may enable the studies of CP violations with untagged data samples. Thus, studies of CP violation in the $B_s$ system would remain useful for the extraction of new physics information.
description: 7 pages, 15 figures
The banking year 1947 in Italy
Creators: name: MANCINI, M.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italian banking, credit policies, legislation, Bank of Italy, Treasury, deposits, investments
subject: G21, G28, E58

description: The event of 1947 have afforded exceptional proof of the important part played by baking activities in monetary dynamics, and have assigned a central place to credit policies in Italian economy. The present article brings up to date the information on the legislative measures and more especially the statistical data affecting the more important recent developments, covering the provisions regulating the relations between the Bank of Italy and the Treasury, the movement of bank deposits and investments in the various phases, their reciprocal inter-action, the changes that have occurred in the positions of the several groups of credit institutions, the alterations in the distribution of bank investments between the Treasury and business activities. JEL: G21, G28, E58
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 6 (1948)
Aleiodes (Aleiodes) excisus, n.sp.
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Aleiodes
Aleiodes excisus

description: Aleiodes (Aleiodes) excisus (SZÉPLIGETI 1913)
 Rhogas excisus n.sp.: SZÉPLIGETI 1913: 424 (descr. ♂, Madagascar).
 Rhogas excisus SZÉPLIGETI 1913: BRUES 1926: 381 (cat.).
 Rhogas (Aleiodes) excisus SZÉPLIGETI 1913: GRANGER 1949: 170 (key), 175 (tax., descr. ♂, Madagascar).
 Aleiodes excisus (SZÉPLIGETI 1913): SHENEFELT 1975: 1173 (tax., cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Antananarivo: Antananarivo.
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 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Distribution of shereholders among Italian joint-stock companies
Creators: name: RIENZI, E.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: G10
subject: Italian joint stock companies, distribution

description: The article, on the basis of the results of a recent statistical enquiry, analyses some aspects affecting the distribution of shareholders among Italian joint stock companies. The data, that supply general information about the situation, heretofore quite unknown, refer to December 31, 1945, and do not therefore take into account subsequent developments connected with capital increases of share companies for monetary readjustment. JEL: G10
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 6 (1948)
Improved Noisy Student Training for Automatic Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Park, Daniel S.
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Jia, Ye
name: Han, Wei
name: Chiu, Chung-Cheng
name: Li, Bo
name: Wu, Yonghui
name: Le, Quoc V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, a semi-supervised learning method known as "noisy student training" has been shown to improve image classification performance of deep networks significantly. Noisy student training is an iterative self-training method that leverages augmentation to improve network performance. In this work, we adapt and improve noisy student training for automatic speech recognition, employing (adaptive) SpecAugment as the augmentation method. We find effective methods to filter, balance and augment the data generated in between self-training iterations. By doing so, we are able to obtain word error rates (WERs) 4.2%/8.6% on the clean/noisy LibriSpeech test sets by only using the clean 100h subset of LibriSpeech as the supervised set and the rest (860h) as the unlabeled set. Furthermore, we are able to achieve WERs 1.7%/3.4% on the clean/noisy LibriSpeech test sets by using the unlab-60k subset of LibriLight as the unlabeled set for LibriSpeech 960h. We are thus able to improve upon the previous state-of-the-art clean/noisy test WERs achieved on LibriSpeech 100h (4.74%/12.20%) and LibriSpeech (1.9%/4.1%).
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables; v2: minor revisions, reference added
title: DECONSTRUCTING AN ANTHROPOCENTRIC VIEW: DRAWING ENTANGLEMENTS
Creators: name: Yam, Joyce
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biodegradation
subject: Extinction (Biology)
subject: Awareness
subject: Perspective

description: The research done during my MFA program at Emily Carr University has focused on finding strategies in the arts that reveal unseen entanglements between human and nonhuman beings and how the ‘act of being seen’ can bring about changes in human-centric dominated systems. I invite the viewer to re-think and re-imagine our social reality, while becoming aware of the complexities of deconstructing an anthropocentric worldview, and the predicament of precarious populations(1) and the inevitability of extinction cascades. The artwork aims to engage the viewer to be mindful of the issues that arise out of the precariousness of our times that shape our shared conditions of living. I have been drawn to explorations that meld and transform materials that allude to “intra-actions” and “new becomings” by creating images on an overhead projector. Documenting degradation over time allows people to notice the changes instead of accepting them as the norm. The processes and materials used in the works I have created evoke a sense of living/dying bodies, tensions and entanglements, oppressed voices overwhelmed by dominant ones, and, through the themes of absence/presence, communicate the global loss of living species. A few strategies explored through my artwork include a shift in perspective, a change in experiencing time, re-membering presences and documenting traces. These approaches raise questions around memory, loss, and the possibilities of re-making in the present with the acknowledgement of other beings, with the hope that in thinking differently will bring about a shift towards compassion and an awareness of everyone’s responsibility in this collective trouble.
ASSESSING THE CONTRIBUTION OF NIGERIAN MEDIA TO SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH NATIONAL PLANNING
Creators: name: Emeka Ugochukwu, Nwosu
Publisher: name: AYDEN JOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Assessment
Assimilation
Development
Media
National
planning
Social

description: The focus of this research is to take a review of the National Development Plans of Nigerian government, 1975 to 1980 and articulate its concept of social development and the level in which the media has been assimilated in the implementation of the policies. It therefore, explores the concepts of media, development, development planning and social development in Nigeria. It in adopts the empirical research approach to evaluate the components, achievements and failures of the Third National Development plan with generalizations to cover subsequent development plans in Nigeria. A survey of the views of residents of Akwa Ibom State, South South, and Nigeria is taken as a unit of the entire country. Responses of 300 residents are drawn from the three senatorial districts and a statistical percentage of views on each of the research questions are assessed. Recommendations are that if development plans are to achieve expected ends, the policy makers must take adequate involvement of the media to disseminate the needed information, accept a private sector driven national development plan, and institute an entirely comprehensive development plan with regulating models under the control of experts, while future development plans require the setting up of meaningful goals.
Effective theory calculation of resonant high-energy scattering
Creators: name: Beneke, M.
name: Chapovsky, A. P.
name: Signer, A.
name: Zanderighi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tests of the standard model and its hypothetical extensions require precise theoretical predictions for processes involving massive, unstable particles. It is well-known that ordinary weak-coupling perturbation theory breaks down due to intermediate singular propagators. Various pragmatic approaches have been developed to deal with this difficulty. In this paper we construct an effective field theory for resonant processes utilizing the hierarchy of scales between the mass of the unstable particle, M, and its width, Gamma. The effective theory allows calculations to be systematically arranged into a series in g^2 and Gamma/M, and preserves gauge invariance in every step. We demonstrate the applicability of this method by calculating explicitly the inclusive line shape of a scalar resonance in an abelian gauge-Yukawa model at next-to-leading order in Gamma/M and the weak couplings. We also discuss the extension to next-to-next-to-leading order and compute an interesting subset of these corrections.
description: 45 pages
Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) inopina VAN ACHTERBERG, Pholichora 1991, spec.nov
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Aleiodes
Aleiodes inopina

description: Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) inopina VAN ACHTERBERG 1991
 Pholichora inopina spec.nov: VAN ACHTERBERG 1991: 49 (key), 51 (descr. ♀, Madagascar), 87 (figs 228, 229).
 Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) inopina (VAN ACHTERBERG 1991): AREEKUL- BUTCHER & QUICKE 2011: 1409 (key), 1438 (tax., Madagascar), 1439 (figs 17A-D), 1471 (figs 37A-F: tax.), 1476 (app. 2: tax.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toliara: Antsirabe.
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 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Interst rate policy and reconstriction requirements
Creators: name: BORGATTA, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cost of money, policy, cheap money, interest rate, economic equilibrium, monetary theory
subject: E43, E52

description: The article sums up the author’s enquiries into policies aiming at lowering the cost of money. Illustrating his views by a historical and critical review of the advantages and disadvantages of such policies, he is led to conclusions substantially confirming current opinions unfavourable to a cheap money policy. However, the author does not limit his study to the present post-war period, but extends it to the whole period running from the close of the First World War down to the present day. In this long-term survey, the fundamental conditions regulating the rate of interest are shown, in so far as they determine the general economic equilibrium, and the disturbing effects caused by artificial monetary manoeuvres. Viewed against this background, the monetary theories on interest rate may seem to be reactions caused by the special monetary vicissitudes of the last thirty years, rather than the expression of general economic laws. JEL: E43, E52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 7 (1948)
Conformal Unification in a Quiver Theory and Gravitational Waves
Creators: name: Corianò, Claudio
name: Frampton, Paul H.
name: Tatullo, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of a stochastic background of gravitational waves can reveal details about first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) at a time of $10^{-13}s$ of the early universe. We specifically discuss quiver-type GUTs which avoid both proton decay and a desert hypothesis. A quiver based on $SU(3)^{12}$ which breaks at a $E=4000$ GeV to trinification $SU(3)^3$ has a much larger ($g_*=1,272$) number of effective massless degrees of freedom than the Standard Model. Assuming a FOPT for this model we investigate the strain sensitivity of this model for a wide range of FOPT parameters.
description: 19 pages, 7 Figs. Revised final version, to appear on Phys. Lett. B
A library of high resolution Kurucz spectra in the wavelength range 3000 - 10000 AA
Creators: name: Murphy, Tara
name: Meiksin, Avery
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a library of 6410 synthetic spectra with resolution Lambda/dLambda = 250,000 based on the revised Kurucz 1993 model atmospheres. The library covers the wavelength range 3000 - 10,000 AA with 54 values of effective temperature in the range 5250 - 50,000 K, 11 values of log surface gravity between 0.0 and 5.0 and 19 metallicities in the range -5.0 to 1.0. We find that, with a few caveats, the library compares well with both the original 20 AA Kurucz spectra and also with observed spectra. The library is intended for use in population synthesis and physical parameterisation of stellar spectra. We assess the suitability of the library for these tasks.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, to be published in MNRAS
Additional file 2 of Novel approaches in cancer treatment: preclinical and clinical development of small non-coding RNA therapeutics
Creators: name: Cuciniello, Rossana
name: Filosa, Stefania
name: Crispi, Stefania
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Table 1. sncRNAs in prostate cancer preclinical trials.
Enumerative problems inspired by Mayer's theory of cluster integrals
Creators: name: Leroux, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 05A15, 05C05, 05C30, 82Axx

description: The basic functional equations for connected and 2-connnected graphs can be traced back to the statistical physicists Mayer and Husimi. They play an essential role in establishing rigorously the virial expansion for imperfect gases. We survey this approach and inspired by these equations, we investigate the problem of enumerating some classes of connected graphs all of whose blocks are contained in a given class B. Included are the species of Husimi graphs (B = "complete graphs"), cacti (B = "unoriented cycles"), and oriented cacti (B = "oriented cycles"). For each of these, we consider the question of their labelled or unlabelled enumeration and of their molecular expansion, according (or not) to their block-size distributions.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures. This is the full paper version of an invited plenary talk given at the FPSAC-03 Conference in Vadstena, Sweden, June 23-27, 2003
title: Re-creating Recreation: Climbing Replicas and their Effects on the Sport
Creators: name: Brodeur, Robert
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Rock climbing
subject: Technological innovations
subject: Design
subject: Industrial Design

description: Rock climbing is a sport with a contentious relationship to technology. Technical innovation has improved safety for participants creating new styles of climbing. This allows for a wider range of climbs to be set up on natural rock that are also less invasive to the environment itself. Since it is a sport born of the outdoor movement with philosophical roots in Romanticism, technology is often regarded suspiciously. It detracts from the experience. But technology breeds innovation, and 3D scanning, and CNC technology means that increasingly, outdoor climbs are replicated out of indoor holds. A practice-based study, coupled with research into existing replica use, was undertaken with the goal of understanding how replicas are made as well as how they affect the experience of rock climbing.
When climbing outdoors, participants interact with the rocks as the shape of the rock guides their movement. Through the act of climbing, they build a relationship to the rock, however brief that may be. As indoor climbing became more popular, indoor holds became abstract from natural stone. This means climbers interact much more with hold shapers and route setters.
 Through 3D scanning, and CNC technologies, we can now near perfectly recreate popular outdoor routes out of indoor holds, bringing outdoor rock back into the gym. Replicas can invite participants to consider the rock more thoughtfully but fall short of emulating the entire experience of climbing outdoors. Ultimately, nature can’t be faked, but the replica forces the climber to consider the real outdoor stone which can help guide them to a more authentic experience. However, replicas can still ease the transition from gym to crag, remove barriers to trying climbs that might be otherwise difficult to access, and preserve climbs that might be threatened by excessive erosion or rock fall.
The E.R.P. and the problems of Italian agriculture
Creators: name: MEDICI, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Keywords: Italian agriculture, Italy, land tenure, trade balance, production, ERP, development, Marshall Plan
subject: O13, Q15, Q17

description: The article analyses some aspects of Italian agriculture, as seen in the framework of national economy: the congestion of the agricultural population, the relations between agriculture and industry, the structure and forms of land tenure, the importance of the agricultural trade balance for international trade as a whole. The author illustrates the main lines that agricultural development should follow in the next few years if a general increase of production is to be secured and insists on the need of taking immediate steps towards the solution of the more important problems facing Italian agriculture by a wise use of the E.R.Ps Funds. Special stress is laid on the need of increasing the production of fresh fruit and vegetables and the products of animal husbandry; on the execution of land reclamation and irrigation works; the improvements of conditions in mountain areas; the mechanisation of agriculture; agricultural training for the peasantry; experiment stations and research work; the organisation of agricultural producers; and the strengthening of agrarian credit. JEL: O13, Q15, Q17
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 7 (1948)
sreweight: A Stata command to reweight survey data to external totals
Creators: name: Pacifico, Daniele
name: Pacifico, Daniele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: sreweight, survey reweighting, external totals, calibration of survey data

description: This article describes sreweight, a Stata command to reweight survey data to external aggregate totals.
Calibrating survey data using iterative proportional fitting (raking)
Creators: name: Kolenikov, Stanislav
name: Kolenikov, Stanislav
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: ipfraking, mat2do, xls2row, survey, calibration, weights, raking, iterative proportional fitting

description: In this article, I introduce the ipfraking package, which implements weight-calibration procedures known as iterative proportional fitting, or raking, of complex survey weights. The package can handle a large number of control variables and trim the weights in various ways. It also provides diagnostic tools for the weights it creates. I provide examples of its use and a suggested workflow for creating raked replicate weights.
Euricania Melichar 1898
Creators: name: Xu, Chang-Qing
name: Liang, Ai-Ping
name: Jiang, Guo-Mei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ricaniidae
Euricania

description: Genus Euricania Melichar, 1898
 Euricania Melichar, 1898: 393 (Type species: Euricania ocellus Walker, 1851).
 Generic diagnosis. – Head including eyes broader than pronotum. Frons oblique, broader than long, with central, sublateral and lateral carinae. Frontoclypeal suture arched. Vertex broad and narrow, with a carina between eyes. Pronotum narrow, with a central carina. Mesonotum narrow and long, with 3 carinae: central carina straight; lateral carinae inwardly and anteriorly curved, converging closely together on anterior margin, each bifurcating outwardly near middle in a straight longitudinal carina to or near anterior margin. Tegmina transparent, moderately ampliate, somewhat elliptical; apical area with a pterostigma; apical margin about as long as anal margin; with 3 longitudinal veins arising from basal cell; R 1 and R 2 with common stem; M veins with common stem; cross veins on disc enclosing a number of irregular cellular areas on basal half; with 2 transverse lines formed by cross veins beyond middle, the inner line much angularly waved. Wings short, with 2 cross veins beyond middle and several longitudinal veins forked near apex. Hind tibiae with 2 lateral spines and 6 apical spines. Male genitalia symmetrical; phallobase with 2 spinose processes at each apical angle, ventral process twisted, directed cephalad at apex with basal part incised; genital styles with dorsal and ventral margins nearly parallel. Female genitalia symmetrical, bursa copulatrix with 2 isometric pouches: first pouch with well visible cell and sclerotized ornamentation; second pouch with numerous pores; gonaplac with teeth at inner side of apical margin.
 Distribution. – Australian, Oriental and Palaearctic regions.
description: Published as part of Xu, Chang-Qing, Liang, Ai-Ping & Jiang, Guo-Mei, 2006, The Genus Euricania Melichar (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae) From China, pp. 1-10 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (1) on page 1, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507945
On Solutions to the Nonlocal $\overline{\partial}$ Problem and (2+1) Dimensional Completely Integrable Systems
Creators: name: Nabelek, Patrik V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this short note we discuss a new formula for solving the nonlocal $\overline{\partial}$-problem, and discuss application to the Manakov--Zakharov dressing method. We then explicitly apply this formula to solving the complex (2+1)D Kadomtsev--Petviashvili equation and complex (2+1)D completely integrable generalization of the (2+1)D Kaup--Broer (or Kaup--Boussinesq) system. We will also discuss how real (1+1)D solutions are expressed using this formalism. It is simple to express the formalism for finite gap primitive solutions from [10], [8] using the formalism of this note. We also discuss recent results on the infinite soliton limit for the (1+1)D Korteweg--de Vries equation and the (2+1)D Kaup--Broer system. In an appendix, the classical solutions to the 3D Laplace equation (2+1)D d'Alembert wave equation by Whittaker are described. This appendix is included to elucidate an analogy between the dressing method and the Whittaker solutions.
Spielerische Leseförderung in der Schule mit dem Kinderbuch Oh, wie schön ist Panama
Creators: name: Odermatt, Marianne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Leseerziehung
Schulschwierigkeiten
Masterarbeit

description: In Anlehnung an mein Praxisprojekt lese ich mit einer zweiten Primarklasse das Kinderbuch „Oh, wie schön ist Panama“ von Janosch. Dabei stehen eine Förderung der Leseflüssigkeit durch ein Lautlesetraining, sowie die inhaltliche Erschliessung über vielfältige Anregungen wie Rätsel, Spiele oder Bastelarbeiten im Zentrum. Die Kinder sollen Freude am Lesen erleben. Damit alle ihrem Niveau entsprechend gefördert werden, habe ich vielfältige Arbeitsaufträge entwickelt und zusammengestellt. Der Fokus liegt sowohl auf dem verstehenden Lesen, als auch auf dem Training der Leseflüssigkeit. Ziel dieses Leseprojektes ist, den Schülerinnen und Schülern positive Leseerfahrungen zu ermöglichen und sie im weitesten Sinn für das Lesen zu begeistern.
miivfind: A command for identifying model-implied instrumental variables for structural equation models in Stata
Creators: name: Bauldry, Shawn
name: Bauldry, Shawn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: miivfind, structural equation models, instrumental-variable estimators, model-implied instrumental variables

description: This article presents a new Stata command, miivfind, that implements an algorithm developed by Bollen and Bauer (2004, Sociological Methods and Research 32: 425–452) to find the model-implied instrumental variables (MIIVs) from an identified structural equation model. MIIVs allow researchers to draw on instrumental-variable estimators, such as two-stage least-squares estimators, to obtain estimates for the parameters of a hypothesized structural equation model. It can be difficult to identify MIIVs by inspection of either a diagram of the model or the model equations. Two examples are provided that illustrate the use of miivfind to identify MIIVs and some of the advantages of a MIIV estimator as compared with a maximum likelihood estimator. By assisting in the process of finding MIIVs, miivfind facilitates the use of an alternative class of estimators, instrumental-variable estimators, to the standard maximum-likelihood and asymptotic-distribution free estimators available for structural equation models.
Additional file 1 of Mesenchymal stem/stromal cell-based therapies for severe viral pneumonia: therapeutic potential and challenges
Creators: name: Masterson, C. H.
name: Ceccato, A.
name: Artigas, A.
name: dos Santos, C.
name: Rocco, P. R.
name: Rolandsson Enes, S.
name: Weiss, D. J.
name: McAuley, D.
name: Matthay, M. A.
name: English, K.
name: Curley, G. F.
name: Laffey, J. G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Table 1. Antiviral Medications Under investigation for treatment of Influenza.
The depreciation of the peso and trade between Italy and Argentina
Creators: name: LUZZATTO, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Argentina, peso, crisis, industrialisation, foreign labour, Italy, emigration
subject: O14, J22, F31, F10

description: The article describes the main outlines of the Argentine peso crisis, pointing out its nature and origin, diagnosing it as one of the “growing pains” of a country engaged in carrying out a bold plan of rapid industrialisation, and notes that the possibilities of a favourable settlement depend largely on a more balanced development of the economic potential of the country, and on securing the necessary contribution of foreign labour forces. In the last part of the article, the author examines the economic and commercial relation between Italy and Argentina, the opportunities offered for Italian emigration, the obstacles that hinder its development, and the strictly complementary character of the Italian and Argentinian economies. JEL: O14, J22, F31, F10
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 7 (1948)
title: Appropriate assessment for resource based learning in networked environments
Creators: name: Macdonald, Janet Ruth
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2000

description: Recent advances in the use of information and communications technologies in Higher Education have led to an explosion of interest in networked learning, which offers the potential for more open ended and flexible study in an ODL context. Anew generation of resource based courses in networked environments combines access to a wide variety of resources in electronic form, with the construction and negotiation of meaning through online collaborative interaction. This study set out to establish what assessment strategies might be appropriate to support student learning in this context.

A case study of one Open University undergraduate course was undertaken over a three year period, with three cohorts of students, and the findings were compared with a short study of a second postgraduate course. The research explored perspectives on resource based learning in networked environments and highlighted aspects of assessment which appeared to support learning effectively. These findings led to the refining of assessment in later course presentations, demonstrating a successful interplay between evaluation and teaching practice.

The study has confirmed that the assessment strategy must be aligned with the exercise of self-directed learning, whilst developing information handling and online collaborative skills, and allowing scope for open-ness and flexibility in content. The extent to which these criteria for design are important will depend on the stage of development of the students, and the aims, and degree of openness of the course.The experience here shows that it is important to identify and differentiate between appropriate skills required for a course, and those which the course will seek to develop, so that the assessment can reflect these aims.
Unemployment and emigration in Italy in the light of the E.R.P. and O.E.E.C.
Creators: name: COSMO, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italian economy, labour market, unemployment, emigration, development, ERP, excess of workers
subject: E24, J22

description: The article deals with one of the most delicate aspects of the present Italian economic situation, that of the labour market seen both from the standpoint of unemployment and of emigration. The author recalls the weight and importance these two factors have had in the development of Italian economy; he makes a brief analysis of the causes that have led to the present aggravation of the situation, arising both from the upheavals due to the war and international political uncertainties, and he tries to foresee probable developments as affected by the reconstruction plans to be carried out with E.R.P. help. The author is led to the conclusion that Italy’s excess of workers presents a problem that cannot be solved by action limited to the structural changes in the Italian economy; a large current of emigration is essential, and this requires the active co-operation of the several countries concerned. JEL: E24, J22
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 7 (1948)
Rapid Evaluation of Radiation Boundary Kernels for Time-domain Wave Propagation on Blackholes
Creators: name: Lau, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For scalar, electromagnetic, or gravitational wave propagation on a fixed Schwarzschild blackhole background, we describe the exact nonlocal radiation outer boundary conditions (ROBC) appropriate for a spherical outer boundary of finite radius enclosing the blackhole. Derivation of the ROBC is based on Laplace and spherical-harmonic transformation of the Regge-Wheeler equation, the PDE governing the wave propagation, with the resulting radial ODE an incarnation of the confluent Heun equation. For a given angular index l the ROBC feature integral convolution between a time-domain radiation boundary kernel (TDRK) and each of the corresponding 2l+1 spherical-harmonic modes of the radiating wave. The TDRK is the inverse Laplace transform of a frequency-domain radiation kernel (FDRK) which is essentially the logarithmic derivative of the asymptotically outgoing solution to the radial ODE. We numerically implement the ROBC via a rapid algorithm involving approximation of the FDRK by a rational function. Such an approximation is tailored to have relative error εuniformly along the axis of imaginary Laplace frequency. Theoretically, εis also a long-time bound on the relative convolution error. Via study of one-dimensional radial evolutions, we demonstrate that the ROBC capture the phenomena of quasinormal ringing and decay tails. Moreover, carrying out a numerical experiment in which a wave packet strikes the boundary at an angle, we find that the ROBC yield accurate results in a three-dimensional setting. Our work is a partial generalization to Schwarzschild wave propagation and Heun functions of the methods developed for flatspace wave propagation and Bessel functions by Alpert, Greengard, and Hagstrom.
description: AMS article, 105 pages, 45 figures. Version 3 has more minor corrections as well as extra commentary added in response to reactions by referees. Commentary added which compares and contrasts this work with work of Leaver and work of Andersson. For publication, article has been cut in two and appears as two separate articles in J. Comp. Phys. 199 (2004) 376-422 and Class. Quantum Grav. 21 (2004) 4147-4192
title: Nonsense-mediated mRNA reduction and pre-mRNA processing in drosophila
Creators: name: Brogna, Saverio
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2000

description: From bacteria to mammalian cells, the presence of a nonsense mutation causes a reduction in the level of the mRNA of the corresponding gene. The reduction is not, contrary to initial expectations, due to a passive mechanism by which non translated mRNAs are degraded; rather it is a active process in which active translation, cis-acting sequences and specific trans-acting factors are required. It is generally accepted that this phenomenon is the consequence of an evolutionary conserved mechanism that evolved to protect cells from the potentially deleterious effect of truncated proteins - this is often referred to as the mRNA surveillance system or nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD). This phenomenon has been extensively studied in budding yeast and in mammalian systems and to a lesser extent in C. elegans. In yeast the recognition of the nonsense codon appears to occur during cytoplasmic translation and premature translation termination is thought to activate a specific protein complex - called the surveillance complex - which in tum triggers an accelerated decay of the aberrant mRNA.

 However, contrary to the expectation that the recognition of the nonsense codon should occur during cytoplasmic translation, several studies in mammalian cells indicate that NMD may take place in the nucleus by a mechanism that is independent of cytoplasmic translation. For example, several reports indicate that this reduction occurs while the mRNA is still associated with the nucleus, and that the stability of the cytoplasmic mRNA is unchanged relative to a wild-type allele.

 The common view in the field is that these apparently discordant results between NMD in yeast and in mammalian cells will eventually be accommodated in a single model in which translation in the cytoplasm plays a prominent role. For example, a commonly given explanation is that the recognition of the nonsense codon takes place during nuclear export, and it has been implied that the apparent effects on nuclear RNA are in fact triggered by the premature abortion of translation at the cytoplasmic side of the nuclear envelope.

 However not all the data from mammalian systems can be so easily explained by the above model. For example, several reports indicate that nonsense mutations affect the splicing of the corresponding pre-mRNA, which makes it difficult to imagine how premature translation in the cytoplasm could effect such an early event in mRNA biogenesis.
Performance of a Low Noise Front-end ASIC for Si/CdTe Detectors in Compton Gamma-ray Telescope
Creators: name: Tajima, H.
name: Nakamoto, T.
name: Tanaka, T.
name: Uno, S.
name: Mitani, T.
name: Silva, E. do Couto e
name: Fukazawa, Y.
name: Kamae, T.
name: Madejski, G.
name: Marlow, D.
name: Nakazawa, K.
name: Nomachi, M.
name: Oakada, Y.
name: Takahashi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compton telescopes based on semiconductor technologies are being developed to explore the gamma-ray universe in an energy band 0.1--20 MeV, which is not well covered by the present or near-future gamma-ray telescopes. The key feature of such Compton telescopes is the high energy resolution that is crucial for high angular resolution and high background rejection capability. The energy resolution around 1 keV is required to approach physical limit of the angular resolution due to Doppler broadening. We have developed a low noise front-end ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit), VA32TA, to realize this goal for the readout of Double-sided Silicon Strip Detector (DSSD) and Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) pixel detector which are essential elements of the semiconductor Compton telescope. We report on the design and test results of the VA32TA. We have reached an energy resolution of 1.3 keV (FWHM) for 60 keV and 122 keV at 0 degree C with a DSSD and 1.7 keV (FWHM) with a CdTe detector.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, IEEE style file, to appear in IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci
The housing problem in Italy
Creators: name: ALBERTI, S.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italy, housing, scarcity, rents, over-crowding, landlords, tenants, national wealth, policy
subject: O18, R12, R31

description: The article considers the other most pressing of Italian problems, i.e. the scarcity of dwellings which in Italy has much more serious features than in other Western European countries, including those that have suffered most seriously from war destructions. The author examines first the special features of the housing question in Italy since 1931, given data for the number of dwellings, new buildings, war destructions, sanitary conditions, over-crowding, internal migrations, etc., and goes on to describe some of the consequences of the legal restrictions placed on rents, as shown by the new economic and social relations between landlords and tenants, the supply of dwellings, and, above all, by the more rapid deterioration of house property, one of the more serious factors making for the destruction of national wealth. Finally, he deals with the measures taken by the government to encourage building. JEL: O18, R12, R31
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 7 (1948)
title: Studies on the epizootiology of canine cestodes particularly Taenia multiceps and ovine coenurosis
Creators: name: Williams, Bernard Milton
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1992

description: In a survey of 552 sheep flocks in Dyfed, Wales, carried out in 1973, coenurosis occurred in 375 (68%) with an estimated average annual flock incidence of between 2.5 and 3.0%. Evidence of infection with the larval stage of Taenia multiceps was found in 58/1000 (5.8%) lambs sent for slaughter. Taenia multiceps was recovered from 37/320 (11.5%) dogs on 20/100 sheep breeding farms, 3/39 (7.7%) dogs on 2/18 sheep wintering farms and 41/552 (7.4%) hounds in 4/12 packs. The frequency of cestode infection in farm dogs and hounds was closely associated with the feeding of uncooked meat and offal and the absence of regular anthelmintic treatment. Only one (0.6%) of 166 pet dogs and one (0.26%) of 387 foxes examined harboured Taenia multiceps and neither were considered to be of importance in the epizootiology of Taenia multiceps. Dogs were experimentally infected with Taenia multiceps and remained infected for up to periods of six months or longer, and up to 21 proglottids were shed each day. Rabbits and mice could not be experimentally infected with oncospheres of Taenia multiceps, but lambs which were experimentally infected with the oncospheres developed acute or chronic coenurosis. Suspensions of oncospheres in distilled water remained viable at 3 - 11°C for periods up to eight weeks, but the coenurus was viable for no longer than four days in the intact skull at 9 - 11°C. The pathogenesis of acute and chronic coenurosis, with particular reference to the clinical signs, clinical pathology, pathology and immunology, was studied in experimentally infected lambs and selected field cases of the disease.
Stable variation in multidimensional competition
Creators: name: Kauhanen, Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Fundamental Theorem of Language Change (Yang, 2000) implies the impossibility of stable variation in the Variational Learning framework, but only in the special case where two, and not more, grammatical variants compete. Introducing the notion of an advantage matrix, I generalize Variational Learning to situations where the learner receives input generated by more than two grammars, and show that diachronically stable variation is an intrinsic feature of several types of such multiple-grammar systems. This invites experimentalists to take the possibility of stable variation seriously and identifies one possible place where to look for it: situations of complex language contact.
description: 28 pages, 14 figures
Conformal window from conformal expansion
Creators: name: Lee, Jong-Wan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the conformal window of asymptotically free gauge theories containing $N_f$ flavors of fermion matter transforming to the vector and two-index representations of $SO(N),~SU(N)$ and $Sp(2N)$ gauge groups. For $SO(N)$ we also consider the spinorial representation. We determine the critical number of flavors $N_f^{\rm cr}$, corresponding to the lower end of the conformal window, by using the conjectured critical condition on the anomalous dimension of the fermion bilinear at an infrared fixed point, $γ_{\barψψ}=1$ or equivalently $γ_{\barψψ}(2-γ_{\barψψ})=1$. To compute the anomalous dimension we employ the Banks-Zaks conformal expansion up to the $4$th order in $Δ_{N_f}=N_f^{\rm AF}-N_f$ with $N_f^{\rm AF}$ denoting the onset of the loss of asymptotic freedom, where we show that the latter critical condition provides a better performance along with this conformal expansion. To quantify the uncertainties in our analysis, which potentially originate from nonperturbative effects, we propose two distinct approaches by assuming the large order behavior of the conformal expansion separately, either convergent or divergent asymptotic. In the former case, we take the difference in the Padé approximants to the two definitions of the critical condition, whereas in the latter case the truncation error associated with the singularity in the Borel plane is taken into account. Our results are further compared to other analytical methods as well as lattice results available in the literature. In particular, we find that $SU(2)$ with six and $SU(3)$ with ten fundamental flavors are likely on the lower edge of the conformal window, which are consistent with the recent lattice results. We also predict that $Sp(4)$ theories with fundamental and antisymmetric fermions have the critical numbers of flavors, approximately ten and five, respectively.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables; Version accepted for publication in PRD