cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Government Expenditure and Tax on Economic Growth in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Bargicho, Seida
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: This study is under taken to analyze the effect of government expenditure and tax on economic growth in Ethiopia. The objective of the study is examining which components of government expenditure and tax compositions stimulate the economy and which of them do not both in the short run and in the long run. In the descriptive part of the analysis the researcher found that the trend of both government expenditure and tax has been growing throughout the year under consideration at real term. The current government disperses the largest part of its total expenditure in the form of capital expenditure as opposed to the Derg regime where the largest part of the expenditure was distributed in the form of recurrent expenditure. From the revenue side both the Derg and EPRDF governments on average collected a larger part of their tax revenue in the form of indirect taxes. However, during the Derg regime out of the total indirect taxes domestic indirect taxes constituted the largest share and followed by import duties and taxes while the reverse is true for the current government. In the econometric analysis Co-integrated Vector Error Correction approach is applied for the identification of which components of government expenditure and tax compositions have significant effect on the Ethiopian economy, based on the Ethiopian data from the sample period of 1980/81 to 2013/14. The estimation results indicate that, in the long run current expenditure and direct taxes have negative and significant effect on the real GDP. However capital expenditure and indirect taxes have positive and significant effect on the real GDP. On the other hand, in the short run, government current expenditure, government capital expenditure and direct taxes do not have any significant meaning in explaining economic growth, whereas indirect taxes have positive and significant effect on the short run real GDP of the Ethiopian economy.
title: Reversing the Gaze: Using Indigenous and Western Worldviews to Compare Coverage of Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the News Media
Creators: name: McCrackin, Gina
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: The news media acts as an important conduit for shaping societal views of the sociopolitics of climate change. While climate change will indeed affect everyone, it will not affect everyone equally. Indigenous peoples are among the populations whose well-being is threatened the most by climate change. International scholarship finds it is not uncommon for Indigenous cultures, communities, and perspectives to be underrepresented and misrepresented in Western climate change media. Research also indicates that fair Indigenous representation occurs when Indigenous peoples are the authors of news articles themselves. We evaluated the differences in discussions of climate change and environmental issues in news articles from two Indigenous news publications, Indian Country Today and Navajo Times, and two Western news publications, The New York Times and The Salt Lake Tribune. We performed a comparative media analysis of news coverage of climate change, environmental issues, and Indigenous peoples during 2020 and 2021 using novel Indigenous and Western worldviews coding frameworks informed by Tribal Critical Race Theory and other literature and theory in these respective areas. Our findings indicate that Indigenous news outlets employed our Tribal Critical Race Theory media frames more often than Western news outlets did. Additionally, Indigenous and Western news outlets engage their respective cultural environmental worldviews often and holistically throughout articles. Indigenous news outlets commonly engage Western environmental worldviews, but primarily in the context of problematizing Western environmental practices, and by necessity of Western worldviews’ dominance in the United States. Conversely, Western publications engage Indigenous environmental worldviews, when they do, to highlight the urgency of environmental problems and elucidate the Indigenous perspective of a problem, but negligibly in the context of positioning solutions to environmental problems. This content analysis contributes to a better understanding of Indigenous and Western worldviews and the media, settler colonialism, and climate change from Indigenous and Western perspectives. Utilizing theory-informed Indigenous worldviews media frames challenges the recurrent Western gaze on Indigenous peoples within academia. Overall, this research responds to a critical call for sociologists to engage more deeply with settler colonialism, Indigenous issues, and intersectional environmental justice.
The Impact of Human Resources Management Practices on Job Performance: The Mediating Effect of Organizational Culture
Creators: name: Ghaleb Alharbi, Mastura Jaafar
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Human resource management practices
Job performance
Organizational culture
Saudi Customs Authority

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10I: 1-18
Intelligence with little reason : a semantic free, vision based mobile robot architecture
Creators: name: Byrne, Julian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Determinants of collective action in irrigation water management for canal irrigation schemes managed by local water user associations in Ethiopia: The case of Dura, Laelay Logometi and Dibdebo in Central Tigray
Creators: name: Emaelaf, Kaleab
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Collective action for managing common pool resources is a vital element with many appropriation and provision problems. Challenges of ensuring collective action forces us to identify the determinants of collective action. This study identifies what determines participation of collective action for small scale irrigation farmers using canal irrigation in Central Tigray. It also addresses determinants of intensity of collective action participation given the farmers participate. The study uses Multivariate probit regression to find the determinants of collective action using a cross-sectional data from 240 observation. These observation collected were from Dura, Laelay Logometi and Dibdebo which are kebeles found in the Central Tigray Zone. This survey was conducted in 2016 referring to 2007 E.C. The findings show that determinants of collective action differ according to measurements of collective action; but labour force in the household, income earned from irrigation farming, membership in community organization, age of dam, distance to all weather road and perception of rainfall adequacy affect participation of an irrigation farmer in collective action positively. Heckman sample selection was used to measure intensity of participation in collective action resulting the different determinants to different intensity measurements but age of dam affected intensity of participation positively while size of irrigation dam had different sign with different measurements of intensity. Hence policy makers should take into account the determinants of collective action when designing irrigation projects
The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Balance of Payments of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Hagos, Adiam
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: The study started up with the objective to investigate the impact of trade liberalization on the balance of payments. In this endeavor, time series econometrics was applied to examine the relationship between trade liberalization and the balance of payments of Ethiopia. OLS was used to obtain the long run relationship between the variables after checking the stationary of the variables under consideration. The existence of long run relationship was also tested by conducting an Augmented Dicky Fuller (ADF) test on the error term from the regression run to obtain the long run relationship. Furthermore, the adjustment of the short run fluctuations to the long run equilibrium was found using an Error Correction Model (ECM). The result of the regression was that the coefficient of the lagged error term was found to be statistically significant. The short run disequilibrium was found to adjust itself in less than a year. In addition different tests were conducted to test for the existence of hetroskedasticity, misspecification and autocorrelation along with tests for the existence of ARCH. The results of the tests showed that none of these problems that would have made the results of the regression unreliable exist. The results of the study showed that, the trade liberalization measures adopted by Ethiopia have led to the deterioration of the balance of payments. The other indicator that was adopted to capture the effect of trade liberalization on the balance of payments was the ratio of foreign trade tax revenue to value of total international trade. The result of the regression was that there was a statistically insignificant relationship between the variables
Study of n-n correlations in d + 2H --> p + p + n + n reaction
Creators: name: Konobeevsky, E.
name: Kasparov, A.
name: Mordovskoy, M.
name: Zuyev, S.
name: Lebedev, V.
name: Spassky, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A kinematically complete measurement of the four-body breakup reaction d+2H-->2ps+2ns --> p +p +n +n has been performed at 15 MeV deuteron beam of the SINP MSU. The two protons and neutron were detected at angles close to those of emission of 2ps and 2ns systems. The energy of singlet dineutron state was determined by comparing experimental TOF spectrum of breakup neutrons with simulated spectra depending on this energy. A low value Enn = 0.076 +/- 0.006 keV obtained by fitting procedure apparently indicates an effective enhancement of nn-interaction in the intermediate state of studied reaction.
description: Sent to Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Educational and Professional Attitudes of Kazakhstan and Russia Youth People
Creators: name: M.K. Shnarbekova, A.S. Nikitina
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education
Educational environment
Youth
Values
Attitudes.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10J: 1-10
Obtaining Organically Pure Milk Using Natural Highly Activated Zeolites from Deposits in the European Zone of Russia
Creators: name: Svetlana Dezhatkina, Natalia Feoktistova
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Feed supplement
Organic products
Zeolite
Amino acids
Cow milk
Cow blood
Cow metabolism system
Morpho-biochemical parameters

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10K: 1-13
Impact of Organizational Politics on Job Performance and Job Satisfaction with Moderating Role of Emotional Intelligence
Creators: name: Muhammad Furqan Shahzad, Mobashira Alvi
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Public Sector
Health Sector
Job Security
Job Fulfillment
Organizational Norms
Working Environment
Emotional Stability

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10L: 1-10
The Devaluation of Ethiopian Currency: What have we Learned? Vector Error Correction Model (VECM)
Creators: name: Jiffara, Abdisa
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Ethiopia is a small open economy and has been applying exchange rate devaluation as policy instrument repeatedly. The focus of this study was to look into the theoretical and empirical relationship between Ethiopian currency devaluation, trade balance, Inflation, External debt servicing, and Economic growth so as to draw constructive lessons. The study employed trend analysis along with Econometric analysis such as Johnson co-integration, Vector Error correction model (VECM), Granger causality tests, impulse response function, and forecast error variance decomposition to analysis long run and short-run relationship between variables. These model was estimated using quarterly data for the period ranging from 1992Q2 to 2017Q4. Depending on trend analysis and the results from econometric tools, this thesis confirmed the hypothesis that currency devaluation will lead to inflationary and high external debt servicing. However, it rejected the hypothesis that currency devaluation will boost economic performance and allow a stable trade balance. It is crystal clear that huge inflation and huge external debt servicing are the burdens for the Economy. Similarly, low economic performance and unstable trade balance are bad news too. Ultimately, the thesis argued that the Devaluation of Birr is inappropriate policy instrument for the Ethiopian economy yet.
An orientation study optimized for the validation and on-site implementation of mycoremediation pilots of soil polluted with TPH
Creators: name: Chicca, Ilaria
name: Zaoui, Caroline
name: Thannberger, Laurent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Poster presented by project partner Caroline Zaoui, from Novobiom, during the event “Innovative solutions for in situ diagnostic & monitoring, for polluted sites and soil management”, celebrated on November 9th-10th in Bordeaux (France).
description: This project has received funding from the LIFE Programme of the European Commission under contract number LIFE20 ENV/ES/000416.
KMO and Bartlett's Test for Components of Workers' Working Motivation and Loyalty at Enterprises in Dong Nai Province of Vietnam
Creators: name: Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, Nguyen Van Tan
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Working
Motivation
Loyalty
Enterprises
Business
Salary and benefits
Training and development
Support from leaders and colleagues
Corporate culture
Work environment and evaluation of work results.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10M: 1-11
Utilisation of product water from mechanical thermal expression processing of Latrobe Valley brown coals
Creators: name: Butler, Craig John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Space- and Time-resolved Resistive Measurement of Liquid Metal Wall Thickness
Creators: name: Mirhoseini, S. M. H.
name: Volpe, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a fusion reactor internally coated with liquid metal, it will be important to diagnose the thickness of the liquid at various locations in the vessel, as a function of time, and possibly respond to counteract undesired bulging or depletion. The electrical conductance between electrodes immersed in the liquid metal can be used as a simple proxy for the local thickness. Here a matrix of electrodes is shown to provide spatially resolved measurements of liquid metal thickness in the absence of plasma. First a theory is developed for mxn electrodes, and then it is experimentally demonstrated for 3x1 electrodes. The experiments were carried out with Galinstan, but are easily extended to Lithium or other liquid metals.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Dairy Productivity of the Azerbaijanian Buffalo Breed under the Conditions of the Duane-S Farm
Creators: name: Ganbar Gara Ogly Abdullayev, Urfan Turan Ogly Turabov
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Azerbaijan buffalo
Buffalo milk
Milk yield
Udder
Milk fat
Milk protein
Live weight
Udder shape.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10O: 1-11
Joint Transceiver and Power Splitter Design Over Two-Way Relaying Channel with Lattice Codes and Energy Harvesting
Creators: name: Wen, Zhigang
name: Wang, Shuai
name: Fan, Chunxiao
name: Xiang, Weidong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This letter considers a compute-and-forward two-way relaying channel with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. Specifically, two single-antenna users exchange information via a multi-antenna relay station based on nested lattice codes. Meanwhile, wireless energies flow from the relay to users for circuit consumption and uplink transmission. Based on this model, an optimization problem is formulated to minimize the transmit power at relay, while guaranteeing the minimal transmission rate at each user. To solve the problem, we propose an efficient iterative algorithm to jointly optimize the transmitter, receiver and power splitter, based on semi-definite relaxation and semi-definite programming. Numerical results of relay transmission powers validate our analysis.
description: This version corrects some errors in the published letter
Measures for Priority Robotization of Agriculture in Remote Regions
Creators: name: V.I. Nabokov, E.N. Yalunina
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Robotization
Territorial aspects
Agriculture
Density of robotization
Robotics
Regions
Federal districts

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10P: 1-7
Determinants of Banks Liquidity and their Impact on Financial Performance: empirical study on commercial banks in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tesfaye, Tseganesh
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: Liquidity can be defined as the ability of a financial institution to meet all legitimate demands for funds (Yeager and Seitz 1989). The aim of this paper is therefore on twofold: firstly to identify determinants of commercial banks liquidity in Ethiopia and then to see the impact of banks liquidity up on financial performance through the significant variables explaining liquidity. Balanced fixed effect panel regression was used for the data of eight commercial banks in the sample covered the period from 2000 to 2011. Eight factors affecting banks liquidity were selected and analyzed. The results of panel data regression analysis showed that capital adequacy, bank size, share of non-performing loans in the total volume of loans, interest rate margin, inflation rate and short term interest rate had positive and statistically significant impact on banks liquidity. Real GDP growth rate and loan growth had statistically insignificant impact on banks liquidity. Among the statistically significant factors affecting banks liquidity capital adequacy and bank size had positive impact on financial performance whereas, non-performing loans and short term interest rate had negative impact on financial performance. Interest rate margin and inflation had negative but statistically insignificant impact on financial performance. Therefore, the impact of bank liquidity on financial performance was non-linear/positive and negative.
The Effectiveness of Youth Policy in Russian Regions: Problems and Solutions in the Context of Digitalization
Creators: name: Olga Boris, Valentina Parakhina
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Youth
Public authority
Legislation
Youth policy
Stavropol Territory
Russia
Digitalization.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10Q: 1-9
An investigation of the effects of switching on overvoltages in high voltage power systems
Creators: name: Brown, James Isles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Data Mining Tools with their Effective Roles in Supporting the Decision-Making Process in Banks and Financial Sectors: A Critical Review Study
Creators: name: Hawazen Awad Metair, Ibrahim M. M. El Emary
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Information harvesting
Data mining tools
Knowledge management
Artificial intelligence
Banking decision making
Financial institutions

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10R: 1-11
Technologies of Digital Social Control of Public Authorities in Modern Russia: Sociological Analysis
Creators: name: Alena S. Nikitina, Natalia G. Chevtaeva
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Social control
Digitalization
Civil society
Authorities
Government
Electronic social control.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10S: 1-11
title: The Effect of Species Choice, Seed Mix Composition, and Microtopography on Native Plant Restoration in Great Salt Lake Wetlands
Creators: name: Hebert, Coryna
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Wetlands are important ecosystems that improve water quality, prevent floods, and provide wildlife habitat. As such, restoring native plants that promote wetland health is a high priority for land managers. However, there are many challenges to the restoration of native plants. In our study system (Great Salt Lake wetlands), many areas are invaded by the European grass, Phragmites australis. Phragmites grows in dense stands and displaces native plants. The reduction of native plant communities in Great Salt Lake wetlands is a major concern because these ecosystems provide habitat for millions of native birds. Managers have made successful efforts to reduce large stands of Phragmites, but native plant communities do not often return on their own. To address this issue, seeding wetlands with native species is a promising strategy due to the large scale of restoration needed. Seeding is challenging because water levels can be unpredictable in wetlands, and invasive species can spread to restoration sites. To improve seeding success, we investigated several restoration strategies novel to our system. Our first strategy was to identify native species that could establish in a broader range of environmental conditions (particularly soil moisture). These species included perennial grasses and bulrushes that provide high quality avian habitat and forbs that were expected to germinate and establish faster than bulrushes and sedges. We also tested different compositions of species in seed mixes. We found two annual species, Bidens cernua (nodding beggartick) and Rumex maritimus (goldendock), established across a range of moisture conditions and out-performed other natives when sown in a mix. Distichlis spicata (saltgrass) had the greatest success of all perennial graminoids (grasslike species) and established at higher rates than other natives in a field setting. Our final restoration strategy was to implement artificial microtopography (elevation change at the scale of individual plants
Cast and Self Shadow Segmentation in Video Sequences using Interval based Eigen Value Representation
Creators: name: M, Chandrajit
name: R, Girisha
name: T, Vasudev
name: B, Ashok C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tracking of motion objects in the surveillance videos is useful for the monitoring and analysis. The performance of the surveillance system will deteriorate when shadows are detected as moving objects. Therefore, shadow detection and elimination usually benefits the next stages. To overcome this issue, a method for detection and elimination of shadows is proposed. This paper presents a method for segmenting moving objects in video sequences based on determining the Euclidian distance between two pixels considering neighborhood values in temporal domain. Further, a method that segments cast and self shadows in video sequences by computing the Eigen values for the neighborhood of each pixel is proposed. The dual-map for cast and self shadow pixels is represented based on the interval of Eigen values. The proposed methods are tested on the benchmark IEEE CHANGE DETECTION 2014 dataset.
description: 6 pages journal article
Interactivity and interactive video-on-demand
Creators: name: Branch, Philip Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Implications of climate change and adaptation strategies for household food security: Evidence from panel data in the Nile basin of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Seifemichael, Robel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: This study identifies factors that determine decision on adoption of individual/combinations of climate change adaptation strategies. It also investigates whether the type and combination of climate change adaptation practices adopted have significant effect on food security of farm households' and analyzes the possible differences between adopters and non-adopters. The study uses a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of farmers' choice of individual/combinations of climate change adaptation strategies and their impacts on household food security index using panel data collected from 909 farm households in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. The study has the following three main findings. First, factors that determine the adoption decisions vary across individual/packages of adaptation practices under investigation. Secondly, adoption of climate change adaptation strategies improves the food security of farm households and the highest improvement is achieved when adaptation strategies are adopted in combination rather than in isolation. Lastly, those households who adopt have the advantage of becoming food secure than the non-adopter farm household. Moreover, for farm households who applied the adaptation strategies analyzed, except application of crop rotation in isolation, their food security improved and the likelihood of being food secure increased as farm households adopt practices jointly in their farm plot than adopting in isolation or not adopting at all. Hence, policy makers and other stakeholders should work by promoting the use of combinations of climate change adaptation technologies and also providing households with all the necessary inputs to enhance household food security in the study area. Key Words: Food Security Index, multinomial endogenous switching, Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
Overcoming Student's Reading Fluency Difficulties with the Oral Reading Fluency Learning Model during a Pandemic
Creators: name: Chandra, Rahman
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pauses
Intonation
Expressions
Reading development
Elementary school
Education.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10T: 1-12
Symmetry Energy III: Isovector Skins
Creators: name: Danielewicz, Pawel
name: Singh, Pardeep
name: Lee, Jenny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isoscalar density is a sum of neutron and proton densities and isovector is a normalized difference. Here, we report on the experimental evidence for the displacement of the isovector and isoscalar surfaces in nuclei, by $\sim$$0.9 \, \text{fm}$ from each other. We analyze data on quasielastic (QE) charge exchange (p,n) reactions, concurrently with proton and neutron elastic scattering data for the same target nuclei, following the concepts of the isoscalar and isovector potentials combined into Lane optical potential. The elastic data largely probe the geometry of the isoscalar potential and the (p,n) data largely probe a relation between the geometries of the isovector and isoscalar potentials. The targets include $^{48}$Ca, $^{90}$Zr, $^{120}$Sn and $^{208}$Pb and projectile incident energy values span the range of (10-50)$\,\text{MeV}$. In our fit to elastic and QE charge-exchange data, we allow the values of isoscalar and isovector radii, diffusivities and overall potential normalizations to float away from those in the popular Koning and Delaroche parametrization. We find that the best-fit isovector radii are consistently larger than isoscalar and the best-fit isovector surfaces are steeper. Upon identifying the displacement of the potential surfaces with the displacement of the surfaces for the densities in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock calculations, and by supplementing the results with those from analysing excitation energies to isobaric analog states in the past, we arrive at the slope and value of the symmetry energy at normal density of $70
description: 58 pages, 21 figures, 3 tables; version accepted for Nuclear Physics A
Fatigue and tensile behaviour of alloys based on Al-Mg system
Creators: name: Boyapati, Krishnamurthy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The Contribution of International Air Transport to Ethiopia's Tourism Sector
Creators: name: Shitemaw, Kalkidan
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: This paper examines whether there exists a relationship between tourism and air transport sectors in Ethiopia. It employs Vector Error Correction approach to assess how air transport sector contributes to tourism. It further shows the progress of the two sectors by utilizing a time series data of Ethiopia for the period 1974-2014. Impulse response and variance decomposition tests are also applied to see the interaction of tourism, air transport and economic growth in the country. The findings support the existence of relationship between the two sectors. The empirical tests further show the presence of positive and significant long run and short run relationship between tourism and air transport. Moreover the results of impulse response and variance decomposition indicate the permanent effect of air transport on tourism. The findings also point out the importance of infrastructure, economic growth, transport cost, domestic price and income of the originating country on the performance of the tourism in Ethiopia. There is also evidence that both tourism and air transport contribute to the overall growth of the economy. Thus, since the advancement in air transport leads to development of tourism both in the long run and short run, measures such as upgrading the already existing air fields, expansion of domestic airports, spreading out to new destinations and equipping the airlines with modern technology have to be considered by the authorities.
Role of Digital Transformation Skills in Enhancing the Efficiency of Job Performance
Creators: name: Mohammed Saleh Allam, Ali Ibrahim Alharbi
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Digital
Transformation
Performance
Systems
electronic systems

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 10, 13A10U: 1-10
Examensklausur ÖR: Bankenabgabe
Creators: name: Bruch, David
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 340 Recht

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: Verfassungsbeschwerde – Grundrechtsbindung des Abgabengesetzgebers – Eigentums- und Berufsfreiheit – Gesetzgebungskompetenz für hoheitliche Abgaben – Sonderabgabe – Gleichheitssatz
Computer modelling of thermal stresses in hot rolled beams
Creators: name: Boyadjiev, Ilia Ivanov
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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title: Dimensions of Visitor Movement in Parks and Protected Areas: A Holistic Look at Alternative Transportation Systems and an Exploration of Informal Trail Networks
Creators: name: Spernbauer, Bettina
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Where visitors go in parks and protected areas has effects on environmental, social, and economic conditions. As visitation to these areas increases, understanding the means by which visitors move around parks and protected areas, like shuttle buses and trails, and their respective effects is important to provide the best management practice. The first chapter of this thesis examines the wide-ranging effects of alternative transportation systems, like shuttle buses, on environmental, social, and economic conditions in parks and protected areas managed by the National Park Service. The second chapter of this thesis takes a closer look at informal, or unofficial, trail networks in an urban-proximate protected area, managed by the U.S. Forest Service, in the mountain west state of Utah.
Visitation to parks and protected areas has rapidly increased in the last decade. The predominant use of private vehicles to access these areas has led to concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, contributions to climate change, traffic congestion, and overflowing parking lots. Managers have attempted to mitigate concerns about large numbers of private vehicles in select areas using alternative transportation systems like shuttle buses. The effects of these systems are not holistically understood; the first part of this research therefore provides a comprehensive understanding of the effects of alternative transportation systems on environmental, social, and economic conditions in national parks.
Beyond roads and parking lots, increasing use results in consequences to the natural environment such as degradation of trail systems and the formation of unofficial trail networks. This is of particular concern in urban-proximate parks and protected areas because it can have negative impacts on the environments many people like to visit. The second part of this research uses field assessments, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and statistical methods to illustrate and provide management suggestions for the extensive unofficial trail networks in an urban-proximate protected area in Utah.
The Arithmetic of Supersymmetric Vacua
Creators: name: Bourget, Antoine
name: Troost, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide explicit formulas for the number of vacua of four-dimensional pure N=1 super Yang-Mills theories on a circle, with any simple gauge algebra and any choice of center and spectrum of line operators. These form a key ingredient in the semi-classical calculation of the number of massive vacua of N=1* gauge theories with gauge algebra su(n) compactified on a circle. Using arithmetic, we express that number in an SL(2,Z) duality invariant manner. We confirm our tally of massive vacua of the N=1* theories by a count of inequivalent extrema of the exact superpotential. Furthermore, we compute a formula for a refined index that distinguishes massive vacua according to their unbroken discrete gauge group.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure
Market share, Concentration and Profitability Of Ethiopian Leather Industry
Creators: name: Yeshambel, Kumlachew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: Market structure is determined by the entry and exit decisions of individual producers. These decisions are driven by past profit rate and expectations of future profits which, in turn, depend on the nature of competition within the market generally speaking. Profitability is therefore directly dependent on the market structure that the firm has been operating in the defined geographic and product market. There are two influential industrial organization hypotheses that deal with relation between market structure and firms performance. The structure-conduct-performance paradigm believed that firms' performance is highly related with the existence of concentration which directly leads to collusion among firms in the market and create monopoly power in which all the firms in the industry get monopoly profit. On the other hand, the efficiency hypotheses suggests that firms' performance is determined by efficiency gain in the market which minimizes costs and expands firms' market share so that firm with high market share (efficient) will get market power and profit rate to each firm depends on their performance. Based on these classical theories the study examines whether the SCP paradigm or the efficiency structure paradigm determines firm's performance. The study finds that the structural conduct approach holds true in Ethiopian leather industry. That means, there exists monopoly power in the industry. The concentration ratio proxy for monopoly is significant while the efficiency variable explained by the market share is insignificant. The barrier of market entry and exit is also significant which sustains the monopoly power by avoiding contestability in the domestic market. However the ten year trend of concentration dynamics has been decreasing from 66% to 33%. Thus, if this trend continues the monopoly power may not exist in the near future.
Structure–function relationship of organic semiconductors: What can we learn from (time-resolved) EPR spectroscopy?
Creators: name: Biskup, Till
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: organic electronics
organic semiconductors
time-resolved EPR spectroscopy
structure-function relatoinship
triplet states
triplet pathways

description: Organic semiconductors are increasingly important in our daily lives. Hence, gaining insights into their structure–function relationship is crucial to rationally design new materials. This is a multidisciplinary effort. Here, we present four examples of how applying time-resolved EPR (TREPR) spectroscopy to short-lived light-induced triplet states can contribute to our understanding of organic semiconductors: (i) overall orientation and degree of ordering of polymer films on substrates, (ii) detailed electronic structure of a polymer by investigating a series of building blocks with different lengths, (iii) the direct optical excitation of triplet states from the singlet ground state, completing our picture of potential triplet pathways, and (iv) identifying the building block resembling the electronic structure of the corresponding polymer. Taken together, TREPR spectroscopy of triplet states provides highly relevant insight complementary to other methods, adding to our understanding of the structure–function relationship of organic semiconductors.
Semi-automatic face segmentation for head and shoulder sequences
Creators: name: Bojić, Nada
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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title: Conservation Conflict: Rare Plant Conservation and Energy Development and Potential in the Colorado Plateau
Creators: name: Carrell, Joshua
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: The Colorado Plateau provides numerous sources of energy, particularly natural oil and gas. This energy potential is being actively extracted for consumption on both public and private lands. Elements of biodiversity (e.g., listed and sensitive plant and animal species) are distributed among all land tenures, yet the laws protecting them can vary depending if they occur on public, private, or tribal land. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the geographic ranges of threatened, endangered, and sensitive species and their relationship to land ownership to preserve habitat and conserve species populations. I developed species distribution models (SDMs) to examine the predicted geographic range of 29 rare flowering plant species in the Colorado Plateau. In addition, I used a geographic information system (GIS) and conservation planning software, Marxan, to examine how financial cost, oil and gas development, oil and gas potential, and land ownership affect plant conservation and energy extraction targets. I found that predicted rare flowering plant habitat significantly overlaps oil and gas development and potential. In this study, it was found that proper conservation targets regarding these plants could be achieved on public and tribal lands and in locations that minimize impacts on oil and gas development and extraction.
title: On the balance of drift and selection: the evolution of the Orkney vole
Creators: name: Wang, Xuejing
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 570 Life sciences; biology

description: Demography and selection have been under the spotlight for a long time in evolutionary biology. As human activities lead to increased risk of population fragmentation and biological invasion, both of which involve drastic demographic changes, the importance of advanced knowledge about the impacts of genetic drift in the short and long term is increasing. Populations on islands are ideal models to study adaptive and non-adaptive evolutionary processes simultaneously. In isolated island populations, the efficacy of purifying selection is reduced by genetic drift, leading to accumulation of deleterious variants in homozygous state, hence reduced fitness (mutation load). On the other hand, island populations often show phenotypic differences when compared to the continental populations (island syndrome), which are considered to be related to divergent selection posed by the contrast in environmental factors.
In this thesis, I used the Orkney vole (Microtus arvalis orcadensis) as my model to investigate the genomic consequences of bottlenecks and long-term isolation. The Orkney vole was introduced by Neolithic farmers from the European continent, and isolated since introduction for over 5,000 years, providing a unique opportunity to study the long-term effects of isolation in nature. In Chapter 1, I reconstructed the detailed demographic history of Orkney populations and found that Orkney voles have been through a strong bottleneck related to the introduction. I further investigated the mutation load in Orkney populations and found high fixation of potential deleterious alleles. In Chapter 2, I looked at the genomic landscape of Orkney voles and found genome-wide relaxation of purifying selection. I performed genomic tests for divergent selective sweeps, and detected signatures indicating the reduction of positive selection in Orkney voles related to their increase of body size.
The research of mutation load and selection in most species has been mainly constrained to autosomes so far. Inherited along with the autosomes, the sex chromosomes undergo disparate evolutionary paths not only because of their functions but also differences in ploidy. In Chapter 3, I first assembled the sex chromosomes of the common vole. With population genomic data, I found that the autosomes, X and Y chromosomes had different levels of genetic diversity, accumulation of deleterious alleles, and genetic responses to severe bottlenecks. Such differences are likely correlated to the ploidy of the chromosomes and sex-biased mutation rates.
Refined regularity of the blow-up set linked to refined asymptotic behavior for the semilinear heat equation
Creators: name: Ghoul, Tej-Eddine
name: Nguyen, Van Tien
name: Zaag, Hatem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K50, 35B40, 35K55, 35K57

description: We consider $u(x,t)$, a solution of $\partial_tu = Δu + |u|^{p-1}u$ which blows up at some time $T > 0$, where $u:\mathbb{R}^N \times[0,T) \to \mathbb{R}$, $p > 1$ and $(N-2)p < N+2$. Define $S \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ to be the blow-up set of $u$, that is the set of all blow-up points. Under suitable nondegeneracy conditions, we show that if $S$ contains a $(N-\ell)$-dimensional continuum for some $\ell \in \{1,\dots, N-1\}$, then $S$ is in fact a $\mathcal{C}^2$ manifold. The crucial step is to derive a refined asymptotic behavior of $u$ near blow-up. In order to obtain such a refined behavior, we have to abandon the explicit profile function as a first order approximation and take a non-explicit function as a first order description of the singular behavior. This way we escape logarithmic scales of the variable $(T-t)$ and reach significant small terms in the polynomial order $(T-t)^μ$ for some $μ> 0$. The refined asymptotic behavior yields geometric constraints of the blow-up set, leading to more regularity on $S$.
description: 27 pages
title: The Effect of Congressional Committee Assignments on National Park Annual Operating Budget Appropriations
Creators: name: Morrill, Braden T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Yearly funding for individual national parks is overseen and determined by the House Appropriations and Natural Resources Committees. This process has resulted in the National Park Service being underfunded and facing a $12 billion maintenance backlog. Congress has passed temporary funding to help reduce this backlog but has not indicated a shift in how funding decisions are made to prevent future shortfalls.
This thesis uses statistical analysis to explore how individual members of Congress are impacting funding for national Parks in their states or districts. Often congressional committee’s act on personal incentives to make funding decisions rather than basing their decisions on recommendations by experts. These results have significant implications for the future of national park funding and the role of committees in Congress.