cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Importance of medicine quality in achieving universal health coverage
Creators: name: Higgins, Colleen R.
name: Nwokike, Jude I.
name: Hajjou, Mustapha
name: Pribluda, Victor S.
name: Evans, Lawrence
name: Ozawa, Sachiko
name: Yemeke, Tatenda T.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Year: 2020

description:
OBJECTIVE: To assess the importance of ensuring medicine quality in order to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). METHODS: We developed a systems map connecting medicines quality assurance systems with UHC goals to illustrate the ensuing impact of quality-assured medicines in the implementation of UHC. The association between UHC and medicine quality was further examined in the context of essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by analyzing data on reported prevalence of substandard and falsified essential medicines and established indicators for UHC. Finally, we examined the health and economic savings of improving antimalarial quality in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. FINDINGS: A systems perspective demonstrates how quality assurance of medicines supports dimensions of UHC. Across 63 LMICs, the reported prevalence of substandard and falsified essential medicines was found to be negatively associated with both an indicator for coverage of essential services (p = 0.05) and with an indicator for government effectiveness (p = 0.04). We estimated that investing in improving the quality of antimalarials by 10% would result in annual savings of $8.3 million in Zambia, $14 million in Uganda, $79 million in two DRC regions, and $598 million in Nigeria, and was more impactful compared to other potential investments we examined. Costs of substandard and falsified antimalarials per malaria case ranged from $7 to $86, while costs per death due to poor-quality antimalarials ranged from $14,000 to $72,000. CONCLUSION: Medicines quality assurance systems play a critical role in reaching UHC goals. By ensuring the quality of essential medicines, they help deliver effective treatments that lead to less illness and result in health care savings that can be reinvested towards UHC.
Configuration Fuzzing for Software Vulnerability Detection
Creators: name: Dai, Huning
name: Murphy, Christian
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: Many software security vulnerabilities only reveal themselves under certain conditions, i.e., particular configurations of the software together with its particular runtime environment. One approach to detecting these vulnerabilities is fuzz testing, which feeds a range of randomly modified inputs to a software application while monitoring it for failures. However, fuzz testing makes no guarantees regarding the syntactic and semantic validity of the input, or of how much of the input space will be explored. To address these problems, in this paper we present a new testing methodology called configuration fuzzing. Configuration fuzzing is a technique whereby the configuration of the running application is randomly modified at certain execution points, in order to check for vulnerabilities that only arise in certain conditions. As the application runs in the deployment environment, this testing technique continuously fuzzes the configuration and checks "security invariants" that, if violated, indicate a vulnerability; however, the fuzzing is performed in a duplicated copy of the original process, so that it does not affect the state of the running application. In addition to discussing the approach and describing a prototype framework for implementation, we also present the results of a case study to demonstrate the approach's efficiency.
Alternative estimates of Japanese saving and comparisons with the U.S.: Can the capital gains to land be included in "saving?"
Creators: name: Dekle, Robert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper presents several novel measures of Japanese saving and performs a U.S.-Japan comparison. We find that if "saving" includes the capital gains to land, the two country gap is much larger than what was conventionally believed.
A seasonal cycle and an abrupt change in the variability characteristics of the intraday variable source S4 0954+65
Creators: name: Marchili, N.
name: Krichbaum, T. P.
name: Liu, X.
name: Song, H. G.
name: Gabányi, K. É.
name: Fuhrmann, L.
name: Witzel, A.
name: Zensus, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The BLLac object S4 0954+65 is one of the main targets of the Urumqi monitoring program targeting IntraDay Variable (IDV) sources. Between August 2005 and December 2009, the source was included in 41 observing sessions, carried out at a frequency of 4.8 GHz. The time analysis of the collected light curves, performed by applying both a structure function analysis and a specifically developed wavelet-based algorithm, discovered an annual cycle in the variability timescales, suggesting that there is a fundamental contribution by interstellar scintillation to the IDV pattern of the source. The combined use of the two analysis methods also revealed that there was a dramatic change in the variability characteristics of the source between February and March 2008, at the starting time of a strong outburst phase. The analysis' results suggest that the flaring state of the source coincides with the appearance of multiple timescales in its light curves, indicating that changes in the structure of the relativistically moving emitting region may strongly influence the variability observed on IDV timescales.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures and 3 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Shareholding interlocks in the Keiretsu, Japan's financial groups
Creators: name: Flath, David
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: Banks and insurance companies in Japan have been more inclined to hold stock directly and indirectly in clients that borrow more intensely from them, based on analysis of 1980 data. This evidence is consistent with the rationale for such stockholding being to resolve agency problems of debt. In carrying out this investigation a new measure of indirect shareholding is developed.
EXploring Collective Care in Research: A pilot-study with PhD Students  (#ExCCiR-PhD)
Creators: name: Célya, Gruson-Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: PhD students well-being, mixed-methods, participatory action research, interoceptive theory, digital technologies

description: Within the academic community, several studies point out that working towards a PhD is a particularly sensitive time, causing significant stress for PhD students. While some actions are being implemented to support their mental and physical health, these resources are still limited and no program has been designed  in order to implement different individual and collective support modules. This project aims to develop a well-being pilot-program for PhD students in a Participatory Action Research (PAR) perspective, The CRI ecosystem and the modules already proposed (MBSR, psycho-education) will be at the heart of this pilot program. By using mixed-methods, this study will intricate different qualitative and quantitative phases and exploit the potential of digital technologies (hardware/software) to collect social, behavioral and physiological data. After a first qualitative phase aiming to co-design with various stakeholders the content of the program as well as the research protocol to assess it. The second phase will be mainly quantitative and will compare PhD students following modules of the program or not (control group) in order to assess the impact of such a program but also to identify new relevant markers. These results will be enriched by a last qualitative phase to reflect about the implementation and adaptation of this program in other context. In addition to the socio-pedagogical benefits, this study will explore innovative perspectives in cognitive sciences on mind/body interactions as well as in social sciences by developing interdisciplinary, open and data science practices grounded in strong ethical and social reflections.
description: This project has been submitted on the 2019/01/30 to the CRI in a first version.
( Project Proposal for a long term research fellowship :  Open health – from data-rich research to development of  frugal software and hardware solutions)
 https://research.cri-paris.org/call-for-fellows/open-health-research-call/
A second version has been updated after reviewing by the CRI community and external researchers (name at the end of the  document)
Japanese investment in the border region of the United States and Mexico
Creators: name: Iaquinto, Anthony L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: Dramatic improvements in communication and transportation technologies along with the growing similarity of countries, fluid global markets, and increased competition have all contributed to the global expansion of industry (Robock & Simmonds, 1989). In an effort to enhance competitiveness, multi-national corporations (MNCs) often locate manufacturing or assembly operations wherever the mix of labor, materials, transportation, and distribution of customers could be optimized. For instance, MNCs frequently place labor intensive operations in the developing countries of Asia, in part, to reap cost savings from the significant wage differentials between those countries and their markets in more developed countries. In more recent years, however, a number of MNCs have spurned the developing countries of Asia in favor of the border region between the U.S. and Mexico.
title: Die Folgen der Dynamik im Einzelhandel für die Beschäftigung : Eine Analyse für die Zeit von 1960 bis 2017
Creators: name: Rafflenbeul-Schaub, Christian
name: Scholl, Guido
name: Müller-Hagedorn, Lothar
Publisher: name: Ostfalia
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 080 Allgemeine Sammelwerke

description: Weithin wird vermutet, dass sich die Dynamik des wirtschaftlichen Wandels negativ auf die Beschäftigung auswirkt. Der Beitrag widmet sich daher der Frage, ob dies auch für den Einzelhandel in der Zeit von 1960 bis heute gegolten hat. Zunächst wird die Expansion preisaggressiver Betriebsformen (Verbrauchermärkte, SB-Warenhäuser, Discounter, Fachmärkte) und der Shopping-Center ab 1960 nachgezeichnet. Danach wird der Frage nachgegangen, welchen Einfluss dies auf die Beschäftigung hatte. Zur Strukturierung der Problemstellung wird ein Strukturdiagramm entwickelt, aus dem zentrale Einflussfaktoren auf die Beschäftigung im Einzelhandel hervorgehen. Es wird überprüft, welcher Einfluss von den Marktanteilsgewinnen der genannten Betriebsformen auf die Beschäftigung ausgegangen ist. Aus der theoretischen Analyse und empirischen Untersuchung wird deutlich, dass die Expansion preisaggressiver Betriebsformen mit niedrigen Personalkostenquoten nicht zwangsläufig zum Beschäftigungsabbau führt. Andere Faktoren können dies ausgleichen, insbesondere die Ansprüche der Verbraucher in Bezug auf die Einkaufsbequemlichkeit (ein dichteres Verkaufsstellennetz und längere Öffnungszeiten). So zeigt sich, dass Dynamik im Einzelhandel auch zu Beschäftigungswachstum führen kann.
description: EXPLORATIONEN, 1
Improved QCD Sum-Rule Approach to Heavy-Meson Decay Constants
Creators: name: Lucha, Wolfgang
name: Melikhov, Dmitri
name: Simula, Silvano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A visible improvement of the QCD sum-rule framework, achieved only recently by a slightly more sophisticated consideration of the hadron excitations and continuum, is applied to the extraction of the decay constants of heavy-light pseudoscalar mesons from two-point correlators of heavy-light pseudoscalar currents. This analysis is carried out entirely in terms of the running heavy-quark mass, for which the perturbative expansion exhibits a passable convergence. Our main concern is to gain control over both statistical and systematic uncertainties of the extracted decay constants, the former being induced by the QCD parameter values requested for input, the latter arising from the intrinsically limited accuracy of the QCD sum-rule techniques.
description: talk presented at the "2011 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics - EPS-HEP 2011", 21 - 27 July 2011, Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France, to appear in the proceedings
EXploring Collective Care in Research: A pilot-study with PhD Students  (#ExCCiR-PhD)
Creators: name: Célya, Gruson-Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: PhD students well-being, mixed-methods, participatory action research, interoceptive theory, digital technologies

description: Within the academic community, several studies point out that working towards a PhD is a particularly sensitive time, causing significant stress that affects the well-being of PhD students. While some actions are being implemented to support their mental and physical health, these actions and resources are still limited and no program has been designed and proposed in order to implement different individual and collective support modules.

This project aims to develop a well-being pilot-program for PhD students in a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach in order to co-develop with all stakeholders concerned its content as well as the research protocol to assess it. The CRI ecosystem and the modules already proposed - in particular  positive psycho-education and Meditation-Based Stress Reduction techniques - will be at the heart of this pilot study, which will exploit the potential of digital technologies (hardware/software) to collect social, behavioral and physiological data, in order to analyze them with open and data science practices and identify relevant markers to assess its impact.

In addition to the social and pedagogical benefits, this study proposes to explore innovative perspectives in cognitive sciences on mind/body interactions and the role of interoceptive processes in emotional regulation and indirectly on well-being. This project will adopt mixed-methods (qualitative/quantitative) with the particular aim of bringing together various disciplinary fields and stakeholders and to propose a more comprehensive reflection on the necessary conditions for the implementation of an ethics of care in the context of digital and open research.
description: This project has been submitted on the 2019/01/30 to the CRI.
( Project Proposal for a long term research fellowship :  Open health – from data-rich research to development of  frugal software and hardware solutions)
 https://research.cri-paris.org/call-for-fellows/open-health-research-call/
On Flavor Symmetry in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics
Creators: name: Saidi, El Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a well established method to engineer non abelian symmetries in superstring compactifications, we study the link between the point splitting method of Creutz et al of refs [1,2] for implementing flavor symmetry in lattice QCD; and singularity theory in complex algebraic geometry. We show amongst others that Creutz flavors for naive fermions are intimately related with toric singularities of a class of complex Kahler manifolds that are explicitly built here. In the case of naive fermions of QCD$_{2N}$, Creutz flavors are shown to live at the poles of real 2-spheres and carry quantum charges of the fundamental of $[SU(2)]^{2N}$. We show moreover that the two Creutz flavors in Karsten-Wilczek model, with Dirac operator in reciprocal space of the form $iγ_1 F_1+iγ_2 F_2 + iγ_3 F_3+\frac{i}{\sin α}γ_4 F_4$, are related with the small resolution of conifold singularity that live at $\sin α=0$. Other related features are also studied.
description: LaTex, 40 pages, 8 figures
title: ZFF - Ausgabe 1 - Gesamt
Creators: name: Buchmüller, Patrik
name: Igl, Andreas
name: Köster, Murat
name: Puntus, Georg
name: Thießen, Friedrich
name: Tuder, Georg
name: ZWIRN
Publisher: name: Ostfalia
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: Ausgabe 1 - Gesamtheft Regulatorische Agenda im ersten Halbjahr 2019: Wesentliche Neuerungen und Umsetzungsprioritäten für deutsche und österreichische Banken Selektion und Kalibrierung von Kapital- und Profitabilitätsindikatoren im Sanierungsplan Non-Performing-Loans aus Sicht der Bankenaufsicht: Das Problem der Korruption Erfordert eine Überhitzung der Immobilienpreise Maßnahmen nach §48u KWG?
Sum-Rates for Wyner-type C-RAN Uplink with Inter-Connected Oblivious Radio Units
Creators: name: Shamai, Shlomo
name: Park, S.-H.
name: Simeone, Osvaldo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: 2017 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA 2017)

San Diego, CA, February 2017
SUMCASTEC_190203_NA_BangorWSPres_Workshop Presentation_.pdf_Limoges_A. Pothier_Public_NA
Creators: name: A. Pothier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Presentation given by Dr A. Pothier at the workshop on EM field interaction with biological tissues for cancer and regenerative medicine held at Bangor University, Bangor, UK on July 13th 2018. The presentation is entitled "BiCMOS integrated microfluidic cell sorting platform for CSC cell study".
Two-layer shear flows in the presence of slippage at the liquid-liquid interface
Creators: name: Katsiavria, Anna
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Two immiscible and Newtonian superposed fluid layers are sheared in a plane Couette flow configuration in two dimensions. Slippage is allowed to occur at the liquid-liquid interface and it is described through a Navier-slip type boundary condition, whilst absence of slip and impermeability are imposed at the solid walls. After the mathematical model is constructed, two approaches are followed. First, the linear stability is addressed asymptotically for the limits of long-waves, short-waves and large slip. Slip is found capable of destabilising otherwise stable long-waves and make short-waves more unstable in the absence of surface tension. Infinite slip gives rise to a novel instability, viscous analogue of the Kelvin-Helmholtz but with bounded growth rate. To account for arbitrary values of the parameters, analytical calculations are also performed and used for numerical purposes. Through them it is found that in addition to the above effects, slip also induces a Turing type instability by destabilisation of a band of finite wavenumbers. An extensive parametric study is performed to identify the role of the different parameters, i.e. viscosity ratio, surface tension, Reynolds number and interfacial depth. For the second approach, one of the layers is considered asymptotically thin and a weakly non-linear equation for the evolution of the interface is derived. The novel form of the non-local term coupling the two layers creates a novel type of PDEs, where dispersion is also introduced in the system. A similar combination of analytical and numerical calculations as before enables a parametric study, where slip is found to both stabilise systems that would exhibit instability in its absence and induce a Turing-type instability for small surface tension. For appropriate matching of the parameters the two approaches are linked exhibiting remarkable agreement in describing the behaviour of the system in the case where one of the layers is very thin.
On the astrophysical robustness of neutron star merger r-process
Creators: name: Korobkin, O.
name: Rosswog, S.
name: Arcones, A.
name: Winteler, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study we explore the nucleosynthesis in the dynamic ejecta of compact binary mergers. We are particularly interested in the question how sensitive the resulting abundance patterns are to the parameters of the merging system. Therefore, we systematically investigate combinations of neutron star masses in the range from 1.0 to 2.0 \Msun and, for completeness, we compare the results with those from two simulations of a neutron star black hole merger. The ejecta masses vary by a factor of five for the studied systems, but all amounts are (within the uncertainties of the merger rates) compatible with being a major source of cosmic r-process. The ejecta undergo a robust r-process nucleosynthesis which produces all the elements from the second to the third peak in close-to-solar ratios. Most strikingly, this r-process is extremely robust, all 23 investigated binary systems yield practically identical abundance patterns. This is mainly the result of the ejecta being extremely neutron rich (\ye $\approx0.04$) and the r-process path meandering along the neutron drip line so that the abundances are determined entirely by nuclear rather than by astrophysical properties. This robustness together with the ease with which both the second and third peak are reproduced make compact binary mergers the prime candidate for the source of the observed unique heavy r-process component.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS
Multigrid methods for two-player zero-sum stochastic games
Creators: name: Akian, Marianne
name: Detournay, Sylvie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49L20, 65M55, 65K15, 49N70, 91A15, 91A05

description: We present a fast numerical algorithm for large scale zero-sum stochastic games with perfect information, which combines policy iteration and algebraic multigrid methods. This algorithm can be applied either to a true finite state space zero-sum two player game or to the discretization of an Isaacs equation. We present numerical tests on discretizations of Isaacs equations or variational inequalities. We also present a full multi-level policy iteration, similar to FMG, which allows to improve substantially the computation time for solving some variational inequalities.
description: 31 pages
title: Schulsystem und Bildungsverlierer. Theoretische und empirische Annäherungen aus Perspektive der historischen Bildungsforschung
Creators: name: Gaus, Detlef
Publisher: name: Ostfalia
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: In diesem Text werden Phänomene von Bildungsarmut vor dem Hintergrund der Erkenntnisse historisch-empirischer Bildungsforschung erläutert und analysiert. Zunächst werden zu diesem Zweck die Funktionen des Schulsystems verdeutlicht, um so klar zu machen, wie die konstatierten Probleme genauer umschrieben werden können. Sodann werden die historischen Entwicklungslinien zum einen des Schulsystems, zum anderen des Lehrerberufs und seiner Deutungsmuster verdeutlicht. So wird gezeigt, wie die langen Wellen eigendynamischer Entwicklung des Schulsystems eine bestimmte Funktionslogik hervorgebracht haben. Im letzten Schritt werden vor diesem Hintergrund eine Analyse des in Rede stehenden Problems versucht und mögliche Entwicklungen der weiteren (schul-)pädagogischen Reaktionen darauf durchdacht.
description: EXPLORATIONEN, 2
Semantic Ranking and Result Visualization for Life Sciences Publications
Creators: name: Stoyanovich, Julia
name: Mee, William
name: Ross, Kenneth A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science
Information science

description: An ever-increasing amount of data and semantic knowledge in the domain of life sciences is bringing about new data management challenges. In this paper we focus on adding the semantic dimension to literature search, a central task in scientific research. We focus our attention on PubMed, the most significant bibliographic source in life sciences, and explore ways to use high-quality semantic annotations from the MeSH vocabulary to rank search results. We start by developing several families of ranking functions that relate a search query to a document's annotations. We then propose an efficient adaptive ranking mechanism for each of the families. We also describe a two-dimensional Skyline-based visualization that can be used in conjunction with the ranking to further improve the user's interaction with the system, and demonstrate how such Skylines can be computed adaptively and efficiently. Finally, we present a user study that demonstrates the effectiveness of our ranking. We use the full PubMed dataset and the complete MeSH ontology in our experimental evaluation.
title: Die Zukunft der sozialen Frage im ländlichen Raum
Creators: name: Plickat, Dirk
Publisher: name: Ostfalia Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 360 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

description: Am 28. September 2018 fand der erste Dorftag im Museumsdorf Hösseringen statt. Leitthema war die Zukunft der sozialen Frage im ländlichen Raum. Gastreferenten, Lehrende und Studierende im Studiengang Soziale Arbeit an der Fakultät Handel und Soziale Arbeit der Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften entwickelten gemeinsam mit regionalen Akteuren Perspektiven für die Bewältigung des soziodemographischen Wandels. Am fiktiven Szenario des Dorfes Klein Bölken im Jahr 2030 wurden Einsatzmöglichkeiten von professionellen Gemeinwesenhelfer*innen zur (Re-)Aktivierung des Sozialraums und der Dorfgemeinschaft entworfen und diskutiert. Die einzelnen Beiträge der Tagungsdokumentation thematisieren die aktuellen und zukünftigen Herausforderungen der Sozialen Arbeit in ländlichen Räumen.
Probing nonrelativistic QCD factorization in polarized J/psi photoproduction at next-to-leading order
Creators: name: Butenschoen, Mathias
name: Kniehl, Bernd A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the polarization observables of J/psi photoproduction at next-to-leading order (NLO) within the factorization formalism of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD). This is the first NLO study of heavy-quarkonium polarization including the full relativistic corrections due to the intermediate ^1S_0^{[8]}, ^3S_1^{[8]}, and ^3P_J^{[8]} color-octet (CO) states in the worldwide endeavor to test NRQCD factorization at the quantum level. We present theoretical predictions in the helicity, target, and Collins-Soper frames of DESY HERA, evaluated using the CO long-distance matrix elements previously extracted through a global fit to experimental data of unpolarized J/psi production, and confront them with recent measurements by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations. We find the overall agreement to be satisfactory, but the case for NRQCD to be not as strong as for the J/psi yield.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures; minor changes to the text, 2 references added; accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
title: Personalrecruiting im Großhandel
Creators: name: Rafflenbeul-Schaub, Christian
Publisher: name: Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr

description: Die dem Beitrag zugrundeliegende Studie geht im wesentlichen den Fragestellungen nach, in welchem Ausmaß Probleme bei der Personalbeschaffung im Großhandel auftreten, mit welchen Strategien die Unternehmen dem zunehmenden Fachkräftemangel entgegenwirken, welche Rekrutierungskanäle für verschiedene Zielgruppen genutzt werden und welche den größten Erfolg bringen. Zur Beantwortung der Fragen wurde eine Primärerhebung im deutschen Großhandel mit 125 Teilnehmern durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse werden differenziert nach Beschäftigtengruppen, Unternehmensgrößenklassen und teilweise nach der Arbeitslosigkeit am Unternehmensstandort ausgewiesen.
description: EXPLORATIONEN, 4
title: David Rousset - Trotzkist, Marxist, Antikommunist - die Jahre 1931-1949
Creators: name: Kooger, Björn
Publisher: name: Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft

description: Der Artikel über den französischen Journalisten, Schriftsteller und Politiker David Rousset - in Form einer chronologischen Darstellung der Jahre 1931-1949 – befasst sich zunächst mit seinen politischen Aktivitäten in den 1930er Jahren. Das Hauptkapitel behandelt die Zugehörigkeit zur Résistance sowie die Deportation in verschiedene NS-Konzentrationslager gegen Ende des II. Weltkrieges. Im nächsten Abschnitt werden Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte seiner Bücher über das NS-Konzentrationslagersystem dargestellt. Abschließend geht es um die politische Zusammenarbeit mit Jean-Paul Sartre.
Imagining the Japanese nation : the politics of Mt. Fuji, 1760-1825
Creators: name: Butterlin, Julien F.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The Edo period (1603-1868) saw the dawn of commercial publishing and the appearance of a Japanese mass market. Amidst these developments, a growing number of intellectuals, from all walks of life, started a cultural and political debate seeking to define the boundaries and center of their nation. A wide variety of schools of thought contributed their particular views to the question but two scholars of Dutch studies, or rangaku, offered one of the most drastic and creative solutions to define “Japaneseness.” The writer-scientist Hiraga Gennai (1728-1779) and the painter-geographer Shiba Kôkan (1747-1818) attempted to articulate Mt. Fuji as the symbol of a culturally and politically integrated Japan through their written and visual works. This thesis attempts to show the various forces contributing to and the process by which these two polymaths came to conceive and then propagate the idea of Mt. Fuji as a national symbol of their country. In order to do so, we will first focus on the life of Hiraga Gennai and the ideas contained in his most famous work of fiction, the Fûryû Shidôken Den (published in 1763), then move to the visual and scholarly output of his spiritual successor, Shiba Kôkan.
Serving Niche Video-on-Demand Content in a Managed P2P Environment
Creators: name: Brosh, Eli
name: Agastya, Chitra
name: Morales, John
name: Misra, Vishal
name: Rubenstein, Daniel Stuart
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: A limitation of existing P2P VoD services is their inability to support efficient streamed access to niche content that has relatively small demand. This limitation stems from the poor performance of P2P when the number of peers sharing the content is small. In this paper, we propose a new provider-managed P2P VoD framework for efficient delivery of niche content based on two principles: reserving small portions of peers' storage and upload resources, as well as using novel, weighed caching techniques. We demonstrate through analytical analysis, simulations, and experiments on planetlab that our architecture can provide high streaming quality for niche content. In particular, we show that our architecture increases the catalog size by up to $40\%$ compared to standard P2P VoD systems, and that a weighted cache policy can reduce the startup delay for niche content by a factor of more than three.
Problems and prescriptions for the Japanese economy: An overview
Creators: name: Ito, Takatoshi
name: Patrick, Hugh T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Commerce

description: The bursting of the asset and real estate market bubbles in 1990 and 1991 marked the conclusion of Japan's momentous postwar economic growth and ushered in a new period of economic stagnation and malaise. This paper serves as an overview of the forthcoming 11 chapter publication: Reviving Japan's Economy: Problems and Prescriptions, co-edited by Takatoshi Ito, Hugh Patrick, and David Weinstein. Here we provide a brief summary of the stagnation and offer some broad policy recommendations derived from the analysis contained in the volume. The 14 years, from 1991, of economic malaise characterized by falling prices, worsening deflation, failing banks and life insurance companies, and rising unemployment and underemployment must be understood in the context of a long-term, multifaceted, national transformation process-economic, demographic, social, and political. Economic underperformance was exacerbated by poor policy decisions, notably the premature tightening monetary policy in the midst of ongoing deflation. The very slow rate of corporate and government restructuring, and the protracted evolution of institutional and corporate governance also played a significant role. The economy recovered well between early 2002 and the first quarter of 2004 but subsequently stalled during the year. Japan's economy has yet to return to a path of full-employment and self-sustained growth. The highest priorities are to achieve sufficient aggregate demand, essential to restore full employment growth; to end persisting deflation; and to promote both private sector and governmental institution restructuring. There will be no economic basis for a fiscal crisis so long as Japan commits to restoring fiscal balance in the very long run. Because the nation's economic and social fundamentals remain strong, we are optimistic that Japan will emerge from this transformation stronger than ever.
THE EFFECT OF VISUAL FEEDBACK ON VOICE ONSET TIME (VOT) OF SPANISH LEARNERS OF ENGLISH
Creators: name: Parra, Santiago
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax)
Phonetics and speech science

description: While pronunciation has previously been described as a neglected skill in the second language classroom, a growing body of literature has demonstrated that pronunciation training improves students’ productions (Derwing & Munro, 2005). Mispronunciations have been shown to impact comprehensibility, intelligibility, and accentedness (Derwing & Munro, 2009). As pronunciation instruction methods have begun to be the subject of empirical research, Visual Feedback (VF) has begun to emerge as a novel method for teaching pronunciation. This method has been shown to be particularly effective for teaching voice onset time (VOT), a characteristic of voiceless stop consonants (e.g., /p, t, k/). Worth noting, English and Spanish differ concerning VOT, with English employing long VOTs (30-100ms) and Spanish short VOTs (0-30ms) (Lisker & Abramson’s, 1964). Previous research has focused exclusively on employing VF for shortening VOT, although there are some compelling reasons to question whether the size and nature of the effect would be similar for lengthening VOT. The present study examines the potential effectiveness of VF as a means of lengthening the VOT of Spanish learners of English. The participants of the study were twenty-six students from a large Colombian university. The experiment design consisted of a pretest, three VF interventions, a posttest, and a delayed posttest. The tests were composed of two tasks, differing in their complexity: recording words in isolation and words in utterances. Stimuli consisted of English words (n= 4266) with word-initial voiceless stops (/p, t, k/). Stimuli were controlled for stress, following vowel, and word familiarity and were measured for VOT using Praat (Boersma & Weenink, 2022). Results from statistical analysis coupled with a visual inspection of the data indicated that the experimental group performed similarly in the three stages of the study and that the visual feedback paradigm did not result in changes in VOT. However, some degree of variation was found among the participants concerning their average VOTs. While some participants showed an overall increase (i.e., improvement) in English VOTs for the three phonemes /p/, /t/, and /k/ over time, other participants did not. In general, most of the participants produced English-like VOTs in the pretest, constituting a degree of ceiling effects. The rate of exposure to the target language and the saliency of English are factors that could have played a role in the development of the VOT scores of the participants before the study. Therefore, the discussion focuses on both the nature of the individual variability and the theoretical implications of ceiling effects found in the current study versus the lack of ceiling effects in other studies with similar populations.
The Effects of Irradiation on Hot Jovian Atmospheres: Heat Redistribution and Energy Dissipation
Creators: name: Perna, Rosalba
name: Heng, Kevin
name: Pont, Frederic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hot Jupiters, due to the proximity to their parent stars, are subjected to a strong irradiating flux which governs their radiative and dynamical properties. We compute a suite of 3D circulation models with dual-band radiative transfer, exploring a relevant range of irradiation temperatures, both with and without temperature inversions. We find that, for irradiation temperatures T \lesssim 2000 K, heat redistribution is very efficient, producing comparable day- and night-side fluxes. For Tirr \approx 2200-2400 K, the redistribution starts to break down, resulting in a high day-night flux contrast. Our simulations indicate that the efficiency of redistribution is primarily governed by the ratio of advective to radiative timescales. Models with temperature inversions display a higher day-night contrast due to the deposition of starlight at higher altitudes, but we find this opacity-driven effect to be secondary compared to the effects of irradiation. The hotspot offset from the substellar point is large when insolation is weak and redistribution is efficient, and decreases as redistribution breaks down. The atmospheric flow can be potentially subjected to the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (as indicated by the Richardson number) only in the uppermost layers, with a depth that penetrates down to pressures of a few millibars at most. Shocks penetrate deeper, down to several bars in the hottest model. Ohmic dissipation generally occurs down to deeper levels than shock dissipation (to tens of bars), but the penetration depth varies with the atmospheric opacity. The total dissipated Ohmic power increases steeply with the strength of the irradiating flux and the dissipation depth recedes into the atmosphere, favoring radius inflation in the most irradiated objects.
description: Revised version, accepted to ApJ
title: Evaluation der Schulbegleitung der Stiftung Leben leben. Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Lehrkräften, Erziehungsberechtigten und Schüler*innen in den Landkreisen Uelzen/Lüchow-Dannenberg und Gifhorn
Creators: name: Holler, Birthe
name: van den Brink, Henning
Publisher: name: Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Mit einer Schulbegleitung an ihrer Seite soll es Kindern und Jugendlichen mit einer geistigen Behinderung, psychischen Erkrankung und/oder sozial-emotionalen Störung ermöglicht werden, eine wohnortnahe Regelschule zu besuchen. Für die Stiftung Leben leben sind derzeit in den Landkreisen Uelzen/Lüchow-Dannenberg und Gifhorn rund 180 Schulbegleiter*innen im Einsatz, die dort Schüler*innen im Unterricht und bei der Bewältigung des Schulalltags unterstützen. Im Wintersemester 2019/2020 führten Studierende des Studiengangs Soziale Arbeit am Campus Suderburg der Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften eine Evaluation dieser Unterstützungsmaßnahmen durch. Mit Hilfe eines standardisierten Fragebogens wurden die betreuten Kinder und Jugendlichen, deren Klassenlehrer*innen und deren Eltern befragt, wie zufrieden sie mit den Schulbegleitungen und deren Dienstleistungen sind. Die zentralen Befunde dieser Befragung, die im November 2019 stattfand und der Qualitätssicherung des Angebots dient, werden hier dargestellt.
description: EXPLORATIONEN, 5
Fundamentals and stock returns in Japan
Creators: name: Chan, Louis K. C.
name: Lakonishock, Josef
name: Hamao, Yasushi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper relates cross-sectional differences in returns on Japanese stocks to the underlying behavior of four fundamental variables: earnings yield, size, book to market ratio, and cash flow yield. Alternative statistical specifications and various estimation methods are applied to a comprehensive, high-quality data set that extends from 1971 to 1988. The sample includes both manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms, companies from both sections of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and also delisted securities. Our findings reveal a significant relationship between fundamental variables and expected returns in the Japanese market. Of the four fundamental variables considered, the book to market ratio and cash flow yield have the most significant positive impact on expected returns.
title: Regelungen zum Zwecke der Verstetigung von Zertifikatsangeboten und zur Sicherstellung der Anschlussfähigkeit der Zertifikatsangebote untereinander sowie gegenüber dem bisher bestehenden Studienangebot
Creators: name: Haar, Markus
name: Niemeyer, Gerold
name: von Moeller, Karin
name: Wittland, Michael
name: Broo, Christina
Publisher: name: Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2020

description: Im Anschluss an das BMBF-geförderte Verbundprojekt „KeGL“, in dem fünf niedersächsische Hochschulen im Bereich der Entwicklung wissenschaftlicher Weiterbildungsangebote kooperieren, soll ein bedarfsgerechtes wissenschaftliches Zertifikatsangebot zu aktuellen und zukünftigen Kompetenzbedarfen in speziellen Themenfeldern ausgewählter Gesundheitsberufe implementiert werden. Eine im Laufe der Projektrealisierung erarbeitete Baukastensystematik ist als hochschulübergreifendes Konstrukt angelegt und offeriert ein modularisiertes Weiterbildungsangebot, welches im Sinne eines hohen Maßes an individueller und bedarfsgerechter Variabilität und Flexibilität in einzelnen Bausteinen realisierbar ist. Im Hinblick auf die weitere Verstetigung und dauerhafte Implementierung der hochschulübergreifenden wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung im Zertifikatsformat sind wesentliche formal-rechtliche Aspekte vertraglich zu vereinbaren und in die jeweils relevanten hochschulischen Ordnungen der Kooperationspartner zu integrieren. Von zentraler Bedeutung ist dabei die Schaffung von Anrechnungsvoraussetzungen zur Sicherstellung der Anschlussfähigkeit der Zertifikatsangebote untereinander sowie gegenüber den bisher bestehenden gesundheitsberuflich relevanten Studienangeboten. Die vorliegende Handreichung legt ein Regelwerk dar, dem im Detail alle relevanten Aspekte, die an den vertragsschließenden Hochschulen Berücksichtigung finden sollten, zu entnehmen sind.
Enhanced Quantization: A Primer
Creators: name: Klauder, John R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although classical mechanics and quantum mechanics are separate disciplines, we live in a world where Planck's constant \hbar>0, meaning that the classical and quantum world views must actually {\it coexist}. Traditionally, canonical quantization procedures postulate a direct linking of various c-number and q-number quantities that lie in disjoint realms, along with the quite distinct interpretations given to each realm. In this paper we propose a different association of classical and quantum quantities that renders classical theory a natural subset of quantum theory letting them coexist as required. This proposal also shines light on alternative linking assignments of classical and quantum quantities that offer different perspectives on the very meaning of quantization. In this paper we focus on elaborating the general principles, while elsewhere we have published several examples of what this alternative viewpoint can achieve; these examples include removal of singularities in classical solutions to certain models, and an alternative quantization of several field theory models that are trivial when quantized by traditional methods but become well defined and nontrivial when viewed from the new viewpoint.
description: 11 pages, final version accepted for publication
Source Prefix Filtering in ROFL
Creators: name: Zhao, Hang
name: Johnson, Maritza Lupe
name: Chau, Chi-Kin
name: Bellovin, Steven Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: Traditional firewalls have the ability to allow or block traffic based on source address as well as destination address and port number. Our original ROFL scheme implements firewalling by layering it on top of routing; however, the original proposal focused just on destination address and port number. Doing route selection based in part on source addresses is a form of policy routing, which has started to receive increased amounts of attention. In this paper, we extend the original ROFL (ROuting as the Firewall Layer) scheme by including source prefix constraints in route announcement. We present algorithms for route propagation and packet forwarding, and demonstrate the correctness of these algorithms using rigorous proofs. The new scheme not only accomplishes the complete set of filtering functionality provided by traditional firewalls, but also introduces a new direction for policy routing.
title: Studiengangentwicklung im Fokus professionellen Programmplanungshandelns. Programmforschung als methodischer Ansatz für eine fundierte und reflexive (Weiter-)Entwicklung von hochschulischen Bildungsangeboten
Creators: name: Tschupke, Sandra
Publisher: name: Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 378 Hochschulbildung

description: Der Beitrag thematisiert Potentiale für die Studiengang(weiter)entwicklung aus Perspektive professionellen Programm- und Angebotsplanungshandelns. Es werden die Prinzipien programmplanerischen Handelns in ihrer Relevanz für die Studiengang(weiter)entwicklung dargestellt, auf den Bereich hochschulischer Bildungsangebote übertragen und als professionelles Studienprogrammplanungshandeln zusammengeführt. Auf dieser Grundlage werden der forschungsmethodische Zugang der Programmforschung als Ansatz für eine fundierte und reflexive (Weiter-)Entwicklung von hochschulischen Bildungsangeboten adaptiert und potentielle Anwendungsfelder aufgezeigt.
An Anonymous Credit Card System
Creators: name: Androulaki, Elli
name: Bellovin, Steven Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: Credit cards have many important benefits; however, these same benefits often carry with them many privacy concerns. In particular, the need for users to be able to monitor their own transactions, as well as bank's need to justify its payment requests from cardholders, entitle the latter to maintain a detailed log of all transactions its credit card customers were involved in. A bank can thus build a profile of each cardholder even without the latter's consent. In this technical report, we present a practical and accountable anonymous credit system based on ecash, with a privacy preserving mechanism for error correction and expense-reporting.