cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Female-Headed Households and Poverty in Urban Ethiopia
Creators: name: Assefa, Meron
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2003

description: The study has tried to examine the extent of poverty and vulnerability of female–headed households by way of making comparisons with their male counterparts in urban Ethiopia. It further looks through the determinants of their welfare and poverty. It is based on the 1999/2000 Household Income, Consumption and Expenditure Survey (HICES) and Welfare Monitoring Survey (WMS) from Central Statistical Authority (CSA). Using the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices, the descriptive analysis of poverty indices revealed that female-headed households are poorer and more vulnerable to poverty than male-headed households. To further investigate this, micro level regression models (OLS, probit, ordered probit and tobit models) have been estimated. And as to the results, the variable indicating gender suggests that female headship has no significant direct impact on the welfare or poverty level of households. Rather, other variables such as educational attainment of the head, household size (especially higher number of children in a family), location of residence in the region, and to some extent employment status of the head are found to be the key determinants of poverty. However, since FHHs are more illiterate and unemployed with most of them concentrating in informal sector activities, by implication the fact that they are female heads has an impact on the welfare or poverty status of the households indirectly through affecting their level of education and employment status. Hence, there is an evidence to suggest that poverty alleviation programs should use FHHs as proxy variables for targeting the poor. With that, gender-sensitive poverty alleviation policies that enhance endowments such as those that increase education level, employment and ability to control fertility should be the key ingredients of a poverty reduction strategy in the region. Besides, the variable indicating region of residence suggests that for the government to eradicate poverty anti-poverty policy should be drawn on regional basis. Key Words: Welfare and Poverty, Vulnerability, Female-headed households, Urban Ethiopia, FGT poverty indices, OLS, Probit, Ordered Probit and Tobit models
Realistic model for a fifth force explaining anomaly in ${^8Be^*} \to {^8Be} \;{e^+e^-}$ Decay
Creators: name: Gu, Pei-Hong
name: He, Xiao-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A $6.8\,σ$ anomaly has been reported in the opening angle and invariant mass distributions of $e^+e^-$ pairs produced in ${^8Be}$ nuclear transitions. It has been shown that a protophobic fifth force mediated by a $17\,\textrm{MeV}$ gauge boson $X$ with pure vector current interactions can explain the data through the decay of an excited state to the ground state, ${^8Be^*} \to {^8Be}\, X$, and then the followed saturating decay $X \to e^+e^-$. In this work we propose a renormalizable model to realize this fifth force. Although axial-vector current interactions also exist in our model, their contributions cancel out in the iso-scalar interaction for ${^8Be^*} \to {^8Be} \,X$. Within the allowed parameter space, this model can alleviate the $(g-2)_μ$ anomaly problem and can be probed by the LHCb experiment. Several other implications are discussed.
description: RevTex, 9 pages with no figures. New major changes are made to the older version
The statistical properties of the electrical discharge of stochastically excited mammalian spinal motoneurones
Creators: name: Redman, Stephen John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Cameroonian medicinal plants as potential candidates of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors
Creators: name: Fouedjou, Romuald Tematio
name: Chtita, Samir
name: Bakhouch, Mohamed
name: Belaidi, Salah
name: Ouassaf, Mebarka
name: Djoumbissie, Loris Alvine
name: Tapondjou, Léon Azefack
name: Qais, Faizan Abul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing pandemic instigated by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which changed the daily train of the world’s population and cause several dead. Despite the significant efforts made in developing vaccines and therapeutic drugs, there is currently no available effective treatment against this new coronavirus infection, hence the need to continue research which is aimed at limiting the progression of this virus. The present study which has as objective to carry out in silico studies on the metabolites of some Cameroonian medicinal plants of the Asteraceae family with a view to propose potential molecules to fight against COVID-19. The selected plants are commonly used to treat respiratory infectious diseases, and for this reason they may contain some constituents which could exhibit an antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2. In this work, a set of 74 naturally occurring compounds are computed with SARS-CoV-2 main protease protein (PDB ID: 6lu7) and spike protein (PDB ID: 6m0j) for their affinity and stability using binding energy analysis and molecular docking. Chrysoeriol-7-O-β-D-glucuronopyranoside (compound 16) has showed promising results including excellent Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion (ADME) parameters as well as insignificant toxicity. Finally, the stability of this compound is complex with the two proteins validated through molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, they displayed stable trajectory and molecular properties with consistent interaction profile in molecular dynamics simulations. These findings call for further in vitro and in vivo challenges of phytoconstituents against the COVID-19 as a potential agent to fight the spread of this dramatic pandemic. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Effectiveness of Devaluation in Achieving Internal and External Balance: The Case of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gossaye, Tamerayehu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Currency devaluation is a policy instrument that is most accepted and recommended by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund because it is believed to bring the devaluating country to be able to compute in the international market and achieve trade balance. This study analyzes the effectiveness of devaluation in achieving Internal and External balance in Ethiopia using annual time series data for theexternal balance from 1974-2014and for the internal balance from 2006/7-2015. The main focus of the internal balance analysis will be the recent devaluation especially the 2009/10 and 2010/11 devaluations and forboth internal andexternalbalance analysis this paper is going tosee the effects of devaluation since 1992 up until 2014. This study usedVARand tested the short andlong run effects of exchange rate depreciation and devaluation, real GDP and Real Effective Exchange Rate on trade balance. With the second model, impacts of real effective exchange rate on inflation was also tested along with different variables. Internal balance is analyzed by using descriptive technique to show what effect devaluation hason it. This study found that real effective exchange rate has a negative impact on inflationary situations both in the short and long run. In additiondevaluation's effect on trade balance or external balance was found to be negatively related in the short run but positive in the long run. But the significance of real effective exchange rate in affecting trade balance is going to be very low in the long run.All in all this study has discoveredthat devaluation/depreciationis effective in achieving internalbalance but might not be effective in achievingexternal balance.
Mass ordering of spectra from fragmentation of saturated gluon states in high multiplicity proton-proton collisions
Creators: name: Schenke, Bjoern
name: Schlichting, Soeren
name: Tribedy, Prithwish
name: Venugopalan, Raju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass ordering of mean transverse momentum $\left$ and of the Fourier harmonic coefficient $v_2 (p_T)$ of azimuthally anisotropic particle distributions in high energy hadron collisions is often interpreted as evidence for the hydrodynamic flow of the matter produced. We investigate an alternative initial state interpretation of this pattern in high multiplicity proton-proton collisions at the LHC. The QCD Yang-Mills equations describing the dynamics of saturated gluons are solved numerically with initial conditions obtained from the Color Glass Condensate based IP-Glasma model. The gluons are subsequently fragmented into various hadron species employing the well established Lund string fragmentation algorithm of the PYTHIA event generator. We find that this ab initio initial state approach reproduces characteristic features of bulk spectra, in particular the particle mass dependence of $\left$ and $v_2 (p_T)$.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures. v2 : 1 new figure and new references added. To be published in PRL
MPEC 2023-L06 : 2023 KQ5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 KQ5

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
It’s not enough to be seen: Exploring how journalists show aged care in Australia from 2018-2021
Creators: name: Thomson, T.J.
name: Johnstone, Sarah
name: Seevinck, Jennifer
name: Miller, Evonne
name: Holland-Batt, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 190301 Journalism Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200104 Media Studies

description: Older Australians, particularly those in aged-care settings, are frequently the targets of persistent discrimination and marginalisation. Indeed, a dominant narrative in Australia is that the country’s ageing population is a burden to the community, and that the influx of older Australians into the aged care system over coming decades is a problem which must be fixed. Such perceptions are most commonly held by younger people and are shaped, in part, by media portrayals of older people in aged care. Acknowledging this, the present study analyses how journalists visually cover ageing and the aged care sector during a critical event ‘frame’: the calling of, and government response to, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety from 2018 through 2021. This study recognises that the type of representation of older people in media is more difficult to examine than simply the frequency of representation. Using visual social semiotics as an analytical framework, this paper examined 351 images from a nationally representative news sample published over the 30-month timeframe. This approach has enabled us to go beyond simple frequencies of who is depicted and explore in a more nuanced way how older Australians are depicted, and with what implications.
Estimating the Economic Value of Wildlife: The Case of Addis Ababa Lions Zoo Park
Creators: name: Goshu, Andualem
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Environmental and natural resources such as air, water, forests and wild animals give many advantages to human beings. However, the absence of market for these resources negatively affects the well-being of human beings by reducing the benefits that can be generated from these resources. In this case, economic valuation method helps to find the price or economic values attached to natural resources. Therefore, the proper valuation of non-market environmental commodities such as viewing wildlife has significant policy implications. The main purpose of this study is to estimate the total economic value of Addis Ababa Zoo Park using environmental economic tools. This study used the Individual Travel Cost Method (ITCM) on 158 on-site visitors, to estimate the value of viewing wildlife of Addis Zoo Park and the Double Dichotomous Contingent Valuation Method (DDCVM) on 90 respondents to investigate the mean WTP for the non use value of the park. The study used seemingly unrelated bivarite probit model to derive the demand function for the recreational use value of wildlife and truncated probit model to estimate the non use value contribution of wildlife. The regression result showed that travel cost, monthly income and SUP are important determinants of the recreational demand of the site. On the other hand the first bid price, monthly income, RSW and age are important determinant of willingness to pay for the non use value part of wildlife. The result of the study also showed that the potential annual use value of the park was estimated to be 11, 767,287 ETB per annum and the annual non use value of the wildlife is 17,160,634 ETB. Therefore, the annual total economic value of the park is approximately 22.5 times higher than the current revenue. Results of this study are very important to assist policy makers especially in revenue generation. This information can be used to estimate the benefits of further investment of the park, to price this site according to demand if there are budget limits, and in particular to invest in the protection of threatened wildlife
Democracy as Value-Experimentalism: A Deweyan Alternative to Ethical Neutrality
Creators: name: Cohen, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: John Dewey
subject: Ethical Neutrality
subject: Pragmatism
subject: Democratic Theory
subject: Political Liberalism

description: This thesis critiques the notion of "ethical neutrality" in liberal political thought, particularly that of John Rawls. Its primary intervention is to propose an alternative account of the ethical basis of liberal democracy, drawing on John Dewey's pragmatism. As opposed to adopting a stance of neutrality on matters of value, this approach, which I term value-experimentalism, grounds the legitimacy of public institutions - and the comprehensive ethical judgments which they necessarily involve - on their openness to ongoing contestation. I conclude by defending this view as a fulfillment of, not a threat to liberal freedom.
Dynamic Torque Calibration – Necessity and Outline of a Model-Based Approach
Creators: name: Klaus, Leonard
name: Bruns, Thomas
name: Kobusch, Michael
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2014
Subjects: dynamic torque calibration
dynamic measurement
mechanical model

description: The demand for traceable dynamic measurements of mechanical quantities has increased over the last few years. In this context, methods for the dynamic calibration of torque transducers are under development. A measuring device for dynamic torque calibration is presented in this paper, and methods to model the dynamic behaviour of torque transducers as well as the measuring device are described.
Forward Displacement of a 4-UPS Hybrid Cable-Driven Parallel Manipulator
Creators: Sanford, Paul W.
Carretero, Juan A.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

The forward and inverse displacement problems (FDP, IDP) are solved for a 4-DOF hybrid cable-driven parallel manipulator.  This manipulator uses three cables and one extensible rod to manipulate the mobile platform, and shares some kinematic similarities to  the well-studied Stewart-Gough platform. Through the use of the dual  quaternion representation of a manipulator pose and the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm, the FDP was numerically solved at a variety  of poses throughout the workspace. This method was shown to be useful at determining the correct pose from an initial guess in close proximity. The inverse displacement and velocity problems are also solved for this manipulator using the standard geometric model for cable-driven manipulators and the method of reciprocal screws.

Part of Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
Twin-transaction model to support mobile data access
Creators: name: Rasheed, Aamir
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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A fast, open source implementation of adaptive biasing potentials uncovers a ligand design strategy for the chromatin regulator BRD4
Creators: name: Dickson, Bradley M.
name: de Waal, Parker W
name: Ramjan, Zachary H
name: Xu, H Eric
name: Rothbart, Scott B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this communication we introduce an efficient implementation of adaptive biasing that greatly improves the speed of free energy computation in molecular dynamics simulations. We investigated the use of accelerated simulations to inform on compound design using a recently reported and clinically relevant inhibitor of the chromatin regulator BRD4. Benchmarking on our local compute cluster, our implementation achieves up to 2.5 times more force calls per day than plumed2. Results of five 1μsecond-long simulations are presented, which reveal a conformational switch in the BRD4 inhibitor between a binding competent and incompetent state. Stabilization of the switch led to a -3 kcal/mol improvement of absolute binding free energy. These studies suggest an unexplored ligand design principle and offer new actionable hypotheses for medicinal chemistry efforts against this druggable epigenetic target class.
Antivirals virtual screening to SARS-CoV-2 non-structural proteins
Creators: name: Nunes, Vinicius S.
name: Paschoal, Diego F. S.
name: Costa, Luiz Antônio S.
name: Santos, Hélio F. Dos
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a pandemic. Since then, the search for a vaccine or drug for COVID-19 treatment has started worldwide. In this regard, a fast approach is the repurposing of drugs, primarily antiviral drugs. Herein, we performed a virtual screening using 22 antiviral drugs retrieved from the DrugBank repository, azithromycin (antibiotic), ivermectin (antinematode), and seven non-structural proteins (Nsps) of SARS-CoV-2, which are considered important targets for drugs, via molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations. Drug–receptor binding energy was employed as the main descriptor. Based on the results, paritaprevir was predicted as a promising multi-target drug that favorably bound to all tested Nsps, mainly adipose differentiation-related protein (ADRP) (-36.2 kcal mol−1) and coronavirus main proteinase (Mpro) (-32.2 kcal mol−1). Moreover, the results suggest that simeprevir is a strong inhibitor of Mpro (-37.2 kcal mol−1), which is an interesting finding because Mpro plays an important role in viral replication. In addition to drug–receptor affinity, hot spot residues were characterized to facilitate the design of new drug derivatives with improved biological responses.
Classification of Kerr-de Sitter-like spacetimes with conformally flat Scri
Creators: name: Mars, Marc
name: Paetz, Tim-Torben
name: Senovilla, José M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a classification of $Λ>0$-vacuum spacetimes which admit a Killing vector field with respect to which the associated "Mars-Simon tensor" (MST) vanishes and having a conformally flat $\mathcal{J}^-$ (or $\mathcal{J}^+$). To that end, we also give a complete classification of conformal Killing vector fields on the $3$-sphere $\mathbb{S}^3$ up to Möbius transformations shedding light on the two fundamental constants that characterize the family of Kerr-de Sitter-like spacetimes, which turn out to be well-defined geometrical invariants. The topology of $\mathcal{J}$ is determined in every case, and a characterization result at $\mathcal{J}$ of the Kerr-de Sitter family presented.
description: 63 pages
Dataverse Community Meeting 2020 - Flexible Metadata Session 2 - Autocompleting and referencing data from REST APIs
Creators: name: Kahle, Jonas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Dataverse
Repository
REST API

description: A proposal for the future management of external metadata sources: When filling in metadata, instead of having to type in name, identifier etc., the idea is to have e.g. an autocompletion tool that searches the API data and populates the fields according to the configuration.
The Chiral Potts Spin Glass in d=2 and 3 Dimensions
Creators: name: Caglar, Tolga
name: Berker, A. Nihat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chiral spin-glass Potts system with q=3 states is studied in d=2 and 3 spatial dimensions by renormalization-group theory and the global phase diagrams are calculated in temperature, chirality concentration p, and chirality-breaking concentration c, with determination of phase chaos and phase-boundary chaos. In d=3, the system has ferromagnetic, left-chiral, right-chiral, chiral spin-glass, and disordered phases. The phase boundaries to the ferromagnetic, left- and right-chiral phases show, differently, an unusual, fibrous patchwork (microreentrances) of all four (ferromagnetic, left-chiral, right-chiral, chiral spin-glass) ordered ordered phases, especially in the multicritical region. The chaotic behavior of the interactions, under scale change, are determined in the chiral spin-glass phase and on the boundary between the chiral spin-glass and disordered phases, showing Lyapunov exponents in magnitudes reversed from the usual ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic spin-glass systems. At low temperatures, the boundaries of the left- and right-chiral phases become thresholded in p and c. In the d=2, the chiral spin-glass system does not have a spin-glass phase, consistently with the lower-critical dimension of ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic spin glasses. The left- and right-chirally ordered phases show reentrance in chirality concentration p.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, 19 phase diagrams. Final published version
Structure, DFT studies and evaluation of catechol oxidase (CO) mimic activity of mononuclear Co(II) complexes derived from aminoalcohols: an experimental and theoretical approach
Creators: name: I., Mantasha
name: Zeeshan, Mohd
name: Yadav, Oval
name: Ansari, Azaj
name: Qasem, Khalil M. A.
name: Akhtar, Muhammad Nadeem
name: AlDamen, Murad A.
name: Shahid, M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The impetus to modeling of enzyme mimics comes from their potential to provide insight to the alternate mechanistic pathways of the native enzymes. The present study demonstrates the syntheses and characterization of two different cobalt(II) complexes, [Co(pdm)(Phen)Cl]Cl·H2O (1) and [Co(pmmH)2(SCN)2] (2) with the aminoalcohol ligands such as pyridine-2,6-dimethanol (pdmH2) or 2-pyridinemonomethanol (pmmH) and their assessment as catechol oxidase (CO) enzyme mimic. Single Crystal X-ray diffraction and powder X-ray diffraction data suggest the octahedral environment around the Co(II) ion and the complexes form extensive 1D or 2D propagating network as a result of non-covalent interactions (O···H and C-H···π). TD-DFT calculations were used to explain the spectral bands obtained during the UV-Vis absorption studies and it is ascertained that the transitions were mainly of the intra-ligand charge transfer (ILCT) type. The catecholase biomimetic catalytic activity of the synthesized complexes has been investigated in detail and the kinetics is also performed. The results obtained show that both the complexes catalyze the aerobic oxidation of catechol to the corresponding o-quinone. The Kcat value for 1 is 106.99 h‒1 and for 2 is 90.32 h‒1 in methanol. It may be mentioned here that 1 and 2 are effective catalysts, with the order of activity being 1 > 2. The order of enzymatic activity is well justified by CV and DFT studies. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
“Bond is going to be...”: Setting and justifying pretrial conditions in Cook County Bond Court
Creators: name: Clark Moody, Micah
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022

description: The author explores how court officials set and justify pretrial conditions. Attending bond court over five months, the author conducts a mixed-methods ethnography of over 500 case proceedings where pretrial conditions are first set to analyze how case-level decisions are made and justified while setting individual cases in the context of case processing trends. Findings show that the working group negotiating pretrial conditions is highly routinized. Furthermore, the pretrial conditions are routinely set based on a predictive logic of future law violation which is justified by “performance” logics of past arrest but relies on predicting “dangerousness” to other people in the future. However, predictive logics are combined with understandings of addiction and lack of social support in drug cases. This research extends existing theories of courtroom working group function and the emerging centrality of performance logics to justify legal conditions. This study also engages reproducible ethnographic practices, creating a record of bond court in 2022, where money bail is the most common pretrial condition, that future researchers can use as a comparison point to bond court after the abolition of money bail in Illinois on January 1, 2023. Overall, this work builds on working group theory and suggests that predictive logics are central to how court officials justify punishing people pretrial.
MPEC 2023-S112 : 2016 TV17
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Mémoires et documents publiés par la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Genève
Creators: name: Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Genève
Publisher: name: Jullien; [puis] Droz; Champion
Year: 1841

description: T. 1(1841)-
description: Les tomes 21(1882)-35(1929/1935) sont aussi numérotés : série 2, tomes 1-15
description: Titre parfois cité: Mémoires de la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie
Quantum hydrodynamics in the rotating reference frame
Creators: name: Trukhanova, Mariya Iv.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we apply quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) to study the quantum evolution of a system of spinning particles and particles that have the electric dipole moments EDM in the rotating reference frame. The method presented is based on the many-particle microscopic Schrodinger equation in the rotating reference frame. Fundamental QHD equations for charged or neutral spinning and EDM-bearing particles were shaped due to this method and contain the spin-dependent inertial force field. The polarization dynamics in systems of neutral particles in the rotating frame is shown to cause formation of a new type of waves, the dipole-inertial waves. We have analyzed elementary excitations in a system of neutral polarized fluids placed into an external electric field in 2D and 3D cases. We predict the novel type of 2D dipole-inertial wave and 3D - polarization wave modified by rotation in systems of particles with dipole-dipole interactions.
Predicting the rheological properties of dilute polymer solutions using bead-spring models : Brownian dynamics simulations and closure approximations
Creators: name: Ranganathan, Prabhakar
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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Single-edge transport in an InAs/GaSb quantum spin Hall insulator
Creators: name: Couëdo, François
name: Irie, Hiroshi
name: Suzuki, Kyoichi
name: Onomitsu, Koji
name: Muraki, Koji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report transport measurements in a single edge channel of an InAs/GaSb quantum spin Hall insulator, where the conduction occurs through only one pair of counterpropagating edge modes. By using a specific sample design involving highly asymmetric current paths, we electrically isolate a single edge channel of the two-dimensional topological insulator from the other edge. This enables us to probe a single edge by multiterminal measurements. Both two-terminal and four-terminal resistances show a nearly quantized plateau around $h/e^2$ for a 4-$μ$m-long edge, indicating quasiballistic transport. Our approach is advantageous in that it allows us to gain insight into a microscopic region from local measurements.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Market Power of Ethiopian Banks: Evidence and Explanations
Creators: name: Nekatibeb, Hailemichael
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: Market Power of Ethiopian Banks: Evidence and Explanations Hailemichael Nekatibeb Addis Ababa University, 2012 The measurement of the degree of competition in any economic sector is of great relevance in that the level of social welfare decreases as the market power of firms' increases. In the specific case of the banking sector, the analysis of the social inefficiency associated with market power is even more important if we take into account the importance of the financial intermediation function in economic growth. The Ethiopian banking sector is analyzed for evidence of market power by computing the Lerner Index of banks using annual data from 2002 to 2011. Using a model of oligopolistic conduct, we show that Ethiopian banks exercised market power in setting prices. The examination of the determinants of market power identifies the positive roles of operating efficiency and size. However, the results also indicate that inflation, elasticity of demand to loans and excessive size had a weakening effect on exercise of bank's market power. As far as the study is concerned, the National bank of Ethiopia does not enjoy the luxury of implementing available policy instruments to minimize the impact of market power on social welfare and economic growth because the main explanatory variables are bank specific. Instead, it should endeavour to create an enabling environment for contestability in the sector, for example continuing with the open policy of domestic equity participation by adopting friendly and rational regulations. In addition, foreign banks should also be allowed to operate as such entry will intensify competition and propagate efficiency gains across the banking market. Key Words: Competition, monopoly power, social inefficiency, Lerner Index
Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth Supporting Information for Mechanisms of Fluid Degassing in Shallow Magma Chambers Control the Formation of Porphyry Deposits
Creators: name: Wang, Zixuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Igneous and metamorphic petrology

description: The supporting information Text S1 and S2 present the analytical methods and Rhyolite-MELTS fractionation modelling, respectively. Figure S1 and S2 provide the characteristics of major and trace element and Sr-Nd isotopic compositions of ore-forming and barren porphyries in the Sanjiang Metallgenic belt. Figure S3 shows the characteristics of apatites in this article. Figure 4 presents the compositions of amphibole, apatite and feldspar. Figure S4 and S5 provide the comparison results of different barometers and hygrometers. Tables S1 to S4 present the EMPA analyses of apatites, amphibole, plagioclase and the related calculation results of physical-chemical conditions. Tables S5 to S7 provide the major, trace element and Sr-Nd isotopic compositions and zircon Hf isotopic data for ore-forming and barren porphyries in the Sanjiang Metallgenic belt.
Data-parallel processing for ab initio computational quantum chemistry
Creators: name: Ramdas, Tirath
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Validating interoperable distributed software and systems (VISWAS)
Creators: name: Ramakrishnan, Sita
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: New, emerging and re-emerging fungal diseases on medicinal and aromatic plants in European domain
Creators: name: Rodeva, R.
name: Gabler, Jutta
name: Machowicz-Stefaniak, Z.
name: A. Kačergius, A.
name: Zimowska, B.
name: Zalewska, E.
name: Stoyanova, Z.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Apiaceae
subject: Lamiaceae
subject: fungal pathogens
subject: asexual morphs

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv 453
description: Plant diseases cause agricultural and economic loss and impact negatively on human and animal health through mycotoxins and allergens produced by them. They also have consequences for biodiversity conservation. The pathogens could be classified in five categories: new - detected within the last five years; emerging - have always been present in an area but have grown in importance over the years; re-emerging - have been previously controlled but are once more a major problem associated with chemical resistance or changes in management or cultivars; threatening - not reported or limited in distribution in Europe and chronic-spreading – known for longer than 20 years and causing increased concern. Diseases emerge or re-emerge due to changes in farming practices, development of new strains of the pathogen, climate change, introduction of the pathogen to new geographical locations, or introduction of more efficient pathogen vectors. During the last years emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are of special concern to researchers. Among all pathogens fungi are responsible for the greatest damage to plants in both agricultural and natural ecosystems. They represent over 70 % of all plant pathogens and over 30 % of plant EIDs. Surveys on fungal diseases of medicinal and aromatic plants have been carried out in the framework of several research projects between Germany, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Poland in the last two decades. EIDs have been reported, either as novel pathogens or as familiar pathogens affecting new host species. The importance of the problem could be illustrated by such examples as some phytopathogenic fungi on Apiaceae and Lamiaceae hosts discussed in the present work.
Vorwort der Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber
Creators: name: Bánffy, Eszter
name: Hofmann, Kerstin P.
name: Gramsch, Alexander
name: Grunwald, Susanne
name: Rasbach, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
The Effect of External Debt on Economic Growth and its Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Ermiyas, Tefera
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: To date, the impact of external debt on economic growth is still ambiguous. On one hand, there exist copious and mixed evidential outcomes on the effect of external debt on economic growth. On the other hand, the contradiction prevailed between the linear and non-linear effect of external debt on economic growth. The objective of this study is twofold. First, to investigate the effect of external debt on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Second, to examine the sustainability of external debt in the region. A large panel data set of 41 SSA countries over the period of 2000-2017 is employed to estimate the effect of external debt on economic growth. The panel threshold model developed by Hansen (1999) is applied to analyze the effect of external debt on economic growth. The study adopts the bootstrap method developed by Hansen (1999) to test the statistical significance of the threshold effect. The empirical result revealed that there is a statistically significant non-linear relationship between external debt and economic growth in SSA, implying that a negative impact of external debt on economic growth at a higher level. The study finds strong evidence that there is a single threshold level of external debt-to-GDP ratio. The threshold level of external debt-to-GDP ratio for SSA works out to be 21.78 percent, beyond which the negative effect of external debt on economic growth is observed and the level of external debt is unsustainable. In addition, external debt sustainability is analyzed based panel unit root tests and panel co integration test. According to these test results, external debt is unsustainable in SSA. In light of these findings, this study recommended that governments of SSA countries should utilize their external borrowed resource in productive and development purposes, and should adopt sound external debt management policy in terms of structure and composition of external debt.
An Updated Model For Gap Leakage In Archimedes Screw Generators
Creators: Simmons, Scott C.
Lubitz, William David
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Archimedes screw generators are a small-scale, eco-friendly hydropower technology that are commonly implemented in diversion schemes. The technology has been in use for thousands of years for pumping fluids and granular solids and so its design is largely influenced by Archimedes screw pump manufacturers. There is little engineering design guidance in the literature discussing the optimal design of screw generators, and the existing models used in the literature to suggest the optimal design of screw generators are mostly developed and evaluated with laboratory-scale data. There was a need to evaluate and improve performance prediction models in the literature. This paper outlines a correction to the prediction of gap leakage loss outlined by Lubitz (2014). The correction presented in this paper was found to improve gap leakage predictions by an average of 10.7% when compared to accurate approximations gathered from a CFD simulation.

Part of Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
Characterization of self-adjoint extensions for discrete symplectic systems
Creators: name: Zemánek, Petr
name: Clark, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A06, 47A20, 39A70, 47B39, 39A12

description: All self-adjoint extensions of minimal linear relation associated with the discrete symplectic system are characterized. Especially, for the scalar case on a finite discrete interval some equivalent forms and the uniqueness of the given expression are discussed and the Krein--von Neumann extension is described explicitly. In addition, a limit point criterion for symplectic systems is established. The result partially generalizes even a classical limit point criterion for the second order Sturm--Liouville difference equations.
Laminar flow of viscous and viscoelastic fluids in the entrance region of a pipe
Creators: name: Murthy, A. V. Rama
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The Role of Maternal Characteristics on Nutritional Status of Ethiopian Children
Creators: name: Tirfe, Michael
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2006

description: Many Ethiopian children suffer from the burden of malnutrition. Studies show that half of the children are either stunted or underweight. The prevalence rate of child malnutrition in Ethiopia is higher than the average prevalence rate for Sub Saharan Africa countries for which the Demographic and Health Survey was conducted. The implication is that timely interventions are critical which require a good knowledge of the major causes of child malnutrition. This paper examines the role of maternal characteristics (education, relative household status, and employment) on nutritional status of Ethiopian children as measured by stunting and underweight. Separate estimations were performed for rural and urban areas. The result showed that mothers' education level and their relative household status are important determinants of the nutritional status of children. In addition, household economic status and age of a child showed a strong association with nutritional status.
EUROSHIP Working Paper No. 30: Intersectional inequalities and the quality of work trajectories in different labour market regimes: a mixed method approach
Creators: name: Täht, Kadri
name: Mariann, Märtsin
name: Marge, Unt
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sociology not elsewhere classified

description: This is a publication in a project`s working paper series.
Creep of cracked bodies
Creators: name: Raju, Krishnaswamy Rama
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Digging Bersu. Ein europäischer Archäologe
Creators: name: Die Redaktion
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Inhaltsverzeichnis
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Development Of A Model-Free Adaptive Steering Control For Autonomous Vehicles Path Tracking Using Cost-Based Gain Adaptation With Integral Action
Creators: Oh, Kwangseok
Seo, Jaho
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

This paper presents a model-free adaptive steering control algorithm for path tracking of autonomous vehicles. To design steering controllers for autonomous vehicle path tracking, a mathematical model is needed, but it may have high nonlinearity and complexity that increases computation time and effort. To resolve this problem, a model-free adaptive steering controller was designed for vehicle path tracking. As the design method, the feedback control scheme with adaptive feedback gain was applied so that the adaptation gain can be adjusted based on cost-based integral action. Simulation results show that the designed model-free adaptive controller with the cost-based gain adaptation method can achieve satisfactory tracking accuracy under the curved path tracking scenario.

Part of Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
Schriftenverzeichnis von und über Gerhard Bersu
Creators: name: Grunwald, Susanne
name: Ziemer, Tamara
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2022

description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 100 2019(2022): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission