cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
International cooperation and the rules of change: A neo-institutional approach to the Helsinki process
Creators: name: Visentin, Annamaria
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe has been an important agent of international cooperation and change. The present analysis spans from 1975, the year in which the CSCE was established, to 1990, the year in which the CSCE was endowed with a permanent organizational structure. This early CSCE phase is known as "the Helsinki process". The present study looks at the impact of this process upon the end of the Cold War in Europe. The analysis begins with a critique of traditional regime theory and justifies the adoption of a neo-institutional approach to the study of the CSCE. What the author calls a neo-institutional approach (1) puts the evolution of a regime or its historical development at the center of analysis and (2) focuses on the interaction between international institutions and non-governmental organizations--respectively "above" and "below" the level of the state. The author maintains that well grounded institutions are ones which exert a broad societal impact. The main assumption is that the more "informal" an institution, the broader its societal impact. This appreciation of informality stems from the consideration of the "constitutive" and/or transformational nature of institutional rules. To this effect, the author suggests that institutions be seen, first and foremost, as "rule-making" processes. The study is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the formation of CSCE rules through a linguistic analysis of the main CSCE text: the Helsinki Final Act. The second part looks at the actual impact of CSCE rules, through an analysis of the principal social practices and/or epistemic communities which emerged in the wake of the Final Act. The third part looks at the recent transformation of the CSCE into a "formal" organization (OSCE). Empirical findings confirm the author's main contention that the Helsinki process or institution exerted a broad societal impact. This impact was facilitated by the informality of the process, which stimulated participation "from below"--of peace movements and human rights groups in particular--while triggering a merging of NGO discourses in support of the main Helsinki idea of a linkage between security and human rights. This linkage worked to undermine the Cold War in Europe--or the legitimacy of the political-military status quo--as it was perceived and sustained by society at large as the basis of a new, more humane security "order-to-be" beyond the East-West divide.
Additional file 1 of Detecting commonality in multidimensional fish movement histories using sequence analysis
Creators: name: Lowe, Michael R.
name: Holbrook, Christopher M.
name: Hondorp, Darryl W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1. Selecting the appropriate temporal resolution. Figure 1. Cluster analysis of individual movement histories at different time intervals.
A census of main-sequence interactions in the Multiple Star Catalog
Creators: name: Hamers, Adrian S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Statistics of hierarchical systems containing three or more stars are continuously improving. The Multiple Star Catalog (MSC) is currently the most comprehensive catalogue of multiple-star systems and contains component masses, orbital periods, and additional information. The systems in the MSC are interesting for several reasons, including the long-term dynamical evolution of few-body systems. Although the secular evolution of triples and quadruples has been explored before, a systematic study of the systems in the MSC including also quintuples and sextuples has not been carried out. Here, we explore the main-sequence (MS) evolution of stars from the MSC based on approximately 2x10^5 secular dynamical integrations. We estimate statistical probabilities for strong interactions during the MS such as tidal evolution and mass transfer, and the onset of dynamical instability. Depending on the assumed model for the unknown orbital elements, we find that the fraction of noninteracting systems is largest for triples (~0.9), and decreases to ~0.6-0.8 for sextuples. The fraction of strong interactions increases from ~0.1 to ~0.2 from triples to sextuples, and the fraction of dynamically unstable systems increases from ~0.001 to ~0.1-0.2. The larger fractions of strong interactions and dynamical instability in systems with increasing multiplicity can be attributed to increasingly complex secular evolution in these systems. Our results indicate that a significant fraction of high-multiplicity systems interact or become dynamically unstable already during the MS, with an increasing importance as the number of stars increases.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 16 pages, 13 figures
title: Pluriliteracies in Higher Education
title: Developing English competence for interpreters and translators through a deeper learning episode
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Alarcón-García, Verónica
name: López-Navas, Lola
Publisher: name: CETAPS, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2024

description: CLIL practices were widely introduced in Spanish education over twenty years ago (Jover et al., 2024; Otto et al., 2024). Nevertheless, the transition of this methodological innovation to university contexts in Spain seems challenging due to the lack of resources. In this paper, our main aim is to evaluate the potential of applying the principles of CLIL in a university setting, within the framework of a language module through the implementation of a pluriliteracies approach. For that purpose, we present an exploratory didactic proposal in the form of a deeper learning episode for the Language B English 4 (C1) course in a bachelor's degree in Translation and Interpreting at a Spanish online university. While respecting the fundamentals of CLIL, we aim to steer towards pluriliteracies, a more global approach in which learners develop a series of competencies that are key for interpreters and translators. Thus, this project offers a pragmatic example of how a language module can be transformed from a traditional language-led course to a content-based one which is more comprehensive and meaningful. In the learning episode, a series of values, attitudes and key skills such as knowledge and critical understanding begin to emerge (Council of Europe, 2016) through the topic of art and its cultural implications. This, in turn, translates into long-term sustainable curricula aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education, target 4.7 (United Nations, 2015). Ultimately, this approach could provide language teachers with new opportunities to redefine their role.
description: Alarcón-García, Verónica, López-Navas, Lola (2024) Pluriliteracies in Higher Education: Developing English competence for interpreters and translators through a deeper learning episode”, e-TEALS, 16, pp. 65-89. ISSN 1647-721X
Factors influencing farmers' awareness on environmental hazards caused by rice monoculture
Creators: name: Chowdhury, A. H.
name: Chowdhury, A. H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Awareness
subject: Factors
subject: Rice monoculture
subject: Farmers

description: This purposive study was undertaken to examine the factors associated with farmers' awareness on environmental hazards caused by rice monoculture and ascertain the factors contribute to their awareness. Char ishardia village of Mymensingh sadar upazila and Tulatuli village of Sonagazi upazila, Feni were purposively selected as traditional and progressive village respectively. Data were collected from the randomly selected sample e.g. 96 farmers 48 form each village using a pre-tested structured interview schedule during March and July 2003. About half (54percent) of the respondents had high awareness on environmental hazards of rice monoculture compared to 30 percent low awareness. Farmers of progressive village had more average level of education, family size, training exposure, knowledge of diversified crop cultivation, cosmopoliteness, extension media contact, and innovativeness than those of traditional village. Out of ten selected characteristics, level of education, knowledge of diversified crop cultivation, cosmopoliteness and innovativeness were positively related with the awareness while family size was negatively related. Three factors namely knowledge of diversified crop cultivation, family size and level of education contributed significantly to the farmers' awareness considering both the villages while innovativeness together _with the former two factors mentioned contributed to the awareness considering progressive village. On the other hand, only two factors such as knowledge of diversified"crop cultivation and level of education contributed in predicting awareness of the farmers of traditional village.
On the Co-Design of AV-Enabled Mobility Systems
Creators: name: Zardini, Gioele
name: Lanzetti, Nicolas
name: Salazar, Mauro
name: Censi, Andrea
name: Frazzoli, Emilio
name: Pavone, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The design of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the design of AV-enabled mobility systems are closely coupled. Indeed, knowledge about the intended service of AVs would impact their design and deployment process, whilst insights about their technological development could significantly affect transportation management decisions. This calls for tools to study such a coupling and co-design AVs and AV-enabled mobility systems in terms of different objectives. In this paper, we instantiate a framework to address such co-design problems. In particular, we leverage the recently developed theory of co-design to frame and solve the problem of designing and deploying an intermodal Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand system, whereby AVs service travel demands jointly with public transit, in terms of fleet sizing, vehicle autonomy, and public transit service frequency. Our framework is modular and compositional, allowing one to describe the design problem as the interconnection of its individual components and to tackle it from a system-level perspective. To showcase our methodology, we present a real-world case study for Washington D.C., USA. Our work suggests that it is possible to create user-friendly optimization tools to systematically assess costs and benefits of interventions, and that such analytical techniques might gain a momentous role in policy-making in the future.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Published in the Proceeding of the 23rd IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2020. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1910.07714, arXiv:2008.08975
Additional file 4 of Implementation interventions in preventing surgical site infections in abdominal surgery: a systematic review
Creators: name: Tomsic, Ivonne
name: Heinze, Nicole R.
name: Chaberny, Iris F.
name: Krauth, Christian
name: Schock, Bettina
name: Lengerke, Thomas Von
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4:Table S4. Reporting of the implementation intervention audit and feedback
Environmental regulatory enforcement: Are public and private facilities treated differently?
Creators: name: Brown, Douglas Morrisson
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Does regulatory enforcement or wastewater facilities differ depending on whether the facility is publicly-owned or privately-owned?; Economics-based models, such as those of Langbein and Kerwin (1985) and Tsebelis (1991) conclude that regulation is an interactive process recognizing partial compliance and tailored enforcement. Case studies conducted by Bardach and Kagan (1981), Hawkins (1984) and Durant (1985) demonstrated the influence of political and socio-economic factors on regulator behavior. Political scientists such as Wenner (1972) have considered regulation as an institutional political issue; a hypothetical article by Wilson and Rachal (1977) added the question of Federal facility compliance. Quantitative research confirming the earlier theoretical work has been led by Scholz et al (1983 et seq) and Hedge et al (1988 et seq). Similar results using more detailed data available through the EPA were produced by Magat and Viscusi (1990) and Hunter and Waterman (1992). This research investigated the influence of facility ownership on the incidence of any enforcement action, the number of such enforcement actions, and the most stringent action recorded against each facility recorded as having been in violation during 1990 (90 day lag). Numerous task factors were included as control variables. Public ownership was weakly associated with reduced levels of enforcement activity; the association was much stronger for Federal ownership. It can be concluded that enforcement against Federal facilities is statistically less frequent and less stringent than it is against private facilities in general. However, some industries received more stringent enforcement than Federal facilities. In addition, States were less active enforcers than the Federal EPA offices. These findings suggest that the enforcement process, while apparently favoring Federal facilities, may be targeted towards industries that in the regulatory agency's view pose high environmental risks.
Manganese dioxide nanosheets induce mitochondrial toxicity in fish gill epithelial cells
Creators: name: Browning, Cynthia L.
name: Green, Allen
name: Gray, Evan P.
name: Hurt, Robert
name: Kane, Agnes B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: The development and production of engineered 2D nanomaterials are expanding exponentially, increasing the risk of their release into the aquatic environment. A recent study showed 2D MnO2 nanosheets, under development for energy and biomedical applications, dissolve upon interaction with biological reducing agents, resulting in depletion of intracellular glutathione levels within fish gill cells. However, little is known concerning their toxicity and interactions with subcellular organelles. To address this gap, we examined cellular uptake, cytotoxicity and mitochondrial effects of 2D MnO2 nanosheets using an in vitro fish gill cell line to represent a target tissue of rainbow trout, a freshwater indicator species. The data demonstrate cellular uptake of MnO2 nanosheets into lysosomes and potential mechanisms of dissolution within the lysosomal compartment. MnO2 nanosheets induced severe mitochondrial dysfunction at sub-cytotoxic doses. Quantitative, single cell fluorescent imaging revealed mitochondrial fission and impaired mitochondrial membrane potential following MnO2 nanosheet exposure. Seahorse analyses for cellular respiration revealed that MnO2 nanosheets inhibited basal respiration, maximal respiration and the spare respiratory capacity of gill cells, indicating mitochondrial dysfunction and reduced cellular respiratory activity. MnO2 nanosheet exposure also inhibited ATP production, further supporting the suppression of mitochondrial function and cellular respiration. Together, these observations indicate that 2D MnO2 nanosheets impair the ability of gill cells to respond to energy demands or prolonged stress. Finally, our data demonstrate significant differences in the toxicity of the 2D MnO2 nanosheets and their microparticle counterparts. This exemplifies the importance of considering the unique physical characteristics of 2D nanomaterials when conducting safety assessments.
Characterisation of Anderson localisation using distributions
Creators: name: Alvermann, A.
name: Schubert, G.
name: Weisse, A.
name: Bronold, F. X.
name: Fehske, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the use of distributions in numerical treatments of Anderson localisation and supply evidence that treating exponential localisation on Bethe lattices recovers the overall picture known from hypercubic lattices in 3d.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, submitted to SCES'04
Environmental regulatory enforcement: Are public and private facilities treated differently?
Creators: name: Brown, Douglas Morrisson
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Does regulatory enforcement or wastewater facilities differ depending on whether the facility is publicly-owned or privately-owned?; Economics-based models, such as those of Langbein and Kerwin (1985) and Tsebelis (1991) conclude that regulation is an interactive process recognizing partial compliance and tailored enforcement. Case studies conducted by Bardach and Kagan (1981), Hawkins (1984) and Durant (1985) demonstrated the influence of political and socio-economic factors on regulator behavior. Political scientists such as Wenner (1972) have considered regulation as an institutional political issue; a hypothetical article by Wilson and Rachal (1977) added the question of Federal facility compliance. Quantitative research confirming the earlier theoretical work has been led by Scholz et al (1983 et seq) and Hedge et al (1988 et seq). Similar results using more detailed data available through the EPA were produced by Magat and Viscusi (1990) and Hunter and Waterman (1992). This research investigated the influence of facility ownership on the incidence of any enforcement action, the number of such enforcement actions, and the most stringent action recorded against each facility recorded as having been in violation during 1990 (90 day lag). Numerous task factors were included as control variables. Public ownership was weakly associated with reduced levels of enforcement activity; the association was much stronger for Federal ownership. It can be concluded that enforcement against Federal facilities is statistically less frequent and less stringent than it is against private facilities in general. However, some industries received more stringent enforcement than Federal facilities. In addition, States were less active enforcers than the Federal EPA offices. These findings suggest that the enforcement process, while apparently favoring Federal facilities, may be targeted towards industries that in the regulatory agency's view pose high environmental risks.
A methodology for developing key events to advance nanomaterial-relevant adverse outcome pathways to inform risk assessment
Creators: name: Halappanavar, Sabina
name: Ede, James D.
name: Mahapatra, Indrani
name: Krug, Harald F.
name: Kuempel, Eileen D.
name: Lynch, Iseult
name: Vandebriel, Rob J.
name: Shatkin, Jo Anne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Significant advances have been made in the development of Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) over the last decade, mainly focused on the toxicity mechanisms of chemicals. These AOPs, although relevant to manufactured nanomaterials (MNs), do not currently capture the reported roles of size-associated properties of MNs on toxicity. Moreover, some AOs of relevance to airborne exposures to MNs such as lung inflammation and fibrosis shown in animal studies may not be targeted in routine regulatory decision making. The primary objective of the present study was to establish an approach to advance the development of AOPs of relevance to MNs using existing, publicly available, nanotoxicology literature. A systematic methodology was created for curating, organizing and applying the available literature for identifying key events (KEs). Using a case study approach, the study applied the available literature to build the biological plausibility for ‘tissue injury’, a KE of regulatory relevance to MNs. The results of the analysis reveal the various endpoints, assays and specific biological markers used for assessing and reporting tissue injury. The study elaborates on the limitations and opportunities of the current nanotoxicology literature and provides recommendations for the future reporting of nanotoxicology results that will expedite not only the development of AOPs for MNs but also aid in application of existing data for decision making.
A Study on profitability of goat production in some selected areas of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Sayeed, M. A.
name: Rahman, S. M. Ataur
name: Taimur, M. J. F. A.
name: Faruque, S.
name: Yasmin, F.
name: Sayeed, M. A.
name: Rahman, S. M. Ataur
name: Taimur, M. J. F. A.
name: Faruque, S.
name: Yasmin, F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Profitability
subject: BCR
subject: Income
subject: Employment

description: This study was conducted to determine the profitability of goat production under scavenging system of rearing in some selected areas of Bangladesh. For this purpose, 250 goat-raising farm households were investigated. Results showed that the number of goat per farm varied from 2.39 to 13.75 with an average of 5.06. In cost component, the imputed value of labour took the highest (60%) share. The variable costs accounted for about 33% of the total cost. The average annual gross income and total rearing cost for all herd-size categories were Tk 2201.79 and Tk 1387.13,.respectively. The calculated benefit-cost ratios (BCR) were 0.38, 1.82, 2.68 and 1.02 for herd-size groups 1-3, 4-6, 7-10 and 11 and above, respectively. It indicated that goat raising was economically profitable for herdsize groups 4-6, 7-10 and 11 and above.
The puzzle about the radial cut-off in galactic disks
Creators: name: Narayan, Chaitra A.
name: Jog, Chanda J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stellar disk in a spiral galaxy is believed to be truncated physically because the disk surface brightness is observed to fall faster than that for an exponential in the outer, faint regions. We review the literature associated with this phenomenon and find that a number of recent observations contradict the truncation picture. Hence we question the very existence of a physical outer cut-off in stellar disks. We show, in this paper, that the observed drop in the surface brightness profiles in fact corresponds to a negligible decrease in intensity, and that this minor change at the faint end appears to be exaggerated on a log-normal plot. Since minor deviations from a perfect exponential are common throughout the disk, we suggest that such a deviation at the faint end could easily give rise to the observed sharp drop.
description: 4 pages, 3 .eps figures, Astron. & Astrophys Letters, In press
Performance of Broiler reared on Different Litter materials in Late Autumn Season under Bangladesh condition
Creators: name: Monira, K. N.
name: Howlider, M. A. R.
name: Miah, G.
name: Hasanuzzaman, M.
name: Monira, K. N.
name: Howlider, M. A. R.
name: Miah, G.
name: Hasanuzzaman, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Performance
subject: Broiler
subject: Litter
subject: Season
subject: Cost

description: A total of 168 (7-days-old) straight-run Arber Acres chicks were reared on 4 litter materials i.e. saw dust, rice husk, sugarcane bagasse and wheat straw up to 49 days of age to compare growth performance. Average body weight gain and feed conversion ratio at 49 days of age were 1708g, 1601g, 1628g, 1610g and 2.55, 2.51, 2.55, 2.53 on sawdust, rice husk, sugarcane bagasse and wheat straw respectively. The birds reared on sawdust in lateautumn season gained highest body weight, best feed-conversion efficiency had on rice husk litter. Feed consumption and survivability were more or less similar in all treatment groups. Litter cost per kg liveweight was tended to be higher on wheat straw than other litters. So, it may be concluded that sawdust was the most suitable litter followed by rice husk, sugarcane bagasse and wheat straw in late-autumn season under Bangladesh condition.
Total Quality Management in higher education: Perceptions of the chief academic officer of the results of implementing TQM in their higher education institution
Creators: name: Courtney, John Eric
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Higher education institutions in the United States are facing major challenges. From 1980 to 1992, costs have increased at twice the rate of inflation. Government funding for public institutions has declined. Institutions are being forced to offer significantly more financial aid to attract students. Students, governments and businesses have increasingly questioning the quality and the value of higher education. These challenges have served as the impetus for considering Total Quality Management, TQM, in higher education. The results of TQM in higher education have been mixed. The lack of knowledge in how to implement TQM is a primary reason it has not lived up to its potential. This study gathered and analyzed data from higher education institutions which had implemented TQM as of April 1994 to better understand the relationship between the implementation approach (institution-wide vs. departmental) and the outcome of the TQM initiative. A mail survey was sent during the Fall of 1994 to the Chief Academic Officers of 242 higher education institutions. The results of the survey showed 41% of institutions (99) which responded used TQM. Of these institutions, 61% implemented TQM using an institution-wide approach while 39% used a departmental approach. Institutions which implemented TQM with an institution-wide approach reported significantly more benefits, less problems and dramatically higher levels of success as compared to institutions which used a departmental approach. This research adds significantly to the Literature on successfully implementing TQM in higher education. It informs on the current trends of TQM implementation in higher education and also reports on emerging patterns which will be helpful in guiding future policy and decision-making for institutions considering a TQM initiative.
The faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z=3
Creators: name: Hunt, Matthew P.
name: Steidel, Charles C.
name: Adelberger, Kurt L.
name: Shapley, Alice E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first measurement of the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z=3. The QSOs, which range from M_1450 = -21 to M_1450 = -27, were discovered in 17 fields totaling 0.43 deg^2 using multicolor selection criteria (the Lyman break technique) and spectroscopic followup. We find that the faint-end slope of the luminosity function is beta_l=1.24 +/- 0.07, flatter than the value of beta_l=1.64 +/- 0.18 measured at lower redshift. The integrated rest 1450 A UV luminosity of z=3 QSOs is only 50% of most previous estimates, and is only ~8% of that produced by Lyman break galaxies at the same redshifts. Assuming that ionizing photons from faint QSOs are as successful in escaping their host galaxies as bright QSOs, we estimate the total contribution of QSOs to the ionizing flux J_912 at z=3, J_912=2.4*10^-22 ergs/s/cm^2/Hz. This estimate, which we regard as an upper limit, remains consistent with rough estimates of J_912 based on the Lyman-alpha forest "proximity effect."
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
A Dataset of Enterprise-Driven Open Source Software
Creators: name: Spinellis, Diomidis
name: Kotti, Zoe
name: Kravvaritis, Konstantinos
name: Theodorou, Georgios
name: Louridas, Panos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a dataset of open source software developed mainly by enterprises rather than volunteers. This can be used to address known generalizability concerns, and, also, to perform research on open source business software development. Based on the premise that an enterprise's employees are likely to contribute to a project developed by their organization using the email account provided by it, we mine domain names associated with enterprises from open data sources as well as through white- and blacklisting, and use them through three heuristics to identify 17,264 enterprise GitHub projects. We provide these as a dataset detailing their provenance and properties. A manual evaluation of a dataset sample shows an identification accuracy of 89%. Through an exploratory data analysis we found that projects are staffed by a plurality of enterprise insiders, who appear to be pulling more than their weight, and that in a small percentage of relatively large projects development happens exclusively through enterprise insiders.
description: 5 pages
Comparative efficacy of experimentally prepared formalin and heat killed fowl cholera vaccines
Creators: name: Suman, M. S. R.
name: Rahman, M. B.
name: Kabir, S. M. L.
name: Choudhury, K. A.
name: Siddiky, M. N. A.
name: Suman, M. S. R.
name: Rahman, M. B.
name: Kabir, S. M. L.
name: Choudhury, K. A.
name: Siddiky, M. N. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics
Productivity Analysis

description: An experiment was conducted to determine the comparative efficacy of experimentally prepared formalin killed (FK) and heat killed (HK) fowl cholera (FC) vaccines with virulent avian Pasteurella multocida (PM 38) serotype 1 (X-73). The virulence of vaccine strain of P. multocida was studied in mice and chickens. The comparative efficacy of experimentally prepared Formalin killed fowl cholera (FK FC) vaccine and Heat killed fowl cholera (HK FC) vaccine was determined by vaccinating 2 months old 20 chicks and each group consisted of 5 birds. Birds of group A and group B were immunized with FK FC vaccine by intramuscular (IM) and subcutaneous (SC) route respectively and that of group C and group D were immunized with HK FC vaccine by IM and SC route respectively. All the chickens were immunized twice at 15 days interval and serum was collected from every bird after each vaccination and challenge experiment. The presence of antibody against P. multocida was determined by serum agglutination test (SAT) and growth inhibition test (GIT). The post vaccination serum titres were determined by passive hemagglutination test (PHA). It was demonstrated that experimental FK FC vaccine conferred 100% protection against challenge infection when HK FC vaccine protected 80% vaccinated birds.
Total Quality Management in higher education: Perceptions of the chief academic officer of the results of implementing TQM in their higher education institution
Creators: name: Courtney, John Eric
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Higher education institutions in the United States are facing major challenges. From 1980 to 1992, costs have increased at twice the rate of inflation. Government funding for public institutions has declined. Institutions are being forced to offer significantly more financial aid to attract students. Students, governments and businesses have increasingly questioning the quality and the value of higher education. These challenges have served as the impetus for considering Total Quality Management, TQM, in higher education. The results of TQM in higher education have been mixed. The lack of knowledge in how to implement TQM is a primary reason it has not lived up to its potential. This study gathered and analyzed data from higher education institutions which had implemented TQM as of April 1994 to better understand the relationship between the implementation approach (institution-wide vs. departmental) and the outcome of the TQM initiative. A mail survey was sent during the Fall of 1994 to the Chief Academic Officers of 242 higher education institutions. The results of the survey showed 41% of institutions (99) which responded used TQM. Of these institutions, 61% implemented TQM using an institution-wide approach while 39% used a departmental approach. Institutions which implemented TQM with an institution-wide approach reported significantly more benefits, less problems and dramatically higher levels of success as compared to institutions which used a departmental approach. This research adds significantly to the Literature on successfully implementing TQM in higher education. It informs on the current trends of TQM implementation in higher education and also reports on emerging patterns which will be helpful in guiding future policy and decision-making for institutions considering a TQM initiative.
Luttinger liquid ARPES spectra from samples of Li$_{0.9}$Mo$_6$O$_{17}$ grown by the temperature gradient flux technique
Creators: name: Gweon, G. -H.
name: Mo, S. -K.
name: Allen, J. W.
name: He, J.
name: Jin, R.
name: Mandrus, D.
name: Höchst, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy line shapes measured for quasi-one-dimensional Li$_{0.9}$Mo$_6$O$_{17}$ samples grown by a temperature gradient flux technique are found to show Luttinger liquid behavior, consistent with all previous data by us and other workers obtained from samples grown by the electrolyte reduction technique. This result eliminates the sample growth method as a possible origin of considerable differences in photoemission data reported in previous studies of Li$_{0.9}$Mo$_6$O$_{17}$.
description: Some text added
Parallel implicit-explicit general linear methods
Creators: name: Roberts, Steven
name: Sarshar, Arash
name: Sandu, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65L05, 65L20, 65L80

description: High-order discretizations of partial differential equations (PDEs) necessitate high-order time integration schemes capable of handling both stiff and nonstiff operators in an efficient manner. Implicit-explicit (IMEX) integration based on general linear methods (GLMs) offers an attractive solution due to their high stage and method order, as well as excellent stability properties. The IMEX characteristic allows stiff terms to be treated implicitly and nonstiff terms to be efficiently integrated explicitly. This work develops two systematic approaches for the development of IMEX GLMs of arbitrary order with stages that can be solved in parallel. The first approach is based on diagonally implicit multistage integration methods (DIMSIMs) of types 3 and 4. The second is a parallel generalization of IMEX Euler and has the interesting feature that the linear stability is independent of the order of accuracy. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical rates of convergence and reveal that the new schemes are more efficient than serial IMEX GLMs and IMEX Runge-Kutta methods.
D(18F,pa)15N reaction applied to nova gamma-ray emission
Creators: name: de Sereville, N.
name: Coc, A.
name: Angulo, C.
name: Assuncao, M.
name: Beaumel, D.
name: Bouzid, B.
name: Cherubini, S.
name: Couder, M.
name: Demaret, P.
name: Santos, F. de Oliveira
name: Figuera, P.
name: Fortier, S.
name: Gaelens, M.
name: Hammache, F.
name: Kiener, J.
name: Labar, D.
name: Lefebvre, A.
name: Leleux, P.
name: Loiselet, M.
name: Ninane, A.
name: Ouichaoui, S.
name: Ryckewaert, G.
name: Smirnova, N.
name: Tatischeff, V.
name: Thibaud, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 18F(p,alpha)15O reaction is recognized to be one of the most important reactions for nova gamma-ray astronomy as it governs the early E <= 511keV gamma emission. However in the nova temperature regime, its rate remains largely uncertain due to unknown low-energy resonance strengths. We report here the measurement of the D(18F,p)19F(alpha)15N one-nucleon transfer reaction, induced by a 14 MeV 18F radioactive beam impinging on a CD2 target; outgoing protons and 15N (or alpha-particles) were detected in coincidence in two silicon strip detectors. A DWBA analysis of the data resulted in new limits to the contribution of low-energy resonances to the rate of the 18F(p,alpha)15O reaction.
description: Rapid Communication to appear in Phys. Rev. C., 4 pages and 4 figures
Correction of floor laying in duck by the provision of floor litter, nest type and nesting material
Creators: name: Nahar, N.
name: Howlider, M. A. R.
name: Chowdhury, S. D.
name: Nahar, N.
name: Howlider, M. A. R.
name: Chowdhury, S. D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Floor laying
subject: Correction
subject: Floor litter
subject: Nest type
subject: Nesting materials

description: A total of 72 forty weeks old Jending ducks having history of. floor laying were placed on either Rice husk (RH) or Saw dust (SD) floor litters. They were given choice to lay eggs either in top or bottom tier to lay on either RH, SD, Chopped Rice Straw (CRS) or Sand (SA) as nesting materials for a period of 60 days. The purpose was to observe whether floor laying is corrected by the provision of floor litter, nest tier and nesting material. The choice of laying site as influenced by those provisions was also examined. Provision of floor litter, nest and nesting material increased proportion of egg laid in nest and within 20 days of experimental period. Floor laying was totally corrected and persisted up to the end of the experiment. Egg weight, rate of lay and live weight did not vary (P>0.05) between floor litters. Slightly heavier eggs were laid in bottom tier than that in top tier. More eggs were laid in bottom tier than that in top tier. Proportionately, more eggs were laid on RH and CRS than that on SD and SA nesting materials. Significantly more time was spent to lay eggs on SA nesting materials, but time spending did not vary (P>0,05) among RH, CRS and SD nesting materials. Few ducks had tendency to accumulate their eggs to sit on. Placing previous eggs in the nest encouraged to lay in nest. It was concluded that provision of proper litter, nest and nesting materials might totally correct floor laying in ducks. RH and CRS seemed to be best, SD intermediate and SA in worst nesting materials. Placing two storied nest may satisfy the need of ducks of varying live weight to lay in nest.
Macropyxis Maddocks 1990
Creators: name: Brandão, Simone N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Macrocyprididae
Macropyxis

description: GENUS MACROPYXIS MADDOCKS, 1990 (FIGS 14–29)
 Type species (original binomen): Macrocypris sapeloensis Darby, 1965 (original designation).
 Additional species (listed by original binomen): Macropyxis adrecta Maddocks, 1990; Macrocypris adriatica Breman, 1975; Macropyxis adunca Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis amanda Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis amoena Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis andreseni Jellinek & Swanson, 2003; Macropyxis antonbruunae Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis arta Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis audens Maddocks, 1990; Macrocypris bathyalensis Hulings, 1967; Macropyxis eltaninae Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis improcera Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis kaesleri Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis kalbi Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis kornickeri Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis labutisi Maddocks, 1990; Macrocypris longanavan den Bold, 1960; Macrocypris rhodanavan den Bold, 1960; Macrocypris similis Brady, 1880; Macropyxis simulans Maddocks, 1990; Macropyxis sonneae Jellinek & Swanson, 2003; Macropyxis steinecki Maddocks, 1990; Macrocypris tenuicauda Brady, 1880; Macropyxis thiedei Jellinek & Swanson, 2003.
description: Published as part of Brandão, Simone N., 2010, Macrocyprididae (Ostracoda) from the Southern Ocean: taxonomic revision, macroecological patterns, and biogeographical implications, pp. 567-672 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159 (3) on page 595, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00624.x, http://zenodo.org/record/4890076
A fractal geometry immersed in a hierarchical magnetic flux distribution
Creators: name: Pal, Biplab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fractal geometry presents us with a self-similarity in their pattern at various length scales that is prevalent in our natural world. We present theoretical model of a Sierpinski gasket (SPG) fractal geometry with a deterministic perturbation in the form of a hierarchical distribution of magnetic flux. Such flux configuration induces a deterministic disorder in the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phases picked up by the electron wavefunction. Using the tight-binding formalism, we show that by tunning the strength of the hierarchy parameter of those AB phases, one can systematically engineer quantum states in a SPG fractal lattice. In addition to this, we have also observed that by controlling the strength of this hierarchy parameter in the magnetic flux, one can effectively regulate the persistent current in the SPG fractal structure. This characteristic is found to be true for various filling factors. Our results could be useful for designing nanoelectronic devices using molecular fractal structures fabricated by chemical synthesis technique.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures; Sierpinski gasket (SPG) fractal geometry; Hierarchical magnetic flux; Accepted for publication in JAP
Comparative efficacy of experimentally prepared washed cell and formalin killed fowl cholera vaccines
Creators: name: Akand, M. S. I.
name: Choudhury, K. A.
name: Rahman, M. M.
name: Kabir, S. M. L.
name: Sarkar, S. K.
name: Akand, M. S. I.
name: Choudhury, K. A.
name: Rahman, M. M.
name: Kabir, S. M. L.
name: Sarkar, S. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: An experiment was conducted to determine the comparative efficacy of experimentally prepared washed cell (WC) and formalin killed (FK) fowl cholera vaccines with virulent avian Pasteurella multocida (PM38) serotype 1 (X-73). Primary vaccination was given through IM route in each birds of groups A (immunized with washed cell fowl cholera vaccine) and B (immunized with formalin killed fowl cholera vaccine). Booster dose was given through SC route after 15 days of primary vaccination. Sera were collected from the birds at 15, 21, 28 and 42 days post-vaccination. The degree of antibody levels of pre-vaccination and post vaccination sera were determined by passive haemagglutination test (PHA). Sera mean PHA titres at 15, 21, 28 and 42 days post-vaccination ingroups A and B were 30.4±4.43 -and 43.2±5.87, 46.4±6.06 and 60.8±8.86, 67.2±11.14 and 96.00±10.67 and 134.4±22.28 and 204.8±20.90 respectively. The present results revealed that both FKFC vaccine and WCFC vaccine worked satisfactory in terms of protection rate against Avian pasteurellosis. It was also demonstrated that experimental FKFC vaccine conferred 100% protection against challenge infection when WCFC vaccine protected 80% vaccinated birds.
Chaetodipus SICCUS
Creators: name: Álvarez-Castañeda, Sergio Ticul
name: Rios, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Heteromyidae
Chaetodipus

description: CHAETODIPUS SICCUS
 Distribution: The original distribution of C. a. siccus was Cerralvo Island (geographical group 29), which is close to the south-eastern coast of the peninsula. However, specimens of the C. arenarius complex collected in the Los Planes Basin (geographical group 31) are genetically similar to the Cerralvo Island population. Los Planes Basin is surrounded by mountain ranges on three sides and opens to the Gulf of California facing Cerralvo Island, which is 11 km off the coast (Gastil, Minch & Phillips, 1983). The relatively high ridges isolate the population from other species in the C. arenarius complex (C. dalquesti and C. arenarius).
 Diagnosis: Following Osgood (1907), C. siccus is similar to C. arenarius; however, externally it is decidedly larger than C. arenarius, with very weak or rarely present rump bristles. The skull is decidedly larger and heavier; the mastoids are somewhat larger and have broad ascending branches of the supraoccipital ridge.
 Subspecific taxonomy: No genetic or morphological differences were found amongst the specimens from the basin and the island. The evidence does not support the designation of any subspecies as C. siccus.
 Comments: The five specimens from Cerralvo Island have the same haplotype.
description: Published as part of Álvarez-Castañeda, Sergio Ticul & Rios, Evelyn, 2011, Revision of Chaetodipus arenarius (Rodentia: Heteromyidae), pp. 213-228 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (1) on pages 226-227, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00630.x, http://zenodo.org/record/4890237
Refinements of A-numerical radius inequalities and their applications
Creators: name: Bhunia, Pintu
name: Nayak, Raj Kumar
name: Paul, Kallol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present sharp lower bounds for the A-numerical radius of semi-Hilbertian space operators. We also present an upper bound. Further we compute new upper bounds for the $B$-numerical radius of $2 \times 2$ operator matrices where $B = \textit{diag}(A,A)$, $A$ being a positive operator. As an application of the A-numerical radius inequalities, we obtain a bound for the zeros of a polynomial which is quite a bit improvement of some famous existing bounds for the zeros of polynomials.
description: 13 pages