cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Challenge and Barriers in Traditional and Agile Project Management Framework and Strategies Implemented by Successful Mulinational Companies to deal with these Problems
Creators: name: Bhavsar, Dipen
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Projects for SMEs
subject: Organizational Strategies
subject: Synergy
subject: Project Management Framework
subject: Project Environment

description: With globalization, unpredictability in business and project management has been increased. Many direct or indirect external or internal factors have affected the successful execution of multinational companies' cross-border projects globally. According to the Research Organizational Culture, Socio-Economic Factors, Cross-National Culture, and Top Management ideology influence the global project team's performance. The aim of this research is to simplify and document traditional and agile project framework challenges and how the multinational companies implement strategies in consultation with their PMO (Project Management Office) to drive the project to success. International companies have both project frameworks in place to their portfolio categorized based on their business segment. They efficiently accomplish the desired project performance and results and justify the project objective despite the varying dissimilarities in the project teams' challenges in the traditional and agile project framework. The Project performance evaluation technique help identify the success factors of the efforts taken to mitigate the challenges and barriers in the projects. We examine the moderating strategies thoroughly and signify the main consequence of applying the unique methodology to achieve acceptable results, which can be further exemplified as a reference for other industries. The study's outcome will be resourceful to the small-middle scale industries to conduct and conclude their projects to the success despite the obstacles and constraints to increase the project success ratio and attain sustainable industrial growth.
Modelling of Distributional Impacts of Energy Subsidy Reforms: an Illustration with Indonesia
Creators: name: Durand-Lasserve, Olivier
name: Campagnolo, Lorenza
name: Chateau, Jean
name: Dellink, Rob
name: Durand-Lasserve, Olivier
name: Campagnolo, Lorenza
name: Chateau, Jean
name: Dellink, Rob
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Computable General Equilibrium Model
subject: Households’ Heterogeneity
subject: Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms
subject: Distributional Impacts
subject: Indonesia

description: This report develops an analytical framework that assesses the macroeconomic, environmental and distributional consequences of energy subsidy reforms. The framework is applied to the case of Indonesia to study the consequences in this country of a gradual phase out of all energy consumption subsidies between 2012 and 2020. The energy subsidy estimates used as inputs to this modelling analysis are those calculated by the International Energy Agency, using a synthetic indicator known as “price gaps”. The analysis relies on simulations made with an extended version of the OECD’s ENV-Linkages model. The phase out of energy consumption subsidies was simulated under three stylised redistribution schemes: direct payment on a per household basis, support to labour incomes, and subsidies on food products. The modelling results in this report indicate that if Indonesia were to remove its fossil fuel and electricity consumption subsidies, it would record real GDP gains of 0.4% to 0.7% in 2020, according to the redistribution scheme envisaged. The redistribution through direct payment on a per household basis performs best in terms of GDP gains. The aggregate gains for consumers in terms of welfare are higher, ranging from 0.8% to 1.6% in 2020. Both GDP and welfare gains arise from a more efficient allocation of resources across sectors resulting from phasing out energy subsidies. Meanwhile, a redistribution scheme through food subsidies tends to create other inefficiencies. The simulations show that the redistribution scheme ultimately matters in determining the overall distributional performance of the reform. Cash transfers, and to a lesser extent food subsidies, can make the reform more attractive for poorer households and reduce poverty. Mechanisms that compensate households via payments proportional to labour income are, on the contrary, more beneficial to higher income households and increase poverty. This is because households with informal labour earnings, which are not eligible for these payments, are more represented among the poor. The analysis also shows that phasing out energy subsidies is projected to reduce Indonesian CO2 emissions from fuel combustion by 10.8% to 12.6% and GHG emissions by 7.9% to 8.3%, in 2020 in the various scenarios, with respect to the baseline. These emission reductions exclude emissions from deforestation, which are large but highly uncertain and for which the model cannot make reliable projections.
Viscosity, non-conformal equation of state and sound velocity in Landau hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Biswas, Deeptak
name: Deka, Kishan
name: Jaiswal, Amaresh
name: Roy, Sutanu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find an analytical solution to relativistic viscous hydrodynamics for a 1+1 dimensional Landau flow profile. We consider relativistic Navier-Stokes form of the dissipative hydrodynamic equation, for a non-conformal system with a constant speed of sound, and employ the obtained solution to fit rapidity spectrum of observed pions in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 200, 17.3, 12.3, 8.76, 7.62, 6.27, 4.29, 3.83, 3.28 and 2.63 GeV collision energies. We find that at the freeze-out hypersurface with improved Landau's freeze-out prescription, the viscous corrections do not affect the rapidity spectra. We demonstrate that the solution of the non-conformal Landau flow lead to a better agreement with the experimental data compared to the conformal ideal solution. We also extract speed of sound from fit to the rapidity spectra for various collision energies and find a monotonous decrease with decreasing collision energies. Appealing to the fact that viscosity has negligible effect on rapidity spectra for Landau's freeze-out scenario, we argue that our calculations provides a framework for extracting the average value of speed of sound in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, published version
Choice of Enterprise Form: Spain, 1886-1936
Creators: name: Guinnane, Timothy
name: Martinez Rodriguez, Susana
name: Guinnane, Timothy
name: Martinez Rodriguez, Susana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Law and finance
subject: law and economics
subject: legal form of enterprise
subject: Spanish economic history
subject: limited partnership
subject: limited-liability company

description: Economists have long neglected study of an important contractual decision, a firm’s choice of legal form. Enterprise form shapes the relations among a firm’s owners as well as many features of a firm’s interactions with the rest of the economy. Using unusual firm-level data on Spain 1886-1936, we estimate nested logit models of the determinants of enterprise form choice. In 1919, Spain introduced a new enterprise form that compromised between partnerships and corporations, and displaced larger partnerships and smaller corporations. This Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada was especially important for small and median-sized enterprises whose owners were not related.
Relation between radio core length and black hole mass for active galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Cao, Xinwu
name: Jiang, D. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the relation between the linear length of radio core and the central black hole mass for a sample of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs). An empirical relation between the size of the broad line region (BLR) and optical luminosity is used to estimate the size of the BLR. The black hole mass is derived from $\rm H_β$ line width and the radius of the BLR on the assumption that the clouds in BLRs are orbiting with Keplerian velocities. A significant intrinsic correlation is found between the linear length of the core and the black hole mass, which implies that the jet formation is closely related with the central black hole. We also find a strong correlation between the black hole mass and the core luminosity.
description: 7 pages, one table and additional references are added, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Informationen für die sexuelle Selbstbildung in deutschsprachigen Vlogs von Trans*Männern
Creators: name: Hülswitt, Jonas
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Vlogs
subject: YouTube
subject: Trans*
subject: sexuelle Bildung
subject: DDC::3** Sozialwissenschaften::37* Bildung und Erziehung::370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: Trans*Vlogs, also Video-Tagebücher von trans*Personen, werden von vielen trans*Personen zur Selbstbildung genutzt. Das Ziel der Masterarbeit ist es, den Nutzen der Vlogs deutschsprachiger trans*Männer für die sexuellen Selbstbildung ihrer Konsument*innen, insbesondere anderer trans*Männer, herauszufinden. Dafür werden die folgenden Forschungsfragen gestellt: „Welche Aspekte der Sexualität von trans*Männern werden in deutschsprachigen Vlogs von trans*Männern, auf YouTube thematisiert?“ und „Wie werden die Vlogs von den Zuschauer*innen genutzt?“ Um die Forschungsfragen zu beantworten werden 10 YouTube-Videos untersucht, in denen Trans*Vlogger das Thema „Sex“ behandeln. Sowohl die Videos, als auch die dazugehörigen Kommentarspalten werden im Rahmen der inhaltlich strukturierenden qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse nach Kuckartz (2018) analysiert. Die Untersuchung der Videos zeigt, dass in den beforschten Vlogs körperlich/technische, psychische und zwischenmenschliche Aspekte einer ge- oder misslingenden Sexualität thematisiert werden. Dabei wird ein nicht-idealisiertes, authentisches und vielschichtiges Bild von Sexualität entworfen. Darüber hinaus wird praktisches und anwendungsbezogenes Wissen transportiert. Die Auswertung der Kommentarspalten zeigt zum einen, dass Zuschauer*innen die Videos für die Selbstbildung nutzen, zum anderen, dass in den Kommentarspalten Räume des Wissenstransfers und des Meinungsaustausches zu den Themen Trans* und Sexualität entstehen. Der Autor kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die Vlogs einen hohen Nutzen für die sexuelle Selbstbildung ihrer Zuschauer*innen haben.
Dwarf Galaxy Discoveries from the KMTNet Supernova Program II. The NGC 3585 Group and Its Dynamical State
Creators: name: Park, Hong Soo
name: Moon, Dae-Sik
name: Zaritsky, Dennis
name: Kim, Sang Chul
name: Lee, Youngdae
name: Cha, Sang-Mok
name: Lee, Yongseok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our discovery and analysis of dwarf galaxies in the NGC 3585 galaxy group by the KMTNet Supernova Program. Using deep stack images reaching $\simeq$ 28 mag arcsec$^{-2}$ in $BVI$, we discovered 46 dwarf galaxy candidates distributed in a 7 square degree field. The dwarf galaxy candidates exhibit central surface brightness as faint as $μ_{0,V} = 26.2$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$, with effective radii larger than 150 pc and total absolute magnitudes brighter than $M_V \approx -10$ mag, if at the distance of NGC 3585. The dwarf galaxy surface number density decreases with projected distance from NGC 3585. We estimate the background contamination to be about 20% based both on the number density profile and on diffuse galaxy counts in a control field. The dwarf galaxy colors and Sersic structural parameters are consistent with those found for other dwarf galaxies. Unusually, there is no indication of a change of color or brightness in the dwarf galaxy candidates with projected distance from the group center. Approximately 20% of them contain an unresolved nucleus. The nucleated fraction is larger for brighter (and redder) galaxies but is independent of distance from the group center. We identify four ultra-diffuse galaxy candidates, all near the group center. We interpret these spatial properties as suggesting that the NGC 3585 group might be dynamically younger than the typical group. The galaxy luminosity function of the NGC 3585 group has a faint-end slope of $α\approx -1.39$, which is roughly consistent with the slopes found for other nearby groups. The possible dependence of the slope on global group properties is still unclear, and continues to motivate our homogeneous deep survey of dozens of nearby groups.
description: 40 pages, 15 figues, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Relativistic electronic dressing
Creators: name: Attaourti, Y.
name: Manaut, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of the relativistic electronic dressing in laser-assisted electron-hydrogen atom elastic collisions. We begin by considering the case when no radiation is present. This is necessary in order to check the consistency of our calculations and we then carry out the calculations using the relativistic Dirac-Volkov states. It turns out that a simple formal analogy links the analytical expressions of the differential cross section without laser and the differential cross section in presence of a laser field.
description: 11 pages, 18 figures, Latex
title: Design and synthesis of novel DNA-inspired amphiphiles
Creators: name: Ng, Kendrick
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Antimicrobial resistance has become a major threat to mankind during the last century, no new antimicrobials have been discovered and pharmaceutical companies are no longer investing in the development of new antimicrobials. Due to the overuse and misuse of antibiotics, bacteria are evolving faster than ever. Research has shown that conventional antibiotics, that target specific enzymes, are becoming less effective, whereas amphiphilic antibiotics are still functional. This study aims at developing the efficacy of a novel class of amphiphilic compounds. Building on the work of Hiscock et al., DNA inspired amphiphiles, adenine analogue and thymine, were synthesised and its properties in the solid state, gas phase and solution state were studied. Analysis of the compounds shows that in the solid state, they tend to form extended structures with several binding modes and in the gas phase the low complex aggregates are visible, showing the strength of the interactions. In the solution state, the amphiphiles tend to form low complex species in DMSO, whereas in a H2O: EtOH 19:1 solution, the amphiphiles tend to form extended aggregates (> 100 nm). An investigation of 1:1 mixture of the adenine and thymine compounds was also carried out and the results show similar properties to the other compounds, however, the interactions between the amphiphiles were found to be weak. Antimicrobial screening of the amphiphiles and the mixture shows only the thymine inspired amphiphile inhibits bacterial growth. Based on these results, we can conclude the use of an analogue of adenine has impacted the strength of the complementary base pair interaction, therefore, the amphiphile will be resynthesised with a greater resemblance to adenine.
Getting a Leg Up or Pulling it Down? Interpersonal Comparisons and Destructive Actions: Experimental Evidence from Bolivia
Creators: name: Zeballos, Eliana
name: Zeballos, Eliana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Interpersonal comparisons Destructive behavior Envy

description: Accumulating research has shown that individuals’ welfare is affected not only by the absolute amount of resources at their command but also, by their relative position vis-a-vis others. Individuals' concerns about their relative positions may influence individuals’ choices and affect their behavior. For example, upward interpersonal comparisons may spur individuals to reduce consumption gaps by increasing effort or investment to "catch-up" or by "pulling-down" others through destructive actions. "Pulling down" other more successful individuals may have both direct and indirect detrimental effects on productivity and efficiency. On one hand, welfare is reduced directly as the other’s output is destroyed and one’s resources are consumed. In addition, the threat of destructive actions may lead to lower levels of effort and investment. In order to empirically examine how interpersonal comparisons affect effort levels, the prevalence of destructive actions, and how the threat of destructive actions affect effort levels; I designed a set of behavioral games that build on the two-stage "money burning" game. I introduce a simple effort task in the first stage. Specifically, earnings depend on the number of beans individuals separate from a container full of beans and rice. The experimental games were carried out in Bolivia among 285 dairy farmers. I find that when destructive actions are not allowed, positional concerns matter for the bottom half of the earnings distribution. When rankings were revealed to the participants, those below the group mean earnings increased their effort by 7.5%. When I allow for destructive actions, 55% of people are willing to forego higher own-consumption in order to "destroy" others’ output; 58% were victims to destructive action and lost on average 34% of their earnings. There is an asymmetry in direction of destruction, 98.3% of the highest earners suffered some destruction, while only 23.7% of the lowest earners were victims to destruction actions. Finally, the threat of destructive actions reduced highest earners’ effort by 6%.
Le riflessioni di Albertino Mussato sulla poesia nelle Epistole scientifico-erudite
Creators: name: Lombardo, Luca
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

Among the twenty metric Epistles ascribable to Albertino Mussato, a line of scientific texts can be recognised, arising from the occasion of curious natural events that had caught the erudite interest of the Paduan poet or some of his contemporary interlocutors. These five epistles, although drawing inspiration from unusual physical-natural or astronomical phenomena and starting from an occasional pretext, very often open to topics other than the main one: these simple curiosities, as a matter of fact, are the starting point for digressions around the themes that were most traditionally dear to humanistic disputes on poetry, triggering metaliterary considerations by the poet, who exposes and defends his own conception of poetic art on the basis of the model of the ancient poets, of whom he aims to retrace the footsteps with humanistic fidelity. Thus, it may happen to find arguments traditionally developed in the epistles in defence of the veracity of poetry even among the unsuspected zoological ruminations to which the epistle on the birth of a lioness, intended for the Venetian grammar master Giovanni Cassio, is dedicated, or to find programmatic declarations of poetics within an epistle on astronomical questions solicited by a curious Dominican friar from the convent of Sant’Agostino in Padua.

description: Quaderni Veneti
Like-Charge Colloid-Polyelectrolyte Complexation
Creators: name: Messina, Rene
name: Holm, Christian
name: Kremer, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the complexation of a highly charged sphere with a long flexible polyelectrolyte, \textit{both negatively charged} in salt free environment. Electroneutrality is insured by the presence of divalent counterions. Using molecular dynamics (MD) within the framework of the primitive model, we consider different Coulomb coupling regimes. At strong Coulomb coupling we find that the adsorbed chain is always confined to the colloidal surface but forms different conformations that depend on the linear charge density of the chain. A mechanism involving the polyelectrolyte \textit{overcharging} is proposed to explain these structures. At intermediate Coulomb coupling, the chain conformation starts to become three-dimensional, and we observe multilayering of the highly charged chain while for lower charge density the chain wraps around the colloid. At weak Coulomb coupling, corresponding to an aqueous solvent, we still find like-charge complexation. In this latter case the chain conformation exhibits loops.
description: 18 pages, 13 (main) eps figures, RevTeX4, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Transboundary Capital and Pollution Flows and the Emergence of Regional Inequalities
Creators: name: Levin, Simon
name: Xepapadeas, Anastasios
name: Levin, Simon
name: Xepapadeas, Anastasios
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Transboundary Flows
subject: Capital
subject: Pollution
subject: Diffusion
subject: Turing Instability
subject: Spatial Heterogeneity

description: We seek to explain the emergence of spatial heterogeneity regarding development and pollution on the basis of interactions associated with the movement of capital and polluting activities from one economy to another. We use a simple dynamical model describing capital accumulation along the lines of a fixed-savings-ratio Solow-type model capable of producing endogenous growth and convergence behavior, and pollution accumulation in each country with pollution diffusion between countries or regions. The basic mechanism underlying the movements of capital across space is the quest for locations where the marginal productivity of capital is relatively higher than the productivity at the location of origin. The notion that capital moves to locations of relatively higher productivity but not necessarily from locations of high concentration to locations of low concentration, does not face difficulties associated with the Lucas paradox. We show that, for a wide range of capital and pollution rates of flow, spatial heterogeneity emerges even between two economies with identical fundamental structures. These results can be interpreted as suggesting that the neoclassical convergence hypothesis might not hold under differential rates of flow of capital and polluting activities among countries of the same fundamental structure.
«Che volete mo’, ch’io guasti un libro?»
Creators: name: Giani, Marco
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The Venetian political writer Paolo Paruta presented Filippo Mocenigo, the last Catholic Archbishop of Nicosia (Cyprus) before the Ottoman conquest, as an important character of his 1579 dialogue Della Perfettione della vita politica. Mocenigo, a most prominent member of the contemplative party, is depicted by Paruta as a sort of bishop-philosopher, very optimistic about the fact that Aristotelian philosophy (as it was still taught in the University of Padua in the mid-16th century) could help the search for human reason. Yet, Mocenigo was persecuted by the Roman Inquisition for his not-fully orthodox religious beliefs. In the essay, a comparison between Mocenigo as historical man and Mocenigo as Perfettionez/em>’s fictional character is developed.

description: Quaderni Veneti
Spatial Investigation of Mineral Transportation Characteristics in the State of Washington
Creators: name: Khachatryan, Hayk
name: Jessup, Eric L.
name: Khachatryan, Hayk
name: Jessup, Eric L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Public Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Highway construction and maintenance relies heavily upon mined aggregates as a core ingredient. The proximity of aggregate mine sites to highway or other construction locations is an important issue since the total project costs are highly affected by transportation cost/efficiency and also deterioration of the existing highway infrastructure as influenced by frequent, heavy shipments traveling long distances. Likewise, the transportation costs for hauling mined aggregates are minimized when shipments are loaded to capacity payload weights. This is the first attempt in a series of forthcoming studies to explore mineral shipment characteristics with a spatial regression model. A comprehensive survey was conducted to determine both the location and type of need for road improvements. This study investigates the spatial relationships between construction aggregate shipments and the hauling trucks’ payload weights as it pertains to highway deterioration in the State of Washington. Many studies have examined the relationship between transportation cost and construction unit productivity but there’s minimal information available pertaining to the relationship between payload weights, shipment distances and highway deterioration. To identify impacted highway segments resulting from aggregates shipments, mine locations and shipment distances in cooperation with payload weights are examined. Naturally, spatial nonstationarity of the data is possible whenever any process takes place over many different geographical locations. As such, it’s appropriate and necessary to test the mining industry data for spatial dependences. As a result, the paper employs a spatial error regression model with distance based weights matrix to address spatial autocorrelation, to capture the interaction between spatial units and to predict the incremental change in payload weights resulting from increasing hauling distance. Results show a highly significant positive relationship between payload weights and increasing shipment distances.
Geometric Applications of Linear and Nonlinear Potential Theory
Creators: name: Fogagnolo, Mattia
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: We provide geometric inequalities on $R^n$ and on general manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature by employing suitable monotone quantities along the flow of capacitary and $p$-capacitary potentials, as well as through related boundary value problems. Among the main achievements, we cite
[(i)] a Willmore-type inequality on manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature leading in turn to the sharp Isoperimetric Inequality on $3$-manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature ;
[(ii)] enhanced Kasue/Croke-Kleiner splitting theorems ;
[(iii)] a generalised Minkowski-type inequality in $R^n$ holding with no assumptions on the boundary of the domain considered except for smoothness ;
[(iv)] a complete discussion of maximal volume solutions to the least area problem with obstacle on Riemannian manifolds and its relation
with the variational $p$-capacity.
Points rationnels dans leur fibre: compléments à un théorème de Poonen
Creators: name: Moret-Bailly, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14 A15, 14 D99

description: Soit $f:X\to S$ un morphisme surjectif et de présentation finie de schémas intègres. Lorsque $S$ est de type fini sur un corps ou sur $\mathbb{Z}$, et de dimension $>0$, Poonen a montré qu'il existe un point $x\in X$ dont le corps résiduel $κ(x)$ est une extension radicielle de $κ(f(x))$. Dans ce travail, on prolonge ce résultat de plusieurs façons. D'abord, on peut choisir $x$ tel que $f(x)$ soit un point de codimension $1$ de $S$; si $S$ est lisse sur un corps $k$, on peut exiger que $κ(f(x))$ soit séparable sur $k$. Dans une autre direction, on montre des résultats analogues pour d'autres classes de schémas $S$, par exemple les schémas noethériens intègres de dimension $\geq2$. Let $f:X\to S$ be a morphism of integral schemes, which is surjective and of finite presentation. When $S$ is of finite type over a field or over $\mathbb{Z}$, of positive dimension, Poonen has shown that there is a point $x\in X$ whose residue field $κ(x)$ is purely inseparable over $κ(f(x))$. In this paper, we extend this result in several ways. First we prove that we can take $x$ such that $f(x)$ is a codimension $1$ point of $S$; if $S$ is smooth over a fiel $k$, we can require $κ(f(x))$ to be separable over $k$. In another direction, we prove that similar results hold for other schemes $S$, such as noetherian integral schemes of dimension $\geq2$.
description: 15 pages, in French. Major revision, with new results. Accepted for publication in JTNB
Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations
Creators: name: Traag, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Articles in high-impact journals are, on average, more frequently cited. But are they cited more often because those articles are somehow more "citable"? Or are they cited more often simply because they are published in a high-impact journal? Although some evidence suggests the latter, the causal relationship is not clear. We here compare citations of preprints to citations of the published version to uncover the causal mechanism. We build on an earlier model of citation dynamics to infer the causal effect of journals on citations. We find that high-impact journals select articles that tend to attract more citations. At the same time, we find that high-impact journals augment the citation rate of published articles. Our results yield a deeper understanding of the role of journals in the research system. The use of journal metrics in research evaluation has been increasingly criticized in recent years and article-level citations are sometimes suggested as an alternative. Our results show that removing impact factors from evaluation does not negate the influence of journals. This insight has important implications for changing practices of research evaluation.
Ulisse a Venezia
Creators: name: Carpinato, Caterina
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The comedy Rodiana (Venice 1542), written by Andrea Calmo, opens with a quote in Greek from a passage of the Odyssey, uttered by a doctor from Rhodes. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the historical, linguistic, and cultural context of Venice in the mid-sixteenth century, during which Greeks and Greek language (ancient and spoken) played quite an important role. The analysis of the text allows to identify, albeit under the literary guise, some elements to understand several aspects of daily life in Venice in the age of Tintoretto.

description: Quaderni Veneti
PREPARING TOMORROW’S TRANSPORTATION WORKFORCE PROFESSIONAL
Creators: name: Toole, Joseph S.
name: Toole, Christine L.
name: Toole, Joseph S.
name: Toole, Christine L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The success and value of transportation, whether rail, air, highway, maritime or any other mode, is ultimately dependent on people. However, there are a number of factors that are currently affecting this mix that should be cause for concern. First, we are facing the retirement of a large number of “baby boomers” that have been the foundation of many transportation organizations. At the same time, low birth rates in the 1970-1980’s have resulted in a general shortage of new entrants in the American workforce. In addition to the smaller general workforce, a lower proportion of these young people are pursuing technical disciplines such as engineering that are critical to transportation. This gap in the transportation workforce comes at a time in which the skills needed to work in the transportation field are changing and expanding. Given this backdrop, the transportation industry needs to be looking at how it can attract and retain the workforce it needs in the future. In particular, there is a need to look further back into the “pipeline” to reach students, and provide them with the early education and personal experiences that can attract them to this field.
Vergärung stickstoffreicher Biogassubstrate in Kombination mit Gärrestaufbereitung mittels Anammox im Pilotmaßstab
Creators: name: Najimi, Abdelilah
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Verfahren zur Gärrestaufbereitung
subject: anaerobe Behandlung von Wirtschaftsdüngern
subject: Stickstoffhemmung
subject: Stickstoffeliminierung mittels Anammox- Verfahren
subject: 668

description: Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit soll die Vergärung einer landwirtschaftlichen Substratmischung mit hohem Hühnermist Anteil und die nachfolgende Behandlung der Gärreste (Stickstoffreduzierung) mittels Anammox-Verfahren an einer Pilotanlage untersucht werden. Der Betrieb der Pilotanlage dient der Ermittlung von Kenngrößen (Ammoniumstickstoff-Gehalt, TKN-Umsatz) als Grundlage zur Massenbilanzierung für das Stoffstrommanagement an Praxisanlagen und zur Dimensionierung der biologischen Stickstoffreduzierung.
Additional file 10: of Cambrian suspension-feeding tubicolous hemichordates
Creators: name: Nanglu, Karma
name: Jean-Bernard Caron
name: Morris, Simon Conway
name: Cameron, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Major morphological differences between the two Cambrian, tubicolous enteropneusts Spartobranchus tenuis (top box) and Oesia disjuncta (middle box): (1) S. tenuis is thin and elongate and the trunk much more variable in width compared to O. disjuncta, which is stout and does not vary in width across the length of the trunk; (2) the pharyngeal gill bars are restricted to approximately 10–20 % of the total trunk length [10] in S. tenuis, but extend approximately 80 % of the total trunk length in O. disjuncta; (3) S. tenuis possesses an esophageal organ while O. disjuncta does not; (4) S. tenuis has a bulbous terminal structure while O. disjuncta has a claw-shaped terminal apparatus; also the tube of S. tenuis has an externally corrugated but smooth texture with no evidence of pores or openings (bottom box; ROM 94189, while the tube of O. disjuncta is fibrous, much larger and has helicoidally arranged openings of variable sizes (not illustrated in this figure). Scale bars for the line drawings: 1 cm, scale bars for the tube: 1 mm. (PDF 7926 kb)
How loud can Schwarzschild black holes ring?
Creators: name: Karkowski, Janusz
name: Malec, Edward
name: Swierczynski, Zdobyslaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerical procedure is described for the maximization of the energy diffusion due to the backscattering of the gravitational radiation. The obtained maxima are solutions dominated by low frequency waves. They give rise to robust gravitational ringing, with amplitudes of the order of the original signal.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
title: A Republic If You Can Keep It: Washington, DC’s Memorial to Ulysses S. Grant
Creators: name: Kimmage, Michael C.
Publisher: name: Center for Advanced Studies LMU
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 970 General history of North America
subject: FOS: History and Archaeology

description: Before the Capitol building in Washington, DC stands the largest equestrian statue in the United States. It depicts Ulysses S. Grant, president from 1869 to 1877 and the pivotal Northern General in the Civil War. The statue has a long history.
Dark Radiation and Localization of Gravity on the Brane
Creators: name: Neves, Rui
name: Vaz, Cenalo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the dynamics of a spherically symmetric dark radiation vaccum in the Randall-Sundrum brane world scenario. Under certain natural assumptions we show that the Einstein equations on the brane form a closed system. For a de Sitter brane we determine exact dynamical and inhomogeneous solutions which depend on the brane cosmological constant, on the dark radiation tidal charge and on its initial configuration. We define the conditions leading to singular or globally regular solutions. We also analyse the localization of gravity near the brane and show that a phase transition to a regime where gravity propagates away from the brane may occur at short distances during the collapse of positive dark energy density.
description: 7 pages, latex with 2 eps figures. Talk given by Rui Neves, Fourth International Workshop on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics, Algarve University, Faro, 5-7 September, 2002. To be published in the corresponding proceedings, World Scientific
«Solo cante barbare, eredità dell’altra guerra»
Creators: name: Demuru, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The aim of this paper is to highlight the quotations and allusions to World War I and Resistance songs in I piccoli maestri, the second novel by Luigi Meneghello published in 1964.

description: Quaderni Veneti
Tackling Prion Replication and Toxicity by Targeting the Cellular Prion Protein with Different Pharmacological Strategies
Creators: name: Biggi, Silvia
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2019

description: The great majority of therapeutic strategies tested so far for prion diseases, fatal transmissible neurodegenerative disorders, tackled PrPSc, the infectious isoform of the cellular prion protein (PrPC), with largely unsuccessful results. Conversely, targeting PrPC is a poorly explored strategy. In this thesis, I exploited the concepts of altering PrPC cell surface localization and tackling PrPC-mediated cytotoxicity to design two different screening paradigms and study the effect of novel anti-prion compounds. We recently shed light on the mode of action of chlorpromazine, an anti-psychotic drug known to inhibit prion replication and toxicity by inducing the re-localization of PrPC from the plasma membrane. Unfortunately, chlorpromazine possesses pharmacokinetic properties unsuitable for chronic use in vivo, namely low specificity and high toxicity. In the first part of my thesis, I employed cells expressing EGFP-PrP to carry out a semi-automated high content screening (HCS) of a chemical library directed at identifying non-cytotoxic molecules capable of specifically re-localizing PrPC from the plasma membrane as well as inhibiting prion replication and toxicity in cell cultures. I found four candidate hits inducing a significant reduction in cell surface PrPC, one of which also inhibited prion propagation and toxicity in cell cultures in a strain-independent fashion. In a previous publication, an artificial mutant of PrPC (?CR), sensitizing cells to several cationic antibiotics as Zeocin, was used to screen a library of compounds rescuing Zeocin-induced cytotoxicity. However, the main hit of the screening, named LD24, had low efficiency and high toxicity. In the second part of my thesis, I coupled cycles of chemical rearrangement and screening steps using ?CR cells, to test a small library of derivatives of LD24 and validated the selected compounds with a panel of cellular assays. I found that one molecule, SM231 and its derivative SM884, counteracted PrPC-mediated toxicity in cellular and ex vivo models of prion disease and Alzheimer's disease. Collectively, these studies define new screening methods and novel anti-prion compounds supporting the notion that removing PrPC from the cell surface and blocking its cytotoxicity could represent viable therapeutic strategies for prion diseases and other neurodegenerative conditions.
Mandatskonflikte der Sozialen Arbeit im Kontext von Migration : Anhand der Arbeitsbeziehung zwischen Sozialarbeiter*innen und Mitgliedern von Migrant*innenselbstorganisationen
Creators: name: Krekeler, Julia
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geflüchtetensozialarbeit
subject: Mandatskonflikte
subject: Migration
subject: DDC::300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::305 Soziale Gruppen

description: Das Ziel der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit ist es, die Mandate, die in der Beziehung zwischen Sozialarbeiter*innen und Mitgliedern von Migrant*innenselbstorganisationen (MSO) von Bedeutung sind, miteinander zu vergleichen und auf Gegensätzlichkeiten zu prüfen. Dabei wird Sozialarbeiter*innen ein Anstoß zur Reflexion ihrer widersprüchlichen Rolle innerhalb migrationspolitischer Zielsetzungen geboten. In der Thesis wird die Forschungsfrage erörtert, inwiefern sich aus der Arbeitsbeziehung zwischen Sozialarbeiter*innen und Mitgliedern von Migrant*innenselbstorganisationen Mandatskonflikte ergeben können. Die Fragestellung wurde sowohl auf theoretischer Ebene als auch in einem qualitativen Forschungsteil bearbeitet. Letzterer bestand aus einem leitfadengestützten Interview, das mithilfe der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse nach Mayring ausgewertet wurde. Als zentrales Ergebnis lässt sich anführen, dass sich lediglich indirekt solche Mandatskonflikte auf die Beziehung zwischen Sozialarbeiter*innen und MSO übertragen lassen, die im Bereich der Geflüchtetensozialarbeit generell auftreten. Dies sind zum einen eine Diskrepanz zwischen den Interessen migrantisierter Adressat*innen und den restriktiven Aspekten des staatlichen Mandats in Bezug auf Migration. Zum anderen besteht ein Gegensatz zwischen den Zielen der im Interview befragten sozialarbeitenden Person sowie der Idee einer Menschenrechtsprofession mit solchen Aspekten des staatlichen Mandats, die Exklusionsmechanismen und soziale Kontrolle beinhalten. Da es aktuell nicht möglich ist, entsprechende Aufträge abzulehnen, ohne das eigene Anstellungsverhältnis zu gefährden, liegt eine Dilemma-Situation für Sozialarbeiter*innen vor. Der Umgang mit dieser Situation stellt einen Themenbereich für weitere Forschungsprojekte dar. Auch wäre es relevant, weitere Personen innerhalb der Sozialen Arbeit zu ihrem Verhältnis zu Mitgliedern von Selbstorganisationen zu befragen, um ein umfassenderes Bild der Situation zu generieren.
Azioni collettive, strumenti di integrit� e trasparenza per il contrasto della corruzione nel settore pubblico e privato
Creators: name: Cozzio, Michele
name: Benacchio, Gian Antonio
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2019

description: Il volume raccoglie gli atti del Convegno tenutosi presso la Facolt� di Giurisprudenza dell?Universit� degli Studi di Trento il 18 maggio 2018, promosso in collaborazione con Transparency International Italia. Dalle relazioni traspare la vivacit� del confronto sui temi del contrasto alla corruzione, da parte di accademici, magistrati, funzionari, imprenditori, innovatori, esponenti della societ� civile. Non mancano suggerimenti per il miglioramento di regole, prassi e strumenti: dai risultati della ricerca ?Curiamo la corruzione?, che gettano le basi per una nuova generazione di Piani Triennali per la Prevenzione della Corruzione, meno formali, pi� inclusivi, modulabili secondo le capacit� degli enti (non secondo la logica one siz fits all), agli strumenti fondati sul coinvolgimento della societ� civile (Patti di integrit�) e delle imprese (Business Integrity Kit), alle soluzioni di frontiera che applicano logiche e metodi per la quantificazione economica degli impatti generati dall?applicazione dei sistemi anticorruzione.
Environmental factors in the MENA region: a swot analysis
Creators: name: Mulligan, Mark
name: Keulertz, Martin
name: McKee, Musa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: MENA region
Environmental and energy factor

description: The MENARA study area has undergone signifi cant transformation over twenty years decades, resulting from a combination of ideational and material factors. In this report, we examine the agnitude, distribution and trends in key environmental and energy factors that materially affect the economic, social and political profi le of the MENA region. We do this by conducting
 a geographical analysis and by building a web-based policy support system for understanding strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) at scales from pixel through regional to national considering environment, water, energy, food, economy and population, which we call the MENARA policy support system (PSS). It is a tool for scanning the horizon to identify material threats, opportunities and choke points that may precipitate confl ict, and it is designed to help thinking through locally appropriate policy responses. The MENARA PSS enables better understanding of material factors (climate, population, landscape, energy), which combine with elements of governance, politics and ideology to shape regions and determine trajectories of change at scales from local to global. We use the tool, combined with literature review and other available data, in order to examine strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats throughout the Middle East and North Africa (the MENARA study area) and in greater spatial detail for the country of Syria. Analyses indicate a complex pattern of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that produce challenges at the local scale, at the regional scale and, for some countries, also at the national scale. No one strength, weakness, opportunity or threat dominates, as different regions within each country have different SWOTs and different countries are affected by different magnitudes and types of SWOT. Understanding material factors and using them to generate a geographical prognosis at multiple scales for a region enables us to set the context for later ideational research in this region as part of the MENARA project. Ideational factors, after all, combine with material factors to generate trajectories for change which shape regions and their people. It is not the purpose of this report to analyse relationships between these environmental factors and conflict or ideational factors: by providing an easily used environmental policy support system, we provide the tools by which local, national and regional experts may do that. The MENARA tool can be used by anyone with a web browser and knowledge of the region to dig
 deeper into these relationships, and should be useful both within the MENARA project and outside the MENARA project in a policy support context.
NLP-based requirements modeling: experiments on the quality of the modelsTechnical Report
Creators: name: Kiyavitskaya, Nadzeya
name: Zeni, Nicola
name: Mich, Luisa
name: Mylopoulos, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Universit� di Trento. Dipartimento di ingegneria e scienza dell'informazione
Year: 2004

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