cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Detecting Blockchain Security Threats
Creators: name: Putz, Benedikt
name: Pernul, Günther
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: distributed ledger,permissioned blockchain,information security,security monitoring,insider threat
subject: 004 Informatik
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: In many organizations, permissioned blockchain networks are currently transitioning from a proof-of-concept stage to production use. A crucial part of this transition is ensuring awareness of potential threats to network operations. Due to the plethora of software components involved in distributed ledgers, threats may be difficult or impossible to detect without a structured monitoring approach. To this end, we conduct a survey of attacks on permissioned blockchains and develop a set of threat indicators. To gather these indicators, a data processing pipeline is proposed to aggregate log information from relevant blockchain components, enriched with data from external sources. To evaluate the feasibility of monitoring current blockchain frameworks, we determine relevant data sources in Hyperledger Fabric. Our results show that the required data is mostly available, but also highlight significant improvement potential with regard to threat intelligence, chaincode scanners and built-in metrics.
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Sustainable treatment of perchlorate contaminated water.
Creators: name: Faccini, Johanna
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Perchlorate is a stable and soluble substance that can last for decades in the environment. Studies have shown that it can reduce iodine uptake into the thyroid gland which is of concern for people with decreased iodine intake, pregnant women and small children. Perchlorate is removed from drinking water using highly selective ion exchange (IX) resins that are replaced after exhaustion and incinerated or disposed in a landfill since there are no viable methods for regenerating them. One of the major limitations in regeneration of these single use resins is achieving complete desorption of perchlorate. The sustainability of treatment processes for perchlorate contaminated water can be achieved by regenerating the exhausted resin. A study on the adsorption and desorption equilibrium, kinetics and biological regeneration of perchlorate from a trybutylamine strong base anion (SBA) exchange resin was conducted. Adsorption and desorption equilibrium could be described using the Freundlich model with estimated parameters KF = 50 (mg/g)(L/mg)1/n and n = 2.36. The calculated average perchlorate-chloride separation factor was 4700 ± 1700 and the resin capacity was 1.4 meq/mg. The kinetics of adsorption and desorption of perchlorate from the resin were found to be controlled by chemisorption since a pseudo-second order rate model fit the data the best. The results from the physical/chemical studies were then applied to model the biological regeneration of the resin using the culture NP30. Experiments conducted with the exhausted resin inside a membrane to avoid direct contact with the culture, demonstrated the biological regeneration of the resin by degradation of the desorbed perchlorate. The model was able to describe the desorption and biodegradation of perchlorate from the exhausted resin and the results were comparable to the experimental data. The model was found to be sensitive to the Freundlich adsorption intensity parameter n.
Magnetization states and switching in narrow-gapped ferromagnetic nanorings
Creators: name: Li, Jie
name: Zhang, Sheng
name: Grigas, Chris
name: Misra, Rajiv
name: Bartell, Jason
name: Crespi, Vincent H.
name: Schiffer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study permalloy nanorings that are lithographically fabricated with narrow gaps that break the rotational symmetry of the ring while retaining the vortex ground state, using both micromagnetic simulations and magnetic force microscopy (MFM). The vortex chirality in these structures can be readily set with an in-plane magnetic field and easily probed by MFM due to the field associated with the gap, suggesting such rings for possible applications in storage technologies. We find that the gapped ring edge characteristics (i.e., edge profile and gap shape) are critical in determining the magnetization switching field, thus elucidating an essential parameter in the controls of devices that might incorporate such structures.
Predicting and factor analysis of rider injury severity in two-wheeled motorcycle and vehicle crash accidents based on an interpretable machine learning framework
Creators: name: Wei, Tianzheng
name: Zhu, Tong
name: Lin, Miao
name: Liu, Haoxue
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: As one of the vulnerable road users in accidents, how to improve the two-wheeled motorcyclist’s driving safety and reduce accident injury is a public health issue. Accurate identification of the factors influencing the severity of accidents is an important prerequisite for mitigating injury from crashes. Based on a vehicle and a two-wheeled motorcycle crash accident data from the China in-depth accident study database (CIDAS), this study uses the performance evaluation indicators of accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, AUC, and the ROC curve. The classification and prediction performances of the six machine learning methods on the dataset are compared, and the LightGBM algorithm with the best performance is selected to model the accident injury severity of the motorcyclists. The SHAP method is used to extend the interpretability of the LightGBM model results. Based on the SHAP method, the importance, main effect, and the interaction effect of factors under each accident injury severity are quantitatively analyzed. The model prediction accuracy is 92.6%, the F1-Score is 92.8%, and the AUC value is 0.986. The importance of factors varies with the accident injury severity of motorcyclists. The kilometers traveled per year by the driver, the throwing distance of the motorcyclist, and the road speed limit are the three most important factors. The motorcyclist is more likely to suffer fatal injuries when the throwing distance is >1,000 cm. The prediction model of driver injury severity based on LightGBM algorithm has a good prediction performance. It can be used to analyze the influence factors of injury severity in two-wheeled motorcyclist accident by combining the model with SHAP method. These results could help the traffic management department to take measures to reduce accident injury of motorcyclists.
A nonlocal contact formulation for confined granular systems
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Marcial
name: Cuitino, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a nonlocal formulation of contact mechanics that accounts for the interplay of deformations due to multiple contact forces acting on a single particle. The analytical formulation considers the effects of nonlocal mesoscopic deformations characteristic of confined granular systems and, therefore, removes the classical restriction of independent contacts. This is in sharp contrast to traditional contact mechanics theories, which are strictly local and assume that contacts are independent regardless the confinement of the particles. For definiteness, we restrict attention to elastic spheres in the absence of gravitational forces, adhesion or friction. Hence, a notable feature of the nonlocal formulation is that, when nonlocal effects are neglected, it reduces to Hertz theory. Furthermore, we show that, under the preceding assumptions and up to moderate macroscopic deformations, the predictions of the nonlocal contact formulation are in remarkable agreement with detailed finite-element simulations and experimental observations, and in large disagreement with Hertz theory predictions---supporting that the assumption of independent contacts only holds for small deformations. The discrepancy between the extended theory presented in this work and Hertz theory is borne out by studying periodic homogeneous systems and disordered heterogeneous systems.
description: 26 pages, 21 figures
Probabilistic assessment of damage states using dynamic response parameters
Creators: name: Quiroz, Laura Maria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: To acknowledge and account for the uncertainties present in civil engineering applications is an area of major importance and of continuing research interest. This Thesis focuses on an application of Bayes' inference rule to evaluate the probability of damage in structures, using measured modal parameters and a set of possible damage states. The hypothesis is that observed changes in dynamic characteristics are due to damage accumulation over time. The main objective is to identify the most likely damage scenario from a set of previously defined damage states. These are characterized in terms of vectors, θi, the components of which are the parameters, θij, that are associated with the stiffness contribution, Kj, from each substructure undergoing damage. These stiffness matrices are uncertain as a result of random geometric and material properties. For different combinations of the damage parameters and realizations of the random variables, the modal parameters are calculated solving the basic eigenvalue problem. The results are used to calculate the statistics of the parameters given a specific damage state, the likelihood functions, as these are needed to calculate the probability of a given a set of measurements given a damage state. Each damage state Di is associated with a prior probability P(Di). In order to calculate its posterior probability, given a set of measurements, a Bayesian updating is implemented, in which the prior probability is updated by means of the likelihood functions, f(r|Di), which represent the probability density function of the modal parameter, r, given the damage state, Di. This Thesis discusses the effectiveness of the approach in identifying a particular damage state referred to as damage scenario. It is shown that measurement of multiple modal parameters is required to identify, quickly and with confidence, a given damage state. The discussion also considers the effect of error in the measurements, and the number of repeated measurements that are required to achieve a substantial confidence as to the presence of a particular damage state. Ranking of the estimated probabilities, after a set of measurements, offers guidance to the engineer as when and where to conduct a direct inspection of the structure.
Human-powered Sorts and Joins
Creators: name: Marcus, Adam
name: Wu, Eugene
name: Karger, David
name: Madden, Samuel
name: Miller, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Crowdsourcing markets like Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) make it possible to task people with small jobs, such as labeling images or looking up phone numbers, via a programmatic interface. MTurk tasks for processing datasets with humans are currently designed with significant reimplementation of common workflows and ad-hoc selection of parameters such as price to pay per task. We describe how we have integrated crowds into a declarative workflow engine called Qurk to reduce the burden on workflow designers. In this paper, we focus on how to use humans to compare items for sorting and joining data, two of the most common operations in DBMSs. We describe our basic query interface and the user interface of the tasks we post to MTurk. We also propose a number of optimizations, including task batching, replacing pairwise comparisons with numerical ratings, and pre-filtering tables before joining them, which dramatically reduce the overall cost of running sorts and joins on the crowd. In an experiment joining two sets of images, we reduce the overall cost from $67 in a naive implementation to about $3, without substantially affecting accuracy or latency. In an end-to-end experiment, we reduced cost by a factor of 14.5.
description: VLDB2012
Improved Methods for Reprogramming Human Dermal Fibroblasts Using Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting
Creators: name: Kahler, David J.
name: Ahmad, Faizzan S.
name: Ritz, Anita
name: Hua, Haiqing
name: Moroziewicz, Dorota N.
name: Sproul, Andrew A.
name: Dusenberry, Carmen R.
name: Shang, Linshan
name: Paull, Daniel
name: Zimmer, Matthew
name: Weiss, Keren A.
name: Noggle, Scott A.
name: Egli, Dietrich Meinrad
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cloning
Biopsy
Fibroblasts
Biochemistry

description: Current methods to derive induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from human dermal fibroblasts by viral infection rely on expensive and lengthy protocols. One major factor contributing to the time required to derive lines is the ability of researchers to identify fully reprogrammed unique candidate clones from a mixed cell population containing transformed or partially reprogrammed cells and fibroblasts at an early time point post infection. Failure to select high quality colonies early in the derivation process results in cell lines that require increased maintenance and unreliable experimental outcomes. Here, we describe an improved method for the derivation of iPSC lines using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) to isolate single cells expressing the cell surface marker signature CD13NEGSSEA4POSTra-1-60POS on day 7–10 after infection. This technique prospectively isolates fully reprogrammed iPSCs, and depletes both parental and “contaminating” partially reprogrammed fibroblasts, thereby substantially reducing the time and reagents required to generate iPSC lines without the use of defined small molecule cocktails. FACS derived iPSC lines express common markers of pluripotency, and possess spontaneous differentiation potential in vitro and in vivo. To demonstrate the suitability of FACS for high-throughput iPSC generation, we derived 228 individual iPSC lines using either integrating (retroviral) or non- integrating (Sendai virus) reprogramming vectors and performed extensive characterization on a subset of those lines. The iPSC lines used in this study were derived from 76 unique samples from a variety of tissue sources, including fresh or frozen fibroblasts generated from biopsies harvested from healthy or disease patients.
Landscaper: A Modeling System for 3D Printing Scale Models of Landscapes
Creators: name: Haji Allahverdi Pour, Kamyar
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 3D Printing
subject: Segmentation
subject: Geometry
subject: GIS
subject: Scale Model
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Computer Science

description: Landscape models of geospatial regions provide an intuitive mechanism for exploring complex geospatial information. However, the methods currently used to create these scale models require a large amount of resources, which restricts the availability of these models to a limited number of popular public places, such as museums and airports. In this thesis, we have proposed a system for creating these physical models using an affordable 3D printer in order to make the creation of these models more widely accessible. Our system retrieves GIS data relevant to creating a physical model of a geospatial region and then addresses the two major limitations of affordable 3D printers, namely the limited number of materials and available printing volume. This is accomplished by separating features into distinct extruded layers and splitting large models into smaller pieces, allowing us to employ different methods for the visualization of different geospatial features, like vegetation and residential areas, in a 3D printing context. We confirm the functionality of our system by printing two large physical models of relatively complex landscape regions.
Trends in Inter-State Inequalities of Income in India
Creators: name: Bajpai, Nirupam
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
South Asians

description: An attempt is made in this paper to examine the tendency towards convergence of income levels among the states of India over the period 1961-93. We find convergence of per capita income levels only during the first sub-period, that is, 1961-71. For the remaining two sub-periods, 1972-82 and 1983-93 we find evidence for per capita income levels to be diverging, although not significantly. We suggest that convergence during the period 1961-71 is primarily due to the impressive growth in the agricultural sector as a result of the green revolution. The slowing down of the industrial growth during the 1970s and the emergence of a city based pattern of industrial development which was concentrated only in a few regions seems to be the reason for the divergence seen during this sub-period. While there was a considerable step-up in India's GDP growth over the 1980s, however, the poor states were not able to catch up with their rich counterparts and the income levels continued to show divergence as in the earlier period. India's development strategy up until 1991 characterized by planning and state-led industrialization failed to reduce regional disparities in any meaningful manner. Four decades of planned economic development could not provide the necessary growth impetus for the poor and lagging states. With the launching of economic reforms in 1991 it may be reasonable to expect some states to surge ahead rapidly and that states, such as Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal may gain more from reforms in the initial stages rather than Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh or Bihar.
Understanding Regional Economic Growth in India
Creators: name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
name: Bajpai, Nirupam
name: Ramiah, Ananthi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
South Asians

description: This paper aims to understand the growth experiences of fourteen major states of India in the period 1980 to 1998. We use two measures of convergence, σ-convergence and ß-convergence to examine whether per capita income in the states have been converging or diverging. By both standards of convergence, India demonstrated overall divergence during the period 1980-98, as well as during both the pre-reform and post-reform sub-periods. Interestingly, the richer states experienced a degree of convergence during the post-reform period, while the poorer states did not. Divergence was most notable within the poorer group of states. As against the U.S. states, Japanese prefectures and the European regions, both India and China display no signs of conditional convergence much less unconditional convergence. We suggest four possible hypotheses: (1) the geographical differences are larger in India and China than in the United States, Europe, and Japan; (2) population movements in the United States, Europe, or Japan more readily arbitrage differences across regions; (3) policies of the national or regional governments prevented convergence, and (4) economic convergence is easier at higher levels of economic development than in China and India. A remarkable 82 percent of the cross-state variation in growth is explained by just the urbanization variable in India, and with no hint of any conditional convergence after controlling for the degree of urbanization. The regression estimate shows that a 10-percentage-point higher rate of urbanization is associated with 1.3 percentage points per year higher annual growth. We also offer some preliminary explanations for the unusual growth experiences of some states. We consider four such mysteries: (1) the mediocre growth of Kerala despite excellent social indicators; (2) the relatively fast growth of landlocked, and arid Rajasthan; (3) the improved growth performance of landlocked Madhya Pradesh; and (4) the poor growth performance of coastal Orissa.
The State of State Government Finances in India
Creators: name: Bajpai, Nirupam
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
Finance
South Asians

description: The financial condition of the state governments in India has been a cause for concern for sometime now. Over the years, the consolidated financial position of the state governments has shown a marked deterioration in some of their major deficit indicators. One of the fundamental weaknesses of state government finances in India can be attributed to the increases in non-developmental expenditure, particularly the revenue component of the non-developmental expenditure, and interest payments as a proportion of revenue receipts. Structural imbalances in the form of large revenue deficits, rising interest burden, increasing distortions in the pattern of expenditure, and very slow growing non-tax revenues are major problem areas for state finances. These problems have been aggravated a great deal over the past few years because of a variety of reasons. The resource constraints in state finances have been accentuated by a near stagnant tax-GDP ratio, rising share of non-developmental outlay in the total expenditure, large volumes of hidden or implicit subsidies and increasing financial losses of state enterprises. A growing pressure on state finances has also stemmed from the rising demand for public services. Furthermore, the fiscal situation in the states is likely to come under much greater pressure with the acceptance of the Report of the Fifth Pay Commission by several state governments in India. Be that as it may, the critical problem in state finances is not only one of high levels of expenditure, but also one of increasing distortions in the pattern of expenditure. The three different methods of intergovernmental fiscal transfers have resulted in an inefficient transfer mechanism that has increased bureaucracy at the state level, accommodated numerous interest groups, and delinked plan requirements of states from actual transfers. Similarly, better fiscal performance is not acknowledged with higher transfers, instead the gap filling approach of the Finance Commission discourages fiscal discipline in the states. In the area of expenditure reduction, we have identified several potential areas for controlling expenditure of the state governments. In our view, by raising user charges on water in accordance with the costs incurred in providing water, and aligning tariff rates of the SEBs in line with their costs, the state governments could significantly cut their budgetary losses. In addition, a freeze on state government employment can help save scarce resources to be used for productive purposes elsewhere in the states.
A modified hole erosion test (HET-P) to study erosion characteristics of soil
Creators: name: Lüthi, Marcel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Today’s increasing demand for energy and natural resources requires safe and reliable infrastructure. This includes hydraulic earth structures like dikes, levees, or dams. Such structures are susceptible to piping, a fundamental type of internal soil erosion. Piping is one of the principal causes of failures and accidents affecting embankment dams. The Hole Erosion Test (HET) is based on soil piping, and is used to determine the erodibility and critical shear stress of a soil. A soil specimen with a preformed axial hole is subjected to a constant-head pressure flow, and the rate of enlargement of the soil pipe is determined indirectly from flow rate and hydraulic gradient. This study presents a Modified Hole Erosion Test (HET-P) that introduces a conventional Pitot-static tube to measure total energy head and flow velocity of the exiting jet, which is correlated to a mean velocity within the axial hole. A series of Modified Hole Erosion Tests (HET-P) was performed on non-erodible PVC specimens with axial holes of constant, but different diameter, followed by HET-P tests on two types of soil, namely glacial till material of a dam core and natural clay deposits from Ontario river banks. Results confirmed that sidewall hydraulic head measurements to determine hydraulic gradients in the standard HET overestimate the resulting axial wall shear stress by as much as an order of magnitude. Furthermore, velocity measurements increase the confidence in test results as they allow for a more direct estimate of the axial hole diameter at any time during a test. A Pitot-static tube used in the HET-P for velocity and pressure measurement can easily be incorporated, and yields more transparent and reliable results by eliminating or amending some of the limiting assumptions of the standard test. It is an easy, fast, and economical approach that can be applied to soils in both constructed earth structures including dams and embankments, and to natural river banks to determine their susceptibility to internal and surface erosion.
Determining the habitat features associated with the distribution of the black howler monkey (alouatta pigra) within Belize, Central America
Creators: name: Steffens, Travis Scott
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 75-88
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: The objectives of this study were to determine the geographic distribution of Alouatta pigra within Belize, Central America, and to determine if anthropogenic disturbance, natural disturbance (hurricanes), and patch characteristics affect the distribution of A. pigra. I conducted field surveys recording presence/absence of A. pigra. The current distribution of A. pigra in Belize is larger than previously reported. Increased number of settlements was associated with presence of A. pigra. Relative abundance of A. pigra was associated with increased amount edge within a patch. A. pigra was more often found in association with lowland broad-leaf moist forest, and larger patches. Hurricanes have no negative long-term impact on the distribution of A. pigra and may improve habitat quality of patches that howlers occupy. This study shows that A. pigra is found throughout Belize and their distribution appears to be influenced by the number of settlements within a patch, patch type and size.
Estimates for the rate of strong approximation in Hilbert space
Creators: name: Götze, Friedrich
name: Zaitsev, Andrei Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F05

description: The aim of this paper is to investigate, which infinite dimensional consequences follow from the main results of recently published paper of the authors (2009) (see Theorems 2 and 3). We show that the finite dimensional Theorem 3 implies meaningful estimates for the rate of strong Gaussian approximation of sums of i.i.d. Hilbert space valued random vectors $ξ_j$ with finite moments $E |ξ_j|^γ$, $γ>2$. We show that the rate of approximation depends substantially on the rate of decay of the sequence of eigenvalues of the covariance operator of summands.
description: 15 pages
The Progress of Policy Reform and Variations in Performance at the Sub-National Level in India
Creators: name: Bajpai, Nirupam
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
South Asians

description: The reform process in India has so far mainly concentrated at the central level. India has yet to free up its state governments sufficiently so that they can add much greater dynamism to the reforms. Greater decentralization of decision making from the center to the states will lead to greater competition among the states and therefore to higher efficiency and productivity in these regions. Policy making at the sub-national level is essential in order for the state governments to be able to follow development strategies suitable to their socio-economic, cultural, and geographic characteristics. Coastal states, for example, can follow a more focused export-led growth strategy, or states with a large pool of trained manpower, such as IT professionals in Tamil Nadu or Karnataka can lay more emphasis on IT and service sector. A few of the Indian States have been more reform-oriented, such as Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, but states, such as Haryana, Kerala, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and West Bengal have a lot to catch-up with. Of course, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are even further behind. We analyze the state-level situation in fifteen major states based on the progress of state-level policy reform. Accordingly, we have divided these states into three categories of reformers. These are the reform-oriented states, intermediate reformers and the lagging reformers. We then examine the performance of these states in terms of SDP growth, foreign direct investment, industrial investment proposals, and software exports among other variables. Real annual average growth rates of per capita gross state domestic product bear testimony to the fact that our group of reform-oriented states are the fastest growing states in India in the post-reform period. Also, these states have performed better in attracting both domestic and foreign investment, software exports, and in the areas of primary health and education.
The Decade of Development: Goal Setting and Policy Challenges in India
Creators: name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
name: Bajpai, Nirupam
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
South Asians

description: The Government of India has proclaimed the new decade as a Decade of Development, during which India will meet bold targets for economic growth and social development. At his Independence Day speech, the Prime Minister announced that the government had set a target of doubling India's per capita income by the year 2010. This is an ambitious target, but one that we believe is certainly achievable. In order to achieve this target, India needs growth in GNP of the order of 9 percent per year over the next ten years. And in order to achieve this growth rate on a sustained basis, India needs a well-focused growth strategy. This paper outlines some of the key policy challenges in meeting these goals. We believe that India has a chance for a tremendous breakthrough in economic development during the current decade. A decade of opening of the economy has produced new dynamism, most dramatically in the Information Technology sector, but in others as well. The world is waking up to India's crucial role as the largest democracy and as a dynamic economy, if still a low-income one on average. The new technologies (especially information technology and biotechnology) give new opportunities for economic and social development. We suggest additional goals that India should set for herself, especially in the areas of health and education. These goals will help to galvanize domestic public opinion in support of the objectives of development, provide a gauge against which to judge the progress of policies, and help the world community to appreciate the efforts underway, and support them through increased flows of foreign investment. To make the first decade of the 21st Century a true Decade of Development will require a broad-based program of economic and social actions. We highlight some action areas in this regard.
All my relations - native transracial adoption: a critical case study of cultural identity
Creators: name: Sinclair, Raven
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 310-333
description: All My Relations ~ Native Transracial Adoption: A critical case study of cultural identity seeks to explore the problems identified in the literature concerning the adoption of Native children into non-Native families in Canada between the years of 1950 and the early 1980s; now referred to as the "Sixties Scoop". The literature points to negative outcomes for Native transracial adoption in terms of adoption breakdown and identity problems for adoptees. Meanwhile the general transracial adoption literature indicates that success and failure rates are similar to same-race adoption. This difference raised a number of questions that required answering. An Indigenous philosophical and methodological approach framed a critical case study approach to the topic and interviews with fifteen Native transracial adoptees shed light on how these adults understand their cultural identity vis-a-vis their transracial adoption. The data suggest that Native transracial adoption has been unsuccessful because of the interplay of a number of factors. Although '"successful" adoptions have taken place in many instances, and many positive outcomes appear to evolve in the long-term, the analysis indicates that source of problematic Native transracial adoption outcomes rests not with identity issues, but with racism. The results of this study clearly link the negative outcomes of Native TRA to the socio-cultural context of racism in Canadian society. Recommendations asserted by Native adoptees and deduced from the data are directed at ameliorating these issues.
title: Activation of the human Mediator kinase CDK8 by MED12
Creators: name: Klatt, Felix
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: CDK8
subject: MED12
subject: Mediator kinase module
subject: Mediator
subject: kinase inhibitors
subject: 500
subject: 570

description: Eukaryotic transcription is regulated by the Mediator kinase module, which phosphorylates transcription-related targets and controls the association of Mediator and RNA polymerase II. The activity of its catalytic heart, cyclin-dependent kinase 8 (CDK8), is regulated by Cyclin C and the Mediator subunit MED12, with its malfunction contributing to numerous malignancies. To unravel how CDK8 activation is enhanced by MED12, I established recombinant expression and purification schemes that resulted in monodisperse, highly pure binary CDK8/Cyclin C and ternary CDK8/CycC/MED12 complexes. Using these complexes, I combined in vitro biochemistry, cross-linking coupled to mass spectrometry, and in vivo studies to decipher how the N-terminal portion of MED12 binds on the CDK8/Cyclin C complex and to gain mechanistic insights into the MED12-dependent CDK8 activation. The data presented in my thesis demonstrate that the N-terminal part of MED12 wraps around CDK8, whereby it places an “activation helix” in direct proximity to the CDK8 T-loop for its activation. Interestingly, mutations in the activation helix that are frequently found in cancers do not alter the affinity of MED12 for CDK8, yet likely alter the exact positioning of the activation helix resulting in impaired CDK8 activity. Moreover, we find the transcriptome-wide gene-expression changes in human cells that result from a mutation in the MED12 activation helix to correlate with deregulated genes in breast and colon cancer. Finally, functional assays in the presence of kinase inhibitors reveal that MED12 binding reshapes the active site of CDK8 and thereby precludes the inhibition of ternary CDK8 complexes by type II kinase inhibitors. Taken together, these data establish that a newly identified activation helix in MED12 functionally replaces CDK8 T-loop phosphorylation and thereby likely remodels the active site. These data not only allow us to propose a revised model of how CDK8 activity is regulated by MED12, yet they have significant implications to drug development and will pave the road to new and specific CDK8 inhibitors that target CDK8 in its MED12-bound form.
Scaling Up Primary Health Services in Rural India: Public Investment Requirements and Health Sector Reform: Case Studies of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
Creators: name: Bajpai, Nirupam
name: Dholakia, Ravindra H.
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Managerial economics
Public health
Regional planning
South Asians

description: We attempt to address two key questions in this paper: 1) In terms of state-wide scaling up of rural services (in Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh) in the area of primary health, what will it cost financially and in terms of human resources to scale-up these services in all the rural areas of these two states? And 2) What policy, institutional and governance reforms may be necessary so as to ensure proper service delivery? As is well known, merely setting up more health clinics, for instance, is not going to be enough; higher public investments in these areas needs to be accompanied by systemic reforms that will help overhaul the present service delivery system, including issues of control and oversight, for example.
Geometric phases in superconducting qubits beyond the two-level-approximation
Creators: name: Berger, S.
name: Pechal, M.
name: Pugnetti, S.
name: Abdumalikov, A. A.
name: Steffen, L.
name: Fedorov, A.
name: Wallraff, A.
name: Filipp, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geometric phases, which accompany the evolution of a quantum system and depend only on its trajectory in state space, are commonly studied in two-level systems. Here, however, we study the adiabatic geometric phase in a weakly anharmonic and strongly driven multi-level system, realised as a superconducting transmon-type circuit. We measure the contribution of the second excited state to the two-level geometric phase and find good agreement with theory treating higher energy levels perturbatively. By changing the evolution time, we confirm the independence of the geometric phase of time and explore the validity of the adiabatic approximation at the transition to the non-adiabatic regime.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Scaling Up Primary Education Services in Rural Tamil Nadu: Public Investment Requirements and Reform
Creators: name: Bajpai, Nirupam
name: Dholakia, Ravindra H.
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Managerial economics
Education, Elementary
Regional planning
South Asians

description: We attempt to address two key questions in this paper: 1) In terms of state-wide scaling up of rural services in the area of primary education, what will it cost financially and in terms of human resources to scale-up these services in all the rural areas of the state? And 2) What policy, institutional and governance reforms may be necessary so as to ensure proper service delivery? As is well known, merely constructing more schools, for instance, is not going to be enough; higher public investments in these areas needs to be accompanied by systemic reforms that will help overhaul the present service delivery system, including issues of control and oversight, for example.
Strengthening India's Strategy for Economic Growth
Creators: name: Bajpai, Nirupam
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
South Asians

description: We suggest a three-pronged approach to an enhanced growth strategy for India. The first prong is export-led growth. Here the lessons of China are particularly instructive, since China achieved in the past fifteen years the kind of export-led growth that India could have achieved, but failed to do so, because of poor public policies. The second prong is rural improvement, especially in the vast population of the Gangetic valley. India needs a specific strategy to bring modern economic growth to rural India, through a concerted campaign of infrastructure upgrading and appropriate re-design of state policy. The third prong is the maintenance of macroeconomic stability, to avoid the kind of crisis that pushed East Asia into economic collapse. The macroeconomic stakes have obviously been raised in the past year. India's macroeconomic policies will be under scrutiny as perhaps never before following the onset of the East Asian financial crisis.
Scaling Up Primary Health Services in Rural Tamil Nadu: Public Investment Requirements and Health Sector Reform
Creators: name: Bajpai, Nirupam
name: Dholakia, Ravindra H.
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Managerial economics
Public health
Regional planning
South Asians

description: We attempt to address two key questions in this paper: 1) In terms of state-wide scaling up of rural services in the area of primary health, what will it cost financially and in terms of human resources to scale-up these services in all the rural areas of the state? And 2) what policy, institutional and governance reforms may be necessary so as to ensure proper service delivery? As is well known, merely setting up more health clinics, for instance, is not going to be enough; higher public investments in these areas needs to be accompanied by systemic reforms that will help overhaul the present service delivery system, including issues of control and oversight, for example.
Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in South Asia
Creators: name: Bajpai, Nirupam
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
name: Volavka, Nicole H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Managerial economics
Regional planning
South Asians

description: The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the stage for developing countries to reduce extreme poverty and the problems that accompany it, such as hunger, high rates of infant, child and maternal mortality, insufficient disease control, lack of education, illiteracy, gender disparity and environmental degradation. Each goal has a specific target level for progress, such as halving poverty or reducing infant mortality rates by two thirds. All goals are to be reached by 2015, using 1990 as the benchmark year. By setting a time frame and specific levels of reductions for a variety of indicators, progress towards the goals is measurable, if data on indicators is available. Tracking progress is an essential step towards meeting the goals, as problem areas can be identified only through monitoring and evaluation, and interventions and strategies can then be developed to target them. South Asia as a whole seems likely to halve poverty levels by 2015, due in large part to India's progress on this MDG indicator. However, the situation is not as promising in other areas, such as reduction of high rates of infant, under-five and maternal mortality. There are wide inter-country, inter-state and intra-state differences in levels of progress towards the goals throughout South Asia. In a country as large and as populous as India, tackling problems such as high maternal mortality rates at the state and even at the district levels could determine whether India as a whole achieves the MDGs. Over one billion of the roughly 1.37 billion residents of South Asia reside in India, which means that India's achievement of any of the goals brings South Asia as a whole a step closer towards regional goal attainment. For South Asia as whole and for India in particular, public spending must be increased in the areas of health, education, rural infrastructure and agricultural research and development. The Indian government under-invests in all of these areas. Not only must public spending be increased, but spending must be accompanied by reforms. Decentralization would lead to greater control and oversight, conditions necessary for accountability. There are only 11 years remaining to meet the MDGs. It is time for South Asian governments to focus on problem areas related to extreme poverty in the region, such as high rates of infant and maternal mortality, low primary school enrollment and completion rates, poor rural infrastructure and low rates of access to safe drinking water and sanitation, especially in rural areas.
Scaling Up Primary Education Services in Rural India: Public Investment Requirements and Policy Reform: Case Studies of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
Creators: name: Bajpai, Nirupam
name: Dholakia, Ravindra H.
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Managerial economics
Education, Elementary
Regional planning

description: We attempt to address two key questions in this paper: 1) In terms of state-wide scaling up of rural services (in Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh) in the area of primary education, what will it cost financially and in terms of human resources to scale-up these services in all the rural areas of these two states? And 2) what policy, institutional and governance reforms may be necessary so as to ensure proper service delivery? As is well known, merely setting up more schools, for instance, is not going to be enough; higher public investments in these areas needs to be accompanied by systemic reforms that will help overhaul the present service delivery system, including issues of control and oversight, for example.
รูปแบบการจัดการในการพัฒนาสมรรถนะนักศึกษาสาขาการจัดการการกีฬา ด้วยการเรียนการสอนโดยใช้ชุมชนเป็นฐาน
Creators: name: วิกรม สวาทพงษ์
Publisher: name: Facilty of Education Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University
Year: 2563
Subjects: รูปแบบการจัดการ
สมรรถนะนักศึกษา
การจัดการเรียนการสอนแบบใช้ชุมชนเป็นฐาน

description: Journal of Education, 17, 3, 13-25
The generalized Kaehler geometry of N=(2,2) WZW-models
Creators: name: Sevrin, Alexander
name: Staessens, Wieland
name: Terryn, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: N=(2,2), d=2 supersymmetric non-linear sigma-models provide a physical realization of Hitchin's and Gualtieri's generalized Kaehler geometry. A large subclass of such models are comprised by WZW-models on even-dimensional reductive group manifolds. In the present paper we analyze the complex structures, type changing, the superfield content and the affine isometries compatible with the extra supersymmetry. The results are illustrated by an exhaustive discussion of the N=(2,2) WZW-models on S3xS1 and S3xS3 where various aspects of generalized Kaehler and Calabi-Yau geometry are verified and clarified. The examples illustrate a slightly weaker definition for an N=(2,2) superconformal generalized Kaehler geometry compared to that for a generalized Calabi-Yau geometry.
description: LaTeX, 51 pages, Typo's corrected, discussion on superconformal vs. generalized Calabi-Yau fine tuned