cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SKILLS DECOUPLING IN EUROPEAN LABOUR MIGRATION POLICYTHE REASONS BEHIND THE RACE FOR TALENT. A COMPARATIVE POLICY ANALYSIS.
Creators: name: BELMONTE, MARTINA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: Since the beginning of 2000s, labour migration policy in EU countries has entered a new phase, generally referred to as ?managed migration?. This features more liberal measures to attract sought after migrants, especially highly skilled workers, and more restrictive measures to deter less welcome migrants, notably low skilled workers. This dissertation explores the extent to which EU Member States have pursued this approach and the causes of its different declinations. The first chapter provides an overview of the managed migration approach in labour migration, and its economic and political rationale. The second chapter reviews the existing scholarship efforts to operationalise migration policy, and presents an original index on labour migration policy openness and decoupling by skill level, tested on 14 Member States. Different patterns of labour migration policy openness and decoupling emerge. The third chapter looks for the causal conditions under which Member States have implemented liberal labour migration policy for highly skilled migrants, for general/low skilled migrants, and have decoupled policies by skill level. It reviews the existing causal explanations, in particular an explanation based on the ?Variety of Capitalism? research agenda, and an explanation based on coalitions building by labour market actors. Then, by means of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), it tests a number of conditions, specifically on i. employers? preferences on migrants? number and skills, ii. employers? capacity to affect the policy outcome, and iii. presence of anti-immigration political parties, to find the configurations under which the outcome is present or absent. The fourth chapter explores the causal mechanism associated with the identified conditions with specific case studies, selected on the basis of the QCA results, and notably Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom (typical cases) and Czech Republic (deviant case). The fifth chapter analyses Member States? behaviour at the EU level, in negotiating and transposing the first EU directive on highly skilled migrants, the Blue Card Directive. It looks for the drivers of Member States behaviour and analyses the interplay between the national and EU dimension of migration policy, and specifically whether the same conditions that explain labour migration openness and decoupling at national level work at EU level.
Progenitors of supernova Ibc: a single Wolf-Rayet star as the possible progenitor of the SN Ib iPTF13bvn
Creators: name: Groh, Jose H.
name: Georgy, Cyril
name: Ekstrom, Sylvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Core-collapse supernova (SN) explosions mark the end of the tumultuous life of massive stars. Determining the nature of their progenitors is a crucial step towards understanding the properties of SNe. Until recently, no progenitor has been directly detected for SN of type Ibc, which are believed to come from massive stars that lose their hydrogen envelope through stellar winds and from binary systems where the companion has stripped the H envelope from the primary. Here we analyze recently reported observations of iPTF13bvn, which could possibly be the first detection of a SN Ib progenitor based on pre-explosion images. Very interestingly, the recently published Geneva models of single stars can reproduce the observed photometry of the progenitor candidate and its mass-loss rate, confirming a recently proposed scenario. We find that a single WR star with initial mass in the range 31-35 Msun fits the observed photometry of the progenitor of iPTF13bvn. The progenitor likely has a luminosity of log (L/Lsun)~5.55, surface temperature ~45000 K, and mass of ~10.9 Msun at the time of explosion. Our non-rotating 32 Msun model overestimates the derived radius of the progenitor, although this could likely be reconciled with a fine-tuned model of a more massive (between 40 and 50 Msun), hotter, and luminous progenitor. Our models indicate a very uncertain ejecta mass of ~8 Msun, which is higher than the average of the SN Ib ejecta mass that is derived from the lightcurve (2-4 Msun). This possibly high ejecta mass could produce detectable effects in the iPTF13bvn lightcurve and spectrum. If the candidate is indeed confirmed to be the progenitor, our results suggest that stars with relatively high initial masses (>30 Msun) can produce visible SN explosions at their deaths and do not collapse directly to a black hole.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Rattus ranjiniae Agrawal and Ghosal 1969
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus ranjiniae

description: Rattus ranjiniae Agrawal and Ghosal, 1969. Proc. Zool. Soc. Calcutta, 22:41. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Kerala, Trivandrum. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 552, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
Objects at the wall: Continuing bonds and the Vietnam War Memorial
Creators: name: Fitzpatrick, Paul
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Architecture not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores the phenomenon of objects being left at the Vietnam War Memorial, Washington D.C. Since its inception in 1982, one hundred and fifty thousand objects have been left by veterans, wives and families, as well as people not necessarily related to those named on the Wall. These objects are argued to be representative of a complex expression of loss and bereavement, both by individuals and by American society as a whole. This exploration utilises various understandings of grief and bereavement, theoretical approaches to understanding objects as gifts, and expressions of deeply set emotion through written and physical forms. It suggests that the use of these objects represents a continuous process of redefining individual relationships and that this is especially acute in relation to the Vietnam War. The work concludes by proposing one possible interpretation of the gifting of the objects; that of continuing bonds and, in turn, will aim to contribute to a broader understanding of grief that encompasses psychological, social, cultural and political landscapes.
In-vitro investigation on the protective effect of glycomacropeptide against acid erosion of tooth enamel
Creators: name: Setarehnejad, Anita
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Dental therapeutics, pharmacology and toxicology

description: Tooth enamel is built of crystalline calcium phosphate fixed into a protein matrix. When acid comes into contact with tooth surface it encourages demineralisation and erosion of tooth enamel. Eroded tooth with small cavities becomes vulnerable to the attack of microflora present in dental plaque on tooth surfaces and increases the risk of tooth decay. It has been reported that dental erosion and caries among children and adults have an increasing trend. It is thought that changes in drinking habit and more interest in consumption of soft drinks could be a possible reason for this dental health problem. To reduce the risk of dental erosion several studies were carried out and some research indicated that milk proteins and peptides have anti-erosive and anti-caries effect. In this category casein phosphopeptides (CPP) a tryptic hydrolysate of casein was widely studied to reduce dental problems. In addition, glycomacropeptide (GMP), a hydrophilic part of Îº-casein released in whey, was of interest. In this study, attempts were made to reduce the mineral dissolution of enamel using GMP and GMP fractions during different acid contact times. To simulate the mineral dissolution of enamel hydorxyapatite (HA, calcium phosphate) was used. At different experiments HA was treated with GMP prior to exposure to 0.1M citrate buffer at different pH levels of 2.5-4.5. The level of dissolved calcium and phosphate into citrate buffer was measured by atomic absorption spectroscopy and Allen's colorimetric method, respectively. The erosive effect of soft drinks was investigated using orange juice and coca-cola containing GMP and its protection level was determined by measuring the amount of dissolved minerals in soft drinks compared to a control. To examine the protective effect of the GMP from acid attack on enamel surface, human enamel was studied by scanning electron microscopy. This study showed that GMP could reduce dental erosion and act better than CPP at low pH (3.0). This protective effect of GMP against mineral dissolution of enamel could be due to its attachment to the surface, its amino acid sequence and glycosylation level and/or to the overall net charge of the peptide.
Distributed Compressed Sensing For Static and Time-Varying Networks
Creators: name: Patterson, Stacy
name: Eldar, Yonina C.
name: Keidar, Idit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of in-network compressed sensing from distributed measurements. Every agent has a set of measurements of a signal $x$, and the objective is for the agents to recover $x$ from their collective measurements using only communication with neighbors in the network. Our distributed approach to this problem is based on the centralized Iterative Hard Thresholding algorithm (IHT). We first present a distributed IHT algorithm for static networks that leverages standard tools from distributed computing to execute in-network computations with minimized bandwidth consumption. Next, we address distributed signal recovery in networks with time-varying topologies. The network dynamics necessarily introduce inaccuracies to our in-network computations. To accommodate these inaccuracies, we show how centralized IHT can be extended to include inexact computations while still providing the same recovery guarantees as the original IHT algorithm. We then leverage these new theoretical results to develop a distributed version of IHT for time-varying networks. Evaluations show that our distributed algorithms for both static and time-varying networks outperform previously proposed solutions in time and bandwidth by several orders of magnitude.
Cosmodela aurulenta
Creators: name: Damken, Claas
name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Wahab, Rodzay Abdul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Cosmodela
Cosmodela aurulenta

description: Cosmodela aurulenta (Fabricius, 1801) (Fig. 10) Published data. Temburong, Kuala Belalong (Wiesner 1998: 373). New records. Belait, Labi, Labi road, Shorea albida peat forest, sawmill area, forest edge, MP light, no rain, 31.x.2014, 6–10pm, N4 o 33’33.61” E114 o 29’23.142”, 1 female; Temburong, Mount Pagon, Mixed Dipterocarp forest, old forest road, MV light, no rain, 8pm–1am, 23.viii.2014, N4 o 16’ 38.1” E115 o 17’26.2”, 1 female; Temburong, Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, at light on wall, 8–10pm, 8.iii.2015, N4 o 32’49.1” E115 o 9’27.9”, 1 male. Distribution. Borneo [Brunei (Temburong), Sabah, Sarawak], Bali, China, Jawa, Malacca, Singapore, Sulawesi, Sumatra. Remarks. New district record for Belait.
description: Published as part of Damken, Claas, Wiesner, Jürgen & Wahab, Rodzay Abdul, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Brunei Darussalam. 137. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-15 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (552) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353432
description: {"references": ["Wiesner, J. 1998. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Sandlaufkafer von Brunei (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) (52. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Cicindelidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 108 (9): 372 - 376."]}
SISTEMI DI APPROVVIGIONAMENTO IDRICO NEGLI INSEDIAMENTI PUNICO-ROMANI DELLA SARDEGNA: IL CASO DI NORA
Creators: name: CESPA, STEFANO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: The thesis has as object of analysis water supply systems in Punic-Roman settlement of Sardinia, with a particular attention to the ancient city of Nora. The work is structured along three main lines of research: the first covered this category of artifacts built in major ancient sites and within the Sardinia?s territory (Cagliari, Tharros, Olbia, S. Antioco, Monte Sirai, Porto Torres, Neapolis, Fordongianus). The second, more specific, focused on the same systems built inside the site of Nora, providing a comprehensive picture of the main similarities and differences regarding building technology, architectural elements, materials of construction, chronologies of the 89 cisterns and 27 wells; in addition, this synthesis was completed with the data concerning the city aqueduct, which, starting from the Roman middle-imperial period, played an important role in city?s water supply, fueling public facilities (baths and fountains), and maybe even some private houses. The third has focused on the possibility of using the element "water" by the ancient population, following a transversal and multi-disciplinary approach, which involved subjects such as geology, geomorphology, hydrogeology, climatology; based on the volumetric capacity of wells and cisterns, an attempt has been made to reconstruct the possibility of using the precious resource during the life of the city, referring to rainfall, to the underground aquifer and to demographics. The purpose of the research is, first, to give a full analysis of every building and technical aspects of Nora's water structures; secondly, to help understand specific urban, demographic, historical and social choices and developments, made by ancient population based on available water resources.
title: Genderforschung – zwischen disziplinärer Marginalisierung und institutioneller Etablierung. Zum aktuellen Stand des Institutionalisierungsprozesses von Genderprofessuren an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen
Creators: name: Bock, Ulla
name: Heitzmann, Daniela
name: Lind, Inken
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Frauenforschung
subject: Gender Studies
subject: Genderprofessuren
subject: Geschlechterforschung
subject: Hochschule
subject: Hochschulentwicklung
subject: Hochschulforschung
subject: ddc:370

description: Die Schaffung von Genderprofessuren ist ein wichtiger Aspekt im Prozess einer nachhaltigen Institutionalisierung von Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung/Gender Studies an den Hochschulen. Der Beitrag basiert auf einer Auswertung der Datenbank Genderprofessuren an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen (Stand Juli 2010) zur Gesamtzahl der Genderprofessuren, deren Verteilung auf Bundesländer (Deutschland), Hochschultypen und Disziplinen, zu den Besoldungsgruppen und der Vertragsdauer. Zudem werden Aussagen zur Entwicklung der Denominationen getroffen. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich ein mehrschichtiges Bild: einerseits eine Zunahme der Anzahl der Genderprofessuren im Laufe der letzten Jahre sowie eine Verteilung auf ein großes Fächerspektrum, andererseits jedoch eine andauernde, quantitativ marginale Bedeutung im Vergleich zur Gesamtzahl aller Professuren an den Hochschulen.
Supersolid in a one-dimensional model of hard-core bosons
Creators: name: Mishra, Tapan
name: Pai, Ramesh V.
name: Mukerjee, Subroto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a system of hardcore boson on a one-dimensional lattice with frustrated next-nearest neighbor hopping and nearest neighbor interaction. At half filling, for equal magnitude of nearest and next-nearest neighbor hopping, the ground state of this system exhibits a first order phase transition from a Bond-Ordered (BO) solid to a Charge-Density-Wave(CDW) solid as a function of the nearest neighbor interaction. Moving away from half filling we investigate the system at incommensurate densities, where we find a SuperSolid (SS) phase which has concurrent off-diagonal long range order and density wave order which is unusual in a system of hardcore bosons in one dimension. Using the finite-size Density-Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) method, we obtain the complete phase diagram for this model.
Hotel franchise agreements and the psychological contract
Creators: name: El-Sayed, Khaled
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Hospitality management

description: This qualitative research study explores the hotel franchising relationships and the psychological contract and develops a model of success factors of hotel franchising relationships. There is a rich franchising literature, but little work that focuses on hotels. Three main issues on hotel franchising relationships are identified i.e. hotel franchising triggers; psychological contract and hotel franchising; hotel franchising lifecycle and phases. Various authors have highlighted the importance of managing franchising relationship and applying a systematic approach to evaluate it at regular intervals. Existing franchising lifecycle models and psychological contract models have also been criticized as in need of updating to design a comprehensive model of the success factors of the hotel franchise relationship. A multiple case study approach was adopted involving document analysis and semi-structured interviews with hotel franchisors and a number of their franchisees to explore how hotel franchisors and franchisees approach the issues of hotel franchise lifecycle, phases and psychological contract. This study explores the nature of the relationship between franchisor and their franchisees in each phase of the hotel franchise relationship. The findings illustrated the important aspects which the franchisor and the franchisees should follow in each phase in order to have success in their relationship. These findings led to the development an initial model of hotel franchise success factors. Additionally the findings stressed the necessity of developing polices and practices used by the psychological contract to be more helpful for the success of hotel franchise relationships. This research uses cross-case analyses to identify the gaps between cases; and the gaps between franchisors and their franchisees. The conceptual framework is used as a tool to structure the layout of the analysis. This led to the development of a success model for the hotel franchise relationship. The researcher developed the final model based on the way franchisors and franchisees approach hotel franchising relationship aspects. This model tries to make a relationship between tangible and intangible issues in each phase of the hotel franchising relationship in order to achieve the research aim. This strategy resulted in the identification of success factors affecting the hotel franchise relationship. The final model should be used by franchisors and franchisees to develop their own relationship management model which addresses their own needs since it can vary from one hotel to another.
Cosmodela velata
Creators: name: Damken, Claas
name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Wahab, Rodzay Abdul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Cosmodela
Cosmodela velata

description: Cosmodela velata (Bates, 1872) (Fig. 11) New records. Belait, Teraja, mixed Dipterocarp forest, MV light, sandy river bank, no rain, 6–11pm, 1.ii.2014, N4 o 16’59.58” E114 o 25’38.16”, 1 male; Temburong, Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, MV light, at concrete jetty, clouds, 7–0:30am, 16.iii.2015, N4 o 32’49.1” E115 o 9’27.9”, 1 female. Distribution. Borneo [Brunei (Belait, Temburong), Sarawak]. Remarks. New record for Brunei and new district records for Belait and Temburong.
description: Published as part of Damken, Claas, Wiesner, Jürgen & Wahab, Rodzay Abdul, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Brunei Darussalam. 137. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-15 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (552) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353432
Lophyra fuliginosa
Creators: name: Damken, Claas
name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Wahab, Rodzay Abdul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Lophyra
Lophyra fuliginosa

description: Lophyra (s. str.) fuliginosa (Dejean, 1826) (Fig. 12) New records. Belait, Badas FR, exploited Kerrangas heath forest, forest clearing, MV light, 50% clouds, 0–3am, 16.ii.2014, N4 o 33’54.96” E114 o 25’3.43”, 1 male, 3 females; Brunei - Muara, UDB Campus, secondary forest, secondary bush land, sandy forest track, hand coll., daytime, 29.vi.2012, N4 o 58’ 53”, E114 o 53’ 39”, 1 female; Brunei-Muara, UDB Campus, secondary forest, secondary bush land, forest edge, hand coll., daytime, 30.vi.2012, N4 o 58’ 53”, E114 o 53’ 39”, 1 female; Brunei-Muara, UDB Campus, secondary forest edge, lawn, short sparse grasses, sweep net, 27.x.2013, 9-10pm, N4 o 58’47” E114 o 53’44”, 1 male, 2 females; Tutong, Kerrangas heath forest, White Sands, MV light, 10.viii.2014, 1 female; Tutong, Kerrangas heath forest, White Sands, forest edge, MV light, very light rain, 6:30–9:30pm, 16.ix.2014, N4 o 45’19.13” E114 o 37’50.35”, 1 male; Tutong, Kerrangas heath forest, White Sands, MV light, sand quarry, before rain, 6–8pm, 21.x.2014, N4 o 45’23.14” E114 o 37’25.82”, 1 female; Tutong, Kerrangas heath forest, White Sands, MV light, sandy quarry, few clouds, 6–10pm, 27.ii.2015, N4 o 45’19” E114 o 37’25”, 1 male. Distribution. Borneo [Brunei (Belait, Brunei-Muara, Tutong)], Bali, Cambodia, China, Jawa, Laos, Malacca, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam. Remarks. New record for Brunei and new district records for Belait, Brunei-Muara and Tutong.
description: Published as part of Damken, Claas, Wiesner, Jürgen & Wahab, Rodzay Abdul, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Brunei Darussalam. 137. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-15 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (552) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353432
A new stellar chemo-kinematic relation reveals the merger history of the Milky Way disc
Creators: name: Minchev, I.
name: Chiappini, C.
name: Martig, M.
name: Steinmetz, M.
name: de Jong, R. S.
name: Boeche, C.
name: Scannapieco, C.
name: Zwitter, T.
name: Wyse, R. F. G.
name: Binney, J. J.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Bienayme, O.
name: Famaey, B.
name: Freeman, K. C.
name: Gibson, B. K.
name: Grebel, E. K.
name: Gilmore, G.
name: Helmi, A.
name: Kordopatis, G.
name: Lee, Y. S.
name: Munari, U.
name: Navarro, J. F.
name: Parker, Q. A.
name: Quillen, A. C.
name: Reid, W. A.
name: Siebert, A.
name: Siviero, A.
name: Seabroke, G.
name: Watson, F.
name: Williams, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The velocity dispersions of stars near the Sun are known to increase with stellar age, but age can be difficult to determine so a proxy like the abundance of alpha elements (e.g., Mg) with respect to iron, [alpha/Fe], is used. Here we report an unexpected behavior found in the velocity dispersion of a sample of giant stars from the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) survey with high quality chemical and kinematical information, in that it decreases strongly for stars with [Mg/Fe] > 0.4 dex (i.e., those that formed in the first Gyr of the Galaxy's life). These findings can be explained by perturbations from massive mergers in the early Universe, which have affected more strongly the outer parts of the disc, and the subsequent radial migration of stars with cooler kinematics from the inner disc. Similar reversed trends in velocity dispersion are also found for different metallicity subpopulations. Our results suggest that the Milky Way disc merger history can be recovered by relating the observed chemo-kinematic relations to the properties of past merger events.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, Accepted to ApJL. Interpretation section expanded, different Fig.5, typos corrected, references added. Conclusions unchanged
Rattus rattus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus rattus

description: Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:61. REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA); G. Urbano-V. (GUV). TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Uppsala County, Uppsala. DISTRIBUTION: India and S.E. Asia. Introduced worldwide in tropics and warm temperate zones. COMMENT: Formerly included simalurensis; see Musser, 1979, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 162(6):439. Includes masaretes (see Musser, 1970, J. Mammal., 51:606-609), palelae (see Musser, 1971, Am. Mus. Novit., 2454:1- 19), benguetensis, coloratus, kelleri, lalolis, mindanensis, robiginosus, sapoensis, and zamboangae (see Musser, 1977, Am. Mus. Novit., 2624:12), sladeni, flavipectus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:583), and mansorius (see Johnson, 1962, Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus., p. 225). Revised by Schwarz and Schwarz, 1967, Ann. Esc. Nac. Cienc. Biol. Mex., 14:79- 178. Karyology reviewed by Neithammer, 1975, Zool. Anz., 194:405-415; Gomperl, 1980, p. 87-92, in Vorontsov and Van Brink, eds., Animal genetics and evolution, Junk, The Hague. The different chromosomal "races" may actually be separate species; see Yosida, 1980, Cytogenetics of the Black Rat, Univ. Park Press, Baltimore, U.S.A., 256 pp. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011058094001 as R. rattus. 5301410011058026001 as R. coloratus. 5301410011058054001 as R. kelleri. 5301410011058055001 as R. lalolis. 5301410011058071001 as R. mindanensis. 5301410011058096001 as R. robiginosus. 5301410011058101001 as R. sladeni. 5301410011058116001 as R. zamboangae.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on pages 552-553, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Schwarz, E., and H. K. Schwarz. 1967. A monograph of the Rattus rattus group. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas (Mexico City), 14: 79 - 178.", "Yosida, T. H. 1980. Cytogenetics of the black rat: Karyotype evolution and species differentiation. University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 256 pp."]}
Abroscelis tenuipes subsp. araneipes
Creators: name: Damken, Claas
name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Wahab, Rodzay Abdul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Abroscelis
Abroscelis tenuipes
Abroscelis tenuipes araneipes (schaum, 1863)

description: Abroscelis tenuipes araneipes (Schaum, 1863) (Fig. 14) Published data. Tutong, Tutong, Kerrangas heath forest, White Sands, forest edge, MV light, very light rain, 8:30–9:30pm, 18.ix.2014, N4 o 45’19.13” E114 o 37’50.35”, 1 female; Tutong, Kerrangas heath forest, White Sands, sand quarry, MV light, before rain, 21.x.2014, 6–8pm, N4 o 45’23” E114 o 37’26”, 1 female; Tutong, Kerrangas heath forest, White Sands, sand quarry, MV light, few clouds, 6–10pm, 27.ii.2015, N4 o 45’19” E114 o 37’25”, 1 female. Distribution. Borneo [Brunei (Tutong), Sabah, Sarawak], Cambodia, Palawan, Vietnam. Remarks. New state record for Brunei and new district record for Tutong.
description: Published as part of Damken, Claas, Wiesner, Jürgen & Wahab, Rodzay Abdul, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Brunei Darussalam. 137. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-15 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (552) on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353432
Tourism and film: Real, ʻreelʼ and imagined spaces of cruise ships
Creators: name: Lester, Jo-Anne Marie
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Tourism not elsewhere classified

description: As architectures of the sea, cruise ships are unique, but under-explored spaces of travel and tourism. Characterised by their bounded, mobile and transient distinctiveness, a ship’s inner spaces are inhabited by an onboard community of people for purposes of work or leisure. Framed by the notion of cruise ships as imagined geographies, the primary focus of this study is to interpret and critically explore the discourses of popular films and what these reveal about cruise ships as distinctive socio-cultural spaces of travel and tourism. Embracing Michel Foucault and his influential work on discourse, knowledge and power, popular films are positioned as sites of knowledge production through which particular regimes of truth are constituted. The approach to the analysis of popular films in this study, acknowledges the multisensory nature of film and how such spatial constructs are experienced in and through the imagination, emotion and memory. Conceptualised as liminal spaces which can be temporarily inhabited and travelled through, my embodiments of Carry On Cruising [1962], Ship of Fools [1965] and Titanic [1997] are reflexive in their approach, enabling me to draw on my own experiences of living and working on cruise ships. My voyages with the three films that form the archive of data for the purposes of this study, reveals a uniform set of discourses that engender specific imaginings about travel and vacations at sea. Although different in genre, these films all contribute in varying ways to the notion of ships as hedonistic pleasure spaces of promiscuity and romantic pursuit. Through this archaeological endeavour my excavations also unveil a set of more nuanced and subtle discourses surrounding gender, employment practises, the spatial organisation of ships and shipboard rituals, all of which contribute to particular ways of seeing cruise ships and the cruise experience. In the context of tourism studies, this research makes a methodological contribution in its approach to visuality, discourse and film. Moreover this thesis contributes to a greater understanding of the discursive structures of popular films and what these reveal about the spatial constructs of passengers ships and their embodied cultural practices.
Planetary nebulae after common-envelope phases initiated by low-mass red giants
Creators: name: Hall, Philip D.
name: Tout, Christopher A.
name: Izzard, Robert G.
name: Keller, Denise
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is likely that at least some planetary nebulae are composed of matter which was ejected from a binary star system during common-envelope (CE) evolution. For these planetary nebulae the ionizing component is the hot and luminous remnant of a giant which had its envelope ejected by a companion in the process of spiralling-in to its current short-period orbit. A large fraction of CE phases which end with ejection of the envelope are thought to be initiated by low-mass red giants, giants with inert, degenerate helium cores. We discuss the possible end-of-CE structures of such stars and their subsequent evolution to investigate for which structures planetary nebulae are formed. We assume that a planetary nebula forms if the remnant reaches an effective temperature greater than 30 kK within 10^4 yr of ejecting its envelope. We assume that the composition profile is unchanged during the CE phase so that possible remnant structures are parametrized by the end-of-CE core mass, envelope mass and entropy profile. We find that planetary nebulae are expected in post-CE systems with core masses greater than about 0.3 solar masses if remnants end the CE phase in thermal equilibrium. We show that whether the remnant undergoes a pre-white dwarf plateau phase depends on the prescribed end-of-CE envelope mass. Thus, observing a young post-CE system would constrain the end-of CE envelope mass and post-CE evolution.
description: Published in MNRAS. 12 pages, 12 figures. Minor changes to match published version
An evaluation of the interconnection between change management strategies and new public management model among Dubai police force
Creators: name: Almansoori, Khalid
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Human resources management

description: This thesis is concerned with understanding the New Public Management Model vis-à-vis the change management strategy employed by the Dubai police force. The study also focuses on reviewing the different Change Management Strategies employed by the management of the Dubai police force. The study further seeks to explore the policy’s success. The main objectives are however concerned with analysing how successful the New Public Management Model has been vis-à-vis the Change Management Strategies deployed by the Dubai police force. This question was raised as a result of the transformation in Dubai and the need to review management practice in light of the current models of “best fit” and “best practice.” The study aimed to achieve this analysis by addressing five specific objectives, namely: to identify the strategies that makeup change management; to explore the extent to which management strategies influence the application of the New Public Management Model in the public sector; to explore how the interconnection between Change Management Strategies and New Public Management Model impact on the outcome of the activities of the police force; to explore the reaction of public sector employee to the New Public Management Model, and to determine the success of the implementation of the New Public Management Model. The study was based on case study research conducted among members of the Dubai police force. The participants in the study include both members of the management team, officers and men of the Dubai police force. A snowball sampling technique was employed in the study. Semi-structured interviews were used to obtain an in-depth response from participants about the New Public Management Model and the change management strategy deployed. vi This study revealed that the concept of change management involves several processes and the need to combine resources and strategies to smooth the process of organizational change. The study further revealed that cultural factors tend to influence the choice of strategies and have significant implication for management decisions within the Dubai police force. Align with issues around culture is the innovative practice that is now available due to the use of new technologies and the application of artificial intelligence. Technology has enhanced communication in a less intrusive way. It also aids the accomplishment of set tasks within a realistic time frame.
Vertex operators, Weyl determinant formulae and Littlewood duality
Creators: name: Jing, Naihuan
name: Nie, Benzhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 17B69, Secondary: 05E05

description: Vertex operator realizations of symplectic and orthogonal Schur functions are studied and expanded. New proofs of determinant identities of irreducible characters for the symplectic and orthogonal groups are given. We also give a new proof of the duality between the universal orthogonal and symplectic Schur functions using vertex operators.
description: 18 pages; revised version, reference added
title: „Ich denk nicht, dass meine Jungs einen typischen Mädchenberuf ergreifen würden.“ Intersektionale Perspektiven auf Fremd- und Selbstrepräsentationen von Jungen in der Jungenarbeit
Creators: name: Budde, Jürgen
name: Debus, Katharina
name: Krüger, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Berufsorientierung
subject: Geschlechterrepräsentationen
subject: Intersektionalität
subject: Jugendliche
subject: Jungenarbeit
subject: Männlichkeit
subject: Pädagogik
subject: ddc:300

description: Seit einiger Zeit richtet sich die pädagogische Aufmerksamkeit verstärkt auf Jungen, entsprechende Projekte zur Jungenpädagogik sind mittlerweile implementiert. Gestützt auf qualitative Daten aus einer Studie zu Wirkungsweisen von Jungenpädagogik diskutiert der Beitrag Divergenzen in den Fremd- und Selbstrepräsentationen von Jungen in sprachlich geäußerten Einstellungen und Praktiken. Es zeigt sich, dass die Fremdrepräsentationen der pädagogischen Professionellen wie auch ihre Didaktik und Methodik eher von stereotypen Sichtweisen geprägt sind. Bei Jungen hingegen lässt sich sowohl auf der praxeologischen Handlungsebene als auch in der Praxisreflexion eine erhebliche Ausdifferenzierung feststellen.
The four-dimensional Martinez Alonso - Shabat equation: differential coverings and recursion operators
Creators: name: Morozov, Oleg I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58H05, 58J70, 35A30, 37K05, 37K10

description: We apply Cartan's method of equivalence to find a contact integrable extension for the structure equations of the symmetry pseudo-group of the four-dimensional Martinez Alonso - Shabat equation. From the extension we derive two differential coverings including coverings with one and two non-removable parameters. Then we apply the same approach to construct a recursion operator for symmetries of the equation under study.
ReputationPro: The Efficient Approaches to Contextual Transaction Trust Computation in E-Commerce Environments
Creators: name: Zhang, Haibin
name: Wang, Yan
name: Zhang, Xiuzhen
name: Lim, Ee-Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In e-commerce environments, the trustworthiness of a seller is utterly important to potential buyers, especially when the seller is unknown to them. Most existing trust evaluation models compute a single value to reflect the general trust level of a seller without taking any transaction context information into account. In this paper, we first present a trust vector consisting of three values for Contextual Transaction Trust (CTT). In the computation of three CTT values, the identified three important context dimensions, including product category, transaction amount and transaction time, are taken into account. In particular, with different parameters regarding context dimensions that are specified by a buyer, different sets of CTT values can be calculated. As a result, all these values can outline the reputation profile of a seller that indicates the dynamic trust levels of a seller in different product categories, price ranges, time periods, and any necessary combination of them. We term this new model as ReputationPro. However, in ReputationPro, the computation of reputation profile requires novel algorithms for the precomputation of aggregates over large-scale ratings and transaction data of three context dimensions as well as new data structures for appropriately indexing aggregation results to promptly answer buyers' CTT requests. To solve these challenging problems, we then propose a new index scheme CMK-tree. After that, we further extend CMK-tree and propose a CMK-treeRS approach to reducing the storage space allocated to each seller. Finally, the experimental results illustrate that the CMK-tree is superior in efficiency for computing CTT values to all three existing approaches in the literature. In addition, though with reduced storage space, the CMK-treeRS approach can further improve the performance in answering buyers' CTT queries.
description: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to the loss of some figures
MPEC 2023-V182 : 2023 VF6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 VF6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Undecidable First-Order Theories of Affine Geometries
Creators: name: Kuusisto, Antti
name: Meyers, Jeremy
name: Virtema, Jonni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Tarski initiated a logic-based approach to formal geometry that studies first-order structures with a ternary betweenness relation β, and a quaternary equidistance relation \equiv. Tarski established, inter alia, that the first-order (FO) theory of (R^2,β,\equiv) is decidable. Aiello and van Benthem (2002) conjectured that the FO-theory of expansions of (R^2,β) with unary predicates is decidable. We refute this conjecture by showing that for all n>1, the FO-theory of the class of expansions of (R^2,β) with just one unary predicate is not even arithmetical. We also define a natural and comprehensive class C of geometric structures (T,β), and show that for each structure (T,β) in C, the FO-theory of the class of expansions of (T,β) with a single unary predicate is undecidable. We then consider classes of expansions of structures (T,β) with a restricted unary predicate, for example a finite predicate, and establish a variety of related undecidability results. In addition to decidability questions, we briefly study the expressivities of universal MSO and weak universal MSO over expansions of (R^n,β). While the logics are incomparable in general, over expansions of (R^n,β), formulae of weak universal MSO translate into equivalent formulae of universal MSO.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1208.4930
The effect of Conjugated Linoleic Acid and its 9:11 and 10:12 isomers on the inflammatory profiles on monocytic / macrophage and endothelial cell systems
Creators: name: Al-Muharrami, Khalid Abdulla
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This study investigated the role of the dietary lipid Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) as a 50:50 mixture of 9:11 CLA and 10:12 CLA and these two isoforms used individually, in regulating the carboxymethyllysine (CML) induced inflammatory response in human monocytic, macrophage and endothelial cells. CML is a glycated amadori product that has a crucial role in activating the inflammation in type 2 diabetes (T2D). All three forms of the lipid at non-toxic levels were capable of significantly reducing the release of two inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α and IL-6) in monocytes and macrophages and IL-6 in endothelial cells. In contrast the non-conjugated Linoleic Acid (LA) did not significantly reduce these cytokines in any of the cell types investigated. All isomerswere capable of activating both forms of the nuclear transcription factors Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptors (PPAR) α and in monocytes and macrophages. CLA induced significantly the activation in the transcription factor important in regulating the inflammatory response, nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-B). However, in cells treated with CML, CLA significantly reduced the activation of NF-B as measured by DNA binding in cells pre-treated with CML-suggesting an ability to trensrepress the activity of NF-B, possibly in conjunction with the PPARs and supporting an anti-inflammatory role for the lipid in activated cells. All three forms of the lipid were significantly able to regulate expression of the receptor for glycated proteins (RAGE) in monocytes, macrophages and endothelial cells. Gene reporter assays demonstrated that in endothelial cells, that CLA was capable of suppressing the transcriptional activity of promoters which contain promoters for NF-κB response elements, either as part of a recombinant construct or as a cloned fragment of the human RAGE promoter. Hence, in conclusion it would appear that the CLAs investigated in this study could significantly suppress the inflammation in diseases such as T2D through their ability to suppress NF-B leading to down-regulation of RAGE expression. Furthermore, these events appear to be consistent for all three forms of CLA investigated and in all three cell types-all with a critical role in the development of atherosclerosis.
Rattus remotus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus remotus

description: Rattus remotus (Robinson and Kloss, 1914). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 18:231. TYPE LOCALITY: Thailand, Koh Samui. DISTRIBUTION: Phangan, Tao, and Samui Isis. (Thailand). COMMENT: Considered a subspecies of muelleri by Hill, 1960, Bull. Raffles Mus., 29:1 -112, and as a subspecies of annandalei by Chasen, 1940; but see Marshall, 1977, in Lekagul and McNeely, p. 469. Conspecific with sikkimensis (GGM).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 553, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
description: {"references": ["Hill, J. E. 1960. The Robinson Collection of Malaysian mammals. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum (Singapore), 29: 1 - 112.", "Chasen, F. N. 1940. A handlist of Malaysian mammals: A systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, including the adjacent small islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 15: 1 - 209."]}