cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Sexual Behaviour, Exploitation and its Determinants Among Orphan and Vulnerable Childeren in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2014
Creators: name: Chimdessa, Ayana
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Background: The increased sexual risk and exploitation among orphans and vulnerable children and its associated physical, psychological and social consequences is becoming a major public health concern globally. The number of orphans has risen significantly in recent years in Ethiopia. Understanding the magnitude of risky sexual behavior and exploring factors underpinning this behavior are pivotal to address the needs of orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) and mitigating the negative outcomes of the growing OVC population worldwide. However, there is paucity of information in this regard in Ethiopia. Objectives: To assess the sexual practices, exploitation and its determinant factors among OVC in Addis Ababa city. Methodology: community based cross sectional study and phenomenological qualitative methods was conducted from March to June 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Quantitative data was collected from OVC who were got community based care from three organizations, selected by systematic sampling using self administered questionnaire and phenomenological qualitative methods use focus group discussion (FGD) and interview of street children. Logistic regression and open code were used to analysis data. Result : The study participants who were double orphans were about five times more at risky sexual behavior than the respondents who were maternal orphan only P=0.005, COR (95% CI) 5.455(1.674,17.770). The multivariate risk sexual behavior shows that, orphans, who were living with others (non- relatives and far extended relatives) were about four times more at risky sexual behaviors than those who live with their mothers [(P=0.033, AOR (95%CI) 3.849(1.116,13.272)]. Many street children were forced to have coercive sex with strangers and older street children. Conclusion: About 50 (44.6%) of OVC started early sexual intercourse to get basic need and followed by 39 (34.8%) of them start to facilitating social connection in their living environment. About 96 (85.7%) of OVC did not use a condom regularly while they had sexual intercourse with their partner. Sexual relationship among street children is widespread among the street groups and with outsiders, multiple partnerships is common. Obviously, these findings suggest that orphan children were at high sexual risk behavior and exploitation next to the death of their income earner through their lack of basic needs. Key words: orphan and vulnerable children, street children, risky sexual behavior, sexual exploitation, Addis Ababa.
Phonon-Josephson resonances in atomtronic circuits
Creators: name: Bidasyuk, Y. M.
name: Prikhodko, O. O.
name: Weyrauch, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the resonant excitation of sound modes from Josephson oscillations in Bose-Einstein condensates. From the simulations for various setups using the Gross-Pitaevskii mean-field equations and Josephson equations we observe additional tunneling currents induced by resonant phonons. The proposed experiment may be used for spectroscopy of phonons as well as other low-energy collective excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates. We also argue that the observed effect may mask the observation of Shapiro resonances if not carefully controlled.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures. Updated to match the published version
Deliverable 5.2 - Mid-Term review of Living Labs functioning
Creators: name: Mattioni, Dalia
name: Galli, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Living labs
Agrobiodiversity
Stakeholder engagement
Participation

description: Living Labs (LLs) play a key role within DIVINFOOD: for this reason, Work Package 7 on “Coordination and management”, the project’s Grant Agreement envisaged a Task (7.2) specifically aimed at monitoring LL activities. The aim of this deliverable is thus to lay out the LL’s achievements both in terms of the tangible and intangible outputs produced so far (i.e. the what) and the process followed to reach that point (i.e. the how), as the two are inextricably linked.

In addition to the tangible and intangible outputs expected from LLs, the project documents gave precise indications as to how LLs were to be organised in order to best achieve the project’s goals. 

First of all, the LLs are expected to include a diversity of actors along the value chain and cover different roles. Secondly, given that co-learning and co-creation are key approaches of the project, emphasis is placed on the use of participatory approaches. A third feature of the project refers to how to engage stakeholders and above all how to maintain an engagement high during the length of the project, while the last aspect relates to the way LLs grow or recruit new members. This last feature is important because one of the aims of the project is to establish the 9 LLs as laboratories and demonstration sites of how to set up territorial networks that value agrobiodiversity.

Based on the above, the key questions in monitoring LLs in the past two years have been:

1.       Achievements: What have the LLs achieved or co-produced, in the last two years?

2.       Process: How have they done this? Did they involve a diversity of stakeholders and who are they? How were stakeholders engaged and participation stimulated? How are new stakeholders recruited? 

To answer these questions, the deliverable uses a mix of primary and secondary data. Among the former, we have set an online monitoring tool and carried out informal conversations with LL Coordinators online or physically at Annual Meetings and other gatherings. Secondary data includes the results of the Mid-Term Review and outputs produced by previous Milestones and other events.
Optimum estimation, and its simulation, for a noise-corrupted signal
Creators: name: hollow., John Gregory
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Constraining Dark Matter and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Sources with Fermi-LAT Diffuse Gamma Ray Background
Creators: name: Kalashev, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the recent measurement of the isotropic $γ$-ray background (IGRB) by Fermi LAT and analysis of the contribution of unresolved point $γ$-ray sources to IGRB to build constraints on the models of ultra-high cosmic rays (UHECR) origin. We also calculate the minimal expected diffuse $γ$-ray flux produced by UHECR interactions with an interstellar photon background. Finally, for the subclass of dark matter (DM) models with decaying weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP), we build constraints on the particle decay time using minimal expected contributions to the IGRB from unresolved point $γ$-ray sources and UHECR.
description: Contribution to the Proceedings of 19th International Seminar on High Energy Physics, Quarks-2016, Pushkin, Russia, 29 May - 4 June, 2016
Knowledge management metrics for Public Organizations: A literature review-based proposal
Creators: name: López-Portillo, Pérez
name: Héctor
name: González, Vázquez
name: René, Edgar
name: Hidalgo, Romero
name: Alberto, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Knowledge Management (KM) is a relatively new phenomenon that appears in the field of Public Sector Organizations (PSO) bringing new paradigms of organizational management, challenges, risks and opportunities for its implementation, development and evaluation. KM can be seen as a systematic and deliberate effort to coordinate people, technology, organizational structures and its environment through knowledge reuse and innovation. This management approach has been established in parallel with the development and use of information and communications technologies (ICT). Nowadays more PSO are embodying KM practices in their core processes for support them, and as an advanced management strategy to create a new culture based on technology and resources efficiency. In this paper, we observed that KM can support organizational goals in PSO. The aim of this paper is to understand KM factors and its associated components, and propose KM metrics for measure KM programs in PSO. Through a critical literature review we analysed diverse studies related with KM performance indicators in PSO, then based on previous works we summarized the more convenient this purpose. We found that, in academic literature, studies about KM measurement in PSO are uncommon and emerging. As well, in the last section of this paper, we present a proposal of KM metrics for PSO, and some recommendations and practical implications for KM metrics development in PSO. This academic endeavour seeks to contribute to theoretical debate about KM measure development for KM initiatives in PSO.
description: conference proceedings
She's the Difference: Survey of Likely Voters Age 50 and Older
Creators: name: AARP
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2023

description: Likely to vote in November 2022 elections (2); personal financial situation (2); most important issues currently facing the county (21); immigration (2); healthcare (3); economy (11); climate change (2); foreign affairs (1); partisanship (3); social security/Medicare (4); racism (2); education (2); age discrimination (1); abortion (1); crime (2); voting rights (2); coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (31); overall feelings most days (15); most important values (14); hopes for the world left to the next generations (14); concern for the future of self/family/loved-ones (12); relationship challenges since the start of COVID-19 (8); financial challenges since the start of COVID-19 (12); healthcare challenges since the start of COVID-19 (4); feelings of isolation (3); mental health issues (3); 2022 midterm elections (3); grade elected officials on handling of issues (17); wage gap between rich and poor (1); currently providing care to a family member/friend (7).
Absolute densities, masses, and radii of the WASP-47 system determined dynamically
Creators: name: Almenara, J. M.
name: Díaz, R. F.
name: Bonfils, X.
name: Udry, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a self-consistent modelling of the available light curve and radial velocity data of WASP-47 that takes into account the gravitational interactions between all known bodies in the system. The joint analysis of light curve and radial velocity data in a multi-planetary system allows deriving absolute densities, radii, and masses without the use of theoretical stellar models. For WASP-47 the precision is limited by the reduced dynamical information that is due to the short time span of the K2 light curve. We achieve a precision of around 22% for the radii of the star and the transiting planets, between 40% and 60% for their masses, and between 1.5% and 38% for their densities. All values agree with previously reported measurements. When theoretical stellar models are included, the system parameters are determined with a precision that exceeds that achieved by previous studies, thanks to the self-consistent modelling of light curve and radial velocity data.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL CONVERSION OF CO2 TO CH4 TOWARDS ENRICHMENT OF BIOGAS: A REVIEW ON BES AN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
Creators: name: Hemant M. Jariwala
name: Yogesh C. Rotliwala
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The need of new sustainable sources of energy is on the top priority to fulfil the demand of energy atdifferent corners today. Biogas is one distinct source from other renewable energy providing sources because ofits environment friendly as well as economic characteristics. Biogas does not have any geographical limitationsnor it requires advancedtechnology for producing energy, it is also very simple to use and apply.Although, Biogasgenerated from anaerobic digestion process is a clean, carbon neutral and environmental friendly energyalternative, raw biogas needs to be purified necessarily before using. The removal of impurities from raw biogaswhich is referred as enrichment ensures its better applications and also enhances its calorific value. Fundamentalaspects of anaerobic digestion are briefly described in the paper. The paper mainly includes various biogasenrichment techniques and their comparative studies have been made. A novel technique of bio-electrochemicaltechnique has also been briefly discussed.
Harmonic Analysis of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit Traction Converters
Creators: name: Demissu, Legese
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Traction power system is the main area of industrial sector where the application of power electronic technology is widely used. The uses of these devices create harmonics that cause a serious problem on the proper operation of the system. There have been different corrective methods proposed by different researchers. Among them, the AC side passive filters that provide low resistive path to eliminate the harmonics; and the active filter that produce harmonic currents in equal magnitude and 180 0 out of phase to suppress it, are the widely discussed ones. This thesis provides the harmonic analysis of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (LRT) traction system. The analysis is performed on the Lideta rectifier substation. The traction system is modelled using Matlab/Simulink environment. Based on the data obtained from Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC), simulation is carried out and compared with the IEEE standard limits. Taking into consideration the cost and simplicity of the operation, single tuned filters tuned at 11 th and 13 th harmonics and high pass filter adjusted for higher harmonics currents are designed for the AC side, and LC filter is proposed for the DC side of the system. The simulation result comes with significant reduction in harmonic distortion. The Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) is reduced to 0.80% for the current and to 0.33% for voltage, which is far below the 5% limits of IEEE standard. In addition to that the system power factor is improved from 0.77 to 0.99, which avoids the installation of power factor corrector.
Prevalence of Depression and Associated Factors among Adult Diabetic Patients Attending Outpatient Department, at Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Bahir Dar, Northwest Ethiopia, 2016
Creators: name: W/Giorgis, Teshager
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Diabetes and depression are a highly prevalent, devastating and disabling condition associated with high morbidity, mortality, and healthcare consumption. Co-existing depression in people with Diabetes mellitus (DM) results in decreased adherence, poor health outcome, decreased quality of life, increased disability, lost productivity increased and risk of death. Prevalence and contribute factors were varies from pace to place and data on depression in the diabetes patients in Ethiopia are scarce particularly in the study area that which needs further investigation. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and associated factors of depression among outpatients with diabetes in Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital. Method: Institution based cross-sectional study was conducted on outpatients from Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital. A face to face interview was conducted using structured questionnaire by trained and experienced health professionals. The participants were selected by using systematic random sampling technique. Depression was assessed by Patient Health Questionnaire- 9 (PHQ 9) and data was analyzed by using simple descriptive, univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis method. P <0.05 with 95% CI was considered statistically significant. Result: Of 416 people interviewed; 25.72% fulfilled the criteria for mild, 6.73% for moderate, 5.53% for moderately sever, and 2.40% for severe form of depression two weeks prior to the study period respectively. The overall prevalence of depression among patient with diabetes was 40.4% when a cut-off score of PHQ 9 ≥ 5 was used. Poor social support (AOR 5.82, 95% CI (2.821, 12.004)); age 45-54 years old (AOR: 2.717, 95% CI (1.041, 7.096)); oral hypoglycemic treatment regime (AOR: 2.213, 95% CI 1.174, 4.171)) and high fear of complication (AOR 9.129, 95% CI (4.97, 16.769)) were found statistically significant factors. Conclusion: This study revealed a relatively high prevalence of depression episodes in diabetic outpatients. High perceptions for fear of complication, less level of social support, oral hypoglycemic treatment regime and adult age (45-54) were found to be the most important risk factors for depressive episodes. Therefore, providing social support co-morbid depression could help ameliorate some of the deleterious effects of depressive symptoms in DM outpatients. Keywords: Diabetes; Depression; Adult patient; Co-morbidity; Associated factors
On the aesthetics of built form and its place within the design of structures
Creators: name: Holgate., Alan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Development of FPGA Based System on Chip for Level Crossing Management System in Case Of AALRT
Creators: name: Solomon, Hailemichael
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of this thesis is to develop an automatic railway gate system that uses the FPGA as a main function of design. The principle objective of this thesis was to design an automatic railway gate control by FPGA. This thesis deals to develop a prototype of railway gate that function automatically by using FPGA. Besides that, the interfacing program also had been developed for the integration part. The main concept of the system is that, depending on arrival or departure of the train near level crossing, the crossing gate will close or open automatically with displaying corresponding signals like Red or Green signal. That means, when the train approaching near level crossing, the crossing gate will close and showing Green signal for train, so, train can move without any interruption of its speed. After leaving the train from level crossing, the crossing gate will open, but there may be a chance that when a vehicle is trying to cross the level crossing then the crossing gate may close as the train is approaching nearby. At this situation, the system detects the vehicle as an obstacle in order to prevent accidents, so the gate will be opened until the vehicle moves away from the crossing gate and the train will be stopped as it detects the Vehicle as obstacle just under crossing gate. By developing automatic gate control, the railway level crossing accidents of Ethiopia can be minimized. The system is designed using RF Transceiver, IR Sensor, FPGA, Steeper Motor, Relay and some external devices.
Legends: the Best of Broadway [poster]
Creators: name: Society, Victoria On Stage Musical Theatre
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Theater
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1149217
subject: Drama
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/897468

description: A lobby card poster for Victoria on Stage's production of Legends: the Best of Broadway. Performance Dates: November 15-21, 1998 at the McPherson Playhouse. Staged by: Heather Elayne Day & Jennifer Sanders ; Set Design: Brian Woodman ; Lighting Design: Tony Vickery ; Costume Co-ordinators: Pat Brown & Peta MacKenzie ; Producer: Holly McGimpsey ; Music Direction: Corinne Eckert Coell ; Featuring Bob LeBlanc on piano ; Originally Conceived by: Bob LeBlanc, Linda Cody & Stephen Abbass. Actors: David Brillinger, Dwayne Gordon, Stephanie Greaves, Rob Menes, Bill Murphy-Dyson, Lesley O'Connor, Rebecca Shoichet, Susan Wilkey
Hall resistivity correlations in disordered electron-doped Nd$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_{4+δ}$ films
Creators: name: Charikova, T.
name: Shelushinina, N.
name: Harus, G.
name: Petukhov, D.
name: Petukhova, O.
name: Ivanov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The resistivity tensor correlations $ρ_{xy}$($B$)$\sim$ $[ρ_{xx}(B)]^β$ for the mixed state magnetic field dependencies of the resistivity tensor of electron-doped Nd$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_{4+δ}$/SrTiO$_3$ single crystal films near the antiferromagnetic (AF) - superconducting (SC) phase transition and with varying degree of disorder ($δ$) were studied. The decrease of $β$ from 1.2$\pm$0.2 at $x$ = 0.14 to 0.6$\pm$0.1 at $x$ = 0.15 points out on the evidence of the change from the anisotropic $s$ - wave to the $d$ - wave pairing symmetry in the external magnetic field at the transition from underdoped to optimally doped region. Peculiarities of the power law dependence of the vortex motion in the mixed state can be connected with some features of the nonstoichiometric disorder in layered electron-doped superconductors.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Anne of Green Gables [poster]
Creators: name: Society, Victoria On Stage Musical Theatre
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Theater
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1149217
subject: Drama
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/897468
subject: Anne of Green Gables (Campbell, Norman, 1924-2004)

description: A lobby card for Victoria on Stage's production of Anne of Green Gables. Performance Dates: November 26-December 5, 1999 at the McPherson Playhouse. Director & Choreography: Sylvia Hosie ; Music Director: Rick Underwood ; Producers: Rosemary Pugh & Bruce Lankin ; From the Novel by: L.M. Montgomery ; Adapted by: Donald Harron ; Music by: Norman Campbell ; Lyrics by: Donald Harron & Norman Campbell ; Additional Lyrics by: Mvor Moore & Elaine Campbell ; Poster by: John Britt. Actors: Nicole Fitzgerald, Katie-Rose Petley, Alexander Ferguson, Larry Edwards, Steve Ivings, Heide Margaretha Muendel, Marg Bridgeman, Dorothy Hosie
Jet Flavor Classification in High-Energy Physics with Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Guest, Daniel
name: Collado, Julian
name: Baldi, Pierre
name: Hsu, Shih-Chieh
name: Urban, Gregor
name: Whiteson, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classification of jets as originating from light-flavor or heavy-flavor quarks is an important task for inferring the nature of particles produced in high-energy collisions. The large and variable dimensionality of the data provided by the tracking detectors makes this task difficult. The current state-of-the-art tools require expert data-reduction to convert the data into a fixed low-dimensional form that can be effectively managed by shallow classifiers. We study the application of deep networks to this task, attempting classification at several levels of data, starting from a raw list of tracks. We find that the highest-level lowest-dimensionality expert information sacrifices information needed for classification, that the performance of current state-of-the-art taggers can be matched or slightly exceeded by deep-network-based taggers using only track and vertex information, that classification using only lowest-level highest-dimensionality tracking information remains a difficult task for deep networks, and that adding lower-level track and vertex information to the classifiers provides a significant boost in performance compared to the state-of-the-art.
description: 12 pages, submitted to PRD
Three dimensional scene analysis using multiple view range data
Creators: name: Hofman., Irving David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Perception on Socio-Economic and Demographic Causes of Deforestation and Its Consequences in Chena Woreda: The Case of Kafa Zone, SNNPRS
Creators: name: Moges, Tamirat
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2010

description: Forests are essential natural resources that make an important contribution to the wealth of the country. They provide wood for fuel, poles and timber for construction, furnish cattle with shelter and fodder and protect the soil from erosion. On the other hand, destruction of forest leads human beings and the environment to various problems. Departing from this backdrop, the research focuses on the perception on socio-economic and demographic causes of deforestation and its consequences in Chena Woreda-The case of Kefa Zone, SNNPRS. The study examines the relation between household size, level of education, social exclusion, land/forest tenure rights and deforestation and further assesses the consequences of deforestation and community perceptions of deforestation and its possible causes. Both primary and secondary data such as household surveys sources through questionnaire, key informants interview, Focus Group Discussions and literatures were used. The data were analyzed by descriptive way using percentage and frequency rank weight. The major causes of deforestation in the study area were found to be rapid population growth, social exclusion, dependency on agriculture, resettlement and inappropriate investment program, among others the consequences of deforestation relate to local climate change, soil erosion, shortage of fuel wood, etc. It is suggested that creating community awareness to reduce fertility, strengthening the relation between Menjas and the majority Kefa people, providing substitute for wood and providing opportunities for the people to involve on other off-farming activities could be possible alternatives to overcome problems of deforestation.
A lower limit on the heat capacity of the neutron star core
Creators: name: Cumming, Andrew
name: Brown, Edward F.
name: Fattoyev, Farrukh J.
name: Horowitz, C. J.
name: Page, Dany
name: Reddy, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that observations of the core temperature of transiently-accreting neutron stars combined with observations of an accretion outburst give a lower limit to the neutron star core heat capacity. For the neutron stars in the low mass X-ray binaries KS 1731-260, MXB 1659-29, and XTE J1701-462, we show that the lower limit is a factor of a few below the core heat capacity expected if neutrons and protons in the core are paired, so that electrons provide the dominant contribution to the heat capacity. This limit rules out a core dominated by a quark color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase, which would have a much lower heat capacity. Future observations of or limits on cooling during quiescence will further constrain the core heat capacity.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Physical Review C
Charged Rotating AdS Black Holes with Chern-Simons coupling
Creators: name: Mir, Mozhgan
name: Mann, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain a perturbative solution for rotating charged black holes in 5-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory with a negative cosmological constant. We start from a small undeformed Kerr-AdS solution and use the electric charge as a perturbative parameter to build up black holes with equal-magnitude angular momenta up to forth order. These black hole solutions are described by three parameters, the charge, horizon radius and horizon angular velocity. We determine the physical quantities of these black holes and study their dependence on the parameters of black holes and arbitrary Chern-Simons coefficient. In particular, for values of CS coupling constant beyond its supergravity amount, due to a rotational instability, counterrotating black holes arise. Also the rotating solutions appear to have vanishing angular momenta and do not manifest uniquely by their global charges.
description: 41 pages, Latex, 9 figures; references updated
Reliability Analysis of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit Traction Power Supply System
Creators: name: Destaw, Addisu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: High reliability of railway power systems is one of the essential criteria to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness of railway services. Reliability analysis of traction power supply system (TPSS) is essential for identifying reliability critical components, which causes most of the disruptions, and providing necessary mitigation techniques. The service quality of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit Service (AALRTS) has repeatedly been affected by the TPSS component failures that results in part routing, passenger clearing and more severely operation interruption. Thus, analysis and improvement of AALRT TPSS reliability is definitely an important and urgent issue. The main objective of this thesis is conducting the qualitative and quantitative reliability analysis of AALRT TPSS. Fault mode and effect analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analysis (FTA) accompanied by exponential distribution are selected to model the system and evaluate the reliability indices. The reliability evaluation indexes of AALRT TPSS are then calculated via MATLAB code by applying the exponential distribution equations. Accordingly, the reliability analysis showed that AALRT TPSS had poor reliability in the mission time of about three years. Hence, reliability mitigation techniques, such as fostering well trained personnel, applying various maintenance approaches, procuring and localizing high quality components, and introducing standby power systems, to improve the poor reliable traction power supply system operation, are suggested.
The Prevalence of Stunting and Associated Factors Among Children Age 6-59 Months At Mizan-Aman Town, Bench Maji Zone, Snnpr Region, Ethiopia, 2015
Creators: name: Ayalew, Ermias
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Introduction:-Stunting remains a problem of greater magnitude than underweight or wasting, and it more accurately reflects nutritional deficiencies and illness that occur during the most critical periods for growth and development in early life. Stunting in early childhood results in diminished cognitive and physical development, which puts children at a disadvantage for the rest of their lives. Most studies indicated that stunting is associated with low socio-economic status, low educational level of parents, poor water supply and sanitation, and high infectious diseases burden. Stunting is one of the most important public health problems in Ethiopia. Objectives: - The study was aimed to assess the magnitude of stunting and associated factors among under five children in Mizan-Aman town, Bench Maji Zone, SNNPR Region, Ethiopia. Methods: - A community based cross-sectional study was conducted by simple random sampling technique with sample size of 734 6-59months children. Interviewer administered structured questionnaires was used to collect data. The data was entered using EPI INFO version 7.0.9.34 2014 and analysis was done by SPSS version 22 and ENA for SMART, 2011 software. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis was used. The variables which had significant association were identified on the bases of P value.≤0.05 and 95%CI Result: - In the study, 35.4% (34.6%-36.3%; 95% C.I) 6-59 month children were stunted. Of the total number of stunted children, 138 (53.1%) were male children. Children within age group 24-35 months (AOR=2 .29:95%Cl: 1 .10, 4.82), children whose mothers had no education (AOR=5.38; 95%CI: 2.27, 12.77), low income households (AOR=3.92; 95%Cl: 2.546.06), children who had small size at birth (AOR=2.1O; 95%Cl: 1.13, 3.93), having 4 and above birth order (AOR=2.32; 95%Cl: 1.28, 4.21), children who had breast feed for more than 24 months long (AOR=2.49; 95%Cl: 1.03, 6.00) and mothers not used cup to feed children (AOR=2.08; 95%CI1 05, 4.15) were more likely to be stunted. Conclusion: - Stunting was a highly prevalent problem ¡n the study area and child's age. Mother's education, household income, birth order, Size at birth, duration of breast feeding and cup feeding were found to be associated factors of stunting. There is need for linking nutrition interventions and social protection programm in Mizan-Aman town. Key Words: Stunting, Anthropometric index
The influence of water on structure-property relationships and morphology in poly(vinyl alcohol)
Creators: name: Hodge., Robert Mark
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Supplementary document for Wide-field probing of silica laser-induced damage precursors by photoluminescence photochemical quenching - 6464672.pdf
Creators: name: Rho, Yoonsoo
name: Miller, Christopher
name: Yancey, Robin
name: Laurence, Ted
name: Carr, Christopher
name: Yoo, Jae Hyuck
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Fig. S1-S3
Role of substrate induced electron-phonon interactions in biased graphitic bilayers
Creators: name: Davenport, A. R.
name: Hague, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bilayers of graphitic materials have potential applications in field effect transistors (FETs). A potential difference applied between certain ionic bilayers made from insulating graphitic materials such as BN, ZnO and AlN could reduce gap sizes, turning them into useful semiconductors. On the other hand, opening of a small semiconducting gap occurs in graphene bilayers under applied field. The aim here is to investigate to what extent substrate induced electron-phonon interactions (EPIs) modify this gap change. We examine EPIs in several lattice configurations, using a perturbative approach. The typical effect of EPIs on the ionic bilayers is an undesirable gap widening. The size of this gap change varies considerably with lattice structure and the magnitude of the bias. When bias is larger than the non-interacting gap size, EPIs have the smallest effect on the bandgap, especially in configurations with $AA^{\prime}$ and $AB$ structures. Thus careful selection of substrate, lattice configuration and bias strength to minimise the effects of EPIs could be important for optimising the properties of electronic devices. We use parameters related to BN in this article. In practice, the results presented here are broadly applicable to other graphitic bilayers, and are likely to be qualitatively similar in metal dichalcogenide bilayers such as MoS$_2$, which are already of high interest for their use in FETs.
Recruiting Collective Intelligence to Level Art World Stratification
Creators: name: Bertrand, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: International Journal for Digital Art History
Year: 2023

description: Departing from the cultural impacts of physical museums, this article explores two significant virtual benefits of online digitized art collections. Based on empirical research, it speculates that these increasingly interconnected collections have the potential to implement a new model of cultural participation able to sustain power sharing beyond public consultation, and transform the art system’s inherent stratification, viz. modulate the art world’s access barriers to institutional prestige, thus benefiting artists by levelling the playing field. The claim is that they can serve as a digital infrastructure to recruit collective intelligence on a mass scale in order to democratize culture and foster more equality and diversity in the art world. However, these impacts cannot simply be achieved by turning users into citizen curators or leveraging ‘altmetrics’ (i.e., views and likes) to influence selection and modulate order within an aggregated or distributed database. The main obstacle to these virtual impacts is not online access barriers, nor insufficient participation. Multiplying eyeballs, facilitating discovery and promoting public choices are all vital; but, these initiatives cannot hope to transform the art system if the individual judgment being captured is subject to different spheres of influence and network effects driving inequality. To overcome these effects, the article proposes a novel, choice-based, pathfinding tool designed to recruit users’ sensemaking faculty, as opposed to their personal taste, and in so doing, more effectively capture what users find meaningful (and institute a new value proposition for art).
description: International Journal for Digital Art History, No. 9 (2023): "Dear ChatGPT, Give Us A Title!" Responsiveness and Responsibility in Times of AI
Two-stage Convolutional Part Heatmap Regression for the 1st 3D Face Alignment in the Wild (3DFAW) Challenge
Creators: name: Bulat, Adrian
name: Tzimiropoulos, Georgios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper describes our submission to the 1st 3D Face Alignment in the Wild (3DFAW) Challenge. Our method builds upon the idea of convolutional part heatmap regression [1], extending it for 3D face alignment. Our method decomposes the problem into two parts: (a) X,Y (2D) estimation and (b) Z (depth) estimation. At the first stage, our method estimates the X,Y coordinates of the facial landmarks by producing a set of 2D heatmaps, one for each landmark, using convolutional part heatmap regression. Then, these heatmaps, alongside the input RGB image, are used as input to a very deep subnetwork trained via residual learning for regressing the Z coordinate. Our method ranked 1st in the 3DFAW Challenge, surpassing the second best result by more than 22%.
description: Winner of 3D Face Alignment in the Wild (3DFAW) Challenge, ECCV 2016
La Cage aux Folles [poster]
Creators: name: Society, Victoria On Stage Musical Theatre
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Drama
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/897468
subject: Theater
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1149217
subject: Cage aux folles (Herman, Jerry)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1399927

description: A lobby card poster for Victoria on Stage's production of La Cage aux Folles. Performance Dates: May 5-14, 2000 at the McPherson Playhouse. Director: Roger Carr ; Music Director: Donna Williams ; Choreographer: David Rowland ; Costume Design: David Hardwick ; Set Design: Rick Thomas ; Producers: Lindy VanAlstine & Mary-Lynne Britt ; Music and Lyrics by: Jerry Herman ; Book by: Harvey Fierstein ; Based on the play by: Jean Poiret. Actors: John Pugh, Bruce Lowden, Stephanie Gill, Jeff Bryant, Jaymes D. Goodman, Debbie Robinson, Thom Smith
Sharing research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - Data Management Plan
Creators: name: Loffreda, Lucia
name: Chiarelli, Andrea
name: Vignola-Gagné, Etienne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVID-19
Evaluation
Open Access
OA
Open Data
Open Science
Open Sharing
Preprints

description: This data management plan outlines how data will be gathered, stored and managed as part of a project to investigate the long-term impact of data sharing commitments during Covid-19. The plan includes an overview of data we expect to create, collect and store both during and after the completion of the project, as well as the key individuals responsible for implementing the plan. This document has been created based on the Digital Curation Centre template via the DMPonline service.
Andreev and Majorana bound states in single and double quantum dot structures
Creators: name: Silva, Joelson F.
name: Vernek, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical study of the emergence of Majorana and Andreev bound states in a system composed by two quantum dots, in which one of then is coupled to a conventional superconductor, SC1, and the other connects to a topological superconductor, SC2. By controlling the interdot coupling we can drive the system from a two single (uncoupled) quantum dots to a double (coupled) dot system configurations. We employ a recursive Green's function technique that provides us with numerically exact results for the local density of states of the system. We first show that in the uncoupled dot configuration (single dot behavior) the Majorana and the Andreev bound states appear in an individual dot in two completely distinct regimes. Therefore, they cannot coexist in the single quantum dot system. We then study the coexistence of these states in the coupled double-dot configuration. In this situation we show that in the trivial phase of the SC2, the Andreev states are bound to an individual quantum dot in the atomic regime (weak interdot coupling) or extended over the entire molecule in the molecular regime (strong interdot coupling). More interesting features is actually seen in the topological phase of the SC2. In this case, in the atomic limit, the Andreev states appear bound to one of the quantum dots while a Majorana zero mode appears in the other one. In the molecular regime, on the other hand, the Andreev bound states take over the entire molecule while the Majorana state remains always bound to one of the quantum dots.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Numerical Analysis on The Behavior of Prestressed Concrete Sleeper Under Different Support Conditions
Creators: name: Haftom, Gebremicael
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Railway sleepers have important roles in the complex railway system. Throughout the international railway community, many methods have been developed to design and analyze the concrete sleepers. Specifically, this paper focuses on how changes in support condition affect the internal behavior of the sleeper. Due to different loading condition, poor maintenance or bad quality of ballast, a random load distribution along the sleeper-ballast interface may occur. A sleeper design, and also the track system design, which do not consider the random load distribution, could influence the performance of the sleeper and even damage the whole railway system. Thus, a numerical analysis for a pre-stressed concrete mono-block railway sleeper is carried out using finite element method. The internal behavior of a single sleeper subjected to a varying sleeper-ballast interaction is studied and, a linear-elastic sleeper analysis model was developed. This model was used to perform a study to determine the sensitivity of the sleeper to changes in ballast reaction along the sleeper. Four different possible scenarios of support conditions for a sleeper with varying contact length are discussed in numerical analysis. Results of vertical displacement and flexural stress of both rail seat and at mid-section of sleeper are presented. According to the simulations conducted in this study, the bending moments due to the applied rail seat load at the sleeper rail seat / center can be exceeded from design bending moments under small variation in distribution of the ballast reaction. Besides very soft support underneath the rail seat and large variation of ballast stiffness along the length of sleeper might cause severe cracking problems especially at the top surface in the middle of the sleeper. The worst support condition is also identified. Moreover, the results of this study were compared to existing design recommendations (Australian Standard AS 1085.14) to find allowable levels of ballast reaction that can occur beneath the sleeper before failure is expected.
Overtaking lanes on two-lane rural highways
Creators: name: Hoban., Christopher J
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Assessment Of Supply Chain Collaboration In Tourism Industry: Tour Operators' Perception From Ethiopia
Creators: name: Berhanu, Tigist
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: This is a research conducted on assessment of supply chain collaboration in Ethiopian tour operation. It is conducted with the general objectives of investigating the existing level of supply chain collaboration in Ethiopian tour operation and to identify its effect on the performance and competitiveness of the industry. To address the stated research questions, the study employed nonexperimental survey type research design. Data were collected from both primary and secondary sources; primary data were collected though structured and unstructured questionnaires and secondary data document analysis were made. The study employed probability sampling techniques to select the participant tour operators. Accordingly, 222 respondents were selected and participated in the study and out of these, data were obtained from 192 respondents. In order to assess the relationship between the three supply chain collaboration variables, competitive advantage and organizational performance. Correlation models was used. And Regression is followed to evaluate the direction of the relationship. Data analysis revealed that tour operators with high supply chain collaboration have high competitive advantage and high performance. Following these results, recommendations are given to improve supply chain collaboration in the tourism operation. This study is expected to contribute to the improvement of the competitiveness and performance of tour operation thorough supply chain collaboration