cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MARKET SEGMENTATION IN WINE TOURISM: A COMPARISON OF APPROACHES
Creators: name: Alebaki, Maria
name: Iakovidou, Olga
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2011

description: In an attempt to approach wine tourism as a form of consumer behaviour, a substantial amount of research has focused on the demand-side, exploring the consumers who travel to wine regions. Despite the fact that there is no single, stereotypical “wine tourist”, some distinctive characteristics regarding demographics, motivations or wine lifestyle can be drawn from literature. Several authors have recently addressed this issue and developed various wine tourist typologies, on the basis both of socio-economic and psychographic data. The objective of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the wine tourist, taking into account the different approaches for profiling and segmentation that have been used in recent studies.
description: tourismos, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2011)
Superexponential droplet fractalization as a hierarchical formation of dissipative compactons
Creators: name: Shklyaev, Sergey
name: Straube, Arthur V.
name: Pikovsky, Arkady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of a thin film over a substrate heated from below in a framework of a strongly nonlinear one-dimensional Cahn-Hillard equation. The evolution leads to a fractalization into smaller and smaller scales. We demonstrate that a primitive element in the appearing hierarchical structure is a dissipative compacton. Both direct simulations and the analysis of a self-similar solution show that the compactons appear at superexponentially decreasing scales, what means vanishing dimension of the fractal.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted
THE IMPACT OF HUMAN CAPITAL ON SMES PERFORMANCE SUCCESS IN GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF OPEN INNOVATION
Creators: name: WENJIE JI
name: NIYOM SUWANDEJ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Human Capital; Open Innovation; Performance Success; Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises; PLS-SEM.

description: Abstract

Based on the Resource-Based View Theory, this study aims to examine the relationships between human capital, open innovation, and performance success in SMEs. In the context of Guangdong Province, China, where SMEs play a vital role in the economy, understanding the dynamics of these relationships is particularly important. This study employs a quantitative research design, utilizing data collected from 200 employees working in SMEs in Guangdong. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyze the data, allowing for the examination of complex relationships and the testing of mediation effects. The findings reveal that human capital has a positive and significant impact on SMEs' performance success. Furthermore, open innovation is identified as a mediator in this relationship. This study offers theoretical insights and provides practical guidance for SMEs seeking to improve their performance in a dynamic and competitive business environment.
title: Attitudes of Members of the Latter-day Saint Church Towards the Church Welfare Program and the Relationship of These Attitudes to Selected Factors
Creators: name: Bartlett, Harold L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1952

description: This is a study of an institution. Institutions are established to meet basic human needs, some of which are shelter, association, protection, and self-expression. They formulate within the group patterns of behavior which are intended to guide and develop habits of conformity in the individual. An institution is made up of traditions, habits and attitudes, leaders and members, symbols, regulations, and property.(19,p.8)
title: tourismos, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2011)
Creators: name: Tourismos
Publisher: name: University of the Aegean
Year: 2011

description: Annual ATLAS Conference...319-321 Annual EuroCHRIE Conference...315-317 Eventful cities...311-313 The Impossible Travel: Tourism and its images 1...307-310 THE ROLE OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN NIGERIA...297-305 ASSESSMENT OF NATURE-BASED TOURISM IN SOUTH KELANTAN, MALAYSIA...281-295 RENT-A-CAR INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY IN ARGENTINA...271-280 ECOTOURISM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE REGIONAL ECONOMY – A STUDY OF NORTH BENGAL (INDIA)...251-270 INTERNATIONAL TOURISM, DOMESTIC TOURISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CAN FIND THE BALANCE...233-249 NAUTICAL TOURISM IN FOSTERING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF CROATIA’S COAST AND ISLAND...221-232 MICE TOURISM IN PIEDMONT: ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION...213-220 MEASURING RESULTS OF TRAINING WITH ROI METHOD: AN APPLICATION IN A 5-STAR HOTEL IN ANTALYA REGION OF TURKEY...193-212 NEW TOURISM IN A NEW SOCIETY ARISES FROM “PEAK OIL”...165-191 SECOND HOMES AND THE NEED FOR POLICY PLANNING...141-163 MARKET SEGMENTATION IN WINE TOURISM: A COMPARISON OF APPROACHES...123-140 GENDERED LEISURE: ARE WOMEN MORE CONSTRAINED IN TRAVEL FOR LEISURE?...105-121 ETHICAL APPROACHES AND THEIR APPLICATION IN HOTEL MANAGERS' DECISION MAKING...84-104 COMMUNITY - BASED TOURISM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE STUDY...69-84 THE MANAGEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY IN TOURISM: STRATEGIC PARADOXES AND COMMUNICATION...53-68 LOCAL RESIDENTS’ PREFERENCES FOR SECOND HOME TOURISM DEVELOPMENT POLICIES: A CHOICE EXPERIMENT ANALYSIS...31-51 NICOSIA - CONCERTED RETAILING AND TOURISM STRATEGIES TO AWAKEN A NEGLECTED AND SLEEPING BEAUTY...15-29 Initial Pages & Editorial...1-13
Galactic masers and the Milky Way circular velocity
Creators: name: Bovy, Jo
name: Hogg, David W.
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Masers found in massive star-forming regions can be located precisely in six-dimensional phase space and therefore serve as a tool for studying Milky Way dynamics. The non-random orbital phases at which the masers are found and the sparseness of current samples require modeling. Here we model the phase-space distribution function of 18 precisely measured Galactic masers, permitting a mean velocity offset and a general velocity dispersion tensor relative to their local standards of rest, and accounting for different pieces of prior information. With priors only on the Sun's distance from the Galactic Center and on its motion with respect to the local standard of rest, the maser data provide a weak constraint on the circular velocity at the Sun of V_c = 246 +/- 30 km/s. Including prior information on the proper motion of Sgr A* leads to V_c = 244 +/- 13 km/s. We do not confirm the value of V_c \approx 254 km/s found in more restrictive models. This analysis shows that there is no conflict between recent determinations of V_c from Galactic Center analyses, orbital fitting of the GD-1 stellar stream, and the kinematics of Galactic masers; a combined estimate is V_c = 236 +/- 11 km/s. Apart from the dynamical parameters, we find that masers tend to occur at post-apocenter, circular-velocity-lagging phases of their orbits.
description: ApJ in press
Comparison of the semiclassical and quantum optical field dynamics in a pulse-excited optical cavity with a finite number of quantum emitters
Creators: name: Jürgens, K.
name: Lengers, F.
name: Groll, D.
name: Reiter, D. E.
name: Wigger, D.
name: Kuhn, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectral and temporal response of a set of $N$ quantum emitters embedded in a photonic cavity is studied. Quantum mechanically, such systems can be described by the Tavis-Cummings (TC) model of $N$ two-level systems coupled to a single light mode. Here we compare the full quantum solution of the TC model for different numbers of quantum emitters with its semiclassical limit after a pulsed excitation of the cavity mode. Considering different pulse amplitudes, we find that the spectra obtained from the TC model approach the semiclassical one for an increasing number of emitters $N$. Furthermore they match very well for small pulse amplitudes. While we observe a very good agreement in the temporal dynamics for photon numbers much smaller than $N$, considerable deviations occur in the regime of photon numbers similar to or larger than $N$, which are linked to collapse and revival phenomena. Wigner functions of the light mode are calculated for different scenarios to analyze the quantum state of the light field. We find strong deviations from a coherent state even if the dynamics of the expectation values are still well described by the semiclassical limit. For higher pulse amplitudes Wigner functions similar to those of Schrödinger cat states between two or more quasi-coherent contributions build up.
description: accepted for publication in Physical Review B https://journals.aps.org/prb/
NICOSIA - CONCERTED RETAILING AND TOURISM STRATEGIES TO AWAKEN A NEGLECTED AND SLEEPING BEAUTY
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Rudi
name: Gronau, Werner
name: Sakkadas, Savvas
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2011

description: Nicosia, the last divided European city, is only able to skim a small portion of the tourist purchasing power compared to the other tourism strongholds of the island and, at the same time, does not utilize the existing cultural potential in an efficient way. Therefore, this paper aims to contribute to the valorisation of the existing potential in a customer oriented manner. Concerted international (UN Nicosia Master Plan) and national (Strategic Plan 2010) strategies reflect the intended revival endeavours. For this new orientation to be successful the paper hypothesizes an effective interplay between tourism and retailing to happen and, for this reason, analyses the motives and satisfaction levels of tourists to Nicosia with regards to both, tourism and retailing offers. The paper focuses on the tourist segment with higher educational levels (and implicitly higher financial potential) as the communication objectives foresee to position the island mainly in the mind of this segment. The paper concludes, in line with recent developments with regard to tourist consumer profiles, that the concept of authenticity plays an increasing role when explaining the satisfaction levels of this specific segment and provides practical recommendations.
description: tourismos, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2011)
title: To Be, or Not to Be (Like My Sibling), That Is the Question: Examining Modeling and Differentiation Behaviors Among Siblings in Organized Youth Sport
Creators: name: Osai, Keith Vakafutu
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Sibling relationships are typically the most enduring relationship in the family unit. A large body of research documents how sibling relationships occur in the context of the immediate family, how they impact behaviors such as risk-taking, how different cultures view siblings, and how similarities and differences among siblings can be attributed to genetics as well as shared and non-shared experiences. However, one relatively common family context in which sibling dynamics are less understood is organized youth sport. The present dissertation was designed to address multiplegaps in the present literature. This dissertation is comprised of two complementary studies. Study 1, guided by a family systems perspective and a social constructivist epistemology, employed a qualitative methodology in an effort to better understand individuals’ experiences of the processes and mechanisms that impact family and sibling relationships in organized youth sport. Study 2 addressed two competing mechanisms of socialization, modeling and differentiation, employing a quantitative methodology to examine older siblings’ impact on younger siblings’ participation in organized youth sport. Results from Study 1 show that similarities exist among and between family units. Specifically, families experience both warmth and conflict in sibling relationships, in addition, modeling and differentiation behaviors are reported in multiple families. Of note, a unique pathway of influence (i.e., Parent-Initiated Differentiation) was recognized. This exploratory study helped give voice to families that have children that participate in youth sport. Study 2 results point to the main effect of biological sex being associated with siblings not being in the same main sport. In addition, a three-way interaction between younger siblings’ reports of differentiation x dyad biological sex x and age difference was significantly related to siblings reports of not being in the same main sport. Taken together, these results help enhance youth sport literature by pointing to reasons why siblings would or would not follow each other in their youth sport decisions. Further examination is needed to understand behaviors of modeling and differentiation in youth sport, specifically, how parents influence modeling and differentiation behaviors among siblings.
LOCAL RESIDENTS’ PREFERENCES FOR SECOND HOME TOURISM DEVELOPMENT POLICIES: A CHOICE EXPERIMENT ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Asgary, Ali
name: Rezvani, Mohammad Reza
name: Mehregan, Nader
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2011

description: This paper is concerned with the preferences of the rural residents living in areas subject to rapid second home tourism development in Iran. Since second home development could have positive and negative social, cultural, economical and environmental impacts for local residents, planning policies should take into consideration public opinions and preferences for future planning and developments. Using a choice experiment method, we attempt to estimate the values that the rural households in Tehran province would place on different impacts of second home development policies.
description: tourismos, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2011)
title: A Thermal Energy Storage Tank Model for Solar Heating
Creators: name: Pate, Robert Arthur
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1977

description: The results of a combined theoretical and experimental study of the kinetics of a hot-liquid energy-storage tank are presented. A physical model is developed which accurately describes the thermal stratification behavior in a storage tank. The governing differential equations are developed for the physical model. A numerical solution to the system of equations is presented. Some existing models were examined and the predicted results of each are discussed. The concepts developed can be used to predict the thermal stratification behavior in a storage tank under most conceivable operating conditions. These conditions include flow configurations at the top and the bottom of the tank which both have inversionary tendencies. Inversionary behavior could conceivably occur in both the top and the bottom regions of the tank during a combined storage and usage mode which might occur at non-peak storage hours. Although the work was done primarily for the utilization of solar energy, the results are not limited to such application. The results are more significant as a contribution to applied fluid dynamics.
THE IMPACT OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP STYLE ON CHANGES IN ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND JOB SATISFACTION MEDIATED BY PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT IN KENDARI CITY GOVERNMENT
Creators: name: Ida SRIWATY
name: NURWATI
name: NASRUL
name: Nani Restati SIREGAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Authentic Leadership Style, Psychological Empowerment, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction.

description: Abstract

Leadership plays an important role in influencing employee behavior in the organization. The purpose of this research was to examine and analyze the influence of authentic leadership style on psychological empowerment, organizational commitment, and employee job satisfaction, as well as to examine the mediating role of psychological empowerment on these influences. The object of this research was civil servants in 20 departments in Kendari City. The population of this study included all civil servants in the Kendari City Department, where the respondents for this study only included 266 civil servants. The data collection method uses a questionnaire and the analysis tool used is SEM Amos The results revealed that authentic leadership style had a positive and significant influence on changes in psychological empowerment, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction. Furthermore, psychological empowerment has a positive and significant influence on organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Finally, psychological empowerment was found to partially mediate the influence of authentic leadership style on organizational commitment, and also the influence of authentic leadership style on employee job satisfaction.
title: Estudio de la categoría BI-RADS 4 A. ¿Estamos catalogando bien?
Creators: name: Tejerina Bernal, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
El sistema BI-RADS(Breast Imaging Reporting Data System)para la catalogación de lesiones mamarias fue creado en el año 1998 por el ACR (American College of Radiology) (1) con la intención de estandarizar resultados de la mamografía y reducir...
Liturgy and Charitable Ministration in Late Antiquity
Creators: name: Radle, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Ex Fonte - Journal of Ecumenical Studies in Liturgy
Year: 2023

description: This article analyzes the “diakonia” prayers within the two oldest Greek euchologion manuscripts. The author reviews how later liturgical usage and scholarship has connected these prayers to monastic practice, and traces the ways in which these early liturgical prayers originally developed within non-monastic contexts of late antique lay charitable organizations.
description: Ex Fonte - Journal of Ecumenical Studies in Liturgy, Bd. 2 (2023)
Effect of Uniaxial Stress for Pressure-Induced Superconductor SrFe_2As_2
Creators: name: Kotegawa, H.
name: Kawazoe, T.
name: Sugawara, H.
name: Murata, K.
name: Tou, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report that the pressure-temperature phase diagram of single-crystalline SrFe$_2$As$_2$ is easily affected by the hydrostaticity of a pressure-transmitting medium. For all of the three mediums we used, superconductivity with zero resistance appears, accompanied by the suppression of an antiferromagnetic (orthorhombic) phase, but the critical pressure $P_c$ was found to depend on the type of medium. $P_c$ was estimated to be 4.4 GPa under almost hydrostatic condition, but it decreased to $3.4-3.7$ GPa with the use of the medium already solidified at room temperature. The uniaxial stress along the c-axis is suggested to aid in the suppression of the antiferromagnetic (orthorhombic) phase. The pressure effect of BaFe$_2$As$_2$ is also reported.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. No.8 (2009)
The Astrosphere of the Asymptotic Giant Branch Star Irc+10216
Creators: name: Sahai, Raghvendra
name: Chronopoulos, Christopher K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have discovered a very extended shock structure (i.e., with a diameter of about 24 arcmin) surrounding the well-known carbon star IRC+10216 in ultraviolet images taken with the GALEX satellite. We conclude that this structure results from the interaction of IRC+10216's molecular wind with the interstellar medium (ISM), as it moves through the latter. All important structural features expected from theoretical models of such interactions are identified: the termination shock, the astrosheath, the astropause, the bowshock, and an astrotail (with vortices). The extent of the astropause provides new lower limits to the envelope age (69,000 years) and mass (1.4 solar masses, for a mass-loss rate of 2 x 10^(-5) solar masses/year). From the termination-shock standoff distance, we find that IRC+10216 is moving at a speed of about > 91 km/s [1 cm^(-3)/n_(ISM)]^1/2 through the local ISM.
description: 4 pages, 3 color figures; accepted for Astrophysical Journal (Letters)
A new measurement of the antiproton-to-proton flux ratio up to 100 GeV in the cosmic radiation
Creators: name: Adriani, O.
name: Barbarino, G. C.
name: Bazilevskaya, G. A.
name: Bellotti, R.
name: Boezio, M.
name: Bogomolov, E. A.
name: Bonechi, L.
name: Bongi, M.
name: Bonvicini, V.
name: Bottai, S.
name: Bruno, A.
name: Cafagna, F.
name: Campana, D.
name: Carlson, P.
name: Casolino, M.
name: Castellini, G.
name: De Pascale, M. P.
name: De Rosa, G.
name: Fedele, D.
name: Galper, A. M.
name: Grishantseva, L.
name: Hofverberg, P.
name: Koldashov, S. V.
name: Krutkov, S. Y.
name: Kvashnin, A. N.
name: Leonov, A.
name: Malvezzi, V.
name: Marcelli, L.
name: Menn, W.
name: Mikhailov, V. V.
name: Minori, M.
name: Mocchiutti, E.
name: Nagni, M.
name: Orsi, S.
name: Osteria, G.
name: Papini, P.
name: Pearce, M.
name: Picozza, P.
name: Ricci, M.
name: Ricciarini, S. B.
name: Simon, M.
name: Sparvoli, R.
name: Spillantini, P.
name: Stozhkov, Y. I.
name: Taddei, E.
name: Vacchi, A.
name: Vannuccini, E.
name: Vasilyev, G.
name: Voronov, S. A.
name: Yurkin, Y. T.
name: Zampa, G.
name: Zampa, N.
name: Zverev, V. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new measurement of the cosmic ray antiproton-to-proton flux ratio between 1 and 100 GeV is presented. The results were obtained with the PAMELA experiment, which was launched into low-earth orbit on-board the Resurs-DK1 satellite on June 15th 2006. During 500 days of data collection a total of about 1000 antiprotons have been identified, including 100 above an energy of 20 GeV. The high-energy results are a ten-fold improvement in statistics with respect to all previously published data. The data follow the trend expected from secondary production calculations and significantly constrain contributions from exotic sources, e.g. dark matter particle annihilations.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Microbial hydroxylation and glycosidation of oleanolic acid by Circinella muscae and their anti-inflammatory activities
Creators: name: Yan, Sensen
name: Lin, Haijun
name: Huang, Huilian
name: Yang, Min
name: Xu, Bohui
name: Chen, Guangtong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Biotransformation of oleanolic acid (OA) by Circinella muscae AS 3.2695 was investigated. Nine hydroxylated and glycosylated metabolites (1–9) were obtained. Their structures were elucidated as 3β,7β-dihydroxyolean-12-en-28-oic acid (1), 3β,7β,21β-trihydroxyolean-12-en-28-oic acid (2), 3β,7α,21β-trihydroxyolean-12-en- 28-oic acid (3), 3β,7β,15α-trihydroxyolean-12-en-28-oic acid (4), 7β,15α-dihydroxy- 3-oxo-olean-12-en-28-oic acid (5), 7β-hydroxy-3-oxo-olean-12-en-28-oic acid (6), oleanolic acid-28-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl ester (7), 3β,21β-dihydroxyolean-12-en-28- oic acid-28-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl ester (8), and 3β,7β,15α-trihydroxyolean-12-en- 28-oic acid-28-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl ester (9) by spectroscopic analysis. Among them, compounds 4 and 9 were new compounds. In addition, anti-inflammatory activities were assayed and evaluated for the isolated metabolites. Most of the metabolites exhibited significant inhibitory activities on lipopolysaccharides-induced NO production in RAW 264.7 cells.
Algbrodynamics over complex space and phase extension of the Minkowski geometry
Creators: name: Kassandrov, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First principles should predetermine physical geometry and dynamics both together. In the "algebrodynamics" they follow solely from the properties of the biquaternion algebra $\B$ and the analysis over $\B$. We briefly present the algebrodynamics on the Minkowski background based on a nonlinear generalization to $\B$ of the Cauchi-Riemann analyticity conditions. Further, we consider the effective real geometry uniquely resulting from the structure of multiplication in $\B$ which turns out to be of the Minkowski type, with an additional phase invariant. Then we pass to study the primordial dynamics that takes place in the complex $\B$ space and brings into consideration a number of remarkable structures: an ensemble of identical correlated matter pre-elements ("duplicons"), caustic-like signals (interaction carriers), a concept of random complex time resulting in irreversibility of physical time at a macrolevel, etc. In partucular, the concept of "dimerous electron" naturally arises in the framework of complex algebrodynamics and, together with the above-mentioned phase invariant, allows for a novel approach to explanation of quantum interference phenomena alternative to the recently accepted paradigm of wave-particle dualism.
description: 14 pages, twocolumn
title: Leadership Practice in Small Asylum Seeker and Refugee Charities
Creators: name: Vivyan, Sally
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis explores leadership practice in small asylum seeker and refugee charities. It draws on a single in-depth case study of a charity based in the North East of England. Fieldwork was conducted over 14 months employing a range of qualitative data collection methods. A Leadership- as- Practice (L-A-P) theoretical lens was adopted and reflexive thematic analysis used to generate findings that provide an in-depth and holistic account of leadership practice. Leadership practice at the charity is conceptualised as containing collective and collaborative elements. The relational dynamics of this leadership practice are brought to the fore, including how people interact across social and organisational boundaries and with their material environment to set the direction of work. The context of the UK asylum system and trends in the UK voluntary sector are also shown to have a tangible impact on leadership practice at the charity both at the day to day level and on an organisational scale. The L-A-P lens brings a distinctive understanding of materiality to the analysis, which is expressed through evocative vignettes. It also enables the use of post heroic and critical leadership theories as a toolbox from which concepts can be drawn to form a holistic account of leadership practice. This approach may be particularly suited to the study of small charities which are heavily influenced by factors that are not the focus of traditional heroic theories of leadership. Overall, this thesis furthers our understanding of leadership in voluntary sector settings and helps to develop L-A-P as an approach to leadership research. The insights it generates into the UK asylum system and voluntary sector also make this thesis of relevance to literature focused on these fields.
A proposal for the development and operationalization of a PPBS approach to fund allocation in the social service field
Creators: name: Patillo, Roger W
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In recent years considerable interest and concern has been expressed with regard to the nature and quality of decision-making at federal, provincial and local levels in both public and private sectors. This concern, stimulated by the unintended consequences of hastily and poorly developed decisions and by the accelerating rate of social change, has prompted the allocation of substantial resources in many organizations and departments to develop more rational approaches, designs and models for decision-making. In the social welfare field at federal, provincial and local levels in both public and private sectors there is also an increasing demand for better models and approaches for decision-making, accountability and performance analysis and general administration. This thesis will suggest the development and operationalization of a Planning, Programming Budgeting System (PPBS) as a means of meeting some of the above demands and will focus upon the development of a comprehensive decision-making model which will facilitate: 1. the rational and on-going identification of community need; 2. the establishment of periodic community priorities; 3. the formulation of specific planning/budgeting objectives; 4. the allocation of resources to alternative service or program strategies to achieve defined objectives; 5. the on-going evaluation of^results for the next planning-programming-budgeting cycle. While the setting in which this thesis was developed in the United Way of Greater Vancouver, the model developed is applicable to the general
Developing and Publishing Code for Trusted Research Environments: Best Practices and Ways of Working
Creators: name: Chalstrey, Ed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This report discusses 3 distinct, but overlapping topics. Firstly, it recommends the tools and best practices for research software engineering and data science that are most relevant to the researchers working on the Wales Multimorbidity Machine Learning (WMML) project. Secondly, it expands upon these recommendations for the specific use case of Trusted Research Environments (TREs), with development workflows for computational research in TREs offered that respect and complement existing best practices. Finally, it discusses the considerations around publishing research code that is developed to run within a TRE on sensitive data, offering practical advice that researchers using TREs can follow.
Light Curve Templates and Galactic Distribution of RR Lyrae Stars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82
Creators: name: Sesar, Branimir
name: Ivezic, Zeljko
name: Grammer, Skyler H.
name: Morgan, Dylan P.
name: Becker, Andrew C.
name: Juric, Mario
name: De Lee, Nathan
name: Annis, James
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Gunn, James E.
name: Knapp, Gillian R.
name: Jiang, Linhua
name: Jester, Sebastian
name: Johnston, David E.
name: Lampeitl, Hubert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an improved analysis of halo substructure traced by RR Lyrae stars in the SDSS stripe 82 region. With the addition of SDSS-II data, a revised selection method based on new ugriz light curve templates results in a sample of 483 RR Lyrae stars that is essentially free of contamination. The main result from our first study persists: the spatial distribution of halo stars at galactocentric distances 5--100 kpc is highly inhomogeneous. At least 20% of halo stars within 30 kpc from the Galactic center can be statistically associated with substructure. We present strong direct evidence, based on both RR Lyrae stars and main sequence stars, that the halo stellar number density profile significantly steepens beyond a Galactocentric distance of ~30 kpc, and a larger fraction of the stars are associated with substructure. By using a novel method that simultaneously combines data for RR Lyrae and main sequence stars, and using photometric metallicity estimates for main sequence stars derived from deep co-added u-band data, we measure the metallicity of the Sagittarius dSph tidal stream (trailing arm) towards R.A.2h-3h and Dec~0 deg to be 0.3 dex higher ([Fe/H]=-1.2) than that of surrounding halo field stars. Together with a similar result for another major halo substructure, the Monoceros stream, these results support theoretical predictions that an early forming, smooth inner halo, is metal poor compared to high surface brightness material that have been accreted onto a later-forming outer halo. The mean metallicity of stars in the outer halo that are not associated with detectable clumps may still be more metal-poor than the bulk of inner-halo stars, as has been argued from other data sets.
description: Submitted to ApJ, 68 pages, 26 figures, supplemental material (light curves, templates, animation) can be downloaded from http://www.astro.washington.edu/bsesar/S82_RRLyr.html
TA'LIMDAGI FANLARARO ALOQA, UNING TA'RIFI, TUSHUNCHASI VA O'QUVCHILARNING KOMPLEKS KO'NIKMALARINI RIVOJLANTIRISHDAGI AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Serimbetova, Mexribanu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ta’limda o‘quv fanlari o‘rtasidagi aloqa – ta’limni boyitish va o‘quvchilarga murakkab hodisalarni yaxshiroq tushunish va ko‘p qirrali muammolarni hal qilishda yordam berish uchun turli fan sohalaridagi bilim, ko‘nikma va tushunchalarni birlashtirishga qaratilgan yondashuvdir. Ushbu yondashuv o'quv materialini chuqurroq tushunishga yordam beradi. Ta'limdagi fanlararo aloqaning muhim jihatlari quyidagilardan iborat
Food safety in wine: optimization of analytical controls and
evaluation of production technologies
Creators: name: Corzani, Claudia <1974>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: AGR/15 Scienze e tecnologie alimentari

description: This PhD thesis has been proposed to validate and then apply innovative analytical methodologies
for the determination of compounds with harmful impact on human health, such as biogenic amines
and ochratoxin A in wines. Therefore, the influence of production technology (pH, amino acids
precursor and use of different malolactic starters) on biogenic amines content in wines was
evaluated.
An HPLC method for simultaneous determination of amino acids and amines with precolumnderivatization
with 9-Fluorenyl-methoxycarbonyl chloride (FMOC-Cl) and UV detection was
developed.
Initially, the influence of pH, time of derivatization, gradient profile were studied. In order to
improve the separation of amino acids and amines and reduce the time of analysis, it was decided to
study the influence of different flows and the use of different columns in the chromatographic
method. Firstly, a C18 Luna column was used and later two monolithic columns Chromolith in
series. It appeared to be suitable for an easy, precise and accurate determination of a relatively large
number of amino acids and amines in wines.
This method was then applied on different wines produced in the Emilia Romagna region. The
investigation permitted to discriminate between red and white wines. Amino acids content is related
to the winemaking process. Biogenic amines content in these wines does not represent a possible
toxicological problem for human health.
The results of the study of influence of technologies and wine composition demonstrated that pH of
wines and amino acids content are the most important factors. Particularly wines with pH > 3,5
show higher concentration of biogenic amines than wines with lower pH. The enrichment of wines
by nutrients also influences the content of some biogenic amines that are higher in wines added with
amino acids precursors. In this study, amino acids and biogenic amines are not statistically affected
by strain of lactic acid bacteria inoculated as a starter for malolactic fermentation.
An evaluation of different clean-up (SPE-MycoSep; IACs and LLE) and determination methods
(HPLC and ELISA) of ochratoxin A was carried out. The results obtained proved that the SPE
clean-up are reliable at the same level while the LLE procedures shows lowest recovery. The
ELISA method gave a lower determination and a low reproducibility than HPLC method.
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay April 1998
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Newspaper reading/buying frequency; approval of President Julio Maria Sanguinetti; approval of district mayor; approval of ANCAP, a state-owned oil and alcohol company; likability of politicians and presidential candidates; likability of foreign citizens; plans for voting in primaries; economic situation of the country; referendum on private companies producing electrical energy; important qualities of jobs; government attention on national problems; agreement with statements regarding drugs; government confiscation of drugs; economic situation of your family; effects of new technologies; effects of inflation; increase in purchases within past 2 years; interest in politics; success of government reform in different areas; political spectrum position; past voting history; future voting tendencies. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
SERVICE QUALITY OF TRAVEL AGENTS: THE VIEW POINT OF TOURISTS IN EGYPT
Creators: name: Ghada, Abd-Alla Mohamed
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: Globalization, liberalization, and the internationalization of services are difficult challenges facing travel agents in Egypt. Thus, service quality is very important to be in competition, it is a key factor in differentiating service products and building a competitive advantage in tourism. The purpose of this study was to assess customers' expectations and perceptions of service provided by travel agents, and to discover how the service factors were related to overall satisfaction. The results of factor analysis suggested five factors derived from 26 attributes affecting service quality, and the result of regression analysis of these five factors of the service quality indicated that overall customer satisfaction was highly affected by resource and corporate image. The study concluded that customers' expectations of service quality exceeded their perceptions, with the tangibility dimensions having the largest gap.
description: tourismos, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2007)
Logical limit laws for layered permutations and related structures
Creators: name: Braunfeld, Samuel
name: Kukla, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that several classes of ordered structures (namely, convex linear orders, layered permutations, and compositions) admit first-order logical limit laws.
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay May 2004
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Economic situation of your family; economic situation of the country; future financial expectations; purchasing household appliances; economic situation of your parents' era; personal banking choices; voting in primary elections; interest in politics; getting jobs; starting businesses; campaign television ads; likability of politicians and presidential candidates; increase/decrease in national problems; problems with salaries; economic relations Argentina and Brazil; approval of President Jorge Batlle; political spectrum position; past voting history; potential future voting choices. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
Failure of standard density functional theory to describe the phase behavior of a fluid of hard right isosceles triangles
Creators: name: Martinez-Raton, Yuri
name: Velasco, Enrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fluid of hard right isosceles triangles was studied using an extension of Scaled-Particle Density-Functional Theory which includes the exact third virial coefficient. We show that the only orientationally ordered stable liquid-crystal phase predicted by the theory is the uniaxial nematic phase, in agreement with the second-order virial theory. By contrast, Monte Carlo simulations predict exotic liquid-crystal phases exhibiting tetratic and octatic correlations, with orientational distribution functions having four and eight equivalent peaks, respectively. This demonstrates the failure of the standard Density Functional Theory based on two and three-body correlations to describe high-symmetry orientational phases in two-dimensional hard right-triangle fluids, and points to the necessity to reformulate the theory to take into account high-order body correlations and ultimately particle self-assembling and clustering effects. This avenue may represent a great challenge for future research, and we discuss some fundamental ideas to construct a modified version of Density-Functional Theory to account for these clustering effects.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures
Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
Creators: name: Morandi, O.
name: Hervieux, P. -A.
name: Manfredi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a dynamical model that successfully explains the observed time evolution of the magnetization in diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum wells after weak laser excitation. Based on the pseudo-fermion formalism and a second order many-particle expansion of the exact p-d exchange interaction, our approach goes beyond the usual mean-field approximation. It includes both the sub-picosecond demagnetization dynamics and the slower relaxation processes which restore the initial ferromagnetic order in a nanosecond time scale. In agreement with experimental results, our numerical simulations show that, depending on the value of the initial lattice temperature, a subsequent enhancement of the total magnetization may be observed within a time scale of few hundreds of picoseconds.
description: Submitted to PRB
Nebular emission-line profiles of Type Ib/c Supernovae - probing the ejecta asphericity
Creators: name: Taubenberger, S.
name: Valenti, S.
name: Benetti, S.
name: Cappellaro, E.
name: Della Valle, M.
name: Elias-Rosa, N.
name: Hachinger, S.
name: Hillebrandt, W.
name: Maeda, K.
name: Mazzali, P. A.
name: Pastorello, A.
name: Patat, F.
name: Sim, S. A.
name: Turatto, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to assess qualitatively the ejecta geometry of stripped-envelope core-collapse supernovae, we investigate 98 late-time spectra of 39 objects, many of them previously unpublished. We perform a Gauss-fitting of the [O I] 6300, 6364 feature in all spectra, with the position, full width at half maximum (FWHM) and intensity of the 6300 Gaussian as free parameters, and the 6364 Gaussian added appropriately to account for the doublet nature of the [O I] feature. On the basis of the best-fit parameters, the objects are organised into morphological classes, and we conclude that at least half of all Type Ib/c supernovae must be aspherical. Bipolar jet-models do not seem to be universally applicable, as we find too few symmetric double-peaked [O I] profiles. In some objects the [O I] line exhibits a variety of shifted secondary peaks or shoulders, interpreted as blobs of matter ejected at high velocity and possibly accompanied by neutron-star kicks to assure momentum conservation. At phases earlier than ~200d, a systematic blueshift of the [O I] 6300, 6364 line centroids can be discerned. Residual opacity provides the most convincing explanation of this phenomenon, photons emitted on the rear side of the SN being scattered or absorbed on their way through the ejecta. Once modified to account for the doublet nature of the oxygen feature, the profile of Mg I] 4571 at sufficiently late phases generally resembles that of [O I] 6300, 6364, suggesting negligible contamination from other lines and confirming that O and Mg are similarly distributed within the ejecta.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS; references added
CITY COMPETITION AND URBAN MARKETING: THE CASE OF TOURISM INDUSTRY IN ATHENS
Creators: name: Asprogerakas, Evangelos
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: This paper is concerned with the development of urban tourism in the area of Greater Athens. Porter’s “competitive advantage” theory presents the elements which determine the success of an industry in an interactive environment where competition acts as the engine of growth. The paper presents the basic aspects of the development of tourism in Greece and in the area of Athens together with the main weaknesses of the sector. This will be followed by suggestions on the directions the sector can seek for further improvement, exploiting the advantages generated by the 2004 Olympic Games. As a guide, the theoretical frames and examples of the policy applied in Barcelona will be used.
description: tourismos, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2007)
THE EFFECT OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAM ON NURSE INTERNS' SELF EFFICACY
Creators: name: SAMIRA ABO ELNOUR MOSTAFA
name: SAMIA ADAM
name: HEMAT ABD ELAZEEM MOSTAFA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Communication Skills, Self-Efficacy, Nurse Interns.

description: Abstract

Background: Communication is a basic function of human beings, and it could affect nurse interns’ self-efficacy. The aim of the study was to assess the effect of a communication skills training program for nurse interns on their self-efficacy. Subjects and methods: Setting: The study was conducted at Al-Azher University hospitals. Design: A one-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study design was used to carry out the study. Subjects: 81 nurse interns. Tools: Data were collected using three tools: a self-administered questionnaire that included a knowledge questionnaire, a communication skill observation checklist, and a nursing self-efficacy scale. Results: The studied nurse interns’ ages ranged from 23 to 25 years, and all of them were female. Level of knowledge related to communication improved from 44.4% at pre to 91.4% post, and 87.7% at follow-up intervention phase (p<0.001). The level of nurse interns’ communication skills with patients improved from 22.2% at pre to 81.5% at post and 74.1% at the at the follow-up intervention phase (p<0.001). The total level of nurse interns’ communication skills with the health care team improved from 23.5% at pre-intervention to 84% at post-intervention and 77.8% at follow-up intervention (p<0.001). Level of nurse interns' self-efficacy improved from low level at pre to high level at post and follow-up intervention phase (p<0.001). In multivariate analysis, the intervention was a positive predictor of the knowledge score, and this was a positive predictor of the communication skills and nursing self-efficacy scores. Conclusion: The training program in communication skills is effective in improving nurse interns’ knowledge, communication skills, and nursing self-efficacy. Recommendations: The study recommends the application of the developed program to all nurse interns in the study settings every internship year.