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Jamaludin, Agus, Nahason Sihotangand, and Firdaus Budhy Saputro. "ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PERTAMINA 2017." International Journal of Engineering Technologies and Management Research 6, no. 9 (2020): 68–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/ijetmr.v6.i9.2019.575.
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This study was obtained from the PT. Pertamina Balance Sheet and Profit Report in 2017, thenthe title is: Analysis of Pertamina's Financial Statements. The goal is to find out theperformance of PT Pertamina. This research was obtained from PT Pertamina's Balance Sheetand Income Statement. in 2018, the title is: Analysis of Pertamina's Financial Statements. Theaim is to find out the performance of Pertamina in terms of liquidity, solvency, activities andprofitability. The research method is Library Research by exposing existing data in the form ofBalance Sheet and Income reports via the internet where the data are in the form of quantitativedata and in the form of descriptive. Financial statement analysis is performed to determine thecompany's financial performance, can also be used as a reference in making decisions thataffect the company's future. The result is that liquidity: current ratio = 1.336, Quick ratio =11.221.049.9, cash ratio = 0.543 and working capital = 0.077. The solvability is: total debt toequity ratio = 2.63, total debt to total asset ratio = 0.625, long term to total asset ratio = 1.66,Tangible Asset dept coverage = 1.94, Time interest earned Ratio = 0.064. Its activities are: Totalasset turnover = 0.256, accounts receivable turnover = 2.67, accounts receivable collectionperiod = 134.78, inventory turnover = 0, fixed assets turnover = 0.370. While the profitabilityare: Gross profit Margin = 1, Net Profit Margin = 0.099, operational profit Margin = 0.141,Return on Investment = 0.020 and return on equity = 0.07.
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K, Manal, Shabina MB, and Suresh Baboo V. K. "Quantitative RT PCR in the Diagnosis of Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection with Special Reference to Sensorineural Hearing Loss in a Tertiary Care Centre in North Kerala." International Journal of Research and Review 8, no. 5 (2021): 316–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210540.
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Background:- Cytomegalovirus, a Herpes virus is the most common virus causing congenital viral infections. Sensorineueal hearing loss is the most common non hereditary manifestation. Majority of the babies are asymptomatic or have non specific symptoms at birth. An early diagnosis can help in starting antiviral treatment based on the clinical disease to prevent end organ damage and to intervene early in babies with hearing impairment which can reduce long term sequelae. Objectives :- The aim of the study is to diagnose and quantitate neonatal CMV infection by qRTPCR (Quantitative Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction) ,to evaluate the proportion and clinical profile of congenital CMV infections in a tertiary care hospital. Materials and Methods:- This cross sectional diagnostic evaluation was done in the Dept. of Microbiology and Neonatal unit of Dept of Paediatrics, Govt Medical college .Kozhikode from August 2017 to December 2018. Details of demographic data, clinical profile, and CMV viral load in urine in various clinical infections were obtained and analyzed. Urine samples from 225 babies were received and processed in the Microbiology Department. DNA isolation and amplification was performed using commercial DNA extraction kit and CMV PCR kit for detection and quantification of CMV. Results:- Of 225 babies with clinical features suggestive of CMV infection, CMV-DNA was detected and quantitated in urine of 27 babies (12%). The most common clinical presentation was hearing impairment, seen in 22 babies. Conclusion:- RT-qPCR helps in diagnosing and quantitating CMV in congenital neonatal infection which helps in deciding on therapy and assessing response to treatment,and can predict risk for long term sequelae. Diagnosis of congenital CMV in the newborn period is important for identifying those with neurologic abnormalities where appropriate treatment and management is essential. Keywords: Congenital CMV, qRTPCR, SNHL, Viral load, Urine.
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Harley, James. "Addendum." Tempo, no. 212 (April 2000): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298200007671.
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I am writing to provide further information in response to inquiries about my recent article on performance issues in Gorecki's music (Tempo 211). The symposium I referred to, at which the composer was present, was titled ‘The Gorecki Phenomenon’, and, in addition to my own, included presentations by Adrian Thomas, Luke Howard, David Kopplin, Mark Swed, and Maria Anna Harley, who organized and chaired the event (and translated the commentaries of Mr Gorecki, who had much to say). This session, along with entire ‘Gorecki Autumn’ at the University of Southern California, was organized to celebrate the endowement of the Directorship of the Polish Music Reference Center by Dr Stefan and Mrs Wanda Wilk, founders of this important resource on Polish music in North America (the website can be consulted at http://www.usc.edu/dept/polishmusic/). A book collecting the research presented at this symposium, along with the lectures and interviews given by the composer during his time in Los Angeles, is forthcoming, edited by Ms Harley.
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Boscencu, Rica, Radu Socoteanu, Anabela Oliveira, and Vieira Ferreira. "Studies on Zn(II) monohydroxyphenyl mesoporphyrinic complexes: Synthesis and characterization." Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society 73, no. 7 (2008): 713–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/jsc0807713b.
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A series of four Zn(II) complexes with asymmetrical porphyrinic ligands were synthesized: [5-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-10,15,20-triphenyl-21H,23H-porphinato]Zn(II) (Zn(II)TPPOHP), [5-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-10,15,20-triphenyl-21H,23H- -porphinato]Zn(II) (Zn(II)TPPOHM), [5-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-10,15,20-triphenyl- -21H,23H-Zn(II)-porphinato]Zn(II) (Zn(II)TPPOHO) and the well-known (5,10,15,20- -tetraphenyl-21H,23H-porphinato]Zn(II) (Zn(II)TPP) as reference, in a 1:1 mole ratio. In all cases, the free-base porphyrin served as a tetradentate ligand through the four pyrrole nitrogen atoms. The complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, FTIR and UV-Vis spectroscopy, which fully confirmed the structure of the complexes. UV-Vis showed that the spectral absorption of the four complexes was blue-shifted by at least 50 nm compared to that of the free ligands. Also important structural data were obtained from several different NMR experiments (including 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, DEPT, COSY, HMBC and HMQC). Influences of external substituents on the porphyrin ring were observed. .
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Bekish, L. P., V. A. Uspenskaja, T. I. Peneva, and N. N. Chikida. "Biomorphological and useful agronomic traits of the hexaploid winter triticale cultivar ‘Bilinda’ approved for cultivation in the Northwestern Region of the Russian Federation." Proceedings on applied botany, genetics and breeding 181, no. 4 (2021): 102–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.30901/2227-8834-2020-4-102-111.
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A priority of agricultural production for the Northwest of Russia is to develop and introduce winter-hardy and productive cultivars of small grain forage crops, such as winter triticale, capable of producing high yields of grain and green biomass.‘Bilinda’, a new promising tetraploid winter triticale cultivar grown for grain forage, was studied from 2004 through 2019 at Leningrad Research Institute for Agriculture “Belogorka”. The data of the State Variety Trials (2017–2019) were also taken into account. Conventional techniques were used in the experiments, phenological observations, field and laboratory evaluation tests, and statistical data processing. Electrophoresis of gliadin in the grain of cv. ‘Bilinda’ and its registration as a “protein formula” were performed using the technique developed and approbated by the Molecular Biology Dept. of VIR. The hexaploid winter triticale cultivar ‘Kornet’ (k-3636) served as the reference. Cv. ‘Bilinda’ was developed using individual and mass selection of genotypes with recessive control of the ear’s morphological characters, which resulted in producing a homogeneous population with high yield potential and large plump grains. On average across the testing period, cv. ‘Bilinda’ significantly exceeded the reference ‘Kornet’ in grain yield (+1.04 t/ha), number of grains per ear (+32.3 pcs), and 1000 grain weight (+7.7 g), and in addition demonstrated higher winter hardiness than the reference (up to 98%). Under epiphytotic incidence of Septoria leaf blotch, the tested cultivar manifested a high level of resistance (scoring 7–9 points). ‘Bilinda’ is among high-yielding cultivars resistant to most leaf diseases. In 2020, this cultivar was approved for cultivation in the Northwestern Region (2) of Russia. Applying the method of variety identification based on the electrophoretic spectra of gliadin, a storage protein in grain, a protein “passport” was produced to ensure monitoring of the cultivar’s integrity and authenticity.
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Arana, Paula, Bruno Paiva, Maria Belen Vidriales, et al. "Comparison Between First-Generation 4-Color Vs. Second-Generation 8-Color Multiparameter Flow Cytometry (MFC) to Monitor Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) in Multiple Myeloma (MM)." Blood 126, no. 23 (2015): 2963. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v126.23.2963.2963.
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Abstract Introduction: Several cooperative MM groups have shown that MRD monitoring may be relevant as biomarker to evaluate the efficacy of different treatment strategies, to support treatment decisions, and to act as surrogate for overall survival (OS) in MM. Because of its wider applicability, a significant fraction of available MRD data has been obtained using MFC that originally, was limited to 4- or 6-colors and measured a limited number of cells. It is assumed that the sensitivity of MFC can increase by usage of ≥8 markers and acquisition of greater cell numbers, but the degree of improved specificity and sensitivity remains unknown. Methods: We aimed at determining the increment in specificity and sensitivity upon transition from first-generation 4-color into a second-generation 8-color MFC assay, by applying new computational tools developed by the EuroFlow consortium in elderly MM patients, enrolled in the GEM2010MAS65 study, for which MRD monitoring was performed with an 8-color monoclonal antibody combination - CD45-PacB/CD138-OC515/CD38-FITC/CD56-PE/CD27-PerCPCy5.5/CD19-PECy7/CD117-APC/CD81-APCH7 - and acquisition of ≥2x106 leukocytes (detection limit: 10-5). Time-to-progression (TTP) and OS were measured from diagnosis. Results: First, we created a reference data file of normal (n=17) and clonal (n=71) plasma cells (PCs) derived from bone marrow samples of healthy individuals and MM patients (Figure 1A) in order to determine the individual contribution of each marker to the discrimination between normal vs. clonal PCs. Principal component analysis (PCA) showed that CD19 ranked as the most significant marker followed by CD56, CD81, CD27, CD117, CD45, forward scatter (FSC), CD38, CD138 and sideward scatter (SSC). Accordingly, the 8-color combination resulted in improved discrimination between normal vs. clonal PCs as compared to the former 4-color approach based only on CD38/CD56/CD19/CD45 (Figure 1B); in fact, CD81, CD27 and CD117 had higher independent value than CD45 in the PCA. Afterwards, we focused on 50 randomly selected MRD-positive patients enrolled in the GEM2010MAS65 study, to compare the performance of an 8- vs. 4-color software-guided classification of MRD cells. PCA based on 8-colors showed that all but two patients were accurately located in the clonal PC reference and outside 1 or 2 standard deviation (SD) curves of the normal PC reference (96% accuracy; Figure 1C); by contrast, using 4-color software-guided classification up to 9 patients became located in the overlapping area between 1 and 2 SD of the normal and clonal PCs references (82% accuracy; Figure 1D). Afterward, we investigated the increment in sensitivity due to the evaluation of 2x106 leukocytes with the second-generation 8-color flow assay instead of the standard 2x105 cells with the first-generation 4-color approach, by determining how many of the 50 MRD-positive patients would turn into MRD-negative if only 2x105 leukocytes had been analyzed (detection limit: 10-4). Interestingly, by reducing the number of visible events to 2x105, our results showed that up to 15 out of the 50 cases (30%) would become wrongly classified as MRD-negative. Then, we investigated the impact in TTP and OS of having MRD levels of 10-5 within a series of 163 patients enrolled in the GEM2010MAS65 and with MRD assessment. Accordingly, 88 cases had detectable MRD levels ≥10-4, 21 patients had persistent MRD at 10-5, and the remaining 54 cases were MRD-negative. Importantly, MRD-positive patients at 10-5 had similar outcome as compared to cases with MRD levels ≥10-4 (both had median TTP of 31 months; 3-year OS rates were 80% and 74%, respectively) and significantly inferior to that of MRD-negative patients [median TTP not reached (P <.001); 3-year OS rate of 93% (P =.05)]. Conclusions: We showed that the transition from a first-generation 4-color into a second-generation 8-color MFC assay that measured ten-times more cells resulted in increased specificity and sensitivity. MRD detection at the 10-5 level is clinically relevant, since it identifies a subset of patients with inferior survival than MRD-negative cases, similar to that of the overall MRD-positive patient population. Figure 1. Figure 1. Disclosures Paiva: Millenium: Consultancy; BD Bioscience: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy; Janssen: Consultancy; EngMab AG: Research Funding; Binding Site: Consultancy; Onyx: Consultancy; Sanofi: Consultancy. Puig:Janssen: Consultancy; The Binding Site: Consultancy. Gironella:Celgene Corporation: Consultancy, Honoraria. van Dongen:BD Biosciences (cont'd): Other: Laboratory Services in the field of technical validation of EuroFlow-OneFlow antibody tubes in dried format. The Laboratory Services are provided by the Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Dept. of Immunology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL; Cytognos: Patents & Royalties: Licensing of IP on Infinicyt software, Patents on EuroFlow-based flowcytometric Diagnosis and Classification of hematological malignancies, Patents on MRD diagnostics, and Patents on PID diagnostics.; Cytognos (continued): Patents & Royalties: Royalty income for EuroFlow Consortium. The Infinicyt software is provided to all EuroFlow members free-of-charge.Licensing of Patent on detection of IgE+ B-cells in allergic diseases. Royalties for Dept. of Immunology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL; DAKO: Patents & Royalties: Licensing of IP and Patent on Split-Signal FISH. Royalties for Dept. of Immunology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL; InVivoScribe: Patents & Royalties: Licensing of IP and Patent on BIOMED-2-based methods for PCR-based Clonality Diagnostics.. Royalty income for EuroClonality-BIOMED-2 Consortium ; Immunostep: Patents & Royalties: Licensing of IP and Patents on immunobead-based dection of fusion proteins in acute leukemias and other tumors. Royalties for Dept. of Immunology, Erasmus MC and for EuroFlow Consortium ; BD Biosciences: Other: Educational Services: Educational Lectures and Educational Workshops (+ related travelling costs). The lectures and workshops fully focus on the scientific achievements of the EuroFlow Consortium (No advertisement of products of BD Biosciences). , Patents & Royalties: Licensing of IP and Patent on EuroFlow-based flowcytometric Diagnosis and Classification of hematological malignancies; Royalty income for EuroFlow Consortium.; Roche: Consultancy, Other: Laboratory Services in the field of MRD diagnostics, provided by the Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Dept. of Immunology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL.. Mateos:Takeda: Consultancy; Onyx: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria; Janssen-Cilag: Consultancy, Honoraria. San Miguel:Celgene: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Novartis: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Millennium: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Onyx: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Janssen: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; BMS: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; MSD: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees.
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Mittmann, Roland, and Ralf Plate. "Das ‚Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch‘ als Lesekorpus. Grammatisch annotierte und mit Wörterbüchern verknüpfte Texte für Lehre und Selbststudium." Das Mittelalter 24, no. 1 (2019): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mial-2019-0012.
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Abstract Working with Old High German and Old Saxon texts has become rare in German language and literature studies. Nowadays, the brief introductions to historical linguistics and philology do not suffice to enable students to explore the oldest German texts in significant depth. A new tool could at least help move closer to this dept of textual exploration: an on-line publication of all Old High German and Old Saxon texts with a morphological word-by-word annotation. The data has been collected by the research project ‘Old German Reference Corpus’ (‘Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch’ / ReA) and can already be used for complex database queries. Within the framework of the ‘eHumanities Centre for Historical Lexicography’ (eHumanities-Zentrum für Historische Lexikographie / ZHistLex), it has been converted into a clearly arranged format, focusing on the information needed for comprehending the texts: the ‘Lesekorpus Altdeutsch’ (LeA). This tool can of course not replace the work with text editions, translations and commentaries, but will help pave the way from the first insight into the language to a profound understanding. Additionally, a supplemental both-way linking between every word token and the corresponding entry in the on-line dictionaries of historical German is being prepared.
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Shendy, M. "Biotechnology Dept., Reference Laboratory for Veterinary Quality Control on Poultry Production, Animal Health Research Institute, Nadi El-Seid St., P.O. Box 246, Dokki, Giza 12618, Egypt." Zagazig Veterinary Journal 43, no. 1 (2015): 78–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/zvjz.2015.29349.
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Simonne, Eric H., Christine E. Harris, Edgar Vinson, and Karen Y. Dane. "Web-based Resource for Accessing Vegetable Variety Trial Information." HortScience 35, no. 4 (2000): 569C—569b. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.35.4.569c.
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Vegetable variety trials are of interest to the entire vegetable industry from breeders, seed companies, growers, consultants, researchers, to Extension personnel. The Auburn Univ. vegetable variety trial results have been made more accessible and user-friendly by becoming available online at http://www.ag.auburn.edu/dept/hf/faculty/esimonne. Users can point and click through a completely searchable database by selecting one of the following categories: 1) explanation of rating system and database, 2) list of vegetable crops, 3) description of variety types of crops, 4) contacting seed companies and web sites, 5) vegetable variety trial team members. For additional information about vegetable variety production, a link to horticulture extension publications has been included. The database gives each vegetable crop tested by Auburn Univ. a rating and allows a search for varieties. For each crop, the five options available to search the database are “rating,” “variety name,” “variety type,” “seed company,” and “type.” The Web page is primarily intended to be a quick, practical reference guide to growers and horticulture professionals in Alabama. Variety performances presented are based on small-scale research plots and test results may vary by location. It is always recommended to perform an on-farm trial of several varieties before making a large planting of a single variety.
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Anand, K. Satya, Ruksana ., and Anand Acharya. "A prospective study of complications in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus patients of lower socioeconomic group with special reference to microvascular complication and metabolic syndrome." International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences 7, no. 6 (2019): 2227. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20192503.
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Background: All these metabolic derangements exist for many years in the asymptomatic phase of type 2 diabetes and they predispose to development of complications even before clinical diagnosis. Metabolic syndrome is considered to be a precursor of type 2 diabetes. Present study is primarily aimed to study the prevalence of micro vascular complications and metabolic syndrome in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus patients of low socio-economic group.Methods: This is a cross sectional prospective study conducted in the dept. of general medicine Konaseema institute of medical science Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh, India from November 2016 to October 2018. Based on exclusion and inclusion criteria 103 patients were enrolled for this study. Various parameters like age, sex, body mass index, waist circumference, lipid profile, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, neuropathy, nephropathy and retinopathy was measured.Results: The mean age of the patient was 48±10.0 years. Fasting and 2 hours OGTT was 174.6±46.8 mg/dl and 255.6±75.6 mg/dl. The mean of total cholesterol was 204.7±41.9 (mg/dl), Triglycerides was 218±83.4 (mg/dl) and HDL was 44±5.3 (mg/dl). Symptomatic neuropathy constituted 35.6% in 51-60 age group and 27.1% in 31-40 and 41-50 age groups. Objective neuropathy constituted highest (36.6%) in 51-60 age group. Retinopathy constituted highest (60%) in 51-60 age group and nephropathy constituted 26.3 % in 21-30 and 51-60 age groups.Conclusions: Prevalence of microvascular complications in newly diagnosed diabetics of low socioeconomic group were as follows: symptomatic neuropathy-57.3%, objective neuropathy-39.8%, retinopathy-4.9%, nephropathy-18.4%. These were similar to published studies from general population from the same geographical area.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Reference Dept"
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Kalashe, Mzukisi Harrington. "An evaluation of the implementation of budgetary control measures by the provincial treasury with specific reference to the province of the Eastern Cape Department of Education." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/530.
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Budget control is a process of financial monitoring to ensure effective allocation, collection and efficient utilizing of public funds. It is a process that is aimed at ensuring the accomplishment of public policy objectives. Budget control is regulated by financial legislation as well as regulations and procedures which guide public financial administrators. Continuous monitoring is needed once appropriation is allowed by parliament or provincial legislatures to ensure effective service rendering as well as tax and user charges collection. This study investigates the reported ineffective budget control measures implemented by the provincial treasury in the Province of the Eastern Cape particularly in the Eastern Cape Department of Education (George, 2004). Ineffective budget control may be associated with the implementation of unstable fiscal policy by the provincial treasury that led to deficit spending in the Department of Education during the 2004/5 financial year. The purpose of this study is to show that the implementation of stable fiscal policy instruments by the provincial treasury would lead to effective budget control in provincial departments such as the Eastern Cape Department of Education. Governments in many instances encounter various challenges in controlling their expenditures on an annual basis as well as in the medium term. This is due to the notion that once the government exceeds the current year’s budget, it consumes the forthcoming budget. Borrowing is by nature an implicit consumption of future unplanned revenue. This makes the Medium Term Revenue Framework in the province immaterial as the provincial own revenue is insignificant. The relative uncontrollability of government expenditure stems from the notion that the provision of, for instance, primary education and social welfare is intertwined with legal entitlement within prescribed parameters. Allocative efficiency embodies recognition of legal entitlement that is reflected in the distribution imperatives if the provincial treasury is to be effective in the budget control function. The National Norms and Standards for School Funding of 2006 state explicitly that public spending in public schools is targeted at increasing the literacy levels of the poor. Intergovernmental fiscal relations play a pivotal role in modelling the fiscal policy of the province. This stems from the fact that expected national collected revenue is distributed as an equitable share to national, provincial and local spheres of government. The criteria for revenue sharing are based on economic disparities and demographics in each sphere of government. It is imperative to note in intergovernmental relations that there are functional areas of concurrent national and provincial competencies. The budget control function of the provincial treasury is implemented within the framework of various administrative processes which are aimed at ensuring effective transactional activities. The disbursement of funds and various other financial processes are subject to the delegation of powers as prescribed in the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act 1 of 1999), as amended by Act 29 of 1999. The provincial governments’ fiscal policies are modelled to be consistent with the macro-economic objectives of the national government. It is for the purpose of macro-economic stability that only national government is eligible to borrow to finance a budget deficit. Provinces are legally prohibited from overspending their budgets. If the fiscal policies of the provinces materially and unreasonably prejudice the national economic policies, the relevant provincial treasury is responsible for taking appropriate steps to place the financial administration on a sound footing.
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Phalama, Mmabore S. H. "Factors affecting implementation of enterprise applications integration (EAI) with special reference to corruption and fraud in DOD." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20253.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Corporate mergers and partnerships are common in today’s competitive environment and
inevitably require organisations to integrate information and telecommunication systems
when such unisons take place. One of the most important challenges in each enterprise,
especially forced by global markets and the resulting competition, is the capability to
efficiently interact, collaborate and exchange information with business partners and within
an organisation. Many software systems within organisations are not integrated into a
homogeneous structure and therefore the sharing and exchange of information, not being
synchronised, leads to possible misappropriation of such information. These isolated systems
in organisations, could consequently become possible platforms for corruption and fraud,
leading to increase in computer crime. While key risk areas remain, new dangers are
emerging. Government stakeholders require departments to be accountable and responsible,
which underpins the sharing and exchanging of relevant information, which in turn
necessitates the integration of inter- as well as intra-departmental systems. If corruption and
fraud is committed in these departments the impact may be significant, including damage to
their reputation and image and even detrimental to service delivery to communities.
Government and law enforcement agencies all over the world are faced with challenges of
combating corruption and fraud. Fighting corruption and fraud committed via computers
necessitates the need to close the gaps created by computers which were designed without
consideration for future integration. Hence organisations should seek a way to link systems
that were developed in isolation in order to simplify and automate business processes to the
greatest extent possible. The aim of this study is to discuss factors affecting the
implementation of application systems in large organisations with special reference to the
South African Department of Defence (SA DOD). Current systems will be studied and a
possible approach on how the DOD Vehicle Management Systems could be integrated will
be recommended. This study introduces and defines the problem, describes different research
methodologies including the methodology that was used. The topics of corruption and fraud,
electronic commerce and e-government will be explored through intensive research of the
extant literature, drawing interpretations to be applied to the empirical data gathered on fraud
and corruption in DOD and on their ITC systems. Finally the findings and recommendations
of this research, based on the theoretical and empirical data, will be presented.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Korporatiewe oornames en vennootskappe is algemeen in vandag se kompeterende
omgewing. Dit is dus onvermydelik dat daar van ondernemings verwag word om informasie
en telekommunikasie stelsels te integreer by die paasvind van sulke verbintenisse. Een van
die mees belangrike uitdagings in elke onderneming, veral in die lig van globale markte met
die gevolglike kompeterende uitdagings, is die vermoë vir effektiewe interaksie,
samewerking en uitruil van inligting met besigheidsvennote en ook in die onderneming self.
Talle sagteware stelsels in ondernemings is nie geïntegreer in ʼn homogene struktuur nie en
gevolglik, omdat dit nie gesinkroniseer is nie, lei die deel en uitruil van informasie tot
moontlike wederregtelike toe-eiening van sulke informasie. Sulke geïsoleerde stelsels in
ondernemings kan dus die platvorms word van korrupsie en bedrog en lei tot ʼn verhoging van
rekenaarmisdywe. Terwyl sleutel risiko areas steeds van toepassing is, is daar ook weer
nuwe gevare wat te voorskyn kom. Die Staat se aandeelhouers vereis dat departemente
aanspreeklik en verantwoordelik sal wees wat die belangrikheid van die deel en uitruil van
inligting onderstreep en wat op sy beurt weer die integrasie van inter- asook intradepartementele
stelsels noodsaak. As misdaad en korrupsie gepleeg word in hierdie
departemente mag die impak betekenisvol wees. Dit sluit in skade aan hul reputasie en beeld
en kan selfs dienslewering aan gemeenskappe belemmer.
Om korrupsie en bedrog wat met rekenaars gepleeg word te beveg, is dit nodig om die
gapings toe te maak wat deur ontwerpe geskep is sonder dat toekomstige integrasie
inaggeneem is. Ondernenings moet dus ‘n manier soek om stelsels te koppel wat in isolasie
ontwikkel was met die doel om besigheidsprosesse tot die grootste moontlike mate te
vereenvoudig en te outomatiseer. Die doel van hierdie studie is om die faktore te ondersoek
wat die implementering van stelsels beïnvloed in groot ondernemings met spesifieke
verwysing na die Suid Afrikaanse Departement van Verdediging (SA DVV). Huidige sisteme
sal bestudeer word en ʼn moontlike benadering sal aanbeveel word oor hoe die DVV se
Voertuig Bestuurstelsels geintegreer kan word. In hierdie studie word die besiheids- asook
die navorsings-probleem gedefineer. Die onderwerpe van korrupsie en bedrog, elektroniese
handel en e-regering sal ondersoek word deur intensiewe navorsing van bestaande literatuur
te doen. Dit word aangevul deur vertolkings van die hierdie toepaslike literatuur gepaard met
empiriese data versameling oor bedrog en korrupsie in die DVV en die Departement se
“ITK” stelsels. As finale stap sal die bevindings en aanbevelings van hierdie navorsing,
gebasseer op teoretiese en impiriese data, aangebied word.
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Gustafsson, Bert. "Energideklaration- Vad är det och hur ska det hanteras i fastighetsbranschen?" Thesis, Jönköping University, JTH, Civil Engineering, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-582.
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<p>Abstract</p><p>The Energy Declaration is a law that will come into effect October 1: Th 2006. This report has Värnamo municipality as principal and shall clarify what the estate owner in general and Värnamo municipality in particular need to know about this law. Another part that is going to be dealt with is how large the future need for energy experts in this field will be, and which competence that will be demanded for them.</p><p>The work will in general deal with simplified energy declarations for apartment houses and public buildings, since these buildings are the first to be involved with energy declarations.</p><p>The energy declaration will consist of a number of important components.</p><p>• Energy power i.e. how much energy the building consume</p><p>• If the ventilation control is done</p><p>• If the radon measurement is carried out</p><p>• Recommendations of measures to improve the energy power</p><p>• Reference value to compare the buildings energy power against</p><p>According to the law the declaration shall been made by an independent expert, which will need certain information for this. The estate owner will need to collect some of this information. To simplify the collection of information a model was developed that can be used by the estate owner.</p><p>The model was tested on Trälleborgskolan in Värnamo. It worked well because energy statistics were available from Värnamo municipality estate department. Regarding the energy consumption monthly statistics were also available which was desirable. Some improvement can been made by correlate the heat consumption for a normal year.</p><p>There will be an estimated need for about 500-1000 energy experts to work with energy declarations in the future. The requirements on these experts are apart from the right education, also a couple of years of experience from the energy business. This can be hard to fulfil for a newly examined engineer.</p><p>This report focuses on the simplified energy declaration. In a couple of years when building will need to be inspected more thoroughly, there might be a need for more information to be collected. How this can be done in the different estate management computer software that are available, could be a base for future work in this area.</p>
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Haddad, Nasser. "Non-reference depth map quality evaluation in immersive video applications." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2016. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/809699/.
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Three Dimensional Television (3DTV) and Free Viewpoint Television (FTV) are emerging multimedia applications, which promise to offer a new Quality of Experience (QoE) dimension. In order for such applications to offer an immersive experience for users a large number of viewpoints need to be transmitted, to a point where the high bandwidth utilisation becomes a major concern. One approach to this problem is the utilisation of the so called “depth maps” in Depth Image Based Rendering (DIBR) techniques, where different views, can be reconstructed (rendered) at the receiver side when required, with a fraction of the bandwidth. Therefore the quality and accuracy of the information present in depth maps and its ability to reconstruct the required views has become the subject of much greater scrutiny in multimedia research. Several challenges arise when assessing the quality of depth maps, such as the lack of a proper reference for comparing the available depth maps, especially when it comes to live High Definition (HD) content. The first contribution of this thesis focuses on developing a novel subjective assessment approach, which addresses the presence of disocclusions in rendered views. The goal of this assessment approach is to enable the subjective evaluation of rendered views, to provide results that are more representative of the quality of the depth map utilised in the rendering process. The adopted approach performance has been evaluated through correlating the obtained subjective results with well-established objective metric measurements, such as PSNR, PSPNR, SSIM and VQM. The second contribution of this thesis is concerned with establishing a test data set, which includes different colour sequences together with various depth estimation algorithms and different depth post processing techniques. State of the art depth estimation algorithms were examined such as RSGM, DERS and HRM, in order to obtain a wide range of depth map qualities. The depth map data set is utilised in the DIBR process to generate rendered views, which are in turn subjectively assessed utilising the approach developed in contribution one of this thesis. The assessment is carried out in both a 2D and 3D setup and statistical analysis is utilised to establish observations and conclusions over the depth map performance. The third and final contribution of this thesis is related to a non-reference evaluation approach in assessing the quality of the depth maps utilised. This approach exploits the edges present in the available depth maps and compares that to the edges in the corresponding colour views. Edge pixels in depth maps are then classified into correct and error edge pixels. The obtained results are then correlated with the subjective results obtained in the second contribution. The result analysis of this non-reference model provides clear indications of depth map performance and its dependency on the associated colour sequence selection. The high correlation values with the subjective results were in the range of 75-81%. These correlation values are of more significance when compared to best performing quality metrics (e.g. VQM obtained correlation values of 59%) under the researched scenarios.
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Zabadi, Istifanus Sonsare. "International politics of structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa 1983-1990 : with special reference to Ghana and Nigeria." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1992. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1320/.
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Sub-Saharan Africa entered the 1980s faced with a crisis of unprecedented proportions. The economies of the region which were already in decline by the late 1970s, were in danger of collapse. The severity of the crisis was also reflected in rising indebtedness, social decay and political instability. To tackle it, African leaders met at an extraordinary economic summit in Lagos in 1980 and adopted a common strategy which became known as the Lagos Plan of Action. The crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa is part of a general world-wide economic recession stemming from a period of economic decline in the leading industrial economies. As a result, the leading industrialised countries and international institutions designed strategies to tackle the crisis both at the global level and in the developing countries such as those in Sub-Saharan Africa. For Africa, the strategy adopted by the World Bank and the IMF was that of structural adjustment. The orthodox approach of the World Bank generated controversy as to its suitability to the African situation. This disagreement was a reflection of conflicting political interests as well as power relations both internationally, and within African states. This thesis analyses the impact of the politics of structural adjustment programmes in Africa, with special reference to Ghana and Nigeria between 1983-1990. The arguement is that orthodox structural adjustment has failed to reverse the decline in Africa largely because of continuing disagreement between African governments and international institutions over the content and direction of adjustment. The study is presented over eight chapters. The introductory chapter sets the agenda. Chapter one covers the international dimension of the African crisis, while chapter two looks at the internal dimension. Chapter three contains a detailed analysis of the international politics of structural adjustment. Chapters four and five discuss the adjustment programme in Ghana and its impact on the country's political economy. The Nigerian experience is similarly examined in chapters six and seven. The conclusion, chapter eight, addresses the issues behind the failure of orthodox adjustment in Africa and makes recommendations.
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Råström, Marie. "Det händer inte mig! : Ökar illusionen av osårbarhet risken för att manipuleras?" Thesis, Mälardalen University, Department of Social Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-233.
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<p>Studien undersökte om de personer som anser sig vara minst sårbara för att bli manipulerade är de som främst manipuleras av reklam. En experimentell design användes där 204 studenter bedömde sitt intryck av en reklam, vars manipulationsgrad varierade. Ett frågeformulär som mätte upplevd osårbarhet mot manipulation fylldes även i. Deltagarna ansåg att de var relativt osårbara mot att manipuleras samt att andra påverkades mer av reklam än de själva. Hypotesen att de personer som anser sig vara minst sårbara för att bli manipulerade är de som främst manipuleras bekräftades inte. Studien lyckades dock inte manipulera reklamernas manipulationsgrad på ett tillfredsställande sätt, därav bör framtida forskning utveckla ett reliabelt mätinstrument innan de undersöker sambandet mellan illusionen av osårbarhet och att manipuleras.</p>
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Muldrew, James Craig. "Credit, market relations and debt litigation in late seventeenth century England, with special reference to King's Lynn." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272457.
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Liang, Linxia. "Civil procedure in the Qing Magistrate's Court : illustrated with reference to land and debt disputes (1644-1911)." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2001. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU150492.
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This study, drawing mainly on the Qing law and Baodi case records during nineteenth century, supplemented by reference to collections of magistrate's decisions and handbooks, aims to describe the civil procedure of the last dynasty of imperial China, the Qing in terms of the performance of the magistrate's court in solving land and debt cases. It argues that the establishment of the relevant laws on both procedural and substantive issues was systemized in the Qing logic in the sense that magistrates were enabled to solve land and debt disputes and petitioners were enabled to seek help from legal institutions. In some aspects, the law was either drafted too widely, such as in the case of physical injury, or too ideally, such as in the case of false accusation. As a result allegations of physical injury and untrue accusation were very often found in land and debt cases. As for solving land and debt cases, the magistrate in the first place followed the letter of the law when there was an applicable statutory provision. However, the magistrates' purpose in hearing a case was to distinguish right and wrong. (fenbian quzhi) and deliver justice (pingyun) to the parties; so the facts (qing) and the law (fa) were both completely considered (qing fa liang jin). When there was a gulf between the law and the case, which was sometimes unavoidable, the real meaning or principle of the law was applied. In this sense, the magistrate enjoyed a large discretion by taking into account the specific circumstances before making a decision (zhun qing zhuo li). Zhun qing zhuo li expresses a principle governing the application of the law. It is not a flexible tool allowing the magistrate to decide as he wished. In most circumstances the letter of the law was not lacking. Decisions turning on zhun qing zhuo li were very rare. In any event several limitations were established on the magistrates' discretion.
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Turkistani, Abdullah Qurban. "An analysis of foreign debt by the Arab countries with special reference to Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30138.
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In this study the demand for foreign debt was disaggregated into government demand and private sector demand. Hence, two demand models have been specified. Where, the government maximises an expected quadratic preference function, and the private sector maximises the expected returns from its financial portfolio. The two models are then empirically tested on data from the three Arab countries. Furthermore, the two models are then combined and empirically tested and compared to the disaggregated model. The general framework of this study is that the governments of the Arab countries under study pursue internal and external acceptance in an effort to remain in power, which is empirically supported here. Increasing government expenditure, which implies higher budget deficit, reflects the government's efforts to gain internal acceptance. On the other hand, opening up the domestic economy to the world indicates the government's efforts to gain international acceptance. This study concludes that the Arab countries under study have been undergoing imprudent economic policies that mainly accommodating the government's credit requirements. It has shown that the countries had accepted irresistible foreign loans contracts possibly to finance the current account deficits. Further, the IMF stabilisation program requirement to devalue the national currency, in order to increase foreign exchange inflows and hence reduce foreign debt, founds not to be working for the three Arab countries under study.
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Hvalgren, Niclas, and Davidsson Linnea Englund. "Income Inequality and Household Debt : A panel data study of 17 OECD-countries from 1995-2015." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-341849.
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This study explores the relationship between income inequality and household indebtedness using panel data on 17 OECD-countries over the time period 1995-2015. Motivated by relative income theory of consumption and previous empirical research we anticipate a non-monotonic relationship between changes in household debt and income inequality (measured by the Gini- coefficient), as dynamics between different groups of households in the income spread is expected to vary at different levels of inequality. Carrying out the empirical analysis we find notable indications of an inverse U-shape relationship between inequality levels and household borrowing. We locate an estimated turning point at a Gini-value of 28.84, which indicates a positive marginal effect on household borrowing as inequality grows from levels below this point, turning negative as inequality increases further. This suggests that as income inequality grows from relatively low levels households increase their rate of borrowing, while at higher levels of inequality households decrease their borrowing rate in response to growing income disparities. Results hold under a random effects model and a pooled OLS model, but fail to prove significant in the stricter fixed effects model, why we cannot draw any definitive conclusions about the magnitude of the effect. Nevertheless, the findings of further complimentary estimations lend credence to our hypothesis. Benefits and limitations of our data and empirical methods are comprehensively discussed, as well as the theoretical mechanisms explaining the relationship. Indicative but in the end inconclusive results leaves ample opportunity for further investigations with more advanced empirical methods.<br><p>This bachelor thesis was awarded the highest grade, VG.</p>
Books on the topic "Reference Dept"
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Massachusetts. Dept. of Environmental Protection. DEP quick reference guide. The Dept., 1996.
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Canada. Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. DIAND cost reference manual. Real Property Services for INAC, 2004.
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Argrett, Loretta C. Settlement reference manual. U.S. Dept. of Justice, Tax Division, Civil Trial Sections, Court of Federal Claims Section, Appellate Section, Office of Review, 1996.
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Energy, U. S. Dept of. Project control system guidelines implementation reference manual. U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Procurement, Assistance, and Program Management, Division of Policy and Management Systems Support, 1992.
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Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Welfare. The AFDC case management reference guide. The Dept., 1992.
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Le, Thanh-Ha, Seongjo Lee, Seung-Won Jung, and Chee Sun Won. "Reduced Reference Quality Metric for Depth Images." In Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47487-7_18.
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Almeida, J., L. T. Paiva, T. Mendonça, and P. Rocha. "Reference Tracking of Depth of Anesthesia Using Optimal Control." In 2015 Proceedings of the Conference on Control and its Applications. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611974072.49.
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Arestis, Philip, and Malcolm Sawyer. "On the Sustainability of Budget Deficits and Public Debts with Reference to the UK." In Fiscal and Debt Policies for the Future. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137269539_2.
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Giacomucci, Scott. "Essentials of Psychodrama Practice." In Social Work, Sociometry, and Psychodrama. Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6342-7_13.
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AbstractThe essentials of psychodrama practice are covered in depth within this chapter. Fourteen core psychodrama interventions or techniques are described with corresponding depictions of their use within psychodrama group sessions. The psychodrama techniques of doubling, mirroring, and role reversal are presented with their relationship to Moreno’s developmental theory. Considerations for the application of psychodrama interventions on teletherapy is also provided. Various types of psychodrama scenes are described with reference to the Psychodramatic Spiral and the Hollander Curve. The processes of closure, de-roling, and sharing at the end of a psychodrama enactment are outlined.
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Desli, Evangelia, and Theodore Pelagidis. "Greece’s Sudden Faltering Economy: From Boom to Bust With Special Reference to the Debt Problem." In The Euro Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230393547_4.
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Kochalski, Cezary, Grzegorz Mikołajewicz, Jarosław Nowicki, and Piotr Ratajczak. "Sustainability Reporting in Poland: An In-depth Analysis with Reference to the RESPECT Index Companies." In MIR Series in International Business. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52578-5_7.
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Sūna, Laura. "Cultural and Media Identity Among Latvian Migrants in Germany." In IMISCOE Research Series. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12092-4_9.
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Abstract This chapter explores how transnational media and culture impacts on the identity formation of recent Latvian migrants in Germany. In the context of the EU, Germany opened its labour market to the new EU countries rather late, when compared to other ‘old’ EU countries. This has had an effect on the composition of the group of Latvian migrants going to Germany, and their identities. In the light of this, this chapter examines how Latvian migrants in Germany feel and experience their belonging to Latvia and its culture. It analyses the social and communicative practices crucial for the development of belonging, including the rootedness in the country where they live and the cultural references that are important for them. The evidence for the analysis in this chapter comes from in-depth interviews, open media diaries and network maps of Latvian migrants in Germany. The chapter situates the description of evidence in the framework of cultural identity concepts and discusses the role of culture and media in the process of building migrant identity. The chapter argues that culture is shaping the transnational self-perception of Latvian migrants in Germany – as it provides collective narratives of imagined common frames of references, and confirms feelings of belonging and distinction.
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Shaw, D. John. "Debt Pressures, Adjustment Policies and Deterioration of Terms of Trade for Developing Countries (with Special Reference to Latin America)." In International Development Co-operation. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230287297_7.
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"References." In Depth. Harvard University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1dv0tnw.19.
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"References." In Life in Debt. University of California Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520951754-011.
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Chiesa, Paolo, and Ennio Macchi. "A Thermodynamic Analysis of Different Options to Break 60% Electric Efficiency in Combined Cycle Power Plants." In ASME Turbo Expo 2002: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2002-30663.
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All major manufacturers of large size gas turbines are developing new techniques aimed at achieving net electric efficiency higher than 60% in combined cycle applications. An essential factor for this goal is the effective cooling of the hottest rows of the gas turbine. The present work investigates three different approaches to this problem: (i) the most conventional open-loop air cooling; (ii) the closed-loop steam cooling for vanes and rotor blades; (iii) the use of two independent closed-loop circuits: steam for stator vanes and air for rotor blades. Reference is made uniquely to large size, single shaft units and performance is estimated through an updated release of the thermodynamic code GS, developed at the Energy Dept. of Politecnico di Milano. A detailed presentation of the calculation method is given in the paper. Although many aspects (such as reliability, capital cost, environmental issues) which can affect gas turbine design were neglected, thermodynamic analysis showed that efficiency higher than 61% can be achieved in the frame of current, available technology.
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Rogge, Segolene, Daniele Bonatto, Jaime Sancho, et al. "MPEG-I Depth Estimation Reference Software." In 2019 International Conference on 3D Immersion (IC3D). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ic3d48390.2019.8975995.
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Fischer, Robin, Ulrich Scholten, and Simone Scholten. "A reference architecture for feedback-based control of service ecosystems." In 2010 4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/dest.2010.5610624.
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Tung, Yu-Hsin, Richard W. Johnson, and Hiroyuki Sato. "Effects of Graphite Surface Roughness on Bypass Flow Computations for an HTGR." In ASME 2011 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2011-58053.
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Bypass flow in a prismatic high temperature gas reactor (HTGR) occurs between graphite blocks as they sit side by side in the core. Bypass flow is not intentionally designed to occur in the reactor, but is present because of tolerances in manufacture, imperfect installation and expansion and shrinkage of the blocks from heating and irradiation. It is desired to increase the knowledge of the effects of such flow; it has been suggested that it may be 20% of the total helium coolant flow [INL report 2007, INL/EXT-07-13289]. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations can provide estimates of the scale and impacts of bypass flow. Previous CFD calculations have examined the effects of bypass gap width, level and distribution of heat generation and effects of shrinkage. The present contribution examines the effects of graphite surface roughness on the bypass flow for different relative roughness factors on three gap widths. Such calculations should be validated using specific bypass flow measurements. While such experiments are currently underway for the specific reference prismatic HTGR design for the next generation nuclear plant (NGNP) program of the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the data are not yet available. To enhance confidence in the present calculations, wall shear stress and heat transfer results for several turbulence models and their associated wall treatments are first compared for flow in a single tube that is representative of a coolant channel in the prismatic HTGR core. The results are compared to published correlations for wall shear stress and Nusselt number in turbulent pipe flow. Turbulence models that perform well are then used to make bypass flow calculations in a symmetric one-twelfth sector of a prismatic block that includes bypass flow. The comparison of shear stress and Nusselt number results with published correlations constitutes a partial validation of the CFD model. Calculations are also compared to ones made previously using a different CFD code. Results indicate that increasing surface roughness increases the maximum fuel and helium temperatures as do increases in gap width. However, maximum coolant temperature variation due to increased gap width is not changed by surface roughness.
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Huang Yihua, Lv Shilei, Liu Zongyuan, J. Wang, and Jun Shi. "The topology analysis of reference tags of RFID indoor location system." In 2009 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/dest.2009.5276786.
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Xiang, Sen, Jingteng Xue, Li Yu, and Chang Wen Chen. "No-reference depth quality assessment for texture-plus-depth images." In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icme.2014.6890311.
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Rajeev, Srijith, Karen Panetta, and Sos S. Agaian. "No-reference color-depth quality measure: CDME." In Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2018, edited by Sos S. Agaian and Sabah A. Jassim. SPIE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2304980.
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Milani, S., D. Ferrario, and S. Tubaro. "No-reference quality metric for depth maps." In 2013 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icip.2013.6738084.
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Kum, Sang-Uok, and Ketan Mayer-Patel. "Reference Stream Selection for Multiple Depth Stream Encoding." In Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT'06). IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/3dpvt.2006.117.
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Hewage, Chaminda T. E. R., and Maria G. Martini. "Reduced-reference quality metric for 3D depth map transmission." In 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON 2010). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/3dtv.2010.5506205.
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Clancey, P., and C. Logg. DEPOT database: Reference manual and user's guide. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/5969165.
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Chandra, Shailesh, Mehran Rahmani, Timothy Thai, Vivek Mishra, and Jacqueline Camacho. Evaluating Financing Mechanisms and Economic Benefits to Fund Grade Separation Projects. Mineta Transportation Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2020.1926.
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Investment in transportation infrastructure projects generates benefits, both direct and indirect. While emissions reductions, crash reductions, and travel time savings are prominent direct benefits, there are indirect benefits in the form of real estate enhancements that could pay off debt or loan incurred in the improvement of the infrastructure itself. Studies have shown that improvements associated with rail transportation (such as station upgrades) trigger an increase in the surrounding real estate values, increasing both the opportunity for monetary gains and, ultimately, property tax collections. There is plenty of available guidance that provides blueprints for benefits calculations for operational improvements in rail transportation. However, resources are quite limited in the analysis of benefits that accrue from the separation of railroad at-grade crossings. Understanding the impact of separation in a neighborhood with high employment or population could generate revenues through increased tax collections. In California, the research need is further amplified by a lack of guidance from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on at-grade crossing for separation based on revenue generated. There is a critical need to understand whether grade separation projects could impact neighboring real estate values that could potentially be used to fund such separations. With COVID-19, as current infrastructure spending in California is experiencing a reboot, an approach more oriented to benefits and costs for railroad at-grade separation should be explored. Thus, this research uses a robust benefits-to-cost analysis (BCA) to probe the economic impacts of railroad at-grade separation projects. The investigation is carried out across twelve railroad-highway at-grade crossings in California. These crossings are located at Francisquito Ave., Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station, Sassafras St., Palm St., Civic Center Dr., L St., Spring St. (North), J St., E St., H St., Parkmoor West, and Nursery Ave. The authors found that a majority of the selected at-grade crossings analyzed accrue high benefits-to-cost (BC) ratios from travel time savings, safety improvements, emissions reductions, and potential revenue generated if property taxes are collected and used to fund such separation projects. The analysis shows that with the estimated BC ratios, the railroad crossing at Nursery Ave. in Fremont, Palm St. in San Diego, and H St. in Chula Vista could be ideal candidates for separation. The methodology presented in this research could serve as a handy reference for decision-makers selecting one or more at-grade crossings for the separation considering economic outputs and costs.
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Hendricks, Kasey. Data for Alabama Taxation and Changing Discourse from Reconstruction to Redemption. University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7290/wdyvftwo4u.
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At their most basic level taxes carry, in the words of Schumpeter ([1918] 1991), “the thunder of history” (p. 101). They say something about the ever-changing structures of social, economic, and political life. Taxes offer a blueprint, in both symbolic and concrete terms, for uncovering the most fundamental arrangements in society – stratification included. The historical retellings captured within these data highlight the politics of taxation in Alabama from 1856 to 1901, including conflicts over whom money is expended upon as well as struggles over who carries their fair share of the tax burden. The selected timeline overlaps with the formation of five of six constitutions adopted in the State of Alabama, including 1861, 1865, 1868, 1875, and 1901. Having these years as the focal point makes for an especially meaningful case study, given how much these constitutional formations made the state a site for much political debate. These data contain 5,121 pages of periodicals from newspapers throughout the state, including: Alabama Sentinel, Alabama State Intelligencer, Alabama State Journal, Athens Herald, Daily Alabama Journal, Daily Confederation, Elyton Herald, Mobile Daily Tribune, Mobile Tribune, Mobile Weekly Tribune, Morning Herald, Nationalist, New Era, Observer, Tuscaloosa Observer, Tuskegee News, Universalist Herald, and Wilcox News and Pacificator. The contemporary relevance of these historical debates manifests in Alabama’s current constitution which was adopted in 1901. This constitution departs from well-established conventions of treating the document as a legal framework that specifies a general role of governance but is firm enough to protect the civil rights and liberties of the population. Instead, it stands more as a legislative document, or procedural straightjacket, that preempts through statutory material what regulatory action is possible by the state. These barriers included a refusal to establish a state board of education and enact a tax structure for local education in addition to debt and tax limitations that constrained government capacity more broadly. Prohibitive features like these are among the reasons that, by 2020, the 1901 Constitution has been amended nearly 1,000 times since its adoption. However, similar procedural barriers have been duplicated across the U.S. since (e.g., California’s Proposition 13 of 1978). Reference: Schumpeter, Joseph. [1918] 1991. “The Crisis of the Tax State.” Pp. 99-140 in The Economics and Sociology of Capitalism, edited by Richard Swedberg. Princeton University Press.