cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Emission of continuous coherent terahertz waves with tunable frequency by intrinsic Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Tachiki, Masashi
name: Iizuka, Mikio
name: Minami, Kazuo
name: Tejima, Syogo
name: Nakamura, Hisashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a mechanism for emission of electromagnetic terahertz waves by simulation. High $T_{c}$ superconductors form naturally stacked Josephson junctions. When an external current and a magnetic field are applied to the sample, fluxon flow induces voltage. The voltage creates oscillating current through the Josephson effect and the current excites the Josephson plasma. The sample works as a cavity, and the input energy is stored in a form of standing wave of the Josephson plasma. A part of the energy is emitted as terahertz waves.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Many-body physics in the NISQ era: quantum programming a discrete time crystal
Creators: name: Ippoliti, Matteo
name: Kechedzhi, Kostyantyn
name: Moessner, Roderich
name: Sondhi, S. L.
name: Khemani, Vedika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress in the realm of noisy, intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices represents an exciting opportunity for many-body physics, by introducing new laboratory platforms with unprecedented control and measurement capabilities. We explore the implications of NISQ platforms for many-body physics in a practical sense: we ask which {\it physical phenomena}, in the domain of quantum statistical mechanics, they may realize more readily than traditional experimental platforms. As a particularly well-suited target, we identify discrete time crystals (DTCs), novel non-equilibrium states of matter that break time translation symmetry. These can only be realized in the intrinsically out-of-equilibrium setting of periodically driven quantum systems stabilized by disorder induced many-body localization. While precursors of the DTC have been observed across a variety of experimental platforms - ranging from trapped ions to nitrogen vacancy centers to NMR crystals - none have \emph{all} the necessary ingredients for realizing a fully-fledged incarnation of this phase, and for detecting its signature long-range \emph{spatiotemporal order}. We show that a new generation of quantum simulators can be programmed to realize the DTC phase and to experimentally detect its dynamical properties, a task requiring extensive capabilities for programmability, initialization and read-out. Specifically, the architecture of Google's Sycamore processor is a remarkably close match for the task at hand. We also discuss the effects of environmental decoherence, and how they can be distinguished from `internal' decoherence coming from closed-system thermalization dynamics. Already with existing technology and noise levels, we find that DTC spatiotemporal order would be observable over hundreds of periods, with parametric improvements to come as the hardware advances.
description: v2: added appendices B and C, added Fig.1, expanded discussion. v3: added Fig. 8
DIGITALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON FIXED ASSET ACCOUNTING IN JOINT VENTURES
Creators: name: Yusupov Asror Makhmanazar o'g'li Acting associate professor of the "Accounting" department of "INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF FINANCE TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE" LLC
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article explores the transformative impact of digitalization on fixed asset accounting in joint ventures. Digital tools such as automation, cloud-based systems, real-time data analytics, and blockchain are enhancing the accuracy, transparency, and efficiency of managing fixed assets. By adopting these technologies, joint ventures can streamline asset tracking, ensure compliance with international standards like IFRS, and improve decision-making through data-driven insights. The article also discusses the challenges of digital adoption, such as system integration and data security, and highlights the long-term benefits of digitalization for joint venture success
Additional file 1 of Correlates of health-related quality of life among adults receiving combination antiretroviral therapy in coastal Kenya
Creators: name: Nyongesa, Moses K.
name: Mwangi, Paul
name: Wanjala, Stanley W.
name: Mutua, Agnes M.
name: Koot, Hans M.
name: Cuijpers, Pim
name: Newton, Charles R. J. C.
name: Abubakar, Amina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Modulational instability of two pairs of counter-propagating waves and energy exchange in two-component media
Creators: name: Griffiths, S. D.
name: Grimshaw, R. H. J.
name: Khusnutdinova, K. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of two pairs of counter-propagating waves in two-component media is considered within the framework of two generally nonintegrable coupled Sine-Gordon equations. We consider the dynamics of weakly nonlinear wave packets, and using an asymptotic multiple-scales expansion we obtain a suite of evolution equations to describe energy exchange between the two components of the system. Depending on the wave packet length-scale vis-a-vis the wave amplitude scale, these evolution equations are either four non-dispersive and nonlinearly coupled envelope equations, or four non-locally coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations. We also consider a set of fully coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations, even though this system contains small dispersive terms which are strictly beyond the leading order of the asymptotic multiple-scales expansion method. Using both the theoretical predictions following from these asymptotic models and numerical simulations of the original unapproximated equations, we investigate the stability of plane-wave solutions, and show that they may be modulationally unstable. These instabilities can then lead to the formation of localized structures, and to a modification of the energy exchange between the components. When the system is close to being integrable, the time-evolution is distinguished by a remarkable almost periodic sequence of energy exchange scenarios, with spatial patterns alternating between approximately uniform wavetrains and localized structures.
description: 35 pages, 13 figures
The agro- structural change in the Alps and its outlook until 2020. A model based on key determinants
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Christian
name: Stiefenhofer, Annika
name: Streifeneder, Thomas
name: Hoffmann, Christian
name: Stiefenhofer, Annika
name: Streifeneder, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: agro structural-change
subject: farm abandonment
subject: simulation models
subject: Alps

description: The agro-structural change in the Alps has been gaining intensity steadily since 1980. Farms continuously feel the pressure to adapt to changed economic, political, and social conditions. Those diverge significantly between the different alpine countries but also within a country. Based on the developments so far, the current situation and expected future framework conditions, this paper intends to indicate possible developments for future agro-structural trends in the Alpine arc. Using multivariate regression analyses, significant indicators were derived from harmonised parameters on municipality level, which influence farm abandonment. They form the basis of the forecast of farm abandonment until 2020. Based on agro-economic scenarios from the project Scenar 2020 (EC, 2006), the expected annual abandonment rates were calculated for each municipality. The scenario results vary widely between the national alpine areas as well as between the regions. The comparison with the effective, dynamic development 2000-2007 demonstrates how “realistic” the scenarios are.
Matrix metalloproteinase substrate recognition, characterization and proteomic discovery
Creators: name: Tam, Eric M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) family of secreted and cell membrane proteases are known to cleave all extracellular matrix proteins and a large number of bioactive molecules. However, the complete role of MMPs in vivo is not fully known. Thus, it is pertinent to identify all substrates of MMPs and to also characterize their interactions with substrates in order to comprehend the molecular mechanisms that lead to proteolysis. Membrane type l-MMP (MT1- MMP, MMP-14) and MMP-2 (gelatinase A) are cooperative dynamic components of a cell surface proteolysis apparatus involved in regulating the cellular signaling environment and pericellular collagen homeostasis. Here, we have investigated the structural elements of MT1- MMP and MMP-2 involved in the recognition of type I collagen, in order to dissect the enigmatic mechanism of native (triple helical) collagen cleavage by MMPs. Both MT1-MMP and MMP-2 consist of a catalytic domain tethered to a C domain by a linker peptide. MMP-2 contains an additional insert of three fibronectin type II modules within the catalytic domain. We demonstrate that recombinant proteins representing the C domain of MT1-MMP and the fibronectin domain of MMP-2 act in a dominant negative manner to block MT1-MMP and MMP-2 cleavage of type I collagen. These domains alone are also capable of perturbing the native structure of collagen. Together, these results reveal an important divergence in the mode of collagen cleavage between these two enzymes. To probe the in vivo role of MT1-MMP, we developed a rapid proteomic screen for identifying new MT1-MMP substrates in cells using isotope coded affinity tag (ICAT) method of protein quantification. The abundance levels of several extracellular proteins were altered upon overexpression of MT1-MMP, which we took as evidence of proteolytic modification. These potential substrates were confirmed biochemically confirmed and here we report that interleukin (IL)-8, secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI), death receptor-6, and connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) are previously undescribed substrates of MT1-MMP. Moreover, the utility and quantitative nature of ICAT as a proteomic screen for protease substrate discovery should make it adaptable for studying the proteolytic function of other protease classes in complex and dynamic biological contexts.
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-04-20)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Differential invariants of measurements, and their connection to central moments
Creators: name: Schneider, Eivind
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53Z05, 80A05,

description: Due to the principle of minimal information gain, the measurement of points in an affine space $V$ determines a Legendrian submanifold of $V \times V^* \times \mathbb R$. Such Legendrian submanifolds are equipped with additional geometric structures that come from the central moments of the underlying probability distributions and are invariant under the action of the group of affine transformations on $V$. We investigate the action of this group of affine transformations on Legendrian submanifolds of $V \times V^* \times \mathbb R$ by giving a detailed overview of the structure of the algebra of scalar differential invariants. We show how the central moments can be used to construct the scalar differential invariants. In the end, we view the results in the context of equilibrium thermodynamics of gases, where we notice that the heat capacity is one of the differential invariants.
description: 20 pages
Structural changes and labour adjustments in rural Bulgaria
Creators: name: Mishev, Plamen Dimitrov
name: Ivanova, Nedka Momtscheva
name: Harizanova, Christina Stefanova
name: Mishev, Plamen Dimitrov
name: Ivanova, Nedka Momtscheva
name: Harizanova, Christina Stefanova
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: rural development
subject: farm restructuring
subject: labour markets

description: The rural areas in Bulgaria cover more then 80% of the country territory and account for about 29% of the population. Their development depends strongly on agricultural sector. The paper examines structural changes in agriculture, labour market situation in rural areas and presents the main results of the survey performed in three region of Bulgaria. The study shows a substantial decline in the number of farm with economic size between 0,5 and 3 ESU and a stable increase in the number of large farms. Major factors having impact on farm restructuring are: improvements in economic situation, in particular the increase in real income, positive developments of land market, deterioration of age structure of rural population and the habits of rural population to keep some agricultural activity. An important development of subsistence and semi subsistence farms is observed indicating two opposite processes: a process of transforming of a small part of semi-subsistence into commercial farms or into higher economic size group and another part of them converged to subsistence farms. The number of subsistence farms with economic size 0,5 – 1 ESU also declined as the reduction is either due to reduction of farm activity or due to exit from the sector. The most important option for employment and source of income in villages studied is agriculture, but the earned income is much below the national average The most important factor having impact on a decision to start a job outside agriculture is “To ensure households leaving standards/ generate cash income”. Generally the respondents do not think that they will have possibility to start their self employed business outside agriculture in the next 5 years. Only 25% of them expect to stay in agriculture as nearly 50% of the commercial farms will keep operating and only 17% - 26% of small farms will remain in the sector
Raman Response of Magnetic Excitations in Cuprate Ladders and Planes
Creators: name: Schmidt, K. P.
name: Gössling, A.
name: Kuhlmann, U.
name: Thomsen, C.
name: Löffert, A.
name: Gross, C.
name: Assmus, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An unified picture for the Raman response of magnetic excitations in cuprate spin-ladder compounds is obtained by comparing calculated two-triplon Raman line-shapes with those of the prototypical compounds SrCu2O3 (Sr123), Sr14Cu24O41 (Sr14), and La6Ca8Cu24O41 (La6Ca8). The theoretical model for the two-leg ladder contains Heisenberg exchange couplings J_parallel and J_perp plus an additional four-spin interaction J_cyc. Within this model Sr123 and Sr14 can be described by x:=J_parallel/J_perp=1.5, x_cyc:=J_cyc/J_perp=0.2, J_perp^Sr123=1130 cm^-1 and J_perp^Sr14=1080 cm^-1. The couplings found for La6Ca8 are x=1.2, x_cyc=0.2, and J_perp^La6Ca8=1130 cm^-1. The unexpected sharp two-triplon peak in the ladder materials compared to the undoped two-dimensional cuprates can be traced back to the anisotropy of the magnetic exchange in rung and leg direction. With the results obtained for the isotropic ladder we calculate the Raman line-shape of a two-dimensional square lattice using a toy model consisting of a vertical and a horizontal ladder. A direct comparison of these results with Raman experiments for the two-dimensional cuprates R2CuO4 (R=La,Nd), Sr2CuO2Cl2, and YBa2Cu3O(6+delta) yields a good agreement for the dominating two-triplon peak. We conclude that short range quantum fluctuations are dominating the magnetic Raman response in both, ladders and planes. We discuss possible scenarios responsible for the high-energy spectral weight of the Raman line-shape, i.e. phonons, the triple-resonance and multi-particle contributions.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-04-21)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
The impact of non-farm income on the investment in agriculture: evidence from Hungary and Slovenia
Creators: name: Bakucs, Lajos Zoltan
name: Bojnec, Stefan
name: Ferto, Imre
name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Bakucs, Lajos Zoltan
name: Bojnec, Stefan
name: Ferto, Imre
name: Latruffe, Laure
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: non-farm income
subject: farm investment
subject: soft budget constraint
subject: panel data analysis

description: The article investigates the impact of non-farm income on the investment for Hungarian and Slovenian farms using FADN panel data for the years 2004-2008 and different econometric estimation approaches. We find that non-farm income is more important for Slovenian farms than for Hungarian farms. Farm gross investment is positively associated with real sales growth and cash flow implying the absence of soft budget constraint. Gross farm investment is negatively associated with non-farm income, but positively associated with investment subsidies. Specific results by country are found depending on growing vs. declining real sales and on farm indebtedness.
Massive quasi-normal mode
Creators: name: Ohashi, Akira
name: Sakagami, Masa-aki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper purposes to study quasi-normal modes due to massive scalar fields. We, in particular, investigate the dependence of QNM frequencies on the field mass. By this research, we find that there are quasi-normal modes with arbitrarily long life when the field mass has special values. It is also found that QNM can disappear when the field mass exceed these values.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Classical Quantum Gravity
Additional file 4 of The initial engraftment of tumor cells is critical for the future growth pattern: a mathematical study based on simulations and animal experiments
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Bertin
name: Lange, Tobias
name: Labitzky, Vera
name: Riecken, Kristoffer
name: Wree, Andreas
name: Schumacher, Udo
name: Wedemann, Gero
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Deviation between true and predicted tumor volumes using different time intervals between measurements based on 20 synthetic samples of Gompertzian growth (fast growth behavior). Indicated are the absolute mean values for each measurement frequency and the corresponding depth. () = 95% confidence interval. Parameter V0 was set to 1 mm3 during the fitting procedure. The mean RMSE was calculated based on the model fit in the period under consideration from day 23 to day 43. Growth parameters: V0 = 1 mm3, a = 0.7399 day− 1, β = 0.095 day− 1 (fast growth behavior).
Extreme Points and Factorizability for New Classes of Unital Quantum Channels
Creators: name: Haagerup, Uffe
name: Musat, Magdalena
name: Ruskai, Mary Beth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 46L10, 47L90, 81P45

description: We introduce and study two new classes of unital quantum channels. The first class describes a 2-parameter family of channels given by completely positive (CP) maps $M_3({\bf C}) \mapsto M_3({\bf C})$ which are both unital and trace-preserving. Almost every member of this family is factorizable and extreme in the set of CP maps which are both unital and trace-preserving, but is not extreme in either the set of unital CP maps or the set of trace-preserving CP maps. We also study a large class of maps which generalize the Werner-Holevo channel for $d = 3$ in the sense that they are defined in terms of partial isometries of rank $d-1$. Moreover, we extend this to maps whose Kraus operators have the form $t |e_j \rangle \langle e_j | \oplus V $ with $V \in M_{d-1} ({\bf C}) $ unitary and $t \in (-1,1)$. We show that almost every map in this class is extreme in both the set of unital CP maps and the set of trace-preserving CP maps. We analyze in detail a particularly interesting subclass which is extreme unless $t = -1/(d-1)$. For $d = 3$, this includes a pair of channels which have a dual factorization in the sense that they can be obtained by taking the partial trace over different subspaces after using the same unitary conjugation in $M_3({\bf C}) \otimes M_3({\bf C})$.
description: Improved discussion of the question on factorizability when d = 4 and t = -1/3 in new Section 4.6.2
Additional file 3 of Identification of a novel WAS mutation in a South African patient presenting with atypical Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: a case report
Creators: name: Glanzmann, Brigitte
name: Möller, Marlo
name: Mardelle Schoeman
name: Urban, Michael
name: Helden, Paul D. Van
name: Frigati, Lisa
name: Ravnit Grewal
name: Pieters, Hermanus
name: Loos, Ben
name: Hoal, Eileen G.
name: Glashoff, Richard H.
name: Cornelissen, Helena
name: Rabie, Helena
name: Esser, Monika M.
name: Kinnear, Craig J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Shortlist of three candidate variants identified as plausible disease-causing variants.
Thermodynamic Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter at Non-zero Baryon Number Density
Creators: name: Karsch, Frithjof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present recent lattice results on QCD thermodynamics at non-vanishing baryon number density obtained from a 6th order Taylor expansion in the chemical potential. Results for bulk thermodynamic observables, in particular for fluctuations in the baryon number density, are found to be well described by a hadron resonance gas model at low temperature and an ideal quark gluon gas at high temperature. We also analyze the radius of convergence of the Taylor series and discuss the information it provides on the occurrence of a second order phase transition point in the QCD phase diagram.
description: 8 pages, Invited talk given at Strangenss in Quark Matter 2004, September 2004, Cape Town
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-04-22)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
TEACHING ENGLISH IN INCLUSIVE GROUPS  OF BLIND STUDENTS
Creators: name: Mirzayeva, Makhliyokhon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article discusses teaching English based on inclusive education of blind students, and the author of the article proposes a completely new approach to teaching blind people any didactic subjects using a foreign language as an example. This modern methodology may be attractive also because it is generally available to all people with visual impairments, regardless of nationality and the language spoken by the students
Co-ordination and networks at sub-regional level: how programmes can meet rural needs
Creators: name: Mantino, Francesco
name: Tarangioli, Serena
name: Tudini, Lucia
name: Mantino, Francesco
name: Tarangioli, Serena
name: Tudini, Lucia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Rural development
subject: governance
subject: local development

description: Main objective of this paper is focusing on local institutions and their ability to effectively respond to local needs in designing and implementing rural development policies. The main unit of analysis is the Province of Grosseto. In this area a great number of public national and regional programmes provided for development funds during the last decade. The Province tried to co-ordinate these funds according to some strategy, but the real success in doing so is unknown and, more important, the driving forces and the conflicts/alliances which permitted this co-ordination have been explored. RDP is part of this process of co-ordination, probably one of the most relevant policies in the hands of Province. The research explore the following elements: strategies/rules adopted by the Province in order to coordinate the development strategy; the role played by the different stakeholders in the process of design objectives; impacts generated in provincial areas by the coordination process.
Future of European agriculture after the Health Check
Creators: name: Banse, Martin
name: Helming, John F.M.
name: Nowicki, Peter
name: Van Meijl, Hans
name: Banse, Martin
name: Helming, John F.M.
name: Nowicki, Peter
name: Van Meijl, Hans
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: economic modelling
subject: future
subject: CAP policy options
subject: structural change

description: This paper identifies major future trends and driving factors and perspectives and challenges resulting from them for European agriculture and food sectors until the year 2020. The focus of the paper is an analysis of key driving forces and the provision of a well developed reference scenario under the assumption of continued CAP reform and taking into account the framework discussions in the Doha Development Round. To assess the impact of policies the paper also examines a liberalisation (no support) and regionalization (maximum support) scenario. In terms of policy options the paper shows that the structural change process in agriculture (measured in terms of agricultural share in GDP) is a long-term process that continues with or without policy changes. The EU is facing an increasing diversity of structure and structural adjustment. The livestock sector (especially cattle) faces important challenges and restructuring. Alternative policy settings may not produce very different effect on the overall production as factor markets adjust. However, the regional impact on the environment and on the number of farms may prove to be more significant.
Bichromatic synchronized chaos in coupled optomechanical nanoresonators
Creators: name: Madiot, Guilhem
name: Correia, Franck
name: Barbay, Sylvain
name: Braive, Rémy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synchronization and chaos are two well known and ubiquitous phenomena in nature. Interestingly, under specific conditions, coupled chaotic systems can display synchronization in some of their observables. Here, we experimentally investigate bichromatic synchronization on the route to chaos of two non-identical mechanically coupled optomechanical nanocavities. Electromechanical near-resonant excitation of one of the resonators evidences hysteretic behaviors of the coupled mechanical modes which can, under amplitude modulation, reach the chaotic regime. The observations, allowing to measure directly the full phase space of the system, are accurately modeled by coupled periodically forced Duffing resonators thanks to a complete calibration of the experimental parameters. This shows that, besides chaos transfer from the mechanical to the optical frequency domain, spatial chaos transfer between the two nonidentical subsystems occurs. Upon simultaneous excitations of the coupled membranes modes, we also demonstrate bichromatic chaos synchronization between quadratures at the two distinct carrier frequencies of the normal modes. Their respective quadrature amplitudes are consistently synchronized thanks to the modal orthogonality breaking induced by the nonlinearity. Meanwhile, their phases show complex dynamics with imperfect synchronization in the chaotic regime. Our generic model agrees again quantitatively with the observed synchronization dynamics. These results set the ground for the experimental study of yet unexplored collective dynamics of e.g synchronization in arrays of strongly coupled, nanoscale nonlinear oscillators for applications ranging from precise measurements to multispectral chaotic encryption and random bit generation, and to analog computing, to mention a few.
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-04-23)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-04-24)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Die WTO-Verhandlungen und die GAP
Creators: name: Brockmeier, Martina
name: Pelikan, Janine
name: Klepper, Rainer
name: Brockmeier, Martina
name: Pelikan, Janine
name: Klepper, Rainer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: WTO negotiation
subject: HS6-digit tariff lines
subject: sensitive products
subject: EU direct payments
subject: reform of the GAP

description: Over the last decades the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been increasingly influenced by the WTO negotiations. The Mac-Sharry-Reform and the Mid Term Review (MTR) reform of the CAP for example improved the conformity between the EU agricultural policy and the liberalization requirements on the international level. Currently, it is again discussed within the Health Check how the EU direct payments will be adapted to meet the international and national requirements. This paper employs the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Model to quantify the global and national effects of the implementation of the current WTO negotiations and the adaptation of the EU direct payments. The impact of the change in the respective political instruments and the exemption of sensible products are calculated with the help of two policy scenarios and a decomposition and set in relation to each other. This procedure shows that the cut of agricultural tariffs is of considerable importance for almost all commodities in all countries and regions. In contrast, the adaptation of the EU direct payments is only of greater importance for the EU itself.
The social organization of health care experiences of non-English speaking Chinese immigrants : negotiating cultural and language differences in a changing health care context
Creators: name: Tang, Sannie Yuet-San
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study investigated the ways by which the health care experiences of non- English speaking (NES) Chinese immigrants are socially organized. Using discursive ethnography as a method of inquiry, interviews were conducted with 14 nurses and 10 patients of Chinese descent; participant observations were carried out to understand nurses' daily work; selected hospital policies were also reviewed. The findings indicate that nurses were aware of and respectful of the differences in care needs among an increasingly diverse population. However, notions of culture, ethnicity, "race" and language were found to operate in hidden ways to shape nurse-patient interaction. Yet, the experiences of some NES immigrant patients in receiving "lesser care" could not be reduced to personal prejudice or the lack of sensitivity on the part of the nurse. Rather, there is an important material context that organizes how nurses might read and respond to "differences" in care needs among their patients. The material context of health care speaks to the changing relations of resource allocation under restructuring. In the current health care context where there is a prime concern with budget containment, patient discharge has become an important administrative means for maximizing productivity and efficiency of the system. On the one hand, the biomedical and legalistic discourses work in tandem to facilitate patient discharge by prioritizing accomplishment of clinical tasks, such that the cultural and language needs of patients tend to be rendered as low priority. On the other hand, clinical protocols and pathways hasten patient turnover and shorten hospital stay by standardizing patient care; standardization could in turn bring about an increase in workload among nurses. Expecting nurses to respond to differences in care needs without adequate resources could result in feelings of frustration among nurses, and compromise their ability to provide adequate care across cultural or language barriers. Although financial prudence is a legitimate goal of health care restructuring, findings of this study alert us to the potential conflict between achieving the economic interest of budget containment and providing equitable care to those patients who do not "fit into" the system because of their cultural and/or language background.
Die Logik der europäischen Agrarpolitik: Politische Macht oder ökonomische Gesetzmäßigkeiten?
Creators: name: Henning, Christian H.C.A.
name: Struve, Carsten
name: Brockmeier, Martina
name: Henning, Christian H.C.A.
name: Struve, Carsten
name: Brockmeier, Martina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Political Economy
subject: political economy general equilibrium model
subject: European agricultural policy
subject: endogenous policy preferences
subject: CAP reform

description: This paper derives an applied general political economy model incorporating a model of political decision-making into a computable general economic equilibrium model. Political decision-making among a set of legislators is modeled via a mean voter decision rule derived from a modified non-cooperative legislative bargaining game of a BARON-FEREJOHN type. Legislators’ preferences are endogenously derived from political support maximization, where policies translate into legislators’ support according to a political transformation surface. Each surface reflects specific economic framework conditions of legislators` constituency. The model allows a simultaneous analysis of political and economic factors determining policy outcome. In regard to the Health Check proposal of the Commission the model is applied to simulate future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) under various political and economic scenarios. Main results are: (i) MTR-reform will not be stable in the future. In particular, EU-enlargement and technical progress imply further reforms in 2013 corresponding to further liberalization of CAP and a further shift towards the second pillar, i.e. from market & price to structural policies. (ii) These general trends would be attenuated by increased world market prices, while additional WTO restriction would amplify these trends. (iii) Compared to economic and international policy factors, constitutional reforms, e.g. a higher participation of the European Parliament in CAP decision-making, have only moderate impact on future CAP, while changed financial rules would significantly reverse policy trends, i.e. reallocating budget from the second to the first pillar.
Source coding by efficient selection of ground states clusters
Creators: name: Battaglia, Demian
name: Braunstein, Alfredo
name: Chavas, Joël
name: Zecchina, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we show how the Survey Propagation algorithm can be generalized to include external forcing messages, and used to address selectively an exponential number of glassy ground states. These capabilities can be used to explore efficiently the space of solutions of random NP-complete constraint satisfaction problems, providing a direct experimental evidence of replica symmetry breaking in large-size instances. Finally, a new lossy data compression protocol is introduced, exploiting as a computational resource the clustered nature of the space of addressable states.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Knowledge Distillation: A Survey
Creators: name: Gou, Jianping
name: Yu, Baosheng
name: Maybank, Stephen John
name: Tao, Dacheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, deep neural networks have been successful in both industry and academia, especially for computer vision tasks. The great success of deep learning is mainly due to its scalability to encode large-scale data and to maneuver billions of model parameters. However, it is a challenge to deploy these cumbersome deep models on devices with limited resources, e.g., mobile phones and embedded devices, not only because of the high computational complexity but also the large storage requirements. To this end, a variety of model compression and acceleration techniques have been developed. As a representative type of model compression and acceleration, knowledge distillation effectively learns a small student model from a large teacher model. It has received rapid increasing attention from the community. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of knowledge distillation from the perspectives of knowledge categories, training schemes, teacher-student architecture, distillation algorithms, performance comparison and applications. Furthermore, challenges in knowledge distillation are briefly reviewed and comments on future research are discussed and forwarded.
description: It has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Computer Vision (2021)
Additional file 2 of Identification of a novel WAS mutation in a South African patient presenting with atypical Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: a case report
Creators: name: Glanzmann, Brigitte
name: Möller, Marlo
name: Mardelle Schoeman
name: Urban, Michael
name: Helden, Paul D. Van
name: Frigati, Lisa
name: Ravnit Grewal
name: Pieters, Hermanus
name: Loos, Ben
name: Hoal, Eileen G.
name: Glashoff, Richard H.
name: Cornelissen, Helena
name: Rabie, Helena
name: Esser, Monika M.
name: Kinnear, Craig J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Summary of exome sequencing data for the patient and his parents.
Modellgestützte Abschätzung der regionalen landwirtschaftlichen Landnutzung und Produktion in Deutschland vor dem Hintergrund der „Gesundheitsüberprüfung“ der GAP
Creators: name: Kreins, Peter
name: Gomann, Horst
name: Kreins, Peter
name: Gomann, Horst
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: milk market reform
subject: bio-masse
subject: agricultural sector model
subject: land use

description: The framework conditions surrounding agricultural production in Germany have changed dramatically due to the Renewable Energy Law (EEG) and a sustained increase in agricultural prices. The Common Agricultural Policy, substantially reformed in the Luxemburg Compromise, will be considered in the framework of the “Health Check”. Against this background, the regional developments anticipated in dairy production, beef cattle husbandry and agricultural land use by the year 2015 are analysed with the help of the regionalized agricultural sector model RAUMIS. Simulations on the adaptability of dairy production under different market conditions are carried out with regard to the expiration of the dairy quota regulation. The farming intensity on arable land is generally increasing due to the increase in agricultural prices, the elimination of set aside obligation and the promotion of renewable resource crops. The increasing competitiveness of cash crops is speeding the departure of dairy production from arable crop areas into competitive grassland regions. In contrast, milk production is either constant or reduced on less competitive grassland locations. Among the regions reducing production are, according to the model results, low mountain ranges with high levels of grassland, for example in the Black Forest, in the Schwäbisch Alp, in the Hessian Mountain area in parts of the Eifel and parts of the Hunsrück. In the course of the many decades of milk quota system, a significant milk production potential was deactivated which could play a large role when the quota regulations expire. Based on a calculated “milk equilibrium price” at which the quota amounts are exactly produced, a price increase of ten percent leads to a long term expansion of the milk produced by about six million tons. There is thus no reversal of the successive milk production reductions in the least competitive regions, not even through significantly higher direct payments distributed in the framework of the introduction of the “regional model” in grassland regions, since these are decoupled payments. Should this drop in milk production have negative consequences for other sectors, for example tourism, it is to question, whether specific measures should be developed for the affected regions.
The influence of climate change, technological progress and political change on agricultural land use: calculated scenarios for the Upper Danube catchment area
Creators: name: Henseler, Martin
name: Wirsig, Alexander
name: Krimly, Tatjana
name: Dabbert, Stephan
name: Henseler, Martin
name: Wirsig, Alexander
name: Krimly, Tatjana
name: Dabbert, Stephan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: global change
subject: regional model
subject: climate change
subject: agricultural policy scenarios
subject: agricultural land use

description: Both climate and agricultural policy changes are commonly seen as important drivers for agricultural production. In this study, scenarios of climate and political change were calculated for the Upper Danube catchment area using the regional optimization model ACRE. Two political scenarios were calculated for the year 2020. One scenario assumes the continuation of the Common Agricultural Policy reform 2003 the other assumes a strong shift away from payments of the first pillar to payments of the second pillar of the CAP. Both scenarios were combined with four different scenarios of climate change and technological progress derived from ICCP SRES assumptions and the ACCELERATES project. The results of the scenario calculations were analysed with respect to their implications for the whole catchment area as well as for selected districts. Climate change and technological progress both cause small changes in agricultural land use: fodder crop area tends to be converted to cash crop area, and intensive grasslands tend to be converted into extensive grasslands. Climate change and technological progress increase crop productivity, and consequently, total gross margin increases. The impact of climate change might get stronger toward the end of the century which is beyond the scope of the investigations presented here. The impact of climate change might thus switch from bringing net benefits in the short to medium term to bringing net losses for the area investigated in the long run.