cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Economic and Statistical Measures of Forecast Accuracy
Creators: name: Granger, Clive W. J.
name: Pesaran, M. Hashem
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Decision theory
subject: Forecast evaluation
subject: Probabilistsic forecasts
subject: Economic and statistical measures of forecast accuracy
subject: Stock market predictability
subject: Classification-JEL: C12,

description: This paper argues in favour of a closer link between decision and forecast evaluation problems. Although the idea of using decision theory for forecast evaluation appears early in the dynamic stochastic programming literature, and has continued to be used in meteorological forecasts, it is hardly mentioned in standard academic textbooks on economic forecasting. Some of the main issues involved are illustrated in the context of a two-state, two-action decision problem as well as in a more general setting. Relationships between statistical and economic methods of forecast evaluation are discussed and useful links between Kuipers score, used as a measure of forecast accuracy in the meteorology literature, and the market timing tests used in finance, are established. An empirical application to the problem of stock market predictability is also provided, and the conditions under which such predictability could be exploited in the presence of transaction costs are discussed.
Additional file 2 of GNA14 stimulation of KLF7 promotes malignant growth of endometrial cancer through upregulation of HAS2
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
name: Teng, Fei
name: Chai, Hongxia
name: Zhang, Caixia
name: Liang, Xiaolei
name: Yang, Yongxiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2 Supplementary Fig. 2. GNA14 promotes the expression of HAS2 in UCEC cells. Immunoblotting analysis of HAS2 in siCtrl, siGNA14–1, siGNA14–2, and in Ctrl and GNA14 overexpressed KLE and Hec-1-A cells. The expression of HAS2 was adjusted to GAPDH.
D0-Branes as Instantons in D=4 Super Yang-Mills Theories
Creators: name: Barbon, J. L. F.
name: Pasquinucci, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the role of D0-branes as instantons in the construction of SU(N) Super Yang-Mills and Super QCD theories in four space-time dimensions with D4-, D6- and NS-branes. [To appear in the proceedings of the conference "Quantum Aspects of Gauge Theories, Supersymmetry and Unification", held at Neuchatel University, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 18--23 September 1997.]
description: 1+6 pages, Latex with neuchatel.sty included
Perturbative-nonperturbative interference in the static QCD interaction at small distances
Creators: name: Simonov, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Short distance static quark--antiquark interaction is studied systematically using the background perturbation theory with nonperturbative background described by field correlators. A universal linear term $\frac{6N_cα_sσr}{2π}$ is observed at small distance $r$ due to the interference between perturbative and nonperturbative contributions. Possible modifications of this term due to additional subleading terms are discussed and implications for systematic corrections to OPE are formulated.
description: LaTeX, 13 pages, references added
Casimir effect in Post-Newtonian Gravity with Lorentz-violation
Creators: name: Blasone, Massimo
name: Lambiase, Gaetano
name: Petruzziello, Luciano
name: Stabile, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Casimir effect in the framework of Standard Model Extension (SME). Employing the weak field approximation, the vacuum energy density ε and the pressure for a massless scalar field confined between two nearby parallel plates in a static spacetime background are calculated. In particular, through the analysis of ε, we speculate a constraint on the Lorentz-violating term s00 which is lower than the bounds currently available for this quantity. After that, the correction to the pressure given by the gravitational sector of SME is presented. Finally, we remark that our outcome has an intrinsic validity that goes beyond the treated case of a point-like source of gravity.
Expenditure on Environmentally Sensitive Goods and Services: Household Spending in Europe
Creators: name: Kohler, Jonathan
name: Luhmann, Hans-Jochen
name: Wadeskog, Anders
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: C81, D12, D63
subject: Household expenditure, Energy expenditure, Transport expenditure

description: Expenditure on environmentally sensitive goods and services has been analysed for the member states of the EEC, using the EUROSTAT Family Budgets data based on surveys carried out in 1988. Some data are also available from Germany, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The groups with low average expenditures spend a higher proportion of their budget on energy than those with high expenditures, but a lower proportion on transport, especially vehicle purchases. However, all groups spend a much higher proportion of expenditure on transport than on energy, although purchased (i.e. non-private motoring and public) transport is a small proportion of transport spending, even for low expenditure groups. Pensioners spend a relatively high proportion of their budgets on package tours, especially compared to the other 'at risk' groups.
title: BML Enabled Information Exchange Framework in SES Ontology for C2
Creators: name: Lee, Hojun
name: Zeigler, Bernard
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: SES
subject: Ontology
subject: Data Fusion
subject: Information Exchange Framework
subject: DEVS

description: This paper explores the Information Exchange Framework (IEF) concept of distributed data fusion sensor networks in Network-centric environment. It is used to build up integrative battlefield pictures through the Battle Management Language (BML) and System Entity Structure (SES) ontology for C2 systems. The C2 process requires multi-level information to assess the current situation in a sound manner. Superiority of information is critical factor to win battles. The SES is an ontology framework that can facilitate information exchange in a network environment. From the perspective of the SES framework, BML serves to express pragmatic frames, since it can specify the information desired by a consumer in an unambiguous way. We explain the idea of information exchange in the SES ontology via BML and demonstrate pruning and transformation processes of SES with proof-of-concept examples.
Mergers, tidal interactions, and mass exchange in a population of disc globular clusters
Creators: name: Khoperskov, Sergey
name: Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra
name: Di Matteo, Paola
name: Haywood, Misha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a self-consistent $N$-body simulation following the evolution of a primordial population of thick disc globular clusters (GCs). We study how the internal properties of such clusters evolve under the action of mutual interactions, while they orbit a Milky Way-like galaxy. For the first time, through analytical and numerical considerations, we find that physical encounters between disc GCs are a crucial factor that contributed to the shape of the current properties of the Galactic GC system. Close passages or motion on similar orbits may indeed have a significant impact on the internal structure of clusters, producing multiple gravitationally bound sub-populations through the exchange of mass and even mergers. Our model produces two major mergers and a few small mass exchanges between pairs of GCs. Two of our GCs accrete stars from two companions, ending up with three internal sub-populations. We propose these early interactions and mergers between thick disc GCs with slightly different initial chemical compositions as a possible explanation for the presence of the spreads in metallicity observed in some of the massive Milky Ways GCs.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, 6 embedded animations (for Acrobat only); high resolution movies available at https://goo.gl/YC546A; accepted by A&A
Relaxation of Rabi Dynamics in a Superconducting Multiple-Qubit Circuit
Creators: name: Yu, Deshui
name: Kwek, Leong Chuan
name: Dumke, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a superconducting circuit consisting of multiple capacitively-coupled charge qubits. The collective Rabi oscillation of qubits is numerically studied in detail by imitating environmental fluctuations according to the experimental measurement. For the quantum circuit composed of identical qubits, the energy relaxation of the system strongly depends on the interqubit coupling strength. As the qubit-qubit interaction is increased, the system's relaxation rate is enhanced firstly and then significantly reduced. In contrast, the inevitable inhomogeneity caused by the nonideal fabrication always accelerates the collective energy relaxation of the system and weakens the interqubit correlation. However, such an inhomogeneous quantum circuit is an interesting test bed for studying the effect of the system inhomogeneity in quantum many-body simulation.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Joshua Yuvaraj and Rebecca Giblin, 'Are Contracts Enough?', Kluwer Coypright Blog (3 March 2020)
Creators: name: Yuvaraj, Joshua
name: Giblin, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 180115 Intellectual Property Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: A post on the Kluwer Copyright Blog outlining highlights from an article that was subsequently published in the Melbourne University Law Review
Model Selection in Threshold Models
Creators: name: Kapetanios, George
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: C15, C44, C52
subject: Nonlinearity, Model selection, Information criteria, Threshold models

description: This paper considers information criteria as model evaluation tools for nonlinear threshold models. Results concerning the consistency of information criteria in selecting the lag order of linear autoregressive models are extended to nonlinear autoregressive threshold models. Extensive Monte Carlo evidence of the small sample performance of a number of criteria is presented.
title: Key Considerations When Supporting Peace Processes
Creators: name: Public International Law And Policy Group
Publisher: name: United States Agency for International Development Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Peace Process
subject: Peace Agreement
subject: Development

description: This report is intended for development professionals as a way to help them understand some of the key characteristics of peace negotiations and how the points of impasse between parties are often strikingly similar. Development professionals can play an important role in any peace process, providing the technical knowledge and practical, on-the-ground insights necessary to create a peace agreement that is durable. They are often in a position to facilitate dialogue among the parties in conflict, provide funding to support peace processes, contribute technical expertise and deliver practical knowledge as to what is feasible during the implementation of the peace agreement based on existing dynamics on the ground. Because development is a key component in any peace process, it is important to have development professionals present at the negotiation table, not just in the post-conflict implementation phase. This is often important because necessary technical issues will be reflected within an agreement to bring about successful implementation. This brief provides a number of lessons learned that are important for development practitioners to keep in mind when supporting peace processes. Much of the guidance offered in this brief has been distilled from multiple sources in academic literature, from background materials used in developing Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation's toolkit on supporting peace processes and from materials produced by numerous other research institutions.
The $ϕ(1020)\toπ^0π^0γ$ decay
Creators: name: Achasov, M. N.
name: Baru, S. E.
name: Beloborodov, K. I.
name: Berdyugin, A. V.
name: Bozhenok, A. V.
name: Bukin, A. D.
name: Bukin, D. A.
name: Burdin, S. V.
name: Dimova, T. V.
name: Drozdetsky, A. A.
name: Druzhinin, V. P.
name: Dubrovin, M. S.
name: Gaponenko, I. A.
name: Golubev, V. B.
name: Ivanchenko, V. N.
name: Korol, A. A.
name: Koop, I. A.
name: Koshuba, S. V.
name: Kukartsev, G. A.
name: Mamutkin, A. A.
name: Pakhtusova, E. V.
name: Salnikov, A. A.
name: Serednyakov, S. I.
name: Shary, V. V.
name: Shatunov, Yu. M.
name: Sidorov, V. A.
name: Silagadze, Z. K.
name: Skrinsky, A. N.
name: Valishev, A. A.
name: Vasiljev, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the SND experiment at VEPP-2M $e^+e^-$ collider the $ϕ(1020)\toπ^0π^0γ$ decay was studied and its branching ratio was measured: $B(ϕ\toπ^0π^0γ)=(1.221\pm 0.098\pm0.061)\cdot10^{-4}$. It was shown, that $f_0(980)γ$ intermediate state dominates in this decay and the $f_0(980)$-meson parameters were obtained.
description: 15 pages, 5 figure, 4 table, Submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Many-body effects on Landau-level spectra and cyclotron resonance in graphene
Creators: name: Shizuya, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently Russell et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 047401 (2018)] have reported a clear signal of many-particle contributions to cyclotron resonance in high-mobility hBN-encapsulated graphene, observing significant variations of resonance energies as a function of the filling factor $ν$ for a series of interband channels. To elucidate their results, Coulombic contributions to the Landau-level spectra and cyclotron resonance in graphene are examined with a possible band gap taken into account and with emphasis on revealing electron-hole ($eh$) conjugation symmetry underlying such level and resonance spectra. Theory, based on the single-mode approximation, gives a practically good account of the experimental data; the data suggest a band gap of ~ 10 meV and show a profile that apparently reflects $eh$ conjugation symmetry.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, revtex
Zeros of the Partition Function for Higher--Spin 2D Ising Models
Creators: name: Matveev, Victor
name: Shrock, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present calculations of the complex-temperature zeros of the partition functions for 2D Ising models on the square lattice with spin $s=1$, 3/2, and 2. These give insight into complex-temperature phase diagrams of these models in the thermodynamic limit. Support is adduced for a conjecture that all divergences of the magnetisation occur at endpoints of arcs of zeros protruding into the FM phase. We conjecture that there are $4[s^2]-2$ such arcs for $s \ge 1$, where $[x]$ denotes the integral part of $x$.
description: 8 pages, latex, 3 uuencoded figures
Combining Background Subtraction Algorithms with Convolutional Neural Network
Creators: name: Zeng, Dongdong
name: Zhu, Ming
name: Kuijper, Arjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate and fast extraction of foreground object is a key prerequisite for a wide range of computer vision applications such as object tracking and recognition. Thus, enormous background subtraction methods for foreground object detection have been proposed in recent decades. However, it is still regarded as a tough problem due to a variety of challenges such as illumination variations, camera jitter, dynamic backgrounds, shadows, and so on. Currently, there is no single method that can handle all the challenges in a robust way. In this letter, we try to solve this problem from a new perspective by combining different state-of-the-art background subtraction algorithms to create a more robust and more advanced foreground detection algorithm. More specifically, an encoder-decoder fully convolutional neural network architecture is trained to automatically learn how to leverage the characteristics of different algorithms to fuse the results produced by different background subtraction algorithms and output a more precise result. Comprehensive experiments evaluated on the CDnet 2014 dataset demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms all the considered single background subtraction algorithm. And we show that our solution is more efficient than other combination strategies.
title: Correspondence: Lewis Gulick and C. Harrison Mann, Jr., October 28, 1965-November 17, 1965
Creators: name: Gulick, Lewis
name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Sales taxes
subject: Driver insurance

description: Letter A: typescript signed, 10" x 8" (26.7 cm x 20.3 cm); Letter B: typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Correspondence between Lewis Gulick and C. Harrison Mann, Jr. regarding instituting a sales tax in Virginia, rewarding safe drivers, and altering license plates to make them more distinctive. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 2.18
Asymmetric Information and Survival in Financial Markets
Creators: name: Sciubba, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: D50, G82 , G14
subject: Evolution, Portfolio rules, Partially revealing REE, Noise trading

description: In the evolutionary setting for a financial market developed by Blume and Easley (1992) the author considers an infinitely repeated version of a model B la Grossman and Stiglitz (1980) with asymmetrically informed traders. Informed traders observe the realisation of a payoff relevant signal before making their portfolio decisions. Uninformed traders do not have direct access to this kind of information, but can partially infer it from market prices. As a counterpart to their privileged information, informed traders pay a per period cost. As a result, information acquisition triggers a trade-off in this setting. It is proved that, so long as information is costly, a strictly positive measure of uninformed traders will survive. This result contributes to the literature on noise trading. It suggests that Friedman's (1953) argument is too simplistic. Traders whose beliefs are wrong' according to the best available information, in fact, are not wiped out by market forces and do affect asset prices in the long run.
Additional file 2 of Associations of exposure to secondhand smoke with hypertension risk and blood pressure values in adults
Creators: name: Zhang, Qi
name: Zeng, Guowei
name: Wang, Xiaowei
name: Wu, Kai-Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1.
Joshua Yuvaraj and Rebecca Giblin, 'Are Contracts Enough?'
Creators: name: Yuvaraj, Joshua
name: Giblin, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 180115 Intellectual Property Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: A post on the Kluwer Copyright Blog outlining highlights from an article that was subsequently published in the Melbourne University Law Review
title: An Integration of Chinese Compositional Techniques with Western Musical Elements: A Stylistic Analysis of Huang An-Lun’s Selected Works
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021

description: During the 1980s, a group of young Chinese composers went abroad to study music after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Their music was highly influenced by both traditional Chinese music as well as Western musical elements. Huang An-Lun (b. 1949-) is one of them. The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate how Huang An-Lun, a leading Chinese-born Canadian composer, fuses Chinese traditional musical and theoretical ideas with Western music elements by analyzing his selected pieces. In Chapter One, firstly, I briefly introduce the historical background with a literature review, and then an overview of Huang’s life that includes family influences, social influences, and music education in China Canada and the United States. Chapter Two offers a brief introduction of Chinese music theories to help readers understanding the following analytical parts better. Chapter Three illustrates Huang’s musical style and compositional philosophy in general with its focus on the style of his piano works. In Chapter Four and Five, based on the analysis of four pieces composed by Huang An-Lun in sequence, I focus on illustrating and identifying the Western and Chinese musical elements in his works, such as the use of Chinese modality and Western tonality, the use of functional Western harmony and pentatonic harmony, the influence of Chinese folk songs and traditional instruments, and the use of modern compositional techniques.
Scalar and Vector Mixings in $(SU(2)\times U(1))$ Models
Creators: name: Peyranere, Michel Capdequi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possible mixings between gauge vector fields and scalar fields through their self-energies, arising in models with two Higgs doublets. We derive the relevant set of Schwinger-Dyson equations and the Ward identities that compel the longitudinal parts of the field propagators. Linear $(R_ξ)$ gauge is used and the results are given at all orders in perturbative theory, and some particular aspects of the one loop case are stressed.
description: 21 pages, LaTeX, eps figures
Optimizing the linearity in high-speed photodiodes
Creators: name: Davila-Rodriguez, J.
name: Xie, X.
name: Zang, J.
name: Long, C. J.
name: Fortier, T. M.
name: Leopardi, H.
name: Nakamura, T.
name: Campbell, J. C.
name: Diddams, S. A.
name: Quinlan, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analog photonic links require high-fidelity, high-speed optical-to-electrical conversion for applications such as radio-over-fiber, synchronization at kilometer-scale facilities, and low-noise electronic signal generation. Photodetector nonlinearity is a particularly vexing problem, causing signal distortion and excess noise, especially in systems utilizing ultrashort optical pulses. Here we show that photodetectors designed for high power handling and high linearity can perform optical-to-electrical conversion of ultrashort optical pulses with unprecedented linearity over a large photocurrent range. We also show that the broadband, complex impedance of the circuit following the photodiode modifies the linearity significantly. By externally manipulating the circuit impedance, we extend the detector's linear range to higher photocurrents, with over 50 dB rejection of amplitude-to-phase conversion for photocurrents up to 40 mA. This represents a 1000-fold improvement over state-of-the-art photodiodes and significantly extends the attainable microwave power by a factor of four. As such, we eliminate the long-standing requirement in ultrashort pulse detection of precise tuning of the photodiode's operating parameters (average photocurrent, bias voltage or temperature) to coincide with a nonlinearity minimum. These results should also apply more generally to reduce nonlinear distortion in a range of other microwave photonics applications.
Issue Linkage, Delegation, and International Policy Cooperation
Creators: name: Spagnolo, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: E61, F13, F42, H77
subject: International agreements, Policy cooperation, Policy coordination, Cross-border spillovers, International institutions

description: How many international agreements should there be, and who should sign them? When policy issues are separable, linking them in a �grand international agreement� facilitates policy cooperation by reallocating slack enforcement power. When policy issues are substitutes, issue linkage further facilitates policy cooperation by increasing the amount of available enforcement power. The contrary happens when issues are complements. Then a better strategy can be to delegate policy issues to diferent independent national agencies. Constitutional rules that permit credible delegation to agents with dfferent objectives from governments facilitate international cooperation by generating stronger credible threats. Implications for multilateral agreements are discussed.
Current trends in us demographics
Creators: name: Александров Глеб Владимирович
Publisher: name: Государственное управление. Электронный вестник
Year: 2018
Subjects: ДЕМОГРАФИЧЕСКИЕ ТЕНДЕНЦИИ США
US DEMOGRAPHICS TRENDS
ЭТНИЧЕСКОЕ И РАСОВОЕ РАЗНООБРАЗИЕ
ETHNIC AND RACIAL DIVERSITY
СЕГРЕГАЦИЯ
SEGREGATION
«ПОКОЛЕНИЕ ДВУХТЫСЯЧНЫХ»
MILLENNIALS

description: За время, прошедшее с последней переписи населения (2010 г.), в демографической обстановке в США произошел ряд изменений, адекватная оценка которых необходима для понимания внутренней политики властей США и отдельных штатов. Автор рассматривает изменения демографической ситуации в 2010-2016 гг., в том числе рост расового и этнического разнообразия населения Америки, изменения в составе и интенсивности иммиграционного потока, проблемы географической сегрегации населения и возрастающую роль «поколения двухтысячных» в общественной и политической жизни страны.
The nonminimal scalar multiplet coupled to supersymmetric Yang-Mills
Creators: name: Penati, Silvia
name: Zanon, Daniela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the coupling of nonminimal scalar multiplets to supersymmetric Yang-Mills in four dimensions and compute the one-loop contribution to the low-energy effective action in the abelian sector. We show that the resulting theory realizes the dual version of the corresponding one from N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills.
description: 10 pages, Latex, no figures
Sudakov Logarithm Resummation in Transverse Momentum Space for Electroweak Boson Production at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Kulesza, Anna
name: Stirling, W. James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A complete description of W and Z boson production at high-energy hadron colliders requires the resummation of large Sudakov double logarithms which dominate the transverse momentum (q_T) distribution at small q_T. We compare different prescriptions for performing this resummation, in particular implicit impact parameter space resummation versus explicit transverse momentum space resummation. We argue that the latter method can be formulated so as to retain the advantages of the former, while at the same time allowing a smooth transition to finite order dominance at high q_T.
description: 32 pages, Latex, epsfig, 17 figures
title: Space to Settle
Creators: name: D'Orazio, Marissa
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Short stories
subject: Suburbia
subject: Reston
subject: Fiction
subject: Northern Virginia
subject: Planned communities

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 5 years. It will not be available until April 2021 at the earliest.
description: This thesis is a collection of stories that examine the expectation set against the reality of a planned suburb. The stories occur in backwards chronological order, and each story pulls back a further layer of Reston, Virginia, until we finish with its first resident. In each story, there is some type of ideal life that the characters are striving to live, but ultimately, they must settle for less. This includes settling for a less than ideal significant other, settling into a job that isn’t a good fit, settling into a routine of unhealthy obsession, or settling into the idea of not being good enough, and therefore settling into a lesser version of oneself. Through shifting perspectives and certain details that can only be gleaned through modern technology, Reston reveals itself to be a plan gone awry, a promise as false as the American Dream.
The beta-function of the Wess-Zumino model at O(1/N^2)
Creators: name: Ferreira, P. M.
name: Gracey, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the critical point self-consistency method used to solve field theories at their d-dimensional fixed point in the large N expansion to include superfields. As an application we compute the beta-function of the Wess-Zumino model with an O(N) symmetry to O(1/N^2). This result is then used to study the effect the higher order corrections have on the radius of convergence of the 4-dimensional beta-function at this order in 1/N. The critical exponent relating to the wave function renormalization of the basic field is also computed to O(1/N^2) and is shown to be the same as that for the corresponding field in the supersymmetric O(N) sigma model in d-dimensions. We discuss how the non-renormalization theorem prevents the full critical point equivalence between both models.
description: 19 latex pages, 5 postscript figures
Additional file 1: of Evaluation of DSD training schools organized by cost action BM1303 â DSDnetâ
Creators: name: R. Bertalan
name: A. Lucas-Herald
name: Z. Kolesinska
name: M. Berra
name: Cools, Martine
name: A. Balsamo
name: O. Hiort
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S1. Evaluation form. (PDF 151 kb)
Simphonia : [C dur : Stimmen]
Creators: name: Eichner, Ernst
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2024

description: Manuskript
description: Vorhandene Stimmen: Viol.I & II. (je 3 Ex.), Viola, Bass (4 Ex., 1 beziff., 1 als Contrabass bez.), 2 Fl. (od. Ob.), 2 Corni in C
description: Coll. mus. Nr. 30
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2009 Übernahme Rekatalogis. AK UB durch Medea 2002-2005
On Interdependent Supergames: Multimarket Contact, Concavity, and Collusion
Creators: name: Spagnolo, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: C72, D43, L13, L21
subject: Repeated games, Oligopoly, Collusion, Cooperation, Conglomeration, Mergers

description: This paper addresses the effects of multimarket contact on firms� ability to collude. Real world imperfections tend to makes firms� objective function strictly concave and market supergames �interdependent�: firms� payoffs in each market depend on how they are doing in others. Then, multimarket contact always facilitates collusion. It may even make it sustainable in all markets when otherwise it would not be sustainable in any. The effects of conglomeration are discussed. �Multi-game contact� is shown to facilitate cooperation in non-oligopolistic supergames as long as agents� objectives function is submodular in material payoffs.
Incentive Aspects of Revenue Sharing: Central and Regional Government in Russia
Creators: name: Plekhanov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: Fiscal federalism
incentives
Russia
regional government

description: The paper provides an empirical analysis of fiscal incentives for Russian regional governments to foster economic growth and development. It points out several serious problems with previous empirical studies of fiscal incentives into Russian federalism, develops a new theoretical framework for the analysis of revenue-sharing policy between central and regional governments, paying particular attention to the case of non-benevolent authorities, and provides new estimates of incentive effects using an improved econometric methodology and a newly-collected dataset. Contrary to existing studies, incentives for regional governments are estimated to be present, but these incentive effects are considerably weaker in the short run than in the long run.
Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Large-Scale Eulerian Solvent Excluded Surface
Creators: name: Zhao, Rundong
name: Wang, Menglun
name: Tong, Yiying
name: Wei, Guo-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivation: Surface generation and visualization are some of the most important tasks in biomolecular modeling and computation. Eulerian solvent excluded surface (ESES) software provides analytical solvent excluded surface (SES) in the Cartesian grid, which is necessary for simulating many biomolecular electrostatic and ion channel models. However, large biomolecules and/or fine grid resolutions give rise to excessively large memory requirements in ESES construction. We introduce an out-of-core and parallel algorithm to improve the ESES software. Results: The present approach drastically improves the spatial and temporal efficiency of ESES. The memory footprint and time complexity are analyzed and empirically verified through extensive tests with a large collection of biomolecule examples. Our results show that our algorithm can successfully reduce memory footprint through a straightforward divide-and-conquer strategy to perform the calculation of arbitrarily large proteins on a typical commodity personal computer. On multi-core computers or clusters, our algorithm can reduce the execution time by parallelizing most of the calculation as disjoint subproblems. Various comparisons with the state-of-the-art Cartesian grid based SES calculation were done to validate the present method and show the improved efficiency. This approach makes ESES a robust software for the construction of analytical solvent excluded surfaces. Availability and implementation: http://weilab.math.msu.edu/ESES.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures
title: Milton Barnes to Rhoda Barnes, December 19, 1864.
Creators: name: Barnes, Milton
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Franklin (Tenn.)
subject: Nashville (Tenn.)
subject: War wounds

description: Public domain. There are no known use restrictions.
description: Letter to Rhoda Barnes from her husband Milton Barnes. Milton is at a field hospital with an injury he received at Nashville where a shell exploded near him, nearly killing him. While there, he learns that his unit is among others fighting confererate general John Bell Hood's men. He expresses concern that others might think that he was in the rear, farther away from the action when he received his wound.
Географический потенциал Петропавловск-Камчатского аэроузла в сравнении с Магаданским
Creators: name: Важенин Борис Павлович
Publisher: name: Государственное управление. Электронный вестник
Year: 2018
Subjects: ПЕТРОПАВЛОВСК-КАМЧАТСКИЙ
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY
МАГАДАН
MAGADAN
АТР
АЭРОУЗЕЛ
ОРТОДРОМИЯ
АВИАТРАССА
АВИАКОРИДОР
AIR CORRIDOR
АЭРОНАВИГАЦИЯ
AERO NAVIGATION
ASIAN PACIFIC REGION
AIR HUB
ORTHODROMY
AIR-ROUTE

description: Дальний Восток России находится на пересечении кратчайших потенциальных авиатрасс, соединяющих множество аэропортов Америки, Юго-восточной Азии, Океании и Евразии. Это служит стимулом к развитию трансроссийских, трансконтинентальных и транстихоокеанских авиационных коммуникаций. В статье посредством построения ортодромий в интернет-сервисе Google Earth производится сравнение Петропавловск-Камчатского, Магаданского и других дальневосточных аэроузлов по их авиатранспортному потенциалу. Камчатский Американо-Восточноазиатский авиакоридор по охвату количества крупнейших аэропортов уступает Магаданскому Американо-Восточноазиатскому авиакоридору. А Камчатский Тихоокеанско-Евразийский авиакоридор близок в этом к Магаданскому Тихоокеанско-Евразийскому авиакоридору, но ни в чем его не превосходит. Камчатский Американо-Восточноазиатский суперкоридор проходит, в отличие от такого же магаданского, над океаном в сфере действия североамериканских, курило-камчатских вулканов, а также тайфунов и в огромном ареале облачности и туманов Алеутского атмосферного минимума, что определяет меньшую его надежность в смысле обеспечения безопасности транзитных пролетов и особенно промежуточных посадок. Камчатский край в два раза превосходит по численности населения Магаданскую область, что обусловливает больший региональный потенциал Петропавловска-Камчатского. Из этого следует необходимость развития аэропорта Елизово, если не до уровня хаба, то хотя бы в качестве крупного регионального и запасного аэропорта по отношению к Магадану. В Магадане пересекаются кратчайшие потенциальные авиатрассы, соединяющие страны Америки, востока Азии, Австралии, Океании и Европы, включающие свыше 2/3 населения всей Земли, чем он значительно превосходит все аэропорты Дальнего Востока РФ.
title: Letter: C. Harrison Mann, Jr. to Lewis B. Hershey, December 1, 1967
Creators: name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Hershey, Lewis B.
subject: Selective Service System
subject: Vietnam
subject: Draft dodgers
subject: United States Army

description: Letter: typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Letter from C. Harrison Mann, Jr. to Lewis B. Hershey, Lieutenant General, United States Army, Director of the Selective Service System. Mann is commending Hershey on his action in regards to draft dodgers. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 1.27
Detection of the Fish Pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida via Quantitative real-time PCR for  Aquaculture
Creators: name: Thamotharaprasath, Thanuragavi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: DNA quantification
Aeromonas salmonicida
PCR quantification
Aquaculture
Salmon pathogen detection
Quantitative analysis
qPCR
Quantitative real-time PCR

description: PHOTO-SENS is a project that aims to develop photonic biosensing chips as a means of allowing onset detection of pathogenic infections in aquaculture. These chips are meant to be a way for quick and simple routine testing that would enable aquaculture facilities to recognize potential outbreaks and minimize their effects. The chips detect target bacteria using short DNA sequences known as probes which are complementary to target DNA. One of the fish pathogens under consideration for the course of this project is Aeromonas salmonicida, that is a causative agent of Furunculosis.

 

For this work, a primer and probe set specific to A. salmonicida was designed. These primers and probes were then tested via qPCR for their selectivity and sensitivity and most importantly, quantification of DNA in samples using two different standard dilution series. Due to A. salmonicida being a Gram-negative bacterium, three methods of DNA extraction were used and compared for maximum efficiency. Moreover, experiments were also conducted to mimic capture of eDNA (environmental DNA) from highly diluted water samples.

 

Upon comparing the three DNA extraction methods, the improved 5% Chelex protocol that included rapid agitation via glass beads, yielded the highest amount of DNA that was closest to expected SQ. The detection of all samples, including very low copy number, was possible via qPCR. The first standard series which was the gBlocks standard series had the lowest detection limit of 1 copy with an efficiency of 105.8% and the second standard series that is the CFU standard series had a detection limit of 10 copies and had an efficiency of 104.2%. The filtration experiment also showed detection in diluted, filtered samples.

 

Since detection using the designed probe was successful, the probes are therefore considered suitable for detection of Aeromonas salmonicida in the PHOTO-SENS project.
title: Situational Crime Prevention in Schools: Implications for Victimization, Delinquency, and Avoidance Behaviors
Creators: name: Watkins, Nicole J
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Situational crime prevention
subject: Schools
subject: Delinquency
subject: Victimization
subject: Avoidance

description: This thesis examines the relationship between situational crime prevention (SCP) practices often used in schools on students’ experienced victimization, engagement in certain delinquent activities, and avoidance of areas in school due to fear of victimization. SCP is an approach to prevention that embodies a range of techniques designed to reduce the opportunity for individuals to engage in criminal behaviors. Using the 2011 National Crime Victimization Survey’s School Crime Supplement, this thesis uses student self-report data to make inferences on the efficacy of such practices on the stated outcomes amongst middle and high school aged students. Results from logistic regression analyses find that possessing metal detectors and having adults present in hallways reduce the likelihood of victimization, while security cameras increase this risk. Locking school doors during the day is shown to reduce the odds of delinquency, while policies requiring the wearing of ID badges increase avoidance behaviors due to fear.
Using EPECs to model bilevel games in restructured electricity markets with locational prices
Creators: name: Hu, Xinmin
name: Ralph, Daniel
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: C61, C62, C72, Q40
subject: electricity market, bilevel game, MPEC, EPEC, Nash stationary point, equilibrium constraints, complementarity problem

description: CWPE0619 (EPRG0602) Xinmin Hu and Daniel Ralph (Feb 2006) Using EPECs to model bilevel games in restructured electricity markets with locational prices We study a bilevel noncooperative game-theoretic model of electricity markets with locational marginal prices. Each player faces a bilevel optimization problem that we remodel as a mathematical program with equilibrium constraints, MPEC. This gives an EPEC, equilibrium problem with equilibrium constraints. We establish sufficient conditions for existence of pure strategy Nash equilibria for this class of bilevel games and give some applications. We show by examples the effect of network transmission limits, i.e. congestion, on existence of equilibria. Then we study, for more general EPECs, the weaker pure strategy concepts of local Nash and Nash stationary equilibria. We model the latter via complementarity problems, CPs. Finally, we present numerical examples of methods that attempt to find local Nash or Nash stationary equilibria of randomly generated electricity market games. The CP solver PATH is found to be rather effective in this context.
Measurement of the Proton Structure Function F_2 at Very Low Q^2 at HERA
Creators: name: ZEUS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement of the proton structure function F_2(x,Q^2) is presented in the kinematic range 0.045 GeV^2 < Q^2 < 0.65 GeV^2 and 6*10^{-7} < x < 1*10^{-3}. The results were obtained using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.9pb^-1 in e^+p reactions recorded with the ZEUS detector at HERA. Information from a silicon-strip tracking detector, installed in front of the small electromagnetic calorimeter used to measure the energy of the final-state positron at small scattering angles, together with an enhanced simulation of the hadronic final state, has permitted the extension of the kinematic range beyond that of previous measurements. The uncertainties in F_2 are typically less than 4%. At the low Q^2 values of the present measurement, the rise of F_2 at low x is slower than observed in HERA data at higher Q^2 and can be described by Regge theory with a constant logarithmic slope. The dependence of F_2 on Q^2 is stronger than at higher Q^2 values, approaching, at the lowest Q^2 values of this measurement, a region where F_2 becomes nearly proportional to Q^2.
description: 23 pages including 4 figures. Revised version (v2) has a corrected author list and implements comments from the referee. Accepted by Phys. Lett. B
Meron-Cluster Simulation of the $θ$-Vacuum in the 2-d $O(3)$-Model
Creators: name: Bietenholz, W.
name: Pochinsky, A.
name: Wiese, U. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2-d $O(3)$-model with a $θ$-vacuum term is formulated in terms of Wolff clusters. Each cluster carries a half-integer topological charge. The clusters with charge $\pm 1/2$ are identified as merons. At $θ= π$ the merons are bound in pairs inducing a second order phase transition at which the mass-gap vanishes. The construction of an improved estimator for the topological charge distribution makes numerical simulations of the phase transition feasible. The measured critical exponents agree with those of the $k = 1$ Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model. Our results are consistent with Haldane's conjecture for 1-d antiferromagnetic quantum spin chains.
description: 8 pages, gzip'ed uuencoded postscript file, 3 figures included
Simphonia : [G dur : Stimmen]
Creators: name: Eichner, Ernst
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2024

description: Manuskript
description: Vorhandene Stimmen: Viol.I & II (je 2 Ex.), Viola, Bass (3 Ex., 1 beziff.), 2 Fl., 2 Corni in G.
description: Coll. mus. Nr. 29
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2009 Übernahme Rekatalogis. AK UB durch Medea 2002-2005
Probing Quark-Gluon Correlation Functions
Creators: name: Guo, Xiaofeng
name: Qiu, Jianwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review applicability of QCD factorization theorem to multiple scattering in deeply inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering. We show why A^{1/3}-type nuclear enhancement can be calculated consistently in perturbative QCD. We derive the transverse momentum broadening of the leading pions in deeply inelastic lepton-nucleus collisions. We argue that the measurement of such transverse momentum broadening can provide direct information on the multiple-parton correlation functions inside a nucleus. We also estimate the numerical values of the broadening at different values of x_B and Q^2.
Impact of climate change on the Bemisia tabaci transmitted virus ToLCNDV
Creators: name: Ripamonti, Matteo
name: Eickermann, Michael
name: Junk, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: VIRTIGATION Poster presentation during the DGaaE Entomology Congress 2023 at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. The H2020 project VIRTIGATION - Emerging viral diseases in tomatoes and cucurbits: Implementation of mitigation strategies for durable disease management - has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101000570.