cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
2005 United States Animal Health Report
Creators: name: Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service
name: Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report Foreword: Welcome to the second annual report on the status of animal health in the United States. As you may know, last year’s United States Animal Health Report was our first effort to provide a comprehensive overview of the health of our Nation’s vast domestic animal resources. In 2005, as in years past, we sought new ways to strengthen and amplify efforts aimed at ensuring that the United States maintains healthy livestock and poultry populations. For example, the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) was developed recently to screen routine and specific-risk samples for foreign animal diseases (FADs). The newly formed National Animal Health Surveillance System (NAHSS) works to improve early detection and global risk surveillance of FADs. Objectives of the NAHSS 2005 strategic plan include enhancing domestic and global surveillance to identify elevated risks and encouraging the development and application of new technologies for early and rapid disease detection.
Nonabelian solutions in N=4, D=5 gauged supergravity
Creators: name: Radu, Eugen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider static, nonabelian solutions in N=4, D=5 Romans' gauged supergravity model. Numerical arguments are presented for the existence of asymptotically anti-de Sitter configurations in the $N=4^+$ version of the theory, with a dilaton potential presenting a stationary point. Considering the version of the theory with a Liouville dilaton potential, we look for configurations with unusual topology. A new exact solution is presented, and a counterterm method is proposed to compute the mass and action.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
THE FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM - AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN ACREAGE RESPONSE AND PARTICIPATION
Creators: name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Vandeveer, Monte
name: Deal, John
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Vandeveer, Monte
name: Deal, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The extent to which crop insurance programs have resulted in additional land being brought into production has been a topic of considerable debate. We extend a multi-equation structural model of crop acreage response, insurance participation, CRP enrollment, and input usage developed in Goodwin and Vandeveer (2000) to wheat and barley production in the "Northern Great Plains" region. We also update earlier results for corn and soybean production in the "Heartland" region. Our results confirm earlier findings that increased participation in insurance programs provoke a statistically significant acreage response. This response is, however, relatively modest. We find that cross-the-board decreases of 50% in insurance premiums significantly increase participation but result in acreage increases of about 0.5% for barley and 3.7% for wheat. In the modern period (1997-1998),expanded insurance participation brought about by premium rate reductions has almost no effect on acreage. Our results for the recent period show a shifting in coverage toward revenue insurance.
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE U.S. MEAT PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES: EVIDENCE FROM MICRODATA
Creators: name: Ollinger, Michael
name: Nguyen, Sang V.
name: Ollinger, Michael
name: Nguyen, Sang V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Agribusiness
Industrial Organization

description: This paper investigates the motives for mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. meat products industry from 1977-92. Results show that acquired meat and poultry plants were highly productive before mergers, and that meat plants significantly improved productivity growth in the post-merger periods, but poultry plants did not.
Classic Boat Festival in Celebration of East Hampton's 350th Anniversary
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: East Hampton
Springs
Events
Anniversaries
Celebrations
Centennial celebrations
Boats
Festivals

description: This event flyer features The Classic Boat Festival held at Gardiner's Marina in celebration of East Hampton's 350th anniversary.
description: This material was lent to the Long Island Collection by the Springs Historical Society Library for digitization purposes.
High resolution numerical modeling of the force-free pulsar magnetosphere
Creators: name: Timokhin, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator. Its structure is well described by a Grad-Shafranov equation for poloidal magnetic field, the so-called "pulsar equation". We solve this equation by a multigrid method with high numerical resolution. On the fine numerical grid current layer along the last closed field line could be accurately incorporated into the numerical procedure and all physical properties of the solution such as Goldreich-Julian charge density, drift velocity, energy losses etc. could be accurately calculated. Here we report results of the simulations. Among other interesting properties, the solution is not unique, i.e. the position of the last closed field line, and hence the pulsar energy losses, are not determined by the global magnetosphere structure and depend on kinetic of electromagnetic cascades. We discuss the properties of the solutions and their implications for pulsars. A model for pulsar magnetosphere evolution is proposed. In the frame of this model values of the pulsar braking index less than 3 have natural explanation.
description: presented at the conference "Astrophysical Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation", Torun, Poland, 20 - 24 June 2005 and at the conference "Physics of Neutron Stars - 2005", St. Petersburg, Russia, 27-29 June, 2005; corrected mistake in energy losses normalization
Two symmetric four-wave mixing signals generated in a medium with anomalous refractive index
Creators: name: Alvarez, A. S.
name: de Almeida, A. A. C.
name: Vianna, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report experimental and theoretical results of two symmetrical signals of degenerate four-wave mixing generated in rubidium vapor. Both nonlinear signals are induced by two almost copropagating laser beams, with $\vec{k}_{a}$ and $\vec{k}_{b}$ wave-vectors, and detected simultaneously in the $2\vec{k}_{a}-\vec{k}_{b}$ and $2\vec{k}_{b}-\vec{k}_{a}$ directions. In each direction, we observe a single peak when the two beams are tuned on the closed transition $^{85}$Rb$~5S_{1/2} (F=3) \rightarrow 5P_{3/2} (F=4)$. The excitation spectra reveal a small frequency separation between the two peaks, which is explained when propagation effects are taken into account. Furthermore, our theoretical analysis shows that a correct description of the frequency position of each peak is obtained only if coherent effects such as electromagnetically induced absorption are included.
Can Growth Compensate Inequality and Risk?---a welfare analysis for Chinese households
Creators: name: Cao, Heping
name: Ligon, Ethan
name: Meng, Xiangyi
name: Cao, Heping
name: Ligon, Ethan
name: Meng, Xiangyi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Risk and Uncertainty

description: It has been widely observed that China's break-neck growth has not been equally shared between rural and urban areas, with urban households' enjoying a much larger proportion. To further test whether regional inequality exists within urban areas, we measure urban households vulnerability in a risky environment and decompose this measure to quantify China aggregate risks, province-level risks and idiosyncratic risks faced by households situated in 31 provinces. Besides, under this framework of analysis, we are able to make welfare comparisons between growth, inequality and different risks. We find that inequality has very big negative effect on households' welfare, while growth is able to compensate nearly half of it; households seem to be able to smooth consumption against risk in both province and individual level, but unable to do so against China shocks, which affect all the households simultaneously.
title: Technostress and disengagement from knowledge sharing: an empirical analysis
Creators: name: Mahapatra, Monalisa
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: Knowledge sharing is important for organizations to generate new and innovative ideas and to sustain competitive advantage in the volatile business environment. However, there exist various counterproductive knowledge behaviors and, in this study, I focus on one such behaviors known as “disengagement from knowledge sharing”. Using the Job Demands-Resources framework, I intended to understand whether information and communication technologies (ICTs) related phenomena in workplace setting such as technostress creators and technostress inhibitors influence employees’ disengagement from knowledge sharing. Using online survey methodology, I collected data from full time employees, who regularly use ICTs for their professional tasks. The analysis was conducted with the partial least squares path modeling method in SmartPLS software. The results show technostress creators influence disengagement from knowledge sharing and this relationship is mediated by burnout. Finally, I also discussed the implications, limitations, and future research directions of the study.
Electroweak Corrections to Four-Fermion Production in e+e- Annihilation
Creators: name: Denner, A.
name: Dittmaier, S.
name: Roth, M.
name: Wieders, L. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently completed calculation of the full electroweak O(alpha) corrections to the charged-current four-fermion production processes e+e- --> nu_tau tau+ mu- anti-nu_mu, u anti-d mu- anti-nu_mu, and u anti-d s anti-c is briefly reviewed. The calculation is performed using complex gauge-boson masses, supplemented by complex couplings to restore gauge invariance. The evaluation of the occurring one-loop tensor integrals, which include 5- and 6-point functions, requires new techniques. The effects of the complete O(alpha) corrections to the total cross section and to some differential cross sections of physical interest are discussed and compared to predictions based on the double-pole approximation, revealing that the latter approximation is not sufficient to fully exploit the potential of a future linear collider in an analysis of W-boson pairs at high energies.
description: 6 pages, latex, 8 postscript figures, to appear in the proceedings of the "2005 International Linear Collider Workshop" (LCWS05), Stanford, 2005
Estimating the Impact of Medication on Diabetics' Diet and Lifestyle Choices
Creators: name: Mancino, Lisa
name: Kuchler, Fred
name: Mancino, Lisa
name: Kuchler, Fred
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: The objective of this study is to estimate how differences in diet quality, physical activity, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and bodyweight correlate with whether or not an individual has been diagnosed with diabetes, and whether or not an individual uses medication to manage his or her health condition. Knowing if and how individuals choose to substitute medication for adopting a better diet or a healthier lifestyle provides insight into the welfare effects of changing access to prescribed medication and other proposed interventions to improve diet and health. Knowing how behaviors correlate with socio-economic characteristics also sheds light on ways to improve the efficacy of public health education.
MUMUG: a fast Monte Carlo generator for radiative muon pair production (a pedagogical tutorial)
Creators: name: Silagadze, Z. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fast leading-order Monte Carlo generator for the process $e^+e^-\toμ^+μ^-γ$ is described. In fact, using the $e^+e^-\toμ^+μ^-γ$ process as an example, we provide a pedagogical demonstration of how a Monte Carlo generator can be created from scratch. The $e^+ e^- \to μ^+ μ^- γ$ process was chosen, since in this case we are not faced with either too trivial or too difficult a task. Matrix elements are calculated using the helicity amplitude method. Monte Carlo algorithm uses the acceptance-rejection method with an appropriately chosen simplified distribution that can be generated using an efficient algorithm. We provide a detailed pedagogical exposition of both the helicity amplitude method and the Monte Carlo technique, which we hope will be useful for high energy physics students.
description: 28 pages, uses FEYNMAN.tex file for drawing Feynman diagrams, version to be published in The European Physical Journal Plus
Ground State Entanglement Energetics
Creators: name: Buttiker, M.
name: Jordan, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the ground state of simple quantum systems coupled to an environment. In general the system is entangled with its environment. As a consequence, even at zero temperature, the energy of the system is not sharp: a projective measurement can find the system in an excited state. We show that energy fluctuation measurements at zero temperature provide entanglement information. For two-state systems which exhibit a persistent current in the ground state, energy fluctuations and persistent current fluctuations are closely related. The harmonic oscillator serves to illustrate energy fluctuations in a system with an infinite number of states. In addition to the energy distribution we discuss the energy-energy time-correlation function in the zero-temperature limit.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Assessing Agricultural Input Brand Loyalty Among U.S. Mid-Size and Commercial Producers
Creators: name: Harbor, Anetra L.
name: Martin, Marshall A.
name: Akridge, Jay T.
name: Harbor, Anetra L.
name: Martin, Marshall A.
name: Akridge, Jay T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: brand loyalty
subject: capital inputs
subject: expendable inputs
subject: farmer purchase decisions

description: This study explores the prevalence and determinants of brand loyalty for agricultural input products. Results suggest that loyalty for both expendable and capital inputs is high among commercial farmers. Farmer attitudes, beliefs, and some demographic characteristics are useful identifiers of brand loyal farmers.
Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of electrodeposition: Crossover from continuous to instantaneous homogeneous nucleation within Avrami's law
Creators: name: Frank, Stefan
name: Rikvold, Per Arne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of lateral adsorbate diffusion on the dynamics of the first-order phase transition in a two-dimensional Ising lattice gas with attractive nearest-neighbor interactions is investigated by means of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. For example, electrochemical underpotential deposition proceeds by this mechanism. One major difference from adsorption in vacuum surface science is that under control of the electrode potential and in the absence of mass-transport limitations, local adsorption equilibrium is approximately established. We analyze our results using the theory of Kolmogorov, Johnson and Mehl, and Avrami (KJMA), which we extend to an exponentially decaying nucleation rate. Such a decay may occur due to a suppression of nucleation around existing clusters in the presence of lateral adsorbate diffusion. Correlation functions prove the existence of such exclusion zones. By comparison with microscopic results for the nucleation rate I and the interface velocity of the growing clusters v, we can show that the KJMA theory yields the correct order of magnitude for Iv^2. This is true even though the spatial correlations mediated by diffusion are neglected. The decaying nucleation rate causes a gradual crossover from continuous to instantaneous nucleation, which is complete when the decay of the nucleation rate is very fast on the time scale of the phase transformation. Hence, instantaneous nucleation can be homogeneous, producing negative minima in the two-point correlation functions. We also present in this paper an n-fold way Monte Carlo algorithm for a square lattice gas with adsorption/desorption and lateral diffusion.
description: minor modifications; accepted for publication in Surface Science
Advanced zero-shot learning: object recognition with semantic descriptions
Creators: name: Zhu, Yizhe
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Human beings have the remarkable ability to recognize novel visual objects only based on the description with semantic concepts. Deep learning, however, often requires a large number of labeled training samples to achieve superior performance. It's laborious, expensive, and difficult to collect sufficient labeled data for each object because the distribution of data among categories in the real world is long-tailed. Therefore, it is in great demand to research how to recognize novel visual objects with no visual data being seen. Zero-shot learning aims to expand the learned knowledge from seen objects, of which we have training samples, to unseen objects, of which we have no training data. To mimic the human ability to recognize novel objects, zero-shot learning leverages semantic descriptions of classes to bridge the gap between both seen and unseen classes. This thesis concerns zero-shot learning from three aspects: the semantic descriptions of classes, the discriminative visual representation of images, and the algorithm design. We first present a visual-semantic embedding-based method that embeds visual data and semantic data to a shared embedding space. Images are encoded by a part-based CNN that detects bird parts and learns part-specific representation. The sparsity regularizer forces the models to connect text terms to their relevant parts and suppress connections to non-visual text terms without any part-text annotations. Then we propose a novel algorithm to leverage generative models to synthesize the visual data of unseen categories based on semantic descriptions and convert zero-shot learning to a conventional object recognization problem. Finally, we shift our focus to learning better discriminative visual representation of images in part-level for zero-shot learning in a weekly-supervised manner. Experiment results showed that our models significantly improves the performance of zero-shot learning in different settings.
Can Solar System observations tell us something about the cosmological constant?
Creators: name: Iorio, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we show that the latest determinations of the residual Mercury's perihelion advance, obtained by accounting for almost all known Newtonian and post-Newtonian orbital effects, yields only very broad constraints on the cosmological constant. Indeed, from δ\dotω=-0.0036 + - 0.0050 arcseconds per century one gets -2 10^-34 km^-2 < Lambda < 4 10^-35 km^-2. The currently accepted value for Lambda, obtained from many independent cosmological and large-scale measurements, amounts to almost 10^-46 km^-2.
description: Latex2e, 4 pages, 2 table, no figures, 11 references. Table 2 added, typos in the units of Lambda corrected
Optimal Market Contracting in the California Lettuce Industry
Creators: name: Donnelly, Kallie
name: Noel, Jay E.
name: Donnelly, Kallie
name: Noel, Jay E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This study examines various market contracting combinations for Salinas Valley Head Lettuce Producers to determine the optimal combination. Currently 65% contracting is the industry standard. A stochastic farm simulation model is developed for a representative head lettuce producer in Salinas Valley, California. Five different market combinations are simulated: 40% contract-60% cash market, 50% contract-50% cash market, 65% contract-35% cash market, 80% contract-20% cash market, and 100% contracted production. Simulated Net Income, Cash Flow, and Net Present Value for 2006-2010 are analyzed to determine the optimal market combination that maximizes a produers net returns. Net Income and Cash Flow are analyzed in percent probabilities. To determine the stochastically dominate market combination for Net Present Value, Stochastic Efficiency with Respect to a Function (SERF) method is used. Results indicate 100% contracting is optimal. However, industry sources indicate its nearly impossible to contract 100% production.
Economic Impact of Hospital Closure on Rural Communities in Three Southern States: Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. A Quasi-Experimental Approach.
Creators: name: Ona, Lucia Y.
name: Freshwater, David
name: Hudoyo, Agus
name: Ona, Lucia Y.
name: Freshwater, David
name: Hudoyo, Agus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: The important contribution of hospitals to the economies of rural areas has been the subject of several research studies. The results, however, have been contradictory. This paper analyzes the economic impact of rural hospital closures on rural communities in Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas in the period 1998-2000 by using a quasi-experimental control group method. The results indicate that rural communities that suffered hospital closures were not affected in economic terms relative to those that did not suffer such a closure.
Index Insurance, Production Practices, and Probabilistic Climate Forecasts
Creators: name: Carriquiry, Miguel A.
name: Osgood, Daniel E.
name: Carriquiry, Miguel A.
name: Osgood, Daniel E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Climate forecast
subject: Index insurance
subject: Input Decisions
subject: Risk Management
subject: Weather risks

description: The failure of the development of commercially viable traditional crop insurance products and innovations in financial markers has fed a renewed interest in the search for alternatives to help producers in developing countries manage their risk exposure. Salient among these is the proposal of several index insurance schemes against weather events. Among the basic tenets are that the presence of index insurance allows producers to intensify their operations and reduce the risks of default and hence may induce creditors to offer loans at affordable rates. The two factors combined are touted as key to help producers in developing countries escape poverty traps. Improvements in seasonal climate forecasts create challenges for the design and effective functioning of the insurance against climate risks. However, very little is known about potential synergies or conflicting impacts of these two institutions, and the interactions between them and input management decisions by producers. We find that insurance and forecast may have synergistic or conflicting effects on input decisions. In the presence of (state contingent) actuarially fair insurance, producers may prefer the forecast information not to be available, especially if the management options available do not result in sufficient changes in profitability. Perhaps surprisingly, we find that forecast information may induce producers to increase the amount of insurance purchased.
Anisotropy of spin splitting and spin relaxation in lateral quantum dots
Creators: name: Fal'ko, Vladimir I.
name: Altshuler, B. L.
name: Tsyplyatev, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inelastic spin relaxation and spin splitting $ε_{\mathrm{s}}$ in lateral quantum dots are studied in the regime of strong in-plane magnetic field. Due to both g-factor energy dependence and spin-orbit coupling $ε_{\mathrm{s}}$ demonstrates a substantial non-linear magnetic field dependence similar to that observed by R.Hanson \textit{et al} [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{91}, 196802 (2003)]. It also varies with the in-plane orientation of magnetic field due to crystalline anisotropy of spin-orbit coupling. Spin relaxation rate is also anisotropic, the anisotropy increasing with the field. When the magnetic length is less than the 'thickness' of GaAs dot, the relaxation can be order of magnitude faster for $\mathbf{B}% \Vert\lbrack100]$ than for $\mathbf{B\Vert}[110]$.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Risk perception and chicken consumption in the avian flu age - a consumer behaviour study on food safety information
Creators: name: Lobb, Alexandra E.
name: Mazzocchi, Mario
name: Traill, W. Bruce
name: Lobb, Alexandra E.
name: Mazzocchi, Mario
name: Traill, W. Bruce
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: As the avian flu pandemic threatens Europe, consumer awareness of the theoretical possibility of contraction of the avian flu virus through consumption of chicken saw a decline in demand at the end of 2005, with peaks between 40% - 50% in Southern European countries such as Italy whilst having little impact on demand in Northern countries like the UK. Such food scares, coupled with an increasing awareness of food safety issues by the general public, highlight the importance of evaluating the perceived risks associated with food purchasing and consumption are paramount in order to provide effective policy communication in this area. There is considerable empirical evidence that different consumers respond to food risk communication in different ways. This implies that policymakers and food firms cannot rely on a single public information strategy for emerging food risks. Furthermore, the impact of food safety information varies significantly according to the sources that provide it. Using data are from a nationally representative pan-European survey of 2 725 respondents from five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and the United Kingdom), we show that in a situation of increased perceived risk hence increased levels of involvement households across the EU are likely to respond in culturally specific ways which suggest a need for country level policy design.
Securing property rights in transition: Lessons from implementation of China's rural land contracting law
Creators: name: Deininger, Klaus W.
name: Jin, Songqing
name: Deininger, Klaus W.
name: Jin, Songqing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: While recent studies point towards the importance of institutions, in particular secure property rights, as key determinants of economic growth, options to foster institutional change to make property rights more secure are not well understood. Data from 800 villages all over China on the effectiveness with which a law aiming to increase households' tenure security -at the expense of local leaders' powers to reallocate or expropriate land without adequate compensation- provides an opportunity to identify such factors. Using illegal land reallocations and low compensation payments for expropriated land to identify lack of effective institutional change, we find that the impact of property rights reform is contingent on the institutional constraints imposed on leaders' power by democratic institutions and a clear legal framework, households' knowledge of the law, and to some extent presence of land certificates.
Are Geographical Indications a Worthy Quality Signal? A Framework on Protected Designation of Origin with Endogenous Quality Choice
Creators: name: Desquilbet, Marion
name: Hassan, Daniel
name: Monier-Dilhan, Sylvette
name: Desquilbet, Marion
name: Hassan, Daniel
name: Monier-Dilhan, Sylvette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The paper provides a theoretical framework to analyze the welfare effects of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) labelling and of quality choices inside and outside the label on different types of consumers and producers, depending on whether quality is intrinsically linked to the territory of production or not.
Independent Component Analysis for Compositional Data
Creators: name: Muehlmann, Christoph
name: Fačevicová, Kamila
name: Gardlo, Alžběta
name: Janečková, Hana
name: Nordhausen, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Compositional data represent a specific family of multivariate data, where the information of interest is contained in the ratios between parts rather than in absolute values of single parts. The analysis of such specific data is challenging as the application of standard multivariate analysis tools on the raw observations can lead to spurious results. Hence, it is appropriate to apply certain transformations prior further analysis. One popular multivariate data analysis tool is independent component analysis. Independent component analysis aims to find statistically independent components in the data and as such might be seen as an extension to principal component analysis. In this paper we examine an approach of how to apply independent component analysis on compositional data by respecting the nature of the former and demonstrate the usefulness of this procedure on a metabolomic data set.
Distributional effects of CAP instruments on farm household incomes in Austria
Creators: name: Schmid, Erwin
name: Sinabell, Franz
name: Hofreither, Markus F.
name: Schmid, Erwin
name: Sinabell, Franz
name: Hofreither, Markus F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has evolved from an allocative towards a dis-tributive policy. Distributive policies aim at correcting market outcomes according to politi-cally determined objectives usually through transferring money from richer to poorer house-holds. We compare the distributional effects of CAP direct payments in EU Member States. In general, poorer households benefit more from social transfers than richer ones, whereas larger farms get more direct payments than smaller ones. Direct payments which are basically linked to the acreage of farms seem to be not an adequate tool to alleviate incomes of farm house-holds, a major objective of the CAP.
Gene families encoding three enzymes of phenylpropanoid metabolism in raspberry (Rubus idaeus L) : characterization of the families, and of the cognate ripening-related fruit cDNAs
Creators: name: Kumar, Amrita
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: A PCR-based homology search of the Rubus genome, led to the isolation and characterization of two PAL genes (Ripal1 and Ripal2), three 4CL genes (Ri4cl1, Ri4cl2, Ri4cl3), and ten PKS genes (Ripksl-10). These data demonstrate that such a PCR-based homology search could be extended to characterize members of the PAL, 4CL and PKS gene-family members from other crops, in a manner that is independent of their expression. To identify members of these gene-families that may be associated with fruit-ripening, a cDNA library representing partially-ripe fruits was sequentially screened at low stringency with a mixed population of each gene-family member. These hybridization-based homology screenings led to the characterization of two full-length PAL (RiPAL1 and RiPAL2), three full-length 4CL (Ri4CL1, Ri4CL2, and Ri4CL3), and three full-length PKS genes (RiPKS5, R1PKS6, and RiPKS11). Thus, the characterization of an additional 4CL (Ri4CL3) and PKS (RiPKS11) gene, suggest that a PCR-based homology search by itself may not be sufficient for isolation and characterization of all members representing these gene-families. Although phenylpropanoid-derived metabolites are important for fruit quality, the regulation of this pathway during fruit development is still poorly understood. I have therefore profiled the expression pattern of these three important phenylpropanoid gene families in ripening Rubus fruits. Quantitative RT-PCR assay with gene-specific probes, showed that the individual gene family members are differentially expressed during fruit ripening and in various Rubus tissues studied. Furthermore, some members from each of the RiPAL, Ri4CL and RiPKS gene families displayed very similar patterns of expression, which may reflect functionally-related roles in generating specific phenylpropanoid end-products in a given tissue. I have also examined the evolutionary dynamics of these three gene families. Duplication and divergence in function appears to be a common theme for evolution of all three gene families. I find that members of all three gene families from a given plant species are not necessarily more closely related to one another than they are to other genes from other species.
Collaboratory for Health Justice Strategic Plan (2021-2026)_with appendices
Creators: name: Collaboratory For Health Justice
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This is the Collaboratory for Health Justice's 5-year Strategic Plan focused on integrating best practices in community engagement across all aspects of research, teaching, and public health practice at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health.
Learning Implicitly with Noisy Data in Linear Arithmetic
Creators: name: Rader, Alexander P.
name: Mocanu, Ionela G.
name: Belle, Vaishak
name: Juba, Brendan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robust learning in expressive languages with real-world data continues to be a challenging task. Numerous conventional methods appeal to heuristics without any assurances of robustness. While probably approximately correct (PAC) Semantics offers strong guarantees, learning explicit representations is not tractable, even in propositional logic. However, recent work on so-called "implicit" learning has shown tremendous promise in terms of obtaining polynomial-time results for fragments of first-order logic. In this work, we extend implicit learning in PAC-Semantics to handle noisy data in the form of intervals and threshold uncertainty in the language of linear arithmetic. We prove that our extended framework keeps the existing polynomial-time complexity guarantees. Furthermore, we provide the first empirical investigation of this hitherto purely theoretical framework. Using benchmark problems, we show that our implicit approach to learning optimal linear programming objective constraints significantly outperforms an explicit approach in practice.
description: This is an extended version of our IJCAI21 paper of the same name
AN ANNOTATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESEARCH ON THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Kaiser, Harry M.
name: Kaiser, Harry M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases have the potential to substantially warm climates worldwide. While the timing and magnitude of global warming is uncertain, scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict that average global temperature may increase by 1.5- 4.5³C (2.7-8.1³F) over the next 100 years. Changes in precipitation will likely accompany any changes in temperature. However, the magnitude, and even direction of these changes is difficult to predict with much confidence on a regional basis. The agricultural sector may be profoundly affected by future changes in temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, and carbon dioxide concentrations. Over the past decade, there has been a growing body of research examining the potential impacts of climate change on agriculture. The purpose of this paper is to report and summarize recent research on the potential economic impacts of global climate change on agriculture. To that end, an annotative bibliography of articles is presented in this paper.
FISCAL EFFECTS OF MINERAL-RELATED INDUSTRY IN MINNESOTA
Creators: name: Maki, Wilbur R.
name: Maki, Wilbur R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1980
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Ten mineral-related industries in Minnesota are identified in this report and their economic importance is measured in terms of industry sales, jobs and income originating in the industries and received by various economic units. Less than 50 thousand of the 1.9 million jobs in Minnesota were found in the 10 industries in 1977, but they accounted for $118 million of the $3.3 billion in total tax revenues in the 1975-76 fiscal year. Estimates and forecasts of the fiscal effects of mineral-related industry development in Minnesota are presented for the 1970-2000 period.
Halpha surface photometry of galaxies in nearby clusters. V: the survey completion
Creators: name: Gavazzi, G.
name: Boselli, A.
name: Cortese, L.
name: Arosio, I.
name: Gallazzi, A.
name: Pedotti, P.
name: Carrasco, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Halpha imaging observations of 273 late-type galaxies in the nearby rich galaxy clusters Virgo, A1367, Coma, Cancer, Hercules and in the Great Wall, carried out primarily with the 2.1m telescope of the San Pedro Martir Observatory (SPM) and with the ESO/3.6m telescope. We derived the Halpha+[NII] fluxes and equivalent widths. The Halpha survey reached completion for an optically selected sample of nearby galaxies in and outside rich clusters. Taking advantage of the completeness of the data set, the dependence of Halpha properties on the Hubble type was determined for late-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster. Differences in the gaseous content partly account for the large scatter of the Halpha E.W. within each Hubble-type class. We studied the radial distributions of the Halpha E.W. around Coma+A1367 and the Virgo clusters in two luminosity bins. Luminous galaxies show a decrease in their average Halpha E.W. in the inner 1 virial radius, while low-luminosity galaxies do not show this trend.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication on A&A. Data and Fits images available at http://goldmine.mib.infn.it
COVID-19 Vaccine Potential Side Effects_Polish
Creators: name: Collaboratory For Health Justice
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Polish flyer about the most common side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine. Anybody with special concerns is encouraged to speak to a healthcare provider.
Information last updated on February 15, 2021.
Thinging-Oriented Modeling of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Creators: name: Al-Fedaghi, Sabah
name: Al-Fadhli, Jassim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in both practical and research applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). According to the literature, there is a need in this area to develop a more refined model of UAV system architecture, in other words, a conceptual model that defines the system s structure and behavior. The existing models mostly are fractional and do not account for the entire important dynamic attributes. Progress in this area could reduce ambiguity and increase reliability in the design of such systems. This paper aims to advance the modeling of UAV system architecture by adopting a conceptual model called a thinging (abstract) machine in which all of the UAV s software and hardware components are viewed in terms of the flow of things and five generic operations. We apply this model to a real case study of a drone. The results, an integrated conceptual representation of the drone, support the viability of this approach.
description: 10 pages, 15 figures
ANTITRUST DAMAGE THEORY
Creators: name: Dahl, Dale C.
name: Dahl, Dale C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Industrial Organization

description: The law of judicial remedies deals with the nature and scope of relief afforded a plaintiff following appropriate court procedures and after establishment of a substantive right. These remedies usually fall in one of four categories: (1) damages, (2) restitution, (3) coercion and (4) declaration. This presentation will deal principally with the damages remedy, but a few thoughts regarding the use of a restitutionary remedy are introduced toward the end of these remarks.
Spin-charge separation and localization in one-dimension
Creators: name: Auslaender, O. M.
name: Steinberg, H.
name: Yacoby, A.
name: Tserkovnyak, Y.
name: Halperin, B. I.
name: Baldwin, K. W.
name: Pfeiffer, L. N.
name: West, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on measurements of quantum many-body modes in ballistic wires and their dependence on Coulomb interactions, obtained from tunneling between two parallel wires in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure while varying electron density. We observe two spin modes and one charge mode of the coupled wires, and map the dispersion velocities of the modes down to a critical density, at which spontaneous localization is observed. Theoretical calculations of the charge velocity agree well with the data, although they also predict an additional charge mode that is not observed. The measured spin velocity is found to be smaller than theoretically predicted.
description: There are minor textual differences between this version and the version that has been published in Science (follow the DOI link below to obtain it). In addition, here we have had to reduce figure quality to save space on the server
Quantum simulation of open quantum systems in heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: de Jong, Wibe A.
name: Metcalf, Mekena
name: Mulligan, James
name: Płoskoń, Mateusz
name: Ringer, Felix
name: Yao, Xiaojun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a framework to simulate the dynamics of hard probes such as heavy quarks or jets in a hot, strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) on a quantum computer. Hard probes in the QGP can be treated as open quantum systems governed in the Markovian limit by the Lindblad equation. However, due to large computational costs, most current phenomenological calculations of hard probes evolving in the QGP use semiclassical approximations of the quantum evolution. Quantum computation can mitigate these costs, and offers the potential for a fully quantum treatment with exponential speedup over classical techniques. We report a simplified demonstration of our framework on IBM Q quantum devices, and apply the Random Identity Insertion Method (RIIM) to account for CNOT depolarization noise, in addition to measurement error mitigation. Our work demonstrates the feasibility of simulating open quantum systems on current and near-term quantum devices, which is of broad relevance to applications in nuclear physics, quantum information, and other fields.
description: Published in Phys Rev D
Complex viscosity behavior and cluster formation in attractive colloidal systems
Creators: name: Mallamace, F.
name: Chen, S. H.
name: Coniglio, A.
name: de Arcangelis, L.
name: Del Gado, E.
name: Fierro, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The increase of the viscosity, which is observed in attractive colloidal systems by varying the temperature or the volume fraction, can be related to the formation of structures due to particle aggregation. In particular we have studied the non trivial dependence of the viscosity from the temperature and the volume fraction in the copolymer-micellar system L64. The comparison of the experimental data with the results of numerical simulations in a simple model for gelation phenomena suggests that this intriguing behavior can be explained in terms of cluster formation and that this picture can be quite generally extended to other attractive colloidal systems.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC CHANGES IN REGION 6E 1960-1970
Creators: name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: Dorf, Ronald J.
name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: Dorf, Ronald J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1976
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: In this paper, socio-economic changes in one development region, Region 6E, are examined and compared with changes occurring in Minnesota from 1960 to 1970. Region 6E consists of Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, and Renville Counties. In particular, changes in employment by occupations, and changes in income for the urban, rural nonfarm, and rural farm populations of Region 6E are examined.
Entropy and reversible catalysis
Creators: name: Wilming, Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: I show that non-decreasing entropy provides a necessary and sufficient condition to convert the state of a physical system into a different state by a reversible transformation that acts on the system of interest and a further "catalyst" whose state has to remain invariant exactly in the transition. This statement is proven both in the case of finite-dimensional quantum mechanics, where von~Neumann entropy is the relevant entropy, and in the case of systems whose states are described by probability distributions on finite sample spaces, where Shannon entropy is the relevant entropy. The results give an affirmative resolution to the (approximate) "catalytic entropy conjecture" introduced by Boes et al. [PRL 122, 210402 (2019)]. They provide a complete single-shot characterization without external randomness of von Neumann entropy and Shannon entropy. I also compare the results to the setting of phenomenological thermodynamics and show how they can be used to obtain a quantitative single-shot characterization of Gibbs states in quantum statistical mechanics.
description: 5+5 pages; 3+1 figures. Comments welcome!; v2: added comparison to thermodynamics and application to quantum statistical mechanics, expanded appendix, minor corrections, close to published version