cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How Important are Peer Effects in Group Lending? Estimating a Static Game of Incomplete Information
Creators: name: Li, Shanjun
name: Liu, Yanyan
name: Deininger, Klaus W.
name: Li, Shanjun
name: Liu, Yanyan
name: Deininger, Klaus W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Peer effects
subject: group lending
subject: joint liability
subject: self-help groups in India

description: We quantify the importance of peer effects in group lending by estimating a static game of incomplete information. In our model, group members make their repayment decisions simultaneously based on their household and loan characteristics as well as their expectations on other members’ repayment decisions. Exploiting a rich data set of a microfinance program in India, our estimation results suggest that the likelihood of a member making a full repayment would be 15 percent higher on average if all the other follow members make full repayment compared to the case where none of the other members repay in full. We also find that large inconsistencies exist in the estimated effects of other variables in models that do not incorporate peer effects and control for unobserved heterogeneity.
The forgotten channels: charged Higgs boson decays to a $W^\pm$ and a non-SM-like Higgs boson
Creators: name: Bahl, Henning
name: Stefaniak, Tim
name: Wittbrodt, Jonas
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2021

description: The presence of charged Higgs bosons is a generic prediction of multiplet extensions of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs sector. Focusing on the Two-Higgs-Doublet-Model (2HDM), we discuss the charged Higgs boson collider phenomenology in the theoretically and experimentally viable parameter space. While almost all existing experimental searches at the LHC target the fermionic decays of charged Higgs bosons, we point out that the bosonic decay channels -- especially the decay into a non-SM-like Higgs boson and a $W$ boson -- often dominate over the fermionic channels. Moreover, we revisit two genuine BSM effects on the properties of the discovered Higgs boson -- the charged Higgs contribution to the diphoton rate and the Higgs decay to two light Higgs bosons -- and their implication for the charged Higgs boson phenomenology. As main result of the present paper, we propose five two-dimensional benchmark scenarios with distinct phenomenological features in order to facilitate the design of dedicated LHC searches for charged Higgs bosons decaying into a $W$ boson and a light, non-SM-like Higgs boson.
Table S4. from Higher temperatures lower rates of physiological and niche evolution
Creators: name: Yanfu Qu
name: Wiens, John J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: The results of phylogenetic t-tests between lower thermal tolerances and minimum annual temperatures, and between upper thermal tolerances and maximum annual temperatures.
The influence of boundaries on high pressure melting experiments
Creators: name: Sorkin, V.
name: Polturak, E.
name: Adler, Joan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At low pressure, free surfaces play a crucial role in the melting transition. Under pressure, the surface of the sample is acted upon by some pressure transmitting medium. To examine the effect of this medium on melting, we performed Monte Carlo simulations of a system of argon atoms in the form of a slab with two boundaries. We examined two cases, one with a soft and the other with a rigid medium at the boundaries. We found that in the presence of a rigid medium, melting resembles the mechanical lattice instability found in a surface-free solid. With a soft medium at the boundary, melting begins at the surface and at a lower temperature. The relevance of these results to experiment is discussed.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Split SIMPs with Decays
Creators: name: Katz, Andrey
name: Salvioni, Ennio
name: Shakya, Bibhushan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a minimal realization of the strongly interacting massive particle (SIMP) framework. The model includes a dark copy of QCD with three colors and three light flavors. A massive dark photon, kinetically mixed with the Standard Model hypercharge, maintains kinetic equilibrium between the dark and visible sectors. One of the dark mesons is necessarily unstable but long-lived, with potential impact on CMB observables. We show that an approximate "isospin" symmetry acting on the down-type quarks is an essential ingredient of the model. This symmetry stabilizes the dark matter and allows to split sufficiently the masses of the other states to suppress strongly their relic abundances. We discuss for the first time the SIMP cosmology with sizable mass splittings between all meson multiplets. We demonstrate that the SIMP mechanism remains efficient in setting the dark matter relic density, while CMB constraints on unstable relics can be robustly avoided. We also consider the phenomenological consequences of isospin breaking, including dark matter decay. Cosmological, astrophysical, and terrestrial probes are combined into a global picture of the parameter space. In addition, we outline an ultraviolet completion in the context of neutral naturalness, where confinement at the GeV scale is generic. We emphasize the general applicability of several novel features of the SIMP mechanism that we discuss here.
description: 29 pages + appendix + references, 5 figures, 1 table. No XENON1T excess. v2: minor clarifications, added short discussions of new probes and references. Version published in JHEP
Exact-propagator instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter equation for quark-antiquark bound states
Creators: name: Li, Z. -F.
name: Lucha, Wolfgang
name: Schoberl, F. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, an instantaneous approximation to the Bethe-Salpeter formalism for the analysis of bound states in quantum field theory has been proposed which retains, in contrast to the Salpeter equation, as far as possible the exact propagators of the bound-state constituents, extracted nonperturbatively from Dyson-Schwinger equations or lattice gauge theory. The implications of this improvement for the solutions of this bound-state equation, that is, the spectrum of the mass eigenvalues of its bound states and the corresponding wave functions, when considering the quark propagators arising in quantum chromodynamics are explored.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Product Origin and Reputation for Quality: the Case of Organic Foods
Creators: name: Pozo, Veronica F.
name: Saak, Alexander E.
name: Hanawa-Peterson, Hikaru
name: Pozo, Veronica F.
name: Saak, Alexander E.
name: Hanawa-Peterson, Hikaru
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Demand and Price Analysis
Industrial Organization

description: Replaced with revised version of paper 12/30/09.
Kirillov polynomials for the exceptional Lie algebra $\mathfrak g_2$
Creators: name: Luu, Martin T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: As part of the development of the orbit method, Kirillov has counted the number of strictly upper triangular matrices with coefficients in a finite field of $q$ elements and fixed Jordan type. One obtains polynomials with respect to $q$ with many interesting properties and close relation to type A representation theory. In the present work we develop the corresponding theory for the exceptional Lie algebra $\mathfrak g_2$. In particular, we show that the leading coefficient can be expressed in terms of the Springer correspondence.
title: Les îles d’Aran ou, l’insularité chez John M. Synge et Liam O’Flaherty
Creators: name: Mikowski, Sylvie
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2012

description: Les îles d’Aran sont un ensemble de trois îlots situés au large de Galway sur la côte Ouest de l’Irlande, face à la région du Connemara. La signification religieuse d’Aran est attestée par la présence de Saint Enda qui y fonda un monastère, connu en son temps dans l’Europe entière. Les célèbres Saint Columcille, Ciarán et Colman, fondateurs des principaux monastères médiévaux en Irlande, sont tous supposés avoir séjourné à un moment ou un autre de leur existence à Aran, justifiant le surnom de « Aran of the Saints », « Aran de tous les Saints » attribué aux îles. Un poème du IXe siècle raconte qu’il est impossible de dénombrer tous les saints d’Aran, affirmant que les quatre lieux saints au monde sont le Jardin du Paradis, Rome, Jérusalem et Aran, et qu’aucun ange n’est venu en Irlande sans passer par là.
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 01 (2012): Images et insularité
Contracting with Agents Seeking Status
Creators: name: Bontems, Philippe
name: Bontems, Philippe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: status
subject: adverse selection
subject: contracts
subject: envy
subject: externalities

description: We explore in this paper the consequences of status seeking preferences among agents contracting with a private principal in the context of production. We examine in particular the case of envy and we show that in general envy entails augmented distortions due to asymmetric information in optimal contracts. Furthermore if the principal neglects the preferences of the agents with respect to status, then potentially there is under-participation to the contract. We also show that if the principal is free to choose who can participate to the contract, then under some conditions the principal may prefer to contract with only a subset of potentially "profitable" agents (that is where his utility is strictly positive). We then ask whether contracting with agents seeking status would yield to more incentives to exert unobservable effort. We actually show that the principal has incentives to discourage effort. In the last part of the paper, we consider the case of costly observation of private decisions so that we investigate whether envy encourages non compliance or not.
Relative Periodic Solutions of the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Creators: name: López, Vanessa
name: Boyland, Philip
name: Heath, Michael T.
name: Moser, Robert D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method of finding relative periodic orbits for differential equations with continuous symmetries is described and its utility demonstrated by computing relative periodic solutions for the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) with periodic boundary conditions. A relative periodic solution is a solution that is periodic in time, up to a transformation by an element of the equation's symmetry group. With the method used, relative periodic solutions are represented by a space-time Fourier series modified to include the symmetry group element and are sought as solutions to a system of nonlinear algebraic equations for the Fourier coefficients, group element, and time period. The 77 relative periodic solutions found for the CGLE exhibit a wide variety of temporal dynamics, with the sum of their positive Lyapunov exponents varying from 5.19 to 60.35 and their unstable dimensions from 3 to 8. Preliminary work indicates that weighted averages over the collection of relative periodic solutions accurately approximate the value of several functionals on typical trajectories.
description: 32 pages, 12 figures
Collagen content of the human diaphragm
Creators: name: Scott, Alexander
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: INTRODUCTION: In limb muscle, the amount of endomysial, perimysial, and basal lamina collagen can increase as an adaptive response to endurance training or in response to exertion-induced injury. In the costal diaphragm, there is evidence for both adaptation and injury in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The present study had four objectives: (1) to quantify the proportional cross-sectional area of collagen (CSA[sub coll]) and the percentage of myofibres with abnormal or injured morphology (P[sub abn]) in the post-mortem COPD diaphragm, and to compare this in individuals with no significant respiratory diagnosis (NSRD); (2) to determine the CSA[sub coll] and P[sub abn] in different regions of the human diaphragm (midcostal, costal insertion, central tendon region, crural); (3) to compare the CSA[sub coll] and P[sub abn] in the diaphragm and a non-respiratory muscle (psoas major); (4) to determine the relationship between CSA[sub coll] and fibre cross-sectional area and P[sub abn]. METHODS: Mid-costal diaphragm biopsies were obtained and formalin-fixed from 6 COPD and 6 age- and gender-matched NSRD subjects. For the regional studies, whole diaphragms were obtained and formalin-fixed from 18 subjects. CSA[sub coll] was determined by computer-assisted point-counting of a 1.3 mm² area on 6 μm-thick cross-sections. P[sub abn] was calculated by categorizing all muscle fibres within an area of 1.7 mm² as normal or abnormal based on morphological criteria with an inter-rater reliability of 0.957. Fibre areas were calculated from the means of at least 200 fibres per biopsy using computerized image analysis software. RESULTS: The COPD diaphragm displayed a greater CS[sub coll], than NSRD (mean ± SE: 24.2 ± 1.0% vs 18.6 ±1.1%, p< 0.001) and a greater P[sub abn] (28.4 ± 7.2% vs. 12.0 ±1.3%, p< 0.05). Abnormal areas of accumulated endomysial and perimysial collagen (i.e. fibrosis) were observed more frequently in the COPD diaphragm, often in association with small, abnormally shaped muscle fibres. The COPD diaphragm displayed features of acute and chronic injury including inflammation and necrosis. The CSA[sub coll] and P[sub abn] of the crural diaphragm were smaller than the mid-costal values (18.0 ± 0.6% vs. 20.9 ± 0.6%, p < 0.01 and 11.9 ± 2.5% vs. 14.6 ± 2.6%, p<0.01 respectively). The psoas major displayed a lower P[sub abn] (8.3 ± 2.2%) and CSA[sub coll] (12.3 ± 0.5%) than the mid-costal (p < 0.01) and crural diaphragm (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: The increased injury and collagen in the post-mortem COPD diaphragm is extensive.
Does the World Trade Organization Promote Trade? An Empirical Assessment of Agricultural and Non‐Agricultural Trade Flows
Creators: name: Grant, Jason H.
name: Boys, Kathryn A.
name: Grant, Jason H.
name: Boys, Kathryn A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: In this paper we ask whether the GATT/WTO has actually failed to increase members’ agricultural trade. Surprisingly, there is very little empirical econometric support to shed light on this question despite the fact that agricultural trade is often at the forefront of multilateral negotiations. We address this issue by considering GATT/WTO effects across agricultural and non‐agricultural sectors. Despite much ‘hoopla and hype’ that the GATT/WTO has done nothing to boost members’ agricultural trade, our results suggest that the multilateral institution has delivered significant positive effects on agricultural trade over the period 1980‐2004. Moreover, in many cases the trade flow effect of membership in the GATT/WTO exceeds that of non‐agriculture, merchandise trade. The results have important policy implications when one considers the growing body of literature that often presumes that the GATT/WTO has done nothing to stimulate members' agricultural trade.
Taxigramma hilarella
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Taxigramma
Taxigramma hilarella

description: Taxigramma hilarella (ZETTERSTEDT, 1844)
Bgld, Donnerskirchen, Kirchberg, 22.6.17.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 793, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Exclusive heavy quark dijet cross section
Creators: name: Kim, Chul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the exclusive heavy quark dijet cross section from $e^+e^-$-annihilation using soft-collinear effective theory. In order to resum the large logarithms of small jet veto parameter $β$ and jet radius $R$, we factorize the cross section into the hard, hard-soft, collinear, and collinear-soft parts. Compared with the case of a massless quark, the jet sector with the collinear and collinear-soft parts can be modified to include the heavy quark mass. The factorization of the jet sector can be systematically achieved through matching onto the boosted heavy quark effective theory. Heavy quark mass corrections enhance the cross section sizably and cannot be ignored when the quark mass is comparable with the jet size $E_JR$. We also analyze the exclusive heavy quark pair production in the limit as $R$ goes to zero. Using the resummed result, the top isolation effects on the cross section are estimated.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures; Mistakes in numerical analysis have been fixed. And Figs. 2 and 3 have been changed
Simple Cosmological Model with Relativistic Gas
Creators: name: de Berredo-Peixoto, Guilherme
name: Shapiro, Ilya L.
name: Sobreira, Flavia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct simple and useful approximation for the relativistic gas of massive particles. The equation of state is given by an elementary function and admits analytic solution of the Friedmann equation, including more complex cases when the relativistic gas of massive particles is considered together with radiation or with dominating cosmological constant. The model of relativistic gas may be interesting for the description of primordial Universe, especially as a candidate for the role of a Dark Matter.
description: LaTeX, 12 pages, 4 figures. Several references on supersymmetric Dark Matter and one illustrative plot added. Final version accepted in Modern Physics Letters A
Dynamics of D1-brane in I-brane Background
Creators: name: Kluson, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is devoted to the study of the effective field theory description of the probe D1-brane in the background of the system of two stacks of fivebranes in type IIB theory that intersect on $R^{1,1}$. We study the properties of the Dirac-Born-Infeld action for D1-brane moving in this background. We will argue that this action is invariant under an additional symmetry in the near horizon limit and that this new symmetry is closely related to the enhanced symmetry of the I-brane background considered recently in [hep-th/0508025]. We also solve explicitly the equation of motion of D1-brane in the near horizon limit.
description: 21 pages, references added
Obesity in Urban Food Markets: Evidence from Geo-referenced Micro Data
Creators: name: Chen, Susan E.
name: Florax, Raymond J.G.M.
name: Snyder, Samantha D.
name: Chen, Susan E.
name: Florax, Raymond J.G.M.
name: Snyder, Samantha D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: obesity
subject: fast food
subject: grocery store
subject: spatial econometrics
subject: micro data

description: This paper provides quantitative estimates of the effect of proximity to fast food restaurants and grocery stores on obesity in urban food markets. Our empirical model combined georeferenced micro data on access to fast food restaurants and grocery stores with data about salient personal characteristics, individual behaviors, and neighborhood characteristics. We defined a "local food environment" for every individual utilizing 0.5-mile buffers around a person's home address. Local food landscapes are potentially endogenous due to spatial sorting of the population and food outlets, and the body mass index (BMI) values for individuals living close to each other are likely to be spatially correlated because of observed and unobserved individual and neighborhood effects. The potential biases associated with endogeneity and spatial correlation were handled using spatial econometric estimation techniques. Our policy simulations for Indianapolis, Indiana, focused on the importance of reducing the density of fast food restaurants or increasing access to grocery stores. We accounted for spatial heterogeneity in both the policy instruments and individual neighborhoods, and consistently found small but statistically significant effects for the hypothesized relationships between individual BMI values and the densities of fast food restaurants and grocery stores.
Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Civil Engineering
Creators: name: Awolusi, Temitope Funmilayo
name: Finbarrs-Ezema, Bernard Chukwuemeka
name: Chukwudulue, Isaac Munachimdinamma
name: Azab, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hard computing generally deals with precise data, which provides ideal solutions to problems. However, in the civil engineering field, amongst other disciplines, that is not always the case as real-world systems are continuously changing. Here lies the need to explore soft computing methods and artificial intelligence to solve civil engineering shortcomings. The integration of advanced computational models, including Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms (GAs), and Probabilistic Reasoning, has revolutionized the domain of civil engineering. These models have significantly advanced diverse sub-fields by offering innovative solutions and improved analysis capabilities. Sub-fields such as: slope stability analysis, bearing capacity, water quality and treatment, transportation systems, air quality, structural materials, etc. ANNs predict non-linearities and provide accurate estimates. Fuzzy logic uses an efficient decision-making process to provide a more precise assessment of systems. Lastly, while GAs optimizes models (based on evolutionary processes) for better outcomes, probabilistic reasoning lowers their statistical uncertainties.
description: Kindly cite published version if given access
Magnetoelastic polarons in the hole-doped quasi-one dimensional model system Y2-xCaxBaNiO5
Creators: name: Lannuzel, Francois-Xavier
name: Janod, Etienne
name: Payen, Christophe
name: Corraze, Benoit
name: Braithwaite, Daniel
name: Chauvet, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charge transport in the hole-doped quasi-1D model system Y$_{2-x}$Ca$_x$BaNiO$_5$ (x $ leq$ 0.15) is investigated in the 50-300 K temperature range. The resistivity temperature dependence is characterized by a constant activation energy $E_{a}/k_{B} sim$ 1830 K at room temperature while $E_{a}$ decreases upon cooling. We suggest that $E_{a}$ measures the binding energy of the doped holes which form magneto-acoustic polarons when polarizing the neighboring Ni spins. A semi-classical model is proposed which allows to relate the electrical measurements and the bulk magnetic susceptibility. This model gives a picture of the spin-charge-lattice relation in this inhomogeneously doped quasi-1D system and explains its unusual one-particle charge excitation spectrum close to the Fermi level.
description: October 4th, 2004
First Order Actions: a New View
Creators: name: Bertin, M. C.
name: Pimentel, B. M.
name: Pompeia, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse systems described by first order actions using the Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) formalism for singular systems. In this study we verify that generalized brackets appear in a natural way in HJ approach, showing us the existence of a symplectic structure in the phase spaces of this formalism.
Filtering a distribution simultaneously in real and Fourier space
Creators: name: Anglada, Eduardo
name: Soler, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to filter a distribution so that it is confined within a sphere of given radius r_c and, simultaneously, whose Fourier transform is optimally confined within a sphere of radius k_c. Our procedure may have several applications in the field of electronic structure methods, like the generation of optimized pseudopotentials and localized pseudocore charge distributions. As an example, we describe a particular application within the SIESTA method for density functional calculations, in removing the spurious rippling of the energy surface generated by the integrations in a real space grid.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Actia lamia
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Actia
Actia lamia

description: Actia lamia (MEIGEN, 1838)
Bgld, Weiden, Zitzmannsdorfer Wiesen, 30.5.17.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 793, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
THE PATRONAGE OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES THROUGH THE QURANIC CONTEXT.pdf
Creators: name: Abouzeid, Mohamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 220405 Religion and Society
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 130211 Religion Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Religious Studies

description: The Noble Qur'an includes the divine guidance to all humanity, providing rules that lead to prosperity and peace, and facilitate safe and sustainable life for humankind.The concept of Civic Responsibilities is a part of the Muslim’s duties on Earth, as he is supposed to be a reformist and do his best to build up and amend the Earth.In this paper, the presenter is going to shed the light on the very keen patronage of Civic Responsibilities in the Islamic Sharia through the Quranic Context.On basis of the objectives of Sharia, preserving and protecting the Five Necessities; Religion, Life, Mind, Progeny and property, the presenter is going to point out some of the rules prescribed in the Qur’an to protect these necessities while they pour the benefit to the whole society. Those rules will be categorized under the five necessities emphasizing how they can be fulfilled as part of the civic responsibilities. This study is expected to be a seed for more detailed studies that fully scan the Noble Qur’an and find out the precise rules that would pour to the benefit of the whole humanity. The presenter also expects that this study will contribute to the efforts of unveiling the beauty and the maximal nature of the message of Islam.
The Toda-Weyl mass spectrum
Creators: name: Luu, Martin T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The masses of affine Toda theories are known to correspond to the entries of a Perron-Frobenius eigenvector of the relevant Cartan matrix. The Lagrangian of the theory can be expressed in terms of a suitable eigenvector of a Coxeter element in the Weyl group. We generalize this set-up by formulating Lagrangians based on eigenvectors of arbitrary elements in the Weyl group. Under some technical conditions (that hold for many Weyl group elements), we calculate the classical mass spectrum. In particular, we indicate the relation to the relative geometry of special roots, generalizing the affine Toda mass spectrum description in terms of the Cartan matrix. Related questions of three point coupling and integrability are left to be addressed on a future occasion.
Prospects for Sparticle Discovery in Variants of the MSSM
Creators: name: Ellis, John
name: Olive, Keith A.
name: Santoso, Yudi
name: Spanos, Vassilis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the prospects for detecting supersymmetric particles in variants of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM), in light of laboratory and cosmological constraints. We first assume that the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) is the lightest neutralino chi, and present scatter plots of the masses of the two lightest visible supersymmetric particles when the input scalar and gaugino masses are constrained to be universal (CMSSM), when the input Higgs scalar masses are non-universal (NUHM), and when the squark and slepton masses are also non-universal and the MSSM is regarded as a low-energy effective field theory valid up to the GUT scale (LEEST) or just up to 10 TeV (LEEST10). We then present similar plots in various scenarios when the LSP is the gravitino. We compare the prospects for detecting supersymmetry at linear colliders (LCs) of various energies, at the LHC, and as astrophysical dark matter. We find that, whilst a LC with a centre-of-mass energy E_{CM} <= 1000 GeV has some chance of discovering the lightest and next-to-lightest visible supersymmetric particles, E_{CM} >= 3000 GeV would be required to `guarantee' finding supersymmetry in the neutralino LSP scenarios studied, and an even higher E_{CM} might be required in certain gravitino dark matter scenarios. Direct dark matter experiments could explore part of the low-mass neutralino LSP region, but would not reveal all the models accessible to a low-energy LC.
description: 19 pages, 16 eps figures, as accepted in PLB
Nonlinear alternating current responses of electrorheological solids
Creators: name: Huang, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a composite containing nonlinear dielectric particles suspended in a host medium is subjected to a sinusoidal alternating current (ac) electric field, the dielectric response of the composite will generally consist of ac fields at frequencies of higher-order harmonics. For an electrorheological (ER) solid under structure transformations due to external fields, we apply the Ewald-Kornfeld formulation to derive the local electric fields and induced dipole moments explicitly, and then we perform the perturbation expansion method to extract their fundamental and third-order harmonics analytically. It is shown that the degree of anisotropy of the ER solid can affect these harmonics significantly. Our results are well understood in the spectral representation theory. Thus, it seems possible to perform a real-time monitoring of the structure transformation by measuring the nonlinear ac responses of ER solids.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. B
The low-mass companion of GQ Lup
Creators: name: Guenther, E. W.
name: Neuhaeuser, R.
name: Wuchterl, G.
name: Mugrauer, M.
name: Bedalov, A.
name: Hauschildt, P. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using NACO on the VLT in the imaging mode we have detected an object at a distance of only 0.7 arcsec from GQ Lup. The object turns out to be co-moving. We have taken two K-band spectra with a resolution of lambda /Delta lambda=700. In here, we analyze the spectra in detail. We show that the shape of spectrum is not spoiled by differences in the Strehl ratio in the blue and in the red part, as well as differential refraction. We reanalyze the spectra and derive the spectral type of the companion using classical methods. We find that the object has a spectral type between M9V and L4V, which corresponds to a Teff between 1600 and 2500 K. Using GAIA-dusty models, we find that the spectral type derivation is robust against different log(g)-values. The Teff derived from the models is again in the range between 1800 and 2400 K. While the models reproduce nicely the general shape of the spectrum, the 12CO-lines in the spectrum have about half the depth as those in the model. We speculate that this difference might be caused by veiling, like in other objects of similar age, and spectral class. We also find that the absolute brightness of the companion matches that of other low-mass free-floating objects of similar age and spectral type. A comparison with the objects in USco observed by Mohanty et al. (2004) shows that the companion of GQ Lup has a lower mass than any of these, as it is of later spectral type, and younger. The same is as true, for the companion of AB Pic. To have a first estimate of the mass of the object we compare the derived Teff and luminosity with those calculated from evolutionary tracks. We also point out that future instruments, like NAHUAL, will finally allow us to derive the masses of such objects more precisely.
description: 6 figures, proceeding of the workshop on Ultralow-mass star formation and evolution held in La Palama June 28 to July 1, 2005
The Astrobiological Copernican Weak and Strong Limits for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
Creators: name: Westby, Tom
name: Conselice, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a cosmic perspective on the search for life and examine the likely number of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent civilizations (CETI) in our Galaxy by utilizing the latest astrophysical information. Our calculation involves Galactic star-formation histories, metallicity distributions, and the likelihood of stars hosting Earth-like planets in Habitable Zones, under specific assumptions which we describe as the Astrobiological Copernican Weak and Strong conditions. These assumptions are based on the one situation in which intelligent, communicative life is known to exist - on our own planet. This type of life has developed in a metal-rich environment and has taken roughly 5 Gyr to do so. We investigate the possible number of CETI based on different scenarios. At one extreme is the Weak Astrobiological Copernican principle - such that a planet forms intelligent life sometime after 5 Gyr, but not earlier. The other is the Strong Condition in which life must form between 4.5 to 5.5 Gyr, as on Earth. In the Strong Condition (a strict set of assumptions), there should be at least 36$_{-32}^{+175}$ civilizations within our Galaxy: this is a lower limit, based on the assumption that the average life-time, L, of a communicating civilization is 100 years (based on our own at present). If spread uniformly throughout the Galaxy this would imply that the nearest CETI is at most 17000$_{-10000}^{+33600}$ light-years away, and most likely hosted by a low-mass M-dwarf star, far surpassing our ability to detect it for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, the likelihood that the host stars for this life are solar-type stars is extremely small and most would have to be M-dwarfs, which may not be stable enough to host life over long timescales. We furthermore explore other scenarios and explain the likely number of CETI there are within our Galaxy based on variations of our assumptions.
description: Astrophysical Journal, in press, 47 pages
The Relative Role of Land in Climate Policy
Creators: name: Golub, Alla A.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Rose, Steven K.
name: Sohngen, Brent
name: Avetisyan, Misak
name: Golub, Alla A.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Rose, Steven K.
name: Sohngen, Brent
name: Avetisyan, Misak
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate policy
subject: land use related emissions
subject: carbon forest sequestration
subject: CGE

description: Land-based activities are responsible for a large part of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet the economics of land-use decisions have rarely been explicitly modeled in global mitigation studies. This paper integrates the analysis of land use related non-CO2 emissions and carbon forest sequestration with more conventional analyses of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion to provide a comprehensive assessment of the relative role of land in global GHG emissions and mitigation. For this paper, we utilize a new general equilibrium framework which effectively captures the opportunity costs of land-use decisions in agriculture and forestry, the implications of these decisions for GHG emissions, as well as mitigation options in agriculture and forestry. By combining this with a more conventional analysis of fossil fuel-based CO2 emissions mitigation, we are able to analyze trade-offs and feedbacks between GHG emissions reductions in land-based and fossil fuel combustion intensive sectors. We explore the general equilibrium effects when land rents are endogenous and large-scale adoption of mitigation technologies produces feedbacks across sectors and regions.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 06/26/09.
Laser propagation in a highly magnetized over-dense plasma
Creators: name: Li, Kun
name: Yu, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Propagation of right-hand circularly polarized laser into highly magnetized over-dense collisional plasma is analytically studied from basic equations. Highly magnetized plasma with density of 10^23 cm^-3 is efficiently heated from 100 eV to 1 keV within depth of around 20 μ{m} in one nanosecond by Nd:YAG laser with moderate irradiance of around 10^14 Wcm^-2.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Impurity Effect on Kramer-Pesch Core Shrinkage in s-Wave Vortex and Chiral p-Wave Vortex
Creators: name: Hayashi, N.
name: Kato, Y.
name: Sigrist, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low-temperature shrinking of the vortex core (Kramer-Pesch effect) is studied for an isolated single vortex for chiral p-wave and s-wave superconducting phases. The effect of nonmagnetic impurities on the vortex core radius is numerically investigated in the Born limit by means of a quasiclassical approach. It is shown that in the chiral p-wave phase the Kramer-Pesch effect displays a certain robustness against impurities owing to a specific quantum effect, while the s-wave phase reacts more sensitively to impurity scattering. This suggests chiral p-wave superconductors as promising candidates for the experimental observation of the Kramer-Pesch effect.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures; to be published in J. Low Temp. Phys.; Proc. of NATO ARW: VORTEX 2004, Yalta (Uknaine)
Admontia grandicornis
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Admontia
Admontia grandicornis

description: Admontia grandicornis (ZETTERSTEDT, 1849)
NÖ, Hainburg, Spitzerberg, 26.5.01.
Neu für Niederösterreich.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 793, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Supplemental Data - Construction of Poiseuilles Law Equipment.pdf
Creators: name: Coney, Andrew
name: Ray, Clare
name: Holmes, Andrew
name: Kumar, Prem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60603 Animal Physiology - Systems
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60602 Animal Physiology - Cell
subject: Physiology

description: Supplemental Data on the construction of the equipment used in our publication in Advances in Physiology Education
Athrycia trepida
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Athrycia
Athrycia trepida

description: Athrycia trepida (MEIGEN, 1824)
Bgld, St. Margarethen, NSG Nord, 6.5.17.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 793, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Photon production in relativistic nuclear collisions at SPS and RHIC energies
Creators: name: Turbide, Simon
name: Rapp, Ralf
name: Gale, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chiral Lagrangians are used to compute the production rate of photons from the hadronic phase of relativistic nuclear collisions. Special attention is paid to the role of the pseudovector a_1 meson. Calculations that include reactions with strange mesons, hadronic form factors and vector spectral densities consistent with dilepton production, as well as the emission from a quark-gluon plasma and primordial nucleon-nucleon collisions, reproduce the photon spectra measured at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). Predictions for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are made.
description: Work presented at the 26th annual Montreal-Rochester-Syracuse-Toronto conference (MRST 2004) on high energy physics, Montreal, QC, Canada, 12-14 May 2004. 8 pages, 3 figures
Restoring productivity through the advanced usage of Git
Creators: name: Bartlett, Roscoe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80204 Mathematical Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80110 Simulation and Modelling

description: The best software development processes are usually the simplest processes. However, there are situations where sticking with simple processes can lead to large reductions in productivity and delays due to difficult constraints and realities that exist in many projects. In many cases, adopting more sophisticated development and integration processes using advanced Git\cite{git} workflows can restore much of the productivity that would otherwise be lost. The skilled usage of the Git distributed version control system and the exploitation of special properties of the problem at hand can often be used to work around the most difficult situations.
We provide one example where the more advanced usage of Git has been used to avoid significant reductions in development productivity. The goal is to provide some motivation and inspiration for more developers in the computational science and engineering (CSE) community to acquire a deeper understanding of Git and the building blocks for advanced Git workflows. Given these tools, they can develop similar customized workflows to help boost their productivity as well.
The Standard Model on Non-Commutative Space-Time: Strong Interactions Included
Creators: name: Melic, B.
name: Passek-Kumericki, K.
name: Trampetic, J.
name: Schupp, P.
name: Wohlgenannt, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is a direct extension of our paper: "The Standard Model on Non-Commutative Space-Time: Electroweak currents and Higgs sector", hep-ph/0502249, now with strong interactions included. Apart from the non-commutative corrections to Standard Model strong interactions, several new interactions appear. The most interesting ones are gluonic interactions with the electroweak sector. They are elaborated here in detail and the Feynman rules for interactions up to O(gs^2 theta) are provided.
description: 14 pages, axodraw.sty; shortened, version to appear in EPJC
Evaluation of the Japanese Rice Policy Reforms under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
Creators: name: Takahashi, Daisuke
name: Honma, Masayoshi
name: Takahashi, Daisuke
name: Honma, Masayoshi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: rice policies
subject: welfare analysis
subject: acreage control

description: This study aims to quantitatively evaluate the rice policy reforms in Japan since 1995. First, we review the development of the Japanese rice policy reforms since the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and the transition of the representative indices that measure the level of agricultural protection, such as the producer support estimate (PSE) and the aggregate measure of support (AMS). Next, a quantitative evaluation of the volume of transfers facilitated by the rice policies is carried out by employing the standard framework of welfare analysis. The changes in social welfare are simulated when the ex ante and ex post policies related to rice, namely, direct payment per output, purchase of rice by the government, and acreage control, are abolished and when the import tariff on rice is abolished. In addition, we calculate the average transfer efficiency (ATE) of the rice policies during the analysis period and draw the surplus transformation curve (STC) along with the changes in the acreage control rate. It is concluded that acreage control is the most important policy instrument in the current rice policy mix, but it is highly inefficient and imposes a serious burden on consumers and government expenditure.
Low-power Spike-based Wearable Analytics on RRAM Crossbars
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Abhiroop
name: Shi, Jinquan
name: Chen, Wei-Chen
name: Wang, Xinxin
name: Panda, Priyadarshini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work introduces a spike-based wearable analytics system utilizing Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) deployed on an In-memory Computing engine based on RRAM crossbars, which are known for their compactness and energy-efficiency. Given the hardware constraints and noise characteristics of the underlying RRAM crossbars, we propose online adaptation of pre-trained SNNs in real-time using Direct Feedback Alignment (DFA) against traditional backpropagation (BP). Direct Feedback Alignment (DFA) learning, that allows layer-parallel gradient computations, acts as a fast, energy & area-efficient method for online adaptation of SNNs on RRAM crossbars, unleashing better algorithmic performance against those adapted using BP. Through extensive simulations using our in-house hardware evaluation engine called DFA_Sim, we find that DFA achieves upto 64.1% lower energy consumption, 10.1% lower area overhead, and a 2.1x reduction in latency compared to BP, while delivering upto 7.55% higher inference accuracy on human activity recognition (HAR) tasks.
description: Accepted in 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)