cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DEFORESTATION AND AGROFORESTRY ADOPTION IN TROPICAL FORESTS: CAN WE GENERALIZE? SOME RESULTS FROM CAMPECHE, MEXICO AND RONDONIA, BRAZIL
Creators: name: Casey, James F.
name: Caviglia-Harris, Jill L.
name: Casey, James F.
name: Caviglia-Harris, Jill L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Brazil
subject: Mexico
subject: Agroforestry
subject: Tropical Deforestation
subject: Sustainable Agriculture
subject: Adoption
subject: Amazon
subject: Campeche
subject: Rondonia

description: The adoption of sustainable agriculture and other sustainable forestry methods that can help to reduce tropical deforestation have received a great deal of attention in the literature (Adesina and Zinnah 1993, Akinola and Young 1985, Feder and Slade 1984, Holden 1993, Kebede et al. 1990). Although results from different studies can be compared in an absolute sense, there are very few individual studies that compare results and determine, through empirical analysis, whether policy can be universally applied. This paper uses farm-level data to determine whether some universal conclusions can be drawn about the adoption of agroforestry by peasant farmers in developing countries by comparing the land use choices of farmers in Rondônia, Brazil and Campeche, Mexico. The empirical results indicate that education level and the degree of exposure to information about agroforestry significantly influence the adoption of agroforestry and that deforestation levels for farmers in both nations are influenced by the size of the farm lots. The two communities used in the analysis differ in terms of tradition, history, geography, and economics but both experience a link between deforestation and imperfect information. Policies that address imperfect information in developing countries are likely to decrease deforestation as well as improve the well being of residents.
The Dynamic Cosmological Term $Λ$: Some Aspects of Phenomenological Models
Creators: name: Mukhopadhyay, Utpal
name: Ray, Saibal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Choosing a phenomenological model of $Λ$, viz. $Λ\sim \dot H$, it has been shown that this model of $Λ$ is equivalent to other three types of $Λ$, $Λ\sim (\dot a/a)^2$, $Λ\sim \ddot a/a$ and $Λ\sim ρ$. Through an indirect approach, it has also been possible to put a limit on the deceleration parameter $q$. It has been shown that if $q$ becomes less than -1, then this model can predict about the presence of phantom energy.
description: Latex, 9 pages
The photon polarization in B -> X gamma in the standard model
Creators: name: Grinstein, Benjamin
name: Grossman, Yuval
name: Ligeti, Zoltan
name: Pirjol, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard model prediction for the $B\to X_{s,d}γ$ decay amplitude with a right-handed photon is believed to be tiny, suppressed by $m_{s,d}/m_b$, compared to the amplitude with a left-handed photon. We show that this suppression is fictitious: in inclusive decays, the ratio of these two amplitudes is only suppressed by $g_s/(4π)$, and in exclusive decays by $Λ_{QCD}/m_b$. The suppression is not stronger in $B\to X_dγ$ decays than it is in $B\to X_sγ$. We estimate that the time dependent CP asymmetries in $B\to K^*γ$, $ργ$, $K_Sπ^0γ$, and $π^+π^-γ$ are of order 0.1 and that they have significant uncertainties.
description: Clarifications in the exclusive section, references added
A functional central limit theorem for a class of urn models
Creators: name: Basak, Gopal K
name: Dasgupta, Amites
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F17; 60J30; 60G15; 60G45

description: We construct an independent increments Gaussian process associated to a class of multicolor urn models. The construction uses random variables from the urn model which are different from the random variables for which central limit theorems are available in the two color case.
description: 6 pages
Interfering Tunneling Paths through Magnetic Molecules on Superconductors: Asymmetries of Kondo and Yu-Shiba-Rusinov Resonances
Creators: name: Farinacci, Laëtitia
name: Ahmadi, Gelavizh
name: Ruby, Michael
name: Reecht, Gael
name: Heinrich, Benjamin
name: Czekelius, Constantin
name: Oppen, Felix Von
name: Franke, Katharina
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Impurities in superconductors
subject: Kondo effect
subject: Surface & interfacial phenomena
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::539 Moderne Physik

description: Magnetic adsorbates on superconductors induce a Kondo resonance outside and Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound states inside the superconducting energy gap. When probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy, the associated differential-conductance spectra frequently exhibit characteristic bias-voltage asymmetries. Here, we observe correlated variations of Kondo and YSR asymmetries across an Fe-porphyrin molecule adsorbed on Pb(111). We show that both asymmetries originate in interfering tunneling paths via a spin-carrying orbital and the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO). Strong evidence for this model comes from nodal planes of the HOMO, where tunneling reveals symmetric Kondo and YSR resonances. Our results establish an important mechanism for the asymmetries of Kondo and YSR line shapes.
Additional file 1 of Effect of neoadjuvant therapy on breast cancer biomarker profile
Creators: name: Rey-Vargas, Laura
name: Mejía-Henao, Juan Carlos
name: Sanabria-Salas, María Carolina
name: Serrano-Gomez, Silvia J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Ki67 classification changes in the NAT and no-NAT group from paired biopsy and surgical specimens. Table S2. Biomarker status in biopsy and surgical specimens according to NAT scheme. Table S3. Median biomarker expression in biopsy and surgical specimens according to NAT scheme.
Limit quantum efficiency for violation of Clauser-Horne Inequality for qutrits
Creators: name: Genovese, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present the results of numerical calculations about the minimal value of detection efficiency for violating the Clauser - Horne inequality for qutrits. Our results show how the use of non-maximally entangled states largely improves this limit respect to maximally entangled ones. A stronger resistance to noise is also found.
description: Phys. Rev. A in press
The Transition between Star Clusters and Dwarf Galaxies -- On the existence of a mass-radius relation for star clusters of masses >10^7 Mo: are these objects formed in mergers of stellar systems?
Creators: name: Kissler-Patig, Markus
name: Jordan, Andres
name: Bastian, Nate
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At which masses does the regime of globular clusters end and the one of dwarf galaxies begin? And what separates these two classes of hot stellar systems? We examine to what extend very massive (>10^7 Mo) young star clusters are similar to their lower mass counter parts and to which degree they resemble other objects in their mass regime (dwarf--globular transition objects (DGTOs), ultra compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs), galaxy nuclei). The comparison is performed by placing the recently observed very massive young clusters onto known scaling relation defined by globular clusters (with typical masses <10^6 Mo) and/or by hot stellar systems with sizes up to those of giant galaxies. The very massive (>10^{6.5-7} Mo) young clusters seem to show a mass--radius relation compatible with the one defined by hot stellar systems of galaxy mass. This, in turn, can explain their location on the other scaling relations investigated. It contrasts with the behaviour of the less massive young clusters and of globular clusters, which do not exhibit any mass-radius relation. However, the behaviour of the most massive clusters is similar to that of most other objects in that mass regime (10^6-10^8 Mo). We show that the properties of young massive clusters are compatible with other objects in the same mass regime such as DGTOs/UCDs. They present a possible direct avenue of formation for those objects, which does not require the transformation of a previously existing stellar system. Simulations and observations support the possibility of the formation of such very massive young clusters by early mergers of lower mass stellar clusters, which could explain the emergence of a mass--radius relation.
description: research note, accepted by A&A, 5 pages incl. 3 figures
In-situ visualisation of dynamic fracture and fragmentation of an L-type ordinary chondrite by combined synchrotron X-ray radiography and microtomography
Creators: Farbaniec, Lukasz
Chapman, David J.
Patten, Jack R.W.
Smith, Liam C.
Hogan, James D.
Rack, Alexander
Eakins, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2021

The relationship between the dynamic mechanical properties of stony meteorites and their microstructures was investigated in-situ for an L-type ordinary chondrite using a split-Hopkinson pressure bar apparatus and ultra-high speed phase-contrast X-ray radiography at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). Synchrotron X-ray microtomography (μCT) was performed both prior to and immediately following dynamic compression to correlate key structural features between the initial microstructure and recovered fragments as well as to identify the leading mechanisms for fracture and fragmentation. Real-time visualization of damage evolution in the specimens revealed the very rst cracks to be initiated at the sites of FeNi-metal nodules. These cracks propagated rapidly through the largest group of chondrules (the porphyritic olivine type

chondrules) along the loading direction, which led to the formation of columnlike fragments. μCT analysis of the collected fragments conrmed the dominant mode of fracture to be transgranular with a clear link between FeNi-metal nod-ule statistics and the size distribution of fragments, emphasizing their role in mechanical failure and fragmentation process. The resulting fragmentation was used to validate the predictions of brittle fragmentation models, and found to be in good agreement with the laboratory-scale impacts. In turn, these models can help unravel the consequences of impact-induced fragmentation processes that have helped shape the solar system.
Stability and detection performance of a GEM-based Optical Readout TPC with He/CF$_4$ gas mixtures
Creators: name: Baracchini, E.
name: Benussi, L.
name: Bianco, S.
name: Capoccia, C.
name: Caponero, M.
name: Cavoto, G.
name: Cortez, A.
name: Costa, I. A.
name: Di Marco, E.
name: D'Imperio, G.
name: Dho, G.
name: Iacoangeli, F.
name: Maccarrone, G.
name: Marafini, M.
name: Mazzitelli, G.
name: Messina, A.
name: Nobrega, R. A.
name: Orlandi, A.
name: Paoletti, E.
name: Passamonti, L.
name: Petrucci, F.
name: Piccolo, D.
name: Pierluigi, D.
name: Pinci, D.
name: Renga, F.
name: Rosatelli, F.
name: Russo, A.
name: Saviano, G.
name: Tomassini, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The performance and long term stability of an optically readout Time Projection Chamber with an electron amplification structure based on three Gas Electron Multipliers was studied. He/CF$_4$ based gas mixtures were used in two different proportions (60/40 and 70/30) in a CYGNO prototype with 7 litres sensitive volume. With electrical configurations providing very similar electron gains, an almost full detection efficiency in the whole detector volume was found with both mixtures, while a light yield about 20\% larger for the 60/40 was found. The electrostatic stability was tested by monitoring voltages and currents during 25 days. The detector worked in very stable and safe condition for the whole period. In the presence of less CF$_4$, a larger probability of unstable events was clearly detected.
Additional file 2 of Maternal and perinatal outcomes and pharmacological management of Covid-19 infection in pregnancy: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Thomas, Binny
name: Abdulrouf Pallivalapila
name: Kassem, Wessam El
name: Tarannum, Asma
name: Hail, Fatema Al
name: Rijims, Mohammed
name: Parappil, Hussain
name: Arabo Ibrahim Bayo
name: Shamsa Ahmad
name: Nazar, Zachariah
name: Stewart, Derek
name: Moza Al Hail
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. PRISMA 2009 Checklist
From exotic phases to microscopic Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Moessner, R.
name: Raman, K. S.
name: Sondhi, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report recent analytical progress in the quest for spin models realising exotic phases. We focus on the question of `reverse-engineering' a local, SU(2) invariant S=1/2 Hamiltonian to exhibit phases predicted on the basis of effective models, such as large-N or quantum dimer models. This aim is to provide a point-of-principle demonstration of the possibility of constructing such microscopic lattice Hamiltonians, as well as to complement and guide numerical (and experimental) approaches to the same question. In particular, we demonstrate how to utilise peturbed Klein Hamiltonians to generate effective quantum dimer models. These models use local multi-spin interactions and, to obtain a controlled theory, a decoration procedure involving the insertion of Majumdar-Ghosh chainlets on the bonds of the lattice. The phases we thus realise include deconfined resonating valence bond liquids, a devil's staircase of interleaved phases which exhibits Cantor deconfinement, as well as a three-dimensional U(1) liquid phase exhibiting photonic excitations.
description: Invited talk at Peyresq Workshop on "Effective models for low-dimensional strongly correlated systems". Proceedings to be published by AIP. v2: references added
Effects of proper motion of neutron stars on continuous gravitational-wave searches
Creators: name: Covas, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All-sky and directed continuous gravitational-wave searches look for signals from unknown asymmetric rotating neutron stars. These searches do not take into account the proper motion of the neutron star, assuming that the loss of signal-to-noise ratio caused by this is negligible and that no biases in parameter estimation are introduced. In this paper we study the effect that proper motion has on continuous wave searches, and we show for what regions of parameter space (frequency, proper motion, sky position) and observation times this assumption may not be valid. We also calculate the relative uncertainty on the proper motion parameter estimation that these searches can achieve.
description: 10 pages
Measuring Charged-Current Muon Neutrino Interactions in MiniBooNE
Creators: name: Wascko, M. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MiniBooNE seeks to confirm or refute the LSND muon-antineutrino to electron-antineutrino oscillation signal with high statistical significance and different systematics. MiniBooNE has accumulated the world's largest GeV neutrino data set. MiniBooNE employs a cosmic muon calibration system to study the reconstruction of the energies and directions of muons in the detector. Progress of measurements of the muon neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic and single pion production cross sections are presented.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in proceeding for DPF2004, uses class file ws-ijmpa.cls
TEACHING AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Creators: name: Barkley, Andrew P.
name: Barkley, Andrew P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Rapid technological and economic change has been the defining characteristic of food production, processing, and consumption over the past several decades. Improvements in production techniques, business practices, and information assimilation have enhanced the role of public universities: the provision of knowledge and information by public universities has become increasingly necessary, urgent, and profitable. This trend is likely to continue into the future as rapid development of information technologies, globalization of markets, and natural sciences occur. The thesis of this paper is that the need for institutions of higher education to teach students of all ages how to think, synthesize competing ideas, and assimilate new information has become more critical and more urgent in the information age, or "New Economy." Analytical ability and new knowledge in the economics of agriculture are increasingly important not only for the traditional university clientele of young adult residential learners, but also for productive women and men throughout their careers and lives. The original structure of the Land Grant Universities (Research, Extension, and Teaching) is well suited to accomplish this enhanced mission of providing lifelong education and information to producers, consumers, and decision-makers in the food and fiber industry. However, teachers of agricultural economics must invest heavily in the acquisition of new skills and knowledge and institutional change to take full advantage of the huge opportunities and challenges of the New Economy. This paper considers how well our traditional institutions, programs, and teaching practices in Agricultural Economics meet the objectives of student learning in a new era.
Hypergeometric functions and new mirrors of Fano varieties
Creators: name: Gugiatti, Giulia
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: In this thesis we outline a strategy to write the hypergeometric function of a Fano weighted complete intersection X of dimension n as a period of a pencil of (n-1)-dimensional varieties. Conjecturally this function is a specialisation of the quantum period of X, thus the ideas in this thesis can be viewed as the basis of a new method to find Landau--Ginzburg mirrors for all Fano weighted complete intersections. Our strategy builds upon the work of Beukers, Cohen, and Mellit on finite hypergeometric functions, suggesting that the hypergeometric variation attached to X is linked to the variation of intermediate cohomology of a pencil of (n-1+2c)-dimensional varieties, where c is the codimension of X. This pencil can be viewed as a mirror of X of the wrong dimension. We focus on anticanonical del Pezzo weighted complete intersections. The feature which makes these surfaces especially interesting is that, if the ambient space has all weights greater than 1, they have empty anticanonical linear system, and therefore fall out of the range of the known mirror constructions. For each positive integer k we exhibit the hypergeometric function of the family of surfaces of degree 8k+4 in P(2,2k+1,2k+1,4k+1) as a period of a pencil of curves of genus 3k+1. This series is the main piece of the Johnson-Kollár classification of anticanonical del Pezzo weighted hypersurfaces. For all k our pencil is a mirror of the family. We build a candidate mirror for the family of surfaces of degree 15 in P(3,3,5,5) by identifying the variation of H^3 of its wrong dimension mirror with a quotient of the variation of H^1 of a pencil of genus-six curves. We also provide evidence that our constructions are compatible with the work of Hori-Vafa. We conclude by discussing our ideas to prove the conjectural Hodge--theoretic translation of the work of Beukers, Cohen, and Mellit.
ORGANIC ROW CROPS IN A DIVERSIFIED FARM PORTFOLIO
Creators: name: Hirschi, Rick L.
name: Hirschi, Rick L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This paper estimates and compares the net returns of an organic row crop rotation to the returns of a conventional row crop rotation in the Midwest, and explores some of the sources of risk associated with organic row crop production. The study concludes modeling the optimal land use of a risk-averse producer assuming a producer is able to grow both organic and conventional row crops. The results indicate that the expected net returns of organic row crop production can be competitive with traditional corn and soybean production, however, the variation in returns can be nearly twice those of conventional production. The land use model indicates that organics is part of an optimal portfolio for producers with low levels of risk aversion. Land use changes to conventional corn and soybean production as risk aversion and farm size increase.
A General Setting for Geometric Phase of Mixed States Under an Arbitrary Nonunitary Evolution
Creators: name: Rezakhani, A. T.
name: Zanardi, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of geometric phase for an open quantum system is reinvestigated in a unifying approach. Two of existing methods to define geometric phase, one by Uhlmann's approach and the other by kinematic approach, which have been considered to be distinct, are shown to be related in this framework. The method is based upon purification of a density matrix by its uniform decomposition and a generalization of the parallel transport condition obtained from this decomposition. It is shown that the generalized parallel transport condition can be satisfied when Uhlmann's condition holds. However, it does not mean that all solutions of the generalized parallel transport condition are compatible with those of Uhlmann's one. It is also shown how to recover the earlier known definitions of geometric phase as well as how to generalize them when degeneracy exists and varies in time.
description: 4 pages, extended results
Additional file 20 of Fibroblast growth factor (FGF), FGF receptor (FGFR), and cyclin D1 (CCND1) DNA methylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas is associated with transcriptional activity, gene amplification, human papillomavirus (HPV) status, and sensitivity to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: Bao, Yilin
name: Gabrielpillai, Jennis
name: Dietrich, Jörn
name: Zarbl, Romina
name: Strieth, Sebastian
name: Schröck, Friederike
name: Dietrich, Dimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 20: Fig. S18. This figure illustrates correlation and association of FGF21 DNA methylation with mRNA expression, HPV status, copy number variation, and sensitivity to the FGFR-targeted TKIs PD 173074 and AZD4547. Exemplarily, results of eight selected CpG sites within FGF21 are illustrated.
Additional file 1 of Maternal and perinatal outcomes and pharmacological management of Covid-19 infection in pregnancy: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Thomas, Binny
name: Abdulrouf Pallivalapila
name: Kassem, Wessam El
name: Tarannum, Asma
name: Hail, Fatema Al
name: Rijims, Mohammed
name: Parappil, Hussain
name: Arabo Ibrahim Bayo
name: Shamsa Ahmad
name: Nazar, Zachariah
name: Stewart, Derek
name: Moza Al Hail
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. PROSPERO
$\pmb{A}$-Statistical extension of the Korovkin type approximation theorem
Creators: name: Erkus, Esra
name: Duman, Oktay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 41A25; 41A36

description: In this paper, using the concept of $A$-statistical convergence which is a regular (non-matrix) summability method, we obtain a general Korovkin type approximation theorem which concerns the problem of approximating a function $f$ by means of a sequence $\{L_{n}f\}$ of positive linear operators.
description: 10 pages
Exact Properties of SIQR model for COVID-19
Creators: name: Odagaki, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The SIQR model is reformulated where compartments for infected and quarantined are redefined so as to be appropriate to COVID-19, and exact properties of the model are presented. It is shown that the maximum number of infected at large depends strongly on the quarantine rate and that the quarantine measure is more effective than the lockdown measure in controlling the pandemic. The peak of the number of quarantined patients is shown to appear some time later than the time that the number of infected becomes maximum. On the basis of the expected utility theory, a theoretical framework to find out an optimum strategy in the space of lockdown measure and quarantine measure is proposed for minimizing the maximum number of infected and for controlling the outbreak of pandemic at its early stage.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures
A psychometric analysis of the negative scale of the attributional style questionnaire with an eye towards investigating gender differences : subtitle a comparison of methods
Creators: name: King, Carmel Laura
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The present study analyzed the negative scale of the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ), a popular measure of attributional style and correlate of depression (Peterson et al., 1982), using non-parametric item response modeling. This modeling technique was used to determine if items function differentially for males and females, through differential item functioning (DIF) analysis. Past studies of the ASQ have not used non-parametric item response theory (IRT) modeling in their analysis, nor have they determined whether or not items function differentially for males and females. On a methodological note, nonparametric IRT results were therefore compared with results obtained using classical test theory (CTT) statistics. Results indicated that the negative items of each of the three subscales of the ASQ, locus, stability, and globality were found to function well and discriminate best at the extremes. Further, no gender DIF was detected using either nonparametric IRT or CTT methods. Furthermore, conditional reliability was found to be more informative and powerful than a single reliability coefficient. Findings add to the existing literature supporting the theoretical model of the ASQ by utilizing previously unexplored statistical methodologies.
Water Resources in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Implications for Action
Creators: name: Rosegrant, Mark W.
name: Rosegrant, Mark W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The defining issues of the twenty-first century may well be the control of water resources. In the next 30 years it is likely that water shortages will increase dramatically. While water supplies are dwindling because of groundwater depletion, waste, and pollution, demand is rising fast. Currently 338 million people are subject to sometime severe water shortages, and by 2025 this number is projected to jump to about 3 billion. The worsening scarcity of water threatens agricultural growth and industrial production and is likely to increase water-related health problems and degrade the environment. In light of these prospects, water issues have been a central theme of IFPRI’s 2020 Vision initiative, which seeks to develop an international consensus on how to meet future world food needs while reducing poverty and protecting the environment. In this paper, Mark W. Rosegrant assesses global water supply and demand, describes in detail the forces contributing to water scarcity, and lays out a number of strategies for managing water in the future. Any solution, Rosegrant asserts, will need to involve both the careful exploration of new sources of water and strong measures to stimulate more efficient use of water. Policies must treat water not as a free good as they often do now, but rather as a scarce commodity that comes at a price. Cooperation’s between countries sharing the same water basin will also become increasingly important as water becomes more scarce. As Rosegrant points out, sensible and far-sighted methods of managing water resources have been adopted in some areas and have been successful in helping alleviate water shortages. Bit such methods will need to become much more widespread if the world id to avoid large-scales conflicts and catastrophes stemming from water shortages and competition for the scarce resource. The principles described here offer guidance on strategies to help avert these disasters.
Sampled-Data Control Based Consensus of Fractional-Order Multi-Agent Systems
Creators: name: Li, Xinyao
name: Wen, Changyun
name: Liu, Xiao-Kang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we investigate consensus control of fractional-order multi-agent systems with order in (0,1) via sampled-data control. A new scheme to design distributed controllers with rigorous analysis is presented by utilizing the unique properties of fractional-order calculus, namely hereditary and infinite memory. It is established that global boundedness of all closed-loop signals is ensured and asymptotic consensus is realized. Simulation studies are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method and verify the obtained results.
description: Submitted to IEEE Control Systems Letters
Additional file 21 of Fibroblast growth factor (FGF), FGF receptor (FGFR), and cyclin D1 (CCND1) DNA methylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas is associated with transcriptional activity, gene amplification, human papillomavirus (HPV) status, and sensitivity to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: Bao, Yilin
name: Gabrielpillai, Jennis
name: Dietrich, Jörn
name: Zarbl, Romina
name: Strieth, Sebastian
name: Schröck, Friederike
name: Dietrich, Dimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 21: Fig. S19. This figure illustrates correlation and association of FGF22 DNA methylation with mRNA expression, HPV status, copy number variation, and sensitivity to the FGFR-targeted TKIs PD 173074 and AZD4547. Exemplarily, results of eight selected CpG sites within FGF22 are illustrated.
title: The Global Benefits of Low Oil Prices: More Than Meets the Eye
Creators: name: Fay, Robert
name: Guénette, Justin-Damien
name: Morel, Louis
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2016

description: Between mid-2014 and early 2016, oil prices fell by roughly 65 per cent. This note documents the channels through which this oil price decline is expected to affect the global economy. One important and immediate channel is through higher expenditures, especially in net oil-importing countries. Although there is considerable uncertainty over the estimated impact, to date, these expenditures appear to have been small, because the response of investment in oil-producing countries has been negative, large and quick to materialize. This negative response has dominated the positive response of expenditures in oil-importing countries. It is also important, however, to consider how the oil price decline can improve private and public sector balance sheets, as it is expected to support private and public spending in future years. To this extent, global benefits go beyond what is captured in current GDP measures and, as such, there is more to this issue than meets the eye.
description: Entre le milieu de 2014 et le début de 2016, les prix du pétrole ont chuté de 65 % environ. La présente note analytique décrit les canaux par lesquels cette chute des prix du pétrole est susceptible de se répercuter sur l’économie mondiale. L’un d’eux, un canal important et immédiat, est la hausse des dépenses, en particulier dans les pays importateurs nets de pétrole. Même si une incertitude considérable entoure l’estimation des effets, ces dépenses se sont avérées faibles jusqu’ici, en raison de la forte réaction négative de l’investissement dans les pays producteurs de pétrole, laquelle s’est manifestée rapidement. Cette réaction négative a été supérieure à la réaction positive des dépenses dans les pays importateurs de pétrole. Toutefois, il importe également d’examiner comment le recul des prix du pétrole peut améliorer les bilans des secteurs privé et public, étant donné qu’il devrait soutenir les dépenses de ces secteurs dans l’avenir. Dans cette optique, les avantages à l’échelle mondiale vont au-delà de ce qu’indiquent les mesures du PIB actuelles et, tout bien considéré, cette question se révèle plus vaste qu’il y paraît à première vue.
Evolution of damped Lyman alpha kinematics and the effect of spatial resolution on 21-cm measurements
Creators: name: Ryan-Weber, Emma V.
name: Staveley-Smith, Lister
name: Webster, Rachel L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the effect of spatial resolution on determining pencil-beam like velocity widths and column densities in galaxies. Three 21-cm datasets are used, the HIPASS galaxy catalogue, a subset of HIPASS galaxies with ATCA maps and a high-resolution image of the LMC. Velocity widths measured from 21-cm emission in local galaxies are compared with those measured in intermediate redshift Damped Lyman alpha (DLA) absorbers. We conclude that spatial resolution has a severe effect on measuring pencil-beam like velocity widths in galaxies. Spatial smoothing by a factor of 240 is shown to increase the median velocity width by a factor of two. Thus any difference between velocity widths measured from global profiles or low spatial resolution 21-cm maps at z=0 and DLAs at z>1 cannot unambiguously be attributed to galaxy evolution. The effect on column density measurements is less severe and the values of dN/dz from local low-resolution 21-cm measurements are expected to be overestimated by only ~10 per cent.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS letters
Baryogenesis after Hyperextended Inflation
Creators: name: De Felice, Antonio
name: Trodden, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a baryogenesis mechanism operating in the context of hyperextended inflation and making use of a coupling between the scalar field and a standard model global current, such as B or B-L. The method is efficient at temperatures at which these currents are not conserved due to some higher dimensional operator. The particle physics and cosmological phenomenology are discussed. We consider constraints stemming from nucleosynthesis and solar system experiments.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure, uses RevTeX
title: A Primer on Neo-Fisherian Economics
Creators: name: Amano, Robert
name: Carter, Thomas J.
name: Mendes, Rhys R.
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2016

description: Conventional models imply that central banks aiming to raise inflation should lower nominal rates and thus stimulate aggregate demand. However, several economists have recently challenged this conventional wisdom in favour of an alternative “neo-Fisherian’’ view under which higher nominal rates might in fact lead to higher inflation. In this note, we show that a simple New Keynesian model can indeed deliver a neo-Fisherian link from higher nominal rates to higher inflation. However, the conditions under which this link emerges include a configuration of fiscal and monetary policy, which departs substantially from the configuration normally assumed in the New Keynesian literature. In particular, this configuration involves a commitment that the central bank will not respond too aggressively if inflation is off target, in the sense that policy will be set in a manner inconsistent with the Taylor principle. Active use of inflation to manage real government debt would also be needed. We identify significant challenges associated with both these conditions and argue that they militate against policies that aim to exploit the neo-Fisherian mechanism.
description: Dans les modèles traditionnels, les banques centrales qui entendent faire augmenter l’inflation doivent abaisser les taux d’intérêt nominaux, ce qui stimule la demande globale. Or, plusieurs économistes ont récemment remis en question cette conception généralement admise, en mettant en avant le point de vue dit « néo-fishérien » selon lequel une hausse des taux nominaux pourrait en fait provoquer une élévation du taux d’inflation. Dans la présente note, nous montrons qu’un modèle de type nouveau keynésien simple permet effectivement de relier la progression des taux d’intérêt nominaux à celle de l’inflation. Parmi les conditions d’apparition de ce lien, on trouve cependant une configuration de politiques budgétaire et monétaire sensiblement différente de celle habituellement postulée par les nouveaux keynésiens. Dans cette configuration, la banque centrale s’engage à ne pas réagir trop vigoureusement si l’inflation s’écarte de la cible, en ce sens que sa politique monétaire sera établie de manière incompatible avec le principe de Taylor. Cette configuration suppose aussi le recours actif à l’inflation comme instrument de gestion de la valeur réelle de la dette de l’État. Nous relevons d’importantes difficultés associées à ces deux conditions et faisons valoir qu’elles plaident contre la mise en oeuvre de politiques qui viseraient à exploiter le mécanisme néo-fishérien.
Additional file 3 of Fibroblast growth factor (FGF), FGF receptor (FGFR), and cyclin D1 (CCND1) DNA methylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas is associated with transcriptional activity, gene amplification, human papillomavirus (HPV) status, and sensitivity to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: Bao, Yilin
name: Gabrielpillai, Jennis
name: Dietrich, Jörn
name: Zarbl, Romina
name: Strieth, Sebastian
name: Schröck, Friederike
name: Dietrich, Dimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S1. This figure illustrates correlation and association of FGF1 DNA methylation with mRNA expression, HPV status, copy number variation, and sensitivity to the FGFR-targeted TKIs PD 173074 and AZD4547. Exemplarily, results of seven selected CpG sites within FGF1 are illustrated.
Additional file 2 of Effectiveness of exergames for improving mobility and balance in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pacheco, T. B. F.
name: C. S. P. De Medeiros
name: V. H. B. De Oliveira
name: E. R. Vieira
name: F. A. C. De Cavalcanti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Search Strategy.
Estimating Household Income to Monitor and Evaluate Public Investment Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Benin, Samuel
name: Randriamamonjy, Josee
name: Benin, Samuel
name: Randriamamonjy, Josee
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Development
subject: household income
subject: monitoring and evaluation
subject: proxy indicators

description: Monitoring rural household income is important for governments, donors, nongovernmental organizations, researchers, and others involved with development strategies, because increasing rural household income is a primary objective for achieving many development goals, including reducing poverty, hunger, and food and nutrition insecurity. However, accurate assessment of rural household income is time consuming and costly. Using an expenditure-based income measure, data on actual household expenditures per capita obtained from various national surveys for 28 Sub-Saharan African countries, this study used proxy indicators to estimate regression models and then predict and analyze changes in household income per capita between 1985 and 2006. Over the 20-year period, the study predicted annual average real household monthly income per capita at $78 in 1993 international dollars. South Africa was ahead of the group of countries at $225, followed by Côte d’Ivoire and Lesotho at $117 and $91, respectively. Predictions for Nigeria and Zambia were the worst at $28 and $39, respectively. Looking at changes in income over time, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda, Senegal, Mauritania, and Ghana (in declining order) experienced consistent positive growth. In contrast, Zambia, Kenya, and Lesotho showed declining trends, averaging –2.7 percent, –2.0 percent, and –1.3 percent per year, respectively, over the 20-year period. The latter results were not surprising given the low and sometimes negative growth rates in real GDP per capita and real agricultural value added per worker over the same period for those countries. The predicted trends were also consistent with observed trends in poverty and hunger, suggesting that the methodology is a useful and least-cost approach for monitoring household incomes to support evaluation of public investment programs.
Charge fluctuation induced dephasing of exchange coupled spin qubits
Creators: name: Hu, Xuedong
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exchange coupled {\it spin} qubits in semiconductor nanostructures are shown to be vulnerable to dephasing caused by {\it charge noise} invariably present in the semiconductor environment. This decoherence of exchange gate by environmental charge fluctuations arises from the fundamental Coulombic nature of the Heisenberg coupling, and presents a serious challenge to the scalability of the widely studied exchange gate solid state spin quantum computer architectures. We estimate dephasing times for coupled spin qubits in a wide range (from 1 ns up to $> 1 μ$s) depending on the exchange coupling strength and its sensitivity to charge fluctuations.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Particle collisions near static spherically symmetric black holes
Creators: name: Hackmann, Eva
name: Nandan, Hemwati
name: Sheoran, Pankaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown by Bañados, Silk and West (BSW) that the center of mass energy (E_cm) of test particles starting from rest at infinity and colliding near the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole is always finite. In this communication, we extent the BSW scenario and study two particles with different energies colliding near the horizon of a static spherically symmetric black hole. Surprisingly, we find that even for the static spherically symmetric (i.e., Schwarzschild like) black holes it is possible to obtain an arbitrarily high E cm from the two test particles colliding near the horizon of a black hole, if one fine-tunes the parameters of geodesic motion.
description: References and extra discussion added
Designing contested heritage within the sacred context
Creators: name: Camiz, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Παναγία Ἀχειροποίητος
Panagia Acheiropoietos
Lambousa

description: Alessandro Camiz, "Designing contested heritage within the sacred context," in Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning - Proceedings of the Workshop, edited by Giorgio Verdiani and Per Cornell (Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2015), 78-90.
 Cultural property -- Protection -- Congresses.
 Cultural property -- Digitization -- Congresses.
 Historic preservation -- Data processing -- Congresses.
Mühlhaupt, Erwin: D. Martin Luthers Psalmen-Auslegung
Creators: name: Kawerau, Peter
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 47 (1963): Oriens christianus, Band 47
Additional file 4 of Fibroblast growth factor (FGF), FGF receptor (FGFR), and cyclin D1 (CCND1) DNA methylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas is associated with transcriptional activity, gene amplification, human papillomavirus (HPV) status, and sensitivity to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: Bao, Yilin
name: Gabrielpillai, Jennis
name: Dietrich, Jörn
name: Zarbl, Romina
name: Strieth, Sebastian
name: Schröck, Friederike
name: Dietrich, Dimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S2. This figure illustrates correlation and association of FGF2 DNA methylation with mRNA expression, HPV status, copy number variation, and sensitivity to the FGFR-targeted TKIs PD 173074 and AZD4547. Exemplarily, results of six selected CpG sites within FGF2 are illustrated.
Does Africa Trade Less than it Should, and If So, Why?: The Role of Market Access and Domestic Factors
Creators: name: Bouet, Antoine
name: Mishra, Santosh
name: Roy, Devesh
name: Bouet, Antoine
name: Mishra, Santosh
name: Roy, Devesh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Gravity model
subject: undertrading
subject: trade related infrastructure
subject: market access

description: This paper addresses the question of whether Africa is an undertrading continent. We answer this question using a much-improved data set for obtaining predicted trade and by employing methods that correct for bias in estimates of undertrading. Our results indicate that globally Africa is an underexporter in our preferred Heckman specification. This result is robust to the addition of various controls and the application of variants of the gravity model of trade. We also looked for explanations for Africa’s undertrading. We found that accounting for transport and communication infrastructure reduced the undertrading effect for Africa, and in some specifications of the gravity model, the under-trading effect vanished altogether. Results from a semiparametric model provided evidence of significant nonlinear impacts from infrastructure, and the effects for a large number of African countries was significant and compared favorably with the marginal effects of infrastructure in countries on other continents and in comparable income brackets. Using this model we also found evidence of complementarity across transport and communication infrastructure, implying that much greater impacts will be likely if the infrastructure are developed jointly rather than in isolation.