cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ATMO-ACCESS D4.2 Report on existing training schemes in the atmospheric domain related to remote access
Creators: name: Reimann, Stefan
name: Herrmann, Hartmut
name: Alados-Arboledas, Lucas
Publisher: name: EMPA
Year: 2022

description: When the ATMO-ACCESS project and its training component in WP4 were devised, the reduction of the environmental footstep related to these trainings, mostly performed by physical access, was a very strong driver to develop further TNAs in a more sustainable way. However, during the recent Covid-19 pandemic new remote access tools (such as Zoom, Webex and MS Teams) became so popular within the research community, that also other issues such as spending less time travelling and the combination of research and family life became an issue. This has been the incentive for producing two reports on TNA for training activities: First, TNA and training related to physical access and second, TNA and training related to remote access.Transnational access (TNA) has been used within several European atmospheric research projects (e.g. ACTRIS, EUROCHAMP) to facilitate measurement campaigns, to foster knowledge exchange and to support the education of early career scientists on the European scale. In fact, many international measurement campaigns would not have taken place without this instrument for transnational support in place. The training component has always been a critical focus of the TNA provision, especially for young scientists. In the past, TNA was very much related to physical access, where, for example, several instruments from different institutes were installed at a specific location and scientists related to the respective instruments have supported the data production. Furthermore, also physical access to training schools has been a popular subject of past TNAs.Within this report, the existing training schemes in the atmospheric domain related to remote access will be discussed. This report on remote access is accompanied by a report on physical access. Both reports have mostly the same structure and at the end an identical conclusion section. The basis of both reports is a questionnaire, which was used to gather information on past physical and remote access training. This was sent to the entities of ACTRIS/EUROCHAMP, ICOS and IAGOS, which have offered TNA related to training in the past. Furthermore, these entities were asked about their future plans, related to physical and remote training within TNA, which are also summarized in the reports.The outcome of this report, together with the report on physical access, will be used to devise specific calls to test new ways of training within the TNAs. This will then build the basis for future trainings related to TNAs within the atmospheric research community and potentially for TNAs in projects within other environmental compartments.
The XMM-Newton Needles in the Haystack Survey: the local X-ray luminosity function of 'normal' galaxies
Creators: name: Georgantopoulos, I.
name: Georgakakis, A.
name: Koulouridis, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we estimate the local (z<0.22) X-ray luminosity function of `normal' galaxies derived from the XMM-Newton Needles in the Haystack Survey. This is an on-going project that aims to identify X-ray selected `normal' galaxies (i.e. non-AGN dominated) in the local Universe. We are using a total of 70 XMM-Newton fields covering an area of 11 sq. degrees which overlap with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release-2. `Normal' galaxies are selected on the basis of their resolved optical light profile, their low X-ray--to--optical flux ratio (log(f_x/f_o)
description: To appear to MNRAS, 9 pages
THE EXTENT OF SPRAWL IN THE FRINGE OF JAKARTA METROPOLITAN AREA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EXTERNALITIES
Creators: name: Fitriani, Rahma
name: Harris, Michael
name: Fitriani, Rahma
name: Harris, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: sprawl
subject: Jakarta
subject: urban development
subject: spatial externalities

description: The Jakarta Metropolitan area has experienced urban sprawl. Existing planning processes do not appear to manage sprawl effectively. The aim of this study is to empirically analyse the contribution of spatial externalities on sprawl, and its effect on proximate agricultural land and conservation areas. A residential location choice model incorporating externalities is constructed, and a Tobit panel data analysis is conducted using grid-based land use data. The analysis finds significant empirical evidence regarding the contribution of neighbourhood development externalities to sprawl. Implications for policy are discussed.
Optimal Constraint Projection for Hyperbolic Evolution Systems
Creators: name: Holst, Michael
name: Lindblom, Lee
name: Owen, Robert
name: Pfeiffer, Harald P.
name: Scheel, Mark A.
name: Kidder, Lawrence E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Techniques are developed for projecting the solutions of symmetric hyperbolic evolution systems onto the constraint submanifold (the constraint-satisfying subset of the dynamical field space). These optimal projections map a field configuration to the ``nearest'' configuration in the constraint submanifold, where distances between configurations are measured with the natural metric on the space of dynamical fields. The construction and use of these projections is illustrated for a new representation of the scalar field equation that exhibits both bulk and boundary generated constraint violations. Numerical simulations on a black-hole background show that bulk constraint violations cannot be controlled by constraint-preserving boundary conditions alone, but are effectively controlled by constraint projection. Simulations also show that constraint violations entering through boundaries cannot be controlled by constraint projection alone, but are controlled by constraint-preserving boundary conditions. Numerical solutions to the pathological scalar field system are shown to converge to solutions of a standard representation of the scalar field equation when constraint projection and constraint-preserving boundary conditions are used together.
description: final version with minor changes; 16 pages, 14 figures
A statistical model of reversals in the geodynamo
Creators: name: Scullard, Christian R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: I study a simple model of a turbulent dynamo. Using a combination of analytic solutions and scaling arguments I derive a set of governing equations that describe the evolution of the magnetic field. This simplified system predicts behaviour which is qualitatively similar to that seen in the Earth's magnetic field and in numerical simulations. In particular, the model predicts multiple steady-field states, and that in certain cases the larger field states are more stable than their weaker counterparts. This provides a possible explanation for the observed periods of high stability in the geomagnetic field as well as for some of the observed behaviour in numerical simulations.
Photoproduction of Pentaquark in Feynman and Regge Theories
Creators: name: Mart, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoproduction of the Theta+ pentaquark on the proton is analyzed by using an isobar and a Regge models. The difference in the calculated total cross section is found to be more than two orders of magnitude for a hadronic form factor cut-off Lambda > 1 GeV. Comparable results would be obtained for 0.6 < Lambda < 0.8 GeV. We also calculate contribution of the Theta+ photoproduction to the GDH integral. By comparing with the current phenomenological calculation, it is found that the GDH sum rule favors the result obtained from Regge approach and isobar model with small Lambda.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.C as a Rapid Communication
Land use planning challenges and tools—tradeable development rights: design considerations
Creators: name: Karanja, Francis
name: Rama, Ismo
name: Karanja, Francis
name: Rama, Ismo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Tradeable development rights (TDRs) are market based instruments that allow a right to develop a parcel of land to move from one parcel to another. We examine TDRs as a potential instrument for achieving the economic objective of allocating development to its highest value use in Victoria. TDRs are examined as a tool within Victoria’s existing planning system for rural land, which has a number of objectives. Design considerations for applying TDRs in Victoria include the need to consider modifying development entitlements from a right to apply (RTA) to a right to develop (RTD). It will also be important to address potential infrastructure externalities. Additional challenges include developing a suitable metric, addressing potential development hotspots and non-quantity development attributes, considering potential leaks, clarifying distributional impacts, and addressing credible commitment mechanisms. We consider the potential for TDRs to contribute to a series of land use outcomes. We find that using TDRs to protect agricultural does not appear to address underlying market failures that may contribute to excessive urban sprawl and encroachment on agricultural land. TDRs offer a potential source of adjustment income, although other instruments may assist in a more effective and transparent manner. TDRs can be directed to protecting native vegetation; however, Victoria has existing and emerging instruments in place to target this objective. Finally, TDRs offer potential for the more efficient allocation of well specified development rights, which would require modification of the existing planning framework to accommodate the design challenges noted above.
EFFECTIVE METHODS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES TO PRESCHOOL EDUCATION CHILDREN
Creators: name: Ganieva, Shahlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The article discusses the benefits of early foreign language learning for children, highlighting its significance in fostering their development, expanding their worldview, and nurturing them into knowledgeable, intelligent, and broad-minded individuals who are well-equipped to become valuable professionals for society and the nation. Furthermore, the article emphasizes that incorporating engaging, beneficial, and effective foreign language instruction in preschool settings lays the groundwork for nurturing multilingual, broad-minded professionals capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously.
Evidence for a pressure-induced antiferromagnetic quantum critical point in intermediate valence UTe2
Creators: name: Thomas, S. M.
name: Santos, F. B.
name: Christensen, M. H.
name: Asaba, T.
name: Ronning, F.
name: Thompson, J. D.
name: Bauer, E. D.
name: Fernandes, R. M.
name: Fabbris, G.
name: Rosa, P. F. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: UTe$_2$ is a recently discovered unconventional superconductor that has attracted much interest due to its many intriguing properties - a large residual density-of-states in the superconducting state, re-entrant superconductivity in high magnetic fields, and potentially spin-triplet topological superconductivity. Our ac calorimetry, electrical resistivity, and x-ray absorption study of UTe$_2$ under applied pressure reveals key new insights on the superconducting and magnetic states surrounding pressure-induced quantum criticality at P$_{c1}$ = 1.3 GPa. First, our specific heat data at low pressures, combined with a phenomenological model, show that pressure alters the balance between two closely competing superconducting orders. Second, near 1.5 GPa we detect two bulk transitions that trigger changes in the resistivity which are consistent with antiferromagnetic order, rather than ferromagnetism. The presence of both bulk magnetism and superconductivity at pressures above P$_{c2}$ = 1.4 GPa results in a significant temperature difference between resistively and thermodynamically determined transitions into the superconducting state, which indicates a suppression of the superconducting volume fraction by magnetic order. Third, the emergence of magnetism is accompanied by an increase in valence towards a U$^{4+}$ (5f2) state, which indicates that UTe$_2$ exhibits intermediate valence at ambient pressure. Our results suggest that antiferromagnetic fluctuations may play a more significant role on the superconducting state of UTe$_2$ than previously thought.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures; added section S1 to supplemental, fixed geometrical factors in current density measurements
Conscience January 2025 Policy Brief - Quantum Computing as a Pathway to Develop Drugs for Undruggable Proteins
Creators: name: Lamberti, Dylan
Publisher: name: Conscience
Year: 2025

description: Quantum Computing as a Pathway to Develop Drugs for Undruggable Proteins

A wide range of human proteins are considered ‘undruggable’ because of their relatively flat functional interfaces, lacking the pockets that would typically be targets for drug treatments. The difficulty in devising innovative treatments for these proteins is compounded by the long and costly drug development process. Quantum computing offers a potential pathway to both speed up drug development and explore treatments that target ‘undruggable’ proteins.

This policy brief presents a study co-led by University of Toronto researchers and Insilico Medicine, as well as lessons learned therefrom.
Evaluating the genetic progress of wheat in NSW, 1992-2009
Creators: name: Redmond, Thomas
name: Nolan, Elizabeth
name: Martin, Peter J.
name: Redmond, Thomas
name: Nolan, Elizabeth
name: Martin, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: genetic change
subject: technical change
subject: innovation
subject: wheat breeding
subject: intellectual property

description: Intellectual Property Regimes (IPRs) have been justified on the basis that they promote innovation, but it is not always clear that they do so. Empirical studies of IPRs in an Australian context have been limited. Plant variety protection is one form of IPR. The passing of the Australian Plant Breeder’s Rights Act of 1994 has been followed by significant commercialisation of the wheat breeding industry. The purpose of this paper is to consider whether this commercialisation has benefited wheat productivity through varietal improvement. We estimate a linear crop production function, using a random effects Hausman Taylor estimator to evaluate differences in genetic contributions to productivity between public and private wheat varieties commercially released in NSW over the period 1992-2009 using crop varietal data. Results from the Hausman Taylor estimator show that private varieties, on average, have outperformed public varieties over the period, suggesting that Plant Breeder’s Rights has promoted productive innovation in wheat. However, when we consider the best performing genetics of the varieties, public varieties have, in some years, outperformed privately bred varieties.
High-energy particle acceleration in the shell of a supernova remnant
Creators: name: Collaboration, H. E. S. S.
name: :
name: Aharonian, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A significant fraction of the energy density of the interstellar medium is in the form of high-energy charged particles (cosmic rays). The origin of these particles remains uncertain. Although it is generally accepted that the only sources capable of supplying the energy required to accelerate the bulk of Galactic cosmic rays are supernova explosions, and even though the mechanism of particle acceleration in expanding supernova remnant (SNR) shocks is thought to be well understood theoretically, unequivocal evidence for the production of high-energy particles in supernova shells has proven remarkably hard to find. Here we report on observations of the SNR RX J1713.7-3946 (G347.3-0.5), which was discovered by ROSAT in the X-ray spectrum and later claimed as a source of high-energy γ-rays of TeV energies (1 TeV=10^{12} eV). We present a TeV γ-ray image of the SNR: the spatially resolved remnant has a shell morphology similar to that seen in X-rays, which demonstrates that very-high-energy particles are accelerated there. The energy spectrum indicates efficient acceleration of charged particles to energies beyond 100 TeV, consistent with current ideas of particle acceleration in young SNR shocks.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, published in Nature
Great expectations for collective management: The mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups
Creators: name: Sinner, Jim
name: Tadaki, M.
name: Kilvington, Margaret
name: Challies, Edward
name: Tane, Paratene
name: Robb, Christina
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3002
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management

description: Globally, agri-environmental policies targeting individual farmers have made little progress on the problem of diffuse water pollution, leading to increased demand for collective approaches to manage cumulative effects. To understand the emerging supply of collective institutions to meet this demand, researchers have studied local initiatives in many countries. However, the challenges of crafting new collective institutions are still poorly understood. In Aotearoa New Zealand, many farmers have established catchment groups in response to regulation of farming practices and public concern about unhealthy waterways. These groups typically do not have the features commonly expected of collective management institutions, e.g., few have specific environmental objectives or agreed actions or practices to protect resource sustainability. Our research with catchment group leaders, Indigenous representatives, and policy actors revealed differences in their logics about and expectations of catchment groups. These differences have given rise to a mismatch between the type of collective action that is in demand by government and the type being supplied by catchment groups. To bridge the supply-demand gap, agencies should seek to better understand their own logics while acknowledging the importance of groups’ priorities, and support groups to articulate goals and strategies and how these relate to government objectives. Conversely, catchment groups can be equipped with tools and insights to help them better understand their own motivations and goals, and those of agencies and other actors, to help them navigate these complex ideas and relationships in challenging and changing environments. In settler-colonial landscapes, resources should also be provided for Indigenous groups to realize their own aspirations and to bring their genealogical narratives to these conversations. More generally, it is important for agencies and other observers to understand what motivates collective entities, rather than assume that they share the management logic that informs collective management as described in the literature.
A Need for Caution in Applying the Volume-Based Special Safeguard Mechanism
Creators: name: Ivanic, Maros
name: Martin, William J.
name: Ivanic, Maros
name: Martin, William J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The proximate cause of the collapse of the Doha Agenda negotiations in 2008 was disagreement over the volume-based Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM). This measure would provide a right, but not an obligation, for developing countries to impose a duty when imports increase. While many simulations of its impact on domestic prices are available, there appear to be no analyses of its potential impacts on the welfare of poor households. Whether such a safeguard will increase or reduce poverty can only be determined empirically—if there are enough small, poor farmers who are net sellers of the commodity when the duty is imposed, then imposition of a safeguard duty may reduce poverty. If, by contrast, most small, poor farmers are net buyers of the products subject to the duty, then it is likely that poverty will rise. Empirical analysis for twenty-eight countries finds that poverty is generally increased following the imposition of a safeguard-type measure. The adverse poverty impact of the safeguard-induced increase in prices is typically larger when the safeguard can be triggered, because the adverse output shocks typically giving rise to import surges when import prices have not declined reduce the benefit to poor producing households from higher prices.
ATMO-ACCESS MS40 Description of application, review and selection process for TNA to ATMO-ACCESS facilities
Creators: name: Petracca Altieri, Rosa Maria
name: Gargano, Giuseppe
name: Gagliardi, Simone
name: CORNACCHIA, CARMELA
Publisher: name: CNR
Year: 2021

description: This document is prepared in the context of the ATMO-ACCESS project (Solutions for Sustainable Access to Atmospheric Research Facilities), which represents the organized contribution of distributed atmospheric research facilities for developing a pilot for a new model of Integrating Activities. The project will deliver a series of recommendations for establishing a comprehensive and sustainable framework for access to distributed atmospheric Research Infrastructures (RI), ensuring integrated access to and optimised use of the services they provide. Recommendations will build also on the experience, feedback and areas of improvements coming from Transnational Access (TNA) realized in the project to test the harmonized access procedures and cross-RI access modalities and services developed.ATMO-ACCESS will support the trans-national, physical and remote access to 43 operational European atmospheric research facilities, including training, as well as some joint activities to facilitate and integrate the access procedures, to improve the services the infrastructures provide and offer innovative cross-RI services.The TNAs planned in the project will follow the access process described here. The document includes the list of the facilities that are involved in TNA provision since the project start and gives details on the promotion of calls and access opportunities, user application process, user evaluation and selection, support to access, and post-access requirements. In the initial phase, TNAs will be coordinated mainly through offline exchanges between the actors involved in the process and with tools adapted from those developed in previous/ongoing integrated activities. During the project, the TNA management system will be optimized with the use of an online, centralized access management platform.The document is structured in 8 different sections. After this introduction, Section 2 provides a general description of the TNA activities planned in the project. Section 3 presents the modalities of access under the project, with the main rules to be respected and how these are implemented in ATMO-ACCESS. Section 4 details all steps in the ATMO-ACCESS TNA management process. Section 5 focuses on the activities to ensure the carbon footprint assessment of the TNA realized in the project. Section 6 describes the coordinated user helpdesk function. Section 7 lists all the access-related templates and forms that are (and will be) produced to support and ease TNA management.The terminology used in this document is in line with the EU Charter for Access to Research Infrastructure. The references consulted are given in section 8.
Irrational Non-Abelian Statistics for Non-Hermitian Generalization of Majorana Zero Modes
Creators: name: Zhao, Xiao-Ming
name: Guo, Cui-Xian
name: Yang, Meng-Lei
name: Heng-Wang
name: Liu, Wu-Ming
name: Kou, Su-Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In condensed matter physics, non-Abelian statistics for Majorana zero modes (or Majorana Fermions) is very important, really exotic, and completely robust. The race for searching Majorana zero modes and verifying the corresponding non-Abelian statistics becomes an important frontier in condensed matter physics. In this letter, we generalize the Majorana zero modes to non-Hermitian (NH) topological systems that show universal but quite different properties from their Hermitian counterparts. Based on the NH Majorana zero modes, the orthogonal and nonlocal Majorana qubits are well defined. In particular, due to the particle-hole-symmetry breaking, NH Majorana zero modes have irrational non-Abelian statistics with continuously tunable braiding Berry phase from pi/8 to 3pi/8. This is quite different from the usual non-Abelian statistics with fixed braiding Berry phase pi/4 and becomes an example of "irrational topological phenomenon". The one-dimensional NH Kitaev model is taken as an example to numerically verify the irrational non-Abelian statistics for two NH Majorana zero modes. The numerical results are exactly consistent with the theoretical prediction. With the help of braiding these two zero modes, the pi/8 gate can be reached and thus universal topological quantum computation becomes possible.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Entire cyclic homology of continuous trace algebras
Creators: name: Mathai, Varghese
name: Stevenson, Danny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 19D55; 46L80

description: A central result here is the computation of the entire cyclic homology of canonical smooth subalgebras of stable continuous trace C*-algebras having smooth manifolds M as their spectrum. More precisely, the entire cyclic homology is shown to be canonically isomorphic to the continuous periodic cyclic homology for these algebras. By an earlier result of the authors, one concludes that the entire cyclic homology of the algebra is canonically isomorphic to the twisted de Rham cohomology of M.
description: 7 pages, Latex2e, minor typos corrected
Isolated subsemigroups in the variants of T_n
Creators: name: Mazorchuk, Volodymyr
name: Tsyaputa, Galyna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20M20

description: We classify all isolated, completely isolated, and convex subsemigroups in the semigroup T_n of all transformations of an n-element set, considered as the semigroup with respect to a sandwich operation.
description: 29 pages/ corrected version
Species Conservation on a Working Landscape: The Joint Production of Wildlife and Crops in the Yolo Bypass Floodplain
Creators: name: Garnache, Cloe
name: Howitt, Richard E.
name: Garnache, Cloe
name: Howitt, Richard E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: California is facing a severe water crisis. Water resources allocation creates conflicts among urban users, farmers, and environmentalists. Large diversions of water for agriculture and urban uses restrict habitat for native fish species contributing to the fish population collapse in the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta. Efficiently allocating water between water uses is a current policy priority. The Yolo Bypass floodplain, located in the Delta, is at the center of the debate. It provides unique habitat to native fish species, agricultural production, and flood protection to the city of Sacramento. The seasonal flooding of Yolo Bypass provides critical habitat to Chinook salmon. Yet, it may conflict with agricultural production, in particular rice farming. Managing Yolo Bypass for the joint production of wildlife and crops is critical to achieve efficient water allocation and species conservation objectives. We develop a model that captures the marginal benefit to the commercial Chinook fishery and the opportunity cost to Yolo Bypass agriculture. Habitat provision affects both the crop yields and the fish stock—through greater survival rate of the juvenile Chinook salmon that use the inundated floodplain. We explicitly model how these two activities are affected by the habitat and allow for feedback between the fishery and agricultural production models such that crop acreages and harvest are endogenous to the model. The question presents a unique challenge for economists because the spatial and temporal scales of these models differ widely. While economic models can be aggregated for estimation and are normally predicated on yearly cropping decisions, biological models are sensitive to habitat variation over short distances and weekly, if not daily, changes. Our model uses a calibration approach to formally model the opportunity cost to agriculture.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 07/19/11.
Ultrasound-assisted enhanced electroxidation for mineralization of persistent organic pollutants: A review of electrodes, reactor configurations and kinetics
Creators: name: Ritesh Patidar
name: Vimal Chandra Srivastava
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Discharge of toxic and hazardous pollutants in the aquatic bodies is dangerous for the human being and aquatic life. Nowadays, novel methods need to be developed to increase the treatment efficiency of such types of pollutants. Among the electrochemical technologies, electroxidation coupled with power ultrasound, so-called sonoelectroxidation, has gained attention because of its ability to remove a wide range of ubiquitous pollutants. The use of power ultrasound, in combination with electroxidation, provides the synergistic effect by virtue of chemical and physical effect of ultrasound for degradation of compounds. This review presents a critical analysis of studies (1996–2020) on the treatment of various synthetic and real wastewater using the sonoelectroxidation process. An overview of current advancement in electrode material and reactor geometry has been deliberated. Coupling these two techniques increased the mineralization degree in a remarkable way. This review critically evaluates various types (batch and continuous) of sonoelectro reactors used in the sonoelectrochemical process. Kinetics of the degradation process has been reviewed in detail. Challenges associated with these technologies and sluggish development in reactor geometries have been identified with the foremost application in wastewater treatment.
Economic Value of Information: Wheat Protein Measurement
Creators: name: Miao, Ruiqing
name: Hennessy, David A.
name: Miao, Ruiqing
name: Hennessy, David A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: information
subject: economic value
subject: wheat
subject: protein
subject: market structure

description: In this paper we study U.S. wheat farmers’ willingness to pay for near infrared (NIR) sensor that can segregates wheat grains according to their protein concentration. We first develop a microeconomic optimization model of wheat farmers’ segregating and commingling decisions. Then we use U.S. wheat prices and stocks to estimate a wheat protein stock demand system. This allows us to establish the effects of changes in the protein profile of wheat stocks on protein premiums. The paper’s simulation section combines the results from the microeconomic optimization model and from the econometric estimations to simulate wheat farmers’ WTP for the sorting technology. Preliminary findings from the simulation show that a typical hard red winter (hard red spring) wheat farmer’s WTP for the sorting technology is 5.6 (4.8) cents per bushel.
A new relativistic theory for Modified Newtonian Dynamics
Creators: name: Skordis, Constantinos
name: Zlosnik, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a relativistic gravitational theory leading to modified Newtonian dynamics, a paradigm that explains the observed universal galactic acceleration scale and related phenomenology. We discuss phenomenological requirements leading to its construction and demonstrate its agreement with the observed cosmic microwave background and matter power spectra on linear cosmological scales. We show that its action expanded to second order is free of ghost instabilities and discuss its possible embedding in a more fundamental theory.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. We separated the CMB and MPS into two figures, displaying for each one the residuals compared to LCDM. We added more references, additional discussion and details, resulting also to structural rearrangements and shortening of text in accordance with referee comments and to fit within PRL page limits. Content matches published version
ATMO-ACCESS MS31 Completion of evaluation of first two calls
Creators: name: putaud, jean philippe
name: Oliveri, Matilde
name: Dubost, Ariane
name: Philippin, Sabine
Publisher: name: JRC
Year: 2023

description: Under its two first calls for Trans-National Access (TNA), ATMO-ACCESS (Solutions for Sustainable Access to Atmospheric Research Facilities) provided opportunities to access some of the most advanced atmospheric research facilities in Europe. These include ground-based observatories, mobile platforms, atmospheric simulation chambers, and central laboratories for analyses and calibrations. ATMO-ACCESS offers free of charge access to these facilities, including specific training in addition to the logistical, technological, and scientific support. Users may also benefit from a contribution to their travel and local subsistence costs.
Bosons in optical lattices - from the Mott transition to the Tonks-Girardeau gas
Creators: name: Wessel, S.
name: Alet, F.
name: Trebst, S.
name: Leumann, D.
name: Troyer, M.
name: Batrouni, G. George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from quantum Monte Carlo simulations of trapped bosons in optical lattices, focusing on the crossover from a gas of softcore bosons to a Tonks-Girardeau gas in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We find that depending on the quantity being measured, the behavior found in the Tonks-Girardeau regime is observed already at relatively small values of the interaction strength. A finite critical value for entering the Tonks-Girardeau regime does not exist. Furthermore, we discuss the computational efficiency of two quantum Monte Carlo methods to simulate large scale trapped bosonic systems: directed loops in stochastic series expansions and the worm algorithm.
description: 7 pages with 9 figures;v2: improved discussion on Tonks-Girardeau gas
A Comparison of Auction and Choice Experiment: An Application to Consumer Willingness to Pay for Rice with Improved Storage Management
Creators: name: Su, Lianfan
name: Adam, Brian D.
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Arthur, Frank
name: Su, Lianfan
name: Adam, Brian D.
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Arthur, Frank
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: 2nd price auction
subject: choice experiment
subject: price level
subject: information

description: Experimental auction and discrete choice experiment are two popular value elicitation methods. Theoretically they should yield the same results but empirical results have been mixed (e.g., Lusk and Schroeder 2004, 2006; Corrigan et al. 2010.) This study uses both methods to determine consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for rice with improved insect control and for rice stored using Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This study investigates two potential reasons – anchoring and information – for why some studies have found apparent inconsistencies between auction and choice experiment results. Results indicate that consumers’ WTP derived in the auction and choice experiments are significantly different. Consumers’ average bids in the auction are higher than their willingness to pay calculated from the choice experiments. Further, anchoring in the choice experiment appears to be an explanation for the discrepancy. Providing consumers with more product information help consumers behave more consistent in terms of having same preference ranking for different rice samples in the auction and the choice experiments, but their average does not substantially affect the discrepancy.
AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENT CONTROL AT CONSTRUCTION SITES: THE CASE OF GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Lowdermilk, Jamey M.
name: Templeton, Scott R.
name: Privette, Charles V.
name: Hayes, John C.
name: Lowdermilk, Jamey M.
name: Templeton, Scott R.
name: Privette, Charles V.
name: Hayes, John C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Soil erosion from construction sites can cause sedimentation of nearby water bodies. Mandatory sediment controls can reduce sedimentation. What determines the degree to which sediment controls meet regulatory standards for installation and maintenance? A conditional-multinomial logit model is estimated with data from 85 construction sites that were audited in 2001 or 2005 in Greenville County, SC to determine whether 147 sediment ponds or traps were installed correctly, properly maintained, or both. Sixty two percent of ponds and traps were installed incorrectly, maintained improperly, or both. Costs of clean out negatively affect the probability that a sediment pond or trap is properly maintained. Construction site distance from the county‘s regulatory office and sales of the plan designer‘s firm positively affect the probability that a sediment control is installed incorrectly. Designer firms local to the construction site reduce the probability that sediment controls lack an emergency spillway when required.
Quantum size effects in adatom island decay
Creators: name: Morgenstern, Karina
name: gsgaard, Erik Lae
name: Besenbacher, Flemming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decay of hexagonal Ag adatom islands on top of larger Ag adatom islands on a Ag(111) surface is followed by a fast scanning tunneling microscope. Islands do not always show the expected increase in decay rate with decreasing island size. Rather, distinct quantum size effects are observed where the decay rate decreases significantly for islands with diameters of 6 nm, 9.3 nm, 12.6 nm, and 15.6 nm. We show that electron confinement of the surface state electrons is responsible for this enhancement of the detachment barrier for adatoms from the island edge.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Concepts of Hyperbolicity and Relativistic Continuum Mechanics
Creators: name: Beig, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a short introduction to the characteristic geometry underlying weakly hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations we review the notion of symmetric hyperbolicity of first-order systems and that of regular hyperbolicity of second-order systems. Numerous examples are provided, mainly taken from nonrelativistic and relativistic continuum mechanics.
description: 12 pages, uses svmult.cls style file, expanded version of lecture given at 319th WE-Heraeus Seminar on "Mathematical Relativity: New Ideas and Developments"
BEC immersed in a Fermi sea: Theory of static and dynamic behavior across phase separation
Creators: name: Huang, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the static and dynamic behavior of a BEC immersed in a large Fermi sea of ultracold atoms under conditions of tunable interspecies interaction. The degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture is kept in an elongated trap, typical for a single-beam optical dipole trap. We focus on the case of repulsive Bose-Fermi interaction and develop mean-field models to simulate the system over a wide range of repulsion strength. We further get analytical solutions in the regimes of phase separation and weak interaction. We obtain static density profiles and the frequency of the radial breathing mode, which is an elementary dynamic phenomenon of the mixture. Our results unveil the structure of the Bose-Fermi interface and describe the origin of the frequency shift of the breathing mode when the components become phase-separated at strong repulsion. We show that the mediated interaction between bosons induced by the Fermi sea can be understood as an adiabatic second-order mean-field effect, which is valid also beyond the weak-interaction regime for relevant experimental conditions. These results are consistent with our recent observations in a mixture of $^{41}$K and $^6$Li.
description: 8 figures
ATMO-ACCESS MS2 Analysis of Access policies and legal framework regulating the Access provision
Creators: name: Ródenas, Mila
name: Muñoz, Amalia
Publisher: name: CEAM
Year: 2023

description: This document has been prepared within the ATMO-ACCESS project and, in particular, it is a milestone of the Work package 1 (WP1): “Developing the concept and guidelines for access to distributed atmospheric Research Infrastructures”. The main objective of WP1 is to define a synergistic framework with guidelines and cost scheme for access to atmospheric Research Infrastructures (RI) to enhance user-friendly and easy access to services provided by atmospheric research facilities in ATMO-ACCESS.This milestone compiles information for Task 1.2, “Consolidation of access policies and legal framework for atmospheric research infrastructures” reviewing existing access and data policies in RIs. This information will serve as basis to recommend and define a common legal framework for access provision and use of services.
Using structural context to recommend source code examples
Creators: name: Holmes, Reid
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: When coding to a framework, developers often become stuck, unsure of which class to subclass, which objects to instantiate and which methods to call. Example code that demonstrates the use of the framework can help developers make progress on their task. In this thesis, we describe an approach for locating relevant code in an example repository that is based on heuristically matching the structure of the code under development to the example code. Our tool improves on existing approaches in two ways. First, the structural context needed to query the repository is extracted automatically from the code, freeing the developer from learning a query language, or from writing their code in a particular style. Second, the repository can be generated easily from existing applications. We demonstrate the utility of this approach by reporting on a case study involving two subjects completing four programming tasks within the Eclipse integrated development environment framework.
Scattering in Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Alavi, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the correction due to noncommutativity of space on Born approximation, then the correction for the case of Yukawa potential is explicitly calculated. The correction depends on the angle of scattering. Using partial wave method it is shown that the conservation of the number of particles in elastic scattering is also valid in noncommutative spaces which means that the unitarity relation is held in noncommutative spaces. We also show that the noncommutativity of space has no effect on the optical theorem. Finally we study Gaussian function potential in noncommutative spaces which generates delta function potential as $θ\to 0$.
description: 7 Pages, no figure, accepted for publication in Modern Physics Letters A
Topology and axions in QCD
Creators: name: Lombardo, Maria Paola
name: Trunin, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: QCD axions are at the crossroads of QCD topology and Dark Matter searches. We present here the current status of topological studies on the lattice, and their implication on axion physics. We outline the specific challenges posed by lattice topology, the different proposals for handling them, the observable effects of topology on the QCD spectrum and its interrelation with chiral and axial symmetries. We review the transition to the Quark Gluon Plasma, the fate of topology at the transition, and the approach to the high temperature limit. We discuss the extrapolations needed to reach the regime of cosmological relevance, and the resulting constraints on the QCD axion.
description: 34 pages, 10 figures; references added, few typos fixed
The Increasing Multifunctionality of Agricultural Raw Materials: Three Dilemmas for Innovation and Adoption
Creators: name: Boehlje, Michael
name: Broring, Stefanie
name: Boehlje, Michael
name: Broring, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Bio-economy
subject: industry convergence
subject: renewables
subject: disruptive innovation
subject: multifunctionality

description: Agricultural raw materials are increasingly being used for multiple industries or sectors beyond the traditional fiber and nutrition industries: energy in the form of ethanol and biodiesel, industrial products such as polymers and bio-based synthetic chemicals and fibers, and pharmaceutical/health products such as functional foods, growth hormones and organ transplants. A combination of the new science of biotechnology, the new potential end uses of the products of that science and the broadened social/public goals that these products can respond to surfaces at least three fundamental challenges or dilemmas: (1) the competing goals dilemma, (2) the incumbent vs. new entrant competition dilemma, and (3) the industry boundaries dilemma. This paper reviews the innovation and adoption research related to renewables and the bio-economy, and then frames the three dilemmas with the objective of identifying important research issues and the conceptual frameworks that might be useful to analyze these issues.
description: www.ifama.org
Supplementary information from Evolutionary dynamics of pre- and postzygotic reproductive isolation in cichlid fishes
Creators: name: Rometsch, Sina J.
name: Torres-Dowdall, Julián
name: Meyer, Axel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This file contains further information regarding the methods and all Supplementary Figures