cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rubidium and lead abundances in giant stars of the globular clusters M 13 and NGC 6752
Creators: name: Yong, David
name: Aoki, Wako
name: Lambert, David L.
name: Paulson, Diane B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the neutron-capture elements Rb and Pb in five giant stars of the globular cluster NGC 6752 and Pb measurements in four giants of the globular cluster M 13. The abundances were derived by comparing synthetic spectra with high resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio spectra obtained using HDS on the Subaru telescope and MIKE on the Magellan telescope. The program stars span the range of the O-Al abundance variation. In NGC 6752, the mean abundances are [Rb/Fe] = -0.17 +/- 0.06 (sigma = 0.14), [Rb/Zr] = -0.12 +/- 0.06 (sigma = 0.13), and [Pb/Fe] = -0.17 +/- 0.04 (sigma = 0.08). In M 13 the mean abundance is [Pb/Fe] = -0.28 +/- 0.03 (sigma = 0.06). Within the measurement uncertainties, we find no evidence for a star-to-star variation for either Rb or Pb within these clusters. None of the abundance ratios [Rb/Fe], [Rb/Zr], or [Pb/Fe] are correlated with the Al abundance. NGC 6752 may have slightly lower abundances of [Rb/Fe] and [Rb/Zr] compared to the small sample of field stars at the same metallicity. For M 13 and NGC 6752 the Pb abundances are in accord with predictions from a Galactic chemical evolution model. If metal-poor intermediate-mass asymptotic giant branch stars did produce the globular cluster abundance anomalies, then such stars do not synthesize significant quantities of Rb or Pb. Alternatively, if such stars do synthesize large amounts of Rb or Pb, then they are not responsible for the abundance anomalies seen in globular clusters.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
The Use of Cohesion in Students' Argumentative Writings
Creators: name: Nanta Hananta
name: Sukyadi, Didi
Publisher: name: Rangsit University, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cohesion,Writing Performances,Cohesive Devices

description: 1, 2, RANGSIT JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
Sitarobrachys thoracica (Kraatz, 1862): new genus and species for the blister beetle fauna of Turkey (Coleoptera: Meloidae)
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Sitarobrachys thoracica, belonging to a monotypic Mediterranean-Macaronesian genus of Meloidae Nemognathinae, is recorded for the first time from southern Turkey. The genus results widely distributed around the Mediterranean Basin and in the eastern Canary Islands.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2016)
Memorandum zum Verhältnis der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) zum Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen (ÖRK)
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1979): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 28, Heft 1
Transport properties of moderately disordered UCu$_4$Pd
Creators: name: Otop, A.
name: Süllow, S.
name: Maple, M. B.
name: Weber, A.
name: Scheidt, E. W.
name: Gortenmulder, T. J.
name: Mydosh, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study on the (magneto)transport properties of as-cast and heat treated material UCu$_4$Pd. We find a pronounced sample dependence of the resistivity $ρ$ of as-cast samples, and reproduce the annealing dependence of $ρ$. In our study of the Hall effect we determine a metallic carrier density for all samples, and a temperature dependence of the Hall constant which is inconsistent with the Skew scattering prediction. The magnetoresistive response is very small and characteristic for spin disorder scattering, suggesting that overall the resistivity is controlled mostly by nonmagnetic scattering processes. We discuss possible sources for the temperature and field dependence of the transport properties, in particular with respect to quantum criticality and electronic localization effects.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, submitted PRB
High-output suspended mega-sifter for sampling forest litter mesofauna
Creators: name: Grebennikov, Vasily V.
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: A novel mega-sifter suspended from trees and designed to quickly process large amount of forest leaf litter in search of mesofana is illustrated and discussed.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2016)
[Elicitation of verb paradigms, vocabulary, sentences, story "What I Used to Do"]
Creators: name: García Cortés, María Agustina
name: Santiago Francisco, José
name: McFarland, Teresa
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: tlp

description: 8 WAV files. Corresponds to pp. 146-154 and 1-13 of related field notes. Story is file 006, with transcription and translation on pp. 8-9.
Phase behavior of correlated random copolymers
Creators: name: Patyukova, Elena
name: Xi, Erte
name: Wilson, Mark R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, Flory-Huggins phase diagrams for correlated random copolymers with realistic chain lengths are calculated. This is achieved in two steps. At first we derive a distribution function of copolymer chains with respect to composition and blockiness. Then we used the method of moments, which was developed by Sollich and Cates [Sollich, P.; Cates, M. E.; Phys. Rev. Lett. 1998, 80, 1365-1368] for polydisperse systems, to reduce the number of degrees of freedom of the computational problem and calculate phase diagrams. We explored how location of transition points and composition of coexisting phases depend on copolymer composition, blockiness and degree of polymerisation. The proposed approach allows to take into account fractionation, which was shown to have effect on the appearance of phase diagrams of statistical copolymers.
Quantum Channels with Memory
Creators: name: Kretschmann, Dennis
name: Werner, Reinhard F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general model for quantum channels with memory, and show that it is sufficiently general to encompass all causal automata: any quantum process in which outputs up to some time t do not depend on inputs at times t' > t can be decomposed into a concatenated memory channel. We then examine and present different physical setups in which channels with memory may be operated for the transfer of (private) classical and quantum information. These include setups in which either the receiver or a malicious third party have control of the initializing memory. We introduce classical and quantum channel capacities for these settings, and give several examples to show that they may or may not coincide. Entropic upper bounds on the various channel capacities are given. For forgetful quantum channels, in which the effect of the initializing memory dies out as time increases, coding theorems are presented to show that these bounds may be saturated. Forgetful quantum channels are shown to be open and dense in the set of quantum memory channels.
description: 21 pages with 5 EPS figures. V2: Presentation clarified, references added
Raman Adiabatic Transfer of Optical States
Creators: name: Appel, Juergen
name: Marzlin, K. -P.
name: Lvovsky, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze electromagnetically induced transparency and light storage in an ensemble of atoms with multiple excited levels (multi-Lambda configuration) which are coupled to one of the ground states by quantized signal fields and to the other one via classical control fields. We present a basis transformation of atomic and optical states which reduces the analysis of the system to that of EIT in a regular 3-level configuration. We demonstrate the existence of dark state polaritons and propose a protocol to transfer quantum information from one optical mode to another by an adiabatic control of the control fields.
A Mutual Attraction Model for Both Assortative and Disassortative Weighted Networks
Creators: name: Wang, Wen-Xu
name: Hu, Bo
name: Wang, Bing-Hong
name: Yan, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In most networks, the connection between a pair of nodes is the result of their mutual affinity and attachment. In this letter, we will propose a Mutual Attraction Model to characterize weighted evolving networks. By introducing the initial attractiveness $A$ and the general mechanism of mutual attraction (controlled by parameter $m$), the model can naturally reproduce scale-free distributions of degree, weight and strength, as found in many real systems. Simulation results are in consistent with theoretical predictions. Interestingly, we also obtain nontrivial clustering coefficient C and tunable degree assortativity r, depending on $m$ and A. Our weighted model appears as the first one that unifies the characterization of both assortative and disassortative weighted networks.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Representing Risk Preferences in Expected Utility Based Decision Models
Creators: name: Meyer, Jack
name: Meyer, Jack
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: The application and estimation of expected utility based decision models would benefit from having additional simple and flexible functional forms to represent risk preferences. The literature so far has provided these functional forms for the utility function itself. This work shows that functional forms for the marginal utility function are as useful, are easier to provide, and can represent a larger set of risk preferences. Several functional forms for marginal utility are suggested, and how they can be used is discussed. These marginal utility functions represent risk preferences that cannot be represented by any functional form for the utility function.
การศึกษาปัญหาการมีส่วนร่วมในการจัดการศึกษาของคณะกรรมการสถานศึกษาขั้นพื้นฐานโรงเรียนเอกชนในจังหวัดพิจิตร
Creators: name: ชัยศักดิ์  เชาวลักษณ์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏนครสวรรค์
Year: 2015
Subjects: ปัญหาการมีส่วนร่วม, คณะกรรมการสถานศึกษาขั้นพื้นฐาน, โรงเรียนเอกชน

description: No 8, Vol 5, วารสารวิชาการเครือข่ายบัณฑิตศึกษา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏภาคเหนือ
A review of geographical distribution of the stag beetles in Mediterranean countries (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)
Creators: name: Bartolozzi, Luca
name: Norbiato, Margherita
name: Cianferoni, Fabio
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: A list of recent records of stag beetles (Coleoptera Lucanidae) species occurring in Mediterranean countries is given to improve the current knowledge on their geographic distribution. The saproxylic larvae of the stag beetles are very important for forest ecosystems, and some lucanid species are included in the IUCN Red List and in several national protection lists. However, the knowledge on their distribution is rather heterogeneous for several countries and taxa because the distribution records are scattered in poorly known papers or hidden in Museum or private collections. This paper is an attempt to better understanding the distribution of the stag beetle species across the Mediterranean region, to facilitate research and conservation efforts.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2016)
Intracervical procedures and the risk of subsequent very preterm birth: A case-control study
Creators: name: Watson, LF
name: Rayner, Jo-Anne
name: King, J
name: Jolley, D
name: Forster, Della
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4204
subject: Midwifery
classificationCode: 3215
subject: Reproductive medicine

description: Objective. To investigate the relation of prior intracervical procedures with very preterm birth. Design. A population-based case-control study. Setting. The study was conducted in Australia between 2002 and 2004. Sample. Three hundred and forty-five women having a medically indicated and 236 having a spontaneous singleton birth between 20 and 31 weeks of gestation and 796 women selected randomly from all those giving birth at 37 weeks of gestation. Methods. Interview data were analysed using logistic regression. Main outcome measure. Very preterm birth. Results. Very preterm birth was significantly associated with having any intracervical procedure [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 2.07; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.6-2.7], in particular curettage associated with abortion (AOR 1.80; 95% CI 1.2-2.6). Assisted reproductive technology procedures were significantly associated with medically indicated very preterm birth (AOR 3.07; 95% CI 1.8-5.3) and treatments for precancerous cervical changes were significantly associated with spontaneous very preterm birth, as follows: conization/cone biopsy (AOR 3.33; 95% CI 1.8-6.2) and cauterization/ablation (AOR 2.27; 95% CI 1.4-3.8). Suction aspiration for abortion, abnormal Pap smear without treatment and abortion without instrumentation were not associated with very preterm birth. Conclusions. Intracervical procedures are associated with very preterm birth. Notably, curettage rather than any other procedure associated with abortion appears to be implicated in the risk. The introduction of infection during cervical procedures may be the common link with risks found. Changing clinical practice in the management of abortion and human papillomavirus vaccination may lead to lowering the risks of very preterm birth. © 2012 Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Clues to AGN Growth from Optically Variable Objects in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Creators: name: Cohen, S. H.
name: Ryan, R. E.
name: Straughn, A. N.
name: Hathi, N. P.
name: Windhorst, R. A.
name: Koekemoer, A. M.
name: Pirzkal, N.
name: Xu, C.
name: Mobasher, B.
name: Malhotra, S.
name: Strolger, L. -G.
name: Rhoads, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a photometric search for objects with point-source components that are optically variable on timescales of weeks--months in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) to i'(AB)=28.0 mag. The data are split into four sub-stacks of approximately equal exposure times. Objects exhibiting the signature of optical variability are selected by studying the photometric error distribution between the four different epochs, and selecting 622 candidates as 3.0 sigma outliers from the original catalog of 4644 objects. Of these, 45 are visually confirmed as free of contamination from close neighbors or various types of image defects. Four lie within the positional error boxes of Chandra X-ray sources, and two of these are spectroscopically confirmed AGN. The photometric redshift distribution of the selected variable sample is compared to that of field galaxies, and we find that a constant fraction of ~1% of all field objects show variability over the range of 0.1
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal, minor changes to references
Scaffolding Learning Activities for Reading Comprehension Skills Development ofReading-at-Risk Students at the Primary Level
Creators: name: Sakuna Noimaneewan
Publisher: name: Rangsit University, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Year: 2015
Subjects: Scaffolding learning activities,Scaffolding approach,English comprehension,At-risk-Students

description: 1, 2, RANGSIT JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
Bilayer Coulomb phase of two dimensional dimer models: Absence of power-law columnar order
Creators: name: Desai, Nisheeta
name: Pujari, Sumiran
name: Damle, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the fully-packed dimer model on the bilayer square lattice with fugacity equal to $z$ ($1$) for inter-layer (intra-layer) dimers, and intra-layer interaction $V$ between neighbouring parallel dimers on any elementary plaquette in either layer. For a range of not-too-large $z> 0$ and repulsive interactions $0< V < V_s$ (with $V_s \approx 2.1$), we demonstrate the existence of a {\em bilayer Coulomb phase} with purely dipolar two-point functions, {\em i.e.}, without the power-law columnar order that characterizes the usual Coulomb phase of square and honeycomb lattice dimer models. The transition line $z_{c}(V)$ separating this bilayer Coulomb phase from a large-$z$ disordered phase is argued to be in the inverted Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class. Additionally, we argue for the possibility of a tricritical point at which the bilayer Coulomb phase, the large-$z$ disordered phase and the large-$V$ staggered phase meet in the large-$z$, large-$V$ part of the phase diagram. In contrast, for the attractive case with $ V_{cb} < V \leq 0$ ($V_{cb} \approx -1.2$), we argue that any $z > 0$ destroys the power-law correlations of the $z=0$ decoupled layers, and leads immediately to a short-range correlated state, albeit with a slow crossover for small $|V|$. For $V_{c} < V < V_{cb}$ ($V_{c} \approx -1.55$), we predict that any small nonzero $z$ immediately gives rise to long-range {\em bilayer columnar order} although the $z=0$ decoupled layers remain power-law correlated in this regime; this implies a non-monotonic $z$ dependence of the columnar order parameter for fixed $V$ in this regime. This bilayer columnar ordered state is separated from the large-$z$ disordered state by a line of Ashkin-Teller transitions $z_{\rm AT}(V)$.
description: Minor changes from v2 in response to copy editor's comments. Closely matches published version
Oral Discourse Performance of Bilingual Learners at the Primary and Secondary Levels
Creators: name: Pholsward, Ruja
name: Supatra Pradubpongse
Publisher: name: Rangsit University, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Year: 2015
Subjects: oral discourse,conversational turns,conversational relevancy and appropriateness,English communication skills levels,bilingual learners

description: 1, 2, RANGSIT JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
Production Risk and Crop Insurance Effectiveness: Organic Versus Conventional Apples
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaomei
name: Wang, H. Holly
name: Makus, Larry D.
name: Chen, Xiaomei
name: Wang, H. Holly
name: Makus, Larry D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: This paper empirically examines the income risks for Pacific Northwest apple growers, both conventional and organic. Current yield based apple production insurance, the Growers Yield Certification (GYC), and hypothesized revenue based insurance are also examined for their risk management effect on growers. Results show that organic apple production is more risky but has higher expected return than its conventional counterpart. The current GYC is subsidized and subsidized more for organic growers. However, the current low price selection levels prevent these programs from offering effective risk reducing effect, and they also prevent the hypothesized revenue insurance from showing its advantage over yield insurance as in the case of other major field crops.
Associated production of the top-pions and single top at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Yue, Chong-Xing
name: Zong, Zheng-Jun
name: Xu, Li-Li
name: Chen, Jian-Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of topcolor assisted technicolor(TC2) models, we study the production of the top-pions $π_{t}^{0,\pm}$ with single top quark via the processes $p\bar{p} \to tπ_{t}^{0}+X$ and $p\bar{p} \to tπ_{t}^{\pm}+X$, and discuss the possibility of detecting these new particles at Tevatron and LHC. We find that it is very difficult to observe the signals of these particles via these processes at Tevatron, while the neutral and charged top-pions $π_{t}^{0}$ and $π_{t}^{\pm}$ can be detecting via considering the same sign top pair $tt\bar{c}$ event and the $tt\bar{b}$ (or $t\bar{t}b$) event at LHC, respectively.
description: latex files,14 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
[Elicitation of verb paradigms and vocabulary, story "The Flood"]
Creators: name: García Cortés, María Agustina
name: Santiago Francisco, José
name: McFarland, Teresa
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: tlp

description: 5 WAV files. Corresponds to pp. 134-146 of related field notes. Story is file 003, with transcription and glosses on pp. 138-140.
title: Creating an Integrated System of Data and Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth: Time to Build
Creators: name: Smeeding, Timothy
name: David, Jonson
name: Connie, Citro
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Wealth Inequality
subject: Income Inequality
subject: Consumption
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Social Sciences

description: The goal of the Financial Independence policy conference held on September 16 and 17, 2024 in Washington, D.C. was to bring together experts from the asset and income fields to share theory, evidence, and best practices as part of an effort to work toward development of a new social contract capable of ending poverty. It was divided into four sessions. Sessions one and two focused on Children’s Savings Accounts and Baby Bonds as promising asset building policy proposals for solving the wealth inequality aspect of poverty. The third session focused on Unconditional Cash Transfers, the Child Tax Credit, and Child Allowances as promising income policy proposals for solving the income inequality aspect of poverty. Because poverty has both an income and asset component, the final session discussed why a core component of a new social contract meant to end poverty must include the combining of these strategies. This policy brief is part of the Coming Together session.
description: The study of inequality among U.S. households and socioeconomic groups has become a mainstay of academic research, policy debates, and discourse among the public in recent decades. The basis for these discussions, in research and common kitchen table-talk, often relies on information produced by federal statistical agencies. However, reports from these agencies are grounded in a variety of different concepts, underlying data, and methods. The result is that federal data do not always tell a consistent or easily interpretable story about the characteristics of household income, consumption, wealth, and about trends in the nation’s poverty and inequality measures. For example, since 1979, the measure of per-capita personal income produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has increased by almost twice as much as a measure of mean household income from the Census Bureau. To review the major income, consumption, and wealth (ICW) statistics currently produced by the United States—and to provide guidance for their modernization to better inform policy and research—the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on National Statistics convened an expert committee to author a consensus study report. In addition to reviewing the current system, the panel was tasked with providing guidance for producing consistent micro- and macro-level statistics on ICW and assessing the available data sources for creating a new integrated system that would be both timely and transparent.
Revision of Diphaulacosoma Jacoby, an endemic flea beetle genus from Madagascar, with description of three new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)
Creators: name: Biondi, Maurizio
name: D'Alessandro, Paola
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: A taxonomic revision of the flea beetle genus Diphaulacosoma Jacoby, endemic to Madagascar, is provided. This genus includes seven species of which three are new to science: D. elegans sp. n., D. jenisi sp. n., and D. nigroscutis sp. n. An updated catalogue including new material, new faunistic records, distributions, chorotypes, and ecological notes is supplied. Lectotypes for Diphaulacosoma laevipenne Jacoby, D. bicolor (Weise) and D. scutellare (Weise) are designated. Additionally, the revision comprises a key for the identification of all seven species considered, habitus photos, and microscope and scanning electron micrographs of diagnostic characters, including aedeagus and spermatheca.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2016)
Analyticity and propagation of plurisubharmonic singularities
Creators: name: Rashkovskii, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32U05; 32U25; 32U35

description: A variant of Siu's analyticity theorem is proved for relative types of plurisubharmonic functions. Some results on propagation of plurisubharmonic singularities and maximality of pluricomplex Green functions with analytic singularities are derived.
Gauge Unification via Stable Brane Recombination
Creators: name: Choi, Kang-Sin
name: Kim, Jihn E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transition between parallel and intersecting branes on a torus. Spontaneous symmetry breaking of nonabelian gauge symmetry is understood as brane separation, and a more general intermediate deformation is discussed. We argue that there exists supersymmetry preserving transition and we can always have parallel branes as a final state. The transition is interpreted due to dynamics of the F- and D-string junctions and their generalization to (F, D$p$) bound states. The gauge group and coupling unification is achieved, also as a result of supersymmetry. From the tadpole cancelation condition, we naturally have some class of intersecting brane models as broken phases of Type I theory with SO(32) gauge group.
description: LaTeX file of 21 pages with 7 figures. Minor corrections
Agricultural Policy Developments in the United States: 1991-93
Creators: name: Runge, C. Ford
name: Vande Kamp, Philip R.
name: Runge, C. Ford
name: Vande Kamp, Philip R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Comprehensive federal agricultural legislation occurs in the United States (US) on a five-year schedule. While year-to-year changes in agricultural policy do occur, the period 1991-93 has been less eventful than many previous ones. What changes have occurred to affect the course of the agricultural sector and agricultural policy are largely external to the farm bill and farm legislation. These include the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), tentatively agreed in August 1992; the on-going negotiations in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the related dispute with the European Community (EC) over oilseed subsidies; the emergence in connection with both NAFTA and GATT of the "trade and environment" issue; a continuing dispute over wetlands and the proper level of compensation if they are restricted by government action; and, of course. the presidential election of 1992 and the probable changes in course under a new Clinton administration. A brief summary of federal legislative actions impinging on agriculture begins this review article; however, the general analysis and tabular summary provided in our 1990 review (Erdman and Runge 1990) will still suffice as a guide to extant farm policy under the 1990 farm bill. The probable impacts of NAFTA are considered in the second section. The state of play in the GATT negotiations and the related oilseeds dispute with the EC are discussed in the third. while in the fourth, the "trade and environment" issue is discussed. Domestic US environmental issues, focusing on wetlands. are covered in the fifth, and in the final section an outlook on the course of the Clinton administration in the years leading to the 1995 farm bill is offered.
Observations on the predatory potential of Lutzia fuscana on Aedes aegypti larvae: implications for biological control (Diptera: Culicidae)
Creators: name: Pramanik, Soujita
name: Banerjee, Sampa
name: Banerjee, Soumyajit
name: Saha, Goutam K.
name: Aditya, Gautam
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Among the natural predators, larval stages of the mosquito Lutzia fuscana (Wiedemann, 1820) (Diptera: Culicidae) bear potential as a biological control agent of mosquitoes. An estimation of the predatory potential of the larva of L. fuscana against the larva of the dengue vector Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) (Diptera: Culicidae) was made to highlight its use in vector management. Laboratory experiments revealed that the larva of L. fuscana consumes 19 to 24 A. aegypti larvae per day, during its tenure as IV instar larva. The consumption of A. aegypti larvae was proportionate to the body length (BL) and body weight (BW) of the predatory larva L. fuscana as depicted through the logistic regressions: y = 1 / (1 + exp(-(-2.09 + 0.35*BL))) and y = 1 / (1 + exp(-(0.4+ 0.06*BW))). While the prey consumption remained comparable among the days, the net weight gained by the L. fuscana larva showed a decreasing trend with the age. On the basis of the results, it is apparent that the larva of the mosquito L. fuscana can be used in the regulation of the mosquito A. aegypti through augmentative release, particularly, in the smaller mosquito larval habitats.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2016)
title: Anionische Phosphorylid-Chelatliganden als metallorganische Template für Katalysatoren und Komplexe der s-, p-, d- und f-Block-Metalle
title: Anionic Phosphorous Ylide Chelate Ligands as Metal Organic Templates forCatalysts and Complexes of the s-, p-, d-, and f-Block Metals
Creators: name: Böttger, Silas Christian
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2016
Subjects: Chemistry and allied sciences
Chemie
ansa-metallocene, carbodiphosphorane
Ansa-Metallocen, Carbodiphosophoran
Ramirez-Ylid
Ramirez ylide

description: Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit
      wurde die Koordinationschemie dreier vielversprechender,
      chelatisierender Phosphorylid-Ligandsysteme gegenüber
      Metallen des s-, p-, d- und f-Blocks untersucht. Die
      synthetisierten Komplexe wurden im Hinblick auf ihr
      katalytisches Potential getestet.
description: In the present work three
      promising, chelating phosphorous ylide ligand systems were
      investigated concerning their coordination behavior towards
      metals of the s-, p-, d-, and f-block. The resulting
      complexes were tested in terms of their catalytic
      potential.
High Resolution Gratings Spectroscopy of GRBs 030382 and 041006 with Chandra LETGS
Creators: name: Butler, N. R.
name: Ricker, G. R.
name: Ford, P. G.
name: Vanderspek, R. K.
name: Marshall, H. L.
name: Jernigan, J. G.
name: Garmire, G. P.
name: Lamb, D. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high resolution X-ray spectroscopy of two recent GRB afterglows observed with the Low Energy Transmission Gratings on Chandra. The afterglows to GRBs 030328 and 041006 are detected beginning 15.33 and 16.8 hours after each burst, respectively, and are observed to fade in time during each ~90 ksec observation. We fit for the continuum emission in each full data set and for the data sliced into half and quarter time sections. For both afterglows, the continuum emission is well described by an absorbed power-law model, and the model parameters describing the absorption and spectral slope do not appear to evolve in time. We perform a careful search for deviations from the model continua for the full and time-sliced data and find no evidence for significant (>~3sigma) narrow emission/absorption lines or edges. The lack of detections implies that line emission--if it is a general feature in GRB X-ray afterglows--occurs early (t~0.3 days in the source frame) and/or is short-lived (dt
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ
Breaking Space Inversion-Symmetry to Obtain Asymmetric Spin-Wave Excitation in Systems with Nonuniform Magnetic Exchange
Creators: name: Macêdo, Rair
name: Kudinoor, Arjun S.
name: Livesey, Karen L.
name: Camley, Robert E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the consequences of non-uniform exchange in magnetic systems. The quantum mechanical exchange interaction between spins is responsible for the phenomenon of magnetic order, and is generally considered to be uniform across bulk magnetic systems. Partly inspired by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction--also known as antisymmetric exchange--we use a linearly varying exchange interaction along a magnetic strip as a route to spatial inversion symmetry-breaking. We find that, in addition to asymmetric modes and localization, spatially-varying exchange can be used to design nonreciprocal magnetic signal excitation at frequencies that are tunable. Moreover, our work predicts nonreciprocity to occur across a vast range of frequencies up to hundreds of GHz. Such spin wave engineering is a key area of ongoing research in the fields of magnonics and spintronics, which are expected to enable the next generation of communication technology. Analogous nonreciprocity is expected to occur in other wave systems with gradient properties.
Flightless Disphaerona rediscovered in China: mtDNA phylogeography of the Yunnan clade and the sobering state of fungus weevil phylogenetics (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)
Creators: name: Grebennikov, Vasily V.
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: This paper reports discovery of the genus Disphaerona Jordan, 1902 in two widely separated regions in China: in three isolated highlands in Yunnan (the Cang Shan Range, Mt. Jizu and Mt. Haba) and in the Dabie Mountains of Hubei, at the border with Anhui. Till present the genus was known from China only from four specimens of D. chinensis (including its holotype) described from Sichuan in 1995. Sixteen specimens from each of the three newly detected localities in Yunnan were DNA barcoded and the data were made publicly available at dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-DISPHAE. Temporal phylogenetic analysis revealed a topology suggesting monophyly and recent (0.2–0.4 Ma) origin of the populations on both Mt. Jizu and Mt. Haba. The population on the Cang Shan Range harbours representatives of both clades forming the ingroup, mtDNA of which diverged some 7.9 Ma. The habitus of the holotype of the only nominative Chinese Disphaerona species, D. chinensis, is illustrated, together with habitus and male and female genitalia of specimens newly discovered in both Yunnan and Hubei. All specimens of Disphaerona from Yunnan are seemingly conspecific and are taxonomically assigned to D. chinensis. Two similar males and one sympatric but dissimilar, smaller female from the Dabie Mountains do not have associated DNA barcode data. It remains unknown whether the three Dabie Mountains specimens are conspecific or even congeneric; pending this uncertainty they are tentatively treated as Disphaerona without a Linnaean name. Disphaerona population in the Dabie Mountains, if indeed a member of this hypothesised clade, forms the easternmost record of the genus. Monophyly and sister group of Disphaerona are briefly discussed and both are shown as unknown and unverifiable. A brief overview of the state of phylogenetic knowledge of Anthribidae is given, which is practically non-existing and with neither the family, nor any of its tribes and the vast majority of genera tested as monophyletic.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2016)
Relaxation rate, diffusion approximation and Fick's law for inelastic scattering Boltzmann models
Creators: name: Lods, Bertrand
name: Mouhot, Clément
name: Toscani, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B40 (Primary); 82C40 (Secondary)

description: We consider the linear dissipative Boltzmann equation describing inelastic interactions of particles with a fixed background. For the simplified model of Maxwell molecules first, we give a complete spectral analysis, and deduce from it the optimal rate of exponential convergence to equilibrium. Moreover we show the convergence to the heat equation in the diffusive limit and compute explicitely the diffusivity. Then for the physical model of hard spheres we use a suitable entropy functional for which we prove explicit inequality between the relative entropy and the production of entropy to get exponential convergence to equilibrium with explicit rate. The proof is based on inequalities between the entropy production functional for hard spheres and Maxwell molecules. Mathematical proof of the convergence to some heat equation in the diffusive limit is also given. From the last two points we deduce the first explicit estimates on the diffusive coefficient in the Fick's law for (inelastic hard-spheres) dissipative gases.
description: 25 pages
Factors Affecting Japanese Investment in the Australian Beef Industry
Creators: name: Morison, Julian B.
name: Officer, Linda J.
name: Morison, Julian B.
name: Officer, Linda J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This paper begins with details on the current level of Japanese investment in the Australian beef industry. The reasons for direct investment by Japanese firms in the Australian beef industry are investigated, as is the nature and extent of integration by these firms in the Japanese beef production and marketing chain. The results are shown to be consistent with foreign direct investment theory. Specifically, the desire to provide quality assurance through ownership of upstream production facilities and the potential to exploit a domestic marketing and distribution advantage provide the principal motivations for beef industry foreign direct investment by Japanese firms.
Additional file 1 of Diagnostic accuracy of the Clock Drawing Test in screening for early post-stroke neurocognitive disorder: the Nor-COAST study
Creators: name: Navickaite, Egle
name: Saltvedt, Ingvild
name: Lydersen, Stian
name: Munthe-Kaas, Ragnhild
name: Ihle-Hansen, Hege
name: Grambaite, Ramune
name: Aam, Stina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Scoring table for CDT, English adaptation 2023 and Clock Drawing Test Visual Scoring Templates, English adaptation 2023.
On Monte-Carlo methods in convex stochastic optimization
Creators: name: Bartl, Daniel
name: Mendelson, Shahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We develop a novel procedure for estimating the optimizer of general convex stochastic optimization problems of the form $\min_{x\in\mathcal{X}} \mathbb{E}[F(x,ξ)]$, when the given data is a finite independent sample selected according to $ξ$. The procedure is based on a median-of-means tournament, and is the first procedure that exhibits the optimal statistical performance in heavy tailed situations: we recover the asymptotic rates dictated by the central limit theorem in a non-asymptotic manner once the sample size exceeds some explicitly computable threshold. Additionally, our results apply in the high-dimensional setup, as the threshold sample size exhibits the optimal dependence on the dimension (up to a logarithmic factor). The general setting allows us to recover recent results on multivariate mean estimation and linear regression in heavy-tailed situations and to prove the first sharp, non-asymptotic results for the portfolio optimization problem.
Formation of singularities on the surface of a liquid metal in a strong electric field
Creators: name: Zubarev, N. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonlinear dynamics of the free surface of an ideal conducting liquid in a strong external electric field is studied. It is establish that the equations of motion for such a liquid can be solved in the approximation in which the surface deviates from a plane by small angles. This makes it possible to show that on an initially smooth surface for almost any initial conditions points with an infinite curvature corresponding to branch points of the root type can form in a finite time.
description: 14 pages
МОРФОФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ ИЗМЕНЕНИЯ СЕРДЦА ПРИ ХРОНИЧЕСКОМ ОБЛУЧЕНИИ, А ТАКЖЕ СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ МЕТОДЫ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ
Creators: name: Султонова, Лола
name: Шеров, Жахонгир
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В этой статье рассматривается частота возникновения рака, а также конкретная клиника хронического облучения для их лечения, морфофункциональные изменения в сердце, вызванные хроническим облучением, а также современные методы исследования.
[Elicitation of verb paradigms, vocabulary, and sentences, three stories]
Creators: name: García Cortés, María Agustina
name: Santiago Francisco, José
name: McFarland, Teresa
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: tlp

description: 14 WAV files. Corresponds to pp. 84-134 of related field notes. Stories are "Monte de Chila" (008), "When We Do Confirmation" (012), and "Back of Glass" (013), with transcription and translation on pp. 98-102, 118-120, and 125-126, respectively.
Rum Corps to IXL: Services to Pastoralists and Farmers in New South Wales, Part IV 1930-1990: Depression, War and Peace
Creators: name: Davidson, Bruce Robinson
name: Davidson, Bruce Robinson
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The depressed prices of agricultural commodities and the decline in farm incomes in the 1930s destroyed farmers' and governments' belief in a free market for a generation. In spite of the rapid development and introduction of new farming techniques after the Second World War, and the consequent increases in productivity, farmers were unwilling to allow demand and supply to determine product prices and insisted on government intervention in the market for agricultural commodities, credit and some inputs. The supply of agricultural services in the first two post-war decades was dominated by such intervention, and in the next two decades by attempts by the state to reduce its intervention in the market, a process which was not completed by 1990. Although the range of services available for farmers increased in the post-war period, improvements in communications led to an increasing number of them being supplied by a few large firms with branches in the larger country towns.
On Oscillating Dark Energy
Creators: name: Linder, Eric V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Distance-redshift data can impose strong constraints on dark energy models even when the equation of state is oscillatory. Despite the double integral dependence of the distance on the equation of state, precision measurement of the distance-redshift relation for z=0-2 is more incisive than the linear growth factor, CMB last scattering surface distance, and the age of the universe in distinguishing oscillatory behavior from an average behavior. While oscillating models might help solve the coincidence problem (since acceleration occurs periodically), next generation observations will strongly constrain such possibilities.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
First record of Sinoxylon anale and S. unidentatum in Greece, with an updated account on their global distribution and host plants (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae)
Creators: name: Lykidis, Charalampos T.
name: Nardi, Gianluca
name: Petrakis, Panos V.
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Sinoxylon anale Lesne, 1897 and S. unidentatum (Fabricius, 1801) (Coleoptera, Bostrichidae), two almost cosmopolitan species most likely native of the Oriental Region, are recorded for the first time from Greece on the basis of several specimens intercepted in a consignment at the Piraeus harbor (Attica, Athens) in wood packaging material originating from China. The establishment of these species in Greece is briefly discussed, moreover, an updated list of their interceptions, countries of establishment and host plants, is provided.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2016)
Many-body localization and enhanced non-ergodic sub-diffusive regime in the presence of random long-range interactions
Creators: name: Prasad, Yogeshwar
name: Garg, Arti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study many-body localization (MBL) in a one-dimensional system of spinless fermions with a deterministic aperiodic potential in the presence of long-range interactions decaying as power-law $V_{ij}/(r_i-r_j)^α$ with distance and having random coefficients $V_{ij}$. We demonstrate that MBL survives even for $α<1$ and is preceded by a broad non-ergodic sub-diffusive phase. Starting from parameters at which the short-range interacting system shows infinite temperature MBL phase, turning on random power-law interactions results in many-body mobility edges in the spectrum with a larger fraction of ergodic delocalized states for smaller values of $α$. Hence, the critical disorder $h_c^r$, at which ergodic to non-ergodic transition takes place increases with the range of interactions. Time evolution of the density imbalance $I(t)$, which has power-law decay $I(t) \sim t^{-γ}$ in the intermediate to large time regime, shows that the critical disorder $h_{c}^I$, above which the system becomes diffusion-less (with $γ\sim 0$) and transits into the MBL phase is much larger than $h_c^r$. In between $h_{c}^r$ and $h_{c}^I$ there is a broad non-ergodic sub-diffusive phase, which is characterized by the Poissonian statistics for the level spacing ratio, multifractal eigenfunctions and a non zero dynamical exponent $γ\ll 1/2$. The system continues to be sub-diffusive even on the ergodic side ($h < h_c^r$) of the MBL transition, where the eigenstates near the mobility edges are multifractal. For $h < h_{0}1/2$. The rich phase diagram obtained here is unique to random nature of long-range interactions. We explain this in terms of the enhanced correlations among local energies of the effective Anderson model induced by random power-law interactions.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures
A Immirzi-like parameter for 3d quantum gravity
Creators: name: Bonzom, Valentin
name: Livine, Etera R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an Immirzi-like ambiguity in three-dimensional quantum gravity. It shares some features with the Immirzi parameter of four-dimensional loop quantum gravity: it does not affect the equations of motion, but modifies the Poisson brackets and the constraint algebra at the canonical level. We focus on the length operator and show how to define it through non-commuting fluxes. We compute its spectrum and show the effect of this Immirzi-like ambiguity. Finally, we extend these considerations to 4d gravity and show how the different topological modifications of the action affect the canonical structure of loop quantum gravity.
description: 14 pages, v2: one reference added, more comments on the 3d/4d comparison