cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Method to Determine the Closed-Loop Precision of Resonant Sensors from Open-Loop Measurements
Creators: name: Manzaneque, Tomás
name: Steeneken, Peter G.
name: Alijani, Farbod
name: Ghatkesar, Murali K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonant sensors determine a sensed parameter by measuring the resonance frequency of a resonator. For fast continuous sensing, it is desirable to operate resonant sensors in a closed-loop configuration, where a feedback loop ensures that the resonator is always actuated near its resonance frequency, so that the precision is maximized even in the presence of drifts or fluctuations of the resonance frequency. However, in a closed-loop configuration, the precision is not only determined by the resonator itself, but also by the feedback loop, even if the feedback circuit is noiseless. Therefore, to characterize the intrinsic precision of resonant sensors, the open-loop configuration is often employed. To link these measurements to the actual closed-loop performance of the resonator, it is desirable to have a relation that determines the closed-loop precision of the resonator from open-loop characterisation data. In this work, we present a methodology to estimate the closed-loop resonant sensor precision by relying only on an open-loop characterization of the resonator. The procedure is beneficial for fast performance estimation and benchmarking of resonant sensors, because it does not require actual closed-loop sensor operation, thus being independent on the particular implementation of the feedback loop. We validate the methodology experimentally by determining the closed-loop precision of a mechanical resonator from an open-loop measurement and comparing this to an actual closed-loop measurement.
description: Accepted version of publication in IEEE Sensors Journal
தொல்காப்பியக் கற்பியலில் கூற்றுகளின் வகைப்பாடு
Creators: name: முனைவர் தி. மணிமொழி பிஎச்.டி.,
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200315 Indian Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200520 Indian Literature

description: - - -
Country-of-Origin Labeling for Uruguayan Beef
Creators: name: Perez, Lautaro
name: Boland, Michael A.
name: Schroeder, Ted C.
name: Perez, Lautaro
name: Boland, Michael A.
name: Schroeder, Ted C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The objective of this research is to identify Chilean consumer attitudes towards COO (Country-of-Origin) labeling, determine the importance of COO, and identify consumers who are most likely to buy COO-labeled beef products from Uruguay. The results suggest that age, number of children at home, whether the interviewee was the primary person responsible for meal selection, and whether interviewees purchased beef from different countries were significant determinants of whether a Chilean interviewee regarded COO as important. Age, income level, beef purchase frequency, and homemaker were significant determinants of whether an interviewee would purchase COO-labeled beef from Uruguay. These results suggest that COO is not a particularly important variable to consumers surveyed in this study.
Topological Phase Transitions in Disordered Electric Quadrupole Insulators
Creators: name: Li, Chang-An
name: Fu, Bo
name: Hu, Zi-Ang
name: Li, Jian
name: Shen, Shun-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate disorder-driven topological phase transitions in quantized electric quadrupole insulators. We show that chiral symmetry can protect the quantization of the quadrupole moment $q_{xy}$, such that the higher-order topological invariant is well-defined even when disorder has broken all crystalline symmetries. Moreover, nonvanishing $q_{xy}$ and consequent corner modes can be induced from a trivial insulating phase by disorder that preserves chiral symmetry. The critical points of such topological phase transitions are marked by the occurrence of extended boundary states even in the presence of strong disorder. We provide a systematic characterization of these disorder-driven topological phase transitions from both bulk and boundary descriptions.
description: 6+10 pages, 3+5 figures
Marketing Oregon Grass Seed in China: A Two-Decade View
Creators: name: Durham, Catherine A.
name: Johnson, Aaron J.
name: Vega-H, Esteban
name: Durham, Catherine A.
name: Johnson, Aaron J.
name: Vega-H, Esteban
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: China is a market of great interest to the agricultural and agribusiness industries, but many firms have reported difficulties in establishing themselves there. A closer look at the approaches used by a successful industry will help other industries and firms prepare themselves for the Chinese market. This study provides a historical look at a market development program undertaken by a trade association, and includes a discussion of domestic participants' perceptions about its impacts and about doing business in China. Two key characteristics of their success are a long-term commitment and training.
Ghost Problems from Pauli-Villars to Fourth-Order Quantum Gravity and their Resolution
Creators: name: Mannheim, Philip D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the history of the ghost problem in quantum field theory from the Pauli-Villars regulator theory to currently popular fourth-order derivative quantum gravity theories. While these theories all appear to have unitarity-violating ghost states with negative norm, we show that in fact these ghost states only appear because the theories are being formulated in the wrong Hilbert space. In these theories the Hamiltonians are not Hermitian but instead possess an antilinear symmetry. Consequently, one cannot use inner products that are built out of states and their Hermitian conjugates. Rather, one must use inner products built out of states and their conjugates with respect to the antilinear symmetry, and these latter inner products are positive. In this way one can build quantum theories of gravity in four spacetime dimensions that are unitary.
description: 10 pages. Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2020 Awards for Essays on Gravitation
Kellia 1965: Topographie générale - Mensurations et fouilles aux Qoucour ´Isa et aux Qoucour el-´Abid - Mensurations aux Qoucour el-´Izeila
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 53 (1969): Oriens christianus, Band 53
Victor Melgar's Coffee Farm
Creators: name: Melgar, Salvador
name: House, Lisa
name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Melgar, Salvador
name: House, Lisa
name: Barnett, Barry J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This case study focuses on a coffee farmer in Guatemala who, given current low coffee prices, is worried about his ability to maintain the family tradition of coffee production. He wonders whether the current low prices are just another of the periodic downturns in the volatile coffee market or whether the market is experiencing structural changes that will have long-term implications. In this case, the farmer is presented with three alternatives, including continuing to produce and market commodity coffee. The other alternatives involve changes in production and/or marketing practices intended to increase profit margins.
c=1 from c<1: Bulk and boundary correlators
Creators: name: Alexandrov, Sergei
name: Imeroni, Emiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the c_L=25 limit, which corresponds to c=1 string theory, of bulk and boundary correlation functions of Liouville theory with FZZT boundary conditions. This limit is singular and requires a renormalization of vertex operators. We formulate a regularization procedure which allows to extract finite physical results. A particular attention is paid to c=1 string theory compactified at the self-dual radius R=1. In this case, the boundary correlation functions diverge even after the multiplicative renormalization. We show that all infinite contributions can be interpreted as contact terms arising from degenerate world sheet configurations. After their subtraction, one gets a well defined set of correlation functions. We also obtain several new results for correlation functions in Liouville theory at generic central charge.
description: latex, 43 pages, 8 figures; v2: corrected a typo appearing in many places which made the letter s appear as the German double s; v3: choice of renormalization factors improved, main results unchanged, statements about hep-th/0406106 corrected; v4: published version with minor clarifications
Close relationship paths : the role of equity and maintenance in satisfaction for female siblings and friends
Creators: name: Sundstrom, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Emerging adulthood is a time when close relationships are extremely important, particularly to women. In this study, young women's close relationships with sisters and female friends were examined in order to determine if relationship type effects relationship processes. Past research reveals that two variables are typically positively correlated with relationship satisfaction - equity and relationship maintenance. It was expected that these correlations would be significantly stronger for close friendships than for close sibling relationships. These differences were predicted because friendships are voluntary, and tend to be less communal and shorter in duration than sibling relationships. Statistical procedures showed that while the two relationship types do vary in the latter three ways, they do not differ significantly in terms of equity, maintenance, or satisfaction.
Einstellungen und Selbstwirksamkeit von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern zur schulischen Inklusion in Deutschland - eine Analyse mit Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels Deutschlands (NEPS)
Creators: name: Gebhardt, Markus
name: Schwab, S.
name: Hessels, M. G. P.
name: Nusser, L.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf – Einstellung zur Inklusion – Lehrkräfte, Nationales Bildungspanel (NEPS) – Sekundarstufe – Befragung
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: In Deutschland wird der gemeinsame Unterricht von Schülerinnen und Schülern mit und ohne sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf im Schulsystem stark ausgebaut. Als eine wichtige Voraussetzung für eine gelungene Umsetzung des gemeinsamen Unterrichts wird in der Forschung die Einstellungen der beteiligten Lehrerinnen und Lehrer zur Inklusion gesehen. Der vorliegende Bei- trag berichtet über die Selbstwirksamkeit und die allgemeine Einstellung zur Inklusion bei 130 Klassenlehrkräften in der der 2. Welle der Startkohorte 3 (6. Jahrgangsstufe) des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS). Insgesamt haben die Regelschullehrkräfte eine positive Einstellung gegenüber der Inklusion, jedoch ist die Selbstwirksamkeit in Bezug auf Inklusion eher gering ausgeprägt. Die befragten Klassenlehrkräfte in Förderschulen trauen sich dagegen die Umsetzung des gemeinsamen Unterrichts eher zu. Gegenüber der Inklusion haben sie jedoch Bedenken und halten die Förderschule für den optimaleren Förderort für Schülerinnen und Schüler mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf.
Managing Perceived Risk as a Marketing Strategy for Beef in the UK Foodservice Industry
Creators: name: Hornibrook, Susan A.
name: Fearne, Andrew
name: Hornibrook, Susan A.
name: Fearne, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Industrial Organization
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Within the UK retail sector, relationships between retailers, processors and farmers have changed, as vertical co-ordination has emerged as a strategy to manage the perceived risks associated with the consumption of beef. However, little attention has been given to the examination of contractual relationships within the foodservice sector. This paper presents the results of a case study investigating the degree to which vertical co-ordination as a niche marketing strategy by one foodservice supplier has been successful in managing the perceived risk associated with fresh beef for their independent catering customers.
Appendices (Supplemental Information) from Microbial material cycling, energetic constraints and ecosystem expansion in subsurface ecosystems
Creators: name: Seto, Mayumi
name: Yoh Iwasa
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Details of mathematical analysis of our model.
Coulomb problem for vector bosons
Creators: name: Kuchiev, M. Yu.
name: Flambaum, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Coulomb problem for vector bosons W incorporates a well known difficulty; the charge of the boson localized in a close vicinity of the attractive Coulomb center proves be infinite. This fact contradicts the renormalizability of the Standard Model, which presumes that at small distances all physical quantities are well defined. The paradox is shown to be resolved by the QED vacuum polarization, which brings in a strong effective repulsion that eradicates the infinite charge of the boson on the Coulomb center. This property allows to define the Coulomb problem for vector bosons properly, making it consistent with the Standard Model.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
An Efficient Normalisation Procedure for Linear Temporal Logic and Very Weak Alternating Automata
Creators: name: Sickert, Salomon
name: Esparza, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the mid 80s, Lichtenstein, Pnueli, and Zuck proved a classical theorem stating that every formula of Past LTL (the extension of LTL with past operators) is equivalent to a formula of the form $\bigwedge_{i=1}^n \mathbf{G}\mathbf{F} φ_i \vee \mathbf{F}\mathbf{G} ψ_i$, where $φ_i$ and $ψ_i$ contain only past operators. Some years later, Chang, Manna, and Pnueli built on this result to derive a similar normal form for LTL. Both normalisation procedures have a non-elementary worst-case blow-up, and follow an involved path from formulas to counter-free automata to star-free regular expressions and back to formulas. We improve on both points. We present a direct and purely syntactic normalisation procedure for LTL yielding a normal form, comparable to the one by Chang, Manna, and Pnueli, that has only a single exponential blow-up. As an application, we derive a simple algorithm to translate LTL into deterministic Rabin automata. The algorithm normalises the formula, translates it into a special very weak alternating automaton, and applies a simple determinisation procedure, valid only for these special automata.
description: This is the extended version of the referenced conference paper and contains an appendix with additional material
Trust and the Decision to Outsource: Affective Responses and Cognitive Processes
Creators: name: Hansen, Mark H.
name: Morrow, J.L.
name: Hansen, Mark H.
name: Morrow, J.L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Many of the various forms of cooperative strategy that firms are pursuing in today's economy entail the placing of important business functions in the hands of a partner. This paper examines the role of trust in the decision by a producer to place the marketing function in the hands of another entity, namely a cooperative. Although others have studied the effect of what may be termed general trust on inter-organizational relationships, few have examined the antecedents of that trust. We propose a model in which affective responses and cognitive processes are precursors to a sense of general trust, which, in turn, influences the outsourcing decision. These affective responses and cognitive processes have both direct and indirect (mediated) effects on the decision to place an important function in the hands of another entity. Perceptions of partner expertise in the business function at hand and the perceived need for the focal firm to maintain control over that function are also considered in the model. The model is tested in a somewhat novel context: the decision of cotton producers to outsource the marketing of their cotton fiber. Using survey data gathered from the actual decision-maker, and structural equations modeling, we find that the inclusion of affective responses and cognitive processes in our model produces a richer explanation of the outsourcing decision. The differences between the effects of affective responses and cognitive processes have potentially important implications for managers engaged in cooperative strategies and for the scholars who study them.
Figure S1. from Microbial material cycling, energetic constraints and ecosystem expansion in subsurface ecosystems
Creators: name: Seto, Mayumi
name: Yoh Iwasa
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Parameter dependence of the size of the abundant resource premium (ARP)-driven niche space for type 1 (left panels) and type 2 (right panels). Niche sizes are measured by the number of sampled points on the (ln Be, ln C)-plane, which is different from Fig. 5, where the size of the niche is defined by the area on the (ln Be, ln C)-plane. Symbols and parameters are the same as in Fig. 5. The thick black dashed curve labelled by Dwo indicates the difference between the niche spaces of the realised niche and the fundamental niche calculated using a model ignoring the ARP term. r1=1 and r2=1. Other parameters are set to the default values shown in Table S1.
Systematics of Staggered Fermion Spectral Properties and Topology
Creators: name: Wong, Kit Yan
name: Woloshyn, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectral properties of a variety of improved staggered operators are studied in quenched QCD. The systematic dependence of the infrared eigenvalue spectrum on i) improvement in the staggered operator, ii) improvement in the gauge field action, iii) lattice spacing and iv) lattice volume, is analyzed. It is observed that eigenmodes with small eigenvalues and large chirality appear as the level of improvement increases or as one approaches the continuum limit. These eigenmodes can be identified as the ``zero modes'' which contribute to the chirality associated, via the index theorem, with the topology of the background gauge field. This gives evidence that staggered fermions are sensitive to gauge field topology. After successfully identifying these would-be chiral zero modes, the distribution of the remaining non-chiral modes is compared with the predictions of Random Matrix Theory in different topological sectors. Satisfactory agreement is obtained.
description: 10 pages, 11 Figures, Final version
Quantifying Strategic Choice Along the Vertical Coordination Continuum
Creators: name: Wysocki, Allen F.
name: Peterson, H. Christopher
name: Harsh, Stephen B.
name: Wysocki, Allen F.
name: Peterson, H. Christopher
name: Harsh, Stephen B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: vertical coordination
subject: vertical coordination continuum
subject: discriminate analysis
subject: willingness to change
subject: unwillingness to change
subject: coordination error
subject: programmability
subject: implementability
subject: risk/return tradeoff

description: The qualitative and quantitative results of a study undertaken to test a decision framework firms might consider in choosing a vertical coordination strategy are presented. The posited five-step decision making process tested that a change in coordination strategy would occur if and only if a "yes" decision was made at each step. The results reported as case-based frequencies and as a discriminate analysis function provide strong support for the study's research propositions. The ability of an alternative to reduce the costliness of a coordination error and the acceptability of the risk/return tradeoff were critical to the willingness of a sample of producers to change coordination strategy. Implementability was significant, but not to the same extent as costliness of a coordination error or acceptability of the risk/return tradeoff.
The Effects of the Tsallis Entropy in the Proton Internal Pressure
Creators: name: Campos, S. D.
name: Amarante, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, one discusses the effects of the Tsallis entropy on the radial pressure distribution in the proton. Using a damped confinement potential the pressure distribution is obtained from the Tsallis entropy approach, being the entropic-index $ω$ connected with the proton temperature concerning some transition temperature. Then, the approach allows the study of the proton thermal evolution up to the Quark-Gluon Plasma regime. The von Laue stability condition, arising from the pressure distribution results in positive and negative energy regions. An analogy between the results for the radial pressure distribution and the proton-proton and the antiproton-proton total cross section is performed. The negative energy region is identified with the odderon exchange while the positive represents the pomeron exchange dominance above some transition energy $\sqrt{s_c}$. The hollowness effect is also discussed in terms of the results obtained and the proposed analogy.
description: 11 pages and 4 figures
Magnetic relaxation in metallic films: Single and multilayer structures
Creators: name: Heinrich, B.
name: Urban, R.
name: Woltersdorf, Georg
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: The intrinsic magnetic relaxations in metallic films will be discussed. It will be shown that the intrinsic damping mechanism in metals is caused by incoherent scattering of itinerant electron-hole pair excitations by phonons and magnons. Berger [L. Berger, Phys. Rev. B 54, 9353 (1996)] showed that the interaction between spin waves and itinerant electrons in multilayers can lead to interface Gilbert damping. Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) studies were carried out using magnetic single and double layer films. The FMR linewidth of the Fe films in the double layer structures was found to always be larger than the FMR linewidth measured for the single Fe films having the same thickness. The increase in the FMR linewidth scaled inversely with the film thickness, and was found to be linearly dependent on the microwave frequency. These results are in agreement with Berger's predictions. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
Table S1 from Microbial material cycling, energetic constraints and ecosystem expansion in subsurface ecosystems
Creators: name: Seto, Mayumi
name: Yoh Iwasa
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Symbols, definition, units, default values and ranges of parameters
Modelling the Rotordynamics of Saturated Electrical Machines due to Unbalanced Magnetic Pull
Creators: name: Boy, Felix
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: rotordynamics
subject: unbalanced magnetic pull
subject: electrial machiness
subject: eccentricity
subject: magnetic equivalent circuits
subject: nonlinear dynamics
subject: 620
subject: Rotordynamik
subject: Anziehungskraft
subject: Magnetismus
subject: Elektrische Maschine
subject: Exzentrizität
subject: Magnetischer Kreis
subject: Nichtlineare Dynamik

description: Zugleich: Dissertation, Universität Kassel, 2020
Cargill: Biotechnology and Value Creation in Wheat
Creators: name: Boland, Michael A.
name: Boland, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agribusiness
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: About 40 percent of the world's food supply came from rice and wheat-based foods. The genome of wheat (a genome is a set of chromosomes) was much larger than those of other crops such as rice. Deciphering the wheat genome was a much more complex process. Wheat had six DNA strands (e.g., humans have only a double-helix DNA strand) and almost twice as many genes as humans. GM wheat would be available for production by 2004. The objective of this case is to describe: segregation and identity-preservation issues in the wheat value chain, the role of Cargill in that value chain, and issues surrounding the introduction of genetically modified wheat.
Consumer Preferences for Public and Private Sector Certifications for Beef Products in the United States and the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Christensen, Bryan J.
name: Bailey, DeeVon
name: Hunnicutt, Lynn
name: Ward, Ruby A.
name: Christensen, Bryan J.
name: Bailey, DeeVon
name: Hunnicutt, Lynn
name: Ward, Ruby A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Focus groups and street surveys are used in the US and the UK to determine consumer perceptions of the ability of different agencies, associations, and groups to certify beef products for quality, food safety, animal welfare, social responsibility, and environmental responsibility. US consumers see the role of the federal government primarily as assuring food safety but desire the private sector to make other types of certifications. UK consumers prefer the private sector to assure food safety. UK store brands are perceived as providing the highest quality but in the US participants identified manufacturer brand names as having the highest quality.
Photoprotecting uracil by coupling with lossy nanocavities
Creators: name: Felicetti, Simone
name: Fregoni, Jacopo
name: Schnappinger, Thomas
name: Reiter, Sebastian
name: de Vivie-Riedle, Regina
name: Feist, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze how the photorelaxation dynamics of a molecule can be controlled by modifying its electromagnetic environment using a nanocavity mode. In particular, we consider the photorelaxation of the RNA nucleobase uracil, which is the natural mechanism to prevent photodamage. In our theoretical work, we identify the operative conditions in which strong coupling with the cavity mode can open an efficient photoprotective channel, resulting in a relaxation dynamics twice as fast than the natural one. We rely on a state-of-the-art chemically-detailed molecular model and a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian propagation approach to perform full-quantum simulations of the system dissipative dynamics. By focusing on the photon decay, our analysis unveils the active role played by cavity-induced dissipative processes in modifying chemical reaction rates, in the context of molecular polaritonics. Remarkably, we find that the photorelaxation efficiency is maximized when an optimal trade-off between light-matter coupling strength and photon decay rate is satisfied. This result is in contrast with the common intuition that increasing the quality factor of nanocavities and plasmonic devices improves their performance. Finally, we use a detailed model of a metal nanoparticle to show that the speedup of the uracil relaxation could be observed via coupling with a nanosphere pseudomode, without requiring the implementation of complex nanophotonic structures.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, updated reference list
SUGARCANE GROWERS' PERCEPTIONS OF A GRADUATED MORTGAGE LOAN REPAYMENT SCHEME TO BUY FARMLAND IN KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA
Creators: name: Darroch, Mark A.G.
name: Mashatola, M.C.
name: Darroch, Mark A.G.
name: Mashatola, M.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: A survey of 88 medium-scale sugarcane farmers (MSFs) using this scheme in 2001 shows that most MSFs would opt to first rent land before purchasing, and recognize that annual returns to land are low relative to land value. Most MSFs view long-term sugarcane supply agreements as a constraint on enterprise diversification, and consider that the quality of mentorship currently received was not satisfactory. Industry players could leverage international donor funding for empowerment projects to improve the quality of mentorship programs. Client service can be improved be better clarifying the structure of the graduated repayments, sending loan statements on time, and helping clients to interpret loan statements. There is also a new commercial opportunity to act as a co-ordinator to monitor and improve the MSFs' financial performance. Using an independent farm valuer would avoid perceptions of bias in the valuations of farms offered for sale in later rounds of the scheme. Options to improve client liquidity in later rounds include requiring larger equity down payments, choosing buyers with substantive off-farm income, and renting before buying. Younger potential clients with less liquidity and less farming experience are likely to choose the latter.
On classification of maximal nilpotent subsemigroups
Creators: name: Ganyushkin, Olexandr
name: Mazorchuk, Volodymyr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20M10; 20M20

description: We develop a general approach to the study of maximal nilpotent subsemigroups of finite semigroups. This approach can be used to recover many known classifications of maximal nilpotent subsemigroups, in particular, for the symmetric inverse semigroup, the symmetric semigroup, and the factor power of the symmetric group. We also apply this approach to obtain a classification of maximal nilpotent subsemigroups in the semigroup of binary relations and in certain 0-simple finite semigroups.
description: 36 pages
Coquin, René-Georges: Les Canons d´Hippolyte
Creators: name: Kaufhold, Hubert
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 53 (1969): Oriens christianus, Band 53
SHADOW PRICE IMPLICATIONS OF SEVERAL STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE CRITERIA
Creators: name: McCamley, Francis P.
name: Rudel, Richard K.
name: McCamley, Francis P.
name: Rudel, Richard K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Stochastic dominance criteria can be, but seldom are explicitly, applied to problems having continuous variables. A previously developed model is modified to facilitate exploration of sets of shadow price vectors for decreasing (non-increasing) absolute risk aversion stochastic dominance (DSD), a combination, TGSD, of third degree stochastic dominance (TSD) and generalized stochastic dominance (GSD) and a combination, DGSD, of DSD and GSD. The model is illustrated by applying it to two risk efficient (primal) solutions of a problem by Anderson, Dillon and Hardaker. For each of the two primal solutions and, where relevant, three risk aversion coefficient intervals, selected aspects of the sets of shadow price vectors consistent with TSD, DSD, TGSD and DGSD are compared with each other and with sets of shadow price vectors consistent with GSD and second degree stochastic dominance (SSD).
Echinopsolus Gutt 1990
Creators: name: Panina, Elena G.
name: Stepanov, Vadim G.
name: Smirnov, Alexei V.
name: Martynov, Alexandr V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Holothuroidea
Dendrochirotida
Psolidae
Echinopsolus

description: Genus Echinopsolus Gutt, 1990
 Echinopsolus Gutt, 1990: 112. Type species: E. acanthocola Gutt, 1990, by original designation.
 Microchoerus Gutt, 1990: 105 [non Wood, 1844]. Type species: M. splendidus Gutt, 1990, by original designation.
 Diagnosis [emended]. Tentacles 10, ventral pair smaller than others. Mouth and anus terminal. On the dorsal surface of the body present a few tube feet or papillae scatter about whole body. All species of genus Echinopsolus have a well-developed sole. Dorsal body wall contains one- to multilayered perforated plates. Scales are absent on the dorsal side.
description: Published as part of Panina, Elena G., Stepanov, Vadim G., Smirnov, Alexei V. & Martynov, Alexandr V., 2020, Two new species of holothurians of the genus Echinopsolus Gutt, 1990 (Echinodermata: Dendrochirotida: Cucumariidae) from the North-Western Pacific, pp. 233-246 in Zootaxa 4789 (1) on page 234, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/3884917
Polarization effects in exclusive semileptonic (Lambda_b -> Lambda l^+ l^-) decay
Creators: name: Aliev, T. M.
name: Savci, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The independent helicity amplitudes in the (Lambda_b -> Λl^+ l^-) decay in the standard model and its minimal extension, i.e., with the new vector type interactions, are calculated. We calculate various asymmetry parameters characterizing the angular dependence of the differential decay width for the cascade decay (Lambda_b -> Lambda(-> a+b) V^* (-> l^+ l^-)) with polarized and unpolarized heavy baryons. The sensitivity of the asymmetry parameters to the new Wilson coefficients are analyzed.
description: 25 pages, 11 figures, LaTeX formatted
Indirect searches for dark matter bound state formation and level transitions
Creators: name: Baldes, Iason
name: Calore, Francesca
name: Petraki, Kalliopi
name: Poireau, Vincent
name: Rodd, Nicholas L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Indirect searches for dark matter (DM) have conventionally been applied to the products of DM annihilation or decay. If DM couples to light force carriers, however, it can be captured into bound states via dissipation of energy that may yield detectable signals. We extend the indirect searches to DM bound state formation and transitions between bound levels, and constrain the emission of unstable dark photons. Our results significantly refine the predicted signal flux that could be observed in experiments. As a concrete example, we use Fermi-LAT dwarf spheroidal observations to obtain constraints in terms of the dark photon mass and energy which we use to search for the formation of stable or unstable bound states.
description: Approximately 40 pages and 20 figures. Tabulated limits included in source file. Prepared for submission to SciPost
Plant mediated green synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for burn wound therapy
Creators: name: Beg, Mohd Riyaz
name: Shital Ghodinde
name: Vidhi Gupta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: 111502 Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111501 Basic Pharmacology
subject: 111504 Pharmaceutical Sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 30502 Natural Products Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 180111 Environmental and Natural Resources Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 30504 Organic Green Chemistry
subject: 30203 Inorganic Green Chemistry

description: In this changing world, we all are surrounded by the surmountable risk of getting injured. Amongst various risk factors, major burns are the most distressing and catastrophic. Burn wounds are not easy to heal via natural healing process and ultimately ended up with scar formation. If the degree of burn is high then the loss of tissue and its function is very common. To fasten-up the natural burn wound healing; zinc, an essential trace element is found to be very much effective. But due to its’ particle size limitation, less contact with wounded cells and tissues, and high inherent toxicity restrict its use. Needlessly, zinc is an element with dual action i.e. both antimicrobial and wound healing it is a prime choice to apply its aptitude in burn wound healing. To overcome the documented limitations zinc has converted to nanoparticle form. Zinc oxide nanoparticles, in particular, have attained ample of interest due to their unique properties and potential antimicrobial activity along with wound healing activity which makes it promising for the healing of topical burn wounds. Plant mediated green synthesis of nano-metal oxide particles is gaining a lot of significance due to its simplicity, eco-friendliness and extensive antimicrobial activity and recommended as an appealing substitute to not only physical methods but also chemical methods avoiding the use of the high rate of toxic chemicals and extreme surroundings. This study includes ZnO NPs role in burn wound healing with Phyto-mediated synthesis methods to provide evidence of their potential applications. Additionally, it provides an overview of traditional methods used for the synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles and characterization techniques to obtain information concerning the size, shape and optical properties along with toxicity and safety concern of ZnO NPs and its biomedical applications.
ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF BANNING SUBTHERAPEUTIC USE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN SWINE PRODUCTION
Creators: name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Lehenbauer, Terry
name: Ji, Dasheng
name: Connor, Joseph
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Lehenbauer, Terry
name: Ji, Dasheng
name: Connor, Joseph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Public health officials and physicians are concerned about possible development of bacterial resistance and potential effects on human health that may be related to the use of antimicrobial agents in livestock feed. The focus of this research is aimed at determining the economic effects that subtherapeutic bans of antimicrobials would have on both swine producers and consumers. The results show that a ban on growth promotants for swine would be costly, totaling $242.5 million annually with swine producers sharing the larger portion in the short run and consumers sharing about 75% in the long run. If a ban affected poultry as well as pork production, the total costs would expand to $586 million per year with swine producers sharing about the same as in bans for swine only and consumers sharing significantly more than the swine only case.
Galbiati-Sergio Noja, Giovanni: Precetti e Canoni giuridico-morali per arabi christiani
Creators: name: Kaufhold, Hubert
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 53 (1969): Oriens christianus, Band 53
Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments
Creators: name: Kästner, Linh
name: Marx, Cornelius
name: Lambrecht, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mobile robots have gained increased importance within industrial tasks such as commissioning, delivery or operation in hazardous environments. The ability to autonomously navigate safely especially within dynamic environments, is paramount in industrial mobile robotics. Current navigation methods depend on preexisting static maps and are error-prone in dynamic environments. Furthermore, for safety reasons, they often rely on hand-crafted safety guidelines, which makes the system less flexible and slow. Visual based navigation and high level semantics bear the potential to enhance the safety of path planing by creating links the agent can reason about for a more flexible navigation. On this account, we propose a reinforcement learning based local navigation system which learns navigation behavior based solely on visual observations to cope with highly dynamic environments. Therefore, we develop a simple yet efficient simulator - ARENA2D - which is able to generate highly randomized training environments and provide semantic information to train our agent. We demonstrate enhanced results in terms of safety and robustness over a traditional baseline approach based on the dynamic window approach.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2020, Hong Kong
ADAPTIVE TRUNCATED ESTIMATON APPLIED TO MAXIMUM ENTROPY
Creators: name: Marsh, Thomas L.
name: Mittelhammer, Ronald C.
name: Marsh, Thomas L.
name: Mittelhammer, Ronald C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: An adaptive estimator is proposed to optimally estimate unknown truncation points of the error support space for the general linear model. The adaptive estimator is specified analytically to minimize a risk function based on the squared error loss measure. It is then empirically applied to a generalized maximum entropy estimator of the linear model using bootstrapping, allowing the information set of the model itself to determine the truncation points. Monte Carlo simulations are used to demonstrate performance of the adaptive entropy estimator relative to maximum entropy estimation coupled with alternative truncation rules and to ordinary least squares estimation. A food demand application is included to demonstrate practical implementation of the adaptive estimator.
DEMAND ESTIMATION FOR AGRICULTURAL PROCESSING CO-PRODUCTS
Creators: name: Novak, Patrick J.
name: Wachenheim, Cheryl J.
name: DeVuyst, Eric A.
name: Lambert, David K.
name: Novak, Patrick J.
name: Wachenheim, Cheryl J.
name: DeVuyst, Eric A.
name: Lambert, David K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Agribusiness
Demand and Price Analysis

description: Co-products of processing agricultural commodities are often marketed through private transaction rather than through public markets or those in which public transaction information is recorded or available. The resulting lack of historical price information prohibits the use of positive time series techniques to estimate demand. Demand estimates for co-products are of value to both livestock producers, who obtain them for use in livestock rations, and processors, who must sell or otherwise dispose of them. Linear programming has long been used, first by researchers and later as a mainstream tool for nutritionists and producers, to formulate least cost livestock rations. Here it is used as a normative technique to estimate step function demand schedules for co-products by individual livestock classes within a region. Regression is then used to smooth step function demand schedules by fitting demand data to generalized Leontief cost functions. Seemingly unrelated regression is used to estimate factor demand first adjusted for data censoring using probit analysis. Demand by individual livestock classes is aggregated over the number of livestock within a region. Species important to demand for each co-product are identified and own price elasticity for individual livestock classes and all livestock are estimated.
Vase Life Quality Improvement of White Snowball Using Vase Life Extending Solution
Creators: name: Mehraj, H.
name: A.F. ONA
name: Tropa Taufique
name: S. Mutahera
name: A.F.M. Jamal Uddin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70605 Post Harvest Horticultural Technologies (incl. Transportation and Storage)
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: An experiment was conducted at the Department of Horticulture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, during December 2012 to January 2013 following Completely Randomized Design with three replications to extend the vase life of cut white snowball chrysanthemum. Five treatments were exerted in experiment, i.e., tap water (Control, C0); distilled water (C1); 100-ppm sucrose solution (C2); 100-ppm Lemon juice solution (C3) and 100-ppm Sucrose + Lemon juice solution (C4). 100-ppm of sucrose + lemon juice solution (C4) provided fresh weight loss (7.0 g), days taken for first petal fall (5.0 days), days taken for petal discoloration (8.7 days) and longevity (13.0 days) whereas maximum flower head
diameter (92.2 mm) was found in 100-ppm lemon juice solution (C3) which was statistically similar with C4 (90.8 mm).