cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Trauma-Related Shame and Guilt as Prospective Predictors of Daily Mental Contamination and PTSD Symptoms in Survivors of Sexual Trauma
Creators: name: McCann, Jesse
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: FOS: Psychology
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: Mental contamination–the experience of dirtiness or pollution in the absence of a physical contaminant–has established links with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Emotions such as shame and guilt have well-documented relationships with PTSD symptoms and are suggested to play a role in the development and maintenance of mental contamination. The goal of the present study was to examine whether trauma-related shame and guilt prospectively predicted daily experiences of mental contamination and PTSD symptoms among women with sexual trauma history. Forty-one women with a history of sexual trauma completed baseline and twice-daily assessments of mental contamination and PTSD symptoms over a two-week period as well as baseline measures of trauma-related shame and guilt. Two sets of hierarchical mixed linear regression models examined individual and combined fixed effects of baseline trauma-related guilt (guilt cognitions and global guilt) and shame in predicting daily levels of trauma-related mental contamination and PTSD symptoms. Primary analyses showed that trauma-related shame significantly predicted scores of both daily mental contamination and PTSD symptoms. Neither trauma-related guilt cognitions nor trauma-related global guilt significantly predicted scores of either daily mental contamination or PTSD symptoms. Findings in the PTSD literature support results from the PTSD model. However, trauma-related shame significantly predicting daily mental contamination is novel. Understanding factors influencing the development and maintenance of mental contamination can allow future research to learn how mental contamination, and subsequently PTSD, can be more easily targeted and improved.
description: © 2021 Jesse P. McCann
The Nature of the Density Clump in the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Creators: name: Olszewski, Edward W.
name: Mateo, Mario
name: Harris, Jason
name: Walker, Matthew G.
name: Coleman, Matthew G.
name: Da Costa, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have imaged the recently discovered stellar overdensity located approximately one core radius from the center of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy using the Magellan Clay 6.5m telescope with the Magellan Instant Camera (MagIC). Superb seeing conditions allowed us to probe the stellar populations of this overdensity and of a control field within Fornax to a limiting magnitude of R=26. The color-magnitude diagram of the overdensity field is virtually identical to that of the control field with the exception of the presence of a population arising from a very short (less than 300 Myr in duration) burst of star formation 1.4 Gyr ago. Coleman et al. have argued that this overdensity might be related to a shell structure in Fornax that was created when Fornax captured a smaller galaxy. Our results are consistent with this model, but we argue that the metallicity of this young component favors a scenario in which the gas was part of Fornax itself.
description: 24 pages including 8 figures and 3 tables. Accepted by Astronomical Journal
On Hybrid Monodromy Inflation (Hic Sunt Dracones)
Creators: name: Kaloper, Nemanja
name: König, Morgane
name: Lawrence, Albion
name: Scargill, James H. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit two-field hybrid inflation as an effective field theory for low-scale inflation with sub-Planckian scalar field ranges. We focus on a prototype model by Stewart because it allows for a red spectral tilt, which still fits the current data. We describe the constraints on this model imposed by current CMB measurements. We then explore the stability of this model to quantum corrections. We find that for relevant, marginal, and at least a finite set of irrelevant operators, some additional mechanism is required to render the model stable to corrections from both quantum field theory and quantum gravity. We outline a possible mechanism by realizing the scalars as compact axions dual to massive $4$-form field strengths, and outline how natural hybrid inflation may be supported by strong dynamics in the dual theory.
description: 40 pages, 1 figure
Practicable factorized TDLDA for arbitrary density- and current-dependent functionals
Creators: name: Nesterenko, V. O.
name: Kvasil, J.
name: Reinhard, P. -G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a practicable method for describing linear dynamics of different finite Fermi systems. The method is based on a general self-consistent procedure for factorization of the two-body residual interaction. It is relevant for diverse density- and current-dependent functionals and, in fact, represents the self-consistent separable random-phase approximation (RPA), hence the name SRPA. SRPA allows to avoid diagonalization of high-rank RPA matrices and thus dwarfs the calculation expense. Besides, SRPA expressions have a transparent analytical form and so the method is very convenient for the analysis and treatment of the obtained results. SRPA demonstrates high numerical accuracy. It is very general and can be applied to diverse systems. Two very different cases, the Kohn-Sham functional for atomic clusters and Skyrme functional for atomic nuclei, are considered in detail as particular examples. SRPA treats both time-even and time-odd dynamical variables and, in this connection, we discuss the origin and properties of time-odd currents and densities in initial functionals. Finally, SRPA is compared with other self-consistent approaches for the excited states, including the coupled-cluster method.
description: 27 pages, 2 figures. To be published in Kluwer series "Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics" (PTCP)
Pathways out of poverty through cassava, maize and soybean in Thailand
Creators: name: Nareenat, Roonnaphai
name: Nareenat, Roonnaphai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Food Security and Poverty

description: This phase II covers the case study survey and interviews with farmers growing cassava, soybean and maize in the major producing areas, namely cassava farmers in Nakhonratchasima, soybean farmers in Sukhotai and maize farmers in Nakhonsawan, with the major objectives of studying the returns of diverse farming involving three CGPRT and other crops. Opportunities and constraints for the farm families are analysed together with the related industries and marketing systems in the survey areas. Furthermore, analysis of related institutional support and policy suggestions to promote and expand sustainable diverse farming are also conducted.
National Election Pool Poll: 2022 New Hampshire Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: National Election Pool (NEP)
name: NBC News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2024

description: US Senate vote (12); gubernatorial vote (5); inflation/the economy (3); first time voting in midterms (2); President Joe Biden job approval (2); issues that matter most in deciding vote (5); crime (1); abortion (3); gun policy (1); immigration (1); 2020 presidential vote (1); candidate quality that mattered most in vote (2); opinion of Maggie Hassan’s views (1); opinion of Don Bulduc’s views (1); confidence in fair elections (1); Governor Chris Sununu job approval (1); Joe Biden 2024 run for presidency (1); Donald Trump 2024 run for presidency (1); Joe Biden legitimately won the presidency in 2020 (1); party control of the Senate (2); senatorial vote to support/oppose Joe Biden (2); senatorial vote to support/oppose Donald Trump (2).
Soft modes in $\mathcal{N} = 2$ SYK model
Creators: name: Peng, Cheng
name: Stanojevic, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study various properties of the soft modes in the $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric SYK model.
description: 46 pages, 5 figures
Status and prospects of feed crops in southeast Asia: an integrated report
Creators: name: Lokollo, Erna M.
name: Hutabarat, Budiman
name: Swastika, Dewa K.S.
name: Lokollo, Erna M.
name: Hutabarat, Budiman
name: Swastika, Dewa K.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This working paper has been compiled using information gathered by individual country studies complemented with other relevant information to provide a regional perspective on current issues and prospects. The studies also highlight the potential of co-operation in trade among members of ASEAN/AFTA through bilateral agreements. Some common strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to the development of feed crops have been identified. However, each country has its own uniqueness in pursuing efforts to capitalize on the challenges faced in the development of feed crops.
Mapping the boundary of the first order finite temperature restoration of chiral symmetry in the m_pi-m_K--plane with a linear sigma model
Creators: name: Herpay, T.
name: Patkos, A.
name: Szep, Zs.
name: Szepfalusy, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase diagram of the three-flavor QCD is mapped out in the low mass corner of the m_pi-m_K--plane with help of the SU_L(3) x SU_R(3) linear sigma model (LSM). A novel zero temperature parametrization is proposed for the mass dependence of the couplings away from the physical point based on the the three-flavor chiral perturbation theory (U(3) ChPT). One-loop thermodynamics is constructed by applying optimized perturbation theory. The unknown dependence of the scalar spectra on the pseudoscalar masses limitates the accuracy of the predictions. Results are compared to lattice data and similar investigations with other variants of effective chiral models. The critical value of the pion mass is below 65 MeV for all m_K values <= 800 MeV. Along the diagonal m_pi=m_K, we estimate m_crit(diag)=40+-20 MeV.
description: RevTeX4, 16 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Orbital period correction and light curve modeling of the W-subtype shallow contact binary OWLeo
Creators: name: Zhou, Xiao
name: Qian, Shengbang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Orbital period and multi-color light curves' investigation of OW Leo are presented for the first time. The orbital period of OW Leo is corrected from $P = 0.325545$ days to $P = 0.32554052$ days in our work, and the observational data from the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) are used to test the newly determined orbital period. Then, the phased light curves are calculated with the new period and the Wilson-Devinney program is applied to model the light curves, which reveal that OW Leo is a W-subtype shallow contact binary system ($q = 3.05$, $f = 12.8\,\%$). The absolute physical parameters of the two component stars are estimated to be $M_{1} = 0.31(1)M_\odot$, $M_{2} = 0.95(3)M_\odot$, $R_{1} = 0.63(1)R_\odot$, $R_{2} = 1.04(1)R_\odot$, $L_{1} = 0.43(1)L_\odot$ and $L_{2} = 1.01(2)L_\odot$. The evolutionary status show that the more massive star is less evolved than the less massive star. OW Leo has very low metal abundance, which means its formation and evolution are hardly influenced by any additional component. It is formed from an initially detached binary systems through nuclear evolution and angular momentum loss via magnetic braking, and have passed a very long time of main sequence evolution.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, RAA accepted
Effects of Trade Liberalization on Agriculture in Malaysia: Commodity Aspects
Creators: name: Tengku Ahmad, Tengku Mohd Ariff
name: Tawang, Ariffin
name: Tengku Ahmad, Tengku Mohd Ariff
name: Tawang, Ariffin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: trade liberalization
subject: farmers
subject: palm oils
subject: rice
subject: tobacco

description: This book analyzes commodity aspects of the effects of trade liberalization on agriculture in Malaysia. The study describes the effects of trade liberalization on selected commodities namely palm oil, rice, and tobacco at the national level and farm level. The analysis included ex-ante and ex-post welfare gain and loss at the national level and profitability at the farm level.
Stabilization of Upland Agriculture under El Nino-Induced Climatic Risks: Regional and Farm Level Risk Management and Coping Mechanisms in the Kedah-Perlis Region, Malaysia
Creators: name: Tawang, Ariffin
name: Tengku Ahmad, Tengku Bin Ariff
name: Tawang, Ariffin
name: Tengku Ahmad, Tengku Bin Ariff
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: climatic change
subject: risk
subject: agricultural products

description: This study is an extension of the earlier study with a focus on the impact of the El Nino induced weather changes at the regional and farm levels. It provides a complete continuum of the impacts and implications of El Nino from the national to the regional and farm levels. Hence, the general objective of the study is to determine the impact of El Nino induced climate variability on agriculture at the sub-national and farm level, and to identify appropriate mechanisms to mitigate the impact so as to ensure the stability of the agricultural contribution to the regional and farm economy. In this study, the northwest region of Peninsular Malaysia was chosen as the region under study. It comprises of the states of Kedah and Perlis. The main climatic feature of the region is its distinctive two dry seasons and the resultant drought periods. The region is also an important agricultural and food producing area in the country and the agricultural sector is one of the important economic contributors to the region. As such, it is expected that El Nino induced climatic changes could result in significant impacts on the performance of the agricultural sector and the regional economy as a whole.
Food Security Strategies for Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Igua, Passinghan Bukley K.
name: Igua, Passinghan Bukley K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food security

description: This paper analyzes food availability and its related risks, distribution institutions, uses, commodity balance, food aid and related government policies at the national level. It also looks at household food availability, access, consumption patterns, nutritional quality and sufficiency. The Papua New Guinea National Food Security Policy is also described with its strategies to improve food security in the country.
Seven-Point Conformal Blocks in the Extended Snowflake Channel and Beyond
Creators: name: Fortin, Jean-François
name: Ma, Wen-Jie
name: Skiba, Witold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Seven-point functions have two inequivalent topologies or channels. The comb channel has been computed previously and here we compute scalar conformal blocks in the extended snowflake channel in $d$ dimensions. Our computation relies on the known action of the differential operator that sets up the operator product expansion in embedding space. The scalar conformal blocks in the extended snowflake channel are obtained as a power series expansion in the conformal cross-ratios whose coefficients are a triple sum of the hypergeometric type. This triple sum factorizes into a single sum and a double sum. The single sum can be seen as originating from the comb channel and is given in terms of a ${}_3F_2$-hypergeometric function, while the double sum originates from the snowflake channel which corresponds to a Kampé de Fériet function. We verify that our results satisfy the symmetry properties of the extended snowflake topology. Moreover, we check that the behavior of the extended snowflake conformal blocks under several limits is consistent with known results. Finally, we conjecture rules leading to a partial construction of scalar $M$-point conformal blocks in arbitrary topologies.
description: 1+24 pages (+36 pages of appendixes), 8 figures
Additional file 1 of An ecological study on the association between universal health service coverage index, health expenditures, and early childhood caries
Creators: name: Folayan, Morenike Oluwatoyin
name: Tantawi, Maha El
name: Virtanen, Jorma I.
name: Feldens, Carlos Alberto
name: Rashwan, Maher
name: Kemoli, Arthur M.
name: Villena, Rita
name: Al-Batayneh, Ola B.
name: Amalia, Rosa
name: Balgis Gaffar
name: Mohebbi, Simin Z.
name: Arheiam Arheiam
name: Daryanavard, Hamideh
name: Vukovic, Ana
name: Schroth, Robert J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: The global prevalence of early childhood caries, universal health coverage service coverage index, and total health expenditure per capita.
歌詞と音楽が与える印象の分析
Creators: name: 河村翔太
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: 歌詞と音楽、自動作曲システム、歌詞の印象と音楽の印象

description: 近年,コンピュータの発達により,創作活動がコンピュータ上で行われる機会 が多くなってきている.それに伴って,コンピュータ自身が作曲活動を行う研究 についても盛んに行われている. また,歌唱曲における作曲活動において,歌詞の内容・意味というのは重要で ある.しかしながら現段階における自動作曲システムにおいては韻律やモーラ数 から音楽を創り上げるといったものや,リズムや小節数を限定することによって 音楽を創り上げる手法などがあげられるが,これらは聴取者が歌詞の内容・意味 から受ける印象と,音楽から受ける印象との差異について取り扱っていない. 本研究では,各種の特徴ベクトルの比較によって分析する.歌詞の印象と音楽 の印象の特徴ベクトルを生成し,印象について印象語を用いたアンケートにより 楽曲の歌詞と音楽それぞれに対して正解ラベルを付与し,印象語ベクトルを生成 する.歌詞の特徴抽出には Bag-of-words,TF-IDF,word2vec を用い,音楽の特徴 抽出には jSymbolic を使用した.印象語については,Hevner の感情環を参考にし, “厳格な”、“憂鬱な”、“憧れる”、“穏やかな”、“風変わりな”、“陽気な”、“興奮さ せる”、“力強い” を選定した.歌詞の特徴ベクトルを x,楽曲の特徴ベクトルを y, 印象語ベクトルを z とし,2 つの写像 f : x → z, g : y → z ′ を考える.x と y を 同じ楽曲から抽出した場合,z と z ′ が近いほど,歌詞と楽曲との間で印象の違い が小さいといえる.これらのベクトルを関連付けする手法として,ニューラルネッ トワークと重回帰分析を用いた. ニューラルネットワークにおいて,印象語ごとの平均二乗誤差平方根は,歌詞の3種を比べたときに,最も誤差が小さいのは Bag-of-words であった.また,最 も誤差が大きい印象語には 4 種でばらつきがあったが,最も誤差が小さいものは “ 厳格な” で一致していた.平均相関係数について,負の相関はないものの,非常に 低い結果となった.特に jSymbolic における “憂鬱な” は 0.045 とほぼゼロである. 重回帰分析において,印象語ごとの平均二乗誤差平方根は,歌詞の 3 種どれを 見ても突出して誤差が小さかったり,大きかったりするものはなかった.各印象 語間の誤差において,大小関係の傾向に共通性を見ることはできたが,誤差が最 大の印象語,最小の印象語が一致するのは TF-IDF と jSymbolic における最大の誤 差が “憂鬱な” の 1 つのみであった.また,平均相関係数について,すべての値で 比較的高い 0.6~0.9 の値を示している. ニューラルネットワークと重回帰分析を比較してみると,ニューラルネットワー ク全体の平均が 0.848 に対して,重回帰分析の全体の平均が 0.491 と,重回帰分析 のほうが誤差が小さくなっている.同様に相関係数についても,ニューラルネッ トワークでは 0.045 とほぼゼロの値も出ているのに対し,重回帰分析では最大で 0.902 と極めて高い相関係数を示すこともあるほど,全体の相関係数が高かった. 実験により収集した歌詞の印象語ベクトル z と音楽の印象語ベクトル z ′ の正解 データ間にはどれも平均二乗誤差平方根において 1.000 前後の誤差があった.つま り,歌唱曲における歌詞と音楽における印象の差異は,皆無ではなく,ある程度 の差異があることが正解である可能性が確かめられた.
Additional file 1 of The invisible scars of emotional abuse: a common and highly harmful form of childhood maltreatment
Creators: name: Gama, Camila Monteiro Fabricio
name: Portugal, Liana Catarina Lima
name: Gonçalves, Raquel Menezes
name: Junior, Sérgio De Souza
name: Vilete, Liliane Maria Pereira
name: Mendlowicz, Mauro Vitor
name: Figueira, Ivan
name: Volchan, Eliane
name: David, Isabel Antunes
name: Oliveira, Leticia De
name: Mirtes Garcia Pereira
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Mean CTQ total scores and subscales scores (original sample). Table S2. The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on Revictimization: Bivariate and Multivariate Negative Binomial Regression Model (using CTQ scores) . Table S3. Predicting PTSD Symptoms: Bivariate and Multivariate Negative Binomial Regression for the Prediction of PTSD Severity (using CTQ scores).
Uniqueness theorem for BMS-invariant states of scalar QFT on the null boundary of asymptotically flat spacetimes and bulk-boundary observable algebra correspondence
Creators: name: Moretti, Valter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scalar BMS-invariant QFT defined on the causal boundary $\scri$ of an asymptotically flat spacetime is discussed. (a)(i) It is noticed that the natural $BMS$ invariant pure quasifree state $λ$ on $\cW(\scri)$, recently introduced by Dappiaggi, Moretti an Pinamonti, enjoys positivity of the self-adjoint generator of $u$-translations with respect to {\em every} Bondi coordinate frame $(u,\z,\bz)$ on $\scri$, $u\in \bR$ being the affine parameter of the null geodesics forming $\scri$. This fact may be interpreted as a remnant of spectral condition inherited from Minkowski spacetime. (ii) It is proved cluster property under $u$-displacements holds for $u$-invariant pure state on $\cW(\scri)$. (iii) It is proved that there is a unique algebraic pure quasifree state invariant under $u$-displacements (of a fixed Bondi frame) having positive self-adjoint generator of $u$-displacements. It coincides with the GNS-invariant state $λ$.(iv) It is showed that in the folium of a pure $u$-invariant state $ω$ (not necessarily quasifree) on $\cW(\scri)$, $ω$ is the only state invariant under $u$-displacement. (b) It is proved that the theory can formulated for spacetimes asymptotically flat at null infinity which admit future time completion. In this case a $*$-isomorphism $\imath$ exists which identifies the (Weyl) algebra of observables of linear fields in the bulk with a sub algebra of $\cW(\scri)$. A preferred state on the field algebra in the bulk is induced by the $BMS$-invariant state $λ$.
description: Final version, accepted for publication in Commun. Math. Phys
Invited Speaker - Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems Gordon Research Conference
Creators: name: ARDUINI, FABIANA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Gordon Research Conferences provide an international forum for the presentation and

discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, physical and engineering sciences and

their interfaces. The Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems GRC

is a prestigious international conference that focuses on advancing scientific frontiers through

the presentation of cutting-edge and pre-published research. It emphasizes discussion and

informal interactions among scientists at all career stages. The five-day conference, held in a

remote location to foster camaraderie, features a diverse range of speakers and discussion

leaders from global institutions. It includes premier talks, poster sessions, afternoon free time,

and communal meals to enhance networking opportunities. Each conference is limited to 200

participants and I am honored to have been invited to this prestigious event.

The 2024 conference, the fourth in the series, highlighted the impact of nanoscience and

technology on sustainable food production. It brought together a global community of scientists

from academia, industry, government, and NGOs to discuss the latest research. The program

covered nanotechnology advancements in agricultural and applied sciences, food science and

engineering, plant and soil science, animal science, human health and disease, and the safe

deployment of nanotechnology, considering public perception and policy.

I had the pleasure of participating in this conference as invited speaker by presenting our new project, Phoenix-OoC, 

as part of a broader oral presentation a presentation, titled “Paper-based electrochemical

(Bio)sensors for reliable and sustainable analytical tools”, that underling the paper advantages

like the capillary-driven flowing pathways that eliminate the need for external pumps, the ability

to store reagents for reagent-free analytical tools, and the capability to operate without sample

treatment such as filtration and dilution. Furthermore, paper's flexibility and foldability facilitate

the creation of origami configurations without additional devices. It also serves as a reactor for

synthesizing nanomaterials through sustainable methods, detects target analytes in various

forms (solution, aerosol, and solid) without a sampling system, and supports the design of

hybrid systems that simplify analysis, overcoming limitations associated with polyester-based

printed electrochemical biosensors.
POVERTY, POLICY, AND THE MACROECONOMY
Creators: name: LeBlanc, Michael
name: LeBlanc, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Poverty
subject: unemployment
subject: wages
subject: economic growth

description: This report is an empirical inquiry into how poverty is changed by the macroeconomy. The analysis suggests low real wage rates and not the unemployment rate are the most important determinant of poverty in the long run. Changes in output and unemployment primarily affect cyclical or shortun poverty. The empirical results weaken the belief that output growth acting alone will significantly and permanently reduce poverty in the United States. Instead, the results suggest combining economic growth strategies with targeted interventions that may lie outside the traditional sphere of monetary and fiscal policy.
Additional file 1 of A robust spectral angle index for remotely assessing soybean canopy chlorophyll content in different growing stages
Creators: name: Jibo Yue
name: Feng, Haikuan
name: Qingjiu Tian
name: Chengquan Zhou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional table and figures.
Modeling bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics
Creators: name: Vazquez, A.
name: Oliveira, J. Gama
name: Dezso, Z.
name: Goh, K. -I.
name: Kondor, I.
name: Barabasi, A. -L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current models of human dynamics, used from risk assessment to communications, assume that human actions are randomly distributed in time and thus well approximated by Poisson processes. We provide direct evidence that for five human activity patterns the timing of individual human actions follow non-Poisson statistics, characterized by bursts of rapidly occurring events separated by long periods of inactivity. We show that the bursty nature of human behavior is a consequence of a decision based queuing process: when individuals execute tasks based on some perceived priority, the timing of the tasks will be heavy tailed, most tasks being rapidly executed, while a few experiencing very long waiting times. We discuss two queueing models that capture human activity. The first model assumes that there are no limitations on the number of tasks an individual can hadle at any time, predicting that the waiting time of the individual tasks follow a heavy tailed distribution with exponent alpha=3/2. The second model imposes limitations on the queue length, resulting in alpha=1. We provide empirical evidence supporting the relevance of these two models to human activity patterns. Finally, we discuss possible extension of the proposed queueing models and outline some future challenges in exploring the statistical mechanisms of human dynamics.
description: RevTex, 19 pages, 8 figures
Energy recovery operation for continuous-wave X-ray free-electron lasers
Creators: name: Wang, Guanglei
name: Yan, Jiawei
name: Huang, Nanshun
name: Gu, Duan
name: Zhang, Meng
name: Deng, Haixiao
name: Liu, Bo
name: Wang, Dong
name: Yang, Xueming
name: Zhao, Zhentang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A superconducting linear accelerator operating in continuous-wave mode could produce X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL) at megahertz repetition rate, with the capability that delivering wide spectral range coherent radiation to multi end stations. In this Letter, the energy recovery Linac (ERL) mode is proposed to flexibly control the electron beam energy for a continuous-wave superconducting Linac. Theoretical investigations and multi-dimensional numerical simulations are applied to the Linac case of Shanghai high-repetition-rate XFEL and extreme light facility. The results show that, with ERL operation in the last 25 cryo-modules, the strict requirements on RF power system could be significantly relaxed. And if one exhaust the RF power, the maximum electron beam energy can be enhanced from 8.74 GeV to 11.41GeV in ERL mode. The optimization of the ERL operation, the multi-energy electron beam transport and the XFEL performance improvements are presented.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Regionalism, Federalism, and Taxation: A Food and Farm Perspective
Creators: name: Canning, Patrick N.
name: Tsigas, Marinos E.
name: Canning, Patrick N.
name: Tsigas, Marinos E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Public Economics
subject: cost of capital
subject: fiscal policy
subject: marginal effective tax rate
subject: regional applied general equilibrium
subject: regional household welfare
subject: state and federal taxation and reform

description: This report documents an applied general equilibrium model of the United States. The model features explicit treatment of Federal, State, and local taxes and is segmented into 10 distinct subregions. These subregions engage in inter- and intraregional trade, as well as international trade. Each region is distinguished by its unique composition of industries, capital markets, and patterns of trade. Regional data developed for calibrating the model are discussed and several tax policy reform simulations demonstrate the modeling capabilities.
Estimating Water Quality Benefits: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Creators: name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Hellerstein, Daniel
name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Hellerstein, Daniel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: benefits
subject: water quality
subject: economic welfare
subject: demand

description: Knowledge of the benefits and costs to water users is required for a complete assessment of policies to create incentives for water quality improving changes in agricultural production. A number of benefit estimation methods are required to handle the varying nature of water quality effects. This report reviews practical approaches and theoretical foundations for estimating the economic value of changes in water quality to recreation, navigation, reservoirs, municipal water treatment and use, and roadside drainage ditches.
Stein domains and branched shadows of 4-manifolds
Creators: name: Costantino, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32Q28; 57M50

description: We provide sufficient conditions assuring that a suitably decorated 2-polyhedron can be thickened to a compact 4-dimensional Stein domain. We also study a class of flat polyhedra in 4-manifolds and find conditions assuring that they admit Stein, compact neighborhoods. We base our calculations on Turaev's shadows suitably "smoothed"; the conditions we find are purely algebraic and combinatorial. Applying our results, we provide examples of hyperbolic 3-manifolds admitting "many" positive and negative Stein fillable contact structures, and prove a 4-dimensional analogue of Oertel's result on incompressibility of surfaces carried by branched polyhedra.
description: 23 pages, 12 figures; published in Geometria Dedicatae (2006)
Asymmetric Information in the Market for Yield and Revenue Insurance Products
Creators: name: Makki, Shiva S.
name: Somwaru, Agapi
name: Makki, Shiva S.
name: Somwaru, Agapi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: asymmetric information
subject: adverse selection
subject: crop insurance
subject: revenue insurance
subject: risk management

description: This report analyzes farmers' choice of crop insurance contracts and tests for the presence of asymmetric information in the market for multiple yield and revenue insurance products. Farmers' risk characteristics, their level of income, and the cost of insurance significantly affect their choices of yield and revenue insurance products as well as their selections of alternative coverage levels. Empirical analysis indicates that, in the presence of asymmetric information, high-risk farmers are more likely to select revenue insurance contracts and higher coverage levels. The results also indicate that premium rates do not accurately reflect the likelihood of losses, implying asymmetrical information in the crop insurance market.
A Comparison of Halpha and Stellar Scale Lengths in Virgo and Field Spirals
Creators: name: Koopmann, R. A.
name: Haynes, M. P.
name: Catinella, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scale lengths of the old stars and ionized gas distributions are compared for similar samples of Virgo Cluster members and field spiral galaxies via Halpha and broad R-band surface photometry. While the R-band and Halpha scale lengths are, on average, comparable for the combined sample, we find significant differences between the field and cluster samples. While the Halpha scale lengths of the field galaxies are a factor of 1.14 +- 0.07 longer on average than their R-band scale lengths, the Halpha scale lengths of Virgo Cluster members are on average 20% smaller than their R-band scale lengths. Furthermore, in Virgo, the scale length ratios are correlated with the size of the star-forming disk: galaxies with smaller overall Halpha extents also show steeper radial falloff of star formation activity. At the same time, we find no strong trends in scale length ratio as a function of other galaxy properties including galaxy luminosity, inclination, morphological type, central R--band light concentration, or bar type. Our results for Halpha emission are similar to other results for dust emission, suggesting that Halpha and dust have similar distributions. The environmental dependence of the Halpha scale length places additional constraints on the evolutionary process(es) that cause gas depletion and a suppression of the star formation rate in clusters of galaxies.
description: To appear in Astronomical Journal. 22 pages, 11 figures. Version with high resolution figures available at http://www1.union.edu/~koopmanr/preprints.html
USDA's Healthy Eating Index and Nutrition Information
Creators: name: Variyam, Jayachandran N.
name: Blaylock, James R.
name: Smallwood, David M.
name: Basiotis, P. Peter
name: Variyam, Jayachandran N.
name: Blaylock, James R.
name: Smallwood, David M.
name: Basiotis, P. Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: diet quality
subject: Healthy Eating Index
subject: nutrient demand
subject: nutrition knowledge
subject: health inputs
subject: health production

description: A comprehensive model is developed to measure the extent that nutrition knowledge and diet-health awareness, among other factors, influence an individual's Healthy Eating Index (HEI), USDA's measure of overall diet quality. This is the first study that rigorously attempts to examine variation in the index across population groups by controlling for personal and household characteristics and nutrition information levels, as well as test for the endogeneity of nutrition information. Results indicate that one's level of nutrition information has an important influence on one's HEI and that nutrition information and the HEI are simultaneously determined. Other factors explaining variations in HEI's across individuals are income and education levels, race, ethnicity, and age. Evidence supports the hypothesis that higher education promotes more healthful food choices through better acquisition and use of health information.
Additional file 8 of Rates, predictors, and mortality of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jiefeng Liu
name: Hebin Xie
name: Ziwei Ye
name: Li, Fen
name: Wang, Lesan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: Additional file 8. Fig. Pulmonary infection-Forest plot, Funnel plot, Sensitivity and subgroup analysis.
An Economic Analysis of Electron Accelerators and Cobalt-60 for Irradiating Food
Creators: name: Morrison, Rosanna Mentzer
name: Morrison, Rosanna Mentzer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food irradiation
subject: electron accelerators
subject: cobalt-60
subject: cost comparison
subject: economies of size

description: Average costs per pound of irradiating food are similar for the electron accelerator and cobalt-60 irradiators analyzed in this study, but initial investment costs can vary by $1 million. Irradiation costs range from 0.5 to 7 cents per pound and decrease as annual volumes treated increase. Cobalt-60 is less expensive than electron beams for annual volumes below 50 million pounds. For radiation source requirements above the equivalent of 1 million curies of cobalt-60, electron beams are more economical.
Additional file 1 of Relationship of anthropometric indices with rate pressure product, pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure among secondary adolescents of 12–17 years
Creators: name: Katamba, Godfrey
name: Musasizi, Abdul
name: Mivule Abdul Kinene
name: Namaganda, Agnes
name: Muzaale, Francis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Comparison of hemodynamic variables between Thinness, overweight and obese BMI subjects. Table S2. Comparison of hemodynamic variables based on neck circumference and waist hip ratio categories. Table S3. Correlation between anthropometric indices and hemodynamic parameters.
Scientific data of resurrecting the dead engineering problem and not impossible science
Creators: name: mosinyan, Isaac
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510304
subject: Thermodynamics and statistical physics
classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy
classificationCode: 510703
subject: Particle physics
classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460201
subject: Artificial life and complex adaptive systems
classificationCode: 510201
subject: Atomic and molecular physics
classificationCode: 510501
subject: Biological physics
classificationCode: 510104
subject: Galactic astronomy

description: Groundbreaking interpretation of entropy shows reversal of entropy in cosmic scales is possible. Resurrection of the dead?, it should impossible even in physics right?. Well, it was a shock to see that it was not impossible due to largerly overlooked interpretation of entropy. In recent years theoretical and empirical developments have pushed the boundaries of what we understand about entropy, the arrow of time, and the possibility of reversing death through a concept known as the "anti-entropical universe." There is a common misconception about entropy is that it is inherently tied to disorder and chaos when we understand the true nature of entropy, which it makes it a already proven explanation of how resurrecting the dead is possible which was overlooked. The article, which initially appears speculative, is deeply rooted in fundamental physics and emerging experimental data. This article explores the logical and empirical pathways that indicate the possibility of an anti-entropical universe, which could challenge the traditional view of entropy and death itself, elevating this idea to the status of a scientific theory.
Radiatively Induced Lorentz-Violating Photon Masses
Creators: name: Altschul, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the radiative corrections to an extension of the standard model containing a Lorentz-violating axial vector parameter. At second order in this parameter, the photon self-energy is known to contain terms that violate gauge invariance. Previously, this has been treated as a pathology, but it is also possible to take the gauge noninvariant terms at face value. These terms then make Lorentz-violating contributions to the photon mass, and directly measured limits on the photon mass can be used to set bounds on the Lorentz violation at better than the 10^-22 GeV level.
description: 12 pages, minor changes and updated references
Additional file 9 of Rates, predictors, and mortality of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jiefeng Liu
name: Hebin Xie
name: Ziwei Ye
name: Li, Fen
name: Wang, Lesan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: Additional file 9. Fig. Abdominal infection-Forest plot, Funnel plot and Sensitivity analysis.
Performability modeling and cost-benefit analysis for decision-making systems with supervising mechanisms
Creators: name: Lin, Tingnan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: This dissertation focuses on building performability and cost-benefit models for decision-making systems with supervising mechanisms. Particularly, two types of systems are considered: voting systems and security surveillance systems. Voting systems are used to combine the ideas from different sources and make the final decision based on these ideas under certain criteria, with wide applications in human organization and computer control. The performability of voting systems is very important because the decisions made by voting systems are usually of high importance and the failure of voting systems may be beyond expectation since voting systems are fault-tolerant with redundancy. Security surveillance systems are used to ensure and enhance the safety level, which can be found in many areas such as homes, banks, roads and airports. The performability of security surveillance systems is crucial because such systems are safety-critical and the failure may lead to loss of lives and serious damage of property. This dissertation includes two main parts: (1) modeling of voting systems with supervising mechanisms, and (2) modeling of security surveillance systems with inspection and maintenance.In the first part, voting systems with various supervising mechanisms are modeled. First, a two-stage intervened decision-making system is proposed, which is a voting system with decision units having random decision time and a check point. Second, the system is extended in four directions: (1) two-stage weighted intervened decision-making system, (2) two-stage intervened decision-making system with interdependent decision units, (3) two-stage intervened decision-making system with individual actions, and (4) multi-stage intervened decision-making system. Third, the supervising mechanism is enhanced by considering the transitions of state for each decision unit and incorporating state dependent random inspections into the system. Finally, a system with multi-state decision units and dynamic configuration is studied. The performability and cost-benefit models for each system above are developed. The methods to optimize system performance are discussed.In the second part, a security surveillance system with competing failure modes, degradation processes and random arrival of incidents is studied. A state dependent inspection-maintenance strategy with consideration of imperfect preventive maintenance is applied to the system. The performability and cost models are derived by partitioning the sample space of system operation path into cases and events. A modified Nelder-Mead downhill simplex method is proposed to minimize the expected long-run cost rate. In sum, the main contribution of this dissertation is to develop performability and cost-benefit models for decision-making systems with supervising mechanisms in various applications. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the proposed models, methods and algorithms.
Compost utilization in vegetables greenhouses industry
Creators: name: Wong, Raymond Wa Leong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study evaluates the utilization of greenhouse compost as growing media in commercial vegetable greenhouse. The greenhouse compost was generated from greenhouse waste as media and the yellow cedar sawdust was the conventional growing media used in the B.C. greenhouse industry. A series of analysis was done on the greenhouse compost and sawdust to compare their physical and chemical characteristics. The results suggested the greenhouse compost provides higher moisture retention and density, and lower porosity; for optimal growing conditions. A full growing trial was conducted to grow beefsteak tomatoes. The study was setup in a commercial greenhouse with independent control environment. The media tested were pure sawdust media, a mixture of 2:1 sawdust to greenhouse compost by volume, and pure greenhouse compost media. Each media was irrigated with either N1, N2 or N3 nutrient recipes. N1 was the conventional nutrient recipe. N2 was catered to optimize the mix and the compost media. The N2 recipe was similar with N1 with an increase amount of ammonium concentration. N3 was the same as N2 with a lower E C value to compensate the high E C in the pure compost media. The study was conducted for 10 months. During the trial, the fruit yield, fruit quality, plants growth and conditions, pH & E C were monitored. The study indicates greenhouse compost is suitable alternative as a growing medium. Greenhouse compost was able to achieve similar yield, crop health and fruit quality when compare with sawdust media. The results from pure compost indicate a significant improvement in fruit size. In addition, greenhouse compost has pH buffering capability to the conventional system. Finally, addition of greenhouse compost to yellow cedar sawdust does not appear to increase the rate of degradation of the sawdust.
Quantum dephasing and decay of classical correlation functions in chaotic systems
Creators: name: Sokolov, Valentin V.
name: Benenti, Giuliano
name: Casati, Giulio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the dephasing induced by the internal classical chaotic motion in the absence of any external environment. To this end we consider a suitable extension of fidelity for mixed states which is measurable in a Ramsey interferometry experiment. We then relate the dephasing to the decay of this quantity which, in the semiclassical limit, is expressed in terms of an appropriate classical correlation function. Our results are derived analytically for the example of a nonlinear driven oscillator and then numerically confirmed for the kicked rotor model.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure