cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Heat Transport Through Plasmonic Interactions in Closely Spaced Metallic Nanoparticles Chains
Creators: name: Ben-Abdallah, Philippe
name: Joulain, Karl
name: Drevillon, Jérémie
name: Goff, Clément Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a numerical investigation on the heat transfer through one dimensional arrays of metallic nanoparticles closely spaced in a host material. Our simulations show that the multipolar interactions play a crucial role in the heat transport via collective plasmons. Calculations of the plasmonic thermal conductance and of the thermal conductivity in ballistic and diffusive regime, respectively have been carried out. (a) Using the Landauer-Buttiker formalism we have found that, when the host material dielectric constant takes positive values, the multipolar interactions drastically enhance by several order of magnitude the ballistic thermal conductance of collective plasmons compared with that of a classical dipolar chain. On the contrary, when the host material dielectric constant takes negative values, we have demonstrated the existence of non-ballistic multipolar modes which annihilate the heat transfer through the chains. (b) Using the kinetic theory we have also examined the thermal behavior of chains in the diffusion approximation. We have shown that the plasmonic thermal conductivity of metallic nanoparticle chains can reach 1% of the bulk metal thermal conductivity . This result could explain the anomalously high thermal conductivity observed in many colloïdal suspensions, the so called nanofluids.
description: 10 pages, PRB
Bosonic Pfaffian State in the Hofstadter-Bose-Hubbard Model
Creators: name: Palm, Felix A.
name: Buser, Maximilian
name: Léonard, Julian
name: Aidelsburger, Monika
name: Schollwöck, Ulrich
name: Grusdt, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological states of matter, such as fractional quantum Hall states, are an active field of research due to their exotic excitations. In particular, ultracold atoms in optical lattices provide a highly controllable and adaptable platform to study such new types of quantum matter. However, finding a clear route to realize non-Abelian quantum Hall states in these systems remains challenging. Here we use the density-matrix renormalization-group (DMRG) method to study the Hofstadter-Bose-Hubbard model at filling factor $ν= 1$ and find strong indications that at $α=1/6$ magnetic flux quanta per plaquette the ground state is a lattice analog of the continuum non-Abelian Pfaffian. We study the on-site correlations of the ground state, which indicate its paired nature at $ν= 1$, and find an incompressible state characterized by a charge gap in the bulk. We argue that the emergence of a charge density wave on thin cylinders and the behavior of the two- and three-particle correlation functions at short distances provide evidence for the state being closely related to the continuum Pfaffian. The signatures discussed in this letter are accessible in current cold atom experiments and we show that the Pfaffian-like state is readily realizable in few-body systems using adiabatic preparation schemes.
description: 6 + 4 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 1 of Implementing a Medicines at Transitions Intervention (MaTI) for patients with heart failure: a process evaluation of the Improving the Safety and Continuity Of Medicines management at Transitions of care (ISCOMAT) cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Powell, Catherine
name: Ismail, Hanif
name: Breen, Liz
name: Fylan, Beth
name: Alderson, Sarah L
name: Gale, Chris P
name: Gardner, Peter
name: Silcock, Jonathan
name: Cundill, Bonnie
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Mason, Ellen
name: Moreau, Lauren
name: Alldred, David P
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
US 708 - An unbound hyper-velocity subluminous O star
Creators: name: Hirsch, H. A.
name: Heber, U.
name: O'Toole, S. J.
name: Bresolin, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of an unbound hyper-velocity star, US 708, in the Milky Way halo, with a heliocentric radial velocity of +708+-15km/s. A quantitative NLTE model atmosphere analysis of optical spectra obtained with LRIS at the Keck I telescope shows that US 708 is an extremely helium-rich (N(He)/N(H)=10) subluminous O type star with Teff=44500K, log g=5.23 at a distance of 19kpc. Its Galactic rest frame velocity is at least 751km/s, much higher than the local Galactic escape velocity indicating that the star is unbound to the Galaxy. It has been suggested that such hyper-velocity stars can be formed by the tidal disruption of a binary through interaction with the super-massive black hole (SMBH) at the Galactic centre (GC). Numerical kinematical experiments are carried out to reconstruct the path from the GC.U S 708 needs about 32Myrs to travel from the GC to its present position, less than its evolutionary lifetime. Its predicted proper motion mue(alpha) cos(delta)=-2.3mas/y and mue(delta)=-2.4mas/y should be measurable by future space missions. We conjecture that US 708 is formed by the merger of two helium white dwarfs in a close binary induced by the interaction with the SMBH in the GC and then escaped.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Myth and Knowledge in Artists' Biographies – The Case of Albrecht Dürer
Creators: name: Grebe, Anja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Albrecht Dürer is the most frequently mentioned German artist in literature worldwide, both in art historical writings as well as in popular literature and biographical lexica. The biography of Dürer can be situated between the poles of knowledge and myth. Ultimately, today's knowledge of Dürer's life and work relies on an extremely thin historical source base. Many facts of his life fell into oblivion, and gaps and uncertainties were replaced with legends and topoi which were partly used to shape Dürer's image as a national artist. On the one hand, Dürer's biography mirrors the perception of his life and work at a certain period of time, on the other hand, it has itself significantly shaped the image of the artist, the knowledge of or about Dürer and thus the tradition, further reception and impact of his person and work. The paper illuminates the most important steps in the development of biographical writing on Dürer with a special focus on biographical lexica.
Australian economic development and the environment: conflict or synergy?
Creators: name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Gillespie, Robert
name: Dumsday, Robert G.
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Gillespie, Robert
name: Dumsday, Robert G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: economic development
subject: environmental protection
subject: agriculture
subject: policy

description: The populist view of economic development and the environment is that advances in one will necessarily result in a decline in the other. Evidence in the Australian context is that the dual goals can be achieved simultaneously. As economic development progresses, the increasing levels of income stimulate greater demand for environmental improvements. The population engages in more environmentally focused consumption and calls for its governments to introduce more policies designed to rehabilitate and protect environmental assets. Concurrently, the increasing levels of wealth allow for increasing expenditure on research and development into production processes that generate greater productivity and less environmental damage. The Australian agricultural sector provides numerous examples of concurrent improvements in productivity and environmental condition. Zero tillage broad acre grain cultivation practices have led to lower rates of soil erosion and have enriched soil biota while delivering higher productivity. Similarly, the introduction of integrated pest management, including the planting of pest and herbicide tolerant species, has improved water quality in cotton growing areas. A key implication from this analysis is that policies to improve environmental conditions should not be focused on stifling economic growth. Rather, governments should strive for policies that will encourage economic growth--such as the installation of property rights that are both well defined and defended. Concurrently, policies specifically designed to deal with potential environmental problems should be enacted. For instance, the establishment of property rights to water and the setting aside of allocations for environmental flows will encourage both economic development and environmental protection.
Text elicitation: "The Fortune Teller" Part 1
Creators: name: Calmo Jerónimo, Brenda
name: Lemon, Tyler
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: mvj

description: First two-thirds of the Totem Field Storyboards text "The Fortune Teller" to see where noun classifiers appear in a larger discourse context
Additional file 2 of Implementing a Medicines at Transitions Intervention (MaTI) for patients with heart failure: a process evaluation of the Improving the Safety and Continuity Of Medicines management at Transitions of care (ISCOMAT) cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Powell, Catherine
name: Ismail, Hanif
name: Breen, Liz
name: Fylan, Beth
name: Alderson, Sarah L
name: Gale, Chris P
name: Gardner, Peter
name: Silcock, Jonathan
name: Cundill, Bonnie
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Mason, Ellen
name: Moreau, Lauren
name: Alldred, David P
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Using Environmental Offsets in Wetlands Management
Creators: name: Duncan, Roderick
name: Morrison, Mark
name: Duncan, Roderick
name: Morrison, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: offsets
subject: market-based instruments
subject: efficiency
subject: distribution

description: Environmental offsets have been proposed as a technique for managing the environmental impacts of new developments in regions that are not in compliance with environmental standards. By requiring developers to 'offset' any impacts by purchasing 'environmental credits', environmental quality can be maintained or even improved. Environmental offsets have a lot of intuitive appeal, and are being used widely in the USA, Australia and other countries. However there is at present no robust theoretical framework for analyzing the use of offsets, which has led to some of the weaknesses of existing programs and criticisms against the use of offsets. We present an economic model for designing offset programs that is based on identifying and valuing environmental service flows. We also discuss a number of factors that influence the effectiveness efficiency of offset programs including fungibility, effects on incentives of landholders and uncertainty and make recommendations about how to respond to these factors based on our model. The distributional effects of offsets are also explored and it is noted that offsets are not distributionally neutral. We argue on the basis of distributional effects that it is not appropriate to use offsets alone to seek to improve environmental quality. Furthermore, we recommend the combining of offsets with other market-based instruments such as Pigouvian taxes or cap and trade systems in order to reduce the negative distributional effects of offset programs, provide greater scope for achieving environmental improvements and to increase the probability of achieving first best (socially optimal) solutions.
Electron kinetics in standing and moving striations in argon gas
Creators: name: Levko, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electron kinetics in moving and standing striations in direct current and radio-frequency discharges is studied. The discharge current is such that the thermalizing electron-electron collisions are negligible and the hydrodynamic description of electron component of plasma is not valid. Therefore, the one-dimensional hybrid model is used which models the electron component by particle method, while the ions are described using the drift-diffusion approximation. It is obtained that the electron transport is non-local in space. The electron energy distribution in both discharges is of non-equilibrium nature which is responsible for the non-linearity of the ionization frequency. However, their dynamics in both discharges differs significantly. Namely, in the direct current discharge the distribution function is strongly modulated by the striations passage, while in the radio-frequency discharge the electron energy relaxation time is such that the electron distribution function does not react on the oscillating electric field but is defined by the effective electric field.
Additional file 3 of Implementing a Medicines at Transitions Intervention (MaTI) for patients with heart failure: a process evaluation of the Improving the Safety and Continuity Of Medicines management at Transitions of care (ISCOMAT) cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Powell, Catherine
name: Ismail, Hanif
name: Breen, Liz
name: Fylan, Beth
name: Alderson, Sarah L
name: Gale, Chris P
name: Gardner, Peter
name: Silcock, Jonathan
name: Cundill, Bonnie
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Mason, Ellen
name: Moreau, Lauren
name: Alldred, David P
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3.
title: Netzwerke als Baustein der Sozialen Arbeit im Kontext von Fluchtmigration: Eine kritische Exploration zu Herausforderungen in Brandenburg
Creators: name: Coobs, Kathrin
Publisher: name: BTU  Cottbus - Senftenberg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 302 Soziale Interaktion

description: Flüchtlingssozialarbeitende stehen in der Arbeit mit Menschen, die ihre Heimat verlassen mussten, nicht nur vor der Aufgabe, die formellen Voraussetzungen (Asylanträge, rechtliche Voraussetzungen für Duldungen und/oder Aufenthaltsbestimmungen etc.) innerhalb kürzester Zeit erfüllen zu müssen. Sie müssen parallel dazu den informellen Teil (Sprache, traumatische Fluchterfahrungen, Trauer und/oder Angst über zurückgebliebene Familienangehörige, mitgebrachte Traditionen etc.) integrieren. Bei dieser hohen Komplexität ist es wichtig in einem professionellen Netzwerk agieren zu können, um der Multikomplexität gerecht zu werden. Besonders in einem Flächenland wie Brandenburg stellt diese Form der Parallelität formeller und informeller Aufgaben eine besondere Herausforderung dar. Neben den professionell-organisierten Netzwerken, treffen wir in Brandenburg auf selbstorganisierte Netzwerke, kleine private Netzwerke und dem Netzwerk des Ehrensamtes. Im Rahmen einer Studie über Netzwerkarbeit in Brandenburg fand eine kurze Evaluation über vorhandene Netzwerke und deren Wirksamkeit statt, in deren Ergebnis die Idee einer Triangulation für eine höhere Effektivität zur Diskussion gestellt wird.
description: When working with people who have had to leave their homeland, social workers are not only faced with the task of having to meet the formal requirements (asylum applications, legal requirement for a tolerance etc.) within a very short time. At the same time, they have to integrate the informal part (language, traumatic experiences of flight, grief and / or fear around who have stayed behind, traditions you have brought with you, etc.). With this high level of complexity, it is important to be able to act in a professional network in order to cope with the multicomplexity. This form of parallelism of formal and informal tasks is a particular challenge, especially in a sparsely populated state like Brandenburg. In addition to professionally organized networks, in Brandenburg we meet self-organized networks, small private networks and some of honorary network. As part of a study on networking in Brandenburg, a brief evaluation of existing networks and their effectiveness took place. The result of which is the idea of a discussion about a triangulation of existing networks for a greater effectiveness.
description: MIKOWA Arbeitspapiere; 3,2021
Emissions Trading and the Convergence of the Australian Electricity and Transport Markets
Creators: name: Reedman, Luke J.
name: Graham, Paul W.
name: Reedman, Luke J.
name: Graham, Paul W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Energy
subject: Emissions trading
subject: Electricity and transport
subject: integrated modelling

description: Bottom up partial equilibrium modelling of the energy sector has tended to focus on the electricity sector given its typically large share of total emissions, the deregulation of that market in many countries and the relatively well understood technology options. In contrast, this paper employs a model of the energy sector to investigate the proportion electricity and transport may contribute given the relative cost of abatement in those sectors, for specified emission targets. A related issue is the potential convergence of the two sectors through greater uptake of electrically powered transport.
Additional file 4 of Implementing a Medicines at Transitions Intervention (MaTI) for patients with heart failure: a process evaluation of the Improving the Safety and Continuity Of Medicines management at Transitions of care (ISCOMAT) cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Powell, Catherine
name: Ismail, Hanif
name: Breen, Liz
name: Fylan, Beth
name: Alderson, Sarah L
name: Gale, Chris P
name: Gardner, Peter
name: Silcock, Jonathan
name: Cundill, Bonnie
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Mason, Ellen
name: Moreau, Lauren
name: Alldred, David P
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 4.
Corruption and economic growth in Lebanon
Creators: name: Farida, Moe
name: Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z.
name: Farida, Moe
name: Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: corruption
subject: economic growth
subject: investment
subject: human capital
subject: government expenditure
subject: foreign aid

description: This paper seeks to examine the impact of corruption on economic growth in Lebanon. Using a neoclassical model, we hypothesise that corruption reduces the country's standard of living as measured by real per capita GDP. We show that corruption deters growth indirectly through reducing the factor input productivity in a Cobb-Douglas production function. We provide empirical evidence suggesting that corruption increases inefficiencies in government expenditure and reduces investment and human capital productivity, leading to a negative impact on output. The implications of the analysis are explored.
Do Sensitive Products Undermine Ambition?
Creators: name: Vanzetti, David
name: Peters, Ralf
name: Vanzetti, David
name: Peters, Ralf
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agriculture
subject: trade
subject: tariffs
subject: WTO

description: The long-running WTO negotiations remain unresolved. Agriculture is the main stumbling block. Members have agreed to linear tariff reductions within bands, but proposed exemptions for sensitive products, while providing for much needed flexibility, threaten to undermine the ambition. A detailed partial equilibrium global agricultural trade model is used to analyse the likely impact of exemptions from the formula tariff reductions. Applying one third of the formula cuts to the five per cent of lines with the highest tariffs increases the final developed country average agricultural tariff from 16 to 24 per cent but the negative impacts on trade and welfare are less dramatic.
title: Permanent water and flash flood detection using global navigation satellite system reflectometry
Creators: name: Ghasemigoudarzi, Pedram
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: In this thesis, research for inland water extent and flash floods remote sensing using Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) data of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) is presented. Firstly, a high-resolution Machine Learning (ML) method for detecting inland water extent using the CYGNSS data is implemented via the Random Under-Sampling Boosted (RUSBoost) algorithm. The CYGNSS data of the year 2018 over the Congo and Amazon basins are gridded into 0.01ﾟ × 0.01ﾟ cells. The RUSBoost-based classifier is trained and tested with the CYGNSS data over the Congo basin. The Amazon basin data that is unknown to the classifier is then used for further evaluation. Using only three observables extracted from the CYGNSS Delay-Doppler Maps (DDMs), the proposed technique is able to detect 95.4% and 93.3% of the water bodies over the Congo and Amazon basins, respectively. The performance of the RUSBoost-based classifier is also compared with an image processing based inland water detection method. For the Congo and Amazon basins, the RUSBoost-based classifier has a 3.9% and 14.2% higher water detection accuracies, respectively. Secondly, a flash flood detection method using the CYGNSS data is investigated. Considering Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma as two case studies, six different Data Preparation Approaches (DPAs) for flood detection based on the CYGNSS data and the RUSBoost classification algorithm are investigated in this thesis. Taking flood and land as two classes, flash flood detection is tackled as a binary classification problem. Eleven observables are extracted from the DDMs for feature selection. These observables, alongside two features from ancillary data, are considered in feature selection. All the combinations of these observables with and without ancillary data are fed into the classifier with 5-fold cross-validation one-by-one. Based on the test results, five observables with the ancillary data are selected as a suitable feature vector for flood detection here. Using the selected feature vector, six different DPAs are investigated and compared to find the best one for flash flood detection. Then, the performance of the proposed method is compared with that of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classifier. For Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, the selected method is able to detect 89.00% and 85.00% of flooded points, respectively, with a resolution of 500m × 500m, and the detection accuracy for non-flooded land points is 97.20% and 71.00%, respectively.
Double Monodromy Inflation: A Gravity Waves Factory for CMB-S4, LiteBIRD and LISA
Creators: name: D'Amico, Guido
name: Kaloper, Nemanja
name: Westphal, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
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 consider a short rollercoaster cosmology based on two stages of monodromy inflation separated by a stage of matter domination, generated after the early inflaton falls out of slow roll. If the first stage is controlled by a flat potential, $V \sim ϕ^p$ with $p < 1$ and lasts ${\cal N} \sim 30 - 40$ efolds, the scalar and tensor perturbations at the largest scales will fit the CMB perfectly, and produce relic gravity waves with $0.02 \lesssim r \lesssim 0.06$, which can be tested by LiteBIRD and CMB-S4 experiments. If in addition the first inflaton is strongly coupled to a hidden sector $U(1)$, there will be an enhanced production of vector fluctuations near the end of the first stage of inflation. These modes convert rapidly to tensors during the short epoch of matter domination, and then get pushed to superhorizon scales by the second stage of inflation, lasting another $20-30$ efolds. This band of gravity waves is chiral, arrives today with wavelengths in the range of $10^8$ km, and with amplitudes greatly enhanced compared to the long wavelength CMB modes by vector sources. It is therefore accessible to LISA. Thus our model presents a rare early universe theory predicting several simultaneous signals testable by a broad range of gravity wave searches in the very near future.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures. v2: Minor changes, references added, accepted in PRD
Language skills and communication failure in senile dementia
Creators: name: Richardson, F. Alice P.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: Senile dementia
subject: Communicative disorders
subject: Older people
subject: Mental health
subject: Senile dementia
subject: Communicative disorders
subject: Older people--Mental health

description: The present research was undertaken with two major purposes in mind. The first purpose was to describe the communication problems associated with senile dementia in a broader way (i.e. across more aspects of communication) than typically has been done in previous American studies. To achieve this purpose, the communication behavior of a group of adults with senile dementia and of a group of age matched elderly normals was sampled during two different communication tasks: spontaneous conversation and a communication game. Overall communication success of the two groups was determined. In addition, the groups were compared using measures of communication efficiency and learning and using measures of speech, grammar, vocabulary, and several other language categories. Second, this research was undertaken to determine an appropriate impairment index in senile dementia so that future studies can explore communication variation in demented subjects of comparable severity levels. Since such an index does not currently exist, several established measures of impairment in other communication-related domains were administered and correlations determined between each measure and scores on the communication tasks. The data generated from this research suggested which aspects of communication are most vulnerable to the effects of senile dementia and which aspects remain relatively well preserved. In addition, identification of appropriate measures of the severity of communication impairment in dementia has paved the way for future research to determine communicative variability both within and between subjects at various levels of decline
Uncertainty aversion in Australian regulation of agricultural gene technology
Creators: name: Gray, Emily M.
name: Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z.
name: Gray, Emily M.
name: Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: safety-rule
subject: uncertainty
subject: biotechnology regulation
subject: canola

description: There is potential for over-provision of environmental harms and under-provision of environmental benefits associated with GM crops. As a result, strong public regulation is needed to ensure that full social values are considered. However, one reason for opposition to GM crops is a lack of public trust in regulatory institutions and science, and the limited opportunities afforded to public-participation and nonscientific concerns. We aim to demonstrate the trade-off between social cost and managing the risks of gene flow arising from environmental release of GM canola in Australia, using the framework of a probabilistic risk assessment and safety-rule decision mechanism.
Jointly selecting for fibre diameter and fleece weight: A market-level assessment of the QPLU$ Merino breeding project
Creators: name: Mounter, Stuart W.
name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Mullen, John D.
name: Mounter, Stuart W.
name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Mullen, John D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Australian sheep and wool industries
subject: equilibrium displacement model
subject: cross-commodity relationships
subject: R&D evaluation

description: The QPLU$ Merino breeding project began in the early 1990s. The aim of the project was to demonstrate the efficiency of using a selection index to achieve breeding objectives. A number of selection lines were created from three strains of Merino sheep. During the ten-year course of the project, selection of each line was undertaken using an index based on measurements of fleece weight and fibre diameter. Different emphases were placed on each trait in each selected line. This paper estimates the potential aggregate returns of the project to the Australian sheep and wool industries using an equilibrium displacement model.
Lorentz violation at high energy: concepts, phenomena and astrophysical constraints
Creators: name: Jacobson, Ted
name: Liberati, Stefano
name: Mattingly, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider here the possibility of quantum gravity induced violation of Lorentz symmetry (LV). Even if suppressed by the inverse Planck mass such LV can be tested by current experiments and astrophysical observations. We review the effective field theory approach to describing LV, the issue of naturalness, and many phenomena characteristic of LV. We discuss some of the current observational bounds on LV, focusing mostly on those from high energy astrophysics in the QED sector at order E/M_Planck. In this context we present a number of new results which include the explicit computation of rates of the most relevant LV processes, the derivation of a new photon decay constraint, and modification of previous constraints taking proper account of the helicity dependence of the LV parameters implied by effective field theory.
description: v.1 56 pages, 3 figures, Invited article for Annals of Physics; v.2: 60 pages, 3 figures. Typos fixed, references added, minor editing for clarity and accuracy; discussion of fermion pair emission added. To appear in January 2006 special issue of Annals of Physics
Percolation and connection times in multi-scale dynamic networks
Creators: name: Jahnel, Benedikt
name: Hirsch, Christian
name: Cali, Eli
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Continuum percolation
subject: multi-scale model
subject: scaling limit
subject: bounded-hop percolation
subject: wireless communication network
subject: 60K35
subject: 60F10
subject: 82C22

description: We study the effects of mobility on two crucial characteristics in multi-scale dynamic networks: percolation and connection times. Our analysis provides insights into the question, to what extent long-time averages are well-approximated by the expected values of the corresponding quantities, i.e., the percolation and connection probabilities. In particular, we show that in multi-scale models, strong random effects may persist in the limit. Depending on the precise model choice, these may take the form of a spatial birth-death process or a Brownian motion. Despite the variety of structures that appear in the limit, we show that they can be tackled in a common framework with the potential to be applicable more generally in order to identify limits in dynamic spatial network models going beyond the examples considered in the present work.
Additional file 5 of Implementing a Medicines at Transitions Intervention (MaTI) for patients with heart failure: a process evaluation of the Improving the Safety and Continuity Of Medicines management at Transitions of care (ISCOMAT) cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Powell, Catherine
name: Ismail, Hanif
name: Breen, Liz
name: Fylan, Beth
name: Alderson, Sarah L
name: Gale, Chris P
name: Gardner, Peter
name: Silcock, Jonathan
name: Cundill, Bonnie
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Mason, Ellen
name: Moreau, Lauren
name: Alldred, David P
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 5.
Reception frequency bandwidth of a gravitational resonant detector with optical readout
Creators: name: Gusev, A. V.
name: Rudenko, V. N.
name: Cheprasov, S. A.
name: Bassan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A gravitational resonant bar detector with a large scale Fabry-Perot cavity as an optical read out and a mechanical displacement transformer is considered. We calculate, in a fully analytical way, the final receiver bandwidth in which the potential sensitivity, limited only by the bar thermal noise, is maintained despite the additional thermal noise of the transformer and the additive noise of the optical readout. We discuss also an application to the OGRAN project, where the bar is instrumented with a 2m long FP cavity.
description: 16 pages + 3 figures. Accepted for publicationi in Class. Quantum Grav
Optimal Coverage of Installations in a Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
Creators: name: Sanderson, Todd
name: Ancev, Tihomir
name: Betz, Regina
name: Sanderson, Todd
name: Ancev, Tihomir
name: Betz, Regina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Climate Change
subject: Emissions Trading Scheme
subject: European Union
subject: Marginal Abatement Costs
subject: Environmental Policy

description: Trading schemes for emission allowances have become a panacea for nations aspiring to reduce their aggregate emissions of greenhouse gases from industry in a cost-effective manner. The contention of this paper is that an emissions trading scheme (ETS) should not be based on blanket coverage of installations on a downstream level, but should rather be designed to include some installations, and from some industrial sectors. In the case of an ETS there are high costs of administration, monitoring and transacting imposed on the installations covered. These costs are supposed to be more than offset by the cost savings realised through trading in the market for emission allowances. However, the paper shows that not all installations can fully offset administrative costs, and are therefore exposed to higher cost compared to a situation under an alternative instrument (e.g. standard). The paper formulates a conceptual framework for analysing overall cost and benefits from an ETS in the light of administration and transactions costs. It theoretically establishes a threshold point for optimal coverage of installations on a downstream level. The paper uses data from EU ETS to empirically determine optimal coverage for selected sectors. The results indicate that blanket coverage is more costly than the determined optimum coverage plan.
Sugarcane smut: the political economy of biosecurity
Creators: name: Antony, George
name: Antony, George
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Crop Production/Industries
Public Economics

description: The discovery of sugarcane smut in one Queensland cane region, in June 2006, triggered a clear-cut biosecurity response aimed at containment and eradication. Farm financial analyses helped to set the incentives offered to canegrowers to gain their cooperation in the eradication effort financed by the Queensland and Australian governments. Eradication was abandoned when the smut became endemic in November 2006, and the disease management that took its place was now entirely Queensland's responsibility. A number of conflicting stakeholder objectives had to be reconciled by the Queensland government in determining the type and extent of industry assistance. An independent inquiry was called to consider the scientific, production, economic and social aspects of the problem. Economic modelling of farmer decisions, farm economics analyses and regional adaptation scenarios were carried out. The results indicated that government largesse would not actually contribute to industry's adjusting to the endemic disease. Instead, a smaller but targeted contribution to plant breeding was offered. The industry cooperated with the process and accepted the outcomes.
Transporting of a Cell-Sized Phospholipid Vesicle Across Water/Oil Interface
Creators: name: Hase, Masahiko
name: Yamada, Ayako
name: Hamada, Tsutomu
name: Yoshikawa, Kenichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a cell-sized water droplet, with a diameter of several tens of micro meter, is placed in oil containing phospholipids, a stable cell-sized vesicle is spontaneously formed as a water-in-oil phospholipid emulsion (W/O CE) with a phospholipid monolayer. We transferred the lipid vesicle thus formed in the oil phase to the water phase across the water/oil interface by micromanipulation, which suggests that the vesicle is transformed from a phospholipid monolayer as W/O CE into a bilayer. The lipid vesicle can then be transported back into the oil phase. This novel experimental procedure may be a useful tool for creating a model cellular system, which, together with a microreactor, is applicable as a micrometer-scale biochemical reaction field.
Ivatan Memories: A Collection of Historical Photos of Batanes
Creators: name: Adami, Kristelle Joyce G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This report lays out in detail the making and analysis of Ivatan Memories. Ivatan Memories is a project that aims to collect and showcase old photographs of Batanes in an accessible and user-friendly website. Its intention is to serve as a digital manifestation of the bigger goal of preserving history. As important visual evidence of history, the exhibition of the collection provides old photographs a dedicated space in the virtual world that exceeds its physical counterpart in terms of accessibility and preservation. Major points of interest in this project is the process of collection of old photographs from varied sources, collaboration and crowdsourcing through social media, research involving indigenous groups, and the creation of a website aimed for public viewing at low to zero cost.
The Need for Agricultural Data in South Africa: With Specific Reference to the Western Cape Province
Creators: name: Ehlers, A.C.
name: Frick, A.
name: Ehlers, A.C.
name: Frick, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: In order for public and private decision-makers in the agricultural sector to use agricultural information for decision-making, solving problems or increasing their knowledge, the necessary data on agriculture must be available. As a result of the deregulation of the agricultural marketing sector in South Africa, the supply of this type of data has decreased. Also, the need for data on agriculture by the various decision-makers, i.e. the policy-makers, researchers, agricultural service industries as well as the farmers and extension officers, has changed. Since information systems are always based on the needs of the decision-makers, the need for data on agriculture should be determined before either existing methodologies are improved or new methodologies are introduced, to increase the supply of data on agriculture in South Africa. The objective of this paper is to identify the agricultural data needs and supply for South Africa with specific reference to the Western Cape Province. This was done by means of postal surveys and informal methods. Recommendations for an effective information system have also be concluded.
Additional file 6 of Implementing a Medicines at Transitions Intervention (MaTI) for patients with heart failure: a process evaluation of the Improving the Safety and Continuity Of Medicines management at Transitions of care (ISCOMAT) cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Powell, Catherine
name: Ismail, Hanif
name: Breen, Liz
name: Fylan, Beth
name: Alderson, Sarah L
name: Gale, Chris P
name: Gardner, Peter
name: Silcock, Jonathan
name: Cundill, Bonnie
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Mason, Ellen
name: Moreau, Lauren
name: Alldred, David P
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 6.
Problems and Perspectives for Agricultural Economics Education in Bulgaria
Creators: name: Kanchev, Ivan
name: Doitchinova, Julia M.
name: Kanchev, Ivan
name: Doitchinova, Julia M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The paper presents the changes in education of agricultural economics in Bulgaria in the transition period and makes evaluation of basic problems of education. Agricultural economics education in Bulgaria had eighty years tradition and experience. The paper includes three parts – experience, problems and future. The first part shows three periods of historical development and experience of agricultural economics education till 1990: *1921 – 1949 in Sofia State University; *1949 – 1976 in Higher agricultural institute in Sofia; *1976 – 1990 in Higher economics institute in Sofia. The second part contains analysis and evaluation of main problems in education in several directions: * Programs for education and textbooks; * Qualification of lectures; * Problems with new computers and products: * Transition period in high education from one to three degrees system (bachelor, master, doctor). The last section shows tendencies for improvement of the education with regard to Bulgaria`s integration with European Union.
Evaluation of the cytotoxic and immunogenic potential of temozolamide, panabinostat, and Lophophora williamsii extract against C6 glioma cells
Creators: name: Franco-Molina, Moisés Armides
name: Santana-Krímskaya, Silvia Elena
name: Madrigal-De-León, Luis Mario
name: Coronado-Cerda, Erika Evangelina
name: Zárate-Triviño, Diana Ginette
name: Hernández-Martínez, Sara Paola
name: García-Coronado, Paola Leonor
name: Rodríguez-Padilla, Cristina
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: Lophophora williamsii
temozolamide
panobinostat
glioblastoma
immunogenic cell death
DAMPs

description: Glioblastoma multiforme is a malignant neoplasm of the brain with poor prognosis. The first-line drug against glioblastoma is the alkylating agent temozolamide (TMZ); unfortunately, treatment resistance and tumor re-incidence are common. In some cases, immunogenic cell death (ICD) inducers can decrease treatment resistance and tumor recurrence by stimulating an antitumor specific immune response. Not all ICD inducers, however, are suitable for glioma patients because of the low permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Panobinostat (PAN), a histone deacetylase inhibitor and Lophophora williamsii (LW) extract can pass through the BBB and have antitumor properties. The aim of this study is to evaluate the cytotoxic potential of TMZ, PAN and LW extract against the glioma C6 cell line, and its role in the release of damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), which is a hallmark of ICD. Our results indicate that all treatments induce cellular death in a time- and concentration-dependent manner, and that PAN and LW extract induce apoptosis, whereas TMZ induces apoptosis and necrosis. Also, that some of the treatments and their sequential administration induce the release of DAMPs. Furthermore, in a rat glioma model, we observed that all treatments decreased tumor volume, but the in vivo cell death mechanism was not ICD. Our findings indicate that TMZ, PAN, and LW combination have a cytotoxic effect against glioma cells but do not induce ICD.
description: EXCLI Journal; 20:Doc614; ISSN 1611-2156
The Future of Irish Dairy Farming – The Implications of Agenda 2000 and a Booming Economy
Creators: name: Hennessy, Thia C.
name: Hennessy, Thia C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Demand and Price Analysis
Farm Management

description: The future of dairy farming in Ireland is examined. The effects of a strong macroeconomy, Agenda 2000 and domestic policy on milk quota transfer are analysed using linear programming and Markov Chain analysis. Results show that all farms are subjected to a price-cost squeeze. Smaller dairy farms are pushed and pulled out of farming. Larger farms survive by expanding operations but do not enjoy the increases in income realised elsewhere in the economy.
Random Matrices and Supersymmetry in Disordered Systems
Creators: name: Efetov, K. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is described how one comes to the Wigner-Dyson random matrix theory (RMT) starting from a model of a disordered metal. The lectures start with a historical introduction where basic ideas of the RMT and theory of disordered metals are reviewed. This part is followed by an introduction into supermathematics (mathematics operating with both commuting and anticommuting variables). The main ideas of the supersymmetry method are given and basic formulae are derived. As an example, level-level correlations and fluctuations of amplitudes of wave functions are discussed. It is shown how one can both obtain known formulae of the RMT and go beyond. In the last part some recent progress in the further development of the method and possible perspectives are discussed.
description: Lectures given at the Les Houches Summer School "Applications of Random Matrices in Physics", June 2004, 45p