cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The SuperFGD Prototype Charged Particle Beam Tests
Creators: name: Blondel, A.
name: Bogomilov, M.
name: Bordoni, S.
name: Cadoux, F.
name: Douqa, D.
name: Dugas, K.
name: Ekelof, T.
name: Favre, Y.
name: Fedotov, S.
name: Fransson, K.
name: Fujita, R.
name: Gramstad, E.
name: Ichikawa, A. K.
name: Ilieva, S.
name: Iwamoto, K.
name: Jesus-Valls, C.
name: Jung, C. K.
name: Kasetti, S. P.
name: Khabibullin, M.
name: Khotjantsev, A.
name: Korzenev, A.
name: Kostin, A.
name: Kudenko, Y.
name: Kutter, T.
name: Lux, T.
name: Maret, L.
name: Matsubara, T.
name: Mefodiev, A.
name: Minamino, A.
name: Mineev, O.
name: Mitev, G.
name: Nessi, M.
name: Nicola, L.
name: Noah, E.
name: Parsa, S.
name: Petkov, G.
name: Sanchez, F.
name: Sgalaberna, D.
name: Shorrock, W.
name: Skwarczynski, K.
name: Suvorov, S.
name: Teklu, A.
name: Tsenov, R.
name: Uchida, Y.
name: Vankova-Kirilova, G.
name: Yershov, N.
name: Yokoyama, M.
name: Zalipska, J.
name: Zou, Y.
name: Zurek, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel scintillator detector, the SuperFGD, has been selected as the main neutrino target for an upgrade of the T2K experiment ND280 near detector. The detector design will allow nearly 4π coverage for neutrino interactions at the near detector and will provide lower energy thresholds, significantly reducing systematic errors for the experiment. The SuperFGD is made of optically-isolated scintillator cubes of size 10x10x10 mm^3, providing the required spatial and energy resolution to reduce systematic uncertainties for future T2K runs. The SuperFGD for T2K will have close to two million cubes in a 1920x560x1840 mm^3 volume. A prototype made of 24x8x48 cubes was tested at a charged particle beamline at the CERN PS facility. The SuperFGD Prototype was instrumented with readout electronics similar to the future implementation for T2K. Results on electronics and detector response are reported in this paper, along with a discussion of the 3D reconstruction capabilities of this type of detector. Several physics analyses with the prototype data are also discussed, including a study of stopping protons.
description: 36 pages, 29 figures, Edited acknowledgements
Cabotegravir plus Rilpivirine: First Approval
Creators: name: Markham, Anthony
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Compliance with Ethical Standards
Funding: The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
Conflict of interest: During the peer review process the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the author on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. Anthony Markham is a contracted employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, is responsible for the article content and declares no relevant conflicts of interest.
Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here

Abstract
A regimen comprising extended release injectable suspensions of cabotegravir and rilpivirine for concurrent administration (CABENUVA™) is being developed by ViiV Healthcare and Janssen Pharmaceutica (Janssen) as a complete regimen for HIV infection. Based on the results of the ATLAS and FLAIR trials, the regimen was recently approved in Canada for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults to replace current antiretroviral therapy in patients who are virologically stable and suppressed. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of co-packaged cabotegravir and rilpivirine leading to this first approval.
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The role of extractive depletion in the fungal colonization of Western redcedar (Thuja plicata Donn)
Creators: name: Chedgy, Russell James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Western redcedar (Thujaplicata Donn) (WRC) is a naturally durable softwood species native to British Columbia, Canada, as well as Washington, Oregon and California in the USA. WRC wood products are valued for their durability conferred by anti-microbial extractive compounds. However, such products are still susceptible to fungal colonization that can result in decay and discoloration. The main objective of this thesis was to provide information on the relationship between durability, the change in extractives, and micro-organisms on WRC products in-service in order to help the industry to develop strategies to improve product service life. We first developed protocols to extract, separate and quantifl extractives by ultra-sonication and reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography. We developed techniques to screen a range of fungi commonly isolated from WRC in service products for extractive-tolerance in vitro. Results indicated that the Basidiomycete Pachnocybe ferruginea exhibited the highest extractive-tolerance of the range of fungi tested. The next section of this thesis focuses on black stain of WRC siding by Aureobasidiurn pullulans and the role of weathering. We characterized the effect of weathering on extractives at the surface and correlated this with ability of A. pullulans to colonize. UV plus water spray treatments substantially reduced extractives but did not promote fungal colonization. In contrast, UV-only treatments reduced extractive contents less but stimulated fungal colonization. A. pullulans exhibited high tolerance to the tropolone Pthujaplicin in vitro; thus loss of tropolone content may not be required for colonization. In the final part of this thesis we investigated the relationship between extractive depletion caused by leaching and how this influenced decay. Leaching resulted in an 80% reduction of extractives, which generally resulted in a greater degree of decay by six commonly isolated fungal species. Fungi which exhibited low tolerance to WRC leachate in vitro were able to decay leached WRC blocks more readily than non-leached WRC blocks. Extractive-tolerant species did not require leaching of extractives for decay to occur. The Basidiomycetes P. ferruginea, and to a lesser extent Acanthophysium lividocaeruleum and Heterobasidion annosum consistently exhibited high extractive tolerance and could decay non-leached WRC to a similar extent as leached. Such species are candidate ’pioneer’ species that may detoxify extractives in wood products, paving the way for decay by less specialized fungi to occur.
Flat limit of the de Sitter QFT in the rest frame vacuum
Creators: name: Cotaescu, Ion I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of the flat limits of the scalar and spinor fields on the de Sitter expanding universe is considered in the rest frame vacuum where the frequencies are separated in rest frames as in special relativity. The phases of the fundamental solutions of these fields are regularized in order to obtain Minkowskian flat limits. New expressions of scalar mode functions or Dirac spinors reaching natural flat limits are given in the rest frame vacuum and suitable approximate formulas are proposed. In this manner the flat limit is correctly defined for the entire quantum theory since the one-particle operators tend to those of special relativity.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
Holomorphic factorization of determinants of laplacians on Riemann surfaces and a higher genus generalization of Kronecker's first limit formula
Creators: name: McIntyre, Andrew
name: Takhtajan, Leon A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58J52, 11M36 (Primary) 14H15, 30F10, 32G15 (Secondary)

description: For a family of compact Riemann surfaces X_t of genus g>1 parametrized by the Schottky space S_g, we define a natural basis for the holomorphic n-differentials on X_t which varies holomorphically with t and generalizes the basis of normalized abelian differentials of the first kind for n=1. We introduce a holomorphic function F(n) on S_g which generalizes the classical product \prod(1-q^m)^2 appearing in the Dedekind eta function for n=1 and g=1. We prove a holomorphic factorization formula expressing the regularized determinant of the Laplacian as a product of |F(n)|^2, a holomorphic anomaly depending on the classical Liouville action (a Kahler potential of S_g), and the determinant of the Gram matrix of the natural basis. The factorization formula reduces to Kronecker's first limit formula when n=1 and g=1, and to Zograf's factorization formula for n=1 and g>1.
description: LaTex, 31 pages, no figures; minor typos corrected, final version to appear in Geometric and Functional Analysis
Greening agricultural payments in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
Creators: name: Matthews, Alan
name: Matthews, Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: CAP post-2013
subject: greening
subject: cross compliance
subject: Pillar 1

description: Environmental objectives have become increasingly integrated into the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) since the mid-1980s. Integration has been pursued through the attachment of environmental conditions to the receipt of direct payments in Pillar 1 (cross compliance) and the use of voluntary agri-environment measures in Pillar 2. In formulating its proposals for the revision of the CAP post-2013, the Commission opted to pursue further integration largely through Pillar 1 through the introduction of a ‘green’ payment for farmers following a specified set of mandatory farm practices. The legislative process was not concluded in February 2013, but enough is known of the positions of the Council and the European Parliament to indicate that the level of greening ambition in this CAP reform will be very limited. Some explanations for the apparent failure to significantly reshape the CAP to tackle the problems faced by the natural environment are reviewed. It is suggested that, far from being complementary, cross compliance and voluntary agri-environment measures are competing approaches to further greening of the CAP. Advocates of a greater focus on environmental objectives need to choose between these approaches.
An XTE Archival Search for Coherent X-ray Pulsations in LMXB 4U 1820-30
Creators: name: Dib, Rim
name: Ransom, Scott M.
name: Ray, Paul S.
name: Kaspi, Victoria M.
name: Archibald, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As part of a large-scale search for coherent pulsations from LMXBs in the RXTE archive, we have completed a detailed series of searches for coherent pulsations of 4U 1820-30 -- an ultracompact LMXB with a binary period of 11.4 min, located in the globular cluster NGC6624. The short binary period implies any coherent signal would be highly accelerated, so we used phase modulation searches, orbital-parameter-fitting coherent searches, and standard acceleration searches to give significant sensitivity to millisecond pulsations. We searched, in four energy bands and at a range of luminosities, a total of 34 archival RXTE observations, 32 of which had on-source integration times longer than 10 ks, and some of which were made consecutively which allowed us to combine them. We found no pulsations. Using our phase modulation search technique, which we ran on all 34 observations, we have been able to place the first stringent (95% confidence) pulsed fraction limits of
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, published in ApJ, the text of this astro-ph version is now identical to the text of the published version
title: Influencing of car apps to the marketing strategy and after-sales service in automotive industry : a case study of Dongfeng Peugeot
Creators: name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: intelligent mobile terminal
subject: auto apps
subject: automobile marketing
subject: after-sales service
subject: homogenization

description: With the popularization of intelligent mobile terminal and the rise of auto third-party software - auto apps, the auto industry in the dilemma of traditional marketing will greet the new phase of automobile marketing and after-sales service where auto apps are becoming the focus of auto makers and their features decide that they will surely be the main approach to automobile marketing and after-sales service in the future. Compared to the traditional mode of automobile marketing and after-sales service, auto apps are cheap, accurate and convenient with no time and space limitations and high adhesiveness of users, quietly grabbing market share and bringing unprecedented opportunities to the auto industry. Their emergence not only breaks the pattern of traditional automobile marketing but also makes the aftermarket face a reshuffle. As BMW, Audi, Volkswagen take the lead to tentatively launch their branded apps with great success, auto makers follow suit to expect a market share; besides these branded apps, a large number of other auto apps are coming on to the market, bringing fresh vitality to the industry and convenience to car owners and potential buyers. However, everything has two sides, where there are opportunities, there are challenges. It is inevitable that auto apps in the intelligent mobile terminal replace computers as a main pattern of automobile marketing and after-sales service. But in the meanwhile, the hot market will see more intense competitions between like products, and gaining share is not an easy task though there is a great temptation. A flow of these apps makes an auto market with serious homogenization, especially in the aftermarket. Any enterprise or group attempting to introduce a new auto app has to ¿pour much money¿ into marketing, which has no essential difference from the traditional marketing. In the age of intelligent mobile terminal, we may not conclude that user experience and demand are changing irregularly or invariable though users have more free choices. In a word, only by suiting to the user needs and continuously improving apps can enterprises survive in the market.
title: GPU-Accelerated Solution of Many Small ODE Systems for High-Temperature Component Lifetime Modeling
Creators: name: Durst, Tobias L.
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2025

description: Accurate lifetime prediction of critical components in steam and gas turbines is essential for optimizing maintenance strategies and ensuring safe operation under demanding conditions. Traditional engineering methods, though quick, lack the flexibility and precision required for complex scenarios. Advanced continuum damage mechanics models, such as the Chaboche model, offer greater accuracy but are computationally intensive.
This thesis investigates the potential of GPU acceleration to significantly reduce the computational cost of lifetime estimation using the Chaboche model. By leveraging the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs, the study enables efficient simulation of numerous load cases and parameter configurations, addressing uncertainties inherent in such models. We evaluate the suitability of SUNDIALS, a state-of-the-art ODE solver, for GPU-accelerated simulations, highlighting its limitations. Simpler numerical methods, including the Forward Euler method, are also explored to balance accuracy and computational efficiency. Performance enhancements are achieved by optimizing data types and step sizes, improving the efficiency of both SUNDIALS and the Forward Euler method on GPU platforms.
The results demonstrate substantial computational speedups of 40 to 60 times with GPU-accelerated solvers compared to CPU-based implementations. Additionally, optimizing the simplified Chaboche model with tailored data types and step sizes yields a further 23% performance improvement without compromising accuracy. This research offers key insights into the effective application of GPU acceleration for lifetime prediction, contributing to more efficient and reliable design and maintenance practices for critical components in energy systems.
Inhibition and late talker outcomes (Kautto et al., 2021)
Creators: name: Kautto, Anna
name: Jansson-Verkasalo, Eira
name: Mainela-Arnold, Elina
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Language

description: Purpose: While most of the children who are identified as late talkers at the age of 2 years catch up with their peers before school age, some continue to have language difficulties and will later be identified as having developmental language disorder. Our understanding of which children catch up and which do not is limited. The aim of the current study was to find out if inhibition is associated with late talker outcomes at school age.Method: We recruited 73 school-aged children (ages 7–10 years) with a history of late talking (n = 38) or typical development (n = 35). Children completed measures of language skills and a flanker task to measure inhibition. School-age language outcome was measured as a continuous variable.Results: Our analyses did not reveal associations between inhibition and school-age language index or history of late talking. However, stronger school-age language skills were associated with shorter overall response times on the flanker task, in both congruent and incongruent trials. This effect was not modulated by history of late talking, suggesting that a relationship between general response times and language development is similar in both children with typical early language development and late talkers.Conclusions: Inhibition is not related to late talker language outcomes. However, children with better language outcomes had shorter general response times. We interpret this to reflect differences in general processing speed, suggesting that processing speed holds promise for predicting school-age language outcomes in both late talkers and children with typical early development.
Supplemental Material S1. Analysis scripts.
Kautto, A., Jansson-Verkasalo,. E., & Mainela-Arnold, E. (2021). Generalized slowing rather than inhibition is associated with language outcomes in both late talkers and children with typical early development. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00523
Arnoldi algorithms with structured orthogonalization
Creators: name: Chen, Pengwen
name: Cheng, Chung-Kuan
name: Wang, Xinyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65L04, 65L20, 65L70

description: We study a stability preserved Arnoldi algorithm for matrix exponential in the time domain simulation of large-scale power delivery networks (PDN), which are formulated as semi-explicit differential algebraic equations (DAEs). The solution can be decomposed to a sum of two projections, one in the range of the system operator and the other in its null space. The range projection can be computed with one shift-and -invert Krylov subspace method. The other projection can be computed with the algebraic equations. Differing from the ordinary Arnoldi method, the orthogonality in the Krylov subspace is replaced with the semi-inner product induced by the positive semi-definite system operator. With proper adjustment, numerical ranges of the Krylov operator lie in the right half plane, and we obtain theoretical convergence analysis for the modified Arnoldi algorithm in computing phi-functions. Lastly, simulations on RLC networks are demonstrated to validate the effectiveness of the Arnoldi algorithm with structured-orthogonalization.
description: 30 pages
He Oranga Hou: Social cohesion in a post-COVID world
Creators: name: Spoonley, Paul
name: Gluckman, Peter
name: Bardsley, Anne
name: McIntosh, Tracey
name: Rangimarie Hunia
name: Sarb Johal
name: Poulton, Richie
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160899 Sociology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
subject: 160805 Social Change

description: The second discussion paper of the Koi Tū: The Future is Now Series, titled He Oranga Hou: Social cohesion in a post-COVID world, examines the critical issue of how New Zealand’s strong national unity during lockdown will become increasingly tested as economic consequences are more and more acutely felt. In mapping out the paths to return to the ‘new normal’, how do we ensure that social cohesion is maintained?
A study of fabrication methods of aluminum based composites focused on stir casting process
Creators: name: SHARMA, ARUN Kumar
name: Bhandari, Rakesh
name: Aherwar, Amit
name: Pinca-Bretoteand, Camelia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The growing requirement for the product having low cost along with excellent quality has moved work towards composite materials in recent years. Composite materials are very important materials nowadays. A composite material is the mixture of two or more materials, which are having distinct phases and characteristics as well as superior to the base material. Metal matrix composites (MMCs) are constantly evolving due to innovative and exciting technologies and are widely used as well as recognized as a potential material for many industrial applications in various industries. MMCs are having excellent properties in comparison with conventional metals and alloys, in MMCs, a new class of composites, aluminum metal matrix composites (AlMMCs) are gaining increasing attention, AlMMCs are very important for a wide array of applications in industries because of excellent mechanical characteristics, low weight and cost. In the production of MMC materials, there are several production methods available as well as AlMMCs also can be manufactured through a variety of techniques. By changing the methods of the fabrication process and by adding the reinforcement material, different characteristic profiles can be obtained although the materials having the same composition and same quantities. The objective of this article provides a brief overview of the liquid fabrication process focused on the stir casting method and also about various factors, which generally affect the fabrication process.
V_{us} from hyperon semileptonic decays
Creators: name: Flores-Mendieta, Ruben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model-independent determination of the CKM matrix element V_{us} from five measured strangeness-changing hyperon semileptonic decays is performed. Flavor SU(3) symmetry breaking effects in the leading vector and axial-vector form factors are analyzed in the framework of the 1/N_c expansion of QCD. A fit to experimental data allows one to extract the value V_{us}=0.2199\pm 0.0026, which is comparable to the one from K_{e3} decays. This reconciliation is achieved through second-order symmetry breaking effects of a few percent in the form factors f_1, which increase their magnitudes over their SU(3) predictions.
description: 23 pages, Revtex4, 12 tables, no figures
Transformation for sustainable agriculture: what role for the second Pillar of CAP?
Creators: name: Dwyer, Janet
name: Dwyer, Janet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Rural Development Programmes
subject: innovation
subject: knowledge exchange
subject: policy design and delivery

description: EU agriculture and rural areas face significant medium-term challenges arising from existing and ‘new’ sources; as acknowledged in the EU2020 vision. The European Commission has placed emphasis upon innovation as a key element in achieving transformation, in the coming decade. Findings from a recent study for the European Parliament highlight the potential role of Pillar 2 rural development programmes as vehicles for enabling innovation. Key roles include supporting knowledge exchange; collaboration; and research-into-practice linkages. Effective knowledge exchange (KE) is a critical element, but innovation in KE itself is often needed. Collaboration can be valuable in fostering cross-sectoral linkages, and communities of learning show innovation potential. Integration of measures in tailored packages appears to increase the scope for innovation. Equally important, there is a vital need for innovation in policy design and delivery, to enable a cost-effective transformation of agriculture and rural areas. The CAP proposals 2014-2020 make a positive contribution to better promote innovation through Pillar 2, but there is room for improvement. Models for policy innovation adapted from experience in commercial organisations are suggested as worthy of further research.
title: Data driven approach for DSP development of recombinant glycoproteins from yeast
Creators: name: Krippl, Maximilian
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Monolith
subject: design of experiments
subject: Downstream process
subject: recombinant glycoproteins
subject: toolbox for DSP-development

description: In modern biotechnology, a huge variety of proteins are recombinantly produced for different applications. Today, the yeast Pichia pastoris is a promising recombinant production platform with many advantages compared to bacterial expression hosts, like posttranslational modifications and product secretion. However, P. pastoris hyperglycosylates recombinant proteins rendering the DSP development and purification itself laborious. Developing efficient purification protocols for glycoproteins is a cumbersome task since the offline analytical measurements are time consuming, expensive and prone to operator error. In addition, conventional particle-based chromatography systems that are in standard approaches for screening of different stationary phases and support materials are very time consuming, the throughput is very low and the screenings are based on trial-and-error approaches. Monolithic columns are the fourth generation of chromatography supports that are becoming popular because of their linear scalability, high mass transfer properties and short purification times. In the course of this thesis, we developed a novel toolbox using chromatogram fingerprints and multivariate data analysis (MVDA) tools for fast DSP development of recombinant glycoproteins from yeast. We screened for different columns and purification conditions in a design of experiments (DoE) approach using our toolbox in analytical scale and validate these results in laboratory scale. Based thereon, we implemented this novel toolbox for DSP development of six different recombinant glycoproteins from P. pastoris. Use of this platform toolbox for purification of novel proteins can reduce DSP development time and circumvent cumbersome offline analytics.
Recovering variable stars in large surveys: EA$_{\rm up}$ Algol-type class in the Catalina Survey
Creators: name: Carmo, A.
name: Lopes, C. E. Ferreira
name: Papageorgiou, A.
name: Jablonski, F. J.
name: Rodrigues, C. V.
name: Drake, A. J.
name: Cross, N. J. G.
name: Catelan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery and characterization of Algol eclipsing binaries (EAs) provide an opportunity to contribute for a better picture of the structure and evolution of low-mass stars. However, the cadence of most current photometric surveys hinders the detection of EAs since the separation between observations is usually larger than the eclipse(s) duration and hence few measurements are found at the eclipses. Even when those objects are detected as variable, their periods can be missed if an appropriate oversampling factor is not used in the search tools. In this paper, we apply this approach to find the periods of stars cataloged in the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey (CRTS) as EAs having unknown period (EA$_{\rm up}$). As a result, the periods of $\sim 56\%$ of them were determined. Eight objects were identified as low-mass binary systems and modeled with the Wilson \& Devinney synthesis code combined with a Monte-Carlo Markov Chain optimization procedure. The computed masses and radii are in agreement with theoretical models and show no evidence of inflated radii. This paper is the first of a series aiming to identify suspected binary systems in large surveys.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Custo da produção de abacaxi na região do Recôncavo Baiano
Creators: name: Santos, Edilene De Jesus
name: Santana, Flavio Silva De
name: Cardoso, Carlos Estevao Leite
name: Santos, Edilene De Jesus
name: Santana, Flavio Silva De
name: Cardoso, Carlos Estevao Leite
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: Este estudo objetiva apresentar os custos e a rentabilidade do processo de produção do abacaxi na região do Recôncavo Baiano. A metodologia aplicada nesse estudo consistiu no levantamento de dados primários, referentes aos vetores de preços dos insumos e dos produtos, sendo estes levantados, a cada dois meses, contemplando o período de junho a dezembro de 2005. Os dados foram levantados por meio de contatos telefônicos. Os coeficientes técnicos utilizados no presente estudo fazem parte da base de dados da Embrapa Mandioca e Fruticultura Tropical. Após o levantamento dos dados primários os mesmos compuseram planilhas eletrônicas que foram elaboradas em programas apropriados. Os resultados do estudo permitem concluir que o investimento no plantio e comercialização do abacaxi, nos meses de junho a dezembro de 2005, mostraram-se viáveis uma vez que o produtor conseguiu obter equilíbrio entre os custos e a receita.
Transforming Salesforce Commerce Cloud: DevOps Implementation for Scalable Solutions
Creators: name: Rishitha Kokku
name: Chirag Pethad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In today's fast-paced e-commerce landscape, agility, efficiency, and seamless customer experiences are paramount. Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) stands out as a leading platform empowering businesses to deliver personalized and scalable online shopping experiences. Integrating DevOps practices into SFCC implementations can further enhance development workflows, streamline deployments, and ensure high-quality, reliable e-commerce solutions. This white paper delves into the strategic implementation of DevOps for Salesforce Commerce Cloud, outlining the benefits, challenges, and a detailed step-by-step guide to adopting DevOps methodologies. By leveraging automation, continuous integration, and collaboration, organizations can significantly improve their SFCC projects' speed, quality, and scalability.
Velocity Fluctuations in a Slowly Sheared Bubble Raft
Creators: name: Dennin, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A surprising feature of flow in slowly sheared model foam (bubble raft) is a measured discontinuity in the rate of strain as a function of position such that part of the system is ``flowing'' and the rest is undergoing ``elastic'' deformations [J. Lauridsen, G. Chanan, and M. Dennin, Phys. Rev. Lett. v. 93, 018303 (2004)]. Detailed measurements of the distribution of nonlinear bubble rearrangements have been reported in connection with this discontinuity. In this paper, measurements of the fluctuations in velocity under the same conditions are reported. The fluctuations are characterized by the second and third moments of the velocity distribution. A surprising feature is the qualitative behavior of these moments as a function of position in the system, especially across the discontinuity in rate of strain. In addition, the measured dependence of the second moment of the velocity fluctuations on rate of strain is compared with predictions of simulations of the bubble model and reasonable agreement is found.
Shape analysis via inconsistent surface registration
Creators: name: Choi, Gary P. T.
name: Qiu, Di
name: Lui, Lok Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this work, we develop a framework for shape analysis using inconsistent surface mapping. Traditional landmark-based geometric morphometrics methods suffer from the limited degrees of freedom, while most of the more advanced non-rigid surface mapping methods rely on a strong assumption of the global consistency of two surfaces. From a practical point of view, given two anatomical surfaces with prominent feature landmarks, it is more desirable to have a method that automatically detects the most relevant parts of the two surfaces and finds the optimal landmark-matching alignment between those parts, without assuming any global 1-1 correspondence between the two surfaces. Our method is capable of solving this problem using inconsistent surface registration based on quasi-conformal theory. It further enables us to quantify the dissimilarity of two shapes using quasi-conformal distortion and differences in mean and Gaussian curvatures, thereby providing a natural way for shape classification. Experiments on Platyrrhine molars demonstrate the effectiveness of our method and shed light on the interplay between function and shape in nature.
Impact of off-shell dynamics on the transport properties and the dynamical evolution of Charm Quarks at RHIC and LHC temperatures
Creators: name: Sambataro, Maria Lucia
name: Plumari, Salvatore
name: Greco, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate drag and diffusion transport coefficients comparing a quasi-particle approximation with on-shell constituents of the QGP medium and a dynamical quasi-particles model with off-shell bulk medium at finite temperature T. We study the effects of the width $γ$ of the particles of the bulk medium on the charm quark transport properties exploring the range where $γ< M_{q,g}$. We find that off-shell effects are in general quite moderate and can induce a reduction of the drag coefficient at low momenta that disappear already at moderate momenta, $p \gtrsim 2-3\, \rm GeV$. We also observe a moderate reduction of the breaking of the Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem (FDT) at finite momenta. Moreover, we have performed a first study of the dynamical evolution of HQ elastic energy loss in a bulk medium at fixed temperature extending the Boltzmann (BM) collision integral to include off-shell dynamics. A comparison among the Langevin dynamics, the BM collisional integral with on-shell and the BM extension to off-shell dynamics shows that the evolution of charm energy when off-shell effects are included remain quite similar to the case of the on-shell BM collision integral.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures
Multiresolution Decomposition of Areal Count Data
Creators: name: Flury, Roman
name: Furrer, Reinhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multiresolution decomposition is commonly understood as a procedure to capture scale-dependent features in random signals. Such methods were first established for image processing and typically rely on raster or regularly gridded data. In this article, we extend a particular multiresolution decomposition procedure to areal count data, i.e.~discrete irregularly gridded data. More specifically, we incorporate in a new model concept and distributions from the so-called Besag--York--Mollié model to include a priori demographical knowledge. These adaptions and subsequent changes in the computation schemes are carefully outlined below, whereas the main idea of the original multiresolution decomposition remains. Finally, we show the extension's feasibility by applying it to oral cavity cancer counts in Germany.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, GRASPA 2019 conference proceeding
Wigner-Weyl isomorphism for quantum mechanics on Lie groups
Creators: name: Mukunda, N.
name: Marmo, G.
name: Zampini, Alessandro
name: Chaturvedi, S.
name: Simon, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Wigner-Weyl isomorphism for quantum mechanics on a compact simple Lie group $G$ is developed in detail. Several New features are shown to arise which have no counterparts in the familiar Cartesian case. Notable among these is the notion of a `semiquantised phase space', a structure on which the Weyl symbols of operators turn out to be naturally defined and, figuratively speaking, located midway between the classical phase space $T^*G$ and the Hilbert space of square integrable functions on $G$. General expressions for the star product for Weyl symbols are presented and explicitly worked out for the angle-angular momentum case.
description: 32 pages, Latex2e
Greenhouse gases mitigation policies in the agriculture of Aragon, Spain
Creators: name: Kahil, Mohamed Taher
name: Albiac, José
name: Kahil, Mohamed Taher
name: Albiac, José
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: GHG emissions
subject: Economic modelling
subject: Mitigation policies
subject: Effectiveness
subject: Abatement costs

description: Climate change is an important threat to human society. Agriculture is a source of greenhouse gases (GHG), but it also provides alternatives to confront climate change. The expansion of intensive agriculture around the world during recent decades has generated significant environmental damages from pollution emissions. The spatial distribution of emissions is important for the design of local abatement measures. This study makes an assessment of GHG emissions in an intensive agricultural area of Aragon (Spain), and then an economic optimization model is developed to analyze several GHG mitigation measures. The results indicate that adequate management of manure, emissions limits, and animal production restrictions are appropriate measures to abate pollution. Economic instruments such as input and emission taxes could be only ancillary measures to address nonpoint pollution problems. Suitable pollution abatement policies should be based on institutional instruments adapted to local conditions, and involve the cooperation of stakeholders.
AS ALTERAÇÕES NO DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL DO ESTADO DO PARANÁ DESENCADEADAS PELA AGROINDÚSTRIA CANAVIEIRA
Creators: name: Carvalheiro, Elizangela Mara
name: Carvalheiro, Elizangela Mara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries

description: O artigo tem como objetivo a análise dos principais aspectos caracterizadores da evolução histórica da agroindústria canavieira paranaense bem como sua influência nos impactos gerados pela implantação do parque industrial das unidades produtivas nos municípios “canavieiros” das messoregiões norte central e noroeste. Em termos de produção canavieira seu plantio representou um produto conjuntural do Brasil colonial, no Estado do Paraná sua ênfase somente foi sentida a partir da década de 80 com o incentivo do PROÁLCOOL. Outrossim, pode-se constatar que, para os municípios em foco, as indústrias de processamento de açúcar e de álcool geram dois tipos de efeito: o direto, que é dado no segmento econômico, e indireto, que está ligado ao segmento social. Entretanto, deve-se considerar que a produção canavieira gera alguns pontos negativos, tais como uma forte dependência para uma única cultura, barreiras a entrada de outra atividade e a grandes extensões de terras para a sua produção gerando concentração de rendas. Fato que pode ser constatado com a implantação do PROÁLCOOL que foi um grande indutor da concentração fundiária num processo sem precedentes de expropriação de sitiantes. E a questão do conceito de desenvolvimento local nos remeter para aqueles grupos que não estão sendo inseridos na nova dinâmica, o que ocorre é que muitos não participam do processo de desenvolvimento. Esse processo de desenvolvimento local se repete nos mesmos velhos conhecidos mecanismos da acumulação de capital a base da expropriação de fatores de produção e da exclusão social.
Effects of forest cover and food limitation on the growth and survival of juvenile and adult Northwestern salamanders (Ambystoma gracile Baird)
Creators: name: Hilton, Alana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Forest harvesting alters microclimate and structure, which may affect amphibians directly, as well as affect the abundance, diversity and/or availability of amphibian prey. As a result, the foraging efficiency of amphibians in harvested areas may be reduced, lowering body condition, and perhaps survival. I experimentally tested the hypotheses that: 1) body condition would be lower in clearcuts than forested sites; and 2) salamanders would be food limited in clearcuts but not in forest, and food addition to clearcut enclosures would improve body condition, while food addition to forest enclosures would have no effect. We used 24 large-scale field enclosures in a randomized split-plot block design (3 blocks) with forest type (1 clearcut and 1 forest site in each block) and food level (supplemental mealworms, ambient) as factors to examine the effects on growth and survival of adult and juvenile northwestern salamanders. In trial one, which started in October 2003, each of the 24 enclosures received 14 marked and measured juveniles. Juveniles were recaptured and remeasured in April/May 2004. In trial two, each of the enclosures received 7 marked and measured adult salamanders in May 2004, and adults were recaptured and remeasured in October/November 2004. Mealworms were added weekly to half the enclosures at each site. We used an analysis of variance to test for differences between clearcut and forest, supplemental food and ambient food, and any interactions on the weight change of animals and on the proportional survival for each enclosure. We found no significant effect of forest type or food level on growth of juveniles or adults, or on proportion of juveniles recaptured at the end of the experiment. However, for adults, there was a significant effect of forest type on the proportion recaptured (p < 0.001), with fewer animals recaptured in clearcut enclosures. These results indicate that clearcuts may provide unsuitable habitat for salamanders during summer in the Pacific Northwest, but not during winter.
multi-patch aggregation models for resampling detection
Creators: name: Lamba, Mohit
name: Mitra, Kaushik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Images captured nowadays are of varying dimensions with smartphones and DSLR's allowing users to choose from a list of available image resolutions. It is therefore imperative for forensic algorithms such as resampling detection to scale well for images of varying dimensions. However, in our experiments, we observed that many state-of-the-art forensic algorithms are sensitive to image size and their performance quickly degenerates when operated on images of diverse dimensions despite re-training them using multiple image sizes. To handle this issue, we propose a novel pooling strategy called ITERATIVE POOLING. This pooling strategy can dynamically adjust input tensors in a discrete without much loss of information as in ROI Max-pooling. This pooling strategy can be used with any of the existing deep models and for demonstration purposes, we show its utility on Resnet-18 for the case of resampling detection a fundamental operation for any image sought of image manipulation. Compared to existing strategies and Max-pooling it gives up to 7-8% improvement on public datasets.
description: 6 pages; 6 tables; 4 figures
Internal Stress in a Model Elasto-Plastic Fluid
Creators: name: Ooshida, Takeshi
name: Sekimoto, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plastic materials can carry memory of past mechanical treatment in the form of internal stress. We introduce a natural definition of the vorticity of internal stress in a simple two-dimensional model of elasto-plastic fluids, which generates the internal stress. We demonstrate how the internal stress is induced under external loading, and how the presence of the internal stress modifies the plastic behavior.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Electroweak Asymmetric Early Universe via a Scalar Condensate
Creators: name: Chang, Jae Hyeok
name: Olea Romacho, Maria Olalla
name: Tanin, Erwin H.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: condensation, scalar
finite temperature, effect
field theory, scalar
scale, electroweak interaction
fluctuation, thermal
stability
asymmetry
benchmark
temperature

description: Finite temperature effects in the Standard Model tend to restore the electroweak symmetry in the early universe, but new fields coupled to the higgs field may as well reverse this tendency, leading to the so-called electroweak symmetry non-restoration (EW SNR) scenario. Previous works on EW SNR often assume that the reversal is due to the thermal fluctuations of new fields with negative quartic couplings to the higgs, and they tend to find that a large number of new fields are required. We observe that EW SNR can be minimally realized if the field(s) coupled to the higgs field develop(s) a stable condensate. We show that one complex scalar field with a sufficiently large global-charge asymmetry can develop a condensate as an outcome of thermalization and keep the electroweak symmetry broken up to temperatures well above the electroweak scale. In addition to providing a minimal benchmark model, our work hints on a class of models involving scalar condensates that yield electroweak symmetry non-restoration in the early universe.
Mathematical structure and physical content of composite gravity in weak-field approximation
Creators: name: Öttinger, Hans Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The natural constraints for the weak-field approximation to composite gravity, which is obtained by expressing the gauge vector fields of the Yang-Mills theory based on the Lorentz group in terms of tetrad variables and their derivatives, are analyzed in detail within a canonical Hamiltonian approach. Although this higher derivative theory involves a large number of fields, only few degrees of freedom are left, which are recognized as selected stable solutions of the underlying Yang-Mills theory. The constraint structure suggests a consistent double coupling of matter to both Yang-Mills and tetrad fields, which results in a selection among the solutions of the Yang-Mills theory in the presence of properly chosen conserved currents. Scalar and tensorial coupling mechanisms are proposed, where the latter mechanism essentially reproduces linearized general relativity. In the weak-field approximation, geodesic particle motion in static isotropic gravitational fields is found for both coupling mechanisms. An important issue is the proper Lorentz covariant criterion for choosing a background Minkowski system for the composite theory of gravity.
description: This paper elaborates the "Composite higher derivative theory of gravity" proposed in Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013190 (2020) [which is an expanded version of arXiv:1806.02765] for the weak field approximation in greatest detail; 17 pages