cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Activity Recognition in Videos with Segmented Streams
Creators: name: Cai, Zixian
name: Gould, Stephen
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019
Subjects: activity recognition
two-stream

description: We investigate a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) architecture for activity recognition in short video clips. Applications are ubiquitous, ranging from guiding unmanned vehicles to captioning video clips. While the employment of CNN architectures on large image datasets (such as ImageNet) has been successfully demonstrated in many prior works, there is still no clear answer as to how one can use adapt CNNs to video data. Several different architectures have been explored such as C3D and two-stream networks. However, they all use RGB frames of the video clips as is. In this work, we introduce segmented streams, where each stream consists of the original RGB frames segmented by motion types. We find that after training on the UCF101 dataset, we are able to improve over the original two-stream work by fusing our segmented streams.
Short-range charge-order in $R$NiO$_{3}$ perovskites ($R$=Pr,Nd,Eu) probed by X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Creators: name: Piamonteze, Cínthia
name: Tolentino, Hélio C. N.
name: Ramos, Aline Y.
name: Massa, Nestor E.
name: Alonso, Jose A.
name: Martínez-Lope, Maria J.
name: Casais, Maria T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The short-range organization around Ni atoms in orthorhombic $R$NiO$_{3}$ ($R$=Pr,Nd,Eu) perovskites has been studied over a wide temperature range by Ni K-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Our results demonstrate that two different Ni sites, with different average Ni-O bond lengths, coexist in those orthorhombic compounds and that important modifications in the Ni nearest neighbors environment take place across the metal-insulator transition. We report evidences for the existence of short-range charge-order in the insulating state, as found in the monoclinic compounds. Moreover, our results suggest that the two different Ni sites coexists even in the metallic state. The coexistence of two different Ni sites, independently on the $R$ ion, provides a common ground to describe these compounds and shed new light in the understanding of the phonon-assisted conduction mechanism and unusual antiferromagnetism present in all $R$NiO$_{3}$ compounds.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted PRB - Brief Report Dec.2004
Didysmachus picipes
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Didysmachus
Didysmachus picipes

description: Didysmachus picipes (MEIGEN, 1820)
Bgld, Jois, Schieferberg, 28.5.17; Winden, Zeilerberg, 26.5.17; Donnerskirchen, Teufelsgraben, 22.6.17, 2 Ex.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 767, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Two Point Correlation Function of Sine-Liouville Theory
Creators: name: Kim, Jongwook
name: Lee, Bum-Hoon
name: Park, Chanyong
name: Rim, Chaiho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exact two point correlation functions of sine-Liouville theory are presented for primary fields with U(1) charge neutral, which may either preserve or break winding number. Our result is checked with perturbative calculation and is also consistent with previous one which can be obtained by restricting the action parameters.
description: 13 pages, no figures
Dioctria harcyniae Loew 1844
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Dioctria
Dioctria harcyniae

description: Dioctria harcyniae LOEW, 1844
NÖ, Hainburg, Spitzerberg, 26.5.01, 27.5.01.
Nach Fauna Europaea neu für Österreich!
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 767, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
On the settling of small grains in dusty discs: analysis and formulas
Creators: name: Laibe, Guillaume
name: Brehier, Charles-Edouard
name: Lombart, Maxime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Instruments achieve sharper and finer observations of micron-in-size dust grains in the top layers of young stellar discs. To provide accurate models, we revisit the theory of dust settling for small grains, when gas stratification, dust inertia and finite correlation times for the turbulence should be handled simultaneously. We start from a balance of forces and derive distributions at steady-state. Asymptotic expansions require caution since limits do not commute. In particular, non-physical bumpy distributions appear when turbulence is purely diffusive. This excludes very short correlation times for real discs, as predicted by numerical simulations.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The apparent shape of the "Strömgren sphere'' around the highest-redshift QSOs with Gunn-Peterson troughs
Creators: name: Yu, Qingjuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although the highest redshift QSOs (z>6.1) are embedded in a significantly neutral background universe (mass-averaged neutral hydrogen fraction >1%) as suggested by the Gunn-Peterson absorption troughs in their spectra, the intergalactic medium in their vicinity is highly ionized. The highly ionized region is generally idealized as spherical and called the Strömgren sphere. In this paper, by combining the expected evolution of the Strömgren sphere with the rule that the speed of light is finite, we illustrate the apparent shape of the ionization fronts around the highest redshift QSOs and its evolution, which depends on the age, luminosity evolution, and environment of the QSO (e.g., the hydrogen reionization history). The apparent shape may systematically deviate from a spherical shape, unless the QSO age is significantly long compared to the hydrogen recombination process within the ionization front and the QSO luminosity evolution is significantly slow. Effects of anisotropy of QSO emission are also discussed. The apparent shape of the "Strömgren sphere'' may be directly mapped by transmitted spectra of background sources behind or inside the ionized regions or by surveys of the hyperfine transition (21cm) line emission of neutral hydrogen.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures; discussion on effects of anisotropy of QSO emission expanded; ApJ in press
Dysmachus bifurcus
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Dysmachus
Dysmachus bifurcus

description: Dysmachus bifurcus (LOEW, 1848)
Bgld, Winden, Hackelsberg, 9.6.17, 10 Ex; Breitenbrunn, Thenau, 24.6.17, 7 Ex.
Neu für Burgenland. In FRANZ (1989) nur 2 Funde aus dem Wiener Becken.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 767, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Bibliotecário e auditoria da informação: perfil e aplicabilidades
Creators: name: Casimiro, Adelaide
name: Vasconcelos, Andréa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80706 Librarianship
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Library and Information Studies

description: Palestra intitulada "Bibliotecário e auditoria da informação: perfil e aplicabilidades", proferida pela professora Drª Andrea Carvalho e mediada pela professora Msª Adelaide Helena Casimiro. Esta palestra faz parte do evento II Troca de Saberes na Ciência da Informação, que você pode assistir pelo link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnG34Lqnmnc
Dynamics of a BEC bright soliton in an expulsive potential
Creators: name: Salasnich, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the dynamics of a matter-wave soliton created in a harmonic potential, which is attractive in the transverse direction but expulsive in the longitudinal direction. This Bose-Einstein-condensate (BEC) bright soliton made of $^7$Li atoms has been observed in a recent experiment (Science {\bf 296}, 1290 (2002)). We show that the non-polynomial Schrödinger equation, an effective one-dimensional equation we derived from the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation, is able to reproduce the main experimental features of this BEC soliton in an expulsive potential.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures (2 of them with colors)
Empowerment through technology: Gender dimensions of social capital build-up in Maharashtra, India
Creators: name: Padmaja, Ravula
name: Bantilan, Ma Cynthia S.
name: Padmaja, Ravula
name: Bantilan, Ma Cynthia S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: social capital build-up
subject: gender
subject: impact
subject: social networks
subject: empowerment

description: This paper explores how and to what extent women and men have benefited from the build-up of social capital in technology uptake, and the role of women in this process. Using a case study on Groundnut Production Technology (GPT) in Maharashtra, India, a systematic documentation of the process by which farmers – both men and women - as well as the whole community became empowered through the build-up of social capital is presented. The focus of the paper is on collective action as a mechanism to stimulate gender-equitable change processes. Our evidence suggests that the technology uptake process was enhanced with the build up of social capital, whereby men and women from all class and caste groups came together for improving their livelihoods. Collective action was enhanced with the increased involvement and participation of women. Strong kinship ties were developed among diverse classes all over the village including landless tribal women, who formed the major labor force for this technology. The paper concludes that social networks played a crucial mediating role in the process of technology uptake. The build-up of social capital played an important role in influencing impacts from the technology because of the ways in which social networks and social relationships facilitated technology dissemination. Gender relations played a significant role in mediating the translation of economic benefits into well being of the individual, the family and community. Finally, it is suggested that further insights into the role of social networks and power relations in the village may be examined in greater detail by establishing the village network architecture, especially marginalized groups.
Elastic thick shells in General Relativity
Creators: name: Brito, Irene
name: Carot, J.
name: Vaz, E. G. L. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that exact spherically symmetric solutions to Einstein's Field Equations exist such that, over an open region of the spacetime, they are singularity free, satisfy the dominant energy condition, represent elastic matter with a well defined constitutive function, and are such that elastic perturbations propagate causally. Two toy-models are then built up in which a thick elastic, spherically symmetric shell with the above properties, separates two Robertson-Walker regions corresponding to different values of the curvature $k$. The junction conditions (continuity of the first and second fundamental forms) are shown to be exactly satisfied across the corresponding matching spherical surfaces.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures
Шорин С.А. О понятии бюджетных расходов в бюджетном праве // Комфортная правовая среда в современной России: проблемы и перспективы формирования: сборник научных трудов по материалам IV Международных законотворческих чтений. Саратов: Изд-во ФГБОУ ВО «СГЮА», 2019. - 264 с. С. 241-243.
Creators: name: Shorin, Sergey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Представляется наиболее приемлемым руководствоваться определением бюджетных расходов в соответствии со статьей 6 Бюджетного кодекса РФ, имея в виду идентичность понятий «бюджетные расходы» и «расходы бюджета». Между тем, законодателю и разработчикам проектов нормативных правовых актов, в том числе проекта новой редакции Бюджетного кодекса РФ, следовало бы более четко соблюдать легально установленное определение расходов бюджета и провести последовательную работу по устранению смысловых расхождений между различными правовыми нормами, регулирующими бюджетные отношения в части расходов. Вместе с тем, развитие бюджетного законодательства должно осуществляться с учетом роли бюджетных расходов в деятельности государства, направленной на реализацию интересов общества.
Long-lived Feshbach molecules in a 3D optical lattice
Creators: name: Thalhammer, Gregor
name: Winkler, Klaus
name: Lang, Florian
name: Schmid, Stefan
name: Grimm, Rudolf
name: Denschlag, Johannes Hecker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have created and trapped a pure sample of 87Rb2 Feshbach molecules in a three-dimensional optical lattice. Compared to previous experiments without a lattice we find dramatic improvements such as long lifetimes of up to 700 ms and a near unit efficiency for converting tightly confined atom pairs into molecules. The lattice shields the trapped molecules from collisions and thus overcomes the problem of inelastic decay by vibrational quenching. Furthermore, we have developed a novel purification scheme that removes residual atoms, resulting in a lattice in which individual sites are either empty or filled with a single molecule in the vibrational ground state of the lattice.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Gender and collective action: A conceptual framework for analysis
Creators: name: Pandolfelli, Lauren
name: Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela
name: Dohrn, Stephan
name: Pandolfelli, Lauren
name: Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela
name: Dohrn, Stephan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: gender
subject: collective action
subject: motivation
subject: effectiveness
subject: impact
subject: action resources
subject: institutional change

description: This paper presents a framework for investigating the intersection of collective action and gender; i.e. how gender-oriented analysis can foster more effective collective action in the context of agriculture and natural resource management and how collective action can be used as a vehicle for gender equity. We begin with definitions of the key concepts and then present three entry points for a gendered analysis of collective action-motivations, effectiveness, and impact on gender equity- vis-à-vis the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework (Oakerson 1992; Ostrom 1991). At the heart of this framework is the action arena, which is shaped by a host of initial conditions, including asset endowments, vulnerabilities, and legal and governance systems that influence a range of outcomes. Applying a gender lens to this framework, we present an analysis of how women and men experience the initial set of conditions differently and thus, have different motivations and capacities for engaging in collective action. Next, we look at how the gender composition of groups affects the effectiveness of collective action, and finally, at the impact of collective action on gender equity and women’s empowerment. We conclude with a discussion of how this framework can improve our understanding of gender and collective action in order to facilitate more effective collective action while fostering gender equity.
Erax barbatus Scopoli 1763
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Erax
Erax barbatus

description: Erax barbatus SCOPOLI, 1763
NÖ, Hainburg, Spitzerberg, 18.4.01, 17.3.17, 25.3.17, 31.3.17, 4 Ex, 9.4.17.
 Neu für Niederösterreich. In FRANZ (1989) werden 9 Funde für E. crassicauda LOEW angegeben. Nach der Fauna Europaea ist das Verbreitungsgebiet dieser Art jedoch auf Bulgarien und Rumänien beschränkt. Vermutlich gehören alle Funde aus Ö zu E. barbatus oder E. punctipennis.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 767, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Modelling, simulation and planning of needle motion in soft tissues
Creators: name: Dimaio, Simon P.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Precise needle placement is required for the success of a wide variety of percutaneous interventions in medicine. Insertions into soft tissues can be difficult to learn and to perform, due to tissue deformation, needle deflection and limited visual feedback. Little quantitative information is known about the interaction between needles and soft tissues during puncture, and no effective physically-based training, planning and guidance systems exist for such procedures. This work aims to characterise needle-tissue interaction by measuring contact forces and deformations that are applied during insertions into soft tissue phantoms. A new methodology for estimating the forces that occur along the needle shaft during insertion is described. The approach is based on physical experiments, as well as on linear elastic phantom models that are discretised by traditional Finite Element Methods. Shaft force distributions are derived from insertions into homogeneous and simple layered inhomogeneous tissue phantoms at several driving velocities, and are applied as boundary conditions to tissue models for physically-based simulations of needle insertion trajectories. A large-strain elastic needle model is coupled to the tissue models to account for needle deflection and bending during simulated insertion. Since the force-displacement relationship is only of interest along the needle shaft, a condensation technique is shown to reduce the computational complexity of linear simulation models significantly. The boundary conditions that determine the tissue and needle motion change as the needle penetrates, or is withdrawn from the tissue model. Boundary condition and local material coordinate changes are facilitated by fast low-rank matrix updates. Such numerical schemes have been seen in prior work involving point and surface interaction; however, in this work the condensation state, boundary conditions and material coordinates evolve as the needle penetrates the tissue volume, and as internal contact states change. These novel interactive simulation techniques allow users to manipulate a three-degree-of-freedom virtual needle as it penetrates virtual tissue models, while experiencing steering torques and forces through a planar haptic interface. Models and simulations are also used to formulate needle insertion as a trajectory planning and control problem. The concept of needle steering is developed, and a Needle Manipulation Jacobian is defined to express the relationship between the needle base and tip velocities. This concept is used in conjunction with a potential-field-based path planning technique to demonstrate needle tip placement and obstacle avoidance. Results from open loop insertion experiments are also provided.
Code Building Genetic Programming
Creators: name: Pantridge, Edward
name: Spector, Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years the field of genetic programming has made significant advances towards automatic programming. Research and development of contemporary program synthesis methods, such as PushGP and Grammar Guided Genetic Programming, can produce programs that solve problems typically assigned in introductory academic settings. These problems focus on a narrow, predetermined set of simple data structures, basic control flow patterns, and primitive, non-overlapping data types (without, for example, inheritance or composite types). Few, if any, genetic programming methods for program synthesis have convincingly demonstrated the capability of synthesizing programs that use arbitrary data types, data structures, and specifications that are drawn from existing codebases. In this paper, we introduce Code Building Genetic Programming (CBGP) as a framework within which this can be done, by leveraging programming language features such as reflection and first-class specifications. CBGP produces a computational graph that can be executed or translated into source code of a host language. To demonstrate the novel capabilities of CBGP, we present results on new benchmarks that use non-primitive, polymorphic data types as well as some standard program synthesis benchmarks.
description: Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Genetic Programming Track
Carbon isotopic fractionation in molecular clouds
Creators: name: Colzi, L.
name: Sipilä, O.
name: Roueff, E.
name: Caselli, P.
name: Fontani, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: C-fractionation has been studied from a theoretical point of view with different models of time-dependent chemistry, including both isotope-selective photodissociation and low-temperature isotopic exchange reactions. Recent chemical models predict that the latter may lead to a depletion of $^{13}$C in nitrile-bearing species, with $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C ratios two times higher than the elemental abundance ratio of 68 in the local ISM. Since the carbon isotopic ratio is commonly used to evaluate the $^{14}$N/$^{15}$N ratios with the double-isotope method, it is important to study C-fractionation in detail to avoid incorrect assumptions. In this work we implemented a gas-grain chemical model with new isotopic exchange reactions and investigated their introduction in the context of dense and cold molecular gas. In particular, we investigated the $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C ratios of HNC, HCN, and CN using a grid of models, with temperatures and densities ranging from 10 to 50 K and 2$\times$10$^{3}$ to 2$\times$10$^{7}$ cm$^{-3}$, respectively. We suggest a possible $^{13}$C exchange through the $^{13}$C + C$_{3}$ $\rightarrow$ $^{12}$C +$^{13}$CC$_{2}$ reaction, which does not result in dilution, but rather in $^{13}$C enhancement, for molecules formed starting from atomic carbon. This effect is efficient in a range of time between the formation of CO and its freeze-out on grains. Furthermore, we show that the $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C ratios of nitriles are predicted to be a factor 0.8-1.9 different from the local value of 68 for massive star-forming regions. This result also affects the $^{14}$N/$^{15}$N ratio: a value of 330 obtained with the double-isotope method is predicted to be 260-1150, depending on the physical conditions. Finally, we studied the $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C ratios by varying the cosmic-ray ionization rate: the ratios increase with it because of secondary photons and cosmic-ray reactions.
description: The published exponent in the A&A journal of the second rate coefficient of Table 1 is a misprint
Agricultural Growth Accounting and Total Factor Productivity in South Asia: A Review and Policy Implications
Creators: name: Kumar, Praduman
name: Mittal, Surabhi
name: Hossain, Mahabub
name: Kumar, Praduman
name: Mittal, Surabhi
name: Hossain, Mahabub
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: Productivity growth in agriculture is essential for the development of the sector. This paper has reviewed the developments in agricultural productivity related to the South Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The TFP growth and its contribution in production growth have been summarised for South Asia over the past three decades. Crop-specific TFP growth figures have been updated for India by using more recent micro farm level data for three decades. A discussion and synthesis on changes in TFP and its sources of growth for the major crops, major crop systems, crops and livestock sectors for the countries of South Asia have also been presented. Methodological framework for computation of TFP and its growth has also been presented. Policies towards food-secure South Asia have been outlined under the sub-heads (i) Arresting deceleration in total factor productivity, (ii) Enhancing yield of major commodities, (iii) Accent on empowering the small farmers, (iv) Environment protection, and (v) Strengthening of national agricultural research system. This paper would provide useful information to the people interested in doing research on these issues. Some of the concerns raised in this paper on productivity would provide direction for future research in this area.
Development Indicators vis-`a-vis Separatist Movements: A Socio-economic overview of Rural North Bengal. Palli Charcha: The Bi-annual Indian Journal of Rural Studies. 1(1).
Creators: name: Soumyajit Chakraborty
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: 140202 Economic Development and Growth
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 160505 Economic Development Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The whole idea of development started as a paradigm in early twentieth century. At the very outset, it is to be remembered that development as an ongoing process was recognized much earlier during seventeenth to nineteenth century in the context of European capitalist development in particular and capitalist development in general. On the contrary, the new notion of development came up in the twentieth century under a specific situation: (i) the anti-colonial struggles were becoming rigorous across the colonies searching for an idea of their development; they were thronging for freedom from colonial subjugation and their urge for development raised concerns even in the West & the new notion of the development came up in response to that demand as “White Man’s Burden” and (ii) during that time (1900 onwards), the ‘spectre of the communism’ was haunting all over the world, especially the colonised world. The central idea of any separatist movement(s) is to urge for a development and/or ‘better’ development. The Gorkhaland movement has been raising its voices referring to the drawbacks in development agenda(s) in rural North Bengal, especially in hills of Darjeeling district. Government of India and State Government of West Bengal have engaged themselves to suppress this kind of separatist movement and thus to commit for this ‘betterment’ of hill’s life. But we generally do not push ourselves to judge and/or cross-check the development indicators for the region as a whole. This study seeks the possible reason(s) for the discontents in hills. Some simple analyses of available statistical information have to be done on the identified thrust area(s) of development in the North Bengal. Thus a ‘partial’ commentary is to be done on the front that whether Darjeeling lacks severe development mismatch compared to other districts of North.
Land Use Change: A Spatial Multinomial Choice Analysis
Creators: name: Carrion-Flores, Carmen E.
name: Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso
name: Guci, Ledia
name: Carrion-Flores, Carmen E.
name: Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso
name: Guci, Ledia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Land Use Change
subject: Multinomial Logit
subject: Spatial Dependence

description: Urban decentralization and dispersion trends have led to increased conversion of rural lands in many urban peripheries and exurban regions of the U.S. The growth of the exurban areas has outpaced growth in urban and suburban areas, resulting in growth pressures at the urban-rural fringe. A thorough analysis of land use change patterns and the ability to predict these changes are necessary for the effective design of regional environmental, growth, and development policies. We estimate a multinomial discrete choice model with spatial dependence using parcel-level data from Medina County, Ohio. Accounting for spatial dependence should result in improved statistical inference about land use changes. Our spatial model extends the binary choice “linearized logit” model of Klier and McMillen (2008) to a multinomial setting. A small Monte Carlo simulation indicates that this estimator performs reasonably well. Preliminary results suggest that the location of new urban development is guided by a preference over lower density areas, yet in proximity to current urban development. In addition, we find significant evidence of spatial dependence in land use decisions.
Employment Growth in West Bengal : An Assessment. IDSK Occasional Paper 52. March, 2016.
Creators: name: Subhanil Chowdhury
name: Soumyajit Chakraborty
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: 140102 Macroeconomic Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140202 Economic Development and Growth

description: West Bengal witnessed the highest growth in non-agricultural employment between 2004-05 and 2009-10 amongst all the states in India. The state also witnessed the highest growth in manufacturing employment between 2004-05 and 2011-12. The paper analyses this increase in employment in the manufacturing sector in particular. Employment in West Bengal can generally be characterized by massive informalization of labour, stagnant real wages and minimal social security. While there has been an increase in employment in the manufacturing sector, its share in West Bengal GSDP has been declining. Even within the top sectors of manufacturing in terms of employment, informalization and the lack of social security are widespread. Moreover, it has been shown that significant proportion of workers in the manufacturing sector earn wages less than the national floor level minimum wage. This proportion has not decreased significantly between 2004-05 and 2011-12. It is therefore concluded in the paper that while there has been a significant increase in employment in manufacturing sector in the state, it needs to be interpreted with caution given the preponderance of the informal sector and very low wages in the manufacturing sector.
Disadoption of Agricultural Practices by Livestock Farmers
Creators: name: Gedikoglu, Haluk
name: McCann, Laura M.J.
name: Gedikoglu, Haluk
name: McCann, Laura M.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Disadoption
subject: New Technology
subject: Hazard Function
subject: Learning
subject: Uncertainty

description: To be effective, policies that encourage farmers to use new technologies or practices need farmers both adopt and also keep using these technologies and practices. Adoption of new technologies has been widely analyzed in the literature. However, there is little known about the factors that cause farmers to keep using new technologies or quit using them. Using hazard function estimation, the current study investigates disadoption of Roundup Ready soybeans, injecting manure into the soil, and soil testing. The results of the current study show that over time farmers observe the true benefits and costs of these practices and they become more likely to disadopt these practices.
Search for evidence of two photon contribution in elastic electron proton data
Creators: name: Tomasi-Gustafsson, E.
name: Gakh, G. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reanalyze the most recent data on elastic electron proton scattering. We look for a deviation from linearity of the Rosenbluth fit to the differential cross section, which would be the signature of the presence of two photon exchange. The two photon contribution is parametrized by a one parameter formula, based on symmetry arguments. The present data do not show evidence for such deviation.
description: 15 pages 3 figures More details on the fitting procedure, more explicit explanations
Breather stripes and radial breathers of the two-dimensional sine-Gordon equation
Creators: name: Kevrekidis, P. G.
name: Carretero-González, R.
name: Cuevas-Maraver, J.
name: Frantzeskakis, D. J.
name: Caputo, J. -G.
name: Malomed, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the problem of transverse instability of a 2D breather stripe of the sine-Gordon (sG) equation. A numerically computed Floquet spectrum of the stripe is compared to analytical predictions developed by means of multiple-scale perturbation theory showing good agreement in the long-wavelength limit. By means of direct simulations, it is found that the instability leads to a breakup of the quasi-1D breather in a chain of interacting 2D radial breathers that appear to be fairly robust in the dynamics. The stability and dynamics of radial breathers in a finite domain are studied in detail by means of numerical methods. Different families of such solutions are identified. They develop small-amplitude spatially oscillating tails ("nanoptera") through a resonance of higher-order breather's harmonics with linear modes ("phonons") belonging to the continuous spectrum. These results demonstrate the ability of the 2D sG model within our finite domain computations to localize energy in long-lived, self-trapped breathing excitations.
description: To be published in Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Num. Sim
Leptogaster cylindrica
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Leptogaster
Leptogaster cylindrica

description: Leptogaster cylindrica (DE GEER, 1776)
Bgld, Winden, Hackelsberg, 9.6.17; Illmitz, Hölle, 11.6.17, 4 Ex; Weiden, Zitzmannsdorfer Wiesen, 30.5.17, 2 Ex, 27.6.17, 2 Ex; Zurndorf, NSG, 27.6.17, 2 Ex; Loretto, Frauenwiesen, 15.6.17.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 767, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Stability of charged sulfur vacancies in 2D and bulk MoS$_2$ from plane-wave density functional theory with electrostatic corrections
Creators: name: Tan, Anne Marie Z.
name: Freysoldt, Christoph
name: Hennig, Richard G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides such as MoS$_2$ have attracted extensive research interests for potential applications in optoelectronics, spintronics, photovoltaics, and catalysis. To harness the potential of these materials for electronic devices requires a better understanding of how defects control the carrier concentration, character, and mobility. Utilizing a correction scheme developed by Freysoldt and Neugebauer to ensure the appropriate electrostatic boundary conditions for charged defects in 2D materials, we perform density functional theory calculations to compute formation energies and charge transition levels associated with sulfur vacancies in monolayer and layered bulk MoS$_2$. We investigate the convergence of these defect properties with respect to vacuum spacing, in-plane supercell dimensions, and different levels of theory. We also analyze the electronic structures of the defects in different charge states to gain insights into the effect of defects on bonding and magnetism. We predict that both vacancy structures undergo a Jahn-Teller distortion, which helps stabilize the sulfur vacancy in the $-1$ charged state.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Materials journal
Using Choice Experiment to Estimate Consumer Valuation: the Role of Experiment Design and Attribute Information Loads
Creators: name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Yu, Xiaohua
name: House, Lisa
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Yu, Xiaohua
name: House, Lisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: With fixed dimensionality of choice experiments, previous simulation results shows that D-optimal design with correct priori information generates more accurate valuation. In the absence of prior information, random designs and designs incorporate attribute interactions result in more precise valuation estimates. In this paper, the Monte Carlo results demonstrate that the performances of different design strategy are affected by attribute information loads in choice experiments. Consumer valuation estimates in simulation settings varies with the number of attributes.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 09/22/09.
How Peripheral Interactive Systems Can Support Teachers with Differentiated Instruction: Using FireFlies as a Probe
Creators: name: Sellier, Nine
name: An, Pengcheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: K.3.1; H.5.2

description: Teachers' response to the real-time needs of diverse learners in the classroom is important for each learner's success. Teachers who give differentiated instruction (DI) provide pertinent support to each student and acknowledge their differences in learning style and pace. However, due to the already complex and intensive routines in classrooms, it is demanding and time-consuming for teachers to implement DI on-the-spot. This study aims to explore how to ease teachers' classroom differentiation by enabling effortless, low-threshold student-teacher communications through a peripheral interactive system. Namely, we present a six-week study, in which we iteratively co-designed and field-tested interaction solutions with eight school teachers, using a set of distributed, interactive LED-objects (the 'FireFlies' platform). By connecting our findings to the theories of DI, we contribute empirical knowledge about the advantages and limitations of a peripheral interactive system in supporting DI. Taken together, we summarize concrete opportunities and recommendations for future design.
description: To be published in Proceedings of the 2020 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference - DIS 2020, 13 pages, 3 figures
Induced Absorption Resonance on the Open Fg = 1 -> Fe = 2 Transition of the D1 Line of the 87Rb Atom
Creators: name: Zibrov, A. S.
name: Matsko, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Induced absorption resonance on the open Fg=1 -> Fe = 2 transition of the D1 line of the 87Rb atom has been observed. The effect of atomic motion on the formation of the resonance has been revealed. The numerical calculations are in good agreement with experiment.
description: 5 pges, 8 figures
Choice of optimum feedstock portfolio for a cellulosic ethanol plant – A dynamic linear programming solution
Creators: name: Kumarappan, Subbu
name: Ivanic, Rasto
name: Kumarappan, Subbu
name: Ivanic, Rasto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cellulosic ethanol
subject: feedstock
subject: switchgrass
subject: miscanthus
subject: corn stover
subject: optimization
subject: biofuels
subject: biomass
subject: energy
subject: renewable

description: When the lignocellulosic biofuels industry reaches maturity and many types of biomass sources become economically viable, management of multiple feedstock supplies – that vary in their yields, density (tons per unit area), harvest window, storage and seasonal costs, storage losses, transport distance to the production plant – will become increasingly important for the success of individual enterprises. The manager’s feedstock procurement problem is modeled as a multi-period sequence problem to account for dynamic management over time. The case is illustrated with a hypothetical 53 million annual US gallon cellulosic ethanol plant located in south west Kansas that requires approximately 700,000 metric dry tons of biomass. The problem is framed over 40 quarters (10 years), where the production manager minimizes cumulative costs by choosing the land acreage that has to be contracted with for corn stover collection, or dedicated energy production and the amount of biomass stored for off-season. The sensitivity of feedstock costs to changes in yield patterns, harvesting and transport costs, seasonal costs and the extent of area available for feedstock procurement are studied. The outputs of the model include expected feedstock cost and optimal mix of feedstocks used by the cellulosic ethanol plant every year. The problem is coded and solved using GAMS software. The analysis demonstrates how the feedstock choice affects the resulting raw material cost for cellulosic ethanol production, and how the optimal combination varies with two types of feedstocks (annual and perennial).
Non-parametric Determination of Real-Time Lag Structure between Two Time Series: the "Optimal Thermal Causal Path" Method
Creators: name: Sornette, D.
name: Zhou, W. -X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We introduce a novel non-parametric methodology to test for the dynamical time evolution of the lag-lead structure between two arbitrary time series. The method consists in constructing a distance matrix based on the matching of all sample data pairs between the two time series. Then, the lag-lead structure is searched as the optimal path in the distance matrix landscape that minimizes the total mismatch between the two time series, and that obeys a one-to-one causal matching condition. To make the solution robust to the presence of large noise that may lead to spurious structures in the distance matrix landscape, we then generalize this optimal search by introducing a fuzzy search by sampling over all possible paths, each path being weighted according to a multinomial logit or equivalently Boltzmann factor proportional to the exponential of the global mismatch of this path. We present the efficient transfer matrix method that solves the problem and test it on simple synthetic examples to demonstrate its properties and usefulness compared with the standard running-time cross-correlation method. We then apply our `Optimal Thermal Causal Path'' method to the question of the causality between ......
description: 37 Elsevier pages including 13 eps figures
Occupational Sex Segregation: An Inquiry into Indian Job Market. Journal of Regional Development and Planning. 5(2): 1-17.
Creators: name: Soumyajit Chakraborty
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: 140211 Labour Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Gender studies

description: Occupational sex segregation is an important source of gender differences in labour market outcomes. In a patriarchal society men learned techniques of hierarchical organisation and control those have led to economic inequality in terms of opportunities, choices and accesses. Eighth All India School Educational Survey (8th AISES) reports huge differences in share of female teachers in primary schools across Indian states. While Tamil Nadu has 81 per cent, Kerala 77 per cent and Punjab 64 per cent female teachers; Orissa has 39 per cent, Rajasthan 31 per cent and West Bengal 30 per cent female teachers. This indicates an occupation-specific regional difference in women representation. This paper inquires the issue of occupational sex segregation in the Indian States and intends to find regional factors which may affect such segregation. The study finds that one-third of all occupations are ‘female’ in nature and hierarchically low-wage occupations are overpopulated by female workers.
Anomalous electronic Raman scattering in Na_xCoO_2 H_2O
Creators: name: Lemmens, P.
name: Choi, K. Y.
name: Gnezdilov, V.
name: Sherman, E. Ya.
name: Chen, D. P.
name: Lin, C. T.
name: Chou, F. C.
name: Keimer, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Raman scattering experiments on Na_{x}CoO_2 yH_2O single crystals show a broad electronic continuum with a pronounced peak around 100 cm-1 and a cutoff at approximately 560 cm-1over a wide range of doping levels. The electronic Raman spectra in superconducting and non-superconducting samples are similar at room temperature, but evolve in markedly different ways with decreasing temperature. For superconducting samples, the low-energy spectral weight is depleted upon cooling below T* sim 150K, indicating a opening of a pseudogap that is not present in non-superconducting materials. Weak additional phonon modes observed below T* suggest that the pseudogap is associated with charge ordering.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, for further information see www.peter-lemmens.de
Kuhn-Tucker Estimation of Recreation Demand – A Study of Temporal Stability
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Subhra
name: Kling, Catherine L.
name: Herriges, Joseph A.
name: Bhattacharjee, Subhra
name: Kling, Catherine L.
name: Herriges, Joseph A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Recreation demand
subject: Kuhn-Tucker
subject: Temporal Stability

description: The paper examines the Kuhn Tucker model in the context of estimating recreation demand when the choice set it very large. It examines the temporal stability of parameter estimates using multiple years of data on trips to 127 lakes in Iowa made by households in Iowa. The study finds that for the given dataset, the estimates derived from a Kuhn-Tucker model are largely stable over time.
Vertical Economies of Scope for Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the United States
Creators: name: Mayen, Carlos D.
name: Balagtas, Joseph Valdes
name: Alexander, Corinne E.
name: Mayen, Carlos D.
name: Balagtas, Joseph Valdes
name: Alexander, Corinne E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: dairy
subject: organic
subject: vertical economies scope

description: Studies of dairy farm structure have neglected issues of vertical organization of the farm. In this study we model and measure the potential for dairy farms to reduce costs of production through vertical integration. We estimate a multi-stage, multi-output cost function to assess vertical economies of scope in organic and conventional dairy farms. We model the cost of producing grains and forages, which are then used as inputs in the production of milk. We find negligible vertical economies of scope for conventional dairy farms. In contrast, we find significant vertical economies of scope in organic dairy production, suggesting that there is an economic incentive for vertical integration into feed production. The large vertical economies of scope for organic dairy farms are consistent with higher costs of obtaining organic feed through market transactions associated with an underdeveloped market for organic feeds.