cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fully Convolutional Networks for Continuous Sign Language Recognition
Creators: name: Cheng, Ka Leong
name: Yang, Zhaoyang
name: Chen, Qifeng
name: Tai, Yu-Wing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Continuous sign language recognition (SLR) is a challenging task that requires learning on both spatial and temporal dimensions of signing frame sequences. Most recent work accomplishes this by using CNN and RNN hybrid networks. However, training these networks is generally non-trivial, and most of them fail in learning unseen sequence patterns, causing an unsatisfactory performance for online recognition. In this paper, we propose a fully convolutional network (FCN) for online SLR to concurrently learn spatial and temporal features from weakly annotated video sequences with only sentence-level annotations given. A gloss feature enhancement (GFE) module is introduced in the proposed network to enforce better sequence alignment learning. The proposed network is end-to-end trainable without any pre-training. We conduct experiments on two large scale SLR datasets. Experiments show that our method for continuous SLR is effective and performs well in online recognition.
description: Accepted to ECCV2020
The Lewis Model After Fifty Years
Creators: name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
name: Barrientos, Armando
name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
name: Barrientos, Armando
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: International Development

description: The article reassesses the contribution of Sir Arthur Lewis's 1954 article entitled "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour" to our understanding of economic development, and to the establishment of development economics as an academic discipline. It argues that Lewis's key insight into the structural dualism characterising developing countries mapped out a new and distinctive field for development economics and policy. The article has had a profound impact over the last fifty years and continues to yield valuable lessons for understanding the nature of economic transformation.
Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: Concepts and Issues
Creators: name: Arun, Thankom G.
name: Turner, John David
name: Arun, Thankom G.
name: Turner, John David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Development

description: This paper discusses the corporate governance of banking institutions in developing economies. This is an important issue given the essential role banks play in the financial systems of developing economies and the widespread banking reforms that these economies have implemented. Based on a theoretical discussion of the corporate governance of banks, we suggest that banking reforms can only be fully implemented once a prudential regulatory system is in place. An integral part of banking reforms in developing economies is the privatisation of banks. We suggest that corporate governance reforms may be a prerequisite for the successful divestiture of government ownership. Furthermore, we also suggest that the increased competition resulting from the entrance of foreign banks may improve the corporate governance of developing-economy banks.
[Letter from Anna Antoinette Weber van Bosse]
Creators: name: Weber Van Bosse, Anna Antoinette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1904

description: There are scarce any errors in the final proofs. Encloses a list of persons to whom she wants to send the paper. Requests the names of other botanists to whom Foslie would like to send the paper. Encloses a method of sectioning algae in [celloidin].
Le Boulluec, Alain (Ed.): La controverse religieuse et ses formes
Creators: name: Van Esbroeck, Michel
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 80 (1996): Oriens christianus, Band 80
A Dynamic Access Control Policy Model for Sharing of Healthcare Data in Multiple Domains
Creators: name: Shahraki, Ahmad Salehi
name: Rudolph, Carsten
name: Marthie Grobler
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80303 Computer System Security
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Distributed Computing
subject: Information Systems
subject: 100503 Computer Communications Networks
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Abstract—Authorization models have been developed to prevent unauthorized access to valuable resources such as electronic healthcare records (EHRs). In an applied environment, such as the healthcare domain, there are several types of authorities that generate EHRs and other security parameters via central authority for their users and the attribute authorities. The use of a central authority introduces several challenges in terms of security and privacy due to the increased risk if the central authority is compromised or corrupted. Observing that this research area has not been well addressed to date, we propose and present the first decentralized multi-authority attribute-based access control (DMA-ABAC) model based on the policy model, which enables authorities to independently control their security settings. We present an access control framework for a dynamic cross-domain authorization model that combines Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and Attribute-Based Group Signature (ABGS). This combination aims at providing flexible access control with resistance against reply and third party storage attacks and attribute collusion, and enhanced access control, privacy and selective attributes.
Geologic setting, nature, and structural evolution of intrusion-hosted Au-bearing quartz veins at the Longline occurance, Moosehorn Range area, west-central Yukon Territory
Creators: name: Joyce, Nancy L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Longline gold occurrence is located within the Tintina Gold Belt, in the Moosehorn Range area of west-central Yukon Territory. Gold occurs in sheeted, high-grade (-30 g/t), shallowly dipping mesothermal quartz veins hosted within mid-Cretaceous intrusions of the Dawson Range batholith. Felsic to intermediate intrusions in the Moosehorn Range area are probably closely related; they were emplaced at -96-100 Ma, and have similar geochemical and lead isotopic compositions. Geochemistry of the intrusive phases suggests the magmas were mantlederived, subduction-related, and extensively contaminated by continental crust. The goldbearing quartz veins post-date all of these intrusions and are cut by younger mafic dykes. Metallic minerals inside the veins include galena, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, pyrite, boulangerite, tetrahedrite, native gold, and scheelite. The alteration assemblage includes muscovite, sericite, iron carbonate, pyrite, arsenopyrite, minor clay, quartz, and tourmaline. Vein minerals precipitated from moderately saline fluids, containing H₂0-C0₂-CFi₄-NaCl + N₂ , at temperatures of ~260°-300°C, pressure of -1.3 - 1.9 kbar, and depth of 5-7 km, assuming near-lithostatic fluid pressures. Lead isotopic studies indicate the Moosehorn Range area intrusions are not the source of the metals in the veins and the ultimate source remains uncertain. The veins were emplaced between 92 and 93 Ma along NNW-striking, shallowly ENE-dipping brittle reverse fault structures during a WSW-verging contractional event. The veins are 1cm to lm thick, sheeted, lens-shaped, banded, and locally connected by subhorizontal dilational oreshoots, creating a ramp-flat geometry. The long axis of the oreshoots is NNW and slip along the reverse faults was up-dip towards the WSW. Regional structural context for the formation of the veins is unclear. Prominent NNW-trending topographic and magnetic lineaments in the area may be dextral strike-slip faults along which there may be contractional and dilational jogs. Contraction at a jog in the vicinity of the Longline property may have generated the structures that host the veins. If so, dextral strike-slip faults and associated contractional and/or dilational jogs may be an important exploration guide to finding other shallowly dipping auriferous quartz vein systems in the region.
Long period variables in 47 Tuc: direct evidence for lost mass
Creators: name: Lebzelter, T.
name: Wood, P. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have identified 22 new variable red giants in 47 Tuc and determined periods for another 8 previously known variables. All red giants redder than V-I_c=1.8 are variable at the limits of our detection threshold, which corresponds to delta V ~ 0.1 mag. This colour limit corresponds to a luminosity log L/L_sun=3.15 and it is considerably below the tip of the RGB at log L/L_sun=3.35. Linear non-adiabatic models without mass loss on the giant branch can not reproduce the observed PL laws for the low amplitude pulsators. Models that have undergone mass loss do reproduce the observed PL relations and they show that mass loss of the order of 0.3 M_sun occurs along the RGB and AGB. The linear pulsation periods do not agree well with the observed periods of the large amplitude Mira variables, which pulsate in the fundamental mode. The solution to this problem appears to be that the nonlinear pulsation periods in these low mass stars are considerably shorter than the linear pulsation periods due to a rearrangement of stellar structure caused by the pulsation. Both observations and theory show that stars evolve up the RGB and first part of the AGB pulsating in low order overtone modes, then switch to fundamental mode at high luminosities.
description: 11 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
Banking Sector Reform and Financial Regulation: It's Effects on Access to Financial Services by Low Income Households in Zambia
Creators: name: Chiumya, Chiara
name: Chiumya, Chiara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: The change in government in 1991 brought about radical economic reform, from state control to an economy led by private sector development. The reforms included decentralisation, privatisation and liberalisation of the financial sector. Liberalisation initially led to the proliferation of financial institutions in the financial sector. However, it also led to a number of bank failures, resulting in the closure of nine commercial banks since 1995. Access to financial services by the majority of Zambian's was further constrained by the closure of unprofitable rural branches by commercial banks, the raising of minimum account balances and the introduction of bank charges, as well as the closure of a number of Government owned financial institutions specifically set up to address the needs of low income households and the rural poor. These developments have resulted in a financial system that focuses on meeting the needs of the corporate sector and working class elite. This paper traces how the Government's liberalisation policy for the financial sector has resulted in decreased access to financial services by low income households and the rural poor.
Large and Infinitary Quotient Inductive-Inductive Types
Creators: name: Kovács, András
name: Kaposi, Ambrus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 03B38

description: Quotient inductive-inductive types (QIITs) are generalized inductive types which allow sorts to be indexed over previously declared sorts, and allow usage of equality constructors. QIITs are especially useful for algebraic descriptions of type theories and constructive definitions of real, ordinal and surreal numbers. We develop new metatheory for large QIITs, large elimination, recursive equations and infinitary constructors. As in prior work, we describe QIITs using a type theory where each context represents a QIIT signature. However, in our case the theory of signatures can also describe its own signature, modulo universe sizes. We bootstrap the model theory of signatures using self-description and a Church-coded notion of signature, without using complicated raw syntax or assuming an existing internal QIIT of signatures. We give semantics to described QIITs by modeling each signature as a finitely complete CwF (category with families) of algebras. Compared to the case of finitary QIITs, we additionally need to show invariance under algebra isomorphisms in the semantics. We do this by modeling signature types as isofibrations. Finally, we show by a term model construction that every QIIT is constructible from the syntax of the theory of signatures.
بررسی تاثیر آگاهی زوجین از سندروم قبل از قاعدگی بر رضایت زناشویی
Creators: name: Tavassoli, Afsaneh
name: Amanolahi, Mina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: سندروم قبل از قاعدگی گروهی از تغییرات جسمی و خلقی و رفتاری است که بطور منظم و دوره ای در ارتباط با فاز لوتئال سیکل قاعدگی و دراغلب سیکل ها اتفاق می افتد. تقریبا 75-95 در صد از زنان علائم جسمی و خلقی مرتبط با سندروم پیش از قاعدگی را تجربه می کنند.در این مقاله به بررسی تاثیر آگاهی زوجین از سندروم قبل از قاعدگی بر روی رضایت زناشویی پرداخته شده است روش تحقیق پیمایشی و جامعه آماری این پژوهش زنان متاهل شهر تهران را در برمیگیرد. نمونه گیری بصورت خوشه ای و تصادفی ساده در سه منطقه شمال و جنوب و مرکز شهرتهران انجام شده است. ابزار مورد استفاده دو پرسش نامه سندروم قبل از قاعدگی محقق ساخته و پرسش نامه مورد تجزیه و تحلیل قرار گرفته spss رضایت زناشویی استاندارد انریچ می باشد که با استفاده از نرم افزار است.یافته های تبیینی حاکی از آن است که بین آگاهی زوجین از سندروم قبل از قاعدگی و رضایت زناشویی رابطهمعناداری وجود دارد، به گونه ای که با بررسی فرضیات بطور جداگانه این نتیجه حاصل شد که هر چقدر آگاهی زوجین از سندروم قبل از قاعدگی افزایش یابد رضایت زناشویی هم افزایش پیدا میکند در بین عوامل زمینه ای هم ارتباط معناداری بین برخی متغیرها و رضایت زناشویی دریافت شد.
Energy scan/dependence of kinetic freeze-out scenarios of multi-strange and other identified particles in central nucleus-nucleus collisions
Creators: name: Waqas, Muhammad
name: Liu, Fu-Hu
name: Wang, Rui-Qin
name: Siddique, Irfan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transverse momentum (mass) spectra of the multi-strange and non-multi-strange (i.e. other identified) particles in central gold-gold (Au-Au), lead-lead (Pb-Pb), argon-muriate (Ar-KCl) and nickel-nickel (Ni-Ni) collisions over a wide energy range have been studied in this work. The experimental data measured by various collaborations have been analyzed. The blast-wave fit with Tsallis statistics is used to extract the kinetic freeze-out temperature and transverse flow velocity from the experimental data of transverse momentum (mass) spectra. The extracted parameters increase with the increase of collision energy and appear with the trend of saturation at the Beam Energy Scan (BES) energies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). This saturation implies that the onset energy of phase transition of partial deconfinement is 7.7 GeV and that of whole deconfinement is 39 GeV. Furthermore, the energy scan/dependence of kinetic freeze-out scenarios are observed for the multi-strange and other identified particles, though the multiple freeze-out scenarios are also observed for various particles.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures. The European Physical Journal A, accepted
[Letter from Johan Nordal Fischer Wille]
Creators: name: Wille, Johan Nordal Fischer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1904

description: Asks whether the Lithothamnion found in Risør was alive. Expresses gratitude for the excellent paper on the Siboga Expedition. Information about the identification of the Chlorophyceae. Gives his opinion on what the monograph on Lithothamnion should contain: Identification keys and good illustrations, among other things.
Quantum Geometrodynamics of the Bianchi IX cosmological model
Creators: name: Kheyfets, Arkady
name: Miller, Warner A.
name: Vaulin, Ruslan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The canonical quantum theory of gravity -- Quantum Geometrodynamics (QG) is applied to the homogeneous Bianchi type IX cosmological model. As a result, the framework for the quantum theory of homogeneous cosmologies is developed. We show that the theory is internally consistent, and prove that it possesses the correct classical limit (the theory of general relativity). To emphasize the special role that the constraints play in this new theory we, compare it to the traditional ADM square-root and Wheeler-DeWitt quantization schemes. We show that, unlike the traditional approaches, QG leads to a well-defined Schrodinger equation for the wave-function of the universe that is inherently coupled to the expectation value of the constraint equations. This coupling to the constraints is responsible for the appearance of a coherent spacetime picture. Thus, the physical meaning of the constraints of the theory is quite different from Dirac's interpretation. In light of this distinctive feature of the theory, we readdress the question of the dark energy effects in the Bianchi IX cosmological model for highly non-classical quantum states. We show that, at least for this model, for any choice of the initial wave function, the quantum corrections will not produce the accelerated expansion of the universe.
description: 25 pages, submitted to Class.Quant.Gravity
Determinants of Health Seeking Behaviour in Uganda - Is It Just Income and User Fees That Are Important?
Creators: name: Lawson, David
name: Lawson, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: This paper uses Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) data to investigate, via a discrete choice model, the main determinants associated with seeking private, government and pharmacy based health care, for both adults and children. More specifically, and particularly important given that almost 40% of the Ugandan population are below the poverty line and that policies on user fees have recently changed, we investigate if income and user fees are the main factors which influence health care demand in Uganda. After controlling for endogenously issues we find that income is strongly associated with increased health care usage, across all age ranges but especially for women, and that user fees are less significant that one might first expect, especially when compared to having a health unit within close proximity. Furthermore, we find significant differences in health seeking behavior to be related to age and gender, and that increased levels of education are consistently associated with a transfer away from government provided health care, possibly indicating that people regard its quality as inferior.
Pellegrino Roncaglia, Martiniano: Egypte
Creators: name: Kaufhold, Hubert
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 80 (1996): Oriens christianus, Band 80
Creating the Conditions for International Business Expansion: The Impact of Regulation on Economic Growth in Developing Countries - A Cross-Country Analysis
Creators: name: Jililian, Hossein
name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
name: Parker, David
name: Jililian, Hossein
name: Kirkpatrick, Colin
name: Parker, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: economic growth
subject: regulation
subject: governance
subject: institutions
subject: economic performance

description: The role of an effective regulatory regime in promoting economic growth and development and therefore international business has generated considerable interest among researchers and practitioners in recent years. In particular, building effective regulatory structures in developing countries is not simply an issue of the technical design of the most appropriate regulatory instruments, it is also concerned with the quality of supporting regulatory institutions and capacity. Many of the institutions that support markets are publicly provided and the effectiveness of these regulatory institutions can be expected to be an important determinant of how well markets function. This paper explores the role of regulation in affecting economic outcomes using an econometric model of the impact of regulatory governance. More precisely, it assesses through econometric modelling the impact of variations in the quality of regulatory governance on economic growth. Proxies for regulatory quality are included as determinants of economic growth. The results based on two different techniques of estimation suggest a strong causal link between regulatory quality and economic performance. The results confirm that "good" regulation is associated with higher economic growth, which in turn is conducive to the expansion of international business.
Numerical weather prediction error over the North Pacific and western North America : an investigation with short-range ensemble techniques
Creators: name: Hacker, Joshua P.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Numerical weather prediction models, which are discretized approximations to the physical equations of the atmosphere, are a critical part of weather forecasting. They can project an observed state of the atmosphere into the future, but forecasts have many error sources. To counter this, several forecasts made from slightly different initial states or models can be made over the same domain and time period. This approach, called ensemble forecasting, can forecast uncertainty, and produce a better average forecast. In this study, ensemble forecasts are generated and analyzed to understand the nature of initial condition (IC) and model error over the North Pacific. A poorlypredicted storm event (a bust) in Feb. 1999 is a useful case study period. To approximate different aspects of IC uncertainty, three IC-perturbation methods are used: (1) ranked perturbations that target coherent structures in the analyses; (2) perturbations that simulate differences between operational analyses from major forecast centers; and (3) random perturbations. An ensemble of different model configurations approximates model uncertainty. Ensembles are verified several ways to separate model and IC uncertainty, and evaluate ensemble performance. It is found that during the period surrounding the bust, IC error is greater than model error. But for one critical forecast, model error is unusually high while error from ICs is unusually small. Comparison with rawinsonde observations shows that differences between operational analyses cannot account for analysis error. Ensembles generated with this information show that analysis differences contain some spatial information about analysis uncertainty, but the magnitude is too small. To account for total forecast error, model uncertainty must be included with IC uncertainty. Comparing different ensembles reveals that a scaled ranked-perturbation ensembles has the best characteristics, including perturbation magnitude, uncertainty growth vs. error growth, spread-error correlation, and shape of the variance spectrum. Its properties are verified by running an independent case study, and only minor differences are found. Contributions to the field of weather prediction include a new ranked-perturbation method that results in improved short-range ensemble-mean forecasts, an understanding of the relationship between analysis error and analysis differences, and the confirmation that model uncertainty is necessary to account for short-range forecast error.
Exploiting periodic orbits as dynamical clues for Kepler and K2 systems
Creators: name: Antoniadou, Kyriaki I.
name: Libert, Anne-Sophie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many extrasolar systems possessing planets in mean-motion resonance or resonant chain have been discovered to date. The transit method coupled with transit timing variation analysis provides an insight into the physical and orbital parameters of the systems, but suffers from observational limitations. When a (near-)resonant planetary system resides in the dynamical neighbourhood of a stable periodic orbit, its long-term stability, and thus survival, can be guaranteed. We use the intrinsic property of the periodic orbits, namely their linear horizontal and vertical stability, to validate or further constrain the orbital elements of detected two-planet systems. We computed the families of periodic orbits in the general three-body problem for several two-planet Kepler and K2 systems. The dynamical neighbourhood of the systems is unveiled with maps of dynamical stability. Additional validations or constraints on the orbital elements of K2-21, K2-24, Kepler-9, and (non-coplanar) Kepler-108 near-resonant systems were achieved. While a mean-motion resonance locking protects the long-term evolution of the systems K2-21 and K2-24, such a resonant evolution is not possible for the Kepler-9 system, whose stability is maintained through an apsidal anti-alignment. For the Kepler-108 system, we find that the stability of its mutually inclined planets could be justified either solely by a mean-motion resonance, or in tandem with an inclination-type resonance. Going forward, dynamical analyses based on periodic orbits could yield better constrained orbital elements of near-resonant extrasolar systems when performed in parallel to the fitting of the observational data.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Развитие и наследственность: три концепции
Creators: name: Pozdnyakov Alexandr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: DNA contains information about building elements (structural proteins), as well as about other macromolecules that make up a living body, or such macromolecules are involved in the process of biochemical metabolism. This information is inherited during cell division.
However, DNA lacks information about the plan (organization) by which the body is built. It can be assumed that such a plan, fixed in any structure, does not exist at all, i.e. a living body in the process of development is built epigenetically, like a neoplasm, carrying out the process of self-organization.
If epigenesis is interpreted in terms of process and structure, then structure should be considered as an epiphenomenon formed by self-organization. Under relatively unchanged conditions of existence, a structure similar to that of the previous generation is formed in the new generation. When conditions change, the process forms a slightly different structure, which will be repeated while maintaining these conditions. Concepts have been developed that describe development in this way.
Enhanced parametric processes in binary metamaterials
Creators: name: Gorkunov, Maxim V.
name: Shadrivov, Ilya V.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest double-resonant (binary) metamaterials composed of two types of magnetic resonant elements, and demonstrate that in the nonlinear regime such metamaterials provide unique possibilities for phase-matched parametric interaction and enhanced second-harmonic generation.
Gender identity and transition in cisnormative society: Decisional conflict about fertility and management of minority stress
Creators: name: Smith, Gregory
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people must deal with a cisgender, heteronormative society that assumes people are either men or women and heterosexual. These social constructions can affect the psychosocial aspects of TGNC people’s lives, as individuals and within society. This thesis examines such impacts at these different levels; experiences of coping with minority stress in society, and the influence of psychosocial factors on transmasculine individuals’ decisional conflict over fertility. Together these add to understanding the psychosocial impact of gender identity and transition within cis/heteronormative society.Systematic literature reviewDifficulties experienced by TGNC people can be attributed to minority stressors that they are frequently exposed to. These experiences can decrease gender affirmation and impact psychological and social wellbeing. However, voluntary coping strategies may help protect against this. A systematic search found nine studies that included voluntary coping responses and, through framework synthesis, a new conceptual model of coping responses for TGNC individuals was developed. This included four themes under psychological affirmation and four themes under social affirmation. These provide direction on more active ways of engaging with, or resisting, minority stress and non-affirmative experiences.Empirical projectTransitioning is typically beneficial to wellbeing, but some gender affirmative treatments may counter this due to increasing the risk of infertility. Despite this, there is low uptake of fertility preservation amongst TGNC people. Research in TGNC fertility, oncology, and decision-making highlight specific psychosocial variables may potentiate decisional conflict about this, particularly for transmasculine individuals. An online questionnaire was completed by 69 participants. Statistical analysis and content analysis explored the prevalence and relationships between variables. Decisional conflict was found to be high overall but none of the variables were significantly associated with it, but additional analyses indicate that psychosocial factors may have some relevance to experiencing decisional conflict about fertility.
Limitations on the Utility of Exact Master Equations
Creators: name: Ford, G. W.
name: O'Connell, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low temperature solution of the exact master equation for an oscillator coupled to a linear passive heat bath is known to give rise to serious divergences. We now show that, even in the high temperature regime, problems also exist, notably the fact that the density matrix is not necessarily positive.
Rational cohomology of the moduli space of trigonal curves of genus 5
Creators: name: Zheng, Angelina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H10 (Primary), 55R80, 14F99 (Secondary)

description: We compute the rational cohomology of the moduli space of trigonal curves of genus 5. We do this by considering their natural embedding in the first Hirzebruch surface and by using Gorinov-Vassiliev's method.
description: 34 pages, comments are welcome
Theoretical review of diffractive phenomena
Creators: name: Golec-Biernat, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review QCD based descriptions of diffractive deep inelastic scattering emphasising the role of models with parton saturation. These models provide natural explanation of such experimentally observed facts as the constant ratio of the diffractive and total cross sections as a function of the Bjorken variable, and Regge factorization of diffractive parton distributions. The Ingelman-Schlein model and the soft color interaction model are also presented.
description: plenary presentation at the Baryon04, 25-29 October 2004, Palaiseau, France
What Is the Impact of Non-Contributory Pensions on Poverty? Estimates from Brazil and South Africa
Creators: name: Barrientos, Armando
name: Barrientos, Armando
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: poverty
subject: pensions
subject: South Africa
subject: Brazil

description: This paper considers the impact of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among households with older people. Using datasets collected specifically for the purpose, the paper constructs conditional and unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes. The paper finds that non-contributory pensions have a measurable and significant impact upon poverty reduction and poverty prevention in the two countries studied.
Women, Informal Employment, and Social Protection in Latin America
Creators: name: Barrientos, Armando
name: Barrientos, Armando
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: The paper presents an overview of the situation of women in informal employment in Latin America and their access to social protection, and examines key public policy issues in extending social protection to this group. Informal employment has risen in Latin America in the last two decades. This is a product of economic crises, labour market liberalisation, and welfare reforms. There is an important gender dimension to informality. Women are over-represented in informal employment, and they are also over-represented in lower paid and precarious occupational groups within informal employment. As social protection entitlements in the region are largely dependent on employment status, women in informal employment are often excluded from formal social protection programmes. Reform of labour market institutions and social protection programmes is needed to extend social protection to this group. Integrated policy interventions aimed at supporting women's life course decisions could have an important effect in reducing their over-representation in informal employment.
Coverage Path Planning with Track Spacing Adaptation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Creators: name: Yordanova, Veronika
name: Gips, Bart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we address the mine countermeasures (MCM) search problem for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) surveying the seabed using a side-looking sonar. We propose a coverage path planning method that adapts the AUV track spacing with the objective of collecting better data. We achieve this by shifting the coverage overlap at the tail of the sensor range where the lowest data quality is expected. To assess the algorithm, we collected data from three at-sea experiments. The adaptive survey allowed the AUV to recover from a situation where the sensor range was overestimated and resulted in reducing area coverage gaps. In another experiment,the adaptive survey showed a 4.2% improvement in data quality for nearly 30% of the 'worst' data.
description: Accepted submission at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L); 8 pages, 6 figures
Phase Transitions and Generalized Biorthogonal Polarization in Non-Hermitian Systems
Creators: name: Edvardsson, Elisabet
name: Kunst, Flore K.
name: Yoshida, Tsuneya
name: Bergholtz, Emil J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians can be used to describe dissipative systems, and are currently intensively studied in the context of topology. A salient difference between Hermitian and NH models is the breakdown of the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence invalidating the use of topological invariants computed from the Bloch bands to characterize boundary modes in generic NH systems. One way to overcome this difficulty is to use the framework of biorthogonal quantum mechanics to define a biorthogonal polarization, which functions as a real-space invariant signaling the presence of boundary states. Here, we generalize the concept of the biorthogonal polarization beyond the previous results to systems with any number of boundary modes, and show that it is invariant under basis transformations as well as local unitary transformations. Additionally, we propose a generalization of a perviously-developed method with which to find all the bulk states of system with open boundaries to NH models. Using the exact solutions in combination with variational states, we elucidate genuinely NH aspects of the interplay between bulk and boundary at the phase transitions.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
PHYTOSANITARY REGULATION AND AGRICULTURAL FLOWS: TOBACCO INPUTS AND CIGARETTES OUTPUTS
Creators: name: Overton, Benny
name: Beghin, John C.
name: Foster, William E.
name: Overton, Benny
name: Beghin, John C.
name: Foster, William E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This paper examines the effects of the use of increasingly-popular phytosanitary regulations on production costs, and output and factor trade flows. The case addressed is that of the European regulation of maximum chemical residues in cigarettes manufactured with tobacco containing maleic hydrazide. The paper presents simulations of the effects of tightening the input/output market linkages and on the substitution away from the residue-contaminated U.S. input to residue-free non-U.S. inputs. This induced substitution results in higher costs, lower quantity supplied of the final product, and higher prices for U.S. cigarettes in Europe. Cross-price effects lead to higher quantities of EU cigarettes sold and a corresponding increase in the use of all inputs, including U.S. tobacco. When the U.S. tobacco price is allowed to fall, direct price effects stimulate the EU derived demand for U.S. tobacco. Although the regulation is protectionist in the output market, it leads to increased EU imports of the residue-contaminated input. When the price of U.S. tobacco adjusts, the regulation is actually antiprotective for EU growers. The regulation also indirectly influences production practices of U.S. tobacco growers and leads to lower levels of MH residues on U.S. leaf.
Jastrow, Otto: Lehrbuch der Ṭuroyo-Sprache
Creators: name: Ceret'eli, Konstantine
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 80 (1996): Oriens christianus, Band 80
Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population
Creators: name: Schneidman, Elad
name: Berry, Michael J.
name: Segev, Ronen
name: Bialek, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Biological networks have so many possible states that exhaustive sampling is impossible. Successful analysis thus depends on simplifying hypotheses, but experiments on many systems hint that complicated, higher order interactions among large groups of elements play an important role. In the vertebrate retina, we show that weak correlations between pairs of neurons coexist with strongly collective behavior in the responses of ten or more neurons. Surprisingly, we find that this collective behavior is described quantitatively by models that capture the observed pairwise correlations but assume no higher order interactions. These maximum entropy models are equivalent to Ising models, and predict that larger networks are completely dominated by correlation effects. This suggests that the neural code has associative or error-correcting properties, and we provide preliminary evidence for such behavior. As a first test for the generality of these ideas, we show that similar results are obtained from networks of cultured cortical neurons.
description: Full account of work presented at the conference on Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), 17-20 March 2005, in Salt Lake City, Utah (http://cosyne.org)
Calculation of IR absorption intensities for hydrogen bond from exactly solvable Schrödinger equation
Creators: name: Sitnitsky, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical description of IR spectroscopy data for a hydrogen bond (HB) is constructed on the base of trigonometric double-well potential for which an exact analytic solution of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation (SE) is available. The wave functions (full orthogonal basis) are expressed via the spheroidal function while its spectrum of eigenvalues yields the corresponding energy levels (both special functions are implemented in {\sl {Mathematica}}). Then an approximate solution of two-dimensional SE taking into account the excitation state of heavy atoms stretching mode in HB is obtained. It is constructed by decomposing over the above mentioned basis within the framework of standard adiabatic separating the proton motion from that of the heavy atoms. We exemplify the general theory by calculating the IR relative absorption intensities for HB in the Zundel ion ${\rm{H_5O_2^{+}}}$ (oxonium hydrate).
description: 16 p., 4 fig., accepted for publication to Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy
The targum (1952:Nov. 4 - 1952:Nov. 25)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1952

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
VALIDATING CONTINGENT VALUATION WITH SURVEYS OF EXPERTS
Creators: name: Boyle, Kevin J.
name: Welsh, Michael P.
name: Bishop, Richard C.
name: Baumgartner, Robert M.
name: Boyle, Kevin J.
name: Welsh, Michael P.
name: Bishop, Richard C.
name: Baumgartner, Robert M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Contingent-valuation estimates for white-water boating passengers are compared with Likert ratings by river guides. The approach involves asking whether passengers and their guides ordinally rank alternative flows the same. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Contingent Valuation Panel (1993) suggested "one might want to compare its (contingent-valuation's) outcome with that provided by a panel of experts." River guides constitute a counterfactual panel of "experts." For commercial trips, optimum flows are 34,000 cfs and 31,000 cfs for passengers and guides, and the comparable figures for private trips are 28,000 cfs and 29,000 cfs. In the NOAA Panel framework, passengers can evaluate the consequences of various river flows and translate this into contingent-valuation responses.
Effect of microscopic disorder on magnetic properties of metamaterials
Creators: name: Gorkunov, Maxim
name: Gredeskul, Sergey A.
name: Shadrivov, Ilya V.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the effect of microscopic disorder on the macroscopic properties of composite metamaterials and study how weak statistically independent fluctuations of the parameters of structure elements can modify their collective magnetic response and left-handed properties. We demonstrate that even a weak microscopic disorder may lead to a substantial modification of the metamaterial magnetic properties, and 10% deviation in the parameters of the microscopic resonant elements may lead to a substantial suppression of wave propagation in a wide frequency range. A noticeable suppression occurs also if more than 10% of resonant magnetic elements possess strongly different properties, but in this latter case the defects can create an additional weak resonant line. These results are of the key importance for characterizing and optimizing the novel composite metamaterials with left-handed properties at terahertz and optical frequencies.
An optimal $χ^2$ discriminator against modelled noise-transients in interferometric data in searches for binary black-hole mergers
Creators: name: Joshi, Prasanna
name: Dhurkunde, Rahul
name: Dhurandhar, Sanjeev
name: Bose, Sukanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A vitally important requirement for detecting gravitational wave (GW) signals from compact coalescing binaries (CBC) with high significance is the reduction of the false-alarm rate of the matched-filter statistic. The data from GW detectors contain transient noise artifacts, or glitches, which adversely affect the performance of search algorithms by producing false alarms. Glitches with large amplitudes can produce triggers in the SNR time-series in spite of their small overlap with the templates. This contributes to false alarms. Historically, the traditional $χ^2$ test has proved quite useful in distinguishing triggers arising from CBC signals and those caused by glitches. In a recent paper, a large class of unified $χ^2$ discriminators was formulated, along with a procedure to construct an optimal $χ^2$ discriminator, especially, when the glitches can be modeled. A large variety of glitches that often occur in GW detector data can be modeled as sine-Gaussians, with quality factor and central frequency, ($Q,f_0$), as parameters. We use Singular Value Decomposition to identify the most significant degrees of freedom in order to reduce the computational cost of our $χ^2$. Finally, we construct a $χ^2$ statistic that optimally discriminates between sine-Gaussian glitches and CBC signals. We also use Receiver-Operating-Characteristics to quantify the improvement in search sensitivity when it employs the optimal $χ^2$ compared to the traditional $χ^2$. The improvement in detection probability is by a few to several percentage points, near a false-alarm probability of a few times $10^{-3}$, and holds for binary black holes (BBHs) with component masses from several to a hundred solar masses. Moreover, the glitches that are best discriminated against are those that are like sine-Gaussians with $Q\in [25,50]$ and $f_0\in [40,80]$Hz.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, the abstract is shortened to comply with the arXiv's 1920 characters limitation
NONPARAMETRIC TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY WITH K FIRMS, N INPUTS, AND M OUTPUTS: A SIMULATION
Creators: name: Tauer, Loren W.
name: Hanchar, John J.
name: Tauer, Loren W.
name: Hanchar, John J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Monte-Carlo simulation of nonparametric efficiency shows that even when the number of firms is large, defining ten or more inputs results in most firms being measured as efficient. Comparison of the simulated results with any empirical results may suggest that the dimension of the problem, rather than actual efficiencies, determines computed efficiencies.