cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Shot-noise limited monitoring and phase locking of the motion of a single trapped ion
Creators: name: Bushev, P.
name: Hetet, G.
name: Slodicka, L.
name: Rotter, D.
name: Wilson, M. A.
name: Schmidt-Kaler, F.
name: Eschner, J.
name: Blatt, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform high-resolution real-time read-out of the motion of a single trapped and laser-cooled Ba ion. By using an interferometric setup we demonstrate shot-noise limited measurement of thermal oscillations with resolution of 4 times the standard quantum limit. We apply the real-time monitoring for phase control of the ion motion through a feedback loop, suppressing the photon recoil-induced phase diffusion. Due to the spectral narrowing in phase-locked mode, the coherent ion oscillation is measured with resolution of about 0.3 times the standard quantum limit.
Lévy flights on the half line
Creators: name: Garcia-Garcia, Reinaldo
name: Rosso, Alberto
name: Schehr, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the probability distribution function (pdf) of the position of a Lévy flight of index 0
description: 11 pages, 9 figures. Revised version
Die Arzneimittelhaftung des pharmazeutischen Unternehmers - Entwicklung und Reformen
Creators: name: Funke, Christian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2001
Subjects: Elektronische Publikation
Zsfassung in engl. Sprache

description: Diese Arbeit stellt die Arzneimittelhaftung des pharmazeutischen Unternehmers nach deutschem Recht dar. Bei der Haftung für Arzneimittelschäden handelt es sich um einen sehr sensiblen Haftungsbereich, da die Medikamente direkt auf den menschlichen Körper einwirken und dadurch Arzneimittelfehler schwere Schädigungen bei den Betroffenen hervorrufen können. In der Arbeit werden die gegenwärtigen Ansprüche von Arzneimittelgeschädigten nach dem Deliktsrecht und der Gefährdungshaftung des AMG dargestellt. Daneben erfolgt eine Beschreibung dieser Materie an aufgetretenen Arzneimittelhaftungsfällen. Kennzeichnend für die Entwicklung der Arzneimittelhaftung in Deutschland ist die Tatsache, daß gesetzgeberischen Änderungen zu Gunsten der Geschädigten nach schweren Schädigungsfällen, wie den Contergan- oder HIV - Fällen, stattfanden. Eine Überprüfung der gegenwärtigen Arzneimittelhaftung ergibt, daß befriedigende und wirksame Schadensersatzansprüche den Geschädigten nicht zur Verfügung stehen. Aus diesem Grund wird deshalb die Möglichkeit von Reformen der Arzneimittelhaftung untersucht. Am Ende der Arbeit werden die möglichen und wünschenswerten Reformpunkte der Arzneimittelhaftung des pharmazeutischen Unternehmers aufgezeigt.
description: This dissertation describes the legal liabilities of pharmaceutical companies according to the German Law. It contains a very sensible issue because of the disastrous injuries drug related damages can cause. Because of the direct impact of the human body drug related damages could be so weighty. The work presents and examines the current legal claims of drug victims against pharmaceutical companies under German Law. Beside the discription of the damage claims does a representation of cases of drug injuries take place. The legal development of the drug liability of pharmaceutical companies is characterized from the occurrence of this cases. It is noticeable that the alterations of statutes followed the appearance of important drug cases like the cases of Contergan and HIV in Germany in the past. The verification of the claims and the cases produced the result that satisfactory claims of the victims of drug injuries at the current time are not exist. Therefore this work also examines the possibilities of an improvement of the current legal status of drug victims. A list of possible and desirable alterations to improve the legal situation of drug victims under German and European Law follows at the end.
An Equilibrium Approach to the Term Structure of Interest rates with the Interaction between Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Creators: name: Marzo, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: In this paper I jointly derive the stochastic process of the price level, the inflation rate, the nominal and real term structures, as function of monetary, fiscal and technological parameters within a general equilibrium framework. The novelty of the present approach is given by the possibility of obtaining closed form solutions for all the variables and by the explicit design of fiscal policy as a crucial parameter in addition to monetary policy. Thus, as stated from FTPL, inflation is not uniquely a monetary phoenomenon, but also fiscal policy plays a crucial role in determining the position of the nominal spot curve and term structure of intererest rates. The risky factors of nominal and real term structures depend upon different factors, when the utility function is strongly separable in both output and real money balances. If not, monetary and fiscal parameters affect only nominal equilibrium. The principal realtionships derived of the model are then simulated for diffrent values of policy parameters. The main conclusion is that fiscal policy parameters play a crucial role in term structure patterns, as recently observed by the perfmance of nominal rates for some countries (like Italy, fore example) after having joined the EMU.
Prepackaging Pears at Shipping Point
Creators: name: Fountain, James B.
name: Chapogas, Peter G.
name: Fountain, James B.
name: Chapogas, Peter G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: A molded-pulp pear tray and shipping containers to hold the trays were designed. Commercially available films and two new heat- shrinkable films were evaluated as tray overwraps. Test shipments of pears were made to determine the amount of injury to pears caused by (1) the molded-pulp pear tray, compared with three other trays designed for packaging various round fruits and (2) the shipping containers holding packaged pears, compared with standard wood boxes of place-packed, wrapped pears. Tests to determine the effect of tray design on pear injury were made with conditioned pears,1 so that injury could be more readily determined. Four controlled rail test shipments of conditioned pears in the pear tray and three other trays were made from Yakima, Wash., to New York. N.Y.. in March and April 1964.
Semi-supervised logistic discrimination via labeled data and unlabeled data from different sampling distributions
Creators: name: Kawano, Shuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article addresses the problem of classification method based on both labeled and unlabeled data, where we assume that a density function for labeled data is different from that for unlabeled data. We propose a semi-supervised logistic regression model for classification problem along with the technique of covariate shift adaptation. Unknown parameters involved in proposed models are estimated by regularization with EM algorithm. A crucial issue in the modeling process is the choices of tuning parameters in our semi-supervised logistic models. In order to select the parameters, a model selection criterion is derived from an information-theoretic approach. Some numerical studies show that our modeling procedure performs well in various cases.
description: 19 pages
Ausgewählte Aspekte und Anwendungen Y-chromosomaler Short Tandem Repeats (Y-STRs)
Creators: name: Immel, Uta-Dorothee
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Elektronische Publikation
subject: Hochschulschrift
subject: Online-Publikation
subject: Zsfassung in engl. Sprache
subject: 616.04

description: In der vorliegenden Studie wurde ein Set von Y-chromosomalen STR Loci (DYS19, DYS389-I, DYS389-II, DYS390, DYS 391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS385) für Populationsstudien aus Ägypten, Jemen und Libyen herangezogen. Die Ergebnisse wurden mit den Haplotypen der europäischen Y-STR Datenbank (YHRD) verglichen. Nachnamen werden, genauso wie das Y-Chromosom, patrilinear vererbt. Um zu überprüfen, ob sich aus dem Y-chromosomalen Haplotyp der Ursprung des Familiennamens erschließen lässt, wurden zwei Gruppen von je ca. 200 im Raum Halle geborenen Männern, die eine mit eindeutig deutschstämmigem Familiennamen, die andere mit typisch slawischstämmigen Familiennamen hinsichtlich ihres "Minimalen Haplotypen" verglichen. Die Ergebnisse sowie die forensische und populationsgenetische Bedeutung dieser beiden Themenschwerpunkte wurden diskutiert.
description: The eight short tandem repeat (STR) polymorphic systems mapping on the male-specific region of the human Y chromosome, DYS19, DYS385, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392 and DYS393, were typed in populations from Libya, Egypt and Yemen. Locus and haplotype informativeness were measured by means of the haplotype diversity and was compared with other data from the Y haplotype reference database (YHRD). One method to trace recent population movements is the analysis of surnames which, at least in Central Europe can be thought of as traits "linked" to the Y chromosome. In order to assess the actual extend of correlation between surnames and Y-chromosomal haplotypes, eight Ychromosomal short tandem repeat markers (DYS19, DYS385, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392 and DYS393) were typed in 400 males from Halle. These individuals were subdivided into groups according to the origin of their respective surname, namely German and Slavic. The data were compared with other population data from the Y haplotype reference database (YHRD). The results as well as the forensic and population genetic relevance of these two main topics were discussed.
Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions: the Impact on the Term Structure of Interest Rates.
Creators: name: Marzo, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: In this paper I consider a General Equilibrium framework to evaluate the role and the importance of the interactions between Monetary and Fiscal policies in the sense outlined by Leeper (1991) and the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, in the determination of nominal and real term structure. The main results show that the term structure will depend not only upon monetary and technological factors - as in the traditional models - but also upon the fiscal policy reaction function parameters. This aspect is very useful in explaining the recent experience of some countries, like Italy, whose term structure shifted down after the fiscal retrenchement imposed by Fiscal Rules of Maastricht Treaty. In this paper the term structure is derived by using a very general approach, starting from implicit assumptions on the driving stochastic processes of the model, rather than imposing a specific structure right from the beginning. The results are consistent with the more recent results outlined by Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and by monetary models of the term structure.
Galois Field Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Chang, Lay Nam
name: Lewis, Zachary
name: Minic, Djordje
name: Takeuchi, Tatsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a discrete quantum mechanics using a vector space over the Galois field GF(q). We find that the correlations in our model do not violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) version of Bell's inequality, despite the fact that the predictions of this discrete quantum mechanics cannot be reproduced with any hidden variable theory.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX. Uses ws-mplb.cls. Revised title, introduction, and bibliography
Bedeutung der präoperativen Kalzitoninbestimmung bei sporadischer C-Zell-Erkrankung hinsichtlich der Differenzierung zwischen C-Zell-Hyperplasie und medullärem Karzinom der Schilddrüse
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Florian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Online-Publikation
subject: Hochschulschrift
subject: 617

description: Die Kalzitoninbestimmung bei Patienten mit Schilddrüsenerkrankungen ermöglicht die präoperative Diagnose der C-Zell-Hyperplasie (CCH) und des medullären Schilddrüsenkarzinoms (MTC). Erhöhte Kalzitoninwerte weisen auf ein MTC hin, aber besonders im unteren pathologischen Wertebereich bleibt die Differentialdiagnose zur CCH offen. Mit der Pentagastrinstimulation kann die Vorhersagekraft der Kalzitoninwerte zur Differenzierung zwischen CCH und MTC verbessert werden. Ziel der Studie war die Prädiktion basaler und stimulierter Kalzitoninwerte zu bewerten und die Prädiktion der Kalzitoninbestimmung bzgl. des Auftretens einer CCH bzw. eines MTC zu ermitteln. Weitere Fragestellungen bezogen sich auf die Berechnung des optimalen Grenzwertes (Cut-off Wert) zur Diskriminierung zwischen CCH und MTC und auf die Erfassung von Zusammenhängen zwischen allgemeinen demographischen und pathohistologischen Patientendaten und Kalzitoninwerten. Die vorliegende Dissertationsarbeit zeigt, dass die Prävalenz des MTC beim weiblichen Geschlecht deutlich höher ist als beim männlichen Geschlecht, im Gegensatz zur CCH, hier zeigt sich eine höhere Prävalenz des männlichen Geschlechts. Mit der Pentagastrinstimulation steigt die Güte der diagnostischen Kalzitoninbestimmung, mit einer area under the curve (AUC) von 0,743 bei den basalen Kalzitoninwerten und einer AUC von 0,892 bei den stimulierten Kalzitoninwerten. Männer und Frauen unterscheiden sich in der Sekretion von Kalzitonin mit der Folge einer geschlechtsspezifischen Auswahl des Grenzwertes zur Unterscheidung zwischen CCH und MTC. Für Männer wurde ein basaler Grenzwert von 62 pg/ml und stimuliert 462 pg/ml ermittelt. Für Frauen ergibt sich ein Grenzwert von basal 24 pg/ml und stimuliert 192 pg/ml. Frauen unterscheiden sich von Männern beim MTC durch höhere basale und stimulierte Kalzitoninwerte, im Gegensatz dazu weisen Männer bei der CCH höhere basale Kalzitoninwerte auf. Des weiteren konnte eine Korrelation zwischen Tumordurchmesser und Kalzitoninwerten bewiesen werden.
Confronto fra stime di minimi quadrati e regolarizzate applicate a un modello macroeconomico dei consumi
Creators: name: Scarani, Claudia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: SECS-S/06 Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie

description: Il metodo dei minimi quadrati viene spesso utilizzato come criterio di approssimazione per scegliere una particolare soluzione di problemi molto diversi fra loro. Spesso ciò che interessa non è un insieme di numeri che risolva il problema, ma una soluzione che presenti caratteristiche che soddisfano alcuni vincoli addizionali rispetto ai dati assegnati. In questo lavoro si propone, come esempio, un problema di stima di un modello economico dei consumi italiani e americani. I dati trimestrali sono relativi al periodo storico 1976.1-1999.2. Le variabili esplicative utilizzate sono: consumi del periodo precedente, reddito disponibile e indice di borsa. Sono stati effettuati confronti fra le stime di minimi quadrati e stime mediante due metodi di regolarizzazione. Quest’ultimo approccio sembra fornire risultati che meglio si adeguano alla realtà economica. Una attenzione particolare è stata rivolta agli aspetti numerici del problema della regolarizzazione e alla implementazione di due algoritmi per la valutazione tradizionale e approssimata del parametro regolarizzante.
Pollaplonyx Waterhouse 1875
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Pollaplonyx

description: Pollaplonyx Waterhouse, 1875c
[2 species].
Type species Pollaplonyx flavidus Waterhouse, 1875, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Operator ideals and assembly maps in $K$-theory
Creators: name: Cortiñas, Guillermo
name: Tartaglia, Gisela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19D55

description: Let $\cB$ be the ring of bounded operators in a complex, separable Hilbert space. For $p>0$ consider the Schatten ideal $\cL^p$ consisting of those operators whose sequence of singular values is $p$-summable; put $\cS=\bigcup_p\cL^p$. Let $G$ be a group and $\vcyc$ the family of virtually cyclic subgroups. Guoliang Yu proved that the $K$-theory assembly map \[ H_*^G(\cE(G,\vcyc),K(\cS))\to K_*(\cS[G]) \] is rationally injective. His proof involves the construction of a certain Chern character tailored to work with coefficients $\cS$ and the use of some results about algebraic $K$-theory of operator ideals and about controlled topology and coarse geometry. In this paper we give a different proof of Yu's result. Our proof uses the usual Chern character to cyclic homology. Like Yu's, it relies on results on algebraic $K$-theory of operator ideals, but no controlled topology or coarse geometry techniques are used. We formulate the result in terms of homotopy $K$-theory. We prove that the rational assembly map \[ H_*^G(\cE(G,\fin),KH(\cL^p))\otimes\Q\to KH_*(\cL^p[G])\otimes\Q \] is injective. We show that the latter map is equivalent to the assembly map considered by Yu, and thus obtain his result as a corollary.
description: 11 pages. Version accepted for publication in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc
Supplementary document for Ultra-clean ternary Au/Ag/AgCl nanochains favoring cryogenic temperature-boosted broadband SERS ultrasensitive detection - 6492679.pdf
Creators: name: Xu, Linlin
name: Chen, Ming
name: Cui, Qingqiang
name: wang, chang
name: Zhang, Mengya
name: zheng, linqi
name: Li, Shuang
name: Zhang, Hua
name: Liang, Guangda
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Materials of Ultra-clean ternary Au/Ag/AgCl nanochains favoring cryogenic temperature-boosted broadband SERS ultrasensitive detection
Unveiling the Mysteries of Mis Architecture and Completing Its Mastery
Creators: name: Dubey, Pushkar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390308
subject: Technical, further and workplace education

description: This review paper explores the evolution and intricacies of Management Information Systems (MIS) architecture. It covers historical developments, analyzes contemporary models, and delves into functional components. The study also addresses the impact of emerging technologies and provides insights into optimizing MIS for scalability, security, and adaptability. Through case studies, the paper offers practical lessons and serves as a valuable resource for academics and professionals seeking mastery in MIS architecture.
Rhizotrogus Latreille 1825
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Rhizotrogus

description: Rhizotrogus Latreille, 1825
[53 species].
Type species Melolontha aestiva Olivier, 1789, by monotypy.
Notes: Latreille (1825) proposed this genus under the French vernacular name Rhizotrogue and various authors have spelt Rhizotrogus as “ Rhisotrogus ”, “ Rhisotragus ” or “ Rhysotrogus ”.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Locally class-presentable and class-accessible categories
Creators: name: Chorny, Boris
name: Rosicky, Jiri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We generalize the concepts of locally presentable and accessible categories. Our framework includes such categories as small presheaves over large categories and ind-categories. This generalization is intended for applications in the abstract homotopy theory.
Bulk Handling Spring Crop Potatoes from Harvester to Packing Line: Methods and Costs
Creators: name: Bowman, Earl K.
name: Yost, Gilbert E.
name: Greene, R. E. L.
name: Bowman, Earl K.
name: Yost, Gilbert E.
name: Greene, R. E. L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpt from the report: The purpose of this study was to obtain information needed for developing and planning efficient and economic facilities for receiving and temporary holding of early crop potatoes. Specific questions to be answered were: (1) What holding facility design would be desirable to provide more capacity under the same roof area than is provided by the present sloping-bottom bin? (2) What holding facility design or arrangement would permit use of lower cost conveying equipment for receiving potatoes or possibly eliminate such equipment altogether? (3) Could equipment less specialized than the hopper-body truck be adapted to the bulk handling of potatoes? (4) Since temporary holding facilities for potatoes are used only about 2 months each year, would it be possible to design a satisfactory facility that could be used to serve another purpose for part of the year, such as the storage of equipment and supplies?
Industry dynamics and the distribution of firm sizes: a non-parametric approach
Creators: name: Lotti, Francesca
name: Santarelli, Enrica
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: SECS-S/02 Statistica per la ricerca sperimentale e tecnologica

description: The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of the size distribution of young firms within some selected industries, trying to assess the empirical implications of different models of industry dynamics: the model of passive learning (Jovanovic 1982), the model of active learning (Ericson and Pakes, 1995), and the evolutionary model (Audretsch, 1995). We use a non-parametric technique, the Kernel density estimator, applied to a data set from the Italian National Institute for Social Security (INPS), consisting in 12 cohorts of new manufacturing firms followed for 6 years. Since the patterns of convergence to the limit distribution are different between industries, we conclude that the model of passive learning is consistent with some of them, the active exploration model with others, the evolutionary model with all of them.
The Demand for Flowers-by-Wire
Creators: name: Brown, Sidney E.
name: Brown, Sidney E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: Research on the factors influencing demand for flowers was undertaken by the Economic Research Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture to evaluate and improve the techniques used in merchandising and promoting agricultural products. This research was initiated through a cooperative agreement between the Department and the Florists' Transworld Delivery Association (FTD) which provided financial support for the study. An expanded demand for floral products in the United States can utilize available physical and human resources that will contribute to agriculture as well as to the general economy. This report seeks to develop a better understanding of factors influencing this demand and to provide a means for measuring the effectiveness of flower promotion. Primary attention is given to flowers-by-wire sales, or that portion of orders placed with one florist for delivery by another florist.
Pooling by Florida Citrus Cooperatives Following the 1962 Freeze
Creators: name: Hulse, Fred E.
name: Meitin, Julian R.
name: Hamilton, H. G.
name: Hulse, Fred E.
name: Meitin, Julian R.
name: Hamilton, H. G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Excerpts from the report: In early December 1962, Florida experienced an extensive freeze that caused severe damage to all citrus in the State except in the Indian River Area. With more than 85 percent of the season's citrus crops on the trees, this was a major disaster. The citrus industry had to move quickly to salvage mature fruit. Florida citrus cooperatives worked efficiently in this salvage operation, but many standard cooperative practices were modified in the process. These changes raised questions about the fair and equitable treatment of members. As a result, Farmer Cooperative Service and the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Florida, undertook this study of pooling practices to learn how successfully Florida citrus cooperatives had maintained the dual standards of equal treatment and efficient operation. Specific objectives of the study were to determine: (1) The type of pooling arrangement in effect at the time of the freeze; (2) the changes made in pooling systems after the freeze; (3) The effect of changes in pooling arrangements on organization income and members' equity; and (4) the nature of future modifications that can be made in pooling arrangements that will handle problems in a distress situation.
Case study : assessment of innovation on a P3 project process perspective
Creators: name: Melej Richter, Nicolás
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This study focuses on the construction business, where new ideas, system technologies, new and or enhanced materials, innovative construction techniques and associated equipment and facilities management processes are being constantly developed to aid greater efficiency in terms of time, money and functionality. This thesis includes an analysis of innovation in terms of the process perspective between the indicative design and proposals submitted for the Interior Heart and Surgical Centre building (IHSC) in Kelowna, BC. The study focus relates to how the facility will be constructed and how it will be operated. Items reviewed and compared are: structure, schedule and energy consumption. For this study the indicative design was used as a starting point and basis for comparison with the proposals submitted in response to the RFP. For the purpose of this study a description of innovation was selected as, “The use of advanced technologies, methodologies, and clever ideas that result in a positive incremental change compared to the indicative design”. Along with this definition, a set of performance metrics were defined for the purpose of characterizing the proposals and then comparing them with the indicative design.
Innovation performance in China - innovation systems, market structure and state ownership
Creators: name: Kou, Kou
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 330

description: Chinas Transformation hat fast alle Gebiete der chinesischen Wirtschaft verändert. Aber aufgrund der strukturellen Probleme geht Chinas rasante Wachstumsphase langsam zu Ende. Deshalb hat sich die chinesische Regierung bereits zum Ziel gesetzt, ein innovationsorientiertes Entwicklungsmodell einzuführen. Die Kernfrage der Arbeit lautet: Welche Faktoren der Innovationssysteme, der Marktstruktur und des Staatseigentums beeinflussen Chinas Innovationsleistung? In Bezug auf das Innovationspotential der Provinzen spielen die Innovationssysteme eine wichtige Rolle. Zudem erhöhen marktorientierte institutionelle Ordnungen die Innovationsleistung. Auf der industriellen Ebene gibt es eine umgekehrte U-förmige Beziehung zwischen der Marktkonzentration und dem Innovationsoutput. Das Staatseigentum hat unterschiedliche Auswirkungen auf die Innovationsleistung. Die staatliche Kontrolle der Unternehmen hat negative Einflüsse auf den Innovationsoutput, insbesondere in Nordostchina und in den Mid-Tech- und High-Tech-Industrien. Unter anderen Umständen übt sie entweder keinen oder sogar einen positiven Einfluss aus.
description: The transition of China has changed almost all fields of China’s economy. However, due to demographic changes and rising labor costs, the high growth phase of China is almost coming to an end. An innovation-driven development pattern has settled upon as the target of China’s government. The core question of the work is: Which factors of innovation systems, market structure and state ownership influence the innovation performance of China? With respect to the innovation performance of provinces, we find that regional innovation systems play an essential role. Market-oriented institutional arrangements increase innovation performance. At the industrial level, there is an inverted-U relationship between market concentration and innovation output. As for the effect of ownership relationship, the impact of state ownership on innovation performance depends on a number of conditions. More precisely, state control of firms has a negative impact on innovation output in particular in China’s Northeast region and in mid- and high-tech sectors whereas under other circumstances it does either not matter or can even exert a positive influence.
New results for the SQCD Hilbert series
Creators: name: Jokela, Niko
name: Jarvinen, Matti
name: Keski-Vakkuri, Esko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive new explicit results for the Hilbert series of N=1 supersymmetric QCD with U(N_c) and SU(N_c) color symmetry. We use two methods which have previously been applied to similar computational problems in the analysis of decay of unstable D-branes: expansions using Schur polynomials, and the log-gas approach related to random matrix theory.
description: 33 pages, 2 figures; v2: references and comments on the 3rd order phase transition added; v3: refs. corrected
Tailoring Magnetic Doping in the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian-Min
name: Zhu, Wenguang
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Xiao, Di
name: Yao, Yugui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the possibility of establishing ferromagnetism in the topological insulator Bi2Se3 via magnetic doping of 3d transition metal elements. The formation energies, charge states, band structures, and magnetic properties of doped Bi2Se3 are studied using first-principles calculations within density functional theory. Our results show that Bi substitutional sites are energetically more favorable than interstitial sites for single impurities. Detailed electronic structure analysis reveals that Cr and Fe doped materials are still insulating in the bulk but the intrinsic band gap of Bi2Se3 is substantially reduced due to the strong hybridization between the d states of the dopants and the p states of the neighboring Se atoms. The calculated magnetic coupling suggests that Cr doped Bi2Se3 is possible to be both ferromagnetic and insulating, while Fe doped Bi2Se3 tends to be weakly antiferromagnetic.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
The afterlives of counterinsurgency : postcolonialism, military social science, and Afghanistan 2006-2012
Creators: name: Belcher, Oliver Christian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation examines the United States military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan from 2006-2012. In recent years, the U.S. military has relied upon the methods and research of social scientists to model the Taliban-led insurgency in southern Afghanistan in hopes of predicting and mitigating the movement of the insurgency. The U.S. military has also used social scientists to gather “cultural intelligence” for surveying and interpreting the general population in Afghanistan in order to develop methods for “winning the hearts and minds” of civilians. This dissertation makes three central arguments. First, contrary to the “winning hearts and minds” narrative, counterinsurgency in practice has consistently produced two outcomes: the arming local defense forces, and massive population displacement. Second, “cultural intelligence” has been utilized to produce a narrative that Pashtuns in southern Afghanistan are “naturally” inclined towards local tribal structures as the desired mode of political order and legitimacy. Whether or not this is true, the U.S. military has used this Orientalist “local” narrative to set up place-bound tribal strongmen and warlords to counter what is perceived as a transnational, networked, and therefore locally “inauthentic” insurgency. The dissertation identifies this move by the U.S. military as the “weaponization of scale” at both a global and local level. Third, the dissertation examines the worldview that governs the U.S military’s approach to Afghanistan, and argues that it is one where populations are “de-coded” as “networks.” To see like the twenty-first century U.S. military is to see a world of networks. This world of networks is a secular cosmological vision derivative from the human-machine assemblages where U.S. military personnel and institutions are imbricated. These human-machine assemblages have been violently extended within the general Afghan population through new technologies like iris-scan biometrics devices and data-base management. The dissertation draws the important point that many new twenty-first century technologies, like “big data” mining and computational social network analysis, are rooted in colonial practices.
Ecosystem responses to climate variability, disturbances and environmental factors in southwest Yukon of Canada
Creators: name: Paudel, Shyam Krishna
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The south-western part of the Yukon Territory of Canada has experienced an unprecedented spruce bark beetle outbreak and frequent forest fires beyond the historical trends. Accumulating evidence also suggests that the southwest Yukon has experienced the impacts of recent climate change: warmer winters and warmer and drier summers over the past 15 years have contributed to the severe spruce bark beetle infestation, affecting white spruce on approximately 340,000 hectares of the traditional territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in southwest Yukon. The mortality caused by the bark beetle outbreak has also increased the risk of wildfire severity and frequency in the region. I studied the impacts of climate variability, disturbances and environmental factors on stand structure, forest regeneration and vegetation diversity within the CATT. The research was conducted in close collaboration with the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Resources of the Yukon Government and the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Government. Data were collected in the summer of 2008 from the forested landscape of the Champagne and Aishihik Traditional Territory. I found that stand structure varied significantly by edaphic and topographical factors with higher forest productivity at lower elevation and on lower slope positions where there was a higher soil moisture regime. Overall stand productivity and vegetation diversity were higher on warmer aspects and in mixed stands. Although regeneration of all tree species was higher in burned areas, broadleaved species prevailed in these areas, indicating that persistent disturbances associated with the predicted increase in temperatures in the region may promote broadleaved species. A higher diversity was found in moderately disturbed open areas with higher mean temperature and precipitation. Salvage harvested areas had the highest diversity and highest composition of broealeaved trees. The undisturbed mixed stands had the ecosystem characteristics that would closely meet the ecological goals of the Strategic Forest Management Plan (2004) in the region. The vegetation distribution were closely linked with topographical, climatic and disturbance regime in the study area, which could be a basis for vegetation classification, which is still lacking in the study area.
A constructive proof of Simpson's Rule
Creators: name: Coquand, Thierry
name: Spitters, Bas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03F60, 65D30

description: For most purposes, one can replace the use of Rolle's theorem and the mean value theorem, which are not constructively valid, by the law of bounded change. The proof of two basic results in numerical analysis, the error term for Lagrange interpolation and Simpson's rule, however seem to require the full strength of the classical Rolle's Theorem. The goal of this note is to justify these two results constructively, using ideas going back to Ampère and Genocchi.
Symmetry classification of energy bands in graphene and silicene
Creators: name: Kogan, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of the symmetry classification of the electron energy bands in graphene and silicene using group theory algebra and the tight--binding approximation. The analysis is performed both in the absence and in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. We also discuss the bands merging in the Brillouin zone symmetry points and the conditions for the latter to become Dirac points.
description: LaTeX, 6 pages, 2 eps Figures. A Figure and a citation were added. Accepted for publication in Graphene
Pseudoschizonycha Keith 2006
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Pseudoschizonycha

description: Pseudoschizonycha Keith, 2006
[1 species].
Type species Pseudoschizonycha meridionalis Keith, 2006, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Equivalent circuit of FET active loads for non-linear applications
Creators: name: Leuzzi, G.
name: Serino, A.
name: Giannini, F.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1998
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: FET-based active loads have been fabricated and tested, and their equivalent circuit extracted for linear and non-linear applications. The extraction procedure requires the availability of an equivalent three-terminal FET device for accurate model identification. The model proves to be easy to extract, accurate and general.
Bakterielles Wachstum auf verschiedenen Nahtmaterialien bei enoralem Gebrauch
Creators: name: Berginski, Markus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Elektronische Publikation
subject: Hochschulschrift
subject: Online-Publikation
subject: Zsfassung in engl. Sprache
subject: 617.6

description: Einleitung und Zielstellung: Ziel der Untersuchung ist es, Zahl und Spektrum möglicher Bakterien am Nahtmaterial zu bestimmen und die physikalischen Ursachen für die bakterielle Adhärenz zu untersuchen. Material und Methodik: In einer prospektiven Studie wurden primär nicht infizierte intraorale Wunden von 20 Patienten sowohl mit monofilem (Monocryl) als auch geflochtenem Faden (Polyester) der Stärke 4-0 versorgt. Am 1., 5. und 10. postoperativen Tag erfolgten Fadenentnahme und der Transport im Stuart-Medium zur mikrobiologischen Untersuchung (Keimspektrum und Zahl der koloniebildenden Einheiten). Zusätzlich wurden die Oberflächen der Nahtmaterialien mit Hilfe der Environmental-Scanning-Elektronenmikroskopie (ESEM) untersucht. Ergebnisse: Bei Probeentnahme am 1. postoperativen Tag waren keine Unterschiede hinsichtlich Keimart und -menge zu verzeichnen. Nach intraoraler Verweildauer von 5 Tagen fanden sich am geflochtenen Nahtmaterial eine signifikant höhere Keimbesiedlung und ein anderes Keimspektrum als am Monofilament. Die ESEM-Auswertung bestätigte eine erhebliche Keimbesiedlung des geflochtenen Materials vor allem in den Zwickelbereichen. Schlussfolgerung: Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass die Ursachen der gesteigerten Keimbesiedlung des Polyfilamentes vor allem in der Oberflächenbeschaffenheit und im Quellungsvermögen des geflochtenen Nahtmaterials zu suchen sind.
description: Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate bacterial growth on different suture materials after oral surgical procedures. Clinical investigations show an increased plaque adherence on braided suture material compared to the monofilament. Methods: In a prospective clinical trial 20 patients undergoing oral surgical procedures received in a split mouth design synthetic absorbable monofilament suture (Monocryl) and braided synthetic non-absorbable suture (Polyester) of the same diameter. The sutures were removed after one, two resp. ten days to be cultured for anaerobic and aerobic bacteria and the colony forming units (CFU) were determined. In addition to that Environmental-Scanning-Electron-Microscopy (ESEM) investigations of the suture materials surfaces were realized. Results: Wound infections were not observed in any case. Samples from the first day showed no differences in bacterial colonisation. Braided synthetic non-absorbable suture material revealed a ten times more CFU-score compared to synthetic absorbable monofilament suture after five days. The ESEM investigations confirmed the microbiological results and demonstrated a considerable bacterial colonisation on braided sutures esp. between their single filaments. Conclusions: The results indicate that one of the causes of an increased bacterial colonisation of the braided material is found in the physical-topographic features of the surface.
Parameter extraction procedure for microwave and millimetre-wave monolithic FET-type devices based on a scalable distributed model
Creators: name: Castillo-Vázquez, B.
name: Martin-Guerrero, T.M
name: Camacho-Peñalosa, C.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1998
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A new parameter extraction procedure that uses a FET distributed model in conjunction with a standard optimization routine is presented. The model extraction is carried out by simultaneously fitting the S-parameters of various devices with different gate widths. This procedure has shown to be very robust and yields a very reliable identification of the model elements, both parasitic and intrinsic.
Dark energy model with variable $q$ and $ω$ in LRS Bianchi-II space-time
Creators: name: Saha, Bijan
name: Yadav, Anil Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present study deals with spatial homogeneous and anisotropic locally rotationally symmetric (LRS) Bianchi-II dark energy model in general relativity. The Einstein's field equations have been solved exactly by taking into account the proportionality relation between one of the components of shear scalar $(σ^{1}_{1})$ and expansion scalar $(\vartheta)$, which, for some suitable choices of problem parameters, yields time dependent equation of state (EoS) and deceleration parameter (DP), representing a model which generates a transition of universe from early decelerating phase to present accelerating phase. The physical and geometrical behavior of universe have been discussed in detail.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures (to appear in Astrophys. Space Sc.)
Charge injection E/D MESFET structures for high speed and low power applications
Creators: name: Masera, G.
name: Piccinini, G.
name: Ruo Roch, M.
name: Zamboni, M.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1998
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: In this paper new dynamic charge injection E/D logics are presented and compared with traditional dynamic ones such as TDFL (Two Phase Dynamic Fet Logic). The main drawbacks of TDFL will be analyzed together with the advantages offered with respect to the static DCFL based topologies; a tentative structure has been derived (MTDFL - Modified TDFL) to comply with the VLSI requirements; then the advantages of the charge injection principles applied to the design of new logic topologies are inspected and used in a pseudo complementary structure (PCDL - Pseudo Complementary Dynamic Logic). The results of the simulations for these structures are presented together with the design of a 4-bits pipelined adder simulated at 2 GHz with a power dissipation 20 times lower than a DCFL implementation.