cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Solar-Mass Primordial Black Holes Explain NANOGrav Hint of Gravitational Waves
Creators: name: Kohri, Kazunori
name: Terada, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NANOGrav collaboration for the pulsar timing array (PTA) observation recently announced evidence of an isotropic stochastic process, which may be the first detection of the stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background. We discuss the possibility that the signal is caused by the second-order GWs associated with the formation of solar-mass primordial black holes (PBHs). This possibility can be tested by future interferometer-type GW observations targeting the stochastic GWs from merger events of solar-mass PBHs as well as by updates of PTA observations.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures; reference added
Fractured Integration x Soft Power Debits: Contested Legitimacy in Europe
Creators: name: Longo, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The European Union’s (‘EU’) soft power resources and underpinning constitutional values (including the rule of law, solidarity, equality, non-discrimination and respect for human rights) have historically exerted a magnetic attraction, offering distinct opportunities for regional and international development. If the EU regime and legal order have induced public acceptance until now it is because most of the people have considered that it serves their interests most of the time. However, through a series of crises from the Eurozone crisis to the migration crisis and now Brexit, the EU has endured growing party-based Euroscepticism and a changing perception of its value from within and without. This crisis narrative is impacting negatively upon the EU’s capacity to contribute to European development, while also shrinking its soft power resources. The future of European integration (‘EI’) and of European influence depends not only upon the EU’s ability to maintain legitimacy as a producer of public goods but also on its ability to invoke acceptance of its legal order or regime and to sustain an alluring narrative of expansion, influence and success. This article examines the extent to which the EU’s normative power and its capacity to act in the international sphere are shaped by its measurable achievements and its soft power resources.
Perceived Diversity of Complex Environmental Systems: Multidimensional Measurement and Synthetic Indicators
Creators: name: Gasparino, Ugo
name: Del Corpo, Barbara
name: Pinelli, Dino
name: Gasparino, Ugo
name: Del Corpo, Barbara
name: Pinelli, Dino
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The general attitude towards the sustainable management of environmental resources is evolving towards the implementation of 'participatory' (as opposed to the classical 'command and control') and, especially at local scale, 'bottom up' (as opposed to the classical 'top down') approaches. This progress pushes a major interest in the development and application of methodologies able to 'discover' and 'measure' how environmental systems tend to be perceived by the different Stakeholders. Due to the 'nature' of the investigated systems, often too 'complex' to be treated through a classical deterministic approach, as typical for 'hard' physical/mathematical sciences, any 'measurement' has necessarily to be multidimensional. In the present report an approach, more typical of 'soft' social sciences, is presented and applied to the analysis of the sustainable management of water resources in seven Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Watersheds. The methodology is based on the development and analysis (explorative factor analysis, multidimensional scaling) of a questionnaire and is aimed at the 'discovery' and 'measurement' of a latent multidimensional 'underlying structure' ('conceptual map'). It is the opinion of the authors, that the identification of a set of 'consistent', 'independent', 'bottom up' and 'shared' synthetic indicators (aggregated indices) could be strongly facilitated by the interpretation of the dimensions of the emerging 'underlying structure'.
Percolation in the Harmonic Crystal and Voter Model in three dimensions
Creators: name: Marinov, Vesselin I.
name: Lebowitz, Joel L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the site percolation transition in two strongly correlated systems in three dimensions: the massless harmonic crystal and the voter model. In the first case we start with a Gibbs measure for the potential, $U=\frac{J}{2} \sum_{} (ϕ(x) - ϕ(y))^2$, $x,y \in \mathbb{Z}^3$, $J > 0$ and $ϕ(x) \in \mathbb{R}$, a scalar height variable, and define occupation variables $ρ_h(x) =1,(0)$ for $ϕ(x) > h (
description: 8 figures. new version significantly different from the old one, includes new results, figures etc
Zwei Dokumente der Gemeinsamen Arbeitsgruppe zwischen dem Ökumenischen Rat der Kirchen und der katholischen Kirche
Creators: name: Raiser, Konrad
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 30 Nr. 3 (1981): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 30, Heft 3
Engineering Geognosy of the Western Coal Field
Creators: name: McCann, W.
name: Hopkins, Tommy C.
name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1973
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Engineering soils and geologic reports are invaluable tools for engineers, industrial leaders, community planners and administrators during preliminary stages of planning and site selection for construction projects. Such information can be used to great advantage by planners in making soil and geologic reconnaissance surveys, in organizing and checking field surveys, in correlating and predicting performances of soil and geologic materials, and in locating construction materials and resource deposits. Recognizing the need for this type of information, the Division of Research, Bureau of Highways, Kentucky Department of Transportation, has undertaken a study to report the engineering geognosy of Kentucky. The report herein presents and discusses engineering properties and behavior of unconsolidated surficial deposits and consolidated bedrock materials located in the ten counties of the Western Coal Field. These counties include Butler, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Union and Webster. Engineering soils data were retrieved from design and construction plans of the Bureau of Highways, Kentucky Department of Transportation, for routes passing through the area, as well as from reports prepared by the Soil Conservation Service and other agencies and individuals. Tabulated in the report are engineering test data for some 1646 soil samples obtained from 1309 highway borings in the Western Coal Field. Brief descriptions of the geography, topography, pedology and geology of the area are given.
How to play a game called "tibidibi"
Creators: name: Rudolph, Johnny (Soni)
name: Ding, Lydia
name: Drummond, Emily
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: nkr

description: One .mov video file, one .wav audio file, and one .eaf ELAN transcription file for a story about a game called "tibidibi".
Remedial Stability Analysis of Unstable Eastern Approach Embankment, Bluegrass Parkway Bridges over Chaplin River
Creators: name: Hopkins, Tommy C.
name: Yoder, S. M.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1973
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In a meeting held on March 7, 1973, the Division of Research was requested to perform a supplementary slope stability analysis of the unstable, eastern approach embankment and foundation located at the crossing of the Bluegrass Parkway over Chaplin River and extending between Stations 2317+14 and 2321+00. Previously (see referenced report), two remedial schemes had been considered for increasing the stability of the unstable soil mass to an acceptable level. Those included: 1) loading the toe area of the existing, eastern approach slope with a berm, including a sloping berm, and 2) unloading the upper portion of the eastern slope by excavation, that is, decreasing the original approach slope (1.5 horizontal to 1 vertical), which would require an extension of the bridges, construction of piers at the present locations of the abutments and a relocation of the abutments.  In the report cited, consideration was given primarily to using a berm to stabilize the eastern approach slope. Normally, that method of increasing the stability of an unstable embankment is the most economical. However, loading the toe area of the existing slope with a berm was considered undesirable in the meeting of March 7, 1973, because a berm would extend into the Chaplin River channel and alter channel hydraulics by constricting the channel area. Furthermore, there was a question of whether the berm materials could withstand the high velocities of Chaplin River. Consequently, an in-depth stability analysis was performed which involved excavation of the approach embankment and a relocation of the abutments.
On the AGN Nature of Broad Balmer Emission in Four Low-Redshift Metal-Poor Galaxies
Creators: name: Burke, Colin J.
name: Liu, Xin
name: Chen, Yu-Ching
name: Shen, Yue
name: Guo, Hengxiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on continued, $\sim$15 year-long, broad Balmer emission lines in three metal-poor dwarf emission-line galaxies selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy. The persistent luminosity of the broad Balmer emission indicates the galaxies are active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with virial black hole masses of $\sim 10^{6.7}{-10^{7.0}\ M_{\odot}}$. The lack of observed hard X-ray emission and the possibility that the Balmer emission could be due to a long-lived stellar transient motivated additional follow-up spectroscopy. We also identify a previously-unreported blueshifted narrow absorption line in the broad H$α$ feature in one of the AGNs, indicating an AGN-driven outflow with hydrogen column densities of order $10^{17}$ cm$^{-2}$. We also extract light curves from the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey and the Zwicky Transient Facility. We detect probable AGN-like variability in three galaxies, further supporting the AGN scenario. This also suggests the AGNs are not strongly obscured. This sample of galaxies are among the most metal-poor which host an AGN ($Z=0.05 - 0.16\ Z_\odot$). We speculate they may be analogues to seed black holes which formed in unevolved galaxies at high redshift. Given the rarity of metal-poor AGNs and small sample size available, we investigate prospects for their identification in future spectroscopic and photometric surveys.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, 1 appendix; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Efficient routing on complex networks
Creators: name: Yan, Gang
name: Zhou, Tao
name: Hu, Bo
name: Fu, Zhong-Qian
name: Wang, Bing-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we propose a new routing strategy to improve the transportation efficiency on complex networks. Instead of using the routing strategy for shortest path, we give a generalized routing algorithm to find the so-called {\it efficient path}, which considers the possible congestion in the nodes along actual paths. Since the nodes with largest degree are very susceptible to traffic congestion, an effective way to improve traffic and control congestion, as our new strategy, can be as redistributing traffic load in central nodes to other non-central nodes. Simulation results indicate that the network capability in processing traffic is improved more than 10 times by optimizing the efficient path, which is in good agreement with the analysis.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Exact full counting statistics for the staggered magnetization and the domain walls in the XY spin chain
Creators: name: Ares, Filiberto
name: Rajabpour, M. A.
name: Viti, Jacopo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate exactly cumulant generating functions (full counting statistics) for the transverse, staggered magnetization and the domain walls at zero temperature for a finite interval of the XY spin chain. In particular, we also derive a universal interpolation formula in the scaling limit for the full counting statistics of the transverse magnetization and the domain walls which is based on the solution of a Painlevé V equation. By further determining subleading corrections in a large interval asymptotics, we are able to test the applicability of conformal field theory predictions at criticality. As a byproduct, we also obtain exact results for the probability of formation of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic domains in both $σ^z$ and $σ^x$ basis in the ground state. The analysis hinges upon asymptotic expansions of block Toeplitz determinants, for which we formulate and check numerically a new conjecture.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures. Additional details in the Appendices, references added, typos corrected. Final version published in Phys. Rev. E
Geometric frustration produces long-sought Bose metal phase of quantum matter
Creators: name: Hegg, Anthony
name: Hou, Jinning
name: Ku, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two of the most prominent phases of bosonic matter are the superfluid with perfect flow and the insulator with no flow. A now decades-old mystery unexpectedly arose when experimental observations indicated that bosons could organize into the formation of an entirely different intervening third phase: the Bose metal with dissipative flow. The most viable theory for such a Bose metal to date invokes the use of the extrinsic property of impurity-based disorder; however, a generic intrinsic quantum Bose metal state is still lacking. We propose a universal homogeneous theory for a Bose metal in which geometric frustration confines the essential quantum coherence to a lower dimension. The result is a gapless insulator characterized by dissipative flow that vanishes in the low-energy limit. This failed insulator exemplifies a frustration-dominated regime that is only enhanced by additional scattering sources at low energy and therefore produces a Bose metal that thrives under realistic experimental conditions.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, supplementary material included
Is the Wisdom of a Person's Decision Relevant to Their Capacity to Make That Decision?
Creators: name: Boyle, Sam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Significant uncertainty exists around the current test of capacity. It is agreed that the law is primarily directed at ‘function’; that is, an assessment of a person’s decision-making ability. However, there is conflicting authority over whether there is an ongoing role for ‘outcome’, that is, consideration of the perceived wisdom of the decision made by the person whose capacity is assessed. Recent cases in Australia and England and Wales have indicated that ‘outcomes’ are irrelevant to capacity, meaning any decision in which the perceived wisdom of a decision was weighed in the determination of capacity would be incorrectly decided. However, this article argues that these recent statements are incorrect interpretations of the applicable law in those jurisdictions. Moreover, it is argued that assessing capacity, even under a functional test, is an inherently normative procedure, from which consideration of the outcome of the decision cannot be fully extricated. Therefore, the challenge is not to prohibit consideration of outcomes in capacity assessment, but rather to manage their consideration, to ensure that they do not overwhelm functional capacity assessment. Suggestions for how this difficult balance can be performed are made.
Photometric Identification of Type Ia Supernovae at Moderate Redshift
Creators: name: Johnson, Benjamin D.
name: Crotts, Arlin P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large photometric surveys with the aim of identifying many Type Ia supernovae (SNe) at moderate redshift are challenged in separating these SNe from other SN types. We are motivated to identify Type Ia SNe based only on broadband photometric information, since spectroscopic determination of the SN type, the traditional method, requires significant amounts of time on large telescopes. We consider the possible observables provided by a large synoptic photometry survey. We examine the optical colors and magnitudes of many SN types from z=0.1 to z=1.0, using space-based ultraviolet spectra and ground-based optical spectra to simulate the photometry. We also discuss the evolution of colors over the SN outburst and the use of host galaxy characteristics to aid in the identification of Type Ia SNe. We consider magnitudes in both the SDSS photometric system and in a proposed filter system with logarithmically spaced bandpasses. We find that photometric information in four bands covering the entire optical spectrum appears capable of providing identification of Type Ia SNe based on their colors at a single observed epoch soon after maximum light, even without independent estimates of the SN redshift. Very blue filters are extremely helpful, as at moderate redshift they sample the restframe ultraviolet spectrum where the SN types are very different. We emphasize the need for further observations of SNe in the restframe ultraviolet to fully characterize, refine, and improve this method of SN type identification.
description: AASTeX, 37 pages with 12 figures, being resubmitted to A.J. Figures 3, 4 and 9 updated, minor typos corrected
Detecting handedness of spatially oriented molecules by Coulomb explosion imaging
Creators: name: Saribal, Cem
name: Owens, Alec
name: Yachmenev, Andrey
name: Küpper, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81-10

description: We present a new technique for detecting chirality in the gas phase: Chiral molecules are spatially aligned in three-dimensions by a moderately strong elliptically-polarized laser field. The momentum distributions of the charged fragments, produced by laser-induced Coulomb explosion, show distinct three-dimensional orientation of the enantiomers, when the laser polarization ellipse is rotated by a non-right angle with respect to the norm vector of the detector plane. The resulting velocity-map-image asymmetry is directly connected to the enantiomeric excess and to the absolute handedness of molecules. We demonstrated our scheme computationally for camphor (C10H16O), with its methyl-groups as marker fragments, using quantum-mechanical simulations geared toward experimentally feasible conditions. Computed sensitivity to enantiomeric excess is comparable to other modern chiroptical approaches. The present method can be readily optimized for any chiral molecule with an anisotropic polarizability tensor by adjusting the polarization state and intensity profile of the laser field.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted by JCP
Pion-nucleon Sigma Term in the Global Color Model of QCD
Creators: name: Chang, Lei
name: Liu, Yu-xin
name: Guo, Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the pion-nucleon sigma term in vacuum and in nuclear matter in the framework of global color model of QCD. With the effective gluon propagator being taken as the $δ$-function in momentum space of Munczek-Nomirovsky model, we estimate that the sigma term at chiral limit in the vacuum is 9/2 times the current quark mass and it decreases with the nuclear matter density. With the presently obtained in-medium pion-nucleon sigma term, we study the in-medium chiral quark condensate and obtain a reasonable variation behavior against the nuclear matter density.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
Minimal Trinification
Creators: name: Sayre, J.
name: Wiesenfeldt, S.
name: Willenbrock, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the trinified model, SU(3)_C x SU(3)_L x SU(3)_R x Z_3, with the minimal Higgs sector required for symmetry breaking. There are five Higgs doublets, and gauge-coupling unification results if all five are at the weak scale, without supersymmetry. The radiative see-saw mechanism yields sub-eV neutrino masses, without the need for intermediate scales, additional Higgs fields, or higher-dimensional operators. The proton lifetime is above the experimental limits, with the decay modes p -> \barνK^+ and p -> μ^+ K^0 potentially observable. We also consider supersymmetric versions of the model, with one or two Higgs doublets at the weak scale. The radiative see-saw mechanism fails with weak-scale supersymmetry due to the nonrenormalization of the superpotential, but operates in the split-SUSY scenario.
description: 23 pages, uses axodraw
Sticks and Carrots for the Design of International Climate Agreements with Renegotiations
Creators: name: Weikard, Hans-Peter
name: Dellink, Rob B.
name: Weikard, Hans-Peter
name: Dellink, Rob B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Stability of Coalitions
subject: International Environmental Agreements
subject: Partition Function Approach
subject: Sharing Rules
subject: Optimal Transfers
subject: Renegotiations

description: This paper examines stability of international climate agreements for carbon abatement under an optimal transfer rule and renegotiations. The optimal transfer rule suggested to stabilise international environmental agreements (Weikard 2005, Carraro, Eyckmans and Finus 2006) is no longer optimal when agreements are renegotiated. We determine the conditions for optimal self-enforcing sequences of agreements. If these conditions are met, then transfer payments can be arranged such that no country wants to change its membership status at any stage. In order to demonstrate the applicability of our condition we use the STACO model, a 12-regions global model, to assess the impact of welldesigned transfer rules on the stability of an international climate agreement. Although there are strong free-rider incentives, we find a stable grand coalition in the first commitment period in a game with one round of renegotiations.
Is the Wisdom of a Person's Decision Relevant to Their Capacity to Make That Decision? (Advance)
Creators: name: Boyle, Sam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Significant uncertainty exists around the current test of capacity. It is agreed that the law is primarily directed at ‘function’; that is, an assessment of a person’s decision-making ability. However, there is conflicting authority over whether there is an ongoing role for ‘outcome’, that is, consideration of the perceived wisdom of the decision made by the person whose capacity is assessed. Recent cases in Australia and England and Wales have indicated that ‘outcomes’ are irrelevant to capacity, meaning any decision in which the perceived wisdom of a decision was weighed in the determination of capacity would be incorrectly decided. However, this article argues that these recent statements are incorrect interpretations of the applicable law in those jurisdictions. Moreover, it is argued that assessing capacity, even under a functional test, is an inherently normative procedure, from which consideration of the outcome of the decision cannot be fully extricated. Therefore, the challenge is not to prohibit consideration of outcomes in capacity assessment, but rather to manage their consideration, to ensure that they do not overwhelm functional capacity assessment. Suggestions for how this difficult balance can be performed are made.
Econometric models of the demand for quality-differentiated goods
Creators: name: Hanemann, W. Michael
name: Hanemann, W. Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper presents several models of the demand for quality differentiated goods in which the consumer decides which brand of product to select as well as how many units to buy. The models cover a variety of preference structures and can readily be estimated using standard techniques for switching regressions. From the fitted demand equations, one can calculate monetary measures of the welfare effects of changes in the price, quality, or variety of the brands. The models are then applied to data on households' demands for recreation sites in the Boston area, and the values of the sites are calculated.
A Frustrated Bimeronium: Static Structure and Dynamics
Creators: name: Zhang, Xichao
name: Xia, Jing
name: Ezawa, Motohiko
name: Tretiakov, Oleg A.
name: Diep, Hung T.
name: Zhao, Guoping
name: Liu, Xiaoxi
name: Zhou, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show a topological spin texture called "bimeronium" in magnets with in-plane magnetization. It is a topological counterpart of skyrmionium in perpendicularly magnetized magnets and can be seen as a combination of two bimerons with opposite topological charges. We report the static structure and spin-orbit-torque-induced dynamics of an isolated bimeronium in a magnetic monolayer with frustrated exchange interactions. We study the anisotropy and magnetic field dependences of a static bimeronium. We also explore the bimeronium dynamics driven by the damping-like spin-orbit torque. We find that the bimeronium shows steady rotation when the spin polarization direction is parallel to the easy axis. Moreover, we demonstrate the annihilation of the bimeronium when the spin polarization direction is perpendicular to the easy axis. Our results are useful for understanding fundamental properties of bimeronium structures and may offer an approach to build bimeronium-based spintronic devices.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
The Utilisation of Evolutionary Concepts in Legal History: Company Law as a Case Study
Creators: name: Lipton, Phillip
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Evolutionary concepts that draw upon Darwinian principles have been highly influential and widely used in many social science disciplines. This article suggests that an evolutionary perspective provides a useful theoretical framework from which to analyse legal change and its interaction with its environment, and in some cases, the persistence of suboptimal laws. An evolutionary approach does not seek to provide a determinist or predictive explanation of legal change, but rather, invites critical analysis of law because it sees legal outcomes as the result of historical contingencies, chaotic developments or sometimes chance accidents that quite feasibly could have turned out differently.
 After discussing the utilisation of evolutionary concepts to law generally, the article then analyses the historical development of three fundamental concepts of company law: joint stock, separate legal personality and limited liability so as to provide an example of the application of evolutionary concepts to legal change. In so doing, a particular legal problem concerning the tort liabilities of corporate groups is identified that has been widely criticised around the world as a suboptimal legal outcome. An evolutionary perspective, by recognising the significance of chance occurrences, encourages us to change the law for the better where this is appropriate.
Subleading-twist effects in single-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering on a longitudinally polarized hydrogen target
Creators: name: The HERMES Collaboration
name: Airapetian, A.
name: :
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single-spin asymmetries in the semi-inclusive production of charged pions in deep-inelastic scattering from transversely and longitudinally polarized proton targets are combined to evaluate the subleading-twist contribution to the longitudinal case. This contribution is significantly positive for (π^+) mesons and dominates the asymmetries on a longitudinally polarized target previously measured by \hermes. The subleading-twist contribution for (π^-) mesons is found to be small.
Story about first visit to the United States
Creators: name: Rudolph, Johnny (Soni)
name: Ding, Lydia
name: Drummond, Emily
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: nkr

description: One .mov video file, one .wav audio file, and one .eaf ELAN transcription file for a story about the first time visiting the United States.
FSA Direct Farm Loan Program Graduation Rates and Reasons for Exiting
Creators: name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Ahrendsen, Bruce L.
name: Nwoha, Ogbonnaya John
name: Hamm, Sandra J.
name: Danforth, Diana M.
name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Ahrendsen, Bruce L.
name: Nwoha, Ogbonnaya John
name: Hamm, Sandra J.
name: Danforth, Diana M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: direct loans
subject: Farm Service Agency
subject: graduation
subject: multinomial logit

description: Farm Service Agency (FSA) direct loans are intended to provide transitory credit to creditworthy borrowers unable to obtain conventional credit at reasonable terms. Farm loan program (FLP) effectiveness is measured in part by how readily direct loan borrowers graduate to conventional credit. A survey of FSA borrowers originating direct loans during fiscal years 1994-1996 is used to estimate graduation rates. A majority of 1994-1996 loan originators did exit the direct FLP by November 2004. A multinomial logit model indicates financial strength at origination resulted in greater likelihood of farming without direct loans approximately 9 years after loan origination.
Impact of Program Payments on Time Allocation and Farm Household Income
Creators: name: Dewbre, Joe
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Dewbre, Joe
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Agricultural Resource Management Survey
subject: decoupled payments
subject: government programs
subject: income transfer efficiency
subject: time allocation

description: Using a model farm household resource allocation and data from the USDA-ERS Agricultural Resources Management Survey (ARMS), this study compares the effects of various categories of farm program payments on time allocation by farm operators and spouses. Results suggest that agricultural market transition payments (AMTA) increase leisure hours of both farm operators and spouses. Loan deficiency payments (LDP) and payments that combine market loan assistance (MLA) and disaster payments are shown to reduce leisure. The study also finds that AMTA payments exhibit a much higher degree of income transfer efficiency than the LDP and MLA payments.
Partnering with adults as a process of empowering youth in the community : a grounded theory study
Creators: name: Cargo, Margaret D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Health and social policies identify empowerment as a guiding ideal for health promotion, yet there is little theoretical understanding of youth empowerment. The need for theory to guide practice and research in working with youth in a health promotion context led to this grounded theory study to develop a theory of youth empowerment. A community health nurse acting on BC Ministry of Health's adaptation of the World Health Organisation's Healthy Cities Initiative initiated a community organising project in an inner city community of Vancouver, which merged with the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation Blueprint for Youth Services policy. The study was based on 32 months of participant observation where the researcher was a co-facilitator of a community organising effort aimed at engaging youth in identifying their quality-of-life issues, and developing and implementing their solutions. Of the ,123 youth entering the process, 66 attended at least three meetings of which 18 demonstrated ongoing commitment to the community action process. Partnering between adults and youth as the process of empowering youth emerged as the core category in the analysis, comprised of two sub-processes, Creating an Empowering Environment for Youth and Becoming Empowered. An empowering environment allowed youth to take responsibility in a welcoming social climate with enabling support from adults. The adults demonstrated their belief in the capacity of youth to act in the community, expected youth to take responsibility, cared for youth, and offered encouragement through acting-with interactions with young people. Youth felt welcome and participated in the process, taking responsibility for voicing, decision making and action on their qualityof- life issues. The adults transferred the power to youth by giving up their responsibility for voicing, decision making and taking action. By taking responsibility and acting in the community with enabling support, the youth became empowered by controlling the process and incrementally developing their competence, self-esteem, confidence and understanding, which cultivated their belonging to the community. Participating in an empowering process enhanced their development and set in motion a social change process that raised the consciousness of adults and influenced organisational practice. The theory identifies youth empowerment as an ecological construct and a capacity-building process.
Effective field equations and scale-dependent couplings in gravity
Creators: name: Bonanno, Alfio
name: Kofinas, Georgios
name: Zarikas, Vasilios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new set of field equations for a space-time dependent Newton's constant $G(x)$ and cosmological constant $Λ(x)$ in the presence of matter is presented. We prove that it represents the most general mathematically consistent, physically plausible, set of evolution equations assuming at most second derivatives in the dynamical variables. In the new Einstein's equations, only $Λ$-kinetic terms arise, while in the modified conservation equation, derivative terms of $G$ also appear. As an application, this formalism is applied in the context of the Asymptotic Safety scenario to the early universe, assuming a perfect fluid with a radiation equation of state. Cosmological solutions are obtained for all types of spatial curvature, displaying a variety of interesting cosmic evolutions. As an indication of such behaviours, bouncing solutions, recollapsing solutions or non-singular expanding solutions with a transient acceleration era are discussed in details.
description: 21 pages, 12 figures, to appear in PRD
Η έννοια της μονάδας στον Λάιμπνιτς
Creators: name: Καραμαύρου, Ιωάννα Αγγελική Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Μονάδες
Δύναμη
Εντελέχειες
Monads
Force
Entelechies

description: Η ανά χείρας μεταπτυχιακή διπλωματική εργασία εστιάζει σε μια θεμελιώδη έννοια της ύστερης μεταφυσικής του Γκότφριντ Βίλχελμ Λάιμπνιτς, η οποία έννοια είναι αυτή της μονάδας. Οι μονάδες, οι μορφές, οι εντελέχειες και οι απλές υποστάσεις είναι ισάριθμοι προσδιορισμοί του αντικειμένου της μεταφυσικής. Για να γίνει πλήρως κατανοητή η μονάδα είναι σημαντικό να υπογραμμιστεί η σημασία της δύναμης, η οποία καθίσταται απαραίτητη στην ανάπτυξη της θεωρίας των μονάδων. Στη συνέχεια θα ακολουθήσει ο ρόλος του Θεού μέσα στο φιλοσοφικό αυτό σύστημα και θα περατωθεί με την προδιατεταγμένη αρμονία μεταξύ των δημιουργημένων υποστάσεων.
description: The present thesis examines Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s fundamental concept of late metaphysics, which is the concept of monad. Monads, forms, entelechies and simple substances are an equal number of determinations of the subject of metaphysics. To fully understand the monad, it is important to emphasize the importance of force, which becomes indispensable in the development of the theory of monads. Then the role of God will follow, and it will end with the pre-established harmony between the created substances.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Φιλοσοφικών και Κοινωνικών Σπουδών (Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης), Φιλοσοφίας, Παιδαγωγικής και Ψυχολογίας (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών)
The Utilisation of Evolutionary Concepts in Legal History: Company Law as a Case Study (Advance)
Creators: name: Lipton, Phillip
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Evolutionary concepts that draw upon Darwinian principles have been highly influential and widely used in many social science disciplines. This article suggests that an evolutionary perspective provides a useful theoretical framework from which to analyse legal change and its interaction with its environment, and in some cases, the persistence of suboptimal laws. An evolutionary approach does not seek to provide a determinist or predictive explanation of legal change, but rather, invites critical analysis of law because it sees legal outcomes as the result of historical contingencies, chaotic developments or sometimes chance accidents that quite feasibly could have turned out differently.
 After discussing the utilisation of evolutionary concepts to law generally, the article then analyses the historical development of three fundamental concepts of company law: joint stock, separate legal personality and limited liability so as to provide an example of the application of evolutionary concepts to legal change. In so doing, a particular legal problem concerning the tort liabilities of corporate groups is identified that has been widely criticised around the world as a suboptimal legal outcome. An evolutionary perspective, by recognising the significance of chance occurrences, encourages us to change the law for the better where this is appropriate.
Επενδύσεις και Τεχνολογία: Κρίση του dot com
Creators: name: Καραμεσίνη- Σπινθάκη, Δανάη Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Γέννηση Διαδικτύου
Κρίση dot com
Big Five High Tech Εταιρίες
Birth of Internet
Dot Com Bubble
Big Five High Tech Companies

description: Στην εργασία θα παρουσιάσουμε τα στάδια δημιουργίας του Διαδικτύου, την τεράστια οικονομική και τεχνολογική ανάπτυξη που επέφερε η ίδρυση του και η είσοδός του στη ζωή μας, η οποία εντελώς ξαφνικά και απροσδόκητα, οδήγησε στην κρίση του dot com και στην πτώχευση μεγάλων εταιρειών που είχαν ακμάσει εκείνη την περίοδο. Από την κρίση επέζησαν ελάχιστες εταιρίες, ενώ σήμερα συνεχίζονται να δραστηριοποιούντα μεταξύ άλλων οι λεγόμενες Big Five High Tech ( Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft και Meta-Facebook). Είναι γεγονός ότι, παρά την οικονομική κρίση, οι επενδύσεις στην τεχνολογία έχουν αυξηθεί, με μεγάλες εταιρίες κολοσσούς να επενδύουν στην Ελλάδα. Επίσης, είναι γεγονός ότι η τεχνολογία έχει αλλάξει ριζικά τον τρόπο ζωής μας, ενώ σ' αυτό συνέβαλε σε μεγάλο βαθμό και η πανδημία του κορωνοϊού.
description: In the study, we will present the stages of the creation of the Internet, the enormous economic and technological development brought about by its establishment and its entry into our lives, which quite suddenly and unexpectedly, led to the dot com bubble and the bankruptcy of large companies that had flourished that period. Few companies survived the crisis. Today the so-called Big Five High Tech companies (Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta-Facebook) continue to operate in the Internet. It is a fact that, despite the financial crisis, investments in technology have increased, with large corporate giants investing in Greece. Also, it is true that technology has radically changed our way of life, while the coronavirus pandemic has contributed to this to a great extent.
Should I Lie to You? A Review of Victoria’s Law regarding Disclosure of Surrogacy Arrangements to the Children They Produce — Is it Compliant with the Convention on the Rights of the Child? (Advance)
Creators: name: Butterfield, Meghan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This paper discusses the rights of children born via surrogacy arrangements (‘surrogate children’) in Victoria to be given information about the existence of the surrogate. Relevant provisions of the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008 (Vic) are analysed to show that donor-conceived children and surrogate children are treated differently when it comes to access to information regarding their heritage and birth which is based on a narrow conceptualisation of genetics and biology. By failing to take reasonable measures to ensure intended parents of surrogate children inform those children of the existence of the surrogate, it is argued that Victoria fails to comply with its obligations under arts 3, 7 and 8 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Chthonic Legal Traditions towards Emic Understandings of Australian First Nations Constitutionalism: 'Rooted' Constitutionalism and a Foundational Conceptual Apparatus for Inquiries into Australian First Nations Legal Orders
Creators: name: Randazzo, Maria
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: First Nations constitutionalism unfolds within a chthonic legal tradition which is incommensurable with most of the positivist theoretical and conceptual models deployed to investigate Westphalian constitutional systems. The irreducibility of analysis of chthonic constitutional traditions with such models of constitutionalism calls, on the one hand, for rethinking positivistic approaches to legal reasoning and rationalisation and, on the other hand, for identifying new conceptual grids in charting the normative and legal landscape of Indigenous constitutionalism. With specific reference to Australian First Nations constitutionalism, the purpose of this paper is to suggest the adoption of a conceptual apparatus for its investigation which reflects 'emic' understandings of what Indigenous legal orders are and how they operate. In doing so, the paper subsumes Australian First Nations constitutionalism into Mills’s theoretical elaboration of ‘rooted constitutionalism’ and argues that such a ‘rooted’ kind of constitutionalism needs to be expounded through foundational concepts such as nomos, myths, and legal traditions which are experientially and culturally grounded in the lifeworld that sustain Australian First Nations constitutional traditions. Such a conceptual apparatus draws mainly from the theoretical framework elaborated by legal pluralism and legal theory to deal with the contemporary normative complexities of stateless legal orders. It is a macro-level conceptual apparatus that would be foundational to ‘etic’ understanding and theorisation of First Nations Australian constitutionalism.
Fluctuating Fuzzy Funnels
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Rajsekhar
name: Koch, Robert de Mello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that a D-string ending on a D3, D5 or D7 brane is described in terms of a non-commutative fuzzy funnel geometry. In this article, we give a numerical study of the fluctuations about this leading geometry. This allows us to investigate issues related to the stability and moduli space of these solutions. We comment on the comparison to the linearized fluctuations in supergravity.
description: 24 pages, 3 figures; v2 references added and corrected
Invariant Differential Forms on Complexes of Graphs and Feynman Integrals
Creators: name: Brown, Francis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 18G85, 11F75, 11M32, 81Q30

description: We study differential forms on an algebraic compactification of a moduli space of metric graphs. Canonical examples of such forms are obtained by pulling back invariant differentials along a tropical Torelli map. The invariant differential forms in question generate the stable real cohomology of the general linear group, as shown by Borel. By integrating such invariant forms over the space of metrics on a graph, we define canonical period integrals associated to graphs, which we prove are always finite and take the form of generalised Feynman integrals. Furthermore, canonical integrals can be used to detect the non-vanishing of homology classes in the commutative graph complex. This theory leads to insights about the structure of the cohomology of the commutative graph complex, and new connections between graph complexes, motivic Galois groups and quantum field theory.
description: Contribution to the Special Issue on Algebraic Structures in Perturbative Quantum Field Theory in honor of Dirk Kreimer for his 60th birthday