cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High electrical conductivity of single metal-organic chains
Creators: name: Ares, Pablo
name: Amo-Ochoa, Pilar
name: Soler, Jose M.
name: Palacios, Juan Jose
name: Gomez-Herrero, Julio
name: Zamora, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular wires are essential components for future nanoscale electronics. However, the preparation of individual long conductive molecules is still a challenge. MMX metal-organic polymers are quasi-one-dimensional sequences of single halide atoms (X) bridging subunits with two metal ions (MM) connected by organic ligands. They are excellent electrical conductors as bulk macroscopic crystals and as nanoribbons. However, according to theoretical calculations, the electrical conductance found in the experiments should be even higher. Here we demonstrate a novel and simple drop-casting procedure to isolate bundles of few to single MMX chains. Furthermore, we report an exponential dependence of the electrical resistance of one or two MMX chains as a function of their length that does not agree with predictions based on their theoretical band structure. We attribute this dependence to strong Anderson localization originated by structural defects. Theoretical modeling confirms that the current is limited by structural defects, mainly vacancies of iodine atoms, through which the current is constrained to flow. Nevertheless, measurable electrical transport along distances beyond 250 nm surpasses that of all other molecular wires reported so far. This work places in perspective the role of defects in one-dimensional wires and their importance for molecular electronics.
How teachers' perceptions of the parent–teacher relationship affect children's risk for early childhood expulsion
Creators: name: CA Zulauf-McCurdy
name: Zinsser, Katherine
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Rates of expulsion from early care and education settings (e.g., childcare and preschool programs) exceed those in K-12, and relatively little is known of how to prevent such disciplinary decisions. In addition, expulsion disproportionately affects children of color, especially boys. The present study explores a potential protective strategy existent in all early care and education settings, the parent–teacher relationship. Surveys with early childhood teachers (N = 295) outline the association between teachers' perceptions of the parent–teacher relationship and a child's risk for expulsion. Findings indicate that teachers' perceptions of high-quality parent–teacher relationships are related to a lower risk for expulsion for children who have not been expelled, with the strongest association found for Black children. In contrast, for children identified as previously expelled, we found no association between teachers' perceptions of the parent–teacher relationship and future expulsion risk. Each finding will be described in detail with an eye towards implications and intervention.
On the Effectiveness of Price-Ceiling Regulations: The Case of Fluid-Milk Market in Israel
Creators: name: Bar-Nahum, Ziv
name: Finkelshtain, Israel
name: Kan, Iddo
name: Bar-Nahum, Ziv
name: Finkelshtain, Israel
name: Kan, Iddo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Partial regulation
subject: price ceiling
subject: lobbying
subject: differentiated goods
subject: collusion
subject: fluid milk

description: We integrate a differentiated goods oligopoly model with a political-economy model to assess the effectiveness of the partial price-ceiling policy in the Israeli fluid-milk market. We estimate minor political influence of the industry on regulators with respect to the price ceilings, and find markups in the regulated segment considerably lower than those in the unregulated one. Compared to a simulated unregulated industry, the prevailing partial price-ceiling regulation is found reducing market prices by 22% and markups by 78%, and increasing social welfare by 12%. The hypothesis of collusion in the unregulated segment is statistically rejected. We show that the combined estimates of political influence and demand substitution across products turn collusion in the laissez-faire segment an inferior strategy from the industry’s perspective.
Localization in the quantum Hall regime
Creators: name: Kramer, Bernhard
name: Kettemann, Stefan
name: Ohtsuki, Tomi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The localization properties of electron states in the quantum Hall regime are reviewed. The random Landau model, the random matrix model, the tight-binding Peierls model, and the network model of Chalker and Coddington are introduced. Descriptions in terms of equivalent tight-binding Hamiltonians, and the 2D Dirac model, are outlined. Evidences for the universal critical behavior of the localization length are summarized. A short review of the supersymmetric critical field theory is provided. The interplay between edge states and bulk localization properties is investigated. For a system with finite width and with short-range randomness, a sudden breakdown of the two-point conductance from $ne^{2}/h$ to 0 ($n$ integer) is predicted if the localization length exceeds the distance between the edges.
description: 16 pages, to be published in Physica E, Proceedings of the Symposium "Quantum Hall Effect: Past, Present and Future"
title: Bedside ultrasound to confirm central venous catheter placement and screen for complications
Creators: name: Elsahhar, Ahmed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Acute
subject: Venous access
subject: Puncture
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Emergency

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Reviewing the use of ultrasound after central venous catheter (CVC) insertion to confirm the intravenous placement, check the CVC tip position and screen for mechanical complications (pneumothorax and...
Trap environment effects over quantum statistics and atom-photon correlations in the collective atomic-recoil laser
Creators: name: Prataviera, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the effects of the trap environment on the atomic and optical quantum statistical properties and on the atom-photon correlations in the Collective Atomic-Recoil Laser. Atomic and optical statistical properties, as well as the atom-photon correlations are dependent on the optical field intensity and phase. In particular, depending on the values of the optical field intensity and phase, the fields statistics varies from coherent to superchaotic.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. A
Efficiency Implications of the Dairy Farm Policy Reform in Israel
Creators: name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Reznik, Ami
name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Reznik, Ami
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: The dairy branch is one of the most regulated branches of agriculture in Israel. The dairy farm policy reform, initiated in 1999, enabled Israeli dairy farmers, for the first time, to trade production quotas, and encouraged capital investments through financial incentives. The consequence was a rapid exit of producers, an increase in the size of existing producers either through purchasing quotas or through mergers, and an improvement of production efficiency and milk quality. This paper employs Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate the changes in production efficiency, using data from the dairy farm profitability surveys of 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009. We found that dairy farms have become larger and more efficient during the reform period. Results also suggest that scale efficiency has increased over time for small family farms. Meta Production Frontier analysis showed that relatively small Moshav farms were able to catch up with the technology used by the most efficient farms in the industry, and this may explain the gradual increase in their scale efficiency. Larger Moshav farms, on the other hand, were not able to catch up with the technology used by the most efficient farms. Continued policies aimed at further concentration of production in fewer and larger farms are not necessarily the most effective approach to increase dairy farm efficiency. Efforts should focus on helping less efficient farmers to utilize the best available production methods and adopt more efficient production techniques.
Σύνδεση Θρησκευτικού και Γαστρονομικού Τουρισμού « Η περίπτωση τη Αγιορείτικης Κουζίνας»
Creators: name: Κυπριανού, Κωνσταντίνος Νίκου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Άγιο Όρος
Μοναχισμός
Αγιορείτικη Κουζίνα
Γαστρονομία
Αγιορείτικα Προϊόντα
Θρησκευτικός Τουρισμός
Γαστρονομικός Τουρισμός
Mount Athos
Athos Cuisine
Gastronomy
Mount Athos Products
Religious Tourism
Gastronomy Tourism
Monks

description: Ο τουρισμός μέσω της ανάπτυξης των ειδικών μορφών του διαμορφώθηκαν τα είδη του ανάλογα και με τα ενδιαφέροντα των τουριστών. Στην παρούσα εργασία θα αναφερθούν ο Θρησκευτικός και Γαστρονομικός τουρισμός που αποτελούν είδη εναλλακτικών μορφών τουρισμού και θα γίνει προσπάθεια σύνδεσης τους μέσω της Αγιορείτης Κουζίνας. Το Άγιο Όρος αποτελεί ένα από τους σημαντικότερους προσκυνηματικούς προορισμούς για τους Ορθόδοξους Χριστιανούς. Πλήθος πιστών συρρέει καθημερινά στο Άγιο Όρος για να πάρει πνευματική δύναμη από τους Αγιορείτες πατέρες. Με μια ιστορία πολλών αιώνων κατάφερε να κρατήσει αναλλοίωτη την παράδοσή του και ένα μέρος της αποτελεί και η ιδιαίτερη κουζίνα του. Η Αγιορείτικη Κουζίνα στηριγμένη στα θεμέλια της εγκάρδιας φιλοξενίας και της αγάπης προς τη φύση αποτελεί ένα καλό παράδειγμα παραδοσιακής κουζίνας και παράλληλα παρουσιάζει γαστρονομικό ενδιαφέρον. Η διατροφή των μοναχών αποτελείται από πολλούς κανόνες και περιορισμούς ωστόσο οι αγιορείτες μάγειρες φημίζονται για τη νοστιμιά και τα ιδιαίτερα πιάτα τους. Επίσης ο συνδυασμός υλικής και πνευματικής τροφής δεν συναντάται πουθενά αλλού παρά μόνο στη μοναστική κοινότητα. Η Αγιορείτικη Κουζίνα μπορεί να αποτελέσει ένα καλό παράδειγμα και η υιοθέτησή της επιφέρει άριστα αποτελέσματα στην υγεία του ανθρώπου.
description: Tourism through the development of its special forms is categorized its species according to the interests of tourists. In the present master thesis we will refer to the Religious and Gastronomic tourism which are types of alternative forms of tourism and an attempt will be made to connect them through the Mount Athos Cuisine. Mount Athos is one of the most important pilgrimage destinations for Orthodox Christians. Crowds of religious tourists flock to Mount Athos every day to receive spiritual strength from the Mount Athos monks. With a history of many centuries, it has managed to keep its tradition unchanged and an important part of it is its unique cuisine. The Mount Athos Cuisine based on the foundations of cordial hospitality and love of nature is a good example of traditional cuisine and at the same time is of special gastronomic interest. The diet of the monks consists of many rules and restrictions; however, the Mount Athos cooks are famous for their taste and their special dishes. Also, the combination of material and spiritual food is not found anywhere else except in the monastic community. Mount Athos Cuisine can be a good example and its adoption brings excellent results in human health.
What drives the convergence in male and female wage distributions in Israel? A Shapley decomposition approach
Creators: name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Hanuka-Taflia, Nirit
name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Hanuka-Taflia, Nirit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Financial Economics
Labor and Human Capital

description: We examine the drivers of the convergence of the hourly wage distributions of males and females in Israel between 1995 and 2008. Israel is an interesting case study in this respect, since it experienced declining wage inequality in recent decades, as opposed to most developed countries. We found convergence of both average wages and wage inequality. In particular, average wages increased faster for females than for males, while wage inequality declined faster for males than for females. We decomposed these distributional changes into the contributions of worker and job attributes, the returns on these attributes and residuals using a Shapley approach applied to counterfactual simulated wage distributions. We found that most of the increase in male wages was due to the increased wage gaps in favor of specific occupations and industries, while female wages increased mostly due to the increase in the returns to experience. The decline in wage inequality was driven mostly by changes in attributes, the decline in the returns to education, and the catching-up of immigrant workers, and each of these components was stronger for males than for females. We conclude that the convergence of the male and female wage distributions was due to both changes in the supply of labor, especially among females, and changes in the demand for labor leading to changes in the returns to various skills.
title: MR thermometry to monitor brain tumors laser ablation: From physics to clinic.
Creators: name: Pinto, Catarina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: MR physics
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the applications of MR-based thermometry to brain tumor treatment. To overview the basic physical principles of the technique. To understand real-time changes in MR thermometry during ablation. To review the cases of our...
Who exits from a reforming sector? The case of dairy farmers in Israel
Creators: name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Siminovich, Ortal
name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Siminovich, Ortal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Dairy farm reform
subject: Exit
subject: Expansion
subject: Partnership

description: We analyze the responses of dairy farmers in Israel to an institutional reform that allowed, for the first time, for buying and selling of production quotas, and provided financial incentives for such quota trading. Larger producers were less likely to sell quota and exit but also less likely to expand, indicating that the incentives were most effective for smaller farms who had to choose between exit and expansion. The existence of a successor reduced the exit probability, while farmers working off the farm were more likely to expand by buying additional quota.
Parents’ socialization of preschool-aged children's emotion skills: A meta-analysis using an emotion-focused parenting practices framework
Creators: name: Zinsser, Katherine
name: Gordon, Rachel
name: X Jiang
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Children make dramatic gains in their abilities to understand, express, and regulate their feelings before entering kindergarten. Despite decades of research into parents’ socialization of young children's emotion skills, the field lacks a formal synthesis of past studies testing the associations between specific emotion-focused parenting practices and young children's emerging emotion skills. The present meta-analysis addresses this gap. This study relies on a framework that organizes parent emotion socialization into three core emotion-focused parenting practices (modeling, responding, and instructing) and connects these practices to children's emotion skills (knowledge, expression, and regulation). Over 1600 abstracts were screened. Articles meeting inclusion criteria (N = 24) reported that parents’ modeling of, responding to, and instructing about emotions were positively correlated with children's emotion skills, but only sometimes significantly, and effect sizes were small (ranging from r¯=.05 to r¯=.19 and β¯=.05 to β¯=.12) and studies mostly relied on bivariate cross-sectional associations. This review also revealed several ways in which the literature can be strengthened, including through the use of longitudinal and experimental designs, reliance on common measures, and inclusion of diverse representative samples. This study concludes with a discussion of these findings’ implications for future research, especially the need for improved reporting standards and increased attention to understudied aspects of emotion-focused parenting.
Non-Markovian super-superradiance in a linear chain of up to 100 qubits
Creators: name: Dinc, Fatih
name: Brańczyk, Agata M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study non-Markovian enhancement effects in the spontaneous emission of a collective excitation in a linear chain of up to 100 qubits coupled to a 1D waveguide. We find that for a critical separation of qubits, the system exhibits super-superradiant (SSR) behavior leading to collective decay stronger than the usual Dicke superradiance. Here, time-delayed coherent quantum feedback effects are at play on top of the usual Dicke superradiance effects. We find a linear scaling for the SSR decay rate with increasing qubit number $N$ such that $Γ_{\rm SSR} \sim 2.277 N γ_0$, where $γ_0$ is the single emitter decay rate to a one-dimensional waveguide, as opposed to $Γ_{\rm Dicke}\sim N γ_0$ for Dicke superradiance. The SSR decay rate can be tuned with qubit separation distance and may therefore have application for quantum technologies.
title: Adverse effects of targeted anti-tumor therapies: What radiologists need to know
Creators: name: Rincon, Erika
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Monoclonal antibodies
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Cancer
subject: Complications
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Outline the main targeted therapies and their mechanisms of action. Recognize the most common adverse effects (AE) associated with targeted antitumor...
The Step-Wise Approach for Treating Intention Tremor 2 (SWAT-IT₂) : The Community Application
Creators: name: La Lau, Anna
name: Hunt, Carrie
name: Kendrick, Denise
name: Forwell, Susan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Background: The Step-Wise Approach for Treating Intention Tremor 2 (SWAT-IT₂) is a revised version of the original SWAT-IT that has been developed for broader application. This study aims to test the feasibility and clinical utility of the SWAT-IT₂ in the community and to determine if the SWAT-IT₂ impacts participants’ satisfaction of function, perceived function and self-efficacy. Methods: Using the SWAT-IT₂ protocol, one-on-one sessions were conducted with seven participants with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)-related IT. The protocol was applied to the daily functional activities. Data was collected using a demographic questionnaire (DQ), medical status questionnaire (MSQ), the new generalized self-efficacy scale (NGSE), the Multidimensional Assessment of Tremor (MAT), Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), Symbol Digits Modalities Test (SDMT), and Tremor Treatment Techniques Visual Analog Scales (T³-VAS), and the Daily Tremor Evaluation Form (DTEval). Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. Results: Seven participants received the SWAT-IT₂ protocol. Most participants found the SWAT-IT₂ techniques easy to use and incorporate into their daily lives. After a month of using the techniques, the majority of participants reported increased satisfaction with their performance and less tremor interference in their daily lives. No clinically significant changes in self-efficacy were found. Conclusions: This study adds to the literature surrounding nonpharmacological, noninvasive interventions for MS-related IT by providing a feasible and effective intervention protocol addressing functional activities.
title: Multidisciplinary meetings – the role of a dedicated radiologist
Creators: name: Linhares Moreira, Ana Sofia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer
subject: Staging
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate the relevance of having a subspecialized radiologist in a multidisciplinary...
The Impacts of Climate Change on Cropland Allocation, Crop Production, Output Prices and Social Welfare in Israel: A Structural Econometric Framework
Creators: name: Kan, Iddo
name: Reznik, Ami
name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Kaminski, Jonathan
name: Kan, Iddo
name: Reznik, Ami
name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Kaminski, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: climate change
subject: adaptation
subject: agricultural land use
subject: structural analysis
subject: agricultural support policy

description: This paper combines a structural estimation of vegetative-agriculture supply, based on a farmland-allocation model, with a market-level partial equilibrium demand model, to simulate the effects of climate change on agricultural production and food prices. The supply estimation accounts for corner solutions associated with disaggregate land-use data, enabling the treatment of prices as exogenous. The explicit formulation of production and output prices enables linkage to the demand, as well as the exploitation of market-level data so as to assign production interpretation to the estimated coefficients of the land-use model. We use the model to assess climate-change impacts in Israel, where agriculture is protected by import tariffs. We find that the projected climate changes are beneficial to farmers, particularly due to the positive impact of the forecasted large temperature rise on field-crop production. Fruit outputs are projected to decline, and reduce consumer surplus, but to a lower extent than the increase in total agricultural profits. Nearly 20% of the profit rise is attributed to farmers’ adaptation through land reallocation. Adaptation to the projected reduction in precipitation by increasing irrigation is found to be warranted from the farmers’ perspective; however, it is not beneficial to society as a whole. Abolishing import tariffs effectively transfers surpluses from producers to consumers, but the impact of this policy on social welfare becomes positive only under scenarios of large climate change.
Persona: P Kaja Stantke
Creators: name: Elbrecht, Karin (edu-sharing NETWORK e.V.)
name: Schunder, Toni
name: Peil, Ricarda
name: Dinier, Julia
name: Lehmler, Julia
name: Endries, Tara – Marie
name: Schröter, Alexander
name: Erdmann, Sönke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Persona
BIRD
Bildungsraum Digital
Human-Centered-Design
Educational Technologies

description: Die Anforderungen für das BIRD-Portal wurden mithilfe von Szenario-basiertem Design abgeleitet. Die zugrundeliegende Personasammlung soll nun Schritt für Schritt veröffentlicht werden.
Systematic model behavior of adsorption on flat surfaces
Creators: name: Trasca, Raluca A.
name: Cole, Milton W.
name: Diehl, Renee D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A low density film on a flat surface is described by an expansion involving the first four virial coefficients. The first coefficient (alone) yields the Henry's law regime, while the next three correct for the effects of interactions. The results permit exploration of the idea of universal adsorption behavior, which is compared with experimental data for a number of systems.
Thermodynamic signatures of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point inside a superconducting dome
Creators: name: de Carvalho, Vanuildo S.
name: Chubukov, Andrey V.
name: Fernandes, Rafael M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments in unconventional superconductors, and in particular iron-based materials, have reported evidence of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point (AFM-QCP) emerging inside the superconducting dome of the phase diagram. Fluctuations associated with such an AFM-QCP are expected to promote unusual temperature dependencies of thermodynamic quantities. Here, we compute the $T$ dependence of the specific heat $C(T)$ deep inside a fully gapped $s^{+-}$ superconducting state as the AFM-QCP is approached. We find that, at the AFM-QCP, the specific heat $C(T)$ vanishes quadratically with temperature, as opposed to the typical exponential suppression seen in fully-gapped BCS superconductors. This robust result is due to a non-analytic contribution to the free-energy arising from the general form of the bosonic (AFM) propagator in the SC state. Away from the AFM-QCP, as temperature is lowered, $C(T)$ shows a crossover from a $T^2$ behavior to an exponential behavior, with the crossover temperature scale set by the value of the superconducting gap and the distance to the QCP. We argue that these features in the specific heat can be used to unambiguously determine the existence of AFM-QCPs inside the superconducting domes of iron-based and other fully gapped unconventional superconductors.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, new Section V included
title: Biliary complications post liver transplantation: Role of radiologist in diagnosis and management
Creators: name: Elsahhar, Ahmed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Transplantation
subject: Stents
subject: Complications
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Percutaneous
subject: MR-Cholangiography
subject: Liver
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Review the biliary complications post-liver transplantation. Describe the radiological findings of the complications. Discuss the role of interventional radiology in management of the...
Water pricing
Creators: name: Tsur, Yacov
name: Tsur, Yacov
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Water economy
subject: water regulation
subject: water pricing

description: The water prices that implement the optimal water policy are derived. These prices contain the supply cost components and two shadow price terms: one reflecting the in situ value of natural water and the other representing the scarcity of recycled water. The former accounts for the scarcity, extraction cost and instream value of natural water, and has a pronounced effect on the onset and extent of desalination along the optimal policy. The latter accounts for the scarcity of recycled water, stemming from the limit imposed on its supply by the sewage discharge, and acts as a tax on users of recycled water and as a subsidy for domestic and industrial users that contribute to the supply of recycled water (via the sewage they discharge). Special attention is given to implications of the public good role of environmental water allocation. An example based on Israel’s water economy is presented.
National Socialist Black Metal and the Justification for Hate: The Example of Polish band Graveland
Creators: name: Buesnel, Ryan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210307 European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman)
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: Paper presented at Adelaide University Department of History 'Western Civilisation in the Twenty-First Century' Conference, 21st February 2020.
Abstract: 'National Socialist Black Metal' (NSBM) emerged as a heavy metal subculture in the early 1990s and continues to flourish as an outlet for racist and extremist ideologies. This paper will examine the history of the NSBM movement and will trace its thematic content as it relates to issues of race, cultural separateness and historical revisionism. Particular attention will be paid to the way in which NSBM musicians interpret European history as a cosmic struggle between racial ‘elites’ and the corrupting forces of globalization. Using the ideology of Rob Darken of Polish band Graveland, I will argue that the NSBM interpretation of European history rests on distorted assumptions which are primarily propagandistic in nature.
High Angular Resolution Measurement of Ion and Neutral Spectra as a Probe of the Magnetic Field Structure in DR21(OH)
Creators: name: Lai, Shih-Ping
name: Velusamy, T.
name: Langer, W. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been suggested that under average interstellar field strengths the cyclotron interaction between ions and magnetic fields is strong enough to narrow the linewidth and suppress the line wings in the ion spectra. We present evidence for the cyclotron interaction effect at arcsec scale on the velocity dispersions in the spectra of ion/neutral molecular species in DR21(OH) observed with the OVRO-MMA. Using a spatial resolution $\sim$ 3 times higher than previous CSO observations by Houde et al. (2002), we show that H$^{13}$CO$^+$ and H$^{13}$CN are coexistent at the scale of our observations (6\arcsec). In the eastern parts of the DR21(OH) core where the dynamics is simple, the ion linewidths are indeed narrower than the neutral linewidths with an average ion-to-neutral linewidth ratio of 0.82$\pm$0.04. We use our results, along with the existing Zeeman and dust/CO polarization data on small scales, to derive the 3-D magnetic field structure. We obtain a field strength of $0.44\pm$0.12 mG with inclination of 36°to the line of sight, directed toward the observer, and a position angle of $-$75°in the plane of the sky. With the full magnetic field strength derived here, we are able to conclude that the MM1 core of DR21(OH) is magnetically supercritical; although turbulence provides the dominant support.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL (Oct 20, 2003)
Superconductivity in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ Mediated by Coulomb Scattering
Creators: name: Koikegami, Shigeru
name: Yoshida, Yoshiyuki
name: Yanagisawa, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the superconductivity in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ on the basis of the three-dimensional three-band Hubbard model. We propose a model with Coulomb interactions among the electrons on the nearest-neighbor Ru sites. In our model the intersite Coulomb repulsion and exchange coupling can work as the effective interaction for the spin-triplet paring. This effective interaction is enhanced by the band hybridization, which is mediated by the interlayer transfers. We investigate the possibility of this mechanism in the ground state and find that the orbital dependent spin-triplet superconductivity is more stable than the spin-singlet one for realistic parameters. This spin-triplet superconducting state has horizontal line nodes on the Fermi surface.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Computerized social-emotional assessment measures for early childhood settings
Creators: name: SA Denham
name: HH Bassett
name: Zinsser, Katherine
name: IS Bradburn
name: CS Bailey
name: EA Shewark
name: DE Ferrier
name: KH Liverette
name: J Steed
name: SP Karalus
name: S Kianpour
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Social-emotional competence (SEC) is increasingly acknowledged by parents, educators, and lawmakers as central to school success. Given the tremendous SEC gains made by preschoolers, early childhood educators need access to sensitive assessment tools that enable them to monitor and tailor instruction to individual children's needs. Computerized direct assessment tools have several advantages to meet these needs, including inherent interest to children and ease of use for teachers. Thus, we evaluated the psychometric adequacy of computerized assessment tools measuring two key aspects of preschoolers’ SEC: emotion knowledge and social problem solving. Participants included 450 preschoolers from three regions. We used two versions each of two measures widely used in research: The Affect Knowledge Test, Shortened (AKT-S) and Challenging Situations Task (CST). Both were administered via in-person and computerized modes, in counterbalanced orders. For each computerized administration, observers rated children's computer competence and interest in the assessment process. Analyses examined internal consistency reliability of the computerized measures. Interrelations and mean differences between computerized and in-person modes for each measure were used to demonstrate concurrent validity of the computerized measures. Because of the importance of SEC for early school success, associations of the computerized measures with aggregate teacher ratings of social-emotional behavior and learning behaviors/attitudes were used as indicators of predictive validity. Findings showed that the computerized AKT-S and CST appear reliable. Further, for concurrent validity, both are related to, and do not differ from, the in-person mode. Predictive validity relations were stronger for the AKT-S than the CST, therefore validity of the CST should be probed further. Discussion centers on advantages of using these computerized measures, and how teachers could be supported to use them.
title: The Radiographer Role in the Assessment of Hemodynamic Changes in the Middle Cerebral Artery using Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography
Creators: name: Brazuna, Márcio Daniel Pirralho
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Economics
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Screening
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Radiographers
subject: Professional issues
subject: Head and neck

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The effect of cigarette smoking on the brain is not clearly understood but is probably multidirectional and complex, predominantly affecting the circulatory system, both general and cerebral. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography is a...
The Nexus of Irrigation-Water Salinity, Agricultural Policy and Long-Run Water Management: Lessons from the Case of Israel
Creators: name: Kan, Iddo
name: Slater, Yehuda
name: Reznik, Ami
name: Finkelshtain, Israel
name: Kan, Iddo
name: Slater, Yehuda
name: Reznik, Ami
name: Finkelshtain, Israel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Irrigation
subject: Salinity
subject: Agriculture
subject: Policy
subject: Water
subject: Economics
subject: Model
subject: Desalination
subject: Natural Resources

description: This paper incorporates the detrimental agronomic effects of irrigation-water salinity into an empirical economy-wide dynamic hydro-economic model to study the interactions between salinity, agricultural policies and optimal long-run water-allocation policies and water-infrastructure plans. Application to the case of Israel indicates economic viability of large-scale delivery of desalinated water for agricultural irrigation during a 30-year period (2016–2045). We explain this finding by the large share of salinity-sensitive crops in the total irrigation-water consumption and production value of the Israeli vegetative agriculture sector, which stems from the historical policy to protect local agriculture. On average, the annual damage caused by the presence of salts in Israel’s water sources is evaluated at nearly $4,500 per hectare of arable land, comprising deadweight loss in both the water and agricultural economies. Overlooking salinity’s agronomic effects in the design of water infrastructures entails an annual welfare loss of nearly $1,360/hectare, and income redistributions wherein the profits of water suppliers increase significantly at the expense of the economic surpluses of urban water users, farmers, and consumers of agricultural products.
Labor Market Impacts and Responses: The Economic Consequences of a Marine Environmental Disaster
Creators: name: Hoang, Trung
name: Le, Duong
name: Nguyen, Ha
name: Vuong, Nguyen
name: Hoang, Trung
name: Le, Duong
name: Nguyen, Ha
name: Vuong, Nguyen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: Presentation ID 15910
Simulation Assisted Likelihood-free Anomaly Detection
Creators: name: Andreassen, Anders
name: Nachman, Benjamin
name: Shih, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given the lack of evidence for new particle discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it is critical to broaden the search program. A variety of model-independent searches have been proposed, adding sensitivity to unexpected signals. There are generally two types of such searches: those that rely heavily on simulations and those that are entirely based on (unlabeled) data. This paper introduces a hybrid method that makes the best of both approaches. For potential signals that are resonant in one known feature, this new method first learns a parameterized reweighting function to morph a given simulation to match the data in sidebands. This function is then interpolated into the signal region and then the reweighted background-only simulation can be used for supervised learning as well as for background estimation. The background estimation from the reweighted simulation allows for non-trivial correlations between features used for classification and the resonant feature. A dijet search with jet substructure is used to illustrate the new method. Future applications of Simulation Assisted Likelihood-free Anomaly Detection (SALAD) include a variety of final states and potential combinations with other model-independent approaches.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures
Gender Differences, Social Isolation and Rural Migrants’ Cigarette Smoking
Creators: name: Liu, Zhongyuan
name: Florkowski, Wojciech J.
name: Chen, Huiguang
name: Liu, Zhongyuan
name: Florkowski, Wojciech J.
name: Chen, Huiguang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: Presentation ID 15959
XXL Survey groups and clusters in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey. Scaling relations between X-ray properties and weak lensing mass
Creators: name: Sereno, Mauro
name: Umetsu, Keiichi
name: Ettori, Stefano
name: Eckert, Dominique
name: Gastaldello, Fabio
name: Giles, Paul
name: Lieu, Maggie
name: Maughan, Ben
name: Okabe, Nobuhiro
name: Birkinshaw, Mark
name: Chiu, I-Non
name: Fujita, Yutaka
name: Miyazaki, Satoshi
name: Rapetti, David
name: Koulouridis, Elias
name: Pierre, Marguerite
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scaling relations trace the formation and evolution of galaxy clusters. We exploited multi-wavelength surveys -- the XXL survey at \emph{XMM-Newton} in the X-ray band, and the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program for optical weak lensing -- to study an X-ray selected, complete sample of clusters and groups. The scalings of gas mass, temperature, and soft-band X-ray luminosity with the weak lensing mass show imprints of radiative cooling and AGN feedback in groups. From the multi-variate analysis, we found some evidence for steeper than self-similar slopes for gas mass ($β_{m_\text{g}|m}=1.73 \pm0.80$) and luminosity ($β_{l|m}=1.91\pm0.94$) and a nearly self-similar slope for the temperature ($β_{t|m}=0.78\pm0.43$). Intrinsic scatters of X-ray properties appear to be positively correlated at a fixed mass (median correlation factor $ρ_{X_1X_2|m}\sim0.34$) due to dynamical state and merger history of the halos. Positive correlations with the weak lensing mass (median correlation factor $ρ_{m_\text{wl}X|m}\sim0.35$) can be connected to triaxiality and orientation. Comparison of weak lensing and hydrostatic masses suggests a small role played by non-thermal pressure support ($9\pm17\%$).
description: 19 pages; in press on MNRAS. One of two companion papers on HSC-XXL surveys (Keiichi Umetsu et al., arXiv:1909.10524)
Effects of Health insurance on income distribution in China
Creators: name: Sun, Yu
name: Liu, Gordon G.
name: You, Wen
name: Wang, Meijiao
name: Sun, Yu
name: Liu, Gordon G.
name: You, Wen
name: Wang, Meijiao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: Presentation ID 16427
Codimension Two Branes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Creators: name: Wang, Peng
name: Meng, Xin-He
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Codimension two branes play an interesting role in attacking the cosmological constant problem. Recently, in order to handle some problems in codimension two branes in Einstein gravity, Bostock {\it et al.} have proposed using six-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity instead of six-dimensional Einstein gravity. In this paper, we present the solutions of codimension two branes in six-dimensional EGB gravity. We show that Einstein's equations take a "factorizable" form for a factorized metric tensor ansatz even in the presence of the higher-derivative Gauss-Bonnet term. Especially, a new feature of the solution is that the deficit angle depends on the brane geometry. We discuss the implication of the solution to the cosmological constant problem. We also comment on a possible problem of inflation model building on codimension two branes.
description: 16 pages, no figures. v2: References added; v3: Reference added, Sec.4 and 5 combined into one; v4: References added, minor corrections, to appear in Physical Review D
Nuclear excitation of the $^{229}$Th isomer via defect states in doped crystals
Creators: name: Nickerson, Brenden S.
name: Pimon, Martin
name: Bilous, Pavlo V.
name: Gugler, Johannes
name: Beeks, Kjeld
name: Sikorsky, Tomas
name: Mohn, Peter
name: Schumm, Thorsten
name: Pálffy, Adriana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When Th nuclei are doped in CaF$_2$ crystals, a set of electronic defect states appears in the crystal bandgap which would otherwise provide complete transparency to vacuum-ultraviolet radiation. The coupling of these defect states to the 8 eV $^{229m}$Th nuclear isomer in the CaF$_2$ crystal is investigated theoretically. We show that although previously viewed as a nuisance, the defect states provide a starting point for nuclear excitation via electronic bridge mechanisms involving stimulated emission or absorption using an optical laser. The rates of these processes are at least two orders of magnitude larger than direct photoexcitation of the isomeric state using available light sources. The nuclear isomer population can also undergo quenching when triggered by the reverse mechanism, leading to a fast and controlled decay via the electronic shell. These findings are relevant for a possible solid-state nuclear clock based on the $^{229m}$Th isomeric transition.
Local mean-field study of capillary condensation in silica aerogels
Creators: name: Detcheverry, F.
name: Kierlik, E.
name: Rosinberg, M. L.
name: Tarjus, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply local mean-field (i.e. density functional) theory to a lattice model of a fluid in contact with a dilute, disordered gel network. The gel structure is described by a diffusion-limited cluster aggregation model. We focus on the influence of porosity on both the hysteretic and the equilibrium behavior of the fluid as one varies the chemical potential at low temperature. We show that the shape of the hysteresis loop changes from smooth to rectangular as the porosity increases and that this change is associated to disorder-induced out-of-equilibrium phase transitions that differ on adsorption and on desorption. Our results provide insight in the behavior of $^4$He in silica aerogels.
description: 19 figures
Higher educational institutions as emerging immigrant selection actors : a history of British Columbia’s retention of international graduates, 2001–2016
Creators: name: Brunner, Lisa Ruth
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022

description: In an effort to more efficiently utilize immigration to mitigate the negative economic impacts of falling population rates, some governments are shifting from human-capital to demand-driven immigrant selection approaches. While employers are typically seen as the resulting non-governmental selection actors, recent niche but growing immigration programs are repositioning higher educational institutions as additional yet inadvertent selection actors, typically unaware of their role. To illustrate the complexities inherent in this policy evolution, I historically trace the past 15 years of immigration selection design targeting international students in the Canadian province of British Columbia and highlight potential implications in light of increasing internationalization. I argue that educational policy researchers need to further understand and engage with the development of increasingly intertwined yet previously neglected policy areas – in this instance, immigration – as higher education assumes new roles in public life.
title: Keys to the Interpretation of Craniofacial Trauma Series
Creators: name: Courtney, Michael
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: CT
subject: Trauma

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: to establish a systematic approach to comprehensive, concise reporting of the craniofacial trauma series, to depict the main anatomical structures to illustrate the common fracture patterns seen on this series, including conventions and best...