cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary Figures from Comparative study on photocatalytic activity of transition metals (Ag and Ni)-doped ZnO nanomaterials synthesized via sol–gel method
Creators: name: A. K. Azfar
name: M. F. Kasim
name: I. M. Lokman
name: H. A. Rafaie
name: M. S. Mastuli
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 30399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 100799 Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: Ag and Ni/ZnO photocatalyst nanostructures were successfully synthesized by a sol–gel method. In this work, the photocatalyst sample was systematically studied based on several factors affecting the performance of photocatalyst which are size, morphology, band gap, textural properties and the number of active sites presence on the surface of the nanocatalyst. X-ray diffraction revealed that Ag/ZnO nanomaterials experienced multiple phases, meanwhile for Ni/ZnO the phase of nanomaterials were pure and single phase for stochiometry less than 5%. Field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) showed almost all of the synthesized nanomaterials possessed a mixture of nanorods and spherical-like shape morphology. The Ag/ZnO showed high photocatalytic activity, producing at least 14th trials of nanocatalyst reusability on degradation of methyl orange under UV irradiation. Interestingly, this phenomenon was not observed in larger surface area of Ni/ZnO nanomaterials which supposedly favour photocatalytic activity, but instead producing poor photocatalytic performance. The main reason were studied and exposed by temperature-programmed desorption of carbon dioxide (TPD–CO2) which showed that incorporation of Ag into ZnO lattice has enhanced the number of active sites on the surface of the nanocatalyst. Whereas incorporation of Ni in ZnO has lowered the number of active sites with respect to undoped ZnO. Active sites measurement is effective and significant, providing opportunities in developing an intensive study as an additional factor.
Shared-Services Cooperatives
Creators: name: Crooks, Anthony C.
name: Spatz, Karen J.
name: Crooks, Anthony C.
name: Spatz, Karen J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: cooperatives
subject: service
subject: purchasing

description: This report describes the general structure and operations of shared-services cooperatives and discusses some of the benefits accorded to their owners. This report will provide some insights for business people and public servants interested in organizing a shared-services cooperative. It discusses how they are organized and how they operate. This includes corporate structure, governance, and management. It also describes elements that promote the sucess of shared-services cooperatives.
Azimuthal anisotropy and correlations in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV
Creators: name: Tang, A. H.
name: Collaboration, STAR
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first measurement of directed flow ($v_1$) at RHIC. $v_1$ is found to be consistent with zero at pseudorapidities $η$ from -1.2 to 1.2, then rises to the level of a couple of percent over the range $2.4 < |η| < 4$. The latter observation is similar to data from NA49 if the SPS rapidities are shifted by the difference in beam rapidity between RHIC and SPS. Back-to-back jets emitted out-of-plane are found to be suppressed more if compared to those emitted in-plane, which is consistent with {\it jet quenching}. Using the scalar product method, we systematically compared azimuthal correlations from p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions. Flow and non-flow from these three different collision systems are discussed.
description: Quark Matter 2004 proceeding, 4 pages, 3 figures
Bringing innovation through collaboration OPERAS-PL and open access book publishers in Poland
Creators: name: Świetlik, Marta M.
name: Wnuk, Magdalena
name: Manista, Gabriela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: publishers
collaboration
monographs
open access
publishing model

description: Presentation slides from OPERAS Conference 2024, 24–26 April 2024, Zadar, Croatia.

Collaboration between various stakeholders is one of the indispensable elements needed to make Open Access not only a common but also a desired practice. OPERAS-PL has tested this assumption for the past year by building relationships with Polish publishers, and examining the Polish open access policy landscape in parallel project – PALOMERA and DIAMAS. Polish publishers are struggling with shortages of digitization of publishing practices, insufficient editorial teams and reluctance to change, present both in their teams and among the wider academic community. These phenomena are also expressed by the lack of policies or strategies for OA monographs in Poland. Monographs have long been perceived as a printed-only output necessary to prove one’s expertise and position in a discipline. Due to this tradition, electronic formats are often considered as supplementary to printed versions, whereas OA is perceived as lowering the prestige of a publication (Maryl et al. 2021). Policies – on the national or institutional level – are not necessary for the process to move forward, although their absence definitely hinders the effort and deepens the sense of loneliness in the struggle for OA publishing.

In response to the situation, OPERAS-PL conducts a project aimed at OA books’ publishing in the Polish humanities. Its purpose is to identify the needs of publishers and propose possible solutions, developed jointly in the course of activities initiated and moderated by the Polish node of OPERAS. We implemented various techniques and methods, such as: survey study, semi-structured interviews, and a design thinking workshop which provided in-depth insight into publishers’ needs, expectations and ways of thinking about solutions. The presentation will concentrate on the methods of building collaborations between various academic communities. Additional results will be reusable methodology of the study and recommendations for publishing houses. The project was funded by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science.
Do cosmological observations allow a negative $Λ$?
Creators: name: Sen, Anjan A.
name: Adil, Shahnawaz A.
name: Sen, Somasri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
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: In view of the recent measurement of $H_{0}$ from HST and SH0ES team, we explore the possibility of existence of a negative cosmological constant (AdS vacua in the dark energy sector) in the Universe. In this regard, we consider quintessence fields on top of a negative cosmological constant and compare such construction with $Λ$CDM model using a different combination of CMB, SnIa, BAO and $H_{0}$ data. Various model comparison estimators show that quintessence models with a negative $Λ$ is either preferred over $Λ$CDM or performs equally as $Λ$CDM model. This suggests that the presence of a negative $Λ$ (AdS ground state) in our Universe, which can naturally arise in string theory, is consistent with cosmological observations.
description: 9 pages, Latex style, 6 figures, 6 tables, Revised version with new discussions and results, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Constraints on Cardassian Expansion from Distant type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Zhu, Zong-Hong
name: Fujimoto, Masa-Katsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distant type Ia supernovae data compiled by Perlmutter et al. (1999) are used to analyze the Cardassian expansion scenario, which was recently proposed by Freese and Lewis (2002) as an alternative to a cosmological constant (or more generally a dark energy component) in explaining the currently accelerating universe. We show that the allowed intervals for $n$ and $z_{eq}$, the two parameters of the Cardassian model, will give rise to a universe with a very low matter density, which can hardly be reconciled with the current value derived from the measurements of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy and galaxy clusters (cluster baryon fraction). As a result, this Cardassian expansion proposal does not seem to survive the magnitude-redshift test for the present type Ia supernovae data, unless the universe contains primarily baryonic matter.
description: 3 figures, 1 table, uses aastex
VIVO-i18n - die aktuellen Entwicklungen im Bereich der Internationalisierung
Creators: name: Feldschnieders, Dominik
name: Lühr, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: VIVO
i18n
VIVO Workshop
TIB

description: Forscher bewegen sich zumeist in einem internationalem Umfeld. Idealerweise sollten also die Inhalte eines FIS mehrsprachig zur Verfügung stehen. Mit der geplanten VIVO Version 1.12 wird die Bearbeitung mehrsprachiger Inhalte in VIVO verbessert. Mit mehrsprachigen FIS-Inhalten lässt sich die Forschung nunmehr international besser zugänglich machen und vernetzen. In diesem Vortrag soll auf die diesbezüglichen Neuerungen in VIVO 1.12 eingegangen werden. Außerdem wird der Entwicklungsprozess innerhalb der Community vorgestellt, der von März 2020 bis Februar 2021 in mehreren wöchentlichen Sprints organisiert wurde.
Petroleum Cooperatives, 1993
Creators: name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: Dunn, John R.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: Dunn, John R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: cooperatives
subject: petroleum products
subject: refineries
subject: wholesale
subject: retail distribution

description: This report examines the vital role that agricultural cooperatives perform in providing petroleum products to farmers and rural America. All aspects of cooperative involvement are documented, from acquisition of crude oil and natural gas and crude oil refining, to the wholesale and retail distribution of refined petroleum products. Fifteen regional and interregional cooperatives responded to a survey that asked detailed information on their petroleum operations. Cooperatives continue to be an important supplier of petroleum products for farm production, having a 41 percent share of marketing activity in 1993.
The Sub-millimeter Rotational Spectrum of Ethylene Glycol up to 890 GHz and Application to ALMA Band 10 Spectral Line Data of NGC 6334I
Creators: name: Melosso, Mattia
name: Dore, Luca
name: Tamassia, Filippo
name: Brogan, Crystal L.
name: Hunter, Todd R.
name: McGuire, Brett A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rotational spectrum of the most stable conformer of ethylene glycol (HO(CH$_2$)$_2$OH) has been recorded between 360-890 GHz using a frequency-modulation sub-millimeter spectrometer. The refinement and extension of the spectroscopic parameters over previous efforts provides predicted catalog frequencies for ethylene glycol with sufficient accuracy for comparison to high-frequency astronomical data. The improvement in the cataloged line positions, and the need for improved accuracy enabled by high-frequency laboratory work, is demonstrated by an analysis of ethylene glycol emission at 890 GHz in the high-mass star-forming region NGC 6334I in ALMA Band 10 observations. The need for accurate rotational spectra at sub-millimeter wavelengths/THz frequencies is discussed.
description: accepted in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Effect of confinement on coil-globule transition
Creators: name: Mishra, P. K.
name: Kumar, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equilibrium thermodynamic properties of a linear polymer chain confined to a space between two impenetrable walls (lines) at a distance $D$ under various solvent conditions have been studied using series analysis and exact enumeration technique. We have calculated the end to end distance of polymer chain, which shows a non-monotonic behaviour with inter wall ^M separation $D$. The density distribution profile shows a maxima at a particular value of ${(D=)}D^*$. Around this $D^*$, our results show that the collapse^M transition occurs at higher temperature as compared to its bulk value of 2d and 3d. The variation of $θ-$ temperature with $D$ shows a re-entrance behaviour. We also calculate the force of compression exerted by the walls (lines) on the polymer.
description: 11 pages with 7 eps figures
Cooperatives and New Uses for Agricultural Products: An Assessment of the Fuel Ethanol Industry
Creators: name: Crooks, Anthony C.
name: Crooks, Anthony C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Farmer cooperatives
subject: ethanol
subject: Government policy

description: This report provides an overview of the ethanol fuel industry and documents involvement of farmer cooperatives in it. The market demand for ethanol is analyzed. Other factors influencing ethanol fuels development are also discussed, including the impact on profitability should Federal and/or State processing/production subsidies be reduced. This report suggests that potential investors examine the prospects carefully prior to involving themselves in the fuel ethanol industry at any time in the near future. The virtual existence of the fuel ethanol industry depends upon Government subsidies and commensurate political support. Neither of these conditions has gone unchallenged.
Top 5 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (2020-2022)
Creators: name: Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: CESSDA
Research data
EOSC
Open Science
KPI
Research Capacity Building
Data reuse
Metadata
ESFRI
Open data

description: This brief presents the top five Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) from 2020 to 2022. CESSDA, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), aims to promote high-quality, trusted social science research by providing integrated and sustainable data services across its Service Providers (i.e., national social science data archives) from 22 member countries. The brief highlights CESSDA's progress in five key areas: 1) enhancing access to data and publications (measured by the number of primary digital objects and associated publications); 2) supporting multidisciplinary research projects for Europe's digital future and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); 3) empowering education and building research capacity through lectures, workshops, and training events; 4) improving public engagement and research transparency, tracked by website and tool visits; and 5) optimising return on investment in social science research by enabling data reuse. The brief also acknowledges data limitations due to variations across Service Providers and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It concludes by encouraging future collaborations and reaffirming CESSDA's ongoing commitment to advancing open science.
LOCAL PETROLEUM OPERATIONS
Creators: name: Chesnick, David S.
name: Chesnick, David S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: petroleum
subject: local cooperatives
subject: petroleum operation

description: Local cooperatives play a prominent role in providing farmers with agricultural inputs. They are important to the farmer and the rural community as a whole. One of the most important products distributed to the rural community is petroleum. This report examines petroleum operations of local cooperatives and their importance to the rural community. The main emphasis is on cooperative product mix, services, supply source, and competition. Cooperatives are analyzed based on various characteristics such as size, type, and region.
Design of an indium arsenide cell for near-field thermophotovoltaic devices
Creators: name: Milovich, Daniel
name: Villa, Juan
name: Antolin, Elisa
name: Datas, Alejandro
name: Marti, Antonio
name: Vaillon, Rodolphe
name: Francoeur, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An indium arsenide photovoltaic cell with gold front contacts is designed for use in a near-field thermophotovoltaic (NF-TPV) device consisting of millimeter-size surfaces separated by a nanosize vacuum gap. The device operates with a doped silicon radiator maintained at a temperature of 800 K. The architecture of the photovoltaic cell, including the emitter and base thicknesses, the doping level of the base, and the front contact grid parameters, are optimized for maximizing NF-TPV power output. This is accomplished by solving radiation and charge transport in the cell via fluctuational electrodynamics and the minority charge carrier continuity equations, in addition to accounting for the shading losses due to the front contacts and additional series resistance losses introduced by the front contacts and the substrate. The results reveal that these additional loss mechanisms negatively affect NF-TPV performance in a non-negligible manner, and that the maximum power output is a trade-off between shading losses and series resistance losses introduced by the front contacts. For instance, when the cell is optimized for a 1 x 1 mm2 device operating at a vacuum gap of 100 nm, the losses introduced by the front contacts reduce the maximum power output by a factor of ~ 2.5 compared to the idealized case when no front contact grid is present. If the optimized grid for the 1 x 1 mm2 device is scaled up for a 5 x 5 mm2 device, the maximum power output is only increased by a factor of ~ 1.08 with respect to the 1 x 1 mm2 case despite an increase of the surface area by a factor of 25. This work demonstrates that the photovoltaic cell in a NF-TPV device must be designed not only for a specific radiator temperature, but also for specific gap thickness and device surface area.
description: 48 pages; 6 figures; 4 tables; 2 supplementary figures
Wedge disclination in the field theory of elastoplasticity
Creators: name: Lazar, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the wedge disclination within the elastoplastic defect theory. Using the stress function method we found exact analytical solutions for all characteristic fields of a straight wedge disclination in a cylinder. The elastic stress, elastic strain, elastic bend-twist, displacement and rotation have no singularities at the disclination line. We found a modified stress function for the wedge disclination.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Core-Envelope Coupling in Intermediate-Mass Core-Helium Burning Stars
Creators: name: Tayar, Jamie
name: Beck, Paul G.
name: Pinsonneault, Marc H.
name: García, Rafael A.
name: Mathur, Savita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars between two and three solar masses rotate rapidly on the main sequence, and the detection of slow core and surface rotation in the core-helium burning phase for these stars places strong constraints on their angular momentum transport and loss. From a detailed asteroseismic study of the mixed-dipole mode pattern in a carefully selected, representative sample of stars, we find that slow core rotation rates in the range reported by prior studies are a general phenomenon and not a selection effect. We show that the core rotation rates of these stars decline strongly with decreasing surface gravity during the core He-burning phase. We argue that this is a model-independent indication of significant rapid angular momentum transport between the cores and envelopes of these stars. We see a significant range in core rotation rates at all surface gravities, with little evidence for a convergence towards a uniform value. We demonstrate using evolutionary models that measured surface rotation periods are a biased tracer of the true surface rotation distribution, and argue for using stellar models for interpreting the contrast between core and surface rotation rates. The core rotation rates we measure do not have a strong mass or metallicity dependence. We argue that the emerging data strongly favors a model where angular momentum transport is much more efficient during the core He burning phase than in the shell burning phases which precede and follow it.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
A Strategic Planning Study of the Dairy Herd Improvement System
Creators: name: Wadsworth, James J.
name: Wadsworth, James J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: dairy herd improvement, goals, strategic direction, planning

description: This report provides an overview and strategic planning study of the dairy herd improvement (DHI) system, concentrating on assessing current trends and conditions of the industry and how DHI organizations are structured within it. Information is provided for the principal DHI organizations to carry out strategic planning. Opinions from DHI managers provide an internal assessment of where the industry is headed and in what areas leaders need to plan to better position their organizations for the future. A strategic planning model is developed to analyze industry trends, define available strategies, and evaluate alternative directions DHI organizations can take as they strive to achieve organizational and systemwide goals.
Leptostylus pleurostictus Bates 1863
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Leptostylus
Leptostylus pleurostictus

description: 57. Leptostylus pleurostictus Bates, 1863
Type locality — Brazil, Amazonas: Ega [Tefé]. (MNHN). Distribution — Brazil (Amazonas), Peru.
 Leptostylus pleurostictus Bates, 1863: 102; Monné & Hoffmann, 1981: 261, fig. 14.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
When and Why do Plants Comply? Paper Mills in the 1980s
Creators: name: Gray, Wayne B.
name: Shadbegian, Ronald J.
name: Gray, Wayne B.
name: Shadbegian, Ronald J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Air Pollution Regulation
subject: Compliance
subject: Enforcement
subject: Inspections

description: This paper examines differences in compliance with air pollution regulation for U.S. pulp and paper mills. Our analysis is based on confidential, plant-level Census data from the Longitudinal Research Database for 116 pulp and paper mills, covering the 1979-1990 period. The LRD provides us with data on shipments, investment, productivity, age, and production technology. We also have plant-level pollution abatement expenditures from the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures (PACE) survey. Using ownership data, we link in firm-level financial data taken from Compustat, identifying firm size and profitability. Finally, we use several regulatory data sets. From EPA, the Compliance Data System provides measures of air pollution enforcement activity and compliance status during the period, while the Permit Compliance System and the Toxic Release Inventory provide information on other pollution media. OSHA's Integrated Management Information System provides data on OSHA enforcement and compliance. We find significant effects of some plant characteristics on compliance rates: plants which include a pulping process, which are older, and which are larger are all less likely to be in compliance. Compliance also seems to be correlated across media: plants violating water pollution or OSHA regulations are more likely to violate air pollution regulations. Firm-level characteristics are not significant determinants of compliance rates. Once we control for the endogeneity of regulatory enforcement, we find the expected positive relationship between enforcement and compliance. We also find some differences across plants and firms in their responsiveness to enforcement. Pulp mills, already less likely to be in compliance, are also less sensitive to inspections. Some firm characteristics also matter here: plants owned by larger firms, whether measured in terms of their employment or by the number of other paper mills they own, are less sensitive to inspections and more sensitive to other enforcement actions, consistent with our expectations and with other researcher’s results.
Semi-Transparent Shear Turbulence in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
Creators: name: Menou, Kristen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulent transport driven by secular shear instabilities can lead to enhanced vertical mixing in hot Jupiter atmospheres, impacting their cloudiness, chemistry and overall vertical structure. We discuss the turbulent regime expected and evaluate theoretical uncertainties on the strength of the vertical mixing (i.e, $K_{\rm zz}$ values). We focus our work on three well-studied hot Jupiters with a hierarchy of atmospheric temperatures: HD189733b ($T_{\rm eq} \simeq 1200$K), HD209458b ($T_{\rm eq} \simeq 1450$K) and Kepler7b ($T_{\rm eq} \simeq 1630$K). $K_{\rm zz}$ uncertainties are large. They are dominated by i) the poorly understood magnitude of turbulent transport and ii) the semi-transparent nature of shear turbulence near the planetary photosphere. Using a specific Moore-Spiegel instability threshold, we infer that the cooler HD189733b is not subject to enhanced mixing from semi-transparent shear turbulence while the daysides of the hotter Kepler7b and (marginally so) HD209458b are. Enhanced vertical mixing is generally expected to manifest on hot enough exoplanets, with $T_{\rm eq} > 1500-1600$K. On a given planet, day and night $K_{\rm zz}$ profiles can differ by an order of magnitude or more. Vertical mixing is slightly favoured in equatorial regions, where the atmospheric zonal shear is strongest. In all three planetary cases studied, momentum feedback on the atmospheric mean flow is minor to negligible.
description: MNRAS accepted
A Change of PACE: Comparing the 1994 and 1999 Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures Surveys
Creators: name: Becker, Randy A.
name: Shadbegian, Ronald J.
name: Becker, Randy A.
name: Shadbegian, Ronald J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: pollution abatement
subject: survey data
subject: environmental costs
subject: manufacturing

description: Since 1973, the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures (PACE) survey has been the principle source of information on U.S. industries’ capital expenditure and operating costs associated with pollution abatement efforts. The PACE survey was discontinued after 1994 and then revived in 1999 for one year – in a substantially different form than the preceding surveys however, making longitudinal analysis quite difficult. Conceptual differences include matters as fundamental as the scope and meaning of pollution abatement as well as the definition of operating costs. A number of other critical changes also exist, including ones of industrial coverage and sample selection. This paper is the first comprehensive effort to document the many changes in the PACE survey across these years and to provide a detailed guide for researchers and policymakers who wish to compare the 1994 and 1999 data. Overall, we find a 27% decline in environmental spending by the manufacturing sector between these two years, though there appears to be significant heterogeneity across industries. We discuss potential reasons for this dramatic decline, focusing mainly on issues of survey methodology and design. This paper should help inform current efforts to redevelop the PACE survey and re-establish it as a regular, annual survey.
PACE Survey: Background, Applications, and Data Quality Issues
Creators: name: Ross, Martin T.
name: Gallaher, Michael P.
name: Murray, Brian C.
name: Throneburg, Wanda W.
name: Levinson, Arik
name: Ross, Martin T.
name: Gallaher, Michael P.
name: Murray, Brian C.
name: Throneburg, Wanda W.
name: Levinson, Arik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: pollution abatement
subject: survey design
subject: costs
subject: expenditures

description: The only comprehensive source of the actual costs of environmental abatement activities in the United States has been the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures (PACE) survey. This survey collects facility-level data on capital and operating costs of pollution abatement, focusing on facilities in the manufacturing, mining, and electric utility industries. The cost information reflects most environmentally related expenditures, including compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, and voluntary or market-driven pollution abatement activities. Between 1973 and 1994 (but excluding 1987), the Bureau of Census conducted the PACE survey annually. After a 5-year lapse, it was reinstated in 2000, following a redesign, and collected data on 1999 expenditures. Subsequent to the 1999 PACE survey, no further surveys have been conducted. This report discusses the PACE survey and issues surrounding it, and offers suggestions for how to address some of these issues. This report is part of a larger project under contract with US EPA to redesign the PACE Survey with the goal of developing a survey that will be implemented on an annual basis.
Robustness of VSL Values from Contingent Valuation Surveys
Creators: name: Alberini, Anna
name: Alberini, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: contingent valuation
subject: VSL
subject: WTP
subject: risk reductions
subject: robustness
subject: outliers
subject: endogeneity

description: This paper examines factors that may influence the estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life obtained from contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of distributional assumptions, the choice of the welfare statistics of interest, the procedure for computing them, outliers, undesirable response effects, and internal validity of the WTP responses. We illustrate the importance of these factors using dichotomous-choice and open-ended WTP data from four recent contingent valuation surveys.
D7.1 Conceptual Framework - Revised
Creators: name: Costa, Hugo P.
name: Sousa, Andreia
name: Lourenço, Tiago Capela
name: Swart, Rob
name: Coelho, Ricardo Encarnação
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Conceptual Framework
Blue Economy
Islands
policy and decision making
Participatory process
Shared Policy Assumptions

description: Work Package 7:
 Ranking and Mapping transition pathways in islands and enabling networking and information system for regional and EU policy design
 Deliverable 7.1. Conceptual Framework (Revised) The SOCLIMPACT framework is designed to combine a participatory approach (considering Sector Partners, IFPs and the stakeholders in the regions) to downscale the EU SSPs focusing on the literature available at European level.
 The aims, objectives and scope regarding work about policy pathways are:
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 ✓ Create Blue Economy sector pathways and scenarios on climate change at the island scale in a European context;
 ✓ Develop a framework for policy and decision making in the islands’ context that enable the assessment of the socio-economic implications of climate change and opportunities that may emerge;
 ✓ Combine different climate projections (based on RCPs) with scenarios of socioeconomic conditions (based on SSPs) and assess impacts, incorporating the outputs and results provided by other WPs deliverables;
 ✓ Develop adaptation scenarios - Shared Policy Assumptions (SPAs);1
 ✓ Develop criteria to test and prioritize SPAs (policy options) under different scenarios (SSP-RCP) considering the islands’ context;
 ✓ Incorporate risk assessment developed in the project (WP3 and WP4) in the pathways of adaptation development.
Leptostylus plumeoventris Linsley 1934
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Leptostylus
Leptostylus plumeoventris

description: 58. Leptostylus plumeoventris Linsley, 1934
Type locality — Mexico, Islas Tres Marías: Isla María Madre. (CASC). Distribution — Mexico (Nayarit, Islas Tres Marías).
 Leptostylus plumeoventris Linsley, 1934b: 109; 1942: 89; Chemsak et al., 1992: 140 (cat.); Noguera & Chemsak, 1996: 406 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
The effect of the early kinetic decoupling in a fermionic dark matter model
Creators: name: Abe, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of the early kinetic decoupling in a model of fermionic dark matter (DM) that interacts with the standard model particles only by exchanging the Higgs boson. There are two DM-Higgs couplings, namely CP-conserving and CP-violating couplings. If the mass of the DM is slightly below half of the Higgs boson mass, then the couplings are suppressed to obtain the measured value of the DM energy density by the freeze-out mechanism. In addition, the scattering processes of DM off particles in the thermal bath are suppressed by the small momentum transfer if the CP-violating DM-Higgs coupling is larger than the CP-conserving one. Due to the suppression, the temperature of the DM can differ from the temperature of the thermal bath. By solving coupled equations for the number density and temperature of the DM, we calculate the DM-Higgs couplings that reproduce the right amount of the DM relic abundance. We find that the couplings have to be larger than the one obtained without taking into account the difference in the temperatures. A consequence of the enhancement of the DM-Higgs couplings is the enhancement of the Higgs invisible decay branching ratio. The enhancement is testable at current and future collider experiments.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures; typo corrected, updated the constraint from the Higgs invisible decay
Electrohydraulic full-forward extrusion of small parts through high aspect ratio forming channels
Creators: name: Langstädtler, L.
name: Herrmann, M.
name: Schenck, C.
name: Kuhfuss, B.
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: micro production
subject: optical process monitoring
subject: impulse bulk forming
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: Electrohydraulic incremental bulk forming was introduced as a novel micro part forming technology. Forming of parts from different materials and different initial diameter values was investigated in single-stage full-forward extrusion in recent work. In this paper, multi-stage extrusion in high aspect ratio forming channels is presented. Thereby, the aspect ratio of forming channel is high, when the channel length is much higher than the channel diameter and formed part length. Analytical and experimental investigations are carried out to correlate the supplied and required energy for extrusion. Experiments were made using an optical access made of sapphire as part of the extrusion channel to measure the position during forming increments. The influence of channel depth and curvature as well as of fluctuations in the transmitting media on the energy transmission to the formed EN AW-6061 aluminum alloy parts were found to be low.
PyCIL: A Python Toolbox for Class-Incremental Learning
Creators: name: Zhou, Da-Wei
name: Wang, Fu-Yun
name: Ye, Han-Jia
name: Zhan, De-Chuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traditional machine learning systems are deployed under the closed-world setting, which requires the entire training data before the offline training process. However, real-world applications often face the incoming new classes, and a model should incorporate them continually. The learning paradigm is called Class-Incremental Learning (CIL). We propose a Python toolbox that implements several key algorithms for class-incremental learning to ease the burden of researchers in the machine learning community. The toolbox contains implementations of a number of founding works of CIL such as EWC and iCaRL, but also provides current state-of-the-art algorithms that can be used for conducting novel fundamental research. This toolbox, named PyCIL for Python Class-Incremental Learning, is available at https://github.com/G-U-N/PyCIL
description: Accepted to SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences. Code is available at https://github.com/G-U-N/PyCIL
Are $Θ^+$ and the Roper resonance diquark-diquark-antiquark states?
Creators: name: Matheus, R. D.
name: Navarra, F. S.
name: Nielsen, M.
name: da Silva, R. Rodrigues
name: Lee, S. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a $[ud]^2\bar{s}$ current in the QCD sum rule framework to study the mass of the recently observed pentaquark state $Θ^+(1540)$, obtaining good agreement with the experimental value. We also study the mass of the pentaquark $[ud]^2\bar{d}$. Our results are compatible with the interpretation of the $[ud]^2\bar{d}$ state as being the Roper resonance N(1440), as suggested by Jaffe and Wilczek.
description: 9 pages RevTex4 and 3 eps figures. Revised version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
Numerical Identification of Design Parameters for Electromagnetic Forming
Creators: name: Stiemer, M.
name: Nezhi, Z.
name: Rathjen, K.
name: Zazai, F.
name: Hagel, M.
name: Rozgic, M.
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: metal forming
subject: machine learning
subject: finite element method
subject: design optimization
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: In this work, approaches to the identification of high speed forming processes, whose simu lation requires models from different parts of physics are discussed. Particularly emphasis is laid on situations in which it is possible to break off the coupling and to profit from partial solutions for the design of the whole process. Such situations arise if it is possible to select relevant features that allow for a stable transfer of information between the different models. Creating situations in which a sequential approach to a coupled problem is favourably pos sible requires a profound process understanding. As an example, an electromagnetic form ing process is considered here. Approaches at identifying a coil geometry for electromag netic forming are discussed in case of an exemplary case involving the definition of a suitable feature-list and the study of several methods to tackle the electromagnetic subproblem, in cluding Nelder Mead Simplex Search, a combination of it with a neural network as surrogate model, and optimization via a neural network. These approaches are compared to each other, and quantitative results are given.
A polarized synchrotron template for CMBP experiments after WMAP data
Creators: name: Bernardi, G.
name: Carretti, E.
name: Fabbri, R.
name: Sbarra, C.
name: Poppi, S.
name: Cortiglioni, S.
name: Jonas, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We build template maps for the polarized Galactic--synchrotron emission on large angular scales (FWHM =~7$^\circ$), in the 20-90 GHz microwave range, by using WMAP data. The method, presented in a recent work, requires a synchrotron total intensity survey and the {\it polarization horizon} to model the polarized intensity and a starlight polarization map to model polarization angles. The basic template is obtained directly at 23 GHz with about 94% sky--coverage by using the synchrotron map released by the WMAP team. Extrapolations to 32, 60 and 90 GHz are performed by computing a synchrotron spectral index map, which strongly reduces previous uncertainties in passing from low (1.4 GHz) to microwave frequencies. Differing from low frequency data, none of our templates presents relevant structures out of the Galactic Plane. Our map at 90 GHz suggests that the synchrotron emission at high Galactic latitudes is low enough to allow a robust detection of the $E$--mode component of the cosmological signal on large--scale, even in models with low--reionization ($τ= 0.05$). Detection of the weaker $B$--mode on the largest scales ($\ell < 10$) might be jeopardized unless the value $τ= 0.17$ found by WMAP is confirmed, and $T/S > 0.1$. For lower levels of the gravitational--wave background the $B$--mode seems to be accessible only at the $\ell \sim 100$ peak and in selected low--synchrotron emission areas.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures, accepted for pubblications by MNRAS. For a version with full resolution color figures see http://sp0rt.bo.iasf.cnr.it:8080/Docs/Public/papers.php
Investigation of Turn Number of the Coil on Tube Forming Performance in Electromagnetic Pulse Forming
Creators: name: Wang, Xianmin
name: Li, Chengxiang
name: Zhou, Yan
name: Du, Jian
name: Liao, Zhingang
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: magnetic pulse forming
subject: turn number
subject: coil
subject: 620
subject: 670

description: Electromagnetic pulse forming (EMPF) is an environmentally friendly and high-speed forming method without pollution generating. As the key component for energy conversion, the coil has a significant influence on the forming performance. Consequently, this paper aims to study the effect of the turn number of the coil on the performance of the tube forming through the theoretical analysis model and experiments. Based on the connection among the electrical parameters of the coil, the current parameters of the discharge pulse, and electromagnetic force, a theoretical model is built to analyze the qualitative connection between the number of turns of the coil and the amount of forming. Then, the EMPF experiments with the same discharge energy of 3.4kJ are carried out to verify the established model through the established EMPF equipment. The experimental results are consistent with the theoretical analysis. The results show that the peak value of the current amplitude and rise time of the pulse decrease respectively with the increase of the number of turns of the coil because the increments of the number of turns lead to the rising coil inductance. But the forming amount of the tube increases first and then decreases. So there is an optimal value of the turn number for the coil to generate the maximum Lorentz force to deform the workpiece. Therefore, it is worthwhile to choose the proper number of coil turn to improve the effect of EMPF.
The Economic Impacts of Aquatic Invasive Species: A Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Lovell, Sabrina J.
name: Stone, Susan F.
name: Lovell, Sabrina J.
name: Stone, Susan F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Aquatic Invasive Species
subject: Costs
subject: Literature Review

description: Invasive species are a growing threat in the United States, causing losses in biodiversity, changes in ecosystems, and impacts to economic enterprises such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, power production, and international trade. The costs of preventing and controlling invasive species are not well understood or documented, but estimates indicate that the costs are quite high, in the range of millions to billions of dollars per year. EPA’s Office of Water needs to develop a national estimate of the costs of aquatic invasive species and the benefits of control. This review of the economic literature on invasive species is the first stage in the development of that estimate. The review includes studies on fish, mollusks, crustaceans, invertebrates, and plants. There are few theoretical, and even fewer empirical, studies dealing with the economic costs of aquatic invasive species. Due to the high level of invasions in the Great Lakes, a number of studies focus on species found there, and on Zebra Mussels in particular. The aquatic studies reviewed show values ranging from several hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to tens of millions of dollars a year. It seems apparent that a systematic approach is needed to develop a consistent method to estimate such costs. As the literature points out, invasive species and their control have definite public good aspects and thus call for some level of government intervention. However, to what extent and what form that intervention takes place depends on myriad of issues associated with both the region and the species involved. Optimal policy appears to be as unique as the individual species or ecosystem it is attempting to control and protect.
Probing and manipulating embryogenesis via nanoscale thermometry and temperature control
Creators: name: Choi, Joonhee
name: Zhou, Hengyun
name: Landig, Renate
name: Wu, Hai-Yin
name: Yu, Xiaofei
name: Von Stetina, Stephen
name: Kucsko, Georg
name: Mango, Susan
name: Needleman, Daniel
name: Samuel, Aravinthan D. T.
name: Maurer, Peter
name: Park, Hongkun
name: Lukin, Mikhail D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Understanding the coordination of cell division timing is one of the outstanding questions in the field of developmental biology. One active control parameter of the cell cycle duration is temperature, as it can accelerate or decelerate the rate of biochemical reactions. However, controlled experiments at the cellular-scale are challenging due to the limited availability of biocompatible temperature sensors as well as the lack of practical methods to systematically control local temperatures and cellular dynamics. Here, we demonstrate a method to probe and control the cell division timing in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos using a combination of local laser heating and nanoscale thermometry. Local infrared laser illumination produces a temperature gradient across the embryo, which is precisely measured by in-vivo nanoscale thermometry using quantum defects in nanodiamonds. These techniques enable selective, controlled acceleration of the cell divisions, even enabling an inversion of division order at the two cell stage. Our data suggest that the cell cycle timing asynchrony of the early embryonic development in C. elegans is determined independently by individual cells rather than via cell-to-cell communication. Our method can be used to control the development of multicellular organisms and to provide insights into the regulation of cell division timings as a consequence of local perturbations.
description: 6+6 pages, 4+9 figures