cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Invention and Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies on a Global Scale: A Study Drawing on Patent Data
Creators: name: Dechezlepretre, Antoine
name: Glachant, Matthieu
name: Hascic, Ivan
name: Johnstone, Nick
name: Meniere, Yann
name: Dechezlepretre, Antoine
name: Glachant, Matthieu
name: Hascic, Ivan
name: Johnstone, Nick
name: Meniere, Yann
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate Change
subject: Mitigation Technologies
subject: Patent Data

description: Accelerating the development of less GHG intensive technologies and promoting their global diffusion - in particular in fast-growing emerging economies - is imperative in achieving the transition to a low-carbon economy. Consequently, technology is at the core of current discussions about the post-Kyoto regime. The purpose of this study is to fuel this discussion by providing an in-depth analysis of the geographic distribution of climate mitigation inventions since 1978 and their international diffusion on a global scale. We use the EPO/OECD World Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT) which includes patents from 81 national and international patent offices. Note that the Least Developed Countries patent a negligible number of inventions, meaning that the geographical scope of the study is limited to industrialized countries and emerging economies. In this study, patent counts are used to measure the output of innovation but also the transfer of inventions across borders on the ground that an innovator patents his/her invention in a foreign country because he/she plans to exploit it commercially there. They are the only indicator available today that provides a comprehensive view on innovation and technology diffusion on a global scale. Patent data also present drawbacks. First, patents are not the only tool available to inventors to protect their inventions. Second, successful technology transfers also involve the transfer of know-how. Still one can reasonably assume that patent counts are positively correlated to the quantity of non-patented innovations and transfers. We consider 13 different classes of technologies with significant global GHG emission abatement potentials, and analyze inventive activities and international technology transfer between 1978 and 2003. The technologies considered are seven renewable energy technologies (wind, solar, geothermal, ocean energy, biomass, waste-to-energy, and hydropower), methane destruction, climate-friendly cement, energy conservation in buildings, motor vehicle fuel injection, energy-efficient lighting and Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS).
Quintessence as k-essence
Creators: name: Aguirregabiria, Juan M.
name: Chimento, Luis P.
name: Lazkoz, Ruth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quintessence and k-essence have been proposed as candidates for the dark energy component of the universe that would be responsible of the currently observed accelerated expansion. In this paper we investigate the degree of resemblance between those two theoretical setups, and find that every quintessence model can be viewed as a k-essence model generated by a kinetic linear function. In addition, we show the true effects of k-essence begin at second order in the expansion of the kinetic function in powers of the kinetic energy.
description: 14 pages, improved discussion, matches published version
Description, analysis and prediction of player actions in selected hockey game situations
Creators: name: Li, Fahong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Motion is an important cue to the intentions of active agents in environments involving collaboration and competition. We demonstrate this in the domain of ice hockey. We develop a framework to represent and reason about hockey behaviors using as input actual player motion trajectory data tracked from game video and supported by knowledge of hockey strategy, game context and specific player profiles. The raw player motion trajectory data consists of space-time point sequences of forward/backward skating registered to rink coordinates. This is augmented with knowledge of possession of the puck and specific player attributes (e.g., shoots left, shoots right). We focus on the analysis of three clearly identifiable situations: 2-on-l offensive attacks, defensive zone breakouts and power play shots from the point. We use a Finite State Machine (FSM) model to represent our total knowledge of a given situation and develop evaluation functions for primitive hockey behaviors (e.g., pass, shot). Based on the augmented trajectory data, the FSMs and the evaluation functions, we describe what happened in each identified situation, assess the outcome, estimate when and where key play choices were made, and attempt to predict whether better alternatives were available to achieve understood goals. A textual natural language description and a simple 2D graphic animation of the analysis are produced as the output. The graphic animation is useful for interactive visualization and debugging. The textual description also provides potentially useful annotation for large databases of player motion trajectories. The framework is flexible to allow the substitution of different analysis modules and extensible to allow the inclusion of additional hockey situations. We expect that the methodology and the framework can be generalized and applied in other domains, such as soccer, basketball, traffic flow control and people surveillance.
Shedding Light on Moire Excitons: A First-Principles Perspective
Creators: name: Guo, Hongli
name: Zhang, Xu
name: Lu, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Moire superlattices in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures could trap strongly bonded and long lived interlayer excitons. Assumed to be localized, these moire excitons could form ordered quantum dot arrays, paving the way for novel optoelectronic and quantum information applications. Here we perform first principles simulations to shed light on moire excitons in twisted MoS2/WS2 heterostructures. We provide the direct evidence of localized interlayer moire excitons in vdW heterostructures. The moire potentials are mapped out based on spatial modulations of energy gaps. Nearly flat valence bands are observed in the heterostructures without magic angles. The dependence of spatial localization and binding energy of the moire excitons on the twist angle of the heterostructures is examined. We explore how electric field can be tuned to control the position, polarity, emission energy, and hybridization strength of the moire excitons. We predict that alternating electric fields could modulate the dipole moments of hybridized moire excitons and suppress their diffusion in Moire lattices.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures
Stationary Consistent Equilibrium Coalition Structures Constitute the Recursive Core
Creators: name: Koczy, Laszlo A.
name: Koczy, Laszlo A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Partition Function
subject: Externalities
subject: Implementation
subject: Recursive Core
subject: Stationary Perfect Equilibrium
subject: Time Consistent Equilibrium

description: We study coalitional games where the proceeds from cooperation depend on the entire coalition structure. The coalition structure core (Kóczy, 2007) is a generalisation of the coalition structure core for such games. We introduce a noncooperative, sequential coalition formation model and show that the set of equilibrium outcomes coincides with the recursive core. In order to extend past results to games that are not totally balanced (understood in this special setting) we introduce subgame-consistency that requires perfectness in relevant subgames only, while subgames that are never reached are ignored.
Quark Mass and the QCD Transition
Creators: name: Mocsy, Agnes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss different aspects of the quark mass dependence of the chiral and deconfinement transitions. We make predictions for locating the deconfining critical point, by analyzing the $m_q$ dependence of the ratio of imaginary and real mass of the Polyakov loop. We then present an effective theory that allows the extraction of coupling constants from available lattice data for the temperature dependence of the chiral and Polyakov loop condensates at different quark masses.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Wind Power: The Economic Impact of Intermittency
Creators: name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Wind power
subject: carbon costs
subject: electricity grids
subject: mathematical programming

description: Wind is the fastest growing renewable energy source for generating electricity, but economic research lags behind. In this study, therefore, we examine the economics of integrating large-scale wind energy into an existing electrical grid. Using a simple grid management model to investigate the impact of various levels of wind penetration on grid management costs, we show that costs of reducing CO2 emissions by relying more on wind power depend on the generation mix of the existing electricity grid and the degree of wind penetration, with costs ranging from $21 to well over $1000 per tonne of CO2 reduced. Costs are lowest if wind displaces large amounts of fossil fuel production and there is some hydroelectric power to act as a buffer. Hydro capacity has the ability to store wind generated power for use at more opportune times. If wind does nothing more than replace hydro or nuclear power then the environmental benefits (reduced CO2 emissions) of investing in wind power are small.
TEACHING NOTE FOR CASE STUDY: “STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY: INNOVATION AND NEW PRODUCT INTRODUCTION DURING VOLATILE TIMES
Creators: name: Roucan-Kane, Maud
name: Boehlje, Michael
name: Roucan-Kane, Maud
name: Boehlje, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: teaching note
subject: uncertainty
subject: innovation
subject: real options
subject: portfolio

description: This teaching note accompanies the case study titled “Strategic Decision Making under Uncertainty: Innovation and New Product Introduction during Volatile Times” published under the reference: Boehlje, M. And M. Roucan-Kane, ”Strategic Decision Making under Uncertainty: Innovation and New Product Introduction during Volatile Times”, International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 12 (4), 2009. This case study outlines the strategic, marketing, and organizational issues facing the farm machinery and equipment division of Deere and Company as it is considering the development of products in the information domain, which encompasses many opportunities of disruptive innovations to market to new or underserved customers. While these disruptive innovations face uncertainties and challenges, they can also, if successful, generate more profits. Instructors can use the case to discuss uncertainties and tools to mitigate risk. Readers must think strategically about innovation and the uncertainties associated with each innovation project. Beyond a listing of uncertainties, readers are also challenged to think about ways to mitigate risk through the use of real options, an options portfolio, and organizational structure. This teaching note presents some suggested answers to the discussion questions presented in the case study.
ASSESSMENT OF THE USE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICT) ON THE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF AGRO-BASED FOOD INDUSTRIES IN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA
Creators: name: Ayinde, I.A.
name: Agbonlahor, M.U.
name: Mafimisebi, Taiwo Ejiola
name: Adebayo, O.A.
name: Ayinde, I.A.
name: Agbonlahor, M.U.
name: Mafimisebi, Taiwo Ejiola
name: Adebayo, O.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The use of Information Communication technologies (ICTs) as a management tool has gained widespread significance in recent years and the stock of management advantages provided by ICT cuts across disciplines and sectors. Management experts see this globalization of management options as the “super production and marketing input” needed by firms to boost their competitive edge. This paper assesses the adoption and use of ICTs on the economic performance of Agro-industries (ABFIs) in South-West, Nigeria. Primary data were collected from a total of 80 respondents from the study area. Budgetary analysis, t-test of mean differences and multiple regressions were used in the data analysis to actualise the study objectives. In assessing the effect of ICTs on the economic performance of the companies, the “before and after” scenarios were analysed. The results revealed an increase of about 14 percent increase in total profit after adoption of ICTs. The reduction in marketing cost brought about by adopting ICT s were found to be largely responsible for the increase in profit of the ICT adopting firms. The results also revealed that irrespective of the scale of operation, there was a general reduction in total marketing cost due to ICT adoption. The Cobb Douglas function fitted to explain the cost effect relationship between yearly firms’ expenditure on ICTs and firm’s characteristics revealed that the proportion of ICT literate staff to the total staff strength and age of firm were found to be significant positive determinants of ICTs expenditure. The study recommends the adoption and use of ICTs by agro-based firms as a cutting edge input that is not only cost effective but more efficient in the long run.
Does interdisciplinary science truly exist?
Creators: name: Viceconti, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: interdisciplinary research
subject: Epistemology
subject: justified true belief

description: In a short (685 words) position paper, we argue that interdisciplinary research domains lack the pragmatic epistemology necessary to decide how to produce new scientific knowledge in that specific domain.  Because of this, Interdisciplinary scientists need to understand the philosophical basis of their work and spend time debating how to decide what is true.
Characteristics, Costs, and Issues for Organic Dairy Farming
Creators: name: McBride, William D.
name: Greene, Catherine R.
name: McBride, William D.
name: Greene, Catherine R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Production Economics
subject: dairy
subject: organic
subject: milk production
subject: costs of production
subject: pasture
subject: Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS)

description: Organic milk production has been one of the fastest growing segments of organic agriculture in the United States in recent years. Despite the growing number of organic dairy operations, the characteristics of organic dairy operations and the relative costs of organic and conventional milk production have been difficult to analyze. This study, using 2005 ARMS data for U.S. dairy operations, which include a targeted sample of organic milk producers, examines the structure, costs, and challenges of organic milk production. The analysis addresses economies of size, regional differences, and pasture use in organic milk production and compares organic and conventional milk production costs. The findings suggest that economic forces have made organic operations more like conventional operations and that the future structure of the industry may depend on the interpretation and implementation of new organic pasture rules.
Gravitational interaction through a feedback mechanism
Creators: name: Gaona-Reyes, José Luis
name: Carlesso, Matteo
name: Bassi, Angelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the models of Kafri, Taylor and Milburn (KTM) and Tilloy and Diósi (TD), both of which implement gravity between quantum systems through a continuous measurement and feedback mechanism. The first model is for two particles, moving in one dimension, where the Newtonian potential is linearized. The second is applicable to any quantum system, within the context of Newtonian gravity. We address the issue of how to generalize the KTM model for an arbitrary finite number of particles. We find that the most straightforward generalisations are either inconsistent or are ruled out by experimental evidence. We also show that the TD model does not reduce to the KTM model under the approximations which define the latter model. We then argue that under the simplest conditions, the TD model is the only viable implementation of a full-Newtonian interaction through a continuous measurement and feedback mechanism.
Direct Detection of Intermediate Mass Compact Objects via Submillilensing
Creators: name: Inoue, Kaiki Taro
name: Chiba, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A galaxy-sized halo may contain a large number of intermediate mass (10^{2-4} solar mass) compact objects (IMCOs), which can be intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) or the CDM subhalos. We propose to directly detect the IMBHs by observing multiply imaged QSO-galaxy lens systems with a high angular resolution (~ 0.03mas), which would be achieved by the next-VLBI space missions. The silhouette of the IMBHs would appear as an either monopole-like or dipole-like variation at the scale of the Einstein radius against the QSO jets. As a byproduct, we can also directly detect the 10^{4-5} solar mass CDM subhalos. From a measurement of the local distortion in the surface brightness of the QSO jet, we can make a distinction between a point mass (corresponding to an IMBH) and an extended structure (corresponding to a CDM subhalo). It would be a unique probe of the IMCOs whose nature has been under the veil of mistery.
description: 4 pages, 1 eps file, to appear in Science and Technology (Kinki University Press), 2006
Conservative Tidal Effects in Compact Binary Systems to Next-to-Leading Post-Minkowskian Order
Creators: name: Kälin, Gregor
name: Liu, Zhengwen
name: Porto, Rafael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Effective Field Theory approach together with the Boundary-to-Bound map, we compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) Post-Minkowskian (PM) tidal effects in the conservative dynamics of compact binary systems. We derive the mass and current quadrupole and, for the first time, octupole corrections to the binding energy for circular orbits at ${\cal O}(G^3)$. Our results are consistent with the test-body limit as well as the existent Post-Newtonian literature. We also reconstruct a Hamiltonian incorporating tidal effects to NLO in the PM expansion and find complete agreement with the recent derivation of its quadrupolar part using the classical limit of scattering amplitudes.
description: 5+4 pages. 1 figure
Personal- und Vorlesungsverzeichnis, Wintersemester 1976/77
Creators: name: RWTH Aachen / Rektor
name: RWTH Aachen. Abteilung 1.11-Akademische Angelegenheiten
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 1977

description: Vorlesungsverzeichnis 1976/77(1), (1977).
description: Published by J.A. Mayer, Aachen
A Radio Continuum and Polarisation Study of the pulsar wind nebula CTB87 (G74.9+1.2)
Creators: name: Kothes, R.
name: Reich, W.
name: Safi-Harb, S.
name: Guest, B.
name: Reich, P.
name: Fürst, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present radio continuum and linear polarisation observations of the pulsar wind nebula CTB87 (G74.9+1.2) with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope between 4.75 and 32 GHz. An analysis of these new data including archived low-frequency observations at 1420 MHz and 408 MHz from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey shows that CTB87 consists of two distinct emission components: a compact kidney-shaped component, 14 pc x 8.5 pc (7.8' x 4.8') in size and a larger diffuse, spherical and centrally peaked component of about 30 pc (17') in diameter. The kidney-shaped component with a much steeper radio continuum spectrum is highly linearly polarised and likely represents a relic pulsar wind nebula. The diffuse component represents the undisturbed part of the PWN expanding inside a cavity or stellar wind bubble. The previously reported spectral break above 10 GHz is likely the result of missing large-scale emission and insufficient sensitivity of the high-frequency radio continuum observations. The simulation of the system's evolution yields an age of about 18,000 years as the result of a type II supernova explosion with an ejecta mass of about 12 solar masses and an explosion energy of about 7 x 10^50 erg. We also found evidence for a radio shell in our polarisation data which represents the blast wave that entered the molecular cloud complex at a radius of about 13 pc.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures, 5 tables, MNRAS, accepted for publication
Household Food Security in the United States, 2008
Creators: name: Nord, Mark
name: Andrews, Margaret S.
name: Carlson, Steven
name: Nord, Mark
name: Andrews, Margaret S.
name: Carlson, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Food security
subject: food insecurity
subject: food spending
subject: food pantry
subject: soup kitchen
subject: emergency kitchen
subject: material well-being
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: SNAP
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: WIC

description: Eighty-five percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2008, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (14.6 percent) were food insecure at least some time during the year, including 5.7 percent with very low food security—meaning that the food intake of one or more household members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food. Prevalence rates of food insecurity and very low food security were up from 11.1 percent and 4.1 percent, respectively, in 2007, and were the highest recorded since 1995, when the first national food security survey was conducted. The typical food-secure household spent 31 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. Fifty-five percent of all food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food and nutrition assistance programs during the month prior to the 2008 survey.
Moving from XML documents to XML databases
Creators: name: Du, Fengdong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: XML has become a standard format in information exchange and integration. Database support of persistent data storage and query capability is often desired for many XML applications. While it is possible to store XML data in traditional relational databases or object-oriented databases, we also desire high-performance native XML databases that are particularly tailored for XML data. We believe an ideal XML database needs to be generic, automatic, access transparent and performance transparent. With these features as the fundamental success criteria for XML databases, this thesis discusses various existing XML database solutions. With these features as design goals, we develop a native XML database that includes native XML storage and an implementation of the XQuery language. This native database is generic in the sense that it accepts any well-formed XML data, regardless of the actual structure of data, and does not rely on schema existence. This database system is automatic because it does not require any database physical design works. Retrieving XML documents or fragments is solely through the XQuery interface. Query performance is transparent with respect to the structure of data.
Sensitivity Analyses from A marine predator relies on both social cues and frequently updated memory to search for prey
Creators: name: Collet, Julien
name: Thiebault, Andrea
name: Bonnet-Lebrun, Anne-Sophie
name: Tremblay, Yann
name: Carpenter-Kling, Tegan
name: Keys, Danielle
name: Pistorius, Pierre
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Exploring and discussing other metrics for similarity between foraging trips
The Negative Effects of Brick Kilns on Climate and Environment: A Socio-Legal Study in Paikgacha Upazilla of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Md.Ramjan Hossain, Dr.Ashiquddin Md. Maruf, Md. Shadat Hossen, Shana Khatun, Ashraful Islam, Nazmul Huda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Brick industry has been an integral part of Bangladesh’s growth since the construction flourishing of the last decade. But government of Bangladesh has found it tough to control the brick industry in Bangladesh. Around 90% of the 8500 brick kilns in the country are Fixed Chimney Kilns (FCKs). FCKs consume more coal, emit more particulate matter(PM), and generate more sulphur dioxide(SO2)than modern Improved Zigzag Kilns (IZKs) or Hybrid Hoffman Kilns (HHKs). The government of Bangladesh has taken actions to move away from FCKs to adapt modern and cleaner technologies. However, the transition is capital exhaustive and owners are unwilling. The purpose of this study is to explore environmental effects of brick kilns and assess the environmental laws in Bangladesh. Paikgacha Upazila of Khulna district has been selected as the study area because of its rapidly varying population density, socioeconomic crisis, industrial and environmental concerns etc. At present, 26brick kilns are located in the study area. This findings of the study is based on selected respondents’ perception on the change ofclimate and environment as well ason the assessment of the Brick Manufacturing and Brick Kilns Establishment Control Act, 2013, the Environment Conservation Act,1995, theEnvironment Court Act, 2010, Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Act, 2010, Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, 2009, Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100etc. From the study, it is found that most of the brick kilns of the study area are located near agricultural lands and residential areas which are responsible for loss of agricultural production, fish cultivation, local community’s health problems and violating climate and environmental laws toa great extent. Improving brick productiontechnology, development of existing related laws and proper implementation ofthese lawsmay be the best recommendation for the betterment of climate and environment as well as to achieve the goal no. 13 under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
Shapes of clusters and groups of galaxies: Comparison of model predictions with observations
Creators: name: Paz, D. J.
name: Lambas, D. G.
name: Padilla, N.
name: Merchan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the properties of the 3-dimensional and projected shapes of haloes using high resolution numerical simulations and observational data where the latter comes from the 2PIGG (Eke et al. 2004) and SDSS-DR3GC group catalogues (Merchan & Zandivarez 2005). We investigate the dependence of halo shape on characteristics such as mass and number of members. In the 3-dimensional case, we find a significant correlation between the mass and halo shape; massive systems are more prolate than small haloes. We detect a source of strong systematics in estimates of the triaxiality of a halo, which is found to be a strong function of the number of members; LCDM haloes usually characterised by triaxial shapes, slightly bent toward prolate forms, appear more oblate when taking only a small subset of the halo particles. The ellipticities of observed 2PIGG and SDSS-DR3GC groups are found to be strongly dependent on the number of group members, so that poor groups appear more elongated than rich ones. However, this is again an artifact caused by poor statistics and not an intrinsic property of the galaxy groups, nor an effect from observational biases. We interpret these results with the aid of a GALFORM mock 2PIGG catalogue. When comparing the group ellipticities in mock and real catalogues, we find an excellent agreement between the trends of shapes with number of group members. When carefully taking into account the effects of low number statistics, we find that more massive groups are consistent with more elongated shapes. Finally, our studies find no significant correlations between the shape of observed 2PIGG or SDSS-DR3GC groups with the properties of galaxy members such as colour or spectral type index.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Broad-coverage biomedical relation extraction with SemRep
Creators: name: Kilicoglu, Halil
name: Rosemblat, Graciela
name: Fiszman, Marcelo
name: Dongwook Shin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1 Appendix. A PDF file that contains illustration of SemRep processing steps on an example sentence from PubMed abstract 12975721. It also contains a detailed exposition of SemRep error analysis.
Factors Influencing ACRE Program Enrollment
Creators: name: Woolverton, Andrea E.
name: Edwin, Young
name: Woolverton, Andrea E.
name: Edwin, Young
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Average Revenue Crop Election
subject: ACRE
subject: 2008 Farm Act
subject: farm bill
subject: commodity programs
subject: risk management
subject: income support
subject: ERS
subject: USDA

description: Authorized by the 2008 Farm Act, the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program is the first revenue-based, income-support program that calculates payments using recent market prices and a producer’s actual plantings. The payments are triggered when a farm’s revenue and State revenue (price multiplied by yield per planted acre) fall below a calculated guarantee for a crop. By contrast, other income-support programs are based on legislated rates and support levels, computed using a farm’s base acres and payment yields. Had the ACRE program been available during crop years 1996-2008, this report shows that farmers would have benefited more from participating in 2002 Farm Act programs than in the hypothetical ACRE program. The report further suggests that, for 2009-12, producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, and rice are likely to benefit more from the ACRE program than from the price-based, income-support programs. Initial enrollment data suggest that factors aside from expected market prices and yields entered into the enrollment decision such as producer risk preferences and initial learning and negotiation costs. Data indicate that about 8 percent of farms with almost 13 percent of eligible base acres elected to participate in ACRE, which is less than might be expected given price-and yield-based analysis alone.
Additional file 1 of Antibacterial effect of silver nanorings
Creators: name: González-Fernández, Sara
name: Lozano-Iturbe, Víctor
name: García, Beatriz
name: Andrés, Luis J.
name: Mª. Fe Menéndez
name: Rodríguez, David
name: Vazquez, Fernando
name: Martín, Carla
name: Quirós, Luis M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. FEG-SEM Images of Silver nanoparticles.
Dieuches schmitzi Reuter 1893
Creators: name: Heyden, Torsten van der
name: Petrovan, Silviu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Rhyparochromidae
Dieuches
Dieuches schmitzi

description: Dieuches schmitzi Reuter, 1893
(Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae) was reported by AUKEMA et al. (2006, 2013) and ROCA-CUSACHS et al. (2020) for the islands of La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife and Gran Canaria. RIEGER (2020) added the island of Fuerteventura to the list of its distribution on the Canary Islands. The island of Lanzarote can be added to the list: On 28-06-2020, an adult specimen of D. schmitzi was photographed in El Jablillo near Costa Teguise in the eastern part of the island (see here).
description: Published as part of Heyden, Torsten van der & Petrovan, Silviu, 2023, New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), II, pp. 109-111 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 109, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12812254
Does SNAP Decrease Food Insecurity? Untangling the Self-Selection Effect
Creators: name: Nord, Mark
name: Golla, Anne Marie
name: Nord, Mark
name: Golla, Anne Marie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: food insecurity
subject: food stamps
subject: food security
subject: hunger
subject: very low food security
subject: SNAP
subject: longitudinal analysis

description: Self-selection by more food-needy households into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called the Food Stamp Program) makes it difficult to observe positive effects of the program in survey data. This study investigates self-selection and ameliorative program effects by examining households’ food security month by month for several months prior to initial receipt of SNAP benefits and for several months after joining the program. Two-year panels are constructed by matching the same households interviewed in the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement in 2 consecutive years using data from 2001 to 2006. Food security is observed to deteriorate in the 6 months prior to beginning to receive SNAP benefits and to improve shortly after. The results clearly demonstrate the self-selection by households into SNAP at a time when they are more severely food insecure. The results are consistent with a moderate ameliorative effect of SNAP—reducing the prevalence of very low food security among recent entrants by about one-third—although they do not conclusively demonstrate that extent of amelioration.
Distinct Pairing Symmetries in $Nd_{1.85}Ce_{0.15}CuO_{4-y}$ and $La_{1.89}Sr_{0.11}CuO_{4}$ Single Crystals: Evidence from Comparative Tunnelling Measurements
Creators: name: Shan, L.
name: Huang, Y.
name: Gao, H.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Li, S. L.
name: Dai, Pengcheng
name: Zhou, F.
name: Xiong, J. W.
name: Ti, W. X.
name: Wen, H. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used point-contact tunnelling spectroscopy to study the superconducting pairing symmetry of electron-doped $Nd_{1.85}Ce_{0.15}CuO_{4-y}$ (NCCO) and hole-doped $La_{1.89}Sr_{0.11}CuO_{4}$ (LSCO). Nearly identical spectra without zero bias conductance peak (ZBCP) were obtained on the (110) and (100) oriented surfaces (the so-called nodal and anti-nodal directions) of NCCO. In contrast, LSCO showed a remarkable ZBCP in the nodal direction as expected from a d-wave superconductor. Detailed analysis reveals an s-wave component in the pairing symmetry of the NCCO sample with $Δ/k_BT_c=1.66$, a value remarkable close to that of a weakly coupled BCS superconductor. We argue that this s-wave component is formed at the Fermi surface pockets centered at ($\pmπ$,0) and (0,$\pmπ$) although a d-wave component may also exist.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
An In-Depth Analysis of Ride-Hailing Travel Using a Large-scale Trip-Based Dataset
Creators: name: Du, Jianhe
name: Rakha, Hesham A.
name: Breuer, Helena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the rapid increase in ride-hailing (RH) use, a need to better understand and regulate the industry arises. This paper analyzes a year's worth of RH trip data from the Greater Chicago Area to study RH trip patterns. More than 104 million trips were analyzed. For trip rates, the results show that the total number of trips remained stable over the year, with pooled trips steadily decreasing from 20 to 9 percent. People tend to use RH more on weekends compared to weekdays. Specifically, weekend RH trip counts (per day) are, on average, 20 percent higher than weekday trip counts. The results of this work will help policy makers and transportation administrators better understand the nature of RH trips, which in turn allows for the design of a better regulation and guidance system for the ride-hailing industry.
description: Paper submitted to the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. The Chicago Case Study, Case Studies on Transport Policy, 2021
Properties and Spectral Behaviour of Cluster Radio Halos
Creators: name: Feretti, L.
name: Brunetti, G.
name: Giovannini, G.
name: Kassim, N.
name: Orru', E.
name: Setti, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several arguments have been presented in the literature to support the connection between radio halos and cluster mergers. The spectral index distributions of the halos in A665 and A2163 provide a new strong confirmation of this connection, i.e. of the fact that the cluster merger plays an important role in the energy supply to the radio halos. Features of the spectral index (flattening and patches) are indication of a complex shape of the radiating electron spectrum, and are therefore in support of electron reacceleration models. Regions of flatter spectrum are found to be related to the recent merger. In the undisturbed cluster regions, instead, the spectrum steepens with the distance from the cluster center.The plot of the integrated spectral index of a sample of halos versus the cluster temperature indicates that clusters at higher temperature tend to host halos with flatter spectra. This correlation provides further evidence of the connection between radio emission and cluster mergers.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 3rd Korean Astrophysics Workshop "Cosmic Rays and Magnetic Fields in Large Scale Structure", Pusan, Korea, August 2004, eds. H. Kang & D. Ryu, Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society. A paper version with high quality figures is at http://www.ira.cnr.it/~lferetti/OUTGOING/papBusan.ps.gz
Experimental setups for XPS measurements beyond the instrumental lateral resolution limit
Creators: name: Scheithauer, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lateral resolution of an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy instrument, which is equipped with a focused X-ray beam, is limited by the nominal X-ray beam diameter and the long tail intensity distri-bution of the X-ray beam. The long tail intensity distribution of the X-ray beam impedes to perform a measurement with good lateral resolution and low detection limits at the same time. Two experimental setups are described which allow examining sample structures that are smaller than the X-ray beam dimensions. The first method uses differential sample charging on partly non-conductive samples by low energy electron flooding. The spectra of the non-conductive sample areas are shifted towards lower binding energy. That way, the surface compositions of conductive and non-conductive sample areas are estimated independently. The second method utilizes the rather limited dimensions of the energy analyser acceptance volume. Here only the sample is placed inside the energy analyser acceptance volume. That way, signals from the illuminated sample contribute exclusively to the measured photoelectrons intensity, independent form the sample size.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Joint Probabilities of Photon polarization Correlations in $e^{+}e^{-}$ Annihilation
Creators: name: Yongram, N.
name: Manoukian, E. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Joint probability distributions of photon polarization correlations are computed, as well as those corresponding to the cases when only one of the photon's polarization is measured in $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilation, in flight, in QED. This provides a dynamical, rather than a kinematical, description of photon polarization correlations as stemming from the ever precise and realistic QED theory. Such computations may be relevant to recent and future experiments involved in testing Bell-like inequalities as described.
description: 16 pages, PDF, misprints corrected
Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Inhomogeneous Problems
Creators: name: Lu, Hannah
name: Tartakovsky, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is a powerful data-driven technique for construction of reduced-order models of complex dynamical systems. Multiple numerical tests have demonstrated the accuracy and efficiency of DMD, but mostly for systems described by partial differential equations (PDEs) with homogeneous boundary conditions. We propose an extended dynamic mode decomposition (xDMD) approach to cope with the potential unknown sources/sinks in PDEs. Motivated by similar ideas in deep neural networks, we equipped our xDMD with two new features. First, it has a bias term, which accounts for inhomogeneity of PDEs and/or boundary conditions. Second, instead of learning a flow map, xDMD learns the residual increment by subtracting the identity operator. Our theoretical error analysis demonstrates the improved accuracy of xDMD relative to standard DMD. Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate this result.
Additional file 1 of Quantitative measures of health policy implementation determinants and outcomes: a systematic review
Creators: name: Allen, Peg
name: Pilar, Meagan
name: Walsh-Bailey, Callie
name: Hooley, Cole
name: Mazzucca, Stephanie
name: Lewis, Cara C.
name: Mettert, Kayne D.
name: Dorsey, Caitlin N.
name: Purtle, Jonathan
name: Kepper, Maura M.
name: Baumann, Ana A.
name: Brownson, Ross C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. PRISMA checklist. Table S2. Electronic search terms for databases searched through EBSCO. Table S3. Electronic search terms for searches conducted through PROQUEST. Table S4: PAPERS Pragmatic rating scales. Table S5. PAPERS Psychometric rating scales.
A realisation of the Bershadsky--Polyakov algebras and their relaxed modules
Creators: name: Adamovic, Drazen
name: Kawasetsu, Kazuya
name: Ridout, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a realisation of the universal/simple Bershadsky--Polyakov vertex algebras as subalgebras of the tensor product of the universal/simple Zamolodchikov vertex algebras and an isotropic lattice vertex algebra. This generalises the realisation of the universal/simple affine vertex algebras associated to $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ and $\mathfrak{osp}(1|2)$ given in arXiv:1711.11342. Relaxed highest-weight modules are likewise constructed, conditions for their irreducibility are established, and their characters are explicitly computed, generalising the character formulae of arXiv:1803.01989.
description: 23 pages; v2 24 pages --- added a few more details and remarks, fixed a few typos; to appear in Lett. Math. Phys
Numerical analysis of the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with running coupling: dependence of the saturation scale on nuclear size and rapidity
Creators: name: Albacete, J. L.
name: Armesto, N.
name: Milhano, J. G.
name: Salgado, C. A.
name: Wiedemann, U. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of including a running coupling constant in high-density QCD evolution. For fixed coupling constant, QCD evolution preserves the initial dependence of the saturation momentum $Q_s$ on the nuclear size $A$ and results in an exponential dependence on rapidity $Y$, $Q^2_s(Y) = Q^2_s(Y_0) \exp{[ \barα_s d (Y-Y_0) ]}$. For the running coupling case, we re-derive analytical estimates for the $A$- and $Y$-dependences of the saturation scale and test them numerically. The $A$-dependence of $Q_s$ vanishes $\propto 1/ \sqrt{Y}$ for large $A$ and $Y$. The $Y$-dependence is reduced to $Q_s^2(Y) \propto \exp{(Δ^\prime\sqrt{Y+X})}$ where we find numerically $Δ^\prime\simeq 3.2$. We study the behaviour of the gluon distribution at large transverse momentum, characterizing it by an anomalous dimension $1-γ$ which we define in a fixed region of small dipole sizes. In contrast to previous analytical work, we find a marked difference between the fixed coupling ($γ\simeq 0.65$) and running coupling ($γ\sim 0.85$) results. Our numerical findings show that both a scaling function depending only on the variable $r Q_s$ and the perturbative double-leading-logarithmic expression, provide equally good descriptions of the numerical solutions for very small $r$-values below the so-called scaling window.
description: LaTeX, 29 pages, 7 eps figures; discussion on DLL enlarged and comparison with sub-leading terms in the rapidity behaviour of the saturation scale added