cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Electrical and thermal transport properties of medium-entropy SiyGeySnx alloys
Creators: name: Wang, Duo
name: Liu, Lei
name: Chen, Mohan
name: Zhuang, Houlong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrical and thermal transport properties of disordered materials have long been of both theoretical interest and engineering importance. As a new class of materials with an intrinsic compositional disorder, high/medium-entropy alloys (HEAs/MEAs) are being immensely studied mainly for their excellent mechanical properties. By contrast, electrical and thermal transport properties of HEAs/MEAs are less well studied. Here we investigate these two properties of silicon (Si)-germanium (Ge)-tin (Sn) MEAs, where we keep the same content of Si and Ge while increasing the content of Sn from 0 to 1/3 to tune the configurational entropy and thus the degree of compositional disorder. We predict all SiyGeySnx MEAs to be semiconductors with a wide range of bandgaps from near-infrared (0.28 eV) to visible (1.11 eV) in the light spectrum. We find that the bandgaps and effective carrier masses decrease with increasing Sn content. As a result, increasing the compositional disorder in SiyGeySnx MEAs enhances their electrical conductivity. For the thermal transport properties of SiyGeySnx MEAs, our molecular dynamics simulations show an opposite trend in the thermal conductivity of these MEAs at room temperature, which decreases with increasing compositional disorder, owing to enhanced Anderson localization and strong phonon-phonon anharmonic interactions. The enhanced electrical conductivity and weakened thermal conductivity make SiyGeySnx MEAs with high Sn content promising functional materials for thermoelectric applications. Our work demonstrates that HEAs/MEAs not only represent a new class of structural alloys but also a novel category of functional alloys with unique electrical and thermal transport properties.
description: 34 pages, 9 figures
Encoding and Decoding Graph Representations of Natural Language
Creators: name: Thomson, Sam
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Natural Language Processing

description:  When analyzing text, it is often helpful to process the text into richer structures representing its linguistic content. Labeled directed graphs are a natural and flexible representation, especially for natural language semantics. Their generality over trees, for instance, allows them to represent relational semantics while handling phenomena like coreference and coordination.
 This thesis focuses on such graphical representations of text. We develop novel algorithms and models for decoding—automatically extracting graphs from raw text; and encoding—transforming graphs into tensors so that they can be used as input to a downstream neural network. We primarily focus on semantic graphs—graphs that represent sentence meanings. Semantic graphs are not necessarily trees, so they require methods that can handle arbitrary graphs. We make three main contributions. First, we introduce neural Turbo (Neurbo) parsing and show that it is an effective approach for semantic dependency parsing, and in particular multitask semantic dependency parsing. Next, we show that the task of decoding connected semantic graphs can be formulated as a Node-and-Edge-weighted Connected Subgraph (NEWCS) problem, a novel extension of a classic, well-studied problem in network optimization called the prize-collecting Steiner tree (PCST) problem. This allows us to prove theoretical properties about decoding under connectedness constraints, and to adapt and extend existing PCST solving techniques to decoding semantic graphs. Finally, we introduce new lawful neural encoders whose constrained forms allow for efficient exact inference by dynamic programming. We introduce two models: Soft Patterns (SoPa), which encode sequences, and Kleene Graph Encoder Networks (KGEN), which encode all paths in a graph, grouped by source and destination.
D5.1_Dissemination_and_Communication_Plan
Creators: name: Rigonat, Pietro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Bioeconomy
subject: Educational sciences
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Dissemination
subject: Communication

description: This deliverable aims to present the dissemination and communication plan as well as the associated actions that will be implemented during the GenB project. The strategy is integrated under WP5 – Communication, dissemination and exploitation.The leader of WP5 (LOBA) will be responsible for the overall management and support of the activities defined under the present dissemination and communication plan and will develop the main tools and materials to be used during the project, in constant support with Consortium partners.All partners will indeed be actively involved in the dissemination and communication actions implementation and are highly committed to ensure a satisfactory dissemination of the project’s results.The present document outlines:

The objectives of the plan;

Brand identity;

Target audience;

Tools and channels;

Unique selling points;

Phases of the Dissemination and Communication Strategy;

Indicative timeline;

Key performance indicators;

Annex: GenB Brand Manual.
Secure Communication Scheme Based on Asymptotic Model of Deterministic Randomness
Creators: name: Zhou, Jiantao
name: Pei, Wenjiang
name: Wang, Kai
name: Huang, Jie
name: He, Zhenya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new cryptosystem by combing the Lissajous map, which is the asymptotic model of deterministic randomness, with the one-way coupled map lattice (OCML) system. The key space, the encryption efficiency, and the security are investigated. We find that the parameter sensitivity can reach the computational precision when the system size is only three, all the lattice outputs can be treated as key stream parallelly, and the system is resistible against various attacks including the differential-like chosen cipher attack. The findings of this paper are a strong indication of the importance of deterministic randomness in secure communications.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
Sterile neutrinos in neutrinoless double beta decay
Creators: name: Benes, P.
name: Faessler, Amand
name: Kovalenko, S.
name: Simkovic, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study possible contribution of the Majorana neutrino mass eigenstate $ν_h$ dominated by a sterile neutrino component to neutrinoless double beta ($0νββ$) decay. From the current experimental lower bound on the $0νββ$-decay half-life of $^{76}$Ge we derive stringent constraints on the $ν_h-ν_e$ mixing in a wide region of the values of $ν_h$ mass. We discuss cosmological and astrophysical status of $ν_h$ in this mass region.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure; v2 added comments and references
Additional file 1 of Systematic review of the correlates of outdoor play and time among children aged 3-12 years
Creators: name: Lee, Eun-Young
name: Ajaypal Bains
name: Hunter, Stephen
name: Ament, Alyssa
name: Brazo-Sayavera, Javier
name: Carson, Valerie
name: Hakimi, Shawn
name: Huang, Wendy Y.
name: Janssen, Ian
name: Mikyung Lee
name: Heejun Lim
name: Silva, Diego Augusto Santos
name: Tremblay, Mark S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1.
On the proportion of prefix codes in the set of three-element codes
Creators: name: Woryna, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $L$ be a finite sequence of natural numbers. In Woryna (2017,2018), we derived some interesting properties for the ratio $ρ_{n,L}=|PR_n(L)|/|UD_n(L)|$, where $UD_n(L)$ denotes the set of all codes over an $n$-letter alphabet and with length distribution $L$, and $PR_n(L)\subseteq UD_n(L)$ is the corresponding subset of prefix codes. In the present paper, we study the case when the length distributions are three-element sequences. We show in this case that the ratio $ρ_{n,L}$ is always greater than $α_n$, where $α_n=(n-2)/n$ for $n>2$ and $α_2=1/6$. Moreover, the number $α_n$ is the best possible lower bound for this ratio, as the length distributions of the form $L=(1,1,c)$ and $L=(1,2,c)$ assure that the ratios asymptotically approach $α_n$. Namely, if $L=(1,1,c)$, then $ρ_{n,L}$ tends to $(n-2)/n$ with $c\to\infty$, and, if $L=(1,2,c)$, then $ρ_{2,L}$ tends to $1/6$ with $c\to\infty$.
Additional file 1 of Accelerometer informed time-energy budgets reveal the importance of temperature to the activity of a wild, arid zone canid
Creators: name: Tatler, Jack
name: Currie, Shannon E.
name: Cassey, Phillip
name: Scharf, Anne K.
name: Roshier, David A.
name: Prowse, Thomas A. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Proportion of each day spent stationary, walking, and running. Table S2. Model summary showing the effect of landscape features, time of day, and period on dingo activity (ODBA). Model estimates, standard errors (SE) and p-values for our correlated intercepts and slopes linear mixed model are presented. Significance is indicated in bold
Pesticide Productivity: Of Bugs and Biases
Creators: name: Norwood, F. Bailey
name: Marra, Michele C.
name: Norwood, F. Bailey
name: Marra, Michele C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: damage abatement
subject: marginal product
subject: pesticide economics
subject: productivity
subject: unobserved variables

description: Pesticide productivity is both important and difficult to measure. Typically, pesticide marginal products are estimated without information on the pest pressure. Three theoretical models are developed which suggest absence of such information may cause an underestimation of pesticide productivity. Using application frequency variables as a proxy for pest populations, we show that pesticide marginal products are higher when pest pressure is accounted for.
Does health and social care provision for the community dwelling older population help to reduce unplanned secondary care, support timely discharge and improve patient well-being? A mixed method meta-review of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Dawson, Shoba
name: Kunonga, Patience
name: Beyer, Fiona
name: Spiers, Gemma
name: Booker, Matthew
name: McDonald, Ruth
name: Cameron, Ailsa
name: Craig, Dawn
name: Hanratty, Barbara
name: Salisbury, Chris
name: Huntley, Alyson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Health Care

description: These are extended data for the publication titled: Does health and social care provision for the community dwelling older population help to reduce unplanned secondary care, support timely discharge and improve patient well-being? A mixed method meta-review of systematic reviews
Table 1 describes Health and social care interventions systematic reviews-aims, outcomes, and conclusions
Table 2a and 2b describes risk of bias of included studies
Table 3 describes evidence map of health and social care interventions of included systematic reviews based on conditions and outcomes
Table 4 describes evidence summary at systematic review level for efficacy for health and social care interventions by outcome
Table 5 describes mixed methods evidence identified
Appendix 1 describes an example search strategy
Appendix 2 describes items for which data was extracted
Appendix 3 describes the PRISMA Flowchart and provides information on number of studies included
Appendix 4 describes definitions of interventions
Appendix 5 describes the PRISMA checklist
*References included in the tables and appendices can be found in the main manuscript.
Optimal On-Farm Grain Storage by Risk-Averse Farmers
Creators: name: Lai, Jing-Yi
name: Myers, Robert J.
name: Hanson, Steven D.
name: Lai, Jing-Yi
name: Myers, Robert J.
name: Hanson, Steven D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: grain storage
subject: risk aversion
subject: stochastic dynamic programming

description: Most previous research on post-harvest grain storage by farmers has assumed risk-neutral behavior and/or made restrictive assumptions about underlying price probability distributions. In this study, we solve the optimal on-farm storage problem for a risk-averse farmer under more general assumptions about underlying price distributions. The resulting model is applied to Michigan corn farmers and findings show, contrary to the "sell all or nothing" risk-neutral rule, risk-averse farmers will spread sales out over the storage season. As farmers become more risk averse, the optimal strategy is to sell more grain at harvest and spread sales over the storage season, even though this practice reduces expected return. This result is more consistent with observed farmer behavior than the "sell all or nothing" risk-neutral rule.
Do Income Constraints Inhibit Spending on Fruits and Vegetables Among Low-Income Households?
Creators: name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Blisard, Noel
name: Jolliffe, Dean
name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Blisard, Noel
name: Jolliffe, Dean
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: censored least absolute deviations
subject: consumption
subject: fruits and vegetables
subject: low-income households
subject: nutrition
subject: sample design
subject: stochastic dominance

description: This study assesses whether income constraints inhibit spending on fruits and vegetables among low-income households. If this is the case, then it is hypothesized that the distribution of expenditures on fruits and vegetables by low-income households should be stochastically dominated by the distribution of expenditures on these same food items by other households. Moreover, it must be the case that low-income households would increase their spending on fruits and vegetables in response to an increase in their income. Using household data from the 2000 Consumer Expenditure Survey, a test of stochastic dominance is performed. Censored quantile regressions are also estimated at selected points of the conditional expenditure distribution. Low income households are found to spend less on fruits and vegetables than other households, but they are not responsive to changes in income.
Where Is American Agriculture in Its "Life Cycle"?
Creators: name: Blank, Steven C.
name: Blank, Steven C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: absolute advantage
subject: comparative advantage
subject: global markets
subject: life cycle model

description: The increasing globalization of agricultural markets in recent decades appears to be changing the economics of the American production agriculture sector, reducing its economic importance and raising questions about its life cycle. This study contributes to the product life cycle literature by creating tests of hypotheses about the economic life of American production agriculture. A methodology to test the hypotheses is proposed and then applied in an empirical analysis. In general, it appears that a new stage in American agriculture's life began during the 1973-1983 period. Finally, the results and their implications for the American production agriculture sector are discussed.
IDIOMS OF PROTEST AND RESISTANCE ASSERTION OF SUBJECTIVITY AND IDENTITY FORMATION IN DALIT WRITINGS (2).pdf
Creators: name: Oza, Preeti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Literature

description: Language is a very distinctive aspect of marginal writings like African American, Dalit writings, feminist writings etc. They prefer to use their day-to-day spoken languages to those of the standard languages of the mainstream literature. As the experiences of these writers are so unique, that even the standard languages lack the required vocabulary to make them explicit to the general readers. They tend to express their unique experiences of exploitation in their own languages as it can only afford to give proper flavor and touch to such experiences. The use of standard language would otherwise prove an exercise in futility to concretize the true feelings and experiences of these writings. As the spoken language dominates in these writings, the writers enjoy freedom with the rules of grammar. To understand the nuances of language in use like idioms and narratives, and for the sake of convenience and better scrutiny, this literature can be grouped under two main heads – The Content Aspects of Protest writings and the Expressive Aspects of Protest writings. The social norms like caste, class, race, religion, and gender fall under the Content Aspects of Protest writings. For example, on the basis of these social norms, African Americans and Dalits were being discriminated and exploited by the dominant groups of their societies. So the autobiographies of these oppressed people are the accounts of how they were exploited at the brutal hands of various social and political institutions like slavery, untouchability, patriarchy, education, family, religion, law, culture and literature and how they came to be realized their oppression, and also how they revolted against their oppressors and their institutions of oppression. Expressive Aspects of Protest writings include the use of Dalit and Black vernaculars and also the narrative techniques used by them in their writings. A close analysis of these writings shows that they are interspersed with a variety of vocabulary items, which are unknown to the mainstream literature.
Quantum Message Exchange Based on Entanglement and Bell-State Measurements
Creators: name: Jang, Sung Soon
name: Lee, Hai-Woong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme by which two parties can secretely and simultaneously exchange messages. The scheme requires the two parties to share entanglement and both to perform Bell-state measurements. Only two out of the four Bell states are required to be distinguished in the Bell-state measurements, and thus the scheme is experimentally feasible using only linear optical means. Generalizations of the scheme to high-dimensional systems and to multipartite entanglement are considered. We show also that the proposed scheme works even if the two parties do not possess shared reference frames.
description: To be published in Physics Letters A; supersedes quant-ph/0407138. This version includes a fair amount of new material, including a section discussing the case of no shared reference frames
Experimental demonstration of the time reversal Aharonov-Casher effect
Creators: name: Bergsten, Tobias
name: Kobayashi, Toshiyuki
name: Sekine, Yoshiaki
name: Nitta, Junsaku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the time reversal Aharonov-Casher (AC) effect in small arrays of mesoscopic semiconductor rings. By using an electrostatic gate we can control the spin precession rate and follow the AC phase over several interference periods. We show that we control the precession rate in two different gate voltage ranges; in the lower range the gate voltage dependence is strong and linear and in the higher range the dependence in almost an order of magnitude weaker. We also see the second harmonic of the AC interference, oscillating with half the period. We finally map the AC phase to the spin-orbit interaction parameter alpha and find it is consistent with Shubnikov-de Haas analysis.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Role of Belinda in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas
Creators: name: Park, Jinny Ji Young
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The M. Mus degree in opera requires the performance of a major role in an opera. I performed the role of Belinda in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas on March 7th and 9th 2002.
Cluster Approximation for the Farey Fraction Spin Chain
Creators: name: Prellberg, T.
name: Fiala, J.
name: Kleban, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the Farey fraction spin chain in an external field $h$. Utilising ideas from dynamical systems, the free energy of the model is derived by means of an effective cluster energy approximation. This approximation is valid for divergent cluster sizes, and hence appropriate for the discussion of the magnetizing transition. We calculate the phase boundaries and the scaling of the free energy. At $h=0$ we reproduce the rigorously known asymptotic temperature dependence of the free energy. For $h \ne 0$, our results are largely consistent with those found previously using mean field theory and renormalization group arguments.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Health state utility values in major depressive disorder treated with pharmacological interventions: a systematic literature review
Creators: name: Brockbank, James
name: Krause, Taryn
name: Moss, Emily
name: Pedersen, Anne Milthers
name: Mørup, Michael Frank
name: Ahdesmäki, Outi
name: Vaughan, Jake
name: Thor-Henrik Brodtkorb
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: PubMed literature search strategy.
FLEXIBLE, RISK-ORIENTED MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR PINTO BEAN PRODUCERS
Creators: name: King, Robert P.
name: Lybecker, Donald W.
name: King, Robert P.
name: Lybecker, Donald W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A model designed to identify preferred postharvest marketing strategies for pinto bean producers is presented. The model evaluates flexible strategies that use current market information to determine whether or not storage should continue. Explicit consideration is given to price uncertainty and risk preferences. The results indicate that nearly all decision makers prefer flexible strategies to fixed strategies that call for a predetermined pattern of sales. They also show that the choice of a marketing strategy is sensitive to risk preferences. Initial experiences in making the model available to producers are also discussed.
Low-Power Optical Traps using Anisotropic Metasurfaces: Asymmetric Potential Barriers and Broadband Response
Creators: name: Paul, Nayan K.
name: Gomez-Diaz, J. Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the optical trapping of Rayleigh particles using tailored anisotropic and hyperbolic metasurfaces illuminated with a linearly polarized Gaussian beam. This platform permits to engineer optical traps at the beam axis with a response governed by nonconservative and giant recoil forces coming from the directional excitation of ultra-confined surface plasmons during the light scattering process. Compared to optical traps set over bulk metals, the proposed traps are broadband in the sense that can be set with beams oscillating at any frequency within the wide range in which the metasurface supports surface plasmons. Over that range, the metasurface evolves from an anisotropic elliptic to a hyperbolic regime through a topological transition and enables optical traps with distinctive spatially asymmetric potential distribution, local potential barriers arising from the momentum imbalance of the excited plasmons, and an enhanced potential depth that permits the stable trapping of nanoparticles using low-intensity laser beams. To investigate the performance of this platform, we develop a rigorous formalism based on the Lorentz force within the Rayleigh approximation combined with anisotropic Green's functions and calculate the trapping potential of nonconservative forces using the Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition method. Tailored anisotropic and hyperbolic metasurfaces, commonly implemented by nanostructuring thin metallic layers, enables using low-intensity laser sources operating in the visible or the IR to trap and manipulate particles at the nanoscale, and may enable a wide range of applications in bioengineering, physics, and chemistry.
description: 39 pages - 8 figures
Kirshbaum, Engelbert: Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie 2
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 55 (1971): Oriens christianus, Band 55
INTERNATIONAL PRICE TRANSMISSION IN THE U.S.-JAPAN SOFTWOOD TRADE
Creators: name: Gallagher, Paul W.
name: Gallagher, Paul W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This article explores the supposition that international price margins in the U.S. Pacific Northwest-Japan softwood trade are influenced by nontariff trade barriers and inelastic supplies of international transportation services. Furthermore, it pursues the hypothesis that a regime separation occurs in the log trade with the existence and extent of rent creation related to conditions in the export market. Estimated price spreads which depend on trade volume serve as evidence. These factors magnify elasticities that measure the response of Japan's prices to changes in U.S. prices. Moreover, U.S. supplies on this market are more price-inelastic than its sheer size would suggest.
150 YEARS OF GANDHI AND HIS VIEWS ON EDUCATION THEN AND NOW.pdf
Creators: name: Oza, Preeti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: To the Reader I would like to say to the diligent reader of my writings and to others who are interested in them that I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my search after Truth, I have discarded many ideas and learned many new things. Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissoluti9on of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, and, therefore, when anybody finds any inconsistency between two writings of mine, if he has still faith in my sanity, he would do well to choose the latter of two on the same project. ( Harijan, 29-4-’33, p.2) M.K.Gandhi
Thickness dependence of electronic and crystal structures in VO$_2$ ultrathin films: suppression of the collaborative Mott-Peierls transition
Creators: name: Shiga, D.
name: Yang, B. E.
name: Hasegawa, N.
name: Kanda, T.
name: Tokunaga, R.
name: Yoshimatsu, K.
name: Yukawa, R.
name: Kitamura, M.
name: Horiba, K.
name: Kumigashira, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through ${in~situ}$ photoemission spectroscopy, we investigated the change in the electronic and crystal structures of dimensionality-controlled VO$_2$ films coherently grown on TiO$_2$(001) substrates. In the nanostructured films, the balance between the instabilities of a bandlike Peierls transition and a Mott transition is controlled as a function of thickness. The characteristic spectral change associated with temperature-driven metal-insulator transition in VO$_2$ thick films holds down to 1.5 nm (roughly corresponding to five V atoms along the [001] direction), whereas VO$_2$ films of less than 1.0 nm exhibit insulating nature without V-V dimerization. These results suggest that the delicate balance between a Mott instability and a bandlike Peierls instability is modulated at a scale of a few nanometers by the dimensional crossover effects and confinement effects, which consequently induce the complicated electronic phase diagram of ultrathin VO$_2$ films.
description: 30 pages, 4 main figures, 4 supplementary figures
On the Number of Factorizations of a Full Cycle
Creators: name: Irving, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A05; 20B30

description: We give a new expression for the number of factorizations of a full cycle into an ordered product of permutations of specified cycle types. This is done through purely algebraic means, extending work of Biane. We deduce from our result a formula of Poulalhon and Schaeffer that was previously derived through an intricate combinatorial argument.
description: 5 pages, 0 figures
Additional file 2 of Health state utility values in major depressive disorder treated with pharmacological interventions: a systematic literature review
Creators: name: Brockbank, James
name: Krause, Taryn
name: Moss, Emily
name: Pedersen, Anne Milthers
name: Mørup, Michael Frank
name: Ahdesmäki, Outi
name: Vaughan, Jake
name: Thor-Henrik Brodtkorb
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Embase literature search strategy.
CROP DENSITY AND IRRIGATION WITH SALINE WATER
Creators: name: Feinerman, Eli
name: Feinerman, Eli
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The economic implications of plant density for irrigation water use under saline conditions are investigated, utilizing the involved physical and biological relationships. The analysis considers a single crop and is applied to cotton data. The results suggest that treating plant density as an endogenous control variable has substantial impact on profits and the optimal quantities and qualities of the applied irrigation water.
The physiological and functional characterisation of the subpallial dopaminergic neurons in larval zebrafish
Creators: name: Rimmer, Neal
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Dopamine is a highly conserved neurotransmitter, and it is known to be involved reward, locomotion, cognition and motivation. Moreover, dysfunction or loss of dopamine neurons has been implicated in diseases such as addiction and Parkinson’s disease, respectively. Dopamine neurons develop early in life, and zebrafish possess a complete compliment of dopaminergic neurons by 5 days post fertilisation. Previous anatomical and genetic studies have suggested the dopaminergic interneurons of the zebrafish subpallium are equivalent to mammalian midbrain DAergic neurons. In this thesis the physiology and functional role of the cluster of dopamine neurons found in the zebrafish subpallium have been examined.In the first results chapter, the anatomical, morphological and physiological development of subpallial dopaminergic neurons has been examined. This revealed that by 5 dpf, subpallial dopaminergic neurons innervate the telencephalon, thalamus and hypothalamus whilst receiving input from across the brain. Additionally, subpallial dopaminergic neurons receive excitatory and inhibitory synaptic input, are intrinsically excitable and exhibit endogenous firing. Together, these findings suggest the subpallial dopaminergic neurons are functionally integrated into the brain during early development.In the second and third results chapters, the functional role of subpallial dopaminergic neurons was investigated. To delineate their function, these neurons were targeted for laser ablation. These investigation demonstrated loss of subpallial dopaminergic neurons was sufficient to perturb foraging and startle behaviours in free-swimming fish without affecting locomotion. Physiological recordings revealed these neurons are active when zebrafish are exposed to attractive and aversive stimuli. In sum, these investigations provide insights into the role of dopamine signalling in modulating decision-making, approach, and avoidance behaviours.
Localization for Random Unitary Operators
Creators: name: Hamza, Eman
name: Joye, Alain
name: Stolz, Gunter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B44, 42C05, 81Q05

description: We consider unitary analogs of $1-$dimensional Anderson models on $l^2(\Z)$ defined by the product $U_ω=D_ωS$ where $S$ is a deterministic unitary and $D_ω$ is a diagonal matrix of i.i.d. random phases. The operator $S$ is an absolutely continuous band matrix which depends on a parameter controlling the size of its off-diagonal elements. We prove that the spectrum of $U_ω$ is pure point almost surely for all values of the parameter of $S$. We provide similar results for unitary operators defined on $l^2(\N)$ together with an application to orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle. We get almost sure localization for polynomials characterized by Verblunski coefficients of constant modulus and correlated random phases.
AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF THE INTERVAL APPROACH FOR ESTIMATING RISK PREFERENCES
Creators: name: Wilson, Paul N.
name: Eidman, Vernon R.
name: Wilson, Paul N.
name: Eidman, Vernon R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Previous attempts to measure agricultural decision makers' risk preferences have obtained values of the Arrow-Pratt coefficient in the range of approximately -.0002 to .0012. The recently developed interval approach for elicitation of risk preferences was used to estimate risk attitudes for Minnesota swine producers. Constant and decreasing absolute risk aversion were predominant among the sample. Seventy-eight percent of the respondents were in the Arrow-Pratt interval of -.0002 to .0003. A discriminant analysis using producer attributes and three estimated risk intervals concluded that 50 percent of the respondents could be classified in the correct risk interval.
‘Rosicky asked her in Czech […] She replied in English’: Linguistic Border Crossings in Willa Cather’s Fiction
Creators: name: White, Francesca L.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In 1919, Cather’s home state of Nebraska banned the teaching of foreign languages in schools. In 1921, Cather denounced this law, asking: would it make children any ‘less American to know one or two other languages’? Whilst Cather believed that English should be the United States’ primary language, she disagreed that it should be the only language spoken there. In this thesis I will explore the impact of Cather’s ‘English first, but not English-only’ language politics upon her fiction. Specifically, I will argue that, in terms of their vocabulary, grammar, narrative structures and subject matter, Cather’s texts are constructed from four types of carefully controlled ‘linguistic border crossings’ between her characters’ native languages and English: namely, codes witching, Cather’s inclusion of foreign words within her predominantly English language texts, translation and cross-linguistic influence. Breaking new methodological ground, I will apply translation, sociolinguistic and polylingual discourse theories to Cather’s work in order to explore how she crossed linguistic borders without alienating Anglophone readers. Analysing hitherto undiscussed archival material (particularly annotations in Cather’s French textbooks) alongside Cather’s overlooked translation work, I will outline her surprisingly modern theory of translation, as well as the literary inspirations underpinning her crosslinguistic experiments. In doing so, I will offer new insights into how Cather’s fiction enacts her aesthetic theory of simplification and demonstrate that her writing is more political than her critical reputation suggests. By comparing Cather’s linguistic border crossings to those made by Pound and Hemingway, I will add a fresh perspective to the debate regarding her relationship with literary modernism. Finally, I will argue that, although they put English first, Cather’s texts are inherently multilingual and should, therefore, be included in the canon of polyglot American fiction – a categorisation which adds a new dimension to the ongoing reassessment of American literature in light of linguistic diversity.
Additional file 3 of Health state utility values in major depressive disorder treated with pharmacological interventions: a systematic literature review
Creators: name: Brockbank, James
name: Krause, Taryn
name: Moss, Emily
name: Pedersen, Anne Milthers
name: Mørup, Michael Frank
name: Ahdesmäki, Outi
name: Vaughan, Jake
name: Thor-Henrik Brodtkorb
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Cochrane literature search strategy.
Rotating five-dimensional electrically charged Bardeen regular black holes
Creators: name: Amir, Muhammed
name: Ali, Md Sabir
name: Maharaj, Sunil D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a rotating counterpart of the five-dimensional electrically charged Bardeen regular black holes spacetime by employing the Giampieri algorithm on static one. The associated nonlinear electrodynamics source is computed in order to justify the rotating solution. We thoroughly discuss the energy conditions and the other properties of the rotating spacetime. The black hole thermodynamics of the rotating spacetime is also presented. In particular, the thermodynamic quantities such as the Hawking temperature and the heat capacity are calculated and plotted to see the thermal behavior. The Hawking temperature profile of the black hole implies that the regular black holes are thermally colder than its singular counterpart. On the other hand, we find that the heat capacity has two branches: the negative branch corresponds to the unstable phase and the positive branch corresponds to that of the stable phase for a suitable choice of the physical parameters characterizing the black holes.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in CQG
Kirshbaum, Engelbert: Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 55 (1971): Oriens christianus, Band 55
PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS CONSIDERING ESTIMATION RISK AND IMPERFECT MARKETS
Creators: name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Barry, Peter J.
name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Barry, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Mean-variance efficient portfolio analysis is applied to situations where not all assets are perfectly price elastic in demand nor are asset moments known with certainty. Estimation and solution of such a model are based on an agricultural banking example. The distinction and advantages of a Bayesian formulation over a classical statistical approach are considered. For maximizing expected utility subject to a linear demand curve, a negative exponential utility function gives a mathematical programming problem with a quartic term. Thus, standard quadratic programming solutions are not optimal. Empirical results show important differences between classical and Bayesian approaches for portfolio composition, expected return and measures of risk.
Additional file 1 of Source modeling and spectral analysis of the Crete tsunami of 2nd May 2020 along the Hellenic Subduction Zone, offshore Greece
Creators: name: Heidarzadeh, Mohammad
name: Gusman, Aditya Riadi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supporting figures.
Plant virus inhibitors from marine algae
Creators: name: Pardee, Keith
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study was the first to evaluate new world algal species for compounds with potential for plant virus chemotherapy. Methanolic extracts from 30 species of marine algae were assayed for antiviral activity against potato virus X (PVX) in local lesion assays using Chenopodium quinoa L. as host. Extracts from six algal species (Fucus gardneri Silva, Alaria nana Schrader, Ralfsia sp. (Berkley), Codium fragile (Suringar) Hariot, Fragilaria oceanica Cleve, Egregia menziesii (Turner) J.E. Areschoug) inhibited PVX infectivity by more than 80%, with a disproportionate number of these extracts coming from the phylum Heterokontophyta. Of the six most active extracts, it is the first time that Fucus gardneri, Ralfsia sp. and Fragilaria oceanica have been reported as sources of antiviral agents. Antiviral activity from the most potent extract, F. gardneri, was selected for phytochemical analysis. Fractionation of the crude extract resulted in the isolation and identification of the polysaccharide alginate as a source of bioactivity. Alginate inhibited potato virus X infectivity by 95%, and preliminary transmission electron microscopy indicates that the mode of action may be related to aggregation of virus particles. Bioactivity in a second fraction was the result of phenolic and amino-based compounds that have yet to be positively identified.
Foreground and Source of a Cluster of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays
Creators: name: Farrar, Glennys R.
name: Berlind, Andreas A.
name: Hogg, David W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the origin of a nearly pointlike cluster of 5 ultrahigh energy cosmic rays at RA ~169.2deg and dec ~56.8deg, using Sloan Digital Sky Survey and other data. No particular source candidates are found near the estimated source direction, but the direction is exceptional in having a likely merging pair of galaxy clusters at 140/h Mpc, with an unusually low foreground density. Large scale shocks or another product of the merging galaxy clusters may accelerate the UHECRs, or the merging galaxy clusters may be coincidental and the UHECRs may be accelerated in a rare event of an unexceptional progenitor. Low magnetic deflections in the foreground void may explain why this is the only identified pointlike cluster of so many UHECRs.
description: 5 pp
Evidence for an extended critical fluctuation region above the polar ordering transition in LiOsO$_3$
Creators: name: Shan, Jun-Yi
name: de la Torre, A.
name: Laurita, N. J.
name: Zhao, L.
name: Dashwood, C. D.
name: Puggioni, D.
name: Wang, C. X.
name: Yamaura, K.
name: Shi, Y.
name: Rondinelli, J. M.
name: Hsieh, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metallic LiOsO$_3$ undergoes a continuous ferroelectric-like structural phase transition below $T_c$ = 140 K to realize a polar metal. To understand the microscopic interactions that drive this transition, we study its critical behavior above $T_c$ via electromechanical coupling - distortions of the lattice induced by short-range dipole-dipole correlations arising from Li off-center displacements. By mapping the full angular distribution of second harmonic electric-quadrupole radiation from LiOsO$_3$ and performing a simplified hyper-polarizable bond model analysis, we uncover subtle symmetry-preserving lattice distortions over a broad temperature range extending from $T_c$ up to around 230 K, characterized by non-uniform changes in the short and long Li-O bond lengths. Such an extended region of critical fluctuations may explain anomalous features reported in specific heat and Raman scattering data, and suggests the presence of competing interactions that are not accounted for in existing theoretical treatments. More broadly, our results showcase how electromechanical effects serve as a probe of critical behavior near inversion symmetry breaking transitions in metals.
description: 6 pages main text, 4 figures, 10 pages supplementary information
Contestable Black Boxes
Creators: name: Tubella, Andrea Aler
name: Theodorou, Andreas
name: Dignum, Virginia
name: Michael, Loizos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.m; K.4.1

description: The right to contest a decision with consequences on individuals or the society is a well-established democratic right. Despite this right also being explicitly included in GDPR in reference to automated decision-making, its study seems to have received much less attention in the AI literature compared, for example, to the right for explanation. This paper investigates the type of assurances that are needed in the contesting process when algorithmic black-boxes are involved, opening new questions about the interplay of contestability and explainability. We argue that specialised complementary methodologies to evaluate automated decision-making in the case of a particular decision being contested need to be developed. Further, we propose a combination of well-established software engineering and rule-based approaches as a possible socio-technical solution to the issue of contestability, one of the new democratic challenges posed by the automation of decision making.
description: Accepted at RuleML 2020 as a short paper
(54-59) REGIONAL LITERATURE AND STREAKS OF MARGINALIZATION AN OVERVIEW OF GUJARATI DALIT LITERATURE.pdf
Creators: name: Oza, Preeti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Literature

description: An overview of Gujarati Lalit (mainstream literature, having derived the name from its obsession with the „beautiful‟) clearly indicates the predominant presence of Brahmin writers. It is against this backdrop of Gujarati Lalit literature, considered central/ mainstream, great/ aesthetic, that Dalit literature came to be considered marginal/ peripheral, little/ unaesthetic. These two currents are fundamentally oppositional. It is out of this situation that Dalit literature begins to define itself as being essentially different in nature, scope, implications, and direction. Like other Dalit writings, Gujarati Dalit literature is also the product of a revolt against the age-old exploitation and torture of the Gujarati upper castes. Literally, it is a revolt against decadent Modernism in Gujarati Literature. Like other parts in India, Gujarati Dalit literature was also determined and guided by the Dalit Movements in Gujarat. The movement provided a platform for Dalit writers whose creativity received no attention from a parochial literary establishment. There were some attempts to insist upon a commitment to the Movement as the first pre-requisite for a Dalit writer. But gradually, after initial hiccups, it settled in a steady and strong protest against the set system of collective injustice.