cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Freeze-Drying of Food -- A Look into the Future
Creators: name: Bird, Kermit
name: Bird, Kermit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Production Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Freeze-dried food gained national attention recently from its use by high-altitude mountain climbers. It also has been used by our astronauts in space flights. This new processing method offers promise of growing into a multimillion-dollar industry in a few years. Freeze-dried foods may be stored 2 years or longer at room temperatures. Quickly and easily rehydrated, they maintain a high degree of flavor. This article (1) describes the advantages and limitations of freeze-drying, (2) reports some results of USDA research on taste acceptability of freeze-dried foods and probable costs of processing specified volumes, and (3) on the basis of research, suggests some prospects for commercial development of the process.
description: Article Reprinted from The Marketing and Transportation Situation August 1963
The Impacts of Climatic and Non-climatic Factors on Household Food Security: Study on Malaysian East Coast Poor
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 40104 Climate Change Processes
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Abstract Sustainable food security at household level is a national concern in many countries. The reasons for household food insecurity include social, economic, political, and personal factors as well as climatic changes and its outcomes. This research aims at finding out the linkage of the factors of climatic changes, non-climatic factors and household resiliencies with the level of household food security among the poor and low income households in Malaysia. This study is based on primary data that were collected in Jul-Oct 2012 through a questionnaire survey on 460 poor and low income households from the Pahang, Kelantan, and Terengganu States of Malaysia. The sample was selected from E-Kasih poor household database based on cluster random sampling technique. Initially the study measures household food security according to the USAID-HFIA model, and ran ordinal regressions under the logit and probit models. This study finds that household food insecurity is not only linked with social and economic factors, but also significantly linked with the climatic factors. Therefore, the food security programs need to be integrated with the adaption programs for climatic change.
Market Orientation for Better Accountability of Government-Linked Companies
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Abstract This study assesses the status of the current level of market orientation among the Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia. This study collected primary data based on a set of questionnaire survey among 134 executives and managers of GLCs in Malaysia. The data were collected based on opinions of the ten factors of market orientation practices by using the five-point Likert scale. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics. On an average, 86.6% of the respondents agreed that they focus on these factors of market orientation. The federal owned GLCs place more emphasis on market orientation than the state owned GLCs. This study suggests improving the practices of market orientation of GLCs in Malaysia by emphasizing on providing close attention to after-sales service, responding rapidly to the threats of competitive actions, regularly discussing the competitors’ strengths and strategies by top management, and freely communicating successful and unsuccessful customer experiences across all business functions. It is suggested that Malaysian GLCs should serious invest in market orientation to deliver higher accountability outcomes.
Room for one more inside? Negotiating the Situated Practice of Organised Ride-sharing
Creators: name: Goddard, Iain
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis examines organised ride-sharing: the coming together of two or more people, otherwise unacquainted, in sharing a car journey for the fulfilment of their individual mobility needs. I use both online and offline ethnographic data to develop a situated, practice-based understanding of the social, cultural, and affective aspects of ride-sharing in the UK. In policy-focused discourse, ride-sharing is often talked about in terms of surplus or excess, the notion being that empty seats represent an untapped resource to be utilised in efforts to reduce energy demand. Yet, my research demonstrates that giving up an empty seat in their car does not only involve giving up otherwise empty space, but– for both drivers and passengers – involves taking on a range of obligations inherent in the relational practice of ride-sharing. Negotiation of these obligations is subject to the physical circumstances of enactment, which the introduction of smartphone has substantially reconfigured. Digital platforms, which match drivers and passengers who have similar temporal and spatial configurations of mobility needs, have become integral to the communication infrastructure that enables this negotiation. At the same time, procedural and relational complexities of practice enactments directly challenge or highlight the gaps in the scheme’s governance. For a majority of practitioners, organised ride-sharing is an infrequent undertaking, and an engagement that doesn’t persist past a handful of trips. For a committed minority, however, the practice of ride-sharing is one that has become incorporated into their wider mobility practices, and their lives more generally. In this thesis, I have explored the practice as it is enacted by practitioners at either end of this spectrum, and points in between. In the process, I reveal how the existence of both standardisation and flexibility in forms of practice, and in situated notions of virtue, enables organised ride-sharing to perpetuate.
Stony Hill Farm Parade Float, 1916
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1916
Subjects: East Hampton
Parades & processions
Farms
Livestock

description: This image shows the Stony Hill Farm Float in the East Hampton 1916 parade. The woman standing toward the right side of the float is Mrs. Harry L. Hamlin, and the child pictured is Judy Hamlin.
The Effect of Scale, Technique, Composition and Trade Openness on Energy Demand: Fresh Evidence from Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 90607 Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Renewable Power)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Abstract: The aim of this paper utilizes an energy demand model to investigate the impact of trade openness on energy consumption by incorporating scale and technique, composition and urbanization effects in the case of Malaysia. The study covers the sample period of 1970-2011 using quarter frequency data. We applied the bounds testing approach in the presence of structural breaks to examine the long run relationship between the variables. The VECM Granger causality is used to detect the direction of causality between the variables. Our findings indicate that growth effect (scale and technique effect) has a positive (negative) impact on energy consumption whereas composition effect stimulates energy demand in Malaysia.. Energy consumption is positively influenced by both from openness and urbanization. This study opens new policy insights for policy making authorities to articulate a comprehensive energy and trade policy to sustain economic growth and improve the environmental quality of Malaysia.
Feasibility of perturbative generation of bound-states from resonances or virtual states
Creators: name: Yang, C. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I investigate whether it is possible to generate bound-states from resonances or virtual states through first-order perturbation theory. Using contact-type potentials as those appeared in pionless effective field theory, I show that it is possible to obtain negative-energy states by sandwiching a next-to-leading order (NLO) interaction with the leading-order (LO) wavefunctions, under the presence of LO resonances or virtual states. However, at least under the framework of time-independent Schrödinger equation and Hermitian Hamiltonian, there is an inability to create bound-states with structure similar to those formed by the non-perturbative treatments.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures. Published version with an appendix added and the title changed
Empirical Assessment of Good Governance in the Public Sector of Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150303 Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract To improve the trust of citizens and delivery of services, employing good governance principles in the public sector is very crucial. Despite efforts to improve service delivery, criticisms and complains toward public services remain evident. This study aims to assess the status of good governance practices in the public sector of Malaysia. Primary data were collected from the responses of 109 department heads under 24 federal ministries to a survey questionnaire. Respondent perception of good governance practices was measured using a seven-point Likert scale and analyzed by descriptive statistics and path measurement modeling. Standard diagnostic tests were also conducted to check the reliability of the data and model. Results indicated that nine factors were significant in the measurement of good governance practices. However, very few people in the public sector of Malaysia practice fraud control, which is at the lowest intensity. Among the service groups, the engineer group practiced good governance at the highest level, whereas the health service group practiced good governance at the lowest level. Therefore, still there are scopes available to improve good governance systems to become more reliable and efficient public sector in Malaysia. Findings of the study will help policy makers improve the efficiency of the public sector of Malaysia and other countries.
The Experiences of Migrant Job Seekers, Looking for Work Online
Creators: name: De Pauw, Denise
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022
Subjects: employability
online job seeking
Literacies
Migrants
mediated discourse analysis
Activity theory
new literacy studies

description: Employment is acknowledged as an important mechanism for migrant integration, yet finding work can be difficult, even for highly skilled professionals. Substantial research exists on employment, recruitment, migrant workers, inclusion, and work-related language and literacy skills, yet little of this is directly concerned with job- seeking literacy practices, and specifically, online job applications. This study contributes to the literature on employment support for migrants by focusing on online mediated job applications, and would be relevant to those supporting any jobseekers, not only migrants. Using an ethnographic approach, three case studies were conducted, concerning migrant jobseekers in England from different age groups, linguistic and educational backgrounds. Video recordings, job-seeking texts and field notes were collected, and semi-scripted interviews were conducted. The data was analysed using mediated discourse analysis, drawing on literacy practices and activity theory. This study identifies how digital mediation structures online recruitment by privileging the literacy practices associated with globally networked sophisticated digital information managers. It contributes job search literacies as an addition to other employability literacies, such as self-promotion (e.g. Bhatia, 1993) and reading the market (Del Percio, 2018), necessary for online jobseekers. It theorises online job- seeking as a recursive self-appraisal cycle, which begins with searching, and during which career identity is continually adjusted in relation to perceptions of the job criteria and motivation, as the application progresses. Accurate self-appraisal and formulating a credible career identity require the development of employability literacies underpinned by specialised advice, from the relevant field of employment, and the study concludes that this is where employability support should be focused. This support is vital for highly educated and low educated migrants alike, looking for paid and unpaid work.
Coherent microwave, optical, and mechanical quantum control of spin qubits in diamond
Creators: name: Orphal-Kobin, Laura
name: Torun, Cem Güney
name: Bopp, Julian M.
name: Pieplow, Gregor
name: Schröder, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diamond has emerged as a highly promising platform for quantum network applications. Color centers in diamond fulfill the fundamental requirements for quantum nodes: they constitute optically accessible quantum systems with long-lived spin qubits. Furthermore, they provide access to a quantum register of electronic and nuclear spin qubits and they mediate entanglement between spins and photons. All these operations require coherent control of the color center's spin state. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art, challenges, and prospects of such schemes, including, high fidelity initialization, coherent manipulation, and readout of spin states. Established microwave and optical control techniques are reviewed, and moreover, emerging methods such as cavity-mediated spin-photon interactions and mechanical control based on spin-phonon interactions are summarized. For different types of color centers, namely, nitrogen-vacancy and group-IV color centers, distinct challenges persist that are subject of ongoing research. Beyond fundamental coherent spin qubit control techniques, advanced demonstrations in quantum network applications are outlined, for example, the integration of individual color centers for accessing (nuclear) multi-qubit registers. Finally, we describe the role of diamond spin qubits in the realization of future quantum information applications.
The post-2003 development of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq: a Critical Realist Perspective
Creators: name: Trappelides, Thanos
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Kurdistan
Nationalism
nationalism
Iraq
International Relations
Critical Realism
Anthony Smith
Ethno-symbolism
nationalistic
ethnic nationalism
civic nationalism
Kurds
Iraqi
KDP
PUK
Margaret Archer

description: The question of whether a fully-fledged Kurdish nationalism does exist has attracted a reasonable amount of attention across recent decades, subject to the increasing appreciation of its modern development having been strongly influenced by distinct contexts experienced across the different states within which Kurds were separated after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Iraq always constituted a distinctively unique case, with nationalistic development coexisting with a processual movement towards a decentralised state inclusive of Kurdish rights. This thesis analyses and explains the post-2003 development of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq to determine the extent to which it has been affected by social, political, ideological and economic factors across time and space, the extent to which it has been enhanced with civic elements subject to the region’s political development and the extent to which the decisions of political elites have been influenced by ethnic structures of nationalism. Kurdish nationalism is defined in accordance with the ethno-symbolist Smithian understanding of nations, demonstrating a case of a modern nation gradually constructed around a pre-modern ethnic core, while nationalistic development across time and space is analysed through the endorsement of the Critical Realist cyclical morphogenetic framework of Margaret Archer. Within a field largely dominated by classic primordial and modernist approaches, the employment of Critical Realism aims at convincingly explaining the interplay between structure and agency and at ontologically defining both observed and unobserved structures within the social world. Thus, appropriately determining their role and influence and explaining how ethnic and civic elements have interacted to generate a distinct sentiment of belonging after the emergence of the post-2003 contextual status across a period during which political elites were engaged in a conscious effort to enrich national identification with civic elements through a state-building process of problematic nature exposed in the aftermath of the 2017 independence referendum.
A Paradox between LV Mass Regression and Hemodynamic Improvement after Surgical and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Creators: name: Kadkhodayan, Ana
name: Lin, Grace
name: Popma, Jeffrey J.
name: Reardon, Michael J.
name: Little, Stephen H.
name: H. Adams, David
name: Marcus, Richard
name: Henry, Sonia
name: Baker, Michael T.
name: Kleiman, Neal S.
name: Deeb, G. Michael
name: Huang, Jian
name: Oh, Jae K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology

description: Background: Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) results in higher AV gradients than transcatheter AVR (TAVR), yet calculated left ventricular (LV) mass regresses faster and greater after SAVR vs. TAVR. We examined why LV mass regression is greater after SAVR. Methods: Serial echocardiographic studies of high-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) randomized to SAVR vs. TAVR with the CoreValve bioprosthesis were analyzed by an echocardiographic core laboratory blinded to treatment and outcomes. Measurements followed established guidelines and LV mass was calculated using the formula of Devereux and colleagues. Results: Echo data were available in 389 TAVR and 353 SAVR patients, whose baseline LVEDD, PWT, SWT, LV mass, and stroke volume (SV) as well as AS severity were similar. At discharge after SAVR, LV mass reduction was significant (227.45 ± 65.02 to 215.08 ± 59.02 g [p = 0.002]) due to decreased LVEDD (5.01 ± 0.64 to 4.81 ± 0.65 cm [p < 0.001]) associated with reduced SV (72.6 ± 27.0 mL to 58.9 ± 21.1 mL (p = 0.015]). PWT and SWT were unchanged. However, after TAVR, all these variables remained similar. At 1 year, LV mass, SV and LVEDD remained smaller following SAVR vs. TAVR. There was a trend toward higher 30-day mortality in patients with greater LV mass reduction in SAVR (4.7% vs. 0.8 %; p = 0.058) which was not observed after TAVR. Conclusion: The greater reduction in LV mass calculated after SAVR vs. TAVR is due to a smaller postoperative LVEDD and is associated with significantly reduced SV. There was a tendency for increased 30-day mortality associated with greater reduction in calculated LV mass after SAVR.
Meatpackers' Costs and Spreads for Beef
Creators: name: Agnew, Donald B.
name: Agnew, Donald B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics

description: Excerpts from the report: How much of the consumer price for Choice beef was paid for meatpackers services? How were costs of these services allocated among labor, packaging materials, grading services, royalties, buying and selling, and operating over-head? And how stable was the packers' spread during the recent decline in prices for fat cattle? A recent survey of meatpacker costs in commercial-scale fresh beef operations provides some information. Reporting packers were located in the eastern and western Cornbelt and in the Southwest and Southeast. Records used in the analysis were from packers slaughtering mostly steers and heifers.
description: Article Reprinted from The Marketing and Transportation Situation August 1963
Entrepreneurial Orientation for Sustainable Competitive Advantage and Risk Management: Evidence from Government-Linked Companies in Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract This study is an attempt to assess the status of the current level of entrepreneurial orientation among the Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia. This study collected primary data based on a set of questionnaire survey among 134 executives and managers of GLCs in Malaysia. The data were collected based on opinions of the seven factors of entrepreneurial orientation practices by using the five-point Likert scale. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Further, the reliability of the data was tested using Cronbach’s alpha test, the validity of the data was tested by checking the normality test through skewness and kurtosis, and the consistency of the data was tested using factor analysis. On an average, 70.9% of the respondents agreed that they focus on these factors of entrepreneurial orientation. The federal owned GLCs place more emphasis on entrepreneurial orientation than the state owned GLCs. This study suggests improving the practices of entrepreneurial orientation of GLCs in Malaysia by emphasizing on recognizing individual risk takers for their willingness to champion new projects, whether it eventually turns out to be successful or not, encouraging employees to take calculated risks with new ideas, considering the term “risk taker” as a positive attribute for people in the organization, and supporting many small and experimental projects by realizing that some will undoubtedly fail.
Organizational Learning Orientation for More Competitive and Accountable Government-Linked Companies in Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Organizational Behavioral Psychology

description: Abstract Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) are expected to show competitive performance in order to reflect the accountability of taxpayers’ money. Therefore, this study is an attempt to assess the status of the current level of organizational learning orientation among the Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia. This study collected primary data based on a set of questionnaire survey among 134 executives and managers of GLCs in Malaysia. The data were collected based on opinions of the ten factors of organizational learning practices by using the five-point Likert scale. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Further, the reliability of the data was tested using Cronbach’s alpha test, the validity of the data was tested by checking the normality test through skewness and kurtosis, and the consistency of the data was tested using factor analysis. On an average, 74.6% of the respondents agreed that they focus on these factors of organizational learning. The federal owned GLCs place more emphasis on organizational learning than the state owned GLCs. This study suggests improving the practices of organizational learning within the GLCs in Malaysia by emphasizing on the consideration that employee learning is an investment rather than an expense, employees should view themselves as partners in charting the direction of the organization, employees should not be afraid of critically reflecting on the shared assumptions about the ways of managing the organization, and by analyzing unsuccessful organizational endeavours and communicating the lessons learned widely among the employees.
Administrative license suspension: Does length of suspension matter?
Creators: name: C. Fell, James
name: Scherer, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plasma Physics
subject: Plant Biology

description: Objective: Administrative license revocation (ALR) laws, which provide that the license of a driver with a blood alcohol concentration at or over the illegal limit is subject to an immediate suspension by the state department of motor vehicles, are an example of a traffic law in which the sanction rapidly follows the offense. The power of ALR laws has been attributed to how swiftly the sanction is applied, but does the length of suspension matter? Our objectives were to (a) determine the relationship of the ALR suspension length to the prevalence of drinking drivers relative to sober drivers in fatal crashes and (b) estimate the extent to which the relationship is associated to the general deterrent effect compared to the specific deterrent effect of the law. Methods: Data comparing the impact of ALR law implementation and ALR law suspension periods were analyzed using structural equation modeling techniques on the ratio of drinking drivers to nondrinking drivers in fatal crashes from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). Results: States with an ALR law with a short suspension period (1–30 days) had a significantly lower drinking driver ratio than states with no ALR law. States with a suspension period of 91–180 days had significantly lower ratios than states with shorter suspension periods, while the three states with suspension lengths of 181 days or longer had significantly lower ratios than states with shorter suspension periods. Discussion: The implementation of any ALR law was associated with a 13.1% decrease in the drinking/nondrinking driver fatal crash ratio but only a 1.8% decrease in the intoxicated/nonintoxicated fatal crash ratio. The ALR laws and suspension lengths had a significant general deterrent effect, but no specific deterrent effect. Practical Implications: States might want to keep (or adopt) ALR laws for their general deterrent effects and pursue alternatives for specific deterrent effects. States with short ALR suspension periods should consider lengthening them to 91 days or longer.
Effects of exposure pathways on the accumulation and phytotoxicity of silver nanoparticles in soybean and rice
Creators: name: Li, Cheng-Cheng
name: Dang, Fei
name: Li, Min
name: Zhu, Min
name: Zhong, Huan
name: Hintelmann, Holger
name: Zhou, Dong-Mei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The widespread use of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) raises concerns both about their accumulation in crops and human exposure via crop consumption. Plants take up AgNPs through their leaves and roots, but foliar uptake has been largely ignored. To better understand AgNPs–plant interactions, we compared the uptake, phytotoxicity and size distribution of AgNPs in soybean and rice following root versus foliar exposure. At similar AgNP application levels, foliar exposure led to 17–200 times more Ag bioaccumulation than root exposure. Root but not foliar exposure significantly reduced plant biomass, while root exposure increased the malondialdehyde and H2O2 contents of leaves to a larger extent than did foliar exposure. Following either root or foliar exposure, Ag-containing NPs larger (36.0–48.9 nm) than the originally dosed NPs (17–18 nm) were detected within leaves. These particles were detected using a newly developed macerozyme R-10 tissue extraction method followed by single-particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. In response to foliar exposure, these NPs were stored in the cell wall and plamalemma of leaves. NPs were also detected in planta following Ag ion exposure, indicating their in vivo formation. Leaf-to-leaf and root-to-leaf translocation of NPs in planta was observed but the former did not alter the size distribution of the NPs. Our observations point to the possibility that fruits, seeds and other edible parts may become contaminated by translocation processes in plants exposed to AgNPs. These results are an important contribution to improve the risk assessment of NPs under environmental exposure scenarios.
Good Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes from the NTRU cryptosystem
Creators: name: Conrad, Jonathan
name: Eisert, Jens
name: Seifert, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a new class of random Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes derived from the cryptanalysis of the so-called NTRU cryptosystem. The derived codes are good in that they exhibit constant rate and average distance scaling $Δ\propto \sqrt{n}$ with high probability, where $n$ is the number of bosonic modes, which is a distance scaling equivalent to that of a GKP code obtained by concatenating single mode GKP codes into a qubit-quantum error correcting code with linear distance. The derived class of NTRU-GKP codes has the additional property that decoding for a stochastic displacement noise model is equivalent to decrypting the NTRU cryptosystem, such that every random instance of the code naturally comes with an efficient decoder. This construction highlights how the GKP code bridges aspects of classical error correction, quantum error correction as well as post-quantum cryptography. We underscore this connection by discussing the computational hardness of decoding GKP codes and propose, as a new application, a simple public key quantum communication protocol with security inherited from the NTRU cryptosystem.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures, comments welcome! The final contains added clarifications and an additional proof of the Gaussian heuristic for a class of NTRU-like lattices
RELATIONSHIPS AMONG CARBON EMISSIONS, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY CONSUMPTION ANDPOPULATION GROWTH: TESTING ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE HYPOTHESIS FOR BRAZIL, CHINA, INDIA AND INDONESIA
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50205 Environmental Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: ABSTRACT This study examines the impacts of income, energy consumption and population growth on CO2 emissions by employing an annual time series data for the period 1970-2012 for India, Indonesia, China, and Brazil. The study used the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds test approach considering both the linear and non-linear assumptions for related time series data for the top CO2 emitter emerging countries in both the short run and long run. The results show that CO2 emissions have increased statistically significantly with increases in income and energy consumption in all four countries. While the relationship between CO2 emissions and population growth was found to be statistically significant for India and Brazil, it has been statistically insignificant for China and Indonesia in both the short run and long run. Also, empirical observations from the testing of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis imply that in the cases of Brazil, China and Indonesia, CO2 emissions will decrease over the time when income increases. So based on the EKC findings, it can be argued that these three countries should not take any actions or policies, which might have conservative impacts on income, in order to reduce their CO2 emissions. But in the case of India, where CO2 emissions and income were found to have a positive relationship, an increase in income over the time will not reduce CO2 emissions in the country.
Climatic Changes, Government Interventions, and Paddy Production: An Empirical Study of the Muda Irrigation Area in Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 40104 Climate Change Processes
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Abstract The Muda Irrigation Area is one of the main paddy production areas in Malaysia. Various efforts and approaches through government interventions have been implemented to ensure the continuity of paddy production in this area. However, there are different factors that have negative impacts on paddy production including climatic factors. Therefore, with the direct components of production such as land, labor, and technology, this study uses climatic factors and government intervention to examine the influence of these factors of production on the paddy production in this area. Based on the time series data from 1981 to 2010, this study conducted the multiple log linear Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression by considering the Cobb-Douglas production function model. The major units of production, such as land, labour, and technology, have a statistically positive relationship with paddy production. Among the climatic variables, rainfall and the number of rainy days show a statistically significant and positive relationship but temperature shows a negative relationship with paddy production. The factors of external intervention such as government subsidies and market forces also show a statistically significant and positive relationship with paddy production. To ensure the improvement of paddy production as well as to minimize the effects of climatic change, government intervention should be continued in Malaysia.
A strontium quantum-gas microscope
Creators: name: Buob, Sandra
name: Höschele, Jonatan
name: Makhalov, Vasiliy
name: Rubio-Abadal, Antonio
name: Tarruell, Leticia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development of quantum-gas microscopes has brought novel ways of probing quantum degenerate many-body systems at the single-atom level. Until now, most of these setups have focused on alkali atoms. Expanding quantum-gas microscopy to alkaline-earth elements will provide new tools, such as SU(N)-symmetric fermionic isotopes or ultranarrow optical transitions, to the field of quantum simulation. Here, we demonstrate the site-resolved imaging of a $^{84}$Sr bosonic quantum gas in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice. The quantum gas is confined by a two-dimensional in-plane lattice and a light-sheet potential, which operate at the strontium clock-magic wavelength of 813.4 nm. We realize fluorescence imaging using the broad 461 nm transition, which provides high spatial resolution. Simultaneously, we perform attractive Sisyphus cooling with the narrow 689 nm intercombination line. We reconstruct the atomic occupation from the fluorescence images, obtaining imaging fidelities above 94%. Finally, we realize a $^{84}$Sr superfluid in the Bose-Hubbard regime. We observe its interference pattern upon expansion, a probe of phase coherence, with single-atom resolution. Our strontium quantum-gas microscope provides a new platform to study dissipative Hubbard models, quantum optics in atomic arrays, and SU(N) fermions at the microscopic level.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Classification of cubic tricirculant nut graphs
Creators: name: Damnjanović, Ivan
name: Bašić, Nino
name: Pisanski, Tomaž
name: Žitnik, Arjana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C50, 11C08, 12D05

description: A nut graph is a simple graph whose adjacency matrix has the eigenvalue zero with multiplicity one such that its corresponding eigenvector has no zero entries. It is known that there exist no cubic circulant nut graphs. A bicirculant (resp. tricirculant) graph is defined as a graph that admits a cyclic group of automorphisms having two (resp. three) orbits of vertices of equal size. We show that there exist no cubic bicirculant nut graphs and we provide a full classification of cubic tricirculant nut graphs.
title: 01_1348
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Structural characterisation of a water-soluble polysaccharide from tissue-cultured Dendrobium huoshanense C.Z. Tang et S.J. Cheng
Creators: name: Si, Hua-Yang
name: Chen, Nai-Fu
name: Chen, Nai-Dong
name: Huang, Cheng
name: Li, Jun
name: Wang, Hui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A water-soluble polysaccharide TC-DHPA4 with a molecular weight of 8.0 × 105 Da was isolated from tissue-cultured Dendrobium huoshanense by anion exchange and gel permeation chromatography. Monosaccharide analysis revealed that the homogeneous polysaccharide was made up of rhamnose, arabinose, mannose, glucose, galactose and glucuronic acid with a molar ratio of 1.28:1:1.67:4.71:10.43:1.42. The sugar residue sequence analysis based on the GC-MS files and NMR spectra indicated that the backbone of TC-DHPA4 consisted of the repeated units:→6)-β-Galp-(1→6)-β-Galp-(1→4)-β-GlcpA-(1→6)-β-Glcp-(1→6)-β-Glcp-(→. The sugar residue sequences β-Glcp-(1→)-α-Rhap-(1→3)-β-Galp-(1→, β-Glcp-(1→4)-α-Rhap-(1→3)-β-Galp-(1→, β-Galp-(1→6)-β-Manp-(1→3)-β-Galp-(1→, and α-l-Araf-(1→2)-β-Manp-(1→3)-β-Galp-(1→ were identified as the branches attached to the C-3 position of (1→6)-linked galactose in the backbone.
Swapping Floquet time crystal
Creators: name: Gargiulo, Roberto
name: Passarelli, Gianluca
name: Lucignano, Procolo
name: Russomanno, Angelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a Floquet period-doubling time-crystal model based on a disordered interacting long-range spin chain where the periodic swapping of nearby spin couples is applied. This protocol can be applied to systems with any local spin magnitude $s$ {and in principle also to systems with nonspin (fermionic or bosonic) local Hilbert space}. We explicitly consider the cases $s = 1/2$ and $s = 1$, using analytical and numerical methods to show that the time-crystal behavior appears in a range of parameters. In particular, we study the persistence of period-doubling oscillations in time, the time-crystal properties of the Floquet spectrum (quasienergy $π$-spectral pairing and long-range correlations of the Floquet states), and introduce a quantity (the local imbalance) to assess what initial states give rise to a period-doubling dynamics. We also consider the average level spacing ratio and find that the interval of parameters where the system does not thermalize and persistent period-doubling is possible corresponds to the one where the Floquet spectrum shows time-crystal properties.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures
Relationship between Good Governance and Integrity System: Empirical Study on the Public Sector of Malaysia
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Abstract This study is an attempt to measure the relationship between the current practice status of good governance and that of integrity in the public sector of Malaysia. This study collected primary data based on a set of questionnaire survey among heads of 109 departments and agencies under 24 federal ministries, including the Prime Minister Department in Malaysia. The data were analysed under descriptive statistics, ordinal regression and structural equation model. Furthermore, standard diagnostic tests were also conducted to check the reliability of the data and models. To improve the integrity system, the study suggests to focus on the practices of strategic alliance, strategic planning, audit and fraud control. Overall, the public sector in Malaysia must also focus significantly on the development of good governance system and a proper appraisal system to achieve an effective integrity system.
An anisotropic rotating cosmic string with Lorentz violation: thermodynamics and Landau levels
Creators: name: Filho, A. A. Araújo
name: Reis, J. A. A. S.
name: Lisboa-Santos, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we generalize the spacetime induced by a rotating cosmic string, taking into account anisotropic effects due the breaking of the Lorentz violation. In particular, we explore the energy levels of a massive spinless particle that is covariantly coupled to a uniform magnetic field aligned with the string. Subsequently, we introduce a scalar potential featuring both a Coulomb-type and a linear confining term and comprehensively solve the Klein-Gordon equations for each configuration. Finally, by imposing rigid-wall boundary conditions, we determine the Landau levels when the linear defect itself possesses magnetization. Notably, our analysis reveals the occurrence of Landau quantization even in the absence of gauge fields, provided the string possesses spin. Finally, the thermodynamic properties are computed as well in these scenarios.
description: 19 pages and 2 figures
Selected Socioeconomic Characteristics of Waste Collector Children in Dhaka City
Creators: name: Alam, Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Economics

description: Abstract Generally in the city areas of developing countries, children from the poor and low income families are involved in a range of risky, unhealthy, and environmentally hazardous economic activities and trades. One of these common activities concerns collecting recyclable waste form the street or landfill areas. To understand the socioeconomic characteristics of these waste collector children, this study collected data from fifty children who engaged in waste collection in the landfill of Matuail in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. The data were collected by questionnaire guide, and the samples were selected based on convenient random sampling. This study analyses the socioeconomic conditions of these waste collector children by focussing on such characteristics as their demographic profile, economic affiliation, and nature of the waste collection task. This empirical study may inform and illuminate the relevant policy makers and field activists in widening their understanding of the life and living of this vulnerable group.
title: 02_0292
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/