cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Recent rigidity results for graphs with prescribed mean curvature
Creators: name: Bianchini, Bruno
name: Colombo, Giulio
name: Magliaro, Marco
name: Mari, Luciano
name: Pucci, Patrizia
name: Rigoli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 35R01, 35B53, 35B08, Secondary: 53C42, 58J05, 35R45

description: This survey describes some recent rigidity results obtained by the authors for the prescribed mean curvature problem on graphs $u : M \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. Emphasis is put on minimal, CMC and capillary graphs, as well as on graphical solitons for the mean curvature flow, in warped product ambient spaces. A detailed analysis of the mean curvature operator is given, focusing on maximum principles at infinity, Liouville properties, gradient estimates. Among the geometric applications, we mention the Bernstein theorem for positive entire minimal graphs on manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature, and a splitting theorem for capillary graphs over an unbounded domain $Ω\subset M$, namely, for CMC graphs satisfying an overdetermined boundary condition.
description: 48 pages. Final version
Single crystal growth and magnetism of Sr3NaIrO6 and Sr3AgIrO6: tracking the J = 0 ground state of Ir5+
Creators: name: Song, Peng-Bo
name: Hu, Zhiwei
name: Hsu, Su-Yang
name: Chen, Jin-Ming
name: Lee, Jyh-Fu
name: Miao, Shan-Shan
name: Sh, You-Guo
name: Feng, Hai L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single crystals of Sr3NaIrO6 and Sr3AgIrO6 have been successfully grown using hydroxides flux. Sr3NaIrO6 and Sr3AgIrO6 crystallize in the K4CdCl6-type structure with the space group R-3c (No.167). Sr3NaIrO6 and Sr3AgIrO6 are electrically insulating with estimated activation gaps of 0.68 eV and 0.80 eV, respectively. Sr3NaIrO6 and Sr3AgIrO6 show paramagnetic behavior down to 2 K.
description: corrected errors for single crystal growth method
Analysis of the dynamical evolution of the Quadrantid meteoroid stream
Creators: name: Sambarov, Georgy E.
name: Galushina, Tatyana Yu.
name: Syusina, Olga M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate numerically the dynamical evolution of simulated meteoroid stream of the Quadrantids ejected from the parent body of the asteroid (196256) 2003 EH1. The main goal of this work is to identify mean motion and secular resonances and to study the mutual influence of resonance relations and close encounters with the major planets. Since the dynamics of this asteroid is predictable only on short time intervals, and not only close and/or multiple close encounters with major planets, but also the presence of at least one unstable resonance can lead to chaotic motion of test particles, we studied their resonant dynamics. The dynamical evolution of the test particles expects possible scenario for resonant motion. We conjecture that the reasons of chaos are the overlap of stable secular resonances and unstable mean motions resonances and close and/or multiple close encounters with the major planets. The estimate of the stability of orbits in which the particles in simulations moved was carried out by analyzing the behavior of the parameter MEGNO (Mean Exponential Growth factor of Nearby Orbits). The larger part of the identified resonances is stable. We found a peculiar behavior for this stream. Here, we show that the orbits of some ejected particles are strongly affected by the Lidov-Kozai mechanism that protects them from close encounters with Jupiter. Lack of close encounters with Jupiter leads to a rather smooth growth in the parameter MEGNO and the behavior imply the stable motion of simulation particles of the Quadrantids meteoroid stream.
Two Dimensions of the Spatial Distribution of Housing: Dependency and Heterogeneity across Tennessee’s Six Metropolitan Statistical Areas
Creators: name: Cho, Seong-Hoon
name: Clark, Christopher D.
name: Park, William M.
name: Cho, Seong-Hoon
name: Clark, Christopher D.
name: Park, William M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: community
subject: housing density
subject: spatial dependency
subject: spatial heterogeneity

description: A two-stage multinomial logit selection model is used to model the relationship between demographic characteristics and housing density across Tennessee’s six metropolitan statistical areas. The study finds that there is both spatial correlation and heterogeneity in the most densely populated area, has the least amount of spatial correlation among housing density at the neighborhood level, while Johnson City, which has the lowest overall housing density, has the highest degree of spatial correlation.
Dispersion relations and self-localization of quasiparticles in coupled elongated Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Momme, M. R.
name: Prikhodko, O. O.
name: Bidasyuk, Y. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the spectrum and dispersion of Bogoliubov quasiparticles in two coupled elongated Bose-Einstein condensates. We develop an analytically solvable model that approximates two infinite homogeneous condensates and compare its predictions to a numerical simulation of a realistic trapped system. While the comparisons show a reasonable agreement between the two models, they also manifest the existence of several anomalous Bogoliubov modes in the spectrum. These modes show degeneracy in both energy and momentum together with self-localization in the coordinate space.
Additional file 1 of Homozygote CRIM1 variant is associated with thiopurine-induced neutropenia in leukemic patients with both wildtype NUDT15 and TPMT
Creators: name: Yoomi Park
name: Hyery Kim
name: Heewon Seo
name: Choi, Jung Yoon
name: Youngeun Ma
name: Sunmin Yun
name: Byung-Joo Min
name: Myung-Eui Seo
name: Yoo, Keon Hee
name: Kang, Hyoung Jin
name: Im, Ho Joon
name: Kim, Ju Han
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Evaluation of 12 candidate variants from the discovery cohort (N = 188) by using the replication cohort (N = 52) for both NUDT15 and TPMT wild-type subjects. Table S2. Evaluation of frequency distributions of CRIM1 rs3821169 genotypes across different cutoffs of the last-cycle 6-mercaptopurine dose intensity percentage tolerated by pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia subjects. Figure S1. Improvement of prediction accuracy of GVBNUDT15,TPMT for thiopurine toxicity after controlling for homozygote carriers of CRIM1 rs3821169. Figure S2. Prediction accuracies of GVBNUDT15,CRIM1 and GVBTPMT,CRIM1 for thiopurine toxicity in pediatric ALL subjects. Figure S3. Prediction accuracies of GVBNUDT15,TPMT,CRIM1 for thiopurine toxicity in pediatric ALL subjects. Figure S4. Prediction accuracy of GVBCRIM1 for thiopurine toxicity in pediatric ALL subjects. Figure S5. Prediction accuracy of GVBNUDT15 for thiopurine toxicity in pediatric ALL subjects. Figure S6. Prediction accuracy of GVBTPMT for thiopurine toxicity in pediatric ALL subjects. Figure S7. Youden’s index to find the optimal thresholds for GVBNUDT15,TPMT and GVBNUDT15,TPMT,CRIM1. Figure S8. Comparison of CRIM1 mRNA expression levels of rs3821169 carriers and noncarriers in hematopoietic and lymphoid tissue. Figure S9. Results of Sanger sequencing for the two NUDT15 variants identified via whole exome sequencing.
Potential Harmonization of Supplier-Retailer Interests: The US Food Industry & Comparisons with International Examples (PowerPoint)
Creators: name: Konig, Gabor
name: Konig, Gabor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Market structure
subject: conflicts
subject: concentration

description: How is it possible to counterbalance the adverse effects of the overdeveloped buyer power of retailers against food suppliers? How is it possible for the Federal Trade Commission or the US Department of Agriculture to regulate the supply chain and retailer-supplier relations? What are examples? How it is possible to improve the bargaining power of suppliers?
description: Seminar presented to USDA Economists Group, Washington, DC, USA 03 September 2008
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 10/22/08.
The economics of non-industrial timber supply in southern and central Finland : spatial roundwood market analysis
Creators: name: Schwab, Olaf Sebastian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The majority of the roundwood processed by the highly concentrated forest products industry in Finland is supplied by over 350 000 non-industrial private forest owners [NIPF]. Since the beginning of the 1970s, the forest ownership objectives of these NIPF owner have diversified rapidly, and grown to include both timber and non-timber objectives. The potential impact of non-timber objectives on NIPF timber supply has created substantial concerns for the Finnish forest products industry. To explore the impact of these objectives, this thesis reviews and analyzes studies on the competitiveness of the Finnish roundwood markets in the context of other Scandinavian roundwood markets. The deficiencies of existing timber supply and demand models are reviewed, and these are then addressed in the development of a prototype mill-specific timber demand model [MSTD]. While important parameters such as roundwood price (at the roadside) were explored, the MSTD model is primarily based on mill characteristics such as distance to supply, mill capacity and mill type. The model describes wood procurement patterns with a high spatial resolution. It provides the basis for further model development, enabling the analysis of both purchasing behavior and'producers criteria for selling, which will then allow for the evaluation of the potential impact of forest ownership objectives on timber supply in specific local and regional timber markets.
Thermal enhancement of the antiferromagnetic exchange coupling between Fe epilayers separated by a crystalline ZnSe spacer
Creators: name: Varalda, J.
name: Milano, J.
name: de Oliveira, A. J. A.
name: Kakuno, E. M.
name: Mazzaro, I.
name: Mosca, D. H.
name: Steren, L. B.
name: Eddrief, M.
name: Marangolo, M.
name: Demaille, D.
name: Etgens, V. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have put into evidence the existence of an antiferromagnetic coupling between iron epilayers separated by a ZnSe crystalline semiconductor. The effect has been observed for ZnSe spacers thinner than 4 nm at room-temperature. The coupling constant increases linearly with temperature with a constant slope of ~5.5x 10-9 J/m2K. The mechanisms that may explain such exchange interaction are discussed in the manuscript. It results that thermally-induced effective exchange coupling mediated by spin-dependent on and off resonant tunnelling of electrons via localized mid-gap defect states in the ZnSe spacer layer appears to be the most plausible mechanism to induce the antiferromagnetic coupling.
description: 29 pages, 8 figures
Pulsar Timing Signatures of Circumbinary Asteroid Belts
Creators: name: Jennings, Ross J.
name: Cordes, James M.
name: Chatterjee, Shami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gravitational pull of a large number of asteroids perturbs a pulsar's motion to a degree that is detectable through precision timing of millisecond pulsars. The result is a low-frequency, correlated noise process, similar in form to the red timing noise known to affect canonical pulsars, or to the signal expected from a stochastic gravitational-wave background. Motivated by the observed fact that many millisecond pulsars are in binary systems, we describe the ways in which the presence of a binary companion to the pulsar would affect the signal produced by an asteroid belt. The primary effect of the companion is to destabilize the shortest-period orbits, cutting off the high-frequency component of the signal from the asteroid belt. We also discuss the implications of asteroid belts for gravitational-wave search efforts. Compared to the signal from a stochastic gravitational-wave background, asteroid belt noise has a similar frequency and amplitude, and is similarly independent of radio frequency, but is not correlated between different pulsars, which should allow the two kinds of signal to be distinguished.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Phaonia errans
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Phaonia
Phaonia errans

description: Phaonia errans (MEIGEN, 1826)
Bgld, Donnerskirchen, Teufelsgraben, 22.6.17..
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 783, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Depolarization volume and correlation length in the homogenization of anisotropic dielectric composites
Creators: name: Mackay, Tom G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In conventional approaches to the homogenization of random particulate composites, both the distribution and size of the component phase particles are often inadequately taken into account. Commonly, the spatial distributions are characterized by volume fraction alone, while the electromagnetic response of each component particle is represented as a vanishingly small depolarization volume. The strong-permittivity-fluctuation theory (SPFT) provides an alternative approach to homogenization wherein a comprehensive description of distributional statistics of the component phases is accommodated. The bilocally-approximated SPFT is presented here for the anisotropic homogenized composite which arises from component phases comprising ellipsoidal particles. The distribution of the component phases is characterized by a two-point correlation function and its associated correlation length. Each component phase particle is represented as an ellipsoidal depolarization region of nonzero volume. The effects of depolarization volume and correlation length are investigated through considering representative numerical examples. It is demonstrated that both the spatial extent of the component phase particles and their spatial distributions are important factors in estimating coherent scattering losses of the macroscopic field.
description: Typographical error in eqn. 16 in WRM version is corrected in arxiv version
Wilderness and Primitive Area Recreation Participation and Consumption: An Examination of Demographic and Spatial Factors
Creators: name: Bowker, James Michael
name: Murphy, D.
name: Cordell, H. Ken
name: English, Donald B.K.
name: Bergstrom, John C.
name: Starbuck, C. Meghan
name: Betz, Carter J.
name: Green, Gary T.
name: Bowker, James Michael
name: Murphy, D.
name: Cordell, H. Ken
name: English, Donald B.K.
name: Bergstrom, John C.
name: Starbuck, C. Meghan
name: Betz, Carter J.
name: Green, Gary T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: logistic
subject: negative binomial
subject: participation
subject: recreation
subject: visits
subject: wilderness

description: This paper explores the influence of demographic and spatial variables on individual participation and consumption of wildland area recreation. Data from the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment are combined with geographical information system-based distance measures to develop nonlinear regression models used to predict both participation and the number of days of participation in wilderness and primitive area recreation. The estimated models corroborate previous findings indicating that race (black), ethnicity (Hispanic), immigrant status, age, and urban dwelling are negatively correlated with wildland visitation, while income, gender (male), and education positively affect wildland recreation participation and use. The presence of a distance or proximity factor mitigates some of the influence of race and ethnicity. The results of the cross-sectional models are combined with U.S. Census projections of total population, changes in population characteristics, and estimates of current National Forest Wilderness visitation estimates to give some insight into pressure that might be expected on the nation’s designated wilderness during the next half century. Results generally indicate that per-capita participation and visitation rates will decline over time as society changes. Total wilderness participation and visitation will, however, increase, but at a rate less than population growth.
Observationally derived magnetic field strength and 3D components in the HD 142527 disk
Creators: name: Ohashi, Satoshi
name: Muto, Takayuki
name: Tsukamoto, Yusuke
name: Kataoka, Akimasa
name: Tsukagoshi, Takashi
name: Momose, Munetake
name: Fukagawa, Misato
name: Sakai, Nami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In protoplanetary disks around young stars, magnetic fields play an important role for disk evolution and planet formation. Polarized thermal emission from magnetically aligned grains is one of the reliable methods to trace magnetic fields. However, it has been difficult to observe magnetic fields from dust polarization in protoplanetary disks because other polarization mechanisms involving grown dust grains become efficient. Here, we report multi-wavelength (0.87 mm, 1.3 mm, 2.1 mm, and 2.7 mm) observations of polarized thermal emission in the protoplanetary disk around HD 142527, showing the lopsided dust distribution. We revealed that the smaller dust still exhibits magnetic alignment in the southern part of the disk. Furthermore, angular offsets between the observed magnetic field and the disk azimuthal direction were discovered, which can be used as a method to measure the relative strengths of each component (radial ($B_r$), azimuthal ($B_ϕ$), and vertical ($B_z$)) of 3D magnetic field. Applying this method, we derived the magnetic field around a 200-au radius from the protostar as $|B_r |:|B_ϕ|:|B_z | \sim 0.26:1:0.23$ and a strength of $\sim 0.3$ milli-Gauss. Our observations provide some key parameters of magnetic activities including the plasma beta, which have only been assumed in theoretical studies. In addition, the radial and vertical angular momentum transfer are found to be comparable, which poses a challenge to theoretical studies of protoplanetary disks.
description: Published in Nature Astronomy (2025) as open access, includes supplementary material
Modeling the Crop Insurance Industry Portfolio Gains and Losses (PowerPoint)
Creators: name: Vergara, Oscar
name: Zuba, Gerhard
name: Seaquist, Jack
name: Vergara, Oscar
name: Zuba, Gerhard
name: Seaquist, Jack
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: risk
subject: crop insurance
subject: reinsurance
subject: modeling
subject: agricultural loss
subject: loss model
subject: yield model

description: Powerpoint slide show presenting information about AIR (the first catastrophic modeling company), weather-based yield models, agricultural portfolio loss model, and applications to crop insurance/reinsurance.
Animal Disease Pre-Event Preparedness versus Post-Event Response: When is it Economic to Protect?
Creators: name: Elbakidze, Levan
name: McCarl, Bruce A.
name: Elbakidze, Levan
name: McCarl, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: animal disease
subject: economic balance
subject: mitigation strategies
subject: preparedness
subject: response

description: We examine the economic tradeoff between the costs of pre-event preparedness and post-event response to the potential introduction of an infectious animal disease. In a simplified case study setting, we examine the conditions for optimality of an enhanced pre-event detection system considering various characteristics of a potential infectious cattle disease outbreak, costs of postevent response actions. We show that the decision to invest in pre-event preparedness activities depends on such factors as probability of disease introduction, disease spread rate, relative costs, ancillary benefits, and effectiveness of mitigation strategies.
Diamond for biosensor applications
Creators: name: Nebel, Christoph E.
name: Rezek, Bohuslav
name: Shin, Dongchan
name: Uetsuka, Hiroshi
name: Yang, Nianjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A summary of photo- and electrochemical surface modifications applied on single-crystalline chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond films is given. The covalently bonded formation of amine- and phenyl-linker molecule layers are characterized using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), atomic force microscopy (AFM), cyclic voltammetry and field-effect transistor characterization experiments. Amine- and phenyl-layers are very different with respect to formation, growth, thickness and molecule arrangement. We detect a single molecular layer of amine linker-molecules on diamond with a density of about 1014 cm-2 (10 % of carbon bonds). Amine molecules are bonded only on initially H-terminated surface areas to carbon. In case of electrochemical deposition of phenyl-layers, multi-layer formation is detected due to three dimensional (3D) growths. This gives rise to the formation of typically 25 Å thick layers. The electrochemical grafting of boron doped diamond works on H-terminated and oxidized surfaces. After reacting of such films with heterobifunctional crosslinker-molecules, thiol-modified ss-DNA markers are bonded to the organic system. Application of fluorescence and atomic force microscopy on hybridized DNA films show dense arrangements with densities up to 1013 cm-2. The DNA is tilted by an angle of about 35o with respect to the diamond surface. Shortening the bonding time of thiol-modified ss-DNA to 10 minutes cause a decrease of DNA density to about 1012 cm-2. Application of AFM scratching experiments show threshold removal forces around 75 nN for DNA bonded on phenyl linker-molecules and of about 45 nN for DNA bonded to amine linker-molecules. DNA sensor applications using Fe(CN6)3-/4- mediator redox-molecules, impedance spectroscopy and DNA-field effect transistor devices performances are introduced and discussed.
Design and Management of Teaching Programs With Survival In Mind
Creators: name: Connor, Larry J.
name: Connor, Larry J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: strategic
subject: marketing
subject: teaching
subject: undergraduate and graduate studies

description: Agricultural economics teaching programs are becoming stressed. They vary considerably because of different institutional settings and are conducted under changing college, university, and department trends and paradigm shifts. To ensure success, strategic marketing processes need to be used in analyzing programs: identifying potential students (clientele or customers), ascertaining what to offer (majors, minors, service courses, enrichment options, and distance education), finalizing the strategic plan, and executing the plan (with students, administration, industry, and disciplinary peers). Conclusions and recommendations for enhancing teaching quantity and quality are presented for the strategic marketing processes. Finally, some implications and conclusions for graduate education are discussed.
Transfer of angular spectrum in parametric down-conversion with structured light
Creators: name: Khoury, Antonio Z.
name: Ribeiro, Paulo H. Souto
name: Dechoum, Kaled
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the formal approach to the angular spectrum transfer in parametric down-conversion that allows pumping with a structured beam. The scheme is based on an entangled photon source pumped by a laser beam structured with a vector-vortex polarization profile. This creates a two-photon quantum state exhibiting polarization-dependent transverse correlations that can be accessed through coincidence measurements on the spatially separated photons. The calculated correlations are shown to present a spin-orbit profile typical of vector beams, however, distributed on separate measurement regions. Our approach allows the design of the pump beam vector spatial structure and measurement strategies for potential applications of these entangled states, such as in quantum communication.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Remarkable Disk and Off-nuclear Starburst Activity in the "Tadpole Galaxy" as revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope
Creators: name: Jarrett, T. H.
name: Polletta, M.
name: Fournon, I. P.
name: Stacey, G.
name: Xu, K.
name: Siana, B.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Berta, S.
name: Hatziminaoglou, E.
name: Rodighiero, G.
name: Surace, J.
name: Domingue, D.
name: Shupe, D.
name: Fang, F.
name: Lonsdale, C.
name: Oliver, S.
name: Rowan-Robinson, M.
name: Smith, G.
name: Babbedge, T.
name: Gonzalez-Solares, E.
name: Masci, F.
name: Franceschini, A.
name: Padgett, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present ground-based optical and Spitzer infrared imaging observations of the interacting galaxy UGC 10214, the "Tadpole Galaxy" (z = 0.0310), focusing on the star formation activity in the nuclear, disk, spiral arms and tidal tail regions. The major findings of this study are that the Tadpole is actively forming stars in the main disk outside of the nucleus and in the tidal plume, with an estimated mean star formation rate of ~2 to 4 M_sun/yr. The most prominent sites of mid-infrared emission define a "ring" morphology that, combined with the overall morphology of the system, suggest the interaction may belong to the rare class of off-center collisional ring systems that form both shock-induced rings of star formation and tidal plumes. The nuclear emission is solely powered by older stars, with little evidence for ongoing star formation at the center of the Tadpole. Extra-nuclear star formation accounts for >50% of the total star formation in the disk and spiral arms, featuring infrared-bright 'hot spots' that exhibit strong PAH emission, whose band strength is comparable to that of late-type star-forming disk galaxies. The tidal tail, which extends 2 arcmin (~75 kpc) into the intergalactic medium, is populated by super massive star clusters likely triggered by the galaxy-galaxy interaction that has distorted UGC 10214 into its current "tadpole" shape.
description: to appear in the January 2006 (vol 131) issue of the Astronomical Journal; high quality graphics are located here: http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/jarrett/tadpole.html
Connecting the numerical and analytical ionization times for quantum dots in semiconductor wires driven by alternating field
Creators: name: Khomitsky, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent numerical results for ionization of quantum dots by periodic electric field during the electric dipole spin resonance are compared with known analytical approaches. It is found that in finite-length quantum wires the numerical ionization rate is slower than the analytical one, especially for low driving field when the confinement potential strongly affects the dynamics. Still, the analytically predicted ionization times are in satisfactory correspondence with mean energy threshold times when the energy crosses the border between localized and continuum states.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in J Phys Conf Series for PhysicA.SPb/2020 Int Conference, St Petersburg, Russian Federation, 20-22 October 2020: http://physica.spb.ru/
Welfare Changes from the U.S. Ethanol Tax Credit: The Role of Uncertainty and Interlinked Commodity Markets
Creators: name: Baker, Mindy L.
name: Baker, Mindy L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: biofuel
subject: commodity
subject: ethanol
subject: tax credit
subject: uncertainty
subject: welfare.

description: A model of the corn, soybean, and wheat markets calculates welfare effects of the U.S. ethanol tax credit. Crop yields are uncertain, and demand consists of feed, food, energy, and exports. Modeling uncertainty in crop yields allows the valuation of deficiency payments as options. Disaggregating demand records who benefits from the tax credit and by how much; incorporating linked crop markets captures indirect effects important for determining the transfer from consumers to producers. There is $600 million in net welfare loss, increased taxpayer liability, and a large transfer from consumers to farmers. A brief comparison of recent literature is included.
Additional file 1 of Excess Rab4 rescues synaptic and behavioral dysfunction caused by defective HTT-Rab4 axonal transport in Huntington’s disease
Creators: name: White, Joseph A.
name: Krzystek, Thomas J.
name: Hoffmar-Glennon, Hayley
name: Thant, Claire
name: Zimmerman, Katherine
name: Iacobucci, Gary
name: Vail, Julia
name: Thurston, Layne
name: Rahman, Saad
name: Gunawardena, Shermali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Information.
The Role of Contract in Quality Assurance
Creators: name: Barzel, Yoram
name: Barzel, Yoram
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Contracts and Vertical Integration

description: In recent years a debate has raged about the accuracy of the cost-of-living index. A major bone of contention regards capturing the changes in the quality of goods. Were it easy to measure quality, disputes about the magnitude of the change would have not arisen. The difficulty in pinpointing quality is not merely an academic or policy question; it also poses a major problem for exchange. When the quality of the exchanged commodities is uncertain, costly disputes about what one gives and the other receives are bound to arise. Such disputes are a matter of property rights, of who owns what.
Noether's second theorem for BRST symmetries
Creators: name: Bashkirov, D.
name: Giachetta, G.
name: Mangiarotti, L.
name: Sardanashvily, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T13; 81T60; 58A20, 70S15

description: We present Noether's second theorem for graded Lagrangian systems of even and odd variables on an arbitrary body manifold X in a general case of BRST symmetries depending on derivatives of dynamic variables and ghosts of any finite order. As a preliminary step, Noether's second theorem for Lagrangian systems on fiber bundles over X possessing gauge symmetries depending on derivatives of dynamic variables and parameters of arbitrary order is proved.
description: 31 pages, to be published in J. Math. Phys
GMOs: The Economics of Consumer Food Safety Issues
Creators: name: Hobbs, Jill E.
name: Plunkett, Marni D.
name: Hobbs, Jill E.
name: Plunkett, Marni D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The controversy over genetically modified (GM) foods has swept across Europe and is beginning to make inroads into the North American consumer market. It is set to become a thorny trade issue between the European Union (EU) and the United States. The issue is important, not least because of the potential scale of the problem. There has been a rapid adoption of GM crops by U.S. corn and soybean and Canadian canola producers. Approximately 57 percent of the U.S. soybean harvested acreage in 1999 was in herbicide-tolerant GM varieties (ERS). Soya is a staple in food processing, with approximately 60 percent of processed foods containing soya or soya derivatives. Canola is an important crop on the Canadian prairies. Although estimates vary, the percentage of canola seeded to GM varieties may have been 60 percent in 1999 (Western Producer, 1999). The entire canola industry has lost its access to the EU market because GM canola is not approved for entry to that market. This paper explores the nature and origins of the GM food safety concerns of consumers, assesses the problem within a theoretical frame work and discusses some public policy solutions.
Phaonia palpata
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Phaonia
Phaonia palpata

description: Phaonia palpata (STEIN, 1897)
Bgld, Breitenbrunn, Doktorbrunngraben, 24.6.17
Neu für Burgenland. In FRANZ (1989) nur historische Funde aus OÖ.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 783, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Tensile strength and performance of the INDUO®-heavy-timber connector in combination with structural composite lumber and Douglas fir
Creators: name: Steiniger, Markus
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The INDUO-connection is a new steel-to-wood joint for highly loaded heavy-timber structures. Embedded in the end-grain of laminated timber beams, the special INDUOconnector is designed to transfer axial and transverse loads. Due to the weaker strength properties of solid wood perpendicular to the grain direction, the connection's capacity under transverse loading is comparatively small. Parallel to the grain, however, the connection is capable to transfer loads of up to 180kN and is thus predominantly suited for tension applications. Since the introduction to the European market in the Mid-90s, the INDUO-connection system has been mainly deployed in Post-and-Beam structures using softwood timber and Glulam as beam material. This thesis investigates the tensile strength and performance of the INDUO-connector in combination with different beam materials. Static tension tests were performed in two separate test series with a total of 99 specimens of different member cross-sections (100x100mm and 120x120mm), connector types (A and B) and beam materials (Microllam®LVL, Parallam®PSL, TimberStrand®LSL, thick Douglas-Fir plywood and Douglas-Fir lumber). In test series 1 all possible combinations of beam material, connector type and member cross-section were tested with a sample size of up to three, providing trends on strength properties and failure performance. For test series 2 it was decided to focus on fewer combinations with a larger sample size to create statistically more significant results on ultimate tensile strength and connection stiffness for the most advantageous setups. By modeling and calculating the INDUO-connection according to different international timber codes (German DIN1052-2000, European EC5, Canadian CSA 086.1 and US ASCE 16-95) as a bolted or tight-fitting dowel connection, characteristic tensile strength data was computed and compared with the characteristic values derived from the results of series 2. In terms of tensile strength and performance, TimberStrand®LSL presented the best test results, outperforming Microllam®LVL, Parallam®PSL and Douglas-Fir lumber, which showed significantly lower tensile strengths accompanied by brittle failure modes. Thick Douglas-Fir plywood was only examined in test series 1, presenting high tensile strength for larger beam-cross-sections, whereas smaller cross-sections failed brittely. The comparison of different design approaches for the INDUO-connection showed that based on the same connection model (dowel-type fasteners with inside steel plate) the Canadian timber code provided by far the most conservative design values, whereas all other codes presented significantly higher numbers relative to the Canadian code . The comparison of characteristic tensile strength properties generated from the test results and values derived from the different design strengths indicate all four timber codes have more or less similar results.
New models with independent dynamical torsion and nonmetricity fields
Creators: name: Bahamonde, Sebastian
name: Valcarcel, Jorge Gigante
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a gravitational model which allows the independent dynamical behaviour of the torsion and nonmetricity fields to be displayed in the framework of Metric-Affine gauge theory of gravity. For this task, we derive a new exact black hole solution referred to this model which extends the role of torsion of the main well-known exact solutions based on Weyl-Cartan geometry and constitutes the first known isolated gravitational system characterized by a metric tensor with independent spin and dilation charges.
description: 15 pages, 0 figures, minor changes, references added. It matches the version published in JCAP
Correlation Time for Step Structural Fluctuations
Creators: name: Bondarchuk, O.
name: Dougherty, D. B.
name: Degawa, M.
name: Williams, E. D.
name: Constantin, M.
name: Dasgupta, C.
name: DasSarma, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time dependent STM has been used to evaluate step fluctuations as a function of temperature (300-450 K) on Ag(111) films grown on mica. The temporal correlation function scales as a power law in time, t^1/n with measured values of 1/n varying over a range of 0.19 pm 0.04 to 0.29 pm 0.04 with no dependence on temperature. The average value of 1/n = 0.24 pm 0.01 is consistent with step-edge diffusion limited fluctuations (n = z = 4, conserved noise). The magnitude of the time correlation function and the width of the fluctuations both scale with temperature with the same apparent activation energy of Eeff = 0.21 pm 0.02 eV, indicating that the correlation time is at most weakly temperature dependent. Direct analysis of the autocorrelation function confirms that the correlation time is at most weakly temperature dependent, and thus the apparent correlation length is strongly temperature dependent. This behavior can be reproduced by assuming that the apparent correlation length is governed by the longest wavelength of step fluctuations that can be sampled in the measurement time interval. Evaluation of the correlation time for previous measurements for Al/Si(111) (z =2) yields the same conclusion about measurement time interval. In both cases the ratio of the measurement time to the effective correlation time is on the order of 10.
Limiting Biotechnology? Information Problems and Policy Responses
Creators: name: Plunkett, Marni D.
name: Gaisford, James D.
name: Plunkett, Marni D.
name: Gaisford, James D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The revolution in biotechnology poses pervasive, although not entirely unprecedented, asymmetric information problems. Especially in Europe, but even in North America, there is mounting evidence that consumers do not treat genetically modified foods (GMFs) and their non-modified counterparts as perfect substitutes. If other things such as prices are equal, many consumers would prefer to consume non-GMFs; they perceive GMFs as lower-quality products. While farm-level producers are fully informed on the genetic qualities of their product, final consumers will often be unable to distinguish between the two types of products. Thus, the information structure will only sustain a pooling equilibrium, in which both GMFs and non-GMFs are sold together, or pooled, in a single market. Such hidden-type or adverse-selection problems tend to generate markets that are dominated by an inefficient proportion of low-quality products or “lemons” (Akerlof, 1970). The asymmetric information problem potentially could be addressed by an identity preservation system (IPS) that involves product certification and labelling. A fully effective IPS would lead to a separating equilibrium, or separate markets for GMFs and non-GMFs. This paper provides a systematic investigation of the asymmetric information problem posed by biotechnological innovations and then assesses possible IPSs.
Mapping unobserved item-respondent interactions: A latent space item response model with interaction map
Creators: name: Jeon, Minjeong
name: Jin, Ick Hoon
name: Schweinberger, Michael
name: Baugh, Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Classic item response models assume that all items with the same difficulty have the same response probability among all respondents with the same ability. These assumptions, however, may very well be violated in practice, and it is not straightforward to assess whether these assumptions are violated, because neither the abilities of respondents nor the difficulties of items are observed. An example is an educational assessment where unobserved heterogeneity is present, arising from unobserved variables such as cultural background and upbringing of students, the quality of mentorship and other forms of emotional and professional support received by students, and other unobserved variables that may affect response probabilities. To address such violations of assumptions, we introduce a novel latent space model which assumes that both items and respondents are embedded in an unobserved metric space, with the probability of a correct response decreasing as a function of the distance between the respondent's and the item's position in the latent space. The resulting latent space approach provides an interaction map that represents interactions of respondents and items, and helps derive insightful diagnostic information on items as well as respondents. In practice, such interaction maps enable teachers to detect students from underrepresented groups who need more support than other students. We provide empirical evidence to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed latent space approach, along with simulation results.
Statistical Properties of Dissipative MHD Accelerators
Creators: name: Arzner, Kaspar
name: Vlahos, Loukas
name: Knaepen, Bernard
name: Denewet, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use exact orbit integration to investigate particle acceleration in a Gauss field proxy of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Regions where the electric current exceeds a critical threshold are declared to be `dissipative' and endowed with super-Dreicer electric field ${\bf E}_Ω= η{\bf j}$. In this environment, test particles (electrons) are traced and their acceleration to relativistic energies is studied. As a main result we find that acceleration mostly takes place within the dissipation regions, and that the momentum increments have heavy (non-Gaussian) tails, while the waiting times between the dissipation regions are approximately exponentially distributed with intensity proportional to the particle velocity. No correlation between the momentum increment and the momentum itself is found. Our numerical results suggest an acceleration scenario with ballistic transport between independent `black box' accelerators.
description: 5 figures, to appear in Springer Lectrue Notes in Computer Science
Overview of Hard processes at RHIC: high-pt light hadron and charm production
Creators: name: van Leeuwen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An overview of the experimental results on high-pt light hadron production and open charm production is presented. Data on particle production in elementary collisions are compared to next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations. Particle production in Au+Au collisions is then compared to this baseline.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, Strange Quark Matter 2004
Phaonia serva
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Phaonia
Phaonia serva

description: Phaonia serva (MEIGEN, 1826)
Bgld, Breitenbrunn, Doktorbrunngraben, 24.6.17; Winden, Zeilerberg, 26.5.17; Donnerskirchen, Teufelsgraben, 22.6.17.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 784, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
An Evaluation of the Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts of NSW DPI Investments in IPM Research in Lettuce
Creators: name: Orr, Leanne M.
name: McDougall, Sandra
name: Mullen, John D.
name: Orr, Leanne M.
name: McDougall, Sandra
name: Mullen, John D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: research
subject: benefit-cost
subject: evaluation
subject: IPM (Integrated Pest Management)
subject: lettuce

description: Research into IPM technologies has been conducted by NSW DPI for over 20 years. Evaluating the returns from investment in specific research and development projects is an important component of the NSW DPI science and research program. An economic evaluation has been conducted of IPM in managing invertebrate pests in lettuce in NSW. We found that there has been widespread adoption of IPM practices amongst NSW lettuce growers leading to a flow of economic benefits to the lettuce industry and the community. Important environmental and human health benefits were also identified. A benefit-cost ratio of 2 was calculated for the return to NSW DPI investment in lettuce IPM research which while satisfactory, is lower than returns calculated for other agricultural R&D. It does not include ‘spillover’ benefits to other States nor have human health or environmental benefits been valued.
Additional file 1 of Blood neutrophil counts are associated with exacerbation frequency and mortality in COPD
Creators: name: Lonergan, Mike
name: Dicker, Alison J.
name: Crichton, Megan L.
name: Keir, Holly R.
name: Dyke, Melissa K. Van
name: Mullerova, Hana
name: Miller, Bruce E.
name: Tal-Singer, Ruth
name: Chalmers, James D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1.