cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Public Engagement in Electricity Network Development: A Case Study of the Beauly–Denny Project in Scotland
Creators: name: Tobiasson, W.
name: Beestermöller, C.
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2015
Subjects: Electricity transmission
public engagement
property rights

description: Ambitious renewable energy targets and an aging infrastructure necessitate a substantial upgrading and expansion of the electricity transmission networks around Europe and beyond. Although vital for the functioning of the economy, grid development projects are often met by public opposition, which increase costs and lengthy planning processes. The current planning processes have proven ineffective at resolving the conflicts among stakeholders, indicating the need for a new approach. We analyse these issues from an Economic perspective, outlining the economic characteristics of transmission developments and public engagement. We identify previously overlooked features of the planning process that are contributing to the rise in conflicts, public opposition and prolonged project realisation. The Scottish Beauly-Denny high voltage transmission development is discussed in detail and our findings indicate a need for increased engagement with local communities at an earlier stage of planning. Trust between communities, developers and government is important for future negotiations and can be achieved through transparency, specific education and set guidelines for stakeholder engagement in the planning process.
Strategic investment and international spillovers in natural gas markets
Creators: name: Ritz, Robert
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2015
Subjects: Competitive advantage
corporate diversification
liquefied natural gas (LNG)
supply security
strategic investment

description: This paper presents a game-theoretic analysis of multimarket competition with capacity investments, applied to international gas markets. It identifies a strategic advantage of ��focused�� pipeline gas producers (e.g., Gazprom) over ��diversified�� multimarket exporters of liquefied natural gas (e.g., Qatar). Based on this, the paper examines the spillover impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident onto European gas markets, both in the short- and longer-term. It also discusses Russia��s gas export strategy, especially the 2014 deals with China. More generally, the analysis shows how a less efficient oligopolist can be more profitable, and speaks to policy discussions about ��security of supply�� in energy markets.
Title:Distributed Generation Storage, Demand Response, and Energy Efficiency as Alternatives to Grid Capacity Enhancement
Creators: name: Poudineh, R.
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: demand response
network regulation
business model

description: The need for investment in capital intensive electricity networks is on the rise in many countries. A major advantage of distributed resources is their potential for deferring investments in distribution network capacity. However, utilizing the full benefits of these resources requires addressing several technical, economics and regulatory challenges. A significant barrier pertains to the lack of an efficient market mechanism that enables this concept and also is consistent with business model of distribution companies under an unbundled power sector paradigm. This paper proposes a market-oriented approach termed as "contract for deferral scheme" (CDS). The scheme outlines how an economically efficient portfolio of distributed generation, storage, demand response and energy efficiency can be integrated as network resources to reduce the need for grid capacity and defer demand driven network investments.
M(ore) on Chiral Gauge Theories from D-Branes
Creators: name: Lykken, J.
name: Poppitz, E.
name: Trivedi, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a brane configuration consisting of intersecting Neveu-Schwarz five-branes, Dirichlet four-branes, and an orientifold four-plane in a C^2/Z_3 orbifold background. We show that the low-energy dynamics is described by a four dimensional gauge theory with N=1 supersymmetry and SO(N+4) X SU(N) or SP(2M) X SU(2M+4) gauge symmetry. The matter content of this theory is chiral. In particular, the SU group has one matter field in the antisymmetric tensor or symmetric tensor representation and several fields in the fundamental and antifundamental representations. We discuss various consistency checks on these theories. By considering the brane configuration in M theory we deduce the spectral curves for these theories. Finally, we consider the effects of replacing the orbifold background with a non-singular ALE space (both with and without an orientifold plane) and show that it leaves the spectral curves unchanged.
description: 27 pages, One Figure, Latex
MPEC 2024-B130 : 2023 UF14
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
It's the Society, Stupid! Communicating Emergent Climate Technologies in the Internet Age
Creators: name: Corry, Olaf
name: Reiner, D.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2016
Subjects: Emergent technologies
carbon capture and storage (CCS)
climate change
public communications
epistemic community

description: Emergent or unproven technologies occupy a central role in post-Paris debates about climate change goals and their feasibility. New technologies have often faced major political and social challenges and the way they are communicated is changing as technical experts and scientists play a greater role in communicating directly online. We review the scope and key characteristics of communications on carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies presenting data from a comprehensive survey of websites compiled to assess the state of global CCS communications. Our key empirical finding is that existing communications are techno-centric in their framing, overlooking economic, political and institutional aspects of CCS as a societal arrangement. We also find an overrepresentation of traditionally less trusted actors from business and government (resulting in a pro-CCS bias), rather than by independent academic researchers or NGOs. We offer some recommendations for how CCS and similarly emergent climate technologies might be better communicated in the age of the Internet, not just in terms of their technical features but also in terms of their societal impacts and the role they might play in a wider social and political context.
title: Geographic Placement Stability of Children in Foster Care
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geography

description: Children placed in the foster care system are some of the most vulnerable children due to the abuse and neglect that they experienced that led them to foster care. Once these children enter foster care, they continue to face challenges by having multiple foster care placements, resulting in geographic instability in neighborhoods and disruptive environmental changes for children in foster care. The geographic placement instability of children in foster care is multifaceted with effects on (1) children’s foster care outcomes to achieve permanency, (2) successful transition to adulthood after foster care, (3) neighborhood changes, and (4) types of foster care placements. There are several reasons why a child may have multiple foster care placements, including the child’s behavioral needs or the placement setting’s availability which can drive the decision-making process on where to place children. Children who have multiple placement settings face an inordinate amount of instability by not knowing when and if they will have to change placements. Researchers and practitioners do not understand the effects of distance between the child’s home and all foster care placements and the distance between foster care placements. This dissertation analyzes the geographic impact of children in foster care using 15 years of foster care placement data from Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families. This dissertation uses a variety of statistical and geographic models, including hierarchal models, multinomial regression models, hot spot analyses, and negative binomial models, to determine how distance affects placement stability. Foster care involves geographic challenges related to multiple foster care placements, resulting in multiple shifts in neighborhood environments which can impact the child developmentally and academically. This research found that the location of the foster care placement had a greater impact on a child’s foster care outcomes than the location of the child’s home before they entered foster care.
The Economic Costs of Unsupplied Electricty: Evidence from Generation among African Firms
Creators: name: Oseni, M. O.
name: Pollitt, M. G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: Electricity
Firms
Outage costs
Two-Limit Tobit

description: Public electricity provision in Africa has been marred by under investment and frequent power outages.One of the strategies often adopted by firms to cope with this poor public supply is investment in backup generation. This strategy is not without cost however. Extant literatures on outage cost estimation have shown that firms possessing certain characteristics have a higher tendency to invest in backup generation. What is less known, however, is whether those firms suffer lesser or higher unmitigated outage losses (costs). Using cross-sectional data from 6854 firms currently operating in 12 African countries, this study investigated the extent to which firms' characteristics might create incentives for auto-generation and whether these incentives lead to lesser unmitigated outage costs.We used three different methods including marginal cost, incomplete backup and subjective evaluation techniques. The results reveal that large firms, firms engaging in exports, and those using the Internet for their operationstill suffer higher unmitigated outage costs despite having a higher propensity of investing in backup generation. The results further reveal that unmitigated costs still account for the larger proportion of the total outage costs despite high prevalence of backup ownership among the firms. This reflects the inefficiency in backup generation due to small backup capacity held by firms. Our estimates also indicate that ignoring firms'characteristics such as size and the nature of operation (e.g. export promotion, internet usage, etc.) may result in underestimation of outage losses. The analysis further suggests that firms can still benefit significantly even when the current subsidised tariffs are replaced by cost-reflective rates that ensure stable electricity supply. The net outage cost (having adjusted for a cost-reflective tariff) incurred by firms are large enough to expand their scope of operation and hire more workers, suggesting the macroeconomic effect could be significant.
1 Brief an [Hans Georg] Naegeli
Brief an Nägeli ...
Creators: name: Lavater, Johann Caspar
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1799

description: von J[ohann] C[aspar] Lavater
description: Abschrift von Hermann Nägeli
description: Weitere Abschrift dieses Briefs siehe Ms Car. XV.200.35a, dort ohne Gedicht
Two-Higgs doublet models from TeV-scale supersymmetric extra U(1) models
Creators: name: Demir, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the reduction of a general TeV-scale supersymmetric extra U(1) model to a 2HDM below the TeV- scale through the tree level non-decoupling. Portions of the parameter space of the extra U(1) model appropriate for obtaining a 2HDM are identified. Various properties of the resulting 2HDM are connected to the parameter space of the underlying model. PACS: 12.60.Jv, 12.60.Cn, 12.60.Fr
description: 12 pages, 4 postscript figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Laser writing of bright colours on near-percolation plasmonic reflector arrays
Creators: name: Roberts, Alexander S.
name: Novikov, Sergey M.
name: Yang, Yuanqing
name: Chen, Yiting
name: Boroviks, Sergejs
name: Beermann, Jonas
name: Mortensen, N. Asger
name: Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Colouration by surface nanostructuring has attracted a great deal of attention by the virtue of making use of environment-friendly recyclable materials and generating non-bleaching colours [1-8]. Recently, it was found possible to delegate the task of colour printing to laser post-processing that modifies carefully designed and fabricated nanostructures [9,10]. Here we take the next crucial step in the development of structural colour printing by dispensing with preformed nanostructures and using instead near-percolation metal films atop dielectric-metal sandwiches, i.e., near-percolation plasmonic reflector arrays. Scanning rapidly (~ 20 μm/s) across 4-nm-thin island-like gold films supported by 30-nm-thin silica layers atop 100-nm-thick gold layers with a strongly focused Ti-sapphire laser beam, while adjusting the average laser power from 1 to 10 mW, we produce bright colours varying from green to red by laser-heating-induced merging and reshaping of gold islands. Selection of strongly heated islands and their reshaping, both originating from the excitation of plasmonic resonances, are strongly influenced by the polarization direction of laser illumination, so that the colours produced are well pronounced only when viewed with the same polarization. Conversely, the laser colour writing with circular polarizations results in bright polarization-independent colour images. The fabrication procedure for near-percolation reflector arrays is exceedingly simple and scalable to mass production, while the laser-induced modification occurs inherently with the subwavelength resolution. This unique combination of remarkable features makes the approach developed for laser colour writing readily amenable for practical implementation and use in diverse applications ranging from nanoscale patterning for security marking to large-scale colour printing for decoration.
description: 29 pages, 17 figures
Connections between M-theory and superstrings
Creators: name: Green, Michael B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article reviews the non-perturbative structure of certain higher derivative terms in the type II string theory effective action and their connection to one-loop effects in eleven-dimensional supergravity compactified on a torus. New material is also included that was not presented in the talks.
description: 24 pages LaTeX. Based on talks given at various conferences. To be published in the proceedings of the 1997 Advanced Study Institute on Strings, Branes and Dualities, Cargese, France
Magnetoresistance of the Double-Exchange Model in Infinite Dimension
Creators: name: Furukawa, Nobuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Double-exchange model in infinite dimension is studied as the strong Hund's coupling limit $J\to\infty$ of the Kondo lattice model. Several quantities such as Green's function and the d.c.\ conductivity are calculated in analytical forms. Magnetoresistance in lightly doped (La,Sr)MnO$_3$ is reproduced very well.
description: 8 pages, LaTeX
title: ADCO, Cartulaire du prieuré de Saint-Vivant-sous-Vergy, dépendant de l’abbaye de Cluny (XIVe siècle), Cart. 231 (21 H), 40 folios, f. 0021r
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2010
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire du prieuré de Saint-Vivant-sous-Vergy, dépendant de l’abbaye de Cluny (XIVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 231 (21 H), 40 folios. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire du prieuré de Saint-Vivant-sous-Vergy, dépendant de l’abbaye de Cluny (XIVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 231 (21 H), 40 folios, f. 0021r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Vivant de Vergy
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945018
Signatures of massive sgoldstinos at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Perazzi, Elena
name: Ridolfi, Giovanni
name: Zwirner, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model with a very light gravitino, the effective theory at the weak scale should contain not only the goldstino, but also its supersymmetric partners, the sgoldstinos. In the simplest case, the goldstino is a gauge-singlet and its superpartners are two neutral spin-0 particles, S and P. We study possible signals of massive sgoldstinos at hadron colliders, focusing on those that are most relevant for the Tevatron. We show that inclusive production of sgoldstinos, followed by their decay into two photons, can lead to observable signals or to stringent combined bounds on the gravitino and sgoldstino masses. Sgoldstino decays into two gluon jets may provide a useful complementary signature.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures. Corrected misprint, added references
Debt, Inflation and Growth: Robust Estimation of Long-Run Effects in Dynamic Panel Data Models
Creators: name: Chudik, A.
name: Mohaddes, K.
name: Pesaran, M. H.
name: Raissi, M.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: large dynamic heterogeneous panels
cross-section dependence
debt
inflation and growth
debt overhang.

description: This paper investigates the long-run effects of public debt and inflation on economic growth. Our contribution is both theoretical and empirical. On the theoretical side, we develop a cross-sectionally augmented distributed lag (CS-DL) approach to the estimation of long-run effects in dynamic heterogeneous panel data models with cross-sectionally dependent errors. The relative merits of the CS-DL approach and other existing approaches in the literature are discussed and illustrated with small sample evidence obtained by means of Monte Carlo simulations. On the empirical side, using data on a sample of 40 countries over the 1965-2010 period, we find significant negative long-run effects of public debt and inflation on growth. Our results indicate that, if the debt to GDP ratio is raised and this increase turns out to be permanent, then it will have negative effects on economic growth in the long run. But if the increase is temporary, then there are no long-run growth effects so long as debt to GDP is brought back to its normal level. We do not find a universally applicable threshold effect in the relationship between public debt and growth. We only find statistically significant threshold effects in the case of countries with rising debt to GDP ratios.
title: Utilizing Japanese Concepts of 間(Ma) in Japanese Percussion Repertoire
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021

description: This study aims to fill a gap in percussion literature by analyzing the history and usage of the Japanese concept 間(ma). Ma is a difficult concept to put into words, especially if one did not grow up in Japanese culture: no exact English translations exist. Essentially, it is a concept of silence and intervals in the traditional Japanese art forms and music, but the actual usage depends on context, given its rich and complex history. The purpose of my dissertation, however, will be ma’s application in music. For this setting, ma has spiritual and philosophical meanings as well as utility in performance practice. The type of music central to my study is Japanese percussion repertoire. Although this genre is popular within American percussion performance and pedagogy, one does not likely know what ma is nor how to incorporate it: scarce information is available for it. Coupled with the idea of ma as critical in the Japanese composers’ intent, this creates a problem for Western educators and performers and requires a true understanding of the concept. This study seeks to clarify the overall meaning of ma and present examples in the work of contemporary Japanese composers, including Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) and Keiko Abe (b.1937)—the latter with whom I conducted an in-person interview. Ultimately, I hope to construct a better understanding of ma and its application within the context of Japanese percussion repertoire.
Determining the optimal length of regulatory guarantee: A Length-of-Contract Auction
Creators: name: Greve, T.
name: Pollitt, M. G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: Investments
Regulation

description: One of the biggest challenges in the area of infrastructure investment is the provision of funding to finance activities. This paper presents an auction design which can reduce the financing cost of infrastructure investments by allowing the length of the regulatory funding period to be determined via an auction. The auction allows bidders to submit bids against a payment for periods of varying length. Thus instead of, for example, a fixed 20-year contract period, some bidders might want to bid for financing over a longer period, say 25 or 30 years. This can be desirable in terms of securing more favourable terms in the financial markets. Our auction design can secure efficiency and lower financing costs. Our auction is motivated by the auctions currently being undertaken by the UK energy regulator (Ofgem) for financing offshore transmission assets. Although the auction was designed with electricity transmission in mind, the auction could be used in other areas of infrastructure investments
Neutrino masses from U(1) symmetries and the Super-Kamiokande data
Creators: name: Lola, Smaragda
name: Ross, Graham G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the Super-Kamiokande data, we revisit models with U(1) symmetries and discuss the origin of neutrino masses and mixings in such theories. We show that, in models with just three light neutrinos and a hierarchy of neutrino masses, large (2-3) mixing fixes the lepton doublet U(1) charges and is thus related to the structure of the charged lepton mass matrix. We discuss the fermion mass structure that follows from the Abelian family symmetry with an extended gauge group. Requiring that the quark and lepton masses be ordered by the family symmetry, we identify the most promising scheme. This requires large, but not necessarily maximal, mixing in the mu-tau sector and gives small e-mu mixing in the range that is required for the small angle solution of the solar neutrino deficit.
description: 30 pages, 2 figures
SciMMIR: Benchmarking Scientific Multi-modal Information Retrieval
Creators: name: Wu, Siwei
name: LI, Yizhi
name: Zhu, Kang
name: Zhang, Ge
name: Liang, Yiming
name: Ma, Kaijing
name: Xiao, Chenghao
name: Zhang, Haoran
name: Yang, Bohao
name: Chen, Wenhu
name: Huang, Wenhao
name: Moubayed, Noura Al
name: Fu, Jie
name: Lin, Chenghua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Multi-modal information retrieval (MMIR) is a rapidly evolving field, where significant progress, particularly in image-text pairing, has been made through advanced representation learning and cross-modality alignment research. However, current benchmarks for evaluating MMIR performance in image-text pairing within the scientific domain show a notable gap, where chart and table images described in scholarly language usually do not play a significant role.To bridge this gap, we develop a specialised scientific MMIR (SciMMIR) benchmark by leveraging open-access paper collections to extract data relevant to the scientific domain. This benchmark comprises 537K meticulously curated image-text pairs, extracted from figures and tables with detailed captions in scientific documents.We further annotate the image-text pairs with two-level subset-subcategory hierarchy annotations to facilitate a more comprehensive evaluation of the baselines. We conducted zero-shot and fine-tuning evaluations on prominent multi-modal image-captioning and visual language models, such as CLIP and BLIP.Our analysis offers critical insights for MMIR in the scientific domain, including the impact of pre-training and fine-tuning settings and the influence of the visual and textual encoders.
gg\to γ\bar{f}f in the strongly interacting phase of the MSSM
Creators: name: Demir, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: g g \to γ\bar{f}f scattering is discussed in the strongly interacting phase of the MSSM. The rate for the decay h \to γ\bar{f} f is computed in the MSSM and SM, and values of the Higgs-sfermion coupling needed for the former to dominate on the latter are identified. It is found that the MSSM signal dominates on the SM one for Higgs-sfermion couplings well below the one needed for developing stopponium bound states via Higgs mediation.
description: 10 pp, 2 figs, modifications in content
title: Shakyamuni Buddha: the historical Buddha with scenes from his life
title: Tibetan Thangka painting, 19th century: Shakyamuni Buddha:the historical Buddha with scenes from his life
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: University, George Mason
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: George Mason University, Art Collections, Catalogs
subject: Buddhism
subject: Thankas(Tibetan scrolls)
subject: Painting, Buddhist

description: [4] leaves : ill., map ; 22 x 14 cm.
description: Shakyamuni Buddha, the sage of the Shakya clan, is seated in the midst of scenes from his final, historical life. The golden-skinned Buddha touches the earth with his right hand, a traditional gesture signifying the moment of his enlightenment. In his left hand he holds a begging bowl filled with rice shaped into a relic mound (stupa). Fourteen vignettes around the primeter of the painting depict the life of the Buddha as a mortal, beginning at the top and proceeding in a clockwise direction.
Rare Pionium Decays and Pion Polarizability
Creators: name: Hammer, H. -W.
name: Ng, J. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the decay of pionium atoms into two photons. The pion polarizability gives rise to a 10% correction to the corresponding decay width for pointlike pions. This opens the possibility to obtain the difference between the electric and magnetic polarizability of the charged pion from a future measurement of the branching fraction of pionium into two photons. For such an experiment the ππ-scattering lengths would have to be known to better than 5% precision. We also comment on the contribution of the axial anomaly to the decay of pionium into γπ^0.
description: 7 pages, Latex, no figures, discussion and references added, version to appear in EPJ A
SciMMIR: Benchmarking Scientific Multi-modal Information Retrieval
Creators: name: Wu, Siwei
name: LI, Yizhi
name: Zhu, Kang
name: Zhang, Ge
name: Liang, Yiming
name: Ma, Kaijing
name: Xiao, Chenghao
name: Zhang, Haoran
name: Yang, Bohao
name: Chen, Wenhu
name: Huang, Wenhao
name: Moubayed, Noura Al
name: Fu, Jie
name: Lin, Chenghua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Multi-modal information retrieval (MMIR) is a rapidly evolving field, where significant progress, particularly in image-text pairing, has been made through advanced representation learning and cross-modality alignment research. However, current benchmarks for evaluating MMIR performance in image-text pairing within the scientific domain show a notable gap, where chart and table images described in scholarly language usually do not play a significant role.To bridge this gap, we develop a specialised scientific MMIR (SciMMIR) benchmark by leveraging open-access paper collections to extract data relevant to the scientific domain. This benchmark comprises 530K meticulously curated image-text pairs, extracted from figures and tables with detailed captions in scientific documents.We further annotate the image-text pairs with two-level subset-subcategory hierarchy annotations to facilitate a more comprehensive evaluation of the baselines. We conducted zero-shot and fine-tuning evaluations on prominent multi-modal image-captioning and visual language models, such as CLIP and BLIP.Our analysis offers critical insights for MMIR in the scientific domain, including the impact of pre-training and fine-tuning settings and the influence of the visual and textual encoders.
Coulomb blockade oscillations of conductance in the regime of strong tunneling
Creators: name: Furusaki, A.
name: Matveev, K. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transport through a quantum dot coupled to two leads by single-mode point contacts. The linear conductance is calculated analytically as a function of a gate voltage and temperature T in the case when transmission coefficients of the contacts are close to unity. As a function of the gate voltage, the conductance shows Coulomb blockade oscillations. At low temperatures, the off-resonance conductance vanishes as T^2, in agreement with the theory of inelastic co-tunneling. Near a resonance, the low-energy physics is governed by a multi-channel Kondo fixed point.
description: Revtex, 8 pages, 2 figures
title: ADCO, Troisième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVIe), Cart. 23 (G 127), 310 folios, f. 00524
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2011
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Troisième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVIe), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 23 (G 127), 310 folios, f. 00524, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Troisième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVIe), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 23 (G 127), 310 folios, f. 00524, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Fractional quantum Hall phases of bosons with tunable interactions: From the Laughlin liquid to a fractional Wigner crystal
Creators: name: Graß, Tobias
name: Bienias, Przemyslaw
name: Gullans, Michael J.
name: Lundgren, Rex
name: Maciejko, Joseph
name: Gorshkov, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Highly tunable platforms for realizing topological phases of matter are emerging from atomic and photonic systems, and offer the prospect of designing interactions between particles. The shape of the potential, besides playing an important role in the competition between different fractional quantum Hall phases, can also trigger the transition to symmetry-broken phases, or even to phases where topological and symmetry-breaking order coexist. Here, we explore the phase diagram of an interacting bosonic model in the lowest Landau level at half-filling as two-body interactions are tuned. Apart from the well-known Laughlin liquid, Wigner crystal phase, stripe, and bubble phases, we also find evidence of a phase that exhibits crystalline order at fractional filling per crystal site. The Laughlin liquid transits into this phase when pairs of bosons strongly repel each other at relative angular momentum $4\hbar$. We show that such interactions can be achieved by dressing ground-state cold atoms with multiple different-parity Rydberg states.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, plus Supplemental Material
title: Toward A Greater Understanding of Factors That May Improve the Efficacy of Treatment for Youth with Anorexia Nervosa
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Family-based treatment is considered a well-established outpatient intervention for adolescents with anorexia nervosa who are medically stable. Despite the literature supporting this intervention, family-based treatment is not effective for all individuals suffering from anorexia nervosa. In order to strengthen intervention approaches for youth with anorexia nervosa, a richer understanding of the mechanisms through which family-based treatment promotes positive change is greatly needed. To this end, the goal of the present study was to develop an understanding of factors that may improve the efficacy of treatment for youth with anorexia nervosa. Study 1 examined mediators and moderators of family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders. Study 2 was a pilot study examining an adjunct component to manualized family-based treatment as a mechanism to decrease the psychological consequences of anorexia nervosa. Although family-based treatment has shown significant success in helping individuals reach weight restoration, psychological concerns typical of AN, such as weight and shape concerns, have been less amenable to change. Treatment implications and suggestions for future research are discussed. Furthermore, findings from study 2 suggest that individual therapy sessions in conjunction with family-based treatment are associated with a decrease in body weight and shape concerns typical of anorexia nervosa. Thus together, these findings illuminate potential mechanisms to improve the efficacy of family-based treatment for anorexia nervosa.
Unique solvability and stability analysis for incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics method
Creators: name: Imoto, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M12

description: The incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics method (ISPH) is a numerical method widely used for accurately and efficiently solving flow problems with free surface effects. However, to date there has been little mathematical investigation of properties such as stability or convergence for this method. In this paper, unique solvability and stability are mathematically analyzed for implicit and semi-implicit schemes in the ISPH method. Three key conditions for unique solvability and stability are introduced: a connectivity condition with respect to particle distribution and smoothing length, a regularity condition for particle distribution, and a time step condition. The unique solvability of both the implicit and semi-implicit schemes in two- and three-dimensional spaces is established with the connectivity condition. The stability of the implicit scheme in two-dimensional space is established with the connectivity and regularity conditions. Moreover, with the addition of the time step condition, the stability of the semi-implicit scheme in two-dimensional space is established. As an application of these results, modified schemes are developed by redefining discrete parameters to automatically satisfy parts of these conditions.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Network Procurement Auctions
Creators: name: Greve, T.
name: Pollitt, M. G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: Investments

description: In most network asset procurement exercises, network configurations are predefined by the auctioneers. Bidders can neither propose different network configurations nor can they submit bids on a group of network links. We believe the market itself can be designed better. We present a lot structure and an auction design where bidders might propose and build different network configurations and where bidding for packages is a possibility. We demonstrate why the auction design in this paper should be considered for future network procurement exercises through an example, inspired by UK offshore electricity transmission assets, to illustrate our idea.
Additional file 2: of Pathways leading to success and non-success: a process evaluation of a cluster randomized physical activity health promotion program applying fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
Creators: name: Kien, Christina
name: Grillich, Ludwig
name: Nussbaumer-Streit, Barbara
name: Schoberberger, Rudolf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Questionnaire. (DOCX 40 kb)
Does the social Cost of Carbon Matter?: An Assessment of U.S. Policy
Creators: name: Hahn, R. W.
name: Ritz, Robert
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: Climate Policy
Regulatory Innovation

description: we evaluate a recent u.s. initiative to include the social cost of carbon (sCc) in regulatory decisions. To our knowledge, this paper provides the first systematic test of the extent to which applying the SCC has affected national policy. we examine all economically significant federal regulations since 2008, and obtain a surprising result: Putting a value on changes in carbon dioxide emissions does not generally affect the ranking of the preferred policy compared with the status quo. overall, we find little evidence that use of the SCC has affected u.s. policy choices to date. we offer an explanation related to the political economy of regulation.
title: Interoperability of Digital Geograhic Information in the Domain of Maritime Navigation
Creators: name: Rushin, Michael R
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Interoperability
subject: Maritime navigation
subject: Open source
subject: Geospatial intelligence

description: This thesis examines the interoperability of digital geographic information (DGI) in the context of maritime navigation. Maritime navigation is a complex domain that draws on a wide variety of information resources. The diversity and multitude of such information creates challenges with respect to interoperability – the ability of software and hardware systems on multiple machines from multiple vendors to communicate with each other meaningfully. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is continually developing a series of standards for DGI that may provide solutions for DGI interoperability in the domain of maritime navigation. This thesis examines the OGC Web Services (OWS) and how the Web Feature Service (WFS) can be adopted to serve Notice to Mariners (NTM).
Energy efficiency in Market vs Planned Economies: Evidence from Transition Countries
Creators: name: Nepal, R.
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: transition countries institutions

description: Economic theory suggests that market-based policies and reforms should promote energy efficiency in developing and transition countries. This paper, therefore, analyses the impacts of a varied set of market-oriented macro-level reforms on macro level energy efficiency across the transition countries. Since the early 1990s, these economies experienced a rapid marketization process which transformed them from central planning towards more market driven economies. The results from the relatively new bias corrected fixed-effect analysis (LSDVC) technique suggest that between 1990 and 2010, reforms in overall market liberalisation, financial sector and infrastructure industries, excluding the power sector, drove the energy efficiency improvements in these countries. Also, privatisation programmes only improved energy efficiency in the SEE countries. Thus, the empirical evidence support market driven energy efficiency policies aimed at addressing the market failures in the network industries and capital markets. We conclude that these results can help explain the energy efficiency policy puzzles in developing and transition countries where energy efficiency improvement can be a leading policy response to growing climate change and security of supply concerns.
The siting of UK Nuclear Power Installations
Creators: name: Grimston, M. C.
name: Nuttall, W. J.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: Planning
Environmental Protection

description: choosing a suitable site for a nuclear installation requires the consideration and balancin9 of several factors which are sometimes in tension with one another. One particularly interesting tension is a human and demographic one. On the one hand it is beneficial to place nuclear stations close to centres of population, to reduce transmission losses and other costs (including to the local environment) of transporting electricity over large distances from generator to consumer. On the other it is advantageous to place nuclear stations some distance away from such population centres in order to minimise the potential human consequences of a major release of radioactive materials in the (extremely unlikely) event of a major nuclear accident, not only in terms of direct exposure but also concerning the management of emergency planning, notably evacuation. This paper considers the emergence of policies aimed at managing this tension in the UK. In the first phase of nuclear development (roughly speaking 1945 to 1965) there was a highly cautious attitude, with installations being placed in remote rural locations with verylow population density. The second phase (1965 to 1985) saw a more relaxed approach allowin9 Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor construction closer to population centres (in 'semi-urban' locations, notably at Hartlepool and Heysham). In the third phase (1985 to 2005) there was very little new nuclear development, Sizewell B (the first and so far only pressurised water power reactor in the UK) being co-located with an early Magnox station on the rural Suffolk coast. However, there was considerable effort expended on trying to find a site for disposal of radioactive wastes. Renewed interest in nuclear new build grew from 2005 onwards and led to a number of sites being identified for new reactors before 2025; all having previously hosted nuclear stations and including the semi-urban locations of the 1960s and 1970s. Finally, some speculative comments are made as to what a 'fifth phase' starting in 2025 might look like.
Modeling Molecular Magnets with Large Exchange and On-Site Anisotropies
Creators: name: Haldar, Sumit
name: Raghunathan, Rajamani
name: Sutter, Jean-Pascal
name: Ramasesha, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spins in molecular magnets can experience both anisotropic exchange interactions and on-site magnetic anisotropy. In this paper we study the effect of exchange anisotropy on the molecular magnetic anisotropy both with and without on-site anisotropy. When both the anisotropies are small, we find that the axial anisotropy parameter $D_M$ in the effective spin Hamiltonian is the sum of the individual contributions due to exchange and on-site anisotropies. We find that even for axial anisotropy of about $15\%$, the low energy spectrum does not correspond to a single parent spin manifold but has intruders states arising from other parent spin. In this case, the low energy spectrum can not be described by an effective Hamiltonian spanning the parent spin space. We study the magnetic susceptibility, specific heat as a function of temperature and magnetization as a function of applied field to characterize the system in this limit. We find that there is synergy between the two anisotropies, particularly for large systems with higher site spins.
description: 30 pages, 11 figures and 3 tables. Supporting information included after the main article
Finding the Optimal Approach for Allocating and Realising the Distribution System Capacity: Decidng between Interruptible Connections and Firm DG Connections.
Creators: name: Anaya, K. L.
name: Pollit, M. G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013

description: The aim of this study is to perform a cost benefit analysis of the different options for connecting distributed generation (DG) customers in a specific constrained area (the March Grid), under the context of the Flexible Plug and Play trial. The study shows the importance of the development of levels of understanding and trust among the customers and suppliers of the system-level complexities of an interconnected grid that affect all involved, of the need to achieve acceptability for all involved and the development of a shared, confident forward awareness of future evolution capability, both technically and contractually. This research required a comprehensive revision of the current regulatory framework applied to DG and the search of the most recent estimations of generation costs with a focus on wind, solar PV and anaerobic digestion (AD) generators. Specific assumptions were made in terms of interruptible capacity quota, generation mix, embedded benefits, curtailment levels and load factors. The results are presented in four different scenarios. Two kinds of connection options have been assessed: smart option (non-firm or interruptible) and reinforcement option (firm). Results suggest that in general small wind generators will always have advantage over the large wind generators regardless the type of connection, solar PV would struggle to connect and AD generators would always connect.
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 02 – The Old and the YouTube
Creators: name: Center For History And New Media
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
description: In our second podcast, we revisit the debate over Wikipedia, including hearing from Mills about how Cambodians are using it (and whether you can find a WiFi signal in the jungle of Cambodia). Our feature story explores whether and how YouTube is useful in the classroom. Links for this week include a podcast on Byzantine [...]