cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The origin of the late-time luminosity of supernova 2011dh
Creators: name: Maund, Justyn R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to the small amount of hydrogen (${\leq 0.1M_{\odot}}$) remaining on the surface of their progenitors, Type IIb supernovae are sensitive probes of the mass loss processes of massive stars towards the ends of their lives, including the role of binarity. We report late-time Hubble Space Telescope observations of SN 2011dh in M51, and a brief period of re-brightening and plateau in the photometric light curve, from $1.8$ to $6.2$ years after the explosion. These observations exclude the role of circumstellar interaction, however a slow rotating magnetar, a significant quantity of radioactive elements or a light echo could be responsible for the late-time luminosity observed at $t > 1000\mathrm{d}$. If the late-time light curve is powered by the decay of radioactive elements, SN~2011dh is required to have produced $\sim 2.6 \times 10^{-3}\,M_{\odot}$ of $\mathrm{^{44}Ti}$, which is significantly in excess of the amount inferred from earlier nebular spectra of SN 2011dh itself or measured in the Cas A SN remnant. The evolution of the brightness and the colour of the late-time light curve also supports the role of a light echo originating from dust with a preferred geometry of a disk of extent $\sim 1.8$ to $\sim 2.7\,\mathrm{pc}$ from the SN, consistent with a wind-blown bubble. Accounting for the long term photometric evolution due to a light echo, the flux contribution from a surviving binary companion at ultraviolet wavelengths can be isolated and corresponds to a star of $\sim 9 - 10M_{\odot}$.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, ApJ accepted
Magic Three-Qubit Veldkamp Line and Veldkamp Space of the Doily
Creators: name: Saniga, Metod
name: Szabó, Zsolt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A magic three-qubit Veldkamp line of $W(5,2)$, i.\,e. the line comprising a hyperbolic quadric $\mathcal{Q}^+(5,2)$, an elliptic quadric $\mathcal{Q}^-(5,2)$ and a quadratic cone $\widehat{\mathcal{Q}}(4,2)$ that share a parabolic quadric $\mathcal{Q}(4,2)$, the doily, is shown to provide an interesting model for the Veldkamp space of the latter. The model is based on the facts that: a) the 20 off-doily points of $\mathcal{Q}^+(5,2)$ form ten complementary pairs, each corresponding to a unique grid of the doily; b) the 12 off-doily points of $\mathcal{Q}^-(5,2)$ form six complementary pairs, each corresponding to a unique ovoid of the doily; and c) the 15 off-doily points of $\widehat{\mathcal{Q}}(4,2)$ -- disregarding the nucleus of $\mathcal{Q}(4,2)$ -- are in bijection with the 15 perp-sets of the doily. These findings lead to a conjecture that also parapolar spaces can be relevant for quantum information.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Marine Algae of the Eastern Caraga Region, Philippines, I. Historical Survey and an Annotated List of the Brown Algae (Phaeophyceae)
Creators: name: Bataan, Dan Anthony U.
Publisher: name: National Science Museum, Thailand
Year: 2021
Subjects: botanical inventory, brown algae, Mindana, phyelogy

description: The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal, 1, 15, 31-37
Islamic countries and Maqasid al-Shariah towards the circular economy. The Dubai case study.
Creators: name: Campra, Maura
name: Brescia, Valerio
name: Jafari-Sadeghi, Vahid
name: Calandra, Davide
Publisher: name: European Journal of Islamic Finance
Year: 2021

description: This paper aims to explore the economic, social, and environmental policies in Gulf countries. Despite the increased attention paid by scholars on circularity, there is no evidence about the relationship between the circular economy and Islamic countries. Using an explorative case study, this paper benefits from analyzing several information sources underlying the first link between circularity and Islamic countries. After an in-depth literature review, the authors present a useful comparison between the linear and circular economy concepts. Additionally, we emphasize a framework of policies and best practices adopted from Dubai, which merges several approaches applied towards the circular economy. Furthermore, this paper highlights the theoretical link between social entrepreneurs and Islamic pillars based on the Maqasid al-Shariah business model. In conclusion, the article provides useful implications for researchers and practitioners, who in the future aim to investigate the relationship between Islamic systems and the circular economy.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, No 17 (2021): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 17, 2021
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲିଙ୍ଗ ସଂରଚନା : ଏକ ବ୍ୟାକରଣଗତ ବିଶ୍ଳେଷଣ (Odia Gender System: A Grammatical Description)
Creators: name: Dash, BN
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200315 Indian Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)

description: There is always confusion between 'gender' and 'sex' among the people speaking Odia. They assume that both the words are synonymous to each other. However, semantically, as per Odia Grammar, this view is not correct. Odia is a unique and very rich language. Earlier grammar books stated that there are three kinds of gender classification in Odia, namely: Masculine, Feminine and neuter genders. Such a distinction is not mostly amenable in linguistics. To overcome such confusions, linguistic analysis is generally determined to consider the analysis of grammar and dictionary. The reason being, 'gender' is a category of noun and the meaning of gender is pervasive to its usability that merely matters to the rigidly in the normal Odia conversation. Keeping because of such nuances, the present study attempts to revisit the earlier classification of gender and find that its distinctions are restricted only to dictionaries which have no impact in real life Odia conversation. However, the use of gender classification only marks the differences while writing and when the speaker needs to be conscious of the opposite gender while speaking to others.
Assessing Florida Consumer Attitudes and Beliefs about Locally or Regionally Produced Livestock and Products
Creators: name: Adu-Gyamfi, Akua
name: Omer, Reem I.
name: Bartlett, Jannette R.
name: Tackie, David Nii O.
name: Perry, Bridget J.
name: Adu-Gyamfi, Akua
name: Omer, Reem I.
name: Bartlett, Jannette R.
name: Tackie, David Nii O.
name: Perry, Bridget J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Consumers
subject: Attitudes and Beliefs
subject: Local and Regional
subject: Willingness to Pay
subject: Livestock Products

description: In recent years, consumer interest in locally or regionally produced foods has been growing. This study analyzed consumer attitudes and beliefs on local or regional livestock products in Florida. Data were collected from a convenience sample of 404 participants from counties in Florida. They were assessed by descriptive statistics, including chi-square tests. Most participants believed using chemicals in locally or regionally produced beef or goat meat was at minimum a somewhat serious hazard. Thus, many were willing to pay more for meat certified as locally or regionally produced. Moreover, most agreed or strongly agreed with statements on meat attributes. Chi-square tests showed that race/ethnicity, age, education, and household income had significant effects on willingness to pay more for meat certified as locally or regionally produced. Also, safety, no difference, availability, affordability, quality, desirability, and hygiene had significant effects on willingness to pay more for meat certified as locally or regionally produced.
Paragus (Pandasyophtalmus) abrogans GOELDLIN 1971
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Sakenin, Hamid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Paragus
Paragus abrogans

description: Paragus (Pandasyophtalmus) abrogans GOELDLIN, 1971
 Material examined: West Azarbaijan province, Ourmieh, 37°33'N 45°00'E, 2 ♀, 7-11 June 2012.
 Distribution outside Iran: Greece, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh & Sakenin, Hamid, 2015, A faunistic study on the hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from West Azarbaijan province, Iran, pp. 393-401 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2) on page 397, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.2.393-401, http://zenodo.org/record/5371302
Uniform preconditioners for problems of positive order
Creators: name: Stevenson, Rob
name: van Venetië, Raymond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65F08, 65N38, 65N30, 45EXX

description: Using the framework of operator or Caldéron preconditioning, uniform preconditioners are constructed for elliptic operators of order $2s \in [0,2]$ discretized with continuous finite (or boundary) elements. The cost of the preconditioner is the cost of the application an elliptic opposite order operator discretized with discontinuous or continuous finite elements on the same mesh, plus minor cost of linear complexity. Herewith the construction of a so-called dual mesh is avoided.
Modern Distribution vs. Specialised Shop: a Study on beef consumer behaviour
Creators: name: Scozzafava, Gabriele
name: Casini, Leonardo
name: Marinelli, Nicola
name: Scozzafava, Gabriele
name: Casini, Leonardo
name: Marinelli, Nicola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Beef
subject: Consumer Behaviour
subject: Choice Experiment
subject: Distribution
subject: Marketing Strategies

description: The evolution of consumer profile highlights, for food products and specifically for beef, a growing attention for a number of specific aspects related to food quality, safety, environmental issues and animal welfare. Because of this, it is more and more important to understand the consumer’s choice dynamics in order to develop differentiated marketing, commercial and communication strategies that also refer to different distribution channel. This study was conceived with the aim of analysing the different motives and purchase behaviours of beef consumers in the two main distribution channels: Modern Distribution (MD) and specialised shops (butcher shops). The research is based on an internet administered questionnaire to a representative sample of 1500 beef consumers. Within the questionnaire a Visual Choice Experiment was proposed and its results were analysed using a Multinomial Logit Model. The results show different consumer characteristics in the two analysed distribution channels, highlighting how the same product attributes have different meaning and relevance. Such results may supply strategic information for packaging, pricing and general commercialisation strategies to be implemented by the different agents in the distribution sector.
Is There a Predictability Hierarchy in Reference Resolution?
Creators: name: Xu, Weijie
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Psycholinguistics
subject: Reference resolution
subject: Predictability
subject: Self-paced reading

description: The concept of accessibility has often been evoked to explain reference resolution. According to the Givenness Hierarchy theory, a referent’s accessibility in the mental state of a comprehender is encoded in the form of the referent as part of its lexical semantic representation. However, the current literature has not reached a consensus on what accessibility exactly means and how to best quantify it. The factors that modulate accessibility show a great extent of overlap with another independently motivated concept—predictability—raising the possibility of a “Predictability Hierarchy” that mirrors Givenness Hierarchy. Using a self-paced reading experimental design, the current study examines whether there is such a “Predictability Hierarchy,” by manipulating the predictability and the form of the referent presented to the participants. Our results indicate that although there is no strong evidence for approximating the Givenness Hierarchy with a “Predictability Hierarchy,” there is some preliminary evidence for a partial correlation between the form and the predictability of a referent.
Empowering Women in the Agricultural Value Chain Via Islamic Blended Products to Attain the Agenda 2030 in The Gambia
Creators: name: Sawaneh, Karamo
name: Badjie, Fatou
Publisher: name: European Journal of Islamic Finance
Year: 2021

description: The importance of gender equality and women empowerment has become the central piece in numerous development agenda around the globe. In the Gambia, as part of the national development agenda, the government has eye marked key priority areas to champion the course of women empowerment. In addition, the government has enacted laws and ratified several other international goals including the Agenda 2030 to support this course. However, women entrepreneurs especially those in the agriculture value chain have faced numerous financial management challenges in conducting business activities. On one hand bank loans are expensive for them, and other the other hand those with surplus got minimal returns on their savings and investments. Thus, this paper aims to deliver the intended outcome of Maqasid Al Shariah by harnessing Islamic social financing and utilizing funds from the surplus side to provide sustainable and impactful financing for women on the deficit side via Islamic Blended finance. In addition to de-risking investment towards women empowerment, our proposed model offers a better return for those on the supply side and cheaper rate for those on the demand side by minimizing intermediation and transaction cost. It is anticipated that this paper will contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda in The Gambia and also has the potential to be replicated in other developing countries.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, No 17 (2021): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 17, 2021
Additional file 2: of Epigenetically upregulated oncoprotein PLCE1 drives esophageal carcinoma angiogenesis and proliferation via activating the PI-PLCε-NF-κB signaling pathway and VEGF-C/ Bcl-2 expression
Creators: name: Chen, Yunzhao
name: Wang, Dandan
name: Peng, Hao
name: Chen, Xi
name: Han, Xueping
name: Yu, Jie
name: Wang, Wenjie
name: Liang, Lirong
name: Liu, Zheng
name: Zheng, Yi
name: Hu, Jianming
name: Yang, Lan
name: Li, Jun
name: Zhou, Hong
name: Cui, Xiaobin
name: Li, Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Figure S1. PLCE1 promotes proliferation of esophageal carcinoma cell lines. a Colony formation of ESCC cells decreased by shR-PLCE1 or U73122 treatment and b are means ± SD from three separate experiments. c AV-FITC–PI staining of cells treated as indicated d means ± SD from three independent experiments. e quantification of TUNEL-positive cells. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001. f Eca109 and EC9706 cells were treated as indicated and JC-1 staining assay. (PDF 363 kb)
Thermal Parameters in Heavy Ion Collisions at SPS and RHIC: Centrality Dependence
Creators: name: Kampfer, B.
name: Cleymans, J.
name: Gallmeister, K.
name: Wheaton, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The centrality dependence of thermal parameters describing hadron multiplicities and intermediate-mass dilepton spectra in heavy-ion collisions at SPS and RHIC is analyzed. From experimental hadron multiplicities we deduce evidence for strangeness saturation at high energy and maximum centrality. The observed dilepton spectra can be parameterized by a centrality independent temperature.
description: Contributed to Workshop on Quark and Hadron Dynamics, March 3 - 7, 2002, Budapest, Hungary
Non-paraxial design and fabrication of a compact OAM sorter in the telecom infrared
Creators: name: Ruffato, Gianluca
name: Massari, Michele
name: Girardi, Marcello
name: Parisi, Giuseppe
name: Zontini, Mauro
name: Romanato, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel optical device is designed and fabricated in order to overcome the limits of the traditional sorter based on log-pol optical transformation for the demultiplexing of optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). The proposed configuration simplifies the alignment procedure and significantly improves the compactness and miniaturization level of the optical architecture. Since the device requires to operate beyond the paraxial approximation, a rigorous formulation of transformation optics in the non-paraxial regime has been developed and applied. The sample has been fabricated as 256-level phase-only diffractive optics with high-resolution electron-beam lithography, and tested for the demultiplexing of OAM beams at the telecom wavelength of 1310 nm. The designed sorter can find promising applications in next-generation optical platforms for mode-division multiplexing based on OAM modes both for free-space and multi-mode fiber transmission.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Can FinTech Progress the Real Estate Sector? The Disruptive Role of Crowdfunding & Blockchain: A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Creta, Fabio
name: Mazaj, Jelena
Publisher: name: European Journal of Islamic Finance
Year: 2021

description: The aim of this article is to examine the literature on the role of two dominant players within the FinTech world in recent years: on the one hand, crowdfunding and on the other, blockchain. Our focus will be on the traditionally static and non-innovative real estate sector, trying to analyse how the latter can benefit from the use and interaction between these two new actors. Through a systematic literature review (SLR), 143 scientific articles based on current literature have been identified to better understand the topic. The information collected from the selected articles is presented and summarised in specific tables and graphs for a more immediate understanding. The qualitative research software Nvivo was also used. This research found 43 out of 143 articles analyse the phenomenon of crowdfunding based on blockchain technology from an economic point of view. After the descriptive results through qualitative analysis, the evidence that emerged is that none of the articles analysed deals with the issue in terms of real estate to understand possible practical implications and further theoretical contributions. This research work suggests to investors who intend to invest in real estate, how new investment methodologies could bring enormous benefits to a sector that is less prone to innovation and traditionally static, considering how the use of new technologies applied to alternative financing instruments would make real estate investments much more attractive and accessible. This study contributes to advancing knowledge of the FinTech world, specifically of new alternative financing instruments such as crowdfunding and new emerging technologies such as blockchain, from a theoretical point of view. As far as the authors are aware, this is the first study that systematises the international literature on the subject, highlighting the main contributions written on the subject, always keeping a focus on real estate.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, No 17 (2021): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 17, 2021
Supplemental Appendix from Unsupervised machine learning reveals mimicry complexes in bumblebees occur along a perceptual continuum
Creators: name: Ezray, Briana D.
name: Wham, Drew C.
name: Hill, Carrie E.
name: Hines, Heather M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Supplemental figures and tables
Ancognatha castanea Erichson 1847
Creators: name: Figueroa, Luis
name: Ratcliffe, Brett C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Ancognatha
Ancognatha castanea

description: Ancognatha castanea Erichson, 1847  (Fig. 8)
AYACUCHO (7): Yanamonte (USNM). CUZCO (12): Cacerio (UNSM), La Huerta (UNSM), Machu Picchu, Valle de Lares (both USNM). Elevational range: 2,400 –3,100 m.
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Luis & Ratcliffe, Brett C., 2016, A New Species Of Ancognatha Erichson (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini) From Peru, With Distributions Of Peruvian Ancognatha Species, pp. 65-72 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 70 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.1649/072.070.0107, http://zenodo.org/record/10100060
Paragus (Paragus) albifrons
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Sakenin, Hamid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Paragus
Paragus albifrons

description: Paragus (Paragus) albifrons (FALLÉN, 1817)
 Material examined: West Azarbaijan province, Ourmieh, 37°33'N 45°00'E, 1 ♂, 7-11 June 2012.
 Distribution outside Iran: From southern Norway and Denmark south to the Mediterranean; from Britain (southern England) eastwards through central and southern Europe (Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria) into European parts of Russia and the Caucasus and on to the Pacific; Afghanistan and Mongolia, Turkey.
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh & Sakenin, Hamid, 2015, A faunistic study on the hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from West Azarbaijan province, Iran, pp. 393-401 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2) on page 397, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.2.393-401, http://zenodo.org/record/5371302
Simulating a Mott insulator using attractive interaction
Creators: name: Gall, M.
name: Chan, C. F.
name: Wurz, N.
name: Köhl, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the particle-hole symmetry in the Hubbard model using ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice. We demonstrate the mapping between charge and spin degrees of freedom and, in particular, show the occurrence of a state with "incompressible" magnetisation for attractive interactions. Our results present a novel approach to quantum simulation by giving access to strongly-correlated phases of matter through an experimental mapping to easier detectable observables.
The J.M. Péridier Library: Its Past, Present, and Future
Creators: name: Fletcher, Lydia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The closure of small departmental and branch libraries is all too common, but when closures are approached from the standpoint of understanding departmental constraints, needs, and improvements to service, a library closure can provide many opportunities. In this presentation, I will discuss the evolution of the J.M. Péridier Library at the University of Texas as its space and services have evolved to meet the needs of the UT Department of Astronomy and of McDonald Observatory. I will briefly outline the history of the Péridier Library, including how the original collection came to UT, before discussing the decision to transform the library’s physical space into a new undergraduate computer lab and to combine the Péridier’s print collection with the Kuehne Physics, Mathematics & Astronomy Library. The result of this decision is increased access to the Péridier collection—both recent publications and the historical French library from the observatory at Le Houga, Gers, France—by bringing them into the robust infrastructure of the UT Libraries and increased access for undergraduate students to computers built and configured to do high-level astronomical research. I will share my lessons learned and best practices from the process, and discuss how it has enabled me to re-negotiate my role in supporting research in astronomy at UT in the 21st century.
The intensity of agro-food trade between the countries of the Mediterranean basin
Creators: name: Crescimanno, Maria
name: Galati, Antonino
name: Crescimanno, Maria
name: Galati, Antonino
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Trade Intensity
subject: Agro-food products
subject: Mediterranean countries
subject: Euro-Med Policy

description: The Mediterranean has always been an area of strategic interest for the European Union (EU), since its establishment, has woven with his partners of the South and East of the Mediterranean a dense network of relationships, by signing agreements cooperation, first, and association, then. The study aims to present an evolutionary picture of the agro-food trade network between the countries of the EU's Mediterranean partners and his neighbours in North Africa and the Near East. Using specific indicators, widely used in the economic literature that analyse trade in sectors, however, different from the agro-food, to measure the intensity of the trade. In particular, the analysis by the application of bilateral trade indices according to Frankel and Rose (1997) and Traistaru (2004) showed, on the whole, a progressive weakening of the intensity of agro-food trade in the period 1996-2010. The analysis of indices of intensity of bilateral trade between the partners in the area, helped to identify the main factors that regulate the commercial relations, and in particular the historical and colonial relations, as in the case of France, and physical distance, which determines the phenomena of border trade. Conversely, the Association Agreements and the Stabilisation and Association Agreement signed between the EU on the one hand, and the Mediterranean partners, on the other, have played a marginal role in almost all trade in food products, distinguishing itself not a relation between the positive trend of the intensity of trade and the signing and entry into force of the agreements.
Benchmarking of the tax situation of Islamic financial instruments
Creators: name: Gamba, Valter
name: De Filippis, Eros
name: Tibiletti, Veronica
Publisher: name: European Journal of Islamic Finance
Year: 2021

description: The ever-increasing trend of "Islamic finance" has prompted many European countries to implement very different solutions to meet the needs arising; in particular, the regulatory systems have been implemented with legislative measures, or rather, Financial Administration has introduced interpretations so as to regulate the tax burden on Islamic financial instruments. The contribution is addressed to the analysis of the current Italian legislation namely to the investigation of the tax effects generated by Islamic financial instruments on the different players by comparing with other countries such as the United Kingdom and France, whose experience in this regard has proved to be important to achieve an accurate understanding of the evolution of the rules governing such instruments. This paper is therefore aimed at suggesting simplifying guidelines (given the economic and financial implications) to be implemented in terms of legislation, with a view to providing an Italian standard for Islamic financial instruments so as to leverage the different synergies arising from the regulation of such instruments.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, No 17 (2021): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 17, 2021
Efficient $2^3S$ positronium production by stimulated decay from the $3^3P$ level
Creators: name: Antonello, M.
name: Belov, A.
name: Bonomi, G.
name: Brusa, R. S.
name: Caccia, M.
name: Camper, A.
name: Caravita, R.
name: Castelli, F.
name: Cerchiari, G.
name: Comparat, D.
name: Consolati, G.
name: Demetrio, A.
name: Di Noto, L.
name: Doser, M.
name: Fanì, M.
name: Gerber, S.
name: Gligorova, A.
name: Guatieri, F.
name: Hackstock, P.
name: Haider, S.
name: Hinterberger, A.
name: Kellerbauer, A.
name: Khalidova, O.
name: Krasnicky, D.
name: Lagomarsino, V.
name: Lebrun, P.
name: Malbrunot, C.
name: Mariazzi, S.
name: Matveev, V.
name: Muller, S. R.
name: Nebbia, G.
name: Nedelec, P.
name: Oberthaler, M.
name: Oswald, E.
name: Pagano, D.
name: Penasa, L.
name: Petracek, V.
name: Prelz, F.
name: Rienaecker, B.
name: Robert, J.
name: Rohne, O. M.
name: Rotondi, A.
name: Sandaker, H.
name: Santoro, R.
name: Testera, G.
name: Tietje, I. C.
name: Widmann, E.
name: Wolz, T.
name: Yzombard, P.
name: Zimmer, C.
name: Zurlo, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate experimentally the possibility of enhancing the production of $2^3S$ positronium atoms by driving the $1^3S$-$3^3P$ and $3^3P$-$2^3S$ transitions, overcoming the natural branching ratio limitation of spontaneous decay from $3^3P$ to $2^3S$. The decay of $3^3P$ positronium atoms towards the $2^3S$ level has been effciently stimulated by a 1312.2nm broadband IR laser pulse. The dependence of the stimulating transition efficiency on the intensity of the IR pulse has been measured to find the optimal enhancement conditions. A maximum relative increase of $ \times (3.1 \pm 1.0) $ in the $2^3S$ production efficiency, with respect to the case where only spontaneous decay is present, was obtained.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
LA FILIERA CORTA: UNA POSSIBILE STRATEGIA PER MIGLIORARE LA COMPETITIVITÀ DELL’AZIENDA AGRARIA
Creators: name: Sgroi, Filippo
name: Di Trapani, Anna Maria
name: Testa, Riccardo
name: Sgroi, Filippo
name: Di Trapani, Anna Maria
name: Testa, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: short supply chain
subject: farm
subject: competitiveness

description: The paper aims to determine the possible competitive advantage of farms which undertake a strategy of short supply chain. In particular, through an analysis of a sample of fruit and vegetable farms, we wanted to know how the business relates to the market and the reasons that induced the entrepreneur to begin a process of short supply chain. The study comes from the need to determine, empirically, the economic benefits arising from the adoption of the short supply chain. In fact, there is a vast literature on the economic benefits produced by the short supply chain such as the demand stability due to customer loyalty and the ability to influence directly the price through the reduction of production costs, especially of transportation and packaging ones (Garfish et al., 2009; Bigi, 2005; Cicatiello, 2008; Graziano, 2008). In addition, the farmer may obtain a higher remuneration of production factors, reappropriating of a portion of the value that usually dissipates in the various steps of the supply chain, and so becoming pricemaker (Saccomandi, 1999). In particular, we focused our analysis determining the net income of the entrepreneur who decided to pursue a strategy of short supply chain comparing with the same parameter in the absence of short supply chain. By empirical analysis emerges that the short supply chain can not be the only mode of sale of farm products, but it absorbs only a part of production that, nevertheless, allows to achieve a greater remuneration of the productive factors conferred by the entrepreneur.
Paragus (Paragus) bicolor FABRICIUS 1794
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Sakenin, Hamid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Paragus
Paragus bicolor

description: Paragus (Paragus) bicolor FABRICIUS, 1794
 Material examined: West Azarbaijan province, Miandoab, 36°57'N 46°00'E, 1 ♀, 2 ♂, 14-16 April 2013.
 Distribution outside Iran: Afghanistan, Denmark, France, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Mongolia, North America, Russia, south to the Mediterranean, Sweden, North Africa, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan.
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh & Sakenin, Hamid, 2015, A faunistic study on the hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from West Azarbaijan province, Iran, pp. 393-401 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2) on page 397, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.2.393-401, http://zenodo.org/record/5371302
Customer Satisfaction Analysis of Sharia Services Quality at Surya Mart Ponorogo
Creators: name: Maharani, Shinta
name: Rahman, Asmak Ab
name: Septian, Arif Dwi
Publisher: name: European Journal of Islamic Finance
Year: 2021

description: This study aims to evaluate the level of satisfaction and service quality through CSI and IPA. The type of this study is quantitative approach under case study at Surya Mart Ponorogo Indonesia. The sample was 125 respondents. The variables of this study used sharia service quality and customer satisfaction composed of six dimensions: (1) compliance with Islamic law, (2) assurance, (3) reliability, (4) tangibility, (5) empathy, and (6) responsiveness, and each dimension has three statement attributes. Data were analyzed using Importance Performance Analysis (IPA), Cartesius Diagram, and Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI). The findings of this study are, firstly, the results of the IPA. The second finding is that the top priority attribute (indicated in Quadrant A of the Cartesian diagram) is sharia service quality. The third is a 75.2% value for customer satisfaction with the quality of sharia services at Surya Mart Supermarket Ponorogo, Indonesia, under CSI analysis, indicating that customers do feel satisfied enough.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, No 17 (2021): EJIF - European Journal of Islamic Finance, 17, 2021
Effects of radiation on Respiratory Disease Mortality: Analysis of the National Registry for Radiation Workers in United Kingdom
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei
name: Haylock, Richard G E
name: Gillies, Michael
name: Hunter, Nezahat
name: Zhang, Erica
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: While some evidence of an effect of radiation exposure on respiratory disease at low dose levels has now emerged, there is heterogeneity in the risks between different studies and countries. In this paper, we aim to show the effect of radiation on three different sub-types of respiratory disease mortality through the analysis of the NRRW cohort in UK. The NRRW cohort consisted of 174,541 radiation workers. Doses to the surface of the body were monitored using individual film badges. Most of the doses are associated with X-rays and gamma rays and to a less extent of beta and neutron particles. The overall mean 10 year lagged lifetime external dose was 23.2 mSv. Some workers were potentially exposed to alpha particles. However, doses from internal emitters were not available for the NRRW cohort. 25% male workers and 17% female workers were identified as being monitored for internal exposure. The Poisson regression methods for grouped survival data with a stratified baseline hazard function were used to describe the dependence of the risk on cumulative external radiation dose. The disease was analysed by the following subgroups: Pneumonia (1066 cases including 17 cases of influenza), COPD and allied disease (1517 cases) and other remaining respiratory diseases (479 cases). There was very little radiation effect on pneumonia mortality, but evidence of a reduction in mortality risk for COPD and allied disease (ERR/Sv= -0.56, 95%CI: -0.94, -0.06; P = 0.02) and an increase in risk for other respiratory disease mortality (ERR/Sv = 2.30, 95%CI: 0.67, 4.62; P = 0.01) with increasing cumulative external dose were observed. The effects of radiation were more prominent amongst workers monitored for internal exposure. The reduction in mortality risk of COPD and allied disease per cumulative external dose was statistically significant for the radiation workers monitored for internal exposure (ERR/Sv=-0.59, 95%CI: -0.99, -0.05; p = 0.017) but not significant among the workers who were not monitored (ERR/Sv=-0.43, 95%CI: -1.20, 0.74; p = 0.42). A statistically significant increased risk was observed for other respiratory diseases among monitored radiation workers (ERR/Sv = 2.46, 95%CI: 0.69, 5.08; p = 0.019), but not among unmonitored workers (ERR/Sv = 1.70, 95%CI: -0.82, 5.65; p = 0.25). The effects of radiation exposure can be different depending on the type of respiratory disease. No effect was seen in pneumonia; a reduction in mortality risk of COPD, and increased mortality risk of other respiratory diseases were observed with cumulative external radiation dose. More studies are needed to verify these findings.
Detecting top-Higgs at high energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders
Creators: name: Yue, Chongxing
name: Liu, Guoli
name: Xu, Qingjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the contributions of the top-Higgs $h_{t}^{0}$ predicted by topcolor assisted technicolor(TC2) models to $e^{+}e^{-}\longrightarrow \overline{t}c\overlineν_{e}ν_{e}$ and compare the results with the contributions of $h^{0}_{t}$ to the processes $e^{+}e^{-}\longrightarrow Z h^{0}_{t}\longrightarrow Z\overline{t}c$ and $e^+e^-\longrightarrow γh^{0}_{t} \longrightarrow γ\overline{t}c$. We find that $e^{+}e^{-} \longrightarrow\overline{t}c\overlineν_{e}ν_{e}$ is very sensitive to $h^{0}_{t}$, which can be easy detected via this process at high-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider(LC) experiments with $\sqrt{s}\geq 500$ $GeV$, as long as its mass below the $\overline{t}t$ threshold. The process $e^{+}e^{-} \longrightarrow γ\overline{t}c$ also can be used to detect $h^{0}_{t}$ at LC experiments.
description: latex file, 10 pages, 4 eps figure, submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Deep Polyphonic ADSR Piano Note Transcription
Creators: name: Kelz, Rainer
name: Böck, Sebastian
name: Widmer, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We investigate a late-fusion approach to piano transcription, combined with a strong temporal prior in the form of a handcrafted Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The network architecture under consideration is compact in terms of its number of parameters and easy to train with gradient descent. The network outputs are fused over time in the final stage to obtain note segmentations, with an HMM whose transition probabilities are chosen based on a model of attack, decay, sustain, release (ADSR) envelopes, commonly used for sound synthesis. The note segments are then subject to a final binary decision rule to reject too weak note segment hypotheses. We obtain state-of-the-art results on the MAPS dataset, and are able to outperform other approaches by a large margin, when predicting complete note regions from onsets to offsets.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, published as ICASSP'19
Gravity waves from inflating brane or Mirrors moving in adS$_5$
Creators: name: Gorbunov, D. S.
name: Rubakov, V. A.
name: Sibiryakov, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study tensor perturbations in a model with inflating Randall--Sundrum-type brane embedded in five-dimensional anti-de Sitter (adS$_5$) bulk. In this model, a natural {\it in}-vacuum of gravitons is the vacuum defined in static adS$_5$ frame. We show that this vacuum is, in fact, the same as the {\it in}-vacuum defined in the frame with de Sitter (dS$_4$) slicing, in which the brane is at rest. Thus, during inflation, gravitons on and off the brane remain in their vacuum state. We then study graviton creation by the brane on which inflation terminates at some moment of time. We mostly consider gravitons whose wavelengths at the end of inflation exceed both the horizon size and the adS$_5$ radius. Creation of these gravitons is dominated by (zero mode)--(zero mode) Bogoliubov coefficients and, apart from an overall factor, the spectrum of produced gravitons is the same as in four-dimensional theory. ``Kaluza--Klein'' gravitons are also produced, but this effect is subdominant. Graviton spectra at somewhat higher momenta are also presented for completeness.
description: 33 pages, 1 figure
“Bolt-on” Network Security for Advanced Manufacturing Deployments
Creators: name: Mccormack, Matthew
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: Industry 4.0 is driving manufacturing centers to utilize networked devices, many of which are potentially deployed with security vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, these devices often lack effective host-level protections and may have service lives beyond the vendor’s support. At the same time, traditional network security solutions, such as firewalls, often leave coverage gaps and lack the necessary trust to ensurethey do not become launchpads for future attacks. Therefore, adopting Industry 4.0 potentially amplifies the manufacturing domain’s attack surface, creating new waysfor attackers to steal proprietary data, sabotage manufacturing operations by making defective parts, and deny users access to critical machines. This dissertation aims to design a practical system for defending manufacturing deployments from network attacks. We leverage advances in software-defined networkingto provide device-specific network protections that can be “bolted-on” to existing manufacturing networks in the form of a security gateway. Such a bolt-on approach allows for protecting existing machines without requiring modifications to the machines or their software. For a security gateway to be effective it must (1) be able to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities present in manufacturing devices, and (2)be trusted to enforce these protections even when the gateway itself is under attack. The key contributions of this thesis are the following. We build a vulnerabilityassessment tool, C3PO, for analyzing networked 3D printers and their deployments, which we then use to evaluate 13 networked 3D printers and 5 manufacturing centerdeployments. Our evaluation identified common vulnerabilities such as susceptibility to denial of service attacks, not encrypting sensitive data in transit, and a lackof network isolation. These identified vulnerabilities inform the device-specific network protections the security gateway must provide. Next, we design a low-cost, trusted security gateway system, Jetfire, by building on top of a micro-hypervisor root of trust. We use formal modeling to guide the application of micro-hypervisor provided capabilities to provide an end-to-end guarantee that all packets are processed by the correct network protection (e.g., those identified by C3PO). We then demonstrate how this trusted architecture can be used to secure networked 3D printersby mitigating identified vulnerabilities as well as providing more elaborate protections such as behavior-based anomaly detection.
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲିଙ୍ଗ ସଂରଚନା : ଏକ ବ୍ୟାକରଣଗତ ବିଶ୍ଳେଷଣ (Odia Gender System: A Grammatical Description)
Creators: name: Dash, BN
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200315 Indian Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)

description: There is always a confusion between 'gender' and 'sex' among the people speaking Odia. They assume that both the words are synonymous to each other. However, semantically, as per Odia Grammar this view is not correct. Odia is a unique and very rich language. Earlier grammar books stated that there are three kinds of gender classification in Odia, namely: Masculine, Feminine and neuter genders. Such a distinction is not mostly amenable in linguistics. To overcome such confusions, linguistic analysis is generally determined to consider the analysis of grammar and dictionary. The reason being, 'gender' is a category of noun and the meaning of gender is pervasive to its usability that merely matters to the rigidly in the normal Odia conversation. Keeping in view of such nuances, the present study makes an attempt to revisit the earlier classification of gender and find that its distinctions are restricted only to dictionaries which have no important impact in real life Odia conversation. However, the use of gender classification is only mark the differences while writing and when the speaker needs to be conscious about opposite gender while speaking to others.
Export Subsidies on Value-Added Products
Creators: name: Wilson, Ewen M.
name: Green, Paul B.
name: Wilson, Ewen M.
name: Green, Paul B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agribusiness
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: In the 2nd Quarter ] 988 issue a CHOICES Debate focused on the advisability of "subsidy value-added products." Paul B. Green, a consultant to the Miller's National Federation and other agricultural processors, argued that "our trade policy needs them. " Ewen M. Wilson, Assistant Secretary for Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, argued that the effects of such policies may differ from policy objectives. Here the authors respond to the arguments presented in the p~evious issue.
description: CHOICES Debate: Responses
An Empirical Decomposition of Near-IR Emission into Galactic and Extragalactic Components
Creators: name: Arendt, Richard G.
name: Dwek, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We decompose the COBE/DIRBE observations of the near-IR sky brightness (minus zodiacal light) into Galactic stellar and interstellar medium (ISM) components and an extragalactic background. This empirical procedure allows us to estimate the 4.9 micron cosmic infrared background (CIB) as a function of the CIB intensity at shorter wavelengths. A weak indication of a rising CIB intensity at wavelengths > 3.5 micron hints at interesting astrophysics in the CIB spectrum, or warns that the foreground zodiacal emission may be incompletely subtracted. Subtraction of only the stellar component from the zodiacal-light-subtracted all-sky map reveals the clearest 3.5 micron ISM emission map, which is found to be tightly correlated with the ISM emission at far-IR wavelengths.
description: 10 pages. 10 JPEG and PNG figures. Uses emulateapj5.sty. To appear in 2003, ApJ, 585, 000 (March 1, 2003)
Reparameterization Invariance for Collinear Operators
Creators: name: Manohar, Aneesh V.
name: Mehen, Thomas
name: Pirjol, Dan
name: Stewart, Iain W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss restrictions on operators in the soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) which follow from the ambiguity in the decomposition of collinear momenta and the freedom in the choice of light-like basis vectors $n$ and $\bar n$. Invariance of SCET under small changes in $n$ and/or $\bar n$ implies a symmetry of the effective theory that constrains the form of allowed operators with collinear fields. The restrictions occur at a given order in the power counting as well as between different orders. As an example, we present the complete set of higher order operators that are related to the collinear quark kinetic term.
description: 11 pages