cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The aid-nutrition link - Can targeted development assistance to the agricultural sector reduce hunger?
Creators: name: Kornher, Lukas
name: Kubik, Zaneta
name: Chichaibelu, Bezawit Beyene
name: Kornher, Lukas
name: Kubik, Zaneta
name: Chichaibelu, Bezawit Beyene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Foreign aid
subject: hunger and malnutrition
subject: aid effectiveness
subject: agricultural ODA

description: In this study, we discuss and examine empirically the relevance of targeted ODA to the agricultural sector to improve food and nutrition security. Given the relationship between agricultural growth and poverty reduction as well as food and nutrition security, aid attributed specifically to the agricultural sector could have a stronger and more immediate impact than overall aid. We find a statistically significant and economically meaningful contribution of agricultural ODA to hunger and malnutrition reduction since 2000. This has important implications for donor countries that focus on the fight against hunger in their development cooperation strategies, such as Germany and its “One World without Hunger” initiative. To account for the potential reverse causality of aid and development outcomes, we follow the instrumentation approach of RAJAN AND SUBRAMANIAN (2008) and ARNDT ET AL. (2010) and apply it to sectoral aid using two novel zero-stage instruments.
title: KI-Tools im wissenschaftlichen Arbeits- und Schreibprozess
title: AI Tools in Scientific Research and Writing Processes
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Knorr, Dagmar
name: Edlich, Micha Gerrit Philipp
name: Senst, Erik
name: Swidsinski, Andrej
name: Völz, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben
subject: Textproduktion
subject: Schreibprozess
subject: Künstliche Intelligenz
subject: Scientific Writing
subject: Text Production
subject: Writing Process
subject: Artificial Intelligence
classificationCode: 800
subject: 800 Literatur und Rhetorik

description: Das Poster charakterisiert sehr kurz verschiedene KI-Tools und verortet sie an Phasen und Handlungen einer wissenschaftlichen Textproduktion.
description: This poster describes several AI tools and discusses how these tools can be used at different stages and for various purposes during the writing process.
Consumers’ valuation of soft drinks labeled with calorie and sweetener information: the impact of taste
Creators: name: Lewis, Karen E.
name: Grebitus, Carola
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Lewis, Karen E.
name: Grebitus, Carola
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: calorie labeling
subject: sweetener
subject: soft drinks
subject: taste
subject: auction

description: In the U.S., soft drink consumption has been considered one culprit for the obesity epidemic. Improved product labeling is considered a policy tool that can help consumers choose healthier products. This research uses an auction to determine consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for soft drinks labeled with sweetener and calorie information after consumers tasted the soft drinks. Soft drink taste is the primary driver of consumers’ WTP for soft drinks, while sweetener labeling also influences WTP. Calorie labeling has little impact on WTP. Consumers’ least preferred soft drink label was “sweetened with HFCS”; sugar was consumers’ most preferred sweetener ingredient.
EU farmers' intentions to invest in 2014-2020: complementarity between asset classes
Creators: name: Lefebvre, Marianne
name: Gomez Y Paloma, Sergio
name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Lefebvre, Marianne
name: Gomez Y Paloma, Sergio
name: Viaggi, Davide
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Investment
subject: Agriculture
subject: Willingness to invest
subject: EU
subject: multivariate probit

description: This article aims to analyse the determinants of EU farmers' intentions to invest in the period 2014-2020. It analysed data of a survey of 780 farmers interviewed in spring 2013, covering 6 EU countries (Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Poland) and four different farm types (arable crops, livestock, perennial crops and mixed farms). A multivariate probit model is used in order to determine the factors explaining the willingness to invest or not to invest in various farm asset classes (land, building, machinery, training) by the surveyed farmers. The multivariate probit allows taking into account the possibility of simultaneous investments and the potential correlations among these investment decisions. We find that investments in different asset classes are complementary. Farmers willing to invest in one asset class are also willing to invest in other asset classes, after controlling for observable characteristics such as farm size, specialization, farmer's age. This paper contributes to the limited literature on farmers' investment decisions at EU-level. Future versions of the paper will include the marginal effects, as well as improved justification of the methodology and interpretation of the results.
Assessment of Rydberg Atoms for Wideband Electric Field Sensing
Creators: name: Meyer, David H.
name: Castillo, Zachary A.
name: Cox, Kevin C.
name: Kunz, Paul D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rydberg atoms have attracted significant interest recently as electric field sensors. In order to assess potential applications, detailed understanding of relevant figures of merit is necessary, particularly in relation to other, more mature, sensor technologies. Here we present a quantitative analysis of the Rydberg sensor's sensitivity to oscillating electric fields with frequencies between 1 kHz and 1 THz. Sensitivity is calculated using a combination of analytical and semi-classical Floquet models. Using these models, optimal sensitivity at arbitrary field frequency is determined. We validate the numeric Floquet model via experimental Rydberg sensor measurements over a range of 1-20 GHz. Using analytical models, we compare with two prominent electric field sensor technologies: electro-optic crystals and dipole antenna-coupled passive electronics.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
MOESM3 of Mathematical modelling for health systems research: a systematic review of system dynamics and agent-based models
Creators: name: Cassidy, Rachel
name: Singh, Neha
name: Pierre-RaphaÃ«L Schiratti
name: Semwanga, Agnes
name: Binyaruka, Peter
name: Nkenda Sachingongu
name: Chitalu Chama-Chiliba
name: Chalabi, Zaid
name: Borghi, Josephine
name: Blanchet, Karl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Descriptive table of ABM model rules.
Relational contract decision of retailers in the grasshopper value chain in Uganda
Creators: name: Donkor, Emmanuel
name: Mbeche, Robert
name: Mithofer, Dagmar
name: Donkor, Emmanuel
name: Mbeche, Robert
name: Mithofer, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Grasshopper Value Chain
subject: Retailers
subject: Relational Contract
subject: Buyer-Seller Model
subject: Uganda

description: Agrifood marketing in sub-Saharan Africa is associated with high inefficiencies, which emanate from high transaction costs, poor coordination and asymmetric information. These challenges lead to high food prices and limited accessibility to consumers. Formal contracts could address these challenges, but they are largely non-existent in the traditional agrifood marketing. Studies addressing the agrifood marketing challenges have focused mainly on farmers and consumers. However, the mid-stream actors who bridge the gap between farmers and consumers are ignored in scientific and policy debates. The paper therefore analyses factors that influence relational contract decision of retailers using a primary data set from 500 grasshopper retailers in Central Uganda. We find that major of the retailers procure grasshoppers through spot market transactions. However, a few of them develop relational contract with their suppliers. Consistent with the theory of relational contract, trust and close relationship reinforce relational contract between retailers and suppliers. We also find that transactional factors such as transport asset and cost prices of grasshoppers stimulate retailers to engage in relational contract with suppliers.
Wanderers of Empire: The Tropical Tramp in Latin America, 1870-1930
Creators: name: Werner, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: U.S. public and private imperial interests confronted the problem of labor and labor power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as the U.S. empire expanded into Latin America and the Caribbean. The question of how to make an empire work spurred the creation of new labor regimes reliant on black West Indians who traveled to work in the Panama Canal Zone and on United Fruit Company (UFCO) banana plantations. Just as importantly, new labor regimes engendered new categories for troublesome laborers. One of these classifications, “tramp,” surfaced in the United States after the U.S. Civil War as a shorthand for vagrant, vagabond, and hobo. This thesis examines the so-called “tramp crisis” of the late nineteenth century to show how questions of labor invariably shaped problems of empire. As a category, the tramp moved outside of the United States where various U.S. foreign policymakers, writers, and business officials created the idea of the “tropical tramp” in U.S. imperial spaces. This label, tropical tramp, offers scholars a different starting point to analyze larger issues of whiteness, masculinity, sexuality, class, and the U.S. empire. By following discursive formations of the tramp and tropical tramp into Central and South America, this thesis argues that the figure of the tramp represented someone unbefitting the U.S. empire’s desired sociopolitical order.
Noncommutative Gauge Theory without Lorentz Violation
Creators: name: Carlson, Carl E.
name: Carone, Christopher D.
name: Zobin, Nahum
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most popular noncommutative field theories are characterized by a matrix parameter theta^(mu,nu) that violates Lorentz invariance. We consider the simplest algebra in which the theta-parameter is promoted to an operator and Lorentz invariance is preserved. This algebra arises through the contraction of a larger one for which explicit representations are already known. We formulate a star product and construct the gauge-invariant Lagrangian for Lorentz-conserving noncommutative QED. Three-photon vertices are absent in the theory, while a four-photon coupling exists and leads to a distinctive phenomenology.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures, revtex 4 (Version to appear in PRD)
Food Security and the International Wheat Agreements
Creators: name: Callear, Diana L.
name: Blandford, David
name: Callear, Diana L.
name: Blandford, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: The paper examines the issues involved in reaching a workable international agreement on reserve stocks for wheat. The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, there is an examination of past efforts to achieve greater food security through international wheat agreements and food aid and an evaluation of the extent to which they succeeded until 1969, when the pricing provisions of the agreement broke down. There is a survey of the institutions that were created following the World Food Conference in 1974, an examination of the issues that have prevented the successful conclusion of a new agreement in the 1970's, and a review of the direction of current negotiations. In part 2, the issue of wheat price stability is examined against the background of the objectives of the major participants in the international market. It is argued that the determination of appropriate measures to ensure world food security has been hampered by domestic agricultural objectives of the major trading nations. Even if agreement on a reserve stock could be reached, it is probable that a reserve stock alone would be inadequate to achieve price stabilization without some change in the trade policies of the major trading nations. Since it is unlikely that these policies will e completely abandoned, it is argues that an international code of conduct to limit their harmful effect is appropriate. The outlines of such a code are suggested.
Non-parametric Morphologies of Galaxies in the EAGLE Simulation
Creators: name: Bignone, Lucas A.
name: Pedrosa, Susana E.
name: Trayford, James W.
name: Tissera, Patricia B.
name: Pellizza, Leonardo J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the optical morphology of galaxies in a large-scale hydrodynamic cosmological simulation, the EAGLE simulation. Galaxy morphologies were characterized using non-parametric statistics (Gini, $M_{20}$, Concentration and Asymmetry) derived from mock images computed using a 3D radiative transfer technique and post-processed to approximate observational surveys. The resulting morphologies were contrasted to observational results from a sample of $\log_{10}(M_{*}/M_\odot) > 10$ galaxies at $z \sim 0.05$ in the GAMA survey. We find that the morphologies of EAGLE galaxies reproduce observations, except for asymmetry values which are larger in the simulated galaxies. Additionally, we study the effect of spatial resolution in the computation of non-parametric morphologies, finding that Gini and Asymmetry values are systematically reduced with decreasing spatial resolution. Gini values for lower mass galaxies are especially affected. Comparing against other large scale simulations, the non-parametric statistics of EAGLE galaxies largely agree with those found in IllustrisTNG. Additionally, EAGLE galaxies mostly reproduce observed trends between morphology and star formation rate and galaxy size. Finally, We also find a significant correlation between optical and kinematic estimators of morphologies, although galaxy classification based on an optical or a kinematic criteria results in different galaxy subsets. The correlation between optical and kinematic morphologies is stronger in central galaxies than in satellites, indicating differences in morphological evolution.
description: 21 pages, 12 Figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Magnetization transport and quantized spin conductance
Creators: name: Meier, Florian
name: Loss, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze transport of magnetization in insulating systems described by a spin Hamiltonian. The magnetization current through a quasi one-dimensional magnetic wire of finite length suspended between two bulk magnets is determined by the spin conductance which remains finite in the ballistic limit due to contact resistance. For ferromagnetic systems, magnetization transport can be viewed as transmission of magnons and the spin conductance depends on the temperature T. For antiferromagnetic isotropic spin-1/2 chains, the spin conductance is quantized in units of order $(g μ_B)^2/h$ at T=0. Magnetization currents produce an electric field and hence can be measured directly. For magnetization transport in electric fields phenomena analogous to the Hall effect emerge.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, minor changes
Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften im Kontext deutscher Winzergenossenschaften
Creators: name: Richter, Barbara
name: Hanf, Jon H.
name: Richter, Barbara
name: Hanf, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften; Nachhaltigkeit; Werte; Winzergenossenschaften
subject: Deutschland

description: In Europa haben Genossenschaften eine lange Tradition und sind im landwirtschaftlichen Sektor weit verbreitet. Im Weinsektor haben Genossenschaften in einigen EU-Ländern sogar einen Marktanteil von mehr als 50 %. Trotz des Rückgangs der Zahl der Genossenschaften, der Mitglieder und der genossenschaftlich bewirtschafteten Rebfläche machen die Winzergenossenschaften immer noch rund ein Viertel der deutschen Rebfläche aus. Aufgrund der Entwicklungen im Bereich der Nachhaltigkeit stehen die Genossenschaften zunehmend unter Druck. Eine Studie zu den Reaktionen der Winzergenossenschaften auf die hohe Wettbewerbsintensität im deutschen Weinmarkt aus dem Jahr 2019 zeigt, dass das Thema Nachhaltigkeit in der strategischen Ausrichtung der Genossenschaften bisher kaum Beachtung findet. Die Umsetzung nachhaltiger Maßnahmen (auf ökologischer, ökonomischer und sozialer Ebene) wurde bisher nicht explizit für Winzergenossenschaften analysiert. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, einen ersten Einblick zu geben wie die Geschäftsführung von Winzergenossenschaften das Konstrukt Nachhaltigkeit wahrnimmt und welche Maßnahmen Winzergenossenschaften in Bezug auf die ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Nachhaltigkeit anwenden. Für die empirische Erhebung wurde aufgrund fehlenden Literatur zu diesem Thema ein qualitativer Ansatz gewählt, welcher Experteninterviews mit dem Management von Winzergenossenschaften (n=13) sowie mit anderen Experten aus dem Genossenschaftswesen (n=4) umfasst. Die Daten wurden inhaltsanalytisch ausgewertet. Die Ergebnisse beschreiben den aktuellen Stand in Bezug auf nachhaltiges Wirtschaften in Winzergenossenschaften. Auch wenn das allgemeine Verständnis von Nachhaltigkeit bei den Befragten recht ähnlich ist, unterscheidet sich die Operationalisierung in den Genossenschaften stark. Weitere Möglichkeiten für zukünftige Forschung und die Limitationen der Studie werden aufgezeigt.
ROLE-PLAY IN THE CHINESE CLASSROOM
Creators: name: Werth, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Over the past decade, there has been an increasing push for foreign language teachers to use a communicative approach to language instruction. One area this can be seen is through role-plays, activities where students take on a persona other than themselves to complete a task in the target language. Despite the growing popularity of role-play, there has been little empirical research looking at the impact of role-play on students. In particular, the differences between large group and small group role-plays remain virtually unstudied.
This thesis looks at role-play in Chinese language classrooms from the perspectives of both teachers and students. To obtain the teacher perspective educators throughout Massachusetts were surveyed about their attitudes and approach to using role-play. To better understand student attitudes towards role-play, a wide variety of role-plays were observed and data was collected from the participants.
Observations of over fifty role-plays showed that large group role-plays have a wide variety of benefits including: increasing student enjoyment, providing more opportunities for peer learning/teaching, and enabling teachers to give more immediate feedback. These implications as well as other suggestions for how to successfully use role-play in the language classroom are explored more fully later in the thesis. In order to make role-play more accessible to foreign language teachers, a series of role-play lesson plans based on the principles discussed are also provided in the appendix.
B-parameters of the complete set of matrix elements of (Delta B = 2) operators from the lattice
Creators: name: Becirevic, D.
name: Gimenez, V.
name: Martinelli, G.
name: Papinutto, M.
name: Reyes, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute on the lattice the ``bag'' parameters of the five (Delta B = 2) operators of the supersymmetric basis, by combining their values determined in full QCD and in the static limit of HQET. The extrapolation of the QCD results from the accessible heavy-light meson masses to the B-meson mass is constrained by the static result. The matching of the corresponding results in HQET and in QCD is for the first time made at NLO accuracy in the MSbar(NDR) renormalization scheme. All results are obtained in the quenched approximation.
description: 27 pages (5 figures)
A Study on Modelling Spatial-Temporal Human Mobility Patterns for Improving Personalized Weather Warning
Creators: name: XU, YUE
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: Understanding human mobility patterns is important for severe weather warning since these patterns can help identify where people are in time and in space when flash floods, tornados, high winds and hurricanes are occurring or are predicted to occur. A GIS (Geographic Information Science) data model was proposed to describe the spatial-temporal human activity. Based on this model, a metric was designed to represent the spatial-temporal activity intensity of human mobility, and an index was generated to quantitatively describe the change in human activities. By analyzing high-resolution human mobility data, the paper verified that human daily mobility patterns could be clearly described with the proposed methods. This research was part of a National Science Foundation grant on next generation severe weather warning systems. Data was collected from a specialized mobile app for severe weather warning, called CASA Alerts, which is being used to analyze different aspects of human behavior in response to severe weather warnings. The data set for this research uses GPS location data from more than 300 APP users during a 14 month period (location was reported at 2 minutes interval, or at based on a 100m change in location). A targeted weather warning strategy was proposed as a result of this research, and future research questions were discussed.
Impact of Isolation and Fiducial Cuts on $q_T$ and N-Jettiness Subtractions
Creators: name: Ebert, Markus A.
name: Tackmann, Frank J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kinematic selection cuts and isolation requirements are a necessity in experimental measurements for identifying prompt leptons and photons that originate from the hard-interaction process of interest. We analyze how such cuts affect the application of the $q_T$ and $N$-jettiness subtraction methods for fixed-order calculations. We consider both fixed-cone and smooth-cone isolation methods. We find that kinematic selection and isolation cuts both induce parametrically enhanced power corrections with considerably slower convergence compared to the standard power corrections that are already present in inclusive cross sections without additional cuts. Using analytic arguments at next-to-leading order we derive their general scaling behavior as a function of the subtraction cutoff. We also study their numerical impact for the case of gluon-fusion Higgs production in the $H\toγγ$ decay mode and for $pp\toγγ$ direct diphoton production. We find that the relative enhancement of the additional cut-induced power corrections tends to be more severe for $q_T$, where it can reach an order of magnitude or more, depending on the choice of parameters and subtraction cutoffs. We discuss how all such cuts can be incorporated without causing additional power corrections by implementing the subtractions differentially rather than through a global slicing method. We also highlight the close relation of this formulation of the subtractions to the projection-to-Born method.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor changes, journal version
Ammoniakvermeidungskosten bei der Ausbringung angesäuerter flüssiger Wirtschaftsdünger in Winterweizen
Creators: name: Jorissen, Tobias
name: Höcherl, Susanne
name: Recke, Guido
name: Lichti, Fabian
name: Jorissen, Tobias
name: Höcherl, Susanne
name: Recke, Guido
name: Lichti, Fabian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Ansäuerung
subject: Wirtschaftsdünger
subject: Vermeidungskosten
subject: Stochastische Simulation

description: Flüssige Wirtschaftsdünger aus der Landwirtschaft sind für einen Großteil der Ammoniakemissionen (NH3) in Deutschland verantwortlich. Eine innovative Maßnahme zur Vermei-dung von NH3 ist die Ansäuerung von Wirtschaftsdüngern mit Schwefelsäure (H2SO4) und anschließender Applikation auf dem Feld. Anhand eines Feldversuches im Winterweizen im Osnabrücker Land und unterstützend durch Laborversuche werden die NH3-Vermeidungskosten kalkuliert. Eine Risikoanalyse zeigt, dass mit einer Schwankungsbreite von ca. -4 €/kg NH3 bis 21 €/kg NH3 neben möglichen hohen Kosten, auch ein Vermeidungsnutzen entstehen kann.
Re-thinking strategy: competitive parity in chain management
Creators: name: Richter, Barbara
name: Hanf, Jon H.
name: Richter, Barbara
name: Hanf, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Competitive parity; chain management; supply chain networks; strategic management

description: In the agri-food business, chain management is needed to establish more effective and efficient supply chains and for being more responsive to consumer demands. Food products often consist of different components that can differ in their attributes. It is of high importance for supply chains that they are able to guarantee experience and credence attributes (e.g. food safety) – otherwise, consumer’s confidence will be lost. Depending on different product components and their attributes (shopping, experience, and credence attributes), competitive parity must be achieved. To our knowledge, so far only very little attention has been paid to parity as strategic aim of chain management. The following question arises: If parity considered as strategic aim, how do firms and networks deal with competitive parity in terms of strategic management? Our paper aims to develop a theoretical frame of chain management that combines the aspects of competitive parity with those of chain management in the agri-food business. To fulfil this aim, a literature overview in the field of strategic management was carried out at the firm- and network-level. We derive a frame of competitive parity in chain management and show potential for further research on this topic.
An Archetype of Gōkan: A study and Translation of Ikazuchi tarō gōaku monogatari by Shikitei Sanba
Creators: name: Yamashita, Marina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: In the Edo period (1603 –1868), reading books was a form of entertainment for common people. Gōkan, a form of pictorial fiction, was very popular in the mid 1800s. In this thesis, I examine and translate the gōkan narrative, Ikazuchi tarō gōaku monogatari 雷太郎強悪物語 (Bunka 3 / 1806), written by Shikitei Sanba 式亭三馬 (Anei 安永 5 / 1776 – Bunsei 5 / 1822). Part One consists of an analysis of the structure and content. I examine the reaming copies and discuss Sanba’s writing techniques, as well as the interplay between the text and illustrations. Also, I examine the depiction of yūrei (ghosts), which play an important role in Gōaku monogatari. Part Two is an annotated translation of Gōaku monogatari. My goal is for readers to be able to understand the structure, features, and fictional narrative of Gōaku monogatari and then allow them to read the work in English.
Soziale Funktionen von Landwirtschaft - eine explorative Fallstudie in Norddeutschland
Creators: name: Nowack, Wiebke
name: Popp, Thies R.
name: Nowack, Wiebke
name: Popp, Thies R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community / Rural / Urban Development
subject: Multifunktionale Landwirtschaft
subject: Einkommensdiversifizierung
subject: soziale Funktionen

description: Ausgehend von dem Verständnis einer Multifunktionalen Landwirtschaft gehen wir der Frage nach, inwiefern landwirtschaftliche Betriebe soziale Funktionen erfüllen und damit zur Entwicklung ländlicher Räume beitragen (können). Ausgangspunkt unserer Analyse ist eine explorative Fallstudie in Norddeutschland. Wir arbeiten heraus, in welche Tätigkeitsfelder landwirtschaftliche Betriebe involviert sind und welche Rollen Landwirt/innen in Dorfgemeinschaften sowie regionalpolitischen Netzwerken einnehmen. Davon ausgehend analysieren wir, wie landwirtschaftliche Betriebe zur Erreichung ausgewählter Ziele der Regionalentwicklung beitragen und in diesem Sinne soziale Funktionen erfüllen.
Measuring the top-quark Yukawa coupling at hadron colliders via tth, h->WW
Creators: name: Maltoni, F.
name: Rainwater, D.
name: Willenbrock, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the signal and background for the process tth, h->WW at the LHC and a 100 TeV VLHC. Signals are studied in two-, three-, and four-lepton final states. We find a statistical uncertainty in the top-quark Yukawa coupling at the LHC of 16%, 8%, 12% for m_h = 130, 160, 190 GeV, respectively. The statistical uncertainty at the VLHC is likely to be negligible in comparison with the systematic uncertainty.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Pholcus linzhou Zhang & Zhang 2000
Creators: name: Zhang, Feng
name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pholcus
Pholcus linzhou

description: Pholcus linzhou Zhang & Zhang, 2000
(Fig. 25)
 Pholcus linzhou Zhang & Zhang 2000: 152, f. 2A–I.
 Diagnosis. This species, one of seven similar species (see remark P. henanensis), is very similar to P. mianshanensis sp. nov. in the shape of the epigynum, both with long whip-shaped apophysis (Figs. 25A and 16A). It differs from the latter by the shape of the tip of the procursus (Figs. 25G–H), and by the mountain range-shaped uncus (Fig. 25G).
 Redescription. Male (holotype) total length 5.0: cephalothorax 1.5 long, 1.8 wide; abdomen 3.5 long, 1.5 wide. Leg I: 36.1 (9.1+0.8+8.7+15.1+2.4), tibia II: 6.0, tibia III: 4.2, tibia IV: 6.1; tibia I L/D: 62. Prosoma shape as in Fig. 25C. Carapace short, broad and almost circular, ochre, with pair of brown marks broadly connecting to ocular area. Cephalic region raised, with brown central stripe, ocular area dark yellow. Clypeus 0.50, slightly ochre, without marks. Distance AME–AME 0.04. Diameter AME 0.09, ALE 0.14, PME 0.14, PLE 0.16. Chelicerae as in Fig. 25E, with pair of black apophyses distally and pair of unsclerotized thumbshaped apophyses proximolaterally. Labium and endites yellow. Sternum slightly ochre, with four pairs of yellow marginal marks and a central mark on it as in Fig. 25F. Femora, patellae and tibiae ochre, with dark rings, metatarsi and tarsi brown. Abdomen cylindrical, pale ochre, dorsum with many of brown spots on it as in Fig. 25C. Venter pale brown, without marks. Palps as in Figs. 25G and 25H, bulb with a mountain rangeshaped uncus and short appendix.
 Variation. Tibia I in 14 male paratypes (two males missing tibia I): 7.9–9.0 (mean 8.6). Body length in 16 males paratypes: 4.1–5.2.
Female: in general very similar to male. Total length of paratype bodies 4.6–5.5. A paratype measured, total length 5.3: cephalothorax 1.6 long, 1.5 wide; abdomen 3.7 long, 1.8 wide. Tibia I: 7.8. Clypeus 0.58 high. Epigynum roughly semicircular as in Fig. 25A, with a long whip-shaped apophysis on the top and a semicircular dark shadow centrally. Dorsal view as in Fig. 25B, with a mounded sclerotized arch anteriorly and a pair of oval pore plates.
 Distribution. Henan, Hebei.
 Material examined. CHINA: Henan, Linzhou City, Hongqi Canal, May 11, 1999, leg. F. Zhang, male holotype, 5♂, 3♀ paratypes (MHBU); Shibanyan, July 24, 2006, leg. B. S. Zhang, 5♀ (MHBU); Dengfeng County, Sanhuangzhai Scenic Spot, August 6, 2002, leg. J. Y. Yang, 3♂, 2♀ (MHBU). Hebei, Wu’an County, Liejiang Town, June 28, 1999, leg. F. Zhang, 11♂, 5♀ paratypes (MHBU).
description: Published as part of Zhang, Feng & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009, A review of the genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 2037 (1) on pages 50-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2235.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5317608
Lattice QCD at High Temperature and Density
Creators: name: Karsch, Frithjof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a brief introduction into basic aspects of the formulation of lattice regularized QCD at finite temperature and density we discuss our current understanding of the QCD phase diagram at finite temperature. We present results from lattice calculations that emphasize the deconfining as well as chiral symmetry restoring features of the QCD transition, and discuss the thermodynamics of the high temperature phase.
description: Lectures given at 40th Internationale Universitatswochen fuer Theoretische Physik: Dense Matter (IUKT 40), Schladming, Styria, Austria, 3-10 Mar 2001; corrected some typos
QCD in the heavy dense regime for general $N_c$: On the existence of quarkyonic matter
Creators: name: Philipsen, Owe
name: Scheunert, Jonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice QCD with heavy quarks reduces to a three-dimensional effective theory of Polyakov loops, which is amenable to series expansion methods. We analyse the effective theory in the cold and dense regime for a general number of colours, $N_c$. In particular, we investigate the transition from a hadron gas to baryon condensation. For any finite lattice spacing, we find the transition to become stronger, i.e. ultimately first-order, as $N_c$ is made large. Moreover, in the baryon condensed regime, we find the pressure to scale as $p\sim N_c$ through three orders in the hopping expansion. Such a phase differs from a hadron gas with $p\sim N_c^0$, or a quark gluon plasma, $p\sim N_c^2$, and was termed quarkyonic in the literature, since it shows both baryon-like and quark-like aspects. A lattice filling with baryon number shows a rapid and smooth transition from condensing baryons to a crystal of saturated quark matter, due to the Pauli principle, and is consistent with this picture. For continuum physics, the continuum limit needs to be taken before the large $N_c$ limit, which is not yet possible in practice. However, in the controlled range of lattice spacings and $N_c$-values, our results are stable when the limits are approached in this order. We discuss possible implications for physical QCD.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures; one figure and one reference added, reworded abstract and conclusions, version accepted for publication
B0-B0bar mixing
Creators: name: Schneider, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The subject of particle-antiparticle mixing in the neutral B meson systems is reviewed. The formalism of B0-B0bar mixing and basic Standard Model predictions are given, before experimental issues are discussed and the latest combinations of experimental results on mixing parameters are presented, including those on mixing-induced CP violation, mass differences, and decay-width differences. Finally, time-integrated mixing results are used to improve our knowledge on the fractions of the various b-hadron species produced at high energy colliders.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, to appear in 2002 edition of the ``Review of Particle Physics'' (minor text change)
The formation of subdwarf A-type stars
Creators: name: Yu, Jinlong
name: Li, Zhenwei
name: Zhu, Chunhua
name: Wang, Zhaojun
name: Liu, Helei
name: Guo, Sufen
name: Han, Zhanwen
name: Chen, Xuefei
name: Lü, Guoliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Subdwarf A-type stars (sdAs) are objects that have hydrogen-rich spectra with surface gravity similar to that of hot subdwarf stars but effective temperature below the zero-age horizontal branch (ZAHB). They are considered to be metal-poor main sequence (MS) stars or extremely low-mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs). In this work, using the stellar evolution code, Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), we investigate the sdAs formed both by the evolution of (pre-)ELM WDs in double degenerate systems (DDs) and metal-poor main sequence with the single evolution models. We find that both of the evolutionary tracks of ELM WDs and metal-poor MSs can explain the observation properties of sdAs. However, the proportion between these two populations are uncertain. In this work, we adopt the method of binary population synthesis of both ELM WDs in the disk and metal-poor MS in the halo to obtain the populations of ELM WDs and metal-poor MSs at different stellar population ages and calculate their proportions. We find that the proportion of metal-poor MSs to sdA population for a stellar population of 10 Gyr is $\sim$98.5 percent, which is consistent with the conclusion that most sdAs ($>$95 percent) are metal-poor MSs. And the proportion of ELM WDs (metal-poor MSs) to sdA population increases (decreases) from 0.1\% (99.9\%) to 20\% (80\%) with the stellar population ages from 5 to 13.7 Gyr.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table,Accepter for publication in ApJ
Grit and Second Language Acquisition: Can Passion and Perseverance Predict Performance in Japanese Language Learning?
Creators: name: Yamashita, Takuhiro
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018

description: This paper examines the relationship between grit and learners’ performance in Japanese language learning. Grit is one’s personality trait which is defined as “perseverance and passion for long-term goal” (Duckworth et al., 2007). The purpose of this quantitative study is to determine whether there were relationships between learners’ grit scores and their performance in two different types of Japanese language classrooms:teacher-centered beginning and intermediate Japanese language courses and student-centered Japanese extensive reading courses. Regarding the study of extensive reading courses, students’ subjective evaluation were used to observe their performance instead of an objective achievement test. There were 78 students who agreed to participate in total. Of all participants, 34 students were taking introductory level Japanese, 27 students were taking the intermediate level, and 17 students were taking a Japanese extensive reading course. The results revealed that participants’ grit scores did not appear to be related to their performance in the introductory language course. Interestingly, in the intermediate course, perseverance subscores of grit measured by the 10-item grit scale were negatively correlated with the students’ performance, with no connection apparent between their grades and grit scores. The results might be attributed to some external factors: such as the process of language learning and students’ academic majors. On the other hand, in the student-centered Japanese extensive reading course, some tendencies of positive correlation were seen between participants’ grit scores and the changes of their subjective evaluation between the beginning and the end of the semester. These findings suggest the possibility that individuals’ grit scores are related to their performance in different ways between teacher-centered and student-centered Japanese language learning.
Topological models in rotationally symmetric quasicrystals
Creators: name: Duncan, Callum W.
name: Manna, Sourav
name: Nielsen, Anne E. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the physics of quasicrystalline models in the presence of a uniform magnetic field, focusing on the presence and construction of topological states. This is done by using the Hofstadter model but with the sites and couplings denoted by the vertex model of the quasicrystal, giving the Hofstadter vertex model. We specifically consider two-dimensional quasicrystals made from tilings of two tiles with incommensurate areas, focusing on the five-fold Penrose and the eight-fold Ammann-Beenker tilings. This introduces two competing scales; the uniform magnetic field and the incommensurate scale of the cells of the tiling. Due to these competing scales the periodicity of the Hofstadter butterfly is destroyed. We observe the presence of topological edge states on the boundary of the system via the Bott index that exhibit two way transport along the edge. For the eight-fold tiling we also observe internal edge-like states with non-zero Bott index, which exhibit two way transport along this internal edge. The presence of these internal edge states is a new characteristic of quasicrystalline models in magnetic fields. We then move on to considering interacting systems. This is challenging, in part because exact diagonalization on a few tens of sites is not expected to be enough to accurately capture the physics of the quasicrystalline system, and in part because it is not clear how to construct topological flatbands having a large number of states. We show that these problems can be circumvented by building the models analytically, and in this way we construct models with Laughlin type fractional quantum Hall ground states.
description: 13 pages, 16 figures, published PRB
Lagrangian-Hamiltonian unified formalism for field theory
Creators: name: Echeverría-Enríquez, A.
name: López, C.
name: Marín-Solano, J.
name: Muñoz-Lecanda, M. C.
name: Román-Roy, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51P05, 53C05, 53C80, 55R10, 58A20, 58A30, 70S05

description: The Rusk-Skinner formalism was developed in order to give a geometrical unified formalism for describing mechanical systems. It incorporates all the characteristics of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian descriptions of these systems (including dynamical equations and solutions, constraints, Legendre map, evolution operators, equivalence, etc.). In this work we extend this unified framework to first-order classical field theories, and show how this description comprises the main features of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms, both for the regular and singular cases. This formulation is a first step toward further applications in optimal control theory for PDE's.
description: LaTeX file, 23 pages. Minor changes have been made. References are updated
A master equation approach to option pricing
Creators: name: Faller, Daniel
name: Petruccione, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A master equation approach to the numerical solution of option pricing models is developed. The basic idea of the approach is to consider the Black--Scholes equation as the macroscopic equation of an underlying mesoscopic stochastic option price variable. The dynamics of the latter is constructed and formulated in terms of a master equation. The numerical efficiency of the approach is demonstrated by means of stochastic simulation of the mesoscopic process for both European and American options.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Physica A
RPM-Oriented Query Rewriting Framework for E-commerce Keyword-Based Sponsored Search
Creators: name: Chen, Xiuying
name: Xiao, Daorui
name: Gao, Shen
name: Liu, Guojun
name: Lin, Wei
name: Zheng, Bo
name: Zhao, Dongyan
name: Yan, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sponsored search optimizes revenue and relevance, which is estimated by Revenue Per Mille (RPM). Existing sponsored search models are all based on traditional statistical models, which have poor RPM performance when queries follow a heavy-tailed distribution. Here, we propose an RPM-oriented Query Rewriting Framework (RQRF) which outputs related bid keywords that can yield high RPM. RQRF embeds both queries and bid keywords to vectors in the same implicit space, converting the rewriting probability between each query and keyword to the distance between the two vectors. For label construction, we propose an RPM-oriented sample construction method, labeling keywords based on whether or not they can lead to high RPM. Extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate performance of RQRF. In a one month large-scale real-world traffic of e-commerce sponsored search system, the proposed model significantly outperforms traditional baseline.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures
title: Lehrerbildung@LMU, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (2021): Lehrerbildung@LMU
title: Lehrerbildung@LMU
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lehrerbildung@LMU
Publisher: name: Lehrerbildung@LMU
Year: 2021

description: Biologie macht SchulePLUS und BIOTOPIA Dawn Chorus – Ein Citizen Science & Arts-Projekt zum weltweiten Vogelgesang...1-12
MOESM2 of Mathematical modelling for health systems research: a systematic review of system dynamics and agent-based models
Creators: name: Cassidy, Rachel
name: Singh, Neha
name: Pierre-RaphaÃ«L Schiratti
name: Semwanga, Agnes
name: Binyaruka, Peter
name: Nkenda Sachingongu
name: Chitalu Chama-Chiliba
name: Chalabi, Zaid
name: Borghi, Josephine
name: Blanchet, Karl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2. Descriptive table of validation methods used in SDM and ABM literature.
Millimeter Wave Indium Phosphide Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors: Noise Performance and Circuit Applications
Creators: name: ayata, metin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: The performance of III-V heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) has improved significantly over the past two decades. Today’s state of the art Indium Phosphide (InP) HBTs have a maximum frequency of oscillation greater than 800 GHz and have been used to realize an amplifier operating above 600 GHz . In comparison to silicon (Si) based devices, III-V HBTs have superior transport properties that enables a higher gain, higher speed, and noise performance, and much higher Johnson figure- of-merit . From this perspective, the InP HBT is one of the most promising candidates for high performance mixed signal electronic systems.