cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An empirical comparison of different risk measures in portfolio optimization
Creators: name: Hoe, Lam Weng
name: Saiful Hafizah, Jaaman
name: Zaidi, Isa
name: Hoe, Lam Weng
name: Saiful Hafizah, Jaaman
name: Zaidi, Isa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Portfolio
subject: optimization
subject: risk measures
subject: variance.

description: Risk is one of the important parameters in portfolio optimization problem. Since the introduction of the mean-variance model, variance has become the most common risk measure used by practitioners and researchers in portfolio optimization. However, the mean-variance model relies strictly on the assumptions that assets returns are multivariate normally distributed or investors have a quadratic utility function. Many studies have proposed different risk measures to overcome the drawbacks of variance. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and compare the portfolio compositions and performances of four different portfolio optimization models employing different risk measures, specifically the variance, absolute deviation, minimax and semi-variance. Results of this study show that the minimax model outperforms the other models. The minimax model is appropriate for investors who have a strong downside risk aversion.
The Canonical Interval Forest (CIF) Classifier for Time Series Classification
Creators: name: Middlehurst, Matthew
name: Large, James
name: Bagnall, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Time series classification (TSC) is home to a number of algorithm groups that utilise different kinds of discriminatory patterns. One of these groups describes classifiers that predict using phase dependant intervals. The time series forest (TSF) classifier is one of the most well known interval methods, and has demonstrated strong performance as well as relative speed in training and predictions. However, recent advances in other approaches have left TSF behind. TSF originally summarises intervals using three simple summary statistics. The `catch22' feature set of 22 time series features was recently proposed to aid time series analysis through a concise set of diverse and informative descriptive characteristics. We propose combining TSF and catch22 to form a new classifier, the Canonical Interval Forest (CIF). We outline additional enhancements to the training procedure, and extend the classifier to include multivariate classification capabilities. We demonstrate a large and significant improvement in accuracy over both TSF and catch22, and show it to be on par with top performers from other algorithmic classes. By upgrading the interval-based component from TSF to CIF, we also demonstrate a significant improvement in the hierarchical vote collective of transformation-based ensembles (HIVE-COTE) that combines different time series representations. HIVE-COTE using CIF is significantly more accurate on the UCR archive than any other classifier we are aware of and represents a new state of the art for TSC.
Additional file 3 of Testing for causality between systematically identified risk factors and glioma: a Mendelian randomization study
Creators: name: A. E. Howell
name: J. W. Robinson
name: R. E. Wootton
name: A. McAleenan
name: S. Tsavachidis
name: Q. T. Ostrom
name: M. Bondy
name: G. Armstrong
name: C. Relton
name: P. Haycock
name: R. M. Martin
name: J. Zheng
name: K. M. Kurian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3.
The MSW effect and Matter Effects in Neutrino Oscillations
Creators: name: Smirnov, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The MSW (Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein) effect is the adiabatic or partially adiabatic neutrino flavor conversion in medium with varying density. The main notions related to the effect, its dynamics and physical picture are reviewed. The large mixing MSW effect is realized inside the Sun providing the solution of the solar neutrino problem. The small mixing MSW effect driven by the 1-3 mixing can be realized for the supernova (SN) neutrinos. Inside the collapsing stars new elements of the MSW dynamics may show up: the non-oscillatory transition, non-adiabatic conversion, time dependent adiabaticity violation induced by shock waves. Effects of the resonance enhancement and the parametric enhancement of oscillations can be realized for the atmospheric and accelerator neutrinos in the Earth. Precise results for neutrino oscillations in the low density medium with arbitrary density profile are presented and the attenuation effect is described. The area of applications is the solar and SN neutrinos inside the Earth, and the results are crucial for the neutrino oscillation tomography.
description: 18 pages, latex, 6 figures, talk given at the Nobel Symposium 129, ``Neutrino Physics'', Haga Slott, August 19 - 24, 2004
Drell-Yan $q_T$ Resummation of Fiducial Power Corrections at N$^3$LL
Creators: name: Ebert, Markus A.
name: Michel, Johannes K. L.
name: Stewart, Iain W.
name: Tackmann, Frank J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider Drell-Yan production $pp\to V^* X \to L X$ at small $q_T \ll Q$. Experimental measurements require fiducial cuts on the leptonic state $L$, which introduce enhanced, linear power corrections in $q_T/Q$. We show that they can be unambiguously predicted from factorization, and resummed to the same order as the leading-power contribution. We thus obtain predictions for the fiducial $q_T$ spectrum to N3LL and next-to-leading-power in $q_T/Q$. Matching to full NNLO ($α_s^2$), we find that the linear power corrections are indeed the dominant ones, and the remaining fixed-order corrections become almost negligible below $q_T \lesssim 40$ GeV. We also discuss the implications for more complicated observables, and provide predictions for the fiducial $ϕ^*$ spectrum at N3LL+NNLO. We find excellent agreement with ATLAS and CMS measurements of $q_T$ and $ϕ^*$. We also consider the $p_T^\ell$ spectrum. We show that it develops leptonic power corrections in $q_T/(Q - 2p_T^\ell)$, which diverge near the Jacobian peak $p_T^\ell \sim Q/2$ and must be kept to all powers to obtain a meaningful result there. Doing so, we obtain for the first time an analytically resummed result for the $p_T^\ell$ spectrum around the Jacobian peak at N3LL+NNLO. Our method is based on performing a complete tensor decomposition for hadronic and leptonic tensors. In practice this is equivalent to often-used recoil prescriptions, for which our results now provide rigorous, formal justification. Our tensor decomposition yields nine Lorentz-scalar hadronic structure functions, which directly map onto the commonly used angular coefficients, but also holds for arbitrary leptonic final states. In particular, for suitably defined Born-projected leptons it still yields a LO-like angular decomposition even when including QED final-state radiation. We also discuss the application to $q_T$ subtractions.
description: 81 pages + appendices, beautiful figures [abstract abridged]; v2: more beautiful figures (illustration of Born lepton projection, comparisons to normalized CMS spectra); v3: journal version (added figure with uncertainty breakdown)
MPEC 2024-T301 : 2021 TO57
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Blind Mask to Improve Intelligibility of Non-Stationary Noisy Speech
Creators: name: Farias, F.
name: Coelho, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This letter proposes a novel blind acoustic mask (BAM) designed to adaptively detect noise components and preserve target speech segments in time-domain. A robust standard deviation estimator is applied to the non-stationary noisy speech to identify noise masking elements. The main contribution of the proposed solution is the use of this noise statistics to derive an adaptive information to define and select samples with lower noise proportion. Thus, preserving speech intelligibility. Additionally, no information of the target speech and noise signals statistics is previously required to this non-ideal mask. The BAM and three competitive methods, Ideal Binary Mask (IBM), Target Binary Mask (TBM), and Non-stationary Noise Estimation for Speech Enhancement (NNESE), are evaluated considering speech signals corrupted by three non-stationary acoustic noises and six values of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Results demonstrate that the BAM technique achieves intelligibility gains comparable to ideal masks while maintaining good speech quality.
description: 5 Pages, 5 Figures, 3 Tables
Greenhouse emissions and economic recessions: Did industrial economies “Stay Cool” during the 1930s economic crisis?
Creators: name: Giedraitis, Vincentas Rolandas
name: Girdenas, Sarunas
name: Rovas, Adomas
name: Giedraitis, Vincentas Rolandas
name: Girdenas, Sarunas
name: Rovas, Adomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Historical economic sociology
subject: Kondratiev wave theory
subject: World-systems analysis
subject: economic crises
subject: global climate change

description: In this historical economic interdisciplinary research we investigate the impact of the 1930s economic crisis and their relationship to global warming. We investigate two consecutive hegemonic powers: the United Kingdom and the United States. Our assumption was that a reduction in demand would lead to a decrease in mean global temperatures during depressions. We find that in fact reduced carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from lowered production does not result in cooling temperatures.
The higher-order C_n dispersion coefficients for hydrogen
Creators: name: Mitroy, J.
name: Bromley, M. W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complete set of 2nd, 3rd and 4th order van der Waals coefficients, C_n up to n=32 for the H(1s)-H(1s) dimer are computed using pseudo-states to evaluate the appropriate sum rules. A study of the convergence pattern for n<=16 indicates that all the C_n (n<=16) coefficients are accurate to 13 significant digits. The relative size of the 4th-order C^4_n to the 2nd-order C^2_n coefficients is seen to increase as n increases and at n=32 the 4th-order term is actually larger.
description: 5 pages under review PRA
A small nation’s comparative advantage: The case of Latvia
Creators: name: Fedotovs, Aleksandrs
name: Fedotovs, Aleksandrs
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Сomparative advantage
subject: competitive advantage
subject: wood exports
subject: EU
subject: economy of Latvia.

description: Problem of comparative advantage in international trade is important in theoretical and practical aspect. Theoretical models in this area are periodically re-examined in search for empirical evidence. The aim of the paper is to verify the two fundamental theories in the case of a small European country - Latvia - and disclose problems in the country’s trade specialization. In Latvia’s trade with “old” EU countries, the Ricardian model and the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem can be corroborated. After 2000, however, share of EU-15 countries in Latvia’s exports steadily declines. Instead, share of regional (Baltic) market increases, while the potential of CIS markets remains underexploited. Problem of identifying new areas of comparative advantage has become especially acute for Latvia. Latvia still can be considered a country with educated and easily teachable labour. Threat to this advantage is caused now by labour emigration and by situation in the country’s science and educational system. Research is based upon application of traditional theory, analysis of official editions, comparison of statistical data, and author’s own calculations.
Electromagnetic radiation due to naked singularity formation in self-similar gravitational collapse
Creators: name: Mitsuda, Eiji
name: Yoshino, Hirotaka
name: Tomimatsu, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical evolution of test fields in background geometry with a naked singularity is an important problem relevant to the Cauchy horizon instability and the observational signatures different from black hole formation. In this paper we study electromagnetic perturbations generated by a given current distribution in collapsing matter under a spherically symmetric self-similar background. Using the Green's function method, we construct the formula to evaluate the outgoing energy flux observed at the future null infinity. The contributions from "quasi-normal" modes of the self-similar system as well as "high-frequency" waves are clarified. We find a characteristic power-law time evolution of the outgoing energy flux which appears just before naked singularity formation, and give the criteria as to whether or not the outgoing energy flux diverges at the future Cauchy horizon.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, references added to match the published version
Injective Hulls of Quantale-Enriched Multicategories
Creators: name: Martinelli, Eros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this communication we generalize some recent results of Rump to categories enriched in a commutative quantale V. Using these results, we show that every quantale-enriched multicategory admits an injective hull. Finally, we expose a connection between the Isbell adjunction and the construction of injective hulls for topological spaces made by Banaschewski in 1973.
description: 42 pages, Appl Categor Struct (2021)
title: Leveraging large-scale behavioural change interventions using social norms, civic culture, and installations. An analysis of classic interventions and new experiments to tackle social challenges
Creators: name: Yamin-Slotkus, Paulius
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2020

description: This thesis explores how interventions based on changing social norms can transform the behaviour of people and contribute to tackle social and policy challenges in real-world contexts. Specifically, it focuses on how a policy experience that had important and enduring effects in a large city (the civic culture interventions of Antanas Mockus in Bogotá, Colombia), could inform the application of more effective and sustainable interventions than those that are typically applied in the academic literature. To do this, three studies were conducted to explore (i) the intervention strategies and mechanisms that social norm interventions apply to achieve behavioural change (through a systematic review of over 90 field studies), (ii) the narratives through which different policy actors interpret and disseminate intervention messages (through narratives from citizens, the press and designers about Mockus’ most iconic intervention), and (iii) the way in which interventions that leverage social norms can reconfigure the physical, psychological and social layers of local installations (through two long-term experimental interventions to change driving behaviours among truck drivers). While typical social norm interventions in the academic literature tend to use easy-to-implement one-size-fits-all mechanisms (based mostly on giving group summary information to students remotely), our results illustrate the need and the potential of applying social norm interventions that: - Use strategically a wider range of intervention mechanisms that are closer to where behaviour actually happens and leverage social interactions - Reconfigure the local physical, psychological, and social determinants of behaviour in a way that is tailored to the target contexts and behaviours, creating collective selfreflections on participants and giving them tools for social regulation and change - Create engaging narratives around the behaviours and social expectations that must change, reframing social challenges and the agency of different actors around them Our findings offer indications of a valuable and cost-effective approach to behavioural and social norm change that promotes collective reflection, engagement and action (rather than boring instructions, prohibitions, punishments or automatic nudging), and that thus has a higher potential of achieving enduring large-scale transformations in complex challenges than other approaches that are common in policy and organizational settings. By offering insights into the orientation and practical techniques of these interventions, as well as discussing implications for both researchers and practitioners, we hope to inform more effective and sustainable interventions to tackle social challenges in the real world.
Additional file 1 of A transient CRISPR/Cas9 expression system for genome editing in Trypanosoma brucei
Creators: name: Shaw, Sebastian
name: Knüsel, Sebastian
name: Hoenner, Sarah
name: Roditi, Isabel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Validation of knockout (KO) clones. A+B Trypanin-KO (Tb427.10.6350). A Clonal selection of stable transformants in 24-well plates. Dilutions from transfected pool cultures and number of cells seeded are indicated. Circles depict wells containing cells with successful (green filled circle) or unsuccessful (○) genome editing. B Assessment of editing by genotyping PCR and agarose gel electrophoresis. Genes amplified from genomic DNA and target loci are indicated. Lanes corresponding to validated KO clones are marked with green circles. C+D GPI8-KO (Tb427.10.13860) in a cell line allowing inducible expression of an ectopic copy of GPI8. C as in A. D as in B. E List of primers used for genotyping PCRs of Trypanin-KO (left panels) and GPI8-KO (right panels).
Men & women and tools : reflections on male resistance to women in trades and technology
Creators: name: Braundy, Marcia Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Men & Women and Tools is an exploratory study, where new knowledge is created in the interplay of voices: narratives of lived experience, a data play of participants' voices, research and exposition in the literature, and the space between the audience and the text. Male and female workers, equity consultants and advocates discussed male resistance to women in trades and technology. In one interview with trades workers an explicit clarity emerged, provoking an emotional understanding of the issues. That interview became a fifteen minute data play, creating a mirror where, in a moment of reflection, individual audience members can choose whether to continue the constructions of gender they find. Most of the words, thoughts, and sentiments found in the play are direct quotes from the interview. Reflecting on their experience integrating women on their worksites, those interviewed poignantly demonstrated the struggles facing men and women in a society that constructs and limits their vocational and emotional relationships, while embedding expectations regarding their contributions to society. They exposed their own fears, and concerns. But also interwoven was a construction of women and their place in these men's interpretation of the social order. The notions of patriarchal masculinity were overpoweringly present. The interview resonated with my own experience as a trades worker. It struck cords with equity interventions undertaken with both men and women to change the social construct of gender and work. The voices embodied and echoed hegemonic struggles in contention for the past 250 years. Performed at the Brave New Play Rites Festival at UBC, Men & Women and Tools was digitally videotaped and edited. The artefact, a performative authoethnography, is a personification of a social reality. Interweaving scholarly voices naming the historical, sociological and cultural roots of gendered practices with the voices from the play, this dissertation illustrates the ways that social reality is constructed and reconstituted in the cultures, practices and motivations of society, and how the resistance has emerged. The research findings are embodied: a reflection, a provocation, a pedagogical tool to be used in schools and union halls to interfere in the mechanisms of gender relations in the 21st century.
Analytic discs, plurisubharmonic hulls, and non-compactness of the d-bar-Neumann operator
Creators: name: Sahutoglu, Sonmez
name: Straube, Emil J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32W05

description: We show that a complex manifold M in the boundary of a smooth bounded pseudoconvex domain in C^n is an obstruction to compactness of the d-bar-Neumann operator on the domain, provided that at some point of M, the Levi form has the maximal possible rank n-1-dim(M) (i.e. the domain is strictly pseudoconvex in the directions transverse to M). In particular, an analytic disc is an obstruction, provided that at some point of the disc, the Levi form has only one zero eigenvalue. We also show that a boundary point where the Levi form has only one zero eigenvalue can be picked up by the plurisubharmonic hull of a set only via an analytic disc in the boundary.
description: 10 pages
Tows Matrix Analysis on Developing Urban Agriculture in the Pearl River Delta Area
Creators: name: Wang, Cheng-Yong
name: Wang, Cheng-Yong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Pearl River Delta area
subject: Urban agriculture
subject: SWOT analysis
subject: China

description: Based on the introduction of the profile of Pearl River Delta area, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of developing urban agriculture in Pearl River Delta area are analyzed by using the SWOT analysis. The strengths are analyzed from three aspects, covering the natural resources, geographic advantages and technological advantages; the weaknesses are analyzed from the terms of land resources, labor cost, industrial scale and quality of personnel involved; opportunities are analyzed from the aspects of potential clients, favorable policies and markets; the threats are analyzed from two aspects, including concept factor and income gap between urban and rural areas. on the basis of the above analyses, the countermeasures and suggestions on the development of urban agriculture in the Pearl River Delta area are put forward.
Mars [Uncorrected] Equation in Longitude by Toomer (Gerald J.) (1984) | Type-B (ID n° 363)
Creators: name: Toomer, Gerald J.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: Astronomy
Medieval history

description: This is a type B edition: A type-B edition corresponds to a critical edition of several table witnesses:
 it is based on several different editions, themselves based on tables from different primary sources.
 A type-B edition can be based on type-A, type-B or type-C editions.
You can find it on the DISHAS project website from this link: https://dishas.obspm.fr/table-edition/363
description: Source: Ptolemy's Almagest, Toomer (Gerald J.), 1984
Electrostatic Equilibria on the Unit Circle via Jacobi Polynomials
Creators: name: Johnson, Kev
name: Simanek, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We use classical Jacobi polynomials to identify the equilibrium configurations of charged particles confined to the unit circle. Our main result unifies two theorems from a 1986 paper of Forrester and Rogers.
description: 8 pages
Thermodynamics of MHD flows with axial symmetry
Creators: name: Leprovost, Nicolas
name: Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
name: Dubrulle, Berengere
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present strategies based upon extremization principles, in the case of the axisymmetric equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We study the equilibrium shape by using a minimum energy principle under the constraints of the MHD axisymmetric equations. We also propose a numerical algorithm based on a maximum energy dissipation principle to compute in a consistent way the equilibrium states. Then, we develop the statistical mechanics of such flows and recover the same equilibrium states giving a justification of the minimum energy principle. We find that fluctuations obey a Gaussian shape and we make the link between the conservation of the Casimirs on the coarse-grained scale and the process of energy dissipation.
Changes of the Scale and Structure of Agricultural Laborer and Their Impacts on Food Production --- Empirical study on YinshanPo Village，Suizhou City
Creators: name: Huang, Li-Min
name: Peng, Da-Lei
name: Liu, Cheng-Wu
name: Yu, Peng
name: Huang, Li-Min
name: Peng, Da-Lei
name: Liu, Cheng-Wu
name: Yu, Peng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural laborers
subject: Peasant household
subject: Food production
subject: Yinshanpo Village
subject: China

description: On the strength of expounding the general situation of study area and the status quo of agricultural laborers in China, the changes of the scale and structure of them from 1985 to 2009 are analyzed by relying on the survey from farmers and statistical data from the government. The causes of these changes are analyzed from the aspects of rural farmland policy，birth-control policy, farmland marginalization and industrialization. Based on the study on the causes, the impacts of the changes on food production are analyzed from operation scale of household, the grain cropping area, the multi-cropping index and land productivity. The results show that the quality of agricultural laborers is decreasing form 1985 to 2009, which is characterized by the lack of middle-aged agricultural laborers and the aging of agricultural laborers. The causes of the changes include farmland policy, birth-control policy, farmland marginalization and urbanization. The shrinkage of agricultural laborers has grave effect on the multiple-cropping index. In addition, the land productivity is comprehensively affected by the scale and structure of agricultural laborers.
When abortion delivers voice
Creators: name: Arsenault, Danielle Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This hermeneutical study speaks and remembers - as in the Spanish recordar, to pass back through the heart - the qualitative experience of my abortion, and attempts to reveal the shifting nature of what it has come to mean. Rather than assert a certain moral, political, or legal stance, this work concerns itself with voicing what is ambiguous and discordant. It searches for what is often lost between the highly charged and oppositional poles of the pro-choice and pro-life debate. Through the heuristic and organic practice of narrative inquiry, this work explores writing as a way of coming to know, and delves into writing self, rather than writing about self. It enacts van Manen's notion of writing as self-making or forming (1998), and Cixous' notion of getting to know things by letting ourselves be known by them (1991). The work's fragmentary and poetic texts emerged from an intensive two-year period of reading, writing, and conversation immediately following my abortion, and from a series of collaborative working interviews with my partner, an abortion counsellor, and a friend. Though primarily autobiographical, the text embodies many layered voices, as well as poetry's ability to speak the ineffable. At its root, this lived-inquiry enters the complexity of my abortion, and follows the movement toward voice my writing delivered.
A Sparse and Locally Coherent Morphable Face Model for Dense Semantic Correspondence Across Heterogeneous 3D Faces
Creators: name: Ferrari, Claudio
name: Berretti, Stefano
name: Pala, Pietro
name: Del Bimbo, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The 3D Morphable Model (3DMM) is a powerful statistical tool for representing 3D face shapes. To build a 3DMM, a training set of face scans in full point-to-point correspondence is required, and its modeling capabilities directly depend on the variability contained in the training data. Thus, to increase the descriptive power of the 3DMM, establishing a dense correspondence across heterogeneous scans with sufficient diversity in terms of identities, ethnicities, or expressions becomes essential. In this manuscript, we present a fully automatic approach that leverages a 3DMM to transfer its dense semantic annotation across raw 3D faces, establishing a dense correspondence between them. We propose a novel formulation to learn a set of sparse deformation components with local support on the face that, together with an original non-rigid deformation algorithm, allow the 3DMM to precisely fit unseen faces and transfer its semantic annotation. We extensively experimented our approach, showing it can effectively generalize to highly diverse samples and accurately establish a dense correspondence even in presence of complex facial expressions. The accuracy of the dense registration is demonstrated by building a heterogeneous, large-scale 3DMM from more than 9,000 fully registered scans obtained by joining three large datasets together.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Social Security of Farmers Who Lose Their Land in Urban Demolition—A case of Hedong Village, Chengzhong District，Liuzhou City
Creators: name: He, Ling-Ling
name: Lu, Yong-Ming
name: He, Ling-Ling
name: Lu, Yong-Ming
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Land-losing peasants
subject: Social security
subject: Urban demolition
subject: Hedong Village of Liuzhou
subject: China

description: Based on the survey of peasants from 40 households who are chosen at random and have lost their land in the Hedong Village of Liuzhou, the status quo of land expropriation and social security of land-losing peasants are expounded. The social security problems of peasants in urban demolition and peasants’ desperate demands are analyzed as follows. For example, the Main problems after the peasants losing their lands cover the substandard of resettlement, which can not maintain the former living standard; the source of income has changed and the relevant security mechanism has not been established; the peasants who have lost their lands are in desperate need of more stable jobs and stable income. In view of the current situation, the countermeasures and suggestions for establishing social security mechanism for peasants who have lost their land are put forward. The measures cover establishing the subsistence allowances for land-losing peasants; establishing the guarantee system for aged people; building medical care system; providing employment and training opportunity, trying to increase the channels of employment for farmers and fostering the employment security system for peasants who have lost their land.
Power loss in open cavity diodes and a modified Child Langmuir Law
Creators: name: Biswas, Debabrata
name: Kumar, Raghwendra
name: Puri, R. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diodes used in most high power devices are inherently open. It is shown that under such circumstances, there is a loss of electromagnetic radiation leading to a lower critical current as compared to closed diodes. The power loss can be incorporated in the standard Child-Langmuir framework by introducing an effective potential. The modified Child-Langmuir law can be used to predict the maximum power loss for a given plate separation and potential difference as well as the maximum transmitted current for this power loss. The effectiveness of the theory is tested numerically.
description: revtex4, 11 figures
Additional file 2 of PCR-based screening, isolation, and partial characterization of motile lactobacilli from various animal feces
Creators: name: Shunya Suzuki
name: Fujita, Koki
name: Maeno, Shintaro
name: Yuh Shiwa
name: Endo, Akihito
name: Yokota, Kenji
name: Shizunobu Igimi
name: Kajikawa, Akinobu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2 Carbohydrate utilization of L. agilis isolates.
Characterisation of Grasp Quality Metrics
Creators: name: Carlos Rubert
name: Beatriz León
name: Antonio Morales
name: Joaquín Sancho-Bru
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2017

description: Robot grasp quality metrics are used to evaluate, compare and select robotic grasp configurations. Many of them have been proposed based on a diversity of underlying principles and to assess different aspects of the grasp configurations. As a consequence, some of them provide similar information but other can provide completely different assessments. Combinations of metrics have been proposed in order to provide global indexes, but these attempts have shown the difficulties of merging metrics with different numerical ranges and even physical units. All these studies have raised the need of a deeper knowledge in order to determine independent grasp quality metrics which enable a global assessment of a grasp, and a way to combine them. This paper presents an exhaustive study in order to provide numerical evidence for these issues. Ten quality metrics are used to evaluate a set of grasps planned by a simulator for 7 different robot hands over a set of 126 object models. Three statistical analysis, namely, variability, correlation and sensitivity, are performed over this extensive database. Results and graphs presented allow to set practical thresholds for each quality metric, select independent metrics, and determine the robustness of each metric,providing a reliability indicator under pose uncertainty. The results from this paper are intended to serve as guidance for practical use of quality metrics by researchers on grasp planning algorithms.
Asymptotics in randomized urn models
Creators: name: Bai, Zhi-Dong
name: Hu, Feifang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62E20, 62L05 (Primary) 62F12. (Secondary)

description: This paper studies a very general urn model stimulated by designs in clinical trials, where the number of balls of different types added to the urn at trial n depends on a random outcome directed by the composition at trials 1,2,...,n-1. Patient treatments are allocated according to types of balls. We establish the strong consistency and asymptotic normality for both the urn composition and the patient allocation under general assumptions on random generating matrices which determine how balls are added to the urn. Also we obtain explicit forms of the asymptotic variance-covariance matrices of both the urn composition and the patient allocation. The conditions on the nonhomogeneity of generating matrices are mild and widely satisfied in applications. Several applications are also discussed.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051604000000774 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Governments’ Path Selection of Promoting Rural Information Development——From the Perspectives of Social Capital Theory
Creators: name: Luo, Zhang
name: Wang, Tao
name: Luo, Zhang
name: Wang, Tao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural information platforms
subject: Rural information
subject: Government
subject: Social capital
subject: China

description: In introduction of the connoted meaning of rural information and its important role in the development of modern agriculture in our country and the development of urban and rural areas, the paper analyzes the difficulties in information construction: the first is the inadequate attendance of farmers, the low efficiency of information platform use; the second is the backward construction of information sources, which cannot meet the practical needs of information by farmers; the third is the bad situation of information exchanging. From perspective of social capital, it discusses the roles social capital factors playing in the rural information construction, among which, the information relations between farmers and information is the basis; net attendance is the necessary condition of sustainable development of rural information construction; customs afford management resources in rural information construction. Based on the above materials, the paper put forward that it is the government who must accelerate the construction of rural information: the first is planting technical net in rural credit systems, accelerating the admission and supporting of farmers to information construction; the second is to strengthen the exchanging abilities among information platforms, upgrading the attendance degrees of farmers in rural information construction; the third is to introduce and make use of the management power of rural customs to complete an information management norm.
Carnet nº 4, commencé à Novorossiïsk (p. 50)
Creators: name: Péraire, Lucien
name: CNRS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: created: 4-5-1929
Lyapunov functions for fractional-order systems in biology: methods and applications
Creators: name: Boukhouima, Adnane
name: Hattaf, Khalid
name: Lotfi, El Mehdi
name: Mahrouf, Marouane
name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
name: Yousfi, Noura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 34A08, 37B25, 92B05

description: We prove new estimates of the Caputo derivative of order $α\in (0,1]$ for some specific functions. The estimations are shown useful to construct Lyapunov functions for systems of fractional differential equations in biology, based on those known for ordinary differential equations, and therefore useful to determine the global stability of the equilibrium points for fractional systems. To illustrate the usefulness of our theoretical results, a fractional HIV population model and a fractional cellular model are studied. More precisely, we construct suitable Lyapunov functionals to demonstrate the global stability of the free and endemic equilibriums, for both fractional models, and we also perform some numerical simulations that confirm our choices.
description: This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form is published in 'Chaos, Solitons & Fractals', available at [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110224]. Submitted 25-May-2020; Revised 25-July-2020; Accepted 19-August-2020
Analysis on the Offside and Vacancy in the Administration of the Village Party Branch and the Villagers' Committee Sichuan Province ---- Based on Villagers’ Autonomy
Creators: name: Tao, Yan-Yan
name: Qin, Zi-Qiang
name: Pan, Kun
name: Tao, Yan-Yan
name: Qin, Zi-Qiang
name: Pan, Kun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Two committees in village
subject: offside of administration
subject: vacancy of administration
subject: villagers’ autonomy
subject: China

description: In the paper, the researches on the administration scope, the leadership style of the village party branch, the core status of village party branch and the autonomy of villagers’ committee are expounded. On the basis of the empirical investigation of countryside in Sichuan Province, the offside and vacancy of the administration of the “two committees in village” in the villagers’ autonomy are studied tentatively. The results show that the offside and vacancy of the “two committees in village” can be divided into three types, covering the village party branch- dominated, the villagers’ committee- dominated type and the antagonism of the two village committees. The reasons for the offside and vacancy of administration of the “two committees in village” are analyzed, including the fragility of the two committees of the village; the imbalanced power sources of the two committees of the village; the imbalance of the competition for interests of the two committees and the negative effects of traditional politics and culture. The countermeasures are put forward, for example, reinforcing the system construction of rural grassroots organizations; expanding the democratic election modes such as “two-vote system ” and “selecting one from the two recommended”; establishing the coordinative and supervisory mechanisms between the two committees in the village and introducing into college-graduate village officials to improve the quality of rural cadres.
Additional file 1 of PCR-based screening, isolation, and partial characterization of motile lactobacilli from various animal feces
Creators: name: Shunya Suzuki
name: Fujita, Koki
name: Maeno, Shintaro
name: Yuh Shiwa
name: Endo, Akihito
name: Yokota, Kenji
name: Shizunobu Igimi
name: Kajikawa, Akinobu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. ANI values obtained for the tested strains.
Construction of the Classification and Grading Index System of Cultivated Land Based on the Viewpoint of Sustainable Development
Creators: name: Cui, Qian
name: Wu, Yu-Ling
name: Li, Qing
name: Cui, Qian
name: Wu, Yu-Ling
name: Li, Qing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Classification and grading of cultivated land
subject: Index system
subject: Sustainable development
subject: China

description: In order to objectively and reasonably evaluate the actual and potential value of cultivated land, both social and ecological values are introduced into the classification and grading index system of cultivated land based on the viewpoint of sustainable development, after considering the natural and economic values of cultivated land. Index system construction of the sustainable utilization of cultivated land should follow the principles of economic viability, social acceptability, and ecological protection. Classification of cultivated land should take into account the soil fertility of cultivated land. Then, grading of cultivated land is carried out from the practical productivity (or potential productivity) of cultivated land. According to the existing classification index system of cultivated land, the soil, natural and environmental factors in plains, mountains and hills are mainly modified in the classification index system of cultivated land. And index systems for the cultivated land classification in plains, mountains and hills are set up. The grading index system of cultivated land is established based on the economic viability (economic value), social acceptability (social value) and protection of cultivated land (ecological value). Quantitative expression of cultivated land grading index is also carried out.
Star formation in outer rings of S0 galaxies. III. UGC 5936 -- an S0 with currently accreted satellite matter
Creators: name: Sil'chenko, Olga
name: Moiseev, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Though S0 galaxies are usually thought to be `red and dead', they demonstrate often star formation organized in ring structures. We try to clarify the nature of this phenomenon and its difference from star formation in spiral galaxies. The luminous S0 galaxy with a large ring, UGC 5936, is studied here. By applying long-slit spectroscopy along the major axis of UGC 5936, we have measured gas and star kinematics, Lick indices for the main body of the galaxy, and strong emission-line flux ratios in the ring. After inspecting the gas excitation in the ring using line ratios diagnostic diagrams and having ensured that it is ionized mostly by young stars, we have determined the gas oxygen abundance by using popular strong-line methods. Also we have proved the spatial proximity of the south-eastern dwarf satellite to UGC 5936 and have measured its gas metallicity. The ionized gas of the ring is excited by young stars and has solar metallicity. Star formation in the ring is rather prolonged, and its intensity corresponds to the current HI content of UGC 5936 (to the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation). The whole morphology of the HI distribution implies current accretion of the cold gas from the satellite onto the outer disc of UGC 5936; due to the satellite location and rotation in the plane of the stellar disc of the host galaxy, the accretion is smooth and laminar providing the favorable condition for star formation ignition.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A Letters