cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Imperfect Enforcement of Emissions Trading and Industry Welfare: A Laboratory Investigation
Creators: name: Stranlund, John K.
name: Murphy, James J.
name: Spraggon, John M.
name: Stranlund, John K.
name: Murphy, James J.
name: Spraggon, John M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: enforcement
subject: compliance
subject: emissions trading
subject: permit markets
subject: pollution
subject: laboratory experiments

description: This paper uses laboratory experiments to investigate the performance of emission permit markets when compliance is imperfectly enforced. In particular we examine deviations in observed aggregate payoffs and expected penalties from those derived from a model of risk-neutral payoff-maximizing firms. We find that the experimental emissions markets were reasonably efficient at allocating individual emission control choices despite imperfect enforcement and significant noncompliance. However, violations and expected penalties were lower than predicted when these are predicted to be high, but were about the same as predicted values when these values were predicted to be low. Thus, although a standard model of compliance with emissions trading programs tends to predict significantly higher violations than we observe when subjects have strong incentives to violate their emissions permits, individual emissions control responsibilities are distributed among firms as predicted.
Improving the dynamic performance of multiply-articulated vehicles
Creators: name: Rempel, Michael R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Current heavy vehicles having two or more trailers suffer from unique dynamic characteristics which limit both their stability and maneuverability at speed. The control of these characteristics in A-train vehicles is the objective of this work; specifically, the attenuation of rearward amplification and high-speed offtracking. Control is attained is through automatic steering of the A-dolly axle; the control system is localized entirely on the A-dolly, creating a modular and easily-implemented unit. The equations of motion were derived for a reference A-train vehicle, and the results simulated and compared to literature. A nonlinear two-dimensional yaw plane model with semi-static load transfer in the pitch and roll modes was found to adequately display the intended system characteristics. To apply control, a second linear state space model was created, based on the behavior of the A-dolly and the second semitrailer only. For high-speed, low amplitude maneuvers under feasible input frequencies, the results corresponded to the nonlinear simulation. Control was achieved using a state variable feedback controller to steer the dolly wheels; the gains were determined by moving the plant eigenvalues via Ackermann's method to the critically-damped locations of the "faster" mode. The controller was shown as to be robust to parameter estimation errors and to balance performance and required control inputs well. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) was employed to estimate the unknown tire cornering properties and states not measurable direcdy from the A-dolly. Through simulation, it was found that the controller was effective in reducing both the observed rearward amplification and the dynamic offtracking, although the effectiveness decreased with increasing forward velocity. At the nominal velocity for interstate highways in the United States (24.6 m/s), the peak improvement in rearward amplification under control was reduced to a minimum of 25 percent of the uncontrolled value; the peak value of offtxacking was reduced up to 50 percent.
Additional file 1 of Reshaping the path of vascular cognitive impairment with resistance training: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Liu-Ambrose, Teresa
name: Dao, Elizabeth
name: Crockett, Rachel A.
name: Barha, Cindy K.
name: Falck, Ryan S.
name: Best, John R.
name: Ging-Yeuk R. Hsiung
name: Field, Thalia S.
name: Madden, Kenneth M.
name: Alkeridy, Walid A.
name: Narlon C. Boa Sorte Silva
name: Davis, Jennifer C.
name: Brinke, Lisanne F. Ten
name: Doherty, Stephanie
name: Tam, Roger C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Symmetrization for fractional elliptic problems: a direct approach
Creators: name: Ferone, Vincenzo
name: Volzone, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B45, 35R11, 35J61

description: We provide new direct methods to establish symmetrization results in the form of mass concentration (i.e., integral) comparison for fractional elliptic equations of the type $(-Δ)^{s}u=f$ $(0
HD 178892 - a cool Ap star with extremely strong magnetic field
Creators: name: Ryabchikova, T.
name: Kochukhov, O.
name: Kudryavtsev, D.
name: Romanyuk, I.
name: Semenko, E.
name: Bagnulo, S.
name: Curto, G. Lo
name: North, P.
name: Sachkov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a discovery of the Zeeman resolved spectral lines, corresponding to the extremely large magnetic field modulus =17.5 kG, in the cool Ap star HD 178892. The mean longitudinal field of this star reaches 7.5 kG, and its rotational modulation implies the strength of the dipolar magnetic component Bp>=23 kG. We have revised rotation period of the star using the All Sky Automated Survey photometry and determined P=8.2478 d. Rotation phases of the magnetic and photometric maxima of the star coincide with each other. We obtained Geneva photometric observation of HD 178892 and estimated Teff=7700+/-250 K using photometry and the hydrogen Balmer lines. Preliminary abundance analysis reveals abundance pattern typical of rapidly oscillating Ap stars.
description: Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics; 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 2 of Reshaping the path of vascular cognitive impairment with resistance training: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Liu-Ambrose, Teresa
name: Dao, Elizabeth
name: Crockett, Rachel A.
name: Barha, Cindy K.
name: Falck, Ryan S.
name: Best, John R.
name: Ging-Yeuk R. Hsiung
name: Field, Thalia S.
name: Madden, Kenneth M.
name: Alkeridy, Walid A.
name: Narlon C. Boa Sorte Silva
name: Davis, Jennifer C.
name: Brinke, Lisanne F. Ten
name: Doherty, Stephanie
name: Tam, Roger C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist.
Market signals for organic farming
Creators: name: De Bont, C.J.A.M.
name: Bolhuis, J.
name: Boone, J.A.
name: Van Everdingen, W.H.
name: Jager, J.H.
name: Oltmer, Katrin
name: De Bont, C.J.A.M.
name: Bolhuis, J.
name: Boone, J.A.
name: Van Everdingen, W.H.
name: Jager, J.H.
name: Oltmer, Katrin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The organic material price project studies the methods and tools to improve the provision of information on 'Economic opportunities for organic farming in the EU Member Countries'. An important issue is the improvement of the quality and the speed of relevant information for policy purposes, for statistics and research on the farm sector. The report presents proposals on this as well as the results of analyses on (1) the relationship between the prices of organic products and prices of conventional products; (2) economic results of organic compared to similar sized conventional farms.
Bedrijfsuitkomsten in de Nederlandse particuliere bosbouw over 2004
Creators: name: Berger, E.P.
name: Luijt, Jan L.
name: Voskuilen, M.J.
name: Berger, E.P.
name: Luijt, Jan L.
name: Voskuilen, M.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Annual overview of yields, costs and farm results of private forestry holdings with more than 5 hectares of forest, based on an accountancy network consisting of about 150 holdings. This edition contains the results for 2004 and previous years, specified by area of forest and region. In addition, the yield prices for wood and the size of wood sales are shown. Finally, this report further specifies costs and yields by the functions private forestry companies serve, such as wood production, nature conservation, recreation and landscape, and game management.
Half-skyrmion picture of single hole doped CuO_2 plane
Creators: name: Morinari, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the Zhang-Rice singlet picture, it is argued that the half-skyrmion is created by the doped hole in the single hole doped high-T_c cuprates with N'eel ordering. The spin configuration around the Zhang-Rice singlet, which has the form of superposition of the two different d-orbital hole spin states, is studied within the non-linear σmodel and the CP^1 model. The spin configurations associated with each hole spin state are obtained, and we find that the superposition of these spin configuration turns out to be the half-skyrmion that is characterized by a half of the topological charge. The excitation spectrum of the half-skyrmion is obtained by making use of Lorentz invariance of the effective theory and is qualitatively in good agreement with angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy on the parent compunds. Estimated values of the parameters contained in the excitation spectrum are in good agreement with experimentally obtained values. The half-skyrmion theory suggests a picture for the difference between the hole doped compounds and the electron doped compounds.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B
International agreements relating to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and implications for Dutch policy
Creators: name: Eaton, Derek J.F.
name: Kalaugher, Electra
name: Bijman, Jos
name: Eaton, Derek J.F.
name: Kalaugher, Electra
name: Bijman, Jos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: Policy issues related to plant genetic resources are socially, technically and scientifically complex. This report summarises the international agreements and relevant bodies con-cerning plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), FAO Global Plan of Action on Plant Genetic Resources (GPA), the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (IT-PGRFA), the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the International Con-vention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV). The various obligations arising from these conventions and treaties are reviewed. In so doing, this report concen-trates exclusively on implications for plant genetic resources for food and agriculture while most of the agreements concern other resources and/or issues. The relationship between the agreements is analysed with reference to the evolution of policy priorities from promoting use of genetic resources to supporting conservation, in part through the sharing of benefits arising from use. In addition, the implications for genetic resources policy in the Nether-lands are outlined and existing initiatives to fulfill these obligations are highlighted.
A Normative approach to Attest Digital Discrimination
Creators: name: Criado, Natalia
name: Ferrer, Xavier
name: Such, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T27, 68T01

description: Digital discrimination is a form of discrimination whereby users are automatically treated unfairly, unethically or just differently based on their personal data by a machine learning (ML) system. Examples of digital discrimination include low-income neighbourhood's targeted with high-interest loans or low credit scores, and women being undervalued by 21% in online marketing. Recently, different techniques and tools have been proposed to detect biases that may lead to digital discrimination. These tools often require technical expertise to be executed and for their results to be interpreted. To allow non-technical users to benefit from ML, simpler notions and concepts to represent and reason about digital discrimination are needed. In this paper, we use norms as an abstraction to represent different situations that may lead to digital discrimination. In particular, we formalise non-discrimination norms in the context of ML systems and propose an algorithm to check whether ML systems violate these norms.
description: Author's copy of the manuscript accepted in the Advancing Towards the SDGS Artificial Intelligence for a Fair, Just and Equitable World Workshop of the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'20)
Spectral Orbits and Peak-to-Average Power Ratio of Boolean Functions with respect to the {I,H,N}^n Transform
Creators: name: Danielsen, Lars Eirik
name: Parker, Matthew G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We enumerate the inequivalent self-dual additive codes over GF(4) of blocklength n, thereby extending the sequence A090899 in The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences from n = 9 to n = 12. These codes have a well-known interpretation as quantum codes. They can also be represented by graphs, where a simple graph operation generates the orbits of equivalent codes. We highlight the regularity and structure of some graphs that correspond to codes with high distance. The codes can also be interpreted as quadratic Boolean functions, where inequivalence takes on a spectral meaning. In this context we define PAR_IHN, peak-to-average power ratio with respect to the {I,H,N}^n transform set. We prove that PAR_IHN of a Boolean function is equivalent to the the size of the maximum independent set over the associated orbit of graphs. Finally we propose a construction technique to generate Boolean functions with low PAR_IHN and algebraic degree higher than 2.
description: Presented at Sequences and Their Applications, SETA'04, Seoul, South Korea, October 2004. 17 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of Community transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is associated with activity space overlap in Lima, Peru
Creators: name: Bui, David P.
name: Shruthi S. Chandran
name: Oren, Eyal
name: Brown, Heidi E.
name: Harris, Robin B.
name: Gwenan M. Knight
name: Grandjean, Louis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Distribution of sublineages in study and parent study. Fisher-exact P-value = 0.83.
VILLAGE MODELING: A CHINESE RECIPE FOR BLENDING GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM AND HOUSEHOLD MODELING
Creators: name: Kuiper, Marijke H.
name: Kuiper, Marijke H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: This study provides the first quantitative analysis of the impact of rural-urban migration on a Chinese village economy. Existing village models do not reflect findings of the household literature on the importance of market imperfections. Prevailing imperfections in factor markets in rural China, however, necessitate an analysis that takes into account the nonseparability of household production and consumption decisions. This study therefore develops a methodology for analyzing interactions among households in a village economy, that bridges the current gap between household and village models. The resulting model is able to capture the impact of market imperfections on household decisions, as well as the impact of household decisions on other households in the village. Applying this model to a village in Jiangxi Province allows us to analyze the impact of rural-urban migration on households with and without access to migration.
Psychometric assessment of the Multidimensional Quality of Life Questionnaire for Persons Infected with HIV or with AIDS in a cohort of HIV-infected women
Creators: name: Remple, Valencia Paulette
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This methodological study was designed to assess the psychometric properties of a relatively new HIV-specific quality of life questionnaire, the Multidimensional Quality of Life Questionnaire for Persons Living with HIV or with AIDS (MQOL-HIV), in a cohort of Canadian, HIV-infected women. The study was prompted by an identified lack of information regarding the validity and reliability of HIV-specific quality of life (QOL) scales in populations of HIV-infected women. The specific analyses conducted were content validity, concurrent validity, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability. The study was conducted in the fall of 2001 at the Oak Tree Clinic, British Columbia's outpatient referral centre for women, children, and families living with HIV. Seven health care professionals and six patients participated in the content validity testing, which involved rating the validity of the 40 items and 10 domains of the MQOL-HIV. Eighty-five patients participated in the concurrent validity and internal consistency testing, which involved baseline completion of the MQOL-HIV and the Medical Outcomes Study - HIV Health Survey (MOSHIV) during a clinic visit. Forty-three patients participated in the test-retest reliability testing, which involved completing a second MQOL-HIV two weeks after baseline. Content validity findings indicated that most of the items and all of the domains of the scale were valid for HIV-infected women, but that revision and replacement of some of the items were needed. Several important domains and aspects of domains were identified as missing from the scale. Five domains, the Summary Index, and the overall scale demonstrated strong concurrent validity when correlated with similar domains contained in the more commonly used MOS-HIV. Most of the domains demonstrated strong internal consistency and test-retest reliability. The findings were consistent with the literature, indicating that QOL scales require revalidation in new populations, and that dimensions and aspects of QOL may differ for HIVinfected women. Although the MQOL-HIV was developed with HIV-infected patients, some of whom were women, the need for subsequent validation in female populations was underscored. The content validity findings supported those found by others in that the QOL domains and aspects of salience may vary depending on gender and cultural context. This study represents one of the first of its kind to validate an HIV-specific QOL scale in women, and provides preliminary findings in terms of the unique dimensions of QOL for HIV-infected women.
Dirac spinors in solenoidal field and self adjoint extensions of its Hamiltonian
Creators: name: Giri, Pulak Ranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss Dirac equation (DE) and its solution in presence of solenoid (infinitely long) field in (3+1) dimensions. Starting with a very restricted domain for the Hamiltonian, we show that a 1-parameter family of self adjoint extensions (SAE) are necessary to make sure the correct evolution of the Dirac spinors. Within the extended domain bound state (BS) and scattering state (SS) solutions are obtained. We argue that the existence of bound state in such system is basically due the breaking of classical scaling symmetry by the quantization procedure. A remarkable effect of the scaling anomaly is that it puts an open bound on both sides of the Dirac sea, i.e., E\in(-M,M) for ν^2[0,1)! We also study the issue of relationship between scattering state and bound state in the region ν^2 \in[0,1) and recovered the bound state solution and eigenvalue from the scattering state solution.
description: 6 pages, no figure, Will appear in Mod. Phys. Lett A
Guide to optical spectroscopy of layered semiconductors
Creators: name: Shree, Shivangi
name: Paradisanos, Ioannis
name: Marie, Xavier
name: Robert, Cedric
name: Urbaszek, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this technical review we give an introduction to optical spectroscopy for layered materials as a powerful, non-invasive tool to access details of the electronic band structure and crystal quality. Potential applications in photonics and optoelectronics are based on our understanding of the light-matter interaction on an atomic monolayer scale. Here atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides, such as MoS2 and WSe2, are model systems for layered semiconductors with a bandgap in the visible region of the optical spectrum. They can be assembled to form heterostructures and combine the unique properties of the constituent monolayers. We review the working principles of micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy and optical absorption experiments. We discuss the physical origin of the main absorption and emission features in the optical spectra and how they can be tuned. We explain key-aspects of practical set-ups for performing experiments in different conditions such as variable temperatures or in applied magnetic fields and how parameters such as detection spot size and excitation laser wavelength impact the optical spectra. We describe the important influence of the direct sample environment, such as substrates and encapsulation layers, on the emission and absorption mechanisms. A survey of optical techniques that probe the coupling between layers and analyse carrier polarisation dynamics for spin- and valleytronics is provided.
description: 12 pages, 4 Figures, initial version
Additional file 7 of Sub-fertility in crossbred bulls: deciphering testicular level transcriptomic alterations between zebu (Bos indicus) and crossbred (Bos taurus x Bos indicus) bulls
Creators: name: Kamaraj Elango
name: Kumaresan, Arumugam
name: Ankur Sharma
name: Nag, Pradeep
name: Prakash, Mani Arul
name: Sinha, Manish Kumar
name: Ayyasamy Manimaran
name: Peter, Ebenezer Samuel King John
name: Jeyakumar, Sakthivel
name: Sellappan Selvaraju
name: Kerekoppa P. Ramesha
name: Tirtha K. Datta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. List of genes involved in upregulated and downregulated pathways related to spermatogenesis and sperm function in crossbred testis
De functie van het Borgstellingsfonds voor de Landbouw: Een quickscan naar de functie in de huidige vorm en marktsituatie
Creators: name: Van Der Meulen, H.A.B.
name: Venema, Gabe S.
name: Van Der Meer, R.W.
name: Van Der Meulen, H.A.B.
name: Venema, Gabe S.
name: Van Der Meer, R.W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: By means of a quickscan, this research describes the role of the Agricultural Loan Guarantee Fund (BF) instrument for agricultural entrepreneurs in its current form and within the current market situation. In this, account was taken of the general trends in the sectors that are important for the BF, the current BF decree, indications providing insight into the importance of the instrument, the financing policy of banks and the role of the BF, and the idea of possibly using the BF to stimulate innovation. The description is based on data from LEI's Farm Accountancy Data Network, data from the Agricultural Loan Guarantee Fund foundation, and interviews with experts from banking practice. Dit onderzoek beschrijft in een quickscan de functie van het instrument Borgstellingsfonds voor de Landbouw (BF) in de huidige vorm en marktsituatie voor de agrarische ondernemers. Hierbij is rekening gehouden met de algemene trends in de voor BF belangrijke sectoren, het huidige besluit BF, indicatoren die inzicht geven in het belang van het instrument, het financieringsbeleid van banken en de rol van BF en het idee om BF mogelijk te gebruiken voor het stimuleren van innovaties. De beschrijving is gebaseerd op gegevens uit het Bedrijven-Informatienet van het LEI, gegevens van de Stichting Borgstellingsfonds voor de Landbouw en interviews met deskundigen uit de bancaire praktijk.
Coherent States and N Dimensional Coordinate Noncommutativity
Creators: name: Bander, Myron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Considering coordinates as operators whose measured values are expectations between generalized coherent states based on the group SO(N,1) leads to coordinate noncommutativity together with full $N$ dimensional rotation invariance. Through the introduction of a gauge potential this theory can additionally be made invariant under $N$ dimensional translations. Fluctuations in coordinate measurements are determined by two scales. For small distances these fluctuations are fixed at the noncommutativity parameter while for larger distances they are proportional to the distance itself divided by a {\em very} large number. Limits on this number will lbe available from LIGO measurements.
description: 16 pqges. LaTeX with JHEP.cls
Additional file 8 of Sub-fertility in crossbred bulls: deciphering testicular level transcriptomic alterations between zebu (Bos indicus) and crossbred (Bos taurus x Bos indicus) bulls
Creators: name: Kamaraj Elango
name: Kumaresan, Arumugam
name: Ankur Sharma
name: Nag, Pradeep
name: Prakash, Mani Arul
name: Sinha, Manish Kumar
name: Ayyasamy Manimaran
name: Peter, Ebenezer Samuel King John
name: Jeyakumar, Sakthivel
name: Sellappan Selvaraju
name: Kerekoppa P. Ramesha
name: Tirtha K. Datta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8. List of genes selected for real time expression analysis
Additional file 3 of Community transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is associated with activity space overlap in Lima, Peru
Creators: name: Bui, David P.
name: Shruthi S. Chandran
name: Oren, Eyal
name: Brown, Heidi E.
name: Harris, Robin B.
name: Gwenan M. Knight
name: Grandjean, Louis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Association between genetic similarity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of two case pairs (measured in number of different single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP)) and their utilization distribution overlap index (UDOI), excluding clustered cases that are household members.
Importance of site occupancy and absence of strain glassy phase in Ni$_{2-x}$Fe$_{x}$Mn$_{1.5}$In$_{0.5}$
Creators: name: Nevgi, R.
name: Das, Gangadhar
name: Acet, M.
name: Priolkar, K. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Martensitic transition temperature steadily decreases in Ni$_{2-x}$Fe$_{x}$Mn$_{1.5}$In$_{0.5}$ and is completely suppressed at $x$ = 0.2. Despite suppression of martensitic transition, Ni$_{1.8}$Fe$_{0.2}$Mn$_{1.5}$In$_{0.5}$ does not display the expected strain glassy phase. Instead, a ground state with dominant ferromagnetic interactions is observed. A study of structural and magnetic properties of $x$ = 0.2 reveal that the alloy consists of a major Fe rich cubic phase and a minor Fe deficient monoclinic phase favoring a ferromagnetic ground state. This is exactly opposite of that observed in Ni$_2$Mn$_{1-y}$Fe$_{y}$In$_{0.5}$ wherein a strain glassy phase is observed for $y$ = 0.1. The change in site symmetry of Fe when doped for Ni in contrast to Mn in the Heusler composition seems to support the growth of the ferromagnetic phase.
Multivector and Extensor Fields on Smooth Manifolds
Creators: name: Moya, A. M.
name: Fernandez, V. V.
name: Rodrigues, W. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The objective of the present paper (the second in a series of four) is to give a theory of multivector and extensor fields on a smooth manifold M of arbitrary topology based on the powerful geometric algebra of multivectors and extensors. Our approach does not suffer the problems of earlier attempts which are restricted to vector manifolds. It is based on the existence of canonical algebraic structures over the so-called canonical space associated to a local chart (U_{o},phi_{o}) of the maximal atlas of M. The key concepts of a-directional ordinary derivatives of multivector and extensor fields are defined and their properties studied. Also, we introduce the Lie algebra of smooth vector fields and the Hestenes derivatives whose properties are studied in details.
description: revised version
General empirical Bayes wavelet methods and exactly adaptive minimax estimation
Creators: name: Zhang, Cun-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62C12, 62G05, 62G08, 62G20, 62C25 (Primary)

description: In many statistical problems, stochastic signals can be represented as a sequence of noisy wavelet coefficients. In this paper, we develop general empirical Bayes methods for the estimation of true signal. Our estimators approximate certain oracle separable rules and achieve adaptation to ideal risks and exact minimax risks in broad collections of classes of signals. In particular, our estimators are uniformly adaptive to the minimum risk of separable estimators and the exact minimax risks simultaneously in Besov balls of all smoothness and shape indices, and they are uniformly superefficient in convergence rates in all compact sets in Besov spaces with a finite secondary shape parameter. Furthermore, in classes nested between Besov balls of the same smoothness index, our estimators dominate threshold and James-Stein estimators within an infinitesimal fraction of the minimax risks. More general block empirical Bayes estimators are developed. Both white noise with drift and nonparametric regression are considered.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053604000000995 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Hammerschmidt, Ernst, Jäger, Otto A.: Illuminierte äthiopische Handschriften
Creators: name: Assfalg, Julius
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 55 (1971): Oriens christianus, Band 55
Naar een gereedschapskist voor transitiemonitoring: Een verkenning van de bruikbaarheid van methoden, modellen en concepten uit de strategisch management-, diffusie- en sociale netwerkliteratuur
Creators: name: Pierick, E. Ten
name: Goddijn, Silvia T.
name: Meeusen, Marieke J.G.
name: Pierick, E. Ten
name: Goddijn, Silvia T.
name: Meeusen, Marieke J.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: This report explores the applicability of a number of methods, models, and concepts from the literature on strategic management, diffusion, and social networks with respect to the monitoring of transition processes. First, transition theory is analysed to identify aspects that should be monitored. Subsequently, the possible contribution of the various methods, models, and concepts to monitor these aspects is determined. In dit rapport wordt voor een aantal methoden, modellen en concepten uit de strategisch management-, diffusie- en sociale netwerkliteratuur verkend wat de toepassingsmogelijkheden zijn in het kader van transitiemonitoring. Daartoe wordt eerst uit de transitietheorie afgeleid welke aspecten in kaart moeten worden gebracht. Vervolgens wordt voor de verschillende methoden, modellen en concepten nagegaan aan welke toepassingen een bijdrage kan worden geleverd.
Boosting MonteCarlo sampling with a non-Gaussian fit
Creators: name: Amendola, Luca
name: Gómez-Valent, Adrià
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new method, called MonteCarlo Posterior Fit, to boost the MonteCarlo sampling of likelihood (posterior) functions. The idea is to approximate the posterior function by an analytical multidimensional non-Gaussian fit. The many free parameters of this fit can be obtained by a smaller sampling than is needed to derive the full numerical posterior. In the examples that we consider, based on supernovae and cosmic microwave background data, we find that one needs an order of magnitude smaller sampling than in the standard algorithms to achieve comparable precision. This method can be applied to a variety of situations and is expected to significantly improve the performance of the MonteCarlo routines in all the cases in which sampling is very time-consuming. Finally, it can also be applied to Fisher matrix forecasts, and can help solve various limitations of the standard approach.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures; References, comments, and appendix B added; The MCPostFit code can be found in: https://github.com/adriagova/MCPostFit
Additional file 2 of Community transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is associated with activity space overlap in Lima, Peru
Creators: name: Bui, David P.
name: Shruthi S. Chandran
name: Oren, Eyal
name: Brown, Heidi E.
name: Harris, Robin B.
name: Gwenan M. Knight
name: Grandjean, Louis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Comparison of mean 95% UDOI by dyad type, excluding clustered cases from the same household.
Lysmata rathbunae Chace 1970
Creators: name: Pachelle, Paulo P. G.
name: Carvalho, Leina
name: Alves, Douglas F. R.
name: Anker, Arthur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Hippolytidae
Lysmata
Lysmata rathbunae

description: Lysmata rathbunae Chace, 1970
 Lysmata rathbunae Chace, 1970: 59, figs. 1–4; Ramos-Porto & Coelho 1993: 186; Coelho et al. 2006: 1221, table 3; Gurjão & Lotufo 2018: 9 (table 2).
 Material examined. None.
 First record for Brazil. Alagoas (Ramos-Porto & Coelho 1993).
 Distribution. Western Atlantic: Bermudas, Florida, Dry Tortugas, Yucatan, Venezuela and Brazil (Pernambuco and Alagoas) (Chace 1970; Rhyne & Lin 2006; Ramos-Porto & Coelho 1993; Coelho et al. 2006) (Fig. 16).
 Ecology. Poorly known, deep-water species, depth range: 28–119 m (Ramos-Porto & Coelho 1993; Rhyne & Lin 2006).
 Remarks. Lysmata rathbunae is a species found in relatively deep waters, ranging from 28 to 119 m (Rhyne & Lin 2006), and is readily recognised by its very long rostrum, which overreaches the antennular peduncle. The species was first recorded in Brazil by Ramos-Porto & Coelho (1993), based on material collected at 28 m depth off the coast of Alagoas. In Coelho et al. (2006) ’s checklist, the species is also listed from Pernambuco, presumably based on specimens deposited in the collection of the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil (UFPE).
description: Published as part of Pachelle, Paulo P. G., Carvalho, Leina, Alves, Douglas F. R. & Anker, Arthur, 2020, A revision of the Brazilian species of Lysmata Risso, 1816 (Decapoda: Caridea Lysmatidae), with discussion of the morphological characters used in their identification, pp. 55-90 in Zootaxa 4789 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/3884685
Adjustment and differences in farm performance; A farm management perspective from the Netherlands
Creators: name: Poppe, Krijn J.
name: Van Meijl, Hans
name: Poppe, Krijn J.
name: Van Meijl, Hans
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Farm Management

description: There are differences in performance between farmers. In the Netherlands this has been a major topic of research for at least 30 years. Research has shown that the managerial capacities of farmers play a major role in differences in economic and environmental performance. Management can be measured and the optimal level is not the maximum level. Farmers differ in their objectives, competences and local external situation and there-fore their strategies. These strategies can be identified. In recent years strategic management has become more important and this can be supported with consultancy. Farmers also differ in their adoption and innovation behaviour. These micro-economic results, which correlate with large differences in income and high prices of fixed assets with a limited supply, can be explained as being consistent with economic theory on perfect markets. Although these findings suggest that some farm households have attractive strategies that can cope with policy adjustments, the research supports the hypothesis but does not (yet) prove that a severe adjustment of agricultural policy e.g. towards a more market oriented policy, induces more innovation, and that due to this innovation the effects of adjusting the agricultural policy are less severe than estimated ex ante with current dynamic policy models.
Do red giants have short mode lifetimes?
Creators: name: Stello, D.
name: Kjeldsen, H.
name: Bedding, T. R.
name: Buzasi, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show evidence that the red giant star ksi Hya has an oscillation mode lifetime, tau, of about 2 days significantly shorter than predicted by theory (tau = 17 days, Houdek & Gough 2002). If this is a general trend of red giants it would limit the prospects of asteroseismology on these stars because of poor coherence of the oscillations.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures. Meeting on Stellar Pulsation and Evolution, June 2005, Rome. Proceedings to appear in "Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana", Vol 76/4 eds. A.R. Walker & G. Bono
The future of the Dutch egg processing industry
Creators: name: Tacken, G.M.L.
name: Cotteleer, Geerte
name: Van Horne, Peter L.M.
name: Tacken, G.M.L.
name: Cotteleer, Geerte
name: Van Horne, Peter L.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This research examines the competitiveness of the Dutch egg products industry, as well as the consequences of tightening up the laws concerning layer poultry on the competitive position of the Dutch egg production industry. A tightening of the laws has, in fact, the effect of raising the production cost, and in this research the central question revolves around whether animal welfare-friendly egg products are perceived as products with added value by the buyers of egg products (mainly industrial buyers) and will thus also be offered for sale at a higher price. Furthermore, it will be investigated what the probable developmental directions are in the egg products industry if this higher price cannot be realised.
Haberland, Eike: Galla Süd-Äthiopiens (=Völker Süd-Äthiopiens)
Creators: name: Hammerschmidt, Ernst
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 55 (1971): Oriens christianus, Band 55
Boson stars in $f(T)$ extended theory of gravity
Creators: name: Ilijić, Saša
name: Sossich, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spherically symmetric configurations of the non-interacting massive complex scalar field, representing non-rotating boson stars, are considered within the framework of the modified torsion based $f(T)$ gravity, with $f(T) = T + α\, T^2/2$. We find that with sufficiently large negative value of $α$ the mass of the boson stars can be made arbitrarily large. This is in contrast to General Relativity where an upper bound, $M_{max} \sim M_{Planck}^2/m$, to the mass of the boson stars built from the non-interacting scalar field exists and where the masses of boson stars in the astrophysical regime can be obtained only with the introduction of the scalar field self-interaction. With sufficiently large negative $α$ we also find negative gravitational binding energy for all masses, which can be seen as an indication of the stability of such configurations. In its positive regime, $α$ can not be made arbitrarily large as a phase transition in the stress--energy components of the $f(T)$-fluid develops. This phenomenon has already been reported to occur in polytropic stars constructed within the $f(T)$ gravity theory.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT SUPPLY AND INPUT DEMAND RELATIONSHIPS WITH ENDOGENOUS LAND RENTS
Creators: name: Maligaya, Arlyn R.
name: White, Fred C.
name: Maligaya, Arlyn R.
name: White, Fred C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: This study analyzed supply functions for agricultural output and demand functions for factors of production for Georgia. These relationships were derived with duality theory from a normalized quadratic profit function. Land has been included in other duality studies as a fixed factor as opposed to an endogenous factor. In this study, the system of supply and demand equations was augmented with a supply equation for land, which allowed land rents to be an endogenous factor. Consequently it was possible to measure the impact of output and input prices on land rents.
One more variant of discrete gravity having "naive" continual limit
Creators: name: Vergeles, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some variant of discrete quantum theory of gravity having "naive" continuum limit is constructed. It is shown that in a highly compressed state of universe a sort of "high-temperature expansion" is valid and, thus, the confinement of "color" takes place at early stage of universe expansion. In the considered theory any nontrivial representation of the local Lorentz group (i.e. spinor, vector and so on fields) play the role of color. The arguments are given in favor of a significant noncompact packing of quantized field modes in momentum space.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure
CONSUMER DEMAND FOR FOOD DIVERSITY
Creators: name: Lee, Jonq-Ying
name: Brown, Mark G.
name: Lee, Jonq-Ying
name: Brown, Mark G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: In this paper, consumer demand for food diversity is measured by the entropy and Simpson indices for budget shares. Results show that consumer demand for food diversity is related to total food expenditures and household size and composition.
The multiple and conflicting roles of local government in negotiating parkland acquisition : can the negotiations satisfy the criteria of ethics and the dimensions of interests?
Creators: name: Schlesinger, Gerald
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The practice of providing urban parks as an integral part of community development no longer creates public debate about the function or legal authority of local governments to make such purchases. However, the debate continues on the ethics of local government's parkland acquisition practices. These practices have the capability and motivation to influence the land value of sites they wish to acquire. Local governments are responsible for determining land use, which in turn affects land value. The limited financial means of local government to acquire parks makes influencing land value one way of stretching the scarce resources of the community. The ethics practiced in the negotiations to acquire urban parkland where the land has development potential are unique because: 1. Parkland is a public good and not a market commodity; 2. The potential for other higher land uses exists; and 3. Local government plays a dual role: one of a regulator and approving authority for determining land use and providing community stewardship, and the other as the corporate cost controlling agency seeking to acquire land. These qualities create the strong possibility for ethical conflict to occur in the negotiating process. Building upon the Interest-Based approach to negotiations, this paper uses a set of Prescriptive, Intuitive and Evaluative (P.I.E.) criteria that define ethical conduct, and the dimensions of Fact, Social Consensus and Experience that defines the dimensions of interests, to develop a General Model for Ethical Negotiations (GMEN). Conceptually, the GMEN model is a three-sided pyramid within a sphere of negotiations. Negotiations that adhere to the principles defining the parameters of the pyramid would be considered ethical. Negotiations outside the pyramid are considered unethical. Six parkland acquisition cases are discussed using the GMEN model. In this study, the parameters establishing the criteria for passing ethical judgment are the functions of the political economy, the policy statements of the local government, and the legislation that delegates power and authority to local government. The study finds that ethical conflict is inherent in parkland negotiations where the land has development potential because of the multiple roles and dual character of local government. This conflict is not necessarily illegal since prescriptive criteria are only one means of judging ethics. Nor is the outcome necessarily negative to the vendor, since the public may end up with a less attractive park agreement. However, the parameters that would require parkland acquisition negotiations to be ethical sometimes conflict with some of the multiple roles held by local government. Several recommendations are made that would help to reduce ethical conflict and the imbalance in parkland negotiations.