cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"There is no 'us and them'": Engaging with Migration and Border Crossing Narratives through Shadow Puppetry in Ghosts of the River
Creators: name: Cristina Pérez Valverde
name: Fernando Perez-Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: shadow puppetry
subject: Human migrations
subject: othering
subject: fictional discourses
subject: social justice

description: This paper explores the representation of border crossing and other migration experiences in the shadow play Ghosts of the River, written by Octavio Solís and performed by the ShadowLight Company. The devices employed to engage spectators with the reality of migrants in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas are analysed in order to bring out the play’s potential to raise awareness of social (in)justice and human rights in the context of the current migratory crisis. Solís’s accounts of his own purposes and composition process are considered, with particular reference to the need to erase the “us” versus “them” divide that tears people apart. The study is underpinned by theories of othering pertaining to the construction of the migrant as alien other or stranger, as articulated by several key scholars. Likewise, spectral criticism informs the interpretation of the characters’ ghostly nature. In this regard, theories deriving from Derrida’s hauntology elaborate on the use of the ghost trope in fictional texts, particularly in those texts pertaining to minority cultural discourses, in which the ghost embodies the oppressed other reappearing as a haunting figure that questions the established order. As is shown, this is the case with the play’s ghost figures, caught in the liminal space of the river as haunting presences endowed with a voice that enables them to articulate their narratives and reenact once and again their ordeals as migrant crossers.
title: The Role of Time-Varying Price Elasticities in Accounting for Volatility Changes in the Crude Oil Market
Creators: name: Baumeister, Christiane
name: Peersman, Gert
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2011

description: There has been a systematic increase in the volatility of the real price of crude oil since 1986, followed by a decline in the volatility of oil production since the early 1990s. We explore reasons for this evolution. We show that a likely explanation of this empirical fact is that both the short-run price elasticities of oil demand and of oil supply have declined considerably since the second half of the 1980s. This implies that small disturbances on either side of the oil market can generate large price responses without large quantity movements, which helps explain the latest run-up and subsequent collapse in the price of oil. Our analysis suggests that the variability of oil demand and supply shocks actually has decreased in the more recent past preventing even larger oil price fluctuations than observed in the data.
description: Depuis 1986, la volatilité du prix réel du pétrole brut a systématiquement augmenté, alors que celle de la production pétrolière s’est atténuée depuis le début des années 1990. Les auteurs se penchent sur les raisons de cette évolution. Ils montrent que celle-ci s’explique vraisemblablement par le fait que les élasticités-prix à court terme de la demande et de l’offre d’or noir ont toutes deux considérablement diminué depuis la deuxième moitié des années 1980. Dans ces conditions, de petites perturbations dans la demande ou l’offre de pétrole peuvent engendrer de fortes fluctuations des prix sans faire varier les quantités de façon significative, ce qui aide à comprendre la récente envolée des cours de l’or noir et leur effondrement subséquent. D’après l’analyse des auteurs, la variance des chocs de demande et d’offre de pétrole a en fait baissé dernièrement. Sans ce recul, le prix du pétrole aurait fluctué encore plus.
Non-Fermi-liquid behavior and doping asymmetry in an organic Mott insulator interface
Creators: name: Kawasugi, Yoshitaka
name: Seki, Kazuhiro
name: Pu, Jiang
name: Takenobu, Taishi
name: Yunoki, Seiji
name: Yamamoto, Hiroshi M.
name: Kato, Reizo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-$T_{\rm C}$ superconductors show anomalous transport properties in their normal states, such as the bad-metal and pseudogap behaviors. To discuss their origins, it is important to speculate whether these behaviors are material-dependent or universal phenomena in the proximity of the Mott transition, by investigating similar but different material systems. An organic Mott transistor is suitable for this purpose owing to the adjacency between the two-dimensional Mott insulating and superconducting states, simple electronic properties, and high doping/bandwidth tunability in the same sample. Here we report the temperature dependence of the transport properties under electron and hole doping in an organic Mott electric-double-layer transistor. At high temperatures, the bad-metal behavior widely appears except at half filling regardless of the doping polarity. At lower temperatures, the pseudogap behavior is observed only under hole doping, while the Fermi-liquid-like behavior is observed under electron doping. The bad-metal behavior seems a universal high-energy scale phenomenon, while the pseudogap behavior is based on lower energy scale physics that can be influenced by details of the band structure.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Molecular characterization of GTP binding protein overexpressed in skeletal muscle (GEM) and its role in promoting adipogenesis in goat intramuscular preadipocytes
Creators: name: Xu, Qing
name: Wang, Yong
name: Zhu, Jiangjiang
name: Zhao, Yanying
name: Lin, Yaqiu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Computational Biology

description: GTP binding protein overexpressed in skeletal muscle (GEM) is an important gene with many functions, such as regulating the rearrangement of cytoskeleton and the activity of voltage-dependent calcium channel, and GEM was regarded as a candidate gene for obesity. However, little investigation has been carried out to explore whether GEM affected the intramuscular fat (IMF) deposition of goat. To explore the role of GEM gene in goat, this gene was cloned and its tissue and temporal expression profile were detected. Effect of GEM on adipogenesis was examined by losing function of GEM in vitro. Thereafter, several lipid metabolism-related genes were examined, including CCAAT/enhancing-binding protein α (C/EBPα), CCAAT/enhancing-binding protein β (C/EBPβ), lipoprotein lipase (LPL), preadipocyte factor 1 (Pref-1), peroxisome proliferator activated receptor γ (PPARγ) and sterol regulatory element binding protein 1 (SREBP1). We found that the goat GEM gene consisted of 936 bp, which encoded a protein of 311 amino acids. The expression of GEM was higher in spleen, lung and large intestine and it appeared sharp in the interim stage of differentiation. Furthermore, GEM knockdown blocked adipogenesis and the expression of C/EBPα, C/EBPβ, LPL, PPARγ and SREBP1. These results indicated that GEM might promote lipid accumulation and adipogenesis.
Multiscaling Anderson localization of cosmic electromagnetic fields
Creators: name: Bershadskii, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiscaling properties of the Anderson localization of the cosmic electromagnetic fields before the recombination time are studied and results of a numerical simulation for a random banded matrix ensemble are found to be in good agreement with the large-scale cosmic data.
Cost efficiency, Morishima, Allen-Uzawa and Cross-Price elasticities among Irish potato farmers in Dedza district, Malawi
Creators: name: Assa, Maganga Mulagha
name: Edriss, Abdi-Khalil
name: Matchaya, Greenwell C.
name: Assa, Maganga Mulagha
name: Edriss, Abdi-Khalil
name: Matchaya, Greenwell C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Cost efficiency
subject: elasticity
subject: Irish potato

description: Malawi has experienced a forward shift in its demand for Irish potato (Solanum tuberosum) consumption. Given limited resources at farmers’ disposal, meeting the growing demand will require farmers to follow the efficient path of the farm production resources. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to measure the cost efficiency of smallholder Irish potato farmers in Dedza district of Malawi using a translog cost function, inefficiency effect model and input elasticities derived from a system of cost share equations estimated by Iterated Seeming Unrelated Regression method. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select 200 Irish potato farmers in Dedza in 2011 from whom input-output data and their prices were obtained. Results indicate that the mean cost efficiency of Irish potato production in Dedza District is 0.67 with scores ranging between 0.15 and 0.94. The cost efficiency differences are significantly explained by non-farm employment, education, credit access, farm experience, degree of specialization, household size and frequency of weeding. The highest input substitution existed between labour and fertilizer, followed by seed-fertilizer. One policy issue is raised; credit should be extended to Irish potato farmers to enable them purchase farm inputs.
Abstract of: Mechanical properties of continuous adhesive glass-steel connections under monotonic and cyclic loading
Creators: name: Van Lancker, Bert
name: De Corte, Wouter
name: Belis, Jan
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: Structural sealant glazing systems (SSGS), currently also known as bonded glass, for façades originated over 50 years ago. Although a lot of new developments were introduced and essential experience was gained, the design of the continuous adhesive glass-metal connections used in conventional SSGS did not undergo significant changes ever since. To optimise the design of such connections and to enable the development of new and innovative concepts of adhesive connections in building construction, fundamental research on the structural performance of adhesive glass-metal connections is, therefore, inevitable. In this research, the focus lies on the mechanical behaviour of continuous adhesive glass-steel connections under cyclic loading to which these elements are subjected on a daily basis, e.g. wind, or possibly subjected during their lifetime, e.g. earthquakes. The aim was, by means of experimental testing, to compare the structural response of a continuous adhesive glass-cold-formed (stainless) steel connection using a conventional structural silicone under cyclic loading with the mechanical behaviour under monotonic loading. The experimental results revealed the presence of progressive cyclic softening in the continuous adhesive glass-steel connections. This can mainly be attributed to the appreciable change in mechanical properties of the structural silicone resulting from the maximum deformation value prior to cyclic loading, i.e. the Mullins effect. Based on the experimental results, a simplified analytical model was elaborated and (partially) validated. The effect of cyclic loading is an issue that has to be accounted for within further optimisation of glass-metal connections using rubber-like adhesives, e.g. structural silicones.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
Privacy-Preserving Public Release of Datasets for Support Vector Machine Classification
Creators: name: Farokhi, Farhad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of publicly releasing a dataset for support vector machine classification while not infringing on the privacy of data subjects (i.e., individuals whose private information is stored in the dataset). The dataset is systematically obfuscated using an additive noise for privacy protection. Motivated by the Cramer-Rao bound, inverse of the trace of the Fisher information matrix is used as a measure of the privacy. Conditions are established for ensuring that the classifier extracted from the original dataset and the obfuscated one are close to each other (capturing the utility). The optimal noise distribution is determined by maximizing a weighted sum of the measures of privacy and utility. The optimal privacy-preserving noise is proved to achieve local differential privacy. The results are generalized to a broader class of optimization-based supervised machine learning algorithms. Applicability of the methodology is demonstrated on multiple datasets.
MOESM1 of Criteria for site selection in industry-sponsored clinical trials: a survey among decision-makers in biopharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations
Creators: name: Dombernowsky, Tilde
name: Haedersdal, Merete
name: Lassen, Ulrik
name: Thomsen, Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Information about trial sites that biopharmaceutical companies and CROs would find most valuable if available* * Respondents (n = 83) were asked: Which information about a trial site that your company has not been cooperating with before would your company find the most valuable if available? The six response categories were ranked from one to six, one being the most valuable. CRO clinical research organizations, MR mean ranking (of the response category), SD standard deviation. Figure S2. Relative importance of site-related qualities while running early phase (A) and phase III trials (B)* * Respondents (n = 83) were asked which of three site-related qualities the clinical operations departments at the affiliates of their company find the most important while running an early phase and phase III clinical trial, respectively. The three response categories were ranked from one to three, one being the most important. MR mean ranking (of the response category), SD standard deviation. Figure S3. The assessment of biopharmaceutical affiliates and CROs in early phase (A) and phase III trials (B)* * The biopharmaceutical-respondents (n = 43) were asked which of four factors the headquarters of their company find the most important when evaluating the affiliates’ performance regarding running clinical trials. For CRO respondents (n = 40), the question referred to the headquarters evaluation of the CRO. The four response categories were ranked from one to four, one being the most important. CRO clinical research organization, MR mean ranking (of the response category), SD standard deviation
Zn-Neighbor Cu NQR in Zn-Substituted YBa2Cu3O7-d and YBa2Cu4O8
Creators: name: Itoh, Y.
name: Machi, T.
name: Kasai, C.
name: Adachi, S.
name: Watanabe, N.
name: Koshizuka, N.
name: Murakami, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied local electronic states near Zn in optimally doped YBa$_2$(Cu$_{1-x}$Zn_x)$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ and underdoped YBa$_2$(Cu$_{1-x}$Zn_x)$_4$O$_8$ via satellite signals of plane-site Cu(2) nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectra. From the relative intensity of Cu NQR spectra, the satellite signals are assigned to Zn-neighbor Cu NQR lines. The Cu nuclear spin-lattice relaxation time of the satellite signal is shorter than that of the main signal, which indicates that the magnetic correlation is locally enhanced near Zn both for the underdoped and the optimally doped systems. The pure YBa$_2$Cu$_4$O$_8$ is a stoichiometric, homogenous, underdoped electronic system; nevertheless, the Zn-induced inhomogeneous magnetic response in the CuO$_2$ plane is more marked than that of the optimally doped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$.
description: 9 pages including 8 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B
Abstract of: Strength evaluation and failure prediction of bolted and adhesive glass/steel joints
Creators: name: Katsivalis, Ioannis
name: Thomsen, Ole Thybo
name: Feih, Stefanie
name: Achintha, Mithila
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: This paper investigates the use of bolted and brittle/ductile adhesive connections in glass structures. Two benchmark designs of shear connections are introduced and tested experimentally in quasi-static tensile tests. The designs consist of tempered glass and aluminium substrates while steel splices are used for the load application. In addition, material characterisation testing for the glass and the adhesive is performed and the outputs are used for the numerical simulation of the same joints. Pressure-sensitive, plasticity and failure models are introduced and calibrated to accurately capture the behaviour of the adhesives. Good agreement between the experimental observations and numerical predictions is achieved. The results show that both types of adhesive joints outperform bolted joints while counter-intuitively the lower strength ductile adhesive achieves consistently higher joint strength compared to the brittle adhesive. The numerical analyses highlight that while brittle adhesive joints fail once the fracture strain of the adhesive has been reached, while for ductile adhesives an extensive plastic zone develops near the areas of stress concentrations thereby delaying the damage initiation.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
Abstract of: Mechanical Behaviour of Transparent Structural Silicone Adhesive (TSSA) Steel-to-Glass Laminated Connections Under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading
Creators: name: Ioannidou-Kati, Anna
name: Santarsiero, Manuel
name: De Vries, Peter
name: Teixeira De Freitas, Sofia
name: Nijsse, Rob
name: Louter, Christian
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: Steel-to-glass laminated connections, which have recently been developed, limit stress intensifications on the glass and combine strength and transparency. Transparent Structural Silicone Adhesive (TSSA) connections have been used in several projects worldwide; however, the hyperelastic and viscoelastic nature of the material has to date not been fully investigated. In this work, the first objective is to investigate the mechanical response of TSSA connections under static and cyclic loading by means of experimental tests. Firstly, the shear behaviour of TSSA circular connections is characterized by means of monotonic and cyclic loading tests. The adhesive exhibits significant stress-softening under repeated cycles that becomes more severe as the maximum load increases. Secondly, TSSA circular connections are subjected to monotonic and cyclic tensile loading of increasing maximum load. The way whitening propagates on the adhesive surface shows some consistency comparing the cases of static and cyclic loading. The second objective is to analytically describe the deformation behaviour of the adhesive based on hyperelastic prediction models. Uniaxial and biaxial tension tests are combined with the simple shear tests, for the material characterization of TSSA. The hyperelastic material parameters are calibrated by a simultaneous multi-experiment-data-fit based on the nonlinear least squares optimization method. The softening behaviour observed in shear tests is modeled based on a simplified pseudo-elastic damage model proposed by Ogden–Roxburgh. A first attempt is also made to model the actual softening response of the adhesive. A less conservative approach proposed by Guo, also based on the theory of pseudo-elasticity, proved to give a good approximation of the actual cyclic response of the adhesive.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
MOESM3 of Prevalence and associated factors of zinc deficiency among pregnant women and children in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Kidanemaryam Berhe
name: Freweini Gebrearegay
name: Hadush Gebremariam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Table that shows the laboratory analysis approaches used to determine serum zinc level of the study participants of the studies included in the systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence and associated factors of zinc deficiency among pregnant women and children in Ethiopia, 2019.
Product Knowledge Graph Embedding for E-commerce
Creators: name: Xu, Da
name: Ruan, Chuanwei
name: Korpeoglu, Evren
name: Kumar, Sushant
name: Achan, Kannan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a new product knowledge graph (PKG) embedding approach for learning the intrinsic product relations as product knowledge for e-commerce. We define the key entities and summarize the pivotal product relations that are critical for general e-commerce applications including marketing, advertisement, search ranking and recommendation. We first provide a comprehensive comparison between PKG and ordinary knowledge graph (KG) and then illustrate why KG embedding methods are not suitable for PKG learning. We construct a self-attention-enhanced distributed representation learning model for learning PKG embeddings from raw customer activity data in an end-to-end fashion. We design an effective multi-task learning schema to fully leverage the multi-modal e-commerce data. The Poincare embedding is also employed to handle complex entity structures. We use a real-world dataset from grocery.walmart.com to evaluate the performances on knowledge completion, search ranking and recommendation. The proposed approach compares favourably to baselines in knowledge completion and downstream tasks.
Mitigation of seismic waves: metabarriers and metafoundations bench tested
Creators: name: Colombi, Andrea
name: Zaccherini, Rachele
name: Palermo, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The article analyses two potential metamaterial designs, the metafoundation and the metabarrier, capable to attenuate seismic waves on buildings or structural components in a frequency band between 3.5 to 8 Hz. The metafoundation serves the dual purpose of reducing the seismic response and supporting the superstructure. Conversely the metabarrier surrounds and shields the structure from incoming waves. The two solutions are based on a cell layout of local resonators whose dynamic properties are tuned using finite element simulations combined with Bloch-Floquet boundary conditions. To enlarge the attenuation band, a graded design where the resonant frequency of each cell varies spatially is employed. If appropriately enlarged or reduced, the metamaterial designs could be used to attenuate lower frequency seismic waves or groundborne vibrations respectively. A sensitivity analysis over various design parameters including size, number of resonators, soil type and source directivity, carried out by computing full 3D numerical simulations in time domain for horizontal shear waves is proposed. Overall, the metamaterial solutions discussed here can reduce the spectral amplification of the superstructure between approx. 15 to 70% depending on several parameters including the metastructure size and the properties of the soil. Pitfalls and advantages of each configuration are discussed in detail. The role of damping, crucial to avoid multiple resonant coupling, and the analogies between graded metamaterials and tuned mass dampers is also investigated.
description: Article submitted to Journal of Sound and Vibrations. Comments and suggestions are welcome
Abstract of: Experimental Investigation of Mortar Mechanical Properties for Glass Brick Masonry
Creators: name: Fíla, Jiří
name: Eliášová, Martina
name: Sokol, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: The main advantage of solid bricks over hollow blocks is substantially higher compressive strength. On the other hand, solid bricks have much higher thermal conductivity, which would lead to major heat loss when used for exterior walls. Masonry pillars and walls are usually loaded by compression and/or bending resulting from the eccentricity of vertical load or wind load. In case of solid glass bricks, compressive strength is about ten times higher than tension strength therefore the limiting factor of the glass masonry is tensile stress resulting from the bending. Whether compared to ceramic or concrete bricks masonry, the glass bricks have a smooth and non-absorbent surface and the adhesion of the mortar to the glass surface is the critical parameter. Presented paper is focused on the experimental investigation of mortar applicable for glass brick masonry with regard to possible use for supporting brick walls or columns. Shear, compression and adhesion tests have been recently performed. Shear and adhesion resistance and failure modes of brick bed joint were determined during series of tests using various mortar composition, two types of surface treatment and different thickness of the mortar joint. Significant influence of the joint thickness on the resistance was found. The compression tests were performed on two small pillars to determine the compression resistance and failure mode of glass bricks walls and pillars. In parallel to these tests, several small-scale tests have been performed to determine of flexural and compressive strength of hardened mortar.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
Could Black-Hole X-Ray Binaries Be Detected in Globular Clusters?
Creators: name: Kalogera, Vassiliki
name: King, Andrew
name: Rasio, Frederic A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the implications of the presence of ~1 stellar-mass black hole (BH) at the center of a dense globular cluster. We show that BH X-ray binaries formed through exchange interactions are likely to have extremely low duty cycles (<0.001), consistent with the absence of BH X-ray transients in Galactic globular clusters. In contrast, we find that BH X-ray binaries formed through tidal capture would be persistent, bright X-ray sources. Given the absence of any such source and the very high interaction rates, we conclude that tidal capture of a main-sequence star by a BH most likely leads to the complete disruption of the star.
description: 4 pages, to appear in ApJ Letters
A model for evaluating the multifunctionality of agriculture in Slovenia
Creators: name: Bedrac, Matej
name: Cunder, Tomaz
name: Bedrac, Matej
name: Cunder, Tomaz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: multifunctionality of agriculture
subject: evaluation model
subject: agricultural policy

description: The primary aim of the present paper is to introduce a model which permits relevant, actual and continuous monitoring of the multifunctionality of agriculture in Slovenia and, using the model, to evaluate to what extent key elements of multifunctional agriculture were in fact infl uenced by recent agricultural policy goals and measures. Said evaluation was performed on various “multifunctionality elements” using available statistical data for the period examined. Based on selected socio-economic and spatial indicators, together with indicators of biological diversity, the model provides an effi cient tool for assessing the effectiveness of agricultural policy and its impact on the different functions of agriculture. To evaluate the various multifunctionality elements of agriculture and to assess the effect of agricultural policy measures, the model comprises a qualitative assessment, quantitative assessment and the application of indicators of multifunctionality. Based on the collected set of production, environmental and social indicators used, the study points to an increased multifunctional role of agriculture and agricultural policy in Slovenia. The results furthermore show that the goals of agricultural policy in the period 1994-2004 were achieved to a great extent and that the multifunctional attitude of agriculture in Slovenia is increasing.
MOESM2 of Prevalence and associated factors of zinc deficiency among pregnant women and children in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Kidanemaryam Berhe
name: Freweini Gebrearegay
name: Hadush Gebremariam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Filled checklist for quality assessment of the included studies in the systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence and associated factors of zinc deficiency among pregnant women and children in Ethiopia, 2019.
title: Discounting in Mortgage Markets
Creators: name: Allen, Jason
name: Clark, Robert
name: Houde, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2011

description: This paper studies discounting in mortgage markets. Using transaction-level data on Canadian mortgages, we document that over time there's been an increase in the average discount, along with substantial dispersion. The standard explanation for dispersion in credit markets is that lenders engage in risk-based pricing. Our setting is unique since contracts are guaranteed by government-backed insurance, meaning risk cannot be the main driver of dispersion. We find that mortgage rates depend on individual, contractual, and shopping market characteristics. There is also an important amount of unobserved heterogeneity in rates, which could be attributed to search costs.
description: Les auteurs étudient les rabais consentis sur les taux hypothécaires affichés. Au terme d'un examen détaillé des transactions hypothécaires conclues au Canada, ils constatent une hausse du rabais moyen au fil du temps ainsi qu'une forte dispersion des rabais accordés. Cette dispersion sur les marchés du crédit est généralement attribuée à la différenciation des prix que les prêteurs pratiqueraient en fonction du risque. L'approche adoptée ici est novatrice en ce que les contrats hypothécaires bénéficient d'une assurance garantie par l'État, de sorte que le risque ne peut être le principal déterminant de la dispersion. Les auteurs concluent que les taux hypothécaires dépendent des caractéristiques des ménages et des prêts ainsi que des particularités du marché local. Une bonne partie de l'hétérogénéité des taux s'explique également par des caractéristiques non observées, peut-être liées aux coûts de recherche.
Supplementary document for Unambiguous spectral characterization on triplet energy transfer from quantum dots mediated by hole transfer competing with other carrier dynamics - 6173732.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Yang, Gaoyuan
name: Zhang, Boyu
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Liu, Dezheng
name: Liang, Ying
name: Liang, Guijie
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Abstract of: On Cavitation in Transparent Structural Silicone Adhesive: TSSA
Creators: name: Drass, Michael
name: Kolupaev, Vladimir A.
name: Schneider, Jens
name: Kolling, Stefan
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: Cavitation in rubber-like materials describes sudden void growth of an initially voided material under hydrostatic tension until the material fails. To study the cavitation effect numerically, classical cavitation criteria are coupled with a continuum damage formulation of a Neo-Hookean material. A cavitation criterion defines a failure surface in threedimensional stress or strain space, which represents the onset of excessive void growth and therefore the strong degradation of the bulk modulus. To account for this special case of material softening, a novel continuum damage formulation at finite strains is presented, where the initially constant bulk modulus of a hyperelastic material is reduced after satisfying a cavitation criterion. Since this formulation leads to an abrupt damage initiation, additionally a continuously volumetric damage formulation is proposed and compared with it. Therefore, novel void growth criteria are developed, which describe the cavitation effect even under smallest volumetric strains. For numerical validation, a single element test is simulated under hydrostatic tension. Furthermore, pancake tests are numerically analysed. The results with regard on the chosen cavitation criterion and the abrupt/continuously damage formulation are compared with each other analysing TSSA.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
title: Trading Dynamics with Adverse Selection and Search: Market Freeze, Intervention and Recovery
Creators: name: Chiu, Jonathan
name: Koeppl, Thorsten V.
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2011

description: We study the trading dynamics in an asset market where the quality of assets is private information of the owner and finding a counterparty takes time. When trading of a financial asset ceases in equilibrium as a response to an adverse shock to asset quality, a large player can resurrect the market by buying up lemons which involves assuming financial losses. The equilibrium response to such a policy is intricate as it creates an announcement effect: a mere announcement of intervening at a later point in time can cause markets to function again. This effect leads to a gradual recovery in trading volume, with asset prices converging non-monotonically to their normal values. The optimal policy is to intervene immediately with minimal size when markets are deemed important and losses are small. As losses increase and the importance of the market declines, the optimal intervention is delayed and it can be desirable to rely more on the announcement effect by increasing the size of the intervention. Search frictions are important for all these results. They compound adverse selection, making a market more fragile with respect to a classic lemons problem. They dampen the announcement effect and cause the optimal policy to be more aggressive, leading to an earlier intervention at a larger scale.
description: Les auteurs étudient la dynamique des échanges sur un marché où la qualité des actifs est une information privée détenue par les propriétaires et où la recherche d’une contrepartie demande du temps. Lorsque, à l’équilibre, les actifs financiers ne sont plus échangés par suite d’un choc entraînant une dégradation de leur qualité, l’intervention d’un participant de grande stature, qui est prêt à acheter des actifs de mauvaise qualité et, donc, à supporter des pertes financières, peut relancer les échanges. Cette intervention donne lieu à un équilibre complexe car elle produit un effet d’annonce : le seul fait d’annoncer une intervention à venir peut amener les marchés à fonctionner de nouveau. Cet effet entraîne une reprise graduelle du volume d’échanges, les prix convergeant de façon non monotone à leurs valeurs normales. La politique optimale consiste à intervenir immédiatement par l’acquisition d’un volume minimal d’actifs pendant que le marché est jugé important et que les pertes sont minces. Lorsque les pertes grossissent et que l’importance du marché décline, il devient optimal d’intervenir plus tardivement, et il peut alors être préférable de compter davantage sur l’effet d’annonce en haussant la taille des achats escomptés. Les frictions concernant la prospection comptent dans tous ces résultats. Elles amplifient l’antisélection, rendant le marché plus vulnérable aux difficultés que crée généralement la présence d’actifs de piètre qualité. Elles atténuent l’effet d’annonce et requièrent une politique optimale plus ambitieuse, c’est-à-dire une intervention précoce à plus grande échelle.
title: Do Low Interest Rates Sow the Seeds of Financial Crises?
Creators: name: Cociuba, Simona E.
name: Shukayev, Malik
name: Ueberfeldt, Alexander
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2011

description: A view advanced in the aftermath of the late-2000s financial crisis is that lower than optimal interest rates lead to excessive risk taking by financial intermediaries. We evaluate this view in a quantitative dynamic model in which interest rate policy affects risk taking by changing the amount of safe bonds that intermediaries use as collateral in the repo market. In this model with properly-priced collateral, lower than optimal interest rates reduce risk taking. We also consider the possibility that intermediaries can augment their collateral by issuing assets whose risk is underestimated by credit rating agencies, as was observed prior to the crisis. In the presence of such mispriced collateral, lower than optimal interest rates contribute to excessive risk taking and amplify the severity of recessions.
description: La crise financière de la fin des années 2000 en a amené plusieurs à soutenir que des taux d’intérêt inférieurs au taux optimal encouragent la prise de risques excessifs par les intermédiaires financiers. Pour déterminer ce qu’il en est, les auteurs recourent à un modèle dynamique quantitatif dans lequel la politique de taux d’intérêt influe sur la prise de risque en modifiant le volume des obligations sûres que les intermédiaires utilisent en garantie d’emprunts sur le marché des pensions. Lorsque les garanties sont évaluées correctement, le maintien de taux d’intérêt inférieurs au taux optimal réduit la prise de risque. Les auteurs examinent aussi la possibilité que les intermédiaires augmentent leur volume de garanties en émettant des actifs dont le risque est sous-estimé par les agences de notation, comme ce fut le cas avant la crise. En présence de garanties mal évaluées, de tels taux d’intérêt contribuent à la prise de risques excessifs et amplifient la gravité des récessions.
Replicon modes and stability of critical behaviour of disordered systems with respect to the continuous replica symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Fedorenko, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A field-theory approach is used to investigate the ''spin-glass effects'' on the critical behaviour of systems with weak temperature-like quenched disorder. The renormalization group (RG) analysis of the effective Hamiltonian of a model with replica symmetry breaking (RSB) potentials of a general type is carried out in the two-loop approximation. The fixed-point (FP) stability, recently found within the one-step RSB RG treatment, is further explored in terms of replicon eigenvalues. We find that the traditional FPs, which are usually considered to describe the disorder-induced universal critical behaviour, remain stable when the continuous RSB modes are taken into account.
description: 10 pages, IOP style
Abstract of: Sensitivity Study on Climate Induced Internal Pressure within Cylindrical Curved IGUs
Creators: name: Bao, Minxi
name: Gregson, Sam
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: Insulated glass units (IGUs) are employed in modern buildings as a substitute for monolithic glass to reduce heat loss through windows. In the past decades, the pursuit of higher aesthetic design drives glazed products evolving from conventionally flat into more creative and dynamic curved shapes. The call for curved IGUs brings up a series of challenges, and one remarkable issue is the determination of load sharing and glass stress when evaluating its structural performance. Even though many national codes worldwide have established mature design approaches for load sharing of flat IGUs panels, such design approaches can scarcely be found for curved IGUs due to geometry complexity. In this paper, the author will use an FEA tool along with automatic iteration scripts to carry out a sensitivity study on the internal climatic pressure of cylindrically curved IGUs, considering a series of geometrical variables. The paper aims to evaluate the relationships between the internal pressure and the geometrical parameters of curved IGUs and normalize all these parameters into a dimensionless chart.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6
title: Bank Leverage Regulation and Macroeconomic Dynamics
Creators: name: Christensen, Ian
name: Meh, Cesaire
name: Moran, Kevin
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2011

description: This paper assesses the merits of countercyclical bank balance sheet regulation for the stabilization of financial and economic cycles and examines its interaction with monetary policy. The framework used is a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with banks and bank capital, in which bank capital solves an asymmetric information problem between banks and their creditors. In this economy, the lending decisions of individual banks affect the riskiness of the whole banking sector, though banks do not internalize this impact. Regulation, in the form of a constraint on bank leverage, can mitigate the impact of this externality by inducing banks to alter the intensity of their monitoring efforts. We find that countercyclical bank leverage regulation can have desirable stabilization properties, particularly when financial shocks are an important source of economic fluctuations. However, the appropriate contribution of countercyclical capital requirements to stabilization after a technology shock depends on the size of the externality and on the conduct of the monetary authority.
description: Les auteurs évaluent les avantages de la réglementation contracyclique des bilans bancaires pour la stabilisation des cycles économiques et financiers, et examinent comment cette réglementation interagit avec la politique monétaire. Ils s’appuient sur un modèle d’équilibre général dynamique et stochastique comportant des banques et des fonds propres bancaires, dans lequel les fonds propres apportent la solution à un problème d’asymétrie d’information entre les établissements et leurs créanciers. Dans cette représentation de l’économie, les décisions de chaque banque en matière de prêt ont une incidence sur le risque présenté par l’ensemble du secteur bancaire, même si les banques n’internalisent pas cet effet. La réglementation, qui consiste en une limitation du levier financier, peut atténuer l’influence de cette externalité en incitant les banques à modifier l’intensité de leurs efforts de surveillance. Les auteurs constatent que la réglementation contracyclique du levier financier peut avoir des propriétés stabilisatrices souhaitables, en particulier lorsque les chocs financiers sont une importante source de fluctuations économiques. Néanmoins, après un choc technologique, l’apport adéquat des exigences de fonds propres contracycliques à la stabilisation dépend de l’ampleur de l’externalité et de la conduite de la politique monétaire.
NAOMI: the adaptive optics system of the Auxiliary Telescopes of the VLTI
Creators: name: J., Woillez
name: A., Abad J.
name: R., Abuter
name: E., Aller Carpentier
name: J., Alonso
name: L., Andolfato
name: P., Barriga
name: -P., Berger J.
name: -L., Beuzit J.
name: H., Bonnet
name: G., Bourdarot
name: P., Bourget
name: R., Brast
name: L., Caniguante
name: E., Cottalorda
name: P., Darré
name: B., Delabre
name: A., Delboulbé
name: F., Delplancke-Ströbele
name: R., Dembet
name: R., Donaldson
name: R., Dorn
name: J., Dupeyron
name: C., Dupuy
name: S., Egner
name: F., Eisenhauer
name: G., Fischer
name: C., Frank
name: E., Fuenteseca
name: P., Gitton
name: F., Gonté
name: T., Guerlet
name: S., Guieu
name: P., Gutierrez
name: P., Haguenauer
name: A., Haimerl
name: X., Haubois
name: C., Heritier
name: S., Huber
name: N., Hubin
name: P., Jolley
name: L., Jocou
name: -P., Kirchbauer J.
name: J., Kolb
name: J., Kosmalski
name: P., Krempl
name: -B., Le Bouquin J.
name: M., Le Louarn
name: P., Lilley
name: B., Lopez
name: Y., Magnard
name: S., Mclay
name: A., Meilland
name: A., Meister
name: A., Merand
name: T., Moulin
name: L., Pasquini
name: J., Paufique
name: I., Percheron
name: L., Pettazzi
name: O., Pfuhl
name: D., Phan
name: W., Pirani
name: J., Quentin
name: A., Rakich
name: R., Ridings
name: M., Riedel
name: J., Reyes
name: S., Rochat
name: G., Santos Tomás
name: C., Schmid
name: N., Schuhler
name: P., Shchekaturov
name: M., Seidel
name: C., Soenke
name: E., Stadler
name: C., Stephan
name: M., Suárez
name: M., Todorovic
name: G., Valdes
name: C., Verinaud
name: G., Zins
name: S, Zúñiga-Fernández
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tip-tilt stabilisation system of the 1.8 m Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer was never dimensioned for robust fringe tracking, except when atmospheric seeing conditions are excellent. Increasing the level of wavefront correction at the telescopes is expected to improve the coupling into the single-mode fibres of the instruments, and enable robust fringe tracking even in degraded conditions. We deployed a new adaptive optics module for interferometry (NAOMI) on the Auxiliary Telescopes. We present its design, performance, and effect on the observations that are carried out with the interferometric instruments.
description: 10 pages, 18 figures, 2 tables, A&A forthcoming
Abstract of: A Linear Formulation for the ULS Design of Glass Elements under Combined Loads - Application to IGUs
Creators: name: Bedon, Chiara
name: Amadio, Claudio
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2018

description: Glass is an increasingly used material in construction and buildings. Despite its large application as load-bearing construction material, several aspects related to safe and optimal design are still under investigation and exploration, towards the full implementation of standardized rules of practical use. One of the main concerns in the design of this typically tensile brittle material is the rational estimation of static fatigue phenomena, under the effects of multiple design loads. In this paper, following earlier efforts, careful consideration is paid to the ultimate resistance verification (ULS) of structural glass elements under a combination of variable loads with specific duration. The ULS resistance assessment is carried out for double insulated glass units, being representative of large number of glass applications in buildings, and requiring specific design assumptions due to their intrinsic features.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6 (2018): Challenging Glass 6