cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE DISTRIBUTIONAL BEHAVIOR OF FUTURES PRICE SPREAD CHARGES: PARAMETRIC AND NONPARAMETRIC TESTS FOR GOLD, T-BONDS, CORN AND LIVE CATTLE
Creators: name: Kim, MinKyoung
name: Leuthold, Raymond M.
name: Kim, MinKyoung
name: Leuthold, Raymond M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The distributional behavior for futures price spread changes is examined through parametric and nonparametric tests on four different commodities: corn and live cattle, and gold and T-bonds with two different sample sizes. Data are examined for selected periods, stable (1992) and unstable (1988). Remarkably different results were found over commodities, time period, and sample size. Actual spread changes for the smaller sample size of gold and T-bonds and of corn produced more normal distributions as intervals were widened from daily to weekly, while all live cattle spreads for actual changes were normally distributed. However, the larger sample size of both gold and T-bonds and the relative spread changes for both corn and live cattle did not converge to a normal distribution. The "best fit" distribution was tested nonparametrically on all daily spread samples, and the logistic distribution prevailed, which supported the results of nonnormality from parametric distributional tests.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROFILES AND MOTIVATIONS OF HABITUAL COMMODITY SPECULATORS
Creators: name: Canoles, W. Bruce
name: Thompson, Sarahelen R.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: France, Virginia G.
name: Canoles, W. Bruce
name: Thompson, Sarahelen R.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: France, Virginia G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The focus of this study is the habitual speculator in commodity futures markets. The speculator's activity broadens a market, creates essential liquidity, and performs an irreplaceable pricing function. Working knowledge of the profiles and motivations of habitual speculators is essential to both market theorist and policy makers. Responses to a 73 question survey were collected directly from retail commodity brokers with offices in Alabama. Each questionnaire recorded information on an individual commodity client who had traded for an extended period of time. The typical trader studied is a married, white male, age 52. He is affluent and well educated. He is a self-employed business owner who can recover from financial setbacks. He is a politically right wing conservative involved in the political process. He assumes a good deal of risk in most phases of his life. He is both an aggressive investor and an active gambler. This trader does not consider preservation of his commodity capital to be a very high trading priority. As a result, he rarely uses stop loss orders. He wins more frequently than he loses (over 51% of the time) but is an overall net loser in dollar terms. In spite of recurring trading losses, he has never made any substantial change in his basic trading style. To this trader, whether he won or lost on a particular trade is more important than the size of the win or loss. Thus he consistently cuts his profits short while letting his losses run. He also worries more about missing a move in the market by being on the sidelines than about losing by being on the wrong side of a market move; i.e., being in the action is more important than the financial consequences. Participating brokers confirmed that for the majority of the speculators studied, the primary motivation for continuous trading is the recreational utility derived largely from having a market position.
EVALUATING THE HEDGING POTENTIAL OF THE LEAN HOG FUTURES CONTRACT
Creators: name: Ditsch, Mark W.
name: Leuthold, Raymond M.
name: Ditsch, Mark W.
name: Leuthold, Raymond M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The lean hog futures contract is replacing the live hog futures contract at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange beginning with the February 1997 contract. The lean hog futures will be cash settled based on a broad-based lean hog price index, eliminating terminal markets from the price discovery process. Using this index over a twenty-month period as a proxy for the lean hog futures price, this paper compares the hedging effectiveness of the live hog futures contract to the hedging potential of the lean hog futures contract for cash live hogs as well as four cash meat cuts. Frozen pork bellies futures are also examined for the cash meats. Both long-term and short-term hedges are simulated, using the minimum-variance approach, which utilizes only unconditional information, and the Myers-Thompson approach that incorporates conditional information. The results show that the lean hog futures should perform better than either the live hog or the frozen pork bellies futures as a hedging instrument for Omaha cash hogs and cash loins. The strongest evidence of this is for the short-term hedging of cash hogs. For the other three meats, no futures contract demonstrated a clear hedging advantage.
RENT -- Repeated Elastic Net Technique for Feature Selection
Creators: name: Jenul, Anna
name: Schrunner, Stefan
name: Liland, Kristian Hovde
name: Indahl, Ulf Geir
name: Futsaether, Cecilia Marie
name: Tomic, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Feature selection is an essential step in data science pipelines to reduce the complexity associated with large datasets. While much research on this topic focuses on optimizing predictive performance, few studies investigate stability in the context of the feature selection process. In this study, we present the Repeated Elastic Net Technique (RENT) for Feature Selection. RENT uses an ensemble of generalized linear models with elastic net regularization, each trained on distinct subsets of the training data. The feature selection is based on three criteria evaluating the weight distributions of features across all elementary models. This fact leads to the selection of features with high stability that improve the robustness of the final model. Furthermore, unlike established feature selectors, RENT provides valuable information for model interpretation concerning the identification of objects in the data that are difficult to predict during training. In our experiments, we benchmark RENT against six established feature selectors on eight multivariate datasets for binary classification and regression. In the experimental comparison, RENT shows a well-balanced trade-off between predictive performance and stability. Finally, we underline the additional interpretational value of RENT with an exploratory post-hoc analysis of a healthcare dataset.
THE PRICING PERFORMANCE OF MARKET ADVISORY SERVICES IN CORN AND SOYBEANS OVER 1995-2001: A NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Creators: name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Good, Darrel L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this research report is to summarize the pricing performance of professional market advisory services for the 1995-2001 corn and soybean crops. First, advisory programs in corn do not consistently beat market benchmarks, but they do consistently beat the farmer benchmark. Second, advisory programs in soybeans tend to beat both market and farmer benchmarks. Third, in terms of 50/50 revenue, advisory programs only marginally beat market benchmarks, but consistently beat the farmer benchmark. So, the results provide mixed performance evidence with respect to market benchmarks and consistently positive evidence with respect to the farmer benchmark. Caution should be used when considering the results, due to the relatively small sample of crop years available for analysis. In particular, the presence of sharp downward price trends in most crop years makes it difficult to determine whether the 1995-2001 sample period provides a reliable guide to future differences in pricing performance.
Algortihm Inventarium method-sprint
Creators: name: Senabre HIdalgo, Enric
name: Battles, Matthew
name: Wandl-Vogt, Eveline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Digital Humanism, Digitaler Humanismus, Urban Humanism, Smart City, Knowledge City, Inclusive Living, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Menthods, Inverventions, Participatory Methods, Algorithm Species, Algorithm Inventarium

description: How can society's awareness and resilience around the operation and impact of algorithms be collaboratively expanded? From a cultural but also transdisciplinary perspective, there’s still a general lack of knowledge about how algorithms surround us and determine everyday life in many areas, invisibly and secretly operating through our progressively digitized contexts. Although algorithms increasingly determine citizen’s lives, as well as opportunities for innovation in cities, their usual articulation for progress and efficiency can present great bias, errors and counter effects. Algorithms represent a complex epistemic challenge: operating in close interrelation with data structures they constitute a core aspect of today’s culture, while the fast pace of its technological development requires new strategies for research and knowledge transfer to society.

 From a digital “humanism-centered” approach there’s the opportunity of addressing this issue by an “inventarium” perspective, contributing to ongoing research discussing how to make existing and possible algorithms more visible and explicit. On the one hand, opening a participatory process at the intersection between action research and citizen science in order to locate, dissect, classify and examine algorithms “species” operating behind apps, platforms and other digital tools, in an effort to articulate discovery and discussions beyond the mere mathematical and logical perspectives on algorithms. On the other hand, the “inventarium” concept also allows to experiment with a co-creation approach, based on principles of participatory design, for a series of workshops and interventions for generating novel questions, policies and even the formulation of new algorithms as cultural artifacts themselves.
The Draco dwarf in CDM and MOND
Creators: name: Lokas, Ewa L.
name: Mamon, Gary A.
name: Prada, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present interpretations of the line-of-sight velocity distribution of stars in the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy in terms of CDM and MOND assuming constant mass-to-light ratio and anisotropy. We estimate the two parameters by fitting the line-of-sight velocity dispersion and kurtosis profiles for stellar samples differing by a number of stars rejected as interlopers. The results of the fitting procedure for CDM, high mass-to-light ratio (131-141 solar units in V-band) and weakly tangential orbits, are similar for different samples, but the quality of the fit is much worse when fewer interlopers are removed. For MOND, the derived mass-to-light ratio (21 solar units) is too large to be explained by the stellar content of the galaxy.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, invited contribution to the proceedings of the XXIst IAP Colloquium "Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures", Paris 4-9 July 2005, Editors: G. Mamon, F. Combes, C. Deffayet, B. Fort, EDP Sciences, in press
Models of Little Higgs and Electroweak Precision Tests
Creators: name: Chen, Mu-Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The little Higgs idea is an alternative to supersymmetry as a solution to the gauge hierarchy problem. In this note, I review various little Higgs models and their phenomenology with emphases on the precision electroweak constraints in these models.
description: 16 pages; 4 figures; review submitted to Modern Physics Letter A
Eulimella ejuncida Pimenta, Santos & Absalao 2011
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Pyramidellidae
Eulimella
Eulimella ejuncida

description: ejuncida, Eulimella Pimenta, Santos & Absalão, 2011
 Eulimella ejuncida Pimenta, Santos & Absalão, 2011: 32–33 (figs 40–47).
Gastropoda, Pyramidellidae
 Holotype: MZSP 99916.
 Paratypes (4 spc): MZSP 99917.
 Paratypes 1 (5 spc): MZSP 99918.
 Paratypes 2 (3 spc): MZSP 99919.
 Locality: Brazil, off São Paulo, 25°46' S, 45°28.8' W, PADCT sta. 6631, 164 m depth (type locality); 1 ) off Paraná, 24°00.95' S, 43°55.54' W, REVIZEE sta. 6662, 135 m; 2) off Rio de Janeiro, 23°49.07' S, 42°46.81' W, PADCT sta. 6553, 225 m.
 Preservation: Dry.
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Four wave mixing oscillation in a semiconductor microcavity: Generation of two correlated polariton populations
Creators: name: Romanelli, Marco
name: Leyder, Charles
name: Karr, Jean-Philippe
name: Giacobino, Elisabeth
name: Bramati, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a novel kind of polariton four wave mixing oscillation. Two pump polaritons scatter towards final states that emit two beams of equal intensity, separated both spatially and in polarization with respect to the pumps. The measurement of the intensity fluctuations of the emitted light demonstrates that the final states are strongly correlated.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures In this strongly revised version several new experimental data are added
Modulating Effect of Evanscent Waves on Thin Film Growth
Creators: name: Guo, Rongjing
name: Chiang, Tai-Chang
name: Wang, Huan-hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomic-scale smooth thin films are keys to successful integration and proper function of many multilayer-structured devices. However, the intrinsic island-like growth mode prevents human being from realizing such ultrasmooth films of many important functional materials. To solve this problem, we propose a negative entropy-infusing method that employs evanescent waves to enhance the downward interlayer diffusion of adatoms and thus transform the island-like growth mode to the layer-by-layer growth mode. The formulas of the optical force and the lowered diffusion barrier were derived, and the application of this theory on a simplified example demonstrates significantly improved surface morphologies through numerical simulations.
description: It contribute a generic approach to alter intrinsic 3D growth mode to 2D growth mode using an external effect arising from evanescent waves, which is expected to remove the obstacle of intrinsic island-like growth mode from growing ultra-smooth thin films
The Profitability of Technical Trading Rules in US Futures Markets: A Data Snooping Free Test
Creators: name: Park, Cheol-Ho
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Park, Cheol-Ho
name: Irwin, Scott H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Numerous empirical studies have investigated the profitability of technical trading rules in a wide variety of markets, and many of them found positive profits. Despite positive evidence about profitability and improvements in testing procedures, skepticism about technical trading profits remains widespread among academics mainly due to data snooping problems. This study tries to mitigate the problems by confirming the results of a previous study and then replicating the original testing procedure on a new body of data. Results indicate that in 12 U.S. futures markets technical trading profits have gradually declined over time. Substantial technical trading profits during the 1978-1984 period are no longer available in the 1985-2003 period.
Experimental search for anisotropic flux flow resistivity in the a-b plane of optimally doped epitaxial thin films of YBCO
Creators: name: Koren, G.
name: Aronov, P.
name: Polturak, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transport measurements along the node and anti-node directions in the a-b plane of optimally doped and epitaxial thin films of YBCO are reported. Low bias magnetoresistance measurements near and below T_c show that the flux flow resistivity along the node and anti-node directions versus magnetic field are indistinguishable. This result suggests that within the experimental error of our measurements, no correspondence is found between the flux pinning properties in YBCO and the d-wave nature of the order parameter.
description: 5 figures
THE ROLE OF MARKET ADVISORY SERVICES IN CROP MARKETING AND RISK MANAGEMENT: A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF SURVEY RESULTS
Creators: name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Gomez, Jennifer K.
name: Pennings, Joost M.E.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Gomez, Jennifer K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Risk and Uncertainty

description: The purpose of this report is to provide a preliminary summary of the results of a survey designed to help answer the questions about subscriber use of market advisory services. Importantly, this research is a cooperative partnership between the University of Illinois and the Data Transmission Network. The survey participants are commercial producers of major grain, oilseed and fiber crops, representing important agricultural areas of the US. The survey has three broad objectives, including 1) how US producers perceive the riskiness of various aspects of farming; 2) how US producers manage farm business risk, and 3) how US producers select and use market advisory services.
Rado equations solved by linear combinations of idempotent ultrafilters
Creators: name: Baglini, Lorenzo Luperi
name: Arruda, Paulo Henrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 5D10, 11D04 (Primary) 54D35, 54D80 (Secondary)

description: We fully characterise the solvability of Rado equations inside linear combinations $a_{1}\U\oplus\dots\oplus a_{n}\U$ of idempotent ultrafilters $\U\inβ\Z$ by exploiting known relations between such combinations and strings of integers. This generalises a partial characterization previously obtained by Mauro Di Nasso.
High-Order Coupled Cluster Calculations Via Parallel Processing: An Illustration For CaV$_4$O$_9$
Creators: name: Farnell, D. J. J.
name: Schulenburg, J.
name: Richter, J.
name: Gernoth, K. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupled cluster method (CCM) is a method of quantum many-body theory that may provide accurate results for the ground-state properties of lattice quantum spin systems even in the presence of strong frustration and for lattices of arbitrary spatial dimensionality. Here we present a significant extension of the method by introducing a new approach that allows an efficient parallelization of computer codes that carry out ``high-order'' CCM calculations. We find that we are able to extend such CCM calculations by an order of magnitude higher than ever before utilized in a high-order CCM calculation for an antiferromagnet. Furthermore, we use only a relatively modest number of processors, namely, eight. Such very high-order CCM calculations are possible {\it only} by using such a parallelized approach. An illustration of the new approach is presented for the ground-state properties of a highly frustrated two-dimensional magnetic material, CaV$_4$O$_9$. Our best results for the ground-state energy and sublattice magnetization for the pure nearest-neighbor model are given by $E_g/N=-0.5534$ and $M=0.19$, respectively, and we predict that there is no Néel ordering in the region $0.2 \le J_2/J_1 \le 0.7$. These results are shown to be in excellent agreement with the best results of other approximate methods.
description: 4 pages
Joint universal lossy coding and identification of i.i.d. vector sources
Creators: name: Raginsky, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of joint universal source coding and modeling, addressed by Rissanen in the context of lossless codes, is generalized to fixed-rate lossy coding of continuous-alphabet memoryless sources. We show that, for bounded distortion measures, any compactly parametrized family of i.i.d. real vector sources with absolutely continuous marginals (satisfying appropriate smoothness and Vapnik--Chervonenkis learnability conditions) admits a joint scheme for universal lossy block coding and parameter estimation, and give nonasymptotic estimates of convergence rates for distortion redundancies and variational distances between the active source and the estimated source. We also present explicit examples of parametric sources admitting such joint universal compression and modeling schemes.
description: 5 (or 6 with hyperref) pages, 2 eps figures; final version to appear in Proc. ISIT 2006; full version of this paper was submitted to IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory and can be found at cs.IT/0512015
Paper to Electronic MedRec Implementation Toolkit
Creators: name: Kuo, Alex MH; Monkman, Helen; Borycki, Elizabeth M.; Kushniruk, Andre W.; Sever, Lisa; Watt, Alice; Carthy, Brenda; Leung, Valerie; Cass, Mike; Nayani, Seema
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Libraries
Year: 2017

Abstract
Spatiotemporal Pattern Mining for Nowcasting Extreme Earthquakes in Southern California
Creators: name: Feng, Bo
name: Fox, Geoffrey C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Geoscience and seismology have utilized the most advanced technologies and equipment to monitor seismic events globally from the past few decades. With the enormous amount of data, modern GPU-powered deep learning presents a promising approach to analyze data and discover patterns. In recent years, there are plenty of successful deep learning models for picking seismic waves. However, forecasting extreme earthquakes, which can cause disasters, is still an underdeveloped topic in history. Relevant research in spatiotemporal dynamics mining and forecasting has revealed some successful predictions, a crucial topic in many scientific research fields. Most studies of them have many successful applications of using deep neural networks. In Geology and Earth science studies, earthquake prediction is one of the world's most challenging problems, about which cutting-edge deep learning technologies may help discover some valuable patterns. In this project, we propose a deep learning modeling approach, namely \tseqpre, to mine spatiotemporal patterns from data to nowcast extreme earthquakes by discovering visual dynamics in regional coarse-grained spatial grids over time. In this modeling approach, we use synthetic deep learning neural networks with domain knowledge in geoscience and seismology to exploit earthquake patterns for prediction using convolutional long short-term memory neural networks. Our experiments show a strong correlation between location prediction and magnitude prediction for earthquakes in Southern California. Ablation studies and visualization validate the effectiveness of the proposed modeling method.
Frieling, Reinhard: Die Bewegung für Glauben und Kirchenverfassung 1910-1937
Creators: name: Gaßmann, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (1971): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 20, Heft 1
Description of Quantum Entanglement with Nilpotent Polynomials
Creators: name: Mandilara, A.
name: Akulin, V. M.
name: Smilga, A. V.
name: Viola, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a general method for introducing extensive characteristics of quantum entanglement. The method relies on polynomials of nilpotent raising operators that create entangled states acting on a reference vacuum state. By introducing the notion of tanglemeter, the logarithm of the state vector represented in a special canonical form and expressed via polynomials of nilpotent variables, we show how this description provides a simple criterion for entanglement as well as a universal method for constructing the invariants characterizing entanglement. We compare the existing measures and classes of entanglement with those emerging from our approach. We derive the equation of motion for the tanglemeter and, in representative examples of up to four-qubit systems, show how the known classes appear in a natural way within our framework. We extend our approach to qutrits and higher-dimensional systems, and make contact with the recently introduced idea of generalized entanglement. Possible future developments and applications of the method are discussed.
description: 40 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, submitted for publication. v2: section II.E has been changed and the Appendix on "Four qubit sl-entanglement measure" has been removed. There are changes in the notation of section IV. Typos and language mistakes has been corrected. A figure has been added and a figure has been replaced. The references have been updated
PORTFOLIOS OF AGRICULTURAL MARKET ADVISORY SERVICES: HOW MUCH DIVERSIFICATION IS ENOUGH?
Creators: name: Stark, Brian G.
name: Cabrini, Silvina M.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Stark, Brian G.
name: Cabrini, Silvina M.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Agricultural market advisory services offer specific advice to farmers on how to market their commodities. Farmers can subscribe to one or more of these services and follow their advice as a way of managing price risk. According to portfolio theory, a combination of these services may have risk/return benefits compared to individual services. This report analyzes the potential risk reduction gains from naïve diversification among market advisory services for corn and soybeans. Results show that increasing the number of (equal-weighting) services reduces portfolio expected risk, but the marginal decrease in risk from adding a new service decreases rapidly with portfolio size. The risk reduction benefits of naïve diversification among advisory services is relatively small compared to the results obtained in previous studies for stock portfolios, and this is mainly because advisory prices, on average, are highly correlated. A one service portfolio has only a 20%, 16% and 32% higher expected standard deviation than the minimum risk naïve portfolio for corn, soybeans and 50/50 revenue, respectively. Most risk reduction benefits are achieved with small portfolios. For instance, a four service portfolio has only 5%, 4% and 9% higher expected standard deviation than the minimum risk naïve portfolio for corn, soybeans and 50/50 revenue, respectively. Based on these results, there does not appear to be strong justification for farmers adopting portfolios with a large number of advisory services. Farmers may well choose portfolios with as few as two or three programs, since the relatively high total subscription costs associated with larger portfolios can be avoided while obtaining most of the benefits from diversification.
Symptychiella elegantissima Nordsieck 2005
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Clausiliidae
Symptychiella
Symptychiella elegantissima

description: elegantissima, Symptychiella Nordsieck, 2005
 Symptychiella (Divanenia) elegantissima Nordsieck, 2005b: 213–214 (fig. 22).
Gastropoda, Clausiliidae
 Paratype: MZSP 95488.
 Locality: Peru, Dept. San Martin, path from Palestina to Cueva Huacharos de Palestina (ca. 23 km NW of Rioja), 05°56.403' S, 77°20.693' W, 26 Mar. 2005.
 Collector: J. Hemmen.
 Preservation: Dry.
 Remarks: Former Jens Hemmen Collection. The specimen listed above is a remainder of a 13-specimen paratype lot deposited by Nordsieck in Hemmen’s collection.
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Multiscale simulations for multi-continuum Richards equations
Creators: name: Park, Jun Sur Richard
name: Cheung, Siu Wun
name: Mai, Tina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N30, 65N99

description: In this paper, we study a multiscale method for simulating a dual-continuum unsaturated flow problem within complex heterogeneous fractured porous media. Mathematically, each of the dual continua is modeled by a multiscale Richards equation (for pressure head), and these equations are coupled to one another by transfer terms. On its own, Richards equation is already a nonlinear partial differential equation, and it is exceedingly difficult to solve numerically due to the extra nonlinear dependencies involving the soil water. To deal with multiple scales, our strategy is that starting from a microscopic scale, we upscale the coupled system of dual-continuum Richards equations via homogenization by the two-scale asymptotic expansion, to obtain a homogenized system, at an intermediate scale (level). Based on a hierarchical approach, the homogenization's effective coefficients are computed through solving the arising cell problems. To tackle the nonlinearity, after time discretization, we use Picard iteration procedure for linearization of the homogenized Richards equations. At each Picard iteration, some degree of multiscale still remains from the intermediate level, so we utilize the generalized multiscale finite element method (GMsFEM) combining with a multi-continuum approach, to upscale the homogenized system to a macroscopic (coarse-grid) level. This scheme involves building uncoupled and coupled multiscale basis functions, which are used not only to construct coarse-grid solution approximation with high accuracy but also (with the coupled multiscale basis) to capture the interactions among continua. These prospects and convergence are demonstrated by several numerical results for the proposed method.
description: 45 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, major revision. This is the accepted manuscript by Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (2021). The published journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2021.113648 (2021)
Physics prospects of UV-filtered overlap quarks
Creators: name: Durr, Stephan
name: Hoelbling, Christian
name: Wenger, Urs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some key features of the overlap operator with a UV-filtered Wilson kernel are discussed. The first part concerns spectral properties of the underlying shifted hermitean Wilson operator and the relation to the observed speedup of the overlap construction. Next, the localization of the filtered overlap and its axial-vector renormalization constant are discussed. Finally, results of an exploratory scaling study for $m_{ud}, m_s$ and $f_π, f_K$ are presented.
description: Talk given at Workshop on Computational Hadron Physics, Nicosia, Cyprus, 14-17 Sep 2005
The Pricing Performance of Market Advisory Services in Corn and Soybeans over 1995-2003
Creators: name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Hagedorn, Lewis A.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes
name: Hagedorn, Lewis A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this research report is to evaluate the pricing performance of market advisory services for the 1995-2003 corn and soybean crops. Four basic indicators of performance are applied to advisory program prices and revenues over 1995-2003. Test results provide little evidence that advisory programs as a group outperform market benchmarks, particularly after considering risk. The evidence is somewhat more positive with respect to the farmer benchmark, even after taking risk into account. For example, the average advisory return relative to the farmer benchmark is $7 per acre with only a negligible increase in risk. While this return is small it nonetheless represents a non-trivial increase in net farm income per acre for grain farms in Illinois. Test results also suggest that it is difficult to usefully predict the year-to-year pricing performance of advisory programs based on past pricing performance. However, there is some evidence that performance is more predictable over longer time horizons, particularly at the extremes of performance rankings.
Reestruturação do Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing: Adaptação à Ciência Aberta e Compromisso com a Qualidade Editorial
Creators: name: Dantas Cavalcanti, Ana Carla
name: Peclat Flores, Paula Vanessa
name: Rangle Teixeira, Enéas
name: Herdy Alves, Valdecyr
name: Lima Alves, Raíra
name: Batista Souza, Samantha Kelly
name: Maia Matias, Lucas David
name: Cruz Neto, João
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão “O meu Póster em 1 minuto”, da 15ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, na Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto (ESEP), de 01 a 04 de outubro de 2024.
Jaeger, Henry-Evrard (hrsg.): Zeugnis für die Einheit
Creators: name: Kantzenbach, Friedrich Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (1971): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 20, Heft 1
Mass classification of dark matter perturbers of stellar tidal streams
Creators: name: Montanari, Francesco
name: García-Bellido, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar streams formed by tidal stripping of progenitors orbiting around the Milky Way are expected to be perturbed by encounters with dark matter subhalos. Recent studies have shown that they are an excellent proxy to infer properties of the perturbers, such as their mass. Here we present two different methodologies that make use of the fully non-Gaussian density distribution of stellar streams: a Bayesian model selection based on the probability density function (PDF) of stellar density, and a likelihood-free gradient boosting classifier. While the schemes do not assume a specific dark matter model, we are mainly interested in discerning the primordial black holes cold dark matter (PBH CDM) hypothesis form the standard particle dark matter one. Therefore, as an application we forecast model selection strength of evidence for cold dark matter clusters of masses $10^3$ - $10^5 M_{\odot}$ and $10^5$ - $10^9 M_{\odot}$, based on a GD-1-like stellar stream and including realistic observational errors. Evidence for the smaller mass range, so far under-explored, is particularly interesting for PBH CDM. We expect weak to strong evidence for model selection based on the PDF analysis, depending on the fiducial model. Instead, the gradient boosting model is a highly efficient classifier (99\% accuracy) for all mass ranges here considered. As a further test of the robustness of the method, we reach similar conclusions when performing forecasts further dividing the largest mass range into $10^5$ - $10^7 M_{\odot}$ and $10^7$ - $10^9 M_{\odot}$ ranges.
description: 37 pages, 12 figures; added analysis with two mass ranges
WELFARE LOSSES FROM FOOD SAFETY REGULATION IN THE POULTRY INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Goodwin, Harold L.
name: Shiptsova, Rimma
name: Goodwin, Harold L.
name: Shiptsova, Rimma
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Industrial Organization
Agribusiness

description: Results of surveys sent to plant managers of eleven firms representing 25 percent of the U.S. broiler volume were used to estimate HACCP implementation costs for poultry kill plants and to perform welfare analysis. First-year welfare losses were $70 million for the broiler industry. There were also substantial consumer losses.
A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR MARKET INTEGRATION TESTS: THE CASES OF THE U.S. BROILER INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Goodwin, Harold L.
name: Djunaidi, Harjanto
name: Goodwin, Harold L.
name: Djunaidi, Harjanto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Industrial Organization

description: Most studies on price relationships in spatial markets assume that perfect information is a public good. However, during the last two decades, the food industry in the U.S. has experienced a dramatic structural change, as have the structures of commodity markets; this is especially the case in the broiler industry. Tests for the presence of market integration are conducted within the framework of Neo-classical theory of the firm. Grower costs and transportation in five southern U.S. broiler states (AL, AR, GA, MS, NC) are considered in deriving necessary conditions before any conclusion on market integration is reached. Using both parametric and nonparametric tests, this study found that all price pairs have a long-run price relationship and markets are therefore integrated.
FACTORS DETERMINING FSA GUARANTEED LOAN LOSS CLAIM ACTIVITY IN THE U.S. FOR 1990-1997
Creators: name: Settlage, Latisha A.
name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Ahrendsen, Bruce L.
name: Settlage, Latisha A.
name: Dixon, Bruce L.
name: Ahrendsen, Bruce L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: The study identifies farm operator and economic characteristics explaining variation in FSA guaranteed loan loss claims rates. Regression models using state-level data are estimated. Debt-to-asset ratios, interest rates, off-farm income and bank loan-to-asset ratios explain FO loss rates. Farm size and bank loan-to-asset ratios are important to OL loss rates.
Codringtonia (Codringtonia) elisabethae Subai 2005
Creators: name: Cavallari, Daniel C.
name: Dornellas, Ana Paula S.
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Helicidae
Codringtonia
Codringtonia elisabethae

description: elisabethae, Codringtonia (Codringtonia) Subai, 2005
 Codringtonia (Codringtonia) elisabethae Subai, 2005: 71–74 (pl. 5, fig. 29 + text figs 2, 10, 11). Gastropoda, Helicidae
 Probable paratype: MZSP 95950.
 Locality: Greece, NE Peloponnese, Argos, castle, 28 Mar. 1985.
 Collector: J. Hemmen.
 Preservation: Dry.
 Remarks: Former Jens Hemmen Collection. As per measurements and label data, the specimen listed above is a possible remainder a three-specimen paratype lot collected by Hemmen. According to Subai (2005: 74), these specimens should have been sent to W.J.M. Maassen’s private collection.
description: Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/3840125
Upper bounds of a class of imperfect quantum sealing protocols
Creators: name: He, Guang-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The model of the quantum protocols sealing a classical bit is studied. It is shown that there exist upper bounds on its security. For any protocol where the bit can be read correctly with the probability $α$, and reading the bit can be detected with the probability $β$, the upper bounds are $% β\leqslant 1/2$ and $α+β\leqslant 9/8$.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. Add an example on how to break the majority voting scheme
A PRELIMINARY ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF ROUNDUP READY SOYBEANS IN MISSISSIPPI
Creators: name: Couvillion, Warren C.
name: Kari, Fatimah
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Allen, Albert J.
name: Couvillion, Warren C.
name: Kari, Fatimah
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Allen, Albert J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: soybeans
subject: genetically altered seed
subject: roundup ready
subject: costs of production

description: The advent of genetically altered seed has had a revolutionary effect on the cotton, soybean, and corn seed industries. The basic premise for the use of these seed are to reduce costs through lower applications of chemicals and savings on trips through the field, thus, lowering production costs. Seed companies, however, charge a premium and a fee for use of the seed. This paper compares the costs associated with conventional and roundup ready soybeans. Data were collected from the ACost of Production@ survey of Mississippi producers that is administered by Mississippi State University through the National Agricultural Statistics Service. The survey is a random sample of producers fields that allows for a derivation of the cost of production for each field. The study suggests that while costs reductions can be achieved, the cost savings are offset by the technology fees. The study is based on limited data and points to the need for continued research on the long-run profitability of genetically altered seed to the soybean producers of Mississippi.
Arc-flow approach for single batch-processing machine scheduling
Creators: name: Trindade, Renan Spencer
name: de Araujo, Olinto C. B.
name: Fampa, Marcia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We address the problem of scheduling jobs with non-identical sizes and distinct processing times on a single batch processing machine, aiming at minimizing the makespan. The extensive literature on this NP-hard problem mostly focuses on heuristics. Using an arc flow-based optimization approach, we construct an ingenious formulation that represents it as a problem of determining flows in graphs. The size of the formulation increases with the number of distinct sizes and processing times among the jobs, but it does not increase with the number of jobs, which makes it very effective to solve large instances to optimality, especially when multiple jobs have equal size and processing time. We compare our model to other models from the literature showing its clear superiority on benchmark instances, and proving optimality of random instances with up to 100 million jobs.
May, Georg: Interkonfessionalismus in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Klose, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 20 Nr. 1 (1971): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 20, Heft 1
title: Membrane recruitment of the polarity protein Scribble by the cell adhesion receptor TMIGD1
Creators: name: Thüring, Eva-Maria
name: Hartmann, Christian
name: Maddumage, Janesha C.
name: Javorsky, Airah
name: Michels, Birgitta E.
name: Gerke, Volker
name: Banks, Lawrence
name: Humbert, Patrick O.
name: Kvansakul, Marc
name: Ebnet, Klaus
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Scribble (Scrib) is a multidomain polarity protein and member of the leucine-rich repeat and PDZ domain (LAP) protein family. A loss of Scrib expression is associated with disturbed apical-basal polarity and tumor formation. The tumor-suppressive activity of Scrib correlates with its membrane localization. Despite the identification of numerous Scrib-interacting proteins, the mechanisms regulating its membrane recruitment are not fully understood. Here, we identify the cell adhesion receptor TMIGD1 as a membrane anchor of Scrib. TMIGD1 directly interacts with Scrib through a PDZ domain-mediated interaction and recruits Scrib to the lateral membrane domain in epithelial cells. We characterize the association of TMIGD1 with each Scrib PDZ domain and describe the crystal structure of the TMIGD1 C-terminal peptide complexed with PDZ domain 1 of Scrib. Our findings describe a mechanism of Scrib membrane localization and contribute to the understanding of the tumor-suppressive activity of Scrib.
description: Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley, Springer oder Elsevier 2019–2023.
Orientation selection in lamellar phases by oscillatory shears
Creators: name: Huang, Zhi-Feng
name: Vinals, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to address the selection mechanism that is responsible for the unique lamellar orientation observed in block copolymers under oscillatory shears, we use a constitutive law for the dissipative part of the stress tensor that respects the uniaxial symmetry of a lamellar phase. An interface separating two domains oriented parallel and perpendicular to the shear is shown to be hydrodynamically unstable, a situation analogous to the thin layer instability of stratified fluids under shear. The resulting secondary flows break the degeneracy between parallel and perpendicular lamellar orientation, leading to a preferred perpendicular orientation in certain ranges of parameters of the polymer and of the shear.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures