cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deterministic Chaos Model for Self-Organized Adaptive Networks in Atmospheric Flows
Creators: name: Selvam, A. Mary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complex spatiotemporal patterns of atmospheric flows resulting from the cooperative existence of fluctuations ranging in size from millimeters to thousands of kilometers are found to exhibit long-range spatial and temporal correlations manifested as the selfsimilar fractal geometry to the global cloud cover pattern and the inverse power law form for the atmospheric eddy energy spectrum. Such long-range spatial and temporal correlations are ubiquitous to extended natural dynamical systems and is a signature of the strange attractor design characterizing deterministic chaos or self-organized criticality. The unified network of global atmospheric circulations is analogous to the neural networks of the human brain.
description: 8 Pages, 2 Figures
The Accession of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine to the WTO: What will it Mean for the World Trade in Wheat?
Creators: name: Burkitbayeva, Saule
name: Kerr, William A.
name: Burkitbayeva, Saule
name: Kerr, William A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: accession
subject: Kazakhstan
subject: MFN
subject: Russia
subject: tariff reduction
subject: Ukraine
subject: wheat

description: International trade in wheat accounts for approximately one third of world grain trade and is expected to double by 2050.The KRU (Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine) countries account for approximately a quarter of world wheat exports and are collectively considered one of the key wheat exporting regions. The Ukraine became a member of the WTO only in 2008. Russia became an official member of the WTO in 2012 and Kazakhstan is expected to follow Russia and reach an accession deal with WTO members shortly. As a result of WTO accession, all three countries will be entitled to “most favoured nation” (MFN tariffs), and hence, gain improved access to a number of important markets that have been largely inaccessible due to very high tariffs that could be charged on imports from non-WTO countries. World wheat trade liberalization, reflecting the move to the MFN tariff as a result of accession, was simulated using the global simulation model (GSIM). The KRU region’s increased market accessibility as a result of successful accession to the WTO has the potential to foster important re-alignments in world wheat trade flows, prices and changes in welfare among major wheat trading countries. The simulation results suggest that the change to MFN tariffs leads to KRU countries trading more with now freer markets such as Turkey, the EU and China. Major traditional wheat exporters such as Australia, Canada, the EU, and the US do not seem to be negatively impacted to any important degree. Their relative market access conditions, however, erode in Turkish, Middle Eastern, and North African markets with their exports being diverted and broadly distributed among other countries and regions at marginally reduced prices. Trade liberalization is not uniform across regions and, hence, leads to different net welfare changes across countries. Those welfare changes, however, appear to be modest.
Cosmic Structure Growth and Dark Energy
Creators: name: Linder, Eric V.
name: Jenkins, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark energy has a dramatic effect on the dynamics of the universe, causing the recently discovered acceleration of the expansion. The dynamics are also central to the behavior of the growth of large scale structure, offering the possibility that observations of structure formation provide a sensitive probe of the cosmology and dark energy characteristics. In particular, dark energy with a time varying equation of state can have an influence on structure formation stretching back well into the matter dominated epoch. We analyze this impact, first calculating the linear perturbation results, including those for weak gravitational lensing. These dynamical models possess definite observable differences from constant equation of state models. Then we present a large scale numerical simulation of structure formation, including the largest volume to date involving a time varying equation of state. We find the halo mass function is well described by the Jenkins et al. mass function formula. We also show how to interpret modifications of the Friedmann equation in terms of a time variable equation of state. The results presented here provide steps toward realistic computation of the effect of dark energy in cosmological probes involving large scale structure, such as cluster counts, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, or weak gravitational lensing.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures; minor changes to match version accepted to MNRAS
Post Breakage Strength Testing for Overhead Laminated Glass
Creators: name: Stelzer, I.
name: Singh Rooprai, M.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: Design and structural performance of laminated glass in over-head glazing applications like canopies, skylights is very critical as it has an impact on the safety of occupants of a building and its maintenance workers. For such applications post breakage strength of laminated glass construction is of utmost importance. Pre breakage strength can be predicted with reasonable accuracy by FEM technique based software packages, which allow the user to input mechanical properties of viscoelastic interlayers along with glass. This helps in interlayer based differentiation of pre breakage structural strength and design optimization. However, post breakage strength of glass is still an unknown area as analytical models for this are inconclusive so far and thus destructive testing is the only reliable solution. Impact testing, simulating the accidental fall of a maintenance worker was done to assess the “fall through” resistance of point fixed laminated glass constructions having varying interlayers viz, PVB, Ionoplast Interlayer, Stiff PVB, and EVA. In addition, medium duration (30 mins or more ) post breakage strength tests driven by the new requirements set in place by German Standard pr DIN 18008-6 were conducted at subzero (-20°C), room temperature (+21°C) and at elevated temperatures of +50° Celsius.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 5 (2016): Challenging Glass 5
Supplementary document for Multi-functional dual-path self-aligned polarization interference lithography - 6367113.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Fan
name: ZHONG, Xiaolan
name: Shan, Xuchen
name: Song, Jiaqi
name: Liu, Bao-Lei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supporting information
Lithiation of InSb and Cu$_2$Sb : A Theoretical Investigation
Creators: name: Sharma, S.
name: Dewhurst, J. K.
name: Ambrosch-Draxl, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work the mechanism of Li insertion/intercalation in the anode materials InSb and Cu$_2$Sb is investigated by means of the first principles total energy calculations. The total charge densities for the lithiated products of the two compounds are presented. Based on these results the change in the bonding character on lithiation is discussed. Further, the isomer shift for InSb and Cu$_2$Sb and there various lithiated products is reported. The average insertion/intercalation voltage and volume expansion for transitions from InSb to Li$_2$InSb and Cu$_2$Sb to Li$_2$CuSb are calculated and found to be in good agreement with the experimental values. These findings help to resolve the controversy regarding the lithiation mechanism in InSb.
description: 5 pages 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Factors associated with parents’ experiences using a knowledge translation tool for vaccination pain management: a qualitative study
Creators: name: MacKenzie, Nicole E.
name: Perri R. Tutelman
name: Chambers, Christine T.
name: Parker, Jennifer A.
name: Noni E. MacDonald
name: C. Meghan McMurtry
name: Pluye, Pierre
name: Granikov, Vera
name: Taddio, Anna
name: Barwick, Melanie
name: Birnie, Kathryn A.
name: Boerner, Katelynn E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. KT Tool.
Reforming WTO Rules on Export Restrictions - Is There Any Point?
Creators: name: Cardwell, Ryan T.
name: Kerr, William A.
name: Cardwell, Ryan T.
name: Kerr, William A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agricultural Trade
subject: Dispute Settlement Understanding
subject: Export Restrictions
subject: Food Security
subject: Retaliation
subject: WTO

description: A number of major agricultural exporting countries responded to high food prices from 2007 to 2010 by imposing export restrictions on agricultural commodities in efforts to constrain domestic food-price inflation. These restrictions reduced the volume of internationally traded food, and exacerbated international price spikes. Net food importing countries were faced with growing import bills, and non-governmental organisations that target food security had to scale back programme commitments and appeal for increased funding. There have subsequently been a chorus of calls for the development of a formal international framework that could discipline the use of agricultural export restrictions; the agreements of the WTO have been targeted as a possible forum for such a framework. We present a framework in which the efficacy of such disciplines can be analysed, and conclude that constraints on agricultural export restrictions are not likely to be effective within the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding.
Theoretical Study of Magnetoelectric Effects in Honeycomb Antiferromagnet Co4Nb2O9
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Masashige
name: Koga, Mikito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The honeycomb antiferromagnet Co4Nb2O9 is known to exhibit an interesting magnetoelectric effect that the electric polarization rotates at the twice speed in the opposite direction relative to the rotation of the external magnetic field applied in the basal ab-plane. The spin-dependent electric dipole can be an origin of the magnetoelectric effect. It is described by the product of spin operators at different sites (type-I theory) or at the same site (type-II theory). We examine the electric polarization for the two cases on the basis of the symmetry analysis of the crystal structure of Co4Nb2O9, and conclude that the latter is the origin of the observed result. This paper also gives a general description of the field-induced electric polarization on honeycomb lattices with the C3 point group symmetry on the basis of the type-I theory.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, to be published in JPS Conf. Proc. (2020), Proceedings of International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2019 (SCES-2019, Okayama, Japan)
MOESM1 of Development of a high-throughput screen to identify small molecule enhancers of sarcospan for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Creators: name: Shu, Cynthia
name: Kaxon-Rupp, Ariana
name: Collado, Judd
name: Damoiseaux, Robert
name: Crosbie, Rachelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used for gene expression analysis. Primers optimized by standard curve method using cDNA corresponding to 75 ng RNA, diluted 2-fold. AE: amplification efficiency, calculated using the eq. AE = [10(− 1/slope)]/ – 1. SSPN, sarcospan; DMD, dystrophin; UTRN, utrophin; DAG, dystroglycan, SCGA, α-sarcoglycan; SCGB, β-sarcoglycan; ITGA7, α7 integrin; ITGB1, β1D integrin; MYOG, myogenin; MYF5, myogenic factor 5; ACTB, β-actin; GADPH, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase.
title: The Usefulness of Consumer Confidence Indexes in the United States
Creators: name: Desroches, Brigitte
name: Gosselin, Marc-André
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2002

description: This paper assesses the usefulness of consumer confidence indexes in forecasting aggregate consumer spending in the United States. The literature generally dismisses the relevance of these indexes. Without formal modelling, however, some researchers (Garner 1991 and Throop 1992) suggest that the indexes could be helpful during periods of major economic or political shocks. Such periods are usually associated with high volatility of consumer confidence, suggesting that large swings in confidence could be useful indicators of consumption. Our work distinguishes itself from previous research in that we provide a rigorous assessment of this possibility by estimating a consumption function in which only large variations of confidence can affect spending. Our results show that economists and forecasters should pay attention to consumer confidence, especially in times of elevated economic or political uncertainty.
description: Les auteurs procèdent à l'évaluation du contenu informationnel des indices de confiance des consommateurs à des fins de prévision des dépenses de consommation agrégées aux États-Unis. Alors que la littérature tend à accorder peu d'importance à ces indices, certains chercheurs, notamment Garner (1991) et Throop (1992) estiment que ces indices pourraient être utiles durant les périodes de chocs économiques ou politiques majeurs. Ces dernières sont généralement caractérisées par une grande volailité de la confiance des consommateurs, ce qui donne à penser que de les variations des indices concernés pourraient être d'assez bons indicateurs de l'évolution de la consommation. La présente étude se distingue des recherches antérieures par l'examen rigoureux qu'elle fait de cette possibilité. Elle part de l'estimation d'une fonction de consommation dans laquelle seules les fortes variations de la confiance peuvent influencer les dépenses de consommation. Les auteurs concluent que les économistes devraient prêter attention aux indices de confiance des consommateurs, surtout en période d'incertitude économique ou politique élevée.
Additional file 2 of Factors associated with parents’ experiences using a knowledge translation tool for vaccination pain management: a qualitative study
Creators: name: MacKenzie, Nicole E.
name: Perri R. Tutelman
name: Chambers, Christine T.
name: Parker, Jennifer A.
name: Noni E. MacDonald
name: C. Meghan McMurtry
name: Pluye, Pierre
name: Granikov, Vera
name: Taddio, Anna
name: Barwick, Melanie
name: Birnie, Kathryn A.
name: Boerner, Katelynn E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Semi-Structured Interview Guide.
Atomic reconstruction and moiré patterns in transition metal dichalcogenide van der Waals heterostructures
Creators: name: Rosenberger, Matthew R.
name: Chuang, Hsun-Jen
name: Phillips, Madeleine
name: Oleshko, Vladimir P.
name: McCreary, Kathleen M.
name: Sivaram, Saujan V.
name: Hellberg, C. Stephen
name: Jonker, Berend T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Van der Waals layered materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), are an exciting class of materials with weak interlayer bonding which enables one to create van der Waals heterostructures (vdWH). Recent work has shown that control of the twist angle between layers can have a dramatic effect on vdWH properties. For TMD vdWH, twist angle has been treated solely through the use of rigid-lattice moiré patterns. No atomic reconstruction, i.e. any rearrangement of atoms within the individual layers, has been reported experimentally to date. Here we demonstrate that vdWH of MoSe2/WSe2 and MoS2/WS2 at twist angles less than 1° undergo significant atomic level reconstruction leading to discrete commensurate domains divided by narrow domain walls, rather than a smoothly varying rigid-lattice moiré pattern as has been assumed in prior work. Using conductive atomic force microscopy (CAFM), we show that the stacking orientation of the two TMD crystals has a profound impact on the atomic reconstruction, consistent with recent theoretical work on graphene/graphene and MoS2/MoS2 structures and experimental work on graphene bilayers and hBN/graphene vdWH. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) provides additional evidence of atomic reconstruction in MoSe2/WSe2 structures and demonstrates the transition between a rigid-lattice moiré pattern for large angles and atomic reconstruction for small angles. We use density functional theory to calculate the band structures of the commensurate reconstructed domains and find that the modulation of the relative electronic band edges is consistent with the CAFM results and photoluminescence spectra from reconstructed vdWH. The presence of atomic reconstruction in TMD heterostructures and the observed impact on nanometer-scale electronic properties provides fundamental insight into the behavior of this important class of heterostructures.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures
On the Axisymmetric Force-Free Pulsar Magnetosphere
Creators: name: Uzdensky, Dmitri A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the axisymmetric magnetosphere of an aligned rotating magnetic dipole surrounded by an ideal force-free plasma. We concentrate on the magnetic field structure around the point of intersection of the separatrix between the open and closed field-line regions and the equatorial plane. We first study the case where this intersection point is located at the Light Cylinder. We find that in this case the separatrix equilibrium condition implies that all the poloidal current must return to the pulsar in the open-field region, i.e., that there should be no finite current carried by the separatrix/equator current sheet. We then perform an asymptotic analysis of the pulsar equation near the intersection point and find a unique self-similar solution; however, a Light Surface inevitably emerges right outside the Light Cylinder. We then perform a similar analysis for the situation where the intersection point lies somewhere inside the Light Cylinder, in which case a finite current flowing along the separatrix and the equator is allowed. We find a very simple behavior in this case, characterized by a 90-degree angle between the separatrix and the equator and by finite vertical field in the closed-field region. Finally, we discuss the implications of our results for global numerical studies of pulsar magnetospheres.
description: 31 pages, including 5 figures
title: How to Improve Inflation Targeting at the Bank of Canada
Creators: name: Rowe, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2002

description: This paper shows that if the Bank of Canada is optimally adjusting its monetary policy instrument in response to inflation indicators to target 2 per cent inflation at a two-year horizon, then deviations of inflation from 2 per cent represent the Bank's forecast errors, and should be uncorrelated with its information set, which includes two-year lagged values of the instrument and the indicators. Positive or negative correlations are evidence of systematic errors in monetary policy. The econometric evidence suggests that, over the past decade, the Bank has, on average, responded optimally to indicators of inflation, being neither too aggressive nor too timid in raising or cutting the overnight rate. While responding optimally on average, however, the Bank has not responded optimally to each individual indicator. The Bank systematically overreacted to some indicators and underreacted to others. Correcting these errors could improve inflation targeting in Canada.
description: Cette étude montre que si la Banque du Canada règle de façon optimale son instrument d'intervention à la lumière des indicateurs de l'inflation, afin de viser un taux d'accroissement des prix de 2 % à un horizon de deux ans, les écarts de l'inflation par rapport à cette cible représentent dans ce cas les erreurs de prévision de la Banque et ne devraient pas être corrélés avec les informations à la disposition de celle-ci, y compris les valeurs de l'instrument et des indicateurs retardées de deux ans. Des corrélations positives ou négatives témoignent de la présence d'erreurs systématiques dans la formulation de la politique monétaire. Les résultats économétriques laissent croire que, au cours des dix dernières années, la Banque a généralement réagi de façon optimale à l'ensemble des indicateurs de l'inflation, les majorations ou diminutions du taux cible du financement à un jour auxquelles elle a procédé n'ayant été ni trop fortes, ni trop faibles. Toutefois, on ne peut en dire autant de sa réaction à ces indicateurs considérés isolément. En effet, les mesures prises par l'institution ont été systématiquement excessives face à certains indicateurs, et insuffisantes face à d'autres. En corrigeant ces erreurs, la Banque pourrait améliorer l'efficacité de sa stratégie de maîtrise de l'inflation.
Four-Wave mixing in degenerate Fermi gases: Beyond the undepleted pump approximation
Creators: name: Miyakawa, T.
name: Christ, H.
name: Search, C. P.
name: Meystre, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the full nonlinear dynamics of the four-wave mixing between an incident beam of fermions and a fermionic density grating. We find that when the number of atoms in the beam is comparable to the number of atoms forming the grating, the dephasing of that grating, which normally leads to a decay of its amplitude, is suppressed. Instead, the density grating and the beam density exhibit large nonlinear coupled amplitude oscillations. In this case four-wave mixing can persist for much longer times compared to the case of negligible back-action. We also evaluate the efficiency of the four-wave mixing and show that it can be enhanced by producing an initial density grating with an amplitude that is less than the maximum value. These results indicate that efficient four-wave mixing in fermionic alkali gases should be experimentally observable.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Influence of Regrinding Depth on Edge Strength of Tempered Glass
Creators: name: Weller, Bernhard
name: Lohr, Katharina
name: Engelmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: Designers use exposed glass edges for decoration, for example within glass steps, glass beams or glass columns. This application requires a mechanical finishing to achieve a high optical quality by compensating a misalignment of the glasses, for example an edge displacement, or a supernatant of the foil resulting from the lamination process of safety glass. Regrinding of annealed glass is allowed without restrictions. In the case of tempered glass there is a risk of premature failure caused by a reduction of the compression zone. During a research project at the Institute of Building Construction, Technische Universität Dresden, the impact of the grinding depth of tempered glass on the bearing capacity of the edge is investigated. The goal is to give a strength value of reground tempered glass edges. We conducted four-point bending tests on glass beams about the strong axis in the style of EN 1288-3. The experimental investigation included 82 glass beams both made from fully tempered and heat strengthened glass in thicknesses of 6 mm with reground edges in varied grinding depths and additional reference specimens. The experimental investigation shows that an increasing grinding depth induces a decrease in edge strength. In the presented case, the result of the test series allows the definition of reduction factors for the calculation of the bending strength of glass beams with reground edges.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 5 (2016): Challenging Glass 5
title: Financial Structure and Economic Growth: A Non-Technical Survey
Creators: name: Dolar, Veronika
name: Meh, Cesaire
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2002

description: There is a large body of literature that studies the relationship between financial structure (that is, the degree to which the financial system is either market- or intermediary-based) and long-run economic growth. This paper gives a non-technical survey of that literature designed for a general audience. The literature suggests that financial structure does not explain differential growth rates across countries. What matters for growth is the overall level and quality of financial services. Therefore, the best way to examine the connection between financial structure and growth is not to study how markets and intermediaries can substitute for each other, but rather how markets and intermediaries complement one another.
description: Il existe une abondante littérature au sujet de la relation entre la structure du système financier (la mesure dans laquelle celui-ci repose sur le marché ou sur les intermédiaires financiers) et la croissance économique à long terme. Les auteurs vulgarisent ici à l'intention d'un public non spécialiste les conclusions des chercheurs sur le sujet. Selon ces derniers, la structure financière n'explique pas l'écart de croissance entre les pays. Les facteurs déterminants sont la qualité et le niveau global de développement des services financiers. Par conséquent, la meilleure façon d'examiner la relation entre la structure financière et la croissance n'est pas d'étudier comment les marchés et les intermédiaires financiers peuvent se substituer les uns aux autres, mais plutôt comment ils se complètent.
DIN 18008 – Experience after one year of applying the new German glass design standard
Creators: name: Haese, A.
name: Siebert, G.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: The new German Glass design standard DIN 18008 – parts 1 to 5 – was finally established in the beginning of 2015, being accepted by the authorities already a few months earlier. As the application is obligatory since then, a lot of experience could be gained in the meantime. Every standard has to pass several steps of control and revision before being approved. Nevertheless the actual application brings up new aspects and questions about certain details and the corresponding interpretation and intention of the standard. The following paper will discuss some important aspects of DIN 18008 in order to provide some clarification for the users of DIN 18008 and some input to the working groups of the future European glass standards as well as for the next review of the DIN 18008.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 5 (2016): Challenging Glass 5
title: Nominal Rigidities and Monetary Policy in Canada Since 1981
Creators: name: Dib, Ali
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2002

description: This paper develops and estimates a dynamic, stochastic, general-equilibrium model with price and wage stickiness to analyze monetary policy in Canada. A monetary policy rule allows the Bank of Canada to systematically influence the short-term nominal interest rate and money growth in response to inflation and output deviations. The structural parameters of the model are estimated econometrically using a maximum-likelihood procedure with a Kalman filter. The estimates reveal that either price or wage rigidities are key nominal frictions that generate real monetary effects. Furthermore, the simulation results show that the Bank has, since 1981, increased the short-term nominal interest rate in response to exogenous positive demand-side disturbances, and used modest but persistent reductions to accommodate positive technology shocks.
description: Dans la présente étude, l'auteur élabore et estime un modèle d'équilibre général dynamique et stochastique avec rigidités nominales des prix et des salaires nominaux pour analyser la politique monétaire au Canada. Une règle monétaire permet à la Banque du Canada d'influencer systématiquement le taux d'intérêt nominal de court terme et la croissance monétaire en réponse aux écarts qu'enregistrent l'inflation et la production par rapport à leur tendance. L'auteur estime les paramètres structurels du modèle avec des données canadiennes, en utilisant la méthode du maximum de vraisemblance et le filtre de Kalman. Les résultats d'estimation montrent que ces deux types de rigidité nominale constituent les frictions nominales majeures permettant la reproduction des effets réels de chocs nominaux. De plus, les résultats de simulations montrent que la Banque augmente le taux d'intérêt nominal de court terme en réponse aux perturbations exogènes et positives de la demande globale et procède à des réductions modestes mais persistantes pour faire face aux chocs technologiques positifs.
MOESM2 of Development of a high-throughput screen to identify small molecule enhancers of sarcospan for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Creators: name: Shu, Cynthia
name: Kaxon-Rupp, Ariana
name: Collado, Judd
name: Damoiseaux, Robert
name: Crosbie, Rachelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Predicted human SSPN promoter region determined using UCSC genome browser. H2K4me3 marks, DNase hypersensitivity regions, and ChIP-seq data reveal predicted transcription factor binding sites in human skeletal muscle cultures. These analyses indicate that the SSPN promoter includes region upstream of exon 1 and within exon 1. Shown is skeletal muscle and cardiac-specific transcript variant 1 (NM_005086.4) of the human SSPN gene (NG_012011.2) in UCSC Genome browser human Feb. 2009 (GRCh37/hg19) assembly. Location shown: chr12:26,342,405-26,392,014.
title: Nominal Rigidity, Desired Markup Variations, and Real Exchange Rate Persistence
Creators: name: Bouakez, Hafedh
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2002

description: This paper develops and estimates a dynamic general-equilibrium sticky-price model that accounts for real exchange rate persistence. The key feature of the model is the dependence of the firm's desired markup on its relative price. Desired markup variations exacerbate the nominal rigidity that results from the exogenously imposed frictions in the goods market. The model is estimated by the maximum-likelihood method using Canadian and U.S. data. The estimated model successfully replicates the behaviour of the Canada-U.S. bilateral real exchange rate. In particular, the model closely matches the persistence found in the real exchange rate series. More importantly, this is achieved with a plausible duration of price contracts and a moderate convexity of the demand function.
description: Dans cette étude, l'auteur développe et estime un modèle d'équilibre général à prix rigides, qui explique la persistance du taux de change réel. L'élément clé du modèle est le fait que le taux de marge désiré de la firme dépend de son prix relatif. Les variations du taux de marge désiré amplifient la rigidité nominale résultant des frictions imposées de manière exogène dans le marchés des biens. Le modèle est estimé par la méthode de maximum de vraisemblance en utilisant des données canadiennes et américaines. Le modèle estimé reproduit avec succès le comportement du taux de change réel du dollar canadien par rapport au dollar américain. En particulier, le modèle génère autant de persistance que celle qu'on observe dans la série du taux de change réel. Ce résultat est d'autant plus important qu'il est obtenu avec une durée plausible des contrats de prix et une convexité modérée de la fonction de demande.
Theory of polyelectrolytes in solvents
Creators: name: Chitanvis, Shirish M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a continuum description, we account for fluctuations in the ionic solvent surrounding a Gaussian, charged chain and derive an effective short-ranged potential between the charges on the chain. This potential is repulsive at short separations and attractive at longer distances. The chemical potential can be derived from this potential. When the chemical potential is positive, it leads to a melt-like state. For a vanishingly low concentration of segments, this state exhibits scaling behavior for long chains. The Flory exponent characterizing the radius of gyration for long chains is calculated to be approximately 0.63, close to the classical value obtained for second order phase transitions. For short chains, the radius of gyration varies linearly with $N$, the chain length, and is sensitive to the parameters in the interaction potential. The linear dependence on the chain length $N$ indicates a stiff behavior. The chemical potential associated with this interaction changes sign, when the screening length in the ionic solvent exceeds a critical value. This leads to condensation when the chemical potential is negative. In this state, it is shown using the mean-field approximation that spherical and toroidal condensed shapes can be obtained. The thickness of the toroidal polyelectrolyte is studied as a function of the parameters of the model, such as the ionic screening length. The predictions of this theory should be amenable to experimental verification.
Swimming Pools of Glass
Creators: name: Wever, T.
name: Haarhuis, K.
name: Ten Brincke, E.
name: Nijsse, R.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: In projects involving swimming pools with structural glass, ABT Consulting Engineers has faced similar design requirements: maximal transparency, proper detailing, 100% water tightness and robust behavior. ABT developed a straightforward detailing to satisfy these requirements. The concept is applied in the glass swimming pool of the 900 Mahler project, where the layered and heat strengthened glass panes were designed with specific attention to the appropriate type of interlayer and functional, durable and practical support detailing. The implementation of a clear safety philosophy, backed by an executed risk analysis, led to a glass structure which functions in all circumstances. The panes were structurally analyzed on strength and stiffness with finite element software, with extra focus on the appropriate properties of the support conditions. The concept is ready to be applied in similar glass pools.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 5 (2016): Challenging Glass 5
The Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) and its Impacts on marketed crops: Data Analysis of the Kano-Katsina-Maradi Pilot Learning Site
Creators: name: Olarinde, Luke O.
name: Ayanwale, Adeolu B.
name: Oladunni, Olufemi A.
name: Nokoe, Kaku S.
name: Adekunle, Adewale A.
name: Fatunbi, Oluwole
name: Olarinde, Luke O.
name: Ayanwale, Adeolu B.
name: Oladunni, Olufemi A.
name: Nokoe, Kaku S.
name: Adekunle, Adewale A.
name: Fatunbi, Oluwole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: IAR4D
subject: KKM PLS
subject: Propensity Score Matching
subject: SSA CP

description: Several attempts have been made by various governmental, non-governmental and international organisations to address agricultural related challenges in the sub-Saharan African region, but without any meaningful positive impact. In recent time however, FARA came up with a new research paradigm known as the IAR4D (which has now been tested to be a potent instrument to be used in addressing these challenges. This study is therefore conceived to among other things; evaluate the impact of the IAR4D on marketed crop outcomes, making use of the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method of imapct Assessment. The PSM in this study makes use of the counterfactual framework via the IAR4D’s Innovation Platforms. Average marketed values of cereals of the treated (IAR4D farmers) sample due to participation in the IP activities based on the PSM (ATT) was $ 249 (p<5%), for legumes, $ 192 (p<1%) and for fruits/vegetables, $ 229 (p<5%). These values are indication of the impact of the IAR4D intervention on the marketed crop outcomes. This suggests that, agricultural research and intervention programmes that make use of innovation systems approach such as the IAR4D’ Innovation Platforms have a stong positive impact on marketed crop outcomes and therefore have a better potential of having much stronger and positive impact on other livelihood outcomes.
Additional file 1 of Association of Sonic Hedgehog with the extracellular matrix requires its zinc-coordination center
Creators: name: Jägers, Carina
name: Roelink, Henk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Logística del Petróleo: Una Visión Global
Creators: name: Flores, Ramiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Todos los días, usamos productos derivados del petróleo para satisfacer nuestras necesidades domésticas, por ejemplo, conducir un automóvil o calentar nuestros hogares. Del mismo modo, la industria, la agricultura, el transporte y las instituciones públicas, necesitan grandes cantidades de petróleo. Por lo tanto, las compañías petroleras deben entregar un buen producto, a un buen precio, en el tiempo y el lugar adecuado. Además de garantizar unas condiciones óptimas de seguridad para proteger el medio ambiente.
Phase Transitions in the Two-Dimensional Random Gauge XY Model
Creators: name: Holme, Petter
name: Minnhagen, Petter
name: Kim, Beom Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-dimensional random gauge \xy model, where the quenched random variables are magnetic bond angles uniformly distributed within $[-rπ, rπ]$ ($0 \leq r \leq 1$), is studied via Monte Carlo simulations. We investigate the phase diagram in the plane of the temperature $T$ and the disorder strength $r$, and infer, in contrast to a prevailing conclusion in many earlier studies, that the system is superconducting at any disorder strength $r$ for sufficiently low $T$. It is also argued that the superconducting to normal transition has different nature at weak disorder and strong disorder: termed Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) type and non-KT type, respectively. The results are compared to earlier works.
description: 5 pages in two-column form, 4 figures. To appear in PRB
A New Multiple Stellar System in the Solar Neighborhood
Creators: name: Martin, Eduardo L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Adaptive optics corrected images obtained with the CIAO instrument at the Subaru 8.2-meter telescope show the presence of two subarsecond companions to the nearby (d=19.3 pc) young star GJ 900, which was previously classified as a single member of the IC 2391 supercluster. The two companions share the same proper motion as the primary and are redder. Their projected separations from the primary are 10 AU and 14.5 AU for B and C, respectively. The estimated masses for the two new companions depend strongly on the age of the system. For the range of ages found in the literature for IC 2391 supercluster members (from 35 Myr to 200 Myr), the expected masses range from 0.2 M$_\odot$ to 0.4 M$_\odot$ for the B component, and from 0.09 M$_\odot$ to 0.22 M$_\odot$ for the C component. The determination of the dynamical mass of the faintest component of GJ 900 will yield the age of the system using theoretical evolutionary tracks. The apparent separations of the GJ 900 system components meet the observational criterion for an unstable Trapezium-type system, but this could be a projection effect. Further observations are needed to establish the nature of this interesting low-mass multiple system.
description: Scheduled for publication in the Astronomical Journal (August 2003)
What Matters for Neural Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition: An Empirical Analysis
Creators: name: Huang, Xiaolei
name: May, Jonathan
name: Peng, Nanyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Building named entity recognition (NER) models for languages that do not have much training data is a challenging task. While recent work has shown promising results on cross-lingual transfer from high-resource languages to low-resource languages, it is unclear what knowledge is transferred. In this paper, we first propose a simple and efficient neural architecture for cross-lingual NER. Experiments show that our model achieves competitive performance with the state-of-the-art. We further analyze how transfer learning works for cross-lingual NER on two transferable factors: sequential order and multilingual embeddings, and investigate how model performance varies across entity lengths. Finally, we conduct a case-study on a non-Latin language, Bengali, which suggests that leveraging knowledge from Wikipedia will be a promising direction to further improve the model performances. Our results can shed light on future research for improving cross-lingual NER.
description: 7 pages
title: Habit Formation and the Persistence of Monetary Shocks
Creators: name: Bouakez, Hafedh
name: Cardia, Emanuela
name: Ruge-Murcia, Francisco J.
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2002

description: This paper studies the persistent effects of monetary shocks on output. Previous empirical literature documents this persistence, but standard general-equilibrium models with sticky prices fail to generate output responses beyond the duration of nominal contracts. The paper constructs and estimates a general-equilibrium model with price rigidities, habit formation, and costly capital adjustment. The model is estimated by the maximum-likelihood method using U.S. data on output, the real money stock, and the nominal interest rate. Econometric results indicate that habit formation and adjustment costs to capital play an important role in explaining the output effects of monetary policy. In particular, impulse-response analysis indicates that the model generates persistent, hump-shaped output responses to monetary shocks.
description: Dans cet article, les auteurs étudient les effets persistants des chocs monétaires sur la production. Cette persistance est bien établie dans la littérature empirique, mais les modèles standard d'équilibre général avec rigidité des prix ne réussissent pas à générer des réponses de la production qui persistent au-delà de la durée des contrats nominaux. Dans cette étude, les auteurs construisent un modèle d'équilibre général à prix rigides où les consommateurs forment des habitudes et où l'ajustement du capital est coûteux. Le modèle est estimé par la méthode du maximum de vraisemblance en utilisant des données américaines sur la monnaie, la production et le taux d'intérêt. Les résultats économétriques indiquent que la formation d'habitudes et les coûts d'ajustement du capital sont importants dans l'explication des effets de la politique monétaire sur la production. En particulier, l'analyse des fonctions de réponse montre qu'après un choc monétaire, le modèle génère des réactions de la production qui sont persistantes et en forme de « bosse ».
Theory of c-axis Josephson tunneling in d-wave superconductors
Creators: name: Maki, Kazumi
name: Haas, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature and angular dependence of the c-axis Josephson current and the superfluid density in layered d-wave superconductors are studied within the framework of an extended Ambegaokar-Baratoff formalism. In particular, the effects of angle-dependent tunneling matrix elements and Andreev scattering at grain boundaries are taken into account. These lead to strong corrections of the low-temperature behavior of the plasma frequency and the Josephson current. Recent c-axis measurements on the cuprate high-temperature superconductors HgBa_2CaCu_{1+δ} and Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ} can therefore be interpreted to be consistent with a d-wave order parameter.
description: Revtex, 4 pages with 4 eps figures, to appear in PRB RC
A Conceptual Framework for Successful E-commerce Smartphone Applications: The Context of GCC
Creators: name: Bahaddad, Adel
name: AlGhamdi, Rayed
name: Buhari, Seyed M.
name: Alassafi, Madini O.
name: Alzahrani, Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rapid expansion of online business has engulfed the GCC region. Such expansion causes competition among business entities, causing the need to identify the factors that the customers use to choose a suitable mobile business application. Instead of just focusing on the visitors/users of the application, a shift in focus towards transforming casual customers to loyal customers is needed. The IS Success Model, whose main constructs are Information Quality, Quality Systems, Service Quality, User Satisfaction, Intention to Use and Net Benefits, includes diversified indicators along with their measures. This research considers User Satisfaction, Intention to Use and Net Benefits constructs as it is, but modified System Quality, Information Quality and Service Quality constructs based on previous state-of-the-art literature. The developed theoretical model was further tested surveying 803 GCC participants. Responses were analyzed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Study reveals the significance of Service Quality (consisting of M-loyalty Building, Customer Chat and feedback, Help and technical support, and Credibility and Reliability Build) over Information Quality and System Quality, impacting the importance of User Satisfaction over the other constructs.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, 8 tables