cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
First-Year Effects of the Energy Crisis on Traffic in Kentucky
(Rural Highways) [May 1975]
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Herd, Donald R.
name: Rizenbergs, Rolands L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Arab oil embargo in mid-October 1973 curtailed availability of gasoline. Fuel conservation measures resulted in reduced travel and decreased traffic speeds. On March 1, 1974, posted speed was set at 55 mph (24.6 m/s) on rural highways in Kentucky. Traffic volumes, speeds, and accidents for the rural highway during the period known as the "energy crisis" and its after effects were compared to the corresponding period a year earlier.  Traffic volumes began to decline in December 1973 and continued through September 1974. Total travel in the 12 months through November 1974 decreased by 2.3 percent; traffic increased by five percent in 1973. Accident rates during this period decreased by 13.5 percent; and the largest decreases were associated with the highways experiencing the greatest reductions in travel speed. The relationship between traffic speed and accident rate showed a great decrease in accident rate as traffic speeds decreased. Differences between wet-surface and dry-surface accident rates were especially significant and were more so for interstate than for two-lane highways. Improved wet-pavement skid resistance at the lower speeds obviously contributed to a reduction in accident rates. Continuation of the 55-mph (24.6 m/s) speed limit on all rural highways would seem advisable.
Additional file 1 of Implementation strategies and outcomes for occupational therapy in adult stroke rehabilitation: a scoping review
Creators: name: Murrell, J. Edward
name: Pisegna, Janell L.
name: Juckett, Lisa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) Checklist. The checklist contains 20 essential reporting items and two optional items when completing a scoping review [38].
title: First-Year Effects of the Energy Crisis on Traffic in Kentucky
title: (Rural Highways)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Herd, Donald R.
name: Rizenbergs, Rolands L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Arab oil embargo in mid-October 1973 curtailed availability of gasoline. Fuel conservation measures resulted in reduced travel and decreased traffic speeds. On March 1, 1974, posted speed was set at 55 mph (88 km/h) on rural highways in Kentucky. Traffic volumes, speeds, and accidents for the rural highway during the period known as the "energy crisis" and its after effects were compared to the corresponding period a year earlier.  Traffic volumes began to decline in December 1973 and continued through September 1974. Total travel in the 12 months through November 1974 decreased by 2.3 percent; traffic increased by five percent in 1973. Accident rates during this period decreased by 13.5 percent; and the largest decreases were associated with the highways experiencing the greatest reductions in travel speed. The relationship between traffic speed and accident rate showed a great decrease in accident rate as traffic speeds decreased. Differences between wet-surface and dry-surface accident rates were especially significant and were more so for interstate than for two-lane highways. Improved wet-pavement skid resistance at the lower speeds obviously contributed to a reduction in accident rates. Continuation of the 55-mph (88 km/h) speed limit on all rural highways would seem advisable.
Falcke, Heino (Hrgs.), Als Boten des gekreuzigten Herrn
Creators: name: Krüger
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 32 Nr. 2 (1983): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 32, Heft 2
Path-integral Monte Carlo simulations for interacting few-electron quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Weiss, Stephan
name: Egger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop path-integral Monte Carlo simulations for a parabolic two-dimensional (2D) quantum dot containing $N$ interacting electrons in the presence of Dresselhaus and/or Rashba spin-orbit couplings. Our method solves in a natural way the spin contamination problem and allows for numerically exact finite-temperature results at weak spin-orbit coupling. For $N<10$ electrons, we present data for the addition energy, the particle density, and the total spin $S$ in the Wigner molecule regime of strong Coulomb interactions. We identify magic numbers at N=3 and N=7 via a peak in the addition energy. These magic numbers differ both from weak-interaction and classical predictions, and are stable with respect to (weak) spin-orbit couplings.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, few minor changes, published version
Evolution of trade flows for sheep milk cheese: an empirical model for Greece
Creators: name: Vlontzos, George N.
name: Duquenne, Marie-Noelle
name: Vlontzos, George N.
name: Duquenne, Marie-Noelle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Trade flows
subject: quality
subject: competitiveness

description: This research examines Feta cheese trade flows, having as raw material sheep milk. The findings of the implementation of the gravity model demonstrate the significance of trade flows for Greek Feta worldwide. It will be a very useful instrument for examining the trading potential of Feta cheese, on the condition that there will be a positive outcome on the judicial and political level for the product in the WTO negotiations. The findings of the gravity model will be very helpful for an analysis which follows, in order to show off the strengths and weaknesses of the sector, as well as the opportunities and threats the market creates. Finally, there is a list of proposals - suggestions which focus on increasing the competitiveness of the sector and on armouring it with all the essential quality and safety reassurances. This is done in order to avoid, in the future, attempts from competitors to jeopardize once more all this effort that has been done up till now. These proposals form an action plan which provides viable solutions to the quality and safety issue, as well as an aggressive marketing plan for gaining market shares in both EU and non-EU countries, utilizing the competitive advantage the product gains, as PDO.
Moving embedded lattice solitons
Creators: name: Malomed, B. A.
name: Fujioka, J.
name: Espinosa-Ceron, A.
name: Rodriguez, R. F.
name: Gonzalez, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently proved that isolated unstable "embedded lattice solitons" (ELS) may exist in discrete systems. The discovery of these ELS gives rise to relevant questions such as the following: are there continuous families of ELS?, can ELS be stable?, is it possible for ELS to move along the lattice?, how do ELS interact?. The present work addresses these questions by showing that a novel differential-difference equation (a discrete version of a complex mKdV equation) has a two-parameter continuous family of exact ELS. The numerical tests reveal that these solitons are stable and robust enough to withstand collisions. The model may apply to the description of a Bose-Einstein condensate with dipole-dipole interactions between the atoms, trapped in a deep optical-lattice potential.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
Lehmann, Karl / Schlink, Edmund (Hrsg.), Evangelium - Sakramente - Amt und die Einheit der Kirche
Creators: name: Vorster, Hans
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 32 Nr. 2 (1983): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 32, Heft 2
Transverse, Pavement Markings for Speed Control and Accident Reduction
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Transverse pavement markings were placed ahead of a sharp curve having a high-accident history. Speed and accident studies were conducted before and after. The markings were placed so that drivers otherwise failing to reduce speeds while approaching the curve would see transverse lines on the pavement at an increasing rate. The spacing of lines was intended to create an illusion of acceleration which would cause the driver to slow. The results indicated that pavement markings can be an effective speed-control measure and reduce accidents. At the single site studied, the obedience of drivers to this type of hazard warning was more effective than signing alone. Further uses of markings in this way may be warranted at locations where excessive speeds contribute to accidents. The length of roadway marked in this trial was 810 feet (247 m). Consideration should be given to increasing the distance in future installations. Although the striping tape performed satisfactorily, painted lines could be used as an alternate.
Adsorption of human serum albumin to polystyrene latex grafted with n,n- dimethylacrylamide
Creators: name: Ramezani, Farhad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Biocompatible materials can be defined as materials which can be introduced into a living organism without producing stress or traumatic response. When a solid material comes in contact with a biological medium, a layer of protein immediately binds to the surface. Subsequent defensive responses depend on the type and binding orientation of the protein on the surface. Therefore, primary surface protein binding is directly related to the type of physiological response observed in the body. Surfaces coated with grafted hydrophilic polymers can reduce non-specific protein adsorption. The hydrophilic nature of the grafted chain reduces the hydrophobic driving force. The long grafted chains extending out through the electrical double layer can reduce electrostatic driving forces. Non-specific protein can be excluded by the grafted chains and the solvent trapped between grafted chains. Polymer chains of hydrophilic poly(N,N -dimethylacrylamide) of different lengths were polymerized in situ by initiation from aldehyde groups on the surface of polystyrene latex. Using the techniques of particle electrophoresis, conductometric titration and elemental analysis, the surfaces of these latexes were analyzed. The adsorption isotherms of human serum albumin (HS A) to these latexes were measured. The results indicate that HSA has an affinity for the grafted poly(N,N -dimethylacrylamide). The exclusion effect of the grafted polymer in reducing HSA adsorption was greatest with the medium length grafted chains. The shorter or longer grafted chains on the latex did not reduce HSA adsorption compared with non-grafted latex.
Additional file 2 of Assessing Bos taurus introgression in the UOA Bos indicus assembly
Creators: name: Naji, Maulana M.
name: Utsunomiya, Yuri T.
name: Sölkner, Johann
name: Rosen, Benjamin D.
name: Mészáros, Gábor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Density function of $$\Delta$$ Δ values. Figure S2. Distribution of nearly fixed alternative allele-NFAA sites considering Bohai as taurine for alignment against ARS_UCD1.2. Figure S3. Z-score transformation of nearly fixed alternative allele-NFAA sites distribution for alignment against ARS_UCD1.2. Figure S4. Boxplot of nearly fixed alternative allele-NFAA sites for alignment against ARS_UCD1.2. Figure S5. Distribution of nearly fixed alternative allele-NFAA sites considering Bohai as taurine for alignment against UOA_Brahman_1. Figure S6. Boxplot of nearly fixed alternative allele-NFAA sites for alignment against UOA_Brahman_1. Figure S7. Z-score transformation of the nearly fixed alternative allele-NFAA sites distribution for alignment against UOA_Brahman_1. Figure S8. Cross-validation error for the admixture analysis.
Be/X-ray binaries and candidates: catalogue
Creators: name: Raguzova, N. V.
name: Popov, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 130 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. We give brief comments on each object and provide necessary references to original data.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, few references added and corrected
Exploring hybridity in food supply chains
Creators: name: Slee, William
name: Kirwan, James
name: Slee, William
name: Kirwan, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: In recent years, a number of dynamic aspects of food supply chains have attracted great interest among social scientists investigating rural restructuring and change. These include: the expansion of organic agriculture; the development of new value added enterprises at farm level and the revitalisation of traditional and new-old artisanal production practices; the expansion from a low base of the market share of 'alternative' short supply chains, such as farmers' markets; and the so-called quality turn, riding on the heels of another turn in rural social research - the consumption turn. All of these changes come together in a vision of alternative agro food networks (AAFNs) that has been built around empirical and theoretical work from a number of predominantly European social researchers, centred on Wageningen, but conducted in a number of countries in Europe. These and other associated changes in the composition of farm-based economic activity are seen to be constitutive of a new paradigm of rural development comprising an alternative network of producers, consumers and other actors in relation to the mainstream agro-food system (Van der Ploeg et al. 2000; Van der Ploeg and Renting 2004; Renting et al. 2003). The theorisation surrounding this work on AAFNs has been sharply criticised by Goodman (2004). He challenges the vision of certain European social scientists of an alternative food sector rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the commodity-based food system to constitute a new paradigm of rural development. He notes their view of AAFNs as: 'innovative precursors of paradigm change, of a more endogenous, territorialized and ecologically embedded successor to the allegedly crisis-ridden modernisation model of conventional industrialised agriculture.' (Goodman 2004:6) In particular, he challenges the binary categorisation into alternative and mainstream and is deeply sceptical as to the existence of a new paradigm while, at the same time, highly cognisant of dynamic changes within the agro-food sector. This paper is motivated by a desire to explore the extent to which different theories can help interpret and explain some of the most dynamic areas of agro-food systems that belong neither in the mainstream food supply chains and networks, nor in the alternative food supply networks. We review two areas where we argue that hybridity is evident in food supply chains and networks, and draw conclusions as to the research needs in a field where too often dualistic interpretations have prevailed.
lintsampler: Easy random sampling via linear interpolation
Creators: name: Naik, Aneesh P.
name: Petersen, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: 'lintsampler' provides a Python implementation of a technique we term 'linear interpolant sampling': an algorithm to efficiently draw pseudo-random samples from an arbitrary probability density function (PDF). First, the PDF is evaluated on a grid-like structure. Then, it is assumed that the PDF can be approximated between grid vertices by the (multidimensional) linear interpolant. With this assumption, random samples can be efficiently drawn via inverse transform sampling. lintsampler is primarily written with 'numpy', drawing some additional functionality from 'scipy'. Under the most basic usage of lintsampler, the user provides a Python function defining the target PDF and some parameters describing a grid-like structure to the 'LintSampler' class, and is then able to draw samples via the 'sample' method. Additionally, there is functionality for the user to set the random seed, employ quasi-Monte Carlo sampling, or sample within a premade grid ('DensityGrid') or tree ('DensityTree') structure.
description: Accepted by Journal of Open Source Software. Describes code repository at https://github.com/aneeshnaik/lintsampler
Reduced quantum electrodynamics in curved space
Creators: name: Caneda, P. I. C.
name: Menezes, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An approach that has been given promising results concerning investigations on the physics of graphene is the so-called reduced quantum electrodynamics. In this work we consider the natural generalization of this formalism to curved spaces. We employ the local momentum space representation. We discuss the validity of the Ward identity and study one-loop diagrams in detail. We show that the one-loop beta function is zero. As an application, we calculate the one-loop optical conductivity of graphene by taking into account curvature effects which can be incorporated locally. In addition, we demonstrate how such effects may contribute to the conductivity. Furthermore, and quite unexpectedly, our calculations unveil the emergence of a curvature-induced effective chemical potential contribution in the optical conductivity.
description: This is the version which was published in Physical Review D, Vol. 103, 065010 (2021). 24 pages
Additional file 1 of Impact of limited sample size and follow-up on single event survival extrapolation for health technology assessment: a simulation study
Creators: name: Beca, Jaclyn M.
name: Chan, Kelvin K. W.
name: Naimark, David M. J.
name: Pechlivanoglou, Petros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. Additional details for simulation study design.
Animistic Apparatus
Creators: name: Ingawanij, May Adadol
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2019
Subjects: Southeast Asian contemporary art, artists' moving image, animism
CREAM Portfolio

description: Ingawanij won the British Academy Mid-career Fellowship to study Southeast Asian artists’ moving image within a dewesternised framework attentive to regional genealogies of medial and ritual forms. At BFMAF, Ingawanij and collaborators enacted the exhibition form as provocation: What if contemporary film exhibitions were reimagined as if they were rituals offered and addressed to nonhuman beings? The exhibition presented works by Davis, Weerasethakul, Diaz, Chong, and Tanatchai Bandasak as site-based installations and film projection ritual, staged as an encounter between the artists’ works and the open-air sites and spaces of historical sedimentation of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Ingawanij’s creative non-fiction article, on cinema as animistic medium routed through Southeast Asia, draws on her curation of the field learning, artistic research and rehearsal event taking place in northeast Thailand involving artists, curators, anthropologists and researchers, and an itinerant film projection troupe. The co-curated screening programmes explore aesthetics of animism in artists’ moving image. The project conceptualises Southeast Asian artists’ moving image as an animistic medium of enworlding and expression, and as a temporally heterogenous aesthetics whose mode of enunciation implies an ecological conception of human sociality with, and precarious relations to, powerful historical and cosmological forces in more-than-human worlds.
China: A Tiger only in the East or a World Player in High Quality Fresh Produce Exports?
Creators: name: Revell, Brian J.
name: Xue, Liu
name: Revell, Brian J.
name: Xue, Liu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: China
subject: vegetables
subject: international trade.

description: This paper examines patterns of recent change in China's international export trade in high quality fresh-vegetables between 2002 and 2005 since its WTO membership and some of the underlying determinants that will determine its future export opportunities. Concepts of product quality are first reviewed and the key characteristics of China's international trade in fresh produce are outlined based on a detailed analysis from the UN Comtrade international trade data at the 2, 4 digit and finally 6 digit levels. High quality fresh and chilled vegetables are identified through their average unit export values. In 2005, China was the 4th largest exporter of vegetables in the world with a 9.8 percent share of world trade, and almost a 6 percent share in fresh and chilled vegetables. The competitiveness of China in world trade in high value fresh produce is assessed through a trade-shares accounting and decomposition approach which enables both structural and performance effects on China's exports to be isolated, and the contributions its major trading partners have made to changes its share of world trade. China's aggregate market share rose by over 1.5 percentage points over the period, and there is evidence of an emerging orientation in its trade shares from E Asia to SE Asia, and to further progress in the Russian Federation and US markets. China's underlying comparative advantage in such labour-intensive products is reflected in the positive performance effect on the increase in its market share.
Grammatical elicitation: Predicative constructions
Creators: name: Calmo Jerónimo, Brenda
name: Laparle, Schuyler
name: Lemon, Tyler
name: Michael, Lev
name: Schwarz, Martha
name: Dos Santos, Wesley
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: mvj

description: No notes
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in two-dimensional lattice SO($N_c$) gauge theories with two scalar flavors
Creators: name: Bonati, Claudio
name: Franchi, Alessio
name: Pelissetto, Andrea
name: Vicari, Ettore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phase diagram and critical behavior of a two-dimensional lattice SO($N_c$) gauge theory ($N_c \ge 3$) with two scalar flavors, obtained by partially gauging a maximally O($2N_c$) symmetric scalar model. The model is invariant under local SO($N_c$) and global O(2) transformations. We show that, for any $N_c \ge 3$, it undergoes finite-temperature Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transitions, associated with the global Abelian O(2) symmetry. The transition separates a high-temperature disordered phase from a low-temperature spin-wave phase where correlations decay algebraically (quasi-long range order). The critical properties at the finite-temperature BKT transition and in the low-temperature spin-wave phase are determined by means of a finite-size scaling analysis of Monte Carlo data.
description: 7 pages, 9 eps figures
Antihistamines considerably modulate the cognitive and psychomotor performance of human volunteers
Creators: name: Rawshan Zannat
name: Uddin, Mir Muhammad Nasir
name: Md. Atiar Rahman
name: Jannatul Aklima
name: Md. Mamun Al Amin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This research investigated the modulating effects of antihistamines—Loratadine, Fexofenadine, Meclizine, and Chlorpheniramine on cognitive (executive function, memory, attention, emotion regulation), mood, psychomotor performance, and sedation in healthy human volunteers. Twenty healthy volunteers received Loratadine 10-mg, Fexofenadine 120-mg, Meclizine 50-mg, Chlorpheniramine Maleate 4-mg, and Placebo 250-mg starch tablet in a five-way crossover, double-blind study. Following each dose the participants were subjected to take a series of test of cognitive functions and psychomotor performances at defined interval. A certain amount of washout period was also maintained for each drug. The test battery included PennCNP—Full Battery Test, Psychology Experiment Building Language, Stanford Sleepiness Scale, and Brief Mood Introspection Scale. The test results These test results were analyzed by one-way and two-way ANOVAs. In general, antihistamines didn't show any statistically significant deviation from that of placebo. However, slight improvement was observed in word memory test (Both immediate and delayed) by Chlorpheniramine; although it increased the reaction time in visual object learning test. Fexofenadine also increased performance in delayed word memory test. Meclizine showed significant reduction (p
Additional file 2 of Impact of limited sample size and follow-up on single event survival extrapolation for health technology assessment: a simulation study
Creators: name: Beca, Jaclyn M.
name: Chan, Kelvin K. W.
name: Naimark, David M. J.
name: Pechlivanoglou, Petros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2. Additional details for simulated populations and datasets.
High-Harmonic Generation from Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene
Creators: name: Mrudul, M. S.
name: Dixit, Gopal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids is an emerging method to probe ultrafast electron dynamics in solids at attosecond timescale. In this work, we study HHG from monolayer and bilayer graphene. Bilayer graphenes with AA and AB stacking are considered in this work. It is found that the monolayer and bilayer graphenes exhibit significantly different harmonic spectra. The difference in the spectra is attributed to the interlayer coupling between the two layers. Also, the intraband and interband contributions to the total harmonic spectrum play a significant role. Moreover, interesting polarization and ellipticity dependence are noticed in total harmonic spectrum for monolayer and bilayer graphene.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Response of Boolean networks to perturbations
Creators: name: Fretter, C.
name: Drossel, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the probability that a Boolean network returns to an attractor after perturbing h nodes. We find that the return probability as function of h can display a variety of different behaviours, which yields insights into the state-space structure. In addition to performing computer simulations, we derive analytical results for several types of Boolean networks, in particular for Random Boolean Networks. We also apply our method to networks that have been evolved for robustness to small perturbations, and to a biological example.
Competitiveness of Turkey's Organic Exports in the European Union Market
Creators: name: Barbaros, R. Funda
name: Akgungor, Sedef
name: Aydogus, Osman
name: Barbaros, R. Funda
name: Akgungor, Sedef
name: Aydogus, Osman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Organic Agriculture
subject: Turkish Agriculture
subject: Export Demand
subject: Competitiveness
subject: Turkish Organic Exports

description: Turkey's exports of organically produced agricultural products have been rapidly growing particularly in response to increasing demand in the European Union countries. Common view and findings of the research on organic trade in Turkey confirms that European market is expanding. A lacking component of the existing research on Turkey's organic exports is that none of the studies focused on modeling the export market for organic products which would enable to make forecasts as well as to make analysis for policy implications. Another missing component of the stream of studies on trade of Turkish organic commodities is the lack of understanding of the present situation of the competitiveness of Turkish exports in the European Union market. The study therefore focuses on estimating an econometric export demand function for organic products and exploring the competitiveness and export performance of Turkish exports as well as understanding the components of export performance. An effort to estimate an econometric export demand model for Turkey's organic exports and revealing sources of export performance and competitiveness is what makes the present study a unique one. The project has three major objectives and thus seeks to produce three outputs: The first objective is to estimate an export demand model for Turkish organic products in the European Union market. It is therefore possible to estimate price and income elasticities of demand as well as to make projections. The second objective is to explore Turkey's export competitiveness in organic products in the European Union market. It order to fulfill this objective, we will estimate indices to measure Turkey's competitiveness. The third objective is to investigate export competitiveness and determine the components of export performance. Through constant market share analysis, we seek to determine the key factors underlying the growth or Turkey's organic exports. The study reveals that export demand for the Turkish organic products are growing and sensitive to price and income changes in target countries. Turkey has a clear comparative advantage against the rival EU countries in selected products. Competitiveness is particularly due to relative prices, thus does not indicate a sustainable competitiveness due to lack of added value in the export items.
Relationship between ethics and Fair Trade supply chain organisation and performance: the case of Italian Alternative Trade Organisations (ATO's)
Creators: name: Zanasi, Cesare
name: Paluan, Lorenzo
name: Zanasi, Cesare
name: Paluan, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Fair Trade
subject: Logistics
subject: Alternative Trade Organisations

description: Fair Trade related import from developing countries is quickly growing although it still represents a small share of the total import. Its influence on the development of rural areas in developing countries is related to both quantitative growth and the respect of its ethical code. Large food multi-national companies are increasingly interested in Fair Trade; part of the Fair Trade movement considers the risk of a related loss in the products' identity; others consider the refusal of a more "professional" approach to Fair Trade management as a constraint to its growth. This debate is particularly felt in Italy. The goal of this paper is to evaluate how the most important Italian Fair Trade importers (ATO's) business models influenced their growth strategies; transaction costs analyisis and logistics performance indicators were adopted to measure the supply chain coordination efficiency and performance. The results showed that the ATO's growth strategies, and logistics performances, seemed more influenced by their value propositions, than the lack of managerial skill.
“Now you see me, now you don’t”: The assessment of impulsivity
Creators: name: Glicksohn, Joseph
name: Hadad, Yamit
name: Ben-Yaacov, Tal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In the neuropsychological literature, there is a debate concerning whether neuropsychological tests necessarily are better means for assessing impulsivity than are trait measures. Yet, there is an inherent problem in looking at these test results: Cognitive impulsivity (i.e. impulsive performance on a standard task, assessed looking at the speed-accuracy trade-off in the data) might only sometimes be indicative of trait impulsivity, and trait impulsivity might also only sometimes be indicative of cognitive impulsivity. There is, however, no complete overlap. This is the conclusion drawn from two studies reported in this paper. One option is to first look at those participants scoring high on trait impulsivity, and then to interpret their performance on neuropsychological tests in terms of this. Poor performance for them is most likely indicative of impulsive performance. There is, however, another option: That individuals scoring high on trait impulsivity implement this impulsivity in their performance, sometimes performing impulsively, and sometimes not. A plausible solution is to incorporate both self-report and analysis of performance in both neuropsychological assessment and personality research.
Dozza L., Frabboni F. (a cura di), Lo sguardo dei nonni. Ritratti generazionali, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2012
Creators: name: Di Sandro, Elena
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2015

description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 8 (2014): Facciamo il punto su… Questioni e problemi dell’educazione e della sua storia
ABSTRACT
Creators: name: Marescotti, Elena
name: Cornacchia, Matteo
name: Barbieri, Nicola Silvio
name: Oliviero, Stefano
name: Dello Preite, Francesca
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2015

description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 8 (2014): Facciamo il punto su… Questioni e problemi dell’educazione e della sua storia
Teaching the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations to Fast Neural Surrogate Models in 3D
Creators: name: Wandel, Nils
name: Weinmann, Michael
name: Klein, Reinhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Physically plausible fluid simulations play an important role in modern computer graphics and engineering. However, in order to achieve real-time performance, computational speed needs to be traded-off with physical accuracy. Surrogate fluid models based on neural networks have the potential to achieve both, fast fluid simulations and high physical accuracy. However, these approaches rely on massive amounts of training data, require complex pipelines for training and inference or do not generalize to new fluid domains. In this work, we present significant extensions to a recently proposed deep learning framework, which addresses the aforementioned challenges in 2D. We go from 2D to 3D and propose an efficient architecture to cope with the high demands of 3D grids in terms of memory and computational complexity. Furthermore, we condition the neural fluid model on additional information about the fluid's viscosity and density which allows simulating laminar as well as turbulent flows based on the same surrogate model. Our method allows to train fluid models without requiring fluid simulation data beforehand. Inference is fast and simple, as the fluid model directly maps a fluid state and boundary conditions at a moment t to a subsequent fluid state at t+dt. We obtain real-time fluid simulations on a 128x64x64 grid that include various fluid phenomena such as the Magnus effect or Karman vortex streets and generalize to domain geometries not considered during training. Our method indicates strong improvements in terms of accuracy, speed and generalization capabilities over current 3D NN-based fluid models.
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Creators: name: Marescotti, Elena
name: Cornacchia, Matteo
name: Barbieri, Nicola Silvio
name: Oliviero, Stefano
name: Dello Preite, Francesca
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2015

description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 8 (2014): Facciamo il punto su… Questioni e problemi dell’educazione e della sua storia
Computing modular coincidences
Creators: name: Frettlöh, D.
name: Sing, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Computing modular coincidences can show whether a given substitution system, which is supported on a point lattice in R^d, consists of model sets or not. We prove the computatibility of this problem and determine an upper bound for the number of iterations needed. The main tool is a simple algorithm for computing modular coincidences, which is essentially a generalization of Dekking coincidence to more than one dimension, and the proof of equivalence of this generalized Dekking coincidence and modular coincidence. As a consequence, we also obtain some conditions for the existence of modular coincidences. In a separate section, and throughout the article, a number of examples are given.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures
Additional file 3 of Impact of limited sample size and follow-up on single event survival extrapolation for health technology assessment: a simulation study
Creators: name: Beca, Jaclyn M.
name: Chan, Kelvin K. W.
name: Naimark, David M. J.
name: Pechlivanoglou, Petros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 3. Additional results for Scenario 1.
Entrance channel dependence in compound nuclear reactions with loosely bound nuclei
Creators: name: Adhikari, S.
name: Samanta, C.
name: Basu, C.
name: Ray, S.
name: Chattaerjee, A.
name: Kailas, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement of light charged particles evaporated from the reaction 6,7Li+6Li has been carried out at extreme backward angle in the energy range 14 - 20 MeV. Calculations from the code ALICE91 show that the symmetry of the target-projectile combination and the choice of level density parameter play important roles in explaining the evaporation spectra for these light particle systems. In above barrier energy region the fusion cross-section is not suppressed for these loosely bound nuclei.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure
Aspect-ratio-dependent heat transport by baroclinic acoustic streaming
Creators: name: Massih, Jacques Abdul
name: Mushthaq, Remil
name: Michel, Guillaume
name: Chini, Gregory P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standing acoustic waves have been known to generate Eulerian time-mean 'streaming' flows at least since the seminal investigation of Lord Rayleigh in the 1880s. Nevertheless, a recent body of numerical and experimental evidence has shown that inhomogeneities in the ambient density distribution lead to much faster flows than arise in classical Rayleigh streaming. The emergence of these unusually strong flows creates new opportunities to enhance heat transfer in systems in which convective cooling cannot otherwise be easily achieved. To assess this possibility, a theoretical study of acoustic streaming in an ideal gas confined in a rectangular channel with top and bottom walls maintained at fixed but differing temperatures is performed. A two time scale system of equations is utilized to efficiently capture the coupling between the fast acoustic waves and the slowly evolving streaming flow, enabling strongly nonlinear regimes to be accessed. A large suite of numerical simulations is carried out to probe the streaming dynamics, to highlight the critical role played by baroclinically generated wave vorticity and to quantify the additional heat flux induced by the standing acoustic wave. Proper treatment of the two-way coupling between the waves and mean flow is found to be essential for convergence to a self-consistent steady state, and the variation of the resulting acoustically enhanced steady-state heat flux with both the amplitude of the acoustic wave and the O(1) aspect ratio of the channel is documented. For certain parameters, heat fluxes almost two orders of magnitude larger than those realizable by conduction alone can be attained.
La storiografia dell’Educazione degli adulti in Italia: un sentiero smarrito?
Creators: name: Marescotti, Elena
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2015

description: Abstract: This paper focuses on historical dimension of Adult education, considering it a very important issue for the research in this field. The arguments put forward start from a critical survey of the literature, through the identification of various approaches (and their paradigmatic examples) to address this dimension: the presentation of historical excursus, propaedeutic to theoretical contents and current issues of Adult education; the deepening of more circumscribed periods, authors, writings or situations considered particularly significant in this field; and the re-discovery of “classics”, offered as benchmarks for the theory and planning of educational practices. Although there are notable examples considering history of education as a fundamental dimension of Adult education research, it notes that this research field needs to be revitalized, to answer to the exigency – expressed by many scholars, but not only by them – to equip itself with more refined interpretative and planning tools.

Abstract: Questo articolo è incentrato sulla dimensione storica dell’Educazione degli adulti, considerandola una questione di grande rilievo per la ricerca in questo ambito. Le argomentazioni proposte prendono le mosse da una ricognizione critica della letteratura, attraverso l’individuazione di varie tipologie (e di relativi esempi paradigmatici) di affrontare tale dimensione: la presentazione di excursus storici propedeutici ai contenuti teorici e alle questioni più attuali dell’Educazione degli adulti; l’approfondimento più circoscritto di periodi, autori, opere o situazioni ritenute particolarmente significative in questo settore; la ri-scoperta di “classici” che si offrono come punti di riferimento per l’elaborazione teorica e la progettazione delle prassi educative. Pur non mancando pregevoli testimonianze di come la storia del­l’Educa­zione degli adulti sia una dimensione fondamentale della ricerca educativa, si rileva che questa pista di ricerca necessita di essere rinvigorita e maggiormente coltivata, proprio alla luce del bisogno – da più parti espresso – di dotarsi di sempre più raffinati strumenti interpretativi e progettuali.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 8 (2014): Facciamo il punto su… Questioni e problemi dell’educazione e della sua storia
Localization of lattice fermions: lessons for overlap
Creators: name: Svetitsky, Benjamin
name: Shamir, Yigal
name: Golterman, Maarten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice fermions in a fluctuating gauge field can show localization, much like electrons in a disordered potential. We study the spectrum of localized and extended states of supercritical Wilson fermions in gauge ensembles generated with plaquette and improved actions. When the Wilson fermion operator is used to construct the overlap kernel, the mobility edge, that is the boundary between the localized and extended states, determines the range of the kernel.
description: LATTICE05(chiral fermions), 6 pp., 3 fig., to appear in PoS
Corrosion Behavior of an Additively Manufactured Functionally Graded Material
Creators: name: Steinhoff, Timon
name: Hölscher, Lennart
name: Klose, Christian
name: Hassel, Thomas
name: Maier, Hans Jürgen
Publisher: name: Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: IPDAM
subject: SAM
subject: functionally graded material
subject: FGM
subject: cold-wire gas metal arc welding
subject: wire arc additive manufacturing
subject: WAAM
subject: corrosion
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: Dissimilar metal welds (DMW) combine the high strength and cost benefits of ferritic stainless steels with the high corrosion resistance of austenitic steels, and are thus commonly used in different types of power plants. However, due to the abrupt change in properties, these joints are susceptible to premature failure. Work pieces with a smooth transition in composition and/or properties are referred to as "functionally graded materials" (FGM). When used as transition joints, FGM can enhance the lifetime of certain components. In the present study, the FGM were manufactured by using wire arc additive manufacturing employing cold-wire gas metal arc welding. Since the corrosion resistance of such FGM are still unknown, the corrosion properties of the FGM work piece were compared to those of a DMW work piece by means of electrochemical analysis using potentiodynamic polarization and a salt spray test. The FGM showed a 24 % lower average corrosion rate compared to the reference piece and no signs of pitting or galvanic corrosion. This shows the potential of FGM and further research should be carried out.
La storia dell’infanzia:  riflessioni su un panorama storiografico complesso e in divenire
Creators: name: Oliviero, Stefano
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di ferrara
Year: 2015

description: Abstract: The historical research on childhood is by its nature difficult, complex, and in part still to be defined because of the ambiguity and mutability of the object of study: the child of yesterday. The contribution intends to offer some reflections on the critical issues and com­plexity of this field of research and the variety and trends Italian historiography, also to find new prospects.

 Abstract: L’indagine storica sull’infanzia è per sua natura ardua, complessa e in parte ancora in via di definizione a causa della ambiguità e della mutevolezza dell’oggetto di studio, ovvero il bambino di ieri. Il contributo intende offrire alcune riflessioni sulle criticità e la complessità di questo campo di ricerca e sulla varietà e le tendenze della storiografia italiana anche per trovare nuove prospettive.
description: Annali online della Didattica e della Formazione Docente, Vol 6, N° 8 (2014): Facciamo il punto su… Questioni e problemi dell’educazione e della sua storia