cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of job site sanitation and living conditions on the health and welfare of agricultural workers
Creators: name: Frisvold, George B.
name: Mines, Richard
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Frisvold, George B.
name: Mines, Richard
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: agricultural labor
subject: diseases
subject: health
subject: hygiene

description: The lack of field toilets on agricultural job sites increases the probability of gastrointestinal disorders by 60%. Adverse living conditions significantly increase the probability of gastrointestinal, respiratory, and muscular problems. These three health problems do not appear to increase the probability that a worker's family is on welfare or lower workers' earnings. Respiratory problems, however, substantially increase the probability that the worker receives unemployment compensation.
Principal and independent component analysis for seismic data
Creators: name: Kaplan, Sam T.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Principal and Independent component analysis (PCA and ICA) are two ideas which are very much related; both employing a statistical understanding of data to achieve their goals. Whereas PCA exploits statistical correlation, ICA uses statistical independence to glean useful information from data. Seismic data is inherently noisy, and is complicated by the presence of an unknown seismic wavelet. Analysis of the data is aided by, both, noise suppression and blind deconvolution techniques. First, consider the subject of noise suppression. If the data are organized into several sequences where, from one sequence to the next, the signal is correlated while the noise is uncorrelated, then PCA has the ability to separate noise and signal. Here, PCA is analyzed from three points of view, variance maximization, the singular value decomposition and neural networks. The resulting theory is used to filter noise from a set of common midpoint seismic gathers by exploiting correlations which exist from one gather to the next. To further simplify analysis of these data, the Earth is often approximated as a linear system; thus, the seismic trace is subject to the convolutional model. Convolution is a linear operation, and consequently, can be formulated as a linear system of equations. If only the output of the system (the convolved signal) is known, then the problem is blind so that given one equation, two unknowns are sought. This problem is well suited for ICA which has the ability to find some estimate of the two unknowns, and here the blind deconvolution problem is solved using ICA. To facilitate this, several time-lagged versions of the convolved signal are extracted and used to construct realizations of a random vector. For ICA, this random vector is the, so called, mixture vector, created by the matrix-vector multiplication of the two unknowns, the mixing matrix and the source vector. Due to the properties of convolution, the mixing matrix is banded with its nonzero elements containing the convolution's filter. This banded property is incorporated into the ICA algorithm as prior information, giving rise to a banded ICA algorithm (B-ICA) which is, in turn, used in a new blind deconvolution algorithm. This algorithm is considered for both noiseless and noisy data.
Pure superposition states of atoms generated by a bichromatic elliptically polarized filed
Creators: name: Taichenachev, A. V.
name: Yudin, V. I.
name: Velichansky, V. L.
name: Zibrov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find specific polarizations of components of a bichromatic field, which allow one to prepare pure superposition states of atoms, using the coherent population trapping effect. These $m$$-$$m$ states are prepared in the system of Zeeman substates of the ground-state hyperfine levels with arbitrary angular momenta $F_1$ and $F_2$. It is established that, in general case $m\ne 0$, the use of waves with elliptical polarizations ($ε_1$$\perp$$ε_2$ field configuration for alkali metal atoms) is necessary for the pure state preparation. We analytically show an unique advantage of the D1 line of alkali metal atoms, which consists in the possibility to generate pure $m$$-$$m$ states even in the absence of spectral resolution of the excited-state hyperfine levels, contrary to the D2 line.
description: revtex4, 6 pages including 2 eps figures
Grallaria obscura Berlepsch & Stolzmann 1896
Creators: name: Isler, Morton L.
name: Chesser, Terry
name: Robbins, Mark B.
name: Cuervo, Andrés M.
name: Cadena, Carlos Daniel
name: Hosner, Peter A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Grallariidae
Grallaria
Grallaria obscura

description: Grallaria obscura Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1896, subspecies elevated to species
Junín Antpitta
 Includes population designated obscura 3 in the analysis.
 Diagnosis. Upperparts dark reddish yellow-brown; throat and breast slightly paler; belly even paler with center of belly and undertail coverts white to pale yellowish-buff; pale buff eye-ring. Songs are distinguished from songs of all other populations except G. gravesi and G. oneilli by their frequency-modulated notes, delivered in a series in long songs and in pairs in short songs (Fig. 12). The vocalizations of G. obscura differ from those of G. oneilli and G. gravesi in four characters: the pace of G. obscura long songs is slower than that of G. oneilli and G. gravesi; the duration of intervals between notes of G. obscura long songs increases throughout, whereas those of G. gravesi increase and then decrease, and those of G. oneilli are nearly constant; notes in the second half of G. obscura long songs decline in frequency, whereas those of G. oneilli and G. gravesi rise in frequency, and finally, the initial note of short songs of G. obscura includes three frequency peaks (rarely two), whereas in G. gravesi and G. oneilli the initial note has a single peak.
 Distribution. Endemic to Peru on the east Andean slope in Department of Junín, south of the Río Perené and Río Paucartambo, north of the Río Mantaro, and west of Río Ene, 3000–3600 m.
 Plumage. Overall plumage of upperparts, including rectrices, remiges (primaries edged paler), crown and auriculars, dark reddish yellow-brown (7.5YR 4/4), shading to color of underparts in malar area; eye-ring pale buff. Throat and breast reddish yellow-brown (7.5YR-5YR 5/8), paler on belly with center of belly whitish; undertail coverts pale yellowish-buff (2.5Y 8/4); flank coloration intermediate between upperparts and breast (specimen photographs App. 6, Figs. A26 and A33).
 Etymology. The English name is adapted from Cory & Hellmayr (1924) and reflects the limited distribution of this species.
 Remarks. See remarks for G. gravesi. Of the three species of what was known as G. r. obscura, vocalizations of G. obscura sensu stricto are the most distinct. The type locality (Maraynioc, Junín, Peru) of G. rufula obscura lies within the geographic range of this species.
description: Published as part of Isler, Morton L., Chesser, Terry, Robbins, Mark B., Cuervo, Andrés M., Cadena, Carlos Daniel & Hosner, Peter A., 2020, Taxonomic evaluation of the Grallaria rufula (Rufous Antpitta) complex (Aves: Passeriformes: Grallariidae) distinguishes sixteen species, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4817 (1) on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3954698
A Novel Spatial-Spectral Framework for the Classification of Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery
Creators: name: Gupta, Shriya TP
name: Sahay, Sanjay K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Hyper-spectral satellite imagery is now widely being used for accurate disaster prediction and terrain feature classification. However, in such classification tasks, most of the present approaches use only the spectral information contained in the images. Therefore, in this paper, we present a novel framework that takes into account both the spectral and spatial information contained in the data for land cover classification. For this purpose, we use the Gaussian Maximum Likelihood (GML) and Convolutional Neural Network methods for the pixel-wise spectral classification and then, using segmentation maps generated by the Watershed algorithm, we incorporate the spatial contextual information into our model with a modified majority vote technique. The experimental analyses on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that our proposed methodology performs better than the earlier approaches by achieving an accuracy of 99.52% and 98.31% on the Pavia University and the Indian Pines datasets respectively. Additionally, our GML based approach, a non-deep learning algorithm, shows comparable performance to the state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, which indicates the importance of the proposed approach for performing a computationally efficient classification of hyper-spectral imagery.
description: 13 Pages, 15 Figures, EANN-2020
Taste Indicators and Heterogeneous Revealed Preferences for Congestion in Recreation Demand
Creators: name: Lavin, Felipe Vasquez
name: Hanemann, W. Michael
name: Lavin, Felipe Vasquez
name: Hanemann, W. Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Researchers using revealed preference data have mostly relied on the Mixed Logit (ML) framework to model unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we suggest an extension of this model where we integrate direct measures of taste and revealed preferences, under a unified econometric setting, to describe heterogeneous preferences for congestion in recreation demand. ML is a random parameter discrete choice model, which decomposes the coefficients of the regression equation into a mean effect shared by all individuals in the sample, and a deviation with respect to this mean, specific to each individual. Within this structure, heterogeneity is summarized using a parametric density function for the coefficients of the model. From this distribution one can identify the portion of people who like or dislike an attribute of the good. On the other hand, taste indicators, represented in a like-dislike scale, constitute complementary information about the distribution of tastes in the population. We combine both sources of information to characterize preferences in our model. The traditional ML suggests almost 60% of people in the sample like crowded places while our integrated model implies almost 100% of the people dislike congestion. These results show the benefits of using taste indicators to describe heterogeneous preferences for attributes describing alternatives of a choice set.
Charmed Meson Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Kutschke, Robert K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the two years since HQL02, the long sought $j_{\ell}=1/2$ states have been observed. In the charmed non-strange sector, these states have the expected properties but, in the charmed strange sector, the states have masses below threshold for the otherwise dominant decay modes, allowing their observation in suppressed modes. Improved measurements of the masses and widths of the well established P-wave charm states have also been published.
description: Submitted to the proceedings of the Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 1-5, 2004. Second version has fixed for missing figure
Generality of the relationship between attributions and depression across attributional dimensions and across samples
Creators: name: Persons, Jacqueline B.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Persons, Jacqueline B.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: mathematical models
subject: sociology

description: Two hypotheses implicit in the use of composite measures of attributions in tests of learned helplessness theory (but not implicit in the theory itself) were tested: the hypotheses that relationships between depression and the three types of attributions are equal in magnitude, and linear. To test these hypotheses, data from three published studies of the reformulated learned helplessness theory of depression (Abramson, Seligman, & Teasdale, 1978) were reanalyzed. The hypothesis that internal, stable, and global attributions are equally related to depression was tested and rejected. Increases in internal attributions were related to depression in one sample: increases in global attributions for negative events were related to depression in two samples: stability attributions for negative events were unrelated to depression. The relationship between attributions and depression was nonlinear .in one of the three populations studied. Finally, a third hypothesis was tested: the hypothesis that the relationship between attributions and depression is equal across samples. The hypothesis was rejected: attributions for negative events were more highly related to depression in a psychiatric sample than in normal populations. Implications of these findings for learned helplessness theory and for the use of composite measures of attributional style are discussed.
There's no such thing as free housing for hired agricultural workers
Creators: name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Agribusiness
subject: agricultural labor
subject: employment
subject: rent

description: One-quarter of hired agricultural workers live in housing that is provided without rent. whereas few workers in other industries are provided with rent-free housing as part of their employment compensation. Workers who live in rent-free housing are paid more than comparable agricultural workers. possibly reflecting the low-quality and isolation of such housing.
LFQ: Online Learning of Per-flow Queuing Policies using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Bachl, Maximilian
name: Fabini, Joachim
name: Zseby, Tanja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The increasing number of different, incompatible congestion control algorithms has led to an increased deployment of fair queuing. Fair queuing isolates each network flow and can thus guarantee fairness for each flow even if the flows' congestion controls are not inherently fair. So far, each queue in the fair queuing system either has a fixed, static maximum size or is managed by an Active Queue Management (AQM) algorithm like CoDel. In this paper we design an AQM mechanism (Learning Fair Qdisc (LFQ)) that dynamically learns the optimal buffer size for each flow according to a specified reward function online. We show that our Deep Learning based algorithm can dynamically assign the optimal queue size to each flow depending on its congestion control, delay and bandwidth. Comparing to competing fair AQM schedulers, it provides significantly smaller queues while achieving the same or higher throughput.
Why industrial policies fail: limited commitment
Creators: name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: consumers
subject: economics
subject: equilibrium
subject: export subsidies
subject: investments
subject: trade agreements

description: The strategic effects of subsidies on output and subsidies on investment differ substantially in dynamic models where a government's commitment ability is limited. Output subsidies remain effective even as the period of commitment vanishes, but investment subsidies may become completely ineffective. This difference has been obscured because most existing models of strategic trade policy are static.
Echo Tomography of Sco X-1 using Bowen Fluorescence Lines
Creators: name: Casares, J.
name: Muñoz-Darias, T.
name: Martinez-Pais, I. G.
name: Cornelisse, R.
name: Charles, P. A.
name: Marsh, T. R.
name: Dhillon, V. S.
name: Steeghs, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present preliminary results of a simultaneous X-ray/optical campaign of the prototypical LMXB Sco X-1 at 1-10 Hz time resolution. Lightcurves of the high excitation Bowen/HeII emission lines were obtained through narrow interference filters with ULTRACAM, and these were cross-correlated with X-ray lightcurves. We find evidence for correlated variability, in particular when Sco X-1 enters the Flaring Branch. The Bowen/HeII lightcurves lag the X-ray lightcurves with a light travel time which is consistent with reprocessing in the companion star.
description: Contribution presented at the conference "Interacting Binaries: Accretion, Evolution and Outcomes", held in Cefalu, Sicily (Italy) in July 2004. To be published by AIP (American Institute of Physics), eds. L. A. Antonelli, L. Burderi, F. D'Antona, T. Di Salvo, G.L. Israel, L. Piersanti, O. Straniero, A. Tornambe. 6 pages, 5 figures
UV sensitive one-loop matter power spectrum in degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor theories
Creators: name: Hirano, Shin'ichi
name: Kobayashi, Tsutomu
name: Yamauchi, Daisuke
name: Yokoyama, Shuichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study matter density perturbations up to third order and the one-loop matter power spectrum in degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories beyond Horndeski. We systematically solve gravitational field equations and fluid equations order by order, and find three novel shape functions characterizing the third-order solution in DHOST theories. A complete form of the one-loop matter power spectrum is then obtained using the resultant second- and third-order solutions. We confirm the previous result that the convergence condition of the loop integrals in the infrared limit becomes more stringent than that of the standard one in general relativity. We show that also in the ultraviolet limit the convergence condition becomes more stringent and the one-loop matter power spectrum is thus sensitive to the short-wavelength behavior of the linear power spectrum.
description: 18 pages, no figure
MPEC 2024-T262 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 October 12)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Anisotropic k-essence cosmologies
Creators: name: Chimento, Luis P.
name: Forte, Mónica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a Bianchi type-I (BTI) cosmology with k essence and find the set of models which dissipate the initial anisotropy. There are cosmological models with extended tachyon fields and k essence having constant bariotropic index. We obtain the conditions leading to a regular bounce of the average geometry and the residual anisotropy on the bounce. For constant potential, we develop purely kinetic k-essence models which are dust dominated in their early stages, dissipate the initial anisotropy and end in a stable de Sitter accelerated expansion scenario. We show that linear k field and polynomial kinetic function models evolve asymptotically to Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmologies. The linear case is compatible with an asymptotic potential interpolating between $V_l\propto ϕ^{-γ_l}$, in the shear dominated regime, and $V_l\proptoϕ^{-2}$ at late time. In the polynomial case, the general solution contains cosmological models with an oscillatory average geometry. For linear k essence, we find the general solution in the BTI cosmology when the k field is driven by an inverse square potential. This model shares the same geometry than a quintessence field driven by an exponential potential.
description: 19 pages, REVTeX 4
Economic Incentives to Conserve Wildlife on Private lands: Analysis and Policy
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Private property rights
subject: wildlife conservation

description: Some believe that provision of private property rights in wildlife on private land can provide a powerful economic incentive for nature conservation because it enables property owners to market such wildlife or its attributes. If such marketing is profitable, private landholders will conserve the wildlife concerned and its required habitat. But land is not always most profitably used for exploitation of wildlife, and many economic values of wildlife (such as non-use economic values) cannot be marketed. The mobility of some wildlife (their fugitive nature) adds to the limitations of the private property approach. While some species may be conserved by this approach, it is suboptimal as a single policy approach to nature conservation. Nevertheless, it is being experimented with in the Northern Territory of Australia where landholders have the possibility of harvesting on their properties a quota of eggs and chicks of red-tailed black cockatoos for commercial sale. This scheme is expected to provide an incentive to private landholders to retain hollow trees essential for the nesting of these birds. Aspects of this approach are analysed using this case, and related ones, from Northern Australia. It is noted that the private property rights approach adopted in southern Africa is unlikely to be equally successful everywhere. The long-term survival of some species depends on their ability to use private lands without severe harassment, either for their migration or to supplement their available resources, for example, the Asian elephant in Sri Lanka. Nature conservation on private land is often a useful, if not essential, supplement to conservation on public lands. Community and public incentives for such conservation are outlined.
Dölger, Franz Jos.: Konstantin der Große und seine Zeit
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Carl Maria
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 11 Nr. 2 (1913): Oriens christianus, Band 11, Heft 2
Recreational Fishing: Its Expansion, its Economic Value and Aquaculture's Role in Sustaining it.
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Recreational fishing
subject: environmental threat to fish stock
subject: aquaculture

description: Economic growth usually leads to a substantial increase in the demand for recreational fishing, and China is likely to follow this trend. Factors influencing this expansion in demand are identified. Recreational fishing is of major economic importance in higher income countries and indicators of its economic significance are given. Growing demand for recreational fishing results in intensified involvement of recreational fishers in conflicts about resource use. With increasing demand for recreational fishing, recreational fishers face growing competition with one another for limited fish stocks and with commercial fishers. Their concerns for environmental threats to fish stocks also intensify. Furthermore, some strategies of recreational fishers are increasingly criticised by conservationists. Governments, therefore, are put under pressure to adopt policies to address these conflicts. Some of the policy measures adopted to help sustain the fisheries and reduce conflict are outlined. These include limits on the catch and exclusive zones for recreational fishing. However, wild stocks of fish are likely to remain under mounting harvesting and other pressures. Therefore, we need to consider the role that aquaculture can play in overcoming these problems. The possible ways in which aquaculture can do this are outlined and discussed.
Samen oefenen: Tips en voorbeelden voor mantelzorgers en mensen na een beroerte
Creators: name: Jie, Li-Juan
name: Kleynen, Melanie
Publisher: name: Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110317 Physiotherapy
subject: 110321 Rehabilitation and Therapy (excl. Physiotherapy)

description: Hier presenteren wij het resultaat van het project “Samen oefenen: Tips en voorbeelden voor mantelzorgers en mensen na een beroerte”. De doelstelling van het project was om kennis over de toepassing van motorisch leren te vertalen naar instructie- en voorbeeldmateriaal voor informele zorgverleners, zoals mantelzorgers, zodat zij de revalidant beter kunnen begeleiden bij het (impliciet) motorisch leren van bewegingen in de thuissituatie. Om deze doelstelling te bereiken hebben onderzoekers (Zuyd Hogeschool), cliënten en mantelzorgers (Burgerkracht Limburg), een instructional media developer (Zuyd Hogeschool) en therapeuten (Zuyd Hogeschool, Fysiotherapie Regtop) samengewerkt. Het resultaat van het project is een folder met links naar vier verschillende videoclips (een kennisclip met uitleg en drie voorbeeld video’s). De folder kan zowel door mantelzorgers als mensen na een beroerte gebruikt worden, maar ook voor scholing van (toekomstige) zorgprofessionals op gebied van motorisch leren. Dit project is een vervolg op het vierjarige project “De kracht van het onbewuste leren 2.0” (looptijd 1-10-2019 tot 31-8-2020). Lectoraat Voeding, Leefstijl en Bewegen was penvoerder van beide projecten. Meer informatie over het lectoraat en project en het project “De kracht van het onbewuste leren 2.0” vindt u op de website www.zuyd.nl/onderzoek/lectoraten/voeding-leefstijl-en-bewegen en in het document https://www.zuyd.nl/binaries/content/assets/zuyd/onderzoek/factsheets/apvcz---factsheet-kracht-onbewust-leren-20-nl-braun.pdf
FORENSIC ASSESSMENT OF HEMORRAGE IN THE BRAIN AS A RESULT OF CRANIOCEREBRAL INJURIES
Creators: name: Jarimbetov, Rashid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In a developed country, 3-4 people per 1000 inhabitants occur every year. Such injuries are the leading cause of death and disability in the 30s. 1.5 million annually worldwide. people lost their lives and 2.4 mln. a person becomes disabled. By 2010, the number of people with disabilities worldwide will reach 150 million. has reached Light, it has 10-20 times more than heavy types.
Investigation of Nanostructures with X-ray Scattering Techniques
Creators: name: Kriegner, Dominik
name: Dopita, Milan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structural investigations of nanomaterials motivated by their large variety and diverse set of applications have attracted considerable attention. In particular, the ever-improving machinery, both in laboratory and at large scale facilities, together with the methodical improvements available for studying nanostructures ranging from epitaxial nanomaterials, nanocrystalline thin films and coatings, to nanoparticles and colloidal nanocrystals allows us to gain a more detailed understanding of their structural properties. As the structure essentially determines the physical properties of the materials, this advances the possibilities of structural studies and also enables a deeper understanding of the structure to property relationships. In this special issue entitled "Investigation of Nanostructures with X-ray Scattering Techniques" five contributions show the recent progress in various research fields. Contributions cover topics as diverse as neutron scattering on magnetic multilayer films, epitaxial orientation of organic thin films, nanoparticle ordering and chemical composition analysis, and the combination of nanofocused X-ray beams with electrical measurements.
description: Editorial, 3 pages
Tourism as a contributor to development in Sri Lanka: An overview and a case study
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Bandara, Ranjith
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Bandara, Ranjith
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Tourism
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: tourism development of Sri Lanka
subject: economic development

description: General background is provided on the potential of tourism growth to contribute to economic development, paying particular attention to the experience of Sri Lanka. An overview of trends in inbound tourism to Sri Lanka is presented with particular consideration being given to its number of inbound tourist arrivals. Sri Lanka’s comparative position in international tourism markets, the composition of its tourist arrivals by area of origin, the extent of foreign earnings by the Sri Lankan tourism industry and variations in the amount of these earnings, and the extent of employment generation by this industry are examined. Regional aspects of the tourism industry in Sri Lanka are given special consideration, and this is followed by a report on the regional economic impact of tourism of Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. This major tourist attraction near the edge of the Western Highlands of Sri Lanka is shown to make a significant contribution to economic decentralisation. A general discussion follows of tourism development in the Sri Lankan context. The main factors that have hindered tourism growth in Sri Lanka and its decentralisation are considered. Indications are that major impediment posed by civil disturbance and terrorism is at an end in Sri Lanka.
Thermoeconomic analysis of an irreversible Stirling heat pump cycle
Creators: name: Lucia, U.
name: Gervino, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper an analysis of the Stirling cycle in thermoeconomic terms is developed using the entropy generation. In the thermoeconomic optimization of an irreversible Stirling heat pump cycle the F function has been introduced to evaluate the optimum for the higher and lower sources temperature ratio in the cycle: this ratio represents the value which optimizes the cycle itself. The variation of the function F is proportional to the variation of the entropy generation, the maxima and minima of F has been evaluated in a previous paper without giving the physical foundation of the method. We investigate the groundwork of this approach: to study the upper and lower limits of F function allows to determine the cycle stability and the optimization conditions. The optimization consists in the best COP at the least cost. The principle of maximum variation for the entropy generation becomes the analytic foundation of the optimization method in the thermoeconomic analysis for an irreversible Stirling heat pump cycle. Pacs: 89.65.G, 05.70 keywords: entropy generation, finite time Thermodynamics, Stirling cycle, Thermodynamic optimization.
description: 9 pages, presented to the International Conference NEXT2005, Creta, August 2005
Birds - Their importance to visitors to an Australian Rainforest
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Wilson, Clevo
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Wilson, Clevo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Australia
subject: biodiversity
subject: birds
subject: rainforest
subject: tourism

description: Lamington National Park in Queensland, Australia is noted for its rainforest and is part of Australia’s fourteen World Heritage listed properties but no systematic study has been done of the importance of birds to its visitors. This study rectifies this situation. It is based on data from survey forms handed to visitors at an important site in this park and completed by visitors following their visit. This yielded 622 useable replies. These enabled us to establish the comparative importance of birds as an attraction to this site. Furthermore, logit regression is used to analyze and to identify factors that increase the likelihood of a visitor saying that birds are an important attraction. In addition, the relative importance to visitors of various attributes of birds at this site is established. These attributes include hearing birds, diversity of birds, seeing lots of birds, presence of rare birds, presence of brightly colored birds and physical contact with birds. Logit regression analysis is used to isolate independent variables that increase or decrease the likelihood that visitors find diversity of birds, brightly colored birds or physical contact with birds at this site to be important. For example, factors such as the level of education of visitors, their gender, knowledge of birds and conservation attitudes are statistically significant influences.
Advance booking pricing in O2O commerce with demand leakage using game theory for tourism supply chains
Creators: name: Noori-Daryan, Mahsa
name: Taleizadeh, Ata Allah
name: Rabbani, Masoud
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: In this research, the pricing and selling decisions of two supply chains are examined to maximise the profit of the chains considering an advance booking policy where the chains offer complementary items and customers able to buy products from both online and real stores (offline). The proposed model is developed without/with online-to-offline (O2O) retail marketing under the first and second scenarios, respectively. In addition, there is a possibility of demand leakage between the online and offline channels, thus customers can take advantage of the channel that would be most desirable for them. The behaviors of the partners are surveyed by different game-theoretic approaches under two scenarios to determine the optimal decisions and the optimal values of variables and the profits of the chains. Then, the closed form solutions are derived which are examined by a numerical example and sensitivity analyses are performed to analyse the efficiency of key parameters. It is found that employing O2O marketing mechanism causes more profit for chains due to enhancing the market demand. Also, advance booking policy leads to manage the market and attract the customers who follow the items at lower prices so that longer advance booking periods, more orders and higher profits.
Knowledge of Birds and Willingness to Pay for their Conservation: An Australian Case Study
Creators: name: Wilson, Clevo
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Wilson, Clevo
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Willingness to pay
subject: conservation
subject: Australian birds

description: This case study concentrates on the extent of knowledge of members of the Australian public of Australia’s tropical bird species and their willingness to pay for their conservation. In order to place this issue in context, it first provides background information on the status of Australian bird species, focusing attention on species that occur in tropical Australia. Then, using survey results, this study considers the hypothesis that the public’s relative support for the conservation of different bird species depends on its comparative knowledge of their existence and status. Based on experimental results from a sample of residents of Brisbane, Queensland (Australia), it is found that their knowledge of bird species that occur exclusively in the Australian tropics (including tropical Queensland) is very poor compared to those that also occur in the Brisbane area and are relatively common. Experimental results indicate that when respondents in the sample had an option to allocate $1,000 between ten bird species listed in the survey, it resulted in a greater allocation of funds to the better known and more common species than when they were provided with balanced information about all the selected species. With balanced information the average allocation to bird species confined mostly to the Australian tropics, particularly those threatened or endangered, increased. The general consequences of this for policies for the conservation of birds are discussed.
Manual of the work: recent significant subseasonal fluctuations of supraglacial  lakes on Greenland monitored by passive optical satellites
Creators: name: Qiu, Jiahui
name: Ran, Jiangjun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This manual outlines the data processing workflow employed in the Greenland Supraglacial Lake (SGL) mapping project, which incorporates Python and JavaScript codes. The entire process is divided into six main steps: exporting remote sensing imagery from the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, image preprocessing, SGL prediction using deep learning, image postprocessing, uncertainty assessment of SGL area estimates, and data visualization.
Coupled-channel analysis of the $ω$-meson production in $πN$ and $γN$ reactions for c.m. energies up to 2 GeV
Creators: name: Shklyar, V.
name: Lenske, H.
name: Mosel, U.
name: Penner, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pion- and photon induced reactions for the final states $γN$, $πN$, $2πN$, $ηN$, and $ωN$ are studied within a coupled-channel effective Lagrangian approach in the energy region from the pion threshold up to 2 GeV. To investigate the role of the nucleon resonances in the different reactions we include all known states with spin-$\foh$,-$\fth$, and -$\ffh$ and masses below 2 GeV. We find a strong contribution from the $D_{15}(1675)$ resonance to the $πN \to ωN$ reaction. While the $F_{15}(1680)$ state only slightly influences the $ω$ meson production in the $πN$ scattering its role is enhanced in the $ω$ photoproduction due to the large electromagnetic coupling of this resonance. We predict the beam asymmetry $Σ_X$ to be a negative in the $γp \to ωp$ reaction near to the threshold. Above the 1.85 GeV the asymmetry is found to change its sign and becomes positive at forward directions. The presented findings can be experimentally tested at GRAAL, CLAS, and CB-ELSA facilities.
description: Typographical errors corrected
Measurement of the dependence of ultra diluted gas transmittance on the size of the detector
Creators: name: Ratajczak, Jakub M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that measured optical transmittance of an ultra thin gas depends on the detector size. To this end we conducted an experiment that compares transmittances measured in parallel with a pair of detectors with different diameters ranging from 2 $μ$m to 200 $μ$m. A Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy type system was used. Transmittance of $\sim$1e-2 mbar water vapor on NIR absorption line $λ$=1368.60 nm was measured using a 60 m long multi-pass cell placed inside the 300 l vacuum chamber. The result of the experiment shows higher transmittances when the measurement is performed using smaller detectors. The difference reaches as much as 1.23 $\pm$0.1 %, which is greater than 0 with >5$σ$ statistical significance. Qualitatively it is in agreement with the recently developed model of thin gas optical transmittance taking into account the quantum mechanical effects of spreading of the wave functions of individual gas particles.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures
Constraining the host galaxy halos of massive black holes from LISA event rates
Creators: name: Padmanabhan, Hamsa
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coalescence of massive black hole binaries (with masses $10^4 - 10^7 M_{\odot}$) leads to gravitational wave emission that is detectable out to high redshifts ($z \sim 20$) with the forthcoming LISA observatory. We combine the theoretically derived merger rates for dark matter haloes at various redshifts, with an empirically motivated prescription that connects the mass of a dark matter halo and that of its central black hole. Using the expected constraints on the (chirp or reduced) masses of binary black holes, their mass ratios and redshift uncertainties, we forecast the measurement precision on the occupation fraction, normalization and slope of the black hole mass - halo mass relation at various redshifts, assuming a five-year LISA survey for three different confidence scenarios. We use the expected sizes of the LISA localization ellipses on the sky to estimate the number of electromagnetic counterparts to the gravitational wave sources which are detectable by future wide-field optical surveys, such as LSST.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures; version accepted for publication in JCAP
Status of the Beryllium Tile Bonding Qualification activities for the Manufacturing of the ITER First Wall
Creators: name: Mitteau, Raphaël
name: Eaton, R.
name: Perez, G.
name: Zacchia, F.
name: Banetta, S.
name: Bellin, B.
name: Gervash, A.
name: Glazunov, D.
name: Chen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The preparation of the manufacturing of the ITER first wall involves a qualification stage. The qualification aims at demonstrating that manufacturers can deliver the needed reliability and quality for the beryllium to copper bond, before the manufacturing can commence. The qualification is done on semi-prototype, containing relevant features relative to the beryllium armour (about 1/6 of the panel size). The qualification is done by the participating parties, firstly by a manufacturing semi-prototype and then by testing it under heat flux. One semi-prototype is manufactured and is being tested, and further from other manufacturers are still to come. The qualification program is accompanied by bond defect investigations, which aim at defining defect acceptance criteria. Qualification and defect acceptance program are supported by thermal and stress analyses, with good agreement regarding the thermal results, and some insights about the governing factors to bond damage. ITER, First Wall, Qualification, prototypes, high heat flux tests.
description: Fusion Engineering and Design, Elsevier, 2015, Proceedings of the 28th Symposium On Fusion Technology (SOFT-28)
Recreational Fishing and Fishing Policies in the Netherlands and Australia: a Comparative Review
Creators: name: Hurkens, Ruben R.C.M.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Hurkens, Ruben R.C.M.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Netherlands fisheries management
subject: Australian fisheries management

description: This article compares fisheries management, environmental problems and policies of the Netherlands and Australia. From this comparison lessons can be learned for countries that experience economic growth and on increase of leisure activity. In both countries, conflicts between the user groups, e.g. commercial and recreational fishers, are identified and the ways in which policymakers deal with these problems are outlined. Often suggested tools to address these problems are decision-making procedures based on a holistic framework in which economic, sociocultural, political/institutional, ecological aspects are included in the decision framework. Recreational fishing is today often the dominant factor in the resolution of these matters because of the relative economic, social and political power of recreational fishers as a group.
Effects of a Change in Abundance of Elephants on Willingness to Pay for their Conservation
Creators: name: Bandara, Ranjith
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Bandara, Ranjith
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Asian elephant
subject: contingent valuation
subject: Sri Lanka
subject: total economic value
subject: wildlife conservation
subject: willingness to pay.

description: This paper explores the way in which the stated willingness to pay for the conservation of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka varies with hypothetical variations in their abundance. To do that, it relies on results from a sample of residents of Colombo. The willingness to pay function is found to be unusual. It increases at an increasing rate for hypothetical reductions in the elephant population compared to its current level (a level that makes the Asian elephant endangered) and also increases at a decreasing rate for increases in this population from its current level. Rational explanations are given for this relationship. The relationship is, however, at odds with relationships suggested in some of the literature for total economic value as a function of the abundance of a wildlife species. It is suggested that willingness to pay for conservation of a species rationally includes a strategic element and may not always measure the total economic value of a species. Nevertheless, willingness to pay is still policy relevant in such cases.
Les travaux de l'École Biblique de Saint-Étienne à Jérusalem durant l'année scolaire 1912-1913
Creators: name: Abel, P. F.-M.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 11 Nr. 2 (1913): Oriens christianus, Band 11, Heft 2