cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Internet and human rights
Creators: name: Starkl-Moser, Miriam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis provides an overview over the existing and emerging correlation of the Internet and Human Rights with the main focus on the human right to freedom of expression. It looks at how freedom of expression is protected and curtailed at the same time by regulation in the global context and nationally and how it could be protected in the future. Firstly, it will address general issues and problems connected with the Internet and Human Rights, like equal access to the new technology, and terrorism and the defence of freedom. It will look at the relationship of freedom of expression and other human rights, especially the right to privacy. Secondly, it will examine the applicability of international human rights agreements and the opportunities offered by them. It will also look at the possibility of drafting a new piece of international legislation and the effectiveness of national regulation. Although in some areas international consensus may be easier to achieve, for example in many aspects of criminal law enforcement, it is unrealistic to expect that countries with different cultural values will agree upon a single set of rules for the whole world. International harmonisation strategies are clearly an important response to the jurisdictional difficulties of Internet regulation, but they can't be the ultimate and single solution. But national regulation faces its problems, too. Due to the character of the Internet as a transnational medium and its borderless flow of information the nation state only has limited possibilities to effectively regulate the Internet within its borders and it has to accept a loss of sovereignty in cyberspace. Although regulation in some areas may be effective, complete control is impossible which will be shown. Thirdly, it will consider the different approaches that are available to regulate and control content on the Internet, their effectiveness and their influence on the human right to freedom of expression. It will illustrate in various examples in form of case studies the difficulties of Internet regulation. It will also provide an overview over selfrating schemes and filtering and blocking software and the problems connected with them. The liability of Internet Service Providers will be examined and alternatives to government control of the Internet will be discussed.
PRIVATE SECTOR MANAGEMENT OF FOOD SAFETY: PUBLIC REGULATION AND THE ROLE OF PRIVATE CONTROLS
Creators: name: Henson, Spencer J.
name: Hooker, Neal H.
name: Henson, Spencer J.
name: Hooker, Neal H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Private sector responses to the challenge of managing food safety are explored. This paper clarifies the objectives of this special issue, introducing the key issues in each of the following articles. The degree and manner of regulatory compliance, an important element of any strategic food safety management decision, are discussed. Separate of the response to regulations, the incentives of firms to implement advanced management system are documented. The paper pays particular attention to firm efforts to minimize the potential for product recalls.
Wireless Power Distributions in Multi-Cavity Systems at High Frequencies
Creators: name: Adnan, Farasatul
name: Blakaj, Valon
name: Phang, Sendy
name: Antonsen, Thomas M.
name: Creagh, Stephen C.
name: Gradoni, Gabriele
name: Tanner, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: J.2

description: The next generations of wireless networks will work in frequency bands ranging from sub-6 GHz up to 100 GHz. Radio signal propagation differs here in several critical aspects from the behaviour in the microwave frequencies currently used. With wavelengths in the millimeter range (mmWave), both penetration loss and free-space path loss increase, while specular reflection will dominate over diffraction as an important propagation channel. Thus, current channel model protocols used for the generation of mobile networks and based on statistical parameter distributions obtained from measurements become insufficient due to the lack of deterministic information about the surroundings of the base station and the receiver-devices. These challenges call for new modelling tools for channel modelling which work in the short wavelength/high-frequency limit and incorporate site-specific details -- both indoors and outdoors. Typical high-frequency tools used in this context -- besides purely statistical approaches -- are based on ray-tracing techniques. Ray-tracing can become challenging when multiple reflections dominate. In this context, mesh-based energy flow methods have become popular in recent years. In this study, we compare the two approaches both in terms of accuracy and efficiency and benchmark them against traditional power balance methods.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
A novel braneworld model with a bulk scalar field
Creators: name: Koley, Ratna
name: Kar, Sayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a new braneworld model with a bulk scalar field coupled to gravity. The bulk scalar action is inspired by the proposed low energy effective action around the tachyon vacuum. A class of warped geometries representing solutions of this Einstein-scalar system for a specific scalar potential is found. The geometry is non singular with a decaying warp factor and a negative Ricci curvature. The solution of the hierarchy problem is obtained using this type of warping. Though qualitatively similar to the usual Randall--Sundrum I model there are interesting quantitative differences. Additionally, in the RS-II set up the graviton zero mode as well as spin half massless fermions are found to be localised on the brane.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, replaced with corrections in the solution of hierarchy problem
Additional file 4 of Reference genome and transcriptome informed by the sex chromosome complement of the sample increase ability to detect sex differences in gene expression from RNA-Seq data
Creators: name: Olney, Kimberly C.
name: Brotman, Sarah M.
name: Andrews, Jocelyn P.
name: Valverde-Vesling, Valeria A.
name: Wilson, Melissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Genetic sex of RNA-Seq samples per tissue. Gene expression log2(CPM + 0.25/L) for select XY homologous genes (DDX3X/Y, PCDH11X/Y, USP9X/Y, ZFX/Y, UTX/Y) and XIST and SRY when reads were aligned to a default reference genome A), and for B) when reads were aligned to a sex chromosome complement informed reference using HISAT and C) and D), for when the reads were aligned using STAR. Male XY whole blood, brain cortex, breast, liver, and thyroid samples are shown in blue squares and female XX in orange circles.
MURGO FARMS INC.: HACCP, ISO 9000, AND ISO 14000
Creators: name: Sparling, David
name: Lee, Jonathon
name: Howard, Wayne H.
name: Sparling, David
name: Lee, Jonathon
name: Howard, Wayne H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Murgo Farms Inc., addresses the challenges of choosing between the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 9000, and ISO 14000 systems for a business with grain farming, elevator and spraying enterprises. Murgo has recently entered markets that are more quality oriented and wishes to expand its activities in those markets. The President wonders whether HACCP or ISO 9000 might help that expansion. However, the company is also faced with significant environmental risks due to its spraying and manure spreading activities and its proximity to a local municipal water source. There are good reasons for Murgo to consider each of the systems, but there is also the question of whether the benefits for implementing any system are sufficient to do so immediately.
Times of arrival: Bohm beats Kijowski
Creators: name: Ruggenthaler, M
name: Gruebl, G
name: Kreidl, S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that the Bohmian arrival time of the 1D Schroedinger evolution violates the quadratic form structure on which Kijowski's axiomatic treatment of arrival times is based. Within Kijowski's framework, for a free right moving wave packet, the various notions of arrival time (at a fixed point x on the real line) all yield the same average arrival time. We derive an inequality relating the average Bohmian arrival time to the one of Kijowksi. We prove that the average Bohmian arrival time is less than Kijowski's one if and only if the wave packet leads to position probability backflow through x. Otherwise the two average arrival times coincide.
description: 9 pages
Equidimensionality of convolution morphisms and applications to saturation problems
Creators: name: Haines, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the fibers of Mirkovic-Vilonen convolution morphisms. We prove their equidimensionality when all the coweights in question are minuscule, and some related statements. We give applications to saturation problems for structure constants of Hecke and representation rings. An erratum has been added to correct insufficiencies in the proofs of Lemma 9.4 and Corollary 9.5 as they appeared in the published version.
description: Appendix written with M. Kapovich and J. Millson. 27 pages, 1 table. Minor corrections made to section 8. Proof of Theorem 3.1 substantially shortened. Other minor changes. This version to appear in Advances in Mathematics
Research of Caller ID Spoofing Launch, Detection, and Defense
Creators: name: Buriachok, Volodymyr
name: Sokolov, Volodymyr
name: TajDini, Mahyar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.0; C.2.1

description: Caller ID parodying produces the valid Caller character, in this manner deciding seem to start from another client. This apparently basic assault strategy has been utilized in the developing communication fake and trick calls, bringing about significant financial trouble. Unfortunately, callerID spoofing is easy to implement but yet it is difficult to have protection against it. In addition, there are not effective and defense solutions available right now. In this research it is suggested the CIVE (Callee Inference & VErification), a compelling and viable guard against Caller ID spoofing. This way it is described how it's possible to lunch call spoofing and between line describe how CIVE approach method can help to prevent somehow this kind of attacks. Caller ID Spoofing could cause huge financial and political issues special nowadays, when many things even sometimes authentication and verification are available by phone call, like banks approving transactions or two factor authentications and many other things. We believe critical industries specially banks and payment service providers should be protected against such vulnerabilities with their system and make an approach to prevent it, also it is very important to learn people specially who has special social place like politicians or celebrities to know such kind of attack are already exist. For this paper we implemented a call from white house to show there is no limitation and no matter whom you try to spoof, but destination which is the victim receive the call and that make this attack vector dangerous. And even modern communication and even devices like 4G and smart phones are not able to prevent or even detect this kind of attack. This study is a demonstration of the vulnerabilities available. All experiments were conducted on isolated mock-ups.
THE POTENTIAL FOR RECALL INSURANCE TO IMPROVE FOOD SAFETY
Creators: name: Skees, Jerry R.
name: Botts, Aleta
name: Zeuli, Kimberly A.
name: Skees, Jerry R.
name: Botts, Aleta
name: Zeuli, Kimberly A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: This paper explores the food safety implications of insurance products that compensate for business losses when food contamination causes a processing firm to initiate a recall. Discoveries of meat and poultry product contamination, in particular life-threatening pathogens, are increasing. The financial losses that follow a recall can be substantial as illustrated by several recent U.S. cases - Hudson Foods, Bill Mar, and Thorn Apple Valley Inc. Additionally, contaminated food product that escapes the current recall system poses a threat to consumer safety. The conceptual analysis presented here suggests that insurance underwriters could motivate earlier recalls and more diligent implementation of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP). With sound underwriting, these changes could ultimately reduce the incidence of illness and death from foodborne pathogens.
Additional file 2 of Reference genome and transcriptome informed by the sex chromosome complement of the sample increase ability to detect sex differences in gene expression from RNA-Seq data
Creators: name: Olney, Kimberly C.
name: Brotman, Sarah M.
name: Andrews, Jocelyn P.
name: Valverde-Vesling, Valeria A.
name: Wilson, Melissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Histogram of sample reported age. For each tissue, whole blood, brain cortex, breast, liver, and thyroid, male XY and female XX samples were age matched perfectly between age 55 to 70. Females are shown in blue and males are shown in lime green. Since the samples were aged perfectly the histogram bars show only the overlap of female and male samples is a mix color of the blue and lime green.
Salt sensitivity of blood pressure and aldosterone: interaction between Lysine-specific demethylase 1 gene, sex, and age: Supplemental material
Creators: name: Parksook, Wasita
name: Heydarpour, Mahyar
name: Gholami, Shadi
name: Luther, James M.
name: Pojoga, Luminata
name: Williams, Jonathan
name: N. Hopkins, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material for the article "Salt sensitivity of blood pressure and aldosterone: interaction between Lysine-specific demethylase 1 gene, sex, and age"
Recent developments in X-ray lens modelling with SRW
Creators: name: Celestre, Rafael
name: Chubar, Oleg
name: Roth, Thomas
name: del Rio, Manuel Sanchez
name: Barrett, Raymond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The advent of 4$^\text{th}$ generation high-energy synchrotron facilities (ESRF-EBS and the planned APS-U, PETRA-IV and SPring-8 II) and free-electron lasers (Eu-XFEL and SLAC) allied with the recent demonstration of high-quality free-form refractive optics for beam shaping and optical correction has revived interest in compound refractive lenses (CRLs) as optics for beam transport, probe formation in X-ray micro- and nano-analysis as well as for imaging applications. Ideal CRLs have long been made available in the 'Synchrotron Radiation Workshop' (SRW), however, the current context requires more sophisticated modelling of X-ray lenses. In this work, we revisit the already implemented wave-optics model for an ideal X-ray lens in the projection approximation and propose modifications to it as to allow more degrees of freedom to both the front and back surfaces independently, which enables to reproduce misalignments and manufacturing errors commonly found in X-ray lenses. For the cases where simply tilting and transversely offsetting the parabolic sections of a CRL is not enough, we present the possibility of generating the figure errors by using Zernike and Legendre polynomials or directly adding metrology data to the lenses. We present the effects of each new degree of freedom by calculating their impact on point spread function and the beam caustics.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures. Document sent to Proc. SPIE 11493, Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics V, 11493-17
Additional file 3 of Reference genome and transcriptome informed by the sex chromosome complement of the sample increase ability to detect sex differences in gene expression from RNA-Seq data
Creators: name: Olney, Kimberly C.
name: Brotman, Sarah M.
name: Andrews, Jocelyn P.
name: Valverde-Vesling, Valeria A.
name: Wilson, Melissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Genetic sex of RNA-Seq samples when aligned using STAR. Gene expression log2(CPM + 0.25/L) for select XY homologous genes (DDX3X/Y, PCDH11X/Y, USP9X/Y, ZFX/Y, UTX/Y) and XIST and SRY when reads were aligned to a default reference genome A), and for B) when reads were aligned to a sex chromosome complement informed reference using STAR. Male XY whole blood, brain cortex, breast, liver, and thyroid samples are shown in blue squares and female XX in orange circles.
Polarizations and differential calculus in affine spaces
Creators: name: Barile, Margherita
name: Barone, Fiorella
name: Tulczyjew, Wlodzimierz M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26C05; 05A10; 26B12; 47H60

description: Within the framework of mappings between affine spaces, the notion of $n$-th polarization of a function will lead to an intrinsic characterization of polynomial functions. We prove that the characteristic features of derivations, such as linearity, iterability, Leibniz and chain rules, are shared -- at the finite level -- by the polarization operators. We give these results by means of explicit general formulae, which are valid at any order $n$, and are based on combinatorial identities. The infinitesimal limits of the $n$-th polarizations of a function will yield its $n$-th derivatives (without resorting to the usual recursive definition), and the above mentioned properties will be recovered directly in the limit. Polynomial functions will allow us to produce a coordinate free version of Taylor's formula.
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF A BAN ON THE USE OF OVER THE COUNTER ANTIBIOTICS IN U.S. SWINE RATIONS
Creators: name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: Jensen, Helen H.
name: Backstrom, Lennart
name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: Jensen, Helen H.
name: Backstrom, Lennart
name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The U.S. pork industry routinely adds antibiotics to rations of weaned pigs both to prevent illness before symptoms emerge and to increase growth rates. The European Union (EU) is in the process of restricting feed use of antibiotics, and the U.S. is currently reviewing the practice. The strategic issue facing U.S. pork producers is whether another food safety dispute with the EU is worthwhile. This paper evaluates the economic impact of such a ban in the U.S. The analysis uses a set of technical assumptions derived from the experience of a similar ban in Sweden and finds such a ban would increase production costs per head between $5.24 and $6.05; net profit would decline $0.79 per head. On the consumer side, the effects of a ban would raise the retail price of pork by 5 cents per pound.
Modelling the dynamics of youth subcultures
Creators: name: Holme, Petter
name: Gronlund, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: What are the dynamics behind youth subcultures such as punk, hippie, or hip-hop cultures? How does the global dynamics of these subcultures relate to the individual's search for a personal identity? We propose a simple dynamical model to address these questions and find that only a few assumptions of the individual's behaviour are necessary to regenerate known features of youth culture.
description: To appear in JASSS
Effects of Initial State on Opinion Formation in Complex Social Networks with Noises
Creators: name: Yu, Yi
name: Nguyen, Vu X.
name: Xiao, Gaoxi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Opinion formation in complex social networks may exhibit complex system dynamics even when based on some simplest system evolution models. An interesting and important issue is the effects of the initial state on the final steady-state opinion distribution. We show that, while different initial opinion distributions certainly make differences to opinion evolution in social systems without noises, in systems with noises, given enough time, different initial states basically do not contribute to making any significant differences in the final steady state. Instead, it is the basal distribution of the preferred opinions that contributes to deciding the final state of the systems. Such an observation contradicts with a long-term belief on the roles of system initial state in opinion formation. We propose some brief discussions on the reasons supporting our statement, and the implications of such an observation in real-life applications.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Factors Affecting International Mergers and Acquisitions
Creators: name: Reed, Michael R.
name: Babool, Md. Ashfaqul Islam
name: Reed, Michael R.
name: Babool, Md. Ashfaqul Islam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Industrial Organization

description: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that explain outward and inward merger and acquisition (M/A) activity for a country. The variables used to explain M/A activity include the exchange rate, interest rate, and stock market prices. Regression analysis is used to isolate and clarify the effects of these three factors for aggregate M/A activity and M/A activity within the food, beverage, and tobacco industry. The analysis shows that three variables, the exchange rate, interest rate, and stock prices, are quite important in explaining variations in M/A activity by country. Exchange rate changes in particular have a very elastic impact on outward M/A activity, indicating that price effects are important in determining outward investment flows. The stock market index positively influenced inward and outward M/A activity. The interest rate had a negative impact on M/A in the inward and outward M/A models with M/A outflows decreasing by about the same percentage that interest rates increase.
Additional file 20 of Reference genome and transcriptome informed by the sex chromosome complement of the sample increase ability to detect sex differences in gene expression from RNA-Seq data
Creators: name: Olney, Kimberly C.
name: Brotman, Sarah M.
name: Andrews, Jocelyn P.
name: Valverde-Vesling, Valeria A.
name: Wilson, Melissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 20:. 3 male XY and 3 female XX brain cortex and whole blood differential expression analysis. Replicated analysis in a smaller sample size of 3 male XY compared to 3 female XX samples for whole blood and brain cortex tissue. Samples were randomly selected, and confirm the results from the larger sample size.
Algebraic models of simple type theories: a polynomial approach
Creators: name: Arkor, Nathanael
name: Fiore, Marcelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.3.2; F.4.1

description: We develop algebraic models of simple type theories, laying out a framework that extends universal algebra to incorporate both algebraic sorting and variable binding. Examples of simple type theories include the unityped and simply-typed $λ$-calculi, the computational $λ$-calculus, and predicate logic. Simple type theories are given models in presheaf categories, with structure specified by algebras of polynomial endofunctors that correspond to natural deduction rules. Initial models, which we construct, abstractly describe the syntax of simple type theories. Taking substitution structure into consideration, we further provide sound and complete semantics in structured cartesian multicategories. This development generalises Lambek's correspondence between the simply-typed $λ$-calculus and cartesian-closed categories, to arbitrary simple type theories.
description: 14 pages
Mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA diversity throughout the range of a cold adapted freshwater salmonid : phylogeography, local population structure and conservation genetics of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) in North America
Creators: name: Stamford, Michael D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The distributions of most Holarctic freshwater fish species were severely altered and restricted during the many glaciation events that have occurred throughout the Pleistocene. Isolation of groups of fish into distinct glacial refugia provided the opportunity for genetic divergence during these periods of allopatry through genetic drift and novel selection pressures. In this thesis, I examined the signature of such isolation and postglacial range expansion in the Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) by assaying mitochondrial and microsatellite (nuclear) DNA variation throughout the species' range in North America. I also examined local population structure in the Peace River, British Columbia, because local demographics are integral to a species' phylogeographic structure. I found a dramatic decline in genetic diversity from Alaska to the southeast, which suggests Arctic grayling survived the last ice age in Beringia then bottlenecks and founder events reduced diversity during southward postglacial range expansion. Genetic similarities among regions suggest that Arctic grayling survived glaciation in three refugia north of the ice sheets and in one region south of the ice sheets. A north Beringian lineage dispersed south during the Wisconsinan glaciation and founded populations in an upper Missouri River glacial refuge. These upper Missouri grayling dispersed north postglacially, and founded populations in Saskatchewan and eastern British Columbia. A south Beringian lineage dispersed south from the Yukon River Valley as far as the Peace and Stikine rivers in British Columbia. A third lineage from the Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories was more locally distributed in the Mackenzie drainage between Great Slave Lake and the lower Liard River. Population subdivision in the Peace River strongly suggests that Arctic grayling home to their natal stream to spawn. Such local population subdivision and low genetic diversity throughout the species range suggest that Arctic grayling habitat is partitioned among small isolated effective population sizes. Genetic diversity is distributed among lineages on a large geographic scale, and among populations on a local geographic scale. Consequently, to preserve the evolutionary potential of Arctic grayling, several populations within a watershed, several watersheds within a lineage, and several lineages within their geographic range must be prioritized for conservation.
Agribusiness Capstone Courses Design: Objectives and Strategies
Creators: name: Hall, Charles R.
name: Fairchild, Gary F.
name: Baker, Gregory A.
name: Taylor, Timothy G.
name: Litzenberg, Kerry K.
name: Hall, Charles R.
name: Fairchild, Gary F.
name: Baker, Gregory A.
name: Taylor, Timothy G.
name: Litzenberg, Kerry K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agribusiness
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: This paper discusses the benefits of using strategic management principles as the cornerstone for building the agribusiness capstone experience. The necessity for agribusiness firms to create and implement strategies that build a sustainable competitive advantage in turn necessitates the development of strategic management skills in the leaders/managers of the future. As such, the objectives of a capstone course lean heavily toward the integrative development of strategic decision-making competence. This has a number of implications for the capstone professor in terms of course content, pedagogies, and subsequent measurement of student performance.
Iron Line from Neutron Star Accretion Disks in Scalar Tensor Theories
Creators: name: Bucciantini, N.
name: Soldateschi, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fe K_αfluorescent line at 6.4 keV is a powerful probe of the space-time metric in the vicinity of accreting compact objects. We investigated here how some alternative theories of gravity, namely Scalar tensor Theories, that invoke the presence of a non-minimally coupled scalar field and predict the existence of strongly scalarized neutron stars, change the expected line shape with respect to General Relativity. By taking into account both deviations from the general relativistic orbital dynamics of the accreting disk, where the Fe line originates, and the changes in the light propagation around the neutron star, we computed line shapes for various inclinations of the disk with respect to the observer. We found that both the intensity of the low energy tails and the position of the high energy edge of the line change. Moreover we verified that even if those changes are in general of the order of a few percent, they are potentially observable with the next generation of X-ray satellites.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
On the Cauchy problem for the pressureless Euler-Navier-Stokes system in the whole space
Creators: name: Choi, Young-Pil
name: Jung, Jinwook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study the global Cauchy problem for a two-phase fluid model consisting of the pressureless Euler equations and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations where the coupling of two equations is through the drag force. We establish the global-in-time existence and uniqueness of classical solutions for that system when the initial data are sufficiently small and regular. Main difficulties arise in the absence of pressure in the Euler equations. In order to resolve it, we properly combine the large-time behavior of classical solutions and the bootstrapping argument to construct the global-in-time unique classical solutions.
The Quartic Higgs Coupling at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Plehn, Tilman
name: Rauch, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quartic Higgs self-coupling is the final measurement in the Higgs potential needed to fully understand electroweak symmetry breaking. None of the present or future colliders are known to be able to determine this parameter. We study the chances of measuring the quartic self-coupling at hadron colliders in general and at the VLHC in particular. We find the prospects challenging.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Elliptic problems with nonclassical boundary conditions in an extended Sobolev scale
Creators: name: Murach, A. A.
name: Chepurukhina, I. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J40

description: We consider elliptic problems with nonclassical boundary conditions that contain additional unknown functions on the border of the domain of the elliptic equation and also contain boundary operators of higher orders with respect to the order of this equation. We investigate the solvability of the indicated problems and properties of their solutions in an extended Sobolev scale. It consists of Hilbert generalized Sobolev spaces for which the order of regularity is a general radial function $\mathrm{RO}$-varying in the sense of Avakumović at infinity. We establish a theorem on the Fredholm property of the indicated problems on appropriate pairs of these spaces and theorems on the regularity and a priori estimate of the generalized solutions to the problems. We obtain exact sufficient conditions for components of these solutions to be continuously differentiable.
description: Ukrainian, 9 pages
RISE, a Tool for Holistic Sustainability Assessment at the Farm Level
Creators: name: Hani, Fritz
name: Braga, Francesco S.
name: Stampfli, Andreas
name: Keller, Thomas
name: Fischer, Matthew
name: Porsche, Hans
name: Hani, Fritz
name: Braga, Francesco S.
name: Stampfli, Andreas
name: Keller, Thomas
name: Fischer, Matthew
name: Porsche, Hans
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Sustainability assessment
subject: Sustainability at the farm and crop level
subject: Indicators of sustainability
subject: Driving Force - State - Response (DSR) - model

description: Sustainability must be adopted as a key principle in global markets. Numerous studies have been conducted to evaluate the degree of sustainability on a national and local level. However, only little information for single farm assessment is currently available. The present paper introduces a tool, the "Response-Inducing Sustainability Evaluation" (RISE), which allows an easy assessment at the farm level. It is system-oriented and offers a holistic approach for advice, education and planning. The model covers ecological, economical and social aspects by defining 12 indicators for Energy, Water, Soil, Biodiversity, Emission Potential, Plant Protection, Waste and Residues, Cash Flow, Farm Income, Investments, Local Economy and Social Situation. For each indicator a "State" (S) and a "Driving force" (D) are determined from direct measures of a number of parameters. The "State" indicates the current condition of the specific indicator, higher values are more desirable, and the "Driving force" is a measure of the estimated pressure the farming system places on the specific indicator; in this case lower values are desirable. D and S are standardized on a 0 to 100 scale; a perfect indicator would be identified by S=100 and D=0, whereas significant challenges would be captured by a combination of a low S and a high D. The degree of sustainability (DS) of each indicator is defined as DS= (S-D), bound by construction to the -100 to +100 range. The overall results are summarized and displayed in a sustainability polygon. In addition to this polygon a strength/weakness profile is determined for 1) the stability of the social, economic and ecological framework, 2) farmer's risk awareness and risk management measures, 3) grey energy in machines, buildings and external inputs, 4) animal health and welfare. RISE has been tested and used to evaluate very different farms in Brazil, Canada, China and Switzerland. Results are considered relevant with regard to the objective stated. Further testing, adaptation and fine-tuning is under way. A similar model covering the supply chain to the factory gate is also under development.
Incremental Calibration of Architectural Performance Models with Parametric Dependencies
Creators: name: Mazkatli, Manar
name: Monschein, David
name: Grohmann, Johannes
name: Koziolek, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Architecture-based Performance Prediction (AbPP) allows evaluation of the performance of systems and to answer what-if questions without measurements for all alternatives. A difficulty when creating models is that Performance Model Parameters (PMPs, such as resource demands, loop iteration numbers and branch probabilities) depend on various influencing factors like input data, used hardware and the applied workload. To enable a broad range of what-if questions, Performance Models (PMs) need to have predictive power beyond what has been measured to calibrate the models. Thus, PMPs need to be parametrized over the influencing factors that may vary. Existing approaches allow for the estimation of parametrized PMPs by measuring the complete system. Thus, they are too costly to be applied frequently, up to after each code change. They do not keep also manual changes to the model when recalibrating. In this work, we present the Continuous Integration of Performance Models (CIPM), which incrementally extracts and calibrates the performance model, including parametric dependencies. CIPM responds to source code changes by updating the PM and adaptively instrumenting the changed parts. To allow AbPP, CIPM estimates the parametrized PMPs using the measurements (generated by performance tests or executing the system in production) and statistical analysis, e.g., regression analysis and decision trees. Additionally, our approach responds to production changes (e.g., load or deployment changes) and calibrates the usage and deployment parts of PMs accordingly. For the evaluation, we used two case studies. Evaluation results show that we were able to calibrate the PM incrementally and accurately.
description: Manar Mazkatli is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
BRST symmetry of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in Cho--Faddeev--Niemi decomposition
Creators: name: Kondo, K. -I.
name: Murakami, T.
name: Shinohara, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the nilpotent BRST and anti-BRST transformations for the Cho--Faddeev-Niemi variables for the SU(2) Yang-Mills theory based on the new interpretation given in the previous paper of the Cho--Faddeev-Niemi decomposition. This gives a firm ground for performing the BRST quantization of the Yang--Mills theory written in terms of the Cho--Faddeev-Niemi variables. We propose also a modified version of the new Maximal Abelian gauge which could play an important role in the reduction to the original Yang-Mills theory.
description: 11 pages, no figure; Introduction improved, 3 references added
PROFITS AND RISK: FITTING AN OLD FRAMEWORK TO A NEW AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Saxowsky, David M.
name: Wachenheim, Cheryl J.
name: Saxowsky, David M.
name: Wachenheim, Cheryl J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Textbooks in agricultural economics characterize resources used in production agriculture into four categories; land, labor, capital and management. Profit is presented as earned in the process of management. This traditional list of resources is respecified. Management becomes a specialized type of labor and two additional resources, information and the willingness and ability to bear risk, are added. It is argued that profits accrue not to management but to those willing and able to bear the risk inherent in production agriculture. The strategy of equity diversification is presented as a means for farmers to provide this resource and thus earn economic profits. Producer education and the repeal or amendment of legislation restricting the ability of farmers to diversify their equity investment are needed.
Additional file 19 of Reference genome and transcriptome informed by the sex chromosome complement of the sample increase ability to detect sex differences in gene expression from RNA-Seq data
Creators: name: Olney, Kimberly C.
name: Brotman, Sarah M.
name: Andrews, Jocelyn P.
name: Valverde-Vesling, Valeria A.
name: Wilson, Melissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 19: Gencode sex chromosome complement informed transcriptome reference eliminates Y-linked expression in female XX samples. A) Sex differences in gene expression, log2(CPM + 0.25/L), between the sixteen samples from genetic males and females are shown when aligning all samples to the default gencode reference transcriptome (left) and a reference transcriptome informed on the sex chromosome complement (right) for brain cortex. Each point represents a gene. Genes that are differentially expressed, adjusted p-value <0.01 are indicated in black for autosomal genes, blue for Y-linked genes, and red for X-linked genes. B) We show overlap between genes that are called as differentially expressed when all samples are pseudo-aligned to the default transcriptome, and genes that are called as differentially expressed when pseudo-aligned to a sex chromosome complement informed transcriptome reference. When samples were aligned to a reference transcriptome informed on the sex chromosome complement, 17 genes were called as differentially expressed between the sexes. ZBED1 was uniquely called as differentially expressed when aligned to a default reference genome.
SoftSMPL: Data-driven Modeling of Nonlinear Soft-tissue Dynamics for Parametric Humans
Creators: name: Santesteban, Igor
name: Garces, Elena
name: Otaduy, Miguel A.
name: Casas, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present SoftSMPL, a learning-based method to model realistic soft-tissue dynamics as a function of body shape and motion. Datasets to learn such task are scarce and expensive to generate, which makes training models prone to overfitting. At the core of our method there are three key contributions that enable us to model highly realistic dynamics and better generalization capabilities than state-of-the-art methods, while training on the same data. First, a novel motion descriptor that disentangles the standard pose representation by removing subject-specific features; second, a neural-network-based recurrent regressor that generalizes to unseen shapes and motions; and third, a highly efficient nonlinear deformation subspace capable of representing soft-tissue deformations of arbitrary shapes. We demonstrate qualitative and quantitative improvements over existing methods and, additionally, we show the robustness of our method on a variety of motion capture databases.
description: Accepted at Eurographics 2020. Project website: http://dancasas.github.io/projects/SoftSMPL
Self-interaction spin effects in inspiralling compact binaries
Creators: name: Mikóczi, Balázs
name: Vasúth, Mátyás
name: Gergely, László Á.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational radiation drives compact binaries through an inspiral phase towards a final coalescence. For binaries with\textit{spin, mass quadrupole and magnetic dipole moments}, various contributions add to this process, which is characterized by the rate of increase $df/dt$ of the gravitational wave frequency and the accumulated number $\mathcal{N}$ of gravitational wave cycles. We present here all contributions to $df/dt$ and $% \mathcal{N}$ up to the second post-Newtonian order. Among them we give for the first time the contributions due to the \textit{self-interaction of individual spins}. These are shown to be commensurable with the proper spin-spin contributions for the recently discovered J0737-3039 double pulsar, and argued to represent the first corrections to the radiation reaction in the Lense-Thirring approach.
description: slightly expanded, references added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Additional file 18 of Reference genome and transcriptome informed by the sex chromosome complement of the sample increase ability to detect sex differences in gene expression from RNA-Seq data
Creators: name: Olney, Kimberly C.
name: Brotman, Sarah M.
name: Andrews, Jocelyn P.
name: Valverde-Vesling, Valeria A.
name: Wilson, Melissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 18: Sex chromosome complement informed transcriptome reference eliminates Y-linked expression in female XX samples. A) Sex differences in gene expression, log2(CPM + 0.25/L), between the sixteen samples from genetic males and females are shown when aligning all samples to the default Ensembl reference transcriptome (left) and a reference transcriptome informed on the sex chromosome complement (right) for brain cortex. Each point represents a gene. Genes that are differentially expressed, adjusted p-value <0.01 are indicated in black for autosomal genes, blue for Y-linked genes, and red for X-linked genes. B) We show overlap between genes that are called as differentially expressed when all samples are pseudo-aligned to the default transcriptome, and genes that are called as differentially expressed when pseudo-aligned to a sex chromosome complement informed transcriptome reference. When samples were aligned to a reference transcriptome informed on the sex chromosome complement, 14 genes were called as differentially expressed between the sexes. PLCXD1 was uniquely called as differentially expressed when aligned to a default reference genome. Ensembl sex chromosome complement informed transcriptome reference eliminates Y-linked expression in female XX samples. A) Sex differences in gene expression, log2(CPM + 0.25/L), between the sixteen samples from genetic males and females are shown when aligning all samples to the default Ensembl reference transcriptome (left) and a reference transcriptome informed on the sex chromosome complement (right) for brain cortex. Each point represents a gene. Genes that are differentially expressed, adjusted p-value <0.01 are indicated in black for autosomal genes, blue for Y-linked genes, and red for X-linked genes. B) We show overlap between genes that are called as differentially expressed when all samples are pseudo-aligned to the default transcriptome, and genes that are called as differentially expressed when pseudo-aligned to a sex chromosome complement informed transcriptome reference. When samples were aligned to a reference transcriptome informed on the sex chromosome complement, 14 genes were called as differentially expressed between the sexes. PLCXD1 was uniquely called as differentially expressed when aligned to a default reference genome.
An Improvement of a Large Sieve Inequality in High Dimensions
Creators: name: Zhao, Liangyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B57, 11L07, 11L15, 11L40, 11N35

description: In this paper, we present an improvement of a large sieve type inequality in high dimensions and discuss its implications on a related problem.
description: 7 pages