cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Coelophora duvaucelii
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coelophora
Coelophora duvaucelii

description: Coelophora duvaucelii (Mulsant)
(Fig. 69)
Caria duvaucelii Mulsant, 1850: 233 (MNHN; Type locality: ‘Asia’).
Cyphocaria duvaucelii: Crotch 1874: 148.
Coelophora duvaucelii: Korschefsky 1932: 292; Poorani 2002a: 328; Kovář 2007: 614.
Lemnia (Artemis) duvaucelii: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 218.
Lemnia duvauceli: Ren et al. 2009: 206; Yu 2010: 78–79.
Alloneda novemmaculata Cao & Pu, 1985.—Synonymized by Yu 1998: 282.
Anisolemnia laichauana Hoang, 1983b.—Synonymized by Kovář 2007: 72.— Yu 2010: 78.
Diagnosis. Length: 7.50–8.40 mm; width: 7.50–7.90 mm. Form subcircular, slightly longer than broad. Ground colour reddish to yellowish brown; pronotum with a pair of small, oval black spots on basal margin, one on either side above scutellar shield; each elytron with four black spots on disk and one spot adjacent to suture about 1/4 th from anterior margin, almost fused with the corresponding spot on the other elytron (Fig. 69a, b). Ventral side yellowish or reddish brown. Anterolateral corners of pronotum distinctly sinuate before apex. Male genitalia (Fig. 69e, f) and spermatheca (Fig. 69d) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: Northeastern region (Assam, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal) and Andamans; Bhutan; Myanmar; China; Malaysia; Indonesia. Two specimens collected from Coorg and Belgaum were examined at BMNH and it appears to be a case of mislabelling as there is no verified record of this species from peninsular India.
Prey / associated habitat. Collected on citrus and vegetables (label data).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during May (label data).
Notes. Bielawski (1979) provided a short description. Ren et al. (2009) and Yu (2010) illustrated the habitus and male genitalia. Its generic status is somewhat uncertain as the morphological characters are similar to those of Alloneda.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 103-106, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Analysis of a Climatically Variable Production Season
Creators: name: Materer, Susan M.
name: Corinne, Valdivia
name: Materer, Susan M.
name: Corinne, Valdivia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Analysis of a small agropastoral community in Bolivia during a climatically vulnerable year, provided insight into how households diversify and change productions strategies in order to secure income and food consumption. Twelve independent variables that identified distinct production strategies were analyzed according to how well they estimated total income. A subset selection process determined the best combination of variables, or production strategies. The four variables chosen were food plots, shared land, off farm income and number of native animals. These variables characterize traditional farming practices and have social and human capital embedded within them. It is important to understand how households mitigate and cope with climatic risks, in order to best develop methods that can help households during risky production seasons.
Household Production Strategies in a Climatic Variable Zone
Creators: name: Materer, Susan M.
name: Corinne, Valdivia
name: Materer, Susan M.
name: Corinne, Valdivia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: This paper examines the types of strategies rural households in the Bolivian Altiplano utilize to secure income and food consumption. Constrains to choice sets, climate, knowledge systems and social and human capital have influential roles in the ability of a household to secure income and food, and the livelihood strategies employed. For household welfare to increase development agencies must take into account the factors influencing these strategies. Climate, local knowledge systems and modern technology are important in shaping household production strategies. Production decisions are made within the household unit. A livelihood strategies approach was used to conduct the research that would reflect the diverse strategies and influences that a household confronts and uses annual to make production decisions. Research was conducted over a seven-year period in San Jose Llanga, Bolivia, which is a small rural town 90 Km south of the capital of the country, La Paz. Each year of the survey data was collected from 45 households. Twenty-nine of these households were surveyed three times during the seven-year period (1993, 1995 and 1999). The study using factor analysis shows that there are four essential factors, which are important in securing income and food: human capital, traditional agricultural practices, food plots, grazed cows, and remittances. These five factors are important diversification strategies for households, present over the seven-year research period. Human capital and food plots were statistically significant in explaining income, highlighting the importance of household characteristics and spatial diversification for this region.
The role of rare events in the pinning problem
Creators: name: Buchacek, Martin
name: Geshkenbein, Vadim B.
name: Blatter, Gianni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Type II superconductors exhibit a fascinating phenomenology that is determined by the dynamical properties of the vortex matter hosted by the material. A crucial element in this phenomenology is vortex pinning by material defects, e.g., immobilizing vortices at small drives and thereby guaranteeing dissipation-free current flow. Pinning models for vortices and other topological defects, such as domain walls in magnets or dislocations in crystals, come in two standard variants: i) weak collective pinning, where individual weak defects are unable to pin, while the random accumulation of many force centers within a collective pinning volume combines into an effective pin, and ii) strong pinning, where strong defects produce large vortex displacements and bistabilities that lead to pinning on the level of individual defects. The transition between strong and weak pinning is quantified by the Labusch criterion $κ\approx f_p/\bar{C}ξ= 1$, where $f_p$ and $\bar{C}$ are the force of one defect and the effective elasticity of the vortex lattice, respectively ($ξ$ is the coherence length). Here, we show that a third generic type of pinning becomes dominant when the pinning force $f_p$ enters the weak regime, the pinning by rare events. We find that within an intermediate regime $1/2 < κ< 1$, compact pairs of weak defects define strong pinning clusters that extend the mechanism of strong pinning into the weak regime. We present a detailed analysis of this cluster-pinning mechanism and show that its pinning-force density parametrically dominates over the weak pinning result. The present work is a first attempt to include correlations between defects into the discussion of strong pinning.
A Note on the Dipole Coordinates
Creators: name: Kageyama, Akira
name: Sugiyama, Tooru
name: Watanabe, Kunihiko
name: Sato, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A couple of orthogonal coordinates for dipole geometry are proposed for numerical simulations of plasma geophysics in the Earth's dipole magnetic field. These coordinates have proper metric profiles along field lines in contrast to the standard dipole coordinate system that is commonly used in analytical studies for dipole geometry.
description: Corrected the vertical scale of Fig. 1. Accepted for publication in Computers & Geosciences
OPTIMAL SELECTION OF TARGETS IN THE PRESENCE OF CLUTTER AND EFFECTIVE INTERFERENCE
Creators: name: MOHAMMED JASIM AL-SUMAIDAEE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Two Period Staggers, Three Period Staggers, Deepest Minimum Frequency, Moving Target Indication (MTI) Filter, Frequency, Response, Doppler, Processing Clutter, Impulse, Response, PRF.

description: Abstract

Staggered blind speeds of MTI radar can be eliminated to a large part by PRF optimization, and the depth of minimum value in the velocity area in the frequency response (|Hs(f)|2) or improvement factor can be optimized with suitable selection of stagger delay (M). When comparing the minimum gain in signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR) and improvement factor, several relative Optima exhibit large discrepancies. Small values of time on target and of radar Frequency with respect to the improvements factor are favored. Among the local optima, some good alternatives can be found that combine high improvements factor and high minimum SCR gain. The use of (MTI) technique, an ideal method to trace the moving targets in RADAR operation system, and utilize the characteristics of special kind of notch filters, via multi adaptive moving targets approach (AMTI).
The Possible Equation Of State Of Dark Matter in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
Creators: name: Gong, Xiaobo
name: Tang, Meirong
name: Xu, Zhaoyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed rotation curves of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies play an essential role in studying dark matter, and indicate that there exists a central constant density dark matter core. However, the cosmological N-body simulations of cold dark matter predict an inner cusped halo with a power-law mass density distribution, and can't reproduce a central constant-density core. This phenomenon is called cusp-core problem. When dark matter is quiescent and satisfies the condition for hydrostatic equilibrium, using the equation of state can get the density profile in the static and spherically symmetric space-time. To solve the cusp-core problem, we assume that the equation of state is independent of the scaling transformation. Its lower order approximation for this type of equation of state can naturally lead to a special case, i.e. $p=ζρ+2εV_{rot}^{2}ρ$, where $p$ and $ρ$ are the pressure and density, $V_{rot}$ is the rotation velocity of galaxy, $ζ$ and $ ε$ are positive constants. It can obtain a density profile that is similar to the pseudo-isothermal halo model when $ε$ is around $0.15$. To get a more widely used model, let the equation of state include the polytropic model, i.e. $p= \fracζ{ρ_{0}^{s}}ρ^{1+s}+ 2εV_{rot}^{2}ρ$, we can get other kinds of density profiles, such as the profile that is nearly same with the Burkert profile, where $s$ and $ρ_{0}$ are positive constants.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
THE ARAB GULF STATES IN BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY
Creators: name: Xusan Mirzabekov
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article analyzes the role of the Arab Gulf States in British foreign policy. Historically established relations between Great Britain and the Gulf States significantly impact the political, economic and military aspects of the interaction between these regions. The article examines the key stages and directions of British policy in the region, from the colonial period to the present day, focusing on the strategic interests of Great Britain, including security issues, energy resources and trade. It also analyzes the factors that make the Persian Gulf region attractive to Western countries, especially Great Britain. The region has long attracted attention due to its rich hydrocarbon reserves and strategic geographical location. Britain's geopolitical and geoeconomic interests in the Persian Gulf play a key role in its policy in the Middle East. It is important to note that many countries in the region were previously part of the British Empire. After losing control in the mid-20th century, Great Britain was forced to reconsider its relations with the Gulf States. The UK's perception of the Persian Gulf as a strategically important part of the Middle East has prompted it to develop a unified geopolitical strategy for the entire region. Although the United States plays a leading role in the region, the UK acts within its national interests, seeking to maintain its influence on the world stage. The Gulf states have demonstrated a tendency to strengthen cooperation with Western countries, offering unique opportunities to strengthen their positions in the Middle East. In this context, the UK and the US have developed a consistent strategy to strengthen their influence in the region.
Additional file 2 of Enablers of psychosocial recovery in pediatric burns: perspectives from the children, parents and burn recovery support staff
Creators: name: Niekerk, Ashley Van
name: Jacobs, Roxanne
name: Hornsby, Nancy
name: Singh-Adriaanse, Robyn
name: Sengoelge, Mathilde
name: Laflamme, Lucie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2:. Child and Adolescent Focus Group Discussion Interview Schedule
Creating Ground State Molecules with Optical Feshbach Resonances in Tight Traps
Creators: name: Kosloff, Christiane P. Koch Françoise Masnou-Seeuws Ronnie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to create ultracold ground state molecules in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate by adiabatic crossing of an optical Feshbach resonance. We envision a scheme where the laser intensity and possibly also frequency are linearly ramped over the resonance. Our calculations for $^{87}$Rb show that for sufficiently tight traps it is possible to avoid spontaneous emission while retaining adiabaticity, and conversion efficiencies of up to 50% can be expected.
Topologically Protected Wormholes in Type-III Weyl Semimetal Co$_3$In$_2$X$_2$ (X = S, Se)
Creators: name: Sims, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of wormholes has proven to be difficult in the field of astrophysics. However, with the discovery of novel topological quantum materials it is possible to observe astrophysical and particle physics effects in condensed matter physics. It is proposed in this work that wormholes can exist in a type-III Weyl phase. In addition, these wormholes are topologically protected, making them feasible to create and measure in condensed matter systems. Finally, Co$_3$In$_2$X$_2$ (X = S, Se) are identified as ideal type-III Weyl semimetals and experiments are put forward to confirm the existence of a type-III Weyl phase.
description: 12 pages, 4 Figures, 1 Table
Linguistically-aware Attention for Reducing the Semantic-Gap in Vision-Language Tasks
Creators: name: KV, Gouthaman
name: Nambiar, Athira
name: Srinivas, Kancheti Sai
name: Mittal, Anurag
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Attention models are widely used in Vision-language (V-L) tasks to perform the visual-textual correlation. Humans perform such a correlation with a strong linguistic understanding of the visual world. However, even the best performing attention model in V-L tasks lacks such a high-level linguistic understanding, thus creating a semantic gap between the modalities. In this paper, we propose an attention mechanism - Linguistically-aware Attention (LAT) - that leverages object attributes obtained from generic object detectors along with pre-trained language models to reduce this semantic gap. LAT represents visual and textual modalities in a common linguistically-rich space, thus providing linguistic awareness to the attention process. We apply and demonstrate the effectiveness of LAT in three V-L tasks: Counting-VQA, VQA, and Image captioning. In Counting-VQA, we propose a novel counting-specific VQA model to predict an intuitive count and achieve state-of-the-art results on five datasets. In VQA and Captioning, we show the generic nature and effectiveness of LAT by adapting it into various baselines and consistently improving their performance.
Cheating fate
Creators: name: Pfitzenmaier, Audrey
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: A fast-paced children's literature novel for young adults about four teenagers who discover the life affirming value of friendship when they are forced to give it up. Cassidy, Jeremy, Kyle and Sukhwinder, all best friends since kindergarten, have grown up together in a small town in British Columbia. Their friendship grows stronger as, over the years, they share in each other's coming of age as they struggle through first romantic experiences, the heartbreak of a broken home, the death of a family member, and the joys of growing up in the beautiful Cariboo mountains. But uncertainty shrouds their futures when the four young friends survive a serious snowmobile accident, only to discover they share remarkable and frightening memories of their near death experience: they will die at some unknown time—together. Tension builds as the teens are forced to make sense of their spiritual beliefs in the existence of God, then decide they must separate into pairs to cheat fate rather than tempt it. Their perceived invincibility triggers recklessness and danger as their lives are shaken physically, emotionally and spiritually through Jeremy's alcohol and drug use, Kyle's daring rise to glory in motorcross racing, Sukh's descent into crime and Cassidy's fragile mental health as she constantly fears for the safety of her best friends—until they all realize that life without each other is not a sacrifice they are willing to make.
A New Radio Catalog of Compact HII Regions in the Milky Way II. The 1.4 GHz Data
Creators: name: Giveon, U.
name: Becker, R. H.
name: Helfand, D. J.
name: White, R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We utilize a new VLA Galactic plane catalog at 1.4 GHz covering the first and second Galactic quadrants (340 deg
description: Accepted to the Astronomical Journal. Paper #2 in a series (1st paper - astro-ph/0410052). Catalog (Table 4) available when downloaded as 'source'
Digitalization in Social Work: Opportunities and Challenges for Practitioners
Creators: name: Pazer, Sora
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520505
subject: Social psychology

description: The digitalization of social work has introduced both significant opportunities and challenges for practitioners and clients. This article presents the results of aquantitative study involving 173 social workers, exploring their preparedness for digital tools, perceptions of the impact on work quality, concerns about datasecurity, and workplace support for digitalization. The findings reveal that many social workers feel inadequately prepared to integrate digital technologies intotheir practice, despite recognizing the potential benefits, such as improved efficiency and expanded service accessibility. However, concerns about data securityand uneven workplace support pose substantial barriers. Ethical considerations, particularly regarding client confidentiality, remain a critical issue. The articleconcludes with recommendations for addressing these challenges, including enhanced training programs, better workplace support, and the development of clear data protection protocols. These steps are essential to ensure that digital tools are effectively integrated into social work while maintaining the profession’s corevalues of human connection and ethical practice.
Privacy-Preserving Script Sharing in GUI-based Programming-by-Demonstration Systems
Creators: name: Li, Toby Jia-Jun
name: Chen, Jingya
name: Canfield, Brandon
name: Myers, Brad A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An important concern in end user development (EUD) is accidentally embedding personal information in program artifacts when sharing them. This issue is particularly important in GUI-based programming-by-demonstration (PBD) systems due to the lack of direct developer control of script contents. Prior studies reported that these privacy concerns were the main barrier to script sharing in EUD. We present a new approach that can identify and obfuscate the potential personal information in GUI-based PBD scripts based on the uniqueness of information entries with respect to the corresponding app GUI context. Compared with the prior approaches, ours supports broader types of personal information beyond explicitly pre-specified ones, requires minimal user effort, addresses the threat of re-identification attacks, and can work with third-party apps from any task domain. Our approach also recovers obfuscated fields locally on the script consumer's side to preserve the shared scripts' transparency, readability, robustness, and generalizability. Our evaluation shows that our approach (1) accurately identifies the potential personal information in scripts across different apps in diverse task domains; (2) allows end-user developers to feel comfortable sharing their own scripts; and (3) enables script consumers to understand the operation of shared scripts despite the obfuscated fields.
description: In the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM) Vol.4 No. CSCW1. (CSCW 2020)
Additional file 4 of Association between variation of circulating 25-OH vitamin D and methylation of secreted frizzled-related protein 2 in colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Boughanem, Hatim
name: Cabrera-Mulero, Amanda
name: Hernández-Alonso, Pablo
name: Clemente-Postigo, Mercedes
name: Casanueva, Felipe F.
name: Tinahones, Francisco José
name: Morcillo, Sonsoles
name: Crujeiras, Ana B.
name: Macias-Gonzalez, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Table S1.
Precise determination of $^6$Li cold collision parameters by radio-frequency spectroscopy on weakly bound molecules
Creators: name: Bartenstein, M.
name: Altmeyer, A.
name: Riedl, S.
name: Geursen, R.
name: Jochim, S.
name: Chin, C.
name: Denschlag, J. Hecker
name: Grimm, R.
name: Simoni, A.
name: Tiesinga, E.
name: Williams, C. J.
name: Julienne, P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ radio-frequency spectroscopy on weakly bound $^6$Li$_2$ molecules to precisely determine the molecular binding energies and the energy splittings between molecular states for different magnetic fields. These measurements allow us to extract the interaction parameters of ultracold $^6$Li atoms based on a multi-channel quantum scattering model. We determine the singlet and triplet scattering lengths to be $a_s=45.167(8)a_0$ and $a_t=-2140(18)a_0$ (1 $a_0$ = 0.0529177 nm), and the positions of the broad Feshbach resonances in the energetically lowest three $s-$wave scattering channels to be 83.41(15) mT, 69.04(5) mT, and 81.12(10) mT.
On the Green Side of Trade Competitiveness? Environmental Policies and Innovation in the EU
Creators: name: Valeria, Costantini
name: Mazzanti, Massimiliano
name: Valeria, Costantini
name: Mazzanti, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Environmental Policies
subject: Porter Hypothesis
subject: Technological Innovation
subject: Export Performances
subject: Gravity Model
subject: European Union

description: This paper aims to explore how the competitiveness of the EU economy, here captured by export dynamics over the medium run (1996-2007), has been affected by environmental regulation both on the public and private sector side. The strong and weak versions of the Porter hypothesis are tested by specifying the export dynamics of five aggregated manufacturing sectors classified by their technological or environmental content using a dynamic panel data estimator applied to a theoretically-based gravity model. When testing the strong version on export performances of manufacturing sectors, the overall effect of environmental policies does not conflict with export competitiveness. When testing the weak version using export flows of environmental goods, environmental policies, as well as innovation activities, all foster competitive advantages of green exports. Public policies and private innovation patterns trigger higher efficiency in the production process, thus turning the perception of environmental protection actions as a production cost into a net benefit. These results constitute useful advice for policy makers involved in the new wave of environmental tax reforms and green recovery packages currently debated at European Union level.
Coelophora inaequalis
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coelophora
Coelophora inaequalis

description: Coelophora inaequalis (Fabricius)
(Fig. 70)
Coccinella inaequalis Fabricius, 1775: 80 (Lectotype female, BMNH; Type locality: ‘Nova Hollandia’).
Coelophora inaequalis: Mulsant, 1850: 404; Crotch 1874: 153; Korschefsky 1932: 292; Pope, 1989: 665; Poorani 2002a: 328; Ślipiński et al. 2020: 36–37.
Coelophora vidua Mulsant, 1850: 393.—Synonymized by Poorani et al. 2008: 592.
Diagnosis. Length: 4.30–6.00 mm; width: 3.50–5.50 mm. Form broad, almost circular, convex and glabrous. Dorsal colour pattern highly variable, the form illustrated here (Fig. 70a) superficially resembles C. bissellata with a pair of black spots on pronotum and nine black spots on elytra. Abdominal postcoxal line incomplete (Fig. 70c). Male genitalia (Fig. 70f, g) and spermatheca (Fig. 70d, e) diagnostic.
Distribution. India (Andamans); Sri Lanka; Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines); New Guinea; New Caledonia; Micronesia; Australia; Introduced in New Zealand, Hawaii and Florida (Gordon 1985; Pope 1989).
Notes. Pope (1989) and Ślipiński et al. (2020) described and illustrated this species in detail. It is not known from the Indian mainland and the specimens studied were collected from the Andaman Islands.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 106-107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Stability of a point charge for the Vlasov-Poisson system: the radial case
Creators: name: Pausader, Benoit
name: Widmayer, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the Vlasov-Poisson system with initial data a small, radial, absolutely continuous perturbation of a point charge. We show that the solution is global and disperses to infinity via a modified scattering along trajectories of the linearized flow. This is done by an exact integration of the linearized equation, followed by the analysis of the perturbed Hamiltonian equation in action-angle coordinates.
Far-infrared star-formation rates of six GRB host galaxies with ALMA
Creators: name: Hsiao, Tiger Yu-Yang
name: Hashimoto, Tetsuya
name: Chang, Jia-Yuan
name: Goto, Tomotsugu
name: Kim, Seong Jin
name: Ho, Simon C. -C.
name: Santos, Daryl Joe D.
name: Lu, Ting-Yi
name: On, Alvina Y. L.
name: Wang, Ting-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) can be a promising tracer of cosmic star-formation rate history (CSFRH). In order to reveal the CSFRH using GRBs, it is important to understand whether they are biased tracers or not. For this purpose, it is crucial to understand properties of GRB host galaxies, in comparison to field galaxies. In this work, we report ALMA far-infrared (FIR) observations of six $z\sim2$ IR-bright GRB host galaxies, which are selected for the brightness in IR. Among them, four host galaxies are detected for the first time in the rest-frame FIR. In addition to the ALMA data, we collected multi-wavelength data from previous studies for the six GRB host galaxies. Spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting analyses were performed with \texttt{CIGALE} to investigate physical properties of the host galaxies, and to test whether active galactic nucleus (AGN) and radio components are required or not. Our results indicate that the best-fit templates of five GRB host galaxies do not require an AGN component, suggesting the absence of AGNs. One GRB host galaxy, 080207, shows a very small AGN contribution. While derived stellar masses of the three host galaxies are mostly consistent with those in previous studies, interestingly the value of star-formation rates (SFRs) of all six GRB hosts are inconsistent with previous studies. Our results indicate the importance of rest-frame FIR observations to correctly estimate SFRs by covering thermal emission from cold dust heated by star formation.
description: This paper has been accepted for publication in MNRAS
The Impact of Mergers on the Degree of Competition in the Banking Industry
Creators: name: Cerasi, Vittoria
name: Chizzolini, Barbara
name: Ivaldi, Marc
name: Cerasi, Vittoria
name: Chizzolini, Barbara
name: Ivaldi, Marc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Banking Industry
subject: Competition and Market Structure
subject: Merger Policy

description: This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in the banking sector. The empirical answer is given by testing a monopolistic competition model of bank branching behaviour on individual bank data at county level (départements and provinces) in France and Italy. We propose a measure of the degree of competiveness in each local market that is function also of market structure indicators. We then use the econometric model to evaluate the impact of horizontal mergers among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic distribution of branches, the merger is anti-competitive. The paper has implications for competition policy as it suggests an applied tool to evaluate the potential anti-competitive impact of mergers.
Regional identity as a trigger for agricultural regional development
Creators: name: Mettepenningen, Evy
name: Mazodier, Marion
name: Vandermeulen, Valerie
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Mettepenningen, Evy
name: Mazodier, Marion
name: Vandermeulen, Valerie
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Regional identity
subject: regional development
subject: multifunctional agriculture
subject: diversification
subject: farm income

description: Regional development is receiving a lot of attention nowadays in European policy. A possible stepping stone to achieve regional development is regional identity. This paper investigates whether regional identity can contribute to the specific case of agricultural regional development. One possible way for agriculture to profit from regional identity is by diversifying farm activities. The paper shows that regional identity can stimulate farmers to take up diversification and can also stimulate inhabitants of the region to consume products directly from the farmer.
Rural development drivers and public policy formulation: the use of prospective structural analysis
Creators: name: Delgado-Serrano, Maria Del Mar
name: Amador-Hidalgo, Francisco
name: Ambrosio Albala, Mateo
name: Delgado-Serrano, Maria Del Mar
name: Amador-Hidalgo, Francisco
name: Ambrosio Albala, Mateo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Rural development policies
subject: territorial rural development
subject: prospective structural analysis

description: Traditional economic development theories have struggled to identify, in a comprehensive manner, the drivers and constraints that explain singular development paths and lead to spatial inequalities. Assuming that development patterns are territory-specific, the research hypothesis is that public policies should have a better understanding of territorial dynamics in order to propose strategies efficient to trigger changes. This paper applies the use of Prospective Structural Analysis (PSA), a foresight analysis technique, to explore the territorial dynamics. The results show that, within a territory, the variables play different roles, and suggest that rural policies might have focused on factors that have few influence in fostering changes rather than on those with leverage effects.
Disidentification from Spontaneous Thoughts
Creators: name: Miller, Robert
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Intended as the first module of a not-for-profit online course using interactive eLearning modalities to show users the benefit of, and promote their well-being through, an approach to self and other thoroughly grounded in nonduality as defined by noself/no independent causation in the phenomenological universe.
Tachyon fields with effects of quantum matter in an Anti-de Sitter Universe
Creators: name: Elizalde, Emilio
name: Hurtado, John Quiroga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an Anti-de Sitter universe filled by quantum conformal matter with the contribution from the usual tachyon and a perfect fluid. The model represents the combination of a trace-anomaly annihilated and a tachyon driven Anti-de Sitter universe. The influence exerted by the quantum effects and by the tachyon on the AdS space is studied. The radius corresponding to this universe is calculated and the effect of the tachyon potential is discussed, in particular, concerning to the possibility to get an accelerated scale factor for the proposed model (implying an accelerated expansion of the AdS type of universe). Fulfillment of the cosmological energy conditions in the model is also investigated
description: 14 Latex pages, no figures
Non-Hermiticity and topological invariants of magnon Bogoliubov-de Gennes systems
Creators: name: Kondo, Hiroki
name: Akagi, Yutaka
name: Katsura, Hosho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the theoretical prediction and experimental observation of the thermal Hall effect of magnons, a variety of novel phenomena that may occur in magnonic systems have been proposed. In this paper, we review the recent advances in the study of topological phases of magnon Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) systems. After giving an overview of the previous works on electronic topological insulators and the thermal Hall effect of magnons, we provide the necessary background for bosonic BdG systems, with a particular emphasis on their non-Hermiticity arising from the diagonalization of the BdG Hamiltonian. After that, we introduce the definitions of $ \mathbb{Z}_2 $ topological invariants for bosonic systems with pseudo-time-reversal symmetry, which ensures the existence of bosonic counterparts of "Kramers pairs". Because of the intrinsic non-Hermiticity of the bosonic BdG systems, these topological invariants have to be defined in terms of the bosonic Berry connection and curvature. We then introduce theoretical models that can be thought of as magnonic analogues of two- and three-dimensional topological insulators in class AII. We demonstrate analytically and numerically that the $ \mathbb{Z}_2 $ topological invariants precisely characterize the presence of gapless edge/surface states. We also predict that bilayer CrI$_3$ with a particular stacking would be an ideal candidate for realization of a two-dimensional magnon system characterized by a nontrivial $ \mathbb{Z}_2 $ topological invariant. For three-dimensional topological magnon systems, the thermal Hall effect of magnons is expected to occur when a magnetic field is applied to the surface.
Deconstructing the Decentralization Trilemma
Creators: name: Halpin, Harry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The vast majority of applications at this moment rely on centralized servers to relay messages between clients, where these servers are considered trusted third-parties. With the rise of blockchain technologies over the last few years, there has been a move away from both centralized servers and traditional federated models to more decentralized peer-to-peer alternatives. However, there appears to be a trilemma between security, scalability, and decentralization in blockchain-based systems. Deconstructing this trilemma using well-known threat models, we define a typology of centralized, federated, and decentralized architectures. Each of the different architectures has this trilemma play out differently. Facing a possible decentralized future, we outline seven hard problems facing decentralization and theorize that the differences between centralized, federated, and decentralized architectures depend on differing social interpretations of trust.
description: Prepublication of paper to be presented at SECRYPT 2020
Sources of the rural-urban productivity disparities and the policy implications on rural development in Korea
Creators: name: Kim, Hanho
name: Gopinath, Munisamy
name: Kim, Hanho
name: Gopinath, Munisamy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: agglomeration economies
subject: spatial productivity distribution
subject: trade cost

description: This paper investigates the effect of trade cost changes on the spatial productivity distribution in Korea. Data on gross value added and primary factors for 163 spatial units during 2000-2005 are assembled to estimate local TFP using a value-added function. In our application, we control for agglomeration economies so as to identify factors shifting the regional raw-productivity distribution over time. The TFP estimation results show that the Korean regional economy exhibits constant returns to scale, along with significant localization economies. We find that and trade costs reduction and infrastructure improvement significantly shift to the right all percentile values of the regional productivity distribution, while amenity does not affect the movement of the distribution. An important policy implication of this study is that a country pursuing foreign market opportunities to boost economic growth and to raise incomes, like Korea, should also consider the consequent spatial realignment of resources. Also, productivity enhancements along with transfers to alleviate adjustments to trade-cost changes cannot be space blind.
"Mediated" two level games : successful and unsuccessful negotiation on Iraq in Germany, France and Britain
Creators: name: Poroznuk, Amber
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines the role of the media in affecting the outcome of international negotiation. It asserts that domestic public opinion can affect states' positions in international negotiation. As the primary source of information for the public, news from the media necessarily form public opinion on specific issues. However, this role has been neglected in the literature. Therefore, Robert Putnam's model of international negotiation as a two-level game is modified to include the media as an agent for filtering information between the two levels. The model is tested on the case of negotiation over Resolution 1441 and the use of force in Iraq at the Security Council. In order to isolate the role of the media, this thesis examines three case studies and three time periods. In each case, this thesis found that the media has both a qualitative and quantitative effect. Understanding the role of the media can aid in better understanding different outcomes of negotiation.
Mental health and job satisfaction among social workers a quantitative study an analysis of workplace well-being in the social work profession
Creators: name: Pazer, Sora
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440999
subject: Social work not elsewhere classified

description: This study examines the relationship between mental health and job satisfaction among social workers, focusing on key workplace factors such as emotional demands, workplace support, and work-life balance. A quantitative survey of 274 social workers was conducted using a 5-point Likert scale to assess their perceptions of job satisfaction and mental health. Results indicate moderate overall job satisfaction, with an average score of 3.54. However, social workers reported high emotional demands (average score: 3.26) and insufficient resources to cope with work-related stress (average score: 2.96). While many participants felt they made a positive impact on their clients' lives, work-life balance and long-term career sustainability were concerns. These findings highlight the need for improved organizational support, access to mental health resources, and policies promoting better work-life balance to enhance the well-being and retention of social workers. Future research should focus on longitudinal studies and targeted interventions to address these challenges
Orbital angular momentum interference of trapped matter waves
Creators: name: Kiałka, Filip
name: Stickler, Benjamin A.
name: Hornberger, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a matter wave interference scheme based on the quantization of orbital angular momentum in a ring trap. It operates without beam splitters, is sensitive to geometric phases induced by external gauge fields, and allows measuring interatomic scattering lengths. We argue that orbital angular momentum interferometry offers a versatile platform for quantum coherent experiments with cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates using state-of-the-art technology.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Minor corrections
Infrared Dark Clouds and high-mass star formation activity in Galactic Molecular Clouds
Creators: name: Retes-Romero, R.
name: Mayya, Y. D.
name: Luna, A.
name: Carrasco, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ever since their discovery, Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are generally considered to be the sites just at the onset of high-mass (HM) star formation. In recent years, it has been realized that not all IRDCs harbour HM Young Stellar Objects (YSOs). Only those IRDCs satisfying a certain mass-size criterion, or equivalently above a certain threshold density, are found to contain HMYSOs. In all cases, IRDCs provide ideal conditions for the formation of stellar clusters. In this paper, we study the massive stellar content of IRDCs to re-address the relation between IRDCs and HM star formation. For this purpose, we have identified all IRDCs associated to a sample of 12 Galactic molecular clouds (MCs). The selected MCs have been the target of a systematic search for YSOs in an earlier study. The catalogued positions of YSOs have been used to search all YSOs embedded in each identified IRDC. In total, we have found 834 YSOs in 128 IRDCs. The sample of IRDCs have mean surface densities of 319 Mo/pc2, mean mass of 1062 Mo, and a mass function power-law slope -1.8, which are similar to the corresponding properties for the full sample of IRDCs and resulting physical properties in previous studies. We find that all those IRDCs containing at least one intermediate to high-mass young star satisfy the often-used mass-size criterion for forming HM stars. However, not all IRDCs satisfying the mass-size criterion contain HM stars. We find that the often used mass-size criterion corresponds to 35% probability of an IRDC forming a massive star. Twenty five (20%) of the IRDCs are potential sites of stellar clusters of mass more than 100 Mo.
description: 9 pages. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Correlations, spin dynamics, defects: the highly-frustrated Kagomé bilayer
Creators: name: Bono, David
name: Limot, Laurent
name: Mendels, Philippe
name: Collin, Gaston
name: Blanchard, Nicole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SrCr$\_{9p}$Ga$\_{12-9p}$O$\_{19}$ and Ba$\_{2}$Sn$\_{2}$ZnGa$\_{10-7p}$Cr$\_{7p}$O$\_{22}$ compounds are two highly-frustrated magnets possessing a quasi-two-dimensional Kagomé bilayer of spin 3/2 chromium ions with antiferromagnetic interactions. Their magnetic susceptibility was measured by local Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and non-local (SQUID) techniques, and their low-temperature spin dynamics by Muon Spin Resonance. Consistent with the theoretical picture drawn for geometrically frustrated systems, the Kagomé bilayer is shown here to exhibit: (i) short range spin-spin correlations down to a temperature much lower than the Curie-Weiss temperature, no conventional long-range transition occurring; (ii) a Curie contribution to the susceptibility from paramagnetic defects generated by spin vacancies; (iii) low-temperature spin fluctuations, at least down to 30 mK, which are a trademark of a dynamical ground state. These properties point to a spin-liquid ground state, possibly built on Resonating Valence Bonds with unconfined spinons as the magnetic excitations.
description: 21 pages, 24 figures
Simulation of Blockchain based Power Trading with Solar Power Prediction in Prosumer Consortium Model
Creators: name: Thu, Kaung Si
name: Ongsakul, Weerakorn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Prosumer consortium energy transactive models can be one of the solutions for energy costs, increasing performance and for providing reliable electricity utilizing distributed power generation, to a local group or community, like a university. This research study demonstrates the simulation of blockchain based power trading, supplemented by the solar power prediction using MLFF neural network training in two prosumer nodes. This study can be the initial step in the implementation of a power trading market model based on a decentralized blockchain system, with distributed generations in a university grid system. This system can balance the electricity demand and supply within the institute, enable secure and rapid transactions, and the local market system can be reinforced by forecasting solar generation. The performance of the MLFF training can predict almost 90% accuracy of the model as short term ahead forecasting. Because of it, the prosumer bodies can complete the decision making before trading to their benefit.