cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Note on Mountford's manuscript "Can a Brain Drain be good for growth in the source economy?"
Creators: name: Giannoccolo, Pierpaolo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: SECS-P/02 Politica economica

description: In this briefly note we extend the Mountford.s article "Can a Brain Drain be good for growth in the source economy?" by introducing an active role of the government in the education decisions of the agent by public education, taxes and subsidies. First, we demonstrate that the main results obtained by Mountford do not disappeared. Second, we argue that
the model, by these new assumptions, help us to extend the Mountford.s results to a greater range of economic scenarios and in particular, to the new enlarged European Union.
Gravitational waves from a universe filled with primordial black holes
Creators: name: Papanikolaou, Theodoros
name: Vennin, Vincent
name: Langlois, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-light primordial black holes, with masses $m_\mathrm{PBH}<10^9\mathrm{g}$, evaporate before big-bang nucleosynthesis and can therefore not be directly constrained. They can however be so abundant that they dominate the universe content for a transient period (before reheating the universe via Hawking evaporation). If this happens, they support large cosmological fluctuations at small scales, which in turn induce the production of gravitational waves through second-order effects. Contrary to the primordial black holes, those gravitational waves survive after evaporation, and can therefore be used to constrain such scenarios. In this work, we show that for induced gravitational waves not to lead to a backreaction problem, the relative abundance of black holes at formation, denoted $ Ω_\mathrm{PBH,f} $, should be such that $ Ω_\mathrm{PBH,f} <10^{-4}(m_\mathrm{PBH}/10^9\mathrm{g})^{-1/4}$. In particular, scenarios where primordial black holes dominate right upon their formation time are all excluded (given that $m_\mathrm{PBH}>10\, \mathrm{g}$ for inflation to proceed at $ρ^{1/4}<10^{16}\mathrm{GeV}$). This sets the first constraints on ultra-light primordial black holes.
description: matches the published version in JCAP
R&D-hindering collusion
Creators: name: Bacchiega, Emanuele
name: Lambertini, Luca
name: Mantovani, Andrea
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: In an extended version of d'Aspremont and Jacquemin's (1988) R&D competition model we find a region where the game is a prisoner's dilemma: firms still invest in R&D but they would obtain a higher profit by not investing at all. In a repeated version of the game, we prove that firms implicitly tend to collude and refrain from investing in R&D, thus decreasing social welfare. When this happens, inviting firms to form a joint venture appears as a remedy to the lack of innovation efforts rather than the excess thereof.
Crystal and magnetic structure of (La0.70Ca0.30)(CryMn1-y)O3: a neutron powder diffraction study
Creators: name: Capogna, L.
name: Martinelli, A.
name: Francesconi, M. G.
name: Radaelli, P. G.
name: Carvajal, J. Rodriguez
name: Cabeza, O.
name: Ferretti, M.
name: Castellano, C.
name: Corridoni, T.
name: Pompeo, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The crystal and magnetic structure of (La0.70Ca0.30)(CryMn1-y)O3 for y = 0.70, 0.50 and 0.15 has been investigated using neutron powder diffraction. The three samples crystallize in the Pnma space group at both 290 K and 5 K and exhibit different magnetic structures at low temperature. In (La0.70Ca0.30)(Cr0.70Mn0.30)O3, antiferromagnetic order with a propagation vector k = 0 sets in. The magnetic structure is Gx, i.e. of the G-type with spins parallel to the a-axis. On the basis of our Rietveld refinement and the available magnetisation data, we speculate that only Cr3+ spins order, whereas Mn4+ act as a random magnetic impurity. In (La0.70Ca0.30)(Cr0.50Mn0.50)O3 the spin order is still of type Gx, although the net magnetic moment is smaller. No evidence for magnetic order of the Mn ions is observed. Finally, in (La0.70Ca0.30)(Cr0.15Mn0.85)O3 a ferromagnetic ordering of the Mn spins takes place, whereas the Cr3+ ions act as random magnetic impurities with randomly oriented spins.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Measuring the Contribution of Water and Green Space Amenities to Housing Values: An Application and Comparison of Spatially Weighted Hedonic Models
Creators: name: Cho, Seong-Hoon
name: Bowker, James Michael
name: Park, William M.
name: Cho, Seong-Hoon
name: Bowker, James Michael
name: Park, William M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: hedonic model
subject: locally weighted regression
subject: park
subject: spatial
subject: water bodies

description: This study estimates the influence of proximity to water bodies and park amenities on residential housing values in Knox County, Tennessee, using the hedonic price approach. Values for proximity to water bodies and parks are first estimated globally with a standard ordinary least squares (OLS) model. A locally weighted regression model is then employed to investigate spatial nonstationarity and generate local estimates for individual sources of each amenity. The local model reveals some important local differences in the effects of proximity to water bodies and parks on housing price.
HAWQV3: Dyadic Neural Network Quantization
Creators: name: Yao, Zhewei
name: Dong, Zhen
name: Zheng, Zhangcheng
name: Gholami, Amir
name: Yu, Jiali
name: Tan, Eric
name: Wang, Leyuan
name: Huang, Qijing
name: Wang, Yida
name: Mahoney, Michael W.
name: Keutzer, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current low-precision quantization algorithms often have the hidden cost of conversion back and forth from floating point to quantized integer values. This hidden cost limits the latency improvement realized by quantizing Neural Networks. To address this, we present HAWQV3, a novel mixed-precision integer-only quantization framework. The contributions of HAWQV3 are the following: (i) An integer-only inference where the entire computational graph is performed only with integer multiplication, addition, and bit shifting, without any floating point operations or even integer division; (ii) A novel hardware-aware mixed-precision quantization method where the bit-precision is calculated by solving an integer linear programming problem that balances the trade-off between model perturbation and other constraints, e.g., memory footprint and latency; (iii) Direct hardware deployment and open source contribution for 4-bit uniform/mixed-precision quantization in TVM, achieving an average speed up of $1.45\times$ for uniform 4-bit, as compared to uniform 8-bit for ResNet50 on T4 GPUs; and (iv) extensive evaluation of the proposed methods on ResNet18/50 and InceptionV3, for various model compression levels with/without mixed precision. For ResNet50, our INT8 quantization achieves an accuracy of $77.58\%$, which is $2.68\%$ higher than prior integer-only work, and our mixed-precision INT4/8 quantization can reduce INT8 latency by $23\%$ and still achieve $76.73\%$ accuracy. Our framework and the TVM implementation have been open sourced.
Differential Uncertainties and Risk Attitudes between Conventional and Organic Producers: The Case of Spanish COP Farmers
Creators: name: Serra, Teresa
name: Zilberman, David
name: Gil, Jose Maria
name: Serra, Teresa
name: Zilberman, David
name: Gil, Jose Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The growing importance of economic factors in farmers' decision to go organic has raised interest in characterizing the economic behavior of organic versus conventional farms. Published analyses so far have not considered differential uncertainties and farmers' risk preferences between conventional and organic practices when comparing these techniques. Our article attempts to assess this issue. We use a model of farmer decision under risk to analyze the differential values between Spanish COP organic and conventional farms and to assess the incentives for adoption of organic practices. Results show that organic and conventional farms do have different abilities to control production risk as well as different risk preferences. Organic price premiums and subsidies are found to be powerful instruments to motivate adoption of organic techniques.
High efficiency uniform wakefield acceleration of a positron beam using stable asymmetric mode in a hollow channel plasma
Creators: name: Zhou, Shiyu
name: Hua, Jianfei
name: Lu, Wei
name: An, Weiming
name: Mori, Warren B.
name: Joshi, Chan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plasma wakefield acceleration in the blowout regime is particularly promising for high-energy acceleration of electron beams because of its potential to simultaneously provide large acceleration gradients and high energy transfer efficiency while maintaining excellent beam quality. However, no equivalent regime for positron acceleration in plasma wakes has been discovered to-date. We show that after a short propagation distance, an asymmetric electron beam drives a stable wakefield in a hollow plasma channel that can be both accelerating and focusing for a positron beam. A high charge positron bunch placed at a suitable distance behind the drive bunch can beam-load or flatten the longitudinal wakefield and enhance the transverse focusing force, leading to high-efficiency and narrow energy spread acceleration of the positrons. Three-dimensional quasi-static particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations show that over 30% energy extraction efficiency from the wake to the positrons and 1% level energy spread can be simultaneously obtained, and further optimization is feasible.
On The Influence of Two Parallel Plates on Atomic Levels
Creators: name: Alves, D. T.
name: Barone, F. A.
name: Farina, C.
name: Tort, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is devoted to the study of the influence of two parallel plates on the atomic levels of a Hydrogen atom placed in the region between the plates. We treat two situations, namely: the case where both plates are infinitely permeable and the case where one of them is a perfectly conducting plate and the other, an infinitely permeable one. We compare our result with those found in literature for two parallel conducting plates. The limiting cases where the atom is near a conducting plate and near a permeable one are also taken.
description: 11 revtex pages, 2 eps figures
Does only the amplitude of the state vector carry the physical information?
Creators: name: Koprinkov, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical and experimental evidences, which show that the material phase of the state vector is causally related with the dynamic of the quantum system and becomes carrier of physical information.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure
Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis
Creators: name: Bruno, Randolph Luca
name: Bytchkova, Maria
name: Estrin, Saul
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a large number of institutional variables. We find entry rates in Russia are not especially low by international standards and are correlated with natural entry rates, institutions and firm size.
Furthermore, industries that - for scale and technological reasons - are characterised by higher entry rates will experience lower entry within regions affected by higher business risk. In other words industries that naturally have low entry barriers are most affected by business constraints.
The Housing Boom and Its Effect on Farmland Acreage
Creators: name: Bekkerman, Anton
name: Bekkerman, Anton
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: farmland ownership
subject: housing values
subject: dynamic panel estimator
subject: GMM
subject: forward-looking farmer

description: This paper examines farmers land ownership decision to keep their farmland or sell the acreage to a non-agricultural enterprise. The boom in housing demand during the early 21st century caused a subsequent rise in land demand by housing construction companies. This, in turn, has significant effects on farmer's choice to sell their farmland endowment and leave farming. Data from several public sources, including the USDA-NASS, U.S. Census, BLS, and BEA-REIS, is used to analyze the relationship of farm acreage with housing permit values. The Arellano-Bond dynamic panel estimator is used within a GMM framework to examine land ownership behavior of forward-looking farmers. Results indicate that a rise in demand for new housing significantly influences a farmer's behavior to transfer agricultural acreage out of farming.
George Grekoff Papers on the Chimariko Language
Creators: name: David, Hyacinth
name: David, Winifred
name: Dyer, Polly
name: Friday
name: George, Louise
name: Hunt, Helen
name: Hunter, Odelia
name: Kelsey, Effie
name: Kelsey, John
name: McKibbin, Grace
name: Noble, Sally
name: Beaumont, Ronald
name: Dixon, Roland Burrage
name: Grekoff, George
name: Halpern, Abraham M.
name: Moshinsky, Julius
name: Olmsted, David
name: Shepherd, Alice
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023

description: The Papers document Grekoff's research on Chimariko and other indigenous languages of North America from the late 1950s until his death in 1999. There were no remaining speakers of Chimariko during Grekoff's lifetime, so the bulk of the collection consists of various notes and organizations of data collected by other linguists, especially John Peabody Harrington. This includes several boxes of vocabulary slips, preparatory notes for a grammar of Chimariko, and notes and unpublished articles on various other aspects of Chimariko language and culture. The collection also contains a small quantity of material on other indigenous languages of North America, including Grekoff's original field notes on Southeastern Pomo from 1957 and field notes on Nuu-chah-nulth, Skagit, and Kwak'wala from Grekoff's time at the University of Washington from 1962-1967, portions of which were collected as part of field methods courses taught by Grekoff. Grekoff's consultants were John and Effie Kelsey (SE Pomo), Odelia Hunter, Hyacinth David, and Winifred David (Nuu-chah-nulth), and Louise George (Kwak'wala).
A System for Automatic Rice Disease Detection from Rice Paddy Images Serviced via a Chatbot
Creators: name: Temniranrat, Pitchayagan
name: Kiratiratanapruk, Kantip
name: Kitvimonrat, Apichon
name: Sinthupinyo, Wasin
name: Patarapuwadol, Sujin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A LINE Bot System to diagnose rice diseases from actual paddy field images was developed and presented in this paper. It was easy-to-use and automatic system designed to help rice farmers improve the rice yield and quality. The targeted images were taken from the actual paddy environment without special sample preparation. We used a deep learning neural networks technique to detect rice diseases from the images. We developed an object detection model training and refinement process to improve the performance of our previous research on rice leave diseases detection. The process was based on analyzing the model's predictive results and could be repeatedly used to improve the quality of the database in the next training of the model. The deployment model for our LINE Bot system was created from the selected best performance technique in our previous paper, YOLOv3, trained by refined training data set. The performance of the deployment model was measured on 5 target classes and found that the Average True Positive Point improved from 91.1% in the previous paper to 95.6% in this study. Therefore, we used this deployment model for Rice Disease LINE Bot system. Our system worked automatically real-time to suggest primary diagnosis results to the users in the LINE group, which included rice farmers and rice disease specialists. They could communicate freely via chat. In the real LINE Bot deployment, the model's performance was measured by our own defined measurement Average True Positive Point and was found to be an average of 78.86%. The system was fast and took only 2-3 s for detection process in our system server.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures
Creative Telescoping on Multiple Sums
Creators: name: Koutschan, Christoph
name: Wong, Elaine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We showcase a collection of practical strategies to deal with a problem arising from an analysis of integral estimators derived via quasi-Monte Carlo methods. The problem reduces to a triple binomial sum, thereby enabling us to open up the holonomic toolkit, which contains tools such as creative telescoping that can be used to deduce a recurrence satisfied by the sum. While applying these techniques, a host of issues arose that partly needed to be resolved by hand. In other words, no creative telescoping implementation currently exists that can resolve all these issues automatically. Thus, we felt the need to compile the different strategies we tried and the difficulties that we encountered along the way. In particular, we highlight the necessity of the certificate in these computations and how its complexity can greatly influence the computation time.
description: 22 pages; Supplementary material at https://wongey.github.io/digital-nets-walsh/
Near-infrared integral-field spectroscopy of violent starburst environments
Creators: name: de Grijs, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Near-infrared (NIR) integral-field spectroscopy (IFS) of violent starburst environments at high spatial (and spectral) resolution has the potential to revolutionise our ideas regarding the local interactions between the newly-formed massive stars and the interstellar medium (ISM) of their host galaxies. To illustrate this point, I present NIR IFS analysis of the central starburst region of NGC 1140, obtained with CIRPASS on Gemini-South. While strong [FeII] emission is found throughout the galaxy, higher-order Brackett emission is predominantly associated with the northern starburst region. Based on the spatial distributions of the [FeII] versus Brackett line emission, I conclude that a galaxy-wide starburst was induced several x 10^7 yr ago, with more recent starburst activity concentrated around the northern starburst region. I look forward and discuss the exciting prospects that IFS at higher spatial (and spectral) resolution will allow us trace (i) the massive outflows ("superwinds") expected to originate in the dense, young massive star clusters commonly found in intense starburst environments, and (ii) their impact on the galaxy's ISM.
description: Submitted to "Adaptive Optics-Assisted Integral-Field Spectroscopy", Rutten R.G.M., Benn C.R., Mendez J., eds., May 2005, La Palma (Spain), New Astr. Rev
Constructing intersectoral innovation diffusion networks with input-output: how to get relative flows? An illustrative application to six OECD technological systems for the middle '90s
Creators: name: Montresor, Sandro
name: Vittucci Marzetti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: SECS-P/02 Politica economica

description: The paper aims at addressing some methodological issues in applying Social Network Analysis indicators to the investigation of nation-wide intersectoral innovation ows matrices. The majority of SNA techniques require dichotomization of the original matrices and suitable relativization procedures, in order to avoid size-biases. The relativization procedures used so far suffer from some limitations, as they either alter the meaning of SNA indicators or do not take into account the composition of countries' final demand. In order to overcome these limitations, we propose two new different methods and compare them with the existing ones on the basis of their rationale. Rather than with respect to a single cut-off, the comparison is carried out by working out SNA indicators distributions. An illustrative application is carried out by comparing the technological systems of six structurally different OECD countries in the mid-'90s. In so doing, the robustness of their conventional innovation ranking is tested and discussed.
Estimating the Costs of Revenue Deficiency Programs
Creators: name: Cooper, Joseph C.
name: Cooper, Joseph C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Domestic support
subject: marketing loan benefits
subject: counter-cyclical payments
subject: disaster assistance
subject: revenue support
subject: corn
subject: nonparametric
subject: semi-nonparametric
subject: bootstrap

description: This paper develops an approach to empirically demonstrate how the within-season distribution of U.S. domestic commodity support for corn differs between current-style approaches of support and revenue-based support. From a purely economic standpoint, the results show the revenue-based payment scenarios to be preferable at the national level to the uncoordinated forms of support currently in use, even in a situation where the annual mean payments are set equal across the support scenarios. For revenue-based support, the variability around the total expected annual payment is lower, and perhaps more importantly, the probability of high payments is lower. These results suggest advantages to this type of support, both in terms of lower budgetary uncertainty for producers and the Federal government and in meeting multilateral commitments for limiting spending on domestic commodity support.
Cold-Weather Concreting
Creators: name: Evans, Milton
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1960
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In order to successfully place concrete in cold weather, certain established requirements must be met. The concrete must not be allowed to freeze, it must not be overheated by artificial means in an attempt to protect it from the cold, and proper curing conditions must be maintained during the period of protection to insure sufficient moisture for the cement to hydrate. Generally, temperatures of not less than 50°F and not more than 90°F are satisfactory. These temperatures must be maintained long enough for the concrete to develop sufficient strength to withstand freezing temperatures and to support the loads. Generally, concretes made with other than Type III cement should be maintained at temperatures above freezing for at least six days, and concretes made with Type III cement should be maintained at temperatures above freezing for at least four days.
Interim Status of Tire Service Life Study
Creators: name: Drake, William B.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1960
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The service life of selected, most commonly used tire sizes installed on Highway Department trucks and sedans will be evaluated. Major manufacturers and other manufacturers (later defined) products will be studied to determine average service life. One half or four highway districts (1, 2, 7 and 8) will be involved in the project and the trucks used will be selected or assigned at random in these districts (The sedans used in the study will be Central Office pool vehicles). A progress record for each tire and use record for each vehicle with regular report or measurement times to be specified will be required. A cost per vehicle mile operation for the various specified brands of tires shall results.
On Problems with Cosmography in Cosmic Dark Ages
Creators: name: Banerjee, Aritra
name: Colgáin, Eoin Ó
name: Sasaki, Misao
name: Sheikh-Jabbari, Mohammad M.
name: Yang, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasars show considerable promise as standard candles in a high-redshift window beyond Type Ia supernovae. Recently, Risaliti, Lusso \& collaborators \cite{Risaliti:2018reu, Lusso:2019akb, Lusso:2020pdb} have succeeded in producing a high redshift Hubble diagram ($ z \lesssim 7$) that supports "a trend whereby the Hubble diagram of quasars is well reproduced by the standard flat $Λ$CDM model up to $z \sim 1.5-2$, but strong deviations emerge at higher redshifts". This conclusion hinges upon a log polynomial expansion for the luminosity distance. In this note, we demonstrate that this expansion (or "improvements" thereof) typically can only be trusted up to $z \sim 1.5-2$. As a result, a breakdown in the validity of the expansion may be misinterpreted as a (phantom) deviation from flat $Λ$CDM. We further illustrate the problem through mock data examples.
description: 4 pages; v2 plots added, matches published version
Fox, Helmut: Ökumene - Hoffnung oder Illusion? Eine katholische Bilanz
Creators: name: Urban, Hans Jörg
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (1975): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 24, Heft 2
Rockcastle (Pottsville) Conglomerate Sand Evaluation in Portland Cement Concrete
Creators: name: Evans, Milton
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1960
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In order to analyze the concrete making properties of a processed Pottsville Conglomerate Sand from Rockcastle County, Kentucky, several batches of portland cement concrete were made. Standard mixing control, strength, and durability tests as well as a short cut test to detect excessive expansion during curing were performed on the concrete. Control specimens were made utilizing an Ohio River Sand, typical for this area, as the fine aggregate. This sand which was acceptable by Kentucky Highway Department Specifications was produced by the Nugent Sand Company of Louisville, Kentucky. The sand was submitted for evaluation in this manner by the State Geologist. The standard physical properties tests were made by his office prior to the submission, and the sand was found to be satisfactory in accordance with those tests.
Rabi-type oscillations in a classical Josephson junction
Creators: name: Gronbech-Jensen, Niels
name: Cirillo, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study analytically and numerically the phase-modulation properties of a biased classical Josephson tunnel junction in the zero-voltage state and phase-locked to an external ac field. We show that the phase-locked state is being modulated in the transients, or in response to perturbations, and the modulation frequency is calculated as a function of relevant system parameters, such as microwave field amplitude. The numerical analysis is parameterized similarly to recent experimental results in which a combination of pulsed ac signals and relative switching from the zero-voltage state are used to probe the internal excitations of the junctions. Our analysis demonstrates that the modulation of a phase-locked state in an entirely classical Josephson junction produces oscillations analogous to quantum mechanical Rabi oscillations, expected to be observed under the same conditions.
Judy Gray Crawford Papers on the Mojave Language
Creators: name: Brown, Nellie
name: Drennon, Duane
name: Gates, Elmer
name: Hayes, Lillian
name: Hayes, Phyllis
name: Martin, Robert
name: Martin, Rose
name: Mitchell, Grace
name: Sands, Flora
name: Sinyella, Lorenzo
name: Sundust, Mrs.  Felipa Ida
name: Van Fleet, Emmett
name: Crawford, Judith G.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2015

description: The Papers document Judy Gray Crawford's research on the Yuman languages of California and Arizona, especially Mojave. The collection includes Mojave texts, wordlists, and grammatical elicitation from field trips conducted in 1968 and 1972. Also included are wordlists from several other Yuman languages from an initial reconnaissance trip in July 1967 and a photocopy of Crawford's Idaho State University M.A. thesis. Crawford's Mojave consultants included Nellie Brown, Duane Drennan, Elmer Gates, Robert Martin, Rose Martin, Flora Sands, and Emmett Van Fleet. She also worked with Lillian Hayes (Cocopa), Phyllis Hayes (Cocopa), Grace Mitchell (Yavapai), Lorenzo Sinyella (Havasupai), and Felipa Ida Sundust (Maricopa).
Spatial Endogenous Fire Risk and Efficient Fuel Management and Timber Harvest
Creators: name: Konoshima, Masashi
name: Montgomery, Claire A.
name: Albers, Heidi J.
name: Arthur, Jeffrey L.
name: Konoshima, Masashi
name: Montgomery, Claire A.
name: Albers, Heidi J.
name: Arthur, Jeffrey L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This paper integrates a spatial fire behavior model and a stochastic dynamic optimization model to determine the optimal spatial pattern of fuel management and timber harvest. Each year's fire season causes the loss of forest values and lives in the western US. This paper uses a multi-plot analysis and incorporates uncertainty about fire ignition locations and weather conditions to inform policy by examining the role of spatial endogenous risk - where management actions on one stand affect fire risk in that and adjacent stands. The results support two current strategies, but question two other strategies, for managing forests with fire risk.
Investigation of Concrete Pavement, US 60 between Versailles and Frankfort
Creators: name: Drake, William B.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1960
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: A preliminary examination was made of the subject pavement on November 2, 1959, by James H. Havens and the writer, of the Research Division, and J. S. Riley, Construction Division. The discover of deleterious matter in the pavement was the major reason for the inspection. Foreign objects could be found imbedded in the concrete pavement throughout the project. However, there were a great many more in two sections, each about one quarter of a mile long, than on the rest of the project. The objects observed were wood, cloth, metal and soil. However, there was decided prevalence of soil. The soil particles seem varied in shape and ranged in size from approximately one half inch in diameter to several inches in diameter.
Criteria for Design of Pavement Thicknesses, Kentucky Interstate Highways
Creators: name: Drake, William B.
name: Havens, James H.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1960
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Kentucky Department of Highways, in 1946, sought a more systematic criteria and basis for designing the thickness of bituminous concrete pavements. The Research Division was authorized to pursue this work and to develop the criterion. These efforts were embodied in a report (1) to the Department, which offered a system of design based upon CBR's and EWL's. EWL's were computed originally for a 10-yr. period but this practice was revised in 1954, to encompass 20-yr. traffic (more realistic with respect to average road life). Then, in 1957, the Department requested a re-evaluation of the criteria from the standpoint of experience and performance of pavements designed thereby. This re-study and recommendations was reported to the Department and to the Highway Research Board (2)(3). A copy of current design chart is shown on the following page (Fig. 20, ref. 2 and 3).
New Methods for Integrated Models of Animal Disease Control
Creators: name: Rich, Karl M.
name: Rich, Karl M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Animal disease control
subject: simulation modeling
subject: system dynamics

description: Accurate assessments of the epidemiological and economic impacts of an animal disease require the incorporation of feedbacks between disease spread and production incentives. This paper motivates a new modeling framework that is sensitive to the dynamics of disease, production decisions and incentives, different livestock production systems, and their interaction through the use of an integrated system dynamics framework. Preliminary simulation results are provided to demonstrate proof-of-concept of such an approach, with additional discussion given on extensions and implications of integrated methods.
The Aarhus integral and the mu-invariants
Creators: name: Moffatt, Iain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We relate the tree part of the Aarhus integral to Milnor's mu-invariants of string-links in homology balls thus generalizing results of Habegger and Masbaum.
description: accepted for publication by Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications
Should Grain Elevator Managers Adopt Integrated Pest Management?
Creators: name: Adam, Brian D.
name: Siaplay, Mounir
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Flinn, Paul W.
name: Adam, Brian D.
name: Siaplay, Mounir
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Flinn, Paul W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Insect infestation during storage and processing causes millions of dollars of wheat damage annually in the United States. Insect infestation reduces wheat storing processing profit as well as consumer confidence in wheat food products. Meanwhile, increased concerns about insecticide use have increase interest in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies. This research compares the costs of IPM and chemical-based approaches to insect control to determine why most elevator managers have not adopted IPM practices.
Mixed Tournaments, Common Shocks, and Disincentives: An Experimental Study
Creators: name: Wu, Steven Y.
name: Roe, Brian E.
name: Sporleder, Thomas L.
name: Wu, Steven Y.
name: Roe, Brian E.
name: Sporleder, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: mixed tournaments
subject: incentives
subject: relative performance contracts
subject: experimental economics

description: Two well-known hypotheses from the literature on tournaments are that (1) tournaments can filter out common shocks thereby reducing agents' risk exposure; and (2) disincentive effects can arise when a tournament scheme is administered on a group of mixed ability agents. While handicapping and/or the creation of homogeneous groups have been suggested as mechanisms for mitigating disincentive effects, it is often impractical to use handicapping schemes and nearly impossible to create a completely homogeneous labor force. Hence, contract administrators who intend to use tournaments to elicit effort must be able to assess the positive effects of tournaments (eliminate common shocks) against the negative effects (disincentive effects). Using economic experiments, we find evidence of disincentive effects under tournaments, although these effects are not as strong as predicted. Moreover, tournaments can be effective at reducing earnings variability when common shocks are important. These results suggest that the benefits of risk reduction from eliminating common shocks might outweigh the disincentive effects arising from mixed tournaments.
Telecommuting and Emissions Reductions: Evaluating Results from the ecommute Program
Creators: name: Walls, Margaret
name: Nelson, Peter
name: Walls, Margaret
name: Nelson, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: telecommuting
subject: mode choice
subject: air quality
subject: emissions

description: In 1999 Congress passed the National Air Quality and Telecommuting Act. This Act established pilot telecommuting programs in five major U.S. metropolitan areas with the express purpose of studying the feasibility of addressing air quality concerns through telecommuting. This study provides the first analysis of data from the "ecommute" program. Using two-and-one-half years of data, we look at telecommuting frequency, mode choice, and emissions reductions. We also look at reporting behavior, dropout rates, and other information to assess the program's performance. We analyze results by city- Denver, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia are the five pilot cities. And finally, we use the program's emissions reduction findings to calculate how much telecommuting would be needed to reach an annual volatile organic compounds emission reduction target in each city. This discussion paper is one in a series of four RFF papers on telecommuting published in December 2004. In addition to analysis of the ecommute data described in this paper, Safirova and Walls (discussion paper 04-43) similarly analyze data from a 2002 survey conducted by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) of telecommuters and nontelecommuters. These same authors put these findings into context by providing a review of the empirical literature on telecommuting (discussion paper 04-44). Finally, Nelson presents an assessment of institutional and regulatory barriers to using telecommuting in a mobile source emissions trading program (04-45). The studies by RFF are part of a larger report on the ecommute program completed by the Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF) for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More information about the overall project can be found on the ecommute/GETF website: http://www.ecommute.net/program/.
Scattering of $^{7}$Be and $^{8}$B and the astrophysical S$_{17}$ factor
Creators: name: Tabacaru, G.
name: Azhari, A.
name: Brinkley, J.
name: Burjan, V.
name: Carstoiu, F.
name: Fu, Changbo
name: Gagliardi, C. A.
name: Kroha, V.
name: Mukhamedzhanov, A. M.
name: Tang, X.
name: Trache, L.
name: Tribble, R. E.
name: Zhou, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of scattering of $^{7}$Be at 87 MeV on a melamine (C$_{3}$N$ _{6}$H$_{6}$) target and of $^{8}$B at 95 MeV on C were performed. For $^{7}$Be the angular range was extended over previous measurements and monitoring of the intensity of the radioactive beam was improved. The measurements allowed us to check and improve the optical model potentials used in the incoming and outgoing channels for the analysis of existing data on the proton transfer reaction $^{14}$N($^{7}$Be,$^{8}$B)$^{13}$C. The resultslead to an updated determination of the asymptotic normalization coefficient for the virtual decay $^{8}$B $\to$ $^{7}$Be + $p$. We find a slightly larger value, $C_{tot}^{2}(^{8}B)=0.466\pm 0.047$ fm$^{-1}$, for the melamine target. This implies an astrophysical factor, $S_{17}(0)=18.0\pm 1.8$ eV$\cdot$b, for the solar neutrino generating reaction $^{7}$Be($p$,$γ$)$^{8}$B.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
title: Lirio (bulboso):
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Iris (Bulbous)
Group identity.
New Varieties of Plants

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Transgenic Trees: Implementation and Outcomes of the Plant Protection Act
Creators: name: Sedjo, Roger A.
name: Sedjo, Roger A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: forestry
subject: biotechnology
subject: transgenic
subject: tree plantations
subject: timber supply
subject: genes
subject: GMOs
subject: industrial wood
subject: economics
subject: regulations
subject: costs
subject: benefits
subject: conservation

description: The responsibility for protecting U.S. agriculture from pests and diseases is assigned by the Federal Plant Pest Act (FPPA) to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture. The Plant Protection Act (Title 7 U.S.C. Sections 7701 et seq.) gives Aphis statutory authority over genetically modified organisms (GMO), in effect assigning to APHIS a related responsibility of determining whether a genetically altered plant, crop, or tree is likely to pose unacceptable risks to the environment. Although APHIS has considerable experience with crop plants, it has only limited experience with trees. Yet the possible benefits of applying genetic engineering to trees are substantial and include industrial wood production and environmental uses, such as toxic remediation and species restoration. This report focuses on the Plant Protection Act (PPA) and related regulations as they have been applied to timber transgenic trees.
XMM-Newton observations of 4 luminous radio-quiet AGN, and the soft X-ray excess problem
Creators: name: D'Ammando, F.
name: Bianchi, S.
name: Jimenez-Bailon, E.
name: Matt, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature and origin of the soft X-ray excess in radio quiet AGN is still an open issue. The interpretation in terms of thermal disc emission has been challanged by the discovery of the constancy of the effective temperature despite the wide range of Black Hole masses of the observed sources. Alternative models are reflection from ionized matter and absorption in a relativistically smeared wind. We analyzed XMM-Newton observations of four luminous radio quiet AGN with the aim of characterising their main properties and in particular the soft excess. Different spectral models for the soft excess were tried: thermal disc emission, Comptonization, ionized reflection, relativistically smeared winds. Comptonization of thermal emission and the smeared winds provide the best fits, but the other models also provide acceptable fits. All models, however, return parameters very similar from source to source, despite the large differences in luminosities, Black Hole masses and Eddington ratios. Moreover, the smeared wind model require very large smearing velocities. The UV to X-ray fluxes ratios are very different, but do not correlate with any other parameter. No fully satisfactory explanation for the soft X-ray excess is found. Better data, like e.g. observations in a broader energy band, are needed to make further progresses.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
A study on the utilization of zeolite for ammonia removal from composting leachate
Creators: name: Liu, Chuan-Hsia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis studied the feasibility of using zeolite to remove ammonia in the treatment of composting leachates. Composting is considered to be one of the best treatment methods for biological solid wastes. However, the leachate resulting from the composting process has the potential to impact seriously on the environment if it is not handled properly. This is due to the presence in composting leachates of high levels of nutrient contaminants, especially nitrogen. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the potential use of applications of the Canadian zeolite, clinoptilolite, in the removal of ammonia from composting leachate. Zeolite is considered to have potential use in efficient and cost effective treatment of composting leachate because of its affinity for ammonia and its capacity as a selective ion exchanger. Adsorption capacities, the effect of adsorption on initial solution concentrations, contact time and zeolite particle sizes were the parameters analyzed during batch studies. Adsorption capacities of zeolite ranged from 14.35-17.81 mg N/g. The Langmuir isotherm was found to describe the equilibrium better than the Freundlich model for this study. Particle diffusion was identified as the rate-controlling mechanism at the beginning of contact between zeolite and the wastewater. A batch-scale system using coarse zeolite packed columns was operated to investigate the continuous removal of ammonia from composting leachate. The effects of hydraulic retention time, operating adsorption capacities and regeneration efficiency were measured. A hydraulic retention time of 6 hours was found to be optimal for ammonia removal, which yielded an operating capacity of 1.31 mg N/g zeolite. Over 98% of the ammonia in the wastewater influent was consistently removed by the zeolite columns over approximately 5 bed volumes (BV) of leachate pass through. A 0.6M NaCl regenerating solution at a flow rate of 1 BV/ hr was preferred for the regeneration process. More than 95% of adsorbed ammonium ions were recovered in the effluent. In both the batch and column experiments, the presence of very high concentrations of potassium in the composting leachate meant that potassium acted as a competitive ion. This meant a reduction in the overall performance of the zeolite both in terms of ammonia removal and in terms of column regeneration efficiency. This study concluded that using zeolite as an ion exchanger has potential for increasing the efficiency of ammonia removal from composting leachates.