cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security: An Analysis of the USDA GPRA Food Security Indicator
Creators: name: Nord, Mark
name: Nord, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food and nutrition assistance
subject: food security
subject: Government Performance and Results Act
subject: GPRA
subject: Federal poverty line

description: This bulletin describes characteristics of low-income households that had very low food security in 2005. The U.S. Department of Agriculture monitors the food security of low-income households to assess how effectively the Government’s domestic nutrition assistance programs meet the needs of their target populations. In 2005, 12.6 percent of low-income households—those with annual incomes less than 130 percent of the Federal poverty line—had very low food security. USDA seeks to reduce that prevalence rate as one of its strategic planning goals established under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). To achieve the USDA food security target, the food security of households with incomes that are less than 130 percent of the poverty line (less than $26,000 annual income for a family of two adults and two children) will need to surpass the current level of food security of households with incomes in the range of 130 to 150 percent of the poverty line ($26,000 to $30,000).
Convergence of the Deep BSDE method for FBSDEs with non-Lipschitz coefficients
Creators: name: Jiang, Yifan
name: Li, Jinfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is dedicated to solving high-dimensional coupled FBSDEs with non-Lipschitz diffusion coefficients numerically. Under mild conditions, we provided a posterior estimate of the numerical solution that holds for any time duration. This posterior estimate validates the convergence of the recently proposed Deep BSDE method. In addition, we developed a numerical scheme based on the Deep BSDE method and presented numerical examples in financial markets to demonstrate the high performance.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures
Stephenson, Alan M. G.: Anglicanism and the Lambeth Conferences
Creators: name: Gassmann, Günther
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 29 Nr. 1 (1980): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 29, Heft 1
Economic Returns to Public Agricultural Research
Creators: name: Fuglie, Keith O.
name: Heisey, Paul W.
name: Fuglie, Keith O.
name: Heisey, Paul W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agriculture
subject: productivity
subject: productivity growth
subject: technology
subject: total factor productivity
subject: TFP
subject: research investments
subject: food
subject: input
subject: output
subject: crop yield
subject: agricultural research
subject: agricultural output
subject: public spending
subject: private sector research
subject: ERS
subject: USDA

description: Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation's agricultural research system, including Federal-State public research as well as private-sector research, has been a key driver of this growth. Economic analysis finds strong and consistent evidence that investment in agricultural research has yielded high returns per dollar spent. These returns include benefits not only to the farm sector but also to the food industry and consumers in the form of more abundant commodities at lower prices.
Berkeley Field Methods: Garifuna
Creators: name: Palacio, Philip Tim
name: Cathcart, Chundra
name: Chen, I-Hsuan
name: Cibelli, Emily
name: Hanson, Kristin
name: Kang, Shinae
name: Michael, Lev
name: Prendergast, Eric
name: Sheil, Christine
name: Stark, Tammy
name: Stickles, Elise
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020

description: This collection is organized into three series: 001 consists of sound recordings of elicitation sessions conducted as a full class; 002 is sound recordings of those sessions in pairs; 003 is preliminary student reports on grammatical topics, final papers, and miscellaneous files such as proposals for a practical orthography for the course, FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) databases, and a compiled bibliography. The first two series contain brief descriptions of the content of the recordings, extracted by Berkeley undergraduate student Ellis Miller from a metadata spreadsheet maintained by the students.
Proposed experiments to probe the non-abelian ν=5/2 quantum Hall state
Creators: name: Stern, Ady
name: Halperin, Bertrand I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose several experiments to test the non-abelian nature of quasi-particles in the fractional quantum Hall state of ν=5/2. One set of experiments studies interference contribution to back-scattering of current, and is a simplified version of an experiment suggested recently. Another set looks at thermodynamic properties of a closed system. Both experiments are only weakly sensitive to disorder-induced distribution of localized quasi-particles.
description: Additional references and an improved figure, 5 pages
Kremer, Ulrich Michael: Die Reformation als Problem der amerikanischen Historiographie
Creators: name: Pfisterer, K. Dieterich
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 29 Nr. 1 (1980): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 29, Heft 1
Characterization and dissolution of secondary weathering products from the gibralter mine site
Creators: name: Shum, Michael Gin Wah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Metal leaching and acid rock drainage is one of the most important environmental problems facing the mining industry today. Weathering of mined waste rock leads to the dissolution of minerals, releasing a variety of metals, some of which are retained and temporarily stored. Secondary weathering products formed in mine waste weathering environments can serve as a sink for a variety of metals. Literature suggests that up to 90% of metals released from weathering are retained in waste rock dumps. Mobilization of these stored metals can occur in response to environmental changes and waste rehandling, potentially resulting in detrimental effects for the receiving environment. This research examines the composition, and investigates the stability, of stored weathering products in waste rock at the Gibraltar mine, and assesses their role in controlling the future contribution to metal loading using a pedogenetic approach to waste rock and secondary weathering products. The results indicate that the dominant metals retained in the waste rock were oxidized Fe phases, with lesser amounts of Cu and Al. These phases were in the form of sulphates and oxyhydroxysulphates. Zones of accumulation were identifiable from morphological features (colour). Colour, imparted by Fe allowed for the identification of two distinct zones. Zones of Fe accumulation were associated with higher levels of Al, Mo, S, and Si, and zones of poor Fe accumulation were associated with higher levels of Cu and K. The chemically different zones within the rock dump were not correlated to distinct mineralogical or physical differences. Secondary phases seemed to become more stable with aging and advanced weathering, suggesting mineral rearrangement was occurring. This was confirmed by changes in the quantities of soluble and metastable weathering products in different areas of the rock dump. Dissolution of soluble secondary weathering products was shown to be a rapid process, with zones of Fe accumulation releasing greater quantities of metals than zones of low Fe accumulation. After the initial dissolution of soluble weathering products, metastable phases begin to contribute to the level of metals in solution. Dissolution of minerals and the release of metals was more effective with organic chelating acids than with HNO3,which was more effective than unbuffered water, suggesting long term waste management practices must consider changes in metal release as waste rock becomes more soil-like with time through the integration of the biotic component and the incorporation of greater quantities of soil organic matter.
The Changing Economics of U.S. Hog Production
Creators: name: Key, Nigel D.
name: McBride, William D.
name: Key, Nigel D.
name: McBride, William D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Hogs
subject: farm productivity
subject: production contracts
subject: pork prices
subject: scale of production
subject: farm structure
subject: total factor productivity

description: The increasing size and specialization of hog operations reflect structural change in U.S. swine production during the past 15 years. The number of farms with hogs has declined by over 70 percent, as hog enterprises have grown larger. Large operations that specialize in a single phase of production have replaced farrow-to-finish operations that performed all phases of production. The use of production contracts has increased. Operations producing under contract are larger than independent operations and are more likely to specialize in a single phase of production. These structural changes have coincided with substantial gains in efficiency for hog farms and lower production costs. Most of these productivity gains are attributable to increases in the scale of production and technological innovation. Productivity gains likely contributed to a 30-percent reduction in the price of hogs at the farm gate.
High Resolution Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of FUors and FUor-like stars
Creators: name: Greene, Tom
name: Aspin, Colin
name: Reipurth, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new high resolution (R=18,000) near-infrared spectroscopic observations of a sample of classical FU Orionis stars (FUors) and other young stars with FUor characteristics that are sources of Herbig-Haro flows. Spectra are presented for the region 2.203 - 2.236 microns which is rich in absorption lines sensitive to both effective temperatures and surface gravities of stars. Both FUors and FUor-like stars show numerous broad and weak unidentified spectral features in this region. Spectra of the 2.280 - 2.300 micron region are also presented, with the 2.2935 micron v=2-0 CO absorption bandhead being clearly the strongest feature seen in the spectra all FUors and Fuor-like stars. A cross-correlation analysis shows that FUor and FUor-like spectra in the 2.203 - 2.236 micron region are not consistent with late-type dwarfs, giants, nor embedded protostars. The cross-correlations also show that the observed FUor-like Herbig-Haro energy sources have spectra that are substantively similar to those of FUors. Both object groups also have similar near-infrared colors. The large line widths and double-peaked nature of the spectra of the FUor-like stars are consistent with the established accretion disk model for FUors, also consistent with their near-infrared colors. It appears that young stars with FUor-like characteristics may be more common than projected from the relatively few known classical FUors.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures, accepted by The Astronomical Journal
Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation
Creators: name: Engel, Eduardo M.R.A.
name: Fischer, Ronald
name: Engel, Eduardo M.R.A.
name: Fischer, Ronald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Taxation
subject: mining
subject: rent extraction
subject: royalty
subject: non-renewable natural resource
subject: present-value-of-revenue auction

description: The government contracts with a foreign firm to extract a natural resource that requires an upfront investment and which faces price uncertainty. In states where profits are high, there is a likelihood of expropriation, which generates a social cost that increases with the expropriated value. In this environment, the planner's optimal contract avoids states with high probability of expropriation. The contract can be implemented via a competitive auction with reasonable informational requirements. The bidding variable is a cap on the present value of discounted revenues, and the firm with the lowest bid wins the contract. The basic framework is extended to incorporate government subsidies, unenforceable investment effort and political moral hazard, and the general thrust of the results described above is preserved.
Could Behavioral Economics Help Improve Diet Quality for Nutrition Assistance Program Participants?
Creators: name: Just, David R.
name: Mancino, Lisa
name: Wansink, Brian
name: Just, David R.
name: Mancino, Lisa
name: Wansink, Brian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: behavioral economics
subject: food consumption
subject: obesity
subject: food stamps
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: nutrition assistance
subject: WIC

description: Findings from behavioral and psychological studies indicate that people regularly and predictably behave in ways that contradict some standard assumptions of economic analysis. Recognizing that consumption choices are determined by factors other than prices, income, and information illuminates a broad array of strategies to influence consumers’ food choices. These strategies expand the list of possible ideas for improving the diet quality and health of participants in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Stamp Program; the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); and the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.
title: Реформа местного самоуправления в России. Характеристика профессионально-политических ориентиров глав муниципальных образований (на примере ХМАО-Югры)
title: Reform of local government in Russia. Characteristic of professional and political orientations of the heads of municipal educations (on the example of KHMAO-Ugra)
Creators: name: Мокан, К. И.
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2020

description: В настоящий момент времени на территории субъектов Российской Федерации, мы можем стать свидетелями итогов начавшейся несколько лет назад реформы местного самоуправления. Отличительной чертой новой реформы местного самоуправления в России, стал процесс, связанный с кардинальными изменениями в плане форм выборов глав муниципальных образований. Ее итогом стал повальный отказ муниципальных образований от прямых выборов глав муниципалитетов в пользу неэлекторальных процедур формирования исполнительных органов власти муниципалитетов, что в свою очередь оказало влияние на множество субъектов политической арены регионов и их муниципалитетов. Настоящая статья направлена на анализ профессионально-политических качеств глав муниципальных образований 2-го уровня, расположенных в пределах Ханты-Мансийского автономного округа, на тот факт, как сильно они различаются между избранными и назначенными, с использованием неэлекторальных процедур глав муниципальных образований.
description: At the moment, on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, we can witness the results of the reform of local self-government that began several years ago. A distinctive feature of the new reform of local self-government in Russia is the process associated with cardinal changes in terms of the forms of elections for heads of municipalities. It resulted in the general refusal of municipalities from direct elections of heads of municipalities in favor of non-electoral procedures for the formation of executive bodies of power of municipalities, which in turn influenced many subjects of the political arena of the regions and their municipalities. This article is aimed at analyzing the professional and political qualities of the heads of municipalities of the 2nd level located within the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, on the fact how much they differ between elected and appointed, using non-electoral procedures of the heads of municipalities.
FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SECURITY IN THE SLUMS OF HYDERABAD
Creators: name: Community Studies Team
name: Chennamaneni, Ramesh
name: Community Studies Team
name: Chennamaneni, Ramesh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: The case-studies presented in this report are a preliminary survey of the food and nutrition security situation in low-income communities in the emerging Megacity of Hyderabad. Understanding current conditions of food and nutrition security and their determinants, and how these are changing in the face of evolving employment opportunities and population composition is essential for a sustainable and inclusive growth of the city. This research attempted to provide contextual information on some of these issues by conducting qualitative and quantitative research in three urban slums of Hyderabad—Rahmath Nagar, Papi Reddy, and Addagutta. The report explores the conditions and environment in each slum by providing information on livelihoods, infrastructure, services, food security, and nutrition. Constraints to reducing hunger and malnutrition were found across all three communities including seasonality of employment, limed availability of foods resulting in a limited dietary diversity, and child feeding and caring practices that are not optimal. In other cases, the challenges found were specific to the contextual circumstances of each community particularly dietary practices influenced by religion and culture, and social networks determined by permanence of community residents. The report concludes by calling for further in-depth research and action to better understand the challenges and opportunities to food security and nutrition present in the low-income communities of Hyderabad.
Quasi-2D parahydrogen: On the verge of turning superfluid?
Creators: name: Boninsegni, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First principle computer simulations of a thin parahydrogen film adsorbed on a silica substrate at low temperature (below 6 K) yield no evidence that the top layer is liquid and/or in the proximity of a superfluid transition, as claimed in recent experimental work [T. Makiuchi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 245301 (2019)]. Computed values of first and second layer completion densities are in quantitative agreement with experiment, but as observed also on other substrates, the top layer is an insulating crystal, quantum-mechanical exchanges of molecules are non-existent, and the overall physical behavior of the system can be understood largely along classical lines.
description: Replaced with published version
title: Bridge Paint Specifications,
title: Proposed Revisions
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Havens, James H.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: During the past several years, I have devoted considerable attention and study to bridge-paint systems and specification -- in an attempt to keep abreast with developments and current practices throughout the country. My first proposal (July 30, 1958; copy appended) was motivated by development of a then-new rust-inhibitive pigment suggested by National Lead Company. The pigment had shown considerable promise as a substitute for red lead and appeared in many respects to be superior to red lead -- on of which was economy.
MIRAGE, Updated Version of the Model for Trade Policy Analysis: Focus on Agriculture and Dynamics
Creators: name: Decreux, Yvan
name: Valin, Hugo
name: Decreux, Yvan
name: Valin, Hugo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: computable general equilibrium model
subject: trade policy
subject: dynamics
subject: foreign direct investment
subject: imperfect competition

description: MIRAGE is a multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model, devoted to trade policy analysis. It incorporates imperfect competition, horizontal and vertical product differentiation, and foreign direct investment, in a sequential dynamic set-up where installed capital is assumed to be immobile. Adjustment inertia is linked to capital stock reallocation. MIRAGE draws upon a very detailed measure of trade barriers and of their evolution under given hypotheses, thanks to the MAcMap database. The most recent version, presented in this paper, offers improvements in the modelling of agriculture policy and dynamics.
Classical Cancellation of the Cosmological Constant Re-Considered
Creators: name: Barr, Stephen M.
name: Ng, Siew-Phang
name: Scherrer, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit a scenario in which the cosmological constant is cancelled by the potential energy of a slowly evolving scalar field, or "cosmon". The cosmon's evolution is tied to the cosmological constant by a feedback mechanism. This feedback is achieved by an unconventional coupling of the cosmon field to the Ricci curvature scalar. The solutions show that the effective cosmological constant evolves approximately as $t^{-2}$ and remains always of the same order as the density of ordinary matter and radiation. Newton's constant varies on cosmological time scales, with $\dot{G}_N/G_N \ll 1/t$. $G_N$ could have been somewhat different, and possibly smaller, at the time of Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure; references added, corrected 2nd last paragraph of Sec 2
Data from: Functional Frogs: Using swimming performance as a model to understand natural selection and adaptations
Creators: name: Flud, Gabrielle
name: Simon, Monique
name: Angle, Julie
name: Moen, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Frogs
Secondary education
Biological locomotion

description: The 'Functional Frogs' 5E lesson plan is an outcome of a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF project integrates research on swimming locomotion in frogs with broader goals of improving science education. The aim of this RET program was to increase scientific literacy in secondary school teachers in Oklahoma so that they can transfer knowledge from academic research experience to the classroom and thus improve their students' understanding of science. In this lesson, we focus primarily on comparing the peak velocity of five species of frogs, guiding students to collect data from videos of frogs swimming. The students then make evidence-based interpretations about the morphological traits that may underlie differences in swimming velocity across species. The five species differ both in morphology and ecology, with some inhabiting the aquatic environment more than others. Therefore, the lesson helps guide students through important steps of the scientific method to achieve a greater understanding of how adaptations arise in nature through examining variation in ecology, morphology, and locomotor performance.
description: The videos can be opened using Quick Time or software that analyzes videos such as ImageJ, Adobe Media Enconder, and Vernier Video Analysis.
Funding provided by: National Science FoundationCrossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/021nxhr62Award Number: IOS-1942893
description: You will find the four phases of the lesson as Word documents (Engage, Explore, Explain, and Elaborate).

The videos were collected using a high-speed camera and all are in 125 frames per second.

All videos are in MP4 format.

The titles of the videos refer to the date and time the video was recorded, abbreviation of the name of species and ID number.

The species are Anaxyrus americanus (American toad), Scaphiopus hurterii (Huter's spadefoot), Gastrophyrne carolinensis (eastern narrow-mouthed toad), Hyla chrysoscelis (Cope's gray treefrog), and Rana sphenocephala (Southern leopard frog).
Combinatorial Identities and Quantum State Densities of Supersymmetric Sigma Models on N-Folds
Creators: name: Abdalla, M. C. B.
name: Bytsenko, A. A.
name: Guimaraes, M. E. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a remarkable connection between the number of quantum states of conformal theories and the sequence of dimensions of Lie algebras. In this paper, we explore this connection by computing the asymptotic expansion of the elliptic genus and the microscopic entropy of black holes associated with (supersymmetric) sigma models. The new features of these results are the appearance of correct prefactors in the state density expansion and in the coefficient of the logarithmic correction to the entropy.
description: 8 pages, no figures. To appear in the European Physical Journal C
Frequency-independent voltage amplitude across a tunnel junction
Creators: name: Feigl, Simon
name: Vranik, Radovan
name: Wit, Bareld
name: Müllegger, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio-frequency (rf) scanning tunneling microscopy has recently been advanced to methods such as single-atom spin resonance. Such methods benefit from a frequency-independent rf voltage amplitude across the tunnel junction, which is challenging to achieve due to the strong frequency dependence of the rf attenuation in a transmission line. Two calibration methods for the rf amplitude have been reported to date. In this Note, we present an alternative method to achieve a frequency-independent rf voltage amplitude across the tunnel junction and show the results of this calibration. The presented procedure is applicable to devices that can deliver rf voltage to a tunnel junction.
description: This replacement article is the final version published in Review of Scientific Instruments. It has been shortened to three pages by omitting the appendices. The appendices can be found in the previous version
title: Политика памяти как инструмент символической политики по формированию региональной идентичности в субарктическом регионе (на примере Ханты-Мансийского автономного округа - Югры)
title: Memory politics as a symbolic politics tool for the formation of regional identity in the subarctic region (on the example of the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous okrug-Ugra)
Creators: name: Заикин, Д. С.
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2020

description: Статья посвящена усилиям властей субарктического региона – Ханты-Мансийского автономного округа-Югры по формированию целостного «югорского сообщества» (югорской идентичности) через одну из областей символической политики –политику памяти.
description: The article is devoted to the efforts of the authorities of the subarctic region –Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra to form an integral "Ugra community" (Ugra identity) through one of the areas of symbolic politics –the politics of memory.
Semidiscrete vortex solitons
Creators: name: Xu, Xiaoxi
name: Ou, Guanghao
name: Chen, Zhaopin
name: Liu, Bin
name: Chen, Weicheng
name: Malomed, Boris A.
name: Li, Yongyao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a possibility of the creation of stable optical solitons combining one continuous and one discrete coordinate, with embedded vorticity, in an array of planar waveguides with intrinsic cubic-quintic nonlinearity. The same system may be realized in terms of the spatiotemporal light propagation in an array of tunnel-coupled optical fibers with the cubic-quintic nonlinearity. In contrast with zero-vorticity states, semidiscrete vortex solitons do not exist without the quintic term in the nonlinearity. Two types of the solitons, \emph{viz.}, intersite- and onsite-centered ones (IC and OC, respectively), with even and odd numbers $N$ of actually excited sites in the discrete direction, are identified. We consider the modes carrying the embedded vorticity $S=1$ and $2$. In accordance with their symmetry, the vortex solitons of the OC type exhibit an intrinsic core, while the IC solitons with a small $N$ may have a coreless structure. Facilitating their creation in the experiment, the modes reported in the present work may be much more compact states than their counterparts considered in other systems, and they feature strong anisotropy. They can be set in motion in the discrete direction, provided that the coupling constant exceeds a certain minimum value. Collisions between moving vortex solitons are considered too.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, 74 References,Published on Advanced Photonics Research
Durability of Culvert Pipe
Creators: name: Havens, James H.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Almost twenty years ago the Department began to develop durability data on types of culvert materials. In the interim, various stopgap as well as very judicious policies have issued. The present criterion or design practice applicable to Federal Aid projects was affirmed by the Bureau of Public Roads, May 24, 1965. Extensive field surveys have been conducted; various design innovations have been employed; and a "hot" test site has, in a demonstrative way, provided critical life-expectancy records. All past history had been documented previously; however, a brief retrospective summary will provide some continuity between forethought and certain issues now maturing.
Novel Mott Transitions in Non-Isotropic Two-Band Hubbard Model
Creators: name: Liebsch, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Mott transition in a two-band Hubbard model involving subbands of different widths is studied as a function of temperature using dynamical mean field theory combined with exact diagonalization. The phase diagram is shown to exhibit two successive first-order transitions if the full Hund's rule coupling is included. In the absence of spin-flip and pair-exchange terms the lower transition remains first-order while the upper becomes continuous.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures improved results for n_s=8
Measuring the impacts of distortions in the European Union cotton sector: a partial equilibrium analysis using the ATPSM model framework
Creators: name: Gadanakis, Yiorgos
name: Baourakis, George
name: Clapan, Carmen
name: Gadanakis, Yiorgos
name: Baourakis, George
name: Clapan, Carmen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Cotton
subject: European Union
subject: West African Countries
subject: Partial Equilibrium
subject: Trade Policy

description: The “cotton issue” has been a topic of several academic discussions for trade policy analysts. However the design of trade and agricultural policy in the EU and the USA has become a politically sensitive matter throughout the last five years. This study utilizing the Agricultural Trade Policy Simulation Model (ATPSM) aims to gain insights into the global cotton market, to explain why domestic support for cotton has become an issue, to quantify the impact of the new EU agricultural policy on the cotton sector, and to measure the effect of eliminating support policies on production and trade. Results indicate that full trade liberalization would lead the four West African countries to better terms of trade with the EU. If tariff reduction follows the so-called Swiss formula, world prices would increase by 3.5%.
Economics and Political Economy of Regional Trade Agreements
Creators: name: Pokrivcak, Jan
name: Pokrivcak, Jan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This paper provides a literature review of selected aspects of economics and political economy of regional trade agreements. From a static perspective regional trade agreements have ambiguous effects on the welfare. Assumption of welfare maximization cannot explain the proliferation of regional trade agreements as it cannot explain extensive use of trade barriers. New political economy approach endogenizes trade policy as well as decisions to form a regional trade agreement. According to major models of political economy, regional trade agreements are likely to be formed when they secure higher protection and trade diversion. Furthermore the literature mostly concludes that integration affects external tariffs.
Word list for oral/nasal airflow measurements
Creators: name: Gonari, Anna
name: Lionnet, Florian
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: pri

description: 163 4-channel WAV files (with interlaced audio, nasal, and oral airflow), 14 WAV files (parallel recording of the word list without the oronasal mask), 1 CSV with the elicited word list. The 164 WAV files corresponding to the nasal/oral airflow recordings contain four channels (each with a 12 kHz sample rate, i.e. 48 kHz total): a WAV channel corresponding to the microphone recording, an LX channel (laryngograph, void in these recordings), a P1 channel (nasal airflow) and a P2 channel (oral airflow). These channels must be extracted before the files can be used. The consultant is a native Paicî and French speaker originally from Göièta/Goyeta, Ponérihouen municipality.
Multicritical random partitions
Creators: name: Betea, Dan
name: Bouttier, Jérémie
name: Walsh, Harriet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study two families of probability measures on integer partitions, which are Schur measures with parameters tuned in such a way that the edge fluctuations are characterized by a critical exponent different from the generic $1/3$. We find that the first part asymptotically follows a "higher-order analogue" of the Tracy-Widom GUE distribution, previously encountered by Le Doussal, Majumdar and Schehr in quantum statistical physics. We also compute limit shapes, and discuss an exact mapping between one of our families and the multicritical unitary matrix models introduced by Periwal and Shevitz.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures (v2: minor modifications and clarifications). Extended abstract for FPSAC 2021
A Critical Survey of Databases on Tariffs and Trade Available for the Analysis of EU Agricultural Agreements
Creators: name: Drogue, Sophie
name: Bartova, Lubica
name: Drogue, Sophie
name: Bartova, Lubica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Applied trade analysis and modeling would not be possible without databases. Over the last few years, a considerable effort has been devoted to put together and harmonize a huge amount of data. This has lead to the construction of large-scale datasets on trade (imports and exports in volume and value terms). In parallel, increasing attention has been devoted to measuring tariffs and other trade barriers. These efforts are still under way. It is only recently that large-scale models, for example, have taken into account the lower tariffs applied under preferential agreements (the former generation of models only considered the "bound" tariffs that act as a ceiling in many countries). The changes resulting from the introduction of better data on tariffs have been very significant, and many institutions have revised considerably their estimates of, say, gains resulting from trade liberalization (Ackerman 2005). However, empirical difficulties faced by modelers suggest that there is still a need for improvement, especially in the area of applied tariffs and tariff rate quotas. The aim of this study is to review the main data sources dealing with world tariffs and trade. After discussing some issues and methodology, we provide a brief description of the main datasets available in terms of the origin of the data, its accessibility, reliability and shortcomings.
Exploratory Analysis of File System Metadata for Rapid Investigation of Security Incidents
Creators: name: Beran, Michal
name: Hrdina, Frantisek
name: Kouril, Daniel
name: Oslejsek, Radek
name: Zakopcanova, Kristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Investigating cybersecurity incidents requires in-depth knowledge from the analyst. Moreover, the whole process is demanding due to the vast data volumes that need to be analyzed. While various techniques exist nowadays to help with particular tasks of the analysis, the process as a whole still requires a lot of manual activities and expert skills. We propose an approach that allows the analysis of disk snapshots more efficiently and with lower demands on expert knowledge. Following a user-centered design methodology, we implemented an analytical tool to guide analysts during security incident investigations. The viability of the solution was validated by an evaluation conducted with members of different security teams.
Further evidence for a merger in Abell 2218 from an XMM-Newton observation
Creators: name: Pratt, G. W.
name: Boehringer, H.
name: Finoguenov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) The galaxy cluster Abell 2218, at z=0.171, is well-known for the discrepancy between mass estimates derived from X-ray and strong lensing analyses. With the present XMM observation, we trace the gas density and temperature profiles out to a radius of ~ 1400 h_70^-1 kpc (approximately the virial radius of the cluster). The surface brightness profile is well fitted over three orders of magnitude with a beta model, with a core radius of 0.'95 and β=0.63. The projected temperature profile declines steeply with radius (by ~50%), and is well described by a polytrope with parameters t_0=8.09 keV and γ=1.15. The temperature map shows a pronounced peak in the central arcminute, with an increase of a factor of two (from ~5 to ~10 keV). The mass profile, calculated assuming hydrostatic equilibrium and spherical symmetry, is best fitted with a King approximation to an isothermal sphere, implying a dark matter distribution with a central core, in contrast with the cusped cores found in more obviously relaxed clusters. The X-ray mass is two times less than the strong lensing mass at r ~ 80 h_50^-1 kpc, although the agreement between X-ray and weak lensing mass measurements at larger radius (r ~ 400 h_50^-1 kpc) is slightly better. While the X-ray total mass estimates can vary by 30% depending on the mass model, all measurements are lower than the corresponding total mass from optical measurements. Given the X-ray results indicating disturbance of the intracluster gas, leading to a likely violation of the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium, and the observed substructure in the optical, suggesting a line-of-sight merger, it is unlikely that the different mass estimates of this cluster can be reconciled, at least with standard modelling assumptions.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures; to appear in A&A
ECONOMIC RESEARCH OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE, 1960-1962
Creators: name: Eakin, Mary Lida
name: Eakin, Mary Lida
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: This bibliography of Giannini Foundation members' publications, Economic Research of Interest to Agriculture was first issued on May 6, 1951, the eighty-first birthday of A.P. Giannini, and included the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics members' works from 1929 through 1950. The first three issues were compiled and edited by the Giannini Foundation's first librarian, Orpha E. Cummings, 1930-1958. The issues that followed were edited by librarians, Mary Lida Eakin, 1958-1967; Virginia A. Fox, 1967-1980; and Grace Dote, 1970-2001.
Risk and Return Analysis of Top 5 Mid-Cap Pharmaceutical Companies in India of NSE
Creators: name: Mr. Harshavardhan, C
name: Mrs. Vidya, R
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Indian pharmaceutical sector plays a crucial role in the nation's economy, contributing significantly to healthcare advancement and drug manufacturing. Mid-cap pharmaceutical companies, in particular, present a promising investment opportunity due to their potential for growth. However, these firms also carry higher risks, including regulatory challenges, market competition, and financial volatility. This study focuses on evaluating the risk-return profiles of the top five mid-cap pharmaceutical companies in India listed on the NSE: Aurobindo Pharma, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Alkem Laboratories, Lupin Ltd., and Divi’s Laboratories. The research aims to address the increasing need to understand whether the returns offered by these companies are sufficient to justify the associated risks for investors and portfolio managers. The primary objectives include analyzing historical returns, calculating financial metrics like beta and standard deviation, and providing investment recommendations based on the findings. A quantitative and descriptive research approach was employed, utilizing data from financial platforms and statistical tools to assess the companies' performance over a specified period. The results indicate that while all five companies outperformed the NSE, they exhibited higher volatility. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals led in absolute returns but showed significant volatility, while Divi’s Laboratories demonstrated stability with lower risk, appealing to risk-averse investors. The outcomes provide critical insights into the trade-offs between risk and return, aiding investors in making informed decisions about mid-cap pharmaceutical investments.
Parametric control of a superconducting flux qubit
Creators: name: Saito, S.
name: Meno, T.
name: Ueda, M.
name: Tanaka, H.
name: Semba, K.
name: Takayanagi, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parametric control of a superconducting flux qubit has been achieved by using two-frequency microwave pulses. We have observed Rabi oscillations stemming from parametric transitions between the qubit states when the sum of the two microwave frequencies or the difference between them matches the qubit Larmor frequency. We have also observed multi-photon Rabi oscillations corresponding to one- to four-photon resonances by applying single-frequency microwave pulses. The parametric control demonstrated in this work widens the frequency range of microwaves for controlling the qubit and offers a high quality testing ground for exploring nonlinear quantum phenomena.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Small footprint Text-Independent Speaker Verification for Embedded Systems
Creators: name: Balian, Julien
name: Tavarone, Raffaele
name: Poumeyrol, Mathieu
name: Coucke, Alice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Deep neural network approaches to speaker verification have proven successful, but typical computational requirements of State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) systems make them unsuited for embedded applications. In this work, we present a two-stage model architecture orders of magnitude smaller than common solutions (237.5K learning parameters, 11.5MFLOPS) reaching a competitive result of 3.31% Equal Error Rate (EER) on the well established VoxCeleb1 verification test set. We demonstrate the possibility of running our solution on small devices typical of IoT systems such as the Raspberry Pi 3B with a latency smaller than 200ms on a 5s long utterance. Additionally, we evaluate our model on the acoustically challenging VOiCES corpus. We report a limited increase in EER of 2.6 percentage points with respect to the best scoring model of the 2019 VOiCES from a Distance Challenge, against a reduction of 25.6 times in the number of learning parameters.
Is the Past Determined?
Creators: name: Zwirn, Hervé
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper, I argued against backward in time effects used by several authors to explain delayed choice experiments. I gave an explanation showing that there is no physical influence propagating from the present to the past and modifying the state of the system at a time previous to the measurement. However, though the solution is straightforward in the case of delayed choice experiments involving only one particle, it is subtler in the case of experiments involving two entangled particles because they give rise to EPR-like situations. Considering that a measurement is not an actual change of the physical state of a system and is relative to the observer allows to understand that there is neither backward in time effects nor instantaneous collapse of the second system when the first one is measured, as is often postulated.This allows also to get rid of any non-locality. In this paper, I want to go further into the consequences of this way of considering the measurement, that I have called Convivial Solipsism, and show that even if, in the usual sense, there is no physical effect of the present or of the future on the past, we must nevertheless consider that the observer's past is sometimes not entirely determined and that it becomes determined only when certain measurements are done latter. This apparent contradiction disappears if one understand that each observer builds, through her own measurements, her own world (that I call the phenomenal world in Convivial Solipsism) which is different from what we are used to consider as the common world shared by everybody.