cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Synthesis of large container molecules
Creators: name: Mungaroo, Rajesh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis presents the synthesis and guest binding abilities of a multitude of hosts derived from cavitand 37. In chapter 2, the mechanism of formation of hemicarceplex 60 guest using transition state models is discussed. This chapter includes reactions and complexation experiments with 61 (R¹ = R² = H) and its derivatives in Nformylpiperidine (NFP) and nitrobenzene. The formation of tris-carceplex 75«(methyl acetate^ and tris-capsule 76«(methyl acetate)3 from hexamer 74 is discussed in chapter 3. In chapter 4, we present the formation and guest binding abilities of hosts 78 and 81. The guest decomplexation rate of 78«(l,3,5-triethynylbenzene)2 is also discussed. In chapter 5, we discuss the entrapment and the reaction of PI1COCHN2 to produce PhCHC=C=0 within the cavity of 45. In situ generation of l,3,5-tris(iodomethyl)benzene, and its entrapment within the cavity 152 are described. The stability of bound l,3,5-tris(iodomethyl)benzene is also discussed.
Eremaeus walteri Behan-Pelletier 1993
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Eremaeidae
Eremaeus
Eremaeus walteri

description: Eremaeus walteri Behan-Pelletier, 1993
 Geographic Location: AB: ABMI Sites (Walter et al. 2014).
 Habitats: aspen and pine litter, grassy areas in spruce forest, dry alpine tundra.
 Distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Additional file 1 of Swedish translation and validation of the Pediatric Insomnia Severity Index
Creators: name: Angelhoff, Charlotte
name: Johansson, Peter
name: Svensson, Erland
name: Sundell, Anna Lena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Minimal gauge invariant couplings at order $α'^3$: NS-NS fields
Creators: name: Garousi, Mohammad R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Removing the field redefinitions, the Bianchi identities and the total derivative freedoms from the general form of gauge invariant NS-NS couplings at order $α'^3$, we have found that the minimum number of independent couplings is 872. We find that there are schemes in which there is no term with structures $R,\,R_{μν},\,\nabla_μH^{μαβ}$, $ \nabla_μ\nabla^μΦ$. In these schemes, there are sub-schemes in which, except one term, the couplings can have no term with more than two derivatives. In the sub-scheme that we have chosen, the 872 couplings appear in 55 different structures. We fix some of the parameters in type II supersting theory by its corresponding four-point functions. The coupling which has term with more than two derivatives is constraint to be zero by the four-point functions.
description: 28 pages, Latex file, no figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.10800
Close-coupling calculations of low-energy inelastic and elastic processes in $^4$He collisions with H$_2$: A comparative study of two potential energy surfaces
Creators: name: Lee, T. G.
name: Rochow, C.
name: Martin, R.
name: Clark, T. K.
name: Forrey, R. C.
name: Balakrishnan, N.
name: Stancil, P. C.
name: Schultz, D. R.
name: Dalgarno, A.
name: Ferland, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two most recently published potential energy surfaces (PESs) for the HeH$_2$ complex, the so-called MR (Muchnick and Russek) and BMP (Boothroyd, Martin, and Peterson) surfaces, are quantitatively evaluated and compared through the investigation of atom-diatom collision processes. The BMP surface is expected to be an improvement, approaching chemical accuracy, over all conformations of the PES compared to that of the MR surface. We found significant differences in inelastic rovibrational cross sections computed on the two surfaces for processes dominated by large changes in target rotational angular momentum. In particular, the H$_2$($ν=1, j=0$) total quenching cross section computed using the BMP potential was found to be a factor of $~$1000 larger than that obtained with the MR surface.
description: 26 pages, 11 figures
Externalities of groundwater contamination due to pollution and effects on human and animal health in Karnataka
Creators: name: Varuni, C.N.
name: Chandrakanth, Mysore G.
name: Nagaraj, N.
name: Srikanthmurthy, P.S.
name: Varuni, C.N.
name: Chandrakanth, Mysore G.
name: Nagaraj, N.
name: Srikanthmurthy, P.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Sand mining
subject: externality
subject: groundwater depletion

description: In this study, negative externality due to distillery pollution on agriculture in Kabini command in Nanjanagudu taluk, Mysore District is estimated. The spent wash let in lagoons enables settling heavy metals to infiltrate soils, gradually affecting soil and health. The distillery opened during 1985 and farmers apparently began experiencing the negative externalities due to pollution from 1995. The groundwater extracted for irrigation was the first victim of distillery pollution rendering it unfit even for irrigation purposes. Paddy, sugarcane, Banana, Jowar, Mulberry, Coconut, Ragi are the major crops being grown in this command area. For this study, all the 35 distillery pollution affected farmers in the Distillery Dffluent Polluted Villages (DEPA, comprising Geekalli, Goluru) are selected. As a control, 35 farmers who were located in Devarasanahalli in the Kabini command area, but who are away from the distillery pollution area are studied. The major effect of groundwater pollution is the downward shift in sugarcane area due to pollution to the tune of 60 percent in DEPA. Area under paddy did not alter after pollution. Thus, farmers considered paddy to be the only crop which can tolerate / withstand, pollution levels. Crop diversity in terms of area under crops like tomato, ragi, jower, cucumber and banana increased in DEPA as the farmers shifted from sugarcane. In the control village, major crops grown are paddy and sugarcane due to assured supply of good quality of water through out year, and these occupied 20 and 50 per cent of the area respectively.
SIMAROUBA GLAUCA DC (Paradise Tree) (brochure)
Creators: name: Shyamsundar, Joshi
name: Joshi, Shantha
name: Shyamsundar, Joshi
name: Joshi, Shantha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Simarouba
subject: paradise tree
subject: eco friendly

description: Simarouba (Lakshmi Taru) ecofriendly tree with well-developed root system and with evergreen dense canopy efficiently checks soil erosion, recharges groundwater, supports soil microbial life, and improves soil fertility. The addition of biomass to wasteland @ 10-15 tonnes/ha/year helps in the improvement of soil health and fertility in a natural course. Lakshmi taru has a wide range of adaptability. It grows reasonably well in areas with more than 300 mm erratic rainfall and withstands summer temperatures up to 48-500C. It can grow well in soils with 5.5-8.5 pH without any amendment. Its cultivation effectively combats desertification of wasteland. By improving the bioproductivity and economic productivity, it facilitates wasteland reclamation. It can be introduced in marginal and wastelands in semi arid and arid tropics all over the world including central African and gulf countries. The cultivation of Lakshmi taru does not require excessive application of chemical fertilizers. It is a tree with no major pests and diseases and thus requires no pesticide application. Thus its cultivation does not add harmful agrochemicals to the environment. It evergreens the gray soil surface, harnesses abundantly available solar energy (which is otherwise going waste now) and converts it into biochemical energy all round the year. Simarouba checks overheating of the soil surface all through the year and particularly during summer. Large scale planting of simarouba in the marginal/wastelands utilizes harmful green house gases, checks their accumulation in the environment and helps enormously in reducing global warming. For a long-term strategy, cultivation of versatile tree simarouba, Lakshmi taru is advocated in the abundantly available marginal/wastelands in arid and semi-arid tropics and its implementation shall be economically viable and ecologically sustainable.
Two-Dimensional Simulations of Internal Gravity Waves in The Radiation Zones of Intermediate-Mass Stars
Creators: name: Ratnasingam, R. P.
name: Edelmann, P. V. F.
name: Rogers, T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intermediate-mass main sequence stars have large radiative envelopes overlying convective cores. This configuration allows internal gravity waves (IGWs) generated at the convective-radiative interface to propagate towards the stellar surface. The signatures of these waves can be observed in the photometric and spectroscopic data from stars. We have studied the propagation of these IGWs using two-dimensional fully-non-linear hydrodynamical simulations with realistic stellar reference states from the one-dimensional stellar evolution code, Modules for Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). When a single wave is forced, we observe wave self-interaction. When two waves are forced, we observe non-linear interaction (i.e. triadic interaction) between these waves forming waves at different wavelengths and frequencies. When a spectrum of waves similar to that found in numerical simulations is forced, we find that the surface IGW frequency slope is consistent with recent observations. This power law is similar to that predicted by linear theory for the wave propagation, with small deviations which can be an effect of nonlinearities. When the same generation spectrum is applied to 3 solar mass models at different stellar rotation and ages, the surface IGW spectrum slope is very similar to the generation spectrum slope.
description: 16 pages, 18 figures
Binary Neural Networks: A Survey
Creators: name: Qin, Haotong
name: Gong, Ruihao
name: Liu, Xianglong
name: Bai, Xiao
name: Song, Jingkuan
name: Sebe, Nicu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The binary neural network, largely saving the storage and computation, serves as a promising technique for deploying deep models on resource-limited devices. However, the binarization inevitably causes severe information loss, and even worse, its discontinuity brings difficulty to the optimization of the deep network. To address these issues, a variety of algorithms have been proposed, and achieved satisfying progress in recent years. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of these algorithms, mainly categorized into the native solutions directly conducting binarization, and the optimized ones using techniques like minimizing the quantization error, improving the network loss function, and reducing the gradient error. We also investigate other practical aspects of binary neural networks such as the hardware-friendly design and the training tricks. Then, we give the evaluation and discussions on different tasks, including image classification, object detection and semantic segmentation. Finally, the challenges that may be faced in future research are prospected.
An Exploration of Factors Influencing Ethical and Unethical Behavior in Negotiations
Creators: name: Perry, Gregory M.
name: Duffy, Patricia A.
name: Nixon, Clair J.
name: Robison, Lindon J.
name: Perry, Gregory M.
name: Duffy, Patricia A.
name: Nixon, Clair J.
name: Robison, Lindon J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: ethics
subject: negotiation
subject: religion
subject: small-town values
subject: women

description: The issue of ethics has received little notice in agricultural economics journals. This study utilized a survey technique to reveal the ethical attitudes among some 500 students at four Land Grant Universities. The data were analyzed using multiple regression techniques. Individuals negotiating with strangers were more willing to use questionable ethical tactics. Women, individuals who were cooperative rather than competitive in negotiation situations, and those who regularly attended religious services wer consistantly less willing to use questionable ethics in negotiation. The size of the individual's hometown and family income had no clear impact on ethical attidutes in regotiations.
EXPLAINING THE HEALTH CHECK:THE BUDGET, WTO, AND MULTIFUNCTIONAL POLICY PARADIGM REVISITED
Creators: name: Daugbjerg, Carsten
name: Swinbank, Alan
name: Daugbjerg, Carsten
name: Swinbank, Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Political Economy
subject: Health Check
subject: CAP Reform
subject: WTO
subject: Doha
subject: paradigm change
subject: multifunctional

description: Three potential explanations of past CAP reforms have been identified in the literature: a budget constraint, pressure from GATT/WTO negotiations or commitments, and a paradigm shift emphasising agriculture’s provision of public goods. The presentation, content and context of the Health Check reform proposals of 2007/08 are assessed. The proposals are probably more ambitious than first supposed. The Health Check was not primarily driven by budget pressures; the European Commission’s wish to adopt an offensive negotiating stance in the closing phases of the Doha Round was a more likely explanatory factor. The EU’s response to the commodity price spikes in 2008, and its Health Check proposals, suggest that the supposed switch from a state-assisted policy paradigm to the multifunctional paradigm is more apparent than real. The shape and purpose of the CAP post- 2013 is contested, with quite divergent views among the Member States
Semiclassical $p$-branes in hyperbolic space
Creators: name: Ardón, Rodrigo de León
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The one-loop effects to the Dirac action of $p$-branes in a hyperbolic background from the path integral and the solution of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation are analysed. The objective of comparing the equivalent quantization procedures is to study in detail the validity of the semiclassical approximation and divergences associated to one-loop corrections. This is in line with a bottom-up approach to holographic Wilson loops. We employ the heat kernel regularization method for both quantization procedures and we study in great detail one-loop corrections to geodesics in a 2-dimensional hyperbolic space and semi-spheres in a 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. We show that the divergences, given by the high energy expansion of the heat kernel, can be classified by their compatibility with the semiclassical approximation and geometric nature.
description: 49 pages, 4 figures, constraint analysis and references added, modified title, matches published version
OPTIONS OF FINANCING THE CAP – CONSEQUENCES FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF FARM PAYMENTS
Creators: name: Sinabell, Franz
name: Schmid, Erwin
name: Pitlik, Hans
name: Sinabell, Franz
name: Schmid, Erwin
name: Pitlik, Hans
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: Direct Payments
subject: Distribution
subject: Common Agricultural Policy.

description: The introduction of decoupled direct payments in the EU was a substantial change of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2003. After decoupling direct payments from production, it has become evident, that distributional objectives are the major justification of farm payments. There are three facets: the distribution of payments among farmers within member states, the distribution of payments among member states, and the distribution of household incomes within member states. All of them will be affected if the volume and allocation of funds for the CAP will be changed in the new financial framework of the EU. The paper addresses the first distributional aspects. We provide an overview of the development of past and present research and findings on the distributional aspects of direct payments. We use the theory of federal fiscal relations to identify the policy agendas that should be handled at the EU level, at national levels, and at sub-national levels. We analyse how measures of concentration are affected if the criteria of direct payments are changed (e.g. a modified modulation scheme). This allows us to identify potential consequences after changing the way direct payments are distributed within EU member states. The summary of the paper discusses the distributional consequences of scenarios of the coming financial framework as far as agriculture is concerned.
Eueremaeus acostulatus Behan-Pelletier 1993
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Eremaeidae
Eueremaeus
Eueremaeus acostulatus

description: Eueremaeus acostulatus Behan-Pelletier, 1993
 Geographic Location: BC: Isaiah Creek study site (Lindo & Stevenson 2007); Vancouver Is., Walbran Valley, (Lindo & Winchester 2006, 2007, Lindo 2010); Mt. Cain (Fagan et al. 2005).
 Habitats: Western redcedar and Amabilis fir; canopy specialist.
 Distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
COMMON FINANCING FOR AGRICULTURAL POLICY BUDGETARY QUESTIONS
Creators: name: Vasary, Viktoria
name: Elekes, Andrea
name: Halmai, Peter
name: Vasary, Viktoria
name: Elekes, Andrea
name: Halmai, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: public goods
subject: fiscal federalism
subject: a new agricultural policy

description: Can we agree fully with the statement, that “agricultural spending is a major distorting factor in the EU economy and a distinct obstacle to the Lisbon agenda’s implementation”? (Gros, 2008) Is it without question that Europe’s agriculture is in position to become sustainable and competitive without certain kind of common policy with no Community financing? Is it unambiguous in every respect, that the challenges facing the sector – globalization, trade liberalization, climate change, water management, Lisbon process, enlargement, changing preferences – could be answered at national level utilizing exclusively national financial sources? The answers to these questions are complex. So the purpose of the paper is multiple: - Exploration of factors justifying community level intervention. – Could be applied the bottom line of the “decentralization theorem” to budgetary questions and needs of the agricultural policy? According to our hypothesis the answer is considered yes. - Assessing present CAP - taking into account its ability to provide EU wide public goods (multifunctional elements serve in deed significant cross-border externalities) and to create EU value added. - Making an attempt to redefine EU’s agricultural policy through exploring objectives having a greater impact by being implemented at the supranational level and not at other secondary decision levels. – Making an attempt to outline a Common Rural Policy, a policy promoting the provision of public goods required by the society by means of targeted and decoupled economic policy measures. In order to attain the objectives of the paper we apply the theory of fiscal federalism, make analysis on EU public finances in a broader context.
Thermodynamic properties and correlation functions of Ar films on the surface of a bundle of nanotubes
Creators: name: Urban, Nathan M.
name: Gatica, Silvina M.
name: Cole, Milton W.
name: Riccardo, Jose L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ canonical Monte Carlo simulations to explore the properties of an Ar film adsorbed on the external surface of a bundle of carbon nanotubes. The study is concerned primarily with three properties: specific heat $c(T)$, differential heat of adsorption $q_d$, and Ar-Ar correlation functions $g(\mathbf{r})$. These measurable functions exhibit information about the dependence of film structure on coverage and temperature.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures (revtex4). Minor edits for publication; post-publication typos corrected
In Search of Circumstellar Disks Around Young Massive Stars
Creators: name: Zapata, Luis
name: Rodriguez, Luis
name: Ho, Paul
name: Beuther, Henrik
name: Zhang, Qizhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 7 mm, 1.3 cm and 3.6 cm continuum observations made with the Very Large Array toward a sample of ten luminous IRAS sources that are believed to be regions of massive star formation. We detect compact 7 mm emission in four of these objects: IRAS 18089-1732(1), IRAS 18182-1433, IRAS 18264-1152 and IRAS 18308-0841 and for the first time find that these IRAS sources are associated with double or triple radio sources separated by a few arcseconds. We discuss the characteristics of these sources based mostly on their spectral indices and find that their nature is diverse. Some features indicate that the 7 mm emission is dominated by dust from disks or envelopes. Toward other components the 7 mm emission appears to be dominated by free-free radiation, both from ionized outflows or from optically thick H II regions. Furthermore, there is evidence of synchrotron contamination in some of these sources. Finally, we found that the sources associated with ionized outflows, or thermal jets are correlated with CH$_3$OH masers. The precise determination of the nature of these objects requires additional multifrequency observations at high angular resolution. The 3.6 cm continuum observations also revealed seven UCHII regions in the vicinity of the sources IRAS 18089-1732(1) and two more in the source IRAS 18182-1433. We show that the small photoionized nebulae of these UCHII regions are produced by early B-type stars.
description: Accepted by the Astronomical Journal, 42 pages
Full oxide heterostructure combining a high-Tc diluted ferromagnet with a high-mobility conductor
Creators: name: Herranz, G.
name: Basletic, M.
name: Bibes, M.
name: Ranchal, R.
name: Hamzic, A.
name: Tafra, E.
name: Bouzehouane, K.
name: Jacquet, E.
name: Contour, J. -P.
name: Barthelemy, A.
name: Fert, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the growth of heterostructures composed of layers of the high-Curie temperature ferromagnet Co-doped (La,Sr)TiO3 (Co-LSTO) with high-mobility SrTiO3 (STO) substrates processed at low oxygen pressure. While perpendicular spin-dependent transport measurements in STO//Co-LSTO/LAO/Co tunnel junctions demonstrate the existence of a large spin polarization in Co-LSTO, planar magnetotransport experiments on STO//Co-LSTO samples evidence electronic mobilities as high as 10000 cm2/Vs at T = 10 K. At high enough applied fields and low enough temperatures (H < 60 kOe, T < 4 K) Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations are also observed. We present an extensive analysis of these quantum oscillations and relate them with the electronic properties of STO, for which we find large scattering rates up to ~ 10 ps. Thus, this work opens up the possibility to inject a spin-polarized current from a high-Curie temperature diluted oxide into an isostructural system with high-mobility and a large spin diffusion length.
description: to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Eueremaeus aridulus Behan-Pelletier 1993
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Eremaeidae
Eueremaeus
Eueremaeus aridulus

description: Eueremaeus aridulus Behan-Pelletier, 1993
 Geographic Location: AB: ABMI Sites; south of Cypress Hills (Walter et al. 2014); SK, Frenchman River Valley; Matador IBP Site (Behan-Pelletier 1993b).
 Habitats: grassland habitats including Opuntia vegetation and sod; ground juniper and grass litter.
 Distribution: Canada.
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Touraieff, B., Ricerche nel campo delle fonti agiologiche della Storia d´Etiopia
Creators: name: Guidi, Ignazio
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 2 Nr. 1 (1902): Oriens christianus, Band 2, Heft 1
A Route to Understanding of the Pioneer Anomaly
Creators: name: Turyshev, Slava G.
name: Nieto, Michael Martin
name: Anderson, John D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft yielded the most precise navigation in deep space to date. However, while at heliocentric distance of $\sim$ 20--70 AU, the accuracies of their orbit reconstructions were limited by a small, anomalous, Doppler frequency drift. This drift can be interpreted as a sunward constant acceleration of $a_P = (8.74 \pm 1.33)\times 10^{-8}$ cm/s$^2$ which is now commonly known as the Pioneer anomaly. Here we discuss the Pioneer anomaly and present the next steps towards understanding of its origin. They are: 1) Analysis of the entire set of existing Pioneer 10 and 11 data, obtained from launch to the last telemetry received from Pioneer 10, on 27 April 2002, when it was at a heliocentric distance of 80 AU. This data could yield critical new information about the anomaly. If the anomaly is confirmed, 2) Development of an instrumental package to be operated on a deep space mission to provide an independent confirmation on the anomaly. If further confirmed, 3) Development of a deep-space experiment to explore the Pioneer anomaly in a dedicated mission with an accuracy for acceleration resolution at the level of $10^{-10}$ cm/s$^2$ in the extremely low frequency range. In Appendices we give a summary of the Pioneer anomaly's characteristics, outline in more detail the steps needed to perform an analysis of the entire Pioneer data set, and also discuss the possibility of extracting some useful information from the Cassini mission cruise data.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures. Invited talk given at ``The XXII Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics,'' Stanford University, December 13-17, 2004
SAR Image Despeckling by Deep Neural Networks: from a pre-trained model to an end-to-end training strategy
Creators: name: Dalsasso, Emanuele
name: Yang, Xiangli
name: Denis, Loïc
name: Tupin, Florence
name: Yang, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Speckle reduction is a longstanding topic in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Many different schemes have been proposed for the restoration of intensity SAR images. Among the different possible approaches, methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently shown to reach state-of-the-art performance for SAR image restoration. CNN training requires good training data: many pairs of speckle-free / speckle-corrupted images. This is an issue in SAR applications, given the inherent scarcity of speckle-free images. To handle this problem, this paper analyzes different strategies one can adopt, depending on the speckle removal task one wishes to perform and the availability of multitemporal stacks of SAR data. The first strategy applies a CNN model, trained to remove additive white Gaussian noise from natural images, to a recently proposed SAR speckle removal framework: MuLoG (MUlti-channel LOgarithm with Gaussian denoising). No training on SAR images is performed, the network is readily applied to speckle reduction tasks. The second strategy considers a novel approach to construct a reliable dataset of speckle-free SAR images necessary to train a CNN model. Finally, a hybrid approach is also analyzed: the CNN used to remove additive white Gaussian noise is trained on speckle-free SAR images. The proposed methods are compared to other state-of-the-art speckle removal filters, to evaluate the quality of denoising and to discuss the pros and cons of the different strategies. Along with the paper, we make available the weights of the trained network to allow its usage by other researchers.
description: Article accepted for publication on Remote Sensing, MDPI. Notebook with Colab compatibility is available at https://gitlab.telecom-paris.fr/RING/SAR-CNN
Breaking a chaos-based secure communication scheme designed by an improved modulation method
Creators: name: Li, Shujun
name: Álvarez, Gonzalo
name: Chen, Guanrong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently Bu and Wang [Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 19 (2004) 919] proposed a simple modulation method aiming to improve the security of chaos-based secure communications against return-map-based attacks. Soon this modulation method was independently cryptanalyzed by Chee et al. [Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 21 (2004) 1129], Wu et al. [Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 22 (2004) 367], and Álvarez et al. [Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, accepted (2004), arXiv:nlin.CD/0406065] via different attacks. As an enhancement to the Bu-Wang method, an improving scheme was suggested by Wu et al. by removing the relationship between the modulating function and the zero-points. The present paper points out that the improved scheme proposed by Wu et al. is still insecure against a new attack. Compared with the existing attacks, the proposed attack is more powerful and can also break the original Bu-Wang scheme. Furthermore, it is pointed out that the security of the modulation-based schemes is not so satisfactory from a pure cryptographical point of view. The synchronization performance of this class of modulation-based schemes is also discussed.
description: elsart.cls, 18 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 1 of Comparison of three small-area mortality metrics according to urbanity in Korea: the standardized mortality ratio, comparative mortality figure, and life expectancy
Creators: name: Kim, Ikhan
name: Hwa-Kyung Lim
name: Hee-Yeon Kang
name: Khang, Young-Ho
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Age distribution and age-specific mortality ratios by urbanity with the standard population: findings from the National Health Information Database of Korea, 2013–2017. Figure S2. Scatter plots and correlation coefficients [r] for SMR, CMF, and LE over all areas and stratified by urbanity: findings from the National Health Information Database of Korea, 2013–2017. Table S1: Population size and age structure by urbanity: data from the 2015 Population Census of Korea. Table S2: Distribution of numbers of population and deaths among 3,377 small-areas in Korea: findings from the National Health Information Database of Korea, 2013–2017. Table S3: Distribution of SMRs according to urbanity when the age-specific mortality rate was hypothesized to be the same in all small-areas: findings from the National Health Information Database of Korea, 2013–2017. Table S4: Comparison of the top 30 small-areas with high mortality as measured by CMF with their results for SMR and LE: findings from the National Health Information Database of Korea, 2013–2017. Table S5: Comparison of the top 30 small-areas with low mortality as measured by CMF with their results for SMR and LE: findings from the National Health Information Database of Korea, 2013–2017. Table S6: Age structure, observed and expected deaths using national age-specific mortality in 2015 and age-specific mortality of the standard population, and their differences in small-areas with the minimum, maximum, and median SMR: findings from the National Health Information Database of Korea, 2013–2017
Eueremaeus aysineep Behan-Pelletier 1993
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Eremaeidae
Eueremaeus
Eueremaeus aysineep

description: Eueremaeus aysineep Behan-Pelletier, 1993
 Geographic Location: BC: Vancouver Is., Mesachie Lake (Behan-Pelletier 1993b); AB: Writing-on-Stone PP; Waterton Lakes NP (Behan-Pelletier 1993b).
 Habitats: polypore fungus on trunk of dead alder; birch and juniper litter with moss; under bark of spruce infested with Dendroctonus and lps.
 Distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Changes in Agricultural Input Costs and Their Impact on Net Farm Income
Creators: name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: Koo, Won W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: net farm income
subject: production costs
subject: gross income

description: The recent rapid increase in commodity prices is not an unique event. It has happened several times in the past. Commodity prices have always dropped, returning to a more normal level. Production costs, on the other hand, follow commodity prices up but do not follow them down. Net farm income has increased rapidly in most commodity sectors of agriculture. However, production costs have increased substantially during the past few years. Those cost increases will reduce net farm incomes in the future if commodity prices do not continue to increase.
Additional file 2 of Ambient particulate matter and biomass burning: an ecological time series study of respiratory and cardiovascular hospital visits in northern Thailand
Creators: name: Mueller, W.
name: M. Loh
name: S. Vardoulakis
name: H. J. Johnston
name: S. Steinle
name: N. Precha
name: W. Kliengchuay
name: K. Tantrakarnapa
name: J. W. Cherrie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. The average predicted number of a) Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease (CLRD), b) Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD), and c) Cerebrovascular Disease (CVD) visits relating to daily mean PM10 exposure.
Eueremaeus higginsi Behan-Pelletier 1993
Creators: name: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
name: Lindo, Zoë
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Eremaeidae
Eueremaeus
Eueremaeus higginsi

description: Eueremaeus higginsi Behan-Pelletier, 1993
 Geographic Location: BC: Isaiah Creek study site (Lindo & Stevenson 2007).
 Habitat: coniferous canopy litter.
 Distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
Inertias of entanglement witnesses
Creators: name: Shen, Yi
name: Chen, Lin
name: Zhao, Li-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement witnesses (EWs) are a fundamental tool for the detection of entanglement. We study the inertias of EWs, i.e., the triplet of the numbers of negative, zero, and positive eigenvalues respectively. We focus on the EWs constructed by the partial transposition of states with non-positive partial transposes. We provide a method to generate more inertias from a given inertia by the relevance between inertias. Based on that we exhaust all the inertias for EWs in each qubit-qudit system. We apply our results to propose a separability criterion in terms of the rank of the partial transpose of state. We also connect our results to tripartite genuinely entangled states and the classification of states with non-positive partial transposes. Additionally, the inertias of EWs constructed by X-states are clarified.
description: similar to the accepted version, to appear in the journal of physics a
title: Проблемы совершенствования правового регулирования тaможенных мер зaщиты прав на объекты интеллектуальной собственности в условиях функционирования Евразийского экономического союза
Creators: name: Дмитриева, Н.
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: В современных реалиях развития международного рынка все большее значение приобретает торговля объектами интеллектуальной собственности, при этом очевидна необходимость защиты со стороны государства прав правообладателей на такие объекты. В данной статье проводится научно-правовой анализ системы
таможенной защиты прав на объекты интеллектуальной собственности, который установлен Таможeнным кодeксом Евразийского экономичeского союза, а также его трансформация в сравнении с действовавшим ранее Таможенным кодексом Таможенного союза 2009 г., а также рассматривается эффективность существующих
мер защиты интеллектуальной собственности таможенными органами Российской Федерации.
3D Network Model for Strong Topological Insulator Transitions
Creators: name: Son, Jun Ho
name: Raghu, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a three-dimensional (3D), time-reversal symmetric generalization of the Chalker-Coddington network model for the integer quantum Hall transition. The novel feature of our network model is that in addition to a weak topological insulator phase already accommodated by the network model framework in the pre-existing literature, it hosts strong topological insulator phases as well. We unambiguously demonstrate that strong topological insulator phases emerge as intermediate phases between a trivial insulator phase and a weak topological phase. Additionally, we found a non-local transformation that relates a trivial insulator phase and a weak topological phase in our network model. Remarkably, strong topological phases are mapped to themselves under this transformation. We show that upon adding sufficiently strong disorder the strong topological insulator phases undergo phase transitions into a metallic phase. We numerically determine the critical exponent of the insulator-metal transition. Our network model explicitly shows how a semi-classical percolation picture of topological phase transitions in 2D can be generalized to 3D and opens up a new venue for studying 3D topological phase transitions.
Multivariate normal approximations by Stein's method and size bias couplings
Creators: name: Goldstein, Larry
name: Rinott, Yosef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F05,60B12,05C80

description: Stein's method is used to obtain two theorems on multivariate normal approximation. Our main theorem, Theorem 1.2, provides a bound on the distance to normality for any nonnegative random vector. Theorem 1.2 requires multivariate size bias coupling, which we discuss in studying the approximation of distributions of sums of dependent random vectors. In the univariate case, we briefly illustrate this approach for certain sums of nonlinear functions of multivariate normal variables. As a second illustration, we show that the multivariate distribution counting the number of vertices with given degrees in certain random graphs is asymptotically multivariate normal and obtain a bound on the rate of convergence. Both examples demonstrate that this approach may be suitable for situations involving non-local dependence. We also present Theorem 1.4 for sums of vectors having a local type of dependence. We apply this theorem to obtain a multivariate normal approximation for the distribution of the random $p$-vector which counts the number of edges in a fixed graph both of whose vertices have the same given color when each vertex is colored by one of $p$ colors independently. All normal approximation results presented here do not require an ordering of the summands related to the dependence structure. This is in contrast to hypotheses of classical central limit theorems and examples, which involve e.g., martingale, Markov chain, or various mixing assumptions.
description: 14 pages
'Swing Absorption' of fast magnetosonic waves in inhomogeneous media
Creators: name: Shergelashvili, B. M.
name: Zaqarashvili, T. V.
name: Poedts, S.
name: Roberts, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently suggested swing interaction between fast magnetosonic and Alfven waves (Zaqarashvili and Roberts 2002) is generalized to inhomogeneous media. We show that the fast magnetosonic waves propagating across an applied non-uniform magnetic field can parametrically amplify the Alfven waves propagating along the field through the periodical variation of the Alfven speed. The resonant Alfven waves have half the frequency and the perpendicular velocity polarization of the fast waves. The wave lengths of the resonant waves have different values across the magnetic field, due to the inhomogeneity in the Alfven speed. Therefore, if the medium is bounded along the magnetic field, then the harmonics of the Alfven waves, which satisfy the condition for onset of a standing pattern, have stronger growth rates. In these regions the fast magnetosonic waves can be strongly 'absorbed', their energy going in transversal Alfven waves. We refer to this phenomenon as 'Swing Absorption'. This mechanism can be of importance in various astrophysical situations.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, Accepted in A&A
Wright, W., A Catalogue of the syriac manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge, with an introduction and appendix by St. A. Cook ...
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 2 Nr. 1 (1902): Oriens christianus, Band 2, Heft 1
THE LIBERALIZATION OF TARIFF RATE QUOTAS UNDER OLIGOPOLISTIC COMPETITION
Creators: name: Scoppola, Margherita
name: Scoppola, Margherita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Tariff Rate Quotas
subject: Oligopoly
subject: Trade Liberalization.

description: The paper develops a two-stage capacity constrained model, in which the mode of competition is endogenous and the constraint is flexible, to investigate the impact of Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs) and of different liberalization options in oligopolistic markets. The model predicts that the equilibrium moves from a pure Bertrand outcome to a Cournot outcome as the effectiveness of the capacity constraint increase, that is, as the gap between the cost of the licences plus the in-quota tariff and the out-of-quota tariff increases. The results show that the impacts of the various liberalization options - the expansion of quotas by means of an increase in the number of operators or in the quota allocated to incumbents, the reduction in the in-quota and out-of-quota tariffs and improvements in the TRQ administration system - are rather diverse from those predicted by models assuming perfect competition.
description: Paper removed by author for revision 12/09/08.
Additional file 1 of Assessment of quality of life in individuals with chronic headache. Psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF
Creators: name: Brzoska, Patrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1 Correlations between the 24 WHOQOL-BREF items (individuals with self-reported chronic headache residing in Austria, Austrian Health Interview Survey, 2013–2015, n = 963)