cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Towards Automated Generation of Scripted Dialogue: Some Time-Honoured Strategies
Creators: name: Piwek, Paul
name: van Deemter, Kees
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: The main aim of this paper is to introduce automated generation of scripted dialogue as a worthwhile topic of investigation. In particular the fact that scripted dialogue involves two layers of communication, i.e., uni-directional communication between the author and the audience of a scripted dialogue and bi-directional pretended communication between the characters featuring in the dialogue, is argued to raise some interesting issues. Our hope is that the combined study of the two layers will forge links between research in text generation and dialogue processing. The paper presents a first attempt at creating such links by studying three types of strategies for the automated generation of scripted dialogue. The strategies are derived from examples of human-authored and naturally occurring dialogue.
Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 499 Special
Creators: name: Hammond, Jerome W.
name: Anthony, Willis Eugene
name: Christiansen, Martin K.
name: Hammond, Jerome W.
name: Anthony, Willis Eugene
name: Christiansen, Martin K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Why the Growing Farm-Retail Price Spread?
Tetrasphaera Wang
Creators: name: Noble, Paula
name: Aitchison, Jonathan C.
name: Danelian, Taniel
name: Dumitrica, Paulian
name: Maletz, Jörg
name: Suzuki, Noritoshi
name: Cuvelier, Jessie
name: Caridroit, Martial
name: O'Dogherty, Luis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Actinobacteria
Actinobacteridae
Actinomycetales
Intrasporangiaceae
Tetrasphaera

description: Tetrasphaera Wang in Wang, Cheng & Zhang, 2008
 Tetrasphaera Wang in Wang, Cheng & Zhang, 2008: 401.
 TYPE SPECIES. — Tetrasphaera kuruktagensis Wang in Wang, Cheng & Zhang, 2008 (Wang et al. 2008: 401, pl. II, figs 10-13).
AGE AND LOCATION OF TYPE MATERIAL. — Middle Ordovician Dapingian, Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China.
TAXON CODE. — 329.
 STATUS. — Nomen dubium.
 DIAGNOSIS. — “Shell spherical, composed of four concentric latticed test, one outer and three medullary ones. Every test is connected by radial beams. The distance within every test is the same. Not any spines and by-spines on shell body are found.” (Wang in Wang et al. 2008: 401).
REMARK
It is not possible to determine the nature of this radiolarian from the figured specimen.
description: Published as part of Noble, Paula, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Danelian, Taniel, Dumitrica, Paulian, Maletz, Jörg, Suzuki, Noritoshi, Cuvelier, Jessie, Caridroit, Martial & O'Dogherty, Luis, 2017, Taxonomy of Paleozoic radiolarian genera, pp. 419-502 in Geodiversitas 39 (3) on page 494, DOI: 10.5252/g2017n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5206585
Bodies beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia
Creators: name: Imy, Kate
name: Segura-Garcia, Teresa
name: Valdameri, Elena
name: Wald, Erica
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/900
History

description: Global Connections: Routes and Roots, 11
description: ISBN:978-90-8728-455-8
description: ISBN:978-94-006-0493-3
You Can't Get Through Szekeres Wormholes - or - Regularity, Topology and Causality in Quasi-Spherical Szekeres Models
Creators: name: Hellaby, Charles
name: Krasinski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spherically symmetric dust model of Lemaitre-Tolman can describe wormholes, but the causal communication between the two asymptotic regions through the neck is even less than in the vacuum (Schwarzschild-Kruskal-Szekeres) case. We investigate the anisotropic generalisation of the wormhole topology in the Szekeres model. The function E(r, p, q) describes the deviation from spherical symmetry if \partial_r E \neq 0, but this requires the mass to be increasing with radius, \partial_r M > 0, i.e. non-zero density. We investigate the geometrical relations between the mass dipole and the locii of apparent horizon and of shell-crossings. We present the various conditions that ensure physically reasonable quasi-spherical models, including a regular origin, regular maxima and minima in the spatial sections, and the absence of shell-crossings. We show that physically reasonable values of \partial_r E \neq 0 cannot compensate for the effects of \partial_r M > 0 in any direction, so that communication through the neck is still worse than the vacuum. We also show that a handle topology cannot be created by identifying hypersufaces in the two asymptotic regions on either side of a wormhole, unless a surface layer is allowed at the junction. This impossibility includes the Schwarzschild-Kruskal-Szekeres case.
description: zip file with LaTeX text + 6 figures (.eps & .ps). 47 pages. Second replacement corrects some minor errors and typos. (First replacement prints better on US letter size paper.)
Eberköpfe am Endbeschlag eines Kriegergürtels der Zeit um 400 vom Zähringer Burgberg
Creators: name: Steuer, Heiko
Publisher: name: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden
Year: 2021

description: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden, Bd. 74/75 (2007): Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden
US Consumers’ Perception of Local and Organic Food: An Analysis Based on Means-End Chain Analysis and Word Association
Creators: name: Haas, Rainer
name: Sterns, James
name: Meixner, Oliver
name: Haas, Rainer
name: Sterns, James
name: Meixner, Oliver
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: local food
subject: organic food
subject: consumer values and motives
subject: product attributes of local food and organic food

description: The market of local and organic food is still a niche market in the USA, despite its strong growth rates. Both offer consumers an alternative to a globalized anonymous food supply chain. Yet local food and organic food seem to be overlapping and to some degree competing food concepts. While the organic food market somehow has managed to “mature”, being widely distributed in national supermarket chains, local food in the US still seems to be tied to a “grassroots food movement”, being mainly distributed over short food supply chains. With several trends indicating sustained growth for local and organic consumption, this paper first addresses different connotations of local food and compares them to standard definitions of organic food. The main focus is to explore the perception of US consumers towards local and organic food, using results from two different studies, both using laddering techniques and word association tests, which were undertaken at Cornell University in New York State and at the University of Florida in the city of Gainesville. These findings are used to arrive at a better understanding of the image of local and organic food, and the motives and values of local and organic food consumers’.
„Schwertscheidenbeschlag“ von der Sponeck am Kaiserstuhl - ein Zeugnis frühen Schiffsverkehrs auf dem Oberrhein
Creators: name: Nuber, Hans Ulrich
Publisher: name: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden
Year: 2021

description: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden, Bd. 74/75 (2007): Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden
Quasinormal modes of black holes. II. Padé summation of the higher-order WKB terms
Creators: name: Matyjasek, Jerzy
name: Telecka, Malgorzata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In previous work [1] we proposed an improvement of the WKB-based semianalytic technique of Iyer and Will for calculation of the quasiormal modes of black holes by constructing the Padé approximants of the formal series for $ω^{2}.$ It has been demonstrated that (within the domain of applicability) the diagonal Padé transforms $\mathcal{P}_{6}^{6}$ and $\mathcal{P}_{7}^{6}$ are always in a very good agreement with the numerical results. In this paper we present a further extension of the method. We show that it is possible to reproduce many known numerical results with a great accuracy (or even exactly) if the Padé transforms are constructed from the perturbative series of a really high order. In our calculations the order depends on the problem but it never exceeds 700. For example, the frequencies of the gravitational mode $l=2,$ $n=0$ calculated with the aid of the Padé approximants and within the framework of the continued fractions method agree to 24 decimal places. The use of such a large number of terms is necessary as the stabilization of the quasinormal frequencies can be slow. Our results reveal some unexpected features of the WKB-based approximations and may shed some fresh light on the problem of overtones.
Quality-Based Clustering of Food Products for Customized Food Logistics
Creators: name: Amani, Pegah
name: Båth, Klara
name: Östergren, Karin
name: Liljestrand, Kristina
name: Fredriksson, Anna
name: Kjellsdotter, Linea
name: Amani, Pegah
name: Båth, Klara
name: Östergren, Karin
name: Liljestrand, Kristina
name: Fredriksson, Anna
name: Kjellsdotter, Linea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Food logistics
subject: food quality
subject: metabolic activity
subject: chilled food
subject: frozen food
subject: ambient food

description: Perishability and quality deterioration over time makes food differ from industrial products. The objective of this research is to describe the food quality from a logistics perspective and specify which characteristics of food products are necessary to consider in designing food logistics. These characteristics include food sensory factors, food safety factors, packaging, and the interaction of all these factors with the surrounding environment which can occur related to the logistics processes. According to the results, food products are suggested to be divided into 6 major groups based on their similarity in the interaction with surrounding environment factors affecting the products during logistics activities. These groups are Vegetables, Fruits, Biennial vegetables, Chilled & Super-Chilled, Frozen, and Ambient. Subsequently, the sensitivity of each group was analyzed with regard to the environmental factors they are exposed to during logistics, such as e.g. temperature variations, humidity, or pressure and vibration. The results of this study can increase the knowledge and know-how for more efficient and safer food transports while minimizing the risk of damage to the food products during transport.
Gravitational wave production: A strong constraint on primordial magnetic fields
Creators: name: Caprini, Chiara
name: Durrer, Ruth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the gravity waves induced by anisotropic stresses of stochastic primordial magnetic fields. The nucleosynthesis bound on gravity waves is then used to derive a limit on the magnetic field amplitude as function of the spectral index. The obtained limits are extraordinarily strong: If the primordial magnetic field is produced by a causal process, leading to a spectral index $n\ge 2$ on super horizon scales, galactic magnetic fields produced at the electroweak phase transition or earlier have to be weaker than $B_\la \le 10^{-27}$Gauss! If they are induced during an inflationary phase (reheating temperature $T\sim 10^{15}$GeV) with a spectral index $n\sim 0$, the magnetic field has to be weaker than $B_\la \le 10^{-39}$Gauss! Only very red magnetic field spectra, $n\sim -3$ are not strongly constrained. We also find that a considerable amount of the magnetic field energy is converted into gravity waves. The gravity wave limit derived in this work rules out most of the proposed processes for primordial seeds for the large scale coherent magnetic fields observed in galaxies and clusters.
description: 11pages 2 figures Replaced with the significantly expanded version accepted for publication in PRD. More detailed explanations, same conclusions
Additional file 9 of Identification of the Eutrema salsugineum EsMYB90 gene important for anthocyanin biosynthesis
Creators: name: Qi, Yuting
name: Gu, Caihong
name: Wang, Xingjun
name: Gao, Shiqing
name: Li, Changsheng
name: Zhao, Chuanzhi
name: Li, Chuanshun
name: Ma, Changle
name: Zhang, Quan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 9. Sequences of the primers used in the study.
Eoconcharium Hao & Shu 1987
Creators: name: Noble, Paula
name: Aitchison, Jonathan C.
name: Danelian, Taniel
name: Dumitrica, Paulian
name: Maletz, Jörg
name: Suzuki, Noritoshi
name: Cuvelier, Jessie
name: Caridroit, Martial
name: O'Dogherty, Luis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Chlorophyta
Ulvophyceae
Cladophorales
Anadyomenaceae
Eoconcharium

description: Eoconcharium Hao & Shu, 1987
 Eoconcharium Hao & Shu, 1987: 308.
 TYPE SPECIES. — Eoconcharium chinense Hao & Shu, 1987 (Hao & Shu 1987: 309, pl. 1, fig. 3a).
AGE AND LOCATION OF TYPE MATERIAL. — Lower Cambrian (Adtabanian, Eoredlichia Zone) Shuijingtuo Formation, Zhenba, Shaanxi Province, China.
TAXON CODE. — 339.
REMARK
 Identified as plates of the lobopodian Microdictyon (see Zhang & Aldridge 2007).
description: Published as part of Noble, Paula, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Danelian, Taniel, Dumitrica, Paulian, Maletz, Jörg, Suzuki, Noritoshi, Cuvelier, Jessie, Caridroit, Martial & O'Dogherty, Luis, 2017, Taxonomy of Paleozoic radiolarian genera, pp. 419-502 in Geodiversitas 39 (3) on page 496, DOI: 10.5252/g2017n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5206585
The Baskerville's dog suddenly started barking: voting for VOX in the 2019 Spanish general elections
Creators: name: Turnbull-Dugarte, Stuart J.
name: Rama, José
name: Santana, Andrés
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The electoral success of the new populist radical right-wing party, VOX, which achieved an unprecedent electoral result in the Spanish general elections of April 2019, brought an end to Spain's exceptional status as a country free of the radical right. This article asks: who votes for VOX? Empirically, we present the first assessment of electoral support for VOX at the national level. Relying on national post-electoral survey data, our results show that the electoral profile of VOX's supporters differs from that of populist radical right-wing parties from the rest of Europe. Support for VOX, much like the voters of their European contemporaries, tends to be markedly higher amongst males; economic status, however, has the reverse effect than that observed elsewhere on the continent, with individuals on the higher end of the income distribution more likely to have voted for VOX in the April 2019 general elections. Importantly, we establish that national identity plays a large role in explaining support for the new radical right-wing challenger and that the effect of identity is conditioned by negative evaluations of the political situation in Spain.
The peculiar personality of strongmen: comparing the Big Five and Dark Triad traits of autocrats and non-autocrats
Creators: name: Nai, Alessandro
name: Toros, Emre
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The personality of political leaders matters for their electoral success and performance once in office. Yet, we still know too little about the personality profiles of leaders worldwide. In this article, we focus on the profile of a particular type of leader, central to contemporary warnings about ‘democratic backsliding’: strongmen. Who are they? Much has been written about their behaviour and policies, but little attention has been granted to their personality profile. As we argue in this article, looking at their personality is a potentially important new avenue to understand the rise and success of strongmen worldwide. We compare the profile of 157 leaders having competed in 81 elections worldwide between June 2016 and July 2019 – including 14 leaders with autocratic tendencies (Putin, Trump, Bolsonaro, Erdoğan, Orbán, Duterte, Netanyahu and several others). Using the ratings provided by 1800+ scholars we show that autocrats score significantly lower on agreeableness and emotional stability, and (marginally) higher on extraversion. Autocrats also score significantly higher than non-autocrats on the Dark Triad (narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism), even when compared to right-wing non-autocrats. These results have important implications for the study of democratic deconsolidation, authoritarianism, and the personality of elected officials.
Empirical Findings from Dutch Food Industry
Creators: name: Van Der Vorst, Jack G.A.J.
name: Peeters, Lotte
name: Bloemhof, Jacqueline M.
name: Van Der Vorst, Jack G.A.J.
name: Peeters, Lotte
name: Bloemhof, Jacqueline M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Food Logistics
subject: sustainability
subject: performance
subject: food industry
subject: logistics service providers

description: with environmental and social performance. Therefore, in 2012, we started a collaborative project on this topic named SCALE (Step Change in Agri-food Logistics Ecosystems). SCALE aims to improve the sustainability of food and drink supply chain logistics in the context of rising food demands, increasing energy prices and the need to reduce environmentally damaging emissions. More in particular, SCALE aims to deliver a number of tools and frameworks valuable for the agri-food sector to secure a step change in operational practices, which will improve the efficiency and sustainability of supply chain logistics. In the paper we will present first results of this project. Aim of this paper is (1) to present a sustainability research framework for food supply chains logistics including drivers, strategies, performance indicators, metrics and improvement opportunities to measure and potentially enhance sustainability performances; and (2) to analyse and diagnose the current status of Dutch food & drinks companies and logistics service providers using this framework. Results are found via a literature review, web-based research and structured interviews with Dutch food industry and logistics service industry.
Creation of Spin-1/2 Particles in the Hyperboloid de Sitter Space-Time
Creators: name: Havare, Ali
name: Yetkin, Taylan
name: Korunur, Murat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we solve Dirac equation by using the method of seperation of variables. Then we analyzed the particle creation process. To compute the density number of particles created Bogoliubov transformation technique is used.
description: 5 pages, no figures, presented at the 1st Int. Hellenic&Turkish Phys. Conf
The supersingular isogeny problem in genus 2 and beyond
Creators: name: Costello, Craig
name: Smith, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $A/\overline{\mathbb{F}}\_p$ and $A'/\overline{\mathbb{F}}\_p$ be supersingular principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension $g>1$. For any prime $\ell \ne p$, we give an algorithm that finds a path $ϕ\colon A \rightarrow A'$ in the $(\ell, \dots , \ell)$-isogeny graph in $\widetilde{O}(p^{g-1})$ group operations on a classical computer, and $\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{p^{g-1}})$ calls to the Grover oracle on a quantum computer. The idea is to find paths from $A$ and $A'$ to nodes that correspond to products of lower dimensional abelian varieties, and to recurse down in dimension until an elliptic path-finding algorithm (such as Delfs--Galbraith) can be invoked to connect the paths in dimension $g=1$. In the general case where $A$ and $A'$ are any two nodes in the graph, this algorithm presents an asymptotic improvement over all of the algorithms in the current literature. In the special case where $A$ and $A'$ are a known and relatively small number of steps away from each other (as is the case in higher dimensional analogues of SIDH), it gives an asymptotic improvement over the quantum claw finding algorithms and an asymptotic improvement over the classical van Oorschot--Wiener algorithm.
Importance of the Main Agribusiness Products to the Brazilian Economy
Creators: name: Aziz Galvão, Da Silva Júnior
name: Rodriguez Neves, Bruna Do Valle
name: Marina, Macedo Rocha
name: Artur Henrique, Leite Falcette
name: Abdias Garcia, Machado
name: Aziz Galvão, Da Silva Júnior
name: Rodriguez Neves, Bruna Do Valle
name: Marina, Macedo Rocha
name: Artur Henrique, Leite Falcette
name: Abdias Garcia, Machado
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: agribusiness
subject: agricultural products
subject: Brazil

description: Brazilian economy, which is currently the sixth largest in the world. The sector is responsible for 27% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Moreover, it also accounts for nearly 40% of the values generated in the export and employs around 26% of the economically active population of the country. The objective of this paper is to present and discuss updated information regarding the importance of the main products of the agribusiness sector to the Brazilian economy. Special attention was given to the beef and soybean chain. The perspective and challenges of the sector are briefly presented.
Dialogue as Discourse: Controlling Global Properties of Scripted Dialogue
Creators: name: Piwek, Paul
name: van Deemter, Kees
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: This paper explains why scripted dialogue shares some crucial properties with discourse. In particular, when scripted dialogues are generated by a Natural Language Generation system, the generator can apply revision strategies that cannot normally be used when the dialogue results from an interaction between autonomous agents (i.e., when the dialogue is not scripted). The paper explains that the relevant revision operators are best applied at the level of a dialogue plan and discusses how the generator may decide when to apply a given revision operator.
Nonlinear Analysis of the Eckhaus Instability: Modulated Amplitude Waves and Phase Chaos with Non-zero Average Phase Gradient
Creators: name: Brusch, Lutz
name: Torcini, Alessandro
name: Baer, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We analyze the Eckhaus instability of plane waves in the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) and describe the nonlinear effects arising in the Eckhaus unstable regime. Modulated amplitude waves (MAWs) are quasi-periodic solutions of the CGLE that emerge near the Eckhaus instability of plane waves and cease to exist due to saddle-node bifurcations (SN). These MAWs can be characterized by their average phase gradient $ν$ and by the spatial period P of the periodic amplitude modulation. A numerical bifurcation analysis reveals the existence and stability properties of MAWs with arbitrary $ν$ and P. MAWs are found to be stable for large enough $ν$ and intermediate values of P. For different parameter values they are unstable to splitting and attractive interaction between subsequent extrema of the amplitude. Defects form from perturbed plane waves for parameter values above the SN of the corresponding MAWs. The break-down of phase chaos with average phase gradient $ν$ > 0 (``wound-up phase chaos'') is thus related to these SNs. A lower bound for the break-down of wound-up phase chaos is given by the necessary presence of SNs and an upper bound by the absence of the splitting instability of MAWs.
description: 24 pages, 14 figures
The microfoundations of normative democratic peace theory. Experiments in the US, Russia and China
Creators: name: Bakker, Femke E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Democratic peace theory is built on the assumption that liberal-democracy has a pacifying effect on people, a socialization process that is assumed to lack within autocracies. This paper uses an experimental approach to investigate the microfoundations of democratic peace theory among decision-makers of the US, Russia and China. It builds on and extents previous experimental studies by conceptualizing and measuring the presence and influence of liberal norms, by controlling for the perception of threat as induced by the conflict, and by testing the influence of hawkishness. The results show that the microfoundations of democratic peace theories do not find support. Neither regime-type, nor liberal norms are of influence on the willingness to attack the opponent, and also the assumed difference in liberal norms between individuals of different regime types is unsupported. Moreover, hawkish decision-makers are more likely to go to war. The results show that democratic peace theory, which aims to explain why democracies do not fight with each other, cannot be used as has been done till today and should be revised. The paper concludes with suggestions for new research avenues.
Why We Should Prioritize Extensions and Non-conventional Renovations over Replacement Constructions: A Life Cycle Assessment of Urban Densification Strategies for Swiss Residential Buildings
Creators: name: Büttiker, Dominic
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024
Subjects: LCA
LCA of building
urban densification
Building renovation
Uncertainty quantification
Building decarbonization
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/690
Buildings

description: Renovating the existing building stock is crucial to mitigate its environmental impact. At the same time, Switzerland faces the target of urban densification, and additional housing needs to be built within the existing urban areas to absorb population growth. To date, urban densification is predominantly realized through replacement constructions. Whether this approach complies with emissions mitigation targets is currently unknown.

This thesis investigates the impact of different densification and renovation strategies on global warming potential (GWP). In particular, replacement constructions, renovations, and extensions, i.e., adding extra floors to existing buildings, are compared using life cycle assessments (LCA) and representative Swiss multi-family housing construction archetypes. A global sensitivity analysis was performed to find the most relevant decarbonization measures for designing low environmental impact interventions. These interventions were studied considering uncertainties from future component replacement, user behavior, decarbonization, building performance, and climate change.

In agreement with previous studies, a fossil-free heating system and envelope retrofit with bio-based insulation are the two most influential measures to reduce GWP. These two measures are also highly robust, i.e., independent of the strategy, assumptions, and range of uncertainties. As widely demonstrated in practice, replacement construction can significantly reduce heating energy consumption. However, if the goal is minimal GWP, extensions and non-conventional renovations outperform replacement constructions. Depending on the archetype and material choice, a replacement construction is found to have 1.8 - 2.8 times the GWP of renovations and extensions. A comparison of the results with carbon budgets for Swiss housing has further revealed that with the current practice, i.e., focusing on replacement constructions, we will overshoot the 1.5°C target’s budget by 70%. Renovations and extensions with bio-based materials offer an opportunity to reduce energy demand and upfront GHG emissions significantly. In addition, extensions are promising to facilitate a socioeconomically equitable transformation to a low-carbon densified building stock.
The Current Status of the Hungarian Agri-Food Chains Related to Sustainability: Challenges and Barriers
Creators: name: Homolka, Fruzsina
name: Hegyi, Adrienn
name: Sebők, András
name: Homolka, Fruzsina
name: Hegyi, Adrienn
name: Sebők, András
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: sustainability
subject: GMO
subject: supply chain
subject: stakeholders
subject: awareness

description: The aim of this study was to identify challenges and barriers related to sustainability issues within the Hungarian agri-food sector. Within the SALSA EU FP7 project a survey was carried out which helped to evaluate the current status of the Hungarian food supply chains related to sustainability challenges. The specific issues, which have to be considered, is the use of soy products and ingredients containing soy products in food, the consumer concerns about the use of GMO, and the sustainability of the soy and beef supply chains. In Hungary the general interest related to the sustainability issues is still lower than within the North-West European countries. The results of the survey will be delivered in the presentation and discussed several topics according to the status of the Hungarian agri-food chains members’ awareness related to the “Triple Bottom Line”.
Cryptanalysis and improvement of several quantum private comparison protocols
Creators: name: Ji, Zhao-Xu
name: Fan, Pei-Ru
name: Zhang, Huan-Guo
name: Wang, Hou-Zhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Wu et al. [Int. J. Theor. Phys. 58, 1854, (2019)] found a serious information leakage problem in Ye and Ji's quantum private comparison protocol [Int. J. Theor. Phys. 56, 1517, (2017)], that is, a malicious participant can steal another's secret data without being detected through an active attack means. In this paper, we show that Wu et al.'s attack means is also effective for several other existing protocols, including the ones proposed by Ji et al. and Zha et al. [Commun. Theor. Phys. 65, 711, (2016) and Int. J. Theor. Phys. 57, 3874, (2018)]. In addition, we propose a passive attack means, which is different from Wu et al.'s active attack in that the malicious participant can easily steal another's secret data only by using his own secret data after finishing the protocol. Furthermore, we find that several other existing quantum private comparison protocols also have such an information leakage problem. In response to the problem, we propose a simple solution, which is more efficient than the ones proposed by Wu et al., because it does not consume additional classical and quantum resources. We also make some comments on this problem.
Going beyond values versus self-interest: whose attitudes change after employment transitions?
Creators: name: Wehl, Nadja
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Are self-interest or presumably stable value orientations and other predispositions the main drivers behind social policy attitudes? This article contributes to this debate by moving away from its binary discussion. It differentiates between attitude changes driven by self-interest that are in line with pre-existing predispositions and those that are not. Empirically, this article focuses on changes of labour market policy attitudes after employment transitions and job insecurity changes. More precisely, this article differentiates between attitude changes within three subgroups. (A) People whose self-interest after the employment transitions reinforces their prior predispositions. (B) People without strong prior predispositions, who are thus unconstrained by them. And (C) people whose self-interest after the employment transitions contradicts their prior predispositions. Panel analyses with fixed effects use German SOEP waves from 1997 and 2002. Main effects suggest an important role for self-interest as they show significant attitudinal reactions after most of the transitions and perception changes. However, subgroup analyses result in a somewhat mixed picture. They show attitude changes within different subgroups after different transitions and perception changes. This mixed empirical picture suggests caution when interpreting attitudinal change or stability after changing material circumstances as a sign for the relative importance of self-interest or predispositions.
Quantization Ambiguities in Isotropic Quantum Geometry
Creators: name: Bojowald, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some typical quantization ambiguities of quantum geometry are studied within isotropic models. Since this allows explicit computations of operators and their spectra, one can investigate the effects of ambiguities in a quantitative manner. It is shown that those ambiguities do not affect the fate of the classical singularity, demonstrating that the absence of a singularity in loop quantum cosmology is a robust implication of the general quantization scheme. The calculations also allow conclusions about modified operators in the full theory. In particular, using holonomies in a non-fundamental representation of SU(2) to quantize connection components turns out to lead to significant corrections to classical behavior at macroscopic volume for large values of the spin of the chosen representation.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Controlling nonlinear elastic systems in structural dynamics
Creators: name: Ströhle, Timo
name: Betsch, Peter
Publisher: name: Scipedia S.L.
Year: 2021
Subjects: Inverse Dynamics
Method of Characteristics
Space-Time Finite Element Method
Feedforward Control
Unteractuated Mechanical Systems

description: This contribution deals with the feedforward control of continuous mechanical systems. After introducing a general formulation of such problems and adressing the limitations of the commonly used semi-discrete method, two numerical methods are presented that resolve these limitations.
Networking Related to Sustainability in Hungary
Creators: name: Hegyi, Adrienn
name: Homolka, Fruzsina
name: Sebők, András
name: Hegyi, Adrienn
name: Homolka, Fruzsina
name: Sebők, András
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: sustainability
subject: soy and beef supply chain
subject: networking

description: Sustainability is arguably one of the greatest challenges to Hungary in the future. The question is how to meet this need and tackle this challenge that requires commitment from the different players of the supply chain. This aim of the work within the FP7 Salsa project was to detect, explore the importance of sustainability and categories of the sustainability by the actors of the network and identify those elements related to sustainability issues, which support the future success along the soya and beef supply chain. In Hungary majority of the soy and beef enterprises are classic SMEs. The topics was quite “hard” for the questioned SMEs, because in one hand it is an increasing needs for sustainability, but in the other hand the environmental concerns haven’t acquired as significant awareness in Hungary as in western countries within the European Union. The needs regarding sustainability can be identified mainly from farmers and wholesalers (particularly multinational companies)., but most of the cases significant activities or changes have not been made yet. The producers emphasized that they fulfill the sustainability requirement if it is a real needs from their customers or without risking their success of their businesses. The other frequently mentioned answer was that they dealt with the sustainable aspects if it supports the most efficient use of the natural resources or the better quality of the product. Sustainability was associated with costs. The participants all agree that the cost of sustainability can be fairly high. However there is a significant need for sustainable production and products in Hungary, they do everything to meet the requirements of the sustainability standards. But in that case the members of the supply chain can see clearly the profitability of their investment in sustainability. Based on the results we could conclude that there is a harmonized, good business relation between the stakeholders within the Hungarian soy and beef supply chains. The power relations are different within the soy and the beef chains. Within the beef supply chains the wholesalers make the rules, and in spite of this, within the soy supply chain the bargaining power depends on the size of the soy production per year and on the market trends. Finally we could conclude that there is a real need from the players of the supply chains for collaboration, because only with the collective changing will contribute to enhance sustainable development in Hungary.
The Discovery of Secondary Lobes in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 2639
Creators: name: Sebastian, Biny
name: Kharb, P.
name: O`Dea, C. P.
name: Gallimore, J. F.
name: Baum, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a secondary pair of radio lobes in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 2639 with polarization-sensitive observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). The presence of these lobes, which are aligned nearly perpendicular to the known set of radio lobes observed in the east-west direction, has not been reported previously in the literature. The in-band rotation measure image shows gradients in both the lobes indicative of organised magnetic field structures on kpc-scales. The magnetic field structure is aligned with the jet/lobe direction in both the lobes. Based on the settled optical morphology of the host galaxy, it is likely that a minor merger that did not disrupt the host galaxy structure is responsible for the observed features in NGC 2639. This also explains the near 90$^o$ change in the jet direction; the current jet direction being the result of a new accretion disk formed by the minor merger, whose direction was a result of the angular momentum of the inflowing merger gas.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
CMB constraints on spatial variations of the vacuum energy density
Creators: name: Avelino, P. P.
name: Canavezes, A.
name: de Carvalho, J. P. M.
name: Martins, C. J. A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent article, a simple `spherical bubble' toy model for a spatially varying vacuum energy density was introduced, and type Ia supernovae data was used to constrain it. Here we generalize the model to allow for the fact that we may not necessarily be at the centre of a region with a given set of cosmological parameters, and discuss the constraints on these models coming from Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation data. We find tight constraints on possible spatial variations of the vacuum energy density for any significant deviations from the centre of the bubble and we comment on the relevance of our results.
description: Minor changes; to appear in Astroparticle Physics
Evaluation of the complete nuclear rDNA unit sequence of the jellyfish Cyanea nozakii Kishinouye (Scyphozoa: Semaeostomeae) for molecular discrimination
Creators: name: Muhammad, Buhari Lawan
name: Seo, Yoseph
name: Ki, Jang-Seu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The harmful jellyfish Cyanea nozakii Kishinouye has frequently occurred on Korean coasts, and its blooms have caused serious ecological and economic damages. DNA sequences of the C. nozakii for molecular detection and discrimination are relatively scarce. In this study, we determined the complete sequence of a single unit of tandemly repeated ribosomal DNA (rDNA) of the Korean C. nozakii and characterized the molecular features of the rDNA. The complete rDNA contained 8,003 bp (48.4% GC) with the same gene arrangement (18S, ITS1, 5.8S, ITS2, 28S, and IGS) to the typical eukaryotes. Dot plot analysis showed that the coding regions (18S, 5.8S, and 28S) were highly conserved, while the non-coding regions (ITS1, ITS2, and IGS) were more variable and parsimony-informative. The IGS contained a putative transcription termination signal (poly(T) tract) and four repeats of block minisatellites. Phylogenetic analyses using 18S and 28S rDNA revealed well-resolved relationships of C. nozakii within the order Semaeostomeae, separating it from other Cyanea species. The complete rDNA sequence provides various options for the selection of jellyfish taxonomic markers and may be useful for discriminating between species of C. nozakii and phylogeny reconstruction with close relatives.
Effect of signature change in NGR
Creators: name: Mikhail, F. I.
name: Wanas, M. I.
name: Nashed, Gamal G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field equations of the new general relativity (NGR) have been applied to an absolute parallelism space having three unknown functions of the radial coordinate. The field equations have been solved using two different schemes. In the first scheme, we used the conventional procedure used in orthodox general relativity. In the second scheme, we examined the effect of signature change. The latter scheme gives a solution which is different from the Schwarzschild one. In both methods we find solution of the field equations under the same constraint imposed on the parameters of the theory. We also calculated the energy associated with the solutions in the two cases using the superpotential method. We found that the energetic content of one of the solutions is different from that of the other. A comparison between the two solutions obtained in the present work and a third one obtained by Hayashi and Shirafuji (1979) shows that the change of the signature may give rise to new physics.
Price Volatility and Risk Management: The Case of Rice
Creators: name: Banterle, Alessandro
name: Vandone, Daniela
name: Banterle, Alessandro
name: Vandone, Daniela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Agricultural commodity price volatility
subject: rice price volatility
subject: risk management
subject: revenue insurance

description: The paper aims at analysing rice-price volatility over the last five years, and at identifying strengths and weaknesses of financial-risk management tools other than derivatives. In particular, it focuses on innovative insurance products and on their potential use in the EU Mediterranean area, specifically in Italy that is the main rice producer in this area.
The role of societal cues in explaining attitudes toward international organizations: the least likely case of authoritarian contexts
Creators: name: Mujtaba Isani
name: Schlipphak, Bernd
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: How strong are societal cues – understood as the linkage between heuristics present in society and the object of evaluation – compared to elite cues in influencing citizens’ attitudes toward international politics? Our general argument is that societal cues have so far been underestimated in their effectiveness. More specifically, we argue that societal cues may have a direct effect or significantly diminish the effect of elite cues even in authoritarian contexts, when both cues are used at the same time. To test our hypotheses, we turn to cueing effects on citizens’ UN attitudes in two Middle Eastern countries: Saudi Arabia and Jordan. First, we depict that anti-Americanism is a significant and substantial heuristic in shaping Arab attitudes toward the UN. Thereafter, the results of a self-administered survey experiment show that governmental cues significantly and substantially affect public UN favorability. While cueing citizens with a heuristic linking the US to the UN has no direct effect in itself, it substantially weakens the effect of the governmental cues when both are employed at the same time. We outline the important implications of these findings at the end of the article.
Aegeridae Burkenroad 1963
Creators: name: Jauvion, Clément
name: Charbonnier, Sylvain
name: Bernard, Sylvain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Aegeridae

description: Family AEGERIDAE Burkenroad, 1963  EMENDED DIAGNOSIS BY TAVARES & MARTIN (2010). — Carapace lacking hepatic spine, but with postorbital spine. Rostrum with ventral tooth, dorsally unarmed. Third maxilliped hypertrophied. First pleomere somewhat reduced.
REMARK
 The presence of a ventral tooth on the rostrum should not be characteristic, since, according to Schweigert et al. (2016), the type species Aeger tipularius Schlotheim, 1822 does not display one. The lack of a hepatic spine is not clear since Acanthochirana Strand, 1928 and some species of Aeger display one.
description: Published as part of Jauvion, Clément, Charbonnier, Sylvain & Bernard, Sylvain, 2017, A new look at the shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeoidea) from the Middle Jurassic La Voulte-sur-Rhône Lagerstätte, pp. 705-716 in Geodiversitas 39 (4) on page 708, DOI: 10.5252/g2017n4a3, http://zenodo.org/record/5207286