cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Phase Space Structure of Dark Matter Halos
Creators: name: Aung, Han
name: Nagai, Daisuke
name: Rozo, Eduardo
name: Garcia, Rafael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase space structure of dark matter halos can be used to measure the mass of the halo, infer mass accretion rates, and probe the effects of modified gravity. Previous studies showed that the splashback radius can be measured in position space using the slope of the density profile. Using N-body simulations, we show that the phase space structure of the dark matter halo does not end at this splashback radius. Instead, there exists a region where infalling, splashback, and virialized halos are mixed spatially. We model the distribution of the three kinematically distinct populations and show that there exists an "edge radius" beyond which a dark matter halo has no orbiting substructures. This radius is a fixed multiple of the splashback radius as defined in previous works, and can be interpreted as a radius which contains a fixed fraction of the apocenters of dark matter particles. Our results provide a firm theoretical foundation to the satellite galaxy model adopted in the companion paper by Tomooka et al., where we analyzed the phase space distribution of SDSS redMaPPer clusters.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted in MNRAS, companion paper to Tomooka et al. 2020
Taphrocerus gracilis
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Taphrocerus
Taphrocerus gracilis

description: 107. Taphrocerus gracilis (Say, 1825)
 County Records (n = 43): Anoka, Cass, Chisago, Clearwater, Fillmore, Goodhue, Hennepin, Houston, Mille Lacs, Olmsted, Ramsey, Steele, Wabasha, Washington, and Winona.
Collection Dates: 22 April–21 August.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval host recorded as Bolboschoenus fluviatilis (Torr.) Soják (Cyperaceae). Adults also on Cephalanthus occidentalis L. (Rubiaceae) and Rumex verticillatus L. (Polygonaceae).
Collection Method: In oak grove and tamarack swamp.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 186, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Investigation on monogenetic trematodes of Mystus vittatus, Ailia coila and Esomus danricus of Mymensingh
Creators: name: Begum, M. M
name: Chandra, K. J.
name: Begum, M. M
name: Chandra, K. J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Parasite
subject: Monogenea
subject: Fish
subject: Mymensingh

description: Investigation on monogenetic trematode parasites of Mystus vittatus, Ailia coila, and Esomus danricus from different water bodies of Mymensingh was done. During the study period (March 2002 — February 2003) six species of monogenean flukes were recovered. Morphology and systematics of these parasites were recorded and described. Among them Bifurcohaptor inidicus Jain, 1958; Cornudiscoides proximus Gussev, 1976; Silurodiscoides parvulus Gussev, 1976 and Gyrodactylus sp. were collected from. Mystus vittatus;. Sprostonia asiatica Jain, 1959 from Ailia coila and Ancyrocephalus chakrabartii were collected from Esomus danricus. These parasites are the first record from Bangladesh water except Bifurcohaptor indicus Jain, 1958. In general, the highest prevalence (87.5%) and mean intensity (17.86) were found in Mystus vittatus and the lowest prevalence (31.82%) and mean intensity (6.5) were recorded in Ailia coda.
Additional file 4 of Self-reported impulsivity in women with borderline personality disorder: the role of childhood maltreatment severity and emotion regulation difficulties
Creators: name: Krause-Utz, Annegret
name: Erol, Ezgi
name: Brousianou, Athina V.
name: Cackowski, Sylvia
name: Paret, Christian
name: Ende, Gabriele
name: Bernet Elzinga
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S4. Descriptive values and results of the MANOVA for the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), subgroups of patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Healthy Controls (HC). (DOCX 22 kb)
Taphrocerus schaefferi
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Taphrocerus
Taphrocerus schaefferi

description: 108. Taphrocerus schaefferi (Nicolay and Weiss, 1920)
 New State Record: Houston County, 21 May 1938, H. E. Miliron.
 County Records (n = 2): Anoka and Houston.
Collection Dates: 21 May–15 July.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval hosts recorded as Cyperus sp. and Cyperus esculentus L. (Cyperaceae). Adults also on Carex vulpinoidea Michx. (Cyperaceae).
Collection Method: Unspecified.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 186, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
A Monte Carlo study of new time series statistical tests and their application to the modeling of price dynamics in futures markets
Creators: name: Gao, Hong
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Modeling price dynamics in financial markets has become an important research area in financial economics. In the past empirical studies of financial price movements were based on methods that were incapable of detecting or modeling nonlinear serial dependence that characterizes financial market data. Recently, advances in the study of nonlinear dynamics in the physical sciences have motivated researchers to apply nonlinear time-series models to the study of financial and economic data. This dissertation investigates three statistical tests which can detect nonlinear serial dependence, and applies these tests and two nonlinear time-series models to futures markets. In this dissertation, the finite sample properties of the BDS, TAR-F and Q$\sp2$ test are evaluated using Monte Carlo experiments. Monte Carlo findings show that the finite sample distribution of the tests under the data generating processes (DGPs) of the null hypothesis approximates their asymptotic counterpart quite closely. The power of the tests on DPGs of alternative hypotheses reaches unity at sample size of 1000 when the DGPs are not too close to the DGP of the null hypothesis. Based on findings of Monte Carlo investigation, the three tests and two nonlinear time-series models are applied to the study of price dynamics in futures markets. The futures studied are the S&P 500, Crude Oil, Japanese Yen, Deutsche Mark, and Eurodollar futures. The results show that the price changes of all five futures have nonlinear serial dependence, and that they can be modeled by nonlinear time-series models, either GARCH, or TAR, or combined TAR-GARCH model. The main conclusions to emerge from the findings of this dissertation are as follows. The three tests are reliable for detecting serial dependence, including nonlinear serial dependence. The tests work well when sample size equals 1000 or larger and the sample's departure from the null hypothesis is not too small. When analyzing futures prices, we have to acount for nonlinear serial dependence, use nonlinear models with conditional heteroskedasticity and conditional mean change.
Opinion Formation on a Deterministic Pseudo-fractal Network
Creators: name: Gonzalez, M. C.
name: Sousa, A. O.
name: Herrmann, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sznajd model of socio-physics, that only a group of people sharing the same opinion can convince their neighbors, is applied to a scale-free random network modeled by a deterministic graph. We also study a model for elections based on the Sznajd model and the exponent obtained for the distribution of votes during the transient agrees with those obtained for real elections in Brazil and India. Our results are compared to those obtained using a Barabasi-Albert scale-free network.
description: To appear in Int.J.Mod.Phys. C 15, issue 1 (2004), Added important references for section 1 (Introduction)
Impact of silver barb (Barbades gonionotus Bleeker) on growth and survival of prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in polyculture system.
Creators: name: Ali, M. Lokman
name: Hussain, M. G.
name: Ahasan, C. T.
name: Mazid, M. A.
name: Ali, M. Lokman
name: Hussain, M. G.
name: Ahasan, C. T.
name: Mazid, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: M. rosenbergii
subject: Silver barb
subject: Polyculture

description: Impact of silver barb (Barbades gonionotus) on the growth and survival of prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) were tested in a polyculture system. There were two treatments and three replication of each. Silver carp (Hypopthalmichthys molitrix), catla (Catla catla) and prawn (M. rosenbergii) were stocked at a stocking density of 10, 3 and 50/decimal, respectively in both treatments. Rohu (Labeo rohita) was stocked at a stocking density of 8/decimal in treatments T1 and silver barb was stocked at a rate of 20/decimal in treatment T2. The average growth and survival rate of silver carp and catla were higher with rohu (T1) than with silver barb (T2). However, differences were not statistically significant .The specific growth rate (SGR) of prawn was higher in T1(1.98%) than in T2(1.86%). The significantly higher (P<0.05) survival of (70.85%) was found in T1, where rohu stocked with prawn and the lower survival (61.05%) was obtained in T2, where silver barb was stocked. The yield of prawn in T1 (649.25 kg/ha) was significantly higher (P<0.05) than T2(456.95 kg/ha). This finding reveled that survival rate and yield of prawn was affected by silver barb and it has exerted an antagonistic effect on growth, survival and production of prawn. Total fish production was significantly higher (P<0.05) in T2(2718.9) than in T1 .(2021.14), because the production of silver
Etiological structure, drug resistance and biofilm forming capabilities of isolates from respiratory system from outpatients
Creators: name: Ilieva, Lena
name: Kostadinova, Sonya
name: Marhova, Mariana
name: Tsankova, Marinela
name: Iliev, Ivan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: antimicrobial susceptibility
biofilm
etiological structure
Staphylococcus aureus

description: The study is focused on the etiological structure and drug resistance of bacterial strains causing upper respiratory tract infections, which are widely spread amongst children. The aim is to update the data about antimicrobial susceptibility and to establish virulence factors important for infectious process for Staphylococcus spp. isolates from the upper respiratory tract. A total of 711 strains were isolated from outpatients with nasal and oropharyngeal infections at Medical Diagnostic Laboratories „Sinevo-Bulgaria“ LTD in Plovdiv for a two-year period 2019-2020. The results demonstrate that the etiological structure is highly related to the site of infection. Branhamella catarrhalis was found to dominate in the samples from the oropharynx (40%), while the majority of isolates from the nasal and ear samples were identified as Staphylococcus aureus - 65% and 35% respectively. S. aureus showed higher drug resistance compared to other isolates, reaching up to 70% to penicillins. Over 20% of the Staphylococcus strains were also resistant to macrolides, fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides. Methicillin resistance was established for 39% strains. The ability of S. aureus to form biofilms was tested as significant virulence factor by cultivation on unmodified and modified (supplemented with 5% human plasma) tryptic Soy Broth (TSB). The analysis shows that only 16,3% St. aureus were capable to form stable biofilm on TSB. The addition of human plasma increases the number up to 87%. The susceptibility profile of the investigated strains in the present study confirms need always to detect resistance before antibiotic prescriptions from physicians.
A Monte Carlo study of new time series statistical tests and their application to the modeling of price dynamics in futures markets
Creators: name: Gao, Hong
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Modeling price dynamics in financial markets has become an important research area in financial economics. In the past empirical studies of financial price movements were based on methods that were incapable of detecting or modeling nonlinear serial dependence that characterizes financial market data. Recently, advances in the study of nonlinear dynamics in the physical sciences have motivated researchers to apply nonlinear time-series models to the study of financial and economic data. This dissertation investigates three statistical tests which can detect nonlinear serial dependence, and applies these tests and two nonlinear time-series models to futures markets. In this dissertation, the finite sample properties of the BDS, TAR-F and Q$\sp2$ test are evaluated using Monte Carlo experiments. Monte Carlo findings show that the finite sample distribution of the tests under the data generating processes (DGPs) of the null hypothesis approximates their asymptotic counterpart quite closely. The power of the tests on DPGs of alternative hypotheses reaches unity at sample size of 1000 when the DGPs are not too close to the DGP of the null hypothesis. Based on findings of Monte Carlo investigation, the three tests and two nonlinear time-series models are applied to the study of price dynamics in futures markets. The futures studied are the S&P 500, Crude Oil, Japanese Yen, Deutsche Mark, and Eurodollar futures. The results show that the price changes of all five futures have nonlinear serial dependence, and that they can be modeled by nonlinear time-series models, either GARCH, or TAR, or combined TAR-GARCH model. The main conclusions to emerge from the findings of this dissertation are as follows. The three tests are reliable for detecting serial dependence, including nonlinear serial dependence. The tests work well when sample size equals 1000 or larger and the sample's departure from the null hypothesis is not too small. When analyzing futures prices, we have to acount for nonlinear serial dependence, use nonlinear models with conditional heteroskedasticity and conditional mean change.
Airplanes, Combat and Maintenance Crews, and Air Bases: The WWII and Early Cold War Architectural Legacy of Hollman Air Force Base 1942-1962 - Report (Legacy 93-0786)
Creators: name: Tagg, Martyn
name: Cooper, Sonya
name: Fulton, Jean
Publisher: name: DoD Legacy Resource Management Program
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/80645/holloman-air-force-base-new-mexico
subject: World War II
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/3992/world-war-ii
subject: Cold War
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7288/cold-war
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Historic Context
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/42191/historic-context
subject: National Register of Historic Places
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/1572/national-register-of-historic-places
subject: Inventory
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/533/inventory
subject: Historic Buildings
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/10151/historic-buildings
subject: Holloman Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/20265/holloman-air-force-base
subject: Cultural Resources Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/7068/cultural-resources-management
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research

description: This report on a demonstration project identifies and documents historic buildings on Hollman AFB-administered lands, with a focus on properties constructed during WWII and a number of unique facilities associated with early Cold War missile development.
Topology optimization of 2D structures with nonlinearities using deep learning
Creators: name: Abueidda, Diab W.
name: Koric, Seid
name: Sobh, Nahil A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The field of optimal design of linear elastic structures has seen many exciting successes that resulted in new architected materials and structural designs. With the availability of cloud computing, including high-performance computing, machine learning, and simulation, searching for optimal nonlinear structures is now within reach. In this study, we develop convolutional neural network models to predict optimized designs for a given set of boundary conditions, loads, and optimization constraints. We have considered the case of materials with a linear elastic response with and without stress constraint. Also, we have considered the case of materials with a hyperelastic response, where material and geometric nonlinearities are involved. For the nonlinear elastic case, the neo-Hookean model is utilized. For this purpose, we generate datasets composed of the optimized designs paired with the corresponding boundary conditions, loads, and constraints, using a topology optimization framework to train and validate the neural network models. The developed models are capable of accurately predicting the optimized designs without requiring an iterative scheme and with negligible inference computational time. The suggested pipeline can be generalized to other nonlinear mechanics scenarios and design domains.
Impact of tubewell electrification and water management practices on Boro rice cultivation
Creators: name: Amin, M. G. M.
name: Talukder, M. S. U.
name: Sarkar, M. A. A.
name: Amin, M. G. M.
name: Talukder, M. S. U.
name: Sarkar, M. A. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Electrified tubewell
subject: Water management
subject: Boro rice
subject: Water use efficiency

description: A study was conducted to evaluate the impact of electrification of irrigation tubewells on farmers economy of boro rice production during 2002-2003 in Jamalpur district. Thirty electrified tubewells (20 shallow tubewells and 10 deep tubewells) and ten non-electrified shallow tubewells were randomly selected in the study area for evaluation purpose. It was evident that the owners of electrified tubewells were highly benefited from water selling to the farmers who were also more benefited than the farmers under non-electrified tubewells from their boro production. To see the water management effect, a field experiment was also carried out considering four irrigation treatments with three replication following the Randomized Block Design (RBD) in the same study area. In the experimental plots seedlings of BRRI Dhan 28 (Boro) were transplanted on 31 January 2003 on silty loam soil and they were harvested on 9 May 2003. The results showed that the yield and yield contributing characters of boro rice were significantly influenced by different irrigation treatments. The highest grain yield of 6.35 t/ha was obtained in treatment T1 (Farmers' practice) using 1334 mm irrigation water. Alternatively the treatments T4 (alternate wetting and drying), T3 (irrigation at saturation) and T2 (2-5 cm standing water) saved about 30, 20 and 8 percent of valuable water by sacrificing only 11, 6 and 1 percent of yield, respectively than that of treatment Tl. Thus, from the experimental findings, it revealed that T4 was the best among all treatments for saving the costly irrigation input as well as for getting reasonably higher yield.
Additional file 2 of Non-communicable diseases research output in the Eastern Mediterranean region: an overview of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Akkawi, Alaa
name: Khabsa, Joanne
name: Noubani, Aya
name: Jamali, Sarah
name: Sibai, Abla M.
name: Lotfi, Tamara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary file 2. Included studies.
The politics of big business in the European Community: Setting the agenda for a new Europe
Creators: name: Cowles, Maria Green
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study documents the mobilization, purpose, access and power of three major multinational enterprise (MNE) groups in European Community (EC) policymaking in the early 1980s: the European Enterprise Group, the European Round Table of Industrialists, and the EC Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce. The findings reveal how big business mobilized to shape the rules, institutions and norms of the EC regulatory framework when both Member States and traditional business groups failed to do so. Based on extensive interviews and primary source data, the research demonstrates that large firms were not important policy actors in the formative years of the Community. European big business only began to pay attention to Community policymaking in the mid-1970s when the expansion of EC authority into trans-sectoral regulatory policies threatened to impose substantial costs on the MNEs. The mobilization and political activities of big business in the 1980s led to two major developments in Community policymaking: (1) big business--and not the EC Member States--largely was responsible for setting the agenda for the Single Market Program of 1985; and (2) MNEs have transformed traditional European-level business groups by replacing structures based on national federations with organizations in which individual firms often play the primary political roles. This study also reveals that traditional theories of European integration cannot account for the actors and process of EC market regulation policies. Neither neofunctionalist nor intergovernmentalist theory can explain the mobilization and activities of multinational firms in the early 1980s. Drawing on the two-level games literature, this study provides an alternative theoretical model, supragovernmentalism, to explain the actors, processes and dynamics of EC regulatory policies. According to supragovernmentalist theory, European big business and other societal interests engage in multi-level games to set and influence the EC's regulatory agenda and to limit the policy options available to Member States of the Community. Finally, the study demonstrates the growing capacity of big business in general to constrain the autonomy of nation-states. Through the creation of business alliances, MNEs increasingly participate in multi-level games to shape the rules, institutions and norms of the global political economy.
Buprestis aurulenta Linnaeus 1767
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Buprestis
Buprestis aurulenta

description: 1. Buprestis aurulenta Linnaeus, 1767
Label Information: Hennepin County, Minneapolis, 1 March 1934, H. S. Lamberton.
 County Records (n = 2): Hennepin and Olmsted.
Collection Dates: 1 March.
Collection Method: One on windowsill of heated “porch” inside house.
Note: This species is known to have a western US distribution and is recorded as far east as CO. These two Minnesota specimens likely represent emergence from imported wood.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 186, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Wandering domains and nontrivial reduction in non-archimedean dynamics
Creators: name: Benedetto, Robert L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11S80 (Primary) 37F10, 54H20 (Secondary)

description: Let K be a non-archimedean field with residue field k, and suppose that k is not an algebraic extension of a finite field. We prove two results concerning wandering domains of rational functions f in K(z) and Rivera-Letelier's notion of nontrivial reduction. First, if f has nontrivial reduction, then assuming some simple hypotheses, we show that the Fatou set of f has wandering components by any of the usual definitions of such components. Second, we show that if k has characteristic zero and K is discretely valued, then the converse holds; that is, the existence of a wandering domain implies that some iterate has nontrivial reduction in some coordinate.
description: 22 pages; to appear in Ill. J. Math.; added appendix and some more examples; a few other minor changes
Development of Model Ice Growth Prediction Model
Creators: name: Rosenau, Silvano Gordian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ice model
aqueous ice
ice
sea ice
HSVA
model ice
prediction model

description: Bachelor Thesis in Physical Oceanography Abstract: I have developed a prediction model for the growth of aqueous ice in the Hamburg Ship Model Basin. The prediction
 is based on a basic thermodynamic ice growth model. I determined the tank specific parameters with an estimation
 algorithm from measured data. I tested the theoretical accuracy of the parameter estimation as a function of data size
 with virtually generated data. The prediction model describes ice growth with a standard deviation of 2.2 mm. I propose
 a measurement plan that is likely to improve the model. I investigated the influence of water temperature on ice growth
 with a separate model. Contrary to empirical experience, I found the impact of the water temperature on ice growth to be
 negligible in the context of the temperature variation in the ice tank.
Socioeconomic impact of Jamuna bridge on farming community in some selected areas of Sirajganj district of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Alam, S. M. Zahangir
name: Rahman, M. M.
name: Rahman, M. Saidur
name: Khanam, F.
name: Alam, S. M. Zahangir
name: Rahman, M. M.
name: Rahman, M. Saidur
name: Khanam, F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Financial Economics

description: The 'Jamuna Bridge' is a success in terms of implementation of a dream. It portends an era of socioeconomic transformation, linking the more marginalized North with the rest portion of the country. It was opened to traffic on 23 June 1998. The present study was mainly designed to assess the socioeconomic imp-act of Jamuna Bridge on farming community. The study was conducted in three villages of Saidabad Union under* Sadar Upazila in Sirajganj district of Bangladesh. Farm survey method was followed in the study. Most of the members (58.61 per cent) of the selected households were found in age group between 16.01 and 45 years. Average family size of the study area was 5.93 and it was the highest in the case of small farms. The area had a very impressive literacy profile; about 71 per cent of the family members were literate. Agriculture was found to be the main occupation of the majority (79.50 per cent) of the people in the study area, followed by business (6.32 per cent) and service (4.89 per cent). Household income was remarkably changed after the construction of Jamuna Bridge. It was found that the highest increase in income accrued in the case of medium farms. Although-income from both farm and off-farm sources was found to have increased, the share of farm income to the total income decreased by 2.20 per cent and share of off-farm income increased by 6.28 per cent. Findings of the Cobb-Douglas production function suggested that all the selected variables, viz., farm size, family size, average age of the members, average years of schooling, and income from off-farm activities except proportion of female members in the household had positive and significant impact on household income of the selected farmers. Construction of Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge has created numerous employment opportunities, especially in the off-farm sector and thus found to have contributed to alleviate poverty in the Northern region of Bangladesh as well as in the study area. Cropping patterns of the study area has changed to a considerable extent due to implementation of JMBP. It was observed that the farmers preferred crops with lesser risk higher economic returns. There was a notable positive change in vegetables production in the study area. Finally, based on the findings of the study, some policy recommendations such as establishment of agroprocessing industries, partial mechanization for farm operations, price stabilization for agricultural product, provision of credit to the farmers with soft conditions and providing self employment training to the young people, etc., were made for the sound economic development of the study area and the country.
Generation of spatial antibunching with free propagating twin beams
Creators: name: Caetano, D. P.
name: Ribeiro, P. H. Souto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and implement a novel method to produce a spatial anti-bunched field with free propagating twin beams from spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The method consists in changing the spatial propagation by manipulating the transverse degrees of freedom through reflections of one of the twin beams. Our method use reflective elements eliminating losses from absorption by the objects inserted in the beams.
description: Submitted for publication in Phys. Rev. A
Gravitational microlensing by dark matter in extended structures
Creators: name: Croon, Djuna
name: McKeen, David
name: Raj, Nirmal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter may be in the form of non-baryonic structures such as compact subhalos and boson stars. Structures weighing between asteroid and solar masses may be discovered via gravitational microlensing, an astronomical probe that has in the past helped constrain the population of primordial black holes and baryonic MACHOs. We investigate the non-trivial effect of the size of and density distribution within these structures on the microlensing signal, and constrain their populations using the EROS-2 and OGLE-IV surveys. Structures larger than a solar radius are generally constrained more weakly than point-like lenses, but stronger constraints may be obtained for structures with mass distributions that give rise to caustic crossings or produce larger magnifications.
description: 11 pages revtex4, 5 figures, 1 table; v2: Fig 1 redrawn, conclusions unchanged, references added, matches PRD version
Taxonomic composition and physiological activity of the microbial communities in heavily modified water bodies in Bulgaria
Creators: name: Iliev, Ivan
name: Tsankova, Marinela
name: Kostadinova, Sonya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Metagenomics
16S rRNA
Community level physiological profile
Microbiome structure
Microbial ecology

description: The present study aims to extend the systematic knowledge on the quantitative and qualitative composition of the aquatic microbiome in large and economically significant Bulgarian reservoirs. Water samples were collected within 4 monitoring campaigns from 9 reservoirs, belonging to 4 national types of standing water bodies. Analyses include physiological profiling (CLPP) and next generation sequencing (NGS) of the V3-V4 hypervariable region of 16S rRNA gene. The surveyed water bodies can be divided into three groups based on their AWCD (average well color development) and specific activity. The communities in Koprinka, Ovcharitsa, Aheloy and Ivaylovgrad showed high steepness of the kinetic curve rapidly reaching a plateau. AWCD indicates that these communities are dominated by a limited number of fast-growing p-strategists. The second group include Dospat and Ogosta, while Studen Kladenetz, Alexander Stamboliyski and Zhrebchevo were consolidated in a separate group with greater biodiversity and conditions suitable for the development of slow-growing k-strategists. The NGS generated 5420 operational taxonomic units (OTUs), affiliated to 1066 genera. The analysis of the taxonomic composition and the abundance showed that communities are formed by similar dominant complex, with > 95% of the total number of sequences affiliated to representatives of only 10 phyla including Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, Firmicutes, Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi, Gemmatimonadetes and Fusobacteria in decreasing order. The communities differ mainly in OTUs forming a minor component based on their relative abundance. Cluster analysis of the genera distribution along the longitudinal axis of the water bodies revealed that positioning of net-cage aquaculture farms leads to an increase of the abundance of Cyanobacteria and Bacteroidetes. The second cluster groups the sites located at the walls of water bodies. The river inflow sites and the open aquatory are characterized by a similar composition. CLPP and NGS analysis revealed that water bodies are characterized by good self-purification ability, despite the presence of net-cage farms.
Adaptive Backstepping Control for Fractional-Order Nonlinear Systems with External Disturbance and Uncertain Parameters Using Smooth Control
Creators: name: Li, Xinyao
name: Wen, Changyun
name: Zou, Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we consider controlling a class of single-input-single-output (SISO) commensurate fractional-order nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainty and external disturbance. Based on backstepping approach, an adaptive controller is proposed with adaptive laws that are used to estimate the unknown system parameters and the bound of unknown disturbance. Instead of using discontinuous functions such as the $\mathrm{sign}$ function, an auxiliary function is employed to obtain a smooth control input that is still able to achieve perfect tracking in the presence of bounded disturbances. Indeed, global boundedness of all closed-loop signals and asymptotic perfect tracking of fractional-order system output to a given reference trajectory are proved by using fractional directed Lyapunov method. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed control method, simulation examples are presented.
description: Accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems with Minor Revisions
Spin Blockade in Capacitively Coupled Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Rogge, M. C.
name: Fuhner, C.
name: Keyser, U. F.
name: Haug, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present transport measurements on a lateral double dot produced by combining local anodic oxidation and electron beam lithography. We investigate the tunability of our device and demonstrate, that we can switch between capacitive and tunnel coupling. In the regime of capacitive coupling we observe the phenomenon of spin blockade in a magnetic field and analyze the influence of capacitive interdot coupling on this effect.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Chrysobothris mali Horn 1886
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Chrysobothris
Chrysobothris mali

description: 2. Chrysobothris mali Horn, 1886
County Records: St. Louis. Literature record only (Chamberlin 1926).
Collection Dates: Unknown.
Collection Method: Unknown.
Note: This species is known to have a primarily western US distribution. This record is likely erroneous.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 186, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
The politics of big business in the European Community: Setting the agenda for a new Europe
Creators: name: Cowles, Maria Green
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This study documents the mobilization, purpose, access and power of three major multinational enterprise (MNE) groups in European Community (EC) policymaking in the early 1980s: the European Enterprise Group, the European Round Table of Industrialists, and the EC Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce. The findings reveal how big business mobilized to shape the rules, institutions and norms of the EC regulatory framework when both Member States and traditional business groups failed to do so. Based on extensive interviews and primary source data, the research demonstrates that large firms were not important policy actors in the formative years of the Community. European big business only began to pay attention to Community policymaking in the mid-1970s when the expansion of EC authority into trans-sectoral regulatory policies threatened to impose substantial costs on the MNEs. The mobilization and political activities of big business in the 1980s led to two major developments in Community policymaking: (1) big business--and not the EC Member States--largely was responsible for setting the agenda for the Single Market Program of 1985; and (2) MNEs have transformed traditional European-level business groups by replacing structures based on national federations with organizations in which individual firms often play the primary political roles. This study also reveals that traditional theories of European integration cannot account for the actors and process of EC market regulation policies. Neither neofunctionalist nor intergovernmentalist theory can explain the mobilization and activities of multinational firms in the early 1980s. Drawing on the two-level games literature, this study provides an alternative theoretical model, supragovernmentalism, to explain the actors, processes and dynamics of EC regulatory policies. According to supragovernmentalist theory, European big business and other societal interests engage in multi-level games to set and influence the EC's regulatory agenda and to limit the policy options available to Member States of the Community. Finally, the study demonstrates the growing capacity of big business in general to constrain the autonomy of nation-states. Through the creation of business alliances, MNEs increasingly participate in multi-level games to shape the rules, institutions and norms of the global political economy.
Mathematics achievement at the sixth-grade in Israel
Creators: name: Mokatrin, Saleem Mohammed
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not a gap between Arab and Jewish students in Israel exists, and, if so, to describe the nature of that gap. Specifically, the extent to which socioeconomic factors seem to be associated with mathematics performance and achievement at the sixth grade level was examined. The study included two major groups of independent variables--pupil characteristics and teacher characteristics--and one dependent variable--the achievement test outcome. The 400 students who participated in the study were selected from fourteen Israeli schools. This sample was composed of two groups: 210 Arabs and 190 Jews. The three instruments used for the collection of data were the pupil's questionnaire, the mathematics achievement test, and the teacher's questionnaire. This study found that overall there was a significant difference between the Arab and Jewish students' mean scores on the mathematics achievement test. The variable of student's sex did not result in a significant difference in test scores. When the effect of the place of birth variable was tested, the results showed that overall, immigrants performed better than the students born in Israel. But there was no statistically significant difference in the performance of the Jewish groups regardless of whether or not the students were born in Israel. The findings showed that the variables: family size, father's and mother's education, father's and mother's occupation, the teacher's degree, teacher's mathematics degree, and teacher's sex were significant in terms of the entire sample.
title: Tent Methodism: 1814 - 1832 'one soweth, and another reapeth'
Creators: name: Lander, John Kenneth
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2000

description: After John Wesley’s death in 1791, schisms from Wesleyan Methodism occurred regularly. These events were not unexpected and the authorities often accepted them with little obvious regret, even if they did not actually encourage them. The first major split took place in 1797 when the Methodist New Connexion was formed, and during the following twenty years further significant schisms led to the establishment of the Primitive Methodists and the Bible Christians. Other offshoots arose but lasted for much shorter periods. One of these was the Tent Methodists, a group that has been largely ignored by historians. Although some writers have made passing reference to the group’s presence in particular localities, the feet that Tent Methodism did not become a major national, or even a regional, body has meant that its significance has not been sufficiently recognised. The primary and secondary material documenting the group’s activities has had to be gleaned from many different places and sources. A full length biography of the second most important Tent Methodist was written shortly after his death, but no major work has charted and analysed the group’s overall impact. This thesis is an original contribution to research in the development of Methodism in the early 19th century. The main case to be made in the thesis is that although the group existed, firstly within the Wesleyan fold and then as an independent Methodist sect, for only approximately eighteen years from 1814 to about 1832, the group’s impact in that period was greater than has, hitherto, been acknowledged. Some of the personalities involved went on to serve other denominations with great devotion for many years. From a careful study of the material, it is also possible to compare and contrast Tent Methodism’s experience with that of the main groups that emerged from Wesleyan Methodism during the first two decades of the nineteenth century.
SO(10) heterotic M-theory vacua
Creators: name: Garavuso, Richard S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SO(10) embedding of the Standard Model spectrum is supported by evidence for neutrino masses. This thesis adapts the available formalism to study a class of heterotic M-theory vacua with SO(10) grand unification group. Compactification to four dimensions with N = 1 supersymmetry is achieved on a torus fibered Calabi-Yau 3-fold Z = X / tau_{X} with first homotopy group pi_{1}(Z) = Z_{2}. Here X is an elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau 3-fold which admits two global sections and tau_{X} is a freely acting involution on X. The vacua in this class have net number of three generations of chiral fermions in the observable sector and may contain M5-branes in the bulk space which wrap holomorphic curves in Z. Vacua with nonvanishing and vanishing instanton charges in the observable sector are considered. The latter case corresponds to potentially viable matter Yukawa couplings. Since pi_{1}(Z) = Z_{2}, the grand unification group can be broken with Z_{2} Wilson lines. Realistic free-fermionic models preserve the SO(10) embedding of the Standard Model spectrum. These models have a stage in their construction which corresponds to Z_{2} x Z_{2} orbifold compactification of the weakly coupled 10-dimensional heterotic string. This correspondence identifies associated Calabi-Yau 3-folds which possess the structure of the above Z and X. This, in turn, allows the above formalism to be used to study heterotic M-theory vacua associated with realistic free-fermionic models. It is argued how the top quark Yukawa coupling in these models can be reproduced in the heterotic M-theory limit.
description: D. Phil. thesis. 78 pages, 1 figure