cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bernard Lonergan’s cognitive theory and Aristotlian [sic] phronesis : toward a conception of performative objectivity in virtue ethics
Creators: name: Fitterer, Robert John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Virtue ethics bases moral decision-making, in part, in a skills-like ability to spot morally salient features in the phenomenal world. Aristotle, an exemplar of such ethics, developed a theory of practical wisdom (phronesis) wherein the person of moral expertise makes sound ethical judgments and decisions via direct insight into concrete circumstances. Phronesis involves emotive discernment and agent-relative construal of the world. But emotions and perspectives can also be linked with bias and poor judgment. How are we to think about objectivity if virtue ethics relies upon such apparently subjective factors as emotively influenced dispositions? Bernard Lonergan developed a theory of insight-based human understanding and explores its operation in the concrete circumstances of practical living. His theory offers a process of human learning and knowing that does not avoid emotions and agent-perspectives but seeks to so operate within these factors as to produce a state we could validly call 'being objective.' Agreeing with Aristotle on a key role for emotions, Lonergan goes much further in claiming that some mode of the emotion of love should play a critical role in attaining the insights required for virtue ethics. His treatment of love, however, remains vague. Martha Nussbaum, on the other hand, provides very rich treatment of how love, understood as compassion, can act as a control for perspectival discernment and moral insight. Her theory fills out Lonergan's, allowing us more clearly to see how love (and other emotions) could be conducive to fostering objective viewpoints within morally charged circumstances. Objectivity in virtue ethics can be understood, then, to be what we are more or less attaining to the degree that we self-consciously apprehend and deploy our innate modes of insight-induction and aim these cognitive processes toward a world construed by a background concern of care and compassion.
Assessing the impact of rural policy on biodiversity: High Nature Value Farming in Italy
Creators: name: Trisorio, Antonella
name: Borlizzi, Andrea
name: Trisorio, Antonella
name: Borlizzi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: High Nature Value
subject: monitoring and evaluation
subject: biodiversity indicator
subject: farming systems.

description: Farming practices and the conservation value of farmland are intimately interconnected. The recent policy debate has shed light on the need to address farming activities towards a more sustainable path, and has advocated for a reallocation of payments towards farming systems that provide public goods. This paper aims to explore likely HNV farms policy needs through the use of HNV farming system indicators.
A Method to Separate Stochastic and Deterministic Information from Electrocardiograms
Creators: name: Gutiérrez, R. M.
name: Sandoval, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present a new idea to develop a method to separate stochastic and deterministic information contained in an electrocardiogram, ECG, which may provide new sources of information with diagnostic purposes. We assume that the ECG has information corresponding to many different processes related with the cardiac activity as well as contamination from different sources related with the measurement procedure and the nature of the observed system itself. The method starts with the application of an improuved archetypal analysis to separate the mentioned stochastic and deterministic information. From the stochastic point of view we analyze Renyi entropies, and with respect to the deterministic perspective we calculate the autocorrelation function and the corresponding correlation time. We show that healthy and pathologic information may be stochastic and/or deterministic, can be identified by different measures and located in different parts of the ECG.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
2010 Michigan Land Values and Leasing Rates
Creators: name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Harsh, Stephen B.
name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Harsh, Stephen B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics

description: Land is a natural resource that is valued for many reasons. Farmers utilize land to earn their livelihood and as a store of wealth for future retirement. Potential rural residents have increasingly sought open space for a home site and pursuit of a lifestyle. Developers seek financial opportunities to invest in and develop it for non-farm uses. Recreational needs such as hunting are often met through use of land. For some, land is viewed as an investment and a hedge against inflation. This myriad of demands for land combined with its fixed supply continually alters its market price, which is a monetary measure of its perceived value.
INFRASTRUCTURE, MARKET ACCESS, AND AGRICULTURAL PRICES: EVIDENCE FROM MADAGASCAR
Creators: name: Minten, Bart
name: Minten, Bart
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Markets
subject: Prices
subject: Price regulation
subject: Madagascar
subject: Economic Infrastructure

description: The effect of recent agricultural market reforms in many developing countries is often measured through tests for market integration by analyzing co-variation of food prices. However, market integration studies often fail to link the discovery of the lack of integration to causal factors. This analysis documents and relates price variation to structural determinants in the case of Madagascar. The spatial variability between communities is linked to the distance to a paved road, the quality of the road, access to soft infrastructure, and the level of competition between traders. Differences in seasonal variation are mainly related to the differential opportunity costs of capital in rice villages and to hard infrastructure in non-rice villages. Communities that lack basic infrastructure show lower prices during the harvest season and higher seasonal gaps. Moreover, it is shown that road distance matters more than road quality during the harvest period as there is no strong relationship between road quality and the producer price decline per unit of time. While the presence of roads shows up in relatively higher producer prices, it does not automatically lead to more competition among traders. Hence, investment in hard infrastructure is not sufficient to successfully increase market access. However, soft infrastructure on top of hard infrastructure seems beneficial for increased producer prices, reduced price variability, and improved market integration.
Coelophora bowringii Crotch 1874
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coelophora
Coelophora bowringii

description: 42. bowringii Crotch, 1874
Distribution: India (Northeastern region: Assam, Nagaland); Myanmar; China.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Least Massive Known Brown Dwarf in Chamaeleon
Creators: name: Luhman, K. L.
name: Peterson, Dawn E.
name: Megeath, S. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectroscopy of two candidate substellar members of the Chamaeleon I star-forming region. The candidates, which were identified photometrically by Oasa, Tamura, & Sugitani, have been observed at 1-2.5 micron during commissioning of the Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph. The late-type nature of one of the candidates, OTS 44, is confirmed through the detection of strong steam absorption bands. The other object, OTS 7, exhibits no late-type features and is likely a background star or galaxy. The gravity-sensitive shape of the H- and K-band continua demonstrate that OTS 44 is a young, pre-main-sequence object rather than a field dwarf. We measure a spectral type of M9.5 for OTS 44 based on a comparison of its spectrum to data for optically-classified young late-type objects. Because OTS 44 is the coolest and faintest object with confirmed membership in Chamaeleon I, it is very likely the least massive known member of the cluster. By comparing the position of OTS 44 on the H-R diagram to the evolutionary models of Chabrier & Baraffe, we infer a mass of ~0.015 M_sun. Although this estimate is uncertain by at least a factor of two, OTS 44 is nevertheless one of the least massive free-floating brown dwarfs confirmed spectroscopically to date.
description: 10 pages, The Astrophysical Journal, 2004, v617 (December 10)
Freely forming groups: Trying to be rare
Creators: name: Baake, Michael
name: Grimm, Uwe
name: Jockusch, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A simple weakly frequency dependent model for the dynamics of a population with a finite number of types is proposed, based upon an advantage of being rare. In the infinite population limit, this model gives rise to a non-smooth dynamical system that reaches its globally stable equilibrium in finite time. This dynamical system is sufficiently simple to permit an explicit solution, built piecewise from solutions of the logistic equation in continuous time. It displays an interesting tree-like structure of coalescing components.
description: 8 pages with 1 figure; final version
Coelophora circumvelata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coelophora
Coelophora circumvelata

description: 43. circumvelata (Mulsant, 1850)
Distribution: India (Northeastern region: Assam, Meghalaya); Nepal; China; The Philippines.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Modeling Agricultural Innovation in a Rapidly Developing Country: The Case of Chinese Pesticide Industry
Creators: name: Shi, Guanming
name: Pray, Carl E.
name: Shi, Guanming
name: Pray, Carl E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Innovation
subject: Pesticide
subject: China
subject: Patent

description: Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and developing countries. We investigate how policy and market factors influence firms’ (or other potential innovators’) decisions on innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more international trade, more investment in public research and education, strengthening intellectual property right (IPR) enforcement, and limiting the role of foreign inventors. However, the role of the extension of patent life in the early 1990s has little impact. Theory and some of our measures of market size suggest that this factor also is important, but the empirical evidence is mixed. The results suggest that the government policies for openness, public research and education and IPR enforcement can encourage innovation. Limiting foreign invention could encourage more local patenting but might limit Chinese farmers’ access to new technology.
Quantum key distribution over scattering channel
Creators: name: Lu, Qi-Hang
name: Wang, Fang-Xiang
name: Huang, Kun
name: Wu, Xin
name: Wang, Shuang
name: He, De-Yong
name: Yin, Zhen-Qiang
name: Guo, Guang-Can
name: Chen, Wei
name: Han, Zheng-Fu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering of light by cloud, haze, and fog decreases the transmission efficiency of communication channels in quantum key distribution (QKD), reduces the system's practical security, and thus constrains the deployment of free-space QKD. Here, we employ the wavefront shaping technology to compensate distorted optical signals in high-loss scattering quantum channels and fulfill a polarization-encoded BB84 QKD experiment. With this quantum channel compensation technology, we achieve a typical enhancement of about 250 in transmission efficiency and improve the secure key rate from 0 to $1.85\times10^{-6}$ per sifted key. The method and its first time validation show the great potential to expand the territory of QKD systems from lossless channels to highly scattered ones and therefore enhances the deployment ability of global quantum communication network.
description: 8 Pages, 5 Figures and comments are welcome
Coelophora duvaucelii
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coelophora
Coelophora duvaucelii

description: 45. duvaucelii (Mulsant, 1850)
Distribution: India (Northeastern region, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal, Andamans); Bhutan; Myanmar; China; Vietnam; China; Indonesia; Malaysia; Laos.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Improved Seed, Intra-crop Diversity and Risk Exposure in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Chiputwa, Brian
name: Kostandini, Genti
name: Escalante, Cesar L.
name: Chiputwa, Brian
name: Kostandini, Genti
name: Escalante, Cesar L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Replaced with revised version of poster 07/15/11.
Failure of confined granular media due to pullout of an intruder: From force networks to a system wide response
Creators: name: Shah, Srujal
name: Cheng, Chao
name: Jalali, Payman
name: Kondic, Lou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate computationally the pullout of a spherical intruder initially buried at the bottom of a granular column. The intruder starts to move out of the granular bed once the pulling force reaches a critical value, leading to material failure. The failure point is found to depend on the diameter of the granular column, pointing out the importance of particle-wall interaction in determining the material response. Discrete element simulations show that prior to failure, the contact network is essentially static, with only minor rearrangements of the particles. However, the force network, which includes not only the contact information, but also the information about the interaction strength, undergoes a nontrivial evolution. An initial insight is reached by considering the relative magnitudes of normal and tangential forces between the particles, and in particular the proportion of contacts that reach Coulomb threshold. More detailed understanding of the processes leading to failure is reached by the analysis of both spatial and temporal properties of the force network using the tools of persistent homology. We find that the forces between the particles undergo intermittent temporal variations ahead of the failure. In addition to this temporal intermittency, the response of the force network is found to be spatially dependent and influenced by proximity to the intruder. Furthermore, the response is modified significantly by the interaction strength, with the relevant measures describing the response showing differing behavior for the contacts characterized by large interaction forces.
A Neptune-Mass Planet Orbiting the Nearby M Dwarf GJ 436
Creators: name: Butler, Paul
name: Vogt, Steven S.
name: Marcy, Geoffrey W.
name: Fischer, Debra A.
name: Wright, Jason T.
name: Henry, Gregory W.
name: Laughlin, Greg
name: Lissauer, Jack
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report precise Doppler measurements of GJ 436 (M2.5V) obtained at Keck Observatory. The velocities reveal a planetary companion with orbital period of 2.644 d, eccentricity of 0.12 (consistent with zero) and velocity semi-amplitude of $K =18.1$ \ms. The minimum mass (\msini) for the planet is 0.067 \mjup = 1.2 M$_{\rm NEP}$ = 21 M$_{\rm EARTH}$, making it the lowest mass exoplanet yet found around a main sequence star and the first candidate in the Neptune mass domain. GJ 436 (Mass = 0.41 \msune) is only the second M dwarf found to harbor a planet, joining the two--planet system around GJ 876. The low mass of the planet raises questions about its constitution, with possible compositions of primarily H and He gas, ice/rock, or rock--dominated. The implied semi--major axis is $a$ = 0.028 AU = 14 stellar radii, raising issues of planet formation, migration, and tidal coupling with the star. GJ 436 is $>3$ Gyr old, based on both kinematic and chromospheric diagnostics. The star exhibits no photometric variability on the 2.644-day Doppler period to a limiting amplitude of 0.0004 mag, supporting the planetary interpretation of the Doppler periodicity. Photometric transits of the planet across the star are ruled out for gas giant compositions and are also unlikely for solid compositions. As the third closest known planetary system, GJ 436 warrants follow--up observations by high resolution optical and IR
Tetracene ultrathin film growth on silicon
Creators: name: Niederhausen, Jens
name: Aldahhak, Hazem
name: MacQueen, Rowan W.
name: Schmidt, Wolf Gero
name: Gerstmann, Uwe
name: Lips, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inorganic-organic interfaces are important for enhancing the power conversion efficiency of silicon-based solar cells through singlet exciton fission (SF). We elucidated the structure of the first monolayers of tetracene (Tc), a SF molecule, on hydrogen-passivated Si(111) [H-Si(111)] and hydrogenated amorphous Si (a-Si:H) by combining near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) experiments with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. For samples grown at or below substrate temperatures of 265 K, the resulting ultrathin Tc films are dominated by almost upright-standing molecules. The molecular arrangement is very similar to the Tc bulk phase, with only slightly higher average angle between the conjugated molecular plane normal and the surface normal ($α$) around 77°. Judging from carbon K-edge X-ray absorption spectra, the orientation of the Tc molecules are almost identical when grown on H-Si(111) and a-Si:H substrates as well as for (sub)mono- to several-monolayer coverages. Annealing to room temperature, however, changes the film structure towards a smaller $α$ of about 63°. A detailed DFT-assisted analysis suggests that this structural transition is correlated with a lower packing density and requires a well-chosen amount of thermal energy. Therefore, we attribute the resulting structure to a distinct monolayer configuration that features less inclined, but still well-ordered molecules. The larger overlap with the substrate wavefunctions makes this arrangement attractive for an optimized interfacial electron transfer in SF-assisted silicon solar cells.
ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬСКАЯ ДИСЦИПЛИНА КАК ВАЖНЫЙ ЭЛЕМЕНТ ПРОЦЕССА ПРОИЗВОДСТВА ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙ
Creators: name: Алиева, Умида
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Исполнительская дисциплина является ключевым аспектом эффективного управления производственными процессами, особенно в геологоразведочных компаниях, таких как АО «Узбек Геологоразведка». В данной статье исследуется влияние исполнительской дисциплины на производственную деятельность, выявляются проблемы, связанные с недостаточной компетентностью сотрудников и неэффективным руководством, и предлагаются решения по повышению исполнительской дисциплины. Важность исполнительской дисциплины выражается в соблюдении сроков выполнения задач, минимизации рисков производственных задержек и повышении качества работ. Также рассматривается роль компетентных сотрудников и навыков руководителей в организации эффективной работы.
Advanced Biofuel Production in Louisiana Sugar Mills: an Application of Real Options Analysis
Creators: name: Darby, Paul M.
name: Mark, Tyler B.
name: Detre, Joshua D.
name: Salassi, Michael E.
name: Darby, Paul M.
name: Mark, Tyler B.
name: Detre, Joshua D.
name: Salassi, Michael E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: real options
subject: risk
subject: uncertainty
subject: cellulosic ethanol
subject: energy cane
subject: sorghum
subject: bagasse
subject: simulation

description: In order to more fully study the risks and uncertainty involved in cellulosic ethanol production, we examine a simulated plant in South Louisiana using Real Options Analysis
The signature of dark energy on the local Hubble flow
Creators: name: Maccio', Andrea V.
name: Governato, Fabio
name: Horellou, Cathy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using N-body simulations of flat, dark energy dominated cosmologies, we show that galaxies around simulated binary systems resembling the Local Group (LG) have low peculiar velocities, in good agreement with observational data. We have compared results for LG-like systems selected from large, high resolution simulations of three cosmologies: a LCDM model, a LWDM model with a 2 keV warm dark matter candidate and a quintessence model (QCDM) with an equation of state parameter w=-0.6. The Hubble flow is significant colder around LGs selected in a flat, Lambda dominated cosmology than around LGs in open or critical models, showing that a dark energy component manifests itself on the scales of nearby galaxies, cooling galaxy peculiar motions. Flows in the LWDM and QCDM models are marginally colder than in the LCDM one. The results of our simulations have been compared to existing data and a new data set of 28 nearby galaxies with robust distance measures (Cepheids and Surface Brightness Fluctuations). The measured line-of-sight velocity dispersion is sigma = 88 +- 20 km/sec x (R/7 Mpc). The best agreement with observations is found for LGs selected in the $Λ$CDM cosmology in environments with -0.1
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, minor changes to match the accepted version by MNRAS
Forecasting Corn Futures Volatility in the Presence of Long Memory, Seasonality and Structural Change
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaoyang
name: Garcia, Philip
name: Wang, Xiaoyang
name: Garcia, Philip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: corn price volatility
subject: long memory
subject: seasonality
subject: structural change
subject: forecasting

description: Price volatility in the corn market has changed considerably globalization and stronger linkages to the energy complex. Using data from January 1989 through December 2009, we estimate and forecast the volatility in the corn market using futures daily prices. Estimates in a Fractional Integrated GARCH framework identify the importance of long memory, seasonality, and structural change. Recursively generated forecasts for up to 40-day horizons starting in January 2005 highlight the importance of seasonality, and long memory specifications which perform well at more distant horizons particularly with rising volatility. The forecast benefits of allowing for structural change in an adaptive framework are more difficult to identify except at more distant horizons after a large downturn in volatility.
Coelophora inaequalis
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coelophora
Coelophora inaequalis

description: 46. inaequalis (Fabricius, 1775)
Distribution: India (Andamans); Sri Lanka; Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines); New Guinea; New Caledonia; Micronesia; Australia; Introduced in New Zealand, Hawaii and Florida.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Discrete heat kernel, UV modified Green's function, and higher derivative theories
Creators: name: Kan, Nahomi
name: Kuniyasu, Masashi
name: Shiraishi, Kiyoshi
name: Wu, Zhenyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform the UV deformation of the Green's function in free scalar field theory using a discrete heat kernel method. It is found that the simplest UV deformation based on the discretized diffusion equation leads to the well-known Pauli-Villars effective Lagrangian. Furthermore, by extending assumptions on the discretized equation, we find that the general higher derivative theory is derived from the present UV deformation. In some specific cases, we also calculate the vacuum expectation values of the scalar field squared in nontrivial background spaces and examine their dependence on the UV cutoff constant.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures. final version
Detections of Molecular Hydrogen in the Outer Filaments of NGC 1275
Creators: name: Hatch, N. A.
name: Crawford, C. S.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Johnstone, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present clear spectroscopic detections of molecular hydrogen in the outer filaments of the H-alpha nebula surrounding the central galaxy of the Perseus cluster, NGC 1275. This implies the presence of warm molecular gas clouds at projected distances up to 24 kpc from the nucleus of the host galaxy, embedded in the hot intracluster medium. The emission-line intensity ratios reveal that the molecular hydrogen is predominately thermally excited with excitation temperatures of 1600-2200K, suggesting a lack of pressure balance between the molecular component and its surrounding medium. Excitation by stellar UV or by the central AGN is shown to be unlikely, whilst thermal excitation by X-rays or conduction from the ICM or shocks are all possibilities. Evidence for a non-thermal component is found in the spectra of some regions based on a low ortho-to-para ratio.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 9 pages, 9 figures
Adaptation to organizational change
Creators: name: Farrell, Seonaid
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The dimensional structure of adaptation to organizational change was identified. The dimensions were related to personality, work attitude, and job stress variables. The research extends previous research on adaptation to change at work (e.g. Chan, 2000; Pulakos et al., 2000) by examining adaptation in the context of large-scale organizational change and by empirically deriving its dimensional structure. Characteristics of adaptation to organizational change were identified by obtaining critical incidents of adaptation from 47 managers from four organizations following a merger and restructuring. A questionnaire was developed from these characteristics to measure adaptation to organizational change. Data on the questionnaire from 553 managers yielded five dimensions, which were interpreted and labelled: Supporting Change, Resisting Change, Career Development, Initiating Effort, and Building Social Capital. Openness, emotional stability, agreeableness, and positive self-concept were positively related to four of the five adaptation dimensions. Linear combinations of the personality traits predicted the adaptation dimensions moderately well (Rs ranged .29 to .42). Work attitude variables were associated with Resisting Change. Job stress was positively related to Resisting Change and Initiating Effort. Two second-order factors were obtained, distinguishing between problem-focused and emotion-focused adaptation dimensions. A taxonomy of adaptation strategies was identified to reveal how individuals differ in their relative use of the five adaptation dimensions. These strategies were interpreted and labelled: strategy 1, strategy 2, highly responsive, moderately responsive, and unresponsive. Adaptation to organizational change is a multidimensional construct representing meaningful differences in how employees adapt. The five dimensions appear to differ on the basis of whether they reflect problem-focused or emotion-focused efforts to adapt. The implications for management practice include both personnel selection and training. Personnel selection on the basis of personality traits would increase adaptability among employees. Measurement of adaptation to organizational change among employees would then identify developmental needs, and training could be designed to meet those needs.
New brown dwarf companions to dM(e) stars
Creators: name: Seifahrt, Andreas
name: Mugrauer, Markus
name: Wiese, Manuela
name: Neuhaeuser, Ralph
name: Guenther, Eike W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new astrometric and spectroscopic data to confirm two new M/L dwarf systems, G124-62 and LHS5166, and discuss the nature of a third system (LP261-75). Age and thus mass determinations of the L dwarf companions are discussed based on various activity-age relationships of the M dwarf primaries. This publication will update the list of widely separated substellar companions to nearby stars.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the proceedings of the workshop "Ultralow-mass star formation and evolution", to be published in AN
Additional file 3 of Nutrition as an etiological factor causing diseases in endangered huemul deer
Creators: name: Flueck, Werner T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 3: The case of parapoxvirus causing foot disease in huemul. The putative first-ever parapoxvirus (PPV) infection in a single huemul was concluded to have resulted in foot lesions, and would be the first case in exotic or native cervids in South America. The atypical disease symptoms may relate to presuming that PPV was correctly identified. Globally, PPV in cervids occur in most geographical regions, but numbering very few incidences. Instead, the unexpected virulence may relate to nutrition, like severe selenium deficiency in huemul co-occurring with osteopathology. Patagonia has Se deficient plants, livestock, soils, and huemul with osteopathology are deficient in the key micro-nutrients Se, Cu and Mn.
Star shaped patterns caused by colloidal aggregation during the spreading process of a droplet
Creators: name: Shimokawa, Michiko
name: Kitahata, Hiroyuki
name: Sakaguchi, Hidetsugu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This research found that when an acidic solution with a low surface tension spread on the surface of a glycerol solution mixed with milk, a star shaped pattern was spontaneously formed on the surface in the horizontal plane during the spreading process. We investigated the emergence of the star shaped pattern owing to an interfacial instability in experiments using glycerol solutions with several viscosities and 2-methoxyethanol aqueous solutions, which are acidic solutions, with several concentrations. This result demonstrated that the star shaped pattern emerged in the high concentration of 2-methoxyethanol. We proposed a phenomenological model, based on our experimental results, which explains three points as follows; the spreading of the 2-methoxyethanol aqueous solution on the surface of the glycerol solution, the colloidal aggregation of the milk protein colloids caused by the denaturation that occurs when mixed with 2-methoxyethanol, and the accumulation of the aggregates toward the dent regions of the moving interface by a sweeping effect. The model reproduces the formation of the star shaped pattern which was similar to the experimental one. Furthermore, the model provided a phase diagram against the concentration of the 2-methoxyethanol solution and the viscosity of the glycerol solution as control parameters in our experiments. The phase diagram was close to that obtained from our experiments. The results suggest that the above three points are important for the formation of the star shaped pattern.
A vector-like heavy quark in the Littlest Higgs model
Creators: name: Lee, Jae Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Littlest Higgs model contains a new vector-like heavy quark in the up sector. There are two interesting features of its existence. One is that it extends the $3\times3$ CKM matrix in the Standard Model to a $4\times3$ matrix and the other is that it allows Z-mediated flavor changing neutral currents at tree level in the up sector but not in the down sector. We examine a few of possible windows in which the Z-mediated flavor changing neutral currents in the Littlest Higgs Model can be tested.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures; typos added; section 4 changed
Additional file 2 of Nutrition as an etiological factor causing diseases in endangered huemul deer
Creators: name: Flueck, Werner T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2: Deficient antler development in huemul. According to antler biology, and in agreement with known species-specific antler phenotypes in huemul, these antler developments from Bernardo O’Higgins National Park (Chile) qualify as subnormal, indicating severe nutritional limitations for the annual cycle of regrowing antlers.
Coelophora lushuiensis
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coelophora
Coelophora lushuiensis

description: 47. lushuiensis (Jing, 1992)
Distribution: India (Manipur); China; Laos.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard 2: Impacts of Cellulosic Biofuel Production
Creators: name: Beckman, Jayson F.
name: Evans, Samuel
name: Sands, Ronald D.
name: Beckman, Jayson F.
name: Evans, Samuel
name: Sands, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biofuel
subject: Renewable Fuel Standard
subject: Cellulosic Feedstocks
subject: Computable General Equilibrium

description: Biofuels have been widely promoted as an important part of the global energy mix, due to public interest in alternative energy sourcing and a potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Concurrently, questions have been raised about the social and environmental costs of biofuel production. While previous studies have focused primarily on biofuel production from conventional, starch-based feedstocks, this study provides a preliminary analysis of the production of cellulosic-based ethanol mandated in the U.S. renewable fuel standard. Using a global general equilibrium framework and switchgrass as a model bioenergy crop, results suggests that meeting the mandate will further intensify competition for land both domestically and abroad. Impacts of cellulosic production on global commodity prices, quantities, export, and land use are also documented.
Heavy Flavor Probes of Quark Matter
Creators: name: Thews, R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A brief survey of the role of heavy flavors as a probe of the state of matter produced by high energy heavy ion collisions is presented. Specific examples include energy loss, initial state gluon saturation, thermalization and flow. The formation of quarkonium bound states from interactions in which multiple heavy quark-antiquark pairs are initially produced is examined in general. Results from statistical hadronization and kinetic models are summarized. New predictions from the kinetic model for J/Psi at RHIC are presented.
description: Based on invited plenary talk at Strange Quark Matter 2004, Cape Town, South Africa, September 15-20, 2004, references completed, published in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31 (2005) S641-S649
Factors Influencing Cotton Farmers’ Perceptions about the Importance of Information Sources in Precision Farming Decisions
Creators: name: Velandia, Margarita M.
name: Lambert, Dayton M.
name: Mendieta, Maria P.
name: Roberts, Roland K.
name: Larson, James A.
name: English, Burton C.
name: Rejesus, Roderick M.
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Velandia, Margarita M.
name: Lambert, Dayton M.
name: Mendieta, Maria P.
name: Roberts, Roland K.
name: Larson, James A.
name: English, Burton C.
name: Rejesus, Roderick M.
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Information-source preferences
subject: Rank Ordered Logit Model
subject: Precision Farming

description: Information generated by precision farming technologies is of particular importance to producers. Precision farming technologies implies the ability to improve the management of production factors using site-specific information. This study examines factors influencing cotton farmers’ perceptions about the importance of crop consultants, farm input dealerships, Extension, other farmers, trade shows, the Internet and printed news/media for making precision farming decisions using a rank ordered logit model (ROLM). Results suggest that age, land tenure, income, percentage of income from farming, and location may affect farmers’ perceptions about the importance of different information sources when making decisions about precision farming technologies. Results suggest that regardless of farmer/farm business characteristics other farmers (OF) is one of the most important information sources when making precision farming decisions. Findings suggest that high income producers are more likely to prefer crop consultants, University/Extension, trade shows, and the Internet over OF as a source of information when making decisions about precision farming technologies. Findings also suggest that researchers need to be very careful when designing questions that ask respondents to rank alternatives so that they guarantee that individuals with different skills are able to precisely understand what is being asked. Decreasing the number of alternatives respondents must consider may be one strategy to reduce the complexity of ranking questions to minimize the probability of the respondents leaving alternatives unranked or ranking them randomly.
Theory of enhanced proximity effect by mid gap Andreev resonant state in diffusive normal metal / triplet superconductor junctions
Creators: name: Tanaka, Y.
name: Kashiwaya, S.
name: Yokoyama, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Enhanced proximity effect by mid gap Andreev resonant state (MARS) in a diffusive normal metal / insulator / triplet superconductor (DN/TS) junction is studied based on the Keldysh-Nambu quasiclassical Green's function formalism. By choosing a p-wave superconductor as a typical example of TS, conductance of the junction and the spatial variation of quasiparticle local density of states (LDOS) in DN are calculated as the function of the magnitudes of the resistance $R_{d}$, Thouless energy in DN and the transparency of the insulating barrier. The resulting conductance spectrum has a zero bias conductance peak (ZBCP) and LDOS has a zero energy peak (ZEP) except for $α= π/2$ $(0 \leq α\leq π/2)$, where $α$ denotes the angle between the lobe direction of the p-wave pair potential to the normal to the interface. These peaks are revealed to be suppressed by applying a magnetic field. When the magnitude of $R_{d}/R_{0}$ is sufficiently large, the total zero voltage resistance of the junction is almost independent of the $R_{d}$ for $α\neq π/2$. The extreme case is $α=0$, where total zero voltage resistance is always $R_{0}/2$. Based on these results, a crucial test to identify triplet pairing superconductors based on tunneling experiments is proposed.
Sequencing Renewables: Groundwater, Recycled Water, and Desalination
Creators: name: Roumasset, James A.
name: Wada, Christopher
name: Roumasset, James A.
name: Wada, Christopher
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Renewable resources
subject: dynamic optimization
subject: groundwater allocation
subject: wastewater reuse
subject: recycling
subject: reclamation
subject: water quality

description: Optimal recycling of minerals can be thought of as an integral part of the theory of the mine. In this paper, we consider the role that wastewater recycling plays in the optimal extraction of groundwater, a renewable resource. We develop a two-sector dynamic optimization model to solve for the optimal trajectories of groundwater extraction and water recycling. For the case of spatially increasing recycling costs, recycled water serves as a supplemental resource in transition to the steady state. For constant unit recycling cost, recycled wastewater is eventually used as a sector-specific backstop for agricultural users, while desalination supplements household groundwater in the steady state. In both cases, recycling water increases welfare by shifting demand away from the aquifer, thus delaying implementation of costly desalination. The model provides guidance on when and how much to develop resource alternatives.
Coelophora minki
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Coelophora
Coelophora minki

description: 48. minki (Mulsant, 1866)
Distribution: Sri Lanka; Indonesia (Java).
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 281, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Cotton Price Policy and New Cereal Technology in the Malian Cotton Zone
Creators: name: Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.
name: Sanders, John H.
name: Preckel, Paul V.
name: Baker, Timothy G.
name: Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.
name: Sanders, John H.
name: Preckel, Paul V.
name: Baker, Timothy G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Cotton prices
subject: improved sorghum technology
subject: discrete stochastic programming
subject: Mali

description: During the last decade, cotton production and area have been declining as a result of depleting soil nutrients and low cotton prices in the cotton zone of Mali. This paper shows that the Malian government’s 2011 policy to increase the farm gate cotton price as a response to world cotton price increase enhances farm income but has less impact on cotton than on maize production. A complementary policy of introducing new sorghum technologies would have an equal impact on farmers’ incomes in the cotton zone of Mali.
Additional file 1 of Nutrition as an etiological factor causing diseases in endangered huemul deer
Creators: name: Flueck, Werner T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Concentration of selenium, copper and manganese in hair from huemul deer from the Protected Park Shoonem, Alto Rio Senguer (province of Chubut, Argentina). Deficiency levels as determined for other cervids, when they are below:
A symmetry principle for emergent spacetime
Creators: name: Shaghoulian, Edgar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are many examples where geometry and gravity are concepts that emerge from a theory of quantum mechanics without gravity. This suggests thinking of gravity as an exotic phase of matter. Quantifying this phase in the Landau paradigm requires some sort of symmetry principle or order parameter that captures its appearance. In this essay we propose higher-form symmetries as a symmetry principle underlying emergent spacetime. We explore higher-form symmetries in gauge-gravity duality and explain how their breaking describes features of a gravitational theory. Such symmetries imply the existence of nonlocal objects in the gravitational theory -- in gauge-gravity duality these are the strings and branes of the bulk theory -- giving an alternative way to understand the nonlocality necessary in any ultraviolet completion of gravity.
description: 6 pages. Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2020 Awards for Essays on Gravitation
Superradiance from BEC vortices: a numerical study
Creators: name: Federici, F.
name: Cherubini, C.
name: Succi, S.
name: Tosi, M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scattering of sound wave perturbations from vortex excitations of Bose-Einstein condensates(BEC) is investigated by numerical integration of the associated Klein-Gordon equation. It is found that, at sufficiently high angular speeds, sound wave-packets can extract a sizeable fraction of the vortex energy through a mechanism of superradiant scattering. It is conjectured that this superradiant regime may be detectable in BEC experiments.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures