cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The productivity of the Spanish banking system in the ’80s: international comparison
Creators: name: PÉREZ GARCÍA, F.
name: DOMÉNECH VILARIÑO, R.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Spanish banking system
subject: G21

description: In this paper the authors set out to determine whether the present Spanish banking system is as inefficient as previous studies have indicated. In order to achieve this aim they use a methodology similar to that of other researchers who have completed industry studies. They also discuss the evolution of the Spanish banking system during the 1980s. JEL: G21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 181 (1992)
Re-Centering Indigenous Knowledge Systems Into Contemporary Jazz Bass
Creators: name: De Souza, Steve
name: Deja, Rick
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2022
Subjects: Musicology and ethnomusicology
Music composition and improvisation
Music education
Music performance

description: This video was filmed by the South African College of Music (University of Cape Town) on 30 November 2021. It shows the full performance of Stephen de Souza's creative project, performed in Chisholm Recital Room (C7), Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. This video accompanies Stephen de Souza's (2022) Masters dissertation entitled “Re-Centering Indigenous Knowledge Systems into Contemporary Jazz Bass.”
 This project aims to determine how one can incorporate indigenous music and performance practices into contemporary jazz using the double bass and bass guitar as tools for mediation. It specifically investigates the Southern African and the Middle Eastern regions via the Indian Ocean connection. This project combines performance and ethnography and details the process I went through in the pursuit for musical inclusivity as a South African bassist.
The territorial biorefinery as a new business model
Creators: name: Ceapraz, Ion Lucian
name: Kotbi, Gaëlle
name: Sauvée, Loïc
name: Ceapraz, Ion Lucian
name: Kotbi, Gaëlle
name: Sauvée, Loïc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Territorial biorefinery
subject: innovation
subject: business model
subject: industrial and territorial ecology

description: The transition toward more sustainable industries opens the way for alternative solutions based upon new economic models using agricultural inputs or biomass to substitute oil-based inputs. In this context different generations of biorefinery complexes are evolving rapidly and highlight the numerous possibilities for the organization of processing activities, from supply to final markets. The evolution of these biorefineries has followed two main business models, the port biorefinery, based on the import of raw materials, and the territorial biorefinery, based on strong relationships with local (or regional) supply bases. In this article we focus on the concept of the ‘territorial biorefinery’, seen as a new business model. We develop the idea of a link between the biorefinery and its territory through several relevant theoretical approaches and demonstrate that the definition of ‘territorial biorefinery’ does not achieve, from these theoretical backgrounds, a consensus. More importantly, we emphasise that the theoretical assumptions underlying the different definitions used should be made explicit in order to facilitate the manner in which practioners study, develop and set up businesses of this kind.
Zusammen sind wir stark! Eine Interventionsstudie zur Verbesserung des Klassenklimas anhand von drei K-Bausteinen: Klassenregeln - Klassenrat - Kooperationsspiele
Creators: name: Bühler, Daniela
name: Fasciati, Esther
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Klassenklima
Interventionsstudie
Masterarbeit

description: Das Klassenklima wird in der Pädagogik als bedeutungsvoll angesehen und trägt dazu bei, dass Lernende partizipieren und sich integrieren können. Anhand einer zwölfwöchigen Intervention, die sich an den drei K-Bausteinen Klassenregeln, Klassenrat und Kooperationsspiele anlehnt, wird das Ziel angestrebt, das Klassenklima in einer 1. und 4.-6. Klasse durch gestärkte Beziehungen der Schüler_innen untereinander zu verbessern. Mittels Fragebogen und Interviews wurde untersucht, wie sich die Intervention auf die subjektive Wahrnehmung des Klassenklimas auswirkt. Die Daten dokumentieren, dass die Lernenden die K-Bausteine als bedeutsam einschätzen, sich in ihren Klassen wohl fühlen und die Beziehungen zu den Mitschüler_innen positiv bewerten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen auf, dass die Intervention die beiden Schulklassen auf dem Weg zu einer Klassengemeinschaft unterstützt hat.
The instability of farm income. Empirical evidences on aggregation bias and heterogeneity among farm groups
Creators: name: Severini, Simone
name: Tantari, Antonella
name: Di Tommaso, Giuliano
name: Severini, Simone
name: Tantari, Antonella
name: Di Tommaso, Giuliano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Farm income
subject: income instability and variability
subject: aggregation bias
subject: farm heterogeneity
subject: risk management policies

description: This paper analyses the instability of farm income experienced by a constant sample of Italian farms over the period 2003-2012. It assesses the extent of the aggregation bias due to the use of aggregated vs. single farm data and estimates the level of farm income variability in several groups of farms for the whole period and for two sub-periods. Differences between groups and periods are assessed by means of non-parametric tests. Results suggest that analyses based on aggregated farm data are likely going to strongly underestimate the extent of income variability faced by farmers. Income variability levels differ among farm groups and have significantly increased over the considered time. This has policy implications regarding the risk management tools recently introduced within the Rural Development Policies and how these should be targeted on the farms that more need them.
The Ripening of CARICA PAPAYA L. as Affected by 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP)
Creators: name: Protain, S.
name: Wilson, L. A.
name: Mohammed, M.
name: Protain, S.
name: Wilson, L. A.
name: Mohammed, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: 1-MCP is a novel postharvest tool which has been proven to delay ripening and senescence in plant tissues; however its effects on tropical fruits are now being researched. In an attempt to extend shelf life, papaya fruits (cv. 'Tainung #2') were subjected to varying regimens of 1-MCP treatments to determine the best combination of concentration and duration of exposure to 1-MCP. Trials using hot water and thiobendozole were also performed in an attempt to decrease the occurrence of postharvest decay. Fruit were fumigated in airtight plastic containers with 1-MCP, and the effects of the gas were judged using a variety of parameters including ethylene and carbon dioxide evolution, skin colour, and firmness. The most successful treatment (0.05 μΓ1 1-MCP for 15 mins. at 20°C) increased the time to ripening by as many as 8- 10 days. However, this time could be increased if postharvest disease infection could be controlled more effectively.
title: Young motherhood and consumption : an exploration of the consumer practices of a group of young mothers in Bristol
Creators: name: Ponsford, Ruth
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis explores the consumer practices of a group of young mothers in the city of Bristol. A staged and incremental research design was followed, which incorporated aspects of participant observation, activity based focus groups and a photo elicitation exercise. The study focuses on how a group of young mothers managing on limited incomes engaged with expansive markets for maternity and the new baby, and the meaning and emotion they attached to "baby stuff". The research describes how for the young women in this study buying for babies was a priority and part of their everyday caring work, involving the careful management of budgets and the skilful negotiation of consumer markets as well as the negation of mothers' own consumer projects ..and youth identities. While perhaps a financial necessity, it is suggested that the focus on meeting the 'needs' of babies over those of mothers enables these young women to locate themselves as 'good mothers', who put their children first. The thesis also explores how for the participants in the research material goods, and in particular the adornment and presentation of infants, played a crucial role in displaying maternal competence in the face of a sense of public visibility and condemnation. Appearance was everything and commodities provided protection for both mothers and children from the negative associations of poverty and an inability to consume. Further to this, the research examines the practices of giving gifts to babies and the making of maternal memory as significant aspects of the materiality of maternity for these young women. It is suggested that giving gifts to babies represents an important form of contemporary gift giving, which enables the expression and constitution of relationships between babies and their social networks. The collection and collation of "baby stuff" provides a means of creating childhood memories and histories which can be recalled through these objects. In this part of the investigation the practice of giving "mum" jewellery and getting the names of babies tattooed on mothers' bodies emerge as two furthers sites where these young women make the maternal visible . The study highlights the significance and myriad roles that consumer culture plays in the lives of young mothers, providing a rich account of the experiences and struggles of young mothers through an original lens. This work fills a gap in the literature on motherhood and consumption and makes a relevant contribution to a number of additional areas of scholarship including youth and consumption; low-income consumption; and indeed young motherhood, engaging also with contemporary debates over commercialisation and commodity consumption in late modernity and discourses about 'disordered' working class consumer practice.
A Fully Dynamic Algorithm for k-Regret Minimizing Sets
Creators: name: Wang, Yanhao
name: Li, Yuchen
name: Wong, Raymond Chi-Wing
name: Tan, Kian-Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Selecting a small set of representatives from a large database is important in many applications such as multi-criteria decision making, web search, and recommendation. The $k$-regret minimizing set ($k$-RMS) problem was recently proposed for representative tuple discovery. Specifically, for a large database $P$ of tuples with multiple numerical attributes, the $k$-RMS problem returns a size-$r$ subset $Q$ of $P$ such that, for any possible ranking function, the score of the top-ranked tuple in $Q$ is not much worse than the score of the $k$\textsuperscript{th}-ranked tuple in $P$. Although the $k$-RMS problem has been extensively studied in the literature, existing methods are designed for the static setting and cannot maintain the result efficiently when the database is updated. To address this issue, we propose the first fully-dynamic algorithm for the $k$-RMS problem that can efficiently provide the up-to-date result w.r.t.~any insertion and deletion in the database with a provable guarantee. Experimental results on several real-world and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our algorithm runs up to four orders of magnitude faster than existing $k$-RMS algorithms while returning results of nearly equal quality.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures; to appear in ICDE 2021
The transition of post-Soviet-type economies: expected and unexpected developments
Creators: name: WINIECKI, J.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Post-Soviet transition
subject: P20, P26

description: The transition of former Soviet-type countries has spawned a growing literature with debates taking shape on “shock therapy” versus the gradualist approach, the sequencing of transition measures, choice of privatisation methods, etc. The present work looks at what is missing in this avalanche of articles and papers: an attempt at stock-taking. The author looks at theorists’ concerns from two different angles: first, whether certain developments expected by theorists did or did not happen and, second, whether certain developments that happened were expected by theorists. One of the most important insights provided is that only a small part of theorists’ expectations about problems of transition did, in fact, materialise in an manner expected by theory. JEL: P20, P26
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 181 (1992)
Constraining Neutrino Masses by CMB Experiments Alone
Creators: name: Ichikawa, Kazuhide
name: Fukugita, Masataka
name: Kawasaki, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a subelectronvolt upper limit can be derived on the neutrino mass from the CMB data alone in the Lambda CDM model with the power-law adiabatic perturbations, without the aid of any other cosmological data. Assuming the flatness of the universe, the constraint we can derive from the current WMAP observations is \sum m_nu < 2.0 eV at the 95% confidence level for the sum over three species of neutrinos (m_nu < 0.66 eV for the degenerate neutrinos). This constraint modifies little even if we abandon the flatness assumption for the spatial curvature. We argue that it would be difficult to improve the limit much beyond \sum m_nu \lesssim 1.5 eV using only the CMB data, even if their statistics are substantially improved. However, a significant improvement of the limit is possible if an external input is introduced that constrains the Hubble constant from below. The parameter correlation and the mechanism of CMB perturbations that give rise to the limit on the neutrino mass are also elucidated.
description: 30 pages, 10 figures; (v2) 34 pages, 12 figures; (v3) to appear in PRD
Challenges to the liberal international trading system, GATT and the Uruguay Round
Creators: name: GRILLI, E.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: GATT, Uruguay round, Trade
subject: F13

description: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which was responsible for the normalisation of international trade relations in the post-war period and the tariff liberalisation that ensued, was put under considerable stress in the 1980s and its capacity to continue has now been seriously questions. The work surveys the liberal international trading system, the GATT framework and the latest developments of the Uruguay Round. JEL: F13
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 181 (1992)
Absolute zeta functions for zeta functions of quantum cellular automata
Creators: name: Akahori, Jirô
name: Konno, Norio
name: Sato, Iwao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Our previous work dealt with the zeta function for the interacting particle system (IPS) including quantum cellular automaton (QCA) as a typical model in the study of ``IPS/Zeta Correspondence". On the other hand, the absolute zeta function is a zeta function over F_1 defined by a function satisfying an absolute automorphy. This paper proves that a new zeta function given by QCA is an absolute automorphic form of weight depending on the size of the configuration space. As an example, we calculate an absolute zeta function for a tensor-type QCA, and show that it is expressed as the multiple gamma function. In addition, we obtain its functional equation by the multiple sine function.
description: 14 pages
The Case of Farmers, National, Regional and International Agencies Partnering for the Management of the Coffee Berry in Jamaica
Creators: name: Dalip, Kathy M.
name: Dalip, Kathy M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Coffee berry borer
subject: Hypothenemus hampei
subject: Management

description: West Indies Campus, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica ABSTARCT: The Jamaican coffee industry suffers estimated annual losses of $US 2-3M because of damage to coffee beans by the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei Ferrari. Due to pressure from the international community, the Coffee Industry Board (CIB) is being forced to find alternatives to widely-used chemical control (involving application of an organochlorine insecticide, endosulfan) of the pest. In its effort to find alternatives, CIB initiated discussions with the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) Jamaica to implement the "Biological control of the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei Ferr. in Jamaica" project. Inputs in areas of finance, technical expertise, starting material, research and training were deemed necessary the successful implementation of this project. This was facilitated by strengthening already-existing partnerships. CIB provided financial support for the work to be carried out by CARDI Jamaica. The technical expertise was provided locally through the University of the West Indies (UWI), and internationally through PROMECAFE, a Latin American organization to which Jamaica belongs. PROMECAFE also provided stock cultures to begin rearing of the parasitoids in Jamaica. Field research was facilitated on coffee farms through cooperation of coffee farmers and CIB. Aspects of the laboratory research were conducted by UWI students for their final year research project course. The success of this project and its transformation to a national programme is dependent on stakeholders and interest groups being sensitized to the programme and trained in biological control and parasitoid rearing procedures. This was achieved through a partnership with the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, UWI, CIB and other members of the coffee industry. The partnerships that were strengthened during this project resulted in the successful development and implementation of the biological control of the CBB project. Three parasitoids were introduced and successfully reared in Jamaica, released in the field and their establishment confirmed. Rural rearing facilities have been established and over 110 Jamaicans trained/ sensitized about CBB biological control. It is expected that these fortified partnerships will help to ensure the sustainability of biological control as an integral component of an integrated approach to the management of CBB in Jamaica.
Universal banking, U.S. banking reform and financial competition in the E.E.C.
Creators: name: KREGEL, J.A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial system, SEM
subject: G21, G18

description: Economists and policy makers in Europe and the United States have devoted increasing attention towards the German financial system. In the new Single European Market, the German financial system, characterised by universal banking with unrestricted entry into all types of financial market, is expected to become the dominant form. The German kind of financial system has also been suggested as an alternative to the segmented US financial system. It is argued that the success of the German system has less to do with the freedom granted to universal banks than with its approach to regulation and supervision. JEL: G21, G18
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 182 (1992)
Additional file 1 of Which procedures are performed by general internists practicing primary care in Germany? - a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Flaegel, Kristina
name: Brandt, Bettina
name: Goetz, Katja
name: Steinhaeuser, Jost
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire “Procedures in Primary Care”
Additional file 12 of Structural and developmental dynamics of Matrix associated regions in Drosophila melanogaster genome
Creators: name: Sureka, Rahul
name: Avvaru, Akshay Kumar
name: Sowpati, Divya Tej
name: Pathak, Rashmi Upadhyay
name: Mishra, Rakesh Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 12: Supplementary Table 11. List of primers used for generating PCR products for Southern hybridizations.
Development of Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Equipped Insect Traps for Monitoring Pest Insects in Greenhouses and Fields, 2001-2004
Creators: name: Chu, C.C.
name: Chen, T.Y.
name: Simmons, A.M.
name: Alexander, P.J.
name: Henneberry, T.J.
name: Chu, C.C.
name: Chen, T.Y.
name: Simmons, A.M.
name: Alexander, P.J.
name: Henneberry, T.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: We equipped yellow sticky card (YC) and CC traps with 530 nm lime green lightemitting diodes (LED-YC and LED-CC) and blue sticky card (BC) traps with 470 nm blue LEDs (LED-BC) to increase trap catches of several pest insects. The LED-YC traps caught 1.3, 1.4, 1.8, and 4.8 times more adult Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood), sweetpotato whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) biotype Β, Aphis gossypii (Glover), and Bradysia coprophila (Lintner), respectively, compared with YC traps in greenhouse studies. The LED-YC traps did not catch more Eretmocerus spp. than the standard YC traps. The LED-CC traps caught 6.1 times more B. tabaci compared with unlit CC traps. The LED-CC traps caught few Encarsia erimicus (Rose and Zolnerowich) and Encarsia formosa (Gahan) compared with YC traps. The LED-BC traps caught 8.1 times more adult Franklinella occidentalis (Pergande) compared with the unlit BC traps in field studies.
Centralisation in international financial intermediation: theory, practice, and evidence for the European Community
Creators: name: SCHOLTENS, L.J.R.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial centres, centralisation
subject: G10

description: The location of international financial centres is examined as a way by which financial intermediaries attempt to overcome geographical dimension as a kind of market imperfection. Economic factors that relate to financial intermediation are investigated as causal factors in the centralisation pattern observable in international financial intermediation. The first part of the paper deals with theoretical and conceptual issues, and the second part addresses the empirical evidence. JEL: G10
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 182 (1992)
Compatible relations on filters and stability of local topological properties under supremum and product
Creators: name: Jordan, Francis
name: Mynard, Frederic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54A20

description: An abstract scheme using particular types of relations on filters leads to general unifying results on stability under supremum and product of local topological properties. We present applications for Frechetness, strong Frechetness, countable tightness and countable fan-tightness, some of which recover or refine classical results, some of which are new. The reader may find other applications as well.
description: 28 pages
The case for the central bank independence
Creators: name: DE HAAN, J.
name: STURM, J.E.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: ESCB, Central bank independence
subject: E58

description: The position of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) is an important issue in the process towards European economic and monetary union (EMU). At the December 1991 meeting in Maastricht, the European council decided that the primary objective of the ESCB shall be to maintain price stability. This paper explores the influence of central bank independence on the level and variability of inflation, the level and financing of government budget deficits, and on economic growth. JEL: E58
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 182 (1992)
Additional file 1 of Structural and developmental dynamics of Matrix associated regions in Drosophila melanogaster genome
Creators: name: Sureka, Rahul
name: Avvaru, Akshay Kumar
name: Sowpati, Divya Tej
name: Pathak, Rashmi Upadhyay
name: Mishra, Rakesh Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Molecular composition of NuMat after stabilization and RNase A treatment. Amount of nuclear DNA, RNA and proteins retained in unstabilized, stabilized and RNase A treated NuMat: The amount of nuclear DNA, RNA and proteins retained in unstablized NuMat is significantly less than stabilized NuMat. The amounts of nuclear proteins retained in NuMat does not change after RNase A treatment. However, the amount of nuclear DNA and RNA retained is reduced significantly after RNase A treatment. Supplementary Figure 2. Enrichment of MARs after stabilization. The plot shows that the 1321 MARs common between unstabilized and stabilized preparation, are enriched after stabilization. The fold enrichment of stabilized MARs is calculated with respect to unstabilzed MARs. Supplementary Figure 3. Analysis of MARs after RNase A treatment. The box plot shows that size of MARs lost after RNAse A treatment is smaller than the one retained or gained. Supplementary Figure 4.Majority MARs are histone free regions. Plot shows overlap of H3 ChIP data with MARs prepared by variation in protocol and from different developmental stages. Almost 40-70% of the MARs have no H3 overlap indicating absence of histones over these regions. Supplementary Figure 5. Original, uncropped Gels and blots used in Figure 5. PCR amplified MAR DNA sequences were resolved on 1% agarose gel, stained with EtBr and imaged. Panels 1 and 2 were run on upper and lower section of the same gel tray. Similarly 3 and 4 were run on the same gel tray. Panel 5 was run alone. The gels were transferred to nylon membrane, cut into independent panels and hybridized to respective 32P -labeled probe. Probed blots were exposed to Phosphor imaging screen for 12 hours and images captured.
Improved superlensing in two-dimensional photonic crystals with a basis
Creators: name: Wang, X.
name: Ren, Z. F.
name: Kempa, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study propagation of light in square and hexagonal two-dimensional photonic crystals. We show, that slabs of these crystals focus light with subwavelength resolution. We propose a systematic way to increase this resolution, at an essentially fixed frequency, by employing a hierarchy of crystals of the same structure, and the same lattice constant, but with an increasingly complex basis.
description: 16 Pages, 5 Figures
The equilibrium rate of inflation with discretion and some reputation
Creators: name: ARGY, V.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Monetary policy, equilibrium inflation
subject: E52

description: A review is undertaken of the large amount of literature dealing with the potential implications for the equilibrium inflation rate of allowing governments complete discretion with their use of monetary policy. This is a comparatively new body of literature. An analysis is attempted of the ultimate outcome, in terms of inflation and unemployment, of governments having complete discretion on monetary policy, and the private sector anticipating potential strategies by the government. JEL: E52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 182 (1992)
Quantum Many-Body Scars in Dual-Unitary Circuits
Creators: name: Logarić, Leonard
name: Dooley, Shane
name: Pappalardi, Silvia
name: Goold, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dual-unitary circuits are a class of quantum systems for which exact calculations of various quantities are possible, even for circuits that are nonintegrable. The array of known exact results paints a compelling picture of dual-unitary circuits as rapidly thermalizing systems. However, in this Letter, we present a method to construct dual-unitary circuits for which some simple initial states fail to thermalize, despite the circuits being "maximally chaotic," ergodic and mixing. This is achieved by embedding quantum many-body scars in a circuit of arbitrary size and local Hilbert space dimension. We support our analytic results with numerical simulations showing the stark contrast in the rate of entanglement growth from an initial scar state compared to nonscar initial states. Our results are well suited to an experimental test, due to the compatibility of the circuit layout with the native structure of current digital quantum simulators.
description: 6 pages + 7 pages appendices, 5 figures
title: Controversial advertising in the UK : its regulation and practitioner ethical decision making
Creators: name: Farrell, Thomas Anthony
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis explores the phenomena of controversial advertising, its regulation, and the ethical dimensions of its practice in a UK. context. The £19bn advertising industry is a major contributor to the British economy, helping to stimulate consumer demand, market competition and employment (IPA, 2012). Despite these benefits, advertising is often criticised for its negative social consequences. Controversial advertisers utilise content or tactics that breach acceptable standards of society (Harker et al., 2005). Controversial advertising practices include: shocking, offensive or distressing content or tactics (Waller et al., 2005); deceptive or misleading advertising claims (Preston, 1996); or harmful social consequences (Pollay, 1986). The UK advertising industry use self-regulation via voluntary codes of practice to maintain acceptable standards; address stakeholder complaints and forestall government intervention (CAP, 2012). Before advertising is placed, media clearance and pre-vetting procedures are also common. However, despite these controls, over 25,000 complaints are received by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) every year and on average 2,500 campaigns annually are found in breach of the code (ASA, 2012). This raises questions as to the ethics of controversial advertising practice and the effectiveness of its regulation. This research employs exploratory interpretive methods to makes sense of practitioner ethical decision making (EDM) involved in creating, pre-vetting and regulating controversial UK advertising. New findings highlight the importance of proactive clearance rather than post-complaint regulation. The code of advertising represents a fluctuating line to be pushed at, rather than acting as a moral brake on malpractice. Practitioner EDM is built from the collective interactions of actors, not the actions of individual decision makers or organisations, thus advertising practitioners become myopic to their stakeholder responsibilities. The thesis presents a new 360 degree model of the advertising process from creation through to regulation. The research has important implications for academic, marketing and advertising and regulatory practitioners.
Monetary union: a theoretical perspective
Creators: name: CESARANO, F.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Monetary policy, EMU, Monetary union, Economic integration
subject: F15, E52

description: The work provides a theoretical analysis of monetary policy and unification in light of today’s debate among academic economists on EMU. A brief survey of the main issues concerning monetary policy is presented. The author then puts the subject in a broader perspective, showing that central questions concerning the optimality of currency areas are strictly related to the theory of monetary policy and, particularly, to the effectiveness of domestic monetary actions. Since participation in a monetary union implies loss of monetary sovereignty, the issue at hand is evaluating the effects of this loss on social welfare. Hence, the author argues that federal fiscal policy can play a crucial role in the adjustment mechanism. JEL: F15, E52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 182 (1992)
From engineering to economics
Creators: name: CHENERY, H.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Hollis Chenery, Autobiographical essay
subject: B31

description: The paper is a contribution to a series of recollections and reflections on the professional experiences of distinguished economists which the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review started in 1979. Hollis Chenery recounts beginning his professional career as a petroleum engineer and moving on to other branches of engineering and meteorology, before eventually going on to teach economics and work on the economic problems of developing countries for the majority of his life. JEL: B31
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 183 (1992)
The shaky supply side. On neoclassical “anomalies” in macroeconomic theory
Creators: name: SKARSTEIN, R.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Supply-side, General Theory, Keynes
subject: E12

description: It is notable that neither the “New Classicals” nor the “New Keynesians” take much notice of Keynes’ important article of 1939, where he self-criticised precisely the supply-side assumptions in his General Theory. The present work deals with some of these problems, making references particularly to Keynes’ 1939 article and to empirical studies with a bearing on the supply-side postulates in macroeconomics. JEL: E12
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 183 (1992)
Composted Poultry Litter Effect on Tiller Dynamics, Herbage Mass and Crude Protein Concentration of BRACHIARIA BRIZANTHA CV. Mulato
Creators: name: Gracia-Pizarro, Emerita
name: Valencia, Elide Valencia
name: Gracia-Pizarro, Emerita
name: Valencia, Elide Valencia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: Composted poultry litter (CPL) applied to field crops can be an important source of nutrients and organic matter to improve soil quality. However, little is known on the effects of CPL on tiller dynamics and forage yield of the tropical grass Brachiaria brizantha cv. mulatto. A study was conducted in the fall of 2003 and spring of 2004 to evaluate four CPL rates and their influence on number of tillers, herbage mass (g/plant), and crude protein (CP) concentration of cv. Mulato at three harvests at 30-d intervals. Treatments included 0 (Control; C), 16 (low; L), 31 (Medium; M), and 62 kg/ha of Ν (High; H) CPL rates. Grass seedlings (6-wk old) were established in pots (1-gl) filled with soil of the Consumo type (Fine, mixed, semi-active, isohyperthermic Typic Haplohumults). Composted poultry litter was broadcast-applied and incorporated into the first 2-cm of the soil in the pots. Plants were irrigated as needed. From first to the third harvest, there was a minimal increase in tiller count (8.4 to 11) for the control. Corresponding increases observed for the L and M CPL rates were 14 to 28 and 21 to 28 tillers/plant. However, the magnitude of change in tiller counts at the H CPL rate was much greater (21, 23, and 44) at first, second and third harvest, respectively. There was also a linear effect (P<0.05) of CPL rates on herbage mass (g/plant on dry matter basis). For C, there were no changes in herbage mass from first to last harvest (mean of 16 g per plant). For the L and M rates of CPL minimal changes in herbage mass were noted from the first to third harvest. Herbage mass increases from 31 to 56, and 81 g/plant at first, second, and third harvest, respectively at the H CPL rate. There were differences in CP of cv. Mulato with increasing rates of CPL. Crude protein averaged 7.2, 6.6, 7.2, and 9.1% for the C, L, M, and H rates, respectively (a 2 percentage unit increase over C with H CPL). An important aspect of this study is that cv. Mulato can serve as a sink for this nutrient-rich compost and can also provide a profitable and environmentally acceptable use of CPL.
Group V Mixing Effects in the Structural and Optical Properties of (ZnSi)1/2(P)1/4(As)1/4
Creators: name: Leitão, A. A.
name: Capaz, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present {\it ab initio} total energy and band structure calculations based on Density Funtional Theory (DFT) within the Local Density Aproximation (LDA) on group-V mixing effects in the optoelectronic material $(ZnSi)_{1/2}P_{1/4}As_{3/4}$. This compound has been recently proposed by theoretical design as an optically active material in the 1.5 $μ$m (0.8 eV) fiber optics frequency window and with a monolithic integration with the Si (001) surface. Our results indicate that alloy formation in the group V planes would likely occur at typical growth conditions. In addition, desired features such as in-plane lattice constant and energy gap are virtually unchanged and the optical oscillator strength for band-to-band transitions is increased by a factor of 6 due to alloying.
Japan’s experiences under the Bretton Woods System: capital controls and fixed exchange rate
Creators: name: IWAMI, T.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Japan, IMF, exchange rate
subject: F10

description: Japan joined the IMF in August 1952 (under Article 14) and GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) in 1955. Japan's ‘high growth era’, the period from 1955 to the outbreak of the first oil crisis in 1973-74, coincided with the liberal international framework of the IMF and GATT. The course of Japanese economic policy during the post-war era has been largely determined by its balance of payments position. Japan's overall economic experience shows that the direct and indirect resistance to radical reforms resulted in maintaining the low level of the exchange rate and contributed to economic growth. JEL: F10
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 183 (1992)
Additional file 1 of Setting the research agenda for living with and beyond cancer with comorbid illness: reflections on a research prioritisation exercise
Creators: name: D. Cavers
name: S. Cunningham-Burley
name: E. Watson
name: E. Banks
name: C. Campbell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 3 of Structural and developmental dynamics of Matrix associated regions in Drosophila melanogaster genome
Creators: name: Sureka, Rahul
name: Avvaru, Akshay Kumar
name: Sowpati, Divya Tej
name: Pathak, Rashmi Upadhyay
name: Mishra, Rakesh Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 2. Genomic distribution of MARs prepared by variation in protocol. MARs were mapped to euchromatin and pericentromeric heterochromatin. The percent figure has been rounded off to nearest whole number.
Accidentally light scalars from large representations
Creators: name: Brümmer, Felix
name: Ferrante, Giacomo
name: Frigerio, Michele
name: Hambye, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In models with spontaneous symmetry breaking by scalar fields in large group representations, we observe that some of the scalar masses can be loop-suppressed with respect to the naive expectation from symmetry selection rules. We present minimal models -- the $\rm{SU(2)}$ five-plet and $\rm{SU(3)}$ ten-plet -- with such accidentally light scalars, featuring compact tree-level flat directions lifted by radiative corrections. We sketch some potential applications, from stable relics and slow roll in cosmology, to hierarchy and fine-tuning problems in particle physics.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, v2; version published in JHEP
An ionised bubble powered by a proto-cluster at z = 6.5
Creators: name: Espinosa, J. M. Rodriguez
name: Mas-Hesse, J. M.
name: Sole, E. Salvador
name: Calvi, R.
name: Manrique, A.
name: Chanchaiworawit, K.
name: Guzman, R.
name: Gallego, J.
name: Herrero, A.
name: Marin-Franch, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show herein that a proto-cluster of Ly$α$ emitting galaxies, spectroscopically confirmed at redshift 6.5, produces a remarkable number of ionising continuum photons. We start from the Ly$α$ fluxes measured in the spectra of the sources detected spectroscopically. From these fluxes we derive the ionising emissivity of continuum photons of the proto-cluster, which we compare with the ionising emissivity required to reionise the proto-cluster volume. We find that the sources in the proto-cluster are capable of ionising a large bubble, indeed larger than the volume occupied by the proto-cluster. For various calculations we have used the model AMIGA, in particular to derive the emissivity of the Lyman continuum photons required to maintain the observed volume ionised. Besides, we have assumed the ionising photons escape fraction given by AMIGA at this redshift.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure; MNRAS Letter, Accepted
Many-Body Physics on the Border of Nuclear Stability
Creators: name: Volya, Alexander
name: Zelevinsky, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A brief overview is given of the Continuum Shell Model, a novel approach that extends the traditional nuclear shell model into the domain of unstable nuclei and nuclear reactions. While some of the theoretical aspects, such as role and treatment of one- and two-nucleon continuum states, are discussed more in detail, a special emphasis is made on relation to observed nuclear properties, including definitions of the decay widths and their relation to the cross sections, especially in the cases of non-exponential decay. For the chain of He isotopes we demonstrate the agreement of theoretical results with recent experimental data. We show how the interplay of internal collectivity and coherent coupling to continuum gives rise to the universal mechanism of creating pigmy giant resonances.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Demonstration of quantum-enhanced rangefinding robust against classical jamming
Creators: name: Mrozowski, Mateusz P.
name: Murchie, Richard J.
name: Jeffers, John
name: Pritchard, Jonathan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we demonstrate operation of a quantum-enhanced lidar based on a continuously pumped photon pair source combined with simple detection in regimes with over 5 orders of magnitude separation between signal and background levels and target reflectivity down to -52 dB. We characterise the performance of our detector using a log-likelihood analysis framework, and crucially demonstrate the robustness of our system to fast and slow classical jamming, introducing a new protocol to implement dynamic background tracking to eliminate the impact of slow background changes whilst maintaining immunity to high frequency fluctuations. Finally, we extend this system to the regime of rangefinding in the presence of classical jamming to locate a target with an 11 cm spatial resolution limited only by the detector jitter. These results demonstrate the advantage of exploiting quantum correlations for lidar applications, providing a clear route to implementation of this system in real-world scenarios.
A criterion and incremental design construction for simultaneous kriging predictions
Creators: name: Waldl, Helmut
name: Müller, Werner G.
name: Trandafir, Paula Camelia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we further investigate the problem of selecting a set of design points for universal kriging, which is a widely used technique for spatial data analysis. Our goal is to select the design points in order to make simultaneous predictions of the random variable of interest at a finite number of unsampled locations with maximum precision. Specifically, we consider as response a correlated random field given by a linear model with an unknown parameter vector and a spatial error correlation structure. We propose a new design criterion that aims at simultaneously minimizing the variation of the prediction errors at various points. We also present various efficient techniques for incrementally building designs for that criterion scaling well for high dimensions. Thus the method is particularly suitable for big data applications in areas of spatial data analysis such as mining, hydrogeology, natural resource monitoring, and environmental sciences or equivalently for any computer simulation experiments. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed designs through two illustrative examples: one by simulation and another based on real data from Upper Austria.
Eastern Europe and the financial sector: where are they going?
Creators: name: SARCINELLI, M.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial transformation, Eastern Europe
subject: G18

description: The transformation that has taken place already in the countries of central and Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union is dramatic. Nevertheless, no single specific reform, taken by itself, is sufficient to ensure the success of the transformation or transition of a major economic sector like that of finance. Banking and financial market reforms, existing and planned, are evaluated for the emergent financial systems. JEL: G18
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 45, N. 183 (1992)