cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reliability and Competitive Electricity Markets
Creators: name: Joskow, Paul
name: Tirole, Jean
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: L33, L51, L98
subject: electricity, regulation, incentives

description: Deregulation of the electricity sector has resulted in conflict between the economic aims of creating competitive wholesale and retail markets, and an engineering focus on reliability of supply. The paper starts by deriving the optimal prices and investment program when there are price-insensitive retail consumers, and their load serving entities can choose any level of rationing they prefer contingent on real time prices. It then examines the assumptions required for a competitive wholesale and retail market to achieve this optimal price and investment program. The paper analyses the implications of relaxing several of these assumptions. First, it analyses the interrelationships between regulator-imposed price caps, capacity obligations, and system operator procurement, dispatch and compensation arrangements. It goes on to explore the implications of potential network collapses, the concomitant need for operating reserve requirements and whether market prices will provide incentives for investments consistent with these reserve requirements.
Distribution of defect clusters in the primary damage of ion irradiated 3C-SiC
Creators: name: Liu, C.
name: Szlufarska, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a statistical analysis of sizes and compositions of clusters produced in cascades during irradiation of SiC. The results are obtained using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of cascades caused by primary knock-on atoms (PKAs) with energies between 10 eV and 50 keV. The results are averaged over six crystallographic directions of the PKA and integrated over PKA energy spectrum derived from the Stopping and Range of Ions in Matter (SRIM) code. Specific results are presented for 1 MeV Kr ion as an example of an impinging particle. We find that distributions of cluster size n for both vacancies and interstitials obey a power law f = An^(-S) and these clusters are dominated by carbons defects. The fitted values of A and S are different than values reported for metals, which can be explained through different defect energetics and cascade morphology between the two classes of materials. In SiC, the average carbon ratio for interstitial clusters is 91.5%, which is higher than the ratio of C in vacancy clusters, which is 85.3%. Size and composition distribution of in-cascade clusters provide a critical input for long-term defect evolution models.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, methods can be used in other irradiated materials
title: Annual Report: Virginia Department of Welfare and Institutions; July 1, 1953-June 30, 1954
Creators: name: Welfare, Virginia Department Of
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Welfare
subject: Correctional facilities

description: Annual report: 10 pgs; typescript; 6" x 9" (15.2cm x 22.9cm)
description: Front Matter and Introduction to the Annual Report for the Virginia Department of Welfare and Insititutions. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 15.23
Is topological Skyrme Model consistent with the Satandard Model?
Creators: name: Abbas, Afsar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The topological Skyrme model is known to give a successful description of baryons. As a consistency check, here it is shown that in view of the recent discovery of charge quantization as an intrinsic and basic property of the Standard Model and the color dependence arising therein, the Skyrme Model is indeed completely consistent with the Standard Model.
description: Latex file, 8 pages, no figures, revised version with new result due to a different condition on proton charge
Large Scale Deployment of Renewables for Electricity Generation
Creators: name: Neuhoff, Karsten
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: Q55, D92, Q42, Q51
subject: technology policy, renewable energy, learning externalities, market structure

description: Comparisons of resource assessments suggest resource constraints are not an obstacle to the large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies. Economic analysis identifies barriers to the adoption of renewable energy sources resulting from market structure, competition in an uneven playing field and various non-market place barriers. However, even if these barriers are removed, the problem of ‘technology lock-out’ remains. The key policy response is strategic deployment coupled with increased R&D support to accelerate the pace of improvement through market experience. The paper suggests significant contributions from various technologies, but does not assess their optimal or maximal market share.
Implementation of an iterative map in the construction of (quasi)periodic instantons: chaotic aspects and discontinuous rotation numbers
Creators: name: Chakrabarti, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An iterative map of the unit disc in the complex plane (Appendix) is used to explore certain aspects of selfdual, four dimensional gauge fields (quasi)periodic in the Euclidean time. These fields are characterized by two topological numbers and contain standard instantons and monopoles as different limits. The iterations do not correspond directly to a discretized time evolution of the gauge fields. They are implemented in an indirect fashion. First, (t,r,θ,ϕ) being the standard coordinates, the (r,t) half plane is mapped on the unit disc in an appropriate way. This provides an (r,t) parametrization (Sec.1) of Z_0, the starting point of the iterations and makes the iterates increasingly complex functions of r and t. These are then incorporated as building blocks in the generating function of the fields (Sec.2). We explain (starting in Sec.1 and at different stages) in what sense and to what extent some remarkable features of our map (indicated in the title) are thus carried over into the continuous time development of the fields. Special features for quasiperiodicity are studied (Sec.3). Spinor solutions (Sec.4) and propagators (Sec.5) are discussed from the point of view of the mapping. Several possible generalizations are indicated (Sec.6). Some broader topics are discussd in conclusion (Sec.7).
description: LaTeX file, 57 pages, v2: typos corrected
title: Crime Concentrations in Atlanta: Testing the Law of Crime Concentration at Place
Creators: name: Drake, Zachary M
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crime
subject: Place
subject: Geography
subject: Trajectory
subject: Hot spots
subject: Urban layout

description: In this study, I explore the law of crime concentrations using Atlanta, GA. The goal is to add a new data point to the growing literature of crime concentrations as well as begin the academic discussion on urban layout as it relates to crime concentrations. Using data provided from the Atlanta Police Department, I use similar group-based trajectory analysis as previous studies in the crime concentration literature. I use the street segments, and the number of crimes occurring there per year, as the unit of my analysis. Crime in Atlanta is more concentrated than in other cities, and seems to follow patterns attributed to suburbs by other authors. Most streets show no crime across 8 years and the clear majority of streets are stable in their amount of crime. The increased concentration found in Atlanta could contribute to the study of urban layouts previously believed to be safer by Defensible Space scholars. Further research can use Atlanta as a basis to test the connection between crime concentration and urban layout.
Additional file 3: of Genetic diversity and population structure of trifoliate yam (Dioscorea dumetorum Kunth) in Cameroon revealed by genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS)
Creators: name: Siadjeu, Christian
name: Mayland-Quellhorst, Eike
name: Albach, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S3. STRUCTURE plot of 44 accessions of D. dumetorum with Kâ =â 2, 3, 5 clusters based on 6457 unlinked SNPs. (PDF 133 kb)
Multiple Social Interaction and Reproductive Externalities: An Investigation of Fertility Behaviour in Kenya
Creators: name: Iyer, Sriya
name: Weeks, Melvyn
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: C25, D1, J13, J15, Z13
subject: fertility behaviour, strategic complementarities, social interaction, endogenous effects, ethnicity, Kenya

description: This paper examines the impact of reproductive externalities on fertility behaviour in Kenya by quantifying the effects of group membership on the number of children born. We focus on the identification of structural forms of social interaction operating across individuals in the context of fertility behaviour. While structural forms of dependence may be separated from residual dependence, we also highlight the importance of difference expressions of structural dependence, including multiple expressions of social interaction. Using this idea of multiple social interactions, we use the 1998 Demographic and Health Survey on 5994 women from Kenya to examine whether the ‘local’ effect of household-level influences and cluster-level residential settlement is important relative to the more ‘global’ effect of ethnicity on fertility behaviour. In so doing, we conclude that the importance of multiple social interactions is that the assumption of a single model of interaction can lead to incorrect inferences.
Phase Transitions in the One-Dimensional Pair-Hopping Model: a Renormalization Group Study
Creators: name: Sikkema, Arnold
name: Affleck, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase diagram of a one-dimensional tight-binding model with a pair-hopping term (amplitude V) has been the subject of some controvery. Using two-loop renormalization group equations and the density matrix renormalization group with lengths L<=60, we argue that no spin-gap transition occurs at half-filling for positive V, contrary to recent claims. However, we point out that away from half-filling, a *phase-separation* transition occurs at finite V. This transition and the spin-gap transition occuring at half-filling and *negative* V are analyzed numerically.
description: 7 pages RevTeX, 6 uuencoded figures which can be (and by default are) directly included. Received by Phys. Rev. B 20 April 1995
Quark Mass Hierarchy, FCNC and CP violation in a Seesaw model
Creators: name: Kiyo, Y.
name: Morozumi, T.
name: Parada, P.
name: Rebelo, M. N.
name: Tanimoto, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The seesaw model of quark masses is studied systematically, focusing on its developments. A framework allowing the top quark mass to be of the order of the electroweak symmetry breaking scale, while the remaining light quarks have much smaller masses, due to the seesaw mechanism, is presented. The violation of the GIM mechanism is shown to be small and the tree level FCNC are suppressed naturally. In this model, there are many particles which could contribute to the FCNC in the one-loop level. Parameters of the model are constrained by using the experimental data on K^0-\bar{K}^0 mixing and ε_K. The rare K meson decays K_{L,S} -> π^0 ν\barν and K^+ -> π^+ ν\barν are also investigated in the model. In these processes the scalar operators (\bar{s}d)(\barν_τν_τ), which are derived from box diagrams in the model, play an important role due to an enhancement factor M_K/m_s in the matrix element . It is emphasized that the K_L decay process through the scalar operator is not the CP violating mode, so B(K_L -> π^0 ν\barν) remains non-zero even in the CP conserved limit. The pion energy spectra for these processes are predicted.
description: 42 pages, 13 figures, psfig.sty is required
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0016r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0016r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0016r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Short Circuit Synchronized Electric Charge Extraction (SC-SECE): a tunable interface for wideband vibration energy harvesting
Creators: name: Morel, Adrien
name: Badel, Adrien
name: Gasnier, Pierre
name: Gibus, David
name: Pillonnet, Gael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present a new harvesting interface, called Short Circuit Synchronous Electric Charge Extraction (SC-SECE). The SC-SECE strategy includes a tunable short-circuit time thanks to two tuning parameters, $ϕ_S$ and $Δϕ$. $ϕ_S$ stands for the phase between the mechanical displacement extrema and the energy harvesting event. $Δϕ$ stands for the angular time spent in the short-circuit phase. The theoretical analysis and modelling of this short-circuit influences are derived in this paper. When associated with highly coupled harvesters, it is shown that both the harvested power and bandwidth are greatly improved. These results have been numerically validated and they demonstrate the potential of this strategy for extending the bandwidth of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters.
Cisandina esmeralda Nakahara & Rodríguez-Melgarejo & Kleckner & Corahua-Espinoza & Tejeira & Espeland & Casagrande & Barbosa & See & Gallice & Lamas 2022, New Species
Creators: name: Nakahara, Shinichi
name: Rodríguez-Melgarejo, Maryzender
name: Kleckner, Kaylin
name: Corahua-Espinoza, Thalia
name: Tejeira, Rafael
name: Espeland, Marianne
name: Casagrande, Mirna M.
name: Barbosa, Eduardo P.
name: See, Joseph
name: Gallice, Geoffrey
name: Lamas, Gerardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Cisandina
Cisandina esmeralda

description: Cisandina esmeralda Nakahara & Barbosa, New Species
(Figs. 1, 2e and f, 3e–g, 8)
description: Published as part of Nakahara, Shinichi, Rodríguez-Melgarejo, Maryzender, Kleckner, Kaylin, Corahua-Espinoza, Thalia, Tejeira, Rafael, Espeland, Marianne, Casagrande, Mirna M., Barbosa, Eduardo P., See, Joseph, Gallice, Geoffrey & Lamas, Gerardo, 2022, Systematic Revision of a New Butterfly Genus, Cisandina Nakahara & Espeland, n. gen., with Descriptions of Three New Taxa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), pp. 1-30 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixab028, http://zenodo.org/record/8315207
Additional file 4: of Genetic identification of SNP markers linked to a new grape phylloxera resistant locus in Vitis cinerea for marker-assisted selection
Creators: name: Smith, Harley
name: Clarke, Catherine
name: Smith, Brady
name: Carmody, Bernadette
name: Thomas, Mark
name: Clingeleffer, Peter
name: Powell, Kevin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S1. Genetic map of LG14 using the 22 Sequenom MassARRAY validated SNPs. (PDF 44 kb)
On the relation between pole and running heavy quark masses beyond the four-loop approximation
Creators: name: Kataev, A. L.
name: Molokoedov, V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effective charges motivated method is applied to the relation between pole and $\rm{\overline{MS}}$-scheme heavy quark masses to study high order perturbative QCD corrections in the observable quantities proportional to the running quark masses. The non-calculated five- and six-loop perturbative QCD coefficients are estimated. This approach predicts for these terms the sign-alternating expansion in powers of number of lighter flavors $n_l$, while the analyzed recently infrared renormalon asymptotic expressions do not reproduce the same behavior. We emphasize that coefficients of the quark mass relation contain proportional to $π^2$ effects, which result from analytical continuation from the Euclidean region, where the scales of the running masses and QCD coupling constant are initially fixed, to the Minkowskian region, where the pole masses and the running QCD parameters are determined. For the $t$-quark the asymptotic nature of the non-resummed PT mass relation does not manifest itself at six-loops, while for the $b$-quark the minimal PT term appears at the probed by direct calculations four-loop level. The recent infrared renormalon based studies support these conclusions.
description: 11 pages, to be published in the Proceedings of Quarks-2018 Seminar, 27 May-2 June, Valday, Russia
Learning curves and changing product attributes: the case of wind turbines
Creators: name: Coulomb, Louis
name: Neuhoff, Karsten
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: O33, N70, L64, L94
subject: Learning curve, Turbine scale, Wind turbines

description: The heuristic concept of learning curves describes cost reductions as a function of cumulative production. A study of the Liberty shipbuilders suggested that product quality and production scale are other relevant factors that affect costs. Significant changes of attributes of a technology must be corrected when assessing the impact of learning-by-doing. We use an engineering-based model to capture the cost changes of wind turbines that can be attributed to changes in turbine size. We estimate the learning curve and turbine size parameters using more than 1500 price points from 1991 to 2003. The fit between model and empirical data confirms the concept.
Mechanism Design with Renegotiation and Costly Messages
Creators: name: Evans, Robert
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: Implementation with Renegotiation
Incomplete Contracts
Hold-up problem
Communication Costs

description: The paper studies a general model of hold-up in a setting encompassing the models of Segal (1999) and Che and Hausch (1999) among others. It is shown that if renegotiation is modelled as an infinite-horizon non-cooperative bargaining game then, with a simple initial contract, an efficient equilibrium will generally exist. The contract gives authority to one party to set the terms of trade and gives the other party a non-expiring option to trade at these terms. The difference from standard results arises because the existing contract ensures that the renegotiation game has multiple equilibria; the multiplicity of continuation equilibria can be used to enforce efficient investment.
title: ADCO, Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0666
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0666, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0666, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Differential expression analysis with latent variable models
Creators: name: Godinho, Joana
name: Carvalho, Alexandra M.
name: Vinga, Susana
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: In the field of molecular biology, genomic signature analysis is a powerful mean to unravel obscured cellular aspects. One of the main tasks in genomic signature analysis is the exploration of transcriptomic data, which enables the recognition of genes that are differentially expressed (DEGs).

Disease profiling, treatment development and the identification of new cell populations are some of the most relevant applications that rely on DEG identification. In this context, three main technologies emerged, namely, DNA microarrays, bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), the focus of this work. Although it tends to offer more accurate data than the other two, it is still limited by many confounding factors.

We introduce two novel approaches to perform DEG identification over single-cell data. Both techniques rely on latent variable models to account for the misleading factors present in the data. In addition, we benchmark the proposed methods with known DEG detection tools for single-cell data, such as SCDE and MAST. To do so we used two public real datasets that have been used in past assessment tasks.

The results obtained show that the two procedures can be very competitive with current methods, allowing to identify putative biomarkers.
Forecasting Distributions with Experts Advice
Creators: name: Sancetta, Alessio
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: C53, C14
subject: Expert, Forecast Combination, Multiplicative Update, Non-asymptotic Bound, On-line Learning, Shifting.

description: This paper considers forecasts of the distribution of data whose distribution function is possibly time varying. The forecast is achieved via time varying combinations of experts’ forecasts. We derive theoretical worse case bounds for general algorithms based on multiplicative updates of the combination weights. The bounds are useful to study the properties of forecast combinations when data are nonstationary and there is no unique best model. An application with an empirical study is used to highlight the results in practice.
D-effects in Toroidally Compactified Type II String Theory
Creators: name: Pioline, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review exact results obtained for R^4 couplings in maximally supersymmetric type II string theories. These couplings offer a privileged scene to understand the rules of semiclassical calculus in string theory. Upon expansion in weak string coupling, they reveal an infinite sum of non-perturbative e^{-1/g} effects that can be imputed to euclidean D-branes wrapped on cycles of the compactification manifolds. They also shed light on the relation between Dp-branes and D-(p-2)branes, D-strings and (p,q) strings, instanton sums and soliton loops. The latter interpretation takes over in D<=6 in order to account for the e^{-1/g^2} effects, still mysterious from the point of view of instanton calculus. [To appear in the proceedings of the conference "Quantum Aspects of Gauge Theories, Supersymmetry and Unification" held at Neuchatel University, Switzerland, 18-23 September 1997.]
description: 1+6 pages, neuchatel.sty included
Euptychia lea : Westwood 1851
Creators: name: Nakahara, Shinichi
name: Rodríguez-Melgarejo, Maryzender
name: Kleckner, Kaylin
name: Corahua-Espinoza, Thalia
name: Tejeira, Rafael
name: Espeland, Marianne
name: Casagrande, Mirna M.
name: Barbosa, Eduardo P.
name: See, Joseph
name: Gallice, Geoffrey
name: Lamas, Gerardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Euptychia
Euptychia lea

description: Euptychia lea [misidentification]: D’Abrera 1988: 768–769, figs.
 Systematic placement and diagnosis: As discussed under the immediately preceding taxon, C. esmeralda n. sp. is recovered as sister to C. lea n. comb. with a strong support (Fig. 1; SH-aLRT/UFBoot = 96.5/96). Our molecular phylogeny and DNA sequence divergence between these two species support its species-level status indicated by its distinctive male phenotype. Indeed, the iridescent greenish lilac scales possessed by the male of C. esmeralda n. sp. readily distinguish this species from the remainder of the genus and furthermore from all other known euptychiines. In addition, the more brownish ventral ground color, small ventral submarginal ocelli (smallest among all Cisandina n. gen. species), narrow and somewhat sinuate VHW postdiscal band, coupled with other narrow ventral bands (narrowest among all four similar-appearing Cisandina n. gen. species with iridescent scales) separate the male of this species from the other three Cisandina n. gen. species with iridescent scales discussed herein. The more elongate forewing is a character shared with the male of C. lea n. comb., but not with males of other taxa discussed herein. The female of C. esmeralda n. sp. is distinguished from the female specimens of C. lea n. comb. and C. castanya n. sp. by its lack of purple lilac scales on the dorsal surface thus the female of C. esmeralda n. sp. possesses a uniformly brown dorsal wing surface. Cisandina philippa n. comb. & reinst. stat. is similar in this respect because the female of C. esmeralda n. sp. Is brown dorsally. Nevertheless, the narrower ventral bands and smaller ventral submarginal ocelli of C. esmeralda n. sp., as well as its smaller adult size, can be used to separate females of these two species. Furthermore, the outward-curving VFW postdiscal band of the female C. esmeralda n. sp. is rather distinctive. See also ‘Remarks’ below for further information regarding the identity of the female of this species.
 Male (Fig. 2e): Forewing length 23 mm (n = 1).
 Head: See head description for Cisandina n. gen. above.
description: Published as part of Nakahara, Shinichi, Rodríguez-Melgarejo, Maryzender, Kleckner, Kaylin, Corahua-Espinoza, Thalia, Tejeira, Rafael, Espeland, Marianne, Casagrande, Mirna M., Barbosa, Eduardo P., See, Joseph, Gallice, Geoffrey & Lamas, Gerardo, 2022, Systematic Revision of a New Butterfly Genus, Cisandina Nakahara & Espeland, n. gen., with Descriptions of Three New Taxa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), pp. 1-30 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixab028, http://zenodo.org/record/8315207
Relation between Barrier Conductance and Coulomb Blockade Peak Splitting for Tunnel-Coupled Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Golden, John M.
name: Halperin, Bertrand I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relation between the barrier conductance and the Coulomb blockade peak splitting for two electrostatically equivalent dots connected by tunneling channels with bandwidths much larger than the dot charging energies. We note that this problem is equivalent to a well-known single-dot problem and present solutions for the relation between peak splitting and barrier conductance in both the weak and strong coupling limits. Results are in good qualitative agreement with the experimental findings of F. R. Waugh et al.
description: 19 pages (REVTeX 3.0), 3 Postscript figures
Forecasting Using Time Varying Meta-Elliptical Distributions with a Study of Commodity Futures Prices
Creators: name: Sancetta, Alessio
name: Nikanrova, Arina
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: C14, C16, C31, C32
subject: Commodity Prices, Copula Function, Meta-Elliptical Distribution, Nonparametric Estimation, Weibull Distribution.

description: We propose a methodological approach to the forecast and evaluation of multivariate distributions with time varying parameters. For reasons related to feasible inference attention is restricted to meta-elliptical distributions. We use our approach for the study of a large data set of 16 commodity prices. Our approach leads to a theory for model validation avoiding common problems caused by discontinuities, time variation of parameters and nuisance parameters.
Copula Based Monte Carlo Integration in Financial Problems
Creators: name: Sancetta, Alessio
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: C15, G11, G12
subject: Copula, Martingale, Monte Carlo Integral, Quantile Transform, Utility Function.

description: A computational technique that transform integrals over RK, or some of its subsets, into the hypercube [0, 1]K can be exploited in order to solve integrals via Monte Carlo integration without the need to simulate from the original distribution; all that is needed is to simulate iid uniform [0, 1] pseudo random variables. In particular the technique arises from the copula representation of multivariate distributions and the use of the marginal quantile function of the data. The procedure is further simplified if the quantile function has closed form. Several financial applications are considered in order to highlight the scope of this numerical technique for financial problems
A survey of the liberalisation of public enterprises in the UK since 1979
Creators: name: Pollitt, Michael G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: L33, L50, L90.
subject: privatisation, liberalisation, regulation.

description: This paper examines the course of the deregulation and privatisation of public enterprises in the UK since 1979. The UK privatisation programme has been the most significant in the OECD involving the transfer of ownership of over 7% of GDP from the public to the private sectors. We examine the history and genesis of this programme, the development of the regulatory system based around RPI-X price control and the evidence on the effects of the privatisation. We conclude by evaluating the policy in the terms of its original aims. We find that public enterprise privatisation successfully reduced government involvement in industry, led to increased economic efficiency and a reduced fiscal deficit. Less clearly, it contributed to the curbing of Trade Union power and wider share ownership. Most significantly of all, as the most sustained and consistent policy of the 1979-97 Conservative governments, it gained sustained advantage for pro-market political forces in the UK.
Regulation, Competition and Investment in the German Electricity Market: RegTP or REGTP
Creators: name: Brunekreeft, Gert
name: Twelemann, Sven
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: L42, L43, L94
subject: regulation, competition, emission trading, gas, electricity

description: The German energy industries will be subjected to regulation of network access enforced by a sector-specific regulator. Whereas the gas industry broke the regime of negotiated third party access, in electricity nTPA ‘worked’, although it clearly resulted in a margin squeeze. The government currently discusses whether to use rate-of-return or incentive regulation, to allow ex-ante approval of charges, and the length of the regulatory lag. Close examination suggests that generation capacity still is adequate, but in the longer term there is reason to be alert. The regulatory changes and emission trading system can both contribute to retain supply security by increasing investment.
Layer-resolved band bending at the n-SrTiO3(001)/p-Ge(001) interface
Creators: name: Du, Y.
name: Sushko, P. V.
name: Spurgeon, S. R.
name: Bowden, M. E.
name: Ablett, J. M.
name: Lee, T. -L.
name: Quackenbush, N. F.
name: Woicik, J. C.
name: Chambers, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic properties of epitaxial heterojunctions consisting of the prototypical perovskite oxide semiconductor,n-SrTiO3 and the high-mobility Group IV semiconductor p-Ge have been investigated. Hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy with a new method of analysis has been used to determine band alignment while at the same time quantifying a large built-in potential found to be present within the Ge. Accordingly, the built-in potential within the Ge has been mapped in a layer-resolved fashion. Electron transfer from donors in the n-SrTiO3 to the p-Ge creates a space-charge region in the Ge resulting in downward band bending which spans most of the Ge gap. This strong downward band bending facilitates visible-light, photo-generated electron transfer from Ge to STO, favorable to drive the hydrogen evolution reaction associated with water splitting. Ti 2p and Sr 3d core-level line shapes reveal that the STO bands are flat despite the space-charge layer therein. Inclusion of the effect of Ge band bending on band alignment is significant, amounting to a ~0.4 eV reduction in valence band offset compared to the value resulting from using spectra averaged over all layers. Density functional theory allows candidate interface structural models deduced from scanning transmission electron microscopy images to be simulated and structurally optimized. These structures are used to generate multi-slice simulations that reproduce the experimental images quite well. The calculated band offsets for these structures are in good agreement with experiment.
description: 29 pages, 10 figures
title: Decision Aiding Research Needs
Creators: name: Brown, Rex
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Decision Aiding
subject: Decision processes
subject: Personal Decision Analysis

description: Much descriptive and normative decision research has been carried out, but its impact on unaided decision making has been limited. It has been driven more by scientific interest than practical need. If researchers and their sponsors were to give high priority to useful decision aiding it would significantly change the mix of research projects. The balance would shift from a preponderance of definitive, discipline-oriented projects, toward interdisciplinary and seeding projects. An illustrative agenda of hitherto-neglected practice-driven projects is proposed with suggestions on how the rebalancing might be made to happen.
title: Investigation of Small Peptide Inhibitors on PD-1 PD-L1 Protein-Protein Interactions
Creators: name: Dey, Douglass
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: PD-1
subject: PD-L1
subject: Small peptide inhibitors
subject: Checkpoint inhibition
subject: Immune checkpoints
subject: Cancer immunotherapy

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years. It will not be available until May 2028 at the earliest.
description: Cancer is a complex disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and invade body tissues, leading to eventual organ failure and death. These abnormal cells are able to grow and spread by evading recognition and destruction by the immune system through multiple mechanisms. Utilization of immune checkpoints, which are regulators of the immune system that prevent autoimmunity, is one such mechanism exploited by cancer cells. A specific immune checkpoint pathway involves tumor cells upregulating PD-L1 or programmed death ligand 1. When bound to its receptor PD-1, or programmed death protein 1, PD-L1 prevents the anti-tumor immune response normally responsible for clearing abnormal cells throughout the body. Within the past decade, a new class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been developed to block this interaction and unleash the patient’s immune system on their tumor cells. While these drugs have seen promising results for some patients, there are still limitations that need to be overcome. Many of the existing cancer immunotherapies are in monoclonal antibody form and have problems with specificity, tissue penetration, route of administration, and are expensive to produce. In this study, we characterized and tested eight different small peptide inhibitors to the PD-1 PD-L1 pathway that were developed using protein painting, a novel technique used to identify specific hotspots within the binding interface. These small peptide inhibitors have the potential to be more specific than antibody therapies by exclusively targeting the protein-protein interface and could potentially be optimized to allow for oral administration. We also characterized various molecular dyes for future protein painting and introduced preliminary studies which optimize cell painting, a novel technique that uses molecular dyes on the surface of living cells to elucidate new drug targets and create whole cell “interactomes” between immune and target cell types.
A study of the omega omega channel produced in central pp interactions at 450 GeV/c
Creators: name: The WA102 Collaboration
name: Barberis, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reaction pp -> pf (omega omega) ps has been studied at 450 GeV/c and a spin analysis of the omega omega channel has been performed for the first time in central production. Evidence is found for the f2(1910) in the JPC = 2++ wave with spin projection JZ = 2. This is the only state observed in central production with spin projection JZ = 2. Its dPT and phi dependencies are similar to those observed for other glueball candidates. In addition, evidence is found for a state with JPC = 4++ consistent with the f4(2300). The f0(2000), previously observed in the rho rho final state, is confirmed.
description: 10 pages, Latex, 3 Figures
title: Prototyping lead-free Na₀.₅Bi₀.₅TiO₃-based multilayer ceramic capacitors
Creators: name: Gehringer, Maximilian
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) that can withstand high temperatures and voltages are urgently needed for upcoming high-temperature (HT) power electronics applications like renewable energies, power conversion, and electric vehicles. While environmental conditions usually do not exceed 300 °C, voltage requirements and limits for capacitors under operation are often uncertain. Thus, the stability of electrical properties in a broad range of operating conditions is required. Lead zirconate titanate (PZT)-based capacitors cannot be utilized due to the toxicity of lead and environmental concerns. Commercial lead-free BaTiO₃ (BT)-based ceramic capacitors are limited to 190 °C.
Capacitor materials based on Na₀.₅Bi₀.₅TiO₃ (NBT) are promising contenders, but their complex defect chemistry has to be assessed. Especially since oxygen vacancy migration during operation is one of the most critical aspects. In MLCCs that operate under temperature and voltage stress, additional migration of the inner electrode material into the dielectric needs to be considered. This well-known issue in
lead-based components with silver-palladium (Ag/Pd) electrodes can cause severe electrodegradation and lower reliability. While similar effects are expected for NBT-based MLCCs, the actual mechanism for this complex electrodegradation is investigated.
Capacitors are prepared using the MLCC fabrication route, comprised of slurry preparation, tape casting, shaping processes, and thermal treatment of green bodies. This work aims to provide an integral approach to optimizing the manufacturing processes of NBT-based MLCCs co-fired with Ag/Pd electrodes. Four key influencing factors are evaluated: slurry composition, shaping processes, sintering conditions, and
electrode material.
Ultimately, the prepared prototype MLCCs exhibit a homogeneous microstructure with low porosity and excellent lamination of individual layers and electrodes. They feature an exceptional operational window regarding temperature (-67 to 375 °C) and voltage (up to 1.5 kV), with only a slight variation of capacitance (≤±10%). Voltage ratings do not have to be specified due to this high voltage insensitivity.
The prototype MLCCs with Ag/Pd electrodes exhibit greater resilience against enhanced degradation. Moreover, a novel indentation method was conceptualized to evaluate the dielectric breakdown strength (DBS), excluding extrinsic effects and identifying areas with electric field concentrations. Here, NBT-based MLCCs are more limited by the component’s design than by the dielectric strength of the ceramic.
This work demonstrates the remarkable stability of NBT-based prototype MLCCs against high temperatures and voltages, making them strong candidates for future high-temperature and power electronics applications.
title: End Cycle
Creators: name: Kardambikis, Christopher
name: Moon, Becca
Publisher: name: Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University Libraries
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Printmaking
subject: Zines
subject: Artists'' books

description: A collection of books as travelogue. Books as time capsules that reveal how images are built and rebuilt. Books that contain multiple spaces, all folded up and overlapping and spilling out. END CYCLE is a show of 23 books and 1 large format print. The work is arranged in vitrines circling the gallery so as to allow for new connections to be made between points in space and time – between the Terra Nullius of New Castle – a small town in western PA frozen in grey post-industrial collapse – and the 1,520 pages sewn together in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn – tied to the daily routine of cross-neighborhood foot commutes. Between Southern California streets scorched by the sun and endless comic-book panels burnt into a childhood brain over the course of long afternoon readings.
Structural Modelling of Female Labour Participation and Occupation Decisions
Creators: name: De Hoyos, R. E.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: C34, J23, J24, J31,
subject: Participation, wage differentials, microsimulation, Mexico

description: The objective of this paper is to estimate the parameters defining female labour participation and occupation decisions. Departing from a theoretical framework, we use micro data to estimate the wage-participation elasticity in Mexico. Consistency between the selectivity-adjusted wages and the multinomial participation equations is achieved via a two-step estimation procedure following Lee (1984). We use the results of our model to test and quantify three hypotheses explaining recent increases in female labour participation in Mexico. Our results show that the observed 12 per cent increase in female labour participation in Mexico between 1994 and 2000 is explained by the combination of a negative income shock caused by the 1994-95 Peso crisis, the increase in expected wages taking place in the manufacturing sector during the post-NAFTA period and a reduction in the female reservation wage.
Additional file 2: of Genetic diversity and population structure of trifoliate yam (Dioscorea dumetorum Kunth) in Cameroon revealed by genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS)
Creators: name: Siadjeu, Christian
name: Mayland-Quellhorst, Eike
name: Albach, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S2. Estimates of the model evidence for Kâ =â 2:5 using TI estimator a) log-evidence and b) the evidence and Structure estimator Delta K â K c) (PDF 95 kb)
title: Analysis of Premature Degradation to High Performance Aerospace Military Coatings
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Analysis of Premature Degradation to High Performance Aerospace Military Coatings Nickolaus K. Weise, Ph.D. George Mason University, 2020 Dissertation Director: Dr. Gerald L. R. Weatherspoon High performance aerospace coatings are intended to protect the substrate from the effects of sunlight and humidity, ensuring an airframe lasts its intended lifespan. The coating systems that are applied to the airframe are intended to last for 12-15 years, with minor periodic touch ups or “rework”. However, when the applied coating system degrades prematurely, the U.S Navy is forced to spend a great deal of money and man hours repairing the defective coating. Currently, the Navy employs a coating system that is experiencing premature degradation from hot and humid environments. To explore what is causing this degradation and ways to prevent it, analogue coating systems were synthesized and exposed to accelerated weathering conditions. The study focused on manipulating three (3) separate variables: 1) the blending of poly(ether) and poly(ester) macrodiol; 2) the –NCO:-OH mole ratio; and 3) the pigment volume concentration. This work describes the results from the accelerated weathering study. Surface analysis, bulk mechanical analysis and spectroscopic analysis were used to understand how variables were affected due to accelerated weathering. When the macrodiol was blended, the mechanical properties of weathered coatings more closely resembled the T0 mechanical properties after 2000 h of weathering. When the –NCO:-OH mole ratio was manipulated, the urea linkages formed from the excess isocyanate did not adversely affect coating performance. Finally, when the PVC was manipulated, the blended polyol coating systems performed better than the single polyol coating systems. This work furthers the knowledge base contributing to the development of the next generation of high performance military coatings.