cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Observability of Debris Discs around M-stars
Creators: name: Luppe, Patricia
name: Krivov, Alexander V.
name: Booth, Mark
name: Lestrade, Jean-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Debris discs are second generation dusty discs formed by collisions of planetesimals. Many debris discs have been found and resolved around hot and solar-type stars. However, only a handful have been discovered around M-stars, and the reasons for their paucity remain unclear. Here we check whether the sensitivity and wavelength coverage of present-day telescopes are simply unfavourable for detection of these discs or if they are truly rare. We approach this question by looking at the Herschel/DEBRIS survey that has searched for debris discs including M-type stars. Assuming that these cool-star discs are "similar" to those of the hotter stars in some sense (i.e., in terms of dust location, temperature, fractional luminosity, or mass), we check whether this survey should have found them. With our procedure we can reproduce the $2.1^{+4.5}_{-1.7}$% detection rate of M-star debris discs of the DEBRIS survey, which implies that these discs can indeed be similar to discs around hotter stars and just avoid detection. We then apply this procedure to IRAM NIKA-2 and ALMA bands 3, 6 and 7 to predict possible detection rates and give recommendations for future observations. We do not favour observing with IRAM, since it leads to detection rates lower than for the DEBRIS survey, with 0.6%-4.5% for a 15 min observation. ALMA observations, with detection rates 0.9%-7.2%, do not offer a significant improvement either, and so we conclude that more sensitive far-infrared and single dish sub-millimetre telescopes are necessary to discover the missing population of M-star debris discs.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Scaling in DNA unzipping models: denaturated loops and end-segments as branches of a block copolymer network
Creators: name: Baiesi, Marco
name: Carlon, Enrico
name: Stella, Attilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: For a model of DNA denaturation, exponents describing the distributions of denaturated loops and unzipped end-segments are determined by exact enumeration and by Monte Carlo simulations in two and three dimensions. The loop distributions are consistent with first order thermal denaturation in both cases. Results for end-segments show a coexistence of two distinct power laws in the relative distributions, which is not foreseen by a recent approach in which DNA is treated as a homogeneous network of linear polymer segments. This unexpected feature, and the discrepancies with such an approach, are explained in terms of a refined scaling picture in which a precise distinction is made between network branches representing single stranded and effective double stranded segments.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Three Dimensional MHD Simulations of Accretion to an Inclined Rotator: The "Cubed Sphere" Method
Creators: name: Koldoba, A. V.
name: Romanova, M. M.
name: Ustyugova, G. V.
name: Lovelace, R. V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a three-dimensional, Godunov-type numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) method designed for studying disk accretion to a rotating magnetized star in the general case where the star's rotation axis, its magnetic moment, and the normal to the disk all have different directions. The numerical method uses a "cubed sphere" coordinate system which has advantages of Cartesian and spherical coordinate systems but does not have the singular axis ofthe spherical system. The grid is formed by a sequence of concentric spheres of radii $R_j \propto q^j$ with $j=1..N_R$ and $q={\rm const}>1$. The grid on the surface of the sphere consists of six sectors with the grid on each sector topologically equivalent to the equidistant grid on the face of a cube. Simulation results are discussed for the funnel flows (FF) to a star with dipole moment $\rvecmu$ at an angle $Θ=30^\circ$ to the star's rotation axis ${\bf Ω}$ which is aligned with the normal to the disk. Two important new 3D features are found in these simulations: (1) The funnel flow to the stellar surface is mainly in two streams which approach the star from opposite directions. (2) In the $x-z$ cross section of the flow containing $\rvecmu$ and ${\bf Ω}$, the funnel flow often takes the longer of the two possible paths along magnetic field lines to the surface of the star. A subsequent paper will give a detailed description of the method and results on 3D funnel flows at different inclination angles $Θ$.
description: 3 figures
CHARACTERISTICS OF JOINT INVESTMENT IN GLOBAL BUSINESS
Creators: name: Gijić, Nebojša
name: Dimitrijević, Oliver
name: Jović- Bogdanović, Adriana
name: Gijić, Nebojša
name: Dimitrijević, Oliver
name: Jović- Bogdanović, Adriana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: joint ventures
subject: strategic alliances
subject: mergers and acquisitions

description: "The joint venture", which means investment, is one of the most common forms of strategic partnerships and companies, as it is shown in the stated study, is a kind of partnership that has a tendency to grow. The studies which are carried out on a large number of managers who have had past experience in joint ventures will be presented in this work. The study conducted "on - line" survey, and involved international companies, especially in the US. The work includes theoretical - technical part, which explains in detail the mode of operation of the specified category with an analysis of its application. At the end will be provided basic impressions and comments on the attached results of studies. Results of studies show that managers generally positively declare their past experience with joint ventures and expect that this partnership continues to evolve.
Primary Design and Technology: What do teachers do?
Creators: name: Irving-Bell, Dawne
name: Wooff, David
name: Wright, Sarah
name: Martin, Mike
name: McLain, Matt
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori)
subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development
subject: 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: 130212 Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators

description: Design and technology makes a unique contribution to a child’s education, yet in England and Wales, the countries where the subject was first conceived, the subject faces a constant challenge to maintain itself as a subject of worth within both the primary and secondary age phase curriculum. Compounding issues surrounding its place within the curriculum, particularly in primary schools there are concerns that teachers are insufficiently trained to teach design and technology (D&TA 2015), and opportunities for teachers to undertake professional development are limited and unsupported. Whilst those in teacher education and the wider subject community have raised concerns, there is little empirical evidence available that makes clear primary teachers’ beliefs and perceptions in relation to the subject, and subsequently the nature of activities that are undertaken with pupils. Set within the context of education within England and Wales, this paper presents the preliminary findings from the first phase of a research project designed to establish the range of design and technology work currently undertaken in primary age phase settings. Constructivist grounded theory (Charmaz 2006) is the research approach, with qualitative and quantitative data being collected using a combination of online questionnaires and semi-structured interviews from both serving and trainee teachers from institutions across England and Wales. Findings are discussed in relation to design and technology’s purpose and value within the primary curriculum, and preliminary analysis of the data suggests there are pockets of excellent practice, but in the majority of instances reported by participants engaged in this study data suggest a restricted design and technology curriculum is in operation. Second phase work will seek to explore teacher perceptions to establish if they perceive that their personal subject knowledge has a direct impact upon the depth, breadth and quality of work undertaken in design and technology.
Bell, Dawne, Wooff, David, Wright, Sarah, McLain, Matt and Martin, Mike (2016) Primary Design and Technology: What do teachers do? Annual Conference for Research in Education (ACRE): Values in Education, 12th and 13th July, 2016., Edge Hill University.
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; June-August 1964
June-August 1964
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
Semantic Change and Emerging Tropes In a Large Corpus of New High German Poetry
Creators: name: Haider, Thomas
name: Eger, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to its semantic succinctness and novelty of expression, poetry is a great test bed for semantic change analysis. However, so far there is a scarcity of large diachronic corpora. Here, we provide a large corpus of German poetry which consists of about 75k poems with more than 11 million tokens, with poems ranging from the 16th to early 20th century. We then track semantic change in this corpus by investigating the rise of tropes (`love is magic') over time and detecting change points of meaning, which we find to occur particularly within the German Romantic period. Additionally, through self-similarity, we reconstruct literary periods and find evidence that the law of linear semantic change also applies to poetry.
description: Historical Language Change Workshop at ACL 2019, Florence
Infinite Kinematic Self-Similarity and Perfect Fluid Spacetimes
Creators: name: Sintes, Alicia M.
name: Benoit, Patricia M.
name: Coley, Alan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perfect fluid spacetimes admitting a kinematic self-similarity of infinite type are investigated. In the case of plane, spherically or hyperbolically symmetric space-times the field equations reduce to a system of autonomous ordinary differential equations. The qualitative properties of solutions of this system of equations, and in particular their asymptotic behavior, are studied. Special cases, including some of the invariant sets and the geodesic case, are examined in detail and the exact solutions are provided. The class of solutions exhibiting physical self-similarity are found to play an important role in describing the asymptotic behavior of the infinite kinematic self-similar models.
description: 38 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in General Relativity & Gravitation
THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS ON JOB SATISFACTION OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN DADI REGIONAL SPECIAL HOSPITAL, SOUTH SULAWESI PROVINCE
Creators: name: Sitti Nurbaya
name: Irwandy
name: Noer Bahry Noor
name: Andi Indahwaty Sidin
name: H. M. Alimin Maidin
name: Wahiduddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Empowerment & Participation, Working Condition, Communication, Leadership.

description: Abstract

This research aims to determine the influence of organizational factors on job satisfaction at the Dadi Regional General Hospital (RSUD) in South Sulawesi Province. The research method employed is quantitative research with a cross-sectional design, involving a sample of 100 respondents selected through probability sampling using a questionnaire as the research instrument. The results indicate that variables such as teamwork, reward & recognition, communication, and working conditions do not significantly influence job satisfaction in the hospital. On the other hand, variables like leadership, empowerment & participation, training & individual development, and working hours significantly affect job satisfaction. Leadership has an influence 3.351 times greater on job satisfaction, empowerment & participation has an influence 2.895 times greater, training & individual development has an influence 3.491 times greater, and working hours has an influence 3.645 times greater on job satisfaction. Positive and supportive leadership styles can enhance employee job satisfaction. Empowered employees tend to take pride in their work and perceive a greater purpose, significantly improving job satisfaction. Properly identifying and meeting training needs can enhance job satisfaction, and attention to employee conditions and patient service needs is crucial in setting working hours. Although teamwork, reward & recognition, communication, and working conditions were found to have no significant influence, they remain important in enhancing employee performance in the hospital.
On the fragmentation of multiply charged sodium clusters
Creators: name: Hidmi, I.
name: Gross, D. H. E.
name: Jaqaman, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fragmentation of multiply charged atomic sodium clusters of mass 200 is investigated using the Micro-canonical Metropolis Monte Carlo (MMMC) statistical technique for excitation energies up to 200 eV and for cluster charges up to $+9e$. In this work we present caloric curves and charged and uncharged fragment mass distributions for clusters with charges 0, 2, and 4. The caloric curves show a dip at the critical point implying a negative specific heat, as expected for finite systems, while the fragment mass distributions corroborate the picture of a phase transition from one dominant liquid-like cluster to complete vaporization.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures. submitted to EPJD
Ambragaeana ambra Chou et Yao 1985
Creators: name: Thai, Pham Hong
name: Yang, Jeng-Tze
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Ambragaeana
Ambragaeana ambra

description: Ambragaeana ambra Chou et Yao, 1985
Ambragaeana ambra Chou et Yao, 1985, Entomotax. VII (2): 126.
Material examined. Kon Tum: 1male, Ngoc Linh NR, 1700m, 19.iv.2004, coll. Bui Xuan Phuong. Distribution. Vietnam (Kon Tum prov.), China (Chou et al., 1997)
description: Published as part of Thai, Pham Hong & Yang, Jeng-Tze, 2009, A contribution to the Cicadidae fauna of Vietnam (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha), with one new species and twenty new records, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 2249 on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2249.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/190761
The detection of variability from the candidate IR counterpart to the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E1048.1-5937
Creators: name: Israel, G. L.
name: Covino, S.
name: Stella, L.
name: Campana, S.
name: Marconi, G.
name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Mignani, R.
name: Negueruela, I.
name: Oosterbroek, T.
name: Parmar, A. N.
name: Burderi, L.
name: Angelini, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the detection of variability from the proposed IR counterpart to the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar (AXP) 1E1048.1-5937 based on Chandra and ESO optical/IR deep observations carried out in 2001-2002. Within the narrow Chandra uncertainty region for 1E1048.1-5937 we found only one relatively faint (J=22.1+/-0.3, J-Ks=2.4) source, while the recently proposed IR counterpart was not detected down to a limiting Ks magnitude of about 20.7 (3sigma confidence level). This implies a remarkable IR brightening of this object, Delta Ks>1.3, on a timescale of about 50 days. Although our knowledge of the IR properties of AXPs is rather limited (there is only another source, 1E2259+586, for which IR variability has been detected), the observed IR variability of the proposed counterpart strengthens its association with 1E1048.1-5937. Our results make the IR (and presumably optical) variability a likely common characteristic of AXPs, and provide new constraints on this class of objects.
description: 4 pages. Accepted for publication on ApJ Letters. emulateapj5.sty macro used
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; August 1964
August 1964
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; August-September 1964
August-September 1964
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
Decision Programming for Multi-Stage Optimization under Uncertainty
Creators: name: Salo, Ahti
name: Andelmin, Juho
name: Oliveira, Fabricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Influence diagrams are widely employed to represent multi-stage decision problems in which each decision is a choice from a discrete set of alternatives, uncertain chance events have discrete outcomes, and prior decisions may influence the probability distributions of uncertain chance events endogenously. In this paper, we develop the Decision Programming framework which extends the applicability of influence diagrams by developing mixed-integer linear programming formulations for solving such problems in the presence of many kinds of constraints. In particular, Decision Programming makes it possible to (i) solve problems in which earlier decisions cannot necessarily be recalled later, for instance, when decisions are taken by agents who cannot communicate with each other; (ii) accommodate a broad range of deterministic and chance constraints, including those based on resource consumption, logical dependencies or risk measures such as Conditional Value-at-Risk; and (iii) determine all non-dominated decision strategies in problems which involve multiple value objectives. In project portfolio selection problems, Decision Programming allows scenario probabilities to depend endogenously on project decisions and can thus be viewed as a generalization of Contingent Portfolio Programming.
Shot Noise at High Temperatures
Creators: name: Gutman, D. B.
name: Gefen, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the possibility of measuring non-equilibrium properties of the current correlation functions at high temperatures (and small bias). Through the example of the third cumulant of the current (${\cal{S}}_3$) we demonstrate that odd order correlation functions represent non-equilibrium physics even at small external bias and high temperatures. We calculate ${\cal{S}}_3=y(eV/T) e^2 I$ for a quasi-one-dimensional diffusive constriction. We calculate the scaling function $y$ in two regimes: when the scattering processes are purely elastic and when the inelastic electron-electron scattering is strong. In both cases we find that $y$ interpolates between two constants. In the low (high) temperature limit $y$ is strongly (weakly) enhanced (suppressed) by the electron-electron scattering.
description: 11 pages 4 fig. submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Numerical techniques for lattice QCD in the $ε$--regime
Creators: name: Giusti, L.
name: Hoelbling, C.
name: Lüscher, M.
name: Wittig, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In lattice QCD it is possible, in principle, to determine the parameters in the effective chiral lagrangian (including weak interaction couplings) by performing numerical simulations in the $ε$--regime, i.e. at quark masses where the physical extent of the lattice is much smaller than the Compton wave length of the pion. The use of a formulation of the lattice theory that preserves chiral symmetry is attractive in this context, but the numerical implementation of any such approach requires special care in this kinematical situation due to the presence of some very low eigenvalues of the Dirac operator. We discuss a set of techniques (low-mode preconditioning and adapted-precision algorithms in particular) that make such computations numerically safe and more efficient by a large factor.
description: Plain TeX source, 32 pages, figures included
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; September 1964
September 1964
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
Unified model of sediment transport threshold and rate across weak and intense subaqueous bedload, windblown sand, and windblown snow
Creators: name: Pähtz, Thomas
name: Liu, Yonghui
name: Xia, Yuezhang
name: Hu, Peng
name: He, Zhiguo
name: Tholen, Katharina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonsuspended sediment transport (NST) refers to the sediment transport regime in which the flow turbulence is unable to support the weight of transported grains. It occurs in fluvial environments (i.e., driven by a stream of liquid) and in aeolian environments (i.e., wind-blown) and plays a key role in shaping sedimentary landscapes of planetary bodies. NST is a highly fluctuating physical process because of turbulence, surface inhomogeneities, and variations of grain size and shape and packing geometry. Furthermore, the energy of transported grains varies strongly due to variations of their flow exposure duration since their entrainment from the bed. In spite of such variability, we here propose a deterministic model that represents the entire grain motion, including grains that roll and/or slide along the bed, by a periodic saltation motion with rebound laws that describe an average rebound of a grain after colliding with the bed. The model simultaneously captures laboratory and field measurements and discrete element method (DEM)-based numerical simulations of the threshold and rate of equilibrium NST within a factor of about 2, unifying weak and intense transport conditions in oil, water, and air (oil only for threshold). The model parameters have not been adjusted to these measurements but determined from independent data sets. Recent DEM-based numerical simulations (Comola, Gaume, et al., 2019, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082195) suggest that equilibrium aeolian NST on Earth is insensitive to the strength of cohesive bonds between bed grains. Consistently, the model captures cohesive windblown sand and windblown snow conditions despite not explicitly accounting for cohesion.
Evaluating Policy Options to Reduce N2O Emissions from US Agriculture
Creators: name: Klotz, Richard
name: Gurung, Ram
name: Ogle, Stephen
name: Paustian, Keith
name: Sheehan, John
name: Bento, Antonio M.
name: Klotz, Richard
name: Gurung, Ram
name: Ogle, Stephen
name: Paustian, Keith
name: Sheehan, John
name: Bento, Antonio M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: climate policy
subject: mitigation

description: If emissions from a sector are unobservable, direct emissions policies are unlikely to be extended to this sector. However, alternative policies based on observable quantities may be able to reduce emissions from the unregulated source at costs similar to a first-best policy. This paper evaluates the costs of policy instruments for reducing GHG emissions from cropland agriculture, a large source of emissions that are unobservable, using an integrated biophysical and economic model. Results suggest that policies regulating readily observable quantities can reduce agricultural N2O emissions at costs approaching those of the unavailable emissions tax. However, alternative policies with costs similar to the emissions tax may have considerably different impacts on agricultural sector profit.
Balinta Distant 1905
Creators: name: Thai, Pham Hong
name: Yang, Jeng-Tze
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Balinta

description: Genus Balinta Distant, 1905
Balinta Distant, 1905a, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 15: 383.
Type species: Cicada octonotata Westwood, 1842, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (1), 9: 121.
description: Published as part of Thai, Pham Hong & Yang, Jeng-Tze, 2009, A contribution to the Cicadidae fauna of Vietnam (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha), with one new species and twenty new records, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 2249 on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2249.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/190761
title: Coping with Epistemic Trauma
title: The Africana Pursuit of New Humanism
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Zunguze, Jeremias
Publisher: name: Public Philosophy Journal
Year: 2019

description: This article discusses how Frantz Fanon diagnoses the epistemic trauma that African people have experienced, resulting from Eurocentric epistemic violence, while prescribing the pursuit of new humanism as a coping mechanism. In the last five centuries, European modernity’s racialized ideals of humanity have mapped the world by excluding African people, disrupting their sense of humanism, and throwing them into existential downward spiral. In fact, Western modernity questioned whether African people are “humans”, and it concluded that they are not. This assumption has justified various interventions to deliver African people from objecthood. The consequences have been colonialism, enslavement, and apartheid, which have attempted to remove Africans from the realm of humanity. The epistemic trauma persists today as African people continue to search for new humanism. Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961) diagnoses epistemic trauma in African people while prescribing “decolonization” as an act that “triggers a . . . psycho-effective equilibrium” in the pursuit of new humanism and humanity. His Africana critical theory—envisioning philosophy in relation to humanities and social sciences as a means to social transformation—proposes new humanism and humanity founded on decolonization, thus moving beyond Eurocentric ideals of humanity.
Individual and Contextual Factors Explaining Latino Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities in the Midwest
Creators: name: Payen Diaz De La Vega, Andrick
name: Payen Diaz De La Vega, Andrick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics

description: This study examines the likelihood of Latino immigrants becoming entrepreneurs in three rural communities in the Midwest. The sustainable livelihoods strategies framework and the human ecology model frame the analysis of entrepreneurship, where both the Latino immigrant strategy depends on capitals as well as the context and opportunities created by settling in a new community. The effect of migration patterns and length of stay, perceptions and experience in the context of the settling community (context of reception indexes) and the agency of individuals in acculturating, and the capitals (social, human, cultural and economic) of Latinos are factors analyze in becoming entrepreneurs. The data was collected through a household questionnaire, applied to a sample of 460 Latino households, located in three Midwestern communities selected to represent a diversity of economic pull factors, and analyzed to determine the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur as a function of the different capitals, the context of reception or community climate, and the strategies used by Latinos.
Long-lived coherence in driven spin systems: from two to infinite spatial dimensions
Creators: name: Hahn, Walter
name: Dobrovitski, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long-lived coherences, emerging under periodic pulse driving in the disordered ensembles of strongly interacting spins, offer immense advantages for future quantum technologies, but the physical origin and the key properties of this phenomenon remain poorly understood. We theoretically investigate this effect in ensembles of different dimensionality, and predict existence of the long-lived coherences in two-dimensional and infinite-dimensional (where every spin is coupled to all others) systems, which are of particular importance for quantum sensing and quantum information processing. We explore the transition from two to infinite dimensions, and show that the long-time coherence dynamics in all dimensionalities is qualitatively similar, although the short-time behavior is drastically different, exhibiting dimensionality-dependent singularity. Our study establishes the common physical origin of the long-lived coherences in different dimensionalities, and suggests that this effect is a generic feature of the strongly coupled spin systems with positional disorder. Our results lay out foundation for utilizing the long-lived coherences in a range of application, from quantum sensing with two-dimensional spin ensembles, to quantum information processing with the infinitely-dimensional spin systems in the cavity-QED settings.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures + Appendix
Phase separation in the two-dimensional electron liquid in MOSFETs
Creators: name: Spivak, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the existence of an intermediate phase between the Fermi liquid and the Wigner crystal phases is a generic property of the two-dimensional pure electron liqd in MOSFET's at zero temperature. The physical reason for the existence of these phases is a partial separation of the uniform phases. We discuss properties of these phases and a possible explanation of experimental results on transport properties of low density electron gas in Si MOSFET's. We also argue that in certain range of parameters the partial phase separation corresponds to a supersolid phas e discussed in [AndreevLifshitz].
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Nonlinear gradient estimates for elliptic double obstacle problems with measure data
Creators: name: Byun, Sun-Sig
name: Cho, Yumi
name: Park, Jung-Tae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J87 (Primary) 35R06, 42B37 (Secondary)

description: We study quasilinear elliptic double obstacle problems with a variable exponent growth when the right-hand side is a measure. A global Calderón-Zygmund estimate for the gradient of an approximable solution is obtained in terms of the associated double obstacles and a given measure, identifying minimal requirements for the regularity estimate.
description: 26 pages, typos corrected
Penalties for Foodborne Illness: Jury Decisions and Awards in Foodborne Illness Lawsuits
Creators: name: Mahdu, Omchand
name: Boys, Kathryn A.
name: Geyer, Leon
name: Ollinger, Michael
name: Mahdu, Omchand
name: Boys, Kathryn A.
name: Geyer, Leon
name: Ollinger, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: foodborne illness
subject: food safety
subject: jury verdict
subject: personal injury
subject: product liability

description: This study examined how various case attributes impact plaintiff success and payouts in jury settled FBI lawsuits. Given the risk to firms in terms of potentially large payouts, future litigation, and lost reputation, the results may provide economic incentives for food firms and others in the supply chain to produce safer and better quality foods. Reviewing the outcomes of 511 FBI jury trials between 1979 and 2014, plaintiffs won approximately 35 percent of the cases, receiving a median award of $32,264. The Heckman Two-Step procedure was performed to examine the effects of various factors on plaintiff success rates and subsequent amounts awarded. Plaintiff chances of victory increased if lawsuits involved a child, foodborne pathogen was identified and pain and suffering was claimed, and decreased if defendants used of one or more expert witnesses or had “deep pockets”. Cases involving a child, chronic complications, or defendants with “deep pockets” resulted in higher awards.
description: This is a Draft Paper
Balinta tenebricosa Distant 1888
Creators: name: Thai, Pham Hong
name: Yang, Jeng-Tze
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Balinta
Balinta tenebricosa

description: Balinta tenebricosa (Distant, 1888)
Gaeana tenebricosa Distant, 1888, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 26: 454.
Balinta tenebricosa: Distant, 1906, Fn. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. 3: 149.
Material examined. Ninh Binh: 1female, Cuc Phuong NP, 250m, 25.v.2005, coll. Pham Hong Thai.
Distribution. Vietnam (Ninh Binh prov.), Laos, Myanmar (Metcalf, 1963b), China (Chou et al., 1997)
description: Published as part of Thai, Pham Hong & Yang, Jeng-Tze, 2009, A contribution to the Cicadidae fauna of Vietnam (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha), with one new species and twenty new records, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 2249 on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2249.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/190761
Stellar wind bubbles around WR and [WR] stars
Creators: name: Mellema, Garrelt
name: Lundqvist, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of stellar wind bubbles around hydrogen-deficient stars using numerical simulations with time- and ion dependent cooling. We consider two types of hydrogen-deficient stars, massive WR stars, producing Ring Nebulae, and low mass [WR] stars, producing Planetary Nebulae. We show that for the Planetary Nebulae, the different cooling properties of the hydrogen-deficient wind lead to a later transition from momentum- to energy-driven flow, which could explain the observed turbulence of these nebulae. We find that Ring Nebulae should all be energy-driven, and show how comparing the bubble's momentum and kinetic energy to the input wind momentum and kinetic energy, can give misleading information about the dynamics of the bubble.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, to be published in A&A
Impact of Chinese acquisition of a US Company on Consumer Willingness to Pay
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu Yvette
name: Palma, Marco A.
name: Jin, Shaosheng
name: Zhang, Yu Yvette
name: Palma, Marco A.
name: Jin, Shaosheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Merging & Acquisition
subject: Multinational business
subject: Consumer Willingness to Pay
subject: Experiments
subject: Auctions

description: In this study, we explore how the acquisition of Smithfield, the world’s larger pork producer, by a Chinese firm Shuanghui, on consumers’ WTP to meat product using experimental auctions. Our results indicate that the acquisition benefits Shuanghui in particular and other Chinese firms in general in terms of consumer’s willingness to pay. On the other firms, the general impacts on US firms might be negative, probably due to expected lower price or reduced perceived difference between domestic and imported meat products.
Gradient dynamics model for drops spreading on polymer brushes
Creators: name: Thiele, Uwe
name: Hartmann, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a liquid drop spreads on an adaptive substrate the latter changes its properties what may result in an intricate coupled dynamics of drop and substrate. Here we present a generic mesoscale hydrodynamic model for such processes that is written as a gradient dynamics on an underlying energy functional. We specify the model details for the example of a drop spreading on a dry polymer brush. There, liquid absorption into the brush results in swelling of the brush causing changes in the brush topography and wettability. The liquid may also advance within the brush via diffusion (or wicking) resulting in coupled drop and brush dynamics. The specific model accounts for coupled spreading, absorption and wicking dynamics when the underlying energy functional incorporates capillarity, wettability and brush energy. After employing a simple version of such a model to numerically simulate a droplet spreading on a swelling brush we conclude with a discussion of possible model extensions.
Quantum Brownian motion in ratchet potentials
Creators: name: Scheidl, Stefan
name: Vinokur, Valerii M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of quantum particles in a ratchet potential subject to an ac force field. We develop a perturbative approach for weak ratchet potentials and force fields. Within this approach, we obtain an analytic description of dc current rectification and current reversals. Transport characteristics for various limiting cases -- such as the classical limit, limit of high or low frequencies, and/or high temperatures -- are derived explicitly. To gain insight into the intricate dependence of the rectified current on the relevant parameters, we identify characteristic scales and obtain the response of the ratchet system in terms of scaling functions. We pay a special attention to inertial effects and show that they are often relevant, for example, at high temperatures. We find that the high temperature decay of the rectified current follows an algebraic law with a non-trivial exponent, $j\propto T^{-17/6}$.
description: 14 pages LaTex with 4 eps figures included
Gaeana Amyot & Serville 1843
Creators: name: Thai, Pham Hong
name: Yang, Jeng-Tze
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Gaeana

description: Genus Gaeana Amyot & Serville, 1843
Gaeana Amyot & Serville, 1843, Hist., Hem: 463.
Type species: Cicada maculata Drury, 1773, Illustr. Nat. Hist. 2: 68.
description: Published as part of Thai, Pham Hong & Yang, Jeng-Tze, 2009, A contribution to the Cicadidae fauna of Vietnam (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha), with one new species and twenty new records, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 2249 on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2249.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/190761
HRM IN FOREIGN-OWNED AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD PROCESSING COMPANIES IN SERBIA
Creators: name: Ratković, Tatjana
name: Ratković, Tatjana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: human resource management
subject: agriculture
subject: food processing
subject: recruitment
subject: performance appraisal

description: This paper was aimed at analysing the degree to which foreign-owned agricultural and food processing companies in Serbia implement key human resource management (HRM) processes, determining whether these processes are performed in-house or outsourced, and identifying the variables which influence the decision on performing these processes within the company or outsourcing. The analysis of data collected through a survey conducted in 42 companies has confirmed the expectations that the surveyed companies mainly perform most of HRM activities The conclusion drawn from the study is that all examined HRM activities are mainly performed in-house, rather than outsourced, while the mode of performing key HRM processes mainly depends on the size of the company and the number of employees in HR department, implying that foreign-owned companies operating in agricultural and food processing sector in this transition country need to take these variables into consideration when deciding whether to perform crucial HRM activities by themselves or outsource.
description: Original scientific paper
Buddleja coroicense Rusby 1907
Creators: name: O'Leary, Nataly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Buddleja
Buddleja coroicense

description: Buddleja coroicense Rusby (1907: 412)
Type (lectotype, first-step designated by Norman 2000: 122):— BOLIVIA. La Paz: Coroico, Jul. 1894, A. M. Bang 2327 (NY!, three sheets; second-step lectotype, here designated NY barcode 0297530! [digital image], isolectotypes BM barcode 600449! [digital image], CORD barcode 3655! [digital image], CORD barcode 3656! [digital image], E barcode 259276! [digital image], F barcode 062093F! [digital image], G barcode 00236345! [digital image], GH barcode 75691! [digital image], K barcode 573226! [digital image], LIL barcode 1099! [digital image], M barcode 183825! [digital image], MICH barcode 1115853! [digital image], PH barcode 010895! [digital image], NY barcode 0297531! [digital image], NY barcode 0297532! [digital image], PUL barcode 314! [digital image], US barcode 113029! [digital image], US barcode 930972! [digital image], WIS barcode 256011WIS! [digital image]).
Notes:—Rusby mentioned three gatherings in the protologue: Bang 2327, Pearce and Mandon 347. Although he states that the Pearce collection was “less tomentose” and the Mandon collection “might be the same”, the author did not specify which of the three specimens should be regarded as the type. Therefore these are considered syntypes and a lectotype is to be selected according to Art. 9.5 of the ICN (McNeill et al. 2012). Norman (2000: 122) indicated Bang 2327 collection in NY as the holotype, but it is an error to be corrected to lectotype (Art. 9.9 of the ICN, McNeill et al. 2012). In NY herbarium, actually, three duplicate specimens exist (NY 0297530, NY 0297531, NY 0297532), so that Norman’s mention can be considered as a first-step typification (Art. 9.17, Ex. 12 of the ICN, McNeill et al. 2012). This designation is here narrowed by selecting the specimen annotated by Norman as “ holotype ” as a second-step lectotype (Art. 9.17 of the ICN, McNeill et al. 2012, McNeill 2014).
Current status:—heterotypic synonym of Buddleja diffusa Ruiz & Pavón (1798: 53).
description: Published as part of O'Leary, Nataly, 2015, Typification and nomenclatural notes on twenty-three names of Buddleja (Schrophulariaceae), pp. 237-245 in Phytotaxa 234 (3) on page 242, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.234.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13632992
Synthetic Humans for Action Recognition from Unseen Viewpoints
Creators: name: Varol, Gül
name: Laptev, Ivan
name: Schmid, Cordelia
name: Zisserman, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although synthetic training data has been shown to be beneficial for tasks such as human pose estimation, its use for RGB human action recognition is relatively unexplored. Our goal in this work is to answer the question whether synthetic humans can improve the performance of human action recognition, with a particular focus on generalization to unseen viewpoints. We make use of the recent advances in monocular 3D human body reconstruction from real action sequences to automatically render synthetic training videos for the action labels. We make the following contributions: (i) we investigate the extent of variations and augmentations that are beneficial to improving performance at new viewpoints. We consider changes in body shape and clothing for individuals, as well as more action relevant augmentations such as non-uniform frame sampling, and interpolating between the motion of individuals performing the same action; (ii) We introduce a new data generation methodology, SURREACT, that allows training of spatio-temporal CNNs for action classification; (iii) We substantially improve the state-of-the-art action recognition performance on the NTU RGB+D and UESTC standard human action multi-view benchmarks; Finally, (iv) we extend the augmentation approach to in-the-wild videos from a subset of the Kinetics dataset to investigate the case when only one-shot training data is available, and demonstrate improvements in this case as well.
description: 21 pages
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; October 1964
October 1964
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
title: Unreife Jugend oder antidemokratische Verfassungstradition?. ​​​​​​​Der Aufstieg der NSDAP in Ernst Fraenkels Buch über den „Doppelstaat“ und im SRP (Sozialistische Reichspartei)-Verbotsurteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts
Creators: name: Schulz, Sarah
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History: Zeitgeschichte online
Year: 2019

description: Nationalistische und rassistische Organisationen haben in der Bundesrepublik Tradition. Das gleiche gilt für den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit ihnen. (Neo)nazistische Organisationen und die gesellschaftlichen Reaktionen darauf können folglich auch aus einer historischen Perspektive betrachtet werden. Das müssen sie sogar, nimmt man das heute so selbstverständlich scheinende „Nie wieder!“ der „wehrhaften Demokratie“ beim Wort. Denn was sollte sich eigentlich nicht mehr wiederholen: der Zweite Weltkrieg, die antisemitische Vernichtungspolitik oder die Abschaffung der Weimarer Demokratie durch die NSDAP? Befreit man den Imperativ des „Nie wieders“ von den geschichtspolitischen Mythen, die ihn seit jeher umranken, ist ein nüchterner Blick auf die Konjunkturen gesellschaftlicher (Nicht-)Auseinandersetzung mit dem Nationalsozialismus gewonnen. Dieser Blick bringt nicht nur mehr historische Klarheit, sondern stellt auch die Instrumente der „wehrhaften Demokratie“ auf den Prüfstand: Wer überprüft wen auf ‚Verfassungstreue’ und mit welchen Mitteln? Zum historischen Blick gehört also auch eine politikwissenschaftliche Perspektive. Denn der Schutz der bundesrepublikanischen Demokratie hängt davon ab, was oder wer als Ursache für das Scheitern der Weimarer Demokratie ausgemacht wird.