cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The biography of music teachers and their understanding of musicality
Creators: name: Dalladay, Christopher
Publisher: name: The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Year: 2011
Subjects: biography
identity
musicality
musicianship
teachers

description: This article describes an ongoing research project with secondary music teachers and teacher trainees in England which forms part of studies for a PhD. The hypothesis on which it is founded is that the educational, environmental, experiential and musical background of secondary music teachers has a significant part to play in the curriculum they present and the manner in which they assess the musicality of their pupils. A ‘classically’ trained musician, for example, may view the development of musicianship in the young people they may teach in a more traditional manner (eg using notation, developing strict performance technique) than the musician who has developed more informally (eg through improvisation and performance by ear). This paper seeks to explore research into the formation of secondary music teacher and musician identity along with the notion of what it is to be musical.
Just a Paycheck? Assessing Student Benefits of Work on Faculty Research Projects
Creators: name: Mathews, Leah Greden
name: Mathews, Leah Greden
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: student learning
subject: assessment
subject: undergraduate research

description: The benefits that students gain from designing and implementing their own independent undergraduate research projects is often presented as a valuable step in their academic career, and a stepping stone to graduate school success. However, it is not clear what benefits students receive when working as undergraduate research assistants on faculty research projects where they, the students, have little or no input into the project or its design. This paper reports on a survey of undergraduate students who participated as wage laborers on two separate faculty-directed research projects. The results of the study suggest that students gain valuable knowledge and skills that serve as constructive preparation for work, personal lives and graduate school careers; in addition, their participation in research enhances their overall undergraduate experience.
Gauge theories on compact toric manifolds
Creators: name: Bonelli, Giulio
name: Fucito, Francesco
name: Morales, Jose Francisco
name: Ronzani, Massimiliano
name: Sysoeva, Ekaterina
name: Tanzini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric partition function of a gauge theory on a four-dimensional compact toric manifold via equivariant localization. The result is given by a piecewise constant function of the Kähler form with jumps along the walls where the gauge symmetry gets enhanced. The partition function on such manifolds is written as a sum over the residues of a product of partition functions on $\mathbb{C}^2$. The evaluation of these residues is greatly simplified by using an "abstruse duality" that relates the residues at the poles of the one-loop and instanton parts of the $\mathbb{C}^2$ partition function. As particular cases, our formulae compute the $SU(2)$ and $SU(3)$ {\it equivariant} Donaldson invariants of $\mathbb{P}^2$ and $\mathbb{F}_n$ and in the non-equivariant limit reproduce the results obtained via wall-crossing and blow up methods in the $SU(2)$ case. Finally, we show that the $U(1)$ self-dual connections induce an anomalous dependence on the gauge coupling, which turns out to satisfy a $\mathcal{N}=2$ analog of the $\mathcal{N}=4$ holomorphic anomaly equations.
description: 41 pages, 3 figures, discussion on SU(3) results moved to a different section, added a discussion on stability in section 2 and a mathematical appendix on this subject
On-Chip Multiphoton Entangled States by Path Identity
Creators: name: Feng, Tianfeng
name: Zhang, Xiaoqian
name: Tian, Yuling
name: Feng, Qin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiphoton entanglement, as a quantum resource, plays an essential role in linear optical quantum information processing. Krenn et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 080401 2017) proposed an innovative scheme that generating entanglement by path identity, in which two-photon interference (called Hong-Ou-Mandel effect) is not necessary in experiment. However, the experiments in this scheme have strict requirements in stability and scalability, which is difficult to be realized in bulk optics. To solve this problem, in this paper we first propose an on-chip scheme to generate multi-photon polarization entangled states, including Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states and W states. Moreover, we also present a class of generalized graphs for W states (odd-number-photon) by path identity in theory. The on-chip scheme can be implemented in existing integrated optical technology which is meaningful for multi-party entanglement distribution in quantum communication networks.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Multi-stimuli control over assembly and guest binding in metallo-supramolecular hosts based on dithienylethene photoswitches
Creators: name: Li, Ru-Jin
name: Tessarolo, Jacopo
name: Lee, Haeri
name: Clever, Guido H.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Palladium
subject: Ligands
subject: Chemical structure
subject: Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
subject: Titration
subject: 540

description: It is difficult to assemble multi-component metallo-supramolecular architectures in a non-statistical fashion, whichlimits their development toward functional materials. Herein, wereport a system of interconverting bowls and cages that are able torespond to various selective stimuli (light, ligands, anions), basedon the self-assembly of a photochromic dithienylethene (DTE)ligand,La, with PdIIcations. By combining the concept of“coordination sphere engineering”, relying on bulky quinolinedonors, with reversible photoswitching between the ligand’s open(o-La) and closed (c-La) forms, a [Pd2(o-La)4] cage (o-C) and a[Pd2(c-La)3] bowl (c-B) were obtained, respectively. This structuralrearrangement modulates the system’s guest uptake capabilities.Among three bis-sulfonate guests (G1,G2, andG3), the cage canencapsulate only the smallest (G1), while the bowl binds all of them. Bowlc-Bwas further used to synthesize a series of heterolepticcages, [Pd2LA3LB], representing a motif never reported before. Additional ligands (Lc‑f), with short or long arms, tune the cavity size,thus enabling or preventing guest uptake. Addition of Br−/Ag+makes it possible to change the overall charge, again triggering guestuptake and release, as well as fourth ligand de-/recomplexation. In combination, site-selective introduction of functionality andapplication of external stimuli lead to an intricate system of hosts with different guest preferences. A high degree of complexity isachieved through cooperativity between only a few components.
Overdamping Phenomena near the Critical Point in O($N$) Model
Creators: name: Ohnishi, K.
name: Kunihiro, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the dynamic critical behavior of the propagating mode for the order parameter fluctuation of the O($N$) Ginzburg-Landau theory, involving the canonical momentum as a degree of freedom. We reexamine the renormalization group analysis of the Langevin equation for the propagating mode. We find the fixed point for the propagating mode as well as that for the diffusive one, the former of which is unstable to the latter. This indicates that the propagating mode becomes overdamped near the critical point. We thus can have a sufficient understanding of the phonon mode in the structural phase transition of solids. We also discuss the implication for the chiral phase transition.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure;v3 modification for correcting a misleading description, conclusion unchanged
You got pwned! The behaviour of young people online and the issues raised for teachers
Creators: name: Brennan, Caroline
Publisher: name: The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Year: 2011
Subjects: Adolescent
Cyberspace
Ethics
Social Networking
Moral Development

description: Young people are more socially connected than ever before through online social networks such as Facebook and Myspace, yet in some ways their solitary participation in the world online leaves young people more isolated. By missing out on more traditional face-to-face social encounters and away from the watchful eyes of their parents, young people face moral dilemmas that impact on their personal development as they mature into adulthood. This article explores the moral development issues raised when young people interact in cyberspace. As the school curriculum is increasingly supported by new technologies, particularly in recent years to support the personalisation agenda, these ethical issues have become the concern of both parents and educators. To prepare young people for success they must be taught ethical online behaviour in addition to traditional academic skills.
Heavy Ion e+ e- Pairs to All Orders in Z alpha
Creators: name: Baltz, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The heavy ion cross section for continuum e+ e- pair production has been calculated to all orders in Z alpha. Comparison is made with available CERN SPS and RHIC STAR data. Computed cross sections are found to be reduced from perturbation theory with increasing charge of the colliding heavy ions and for all energy and momentum regions investigated. Au or Pb total cross sections are reduced by 28% (SPS), 17% (RHIC),and 11% (LHC). For very high energy (E_e+, E_e- > 3 GeV) forward pairs at LHC the reduction from perturbation theory is a bit larger (17%). Use of zero degree calorimeter triggering (and thus small impact parameter weighting) makes impact parameter representation of exact pair production useful. Preliminary exact calculations in the zero impact parameter limit show a much larger reduction from perturbation theory (about 40%) at both RHIC and LHC.
description: 4 pages, poster proceedings from Quark Matter 2005
Are small Sub-Sahara African farmers willing to pay for vegetative propagated orange fleshed sweetpotato planting material? Evidence from Central Mozambique
Creators: name: Labarta, Ricardo A.
name: Labarta, Ricardo A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics
Farm Management
Food Security and Poverty
Health Economics and Policy
International Development
Production Economics

description: This paper evaluates farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the vegetative propagated orange fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) planting material that is many times considered as a public good. Famers’ WTP for OFSP vines was elicited by conducting a real choice experiment (RCE) among 121 small sweetpotato growers in central Mozambique with prior experience growing OFSP but with no participation in OFSP vine distributions in the previous 3 years of the experiment. Results reveals a higher farmers’ willingness to pay for OFSP varieties (US$0.07-0.12) compared to the non-orange planting material (US$ 0.03) and compared to the traditional subsidized price of clean sweetpotato vines (US$ 0.06) used in Mozambique. These results may encourage formation of a network of private vine multipliers that would supply permanently OFSP planting material in wider areas.
Renormalization Group and Infinite Algebraic Structure in D-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory
Creators: name: Pis'mak, Yu. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider scalar field theory in the D-dimensional space with nontrivial metric and local action functional of most general form. It is possible to construct for this model a generalization of renormalization procedure and RG-equations. In the fixed point the diffeomorphism and Weyl transformations generate an infinite algebraic structure of D-Dimensional conformal field theory models. The Wilson expansion and crossing symmetry enable to obtain sum rules for dimensions of composite operators and Wilson coefficients.
description: 16 pages
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Alternative Extension Methods: Triple-Bag Storage of Cowpeas by Small-Scale Farmers in West Africa
Creators: name: Moussa, Bokar
name: Otoo, Miriam
name: Fulton, Joan R.
name: Lowenberg-DeBoer, James
name: Moussa, Bokar
name: Otoo, Miriam
name: Fulton, Joan R.
name: Lowenberg-DeBoer, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Effective extension methods
subject: cowpeas
subject: hermetic storage

description: This study examined two questions related to the adoption of triple-bag storage technology for farmers storing cowpeas in West Africa. First the effect of an extension program, focused on village demonstrations, on adoption was considered. Second, the effect of radio messages to augment this extension program was analyzed. The results indicate that adoption was positively affected by the extension program and radio messages do augment the effectiveness.
Sensitive measurement of forces at micron scale using Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms
Creators: name: Carusotto, Iacopo
name: Pitaevskii, Lev
name: Stringari, Sandro
name: Modugno, Giovanni
name: Inguscio, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that Bloch oscillations of ultracold fermionic atoms in the periodic potential of an optical lattice can be used for a sensitive measurement of forces at the micrometer length scale, e.g. in the vicinity of dielectric surface. In particular, the proposed approach allows to perform a local and direct measurement of the Casimir-Polder force which is, for realistic experimental parameters, as large as 10^-4 gravity.
Learning Consistency Pursued Correlation Filters for Real-Time UAV Tracking
Creators: name: Fu, Changhong
name: Yang, Xiaoxiao
name: Li, Fan
name: Xu, Juntao
name: Liu, Changjing
name: Lu, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Correlation filter (CF)-based methods have demonstrated exceptional performance in visual object tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, but suffer from the undesirable boundary effect. To solve this issue, spatially regularized correlation filters (SRDCF) proposes the spatial regularization to penalize filter coefficients, thereby significantly improving the tracking performance. However, the temporal information hidden in the response maps is not considered in SRDCF, which limits the discriminative power and the robustness for accurate tracking. This work proposes a novel approach with dynamic consistency pursued correlation filters, i.e., the CPCF tracker. Specifically, through a correlation operation between adjacent response maps, a practical consistency map is generated to represent the consistency level across frames. By minimizing the difference between the practical and the scheduled ideal consistency map, the consistency level is constrained to maintain temporal smoothness, and rich temporal information contained in response maps is introduced. Besides, a dynamic constraint strategy is proposed to further improve the adaptability of the proposed tracker in complex situations. Comprehensive experiments are conducted on three challenging UAV benchmarks, i.e., UAV123@10FPS, UAVDT, and DTB70. Based on the experimental results, the proposed tracker favorably surpasses the other 25 state-of-the-art trackers with real-time running speed ($\sim$43FPS) on a single CPU.
description: IROS 2020 accepted, 8 pages, 7 figures, and 2 tables
GM-free private standards and their effects on biosafety decision-making in developing countries
Creators: name: Gruere, Guillaume P.
name: Sengupta, Debdatta
name: Gruere, Guillaume P.
name: Sengupta, Debdatta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Political Economy
subject: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: FOS: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: private standards
subject: political economics.

description: We provide a comprehensive review of international cases where GM-free private standards set up by food companies in developed countries have influenced biosafety policymaking in developing countries. We find twenty-nine cases where private importers have directly or indirectly affected policy decisions in twenty-one countries. Most of the cases relate irrational fear of export losses to excessively precautionary decisions. These cases are based on two generally misleading premises: the belief that Europe or Japan represents the only market for exports, and the perception that non-GM segregation is infeasible or prohibitively costly in all situations. Our study also demonstrates the importance of information asymmetries across countries and agents and the role of risk aversion in seemingly irrational decision making. The combination of these four factors helps us explain why presumed but unproven expected commercial losses still represents a significant impediment to biosafety policymaking in developing countries.
Quantum electrodynamics in a topological waveguide
Creators: name: Kim, Eunjong
name: Zhang, Xueyue
name: Ferreira, Vinicius S.
name: Banker, Jash
name: Iverson, Joseph K.
name: Sipahigil, Alp
name: Bello, Miguel
name: Gonzalez-Tudela, Alejandro
name: Mirhosseini, Mohammad
name: Painter, Oskar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While designing the energy-momentum relation of photons is key to many linear, non-linear, and quantum optical phenomena, a new set of light-matter properties may be realized by employing the topology of the photonic bath itself. In this work we investigate the properties of superconducting qubits coupled to a metamaterial waveguide based on a photonic analog of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. We explore topologically-induced properties of qubits coupled to such a waveguide, ranging from the formation of directional qubit-photon bound states to topology-dependent cooperative radiation effects. Addition of qubits to this waveguide system also enables direct quantum control over topological edge states that form in finite waveguide systems, useful for instance in constructing a topologically protected quantum communication channel. More broadly, our work demonstrates the opportunity that topological waveguide-QED systems offer in the synthesis and study of many-body states with exotic long-range quantum correlations.
description: 28 pages 17 figures
OurSpace: exploring our cultures
Creators: name: Quarshie, Richard
Publisher: name: The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Year: 2011
Subjects: Cultural Identity
Difference
Inclusivity
Self-Definition
Trainee Teachers

description: Secondary English trainee teachers at the University of East London were asked in October 2009 to represent their ‘culture’ in some way using four PowerPoint slides. This article describes some of the presentations and discusses what is involved in the process of working out a personal cultural identity. It refers to the notion that ‘culture is ordinary’ and suggests that managing the tension between inducting students into established ‘traditional’ culture, on the one hand, and enabling them to make their own individual meanings, on the other, is at the heart of every teacher’s work.
Entanglement in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
Creators: name: Shi, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present some general ideas about quantum entanglement in relativistic quantum field theory, especially entanglement in the physical vacuum. Here, entanglement is defined between different single particle states (or modes), parameterized either by energy-momentum together with internal degrees of freedom, or by spacetime coordinate together with the component index in the case of a vector or spinor field. In this approach, the notion of entanglement between different spacetime points can be established. Some entanglement properties are obtained as constraints from symmetries, e.g., under Lorentz transformation, space inversion, time reverse and charge conjugation.
description: 5 pages. v1: Submitted for publication in May 2004. v2: minor corrections
Technology Adoption And Pest Control Strategies Among UK Cereal Farmers: Evidence from Parametric and Nonparametric Count Data Models
Creators: name: Sharma, Abhijit
name: Bailey, Alastair
name: Fraser, Iain
name: Sharma, Abhijit
name: Bailey, Alastair
name: Fraser, Iain
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: technology
subject: adoption
subject: cereal farming
subject: UK
subject: nonparametric

description: This paper examines technology adoption and integrated pest management strategies employed by UK farmers, using both parametric and nonparametric methods. We employ a unique survey data set collected from UK cereal farmers to assess the determinants of technology adoption in relation to pest management. Our preferred model specification is nonparametric which makes use of the recently developed methods of Li and Racine (2007) and Racine and Li (2004). These methods allow us to combine categorical and continuous data and thereby avoid sample splitting and resulting efficiency losses. Our analysis reveals that total area farmed is positively related to the number of technologies adopted, whereas age is negatively related. We also find evidence of significant statistical differences for number of adoptions by region across the UK.
Absence of diagonal force constants in cubic Coulomb crystals
Creators: name: Andrews, Bartholomew
name: Conduit, Gareth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quasi-harmonic model proposes that a crystal can be modeled as atoms connected by springs. We demonstrate how this viewpoint can be misleading: a simple application of Gauss' law shows that the ion-ion potential for a cubic Coulomb system can have no diagonal harmonic contribution and so cannot necessarily be modeled by springs. We investigate the repercussions of this observation by examining three illustrative regimes: the bare ionic, density tight-binding, and density nearly-free electron models. For the bare ionic model, we demonstrate the zero elements in the force constants matrix and explain this phenomenon as a natural consequence of Poisson's law. In the density tight-binding model, we confirm that the inclusion of localized electrons stabilizes all major crystal structures at harmonic order and we construct a phase diagram of preferred structures with respect to core and valence electron radii. In the density nearly-free electron model, we verify that the inclusion of delocalized electrons, in the form of a background jellium, is enough to counterbalance the diagonal force constants matrix from the ion-ion potential in all cases and we show that a first-order perturbation to the jellium does not have a destabilizing effect. We discuss our results in connection to Wigner crystals in condensed matter, Yukawa crystals in plasma physics, as well as the elemental solids.
description: 10+12 pages, 6+7 figures
HADRON05 Summary: Heavy Quark Hadrons and Theory
Creators: name: Barnes, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This HADRON05 summary covers the topics of (1) mesons containing heavy quarks, and (2) theory. The new material discussed here is taken mainly from plenary presentations. We specifically emphasize new or recent results in spectroscopy that are likely to appear in future editions of the PDG. An exception is made for the pentaquark, which has now been withdrawn. We undoubtedly have something important to (re)learn about multiquarks from the pentaquark saga, and this merits a phrase in Portuguese. The three general areas we consider are: I. QQbar spectroscopy, II. Qqbar spectroscopy, and III. lessons from the pentaquark. Finally, in Section IIIb. we conclude with "Our moment of Zen".
description: 14 pages, 10 eps figures. Presented at HADRON05 (Rio, 21-26 Aug. 2005)
Direct photon production and scaling properties in large and small system collisions
Creators: name: Khachatryan, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: wwnd20
phenix
small systems
direct photon
rhic
thermal photon
scaling
multiplicity
rgamma
au+au
cu+cu
p+au
invariant yield

description: Talk presented at the Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics 2020 conference Overview of direct photon production and scaling properties in large and small system collisions in PHENIX.
Multicriteria analysis on effective financing of agri-environmental measures and conflicts between environmental objectives
Creators: name: Ziolkowska, Jadwiga
name: Ziolkowska, Jadwiga
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Agri-environmental policy
subject: evaluation
subject: environmental protection

description: The main objective of the paper is to investigate effective financing scenarios for agri-environmental measures with regard to the environmental benefit, considering regional policy priorities. By means of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and a Linear Programming (LP) approach we conduct multicriteria analysis and investigate conflicts between environmental objectives as well as their influence on financing scenarios for agri-environmental measures. The analysis is based on an explorative case study conducted in Poland in the Subcarpathia region and on interviews with agricultural experts. The results show that the budget allocation for agri-environmental measures is considerably dependent on preferences given to environmental objectives within political strategies, and visible conflicts between the objectives exist in different financing scenarios. The findings can be helpful in supporting political decision-making processes interactively and can also be transferred to other countries in order to scientifically support planning and financing of agri-environmental measures in future.
Block Shuffle: A Method for High-resolution Fast Style Transfer with Limited Memory
Creators: name: Ma, Weifeng
name: Chen, Zhe
name: Ji, Caoting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Fast Style Transfer is a series of Neural Style Transfer algorithms that use feed-forward neural networks to render input images. Because of the high dimension of the output layer, these networks require much memory for computation. Therefore, for high-resolution images, most mobile devices and personal computers cannot stylize them, which greatly limits the application scenarios of Fast Style Transfer. At present, the two existing solutions are purchasing more memory and using the feathering-based method, but the former requires additional cost, and the latter has poor image quality. To solve this problem, we propose a novel image synthesis method named \emph{block shuffle}, which converts a single task with high memory consumption to multiple subtasks with low memory consumption. This method can act as a plug-in for Fast Style Transfer without any modification to the network architecture. We use the most popular Fast Style Transfer repository on GitHub as the baseline. Experiments show that the quality of high-resolution images generated by our method is better than that of the feathering-based method. Although our method is an order of magnitude slower than the baseline, it can stylize high-resolution images with limited memory, which is impossible with the baseline. The code and models will be made available on \url{https://github.com/czczup/block-shuffle}.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
Digestive System and Feeding Habbit of Canine (Canis familiaris )
Creators: name: Jayanta Das*1, Nikita Singh1, Nikhil Sachan1, Sonu Jaiswal2, S.K Maurya2
Publisher: name: trends in Agriculture Science
Year: 2024

description: Canis familiaris , the scientific name for the dog, is the only member of the Canidae family that can be regarded to be completely domesticated. This is because the dog is entirely a domesticated animal. The dog, which is referred to as Canis familiaris  in the scientific community, is one of the few members of the Canidae family that may be said to be completely domesticated because of its behaviour. The wild ancestor of Canis familiaris  that is immediately linked to it has been the subject of a great deal of study. During a certain time period, people held the belief that the dog was a descendant of the wolf. Certain types of dogs were said to have originated from the golden jackal, while other breeds, which he referred to as "lupus" breeds, were directly derived from the wolf. This information was made public. The process of breeding wild canids, which includes wolves, coyotes, jackals, and other canids, is known as canid breeding. Throughout the 1940s, an ethologist by the name of Konrad Loren, who was later given the Nobel Prize, was active in his field.
Fear or greed? Duty or solidarity? Motivations and the development of sociocognitive and moral reasoning: experimental evidences from public-goods provision dilemmas
Creators: name: Meyer, Leandro Fredrico Ferraz
name: Braga, Marcelo Jose
name: Meyer, Leandro Fredrico Ferraz
name: Braga, Marcelo Jose
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: public-goods
subject: experimental economics
subject: psychosocial development

description: Judging from the perspective of standard game theory, empirical research has uncovered a rich array of “anomalies” that systematically occur in situations that were once thought to have properties leading to clear predictions. This is particularly the case for social dilemmas related to the appropriation of common-pool resources and provision of public-goods. Explanation of such anomalies has focused on the effects of structural variables and contexts on people’s decisions. However, the present study suggest that classifications or typologies based on such descriptors of the action situation are not enough to explain and predict individuals’ decisions in social dilemmas because sociocognitive and moral reasoning has its own stages of development and cannot be deduced from the objective incentive structure or context of action alone. In order to examine this proposition we test experimentally the explanatory power of a selected developmental model designed to rationally reconstruct the pretheoretical knowledge of competently judging subjects. Results indicate that the theoretical constructs of the chosen model provide reliable source of information to explain and predict diverse behavioral responses to similar incentive structures in a public-goods provision dilemmas under variable institutional conditions.
description: The paper presents results connecting the participant’s motivations and behaviors in a step-level give some dilemma with the constructs in a selected theory of adult personality systems development including value judgment and moral reasoning.
The Development of the Willingness to Cooperate: Collective-Action under the Light of the Constructivist Conception of Adult Development
Creators: name: Meyer, Leandro Fredrico Ferraz
name: Braga, Marcelo Jose
name: Meyer, Leandro Fredrico Ferraz
name: Braga, Marcelo Jose
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: commons dilemma
subject: experimental economics
subject: institutional analysis
subject: psychosocial development

description: Along with the changes experienced in the landscape of global agricultural and food systems there is a rising pressure upon the open-access, common-pool resources and ecological environments of the globe. While the conventional theory underlies the vision of a tragedy, and fosters Leviathan-like remedies to overcome problems of overexploitation and destruction of the commons, growing evidence from field studies has called for a serious rethinking of the theoretical foundations for the analysis of collective-action problems. Yet, in moving beyond the conventional view, the lack of a theory of human valuation hinders both the prediction of agents’ variable responses to similar incentive structures and the development of a more general theory of collective-action. In this study, we test experimentally the explanatory power of a constructivist developmental model of adult personality systems which is particularly suitable for addressing situations where the individual and the collective gains conflict. The results suggest that the model provides a valuable source of information for the advancement of the theory of collective-action and has important implications for the development of intuitions aimed at overcoming social dilemmas.
description: The paper presents experimental results connecting the participant’s behaviors in a common-pool resource dilemma, including communication and sanctioning conditions, with the constructs in a selected theory of adult personality systems development including value judgment and moral reasoning.
Where next for English teacher education?
Creators: name: Maguire, Meg
Publisher: name: The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Year: 2011
Subjects: Teacher Education
Education Policy
Reform
The Schools White Paper (2010)

description: In this short piece, what I want to do is raise some questions and engage in some musings based on a consideration of the current proposals for reforming teacher education as outlined in the Schools White Paper (DfE 2010) entitled ‘The importance of teaching. In what follows, I want to briefly review the main proposals of the White Paper. I then want to suggest that much of what is being proposed is an amalgam of long-standing policies and strategies for reform of teacher education that have been reworked and tweaked to fit with current discourses of markets, efficiency and globalising necessities. Despite all the rhetoric and policy activity around new proposals for teacher education, one of the most surprising things about all this current ‘policy noise’ is the way in which many previous policies for reforming the sector are being resuscitated in the new White Paper. What might be some of the intended and unintended outcomes of some of the proposed changes to teacher education in England?
Sufficient conditions for adiabaticity in open quantum systems
Creators: name: Santos, Alan C.
name: Sarandy, Marcelo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The adiabatic approximation exhibits wide applicability in quantum mechanics, providing a simple approach for nontransitional dynamics in quantum systems governed by slowly varying time-dependent Hamiltonians. However, the standard adiabatic theorem is specifically derived for closed quantum systems. In a realistic open system scenario, the inevitable system-reservoir interaction must be taken into account, which strongly impacts the generalization of the adiabatic behavior. In this paper, we introduce sufficient conditions for the adiabatic approximation in open quantum systems. These conditions are simple yet general, providing a suitable instrument to investigate adiabaticity for arbitrary initial mixed states evolving under time local master equations. We first illustrate our results by showing that the adiabatic approximation for open systems is compatible with the description of quantum thermodynamics at thermal equilibrium, where irreversible entropy production is vanishing. We also apply our sufficient conditions as a tool in quantum control, evaluating the adiabatic behavior for the Hamiltonians of both the Deutsch algorithm and the Landau-Zener model under decoherence.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
LONG-RUN EFFECTS FROM CONSUMER REACTION TO THE SPREAD OF FOODBORNE PATHOGENS: THE CASE OF E. COLI CONTAMINATION OF BEEF AT JACK IN THE BOX RESTAURANTS
Creators: name: Zhen, Chen
name: Zhen, Chen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food safety
subject: habit persistence
subject: linear rational expectations model

description: Using news coverage of food safety as an indicator of public attention to food pathogen issues in meat products, we found the 1993 E. coli O157:H7 contamination of hamburgers likely permanently changed consumers' perception of beef safety. A food consumption model with rational habit persistence is developed to examine whether consumers make forward-looking consumption decisions accounting for expectations of future food safety. We document clear evidence of forward-looking consumption behavior, which suggests that government regulations implemented subsequent to the 1993 event to protect consumers from ignorance or cognitive defects may be ineffective.
A comparison of soil microbial communities in adjacent forest types that differ in nutrient cycling rates
Creators: name: Leckie, Sara Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Soil microorganisms have fundamental roles in terrestrial ecosystems yet little is known about the composition, activity, and dynamics of these communities. I investigated the soil microbial communities in two common coniferous forest types of northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. These two ecosystem types occur adjacently and are similar as coastal temperate coniferous forests with the same types of processes occurring. They differ, however, in nutrient availability and productivity. They thus provide an interesting contrast for exploring variability in forest soil communities and potential links between the organisms and soil processes. Microbial community composition was measured using several cultivation-independent approaches: denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (RISA), internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analyses. Although the communities in each forest type were found to be largely similar using DGGE, RISA, and PLFA analyses, differences were detected using the ITS analysis of the fungal communities. PLFA analysis also detected subtle differences between the forest types in overall composition as well as within particular groups of organisms. Fungal PLFAs were more abundant in the nutrient-poor CH forests. Bacteria were proportionally more abundant in HA forests than CH in the lower humus layer, and Gram-positive bacteria were proportionally more abundant in HA forests irrespective of layer. Bacterial and fungal communities were distinct in the F, upper humus, and lower humus layers of the forest floor and total biomass decreased in deeper layers. These results suggest that the microbial communities in these two forest types are similar but that they do differ in detectable ways. These differences may relate to differences in ecosystem process rates, although, in this study, it was not possible to determine cause and effect.
Evaluation of rural development programs after Poland’s accession to the EU: regional CGE approach
Creators: name: Zawalinska, Katarzyna
name: Zawalinska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: rural development policy
subject: regional computable general equilibrium model
subject: Poland

description: The paper evaluates effectiveness and efficiency of various measures of Rural Development Plan 2004-2006 and Sectoral Operational Program for Agriculture applied in Poland after 2004 accession to the UE. The main method used was a regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) model called RegPol covering 16 Polish NUTS 2 regions and 15 sectors of the Polish economy. The paper proofs that among the most efficient measures are those granted in form of investment subsidies (e.g. investments in agricultural farms, support for processing companies, support for rural infrastructure, etc.) and among least efficient measures were those granted in form of direct income transfers (e.g. early retirement) and in form of land subsidies (support for less favored areas, or LFA). Based on the survey method the study also reveals an unfavorable situation where the most efficient measures in rural programs are the most difficult to absorb hence less popular among beneficiaries, while those least efficient are easy and thus more popular, especially in less developed regions. At the end largest support was granted to predominantly rural and predominantly agricultural regions, which however, were not very efficient. However, some cohesion effect had been achieved.
description: rural policy, pillar 2, Poland
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 08/25/09.
On the 2:1 Orbital Resonance in the HD 82943 Planetary System
Creators: name: Lee, Man Hoi
name: Butler, R. Paul
name: Fischer, Debra A.
name: Marcy, Geoffrey W.
name: Vogt, Steven S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the HD 82943 planetary system based on a radial velocity data set that combines new measurements obtained with the Keck telescope and the CORALIE measurements published in graphical form. We examine simultaneously the goodness of fit and the dynamical properties of the best-fit double-Keplerian model as a function of the poorly constrained eccentricity and argument of periapse of the outer planet's orbit. The fit with the minimum chi_{nu}^2 is dynamically unstable if the orbits are assumed to be coplanar. However, the minimum is relatively shallow, and there is a wide range of fits outside the minimum with reasonable chi_{nu}^2. For an assumed coplanar inclination i = 30 deg. (sin i = 0.5), only good fits with both of the lowest order, eccentricity-type mean-motion resonance variables at the 2:1 commensurability, theta_1 and theta_2, librating about 0 deg. are stable. For sin i = 1, there are also some good fits with only theta_1 (involving the inner planet's periapse longitude) librating that are stable for at least 10^8 years. The libration semiamplitudes are about 6 deg. for theta_1 and 10 deg. for theta_2 for the stable good fit with the smallest libration amplitudes of both theta_1 and theta_2. We do not find any good fits that are non-resonant and stable. Thus the two planets in the HD 82943 system are almost certainly in 2:1 mean-motion resonance, with at least theta_1 librating, and the observations may even be consistent with small-amplitude librations of both theta_1 and theta_2.
description: 24 pages, including 10 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
Matrix-valued Aleksandrov--Clark measures and Carathéodory angular derivatives
Creators: name: Liaw, Constanze
name: Martin, Robert T. W.
name: Treil, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30H10, 30H05, 47B32, 47B38, 46E22

description: This paper deals with families of matrix-valued Aleksandrov--Clark measures $\{\boldsymbolμ^α\}_{α\in\mathcal{U}(n)}$, corresponding to purely contractive $n\times n$ matrix functions $b$ on the unit disc of the complex plane. We do not make other apriori assumptions on $b$. In particular, $b$ may be non-inner and/or non-extreme. The study of such families is mainly motivated from applications to unitary finite rank perturbation theory. A description of the absolutely continuous parts of $\boldsymbolμ^α$ is a rather straightforward generalization of the well-known results for the scalar case ($n=1$). The results and proofs for the singular parts of matrix-valued $\boldsymbolμ^α$ are more complicated than in the scalar case, and constitute the main focus of this paper. We discuss matrix-valued Aronszajn--Donoghue theory concerning the singular parts of the Clark measures, as well as Carathéodory angular derivatives of matrix-valued functions and their connections with atoms of $\boldsymbolμ^α$. These results are far from being straightforward extensions from the scalar case: new phenomena specific to the matrix-valued case appear here. New ideas, including the notion of directionality, are required in statements and proofs.
description: 28 pages; v2 has updated bibliography
Temnostoma bombylans
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Temnostoma
Temnostoma bombylans

description: Temnostoma bombylans (FABRICIUS, 1805)
Bgld, Loretto, Weingraben, 15.6.17.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 774, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Globalization of Fresh Fruit Products: The Role of Public Agencies and the Transformation of the Petrolina-Juazeiro Valley
Creators: name: Valente, Airton Saboya Junior
name: Valente, Airton Saboya Junior
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: Fresh fruits became one of the most globalized products within the agricultural sector. Different factors have contributed to propel this trend, such as cost reduction in transportation, improvement in cold chain facilities and changes in dietary habits. Production of fresh fruits for export has grown in Brazil, and it is present in over 30 production hubs. The Brazilian Northeast became one of those focal points, where its fruit production and exports come mainly from irrigated valleys, such as the Petrolina-Juazeiro one. Fruit exports have contributed to transform the Petrolina-Juazeiro valley: they have attracted producers, agribusiness firms, services companies, undergraduate schools, machinery and farm implement manufactures. Besides that, the job market has expanded in the export-oriented valley, as well as the diffusion of modern production technologies and marketing. However, the transformation of this area into a fresh fruit center can not be explained entirely by the globalization of the fresh fruit value chain. Although globalization facilitates market access for fresh fruit produce, this paper argues that the development of the Petrolina-Juazeiro valley is due to a long-standing government intervention through several public agencies that worked actively in these areas providing public goods.