cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Third Annual Performance Survey of Reinforced Concrete Pipe Culverts
Creators: name: Hughes, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In April, 1957, under Circular Memorandum 22-40, the Bureau of Public Roads issued a rational criterion covering beddings of reinforced concrete pipe, construction methods, and simplified methods for determining the allowable heights of fill over pipe having given D-load strengths. The states were urged to adopt the criterion; and, accordingly, the Kentucky Department of Highways issued Amendments No. 15 and 16 (Feb, 28, 1958) to its 1956 edition of Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction and Standard Drawings Nos. 11.22 and 11.23. These amendments and standard drawings were patterned after the criterion of the Bureau of Public Roads but contained some practical modifications from the original criterion. Amendment No. 15 was later revised and superseded by Amendment No. l5a (Dec. 1961).  The two bedding conditions thus permitted under the revised Department of Highways Specifications are the B (Standard Bedding) and the B1 (Imperfect Trench High-Fill Bedding); each is similar to the same respective designation as outlined in the Bureau's Circular Memorandum 22-40, The required strengths and bedding conditions for various heights of fill were thus established and are set forth in "Table for Safe Fill Cover Heights and Classes for Reinforced Concrete Circular Pipe" on the Department's Standard Drawing No. 11.23. Installation procedures are also shown and outlined on Standard Drawing No. 11.22.  In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the design and construction criterion, the Bureau of Public Roads requested that a number of reinforced concrete pipe installations so constructed be selected for periodic inspections. A group of 113 reinforced concrete pipe culverts installed in accordance with new criteria was selected early in 1960. The culverts so selected are located on Interstate Routes I-64 in Jefferson, Shelby, Franklin, Clark and Montgomery Counties, and on I-75 in Scott, Grant and Kenton Counties. Each culvert was inspected during the summers of 1960, 1961 and 1962.
Life of the nodal quasiparticles in Bi-2212 as seen by ARPES
Creators: name: Kordyuk, A. A.
name: Borisenko, S. V.
name: Koitzsch, A.
name: Fink, J.
name: Knupfer, M.
name: Buechner, B.
name: Berger, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the pronounced doping dependence of the quasiparticle spectral weight in the antinodal region of the superconducting cuprates, as seen by ARPES, unambiguously points to the magnetic origin of the strong electron-boson coupling there, the nature of the electron scattering in the nodal direction remained unclear. Here we present a short review of our recent detailed investigations of the nodal direction of Bi-2212. Our findings prove the existence of well defined quasiparticles even in the pseudogap state and show that the essential part of the quasiparticle scattering rate, which appears on top of Auger-like electron-electron interaction, also implies a magnetic origin.
description: 6 revtex pages, short review, presented at SNS 2004
Theory of polymer diffusion in polymer-nanoparticle mixtures: effect of nanoparticle concentration and polymer length
Creators: name: Zhang, Bokai
name: Li, Jian
name: Hu, Juan-mei
name: Liu, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of polymer-nanoparticle (NP) mixtures, which involves multiple scales and system-specific variables, has posed a long-standing challenge on its theoretical description. In this paper, we construct a microscopic theory for polymer diffusion in the mixtures based on a combination of generalized Langevin equation, mode-coupling approach, and polymer physics ideas. The parameter-free theory has an explicit expression and remains tractable on pair correlation level with system-specific equilibrium structures as input. Taking a minimal polymer-NP mixture as an example, our theory correctly captures the dependence of polymer diffusion on NP concentration and average interparticle distance. Importantly, the polymer diffusion exhibits a power law decay as the polymer length increases at dense NPs and/or long chain, which marks the emergence of entanglement-like motion. The work provides a first-principle theoretical foundation to investigate dynamic problems in diverse polymer nanocomposites.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND PROFIT PERFORMANCE OF NIGERIA'S TOP FIVE PUBLICLY LISTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS (2003 – 2022)
Creators: name: Ogechukwu, Maria, Ngwoke
name: James Ike,, Ugwu, Ph.D.
Publisher: name: SADI Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Capital Structure. Debt financing, equity financing, banks Nigeria

description: The research investigated the effect of capital structure on the profit performance of Nigeria's top five publicly listed banks. The ex-post facto design method was used in this study while secondary data were used were gathered from annual reports from top five publicly listed banks (Zenith Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, First Bank of Nigeria, Eco Bank Nigeria and Access Bank ) which are among those rated by the Central Bank of Nigeria covering a period of 20 years (2003–2022). Pooled Panel Least Squares Regression was employed as a statistical method with aid of STATA 15 software. Result indicates that EQR exert a negative but non-significant effect on the ROA of the banks of study with regression coefficient of -40.89 and p-value of -1.8584 However, ICR exert negative and significant effect on ROA of the banks with correlation coefficient of -.000204 and p-value of .00180 which is less than 0.05. To that effect the alternative hypothesis which states that ICR has significant effect on ROA is accepted. This implies that a unit increase in ICR would bring about -.0002 reduction in the ROA of the banks. Furthermore, DTR, LEV and DER all have positive but non-significant effect on ROA of the banks. From the result of the analysis, the study concludes that capital structure elements have varied effect on ROA of banks of study most of which were non-significant. The study recommends that banks should rely mostly on equity financing as the debt financing has negative effect on the financial performance of the firms as EQR, DER and ICR show negative effect of debts on the financial performance of banks. The interest coverage ratio, which shows the rate of income relative to interest adversely affect the firms.
A Study of the Hydraulics of Drop-Inlet-Type Culvert Models
Creators: name: Hughes, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In certain unique situations, a drop-inlet-type of culvert might be employed to a greater advantage than the standard box- or pipe-type culvert. A drop-inlet consists merely of a vertical drop-section at the upstream end of the culvert. The drop section is connected to the main barrel of the culvert by means of an elbow or merely a rightangle intersection. The entrance to the drop-section must collect and funnel the channel water into the drop section. Thus, intercepting dams and sidewalls may be needed to form the entrance. Figure 1 illustrates, in a general way, some of the options which may be considered in the design of a highway culvert. The diagram alludes to the particular case where the difference between inlet and outlet elevations is such that the slope-gradient is quite steep. Likewise, as envisioned in Fig. 2, drop-inlets may find some application in situations where there is not sufficient head-room beneath the pavement to permit the installation of a culvert to the desired slope -- that is, on the uniform grade between the upstream channel and the outfall channel.
รัฐประหาร พ.ศ. 2549 กับแนวคิดประชาธิปไตยในกวีนิพนธ์การเมืองรางวัลพานแว่นฟ้า
Creators: name: ธงชัย แซ่เจี่ย
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2012
Subjects: -

description: วรรณวิทัศน์, 12, พฤศจิกายน, 28-42
title: Concrete, Bridge Decks:
title: Deterioration, Coatings and Repairs
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Havens, James H.
name: Drake, William B.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report is not wholly a culmination of a planned or programmed research project. It is a historical account of damage sustained by both new and old concrete bridge-decks -- through freeze-thaw, salt action, etc, -- and of some expedient repairs which have been effected. The problem of durability in concrete bridge-decks has become increasingly critical during the past ten years or so and is now a major concern to highway engineers throughout the northern tier of states. While there is not yet a concerted agreement in regard to the cause of the trouble, relief is being sought through improved construction practices, air-entrainment, and protective coatings of various kinds. Similarly, relief from perpetual maintenance or complete replacement of existing bridge decks is being sought through improved methods for making repairs.  The performance of individual slabs in a deck is sometimes markedly different from that of a nearby slab; and, even within a particular slab, only one corner or one end may be affected. This signifies poor concreting practices. The concrete sustaining damage was undoubtedly over-watered, over-worked, de-aired, and segregated. The proper placement of deck concrete is perhaps the more serious aspect of the problem than the repair, because improper placement automatically incurs a premature maintenance liability. Of course, as the need for repairs arises in due time, reliable methods of repair should be employed. It is in this latter respect that the repair experiences recorded in this report are expected to be the most fruitful.  None of the damaged decks which have been observed thus far has shown any evidence of overloading by traffic (adjudged by the absence of any checker-board crack-pattern on the underneath side of the deck); the trouble seems to be attributable almost entirely to weathering; and the weathering invariably seeks out and attacks the poorest concrete often revealing the mistakes made by the workmen and their attempts to hide them.  Improper drainage of the deck and gutter can be one of the contributing factors to damage. Even slabs and gutters sometimes have "bird-baths" in them. Cinders, sand, road-debris, and snow sometimes impound water and prevent drying. Such areas are exposed to water and moisture beyond their normal time and damage is often associated with these conditions.
A Segmentation of U.S. Consumers on Attitudes Relating to Terrorism, and their Communication Preferences; Findings from a National Survey of Attitudes of U.S. Residents about Terrorism
Creators: name: Degeneffe, Dennis J.
name: Kinsey, Jean D.
name: Stinson, Thomas F.
name: Ghosh, Koel
name: Degeneffe, Dennis J.
name: Kinsey, Jean D.
name: Stinson, Thomas F.
name: Ghosh, Koel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Political Economy

description: In the light of lessons learned from recent disasters (The London Subway Bombings, and Hurricane Katrina), it has become clear that government and private organizations need to be prepared to communicate effectively with consumers before, during and after a disaster in order to minimize harm to consumers and to the nation. Findings from a national survey of attitudes of U.S. Residents about terrorism provides information for the development of such communications. Using "Predictive Segmentation" this study demonstrates that consumers can be grouped based on their general attitudes and values in such a way that their diversity can be captured in a simple framework of six segments reflecting striking differences with respect to their level of concern over potential terrorist attacks. The segments were named as follows: "Fear Tethered, "Principled & Self-Disciplined," "Intelligentsia," "Predestinarians," "Optimistic & Self-Reliant," and "Uncommitted C'est la vie." Each of these segments differ on their preferences for information should an attack happen, and on their preferred source of news. Based on their information needs and media behavior, some preliminary guidance is offered for the development of communication strategies for each segment.
Additional file 3 of Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) and leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) de novo genomes to study the demographic history and genetic diversity of southern seals
Creators: name: Nebenführ, Marcel
name: Hamadou, Alexander Ben
name: Aguilar, Alex
name: Borrell, Asunción
name: Gkafas, Georgios A.
name: Janke, Axel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3 Annotation completeness of the newly sequenced genomes.
Quantum-mechanics free subsystem with mechanical oscillators
Creators: name: de Lépinay, Laure Mercier
name: Ockeloen-Korppi, Caspar F.
name: Woolley, Matthew J.
name: Sillanpää, Mika A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum mechanics sets a limit for the precision of continuous measurement of the position of an oscillator. Here we show how it is possible to measure an oscillator without quantum backaction of the measurement by constructing one effective oscillator from two physical oscillators. We realize such a quantum-mechanics free subsystem using two micromechanical oscillators, and show the measurements of two collective quadratures while evading the quantum backaction by $8$ decibels on both of them, obtaining a total noise within a factor two of the full quantum limit. This facilitates detection of weak forces and the generation and measurement of nonclassical motional states of the oscillators. Moreover, we directly verify the quantum entanglement of the two oscillators by measuring the Duan quantity $1.4$ decibels below the separability bound.
PR4 - A Community Food Sharing Cloud Platform
Creators: name: C.I.P. CITIZENS IN POWER
name: ASOCIACIÓN ÍTACA PARA EL DESARROLLO E INCLUSIÓN DE LA INFANCIA Y JUVENTUD
name: Federacion Interdiocesana Andaluza del MSC
name: HELIXCONNECT EUROPE S.R.L
name: YET ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA
name: UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: OPEN ACCES
CO-CREATION

description: Cloud-based community food exchange platform that serves as a central point for advertising both food supply and demand requests among different community actors.
ชื่อเพลงในบทมโหรี: ความเชื่อมโยงกับบทร้อง
Creators: name: นาวิน วรรณเวช
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2012
Subjects: -

description: วรรณวิทัศน์, 12, พฤศจิกายน, 43-63
Bemerkungen zu den Konsensustexten über die Taufe und Eucharistie, besonders aus der Sicht der Orthodoxie
Creators: name: Basdekis, Athanasios
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 25 Nr. 1 (1976): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 25, Heft 1
Nf=2 Lattice QCD and Chiral Perturbation Theory
Creators: name: Scorzato, L.
name: Farchioni, F.
name: Hofmann, P.
name: Jansen, K.
name: Montvay, I.
name: Munster, G.
name: Papinutto, M.
name: Scholz, E. E.
name: Shindler, A.
name: Ukita, N.
name: Urbach, C.
name: Wenger, U.
name: Wetzorke, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By employing a twisted mass term, we compare recent results from lattice calculations of Nf=2 dynamical Wilson fermions with Wilson Chiral Perturbation Theory (WChPT). The final goal is to determine some combinations of Gasser-Leutwyler Low Energy Constants (LECs). A wide set of data with different lattice spacings (a ~ 0.2-0.12 fm), different gauge actions (Wilson plaquette, DBW2) and different quark masses (down to the lowest pion mass allowed by lattice artifacts and including negative quark masses) provide a strong check of the applicability of WChPT in this regime and the scaling behaviours in the continuum limit.
description: 8 pages. To appear in proceedings of Computational Hadron Physics, Nicosia, 14-17 Sep 2005. Notation made uniform with other publications
Study of molecular layers in the atmosphere of the supergiant star mu Cep by interferometry in the K band
Creators: name: Perrin, G.
name: Ridgway, S. T.
name: Verhoelst, T.
name: Schuller, P. A.
name: Foresto, V. Coude du
name: Traub, W. A.
name: Millan-Gabet, R.
name: Lacasse, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Infrared interferometry of supergiant and Mira stars has recently been reinterpreted as revealing the presence of deep molecular layers. Empirical models for a photosphere surrounded by a simple molecular layer or envelope have led to a consistent interpretation of previously inconsistent data. The stellar photospheres are found to be smaller than previously understood, and the molecular layer is much higher and denser than predicted by hydrostatic equilibrium. However, the analysis was based on spatial observations with medium-band optical filters, which mixed the visibilities of different spatial structures. This paper reports spatial interferometry with narrow spectral bands, isolating near-continuum and strong molecular features, obtained for the supergiant mu Cep. The measurements confirm strong variation of apparent diameter across the K-band. A layer model shows that a stellar photosphere of angular diameter 14.11+/-0.60 mas is surrounded by a molecular layer of diameter 18.56+/-0.26 mas, with an optical thickness varying from nearly zero at 2.15 microns to >1 at 2.39 microns. Although mu Cep and alpha Ori have a similar spectral type, interferometry shows that they differ in their radiative properties. Comparison with previous broad-band measurements shows the importance of narrow spectral bands. The molecular layer or envelope appears to be a common feature of cool supergiants.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, to appear in A&A
สายโลหิต: การสร้างสรรค์นวนิยายกับประวัติศาสตร์
Creators: name: วรรณี พุทธเจริญทอง
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2012
Subjects: -

description: วรรณวิทัศน์, 12, พฤศจิกายน, 64-91
COUPONING AS A HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL STRATEGY: THEORY AND EFFECTS
Creators: name: Connor, John M.
name: Connor, John M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Coupons
subject: sales strategies
subject: vertical competition
subject: food products
subject: ready-to-eat cereals.

description: This paper surveys developments in analytical models and empirical findings concerning the strategic use of manufacturers' coupons for U.S. grocery products. Traditional theories examine the horizontal effects of coupons as a strategy to charge various classes of consumers different prices. Recent developments focus on the use of coupons in manufacturer-retailer vertical competition. The paper provides data on trends in couponing: numbers, face values, redemption rates, total promotional costs, and international usage. The paper further analyses the effective price discounts provided by coupons across brands and segments of ready-to-eat cereals during 1992-1995.
Additional file 4 of Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) and leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) de novo genomes to study the demographic history and genetic diversity of southern seals
Creators: name: Nebenführ, Marcel
name: Hamadou, Alexander Ben
name: Aguilar, Alex
name: Borrell, Asunción
name: Gkafas, Georgios A.
name: Janke, Axel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S4 Maximum likelihood phylogeny.
COMPETENCE ACQUISITION IN RETAIL FOOD: EFFICIENT CONSUMER RESPONSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Creators: name: Marcus, Alfred
name: Spielmann, Brian
name: Qu, Lu
name: Marcus, Alfred
name: Spielmann, Brian
name: Qu, Lu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Based on interviews with retail food store managers and a subsequent survey, this paper traces the pathways that spawn competence acquisition in the retail food industry. It finds that having an essential capability for learning, that is, obtaining new ideas, concepts, methods, tends to breed competencies in a number of areas which are of both business and social significance. In this study, the capacity of this essential capability to generate competencies in efficient consumer response (ECR) and environmental management (EM) are examined. These competencies have attracted the attention of the retail food industry in its efforts to become more competitive with alternative retail food channels. The results show that firms possessing the essential capability of generating new ideas are more likely to have higher sales per square foot. Ties with suppliers lead to higher sales per square foot through improved environmental practices and more consumer education. Technical assistance helps retail grocers acquire a social competence in environmental management.
Analysis of the $ \boldsymbol{γγ\to D\bar D}$ reaction and the $D\bar{D}$ bound state
Creators: name: Wang, En
name: Li, Hong-Shen
name: Liang, Wei-Hong
name: Oset, Eulogio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we investigate the reaction of $γγ\to D\bar{D}$, taking into account the s-wave $D\bar{D}$ final state interaction. By fitting to the $D\bar{D}$ invariant mass distributions measured by the Belle and BaBar Collaborations, we obtain a good reproduction of the data by means of a $D\bar{D}$ amplitude that produces a bound $D\bar{D}$ state with $I=0$ close to threshold. The error bands of the fits indicate, however, that more precise data on this reaction are needed to be more assertive about the position and width of such state.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, and 1 table
THE FOOD CONSUMER IN THE 21ST CENTURY: NEW RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES
Creators: name: Senauer, Benjamin
name: Senauer, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: A far more complex set of factors are now driving food consumption patterns in high-income countries than economists have traditionally analyzed in demand studies. Food consumers have moved up Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid from satisfying basic physiological needs. If the traditional focus was on quantity demands for homogenous commodities, attention needs to increasingly be given to the demand for quality-differentiated food products. Although the income elasticity in terms of quantity may be low, the elasticity for many food attributes, such as nutrition and health, safety, convenience, and diversity, are quite high. Where people buy food, the form in which they buy and where they eat it are all changing. To simply distinguish between food consumed at home and away from home is no longer adequate. Rapid demographic and socioeconomic changes, such as the massive entrance of women into the workforce and increasing multi-ethnicity, are a fundamental driver of food buying and dietary patterns. Research needs to give more attention to the demand for differentiated, frequently branded food products, to disaggregation of the population, and to a recognition that traditional demographic factors may have limited explanatory power. A specific research study is given as an example of each. The single quality-differentiation factor currently receiving the most attention is genetic modification. The difference in the general consumer acceptance of biotechnology and genetically modified foods between the United States and Europe is dramatic. Kevin Lancaster's consumer model can be utilized to more fully understand this difference, especially to distinguish between a difference in the perception of the risks and benefits of the technology and in the underlying consumer preferences for risk avoidance or naturalness in food.
Additional file 5 of Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) and leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) de novo genomes to study the demographic history and genetic diversity of southern seals
Creators: name: Nebenführ, Marcel
name: Hamadou, Alexander Ben
name: Aguilar, Alex
name: Borrell, Asunción
name: Gkafas, Georgios A.
name: Janke, Axel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S5 Mediterranean monk seal sample overview.
THE GROCERY STORES' WAGE DISTRIBUTION: A SEMI-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF RETAILING AND LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS
Creators: name: Budd, John W.
name: McCall, Brian P.
name: Budd, John W.
name: McCall, Brian P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agribusiness
Labor and Human Capital

description: How and why has the wage distribution in U.S. grocery stores changed between 1984 and 1994? Unlike other industries in the time period, the important change in the wage distribution is not rising inequality, but the real wages fell across the entire wage distribution. Changes in labor market institutions explain more than half of the change in the wage distribution in grocery stores. Specifically, the decline in the real value of the minimum wage explains little of the decline in the mean real wage but much of the change in the shape of the distribution between 1984 and 1994, and 95 percent of the decline at the lowest 10th percentile. The decline in union coverage in grocery stores and the narrowing of the union-nonunion wage gap explains much of the decline above the 25th percentile. A third institutional change, the use of part-time employees, is not associated with the changes in grocery industry wage outcomes. One might think that the major changes in operation and technologies that occurred during this time period are at least contributing factors, but we find quite the contrary. If average store size, weekly operating hours, and the use of scanning technology had remained at their 1984 levels, the real wage decline would have been even greater than that actually seen, and for the entire wage distribution. Changes in grocery retailing prevented and even greater decline in real wages. Again unlike many other industries, skill-biased technological change does not appear important for grocery industry wage outcomes. The basis of our analysis is a statistical technique which combines nonparametric kernel density estimation with a parametric re-weighting, applied to Current Population Survey data supplemented with secondary data sources on the Grocery industry.
A natural mechanism for approximate Higgs alignment in the 2HDM
Creators: name: Draper, Patrick
name: Ekstedt, Andreas
name: Haber, Howard E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2HDM possesses a neutral scalar interaction eigenstate whose tree-level properties coincide with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson. In light of the LHC Higgs data which suggests that the observed Higgs boson is SM-like, it follows that the mixing of the SM Higgs interaction eigenstate with the other neutral scalar interaction eigenstates of the 2HDM should be suppressed, corresponding to the so-called Higgs alignment limit. The exact Higgs alignment limit can arise naturally due to a global symmetry of the scalar potential. If this symmetry is softly broken, then the Higgs alignment limit becomes approximate (although still potentially consistent with the current LHC Higgs data). In this paper, we obtain the approximate Higgs alignment suggested by the LHC Higgs data as a consequence of a softly broken global symmetry of the Higgs Lagrangian. However, this can only be accomplished if the Yukawa sector of the theory is extended. We propose an extended 2HDM with vector-like top quark partners, where explicit mass terms in the top sector provide the source of the soft symmetry breaking of a generalized CP symmetry. In this way, we can realize approximate Higgs alignment without a significant fine-tuning of the model parameters. We then explore the implications of the current LHC bounds on vector-like top quark partners for the success of our proposed scenario.
description: 55 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, and 3 appendices; version 2 adds references, corrects typographical errors and adds one figure; version 3 updates references
Stimulated emission of surface plasmon polaritons
Creators: name: Noginov, M. A.
name: Zhu, G.
name: Mayy, M. F.
name: Ritzo, B. A.
name: Noginova, N.
name: Podolskiy, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have observed laser-like emission of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) decoupled to the glass prism in an attenuated total reflection setup. SPPs were excited by optically pumped molecules in a polymeric film deposited on the top of the silver film. Stimulated emission was characterized by a distinct threshold in the input-output dependence and narrowing of the emission spectrum. The observed stimulated emission and corresponding to it compensation of the metallic absorption loss by gain enables many applications of metamaterials and nanoplasmonic devices.
description: 8 pages; 3 figures
SLOTTING ALLOWANCES: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THEIR ROLE IN NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES
Creators: name: Rao, Akshay R.
name: Mahi, Humaira
name: Rao, Akshay R.
name: Mahi, Humaira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The retail practice of charging a fee to stock new products is a relatively new but growing phenomenon. Termed a "slotting allowance", it has attracted considerable scrutiny because of uncertainty about its purposes and consequences. We propose and statistically test several hypotheses to assess the degree of empirical support for each of several extant explanations. Slotting allowances, we find, are charged by relatively large retailers who have an informational advantage over the manufacturer about the likely success of the new product. This result apparently contradicts theorizing about the "informational" content of slotting fees, as well as other pro- and anti-competitive explanations. We also find support for the claim that when retailers fear that manufacturers will not provide post-launch support, they pay relatively high wholesale prices.
การศึกษาคำว่า "เป็น" ในสมัยรัชกาลที่ 5 เปรียบเทียบกับสมัยปัจจุบัน
Creators: name: สุรีเนตร จรัสจรุงเกียรติ
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2012
Subjects: -

description: วรรณวิทัศน์, 12, พฤศจิกายน, 92-112
HANDLER REACTIONS TO POTENTIAL COMPULSORY COUNTRY-OF-ORIGIN LABELING OF FRESH OR FROZEN BEEF
Creators: name: Schupp, Alvin R.
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
name: Schupp, Alvin R.
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: beef handling firms
subject: country-of-origin labeling
subject: logit analysis
subject: telephone survey

description: Interest in mandatory country-of-origin labeling of fresh meats exists at both the state and national levels. A sample of beef handling firms in Louisiana (processors, retailers and restaurants) was surveyed by telephone to identify the characteristics of these firms that would help explain their decision to support or reject the law. A factor supporting the label use was a belief that the label is valuable to buyers. Negative factors were that the firm is a restaurant, is part of a chain or franchise, or has experience handling imported beef, and the belief that labeling merely reflects more government interference in free trade.
Measuring the mass and concentration of dark matter halos from the velocity dispersion profile of their stars
Creators: name: Bose, Sownak
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the IllustrisTNG (TNG) cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation to measure the velocity dispersion profiles of dark matter and star particles in Milky Way-mass, galaxy group, and cluster-scale dark matter halos. The mean profile calculated from both dark and luminous tracers are similar in shape, exhibiting a large degree of halo-to-halo scatter around the average profile. The so-called "splashback" radius demarcates the outer boundary of the halo, and manifests as a kink in the velocity dispersion profile, located on average between $\sim 1.0-1.5r_{200m}$, where $r_{200m}$ is the radius within which the enclosed density of the halo equals 200 times the mean background density of the universe at that redshift. Interestingly, we find that this location may also be identified as the radius at which the (stacked) velocity dispersion profile drops to 60% of its peak value (for line-of-sight motions of stellar and dark matter particles in TNG halos). We further show that the scatter in the velocity dispersion profiles may be attributed to the variations in the assembly history of the host halos. In particular, this segregates the profile into two regimes: one within $\sim0.1r_{200m}$, where the scatter in the velocity dispersion within is set by the early assembly history of the halo, and the other beyond this radius where the scatter in the velocity dispersion is influenced more strongly by its late-time assembly. Finally, we show that a two-parameter model can be used to fit the measured velocity dispersion profiles and the fit parameters can be related directly to two fundamental halo properties: mass and concentration. We describe a simple model which allows us to express the stellar velocity dispersion profile in terms of the mass and concentration of the host halo as the only free parameters.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
GEMS: The Size Evolution of Disk Galaxies
Creators: name: Barden, Marco
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
name: Bell, Eric F.
name: Haeussler, Boris
name: Peng, Chien Y.
name: Borch, Andrea
name: Beckwith, Steven V. W.
name: Caldwell, John A. R.
name: Heymans, Catherine
name: Jahnke, Knud
name: Jogee, Shardha
name: McIntosh, Daniel H.
name: Meisenheimer, Klaus
name: Sanchez, Sebastian F.
name: Wisotzki, Lutz
name: Wolf, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine HST imaging from the GEMS survey with photometric redshifts from COMBO-17 to explore the evolution of disk-dominated galaxies since z<1.1. The sample is comprised of all GEMS galaxies with Sersic indices n<2.5, derived from fits to the galaxy images. We account fully for selection effects through careful analysis of image simulations; we are limited by the depth of the redshift and HST data to the study of galaxies with absolute magnitudes M(V)10. We find strong evolution in the magnitude-size scaling relation for galaxies with M(V)10 over the same time interval. This is strongly inconsistent with the most naive theoretical expectation, in which disk size scales in proportion to the halo virial radius, which would predict that disks are a factor of two denser at fixed mass at z=1. The lack of evolution in the stellar mass-size relation is consistent with an ``inside-out'' growth of galaxy disks on average (galaxies increasing in size as they grow more massive), although we cannot rule out more complex evolutionary scenarios.
description: 22 pages, 16 figures, submitted to ApJ
TEACHING LISTENING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES
Creators: name: Sayfiyeva, Mohinur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: A recent development in foreign language teaching methodology is the use of technology to teach communicative listening in classes. The goal is to help students become proficient speakers of a foreign language by enabling them to comprehend and perceive oral speech in a variety of communicative contexts. The abstract analyzes contemporary tools and methods for improving listening comprehension and looks at how well they work when used in conjunction with a communicative approach to teaching foreign languages. Authentic materials, interactive activities, information technology, and the teacher's role in teaching listening are just a few of the topics that will be covered in this work.
title: Experimental Paving Projects using Curtiss-Wright’s Coal-Modified, Coal-Tar Binder
title: [1962]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Drake, William B.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report covers the observation and evaluation of 13 sections of experimental pavement constructed in Kentucky using coal-modified coal-tar binder. These are compared with the performance of control sections in which normal specification asphalt cements were used. The results of laboratory and field tests are also reported to support and supplement the visual surveys.
รายงานการวิจัยเรื่องกลวิธีบางประการในการสอนภาษาไทยแก่ชาวต่างประเทศ: วิเคราะห์จากแบบเรียนภาษาไทยพื้นฐาน 8 เล่ม
Creators: name: นวลทิพย์ เพิ่มเกษร
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2012
Subjects: -

description: วรรณวิทัศน์, 12, พฤศจิกายน, 113-154
Bs, Bc and b-baryons
Creators: name: Papadimitriou, Vaia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the latest measurements on masses, lifetimes and branching fractions for the B_s and B_c mesons as well as for b-baryons. For the B_s meson we discuss as well the latest results on mixing. These results were produced by the CDF and D0 experiments at Fermilab or by earlier LEP and PEPII experiments.
description: 13 pages, 17 figures, contribution to the Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Physics in Collision (PIC 05), Prague, Czech Republic, July 6-9, 2005 (In version 2 there were a couple of typos fixed and a reference added in section 2)
อย่ารำลึกถึงเราว่าเหล่าอันธพลาล!: พื้นที่คุกกับการเมืองของการนำเสนอภาพแทนตนเองผ่านอัตชีวประวัติใ
Creators: name: วันชนะ ทองคำเภา
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2012
Subjects: -

description: วรรณวิทัศน์, 12, พฤศจิกายน, 155-190
IMPLICATIONS OF LAWN CARE AND LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE FIRM PROFILES FOR ADOPTION OF PEST-MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Creators: name: Hubbell, Bryan J.
name: Florkowski, Wojciech J.
name: Oetting, R.
name: Braman, S.K.
name: Robacker, C.D.
name: Hubbell, Bryan J.
name: Florkowski, Wojciech J.
name: Oetting, R.
name: Braman, S.K.
name: Robacker, C.D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: attitudes
subject: cluster analysis
subject: IPM
subject: logit model
subject: management
subject: survey

description: Firm characteristics and managers' attitudes and opinions about pesticide safety were used to classify lawn care and landscape management firms into four categories and compare them using the logit procedure. Survey data obtained from 223 firms was used in the empirical investigation of the adoption of the IPM techniques. Results showed the need for continued transfer of new technology to independently owned firms, multidisciplinary assessment of IPM methods before their transfer to ascertain the economic viability of proposed methods, public investment in programs training workers in knowledge-based pesticide applications, possible assistance in obtaining capital, and investment in consumer education.
The Application of Nuclear Techniques to the Measurement of Moisture and Density of Highway Construction Materials
Creators: name: Deen, Robert C.
name: Shackelford, J. D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In recent years much attention has been directed toward the application of neutron and gamma ray techniques to soil moisture and density measurements. This application of radiological measurements of these characteristics of materials of highway construction, of course, is of great interest to the highway industry since the performance of the total pavement system is highly dependent upon the condition of the embankment, subgrade, and base components of this system. An important measure of the state of condition of unconsolidated earth materials is their unit weights and moisture contents. The highway engineer undoubtedly would welcome any method or technique which would provide more rapidly and easily this essential information that may be used in the control of the construction of the embankment, subgrade, and base. The application of the neutron and gamma ray techniques to this purpose appears to offer some promise for the engineer and thus is worthy of his consideration.
Seal Coat Application to Clark Memorial Bridge
Creators: name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The maintenance of the surface of the approach ramps and bridge deck of the Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisville has presented certain problems over the past few years. The ramps at each end of the bridge are rather steep, and on the Louisville side the ramp intersects Main Street where traffic movements are controlled by traffic signals. Thus, the northbound traffic accelerating upgrade from a stop and the southbound traffic braking to a stop on the downgrade present two very severe conditions that the surface must withstand. The increased use of salt for snow and ice removal has also contributed to deterioration of the surface.
Efficient qubit phase estimation using adaptive measurements
Creators: name: Rodríguez-García, Marco A.
name: Castillo, Isaac Pérez
name: Barberis-Blostein, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Estimating correctly the quantum phase of a physical system is a central problem in quantum parameter estimation theory due to its wide range of applications from quantum metrology to cryptography. Ideally, the optimal quantum estimator is given by the so-called quantum Cramér-Rao bound, so any measurement strategy aims to obtain estimations as close as possible to it. However, more often than not, the current state-of-the-art methods to estimate quantum phases fail to reach this bound as they rely on maximum likelihood estimators of non-identifiable likelihood functions. In this work we thoroughly review various schemes for estimating the phase of a qubit, identifying the underlying problem which prohibits these methods to reach the quantum Cramér-Rao bound, and propose a new adaptive scheme based on covariant measurements to circumvent this problem. Our findings are carefully checked by Monte Carlo simulations, showing that the method we propose is both mathematically and experimentally more realistic and more efficient than the methods currently available.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures and 1 table
Engineering Properties for Soil Series Mapped in Kentucky
Creators: name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Soil maps, and particularly engineering soil maps, are proving to be desirable in the planning and design stage of many types of structures and land developments. Problems associated with foundations, drainage and soil behavior may be recognized at a very early stage during the preliminary location and site selection through the use of adequate soil maps.
Gestão de dados de investigação e o Regulamento do Espaço Europeu de Dados de Saúde (EHDS): uma reflexão
Creators: name: Lopes, Mafalda
name: Soares, António José
name: Rodrigues, Diana
name: Frias Montoya, José António
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão “O meu Póster em 1 minuto”, da 15ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, na Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto (ESEP), de 01 a 04 de outubro de 2024.
RISK AND SITE FACTORS AFFECTING POTENTIAL NITROGEN DELIVERY IN THE VIRGINIA COASTAL PLAIN
Creators: name: Peng, Wei
name: Bosch, Darrell J.
name: Peng, Wei
name: Bosch, Darrell J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: cost
subject: nonpoint source pollution
subject: risk programming
subject: simulation
subject: stochastic dominance
subject: targeting

description: The effects of cropland slope, distance to surface water, farmers' risk attitudes, and farmers' nitrogen (N) fertilizer applications on potential N delivery to streams and costs of reducing N delivery were evaluated for a representative Virginia peanut-cotton farm. Target MOTAD and generalized stochastic dominance were used to select preferred plans for different levels of risk aversion. Costs of reducing N delivery were lower on farms where fields were located close to surface water, where N was overapplied relative to extension fertilizer recommendations, and where the operator was risk averse. Cropland slope had less effect on cost of reducing N delivery relative to other factors.
Meet the ECI Team!
Creators: name: Schymanski, Emma
name: LCSB-ECI Team
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Since it is so hard in these times to get to know new people and what everyone is doing, I decided to use this "PI Talk" at the LCSB Team Meeting to introduce my team to LCSB and to whoever else wants to know! The groupings and order of appearance is "coherent story order" and should not be interpreted any other way! Thanks to all ECIs for their incredible efforts - and to all of those who support us ;-) Further Information about ECI (links from the last slide): https://git-r3lab.uni.lu/eci/shinyscreen https://git-r3lab.uni.lu/eci/pubchem/ https://www.norman-network.com/nds/SLE/ https://zenodo.org/communities/lcsb-eci/ https://wwwen.uni.lu/lcsb/research/environmental_cheminformatics/
Crypto-baryonic Dark Matter
Creators: name: Froggatt, C. D.
name: Nielsen, H. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is proposed that dark matter could consist of compressed collections of atoms (or metallic matter) encapsulated into, for example, 20 cm big pieces of a different phase. The idea is based on the assumption that there exists at least one other phase of the vacuum degenerate with the usual one. Apart from the degeneracy of the phases we only assume Standard Model physics. The other phase has a Higgs VEV appreciably smaller than in the usual electroweak vacuum. The balls making up the dark matter are very difficult to observe directly, but inside dense stars may expand eating up the star and cause huge explosions (gamma ray bursts). The ratio of dark matter to ordinary baryonic matter is expressed as a ratio of nuclear binding energies and predicted to be about 5.
description: 9 pages. Published version with shorter abstract and new reference