cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2: of Seroepidemiology of HBV infection among health-care workers in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Creators: name: Teguh Wijayadi
name: Rizalinda Sjahril
name: Turyadi
name: Ie, Susan
name: Wahyuni, Ridha
name: Ilhamjaya Pattelongi
name: M. Massi
name: Irawan Yusuf
name: Muljono, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S2. Serological profile of HBV infection among health-care workers according to hepatitis B vaccination status. (DOCX 21 kb)
Change Point Detection for Nonparametric Regression under Strongly Mixing Process
Creators: name: Yang, Q.
name: Li, Y.
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article, we consider the estimation of the structural change point in the nonparametric model with dependent observations. We introduce a maximum-CUSUM-estimation procedure, where the CUSUM statistic is constructed based on the sum-of-squares aggregation of the difference of the two Nadaraya-Watson estimates using the observations before and after a specific time point. Under some mild conditions, we prove that the statistic tends to zero almost surely if there is no change, and is larger than a threshold asymptotically almost surely otherwise, which helps us to obtain a threshold-detection strategy. Furthermore, we demonstrate the strong consistency of the change point estimator. In the simulation, we discuss the selection of the bandwidth and the threshold used in the estimation, and show the robustness of our method in the long-memory scenario. We implement our method to the data of Nasdaq 100 index and find that the relation between the realized volatility and the return exhibits several structural changes in 2007-2009.
description: 34 pages, 20 figures, 1 tex file, 5 tex auxiliary files
Pseudo-unitary symmetry and the Gaussian pseudo-unitary ensemble of random matrices
Creators: name: Ahmed, Zafar
name: Jain, Sudhir R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employing the currently discussed notion of pseudo-Hermiticity, we define a pseudo-unitary group. Further, we develop a random matrix theory which is invariant under such a group and call this ensemble of pseudo-Hermitian random matrices as the pseudo-unitary ensemble. We obtain exact results for the nearest-neighbour level spacing distribution for (2 X 2) PT-symmetric Hamiltonian matrices which has a novel form, s log (1/s) near zero spacing. This shows a level repulsion in marked distinction with an algebraic form in the Wigner surmise. We believe that this paves way for a description of varied phenomena in two-dimensional statistical mechanics, quantum chromodynamics, and so on.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, submitted to the Physical Review Letters on August 20, 2002
Linguistic Prestige and Early Modern Italy: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics
Creators: name: Serra, Eleonora
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Historical Sociolinguistics
Linguistic prestige
Italian
Codification
Standardisation
Language variation
Language change
Social networks
Corpus analysis
Language attitudes

description: My thesis examines the sociolinguistic notion of prestige in the context of sixteenth-century Italy, with reference to the dynamics which arose between Tuscans and non-Tuscan learners over the ownership and nature of the literary variety based on fourteenth-century Florentine that was being codified and promoted. The notion of prestige is investigated by focusing on the relationship between: prestige and standard; prestige and context; prestige and social networks. My thesis brings together investigation of metalinguistic sources to reconstruct language attitudes (chapters 1 and 2) and the analysis of a corpus of correspondence to reconstruct actual usage (chapters 3 and 4). Chapter 1 employs a ‘new speaker’ paradigm borrowed from the field of endangered languages to explore the dynamics between Tuscan and non-Tuscan writers in early modern Italy, and the prominent role played by the latter in the codification of the literary variety. Focus is placed on the different prestige targets of non-Tuscan learners, on the problematic reception of the archaising ‘standard’ in Florence, and on the way prestige came to be attributed to the standard through a process of interaction between different groups of language users. Chapter 2 focuses on the importance of context when it comes to assessing the prestige or stigma attributed to the codified Florentine variety. Chapters 3 and 4 move to the analysis of usage, focusing on a corpus of Tuscan correspondence produced by the network surrounding the artist Michelangelo Buonarroti and his family members (1496–1585). The diachronic and diastratic analysis presented in chapter 3 reveals the gradual emergence and the social embedding of a range of codified, archaic Florentine features in the informal written language of a group of Tuscans in the course of the sixteenth century. In chapter 4, this macro-analysis is complemented by a micro-level approach which examines the language of individual members of one generation of the Buonarroti family. The network structure of each writer is reconstructed and related to their acceptance or resistance of archaic Florentine features. This chapter aims to integrate prestige explanations within a social network model. My project aims to offer a contribution both to our knowledge of the history of Italian and to the field of historical sociolinguistics. The rich metalinguistic documentation, the relatively high literacy rates and the abundance of written sources documenting usage make early modern Italy fertile ground for historical sociolinguistic investigations. Moreover, Italian is an interesting case-study as it appears to stand out from other linguistic traditions for the prominent role that has often been attributed to normativity in the development of the language.
Dynamic string-averaging CQ-methods for the split feasibility problem with percentage violation constraints arising in radiation therapy treatment planning
Creators: name: Brooke, Mark
name: Censor, Yair
name: Gibali, Aviv
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 46N10, 47J25, 65F10, 90C25, 90C26

description: In this paper we study a feasibility-seeking problem with percentage violation constraints. These are additional constraints, that are appended to an existing family of constraints, which single out certain subsets of the existing constraints and declare that up to a specified fraction of the number of constraints in each subset is allowed to be violated by up to a specified percentage of the existing bounds. Our motivation to investigate problems with percentage violation constraints comes from the field of radiation therapy treatment planning wherein the fully-discretized inverse planning problem is formulated as a split feasibility problem and the percentage violation constraints give rise to non-convex constraints. Following the CQ algorithm of Byrne (2002, Inverse Problems, Vol. 18, pp. 441-53), we develop a string-averaging CQ method that uses only projections onto the individual sets which are half-spaces represented by linear inequalities. The question of extending our theoretical results to the non-convex sets case is still open. We describe how our results apply to radiation therapy treatment planning and provide a numerical example.
description: Accepted for publication by International Transactions in Operational Research (2021) and published online at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/itor.12929
European State Finance Database; Prussian State Finance, 1602-1808
Prussian State Finance, 1602-1808
Creators: name: Bonney, R.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1993

description: The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.

The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files.
Additional file 1: of Maternal antecedents of adiposity and studying the transgenerational role of hyperglycemia and insulin (MAASTHI): a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Giridhara Babu
name: GVS Murthy
name: R. Deepa
name: Yamuna
name: Prafulla
name: H. Kumar
name: Maithili Karthik
name: Keerti Deshpande
name: Neelon, Sara Benjamin
name: D. Prabhakaran
name: Anura Kurpad
name: Kinra, Sanjay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy

description: A detailed plan for data analysis. Conceptual DAG for data analysis and Model-based analysis. (DOCX 133Â kb)
Hilbert space structure of covariant loop quantum gravity
Creators: name: Alexandrov, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Hilbert space in the Lorentz covariant approach to loop quantum gravity. We restrict ourselves to the space where all area operators are simultaneously diagonalizable, assuming that it exists. In this sector quantum states are realized by a generalization of spin network states based on Lorentz Wilson lines projected on irreducible representations of an SO(3) subgroup. The problem of infinite dimensionality of the unitary Lorentz representations is absent due to this projection. Nevertheless, the projection preserves the Lorentz covariance of the Wilson lines so that the symmetry is not broken. Under certain conditions the states can be thought as functions on a homogeneous space. We define the inner product as an integral over this space. With respect to this inner product the spin networks form an orthonormal basis in the investigated sector. We argue that it is the only relevant part of a larger state space arising in the approach. The problem of the noncommutativity of the Lorentz connection is solved by restriction to the simple representations. The resulting structure shows similarities with the spin foam approach.
description: 20 pages, RevTEX
Tunable Graphene Electronics with Local Ultrahigh Pressure
Creators: name: Ares, Pablo
name: Pisarra, Michele
name: Segovia, Pilar
name: Diaz, Cristina
name: Martin, Fernando
name: Michel, Enrique G.
name: Zamora, Felix
name: Gomez-Navarro, Cristina
name: Gomez-Herrero, Julio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We achieve fine tuning of graphene effective doping by applying ultrahigh pressures (> 10 GPa) using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) diamond tips. Specific areas in graphene flakes are irreversibly flattened against a SiO2 substrate. Our work represents the first demonstration of local creation of very stable effective p-doped graphene regions with nanometer precision, as unambiguously verified by a battery of techniques. Importantly, the doping strength depends monotonically on the applied pressure, allowing a controlled tuning of graphene electronics. Through this doping effect, ultrahigh pressure modifications include the possibility of selectively modifying graphene areas to improve their electrical contact with metal electrodes, as shown by Conductive AFM. Density Functional Theory calculations and experimental data suggest that this pressure level induces the onset of covalent bonding between graphene and the underlying SiO2 substrate. Our work opens a convenient avenue to tuning the electronics of 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures through pressure with nanometer resolution.
Pygophora respondens
Creators: name: Couri, Marcia S.
name: Pont, Adrian C.
name: Daugeron, Christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Pygophora
Pygophora respondens

description: 35. Pygophora respondens (Walker)
 Coenosia respondens Walker, 1859: 142. Holotype female, Makassar, Sulawesi, in BMHN (Crosskey 1962: 420). Pygophora respondens; Crosskey, 1962: 420; Pont, 1989: 699.
 Diagnosis. Scutum dark brown with faint vittae in male, more distinct in female; antenna yellow-orange; palpus yellow; legs yellow in male and with femora dark brown with yellow tips in female; female with an unusual irregular row of subequal anteroventral setae on mid femur and no submedian anterodorsal seta on mid tibia; male mid femur with a row of strong curved anteroventral spine-like seta (Fig. 9 of Crosskey 1962); male hind tibia with a preapical lobe; syntergite 1+2 yellowish; male hypopygium as in Fig. 82 of Crosskey (1962).
 Material examined. BMNH: Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo: Big Bay, 1.viii.1925, 1 ♀, P.A. Buxton.
 Malekula: Ounua, ii.1929, 3 ♀; iii–iv.1929, 1 ♂, L.E. Cheesman (all recorded by Crosskey 1962: 423).
 Comments. The species was fully redescribed by Crosskey (1962) who mentioned that it is the most widespread species of Pygophora and who first recorded it from Vanuatu.
 Distribution. Belau, Guam, Hawai‘ian Is, Indonesia (West Papua, Maluku, Sulawesi), Kiribati (Gilbert Is), Marshall Is, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, PNG (Bismarck Arch, PNG), Solomon Is, Vanuatu; Oriental Region, Seychelles.
description: Published as part of Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 2556 (1) on pages 31-32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5302228
ROSAT/Chandra Observations of a Bright Transient in M81
Creators: name: Ghosh, Kajal
name: Swartz, Douglas
name: Tennant, Allyn
name: Wu, Kinwah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a 10-year X-ray light curve and the spectra of a peculiar X-ray transient in the spiral galaxy M81. The source was below the detection limit of ROSAT PSPC before 1993, but it brightened substantially in 1993, with luminosities exceeding the Eddington limit of a 1.5 solar-mass compact accretor. It then faded and was not firmly detected in the ROSAT HRI and PSPC observations after 1994. The Chandra image obtained in 2000 May, however, shows an X-ray source at its position within the instrumental uncertainties. The Chandra source is coincident with a star-like object in the Digitized-Sky-Survey. A Hubble image suggests that the optical object may be extended. While these three observations could be of the same object, which may be an X-ray binary containing a black-hole candidate, the possibility that the ROSAT and Chandra sources are two different objects in a dense stellar environment cannot be ruled out. The Hubble data suggests that the optical object may be a globular cluster yet to be identified.
description: accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
European State Finance Database; Danish State Finance under Christian IV, 1588-1628
Danish State Finance under Christian IV, 1588-1628
Creators: name: Bonney, R.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1993

description: The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.

The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files.
Large Higgs quartic coupling and (A)DM from extended Bosonic Technicolor
Creators: name: Frandsen, Mads T.
name: Huang, Wei-Chih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose novel bosonic Technicolor models augmented by an $SU(2)_R$ gauge group and scalar doublet. Dynamical breaking of $SU(2)_R$ induced by technifermion condensation triggers $SU(2)_L$ breaking via a portal coupling. The scale of the new strong interactions is as high as that of composite Higgs models, and the vacuum stability challenge confronting ordinary bosonic Technicolor models is avoided. Thermal or asymmetric dark matter, whose stability is ensured by a $U(1)_{\rm TB}$ technibaryon symmetry, can be realized. In the latter case, the correct relic density can be reproduced for a wide range of dark matter mass via leptogenesis.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure. v3: clarifications and references added. Version accepted by Physics Letters B
Robust portfolio optimization with multi-factor stochastic volatility
Creators: name: Yang, Ben-Zhang
name: Lu, Xiaoping
name: Ma, Guiyuan
name: Zhu, Song-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper studies a robust portfolio optimization problem under the multi-factor volatility model introduced by Christoffersen et al. (2009). The optimal strategy is derived analytically under the worst-case scenario with or without derivative trading. To illustrate the effects of ambiguity, we compare our optimal robust strategy with some strategies that ignore the information of uncertainty, and provide the corresponding welfare analysis. The effects of derivative trading to the optimal portfolio selection are also discussed by considering alternative strategies. Our study is further extended to the cases with jump risks in asset price and correlated volatility factors, respectively. Numerical experiments are provided to demonstrate the behavior of the optimal portfolio and utility loss.
Baryon Structure
Creators: name: Radici, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A review of the theoretical activity in Italy in the research field of Hadronic Physics is given. Specific focus is put on phenomenological models based on the effective degrees of freedom of constituent quarks, on parton distributions in hard processes in the Bjorken limit and on the possibility of linking the two concepts via evolution equations. A brief introduction is given also about the socalled generalized parton distributions.
description: 20 pages, no figures, invited general report at the "IX Convegno su Problemi di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica", Cortona, Oct. 9-12, 2002 (Italy), to appear in World Scientific Proceedings
Investigation of mTOR-independent regulation of macroautophagy
Creators: name: Odle, Richard Ian
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: autophagy
mitosis
cell cycle
CDK1
mTORC1
ULK1
ATG13
TFEB
ATG14
CCNB1

description: Investigation of mTOR-independent regulation of macroautophagy Richard Ian Odle Macroautophagy is a critical catabolic response to cellular stress, enabling lysosomal mediated breakdown of cytosolic cargo. The nutrient-responsive mTORC1 kinase complex has been described as a master regulator of cellular metabolism. Indeed, mTORC1 inhibits autophagy via repressive phosphorylation of the key autophagy regulators ATG13, ULK1, ATG14 and TFEB. Consequently, mTORC1 has become a candidate therapeutic target in neurodegeneration and cancer; however, its essential role in other cellular programs has prompted the investigation of mTORC1-independent regulation of autophagy. This thesis explores the role of CMGC kinase family members ERK1/2 and CCNB1-CDK1 in the regulation of autophagy. The ERK1/2 signalling cascade is activated in a high proportion of cancers. ERK2 has been proposed as a regulatory kinase of TFEB; however, we found little evidence to suggest that ERK1/2 was a direct kinase responsible for TFEB phosphorylation, including at the putative site S142. Furthermore, whilst we observed that hyperactivation of the ERK1/2 pathway did lead to increases in total TFEB protein levels in HEK293, this appeared to be a cell line specific finding. We therefore concluded ERK1/2 was not likely to be a critical regulator of TFEB. It has been proposed that autophagy must be repressed during mitosis, otherwise nuclear envelope breakdown will expose the genome to the cytosolic autophagy machinery. Here we show that autophagy initiation, as measured by markers of the omegasome, is indeed repressed throughout mitosis. Furthermore, autophagy regulators undergo mitotic hyperphosphorylation, including at known repressive sites, in a manner dependent on CDK1 but not mTORC1. Indeed, we find mTORC1 is likely inactive as a result of CDK1-dependent hyperphosphorylation of RAPTOR. Thus, we conclude that mTORC1 is substituted by CDK1, as the master repressor of autophagy during mitosis. These results suggest that autophagy regulation is uncoupled from nutrient status during nuclear envelope breakdown as a mechanism to prevent genomic instability, a hallmark of cancer.
description: Funded by a Medical Research Council PhD studentship, the Frank Edward Elmore Fund, and the James Baird Fund
Influence of surface effects on neutron skin in atomic nuclei
Creators: name: Lukyanov, S. V.
name: Sanzhur, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the diffuse surface layer of a finite nucleus on the mean square radii and their isotopic shift is investigated. We present the calculations within the Gibbs-Tolman approach using the experimental values of the nucleon separation energies. Results are compared with that obtained by means of direct variational method based on Fermi-like trial functions.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures; 1 figure, some discussions and references added, published version
Open adaptable Battery Management System software architecture
Creators: name: Perez-Chuecos, Martin
name: Locher, Leon
name: Stauffer, Yves
name: Hutter, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The vision of BATTERY2LIFE is to facilitate the smooth transition of batteries to second-life applications, fostering innovation within the European Battery Industry. The initiative aims to provide essential tools for implementing open, adaptable, and cloud-connected Battery Management Systems (BMS), along with improved system designs. As part of this endeavor, CSEM and EPFL have jointly developed the software architecture for this BMS.
European State Finance Database; Castilian Finances in the 15th Century
Castilian Finances in the 15th Century
Creators: name: Bonney, R.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1993

description: The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.

The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files.
Uncertainty and Time-to-Build in Bioenergy Crop Production
Creators: name: Dumortier, Jerome
name: Kauffman, Nathan
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: Dumortier, Jerome
name: Kauffman, Nathan
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Real options
subject: switchgrass
subject: bioenergy

description: Over the last years, the cellulosic biofuel mandate has not been enforced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The uncertainty surrounding the enforcement of the mandate in addition to high production and harvest cost contributes to farmers' hesitation to plant bioenergy crops such as switchgrass and miscanthus. Previous literature has shown that under uncertainty and sunk cost, the investment threshold is further increased because of the value associated from holding the investment option. This warrants the use of a real option model. In this paper, we extend previous literature by applying a real option model to bioenergy crop production in the United States. We show the spatial allocation of switchgrass under biomass price and agricultural return uncertainty. The empirical model identifies the counties in the contiguous United States that are most likely to change to switchgrass production. Our preliminary results indicate a very small share of land in switchgrass production even at high biomass prices.
Protocols for entanglement transformations of bipartite pure states
Creators: name: D'Ariano, G. M.
name: Sacchi, M. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general theoretical framework for both deterministic and probabilistic entanglement transformations of bipartite pure states achieved via local operations and classical communication. This framework unifies and greatly simplifies previous works. A necessary condition for ``pure contraction'' transformations is given. Finally, constructive protocols to achieve both probabilistic and deterministic entanglement transformations are presented.
description: 7 pages, no figures. Version slightly modified on Physical Review A request
Investigation of the p-$Σ^{0}$ interaction via femtoscopy in pp collisions
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This Letter presents the first direct investigation of the p-$Σ^{0}$ interaction, using the femtoscopy technique in high-multiplicity pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV measured by the ALICE detector. The $Σ^{0}$ is reconstructed via the decay channel to $Λγ$, and the subsequent decay of $Λ$ to p$π^-$. The photon is detected via the conversion in material to e$^{+}$e$^{-}$ pairs exploiting the unique capability of the ALICE detector to measure electrons at low transverse momenta. The measured p-$Σ^{0}$ correlation indicates a shallow strong interaction. The comparison of the data to several theoretical predictions obtained employing the $Correlation~Analysis~Tool~using~the~Schrödinger~Equation$ (CATS) and the Lednický-Lyuboshits approach shows that the current experimental precision does not yet allow to discriminate between different models, as it is the case for the available scattering and hypernuclei data. Nevertheless, the p-$Σ^{0}$ correlation function is found to be sensitive to the strong interaction, and driven by the interplay of the different spin and isospin channels. This pioneering study demonstrates the feasibility of a femtoscopic measurement in the p-$Σ^{0}$ channel and with the expected larger data samples in LHC Run 3 and Run 4, the p-$Σ^{0}$ interaction will be constrained with high precision.
description: 21 pages, 3 captioned figures, 2 Tables, authors from page 16, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/5652
Immunity Against Malaria: an Atlas of the Mosquito Cellular Immune System at Single Cell Resolution
Creators: name: Raddi, Gianmarco
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Malaria
Mosquitos
Hemocytes
Single-cell RNAseq
Anopheles
Aedes
Innate immunity
Priming

description: Malaria is a deadly, worldwide disease, yearly responsible for 219 million cases and over four hundred thousand deaths. The Anopheles gambiae species complex is the main African vector for the most virulent malaria parasite: Plasmodium falciparum. Mosquitos are not mere bystanders however, and rely on both humoral and cellular innate immune divisions to defeat invading pathogens. These efforts are coordinated by hemocytes, the insect equivalent to vertebrate’s white blood cells, circulating in the hemolymph within the insects’ body cavity. Yet, hemocyte biology is largely unknown, mainly due to the low number and fragility of mosquito immune cells. Here we dissect the Anopheles immune system under baseline and challenged conditions with single-cell RNA sequencing to identify previously unknown cell types, their gene signatures, and spatial-temporal localization in the mosquito. We profiled 5,292 individual Anopheles hemocytes 1,3 and 7 days after sugar-feeding, blood-feeding, or infection with Plasmodium berghei, as well as 3123 A. aegypti hemocytes. We identified 9 cell sub-types, including novel effector, phagocytic, and anti-microbial cell subtypes, in addition to dividing progenitor cells, validating the main cell types via correlative microscopy and morphology. And we described four lineages of hemocytes, showing them to be divided into two branches: oenocytoids and prohemocyte-granulocyte. We also found both blood-feeding and malaria infection to dramatically shift the composition of a mosquito’s immune system, activating effector and proliferating cells at days 1 and 3 before returning to baseline by day 7. Conversely, human P. falciparum appears to inactivate an important local effector subtype. Our work is the first comprehensive transcriptomic study of a whole insect immune system. It demonstrates hemocytes are a dynamic, diverse class of insect cells which complexity far exceeds what is currently described in the literature. Our methods and results will hopefully serve as a resource for many entomologists, and could prove useful in developing novel vector control strategies. Our website will ease data access and provide an intuitive way to visualise hemocyte information: https://hemocytes.cellgeni.sanger.ac.uk/
description: NIH Oxford-Cambridge scholarship, the UCLA-Caltech MSTP, and the NIGMS T32 GM008042
On a q-difference Painlevé III equation: I. Derivation, symmetry and Riccati type solutions
Creators: name: Kajiwara, Kenji
name: Kimura, Kinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A q-difference analogue of the Painlevé III equation is considered. Its derivations, affine Weyl group symmetry, and two kinds of special function type solutions are discussed.
description: arxiv version is already official
European State Finance Database; Medieval Wool and Cloth Exports and Imports, 1280-1547
Medieval Wool and Cloth Exports and Imports, 1280-1547
Creators: name: Bonney, R.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1993

description: The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.

The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files.
The Role the Economists in Agricultural Research
Creators: name: Jogaratnam, T
name: Jogaratnam, T
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Political Economy
Public Economics

description: The question of a research agenda in Agricultural Economics can be approached in different ways. One is to develop a framework board enough to encompass the goals and ethical and value premises within which the valuation criteria and priorities can be developed. Another is just to follow Jacob Viner’s dictum that “Economics is what economists do”. In this paper some of the perceived problems and area of work involved are set out. Given the changing perspective, the emerging issues, the changing directions of research, and the multi-faceted problems that developing countries and the Economists working in such environment are grappling with, the challenge facing Economists is not be bound by rigid rules and archaic procedures, but be alive to the problems that, in the final analysis, impinge on the quality of life of the millions living these countries. One must also be alive to the criticism levelled at Social Scientists of the third world, namely that they work with in a frame work of reference imposed by developed country concepts and models, leading to agendas imposed by outside agencies and thus very often irrelevant to the needs and requirements of the third world.
Domestic Price and Welfare Effects of the 2007-11 Indian Grain Export Restrictions
Creators: name: Elleby, Christian
name: Hansen, Henrik
name: Yu, Wusheng
name: Elleby, Christian
name: Hansen, Henrik
name: Yu, Wusheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Export Ban
subject: Price transmission
subject: Counterfactual analysis
subject: India
subject: Food crisis

description: Food inflation has been a major concern for Indian policy makers the last decade. In an attempt to prevent domestic wheat and rice prices from rising during the food crisis the Indian government restricted export of these two key staples first by increasing minimum export prices successively followed by an outright export ban lasting from 2007-11. In this paper we ask, what was the effect of this ban on domestic prices and consequently on the welfare of the consumers? We approach this problem by applying new Bayesian techniques to estimate the price impact by calculating the entire counterfactual price development following the export ban. Our results indicate that the ban did indeed have a significant effect on domestic rice and wheat consumer prices. Domestic wheat prices increased around 40 percent less than they would have in the absence of a ban. We do not, however, find a significant relationship between international and domestic rice prices in India prior to the export ban. The effect of the export ban on domestic rice prices was to make them less responsive to changes in producer support. We conclude that welfare impact from the rice export ban was probably smaller than the literature suggests.
U.S. Ethanol Demand and World Hunger: Is There Any Connection?
Creators: name: Hao, Na
name: Colson, Greg
name: Wetzstein, Michael
name: Hao, Na
name: Colson, Greg
name: Wetzstein, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Ethanol
subject: Food security
subject: Panel structural vector autoregression
subject: World hunger
subject: Food aid

description: U.S. ethanol expansion objectives are to improve both energy security and the environmental. However, this expansion has raised issues concerning its detrimental impacts on the price volatility of developing countries’ agricultural commodities. These concerns are addressed by empirically investigating the relations among U.S. ethanol and corn markets with developing countries’ corn prices. Results indicate that U.S. ethanol demand impacts on developing countries’ corn prices vary by country. Further, results reveal that the transmission effects of U.S. ethanol shocks are systematically stronger for countries with higher food import dependency and U.S. food aid.
2006 Massachusetts Health Care Reform and its Impact on Sources of Insurance Coverage
Creators: name: Roy, Devesh
name: Munasib, Abdul
name: Guettabi, Mouhcine
name: Jordan, Jeffrey
name: Roy, Devesh
name: Munasib, Abdul
name: Guettabi, Mouhcine
name: Jordan, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Massachusetts Health Reform
subject: Insurance Mandate
subject: Synthetic Control Method
subject: Employer Provided Insurance
subject: Medicaid
subject: Medicare

description: Using Synthetic Control Method for comparative case studies, we estimate the causal impacts of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform (MHR) enacted in 2006 on the sources of insurance coverage. We find that MHR caused two main sources of expansions, viz., employer sponsored insurance (ESI) and Medicaid, with no evidence of crowding out. The expansion in ESI mirrors the economic cycles. The overall expansion in coverage of over half-a-million is distributed approximately 60:40 between ESI and Medicaid. Other sources of coverage such as direct purchase and Medicare, in a causal sense, were unaffected by MHR.
Qiaoxiang and managing overseas Chinese affairs in contemporary North China: The case of Changyi county and its sojourners
Creators: name: Li, Xiafei
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: overseas Chinese
North China
Qiaoxiang society
Qiaowu

description: Changyi County, which is located on the southern coastline of the Bohai Sea by the Wei river, enjoys a rich history of sending out ‘sojourners’, who have explored the world and then returned home. Being the major producing area of jianchou (rough silk made by wild silkworm), Changyi sojourners began sell silk in Southeast Asia, the Peninsular India, the Korean Peninsula, and Tsarist Russia, starting during the time of the Qing dynasty. Many sojourners returned to their hometowns, while others were trapped abroad by wars. Such frequent flows of international interactions caused Changyi to gain the fame of being a qiaoxiang (侨乡) in North China. Many different but interrelated actors—such as sojourners, returnees, relatives of sojourners, and government officials managing overseas Chinese affairs—shaped and were shaped by qiaoxiang society, which features the tricky practice of ‘crossing the border of the circle of the political system’ (tizhi, 体制). Such interactions between the government authority and each individual have constructed a unique space in Changyi that forms the social-political environment of qiaoxiang society. Furthermore, in such an environment, people’s ideas about nation and home are strongly influenced by the clash of their traditional values with the transnational nature of their own experiences. Moreover, the qiaoxiang society is also multi-layered, divided between elites and non-elites. The stories and interactions between these two groups people also draw allows for a more detailed understanding of the differences in power among members of the Changyi local community. Furthermore, with the rise of China as an international power, a new group of sojourners emerged—those who began to go abroad after the reform and opening-up. Their practices and new features have brought new challenges and changes to the old qiaoxiang. Lastly, as qiaoxiangs are embedded in the larger Chinese society, a deeper and broader understanding of the unique social sphere, the ‘qiao sphere’, would help to analyse not only the functioning of each individual qiaoxiang society but also the ways in which China as a whole conducts itself internationally.
Conversion to Islam and Family Relations in Contemporary Britain
Creators: name: Ramahi, Dorothea Alexandra
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Conversion
Islam
Kinship
Family
Narratives
Techniques of the Self

description: This dissertation explores the role of kinship relations in conversion to Islam in contemporary Britain. While the Pauline notion of conversion, which is a Christian concept, presupposes radical change brought on by an outer event, narratives of conversion to Islam convey a sense of continuity, where conversion happens as a natural, almost inconspicuous development of faith. The process of conversion is thus presented as a cumulative acquisition of knowledge, which is in line with one’s path in life up to that point, mirroring what I call ‘Islam’s autobiography’ in its presentation of Islam as the natural continuation of the former monotheisms. Instead, the realm of conflict as presented in narratives of conversion is the realm of family. ‘Coming out’ as Muslim vis-à-vis one’s family was perceived as an anxiety-filled and nerve-wracking process akin to those described in literature on gay kinship. The way in which Islam is positioned as ‘other’ within a Western, Muslim-minority context defines converts’ primary concern with a social re-positioning vis-à-vis their families, and society at large. Narrating continuity and presenting conversion in terms of rationalism helps the converts to position themselves as modern subjects, while mystical experiences and the narration of dreams are rarely revealed, despite their significance. The social re-positioning that conversion to Islam entails also demands a re-drawing of boundaries, which becomes apparent through the study of the material objects that are significant in conversion narratives, where items like food and clothing can not only be markers of difference but can also constitute sites of rejection or accommodation between the converts and their families. The project of ethical self-formation, which some converts engage in through embodied practices like ritual purification, has the side effect of drawing boundaries between the converts and their families, but also between the converts and their old selves, which can result in the ethical dilemma of living in an enduring dual ethical situation. I argue that, rather than focusing on inner re-orientation, conversion to Islam in contemporary Britain requires a model of conversion that privileges social re-positioning, particularly in relation to the family.
description: School of Arts and Humanities Centre of Islamic Studies
Disruptive Policy Impacts on Biodiesel Investment: The Third Leg in 3-T Policy
Creators: name: Liu, Shen
name: Colson, Gregory J.
name: Wetzstein, Michael E.
name: Liu, Shen
name: Colson, Gregory J.
name: Wetzstein, Michael E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Biodiesel investment
subject: Disruptive biodiesel policy
subject: Poisson policy jumps
subject: Real options

description: The effect of Poisson type policy jumps on biodiesel investment is investigated through the theory of investment under uncertainty. The analysis considers the probability of a policy being implemented if it is not in effect and the probability of it being withdrawn if it is in effect. As an application, the policy switching regime of the discontinuous federal tax credit of $1.00 per gallon on biodiesel is modeled as a Poisson jump process. Results support that time inconsistent government policies do lead to market uncertainty. The analysis reveals a pronounced negative impact on the decisions to invest in a biodiesel refinery. However, results indicate a consistent policy switching regime may not be that disruptive. It is policy uncertainty that drives the option pricing thresholds and a consistent policy switching does not increase the uncertainty.