cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: 'What Can We Say Before You?'
title: Sincerity in Liberal Jewish Worship
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ash, Robert
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2025

description: Before 1800, all sections of the Jewish community used fixed traditional
 liturgies in synagogue worship. From the beginning of the nineteenth
 century radical liturgical reforms were implemented. A key question in
 this process of reform has been whether worshippers should believe what
 they say when reciting a liturgy. If they do not believe what they recite,
 does this render their prayer insincere?

 Liberal Judaism holds that sincerity in worship is of paramount
 importance. This thesis explores the effects of an overriding commitment
 to sincerity in worship upon four iterations of Liberal Jewish liturgy
 published between 1902 and 1995. The background against which liturgical
 change took place is provided by analysis of the concept of sincerity, in
 particular its place in Protestant thought, the response of Jewish
 communities to the challenges of modernity, and biographies of the leaders
 of the denomination who influenced the editorial choices in Liberal
 Judaism’s liturgical publications. A parallel view of the articulation and
 development of Liberal Jewish thought concerning the expression of beliefs
 in liturgy is provided by analysis of ‘platform’ publications setting out
 Liberal Judaism’s beliefs and practices.

 Liberal Judaism’s commitment to sincerity of worship has remained a
 touchstone in implementing liturgical change. Editors of Liberal Jewish
 liturgy have recognised that a desire for sincerity in worship poses
 significant challenges. Some of these are inherent in adapting a
 liturgical tradition of great antiquity, while others relate to issues of
 the language of prayer and comprehension by worshippers. These challenges
 have not been fully resolved. Sincerity is not the sole consideration in
 editorial decisions. Balancing a commitment to sincerity against a
 commitment to Hebrew as a language of prayer for a congregation largely
 made up of non-Hebrew speakers means that the beliefs expressed by the
 liturgy may be confused, even contradictory.
Sensitivity of WTP Estimates to Definition of ‘Yes’: Reinterpreting Expressed Response Intensity
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Mimako
name: Rollins, Kimberly S.
name: Evans, M.D.R.
name: Kobayashi, Mimako
name: Rollins, Kimberly S.
name: Evans, M.D.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: contingent valuation
subject: Great Basin
subject: invasive weeds
subject: land management
subject: polychotomous format
subject: response intensity
subject: response mapping
subject: wildfire

description: Willingness to pay (WTP) estimation typically involves some strategy for mapping nondichotomous contingent valuation (CV) responses onto a dichotomous yes/no dependent variable. We propose a new approach to selecting which responses qualify as ‘yes.’ We apply the proposed method to polychotomous CV data for preventative land management programs in the Great Basin. We also estimate WTP using other methods of response recoding found in the literature. By contrasting the results under different approaches, we demonstrate how and why WTP point estimates vary across recoding methods and discuss the comparative advantages of our more generalized recoding approach that is based on predicted probabilities of ‘yes’ responses.
Color superconducting 2SC+s quark matter and gapless modes at finite temperatures
Creators: name: Mishra, Amruta
name: Mishra, Hiranmaya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the phase diagram of color superconducting quark matter with strange quarks (2SC+s quark matter) in beta equliibrium at zero as well as finite temperatures within a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The variational method as used here allows us to investigate simultaneous formation of condensates in quark--antiquark as well as in diquark channels. Color and electric charge neutrality conditions are imposed in the calculation of the thermodynamic potential. Medium dependance of strange quark mass plays a sensitve role in maintaining charge neutrality conditions. At zero temperature the system goes from gapless phase to usual BCS phase through an intermediate normal phase as density is increased. The gapless modes show a smooth behaviour with respect to temperature vanishing above a critical temperature which is larger than the BCS transition temperature. We observe a sharp transition from gapless superconducting phase to the BCS phase as density is increased for the color neutral matter at zero temperature. As temperature is increased this however becomes a smooth transition.
description: 18 pages, 14 figures
Cancellation of energy-divergences in Coulomb gauge QCD
Creators: name: Andraši, A.
name: Taylor, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Coulomb gauge of nonabelian gauge theories there are in general, in individual graphs, 'energy-divergences' on integrating over the loop energy variable for fixed loop momentum. These divergences are avoided in the Hamiltonian, phase-space formulation. But, even in this formulation, energy-divergences re-appear at 2-loop order. We show in an example how these cancel between graphs as a consequence of Ward identities.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, revised version, two references added; accepted for publication in EPJC
Defect behavior and radiation tolerance of MAB phases (MoAlB and Fe2AlB2) with comparison to MAX phases
Creators: name: Zhang, Hongliang
name: Kim, JunYoung
name: Su, Ranran
name: Richardson, Peter
name: Xi, Jianqi
name: Kisi, Erich
name: O'Connor, John
name: Shi, Liqun
name: Szlufarska, Izabela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MAB phases are a new class of layered ternary materials that have already shown a number of outstanding properties. Here, we investigate defect evolution and radiation tolerance of two MAB phases, MoAlB and Fe2AlB2, using a combination of experimental characterization and first-principles calculations. We find that Fe2AlB2 is more tolerant to radiation-induced amorphization than MoAlB, both at 150 °C and at 300 °C. The results can be explained by the fact that the Mo Frenkel pair is unstable in MoAlB and as a result, irradiated MoAlB is expected to have a significant concentration of MoAl antisites, which are difficult to anneal even at 300 °C. We find that the tolerance to radiation-induced amorphization of MAB phases is lower than in MAX phases, but it is comparable to that of SiC. However, MAB phases do not show radiation-induced cracking which is observed in MAX phases under the same irradiation conditions. This study suggests that MAB phases might be a promising class of materials for applications that involve radiation.
Valuing the Prevention of an Infestation: The Threat of the New Zealand Mud Snail in Northern Nevada
Creators: name: Davis, Alison F.
name: Moeltner, Klaus
name: Davis, Alison F.
name: Moeltner, Klaus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Bayesian simulation
subject: hierarchical modeling
subject: incomplete demand system
subject: New Zealand mud snail

description: The Truckee/Carson/Walker River watershed in northern Nevada is under an imminent threat of infestation by the New Zealand mud snail, an aquatic nuisance species with the potential to harm recreational fisheries. We combine a utility-theoretic system-demand model of recreational angling with a Bayesian econometric framework to provide estimates of trip and welfare losses under different types of regulatory control policies. We find that such losses can be substantial, warranting immediate investments in preemptive strategies via public outreach and awareness campaigns.
Realizing unification in two different SO(10) models with one intermediate breaking scale
Creators: name: Ohlsson, Tommy
name: Pernow, Marcus
name: Sönnerlind, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the threshold corrections in $\mathrm{SO}(10)$ grand unified models with the intermediate symmetry being flipped $\mathrm{SU}(5)\times\mathrm{U}(1)$ or $\mathrm{SU}(3)\times\mathrm{SU}(2)\times\mathrm{U}(1)\times\mathrm{U}(1)$, with the masses of the scalar fields set by the survival hypothesis. These models do not achieve gauge coupling unification if the matching conditions do not take threshold corrections into account. We present results showing the required size of threshold corrections for any value of the intermediate and unification scales. In particular, our results demonstrate that both of these models are disfavored since they require large threshold corrections to allow for unification with a predicted proton lifetime above current experimental bounds.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures. Final version published in Eur. Phys. J. C
Preference Heterogeneity in a Count Data Model of Demand for Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation
Creators: name: Holmes, Thomas P.
name: Englin, Jeffrey E.
name: Holmes, Thomas P.
name: Englin, Jeffrey E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: consumer surplus
subject: off-highway vehicles
subject: outdoor recreation
subject: Poisson model
subject: random parameters

description: This paper examines heterogeneity in the preferences for OHV recreation by applying the random parameters Poisson model to a data set of off-highway vehicle (OHV) users at four National Forest sites in North Carolina. The analysis develops estimates of individual consumer surplus and finds that estimates are systematically affected by the random parameter specification. There is also substantial evidence that accounting for individual heterogeneity improves the statistical fit of the models and provides a more informative description of OHV riders.
title: An investigation into the residential electricity demand, device use and activity patterns of older people in Reading, UK
Creators: name: Ibraheem, Yusuf Adetunji
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: The UK residential sector accounts for about one-third of overall electricity demand. The proportion and rhythm of this demand are projected to change largely due to projected changes in household characteristics such as demographic structure, energy-relevant practices and the changes in the ordering and structure of each day during the week. The UK population is ageing and future levels of electricity demand will depend not only on energy-efficiency gains, changes in the work-life length and structure, but also more on the activities of older consumers. The relationships between device use and activity patterns can shed light on the timing of residential electricity demand. This study analysed the timing of some energy-relevant practices enacted by over 65 year-olds in Reading, UK. The aim of this study is to investigate the pattern of the energy-relevant practices by older people. This study was carried out between November 2015 and February 2017 using meter readings and appliance-use diaries. These provided a snapshot of the timing of selected device (shared) use, the pattern of kWh demand and the frequency of use for other devices for seven consecutive days. From these, I developed energy intensity indexes and time slots to enable comparison of the most significant kWh readings within and across days. The frequencies of households using the selected devices were used to indicate the synchronicity (coming together) of device use. Meters were installed in participating households for a week during which the occupant(s) filled-in time use diaries for selected devices in a mostly 4-hour time ii slot and indicated the frequency of use for other appliances. The meter readings were recorded every 60 seconds and aggregated in alignment with the diary time slots. This enabled the determination of the variation and rhythm of electricity demand and electricity demand intensity. Frequencies were employed to describe the pattern of use of the selected devices. The findings from this study suggest that the single and two-person older households differ significantly in their pattern, intensity of electricity demand and device use. For instance, two-person households seem to have higher levels of routine and internal synchronisation than single households.
Additional file 1 of Associations between perceived environmental pollution and health-related quality of life in a Chinese adult population
Creators: name: Han, Bingxue
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
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: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Change-in-estimate for PCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 2. Change-in-estimate for MCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 3. Change-in-estimate for PCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 4. Change-in-estimate for MCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 5. Change-in-estimate for PCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 6. Change-in-estimate for MCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 7. Change-in-estimate for PCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 8. Change-in-estimate for MCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 9. Change-in-estimate for PCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 10. Change-in-estimate for MCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 11. Change-in-estimate for PCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 12. Change-in-estimate for MCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 13. Change-in-estimate for PCS scores with possible confounding factors. Supplementary Table 14. Change-in-estimate for MCS scores with possible confounding factors.
The Welfare Effects of Restricting Off-Highway Vehicle Access to Public Lands
Creators: name: Jakus, Paul M.
name: Keith, John E.
name: Liu, Lu
name: Blahna, Dale
name: Jakus, Paul M.
name: Keith, John E.
name: Liu, Lu
name: Blahna, Dale
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: off-highway vehicles
subject: recreational access
subject: unobserved heterogeneity
subject: random utility model

description: Off-highway vehicle (OHV) use is a rapidly growing outdoor activity that results in a host of environmental and management problems. Federal agencies have been directed to develop travel management plans to improve recreation experiences, reduce social conflicts, and diminish environmental impacts of OHVs. We examine the effect of land access restrictions on the welfare of OHV enthusiasts in Utah using Murdock’s unobserved heterogeneity random utility model (Murdock 2006). Our models indicate that changing access to public lands from fully “open” to “limited” results in relatively small welfare losses, but that prohibiting access results in much larger welfare losses.
Structural Change in the Colombian Coffee Sector: 1975-2007
Creators: name: Saenz, Mariana
name: Saenz, Mariana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: coffee
subject: coffee sector
subject: Colombia
subject: structural change
subject: dual analysis
subject: translog revenue function

description: The purpose of the following paper is to explore different factors causing structural changes in the Colombian coffee sector. The Colombian economy is characterized by a revenue function (Dixit and Norman’s GDP function) with three quasi-fixed inputs and three outputs. The characterization of the economy by a unique production possibility frontier allows modeling of the whole economy. This approach will distinguish effects of changing relative prices, different rates and biases of technological change, and changes in relative factor endowments on the coffee sector, the manufacturing sector and the rest of the economy.
Theroy of anisotropic plasmons
Creators: name: Ahn, Seongjin
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the complete theory for the collective plasmon modes of an interacting electron system in the presence of explicit mass (or velocity) anisotropy in the corresponding non-interacting situation, with the effective Fermi velocity being different along different axes. Such effective mass anisotropy is common in solid state materials (e.g., silicon or germanium), where the Fermi surface is often not spherical. We find that the plasmon dispersion itself develops significant anisotropy in such systems, and the commonly used isotropic approximation of using a density of states or optical effective mass does not work for the anisotropic system. We predict a qualitatively new phenomenon in anisotropic systems with no corresponding isotropic analog, where the plasmon mode along one direction decays into electron-hole pairs through Landau damping while the mode remains undamped and stable along a different directions
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Dark Matter Search with Direction Sensitive Scintillators
Creators: name: Sekiya, H.
name: Mionwa, M.
name: Shimizu, Y.
name: Suganuma, W.
name: Inoue, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out the dark matter search with a 116g direction-sensitive stilbene crystal in Kamioka Observatory. With the crystal fixed to the earth, we searched the modulation of thelight output. No modulation signal was found due to the small size of the detector crystal and the higher background rate yet to be eliminated. However, it demonstrated the effectiveness of the method of direction sensitive search for the dark matter with an implementation of the anisotropic organic scintillation crystal.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures, To appear in the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter(IDM2004)
Local Effects of Hog Production on Farm and Non-Farm Economic Outcomes
Creators: name: Sneeringer, Stacy E.
name: Hertz, Thomas
name: Sneeringer, Stacy E.
name: Hertz, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Employment
subject: Income
subject: Hogs

description: In the past 20 years the average scale of hog operations has expanded more than fourfold, and some of the new large-scale hog feeding operations have been opposed by residents in some communities. While the environmental effects of such production have been relatively well studied, less examined are its potential positive effects on local labor markets and economies. Existing estimates based on production-function and input-output analysis imply that each additional 1000 hogs in inventory in a county generates between 3 and 7 local jobs. In this paper we adopt an econometric approach instead, to estimate the effects of changes in hog production on changes in both farm and non-farm outcomes. We find that total county employment increases by less than previously reported, with about two additional jobs being created per 1000 head of hogs in inventory.
Lower Neutrino Mass Bound from SN1987A Data and Quantum Geometry
Creators: name: Lambiase, G.
name: Papini, G.
name: Punzi, R.
name: Scarpetta, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A lower bound on the light neutrino mass $m_ν$ is derived in the framework of a geometrical interpretation of quantum mechanics. Using this model and the time of flight delay data for neutrinos coming from SN1987A, we find that the neutrino masses are bounded from below by $m_ν\gtrsim 10^{-4}-10^{-3}$eV, in agreement with the upper bound $m_ν\lesssim$ $({\cal O}(0.1) - {\cal O} (1))$ eV currently available. When the model is applied to photons with effective mass, we obtain a lower limit on the electron density in intergalactic space that is compatible with recent baryon density measurements.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures
Socially Optimal Taxation of Alcohol: The Case of Czech Beer
Creators: name: Janda, Karel
name: Mikolasek, Jakub
name: Netuka, Martin
name: Janda, Karel
name: Mikolasek, Jakub
name: Netuka, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Almost Ideal Demand System
subject: alcohol
subject: beer
subject: brewing industry
subject: consumption
subject: the Czech Republic
subject: elasticity
subject: price
subject: spirits
subject: tax
subject: wine.

description: The proposed paper belongs to the literature on food demand and optimal taxation and to the literature dealing with economics of alcohol production and consumption. We investigate the question of optimal taxation for the commodity whose consumption has positive and negative features both for individual consumer and for the society. The commodity we analyze is the Czech beer.
Additional file 1 of An integrative Bayesian network approach to highlight key drivers in systemic lupus erythematosus
Creators: name: Samaneh Maleknia
name: Salehi, Zahra
name: Tabar, Vahid Rezaei
name: Sharifi-Zarchi, Ali
name: Kavousi, Kaveh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Batch effect removal results. The box plots and PCA plots related to CPN results for Hitachisoft and Illumina platforms.
Lattice calculation of low energy constants with Ginsparg-Wilson type fermions
Creators: name: Gattringer, Christof
name: Huber, Philipp
name: Lang, C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quenched lattice calculation of low energy constants using the chirally improved Dirac operator. Several lattice sizes at different lattice spacings are studied. We systematically compare various methods for computing these quantities, using pseudoscalar and axial vector correlators. We find consistent results for the different approaches, giving rise to f_π= 96(2)(4) MeV, f_K = 106(1)(8) MeV, f_K/f_π=1.11(1)(2), Sigma= -(286(4)(31) MeV)^3, the average light quark mass m = 4.1(2.4) MeV and m_s = 101(8) MeV.
description: Final version (minor changes), RevTeX4, 16 pages, 15 figures, 9 tables
MPEC 2024-T279 : 2024 TP14
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 TP14

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Hybridized quadrupolar excitations in the spin-anisotropic frustrated magnet FeI2
Creators: name: Bai, Xiaojian
name: Zhang, Shang-Shun
name: Dun, Zhiling
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Huang, Qing
name: Zhou, Haidong
name: Stone, Matthew B.
name: Kolesnikov, Alexander I.
name: Ye, Feng
name: Batista, Cristian D.
name: Mourigal, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic order is usually associated with well-defined magnon excitations. Exotic magnetic fluctuations with fractional, topological or multipolar character, have been proposed for radically different forms of magnetic matter such as spin-liquids. As a result, considerable efforts have searched for, and uncovered, low-spin materials with suppressed dipolar order at low temperatures. Here, we report neutron-scattering experiments and quantitative theoretical modeling of an exceptional spin-1 system -- the uniaxial triangular magnet FeI2 -- where a bright and dispersive band of mixed dipolar-quadrupolar fluctuations emerges just above a dipolar ordered ground-state. This excitation arises from anisotropic exchange interactions that hybridize overlapping modes carrying fundamentally different quantum numbers. Remarkably, a generalization of spin-wave theory to local SU(3) degrees of freedom accounts for all details of the low-energy dynamical response of FeI2 without going beyond quadratic order. Our work highlights that quantum excitations without classical counterparts can be realized even in presence of fully developed magnetic order.
description: 32 pages including methods and supplementary information, 3 main figures, 9 supplementary figures
Probing the Spatial Distribution of the Interstellar Dust Medium by High Angular Resolution X-ray Halos of Point Sources
Creators: name: Xiang, Jingen
name: Zhang, Shuang Nan
name: Yao, Yangsen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the X-ray dust scattering halos around 17 bright X-ray point sources using {\it Chandra} data. We use an iterative method to resolve the halos at small scattering angles from the zeroth order data in CC-mode or the first order data in TE-mode which is not or less piled-up. Using the halo models of Weingartner $&$ Draine (2001, WD01) and Mathis, Rumpl $&$ Nordsieck (1977, MRN) to fit the halo profiles, we get the hydrogen column densities and the spatial distributions of the scattering dust grains along the line of sights (LOS) to these sources. We find that the scattering dust density very close to these sources is much higher than the normal interstellar medium. For X-ray pulsars GX 301-2 and Vela X-1 with companions of strong stellar winds, the X-ray absorption column densities are much higher than the derived scattering column densities, because of the dense media around the X-ray sources produce extremely small angle scatterings which are indistinguishable from the point sources even with \textit{Chandra}'s angular resolution. For LMC X-1, most of the scattering and absorption occur in Large Magellanic Cloud, rather than in the Milky Way. From the obtained X-rays spectra, the cold gas absorption and thus the quivalent hydrogen column is determined. We have obtained the linear correlation between $N_{H}$ derived from spectral fits and the one derived from the halo model WD01 and MRN (except for GX 301-2 and Vela X-1): $N_{H,WD01} = (0.720\pm0.009) \times N_{H,abs} + (0.051\pm0.013)$ and $N_{N, MRN} = (1.156\pm0.016) \times N_{H,abs} + (0.062\pm0.024)$ in the units $10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$. High angular resolution X-ray dust scattering halos offer an excellent potential for probing the spatial distributions of interstellar dust medium.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ on Jan 29, 2005, Accepted by ApJ for publication on Apr 2, 2005
Additional file 1 of Advanced paternal age as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders: a translational study
Creators: name: Krug, Axel
name: Wöhr, Markus
name: Seffer, Dominik
name: Rippberger, Henrike
name: A. Özge Sungur
name: Dietsche, Bruno
name: Stein, Frederike
name: Sugirthan Sivalingam
name: Forstner, Andreas J.
name: Witt, Stephanie H.
name: Dukal, Helene
name: Streit, Fabian
name: Maaser, Anna
name: Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie
name: Andlauer, Till F. M.
name: Herms, Stefan
name: Hoffmann, Per
name: Rietschel, Marcella
name: Nöthen, Markus M.
name: Lackinger, Martin
name: Schratt, Gerhard
name: Koch, Michael
name: Schwarting, Rainer K. W.
name: Kircher, Tilo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Material.
Data-driven Algorithm for Scheduling with Total Tardiness
Creators: name: Bouška, Michal
name: Novák, Antonín
name: Šůcha, Přemysl
name: Módos, István
name: Hanzálek, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the use of deep learning for solving a classical NP-Hard single machine scheduling problem where the criterion is to minimize the total tardiness. Instead of designing an end-to-end machine learning model, we utilize well known decomposition of the problem and we enhance it with a data-driven approach. We have designed a regressor containing a deep neural network that learns and predicts the criterion of a given set of jobs. The network acts as a polynomial-time estimator of the criterion that is used in a single-pass scheduling algorithm based on Lawler's decomposition theorem. Essentially, the regressor guides the algorithm to select the best position for each job. The experimental results show that our data-driven approach can efficiently generalize information from the training phase to significantly larger instances (up to 350 jobs) where it achieves an optimality gap of about 0.5%, which is four times less than the gap of the state-of-the-art NBR heuristic.
The Incidence of Agricultural Subsidies on Farmland Rental Rates: Overcoming Bias From Inertia, Expectations, and Tenancy Arrangements
Creators: name: Hendricks, Nathan P.
name: Janzen, Joseph P.
name: Dhuyvetter, Kevin C.
name: Hendricks, Nathan P.
name: Janzen, Joseph P.
name: Dhuyvetter, Kevin C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Farm subsidies
subject: Incidence
subject: Cash rents

description: Recent studies indicate that the effect of government subsidies on rental rates for farmland may be lower than once thought and lower than predictions from theory. However, there are still a number of unresolved issues in estimating subsidy incidence econometrically. We identify three such issues, inertia, expectations, and tenancy arrangements, and employ panel data from the state of Kansas to resolve them. Our econometric model suggests that subsidy incidence on rental rates is low in the short run, but consistent with predictions from theory in the long run.
The Applicability of Transaction Costs Economics to Vertical Integration Decision: Evidences from a Brazilian Beef Processor
Creators: name: Vieira, Luciana Marques
name: Vieira, Luciana Marques
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: vertical integration
subject: operations strategy
subject: transaction costs economics

description: This article aims to explore the vertical integration decision of a beef processor from an integrated approach operations strategy and transaction costs economic theory. In this research, vertical integration as a structural decision of operations strategy determined by the occurrence of transaction costs. The paper presents one case study carried out in one beef Processor Company which illustrates the main theoretical assumptions. The results suggest that transaction costs economics helps to identify key points of major strategic decisions on vertical integration due to its behavioural perspective, reducing the effect of uncertainty and asset specificity of this decision. At the end of the paper, future research is suggested.
A CADEIA PRODUTIVA DE CAQUI NO MUNICÍPIO DE ANTÔNIO CARLOS SOB A ÓTICA DA ECONOMIA DOS CUSTOS DE TRANSAÇÃO
Creators: name: Guerra, Cristina Aparecida
name: Pereira, Claudia Maria Miranda De Araujo
name: Guerra, Cristina Aparecida
name: Pereira, Claudia Maria Miranda De Araujo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: transaction costs
subject: kaki
subject: specificity

description: This work discusses the importance of the kaki productive chain in the Antônio Carlos district and its growing potentialities, analysed from the perspective of Transaction Costs Economics. The objective is to verify how the transactions between the kaki producers from the Antônio Carlos district and the downstream and upstream agents of the productive chain occur, as well as to study the governance structure in this chain. The data were obtained from semi-structured interviews carried out with seven producers, who were chosen according to criteria such as accessibility and representativity of the district’s production. It was verified that the contracts made between the producers and the downstream industry are classic and the form of governance is the market. In transactions between the producers and the distributors, the contracts are relational and governance is bilateral. It was observed that an effective association is necessary to provide better conditions for the purchase of inputs and the distribution of the product.
title: Camillo Boito: restoration of monuments and cultural heritage conservation in post-unification Italy
Creators: name: Mezzi, Giulia
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: This dissertation considers the contribution of Camillo Boito (1836–1914) to the development of the theory and practice of architectural and monument restoration in Italy after the country’s unification in 1861. It considers the part Boito played in addressing the problems that the new country faced in restoring and maintaining the immense number of historic monuments and buildings that represented the new nation. At the same time this research looks at the challenge of preserving monuments within modernising urban environments tracing the conservation debate that was also emerging in the rest of nineteenth-century Europe. It examines the development of Boito’s ideas about cultural heritage conservation that culminated in what was his greatest achievement: the Charter of Restoration of 1883. It was a charter that provided a set of principles for a scientific approach to monument restoration and conservation. In looking at these principles, the dissertation considers the extent to which he drew on the ideas of other architects such as Pietro Selvatico, Tito Vespasiano Paravicini, Alfredo d´Andrade and Errico Alvino. Likewise, this research project considers the mutual international influences of Boito and other contemporaries of the British and French School of restoration and heritage conservation. In addition to considering Boito´s theoretical contribution to restoration and conservation, the dissertation also investigates his practice as a restorer in order to assess the relationship between theory and practice in his work. It considers his restoration of Porta Ticinese in Milan (1861) and the church of Saint Anthony in Padua (1898), arguing that his interventions stem from careful art historical study, but combined with a methodology of historiographical interpretation that allowed him a degree of architectural and compositional creativity. In contrast to the opinions expressed in the existing literature, which tend to criticise the creative aspect of the architect´s restoration, this dissertation reveals the objective and contextual motives behind the architect´s choices
Care, control and connection : health-care experiences of women in abusive intimate relationships
Creators: name: Dechief, Lynda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Violence against women in intimate relationships has been recognised as a serious public health concern. Formal health-care responses to this issue have been implemented across the industrialised world. Few evaluations of these responses explore their impacts on women's health or lives, and the perspectives of abused women on different health-care responses are rarely reported in the academic literature. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the health-care experiences of abused women and to generate substantive theory on the essential components of an effective health-care response to violence against women. This study generated an emergent grounded theory based on indepth individual and group interviews with women who experienced abuse in their intimate relationships (n = 16). The findings of this study suggest that women actively strive to recover the health that they have lost through experiencing abuse in their relationships. If abused women's strategies to regain health are supported by health-care providers, this process is facilitated. Specifically, the women in this study identified three significant components of such enabling health-care experiences: caring, sharing control, and connecting. Conversely, if these strategies are not supported, aspects of abusive relationship experiences may inadvertently be reproduced in health-care experiences, leading to a further loss of health. Thus, changes in the structures of the health-care system could either facilitate of impede improvements in the responses of individual health-care providers and institutions to women experiencing violence. Theory emerging from this study can be used to inform the development of models in health care to address violence against women, as well as to evaluate the impact of existing programs.
Probing spin correlations with phonons in the strongly frustrated magnet ZnCr2O4
Creators: name: Sushkov, A. B.
name: Drew, H. D.
name: Tchernyshyov, O.
name: Ratcliff, W.
name: Cheong, S. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin-lattice coupling plays an important role in strongly frustrated magnets. In ZnCr$_2$O$_4$, an excellent realization of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the ``pyrochlore'' network, a lattice distortion relieves the geometrical frustration through a spin-Peierls-like phase transition at $T_c = 12.5$ K. Conversely, spin correlations strongly influence the elastic properties of a frustrated magnet. By using infrared spectroscopy and published data on magnetic specific heat, we demonstrate that the frequency of an optical phonon triplet in ZnCr$_2$O$_4$ tracks the nearest-neighbor spin correlations above $T_c$. The splitting of the phonon triplet below $T_c$ provides a way to measure of the spin-Peierls order parameter.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
MONETAR SIYOSATNING SAVDO BALANSIGA TA'SIRINI TAHLILI
Creators: name: Davletov Sirojiddin Narimanovich   Bank-moliya akademiyasi "Iqtisodiyotni monetar tartibga  solish" mutaxassisligi magistratura tinglovchisi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mazkur tezisda O‘zbekistonda so‘nggi yillarda monetar va fiskal siyosat ikki - butunlay qarama-qarshi yo‘nalish bo‘ylab harakatlanmoqda. Xususan, Markaziy bank tomonidan yuqori inflyatsiyani jilovlash maqsadida yuritilayotgan nisbatan qattiq monetar siyosatga qarama-qarshi ravishda hukumat yalpi talabni rag‘batlantirish maqsadida rag‘batlantiruvchi fiskal siyosat yuritmoqda. Quyida ana shu ikki yo‘nalishda olib borilayotgan siyosatlarning tashqi savdoga va tashqi savdo defitsitiga ta’sirini baholash hamda takomillashtirish yuzasida taklif va tavsiyalar ishlab chiqilgan.

Kalit so‘zlar: Monetar siyosat, byudjet tashkilotlari, byudjet xarajatlari, asosiy vositalar, Davlat iqtisodiyoti, g‘aznachilik, daromadlar prognoz ko‘rsatkichlari.
YIELD GUARANTEES AND THE PRODUCER WELFARE BENEFITS OF CROP INSURANCE
Creators: name: Adhikari, Shyam
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Belasco, Eric J.
name: Adhikari, Shyam
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Belasco, Eric J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Actual Production History
subject: Crop Insurance
subject: Sampling Error
subject: Yield Guarantee

description: Crop yield and revenue insurance products with coverage based on actual production history (APH) yields dominate the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Program. The APH yield, which plays a critical role in determining the coverage offered to producers, is based on a small sample of historical yields for the insured unit. The properties of this yield measure are critical in determining the value of the insurance to producers. Sampling error in APH yields has the potential to lead to over-insurance in some years and under-insurance in other years. Premiums, which are in part determined by the ratio of the APH yield to the county reference yield, are also affected by variations in APH yields. Congress has enacted two measures, yield substitution and yield floors, that are intended to limit the degree to which sampling error can reduce the insurance guarantee and producer welfare. We examine the impact of sampling error and related policy provisions for Texas cotton, Kansas wheat, and Illinois corn. The analysis is conducted using county level yield data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service and individual insured-unit-level yield data obtained from the Risk Management Agency’s insurance database. Our findings indicate that sampling error in APH yields has the potential to reduce producer welfare and that the magnitude of this effect differs substantially across crops. The yield substitution and yield floor provisions reduce the negative impact of sampling error but also bias guarantees upward, leading to increased government cost of the insurance programs.
A differential method for bounding the ground state energy
Creators: name: Mouchet, Amaury
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a wide class of Hamiltonians, a novel method to obtain lower and upper bounds for the lowest energy is presented. Unlike perturbative or variational techniques, this method does not involve the computation of any integral (a normalisation factor or a matrix element). It just requires the determination of the absolute minimum and maximum in the whole configuration space of the local energy associated with a normalisable trial function (the calculation of the norm is not needed). After a general introduction, the method is applied to three non-integrable systems: the asymmetric annular billiard, the many-body spinless Coulombian problem, the hydrogen atom in a constant and uniform magnetic field. Being more sensitive than the variational methods to any local perturbation of the trial function, this method can used to systematically improve the energy bounds with a local skilled analysis; an algorithm relying on this method can therefore be constructed and an explicit example for a one-dimensional problem is given.
description: Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics A
Additional file 1 of Clinical preceptor competencies for a better pharmacy education: a suggested framework for Lebanon
Creators: name: Zeitoun, Abeer
name: Sacre, Hala
name: Hallit, Souheil
name: Zeenny, Rony M.
name: Sili, Georges
name: Salameh, Pascale
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1.
Costs of Producing Biogas at Dairy Farms in The Netherlands
Creators: name: Gebrezgabher, Solomie A.
name: Meuwissen, Miranda P.M.
name: Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.
name: Gebrezgabher, Solomie A.
name: Meuwissen, Miranda P.M.
name: Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: green electricity
subject: green gas
subject: empirical data
subject: technical performance
subject: financial performance

description: By 2020, Dutch dairy chains envisage to be self‐sufficient with regard to energy used by dairy farms and dairy processors. This would require dairy farms to produce 25 PJ per year, possibly by a combination of wind, solar and biogas. This paper focuses on biogas. To evaluate the project’s viability we estimated the expected technical and financial performance of 4 types of business models, i.e. “CHP‐farm”, “CHP‐large”, “green gas” and “central upgrading of green gas”. Data stem from among others 23 biogas plants in the Netherlands. Anticipating that CHPmodels and green gas models occur with a likelihood of 40% and 60% respectively, the total number of biogas plants would amount to 232 (1% of dairy farms), including a total of 5 million tons of manure per year (14% of all cattle manure in the Netherlands) and annual government subsidies of Euro 295 million. Aggregated annual profits are expected to be positive, but over the project’s total life time there is an expected deficit of Euro 262. For this to change costs of feedstocks or digestate disposal costs would for instance have to go down. Also fully switching to green gas models dampens the deficit. Results are used in current stakeholders debates on the organization of an “energy neutral dairy chain” in the Netherlands. Further analyses incorporating uncertainty around key technical and economic parameters including financial impacts of CO2‐reductions are underway.
Jenseits des Endes: Die Stille als Erzählerin der Postapokalypse in "The Long Dark" (Script zum Videoessay)
Creators: name: Mummelthei, Victoria
Publisher: name: "Game Over? – Dystopia x Utopia x Video Games" an der Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, 14. bis 16. November 2024 an der Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: Postapokalypse
Stille
Negative Space
The Long Dark
Medientheorie
Medienästhetik
game studies
videogames
digital games
digitale Spiele
Videospiele
Computerspiele

description: Dieser Videoessay (im Rhamen der Interdisziplinären Tagung "Game Over? – Dystopia x Utopia x Video Games" an der Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, 14. bis 16. November 2024 an der Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) untersucht, wie das Survival-Spiel "The Long Dark" durch den radikalen Einsatz von Stille die konventionellen Darstellungsmuster postapokalyptischer Narrative durchbricht. Anhand einer dreifachen Analyse - atmosphärische Dämpfung, strukturelle Abwesenheit und narrative Sparsamkeit - wird gezeigt, wie das Spiel etablierte Genre-Konventionen unterläuft. Der Essay argumentiert, dass gerade in der konsequenten Reduktion eine neue Perspektive auf postapokalyptische Szenarien emergiert. Dabei wird die Stille nicht als passive Abwesenheit, sondern als aktives gestalterisches Prinzip begriffen. Die Analyse verbindet medientheoretische Konzepte mit game-studies-spezifischen Betrachtungen und öffnet so den Blick für alternative Formen des postapokalyptischen Erzählens im Medium Videospiel.