cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Geospatial Factors Affecting Equitable US Residential Heating Electrification
Creators: name: Biscocho, Kelsey A
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The heating sector accounts for almost half of total global energy consumption, with only 1/10th of heat produced from renewables. The adoption and technological advancement of heat pumps is key to electrifying heating, introducing more renewable sources, and decreasing energy expenditure. However, a range of complex barriers–including upfront costs, electricity costs, outdoor temperature, and building characteristics–hinder widespread heat pump adoption. High- resolution temporal and geospatial analysis is a powerful tool for understanding the patterns of such barriers, improving discernment of issues specific to certain populations. This project characterizes different heat pump technologies’ effects on residential energy use and expenditure with a high-resolution linear regression model of energy demand. We constructed linear regression efficiency models for two types of market-available heat pumps, characterized by refrigerant type and compressor type. With the thermal comfort energy demand estimates and estimated heat pump efficiency, we calculated the census tract, hourly-level energy demand in a 100% heat pump adoption case. We obtained these energy demand estimates for the states of Colorado and California–chosen due to their diverse climates and demographics–and used these energy demand estimates to calculate heat pump cost, electricity grid emissions, and energy burden. We also performed a case study comparison with actual heat pump energy consumption data for a household in West Lafayette, Indiana.
 We found that heat pumps reduce total heating energy consumption and overall energy consumption for nearly all census tracts in both Colorado and California. In addition, for heating and overall energy consumption, our market average R410A heat pump model has the lower total variable cost in all census tracts relative to our R32 heat pump model. For cooling energy consumption, the R32 heat pump operates at a lower total variable cost than the R410A heat pump in most census tracts. Heat pumps tend to decrease average energy burden—percentage of household income dedicated to energy expenditure—in the less population-dense areas of both states. However, heat pump adoption leads to increased energy burden within cities. In comparison to our case study West Lafayette household, we obtained a relative root mean squared error for daily energy consumption of 28%, which is higher than studies using detailed engineering models at a single household-level but lower than studies using building simulation models.
Poland: Transition and Integration in the World Economy
Creators: name: Wellisz, Stanislaw H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics

description: "The East-Central European communist regimes that came into power at the close of World War II sought to eradicate the market mechanism and to insulate their countries from the capitalist West. Poland was no exception: most of its exports were directed to, and most of its imports were obtained from other COMECON members, in particular from the Soviet Union. Gradually, however, the leadership of PZPR, the Polish United Workers' (communist) party realized that the command system and isolation from the world spelled stagnation. Sporadic attempts at reform were made as early as 1956, but the system remained virtually unchanged for the next twenty five years."
Fidelity of a Rydberg blockade quantum gate from simulated quantum process tomography
Creators: name: Zhang, X. L.
name: Gill, A. T.
name: Isenhower, L.
name: Walker, T. G.
name: Saffman, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed error analysis of a Rydberg blockade mediated controlled-NOT quantum gate between two neutral atoms as demonstrated recently in Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 010503 (2010) and Phys. Rev. A 82, 030306 (2010). Numerical solutions of a master equation for the gate dynamics, including all known sources of technical error, are shown to be in good agreement with experiments. The primary sources of gate error are identified and suggestions given for future improvements. We also present numerical simulations of quantum process tomography to find the intrinsic fidelity, neglecting technical errors, of a Rydberg blockade controlled phase gate. The gate fidelity is characterized using trace overlap and trace distance measures. We show that the trace distance is linearly sensitive to errors arising from the finite Rydberg blockade shift and introduce a modified pulse sequence which corrects the linear errors. Our analysis shows that the intrinsic gate error extracted from simulated quantum process tomography can be under 0.002 for specific states of $^{87}$Rb or Cs atoms. The relation between the process fidelity and the gate error probability used in calculations of fault tolerance thresholds is discussed.
description: revised, small corrections to Table III
Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics
Creators: name: Ghisellini, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contents: Some Fundamental definitions; Bremsstrahlung and black body; Beaming; Synchrotron emission and absorption; Compton scattering; Synchrotron Self-Compton; Pairs; Active Galactic Nuclei.
description: 157 pages, 64 figures. Lecture notes for a university course
Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Evaluation
Creators: name: Figeys, Christine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Neonatal Withdrawal
Clinical Practice Guideline
Quality Appraisal
Systematic Review

description: Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) refers to the withdrawal symptoms experienced when an infant has been exposed to certain substances (e.g., opioids) in-utero, resulting in health challenges for infants. Previous studies have reported substantial variations in the clinical management of NAS, suggesting that some infants may not be receiving optimal care. High-quality clinical practice guidelines are crucial to support optimal patient outcomes and standardize care. In response, I conducted a systematic review and quality appraisal of available NAS guidelines and recommendations using the AGREE-II and AGREE-REX tools. I also developed and piloted a tool to measure family-centred care in guidelines. Most guidelines received low-quality appraisal scores on the AGREE-II and the AGREE-REX appraisals (16/20 and 10/20, respectively) and have conflicting pharmacological recommendations. Findings will improve clinicians’ awareness of the variation in the quality of guidelines and assist them to make care decisions that are from the best available evidence and family-centred.
Portal de Periódicos UDESC no YouTube: compartilhar conhecimento vale a pena!
Creators: name: Souza, Marcela Reinhardt de
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80706 Librarianship
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Apresenta o trabalho realizado na Biblioteca Universitária da UDESC com o desenvolvimento da playlist para capacitação de pessoas no contexto de editoração científica.
Quantum information transfer between topological and spin qubit systems
Creators: name: Leijnse, Martin
name: Flensberg, Karsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to coherently transfer quantum information, and to create entanglement, between topological qubits and conventional spin qubits. Our suggestion uses gated control to transfer an electron (spin qubit) between a quantum dot and edge Majorana modes in adjacent topological superconductors. Because of the spin polarization of the Majorana modes, the electron transfer translates spin superposition states into superposition states of the Majorana system, and vice versa. Furthermore, we show how a topological superconductor can be used to facilitate long-distance quantum information transfer and entanglement between spatially separated spin qubits.
description: 4+ pages, 2 figures, published version
Particulate Pollution Trends in the 1980's
Creators: name: Kahn, Matthew E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper estimates particulate product functions to study how particulates co move with manufacturing activity after controlling for climate, and regulatory factors. In addition to studding whether more regulated counties enjoy less pollution per unit of economic activity, I also study whether particulate regulation displaces economic growth to less regulated areas.
The Optical and Near-Infrared Transmission Spectrum of the Super-Earth GJ1214b: Further Evidence for a Metal-Rich Atmosphere
Creators: name: Bean, Jacob L.
name: Désert, Jean-Michel
name: Kabath, Petr
name: Stalder, Brian
name: Seager, Sara
name: Kempton, Eliza Miller-Ricci
name: Berta, Zachory K.
name: Homeier, Derek
name: Walsh, Shane
name: Seifahrt, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an investigation of the transmission spectrum of the 6.5 M_earth planet GJ1214b based on new ground-based observations of transits of the planet in the optical and near-infrared, and on previously published data. Observations with the VLT+FORS and Magellan+MMIRS using the technique of multi-object spectroscopy with wide slits yielded new measurements of the planet's transmission spectrum from 0.61 to 0.85 micron, and in the J, H, and K atmospheric windows. We also present a new measurement based on narrow-band photometry centered at 2.09 micron with the VLT+HAWKI. We combined these data with results from a re-analysis of previously published FORS data from 0.78 to 1.00 micron using an improved data reduction algorithm, and previously reported values based on Spitzer data at 3.6 and 4.5 micron. All of the data are consistent with a featureless transmission spectrum for the planet. Our K-band data are inconsistent with the detection of spectral features at these wavelengths reported by Croll and collaborators at the level of 4.1 sigma. The planet's atmosphere must either have at least 70% water by mass or optically thick high-altitude clouds or haze to be consistent with the data.
description: (v2) ApJ in press, no major changes from v1
Additional file 2 of Susceptibility antibiotic screening reveals high rates of multidrug resistance of Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter in HIV infected and uninfected patients from Mozambique
Creators: name: Hlashwayo, Delfina F
name: Noormahomed, Emília V
name: Bahule, Leonilde
name: Benson, Constance A
name: Schooley, Robert T
name: Sigaúque, Betuel
name: Barrett, Kim E
name: Bila, Custódio G
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Approximations to Relativistic Quantum Theory in the Non-Relativistic Regime
Creators: name: KUMARAN, YOHASHAMA P SIVAGNANA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 461307
subject: Quantum computation
classificationCode: 510202
subject: Lasers and quantum electronics
classificationCode: 510802
subject: Foundations of quantum mechanics

description: When studying quantum dynamics in the non-relativistic regime, the convention is to use non-relativistic quantum theory instead of the more accurate relativistic quantum theory as it is always assumed to be a good approximation. Therefore, this thesis examines how well this approximation, as well as the use of an ensemble of relativistic classical trajectories, are to relativistic quantum theory in the non-relativistic regime. Evaluating the breakdown of agreement of these approximations to relativistic quantum theory in the non-relativistic regime would have applications in many fields of physics (ranging from atomic to molecular, chemical, and condensed-matter physics) and engineering.
Stratification and attainment in a large Japanese firm
Creators: name: Spilerman, Seymour
name: Ishida, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper investigate the attainment process in a large Japanese financial service company. Unlike firms in the U.S., hires into the "permanent" category of workers in a Japanese company tend to be homogeneous with regard to age of entry, (lack of) prior experience, education, and gender. This raises an issue of how, in such circumstances, a firm selects employees for advancement and what is the structure of the promotion process. It has been suggested that a formal description of the attainment process is conveyed by Rosenbaum's "tournament model of careers." We investigate whether this imagery is consistent with the data on careers in the firm, we conclude that such a model is not descriptive of the attainment process; rather advancement is more properly characterized as a "gatekeeping" operation (at an early career stage), followed by delayed selection of the eventual corporate elite.
Infrastructure, Human Capital, and International Trade
Creators: name: Findlay, Ronald E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics

description: It is by now a trite commonplace that we live in an increasingly integrated global economy, in which the barriers to the free movement of goods and capital, though not labor, are rapidly disappearing as a result of both policy reforms and the progress of technology in transport and communications. The rhetoric as well as the substance of national economic policy is now preoccupied with the problem of how each country can hope to survive and prosper in a world where capital controls and trade restrictions are off the agenda. Is the simple laissez-faire principle of simply doing nothing correct, or is there anything an activist government might usefully strive to accomplish? With the global pool of capital at any instant restlessly searching for the highest return, regardless of borders, a popular prescription has come to be the provision of public infrastructure and the training and education of the labor force. With these measures the nation can attempt to secure for itself a higher share of the global capital stock and thus ensure for itself higher wages and better quality jobs for its own labor force.
Trade and the Environment: Does Environmental Diversity Detract from the Case for Free Trade?
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
name: Srinivasan, T. N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics

description: "The potency of the contention that fair trade or level playing fields constitute a precondition for Free Trade and that, therefore, harmonization of domestic policies across trading countries is necessary before Free Trade can be embraced to one's advantage, should not be underestimated today. It is nowhere more manifest, and compelling in its policy appeal, than in the area of environmental standards."
US Trade Policy: Successes and Failures
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics

description: This paper elaborates on remarks made at the American Economic Association meetings, January 1995, in Washington D.C., at a Panel Discussion on the Clinton administration's trade policy. The Panel included two highly distinguished trade experts: the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Laura Tyson, and Anne Krueger, the President-elect of the American Economic Association; and Rudiger Dornbusch, the well known macroeconomist. I have used this occasion to raise some uncommon questions and to provide a frank and at times critical commentary on the current trends in US trade policy precisely because we have correctly applauded the policy because of its freetrade thrust while ignoring its downside which requires correction.
Peaks theory and the excursion set approach
Creators: name: Paranjape, Aseem
name: Sheth, Ravi K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a model of dark matter halo abundances and clustering which combines the two most widely used approaches to this problem: that based on peaks and the other based on excursion sets. Our approach can be thought of as addressing the cloud-in-cloud problem for peaks and/or modifying the excursion set approach so that it averages over a special subset, rather than all possible walks. In this respect, it seeks to account for correlations between steps in the walk as well as correlations between walks. We first show how the excursion set and peaks models can be written in the same formalism, and then use this correspondence to write our combined excursion set peaks model. We then give simple expressions for the mass function and bias, showing that even the linear halo bias factor is predicted to be k-dependent as a consequence of the nonlocality associated with the peak constraint. At large masses, our model has little or no need to rescale the variable delta_c from the value associated with spherical collapse, and suggests a simple explanation for why the linear halo bias factor appears to lie above that based on the peak-background split at high masses when such a rescaling is assumed. Although we have concentrated on peaks, our analysis is more generally applicable to other traditionally single-scale analyses of large-scale structure.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures; v2 -- minor changes, added discussion in sec2.2, fixed a typo. Accepted in MNRAS
Masquerade Attack Detection Using a Search-Behavior Modeling Approach
Creators: name: Ben Salem, Malek
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: Masquerade attacks are unfortunately a familiar security problem that is a consequence of identity theft. Detecting masqueraders is very hard. Prior work has focused on user command modeling to identify abnormal behavior indicative of impersonation. This paper extends prior work by presenting one-class Hellinger distance-based and one-class SVM modeling techniques that use a set of novel features to reveal user intent. The specific objective is to model user search profiles and detect deviations indicating a masquerade attack. We hypothesize that each individual user knows their own file system well enough to search in a limited, targeted and unique fashion in order to find information germane to their current task. Masqueraders, on the other hand, will likely not know the file system and layout of another user's desktop, and would likely search more extensively and broadly in a manner that is different than the victim user being impersonated. We extend prior research that uses UNIX command sequences issued by users as the audit source by relying upon an abstraction of commands. We devise taxonomies of UNIX commands and Windows applications that are used to abstract sequences of user commands and actions. We also gathered our own normal and masquerader data sets captured in a Windows environment for evaluation. The datasets are publicly available for other researchers who wish to study masquerade attack rather than author identification as in much of the prior reported work. The experimental results show that modeling search behavior reliably detects all masqueraders with a very low false positive rate of 0.1%, far better than prior published results. The limited set of features used for search behavior modeling also results in huge performance gains over the same modeling techniques that use larger sets of features.
The demographic tsunami: an architectural solution to a looming economic issue
Creators: name: O'Dwyer, Donald
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2010

description: Bibliography: p. 84-85
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: Includes oversized pages.
description: This Master's Degree Project examines potential architectural opportunities created through the study of demographic trends. Population influxes have historically influenced supply and demand within the free market system, which in turn has benefited those with the foresight to accurately predict such patterns. The Baby Boomer demographic represents a massive generational cohort that has traditionally been able to drastically affect supply and demand based simply on their common interests. As the baby boomers enter their retirement years, the demand for accessible housing options in Canada will increase as the majority of current options will soon prove to be too difficult and uncomfortable for seniors. By 2026, 21 % of Canada's population will consist of seniors, and without proper preparation, housing the baby boomer demographic will become a major predicament. By effectively re-evaluating the traditional assisted living model, along with the incorporation of principles designed to preserve independence and promote suitable options for seniors, an architectural solution will emerge that will not only sustain this massive population influx, but will also provide amenities for the benefit of future generations.
Additional file 1 of Association between the timing of ICU admission and mortality in patients with hospital-onset sepsis: a nationwide prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Ahn, Yoon Hae
name: Lee, Jinwoo
name: Oh, Dong Kyu
name: Lee, Su Yeon
name: Park, Mi Hyeon
name: Lee, Haein
name: Lim, Chae-Man
name: Lee, Sang-Min
name: Lee, Hong Yeul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figures and tables.
Fiscal Expansion and Adjustments in OECD Countries
Creators: name: Perotti, Roberto
name: Alesina, Alberto
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics

description: In several countries policymakers are striving to improve the budget balance. Trivially, this can be done by raising taxes and/or cutting expenditures. But the two strategies are not equivalent. In this paper, we investigate several issues referring to the relationship between the fiscal stance, i.e. loose or tight fiscal balance, and the composition of the budget, based on the experience of 20 OECD counties after 1960. We find that large fiscal expansions typically are biased toward increases in expenditure, while large fiscal adjustments on average rely more on tax increases. However, we find a large and fundamental difference between fiscal adjustments that lead to permanent improvements in the fiscal balance and those that are reversed in a short time. The former are implemented mainly via cuts in two types of expenditure: transfer programs and compensation of government employees. The latter are carried out almost exclusively via tax increases. We also find that coalition governments, although they often try to make substantial fiscal adjustments, are much less likely than other governments to carry out the two types of expenditure cuts that make an adjustment successful. Our findings convey a clear message: the composition of a fiscal adjustment is of fundamental importance in determining its success. A fiscal adjustment cannot have long-lasting effects unless it tackles two expenditures - government employment and social programs - often regarded as untouchable by policymakers and their advisors.
Essays in empirical macroeconomics
Creators: name: Wong, Benjamin Shijie
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Macroeconomics
subject: Inflation (Finance)
subject: Petroleum industry and trade.
subject: Inflation (Finance) Effect of energy costs on

description: This thesis is a collection of three self contained empirical macroeconomic papers on inflation. The links between inflation and peripheral themes such as oil price shocks and its tradeoff with output are investigated. Chapter 2 studies the impact of oil shocks on U.S. inflation expectations from the Michigan Survey and how this in turn transmits into actual inflation. The results suggest oil shocks impact both inflation expectations and inflation. Counterfactual analysis suggest inflation expectations play a non-trivial role in transmission of oil shocks. Chapter 3 presents evidence on why inflation pass-through from oil shocks in the 21st century relative to the 1970s has dampened. First, results suggest global business cycle demand driven oil shocks are not inflationary. Second, there has been a reduction in inflation pass-through from oil supply and speculative oil demand shocks. Movements in oil inventories and production suggest oil supply and speculative oil demand shocks in the 1970s were different. Oil market participants expect higher oil prices to persist into the future. The analysis highlights the importance of modelling inventories as a means of capturing expectations in the oil market. Chapter 4 proposes quantifying the evolution of the U.S. output-inflation tradeoff using a Time-Varying Parameter Structural VAR. This methodology circumvents issues with existing methods which tend to be either reduced form in nature or rely on more ad hoc assumptions regarding sample split dates and both trend output and trend inflation. Working through U.S. data since the 1970s reveals only a slight change in the tradeoff from around 1.70 to 1.75 percentage points of real output growth per percentage point increase in trend inflation. This contrasts with claims that the U.S. Phillips Curve has flattened dramatically. JEL Classification: C11, C32, C54, E31, Q43.
Endothelial heparanase regulation of cardiac metabolism
Creators: name: Wang, Fang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Following diabetes, the heart increases its lipoprotein lipase (LPL) at the coronary lumen by transferring LPL from the cardiomyocyte to the endothelial lumen. Heparanase is an endoglycosidase that specifically cleaves carbohydrate chains of heparan sulfate (HS). We examined the mechanisms behind endothelial heparanase control of cardiac LPL translocation. Using diazoxide (DZ) to decrease serum insulin, we observed that within 30 min of DZ, interstitial heparanase increased, an effect that closely mirrored an augmentation in interstitial LPL. In bovine coronary artery endothelial cells incubated with glucose or palmitic acid (PA), glucose dose-dependently increased heparanase secretion, a process that required ATP release, purinergic receptor activation, cortical actin disassembly and stress actin formation. Phosphorylation of filamin likely contributed towards the cortical actin disassembly, whereas Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and p38 mitogen activated protein kinase/heat shock protein 25 phosphorylation mediated stress actin formation. The endothelial-secreted heparanase in response to HG demonstrated endoglycosidase activity, cleaved HS, and released attached proteins like lipoprotein lipase and basic fibroblast growth factor. Unlike glucose, PA increased intracellular heparanase and induced rapid nuclear accumulation of heparanase that was dependent on Bax activation and lysosome permeabilization. Heat shock protein 90 was an important mediator of PA-induced shuttling of heparanase to the nucleus. Nuclear heparanase promoted cleavage of HS, a potent inhibitor of histone acetyltransferase activity and gene transcription. A TaqMan gene expression assay revealed an increase in genes related to glucose metabolism and inflammation. In addition, glycolysis was uncoupled from glucose oxidation, resulting in accumulation of lactate. Our data suggest that following hyperglycemia, translocation of LPL from the cardiomyocyte cell surface to the apical side of endothelial cells is influenced by the ability of fatty acid to increase endothelial intracellular heparanase followed by rapid secretion of this enzyme by glucose. Given that both LPL and heparanase have been implicated in the progression of diabetes, our data may serve to reduce the associated cardiovascular complications by limiting the utilization of fatty acid after diabetes.
Quantum Phase Transition in Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chains Coupled to Phonons
Creators: name: Akiyama, Satoru
name: Yasuda, Chitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an analytical approach based on a unitary transformation to investigate S=1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains coupled to phonons, and find a new quantum phase transition at zero temperature. Although the usual phase transition occurs depending on the strengths of the spin-spin and spin-phonon interactions, the phase transition in the present work is induced by a change in the geometrical structure of the spin-phonon interaction. The magnetic properties of the phase transition can be understood in relation to a phase transition that has already been found in the frustrated J1-J2 model.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures. To be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Prograde and Retrograde Black Holes: Whose Jet is More Powerful?
Creators: name: Tchekhovskoy, Alexander
name: McKinney, Jonathan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The outflow efficiency (eta) from black hole (BH) accretion disc systems is known to depend upon both the BH spin (a) and the amount of large-scale magnetic flux threading the BH and disc. Semi-analytical flux-trapping models suggest retrograde BHs should trap much more large-scale magnetic flux near the BH leading to much higher eta than for prograde BHs. We self-consistently determine the amount of large-scale magnetic flux trapped by rapidly spinning (a = -0.9 and 0.9) BHs using global 3D time-dependent non-radiative general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of thick (h/r ~ 0.3-0.6) discs. We find that BH-trapped flux builds up until it is strong enough to disrupt the inner accretion disc. Contrary to prior flux-trapping models, which do not include the back-reaction of magnetic flux on the disc, our simulations show prograde BHs trap more magnetic flux, leading to about 3 times higher eta than retrograde BHs for |a| = 0.9. Both spin orientations can produce highly efficient jets, eta ~ 100%, with increasing eta for increasing disc thickness. The similarity of eta for prograde and retrograde BHs makes it challenging to infer the sign of BH spin based on jet energetics alone.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted to MNRAS. For associated movies see http://youtu.be/yNZLjsrz0Wo and http://youtu.be/bQE69wti3a4
A comparison of relations between security market prices, returns and accounting measures in Japan and the United States
Creators: name: Hall, Charles
name: Harris, Trevor
name: Hamao, Yasushi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: Extensive research and discussion has occurred over the last two decades relating to the relevance of accounting differences in the valuation of securities in international capital markets. Yet little empirical evidence exists which evaluates how the accounting measures in Japan are associated with stock prices or returns, especially over periods other than short-event windows of a few days, weeks or months. We see use of P/E relatives in discussions of cost of capital and broad international comparisons. For such evaluations to be made usefully we should expect fundamental associations between the accounting and stock market measures to be equivalent across the countries, subject to accounting differences. That is, if equivalent basic associations do not exist then it is not clear what it means to make such international comparisons. This paper evaluates such associations in Japan and compares them to a sample of firms in the United States using a methodology recently developed in Easton and Harris and Easton, Harris and Ohlson and considered for Germany in Harris and Lang.
Epipleoneura janirae Machado 2005
Creators: name: Pessacq, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Protoneuridae
Epipleoneura
Epipleoneura janirae

description: Epipleoneura janirae Machado, 2005
(Figs. 14, 37, 65)
 Epipleoneura janirae Machado 2005: 47 –48, Figs. 1–2 (new species, male and female description, illustrations of male S 10 in lateral and posterior view and female prothorax in dorsal view, type material at ABMM).  Garrison et al. 2010 : 352, 354 (included in list of species, illustrations of epiproct in posterior view).  Pessacq et al. 2012 : 4 (included in list of Brazilian Protoneuridae).
 Specimens examined. 2 ♂, 1 ♀. Holotype male, Brazil, Pará State, Santarém, Belterra (Porto Novo) (Santarém: 03º08’41”S, 55º02’42”W), leg. A.B.M. Machado & P. Pereira, ii 1957. Allotype ♀ and 1 paratype ♂, same data as holotype. ABMM.
 Diagnosis. Male cercus resembles that of E. capilliformis. The cercus has a well-developed inner-basal tooth. The epiproct consists of two long narrow branches, tapering toward apex and fused along almost their entire length with only their tips free, thus resembling that of E. uncinata De Marmels, 1989, but in E. janirae there is a triangular swollen structure between branches base and the apex is comparatively thicker. Epipleoneura janirae further differs from that species by the different genital ligula morphology (Fig. 37); E. janirae is similar to that described for E. humeralis. Female posterior margin of pronotum (Fig. 65) is composed of a wide erected lobe with a medial very shallow V depression.
 Distribution. Pará State, northern Brazil (type locality Santarém, Belterra [02 º 38’14” S, 54 º 09’96” W]).
description: Published as part of Pessacq, Pablo, 2014, Synopsis of Epipleoneura (Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae, " Protoneuridae "), with emphasis on its Brazilian species, pp. 201-234 in Zootaxa 3872 (3) on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/230974
Weak Measurements of Light Chirality with a Plasmonic Slit
Creators: name: Gorodetski, Y.
name: Bliokh, K. Y.
name: Stein, B.
name: Genet, C.
name: Shitrit, N.
name: Kleiner, V.
name: Hasman, E.
name: Ebbesen, T. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine, both experimentally and theoretically, an interaction of tightly focused polarized light with a slit on a metal surface supporting plasmon-polariton modes. Remarkably, this simple system can be highly sensitive to the polarization of the incident light and offers a perfect quantum-weak-measurement tool with a built-in post-selection in the plasmon-polariton mode. We observe the plasmonic spin Hall effect in both coordinate and momentum spaces which is interpreted as weak measurements of the helicity of light with real and imaginary weak values determined by the input polarization. Our experiment combines advantages of (i) quantum weak measurements, (ii) near-field plasmonic systems, and (iii) high-numerical aperture microscopy in employing spin-orbit interaction of light and probing light chirality.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data
Creators: name: Ho, Siu Fung Stanley
name: Wheeler, Nicole E.
name: Millard, Andrew D.
name: van Schaik, Willem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1. Optimisation curves for tools resulting in score/probability thresholds.
Additional file 3 of Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data
Creators: name: Ho, Siu Fung Stanley
name: Wheeler, Nicole E.
name: Millard, Andrew D.
name: van Schaik, Willem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Fig. 3. Comparison of artificial RefSeq contigs with reference genomes.
Supplementary document for Optical-fiber-integrated high-speed organic phototransistor with broadband imaging capacity - 6613992.pdf
Creators: name: Zheng, Xialian
name: Du, Qianqian
name: Zhao, Jing
name: Li, Mengru
name: Liu, Qing
name: Ling, Fengzhe
name: Zhang, Yanxun
name: Wang, Wenjun
name: Wang, Fengqiu
name: Shuchao, Qin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplement
Leader Election for Anonymous Asynchronous Agents in Arbitrary Networks
Creators: name: Dereniowski, Dariusz
name: Pelc, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the problem of leader election among mobile agents operating in an arbitrary network modeled as an undirected graph. Nodes of the network are unlabeled and all agents are identical. Hence the only way to elect a leader among agents is by exploiting asymmetries in their initial positions in the graph. Agents do not know the graph or their positions in it, hence they must gain this knowledge by navigating in the graph and share it with other agents to accomplish leader election. This can be done using meetings of agents, which is difficult because of their asynchronous nature: an adversary has total control over the speed of agents. When can a leader be elected in this adversarial scenario and how to do it? We give a complete answer to this question by characterizing all initial configurations for which leader election is possible and by constructing an algorithm that accomplishes leader election for all configurations for which this can be done.
Soft policies and hard competition: Government, industry, and user impacts on the development of Japan's software industry
Creators: name: Rapp, William V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: The paper analyzes the development and structure of the Japan's software industry, focusing particular attention on the failure of government support policies to nurture an internationally competitive industry and the success of foreign software producers in the Japanese market. The research adopts an evolutionary approach to explain Japan's problems in building a competitive software industry except in games, challenging the validity of standard explanations such as cultural disadvantage and failure to adopt best practice. The pattern of development in the Japanese software industry results from strong user preference for customized software over packaged products. Large users develop highly customized software systems that reflect their unique organizational structures and operating advantages. Software is viewed as an input into the production process, rather than an output to be independently marketted. As such, the structure of the software reflects the administrative heritage of major industrial users as much as developments in computer technology. The tendency to emphasize customization favors intra-industry software advances over interindustry expansion. Moreover, high demand for customization combines with large variation in operating systems to fractionalize the industry and frustrate government support policies. Even though the Ministry of International Trade and Industry followed the same industry support model that proved so successful in manufacturing, an independent world class software industry has not developed. The preference for customization has also allowed foreign software producers to successfully pursue a hub and spoke strategy. Foreign producers have been able to expand their user base, thereby lowering unit cost and putting local software developers at a further disadvantage. The research suggests that this situation will continue.
Efficient entanglement length measurements for photonic cluster state sources
Creators: name: Schwarz, Ilai
name: Rudolph, Terry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a procedure for confirming the generation of long strings of photons in an entangled (cluster) state that does not rely on complete state tomography and that works even at low collection efficiencies. The scheme has the added advantage of being passive - it does not require switching of optical elements to perform measurements in different bases for instance.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Migration, Integration, and Development
Creators: name: Banerjee, Abhijit V.
name: Newman, Andrew F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics

description: We re-examine the Lewis undermigration by studying a two-sector model in which there is a trade-off between higher productivity in the modern sector and better information in the traditional sector. The consequent presence of well-functioning local insurance markets in the traditional sector and their absence in the modern sector leads to the possibility of inefficient undermigration: total social surplus would be increased if migration were larger than its laissez-faire level; whether this occurs depends in part on the distribution of wealth. In a dynamic version of the model, modernization of the economy may be too slow, and it is possible that the economy gets stuck in an undermigration trap (never fully modernizes). The migratory dynamics also lead to well-defined dynamic relations between average income and inequality. We find that although the Kuznets inverted-U curve may arise, it is equally likely that the relation of inequality and income follows other patterns, including an upright U.
Confronting the meaning of person-organisation fit : an investigation into organisational fit research and practice
Creators: name: Prothero, Philippa Helen Patricia
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017

description: Organisational fit is a construct that has captured the interest of both researchers and practitioners over decades. Often, recommendations are made that organisations seek to maximise person-organisation fit throughout processes such as personnel selection. However, the multitude of ways in which person-organisation fit has been conceptualised, operationalised and analysed in research settings impedes meaningful and robust application of the research in organisational settings. This thesis responds to calls for researchers to examine the construct definition and measurement of person-organisation fit as a critical enabler of theoretical progress. The research program is guided by two core questions: "what does organisational fit mean to organisational practitioners?" and "what does organisational fit mean in research?". The program begins with a qualitative exploration of the way that organisational fit is understood and applied by organisational practitioners in selection settings. Turning to the application of the construct in empirical research, the dominant person-organisation fit instrument in the field is used as a case study to demonstrate that greater attention needs to be paid to underlying dimensionality in indirect assessments of fit. A confirmatory factor analysis of normative data is used to identify two factors that appear robust and have alignment with established models. Addressing the question of whether fit is fit, regardless of how it is measured, and using both values-based and personality-based measurement, relationships between indirect and direct operationalisations of person-organisation fit are examined using polynomial regression and response surface methodology. Finally, giving consideration to outcome variables that are likely to be of interest to organisations, relationships between indirect and direct operationalisations of person-organisation fit and outcome variables of job satisfaction, organisational commitment and work motivation are examined. Taken as a whole, this thesis makes the argument that different approaches to conceptualising and measuring person-organisation fit cannot be considered interchangeable in theory or practice. Three key challenges that person-organisation fit scholars must respond to are laid out as an agenda for future research and theory development, and the practical implications of the findings are considered.
Radiative Transfer and Radiative driving of Outflows in AGN and Starbursts
Creators: name: Novak, G. S.
name: Ostriker, J. P.
name: Ciotti, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To facilitate the study of black hole fueling, star formation, and feedback in galaxies, we outline a method for treating the radial forces on interstellar gas due to absorption of photons by dust grains. The method gives the correct behavior in all of the relevant limits (dominated by the central point source; dominated by the distributed isotropic source; optically thin; optically thick to UV/optical; optically thick to IR) and reasonably interpolates between the limits when necessary. The method is explicitly energy conserving so that UV/optical photons that are absorbed are not lost, but are rather redistributed to the IR where they may scatter out of the galaxy. We implement the radiative transfer algorithm in a two-dimensional hydrodynamical code designed to study feedback processes in the context of early-type galaxies. We find that the dynamics and final state of simulations are measurably but only moderately affected by radiative forces on dust, even when assumptions about the dust-to-gas ratio are varied from zero to a value appropriate for the Milky Way. In simulations with high gas densities designed to mimic ULIRGs with a star formation rate of several hundred solar masses per year, dust makes a more substantial contribution to the dynamics and outcome of the simulation. We find that, despite the large opacity of dust to UV radiation, the momentum input to the flow from radiation very rarely exceeds L/c due to two factors: the low opacity of dust to the re-radiated IR and the tendency for dust to be destroyed by sputtering in hot gas environments. We also develop a simplification of our radiative transfer algorithm that respects the essential physics but is much easier to implement and requires a fraction of the computational cost.
description: 25 pages, 17 figures, submitted to MNRAS