cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Institutions, Policy Reforms and Efficiency in New Member States from Central and Eastern Europe
Creators: name: Bojnec, Stefan
name: Ferto, Imre
name: Jambor, Attila
name: Toth, Jozsef
name: Bojnec, Stefan
name: Ferto, Imre
name: Jambor, Attila
name: Toth, Jozsef
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: agricultural efficiency
subject: institutions
subject: policy reforms

description: This paper investigates determinants of agricultural sector efficiency in ten new member states (NMS-10) of the European Union (EU) from Central and Eastern European countries by the non-parametric method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the panel data analysis. The agricultural sector efficiency varies between the NMS-10. We have found positive and significant association of the agricultural sector efficiency with the natural agricultural factor endowments, average farm size, farm specialization, small-scale farms, and the EU integration process. The foreign direct investments have an ambiguous affect, while the nominal assistance rate is not found significant. Reform and institutional developments and liberalization are associated with the agricultural sector efficiency positively, and vice versa infrastructure development and agricultural policy reforms, which have caused job flows and agricultural employment adjustments. The urban-rural income gap with job flows and agricultural labour adjustments have caused the agricultural sector efficiency positively.
Partitioned rendering infrastructure for stable accordion navigation
Creators: name: Slack, James Gerald Alphonso
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: My thesis presents a new rendering infrastructure for information visualization applications that use the accordion drawing navigation metaphor. Accordion drawing techniques use rubber-sheet navigation methods, with the borders tacked down, and provide guaranteed visibility for marked areas of interest. Our accordion drawing algorithms are based on screen-space partitioning, which eliminates overculling and tightly bounds overdrawing. By eliminating the overculling effects of rendering dense regions of data, we guarantee a correct visual representation of any dataset. Also, our pixel-based drawing infrastructure improves the rendering performance of dense dataset regions with strict drawing constraints, which are based on application-specific drawing requirements. The generic infrastructure provides an interface to numerically stable navigation of datasets, with full support for multiple concurrent regions of navigation motion. To evaluate our generic infrastructure, I benchmark our tree comparison application with the performance of TreeJuxtaposer, a previous accordion drawing application with identical features. I describe our tree traversal algorithms, which we use for efficient rendering, culling, and layout of tree datasets. I also discuss tree node marking techniques, which offer several improvements over previous range storage and retrieval techniques, reducing memory requirements and increasing rendering speed. Finally, I evaluate tree-specific navigation techniques from our winning entry in the Info Vis 2003 contest, with TreeJuxtaposer supported by an incremental search feature and an improved user interface.
MULTIFUNCTIONAL AGRICULTURE: AN ENGINE OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH?
Creators: name: Randall, Alan
name: Randall, Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Multifunctional agriculture
subject: regional economic development
subject: agglomeration
subject: amenity driven growth
subject: peri-urban areas
subject: fiscal transfers

description: The historical role of agriculture in economic geography and recent conceptual developments – including multifunctional agriculture (MFA), the new economic geography, amenity-driven growth, and the “world is flat” and “creative class” hypotheses – are examined, and recent empirical research in North America and Europe is reviewed, in order to assess the potential for MFA as an engine of regional economic growth. Ideal MFA policy corrects market failures and is mostly amenity-augmenting. It has the capacity to enhance opportunities for farmers on urban fringe; stimulate growth in high-amenity rural regions accessible to cities that offer opportunities for high-value work; and generate growth in relatively remote high-amenity regions. The scope for market-failure-correcting MFA policy to propel economic growth in less-favored regions is limited – remoteness is non-responsive to policy in the short to medium term, and amenities that attract in-migration (e.g. proximity to sea, lakes, mountains, pleasant climate) are givens for favored locations but can at best be complemented by pro-active policy – but not trivial. While this paper focuses on regional economic growth, it well to remember that growth is not everything. Regions unlikely to experience growth need to create satisfying futures. Market-failure-correcting MFA policy has the potential to improve quality of life, well-being, and perhaps incomes in many if not all rural places regardless of location. This accomplishment would not be trivial – economic growth for all regions regardless of resources, amenities, and remoteness is not a serious prospect, and regions in decline face daunting problems maintaining essential services and quality of life.
Effect of local feed resources on the production performance and nutritional composition of the cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus De Geer)
Creators: name: Kampanat Phesatcha, Burarat Phesatcha
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2022
Subjects: local feed resource
cricket
nutritional value

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 50, 2, 548-557
A chiral model for bar{q}q and bar{q}bar{q}qq$ mesons
Creators: name: Napsuciale, Mauro
name: Rodriguez, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that the spectrum of pseudoscalar and scalar mesons exhibits a cuasi-degenerate chiral nonet in the energy region around 1.4 GeV whose scalar component has a slightly inverted spectrum. Based on the empirical linear rising of the mass of a hadron with the number of constituent quarks which yields a mass around $1.4 $GeV for tetraquarks, we conjecture that this cuasi-chiral nonet arises from the mixing of a chiral nonet composed of tetraquarks with conventional bar{q}q states. We explore this possibility in the framework of a chiral model assuming a tetraquark chiral nonet around 1.4 GeV with chiral symmetry realized directly. We stress that U_{A}(1) transformations can distinguish bar{q}q from tetraquark states, although it cannot distinguish specific dynamics in the later case. We find that the measured spectrum is consistent with this picture. In general, pseudoscalar states arise as mainly bar{q}q states but scalar states turn out to be strong admixtures of bar{q}q and tetraquark states. We work out also the model predictions for the most relevant couplings and calculate explicitly the strong decays of the a_{0}(1450) and K_{0}^*(1430) mesons. From the comparison of some of the predicted couplings with the experimental ones we conclude that observable for the isovector and isospinor sectors are consistently described within the model. The proper description of couplings in the isoscalar sectors would require the introduction of glueball fields which is an important missing piece in the present model.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures
title: Energie und Klimaschutz in hoheitlichen Planungsprozessen berücksichtigen - Bedarf, Anwendungsfälle und Lösungsansätze aus der Praxis
Creators: name: Rehbogen, Alexander
name: Strasser, Helmut
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2021
Subjects: Energieplanung
kommunale Wärmeplanung
Energieraumplanung
Klimaschutz
Energiewende
Wärmewende

description: Die Themen Energiewende und Klimaschutz sind heute als öffentliches Interesse etabliert und erheben sich damit auch in der Raumplanung aus dem bisherigen Schattendasein. Energieraumplanung hat in den letzten beiden Jahren große Entwicklungssprünge gemacht und ist in der Praxis angekommen. Erste Bundesländer haben effektive Schritte zur Berücksichtigung von energie- und klimaschutzbezo-genen Fragestellungen in hoheitlichen Planungsprozessen gesetzt. In Wien, der Steiermark und Salz-burg gibt es heute etablierte Prozesse, welche in der Praxis erfolgreich exekutiert werden. Datenbereitstellung, Datenhosting, Datenverarbeitung, Informationsaufbereitung und -bereitstellung, Qualitätssicherung sowie die Schaffung des rechtlichen Rahmens stellen die maßgeblichen Grundlagen dar. Aufgrund der Kompetenzenverteilung und der notwendigen Ressourcen kommt den Bundeslän-dern als Institutionen eine Schlüsselrolle zu, um die Integration des neuen Materienkomplexes in be-stehende Prozesse der Raumplanung in der Praxis bewerkstelligen zu können. Nach der Etablierung erster Prozesse zur Berücksichtigung energie- und klimaschutzbezogener Inhalte in der Raumplanung muss es in den nächsten Schritten darum gehen, die Instrumente konsequent weiterzuentwickeln, zu verbessern und thematisch zu vertiefen, eine eindeutige Rechtssicherheit für die Umsetzung zu schaffen und diese in der Praxis sicherzustellen sowie die nützlichen Erfahrungen auf weitere Bundesländer zu skalieren.
Generalized bioinspired approach to a daytime radiative cooling "skin"
Creators: name: Yang, Meng
name: Zou, Weizhi
name: Guo, Jing
name: Qian, Zhenchao
name: Luo, Heng
name: Yang, Shijia
name: Zhao, Ning
name: Pattelli, Lorenzo
name: Xu, Jian
name: Wiersma, Diederik S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Energy-saving cooling materials with strong operability are desirable towards sustainable thermal management. Inspired by the cooperative thermo-optical effect in fur of polar bear, we develop a flexible and reusable cooling skin via laminating a polydimethylsiloxane film with a highly-scattering polyethylene aerogel. Owing to its high porosity of 97.9% and tailored pore size of 3.8 +- 1.4 micrometers, superior solar reflectance of 0.96 and high transparency to irradiated thermal energy of 0.8 can be achieved at a thickness of 2.7 mm. Combined with low thermal conductivity of 0.032 W/m/K of the aerogel, the cooling skin exerts midday sub-ambient temperature drops of 5-6 degrees in a metropolitan environment, with an estimated limit of 14 degrees under ideal service conditions. We envision that this generalized bilayer approach will construct a bridge from night-time to daytime radiative cooling and pave the way for economical, scalable, flexible and reusable cooling materials.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, of which another version has been accepted by ACS ami but not published yet
Proper levels of dietary protein and metabolizable energy on production performance and carcass quality of Pradu Hang Dam ? Hubbard JA 57 Ki crossbred native chicken during 6-10 weeks of age
Creators: name: Vanhnasouk Sayyadad, Boonlom Cheva-Isarakul
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2022
Subjects: protein
metabolizable energy
crossbred native chicken (Pradu Hang Dam ? Hubbard JA 57 Ki)
production performance
carcass quality

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 50, 2, 558-571
ROLE-PLAY SIMULATION ON SOFTWARE CONTRACT NEGOTIATION
Creators: name: MURILLO DE OLIVEIRA DIAS
name: Cavalcanti, Glauco Scelza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This article addressed a contract software negotiation case in Brazil, aiming to improve the negotiation skills of business negotiators, scholars, and practitioners through a two-party, multiple-issue role-play simulation. The case involved a state-owned company and a private software manufacturer, one month before the two-year contract ends. Key findings pointed out the necessity of improving integrative strategies, such as understanding the other party's underlying interests, value creation to achieve mutual benefit agreements. Further implications suggest the case replication to other business scenarios, with an asymmetry of power. Discussion and future research recommendations compile this research.
UNDERSTANDING THE DEMAND SIDE AND COORDINATING THE SUPPLY SIDE FOR CONNECTED GOODS AND SERVICES
Creators: name: Ladegard, Gro
name: Romstad, Eirik
name: Ladegard, Gro
name: Romstad, Eirik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Regional development
subject: multifunctionality
subject: municipalities
subject: demand
subject: coordination
subject: networks

description: This paper addresses the coordination and innovation issues needed for promoting value added at the rural and regional level. There are two sides to value added: the ability to meet consumer demand, and to identify least cost ways of supplying the demanded goods. Human and social capital plays an important role on both sides. At the municipality level the supply side issues are complex. First, because the production space has far more dimensions than for the single entrepreneur. Second, because the value of some goods and services produced depend on what other goods and services that is available. On the supply side networks are important to solve the coordination issues, while networks for identifying and understanding consumer preferences are important on the demand side. Participation in these two network types compete for the same scarce resource, the time of the inhabitants of a municipality. We address these issues in more detail. A major insight from our work is that in addition to the time conflict, innovation and new information may make it more difficult to maintain coordination networks.
Wave zone extraction of gravitational radiation in three-dimensional numerical relativity
Creators: name: Fiske, David R.
name: Baker, John G.
name: van Meter, James R.
name: Choi, Dae-Il
name: Centrella, Joan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present convergent gravitational waveforms extracted from three-dimensional, numerical simulations in the wave zone and with causally disconnected boundaries. These waveforms last for multiple periods and are very accurate, showing a peak error to peak amplitude ratio of 2% or better. Our approach includes defining the Weyl scalar Psi_4 in terms of a three-plus-one decomposition of the Einstein equations; applying, for the first time, a novel algorithm due to Misner for computing spherical harmonic components of our wave data; and using fixed mesh refinement to focus resolution on non-linear sources while simultaneously resolving the wave zone and maintaining a causally disconnected computational boundary. We apply our techniques to a (linear) Teukolsky wave, and then to an equal mass, head-on collision of two black holes. We argue both for the quality of our results and for the value of these problems as standard test cases for wave extraction techniques.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures. In version two we have included more references to existing literature. The main content of the manuscript remains unchanged
MEASURING EFFICIENCY OF INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL IN AGRICULTURE SECTOR OF VOJVODINA
Creators: name: Komnenic, Biserka
name: Tomic, Danilo Vlastimir
name: Tomic, Gordana Radovan
name: Komnenic, Biserka
name: Tomic, Danilo Vlastimir
name: Tomic, Gordana Radovan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: agricultural industry
subject: Vojvodina
subject: intellectual capital
subject: efficiency
subject: valorisation

description: During three-hundred-year history of the market economy, the main sources of wealth creation have changed from the natural resources (mainly land and relatively unskilled labor with the exception of the master craftsman), tangible material assets (buildings, machinery and equipment, funds) to intangible assets (knowledge and information of all types) that may be contained in the people, organizations, or physical resources. In the later period of the twentieth century, science has acquired the features of direct production force. The term direct implies that unlike the relationship which existed between science and production in the IXX century, where scientific advances was incorporated through the physical labor in the tools, which, in turn, created new value through the physical labor, the relationship between science and production has become all direct, immediate, because the scientific advances allowed the funds to be produced with less labor and allowed funds itself to become "smarter" and as such to require less human intervention and human physical labor in the final production process. As a result, the need for physical labor continuously declined with time, and the application of labor is moved from direct production to processes of preparing and organizing production. Also, a large part of today's knowledge that is used in production is not embodied in machinery, and the effects of this are immense.
Nutritive value and in vitro digestibility of yeast-fermented corn dust with cassava pulp affected by ensiling time
Creators: name: Ratchataporn Lunsin Ruangyote Pilajun Suban Foiklang And Julakorn Panatuk
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2022
Subjects: cassava pulp, corn dust
chemical composition
gas production
yeast solution

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 50, 2, 572-585
Approximation algorithms for guarding 1.5 dimensional terrains
Creators: name: King, James Alexander
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The 1.5-dimensional terrain guarding problem gives an x-monotone chain (the terrain) and asks for the minimum set of vertices of the terrain (guards) such that every vertex of the terrain is seen by at least one guard. This terrain guarding problem is a restriction of the SET COVER problem, which is known to be both NP-complete and inapproximable within a sub-logarithmic factor [19]. Fortunately, it is known that the 1.5-dimensional terrain guarding problem is approximable to within a constant factor [5, 11], though no attempt has been made to minimize the approximation factor. We give a 4-approximation algorithm for the general 1.5D terrain guarding problem, as well as a 2-approximation algorithm for the case with upwardlooking guards, i.e. when guards cannot see vertices that are below themselves.
On the Coulomb Branch of a Marginal Deformation of N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills
Creators: name: Dorey, Nick
name: Hollowood, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the exact vacuum structure of a marginal deformation of N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills with gauge group U(N). The Coulomb branch of the theory consists of several sub-branches which are governed by complex curves of the form Sigma_{n_{1}} U Sigma_{n_{2}} U Sigma_{n_{3}} of genus N=n_{1}+n_{2}+n_{3}. Each sub-branch intersects with a family of Higgs and Confining branches permuted by SL(2,Z) transformations. We determine the curve by solving a related matrix model in the planar limit according to the prescription of Dijkgraaf and Vafa, and also by explicit instanton calculations using a form of localization on the instanton moduli space. We find that Sigma_{n} coincides with the spectral curve of the n-body Ruijsenaars-Schneider system. Our results imply that the theory on each sub-branch is holomorphically equivalent to certain five-dimensional gauge theory with eight supercharges. This equivalence also implies the existence of novel confining branches in five dimensions.
description: LaTeX file. 48 pages
Quantum Gravity and Lorentz invariance violation in the Standard Model
Creators: name: Alfaro, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most important problem of fundamental Physics is the quantization of the gravitational field. A main difficulty is the lack of available experimental tests that discriminate among the theories proposed to quantize gravity. Recently, Lorentz invariance violation by Quantum Gravity(QG) have been the source of a growing interest. However, the predictions depend on ad-hoc hypothesis and too many arbitrary parameters. Here we show that the Standard Model(SM) itself contains tiny Lorentz invariance violation(LIV) terms coming from QG. All terms depend on one arbitrary parameter $α$ that set the scale of QG effects. This parameter can be estimated using data from the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays spectrum to be $|α|
description: latex 4 pages
Diffractive production at high energies in the Miettinen-Pumplin model
Creators: name: Sapeta, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The model of soft diffractive dissociation proposed some time ago by Miettinen and Pumplin is shown to describe correctly the data at FERMILAB energies. The comparison with Goulianos model of renor malized pomeron flux is also presented.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, LHC predictions removed, submitted to Phys.Lett. B
Three-dimensional modelling of processes in Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source
Creators: name: Mironov, V.
name: Bogomolov, S.
name: Bondarchenko, A.
name: Efremov, A.
name: Loginov, V.
name: Pugachev, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-dimensional numerical model is developed and applied for studies of physical processes in Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source. The model includes separate modules that simulate the electron and ion dynamics in the source plasma in an iterative way. The electron heating by microwaves is simulated by using results of modelling the microwave propagation in the plasma by the COMSOL Multiphysics software. Extracted ion currents and other parameters of the source are obtained for different gas flows into the source. It is observed that the currents are strongly influenced by ion transport in transversal direction induced by the plasma potential gradients. Impact of some special techniques on the source performance is investigated. Magnetic field scaling is shown to reduce the ion losses during their movement toward the extraction aperture, as well as use of the aluminum chamber walls and mixing of the working gas with helium.
EVALUATING LINKAGE BETWEEN OPERATORS’ SATISFACTION AND POTENTIAL OF LOCAL RESOURCES FOR RURAL TOURISM: EVIDENCE FROM MATSUURA IN JAPAN
Creators: name: Ohe, Yasuo
name: Kurihara, Shinichi
name: Shimoura, Shinpei
name: Ohe, Yasuo
name: Kurihara, Shinichi
name: Shimoura, Shinpei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Rural tourism
subject: operators’ individual satisfaction
subject: utilization of local resources
subject: feedback effect from visitors

description: As rural tourism evolves into diversification, the connection between the individual and local resource management is becoming an important issue for the sustainable evolution of rural tourism. To explore this point, we investigated conceptually and empirically whether rural tourism operators’ individual satisfaction enhances utilization of local resources and, if so, what mechanism works for it by focusing on rural tourism accompanied by an educational program, i.e. a farm-stay with farm and rural experience services implemented as a part of school trips in Matsuura, Japan. From statistical tests and an econometric estimation based on a questionnaire survey of rural tourism operators we found that operators’ individual satisfaction gained from interchange with visitors and direct feedback can positively enhance locally exerted effects that stimulate operators to recognize opportunities within their community and raise the potential for local resource use. Thus, we should strengthen this connection to eventually create a new viable activity.
Effect of Lactobacillus paracasei Inoculation at Different Level on Fermentation Quality and Chemical Composition of Ensiled Total Mixed Ration (eTMR)
Creators: name: Natcha Ketpanich, Saowaluck Yammuen-Art
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2022
Subjects: total mixed ration
Lactobacillus paracasei
ensiled total mixed ration
fermentation

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 50, 2, 586-596
Effects of UV-B irradiated vitamin D enrich yeast supplementation on production performance and blood metabolites in dairy cows
Creators: name: Patipan Hnokaew, Saowaluck Yammuen-Art
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2022
Subjects: UV-B irradiated vitamin D enrich yeast
milk composition
blood metabolites

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 50, 2, 597-608
A family of models of partially relaxed stellar systems II. Comparison with the products of collisionless collapse
Creators: name: Trenti, M.
name: Bertin, G.
name: van Albada, T. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [Abridged] N-body simulations of collisionless collapse have offered important clues to the construction of realistic stellar dynamical models of elliptical galaxies. Understanding this idealized and relatively simple process, by which stellar systems can reach partially relaxed equilibrium configurations (characterized by isotropic central regions and radially anisotropic envelopes), is a prerequisite to more ambitious attempts at constructing physically justified models of elliptical galaxies in which the problem of galaxy formation is set in the generally accepted cosmological context of hierarchical clustering. In a previous paper, we have discussed the dynamical properties of a family of models of partially relaxed stellar systems (the f^{(ν)} models), designed to incorporate the qualitative properties of the products of collisionless collapse at small and at large radii. Here we revisit the problem of incomplete violent relaxation, by making a direct comparison between the detailed properties of such family of models and those of the products of collisionless collapse found in N-body simulations that we have run for the purpose. Surprisingly, the models thus identified are able to match the simulated density distributions over nine orders of magnitude and also to provide an excellent fit to the anisotropy profiles and a good representation of the overall structure in phase space.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL CAPITAL AND REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS IN POLAND
Creators: name: Bronisz, Urszula
name: Heijman, Wim J.M.
name: Bronisz, Urszula
name: Heijman, Wim J.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Social capital
subject: regional growth
subject: competitiveness
subject: Polish regions

description: This article aims at presenting different approaches to the phenomenon of social capital. The concept of social capital is ambiguous and that is why we will highlight a number of definitions of this notion. The central attention of the paper focuses on the relationship between social capital and regional development and competitiveness. The fundamental question concerns the impact of social capital on the regional economic performance. Hence, we will survey the empirical examination of 16 Polish regions in terms of social capital. We will also study whether the regional level of social capital depends on the level of competitiveness. The purpose of this article is also to make a contribution to the discussion concerning the relationship between economic development and social capital.
Future Urban Scenes Generation Through Vehicles Synthesis
Creators: name: Simoni, Alessandro
name: Bergamini, Luca
name: Palazzi, Andrea
name: Calderara, Simone
name: Cucchiara, Rita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we propose a deep learning pipeline to predict the visual future appearance of an urban scene. Despite recent advances, generating the entire scene in an end-to-end fashion is still far from being achieved. Instead, here we follow a two stages approach, where interpretable information is included in the loop and each actor is modelled independently. We leverage a per-object novel view synthesis paradigm; i.e. generating a synthetic representation of an object undergoing a geometrical roto-translation in the 3D space. Our model can be easily conditioned with constraints (e.g. input trajectories) provided by state-of-the-art tracking methods or by the user itself. This allows us to generate a set of diverse realistic futures starting from the same input in a multi-modal fashion. We visually and quantitatively show the superiority of this approach over traditional end-to-end scene-generation methods on CityFlow, a challenging real world dataset.
description: Accepted at ICPR2020
Seesaw Mechanism and Its Implications
Creators: name: Mohapatra, R. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses is introduced and some of its different realizations and applications are discussed. It is pointed out how they can be used to understand the bi-large mixing patterns among neutrinos in combination with assumptions about high scale physics such as grand unification or quasi-degeneracy of neutrino masses.
description: 14 pages; 2 figures; Invited talk presented at the SEESAW25 conference in Paris, June, 2004; a slightly shorter version will appear in the proceedings of SEESAW 25. This version contains a more references to original papers
A Deep Prediction Network for Understanding Advertiser Intent and Satisfaction
Creators: name: Guo, Liyi
name: Lu, Rui
name: Zhang, Haoqi
name: Jin, Junqi
name: Zheng, Zhenzhe
name: Wu, Fan
name: Li, Jin
name: Xu, Haiyang
name: Li, Han
name: Lu, Wenkai
name: Xu, Jian
name: Gai, Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For e-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Amazon, advertisers play an important role in the entire digital ecosystem: their behaviors explicitly influence users' browsing and shopping experience; more importantly, advertiser's expenditure on advertising constitutes a primary source of platform revenue. Therefore, providing better services for advertisers is essential for the long-term prosperity for e-commerce platforms. To achieve this goal, the ad platform needs to have an in-depth understanding of advertisers in terms of both their marketing intents and satisfaction over the advertising performance, based on which further optimization could be carried out to service the advertisers in the correct direction. In this paper, we propose a novel Deep Satisfaction Prediction Network (DSPN), which models advertiser intent and satisfaction simultaneously. It employs a two-stage network structure where advertiser intent vector and satisfaction are jointly learned by considering the features of advertiser's action information and advertising performance indicators. Experiments on an Alibaba advertisement dataset and online evaluations show that our proposed DSPN outperforms state-of-the-art baselines and has stable performance in terms of AUC in the online environment. Further analyses show that DSPN not only predicts advertisers' satisfaction accurately but also learns an explainable advertiser intent, revealing the opportunities to optimize the advertising performance further.
The Influence of K-POP Idol Presenters in Online Marketing on Purchase Intention of Thai Entrepreneurial Brands
Creators: name: Nattha Manachaimongkol
Publisher: name: MSMIS Thammasat University
Year: 2564
Subjects: Korean fan club
Parasocial interaction
Fan loyalty
Korean idol
Presenter
Purchase intention

description: Journal of information systems in Business JISB, 7, 3, 36
Narrow Line Cooling and Momentum-Space Crystals
Creators: name: Loftus, Thomas H.
name: Ido, Tetsuya
name: Boyd, Martin M.
name: Ludlow, Andrew D.
name: Ye, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Narrow line laser cooling is advancing the frontier for experiments ranging from studies of fundamental atomic physics to high precision optical frequency standards. In this paper, we present an extensive description of the systems and techniques necessary to realize 689 nm 1S0 - 3P1 narrow line cooling of atomic 88Sr. Narrow line cooling and trapping dynamics are also studied in detail. By controlling the relative size of the power broadened transition linewidth and the single-photon recoil frequency shift, we show that it is possible to continuously bridge the gap between semiclassical and quantum mechanical cooling. Novel semiclassical cooling process, some of which are intimately linked to gravity, are also explored. Moreover, for laser frequencies tuned above the atomic resonance, we demonstrate momentum-space crystals containing up to 26 well defined lattice points. Gravitationally assisted cooling is also achieved with blue-detuned light. Theoretically, we find the blue detuned dynamics are universal to Doppler limited systems. This paper offers the most comprehensive study of narrow line laser cooling to date.
description: 14 pages, 19 figures
Spectropolarimetric follow-up of 8 rapidly rotating, X-ray bright FK Comae candidates
Creators: name: Sikora, James
name: Rowe, Jason
name: Howell, Steve
name: Mason, Elena
name: Wade, Gregg A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our understanding of the evolved, rapidly rotating, magnetically active, and apparently single FK Comae stars is significantly hindered by their extreme rarity: only two stars in addition to FK Com itself are currently considered to be members of this class. Recently, a sample of more than 20 candidate FK Comae type stars was identified within the context of the \emph{Kepler-Swift} Active Galaxies and Stars (KSwAGS) survey. We present an analysis of high-resolution Stokes $V$ observations obtained using ESPaDOnS@CFHT for 8 of these candidates. We found that none of these targets can be considered members of the FK Comae class based primarily on their inferred rotational velocities and on the detection of spectroscopic binary companions. However, 2 targets show evidence of magnetic activity and have anomalously high projected rotational velocities ($v\sin{i}$) relative to typical values associated with stars of similar evolutionary states. EPIC 210426551 has a $v\sin{i}=209\,{\rm km\,s}^{-1}$, an estimated mass of $1.07\,M_\odot$, and, based in part on its derived metallicity of ${\rm [M/H]}=-0.4$, it is either an evolved main sequence (MS) star or a pre-MS star. KIC 7732964 has a mass of $0.84\,M_\odot$, lies near the base of the red giant branch, and exhibits a $v\sin{i}=23\,{\rm km\,s}^{-1}$. We find that these two objects have similar characteristics to FK Com (albeit less extreme) and that their rapid rotation may be inconsistent with that predicted for a single star evolutionary history. Additional observations are necessary in order to better constrain their evolutionary states and whether they have short-period binary companions.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
$\mathcal{N}=1$ Super Topological Recursion
Creators: name: Bouchard, Vincent
name: Osuga, Kento
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the notion of $\mathcal{N}=1$ abstract super loop equations, and provide two equivalent ways of solving them. The first approach is a recursive formalism that can be thought of as a supersymmetric generalization of the Eynard-Orantin topological recursion, based on the geometry of a local super spectral curve. The second approach is based on the framework of super Airy structures. The resulting recursive formalism can be applied to compute correlation functions for a variety of examples related to 2d supergarvity.
description: 47 pages, submitted/accepted version to LMP, more details in Section 2.2 added, typos corrected
A trust-based model for collaborative intrusion response
Creators: name: Singh, Kapil Kumar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Intrusion detection systems (JDS) are quickly becoming a standard component of a network security infrastructure. Most IDS developed to date emphasize detection; response is mainly concentrated on blocking a part of the network after an intrusion has been detected. This mechanism can help in temporarily stopping the intrusion, but such a limited response means that attacking is free for the attacker. The idea behind our approach is to frustrate the intruder by attacking back. This requires developing a sense of trust in the network for the attacked host and establishing proof of the attack so the attack-back action can be justified. In an environment of trust, a more effective collaborative action can be taken by the network entities. To develop this trust model, we propose a protocol that uses encryption and digital signatures over the network logs. The protocol allows the attacked host to prove to the attacker's edge router that it has been attacked. The model is quite flexible, and based on the level of trust developed for the host, an appropriate countermeasure is taken. Besides attack-back, other possible responses could be blocking a part of the network and use of network puzzles to limit the attacker's access to network resources. We also define a heuristic algorithm for selecting the appropriate response based on the level of trust developed for the victim. We believe that the attack-back approach would certainly demoralize novice attackers, and even expert attackers will think twice before attacking again. In addition, the protocol prevents a host from pretending that it has been attacked. We are building a system that can handle a majority of known attacks (signature-based). We are also exploring the idea of adding a third trusted party into the system in order to provide countermeasure action for novel attacks (anomaly-based).
A spectral-scaling based extension to the attached eddy model of wall-turbulence
Creators: name: Chandran, D.
name: Monty, J. P.
name: Marusic, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2-D) spectra of the streamwise velocity component, measured at friction Reynolds numbers ranging from 2400 to 26000, are used to refine a model for the logarithmic region of turbulent boundary layers. Here, we focus on the attached eddy model (AEM). The conventional AEM assumes the boundary layer to be populated with hierarchies of self-similar wall-attached ($Type\,A$) eddies alone. While $Type\,A$ eddies represent the dominant energetic large-scale motions at high Reynolds numbers, the scales that are not represented by such eddies are observed to carry a significant proportion of the total kinetic energy. Therefore, in the present study, we propose an extended AEM that incorporates two additional representative eddies. These eddies, named $Type\,C_A$ and $Type\,SS$, represent the self-similar but wall-incoherent low-Reynolds number features, and the non-self-similar wall-coherent superstructures, respectively. The extended AEM is shown to better predict a greater range of energetic length scales and capture the low- and high-Reynolds number scaling trends in the 2-D spectra of all three velocity components. A discussion on spectral self-similarity and the associated $k^{-1}$ scaling law is also presented.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures
Span effect on the turbulence nature of flow past a circular cylinder
Creators: name: Font, Bernat
name: Weymouth, Gabriel D.
name: Nguyen, Vinh-Tan
name: Tutty, Owen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulent flow evolution and energy cascades are significantly different in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) flows. Studies have investigated these differences in obstacle-free turbulent flows, but solid boundaries have an important impact on the cross-over between 3D to 2D turbulence dynamics. In this work, we investigate the span effect on the turbulence nature of flow past a circular cylinder at Re=10000. It is found that even for highly anisotropic geometries, 3D small-scale structures detach from the walls. Additionally, the natural large-scale rotation of the Kármán vortices rapidly two-dimensionalises those structures if the span is 50% of the diameter or less. We show this is linked to the span being shorter than the Mode B instability wavelength. The conflicting 3D small-scale structures and 2D Kármán vortices result in 2D and 3D turbulence dynamics which can coexist at certain locations of the wake depending on the domain geometric anisotropy.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures
SCTP-based middleware for MPI
Creators: name: Kamal, Humaira
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a recently standardized transport level protocol with several features that better support the communication requirements of parallel applications; these features are not present in traditional TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). These features make SCTP a good candidate as a transport level protocol for MPI (Message Passing Interface). MPI is a message passing middleware that is widely used to parallelize scientific and compute intensive applications. TCP is often used as the transport protocol for MPI in both local area and wide-area networks. Prior to this work, SCTP has not been used for MPI. In this thesis, we compared and evaluated the benefits of using SCTP instead of TCP as the underlying transport protocol for MPI. We redesigned LAM-MPI, a public domain version of MPI, to use SCTP. We describe the advantages and disadvantages of using SCTP, the necessary modifications to the MPI middleware to use SCTP, and the performance of SCTP as compared to the stock implementation that uses TCP.
Gravastars in $f(R,G)$ Gravity
Creators: name: Bhatti, M. Z.
name: Yousaf, Z.
name: Rehman, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we discuss some feasible features of gravastar that were firstly demonstrated by Mazur and Mottola. It is already established that gravastar associates the de-Sitter spacetime in its inner sector with the Schwarzschild geometry at its exterior through the thin shell possessing the ultra-relativistic matter. We have explored the singularity free spherical model with a particular equation of state under the influence of $f(R,G)$ gravity, where $R$ is the Ricci scalar and $G$ is the Gauss-Bonnet term. The interior geometry is matched with a suitable exterior using Israel formalism. Also, we discussed a feasible solution of gravastar which describes the other physically sustainable factors under the influence of $f(R,G)$ gravity. Different realistic characteristics of the gravastar model are discussed, in particular, shell's length, entropy, and energy. A significant role of this particular gravity is examined for the sustainability of gravastar model.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
Flower identification using deep neural network – Bloom:
Creators: name: Hamza, Ali
name: Touqeer Abbas
name: M Ahmad Khan
name: Dr. Abdul Razzaq
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: There are thousands of species of plant & flowers & it’s very difficult for any individual to remember each & every flower with precise details however currently there is no any reliable application for students & researchers to identify flowers with reliable results.
title: Bilderinnerungen an die Perestroika. Eine digitale Ausstellung auf Visual History
Creators: name: Kucher, Katharina
name: Kuhr-Korolev, Corinna
Publisher: name: ZZF - Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung: Visual History
Year: 2021

description: Zugegeben handelt es sich bei dieser digitalen Fotoausstellung um ein nostalgisches Projekt. Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die sich mit der Geschichte des Russischen Reichs, der Sowjetunion und ihrer Nachfolgestaaten beschäftigen, haben auf unsere Bitte hin nach ihren persönlichen Fotografien aus der Zeit der Perestroika gesucht, uns eine Auswahl geschickt und zu einem Bild einen kleinen Text geschrieben. Wir freuen uns, dass mit Unterstützung von Christine Bartlitz (ZZF) die Schau ihren Platz auf der Plattform Visual History gefunden hat.
An Efficient Method for Computing Liouvillian First Integrals of Planar Polynomial Vector Fields
Creators: name: Duarte, L. G. S.
name: da Mota, L. A. C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Here we present an efficient method to compute Darboux polynomials for polynomial vector fields in the plane. This approach is restricetd to polynomial vector fields presenting a Liouvillian first integral (or, equivalently, to rational first order differential equations (rational 1ODEs) presenting a Liouvillian general solution). The key to obtaining this method was to separate the procedure of solving the (nonlinear) algebraic systems resulting from the equation that translates the condition of existence of a Darboux polynomial into feasible steos (procedures that requires less memory consumption). We also present a brief performance analysis of the algorithms developed.
Numerical Taxonomy of the genus Euphorbia L. from Pune, Maharashtra, India
Creators: name: Das, Snehangshu
name: Patil, Rajendra
name: Mahajan, Minakshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The morphological parameters of 6 species of genus Euphorbia L. were subjected to quantitative analysis in the present study by means of 6 observable variables [viz. length of leaf, width of leaf’s middle part, length of petiole, width of the base of leaf and width of leaf’s apex] and branch character (internodal length). The cluster analysis obtained the formation of six nodes with the highest correlation being found between E. hirta and E. thymifolia, while the maximum dissimilarity is observed in E. neriifolia which deviated from the rest of the species. The scree plot was achieved with the aid of Eigen values which establish that two foliar characters [viz. length of petiole and width of leaf’s apex] are helping in the grouping of the similar species and delimiting the group of similar species from dissimilar species. The current study is found to have a relatively medium variation in Sokal’s coefficient of taxonomic distance ranging from 0.3 to 5.017 which helps in grouping and segregating the species accordingly. It also shows the importance of numerical methods for determining taxonomic relationships among species