cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Barium & related stars and their white-dwarf companions I. Giant stars
Creators: name: Jorissen, A.
name: Boffin, H. M. J.
name: Karinkuzhi, D.
name: Van Eck, S.
name: Escorza, A.
name: Shetye, S.
name: Van Winckel, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper provides long-period and revised orbits for barium and S stars adding to previously published ones. The sample of barium stars with strong anomalies comprise all such stars present in the Lu et al. catalogue. We find orbital motion for all barium and extrinsic S stars monitored. We obtain the longest period known so far for a spectroscopic binary involving an S star, namely 57 Peg with a period of the order of 100 - 500 yr. We present the mass distribution for the barium stars, which ranges from 1 to 3 Msun, with a tail extending up to 5 Msun in the case of mild barium stars. This high-mass tail comprises mostly high-metallicity objects ([Fe/H] >= -0.1). Mass functions are compatible with WD companions and we derive their mass distribution which ranges from 0.5 to 1 Msun. Using the initial - final mass relationship established for field WDs, we derived the distribution of the mass ratio q' = MAGB,ini / MBa (where MAGB, ini is the WD progenitor initial mass, i.e., the mass of the system former primary component) which is a proxy for the initial mass ratio. It appears that the distribution of q' is highly non uniform, and significantly different for mild and strong barium stars, the latter being characterized by values mostly in excess of 1.4, whereas mild barium stars occupy the range 1 - 1.4. We investigate as well the correlation between abundances, orbital periods, metallicities, and masses (barium star and WD companion). The 105 orbits of post-mass-transfer systems presented in this paper pave the way for a comparison with binary-evolution models.
description: This version 2 is the one accepted by A&A, after language edition. Paper II about dwarf-Ba and subgiant-CH orbits by Escorza et al. is arXiv:1904.04095
Diffractive Jet Production in DIS - Testing QCD Factorisation
Creators: name: Schilling, F. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement is presented of diffractive dijet production in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) interactions at HERA of the type ep-->eXY, where the X system is separated by a large rapidity gap from a low-mass leading baryonic system Y. The data are consistent with QCD factorisation in diffractive DIS and yield tight constraints on both shape and normalisation of the diffractive gluon distribution. The data are able to distinguish between various models for diffractive DIS and are in agreement with a 2-gluon exchange calculation at small x-pom values.
description: 6 pages; to appear in the proceedings of DIS 2001, Bologna, April 2001
Air Assisted Dispersive Liquid–Liquid Microextraction (AA-DLLME) Using Hydrophilic–Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvents for the Isolation of Monosaccharides and Amino Acids from Kelp
Creators: name: Guizhen Li
name: Row, Kyung Ho
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Air assisted dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction (AA-DLLME) using hydrophilic–hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents (DES) was developed for the simultaneous isolation of monosaccharides and amino acids with wide ranges of polarities from kelp using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). A response surface methodology (RSM) on a Box–Behnken design (BBD) model was employed to identify the optimal extraction parameters. Air assisted dispersive liquid-phase microextraction performed using the optimum deep eutectic solvent system, five push–pull cycles, a ratio of solid to liquid equal to 3 mg·mL−1, 10% (w/v) NaCl, and a centrifugation time of 6 min provided the best analytical performance. The optimal extracted concentrations of d-(+)-galactose, l-(-)-fucose, dl-tyrosine, and dl-valine in kelp were 16.7 ± 0.2, 8.6 ± 0.2, 2.6 ± 0.1, and 1.6 ± 0.1 mg·g−1, respectively. The method recoveries for d-(+)-galactose, l-(-)-fucose, dl-tyrosine, and dl-tyrosine were from 87 to 102%, 84 to 103%, 87 to 104%, and 85 to 103%. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) (n = 4) for the intra-day and inter-day determinations were <6.17%.
Consensus statements on the approach to patients in a methanol poisoning outbreak
Creators: name: Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein
name: Zamani, Nasim
name: Roberts, Darren M.
name: Brent, Jeffrey
name: McMartin, Kenneth
name: Aaron, Cynthia
name: Eddleston, Michael
name: Dargan, Paul I.
name: Olson, Kent
name: Nelson, Lewis
name: Bhalla, Ashish
name: Hantson, Philippe
name: Jacobsen, Dag
name: Megarbane, Bruno
name: Balali-Mood, Mahdi
name: Buckley, Nicholas A.
name: Zakharov, Sergey
name: Paasma, Raido
name: Bhavesh Jarwani
name: Amirhossein Mirafzal
name: Salek, Tomas
name: Hovda, Knut Erik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background: Methanol poisoning is an important cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Although it often occurs as smaller sporadic events, epidemic outbreaks are not uncommon due to the illicit manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. Objective: We aimed to define methanol poisoning outbreak (MPO), outline an approach to triaging an MPO, and define criteria for prioritizing antidotes, extracorporeal elimination treatments (i.e., dialysis), and indications for transferring patients in the context of an MPO. Methods: We convened a group of experts from across the world to explore geographical, socio-cultural and clinical considerations in the management of an MPO. The experts answered specific open-ended questions based on themes aligned to the goals of this project. This project used a modified Delphi process. The discussion continued until there was condensation of themes. Results: We defined MPO as a sudden increase in the number of cases of methanol poisoning during a short period of time above what is normally expected in the population in that specific geographic area. Prompt initiation of an antidote is necessary in MPOs. Scarce hemodialysis resources require triage to identify patients most likely to benefit from this treatment. The sickest patients should not be transferred unless the time for transfer is very short. Transporting extracorporeal treatment equipment and antidotes may be more efficient. Conclusion: We have developed consensus statements on the response to a methanol poisoning outbreak. These can be used in any country and will be most effective when they are discussed by health authorities and clinicians prior to an outbreak.
The $0\nu2β$-decay CROSS experiment: preliminary results and prospects
Creators: name: Bandac, I. C.
name: Barabash, A. S.
name: Bergé, L.
name: Brière, M.
name: Bourgeois, Ch.
name: Carniti, P.
name: Chapellier, M.
name: de Combarieu, M.
name: Dafinei, I.
name: Danevich, F. A.
name: Dosme, N.
name: Doullet, D.
name: Dumoulin, L.
name: Ferri, F.
name: Giuliani, A.
name: Gotti, C.
name: Gras, Ph.
name: Guerard, E.
name: Ianni, A.
name: Khalife, H.
name: Konovalov, S. I.
name: Legay, E.
name: Loaiza, P.
name: de Marcillac, P.
name: Marnieros, S.
name: Marrache-Kikuchi, C. A.
name: Nones, C.
name: Novati, V.
name: Olivieri, E.
name: Oriol, Ch.
name: Pessina, G.
name: Poda, D. V.
name: Redon, Th.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
name: Umatov, V. I.
name: Zarytsky, M. M.
name: Zolotarova, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a key process in particle physics. Its experimental investigation is the only viable method that can establish the Majorana nature of neutrinos, providing at the same time a sensitive inclusive test of lepton number violation. CROSS (Cryogenic Rare-event Observatory with Surface Sensitivity) aims at developing and testing a new bolometric technology to be applied to future large-scale experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay of the promising nuclei $^{100}$Mo and $^{130}$Te. The limiting factor in large-scale bolometric searches for this rare process is the background induced by surface radioactive contamination, as shown by the results of the CUORE experiment. The basic concept of CROSS consists of rejecting this challenging background component by pulse-shape discrimination, assisted by a proper coating of the faces of the crystal containing the isotope of interest and serving as energy absorber of the bolometric detector. In this paper, we demonstrate that ultra-pure superconductive Al films deposited on the crystal surfaces act successfully as pulse-shape modifiers, both with fast and slow phonon sensors. Rejection factors higher than 99.9% of $α$ surface radioactivity have been demonstrated in a series of prototypes based on crystals of Li$_2$MoO$_4$ and TeO$_2$. We have also shown that point-like energy depositions can be identified up to a distance of $\sim 1$ mm from the coated surface. The present program envisions an intermediate experiment to be installed underground in the Canfranc laboratory (Spain) in a CROSS-dedicated facility. This experiment, comprising $\sim 3\times 10^{25}$ nuclei of $^{100}$Mo, will be a general test of the CROSS technology as well as a worldwide competitive search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, with sensitivity to the effective Majorana mass down to 70 meV in the most favorable conditions.
Ceruchus katerinae Kral 1995
Creators: name: Bezděk, Aleš
name: Boucher, Stéphane
name: Hájek, Jiří
name: Cas, Biology Centre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lucanidae
Ceruchus
Ceruchus katerinae

description: Ceruchus katerinae Král, 1995
 Ceruchus katerinae Král, 1995: 96, Figs 1–5.
The holotype and one paratype are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. D. Král):
HOLOTYPE (J): ‘ China, Sichuan (LUDING) / GONGGA SHAN, 2700-3200m / upper HAILUOGOU valley / 29:35N/101:59E, con. Forest / 4.VII.1994, K. & B. Březina [p] // Ceruchus / katerinae sp. n. / HOLOTYPUS / David Král det. 1995 [p, red label]’.
PARATYPE (♀): ‘ China, Sichuan (LUDING) / GONGGA SHAN, 2700-3200m / upper HAILUOGOU valley / 29:35N/101:59E, con. Forest / 4.VII.1994, K. & B. Březina [p] // Ceruchus / katerinae sp. n. / ALLOTYPUS / David Král det. 1995 [p, red label]’.
 Current status. Ceruchus katerinae katerinae Král, 1995, see LI (2015).
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 279-293 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1) on page 283
Constraining Lorentz Violation Using Spectropolarimetry of Cosmological Sources
Creators: name: Mewes, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectropolarimetry of distant sources of electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths ranging from infrared to ultraviolet are used to constrain Lorentz violation. A bound of 3x10^{-32} is placed on coefficients for Lorentz violation.
description: 5 pages, presented at the Second Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, August 2001
Ceruchus niger Boucher & Kral 1997
Creators: name: Bezděk, Aleš
name: Boucher, Stéphane
name: Hájek, Jiří
name: Cas, Biology Centre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lucanidae
Ceruchus
Ceruchus niger

description: Ceruchus niger Boucher & Král, 1997
 Ceruchus niger Boucher & Král, 1997: 42, Figs 5, 12, 17, 19, 29–31, 38, 43, 47.
Three paratypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. D. Král).
PARATYPE (J): ‘ YUNNAN 3800-4600 m / 27.19N 100.08E / HABASHAN mts. / E slope 15/7.92 / David Král leg. [p] // Ceruchus / niger sp. n. / PARATYPUS / S. Boucher & D. Král det. 1997 [p, red label]’.
PARATYPE (♀): ‘ YUNNAN, 3500 m / 27.10N 100.13E / YULONGSHAN mts. / 16.-19. 6. 1993, V. Kubáň [hw] // Ceruchus / niger sp. n. / PARATYPUS / S. Boucher & D. Král det. 1997 [p, red label]’.
PARATYPE (J): ‘ YUNNAN, 3500 m / 27.10N 100.13E / YULONGSHAN mts. / 16.-19. 6. 1993, V. Kubáň [hw] // CERUCHUS / niger B. & K. / PARATYPE J [hw] / S. Boucher det. [p] 97 [hw] // PARATYPE [p, red label]’.
 Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 279-293 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1) on page 283
GUT Precursors and Non-Trivial Fixed Points in Higher-Dimensional Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Dienes, Keith R.
name: Dudas, Emilian
name: Gherghetta, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the context of traditional logarithmic grand unification at M_GUT = 10^(16) GeV, we show that it is nevertheless possible to observe certain GUT states such as X and Y gauge bosons at lower scales, perhaps even in the TeV range. We refer to such states as ``GUT precursors.'' Such states offer an interesting alternative possibility for new physics at the TeV scale, even when the scale of gauge coupling unification remains high, and suggest that it may be possible to probe GUT physics directly even within the context of high-scale gauge coupling unification. More generally, our results also suggest that it is possible to construct self-consistent ``hybrid'' models containing widely separated energy scales, and give rise to a Kaluza-Klein realization of non-trivial fixed points in higher-dimensional gauge theories. We also discuss how such theories may be deconstructed at high energies.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure
Exclusion in Junction Geometries
Creators: name: Zhang, K.
name: Krapivsky, P. L.
name: Redner, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the dynamics of the asymmetric exclusion process at a junction. When two input roads are initially fully occupied and a single output road is initially empty, the ensuing rarefaction wave has a rich spatial structure. The density profile also changes dramatically as the initial densities are varied. Related phenomenology arises when one road feeds into two. Finally, we determine the phase diagram of the open system, where particles are fed into two roads at rate $α$ for each road, the two roads merge into one, and particles are extracted from the single output road at rate $β$.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, revtex format. Version 2: Some references and introductory sentences added. Version 3: various minor errors corrected; to appear in PRE
Measurement of the ZZ cross-section in e+e- interactions at 183-189 GeV
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abreu, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of on-shell ZZ production are described, using data collected by DELPHI in 1997 and 1998, at centre-of-mass energies sqrt(s) = 182.6 GeV and 188.6 GeV respectively. Results obtained in each of the final states q qbar q qbar, mu+mu- q qbar, e+e- q qbar, nu nubar q qbar, l+l-l+l-, and nu nubar l+l- are presented. The measured cross-sections for on-shell ZZ production via the tree-level doubly-resonant graphs (NC02) are: sigma_{NC02}(182.6 GeV) = 0.38 +- 0.18 (stat) +- 0.04 (syst) pb, sigma_{NC02}(188.6 GeV) = 0.60 +- 0.13 (stat) +- 0.07 (syst) pb. They are consistent with the Standard Model expectations of 0.25 pb and 0.65 pb at each energy.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Two-dimensional Dirac operators with singular interactions supported on closed curves
Creators: name: Behrndt, Jussi
name: Holzmann, Markus
name: Ourmières-Bonafos, Thomas
name: Pankrashkin, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the two-dimensional Dirac operator with an arbitrary combination of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar $δ$-interactions of constant strengths supported on a smooth closed curve. For any combination of the coupling constants a rigorous description of the self-adjoint realizations of the operators is given and the qualitative spectral properties are described. The analysis covers also all so-called critical combinations of coupling constants, for which there is a loss of regularity in the operator domain. In this case, if the mass is non-zero, the resulting operator has an additional point in the essential spectrum, and the position of this point inside the central gap can be made arbitrary by a suitable choice of the coupling constants. The analysis is based on a combination of the extension theory of symmetric operators with a detailed study of boundary integral operators viewed as periodic pseudodifferential operators.
description: 54 pages. Some changes in the structure of the text
Neleus carinaefrons Kuwert 1891
Creators: name: Bezděk, Aleš
name: Boucher, Stéphane
name: Hájek, Jiří
name: Cas, Biology Centre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Passalidae
Neleus
Neleus carinaefrons

description: Neleus carinaefrons Kuwert, 1891
 Neleus carinaefrons Kuwert, 1891: 186.
One unsexed specimen: ‘ N. carinaefrons / Kuwert typ / 27 [hw Nickerl]’.
 Remark. The specimen without a locality label could be the one of the length of 32 mm cited by KUWERT (1898b). However, KUWERT (1891) stated the length of this species to be 37 mm and the type locality ‘Mérida, Caucasthal’, which corresponded to the specimen in Kuwert’s collection only. This species belongs to Passalus sensu BOUCHER (2015) and is currently a junior subjective synonym of P. punctiger Le Peletier & Serville, 1825.
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 279-293 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1) on page 288
Waking with Martyrs: An exegesis towards understanding & situating the filmmaker in a dramatically structured documentary
Creators: name: Palangi, Amin
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Iran
Iranian Cinema
War Pilgrimage
Film
Documentary
Revolution
History
Amin Palangi
Observational
Bill Nichols
David MacDougall
Catherine Summerhayes
Martyrs
Rahian Noor
Islam
Shi'ite
Hossein
Martyrdom

description: This exegesis offers an understanding of the practical PhD which led to the creation of the feature documentary film Waking with Martyrs, a film which follows an Iranian-Australian filmmaker’s journey into war sites of Iran. On the one hand, this study situates the personal, social, political and historical context which led to the construction of the journey and the film. While it examines the personal reasons for which the filmmaker embarked on the journey, it situates Iranian war sites as new sites of pilgrimages and highlights its political and social significance in Iran. It highlights the importance of these war pilgrimages within a religious and political landscape, not only arguing for their political importance in Iran, but also for their significance in defining parts of Iranian identity. The study examines how the journey offers insight into one of Iran’s least understood pro-government groups who embark on such kinds of journeys. It further examines the way the film could be seen as an agent of shifting perspectives and changes, not only for the filmmaker, but also for the subjects in the film, and the viewing audiences. On the other hand, this study situates the film through theories of documentary, examining in detail the processes, which led to the particular creation of the film. It examines the film within the larger scope of diasporic Iranian filmic landscape about the war and argues how this film could be seen as contributing to a new understanding of the situation within Iran.
Spin-dependent thermoelectric transport coefficients in near-perfect quantum wires
Creators: name: Rejec, T.
name: Ramsak, A.
name: Jefferson, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermoelectric transport coefficients are determined for semiconductor quantum wires with weak thickness fluctuations. Such systems exhibit anomalies in conductance near 1/4 and 3/4 of 2e^2/h on the rising edge to the first conductance plateau, explained by singlet and triplet resonances of conducting electrons with a single weakly bound electron in the wire [T. Rejec, A. Ramsak, and J.H. Jefferson, Phys. Rev. B 62, 12985 (2000)]. We extend this work to study the Seebeck thermopower coefficient and linear thermal conductance within the framework of the Landauer-Buettiker formalism, which also exhibit anomalous structures. These features are generic and robust, surviving to temperatures of a few degrees. It is shown quantitatively how at elevated temperatures thermal conductance progressively deviates from the Wiedemann-Franz law.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. B 2002; 3 figures
Counterfactual Off-Policy Evaluation with Gumbel-Max Structural Causal Models
Creators: name: Oberst, Michael
name: Sontag, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce an off-policy evaluation procedure for highlighting episodes where applying a reinforcement learned (RL) policy is likely to have produced a substantially different outcome than the observed policy. In particular, we introduce a class of structural causal models (SCMs) for generating counterfactual trajectories in finite partially observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs). We see this as a useful procedure for off-policy "debugging" in high-risk settings (e.g., healthcare); by decomposing the expected difference in reward between the RL and observed policy into specific episodes, we can identify episodes where the counterfactual difference in reward is most dramatic. This in turn can be used to facilitate review of specific episodes by domain experts. We demonstrate the utility of this procedure with a synthetic environment of sepsis management.
description: To appear in ICML 2019
Transporting stochastic direct and indirect effects to new populations
Creators: name: Rudolph, Kara E
name: Levy, Jonathan
name: van der Laan, Mark J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transported mediation effects may contribute to understanding how and why interventions may work differently when applied to new populations. However, we are not aware of any estimators for such effects. Thus, we propose several different estimators of transported stochastic direct and indirect effects: an inverse-probability of treatment stabilized weighted estimator, a doubly robust estimator that solves the estimating equation, and a doubly robust substitution estimator in the targeted minimum loss-based framework. We demonstrate their finite sample properties in a simulation study.
Intergovernmental grants and distributional issues : the case of Japan
Creators: name: Hanai, Kiyohito
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Intergovernmental fiscal relations Japan
subject: Intergovernmental tax relations Japan

description: This thesis examines the distribution of Japanese intergovernmental grants from the central government to local governments, including prefectural governments and local municipalities. In 1991, 40.5 per cent of the Japanese central budget was apportioned to local governments in the form of grants; intergovernmental grants made up 38.5 per cent of the discretionary resources of local governments. Intergovernmental grants are provided in various forms - as specific purpose grants, local allocation tax and local transfer tax - depending on their economic and political purposes. The distribution of these grants reflects the interests of bodies involved in public choice, such as the bureaucracy, politicians, local governments and voters, and contributes to social and economic welfare. Many studies have analysed the effects of intergovernmental grants on local public finance in Japan. However, the application of conventional economic theory on public finance to the case of Japan has its limitations. Conventional economic theory normally adopts a centralised, top-down view of the public choice process, assuming perfect foresight on the part of policy decision-makers. This simple framework for analysis undervalues the role played by political conflict and interplay between decision-making bodies in the arena of intergovernmental grants. These characteristics of the public choice process are significant in deciding the level of grants in pluralist democratic countries, including Japan and other OECD nations. This thesis provides positive analysis of intergovernmental grants taking these characteristics of the public choice process into account. It specifically incorporates the roles of decision-making individuals and groups into the economic analysis and examines how and to what extent political interaction between these groups and individuals affects the distribution of intergovernmental grants. The thesis looks at three areas: lateral political competition in the distribution of specific purpose grants; the long-term income redistribution function of local allocation tax; and fiscal equalisation and the electorate. These case studies highlight the significance of political conflict and interplay among decision-making bodies involved in public choice process and the role they play in the distribution of intergovernmental grants. The case studies take up the following issues: local autonomy and the role of local pressure groups; financial interdependence between the central government and local governments; and the role elections play in the distribution of intergovernmental grants. The results suggest that political interaction plays a decisive role in the distribution of intergovernmental grants in Japan. It may also be an important factor in understanding the distribution of intergovernmental grants in other OECD countries.
Determining the average prompt-fission-neutron multiplicity for $^{239}$Pu($n$,$f$) via a $^{240}$Pu($α$,$α^{\prime}f$) surrogate reaction
Creators: name: Wang, B. S.
name: Burke, J. T.
name: Akindele, O. A.
name: Casperson, R. J.
name: Hughes, R. O.
name: Koglin, J. D.
name: Kolos, K.
name: Norman, E. B.
name: Ota, S.
name: Saastamoinen, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The average prompt-fission-neutron multiplicity $\barν$ is of significance in the areas of nuclear theory, nuclear nonproliferation, and nuclear energy. In this work, the surrogate-reaction method has been used for the first time to indirectly determine $\barν$ for $^{239}$Pu($n$,$f$) via $^{240}$Pu($α$,$α^{\prime}f$) reactions. A $^{240}$Pu target was bombarded with a beam of 53.9-MeV $α$ particles. Scattered $α$ particles, fission products, and neutrons were measured with the NeutronSTARS detector array. Values of $\barν$ were obtained for a continuous range of equivalent incident neutron energies between 0.25--26.25~MeV, and the results agree well with direct neutron measurements.
Periodicities for Taylor coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms
Creators: name: Guerzhoy, Pavel
name: Mertens, Michael H.
name: Rolen, Larry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Congruences of Fourier coefficients of modular forms have long been an object of central study. By comparison, the arithmetic of other expansions of modular forms, in particular Taylor expansions around points in the upper-half plane, has been much less studied. Recently, Romik made a conjecture about the periodicity of coefficients around $τ=i$ of the classical Jacobi theta function. Here, we prove this conjecture and generalize the phenomenon observed by Romik to a general class of modular forms of half-integral weight.
description: 18 pages
Basilianus interrogationis Kuwert 1891
Creators: name: Bezděk, Aleš
name: Boucher, Stéphane
name: Hájek, Jiří
name: Cas, Biology Centre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Passalidae
Basilianus
Basilianus interrogationis

description: Basilianus interrogationis Kuwert, 1891
 Basilianus interrogationis Kuwert, 1891: 164.
One syntype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. Nickerl).
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Helfer [hw Kuwert] // Passal. / Tenass. [hw Nickerl, white label, red margin] // Tenasser. / Helfer [hw Nickerl, yellow label] // Basilianus / interrogation. / Kuwert typ / 53 [hw Nickerl] // Basilianus / interrogati- / onis Kuw. [hw Nickerl, yellow label] // Coll. Nickerl / Mus. Pragense [p] // TYPUS [p, red label, black margin] // interrogationis / Kuw. / syntype revised [hw] / S. Boucher det. [p] 13 [hw]’.
 Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Ophrygonius cantori (Percheron, 1844), see e.g. HINCKS & DIBB (1935).
 Remark. The locality of the syntype does not agree exactly with the original type locality, which is ‘Sikkim’. However, we follow the same principle as in the previous species, A. hirsutus. The specimen in NMPC belongs to the same species as specimens in Kuwert’s collection. All of them have the length as in the original description, and certainly they came from the same series as the specimen from ‘Helfer’ in the Kuwert’s collection.
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 279-293 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1) on page 286
Constraints on self-interacting Q-ball dark matter
Creators: name: Enqvist, K.
name: Jokinen, A.
name: Multamaki, T.
name: Vilja, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider different types of Q-balls as self-interacting dark matter. For the Q-balls to act as the dark matter of the universe they should not evaporate, which requires them to carry very large charges; depending on the type, the minimum charge could be as high as Q \sim 10^{33} or the Q-ball coupling to ordinary matter as small as \sim 10^{-35}. The cross-section-to-mass ratio needed for self-interacting dark matter implies a mass scale of m \sim O(1) MeV for the quanta that the Q-balls consist of, which is very difficult to achieve in the MSSM.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
Determination of the e+e- -> gamma gamma (gamma) cross-section at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 189 GeV to 202 GeV
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abreu, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A test of the QED process e+e- -> gamma gamma (gamma) is reported. The data analysed were collected with the DELPHI detector in 1998 and 1999 at the highest energies achieved at LEP, reaching 202 GeV in the centre-of-mass. The total integrated luminosity amounts to 375.7 pb^{-1}. The differential and total cross-sections for the process e+e- -> gamma gamma were measured, and found to be in agreement with the QED prediction. 95% Confidence Level (C.L.) lower limits on the QED cut-off parameters of Lambda+ > 330 GeV and Lambda- > 320 GeV were derived. A 95% C.L. lower bound on the mass of an excited electron of 311 GeV/c^2 (for lambda_gamma = 1) was obtained. s-channel virtual graviton exchange was searched for, resulting in 95% C.L. lower limits on the string mass scale, M_S: M_S > 713 GeV/c^2 (lambda = 1) and M_S > 691 GeV/c^2 (lambda = -1).
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
Japanese foreign direct investment in Europe in a comparative perspective
Creators: name: Lloyd, Rachel
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Investments, Japanese Europe
subject: Japan Foreign economic relations Europe
subject: Europe Foreign economic relations Japan

description: Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Europe has undergone significant change in the last decade. Between 1985 and 1990, the stock of Japanese FDI directed to Europe increased more than five times, and the annual flow of new investment grew from about $2 billion to over $14 billion. Europe's share of Japan's total FDI also increased substantially. However, with the end of the 'bubble economy', new investment in Europe fell sharply. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the trends in Japanese FDI in Europe in the context of Japanese FDI worldwide. The thesis will analyse the reasons for and implications of these trends. In addition, attention will be given to the attitudes towards this investment and the resulting conflicts, and prospects for the future.
Longitudinal change of sleep timing: association between chronotype and longevity in older adults
Creators: name: Altug Didikoglu
name: Asri Maharani
name: Payton, Antony
name: Pendleton, Neil
name: Canal, Maria Mercè
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Evening-oriented sleep timing preferences have been associated with risk of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, psychiatric disorders, and increased mortality. This research aims to explore the relationship between diurnal preferences (chronotype), daily habits, metabolic health, and mortality, using longitudinal data from The University of Manchester Longitudinal Study of Cognition in Normal Healthy Old Age (6375 participants at inception, recruited in the North of England) with a long follow-up period (up to 35.5 years). Mixed models were used to investigate the influence of aging, socio-demographic, and seasonal factors on sleep timing. Results show that sleep timing shifted towards earlier time with aging. Test seasons influence chronotype of older adults but working schedules challenge seasonality of sleep timing. Moreover, the season of birth may set chronotype in adulthood. Individual chronotype trajectories were clustered using latent class analysis and analyzed against metabolic health and mortality. We observed a higher risk of hypertension in the evening-type cluster compared to morning-type individuals (Odds ratio = 1.88, 95%CI = 1.02/3.47, p = .04). Evening-type cluster was also associated with traits related to lower health such as reduced sport participation, increased risk of depression and psychoticism personality, late eating, and increased smoking and alcohol usage. Finally, Cox regression of proportional hazards was used to study the effects of chronotype on longevity after adjusting for sleep duration, age, gender, smoking, alcohol usage, general health, and social class. The survival analysis (82.6% censored by death) revealed that evening-type chronotype increased the likelihood of mortality (Hazard ratio = 1.15, 95%CI = 1.04/1.26, p = .005). Taken together, chronotype is influenced by aging and seasonal effects. Evening-type preference may have detrimental outcomes for human well-being and longevity.
Lucanus (Pseudolucanus) xerxes Kral 2004
Creators: name: Bezděk, Aleš
name: Boucher, Stéphane
name: Hájek, Jiří
name: Cas, Biology Centre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lucanidae
Lucanus
Lucanus xerxes

description: Lucanus (Pseudolucanus) xerxes Král, 2004
 Lucanus (Pseudolucanus) xerxes Král, 2004: 184, Figs 1–4.
The holotype and one paratype are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. D. Král).
HOLOTYPE (J): ‘S IRAN, prov. Fars, Kakan E / Yasug, N 30˚42′ E51˚38′ / 2059 and 2315 m, 10. VII. / 2004 leg. Petr Kabátek [p] // Pseudolucanus / xerxes sp. nov. J / HOLOTYPUS / David Král det. 2004 [p, red label]’.
PARATYPE (J): ‘ IRAN - prov. Fars, 2. VII. 2001 / Fort Setif mt., 2600 m / 10 km S.W. f Dast-e-Arzhan / 29.34.57N, 51.55.03E / lgt. M. Kalabza [p] // Pseudolucanus / xerxes sp. nov. J / PARATYPUS No. 32 / David Král det. 2004 [p, red label]’.
 Current status. Lucanus xerxes Král, 2004, see, e.g. BARTOLOZZI et al. (2016).
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 279-293 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1) on page 282
The nature of symmetry breaking in the superconducting ground state
Creators: name: Matsuyama, Kazue
name: Greensite, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The order parameters which are thought to detect U(1) gauge symmetry breaking in a superconductor are both non-local and gauge dependent. For that reason they are also ambiguous as a guide to phase structure. We point out that a global subgroup of the local U(1) gauge symmetry may be regarded, in analogy to non-abelian theories, as a "custodial" symmetry affecting the matter field alone, and construct, along the lines of our previous work, a new gauge-invariant criterion for breaking symmetries of this kind. It is shown that spontaneous breaking of custodial symmetry is a necessary condition for the existence of spontaneous symmetry breaking of a global subgroup of the (abelian or non-abelian) gauge group in any given gauge, and a sufficient condition for the existence of spontaneous breaking of a global subgroup of the gauge group in some gauge. As an illustration we compute numerically, in the lattice version of the Ginzburg-Landau model, the phase boundaries of the theory and the order parameters associated with various symmetries in each phase.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures. v2: revised discussion of the normal state in section II(C)
التطورات السياسية والعسكرية في المشرق الاسلامي وتداعياتها(447-647هـ/1055-1249م)، منشور في مجلة دراسات في التاريخ والاثار /جامعة بغداد/كلية الاداب العدد69 ،2019.
Creators: name: AL-Taai, Prof.Dr.Suaad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: تعد دراسات المشرق الاسلامي من الدراسات المهمة بمختلف مراحلها التاريخية لما تركته احداثها السياسية والعسكرية التي شهدتها مدنها واقاليمها من اثار على خارطتها السياسية وما عكسته على حياة السكان . وتعد دراسة المشرق الاشلامي في مقدمة هذه المواضيع ،اذ كانت ساحة لنزاعات عسكرية وسياسية بين قوى مختلفة ،وفي مقدمتها السلاجقة(447-590هـ/ 1055-1193م)، والامارة الخوارزمية (490 – 628هـ /1096 – 1230م) والغورية(543 – 612هـ/1148 – 1215هـ)، فضلا عن المغول ،وهذ يؤكد لنا اهمية هذه البلاد ليس فقط سياسيا وانما اقتصاديا ايضا لما تحويه من خيرات طبيعية متنوعة . سلط البحث الضوء على اهم الاحداث التي شهدتها مدن المشرق الاسلامي في عهد السلاجقة ،فالصراع بين السلاطين السلاجقة اثر بشكل كبير عليها مما جعلها فريسة لقوى اخرى معاصرة لهم وبين البحث الاثار الناجمة عن الصراع بين الامارة الخوارزمية والغورية، فقد كانت مدن المشرق الاسلامي ساحة لهما ،وهذ الامر اضعف من مقدراتها وانهك سكانها وزجهم في حروب عدة ،وهذا الامر كان لصالح المغول الذين شنوا حملاتهم العسكرية على عموم مدنه لسنوات طوال حتى تمكنوا من فرض سيطرتهم على معظم مدنها وقلاعها وقراها .  
Three-jet production in diffractive deep inelastic scattering at HERA
Creators: name: ZEUS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-jet production in the reaction ep --> eXp has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 42.74 pb^-1. The data were measured in the kinematic region 5 < Q^2 < 100 GeV^2, 200 < W < 250 GeV and 23 < M_X < 40 GeV. The diffractive signal was selected by requiring a large rapidity gap in the outgoing proton direction. Jets were reconstructed in the centre-of-mass system of X using the exclusive k_T-algorithm. A sample of three-jet events in diffraction has been identified. Differential cross sections were measured as a function of the jet pseudorapidity and jet transverse momentum with respect to the virtual photon-Pomeron axis. The jets going in the Pomeron direction are broader than those going in the virtual-photon direction. This is consistent with models predicting that gluons are predominantly produced in the Pomeron direction and quarks in the virtual-photon direction.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures and 7 tables. Submitted to Physics Letters B
Additional file 4 of Composition and diversity of gut microbiota in Pomacea canaliculata in sexes and between developmental stages
Creators: name: Chen, Lian
name: Li, Shuxian
name: Xiao, Qi
name: Lin, Ying
name: Li, Xuexia
name: Qu, Yanfu
name: Wu, Guogan
name: Li, Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S2. LEfSe analysis of gut microbiota predictive COG functions in each group (LDA score>2).
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Creators: name: AL-Taai, Prof.Dr.Suaad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: The Islamic Mashreq has attracted the interest of scholars and scholars because of its rich history. Cities in the Islamic Mashreq have outperformed other cities in terms of the flourishing of science, or in terms of the. emergence of scholarly scholars. Despite the numerous studies, there are still aspects that have not been studied so far and are worthy of research and study to form a new addition in the field of Oriental studies. In my study, I have highlighted the most important scholars in a number of cities in the Islamic Mashreq to be a model for a number of other cities due to the large number of cities and their potential. The Islamic Mashreq cities have excelled scientifically and intellectually in most historical stages, especially during the Abbasid period in all sciences. Cities in the Islamic East have outperformed other cities in terms of the flourishing of science , or in terms of the emergence of scholarly scholars
Neleuops rhodocanthopoides Kuwert 1891
Creators: name: Bezděk, Aleš
name: Boucher, Stéphane
name: Hájek, Jiří
name: Cas, Biology Centre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Passalidae
Neleuops
Neleuops rhodocanthopoides

description: Neleuops rhodocanthopoides Kuwert, 1891
 Neleuops rhodocanthopoides Kuwert, 1891: 179.
One syntype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. Nickerl).
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘ Neleuops / rhodocantho- / poides Kuw. / nov. gen. et sp. / Amazon [hw Kuwert] // Kuwert / typ! [hw Nickerl] // Nickerl [p] // TYPUS [p, red label, black margin] // rhodocanthopo- / ides Kuw. / syntype revised [hw] / S. Boucher det. [p] 13 [hw]’.
 Current status. Scalmus rhodocanthopoides (Kuwert, 1891), see BOUCHER (2015).
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 279-293 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1) on page 286
Additional file 5 of Composition and diversity of gut microbiota in Pomacea canaliculata in sexes and between developmental stages
Creators: name: Chen, Lian
name: Li, Shuxian
name: Xiao, Qi
name: Lin, Ying
name: Li, Xuexia
name: Qu, Yanfu
name: Wu, Guogan
name: Li, Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S3. LEfSe analysis of gut microbiota predictive KEGG functional pathways in each group (LDA score>2)
تدهور منصب الوزارة في عهد المغول الايلخانيين (711 -717ه/ 1311-1317م) مقبول للنشر في مجلة دراسات في التاريخ والاثار /جامعة بغداد/كلية الاداب،2019.
Creators: name: AL-Taai, Prof.Dr.Suaad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: The ministry's position in any country is important and vital, and it is based on the head of state institutions and its staff. The minister is the most prominent representative of the ruler, so he should have several conditions that qualify him to occupy this position. Therefore, the Mongols in Persia (651-756 / 1253-1355) Important and efficient elements to take over this monument and the dignitaries and intellectuals, regardless of their nationalities or religious beliefs, we find them Persian, Turkish, Arab, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish and others. After the expansion of the Mughal-Illegal state, the deputies considered appointing two ministers at the same time to distribute the tasks, powers and rights between them, to prevent the conflict and the differences between them, and to discharge their duties without interference from the other party. The shackles and conspiracies began to be waged against them, especially against Minister Rashid al-Hamdani. Ali Shah took away most of his powers and rights and signed with senior state officials, , And proved to all his involvement in the killing of Ilkhan Oligaito by means of poison, and was sentenced to death in the year 717 AH / 1317 AD after the investigation and could not defend himself because of the agreement of all around him and their involvement in the plot against him