cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Large diameter TiO$_2$ nanotubes enable integration of conformed hierarchical and blocking layers for enhanced dye-sensitized solar cell efficiency
Creators: name: Elzarka, Abdelhamid
name: Liu, Ning
name: Hwang, Imgon
name: Kamal, Mustafa
name: Schmuki, Patrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work we grow anodic TiO$_2$ nanotube layer with tube diameter ~ 500 nm and an open tube mouth. We use this morphology in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and show that these tubes allow the construction of hybrid hierarchical photoanode structures of nanotubes with a defined and wall-conformance TiO2 nanoparticles decoration. At the same time, the large diameter allows the successful establishment of an additional (insulating) blocking layer of SiO$_2$ or Al$_2$O$_3$. We show that this combination of hierarchical structure and blocking layer significantly enhances the solar cell efficiency by suppressing recombination reactions. In such a DSSC structure, the solar cell efficiency under back side illumination with AM1.5 illumination is enhanced from 5% neat tube to 7 %.
To Be or Not To Be: Very Young Globular Clusters in M31
Creators: name: Cohen, Judith G.
name: Matthews, Keith
name: Cameron, P. Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present observations made with the newly commissioned Keck laser-guide star adaptive optics system of 6 objects in M31 that are alleged in multiple recent studies to be young globular clusters (GCs); all are supposed to have ages less than 5 Gyr. The resulting FWHM of the PSF core in our images is ~70 mas. The four youngest of these objects are asterisms; they are with certainty not young GCs in M31. Based on their morphology, the two oldest are GCs in M31. While the M31 GCs with ages 5 -- 8 Gyr appear to be mostly genuine, it appears that many of the alleged very young GCs in M31 are spurious identifications. This problem will be even more severe in studies of the GC systems of more distant spiral galaxies now underway, for which imaging at the spatial resolution of our observations in M31 may not be adequate to detect sample contamination by asterisms.
description: Accepted to ApJ Letters. A higher resolution version of Figure 1 can be found at: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~pbc/M31/fig1.ps
Was there Monetary Autonomy in Europe on the eve of EMU? The German Dominance Hypothesis Re-Examined
Creators: name: Bajo-Rubio, Oscar
name: Montavez-Garces, M. Dolores
name: Bajo-Rubio, Oscar
name: Montavez-Garces, M. Dolores
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: European monetary union
subject: German dominance hypothesis
subject: Granger-causality

description: In this paper we re-examine the German dominance hypothesis, as a way to assess whether the loss of monetary autonomy in Europe associated with EMU had been significant. We use Granger-causality tests between the interest rates of Germany and all the countries participating in the European Monetary System, with the sample period running until December 1998. Our results would support a weak version of the hypothesis, with Germany playing a certain "leadership" or special role in the EMS, although she would not have been strictly the "dominant" player.
Additional file 1 of Intestinal parasites co-infection among tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Alemu, Ayinalem
name: Zebenay Workneh Bitew
name: Teshager Worku
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Schrödinger approach to Mean Field Games with negative coordination
Creators: name: Bonnemain, Thibault
name: Gobron, Thierry
name: Ullmo, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mean Field Games provide a powerful framework to analyze the dynamics of a large number of controlled agents in interaction. Here we consider such systems when the interactions between agents result in a negative coordination and analyze the behavior of the associated system of coupled PDEs using the now well established correspondence with the non linear Schrödinger equation. We focus on the long optimization time limit and on configurations such that the game we consider goes through different regimes in which the relative importance of disorder, interactions between agents and external potential varies, which makes possible to get insights on the role of the forward-backward structure of the Mean Field Game equations in relation with the way these various regimes are connected.
Search for Anomalous Couplings in Top Decay at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Tsuno, S.
name: Nakano, I.
name: Sumino, Y.
name: Tanaka, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantitative study on sensitivities to the top-decay anomalous couplings, taking into account realistic experimental conditions expected at Tevatron and LHC. A double angular distribution of W and charged lepton in the top decay is analyzed, using ttbar events in the lepton+jets channel. In order to improve sensitivities to the anomalous couplings, we apply two techniques: (1) We use a likelihood fitting method for full kinematical reconstruction of each top event. (2) We develop a new effective spin reconstruction method for leptonically-decayed top quarks; this method does not require spin information of the antitop side. For simplicity, we neglect couplings of right-handed bottom quark as well as CP violating couplings. The 95% C.L. estimated bound on a ratio of anomalous couplings reads -0.81 < f_2/f_1 < -0.70, -0.12
description: 21 pages, 15 figures
The Impact of Income and Family Structure on Delinquency
Creators: name: Comanor, William S.
name: Phillips, Llad
name: Comanor, William S.
name: Phillips, Llad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: family structure
subject: delinquency
subject: role of fathers
subject: role of mothers

description: There is no more important issue in the economics of the family than the impact of parents on the behavior of their children. By providing rewards and imposing constraints, parents seek to affect their children’s behavior. The explanation of these actions is that the child’s conduct directly enters into the parent’s utility function. In this paper, we use that framework to explore the role of parental control over his or her child’s delinquent behavior. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate the impact of family income and various dimensions of family structure on a youth’s contact with the criminal justice system between the ages of 14 and 22. From this analysis, we conclude that the single most important factor affecting these measures of delinquency is the presence of his father in the home. All other factors, including family income, are much less important.
RESTAURANT PRICES AND THE MINIMUM WAGE
Creators: name: Fougere, Denis
name: Gautier, Erwan
name: Le Bihan, Herve
name: Fougere, Denis
name: Gautier, Erwan
name: Le Bihan, Herve
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Price stickiness
subject: minimum wage
subject: inflation
subject: restaurant prices

description: We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. For that purpose, we estimate a price rigidity model by exploiting a unique data set of individual price quotes used to calculate the Consumer Price Index in France. We find a positive and signifi cant impact of the minimum wage on prices. We obtain that the effect of the minimum wage on prices is very protracted. The aggregate impact estimated with our model takes more than a year to fully pass through to retail prices.
Estimating the Demand for Wine Using Instrumental Variable Techniques
Creators: name: Cuellar, Steven
name: Huffman, Ryan
name: Cuellar, Steven
name: Huffman, Ryan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Pooled Cross Section Time Series Data
subject: Instrumental Variable Regression
subject: Wine Demand

description: The demand for wine is generally estimated on an aggregate level as a single commodity. However, as recent history shows us, the demand for wine not only varies considerably by varietal, but also by price point within each varietal. As a result, although estimates of the demand for wine may be beneficial to the wine industry as a whole, they provide little benefit to individual wine producers. This paper seeks to overcome the limitations of prior research on the demand for wine by providing estimates for the demand for wine by varietal and price point. We also provide estimates of own price effects, income effects as well as cross price effects by color, varietal and price point. Problems of endogeneity inherent in demand estimation are corrected by utilizing a novel instrumental variable technique using grape prices as the instrument.
THE PERSISTENCE OF FALSE MEMORY.docx
Creators: name: Abellera, John Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200202 Asian Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities

description: Memory is integral to one's identity. If one does not remember the words he speaks, the actions he does, and the concepts he believes in, then he does not really know himself. The same can be said of communities. Their collective memory is integral to their collective identity. However, memory is not always accurate and reliable. Thus, there are things that people believe had happened, but they cannot provide enough evidence to prove that those things did happen. In the town of Pangil, Laguna, the residents continue to believe in the story that Rey Carlos III lived there for two years when he was still a prince and that he gave the images of Nuestra Señora de la O and of Santo Niño de la O to the residents of Pangil as gifts. Meanwhile, the residents of Lucban, Quezon hold on to the belief that José Rizal stayed in their town and wrote his El Filibusterismo on their Puente de Arco. Both stories lack strong evidence to prove that they actually happened. This essay would like to determine possible origins of these two stories and to determine the reasons why people continue to believe in them. (The Filipino version of this paper was first presented at the 9th Tayabas Province Studies National Conference.)
Differential coloration efficiency of electrochromic amorphous tungsten oxide as a function of intercalation level: Comparison between theory and experiment
Creators: name: Rojas-González, Edgar A.
name: Niklasson, Gunnar A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical absorption in amorphous tungsten oxide ($\textit{a}\mathrm{WO}_{3}$), for photon energies below that of the band gap, can be rationalized in terms of electronic transitions between localized states. For the study of this phenomenon, we employed the differential coloration efficiency concept, defined as the derivative of the optical density with respect to the inserted charge. We also made use of its extension to a complex quantity in the context of frequency-resolved studies. Combined $\textit{in situ}$ electrochemical and optical experiments were performed on electrochromic $\textit{a}\mathrm{WO}_{3}$ thin films for a wide lithium intercalation range using an optical wavelength of $810~\mathrm{nm}$ ($1.53~\mathrm{eV}$). Quasi-equilibrium measurements were made by chronopotentiometry (CP). Dynamic frequency-dependent measurements were carried out by simultaneous electrochemical and color impedance spectroscopy (SECIS). The differential coloration efficiency obtained from CP changes sign at a critical intercalation level. Its response exhibits an excellent agreement with a theoretical model that considers electronic transitions between $\mathrm{W}^{4+}$, $\mathrm{W}^{5+}$, and $\mathrm{W}^{6+}$ sites. For the SECIS experiment, the low-frequency limit of the differential coloration efficiency shows a general trend similar to that from CP. However, it does not change sign at a critical ion insertion level. This discrepancy could be due to degradation effects occurring in the films at high $\mathrm{Li}^+$ insertion levels. The methodology and results presented in this work can be of great interest both for the study of optical absorption in disordered materials and for applications in electrochromism.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
4-pole analysis of the two-dimensional Hubbard model
Creators: name: Odashima, Satoru
name: Avella, Adolfo
name: Mancini, Ferdinando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic states of the two-dimensional Hubbard model are investigated by means of a 4-pole approximation within the Composite Operator Method. In addition to the conventional Hubbard operators, we consider other two operators, which come from the hierarchy of the equations of motion. These operators carry information regarding surrounding spin and charge configurations. By means of this operatorial basis, we can study the physics related to the energy scale J=4t^2/U. Results present, in addition to the main two bands, a quasi-particle peak at the Fermi level, shadow bands and band flatness at (pi, 0) point.
description: 2pages, 1figure
THE SIDEWAYS EFFECT: A TEST FOR CHANGES IN THE DEMAND FOR MERLOT AND PINOT NOIR WINES
Creators: name: Cuellar, Steven
name: Karnowsky, Dan
name: Acosta, Frederick
name: Cuellar, Steven
name: Karnowsky, Dan
name: Acosta, Frederick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Sideways
subject: Chow Test
subject: Demand Estimation

description: This paper examines the effect of the movie Sideways on US wine consumption. Specifically, we examine the effects of the movie on the consumption of Merlot, which is derided in the movie and the effect on Pinot Noir, which is praised. We examine the trends in consumption before and after the movie and perform statistical tests for structural changes in consumption. We also estimate demand functions for both Merlot and Pinot Noir and test for differences in their demands before and after the movie. Finally, we test for changes in consumption of each varietal by price point.
Apanteles ansata Song & Chen 2004
Creators: name: Liu, Zhen
name: He, Jun-Hua
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
name: Gupta, Ankita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Apanteles
Apanteles ansata

description: Apanteles ansata Song & Chen, 2004
(Figures 8, 98)
 Apanteles ansata Song & Chen, 2004: 26. Holotype ♀ — Fujian, China [FAFU].
 Diagnosis. Body length 2.5 mm, fore wing length 3.2 mm. Body black, hind femur yellowish, except apex blackish. Ocelli large, posterior tangent to anterior ocellus slightly transecting posterior ocelli, distance between fore and hind ocellus slightly shorter than diameter of hind ocellus. Antenna about as long as body length, penultimate flagellomere slightly longer than wide. Interspaces between punctures on disc of mesonotum not smaller than its diameter. Areola on propodeum closed with strong costulae. Pterostigma 2.3× as long as its widest part, vein 1-R1 1.3× longer than pterostigma, vein r 2.0× longer than vein 2-SR, angled at junction. T1 weakly narrowed apically, short, 2.7× longer than hind width, turned-over part dull, rough, with weak punctures laterally, longitudinal channel indistinct; T2 shiny and polished, trapezoidal, 2.3× wider than long in the middle; T3 1.8× longer than T2. Ovipositor sheath about as long as hind tibia.
 Material examined. 3♀♀, Jianyang, Fujian, 1985.X, Liu Fuming, Nos. 854129, 854153; 1♀, Chibi, Yongqin, Fujian, 2002.IX.19, Li Fangfang, No. 20023103; 1♀, Panlongxia, Deqing, Guangdong, 2003.X.4, Xu Zaifu, No. 20054876; 2♀♀, Guiyang, Guizhou, 1983.X.18, He Junhua, Nos. 834733, 834734; 1♀, Kuankuoshui Nature Re- serve (core area), Guizhou, 2010.VI.8, Tan Jiangli, No. 201005487; 1♀, Rongshui, Guangxi, 2003.VIII.5, Wang Yiping, No. 20037944; 1♀, Mt. Shiwandashan, Naqinxiang, Guangxi (150m), 2003.X.4, Xu Zaifu, No. 20054876.
 Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Guangxi).
 Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens mostly agree with the published descriptions except vein 1- CU1 of hind wing weakly short than 2-CU1.
description: Published as part of Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin & Gupta, Ankita, 2020, The ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from China with the descriptions of forty-eight new species, pp. 1-205 in Zootaxa 4807 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4807.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3927639
Edelby, Néophyte: Note sur la catholicat de Romagyris
Creators: name: Graf, Georg
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 38 (1954): Oriens christianus, Band 38
ANG PAGPUPUMILIT NG MGA MALING ALAALA.docx
Creators: name: Abellera, John Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200202 Asian Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities

description: Mahalaga ang memorya sa identidad ng isang tao. Kung hindi maalala ng tao ang mga salitang kanyang nabanggit, ang mga kilos na kanyang ginawa, at ang mga bagay na pinaniniwalaan niya, hindi niya lubos na kilala ang kanyang sarili. Pareho ang masasabi natin sa mga komunidad. Ang kanilang pag-alala bilang grupo ay ang kanilang pagkatao bilang grupo. Ngunit hindi laging tama at mapagkakatiwalaan ang memorya. May mga bagay na pinaniniwalaan ng mga tao na nangyari, pero wala silang maibigay na matibay na ebidensiya para masabing totoong nangyari iyon. Sa bayan ng Pangil sa Laguna, patuloy na naniniwala ang mga residente roon na tumira sa kanilang bayan ng dalawang taon si Rey Carlos III ng España noong siya ay prinsipe pa, at na ibinigay niya ang mga imahen ng Nuestra Señora de la O at ng Santo Niño de la O bilang pasasalamat sa mga taga-Pangil. Samantala, ang mga residente naman ng bayan ng Lucban sa Quezon ay naniniwala na isinulat ni José Rizal ang kanyang nobelang "El Filibusterismo" sa kanilang Puente de Arco. Ang parehong kwento ay walang matibay na ebidensiya para patunayan ang kanilang katotohanan. Nais ng pag-aaral na ito na tukuyin ang mga posibleng pinagmulan ng mga kwento na ito at kung bakit sila patuloy na pinaniniwalaan ng mga tao. (Ang papel na ito ay unang binasa sa 9th Tayabas Povince Studies National Conference.)
Cumulants of multiple conserved charges and global conservation laws
Creators: name: Vovchenko, Volodymyr
name: Poberezhnyuk, Roman V.
name: Koch, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the behavior of cumulants of conserved charges in a subvolume of a thermal system with exact global conservation laws by extending a recently developed subensemble acceptance method (SAM) [V. Vovchenko et al., arXiv:2003.13905] to multiple conserved charges. Explicit expressions for all diagonal and off-diagonal cumulants up to sixth order that relate them to the grand canonical susceptibilities are obtained. The derivation is presented for an arbitrary equation of state with an arbitrary number of different conserved charges. The global conservation effects cancel out in any ratio of two second order cumulants, in any ratio of two third order cumulants, as well as in a ratio of strongly intensive measures $Σ$ and $Δ$ involving any two conserved charges, making all these quantities particularly suitable for theory-to-experiment comparisons in heavy-ion collisions. We also show that the same cancellation occurs in correlators of a conserved charge, like the electric charge, with any non-conserved quantity such as net proton or net kaon number. The main results of the SAM are illustrated in the framework of the hadron resonance gas model. We also elucidate how net-proton and net-$Λ$ fluctuations are affected by conservation of electric charge and strangeness in addition to baryon number.
description: 39 pages, 5 figures, to be published in JHEP
An Analysis of Major Farm Characteristics and Farmers' Use of Cooperatives
Creators: name: Wadsworth, James J.
name: Wadsworth, James J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: This paper examines relationships between major farm characteristics and U.S. farmers’ use of cooperatives in 1986. An ordinal measure of co-op use is developed to classify farmers according to their respective use of cooperatives for marketing farm products or purchasing farm inputs. Logit regression analysis is then used to examine major farm characteristics relative to farmers’ co-op use. Statistically significant relationships were found between co-op use and various farm type, size, and location groupings. No statistically significant relationship was found between co-op use and farm operator age.
Additional file 1 of Polymorphisms in Plasmodium vivax antifolate resistance markers in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2017
Creators: name: Kasama Rakmark
name: Awab, Ghulam R.
name: Jureeporn Duanguppama
name: Usa Boonyuen
name: Dondorp, Arjen M.
name: Imwong, Mallika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Details of PCR and RFLP conditions.
Light and Motion in the Local Volume
Creators: name: Whiting, Alan B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using high-quality data on 149 galaxies within 10 megaparsecs (Mpc), I find no correlation between luminosity and peculiar velocity at all. There is no unequivocal sign on scales of 1-2 Mpc of the expected gravitational effect of the brightest galaxies, in particular infall toward groups; or of infall toward the Supergalactic Plane on any scale. Either dark matter is not distributed in the same way as luminous matter in this region, or peculiar velocities are not due to fluctuations in mass. The sensitivity of peculiar velocity studies to the background model is highlighted.
description: 47 pages, 12 figures, several long tables. Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal
Quantum two level systems and Kondo-like traps as possible sources of decoherence in superconducting qubits
Creators: name: Faoro, Lara
name: Ioffe, Lev B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the origin of decoherence in Josephson junction qubits. We find that two level systems in the surrounding insulator cannot be the dominant source of noise in small qubits. We argue that electron traps in the Josephson barrier with large Coulomb repulsion would give noise that agrees both in magnitude and in temperature dependence with experimental data.
description: 4 pages, no figures
Information System Adoption and Use in Local Cooperatives
Creators: name: King, Robert P.
name: Shuker, Iain G.
name: King, Robert P.
name: Shuker, Iain G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Advances in information technology can help local cooperatives remain competitive in a changing agricultural sector. This study examines the adoption and use of information systems by local farm supply and grain cooperatives and the relationships between information system characteristics and cooperative performance. Cooperative characteristics were found to have a significant effect on information selection, overall cost structure, and the allocation of information system expenses. Information system selection was also related to operating performance. In all size categories, farm supply cooperatives that owned computers had better operating performance than those that did not. In contrast, operating performance was not related to computer ownership in grain cooperatives.
Structural Change and Performance of Grain Marketing Cooperatives
Creators: name: Dahl, Reynold P.
name: Dahl, Reynold P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The U.S. grain marketing system has undergone many structural changes in the 1980s. In no part of the system has structural change been more far-reaching and extensive than in farmer-owned cooperatives. The purpose of this paper is to analyze changes in grain marketing and induced structural adjustments in grain marketing cooperatives at the local, regional, and interregional levels. The impact of these structural changes on the competitive posture of cooperatives in the grain marketing system is also discussed along with structural adjustments anticipated in the 1990s.
Additional file 2 of No implementation without cultural adaptation: a process for culturally adapting low-intensity psychological interventions in humanitarian settings
Creators: name: Perera, Camila
name: Salamanca-Sanabria, Alicia
name: Caballero-Bernal, Joyce
name: Feldman, Lya
name: Hansen,
name: Bird, Martha
name: Hansen, Pernille
name: Dinesen, Cecilie
name: Wiedemann, Nana
name: Vallières, Frédérique
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Focus Group Discussion Guide for Local Consultation.
Charting from within a Grounded Concept of Member Control
Creators: name: Gray, Thomas W.
name: Butler, Gillian
name: Gray, Thomas W.
name: Butler, Gillian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Organizational charts of membership structures can be useful tools for monitoring member control when they accurately depict a concept of control grounded in context and theory. This paper develops the concept "member control" by placing it within cooperative principles and democratic theory. From this perspective, members control their organization when, through a democratic process of decision making, they are able to keep the cooperative a cooperative, a condition we call "containment." With this conceptual development, a containment method of member control charting is developed and illustrative examples given.
Guaranteeing a Market and the Contracts of Bargaining Cooperatives
Creators: name: Knoeber, Charles R.
name: Baumer, David L.
name: Knoeber, Charles R.
name: Baumer, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: One important function of bargaining cooperatives is alleged to be guaranteeing a market for their members. We characterize this function as deterring opportunistic behavior by producers and processors operating under forward contracts. We then examine actual contracts of bargaining cooperatives and argue that certain clauses in these contracts serve to guarantee the market. These clauses are those that provide for mechanical or third-party grading, liquidated damages, and most-favored-customer treatment.
Additional file 3 of No implementation without cultural adaptation: a process for culturally adapting low-intensity psychological interventions in humanitarian settings
Creators: name: Perera, Camila
name: Salamanca-Sanabria, Alicia
name: Caballero-Bernal, Joyce
name: Feldman, Lya
name: Hansen,
name: Bird, Martha
name: Hansen, Pernille
name: Dinesen, Cecilie
name: Wiedemann, Nana
name: Vallières, Frédérique
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Phases of Thematic Analysis (Reprinted with permission from authors) Source: Braun V, Clarke V. Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qual Res Psychol. 2006;3(2):77–101.
A Tidal Disruption Event Candidate Discovered in the Active Galactic Nucleus SDSS J022700.77-042020.6
Creators: name: Liu, Zhu
name: Li, Dongyue
name: Liu, He-Yang
name: Lu, Youjun
name: Yuan, Weimin
name: Dou, Liming
name: Shen, Rong-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) candidate occurring in the Active Galactic Nucleus SDSS J022700.77-042020.6. A sudden increase in flux of J0227-0420 during the second half of 2009 is clearly shown in the long-term optical, UV, and NIR light curves. A plateau phase, following an initial decline, is seen in the NUV and optical u, g, r, i light curves. Moreover, we find possible evidence that the plateau phase in the NUV band may lag behind the optical ones by approximately 70-80 days with also a much shorter duration, i.e. $\sim$7-15 days against $\sim$40-50 days. The long-term NUV/optical (after the plateau phase), NIR and MIR light curves can be well characterized with a form of $L(t)\propto t^{-β}$, consistent with the expectation of a TDE. The plateaus can be explained if the stellar streams collide with the pre-existing AGN disk at different radii. Though the overall fallback rate decreases, the material in the outer disk gradually drifts inward and increases the local accretion rate at the inner region, producing the optical and UV plateaus. The possible lag between the optical and NUV plateaus can then be attributed to viscosity delay. The index $β$ of the NIR $J, H, K_s$ bands ($\sim1.4-3.3$) is steeper than that of the UV/optical ($\sim0.7-1.3$) and MIR bands ($\sim0.9-1.8$), which may suggest that a certain fraction of the dust in the inner region of the dusty torus may be sublimated during the TDE phase. Our results indicate that, due to collisions between stellar debris and pre-existing disk, the light curves of TDEs occurring in AGN may show distinctive features, which may shed new light on the accretion process.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ after minor revision
The inelastic Takahashi hard-rod gas
Creators: name: Marini-Bettolo-Marconi, Umberto
name: Natali, Maurizio
name: Costantini, Giulio
name: Cecconi, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a one-dimensional fluid of hard-rods interacting each other via binary inelastic collisions and a short ranged square-well potential. Upon tuning the depth and the sign of the well, we investigate the interplay between dissipation and cohesive or repulsive forces. Molecular dynamics simulations of the cooling regime indicate that the presence of this simple interparticle interaction is sufficient to significantly modify the energy dissipation rates expected by the Haff's law for the free cooling. The simplicity of the model makes it amenable to an analytical approach based on the Boltzmann-Enskog transport equation which allows deriving the behaviour of the granular temperature. Furthermore, in the elastic limit, the model can be solved exactly to provide a full thermodynamic description. A meaningful theoretical approximation explaining the properties of the inelastic system in interaction with a thermal bath can be directly extrapolated from the properties of the corresponding elastic system, upon a proper re-definition of the relevant observables. Simulation results both in the cooling and driven regime can be fairly interpreted according to our theoretical approach and compare rather well to our predictions.
description: 14 pages RevTex, 9 eps figures
An Improved Credit Scoring Function for the St. Paul Bank for Cooperatives
Creators: name: Fischer, Martin L.
name: Moore, Karen
name: Fischer, Martin L.
name: Moore, Karen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural Finance

description: A new credit scoring function for classifying Bank of Cooperatives loans, pricing loans based on credit risk, screening loan applications, and diagnosing credit weaknesses was estimated using stepwise logistic regression analysis. Two versions were estimated, dichotomous and polychotomous. The dichotomous model is judged superior for the above uses. The model was tested for validity for different types of cooperatives. In a combined estimating and test sample of 708 cooperatives, the model correctly classifies 92 percent of cooperatives in a 2-class system and 70 percent in a 4-class system.
GEO600 Online Detector Characterization System
Creators: name: Balasubramanian, R.
name: Babak, S.
name: Churches, D.
name: Cokelaer, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A world-wide network of interferometric gravitational wave detectors is currently operational. The detectors in the network are still in their commissioning phase and are expected to achieve their design sensitivity over the next year or so. Each detector is a complex instrument involving many subsystems and each subsystem is a source of noise at the output of the detector. Therefore, in addition to recording the main gravitational wave data channel at the output of the interferometer, the state of each detector subsystem is monitored and recorded. This subsidiary data is both large in volume as well as complex in nature. We require an online monitoring and analysis tool which can process all the data channels for various noise artefacts and summarize the results of the analysis in a manner that can be accessed and interpreted conveniently. In this paper we describe the GEO600 Online Detector Characterization System (GODCS), which is the tool that is being used to monitor the output of the GEO600 gravitational wave detector situated near Hannover in Germany. We describe the various algorithms that we use and how the results of several algorithms can be combined to make meaningful statements about the state of the detector. This paper will be useful to researchers in the area of gravitational wave astronomy as a record of the various analyses and checks carried out to ensure the quality and reliability of the data before searching the data for the presence of gravitational waves.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
Protocol for Optically Pumping AlH$^+$ to a Pure Quantum State
Creators: name: Huang, Panpan
name: Kain, Schuyler
name: de Oliveira-Filho, Antonio
name: Odom, Brian C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an optical pumping scheme to prepare trapped $\mathrm{AlH}^+$ molecules in a pure state, the stretched hyperfine state $\lvert F=\frac{7}{2},\, m_F=\frac{7}{2}\rangle$ of the rovibronic ground manifold $\lvert \mathrm{X}^2Σ^+,\, v=0,\, N=0\rangle$. Our scheme utilizes linearly-polarized and circularly-polarized fields of a broadband pulsed laser to cool the rotational degree of freedom and drive the population to the hyperfine state, respectively. We simulate the population dynamics by solving a representative system of rate equations that accounts for the laser fields, blackbody radiation, and spontaneous emission. In order to model the hyperfine structure, new hyperfine constants of the $\mathrm{A}^2Π$ excited state were computed using a RASSCF wavefunction. We find that adding an infrared laser to drive the $1 \,-\; 0$ vibrational transition within the $ \mathrm{X}^2Σ^+$ manifold accelerates the cooling process. The results show that under optimum conditions, the population in the target state of the rovibronic ground manifold can reach 63 $\%$ after 68 $\mathrmμ$s (330 ms) and 95 $\%$ after 25 ms (1.2 s) with (without) the infrared laser.
description: This article is submitted to the Physical Chemical challenges for quantum information science/ quantum computing themed collection of PCCP. In this version, we added some details, modified the graphs and the descriptions that are suggested by the referees. We also fixed the problem of not displaying the affiliation correctly
Jump-defects in the nonlinear Schrodinger model and other non-relativistic field theories
Creators: name: Corrigan, E.
name: Zambon, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work on purely transmitting 'jump-defects' in the sine-Gordon model and other relativistic field theories is extended to non-relativistic models. In all the cases investigated the defect conditions are provided by 'frozen' Backlund transformations and it is also shown via a Lax pair argument how integrability will be preserved in the presence of this type of defect. Explicit examples of the scattering of solitons by defects are given, and bound states associated with 'jump-defects' in the nonlinear Schrodinger model are described. Although the nonlinear Schrodinger model provides the principal example, some results are also presented for the Korteweg de Vries and modified Korteweg de Vries equations.
description: Published version of the article with an extended introduction and some additional references
Effects of Federal Taxes on Member Cash Flows From Patronage Refunds
Creators: name: Junge, Katie A.
name: Ginder, Roger G.
name: Junge, Katie A.
name: Ginder, Roger G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural Finance

description: Scheduled changes in Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax rates will affect member net cash flow when a patronage refund is received from a cooperative. Cash patronage refunds at the minimum 20 percent level generally required by law will create negative cash flows for patrons in very low tax brackets. Negative cash flows accumulated over the 10-year period 1980-90 may result in opportunity costs to patrons that exceed the value of the refunds. Boards will need to consider one or more of the following strategies to deal with this problem: (1) increased cash patronage refunds, (2) shorter revolving periods, and (3) use of nonqualified written notices of allocation.
Zayāt, Habīb: Vie du patriarche melkite d'Antioche Christophore (gest. 967) par le protospathaire Ibrahim b. Yuhanna
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 38 (1954): Oriens christianus, Band 38
U.S. Cooperatives and the Potential for Grain Exports to Eastern Europe
Creators: name: Bunker, Arvin R.
name: Jones, James R.
name: Bunker, Arvin R.
name: Jones, James R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Agribusiness
International Relations/Trade

description: Cooperatives are major participants in grain production and marketing in the United States and Soviet Bloc countries. U.S. cooperatives, for example, receive more than 40 percent of off-farm grain sales, while cooperatives in most Soviet Bloc countries account for more than two-thirds of grain production. Despite this heavy involvement, trade between cooperatives in these regions is nil. U.S. cooperative exports to Soviet Bloc import organizations are also limited. Import decision making in Soviet Bloc countries is described and buyers’ concerns are evaluated against exports services offered by U.S. cooperatives. Exports to Soviet Bloc countries by U.S. cooperatives will remain limited unless cooperatives offer delivered sales, bids on large tenders, and improved services.
Reflections on Cooperation and Cooperatives
Creators: name: Breimyer, Harold F.
name: Breimyer, Harold F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Cooperation is looked upon favorably because it connotes collective economic organization without duress or exploitation. This conceptualization may underlie most thinking about the place of cooperative organization in today’s society and the modern economy. Cooperation organizes economic activity on terms of equality at any stratum in the vertical sequence of producing and marketing farm products. Cooperatives’ government must no only be viable and functional but must incorporate democratic values. Boards of directors must be attuned to their members and effectively in control. The only valid defense of cooperatives is that they give reality to all that is good in cooperation.
Additional file 1 of No implementation without cultural adaptation: a process for culturally adapting low-intensity psychological interventions in humanitarian settings
Creators: name: Perera, Camila
name: Salamanca-Sanabria, Alicia
name: Caballero-Bernal, Joyce
name: Feldman, Lya
name: Hansen,
name: Bird, Martha
name: Hansen, Pernille
name: Dinesen, Cecilie
name: Wiedemann, Nana
name: Vallières, Frédérique
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Template for Desk Review of Pre-Existing Information Relevant to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in the Region/Country.
Comment on ``Topological Oscillations of the Magnetoconductance in Disordered GaAs Layers''
Creators: name: Pruisken, A. M. M.
name: Burmistrov, I. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent Letter, Murzin et. al. [Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 92, 016802 (2004)] investigated "instanton effects" in the magneto resistance data taken from samples with heavily Si-doped GaAs layers at low temperatures. This topological issue originally arose in the development of a microscopic theory of quantum Hall effect some 20 years ago. The investigations by Murzin et. al., however, do not convey the correct ideas on scaling that have emerged over the years in the general theory of quantum transport.
description: comment on Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 92, 016802 (2004)
Toward a collaborative approach to urban conservation planning in China : an analysis with reference to Quanzhou, Fujian Province
Creators: name: Qian, Zhu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Economic reforms towards a market economy have significantly accelerated urbanization and modernization in urban China. During the mid-1990s urban conservation became a significant issue and pressing concern in most Chinese inner cities. The local state has played a principal role in conservation practice under China's administrative and fiscal decentralization process and localization of urban planning encountering challenges of implementation. This study examines current historic district conservation practice in urban China, focusing on the roles of four interest groups—local government, the private sector, the general public and professionals. It concludes by proposing a collaborative approach to urban conservation among state and non-state actors, facilitated by changes to current legal, institutional and funding frameworks capable of meeting the challenge of balancing conflicts between the conservation and redevelopment agendas. The case of Quanzhou is examined in detail to show how the municipal government has conducted historic district conservation in the context of market economy conditions, and then to recommend policies that would support and forward collaborative historic district conservation.
Alternative Green Payment Policies When Multiple Benefits Matter
Creators: name: Zhao, Jinhua
name: Kurkalova, Lyubov A.
name: Kling, Catherine L.
name: Zhao, Jinhua
name: Kurkalova, Lyubov A.
name: Kling, Catherine L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This study investigates the environmental impacts of several forms of policies that offer farmers subsides in return for the adoption of conservation tillage. The policies differ as to whether the tillage practice or one of several environmental benefits is targeted. We develop an Environmental Lorenz Curve which fully represents the performance of the targeting policies, and show that this curve can be directly used to help select the optimal targeting strategy for special classes of social welfare functions. The model is applied to the state of Iowa.
Charge and Spin Ordering in Insulating Na$_{0.5}$CoO$_2$: Effects of Correlation and Symmetry
Creators: name: Lee, K. -W.
name: Pickett, W. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ab initio band theory including correlations due to intra-atomic repulsion is applied to study charge disproportionation and charge- and spin-ordering in insulating Na$_{0.5}$CoO$_2$. Various ordering patterns (zigzag and two striped) for four-Co supercells are analyzed before focusing on the observed "out-of-phase stripe" pattern of antiferromagnetic Co$^{4+}$ spins along charge-ordered stripes. This pattern relieves frustration and shows distinct analogies with the cuprate layers: a bipartite lattice of antialigned spins, with axes at 90 degree angles. Substantial distinctions with cuprates are also discussed, including the tiny gap of a new variant of "charge transfer" type within the Co 3d system.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
An astrometric planetary companion candidate to the M9 Dwarf TVLM 513-46546
Creators: name: Curiel, Salvador
name: Ortiz-León, Gisela N.
name: Mioduszewski, Amy J.
name: Torres, Rosa M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Astrometric observations of the M9 dwarf TVLM 513$-$46546 taken with the VLBA reveal an astrometric signature consistent with a period of 221 $\pm$ 5 days. The orbital fit implies that the companion has a mass m$_{p}$ = 0.35$-$0.42 $M_{J}$, a circular orbit ($e \simeq 0$), a semi-major axis a = 0.28$-$0.31 AU and an inclination angle i = 71$-$88$^\circ$. The detected companion, TVLM~513$b$, is one of the few giant-mass planets found associated to UCDs. The presence of a Saturn-like planet on a circular orbit, 0.3 AU from a 0.06$-$0.08 $M_\odot$ star, represents a challenge to planet formation theory. This is the first astrometric detection of a planet at radio wavelengths.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, AJ, in press