cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reference Models and Incentive Regulation of Electricity Distribution Networks: An Evaluation of Sweden’s Network Performance Assessment Model (NPAM)
Creators: name: Jamasb, Tooraj
name: Pollitt, Michael G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2007
Subjects: Electricity
regulation
benchmarking

description: The world-wide electricity sector reforms have led to a search for alternative and innovative approaches to regulation to promote efficiency improvement in the natural monopoly electricity networks. A number of countries have used incentive regulation models based on efficiency benchmarking of the electricity network utilities. While most regulators have opted adopted parametric and non-parametric frontier-based methods of benchmarking some have used engineering designed ‘reference firm’ or ‘norm’ models for the purpose. This paper examines the incentive properties and other related aspects of the norm model NPAM used in regulation of distribution networks in Sweden and compares these with those of frontier-based benchmarking methods. We identify a number of important differences between the two approaches to regulation benchmarking that are not readily apparent and discuss their ramifications for the regulatory objectives and process.
Incorporating the Price of Quality in Efficiency Analysis: The Case of Electricity Distrubution Regulation in the UK
Creators: name: Yu, William
name: Jamasb, Tooraj
name: Pollitt, Michael G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2007
Subjects: Efficiency
Data Envelopment Analysis
Electricity
Quality of Service
Willingness-to-pay

description: Efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks is often limited to technical or cost efficiency measures. However, some important non-tradable aspects of their service such as quality of service and network energy losses are generally not part of the analysis. A regulatory concern is that technical efficiency can be achieved at the expense of these measures as well as allocative efficiency. Valuation of service quality for inclusion in regulatory models is particularly difficult. This paper presents an approach to measure and incorporate service quality and energy losses in analysis of technical and allocative efficiency of the utilities. We calculate technical and allocative efficiency of the 14 distribution networks in the UK between 1990/91 and 2003/04 using the Data Envelopment Analysis technique. We find that efficiency measures improved during the first (1990/91-1994/95) and second (1995/96-1999/00) distribution price control reviews and exhibited a slight decline during the third (2000/01-2004/05) review period. We find relatively low allocative efficiency - i.e. a mismatch in allocating resources among expenditures, service quality, and energy losses. The results suggest that the utilities may not be sufficiently incentivised to achieve socially optimal input bundles under the current incentive scheme.
Incorporating Undesirable Outputs into Malmquist TFP Index: Environmental Performance Growth of Chinese Coal-Fired Power Plants
Creators: name: Yang, Hongliang
name: Pollitt, Michael G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2007
Subjects: Malmquist Indicies
Total Factor Productivity
Chinese Electricity
Power Plant Efficiency

description: In this article we examine the effects of undesirable outputs on the Malmquist TFP indices. Our empirical work uses an unbalanced panel which covers 796 utility and non-utility coal-fired power plants in China during 1996-2002. In order to meet the requirement of a balanced panel for calculating the Malmquist indices, an innovative fake unit approach has been introduced. Our final results show that (1) the growth of the Chinese electricity heavily depends upon an increase of resource input; and (2) huge potential remains with regards to the efficiency improvement and emissions control in Chinese coal-fired power plants.
Additional file 14 of Iron-sulphur cluster biogenesis factor LYRM4 is a novel prognostic biomarker associated with immune infiltrates in hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Pang, Yilin
name: Tan, Guoqiang
name: Yang, Xunjun
name: Lin, Yuanshan
name: Chen, Yao
name: Zhang, Jinping
name: Xie, Ting
name: Zhou, Huaibin
name: Fang, Jun
name: Zhao, Qiongya
name: Ren, Xiaojun
name: Li, Jianghui
name: Lyu, Jianxin
name: Wang, Zheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 15: Figure S17. PPI network of transcription factor PAX4-target networks (GeneMANIA database).
GW170817: implications for the local kilonova rate and for surveys from ground-based facilities
Creators: name: Della Valle, M.
name: Guetta, D.
name: Cappellaro, E.
name: Amati, L.
name: Botticella, M. T.
name: Branchesi, M.
name: Brocato, E.
name: Izzo, L.
name: Perez-Torres, M. A.
name: Stratta, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the local rate of events similar to GRB 170817A, which has been recently found to be associated with a kilonova (KN) outburst. Our analysis finds an observed rate of such events of R$_{KN}\sim 352^{+810}_{-281}$ Gpc$^{-3}$yr$^{-1}$. After comparing at their face values this density of sGRB outbursts with the much higher density of Binary Neutron Star (BNS) mergers of 1540$^{+3200}_{-1220}$ Gpc$^{-3}$yr$^{-1}$, estimated by LIGO-Virgo collaboration, one can conclude, admittedly with large uncertainty that either only a minor fraction of BNS mergers produces sGRB/KN events or the sGRBs associated with BNS mergers are beamed and observable under viewing angles as large as $θ$ $\leq$ $40^{\circ}$. Finally we provide preliminary estimates of the number of sGRB/KN events detected by future surveys carried out with present/future ground-based/space facilities, such as LSST, VST, ZTF, SKA and THESEUS.
description: MNRAS accepted, 6 pages, 1 figure
Retarded thermal Greens functions and forward scattering amplitudes at two loops
Creators: name: Brandt, F. T.
name: Das, Ashok
name: Frenkel, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we extend our earlier one loop analysis to two loops and give a simple diagrammatic description for the retarded Greens functions at finite temperature, in terms of forward scattering amplitudes of on-shell thermal particles. We present a simple discussion, which can be easily generalized to any field theory, of the temperature dependent parts of the retarded two and three point functions in scalar field theory and QED. As an application of our result at two loops, we show how the infrared singularities in the thermal part of the retarded photon self-energy, cancel in QED_2 in the limit of vanishing electron mass.
description: 10 pages
The Hopf algebra of integer binary relations
Creators: name: Pilaud, Vincent
name: Pons, Viviane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16T05, 16T30, 06A07

description: We construct a Hopf algebra on integer binary relations that contains under the same roof several well-known Hopf algebras related to the permutahedra and the associahedra: the Malvenuto-Reutenauer algebra on permutations, the Loday-Ronco algebra on planar binary trees, and the Chapoton algebras on ordered partitions and on Schröder trees. We also derive from our construction new Hopf structures on intervals of the weak order on permutations and of the Tamari order on binary trees.
description: 30 pages, 14 figures
MOESM1 of Enhanced AZIN1 RNA editing and overexpression of its regulatory enzyme ADAR1 are important prognostic biomarkers in gastric cancer
Creators: name: Yoshinaga Okugawa
name: Toiyama, Yuji
name: Kunitoshi Shigeyasu
name: Yamamoto, Akira
name: Tsunehiko Shigemori
name: Chengzeng Yin
name: Ichikawa, Takashi
name: Yasuda, Hiromi
name: Fujikawa, Hiroyuki
name: Yoshiyama, Shigeyuki
name: Hiro, Junichiro
name: Ohi, Masaki
name: Araki, Toshimitsu
name: Kusunoki, Masato
name: Goel, Ajay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used for quantitative real time PCR analysis.
Data-driven repetitive control: Wind tunnel experiments under turbulent conditions
Creators: name: Frederik, Joeri
name: Kröger, Lars
name: Gülker, Gert
name: van Wingerden, Jan-Willem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A commonly applied method to reduce the cost of wind energy, is alleviating the periodic loads on turbine blades using Individual Pitch Control (IPC). In this paper, a data-driven IPC methodology called Subspace Predictive Repetitive Control (SPRC) is employed. The effectiveness of SPRC will be demonstrated on a scaled 2-bladed wind turbine. An open-jet wind tunnel with an innovative active grid is employed to generate reproducible turbulent wind conditions. A significant load reduction with limited actuator duty is achieved even under these high turbulent conditions. Furthermore, it will be demonstrated that SPRC is able to adapt to changing operating conditions.
description: 14 pages, 16 figures
Intertemporal Substitution and Hyperbolic Discounting
Creators: name: Geraats, Petra M.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: D91, E21
subject: Intertemporal substitution, consumption, quasi-hyberbolic discounting

description: Evidence from behavioural experiments suggests that intertemporal preferences reflect a hyperbolic discount function. This paper shows that in contrast to exponential discounting, the elasticity of intertemporal substitution for hyperbolic consumers depends on the persistence of the change in the intertemporal relative price. In particular, lasting changes in the real interest rate are likely to generate a smaller degree of intertemporal substitution in consumption than temporary changes. This result holds for both sophisticated and naive hyperbolic consumers. It provides a novel testable implication of hyperbolic discounting and a new perspective on intertemporal substitution.
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0867
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0867, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0867, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Mutual Exclusion Statistics in Exactly Solvable Models in One and Higher Dimensions at Low Temperatures
Creators: name: Hatsugai, Y.
name: Kohmoto, M.
name: Koma, T.
name: Wu, Y. -S.
name: Comments
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study statistical characterization of the many-body states in exactly solvable models with internal degrees of freedom. The models under consideration include the isotropic and anisotropic Heisenberg spin chain, the Hubbard chain, and a model in higher dimensions which exhibits the Mott metal-insulator transition. It is shown that the ground state of these systems is all described by that of a generalized ideal gas of particles (called exclusons) which have mutual exclusion statistics, either between different rapidities or between different species. For the Bethe ansatz solvable models, the low temperature properties are well described by the excluson description if the degeneracies due to string solutions with complex rapidities are taken into account correctly. {For} the Hubbard chain with strong but finite coupling, charge-spin separation is shown for thermodynamics at low temperatures. Moreover, we present an exactly solvable model in arbitrary dimensions which, in addition to giving a perspective view of spin-charge separation, constitutes an explicit example of mutual exclusion statistics in more than two dimensions.
Optical Control of a Single Nuclear Spin in the Solid State
Creators: name: Goldman, M. L.
name: Patti, T. L.
name: Levonian, D.
name: Yelin, S. F.
name: Lukin, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a novel method for coherent optical manipulation of individual nuclear spins in the solid state, mediated by the electronic states of a proximal quantum emitter. Specifically, using the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond, we demonstrate control of a proximal $^{14}$N nuclear spin via an all-optical Raman technique. We evaluate the extent to which the intrinsic physical properties of the NV center limit the performance of coherent control, and find that it is ultimately constrained by the relative rates of transverse hyperfine coupling and radiative decay in the NV center's excited state. Possible extensions and applications to other color centers are discussed.
title: Automated Electrochemistry for Measuring the Temperature Dependence of Various Cell Parameters via A Custom Built Microcontroller-Based Potentiostat
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chronoamperometry
subject: Temperature
subject: Chronocoulometry
subject: Arduino
subject: Cyclic voltammetry
subject: Potentiostat

description: A $70 microcontroller based potentiostat with a temperature probe was designed, fabricated, and tested. The potentiostat was programmed to automatically repeat chronoamperometric experiments on a solution of potassium ferricyanide in potassium chloride at different temperatures under both kinetic and diffusion controlled conditions. Under kinetic control, the system proved to be quasi-reversible. Cottrellian behavior was observed under diffusion control. Currents due to the formation of an electric double layer were found to follow a power law. The temperature dependence of the heterogeneous rate constant, diffusion coefficient, double layer capacitance, and surface excess were all measured. From this data, the ionic mobility, activation energy and frequency factor for diffusion and heterogeneous electron transfer were all measured.
title: An Ecological Study of Hunting Creek 2015
title: Final Report
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jones, R. Christian
name: De Mutsert, Kim
name: Jonas, Robert
name: Huff, Thomas
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Hunting Creek
subject: Potomac River
subject: Wastewater
subject: Escherichia coli
subject: Micropollutant
subject: Anadromous fish usage

description: Hunting Creek is an embayment of the tidal Potomac River located just downstream of the City of Alexandria and the I-95/I-495 Woodrow Wilson bridge. This embayment receives treated wastewater from the Alexandria Renew Enterprises wastewater treatment plant and inflow from Cameron Run which drains most of the Cities of Alexandria and Falls Church and much of eastern Fairfax County. Hunting Creek is bordered on the north by the City of Alexandria and on the west and south by the George Washington Memorial Parkway and associated park land. Due to its tidal nature and shallowness, the embayment does not seasonally stratify vertically, and its water is flushed by rainstorms and may readily mix with the adjacent tidal Potomac River mainstem. Beginning in 2013 the Potomac Environmental Research and Education (PEREC) in collaboration with Alexandria Renew Enterprises (AlexRenew) initiated a program to monitor water quality and biological communities in the Hunting Creek area including stations in the embayment itself and the adjacent river mainstem. This document presents study findings from 2015 and compares them with 2013 and 2014 data. In addition special studies were conducted on anadromous fish usage of Hunting Creek and Cameron Run, Escherichia coli levels in Hunting Creek and tributaries, and micropollutant levels in sediments and waters of Hunting Creek and Cameron Run.
Is the resonance D(2637) really a radial excitation?
Creators: name: Melikhov, D.
name: Pene, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider various possible identifications of the quantum numbers of the resonance D(2637) recently observed by DELPHI in the $D^*ππ$ channel. We argue that in spite of a good agreement of the measured mass with the quark-model prediction for the radial excitation, a total width as small as $\le 15$ MeV is hardly compatible with its identification as a radial charm excitation. The $J^{P}=2^{-}, 3^{-}$ orbitally excited mesons with such a mass could have widths of the observed order of magnitude. However in this case one would expect two neighbouring states with the mass difference of about 30-50 MeV corresponding to the nearly degenerate components of the heavy- meson multiplet with light-quanta angular momentum j=5/2, and moreover, according to the quark-model predictions the mass of the orbital excitation should be more than 50 MeV larger than 2637 MeV. Thus we conclude that, at present, we find no fully convincing understanding of the quantum numbers of the observed resonance.
description: latex, 6 pages
A Posteriori Error Analysis of Fluid-Stucture Interactions: Time Dependent Error
Creators: name: Stotsky, Jay A.
name: Bortz, David M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65L99

description: A posteriori error analysis is a technique to quantify the error in particular simulations of a numerical approximation method. In this article, we use such an approach to analyze how various error components propagate in certain moving boundary problems. We study quasi-steady state simulations where slowly moving boundaries remain in mechanical equilibrium with a surrounding fluid. Such problems can be numerically approximated with the Method of Regularized Stokelets(MRS), a popular method used for studying viscous fluid-structure interactions, especially in biological applications. Our approach to monitoring the regularization error of the MRS is novel, along with the derivation of linearized adjoint equations to the governing equations of the MRS with a elastic elements. Our main numerical results provide a clear illustration of how the error evolves over time in several MRS simulations.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Benchmarking and incentive regulation of quality of service: an application to the UK electricity distribution utilities
Creators: name: Giannakis, D.
name: Jamasb, Tooraj
name: Pollitt, Michael G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: L15, L51, L94
subject: quality of service, benchmarking, incentive regulation, data envelopment analysis, electricity

description: Quality of service has emerged as an important issue in post-reform regulation of electricity distribution networks. Regulators have employed partial incentive schemes to promote cost saving, investment efficiency, and service quality. This paper presents a quality-incorporated benchmarking study of the electricity distribution utilities in the UK between 1991/92 and 1998/99. We calculate technical efficiency of the utilities using Data Envelopment Analysis technique and productivity change over time using quality-incorporated Malmquist indices. We find that cost efficient firms do not necessarily exhibit high service quality and that efficiency scores of cost-only models do not show high correlation with those of quality-based models. The results also show that improvements in service quality have made a significant contribution to the sector�s total productivity change. In addition, we show that integrating quality of service in regulatory benchmarking is preferable to cost-only approaches.
Sporoschisma rhypara Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
Creators: name: Wijayawardene, Nalin N.
name: Dai, Dong-Qin
name: Premarathne, Bhagya M.
name: Wimalasena, Madhara K.
name: Jayalal, Udeni
name: Wickramanayake, Kawmini D.
name: Dangalla, Hasanka
name: Jayathunga, Hashini
name: Brahmanage, Rashika S.
name: Karunarathna, Samantha C.
name: Weerakoon, Gothamie
name: Ariyawansa, Kahandawa G. S. U.
name: Yapa, Neelamanie
name: Madawala, Sumedha
name: Nanayakkara, Chandrika M.
name: Fan, Xin-Lei
name: Kirk, Paul M.
name: Zhang, Gui-Qing
name: Ediriweera, Aseni
name: Bhat, Jayarama
name: Dawoud, Turki M.
name: Tibpromma, Saowaluck
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Chaetosphaeriales
Chaetosphaeriaceae
Sporoschisma
Sporoschisma rhypara

description: S. rhypara Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14(no. 74): 127 (1873) [1875]/ IF 238055
Typification Details: Holotype K(M) 62973, On wood
References: Berkeley & Broome (1873)
description: Published as part of Wijayawardene, Nalin N., Dai, Dong-Qin, Premarathne, Bhagya M., Wimalasena, Madhara K., Jayalal, Udeni, Wickramanayake, Kawmini D., Dangalla, Hasanka, Jayathunga, Hashini, Brahmanage, Rashika S., Karunarathna, Samantha C., Weerakoon, Gothamie, Ariyawansa, Kahandawa G. S. U., Yapa, Neelamanie, Madawala, Sumedha, Nanayakkara, Chandrika M., Fan, Xin-Lei, Kirk, Paul M., Zhang, Gui-Qing, Ediriweera, Aseni, Bhat, Jayarama, Dawoud, Turki M. & Tibpromma, Saowaluck, 2023, Checklist, typification details, and nomenclature status of ascomycetous fungi originally described in Sri Lanka, pp. 1-105 in Phytotaxa 611 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.611.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8308739
title: Policy Watch: Putin and Ahmadinejad
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.)
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International affairs
subject: Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-
subject: Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud

description: © 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Deposited with permission from UPI.com.
description: Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the June 2005 election of the staunchly anti- American Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran. Ahmadinejad, though, has proven to be a difficult partner for Putin -- especially regarding the Iranian nuclear issue.
Neglected Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Cross-country Savings Regressions
Creators: name: Haque, Nadeem U.
name: Pesaran, M. Hashem
name: Sharma, Sunil
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: E21, C23
subject: Savings behaviour, Cross-country studies. Slope heterogeneity, Dynamics, Panel data models

description: This paper examines the extent to which the conclusions of cross-country studies of private savings are robust to allowing for the possible heterogeneity of savings behaviour across countries and for the inclusion of dynamics. It reviews the econometric implications of neglected slope heterogeneity and dynamics for the fixed effects estimators routinely used in such studies, and illustrates the nature and extent of the biases involved by a re-examination of time series data from 21 OECD countries. The paper shows that neglecting heterogeneity and dynamics in cross-country savings regressions can lead to misleading inferences about the key determinants of savings behaviour. The results indicate that among the many variables considered in the literature only the fiscal variables - the general government surplus as a proportion of GDP and the ratio of government consumption to GDP - seem to be the key determinants of private savings rates in the industrial countries in the post-World War II period
Gauge Independence of the Effective Potential Revisited
Creators: name: Del Cima, Oswaldo M.
name: Franco, Daniel H. T.
name: Piguet, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the formalism of extended BRS symmetry to the investigation of the gauge dependence of the effective potential in a spontaneously symmetry broken gauge theory. This formalism, which includes a set of Grassmann parameters defined as the BRS variations of the gauge-fixing parameters, allows us to derive in a quick and unambiguous way the related Nielsen identities, which express the physical gauge independence, in a class of generalized 't Hooft gauges, of the effective potential. We show in particular that the validity of the Nielsen identities does not require any constraint on the gauge-fixing parameters, to the contrary of some claims found in the literature. We use the method of algebraic renormalization, which leads to results independent of the particular renormalization scheme used.
description: 13 pages, no figures, Latex, final version published in NPB
Municipal Aggregation and Retail Competition in the Ohio Energy Sector
Creators: name: Littlechild, Stephen C.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2007
Subjects: Municipal Aggregation
Retail Competition
Electricity
Gas
Ohio
Regulation

description: We study incumbency advantage in a dynamic game with incomplete information between an incumbent and a voter. The incumbent knows the true state of the world, e.g., the severity of an economic recession or the level of criminal activities, and can choose the quality of his policy. This quality and the state of the world determine the policy outcome, i.e., the economic growth rate or the number of crimes committed. The voter only observes the policy outcome and then decides whether to reelect the incumbent or not. Her preferences are such that she would reelect the incumbent under full information if and only if the state of the world is above a given threshold level. In equilibrium, the incumbent is reelected in more states of the world than he would be under full information. In particular, he chooses inefficient policies and generates mediocre policy outcomes whenever the voter's induced belief distribution will be such that her expected utility of reelecting the incumbent exceeds her expected utility of electing the opposition candidate. Hence, there is an incumbency advantage through inefficient policies. We provide empirical evidence consistent with the prediction that reelection concerns may induce incumbents to generate mediocre outcomes.
Why Do Countries Peg the Way They Peg? The Determinants of Anchor Currency Choice
Creators: name: Meissner, Christopher M.
name: Oomes, Nienke
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: exchange rate regime
anchor
network externalities
optimal currency area
international currency

description: Conditional on choosing a pegged exchange rate regime, what determines the currency to which countries peg or “anchor” their exchange rate? This paper aims to answer this question using a panel multinomial logit framework, covering more than 100 countries for the period 1980-1998. We find that trade network externalities are a key determinant of anchor currency choice, implying that there are multiple steady states for the distribution of anchor currencies in the international monetary system. Other factors found to be related to anchor currency choice include the symmetry of output co-movement, the currency denomination of debt, and legal or colonial origins.
Sporoschisma tephrocoma Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
Creators: name: Wijayawardene, Nalin N.
name: Dai, Dong-Qin
name: Premarathne, Bhagya M.
name: Wimalasena, Madhara K.
name: Jayalal, Udeni
name: Wickramanayake, Kawmini D.
name: Dangalla, Hasanka
name: Jayathunga, Hashini
name: Brahmanage, Rashika S.
name: Karunarathna, Samantha C.
name: Weerakoon, Gothamie
name: Ariyawansa, Kahandawa G. S. U.
name: Yapa, Neelamanie
name: Madawala, Sumedha
name: Nanayakkara, Chandrika M.
name: Fan, Xin-Lei
name: Kirk, Paul M.
name: Zhang, Gui-Qing
name: Ediriweera, Aseni
name: Bhat, Jayarama
name: Dawoud, Turki M.
name: Tibpromma, Saowaluck
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Chaetosphaeriales
Chaetosphaeriaceae
Sporoschisma
Sporoschisma tephrocoma

description: S. tephrocoma Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14(no. 74): 126 (1873) [1875]
Typification Details: Holotype K(M) 35062
References: Berkeley & Broome (1873)
description: Published as part of Wijayawardene, Nalin N., Dai, Dong-Qin, Premarathne, Bhagya M., Wimalasena, Madhara K., Jayalal, Udeni, Wickramanayake, Kawmini D., Dangalla, Hasanka, Jayathunga, Hashini, Brahmanage, Rashika S., Karunarathna, Samantha C., Weerakoon, Gothamie, Ariyawansa, Kahandawa G. S. U., Yapa, Neelamanie, Madawala, Sumedha, Nanayakkara, Chandrika M., Fan, Xin-Lei, Kirk, Paul M., Zhang, Gui-Qing, Ediriweera, Aseni, Bhat, Jayarama, Dawoud, Turki M. & Tibpromma, Saowaluck, 2023, Checklist, typification details, and nomenclature status of ascomycetous fungi originally described in Sri Lanka, pp. 1-105 in Phytotaxa 611 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.611.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8308739
Comparing Brazil and USA electricity performance; what was the impact of privatisation?
Creators: name: Mota, Raffaella L.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: benchmarking
subject: international comparison
subject: technical efficiency
subject: Data Envelopment Analysis
subject: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
subject: Malmquist Productivity Index
subject: electricity distribution systems
subject: Classification-JEL: L94

description: Beginning in 1995 a large proportion of the Brazilian electricity distribution sector went through privatisation and restructuring, whereas privately-owned U.S. utilities did not suffer similar ownership change process. This paper is an empirical assessment of the efficiency of the Brazilian distribution sector relative to its U.S. counterpart in 1994 and 2000. Two techniques are applied: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), including the computation of Malmquist indices of productivity growth, and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). For the models that use operating costs as input, we find a positive but not statistically significant impact of Brazilian privatisation on technical efficiency. For the models that use total costs, the impact is significantly negative. Although this should be taken with caution, the negative impact can be the result of an investment surge after privatisation or of an increased rate of substitution of capital for labour in the Brazilian distribution sector. These results suggest that capital costs should not be excluded from the benchmarking. The findings also highlight the importance of establishing standard measures of capital costs for international benchmarking and incentive based regulation.
Longitudinal 5-branes as 4-spheres in Matrix theory
Creators: name: Castelino, Judith
name: Lee, Sangmin
name: Taylor, Washington
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a construction in Matrix theory of longitudinal 5-branes whose geometry in transverse space corresponds to a 4-sphere. We describe these branes through an explicit construction in terms of N*N matrices for a particular infinite series of values of N. The matrices used in the construction have a number of properties which can be interpreted in terms of the 4-sphere geometry, in analogy with similar properties of the SU(2) generators used in the construction of a spherical membrane. The physical properties of these systems correspond with those expected from M-theory; in particular, these objects have an energy and a leading long-distance interaction with gravitons which agrees with 11D supergravity at leading order in N.
description: 17 pages LaTeX; v2: references added, misleading comment removed from section 3.4, minor typo fixed
Generation Adequacy and Investment Incentives in Britain: from the Pool to NETA
Creators: name: Roques, Fabien A.
name: Newbery, David
name: Nuttall, William J.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: D24, D43, D92, L94
subject: investment, electricity, market design, capacity payments

description: Three years after the controversial change of the British market design from compulsory Pool with capacity payments to decentralised energy-only New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) market framework, we compare the two designs in terms of investment incentives. We review the biases of the Pool capacity payments design, the drought of investment following the introduction of NETA, and the reaction of the market during the first “stress-test” of NETA during the winter 2003. In an energy-only market such as NETA, it is essential that price signals are right and the system operator has a crucial role in contracting ahead for reserve. We recommend that NETA adopt a single marginal imbalance price as dual imbalance pricing distorts price signals in times of scarcity. The lack of long-term contracting that causes hedging and financing difficulties for power projects can becompensated by vertical and horizontal reintegration at a cost of increased market power.
title: ADCO, Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1497-1504) (11 H 1172), f. 00596
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1497-1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1172). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1497-1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1172), f. 00596, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Effects of the Nuclear Correlations on the Neutrino-Oxygen Interactions
Creators: name: Marteau, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a calculation of the absolute charged current neutrino- oxygen events rates relevant in the atmospheric neutrino experiments. The inclusive reaction cross-section is split into exclusive channels, which are classified according to the number of Čerenkov rings they produce. The model includes the effects of residual interaction in a RPA scheme with both nucleon-hole and Delta-hole excited states and the effects of (np-nh) excitations (n=2,3). Our result is that although the flavor ratio $μ/e$ remains almost unaffected by the nuclear effects considered here and often neglected in the Monte-Carlo simulations, the absolute events rates are subject to important modifications.
description: 14 pages, LaTeX2e file, 5 eps figures, part of PhD Thesis (LYCEN T9877, in french) available at: marteau@ipnl.in2p3.fr; submitted to European Physical Journal A
Alternative Approaches to Estimation and Inference in Large Multifactor Panels: Small Sample Results with an Application to Modelling of Asset Returns
Creators: name: Kapetanios, George
name: Pesaran, M. Hashem
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Classification-JEL: C12, C13, C33
subject: Cross Section Dependence, Large Panels, Principal Components, Common Correlated Effects, Return Equations.

description: This paper considers alternative approaches to the analysis of large panel data models in the presence of error cross section dependence. A popular method for modelling such dependence uses a factor error structure. Such models raise new problems for estimation and inference. This paper compares two alternative methods for carrying out estimation and inference in panels with a multifactor error structure. One uses the correlated common effects estimator that proxies the unobserved factors by cross section averages of the observed variables as suggested by Pesaran (2004) , and the other uses principal components following the work of Stock and Watson (2002) . The paper develops the principal component method and provides small sample evidence on the comparative properties of these estimators by means of extensive Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to company returns provides an illustration of the alternative estimation procedures.
Additional file 4 of Cotton pan-genome retrieves the lost sequences and genes during domestication and selection
Creators: name: Li, Jianying
name: Yuan, Daojun
name: Wang, Pengcheng
name: Wang, Qiongqiong
name: Sun, Mengling
name: Liu, Zhenping
name: Si, Huan
name: Xu, Zhongping
name: Ma, Yizan
name: Zhang, Boyang
name: Pei, Liuling
name: Tu, Lili
name: Zhu, Longfu
name: Chen, Ling-Ling
name: Lindsey, Keith
name: Zhang, Xianlong
name: Jin, Shuangxia
name: Wang, Maojun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. Review history.
The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters - XVII. Public Catalogue Release
Creators: name: Nardiello, D.
name: Libralato, M.
name: Piotto, G.
name: Anderson, J.
name: Bellini, A.
name: Aparicio, A.
name: Bedin, L. R.
name: Cassisi, S.
name: Granata, V.
name: King, I. R.
name: Lucertini, F.
name: Marino, A. F.
name: Milone, A. P.
name: Ortolani, S.
name: Platais, I.
name: van der Marel, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present the astro-photometric catalogues of 56 globular clusters and one open cluster. Astrometry and photometry are mainly based on images collected within the "HST Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters: Shedding UV Light on Their Populations and Formation" (GO-13297, PI:~Piotto), and the "ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters" (GO-10775, PI:~Sarajedini). For each source in the catalogues for which we have reliable proper motion we also publish a membership probability for separation of field and cluster stars. These new catalogues, which we make public in Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes, replace previous catalogues by Paper VIII of this series.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS on September 11, 2018. Astro-photometric catalogues, stacked and RGB images of the clusters are publicly available at MAST as High Level Science Product at https://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/hugs/
A Comparative Study on using Principle Component Analysis with Different Text Classifiers
Creators: name: Taloba, Ahmed I.
name: Eisa, D. A.
name: Ismail, Safaa S. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Text categorization (TC) is the task of automatically organizing a set of documents into a set of pre-defined categories. Over the last few years, increased attention has been paid to the use of documents in digital form and this makes text categorization becomes a challenging issue. The most significant problem of text categorization is its huge number of features. Most of these features are redundant, noisy and irrelevant that cause over fitting with most of the classifiers. Hence, feature extraction is an important step to improve the overall accuracy and the performance of the text classifiers. In this paper, we will provide an overview of using principle component analysis (PCA) as a feature extraction with various classifiers. It was observed that the performance rate of the classifiers after using PCA to reduce the dimension of data improved. Experiments are conducted on three UCI data sets, Classic03, CNAE-9 and DBWorld e-mails. We compare the classification performance results of using PCA with popular and well-known text classifiers. Results show that using PCA encouragingly enhances classification performance on most of the classifiers.
Assessing forecast uncertainties in a VECX model for Switzerland: an exercise in forecast combination across models and observation windows
Creators: name: Assenmacher-Wesche, Katrin
name: Pesaran, M. Hashem
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2007
Subjects: Bayesian model averaging
choice of observation window
long-run structural vector autoregression

description: model for Switzerland. Forecast uncertainty is evaluated in three different dimensions. First, we investigate the effect on forecasting performance of averaging over forecasts from different models. Second, we look at different estimation windows. We find that averaging over estimation windows is at least as effective as averaging over different models and both complement each other. Third, we explore whether using weighting schemes from the machine learning literature improves the average forecast. Compared to equal weights the effect of the weighting scheme on forecast accuracy is small in our application.
Small-time fluctuations for the bridge in a model class of hypoelliptic diffusions of weak Hörmander type
Creators: name: Habermann, Karen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35H10, 60F05, 60J60

description: We study the small-time asymptotics for hypoelliptic diffusion processes conditioned by their initial and final positions, in a model class of diffusions satisfying a weak Hörmander condition where the diffusivity is constant and the drift is linear. We show that, while the diffusion bridge can exhibit a blow-up behaviour in the small time limit, we can still make sense of suitably rescaled fluctuations which converge weakly. We explicitly describe the limit fluctuation process in terms of quantities associated to the unconditioned diffusion. In the discussion of examples, we also find an expression for the bridge from 0 to 0 in time 1 of an iterated Kolmogorov diffusion.
description: 17 pages
MOESM1 of Palladium-catalyzed borylation of aryl (pseudo)halides and its applications in biaryl synthesis
Creators: name: Ji, Hong
name: Jianghong Cai
name: Gan, Nana
name: Zhaohua Wang
name: Liyang Wu
name: Guorong Li
name: Yi, Tao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supporting Informations.
title: Newspaper Column: High Occupancy on the Toll Road
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: The Connection
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Dulles Toll Road
subject: Toll roads
subject: High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV)
subject: Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: Commuting home to Reston last Tuesday afternoon on the Dulles Toll Road, I was amazed at the ease in traffic flow. I was naturally driving in the fast lane, and could in fact drive fast. (Don’t ask how fast. My President has taught me never to admit my crimes.) When I expressed surprise to my wife, she stifled scorn for my obtuse delight and replied, “we’re a high-occupancy couple.” Of course! HOV privileges had been inaugurated that very day on the toll road. The fast lane was a new lane reserved during commuting hours for couples or larger clans. I saw an emblematic diamond on the lane slide rapidly under our car. The Virginia Department of Transportation had given us a Christmas gift of precious asphalt.
Giant Conductance Oscillations In Mesoscopic Andreev Interferometers
Creators: name: Allsopp, N. K.
name: Canizares, J. Sanchez
name: Raimondi, R.
name: Lambert, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the electrical conductance $G(ϕ)$ of a two-dimensional, phase coherent structure in contact with two superconductors, which is known to be an oscillatory function of the phase difference $ϕ$ between the superconductors. It is predicted that for a metallic sample, the amplitude of oscillation is enhanced by placing a normal barrier at the interface and that, by tuning the strength of the barrier, can be orders of magnitude greater than values observed in recent experiments. Giant oscillations can also be obtained without a barrier, provided a crucial sum rule is broken. This can be achieved by disorder induced normal scattering. In the absence of zero phase inter-channel scattering, the conductance possesses a zero phase minimum.
description: 4 pages of Revtex, 6 figures available on request