cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Measuring the baryon content of the universe: BBN vs CMB
Creators: name: Sarkar, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relic abundance of baryons - the only form of stable matter whose existence we are certain of - is a crucial parameter for many cosmological processes, as well as material evidence that there is new physics beyond the Standard Model. We discuss recent determinations of the cosmological baryon density from analysis of the abundances of light elements synthesised at the end of ``the first three minutes'', and from the observed temperature anisotropies imprinted on small angular-scales in the cosmic microwave background when the universe was about 100,000 yr old.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures (LaTeX); Invited talk at the XIII Recontres de Blois "Frontiers of the Universe", 17-23 June 2001
Semantic Foreground Inpainting from Weak Supervision
Creators: name: Lu, Chenyang
name: Dubbelman, Gijs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Semantic scene understanding is an essential task for self-driving vehicles and mobile robots. In our work, we aim to estimate a semantic segmentation map, in which the foreground objects are removed and semantically inpainted with background classes, from a single RGB image. This semantic foreground inpainting task is performed by a single-stage convolutional neural network (CNN) that contains our novel max-pooling as inpainting (MPI) module, which is trained with weak supervision, i.e., it does not require manual background annotations for the foreground regions to be inpainted. Our approach is inherently more efficient than the previous two-stage state-of-the-art method, and outperforms it by a margin of 3% IoU for the inpainted foreground regions on Cityscapes. The performance margin increases to 6% IoU, when tested on the unseen KITTI dataset. The code and the manually annotated datasets for testing are shared with the research community at https://github.com/Chenyang-Lu/semantic-foreground-inpainting.
description: RA-L and ICRA'20
Technology-Based Strategies to Teach Communication Skills to Individuals with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities
Creators: name: Sayam, Sara (Author)
Publisher: name: Capilano University
Year: 2020

description: Handheld electronic devices in the form of speech generating devices (SGD), have become increasingly prevalent in today’s society for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD). These tools have been demonstrated to be effective through various research studies, promoting its development of attaining its status as an evidence based practice. This literature review encompasses ten research studies evaluating the effects of handheld mobile technological devices (e.g., iPad, iPad Mini, iPod), as SGDs by means of fostering functional communication skills such as madding, responding, commenting and discriminating between stimuli in individuals with I/DD. The research question imposed for this literature review involves the effectiveness of technological devices as a form of teaching communication skills to individuals with I/DD who have little to no speech abilities. Through the findings in this review, the results suggest an overall increase in communication through various forms for all participants involved. This suggests continued support for the use of handheld computing devices as SGDs for individuals with I/DD. Future directions in research can include advancements in teaching of more complex forms of communication such as requesting using full sentences, independently asking questions, in addition to inclusion of social factors for communication such as eye contact, smiling, and body posture.
description: Not peer reviewed
description: technology based communication
description: single subject research
description: intellectual disabilities
description: developmental disabilities
Yeast strains from coconut toddy in Sri Lanka show high tolerance to inhibitors derived from the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials
Creators: name: Maduka Subodinee Ahangangoda Arachchige
name: Mizutani, Osamu
name: Toyama, Hirohide
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: We previously isolated 18 Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains from coconut toddy in Sri Lanka. All the 18 strains (SLY-1 to SLY-18) could grow aerobically up to 18 mmol L−1 vanillin in yeast extract–peptone–dextrose (YPD) medium, and the SLY-10 strain showed the highest vanillin tolerance (up to 21 mmol L−1). Among these 18 strains, even in the presence of 24 mmol L−1 vanillin, five strains (SLY-3, SLY-4, SLY-8, SLY-9 and SLY-10) produced alcohol at 72 h in the range of 11.4–33.1 g L−1 and the SLY-10 strain showed highest alcohol production. The five strains showed the conversion of vanillin to vanillyl alcohol. They also tolerated other strong inhibitors: 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (24 mmol L−1), furfural (30 mmol L−1), 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furaldehyde (5-HMF, 36 mmol L−1) and acetic acid (75 mmol L−1). All these five strains showed no growth and no alcohol production when cultured in the medium with inhibitor mixture of 2.7 mmol L−1 vanillin, 30 mmol L−1 furfural, 30 mmol L−1 5-HMF, 75 mmol L−1 acetic acid and 75 mmol L−1 formic acid but showed significant growth and alcohol production of 16.2–32.7 g L−1 with inhibitor mixture of 30% concentration (0.81 mmol L−1 vanillin, 9 mmol L−1 furfural, 9 mmol L−1 5-HMF, 22.5 mmol L−1 acetic acid and 22.5 mmol L−1 formic acid). The four strains (SLY-3, SLY-4, SLY-8 and SLY-9) were shown to tolerate the inhibitor mixture to a similar extent and better than SLY-10, while SLY-10 was the best to vanillin alone.
Nucleon Properties in the Perturbative Chiral Quark Model
Creators: name: Lyubovitskij, V. E.
name: Gutsche, Th.
name: Faessler, Amand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the perturbative chiral quark model (PCQM) to analyse low-energy nucleon properties: electromagnetic form factors, meson-nucleon sigma-terms and pion-nucleon scattering. Baryons are described as bound states of valence quarks surrounded by a cloud of Goldstone bosons (pi, K, eta) as required by chiral symmetry. The model is based on the following guide lines: chiral symmetry constraints, fulfilment of low-energy theorems and proper treatment of sea-quarks, that is meson cloud contributions. Analytic expressions for nucleon observables are obtained in terms of fundamental parameters of low-energy pion-nucleon physics (weak pion decay constant, axial nucleon coupling constant, strong pion-nucleon form factor) and of only one model parameter (radius of the nucleonic three-quark core). Our results are in good agreement with experimental data and results of other theoretical approaches.
description: 8 pages. Invited talk given at Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons "NSTAR2001", Mainz, Germany, March 7-10, 2001
A General Approach of Quasi-Exactly Solvable Schroedinger Equations
Creators: name: Debergh, N.
name: Ndimubandi, J.
name: Bossche, B. Van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a general algorithm generating the analytic eigenfunctions as well as eigenvalues of one-dimensional stationary Schroedinger Hamiltonians. Both exact and quasi-exact Hamiltonians enter our formalism but we focus on quasi-exact interactions for which no such general approach has been considered before. In particular we concentrate on a generalized sextic oscillator but also on the Lame and the screened Coulomb potentials.
description: 23 pages, no figure
THE IMPACT OF CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT ON SUSTAINABILITY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS
Creators: name: Hussein, Adan Abdi Abdirahman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: CREDIT
subject: RISK MANAGEMENT
subject: Sustainability sciences
subject: COMMERCIAL BANKS

description: Abstract

Credit risk management plays a crucial role in ensuring the sustainability of commercial banks. This study examines the impact of credit risk management on the sustainability of commercial banks in Baidoa, Somalia. It explores key risk management strategies, their effectiveness, and the challenges faced by banks in mitigating credit risks while maintaining financial stability.

The research employs a mixed-methods approach, collecting data from bank managers, financial analysts, and credit officers through surveys and interviews. The findings reveal that effective credit risk management practices, such as risk assessment frameworks, loan monitoring, and diversified investment strategies, significantly contribute to bank stability. However, challenges such as high default rates, inadequate regulatory frameworks, and economic instability hinder optimal risk management.

The study concludes that improving credit risk management policies, strengthening regulatory oversight, and enhancing financial literacy among borrowers are essential for ensuring long-term bank sustainability. The recommendations include adopting advanced risk assessment technologies, implementing stricter loan approval processes, and fostering collaboration between banks and policymakers. These insights contribute to the broader understanding of risk management in banking and provide guidance for financial institutions in Somalia and similar contexts.
Ferromagnetic Domain Walls in finite systems: mean-field critical exponents and applications
Creators: name: Uchoa, B.
name: Cabrera, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distribution of magnetic moments in finite ferromagnetic bodies was first investigated by Landau and Lifshitz in a famous paper [\textit{Phys. Z. Soviet Union}, \textbf{8}, 153 (1935)], where they obtained the domain structure of a ferromagnetic crystal at low temperatures, in the regime of saturated magnetization. In this article, we investigate the general properties of ferromagnetic domain walls of uniaxial crystals from the view point of the Landau free energy. We present the basic ideas at an introductory level, for non-experts. Extending the formalism to the vicinity of the Curie temperature, where a general qualitative description by the Landau theory of phase transitions can be applied, we find that domain walls tend to suppress the layers, leading to a continuous vanishing of the domain structure with anomalous critical exponents. In the saturated regime, we discuss the role of domain walls in mesoscopic systems and ferromagnetic nanojunctions, relating the observed magnetoresistance with promising applications in the recent area of spintronics.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures. Corrected and extended version. Published as a book chapter
On diffeomorphisms over surfaces trivially embedded in the 4-sphere
Creators: name: Hirose, Susumu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57N10, 57N05, 20F38

description: A surface in the 4-sphere is trivially embedded, if it bounds a 3-dimensional handle body in the 4-sphere. For a surface trivially embedded in the 4-sphere, a diffeomorphism over this surface is extensible if and only if this preserves the Rokhlin quadratic form of this embedded surface.
description: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol2/agt-2-33.abs.html
Saccharodite bakeri Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Saccharodite
Saccharodite bakeri

description: Saccharodite bakeri Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Fig. 260)
 Description. Forewings 2.0 times longer than wide, length in male 3.0– 3.3 mm (mean = 3.2, n = 8). Colour stramineous; a light orange, longitudinal stripe along frons and clypeus; labium faintly tinted with red, apical segment bright red; fore femora each with 2 longitudinal red stripes; middle and hind femora with red marks; fore and middle tibiae, and apical part of hind tibiae orange; all tarsi bright red; abdomen stramineous, pleura of last 4 segments with red marks. Forewings glassy; very faintly infuscated from clavus tip to base of Ms1, around base of Ms2, and along apical crossveins; last subcostal sector accompanied by light red; veins stramineous, but last 2 subcostal sectors, Sc, parts of R and M, and all margins orange-red; 4 small dark spots on base of Sc+R. Hindwings colourless. In profile face very broad in front of eyes and antennae, junction of vertex and face slightly angulated. Forewings with Ms2 curved after basal third. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process short and slender; distal dorsal process long. Apical part of aedeagus short, with a dorsal, longitudinal groove, the right side extending into a short, pointed tip.
 Etymology. The species is named for C.F. Baker who greatly contributed to the knowledge of insects from the Philippines and Borneo, and ' bakeri ' is a latinized noun used in the genitive case.
 Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.1 mm), EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH; labels: 1) BRITISH N. BORNEO / Tawau, Quoin Hill / 3–7.VII.1962 2) H. Holtmann / Light trap / BISHOP (BPBM). Paratypes. EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH: Tawau, Quoin Hill, Cocoa Res. Stn., 29.IX.1962, 1 ♂ (fw. 3.3), light trap, Y. Hirashima; same data as holotype, 3–20. VII.1962, 8 ♂ (fw. 3.0, 3.2, 3x 3.3); SE, Forest Camp, 19 km N of Kalabakan, 60 m, 16.XI.1962, 1 ♂ (fw. 3.2), Malaise trap, Hirashima (all BPBM).
 Distribution. North Borneo.
 Diagnosis. Saccharodite bakeri is closely related to Sa. rubirostrata Zelazny from the Philippines. However, it has a light orange longitudinal stripe along frons and clypeus, and the apical part of the male aedeagus ends in a short pointed tip and lacks a dorsal lobe covered with small teeth.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 120-121
Layer-dependent spin-orbit torques generated by the centrosymmetric transition metal dichalcogenide $β$-MoTe$_2$
Creators: name: Stiehl, Gregory M.
name: Li, Ruofan
name: Gupta, Vishakha
name: Baggari, Ismail El
name: Jiang, Shengwei
name: Xie, Hongchao
name: Kourkoutis, Lena F.
name: Mak, Kin Fai
name: Shan, Jie
name: Buhrman, Robert A.
name: Ralph, Daniel C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single-crystal materials with sufficiently low crystal symmetry and strong spin-orbit interactions can be used to generate novel forms of spin-orbit torques on adjacent ferromagnets, such as the out-of-plane antidamping torque previously observed in WTe$_2$/ferromagnet heterostructures. Here, we present measurements of spin-orbit torques produced by the low-symmetry material $β$-MoTe$_2$, which unlike WTe$_2$ retains bulk inversion symmetry. We measure spin-orbit torques on $β$-MoTe$_2$/Permalloy heterostructures using spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance as a function of crystallographic alignment and MoTe$_2$ thickness down to the monolayer limit. We observe an out-of-plane antidamping torque with a spin torque conductivity as strong as 1/3 of that of WTe$_2$, demonstrating that the breaking of bulk inversion symmetry in the spin-generation material is not a necessary requirement for producing an out-of-plane antidamping torque. We also measure an unexpected dependence on the thickness of the $β$-MoTe$_2$ -- the out-of-plane antidamping torque is present in MoTe$_2$/Permalloy heterostructures when the $β$-MoTe$_2$ is a monolayer or trilayer thick, but goes to zero for devices with bilayer $β$-MoTe$_2$.
Occupational Orientations of Polytechnic Sociology Students : First Stage, 1971
Occupational Orientations of Polytechnic Sociology Students, 1971-1974
Creators: name: Pigeon, J.
name: Cannon, I. C.
name: Vogler, C.
name: Rigby, M. A.
name: Scambler, A.
name: Harrison, B. J.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1976

description: To explore the development and content of occupational orientation of sociology/social studies students from their entry into the course until their final year of study.
Multi-proxy analyses of a mid-15th century Middle Iron Age Bantu-speaker palaeo-faecal specimen elucidates the configuration of the ‘ancestral’ sub-Saharan African intestinal microbiome
Creators: name: Rifkin, Riaan F.
name: Vikram, Surendra
name: Ramond, Jean-Baptiste
name: Rey-Iglesia, Alba
name: Brand, Tina B.
name: Porraz, Guillaume
name: Val, Aurore
name: Hall, Grant
name: Woodborne, Stephan
name: Le Bailly, Matthieu
name: Potgieter, Marnie
name: Underdown, Simon J.
name: Koopman, Jessica E.
name: Cowan, Don A.
name: Van De Peer, Yves
name: Willerslev, Eske
name: Hansen, Anders J.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research
Ancient DNA
Human evolution
Molecular ecology
Intestinal microbiome
Taxonomic composition
Metabolic capacity

description: Funder: Ministère des Affaires Etrangères; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003763
description: Abstract: Background: The archaeological incidence of ancient human faecal material provides a rare opportunity to explore the taxonomic composition and metabolic capacity of the ancestral human intestinal microbiome (IM). Here, we report the results of the shotgun metagenomic analyses of an ancient South African palaeo-faecal specimen. Methods: Following the recovery of a single desiccated palaeo-faecal specimen from Bushman Rock Shelter in Limpopo Province, South Africa, we applied a multi-proxy analytical protocol to the sample. The extraction of ancient DNA from the specimen and its subsequent shotgun metagenomic sequencing facilitated the taxonomic and metabolic characterisation of this ancient human IM. Results: Our results indicate that the distal IM of the Neolithic ‘Middle Iron Age’ (c. AD 1460) Bantu-speaking individual exhibits features indicative of a largely mixed forager-agro-pastoralist diet. Subsequent comparison with the IMs of the Tyrolean Iceman (Ötzi) and contemporary Hadza hunter-gatherers, Malawian agro-pastoralists and Italians reveals that this IM precedes recent adaptation to ‘Western’ diets, including the consumption of coffee, tea, chocolate, citrus and soy, and the use of antibiotics, analgesics and also exposure to various toxic environmental pollutants. Conclusions: Our analyses reveal some of the causes and means by which current human IMs are likely to have responded to recent dietary changes, prescription medications and environmental pollutants, providing rare insight into human IM evolution following the advent of the Neolithic c. 12,000 years ago. Video Abtract.
Comparison of Methods for Updating Census Based Estimates of Number of Farms to Non-Census Years
Creators: name: Bellow, Michael E.
name: Kott, Phillip S.
name: Bellow, Michael E.
name: Kott, Phillip S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: census
subject: area sampling frame
subject: delete-a-group jackknife.

description: The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts the census of agriculture (a complete count of US farms and ranches) every five years. Sample surveys, including the June area survey (JAS), are carried out annually to obtain estimates of many of the same agricultural quantities as the census. Due to the large number of operators surveyed and the complete coverage provided by the census, its numbers are considered more accurate than those derived from the much smaller scale sample surveys. An interesting question is whether census figures for specific survey items can be used in conjunction with survey data to improve estimation accuracy for non-census years. Because of its relative stability over time, the survey item considered most likely to benefit from such an approach is number of farms in a state. Two proposed methods for projecting census counts of number of farms to subsequent non-census years are evaluated. The first method updates the census figure to the current year using JAS data only, while the second makes additional use of official NASS state level estimates of number of farms for the previous year (if it wasn’t a census year). The two methods are identical for the first post-census year. The proposed estimators are compared with area frame based and hybrid operational estimators for the years 2003-06 in a study covering most of the lower 48 states, both at the state level and within categories defined by farm value of sales. Variances are estimated using an extended delete-a-group jackknife method.
Maternity Services, 1971
Consumers' Association Surveys, 1967-1976
Creators: name: Consumers' Association
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1976

description: Data accumulated from Consumers' Association surveys are designed to be used by the consumer. The surveys are, therefore, very specific in nature and the subjects covered diverse. The Data Archive holds 19 such surveys.

Readers are asked to note that, with the exception of the surveys on the Telephone Service - 69004, 69016, respondents surveyed are self selected from subscribers to the Association's magazine Which? and so the surveys cannot singly be used in descriptive accounts of the British public.

Surveys 69005-69012 cover various aspects of the housing experiences of Which? readers who moved house in 1967 and 1968. It is here particularly important to remember that the choice strategies and the resources of Which? readers are unlikely to be typical.
General Overview of the NASS Objective Yield and Objective Measurement Programs
Creators: name: Abreu, Denise A.
name: Riberas, Zulma T.
name: Abreu, Denise A.
name: Riberas, Zulma T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Objective Yield Surveys
subject: Objective Yield Program
subject: Objective Measurement Program

description: This document provides an overview of the objective yield and objective measurement programs conducted by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) since the early 1950s. The document presents historical data on state participation and sample sizes for all crops included in the national program and relevant information on state specific programs. The national program, directed from the NASS headquarters in Washington D.C., and funded under the Federal budget, includes (or has included) the following crops: corn, cotton, potatoes, rice, sorghum, soybeans, sunflower, tobacco, and wheat. The state specific programs are only conducted in specific states and are funded by local state governments or specific industries.
Multiple-Scale Analysis and Renormalization of Quenched Second Order Phase Transitions
Creators: name: Kim, Sang Pyo
name: Sengupta, Supratim
name: Khanna, F. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quenched second order phase transition is modeled by an effective $Φ^4$-theory with a time-dependent Hamiltonian $\hat{H} (t)$, whose symmetry is broken spontaneously in time. The quantum field evolves out of equilibrium (nonequilibrium) during the phase transition as the density operator significantly deviates from $\hatρ (t) = e^{- β\hat{H} (t)}/Z_H$. The recently developed Liouville-von Neumann (LvN) method provides various quantum states for the phase transition in terms of a complex solution to the mean-field equation, which is equivalent to the Gaussian effective potential in the static case and to the time-dependent Hartree-Fock equation in the nonequilibrium case. Using the multiple scale perturbation theory (MSPT) we solve analytically the mean-field equation to the first order of coupling constant and find the quantum states during the quenched second order phase transition. We propose a renormalization scheme during the process of phase transition to regularize the divergences, which originate from the mode coupling between hard and hard modes or between the soft and hard modes. The effect of mode coupling is discussed.
description: RevTex 19 pages. A paragraph on the limitations of the Hartree approx. has been added. Version to appear in Phys.Rev.D
Universality of high-dimensional spanning forests and sandpiles
Creators: name: Hutchcroft, Tom
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
Uniform spanning tree
Uniform spanning forest
Random interlacements
Mean-field
Critical exponents
Anomalous diffusion
Primary 60K35
Secondary 82B20

description: Funder: University of Cambridge
description: Abstract: We prove that the wired uniform spanning forest exhibits mean-field behaviour on a very large class of graphs, including every transitive graph of at least quintic volume growth and every bounded degree nonamenable graph. Several of our results are new even in the case of Zd, d≥5. In particular, we prove that every tree in the forest has spectral dimension 4/3 and walk dimension 3 almost surely, and that the critical exponents governing the intrinsic diameter and volume of the past of a vertex in the forest are 1 and 1/2 respectively. (The past of a vertex in the uniform spanning forest is the union of the vertex and the finite components that are disconnected from infinity when that vertex is deleted from the forest.) We obtain as a corollary that the critical exponent governing the extrinsic diameter of the past is 2 on any transitive graph of at least five dimensional polynomial growth, and is 1 on any bounded degree nonamenable graph. We deduce that the critical exponents describing the diameter and total number of topplings in an avalanche in the Abelian sandpile model are 2 and 1/2 respectively for any transitive graph with polynomial growth of dimension at least five, and are 1 and 1/2 respectively for any bounded degree nonamenable graph. In the case of Zd, d≥5, some of our results regarding critical exponents recover earlier results of Bhupatiraju et al. (Electron J Probab 22(85):51, 2017). In this case, we improve upon their results by showing that the tail probabilities in question are described by the appropriate power laws to within constant-order multiplicative errors, rather than the polylogarithmic-order multiplicative errors present in that work.
Josephson Array Mode Parametric Amplifier
Creators: name: Sivak, V. V.
name: Shankar, S.
name: Liu, G.
name: Aumentado, J.
name: Devoret, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a novel near-quantum-limited amplifier with a large tunable bandwidth and high dynamic range - the Josephson Array Mode Parametric Amplifier (JAMPA). The signal and idler modes involved in the amplification process are realized by the array modes of a chain of 1000 flux tunable, Josephson-junction-based, nonlinear elements. The frequency spacing between array modes is comparable to the flux tunability of the modes, ensuring that any desired frequency can be occupied by a resonant mode, which can further be pumped to produce high gain. We experimentally demonstrate that the device can be operated as a nearly quantum-limited parametric amplifier with 20 dB of gain at almost any frequency within (4-12) GHz band. On average, it has a 3 dB bandwidth of 11 MHz and input 1 dB compression power of -108 dBm, which can go as high as -93 dBm. We envision the application of such a device to the time- and frequency-multiplexed readout of multiple qubits, as well as to the generation of continuous-variable cluster states.
Comparison of the Speed of the 2007 Census of Agriculture Donor Search Method Against Five Alternative Techniques
Creators: name: Gregg, Matthew E.
name: Hogye, Michael
name: Gregg, Matthew E.
name: Hogye, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: SAS
subject: donor
subject: imputation
subject: daemon
subject: nearest neighbor

description: The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts a census of agriculture every five years. A major focus after the 2002 Census was to improve the speed and efficiency of the edit and imputation system for the 2007 Census. The imputation routine developed for 2007 achieved the speed goals set forth during the 2007 Census planning phase, but no effort was made to benchmark the new procedure against other SAS search techniques. This study compared the search method used in the 2007 Census of Agriculture imputation routine with five alternative SAS techniques for finding a record in a SAS dataset. The results showed that the temporary array technique used in the 2007 Census had the fastest response times with the least variation among the techniques tested.
Convenient synthesis and anti-proliferative activity of some benzochromenes and chromenotriazolopyrimidines under classical methods and phase transfer catalysis
Creators: name: Ali, Amira T.
name: Hekal, Mohamed H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: A new series of benzochromene, benzochromenopyrimidine, and benzotriazolopyrimdine derivatives 3-10 were prepared via reaction of ethyl formimidate 2 with primary amines such as sulfanilamide, cyclohexylamine, 3-aminopyridine, 4-aminoantipyrine in addition to its reactions with different acid hydrazides. Compound 5 was further allowed to react with different C-electrophiles by classical and phase transfer catalysis conditions to get novel chromenotriazolopyrimidine derivatives. Screening of the antitumor activity in some of the newly synthesized compounds was tested in vitro against a panel of two human tumor cell lines namely HepG2 and HCT-116 cell lines. Compounds 4, 7, 8, 10, and 20 showed remarkable broad-spectrum antitumor activity.
Saccharodite coccinea Zelazny 1981
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Saccharodite
Saccharodite coccinea

description: Saccharodite coccinea (Matsumura, 1940)
 Rhotana coccinea Matsumura, 1940: 47 (unknown depository)
 Saccharodite coccinea (Matsumura) Zelazny, 1981: 237, with a redescription.
(Fig. 85)
 Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (coccineus, -a, -um = scarlet-coloured).
 Type material. Holotype ♀, TAIWAN, Kotosho (Botel Tabago), Tadao Kano (depository unknown).
 Additional material examined. JAPAN: RYUKYU ISL.: Iriomote I., Shirahama, 15 m, 7.XI.1963, 2 ♂, light trap, G.A. Samuelson (BPBM); WEST MALAYSIA: Negri Sembilau, Port Dickson 4.I.1925, 1 ♀, H.M. Pendlebury; EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH: Sandakan, 1♀, Baker (all BMNH).
 Distribution. Japan, Taiwan, China, Laos, Thailand, Philippines, West Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, New Guinea, New Britain.
 Diagnosis and remarks. The identity of this species is based on the detailed original description. The designation of a neotype from Taiwan would be desirable. However, the species appears to be rare on that island. Saccharodite coccinea is well characterized by the unbranched 1st median sector (or Ms1b completely fused with Cu1), the powdered forewings and the blood-red body. The pygofer has a ventral projection and the apical part of the male aedeagus has a prominent, hook-like process on the left side. As mentioned below Sa. coccinea might actually be a synonym of Sa. sanguinea, the type species of Saccharodite, described from Java. However, the whereabouts of the type specimens of both species is unknown.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 121-122
Topological Defects and the Trial Orbit Method
Creators: name: Bazeia, D.
name: Freire, W.
name: Losano, L.
name: Ribeiro, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We deal with the presence of topological defects in models for two real scalar fields. We comment on defects hosting topological defects, and we search for explicit defect solutions using the trial orbit method. As we know, under certain circumstances the second order equations of motion can be solved by first order differential equations. In this case we show that the trial orbit method can be used very efficiently to obtain explicit solutions.
description: 5 pages, Revtex4
Using Multi-Phase Sampling to Limit Respondent Burden Across Agriculture Surveys
Creators: name: Kott, Phillip S.
name: Fetter, Matthew J.
name: Kott, Phillip S.
name: Fetter, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Conditional selection probability
subject: unconditional selection probability
subject: Poisson permanent random number.

description: The National Agricultural Statistics Service is developing strategies that limit the amount of sample overlap across unrelated surveys by using multi-phase sampling principles. In its simplest form, Sample A is selected first, and then Sample B is chosen from among those members of the population not selected for Sample A. Effectively, Sample B is selected in two-phases. This two-phase approach extends easily to the coordination of more than two samples, although meeting accuracy and/or sample-size targets while maintaining strict sample exclusivity is not always possible. Variation of the basic approach address this problem, but lead to some theoretical difficulties. Sampling weights may be based on products of conditional selection probabilities rather than on unconditional selection probabilities. Randomization-based variance estimation likewise may depend on the product of conditional joint selection probabilities. In practice, variance estimates will be reasonable but may not always be randomization consistent.
Well-posedness of cubic Horndeski theories
Creators: name: Kovács, Áron D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the local well-posedness of the initial value problem for cubic Horndeski theories. Three different strongly hyperbolic modifications of the ADM formulation of the Einstein equations are extended to cubic Horndeski theories in the weak field regime. In the first one, the equations of motion are rewritten as a coupled elliptic-hyperbolic system of partial differential equations. The second one is based on the BSSN formulation with a generalised Bona-Massó slicing (covering the 1+log slicing) and non-dynamical shift vector. The third one is an extension of the CCZ4 formulation with a generalised Bona-Massó slicing (also covering the 1+log slicing) and a gamma driver shift condition. This final formulation may be particularly suitable for applications in non-linear numerical simulations.
Macroscopic and mesoscopic matter waves
Creators: name: Varma, Ram K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown earlier that matter waves which are known to lie typically in the range of a few Angstrom, can also manifest in the macrodomain with a wave length of a few centimeters, for electrons propagating along a magnetic field. This followed from the predictions of a probability amplitude theory by the author in the classical macrodomain of the dynamics of charged particles in a magnetic field. It is shown in this paper that this case constitutes only a special case of a generic situation whereby composite systems such as atoms and molecules in their highly excited internal states,can exhibit matter wave manifestation in macro and mesodomains. The wave length of these waves is determined, not by the mass of the particle as in the case of the de Broglie wave, but by the frequency, associated with the internal state of excitation, and is given by a nonquantal expression, $λ=2πv/ω$, $v$ being the velocity of the particle. For the electrons in a magnetic field the frequency corresponds to the gyrofrequency, $Ω$ and the nonquantal wave length is given by $λ= 2πv_{\parallel}/Ω$; $v_{\parallel}$ being the velocity of electrons along the magnetic field.
description: 16 pages, LaTex, No figures
Evidence for Possible Phase-Separations in RuSr2(Gd,Ce)2Cu2O10-delta
Creators: name: Xue, Y. Y.
name: Cao, D. H.
name: Lorenz, B.
name: Chu, C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An unusual thermal-magnetic hysteresis was observed between a minor magnetic transition around 120 K and the main one at 80 K in superconducting RuSr2(R,Ce)2Cu2O10-delta (Ru1222R) samples, where R = Gd or Eu, down to a submicron length-scale. The observation suggests a possible phase-separation and is consistent with the very small but universal demagnetizing factor observed, which is difficult to reconcile with the canted spin-structure previously proposed. In such a scenario, the unusual superconducting properties of the Ru-based cuprates can also be understood naturally.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B, "Rapid Communications" (September 26, 2001)
Development and high-power testing of an X-band dielectric-loaded power extractor
Creators: name: Shao, Jiahang
name: Jing, Chunguang
name: Wisniewski, Eric
name: Ha, Gwanghui
name: Conde, Manoel
name: Liu, Wanming
name: Power, John
name: Zheng, Lianmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dielectric loaded structures are promising candidates for use in the structure wakefield acceleration (SWFA) technique, for both the collinear wakefield and the two-beam acceleration (CWA and TBA respectively) approaches, due to their low fabrication cost, low rf losses, and the potential to withstand high gradient. A short pulse (<=20 ns) TBA program is under development at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) facility where dielectric loaded structures are being used for both the power extractor/transfer structure (PETS) and the accelerator. In this study, an X-band 11.7 GHz dielectric PETS was developed and tested at the AWA facility to demonstrate high power wakefield generation. The PETS was driven by a train of eight electron bunches separated by 769.2 ps (9 times of the X-band rf period) in order to achieve coherent wakefield superposition. A total train charge of 360 nC was passed through the PETS structure to generate ~200 MW, ~3 ns flat-top rf pulses without rf breakdown. A future experiment is being planned to increase the generated rf power to approximately ~1 GW by optimizing the structure design and improving the drive beam quality.
Saccharodite foliata Zelazny & Webb 2011
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Saccharodite
Saccharodite foliata

description: Saccharodite foliata species group
(Fig. 83)
 Diagnosis. The species of the Saccharodite foliata species group can be recognized by the combination of the following characters:
1. Greatest width of basal median cell about twice of greatest width of basal cell between M and Sc+R.
2. Forewings with veins around M-Ms3 fork marked with dark infuscation (see Fig. 83).
3. In profile head angulated, slightly angulated or rounded at junction of vertex and face.
4. Sometimes a blade-like process attached to the left side of the stem of the male aedeagus.
5. Male genital style with proximal dorsal processes slender.
 Distribution. Species of this group are found in Borneo and West Malaysia.
 Discussion. We have some doubts about the relationship of some of the species of this group, as some characters like the angulation of the head in profile at the junction of vertex and face do not seem to be very consistent.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on page 122
Autonomous generation of all Wigner functions and marginal probability densities of Landau levels
Creators: name: Demircioglu, B.
name: Vercin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generation of Wigner functions of Landau levels and determination of their symmetries and generic properties are achieved in the autonomous framework of deformation quantization. Transformation properties of diagonal Wigner functions under space inversion, time reversal and parity transformations are specified and their invariance under a four-parameter subgroup of symplectic transformations are established. A generating function for all Wigner functions is developed and this has been identified as the phase-space coherent state for Landau levels. Integrated forms of generating function are used in generating explicit expressions of marginal probability densities on all possible two dimensional phase-space planes. Phase-space realization of unitary similarity and gauge transformations as well as some general implications for the Wigner function theory are presented.
description: 28 pages, 2 tables. Typos and a minor revision only section 7
Campaigning in an unprecedented election: issue competition in the French 2017 presidential election
Creators: name: Lachat, Romain
name: Michel, Elie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The 2017 French presidential elections featured an eventful campaign, produced astonishing results, and presented important signs of party system change. This paper analyses the main lines of divide of the demand and the supply side of electoral competition. It analyses the structure of citizens’ preferences, as well as the candidates’ strategic issue opportunities, relying on issue yield theory. To that end, it combines data from an original individual-level survey with information about the candidates’ Twitter messages. It is found that the traditional model of two-dimensional political space, characterised by an economic (left–right) and socio-cultural (integration–demarcation) dimension is largely challenged. On the supply-side, the analysis offers additional evidence for the central role played by the integration–demarcation divide, while showing that the traditional left–right conflict has not fully disappeared.
Charmonium suppression in p-A collisions at RHIC
Creators: name: Arleo, Francois
name: Gossiaux, Pol-Bernard
name: Aichelin, Jorg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss charmonium production in proton-nucleus collisions at RHIC energies under the assumption of xF and x2 scaling. We find that all the ambiguities due to energy loss are gone at this energy and therefore data will reveal the scaling law, if any. These p-A data will also be crucial to interpret nucleus-nucleus data with respect to a possible formation of a quark gluon plasma because the extrapolations for charmonium production from the present p-A data to RHIC energies, based on the two scaling laws, differ by a factor of four.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. New section on shadowing and energy loss, References added
Risks to human health from ammunition-derived lead in Europe
Creators: name: Green, Rhys E.
name: Pain, Deborah J.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Lead Use in Hunting
Bioavailability
Bullet
Gunshot
Health risk
IQ

description: Abstract: It has been known for centuries that lead is toxic to humans. Chronic exposure to lead, even at low levels, is associated with an elevated risk of cardiovascular and chronic kidney disease in adults and of impaired neurodevelopment and subsequent cognitive and behavioural development in the foetus and young children. Health agencies throughout the world have moved from assuming that there are tolerable levels of exposure to lead to a recognition that valid ‘no-effect’ thresholds cannot currently be defined. Formerly, the most important exposure pathways were occupational exposure, water from lead plumbing, paints, petrol additives and foods. Regulation of products and improved health and safety procedures at work have left dietary lead as the main remaining pathway of exposure in European countries. Ammunition-derived lead is now a significant cause of dietary lead exposure in groups of people who eat wild game meat frequently. These are mostly hunters, shoot employees and their families, but also some people who choose to eat game for ethical, health or other reasons, and their children. Extrapolation from surveys conducted in the UK and a review of studies of game consumption in other countries suggest that approximately 5 million people in the EU may be high-level consumers of lead-shot game meat and that tens of thousands of children in the EU may be consuming game contaminated with ammunition-derived lead frequently enough to cause significant effects on their cognitive development.
Statistical Aspects of a Census
Creators: name: House, Carol C.
name: House, Carol C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: census
subject: coverage
subject: non-response
subject: error
subject: frames
subject: imputation
subject: disclosure

description: This paper focuses on the statistical aspects of a census. It addresses issues such as the coverage, classification, sampling, non-sampling error, post collection processing, weighting and disclosure avoidance. The intent of the paper is to demonstrate that most (if not all) of the statistical issues that are important in conducting a survey are equally germane to conducting a census.
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; January 1972
January 1972
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
OILADA GENDIR TENGLIK MUAMMOSI
Creators: name: Mirsidikova, Aziza Mirvohidovna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada uzoq yillar befarq qaralgan gender tengligi, uning mazmuni va mohiyati, jamiyat hayotida ahamiyati keltirib oʻtilgan. Bundan tashqari gender tengligining Oʻzbekistonga kirib kelishi, asosiy qonunlar va oila hayotida tutgan roli xususida maʻlumotlar berib oʻtilgan.