cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 3 of Label-free quantitative proteomic analysis of the inhibition effect of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG on Escherichia coli biofilm formation in co-culture
Creators: name: Huiyi Song
name: Lou, Ni
name: Jianjun Liu
name: Xiang, Hong
name: Shang, Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Most highly differentially upregulated and downregulated proteins in E. coli after coculture.
title: Skid-Test Trailer:
title: Description, Evaluation and Adaptation
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rizenbergs, Rolands L.
name: Burchett, James L.
name: Napier, Cass T.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: A two-wheeled skid-test trailer and towing vehicle were acquired in 1969. The trailer was designed primarily for measurement of steady-state friction at and above normal traffic speeds. Measurement of instantaneous wheel loads also permitted determination of peak or incipient friction. Factors and variables associated with the testing device and calibration and test procedures were investigated and standardized, and the trailer was adopted for routine testing. Comparative tests with the trailers of General Motors, Ohio, and West Virginia were conducted, and the data were correlated. The interim standard method of test using an automobile was correlated with the trailer to permit conversion of data accumulated in preceding years.
The USDA CSREES Higher Education Program: Doctoral Fellowships in the National Need Area of Management and Marketing
Creators: name: Boland, Michael A.
name: Boland, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The objective of this study is to summarize the HEP graduate fellowship program in the national need area of management and marketing. The fellowships are the most prestigious in the agricultural sciences in the United States and the monetary amount of the fellowship is the highest in the agricultural sciences at $22,000 per year. Almost 40 percent of all graduated fellows are currently employed in academic positions in the United States and are represented on the faculty of 27 universities. This program could serve as a model for other countries that seek to develop similar fellowships for the purpose of creating a cadre of leaders within agribusiness management. It is important that qualified fellows be recruited, trained, and graduated from doctoral programs that have demonstrated success in training students in the national need of management and marketing.
Black Hole Shadows of Charged Spinning Black Holes
Creators: name: Takahashi, Rohta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method for measuring the black hole charge by imaging a black hole shadow in a galactic center by future interferometers. Even when the black hole is uncharged, it is possible to confirm the charge neutrality by this method. We first derive the analytic formulae of the black hole shadow in an optically thin medium around a charged spinning black hole, and then investigate how contours of the black hole shadow depend on the spin and the charge of the black hole for several inclination angles between the rotation axis of the black hole and the observer. This method only assumes stationary black hole and general relativity. By fitting the formula of the contours of the shadow to the observed image of the shadow, in addition to the black hole charge, one can also determine the black hole spin and the inclination angle without any degeneracy among the charge, the spin, and the inclination angle unless the inclination angle is null.
description: Accepted version of the published paper, Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 57, 273
Self-Organizing Software Models for the Internet of Things
Creators: name: Arellanes, Damian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Internet of Things (IoT) envisions the integration of physical objects into software systems for automating crucial aspects of our lives, such as healthcare, security, agriculture, and city management. Although the vision is promising, with the rapid advancement of hardware and communication technologies, IoT systems are becoming increasingly dynamic, large, and complex to the extent that manual management becomes infeasible. Thus, it is of paramount importance to provide software engineering foundations for constructing autonomic IoT systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel paradigm referred to as self-organizing software models in which IoT software systems are not explicitly programmed, but emerge in a decentralized manner during system operation, with minimal or without human intervention. We particularly present an overview of these models by including their definition, motivation, research challenges, and potential directions.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine
title: Skid Resistance of Pavements
title: [Sept. 1972]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rizenbergs, Rolands L.
name: Burchett, James L.
name: Napier, Cass T.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Standard pavement types and experimental surfaces on roads throughout Kentucky were evaluated in terms of skid resistance and effects of traffic, wear, and polishing. Friction-vs-speed gradients and the relationships between locked-wheel and incipient friction were determined. Asphaltic concrete pavements on high-speed, four-lane roads were found to be significantly more skid resistant than on two-lane highways and somewhat more skid resistant than concrete surfaces (especially those containing calcareous gravel aggregates). Sand-asphalt surfaces containing significant proportions of limestone sands showed inadequate level of friction for the traffic sustained. Several experimental sand asphalts without limestone sands exhibited greater skid resistance; Kentucky rock asphalt surfaces remain the most skid resistant of all surfaces investigated.
Global Shifts in Agro-Industrial Capital and the Case of Soybean Crushing: Implications for Managers and Policy Makers
Creators: name: Goldsmith, Peter D.
name: Li, Bing
name: Fruin, Jerry E.
name: Hirsch, Rodolfo
name: Goldsmith, Peter D.
name: Li, Bing
name: Fruin, Jerry E.
name: Hirsch, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Soybeans
subject: Processing
subject: Investment
subject: Global strategy

description: Tremendous shifts are occurring in the location of agro-industrial capital around the globe. To focus discussion on this topic a session was convened at the annual meeting of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association in Montreux, Switzerland in June of 2004. The session brought together researchers and industry leaders to better understand these dramatic shifts and the implications they hold for the agri-food system. The following article emerges from that session. The first part of the article provides the context for the discussion by looking at global shifts in soybean processing investment. The second part entails reaction by three industry panelists.
A New Window into Planet Formation and Migration: Refractory-to-Volatile Elemental Ratios in Ultra-hot Jupiters
Creators: name: Lothringer, Joshua D.
name: Rustamkulov, Zafar
name: Sing, David K.
name: Gibson, Neale P.
name: Wilson, Jamie
name: Schlaufman, Kevin C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A primary goal of exoplanet characterization is to use a planet's current composition to understand how that planet formed. For example, the C/O ratio has long been recognized as carrying important information on the chemistry of volatile species. Refractory elements, like Fe, Mg, and Si, are usually not considered in this conversation because they condense into solids like Fe(s) or MgSiO$_3$ and would be removed from the observable, gaseous atmosphere in exoplanets cooler than about 2000~K. However, planets hotter than about 2000~K, called ultra-hot Jupiters (UHJs), are warm enough to largely avoid the condensation of refractory species. In this paper, we explore the insight that the measurement of refractory abundances can provide into a planet's origins. Through refractory-to-volatile elemental abundance ratios, we can estimate a planet's atmospheric rock-to-ice fraction and constrain planet formation and migration scenarios. We first relate a planet's present-day refractory-to-volatile ratio to its rock-to-ice ratio from formation using various compositional models for the rocky and icy components of the protoplanetary disk. We discuss potential confounding factors like the sequestration of heavy metals in the core and condensation. We then show such a measurement using atmospheric retrievals of the low-resolution UV-IR transmission spectrum of WASP-121b with PETRA, from which we estimate a refractory-to-volatile ratio of 5.0$^{+6.0}_{-2.7}\times$ solar and a rock-to-ice ratio greater than 2/3. This result is consistent with significant atmospheric enrichment by rocky planetismals. Lastly, we discuss the rich future potential for measuring refractory-to-volatile ratios in ultra-hot Jupiters with the arrival of JWST and by combining observations at low- and high-resolution.
description: 20 pages, 9 Figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
BEC-BCS crossover in "magnetized" Feshbach-resonantly paired superfluids
Creators: name: Sheehy, Daniel E.
name: Radzihovsky, Leo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We map out the detuning-magnetization phase diagram for a ``magnetized'' (unequal number of atoms in two pairing hyperfine states) gas of fermionic atoms interacting via an s-wave Feshbach resonance (FR). For large positive FR detuning a normal magnetized Fermi gas is stable above an exponentially small value of the population difference. Below this critical value the phase diagram is dominated by coexistence of a magnetized normal gas and a singlet paired superfluid with the latter exhibiting a BCS-Bose Einstein condensate crossover with reduced detuning. On the BCS side of strongly overlapping Cooper pairs, a sliver of finite-momentum paired Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov magnetized phase intervenes between the phase separated and normal states. In contrast, for large negative detuning a uniform, polarized superfluid, that is a coherent mixture of singlet Bose-Einstein-condensed molecules and fully magnetized single-species Fermi-sea, is a stable ground state.
description: 4 RevTeX pages, 2 figures. Minor changes from previous version
Revisiting Generalized Two Higgs Doublet Model in the Light of Muon Anomaly and Lepton Flavor Violating Decays at HL-LHC
Creators: name: Ghosh, Nivedita
name: Lahiri, Jayita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the main motivations to look beyond the SM is the discrepancy between the theoretical prediction and observation of anomalous magnetic moment of muon. Alleviating this tension between theory and experiment and satisfying the bounds from lepton flavor violation data simultaneously is a challenging task. In this paper, we consider generalised Two Higgs Doublet Model, with a Yukawa structure as a perturbation of Type X Two Higgs Doublet Model. In view of this model, we explore muon anomaly and lepton flavor violation along with constraints coming from B-physics, theoretical constraints, electroweak observables and collider data which can restrict the model parameter space significantly. We find that within the framework of this model it is possible to obtain regions allowed by all constraints, that can provide an explanation for the observed muon anomaly and at the same time predicts interesting signatures of lepton flavor violation. Furthermore, we consider the flavor violating decay of low-mass CP-odd scalar to probe the allowed parameter space at future runs of the LHC. With simple cut-based analysis we show that part of that parameter space can be probed with significance $> 5 σ$. We also provide Artificial Neural Network analysis which definitely improves our cut-based results significantly.
description: Table 1 has been revised, Figure 7, 8, 9 and 10 have been modified, Few references have been added. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review D journal
Mitigating the High Cost of ISO 14001 EMS Standard Certification: Lessons from Agribusiness Case Research
Creators: name: Yiridoe, Emmanuel K.
name: Marett, Geb E.
name: Yiridoe, Emmanuel K.
name: Marett, Geb E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International
subject: ISO 14001
subject: Small/medium interprises
subject: Environmental entrepreneurship.

description: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) account for an estimated 90% of the world's economic activity, implying that environmental management strategies customized specifically for such organizations are important in a global environmental management initiative such as ISO 14001. The cost of third party ISO 14001 standard registration can be extremely high, and generally beyond the means of SMEs. Three dimensions to ISO 14001 EMS standard registration, which can substantially affect the cost associated with developing, implementing and obtaining ISO 14001 accreditation, were examined: i) whether the EMS implementation and registration process is direct or indirect; ii) how an organization can demonstrate compliance with ISO 14001 requirements; and iii)scale of the ISO 14001 certification process. In addition, case studies are used to highlight important ISO 14001 certification considerations, and assess how the organizations studied mitigated the high cost of ISO 14001 registration.
Boeckler, Richard (hrsg.): Die Lebensstilbewegung
Creators: name: Keienburg, F.H.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 29 Nr. 4 (1980): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 29, Heft 4
Additional file 4 of Label-free quantitative proteomic analysis of the inhibition effect of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG on Escherichia coli biofilm formation in co-culture
Creators: name: Huiyi Song
name: Lou, Ni
name: Jianjun Liu
name: Xiang, Hong
name: Shang, Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S3. Most highly differentially upregulated and downregulated proteins in LGG microcapsules after coculture.
[Cupeño IV: Coyote and Hen, verb paradigms, grammatical topics]
Creators: name: Nolasquez, Roscinda
name: Hill, Jane
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cup

description: From index: "Coyote and Hen 1-15. 17 -- verb paradigms, N-Adj things. 33 where, who questions; a number of subjects with 'axwe/chi. 35 "looks like." 49 ff lots of N adjc things. 53 object case things. 65 stuff with numerals and agreement. 70 ff stuff with "finish" verbing in various forms. 87 alwit song, p. 89 swallows text, 93 fox and cat. 101 verb paradigms, comparatives."
Winding Uplifts and the Challenges of Weak and Strong SUSY Breaking in AdS
Creators: name: Hebecker, Arthur
name: Leonhardt, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the problem of metastable SUSY breaking in the landscape. While this is clearly crucial for the various de Sitter proposals, it is also interesting to consider the SUSY breaking challenge in the AdS context. For example, it could be that a stronger form of the non-SUSY AdS conjecture holds: It would forbid even metastable non-SUSY AdS in cases where the SUSY-breaking scale is parametrically above/below the AdS scale. At the technical level, the present paper proposes to break SUSY using the multi-cosine-shaped axion potentials which arise if a long winding trajectory of a `complex-structure axion' appears in the large-complex-structure limit of a Calabi-Yau orientifold. This has been studied in the context of `Winding Inflation', but the potential for SUSY breaking has not been fully explored. We discuss the application to uplifting LVS vacua, point out the challenges which one faces in the KKLT context, and consider the possibility of violating the non-SUSY AdS conjecture in the type-IIA setting of DGKT.
description: 32 pages, 2 figures, v2: References and more detailed explanations added
Introduction of Weather Index Insurance in Ukraine - Obstacles and Opportunities
Creators: name: Shynkarenko, Roman
name: Shynkarenko, Roman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Crop insurance
subject: weather index
subject: risk management
subject: risk mitigation
subject: crop insurance
subject: farm management

description: Agricultural insurance in Ukraine is mostly offered on the basis of traditional products including PMCI, named perils and single peril coverage. The index concept was introduced in 2001 though until 2005 the insurance companies provided index crop insurance through area-based yield index program. The first weather index transactions (lack of rainfall index) were executed in 2005 for winter wheat at the South of Ukraine. The pilot project on weather index insurance was conducted by the World Bank organizations (IFC Agribusiness Development project and Commodity Risk Management Group) in 2003-2006. The project team proposed assistance in design and promotion of weather index insurance products for agricultural applications. Unfortunately, due to various reasons the project was not expanded. Although Ukraine has reasonable weather monitoring infrastructure and good data, the weather index insurance is not favored by the insurance companies due to new approach to insurance practice. The insurers and producers need to be further informed and educated about the basics of weather index insurance.
Open Spinning Strings and AdS/dCFT Duality
Creators: name: Okamura, Keisuke
name: Takayama, Yastoshi
name: Yoshida, Kentaroh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider open spinning string solutions on an AdS_4 x S^2-brane (D5-brane) in the bulk AdS_5 x S^5 background. By taking account of the breaking of SO(6)_R to SO(3)_H x SO(3)_V due to the presence of the AdS-brane, the open rotating string ansatz is discussed. We construct the elliptic folded/circular open string solutions in the SU(2) and the SL(2) sectors, so that they satisfy the appropriate boundary conditions. On the other hand, in the SU(2) sector of the gauge theory, we compute the matrix of anomalous dimension of the defect operator, which turns out to be the Hamiltonian of an open integrable spin chain. Then we consider the coordinate Bethe ansatz with arbitrary number of impurities, and compare the boundary condition of the Bethe wavefunction with that of the corresponding open string solution. We also discuss the Bethe ansatz for the open SL(2) spin chain with several supports from the string theory side. Then, in both SU(2) and SL(2) sectors, we analyze the Bethe equations in the thermodynamic limit and formulate the `doubling trick' on the Riemann surface associated with the gauge theory.
description: 1+50 pages, 7 figures, JHEP style, references added
Quantifying parameter errors due to the peculiar velocities of type Ia supernovae
Creators: name: Vanderveld, R. Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fitting of the observed redshifts and magnitudes of type Ia supernovae to what we would see in homogeneous cosmological models has led to constraints on cosmological parameters. However, in doing such fits it is assumed that the sampled supernovae are moving with the Hubble flow, i.e. that their peculiar velocities are zero. In reality, peculiar velocities will modify supernova data in a way that can impact best-fit cosmological parameters. We theoretically quantify this effect in the nonlinear regime with a Monte-Carlo analysis, using data from semi-analytic galaxy catalogs that are built from the Millennium N-body simulation. We find scaling relations for the errors in best-fit parameters resulting solely from peculiar velocities, as a function of the total number of sources in a supernova survey N and its maximum redshift z_max. For low redshift surveys, we find that these errors can be of the same order of magnitude as the errors due to an intrinsic magnitude scatter of 0.1 mag. For a survey with N=2000 and z_max=1.7, we estimate that the expected peculiar velocity-induced errors in the best-fit cosmological constant density and equation of state can be sigma_Lambda~0.009 and sigma_w~0.01, respectively, which are subdominant to the errors due to the intrinsic scatter. We further find that throwing away supernova data below a redshift z~0.01-0.02 can reduce the combined error, due to peculiar velocities and the intrinsic scatter, but by only about 10%.
description: 12 pages, no figures, aastex; final version accepted for publication in ApJ
Local distortion of MnO$_6$ octahedron in La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$MnO$_{3+δ}$ (x = 0.1 to 0.9): an EXAFS study
Creators: name: Bindu, R.
name: Pandey, S. K.
name: Kumar, Ashwani
name: Khalid, S.
name: Pimpale, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Room temperature Mn K-edge extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) studies were carried out on La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$MnO$_{3+δ}$ (x = 0.1 to 0.9) compounds. It is found from the detailed EXAFS analysis that the local structure around Mn sites is different from the global structure inferred from x-ray diffraction, especially for x <= 0.4, indicating presence of local distortions in MnO$_6$ octahedra. For the rhombohedral compounds, x = 0.1 to 0.3 the distortion is maximum for x = 0.1 and two bond lengths are seen- short one in basal plane and long one in apical plane. For compounds with x = 0.4 to 0.8 two short bonds in basal plane and four long bonds- two in the basal plane and remaining two in the apical plane are seen. For the compounds up to x = 0.3 compositions long bond length decreases and short bond length increases with increase in x whereas for the compounds 0.4 <= x <= 0.8 both types of bond lengths decrease. Such behaviour of bond lengths is an indication of the changed nature of distortion from Jahn-Teller type to breathing type at x = 0.4 composition.
description: 16 pages, 1 table, 8 figures
Pfürtner, Stephan H.; Heierle, Werner: Einführung in die katholische Soziallehre
Creators: name: Ringeling, Hermann
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 29 Nr. 4 (1980): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 29, Heft 4
Scarred Resonances and Steady Probability Distribution in a Chaotic Microcavity
Creators: name: Lee, Soo-Young
name: Ryu, Jung-Wan
name: Kwon, Tae-Yoon
name: Rim, Sunghwan
name: Kim, Chil-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate scarred resonances of a stadium-shaped chaotic microcavity. It is shown that two components with different chirality of the scarring pattern are slightly rotated in opposite ways from the underlying unstable periodic orbit, when the incident angles of the scarring pattern are close to the critical angle for total internal reflection. In addition, the correspondence of emission pattern with the scarring pattern disappears when the incident angles are much larger than the critical angle. The steady probability distribution gives a consistent explanation about these interesting phenomena and makes it possible to expect the emission pattern in the latter case.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Literary modernity : Studies in Lu Xun and Shen Congwen
Creators: name: Cheng, Maorong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Being an integral part of cultural modernity, literary modernity is an on-going, self-negating, and self-rejuvenating process. It has always been engaged in a dialectical relationship with tradition and is inseparable from the quest for reality based on artistic autonomy and communicative intersubjectivity. In the first half of my thesis, I attempt to show how and why literary tradition has played a decisive role in the process of literary modernity, how and why the Chinese literary tradition is different from its Western counterpart; how and why Chinese literary modernity is influenced by, but different from Western literary modernity; and what is the specific path that Chinese writers have been taking to achieve literary modernity, as is distinct from the route that has been followed in the West, i. e., from romanticism to realism to modernism and to postmodernism. The second half of my thesis comprises a detailed study of two of China's foremost writers, Lu Xun and Shen Congwen, by way of illustrating my arguments. The first two chapters investigate some core concepts in the Western and Chinese literary traditions and the formative roles that they have played respectively in. shaping the process of literary modernity in the West and China. In our study of Chinese literary modernity and modern Chinese writers, we should pay special attention to the important role of the Chinese literary tradition, while taking into consideration the impact of Western literature and China's historical contingency. The interactions between these three factors constitute the special character of China's literary modernity. The third and the fourth chapters deal with respectively the fiction of Lu Xun and Shen Congwen, as well as their conceptions of literature. Through a close investigation of a few selected stories by these two writers, I wish to demonstrate how their works embody the general ideas of literary modernity, and at the same time reveal the peculiar features of China's own literary modernity. In conclusion, I suggest that modernity and tradition have always been intertwined in a complex, dynamic, and dialectic relationship, which has proved to be not only the motive force, but also the unfailing source for the achievements of modern literature, both Chinese and Western; and subjective reflection should be integrated with the lifeworld, and combined with inter subjective communication.
Oxygen abundances in the most oxygen-rich spiral galaxies
Creators: name: Pilyugin, L. S.
name: Thuan, T. X.
name: Vilchez, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Oxygen abundances in the spiral galaxies expected to be richest in oxygen are estimated. The new abundance determinations are based on the recently discovered ff-relation between auroral and nebular oxygen line fluxes in HII regions. We find that the maximum gas-phase oxygen abundance in the central regions of spiral galaxies is 12+log(O/H)~8.75. This value is significantly lower than the previously accepted value. The central oxygen abundance in the Milky Way is similar to that in other large spirals.
description: 8 pages, 7 postscript figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Near Forward pp Elastic Scattering at LHC and Nucleon Structure
Creators: name: Islam, M. M.
name: Luddy, R. J.
name: Prokudin, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High energy proton-proton and antiproton-proton elastic scattering are studied first in a model where the nucleon has an outer cloud and an inner core. Elastic scattering is viewed as due to two processes: a) diffraction scattering originating from cloud-cloud interaction; b) a hard or large |t| scattering originating from one nucleon core scattering off the other via vector meson omega exchange, while their outer clouds interact independently. The omega-exchange amplitude shows that omega behaves like an elementary vector meson at high energy, contrary to a regge pole behavior. This behavior, however, can be understood in the nonlinear sigma-model where omega couples to a topological baryonic current like a gauge boson, and the nucleon is described as a topological soliton. Further investigation shows that the underlying effective field theory model is a gauged linear sigma-model that has not only the pion sector and the Wess-Zumino-Witten action of the nonlinear sigma-model, but also a quark-scalar sector. The nucleon structure that emerges is that the nucleon has an outer cloud of quark-antiquark condensed ground state, an inner core of topological baryonic charge probed by omega, and a still smaller quark-bag containing massless valence quarks. Large |t| pp elastic scattering is attributed to valence quark-quark elastic scattering, which is taken to be due to the hard pomeron. The model is applied to predict pp elastic differential cross section at LHC at c.m. energy 14 TeV and |t| = 0 - 10 GeV*2. If our predicted differential cross section is quantitatively confirmed by precise measurement at LHC by the TOTEM group, then it will indicate that various novel ideas developed over the last four decades to describe the nucleon combine and lead to a unique physical description of its structure.
description: 49 pages including 17 figures. Submitted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
Estimating a production function under production and price risks: An application to the suckler cow farms in the French charolais production area
Creators: name: Mosnier, Claire
name: Reynaud, Arnaud
name: Thomas, Alban
name: Lherm, Michel
name: Agabriel, Jacques
name: Mosnier, Claire
name: Reynaud, Arnaud
name: Thomas, Alban
name: Lherm, Michel
name: Agabriel, Jacques
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Production function estimation
subject: GMM
subject: weather impact
subject: price and production risks
subject: risk aversion
subject: suckler cow farms
subject: French charolais production area

description: Suckler cow production in France relies mainly on a relatively extensive management of forage, implying that production risk may be enhanced by the sensitivity of those crops to weather variability. However risk exposure is supposed to be mitigated either through ex-ante decisions concerning pasture area management or through ex-post decisions concerning the purchase of feeds. This paper aims at assessing weather impacts on cattle production level decisions. Since farmers' decisions depend on farmers' behaviour regarding risks, which are namely production and price risks, we test constant absolute risk aversion, constant relative risk aversion and risk neutrality assumptions. We develop an econometric model encompassing an auto-regressive price function and a production function which allow inputs to affect independently mean and variance of the production. Weather indicators embodied by average regional forage production for current and past years are explicitely introduced as non controllable inputs. The estimation framework consist in conditions on the first and second moment of output production, output price and profit. Following, ISIK (2003), additional condition on each of both allocable inputs enable us to take into account risk aversion and both price and production risks in parameters estimation. We use the Generalized Method of Moments in order to make minimum assumptions regarding variable exogeneity and error distribution. We apply the model to an original panel dataset containing 65 individual yearly observations recorded over the period 1987-2005 on French suckler cow farms of the north of Massif Central. Because of the difficulties to find a relevant set of instruments, these preliminary results do not analyse weather impact on production mean. However we can advance that production decisions depend on price and production risks as farmers are found to be risk averse. Weather variability of the current year increase production risk whereas fertilizer level application slightly increased it. However we did not highlight that weather impact depend on production level.
59Co NMR study of the Co states in superconducting and anhydrous cobaltates
Creators: name: Mukhamedshin, I. R.
name: Alloul, H.
name: Collin, G.
name: Blanchard, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $^{59}$Co NMR spectra in oriented powders of Na$_{0.35}$CoO$_{2}$ and in its hydrated superconducting phase (HSC) Na$_{0.35}$CoO$_{2}$,1.3H$_{2}$O reveal a single electronic Co state with identical $T$ independent NMR shift tensor. These phases differ markedly from Na$_{0.7}$CoO$_{2}$, in which we resolve 3 types of Co sites. The large T variation of their spin susceptibilities $χ^{s}$ and the anisotropy of the orbital susceptibility $χ^{orb}$ allow us to conclude that charge disproportionation occurs, in a non magnetic Co$^{3+}$ and two magnetic sites with about 0.3 and 0.7 holes in the $t_{2g}$ multiplet. The data are consistent with those for the single Co site in the anhydrous and HSC phase assuming the expected Co$^{3.65+}$ charge.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Coping with Climate Change in Agriculture: A Portfolio Analysis
Creators: name: Van Asseldonk, Marcel A.P.M.
name: Langeveld, J.W.A.
name: Van Asseldonk, Marcel A.P.M.
name: Langeveld, J.W.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Portfolio analysis
subject: climate change
subject: crop growth models

description: Potential impact of climate change on crop production in The Netherlands is explored at farm level by means of a whole farm portfolio analysis. Projected joint crop yield distributions were derived from crop growth models, whereby the projected impact of weather conditions was compared with historic data. A typical Dutch arable farm with potatoes, sugar beet and winter wheat on poor sandy soils was analysed in accordance with sets of historic and projected weather conditions. Projected crop yields and ultimately farm income increased due to more favourable climate conditions, even when the risk of poor performance of a particular crop due to extreme weather conditions increases. Commonly expressed expectations as to increased risk of crop failure and income loss due to climate change thus could not be confirmed. This is attributed partly to the fact that poor yield years often can have positive effect on farm income due to increased crop prices in times of relative commodity shortages but can also be attributed to the fact that potato, sugar beet and winter wheat show different vulnerabilities with respect to weather conditions. Portfolio analysis appears to be therefore a suitable instrument for analysing effects of climate change at farm level.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 10/18/07.
Quantum advantage of two-level batteries in self-discharging process
Creators: name: Santos, Alan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Devices that use quantum advantages for storing energy in the degree of freedom of quantum systems have drawn attention due to their properties of working as quantum batteries. However, one can identify a number of problems that need to be adequately solved before a real manufacturing process of these devices. In particular, it is important paying attention to the ability of quantum batteries in storing energy when no consumption center is connected to them. In this paper, by considering quantum batteries disconnected from external charging fields and consumption center, we study the decoherence effects that lead to charge leakage to the surrounding environment. We identify this phenomena as a self-discharging of QBs, in analogy to the inherent decay of the stored charge of conventional classical batteries in a open-circuit configuration. The quantum advantage concerning the classical counterpart is highlighted for single- and multi-cell quantum batteries.
description: 5 pages and 5 figures. Comments are welcome
Construction of Full-Depth Asphaltic Concrete Pavements
Creators: name: Ross, Jerry D.
name: Southgate, Herbert F.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Considerable attention has been devoted to the design and use of full-depth asphaltic concrete pavements. An experimental full-depth pavement was constructed on the Cannonsburg-Ashland Road (US 60), and the mechanical response of each asphaltic concrete layer to static and dynamic loading has been tested during construction.  This report is a documentation of section designs and construction procedures and summarily presents construction test results to be used in future analyses.
Critical success factors for weather risk transfer solutions in the agricultural sector: a reinsurer's view
Creators: name: Roth, Michael
name: Ulardic, Christina
name: Trueb, Juerg
name: Roth, Michael
name: Ulardic, Christina
name: Trueb, Juerg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Agricultural sector
subject: weather risk transfer
subject: demand patterns

description: Agricultural yield and commodity prices are very sensitive to weather patterns such as drought, excessive rain, or frost. As a result unseasonable weather can cause major losses for players in the agricultural value chain, including input providers, farmers, commodity traders, and food processors. The National Crop Insurance Service (NCIS) estimates that about 70% of the losses suffered by the US crop insurance scheme result from drought or excessive rainfall. In this paper information recorded by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on behalf of the Weather Risk Management Association is complemented by Swiss Re's market intelligence to examine demand patterns for weather risk transfer solutions. There is a particular focus on the evolution of demand from the energy sector compared to the agricultural sector as a means of identifying the critical success factors needed for a prospering market. We found that recent growth in the weather risk transfer market is mainly related to speculative trading in the energy sector. Stakeholders in the agricultural sector around the world are growing increasingly interested in weather risk transfer products. However, the lack of exchange-based instruments in this field, the relatively high basis risk between weather indexes and agricultural yield, the fact that agricultural markets are still highly regulated and inadequate information and training are all impeding the growth of this business.
The Chow rings of generalized Grassmannians
Creators: name: Duan, Haibao
name: Zhao, Xuezhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M15, 57T15

description: Based on the Basis theorem of Bruhat--Chevalley [C] and the formula for multiplying Schubert classes obtained in [D\QTR{group}{u}] and programed in [DZ$_{\QTR{group}{1}}$], we introduce a new method computing the Chow rings of flag varieties (resp. the integral cohomology of homogeneous spaces). The method and results of this paper have been extended in [DZ$_{3}$, DZ$_{4}$] to obtain the integral cohomology rings of all complete flag manifolds, and to construct the integral cohomologies of Lie groups in terms of Schubert classes.
description: 32 pages
[Cupeño II: Coyote and two birds, verb paradigms, locative, objects, adjectives]
Creators: name: Nolasquez, Roscinda
name: Hill, Jane
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cup

description: From index: "1 ma/x "pound", etc. Verb paradigms. 84 Coyote and two birds. 93 verb paradigms p. 93 a bunch of forms with -pi. 101 lots of eg's with we/' "be in a place" -- and p. 103, beginning of many eg's of nouns with locative suffixes. 107 examples of nouns with object suffixes, -i suffixes. 111 discovery of -qwe clitic, several eg's. 117 N adjective pairs."
Weather risk and machinery costs - A Monte Carlo simulation for the wheat harvest
Creators: name: Lips, Markus
name: Bolli, Simon
name: Lips, Markus
name: Bolli, Simon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: weather risk
subject: wheat harvest
subject: Monte Carlo simulation

description: In eastern Switzerland there is a substantial weather risk during the wheat harvest. Increasing the number of available combine harvesters reduces harvest losses due to bad weather conditions, whilst increasing machinery costs. Simulating weather risk, we analyse harvest losses and machinery costs. In doing so, we apply both a deterministic and a stochastic approach - the latter by means of a Monte Carlo simulation. The costs per hectare of wheat are higher in the stochastic approach, because bad weather conditions lead to high costs. There is no difference between the two approaches in terms of minimum costs, which in both cases are achieved by a density of 20 harvesters per 1000 hectares. Calculation results are lower than the actual density, which is around 30 harvesters. One explanation for this may be that farmers seem more concerned with decreasing harvest losses than with reducing machinery costs. They are willing to pay more for the harvest process than is strictly necessary, viewing a high density of harvesters as a kind of insurance for weather risk.
Measurement of inclusive differential cross sections for Upsilon(1S) production in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
name: Abazov, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the inclusive production cross sections of the Upsilon(1S) bottomonium state in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV. Using the Upsilon(1S) to mu+mu- decay mode for a data sample of 159 +- 10 pb^-1 collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, we determine the differential cross sections as a function of the Upsilon(1S) transverse momentum for three ranges of the Upsilon(1S) rapidity: 0 < |y| < 0.6, 0.6 < |y| < 1.2, and 1.2 < |y| < 1.8.
description: Submitted to PRL v2: No changes to the content. Fixed some layout problems which seemed to cause problems further down the line and one typo
Tar Concrete Pavement Construction and Performance
Creators: name: Rose, Jerry G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In 1969, a 6.6-mile section of relocated KY 15 in Perry and Knott Counties was paved utilizing coal-tar (RT-12) concrete base and surface. This project was authorized under the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 and was designated as experimental as a means of implementing a section of the Act.  Two nearby sections of KY 15, containing asphalt (PAC-5) concrete base and surface, were designated as control sections and used for comparison purposes. With the exception of the bituminous material, the experimental and control sections were purposefully made equal in all other respects. A design soil CBR of 9 was used throughout, and the EWL's were estimated at 40-80 million. Total thickness for each section was 17.5 inches (11 inches DGA base and 6.5 inches bituminous concrete). The coal-tar binder was substituted for the asphalt cement on the basis of equal volume. A project map is shown in Figure 1.
Confined uniaxial compression of granular stainless steel 316
Creators: Nicewicz, P.
Sano, T.
Hogan, James D.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2019

The quasi-static compaction response of granular stainless steel 316 was studied under triaxial loading conditions using a confined crucible experiment apparatus, specifically looking at effects of the particle size (127 ± 34 μm, 309 ± 88 μm, 487 ± 98 μm)on mechanical behavior. The material response was captured using a load washer and strain gauges to relate: the porosity effects as a function of hydro-static pressure, particle size dependency on wall friction effects, and particle size-dependent failure mechanism. Our observations revealed that the path of crushing out porosity varied based on the particle size and the frictional effects. Scanning Electron Microscope images were taken to observe the surface features of the compacted material and comment on failure mechanisms. Using these techniques it was observed that the smaller particles exhibited significant plastic deformation and flow, while the larger fragments appeared to show micro-cracking which lead to inelastic deformation and particle fracture. Altogether, these results are important because granular behavior is critical in powder flow applications such as additive manufacturing.
Additional file 2 of Phenomic characterization of Crotalaria germplasm for crop improvement
Creators: name: Muli, Joshua Kiilu
name: Neondo, Johnstone O.
name: Kamau, Peter K.
name: Odari, Eddy
name: Budambula, Nancy L. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S3. Summary information on the interviewed Crotalaria farmers in Kenya.
Ex-ante evaluation of weather-based index insurance and area-yield insurance for reducing crop yield risk
Creators: name: Bokusheva, Raushan
name: Breustedt, Gunnar
name: Heidelbach, Olaf
name: Bokusheva, Raushan
name: Breustedt, Gunnar
name: Heidelbach, Olaf
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Crop insurance
subject: ex-ante analysis
subject: Kazakhstan weather-based index insurance

description: The study introduces an ex-ante evaluation concept into the analysis of weather-based index insurance effectiveness. We conduct our ex ante analysis by distinguishing between two consecutive periods: the first period is used for determining insurance parameters and optimal number of insurance contracts for an arable farmer; and the subsequent one is considered for the evaluation of the risk reduction due to the insurance contract defined in the first period. The study also employs the common ex-post approach by specifying and evaluating insurance contracts by means of the same period. We compare the empirical results obtained from these alternative evaluation approaches and thus investigate the ability to forecast empirically insurance schemes risk reduction. In addition to weather-based index insurance, we consider two area-yield insurance products and a farm yield insurance. Our empirical results indicate that the common ex-post approach overestimates the risk reduction substantially for most index insurance schemes. Farm yield insurance seems to be robust tothe choice of the empirical approach.