cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Growth management and regional planning in British Columbia : five years after, a comparative analysis
Creators: name: Young, Andrew Edgar.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Many regions in the US and Canada have experienced significant growth and development in recent decades. Much of this has taken the form of unrelieved urban and suburban sprawl that has used enormous amounts of land, compromised environmentally sensitive areas, provided few lasting cultural and social benefits, and delivered questionable long-term economic benefits. In response, several senior and regional governments have undertaken growth managementprograms. The general objective of growth management is to control and direct growth and development to avoid, reduce and mitigate negative impacts arising from large scale growth and development in urban areas, and promote the creation of more attractive, efficient and sustainable cities and regions. The thesis argues that the stronger the degree of senior government control - Federal, Provincial or State - over decisions by regional governments the more likely a comprehensive growth management program exists that: includes clearly defined goals; possesses institutional mechanisms to institute growth management; and, utilizes the powers of senior government to help direct and manage growth. The thesis pursues the argument through a literature review and a comparative analysis of selected growth management programs. Analysis of selected cases in British Columbia finds that the Provincial government's growth management legislation and program have been applied in its large, highly urbanized and/or rapidly growing regional districts. However, it is found that the legislation has limited or no applicability to regions experiencing slow growth or decline. A new Provincial planning model, flexible enough to address the needs of all regional districts in British Columbia, is recommended. Based on the concept of a growth and development continuum, an incremental and graduated planning model would give them the opportunity to choose appropriate planning tools, thereby providing the large, highly urbanized and/or rapidly growing regional districts and their local governments with the tools they need to manage growth and change, and slow growing regions and those in decline with the regulatory tools, financial and political support needed to encourage new growth and development. The thesis findings provide guidance to senior and regional governments in British Columbia, Canada and the US to enable them to improve their respective growth management legislation and programs.
The space of Schwarz-Klein triangles
Creators: name: Eremenko, Alexandre
name: Gabrielov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51F99

description: We describe the space of spherical triangles (in the sense of Schwarz and Klein). It is a smooth connected orientable 3-manifold, homotopy equivalent to the 1-skeleton of the cubic partition of the closed first octant in $\mathbf{R}^3$. The angles and sides are real analytic functions on this manifold which embed it to $\mathbf{R}^6$.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 5 of Three-year outcome after transanal versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multicenter comparative analysis
Creators: name: Lacy, F. B. De
name: S. X. Roodbeen
name: J. Ríos
name: J. Van Laarhoven
name: A. Otero-Piñeiro
name: R. Bravo
name: T. Visser
name: R. Van Poppel
name: S. Valverde
name: R. Hompes
name: C. Sietses
name: A. Castells
name: W. A. Bemelman
name: P. J. Tanis
name: A. M. Lacy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary file 5. DF_FBL (ICMJE Form from Dr. F. Borja de Lacy).
FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED TENNESSEE DAIRIES
Creators: name: Haden, Kimberly L.
name: Johnson, Larry A.
name: Haden, Kimberly L.
name: Johnson, Larry A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The objective of this study was to identify factors which contributed to the financial performance of 81 selected dairy farms in Tennessee. The study analyzes several measures of financial performance including cash farm income, net farm income, and returns to operator labor and management. Regressions with ten explanatory variables were used to determine factors that explained the variation in the measures of financial performance. Production per cow, number of cows, price received for milk, forage costs, and level of debt use appeared to influence financial performance.
Green functions for nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor hopping on the Bethe lattice
Creators: name: Kollar, M.
name: Eckstein, M.
name: Byczuk, K.
name: Blümer, N.
name: van Dongen, P.
name: de Cuba, M. H. Radke
name: Metzner, W.
name: Tanaskovic, D.
name: Dobrosavljevic, V.
name: Kotliar, G.
name: Vollhardt, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the local Green function for a quantum-mechanical particle with hopping between nearest and next-nearest neighbors on the Bethe lattice, where the on-site energies may alternate on sublattices. For infinite connectivity the renormalized perturbation expansion is carried out by counting all non-self-intersecting paths, leading to an implicit equation for the local Green function. By integrating out branches of the Bethe lattice the same equation is obtained from a path integral approach for the partition function. This also provides the local Green function for finite connectivity. Finally, a recently developed topological approach is extended to derive an operator identity which maps the problem onto the case of only nearest-neighbor hopping. We find in particular that hopping between next-nearest neighbors leads to an asymmetric spectrum with additional van-Hove singularities.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures; minor changes
Production of $f_2(1270)$ meson in $pp$ collisions at the LHC via gluon-gluon fusion in the $k_t$-factorization approach
Creators: name: Lebiedowicz, Piotr
name: Szczurek, Antoni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate inclusive cross section for $f_2(1270)$ tensor meson production via color singlet gluon-gluon fusion in the $k_t$-factorization approach with unintegrated gluon distribution functions (UGDFs). The process may be potentially interesting in the context of searches for saturation effects. The energy-momentum tensor, equivalent to helicity-2 coupling, and helicity-0 coupling are used for the $g^* g^* \to f_2(1270)$ vertex. Two somewhat different parametrizations of helicity-2 and helicity-0 tensorial structure from the literature are used in our calculations. Some parameters are extracted from $γγ\to f_2(1270) \to ππ$ reactions. Different modern UGDFs from the literature are used. The results strongly depend on the parametrization of the $g^* g^* \to f_2(1270)$ form factor. Our results for transverse momentum distributions of $f_2$ are compared to preliminary ALICE data. We can obtain agreement with the data only at larger $f_2(1270)$ transverse momenta only for some parametrizations of the $g^* g^* \to f_2(1270)$ form factor. No obvious sign of the onset of saturation is possible. At low transverse momenta one needs to include also the $ππ$ final-state rescattering. The agreement with the ALICE data can be obtained by adjusting probability of formation and survival of $f_2(1270)$ in a harsh quark-gluon and multipion environment. The pomeron-pomeron fusion mechanism is discussed in addition and results are quantified.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, second version contains important modifications with respect to the first one, two references were added
Instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter Equation with Exact Propagators
Creators: name: Lucha, Wolfgang
name: Schoberl, F. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Consequent application of the instantaneous approximation to both the interaction and all propagators of the bound-state constituents allows us to forge, within the framework of the Bethe-Salpeter formalism for the description of bound states, an instantaneous form of the Bethe-Salpeter equation with exact (i.e., full) propagators of the bound-state constituents. This instantaneous equation generalizes the well-known Salpeter equation the derivation of which needs the additional assumption of free propagation of the bound-state constituents.
description: 11 pages
Ab initio study of band gap properties in novel metastable BC8/ST12 Si$_x$Ge$_{1-x}$ alloys
Creators: name: Wagner, Johannes
name: Núñez-Valdez, Maribel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cubic $Ia\bar{3}$ (BC8) and tetragonal $P4_32_12$ (ST12) high pressure modifications of Si and Ge are attractive candidates for applications in optoelectronic, thermoelectric or plasmonic devices. Si$_x$Ge$_{1-x}$ alloys in BC8/ST12 modifications could help overcome the indirect and narrow band gaps of the pure phases and enable tailoring for specific use-cases. Such alloys have experimentally been found to be stable at ambient conditions after release from high pressure synthesis, however their fundamental properties are not known. In this work, we employ {\it ab initio} calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) to investigate the electronic properties of these compounds as a function of composition $x$. We obtain the effective band structures of intermediate alloys by constructing special quasi random structures (SQS) and unfolding their band structure to the corresponding primitive cell. Furthermore, we show that the indirect band gap of the ST12 Ge end-member can be tuned to become direct at $x_\text{Si} \approx 0.16$. Finally, our investigations also demonstrate that the BC8 modification, on the other hand, is insensitive to compositional changes and is a narrow direct band gap semiconductor only in the case of pure Si.
description: A total of 5 pages, 4 figures and 1 table!
Colobometridae A. H. Clark 1909
Creators: name: Mohammednowshad, B.
name: Idreesbabu, K. K.
name: Parameswaran, Usha V.
name: Messing, Charles G.
name: Sureshkumar, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Crinoidea
Comatulida
Colobometridae

description: Family COLOBOMETRIDAE A.H. Clark, 1909a   Diagnosis.— Some or all cirrals with aboral transverse ridge, commonly serrate or tuberculate, or with transverse row of 2 or 3 tubercles or spines; distal (rarely all) spines often single; radial articular facet steep, separated along interradial margin; interarticular ligament fossae moderate and triangular to large and high, separated by wide and shallow midradial furrow (except in Cyllometra); adoral muscle fossae small and vestigial to low, slightly curved along adoral margin; arms 10 to>80; brachitaxes 2 or 4(3+4); first syzygy on undivided arms at 3+4; proximal brachials sometimes with lateral processes; one or more proximal pinnules (usually Pa) may be absent; some genera with pinnulars broadened over gonads (from Messing & Tay, 2016; modified from Hess & Messing, 2011).
description: Published as part of Mohammednowshad, B., Idreesbabu, K. K., Parameswaran, Usha V., Messing, Charles G. & Sureshkumar, S., 2020, The Shallow-water Crinoid Fauna of Lakshadweep Atolls, North-western Indian Ocean, pp. 247-265 in Zootaxa 4789 (1) on page 259, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3884945
GREEN PAYMENT PROGRAMS FOR NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION CONTROL: HOW IMPORTANT IS TARGETING FOR COST-EFFECTIVENESS?
Creators: name: Baerenklau, Kenneth A.
name: Baerenklau, Kenneth A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Mechanism design theory is used to examine the case of a cost-minimizing regulator who uses input-reduction subsidies to meet an exogenously imposed ambient standard for nonpoint source pollution. A general result claimed for a welfare-maximizing equilibrium. Numerical results suggest the ability to directly target contracts reduces costs significantly for the regulator. But in the absence of this ability, indirect targeting reduces costs only slightly.
Additional file 2 of Three-year outcome after transanal versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multicenter comparative analysis
Creators: name: Lacy, F. B. De
name: S. X. Roodbeen
name: J. Ríos
name: J. Van Laarhoven
name: A. Otero-Piñeiro
name: R. Bravo
name: T. Visser
name: R. Van Poppel
name: S. Valverde
name: R. Hompes
name: C. Sietses
name: A. Castells
name: W. A. Bemelman
name: P. J. Tanis
name: A. M. Lacy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary file 2. DF_AML (ICMJE Form from Dr. Antonio M. Lacy).
Determination of $π^+-$ meson polarizabilities from the $γγ->π^+π^-$ process
Creators: name: Fil'kov, L. V.
name: Kashevarov, V. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fit of the experimental data to the total cross section of the process $γγ->π^+π^-$ in the energy region from threshold to 2500 MeV has been carried out using dispersion relations with subtractions for the invariant amplitudes, where the dipole and the quadrupole polarizabilities of the charged pion are free parameters. As a result, the sum and the difference of the electric and magnetic dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities of the charged pion have been found: $(alpha_1+β_1)=(0.18+0.11-0.02)10^(-4)fm^3$, $(alpha_1-β_1)=(13.0+3.6-1.9)10^(-4)fm^3$, $(alpha_2+β_2)=(0.133+- 0.015)10^(-4)fm^5$, $(alpha_2-β_2)=(25.0+0.8-0.3)10^(-4)fm^5$. These values agree with the dispersion sum rule predictions. The value found for the difference of the dipole polarizabilities is consistent with the results obtained from scattering of high energy $π^-$ mesons off the Coulomb field of heavy nuclei (Serpukhov (1983)) and from radiative $π^+$ photoproduction from the proton at MAMI (2005), while it is at variance with the calculations in the framework of chiral perturbation theory.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, replaced with published version
Finite Volume Gauge Theory Partition Functions in Three Dimensions
Creators: name: Szabo, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the fermion mass dependence of Euclidean finite volume partition functions for three-dimensional QCD in the epsilon-regime directly from the effective field theory of the pseudo-Goldstone modes by using zero-dimensional non-linear sigma-models. New results are given for an arbitrary number of flavours in all three cases of complex, pseudo-real and real fermions, extending some previous considerations based on random matrix theory. They are used to describe the microscopic spectral correlation functions and smallest eigenvalue distributions of the QCD3 Dirac operator, as well as the corresponding massive spectral sum rules.
description: 35 pages; v2: Typos corrected, some clarifying comments added; v3: Ambiguous equations clarified, to be published in Nuclear Physics B
A COMPLETE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE LINEAR, LOG-LINEAR, AND SEMI-LOG INCOMPLETE DEMAND SYSTEM MODELS
Creators: name: Von Haefen, Roger H.
name: Von Haefen, Roger H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This study extends LaFrance's (1985, 1986, 1990) previous research by deriving the necessary parameter restrictions for two additional classes of incomplete demand system models to be integrable. In contrast to LaFrance's earlier work, this analysis considers models that treat expenditures and expenditure shares as the dependent variables in the specified incomplete demand systems. With environmental economists increasingly turning to demand system approaches to value changes in environmental quality, these new results significantly expand the menu of empirical specifications which can be used to fit a given data set. Moreover, the alternative specifications considered in this study, in combination with LaFrance's original work, represent a complete characterization of the linear, log-linear, and semi-log incomplete demand system models.
Sample Shape and Boundary Dependence of Measured Transverse Thermal Properties
Creators: name: Mumford, Samuel
name: Paul, Tiffany
name: Kountz, Erik
name: Kapitulnik, Aharon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite increased interest in thermal Hall measurements for the analysis of insulating quantum materials, there remains large uncertainty in such measurements due to contact misalignment. In this paper we propose that sample geometry and uncertain boundary conditions may account for uncertainty in the measurement of $D_{xy}$ or $κ_{xy}$ as well. By running simple simulations in an open source finite-element solver, we demonstrate that measured $D_{xy}$ in a thermal Hall bar can be changed by a factor of order unity in samples with similar width and length. This geometric corrective factor depends on the distinction between uniform heat flow and constant temperature boundary couplings to a bath. Sample geometry and boundary conditions can be accounted for through simulation or by using rectangular samples to make thermal Hall measurements more reliable and reproducible when the amplitude of $κ_{xy}$ is important. Finally, we propose a contactless optical method for measuring $D_{xy}$ which is insensitive to the longitudinal diffusivity pollution caused by contact misalignment.
Assessing Your Assessments: creating meaningful and inclusive assessment tasks
Creators: name: Davis, Kimberly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 390402
subject: Education assessment and evaluation
classificationCode: 390407
subject: Inclusive education

description: Inclusive and accessible learning and teaching in higher education embraces the view of each student as a unique individual. It celebrates that diversity as having an active role in enriching the lives and learning of others. This way of thinking about the curriculum design considers pedagogy, teaching methods and assessments that engage students in meaningful tasks and learning that are not only relevant, but accessible to everyone. This includes thinking about inclusive language, fonts and layouts of printed materials, and making connections to real world tasks. The objectives of this roundtable discussion are: 1. Identify the potential barriers that students face when completing assessments 2. Analyze effective methods of meaningful assessment 3. Create an example of meaningful assessment that works in their context. This was presented at the Improving University Teaching Conference in 2022
Dumbarton Oaks Papers 16 (1962) und 17 (1963)
Creators: name: Engberding, Hieronymus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 52 (1968): Oriens christianus, Band 52
Additional file 15 of Three-year outcome after transanal versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multicenter comparative analysis
Creators: name: Lacy, F. B. De
name: S. X. Roodbeen
name: J. Ríos
name: J. Van Laarhoven
name: A. Otero-Piñeiro
name: R. Bravo
name: T. Visser
name: R. Van Poppel
name: S. Valverde
name: R. Hompes
name: C. Sietses
name: A. Castells
name: W. A. Bemelman
name: P. J. Tanis
name: A. M. Lacy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 15: Supplementary file 15. DF_WAB (ICMJE Form from Dr. Willem A. Bemelman).
Using The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation to Measure $H_o$
Creators: name: Schombert, James
name: McGaugh, Stacy
name: Lelli, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the use of the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (bTFR) as a new distance indicator. Advances in near-IR imaging and stellar population models, plus precise rotation curves, have reduced the scatter in the bTFR such that distance is the dominant source of uncertainty. Using 50 galaxies with accurate distances from Cepheids or tip magnitude of the red giant branch, we calibrate the bTFR on a scale independent of $H_o$. We then apply this calibrated bTFR to 95 independent galaxies from the SPARC sample, using CosmicFlows-3 velocities, to deduce the local value of $H_o$. We find $H_o$ = 75.1 +/- 2.3 (stat) +/- 1.5 (sys) km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures, accepted by AJ
The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: I. Stellar Number Density Distribution
Creators: name: Juric, Mario
name: Ivezic, Zeljko
name: Brooks, Alyson
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Schlegel, David
name: Finkbeiner, Douglas
name: Padmanabhan, Nikhil
name: Bond, Nicholas
name: Sesar, Branimir
name: Rockosi, Constance M.
name: Knapp, Gillian R.
name: Gunn, James E.
name: Sumi, Takahiro
name: Schneider, Donald
name: Barentine, J. C.
name: Brewington, Howard J.
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Fukugita, Masataka
name: Harvanek, Michael
name: Kleinman, S. J.
name: Krzesinski, Jurek
name: Long, Dan
name: Neilsen,, Eric H.
name: Nitta, Atsuko
name: Snedden, Stephanie A.
name: York, Donald G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abridged: We estimate the distances to ~48 million stars detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and map their 3D number density distribution in 100 < D < 20 kpc range over 6,500 deg^2 of sky. The data show strong evidence for a Galaxy consisting of an oblate halo, a disk component, and a number of localized overdensities with exponential disk parameters (bias-corrected for an assumed 35% binary fraction) H_1 = 300 pc, L_1 = 2600 pc, H_2 = 900 pc, L_2 = 3600 pc, and local density normalization of 12%. We find the halo to be oblate, with best-fit axis ratio c/a = 0.64, r^{-2.8} profile, and the local halo-to-thin disk normalization of 0.5%. We estimate the errors of derived model parameters to be no larger than ~20% (disk scales) and ~10% (thick disk normalization). While generally consistent with the above model, the density distribution shows a number of statistically significant localized deviations. We detect two overdensities in the thick disk region at (R, Z) ~ (6.5, 1.5)kpc and (R, Z) ~ (9.5, 0.8) kpc, and a remarkable density enhancement in the halo covering >1000deg^2 of sky towards the constellation of Virgo, at distances of ~6-20 kpc. Compared to a region symmetric with respect to the l=0 line, the Virgo overdensity is responsible for a factor of 2 number density excess and may be a nearby tidal stream or a low-surface brightness dwarf galaxy merging with the Milky Way. After removal of the resolved overdensities, the remaining data are consistent with a smooth density distribution; we detect no evidence of further unresolved clumpy substructure at scales ranging from ~50pc in the disk, to ~1 - 2 kpc in the halo.
description: 60 pages, 46 figures (reduced resolution; see the ApJ for hi-res version)
WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS: THE CASE OF PRECISION APPLICATION TECHNOLOGY
Creators: name: Hite, Diane
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Intarapapong, Walaiporn
name: Hite, Diane
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Intarapapong, Walaiporn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: A contingent valuation survey conducted in Mississippi is used to assess public willingness to pay for reductions in agricultural nonpoint pollution. The analysis focuses on implementation of a policy to provide farmers with precision application equipment to reduce nutrient runoff. Findings suggest public support exists for such policies. This study also finds that inclusion of debriefing questions can be used to refine willingness-to-pay estimates in contingent valuation studies. A nonparametric scope test suggests respondents are sensitive to level of runoff reduction and associated water-quality benefits.
The evolution of Radio Loud Quasar host galaxies: AO observations at z = 3
Creators: name: Falomo, R.
name: Kotilainen, J. K.
name: Scarpa, R.
name: Treves, A.
name: Uslenghi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on ESO--VLT adaptive optics imaging of one radio-loud quasar at z $\sim$ 3. In spite of the large distance of the object we are able to detect its surrounding extended nebulosity the properties of which are consistent with an underlying massive galaxy of M$_K$ $\sim$ --27 and effective radius R$_e$ = 7 kpc. As far as we know this is the clearest detection of a radio loud quasar host at high redshift. The host luminosity is indicative of the existence of massive spheroids even at this early cosmic epoch. The host luminosity is about 1 magnitude fainter than the expected value based on the average trend of the host galaxies of RLQ at lower redshift. The result, which however is based on a single object, suggests that at z $\sim$ 3 there is a deviation from a luminosity--redshift dependence regulated only by passive evolution.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, TeX uses elsart.cls, from workshop "QSO Host Galaxies: Evolution and Environment" (Univ. Leiden, Aug. 22-26, 2005)
DIRECT AND INDIRECT SHADOW PRICE AND COST ESTIMATES OF NITROGEN POLLUTION ABATEMENT
Creators: name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Helmers, Glenn A.
name: Langemeier, Michael R.
name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Helmers, Glenn A.
name: Langemeier, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The implications of treating environmental pollution as an undesirable output (weak disposability) as well as a normal input (strong disposability) on the direct and indirect shadow price and cost estimates of nitrogen pollution abatement is analyzed using Nebraska agriculture sector data. The shadow price of nitrogen pollution abatement treated as an undesirable output represents the reduced revenue from reducing nitrogen pollution. In contrast, the shadow price of nitrogen pollution abatement treated as an input reflects the increased cost of reducing nitrogen pollution. For the 1936-97 period, the estimated shadow price and cost of nitrogen pollution abatement for Nebraska ranges from $0.91 to $2.21 per pound and from $300 to $729 million respectively.
Additional file 3 of Three-year outcome after transanal versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multicenter comparative analysis
Creators: name: Lacy, F. B. De
name: S. X. Roodbeen
name: J. Ríos
name: J. Van Laarhoven
name: A. Otero-Piñeiro
name: R. Bravo
name: T. Visser
name: R. Van Poppel
name: S. Valverde
name: R. Hompes
name: C. Sietses
name: A. Castells
name: W. A. Bemelman
name: P. J. Tanis
name: A. M. Lacy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary file 3. DF_AO (ICMJE Form from Dr. Ana Otero).
Construction and transformation of identity and power relationship : mainland Chinese women immigrants in Vancouver
Creators: name: Zhang, Yujie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study is an attempt to examine contemporary Chinese women immigrants from Mainland China and their adaptation into Canadian society. In this locally based research, I focus on how Chinese women integrate into Canadian society as immigrants; how they identify themselves in the new social context; what factors affect their identification; and how inherent power relationships between men and women within Chinese society have been redefined and transformed as the immigrant women assert themselves in the new society in response to new opportunities and obligations that are presented to them. This study is based on a series of face-to-face interviews that were chosen through snowball sampling method. 20 interviews were conducted and the data were qualitatively analyzed. I found that changes occurred with their multiple identities, which include class identity, ethnic and cultural identity, and gender identity. Most women experienced downward mobility in social and economic status after immigration due to lack of appropriate positions in the labor market and also the feeling of a lack of power as a consequence of ethnic minority membership; almost all of them have bidimentional cultural identity which means they identify with some aspects of Canadian culture while maintaining their Chinese culture of origin; and traditional Chinese gender ideology still plays a main role in redefining.gender identity which is embodied in the immigration decisions and the conflict between family and occupation. Economic, educational, occupational, social and relational power resources are factors affecting the transformation and redefinition of the power relationship between husband and wife. These factors work together in changing the allocation of power resources between husband and wife and affect the decision making process within a family.
USING SATELLITE IMAGERY IN PREDICTING KANSAS FARMLAND VALUES
Creators: name: Nivens, Heather D.
name: Kastens, Terry L.
name: Dhuyvetter, Kevin C.
name: Featherstone, Allen M.
name: Nivens, Heather D.
name: Kastens, Terry L.
name: Dhuyvetter, Kevin C.
name: Featherstone, Allen M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Can remotely sensed imagery improve hedonic land price models? A remotely sensed variable was added to a hedonic farmland value model as a proxy for land productivity. Land cover data were used to obtain urban and recreational effects as well. The urban and recreational effects were statistically significant but economically small. The remotely sensed productivity variable was statistically significant and economically large, indicating that knowing the "greenness" of the land increased the explanatory power of the hedonic price model. Thus, depending upon the cost of this information, including remotely sensed imagery in traditional hedonic land price models is economically beneficial.
Additional file 13 of Three-year outcome after transanal versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multicenter comparative analysis
Creators: name: Lacy, F. B. De
name: S. X. Roodbeen
name: J. Ríos
name: J. Van Laarhoven
name: A. Otero-Piñeiro
name: R. Bravo
name: T. Visser
name: R. Van Poppel
name: S. Valverde
name: R. Hompes
name: C. Sietses
name: A. Castells
name: W. A. Bemelman
name: P. J. Tanis
name: A. M. Lacy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 13: Supplementary file 13. DF_SXR (ICMJE Form from Dr. Sapho X. Roodbeen).
The connection between shear and star formation in spiral galaxies
Creators: name: Seigar, Marc S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a sample of 33 galaxies for which we have calculated (i) the average rate of shear from publish rotation curves, (ii) the far-infrared luminosity from IRAS fluxes and (iii) The K-band luminosity from 2MASS. We show that a correlation exists between the shear rate and the ratio of the far-infrared to K-band luminosity. This ratio is essentially a measure of the star formation rate per unit mass, or the specific star formation rate. From this correlation we show that a critical shear rate exists, above which star formation would turn off in the disks of spiral galaxies. Using the correlation between shear rate and spiral arm pitch angle, this shear rate corresponds to the lowest pitch angles typically measured in near-infrared images of spiral galaxies.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS letters. 5 figures, 1 table
Rational boundary charge in one-dimensional systems with interaction and disorder
Creators: name: Pletyukhov, Mikhail
name: Kennes, Dante M.
name: Piasotski, Kiryl
name: Klinovaja, Jelena
name: Loss, Daniel
name: Schoeller, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the boundary charge $Q_B$ of generic semi-infinite one-dimensional insulators with translational invariance and show that non-local symmetries (i.e., including translations) lead to rational quantizations $p/q$ of $Q_B$. In particular, we find that (up to an unknown integer) the quantization of $Q_B$ is given in integer units of $\frac{1}{2}\barρ$ and $\frac{1}{2}(\barρ-1)$, where $\barρ$ is the average charge per site (which is a rational number for an insulator). This is a direct generalization of the known half-integer quantization of $Q_B$ for systems with local inversion or local chiral symmetries to any rational value. Quite remarkably, this rational quantization remains valid even in the presence of short-ranged electron-electron interactions as well as static random disorder (breaking translational invariance). This striking stability can be traced back to the fact that local perturbations in insulators induce only local charge redistributions. We establish this result with complementary methods including density matrix renormalization group calculations, bosonization methods, and exact solutions for particular lattice models. Furthermore, for the special case of half-filling $\barρ=\frac{1}{2}$, we present explicit results in single-channel and nearest-neighbor hopping models and identify Weyl semimetal physics at gap closing points. Our general framework also allows us to shed new light on the well-known rational quantization of soliton charges at domain walls.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures
ESTIMATING WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR REDUCED COPPER CONTAMINATION IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA
Creators: name: Kim, Hong Jin
name: Cho, Yongsung
name: Kim, Hong Jin
name: Cho, Yongsung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The contingent valuation method is applied to determine how much consumers would be willing to pay to reduce copper in their drinking water and what factors influence their willingness to pay (WTP). The annual mean WTP per household was estimated using survey data from nine counties in southwestern Minnesota where copper contamination is high. The annual mean WTP per household varied from a low range of $30.41 to $43.61 for Chippewa County to a high range of $39.79 to $57.06 for Nobles County. The aggregate WTP for all nine counties was estimated to range from $1.66 to $2.38 million. However, the estimated WTP may not be sufficient to pay the cost of providing improved water through public water systems for small communities in southwestern Minnesota.
Improved Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Search and Energy Spectrum Measurement with the PROSPECT Experiment at HFIR
Creators: name: Andriamirado, M.
name: Balantekin, A. B.
name: Band, H. R.
name: Bass, C. D.
name: Bergeron, D. E.
name: Berish, D.
name: Bowden, N. S.
name: Brodsky, J. P.
name: Bryan, C. D.
name: Classen, T.
name: Conant, A. J.
name: Deichert, G.
name: Diwan, M. V.
name: Dolinski, M. J.
name: Erickson, A.
name: Foust, B. T.
name: Gaison, J. K.
name: Galindo-Uribarri, A.
name: Gilbert, C. E.
name: Goddard, B. W.
name: Hackett, B. T.
name: Hans, S.
name: Hansell, A. B.
name: Heeger, K. M.
name: Heffron, B.
name: Jaffe, D. E.
name: Ji, X.
name: Jones, D. C.
name: Kyzylova, O.
name: Lane, C. E.
name: Langford, T. J.
name: LaRosa, J.
name: Littlejohn, B. R.
name: Lu, X.
name: Maricic, J.
name: Mendenhall, M. P.
name: Meyer, A. M.
name: Milincic, R.
name: Mitchell, I.
name: Mueller, P. E.
name: Mumm, H. P.
name: Napolitano, J.
name: Nave, C.
name: Neilson, R.
name: Nikkel, J. A.
name: Norcini, D.
name: Nour, S.
name: Palomino, J. L.
name: Pushin, D. A.
name: Qian, X.
name: Romero-Romero, E.
name: Rosero, R.
name: Surukuchi, P. T.
name: Tyra, M. A.
name: Varner, R. L.
name: Venegas-Vargas, D.
name: Weatherly, P. B.
name: White, C.
name: Wilhelmi, J.
name: Woolverton, A.
name: Yeh, M.
name: Zhang, A.
name: Zhang, C.
name: Zhang, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed report on sterile neutrino oscillation and U-235 antineutrino energy spectrum measurement results from the PROSPECT experiment at the highly enriched High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 96 calendar days of data taken at an average baseline distance of 7.9 m from the center of the 85 MW HFIR core, the PROSPECT detector has observed more than 50,000 interactions of antineutrinos produced in beta decays of U-235 fission products. New limits on the oscillation of antineutrinos to light sterile neutrinos have been set by comparing the detected energy spectra of ten reactor-detector baselines between 6.7 and 9.2 meters. Measured differences in energy spectra between baselines show no statistically significant indication of antineutrinos to sterile neutrino oscillation and disfavor the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly best-fit point at the 2.5$σ$ confidence level. The reported U-235 antineutrino energy spectrum measurement shows excellent agreement with energy spectrum models generated via conversion of the measured U-235 beta spectrum, with a $χ^2$/DOF of 31/31. PROSPECT is able to disfavor at 2.4$σ$ confidence level the hypothesis that U-235 antineutrinos are solely responsible for spectrum discrepancies between model and data obtained at commercial reactor cores. A data-model deviation in PROSPECT similar to that observed by commercial core experiments is preferred with respect to no observed deviation, at a 2.2$σ$ confidence level.
description: 42 pages, 52 Figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D. Supplementary Material Included
Engberding, Hieronymus: Materials for the study of the mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul
Creators: name: Mango, Cyril A.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 52 (1968): Oriens christianus, Band 52
Additional file 1 of Three-year outcome after transanal versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multicenter comparative analysis
Creators: name: Lacy, F. B. De
name: S. X. Roodbeen
name: J. Ríos
name: J. Van Laarhoven
name: A. Otero-Piñeiro
name: R. Bravo
name: T. Visser
name: R. Van Poppel
name: S. Valverde
name: R. Hompes
name: C. Sietses
name: A. Castells
name: W. A. Bemelman
name: P. J. Tanis
name: A. M. Lacy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary file 1. DF_AC (ICMJE Form from Dr. Antoni Castells).
Oligometra A. H. Clark 1908
Creators: name: Mohammednowshad, B.
name: Idreesbabu, K. K.
name: Parameswaran, Usha V.
name: Messing, Charles G.
name: Sureshkumar, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Crinoidea
Comatulida
Colobometridae
Oligometra

description: Oligometra A.H. Clark, 1908a
 Type species.— Antedon serripinna Carpenter, 1881.
 Diagnosis.— A genus of Colobometridae with ten arms; cirrals with transverse aboral ridge. First interior pinnule present or absent; second pinnule enlarged, stiff, prismatic, with distal ends of pinnulars produced as broad spine, flange, or tuft of spines (from Hess & Messing, 2011).
description: Published as part of Mohammednowshad, B., Idreesbabu, K. K., Parameswaran, Usha V., Messing, Charles G. & Sureshkumar, S., 2020, The Shallow-water Crinoid Fauna of Lakshadweep Atolls, North-western Indian Ocean, pp. 247-265 in Zootaxa 4789 (1) on page 260, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3884945
Exact results in planar N=1 superconformal Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Mauri, Andrea
name: Penati, Silvia
name: Santambrogio, Alberto
name: Zanon, Daniela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the β-deformed N=4 supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory we study the class of operators O_J = Tr(Φ_i^J Φ_k), i\neq k and compute their exact anomalous dimensions for N,J\to\infty. This leads to a prediction for the masses of the corresponding states in the dual string theory sector. We test the exact formula perturbatively up to two loops. The consistency of the perturbative calculation with the exact result indicates that in the planar limit the one--loop condition g^2=h\bar{h} for superconformal invariance is indeed sufficient to insure the {\em exact} superconformal invariance of the theory. We present a direct proof of this point in perturbation theory. The O_J sector of this theory shares many similarities with the BMN sector of the N=4 theory in the large R--charge limit.
description: LaTex, 14 pages, 3 figures; v2: minor corrections and one reference added
CROSS-SECTIONAL ESTIMATION OF U.S. DEMAND FOR BEEF PRODUCTS: A CENSORED SYSTEM APPROACH
Creators: name: Yen, Steven T.
name: Huang, Chung L.
name: Yen, Steven T.
name: Huang, Chung L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Demands for beef products are investigated using the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 1987-88 Nationwide Food Consumption Survey data. The censored translog demand system is estimated with full-information and simulated maximum-likelihood procedures. These procedures represent different approaches to evaluation of multiple probability integrals in the likelihood function, but produce very similar parameter and elasticity estimates. Findings suggest sociodemographic variables play important roles in the demand for beef, and that demand for different cuts of beef should be treated differently.
Additional file 12 of Three-year outcome after transanal versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multicenter comparative analysis
Creators: name: Lacy, F. B. De
name: S. X. Roodbeen
name: J. Ríos
name: J. Van Laarhoven
name: A. Otero-Piñeiro
name: R. Bravo
name: T. Visser
name: R. Van Poppel
name: S. Valverde
name: R. Hompes
name: C. Sietses
name: A. Castells
name: W. A. Bemelman
name: P. J. Tanis
name: A. M. Lacy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 12: Supplementary file 12. DF_SV (ICMJE Form from Dr. Silvia Valverde).
CHANGES IN THE WELL-BEING OF NONMETROPOLITAN SINGLE-MOTHER FAMILIES: A SEMI-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Mills, Bradford F.
name: Mills, Bradford F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: In nonmetropolitan areas of the United States, single-mother families contain a majority of children living below the poverty line. Changes between 1992 and 2000 in the economic well-being of nonmetropolitan single-mother families are examined using kernel density estimation and density reweighting methods. The results show that increased education levels of single mothers and the strengthening of area economic conditions explain much of the observed gains in the economic well-being of this family group. But temporal changes in propensities to work and to be on welfare from 1992 to 2000 have also contributed to observed gains.
Majorana Bound State leakage to impurity in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Rashba scenario
Creators: name: Kobiałka, A.
name: Ptok, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show anomalous features of Majorana Bound State leakage in the situation where topological Rashba nanowire is dimerized according to the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) scenario and an impurity is present at one of the ends of the system. We find that two topological branches: usual, indigenous to Rashba nanowire and dimerized one, existing as a result of SSH dimerization of nanowire, have different asymmetry of spin polarization that can be explained by opposite order of bands taking part in topological transitions. Additionally, introduction of an impurity to the dimerized nanowire influences the leakage of Majorana bound states into the trivial impurity, due to the emergence of Andreev bound states that behave differently whether the system is or is not in topological phase. This results in the pinning of zero energy states to the impurity site for some range of parameters.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 14 of Three-year outcome after transanal versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multicenter comparative analysis
Creators: name: Lacy, F. B. De
name: S. X. Roodbeen
name: J. Ríos
name: J. Van Laarhoven
name: A. Otero-Piñeiro
name: R. Bravo
name: T. Visser
name: R. Van Poppel
name: S. Valverde
name: R. Hompes
name: C. Sietses
name: A. Castells
name: W. A. Bemelman
name: P. J. Tanis
name: A. M. Lacy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 14: Supplementary file 14. DF_TV (ICMJE Form from Dr. Tjaakje Visser).