cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Blockchain und Smart Contracts
Creators: name: Gyr, Eleonor
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2019
Subjects: 340 Law

description: Die sog. Blockchain-Technologie ist gegenwärtig kaum mehr aus der Medienberichterstattung wegzudenken; es kann sogar von einem regelrechten Hype gesprochen werden, der an die Ursprungszeiten des Internet erinnert. Dabei handelt es sich keineswegs um ein neues Phänomen: Die Vorläufer der heutigen Blockchain entstanden schon in den 90er Jahren. Die heute bekannte Ausgestaltung findet ihren Ursprung in der Bitcoin-Blockchain, die fast ausschliesslich als Plattform für die Schaffung von und den Handel mit Kryptowährungen eingesetzt wurde. Zwischenzeitlich sind zahlreiche weitere Anwendungsfelder erschlossen worden und die Technologie erfährt eine stete Weiterentwicklung. Mit Hilfe einer Blockchain können Vermögenswerte geschaffen und verschoben, Handel betrieben und Unternehmens-finanzierungen getätigt werden. Die rege Nutzung der Technologie wirft zahlreiche Fragen auf, welche auch das Recht beschlagen. Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit einer privatrechtlichen Sicht auf die Blockchain-Technologie. Ihr Kern ist eine Auslegordnung derselben, mit einem besonderen Fokus auf Smart Contracts und deren Einordnung in das allgemeine Vertragsrecht. Auf weitere (zentrale) diskussionswürdige Punkte wie bspw. prozessuale Fragen, den Datenschutz oder konkursrechtliche Probleme wird vorliegend nicht eingegangen. Auch nicht behandelt wird die Einbettung von Dateneigentum in unsere Rechtsordnung.
Eupholidoptera giuliae Massa 1999
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera giuliae

description: Eupholidoptera giuliae Massa, 1999
(Figures 26, 71, 117, 163, 206, 239, Appendix)
 Eupholidoptera giuliae Massa, 1999: 72–75.
 Type information: Holotype M, GREECE: Crete, Chora Sfakion, 1.6.1984 (B. Massa); 2F paratypes from the same locality (Collectio Bruno Massa, University di Palermo) and additional paratypes.
 Material examined: GREECE: Crete: Paratype M, 2.5 km E Argoules, 175 m, 14.6.1987 (J. Smid & J. Tilmans) (CW); Paratype 1M, Chora Sfakion, 10– 16.5.1982 (J.P. Duffels); Paratypes 1M, 1F, 2.5 km E of Argoules, 14.6.1987 (J. Smid & F. Smid-Elbers) (CW).
 Distribution: This species is endemic to south-west Crete.
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on page 55
The quantum measurement problem enhanced
Creators: name: Gruebl, Gebhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum measurement problem as formalised by Bassi and Ghirardi [Phys. Lett. A 275 (2000)373] without taking recourse to sharp apparatus observables is extended to cover impure initial states.
description: 6 pages
Full 3D+1 modelling of the tilted-pulse-front setups for single-cycle terahertz generation
Creators: name: Wang, Lu
name: Kroh, Tobias
name: Matlis, Nicholas H.
name: Kaertner, Franz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tilted-pulse-front setup utilizing a diffraction grating is one of the most successful methods to generate single- to few-cycle terahertz pulses. However, the generated terahertz pulses have a large spatial inhomogeneity, due to the noncollinear phase matching condition and the asymmetry of the prism-shaped nonlinear crystal geometry, especially when pushing for high optical-to-terahertz conversion efficiency. A 3D+1 (x,y,z,t) numerical model is necessary in order to fully investigate the terahertz generation problem in the tilted-pulse-front scheme. We compare in detail the differences between 1D+1, 2D+1 and 3D+1 models. The simulations show that the size of the optical beam in the pulse-front-tilt plane sensitively affects the spatio-temporal properties of the terahertz electric field. The terahertz electric field is found to have a strong spatial dependence such that a few-cycle pulse is only generated near the apex of the prism. The part of the beam farther from the apex contains a large fraction of the energy but has a waveform that deviates from a few-cycle. This strong spatial dependence must be accounted for when using the terahertz pulses for strong-field physics and carrier-envelope-phase sensitive experiments such as terahertz acceleration, coherent control of antiferromagnetic spin waves and terahertz high-harmonic generation.
description: a typo of the minus sign and the ratio of f1/f2 is corrected
Demand and Market Competitiveness of Almond Milk as a Dairy Alternative Beverage in the United States
Creators: name: Dharmasena, Senarath
name: Kosub, Brooke
name: Capps, Oral
name: Dharmasena, Senarath
name: Kosub, Brooke
name: Capps, Oral
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Almond milk
subject: soymilk
subject: conventional milk
subject: consumer demand
subject: tobit
subject: Nielsen Homescan

description: There are many different types of nonalcoholic beverages available in the United States today as compared to a decade ago and the functionality and health dimensions of beverages have changed over the years. Recently, calcium and vitamin fortified dairy alternative beverages, such as almond milk and soymilk have entered the market to compete with conventional milk. Knowledge of price sensitivity, substitutes/complements, and demographic profiling with respect to consumption of dairy alternative beverages is important for manufacturers, retailers, advertisers, nutritionists, and other stakeholders from a competitive intelligence and strategic decision-making perspective. Using nationally representative household level data from 65,000 households (Nielsen Homescan), and tobit econometric procedure, factors affecting the demand for almond milk for all households and households grouped by race, ethnicity, region, and income status will be determined. Moreover, own-price, cross-price, and income elasticities for almond milk delineated by selected demographic segments will be estimated. Preliminary analyses reveal that the own-price elasiticity of demand for almond milk is -3.50. Soymilk is found to be a substitute for almond milk. This information will be useful for almond milk manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers for strategic pricing decisions as well as government policy makers to implement policies related to food consumption and nutrition.
A new sesquiterpene, a new monoterpene and other constituents with anti-inflammatory activities from the roots of Aristolochia debilis
Creators: name: Wang, Xin
name: Jin, Mei
name: Jin, Chunshi
name: Sun, Jinfeng
name: Zhou, Wei
name: Li, Gao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A new sesquiterpene (1) and a new monoterpene (2), together with thirteen known compounds (3–15) were isolated from an ethanol extract of the roots of Aristolochia debilis Sieb. et Zucc. The structures of compounds 1 and 2 were elucidated using HR-ESI-MS, 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy. Anti-inflammatory effects of the isolated compounds were evaluated in terms of inhibition of nitric oxide, tumour-necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6 production in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated RAW264.7 cells. Compounds 1–9 and 12–15 significantly inhibited the levels of NO, TNF-α and IL-6 in LPS-induced RAW264.7 cells from concentrations of 3 μM to 30 μM.
Eupholidoptera latens Willemse & Kruseman 1976
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera latens

description: Eupholidoptera latens Willemse & Kruseman, 1976
(Figures 27, 72, 118, 164, 207, 230, 234, 235, 239, Appendix)
 Eupholidoptera latens Willemse & Kruseman, 1976: 134–135.
 Type information: Holotype M, GREECE: Lefka Ori, refuge near Koukoule, 1600–1800 m, 6.8.1973 (F. Willemse c.s.) (CW) and paratypes from several localities (CW).
 Material examined: GREECE: Crete holotype paratypes 2M, 3F, same data as holotype; paratypes 1M, Lefka Ori, Linoseli above Xiloskalo, 1800–1900 m, 5.8.1973 (F. Willemse c.s.) (CW); paratype 1M, Lefka Ori, Omalos, 1000 m, 4.8.1973 (F. Willemse c.s.) (CW); 2M, Lefka Ori (Hütte Kallergi) (35°19'N, 23°54'E), 1600 m, 20.8.1991 (K.-G. Heller) (CH) (sound record); 1M, 2 km südwestl. Lakki (35°14'N, 24°9'E), 500 m, 20.8.1991 (K.-G. Heller) (CH) (sound record); 3M, Omalos-Hochfläche, Nordrand (35°20'N, 23°54'E), 1100 m, 20.8.1991 (K.-G. Heller & M. Volleth) (CH) (sound record); 1M, Lefka Ori, near Kalergi refug. (35°19'20''N, 23°55'55''E), 1550 m, 30.7. 2007 (M. & K.-G. Heller)(CH).
 Distribution: It is endemic to the western part of Crete.
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on pages 55-58
Strange Vector Form Factor of Kaons
Creators: name: Dubnicka, S.
name: Dubnickova, A. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the $ω$-$ϕ$ mixing, further assuming the coupling of the quark-current of some flavour to be of universal strenth exclusively to the component of vector-meson wave function with the same flavour and finally taking numerical values of the coupling constant ratios $(f_{ωK \bar K}/f_ω^e)$, $(f_{ϕK\bar K/f_ϕ^e)$ from the isoscalar part of a realistic six-resonance unitary and analytic model of the kaon electromagnetic structure, the strange-quark vector current form factor behaviour of K-mesons in space-like and time-like regions is predicted.
description: Latex, 11 pages, 3 figures
Towards high power broad-band OPCPA at 3000 nm
Creators: name: Bridger, Manuel
name: Naranjo-Montoya, Oscar
name: Tarasevitch, Alexander
name: Bovensiepen, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-energy femtosecond laser pulses in the mid-infrared (MIR) wavelength range are essential for a wide range of applications from strong-field physics to selectively pump and probe low energy excitations in condensed matter and molecular vibrations. Here we report a four stage optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (OPCPA) which generates ultrashort pulses at a central wavelength of 3000 nm with 430 $μ$J energy per pulse at a bandwidth of 490 nm. Broadband emission of a Ti:sapphire oscillator seeds synchronously the four OPCPA stages at 800 nm and the pump line at 1030 nm. The first stage amplifies the 800 nm pulses in BBO using a non-collinear configuration. The second stage converts the wavelength to 1560 nm using difference frequency generation in BBO in a collinear geometry. The third stage amplifies this idler frequency non-collinearly in KTA. Finally, the fourth stage generates the 3000 nm radiation in a collinear configuration in LiIO$_3$ due the broad amplification bandwidth this crystal provides. We compress these pulses to 65 fs by transmission through sapphire. Quantitative calculations of the individual non-linear processes in all stages verify that our OPCPA architecture operates close to optimum efficiency at minimum absorption losses, which suggests that this particular design is very suitable for operation a high average power at multi kHz repetition rates.
description: 6 figures
Market Competitiveness, Demographic Profiling of Demand and Tax Policies Associated with Sparkling and Non-Sparkling Bottled Water in the United States
Creators: name: Zheng, Wen
name: Dharmasena, Senarath
name: Janakirarman, Ramkumar
name: Capps, Oral
name: Zheng, Wen
name: Dharmasena, Senarath
name: Janakirarman, Ramkumar
name: Capps, Oral
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Sparkling bottled water
subject: Non-sparkling bottled water
subject: Tax policy
subject: Nielsen Homescan Panel
subject: Tobit model

description: Bottled water has become the second largest in the nonalcoholic beverage market just behind the market for soft drinks. Knowledge of price sensitivity, substitutes or complements, and demographic profiling and tax issues with respect to consumption of sparkling and non-sparkling bottled water is important for manufacturers, retailers, advertisers, and other stakeholders from a competitive intelligence and strategic decision-making perspective. Using nationally representative household level data from 62,092 households (Nielsen Homescan), and tobit econometric procedure, factors affecting the demand for sparkling and non-sparkling bottled water will be determined. Moreover, own-price, cross-price, and income elasticities for sparkling and non-sparkling bottled water will be estimated. Finally, we evaluate the effect of a 10% tax on bottled water as they affect for non-sparkling bottled water and sparkling bottled water consumption.
Kinematics of the Palomar 5 stellar stream from RR Lyrae stars
Creators: name: Price-Whelan, Adrian M.
name: Mateu, Cecilia
name: Iorio, Giuliano
name: Pearson, Sarah
name: Bonaca, Ana
name: Belokurov, Vasily
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin stellar streams, formed from the tidal disruption of globular clusters, are important gravitational tools, sensitive to both global and small-scale properties of dark matter. The Palomar 5 stellar stream (Pal 5) is an exemplar stream within the Milky Way: Its $\sim 20^\circ$ tidal tails connect back to the progenitor cluster, and the stream has been used to study the shape, total mass, and substructure fraction of the dark matter distribution of the Galaxy. However, most details of the phase-space distribution of the stream are not fully explained, and dynamical models that use the stream for other inferences are therefore incomplete. Here we aim to measure distance and kinematic properties along the Pal 5 stream in order to motivate improved models of the system. We use a large catalog of RR Lyrae-type stars (RRLs) with astrometric data from the Gaia mission to probabilistically identify RRLs in the Pal 5 stream. RRLs are useful because they are intrinsically-luminous standard candles and their distances can be inferred with small relative precision ($\sim3\%$). By building a probabilistic model of the Pal 5 cluster and stream in proper motion and distance, we find 27 RRLs consistent with being members of the cluster (10) and stream (17). Using these RRLs, we detect gradients in distance and proper motion along the stream, and provide an updated measurement of the distance to the Pal 5 cluster using the RRLs, $d = 20.6 \pm 0.2~\textrm{kpc}$. We provide a catalog of Pal 5 RRLs with inferred membership probabilities for future modeling work.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures. Published in AJ
Eupholidoptera mariannae Willemse & Heller 2001
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera mariannae

description: Eupholidoptera mariannae Willemse & Heller, 2001
(Figures 28, 73, 119, 165, 234, 235, 239, Appendix)
 Eupholidoptera mariannae Willemse & Heller, 2001: 329–333.
 Type information: Holotype M, GREECE: Crete N. Lasithi ca. 500 N. N. 1 km oestl. Anatoli, NW Ierapetra, 16.8.1991 (K.–G. Heller & M. Volleth)(CW) (sound record); paratypes 2M, Crete, N. Lasithi ca. 700 m N.N. 2 km oestl. Malles NW Ierapetra, 16.8.1991 (K–G. Heller & M. Volleth)(CH, ZSM) (sound record).
 Material examined: Holotype and paratypes.
 Distribution: It is known from a restricted area in eastern Crete.
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on page 58
Would more extensive out-migration of rural farmers expedite farm mechanization? Evidence from a changing Chinese agricultural sector
Creators: name: Luo, Tianyuan
name: Escalante, Cesar
name: Luo, Tianyuan
name: Escalante, Cesar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: agricultural population
subject: mechanization
subject: farm exit
subject: import

description: Changes in agricultural population can significantly influence the progress of mechanization, which provides efficient momentum to the further development of agriculture. We examine the effect of the declining agricultural population on mechanization and determine the variables that have decisive power over mechanical adoption decisions. This analysis of a panel data of top six out-migration provinces in China under a fixed effect model, we find that the overly fast and unusual decline in agricultural population actually slowed down the progress of mechanization, and the many years of large scale out-migration encouraged by government actually jeopardized sustainable agricultural development. Results underscore the need for considerable attention on the growth of annual farm incomes and agricultural products import that could have substantial effects on agricultural mechanization decisions.
Fuzzy Nambu-Goldstone Physics
Creators: name: Balachandran, A. P.
name: Immirzi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In spacetime dimensions larger than 2, whenever a global symmetry G is spontaneously broken to a subgroup H, and G and H are Lie groups, there are Nambu-Goldstone modes described by fields with values in G/H. In two-dimensional spacetimes as well, models where fields take values in G/H are of considerable interest even though in that case there is no spontaneous breaking of continuous symmetries. We consider such models when the world sheet is a two-sphere and describe their fuzzy analogues for G=SU(N+1), H=S(U(N-1)xU(1)) ~ U(N) and G/H=CP^N. More generally our methods give fuzzy versions of continuum models on S^2 when the target spaces are Grassmannians and flag manifolds described by (N+1)x(N+1) projectors of rank =< (N+1)/2. These fuzzy models are finite-dimensional matrix models which nevertheless retain all the essential continuum topological features like solitonic sectors. They seem well-suited for numerical work.
description: Latex, 18 pages; references added, typos corrected
Import Demand for Milk in China: Dynamics and Market Integration
Creators: name: Dharmasena, Senarath
name: Wang, Jing
name: Bessler, David A.
name: Dharmasena, Senarath
name: Wang, Jing
name: Bessler, David A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: China milk demand
subject: Directed acyclic graphs
subject: dynamics
subject: import demand

description: The consumption of milk in China has been increasing over past two decades. Currently, China does not produce enough milk to meet this increase in demand. Consequently a large volume of milk is imported. In this study, import demand for milk in China is explored using demand systems approach formulated through a vector error correction model (VECM). Additionally, import market integration is explored using contemporaneous causality structures developed through artificial intelligence and Direct Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) applied to innovations of VECM. Objectives of this study are to (1) Develop a VECM and test price homogeneity in the cointegration space; (2) Estimate almost ideal demand system model where prices are expressed in relative prices; (3) Calculate Chinese import demand elasticities for milk; and (4) Model import market integration using DAGs. Annual import volume (lbs) and total value ($US) of milk imported to China from Australia, New Zealand, United States and rest of the world, from 1992–2013 are collected from UN COMTRADE database. Calculated milk import demand elasticities shed light on the sensitivity of milk imports to changes in milk price of exporting country. Causality structure based off of innovations of VECM will allow us identify import market integration patterns. Preliminary results from causality structures reveal that the import share from the rest of the world is endogenous, while that of the United States, Australia and New Zealand was found to be weakly exogenous.
Improved constraints on parton distributions using LHCb, ALICE and HERA heavy-flavour measurements and implications for the predictions for prompt atmospheric-neutrino fluxes
Creators: name: Zenaiev, O.
name: Garzelli, M. V.
name: Lipka, K.
name: Moch, S. -O.
name: Cooper-Sarkar, A.
name: Olness, F.
name: Geiser, A.
name: Sigl, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of measurements of heavy-flavour production in deep inelastic $ep$ scattering and in $pp$ collisions on parton distribution functions is studied in a QCD analysis at next-to-leading order. Recent combined results of inclusive and heavy-flavour production cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at HERA are investigated together with heavy-flavour production measurements at the LHC. Differential cross sections of charm- and beauty-hadron production measured by the LHCb collaboration at the centre-of-mass energies of 5, 7 and 13 TeV as well as the recent measurements of the ALICE experiment at the centre-of-mass energies of 5 and 7 TeV are explored. These data impose additional constraints on the gluon and the sea-quark distributions at low partonic fractions $x$ of the proton momentum, down to $x\approx10^{-6}$. The impact of the resulting parton distribution function in the predictions for the prompt atmospheric-neutrino fluxes is studied.
Impact of Working Capital Management on Firm's Profitability: A Study on Listed Companies in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Vianny Jeniston Delima
name: Delima, Vianny Jeniston
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150101 Accounting Theory and Standards
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified

description: Aims: The main aim of the study is to identify whether working capital management has an impact on firm’s profitability of listed companies in Sri Lanka.Place and Duration of Study: Pooled panel data of 95 listed companies from 18 sectors are listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) which comprised of 475 observations is used during the period of 2012/2013 to 2016/2017.Methodology: Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s Correlation analysis, ANOVA, and Pooled Regression analysis were employed as measures of analysis. Working capital management components and working capital policies are used as independent variables which comprised ofnumber of days of account receivable (DAR), number of days of inventories (DI), number of days of account payables (DAP), cash conversion cycle (CCC), working capital investment policies (WCIP), and working capital financing policies (WCFP). Current ratio (CR), firm size (SIZE), sales growth (GROWTH), and Debt ratio (DR) were employed as controlled variables. Gross operating profit (GOP) and Return on assets (ROA) were used as dependent variable.Results: In the descriptive statistics, average of DAR, DI, DAP, and CCC are 64, 63, 97, and 29 days respectively. The average WCIP and WCFP are indicated as 40% and 27% of total assets. For control variables, the average CR, SIZE, GROWTH, and DR are indicated as 2.27, 14.50, 33% and 40%. In the Pearson correlation analysis, CCC has negative relationship with GOP and ROA. With regard to WCIP and WCFP, there are negative significant relationships with GOP and ROA. Regression analysis states that working capital management significantly impacts on firm’s profitability of listed companies in Sri Lanka.Conclusion: These findings would be useful to consider on maintaining optimal working capital management components and policies to avoid corporate collapse and to maximize firm’s profitability.
Strong coupling $α_s(m_Z)$ extraction from a combined NNLO analysis of inclusive electroweak boson cross sections at hadron colliders
Creators: name: d'Enterria, David
name: Poldaru, Andres
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inclusive cross sections of W$^+$, W$^-$, and Z boson production from 34 different measurements performed in proton-(anti)proton collisions at center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.8--13 TeV, are compared to perturbative QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) accuracy with four sets of parton distributions functions (CT14, HERAPDF2.0, MMHT14, and NNPDF3.0 PDFs) and varying values of the strong coupling constant at the Z mass pole, $α_s(m_Z)$. The data-theory agreement is good within the experimental and theoretical uncertainties, with the CT14 and MMHT14 parton densities providing the most overall consistent description of all cross section data. A value of $α_s(m_Z) = 0.1188^{+0.0019}_{-0.0013}$ is extracted from a combined fit of the 28 experimental LHC measurements to the corresponding NNLO theoretical predictions obtained with the MMHT14 PDF set, which provides the most robust and stable QCD coupling extraction of this analysis.
description: 31 pages, 26 figures. Additional cross-checks and clarifications added. Results unchanged. Version to appear in JHEP
Thermal roughening of an SOS-model with elastic interaction
Creators: name: Gutheim, Frank
name: Mueller-Krumbhaar, Heiner
name: Brener, Efim
name: Kaganer, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the effects of a long-ranged step-step interaction on thermal roughening within the framework of a solid-on-solid model of a crystal surface by means of Monte Carlo simulation. A repulsive step-step interaction is modeled by elastic dipoles located on sites adjacent to the steps. In order to reduce the computational effort involved in calculating interaction energy based on long-ranged potentials, we employ a multi-grid scheme. As a result of the long-range character of the step interaction, the roughening temperature increases drastically compared to a system with short-range cutoff as a consequence of anti-correlations between surface defects.
Optimal Allocation of Index Insurance Intervals for Commodities
Creators: name: Diersen, Matthew
name: Gurung, Pratik
name: Fausti, Scott
name: Diersen, Matthew
name: Gurung, Pratik
name: Fausti, Scott
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Pasture rangeland and forage rainfall index insurance
subject: portfolio analysis
subject: production risk

description: The objective of this research is to incorporate the relationship between forage yields and rainfall levels to find optimal weights on insurance intervals using Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Rainfall Index (PRF-RI) insurance. Unlike earlier models, actuarial fairness of the insurance product is assumed. Historical rainfall index and hay yield data are used to calculate returns and generate an efficient frontier using Markowitz Portfolio Theory. Analysis of several counties in South Dakota demonstrates that the May-June and July-August intervals are important months for managing forage production risk. Sensitivity analysis included changing coverage levels, productivity factors, and the subsidy level. It is demonstrated that a producer enrolling in PRF-RI would earn higher returns per acre with lower risk compared to not using the subsidized insurance. Without the premium subsidy the mean returns from the optimal portfolio are lower, but the risk reduction remains.
Eupholidoptera rammei Willemse & Heller 2001
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera rammei

description: Eupholidoptera rammei Willemse & Heller, 2001
(Figures 29, 74, 120, 166, 208, 234, 239, Appendix)
 Eupholidoptera rammei Willemse & Heller, 2001: 333–339.
 Type information: Holotype M, GREECE: Crete, N. Lasithi ca. 1100 m, N.N. Katharo-Hochflaeche westl. Kritsa 22.8.1991 (K–G. Heller & M. Volleth) (CW); paratypes 2M, 1F same data as holotype (CH) (sound record).
 Material examined: Holotype and paratypes.
 Distribution: Endemic to eastern Crete.
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on page 58
The changing meaning of left and right: supply- and demand-side effects on the perception of party positions
Creators: name: Giebler, Heiko
name: Meyer, Thomas M.
name: Wagner, Markus
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Political conflict is often described in terms of “left” and “right” even though societal conflicts stem from various sub-dimensions such as economic and cultural issues. We argue that individuals map parties’ left-right positions based on party positions on such underlying dimensions, though their impact depends on their importance for parties and citizens. To test this, we study the German Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) whose programmatic appeal has changed fundamentally in the last years, as have citizens’ issue concerns. Using longitudinal data from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), we find that citizens’ perceptions of the AfD’s left-right position are more closely related to the party’s position on specific issues (1) when these issues are prominent in the party’s communication and (2) for citizens that care more about these issues. Moreover, how voters perceive left and right in comparison to parties’ issue emphasis also affects vote choice. Our findings have important implications for the meaning of left and right, electoral behaviour, representation, and party competition.
Heavy ion collision multiplicities and gluon distribution functions
Creators: name: Eskola, K. J.
name: Kajantie, K.
name: Tuominen, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomic number ($A$) and energy ($\roots$) scaling exponents of multiplicity and transverse energy in heavy ion collisions are analytically derived in the perturbative QCD + saturation model. The exponents depend on the small-$x$ behaviour of gluon distribution functions at an $x$-dependent scale. The relation between initial state and final state saturation is also discussed.
description: 15 pages, 4 eps-figures
Impact of Working Capital Management on Firm's Profitability: A Study on Listed Companies in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Vianny Jeniston Delima
name: Delima, Vianny Jeniston
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150101 Accounting Theory and Standards
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified

description: Aims: The main aim of the study is to identify whether working capital management has an impacton firm’s profitability of listed companies in Sri Lanka.Place and Duration of Study: Pooled panel data of 95 listed companies from 18 sectors are listedon the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) which comprised of 475 observations is used during theperiod of 2012/2013 to 2016/2017.Methodology: Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s Correlation analysis, ANOVA, and PooledRegression analysis were employed as measures of analysis. Working capital managementcomponents and working capital policies are used as independent variables which comprised ofnumber of days of account receivable (DAR), number of days of inventories (DI), number of days ofaccount payables (DAP), cash conversion cycle (CCC), working capital investment policies (WCIP),and working capital financing policies (WCFP). Current ratio (CR), firm size (SIZE), sales growth(GROWTH), and Debt ratio (DR) were employed as controlled variables. Gross operating profit(GOP) and Return on assets (ROA) were used as dependent variable.Results: In the descriptive statistics, average of DAR, DI, DAP, and CCC are 64, 63, 97, and 29days respectively. The average WCIP and WCFP are indicated as 40% and 27% of total assets. Forcontrol variables, the average CR, SIZE, GROWTH, and DR are indicated as 2.27, 14.50, 33% and 40%. In the Pearson correlation analysis, CCC has negative relationship with GOP and ROA. Withregard to WCIP and WCFP, there are negative significant relationships with GOP and ROA.Regression analysis states that working capital management significantly impacts on firm’sprofitability of listed companies in Sri Lanka.Conclusion: These findings would be useful to consider on maintaining optimal working capitalmanagement components and policies to avoid corporate collapse and to maximize firm’sprofitability.
Coherence of temperature and velocity superstructures in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard flow
Creators: name: Krug, Dominik
name: Lohse, Detlef
name: Stevens, Richard J. A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the interplay between large-scale patterns, so-called superstructures, in the fluctuation fields of temperature $θ$ and vertical velocity $w$ in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection at large aspect ratios. Earlier studies suggested that velocity superstructures were smaller than their thermal counterparts in the center of the domain. However, a scale-by-scale analysis of the correlation between the two fields employing the linear coherence spectrum reveals that superstructures of the same size exist in both fields, which are almost perfectly correlated. The issue is further clarified by the observation that in contrast to the temperature, and unlike assumed previously, superstructures in the vertical velocity field do not result in a peak in the power spectrum of $w$. The origin of this difference is traced back to the production terms of the $θ$- and $w$-variance. These results are confirmed for a range of Rayleigh numbers $Ra = 10^5$--$10^9$, the superstructure size is seen to increase monotonically with $Ra$. Furthermore, the scale distribution of particularly the temperature fluctuations is pronouncedly bimodal. In addition to the large-scale peak caused by the superstructures, there exists a strong small-scale peak. This `inner peak' is most intense at a distance of $δ_θ$ from the wall and associated with structures of size $\approx 10 δ_θ$, where $δ_θ$ is the thermal boundary layer thickness. Finally, based on the vertical coherence relative to a reference height of $δ_θ$, a self-similar structure is identified in the velocity field (vertical and horizontal components) but not in the temperature.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
Eupholidoptera astyla
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera astyla

description: Eupholidoptera astyla (Ramme, 1927)
(Figures 30, 75, 121, 167, 209, 230, 234 –236, 239, Appendix)
 Pholidoptera astyla Ramme, 1927: 133.
 Eupholidoptera astyla (Ramme, 1927); Ramme, 1951: 198.
 Type information: Holotype M, GREECE, Naxos, 9.1925 (A. Schulz); paratypes 1M, 2F, Crete (Ost. Kreta), Ierapetra, 7.1925 (A.Schulz) (ZMB). The type locality island of “Naxos” is considered to be doubtful and based on an exchange of labels (Willemse & Heller, 2001).
 Material examined: GREECE: Crete: holotype and paratypes; 5M, Rethimni, Nidha-Hochfl. (Ideon Antron) (35°12'N, 24°49'E), 1400 m, 18.8.1991 (K.-G. Heller) (CH) (sound record); 1M, Pardi oberhalb Kouroutes (35°10'N, 24°45'E), 800 m, 21.8.1991 (K.-G. Heller & M. Volleth) (CH) (sound record); 2M, 4 km (auf Strasse) südl. (oberhalb) Anogia (Ida-Geb.) (35°16'N, 24°52'E), 1000 m, 17.8.1991 (K.-G. Heller & M. Volleth) (CH) (sound record), 2M, 1 F, Mt. Ida, spring of Skaronero, above Kamares (35°10'50''N, 24°48'50''E), 1800 m, 28 vii 2007, (M. & K.-G. Heller) (sound record); 1 M, Mt. Ida (Psiloritis) above Kamares, camp site (35°11'40''N, 24°47'25''E), 1850 m, 29.7.2007, (M. & K.-G. Heller); 1 M, Mt. Dikti, 1250 & 1550m, 1. & 5.8.1987 (J.M.Tilmans & J.F. R. Tilmans-Smid)(CW); 5M, 4F, Mt. Idhi Skicentre, 1550m, 12.8.1987 (all J.M. Tilmans & J.F. R. Tilmans-Smid)(CW); 1M, Crete, Skonef, 23.6.1987 (CW).
 Distribution: Endemic to eastern Crete.
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on pages 58-59
The Number of Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts in Hypofunctional teeth during orthodontic tooth movement
Creators: name: Adibah Maulani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110506 Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: these contain some datas of research about hypofunctional teeth during orthodontic tooth movement
Eupholidoptera annamariae Nadig 1985
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera annamariae

description: Eupholidoptera annamariae Nadig, 1985
(Figures 31, 76, 122, 168, 210, 234, 239, Appendix)
 Eupholidoptera annamariae Nadig, 1985a: 329.
 Type information: Holotype M, 10M & 13F paratypes: GREECE: Crete (Kreta), Nom.Lasithiou, Kato Zakros, 50m, 14.6.1984 (A.Nadig) (CN, 1M, 1F CW)
 Material examined: GREECE: Crete: 1M, 1F paratypes; 2M, Lasithi, zw. Kato Zakros - Zakros (35°6'N, 26°14'E), 200 m, 15.8.1991 (K.-G. Heller) (CH) (sound record).
 Distribution: It is endemic and restricted to a small range in the most eastern end of Crete.
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on page 59
Nonlinear Oscillatory Shear Tests in Viscoelastic Holography
Creators: name: Baggioli, Matteo
name: Grieninger, Sebastian
name: Soltanpanahi, Hesam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide the first characterization of the nonlinear and time dependent rheologic response of viscoelastic bottom-up holographic models. More precisely, we perform oscillatory shear tests in holographic massive gravity theories with finite elastic response, focusing on the large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS) regime. The characterization of these systems is done using several techniques: (I) the Lissajous figures, (II) the Fourier analysis of the stress signal, (III) the Pipkin diagram and (IV) the dependence of the storage and loss moduli on the amplitude of the applied strain. We find substantial evidence for a strong strain stiffening mechanism, typical of hyper-elastic materials such as rubbers and complex polymers. This indicates that the holographic models considered are not a good description for rigid metals, where strain stiffening is not commonly observed. Additionally, a crossover between a viscoelastic liquid regime at small graviton mass (compared to the temperature scale), and a viscoelastic solid regime at large values is observed. Finally, we discuss the relevance of our results for soft matter and for the understanding of the widely used homogeneous holographic models with broken translations.
description: v2: Matching the version published in PRL !
Homogeneous Plane Waves
Creators: name: Blau, Matthias
name: O'Loughlin, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the search for potentially exactly solvable time-dependent string backgrounds, we determine all homogeneous plane wave (HPW) metrics in any dimension and find one family of HPWs with geodesically complete metrics and another with metrics containing null singularities. The former generalises both the Cahen-Wallach (constant $A_{ij}$) metrics to time-dependent HPWs, $A_{ij}(t)$, and the Ozsvath-Schücking anti-Mach metric to arbitrary dimensions. The latter is a generalisation of the known homogeneous metrics with $A_{ij}\sim 1/t^2$ to a more complicated time-dependence. We display these metrics in various coordinate systems, show how to embed them into string theory, and determine the isometry algebra of a general HPW and the associated conserved charges. We review the Lewis-Riesenfeld theory of invariants of time-dependent harmonic oscillators and show how it can be deduced from the geometry of plane waves. We advocate the use of the invariant associated with the extra (timelike) isometry of HPWs for lightcone quantisation, and illustrate the procedure in some examples.
description: 48 pages, LaTeX2e, v2: additional references and cosmetic corrections
Improving fidelity of continuous-variable teleportation via local operations
Creators: name: Fiurasek, Jaromir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Braunstein-Kimble setup for teleportation of quantum state of a single mode of optical field. We assume that the sender and receiver share a two-mode Gaussian state and we identify optimum local Gaussian operations that maximize the teleportation fidelity. We consider fidelity of teleportation of pure Gaussian states and we also introduce fidelity of the teleportation transformation. We show on an explicit example that in some cases the optimum local operation is not a simple unitary symplectic transformation but some more general completely positive map.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, added references
Theoretical Uncertainties in Sparticle Mass Predictions
Creators: name: Allanach, B. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We contrast the sparticle spectra obtained from three modern publicly available codes along model lines in minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) parameter space. From this we gain an idea of the uncertainties involved with sparticle spectra calculations. The differences in predicted sparticle masses are typically at the several percent-level. In the focus-point scenario, there are differences of 30% in the weak gaugino masses. These uncertainties need to be reduced in order to obtain accurate information about fundamental models of supersymmetry breaking.
description: revTex4 style. Softsusy homepage is at http://allanach.home.cern.ch/allanach/softsusy.html Written for Snowmass 2001. Replaced version has updated reference. 3 pages, 3 figures
New constraints on ultrashort-ranged Yukawa interactions from atomic force microscopy
Creators: name: Fischbach, E.
name: Krause, D. E.
name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
name: Novello, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models in which the gravitational and gauge interactions are unified at ~1 TeV lead to the possibility that large extra dimensions would produce Yukawa-type corrections to the Newtonian gravitational law at small distances. In some models with n = 3 extra dimensions, deviations from Newtonian gravity would occur at separations ~5 nm, a distance scale accessible to an atomic force microscope (AFM). Here we present constraints on the Yukawa corrections derived from the latest AFM Casimir force measurement by Mohideen, et al. which are up to 19 times stronger than those obtained from their previous experiment. We then discuss new designs for AFM experiments which have the potential to significantly improve upon these constraints.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures, REVTeX (to appear in Physical Review D)
Sparse Factors, Streamlined Time-variation, and Twisted Yield Curves
Creators: name: Beyeler, Simon
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2019
Subjects: 330 Economics

description: Chapter 1: Factor Augmented VAR Revisited - A Sparse Dynamic Factor Model Approach with Sylvia Kaufmann We combine the factor augmented VAR framework with recently developed estimation and identification procedures for sparse dynamic factor models. Working with a sparse hierarchical prior distribution allows us to discriminate between zero and non-zero factor loadings. The non-zero loadings identify the unobserved factors and provide a meaningful economic interpretation for them. Applying our methodology to US macroeconomic data reveals indeed a high degree of sparsity in the data. We use the estimated FAVAR to study the effect of a monetary policy shock and a shock to the term premium. Factors and specific variables show sensible responses to the identified shocks. Chapter 2: Streamlining Time-varying VAR with a Factor Structure in the Parameters I introduce a factor structure on the parameters of a Bayesian TVP-VAR to reduce the dimension of the model's state space. To further limit the scope of over-fitting the estimation of the factor loadings uses a new generation of shrinkage priors. A Monte Carlo study illustrates the ability of the proposed sampler to well distinguish between time varying and constant parameters. In an application with Swiss data the model proves useful to capture changes in the economy's dynamics due to the lower bound on nominal interest rates. Chapter 3: Shall we Twist? with Sophie Altermatt In recent monetary history, central banks around the world have started to introduce unconventional monetary policy measures, such as extending or restructuring the asset side of their balance sheet. The origin of these monetary policy tools goes back to an intervention by the U.S. Federal Reserve System under the Kennedy administration in 1961 known as Operation Twist. Operation Twist serves as a perfect laboratory to study the effectiveness of such balance sheet policies, because interest rates neither were at their lower bound nor was the economy in a historical turmoil. We assess the actions of the FED and the Treasury under Operation Twist based on balance sheet data and evaluate their success using modern time series techniques. We find that, although being of rather moderate size, the joint policy actions were effective in compressing the long-short spreads of the Treasury bond rates.