cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Happiness and Economic Performance
Creators: name: Oswald, Andrew J.
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Production Economics
Public Economics

description: If a nation's economic performance improves, how much extra happiness does that buy its citizens? Most public debate assumes -- without real evidence -- that the answer is a lot. This paper examines the question by using information on well-being in Western countries. The data are of four kinds: on reported happiness, on reported life satisfaction, on reported job satisfaction, and on the number of suicides. These reveal patterns that are not visible to the anecdotal eye. In industrialized countries, well-being appears to rise as real national income grows. But the rise is so small as to be sometimes almost undetectable. Unemployment, however, seems to be a large source of unhappiness. This suggests that governments ought to be trying to reduce the amount of joblessness in the economy. In a country that is already rich, policy aimed instead at raising economic growth may be of comparatively little value.
Testing the isotropy of the Dark Energy Survey's extreme trans-Neptunian objects
Creators: name: Bernardinelli, Pedro H.
name: Bernstein, Gary M.
name: Sako, Masao
name: Hamilton, Stephanie
name: Gerdes, David W.
name: Adams, Fred C.
name: Saunders, William R.
name: Aguena, M.
name: Allam, S.
name: Avila, S.
name: Brooks, D.
name: Diehl, H. T.
name: Doel, P.
name: Everett, S.
name: García-Bellido, J.
name: Gaztanaga, E.
name: Gruendl, R. A.
name: Honscheid, K.
name: Ogando, R. L. C.
name: Palmese, A.
name: Tucker, D. L.
name: Walker, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test whether the population of "extreme" trans-Neptunian objects (eTNOs) detected in the Y4 Dark Energy Survey (DES) data exhibit azimuthal asymmetries which might be evidence of gravitational perturbations from an unseen super-Earth in a distant orbit. By rotating the orbits of the detected eTNOs, we construct a synthetic population which, when subject to the DES selection function, reproduces the detected distribution of eTNOs in the orbital elements $a,e,$ and $i$ as well as absolute magnitude $H$, but has uniform distributions in mean anomaly $M$, longitude of ascending node $Ω,$ and argument of perihelion $ω.$ We then compare the detected distributions in each of $Ω, ω,$ and $\varpi\equivΩ+ω$ to those expected from the isotropic population, using Kuiper's variant of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The three angles are tested for each of 4 definitions of the eTNO population, choosing among $a>(150,250)$ AU and perihelion $q>(30,37)$ AU. These choices yield 3--7 eTNOs in the DES Y4 sample. Among the twelve total tests, two have the likelihood of drawing the observed angles from the isotropic population at $p<0.05.$ The 3 detections at $a>250, q>37$ AU, and the 4 detections at $a>250, q>30$ AU, have $Ω$ distribution with $p=0.03$ of coming from the isotropic construction, but this is not strong evidence of anisotropy given the 12 different tests. The DES data taken on their own are thus consistent with azimuthal isotropy and do not require a "Planet 9" hypothesis. The limited sky coverage and object count mean, however, that the DES data by no means falsify this hypothesis.
description: Accepted on PSJ
Classical analysis of phase-locking transients and Rabi-type oscillations in microwave-driven Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Marchese, Jeffrey E.
name: Cirillo, Matteo
name: Grønbech-Jensen, Niels
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a classical analysis of the transient response of Josephson junctions perturbed by microwaves and thermal fluctuations. The results include a specific low frequency modulation in phase and amplitude behavior of a junction in its zero-voltage state. This transient modulation frequency is linked directly to an observed variation in the probability for the system to switch to its non-zero voltage state. Complementing previous work on linking classical analysis to the experimental observations of Rabi-oscillations, this expanded perturbation method also provides closed form analytical results for attenuation of the modulations and the Rabi-type oscillation frequency. Results of perturbation analysis are compared directly (and quantitatively) to numerical simulations of the classical model as well as published experimental data, suggesting that transients to phase-locking are closely related to the observed oscillations.
description: 18 pages total, 8 figures (typos corrected; minor revisions to figures and equations)
IMPACT OF CULTURE DIMENSIONS ON ROLE MOTIVATION: A MODEL BASED STUDY
VPLYV KULTURNYCH DIMENZII NA ULOHOVU MOTIVACIU: MODELOVA STUDIA
Creators: name: SINHA, Smirta
name: SINGH, Ajay Kumar
name: GUPTA, Nisha
name: DUTT, Rajul
name: SINHA, Smirta
name: SINGH, Ajay Kumar
name: GUPTA, Nisha
name: DUTT, Rajul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial Economics
subject: work culture
subject: autocratic culture
subject: bureaucratic culture
subject: technocratic culture
subject: entrepreneurial culture
subject: dominant culture
subject: motivation
subject: OCP-Role motivation model

description: Organizations have become more global, complex and competitive. The objective of the present study is to examine the dominant work culture prevalent in the two organizations X and Y and to study its impact on the motivation level of the employees at the managerial level so that a model can be developed. This research paper seeks to investigate the relationship between the various independent and dependent vriables through Correlation Analysis. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was undertaken to assess the significant predictors of work culture for the total sample. The findings show that Technocratic culture has the strongest partial correlation or the purest relationship with role motivation. Through regression analysis, technocratic culture emerges as a strong predictor of motivation.
Apocynum frutescens L.
Creators: name: Wijnands, Dirk Onno
name: Heniger, Johannes
name: Veldkamp, Jan Frederik
name: Fumeaux, Nicolas
name: Callmander, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Apocynum
Apocynum frutescens

description: 13. Apocynum frutescens L.,
Sp. Pl.: 213. 1753 [cited in Nat. Hist. II(7): 746. 1777].
≡ Ichnocarpus frutescens (L.) W.T. Aiton, Hort. Kew ed. 2, 2: 69. 1811.
Notes. – A specimen in the Ceylon herbarium is in G-PREL [G00818025]. Two Thunberg specimens from Ceylon have been located in the Thunberg herbarium (UPS- THUNB n° 6198 and n° 6199).
description: Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 169, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887
On coherent radiation in electron-positron colliders
Creators: name: Baier, V. N.
name: Katkov, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electromagnetic processes in linear colliders are discussed on the basis of quasiclassical operator method. The complete set of expressions is written down for spectral probability of radiation from an electron and pair creation by a photon taking into account both electron and photon polarization. Some new formulas are derived for radiation intensity and its asymptotics. The main mechanisms of pair creation dominate at $χ\leq 1$ are discussed.
description: Plenary talk at Quantum Aspects of Beam Physics Workshop (QABP2003), January 7-11, 2003, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan. To be published in the Proceedings (World Scientific, Singapore)
GRAVITY MODEL OF EU'S BILATERAL TRADE WITH DIFFERENT PRODUCTS
GRAVITACNY MODEL BILATERALNEHO OBCHODU EU S ROZNYMI TOVARMI
Creators: name: POKRIVCAK, Jan
name: SINDLEROVA, Kristina
name: POKRIVCAK, Jan
name: SINDLEROVA, Kristina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: gravity model
subject: bilateral trade
subject: commodity 02
subject: commodity 04

description: The basic gravity model of the bilateral trade supposes that the rich and geographically closely situated countries trade more. We have used the enlarged gravity models to explore the effect of other factors on the EU's bilateral trade. The aim of the article is to analyse the bilateral trade of the EU member states with third countries, and identify the factors which affect the trade with different products during the term 2004- 2008. The impact of the common border, language, colonial history, and variety of trade agreements on the trade with commodities 02 - dairy products, birds' eggs, honey and 04 - meat and edible meat offal is studied in the article.
Dyscia fagaria
Creators: name: Makhov, Ilya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Dyscia
Dyscia fagaria

description: 43. Dyscia fagaria (Thunberg, 1784)
(adult Figs 10O, 10R; male gen. Figs 20A, 20B; female gen. Fig. 36D)
 Dyscia fagaria psoricaria (Eversmann, 1848): Viidalepp, 1996: 78 (“Dahuria”).
 Dyscia fagaria: Vasilenko & Gordeeva (Vlasova), 2004: 1437; Gordeeva & Gordeev, 2007: 140.
  Material examined. Buryatia : Onokhoy, 17. V.1999, 1♂; s. loc, 26. V.1999, 1♂; Orongoy, 9. V.1998, 1♀, T. Gordeeva [ISEA].
 Distribution. Transeurasiatic, temperate. Volga region, SE Caucasus, southern Ural, Buryatia, Transbaikalia,? Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Outside. Outside Russia: China (N and NW), Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Transcaucasia, W Ukraine, N, W and central Europe.
 Hostplants: Artemisia (Beljaev 2016).
description: Published as part of Makhov, Ilya, 2021, Geometridae (Lepidoptera) of the Baikal region: keys to species and an annotated catalogue. Part 1. Ennominae, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4962 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4962.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4694202
The Cluster Expansion for the Self-Gravitating gas and the Thermodynamic Limit
Creators: name: de Vega, H. J.
name: Sanchez, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the cluster expansion and the Mayer expansion for the self-gravitating thermal gas and prove the existence and stability of the thermodynamic limit N, V to infty with N/V^{1/3} fixed. The essential (dimensionless) variable is here eta = [G m^2 N]/[V^{1/3} T] (which is kept fixed in the thermodynamic limit). We succeed in this way to obtain the expansion of the grand canonical partition function in powers of the fugacity. The corresponding cluster coefficients behave in the thermodynamic limit as [eta/N]^{j-1} c_j where c_j are pure numbers. They are expressed as integrals associated to tree cluster diagrams. A bilinear recurrence relation for the coefficients c_j is obtained from the mean field equations in the Abel form. In this way the large j behaviour of the c_j is calculated. This large j behaviour provides the position of the nearest singularity which corresponds to the critical point (collapse) of the self-gravitating gas in the grand canonical ensemble. Finally, we discuss why other attempts to define a thermodynamic limit for the self-gravitating gas fail.
description: LaTex 12 pages, 1 figure .ps
Perconia strigillaria
Creators: name: Makhov, Ilya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Perconia
Perconia strigillaria

description: 44. Perconia strigillaria (Hübner, [1787])
(adult Fig. 10P; male gen. Figs 16I, 16J; female gen. Fig. 34C)
 Perconia strigillaria: Djakonov, 1926: 78; Wehrli, 1929: 26; Kondakov et al., 1979: 49; Viidalepp, 1979: 783; 1996: 78; Belova, 1988: 22; 2000a: 110; 2000b: 27; Berlov & Berlov, 2006: 108; Gordeeva & Gordeev, 2007: 140; Mironov & Belova, 2015: 61.
  Material examined. Irkutskaya Oblast : Zama, 8–10. VI.2018, 8♂ [IM]; Ryty, 18. VI.2010, 1♂, O. Berlov [EB].
 Buryatia: Onokhoy, 13.VI.2009, 1♀, T. Gordeeva [IGEB].
 Distribution. Euro-Siberian, temperate. European part of Russia, Crimea, Ural, Western Siberia, Altai, Pribaikalye, Transbaikalia, southern Yakutia. Outside Russia: Europe, Balkans, Ireland, Turkey, Transcaucasia, Mongolia.
 Hostplants: in Europe Vicia, Rubus (Skou & Sihvonen 2015).
description: Published as part of Makhov, Ilya, 2021, Geometridae (Lepidoptera) of the Baikal region: keys to species and an annotated catalogue. Part 1. Ennominae, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4962 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4962.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4694202
Periodic event-triggered output regulation for linear multi-agent systems
Creators: name: Zheng, Shiqi
name: Shi, Peng
name: Agarwal, Ramesh K.
name: Lim, Chee Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This study considers the problem of periodic event-triggered (PET) cooperative output regulation for a class of linear multi-agent systems. The advantage of the PET output regulation is that the data transmission and triggered condition are only needed to be monitored at discrete sampling instants. It is assumed that only a small number of agents can have access to the system matrix and states of the leader. Meanwhile, the PET mechanism is considered not only in the communication between various agents, but also in the sensor-to-controller and controller-to-actuator transmission channels for each agent. The above problem set-up will bring some challenges to the controller design and stability analysis. Based on a novel PET distributed observer, a PET dynamic output feedback control method is developed for each follower. Compared with the existing works, our method can naturally exclude the Zeno behavior, and the inter-event time becomes multiples of the sampling period. Furthermore, for every follower, the minimum inter-event time can be determined \textit{a prior}, and computed directly without the knowledge of the leader information. An example is given to verify and illustrate the effectiveness of the new design scheme.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Automatica. accepted
Development and the Interaction of Enforcement Institutions
Creators: name: Dhillon, Amrita
name: Rigolini, Jamele
name: Dhillon, Amrita
name: Rigolini, Jamele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Contracts
subject: Institutions
subject: Corruption
subject: Reputation
subject: Uncertainty

description: We examine how institutions that enforce contracts between two parties, producers and consumers, interact in a competitive market with one-sided asymmetric information and productivity shocks. We compare an informal enforcement mechanism, reputation, the efficacy of which is enhanced by consumers investing in “connectedness,” with a formal mechanism, legal enforcement, the effectiveness of which can be reduced by producers by means of bribes. When legal enforcement is poor, consumers connect more with one another to improve informal enforcement; in contrast, a well-connected network of consumers reduces producers’ incentives to bribe. In equilibrium, the model predicts a positive relationship between the the frequency of productivity shocks, bribing, and the use of informal enforcement, providing a physical explanation of why developing countries often fail to have efficient legal systems. Firm-level estimations confirm the partial equilibrium implications of the model.
Quark-Model Baryon-Baryon Interaction and its Applications to Hypernuclei
Creators: name: Fujiwara, Y.
name: Nakamoto, C.
name: Suzuki, Y.
name: Kohno, M.
name: Miyagawa, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quark-model baryon-baryon interaction fss2, proposed by the Kyoto-Niigata group, is a unified model for the complete baryon octet (B_8=N, Lambda, Sigma and Xi), which is formulated in a framework of the (3q)-(3q) resonating-group method (RGM) using the spin-flavor SU_6 quark-model wave functions and effective meson-exchange potentials at the quark level. Model parameters are determined to reproduce properties of the nucleon-nucleon system and the low-energy cross section data for the hyperon-nucleon scattering. Due to the several improvements including the introduction of vector-meson exchange potentials, fss2 has achieved very accurate description of the NN and YN interactions, comparable to various one-boson exchange potentials. We review the essential features of fss2 and our previous model FSS, and their predictions to few-body systems in confrontation with the available experimental data. Some characteristic features of the B_8 B_8 interactions with the higher strangeness, S=-2, -3, -4, predicted by fss2 are discussed. These quark-model interactions are now applied to realistic calculations of few-body systems in a new three-cluster Faddeev formalism which uses two-cluster RGM kernels. As for the few-body systems, we discuss the three-nucleon bound states, the Lambda NN-Sigma NN system for the hypertriton, the alpha alpha Lambda system for 9Be Lambda, and the Lambda Lambda alpha system for 6He Lambda Lambda.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, 18th Nishinomiya Yukawa Memorial Symposium on Strangeness in Nuclear Matter, 4 - 5 December 2003, Nishinomiya, Japan. (to be published in Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl.)
The Boucicaut Master : Interior Spatial Representation as Seen in Selected Miniatures of the Boucicaut Hours
Creators: name: Riggio, Catherine H
name: Sherman, Claire
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
Who benefits from Child Benefit?
Creators: name: Blow, Laura
name: Walker, Ian
name: Zhu, Yu
name: Blow, Laura
name: Walker, Ian
name: Zhu, Yu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: altruism
subject: child poverty
subject: intra-household transfers

description: Over much of the developed world governments make significant financial transfers to parents with dependent children. For example, in the US the recently introduced Child Tax Credit (CTC), which goes to almost all children, costs almost $1billion each week, or about 0.4% of GNP. The UK has even more generous transfers and spends about $25 a week on each of about 8 million children – about 1% of GNP. The typical rationale given for these transfers is that they are good for our children and here we investigate the effect on household spending patterns. The UK is an excellent laboratory to address this issue because such transfers, known as Child Benefit (CB), were simple lump sum universal payments for a period of more than 20 years. We do indeed find that CB is spent differently from other income – paradoxically, it appears to be spent disproportionately on adult-assignable goods. In fact we estimate that more than half of a marginal pound of CB is spent on alcohol. We resolve the puzzle by showing that the effect is confined to unanticipated variation in CB so we infer that parents are sufficiently altruistic towards their children that they completely insure them against shocks.
Damage Evolution Constitutive Behavior of Rock in Thermo-Mechanical Coupling Processes
Creators: name: Wang, Suran
name: Liao, Haohao
name: Chen, Youliang
name: Fernández-Steeger, Tomás Manuel
name: Du, Xi
name: Xiong, Min
name: Liao, Shaoming
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie
subject: rock mechanics
subject: unified constitutive model
subject: damage evolution
subject: coupling effect
subject: thermo-load rock

description: For thermal and loaded rock in engineering structures for some projects, triple-shear Drucker–Prager yield criteria, compaction coefficient K, damage variable correction factor δ, and thermal damage variable DT are introduced in a new thermomechanical (TM) constitutive model for the entire process. The compaction stage of rock in uniaxial compression test and the strain softening of rock caused by thermal attack are considered in this article. The damage evolution of rocks is described by a damage variable and a constitutive equation, which are in agreement with the actual thermal experimental breakage. The uniaxial compressive strength of granite subjected to a TM coupling effect can be predicted properly by this new unified constitutive model. The new TM unified constitutive model considering the compaction stage and post-failure stage is in good agreement with the test curves throughout the entire process. The coupling effect of heat and load in the total damage of rock has obvious nonlinear properties, but the coupling effect significantly weakens the specimens. By using the new TM unified constitutive model, the whole process of changes in rock damage with strain after high temperature can be calculated. Meanwhile, the model well represents the stress–strain curve at the post-failure stage. It is expected that this model can provide references for studying the mechanical response of the rock damage propagation characteristics in the future.
Varying Alpha Monopoles
Creators: name: Menezes, J.
name: Avelino, P. P.
name: Santos, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study static magnetic monopoles in the context of varying alpha theories and show that there is a group of models for which the t'Hooft-Polyakov solution is still valid. Nevertheless, in general static magnetic monopole solutions in varying alpha theories depart from the classical t'Hooft-Polyakov solution with the electromagnetic energy concentrated inside the core seeding spatial variations of the fine structure constant. We show that Equivalence Principle constraints impose tight limits on the allowed variations of alpha induced by magnetic monopoles which confirms the difficulty to generate significant large-scale spatial variation of the fine structure constant found in previous works. This is true even in the most favorable case where magnetic monopoles are the source for these variations.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures; Version to be published in Phys. Rev. D
Nicolas Poussin : His Attitude Towards and Uses of Antique Art
Creators: name: Stecher, Barbara
name: Russell, H. Diane
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
An investigation into the use of biodegradable packing materials in the new SUB : a triple bottom-line assessment
Creators: name: Tam, Ken
name: Song, Yang (Henry)
name: Chotwanwirach, Sopida
name: Hou, Shao Hua (Raymond)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The search for alternative and more environmentally friendly packing materials has recently become a popular topic as the existing conventional packing materials are made from non-renewable and are also non-biodegradable. Nonetheless, the benefit from materials made from bio-based resources are debatable. The new SUB in UBC is targeting to reduce waste stream as part of the sustainable action plan. As a result, the main objectives of this experiment are to conduct a triple bottom line assessment on PHA (proposed bio-based material) and PE (conventional material) and to present the results to the retailer for alternative and more sustainable packing material options. This study only focuses on the soft plastic bags which will be used for apparel businesses in the new SUB. For economic analysis, the unit selling price and market growth of both materials are compared. It is found that the selling price of PHA bags is 2-3 times greater than that of the PE bags. The market for PHA is 1.4% while PE market is 39%. To assess the environmental impact of both materials, the global warming, eutrophication and photochemical ozone are used as the indicators. Different sources of energy for PHA production process and end-of-life options are examined in comparison to PE ones. The energy source of PHA production is the main factor which dominates the impact on environment. Geothermal is found to be the resource which has the lowest impact but it is highly dependent on the geographic region. Also, coal-fired power for PHA production and landfill disposal option for both types of bags have the largest environmental impact. For social assessment, the risks for human health in production process, consumer- and retailer-based surveys, and banning of PE are studied. It is shown that PHA bags has lower overall risk than PE bags. However, the PHA involves more serious health problems such as fatal accidents and pulmonary health problems. The surveys show that both consumers and retailers are financial-oriented, and this greatly influences their behavior. As a result, PHA bags are not recommended to substitute PE bags. However, it is recommended that further research and analysis on another potential bio-based materials should continue. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
On the theory of electric dc-conductivity : linear and non-linear microscopic evolution and macroscopic behaviour
Creators: name: Riess, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Schrodinger time evolution of charged particles subject to a static substrate potential and to a homogeneous, macroscopic electric field (a magnetic field may also be present). We investigate the microscopic velocities and the resulting macroscopic current. We show that the microscopic velocities are in general non-linear with respect to the electric field. One kind of non-linearity arises from the highly non-linear adiabatic evolution and (or) from an admixture of parts of it in so-called intermediate states, and the other kind from non-quadratic transition rates between adiabatic states. The resulting macroscopic dc-current may or may not be linear in the field. Three cases can be distinguished : (a) The microscopic non-linearities can be neglected. This is assumed to be the case in linear response theory (Kubo formalism, ...). We give arguments which make it plausible that often such an assumption is indeed justified, in particular for the current parallel to the field. (b) The microscopic non-linearitites lead to macroscopic non-linearities. An example is the onset of dissipation by increasing the electric field in the breakdown of the quantum Hall effect. (c) The macroscopic current is linear although the microscopic non-linearities constitute an essential part of it and cannot be neglected. We show that the Hall current of a quantized Hall plateau belongs to this case. This illustrates that macroscopic linearity does not necessarily result from microscopic linearity. In the second and third cases linear response theory is inadequate. We elucidate also some other problems related to linear response theory.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures, some typing errors have been corrected. Remark : in eq. (1) of the printed article an obvious typing error remains
Aspalathus multiflora Thunb.
Creators: name: Wijnands, Dirk Onno
name: Heniger, Johannes
name: Veldkamp, Jan Frederik
name: Fumeaux, Nicolas
name: Callmander, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Aspalathus
Aspalathus multiflora

description: 17. Aspalathus multiflora Thunb.,
Prodr. Fl. Cap. 2: 128. 1800.
Lectotypus (designated by DAHLGREN, 1968: 60): SOUTH AFRICA: “Cap. b. spei a”, Thunberg s.n. (UPS-THUNB n° 16487 image seen; isolecto-: LD-1241837 image seen).
= Aspalathus vermiculata Lam., Encycl. 1: 288. 1783.
Notes. – Two collections are present in UPS-THUNB. One is identified as Aspalathus vermiculata Lam. by W.H. Harvey and was designated as the lectotype by DAHLGREN (1968: 60). The second collection was identified as A. thymifolia var. albiflora (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Harv. by W.H. Harvey (see HARVEY, 1862). The collection in LD is stamped “Museum Acharianum” and is therefore regarded here as an isolectotype, given that “Acharius and Thunberg were close friends and exchanged material”, according to NORDENSTAM & BUYS (2011: 1191).
description: Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 170, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887
Additional file 1 of Outcomes after long-term mechanical ventilation of cancer patients
Creators: name: Haviland, Kelly
name: Tan, Kay See
name: Schwenk, Nadja
name: Pillai, Manju V.
name: Stover, Diane E.
name: Downey, Robert J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Biotechnology
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Enfranchisement, Intra-Elite Conflict and Bargaining
Creators: name: Ghosal, Sayantan
name: Proto, Eugenio
name: Ghosal, Sayantan
name: Proto, Eugenio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: enfranchisement
subject: elite
subject: non-elites
subject: conflict
subject: bargaining
subject: risk-sharing
subject: Indian democracy

description: Does power sharing between competing elites result in franchise extension to non-elites? In this paper, we argue that competing, risk-averse elites will enfranchise non-elites as insurance against future, uncertain imbalances in relative bargaining power. We show that negligibly small changes in the bargaining power of non-elites, conditional on enfranchisment, via coalition formation, constrains the bargaining power of the stronger elite and result in discontinuous changes in equilibrium surplus division. Our results are robust to public good provision following enfranchisement when there is preference heterogeneity over the location of the public good across the di§erent elites. We conclude with a comparative analysis of Indian democracy and show that our model is able to account for some of the distinctive features of Indian democracy.
Gapless Criterion for Crystals from Effective Axion Field
Creators: name: Yu, Jiabin
name: Song, Zhi-Da
name: Liu, Chao-Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gapless criteria that can efficiently determine whether a crystal is gapless or not are particularly useful for identifying topological semimetals. In this work, we propose a sufficient gapless criterion for three-dimensional non-interacting crystals, based on the simplified expressions for the bulk average value of the static axion field. The brief logic is that two different simplified expressions give the same value in an insulator, and thus the gapless phase can be detected by the mismatch of them. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the gapless criterion in the magnetic systems with space groups 26 and 13, where mirror, glide, and inversion symmetries provide the simplified expressions. In particular, the gapless criterion can identify gapless phases that are missed by the symmetry representation approach, as illustrated by space group 26. Our proposal serves as a guiding principle for future discovery of topological semimetals.
description: Close to the published version
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image
Creators: name: Driess, Danny
name: Ha, Jung-Su
name: Toussaint, Marc
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: task and motion planning
subject: deep learning
subject: sequential manipulation
subject: physical reasoning
subject: planar pushing
subject: logic geometric programming
subject: offline reinforcement learning
subject: deep Q-learning

description: In this article, we propose deep visual reasoning, which is a convolutional recurrent neural network that predicts discrete action sequences from an initial scene image for sequential manipulation problems that arise, for example, in task and motion planning (TAMP). Typical TAMP problems are formalized by combining reasoning on a symbolic, discrete level (e.g., first-order logic) with continuous motion planning such as nonlinear trajectory optimization. The action sequences represent the discrete decisions on a symbolic level, which, in turn, parameterize a nonlinear trajectory optimization problem. Owing to the great combinatorial complexity of possible discrete action sequences, a large number of optimization/motion planning problems have to be solved to find a solution, which limits the scalability of these approaches. To circumvent this combinatorial complexity, we introduce deep visual reasoning: based on a segmented initial image of the scene, a neural network directly predicts promising discrete action sequences such that ideally only one motion planning problem has to be solved to find a solution to the overall TAMP problem. Our method generalizes to scenes with many and varying numbers of objects, although being trained on only two objects at a time. This is possible by encoding the objects of the scene and the goal in (segmented) images as input to the neural network, instead of a fixed feature vector. We show that the framework can not only handle kinematic problems such as pick-and-place (as typical in TAMP), but also tool-use scenarios for planar pushing under quasi-static dynamic models. Here, the image-based representation enables generalization to other shapes than during training. Results show runtime improvements of several orders of magnitudes by, in many cases, removing the need to search over the discrete action sequences.
Static and dynamic properties of multi-ionic plasma mixtures
Creators: name: Clerouin, Jean
name: Arnault, Philippe
name: Grea, Benoit-Joseph
name: Guisset, Sebastien
name: Vandenboomgaerde, Marc
name: White, Alexander J.
name: Collins, Lee A.
name: Kress, Joel D.
name: Ticknor, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complex plasma mixtures with three or more components are often encountered in astrophysics or in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments. For mixtures containing species with large differences in atomic number Z, the modeling needs to consider at the same time the kinetic theory for low-Z elements combined with the theory of strongly coupled plasma for high-Z elements, as well as all the intermediate situations that can appear in multi-component systems. For such cases, we study the pair distribution functions, self-diffusions, mutual diffusion and viscosity for ternary mixtures at extreme conditions. These quantities can be produced from first principles using orbital free molecular dynamics at the computational expense of very intensive simulations to reach good statistics. Utilizing the first-principles results as reference data, we assess the merit of a global analytic model for transport coefficients, Pseudo-Ions in Jellium (PIJ), based on an iso-electronic assumption ( iso-n e ). With a multi-component hypernetted-chain integral equation, we verify the quality of the iso-n e prescription for describing the static structure of the mixtures. This semi-analytical modeling compares well with the simulation results and allows one to consider plasma mixtures not accessible to simulations. Applications are given for the mix of materials in ICF experiments. A reduction of a multicomponent mixture to an effective binary mixture is also established in the hydrodynamic limit and compared with PIJ estimations for ICF relevant mixtures.
description: 17 pages, 10 Figures
Arctotis aspera L.
Creators: name: Wijnands, Dirk Onno
name: Heniger, Johannes
name: Veldkamp, Jan Frederik
name: Fumeaux, Nicolas
name: Callmander, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Arctotis
Arctotis aspera

description: 14. Arctotis aspera L.,
Sp. Pl.: 922. 1753 [cited in Nat. Hist. II(11): 90. 1779].
Notes. – A specimen is present in the Cape herbarium in G-PREL [G00818026]. Two Thunberg collections are also present in the Thunberg herbarium (UPS-THUNB n° 20748 and n° 20749).
description: Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 170, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887
Vector particles in Quasilocal Quark Models
Creators: name: Andrianov, V. A.
name: Afonin, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Quasilocal Quark Model of NJL type including vector and axial-vector four-fermion interaction with derivatives. The mass spectrum for the ground and first excited states is obtained. The chiral symmetry restoration sum rules in these channels are imposed as matching rules to QCD at intermediate energies and a set of constraints on parameters of QQM is performed.
description: 18 pages
Aspalathus pedunculata Houtt.
Creators: name: Wijnands, Dirk Onno
name: Heniger, Johannes
name: Veldkamp, Jan Frederik
name: Fumeaux, Nicolas
name: Callmander, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Aspalathus
Aspalathus pedunculata

description: 18. Aspalathus pedunculata Houtt.,
Nat. Hist. II(5): Aanwyz. Plaat. [3], 475, tab. 28, fig. 2. 1775.
Lectotypus (designated by DAHLGREN, 1968: 70): SOUTH AFRICA: Cape, Auge s.n. [?] (G-PREL [G00818023]!).
Notes. – The lectotype is in the Cape herbarium and represents a clear match for the plate. MERRILL’s (1938: 345) interpretation of this plate as Aspalathus divaricata Thunb. is incorrect. The type specimen of A. squamosa Thunb. in the Thunberg herbarium (UPS-THUNB n° 16508) was identified as A. pedunculata by W.H. Harvey, but DAHLGREN (1960: 313) equated it with A. bracteata Thunb.
description: Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 170, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Presented in Terms of His Writings as Expressed at One Charles Center
Creators: name: Stecher, Barbara
name: Turak, Theodore
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
Selenia ononica I. Kostjuk 1991
Creators: name: Makhov, Ilya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Selenia
Selenia ononica

description: 21. Selenia ononica Kostjuk, 1991
(adults Figs 10C, 10G; male gen. Figs 14I, 14J; female gen. Fig. 32G)
 Selenia ononica: Viidalepp, 1996: 68 (“Dahuria”); Vasilenko & Gordeeva (Vlasova), 2004: 1437; Gordeeva & Gordeev, 2007: 132.
 Material examined. Buryatia: B. Altan, 9. V.1998, 1♂, 1♀, T. Gordeeva [ISEA]; s. loc., 12. V.1998, 8♂; s. loc., 9. V.1998, 6♂; Onokhoy, 24.51999, 1♀; Dobo-Yenkhor, 25. V.2009, 3♂; s. loc., 10. V.2009, 1♂; Tapkhar, 26.IV.2017, 2♂, T. Gordeeva [IGEB].
 Distribution. Central Asian, aride. In Russia S. ononica is known to inhabit Tuva, southern Buryatia and Zabaikalsky kray. Outside Russia this species is known from Mongolia and N China.
 Hostplants: unknown.
description: Published as part of Makhov, Ilya, 2021, Geometridae (Lepidoptera) of the Baikal region: keys to species and an annotated catalogue. Part 1. Ennominae, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4962 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4962.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4694202
The structure of electroweak corrections due to extended gauge symmetries
Creators: name: Chivukula, R. S.
name: He, H. -J.
name: Howard, J.
name: Simmons, E. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper studies models with extended electroweak gauge sectors of the form SU(2) x SU(2) x U(1) x [SU(2) or U(1)]. We establish the general behavior of corrections to precision electroweak observables in this class of theories and connect our results to previous work on specific models whose electroweak sectors are special cases of our extended group.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures; added a reference
Assa indica Christm. & Panz., Vollst. Pflanzensyst.
Creators: name: Wijnands, Dirk Onno
name: Heniger, Johannes
name: Veldkamp, Jan Frederik
name: Fumeaux, Nicolas
name: Callmander, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Dilleniales
Dilleniaceae
Assa
Assa indica

description: 19. Assa indica Houtt. ex Christm. & Panz.,
Vollst. Pflanzensyst. 4: 40, tab. 26, fig. 1. 1779.
≡ Tetracera indica (Houtt. ex Christm. & Panz.) Merr., Interpr. Herb. Amboin.: 367. 1917.
Lectotypus (designated by HOOGLAND, 1953: 207): INDONESIA. Java: Radermacher s.n. [?] (L-902.111-291!).
Notes. – The genus Assa Houtt. was validly published by Houttuyn in Natuurlijke Historie (Nat. Hist. II(5): 275. 1775) with no designation of a type species. It is now accepted under the Linnaean name Tetracera L.
Assa indica was published four years later by CHRISTMANN & PANZER (1777 -1788). A Thunberg specimen (the type of Wahlbomia indica Thunb.) is in the Thunberg herbarium (UPS-THUNB n° 12837), which is not a duplicate as it was collected by Thunberg after 1775.
description: Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 170, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887
Additional file 6 of Attitude change and increased confidence with management of chronic breathlessness following a health professional training workshop: a survey evaluation
Creators: name: Johnston, Kylie N.
name: Young, Mary
name: Kay, Debra
name: Booth, Sara
name: Spathis, Anna
name: Williams, Marie T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Exploratory factor analysis of items for familiarity, confidence and attitudes.
Bessie Potter Vonnoh American Sculptor
Creators: name: Ultan, Roslye B
name: Garrard, Mary D.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
Ohmic Reservoir-based non-Markovianity and Quantum Speed Limit Time
Creators: name: Zou, Hong-Mei
name: Liu, Rongfang
name: Long, Dan
name: Yang, Jianhe
name: Lin, Danping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-Markovianity and quantum speedup of a two-level atom (quantum system of interest) in a dissipative Jaynes-Cumming model, where the atom is embedded in a single-mode cavity, which is leaky being coupled to an external reservoir with Ohmic spectral density. We obtain the non-Markovianity characterized by using the probability of the atomic excited state and the negative decoherence rate in the time-local master equation. We also calculate the quantum speed limit time (QSLT) of the evolution process of the atom. The results show that, the atom-cavity coupling is the main physical reasons of the transition from Markovian to non-Markovian dynamics and the transition from no speedup to speedup process, and the critical value of this sudden transition only depends on the Ohmicity parameter. The atom-cavity coupling and the appropriate reservoir parameters can effectively improve the non-Markovianity in the dynamics process and speed up the evolution of the atom. Moreover, the initial non-Markovian dynamics first turns into Markovian and then back to non-Markovian with increasing the atom-cavity coupling under certain condition. Finally, the physical interpretation is provided.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1911.04839
Protests and Reputation
Creators: name: Luenrostro, Lucia
name: Dhillon, Amrita
name: Wooders, Myrna
name: Luenrostro, Lucia
name: Dhillon, Amrita
name: Wooders, Myrna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Public Economics

description: Protests take place for a variety of reasons. In this paper we focus on protests that have a well defined objective, that is in conflict with the objectives of the government. Hence the success or failure of a protest movement depends crucially on how the government responds. We assume that government types are private information so that governments have an interest in building a reputation to deter protestors. We extend the standard reputation framework to one where potential protesters in the domestic jurisdiction are competing in a common market with protestors of a foreign jurisdiction, resulting in a situation where domestic governments care about the decisions of foreign governments. We derive conditions under which an equilibrium with “contagion” in protests might exist: protests that start in one jurisdiction spread to others. Finally we use our results to interpret the Fuel tax protests in France and England that took place in 2000 as well as the three successive pro-democracy revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan in 2003-05.