cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Generalized Approach to Complex Networks
Creators: name: Costa, Luciano da Fontoura
name: da Rocha, Luis Enrique C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work describes how the formalization of complex network concepts in terms of discrete mathematics, especially mathematical morphology, allows a series of generalizations and important results ranging from new measurements of the network topology to new network growth models. First, the concepts of node degree and clustering coefficient are extended in order to characterize not only specific nodes, but any generic subnetwork. Second, the consideration of distance transform and rings are used to further extend those concepts in order to obtain a signature, instead of a single scalar measurement, ranging from the single node to whole graph scales. The enhanced discriminative potential of such extended measurements is illustrated with respect to the identification of correspondence between nodes in two complex networks, namely a protein-protein interaction network and a perturbed version of it. The use of other measurements derived from mathematical morphology are also suggested as a means to characterize complex networks connectivity in a more comprehensive fashion.
description: 10 pages, 2 figure
Energy-irrigation nexus in South Asia: Improving groundwater conservation and power sector viability
Creators: name: Shah, Tushaar
name: Scott, Christopher A.
name: Kishore, Avinash
name: Sharma, Abhishek
name: Shah, Tushaar
name: Scott, Christopher A.
name: Kishore, Avinash
name: Sharma, Abhishek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Groundwater irrigation
subject: Energy consumption
subject: Irrigation systems
subject: Pumps
subject: Tube wells
subject: Policy making
subject: User charges
subject: Costs

description: In the highly populated South Asian region, where pump irrigation has gained predominance over gravity-flow irrigation in recent decades, the fortunes of groundwater and energy economies are closely tied. Little can be done in the groundwater economy that will not affect the energy economy, and the struggle to make the energy economy viable is frustrated by the often violent opposition from the farming community to the rationalization of energy prices. As a result, the region's groundwater economy has boomed at the expense of the development of the energy economy. This report suggests that this does not have to be so; and the first step to evolving approaches to sustaining a prosperous groundwater economy with a viable power sector is for the decision makers in the two sectors to talk to each other, and jointly explore better options for energy-groundwater co-management which, the authors suggest, have so far been overlooked.
description: 2nd rev. ed.
Nonparametric Interaction Selection
Creators: name: Yushen Dong
name: Yichao Wu
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: cancelled due to Covid 19
Transformational Verification of Quicksort
Creators: name: De Angelis, Emanuele
name: Fioravanti, Fabio
name: Proietti, Maurizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many transformation techniques developed for constraint logic programs, also known as constrained Horn clauses (CHCs), have found new useful applications in the field of program verification. In this paper, we work out a nontrivial case study through the transformation-based verification approach. We consider the familiar Quicksort program for sorting lists, written in a functional programming language, and we verify the pre/-postconditions that specify the intended correctness properties of the functions defined in the program. We verify these properties by: (1) translating them into CHCs, (2) transforming the CHCs by removing all list occurrences, and (3) checking the satisfiability of the transformed CHCs by using the Eldarica solver over booleans and integers. The transformation mentioned at Point (2) requires an extension of the algorithms for the elimination of inductively defined data structures presented in previous work, because during one stage of the transformation we use as lemmas some properties that have been proved at previous stages.
description: In Proceedings VPT/HCVS 2020, arXiv:2008.02483
Spatial genetic structure in the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) meta-population from its core range in Italy
Creators: name: Buglione, Maria
name: Petrelli, Simona
name: Troiano, Claudia
name: Notomista, Tommaso
name: Petrella, Antonio
name: Riso, Laura De
name: Poerio, Luigi
name: Cascini, Vito
name: Bartolomei, Remo
name: Fulgione, Domenico
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: Paleontology

description: We characterized the genetic structure of the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) meta-population living in the core of its Italian distribution range providing results from 191 fresh spraints, collected from 24 watercourses included in Southern Italy. Furthermore, according to ecological corridors and barriers, we discuss the likely ways of movement and possible evolutionary fate of these populations. We genotyped 136 samples using 11 Lut microsatellite nuclear markers amplified from faecal DNA. Microsatellites were moderately variable (Ho = 0.45; He = 0.46), with a total number of alleles and average number of alleles per locus in the meta-population of 50 and 4.54, respectively. No significant heterozygosity excess was observed in meta-population suggesting no recent population bottlenecks. Bayesian clustering discriminated a sub-structuring of the meta-population in five putative clusters, indicating that local populations are genetically differentiated: three of these seem to be identifiable with geographically defined sub-populations (from the Cilento, Agri and Basento river basins). The fourth is represented by multiple sub-populations with admixed genotype, that include genotypes from the Lao, Sinni and Abatemaco river basins, living in a landscape with the higher environmental permeability. Landscape genetic analysis could provide evidence of an unexpected ecological corridor: the seacoast, highlighted, for the first time as a new way for the dispersion of the South-Italian otters. Deepening the knowledge of these perspectives is crucial to identify solid strategies aimed at the future health of the populations of the Italian otters, by restoring dispersal corridors and managing the watercourses.
Agro-well and pump diffusion in the dry zone of Sri Lanka: Past trends, present status and future prospects
Creators: name: Kikuchi, Masao
name: Weligamage, Parakrama
name: Barker, Randolph
name: Samad, Madar
name: Kono, Hiroichi
name: Somaratne, H.M.
name: Kikuchi, Masao
name: Weligamage, Parakrama
name: Barker, Randolph
name: Samad, Madar
name: Kono, Hiroichi
name: Somaratne, H.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: Wells
subject: Construction technology
subject: Pumps
subject: Arid zones
subject: Investment
subject: Irrigation systems
subject: Irrigation programs
subject: Rice
subject: Estimation

description: The use of shallow wells, equipped with small pumps, to lift groundwater has spread rapidly in many agricultural regions of tropical monsoonal Asia. In Sri Lanka, the rapid and pervasive invasion of agro-wells and pumps drew the attention of policymakers and researchers, but many questions were left unanswered due to lack of research in the area. This study aims to fill this gap in knowledge, based on observations and data obtained in field surveys conducted in major and minor irrigation schemes in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. This report gives the key findings of this study into the pattern, extent and causes of the spread and use of agro-wells and pumps in traditional villages and irrigated settlement schemes. It investigates farmer investments in agro-wells and pumps, the private internal rate of return to these investments, the economic viability of investments and incentives for farmers to make investments
Tubewell transfer in Gujarat: A study of the GWRDC approach
Creators: name: Mukherji, Aditi
name: Kishore, Avinash
name: Mukherji, Aditi
name: Kishore, Avinash
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Tube wells
subject: Privatization
subject: Groundwater management
subject: Economic aspects
subject: Operations
subject: Maintenance
subject: Equity
subject: Farmers' attitudes
subject: Policy

description: In India public (government) tubewells were built with the intention of providing irrigation to all categories of farmers in a fair, equitable and affordable manner. However, most public tubewell programs across India have failed on all these counts. Efforts to transfer their management to water users too have met with little success. Nonetheless, the Gujarat Water Resources Development Corporation (GWRDC)-a state-owned public company-has achieved rare success in tubewell transfer by handing over management of around 60 percent of public tubewells in the Gujarat state to user groups. This study tries to identify the factors that helped in accelerating the transfer process and evaluate the performance of transferred tubewells against those owned by individuals and GWRDC. It also suggests some policy changes that can make the scheme function better and explores the replicability of the success achieved in Gujarat.
Policies drain the North China Plain: Agricultural policy and groundwater depletion in Luancheng County, 1949-2000
Creators: name: Kendy, Eloise
name: Molden, David J.
name: Steenhuis, Tammo S.
name: Liu, Changming
name: Wang, Jinxia
name: Kendy, Eloise
name: Molden, David J.
name: Steenhuis, Tammo S.
name: Liu, Changming
name: Wang, Jinxia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Agricultural production
subject: Groundwater
subject: Aquifers
subject: Water shortage
subject: Irrigation efficiency
subject: Agricultural policy
subject: Crop production
subject: Wastewaters
subject: Water management
subject: Hydrology
subject: Economic development
subject: Crop yield
subject: Cotton
subject: Wheat
subject: Sprinkler irrigation
subject: Water conservation
subject: Water use efficiency
subject: Pumping
subject: Water balance
subject: Vegetables
subject: Rural economy
subject: Irrigated framing

description: The report examines the relationships between agricultural policies in the North China Plain, the approaches to water management that evolved from them, the quantity of water that was actually used, and the consequent groundwater depletion beneath Luancheng County, Hebei Province, from 1949 to 2000. To systematically address these relationships, we use a comprehensive water-balance approach. Our results indicate that a single, longstanding policy-that of using groundwater to meet the crop-water requirements not supplied by precipitation-is responsible for the steady rate of groundwater decline.
Patterns of use and attitudes towards statistics in psychological profession: a cross sectional study
Creators: name: Vuco, Nika
name: Buljan, Ivan
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Croatia
subject: psychology
subject: statistics

description: The aim of this study is investigate the ways of use of statistics in the everyday work of psychologists, their frequency and suggestions for improvement in statistics education.

Research aim and purpose- Our aim in this research is to investigate the patterns of use and attitudes towards statistics in the everyday work of psychologists, their frequency and suggestions for improvement in statistics education. The purpose of this research is to examine the ways in which statistical education could be improved, as well as how important it is for the psychologists' everyday work.
A backward procedure for change-point detection with applications to copy number variation detection
Creators: name: S Jun Shin
name: Y Wu
name: N Hao
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: © 2020 Statistical Society of Canada / Société statistique du Canada Change-point detection regains much attention recently for analyzing array or sequencing data for copy number variation (CNV) detection. In such applications, the true signals are typically very short and buried in the long data sequence, which makes it challenging to identify the variations efficiently and accurately. In this article, we propose a new change-point detection method, a backward procedure, which is not only fast and simple enough to exploit high-dimensional data but also performs very well for detecting short signals. Although motivated by CNV detection, the backward procedure is generally applicable to assorted change-point problems that arise in a variety of scientific applications. It is illustrated by both simulated and real CNV data that the backward detection has clear advantages over other competing methods, especially when the true signal is short. The Canadian Journal of Statistics 48: 366–385; 2020 © 2020 Statistical Society of Canada.
Prospects for adopting system of rice intensification in Sri Lanka: A socioeconomic assessment
Creators: name: Namara, Regassa E.
name: Weligamage, Parakrama
name: Barker, Randolph
name: Namara, Regassa E.
name: Weligamage, Parakrama
name: Barker, Randolph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Models
subject: Rice
subject: Paddy fields
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Rain-fed farming
subject: Poverty
subject: Farmers

description: Today, there is an increasing worldwide interest in assessing the potential for maintaining or increasing rice yields by reducing or eliminating the use of chemicals and by decreasing irrigation requirements. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) first developed in Madagascar and now being tested in many countries, is an example of such an approach. The system is based largely on organic farming principles and additional requirements for spacing and the transplanting of seedlings.
A Wide-Field Survey of the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Creators: name: Coleman, M. G.
name: Da Costa, G. S.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Freeman, K. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results of a photometric survey of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy are presented herein. Accurate photometry in two colours (V and I) was collected over a 10 square degree area centred on the Fornax system with the aim of searching for extra-tidal structure. The data were complete to a magnitude of V=20, or approximately one magnitude brighter than the Fornax red clump stars. Stars were selected with a colour and magnitude lying near the Fornax red giant branch, thereby reducing contamination from the field star population. We were thus able to probe the outer structure of this dwarf galaxy. Immediately visible was a shell-like structure located 1.3 degrees NW from the centre of Fornax, approximately 30 arcmin beyond the nominal tidal radius at this position angle. We have measured the absolute visual magnitude of this feature to be M_V ~ -7. The feature is aligned with a previously reported shell (age approximately 2 Gyr) located near the core radius of Fornax. A statistical analysis of the extra-tidal stellar distribution further revealed two lobes situated on the Fornax minor axis which are aligned with the two shell-like features. The two-lobed structure combined with the two shells provide strong evidence that Fornax has experienced a merger event in the relatively recent past.
description: 79 pages including 24 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ, scheduled for the March 2005 issue. Some figures are low resolution, and a full version of the paper is available at the ftp address: ftp://ftp.mso.anu.edu.au/pub/coleman/
A gender performance indicator for irrigation: Concepts, tools and applications
Creators: name: Van Koppen, Barbara
name: Van Koppen, Barbara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Gender
subject: Women
subject: Irrigation management
subject: Water management
subject: Policy
subject: Decision making
subject: Performance evaluation
subject: Indicators
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Farming systems
subject: Case studies
subject: Water users' associations
subject: Leadership

description: Although gender issues are today a priority on the agendas of irrigation policy makers, interventionists, farm leaders and researchers, there is still a considerable gap between positive intentions and concrete action. An important but hitherto ignored reason for this is the lack of adequate generic concepts and tools that are policy-relevant and can accommodate the vast variation in irrigation contexts worldwide. The Gender Performance Indicator for Irrigation (GPII) aims to fill this gap. In any particular scheme, this tool diagnoses the gendered organization of farming and gender-based inclusion or exclusion in irrigation institutions. It informs irrigation agencies what they themselves can do for effective change-if necessary. The tool also identifies gender issues beyond a strict mandate of irrigation water provision. The Indicator was applied and tested in nine case studies in Africa and Asia. The research report presents the underlying concepts, methodological guidelines and selected applications of the GPII.
Statistical Mechanics of Jammed Matter
Creators: name: Makse, Hernan A.
name: Brujic, Jasna
name: Edwards, Sam F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A thermodynamic formulation of jammed matter is reviewed. Experiments and simulations of compressed emulsions and granular materials are then used to provide a foundation for the thermodynamics.
description: 51 pages, 21 figures
Causality in Static Models as an Initial Constraint on the Chronology of Events in System Behavior
Creators: name: Al-Fedaghi, Sabah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper analyzes the notion of causality in a conceptual model, mainly as applied in software engineering. Conceptual system modeling can be considered a three-level process that begins with building a static structural description to develop a dynamic model that will identify events used to specify the chronology of events. In this context, the model involves a representation of a portion of reality, based on ontology of different kinds of things and their basic relations to each other. Relations are defined in terms of their participating entities. This paper concerns relations between events, specifically causal relations among events in modeling. We examine causality in many fields of study to understand its role in modeling. The problem is that, according to many researchers, causation is so inextricably bound up in misleading associations that it is hard to define and is shrouded in mystery, controversy, and caution. We study and clarify the notion of causality through several examples, utilizing an event definition as a time thing/machine in a new conceptual modeling methodology. In conclusion, we claim that the purpose of causal relations in a system s static description is to constrain the system s behavior and thus exclude some possible chronologies of events.
description: 12 pages, 25 figures
Additional file 2 of Profiling of IgG antibodies targeting unmodified and corresponding citrullinated autoantigens in a multicenter national cohort of early arthritis in Germany
Creators: name: Vordenbäumen, Stefan
name: Brinks, Ralph
name: Schriek, Patrick
name: Lueking, Angelika
name: Richter, Jutta G.
name: Budde, Petra
name: Schulz-Knappe, Peter
name: Hans-Dieter Zucht
name: Callhoff, Johanna
name: Schneider, Matthias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2 : Supplemental Figure 1.A, Mass spectrometric analysis of in vitro citrullinated fibrinogen. Citrullination is a posttranslational modification of arginine resulting in a monoisotopic mass increase of + 0.984016 Da, which can be measured with mass spectrometry. Following in-vitro citrullination, proteins were digested by trypsin and resulting peptides were analysis by LC-ESI-MS using a Q Exactive Orbitrap mass spectrometer (ThermoFisherScientific, Bremen, Germany. Peptide spetra were investigated using MASCOT (Matrix Sciences, London, UK). The MASCOT search result of citrullinated fibrinogen are shown. Deamidated (citrullinated) peptides are indicated. B, Western Blot detection of in vitro citrullinated fibrinogen. Human fibrinogen (huFib, Sigma) was incubated with peptidylarginine deiminase for four hours. Afterwards proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE and subjected to Western blot analysis using a mouse monoclonal antibody that specifically detects citrullinated fibrinogen (anti-hFibC; Modiquest, AB Oss, Netherlands). Two different citrullinated antigens FibCit2 and FibCit4 (Modiquest, AB Oss, Netherlands) were included to confirm positive reactivity of the anti-huFIbC antibody. C, representative example of Reactivity of control sera with citrullinated und non-citrullinated antigen-coupled beads.
D2.9 - TRO/MLO Guidelines and Recommendations
Creators: name: Sarkar, Arkopaul
name: MASOLO, CLAUDIO
name: Francesco, Antonio
name: GHEDINI, EMANUELE
name: Borgo, Stefano
name: Compagno, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The objective of D2.9 is to provide best practices and guidelines for the utilization, exploitation, maintenance, and further development of the tools, methodologies, and infrastructure resulting from the efforts of WP2. This guidance is contextualized within the scope of the overall project. This white paper offers an overview of relevant practical and theoretical aspects related to (1) the TRO and (2) the MRO/Bridge-Concepts, presented in D2.7 and D2.8, respectively. As core contributions, D2.9 also includes a detailed discussion of (3) the OCES Framework (OWL), and (4) a list of technical principles endorsed by OntoCommons. This list serves as both effective recommendations that consider the current landscape and state-of-the-art literature and as requirements for stakeholders.
Noncommutative geometry inspired Schwarzschild black hole
Creators: name: Nicolini, Piero
name: Smailagic, Anais
name: Spallucci, Euro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the behavior of a noncommutative radiating Schwarzschild black hole. It is shown that coordinate noncommutativity cures usual problems encountered in the description of the terminal phase of black hole evaporation. More in detail, we find that: the evaporation end-point is a zero temperature extremal black hole even in the case of electrically neutral, non-rotating, objects; there exists a finite maximum temperature that the black hole can reach before cooling down to absolute zero; there is no curvature singularity at the origin, rather we obtain a regular DeSitter core at short distance.
description: 7 pages, Revtex, 4 eps figures, final version, accepted for publication in Phys.Lett. B
Conservation Programs: Will Grain Production Reclaim Acres in the South?
Creators: name: Petrolia, Daniel R.
name: Ibendahl, Gregory A.
name: Petrolia, Daniel R.
name: Ibendahl, Gregory A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)
subject: corn
subject: land use change
subject: Re-enrollment and Extension Program (REX)
subject: soybean

description: A state-level analysis of the Re-enrollment and Extension (REX) program on southern states indicates a positive relationship between percentage of tree acreage and Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) re-enrollment for states in which conservation acreage is dominated by trees. However, the relationship depends on crop mix where CRP acreage is dominated by grass. County-level analysis suggests that states will differ in how quickly they opt out of CRP. Of the states examined, Arkansas is the most likely to move land to corn, with Mississippi the least likely. Arkansas and Kentucky will switch to soybean first, followed by Mississippi and Georgia.
QARAQALPAQSTANNÍŃ QALALÍQ MÁDENIY TURMÍSÍNDA MÁDENIY-AǴARTÍW MÁKEMELERINIŃ ISKERLIGI (1946‒1991-JILLAR)
Creators: name: G. Seydametova
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mádeniy-aǵartıw mákemeleri shaxs kózqarasın qáliplestiriwde hár qashan ayrıqsha orın iyelegen, iyelemekte hám iyeleydi. Olar xalıqtıń estetikalıq, ádep-ikramlılıq hám watan súyiwshilik tárbiyasında, onıń túrli qatlamların milliy hám ulıwma adamzatlıq mádeniy qádiriyatlarǵa tárbiyalawda áhmiyetli rol oynaydı. Biraq sovet reallıǵı shárayatlarında partiya mádeniy-aǵartıw mákemelerine óz ideologiyasın massalar sanasına sińdiriw quralı sıpatında qaradı. Bul mákemeler úgit-násiyat orayları sıpatında iskerlik kórsetti. Óziniń ómir súriwiniń barlıq basqıshlarında Sovet hákimiyatı olardı turaqlı rawajlandırıwǵa ayrıqsha dıqqat awdarıp keldi. Orınlardaǵı partiya hám sovet organları óz ideologiyasın úgit-násiyatlawdı mádeniy-aǵartıwshılıq mákemeleriniń rawajlanıwında kórdi.
Physical accessibility of non-completely positive maps
Creators: name: Carteret, Hilary
name: Terno, Daniel R.
name: Zyczkowski, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Maps that are not completely positive (CP) are often useful to describe the dynamics of open systems. An apparent violation of complete positivity can occur because there are prior correlations of the principal system with the environment, or if the applied transformation is correlated with the state of the system. We provide a physically motivated definition of accessible non-CP maps and derive two necessary conditions for a map to be accessible. We also show that entanglement between the system and the environment is not necessary to generate a non-CP dynamics. We describe two simple approximations that may be sufficient for some problems in process tomography, and then outline what these methods may be able to tell us in other situations where non-CP dynamics naturally arise.
description: 8 pages, 1 eps figure. Final version
Relativistic Anelasticity
Creators: name: Epstein, M.
name: Burton, D. A.
name: Tucker, R. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A formulation of Continuum Mechanics within the context of General Relativity is presented that allows for the incorporation of certain types of anelastic material behaviour, such as viscoelasticity and plasticity. The approach is based on the concept of a four-dimensional body-time complex structured as a principal bundle. The anelastic response is regarded as the result of a continuous distribution of inhomogeneities, whose evolution is dictated by a suggested relativistic version of the Eshelby tensor. The role played by various groups is emphasized throughout the presentation and illustrated by means of the example of an anelastic fluid.
description: 29 pages
Applying Experimental Economics to Obesity in the Family Household
Creators: name: Ehmke, Mariah D.
name: Warziniack, Travis
name: Schroeter, Christiane
name: Morgan, Kari
name: Ehmke, Mariah D.
name: Warziniack, Travis
name: Schroeter, Christiane
name: Morgan, Kari
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: carrot stick
subject: child obesity
subject: discount rate
subject: generosity
subject: loss aversion
subject: parent-child
subject: punishment
subject: trust

description: The objective of this study is to identify experimental economic tools that can be employed to explain the role of economic behavior in overweight and obesity in the household. We identify three economic experiments that can be used to understand how parent-child economic relationships relate to obesity. Loss aversion experiments are discussed as a tool to understand challenges some individuals face in achieving a healthy diet. Finally, testbed experiments are introduced as a means to test and understand new policies and incentives for better health at the household level.
Impact of the Ethanol Boom on Livestock and Dairy Industries: What Are They Going to Eat?
Creators: name: Anderson, David P.
name: Anderson, John D.
name: Sawyer, Jason
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Anderson, John D.
name: Sawyer, Jason
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: cattle feeding
subject: corn
subject: cost of production
subject: ethanol

description: Increased demand for corn for ethanol production has helped push grain prices to record levels. This has increased livestock production costs, and producers have responded with changes to production systems. This paper explores the degree to which costs can be mitigated with alternative feeds, the effect this might have on physical performance, and the impact of alternative feeds on the competitive position of different species.
Additional file 1 of Profiling of IgG antibodies targeting unmodified and corresponding citrullinated autoantigens in a multicenter national cohort of early arthritis in Germany
Creators: name: Vordenbäumen, Stefan
name: Brinks, Ralph
name: Schriek, Patrick
name: Lueking, Angelika
name: Richter, Jutta G.
name: Budde, Petra
name: Schulz-Knappe, Peter
name: Hans-Dieter Zucht
name: Callhoff, Johanna
name: Schneider, Matthias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Impacts of Expanded Ethanol Production on Southern Agriculture
Creators: name: Susanto, Dwi
name: Rosson, C. Parr
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Susanto, Dwi
name: Rosson, C. Parr
name: Hudson, Darren
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: acreage shifts
subject: corn exports
subject: ethanol production
subject: southern agriculture

description: This study analyzes the potential impacts of expanded ethanol production on southern agriculture. Results of regression analysis suggest that acreage planted for field crops (corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat) is inelastic with respect to relative prices. The results provide statistical evidence of potential significant acreage shifts favoring corn over cotton, soybeans, and wheat. Simulations indicate that higher corn prices will increase corn acreage, but the South continues to be a deficit corn region. U.S. corn production is capable of supplying domestic demand for ethanol, feed for livestock and poultry, and other uses, while maintaining exports at more than 2 billion bushels annually.
Adolescent girls’ experiences in a motivational enhancement support group for disordered eating
Creators: name: Wittig, Colleen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Four girls participated in a study exploring their experience in an motivational enhancement support group for disordered eating. This research is based on qualitative accounts from the participants. The accounts were analyzed to determine common themes using a phenomenological research method. No study to date has examined adolescent girls experiences in this specific type of group. The research question for this study was: What are adolescent girls common experiences in a motivational enhancement support group for disordered eating? The analysis of these data resulted in nine common themes: Feeling Validated, Identification with Other Group Members, Comparisons with Other Eating Disorder Clients, Appreciation for Parental Component, Opportunity for Interaction with Other Group Members, Satisfaction of Helping Others Through Sharing Individual Experiences, Becoming Familiar with Professionals in the Program, Apprehension about Group Participation and Awareness of the Stages of Change. This study can be of benefit to counsellors and therapists working with this population as they are better able to understand the experiences which were identified as meaningful in their treatment. Through this understanding, practitioners will be able to tailor groups to meet the needs of this population and also better understand what is meaningful to adolescent girls in therapy. This study suggests that future research is needed in this area to further evaluate the treatment of eating disorders which allows the participants to have a voice in their experience. This preliminary study also indicates that further qualitative and quantitative research is needed in this area in order to increase our understanding of adolescent girls' experiences in treatment for eating disorders.
Jamming of multiple persistent random walkers in arbitrary spatial dimension
Creators: name: Metson, Matthew J.
name: Evans, Martin R.
name: Blythe, Richard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the persistent exclusion process in which a set of persistent random walkers interact via hard-core exclusion on a hypercubic lattice in $d$ dimensions. We work within the ballistic regime whereby particles continue to hop in the same direction over many lattice sites before reorienting. In the case of two particles, we find the mean first-passage time to a jammed state where the particles occupy adjacent sites and face each other. This is achieved within an approximation that amounts to embedding the one-dimensional system in a higher-dimensional reservoir. Numerical results demonstrate the validity of this approximation, even for small lattices. The results admit a straightforward generalisation to dilute systems comprising more than two particles. A self-consistency condition on the validity of these results suggest that clusters may form at arbitrarily low densities in the ballistic regime, in contrast to what has been found in the diffusive limit.
description: Version to appear in JSTAT (18 pages; 10 figures)
One-loop RG improvement of the screened massive expansion in the Landau gauge
Creators: name: Comitini, Giorgio
name: Siringo, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The RG improvement of the screened massive expansion is studied at one loop in two renormalization schemes, the momentum subtraction (MOM) scheme and the screened momentum subtraction (SMOM) scheme. The respective Taylor-scheme running couplings are shown not to develop a Landau pole, provided that the initial value of the coupling is sufficiently small. The improved ghost and gluon propagators are found to behave as expected, displaying dynamical mass generation for the gluons and the standard UV limit of ordinary perturbation theory. In the MOM scheme, when optimized by a matching with the fixed-coupling framework, the approach proves to be a powerful method for obtaining propagators which are in excellent agreement with the lattice data already at one loop. After optimization, the gluon mass parameter is left as the only free parameter of the theory and is shown to play the same role of the ordinary perturbative QCD scale $Λ_{\text{QCD}}$.
Impact of Income on Price and Income Responses in the Differential Demand System
Creators: name: Brown, Mark G.
name: Brown, Mark G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Production Economics
subject: demand
subject: Rotterdam model
subject: varying parameters

description: An extension of the Rotterdam model is developed that makes the model’s income flexibility and marginal propensities to consume varying coefficients. Frisch’s duality relationships that the second partial derivatives of demand with respect to income and prices are independent of the order of differentiation are imposed with the marginal propensities to consume specified as functions of income and price, and the Slutsky coefficients specified as functions of income only. A uniform substitute specification is used to analyze the conditional demands for a group of beverages.
Infrared Behavior of the Pressure in $g ϕ^3$ Theory Reexamined
Creators: name: Caldas, Heron
name: Mota, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reinvestigate the infrared behavior of the pressure in the $g ϕ^3$ scalar theory in six dimensions. This problem was first studied by Almeida and Frenkel and more recently by Carrington et al., that certified their results under certain approximations. We employ an alternative technique, instead of the approximation methods necessary to truncate the Schwinger-Dyson equations, often considered to calculate the pressure nonperturbatively. A daisy-type sum, implemented through the modified self-consistent resummation (MSCR), is enough to take care of the infrared divergences ensuring the finiteness of the pressure.
description: Revtex4, 7 pages, 1 figure
Generating Distributed Programs from Event-B Models
Creators: name: Cirstea, Horatiu
name: Grall, Alexis
name: Méry, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distributed algorithms offer challenges in checking that they meet their specifications. Verification techniques can be extended to deal with the verification of safety properties of distributed algorithms. In this paper, we present an approach for combining correct-by-construction approaches and transformations of formal models (Event-B) into programs (DistAlgo) to address the design of verified distributed programs. We define a subset LB (Local Event-B) of the Event-B modelling language restricted to events modelling the classical actions of distributed programs as internal or local computations, sending messages and receiving messages. We define then transformations of the various elements of the LB language into DistAlgo programs. The general methodology consists in starting from a statement of the problem to program and then progressively producing an LB model obtained after several refinement steps of the initial LB model. The derivation of the LB model is not described in the current paper and has already been addressed in other works. The transformation of LB models into DistAlgo programs is illustrated through a simple example. The refinement process and the soundness of the transformation allow one to produce correct-by-construction distributed programs.
description: In Proceedings VPT/HCVS 2020, arXiv:2008.02483
U.S. Demand for Source–Differentiated Shrimp: A Differential Approach
Creators: name: Jones, Keithly G.
name: Harvey, David J.
name: Hahn, William F.
name: Muhammad, Andrew
name: Jones, Keithly G.
name: Harvey, David J.
name: Hahn, William F.
name: Muhammad, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Production Economics
subject: CBS
subject: conditional demand
subject: countervailing duty
subject: imports
subject: scale elasticity
subject: shrimp

description: Estimates of price and scale elasticities for U.S. consumed shrimp are derived using aggregate shrimp data differentiated by source country. Own-price elasticities for all countries had the expected negative signs, were statistically significant, and inelastic. The scale elasticities for all countries were positive and statistically significant at the 1% level with only the United States and Ecuador having scale elasticities of less than one. For the most part, the compensated demand effects showed that most of the cross-price effects were positive. Our results also suggest that despite the countervailing duties imposed by the United States, shrimp demand was fairly stable.
Iterative Likelihood: A Unified Inference Tool1
Creators: name: Haiying Wang
name: Dixin Zhang
name: Liang, Hua
name: Ruppert, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a framework for inference based on an “iterative likelihood function”, which provides a unified representation for a number of iterative approaches, including the EM algorithm and the generalized estimating equations. The parameters are decoupled to facilitate construction of the inference vehicle, to simplify computation, or to ensure robustness to model misspecification and then recoupled to retain their original interpretations. For simplicity, throughout the paper we will refer to the log-likelihood as the “likelihood”. We define the global, local, and stationary estimates of an iterative likelihood and, correspondingly, the global, local, and stationary attraction points of the expected iterative likelihood. Asymptotic properties of the global, local, and stationary estimates are derived under certain assumptions. An iterative likelihood is usually constructed such that the true value of the parameter is a a point of attraction of the expected log-likelihood. Often, one can only verify that the true value of the parameter is a local or stationary attraction, but not a global attraction. We show that when the true value of the parameter is a global attraction, any global estimate is consistent and asymptotically normal; when the true value is a local or stationary attraction, there exists a local or stationary estimate that is consistent and asymptotically normal, with a probability tending to 1. The behavior of the estimates under a misspecified model is also discussed. Our methodology is illustrated with three examples: 1) estimation of the treatment group difference in the level of censored HIV RNA viral load from an AIDS clinical trial; 2) analysis of the relationship between forced expiratory volume and height in girls from a longitudinal pulmonary function study; and 3) investigation of the impact of smoking on lung cancer in the presence of DNA adducts. Two additional examples are in the supplementary materials, GEEs (Generalized Estimating Equations) with missing covariates and an unweighted estimator for big data with subsampling.
Additional file 1 of Registration of phase 3 crossover trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
Creators: name: Lijuan Zeng
name: Qureshi, Riaz
name: Viswanathan, Shilpa
name: Drye, Lea
name: Tianjing Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1:S Table 1. Characteristics of phase 3 randomized crossover trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (N = 124). S Figure 1. Examples of registering ‘Arms’ and ‘Assigned Interventions’. S Figure 2. Examples of registering ‘Participant Flow’. S Figure 3. An example of registering a time-to-event outcome (NCT00004635). S Figure 4. An example of reporting adverse events by intervention and by period (NCT00518531). S Table 2. Phase 3 randomized crossover trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (N = 124).
Performance of ALICE pixel prototypes in high energy beams
Creators: name: Elia, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two innermost layers of the ALICE inner tracking system are instrumented with silicon pixel detectors. Single chip assembly prototypes of the ALICE pixels have been tested in high energy particle beams at the CERN SPS. Detection efficiency and spatial precision have been studied as a function of the threshold and the track incidence angle. The experimental method, data analysis and main results are presented.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, contribution to PIX2005 Workshop, Bonn (Germany), 5-8 September 2005
Dimensional crossover and anomalous magnetoresistivity in single crystals $Na_xCoO_2$
Creators: name: Wang, C. H.
name: Chen, X. H.
name: Luo, J. L.
name: Liu, G. T.
name: Lu, X. X.
name: Zhang, H. T.
name: Wang, G. Y.
name: Luo, X. G.
name: Wang, N. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The in-plane ($ρ_{ab}$) and c-axis ($ρ_c$) resistivities, and the magnetoresistivity of single crystals $Na_xCoO_2$ with x = 0.7, 0.5 and 0.3 were studied systematically. $ρ_{ab}(T)$ shows similar temperature dependence between $Na_{0.3}CoO_2$ and $Na_{0.7}CoO_2$, while $ρ_c(T)$ is quite different. A dimensional crossover from two to three occurs with decreasing Na concentration from 0.7 to 0.3. The angular dependence of in-plane magnetoresistivity for 0.5 sample shows a \emph{"d-wave-like"} symmetry at 2K, while the \emph{"p-wave-like"} symmetry at 20 K. These results give an evidence for existence of a \emph{spin ordering orientation} below 20 K turned by external field, like the stripes in cuprates.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Ein rudimentäres Exemplar der griechischen Psalterillustration durch Ganzseitenbilder
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 10 (1912): Oriens christianus, Band 10