cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Uncertainties in Estimating Hadronic Production of the Meson B_c and Comparisons between TEVATRON and LHC
Creators: name: Chang, Chao-Hsi
name: Wu, Xing-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The uncertainties in estimating the hadronic production of the $B_c$ meson are studied under the framework of the complete $α_s^4$ approach of the perturbative QCD and the gluon-gluon fusion mechanism. Quantitative comparisons on the production at TEVATRON and LHC are made. Considering the detectors at TEVATRON and LHC, we have also estimated the production with proper kinematic cuts. Based on the results, we conclude that the experimental studies of the $B_c$ meson at the two colliders will be complimentary and stimulative. We find that as c.m. energy is increasing from RUN-I to RUN-II at TEVATRON, the production cross-section increases about 20%.
description: 22 page, 11 figures, for the revised version the contents (figures and text) are revised and a few references are added
Designing Data Services for the Institutional Repository
Creators: name: Womack, Ryan
name: Jantz, Ron
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: The capacity to archive research datasets and make them accessible is a role that an increasing number of institutional repositories in universities are taking on. At Rutgers University, the capacity to handle data is being added to RUCore, the Rutgers University Community Repository. RUCore already supports scholarly papers, dissertations, images, sound, and video. This presentation discusses the work of the RUCore Data Working Group in setting format and metadata standards for datasets, designing an architecture appropriate to data in our Fedora repository, and creating a web interface that makes the datasets and related RUCore collections discoverable. Relevant comparisons to peer institutions and digital curation practices are discussed. The data service is being prototyped through our work with faculty in the School of Engineering and the School of Communication and Information. This faculty research data, along with examples of datasets acquired by the Libraries that need preservation, provide the initial testbed for the RUCore Data Service. Development will continue on a complete curation lifecycle for datasets, from initial deposit to versioning and revision.
Phygopoda ingae Penaherrera-Leiva & Tavakilian 2004
Creators: name: MONNÉ, MIGUEL A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Phygopoda
Phygopoda ingae

description: 1. Phygopoda ingae Peñaherrera­Leiva & Tavakilian, 2004
Type locality— French Guiana, Route de Degrad Saramaca (près de Kourou). (MNHN). Distribution— French Guiana.
 Phygopoda ingae Peñaherrera­Leiva & Tavakilian, 2004: 143, figs. 7, 8, 22a–h.
description: Published as part of MONNÉ, MIGUEL A., 2006, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part III. Subfamilies Parandrinae, Prioninae, Anoplodermatinae, Aseminae Spondylidinae, Lepturinae, Oxypeltinae, and addenda to the Cerambycinae and Lamiinae,, pp. 1-244 in Zootaxa 1212 (1) on page 177, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1212.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5064972
Directly Observing Momentum Transfer in Twin-Slit "Which-Way" Experiments
Creators: name: Wiseman, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Is the destruction of interference by a which-way measurement due to a random momentum transfer $\wp\agt\hbar/s$, with $s$ the slit separation? The weak-valued probability distribution $P_{\rm wv}(\wp)$, which is {\em directly observable}, provides a subtle answer. $P_{\rm wv}(\wp)$ cannot have support on the interval $[-\hbar/s,\hbar/s]$. Nevertheless, its moments can be identically zero.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. Almost the version almost accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. A
Thecla Fabricius 1807
Creators: name: Pellet, Jérôme
name: Megali, Audrey
name: Pasche, Aline
name: Sanchez, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Thecla

description: 4. Thécla de l’orme Satyrium w-album
Le Thécla de l’orme n’a été observé que sur 3 ormes parmi les 35 arbres prospectés. Les trois ormes occupés par l’espèce étaient d’un diamètre à hauteur de poitrine (DHP) de plus de 20 cm.
Plusieurs facteurs ont probablement influencés les résultats obtenus ici. Le premier est lié à la détectabilité des stades pré-imaginaux. Si cette recherche nous semble nettement plus aisée que celle des adultes pour les 4 espèces étudiées ici, elle reste limitée aux branches accessibles. Or, il est certain que ces espèces pondent en hauteur, souvent hors de portée de l’entomologiste (Fartmann & Timmermann 2006, Hermann 2007, Oates 2012). Notre jeu de données contient donc probablement des fausses absences. La plupart des espèces, enfin, présentent des fluctuations annuelles d’effectifs qui modifient à la fois leur distribution et leur abondance locale (Asher et al. 2001).
description: Published as part of Pellet, Jérôme, Megali, Audrey, Pasche, Aline & Sanchez, Andreas, 2013, Contribution à l'écologie pré-imaginale et à la conservation de quelques papillons forestiers du Jorat, pp. 35-44 in Entomo Helvetica 6 on page 41, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986040, http://zenodo.org/record/8047921
SuperWIMP Dark Matter Signals from the Early Universe
Creators: name: Feng, Jonathan L.
name: Rajaraman, Arvind
name: Takayama, Fumihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cold dark matter may be made of superweakly-interacting massive particles, superWIMPs, that naturally inherit the desired relic density from late decays of metastable WIMPs. Well-motivated examples are weak-scale gravitinos in supergravity and Kaluza-Klein gravitons from extra dimensions. These particles are impossible to detect in all dark matter experiments. We find, however, that superWIMP dark matter may be discovered through cosmological signatures from the early universe. In particular, superWIMP dark matter has observable consequences for Big Bang nucleosynthesis and the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and may explain the observed underabundance of 7Li without upsetting the concordance between deuterium and CMB baryometers. We discuss implications for future probes of CMB black body distortions and collider searches for new particles. In the course of this study, we also present a model-independent analysis of entropy production from late-decaying particles in light of WMAP data.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, typos corrected
Etrasimod: First Approval
Creators: name: Shirley, Matt
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine

description:   
Declarations
Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
Authorship and Conflict of interest During the peer review process the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the author on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy.  Matt Shirley is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to this article and are responsible for its content.
Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent to publish, Availability of data and material, Code availability Not applicable.
Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here.
Abstract
Etrasimod (VELSIPITY™) is an orally available, small-molecule selective sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator being developed by Pfizer for the treatment of ulcerative colitis and other immune-mediated inflammatory disorders. Etrasimod is selective for S1P receptor subtypes S1P1, S1P4 and S1P5 while having minimal activity on S1P3 and no activity on S1P2. Etrasimod received its first approval, in the USA, in October 2023 for the treatment of moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis in adults. Subsequently, the European Medicines Agency adopted a positive opinion in December 2023, recommending the granting of marketing authorisation for etrasimod for the treatment of patients aged ≥ 16 years with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis who have had an inadequate response, lost response, or were intolerant to either conventional therapy, or a biological agent. Etrasimod is also under regulatory review for the treatment of ulcerative colitis in several other countries. Clinical development of etrasimod for use in the treatment of Crohn's disease, atopic dermatitis, eosinophilic oesophagitis and alopecia areata is ongoing worldwide. This article summarises the milestones in the development of etrasimod leading to this first approval for the treatment of ulcerative colitis in adults.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
On the Largest Singular Values of Random Matrices with Independent Cauchy Entries
Creators: name: Soshnikov, Alexander
name: Fyodorov, Yan V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the method of determinants to study the distribution of the largest singular values of large $ m \times n $ real rectangular random matrices with independent Cauchy entries. We show that statistical properties of the (rescaled by a factor of $ \frac{1}{m^2\*n^2}$)largest singular values agree in the limit with the statistics of the inhomogeneous Poisson random point process with the intensity $ \frac{1}π x^{-3/2} $ and, therefore, are different from the Tracy-Widom law. Among other corollaries of our method we show an interesting connection between the mathematical expectations of the determinants of complex rectangular $ m \times n $ standard Wishart ensemble and real rectangular $ 2m \times 2n $ standard Wishart ensemble.
description: We have shown in the revised version that the statistics of the largest eigenavlues of a sample covariance random matrix with i.i.d. Cauchy entries agree in the limit with the statistics of the inhomogeneous Poisson random point process with the intensity $\frac{1}{\pi} x^{-3/2}.$
Pseudisthmiade Tavakilian & Penaherrera-Leiva 2005
Creators: name: MONNÉ, MIGUEL A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pseudisthmiade

description: Pseudisthmiade Tavakilian & Peñaherrera­Leiva, 2005
 Pseudisthmiade Tavakilian & Peñaherrera­Leiva, 2005: 39.
 Type­species— Pseudisthmiade larrei Tavakilian & Peñaherrera­Leiva, 2005 (monotypy and original designation).
description: Published as part of MONNÉ, MIGUEL A., 2006, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part III. Subfamilies Parandrinae, Prioninae, Anoplodermatinae, Aseminae Spondylidinae, Lepturinae, Oxypeltinae, and addenda to the Cerambycinae and Lamiinae,, pp. 1-244 in Zootaxa 1212 (1) on page 177, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1212.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5064972
Number-resolved photocounter for propagating microwave mode
Creators: name: Dassonneville, Rémy
name: Assouly, Réouven
name: Peronnin, Théau
name: Rouchon, Pierre
name: Huard, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detectors of propagating microwave photons have recently been realized using superconducting circuits. However a number-resolved photocounter is still missing. In this letter, we demonstrate a single-shot counter for propagating microwave photons that can resolve up to $3$ photons. It is based on a pumped Josephson Ring Modulator that can catch an arbitrary propagating mode by frequency conversion and store its quantum state in a stationary memory mode. A transmon qubit then counts the number of photons in the memory mode using a series of binary questions. Using measurement based feedback, the number of questions is minimal and scales logarithmically with the maximal number of photons. The detector features a detection efficiency of $0.96 \pm 0.04$, and a dark count probability of $0.030 \pm 0.002$ for an average dead time of $4.5~\mathrm{μs}$. To maximize its performance, the device is first used as an \emph{in situ} waveform detector from which an optimal pump is computed and applied. Depending on the number of incoming photons, the detector succeeds with a probability that ranges from $(54 \pm 2)\%$ to $99\%$.
Is internet on the right track? The digital divide, path dependence, and the rollout of New Zealand’s ultra-fast broadband
Creators: name: Apatov, Eyal
name: Chappell, Nathan
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Apatov, Eyal
name: Chappell, Nathan
name: Grimes, Arthur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Digital divide
subject: path dependence
subject: economic history
subject: inequality
subject: broadband

description: data on internet access for New Zealand’s 46,637 meshblocks, we examine issues of path dependence and the digital divide. We test whether areas that had the best railway access in the 1880s also have best access to new fibre internet infrastructure. Results suggest strong path dependence with respect to topography: people in areas that lacked 19th century rail due to remoteness or terrain are much less likely to have prioritised fibre access and slightly less likely to have current or (planned) future fibre access. Next, we examine path dependence with respect to ethnicity, given that 19th century railways deliberately avoided predominantly Māori areas. The results suggest weak path dependence: countrywide, Māori are slightly less likely to get fibre access than other New Zealanders, though are slightly more likely to have access within urban areas. Finally, we examine whether the rollout of fibre is increasing or decreasing the digital divide in access between rich and poor. Results show that those in more deprived areas are the most likely to benefit from fibre access, because these areas also tend to be denser and density was a factor in determining the path of the fibre rollout.
Bounds on coverage probabilities of the empirical likelihood ratio confidence regions
Creators: name: Tsao, Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G15 (Primary) 60D05 (Secondary)

description: This paper studies the least upper bounds on coverage probabilities of the empirical likelihood ratio confidence regions based on estimating equations. The implications of the bounds on empirical likelihood inference are also discussed.
How did removing student allowances for postgraduate study affect students’ choices?
Creators: name: Sin, Isabelle
name: Apatov, Eyal
name: Mare, David C.
name: Sin, Isabelle
name: Apatov, Eyal
name: Mare, David C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: I22
subject: I23
subject: I28

description: From 1 January 2013, students in New Zealand who entered postgraduate qualifications other than Honours were no longer eligible to receive student allowances. We use individual-level administrative data that includes tertiary enrolment information, student allowance receipt, student loan borrowing, and wage earnings to investigate whether the policy affected students’ choices. We use a student’s allowance receipt as an undergraduate or her borrowing for course fees as a postgraduate to proxy for her counterfactual allowance eligibility. We use this proxy to compare allowance-eligible and allowance-ineligible students who enter an affected postgraduate qualification or an unaffected Honours degree. Although we are not able to cleanly estimate the causal effect of the policy, our results do not suggest that the policy affected the number or type of postgraduate entrants, their choice between part-time and full-time study, the amount of paid work they performed while studying, or their rates of dropping out. However, our results strongly suggest that students who became ineligible for allowances increased their student loan borrowing for living expenses.
IntegraL Connects Data, User and Scientists
Creators: name: Shuyuan Mary Ho
name: Song, Min
name: Bieber, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: This research IntegraL provides a new means for connecting digital content, users' search needs, and scientists together. IntegraL adopts a "lightweight" mechanism that connects data across content service providers and makes different forms of digital content interoperable. IntegraL facilitates a virtual restructuring of public web spaces and services, with authenticated digital libraries into broad "federated" digital library spaces constructed from numerous interrelationships. Elements reside within a rich context of meta-information that helps users understand and work with them. This provides a ripe environment for organizations and individual people to develop small, specialized collections and services, which automatically become part of the federated space and accessible to those they can benefit. IntegraL extends the boundaries of how we think about and interact with digital libraries. Our study indicates that IntegraL helps to enhance search productivity. Users find IntegraL useful in locating relevant information. IntegraL also helps users to do tasks more effectively. Users are confident of IntegraL's ability to perform satisfactory search results. IntegraL is mostly built on open-source software, which can be reliable, auditable and cost-effective. The broader impact of this study is that it provides recommendations to users for further deep search among wide ranges of virtual resources.
Entanglement constrained by superselection rules
Creators: name: Bartlett, Stephen D.
name: Wiseman, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bipartite entanglement may be reduced if there are restrictions on allowed local operations. We introduce the concept of a generalized superselection rule (SSR) to describe such restrictions, and quantify the entanglement constrained by it. We show that ensemble quantum information processing, where elements in the ensemble are not individually addressable, is subject to the SSR associated with the symmetric group (the group of permutations of elements). We prove that even for an ensemble comprising many pairs of qubits, each pair described by a pure Bell state, the entanglement per element constrained by this SSR goes to zero for a large number of elements.
description: 4 pages, published version
Binary optical communication in single-mode and entangled quantum noisy channels
Creators: name: Olivares, Stefano
name: Paris, Matteo G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address binary optical communication in single-mode and entangled quantum noisy channels. For single-mode we present a systematic comparison between direct photodetection and homodyne detection in realistic conditions, i.e. taking into account the noise that occurs both during the propagation and the detection of the signals. We then consider entangled channels based on twin-beam state of radiation, and show that with realistic heterodyne detection the error probability at fixed channel energy is reduced in comparison to the single-mode cases for a large range of values of quantum efficiency and noise parameters.
Worker flows, entry, and productivity in New Zealand’s construction industry
Creators: name: Jaffe, Adam
name: Chappell, Chappell
name: Jaffe, Adam
name: Chappell, Chappell
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Firm productivity
subject: firm churn
subject: job churn
subject: creative destruction
subject: knowledge flows

description: We use administrative data on the population of New Zealand construction firms from 2001-2012, along with linked data on their employees and working proprietors, to study the relationships among worker flows, entry, and firm productivity. We find that job churn is prevalent in construction, with around 60 percent of firm-worker pairs not existing previously or not existing subsequently. Firms with new employees are more productive than those with no change in workforce, in part because of knowledge flows from other construction firms. In our preferred specification, with firm fixed effects, a standard deviation increase in the productivity of new employees’ previous firms is associated with a 0.6 percent increase in productivity. Entrants are more productive than pre-existing firms. Firms that enter briefly and disappear exhibit high productivity for that brief period, and firms that enter and stay exhibit a persistent productivity advantage that averages about 6 percent, but which grows as experience accumulates. The entry and worker-knowledge-flow phenomena are distinct, in that the entry effect is not explained by employee composition, and non-entrant firms also benefit from worker knowledge flows.
Discovering and Harmonizing Questionnaire Data Using Social Networks
Creators: name: Smith, Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: Question banks and metadata repositories have been a traditional resource used in the design of new questionnaires and a source for questions and variables used for secondary analysis. Meshing social networks with traditional repositories and new metadata standards presents fresh ways for researchers to collaborate. This presentation will examine how social networks can be used to find, rank, annotate, and harmonize items stored in repositories, using Colectica's repository as an example. It will also show how researchers in similar areas can find and interact with each other through their use of common data and metadata items.
VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists
Creators: name: Corson-Rikert, Jon
name: Cramer, Ellen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: VIVO is a semantic web application developed by the Cornell University Library in 2003 to meet individual and institutional research discovery needs. Whereas initially Cornell depended solely on manual curation for the accumulation of content, much of the information is now automatically ingested from local data resources. VIVO stores data as distributed sets of Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements using concepts and properties from standard ontologies. Employing Linked Data principles (http://linkeddata.org), globally unique identifiers (URIs) for the national network's resources are directly dereferenceable on the Web, allowing access to the RDF data using standard HTTP requests while presenting human users with a standard HTML representation through any Web browser. Resources at one distributed VIVO node can directly link to resources at any other VIVO node or to other similarly published resources on the Web, allowing automated clients to crawl, analyze, and re-represent the graph of data. Information from local VIVO systems will be aggregated into distributed indexing nodes for full text or RDF queries using the SPARQL language, for network analysis, and for visualization. VIVO has been independently deployed at multiple universities in the U.S, and in Australia and China. The NIH VIVO project will address scalability through multiple independently administered but coordinated installations sharing a common, extensible ontology and supporting direct cross-linking as described above. VIVO can therefore provide a customized and extensible presence at the diverse participating institutions and provide convincing and varied models for propagation under full local institutional control in the national context. The ability to create and add additional content models and integration with existing data resources are supported.
Effect of supersymmetric phases on lepton dipole moments and rare lepton decays
Creators: name: Bartl, A.
name: Majerotto, W.
name: Porod, W.
name: Wyler, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of SUSY phases on rare decays of leptons and on their magnetic and electric dipole moments. We consider the most general mass matrices for sleptons within the MSSM including left--right mixing, flavour mixing and complex phases. We show that the phases also affect CP even observables. Moreover, we demonstrate that contrary to common belief the phase of mu can be large even for slepton masses as small as 200 GeV provided the lepton flavour violating parameters are complex.
description: 17 pages, latex, 10 figures (included); (v2) typos corrected and references added
Optical cycling, radiative deflection and laser cooling of barium monohydride (BaH)
Creators: name: McNally, Rees L.
name: Kozyryev, Ivan
name: Vazquez-Carson, Sebastian
name: Wenz, Konrad
name: Wang, Tianli
name: Zelevinsky, Tanya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first experimental demonstration of radiation pressure force deflection and direct laser cooling for barium monohydride (BaH) molecules resulting from multiple photon scattering. Despite a small recoil velocity (2.7 mm/s) and a long excited state lifetime (137 ns), we use 1060 nm laser light exciting the $X\rightarrow A$ electronic transition of BaH to deflect a cryogenic buffer-gas beam and reduce its transverse velocity spread. Multiple experimental methods are employed to characterize the optical cycling dynamics and benchmark theoretical estimates based on rate equation models as well as solutions of the Lindblad master equation for the complete multilevel system. Broader implications for laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of heavy-metal-containing molecules with narrow transition linewidths are presented. Our results pave the way for producing a new class of ultracold molecules -- alkaline earth monohydrides -- via direct laser cooling and trapping, opening the door to realizing a new method for delivering ultracold hydrogen atoms (Lane 2015 \textit{Phys. Rev. A} 92, 022511).
Ceralocyna aliciae Hovore & Chemsak 2005
Creators: name: MONNÉ, MIGUEL A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Ceralocyna
Ceralocyna aliciae

description: 1. Ceralocyna aliciae Hovore & Chemsak, 2005
Type locality— Mexico, Jalisco: 5 km S Playa Careyes. (UNAM). Distribution— Mexico (Jalisco).
 Ceralocyna aliciae Hovore & Chemsak, 2005b: 45, fig. 1.
description: Published as part of MONNÉ, MIGUEL A., 2006, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part III. Subfamilies Parandrinae, Prioninae, Anoplodermatinae, Aseminae Spondylidinae, Lepturinae, Oxypeltinae, and addenda to the Cerambycinae and Lamiinae,, pp. 1-244 in Zootaxa 1212 (1) on page 179, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1212.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5064972
Absorptive capacity in New Zealand firms: Measurement and importance
Creators: name: Harris, Richard
name: Le, Trinh
name: Harris, Richard
name: Le, Trinh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Exports
subject: R&D
subject: Innovation
subject: absorptive capacity

description: To the best of our knowledge, this paper reports the first set of nationally representative results on the importance of ‘absorptive capacity’ for firms operating in New Zealand between 2005-15. Absorptive capacity is generally defined as a firm's ability to internalise external knowledge. Using data principally from the Business Operations Survey, we measure absorptive capacity across a 10-year period and investigate if it remains stable in the long term. This is followed by considering how firms’ characteristics vary across levels of absorptive capacity and most importantly whether such capacity determines firms’ productivity performance across the primary, manufacturing and service sectors. Our results show that relative to other influences, absorptive capacity as measured here has a substantial influence on exporting, innovation, and undertaking R&D, and consequently on firm-level productivity. Set against relatively poor productivity performance, the paper concludes with a discussion of how government should consider helping firms to boost their levels of absorptive capacity in New Zealand.
What drives the gender wage gap? Examining the roles of sorting, productivity differences, and discrimination.
Creators: name: Sin, Isabelle
name: Stillman, Steven
name: Fabling, Richard
name: Sin, Isabelle
name: Stillman, Steven
name: Fabling, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Gender wage gap
subject: discrimination
subject: sorting
subject: productivity
subject: competition

description: As in other OECD countries, women in New Zealand earn substantially less than men with similar observable characteristics. In this paper, we use a decade of annual wage and productivity data from New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Database to examine different explanations for this gender wage gap. Sorting by gender at either the industry or firm level explains less than one-fifth of the overall wage gap. Gender differences in productivity within firms also explain little of the difference seen in wages. The relationships between the gender wage-productivity gap and both age and tenure are inconsistent with statistical discrimination being an important explanatory factor for the remaining differences in wages. Relating across industry and over time variation in the gender wage-productivity gap to industry-year variation in worker skills, and product market and labour market competition, we find evidence that is consistent with taste discrimination being important for explaining the overall gender wage gap. Explanations based on gender differences in bargaining power are less consistent with our findings.
Scalar-tensor theories of gravity, neutrino physics, and the $H_0$ tension
Creators: name: Ballardini, Mario
name: Braglia, Matteo
name: Finelli, Fabio
name: Paoletti, Daniela
name: Starobinsky, Alexei A.
name: Umiltà, Caterina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use $Planck$ 2018 data to constrain the simplest models of scalar-tensor theories characterized by a coupling to the Ricci scalar of the type $F(σ) R$ with $F(σ) = N_{pl}^2 + ξσ^2$. We update our results with previous $Planck$ and BAO data releases obtaining the tightest constraints to date on the coupling parameters, that is $ξ< 5.5 \times 10^{-4}$ for $N_{pl}=0$ (induced gravity or equivalently extended Jordan-Brans-Dicke) and $(N_{pl} \sqrt{8 πG})-1 < 1.8 \times 10^{-5}$ for $ξ= -1/6$ (conformal coupling), both at 95% CL. Because of a modified expansion history after radiation-matter equality compared to the $Λ$CDM model, all these dynamical models accommodate a higher value for $H_0$ and therefore alleviate the tension between $Planck$/BAO and distance-ladder measurement from SNe Ia data from $4.4σ$ at best to $2.3σ$. We show that all these results are robust to changes in the neutrino physics. In comparison to the $Λ$CDM model, partial degeneracies between neutrino physics and the coupling to the Ricci scalar allow for smaller values $N_{\rm eff} \sim 2.8$, $1σ$ lower compared to the standard $N_{\rm eff} = 3.046$, and relax the upper limit on the neutrino mass up to 40%.
description: 27 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables. Version accepted by JCAP
Real-world assessment of “OFF” episode–related healthcare resource utilization among patients with Parkinson’s disease in the United States
Creators: name: Thach, Andrew
name: Jones, Eddie
name: Pappert, Eric
name: Pike, James
name: Wright, Jack
name: Gillespie, Alexander
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Within 5 years of initiating carbidopa/levodopa, ∼50% of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experience “OFF” episodes; little is known about the cost burden. We investigated the association of “OFF” episodes with patient characteristics, healthcare resource utilization (HCRU), and healthcare costs. Analyses used neurologist-provided data from the US-specific 2017 and 2019 Adelphi Real World Disease Specific Programme for PD, including duration of “OFF” episodes and HCRU for 10–12 consecutive patients. Patients were grouped by presence/absence of “OFF” episodes and by average hours of daily “OFF” time. Between-group differences were assessed for demographics, personal circumstances, and clinical characteristics. Regression analyses modeled the relationship of “OFF” episodes with HCRU and costs. Of 1,309 patients, 41% experienced “OFF” episodes, 25% of whom were “OFF” ≥4 h/day. Patients having “OFF” episodes had more severe PD, were diagnosed for longer, and were younger than those without “OFF” (p p p p p p Patients with PD and “OFF” episodes had higher HCRU and costs than those without “OFF,” suggesting that “OFF” episodes contribute to the economic burden of PD. Further research is warranted to examine the extent that current PD treatments and treatment patterns impact HCRU and costs.
ELASTIC D6.1: Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities
Creators: name: Vasic, Jelena
name: Rankov, Aleksandra
name: Gligoric, Nenad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: dissemination
exploitation
communication
6G
SNS JU

description: This document outlines the Communication, Dissemination, and Exploitation Plan for the ELASTIC project, aiming to effectively communicate and maximise the impact of the project's outcomes among relevant stakeholders. The plan is divided into three core components: communication to increase awareness and engagement through various media and a cohesive visual identity; dissemination to ensure widespread reach of project results via conferences, publications, and online platforms; and exploitation to leverage the commercial potential and ensure long-term sustainability by engaging industry partners. A coordinated effort involving all project participants will map target groups, develop key messages, and monitor impact. This comprehensive plan will enhance visibility, ensure lasting impact, and support the growth of the 6GSNS programme on Security, fostering a competitive European research and innovation ecosystem.
How political systems and social welfare policies affect well-being: A literature review
Creators: name: MacCulloch, Robert
name: MacCulloch, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Wellbeing
subject: government structures
subject: welfare state
subject: unemployment benefits

description: This chapter focusses on the question of how formal institutions, like those governing the level of freedom, the regulatory state, political parties and the generosity of the welfare state, affect self-reported well-being. The evidence suggests, for example, that more freedom, as well as government structures which encourage civic engagement, participation and trust, have positive effects. Many studies, however, use cross-sectional data with small sample sizes, often due to institutions being measured at the country level with limited variation over time. As a consequence, further work is needed to test robustness. Stronger results hold with respect to particular types of welfare state institutions, like unemployment benefits, which are subject to quite frequent changes within nations. Increases in unemployment benefits are associated with higher levels of well-being for all workers, probably due to greater income security. However, doubt still persists as to their overall impact, due to the extent to which well-being is adversely affected by the higher taxes needed to support a more generous welfare state.
Valuing Sunshine
Creators: name: Fleming, David
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Lebreton, Laurent
name: Mare, David C.
name: Nunns, Peter
name: Fleming, David
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Lebreton, Laurent
name: Mare, David C.
name: Nunns, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Sunlight
subject: house prices
subject: hedonic model
subject: views
subject: elevation

description: Sunlight influences people’s real estate decisions, but city intensification may reduce sunlight exposure for neighbouring properties, causing a negative externality. There are hitherto no rigorous estimates of the cost of this externality. Using over 5,000 observations on house sales in Wellington, New Zealand, we derive the willingness to pay for an extra daily hour of sun, on average, across the year. After controlling for locational sorting and other considerations in an hedonic regression, we find that each extra daily hour of sunlight exposure is associated with a 2.4% increase in house sale price. This estimate is robust to a variety of alternative specifications. Our results can be used to price negative externalities caused by new development, so replacing inflexible regulations designed to address impacts of development on neighbours’ sunshine.
Estimation of fractal dimension for a class of Non-Gaussian stationary processes and fields
Creators: name: Chan, Grace
name: Wood, Andrew T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62M99 (Primary) 62E20 (Secondary)

description: We present the asymptotic distribution theory for a class of increment-based estimators of the fractal dimension of a random field of the form g{X(t)}, where g:R\to R is an unknown smooth function and X(t) is a real-valued stationary Gaussian field on R^d, d=1 or 2, whose covariance function obeys a power law at the origin. The relevant theoretical framework here is ``fixed domain'' (or ``infill'') asymptotics. Surprisingly, the limit theory in this non-Gaussian case is somewhat richer than in the Gaussian case (the latter is recovered when g is affine), in part because estimators of the type considered may have an asymptotic variance which is random in the limit. Broadly, when g is smooth and nonaffine, three types of limit distributions can arise, types (i), (ii) and (iii), say. Each type can be represented as a random integral. More specifically, type (i) can be represented as the integral of a certain random function with respect to Lebesgue measure; type (ii) can be represented as the integral of a second random function
Preliminary demonstration of flexible dual-energy X-ray phase-contrast imaging
Creators: name: Wang, Shenghao
name: Zan, Guibin
name: Wang, Qiuping
name: Liu, Shijie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Currently, dual-energy X-ray phase contrast imaging is usually conducted with an X-ray Talbot-Lau interferometer. However, in this system, the two adopted energy spectra have to be chosen carefully in order to match well with the phase grating. For example, the accelerating voltages of the X-ray tube are supposed to be respectively set as 40 kV and 70 kV, with other energy spectra being practically unusable for dual energy imaging. This system thus has low flexibility and maneuverability in practical applications. In this work, dual energy X-ray phase-contrast imaging is performed in a grating-based non-interferometric imaging system rather than in a Talbot-Lau interferometer. The advantage of this system is that, theoretically speaking, any two separated energy spectra can be utilized to perform dual energy X-ray phase-contrast imaging. The preliminary experimental results show that dual-energy X-ray phase contrast imaging is successfully performed when the accelerating voltages of the X-ray tube are successively set as 40 kV and 50 kV. Our work increases the flexibility and maneuverability when employing dual-energy X-ray phase-contrast imaging in medical diagnoses and nondestructive tests.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Magnetized BEC stars with boundary conditions depending on magnetic field
Creators: name: Angulo, Gretel Quintero
name: Martínez, Aurora Pérez
name: Rojas, Hugo Pérez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyze the impact of the boundary conditions on the solutions of the $γ$-structure equations for magnetized Bose-Einstein condensate stars (BECs). We consider two cases: a pure BECs and a BECs embedded in a magnetic field. Since they correspond to different physical situations, they lead to different numerical behavior, having important effects on the stability of the solutions as well as on the observables of the star. The differences between the mass-radii curves obtained in each situation are presented and discussed.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, conference paper
Additional file 1 of The role of environmental stress and DNA methylation in the longitudinal course of bipolar disorder
Creators: name: Comes, Ashley
name: Czamara, Darina
name: Adorjan, Kristina
name: Anderson-Schmidt, Heike
name: Andlauer, Till
name: Budde, Monika
name: Gade, Katrin
name: Hake, Maria
name: Janos Kalman
name: Papiol, Sergi
name: Reich-Erkelenz, Daniela
name: Klöhn-Saghatolislam, Farah
name: Schaupp, Sabrina
name: Schulte, Eva
name: Senner, Fanny
name: Juckel, Georg
name: Schmauß, Max
name: Zimmermann, Jörg
name: Reimer, Jens
name: Reininghaus, Eva
name: Ion-George Anghelescu
name: Konrad, Carsten
name: Thiel, Andreas
name: Figge, Christian
name: Hagen, Martin
name: Koller, Manfred
name: Dietrich, Detlef
name: Stierl, Sebastian
name: Scherk, Harald
name: Witt, Stephanie
name: Sugirthan Sivalingam
name: Degenhardt, Franziska
name: Forstner, Andreas
name: Rietschel, Marcella
name: Nöthen, Markus
name: Wiltfang, Jens
name: Falkai, Peter
name: Schulze, Thomas
name: Heilbronner, Urs
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supporting methods, Figures S1-S13, and Tables S1-S3.
The weak-line T Tauri star V410Tau I. A multi-wavelength study of variability
Creators: name: Stelzer, B.
name: Fernandez, M.
name: Costa, V. M.
name: Gameiro, J. F.
name: Grankin, K.
name: Henden, A.
name: Guenther, E.
name: Mohanty, S.
name: Flaccomio, E.
name: Burwitz, V.
name: Jayawardhana, R.
name: Predehl, P.
name: Durisen, R. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of an intensive coordinated monitoring campaign in the optical and X-ray wavelength ranges of the low-mass, pre-main sequence star V410Tau carried out with the aim to study the relation between various indicators for magnetic activity that probe emission from different atmospheric layers: optical photometric star spot (rotation) cycle, chromospheric Halpha emission, and coronal X-rays. Two X-ray pointings were carried out with the Chandra satellite simultaneously with the optical observations, and centered near the maximum and minimum levels of the optical lightcurve. A relation of their different count levels to the rotation period of the dominating spot is not confirmed by a third Chandra observation carried out some months later, during another minimum of the 1.87d cycle. Similarly we find no indications for a correlation of the Halpha emission with the spots' rotational phase. The extraordinary stability of the largest spot is confirmed by long-term photometric and radial velocity measurements. Joining our optical photometry with previous data we provide a new estimate for the dominant periodicity of V410Tau. This updated value removes systematic offsets of the time of minimum observed in data taken over the last decade. Furthermore, the combination of the new data with published measurements taken during the last decade allows us to examine long-term changes in the mean light level of the photometry of V410Tau. A variation on the timescale of 5.4yr is suggested. Assuming that this behavior is truely cyclic V410Tau is the first pre-main sequence star on which an activity cycle is detected.
description: 16 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
Emerging Trends in Data Curation: New Initiatives and collaborations in Africa
Creators: name: Kizito Kasozi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: The value of data in Africa has for long been limited to the initial analysis and report publication. The practice of data curation remained a concept with no known practice untill around the 2000's. Ever since the introduction of the Multimedia Data Management Toolkit developed by the International Household Survey Network (IHSN), Africa has embraced the practice of data preservation. A number of countries have adopted the toolkit as the principle method of data documentation and archiving. The number of countries using and planning to use the toolkit increase by the day. This very positive development however has its own challenges and thereby calls for collaborative support from other development partners. The African Development Bank and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa are among the few who have joined hands to further this cause. The purpose of the paper will be to highlight the new inititives and re-echo the need to develop regional capacities to support data curation through collegial networks.
Real-world assessment of “OFF” episode–related healthcare resource utilization among patients with Parkinson’s disease in the United States
Creators: name: Thach, Andrew
name: Jones, Eddie
name: Pappert, Eric
name: Pike, James
name: Wright, Jack
name: Gillespie, Alexander
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Within 5 years of initiating carbidopa/levodopa, ∼50% of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experience “OFF” episodes; little is known about the cost burden. We investigated the association of “OFF” episodes with patient characteristics, healthcare resource utilization (HCRU), and healthcare costs. Analyses used neurologist-provided data from the US-specific 2017 and 2019 Adelphi Real World Disease Specific Programme for PD, including duration of “OFF” episodes and HCRU for 10–12 consecutive patients. Patients were grouped by presence/absence of “OFF” episodes and by average hours of daily “OFF” time. Between-group differences were assessed for demographics, personal circumstances, and clinical characteristics. Regression analyses modeled the relationship of “OFF” episodes with HCRU and costs. Of 1309 patients, 41% experienced “OFF” episodes, 25% of whom were “OFF” ≥4 hours/day. Patients having “OFF” episodes had more severe PD, were diagnosed for longer, and were younger than those without “OFF” (P P P P P P Patients with PD and “OFF” episodes had higher HCRU and costs than those without “OFF,” suggesting that “OFF” episodes contribute to the economic burden of PD. Further research is warranted to examine the extent that current PD treatments and treatment patterns impact HCRU and costs.