cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Power corrections to event shapes using eikonal dressed gluon exponentiation
Creators: name: Agarwal, Neelima
name: Mukhopadhyay, Ayan
name: Pal, Sourav
name: Tripathi, Anurag
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Event shapes are classical tools for the determination of the strong coupling and for the study of hadronization effects in electron-positron annihilation. In the context of analytical studies, hadronization corrections take the form of power-suppressed contributions to the cross-section, which can be extracted from the perturbative ambiguity of Borel-resummed distributions. We propose a simplified version of the well-established method of Dressed Gluon Exponentiation (DGE), which we call Eikonal DGE (EDGE), which determines all dominant power corrections to event shapes by means of strikingly elementary calculations. We believe our method can be generalized to hadronic event shapes and jet shapes of relevance for LHC physics.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure, one section added, conclusions remain unchanged, matches published version
Bioeconomic Model of Community Incentives for Wildlife Management Before and After CAMPFIRE
Creators: name: Fischer, Carolyn
name: Muchapondwa, Edwin
name: Sterner, Thomas
name: Fischer, Carolyn
name: Muchapondwa, Edwin
name: Sterner, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: bioeconomic
subject: CAMPFIRE
subject: community
subject: poaching
subject: wildlife
subject: benefit sharing

description: This paper formulates a bioeconomic model to analyze community incentives for wildlife management under benefit-sharing programs like the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe. Two agents influence the wildlife stock: a parks agency determines hunting quotas, and a local community chooses to either aid or discourage outside poachers. Wildlife generates revenues from hunting licenses and tourism; it also intrudes on local agriculture. We consider two benefit-sharing regimes: shares of wildlife tourism rents and shares of hunting licenses. Resource sharing does not necessarily improve community welfare or incentives for wildlife conservation. Results depend on the exact design of the benefit shares, the size of the benefits compared with agricultural losses, and the way in which the parks agency sets hunting licenses.
Market Failures in Real-Time Metering: A Theoretical Look
Creators: name: Brennan, Timothy J.
name: Brennan, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: real-time metering
subject: electricity restructuring
subject: deregulation
subject: rationing
subject: externalities

description: Restructuring the electricity market may secure efficiencies by moving away from cost-of-service regulation, with typically (but not necessarily) time-invariant prices, and allowing prices to reflect how costs change. Charging "real time" prices requires that electricity use be measured according to when one uses it. Arguments that such real-time metering should be a policy objective promoted by subsidizing meters or delaying restructuring until meters are installed, require more than these potential benefits. They require positive externalities to imply that too few meters would be installed through private transactions. Real-time metering presents no systematic externalities when utilities must serve peak period users, and may present negative externalities under some conditions. Positive externalities are likely when electricity is rationed through blackouts. Real-time metering may or may not increase welfare when peak period wholesale markets are not competitive; one might want to prohibit real-time metering in such situations even if metering itself were costless.
All quasihereditary algebras with a regular exact Borel subalgebra
Creators: name: Conde, Teresa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Not every quasihereditary algebra $(A,Φ,\unlhd)$ has an exact Borel subalgebra. A theorem by Koenig, Külshammer and Ovsienko asserts that there always exists a quasihereditary algebra Morita equivalent to $A$ that has a regular exact Borel subalgebra, but a characterisation of such a Morita representative is not directly obtainable from their work. This paper gives a criterion to decide whether a quasihereditary algebra contains a regular exact Borel subalgebra and provides a method to compute all the representatives of $A$ that have a regular exact Borel subalgebra. It is shown that the Cartan matrix of a regular exact Borel subalgebra of a quasihereditary algebra $(A,Φ,\unlhd)$ only depends on the composition factors of the standard and costandard $A$-modules and on the dimension of the $\operatorname{Hom}$-spaces between standard $A$-modules. We also characterise the basic quasihereditary algebras that admit a regular exact Borel subalgebra.
description: 39 pages; v2: signs corrected in Lemma 3.3, other typos corrected
Theory of Spin Hall conductivity in n-doped GaAs
Creators: name: Engel, Hans-Andreas
name: Halperin, Bertrand I.
name: Rashba, Emmanuel I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a theory of extrinsic spin currents in semiconductors, resulting from spin-orbit coupling at charged scatterers, which leads to skew scattering and side jump contributions to the spin Hall conductance. Applying the theory to bulk n-GaAs, without any free parameters, we find spin currents that are in reasonable agreement with recent experiments by Kato et al. [Science 306, 1910 (2004)].
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Basic-level multimodal perception verbs in French, Spanish, and Hungarian: a contrastive corpus study of Fr. sentir, Sp. sentir, and H. érez
Creators: name: Galac, Ádám
Publisher: name: Pannon Egyetem
Year: 2021

description: Alkalmazott nyelvtudomány, vol. 21. issue 2. ISSN 1587-1061, eISSN 2498-4442
Bibelgesellschaften und Bibelwerke (Hrsg.), Gute Nachricht erklärt
Creators: name: Krüger
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 23 Nr. 2 (1974): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 23, Heft 2
First Measurement of ZZ Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Creators: name: CDF Collaboration
name: Aaltonen, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first measurement of the cross section for Z boson pair production at a hadron collider. This result is based on a data sample corresponding to 1.9 fb-1 of integrated luminosity from ppbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. In the llll channel, we observe three ZZ candidates with an expected background of 0.096^{+0.092}_{-0.063} events. In the llnunu channel, we use a leading-order calculation of the relative ZZ and WW event probabilities to discriminate between signal and background. In the combination of llll and llnunu channels, we observe an excess of events with a probability of $5.1\times 10^{-6}$ to be due to the expected background. This corresponds to a significance of 4.4 standard deviations. The measured cross section is sigma(ppbar -> ZZ) = 1.4^{+0.7}_{-0.6} (stat.+syst.) pb, consistent with the standard model expectation.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Injustices Encountered by People Diagnosed with Psychotic Disorders in Mental Health Care: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Renaud, Sandrine
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ethics and Political Philosophy
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Discrimination
subject: Inequality
subject: Inequity
subject: Injustice
subject: Mental health care
subject: Oppression
subject: Psychiatric care
subject: Psychiatry
subject: Psychosis
subject: Psychotic disorders
subject: Schizophrenia
subject: Scoping review
subject: Scoping review protocol
subject: Stigma
subject: Voice hearing

description: A scoping review protocol to identify the literature on the injustices encountered by people diagnosed with psychotic disorders in mental health care, and to map the concepts used in this literature to describe these injustices.
Αυτοματοποιημένη Δικαιοσύνη: «Τεχνητό ευφυές δίκαιο (Artificial Intelligent Law) και η εφαρμογή της Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης (ΤΝ) στη δικαιοσύνη»
Creators: name: Βαλίδης, Κωνσταντίνος Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη
Τεχνητό ευφυές δίκαιο
Αυτοματοποιημένη Δικαιοσύνη
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligent Law
Automated Justice

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία θα εξεταστεί το ζήτημα της εξέλιξης του τεχνητού ευφυούς δικαίου, με τη χρήση της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης προκειμένου να βελτιωθεί το δικαστικό σύστημα, η αυτοματοποίηση νομικών διαδικασιών, η πρόβλεψη νομικών αποφάσεων, η ανάλυση νομικών κειμένων, η υποστήριξη συνηγόρων και η ανάλυση των ευκαιριών ή κινδύνων δικαιοδοτικής λειτουργίας που προκαλούνται με την αξιοποίηση της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης. Η μελέτη της νομολογίας στην εφαρμογή αλγοριθμικών εργαλείων αξιολόγησης κινδύνου σε ποινικές διαδικασίες, εστιάζοντας στην πιθανή παραβίαση του δικαιώματος σε δίκαιη δίκη, την πιθανή μεροληψία των αλγορίθμων και την εξάρτηση του δικαστηρίου από μηχανικές αποφάσεις. Αναλύεται περαιτέρω το υφιστάμενο θεσμικό πλαίσιο και υποστηρίζει την ανάγκη θέσπισης ουσιαστικών και διαδικαστικών απαιτήσεων για τη χρήση της Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης στο δικαστικό σύστημα. Εξετάζονται επίσης η συνταγματική θεμελίωση και τα όρια εφαρμογής της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης στην ελληνική και κοινοτική έννομη τάξη. Τέλος προτείνονται μια σειρά προτάσεων για εφαρμογές τεχνητής νοημοσύνης που θα μπορούσαν να συμβάλουν στην επιτάχυνση της δικαιοσύνης και στη βελτίωση της αποτελεσματικότητάς της, ενώ επισημαίνονται επίσης εφαρμογές που πρέπει να αποφεύγονται λόγω των σημαντικών κινδύνων που ενέχουν για τη δικαστική λειτουργία. 
description: This thesis will examine the issue of the evolution of Artificial Intelligent Law (AIL), the use of artificial intelligence in order to improve the judicial system, the automation of legal processes, the prediction of legal decisions, the analysis of legal texts, the support of advocates and the analysis of the opportunities or risks of judicial operation caused by the use of artificial intelligence. The study of jurisprudence on the application of algorithmic risk assessment tools in criminal proceedings, focusing on the potential violation of the right to a fair trial, the potential bias of algorithms and the court's reliance on mechanical decisions. It further analyzes the existing institutional framework and supports the need to establish substantive and procedural requirements for the use of Artificial Intelligence in the judicial system. The constitutional foundation and application limits of artificial intelligence in the Greek and Community legal order are also examined. A number of proposals are made for AI applications that could help speed up justice and improve its efficiency, while also highlighting applications that should be avoided due to the significant risks they pose to the judicial function.
Nonclassical trajectories in head-on collisions
Creators: name: Kumar, A
name: Krisnanda, T
name: Arumugam, P
name: Paterek, T
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rutherford scattering is usually described by treating the projectile either classically or as quantum mechanical plane waves. Here we treat them as wave packets and study their head-on collisions with the stationary target nuclei. We simulate the quantum dynamics of this one-dimensional system and study deviations of the average quantum solution from the classical one. These deviations are traced back to the convexity properties of Coulomb potential. Finally, we sketch how these theoretical findings could be tested in experiments looking for the onset of nuclear reactions.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
THE APPLICATION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Staatz, John M.
name: Staatz, John M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: social capital
subject: economic development
subject: marketing networks

description: This paper briefly examines how social capital affects overall economic growth processes and individual firm development, both positively and negatively, in low- and middle-income countries. The paper discusses how the concept of social capital is related to simple economic growth models and to the analysis of economic networks these countries. The degree to which social capital can substitute for or complement other forms of capital investment is examined. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research and policy analysis by agricultural economists in this area. Keywords: social capital, economic development, marketing networks
title: The effect of board characteristics on corporate financial performance: evidence from Chinese family-controlled listed companies
Creators: name: Dai, Penghui
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: Board governance has attracted considerable attention due to the increasing emergence
of corporate scandals. This research empirically investigates the effects of family
involvement, board independence, and board diversity on the financial performance of
Chinese family-controlled listed companies over 10,230 firm-year observations from
1,870 Chinese family firms during the period 2008-2020. First, this research finds that
the presence of a family CEO positively affects corporate financial performance, while
the proportion of family directors negatively affects financial performance; higher
compensation weakens the negative effect of family directors on financial performance
but does not strengthen the positive relationship between family CEOs and financial
performance. Second, it shows that the proportion of independent directors and the
proportion of independent directors with work experience in the financial industry
positively affect financial performance. These results provide mixed support for agency
and stewardship theories.
Third, this research substantiates that gender diversity positively affects financial
performance, while age diversity and tenure diversity negatively affect financial
performance. It additionally finds that the proportion of female directors positively
affects financial performance, whereas director average tenure and director average age
negatively affect financial performance. These results provide mixed support for
resource dependence and social identity theories. Furthermore, it corroborates that only
the presence of more than three female directors produces a positive effect on financial
performance, supporting critical mass theory. These results contend that Western
theories provide some insights into the Chinese market. This research adds new insights
to the current literature. It provides Chinese policymakers and practitioners with
empirical guidance concerning how to optimise the governance structure and
composition of family business boards. It discusses limitations and paves the way for
future research.
A Determination of the Lambda Parameter from Full Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Göckeler, M.
name: Horsley, R.
name: Irving, A. C.
name: Pleiter, D.
name: Rakow, P. E. L.
name: Schierholz, G.
name: Stüben, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a determination of the QCD parameter Lambda in the quenched approximation (n_f=0) and for two flavours (n_f=2) of light dynamical quarks. The calculations are performed on the lattice using O(a) improved Wilson fermions and include taking the continuum limit. We find Lambda_{n_f=0} = 259(1)(20) MeV and Lambda_{n_f=2} = 261(17)(26) MeV}, using r_0 = 0.467 fm to set the scale. Extrapolating our results to five flavours, we obtain for the running coupling constant at the mass of the Z boson alpha_s(m_Z) = 0.112(1)(2). All numbers refer to the MSbar scheme.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures
Detecting Planetary-mass Primordial Black Holes with Resonant Electromagnetic Gravitational Wave Detectors
Creators: name: Herman, Nicolas
name: Füzfa, André
name: Lehoucq, Léonard
name: Clesse, Sébastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility to detect gravitational waves (GW) from planetary-mass primordial black hole (PBH) binaries with electromagnetic (EM) detectors of high-frequency GWs is investigated. We consider two patented experimental designs, based on the inverse Gertsenshtein effect, in which incoming GWs passing through a static magnetic field induce EM excitations inside either a TM cavity or a TEM waveguide. The frequency response of the detectors is computed for post-newtonian GW waveforms. We find that such EM detectors based on current technology may achieve a strain sensitivity down to $h \sim 10^{-30}$, which generates an EM power variation of $10^{-10}$ W. This allows the detection of PBH binary mergers of mass around $10^{-5} M_\odot$ if they constitute more than $0.01$ percent of the dark matter, as suggested by recent microlensing observations. We envision that this class of detectors could also be used to detect cosmological GW backgrounds and probe sources in the early Universe at energies up to the GUT scale.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
Band Engineering of Dirac Semimetals using Charge Density Waves
Creators: name: Lei, Shiming
name: Teicher, Samuel M. L.
name: Topp, Andreas
name: Cai, Kehan
name: Lin, Jingjing
name: Rodolakis, Fanny
name: McChesney, Jessica L.
name: Krivenkov, Maxim
name: Marchenko, Dmitry
name: Varykhalov, Andrei
name: Ast, Christian R.
name: Car, Roberto
name: Cano, Jennifer
name: Vergniory, Maia G.
name: Ong, N. Phuan
name: Schoop, Leslie M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New developments in the field of topological matter are often driven by materials discovery, including novel topological insulators, Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals. In the last few years, large efforts have been performed to classify all known inorganic materials with respect to their topology. Unfortunately, a large number of topological materials suffer from non-ideal band structures. For example, topological bands are frequently convoluted with trivial ones, and band structure features of interest can appear far below the Fermi level. This leaves just a handful of materials that are intensively studied. Finding strategies to design new topological materials is a solution. Here we introduce a new mechanism that is based on charge density waves and non-symmorphic symmetry to design an idealized Dirac semimetal. We then show experimentally that the antiferromagnetic compound GdSb$_{0.46}$Te$_{1.48}$ is a nearly ideal Dirac semimetal based on the proposed mechanism, meaning that most interfering bands at the Fermi level are suppressed. Its highly unusual transport behavior points to a thus far unknown regime, in which Dirac carriers with Fermi energy very close to the node seem to gradually localize in the presence of lattice and magnetic disorder.
THE IMPACT OF MARKET REFORM ON AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN MALI
Creators: name: Dembele, Niama Nango
name: Staatz, John M.
name: Dembele, Niama Nango
name: Staatz, John M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The purpose of this paper is to review the Malian experience with cereals market reforms over the past 18 years and evaluate its contribution to agricultural transformation in Mali. We especially emphasize the importance of the interaction between sectoral reforms, macroeconomic reforms, and technological change in influencing farmers' and traders' incentives to make the investments necessary for agricultural and food system transformation. The paper draws heavily on a large body of research carried out by Malian, North American and European researchers since 1985 (see, for example, Dioné forthcoming; Dembélé and Staatz forthcoming; Diarra et al. forthcoming) and on a recent evaluation of the PRMC in which the authors participated (Dembélé, Traoré, and Staatz 1999; Shields, Staatz, and Dembélé 1999; Egg, 1999).
Measurement of the ionization response of amorphous selenium with 122keV $γ$ rays
Creators: name: Li, Xinran
name: Chavarria, Alvaro E.
name: Bogdanovich, Snezana
name: Galbiati, Cristiano
name: Piers, Alexander
name: Polischuk, Brad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed a measurement of the ionization response of 200 $μ$m-thick amorphous selenium (aSe) layers under drift electric fields of up to 50 V/$μ$m. The aSe target was exposed to ionizing radiation from a $^{57}$Co radioactive source and the ionization pulses were recorded with high resolution. Using the spectral line from the photoabsorption of 122 keV $γ$ rays, we measured the charge yield in aSe and the line width as a function of drift electric field. From a detailed microphysics simulation of charge generation and recombination in aSe, we conclude that the strong dependence of recombination on the ionization track density provides the dominant contribution to the energy resolution in aSe. These results provide valuable input to estimate the sensitivity of a proposed next-generation search for the neutrinoless $ββ$ decay of $^{82}$Se that aims to employ imaging sensors with an active layer of aSe. We estimate the RMS line width of the integrated ionization signal from neutrinoless $ββ$ decay events (of deposited energy 3 MeV) to be 2.0% for a drift field of 50 V/$μ$m. The energy resolution can be improved to 1% by correcting for the charge yield as a function of ionization density along the imaged electron tracks.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures
Small scale WIMP physics
Creators: name: Green, Anne M.
name: Hofmann, Stefan
name: Schwarz, Dominik J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dark matter distribution on small scales may depend on the the properties of the first generation of dark matter halos to form, which is in turn determined by the microphysics of the dark matter particles. We overview the microphysics of WIMPs and our calculations of the collisional damping and free streaming scales. We then plot the resulting density perturbation power spectrum and red-shift at which typical halos form, taking into account the effect of uncertainties in the WIMP properties (mass and interaction channel) and the primordial power spectrum. Finally we review recent developments regarding the properties and fate of the first WIMPy halos.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of PASCOS2005, Gyeongju, Korea, May 30-June 4 2005, v2: additional references on kinetic decoupling added
DAIRY FARMS IN MICHIGAN'S U.P., 1998
Creators: name: Nott, Sherrill B.
name: Nott, Sherrill B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This report has two purposes: 1)to provide statistical information about the financial results on U.P. dairy farms during 1998; and 2)to provide production costs for comparative analysis and forward planning.
Solar activity classification based on Mg II spectra: towards classification on compressed data
Creators: name: Ivanov, Sergey
name: Tsizh, Maksym
name: Ullmann, Denis
name: Panos, Brandon
name: Voloshynovskiy, Slava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although large volumes of solar data are available for study, the vast majority of these data remain unlabeled and are therefore not amenable to supervised machine learning methods. Having a way to accurately and automatically classify spectra into categories related to solar activity is highly desirable and will assist and speed up future research efforts in solar physics. At the same time, the large volume of raw observational data is a serious bottleneck for machine learning, requiring powerful computational means that are not at the disposal of many laboratories. Besides, the raw data communication imposes restrictions on real time data observations and requires considerable bandwidth and energy for the onboard solar observation systems. To solve these issues, we propose a framework to classify solar activity on compressed data. For this, we used a labeling scheme from a pre-existing vector quantization technique in conjunction with different machine learning algorithms to categorize spectra of singly-ionized magnesium Mg II measured by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph satellite (IRIS) into five types of solar activity. Our training dataset is a human annotated list of 85 IRIS observations containing 29097 frames. The annotated types of Solar activities are active region, pre-flare activity, Solar flare, Sunspot, and quiet Sun. We compress these data and reduce its complexity before training classifiers. We found that the XGBoost classifier produces the most accurate results on the compressed data, yielding over a 95\% prediction rate, and outperforming other ML methods like convolution neural networks, K-nearest neighbors, naive Bayes classifiers, and SVM. We find that the classification performance on compressed and uncompressed data is comparable, implying the possibility of large compression rates for relatively low degrees of information loss.
description: 9 figures, 1 table
title: Creating safe and inclusive spaces for LGBT+ students in Higher Education: a mixed-method investigation of LGBT+ campus climates in the United Kingdom and Philippines
Creators: name: Evangelista, Zyra M.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: Global developments in LGBT+ equality legislation suggest a positive shift in socio-political attitudes toward LGBT+ people. However, institutional structures perpetuating systemic prejudice and inequalities based on sexual orientation and gender identity persist. Using an interdisciplinary, multi-phased, mixed-method approach, this thesis investigates the state of Higher Education for LGBT+ students in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Philippines (PH). Phase 1 involved a quantitative assessment of physical LGBT+ campus climates across 24 UK and 18 PH universities. Using a large-scale online survey, it examined students’ attitudes toward LGBT+, campus climate perceptions, experiences, and outcomes (LGBT+ = 469 [UK], 408 [PH]); cis-heterosexual = 960 [UK], 1,147 [PH]). Phase 2 complemented this with focus groups and interviews qualitatively exploring 17 UK and 18 PH LGBT+ students’ lived experiences of physical campus climates across seven UK and six PH universities. Phase 3 culminates this thesis with a general assessment of digital LGBT+ campus climates in the UK and PH. Through content analysis of 116 UK and PH university-related webpages, it evaluated the existence and visibility of LGBT+ support infrastructures across four purposively selected UK and PH universities. Findings from all three phases emphasise the need to improve LGBT+ campus climates in the face of both overt and subtle manifestations of anti-LGBT+ prejudice. Importantly, triangulated results indicate the importance of fostering LGBT+ students’ social identity belonging as a key pathway for creating better campus climates and addressing LGBT+ inequalities.
Connecting the Chiral and Heavy Quark Limits : Full Mass Dependence of Fermion Determinant in an Instanton Background
Creators: name: Dunne, Gerald V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This talk reports work done in collaboration with Jin Hur, Choonkyu Lee and Hyunsoo Min concerning the computation of the precise mass dependence of the fermion determinant for quarks in the presence of an instanton background. The result interpolates smoothly between the previously known chiral and heavy quark limits of extreme small and large mass. The computational method makes use of the fact that the single instanton background has radial symmetry, so that the computation can be reduced to a sum over partial waves of logarithms of radial determinants, each of which can be computed numerically in an efficient manner using a theorem of Gelfand and Yaglom. The bare sum over partial waves is divergent and must be regulated and renormalized. We use the angular momentum cutoff regularization and renormalization scheme. Our results provide an extension of the Gelfand-Yaglom result to higher dimensional separable differential operators. I also comment on the application of this approach to a wide variety of fluctuation determinant computations in quantum field theory.
description: 12 pages, 5 figs; talk at QFEXT05, Barcelona
MEMBERS' FINANCIAL EVALUATION AND COOPERATIVES' DECISION PROCESSES
Creators: name: Russo, Carlo
name: Weatherspoon, Dave D.
name: Peterson, H. Christopher
name: Russo, Carlo
name: Weatherspoon, Dave D.
name: Peterson, H. Christopher
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural Finance

description: The paper presents an analysis of cooperative investment decision based on the coalition theoretical framework (Staatz 1983, 1987, 1989). According to this framework, cooperatives can be considered as coalitions of groups with different interests. The behavior of any cooperative is determined by the interaction of its many groups (different types of farmers, managers, lenders, input suppliers, buyers, etc.) with different objectives. The group that can impose its will on the coalition will determine the cooperative's strategy. The other parties may accept this leadership, leave the cooperative or try to use their bargaining power to modify the final outcome. The paper discusses the impact of group bargaining on cooperatives' decision process. In particular, the paper addresses the issues related to the consequences of members' heterogeneity on cooperative efficiency. The proposed model utilizes tools from financial theory already successfully applied in the literature (Peterson 1992, Hendrikse 1998) providing a more detailed insight into the determinants of the cooperative decision process. The paper shows that cooperatives evaluate investments differently from IOFs due to the unique characteristics of their patrons compared to other types of investors.
Inaugural Edition (Fall 2015)
Creators: name: Abell, Laurel Ranveig
name: Frankos, Rick James
name: Hirsch, Miriam
name: Magnani, Kristin
name: McQuerrey, Miles
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: English literature--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.
TU student publications.
TU alumni publications.
Larsen, Nella. Passing.
Professional sports.
Sports spectators.
Rhetoric.
Nationalism--United States.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. The custom of the country.
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Death comes for the archbishop.
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805. The New Bath guide.

description: Towson University. Department of English. English Forum.
Fluctuation pressure of a fluid membrane between walls through six loops
Creators: name: Kastening, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The fluctuation pressure that an infinitely extended fluid membrane exerts on two enclosing parallel hard walls is computed. Variational perturbation theory is used to extract the hard-wall limit from a perturbative expansion through six loops obtained with a smooth wall potential. Our result alpha=0.0821+/-0.0005 for the constant conventionally parametrizing the pressure lies above earlier Monte Carlo results.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure; section III shortened, discussion extended, some minor changes
Klein-Gordon particles in mixed vector-scalar inversely linear potentials
Creators: name: de Castro, Antonio S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of a spinless particle subject to a general mixing of vector and scalar inversely linear potentials in a two-dimensional world is analyzed. Exact bounded solutions are found in closed form by imposing boundary conditions on the eigenfunctions which ensure that the effective Hamiltonian is Hermitian for all the points of the space. The nonrelativistic limit of our results adds a new support to the conclusion that even-parity solutions to the nonrelativistic one-dimensional hydrogen atom do not exist.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
Negative linear compressibility in confined dilatating systems
Creators: name: Vakarin, E. V.
name: Duda, Yurko
name: Badiali, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of a matrix response to a fluid insertion is analyzed in terms of a perturbation theory and Monte Carlo simulations applied to a hard sphere fluid in a slit of fluctuating density-dependent width. It is demonstrated that a coupling of the fluid-slit repulsion, spatial confinement and the matrix dilatation acts as an effective fluid-fluid attraction, inducing a pseudo-critical state with divergent linear compressibility and non-critical density fluctuations. An appropriate combination of the dilatation rate, fluid density and the slit size leads to the fluid states with negative linear compressibility. It is shown that the switching from positive to negative compressibility is accompanied by an abrupt change in the packing mechanism.
Deliverable D2.3: Concept of a quantum heat detector
Creators: name: Nikolic, Danilo
name: Belzig, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Experimental realization of a detector for a single quantum of radiation by calorimetric means has become popular over the past years. In this context, the fluctuations of the electron-phonon heat current are important since they determine the fundamental bound of detectable energy of the radiation quantum. Since the fluctuation-dissipation theorem holds, our practical task is to optimize the thermal conductance considering various electronic systems including superconducting proximity structures. Motivated by the experiments that have been performed by ESR 4 and Prof. Jukka Pekola from ALLTO University, we were supposed to provide an appropriate theoretical description of such an effect. To do so, we have employed the quasiclassical Keldysh Green's formalism and the linear response theory.
THE "ENHANCING RURAL ECONOMIES" PROJECT: CONTEXT AND PURPOSE, TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES, AND EXPERIENCE TO DATE
Creators: name: Moser, Colletta H.
name: Wessen, Paul D.
name: Moser, Colletta H.
name: Wessen, Paul D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: This paper is a part of a series of reports of the activities conducted under a grant from the Fund for Rural America, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Funds for the three year grant entitled "Enhancing Rural Economies Through Comprehensive Extension, Research & Partnering Approaches Using Multi-County Clusters in Michigan With Application to National Rural Settings" were received by Michigan State University's Department of Agricultural Economics in March, 1998. The major goal of the grant is to increase economic development activity in four clusters of rural counties in Michigan through the utilization of the resources of the Michigan State University Extension Service, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, and other resources of Michigan State University. Various local, state, and federal public partners as well as the private sector are to co-sponsor projects. This paper represents an overview of some of the project activities undertaken by December, 1999.
ADJUSTED GROSS REVENUE PILOT INSURANCE PROGRAM: RATING PROCEDURE (REPORT PREPARED FOR THE RISK MANAGEMENT AGENCY BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
Creators: name: Black, J. Roy
name: Black, J. Roy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: The focus of this paper is on outlining the procedures used to estimate the premium rates for the Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) insurance plan. The AGR rating procedures draw substantially on rating procedures used in products currently reinsured and subsidized by Risk Management Agency/USDA (RMA); thus, the principal focus here is on those features that are a specific to AGR. The outline, briefly, the procedures used in rating existing products to set the stage for describing AGR rating procedures. The focus of AGR is on farms whose principal revenue streams are from NAP crops as contrasted to farms whose crops can be insured under a plan reinsured and subsidized by RMA; however, the procedures must recognize and take advantage of the fact that crops with APH plan insurance may also appear in the farm plans. Since the number of NAP crops is very large and since the information available differ substantially from crop to crop, the procedures draw on a wide range of information sources.
Phase transitions near black hole horizons
Creators: name: Gubser, Steven S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Reissner-Nordstrom black hole in four dimensions can be made unstable without violating the dominant energy condition by introducing a real massive scalar with non-renormalizable interactions with the gauge field. New stable black hole solutions then exist with greater entropy for fixed mass and charge than the Reissner-Nordstrom solution. In these new solutions, the scalar condenses to a non-zero value near the horizon. Various generalizations of these hairy black holes are discussed, and an attempt is made to characterize when black hole hair can occur.
description: 30 pages, 6 figures. v2: minor corrections, references added
Critical assessment of the canlex blast experiment to facilitate a development of an in-situ liquefaction methodology using explosives
Creators: name: Pathirage, Kapila S.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In current engineering practice, the liquefaction susceptibility of soil is assessed by in-situ testing or by laboratory testing. The in-situ testing approach is based on field performance correlation approach and it is good for sandy soils, but becomes difficult to apply in soils such as gravels, silts and clays. In laboratory conditions, the cyclic loading tests could indicate inaccurate results unless those have been performed on absolutely undisturbed samples. The research in this thesis is a part of larger investigation, which is intended to explore the potential for evaluating liquefaction susceptibility in-situ by blasting. The main advantage of such a methodology is that the liquefaction resistance of the ground is evaluated under its existing stresses and ground water conditions. The major part of this research is a critical assessment of a field trial blast test, which was carried out during the Canadian Liquefaction Experiment (CANLEX) in Alberta. This includes the evaluation of measuring instruments used in the test, sampling rate and evaluation of measured data. In addition, this research investigates the induced wave patterns due to an explosion and the near field blast effects and the far field blast effects. Also, the research evaluates the possibilities of simulating earthquake like ground motions using explosives. The thesis establishes empirical relationships for liquefaction evaluation in loose saturated sandy soils. The state of art to establish these relationships is discussed. A comparison of these relationships with those proposed by other authors is also presented. In addition, the thesis discusses observed inadequacies of the CANLEX blast test to help in planning and conducting blast tests in the future.
E-COMMERCE AND INTERNET USE IN SMALL BUSINESSES: TRENDS AND ISSUES
Creators: name: Abate-Kassa, Getachew
name: Moser, Colletta H.
name: Abate-Kassa, Getachew
name: Moser, Colletta H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper is part of a series of reports of the activities conducted under a grant from the Fund for Rural America, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Funds for the grant entitled "Enhancing Rural Economies Through Comprehensive Extension, Research & Partnering Approaches Using Multi-County Clusters in Michigan With Application to National Rural Settings" were received by Michigan State University's Department of Agricultural Economics in March, 1998. The major goal of the grant is to increase economic development activity in four clusters of rural counties in Michigan through the utilization of the resources of the Michigan State University Extension Service, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, and other resources of Michigan State University. Various local, state, and federal public partners as well as the private sector are co-sponsors of projects in the counties. This paper focuses on E-commerce issues and applications for small businesses and communities providing information on recent developments of E-commerce businesses and approaches to successes in Internet marketing. Details of the paper rely on materials used for E-commerce training programs co-sponsored by the project, responses from businesses participated in the training and review of available digital economic and business literature that highlights key elements and benefits of E-commerce to small businesses.
A Stitching Algorithm for Automated Surface Inspection of Rotationally Symmetric Components
Creators: name: Schlagenhauf, Tobias
name: Brander, Tim
name: Fleischer, Juergen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68U10

description: This paper provides a novel approach to stitching surface images of rotationally symmetric parts. It presents a process pipeline that uses a feature-based stitching approach to create a distortion-free and true-to-life image from a video file. The developed process thus enables, for example, condition monitoring without having to view many individual images. For validation purposes, this will be demonstrated in the paper using the concrete example of a worn ball screw drive spindle. The developed algorithm aims at reproducing the functional principle of a line scan camera system, whereby the physical measuring systems are replaced by a feature-based approach. For evaluation of the stitching algorithms, metrics are used, some of which have only been developed in this work or have been supplemented by test procedures already in use. The applicability of the developed algorithm is not only limited to machine tool spindles. Instead, the developed method allows a general approach to the surface inspection of various rotationally symmetric components and can therefore be used in a variety of industrial applications. Deep-learning-based detection Algorithms can easily be implemented to generate a complete pipeline for failure detection and condition monitoring on rotationally symmetric parts.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures
ONE KIND OF FREEDOM: POVERTY DYNAMICS IN POST-APARTHEID AFRICA
Creators: name: Carter, Michael R.
name: May, Julian
name: Carter, Michael R.
name: May, Julian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: The legacy of apartheid had much to do with the extraordinary levels of inequality and human insecurity found by the first ever nationally representative living standards survey undertaken in South Africa in 1993. Drawing on a 1998 re-survey of households in the 1993 study, this paper explores whether this legacy has been superseded, or whether apartheid's end has been only one kind of freedom that has left households in a poverty trap from which they cannot escape. The evidence indicates that significant numbers of South African poor are trapped in chronic, structural poverty, lacking the assets and entitlements needed to successfully escape poverty over time.
PROSPECTS FOR U.S. DAIRY EXPORTS
Creators: name: Dobson, William D.
name: Dobson, William D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: U.S. dairy companies and cooperatives have long been minor players in international dairy markets, exporting the equivalent of only 2% to 4% of domestic milk production. There are good reasons for this behavior. Sales opportunities in the large domestic market and prices offered by the USDA under the dairy price support program typically make export markets unattractive to U.S. dairy firms.
Consistent dynamical and stellar masses with potential light IMF in massive quiescent galaxies at $3 < z < 4$ using velocity dispersions measurements with MOSFIRE
Creators: name: Esdaile, James
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Taylor, Edward
name: Schreiber, Corentin
name: Nanayakkara, Themiya
name: Kacprzak, Glenn G.
name: Oesch, Pascal A.
name: Tran, Kim-Vy H.
name: Papovich, Casey
name: Spitler, Lee
name: Straatman, Caroline M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the velocity dispersion measurements of four massive $\sim10^{11}M_\odot$ quiescent galaxies at $3.2 < z < 3.7$ based on deep H and K$-$band spectra using the Keck/MOSFIRE near-infrared spectrograph. We find high velocity dispersions of order $σ_e\sim250$ km/s based on strong Balmer absorption lines and combine these with size measurements based on HST/WFC3 F160W imaging to infer dynamical masses. The velocity dispersion are broadly consistent with the high stellar masses and small sizes. Together with evidence for quiescent stellar populations, the spectra confirm the existence of a population of massive galaxies that formed rapidly and quenched in the early universe $z>4$. Investigating the evolution at constant velocity dispersion between $z\sim3.5$ and $z\sim2$, we find a large increase in effective radius $0.35\pm0.12$ dex and in dynamical-to-stellar mass ratio $$ of 0.33$\pm0.08$ dex, with low expected contribution from dark matter. The dynamical masses for our $z\sim3.5$ sample are consistent with the stellar masses for a Chabrier initial mass function (IMF), with the ratio $$ = -0.13$\pm$0.10 dex suggesting an IMF lighter than Salpeter may be common for massive quiescent galaxies at $z>3$. This is surprising in light of the Salpeter or heavier IMFs found for high velocity dispersion galaxies at $z\sim2$ and cores of present-day ellipticals, which these galaxies are thought to evolve into. Future imaging and spectroscopic observations with resolved kinematics using the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope could rule out potential systematics from rotation, and confirm these results.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted to ApJ Letters