cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Weighted self-avoiding walks
Creators: name: Grimmett, Geoffrey R.
name: Li, Zhongyang
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
Self-avoiding walk
Weight function
Connective constant
Bridge constant
Virtually indicable group
Cayley graph
Transitive graph
05C30
20F65
82B20

description: Abstract: We study the connective constants of weighted self-avoiding walks (SAWs) on infinite graphs and groups. The main focus is upon weighted SAWs on finitely generated, virtually indicable groups. Such groups possess so-called height functions, and this permits the study of SAWs with the special property of being bridges. The group structure is relevant in the interaction between the height function and the weight function. The main difficulties arise when the support of the weight function is unbounded, since the corresponding graph is no longer locally finite. There are two principal results, of which the first is a condition under which the weighted connective constant and the weighted bridge constant are equal. When the weight function has unbounded support, we work with a generalized notion of the ‘length’ of a walk, which is subject to a certain condition. In the second main result, the above equality is used to prove a continuity theorem for connective constants on the space of weight functions endowed with a suitable distance function.
Leucothoe rostrata Chevreux 1908
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe rostrata

description: Leucothoe rostrata Chevreux, 1908g
 Leucothoe rostrata Chevreux, 1908g: 11–13, fig. 7. — Chevreux, 1935: 75, 76, pl. 10, fig. 10.
 Type locality and specimens. Edge of Azores, 39°21'20"N 31°05'53"W. Holotype, female, 3.5 mm; unmeasured paratype.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Chevreux (1908).
 Diagnosis (female). Eyes absent. Anterodistal head margin concave. Gnathopod 1 carpus and propodus narrow; dactylus short. Gnathopod 2 basis with a setose posterior margin. Pereopod 7 basis narrowly expanded. Uropod 3 peduncle elongate. Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner with simple cusp.
 Male (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown.
 Habitat. Habitat not reported; 1919– 1360 m.
 Host. Unknown.
 Distribution. Atlantic Ocean: Azores (Chevreux 1908g; Chevreux 1935).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
SMA Observations of Haro 2: Molecular Gas around a Hot Superbubble
Creators: name: Beck, Sara C.
name: Hsieh, Pei-Ying
name: Turner, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Haro 2 , a nearby dwarf starburst dwarf galaxy with strong Ly alpha emission, hosts a starburst that has created outflows and filaments. The clear evidence for galactic outflow makes it an ideal candidate for studying the effects of feedback on molecular gas in a dwarf galaxy. We observed CO(2-1) in Haro 2 at the Submillimeter Array in the compact and extended configurations, and have mapped the molecular emission with velocity resolution 4.1 km/s and spatial resolution 2.0x1.6". With this significant increase of resolution over previous measurements we see that the molecular gas comprises two components: bright clumps associated with the embedded star clusters of the starburst, and fainter extended emission east of the starburst region. The extended emission coincides with an X-ray bubble and has the kinematic signatures of a shell or bubble expanding with velocity +-35 km/s. We suggest that the starburst winds that created the X-Ray bubble have entrained molecular gas, and that the apparent velocity gradient across the photometric axis is an artifact caused by the outflow. The molecular and X-ray activity is on the east of the galaxy and the ionized outflow and optical filaments are west; their relationship is not clear.
description: Submitted to MNRAS 9/9/2019, Revised version accepted 2/3/2020
Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy: Lessons for EMU
Creators: name: Obstfeld, Maurice
name: Peri, Giovanni
name: Obstfeld, Maurice
name: Peri, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: European Monetary Union
subject: regional macroeconomic adjustment
subject: fiscal federalism
subject: interregional labor mobility

description: How will countries handle idiosyncratic national macroeconomic shocks under the European single currency? The ways in which European countries now react to internally asymmetric shocks provide a better forecast than do the regional response patterns of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada, which is closer to Europe than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada's) model of regional response differs from that of the US. Changes in relative regional real exchange rates are generally small. Outside of the US, however, there is more reliance on interregional transfer payments, less on labor migration, and the pace of regional adjustment appears slower. The regional adjustment patterns currently prevailing within European currency unions—characterized by limited labor mobility and price inflexibility--seem likely to prevail at the national level under the single currency. If EMU aims to attain the economic and social cohesion of its constituent nations, it therefore may be hard to resist the eventual extension of existing EU mechanisms of income redistribution--a transfer union. We propose an alternative strategy based on a relaxed stability pact, further strictures against central EU borrowing, labor market and fiscal reform, and the issuance by individual member states of debt indexed to nominal GDP.
Study of Postacceleration Effects in the Coulomb Dissociation of Neutron Halo Nuclei
Creators: name: Banerjee, Prabir
name: Baur, Gerhard
name: Hencken, Kai
name: Shyam, Radhey
name: Trautmann, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investgate the breakup of one-neutron halo nuclei in the Coulomb field of a target nucleus. In the post-form distorted wave Born approximation theory of this reaction, with only Coulomb distortions in the entrance and the outgoing channels, an analytic solution for the breakup $T$-matrix is known. We study this $T$-matrix and the corresponding cross-sections numerically. This formula can be related to the first order semiclassical treatment of the electromagnetic dissociation. This theory contains the electromagnetic interaction between the core and the target nucleus to all orders. We show that higher order effects (including postacceleration) are small in the case of higher beam energies and forward scattering. We investigate the beam energy dependence of the postacceleration effects. They are found to be quite important for smaller beam energies (slow collisions), but almost negligible at larger ones.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Bringing Voluntary Financial Education in Emerging Economy: Role of Financial Socialization During Elementary Years
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The level of financial literacy tends to be low in children, while information and financial education for children are very limited, especially in developing countries without mandatory financial education in schools. This study examined the effects of a classroom financial education program on financial knowledge. We used ‘‘Financial Intelligence Curriculum’’ designed for elementary school students from grade 1–6, focusing on the need and want, priority needs, income, spending, saving, and sharing. Using experimental method with pre-post-test and control group design, we found that the treatment group who received financial education has improved financial knowledge relative to the control group. The study provides evidence that elementary school students are appropriate targets for financial education and that it is necessary to develop mechanisms for effective learning to improve financial capability at an early age.
Foreign Resource Inflows, Saving, and Growth
Creators: name: Obstfeld, Maurice
name: Obstfeld, Maurice
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: foreign aid
subject: capital inflows
subject: investment
subject: growth

description: This paper surveys aspects of the empirical and theoretical debate over the effects of foreign resource inflows on the national saving, investment, and growth of developing countries. The paper suggests a methodology for systematically studying the effects of resource inflows, based on standard optimal growth models modified for consistency with key empirical macro relations. A fairly robust normative implication even of representative-agent optimal consumption models is that much if not most of extra permanent resources should be consumed rather than invested.
Characteristics of glucomannan isolated from fresh tuber of Porang (Amorphophallus muelleri Blume)
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Porang is a potential source of glucomannan. This research objective was to find a direct glucomannan isolation method from fresh porang corm to produce high purity glucomannan. Two isolation methods were performed. In first method, sample was water dissolved using Al2(SO4)3 as flocculant for 15 (AA15) or 30 (AA30) minutes with purification. In second method, sample was repeatedly milled using ethanol as solvent and filtered for 5 (EtOH5) or 7 (EtOH7) times without purification. The characteristics of obtained glucomannan were compared to those of commercial porang flour (CPF) and purified konjac glucomannan (PKG). High purity (90.98%), viscosity (27,940 cps) and transparency (57.74 %) of amorphous glucomannan were isolated by EtOH7. Ash and protein level significantly reduced to 0.57% and 0.31%, respectively, with no starch content. Water holding capacity (WHC) of EtOH7 glucomannan significantly enhanced, whereas its solubility was lower than those of PKG due to its ungrounded native granular form.
Acceleration for the mu+ mu- Collider
Creators: name: Summers, D.
name: Neuffer, D.
name: Shu, Q. S.
name: Willen, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss possible acceleration scenarios and methods for a mu+ mu- collider. The accelerator must take the beams from ~100 MeV to 2 TeV within the muon lifetime (2.2 x 10**(-6) E(mu)/m(mu) uS), while compressing bunches of 10**(12) muons from m to cm bunch lengths. Linac, recirculating linac, and very rapid-cycling synchrotron approaches are studied. Multiple recirculating linac approaches are matched to the muon lifetime and appear readily feasible. Rapid-cycling approaches require innovations in magnet designs and layouts, but could be much more affordable.
description: 17th IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC 97), Vancouver, 12-16 May 1997; 3 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX
Expenditure Decentralization and the Delivery of Public Services in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Bardhan, Pranab
name: Mookherjee, Dilip
name: Bardhan, Pranab
name: Mookherjee, Dilip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: capture
subject: centralized bureaucracy
subject: corruption
subject: decentralization
subject: local governments
subject: poverty alleviation
subject: targeting

description: This two-part paper provides a theoretical framework for appraising trade-offs between alternative methods of delegating authority over the delivery of public services, on the targeting and cost-effectiveness of public spending programs in developing countries. Authority over these programs has to be delegated owing to absence of information at the central level concerning local needs and costs of specific communities. In a top-down centralized system, this authority is delegated to bureaucrats by a central government that has limited ability to monitor their performance with respect to either service delivery or cost control. In a decentralized system, it is allocated instead to elected local governments or client groups, which may be subject to capture by local elites. Both systems are thus prone to local corruption and lack of accountability. Part 1 of the paper studies the relevant tradeoffs in the context of a poverty alleviation program, whose aim is to deliver a private merit good available on competitive markets to the poor. Decentralization generally dominates with respect to inter-community targeting as well as cost-effectiveness. However, the ranking of intracommunity targeting under the two systems is ambiguous, and depends on the relative degree of capture that local and national governments are prone to, besides the nature of uncertainty and preferences of the good by the nonpoor. Part 2 of the paper considers an infrastructure service provided by a public enterprise which has a natural monopoly. In this context it is shown that decentralization dominates if the following four conditions are satisfied: (i) local governments are not vulnerable to capture; (ii) local governments have access to adequate local financing sources; (iii) there are no interjurisdictional externalities in service provision; and (iv) local governments have all the bargaining power and access to relevant cost information vis-a-vis public enterprise managers. Absent any one of these institutional conditions, however, decentralization may perform worse than centralization. The Appendix develops a model of electoral competition (adapted from Grossman-Helpman (1996)) where parties are prone to capture by special interest groups, which helps identify some of the institutional determinants of the degree of capture of local and central governments.
Leucothoe safiae Lyons & Myers 1991
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe safiae

description: Leucothoe safiae Lyons & Myers, 1991
 Leucothoe safiae Lyons & Myers, 1991: 607–610, figs 7, 8.
 Type locality and specimens. Aqaba, Jordan. Holotype, female, 3.6 mm; BMNH 1991.7.1.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Lyons & Myers (1991).
 Diagnosis (female). Truncate anterior head margin. Vestigal accessory flagellum. Coxa 1 with facial setae. Gnathopod 2 propodus mediofacial setal row displaced to midline, palm with three large tubercles. Coxae 3–4 with setose distal margins. Pereopods 5–7 bases narrowly expanded. Epimeron 1 with anteroventral tuft of setae. Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner sinuous with simple cusp. Telson apex bidentate with marginal setae.
 Male (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown.
 Habitat. Habitat not reported; 1–10 m.
 Host. Unknown.
 Distribution. Red Sea: Aqaba, Jordan (Lyons & Myers 1991).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Analysis of genetic networks regulating refractive eye development in collaborative cross progenitor strain mice reveals new genes and pathways underlying human myopia
Creators: name: Tkatchenko, Tatiana V.
name: Shah, Rupal L.
name: Nagasaki, Takayuki
name: Tkatchenko, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Research Article
Functional and structural genomics
Myopia
Refractive eye development
Genetic networks
Signaling pathways
Genetic variation
RNA-seq
Gene-based genome-wide association analysis
Evolutionary conservation of pathways

description: Abstract: Background: Population studies suggest that genetic factors play an important role in refractive error development; however, the precise role of genetic background and the composition of the signaling pathways underlying refractive eye development remain poorly understood. Methods: Here, we analyzed normal refractive development and susceptibility to form-deprivation myopia in the eight progenitor mouse strains of the Collaborative Cross (CC). We used RNA-seq to analyze gene expression in the retinae of these mice and reconstruct genetic networks and signaling pathways underlying refractive eye development. We also utilized genome-wide gene-based association analysis to identify mouse genes and pathways associated with myopia in humans. Results: Genetic background strongly influenced both baseline refractive development and susceptibility to environmentally-induced myopia. Baseline refractive errors ranged from − 21.2 diopters (D) in 129S1/svlmj mice to + 22.0 D in CAST/EiJ mice and represented a continuous distribution typical of a quantitative genetic trait. The extent of induced form-deprivation myopia ranged from − 5.6 D in NZO/HILtJ mice to − 20.0 D in CAST/EiJ mice and also followed a continuous distribution. Whole-genome (RNA-seq) gene expression profiling in retinae from CC progenitor strains identified genes whose expression level correlated with either baseline refractive error or susceptibility to myopia. Expression levels of 2,302 genes correlated with the baseline refractive state of the eye, whereas 1,917 genes correlated with susceptibility to induced myopia. Genome-wide gene-based association analysis in the CREAM and UK Biobank human cohorts revealed that 985 of the above genes were associated with myopia in humans, including 847 genes which were implicated in the development of human myopia for the first time. Although the gene sets controlling baseline refractive development and those regulating susceptibility to myopia overlapped, these two processes appeared to be controlled by largely distinct sets of genes. Conclusions: Comparison with data for other animal models of myopia revealed that the genes identified in this study comprise a well-defined set of retinal signaling pathways, which are highly conserved across different vertebrate species. These results identify major signaling pathways involved in refractive eye development and provide attractive targets for the development of anti-myopia drugs.
Relative Capture of Local and Central Governments: An Essay in the Political Economy of Decentralization
Creators: name: Bardhan, Pranab
name: Mookherjee, Dilip
name: Bardhan, Pranab
name: Mookherjee, Dilip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: International Development
Political Economy

description: A common presumption is that decentralization is prone to a potential pitfall owing to the greater vulnerability of local governments to capture by local elites. We investigate the determinants of relative capture of local and national governments theoretically, in the context of an extended version of the Baron-Grossman-Helpman model of electoral competition with lobbying by special interest groups. A number of factors do provide support to the traditional presumption, such as reduced cohesiveness of interest groups, higher levels of voter awareness, and greater electoral competition at the national level. A number of other factors may, however, create an opposite tendency for lower capture at the local level. These include less electoral uncertainty at the national level, and a higher value of campaign funds in national elections owing to their fungibility across different districts. Relative capture also depends on heterogeneity across districts with respect to levels of local inequality and poverty: accordingly decentralization will tend to increase capture in high inequality districts and lower it in low inequality districts. Power-sharing between parties at the national level, due either to coalition governments or proportional representation, limits the extent of national capture. We conclude that empirical research is necessary to investigate the extent and determinants of relative capture.
Constituents of Doubly Periodic Instantons
Creators: name: Ford, Chris
name: Pawlowski, Jan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Nahm transform we investigate doubly periodic charge one SU(2) instantons with radial symmetry. Two special points where the Nahm zero modes have softer singularities are identified as constituent locations. To support this picture, the action density is computed analytically and numerically within a two dimensional slice containing the two constituents. For particular values of the parameters the torus can be cut in half yielding two copies of a twisted charge 1/2 instanton. Such objects comprise a single constituent.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, reference added, typos corrected
Implication of Brane fluctuations to indirect collider signals
Creators: name: Park, Seong Chan
name: Song, Hee Sung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of brane fluctuation on the indirect signals of high energy colliders. Brane fluctuation could act as a regulator of divergent expression of infinite tower of Kaluza-Klein graviton effects. The phenomenological parameter $λ$, introduced by Hewett, is shown to be determined in our setting, and its dramatic behaviors depending on the $D=4+δ$ dimensional gravitation scale $M_D$, `softening parameter' $Δ$, and $\sqrt{s}$ of collider are presented. The present exclusion bounds from the processes $e^+e^-\to γγ$ and $p\bar{p}\to e^+ e^-, γγ(γ)$ are considered within the parameter space $(M_D, Δ)$ with respect to the number of extra dimensions.
description: JHEP accepted version with some corrections
Do Changing Probabilities or Payoffs in Lottery-Choice Experiments Affect Risk Preference Outcomes? Evidence from Rural Uganda
Creators: name: Ihli, Hanna Julia
name: Chiputwa, Brian
name: Musshoff, Oliver
name: Ihli, Hanna Julia
name: Chiputwa, Brian
name: Musshoff, Oliver
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: elicitation of risk preferences
subject: inconsistency rates
subject: laboratory experiment in the field
subject: Uganda

description: This study compares risk preferences elicited from two different methods and the resulting inconsistency rates in response behavior. We also identify and compare how demographic and socioeconomic characteristics influence risk preferences elicited from the two methods. We use experimental and survey data collected from 332 randomly selected smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda. We find relatively low inconsistency rates in the response behavior and that both methods classify most farmers as risk averse. However, a closer inspection reveals significantly different risk results. Specific demographic and socioeconomic characteristics affect farmers’ risk preferences but are not stable across elicitation methods.
Receptor Binding and Antigenic Site Analysis of Hemagglutinin Gene Fragments of Avian Influenza Virus Serotype H5N1 Isolated from Indonesia
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This study reported a retrospective study on hemagglutinin (HA) gene fragments of Avian Influenza (AI) viruses recovered between 2010 to 2012, using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) followed by sequencing. The results provide information about the receptor binding sites (RBS) and antigenic sites character of HA gene of AI viruses in Indonesia. Viral RNA was extracted from allantoic fluid of specific pathogen free (SPF) of chicken embryonated eggs inoculated by AI suspected samples. Amplification was performed by using H5 specific primers to produce amplification target of 544 bp. The resulting sequences were analyzed with MEGA-5 consisting of multiple alignment, deductive amino acid prediction, and phylogenetic tree analysis. The results showed that out of the 12 samples amplified using RT-PCR technique, only 7 were detected to be avian influenza serotype H5 viruses. Sequence analysis of AIV H5 positive samples, showed a binding preference towards avian type receptors. Antigenic site analysis is consistent with the previous report, however, the antigenic site B at position 189 showed that the residue had undergone mutation from arginine to methionine. Phylogenetic tree analysis showed that these viruses were clustered into clade 2.1.3. Our report supports the importance of the previous study of RBS and antigenic properties of HPAI H5N1 in Indonesia.
Fourth Moment of the Charge Density Induced Around A Guest Charge in Two-Dimensional Jellium
Creators: name: Šamaj, Ladislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The model under consideration is the classical two-dimensional one-component plasma (jellium) of pointlike particles with charge $e$, interacting pairwisely via the logarithmic Coulomb potential and immersed in a uniform neutralizing background charge density. The system is in thermal equilibrium at the inverse temperature $β$, its thermodynamics depends only on the coupling constant $Γ=βe^2$. We put into an infinite (homogeneous and translationally invariant) plasma a guest particle of charge $Ze$ with $Z>-2/Γ$ in order to prevent from the collapse of the jellium charges onto it. The guest particle induces a screening cloud (the excess charge density) in the plasma. The zeroth and second moments of this screening cloud were derived previously for any fluid value of $Γ$. In this paper, we propose a formula for the fourth moment of the screening cloud. The derivation is based on the assumption that the fourth moment is, similarly as the second moment, analytic in $Z$ around $Z=0$. An exact treatment of the limit $Z\to\infty$ shows that it is a finite (cube) polynomial in $Z$. The $Γ$-dependence of the polynomial coefficients is determined uniquely by considering the limits $Z\to 0$ and $Z\to\infty$, and the compressibility sum rule for $Z=1$. The formula for the fourth moment of screening cloud is checked in the leading and first correction orders of the Debye-Hückel limit $Γ\to 0$ and at the exactly solvable free-fermion point $Γ=2$. Sufficient conditions for sign oscillations of the induced charge density which follow from the second-moment and fourth-moment sum rules are discussed.
description: 17 pages
STUDENT'S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN LARGE-SIZED GROUPS IN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Turaeva, Iroda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: A pupil’s academic performance, student behavior, and quality of teaching are the three things that can be affected negatively in large-sized groups in educational system of Uzbekistan. Uzbek schools have a long history of educational systems, spanning centuries from the "Madrasa" to our modern schools of today. Education is one of the essential ways to improve a country's economy, diplomacy, and other sectors.
Gamow Shell Model Description of Neutron-Rich Nuclei
Creators: name: Michel, N.
name: Nazarewicz, W.
name: Ploszajczak, M.
name: Bennaceur, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work presents the first continuum shell-model study of weakly bound neutron-rich nuclei involving multiconfiguration mixing. For the single-particle basis, the complex-energy Berggren ensemble representing the bound single-particle states, narrow resonances, and the non-resonant continuum background is taken. Our shell-model Hamiltonian consists of a one-body finite potential and a zero-range residual two-body interaction. The systems with two valence neutrons are considered. The Gamow shell model, which is a straightforward extension of the traditional shell model, is shown to be an excellent tool for the microscopic description of weakly bound systems. It is demonstrated that the residual interaction coupling to the particle continuum is important; in some cases, it can give rise to the binding of a nucleus.
description: 4 pages, More realistic s.p. energies used than in the precedent version
Digital quantum simulation of linear and nonlinear optical elements
Creators: name: Sabín, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a recipe for the digitalization of linear and nonlinear quantum optics in networks of superconducting qubits. By combining digital techniques with boson-qubit mappings we address relevant problems which are typically considered in analog simulators, such as the dynamical Casimir effect or molecular force fields, including nonlinearities. In this way, the benefits of digitalization are extended in principle to a new realm of physical problems. We present preliminary examples launched in IBM Q 5 Tenerife.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. v2: minor changes, published version
Reply to 'Comment on "Relativistic extension of shape-invariant potentials"'
Creators: name: Alhaidari, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We concur with de Castro's observation that the gauge considerations of our approach are not valid. Nevertheless, except for an error that will be corrected, all of our findings are accurate independent of those considerations.
Reducing the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico: Assessing the Costs to Agriculture
Creators: name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Marshall, Elizabeth
name: Aillery, Marcel
name: Malcolm, Scott
name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Marshall, Elizabeth
name: Aillery, Marcel
name: Malcolm, Scott
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: hypoxia
subject: nutrients
subject: REAP model

description: Reducing the size of the hypoxic zone (Dead Zone) in the northern Gulf of Mexico will require a significant reduction in nutrient loads from the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB). This research uses an agriculture sector model and data on conservation system effectiveness and costs to estimate costs to the agriculture sector of meeting nutrient load goals at the outlet to the Gulf and at outlets of sub-basins in the watershed. The analysis also estimates resulting changes in crop prices and the resulting impacts on agricultural production and nutrient and sediment loss outside the MARB.
Controlled release of MT-1207 using a novel gastroretentive bilayer system comprised of hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymers
Creators: name: Vrettos, Napoleon-Nikolaos
name: Wang, Peng
name: Wang, Yuhan
name: Roberts, Clive J.
name: Xu, Jinyi
name: Yao, Hong
name: Zhu, Zheying
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: In the present study, novel gastroretentive bilayer tablets were developed that are promising for the once-a-day oral delivery of the drug candidate MT-1207. The gastroretentive layer consisted of a combination of hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymers, namely polyethylene oxide and Kollidon® SR. A factorial experiment was conducted, and the results revealed a non-effervescent gastroretentive layer that, unlike most gastroretentive layers reported in the literature, was easy to prepare, and provided immediate tablet buoyancy (mean floating lag time of 1.5 seconds) that lasted over 24 hours in fasted state simulated gastric fluid (FaSSGF) pH 1.6, irrespective of the drug layer, thereby allowing a 24-hour sustained release of MT-1207 from the drug layer of the tablets. Furthermore, during in vitro buoyancy testing of the optimised bilayer tablets in media of different pH values (1.0, 3.0, 6.0), the significant difference (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.001) between the respective total floating times indicated that stomach pH effects on tablet buoyancy are important to be considered during the development of non-effervescent gastroretentive formulations and the choice of dosing regimen. To the best of our knowledge, this has not been reported before, and it should probably be factored in when designing dosing regimens. Finally, a pharmacokinetic study in Beagle dogs indicated a successful in vivo 24-hour sustained release of MT-1207 from the optimised gastroretentive bilayer tablet formulations with the drug plasma concentration remaining above the estimated minimum effective concentration of 1 ng/mL at the 24-hour timepoint and also demonstrated the gastroretentive capabilities of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymer combination. The optimised formulations will be forwarded to clinical development.
Interface induced exchange bias effect in La$_{0.67}$Sr$_{0.33}$MnO$_3$/SrIrO$_3$ multilayer
Creators: name: Chaurasia, Rachna
name: Kharkwal, K. C.
name: Pramanik, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Epitaxial superlattices of ferromagnetic/paramagnetic La$_{0.67}$Sr$_{0.33}$MnO$_3$/SrIrO$_3$ materials have been prepared on SrTiO$_3$ (100) substrate using pulse laser deposition technique. An unexpected onset of interface magnetic interaction has been observed around 40 K. Interestingly, magnetic exchange bias effect has been observed in both field cooled and zero field cooled magnetization loops, however, the shifting of loop is opposite in both measurements. Exchange bias field vanishes as temperature increases to interface magnetic ordering temperature. Moreover, exchange bias field is found to decrease with increasing cooling field. We believe that tuning of magnetic exchange at interface during field cooling induces this evolution in nature of exchange bias field.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Strain-Specific Epigenetic Regulation of Endogenous Retroviruses: The Role of Trans -Acting Modifiers
Creators: name: Elmer, Jessica L.
name: Ferguson-Smith, Anne C.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: ERVs
epigenetic regulation
strain-specific
modifiers
metastable epialleles
KRAB zinc finger proteins
transgenes

description: Approximately 10 percent of the mouse genome consists of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), relics of ancient retroviral infections that are classified based on their relatedness to exogenous retroviral genera. Because of the ability of ERVs to retrotranspose, as well as their cis-acting regulatory potential due to functional elements located within the elements, mammalian ERVs are generally subject to epigenetic silencing by DNA methylation and repressive histone modifications. The mobilisation and expansion of ERV elements is strain-specific, leading to ERVs being highly polymorphic between inbred mouse strains, hinting at the possibility of the strain-specific regulation of ERVs. In this review, we describe the existing evidence of mouse strain-specific epigenetic control of ERVs and discuss the implications of differential ERV regulation on epigenetic inheritance models. We consider Krüppel-associated box domain (KRAB) zinc finger proteins as likely candidates for strain-specific ERV modifiers, drawing on insights gained from the study of the strain-specific behaviour of transgenes. We conclude by considering the coevolution of KRAB zinc finger proteins and actively transposing ERV elements, and highlight the importance of cross-strain studies in elucidating the mechanisms and consequences of strain-specific ERV regulation.
Entropies, convexity, and functional inequalities
Creators: name: Chafai, Djalil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46-99, 60J60, 26D10, 58D25, 39B72, 58J65, 47D07, 94A15, 94A17

description: Our aim is to provide a short and self contained synthesis which generalise and unify various related and unrelated works involving what we call Phi-Sobolev functional inequalities. Such inequalities related to Phi-entropies can be seen in particular as an inclusive interpolation between Poincare and Gross logarithmic Sobolev inequalities. In addition to the known material, extensions are provided and improvements are given for some aspects. Stability by tensor products, convolution, and bounded perturbations are addressed. We show that under simple convexity assumptions on Phi, such inequalities hold in a lot of situations, including hyper-contractive diffusions, uniformly strictly log-concave measures, Wiener measure (paths space of Brownian Motion on Riemannian Manifolds) and generic Poisson space (includes paths space of some pure jumps Levy processes and related infinitely divisible laws). Proofs are simple and relies essentially on convexity. We end up by a short parallel inspired by the analogy with Boltzmann-Shannon entropy appearing in Kinetic Gases and Information Theories.
description: Formerly "On Phi-entropies and Phi-Sobolev inequalities". Author's www homepage: http://www.lsp.ups-tlse.fr/Chafai/
Using multiple short epochs optimises the stability of infant EEG connectivity parameters
Creators: name: Haartsen, Rianne
name: Van Der Velde, Bauke
name: Jones, Emily J. H.
name: Johnson, Mark H.
name: Kemner, Chantal
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/378/2649
/692/308/3187
article

description: Abstract: Atypicalities in connectivity between brain regions have been implicated in a range of neurocognitive disorders. We require metrics to assess stable individual differences in connectivity in the developing brain, while facing the challenge of limited data quality and quantity. Here, we examine how varying core processing parameters can optimise the test–retest reliability of EEG connectivity measures in infants. EEG was recorded twice with a 1-week interval between sessions in 10-month-olds. EEG alpha connectivity was measured across different epoch lengths and numbers, with the phase lag index (PLI) and debiased weighted PLI (dbWPLI), for both whole-head connectivity and graph theory metrics. We calculated intra-class correlations between sessions for infants with sufficient data for both sessions (N’s = 19–41, depending on the segmentation method). Reliability for the whole brain dbWPLI was higher across many short epochs, whereas reliability for the whole brain PLI was higher across fewer long epochs. However, the PLI is confounded by the number of available segments. Reliability was higher for whole brain connectivity than graph theory metrics. Thus, segmenting available data into a high number of short epochs and calculating the dbWPLI is most appropriate for characterising connectivity in populations with limited availability of EEG data.
title: Measuring the Scope of International Accounting Harmonisation and Standardisation – A Study of South East Asia
Creators: name: Wang, May Yee
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: accounting harmonisation
subject: PhD

description: Wang, May Yee, Measuring the Scope of International Accounting Harmonisation and Standardisation – A Study of South East Asia, Doctor of Philosophy (Business with Management), June, 2023, University of Plymouth, England. Using South East Asia as the illustration of developing countries, this research assessed the degrees of harmonisation of selected accounting measurement practices. This research empirically investigates whether the efforts prepared by South East Asia since the early 1990s to harmonise their national standards with IAS have been practical. In this research, financial data from the ASEAN top 100 organisations’ financial statements for the year 2015 to 2016 have been collected, of which 27 from Malaysia, 21 from Singapore, 21 from Thailand, 16 from Indonesia, 14 from the Philippines and one from Vietnam. The I index that is established by Van der Tas (1988) has been applied to evaluate the extent of harmonisation. Meanwhile, the C indices have been applied to verify the equivalence of the proportions of accounting measurement choices in South East Asia. In general, the outcomes of this research reveal that the accounting transformation in South East Asia has been successful in harmonising national accounting standards with IAS. The results of the I index and the C indices indicate a comparatively higher level of harmonisation in the areas of foreign currency translation, accounting for pensions and retirements benefits costs and accounting for investments. In contrast, noticeable differences between national accounting standards and IAS still exist in some significant financial measurements. A comparatively lower level of harmonisation discovers in the areas of inventory valuation, depreciation of property, plant and equipment and goodwill amortisation. Lower degrees of harmonisation are because of non-compliance by organisations and the level of adjustability accessible in specific accounting treatments.
Leucothoe saron Thomas & Klebba 2007
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe saron

description: Leucothoe saron Thomas & Klebba, 2007
 Leucothoe saron Thomas & Klebba, 2007: 20–25, figs 11–13.
 Type locality and specimens. Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, 16º48.136’N 88º04.723’W. Holotype, male, 6.7 mm, YPM 38649; paratype, female, 6.9 mm, YPM 38650.
 Material examined. Unmeasured males and females, YPM 38649, YPM 38650. Diagnosis based on description by Thomas & Klebba (2007).
 Diagnosis. Gnathopod 2 distomedial margins of articles 2–3 with long brushes of recurved setae; carpus distally truncate. Epimeron 1 with anteroventral tuft of setae.
 Female (sexually dimorphic characters). Gnathopod 1 basis anterior margin with five long setae (versus short setae), posterodistal margin with group of six short setae (versus no posterior setae in holotype). Gnathopod 2 basis anterior margin with 15 long setae (versus 13 short setae in male); distomedial setal tufts on articles 2 and 3 reduced in length; carpus apically rounded with three small serrations; propodus mediofacial setal row with more setae than found in male; medial surface of propodus with two setae in secondary row, and row of seven submarginal posterior setae on palm.
 Habitat. Coral reefs; 1– 10 m.
 Host. Sponges: Pseudoceratina crassa and Iotrochota birotulata.
 Distribution. Caribbean Sea: Belize (Thomas & Klebba 2007).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Introduction to Muon Cooling
Creators: name: Kaplan, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from elementary concepts, muon-beam cooling is defined, and the techniques by which it can be accomplished introduced and briefly discussed.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, presented at the Snowmass Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics, Snowmass, Colorado, June 30-July 21, 2001. (Corrected minor typos March '02.)
What contributes to medical debt? Evidence from patients in rural China
Creators: name: Xin, Yanjiao
name: Jiang, Junnan
name: Chen, Shanquan
name: Gong, Fangxu
name: Xiang, Li
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Utilization, expenditure, economics and financing systems
Rural China
Medical debt
Critical illness insurance
Social support
Two-part model

description: Abstract: Background: Rural households in developing countries usually have severe medical debt due to high out-of-pocket (OOP) payments, which contributes to bankruptcy. China implemented the critical illness insurance (CII) in 2012 to decrease patients’ medical expenditure. This paper aimed to explore the medical debt of rural Chinese patients and its influencing factors. Methods: A questionnaire survey of health expenditures and medical debt was conducted in two counties of Central and Western China in 2017. Patients who received CII were used as the sample on the basis of multi-stage stratified cluster sampling. Descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance were used in all data. A two-part model was used to evaluate the occurrence and extent of medical debt. Results: A total of 826 rural patients with CII were surveyed. The percentages of patients incurring medical debt exceeded 50% and the median debt load was 20,000 Chinese yuan (CNY, 650 CNY = US$100). Financial assistance from kin (P < 0.001) decreased the likelihood of medical debt. High inpatient expenses (IEs, P < 0.01), CII reimbursement ratio (P < 0.001), and non-direct medical costs (P < 0.001) resulted in increased medical debt load. Conclusions: Medical debt is still one of the biggest problems in rural China. High IEs, CII reimbursement ratio, municipal or high-level hospitals were the risk determinants of medical debt load. Financial assistance from kin and household income were the protective factors. Increasing service capability of hospitals in counties could leave more patiemts in county-level and township hospitals. Improving CII with increased reimbursement rate may also be issues of concern.
Charm meson production from meson-nucleon scattering
Creators: name: Liu, W.
name: Ko, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an effective hadronic Lagrangian with physical hadron masses and coupling constants determined either empirically or from SU(4) flavor symmetry, we study the production cross sections of charm mesons from pion and rho meson interactions with nucleons. With a cutoff parameter of 1 GeV at interaction vertices as usually used in studying the cross sections for $J/ψ$ absorption and charm meson scattering by hadrons, we find that the cross sections for charm meson production have values of a few tenth of mb and are dominated by the s channel nucleon pole diagram. Relevance of these reactions to charm meson production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is discussed.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, slight revision and references added
The position of the joints with angle of 90° at friction stir welding (FSW)
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 130213 Vocational Education and Training Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This research used aluminum 6061 with 150 mm length, 50 mm wide, and 10 mm thick. The probe was made from EMS 45 simple design. Three variations used of feedrate speed is 10 mm/min, 15 mm/min, and 30 mm/min. Spindle rotation was constantly set at 2000 rpm, the heat generated was recorded. Corner-Butt (C-B)joint determined, the lowest heat generated from 220°C-320°C and the tensile test was60 MPa. The highest tensile test was 163 MPa, achieved by Corner-butt 45 (C-B 45) joint on 10 mm/min feedrate speed. It was verified by the heat temperature from 300°C-420°C and clarified by its micro and macrostructure.