cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Methods of evaluating the long-term financial effects of energy efficiency projects
Creators: name: Sajter, Domagoj
name: Sajter, Domagoj
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Energy efficiency
subject: profitability
subject: evaluation methods
subject: financial effects

description: Are investments in energy efficiency profitable? The answer largely depends on the applied methodology within investment analysis, but because of their wide impact energy efficiency investments should not be evaluated only by "normal" investment criteria. After a comprehensive literature review, we establish a new conceptual framework for the analysis of energy efficiency methodology and exhibit three main factors of evaluation: scope, timing, and approach. Stakeholders of energy efficiency projects can employ this framework when choosing the appropriate methodology for their investment analysis.
Rare Kaon Decays Revisited
Creators: name: Friot, Samuel
name: Greynat, David
name: De Rafael, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an updated discussion of $K\raπ\bar{l} l$ decays in a combined framework of chiral perturbation theory and Large--$N_c$ QCD, which assumes the dominance of a minimal narrow resonance structure in the invariant mass dependence of the $ \bar{l} l$ pair. The proposed picture reproduces very well, both the experimental $K^+\raπ^+ e^+ e^-$ decay rate and the invariant $e^+ e^-$ mass spectrum. The predicted Br$(K_S\raπ^0 e^+ e^-)$ is, within errors, consistent with the recently reported result from the NA48 collaboration. Predictions for the $K\raπμ^{+}μ^{-}$ modes are also obtained. We find that the resulting interference between the {\it direct} and {\it indirect} CP--violation amplitudes in $K_L\raπ^0 e^+ e^-$ is constructive.
Unsupervised Model Personalization while Preserving Privacy and Scalability: An Open Problem
Creators: name: De Lange, Matthias
name: Jia, Xu
name: Parisot, Sarah
name: Leonardis, Ales
name: Slabaugh, Gregory
name: Tuytelaars, Tinne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work investigates the task of unsupervised model personalization, adapted to continually evolving, unlabeled local user images. We consider the practical scenario where a high capacity server interacts with a myriad of resource-limited edge devices, imposing strong requirements on scalability and local data privacy. We aim to address this challenge within the continual learning paradigm and provide a novel Dual User-Adaptation framework (DUA) to explore the problem. This framework flexibly disentangles user-adaptation into model personalization on the server and local data regularization on the user device, with desirable properties regarding scalability and privacy constraints. First, on the server, we introduce incremental learning of task-specific expert models, subsequently aggregated using a concealed unsupervised user prior. Aggregation avoids retraining, whereas the user prior conceals sensitive raw user data, and grants unsupervised adaptation. Second, local user-adaptation incorporates a domain adaptation point of view, adapting regularizing batch normalization parameters to the user data. We explore various empirical user configurations with different priors in categories and a tenfold of transforms for MIT Indoor Scene recognition, and classify numbers in a combined MNIST and SVHN setup. Extensive experiments yield promising results for data-driven local adaptation and elicit user priors for server adaptation to depend on the model rather than user data. Hence, although user-adaptation remains a challenging open problem, the DUA framework formalizes a principled foundation for personalizing both on server and user device, while maintaining privacy and scalability.
description: CVPR 2020
Demand-side factors of housing price increases in Turkey: Blanchard-Quah SVAR model
Creators: name: Karakoyun, Hulya Deniz
name: Yildirim, Nurtac
name: Karakoyun, Hulya Deniz
name: Yildirim, Nurtac
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Real estate
subject: housing demand
subject: real estate bubble
subject: Blanchard-Quah
subject: Turkey

description: A bubble in the housing sector is defined as an unprecedented upsurge in house prices which cannot explained by fundamental determinants of the housing sector. This study examines demand-side factors of real estate sector in Turkey in order to expose whether house price increases in the country can be counted as a bubble. We use the Blanchard-Quah SVAR model to empirically reveal the relationships between the real mortgage interest rates, house price gap, price-rent-ratio and purchasing power parity. The results of the paper indicate that real interest rates and other variables have a significant explanatory power in the long run whereas house prices cannot be explained by these variables in the short run. Therefore it can be asserted that the house price increases in Turkey cannot be evaluated as a bubble in the long run.
Additional file 1 of Emergence and evolution of antimicrobial resistance genes and mutations in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Creators: name: Yahara, Koji
name: Ma, Kevin C.
name: Mortimer, Tatum D.
name: Shimuta, Ken
name: Shu-Ichi Nakayama
name: Hirabayashi, Aki
name: Suzuki, Masato
name: Jinnai, Michio
name: Ohya, Hitomi
name: Kuroki, Toshiro
name: Watanabe, Yuko
name: Yasuda, Mitsuru
name: Deguchi, Takashi
name: Eldholm, Vegard
name: Harrison, Odile B.
name: Maiden, Martin C. J.
name: Grad, Yonatan H.
name: Ohnishi, Makoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Methods and Results.
Completeness of the Bethe Ansatz solution of the open XXZ chain with nondiagonal boundary terms
Creators: name: Nepomechie, Rafael I.
name: Ravanini, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Bethe Ansatz solution of the open spin-1/2 XXZ quantum spin chain with nondiagonal boundary terms has recently been proposed. Using a numerical procedure developed by McCoy et al., we find significant evidence that this solution can yield the complete set of eigenvalues for generic values of the bulk and boundary parameters satisfying one linear relation. Moreover, our results suggest that this solution is practical for investigating the ground state of this model in the thermodynamic limit.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX; amssymb, amsmath, no figures, 5 tables; v2 contains an additional footnote and a "Note Added"; v3 contains an Addendum
Market growth, trader participation and pricing in energy future markets
Creators: name: Haigh, Michael S.
name: Harris, Jeffrey
name: Overdahl, James A.
name: Robe, Michel A.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

description: We use a unique dataset on futures trader positions to document major changes in the size and term structure of the U.S. crude oil futures market. We show that, as recently as 2000 trading activity in this market was heavily concentrated at the near end of the maturity spectrum. Since then, overall open interest has grown two-fold, with trader activity at the back end of the maturity spectrum increasing over twice as much as the market as a whole. The market growth in long-term (>3 years) positions generally started in 2004, which coincides with the growth in participation by commodity swap dealers in the futures markets. An analysis of the composition of traders participating in the market shows that almost all large-trader categories (commodity swap dealers and arbitrageurs; hedge funds; commercial dealers; and commercial producers) now carry aggregate net positions in long-term contracts comparable in magnitude to the size of their net positions in shortterm (<3 months) contracts prior to 2003. Amidst this market growth, the prices of one-year and two-year futures became co-integrated with the price of the near-month futures for the first time in 2004. We provide evidence that the pricing convergence is linked to the growth in futures trading by commodity swap dealers and arbitrageurs. Our results have significant implications for those interested in the effectiveness of hedges constructed with long-term crude oil futures contracts and for those interested in the quality of information contained in futures prices across the term structure.
Weighted Random Search for CNN Hyperparameter Optimization
Creators: name: Andonie, Razvan
name: Florea, Adrian-Catalin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Nearly all model algorithms used in machine learning use two different sets of parameters: the training parameters and the meta-parameters (hyperparameters). While the training parameters are learned during the training phase, the values of the hyperparameters have to be specified before learning starts. For a given dataset, we would like to find the optimal combination of hyperparameter values, in a reasonable amount of time. This is a challenging task because of its computational complexity. In previous work [11], we introduced the Weighted Random Search (WRS) method, a combination of Random Search (RS) and probabilistic greedy heuristic. In the current paper, we compare the WRS method with several state-of-the art hyperparameter optimization methods with respect to Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) hyperparameter optimization. The criterion is the classification accuracy achieved within the same number of tested combinations of hyperparameter values. According to our experiments, the WRS algorithm outperforms the other methods.
description: 11 pages, 2 figurs, journal article
Market growth, trader participation and pricing in energy future markets
Creators: name: Haigh, Michael S.
name: Harris, Jeffrey
name: Overdahl, James A.
name: Robe, Michel A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: We use a unique dataset on futures trader positions to document major changes in the size and term structure of the U.S. crude oil futures market. We show that, as recently as 2000 trading activity in this market was heavily concentrated at the near end of the maturity spectrum. Since then, overall open interest has grown two-fold, with trader activity at the back end of the maturity spectrum increasing over twice as much as the market as a whole. The market growth in long-term (>3 years) positions generally started in 2004, which coincides with the growth in participation by commodity swap dealers in the futures markets. An analysis of the composition of traders participating in the market shows that almost all large-trader categories (commodity swap dealers and arbitrageurs; hedge funds; commercial dealers; and commercial producers) now carry aggregate net positions in long-term contracts comparable in magnitude to the size of their net positions in shortterm (<3 months) contracts prior to 2003. Amidst this market growth, the prices of one-year and two-year futures became co-integrated with the price of the near-month futures for the first time in 2004. We provide evidence that the pricing convergence is linked to the growth in futures trading by commodity swap dealers and arbitrageurs. Our results have significant implications for those interested in the effectiveness of hedges constructed with long-term crude oil futures contracts and for those interested in the quality of information contained in futures prices across the term structure.
Magnetism and Superconductivity in a Two-band Hubbard Model in Infinite Dimensions
Creators: name: Ono, Y.
name: Sano, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a two-band Hubbard model using the dynamical mean-field theory combined with the exact diagonalization method. At the electron density $n=2$, a transition from a band-insulator to a correlated semimetal occurs when the on-site Coulomb interaction $U$ is varied for a fixed value of the charge-transfer energy $Δ$. At low temperature, the correlated semimetal shows ferromagnetism or superconductivity. With increasing doping $|n-2|$, the ferromagnetic transition temperature rapidly decreases and finally becomes zero at a critical value of $n$. The second-order phase transition occurs at high temperature, while a phase separation of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic states takes place at low temperature. The superconducting transition temperature gradually decreases and finally becomes zero near $n=1$ ($n=3$) where the system is Mott insulator which shows antiferromagnetism at low temperature.
description: 3 pages, 5 figures, proceedings of the International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electrons with Orbital Degrees of Freedom (ORBITAL2001)
Demographic structure and housing prices: East Asia and Europe
Creators: name: Han, Zonghie
name: Han, Zonghie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Working age population
subject: housing price index
subject: demographic cliff
subject: Europe
subject: East Asia

description: The recent booms in the global housing markets have been suspected to be bubbles owing to the weak economic circumstances after the 2008 financial crisis. While the behavioral economics stresses the role of irrational human psychology in the housing market, this study focuses on the demographic factors which can determine the scope of the housing demand. Simple plotting of some demographic categories shows that ages between 15 and 64 (working age population) as well as between 40 and 59 have similar trends to the housing price indices in representative countries in Europe and East Asia, UK, France, Germany, China, Japan and Korea.
Kemeny, G., 2006. Az asszonyverés módszertani útmutatója. Magyar Rendészet, 6(1), pp.61-91.
Creators: name: Kemeny, Gabor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law

description: The author presents the Spanish legislation procedures and the struggle of the law enforcement organizations in the topic of domestic violence. After an interesting case study he touches on the reforms concerning the legislation, criminal substantive law, civil law and criminal procedure law before 1997 and after the shift in attitudes. He expounds the activities of several organizations like Guardia Civil, SAM, EMUME and GRUME concerning the perception, research and problem solving of domestic violence, the means of state help and the institute of shelters for women. At the end of the study the author comments on the facts and speaks about the possibilities of a national adaptation.
Quenched growth of nanostructured lead thin films on insulating substrates
Creators: name: Bochenkov, V. E.
name: Karageorgiev, P.
name: Brehmer, L.
name: Sergeev, G. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lead island films were obtained via vacuum vapor deposition on glass and ceramic substrates at 80 K. Electrical conductance was measured during vapor condensation and further annealing of the film up to room temperature. The resistance behavior during film formation and atomic force microscopy of annealed films were used as information sources about their structure. A model for the quenched growth, based on ballistic aggregation theory, was proposed. The nanostructure, responsible for chemiresistive properties of thin lead films and the mechanism of sensor response are discussed.
description: 2 figures; accepted to Thin Solid Films
Kemeny, G., 2006. Hungarian way to fight against domestic violence. Magyar Rendészet, 6(2), pp. 130-147.
Creators: name: Kemeny, Gabor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law

description: During the past years the demand on state action against violent acts, committed mostly against women and children by their family members, has grown in the societies of Eastern Europe. Although these demands usually emerge when talking about women's rights the problem does not concern the "weaker sex" and the incapable children alone but the whole society including the male community as well. And even though Hungarian government has elaborated prevention oriented solutions women's rights organisations would prefer legislative change, stricter action of the authorities and severe punishment of the perpetrators.
Proton polarizability effect in the Lamb shift of the hydrogen atom
Creators: name: Martynenko, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proton polarizability correction to the Lamb shift of electronic and muonic hydrogen is calculated on the basis of isobar model and experimental data on the structure functions of deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering. The contributions of the Born terms, vector-meson exchanges and nucleon resonances are taken into account in the construction of the photoabsorption cross sections for transversely and longitudinally polarized virtual photons sigma_{T,L}.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Recomendaciones de cubrebocas hechos en casa por la CDC, revisión rápida de literatura, uso de cubrebocas e incidencia de enfremedades respiratorias agudas, México, 2020
Creators: name: Stern, Dalia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Suplemento 1. Recomendaciones de cubrebocas hechos en casa por la CDC, revisión rápida de literatura, uso de cubrebocas e incidencia de enfremedades respiratorias agudas, México, 2020
Annual modulations from secular variations: not relaxing DAMA?
Creators: name: Messina, Andrea
name: Nardecchia, Marco
name: Piacentini, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper [arXiv:2002.00459], Buttazzo et al. show how the annually modulated rate of the DAMA experiments can be possibly interpreted as an artefact due to the interplay between a time-dependent background and the method to account for it. In this work, we compare this hypothesis against the sinusoidal dark matter signal as proposed by the DAMA collaboration. We produce in a Bayesian approach a quantitative comparison of how much the experimental observations are in support of each hypothesis. Our conclusions are that the odds against the hypothesis of a time varying background being responsible for the annual modulation are decreased by a Bayes factor larger than 10^8 after considering the public available data of the DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA experiments. In this work we also elaborate on general aspects of the analysis procedure. Indeed, in order to optimise the background subtraction procedure, the DAMA collaboration only considers data-taking cycles with a duration of roughly one year. We argue that any data-taking cycle is informative, and we propose a procedure to include this effect, as well as the possibility to include a slowly varying component for the background.
description: 31 pages, 18 figures, submitted to JCAP
Switching of Discrete Solitons in Engineered Waveguide Arrays
Creators: name: Vicencio, R. A.
name: Molina, M. I.
name: Kivshar, Y. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a simple method for controlling nonlinear switching of discrete solitons in arrays of weakly coupled optical waveguides, for both cubic and uadratic nonlinearities. Based on the effective discrete nonlinear equations describing the waveguide arrays in the tight-binding approximation, we develop the concept of the array engineering by means of a step-like variation of the waveguide coupling. We demonstrate the digitized switching of a narrow input beam for up to eleven neighboring waveguides, in the case of the cubic nonlinearity, and up to ten waveguides, in the case of quadratic nonlinearity. We discuss our predictions in terms of the physics of the engineered Peierls-Nabarro (PN) potential experienced by strongly localized nonlinear modes moving in a lattice and calculate, for the first time, the PN potential for the quadratic nonlinear array. We also confirm our concept and major findings for a full-scaled continuous model and realistic parameters, by means of the beam propagation method.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, to be submitted to Physical review e
High-lying single-particle modes, chaos, correlational entropy, and doubling phase transition
Creators: name: Stoyanov, Chavdar
name: Zelevinsky, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Highly-excited single-particle states in nuclei are coupled with the excitations of a more complex character, first of all with collective phonon-like modes of the core. In the framework of the quasiparticle-phonon model we consider the structure of resulting complex configurations using the $1k_{17/2}$ orbital in $^{209}$Pb as an example. Although, on the level of one- and two-phonon admixtures, the fully chaotic GOE regime is not reached, the eigenstates of the model carry significant degree of complexity that can be quantified with the aid of correlational invariant entropy. With artificially enhanced particle-core coupling, the system undergoes the doubling phase transition with the quasiparticle strength concentrated in two repelling peaks. This phase transition is clearly detected by correlational entropy.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Timing of young radio pulsars II. Braking indices and their interpretation
Creators: name: Parthasarathy, A.
name: Johnston, S.
name: Shannon, R. M.
name: Lentati, L.
name: Bailes, M.
name: Dai, S.
name: Kerr, M.
name: Manchester, R. N.
name: Osłowski, S.
name: van Straten, C. Sobey. W.
name: Weltevrede, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In Paper I of this series, we detected a significant value of the braking index ($n$) for 19 young, high-$\dot{E}$ radio pulsars using $\sim$ 10 years of timing observations from the 64-m Parkes radio telescope. Here we investigate this result in more detail using a Bayesian pulsar timing framework to model timing noise and to perform selection to distinguish between models containing exponential glitch recovery and braking index signatures. We show that consistent values of $n$ are maintained with the addition of substantial archival data, even in the presence of glitches. We provide strong arguments that our measurements are unlikely due to exponential recovery signals from unseen glitches even though glitches play a key role in the evolution of a pulsar's spin frequency. We conclude that, at least over decadal time scales, the value of $n$ can be significantly larger than the canonical 3 and discuss the implications for the evolution of pulsars.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures and 5 tables
Features of planar Lee-Wick electrodynamics
Creators: name: Borges, L. H. C.
name: Barone, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we study some aspects of the planar Lee-Wick electrodynamics near a perfectly conducting line (unidimensional mirror). Specifically, the modified Lee-wick propagator due to the presence of a conducting line is calculated, and the interaction between the mirror and the point-like charge is investigated. It is shown that the behavior of this interaction is very different from the one already known for the $(3+1)$-dimensional Lee-Wick electrodynamics, where we have a planar mirror. It is also shown that the image method is not valid in planar Lee-Wick electrodynamics and the dimensional reduction yields a stronger taming of divergences.
description: 4 figures, 10 latex pages
SMME attitudes towards financial bootstrapping: A perspective from a developing economy
Creators: name: Zwane, Bonginkosi Keith
name: Nyide, Celani John
name: Zwane, Bonginkosi Keith
name: Nyide, Celani John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Developing economy
subject: financial bootstrapping
subject: SMMEs

description: The national and international literature and research on SMMEs has been developed very strongly in the last decade. There have been many successful attempts on the part of many researchers and scholars to unpack new and innovative dimensions of SMMEs’ operations, behaviour, attitudes, functions and other dynamics that boost, sustain or impede their growth and development. There is, however, a gap in research, regarding a very distinct practice within SMMEs in developing economies, that of bootstrapping. This study, therefore, used a sample chosen on a non-probability basis using convenience sampling of small business owners within the eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 83 participants completed the questionnaire. The study found that the practice of financial bootstrapping was very high amongst the investigated SMMEs. The use of financial bootstrapping within SMMEs is coincidental. The majority of the respondents indicated that they did not undergo any formal training on the use of financial bootstrapping methods.
Impurity effects in few-electron quantum dots: Incipient Wigner molecule regime
Creators: name: Reusch, B.
name: Egger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerically exact path-integral Monte Carlo data are presented for $N\leq 10$ strongly interacting electrons confined in a 2D parabolic quantum dot, including a defect to break rotational symmetry. Low densities are studied, where an incipient Wigner molecule forms. A single impurity is found to cause drastic effects: (1) The standard shell-filling sequence with magic numbers $N=4,6,9$, corresponding to peaks in the addition energy $Δ(N)$, is destroyed, with a new peak at N=8, (2) spin gaps decrease, (3) for N=8, sub-Hund's rule spin S=0 is induced, and (4) spatial ordering of the electrons becomes rather sensitive to spin. We also comment on the recently observed bunching phenomenon.
description: 7 pages, 1 table, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters
Additional file 1 of Hydrochar from sugarcane industry by-products: assessment of its potential use as a soil conditioner by germination and growth of maize
Creators: name: Laís G. Fregolente
name: Santos, João Vitor Dos
name: Mazzati, Felipe S.
name: Thaiz B. A. R. Miguel
name: De C. Miguel, Emílio
name: Moreira, Altair B.
name: Odair P. Ferreira
name: Bisinoti, Márcia C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Germination Index (GI) maize and tomato seed germinated in acid (AC) and aqueous (AQ) hydrochar soluble fractions. Figure S2. SEM images of a) sheath, b) leaf, c) root and d) sheath of maize from ultisol; e) sheath, f) leaf and g) sheath of maize from oxisol. Table S1. Seedling length and number of leaves on thinning day, and number of leaves at the end of the maize growth experiment. Table S2. Soil particle characterization of Oxisol and Ultisol samples and their soil class.
Emerging organic contaminants in wastewater: Understanding electrochemical reactors for triclosan and its by-products degradation
Creators: name: Magro, Catia
name: Mateus, Eduardo P.
name: Paz-Garcia, Juan M.
name: Ribeiro, Alexandra B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Degradation technologies applied to emerging organic contaminants from human activities are one of the major water challenges in the contamination legacy. Triclosan is an emerging contaminant, commonly used as antibacterial agent in personal care products. Triclosan is stable, lipophilic and it is proved to have ecotoxicologic effects in organics. This induces great concern since its elimination in wastewater treatment plants is not efficient and its by-products (e.g. methyl-triclosan, 2,4-dichlorophenol or 2,4,6-trichlorophenol) are even more hazardous to several environmental compartments. This work provides understanding of two different electrochemical reactors for the degradation of triclosan and its derivative by-products in effluent. A batch reactor and a flow reactor (mimicking a secondary settling tank in a wastewater treatment plant) were tested with two different working anodes: Ti/MMO and Nb/BDD. The degradation efficiency and kinetics were evaluated to find the best combination of current density, electrodes and set-up design. For both reactors the best electrode combination was achieved with Ti/MMO as anode. The batch reactor at 7 mA/cm2 during 4 h attained degradation rates below the detection limit for triclosan and 2,4,6-trichlorophenol and, 94% and 43% for 2,4-dichlorophenol and methyl triclosan, respectively. The flow reactor obtained, in approximately 1 h, degradation efficiencies between 41% and 87% for the four contaminants. This study suggests an alternative technology for emerging organic contaminants degradation, since the combination of a low current density with the flow and matrix induced disturbance increases and speeds up the compounds elimination in a real environmental matrix.
THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19 AND THE USE OF CONTACT LENSES
Creators: name: Chandrinos Aristeidis
name: Tzamouranis, Dorotheos Dimitrios
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111399 Ophthalmology and Optometry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111705 Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety
subject: 111303 Vision Science

description: This review aims to make clear that applying contact lenses is not a risk factor for infection by coronavirus when the users follow the rules of personal hygiene. In December 2019, a coronavirus (CoV) epidemic broke out in China, causing severe acute respiratory syndrome. Today it has become a pandemic of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). In today's patient care environment, physicians and their primary care staff are responsible for ensuring that all guidelines and requirements for the care of all patients are strictly adhered to.
Cariboo Spindles Ltd.: Business Plan 2005
Creators: name: Bai, Wade
name: Clark, Ryan
name: Lodge, Mike
name: Lorbach, Christian
name: Schening, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Dichochrysa pilinota Kang-zhen & Wen-zhu & Jun-zhi & Xing-ke 2004, new species
Creators: name: Kang-zhen, Dong
name: Wen-zhu, Li
name: Jun-zhi, Cui
name: Xing-ke, Yang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Chrysopidae
Dichochrysa
Dichochrysa pilinota

description: Dichochrysa pilinota, new species
(Figs. 5 a-f)
 Material examined. – Holotype – male, Guizhou Prov.: Guiyang city: Huaxi, 1000m, coll. Li Fa-Sheng, 21 May.1981.
Paratypes – 2 females (ZRC), 4 females, same data as holotype; 8 females, same data as holotype, coll. Li Fa-Sheng & Liu Jing-Wen, 25-27 May.1981; 2 females, Fujian Prov.: Shaowu County: Chengguan, 150-220m, coll. Zhang You-Wei, 20 Jun.1963; 1 female, ditto: Institute of Forestry Science of Fujian Prov., coll. Yang Ji-Kun, 14 Aug.1987.
 Diagnosis. – Male adult (dried specimen). Length of body 10mm, of fore wings 14mm, of hind wings 12mm. Head yellow with black genal marks. Maxillary palpi yellow on 1 st- 2 nd segments, brown on dorsal parts of 3 rd- 4 th segments and wholly 5 th segment; labial palpi yellow on 1 st- 2 nd segments, black on 3 rd segment. Scape of antennae dilated, pedicel and flagellum wholly yellow. Pronotum yellow and clothed with white long hairs, tinged slightly with red marks on two lateral parts, with two shallow transverse sulci proximal to the hind margin. Meso- and metanotum wholly yellow. Legs yellow, claws brown, strongly curved, semicircular dilated at base (Fig. 5a).
 Fore wings clothed with long brown hairs. Costal crossveins 23, 1-13 brown, 14-23 yellowish-green; pterostigma yellow without crossvein; R-Rs crossveins 13, 1- 4 brown proximal to half R vein, 5-13 wholly yellow; branches of Rs 11, yellowish-green; Psm-Psc 6, yellow. Cell im triangular, r-m above it; gradates light brown, inner/outer = 4/8. In hind wings, costal crossveins 15, light brown; R-Rs crossveins 12, light brown; branches of Rs 11, yellowish-green; Psm-Psc 5, yellowish-green; gradates light brown, inner/outer = 4/6.
 In abdomen, 7 th tergite longer than 8 th tergite (Fig. 5b). Ectoproct small and leaning, tapered off on lower half. 8+9 sternum slender. Gonarcus divided on median and two slender lateral lobes (Fig. 5c, d). Entoprocessus arc-shaped. Pseudopenis bifurcated on median. Tignum and gonapsis as showed in Fig. 5e&f.
 Etymology. – This new species is named according to the pile of long white hairs on the pronotum.
 Remarks. – This new species is similar to Dichochrysa forcipata Yang & Yang, 1993, however, the latter, 3 rd- 5 th segments of maxillary palpi and 3 rd segment of labial palpi are blackish-brown and the pronotum has yellow longitudinal vitta. Besides, the tignum is broader and stronger than that of this new species.
 Distribution. – China: Fujian, Guizhou.
description: Published as part of Kang-zhen, Dong, Wen-zhu, Li, Jun-zhi, Cui & Xing-ke, Yang, 2004, Three New Species Of Dichochrysa (Insecta: Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) From China, With A Checklist Of Chinese Dichochrysa, pp. 67-74 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on pages 71-72, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619504
Limonia (Libnotes) jocularis Alexander
Creators: name: Alexander, C. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1942
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Limonia
Limonia jocularis

description: 1. Limonia (Libnotes) jocularis Alexander, Annot. Zool. Jap. 19: 205-207, 1940. Fadian, Sept. 18, Swezey, 4 badly molded specimens; "ex rotten bark of dug-dug", Swezey.
description: Published as part of Alexander, C. P., 1942, Diptera, Tipulidae of Guam, pp. 195-198 in Insects of Guam I, Honolulu. Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin, 172 on page 195, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174000
The merging/AGN connection: A case for 3D spectroscopy
Creators: name: Sanchez, S. F.
name: Christensen, L.
name: Becker, T.
name: Kelz, A.
name: Jahnke, K.
name: Benn, C. R.
name: Garcia-Lorenzo, B.
name: Roth, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss an ongoing study of the connection between galaxy merging/interaction and AGN activity, based on integral field spectroscopy. We focus on the search for AGN ionization in the central regions of mergers, previously not classified as AGNs. We present here the science case, the current status of the project, and plans for future observations.
description: 4 pages, 3 figure, Euro3D Science Workshop, Cambridge, May 2003, AN, accepted
Sensitizing black adult and youth consumers to targeted food marketing tactics in their environments
Creators: name: DiSantis, Katherine Isselmann
name: Kumanyika, Shiriki K.
name: Carter-Edwards, Lori
name: Young, Deborah Rohm
name: Grier, Sonya
name: Lassiter, Vikki
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Food marketing environments of Black American consumers are heavily affected by ethnically-targeted marketing of sugar sweetened beverages, fast foods, and other products that may contribute to caloric overconsumption. This qualitative study assessed Black consumers’ responses to targeted marketing. Black adults (2 mixed gender groups; total n = 30) and youth (2 gender specific groups; total n = 35) from two U.S. communities participated before and after a sensitization procedure—a critical practice used to understand social justice concerns. Pre-sensitization focus groups elicited responses to scenarios about various targeted marketing tactics. Participants were then given an informational booklet about targeted marketing to Black Americans, and all returned for the second (post-sensitization) focus group one week later. Conventional qualitative content analysis of transcripts identified several salient themes: seeing the marketer’s perspective (“it’s about demand”; “consumers choose”), respect for community (“marketers are setting us up for failure”; “making wrong assumptions”), and food environments as a social justice issue (“no one is watching the door”; “I didn’t realize”). Effects of sensitization were reflected in participants’ stated reactions to the information in the booklet, and also in the relative occurrence of marketer-oriented themes and social justice-oriented themes, respectively, less and more after sensitization.
Einstein boundary conditions for the Einstein equations in the conformal-traceless decomposition
Creators: name: Frittelli, Simonetta
name: Gomez, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In relation to the BSSN formulation of the Einstein equations, we write down the boundary conditions that result from the vanishing of the projection of the Einstein tensor normally to a timelike hypersurface. Furthermore, by setting up a well-posed system of propagation equations for the constraints, we show explicitly that there are three constraints that are incoming at the boundary surface and that the boundary equations are linearly related to them. This indicates that such boundary conditions play a role in enforcing the propagation of the constraints in the region interior to the boundary. Additionally, we examine the related problem for a strongly hyperbolic first-order reduction of the BSSN equations and determine the characteristic fields that are prescribed by the three boundary conditions, as well as those that are left arbitrary.
description: 11 pages
Laplacian modes for calorons and as a filter
Creators: name: Bruckmann, Falk
name: Ilgenfritz, Ernst-Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute low-lying eigenmodes of the gauge covariant Laplace operator on the lattice at finite temperature. For classical configurations we show how the lowest mode localizes the monopole constituents inside calorons and that it hops upon changing the boundary conditions. The latter effect we observe for thermalized backgrounds, too, analogously to what is known for fermion zero modes. We propose a new filter for equilibrium configurations which provides link variables as a truncated sum involving the Laplacian modes. This method not only reproduces classical structures, but also preserves the confining potential, even when only a few modes are used.
description: talk presented by F. Bruckmann at Lattice2005 (Topology and Confinement), Dublin, July 25-30, 2005; 6 pages, 4 figures; uses PoS.cls
Corporate governance reform and risk management disclosures: Evidence from Nigeria
Creators: name: Kakanda, Mohammed Mahmud
name: Salim, Basariah
name: Chandren, Siraselvi
name: Kakanda, Mohammed Mahmud
name: Salim, Basariah
name: Chandren, Siraselvi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Corporate governance reform
subject: risk management disclosure
subject: risk management practices
subject: financial service firms
subject: Nigerian corporate governance code

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the disclosure intensity of risk management practices of listed financial service firms in Nigeria after the Corporate Governance (CG) reform in the year 2011. In the quest to achieve the objective of this study, content analysis of the annual reports of 45 sampled firms spanning from the year 2012 to 2015 was carried out. The study finds that there is a significant disclosure of risk management practices of the sampled firms, especially in relation to their risk management committee structure and its responsibility, risk management policies, audit committee availability and function, and capital/market risks. The sample firms remain reluctant in the disclosure of their environmental risk and operational risks. Moreover, there is no significant difference between banks and nonbanks in the disclosure of their risk management practices, signifying a strong adherence to the 2011 reformed CG code in Nigeria.
Additional file 5 of Emergence and evolution of antimicrobial resistance genes and mutations in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Creators: name: Yahara, Koji
name: Ma, Kevin C.
name: Mortimer, Tatum D.
name: Shimuta, Ken
name: Shu-Ichi Nakayama
name: Hirabayashi, Aki
name: Suzuki, Masato
name: Jinnai, Michio
name: Ohya, Hitomi
name: Kuroki, Toshiro
name: Watanabe, Yuko
name: Yasuda, Mitsuru
name: Deguchi, Takashi
name: Eldholm, Vegard
name: Harrison, Odile B.
name: Maiden, Martin C. J.
name: Grad, Yonatan H.
name: Ohnishi, Makoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S1. Whole-genome sequence, dated phylogeny, resistance patterns of the antimicrobials, and genetic polymorphisms in the ST-1901-associated sub-lineage carrying penA-34. Figure S2. Whole-genome alignment of the ancestral strain encoding penA-5, three strains encoding penA-34 dating from 2005, and the reference WHO_Y (F89) strain encoding penA-34. Figure S3. Frequency distribution of other 21 STs in the ST-1901-associated lineage. Figure S4. Amino acid sequence alignment of penA-34 and 35. Figure S5. Nucleotide sequence alignment of penA and its downstream sequences in the ST-1901-associated lineage. Figure S6 Nucleotide sequence alignment of penA and its downstream sequences in the ST-7363-associated lineage. Figure S7. Maximum-likelihood tree of the recombined region (orange in Fig. 3).
Sensitizing black adult and youth consumers to targeted food marketing tactics in their environments
Creators: name: DiSantis, Katherine Isselmann
name: Kumanyika, Shiriki K.
name: Carter-Edwards, Lori
name: Young, Deborah Rohm
name: Grier, Sonya
name: Lassiter, Vikki
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3506
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Food marketing environments of Black American consumers are heavily affected by ethnically-targeted marketing of sugar sweetened beverages, fast foods, and other products that may contribute to caloric overconsumption. This qualitative study assessed Black consumers’ responses to targeted marketing. Black adults (2 mixed gender groups; total n = 30) and youth (2 gender specific groups; total n = 35) from two U.S. communities participated before and after a sensitization procedure—a critical practice used to understand social justice concerns. Pre-sensitization focus groups elicited responses to scenarios about various targeted marketing tactics. Participants were then given an informational booklet about targeted marketing to Black Americans, and all returned for the second (post-sensitization) focus group one week later. Conventional qualitative content analysis of transcripts identified several salient themes: seeing the marketer’s perspective (“it’s about demand”; “consumers choose”), respect for community (“marketers are setting us up for failure”; “making wrong assumptions”), and food environments as a social justice issue (“no one is watching the door”; “I didn’t realize”). Effects of sensitization were reflected in participants’ stated reactions to the information in the booklet, and also in the relative occurrence of marketer-oriented themes and social justice-oriented themes, respectively, less and more after sensitization.
Superconductor-insulator transition driven by local dephasing
Creators: name: Cuoco, M.
name: Ranninger, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a system where localized bound electron pairs form an array of "Andreev"-like scattering centers and are coupled to a fermionic subsystem of uncorrelated electrons. By means of a path-integral approach, which describes the bound electron pairs within a coherent pseudospin representation, we derive and analyze the effective action for the collective phase modes which arise from the coupling between the two subsystems once the fermionic degrees of freedom are integrated out. This effective action has features of a quantum phase model in the presence of a Berry phase term and exhibits a coupling to a field which describes at the same time the fluctuations of density of the bound pairs and those of the amplitude of the fermion pairs. Due to the competition between the local and the hopping induced non-local phase dynamics it is possible, by tuning the exchange coupling or the density of the bound pairs, to trigger a transition from a phase ordered superconducting to a phase disordered insulating state. We discuss the different mechanisms which control this occurrence and the eventual destruction of phase coherence both in the weak and strong coupling limit.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRB (05-Feb04)