cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 7 of Insulin resistance, diabetic kidney disease, and all-cause mortality in individuals with type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Penno, Giuseppe
name: Solini, Anna
name: Orsi, Emanuela
name: Bonora, Enzo
name: Fondelli, Cecilia
name: Trevisan, Roberto
name: Vedovato, Monica
name: Cavalot, Franco
name: Zerbini, Gianpaolo
name: Lamacchia, Olga
name: Nicolucci, Antonio
name: Pugliese, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 7: Table S4. Survival analysis by Cox proportional hazards regression according to eGDR tertiles in subgroups.
CAPTIVE SUPPLY TRENDS AND IMPACTS SINCE THE ADVENT OF MANDATORY PRICE REPORTING
Creators: name: Ward, Clement E.
name: Hornung, Jonathan T.
name: Ward, Clement E.
name: Hornung, Jonathan T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Captive supplies have been a contentious issue in the livestock industry for fifteen years and the subject of both theoretical and empirical research. In 2001, mandatory price reporting was implemented. One objective by its proponents was to increase the amount of information available on captive supplies. This paper examines data now available as a result of mandatory price reporting to determine what additional information is available compared to previously. Second, several models were specified and estimated to determine the impacts captive supplies had on fed cattle prices in the two years following implementation of mandatory price reporting. Models showed mixed results. There was a consistent negative effect on cash market prices from formula priced trades; generally a positive impact from negotiated trades and packer owned trades on cash market prices; and mixed but often a positive impact from forward contract trades on cash market prices.
Resonances from Two Universal Extra Dimensions
Creators: name: Burdman, Gustavo
name: Dobrescu, Bogdan A.
name: Ponton, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standard model gauge bosons propagating in two universal extra dimensions give rise to heavy spin-1 and spin-0 particles. The lightest of these, carrying Kaluza-Klein numbers (1,0), may be produced only in pairs at colliders, whereas the (1,1) modes, which are heavier by a factor of \sqrt{2}, may be singly produced. We show that the cascade decays of (1,1) particles generate a series of closely-spaced narrow resonances in the t\bar{t} invariant mass distribution. At the Tevatron, s-channel production of (1,1) gluons and electroweak bosons will be sensitive to t\bar{t} resonances up to masses in the 0.5 - 0.7 TeV range. Searches at the LHC for resonances originating from several higher-level modes will further test the existence of two universal extra dimensions.
description: 21 pages. The paragraph that includes Eq. (2.31) has been corrected, and a few other statements have been improved
Ali ibn Abu Tolib Roziyallohu anhu islom diniga qo'shgan hissasi
Creators: name: Abdurahmonov Og'abek Juma o'g'li, Toshkent axborot texnologiyalari universiteti  Samarqand filialiAx 23_08 guruh talabasi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada buyuk alloma Ali ibn Abu Tolib ibn Abdulmuttalib ibn Hoshim ibn Abdumanof roziyallohu anhu. Rosulullohning jiyanlari va kuyovlari haqida bayon etilgan.
Quantum vacuum properties of the intersubband cavity polariton field
Creators: name: Ciuti, Cristiano
name: Bastard, Gérald
name: Carusotto, Iacopo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantum description of a planar microcavity photon mode strongly coupled to a semiconductor intersubband transition in presence of a two-dimensional electron gas. We show that, in this kind of system, the vacuum Rabi frequency $Ω\_R$ can be a significant fraction of the intersubband transition frequency $ω\_{12}$. This regime of ultra-strong light-matter coupling is enhanced for long wavelength transitions, because for a given doping density, effective mass and number of quantum wells, the ratio $Ω\_R/ω\_{12}$ increases as the square root of the intersubband emission wavelength. We characterize the quantum properties of the ground state (a two-mode squeezed vacuum), which can be tuned {\it in-situ} by changing the value of $Ω\_R$, e.g., through an electrostatic gate. We finally point out how the tunability of the polariton quantum vacuum can be exploited to generate correlated photon pairs out of the vacuum via quantum electrodynamics phenomena reminiscent of the dynamic Casimir effect.
description: Final version accepted in PRB
Model-Based Compensation of Moving Tissue for State Recognition in Robotic-Assisted Pedicle Drilling
Creators: name: Jiang, Zhongliang
name: Lei, Long
name: Sun, Yu
name: Qi, Xiaozhi
name: Hu, Ying
name: Li, Bing
name: Navab, Nassir
name: Zhang, Jianwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Drilling is one of the hardest parts of pedicle screw fixation, and it is one of the most dangerous operations because inaccurate screw placement would injury vital tissues, particularly when the vertebra is not stationary. Here we demonstrate the drilling state recognition method for moving tissue by compensating the displacement based on a simplified motion predication model of a vertebra with respect to the tidal volume. To adapt it to different patients, the prediction model was built based on the physiological data recorded from subjects themselves. In addition, the spindle speed of the drilling tool was investigated to find a suitable speed for the robotic-assisted system. To ensure patient safety, a monitoring system was built based on the thrusting force and tracked position information. Finally, experiments were carried out on a fresh porcine lamellar bone fixed on a 3-PRS parallel robot used to simulate the vertebra displacement. The success rate of the robotic-assisted drilling procedure reached 95% when the moving bone was compensated.
Język jako narzędzie przemocy psychicznej
Creators: name: Wróbel, Karolina
Publisher: name: Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio
Year: 2020

description: W ostatnim czasie, zjawisko przemocy pojawia się coraz częściej, czy to w mediach, czy w środowisku naukowym. To dobry krok w kontekście tego, że do niedawna było to tematem tabu. Coraz więcej instytucji angażuje się w zapobieganie przemocy, poszerzając świadomość ofiar i sprawców. O ile przemoc fizyczna jest łatwo zauważalna, tak dostrzeżenie psychicznej/ emocjonalnej może być kłopotliwe. Podobnie jest z próbą odpowiedzi na pytanie: co jest narzędziem danego rodzaju przemocy. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zaprezentowanie roli języka - dosłownie i w przenośni (system znaków oraz narząd wieloczynnościowy) w akcie przemocy psychicznej.
description: Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio, Tom 42 Nr 2 (2020): DIALOG, KOMUNIKACJA. UJĘCIE INTERDYSCYPLINARNE
EVALUATING FORECASTS OF DISCRETE VARIABLES: PREDICTING CATTLE QUALITY GRADES
Creators: name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Norwood, F. Bailey
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Norwood, F. Bailey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Little research has been conducted on evaluating out-of-sample forecasts of limited dependent variables. This study describes the large and small sample properties of two forecast evaluation techniques for limited dependent variables: receiver-operator curves and out-of-sample-log-likelihood functions. The methods are shown to provide identical model rankings in large samples and similar rankings in small samples. The likelihood function method is slightly better at detecting forecast accuracy in small samples, while receiver-operator curves are better at comparing forecasts across different data. By improving forecasts of fed-cattle quality grades, the forecast evaluation methods are shown to increase cattle marketing revenues by $2.59/head.
Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of overpressurized liquid 4He
Creators: name: Vranjes, L.
name: Boronat, J.
name: Casulleras, J.
name: Cazorla, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A diffusion Monte Carlo simulation of superfluid $^4$He at zero temperature and pressures up to 275 bar is presented. Increasing the pressure beyond freezing ($\sim$ 25 bar), the liquid enters the overpressurized phase in a metastable state. In this regime, we report results of the equation of state and the pressure dependence of the static structure factor, the condensate fraction, and the excited-state energy corresponding to the roton. Along this large pressure range, both the condensate fraction and the roton energy decrease but do not become zero. The roton energies obtained are compared with recent experimental data in the overpressurized regime.
description: 5 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
CONTRACT MARKET VIABILITY
Creators: name: Rausser, Gordon C.
name: Bryant, Henry L.
name: Rausser, Gordon C.
name: Bryant, Henry L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Academia and the finance industry generate many proposals for new contract markets. Unfortunately, many proposed markets lack the critical attributes that promote success. We examine these attributes, and evaluate the potential of several announced proposals. We find that proposals emanating from the academy generally fail to consider the full suite of integrated financial services necessary to support a viable market, while proposals put forward by practitioners are much more likely to do so.
PRICE DISCOVERY IN THINLY TRADED MARKETS: CASH AND FUTURES RELATIONSHIPS IN BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURAL FUTURES MARKETS
Creators: name: Mattos, Fabio
name: Garcia, Philip
name: Mattos, Fabio
name: Garcia, Philip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This study investigates the relationship between cash and futures prices in the Brazilian agricultural market, focusing on the effects of trading activity on the price discovery mechanism of futures markets. The results are mixed, but several points begin to emerge. In general, higher trading activity is linked to the presence of long-run equilibrium relationships between cash and futures prices. In these cases, futures prices appear to play a more dominant role in the pricing process. In more lightly traded markets, neither long-run relationships nor short-run leads and lags can be found. Where short-run interactions exist, they are simultaneous in nature but weak. Overall, our findings suggest that the level of market activity necessary to develop interactive cash and futures markets is surprisingly small.
Electron tomography for functional nanomaterials
Creators: name: Hovden, Robert
name: Muller, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern nanomaterials contain complexity that spans all three dimensions - from multigate semiconductors to clean energy nanocatalysts to complex block copolymers. For nanoscale characterization, it has been a long-standing goal to observe and quantify the three-dimensional (3D) structure - not just surfaces, but the entire internal volume and the chemical arrangement. Electron tomography estimates the complete 3D structure of nanomaterials from a series of two-dimensional projections taken across many viewing angles. Since its first introduction in 1968, electron tomography has progressed substantially in resolution, dose, and chemical sensitivity. In particular, scanning transmission electron microscope tomography has greatly enhanced the study of 3D nanomaterials by providing quantifiable internal morphology and spectroscopic detection of elements. Combined with recent innovations in computational reconstruction algorithms and 3D visualization tools, scientists can interactively dissect volumetric representations and extract meaningful statistics of specimens. This article highlights the maturing field of electron tomography and the widening scientific applications that utilize 3D structural, chemical, and functional imaging at the nanometer and subnanometer length scales.
description: 6 figures
USING FUTURES PRICES TO FORECAST THE SEASON-AVERAGE U.S. CORN PRICES
Creators: name: Hoffman, Linwood A.
name: Hoffman, Linwood A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: A model is developed using basis values (cash prices less futures), marketing weights, and a composite of monthly futures and cash prices to forecast the season-average U.S. corn farm price. Forecast accuracy measures include the absolute percentage error, mean absolute percentage error, squared error, and mean squared error. The futures model forecasts are compared to USDA's WASDE projections. No statistically significance difference was found between the futures model forecasts and the season-average price projections from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Futures model forecasts are reliable, and timely.
How television influences social institutions : the case of policing and criminal justice
Creators: name: Doyle, Aaron
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Most research about television studies its impact on viewers. This thesis asks instead how TV influences what is in front of the camera. The dissertation investigates how TV reshapes other institutions as it broadcasts their activities, using four ethnographic studies of televised crime and policing. These studies examine: 1) the reality-TV show "Cops"; 2) the televising of surveillance footage and home video of crime and policing: 3) television and Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot; 4) the law-breaking television stunts of Greenpeace. The four studies provide empirical contexts to draw together and compare for the first time three diverse strands of sociological theorizing which can be used to analyze how TV influences other institutions. My data show the most powerful players, exemplified by the police, tend to dictate which situations are televised, and to produce the "authorized definitions" of these situations, and thus control their institutional consequences. Invoking the notion that "seeing is believing", TV is uniquely effective at warranting these "authorized definitions". Many understandings of television over-emphasize its visual aspect; often instead verbal interpretations of televised events by the most powerful players are more important. The meanings of these televised episodes are produced within a broader culture which tends to support the established order. Television and source institutions create new social roles for audiences in these situations. However, these roles tend to limit audiences to involvement which simply reproduces institutional power. The implications for the three theoretical perspectives being compared are as follows. Rather than having a democratizing effect in these situations as predicted by "medium theory", TV mostly has various influences which reinforce existing power relations. These criminal justice situations are reshaped by the cultural logic of television, fitting with the "media logic" perspective. Televised activities tend to become more institutionally important, tightly managed, dramatic, simplified, and are shaped to fit dominant values. However, powerful source institutions, particularly the police, tend to control television's influences, often harnessing them for their own legitimation and surveillance purposes, consistent with the "institutional" perspective. My data thus lead me to support key aspects of these latter two perspectives, and to produce a synthesis of these two.
Zeros of the Potts Model Partition Function in the Large-$q$ Limit
Creators: name: Chang, Shu-Chiuan
name: Shrock, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the zeros of the $q$-state Potts model partition function $Z(Λ,q,v)$ for large $q$, where $v$ is the temperature variable and $Λ$ is a section of a regular $d$-dimensional lattice with coordination number $κ_Λ$ and various boundary conditions. We consider the simultaneous thermodynamic limit and $q \to \infty$ limit and show that when these limits are taken appropriately, the zeros lie on the unit circle $|x_Λ|=1$ in the complex $x_Λ$ plane, where $x_Λ=v q^{-2/κ_Λ}$. For large finite sections of some lattices we also determine the circular loci near which the zeros lie for large $q$.
description: 11 pages, revtex, 16 eps figures
Pogarda jako relacja i interakcja – uwagi na tle filozofii Fryderyka Nietzschego i Maxa Schelera
Creators: name: Klimowicz, Teresa
Publisher: name: Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio
Year: 2020

description: Tematem niniejszego artykułu jest pogarda rozumiana nie tylko jako emocja, lecz także jako zjawisko znacznie szersze i powszechne: jako interakcja kulturowa i relacja pomiędzy jednostkami. Celem niniejszego tekstu jest zatem przedstawienie zjawiska pogardy w szerszym kontekście niż tylko wymiar psychologiczny, pokazanie mechanizmów działania pogardy, ujawnienie predyspozycji, które do pogardy prowadzą, wskazanie przyczyn dla których uznajemy innych ludzi za niegodnych istnienia, a godnych pogardy, a także społecznych i moralnych skutków takiego traktowania. Choć pogarda jako pojęcie sensu stricte nie funkcjonowało wcześniej w obrębie historii filozofii, zadaniem tego tekstu jest pokazanie jako filozoficznych konotacji w odwołaniu do wybranych koncepcji, przede wszystkim Fryderyka Nietzschego i Maxa Schelera.
description: Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio, Tom 42 Nr 2 (2020): DIALOG, KOMUNIKACJA. UJĘCIE INTERDYSCYPLINARNE
Additional file 1 of PGC-1α regulates airway epithelial barrier dysfunction induced by house dust mite
Creators: name: Saito, Tsutomu
name: Ichikawa, Tomohiro
name: Numakura, Tadahisa
name: Yamada, Mitsuhiro
name: Koarai, Akira
name: Fujino, Naoya
name: Murakami, Koji
name: Yamanaka, Shun
name: Sasaki, Yusaku
name: Yorihiko Kyogoku
name: Itakura, Koji
name: Sano, Hirohito
name: Takita, Katsuya
name: Tanaka, Rie
name: Tamada, Tsutomu
name: Ichinose, Masakazu
name: Sugiura, Hisatoshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supporting information.
Polysémie de l'altérité dans la philosophie de Paul Ricœur
Creators: name: Karpiński, Piotr
Publisher: name: Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio
Year: 2020

description: Le texte aborde le problème de l'altérité en termes de Paul Ricœur. La précieuse contribution de ce philosophe français n'est pas seulement la description phénoménologique de l'expérience de l'altérité, mais la recherche de son principe ontologique par rapport à Platon. En conséquence, ses recherches sont menées sur deux plans: phénoménologique et ontologique. L'altérité est une catégorie ontologique qui, avec l’identité, constitue dialectiquement l'être. Elle se révèle alors dans divers phénomènes de passivité, dont Ricœur en discute trois: le corps propre, l'autrui et la conscience. L'altérité est donc polysemique et dialectique: c'est une multitude de formes opérant au sein du sujet. Appréciant la contribution de Ricœur, nous posons enfin quelques questions sur son concept, notamment en ce qui concerne le caractère passif de l'expérience de l'altérité et son catalogue fermé.
description: Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio, Tom 42 Nr 2 (2020): DIALOG, KOMUNIKACJA. UJĘCIE INTERDYSCYPLINARNE
Herstellung und Charakterisierung funktional gradierter, eigenverstärkter Thermoplastverbunde
Creators: name: Rohde, Björn
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Eigenverstärkte Thermoplastverbunde
subject: Heißpressverfahren
subject: Gradierung
subject: Polypropylen
subject: Heißkompaktierprozess
subject: Eigenverstärkung
subject: Monocomposite
subject: gradierter, thermoplastischer, Verbundsysteme
subject: 540
subject: 600
subject: Thermoplast
subject: Gradierung
subject: Polypropylen
subject: Eigenverstärkung

description: Zugleich: Dissertation, Universität Kassel, 2023
Compact Multi-Spectral Pushframe Camera for Nano-Satellites
Creators: name: Noblet, Yoann
name: Bennett, Stuart
name: Griffin, Paul F.
name: Murray, Paul
name: Marshall, Stephen
name: Roga, Wojciech
name: Jeffers, John
name: Oi, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present an evolution of the single-pixel camera architecture, called 'pushframe', which addresses the limitations of pushbroom cameras in space-based applications. In particular, it is well-suited to observing fast moving scenes while retaining high spatial resolution and sensitivity. We show that the system is capable of producing colour images with good fidelity and scalable resolution performance. The principle of our design places no restriction on the spectral range to be captured, making it suitable for wide infrared imaging.
Geometrically Frustrated Crystals: Elastic Theory and Dislocations
Creators: name: Hayashi, Masahiko
name: Ebisawa, Hiromichi
name: Kuboki, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elastic theory of ring-(or cylinder-)shaped crystals is constructed and the generation of edge dislocations due to geometrical frustration caused by the bending is studied. The analogy to superconducting (or superfluid) vortex state is pointed out and the phase diagram of the ring-crystal, which depends on radius and thickness, is discussed.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
OPTIONS-BASED FORECASTS OF FUTURES PRICES IN THE PRESENCE OF LIMIT MOVES
Creators: name: Egelkraut, Thorsten M.
name: Garcia, Philip
name: Egelkraut, Thorsten M.
name: Garcia, Philip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This analysis examines a simultaneous estimation option-based approach to forecast futures prices in the presence of daily price limit moves. The procedure explicitly allows for changing implied volatilities by estimating the implied futures price and the implied volatility simultaneously. Using 15 years of futures and futures options data for three agricultural commodities, we find that the simultaneous estimation approach accounts for the abrupt changes in implied volatility associated with limit moves and generates more accurate price forecasts than conventional methods that rely on only one implied variable.
Asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes and conserved quantities in higher curvature gravitational theories
Creators: name: Okuyama, Naoya
name: Koga, Jun-ichirou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider $n$-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes in higher curvature gravitational theories with $n \geq 4$, by employing the conformal completion technique. We first argue that a condition on the Ricci tensor should be supplemented to define an asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime in higher curvature gravitational theories and propose an alternative definition of an asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime. Based on that definition, we then derive a conservation law of the gravitational field and construct conserved quantities in two classes of higher curvature gravitational theories. We also show that these conserved quantities satisfy a balance equation in the same sense as in Einstein gravity and that they reproduce the results derived elsewhere. These conserved quantities are shown to be expressed as an integral of the electric part of the Weyl tensor alone and hence they vanish identically in the pure anti-de Sitter spacetime as in the case of Einstein gravity.
description: 12 pages, no figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. D. v2: minor corrections, refs. added
DEMAND FOR MEAT AND FISH PRODUCTS IN KOREA
Creators: name: Jung, Jione
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Jung, Jione
name: Koo, Won W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Meat
subject: fish
subject: trade liberalization
subject: per capita consumption
subject: demand
subject: separability
subject: and price elasticity.

description: The Korean livestock industry is currently facing the critical challenge of the market liberalization trend under the World Trade Organization. This study analyzes the consumption behavior of meat and fish products in Korea, by estimating the Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS). The empirical results indicate that beef imports in Korea would increase in the future under trade liberalization. If cheap and better quality imported beef are introduced to Korean consumers, Hanwoo (Korean domestic cattle) beef would not maintain its market share. Key words: Meat, fish, trade liberalization, per capita consumption, demand, separability, and price elasticity.
Revealing the three-dimensional structure of liquids using four-point correlation functions
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhen
name: Kob, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disordered systems like liquids, gels, glasses, or granular materials are not only ubiquitous in daily life and in industrial applications but they are also crucial for the mechanical stability of cells or the transport of chemical and biological agents in living organisms. Despite the importance of these systems, their microscopic structure is understood only on a rudimentary level, thus in stark contrast to the case of gases and crystals. Since scattering experiments and analytical calculations usually give only structural information that is spherically averaged, the three dimensional (3D) structure of disordered systems is basically unknown. Here we introduce a simple method that allows to probe the 3D structure of such systems. Using computer simulations we find that hard-sphere-like liquids have on intermediate and large scales an intricate structural order given by alternating layers with icosahedral and dodecahedral symmetries, while open network liquids like silica have a structural order with tetrahedral symmetry. These results show that liquids have a highly non-trivial 3D structure and that this structural information is encoded in non-standard correlation functions.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1904.12447
INSURING HEAT RELATED RISKS IN AGRICULTURE WITH DEGREE-DAY WEATHER DERIVATIVES
Creators: name: Turvey, Calum G.
name: Turvey, Calum G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: This paper presents a model and framework for pricing degree-day weather derivatives when the weather variable is a non-traded asset. The paper compares the options prices from the recommended model and compares it to a typical insurance-type model.
On the Eccentricities and Merger Rates of Double Neutron Star Binaries and the Creation of "Double Supernovae"
Creators: name: Chaurasia, H. K.
name: Bailes, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that a natural consequence of an asymmetric kick imparted to neutron stars at birth is that the majority of double neutron star binaries should possess highly eccentric orbits. This leads to greatly accelerated orbital decay, due to the enormous increase in the emission of gravitational radiation at periastron as originally demonstrated by Peters (1964). A uniform distribution of kick velocities constrained to the orbital plane would result in ~24% of surviving binaries coalescing at least 10,000 times faster than an unperturbed circular system. Even if the planar kick constraint is lifted, ~6% of bound systems still coalesce this rapidly. In a non-negligible fraction of cases it may even be possible that the system could coalesce within 10 years of the final supernova, resulting in what we might term a "double supernova''. For systems resembling the progenitor of PSR J0737-3039A, this number is as high as \~9% (in the planar kick model). Whether the kick velocity distribution extends to the range required to achieve this is still unclear. We do know that the observed population of binary pulsars has a deficit of highly eccentric systems at small orbital periods. In contrast, the long-period systems favour large eccentricities, as expected. We argue that this is because the short-period highly eccentric systems have already coalesced and are thus selected against by pulsar surveys. This effect needs to be taken into account when using the scale-factor method to estimate the coalescence rate of double neutron star binaries. We therefore assert that the coalesence rate of such binaries is underestimated by a factor of several.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Ap J
IS THE "STANDARD REAL OPTIONS APPROACH" APPROPRIATE FOR INVESTMENT DECISIONS IN HOG PRODUCTION?
Creators: name: Balmann, Alfons
name: Musshoff, Oliver
name: Balmann, Alfons
name: Musshoff, Oliver
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Applications of the real options approach hardly consider investment returns to be the result of competitive markets such as markets for agricultural products. The reason is probably that Dixit and Pindyck (1994, ch. 8) show in their very popular book "Investment under Uncertainty" that the investment triggers of firms in competitive markets are equal to those of firms with exclusive options. In this study, however, it is shown that this result is restricted to markets in which assets have infinite lifetime. If assets are subject to depreciation and subsequent reinvestment opportuni-ties, competition leads to significantly lower investment triggers. The reason is that depreciation of replaceable assets allows to compensate the potential decline in returns after negative demand shocks because of the non-replacement of depreciated assets. Accordingly, applications of the real options approach to investments in e.g. pig production should consider this effect. The results are obtained by an agent-based simulation approach in which a number of competing firms derive their investment triggers by a genetic algorithm. Since this method allows to understand the re-sulting price dynamics, an alternative method is presented that allows to simulate the identified price dynamics directly and which also can be used to determine investment triggers for specific conditions.
UNDERSTANDING CONSUMERS' PERCEPTIONS TOWARD BIOTECHNOLOGY AND LABELING
Creators: name: Hine, Susan E.
name: Loureiro, Maria L.
name: Hine, Susan E.
name: Loureiro, Maria L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Risk perceptions about biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) foods drive the choices made by many consumers. In this paper, we address two important issues; namely, consumer preferences for mandatory labeling of products using biotechnology, as well as consumer response toward three different types of genetically modified processes (biotechnology applications to increase the nutritional content of potatoes, increase potato flavor, and a decrease in pesticide use). We identify socio-demographic characteristics that affect consumer preference for mandatory labeling as well as the support level that might be associated with biotechnology techniques that could improve upon potato characteristics identified as important by the consumer.
Hot Subdwarf Stars Identified in Gaia DR2 with Spectra of LAMOST DR6 and DR7. II. Kinematics
Creators: name: Luo, Yangping
name: Nemeth, Peter
name: Li, Qida
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Combining the LAMOST radial velocities with Gaia parallaxes and proper motions, we presented 3D Galactic space motions and the orbits of 182 single-lined hot subdwarf stars. These stars have been identified by Lei et al. (2020) in Gaia DR2 with LAMOST DR6 and DR7 spectra. He-rich hot subdwarf stars with log(y)>0 show the largest standard deviations of the Galactic velocity components and orbital parameters, while those with -10 from the merger channel of double He white dwarf stars. The fraction of He-rich hot subdwarf stars with -1
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in APJ. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1906.09393
Additional file 1 of PGC-1α regulates airway epithelial barrier dysfunction induced by house dust mite
Creators: name: Saito, Tsutomu
name: Ichikawa, Tomohiro
name: Numakura, Tadahisa
name: Yamada, Mitsuhiro
name: Koarai, Akira
name: Fujino, Naoya
name: Murakami, Koji
name: Yamanaka, Shun
name: Sasaki, Yusaku
name: Yorihiko Kyogoku
name: Itakura, Koji
name: Sano, Hirohito
name: Takita, Katsuya
name: Tanaka, Rie
name: Tamada, Tsutomu
name: Ichinose, Masakazu
name: Sugiura, Hisatoshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures.
Komunikacja pastoralna w parafii
Creators: name: Ochotny, Piotr Paweł
Publisher: name: Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio
Year: 2020

description: Artykuł jest próbą odpowiedzi na pytanie na czym polega i przez co wyraża się komunikacja pastoralna w parafii. Poszukując odpowiedzi na tak postawiony problem, odwołano się do różnorodnych, bezpośrednich i pośrednich, relacji istniejących pomiędzy elementami systemu parafialnego, które ze względu na swoją złożoność i specyfikę mają szczególne znaczenie dla parafii jako całości. Należą do nich proboszcz jako własny pasterz parafii, prezbiterium parafialne (księża parafialni), rady parafialne (parafialna rada do spraw ekonomicznych i parafialna rada duszpasterska) oraz wspólnoty i małe grupy religijne.
description: Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio, Tom 42 Nr 2 (2020): DIALOG, KOMUNIKACJA. UJĘCIE INTERDYSCYPLINARNE
MEASURING VULNERABILITY
Creators: name: Ligon, Ethan
name: Schechter, Laura
name: Ligon, Ethan
name: Schechter, Laura
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Traditional poverty measures neglect several important dimensions of household welfare. In this paper we construct a measure of "vulnerability" which allows us to quantify the welfare loss associated with poverty as well as the loss associated with any of a variety of different sources of uncertainty. Applying our measure to a panel dataset from Bulgaria in 1994, we find that poverty and risk play roughly equal roles in reducing welfare. Aggregate shocks are more important than idiosyncratic sources of risk, but households headed by an employed, educated male are less vulnerable to aggregate shocks than are other households.
Channel Compression: Rethinking Information Redundancy among Channels in CNN Architecture
Creators: name: Liang, Jinhua
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Feng, Guoqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Model compression and acceleration are attracting increasing attentions due to the demand for embedded devices and mobile applications. Research on efficient convolutional neural networks (CNNs) aims at removing feature redundancy by decomposing or optimizing the convolutional calculation. In this work, feature redundancy is assumed to exist among channels in CNN architectures, which provides some leeway to boost calculation efficiency. Aiming at channel compression, a novel convolutional construction named compact convolution is proposed to embrace the progress in spatial convolution, channel grouping and pooling operation. Specifically, the depth-wise separable convolution and the point-wise interchannel operation are utilized to efficiently extract features. Different from the existing channel compression method which usually introduces considerable learnable weights, the proposed compact convolution can reduce feature redundancy with no extra parameters. With the point-wise interchannel operation, compact convolutions implicitly squeeze the channel dimension of feature maps. To explore the rules on reducing channel redundancy in neural networks, the comparison is made among different point-wise interchannel operations. Moreover, compact convolutions are extended to tackle with multiple tasks, such as acoustic scene classification, sound event detection and image classification. The extensive experiments demonstrate that our compact convolution not only exhibits high effectiveness in several multimedia tasks, but also can be efficiently implemented by benefiting from parallel computation.
description: 9 pages
A Quantitative Occam's Razor
Creators: name: Sorkin, Rafael D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper derives an objective Bayesian "prior" based on considerations of entropy/information. By this means, it produces a quantitative measure of goodness of fit (the "H-statistic") that balances higher likelihood against the number of fitting parameters employed. The method is intended for phenomenological applications where the underlying theory is uncertain or unknown. For example, it can help decide whether the large angle anomalies in the CMB data should be taken seriously. I am therefore posting it now, even though it was published before the arxiv existed.
description: plainTeX, 16 pages, no figures. Most current version is available at http://www.physics.syr.edu/~sorkin/some.papers/ (or wherever my home-page may be)
Topological edge solitons and their stability in a nonlinear Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model
Creators: name: Ma, Y. -P.
name: Susanto, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study continuations of topological edge states in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with on-site cubic (Kerr) nonlinearity, which is a 1D nonlinear photonic topological insulator (TI). Based on the topology of the underlying spatial dynamical system, we establish the existence of nonlinear edge states (edge solitons) for all positive energies in the topological band gap. We discover that these edge solitons are stable at any energy when the ratio between the weak and strong couplings is below a critical value. Above the critical coupling ratio, there are energy intervals where the edge solitons experience an oscillatory instability. Though our paper focuses on a photonic system, we also discuss the broader relevance of our methods and results to 1D nonlinear mechanical TIs.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures; accepted version in Physical Review E after addressing referee comments
Reaction-diffusion model for pattern formation in E. coli swarming colonies with slime
Creators: name: Zorzano, M. -P.
name: Hochberg, D.
name: Cuevas, M. -T.
name: Gomez-Gomez, J. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new experimental colonial pattern and pattern transition observed in E. coli MG1655 swarming cells grown on semi-solid agar are described. We present a reaction-diffusion model that, taking into account the slime generated by these cells and its influence on the bacterial differentiation and motion, reproduces the pattern and successfully predicts the observed changes when the colonial collective motility is limited. In spite of having small non-hyperflagellated swarming cells, under these experimental conditions E. coli MG1655 can very rapidly colonize a surface, with a low branching rate, thanks to a strong fluid production and a local incremented density of motile, lubricating cells.
description: 6 pages, 17 figures
AN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF COTTON AND PEANUT RESEARCH IN SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Smith, Anna Rickett
name: Dorfman, Jeffrey H.
name: Smith, Anna Rickett
name: Dorfman, Jeffrey H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The purpose of this study was to utilize the economic surplus framework for evaluating the impact of investment in agricultural research. The economic impact measures used in this study were the total benefits and distribution of those benefits associated with investment in agricultural research. These results were used to calculate an internal rate of return on the investments. The focus of the research was on cotton and peanuts in the Southeast region of the United States. Two equations were estimated to determine the impacts of the money being spent on the research efforts of these two commodities. The results revealed positive benefits to consumers and producers exceeded the investment amount in each year for both commodities in the period. The total social benefits averaged about 201 million (1982) dollars annually for cotton research. Peanut research averaged about 191 million (1982) dollars resulting form research investment. The internal rates of return were 23.87 percent for cotton and 53.58 percent for peanuts, suggesting that past research investments produced a high return to society. This result does not conflict the results of other similar studies as those mentioned in the literature review.
Additional file 1 of Criminal punishment and violent injury in Minnesota
Creators: name: Santaularia, N. Jeanie
name: Larson, Ryan
name: Uggen, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1 of The effect of additional protein on lean body mass preservation in post-bariatric surgery patients: a systematic review
Creators: name: Romeijn, Marleen M.
name: Holthuijsen, Daniëlle D. B.
name: Kolen, Aniek M.
name: Janssen, Loes
name: Goof Schep
name: Dielen, François M. H. Van
name: Leclercq, Wouter K. G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 1. Appendix Table 1. Search strategy MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane.
INDIVIDUAL FARMING AS A LABOR SINK: EVIDENCE FROM POLAND AND RUSSIA
Creators: name: Lerman, Zvi
name: Schreinemachers, Pepijn
name: Lerman, Zvi
name: Schreinemachers, Pepijn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: In Poland and Russia, small-scale individual farms employ more labor per hectare of land than large-scale corporate farms, without suffering from lower labor productivity. Individual farming is a labor sink for the rural population, and land policies promoting individualization of agriculture in transition countries can alleviate the social consequences of rural unemployment without sacrificing agricultural productivity.
Fabrication of magnetocaloric La(Fe,Si)$_{13}$ thick films
Creators: name: Dung, N. H.
name: Doan, N. B.
name: De Rango, P.
name: Ranno, L.
name: Sandeman, K. G.
name: Dempsey, N. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: La(Fe,Si)$_{13}$-based compounds are considered to be very promising magnetocaloric materials for magnetic refrigeration applications. Many studies have focused on this material family but only in bulk form. In this paper, we report the fabrication of thick films of La(Fe,Si)$_{13}$, both with and without post-hydriding. These films exhibit magnetic and structural properties comparable to those of bulk materials. We also observe that the ferromagnetic phase transition has a negative thermal hysteresis, a phenomenon not previously found in this material but which may have its origins in the availability of a strain energy reservoir, as in the cases of other materials in which negative thermal hysteresis has been found. Here, it appears that the substrate acts to store strain energy. Our exploratory study demonstrates the viability of thick films of the La(Fe,Si)$_{13}$ phase and motivates further work in the area, while showing that additional perspectives can be gained from reducing the dimensionality of magnetocaloric materials in which the magneto-volume effect is large.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale: il bisso / Valorisation of cultural heritage: byssus
Creators: name: Wrześniak, Małgorzata
name: Biniecka-Popoli, Małgorzata
Publisher: name: Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio
Year: 2020

description: Abstract Pinna nobis, un molusco bivalve che potrebbe arrivare anche ad 1 m d’altezza produce la bava che indurisce al contatto con l’acqua e che serve per attaccarsi agli scogli del fondo marino. Dai tempi remoti, la fibra del bisso estratta ed elaborata veniva utilizzata grazie ai suoi poteri terapeutici nella medicina, ma soprattutto per produrre tessuti di altissimo pregio. Le antiche produzioni del bisso erano localizzate tra il Mediterraneo e Medio Oriente. La fibra ritenuta sacra si usava per tessere vesti regali, ornamenti, paramenti sacri, etc. Le testimonianze scritte sono diverse, tra cui la Bibbia. Oggi, l’unica persona in grado di elaborare e tessere il bisso rimane il Maestro Chiara Vigo. La valorizzazione della fibra, la sua elaborazione ed infine, tessitura può restare viva, per non dimenticare un’arte antica, tramite una adeguata tutela, da parte delle Autorità, dell’ultimo Maestro Chiara Vigo che tramanda alle future generazioni l’insegnamento di una millenaria arte relativa alla storia e lavorazione del bisso; anche tramite i musei, quali: Museo di Merceologia dell’Università Sapienza di Roma, Museo del Vaticano, Museum der Kulturen di Basilea, Museo Louvre di Parigi, Museo di Farmacia di Varsavia, Museo dell’Università Kardynal Stefan Wyszynski di Varsavia, ed altri, che sono in possesso di questo prezioso materiale, avviene valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale. Inoltre, lo sviluppo scientifico e la conoscenza di struttura e proprietà della fibra di bisso permettono la produzione dei materiali utilizzati nel settore medicinale.
description: Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio, Tom 42 Nr 2 (2020): DIALOG, KOMUNIKACJA. UJĘCIE INTERDYSCYPLINARNE