cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rural development in the EU
Creators: name: Buckwell, Allan
name: Buckwell, Allan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Economic development of rural areas
subject: overall economic development
subject: EU rural development policy

description: This article analyses the evolution of European rural regional economies and the Community's public regional policies, with a view to drawing lessons for other areas of the world, especially Latin America. After presenting relative size data for the EU regions based on population, territory, employment and income, the article analyses the key economic and social trends in these areas, together with the underlying explanatory factors. The main conclusion is that the economic development of the rural regions of the EU is much more due to the overall national economic development issues, than to rural development policies. Therefore, the way to achieve rural development is by means of a good overall economic development policy, and national policies are more determining than EU-wide policies in the overall economic development of the EU member states. The article finishes with a summary of the lessons to be learnt from EU rural development policy, which suggest the need for radical change policy change based on a reduction in the agricultural component coupled with an increase in the territorial and environmental components. Desarrollo rural en la UE Resumen Este artículo analiza la evolución de la economía regional rural europea y las políticas regionales públicas comunitarias, con el fin de aportar lecciones a otras áreas del mundo, especialmente Latinoamérica. Después de presentar datos relativos al tamaño de población, territorio, empleo e ingresos de las regiones europeas, el artículo analiza las tendencias clave económicas y sociales de estas áreas, junto con los factores explicativos. La principal conclusión es que el desarrollo económico de las regiones rurales de la UE es mayor debido en mayor medida a el desarrollo económico nacional que a las políticas de desarrollo rural. Además, la vía para conseguir desarrollo rural es a través de buenas políticas de desarrollo económico generales. El artículo finaliza con un resume de los aspectos a aprender de la política de desarrollo rural de la UE, sugiriendo la necesidad de un cambio radical de esta basándose en la reducción del componente agrícola unido a un incremento de los componentes territoriales y ambientales. Palabras clave: economía de las áreas de desarrollo rural, desarrollo económico general y política de desarrollo rural en EU.
Fermiology and electron-phonon coupling in the 2H and 3R polytypes of NbS$\boldsymbol{_2}$
Creators: name: Youbi, Zakariae El
name: Jung, Sung Won
name: Richter, Christine
name: Hricovini, Karol
name: Cacho, Cephise
name: Watson, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the electronic structure of the 2H and 3R polytypes of NbS$_2$. The Fermi surfaces measured by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy show a remarkable difference in size, reflecting a significantly increased band filling in 3R-Nb$_{1+x}$S$_2$ compared to 2H-NbS$_2$, which we attribute to the presence of additional interstitial Nb which act as electron donors. Thus we find that the stoichiometry, rather than the stacking arrangement, is the most important factor in the difference in electronic and physical properties of the two phases. Our high resolution data on the 2H phase shows kinks in the spectral function that are fingerprints of the electron-phonon coupling. However, the strength of the coupling is found to be much larger for the the sections of bands with Nb 4$d_{x^2-y^2,xy}$ character than for the Nb 4$d_{3z^2-r^2}$. Our results provide an experimental framework for interpreting the two-gap superconductivity and "latent" charge density wave in 2H-NbS$_2$.
Diffusive synchrotron radiation from extragalactic jets
Creators: name: Fleishman, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flattenings of nonthermal radiation spectra observed from knots and interknot locations of the jets of 3C273 and M87 in UV and X-ray bands are discussed within modern models of magnetic field generation in the relativistic jets. Specifically, we explicitly take into account the effect of the small-scale random magnetic field, probably present in such jets, which gives rise to emission of Diffusive Synchrotron Radiation, whose spectrum deviates substantially from the standard synchrotron spectrum, especially at high frequencies. The calculated spectra agree well with the observed ones if the energy densities contained in small-scale and large-scale magnetic fields are comparable. The implications of this finding for magnetic field generation, particle acceleration, and jet composition are discussed.
description: 5 pages with 2 figures, MNRAS Letters, accepted
Table inference for combinatorial origin-destination choices in agent-based population synthesis
Creators: name: Zachos, Ioannis
name: Damoulas, Theodoros
name: Girolami, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A key challenge in agent-based mobility simulations is the synthesis of individual agent socioeconomic profiles. Such profiles include locations of agent activities, which dictate the quality of the simulated travel patterns. These locations are typically represented in origin-destination matrices that are sampled using coarse travel surveys. This is because fine-grained trip profiles are scarce and fragmented due to privacy and cost reasons. The discrepancy between data and sampling resolutions renders agent traits non-identifiable due to the combinatorial space of data-consistent individual attributes. This problem is pertinent to any agent-based inference setting where the latent state is discrete. Existing approaches have used continuous relaxations of the underlying location assignments and subsequent ad-hoc discretisation thereof. We propose a framework to efficiently navigate this space offering improved reconstruction and coverage as well as linear-time sampling of the ground truth origin-destination table. This allows us to avoid factorially growing rejection rates and poor summary statistic consistency inherent in discrete choice modelling. We achieve this by introducing joint sampling schemes for the continuous intensity and discrete table of agent trips, as well as Markov bases that can efficiently traverse this combinatorial space subject to summary statistic constraints. Our framework's benefits are demonstrated in multiple controlled experiments and a large-scale application to agent work trip reconstruction in Cambridge, UK.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables
Semiparametric estimation for stationary processes whose spectra have an unknown pole
Creators: name: Hidalgo, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62M15 (Primary) 62G05, 62G20 (Secondary)

description: We consider the estimation of the location of the pole and memory parameter, λ^0 and α, respectively, of covariance stationary linear processes whose spectral density function f(λ) satisfies f(λ)\sim C| λ-λ^0| ^{-α} in a neighborhood of λ^0. We define a consistent estimator of λ^0 and derive its limit distribution Z_{λ^0}. As in related optimization problems, when the true parameter value can lie on the boundary of the parameter space, we show that Z_{λ^0} is distributed as a normal random variable when λ^0\in (0,π), whereas for λ^0=0 or π, Z_{λ^0} is a mixture of discrete and continuous random variables with weights equal to 1/2. More specifically, when λ^0=0, Z_{λ^0} is distributed as a normal random variable truncated at zero. Moreover, we describe and examine a two-step estimator of the memory parameter α, showing that neither its limit distribution nor its rate of convergence is affected by the estimation of λ^0. Thus, we reinforce and extend previous results with respect to the estimation of αwhen λ^0 is assumed to be known a priori. A small Monte Carlo study is included to illustrate the finite sample performance of our estimators.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053605000000318 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Spontaneous scalarization of a conducting sphere in Maxwell-scalar models
Creators: name: Herdeiro, Carlos A. R.
name: Ikeda, Taishi
name: Minamitsuji, Masato
name: Nakamura, Tomohiro
name: Radu, Eugen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spontaneous scalarization of a standard conducting charged sphere embedded in Maxwell-scalar models in flat spacetime, wherein the scalar field $ϕ$ is nonminimally coupled to the Maxwell electrodynamics. This setup serves as a toy model for the spontaneous scalarization of charged (vacuum) black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar (generalized scalar-tensor) models. In the Maxwell-scalar case, unlike the black hole cases, closed-form solutions exist for the scalarized configurations. We compute these configurations for three illustrations of nonminimal couplings: one that \textit{exactly} linearizes the scalar field equation, and the remaining two that produce nonlinear continuations of the first one. We show that the former model leads to a runaway behaviour in regions of the parameter space and neither the Coulomb nor the scalarized solutions are stable in the model; but the latter models can heal this behaviour producing stable scalarized solutions that are dynamically preferred over the Coulomb one. This parallels reports on black hole scalarization in the extended-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet models. Moreover, we analyse the impact of the choice of the boundary conditions on the scalarization phenomenon. Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions accommodate both (linearly) stable and unstable parameter space regions, for the scalar-free conducting sphere; but radiative boundary conditions always yield an unstable scalar-free solution and preference for scalarization. Finally, we perform numerical evolution of the full Maxwell-scalar system, following dynamically the scalarization process. They confirm the linear stability analysis and reveal that the scalarization phenomenon can occur in qualitatively distinct ways.
description: 23 pages, 11figures
Construct validation of the verb naming test (Casilio et al., 2025)
Creators: name: Casilio, Marianne
name: Fergadiotis, Gerasimos
name: Cho, Sun-Joo
name: Steel, Stacey
name: Fleegle, Mikala
name: Dickey, Michael Walsh
name: Hula, William D.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460211
subject: Speech production
classificationCode: 520108
subject: Testing, assessment and psychometrics

description: Purpose: Although there is widespread agreement pertaining to the cognitive processes underlying spoken word production, more generally in aphasia, multiple competing accounts exist regarding the processes involved for verb production, specifically. Some have speculated that suboptimal control of certain item properties (e.g., imageability) may be partially responsible for conflicting reports in the literature, yet there remains a dearth of research on the psychometric validation of verb production tests for aphasia. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the cognitive constructs underlying the Verb Naming Test (VNT), a relatively commonly used verb production test, by expanding upon an item response theory (IRT) modeling framework we previously described.Method: Using an archival data set of 107 individuals with aphasia, we specified a series of IRT models to investigate whether item covariates (argument structure, imageability), person covariates (aphasia subtype, severity), and their interactions were predictive of VNT item response patterns.Results: Across all models, covariates that were most strongly associated with lexical-semantic processing (imageability, aphasia severity) were significant predictors. In contrast, covariates that were most strongly associated with morphosyntactic processing (argument structure, aphasia subtype) were minimally predictive.Conclusions: VNT item response patterns appear to be primarily explained by covariates representing lexical-semantic processing. In particular, we identified an important role of imageability, a covariate not controlled for in the VNT’s item design, which both aligns with a body of prior research and further illustrates the challenge of differentiating morphosyntactic processing from lexical and semantic processes during word production.Supplemental Material S1. VNT dataset.Supplemental Material S2. Analysis code.Supplemental Material S3. Full results from the Descriptive IRT Model (1-PL IRT with random item effect).Supplemental Material S4. Preliminary explanatory IRT model and results using common item covariates.Casilio, M., Fergadiotis, G., Cho, S.-J., Steel, S., Fleegle, M., Dickey, M. W., & Hula, W. (2025). Construct validation of the verb naming test for aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(4), 1932–1949. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00236
Latin America's "New Open Regionalism" and WTO Negotiations: the case of agriculture
Creators: name: Valdes, Alberto
name: Foster, William E.
name: Valdes, Alberto
name: Foster, William E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Free Trade Agreements
subject: New Open Regionalism and Agriculture

description: This article analyses past trade trends and agricultural protectionism in Latin American agriculture, by examining observed changes in Latin American agriculture and trade policies over the last 20 years that have led to what the authors call the "New Open Regionalism". It also discussed the conflicting interests and various trading positions taken up by Latin American countries in multilateral trade talks, as a result of the strong heterogeneity between net agricultural exporters and importers. The authors show that the repeated failure of the Doha round of trade talks opens the door for bilateral or sub-regional free trade agreements, concluding with the prediction that regional integration in Latin America will come about as a result of agreements between various sub-regional trade blocs. The weakness of internal demand makes the development of the region's agri-food sector highly dependent on exports, the growth of which is one of the main economic drivers in these countries, particularly net exporters. In addressing the issue of the distribution of profits from trade liberalization, the authors propose a variety of schemes that have already proved their effectiveness in countries such as Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua and Honduras Nuevos acuerdos regionales de comercio en Latinoamérica y disposición a negociar: el caso de la agricultura Resumen Este artículo analiza las tendencias del comercio agrario y el proteccionismo de la agricultura en Latinoamérica, examinando los cambios observados en la agricultura y la política comercial en los últimos 20 años, denominados por los autores como "nuevos acuerdos regionales de comercio". También se discuten el conflicto de intereses y las variadas posiciones comerciales desarrolladas por los distintos países de América Latina, como resultado de una fuerte heterogeneidad entre los exportadores y los importadores agrarios netos. Los autores muestran que los reiterados fallos de las negociaciones comerciales de la ronda Doha abrieron las puertas para acuerdos comerciales libres bilaterales o sub-regionales, concluyendo con la predicción de que la integración regional traerá como resultado un acuerdo entre varios bloques de comercio sub-regionales. La debilidad de la demanda interna hace que el desarrollo del sector agroalimentario dependa fuertemente de las exportaciones, especialmente de los exportadores netos. En la dirección de los resultados de la distribución de beneficios de los acuerdos de liberalización, los autores proponen una variedad de esquemas que han tenido su efectividad en países como México, Turquía, Brasil, Colombia, Nicaragua y Honduras. Palabras clave: acuerdos libre de comercio, nuevos acuerdos regionales de comercio y agricultura.
Trajectory analysis for fusion path in superheavy-mass region
Creators: name: Aritomo, Y.
name: Ohta, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an effective method for the precise investigation of the fusion-fission mechanism in the superheavy-mass region, using the fluctuation-dissipation model. The trajectory calculation with friction is performed in the nuclear deformation space using the Langevin equation. In the reaction $^{48}$Ca+$^{244}$Pu, the trajectories are classified into the fusion-fission process, the quasi-fission process and the deep quasi-fission process. By analyzing the time evolution of each trajectory, the mechanism of each process is clearly revealed, i.e., it is explained why a trajectory takes a characteristic path in this model. We discuss, in particular, the condition under which the fusion path is followed, which is crucial in the discussion of the possibility of synthesizing superheavy elements.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics A
Machine learning applications for the study of AGN physical properties using photometric observations
Creators: name: Mechbal, Sarah
name: Ackermann, Markus
name: Kowalski, Marek
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the physical nature of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) using machine learning (ML) tools. We show that the redshift $z$, the bolometric luminosity $L_{\rm Bol}$, the central mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) $M_{\rm BH}$, the Eddington ratio $\lambda_{\rm Edd}$ as well as the AGN class (obscured or unobscured) can be reconstructed through multi-wavelength photometric observations only.A Random Forest regressor (RFR) ML-model is trained on 7616 of spectroscopically observed AGN from the SPIDERS-AGN survey, previously cross-matched with soft X-ray observations (from ROSAT or XMM), WISE mid-infrared photometry, and optical photometry from SDSS $ugriz$ filters. We build a catalogue of 21050 AGN to be reconstructed with the trained RFR: for 9687 sources, we found archival redshift measurements. All AGN are classified as either Type 1/2 using a Random Forest classifier (RFC) algorithm on a subset of known sources. All known photometric measurement uncertainties are incorporated via a simulation-based approach.We present the reconstructed catalogue of 21050 AGN with redshifts ranging from $ 0 < z < 2.5$. $z$ estimations are made for 11363 new sources, with both accuracy and outlier rate within 2%. Type 1/2 AGN can be identified with respective efficiencies of 94% and 89%: the estimated obscuration level, a proxy for AGN classification, of all sources is given in the dataset. $L_{\rm Bol}$, $M_{\rm BH}$, and $\lambda_{\rm Edd}$ values are given for 21050 new sources with their estimated error. These results have been made publicly available.The release of this catalogue will advance AGN studies by presenting key parameters of the accretion history of 6 dex in luminosity over a wide range of $z$. Similar applications of ML techniques using photometric data only will be essential in the future, with large datasets from eROSITA, JSWT and the VRO poised to be released in the next decade.
Validation of the Practicability of Logical Assessment Formula for Evaluations with Inaccurate Ground-Truth Labels: An Application Study on Tumour Segmentation for Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Yang, Yongquan
name: Bu, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The logical assessment formula (LAF) is a new theory proposed for evaluations with inaccurate ground-truth labels (IAGTLs) to assess the predictive models for artificial intelligence applications. However, the practicability of LAF for evaluations with IAGTLs has not yet been validated in real-world practice. In this paper, we applied LAF to two tasks of tumour segmentation for breast cancer (TSfBC) in medical histopathology whole slide image analysis (MHWSIA) for evaluations with IAGTLs. Experimental results and analysis show that the LAF-based evaluations with IAGTLs were unable to confidently act like usual evaluations with accurate ground-truth labels on the one easier task of TSfBC while being able to reasonably act like usual evaluations with AGTLs on the other more difficult task of TSfBC. These results and analysis reflect the potential of LAF applied to MHWSIA for evaluations with IAGTLs. This paper presents the first practical validation of LAF for evaluations with IAGTLs in a real-world application.
description: This is the final published version
Quantum corrections to the Schwarzschild metric and reparametrization transformations
Creators: name: Kirilin, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum corrections to the Schwarzschild metric generated by loop diagrams have been considered by Bjerrum-Bohr, Donoghue, and Holstein (BHD) [Phys. Rev. D68, 084005 (2003)], and Khriplovich and Kirilin (KK) [J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 98, 1063 (2004)]. Though the same field variables in a covariant gauge are used, the results obtained differ from one another. The reason is that the different sets of diagrams have been used. Here we will argue that the quantum corrections to metric must be independent of the choice of field variables, i.e., must be reparametrization invariant. Using simple reparametrization transformation, we will show that the contribution considered by BDH, is not invariant under it. Meanwhile the contribution of the complete set of the diagrams, considered by KK, satisfies the requirement of the invariance.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
Loop corrections versus marginal deformation in celestial holography
Creators: name: He, Song
name: Mao, Pujian
name: Mao, Xin-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Four-dimensional all-loop amplitudes in QED and gravity exhibit universal Infrared (IR) singularities with a factorization structure. This structure is governed by tree amplitudes and a universal IR-divergent factor representing the exchange of soft particles between external lines. This letter offers a precise dual interpretation of these universal IR-divergent factors within celestial holography. Considering the tree amplitude as the foundation of the celestial conformal field theory (CCFT), these universal factors correspond to marginal deformations with a \textit{double-current} construction in the CCFT. Remarkably, a novel geometric representation of these deformations through topological gauging provides an exact description of transitions within bulk vacuum moduli spaces which extends the celestial holography beyond the perturbative level. Our findings establish a concrete dictionary for celestial holography and offer a holographic lens to understand loop corrections in scattering amplitudes.
description: v3: 10 pages + appendices, discussions extended, refs. added, accepted for publication in PRD as a Letter
Characterizations of line graphs in signed and gain graphs
Creators: name: Cavaleri, Matteo
name: D'Angeli, Daniele
name: Donno, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C22, 05C25, 05C50, 05C76

description: We generalize three classical characterizations of line graphs to line graphs of signed and gain graphs: the Krausz's characterization, the van Rooij and Wilf's characterization and the Beineke's characterization. In particular, we present a list of forbidden gain subgraphs characterizing the class of gain-line graphs. In the case of a signed graph whose underlying graph is a line graph, this list consists of exactly four signed graphs. Under the same hypothesis, we prove that a signed graph is the line graph of a signed graph if and only if its eigenvalues are either greater than $-2$, or less than $2$, depending on which particular definition of line graph is adopted.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in European Journal of Combinatorics
Liberalizacion y reformas al agro: lecciones de Mexico
Creators: name: Naude, Antonio Yunez
name: Naude, Antonio Yunez
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: effects free trade agreements
subject: agriculture
subject: Mexico
subject: public policies

description: Este artículo examina los Acuerdos de la liberalización del mercado de Norteamérica (NAFTA) con el objeto de analizar el impacto sobre la agricultura y la economía rural en México, y evaluar las políticas introducidas por México para acompañar el proceso. La primera conclusión es que, el NAFTA ha cubierto las predicciones e intensificado las tendencias pre-NAFTA en la agricultura mexicana. La segunda es que la liberalización del mercado promueve y facilita la difícil transición hacia una economía más abierta, y simultáneamente las políticas sectoriales que promueven un desarrollo rural integrado. La experiencia mexicana, sin embargo, muestra que la visión polarizada que presentan varios agentes políticos con respecto a la elección de políticas públicas apropiadas hace complicado reunir estos requisitos. El artículo concluye refiriéndose al debate sobre la reconversión productiva y las medidas de mejora versus las medidas basadas en las ayudas, un tema importante en los últimos años en México, y uno de los que puede ser extrapolable a otros países de Latinoamérica con acuerdos de liberalización de mercado nuevos o pendientes. Palabras clave: efectos de los acuerdos de liberalización, México, políticas públicas. Liberalization and reform of the agricultural sector: lessons from Mexico This article examines the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in order to analyse its impact on agriculture and the rural economy in Mexico, and to evaluate the policies introduced by Mexico to accompany the trade liberalization process. The first conclusion is that, far from bringing about any unexpected change, the NAFTA has fulfilled predictions and intensified pre-NAFTA trends in Mexican agriculture. The second is that trade liberalization calls for a coherent public policy to promote growth and ease the difficult transition towards a more open economy, and concurrent sectoral policies to promote integrated rural development. The Mexican experience, however, shows that the polarized views taken by the various political agents with regard to the choice of suitable public policies make it difficult to meet these requirements. The article concludes by referring to the debate over productive re-conversion and improvement measures versus aid-based measures, a prominent issue in Mexico in recent years, and one that can be extrapolated to many other Latin American countries with new or pending free trade agreements.
Evaluating community-government watershed management partnerships : the case of Langley Environmental Partners Society, British Columbia
Creators: name: De Goes, Lisa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: British Columbia's aquatic ecosystems are being lost and degraded. This loss is occurring mainly because of an increasing population, development pressures, and people's alienation from the natural environment. Community-government partnerships have evolved to try to address aquatic ecosystem degradation. This thesis specifically examines community-government partnerships and addresses two main questions: What makes a good partnership? And, how can the longevity of partnerships be ensured? The main thesis questions are addressed through the application of an evaluative framework to a case study - the Langley Environmental Partners Society (LEPS). The LEPS has been a community-government partnership jointly initiated by senior staff of the Township of Langley, members of the federal and the provincial governments, and Langley watershed stewardship groups and schools. The main criteria of the evaluative framework are good governance; efficient procedure, and adequate resources. Information about the LEPS was gathered through qualitative research methods, including participant- observation, interviewing, and a review of documentation. Based on the aforementioned qualitative research and evaluative criteria, community and government support, strong leadership, credible staff, coordination, cooperation, success, self-sufficiency,and flexibility were characteristics identified as traits of the LEPS that have led to its longevity and success. Whereas having paid staff working with volunteers, a lack of a constituency, a lack of real influence, a lack of stable funding leading to competition with other groups, a lack of coordination, and a poor profile were identified as the LEPS' traits that might lead to the groups demise. As a result of the preceding conclusions, recommendations are made for the LEPS, senior government and the TOL. Based on all of the strengths of the LEPS identified by the evaluative framework and its ability to address many of the barriers to sustainable water resource management, the LEPS serves as a good basis for further experimentation in watershed governance. The LEPS model is not perfect but can serve as a framework for other communities to build upon.
Additional file 1 of DCE-MRI is more sensitive than IVIM-DWI for assessing anti-angiogenic treatment-induced changes in colorectal liver metastases
Creators: name: Rata, Mihaela
name: Khan, Khurum
name: Collins, David J
name: Koh, Dow-Mu
name: Tunariu, Nina
name: Bali, Maria Antonietta
name: d’Arcy, James
name: Winfield, Jessica M
name: Picchia, Simona
name: Valeri, Nicola
name: Chau, Ian
name: Cunningham, David
name: Fassan, Matteo
name: Leach, Martin O
name: Orton, Matthew R
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1
Jenssen, Hans-Heinrich / Trebs, Herbert / Althausen, Johannes / Baumbach, Günter / Döpmann, Hans-Dieter / Fritzsche, Hans-Georg / Rohde, Joachim / Trende, Wulf / Wächter, Ludwig: Theologisches Lexikon
Creators: name: Kg.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 31 Nr. 2 (1982): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 31, Heft 2
Quarks with Twisted Boundary Conditions in the Epsilon Regime
Creators: name: Mehen, Thomas
name: Tiburzi, Brian C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of twisted boundary conditions on the quark fields in the epsilon regime of chiral perturbation theory. We consider the $SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R$ chiral theory with non-degenerate quarks and the $SU(3)_L\times SU(3)_R$ chiral theory with massless up and down quarks and massive strange quarks. The partition function and condensate are derived for each theory. Because flavor-neutral Goldstone bosons are unaffected by twisted boundary conditions chiral symmetry is still restored in finite volumes. The dependence of the condensate on the twisting parameters can be used to extract the pion decay constant from simulations in the epsilon regime. The relative contribution to the partition function from sectors of different topological charge is numerically insensitive to twisted boundary conditions.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Fast dynamic time warping and clustering in C++
Creators: name: Kumtepeli, Volkan
name: Perriment, Rebecca
name: Howey, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present an approach for computationally efficient dynamic time warping (DTW) and clustering of time-series data. The method frames the dynamic warping of time series datasets as an optimisation problem solved using dynamic programming, and then clusters time series data by solving a second optimisation problem using mixed-integer programming (MIP). There is also an option to use k-medoids clustering for increased speed, when a certificate for global optimality is not essential. The improved efficiency of our approach is due to task-level parallelisation of the clustering alongside DTW. Our approach was tested using the UCR Time Series Archive, and was found to be, on average, 33% faster than the next fastest option when using the same clustering method. This increases to 64% faster when considering only larger datasets (with more than 1000 time series). The MIP clustering is most effective on small numbers of longer time series, because the DTW computation is faster than other approaches, but the clustering problem becomes increasingly computationally expensive as the number of time series to be clustered increases.
Brane Transitions from Exceptional Groups
Creators: name: Furukawa, Tomohiro
name: Moriyama, Sanefumi
name: Nakanishi, Tomoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is a well-known result by Hanany and Witten that, when two five-branes move across each other, D3-branes stretching between them are generated. Later the same brane configurations played a crucial role in understanding the worldvolume theory of multiple M2-branes. Recently the partition function of multiple M2-branes was transformed to the Fredholm determinant for quantum algebraic curves, where the characteristic 3/2 power law of degrees of freedom is reproduced and the determinant enjoys a large symmetry given by exceptional Weyl groups. The large exceptional Weyl group reproduces the Hanany-Witten brane transitions and, besides, contains brane transitions unknown previously. Aiming at understanding the new brane transitions better, we generalize our previous study on the D5 quantum curve to the E7 case, which requires delicate handling of degeneracies. By combining the results of these two cases, we propose a "local" rule for the brane transitions.
description: 33 pages, 8 eps figures; clarifications added
Berkeley Field Methods: Turkmen
Creators: name: Aytjanova, Nazik
name: Bakst, Sarah
name: D'Avirro, Antony
name: Goss, Matthew
name: Kavitskaya, Darya
name: Leung, Herman
name: Lutzross, Auburn
name: Manker, Jonathan
name: Pusey, Orchid
name: Sardinha, Katie
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020

description: This collection is organized into three series: 001 consists of sound recordings of elicitation sessions conducted as a full class and in small groups, with associated TextGrid files; 002 is field notes, with relations referencing the associated sound recordings; 003 is miscellaneous files, including a FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) database, and the HTML files underlying a descriptive wiki the class produced. Researcher names in group recording bundles are those who were responsible for primary elicitation; many class participants' voices are heard on the recordings.
A proposal to correct external effects in the coffee market: a tax on regular coffee and tea to subsidise the fair trade coffee
Creators: name: Galarraga, Ibon
name: Markandya, Anil
name: Galarraga, Ibon
name: Markandya, Anil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: coffee market
subject: fair trade

description: This paper justifies the need to introduce a tax on regular coffee drinkers in the UK to subsidise the fair trade/organic coffee production. This policy will allow to take full account of the negative external effect of regular coffee production while internalising the positive effect of fair trade initiatives. Designing such a policy is possible and the benefits of it can be calculated. This paper shows how. Propuesta para corregir las externalidades en el mercado de café: un impuesto sobre el te y el café regular y una subvención sobre el café de Comercio Justo. El presente artículo justifica la necesidad de introducir un impuesto sobre los consumidores de café y té en el Reino Unido para subvencionar la producción de café orgánico y de Comercio Justo. La propuesta permite corregir los efectos externos negativos que se generan en el proceso de producción del café a la vez que sirve para internalizar las externalidades o efectos positivos de los cultivos de café de Comercio Justo. El trabajo muestra que el diseño de esta política es factible y que los beneficios resultantes de ponerla en práctica pueden ser debidamente calculados. Palabras clave: mercado café, mercado justo
Regular and Chaotic States in a Local Map Description of Sheared Nematic Liquid Crystals
Creators: name: Kamil, S. M.
name: Sinha, Sudeshna
name: Menon, Gautam I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and study a local map capable of describing the full variety of dynamical states, ranging from regular to chaotic, obtained when a nematic liquid crystal is subjected to a steady shear flow. The map is formulated in terms of a quaternion parametrization of rotations of the local frame described by the axes of the nematic director, subdirector and the joint normal to these, with two additional scalars describing the strength of ordering. Our model yields kayaking, wagging, tumbling, aligned and coexistence states, in agreement with previous formulations based on coupled ordinary differential equations. Such a map can serve as a building block for the construction of lattice models of the complex spatio-temporal states predicted for sheared nematics.
description: 11 pages, higher quality figures available on request, references added
Neutral-current background induced by atmospheric neutrinos at large liquid-scintillator detectors: II. Methodology for in situ measurements
Creators: name: Cheng, Jie
name: Li, Yu-Feng
name: Lu, Hao-Qi
name: Wen, Liang-Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future large liquid-scintillator (LS) detectors are competitive with and complementary to the water-Cherenkov detectors on the searches for diffuse supernova neutrino background and nucleon decay. In a companion paper, we have performed a systematic calculation of the neutral-current (NC) background induced by atmospheric neutrino interactions on $^{12}{\rm C}$ nuclei in LS detectors, which are expected to be crucially important for the experimental searches for the diffuse supernova neutrino background and nucleon decay. In this paper, we perform a systematic study on the measurement of the NC background and evaluate the associated uncertainties. We first exploit the characteristics of the NC background, in particular, the multiplicities of neutrons and pions, and the possible association with unstable residual nuclei. It turns out that the neutron multiplicity distribution is very powerful to discriminate among different models. Then, we develop a maximum-likelihood method to allow an {\it in situ} measurement of the NC interactions with a triple-coincidence signature. Finally, a data-driven approach is proposed to evaluate the uncertainty of the NC background in the search for the diffuse supernova neutrino background. We conclude that future large LS experiments like JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) will be able to make a unique contribution to the worldwide data set to improve the prediction of atmospheric neutrino NC interactions on $^{12}$C.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, more discussions, version to appear in PRD
A linear - scattering phase function for solving radiative heat transfer equation (RTE)
Creators: name: B. Krittacom, P. Amatachaya
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Mechanical Engineers
Year: 2015
Subjects: Scattering phase function, radiative heat transfer, linear equation, hemispherical emittances, gray media

description: 2, 3, Journal of Research and Applications in Mechanical Engineering
The highly spotted photosphere of the young rapid rotator Speedy Mic
Creators: name: Barnes, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high resolution images of the young rapidly rotating K3 dwarf Speedy Mic (BO Mic, HD 197890). The photospheric spot maps reveal a heavily and uniformly spotted surface from equatorial to high latitude regions. Contrary to many images of similar objects, Speedy Mic does not possess a uniform filling at high latitudes, but exhibits structure in the polar regions showing greatest concentration in a particular longitude range. The asymmetric rotation profile of Speedy Mic indicates the presence of a companion or nearby star which shows radial velocity shifts over a timescale of several years. Using a simple dynamical argument, we show that Speedy Mic is unlikely to be a binary system, and conclude that the feature must be the result of a chance alignment with a background binary. Complete phase coverage on two consecutive nights in addition to 60 per cent phase coverage after a three night gap has enabled us to track the evolution of spots with time. By incorporating a solar-like differential rotation model into the image reconstruction process, we find that the equator laps the polar regions once every $191 \pm 17$ d. This finding is in close agreement with measurements for other late-type rapid rotators.
Machine Learning and cosmographic reconstructions of quintessence and the Swampland conjectures
Creators: name: Arjona, Rubén
name: Nesseris, Savvas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present model independent reconstructions of quintessence and the Swampland conjectures (SC) using both Machine Learning (ML) and cosmography. In particular, we demonstrate how the synergies between theoretical analyses and ML can provide key insights on the nature of dark energy and modified gravity. Using the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ data from the cosmic chronometers we find that the ML and cosmography reconstructions of the SC are compatible with observations at low redshifts. Finally, including the growth rate data $fσ_8(z)$ we perform a model independent test of modified gravity cosmologies through two phase diagrams, namely $H-fσ_8$ and $η-fσ_8$, where the anisotropic stress parameter $η$ is obtained via the $E_g$ statistics, which is related to gravitational lensing data. While the first diagram is consistent within the errors with the $Λ$CDM model, the second one has a $\sim 2σ$ deviation of the anisotropic stress from unity at $z\sim 0.3$ and a $\sim 4σ$ deviation at $z\sim 0.9$, thus pointing toward mild deviations from General Relativity, which could be further tested with upcoming large-scale structure surveys.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables. Changes match published version
ปัจจัยที่มีผลกระทบต่อการทำบัญชีครัวเรือนในชุมชนเมือง
Creators: name: อโนชา โรจนพานิช
Publisher: name: สถาบันการจัดการปัญญาภิวัฒน์
Year: 2558
Subjects: การทำบัญชี, บัญชีครัวเรือน, ชุมชนเมือง

description: 3, 7, วารสารปัญญาภิวัฒน์
The CluMPR Galaxy Cluster-Finding Algorithm and DESI Legacy Survey Galaxy Cluster Catalogue
Creators: name: Yantovski-Barth, M. J.
name: Newman, Jeffrey A.
name: Dey, Biprateep
name: Andrews, Brett H.
name: Eracleous, Michael
name: Golden-Marx, Jesse
name: Zhou, Rongpu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy clusters enable unique opportunities to study cosmology, dark matter, galaxy evolution, and strongly-lensed transients. We here present a new cluster-finding algorithm, CluMPR (Clusters from Masses and Photometric Redshifts), that exploits photometric redshifts (photo-z's) as well as photometric stellar mass measurements. CluMPR uses a 2-dimensional binary search tree to search for overdensities of massive galaxies with similar redshifts on the sky and then probabilistically assigns cluster membership by accounting for photo-z uncertainties. We leverage the deep DESI Legacy Survey grzW1W2 imaging over one-third of the sky to create a catalogue of ~ 300,000 galaxy cluster candidates out to z = 1, including tabulations of member galaxies and estimates of each cluster's total stellar mass. Compared to other methods, CluMPR is particularly effective at identifying clusters at the high end of the redshift range considered (z = 0.75-1), with minimal contamination from low-mass groups. These characteristics make it ideal for identifying strongly lensed high-redshift supernovae and quasars that are powerful probes of cosmology, dark matter, and stellar astrophysics. As an example application of this cluster catalogue, we present a catalogue of candidate wide-angle strongly-lensed quasars in Appendix C. The five best candidates identified from this sample include two known lensed quasar systems and a possible changing-look lensed QSO with SDSS spectroscopy. All code and catalogues produced in this work are publicly available (see Data Availability).
description: 19 pages, 27 figures, redshifts debiased with new methodology, published by MNRAS