cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Epitaxial Transition from Gyroid to Cylinder in a Diblock Copolymer Melt
Creators: name: Kawakatsu, Takashi Honda \and Toshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An epitaxial transition from a bicontinious double gyroid to a hexagonally packed cylinder structure induced by an external flow is simulated using real-space dynamical self-consistent field technique. In order to simulate the structural change correctly, we introduce a system size optimization technique by which emergence of artificial intermediate structures are suppressed. When a shear flow in [111] direction of the gyroid unit cell is imposed, a nucleation and growth of the cylinder domains is observed. We confirm that the generated cylindrical domains grow epitaxially to the original gyroid domains as gyroid $d_{\{220\}}$ $\to$ cylinder $d_{\{10\}}$. In a steady state under the shear flow, the gyroid shows different reconnection processes depending on the direction of the velocity gradient of the shear flow. A kinetic pathway previously predicted using the self-consistent field theory where three fold junctions transform into five fold junctions as an intermediate state is not observed.
description: 24 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Macromolecules
The EQIP GIS, Web-based Decision Program
Creators: name: Farnsworth, Richard L.
name: Engel, Bernard
name: McCloud, Susan
name: Choi, Jin-Yong
name: Lim, Kyoung Jae
name: Theller, Lawrence
name: Farnsworth, Richard L.
name: Engel, Bernard
name: McCloud, Susan
name: Choi, Jin-Yong
name: Lim, Kyoung Jae
name: Theller, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Working together, NRCS and Purdue University staff developed a GIS, web-based EQIP decision program. Landowners and NRCS personnel enter required EQIP information via a mapping service. Other subroutines store the information for use by NRCS in ranking and funding EQIP applications that receive the highest scores subject to budget constraints.
Additional file 3 of A mixed-methods study exploring women’s perceptions of terminology surrounding fertility and menstrual regulation in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria
Creators: name: Sheehy, Grace
name: Omoluabi, Elizabeth
name: OlaOlorun, Funmilola M.
name: Mosso, Rosine
name: Bazié, Fiacre
name: Moreau, Caroline
name: Bell, Suzanne O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Perceptions of scenarios.
Another Plant?!...The Rapid Expansion in the Ethanol Industry and its Effect All the Way to the Farm Gate.
Creators: name: Roe, Joshua D.
name: Jolly, Robert W.
name: Wisner, Robert N.
name: Roe, Joshua D.
name: Jolly, Robert W.
name: Wisner, Robert N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The ethanol industry has expanded rapidly in recent times. Utilizing budgeted ethanol plant and farm models we determine the effect of this expansion on future corn acreage and farm incomes. Several scenarios are presented to determine the profitability of the ethanol industry at various input and output prices.
Additional file 4 of A mixed-methods study exploring women’s perceptions of terminology surrounding fertility and menstrual regulation in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria
Creators: name: Sheehy, Grace
name: Omoluabi, Elizabeth
name: OlaOlorun, Funmilola M.
name: Mosso, Rosine
name: Bazié, Fiacre
name: Moreau, Caroline
name: Bell, Suzanne O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Perceptions of scenarios according to whether respondent reported menstrual regulation or pregnancy removal.
Backflashes in fast-gated avalanche photodiodes in quantum key distribution
Creators: name: Koehler-Sidki, A.
name: Dynes, J. F.
name: Paraïso, T. K.
name: Lucamarini, M.
name: Sharpe, A. W.
name: Yuan, Z. L.
name: Shields, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: InGaAs single-photon avalanche photodiodes (APDs) are key enablers for high-bit rate quantum key distribution. However, the deviation of such detectors from ideal models can open side-channels for an eavesdropper, Eve, to exploit. The phenomenon of backflashes, whereby APDs reemit photons after detecting a photon, gives Eve the opportunity to passively learn the information carried by the detected photon without the need to actively interact with the legitimate receiver, Bob. Whilst this has been observed in slow-gated detectors, it has not been investigated in fast-gated APDs where it has been posited that this effect would be lessened. Here, we perform the first experiment to characterise the security threat that backflashes provide in a GHz-gated self-differencing APD using the metric of information leakage. We find that, indeed, the information leakage is lower than that reported for slower-gated detectors and we show that its effect on the secure key rate is negligible. We also relate the rate of backflash events to the APD dark current, thereby suggesting their origin is the InP multiplication region in the APD.
Women Helping Women in Agricultural Economics? Same-Gender Mentoring and Early Career Research Productivity for Agricultural Economics Ph.D.s
Creators: name: Hilmer, Michael J.
name: Hilmer, Christiana E.
name: Hilmer, Michael J.
name: Hilmer, Christiana E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: This paper is the first to empirically examine the degree to which student outcomes differ across gender-mentorship configurations for agricultural economics Ph.D. recipients. Using a Negative Binomial regression model, we find that female students working with male advisors average statistically fewer total publications in their early careers than men working with male advisors.
A Complete N-body Model of the Old Open Cluster M67
Creators: name: Hurley, Jarrod R.
name: Pols, Onno R.
name: Aarseth, Sverre J.
name: Tout, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The old open cluster M67 is an ideal testbed for current cluster evolution models because of its dynamically evolved structure and rich stellar populations that show clear signs of interaction between stellar, binary and cluster evolution. Here we present the first truly direct N-body model for M67, evolved from zero age to 4 Gyr taking full account of cluster dynamics as well as stellar and binary evolution. Our preferred model starts with 12000 single stars and 12000 binaries placed in a Galactic tidal field at 8.0 kpc from the Galactic Centre. Our choices for the initial conditions and for the primordial binary population are explained in detail. At 4 Gyr, the age of M67, the total mass has reduced by 90% as a result of mass loss and stellar escapes. The mass and half-mass radius of luminous stars in the cluster are a good match to observations although the model is more centrally concentrated than observations indicate. The stellar mass and luminosity functions are significantly flattened by preferential escape of low-mass stars. We find that M67 is dynamically old enough that information about the initial mass function is lost, both from the current luminosity function and from the current mass fraction in white dwarfs. The model contains 20 blue stragglers at 4 Gyr which is slightly less than the 28 observed in M67. Nine are in binaries. The blue stragglers were formed by a variety of means and we find formation paths for the whole variety observed in M67. Both the primordial binary population and the dynamical cluster environment play an essential role in shaping the population. A substantial population of short-period primordial binaries (with periods less than a few days) is needed to explain the observed number of blue stragglers in M67.
description: 32 pages, 17 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Continuous-wave amplitude control via the interference phenomenon in acoustic structures
Creators: name: Liu, Bingyi
name: Liu, Shanshan
name: Li, Liulin
name: Bi, Chuanxing
name: Guo, Kai
name: Li, Yong
name: Guo, Zhongyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a strategy to continuously tune the amplitude of acoustic waves based on the interference among two mode-conversion paths in passive acoustic structures. The interference phenomenon is attributed to two conjugate acoustic geometric phases obtained with two mode-conversion processes in hybrid-type geometric-phase meta-atom (HGPM) pair. Notably, 100% modulation depth of the wave amplitude is achievable by simply varying the local orientation angle of meta-atom. We utilize the acoustic structure made of two cylindrical resonators to construct deep-subwavelength secondary source with designated initial phase delay, and HGPM supporting desired mode-conversion functionality is accordingly fabricated with four secondary sources. Both theory and experiment consistently verify the continuous amplitude modulation function of HGPM pair, which showcases a general scheme for reconfigurable amplitude-type acoustic meta-devices, i.e., those that require grayscale amplitude modulation for acoustic field engineering.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 5 of A mixed-methods study exploring women’s perceptions of terminology surrounding fertility and menstrual regulation in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria
Creators: name: Sheehy, Grace
name: Omoluabi, Elizabeth
name: OlaOlorun, Funmilola M.
name: Mosso, Rosine
name: Bazié, Fiacre
name: Moreau, Caroline
name: Bell, Suzanne O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S5. Perceptions of scenarios according to whether respondent was certain or not about being pregnant for the pregnancy that was terminated.
Observing Quantum Vacuum Lensing in Magnetized Neutron Star Binary System
Creators: name: Dupays, Arnaud
name: Robilliard, Cécile
name: Rizzo, Carlo
name: Bignami, Giovanni F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we study the propagation of light in the neighbourhood of magnetised neutron stars. Thanks to the optical properties of quantum vacuum in the presence of a magnetic field, light emitted by background astronomical objects is deviated giving rise to a phenomenon of the same kind as the gravitational one. We give a quantitative estimation of this effect and we discuss the possibility of its observation. We show that this effect could be detected monitoring the evolution of the recently discovered double neutron star system J0737-3039.
description: Phys. Rev. Lett. in press
Time-dependent covariant density functional theory in 3D lattice space: benchmark calculation for 16O + 16O reaction
Creators: name: Ren, Z. X.
name: Zhao, P. W.
name: Meng, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-dependent covariant density functional theory with the successful density functional PCPK1 is developed in a three-dimensional coordinate space without any symmetry restrictions, and benchmark calculations for the 16O + 16O reaction are performed systematically. The relativistic kinematics, the conservation laws of the momentum, total energy, and particle number, as well as the time-reversal invariance are examined and confirmed to be satisfied numerically. Two primary applications including the dissipation dynamics and above-barrier fusion cross sections are illustrated. The obtained results are in good agreement with the ones given by the nonrelativistic time-dependent density functional theory and the data available. This demonstrates that the newly developed time-dependent covariant density functional theory could serve as an effective approach for the future studies of nuclear dynamical processes.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures
Modeling Suburban and Rural-Residential Development Beyond the Urban Fringe
Creators: name: Newburn, David A.
name: Berck, Peter
name: Newburn, David A.
name: Berck, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: This article investigates how land-use regulations differentially influence suburban versus rural-residential development. Particular emphasis is placed on how both the provision of municipal services (e.g., sewer and water) and zoned maximum density constrain higher-density residential development. We estimated a spatially explicit model with parcel data on recent housing development in Sonoma County, California. To account for heterogeneity in compliance with zoning regulations, we used a random-parameter logit model. The designation of sewer and water services was the most important determinant of suburban development. Meanwhile, it did not significantly affect the likelihood of rural-residential development, which actually leapfrogged into areas well beyond them.
Back-hopping in Spin-Transfer-Torque switching of perpendicularly magnetized tunnel junctions
Creators: name: Devolder, T.
name: Bultynck, O.
name: Bouquin, P.
name: Nguyen, V. D.
name: Rao, S.
name: Wan, D.
name: Sorée, B.
name: Radu, I. P.
name: Kar, G. S.
name: Couet, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the phenomenon of back-hopping in spin-torque induced switching of the magnetization in perpendicularly magnetized tunnel junctions. The analysis is based on single-shot time-resolved conductance measurements of the pulse-induced back-hopping. Studying several material variants reveals that the back-hopping is a feature of the nominally fixed system of the tunnel junction. The back-hopping is found to proceed by two sequential switching events that lead to a final state P' of conductance close to --but distinct from-- that of the conventional parallel state. The P' state does not exist at remanence. It generally relaxes to the conventional antiparallel state if the current is removed. The P' state involves a switching of the sole spin-polarizing part of the fixed layers. The analysis of literature indicates that back-hopping occurs only when the spin-polarizing layer is too weakly coupled to the rest of the fixed system, which justifies a posteriori the mitigation strategies of back-hopping that were implemented empirically in spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memories.
description: submitted to Phys Rev. B
Spin dynamics characterization in magnetic dots
Creators: name: Mozaffari, Mohammad-Reza
name: Esfarjani, Keivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin structure in a magnetic dot, which is an example of a quantum few-body system, is studied as a function of exchange coupling strength and dot size with in the semiclassical approximation on a discrete lattice. As the exchange coupli ng is decreased or the size is increased, the ground state undergoes a phase cha nge from a single domain ferromagnet to a spin vortex. The line separating these two phases has been calculated numerically for small system sizes. %, and analytically for larger dots. The dipolar interaction has been fully included in our calculations. Magnon frequencies in such a dot have also been calculated in both phases by the linearized equation of motion method. These results have also been reproduced f rom the Fourier transform of the spin autocorrelation function. From the magnon Density Of States (DOS), it is possible to identify the magnetic phase of the dot. Furthermore, the magnon modes have been characterized for both the ferromagnetic and the vortex phase, and the magnon instability mechanism leading to the vortex-ferro transition has also been identified. The results can also be used to compute finite temperature magnetization or vort icity of magnetic dots.
description: 11 figures (12 figure files + 1 tex file)
Hysia: Serving DNN-Based Video-to-Retail Applications in Cloud
Creators: name: Zhang, Huaizheng
name: Li, Yuanming
name: Ai, Qiming
name: Luo, Yong
name: Wen, Yonggang
name: Jin, Yichao
name: Ta, Nguyen Binh Duong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Combining \underline{v}ideo streaming and online \underline{r}etailing (V2R) has been a growing trend recently. In this paper, we provide practitioners and researchers in multimedia with a cloud-based platform named Hysia for easy development and deployment of V2R applications. The system consists of: 1) a back-end infrastructure providing optimized V2R related services including data engine, model repository, model serving and content matching; and 2) an application layer which enables rapid V2R application prototyping. Hysia addresses industry and academic needs in large-scale multimedia by: 1) seamlessly integrating state-of-the-art libraries including NVIDIA video SDK, Facebook faiss, and gRPC; 2) efficiently utilizing GPU computation; and 3) allowing developers to bind new models easily to meet the rapidly changing deep learning (DL) techniques. On top of that, we implement an orchestrator for further optimizing DL model serving performance. Hysia has been released as an open source project on GitHub, and attracted considerable attention. We have published Hysia to DockerHub as an official image for seamless integration and deployment in current cloud environments.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
An approximation for NLO single Higgs boson inclusive transverse momentum distributions in hadron-hadron collisions
Creators: name: Smith, J.
name: van Neerven, W. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the gluon-gluon fusion process for Higgs boson production there are two different prescriptions. They are given by the exact process where the gluons couple via top-quark loops to the Higgs boson and by the approximation where the top-quark mass $m_t$ is taken to infinity. In the latter case the coupling of the gluons to the Higgs boson is described by an effective Lagrangian. Both prescriptions have been used for the $2 \to 2$ body reactions to make predictions for Higgs boson production at hadron colliders. In next-to-leading order only the effective Lagrangian approach has been used to compute the single particle inclusive distributions. The exact computation of the latter has not been done yet because the n-dimensional extensions of $2 \to 3$ processes are not calculated and the two-loop virtual corrections are still missing. To remedy this we replace wherever possible the Born cross sections in the asymptotic top-quark mass limit by their exact analogues. These cross sections appear in the soft and virtual gluon contributions to the next-to-leading order distributions. This approximation is inspired by the fact that soft-plus-virtual gluons constitute the bulk of the higher order correction. Deviations from the asymptotic top-quark mass limit are discussed.
description: 21 pages LaTeX, 20 figures
A Low-Mass Stellar-Debris Stream Associated with a Globular Cluster Pair in the Halo
Creators: name: Yuan, Zhen
name: Chang, Jiang
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Huang, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are expected to be physical relationships between the globular clusters (GCs) and stellar substructures in the Milky Way, not all of which have yet been found. We search for such substructures from a combined halo sample of SDSS blue horizontal-branch and SDSS+LAMOST RR Lyrae stars, cross-matched with astrometric information from $Gaia$ DR2. This is a sample of old stars which are also excellent tracers of structures, ideal for searching for ancient relics in the outer stellar halo. By applying the neural-network-based method StarGO to the full 4D dynamical space of our sample, we rediscover the Sagittarius Stream, and find the debris of the $Gaia$-Enceladus-Sausage (GES) and the Sequoia events in the outer halo, as well as their linkages with several GCs. Most importantly, we find a new, low-mass, debris stream associated with a pair of GCs (NGC 5024 and NGC 5053), which we dub LMS-1. This stream has a very polar orbit, and occupies a region between 10 to 20 kpc from the Galactic center. NGC 5024 (M53), the more-massive of the associated GC pair, is very likely the nuclear star cluster of a now-disrupted dwarf galaxy progenitor, based on the results from N-body simulations.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for ApJL
Baryon Operators and Baryon Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Basak, S.
name: Edwards, R. G.
name: Fleming, G. T.
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Lichtl, A.
name: Morningstar, C.
name: Richards, D. G.
name: Sato, I.
name: Wallace, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The issues involved in a determination of the baryon resonance spectrum in lattice QCD are discussed. The variational method is introduced and the need to construct a sufficient basis of interpolating operators is emphasised. The construction of baryon operators using group-theory techniques is outlined. We find that the use both of quark-field smearing and link-field smearing in the operators is essential firstly to reduce the coupling of operators to high-frequency modes and secondly to reduce the gauge-field fluctuations in correlators. We conclude with a status report of our current investigation of baryon spectroscopy.
description: Invited talk at Workshop on Computational Hadron Physics, Cyprus, Sept. 14-17, 2005
Ökuemnische Centrale (Hrsg.), Ökumenische Arbeitshefte
Creators: name: Müller, Else
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 10 Nr. 4 (1961): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 10, Heft 4
ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS OF TEACHERS TOWARD WRITING INSTRUCTION
Creators: name: Lee, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: attitudes
beliefs
perceptions
writing
product
process

description: This study aims to provide insight into teachers' attitudes toward and beliefs about writing instruction and to discover their beliefs and attitudes are reflected in their writing instruction. The research explores two main approaches to writing, process-based, and product-based, with two upper-level elementary teachers. The theory of planned behavior guides the frame of the study. The theory allowed the study to examine decision-making on a deeper level. It revealed a greater perspective as to why teachers choose a product versus process approach to writing instruction. This research seeks to assist district and school leaders in designing professional learning experiences that will impact educators' beliefs and attitudes toward writing instruction and, ultimately, may help increase the adoption of process-based teaching methods. Data was collected using extensive interviews. The significant finding is that teachers' beliefs and attitudes are the strongest influential factor in their specific approach towards writing instruction and are reflected in their classroom practices. Professional development that places the teachers as writers, allows them to engage in writing actively, and then to step back to think metacognitively about their teaching of writing, is recommended for school districts to ensure students receive high-quality writing instruction.
An Evaluation of the Virginia Nutrient Credit Trading Program
Creators: name: Stephenson, Kurt
name: Aultman, Stephen
name: Shabman, Leonard A.
name: Stephenson, Kurt
name: Aultman, Stephen
name: Shabman, Leonard A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Federal and state regulatory agencies frequently support and encourage the use of market-based effluent trading to achieve social water quality goals. This paper evaluates the design of the recently approved Virginia Nutrient Trading Program. The cost implications of setting a near limit of technology point source cap and requiring new and expanding sources to meet specific technology-based performance standards are examined.
Chemical organization theory: towards a theory of constructive dynamical systems
Creators: name: Dittrich, Peter
name: di Fenizio, Pietro Speroni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Complex dynamical networks consisting of many components that interact and produce each other are difficult to understand, especially, when new components may appear. In this paper we outline a theory to deal with such systems. The theory consists of two parts. The first part introduces the concept of a chemical organization as a closed and mass-maintaining set of components. This concept allows to map a complex (reaction) network to the set of organizations, providing a new view on the system's structure. The second part connects dynamics with the set of organizations, which allows to map a movement of the system in state space to a movement in the set of organizations.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures
Pattern Atlas
Creators: name: Leymann, Frank
name: Barzen, Johanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pattern languages are well-established in the software architecture community. Many different aspects of creating a software architecture are addressed by such languages. Thus, several pattern languages have to be considered when building a particular architecture. But these pattern languages are isolated, i.e. it is hard to determine the relevant patterns to be applied from the different pattern languages. Moreover, the sum of patterns from different languages may be huge, i.e. restriction to relevant patterns is desirable. In this contribution we envision an encompassing tool, the pattern atlas, that supports building complex systems based on pattern languages. The analogy to cartography motivates the name of the tool.
description: 10 pages
The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. III - The Structure and Formation of Early-type Galaxies and their Evolution since z~1
Creators: name: Koopmans, L. V. E.
name: Treu, T.
name: Bolton, A. S.
name: Burles, S.
name: Moustakas, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We present a joint gravitational lensing and stellar dynamical analysis of fifteen massive field early-type galaxies, selected from the Sloan Lens (SLACS) Survey. The following numerical results are found: (i) A joint-likelihood gives an average logarithmic density slope for the total mass density of 2.01 (+0.02/-0.03) (68 perecnt C.L). inside the Einstein radius. (ii) The average position-angle difference between the light distribution and the total mass distribution is found to be 0+-3 degrees, setting an upper limit of <= 0.035 on the average external shear. (iii) The average projected dark-matter mass fraction is inferred to be 0.25+-0.06 inside R_E, using the stellar mass-to-light ratios derived from the Fundamental Plane as priors. (iv) Combined with results from the LSD Survey, we find no significant evolution of the total density slope inside one effective radius: a linear fit gives dγ'/dz = 0.23+-0.16 (1-sigma) for the range z=0.08-1.01. The small scatter and absence of significant evolution in the inner density slopes suggest a collisional scenario where gas and dark matter strongly couple during galaxy formation, leading to a total mass distribution that rapidly converge to dynamical isothermality.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; Accepted by ApJ
Consumer Boycotts and Farm Labor Welfare: A Multi-Level Market Analysis
Creators: name: Palacios, Jamille
name: Emerson, Robert D.
name: VanSickle, John J.
name: Palacios, Jamille
name: Emerson, Robert D.
name: VanSickle, John J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: The paper addresses the economics of recent boycott strategies and impacts of the agreements on labor and industry. A multi-level market model is used to address the linkage between Taco Bell, growers and labor. Analysis of the resulting segmentation of the labor market is also included.
The BRAM is the Limit: Shattering Myths, Shaping Standards, and Building Scalable PIM Accelerators
Creators: name: Kabir, MD Arafat
name: Kamucheka, Tendayi
name: Fredricks, Nathaniel
name: Mandebi, Joel
name: Bakos, Jason
name: Huang, Miaoqing
name: Andrews, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many recent FPGA-based Processor-in-Memory (PIM) architectures have appeared with promises of impressive levels of parallelism but with performance that falls short of expectations due to reduced maximum clock frequencies, an inability to scale processing elements up to the maximum BRAM capacity, and minimal hardware support for large reduction operations. In this paper, we first establish what we believe should be a "Gold Standard" set of design objectives for PIM-based FPGA designs. This Gold Standard was established to serve as an absolute metric for comparing PIMs developed on different technology nodes and vendor families as well as an aspirational goal for designers.
 We then present IMAGine, an In-Memory Accelerated GEMV engine used as a case study to show the Gold Standard can be realized in practice. IMAGine serves as an existence proof that dispels several myths surrounding what is normally accepted as clocking and scaling FPGA performance limitations. Specifically, IMAGine clocks at the maximum frequency of the BRAM and scales to 100% of the available BRAMs. Comparative analyses are presented showing execution speeds over existing PIM-based GEMV engines on FPGAs and achieving a 2.65x - 3.2x faster clock. An AMD Alveo U55 implementation is presented that achieves a system clock speed of 737 MHz, providing 64K bit-serial multiply-accumulate (MAC) units for GEMV operation. This establishes IMAGine as the fastest PIM-based GEMV overlay, outperforming even the custom PIM-based FPGA accelerators reported to date. Additionally, it surpasses TPU v1-v2 and Alibaba Hanguang 800 in clock speed while offering an equal or greater number of MAC units.
description: Accepted for poster presentation in FCCM 2024. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2410.04367
ESTIMATING SITE-SPECIFIC NITROGEN CROP RESPONSE FUNCTIONS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND GEOSTATISTICAL MODEL
Creators: name: Hurley, Terrance M.
name: Malzer, Gary L.
name: Kilian, Bernard
name: Hurley, Terrance M.
name: Malzer, Gary L.
name: Kilian, Bernard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Confirming the precision agriculture hypothesis for variable rate nitrogen applications (VRA) has proven challenging. To confront this challenge, researchers have begun to use increasingly sophisticated statistical models to estimate and compare site-specific crop response functions. While progress has been made, we believe it has been hampered by the lack of a clear conceptual framework to guide and motivate the development of appropriate models and methods. The purpose of this paper was to provide such a framework, while demonstrating its utility. The framework was used to develop a heteroscedastic, fixed and random effects, geostatistical model to test the potential for VRA to increase nitrogen returns. The model was implemented with data collected in 1995 from two corn nitrogen response experiments conducted in South Central Minnesota. Results of the analysis indicate there is significant potential to increase nitrogen returns using VRA. At one location, there was greater than a 95 percent chance that VRA would have increased profitability if the cost of implementing VRA was less than 14.5 $ ha-1. At the other location, if implementation costs were less than 48.3 $ ha-1, there was greater than a 95 percent chance for increased profitability through VRA.
TRADE AND WELFARE EFFECTS OF DAIRY PRICE SUPPORT MEASURES
Creators: name: Kuga, Nobunori
name: Vavra, Pavel
name: Anton, Jesus
name: Dewbre, Joe
name: Kuga, Nobunori
name: Vavra, Pavel
name: Anton, Jesus
name: Dewbre, Joe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Analysis with a stylised model of milk price determination shows that on a dollar for dollar basis it is theoretically possible for milk price support resulting from discriminatory pricing to be as or even more trade distorting than milk price support resulting from explicit trade intervention in dairy product markets. Numerical results suggest that this result depends mainly on the initial trading status of the country in question. However, other parameters, especially the relative elasticities of demand for fluid versus manufacturing milk also matter.
Deep Learning Prediction of Quasars Broad Ly$α$ Emission Line
Creators: name: Fathivavsari, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have employed deep neural network, or deep learning to predict the flux and the shape of the broad Ly$α$ emission lines in the spectra of quasars. We use 17870 high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR > 15) quasar spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 14 (DR14) to train the model and evaluate its performance. The SiIV, CIV, and CIII] broad emission lines are used as the input to the neural network, and the model returns the predicted Ly$α$ emission line as the output. We found that our neural network model predicts quasars continua around the Ly$α$ spectral region with $\sim$6 - 12% precision and $\lesssim$1% bias. Our model can be used to estimate the HI column density of eclipsing and ghostly damped Ly$α$ (DLA) absorbers as the presence of the DLA absorption in these systems strongly contaminates the flux and the shape of the quasar continuum around Ly$α$ spectral region. The model could also be used to study the state of the intergalactic medium during the epoch of reionization.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Anthropogenic Hybridization at Sea: three evolutionary questions relevant to invasive species
Creators: name: Viard, Frédérique
name: Riginos, Cynthia
name: Bierne, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Species introductions promote secondary contacts between taxa with long histories of allopatric divergence. Anthropogenic contact zones thus offer valuable contrasts to speciation studies in natural systems where past spatial isolations may have been brief or intermittent. Investigations of anthropogenic hybridization are rare for marine animals, which have high fecundity and high dispersal ability, characteristics that contrast to most terrestrial animals. Genomic studies indicate that gene flow can still occur after millions of years of divergence, as illustrated by invasive mussels and tunicates. In this context, we highlight three issues: 1) the effects of high propagule pressure and demographic asymmetries on introgression directionality, 2) the role of hybridization in preventing introduced species spread, and 3) the importance of postzygotic barriers in maintaining reproductive isolation. Anthropogenic contact zones offer evolutionary biologists unprecedented large scale hybridization experiments. In addition to breaking the highly effective reproductive isolating barrier of spatial segregation, they allow researchers to explore unusual demographic contexts with strong asymmetries. The outcomes are diverse from introgression swamping to strong barriers to gene flow, and lead to local containment or widespread invasion. These outcomes should not be neglected in management policies of marine invasive species.
description: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences (1934--1990), Royal Society, The, In press
PRICE BEHAVIOR IN CORN MARKET WITH IDENTITY PRESERVED TYPES
Creators: name: Elbehri, Aziz
name: Paarlberg, Philip L.
name: Elbehri, Aziz
name: Paarlberg, Philip L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: This study examines the price behavior for identity preserved and generic corn under different demand and competition conditions. Simulation results suggest that generic corn has a greater market impact on specialty corn than the reverse, and that increased competition within processing may improve price premia received by corn growers.
Additional file 6 of A mixed-methods study exploring women’s perceptions of terminology surrounding fertility and menstrual regulation in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria
Creators: name: Sheehy, Grace
name: Omoluabi, Elizabeth
name: OlaOlorun, Funmilola M.
name: Mosso, Rosine
name: Bazié, Fiacre
name: Moreau, Caroline
name: Bell, Suzanne O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: Fig. S1. Word clouds highlighting terminology used by qualitative interview participants in Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria.
Comment on "Nernst effect in poor conductors and in the cuprate superconductors"
Creators: name: Capan, Cigdem
name: Behnia, kamran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent letter, Alexandrov and Zavaritsky propose a model to explain the anomalous Nernst signal observed in the normal state of hole-doped cuprates. The aim of this comment is to recall that one of the main assumptions of the authors regarding the experimental data is false.
description: final published version
EU-MIGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF LIBERALIZING AGRICULTURAL MARKETS
Creators: name: Brockmeier, Martina
name: Kurzweil, Marianne
name: Brockmeier, Martina
name: Kurzweil, Marianne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: The paper discusses the relevance of migration in the course of the forthcoming eastern enlargement of the EU focusing on the liberalization of the agricultural markets. The technical basis of this research is represented by the general equilibrium model GTAP comprising a survey of existing applications and own calculations including migration.
Tripartite genuinely entangled states from entanglement-breaking subspaces
Creators: name: Sun, Yize
name: Chen, Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The determination of genuine entanglement is a central problem in quantum information processing. We investigate the tripartite state as the tensor product of two bipartite entangled states by merging two systems. We show that the tripartite state is a genuinely entangled state when the range of both bipartite states are entanglement-breaking subspaces. We further investigate the tripartite state when one of the two bipartite states has rank two. Our results provide the latest progress on a conjecture proposed in the paper [Yi Shen $\textit{et al}$, J. Phys. A 53, 125302 (2020)]. We apply our results to construct multipartite states whose bipartite reduced density operators have additive EOF. Further, such states are distillable across every bipartition under local operations and classical communications.
On the Effectiveness of Neural Text Generation based Data Augmentation for Recognition of Morphologically Rich Speech
Creators: name: Tarján, Balázs
name: Szaszák, György
name: Fegyó, Tibor
name: Mihajlik, Péter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Advanced neural network models have penetrated Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in recent years, however, in language modeling many systems still rely on traditional Back-off N-gram Language Models (BNLM) partly or entirely. The reason for this are the high cost and complexity of training and using neural language models, mostly possible by adding a second decoding pass (rescoring). In our recent work we have significantly improved the online performance of a conversational speech transcription system by transferring knowledge from a Recurrent Neural Network Language Model (RNNLM) to the single pass BNLM with text generation based data augmentation. In the present paper we analyze the amount of transferable knowledge and demonstrate that the neural augmented LM (RNN-BNLM) can help to capture almost 50% of the knowledge of the RNNLM yet by dropping the second decoding pass and making the system real-time capable. We also systematically compare word and subword LMs and show that subword-based neural text augmentation can be especially beneficial in under-resourced conditions. In addition, we show that using the RNN-BNLM in the first pass followed by a neural second pass, offline ASR results can be even significantly improved.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication at TSD 2020
Quantum Nonlocality of N-qubit W states
Creators: name: Wu, Chunfeng
name: Chen, Jing-Ling
name: Kwek, L. C.
name: Oh, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An experimental setup for testing quantum nonlocality of N qubits is proposed. This method is a generalization of the optical setup proposed by Banaszek and Wodkiewicz [1]. The quantum nonlocality of N qubits can be obtained through its violation of N-qubit Bell inequalities. The correlation function measured in the experiment is described by the Wigner function. The effect of inefficient detector is also considered.
description: 5 pages and 2 figures, some errors are corrected in v2
MPEG-4 delivery : DMIF based unicast and multicast systems
Creators: name: Asrar Haghighi, Kambiz
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In recent years, there has been tremendous development in the field of multimedia and Internet technologies. However, not until recently did the two areas begin to converge. One standard that attempted to do just this is MPEG-4. This is the first multimedia standard designed with the goal of Internet streaming in mind. The novelty of this concept required a proof of concept as well as a feasible design that would take advantage of these features. This thesis discusses developments in the field of unicast as well as multicast streaming for MPEG-4 traffic based on the Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework (DMIF) standard. The design and implementation required conformance to the systems layer specifications within the standard and interoperability with the IM1 reference software. The unicast system required the design and implementation of multi-client streaming server that would support high complexity multimedia data and deliver transparent data to the receiver. This design includes issues such as rate control, multithreaded development for multi-client operation and other novel features. The development of this unicast system led to some efficiency issues for which a multicast system was proposed and designed based on the DMIF standard with Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) additions. This proposed system is simulated and the performance improvements and design enhancements are discussed. The finished software for the unicast system is part of the verification model for the MPEG-4 standard conformance software. This system is completely standard compliant and provides some media monitoring capabilities and rudimentary interactivity. We expect this work to provide a reference architecture for a wide range of standards compliant MPEG-4 server designs in academic and industrial institutions.
SOCIALLY EFFICIENT ALLOCATION OF GM AND NON-GM CROPS UNDER CONTAMINATION RISK
Creators: name: Sarmiento, Camilo
name: Sarmiento, Camilo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This paper develops a model of optimal allocation of GM and non-GM crops under contamination risk. The model is used to compare the producer optimal crop allocation at equilibrium to the social efficient crop allocation. From the socially optimum conditions, the paper identifies production environments under which GM crops are more likely to be overplanted.
Additional file 1 of Early life skin microbial trajectory as a function of vertical and environmental transmission in Bornean foam-nesting frogs
Creators: name: McGrath-Blaser, Sarah
name: Steffen, Morgan
name: Grafe, T. Ulmar
name: Torres-Sánchez, María
name: McLeod, David S.
name: Muletz-Wolz, Carly R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Pairwise PERMANOVA results for each set of variables for Jaccard (presence/absence), Bray-Curtis (abundance), unweighted UniFrac (phylogenetic relationships), and weighted UniFrac (phylogenetic relationships and abundance) distance matrices. Figure S1. Taxonomic bar plots depicting the bacterial community composition (by genera) of amphibian adults and tadpoles (by species). Table S2. List of taxonomic designations for novel amphibian associated genera recovered from the skin of the Bruneian frogs used in this study and not known from a global dataset of amphibian specific bacterial microbiome data. Table S3. List of differentially expressed OTU’s associated with the cutaneous tadpole microbiome that had a magnitude of change greater than 10 units. Figure S2. Volcano plots comparing differential abundance of OTUs during vertical and environmental transmission. Table S4. Voucher specimen accession numbers and associated field ID numbers.