cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs pervasive emission pricing as well as technology promotion
Creators: name: Pezzey, John C.V.
name: Jotzo, Frank
name: Quiggin, John
name: Pezzey, John C.V.
name: Jotzo, Frank
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: climate policy
subject: greenhouse gas emissions
subject: abatement
subject: emission taxes
subject: emissions trading
subject: technology policy
subject: innovation
subject: Asia-Pacific Partnership
subject: AP6

description: Effective climate policy requires global emissions of greenhouse gases to be cut substantially, which can be achieved by energy supply technologies with lower emissions, greater energy use efficiency, and substitution in demand. For policy to be efficient requires fairly uniform, fairly pervasive emission pricing from taxes, permit trading, or combinations of the two, as well as significant government support for low-emission technologies. We compare the technology-focused climate policies adopted by Australia and the 'Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate' (AP6), against this ideal policy yardstick. We find that such policies omit the need for emission pricing to achieve abatement effectively and efficiently; they over-prescribe which abatement actions should be used most; they make unrealistic assumptions about how much progress can be achieved by voluntarism and cooperation, in the absence of either adequate funding or mandatory policies; and they unjustifiably contrast technology-focused policy and the Kyoto Protocol approach as the only two policies worth considering, and thus ignore important combined policy options.
Open Data Chatbot
Creators: name: Keyner, Sophia
name: Savenkov, Vadim
name: Vakulenko, Svitlana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, chatbots received an increased attention from industry and diverse research communities as a dialogue-based interface providing advanced human-computer interactions. On the other hand, Open Data continues to be an important trend and a potential enabler for government transparency and citizen participation. This paper shows how these two paradigms can be combined to help non-expert users find and discover open government datasets through dialogue.
Resisting the Tourist Gaze. Art Activism Against Cruise Ship Extractivism in the Venice Lagoon
Creators: name: Guaraldo, Emiliano
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The essay situates Venice’s struggles against the cruise ship industry within a larger framework of resistance against planetary extractive capitalism, emphasising the role of local art-activist initiatives in denouncing the social and the ecological degradation caused by the cruise ship presence in Venice. In the first part, the concept of extractive tourism is introduced and analysed in relation to the case of Venice and the cruise companies’ economic model. The operations and infrastructure of cruise tourism produce extractive relations that entangle and exploit tourists, local communities and the natural environment. The Author examines how mass tourism has aggravated the environmental and social issues of the city of Venice and its lagoon. In the second part, the essay presents a number of artistic projects, specifically by visual artists Eleonora Sovrani, Gli Impresari, Banksy, and Elena Mazzi. These artworks can help us visualise the failures of the current urban development model of the tourist economy, while also exposing the nefarious effects of extractive capitalism on the well-being of the lagoon ecosystem and the human and non-human subjects cohabiting in it.

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Additional file 1 of Can volunteer medical visit companions support older adults in the United States?
Creators: name: Sheehan, Orla C.
name: Blinka, Marcela D.
name: Roth, David L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1:. Semi-structured interview guide: Persons accompanied to medical visit
Stern and his critics on discounting and climate change
Creators: name: Quiggin, John
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Stern Review
subject: discounting
subject: climate change

description: This review will focus on the question of discounting. The paper begins with an outline of the expected utility model used in the Stern Review. Next, the question of ‘inherent discounting’, that is, the idea that future outcomes should be discounted simply because they are in the future, is examined, along with the closely related concept of the pure rate of time preference. This discussion forms the basis for an assessment of the approaches to discounting and climate change adopted by the Stern Review and by its critics.
Effects of the dissolution of low-concentration globular clusters on the evolution of globular cluster systems
Creators: name: Vesperini, E.
name: Zepf, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the role of dissolution of low-concentration clusters due to mass loss through stellar evolution on the evolution of the properties of globular cluster systems (GCSs) in elliptical galaxies. Our simulations show that, for an initial mass-concentration relationship based on that inferred from Galactic globular clusters, dissolution of low-concentration clusters leads to the disruption of a large number of clusters. A power-law initial globular cluster system mass function (GCMF) similar to that observed in young cluster systems in merging galaxies is transformed by this dissolution into a bell-shaped GCMF with a mean mass similar to that of old GCSs for all the galaxies investigated. Two-body relaxation and dynamical friction, which are also included in our simulations, subsequently lead to an additional significant evolution and disruption of the population of clusters. As shown previously, when these processes act on a bell-shaped GCMF with a mean mass similar to that of old GCS, they do not significantly alter the value of the mean mass. The final GCMFs are bell-shaped with similar peaks at different radii within galaxies and between different galaxies, in agreement with current observations.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
title: The Exchange Rate and Canadian Inflation Targeting
Creators: name: Ragan, Christopher
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2005

description: The author provides a non-technical explanation of the role played by the exchange rate in Canada's inflation-targeting monetary policy. He reviews the motivation for inflation targeting and describes the monetary transmission mechanism. Though the exchange rate is an integral component of the transmission mechanism, the author explains why it is not a target for monetary policy. He provides a simple taxonomy for exchange rate movements, distinguishing between movements associated with direct shocks to aggregate demand and those unrelated to such direct shocks. He explains the importance to monetary policy of determining the cause of any given movement in the exchange rate, and of determining the net effect on aggregate demand. The author also describes Canadian monetary policy during the 2003–04 period, a time when the Canadian dollar appreciated sharply against the U.S. dollar.
description: L'auteur explique en termes non techniques le rôle du taux de change dans la politique monétaire canadienne, qui est axée sur la poursuite d'une cible d'inflation. Il indique les raisons de l'adoption d'un tel objectif et décrit le mécanisme de transmission monétaire. Il expose pourquoi le taux de change ne constitue pas une cible pour la banque centrale même s'il fait partie intégrante du mécanisme de transmission. L'auteur classe les variations du taux de change en deux catégories : celles associées à des chocs ayant un effet direct sur la demande globale et celles qui ne le sont pas. Il souligne combien il importe, du point de vue de la politique monétaire, de déterminer la cause de toute fluctuation du taux de change ainsi que l'effet net de celle-ci sur la demande globale. Il analyse aussi la politique monétaire menée au Canada en 2003 et 2004, au moment où le dollar canadien enregistrait une forte appréciation par rapport au dollar É.-U.
title: Testing the Parametric Specification of the Diffusion Function in a Diffusion Process
Creators: name: Li, Fuchun
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2005

description: A new consistent test is proposed for the parametric specification of the diffusion function in a diffusion process without any restrictions on the functional form of the drift function. The data are assumed to be sampled discretely in a time interval that can be fixed or lengthened to infinity. The test statistic is shown to follow an asymptotic normal distribution under the null hypothesis that the parametric diffusion function is correctly specified. Monte Carlo simulations are conducted to examine the finite-sample performance of the test, revealing that the test has good size and power.
description: L'auteur propose un nouveau test convergent pour vérifier la validité de la spécification paramétrique de la fonction de diffusion d'un processus où la forme fonctionnelle de la dérive n'est soumise à aucune contrainte. Les données sont tirées par hypothèse d'un échantillon discret constitué sur un intervalle de temps qui peut être fixe ou infini. L'auteur montre que la statistique du test admet pour loi asymptotique la loi normale si l'hypothèse nulle que les paramètres de la fonction de diffusion sont spécifiés correctement est vraie. Il fait appel à des simulations de Monte-Carlo pour analyser la performance du test en échantillon fini. Le niveau et la puissance du test se révèlent satisfaisants.
From the Birth of the Soundscape Concept to the Sound Ambient in Disneyland-Paris
Creators: name: De Zorzi, Giovanni
name: Calandra, Alessio
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

Giovanni De Zorzi traces the historical and aesthetical background of ‘soundscape’, from the sound/noise opposition in physics to the reconsideration of ‘noise’ by the avant-gardes of the twentieth century arriving to the conceptions of Murray Schafer and Steven Feld, which gave birth to many nowadays disciplines. After this, Alessio Calandra deals with the possible influence of the soundscape of Disneyland Park, an amusement park in Disneyland Paris: he begins from some ‘physical’ places of the Park, such as Main Street U.S.A., Frontierland, Adventureland, and arrives to the detailed analysis of their specific soundscape related to the sale of Disney-branded gadgets and products within the park.

description: Lagoonscapes
Studying Hyperon Production With the NuWro Monte Carlo Generator
Creators: name: Thorpe, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Theory and Cosmology - Non Standard Interactions and Cosmology

description: Parallel Flash Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
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Declining inflows and more frequent droughts in the Murray-Darling Basin: climate change, impacts and adaptation
Creators: name: Quiggin, John
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Murray-Darling Basin
subject: climate change
subject: uncertainty

description: It is likely that climate change will be associated with reductions in inflows of water to the Murray–Darling Basin In this paper, we analyse the effects of climate change in the Murray–Darling Basin, using a simulation model that incorporates a state-contingent representation of uncertainty. The severity of the impact depends, in large measure, on the extent to which climate change is manifested as an increase in the frequency of drought conditions. Adaptation will partially offset the adverse impact of climate change.
The minority game: effects of strategy correlations and timing of adaptation
Creators: name: Sherrington, David
name: Galla, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A brief review is given of the minority game, an idealized model of a market of speculative agents, and its complex many-body behaviour. Particular consideration is given to the consequences and implications of correlations between stategies and different frequencies and timings of adaptation.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of Econophysics Bali Conference 2002
title: The Canadian Macroeconomy and the Yield Curve: An Equilibrium-Based Approach
Creators: name: Garcia, René
name: Luger, Richard
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2005

description: The authors develop and estimate an equilibrium-based model of the Canadian term structure of interest rates. The proposed model incorporates a vector-autoregression description of key macroeconomic dynamics and links them to those of the term structure, where identifying restrictions are based on the first-order conditions that describe the representative investor's optimal consumption and portfolio plan. A remarkable result is that the in-sample average pricing errors obtained with the equilibrium-based model are only slightly larger than those obtained with a far more flexible no-arbitrage model. The gains associated with parsimony become obvious out-of-sample, where the equilibrium model delivers much more accurate predictions, especially for yields with longer-term maturities. The preferred equilibrium model has impulse responses that are consistent with long-term inflation expectations being anchored, so a surprise increase in inflation does not necessarily raise expectations of higher future inflation.
description: Les auteurs élaborent et estiment un modèle d'équilibre général de la structure des taux d'intérêt canadiens, dans lequel la dynamique des principales variables macroéconomiques est représentée sous une forme vectorielle autorégressive et reliée à celle de la structure des taux. Les contraintes d'identification du modèle découlent des conditions du premier ordre qui définissent le plan optimal de consommation et de placement de l'investisseur représentatif. Résultat frappant, l'erreur moyenne de prévision des prix obtenue en échantillon est à peine plus élevée dans le modèle d'équilibre que dans un modèle beaucoup plus souple fondé sur l'absence d'arbitrage. Les gains découlant du caractère parcimonieux du modèle sont très nets au delà de la période d'estimation : le modèle d'équilibre produit des prévisions de qualité bien supérieure hors échantillon, surtout dans le cas des taux d'intérêt à long terme. Les profils de réaction que génère le modèle d'équilibre privilégié cadrent avec un ancrage des attentes d'inflation à long terme, en ce sens qu'une hausse imprévue de l'inflation n'accentue pas nécessairement les attentes d'une augmentation de l'inflation dans l'avenir.
The Most Likely Sources of High Energy Cosmic-Ray Electrons in Supernova Remnants
Creators: name: Kobayashi, T.
name: Komori, Y.
name: Yoshida, K.
name: Nishimura, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidences of non-thermal X-ray emission and TeV gamma-rays from the supernova remnants (SNRs) has strengthened the hypothesis that primary Galactic cosmic-ray electrons are accelerated in SNRs. High energy electrons lose energy via synchrotron and inverse Compton processes during propagation in the Galaxy. Due to these radiative losses, TeV electrons liberated from SNRs at distances larger than ~1 kpc, or times older than ~10^5 yr, cannot reach the solar system. We investigated the cosmic-ray electron spectrum observed in the solar system using an analytical method, and considered several candidate sources among nearby SNRs which may contribute to the high energy electron flux. Especially, we discuss the effects for the release time from SNRs after the explosion, as well as the deviation of a source spectrum from a simple power-law. From this calculation, we found that some nearby sources such as the Vela, Cygnus Loop, or Monogem could leave unique signatures in the form of identifiable structure in the energy spectrum of TeV electrons and show anisotropies towards the sources, depending on when the electrons are liberated from the remnant. This suggests that, in addition to providing information on the mechanisms of acceleration and propagation of cosmic-rays, specific cosmic-ray sources can be identified through the precise electron observation in the TeV region.
description: 32 pages, 6 figures, submitted to ApJ
Ultra-Luminous X-ray Source Populations in Normal Galaxies: a Preliminary Survey with Chandra
Creators: name: Humphrey, P. J.
name: Fabbiano, G.
name: Elvis, M.
name: Church, M. J.
name: Balucinska-Church, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a Chandra survey of the ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULX) in 13 normal galaxies, in which we combine source detection with X-ray flux measurement. 22 ULX were detected, i.e. with L_x > 1 x 10^{39} erg s^{-1} (L_10), and 39 other sources were detected with L_x > 5 x 10^{38} erg s^{-1} (L_5). We also use radial intensity profiles to remove extended sources from the sample. The majority of sources are not extended, which for a typical distance constrains the emission region size to less than 50 pc. X-ray colour-colour diagrams and spectral fitting results were examined for indicators of the ULX nature. In the case of the brighter sources, spectral fitting generally requires two-component models. In only a few cases do colour-colour diagrams or spectral fitting provide evidence of black hole nature. We find no evidence of a correlation with stellar mass, however there is a strong correlation with star formation as indicated by the 60 micron flux as found in previous studies.
description: 16 pages including 7 figures, MNRAS accepted
Parallel Quantum Computing Emulation
Creators: name: La Cour, Brian R.
name: Lanham, S. Andrew
name: Ostrove, Corey I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computers provide a fundamentally new computing paradigm that promises to revolutionize our ability to solve broad classes of problems. Surprisingly, the basic mathematical structures of gate-based quantum computing, such as unitary operations on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, are not unique to quantum systems but may be found in certain classical systems as well. Previously, it has been shown that one can represent an arbitrary multi-qubit quantum state in terms of classical analog signals using nested quadrature amplitude modulated signals. Furthermore, using digitally controlled analog electronics one may manipulate these signals to perform quantum gate operations and thereby execute quantum algorithms. The computational capacity of a single signal is, however, limited by the required bandwidth, which scales exponentially with the number of qubits when represented using frequency-based encoding. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a method to extend this approach to multiple parallel signals. Doing so allows a larger quantum state to be emulated with the same gate time required for processing frequency-encoded signals. In the proposed representation, each doubling of the number of signals corresponds to an additional qubit in the spatial domain. Single quit gate operations are similarly extended so as to operate on qubits represented using either frequency-based or spatial encoding schemes. Furthermore, we describe a method to perform gate operations between pairs of qubits represented using frequency or spatial encoding or between frequency-based and spatially encoded qubits. Finally, we describe how this approach may be extended to represent qubits in the time domain as well.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC)
Scaling Approach to the Phase Diagram of Quantum Hall Systems
Creators: name: Goerbig, M. O.
name: Smith, C. Morais
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple classification of the different liquid and solid phases of quantum Hall systems in the limit where the Coulomb interaction between the electrons is significant, i.e. away from integral filling factors. This classification, and a criterion for the validity of the mean-field approximation in the charge-density-wave phase, is based on scaling arguments concerning the effective interaction potential of electrons restricted to an arbitrary Landau level. Finite-temperature effects are investigated within the same formalism, and a good agreement with recent experiments is obtained.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; to be published in Europhys. Lett.; new version contains more detailed description of finite-temperature effects
Measuring Stellar Limb Darkening by Gravitational Microlensing
Creators: name: Heyrovsky, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of microlensing transit events can be used to measure the limb darkening of the lensed star. We discuss the advantages and drawbacks of several microlensing light curve inversion methods. The method of choice in this work is inversion by means of decomposition of the stellar surface brightness profile. We construct an ideal basis by principal component analysis of brightness profiles obtained from model atmosphere calculations. Limb darkening approximations using such a basis are superior to those using standard power-law limb darkening laws. We perform a full analysis of simulated single-lens microlensing transit events including a detailed error analysis of the method. In realistic events with a low impact parameter the brightness profile of the source can be recovered with a relative accuracy of 2% from the center of the source disk to 0.9 of the disk radius. We show that in the particular case of the observed MACHO Alert 95-30 event the intrinsic complex variability of the lensed red giant hinders efforts to recover its surface features.
description: 47 pages, 11 figures - accepted by The Astrophysical Journal
Additional file 1 of Social cognition in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and idiopathic developmental neuropsychiatric disorders
Creators: name: Rhideeta Jalal
name: Nair, Aarti
name: Lin, Amy
name: Eckfeld, Ariel
name: Kushan, Leila
name: Zinberg, Jamie
name: Karlsgodt, Katherine H.
name: Cannon, Tyrone D.
name: Bearden, Carrie E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Group means and standard deviations for SRS total and subscale T-scores. Supplementary Table 2. Spearman correlations between TASIT total score and SRS subscale scores. Supplementary Table 3. ASD and 22q11DS subgroup means and standard deviations for TASIT, SRS, and WASI-II IQ scores
Bioramix (Leipopleura) hongyuanensis Li & Egorov 2013
Creators: name: Bai, Xing-Long
name: Ren, Guo-Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Bioramix
Bioramix hongyuanensis

description: Bioramix (Leipopleura) hongyuanensis Li & Egorov, 2013 (Figs 76–77, 236–237, 338) Bioramix (Leipopleura) hongyuanensis Li & Egorov in Li et al., 2013: 90; Li et al., 2016a: 39; Egorov, 2019: 981. Type material. Holotype: ♂ (MCWNU), 2009-VII-25, Hongyuan County, Sichuan, Ai-Min Shi & Yong-Fu Wang leg., Museum of China West Normal University // HOLOTYPE (Figs 236, 338). Paratypes: 12♂♂, 13♀♀ (MC- WNU), 1♂, 1♀ (MHBU), 2009-VII-25, Hongyuan County, Sichuan, Ai-Min Shi & Yong-Fu Wang leg., Museum of China West Normal University // PARATYPE. Other material. CHINA: Qinghai: 8♂♂, 5♀♀ (MHBU), Longge, Baiyü Township, [Jigzhi County], 33.2569° N, 100.8194° E, 3897 m, 12.VII.2009, Guo-Dong Ren, Yi-Bin Ba & Yong Zhou leg. Sichuan: 3♂♂ (MHBU), Hongyuan County, 26.VII.1999, Guo-Dong Ren leg.; 12♂♂, 10♀♀ (MHBU), Shuajingsi Town, Hongyuan County, 28.VII.2009, Zhen-Hua Gao & Yi-Ping Niu leg.; 4♂♂, 5♀♀ (MHBU), Anqog Town, Hongyuan County, Aba Zhou [equivalent to City], 24.VII.2011, Guo-Dong Ren et al. leg.; 1♀ (MHBU), Hongxing Township, Zoigê County, 10.VII.2009, Guo-Dong Ren, Yi-Bin Ba & Yong Zhou leg.; 4♂♂, 4♀♀ (MHBU), Qiujima Township, Aba County, 11.VII.2009, Guo-Dong Ren, Yi-Bin Ba & Yong Zhou leg.; 1♂ (MCWNU), Anchang, An Xian, 18.VII.2009, Juan Li & Xia Yan leg. Distribution. China: Qinghai (new record), Sichuan (Li et al., 2013; Egorov, 2019).
description: Published as part of Bai, Xing-Long & Ren, Guo-Dong, 2020, Revision of the genus Bioramix Bates, 1879 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Platyscelidini) from China, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 4815 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4815.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3944316
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The Role of Performance in Environmental Humanities: The Case of Joan Jonas’s Moving Off the Land II
Creators: name: Giannachi, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This article explores the role of performance in Environmental Humanities by discussing Joan Jonas’s staging of Moving Off The Land II at Ocean Space in Venice as a case study. More specifically, the article shows that Moving Off The Land II and Ocean Space have created a space in which to practice environmental art illustrating how co-habiting ecosystems that we regularly fail to acknowledge should form part of how we construct our own presence.

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title: Quantity, Quality, and Relevance: Central Bank Research, 1990–2003
Creators: name: St-Amant, Pierre
name: Tkacz, Greg
name: Guérard-Langlois, Annie
name: Morel, Louis
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2005

description: The authors document the research output of 34 central banks from 1990 to 2003, and use proxies of research inputs to measure the research productivity of central banks over this period. Results are obtained with and without controlling for quality and for policy relevance. The authors find that, overall, central banks have been hiring more researchers and publishing more research since 1990, with the United States accounting for more than half of all published central bank research output, although the European Central Bank is rapidly establishing itself as an important research centre. When controlling for research quality and relevance, the authors generally find that there is no clear relationship between the size of an institution and its productivity. They also find preliminary evidence of positive correlations between the policy relevance and the scientific quality of central bank research. There is only very weak evidence of a positive correlation between the quantity of external partnerships and the productivity of researchers in central banks.
description: Les auteurs examinent les travaux publiés par 34 banques centrales de 1990 à 2003 et se servent de variables d'approximation pour mesurer la productivité de ces institutions durant la période considérée. Les résultats sont obtenus avec et sans la prise en compte de la qualité des recherches et de leur pertinence au regard des politiques publiques. Les auteurs constatent que, dans l'ensemble, les banques centrales recrutent plus de chercheurs et publient davantage de travaux depuis 1990. Plus de la moitié de toutes les études publiées sont américaines, même si l'on note que la Banque centrale européenne tend à s'imposer rapidement comme un important centre de recherche. Au chapitre de la valeur et de la pertinence des publications, les auteurs n'observent généralement aucune relation claire entre la taille d'une banque centrale et sa productivité. Des données préliminaires font toutefois apparaître une corrélation positive entre la valeur scientifique des travaux et leur pertinence sur le plan des politiques. Par ailleurs, la relation entre le nombre de partenariats externes et la productivité des chercheurs au sein des banques centrales est positive mais peu significative.
Cost Structure of the Ontario Dairy Industry Revisited: Distributional Aspects
Creators: name: Rajsic, Predrag
name: Rajsic, Predrag
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: supply management
subject: cost structure
subject: quota purchases

description: The initially stated objective of the Canadian dairy supply management–farm revenue risk reduction–has been met well by the program. However, it is less clear whether the program has served all farms equally well. Namely, it is not known how successful the program was in enhancing the cost-effectiveness of smaller farms. This paper uses the 2006 Ontario dairy farm-level accounting data to compare the estimated cost structure with that identified by Moschini (1988). Next, farm size and profit distribution changes are assessed. Finally, the paper provides a simple framework for examining the relationship between current farm size and quota purchases by individual farms. The results suggest that the general cost pattern identified in the early 1980s has been retained. Average cost declines as output increases at lower output levels. However, the minimum-cost farm size has increased about threefold. Additionally, both output and profit distributions have become more skewed, with a lesser contribution by smaller farms. There is evidence that the possibility of quota exchange facilitated the greater expansion of larger farms and that the process of divergence in size and profit between small and large farms is continuing. These results have bearing on the sustainability of smaller farms.
Venetian Lagoon Mussel Farming Between Tradition and Innovation
Creators: name: Vianello, Rita
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

In Venetian lagoon, mussels as a food, together with technical innovations and new knowledge for their exploitation, are a recent discovery. In the past, the lagoon’s fishers considered them inedible. The first mussel farming was launched in 1939 and mussels began a new process of rehabilitation. It is the beginning of a new relationship. Mussels turn themselves into delicate animals that need care and fishers develop new interactions with the other non-human components of the environment. A mutual relationship (or inter-agentivity) is created between mussel farmers and mussels, and it brings undeniable advantages to both species.

description: Lagoonscapes
An Initial Survey of White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Harris, H. C.
name: Liebert, J.
name: Kleinman, S. J.
name: Nitta, A.
name: Anderson, S. F.
name: Knapp, G. R.
name: Krzesinski, J.
name: Schmidt, G.
name: Strauss, M. A.
name: Berk, D. Vanden
name: Eisenstein, D.
name: Hawley, S.
name: Margon, B.
name: Munn, J. A.
name: Silvestri, N. M.
name: Smith, A.
name: Szkody, P.
name: Collinge, M. J.
name: Dahn, C. C.
name: Fan, X.
name: Hall, P. B.
name: Schneider, D. P.
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Burles, S.
name: Gunn, J. E.
name: Hennessy, G. S.
name: Hindsley, R.
name: Ivezic, Z.
name: Kent, S.
name: Lamb, D. Q.
name: Lupton, R. H.
name: Nichol, R. C.
name: Pier, J. R.
name: Schlegel, D. J.
name: SubbaRao, M.
name: Uomoto, A.
name: Yanny, B.
name: York, D. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An initial assessment is made of white dwarf and hot subdwarf stars observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In a small area of sky (190 square degrees), observed much like the full survey will be, 269 white dwarfs and 56 hot subdwarfs are identified spectroscopically where only 44 white dwarfs and 5 hot subdwarfs were known previously. Most are ordinary DA (hydrogen atmosphere) and DB (helium) types. In addition, in the full survey to date, a number of WDs have been found with uncommon spectral types. Among these are blue DQ stars displaying lines of atomic carbon; red DQ stars showing molecular bands of C_2 with a wide variety of strengths; DZ stars where Ca and occasionally Mg, Na, and/or Fe lines are detected; and magnetic WDs with a wide range of magnetic field strengths in DA, DB, DQ, and (probably) DZ spectral types. Photometry alone allows identification of stars hotter than 12000 K, and the density of these stars for 15
description: Accepted for AJ; 43 pages, including 12 figures and 5 tables
Complier stochastic direct effects: identification and robust estimation
Creators: name: Rudolph, Kara E.
name: Sofrygin, Oleg
name: Laan, Mark J. Van Der
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Mediation analysis is critical to understanding the mechanisms underlying exposure-outcome relationships. In this paper, we identify the instrumental variable-direct effect of the exposure on the outcome not through the mediator, using randomization of the instrument. We call this estimand the complier stochastic direct effect (CSDE). To our knowledge, such an estimand has not previously been considered or estimated. We propose and evaluate several estimators for the CSDE: a ratio of inverse-probability of treatment-weighted estimators (IPTW), a ratio of estimating equation estimators (EE), a ratio of targeted minimum loss-based estimators (TMLE), and a TMLE that targets the CSDE directly. These estimators are applicable for a variety of study designs, including randomized encouragement trials, like the Moving to Opportunity housing voucher experiment we consider as an illustrative example, treatment discontinuities, and Mendelian randomization. We found the IPTW estimator to be the most sensitive to finite sample bias, resulting in bias of over 40% even when all models were correctly specified in a sample size of N = 100. In contrast, the EE estimator and TMLE that targets the CSDE directly were far less sensitive. The EE and TML estimators also have advantages in terms of efficiency and reduced reliance on correct parametric model specification.
Gaps between consecutive untwisting numbers
Creators: name: McCoy, Duncan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For $p\geq 1$ one can define a generalization of the unknotting number $tu_p$ called the $p$th untwisting number which counts the number of null-homologous twists on at most $2p$ strands required to convert the knot to the unknot. We show that for any $p\geq 2$ the difference between the consecutive untwisting numbers $tu_{p-1}$ and $tu_p$ can be arbitrarily large. We also show that torus knots exhibit arbitrarily large gaps between $tu_1$ and $tu_2$.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 2 of Can volunteer medical visit companions support older adults in the United States?
Creators: name: Sheehan, Orla C.
name: Blinka, Marcela D.
name: Roth, David L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2:. Semi-structured interview guide: Persons who accompany older adults to medical visits
Comparison of the nitrogen balance in paddy fields under conventional rice straw application versus cow dung compost application in mixed crop–livestock systems
Creators: name: Nguyen, Tung Thanh
name: Sasaki, Yuka
name: Ken-Ichi Kakuda
name: Fujii, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: In Japan, rice straw (RS) is commonly incorporated into the soil after harvest to maintain the fertility of paddy soil. However, in mixed crop–livestock systems, RS is collected to feed livestock and then cow dung compost (CDC) is applied to the fields. We found in previous research that CDC supplied more N to the fields than RS, but the soil total N and available N of fields to which CDC was applied were similar to those receiving conventional RS application. To identify the reason for this result, we investigated the N inputs (organic matter, fertilizer, N fixation), N outputs (plant N uptake, N leaching loss), and the N balance of RS application (RS treatment) and RS removal plus CDC application (CDC treatment) in 10 neighboring paddy field pairs in Mamurogawa town, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. The N fertilizer contributed the highest percentage to total N input, followed by organic matter and N fixation. The amounts of N fertilizer and N fixation in the RS treatment were similar to those in the CDC treatment. CDC contributed significantly more N to the fields than RS, but the total N input was similar between treatments. The N output from plant N uptake and leaching loss were higher in the CDC treatment than the RS treatment, but the difference was not significant. Plant N uptake was the main N output, accounting for 98% of total N output. The N balance was positive and similar between treatments. Therefore, the non-significant differences in total N input, total N output, and N balance between treatments explain the similarity in soil total N and available N.
What drives the translocation of stiff chains?
Creators: name: Zandi, Roya
name: Reguera, David
name: Rudnick, Joseph
name: Gelbart, William M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of the passage of a stiff chain through a pore into a cell containing particles that bind reversibly to it. Using Brownian Molecular Dynamics simulations we investigate the mean-first-passage time as a function of the length of the chain inside, for different concentrations of binding particles. As a consequence of the interactions with these particles, the chain experiences a net force along its length whose calculated value from the simulations accounts for the velocity at which it enters the cell. This force can in turn be obtained from the solution of a generalized diffusion equation incorporating an effective Langmuir adsorption free energy for the chain plus binding particles. These results suggest a role of binding particles in the translocation process which is in general quite different from that of a Brownian ratchet. Furthermore, non-equilibrium effects contribute significantly to the dynamics, \emph{e.g.}, the chain often enters the cell faster than particle binding can be saturated, resulting in a force several times smaller than the equilibrium value.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Measurement of the Electron-Neutrino Charged-Current Inclusive Cross- Section on Argon in MicroBooNE
Creators: name: Reggiani-Guzzo, Marina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino masses and Mixings, Cross Sections

description: Parallel Flash Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: on behalf of the MicroBooNE Collaboration
description: {"references": ["arXiv:2101.04228"]}
title: Measurement Bias in the Canadian Consumer Price Index
Creators: name: Rossiter, James
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2005

description: The consumer price index (CPI) is the most commonly used measure of inflation in Canada. As an indicator of changes in the cost of living, however, the CPI is subject to various types of measurement bias. The author updates previous Bank of Canada estimates of the bias in the Canadian CPI by examining four different sources of potential bias. He finds that the total measurement bias has increased only slightly in recent years to 0.6 percentage points per year, and is low when compared with other countries.
description: L'indice des prix à la consommation (IPC) est la mesure de l'inflation la plus couramment utilisée au Canada. Toutefois, à titre d'indicateur des variations du coût de la vie, l'IPC est sujet à divers types de biais de mesure. L'auteur met à jour les estimations de la Banque du Canada quant au biais propre à l'IPC canadien en examinant quatre sources possibles de biais. Il conclut que le biais de mesure total n'a que très peu augmenté ces dernières années (il serait passé à 0,6 point de pourcentage annuel) et qu'il est faible par rapport à d'autres pays.
Archiokrisna Freytag 2012, new genus
Creators: name: Freytag, Paul H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Archiokrisna

description: Archiokrisna Freytag, new genus
 Type species: Krisna garciamarquezi Dietrich, here designated.
 Description. Length of male 7 mm. One species was described by Dietrich, in Dietrich and Vega (1995), for an amber-preserved specimen from the Dominican Republic. This description is adequate to describe this genus and the species. The main characters that differ from other genera is the anterior margin of the head is not sharply foliaceous as in present day New World species, but not bluntly rounded as in the Old World genus Krisna. Also the male seventh sternum is greatly expanded and the subgenital plates are very long which is not found in present day species. Only the one species is known.
 Etymology. The genus name is formed from the Greek stem archi- meaning first or ancient in combination with the name krisna. The gender is feminine.
description: Published as part of Freytag, Paul H., 2012, A review of the New World Krisnini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae) including three genera and six new species, pp. 1-8 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (246) on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174581
Bodily Transformations: Goethe and Mann in Venice
Creators: name: Sullivan, Heather I.
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

Using material ecocriticism, this essay considers how Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Italian Journey portray the experience of Venice’s watery boundaries as transformative of both one’s sense of the body and of body itself. Mann obsessively presents bodies in Death in Venice, including the impact of cholera on the body of his protagonist, Aschenbach, and the idealised form of the Polish boy Tadzio; yet his text also eludes portraying Aschenbach’s death in any graphic detail. In other words, bodies matter in Death in Venice but there appears to be an inappropriate and less bodily gradient for the impact of disease such that the bodies of the workers who succumbed to cholera are portrayed in horrific detail while Aschenbach just quietly falls asleep, transformed visibly only by cosmetics. Goethe, in turn, also embraces both a bodily focus in his Italian writings, and one that similarly looks away from gritty embodiment. His journal depicts more abstract and scientific details of non-human bodies that later shape his writings on botany, optics, and morphology. However, Goethe’s text presents a proto-ecological sense of natural bodies immersed in an animated, lively, and disturbing world of water and life, one clearly inspired by his study of the ocean and lagoon in Venice.

description: Lagoonscapes
Additional file 1 of IκBα targeting promotes oxidative stress-dependent cell death
Creators: name: Carrà, Giovanna
name: Ermondi, Giuseppe
name: Riganti, Chiara
name: Righi, Luisella
name: Caron, Giulia
name: Menga, Alessio
name: Capelletto, Enrica
name: Maffeo, Beatrice
name: Lingua, Marcello Francesco
name: Fusella, Federica
name: Volante, Marco
name: Taulli, Riccardo
name: Guerrasio, Angelo
name: Novello, Silvia
name: Brancaccio, Mara
name: Piazza, Rocco
name: Morotti, Alessandro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.