cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
$κ$-deformed complex fields and discrete symmetries
Creators: name: Arzano, Michele
name: Bevilacqua, Andrea
name: Kowalski-Glikman, Jerzy
name: Rosati, Giacomo
name: Unger, Josua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a construction of $κ$-deformed complex scalar field theory with the objective of shedding light on the way discrete symmetries and CPT invariance are affected by the deformation. Our starting point is the observation that, in order to have an appropriate action of Lorentz symmetries on antiparticle states, these should be described by four-momenta living on the complement of the portion of de Sitter group manifold to which $κ$-deformed particle four-momenta belong. Once the equations of motions are properly worked out from the deformed action we obtain that particle and antiparticle are characterized by different mass-shell constraints leading to a subtle form of departure from CPT invariance. The remaining part of our work is dedicated to a detailed description of the action of deformed Poincaré and discrete symmetries on the complex field.
description: Coincides with the published version
Damped Neutrino Oscillations in a Conformal Coupling Model
Creators: name: Sadjadi, H. Mohseni
name: Ahmadabadi, H. Yazdani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flavor transitions of Neutrinos with a nonstandard interaction are studied. A scalar field is conformally coupled to matter and neutrinos. This interaction alters the neutrino effective mass and its wavefunction leading to a damping factor, causing deficits in the probability densities and affecting the oscillation phase. As the matter density determines the scalar field's behavior, we also have an indirect matter density effect on the flavor conversion. We explain our results in the context of screening models and study the deficit in the total flux of electron-neutrinos produced in the Sun through the decay process and confront our results with observational data.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures, minor corrections, published in Physical Review D
Theorizing modern politics and its ironies of control through the case of East German state socialism
Creators: name: Glaeser, Andreas
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2013

description: This article understands politics as a self-conscious practice aiming at the formation of institutions, which has historically increased in scope, scale and degree of intentionality. Precisely because especially modern political projects are dependent on the cooperation of very large numbers of people, politicians have developed control practices to ensure their success. In other words, politicians have tended to equate control with power, which I take to mean factual success at forming the institutions intended. Control efforts can, however, not only run afoul of modern understandings of selves as autonomous citizens who must be accepted as co-politicians, but also of their epistemic and technological limitations. Thus especially readily legible control efforts can create ironic consequences by systematically undermining the power politicians seek. The socialisms of Eastern Europe form an apex in the development of modern politics towards large scale and deep scope. For that reason they are an excellent field to explore ironies of control in modern politics. This paper analyzes in particular ironies of direction and ironies of political knowledge making by analyzing the efforts of the secret police of the GDR to control the peace and civil rights movements.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 4, No 2 (2013): The Politics of Control and Resistance
Modified Boltzmann Transport Equation
Creators: name: Magas, V. K.
name: Csernai, L. P.
name: Molnar, E.
name: Nyiri, A.
name: Tamosiunas, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently several works have appeared in the literature in which authors try to describe Freeze Out (FO) in energetic heavy ion collisions based on the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE). The aim of this work is to point out the limitations of the BTE, when applied for the modeling of FO or other very fast process, and to propose the way how the BTE approach can be generalized for such a processes.
description: Presented at the 18th Nuclear Physics Division Conference of the EPS "Phase transitions in strongly interacting matter", Prague, Czech Republic, August 23-29, 2004, 4 pages
Special symmetries of the charged Kerr-AdS black hole of D=5 minimal gauged supergravity
Creators: name: Davis, Paul
name: Kunduri, Hari K.
name: Lucietti, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we prove that the Hamilton-Jacobi equation in the background of the recently discovered charged Kerr-AdS black hole of D=5 minimal gauged supergravity is separable, for arbitrary values of the two rotation parameters. This allows us to write down an irreducible Killing tensor for the spacetime. As a result we also show that the Klein-Gordon equation in this background is separable. We also consider the Dirac equation in this background in the special case of equal rotation parameters and show it has separable solutions. Finally we discuss the near-horizon geometry of the supersymmetric limit of the black hole.
description: 7 pages, Latex. v2, two references added and discussion of near horizon limit corrected and expanded
1999 BUSINESS ANALYSIS SUMMARY FOR SWINE FARMS
Creators: name: Nott, Sherrill B.
name: Nott, Sherrill B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This report is a summary of the financial and production records kept by swine farmers enrolled in the Telfarm/MicroTel record program through Michigan State University Extension. Farm records were included if a Finan summary was completed on 1999 data including beginning and ending balance sheets, plus income and expenses. The summary was included if cash discrepancy was less than 10% of gross cash inflow, and if the debt discrepancy was less than $1,000. The averages are reported in the tables below; it should be recognized that considerable variability exist in the data. Six (6) of the nine (9) farms grew crops in addition to hogs. The unweighted mean of acres cropped was 1,047 acres; the standard deviation of the mean was 583 acres and the median was 1,074. The unweighted mean of the net farm income for all nine (9) farms was $(38,306). The standard deviation of the mean was $130,884 and the median was $3,008 of the net farm income. This report has three purposes: 1) to provide statistical information about the financial results on swine farms during 1999; 2) to provide production costs for comparative analysis and forward planning; and 3) to provide information on the trends in resource use, income and costs during the last few years. For swine farm averages in 1995, see Staff Paper 96-86, Michigan Farm Database, New Directions for 1995; it contains averages of 19 swine farms calculated with Finansum. Staff Paper 97-30, Business Analysis Summary for Swine Farms, contains averages of 17 swine farms for 1996. Staff Paper 98-23, 1997 Business Analysis Summary for Swine Farms, contains averages of 20 swine farms for 1997. Staff Paper 99-34, 1998 Business Analysis Summary for Swine Farms, contains averages of 14 swine farms for 1998. These staff papers are available from the author at http://www.msu.edu/user/nott
THE CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF IDEOLOGICAL COMPETENCE
Creators: name: Karimov, Oybek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The theoretical-methodological foundations of developing ideological competence of future pedagogues, the practical methodical system of developing ideological competence of future pedagogues and the effectiveness of developing ideological competence of future pedagogues are studied in the article. Also, the content and conceptual foundations of the concept of ideological competence are analyzed.
A new interpretation of dielectric data in molecular glass formers
Creators: name: Buchenau, U.
name: Ohl, M.
name: Wischnewski, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Literature dielectric data of glycerol, propylene carbonate and ortho-terphenyl (OTP) show that the measured dielectric relaxation is a decade faster than the Debye expectation, but still a decade slower than the breakdown of the shear modulus. From a comparison of time scales, the dielectric relaxation seems to be due to a process which relaxes not only the molecular orientation, but the entropy, the short-range order and the density as well. On the basis of this finding, we propose an alternative to the Gemant-DiMarzio-Bishop extension of the Debye picture.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 68 references; 3. version extended following referee advice
Retardation effects in the rotating string model
Creators: name: Buisseret, F.
name: Semay, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method to study the retardation effects in mesons is presented. Inspired from the covariant oscillator quark model, it is applied to the rotating string model in which a non zero value is allowed for the relative time between the quark and the antiquark. This approach leads to a retardation term which behaves as a perturbation of the meson mass operator. It is shown that this term preserves the Regge trajectories for light mesons, and that a satisfactory agreement with the experimental data can be obtained if the quark self-energy contribution is added. The consequences of the retardation on the Coulomb interaction and the wave function are also analyzed.
description: 4 figures
Pairing Glue in the Hubbard and t-J Models
Creators: name: Maier, T. A.
name: Poilblanc, D.
name: Scalapino, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The question of whether one should speak of a "pairing glue" in the Hubbard and t-J models is basically a question about the dynamics of the pairing interaction. If the dynamics of the pairing interaction arises from virtual states, whose energies correspond to the Mott gap, and give rise to the exchange coupling J, the interaction is instantaneous on the relative time scales of interest. In this case, while one might speak of an "instantaneous glue", this interaction differs from the traditional picture of a retarded pairing interaction. However, if the energies correspond to the spectrum seen in the dynamic spin susceptibility, then the interaction is retarded and one speaks of a spin-fluctuation glue which mediates the d-wave pairing. Here we present results from numerical studies which provide insight into this question.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Dostal, Walter (hrsg.): Die Situation der Indios in Südamerika
Creators: name: Müller, Reinhart
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 25 Nr. 4 (1976): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 25, Heft 4
Orbifold cohomology of torus quotients
Creators: name: Goldin, Rebecca
name: Holm, Tara S.
name: Knutson, Allen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D45; 53D20; 55N91

description: We introduce the_inertial cohomology ring_ NH^*_T(Y) of a stably almost complex manifold carrying an action of a torus T. We show that in the case that Y has a locally free action by T, the inertial cohomology ring is isomorphic to the Chen-Ruan orbifold cohomology ring H_{CR}^*(Y/T) of the quotient orbifold Y/T. For Y a compact Hamiltonian T-space, we extend to orbifold cohomology two techniques that are standard in ordinary cohomology. We show that NH^*_T(Y) has a natural ring surjection onto H_{CR}^*(Y//T), where Y//T is the symplectic reduction of Y by T at a regular value of the moment map. We extend to NH^*_T(Y) the graphical GKM calculus (as detailed in e.g. [Harada-Henriques-Holm]), and the kernel computations of [Tolman-Weitsman, Goldin]. We detail this technology in two examples: toric orbifolds and weight varieties, which are symplectic reductions of flag manifolds. The Chen-Ruan ring has been computed for toric orbifolds, with \Q coefficients, in [Borisov-Chen-Smith]); symplectic toric orbifolds obtained by reduction by a connected torus (though with different computational methods), and extend them to \Z coefficients in certain cases, including weighted projective spaces.
description: 38 pages, 9 figures; final version, to appear in Duke
Sovereignty unchained and chained: Theorizing control through »sovereignty«
Creators: name: Rothe, Matthias
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2013

description: Sovereignty has become such a key concept in critical thought that it can hardly be avoided by any critique of control. Reviewing the genealogy of sovereignty established in the work of Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, this article discusses paradoxes and political implications that emerge from what should be called the "critical sovereignty discourse." A close reading of Kant shows that a crucial stage of the genealogy of this discourse is Kant's attempt to subtract the element of personal force, traditionally the hallmark of sovereignty, in favor of the law. I do not argue for a dismissal of the concept of sovereignty from critical thought, but for its modification. The point of departure for any critical analysis should be the ontological impossibility of sovereign power; sovereignty needs to be theorized as inherently divisible. Drawing on Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault's later lectures and seminars, I employ this premise for the analysis of two prominent features of the US criminal justice system: prosecutorial discretion and mandatory sentencing.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 4, No 2 (2013): The Politics of Control and Resistance
Majorana CP-Violating Phases, RG Running of Neutrino Mixing Parameters and Charged Lepton Flavour Violating Decays
Creators: name: Petcov, S. T.
name: Shindou, T.
name: Takanishi, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the MSSM with see-saw mechanism of neutrino mass generation and soft SUSY breaking with flavour-universal boundary conditions at the GUT scale, in which the lepton flavour violating (LFV) decays μ\to e + γ, τ\to μ+ γ, etc.,are predicted with rates that can be within the reach of present and planned experiments. These predictions depend critically on the matrix of neutrino Yukawa couplings \bf{Y_ν} which can be expressed in terms of the light and heavy right-handed (RH) neutrino masses, neutrino mixing matrix U_{PMNS}, and an orthogonal matrix \bf{R}. We investigate the effects of Majorana CP-violation phases in U_{PMNS}, and of the RG running of light neutrino masses and mixing angles from M_Z to the RH Majorana neutrino mass scale M_R, on the predictions for the rates of LFV decays μ\to e + γ, τ\to μ+ γand τ\to e + γ. Results for neutrino mass spectrum with normal hierarchy, values of the lightest ν-mass in the range 0 \leq m_1 \leq 0.30 eV, and quasi-degenerate heavy RH Majorana neutrinos in the cases of \bf{R} = \bf{1} and complex matrix \bf{R} are presented. We find that the effects of the Majorana CP-violation phases and of the RG evolution of neutrino mixing parameters can change by few orders of magnitude the predicted rates of the LFV decays μ\to e + γand τ\to e + γ. The impact of these effects on the τ\to μ+ γdecay rate is typically smaller and only possible for m_1 > 0.10 eV. If the RG running effects are negligible, in a large region of soft SUSY breaking parameter space the ratio of the branching ratios of the μ\to e + γand τ\to e + γ(τ\to μ+ γ) decays is entirely determined in the case of \bf{R} \cong \bf{1} by the values of the neutrino mixing parameters at M_Z.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures
Adaptive Multidimensional Integration: VEGAS Enhanced
Creators: name: Lepage, G. Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new algorithm, VEGAS+, for adaptive multidimensional Monte Carlo integration. The new algorithm adds a second adaptive strategy, adaptive stratified sampling, to the adaptive importance sampling that is the basis for its widely used predecessor VEGAS. Both VEGAS and VEGAS+ are effective for integrands with large peaks, but VEGAS+ can be much more effective for integrands with multiple peaks or other significant structures aligned with diagonals of the integration volume. We give examples where VEGAS+ is 2-19 times more accurate than VEGAS. We also show how to combine VEGAS+ with other integrators, such as the widely available MISER algorithm, to make new hybrid integrators. For a different kind of hybrid, we show how to use integrand samples, generated using MCMC or other methods, to optimize VEGAS+ before integrating. We give an example where preconditioned VEGAS+ is more than 100 times as efficient as VEGAS+ without preconditio ing. Finally, we give examples where VEGAS+ is more than 10 times as efficient as MCMC for Bayesian integrals with D = 3 and 21 parameters. We explain why VEGAS+ will often outperform MCMC for small and moderate sized problems.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures
Dictionary creation year 5
Creators: name: Beier, Christine
name: Farmer, Stephanie
name: Finley, Greg
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: ore
subject: Máíhĩ̵̀kì language

description: Documents associated with the creation of a draft of the Máíhɨ̃̀kì Dictionary in 2014: typeset by Farmer using a script written by Finley, with front matter written by Beier.
1998 BUSINESS ANALYSIS SUMMARY FOR DAIRY FARMS
Creators: name: Nott, Sherrill B.
name: Nott, Sherrill B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This report has three purposes: 1)to provide statistical information about the financial results on dairy farms during 1998; 2)to provide production costs for comparative analysis and forward planning; and 3)to provide information on the trends in resource use, income and costs during the last few years.
Markets for suspicion: Assessing cost-benefit analysis in criminal justice
Creators: name: Bergin, Tiffany
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2013

description: In recent years, cost-benefit analysis (CBA)-the systematic weighing-up of the economic and social costs and benefits of a particular program, project, or policy, and assigning to them a monetary value-has gained increasing prominence in criminal justice policymaking in the United States and the United Kingdom. This article critically assesses CBA's emergence, exploring both the advantages and challenges it could bring to crime and justice decisions. The article traces CBA's history, and examines whether critiques that have been applied to the use of CBA in other policy domains might also apply in criminal justice. Two major theoretical frameworks-Feeley and Simon's (1992) concept of "actuarial" perspectives in criminal justice and Giddens' (1999) and Beck's (1992) ideas about the "risk society"-are drawn upon to critically evaluate CBA and situate its rise within historical, economic, and political contexts. Given the increasing reliance on CBA calculations in the US, UK, and many other countries, the need for critical assessment of this technique and its potential implications in the criminal justice sphere has never been greater.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 4, No 2 (2013): The Politics of Control and Resistance
Early star formation in the Galaxy from beryllium and oxygen abundances
Creators: name: Pasquini, L.
name: Galli, D.
name: Gratton, R. G.
name: Bonifacio, P.
name: Randich, S.
name: Valle, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the evolution of the star formation rate in the early Galaxy using beryllium and oxygen abundances in metal poor stars. Specifically, we show that stars belonging to two previously identified kinematical classes (the so-called ``accretion'' and ``dissipative'' populations) are neatly separated in the [O/Fe] vs. Log(Be/H) diagram. The dissipative population follows the predictions of our model of Galactic evolution for the thick disk component, suggesting that the formation of this stellar population occurred on a timescale significantly longer (by a factor ~5-10) than the accretion component. The latter shows a large scatter in the [O/Fe] vs. Log(Be/H) diagram, probably resulting from the inhomogeneous enrichment in oxygen and iron of the protogalactic gas. Despite the limitation of the sample, the data suggest that the combined use of products of spallation reactions (like beryllium) and elemental ratios of stellar nucleosynthesis products (like [O/Fe]) can constrain theoretical models for the formation and early evolution of our Galaxy.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A Letters, 4 pages
Black Hole Interior in Unitary Gauge Construction
Creators: name: Nomura, Yasunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum system with a black hole accommodates two widely different, though physically equivalent, descriptions. In one description, based on global spacetime of general relativity, the existence of the interior region is manifest, while understanding unitarity requires nonperturbative quantum gravity effects such as replica wormholes. The other description adopts a manifestly unitary, or holographic, description, in which the interior emerges effectively as a collective phenomenon of fundamental degrees of freedom. In this paper we study the latter approach, which we refer to as the unitary gauge construction. In this picture, the formation of a black hole is signaled by the emergence of a surface (stretched horizon) possessing special dynamical properties: quantum chaos, fast scrambling, and low energy universality. These properties allow for constructing interior operators, as we do explicitly, without relying on details of microscopic physics. A key role is played by certain coarse modes in the zone region (hard modes), which determine the degrees of freedom relevant for the emergence of the interior. We study how the interior operators can or cannot be extended in the space of microstates and analyze irreducible errors associated with such extension. This reveals an intrinsic ambiguity of semiclassical theory formulated with a finite number of degrees of freedom. We provide an explicit prescription of calculating interior correlators in the effective theory, which describes only a finite region of spacetime. We study the issue of state dependence of interior operators in detail and discuss a connection of the resulting picture with the quantum error correction interpretation of holography.
description: 38 pages, 4 figures; v2: solution to the frozen vacuum problem made more explicit; v3: matches published version
CAN THE MOMENTUM BE SUSTAINED? AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE/SASAKAWA GLOBAL 2000'S EXPERIMENT WITH IMPROVED CEREALS TECHNOLOGY IN ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: Howard, Julie A.
name: Demeke, Mulat
name: Kelly, Valerie A.
name: Maredia, Mywish K.
name: Stepanek, Julie
name: Howard, Julie A.
name: Demeke, Mulat
name: Kelly, Valerie A.
name: Maredia, Mywish K.
name: Stepanek, Julie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: A joint research activity of: Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation Grain Marketing Research Project/ Michigan State University. Ethiopia, one of the most densely populated countries in Africa, faces increasing food insecurity unless it can dramatically boost agricultural productivity per hectare. In 1993, the Sasakawa/Global 2000 Program (SG2000) began work in Ethiopia in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture's Department of Extension and Cooperatives (MOA). The objective of their joint program was to demonstrate the productivity increases that could be achieved when farmers were provided with appropriate research messages, adequate extension assistance, and agricultural inputs such as improved seed, fertilizers and agrochemicals, delivered on time at reasonable prices (SG2000 1996). The MOA/SG2000 program provided participating farmers with improved inputs on credit in amounts that were sufficient for one-half hectare demonstration plots. Farmers also received intensive assistance from extension agents. Participants agreed to provide land for the demonstration plot and to pay a 25-50% down payment on the input package before planting, with the balance due after harvest. In 1995, the MOA/SG2000 demonstration program reached more than 3,500 farmers in 4 regions. During the same year the MOA launched the New Extension Program (NEP) funded and managed independently of the MOA/SG program, but based on SG2000 principles. By 1997, the NEP was managing the bulk of the demonstration plots (about 650,000) as the MOA/SG program reduced its direct participation in the demonstration program to about 2,000 plots.
Entanglement of Formation of Bipartite Quantum States
Creators: name: Chen, Kai
name: Albeverio, Sergio
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an explicit tight lower bound for the entanglement of formation for arbitrary bipartite mixed states by using the convex hull construction of a certain function. This is achieved by revealing a novel connection among the entanglement of formation, the well-known Peres-Horodecki and realignment criteria. The bound gives a quite simple and efficiently computable way to evaluate quantitatively the degree of entanglement for any bipartite quantum state.
description: 4 pages
From social control to urban control? Urban protests, policing, and localization in Germany and England (1960s to 1980s)
Creators: name: Weinhauer, Klaus
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2013

description: In England and in Germany, until the 1960s the policing of public protests (as a special field of policing public disorder) aimed at an all-encompassing social control. A strong focus was put on completely controlling a defined physical territory as well as the movements of persons or groups, leaving only very few pockets for independent spatial appropriations. The violent clashes of the 1980s deeply challenged this model of social control as regards protest policing.

In both countries, urban localization was an important factor which can explain these challenges: Local citizens self-confidently claimed the right to protest on their streets in their neighborhood and present their aims, thus using local urban space as a multifold power resource for identity formation, for envisioning the future of the urban, for protesting for local political issues, and also for consumer needs. Implementing an alternative model of protest policing could have helped to avoid or minimize violent confrontations in urban settings. Such an urban control protest policing would have had to be based on interventions that were decentralized in focus, sensitive to space and local issues, and understood the repercussions police interventions could have on street protestors, especially regarding the potential escalation of physical violence.

In England as well as in Western Germany, the hermetic internal culture of the police (with its inherent pattern of masculinity) was the biggest obstacle which worked against abandoning the concept of completely controlling a physical territory and the movements of people in it. In Germany, the abstract state-centered thinking common among policemen ("seeing like a state") and the strict separation of day-to-day routine policing on the one side and the policing of protests which were labeled 'political' on the other side worked massively against establishing an alternative model of protest policing. In England implementing new models of policing was obstructed by a self-image of the police as a neutral mediator of social tensions as well as by the institutional racism of the police.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 4, No 2 (2013): The Politics of Control and Resistance
COUNTY GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION: LEGAL BASIS AND OPTIONS
Creators: name: Harvey, Lynn R.
name: Harvey, Lynn R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Increasing complexity of county government's functions contributes to the need for centralized management. Offers statutory background, process of converting to centralized administration and questions to consider.
description: Revised version of Staff Paper 95-28.
Deregulation and the New Zealand Agricultural Sector: A Review
Creators: name: Johnson, R.W.M.
name: Schroder, William R.
name: Taylor, N.W.
name: Johnson, R.W.M.
name: Schroder, William R.
name: Taylor, N.W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Since July 1984 the New Zealand Government has been following a policy of disengagement and deregulation throughout the New Zealand economy. The impacts of the new policy have been felt at both the macro and the micro level. For the agricultural sector, a closer relationship to international prices and costs has been sought, with less industry assistance and direct support from the Government. With the removal of special privileges formerly enjoyed, the agricultural sector has also become more closely aligned with and vulnerable to changes in major macro parameters in the economy such as exchange rates, interest rates, inflation control and budget economies. The alignment of the agricultural economy with international prices and costs is likely to bring about a smaller and more competitive sector than was previously the case.
An Economic Framework for Evaluating New Wheat Varieties
Creators: name: Brennan, John P.
name: Godyn, Dirk L.
name: Johnston, Brian G.
name: Brennan, John P.
name: Godyn, Dirk L.
name: Johnston, Brian G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Estimation of the benefits of research using changes in producer and consumer surplus following a research-induced shift in the supply curve provides a useful framework for the analysis of new wheat varieties. However, the framework assumes an homogeneous product, which is not the case for wheat where there are changes in quality as a result of research. This aspect is particularly important where there is a trade-off between quality and yield, as in the case of a higher-yielding, but lower-quality wheat variety. The aim of this paper is to incorporate these quality aspects into an analysis based on a partial equilibrium framework by separating the wheat market into segments based on wheat quality. A change in the type of wheat produced can then be represented as a shift from one segment to another. The analysis involves identifying those who will produce the new variety, and defining supply curves for those producers and other producers separately. Empirical testing of the model with hypothetical varieties indicates that the results obtained are consistent with prior expectation.
TextGrids year 2
Creators: name: Beier, Christine
name: Farmer, Stephanie
name: Michael, Lev
name: Sylak, John
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: ore
subject: Máíhĩ̵̀kì language

description: Includes the transcription of texts collected in the same year. Other files related to text work are also included.
EC Agricultural Policy in 1988-89: an early end to reform?
Creators: name: Manegold, Dirk
name: Manegold, Dirk
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This article is part of a series of reviews designed to provide topical information on agriculture and agricultural policy in the European Community. The development and management of major commodity markets are described, together with supplementary programs (set-aside, income aids, extensification and reconversion). Some boundary conditions of the Common Agricultural Policy (monetary and fiscal restrictions, international trade negotiations) are also dealt with. Finally, the consequences for agriculture and the food sector of the imminent realisation of the Community's single internal market are reviewed and some aspects of German agricultural policy are commented on. The state of information being 1 May 1989, the 1989-90 price decisions have already been taken into account.
Systematic renormalization scheme in light-front dynamics with Fock space truncation
Creators: name: Karmanov, V. A.
name: Mathiot, J. -F.
name: Smirnov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of the covariant formulation of light-front dynamics, we develop a general non-perturbative renormalization scheme based on the Fock decomposition of the state vector and its truncation. The counterterms and bare parameters needed to renormalize the theory depend on the Fock sectors. We present a general strategy in order to calculate these quantities, as well as state vectors of physical systems, in a truncated Fock space. The explicit dependence of our formalism on the orientation of the light front plane is essential in order to analyze the structure of the counterterms. We apply our formalism to the two-body (one fermion and one boson) truncation in the Yukawa model and in QED, and to the three-body truncation in a scalar model. In QED, we recover analytically, without any perturbative expansion, the renormalization of the electric charge, according to the requirements of the Ward identity.
description: 32 pages, 14 figures, submitted in Phys. Rev. D
Harmonic Initial-Boundary Evolution in General Relativity
Creators: name: Babiuc, Maria C.
name: Szilagyi, Bela
name: Winicour, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Computational techniques which establish the stability of an evolution-boundary algorithm for a model wave equation with shift are incorporated into a well-posed version of the initial-boundary value problem for gravitational theory in harmonic coordinates. The resulting algorithm is implemented as a 3-dimensional numerical code which we demonstrate to provide stable, convergent Cauchy evolution in gauge wave and shifted gauge wave testbeds. Code performance is compared for Dirichlet, Neumann and Sommerfeld boundary conditions and for boundary conditions which explicitly incorporate constraint preservation. The results are used to assess strategies for obtaining physically realistic boundary data by means of Cauchy-characteristic matching.
description: 31 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Physical Review D
RHESSI images and spectra of two small flares
Creators: name: Maltagliati, L.
name: Falchi, A.
name: Teriaca, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the evolution of two small flares (GOES class C2 and C1) that developed in the same active region with different morphological characteristics: one is extended and the other is compact. We analyzed the accuracy and the consistency of different algorithms implemented in RHESSI software to reconstruct the image of the emitting sources, for energies between 3 and 12 keV. We found that all tested algorithms give consistent results for the peak position whil the other parameters can differ at most by a factor 2. Pixon and Forward-fit generally converge to similar results but Pixon is more reliable for reconstructing a complex source. We investigated the spectral characteristics of the two flares during their evolution in the 3--25 keV energy band. We found that a single thermal model of the photon spectrum is inadequate to fit the observations and we needed to add either a non-thermal model or a hot thermal one.The non-thermal and the double thermal fits are comparable. If we assume a non-thermal model, the non-thermal energy is always higher than the thermal one.Only during the very final decay phase a single thermal model fits fairly well the observed spectrum.
description: 26 pages, 11 figures, accepted by Solar Physics
Effective theories and non-minimal couplings in low-dimensional systems
Creators: name: Campos, M. G.
name: Ospedal, L. P. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dimensionality aspects of non-minimal electromagnetic couplings are investigated. By means of the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation, we attain (non-)relativistic interactions related to the non-minimal coupling in three-dimensional spacetime, for both the bosonic and fermionic fields. Next, we establish some comparisons and analyse particular situations in which the external electromagnetic fields are described either by Maxwell or Maxwell-Chern-Simons Electrodynamics. In addition, we consider the situation of a non-minimal coupling for the fermionic field in four dimensions, carry out its dimensional reduction to three dimensions and show that the three-dimensional scenario previously worked out can be recovered as a particular case. Finally, we discuss a number of structural aspects of both procedures.
description: Comments and references added; results unchanged
Proof of the (local) angular momemtum-mass inequality for axisymmetric black holes
Creators: name: Dain, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that for any vacuum, maximal, asymptotically flat, axisymmetric initial data for Einstein equations close to extreme Kerr data, the inequality $\sqrt{J} \leq m$ is satisfied, where $m$ and $J$ are the total mass and angular momentum of the data. The proof consists in showing that extreme Kerr is a local minimum of the mass.
description: 14 pages
Understanding peer sexual harassment among older male adolescents
Creators: name: White, Aaron Lee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The problem of peer sexual harassment among students in schools and universities has increasingly become the focus of research efforts. Surveys indicate that large numbers of students experience peer harassment. A majority of students at the secondary level report both being sexually harassed by peers and sexually harassing peers. Most research has been directed at documenting the prevalence of the problem, and as yet, very little is known as to why students harass their peers. The present study used survey methods and a correlational research design to investigate peer sexual harassment perpetration among students in late adolescence. Participants were recruited from a medium-sized university to participate in a study on "harassment." The final sample consisted of 199 males ages 18 to 21. Peer sexual harassment perpetration was assessed with a self-report instrument developed for this study. This instrument samples broadly from all peer sexual harassment domains experienced by students, including gender harassment, a domain often overlooked or under-sampled in previous research. Results revealed that almost all participants reported committing sexual harassment against peers and receiving gender harassment from peers in the current school year. Results of a series of multiple regression analyses indicated that 48% of the variance in the sexual harassment of female peers could be accounted for by a set of variables suggested by previous sexual harassment and sexual assault research. The most important of these factors was selfreported sexual harassment victimization, which was operationalized as gender harassment received from other students. Being a target of gender harassment from peers was the most significant predictor across sexual harassment domains for harassment directed at both females and males. Other important predictors included adherence to beliefs about traditional masculinity, having peers with a hypersexual orientation, and tolerant attitudes toward sexual harassment. The results of the study were interpreted as supporting a feminist explanation of sexual harassment. Implications for harassment prevention and intervention programs were made that center around the intertwined roles that gender harassment and masculinity ideology play in the sexual harassment dynamic. Recommendations for research focus on the inclusion of gender harassment and other variables in future investigations of peer sexual harassment.
Real-Time Deep Learning Approach to Visual Servo Control and Grasp Detection for Autonomous Robotic Manipulation
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Eduardo Godinho
name: Mendes, Raul de Queiroz
name: Grassi, Valdir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In order to explore robotic grasping in unstructured and dynamic environments, this work addresses the visual perception phase involved in the task. This phase involves the processing of visual data to obtain the location of the object to be grasped, its pose and the points at which the robot`s grippers must make contact to ensure a stable grasp. For this, the Cornell Grasping dataset is used to train a convolutional neural network that, having an image of the robot`s workspace, with a certain object, is able to predict a grasp rectangle that symbolizes the position, orientation and opening of the robot`s grippers before its closing. In addition to this network, which runs in real-time, another one is designed to deal with situations in which the object moves in the environment. Therefore, the second network is trained to perform a visual servo control, ensuring that the object remains in the robot`s field of view. This network predicts the proportional values of the linear and angular velocities that the camera must have so that the object is always in the image processed by the grasp network. The dataset used for training was automatically generated by a Kinova Gen3 manipulator. The robot is also used to evaluate the applicability in real-time and obtain practical results from the designed algorithms. Moreover, the offline results obtained through validation sets are also analyzed and discussed regarding their efficiency and processing speed. The developed controller was able to achieve a millimeter accuracy in the final position considering a target object seen for the first time. To the best of our knowledge, we have not found in the literature other works that achieve such precision with a controller learned from scratch. Thus, this work presents a new system for autonomous robotic manipulation with high processing speed and the ability to generalize to several different objects.
description: 27 pages, 24 figures. Preprint published in the Elsevier's Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal on February 24, 2021
Determining Consumer Requirements for Lamb Loin Chops - a Preliminary Study
Creators: name: Thatcher, L.P.
name: Couchman, R.C.
name: Thatcher, L.P.
name: Couchman, R.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: There is little published information about what influences individual lamb consumers in Australia, and the factors uppermost in their mind as they make their purchases. Gross consumption and price relationships are available from statistical studies, whilst taste panel responses relating to organoleptic properties are limited to material from technical experiments. It is contended that the gross approach to identifying consumer habits masks the individual needs of consumers. Furthermore, it is suggested that consumers have specific requirements for lamb cuts and joints, but these are compromised at the shop-counter by other factors such as price and the price of alternatives. A survey was conducted amongst 479 people to identify whether people were as discerning as the hypothesis suggested. A Chi-square analysis showed (P < .005) that most consumers required 3 mm fat cover over the eye muscle of lamb loin chops, and that an eye muscle area of about 17.5 cm2 was favoured. It was concluded that consumers appeared to have specific requirements which were masked by current marketing arrangements. This suggested that detailed study of domestic consumer behaviour and habits was warranted.
The Conductance of a Perfect Thin Film with Diffuse Surface Scattering
Creators: name: Bergmann, Gerd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conductance of thin films with diffusive surface scattering was solved semi-classically by Fuchs and Sondheimer. However, when the intrinsic electron mean free path is very large or infinite their conductance diverges. In this letter a simple diffraction picture is presented. It yields a conductance which corresponds to a limiting mean free path. PACS: 73.50.-h, 73.50.Bk, 73.23.-b, 73.25.+i, B146
History and sociology – the First Century. From Ranke to Weber
Creators: name: Tyrell, Hartmann
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2010

description: The contribution deals with the complicated history of the sciences of history and sociology (predominantly in Germany). It shows, firstly, how Ranke formulated one of his essential world-historical insights as definitely closing off from contemporary discourses of the social and the »social movement«. Almost one hundred years later Max Weber integrated this insight of Ranke in his early days into his sociology. Secondly, Tyrell highlights the importance of Dilthey’s »studies of society and history« for a joining of history and sociology. Essential for this was his understanding of »social differentiation«. Thirdly: Before and after 1900, that line of history which was then predominant in Germany and which dealt primarily with the history of political events rejected every programme and idea of social or cultural history. Also for this reason, since the 1890s sociology – being a new scientific discipline – has developed by a clear distance to history. This is illustrated by the example of the sociologists Simmel and Durkheim. The final remark glances briefly at Max Weber’s sociology which rightly so may be called historic sociology.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 1, No 1 (2010): End of Messages? The State of Dialogue between History and Sociology