cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Obesity and Hyperbolic Discounting: An Experimental Analysis
Creators: name: Richards, Timothy J.
name: Hamilton, Stephen F.
name: Pofahl, Geoffrey M.
name: Richards, Timothy J.
name: Hamilton, Stephen F.
name: Pofahl, Geoffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: addiction
subject: discounting
subject: experiments
subject: hyperbolic
subject: obesity
subject: time-inconsistency.

description: Behavioral economists maintain that addictions such as alcoholism, smoking and over-eating represent examples of present-bias in decision making that is fundamentally irrational. In this article, we develop a model of present bias and apparently hyperbolic discounting that is fully consistent with rational behavior. We construct an experiment to test our hypothesis and to determine whether discount rates differ for individuals who engage in behaviors that could endanger their health. Our results show that discount functions are quasi-hyperbolic in shape, and that obesity and drinking are positively related to the discount rate. Anti-obesity policy, therefore, would be best directed to informing individuals as to the long-term implications of short-term gratification, rather than taxing foods directly.
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Results
Creators: name: McDonald, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory uses 1000 tonnes of heavy water in an ultra-clean Cherenkov detector situated 2 km underground in Ontario, Canada to study neutrinos from the Sun and other astrophysical sources. The Charged Current (CC) reaction on deuterium is sensitive only to electron neutrinos whereas the Neutral Current (NC) is equally sensitive to all active neutrino types. By measuring the flux of neutrinos from 8B decay in the Sun with the CC and NC reactions it has been possible to establish clearly, through an appearance measurement, that electron neutrinos change to other active neutrino types, properties that are beyond the Standard Model of elementary particles. The observed total flux of active neutrinos agrees well with solar model flux calculations for 8B. This provides a clear answer to the "Solar Neutrino Problem". When these results are combined with other measurements, the oscillation of massive neutrinos is strongly defined as the primary mechanism for flavor change and oscillation parameters are well constrained.
description: Invited Paper for Nobel Symposium 129, August 19-24, 2004, Enkoping, Sweden, 14 pages, 2 figures
Protothea indica Timberlake 1943
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Protothea
Protothea indica

description: 76. indica Timberlake, 1943
Distribution: India (Andamans, Bihar, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Odisha, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal); Pakistan; Thailand.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Additional file 1 of Right ventricular function parameters in pulmonary hypertension: echocardiography vs. cardiac magnetic resonance
Creators: name: Evaldsson, Anna Werther
name: Lindholm, Anthony
name: Jumatate, Raluca
name: Ingvarsson, Annika
name: Smith, Gustav Jan
name: Waktare, Johan
name: Rådegran, Göran
name: Roijer, Anders
name: Meurling, Carl
name: Ostenfeld, Ellen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Differences in characteristics and ventricular function parameters between gender, comorbidities and aetiology of pulmonary hypertension.
Commodity Price Pass-Through in Differentiated Retail Food Markets
Creators: name: Richards, Timothy J.
name: Allender, William J.
name: Pofahl, Geoffrey M.
name: Richards, Timothy J.
name: Allender, William J.
name: Pofahl, Geoffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: commodity prices
subject: conduct
subject: industrial organization
subject: inflation
subject: market power
subject: nested logit
subject: pass-through
subject: random parameters model

description: Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but by early 2009 interest focused more on the seeming inability of food prices to fall back down with commodity prices. This study provides an empirical investigation into the pass-through of commodity prices to retail prices for two different types of food products: potatoes and fluid milk. The results show that pass-through depends on the nature of the food in question, but is generally consistent with theoretical models of pricing by sellers of multiple, differentiated products. In particular, pass-through rates tend to be lower for processed (differentiated) products during periods of falling input prices than when input prices are rising. For less processed products, pass-through tends to be higher during regimes of both rising and falling input prices. Our results show that pass-through depends on the degree of pricing power possessed by all channel members and, more generally, suggest a nuanced approach to understanding retail food price inflation.
Weak Conservation Laws for Minimizers which are not Pontryagin Extremals
Creators: name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49K15; 70H33; 37J15

description: We prove a Noether-type symmetry theorem for invariant optimal control problems with unrestricted controls. The result establishes weak conservation laws along all the minimizers of the problems, including those minimizers which do not satisfy the Pontryagin Maximum Principle.
description: Accepted for presentation (Paper No: 113) at the 2nd International Conference "Physics and Control" (PhysCon 2005), August 24-26, 2005, Saint Petersburg, Russia. To appear in the respective Conference Proceedings
The social construction of salmon farming in British Columbia : power, knowledge, and production
Creators: name: Schreiber, Dorothee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: My study deals with the controversy over salmon farming as a problem in the sociology of knowledge. I demonstrate the reality of social constructs of salmon farming by locating knowledge within people's everyday, lived experience. By thinking with and against one another, people are able to recreate the conditions under which salmon farming is possible in the first place. At the same time, the interactions through which these meanings about farmed salmon are constructed take place in historically unique and culturally specific contexts. I find that the things of salmon farming are continuous with the patterns of social action and interaction in which people are enmeshed. I try to understand the relationship between power and knowledge by looking to people's interests and activities for the basis of their understanding of salmon aquaculture. My study focuses largely on the relationship between two First Nations groups, the Namgis and the Ahousaht, and the salmon farming companies operating in their territories. I examine how the colonial conflict over modes of production reappears in the controversy over salmon farming, and how farmed salmon is constructed by salmon farmers through the exercise o f colonial power. In particular, I explain the techniques used by salmon farmers to exercise control over natural resources and over opposing environmentalist and Native forces.
Conservation Auctions and Compliance: Theory and Evidence from Laboratory Experiments
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Kentaro
name: Fujie, Takeshi
name: Koito, Kentaro
name: Inoue, Norikazu
name: Sasaki, Hiroki
name: Kawasaki, Kentaro
name: Fujie, Takeshi
name: Koito, Kentaro
name: Inoue, Norikazu
name: Sasaki, Hiroki
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Auctions
subject: Conservation contracting
subject: Compliance

description: A number of agri-environmental conservation policies are faced with the problem of imperfect monitoring. This provides farmers an incentive for noncompliance, in which they receive subsidies without implementing the conservation scheme. In this article, bidding behaviors and auction performances are compared for discriminatory-price (DP) and uniform-price (UP) auction in an imperfect monitoring environment. Our laboratory experiments show that although DP has certain advantages in terms of reducing policy costs, UP results in a superior overall performance when compliance behavior is taken into account.
description: Poster prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association 2010 AAEA,CAES, & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 25-27, 2010.
Free Magnetic Moments in Disordered Metals
Creators: name: Kettemann, Stefan
name: Mucciolo, Eduardo R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The screening of magnetic moments in metals, the Kondo effect, is found to be quenched with a finite probability in the presence of nonmagnetic disorder. Numerical results for a disordered electron system show that the distribution of Kondo temperatures deviates strongly from the result expected from random matrix theory. A pronounced second peak emerges for small Kondo temperatures, showing that the probability that magnetic moments remain unscreened at low temperatures increases with disorder. Analytical calculations, taking into account correlations between eigenfunction intensities yield a finite width for the distribution in the thermodynamic limit. Experimental consequences for disordered mesoscopic metals are discussed.
description: RevTex 4.0, 4.3 pages, 4 EPS figures; typos fixed, reference added, final published version
Market-Based Instruments for the Optimal Control of Invasive Insect Species: B. Tabaci in Arizona
Creators: name: Richards, Timothy J.
name: Ellsworth, Peter
name: Tronstad, Russell
name: Naranjo, Steve
name: Richards, Timothy J.
name: Ellsworth, Peter
name: Tronstad, Russell
name: Naranjo, Steve
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: externalities
subject: invasive species
subject: optimal control
subject: permits
subject: spatial-temporal model
subject: taxes.

description: Invasive insect species represent perhaps one of the most significant potential sources of economic risk to U.S. agricultural production. Private control of invasive insect species is likely to be insufficient due to negative externality and weaker-link public good problems. In this study, we compare a system of Pigouvian taxes with tradable permits for invasive species control. While the emissions control literature shows that taxes are preferred to permits under cost uncertainty, invasive species control involves correlated cost and benefit uncertainty, so we expect a quantity-based system to be preferred. Monte Carlo simulations of optimal steady-state outcomes confirm our expectations.
Additional file 2 of Acceptability of the “MOVEdiabetes” physical activity intervention in diabetes primary care settings in Oman: findings from participants and practitioners
Creators: name: Alghafri, Thamra S.
name: Saud M. Al Harthi
name: Al-Ajmi, Fatma
name: Al-Farsi, Yahya
name: Craigie, Angela M.
name: Bannerman, Elaine
name: Anderson, Annie S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: “MOVEdiabetes” End of Study Questionnaire - Project officer
Farmer Participation in Supermarket Channels, Production Technology and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Vegetables in Kenya
Creators: name: Rao, Elizaphan J.O.
name: Brümmer, Bernhard
name: Qaim, Matin
name: Rao, Elizaphan J.O.
name: Brümmer, Bernhard
name: Qaim, Matin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: supermarkets
subject: meta-frontier
subject: productivity
subject: meta-technology ratio
subject: sample selection
subject: Kenya

description: Supermarkets are currently gaining ground in the agri-food systems of many developing countries. While recent research has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on farming efficiency have hardly been studied. Productivity effects in previous studies are also estimated with respect to different frontiers. Using a survey of Kenyan vegetable growers and a meta-frontier approach, we control for self-selection using propensity score matching and show that participation in supermarket channels increases farm productivity by 35-38%. Effects on technical efficiency are, however, insignificant. Supermarket expansion therefore presents opportunities for realizing agricultural growth, thus enhancing poverty alleviation and rural development.
An approximately analytical solution method for the cable-driven parallel robot in FAST
Creators: name: Yin, Jia-Ning
name: Jiang, Peng
name: Yao, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FAST is the largest single-dish aperture telescope with a cable-driven parallel robot introduced to achieve the highest sensitivity in the world. However, to realize the high-precision, mechanical equations of such robot are always complicated, so that it is difficult to achieve real-time control by the traditional iterative method. In this regard, this paper proposes an approximately analytical solution method, which uses the approximately linear relationship between the main parameters of FAST to bypass some iterations. With the coefficients of the relationship extracted, static or quasi-static mechanical equations can be analytically solved. In this paper's example, this method saves at least 90% of the calculating time and the calculated values are consistent with the experimental data. With such huge efficiency improvements, real-time and high-precision control of FAST will no longer be a difficult work. Besides, all the work in this paper is expected to be used in the FAST.
description: Accepted for publication in RAA, 14 pages, 19 figures
Numerical simulations of a sphere settling in simple shear flows of yield stress fluids
Creators: name: Sarabian, Mohammad
name: Rosti, Marco E.
name: Brandt, Luca
name: Hormozi, Sarah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform $3$D numerical simulations to investigate the sedimentation of a single sphere in the absence and presence of a simple cross shear flow in a yield stress fluid with weak inertia. In our simulations, the settling flow is considered to be the primary flow, whereas the linear cross shear flow is a secondary flow with amplitude $10\%$ of the primary flow. To study the effects of elasticity and plasticity of the carrying fluid on the sphere drag as well as the flow dynamics, the fluid is modeled using the elastovisco-plastic (EVP) constitutive laws proposed by \cite{saramito2009new}. The extra non-Newtonian stress tensor is fully coupled with the flow equation and the solid particle is represented by an immersed boundary (IB) method. Our results show that the fore-aft asymmetry in the velocity is less pronounced and the negative wake disappears when a linear cross shear flow is applied. We find that the drag on a sphere settling in a sheared yield stress fluid is reduced significantly as compared to an otherwise quiescent fluid. More importantly, the sphere drag in the presence of a secondary cross shear flow cannot be derived from the pure sedimentation drag law owing to the non-linear coupling between the simple shear flow and the uniform flow. Finally, we show that the drag on the sphere settling in a sheared yield-stress fluid is reduced at higher material elasticity mainly due to the form and viscous drag reduction.
description: 41 pages, 24 figures
A balança comercial do agronegócio brasileiro de 1989 a 2005
Creators: name: Barros, Geraldo Sant'Ana De Camargo
name: Silva, Simone Fioritti
name: Barros, Geraldo Sant'Ana De Camargo
name: Silva, Simone Fioritti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Agribusiness trade balance
subject: agricultural products
subject: animal products
subject: food industry
subject: fertilizers
subject: economic growth
subject: attractiveness
subject: exports
subject: imports
subject: productivity.

description: This study aims to analyze the agribusiness contribution to Brazil’s trade balance. A new classification of the agribusiness trade balance was proposed and used to analyze the aspects of the exported products –agricultural products, products of animal origin, industrialized foods and imported inputs – represented by fertilizers. Imports and exports vector autoregression models were used to explain the behavior of these variables. An increase of 1% in the attractiveness – product of the exchange rate by the international prices – boosts immediately the exports of non processed agricultural products by 1.71%, stabilizing at 2% after some trimesters. The attractiveness explains 60 to 74% of the forecast error variances of these exportats. It is noted that an exchange rate devaluation stimulates more the exports of products than it does the fertilizer imports. Besides, an increase of 1% of the GDP has an expressive impact (converging into -1.7%) on agricultural products exports.
A expansão da União Européia em 2004 e seus impactos no agronegócio brasileiro
Creators: name: Oliveira, Samuel Jose De Magalhaes
name: Ferreira Filho, Joaquim Bento De Souza
name: Oliveira, Samuel Jose De Magalhaes
name: Ferreira Filho, Joaquim Bento De Souza
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: international economics
subject: international trade
subject: general equilibrium
subject: economic integration.

description: International trade has acquired increasing importance for the Brazilian economy, especially for agribusiness. In this way, understanding other countries policies that affects international trade and its impacts in this country is equally important. The European Union (EU) is one of the most important Brazilian trade partners and it is known by strong interference on its agricultural sector. The recent European enlargement and the last Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform have been studied at different regions of the World but there is a lack of knowledge regarding the impacts of this on Brazilian rural sectors. This paper aims to assess the impacts of the 2004 EU enlargement on Brazilian agribusiness using the general equilibrium model Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) under three alternatives scenarios for CAP Reform. The sectoral impacts were more relevant within the EU, as expected, as the measures take place in this region. The aggregate impact of the enlargement with or without decoupling was not important for the Brazilian economy. But it was found that different policies affect some Brazilian agribusiness sectors performance as oilseeds and bovine meat. Exports from these Brazilian sectors grow with enlargement as decoupling takes place, though they decrease under enlargement without decoupling.
Progetto per il nuovo repository SUPSI delle pubblicazioni scientifiche
Creators: name: Redolfi, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: institutional repository, open access, CRIS, Zenodo, SONAR, LORY

description: La SUPSI necessita di un repository istituzionale per le proprie pubblicazioni scientifiche che sia conforme alle esigenze poste dalla policy nazionale svizzera Open Access. In questo lavoro di diploma vengono indagate e valutate le varie opzioni disponibili per raggiungere questo obiettivo. Dopo una breve panoramica introduttiva sull’Open Access e le sue problematiche a livello internazionale e nazionale, vengono presentati i due principali repository a cui la SUPSI potrebbe fare ricorso, ovvero Zenodo e SONAR, anche se quest’ultimo è ancora in fase di realizzazione (luglio 2020). Per questo motivo viene dato più spazio alla valutazione della soluzione con Zenodo, e sulla base delle best practices sviluppate in altre università viene anche valutata e proposta l’adozione di un gestionale per le pubblicazioni scientifiche (Current research information system, CRIS) che si interfacci con il repository. Infine viene affrontato il tema della gestione del flusso di lavoro tra ricercatori e repository e in particolar modo il ruolo che potrebbe svolgervi il personale bibliotecario.
Collapsing along monotone poset maps
Creators: name: Kozlov, Dmitry N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57C05; 06A06,57C10

description: We introduce the notion of nonevasive reduction, and show that for any monotone poset map $ϕ:P\to P$, the simplicial complex $Δ(P)$ {\tt NE}-reduces to $Δ(Q)$, for any $Q\supseteq{\text{\rm Fix}}ϕ$. As a corollary, we prove that for any order-preserving map $ϕ:P\to P$ satisfying $ϕ(x)\geq x$, for any $x\in P$, the simplicial complex $Δ(P)$ collapses to $Δ(ϕ(P))$. We also obtain a generalization of Crapo's closure theorem.
description: To appear in the International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Binary Classification with Classical Instances and Quantum Labels
Creators: name: Caro, Matthias C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In classical statistical learning theory, one of the most well studied problems is that of binary classification. The information-theoretic sample complexity of this task is tightly characterized by the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension. A quantum analog of this task, with training data given as a quantum state has also been intensely studied and is now known to have the same sample complexity as its classical counterpart. We propose a novel quantum version of the classical binary classification task by considering maps with classical input and quantum output and corresponding classical-quantum training data. We discuss learning strategies for the agnostic and for the realizable case and study their performance to obtain sample complexity upper bounds. Moreover, we provide sample complexity lower bounds which show that our upper bounds are essentially tight for pure output states. In particular, we see that the sample complexity is the same as in the classical binary classification task w.r.t. its dependence on accuracy, confidence and the VC-dimension.
description: 17 pages (main body) + 23 pages (references and appendix); improved presentation including illustrative examples
Cabotagem como alternativa para o transporte de carnes da região Sul para o Norte/Nordeste brasileiro: um estudo de caso
Creators: name: Fachinello, Arlei Luiz
name: Nascimento, Sidnei Pereira
name: Fachinello, Arlei Luiz
name: Nascimento, Sidnei Pereira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Transport cost
subject: meat
subject: intercoastal port services.

description: The transportation costs are one of the main factors for companies’ competitiveness. In order to decrease the costs, companies are frequently searching for different ways to transport their products to their consumers. This paper analyzes the economic viability of meat transport from the South to the North and Northeast of Brazil, using intercoastal port services. Using a transport cost optimization model and linear programming, our results indicate the economic feasibility of this option.
Nonlinear transport through a finite Hubbard chain connected to the electrodes
Creators: name: Walczak, Kamil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a short linear wire which is connected to para- and ferromagnetic electrodes. Molecule itself is described with the help of Huckel (tight-binding) model with the electron interactions treated within Hubbard approach, while the coupling to the electrodes is modeled through the use of a broad-band theory. Coulomb interactions within molecular wire are treated by means of the Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation. For the case of asymmetric coupling to paramagnetic electrodes, charging-induced rectification effect in biased molecular devices is discussed as a consequence of Coulomb repulsion. For the system with ferromagnetic electrodes, a significant magnetoresistance (MR) is predicted and its oscillations generated by Coulomb interactions are considered.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Die Editio Critica Major des Neuen Testaments – eine digitale Edition
Creators: name: Strutwolf, Holger
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital Humanities
Neutestamentliche Textforschung
Editio Critica Major
Universität Münster

description: Die Editio Critica Maior dokumentiert die griechische Textgeschichte des ersten Jahrtausends anhand der überlieferungsgeschichtlich wichtigen griechischen Handschriften, alten Übersetzungen und neutestamentlichen Zitate in der antiken christlichen Literatur. Auf der Basis genealogischer Untersuchungen des erstmals mit dieser Vollständigkeit aufbereiteten Materials wird der Text neu rekonstruiert.
Algebraic transformations of Gauss hypergeometric functions
Creators: name: Vidunas, Raimundas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C05, 34A30

description: This article gives a classification scheme of algebraic transformations of Gauss hypergeometric functions, or pull-back transformations between hypergeometric differential equations. The classification recovers the classical transformations of degree 2, 3, 4, 6, and finds other transformations of some special classes of the Gauss hypergeometric function. The other transformations are considered more thoroughly in a series of supplementing articles.
description: 29 pages; 3 tables; Uniqueness claims and Remark 7.1 clarified by footnotes; formulas (28), (29) corrected
Determinantes da duração esperada do emprego urbano e rural no Nordeste brasileiro
Creators: name: Monte, Paulo Aguiar Do
name: Penido, Mariangela Rangel Jacques
name: Monte, Paulo Aguiar Do
name: Penido, Mariangela Rangel Jacques
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Duration
subject: urban employment
subject: rural employment.

description: This study seeks to examine the determinants of the duration in employment in all Northeastern states of Brazil for the years 1993 and 2003. In order to do so, we used the data from the National Survey per Residence Samples (PNAD) which is done by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), every year. Results obtained by the parametric model showed that the duration of the relationship of employment is higher for men and older workers. With regard to the regional aspect, it was found that residents in the states of Pernambuco and Bahia - precisely those with the highest unemployment rates - have higher turnover when compared to other northeastern states.
Variable star classification across the Galactic bulge and disc with the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea survey
Creators: name: Molnar, Thomas A.
name: Sanders, Jason L.
name: Smith, Leigh C.
name: Belokurov, Vasily
name: Lucas, Philip
name: Minniti, Dante
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present VIVACE, the VIrac VAriable Classification Ensemble, a catalogue of variable stars extracted from an automated classification pipeline for the Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) infrared survey of the Galactic bar/bulge and southern disc. Our procedure utilises a two-stage hierarchical classifier to first isolate likely variable sources using simple variability summary statistics and training sets of non-variable sources from the Gaia early third data release, and then classify candidate variables using more detailed light curve statistics and training labels primarily from OGLE and VSX. The methodology is applied to point-spread-function photometry for $\sim490$ million light curves from the VIRAC v2 astrometric and photometric catalogue resulting in a catalogue of $\sim1.4$ million likely variable stars, of which $\sim39,000$ are high-confidence (classification probability $>0.9$) RR Lyrae ab stars, $\sim8000$ RR Lyrae c/d stars, $\sim187,000$ detached/semi-detached eclipsing binaries, $\sim18,000$ contact eclipsing binaries, $\sim1400$ classical Cepheid variables and $\sim2200$ Type II Cepheid variables. Comparison with OGLE-4 suggests a completeness of around $90\,\%$ for RRab and $\lesssim60\%$ for RRc/d, and a misclassification rate for known RR Lyrae stars of around $1\%$ for the high confidence sample. We close with two science demonstrations of our new VIVACE catalogue: first, a brief investigation of the spatial and kinematic properties of the RR Lyrae stars within the disc/bulge, demonstrating the spatial elongation of bar-bulge RR Lyrae stars is in the same sense as the more metal-rich red giant population whilst having a slower rotation rate of $\sim40\,\mathrm{km\,s}^{-1}\mathrm{kpc}^{-1}$; and secondly, an investigation of the Gaia EDR3 parallax zeropoint using contact eclipsing binaries across the Galactic disc plane and bulge.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 27 pages, 23 figures, corresponding catalogue available at https://people.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jls/data/vproject/vivace_catalogue.fits
Exits Among U.S. Burley Tobacco Growers After the End of the Federal Tobacco Program
Creators: name: Tiller, Kelly
name: Feleke, Shiferaw T.
name: Starnes, Jane H.
name: Tiller, Kelly
name: Feleke, Shiferaw T.
name: Starnes, Jane H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: burley tobacco
subject: exit
subject: federal tobacco program

description: This study explores the relationship between family/farm characteristics and the probability of exiting burley tobacco farming in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. Following the termination of the federal tobacco program in 2004, 54% of burley tobacco–growing households in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia exited burley tobacco farming by 2006. Tobacco yield, tobacco farm cash receipts, tobacco price, off-farm employment, and farm size are the most dominant variables discriminating between exiting and surviving tobacco farms. Data for this study came from a mail survey of burley tobacco producers in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina in May 2006.
Additional file 3 of R269C variant of ESR1: high prevalence and differential function in a subset of pancreatic cancers
Creators: name: Boldes, Tomer
name: Merenbakh-Lamin, Keren
name: Journo, Shani
name: Eliya Shachar
name: Lipson, Doron
name: Adva Yeheskel
name: Metsada Pasmanik-Chor
name: Rubinek, Tami
name: Wolf, Ido
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. R269C-ER exhibits differential effect on gene expression in pancreatic cancer cells compared to breast cancer. MCF-7 and COLO-357 cells were seeded in phenol red depleted medium with charcoal stripped serum. Cells then were transfected with either WT-ER or R269C-ER in triplicates and then treated with vehicle control or E2 (10nM) for 24 h. Total RNA was extracted and RNAseq was performed. (A, B) A heatmap of differentially expressed genes in MCF-7 cells treated with E2 (A) and COLO-357 cells treated with E2 (B) was generated.
Heimdurchsuchunger : deutschschweizer Literatur, Geschichtspolitik und Erinnerungskultur seit 1965
Creators: name: Schallié, Charlotte
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: My dissertation (HEIMDURCHSUCHTJNGEN: DEUTSCHSCHWEIZER LITERATUR, GESCHICHTSPOLITLK UND ERINNERUNGSKULTUR SEIT 1965) examines the importance of literature as a receptacle for collective memory-work in Swiss-German society since 1965. The thesis analyzes how representative Swiss-German authors explore the experience of their country's role and attitude in the Second World War, and its ongoing effects in contemporary society. The year 1965 ushered in an era where many intellectuals challenged the officially sanctioned historiography and semiofficial publications which perpetuated the notion that Switzerland remained politically neutral between 1933 and 1945, displaying a unified collective resistance in the face of Fascism and the Holocaust. Influenced by West Germany's emerging documentary theatre in the 1960's, Swiss authors introduced innovative literary and historical techniques such as oral history to subvert misguided collective assumptions and revealed their country's economic—and to some extent ideological—involvement with the Third Reich. Their criticism focused less on what actually occurred during the decisive wartime years than on the culture of amnesia in postwar Switzerland. Beginning in the 1960's, the issue as to who controlled memory and used it to what end became a pressing concern in public debates. I focus on how exemplary writers such as Walter Matthias Diggelmann, Max Frisch, Niklaus Meienberg, Otto F. Walter, Thomas Hiirlimann, and Urs Widmer evolved into outspoken public figures fiercely criticizing their country's efforts at "Vergangenheitsbewaltigung" - efforts to master the past. The writings by these and other authors portray a society in which various Swiss individuals fought any attempt to tarnish the nation's carefully constructed image of wartime heroism. During the early Cold War years in particular, the political culture of Switzerland discouraged any dissent and marginalized those who spoke out against the 'Establisment' as deviant communists. I propose looking at literature as a means of developing a more complex and differentiated understanding of memory and its expression. My research draws on the theoretical writings of Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Jan and Aleida Assmann, and Michel Foucault.
A Flexible Parametric Family for the Modeling and Simulation of Yield Distributions
Creators: name: Ramirez, Octavio A.
name: McDonald, Tanya U.
name: Carpio, Carlos E.
name: Ramirez, Octavio A.
name: McDonald, Tanya U.
name: Carpio, Carlos E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: risk analysis
subject: parametric methods
subject: yield distributions
subject: yield modeling and simulation
subject: yield nonnormality

description: The distributions currently used to model and simulate crop yields are unable to accommodate a substantial subset of the theoretically feasible mean-variance-skewness-kurtosis (MVSK) hyperspace. Because these first four central moments are key determinants of shape, the available distributions might not be capable of adequately modeling all yield distributions that could be encountered in practice. This study introduces a system of distributions that can span the entire MVSK space and assesses its potential to serve as a more comprehensive parametric crop yield model, improving the breadth of distributional choices available to researchers and the likelihood of formulating proper parametric models.
Issues in the Extraction of m_s and V_us from Hadronic Tau Decay Data
Creators: name: Maltman, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various complications encountered in the process of attempting to extract the basic Standard Model parameters, m_s and V_us, from hadronic tau decay data are discussed. Preliminary results for V_us, based on sum rules displaying good convergence and stability, are also presented.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure. Prepared for the Proceedings of Tau'04, Sept. 14-17 Nara, Japan
Set It and Forget It! Turnkey ECC for Instant Integration
Creators: name: Belyavsky, Dmitry
name: Brumley, Billy Bob
name: Chi-Domínguez, Jesús-Javier
name: Rivera-Zamarripa, Luis
name: Ustinov, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Historically, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is an active field of applied cryptography where recent focus is on high speed, constant time, and formally verified implementations. While there are a handful of outliers where all these concepts join and land in real-world deployments, these are generally on a case-by-case basis: e.g. a library may feature such X25519 or P-256 code, but not for all curves. In this work, we propose and implement a methodology that fully automates the implementation, testing, and integration of ECC stacks with the above properties. We demonstrate the flexibility and applicability of our methodology by seamlessly integrating into three real-world projects: OpenSSL, Mozilla's NSS, and the GOST OpenSSL Engine, achieving roughly 9.5x, 4.5x, 13.3x, and 3.7x speedup on any given curve for key generation, key agreement, signing, and verifying, respectively. Furthermore, we showcase the efficacy of our testing methodology by uncovering flaws and vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, and a specification-level vulnerability in a Russian standard. Our work bridges the gap between significant applied cryptography research results and deployed software, fully automating the process.
Numerical evidence for the Maldacena conjecture in two-dimensional N=(8,8) super Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Hiller, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The N=(8,8) super Yang-Mills theory in 1+1 dimensions is solved at strong coupling to directly confirm the predictions of supergravity at weak coupling. The calculations are done in the large-N_c approximation using Supersymmetric Discrete Light-Cone Quantization. The stress-energy correlator is obtained as a function of the separation r; for intermediate values of r, the correlator behaves in a manner consistent with the 1/r^5 behavior predicted by weak-coupling supergravity.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures; requires espcrc2.sty; to appear in the proceedings of the Workshop on Light-Cone QCD and Nonperturbative Hadron Physics, Cairns, Australia, July 7-15, 2005
Design of a tunable CML-based differential ring oscillator with short start-up and switching transiets
Creators: name: Mollah, A.K.M. Kamruzzaman
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In this work, an improved Current-Mode-Logic-based (CML) ring oscillator is designed for use in an on-chip Vernier-based Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) that could be used to measure timing specifications of high-speed signals, such as period and jitter, in the picoseconds range. The oscillator is designed with two tuning mechanisms to achieve coarse and fine tuning resolutions. The period of the oscillator can either be tuned from 0.5% to 10% or from 0.05% to 2.5% of the oscillator zero-resolution period (550 MHz) during coarse and fine resolutions of operation, respectively. A detailed study and characterization of the impact of the oscillator period variations when it is switched ON (start-up transient) and when the oscillator period is switched from one resolution to another (switching transient) on a Vernier oscillator-based TDC time interval is presented. The impact of oscillator period deviations in steady state and externally introduced random noise on the TDC performance is also shown analytically. A metric to characterize the effects of these transients and jitter on the time interval measurement is derived to benchmark the performance of the ring oscillator. This metric can be used to evaluate performance of any oscillators for its stability. Simulation results from the optimized ring oscillator show that the effects of the start-up transient become negligible after four clock cycles and that of the effects of switching transient become negligible instantaneously. Simulation also shows that the oscillator can achieve a stable steady state period, down to less than 0.5fs, which is the simulator precision. In reality, the oscillator will contain some random jitter due to external noise. This kind of jitter can be eliminated through averaging. Simulations also show that the oscillator could be fine tuned to a resolution of under one picosecond. A Vernier oscillator-based TDC using the modified oscillator was designed and simulated with input timing noise to demonstrate the stability of the ring oscillator and its robustness in TDC applications. Results show that two of these oscillators could be used in such a TDC design to measure timings in the range of picoseconds with the maximum error bound by the fine resolution of the oscillator.
Protection and Development of Traditional Villages from the Perspective of Territorial Spatial Planning: Taking Baisi Village, Henan Province as an Example
Creators: name: ZHOU Bo
name: LI Shangzhe
name: ZHOU Bo
name: LI Shangzhe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Traditional village, Protection and development, Homestay culture, Territorial spatial planning

description: In the process of historical development, the history and culture of villages are constantly changing, and they have become a powerful carrier of cultural heritage. Taking Baisi Village, Xun County, Henan Province as an example, the basic principles and development mode of traditional village protection were studied from aspects of traditional space renovation, architectural features and folk culture protection in this article, with a view to providing reference for the protection and development of other traditional villages.
Sub-Rayleigh resolution of interference pattern with independent laser beams
Creators: name: Xiong, Jun
name: Huang, Feng
name: Cao, De-Zhong
name: Li, Hong-Guo
name: Sun, Xu-Juan
name: Wang, Kaige
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new scheme to achieve sub-Rayleigh resolution of interference pattern with independent laser beams. We perform an experimental observation of a double-slit interference with two orthogonally polarized laser beams. The resolution of the interference pattern measured by a two-photon detection is doubled provided the two beams illuminate the double-slit with certain incident angles. The scheme is simple and can be in favor of both high intensity and perfect visibility.
description: 2 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 1 of Acceptability of the “MOVEdiabetes” physical activity intervention in diabetes primary care settings in Oman: findings from participants and practitioners
Creators: name: Alghafri, Thamra S.
name: Saud M. Al Harthi
name: Al-Ajmi, Fatma
name: Al-Farsi, Yahya
name: Craigie, Angela M.
name: Bannerman, Elaine
name: Anderson, Annie S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: “MOVEdiabetes” End of Study Questionnaire - Participant
Low field magnetotransport in strained Si/SiGe cavities
Creators: name: Scappucci, G.
name: Di Gaspare, L.
name: Evangelisti, F.
name: Giovine, E.
name: Notargiacomo, A.
name: Leoni, R.
name: Piazza, V.
name: Pingue, P.
name: Beltram, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low field magnetotransport revealing signatures of ballistic transport effects in strained Si/SiGe cavities is investigated. We fabricated strained Si/SiGe cavities by confining a high mobility Si/SiGe 2DEG in a bended nanowire geometry defined by electron-beam lithography and reactive ion etching. The main features observed in the low temperature magnetoresistance curves are the presence of a zero-field magnetoresistance peak and of an oscillatory structure at low fields. By adopting a simple geometrical model we explain the oscillatory structure in terms of electron magnetic focusing. A detailed examination of the zero-field peak lineshape clearly shows deviations from the predictions of ballistic weak localization theory.
description: Submitted to Physical Review B, 25 pages, 7 figures
An Analysis of Food Grain Consumption in Urban Jiangsu Province of China
Creators: name: Zheng, Zhihao
name: Henneberry, Shida Rastegari
name: Zheng, Zhihao
name: Henneberry, Shida Rastegari
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: AIDS model
subject: China food grain demand
subject: China urban household demand

description: The impacts of economic and demographic variables on the demand for food grain commodities in urban Jiangsu province of China are estimated, using both the QUAIDS and the AIDS models. Results show that the demands for wheat flour and coarse grains are price-elastic while the demands for rice and grain products are price-inelastic. Certain demographic variables show as having a significant impact on food grain demand. Finally, a decomposition of causes of changes in rice consumption over the period of 1995–2007 is performed.